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CONTENTS OCTOBER 2013 • VOL. 13 ISSUE 10

COVER STORY – Famed Florida photographer Bruce Mozert of Ocala provided this image of the iconic Silver Springs to compliment this month’s story about the park, now managed by the State of Florida.

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Tapas Charity of the Month Calendar of Events

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Theatre Listings Crossword Puzzle Reading Corner

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Tinseltown Talks

By Nick Thomas

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Embracing Life

by Donna Bonnell

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The CCOA is Back

by Ellis Amburn

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Health Fair

Meeting the Needs of a Growing Population

Providing Information and Support to Gainesville’s Senior Community

Good Chemistry

BY COURTNEY LINDWALL

Chuck Martin – Distinguished Rocker, Nutty Professor

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BY TOM BERSON

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Healthy Edge

by Kendra Siler-Marsiglio

WINNER! Congratulations to the winner from our SEPTEMBER 2013 issue…

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When Norman Miller had a heart attack last year, Dominick Angiolillo was behind the scenes – doing his work at UF Health predicting how patients will respond to medicines after surgery. Today, Dr. Angiolillo’s research is reducing Norman’s chances of another heart attack. And it’s another invisible connection that’s helping us move medicine forward.

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FROM THE EDITOR œ ALBERT ISAAC

Fall Finally Arrives Could it possibly be? Was that a cool breeze I felt this afternoon?

Is fall finally upon us? I’m certainly ready for some cooler weather.

Now that October is here it’s time to start thinking about Christmas shopping. Right? Well, not if you’re like me; I tend to procrastinate and I won’t be thinking about Christmas shopping until sometime in December. Like the 24th. I am, however, thinking about Halloween.

We still have a young trick-or-treater in our household so we will be out and about somewhere ‘round town so that he can collect his bounty. We’re enjoying these times as much as we can, knowing that it won’t be long before our youngest grows up and we will have an empty nest. No doubt that will be strange. But

until then, it’s chaotic craziness in the Isaac household.

With Halloween in mind we offer a reader-submitted story of a mysterious buried object that was unearthed just prior to All Hallows’ Eve. Senior Times still invites you to send your stories to be considered for publication in the Community Voice section.

Keep in mind that if your story is seasonal, we will need it no later than the 13th of the month prior. Have a poignant Christmas story? Now would be the time to send it my way (editor@towerpublications.com).

Ah, Silver Springs. I remember first visiting the park as a youngster and marveling at those remarkable glassbottom boats. Well, this month, the park is scheduled to reopen under state management. Read about the history of Silver Springs and what’s to come.

As always, thank you for reading!

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Just a quick note of thanks for the wonderful story about my exhibit (“Artifacts Exquisite & Extraordinary,” August 2013). It was an unalloyed pleasure to meet with your reporter and your photographer. The article captured the essence of the story and presented it in an intelligent and cogent way. Please extend my thanks for a charming and readable article, which represented me as cooler than I actually am.

And thank you for the opportunity to connect with my peers. They couldn’t have been more excited if it had been the cover of Rolling Stone.

— Bill Hutchinson I can’t tell you how excited I was to get your letter about winning a gift card from participating in the Senior Times Crossword Puzzle.

Thank you, thank you for the gift card, the opportunity to enter the contest and your most enjoyable magazine.

My husband and I read each issue cover to cover -- you and your staff do an admirable job informing readers of places to go, things to see and people who contribute so much to our community.

— Carolann Schoneman

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JUST KEEP SWIMMING Diana Nyad made her mark in history on Sep. 2, 2013 when she reached the shore in Key West and became the first person to successfully swim from Cuba to Florida without using a shark cage. According to sportingnews. com, when the 64-year-old woman arrived after her 53hour journey, she was immediately taken to the hospital due to swelling, dehydration and sunburn, but her doctor predicted a quick recovery.

Nyad had made four previous attempts at the 110-mile swim, the first being in 1978.

The main message that Nyad hoped to convey to the public is that age should never hinder the ability to chase dreams.

GAINESVILLE SENIOR GAMES 13th Annual Event It is that time of year again: the time for Senior athletes to compete in a wide variety of sporting events throughout Alachua County.

Organized by the Gainesville Sports Commission, the Gainesville Senior Games attract about 400 athletes to compete in events including track and field, archery, basketball, cycling, bowling and more.

