Viera Voice July 2014

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New Williams principal picked for plum of a job

By Linda Wiggins

Suntree Elementary School’s vice principal will take the helm at Viera’s historic first school, Ralph Williams Elementary. Chris Reed replaces Williams’ founding principal, Cynthia Ford, who retired after 14 years as top administrator.

“It’s very exciting,” Reed said as he removed diplomas in elementary education and educational leadership from the walls in his Suntree office to place in a moving box, keeping company with family photos of him with his wife, RaNae, and his dog, Wrigley, and favorite sports mementos from his beloved Denver Broncos.

The assignment is considered a plum, as schools in the Viera/Suntree area are all A-rated by the Florida Department of Education, surrounded by families with above-average income and education levels, and a greater percentage of oneincome families, resulting in more time for parent volunteering and investment in their children’s education.

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“I have big shoes to fill.”

— Chris Reed

Ford was selected to lead the school during its final planning stages, allowing her to set the school’s theme to reflect the values of the surrounding Viera community, from the Crane mascot for the sandhill cranes that represent the value placed on wildlife, to the muted browns and maroons she found conducive to brain development.

“I have some big shoes to fill,” said Reed, adding Principal Reed continue to page 22

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Former Suntree Elementary School assistant principal Chris Reed packs up his personal belongings to move to his new office as principal at Ralph Williams Elementary School in Viera.

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Their grandfather, Ferdinand Duda, was one of the three sons of Eastern European immigrant Andrew Duda, who, together, founded the Central Florida ranching and farming company in 1926. The core values of the sons would forever guide the development of the community of Viera on the ranch, which was envisioned by the third generation of the Duda family. Officially Viera Voice Linda Wiggins founded 25 years ago on Christopher Duda is a fifth-generation Duda and is being groomed for future management roles, Aug. 4, 1989, whenVIERA ground MEANS interning pre-law under The Viera Company CEO and DUDA counsel Tracy Duda Chapman. was broken on theBUSINESS Brevard NETWORKING GROUP love the land — by the end hard work, quality primaryCounty School Board of our Cocoa Ranch outings through-higher education, headquarters, Viera means we would end up covered and solid relationships with “faith” in Andrew Duda’s “My dad had all girls in it.” Not to brag, but she’s family itself, she added. native Slavic. and he never treated us as a fair shot with a hunting There are structures in place When well-wishers take a though there was anything rifle, and she takes pleasure to resolve differences and bite of birthday cake at the we couldn’t do that a male in knowing she passed remain unified, both on a Great American Celebration could do,” said Lauri Duda, down that skill to her own personal level all the way at Space Coast Stadium, daughter — who prefers a through to corporate. Duda Saturday evening, July 5, they vice president of Marketing said she believes that sharing for The Viera Company. “We bow. will get a taste of Viera, past, MEANS BUSINESS NETWORKING GROUP these founding values across learned early to enjoy and Family values include present andVIERA future.

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“I always had someone to come to for help, raising my family, whatever the need, I was not alone,” Duda said.

“In this new community, basically in the world today, people move a lot and may not have family members near them like our family has enjoyed. Our intention with community events like Fourth of July at the Stadium and the Light Up Viera parade at the holidays is to bring people together so they can form a family of their own choosing among their neighbors.”

The three sons, “Andy,” John and Ferdinand, created three distinct families, but the key to the success of the family business that has flourished for the better part of a century is that family members are swayed more by founding family principles than by individual personalities, Tracy Duda Chapman said.

The Present

“All of this is possible because we put family first, and this is the culture we want to convey, the culture of community. We created this master-planned community so more people could enjoy this land and partake of these values,” said Duda Chapman, senior vice president and general counsel for A. Duda & Sons and CEO of The Viera Company. “It is designed so you have your homes, shopping, schools, parks and recreation, perhaps even your workplace at the hospital or government center, or future clean industry developed in the right locations, all in one area for efficient transportation,” she said.

“We placed all this infrastructure on top of what will always be a nature

preserve to enjoy the beauty of nature as close as your backyard. There are wildlife corridors throughout the community, allowing us to effectively conserve nature, just as we manage the agriculture and ranching that will all continue to flourish in perpetuity as mankind flourishes. We are all but stewards of the land.”

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Christopher Duda is fifth generation. When you are a Duda, you memorize your lineage because it is a question you are repeatedly asked: greatgreat-grandfather Andrew Sr., great-grandfather John, grandfather Edward, and father “Tommy.” In pre-law at the University of Florida, Duda is interning in the legal department at The Viera Company in a program designed specifically to attract and groom Duda generations to serve in the many growing facets of the business.

