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Allen & Company of Viera donated $1,500 so Suntree Rotary Club volunteers could refurbish and outfit the Teen Center at the Boys & Girls Club at Temple Terrace in Melbourne May 17. The economically challenged area is near the Booker T. Washington community, a few miles south of Suntree. Suntree Rotary has the largest membership in Brevard and raises the most money for local and international charity projects. “We decided to take on the project, and I thought I would mention it to my firm,” said Bill Slover, a Suntree Rotary officer and investment broker at the Viera office of Allen & Company, Florida’s oldest established investment and securities firm. “They thought it was a great investment in our community.” According to Suntree Rotary President Bill Means, that is the strength behind the club.
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Suntree Rotary member Bill Slover, clockwise from left, Boys & Girls Club director Richard Yount and members Tatyania Watts and Tyra Watts refurbish the club’s Teen Center May 17. “We attend meetings and it’s a great place to network and make solid business connections, but so many of us are involved in a business that we are able to bring
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Amid the hum of bumblebees and the fragrance of exotic flowers, Claudia Estes is most at home. The hobby gardener’s house in Indian River Colony Club is surrounded by a sea of flowers and trees that she has planted there, many of which ordinarily would never share space. Potted orchids line her screenedin front porch, and her back porch boasts a well-aged bonsai tree. Estes grew up in a military family that traveled wherever her vice admiral father was called. “As a little girl, I got a penny for every 10 weeds I pulled out of the lawn and I got two cents for every flower I could remember the name of,” Estes said. “We’ve
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Europe, or Japan, or here in the U.S.” Her first husband was in the Navy, and her current husband is in the Air Force, so she kept traveling and kept planting. She’s been at IRCC since 1997. Gardening in Florida is not like gardening up North, she said. Her Virginia garden included hundreds of bulb plants, like daffodils and tulips, which need cold winters. “I love learning the different flowers that grow here and the ones that don’t, and the frustrations of hurricanes,” Estes said. “It’s an entirely different way of gardening.”
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turn it into a team building experience and get staff out there volunteering,” Slover said. “It feels great to be a part of something so positive.” Some Rotary members are retired, giving them extra time to devote to community causes, and Temple Terrace is one of Rotary member Bob Harmeyer’s passions. Heeding his wife’s dying wish to go on without her and “do good things,” he is a fixture at the club and recruited Lowe’s, Home Depot and Richards Paints to contribute materials, with volunteers fueled by donated Krispy Kreme donuts. The money from Slover’s firm will be used to purchase desks, couches and other items to make the club a place teens love to hang out. That is a crucial factor, said Michael
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Mother’s Day a dream come true for child, family By Linda Wiggins
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home to help offset costs associated with the adoption, which included trips an average of every other month to visit Sam and medical bills. The idea to add to the family was not out of necessity — Michelle and Stephen already have three biological children, Isabel, Cole and Jack — but out of love abundant enough to share. They started the journey on a fall 2012 church mission trip to Haiti, and that December, after much family prayer and unanimous decision, opted to pursue adoption. Paperwork was submitted to Haiti and in January the Bordins found Sam at an orphanage there. A Viera Voice story in early 2013 outlined the coming saga. Immediately after the request for adoption, Haitian laws were changed to consolidate all adoptions through one government agency, limiting adoption referrals to 19 orphanages for the entire country. Red tape mounted, and many visits to Haiti promised to be the last before Sam could leave. Frustration and sadness were instead the borne fruit. Church at Viera’s Haiti mission stepped up and many volunteers stepped in. When Michelle could not be there, church members went and sent back selfie pictures of Sam in their loving embrace. “I was so happy to see him getting loving care,” Bordin wrote in her blog of the ongoing experience of many ups and downs at bringinghomesamb.blogspot. com.