Games will be held October 11-13. Competitors must be at least 50 on or before December 31, 2013, and age groups for most events will be divided in 5-year intervals.

Registration ends October 4. Contact the Gainesville Sports Commission at 352-338-0600 or visit www.gsoc.com.

GRAY MATTERS Boost your brain power LIFT WEIGHTS – Weight lifting and resistance training have benefits such as balance, toning, range of motion, and improved memory.

LAUGH – No joke, humor is healthy.

A hearty laugh provides short but similar benefits of aerobic exercise.

TAKE A NAP – Naps improve daytime alertness, memory and learning. It can also improve decision making, problem solving, creativity and more.

MEDITATE – Studies show that daily meditation can strengthen connections between brain cells, increase growth in the part of the brain that controls memory and language and even bolster decision making and information processing.

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Ellen Jaffe Jones With 54 5-K races under her belt in the last 7 years, it comes as no surprise that Ellen Jaffe Jones placed in the top 10 at the National Senior Games. According to PR.com, the Holmes Beach resident placed 7th in the 60-64age group, improving her personal record by 35 seconds. She also competed in the 400-meter, 200-meter and 100-meter races, and she managed to place in the top 19 for each event. Ellen’s mom, aunt and sisters had breast cancer, making Ellen the only cancer-free woman in her family.

She said her plant-based vegan diet is her main source of energy and has given her the ability to run several races in a short amount of time. She has contributed her talent through being a personal trainer and helping coach the girls’ team at Manatee High School. A former TV investigative reporter and 2-Time Emmy-winner, she is now a full-time author and is known for her bestseller, “Eat Vegan on $4 a Day,” and her new book, “Kitchen Divided.”

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Born and raised in Gainesville, Thomas Earl “Tom” Petty is a singer-songwriter, actor and instrumentalist. Petty founded the band, Mudcrutch, and he later started the Traveling Wilburys. Petty is best known for being the face of Tom Petty W & the Heartbreakers, whose hit singles include “Breakdown” and “American Girl.” In 1999, the band got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2002 he joined the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Petty released his first solo album, “Full Moon Fever, in 1989. His career went beyond music when he starred in “FM,” “Made in Heaven,” “The Postman,” “The Simpsons” and more. He is currently the host of the Sirius XM radio show, Petty’s Buried Treasure, which focuses on his favorite musical hits. The Grammy-winning artist is acknowledged in Gainesville by the “Tom Petty tree,” an Ogeechee lime tree that he planted while he was on the grounds crew at UF.

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Birthdays this Month

Ralph Lauren October 14, 1939 (74)

Penny Marshall

Andrea Mitchell

October 15, 1942 (71)

October 30, 1946 (67)

Deidre Hall

Jimmy Carter, Jr.

October 31, 1947 (66)

October 1, 1924 (89)

Jane Pauley

Joan Fontaine

October 31, 1950 (63)

October 22, 1917 (96)

“Your mind knows only some things.

Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path”

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— HENRY WINKLER Henry Winkler (born Oct. 30, 1945) is an actor, producer and director. He got his Masters of Fine Arts from Yale and later received his Ph.D. in Hebrew Literature. His first role was as a Brooklyn gang member in “The Lord’s of Flatbush,” but he is best known as “Fonzie” in “Happy Days.” He moved on to directing movies and television shows such as “MacGyver” and “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.” Because Winkler struggled with dyslexia growing up, he and his co-author have completed a series of novels about the adventures of a resourceful, fourth-grader -- who also happens to have dyslexia.

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Meeting the Needs of Seniors Reorganized and re-energized, the Community Coalition for Older Adults (CCOA) recently met to plan a variety of upcoming projects designed to better the lives of Seniors in Alachua County.

Among the offerings the group has on tap is a spring 2014 town hall meeting, with federal, state and local political leaders in a panel discussion with questions from the audience.

Excited about the momentum the group is gaining, CCOA Co-chair, Shirley Bloodworth, is optimistic about the organization’s ability to make a difference in the lives of Seniors.