Previous summers have been spent ripping plastic off the celery beds alongside

other farmhands, digging ditches in citrus fields, chasing cattle on horseback, answering phones or mastering any number of mind-numbing entry-level tasks.

“My great-grandfather said it well, ‘If they are going to be able to manage one day, they have to know what a day’s work is.’ Working in the accounting department may not have been my most favorite experience, for example, but every task I have performed makes me appreciate the jobs that each and every person does and the value it brings,” Duda said of the DUDA corporation’s full-time employee roster that now numbers 570.

“Besides, when I go back to school and everybody talks about the jobs they did over the summer,” Duda said, “how many others can say, ‘I got to be a cowboy’?”

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State-of-the-art ‘medical city’ taking shape on Wickham Road in Suntree STAFF REPORT

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Site development is underway for Suntree Viera Professional Park, an all-inone “medical city” planned on nearly 24 undeveloped acres at Wickham Road and Pineda Court. The project could employ about 100 people.

When completed in late 2015, the complex will feature a 31,000-square-foot, two-story building that will become the new home of Suntree Internal Medicine; a 90-bed Housing and Urban Development-financed assisted living facility; a large diagnostic center with state-of-the-art equipment, and several offices, project developer Eric Hardoon said.

Aesthetically pleasing amenities include a paved entrance, a six-and-a-halfacre pond, fountains, oaks and a lighted, public jogging trail. Hardoon is even toying with the idea of adding what he believes is Brevard’s first charging station for motorists with electric cars.

“It’s going to be very high end, high class,” Hardoon said. “It’s going to stand out. It’s not going to be a typical strip mall. There will definitely be an upscale South Florida look. The whole area is going to be different. It’s going to be nice.”

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Crews have been clearing land since early June, filling in a century-old cattle pond and burning small trees and brush, Eric Hardoon said.

Environmentalists removed about 15 tortoises from the site and an archaeologist inspected the location to ensure it contained no artifacts.

“The site was an absolute jungle,” Eric Hardoon said.

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‘Viera beach’ soon to open at Holiday Inn

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Unique to most Holiday Inns — and most hotels — the Holiday Inn in Viera is adding a beach to it’s pool.

“This is not a brand standard by any means,” said Ed Diaz, director of sales at the Holiday Inn MelbourneViera Conference Center.

The new feature will be off the pool, replacing some existing landscaping, and made of crushed coquina rock.

“They’ve laid it down, just layer upon layer, and then they have to wet it every night for like a month and then they put another layer down. So it’s very compact,” Diaz said.

A stage will also be added to the area, and the hotel intends to offer live music on

Friday nights.

“It’s going to be a great place for people who want to get married on the beach but yet they want to be centrally located here, or they want to take the elevator home,” Diaz said.

He also cited its versatility for cocktail parties, small luaus and other such gatherings.

“It’s going to be a really neat attraction, not only for our hotel but for the area,” he said.

Which means the new beach is not reserved for hotel guests alone.

“The pool is adjacent to the restaurant, so they can come to the restaurant, have a drink, and on Friday night they might have live music,” Diaz explained “so they’ll be free to have dinner in the restaurant, then grab a drink, and venture out onto the beach and have a

good time.”

Diaz credits the hotel’s general manager, Samir Patel, with the idea for the beach.

“He thought of it, and he’s seen it through from beginning to end.”

The hotel is in the middle of a general upgrading process, including new “soft goods” like pillows and lamps, new furniture and a refurbished lobby.

“The renovation itself is something that all hotels go through every few years,” said Diaz, “but [Patel] included the Viera beach, as we’re calling it, as part of that.”

The beach is scheduled to be completed some time this month. For more information about the hotel, go to himelbournefl.com or call 321-255-0077. VV

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Viera residents have three new businesses to frequent, particularly if they find themselves on the west side of town. A Crest Cleaners, Dunkin’ Donuts and Wren Insurance Agency opened their doors for business in June at the plaza located at 5525 Porada Drive — near Space Coast Stadium and Viera Pizza’s west-side location.

The new plaza is owned by Crest Cleaners and there is still one more leasing space available.

Keith Houston of Crest Cleaners said the purchase

Business gets bounce with Viera residential boom Ted and Jennie Girves moved to Viera in 2008 and witnessed the growth in the community first hand. The most popular birthday parties and other children’s events always seemed to share one feature in common, and it set a business plan in motion for the couple.

“We have seen the demand for high-quality bounce houses in our area and have decided to open this exciting new business in Viera,” Ted Girves said.