Just when it looked like Sam was destined to leave the country, he became severely ill, his eye grossly swollen and brain inflammation suspected. Bordin’s blogs became frantic, but persistent. She would not leave without him again. It was February and her intent was to bring him home for Valentine’s Day. She stood in long lines to get medical aid in Haiti, only to be told to stand in another long line to pay in full before treatment would be administered. Another test? Another long wait to pay in full, before another long wait for treatment, which meant pleading with overworked doctors, mostly volunteers from the United States and Canada, to see Sam. At one point, Bordin waited with another mother, and by the time the mother could pay, her baby had died. Sam made it out Feb. 22. Such is life for little ones in a country so poor. While missionaries and volunteers work to improve living conditions in Haiti orphanages, foreign adoption is the only guaranteed escape from early death. The yard sale will be at 1462 Old Millpond Rd. in the Crane Creek subdivision of Viera. To drop off donated items, email bringinghomesam@ gmail.com. To make a taxdeductible donation that will be matched, go to lifesongfororphans.org and select “Give to an Adoptive Family,” and enter Family Number: 4358 and Family Name: Bordin. VV
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By Linda Wiggins
The fundraising group Friends of the Suntree/ Viera Library raised a record $7,000-plus in its twiceyearly book sale at the end of April. Book sale proceeds and membership dues pay for items not called for in the lean Brevard County budgets of recent years. “We really have to thank generous patrons who donate books all year long that, if they aren’t put out on the shelves, are set aside for the sales,” said Bobbi Shaw, Friends’ past president and coordinator of the book sales. The library is the busiest in Brevard County in terms of materials checked out, and nearly the highest in foot traffic. One of the items Friends pays for is the Summer Reading Program starting this month in which children earn Book Bucks for reading each day and attending fun library programs each Friday,
such as the popular Jiggleman performance. Including the prizes provided to the children for their earned bucks, the price tag averages $5,000 a summer. The program runs June 9 through July 28 and materials pickup starts June 2. “It is through this generosity that we can offer variety of program events through the summer and all year,” said Scott Hauge, head of Youth Services. One of the many ways Friends enhances the adult areas of the library is by improving access to popular titles and increasing purchases of Stellar Sellers, the most popular books and DVDs. “We needed some shelving designed, but it was pretty pricey and out of reach,” library director Mary Scholtz said. Friends provided the funding and volunteer carpenters Bobby “Ray” Burch Jr. and Tyson Dominy, brother of staffer Barbara McKinney and husband of staffer Yvonne
Dominy, respectively, built a three-tiered display and a tall bookshelf for Stellar Sellers and large print books. “Practically the minute a volunteer puts one book down a patron picks it up. The areas are that well used,” Scholtz said. The Friends, who literally built the library itself, lobbying for its funding from its humble beginnings in a strip mall to a free-standing facility, believe the library is an important
cultural center. Many have been members from the start, paying the modest $5 dues a year as individuals or $10 for a family, which when combined with book sales and patron donations can allow for improvements of $25,000 to $50,000 some years. “Libraries are like a second home for many,” Friends’ new president Betty Minton said in the group’s recent quarterly Liaison newsletter, “and that is what the Friends and I want to
make sure stays in place.” Friends meets at 3 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month at the library, 902 Jordan Blass Dr. in Suntree. For more information on Friends or to access the Liaison, go to greatlibraryfriends. com, and for the summer events schedule, follow a link on that page or go to mylibraryworld.com and click Suntree/Viera Library and Events, or call 321-255-
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Early preparation for hurricane season “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” certainly applies as hurricane season approaches, June 1. It’s never too soon for associations to formulate a plan. Space in this column only allows covering the highlights. Your association may want to set up a committee or appoint a chairperson to be sure all the details of your community are addressed. The on-site manager or management company should put these plans in place and coordinate with the board to be sure they are implemented. I suggest an actual checklist be prepared so you can rest assured all the bases are covered. Many precautions can be taken far in advance. Be sure that emergency lighting and any stand-by power supplies are functioning properly. Hurricane shutters may be sticky or corroded during the winter months. Make sure trees are trimmed and hedges pruned. Buildings should be inspected for loose tiles, shingles and wood. Communities with lakes and canals should be sure the
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It’s like a reunion for the owners and employees at EATz, formerly located in downtown Melbourne. A decade after hurricanes closed the place, former employees are now working at the new EATz location at 7965 Wickham Rd. which
Hurricanes Francis and Jeanne may have run them out of downtown Melbourne, but the old crew is excited to work near Viera. “We asked them to get back into the business and there was no hesitation. We pulled everybody out of retirement,’’ he said. And even some current
customers remember the old location fondly, he said. “Believe it or not, since we’ve opened we’ve also had some of our old customers from downtown who now live or work in this area,’’ he said. For more information, call 321-426-7575. VV
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Laurie K. “Politics and how so many things are going on that all the information needed to make an informed decision is not readily available.”