“At this point,” Bloodworth said, “we have conducted five CCOA Advance Directive Educational Seminars [cosponsored with the Alachua County Senior Recreation Center and UF Health & Shands Hospital], a Seniors and Law Enforcement Together Safety Summit, a fall prevention and screening program, and an Elder Options presentation outlining sequestration’s impact on the elderly — in addition to our monthly meetings where representatives from a variety of community organizations

gather to coordinate efforts in supporting the county’s senior citizens.”

The group also participates in “Communities for a Lifetime,” developing strategies for Seniors to address issues of affordable health care, intergenerational relationships, housing, transportation and safe environments.

“Our goal is to empower people by giving them information they need to live better while aging and alert them to the community resources that exist to assist them,” Bloodworth said.

Monthly CCOA meetings — always free and open to the public — draw attendees such as senior advocates from a variety of elder communities, law enforcement representatives, University of Florida organizations, medical professionals, groups including the Foster Grandparent Program, family caregivers, and individuals looking to better themselves and their communities.

The CCOA meets the third Friday of the month at 9:30 a.m. in the Alachua County Senior Recreation Center. Contact Shirley Bloodworth at 352-222-2978 or sgblood@bellsouth.net. s seniortimesmagazine.com

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Beauty Haven Equine Rescue AUGUST 2013 WINNER – 3,867 VOTES

From her farm in Morriston, Theresa Batchelor breathes life back into the broken horses.

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Batchelor, her family and a team of dedicated volunteers work together as a part of Beauty’s Haven Farm and Equine Rescue to give these horses a second chance at life. The rescue won $1,000 in the August SunState Federal Credit Union’s Charity of the Month contest with 3,867 votes votes on Facebook.

Batchelor takes horses in for rehabilitation and, if possible, will adopt them back out once they are healthy.

“She gets the worst of the worst,” said Jeanne Bartsch, who works on the nonprofit’s board of directors. “They need surgeries. They’re at death’s door. But she’s magical. She has this way so that most of them do survive.”

The story of Batchelor’s equine rescue began long ago — with a horse named Beauty. Years of health problems and surgeries had left Batchelor as an “incomplete quadriplegic” and unable to feel her arms or legs. Although told by doctors she would never walk again, physical therapy and determination allowed Batchelor to not only walk but also to continue the things she loved, such as horseback riding.

During this period, she was contacted about a young Arabian mare, abused and seized by the county. His name was Beauty. It took time, but the shy, traumatized horse eventually formed a close bond with Batchelor.

“Theresa knew she needed the mare as much as the mare needed her,” the organization’s website reads.

The relationship with her rehabilitated horse spurred her to action. With Beauty in mind, Batchelor decided to dedicate her time to saving horses in need.

The rescue filed as an official nonprofit in 2006, and the horses have continued to find refuge at her Morriston farm ever since. Many of the volunteers at the farm are veterinary students from the University of Florida, and in this way, Beauty’s Haven has become a community effort.

Horses like Spirit, the blind mare who arrived severely

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wounded just a year ago, can now be seen on the organization’s website as just one of the haven’s many success stories.

Adopted out and socialized, Spirit embodies the difference a year of compassion can make. s Learn more at facebook.com/BeautysHavenFarmAndEquineRescue

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Good Chemistry Chuck Martin – Distinguished Rocker; Nutty Professor

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he Colonel. Charles Ray. Nano Tech Pioneer.

Professor Charles Raymond Martin is known by many names.

In addition to being a popular chemistry instructor at the University of Florida, he is also a prolific songwriter and musician, having performed in a variety of bands including dblWiDE, The Lousy Monkees and The Righteous Kind.

But there was a time when this selfproclaimed genius boy was floundering in school. Raised in a blue-collar family (his father a factory worker, his mother a classically trained pianist), in Cincinnati, Ohio, Martin said he was born an artist, but his father saw that in him — and snuffed it out.

“I was a little daydreaming artist who was kind of a showoff, and he stamped that out of me,” Martin said, as he sat on the couch in the home he shares with his wife, Amy Lynn, three cats and a turtle.

He was also obsessed with books from a very early age, and read everything he could get his hands on.

“I had an interest in things scientific, and I was a scholar about it,” he said.

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“I was 10 years old and collecting fossils and rock samples, and I’d go to the library and check out these books and find my fossil and write it down on this piece of paper.”

But then one night, when he was in first or second grade, his father sat him down and asked him a series of questions about basic math and English.