Viera Bounce and Slide’s grand opening event will be 4:30 p.m. Saturday, July 12 at Eastwind Park, 5955 Tavistock Dr. in Viera.

“You and your kids will not want to miss this awesome, free event, where all of our products will be displayed and ready for fun!” Girves said. Customers who reserve a rental online through July 31 will receive $25 off with the code VIERAVOICE at the website vierabounceandslide.com.

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and expansion of the company’s services to the Viera plaza just made sense.

“Viera is the number one fastest area for growth in Brevard County,” he said.

“We’re happy to be here.”

The new Crest Cleaners location opened officially on June 10 and is the 11th one in Brevard County, but the first one in Viera. The last time Crest Cleaners opened a location was 10 years ago at Post and Wickham roads.

“For us, everything revolves around service and quality.

We like to be sure each new location we open can offer that,” Houston said.

For Keith Johnson, opening up his fourth Brevard County Dunkin’ Donuts location in Viera was also an easy decision.

“Viera is such a busy part of Brevard County. This is where the commerce is at,” he said.

Johnson opened his doors

on June 11 and has been operating on a “soft opening” concept so far.

“We are doing business without any advertising and letting everyone get the hang of the process first,” said Johnson.

Even without a grand announcement of its opening, Johnson says that business has been steady and is growing every day.

The Dunkin’ Donuts location has 22 seats inside, 12 seats outside and a fullyfunctioning drive through. It is open every day from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m.

The third business in the plaza is Wren Insurance Agency and it is the satellite office of the original Palm Bay location. The locallyowned, independent insurance agency offers car, home, boat and life insurance, among many other options. VV

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Tuesdays & Thursdays 10 a.m. $4 movie, popcorn & drink “The Nut Job” Carmike Cinemas The Avenue Viera 321-775-1210

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Silver ‘Tees night and $2 hot dogs.

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Summer Kids Movie Series Magic Dove Magic Shop

Passport to Health & Beauty Brevard Comedy Wednesday Group Art Club 6 - 8 p.m.

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Refreshments, demos, product samples. Raffle proceeds benefit Children’s Hunger Project.

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All proceeds from the raffle will benefit the Brevard County’s Backpack Program in support of The Children’s Hunger Project in Brevard County.

Admission is free and raffle tickets for the raffle

prizes are sold at one dollar per ticket. Each attendee that donates a “backpack specific” food item as listed on the Children’s Hunger Project website (thechildrenshungerproject. org/donate-now/fooddonations.html) will receive a raffle ticket for the drawing of their choice.

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Given the success at Holy Trinity, especially this past year when the school won its first Sunshine Cup award, Jamerson has no plans to come in with sweeping changes.

He will work to keep the continuity going among the school’s athletic programs while also playing to his own strengths as a successful athletic director.

“Coming from a business background (my strengths are) certainly helping to build our brand,” Jamerson said. “The different schools I’ve been at, I really helped grow the fundraising side of things, and facilities.”

As for his overall philosophy, the Tigers’ new athletic director believes in putting faith in the people he oversees to bring out the best in the school’s student-athletes.

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As one of the premier youth baseball and softball programs in the county, the Viera/Suntree Little League has a tradition of churning out successful All-Star teams.

This season figures to be no exception.

With more than 650 children taking part in the league this year, the VSLL is coming off another strong regular season that it hopes will translate into the AllStar district tournaments which began late last month.

“I think they’re going to do really well,” VSLL president Cris Smith said. “I especially think our 10 to 11 team for baseball is going to do pretty good, and our juniors team this year is going to do really well. That’s my prediction.

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Peter Maloney, John Gulla, Jim Donnelly and Bob Sobeck finished first; Gary Shiffrin, Raj Patel, Tom Campbell and Andy Mammay placed second; Jim Robinson, Tom Powell, Ed Raleigh and Tom Walker placed third; and Dennis Lamb, Ted Edlow, Richard Blakney and Jim Tautges tied Jim Smith, Dave Hogan, Bob Urban and Bill Oakley for fourth place.

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“We were pretty successful in the county tournament — we had two winners and one of our Majors baseball teams was in the county championship game, too,” Smith said. “All of our divisions did really well in the county tournament.

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Oh, the humanities, at Suntree, Cocoa libraries

By Linda Wiggins

Whether young or old, studying Western humanities can open our eyes to potential new joys in life.

“Henry Ford said it so well: ‘Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young,’ ” said George V. Richards of Suntree.

The retired humanities professor will teach “Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome” at the Suntree/Viera Library from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturdays, July 19, 26 and Aug. 2. He’ll also teach it over four weeks at the Central Brevard Library in Cocoa from 10 a.m. to noon Thursdays, July 10, 17, 24 and 31.