John Moser “The Magellan project. It’s helping to turn the county economy around. It also is increasing exposure of Brevard County and hopefully it will attract more industry to Brevard.”
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Want prosperity? Buy products Made In Brevard By Linda Wiggins
Brevard businesses are banking on what economists are predicting as a tipping point that will bring manufacturing back on U.S.
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participant, was recently featured in a May 12 CNBC.com story that highlighted companies not only producing locally but exporting to other countries. It stated: “One bet on the economy is that American manufacturing is staging a comeback. With labor costs rising in China, U.S. companies are taking a second look at operations and incorporating more domestic production.” Barn Light Electric is just one example of many local products that are finding their way to markets overseas, Huy noted. Local infrastructure is shifting to capitalize on product export capability, with huge cranes recently arriving at Port Canaveral that will be able to load export containers on ships. The EDC is charged with carrying this message outside Brevard to attract manufacturers to the Space Coast, highlighting its favorable, affordable living conditions, available housing stock and amenities, as well as competitive wages. According to Huy, Made In Brevard promotes the Space Coast’s wide-ranging manufacturers, grows a sense of pride in local manufacturing capabilities, creates understanding for the area’s strengths, including its unified business community, and stimulates economic growth among Brevard County manufacturers and service companies. “It also fosters a unique connection to ‘home,’ ” she said. To find locally made products or for more information, call 321-638-2000 or go to madeinbrevardfl.com. VV
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Viera author writes of his journey home by amy blalock
Viera author Dr. Bruce Snavely has published an autobiography, the tale of his unlikely life, titled “All the Way Home.” The book chronicles his life’s journey from promise to devastation and his long road to hope and restoration. Born the son of a preeminent Ivy Leagueeducated doctor, Snavely’s tale begins with a happy, pastoral life in Ohio. His early childhood days were spent on a farm in the late 1950s,
complete with sheep and a pony. Everything fell to pieces after his father’s sudden death left him in the care of an ill-intentioned stepmother. An orphaned ward of the state, Snavely was separated from his family and watched his confident, secure life melt into despair, hooliganism and drug abuse. Snavely’s one aim was always to regain his splintered family and reunite with his brother and sister, but he found little release
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When you live next door to one of the most heavily When: Third Tuesday trafficked wildlife wetlands morning of the month in the world, you can get to feel outnumbered. (June 17); Central Pinky Dimlow likes it that Brevard 9:30 a.m. way. Where: GRG of Brevard In fact, she started the Office, 123 Barton Blvd., Heritage Isle Nature Club Rockledge. about six years ago to educate her two-legged Grandparents Raising neighbors about the ones Grandchildren is offering with feathers, fur, sharp scholarship assistance teeth or fins. for summer camp for She and her husband, qualifying guardians. Harry, can often be found walking the berms around Contact: Mary Ann the Ritch Grissom Memorial Sterling at 631-7776 for Viera Wetlands at the end more information. of N. Wickham Road, to the west and southwest of their Heritage Isle community in VIERA VOICE Harry Behret Viera. Heritage Isle Nature Club members Sharon Straw and Barbara Geier shared their knowledge at “She is very much my the Viera Wetlands Nature Festival on April 26. hero,” said Sharon Straw, one of Dimlow’s recruits. Straw and fellow HINC member Heritage Isle