“And after that he said, ‘Oh my God,’” Martin said. “In elementary school, there were two broad classes: the bright and the dim. And I was in a dim class.

I felt very stung by that. So my dad sat with me every night and made me un-

“In sixth grade you are given a ranking.

There was college prep, but there was this ranking of academic. Then there was general, and they were going to be geared for good jobs, maybe draftsmen. So they say there’s going to be a letter coming to your home, and it’s going to tell you which class you’re in.

I don’t know if I’ve ever told anybody this story — well Amy knows this story.

I remember thinking, please, let me be academic class. I know I’m not going to make college prep, that’s not going to be possible. Please let me be academic, I’ll work really, really hard.”

“It is a great departure from anything I’ve done before and it’s scary in the sense that I don’t know what it’s going to become.” derstand mathematics.”

Martin got up from the couch and began to pace the room.

“So, I’m in this elementary school. I’m in the dim class. We learn somewhere in the fifth grade, that in the sixth grade...”

Martin paused to gather his thoughts.

Martin paused and wiped his eyes behind his black-rim glasses.

“Sorry, I’m such a square,” he said. “I remember, I come home, my mom and dad are in the living room. They say, ‘well, a letter came today.’ And it said I was college prep. I couldn’t believe it. I seniortimesmagazine.com

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PHOTO COURTESY OF CHUCK MARTIN Chuck Martin kicks back in his Gainesville home with the award he garnered from the American Chemical Society (ACS) for having one of the mostcited papers published in the 25-year history of the ACS “Journal Chemistry of Materials.” Readers can see the many aspects of Martin (music, science, comedy, art) on the ChuckMartinGeniusBoy YouTube channel.

was college prep.”

Martin said that by the time he graduated, he was not in the top ten, but he was very close.

“There was just an amazing transformation in those years. And basically, it was my father’s doing,” Martin said.

“But the artistic side got lost and, as a result, for most of my adult life I was miserable. Believe me, I think about it a lot now. That’s one thing about turning 60, you look back and try to put the frickin’ pieces together.”

Martin’s hard work paid off. He now holds the honor of being a Distinguished Professor at the University of Florida, an exclusive club — less than 2 percent of the faculty, Martin said.

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“They used to say 1 percent but I think they increased it,” he said with a chuckle. “Once they let me in, they had to let anybody in.”

Martin’s accomplishments include: University of Florida Distinguished Professor since July 2006; University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship, March 2005 — February 2008; Department of Anesthesiology, Professor, September 2003 to present; Department of Chemistry — Colonel Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Professor of Chemistry, September 2003 to present; Professor of Chemistry, August 1999 to present; Director — Center for Research at the Bio/Nano Interface, January 2000 to present. Additionally, Martin has been

identified as one of the world’s top 100 chemists of the past decade (2000-2010)

by Thomson Reuters.

But before all these accomplishments, Martin was struggling through his life without music.

“I went to graduate school — dare I say it? — in the year 1975. And for that decade I didn’t play any music at all.

Longer than that,” he said. “I was an assistant professor trying to get tenure. For many, many years, my career was the only thing I did well in my life.

And I thought that was normal. I was a young, ambitious, ruthlessly motivated young man and I didn’t see anything wrong with that. But now, after meeting Amy and getting some love in my life, seniortimesmagazine.com

PHOTOS COURTESY OF CHUCK MARTIN Chuck Martin performing at the Bo Diddley Community Plaza and at The Bull (pictured with Michelle Banfield). Below right: Martin receives an ACS Award in Electrochemistry, the ACS’s highest award in that branch of chemistry.

I look back at that and have to say my life wasn’t very much in balance. Here I was basically focusing on one and only one thing at the exclusion of everything — two failed marriages, no children, no community. So I failed at every other aspect of my life, except my career went gangbusters. I pursued it relentlessly, like some little machine. But I was miserable during those years. My life was a wreck and I didn’t even know it. I can’t live that way anymore.”

Eventually, while living in Colorado, Martin began to strike a balance between his music and his science; he reconnected with his inner artist.

“I played in a classic rock cover band called Hair of the Dog, and I played in a sort of folk-pop comedy duo called The Smothered Brothers,” he said. “Then I had an act called Jack Fish. All in Colorado.”

In those days Martin was living in a

house on a little lake. Across that lake he could see Scorpio in the southern sky.