If you think it will be a staid collection of college lectures, think again, Richards said. The experience is more akin to a civilized interchange of ideas that may certainly advance to passionate debate, but

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“If you want your horizons expanded, it’s the class you want to go to.”

Richards received his bachelor’s degree in music from Stetson University in 1977, and went on to earn his master’s degree in church music from Southwestern Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1980.

He has been a featured soloist for the Bach Festival Choir in Winter Park and has recorded two CDs of music ranging from opera to jazz.

“This course is all about learning why we like certain things through an introduction to the architecture, sculpture and philosophies of both ancient cultures,” said Richards, who taught at Rollins College Hamilton Holt School in Winter Park and the Valencia Community College system in Orlando.

“When we discover things that bring us joy through beauty,” Richards said, “then we know where to look to find more things we will enjoy discovering. The purpose of studying the

humanities is to increase the options for enjoying the world in which we live.

Everything we enjoy in art, literature, sculpture and architecture has been influenced by previous cultures. If we enjoy that part of the world in which we live, we ought to give credit to those who brought us here.”

If there is sufficient interest, a second series will follow, covering the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Baroque/Enlightenment Period and on to Post-Modernism.

Nominal cost for the course is $20. Registration is through the library of choice. Call Suntree/Viera Library at 321-255-4405 and Central Brevard Library at 321-633-1792.

The course can help young adults set a course for adventure in their budding careers, and can help seniors set new goals and find joy in their less-stressed years, Richards said. But one thing will be decidedly absent from the educational experience, he added.

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For Athena Bauerle, it’s not enough to ply students with science, technology, engineering and mathematics — which make up the magical acronym STEM that is a promised panacea for current and future economic development in Brevard and across the nation.

No, it must also be fun, said the former Brevard County Schools teacher who previously was an engineer for Lockheed Martin and Motorola and now hosts science workshops that look more like a toy store explosion.

“If they are having fun and doing exciting hands-on projects, gaining a sense of pride and success, youth will be more likely to develop or grow an interest in STEM areas,” Bauerle said.

This in mind, it is her dream to establish a STEM Center in Brevard. Basically, if a science center married an amusement park, this would be their baby.

She will speak on the importance of STEM education and the need for a STEM Center at the 7:30 a.m.

Friday, July 25 Suntree Rotary breakfast at Suntree Country Club. She is hoping to recruit community partners to help make the dream a reality.

Until then, she is focusing on the matter at hand: student enrichment through her company, B-STEM Science.

The “B” stands for Business.

“How do you inspire our youth? B-STEM Science would like to see more STEM opportunities for youth in Brevard. Programs for homeschoolers, elementary, middle and high schoolers are key to keeping STEM interest

alive,” Bauerle said.

Bauerle’s first push is to expand after-school programs for elementary schools.

“B-STEM will provide hands-on, inquiry-and-designbased programs in multiple elementary schools starting this fall. Every student should be allowed the opportunity to pursue their interests in enrichment programs.

Grants and other costsharing programs need to be enlisted to remove economic inequities,” she said.

The next step is to establish middle-school STEM clubs to nurture student interests.

“Another key is to forge partnerships between teachers and professionals; some high schools have excellent programs utilizing this approach, but B-STEM Science’s vision is to see opportunities equally spread throughout the county.”

All the while, her ultimate dream will be simmering to a boil.

“Ultimately, B-STEM Science envisions a STEM Center here in Brevard County to enrich lives and inspire all ages.”

To RSVP for the July 25 Suntree Rotary breakfast, go to clubrunner.ca/Suntree, and for information on B-STEM Science, go to b-stemscience. com.

B-STEM Science hosts workshops for youth ages 8 to 12 Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at Interlachen Park, 409 Interlachen Rd. in Suntree, cost is $5, and from 4 to 5 p.m. Thursdays at Viera Community Center, 2300 Judge Fran Jamieson Way, cost is $7. Saturdays 11 a.m. to noon at Viera Community Center are by appointment.

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Athena Bauerle, a former Brevard County schools teacher and engineer, conducts science workshops for youth ages 8 to 12 through B-STEM Science.

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“I’ll definitely keep up the one-on-one with each child,” Reed said. “Any time you have a child with a need for disciplinary action, it’s about building a relationship with that child with the goal of seeing changes in behavior down the road.” Witnessing “the light bulb go on” as he taught students inspired him to teach.

Reed said he will miss relationships with Suntree children and their families the most. Students who were kindergarteners when he started at Suntree just had their sixth-grade graduation, and those who were sixth-graders will start college this fall.