ponds. They led offered,” Straw said. “This Barbara Geier were invited a petition signed by about can increase risk to children to host an education booth 100 area residents in protest, and pets, and certainly the at the Viera Wetlands Nature resulting in positive response gator if it has to be removed. Festival, whose purpose also from the CDD, Straw added. Respect them rather than is to educate the public about fear them, and enjoy them at wildlife and nature. Festival a distance.” organizer Terry Mott, one In addition to public “We are mostly just of the founding members of education, HINC members Friends of the Viera Wetlands folk fascinated by the get together to share photos that supports the Brevard of nature and wildlife and Specialists in Knee, Hip and Shoulder Replacement County-owned wetlands, wildlife in this area.” information about upcoming had attended a presentation Phone: 321.956.1501 events, make “seed sticks” Straw gave to her neighbors — Sharon Straw for the Brevard Zoo to sell Welcome to the Orthopaedic practice of Daniel L. King, M.D. at a recent HINC meeting for animal encounters, Our practice specializes in the operative and non-operative care of the painful about alligators. create enrichment materials knee, hip and shoulder. Advances in surgical techniques and materials have “I was extremely impressed “This was happening out of for the enjoyment of zoo led to state-of-the-art surgical solutions provided to you at our center. Dr. because it was the best residents’ fear and ignorance animals, and promote the King is MAKOplasty® certified to perform partial knee replacements and hip presentation I’ve seen, of these animals that are enjoyment of the Viera replacements using the RIO® Robotic Arm Interactive Orthopedic System. and I’m a Florida Master very important to the native Wetlands, including the Dan Most hip replacements can now be done utilizing a less invasive anterior Naturalist,” Mott said, ecosystem,” Straw said. Click ponds that border the technique. Most knee replacements are now done without cutting the quadriceps referring to the coveted state tendon. Both techniques may result in less pain, and quicker recovery. Chief on the list of community. certification for advanced information in the While Straw already Dr. King and his Physician Assistants David A. Harris, PA-C and Wilberto wildlife education. Olivera, PA-C provide experienced care and judgment for patients utilizing presentation, located in is creating her next optimal materials and techniques. Straw’s “Living With under the heading “Don’t do presentation by popular Florida Wildlife” PowerPoint Stupid Things”: resist the demand, this time about presentation was inspired We are now conveniently located in Viera temptation to feed gators, sandhill cranes, she puts the by residents Lynn Hirsch and all wildlife, for that kibosh on the idea that the 2328 Medico Lane, Melbourne and Sue Risi, who discovered matter. club is made up of experts. in the new Viera Medical Park in March that the area’s “Alligators lose their “We are mostly just folk We are located at the northeast corner community development natural instinct to move away fascinated by the wildlife in of the intersection between district had allowed trappers from humans, and instead this area,” she said. For more Stadium Parkway and Wickham Rd. to hunt, kill and remove seek them out, and aggress information or to join HINC, www.newjoint.com non-nuisance gators from when there is no food email swstraw@att.net. VV
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The 100 Girl Scout-strong Harbour City Service Unit hosted their second annual Girl Scout Ball at Viera High School on April 25. They invited some guests from various special adult groups to join in the festivities. Enthusiasm filled the air as the girls shared crafts they had made and danced with their fathers and other adult chaperones. The Harbour City Service Unit has troops from various schools and homeschool groups throughout the area.