“I would sit out there on my deck at night, looking at Scorpio, and this voice kept repeating in my head: ‘Come to the South. Come to the South.’ Night after night. All of a sudden, there’s this [position] at UF. And you know what it was all about? It was about meeting my wife, Amy Lynn.”

So Martin moved to Gainesville, still focused on his career, but he also continued playing and became interested in Rockabilly.

“There is absolutely no middle ground with me,” he said. “Everything is an obsession. In the mid to late ‘90s I got obsessed with Rockabilly.”

Martin said he came to Gainesville with two objectives in mind: to excel as a professor and to start a Rockabilly band.

Did he find balance?

“No,” he said. “There was better balance. Now I was doing music again. Music is in me, biologically. And I denied that for many years. Yes, the balance was coming back. But I was flying to all the chemical conferences, and writing grant proposal after grant proposal, and had a research group of 25 people in those years. So the balance was getting there, because now I was doing music and it became important to me. And it was the first time that I thought I had become an artist. I was doing my own music and that was a very profound thing.”

As we go to press, the soon-to-be 60-year-old (his birthday is in November) is putting the final touches on his latest CD of original songs. Martin could barely contain his enthusiasm as he bounded across his living room to play some snippets on his stereo. He cued it up and a thundering guitar chord October 2013

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“The conversation was so natural and easy, before you know it they were kicking us out the bar.”

resounded from his speakers.

“I’m recording this at Goldentone Studio,” he said. “A shout-out to Rob McGregor. He’s über, über efficient. He works with artists really well, and he has a tremendous ear,” Martin said. “This [CD] is a breakthrough for me. It’s not a band. I recorded 14 original songs and

seven of them I recorded with Tom Miller on bass and Larry Thompson on drums.

Their contributions are unbelievable. Half are just me with acoustic guitar.”

The work in progress is an open palette upon which other local musicians will be adding their talents.

“It is a great departure from anything

I’ve done before and it’s scary in the sense that I don’t know what it’s going to become,” he said.

Martin said his new album defies genre, citing his musical obsessions as Marvin Gaye, Jackie Wilson, The Temptations and James Brown, as well as some jazz standards.

These days, when Martin is not in front of his students at UF, he can be found on stage in various downtown Gainesville venues playing his music (solo or in a band) or even hosting his own variety show, with wife Amy Lynn cheering him on.

The couple met up through a mutual

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friend after a dblWIDE concert 11 years ago and have been together ever since. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great,â&#x20AC;? Amy said in a telephone interview. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He makes me laugh every single day, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the most important things I love about him the most. He doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take himself too seriously. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brilliant and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a snob, despite doing all that he does.â&#x20AC;?

Amy described how the two had met after his concert and then went to the 2nd Street Speakeasy in downtown Gainesville. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The conversation was so natural and easy, before you know it they were kicking us out the bar,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just were always together after that.â&#x20AC;?

Amy can also be heard on the new album but admitted she is not a performer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I did go in with Larry Thompson [drummer] to clap and snap,â&#x20AC;? Amy said with a laugh. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Something a lot of people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know, I play the piano â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a classically trained pianist â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a per-

former. It was a little nerve-wracking.â&#x20AC;?

What is Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s secret for success in both the arts and sciences? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sit still. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t watch TV,â&#x20AC;?

Martin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have to be a recording artist and I have to be a performing artist. And I now view that, in some ways, as part of a job that I do. And I have my university job. So the ebb and ďŹ&#x201A;ow goes back and forth, but between those two jobs I work 60 hours a week for sure.

And I just go go go go go.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;He doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop going,â&#x20AC;? Amy said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He just never stops.â&#x20AC;?

Friend and bandmate Tom Miller agreed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He has explosive energy,â&#x20AC;? Miller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are people a third his age that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a tenth of his energy.â&#x20AC;?

Miller said he was lured out of musical retirement by Martin several years ago and has been playing bass in his groups ever since. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d do anything that he wanted to

do, musically,â&#x20AC;? Miller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He seemed to like my bass playing and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m still working with him today. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really just a tremendous, very giving guy. And he works 10 times harder than anybody in the band to make sure the audience is having a terriďŹ c time.â&#x20AC;?