No one will be more missed in the exchange than Reed, said his former boss-turned-peer, Suntree principal Mecheall Giombetti.

“He is very well loved and the new school is fortunate to have him. He deserves it,” Giombetti said.

Frank O’Leary, assistant Viera Voice Linda Wiggins principal at Sherwood Chris Reed is prepared to replace Cynthia Ford as the new Elementary School, will principal of Ralph Williams Elementary School in Viera. replace Reed at Suntree.VV

that he plans to take Ford’s final recommendations and focus on bringing the school up-to-date with new technology and do repairs and upgrades to the physical plant that had to be put on

hold during recent lean budget years.

Reed chuckled when teased about the role of vice principal being viewed as “the heavy,” and the notion that he will have to get one of his own.

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The DeLaura Middle School choir presented both a musical program and a collection of students’ handmade quilts and pillowcases to Joe’s Club. Receiving the quilts are Joe’s Club Ambassador Laurel Malbon and Activities Director Sonja Fauteux.

DeLaura students deliver Joe’s Club Intergenerational Program provides a meeting of the generations, the young and the seniors. Recently, the DeLaura Middle School choir presented a musical program for the members of Joe’s Club in Melbourne.

The students also delivered several quilts and pillowcases that were handmade by students in the home economics class. Students handed out song sheets and invited everyone to join them in singing some old favorites.

The senior club members thoroughly enjoyed visiting with the young people and were thrilled by the beauty of the colorful quilts and pillowcases.

Joe’s Club is a licensed Adult Day Service Center designed to provide social and health services to adults aged 18 and older who need supervised care in a safe place outside the home during the day.

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By Rae Botsford

Architect and veteran Mark Burginger upgraded his own invention, a children’s toy, last year, and is now trying to bring it to Central Florida.

Qubits, which Burginger calls a “modular, open-ended construction toy,” comes in sets of plastic pieces which snap together in a variety of combinations and orientations. Children can use them to build objects like towers and bridges, or complex geometric shapes.

Burginger began designing it back in the 1980s, when designer and architect Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller was still alive.

“I was developing this whole geometric concept of the idea,” said Burginger, “and I would send him drawings that I did just because he would give me such good feedback.”

Burginger and his wife, Lisa, were still living in Oregon in 2005 when he first truly invented Qubits. Inventor Woody Norris had just won the Lemelson-MIT Prize for his hypersonic sound system and wanted to use the prize money to help newbie inventors. Burginger wrote him a letter, and Norris gave him enough funding to get a patent and begin development.

The first Qubits kits were manufactured in China and sold over the Internet. A few years later, he got an exclusive deal with Discovery Toys, and they sold about 7,000 of those kits.

When the Burgingers moved to Florida, he realized he could improve his invention. This time he decided to do all the manufacturing in the United States, as close to their office as they could.

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Local writer Marshall Frank, a retired homicide detective and award-winning author of 12 books, fiction and non-fiction, will conduct a high-powered, half-day writing seminar for aspiring authors from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 2, entitled, “So You Want To Write a Book?”

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They found a manufacturing plant in Longwood and sold the qubits.com URL for startup capital. In computing, the term “qubits” refers to quantum bits, and a Canadian quantum computing company called D-Wave Systems was happy to buy the URL. “It was such a lucrative deal that I was able to then start up my toy company for the second time.”

Marketing is still expensive, so he and his wife have taken to hosting Qubits Engineering Camps at museums, schools and libraries. They explain to children the importance of geometry in engineering, show them how to build specific types of objects, like a tower, and then just let them play.

“It uses your imagination and it’s innovative in that way,” he said of the toy.

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Mark Burginger calls Qubits a “modular, open-ended construction toy.”

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Suntree Country Club wrapping up renovations

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Steve Lamontagne, Suntree Country Club’s general manager, says an expanded short-game practice area for golfers should be ready in September.

By Mike Gaffey

Suntree Country Club’s five-year capital improvements plan is right on course.

The private, 870-member club at 1 Country Club Drive recently wrapped up a fouryear, $1.5 million irrigation project that installed new high-density polyethylene (HDPE) piping throughout its Classic golf course, one of its two 18-hole courses.

Workers also added, rerouted and resurfaced golf cart paths, built a “sport court” near the tennis courts, and should finish an expanded short-game

“Current members are very excited,” Lamontagne said. “This new short game chipping area is a big enhancement, not only to better practice facility usage but really to continue to learn the game of golf.”

—Steve Lamontagne

practice area for golfers in September.