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New Brevard Zoo facility helps sea turtle rescues By George White
Ponce Inlet, all she had was “We’ve been meeting with the short drive to the zoo. the zoo for the last couple It didn’t take long for the “We’ve been working on of years trying to bring this new sea turtle rescue facility this for so long. It’s amazing about. Up to now, if we had at Brevard Zoo to get called having it so close,’’ she said. a sick or injured turtle, the into service, this time not closest facility was Seaworld. “Once his shell closes up a for cold stuns but for a small We were transporting turtles little more, he’ll be ready to turtle with a broken shell for an hour up to two or go,’’ Brangan said. found injured at Sebastian three hours,’’ he said. The zoo was called into Inlet. Of the 80 turtles recovered action for sea turtles in a The Sea Turtle Healing during 2010, 56 went to big way during a 2010 cold Center officially opened at Seaworld, 12 went to Volusia snap, said Trevor Zachariah, the zoo April 13 providing County with the remaining director of veterinarian holding spaces — a dozen programs who has been with transported even farther round tanks ranging in size away, he said. the zoo for four years. from about six feet to 20 feet STPS has earmarked “By noon, we had 80 turtles in diameter — as a sea turtle $25,000 to the center for and went out and bought all rehabilitation center. It is three years. In addition, the the kiddie pools we could located next to the existing facility was funded through a find. This area alone had state-of-the-art veterinary more than 5,000 cold stuns,’’ grant from proceeds from the hospital. 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By Ian Birkbeck, DVM Island Animal Hospital at Viera
Summertime in Brevard county means barbecues, trips to the beach and Manatees baseball. It also means more seasonal thunderstorms and, for those living around Space Coast Stadium, several nights of postgame fireworks. These last two can be a source of stress and anxiety for many pets, particularly for those affected by thunderstorm or firework phobias. A phobia, just as with humans, is a fear response that is disproportionate to the actual threat. Dogs and cats can develop a variety of potential phobias, with thunderstorms (and loud noises in general) being one of the most common. Phobia symptoms in dogs include trembling, shaking, vocalizing, panting, and restlessness. In severe cases the pet may exhibit
Taming thunderstorm phobia destructive behavior or soil the carpet. The severity of the symptoms may worsen over time and persist for longer and longer. Cats may show similar symptoms, but more often display anxiety by going into hiding for extended periods of time. There are two main approaches to treating phobias: behavioral modification and medications. Both may be needed to achieve the best results. Behavioral modification involves rewarding the pet for any relaxed behavior. Give positive reinforcement to dogs (petting, treats) while maintaining eye contact as long as the pet is acting calmly. A command such as “calm� or “relax� can be added. This can then be used to calm the dog when a potential anxiety trigger
arises. Desensitization can be helpful in some cases, but it must be done very slowly. This can work if pets are responding to noise. A recording of a thunderstorm or fireworks can be played while giving the pet positive reinforcement. The trick is to play the recording at a volume below the point where the pet becomes anxious. Then slowly, over time, the volume can be increased while continuing to provide positive reinforcement. Once the pet begins showing signs of anxiety, the volume should be turned down. This is then repeated during several sessions, which may decrease the pet’s response to the noise. Anti-anxiety medications can be beneficial in many cases. It’s important
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to remember that most anxiety conditions are due to a functional problem in the brain rather than a vengeful or spiteful pet. Because the problem stems from brain chemistry, medications that alter that chemistry can alleviate the symptoms. There are several types of anti-anxiety medications commonly prescribed for pets, including benzodiazepines, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs). Each category of medication works in a slightly different way and may be better suited to different anxiety triggers.
For example, a short-acting, rapid-onset medication may be a better fit for a cat that experiences anxiety from a few minutes of post-baseball fireworks every couple weeks, whereas longeracting medication may be better for a dog experiencing thunderstorms every couple of days for months. Thunderstorms may be an unavoidable part of living in Florida, but fortunately your pet’s thunderstorm and other noise phobias don’t have to be. If you have any pet medical questions you’d like to see answered in a future column, you can email them to me at Dr.Ian@ IslandAnimal.com.VV
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Poodle and Pooch Rescue saves dogs that are not adopted from animal control, provides veterinary care and finds them homes. Summer is the dog-dumping season. More requests for help are received from animal control during the summer than any other season. After the dogs have been fully vetted and groomed, they are ready to go to a foster home. Everything the foster family needs is provided so there is no expense to them. These dogs just need a safe place to live for three weeks while forever homes are found. Contact Poodle and Pooch Rescue at info@ poodleandpoochrescue.org or call us at 321-277-3089 if you would like to foster a dog. Visit the website at poodleandpoochrescue.org to meet some of the dogs. VV
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