Miller is also a regular contributor to Chuck Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Genius Boy Music Show, which is ďŹ lmed before a live audience at The Bull. The show features a variety of artists including Jason Hedges, Michelle BanďŹ eld and Rob McGregor. Episodes can be found on YouTube, and once Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new album is ďŹ nished he plans on making music videos. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you have the ambition of being a 21st-century recording artist, you have to realize itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really not about making the recording,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If anybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to learn about you, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to learn about you on YouTube.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;He is the king genius boy,â&#x20AC;? Miller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all geniuses together.â&#x20AC;? s

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Tinseltown Talks Elly May Offers up Some Vittles

by Nick Thomas

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f ever an actor was recognized by one career role, it was Donna Douglas with her portrayal of ‘Elly May’ in the highly popular CBS ‘60s comedy, “The Beverly Hillbillies.”

In the four decades since the series ended its nine-season run in 1971, the drop-dead gorgeous blonde native of Pride, La, is still strongly identified with the show wherever she goes.

Rather than distancing herself from the connection to the Jed, Granny, Jethro and the Clampett clam, Donna has embraced her sitcom heritage and stills makes public appearances as a real-life Southern belle.

“Elly was a slice out of my life,” said Donna, whose new website (donnadouglasofficialwebsite.com) was launched in September. “I was raised a tomboy, with one older brother and all male cousins. So I grew up swinging from vines and playing softball. I was getting ready for Jethro long before we ever met! I still adore Elly and we have a lot in common, with the same interests and values.”

After the Hillbillies ended, Donna was offered many roles, but accepted just a handful which she felt wouldn’t comprise her standards.

“I’ve got no regrets about anything I turned down,” she said. “I sold real estate for a while, made a couple of record albums, and speak at churches, ladies groups, and schools around the country.

My days are full and I’m very happy!”

This year, she also published a nostalgic cookbook, “Southern Favorites with a Taste of Hol-

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lywood,” a collection of recipes gathered over the years, many from friends including Debbie Reynolds, Buddy Ebsen, Phyllis Diller and Valerie Harper.

“The cookbook came about as a way to share my favorite recipes,” said Donna, who recalls homeseniortimesmagazine.com

cooked meals prepared in the rich, Southern tradition that many will also remember from their childhood.

“Homemade dishes are almost unheard of today,” she lamented. “They’re all premade in a box or from a drive-thru.

That’s today’s way. But there was something about the way your mom made dishes with a special touch — with a bit of this and a pinch of that.”

Although her own mother never used Granny’s “possum fat,” her childhood meals weren’t exactly lean.

“Lard and bacon grease, especially in the South, were cooking essentials!”

Interspersed between the book’s recipes are delightful personal anecdotes from her Hollywood days.

“Etiquette was taught in the South, but I’m afraid it’s a thing of the past now.”

“I thought fans would enjoy a few remembrances from my life, along with some photos from my scrapbook,” she said.

In an effort to remind readers of the long lost art of good manners, there’s also a quaint section called Hollywood Social Graces. Advice includes never using your fork as a toothpick, chewing gum in someone else’s home, or answering a cell phone while a dinner guest.

“Etiquette was taught in the South, but I’m afraid it’s a thing of the past now,” she said. “Social graces are lacking all around us, people are rushing all the time, and no one sits and visits any longer.”

Not a big fan of today’s television programming, Donna said she likes to watch the classics in reruns, such as “Touched by an Angel” as well as the occasional Hillbillies episode which brings back memories.

“Elly may not have kissed many fellows during the show’s run, but she sure did kiss a heap of animals,” she said. “Somewhere around 500 were used during the series, provided by Hollywood animal trainer Frank Inn.” Today, she shows little sign of slowing down.

“I seldom really rest,” admitted Donna, who turned 81 in September. “I travel all over the U.S. and Canada and have a very busy schedule. But I have to turn down a lot of requests.

I also garden, spend time with family and friends, and still get quite a bit of fan mail. My days are full and then some, so I’m always playing catch-up. Life has been very good to me, and full of blessings for a little backwoods girl from Louisiana who never had any thoughts of a career in showbiz.” s Thomas’ features and columns have appeared in more than 320 magazines and newspapers. He can be reached at his blog: getnickt. blogspot.com

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HEALTH FAIR

Being Well Information and Support for Gainesville’s Senior Community

by Courtney Lindwall

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ow in its third year, Gainesville’s Senior Health Fair continues to send the message of self-empowerment to Seniors and their families.