“We’re really fixing up the facility drastically, and as you can see, the Classic and Challenge courses are in fantastic condition,” said Steve Lamontagne, Suntree Country Club’s general manager. “We’re not only fixing the club for existing

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Chief among the improvements is an irrigation system that can water the club’s Classic Course quickly by means of state-of-the-art HDPE pipes that make underground leaks “nearly impossible,”

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Golfers can work on their short game at a 1-acre practice area adjacent to the still-open driving range.

The new chipping area will feature a raised green, giving golfers a variety of challenging shots. It will be sprigged with Celebration Bermuda grass, a hardy, more disease-resistant hybrid that also has been planted at the driving range, Lamontagne said.

“Current members are very excited,” Lamontagne said. “This new short game chipping area is a big enhancement, not only to better practice facility usage but really to continue to learn the game of golf.”

The facility’s new sport court across from the club’s main building features the same hybrid grass. It’s a place where members can play volleyball or beach tennis, Lamontagne said. “It’s also been a fantastic play area for kids at our summer camps,” he added.

Established in 1975, Suntree Country Club once hosted the Senior PGA Tour on its Classic Course during the 1980s and early 1990s.

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Suntree Master Homeowners Association day camp thrives with help from student volunteers

by Rosemary H. Lynn and Rae Botsford

The Suntree Master Homeowners Association summer camp program is a successful six-week program that begins in May and ends in July each year.

The camp welcomes students ages 5 to 12 to participate in the half-day activities Monday through Friday.

Many of these students go on to become camp volunteers once they turn 16. The camp is held at the Spyglass Pavilion Park, which is closed to the public during camp hours, 7:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Monday through VIERA VOICE Rae Botsford Martha Jane St. Denis, director of the SMHA summer camp, Thursday. plays the game Guess Who? Martha Jane St. Denis has been the camp director for “The camp is geared the past 12 years and is soccer or field hockey and toward giving back to an employee of SMHA. She other physical education the community,” St. teaches algebra at Hoover activities.

Denis explains. It is Middle School, and every Tuesday is generally with this thought in camp counselor since St. reserved for “tournaments,” mind that she and her Denis has been director is including basketball and a counselors encourage a Brevard County School game they invented called the campers to embrace teacher. box hockey, which uses volunteer opportunities and “I think it’s the only camp wooden hockey sticks. learn kindness through team in this county, probably, that Wednesday is arts and play. is all school teacher-run,” St. crafts, when the children She is gratified to see Denis said. “School teachers can make sun catchers, so many of the camp’s are trained to handle the masks and other items volunteers who were once outdoor environment a pertaining to the theme. campers when they were lot easier, I believe. All my Thursdays is contest day, children. Volunteers mentor teachers are PE teachers. I with games like bingo, hulathe youngsters and are have a PE background also. hooping and “guess how mentored themselves by There’s something about many” games based on the camp counselors. the security of that, for me, theme — like red, white and “I only mentor kids who with the training and the education for truly caring for have been in this camp,” she said. children.”

A typical Monday-toAs director, she works with Friday camp week consists counselors and volunteers of pairing the older kids to ensure that the kids have with the younger ones for a great time and experience activities based on the day a sense of community spirit of the week and the camp’s Join Boutique during camp hours. She and theme, which is “Salute to the the counselors plan activities Troops” this year. that incorporate team play Monday consists of as well as a healthy sense of physical activities such as competition.

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‘White-knuckle’ incidents drive home need for Suntree traffic light

By Linda Wiggins

Each time John Whalen pulls out of his Eagle’s Landing community in Suntree onto Wickham Road, he said he is taking his life into his hands.

The traffic on the 7500 block of North Wickham Road has swelled in recent years along with residential development in north Melbourne and Viera, yet the four-way intersection does not have a light to manage its four lanes and two left-turn pockets.

“I used to say, ‘Does someone have to die before we get a traffic light here?’ ” Whalen said. “Now I say, ‘Does someone else have to die?’ ” Whalen is referring to the March 22 death of a Suntree Viera Voice Linda Wiggins resident driving south on Forest Lake Avenue into the Eagle’s Landing homeowner John Whalen is urging Brevard County to install a traffic light on Wickham Road in Suntree to eliminate “white-knuckle” driving experiences at the four-way Forest intersection, turning left onto Wickham Road and Lake Avenue/Golden Eagle Court intersection, where a motorist was killed in March. into the path of an oncoming westbound vehicle.

There’s no question that the intersection merits a traffic light, Brevard County District 4 Commissioner Mary Bolin Lewis said. The question is where the money will come from, estimated

by Bolin Lewis’ office to cost from $350,000 upwards to $750,000 due to underground utilities in the area.

“I would love to be able to do that, but there are a lot of residents throughout the district who need a lot of things and the list is long,” she added.

Whalen, who serves on his Eagle’s Landing homeowners association board, has taken the matter to the Suntree Master Homeowners

Association to champion the cause. Both bodies have joined together to move the matter forward.

The issue is so important that potential District 4 county commissioners are being vetted by the homeowners associations chiefly on their willingness to find funds necessary for the improvement, Whalen said.

“We are not going to stop until this is done.”

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Bolin Lewis is serving her final year in office due to term limits. The primary election is in August and the final election in November.

Whalen, who has written to transportation officials throughout the county and state — even to the governor’s office — said the process has been daunting, with little hope on the horizon. Then he speaks of the frequent car trips he and his wife must make out of the neighborhood’s only entrance, and those of the neighbors in his close-knit community who have become dear friends. He recounts white-knuckle experiences, one after another, until his tone changes.

“But we are not going to stop until this is done,” he said.

For more information on the effort to install a traffic signal, call 321-242-8960.

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As Vista Boyland explained their writing process, she said, “The endearing part is he still surprises me through his writing. I fall in love all over again.”

She said her husband takes criticism better than she does, but they share the common goal of using their fiction to educate.

“We have readers all over the world,” she said. “People email us from Europe, South America and all over the United States, to tell us how much they have learned from our books.”

The couple received Excellence in Writing Military Fiction awards from the Military Writers Association and Branson Missouri’s Stars and Flags for previous novels dealing with nuclear terrorism, pirates and cartels. Their newest novel, “Revolution 2016, Take Back America,” is a political-satire-thriller.

The authors said they felt compelled to “address the disturbing political and societal changes occurring in America,” changes they feel are threatening our constitutional republic.

The novel lampoons thinly veiled, real individuals by turning them into fictional archetypes.

Vista Boyland said she and her husband argued over writing only once in 10 years, while working on another book.

“I despised a character. I tried to kill her off, but he wouldn’t let me. She was his token liberal.”

She said she was embarrassed at a recent meeting of Brevard Federated Republican Women, when the president touted “Revolution 2016, Take Back America” by announcing, “There’s sex in it!”

The writers had not included such content in their previous books, but said they felt it was appropriate to incorporate it in this one.

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By George White

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Longtime Titusville attorney Chris Broome has opened a satellite office in Viera as a convenience to his clients in central Brevard County.

The office which opened in January is at 7351 Office Park Place, Suite 152.

“It opened in January and I’m there on a rotating basis once a week. It’s been convenient for clients and myself and it’s just a great area to be in,’’ Broome said.

He specializes in probate, guardianship, estate planning (wills/trusts/advance directives), elder law and issues involving the elderly, contracts, real estate and litigation.

Broome earned his B.A. in History at the University of Central Florida in 1988 and his Juris Doctor from the Stetson University College of Law in 1991. He is a member of both the Florida Bar and the Brevard County Bar Association.

The Broome firm was started in 1972 by Chris Broome’s father, Charles Broome, who retired in 2004. The original office is at 915 S. Washington Ave., Titusville.

“I’ve been the sole attorney here since then,’’ said Broome, who lives in Mims.

His move to Viera was prompted by business in that area and long-range plans, he said.

“I had clients that were in that area and this was an opportunity to serve clients in a new part of the county,’’ Broome said.

The Viera office is home base for Broome once a week by appointment.

“We’re hoping one day that it will be a fully-staffed office but right now we have a satellite office in Viera to serve the clients of the central part of the county,’’ he said.

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A longtime family business originating in New York City before World War II for the past 12 years has carried on locally at New York Pizza and Pasta Café, 6450 N. Wickham Rd., Melbourne.

“My family has a restaurant in New York that’s called Flynn’s and been there since 1937 in Fire Island, N.Y. It’s a full restaurant, hotel bar and marina. I’ve grown up working in restaurants since I was 10 years old. My father, my three uncles and my grandfather all opened the place. We had more than 20 cousins that all worked there at one time,’’ said owner Curtis Flynn, now a 20-year resident of Florida.

Flynn was an employee until he was asked if he wanted to purchase the business 12 years ago. He said he now has many loyal customers, some of whom he knows well enough for them to say “the usual.”

But he is most proud to say that the business, formerly called Big Apple Pizza, survived the economic downturn back in 2006 when restaurant use declined sharply.

“It’s been good. We’re not the busiest place in town but we’re steady. Nice and steady. That’s what we like,’’ he said.