With 50 vendors providing information and diagnostic tests on-site, the free event hosted at the Alachua County Senior Recreation Center is an effort toward community-wide health.

“There are a lot of resources available to the senior community,” said Susan Swirbul, chairperson of the fair’s committee. “We say, ‘Get out there and see what’s available so you can advocate for yourself and get what you need.’”

The vendors and topics covered are broad — addressing everything from blood pressure checks to balance problems to diabetes treatment. The diagnostic tests, such as flu and pneumonia shots, will be free.

“We have the whole gambit covered,” she said.

Both local hospitals, North Florida Regional Medical Center and UF Health, will be represented, along with their clinics. Specialists, such as podiatrists

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and audiologists, will also attend.

As a veteran worker in the industry, Swirbul said she knows well how confusing the choices may seem for a Senior facing health problems. Swirbul works for Mederi Caretenders Home Healthcare, both treating and educating.

“Talking to Seniors as much as I do, it becomes apparent how vulnerable they really are,” Swirbul said. “A lot of the time they don’t have family support. They’re trying to do a lot of their own healthcare. They’re doing it while they’re sick, and sometimes with cognitive issues. It can be very overwhelming.”

confusing,” she said.

The health fair provides a lot of information as well, but in in a more meaningful way. Professionals will be available

“It makes me very proud. I feel blessed that I’m able to help people become empowered.”

This issue inspired the “grassroots effort” in 2010 to start up a Senior health fair in town. There had not been one “in a long time,” Swirbul said, and she recognized the need.

“The need we saw was education for our Senior community. A lot of information is thrown at them. It can get very

to break down complicated issues, like Medicare benefits, and answer questions they may not have time to in-office.

On the fair’s committee itself, different arenas of Senior health care are all represented. Included are individuals from home health care, nursing facilities, hospices, and senior living communities. seniortimesmagazine.com

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Gainesville’s health care providers have forged a stronger community, as well.

“From sitting on the committee, there have been a couple organizations that I have grown to respect and understand more than I ever did before” she said.

And so the fair continues to grow.

Last year’s fair brought out more than 300 attendees, Swirbul said. This year, they expect more.

Responses from Seniors have been “overwhelmingly positive,” she said.

“On more than one occasion, folks have said, ‘Wow! I didn’t know these services and these organizations even existed. Can you do it again? Can you have more variety?’”

The vendors also benefit, as they get a chance to talk and connect more personally with their target audiences.

For Swirbul, the cause hits close to home. She has two parents in their 70s, and both will need to be “drivers of their own health care,” she said.

“It really opens my eyes that they need to become educated so they’re not taken advantage of,” she said. “They need to understand what’s available to them.”

The fair emphasizes general health education to both prevent and prepare for a possible health crisis. The first time many Seniors will address these issues is after the crisis has occurred, Swirbul said.

“Oftentimes, they don’t think about

any of their options until they’re in their option itself,” she said. “You may have to make a rash decision or depend on others to advise you.”

Although geared toward Senior health, anyone is welcome.

“We saw lots of folks with daughters, sons or paid caregivers who brought them to the fair, and they were seeking information so they could be more beneficial to their loved ones,” she said.

The event takes place October 17, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. The Village will be showcasing its food and dining services.

“It makes me very proud,” Swirbul said. “I feel blessed that I’m able to help people become empowered.” s October 2013

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COLUMN œ DONNA BONNELL

Embracing Life Order and Chaos

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ovelist Susan Elizabeth Phillips said, “I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can’t protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.”

Welcoming chaos into my life was not easy. It was difficult releasing constant self-control.

Being the oldest child of two parents with substance abuse issues, my childhood was hectic. At a young age I was a whiz at juggling babysitting, chores, cooking and school. Extracurricular activities were rare. I was never really a child. I was completely unaware that youngsters usually played.

Early in my chronological adult years, I discovered missing out on adolescent adventures. Feelings of inferiority and ignorance infiltrated my being. I was angry with God. When my mother died at age 55 (from addictions), I knew I must release my own negativity.

Unfortunately, I was unaware of my own unhealthy habit – I craved the caretaker role. Enabling was my anesthetic; it defined my self-worth. When it was brought to my attention (like any other addict), I rationalized my blunders with irrational thoughts. I blamed myself for not learning how to manage time sooner.