And now, the tradition continues through Flynn’s son John, 15, who has worked at the restaurant on a part-time basis for about a year, he said.

“He started working much later than I did,” Flynn said.

The family business in New York offered seafood Continental cuisine, with the Suntree location maintaining a menu of more traditional Italian fare.

Popular dishes include pizza, grilled chicken artichokes and chicken alfredo, according to Flynn.

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On Aug. 28, Preserve Brevard is hosting a special event where former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham will discuss Amendment 1 — what it is, why it is important, and why Floridians should support it. The event, co-sponsored by 15 other organizations, will be at Florida Institute of Technology in the Gleason Auditorium at 6:30 p.m.

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Tropical Daze at Art Gallery of Viera On Saturday evening, Aug. 9, from 6 to 9 p.m., as the summer heat in Florida makes life a bit steamy and locals become entranced by water, sand and sun, Art Gallery of Viera in The Avenue Viera will host “Tropical Daze.� This will be the fifth time the gallery has celebrated the palms, sunsets, ocean and birds. It is hot and it is Florida, and it is all expressed in the hot-hot-hot tropical art by local artists.

Art Gallery of Viera is a members gallery and it is managed by five of the artists, J. Susan Cole Stone, Helen Wheatley, Jeanette Drake, Rebecca Gomme and Jerry Hanzl. During this show, they will be honored as the gallery’s featured artists for the month of August. At the opening reception, Ree Nathan, one of the gallery’s teachers, will demonstrate the art of card making and guests can sign up to win a stained glass butterfly by member artist, Eileen Farrell. This art show is open to member and guest artists. The gallery will hold a month long “People’s Choice Award� (visitors will vote on their favorite piece of art) with the winning artist receiving a display wall position in the front room of the gallery in January 2015. VV

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Calvary Chapel Melbourne’s Viera Campus hosted 180 children in one of two WinShape Christian summer camps held in Brevard in June, the other at the church’s main Melbourne campus.

The response was overwhelmingly positive, said Heather Profit, Women’s Ministry director at the Viera campus and camp coordinator for the church.

WinShape Camps for Communities is a program sponsored by Chick-fil-A, which has a restaurant in Viera, and created by restaurant-chain founder Truett Cathy.

“We were very proud to be the church selected to host the camps in Brevard,” Profit said. “Based on the positive response this first year, we anticipate doubling the number of campers served next year.”

The weeklong day camps are competitively priced, but available regardless of a family’s ability to pay, Profit said. About 75 children received at least a partial Viera voice Jill Gaines scholarship, she added. For more information, call Profit at 321-952-9673, ext.

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North Brevard Charities Sharing Center, Inc. (NBCSC) will conduct its fifth annual Main Artery Fundraiser at 7 p.m.

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Live music and other entertainment will be provided.

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Magrini picked up litter along Murrell Road each month, planted Florida native plants at the Viera Wetlands and worked to make the Viera Woman’s Club Snow Ball dinner-dance auction.

She collected and delivered donations to women’s shelters and transitional homes, wrote three grants, worked with Keep Brevard Beautiful, served lunch at Canine Companions for Independence in Ocoee, and organized collection and delivery of holiday gifts from club members for Meals on Wheels.

The former recording secretary participated with Viera Singers at Alzheimer’s and senior facilities, entered photography in Woman’s Clubs’ art shows, sewed pillowcases for children in group homes and recruited many new club members.

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Church reaches out to children in need Volunteers at Church at Viera assembled nearly 600 packages of food June 22 to nourish school children during the weekends.

George Stevens, CAV children’s pastor, coordinated the event with Ric Speigner, principal at Rockledge Christian School, which serves many low-income families.

“We were looking for a way for our elementary and preschool Vacation Bible School students to make an immediate impact on our local community. We so often forget about the need in our own backyard as we focus on world missions,” Stevens said.

Children raised $3,600 in one week, enough to provide 25 children with meals throughout the year.

“What an amazing church, and what incredible children,” Speigner said.

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Leptospirosis on the rise in suburbia

By Ian Birkbeck, DVM Island Animal Hospital at Viera

A recent rise in cases of leptospirosis in Florida has brought increased attention to this uncommon but serious disease. Earlier this spring, the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine reported that there had been 12 infected patients referred to the hospital in the previous six months. Leading up to that period, the disease was rarely seen at the facility.

The rise has been observed in other parts of the state as well. Potentially lethal and able to spread to humans as well as dogs, it’s a disease that should be taken very seriously. In this article, I’ll outline the important things to know so you can be informed and keep your pets Leptospirosis is a bacterial

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