My life would be less chaotic if I got myself organized!

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I did just that. I became a proficient human productivity machine cranking out the tasks. Crossing off assignments from a lengthy list was my idea of a perfect day. At first, achieving those goals was exhilarating. As with any addiction,

emerged: “Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.”

When I connected the two thoughts, I experienced the proverbial aha moment of clarity. Order and chaos are the balance that allows us to progress. They are powerful equalizers, the yin and yang. I began to realize we need both; they are not static or separate. Neither is good or bad. In order to grow we need a healthy mixture of both components.

Planning and preparation are often necessary. To-do lists, pro and con comparisons help tame anxiety and offer the feeling of being in control. Time management techniques certainly serve a purpose. However, welcoming moments of bedlam and uncertainty requires real courage. Those occasions offer opportunities for change and creativity. It

Order and chaos are the balance that allows us to progress. They are powerful equalizers; yin and yang.

I needed to complete more and more to reach euphoria. Ironically (perhaps), an illness forced me to pause long enough to ponder life.

Exhausted, frustrated and unappreciated, I looked inward for answers. I discovered that my martyr mentality (coupled with the need to be an enabler) compounded in intensity with this newly acquired ability to organize the chaos.

If I wanted to live longer than Mom did, I had to rethink my idealist expectations. Regular readers know two things about me: I over-analyze everything and messages come to me when I am open to receiving them.

The first message surfaced from an unknown author, “Without order nothing can exist —without chaos nothing can evolve.” Maybe the writer chose to be anonymous to spur his/her audience to search for more. Regardless of the reason, it worked for me.

I continued to explore for solutions.

The following quote from Henry Adams

has taken nearly a lifetime, but I finally learned the value of chaos.

The ability to pause in the midst of confusion and look beyond the immediate circumstances has enriched my existence. Welcoming an unexpected encounter and stopping to chat (rather than avoiding an interruption) has enhanced my life tenfold. Sounds simple, but I dreaded any deviation from my plan.

Learning to travel without an agenda has widened the scope of new experiences beyond anything imaginable. While nurturing my new freedoms, I became a writer and the author of Embracing Life.

Author Kody Keplinger summed it up brilliantly: “You can’t control everything.

Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen.” s Donna Bonnell is a freelance writer who moved to Newberry in 1983. She enjoys living and working in the town she now calls home. dbnewberry@aol.com

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Crossroads Silver Springs Goes from Private to Public Enterprise

by Tom Berson

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ong before Disney’s mouse roared in Central Florida or throngs of tourists flocked to South Florida’s resorts and beaches, travelers from far and wide made the then-difficult journey to the heart of North Florida to visit Silver Springs. Gushing more than half a billion gallons per day of crystal clear water, Florida’s first tourist attraction was celebrated as an eighth natural wonder of the world.

Today, nearly 150 years after it entered into the great pantheon of America’s natural tourism treasures, its fate is at a crossroads. Development and other environmental factors threaten the health of the spring and the Silver River it feeds while the company that runs the attraction at the springhead is opting out of its lease early, leaving the springs in public hands for the first time since Florida became a state.

According to the Howard T. Odum Florida Springs Institute, a non-profit environmental group, the springs’ flow, once the highest in the world of its kind, has dropped by about a third from its historic average. In the past few years, it has been so bad that it is no longer the reigning champion of largest springs. The Institute contends that this is mainly due to the human factor of pumping groundwater, while the Suwannee and St. Johns River Water Management

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Districts, which have oversight of such issues in the area, argue that it is largely due to natural factors such as reduced rainfall or too much vegetation in the river slowing down the flow.

“It’s ridiculous we’ve let it get this far and the [water districts] have been in denial,” said Dr. Bob Knight, president of the institute.

“They’re make-believe explanations.”

Casey Fitzgerald, the SJRWMD’s springs initiative team leader, said the district’s studies indicate that as much as 95 percent of the flow issues are the result of a dry period in a long term climate cycle that appears to be ending.

“Bob Knight obviously has a different take on that but we think [our science] is pretty well supported,” he said.

Silver Springs is also suffering from nitrate levels more than 25 times higher than historic levels, a fact that the Institute attributes to the increasing amount of fertilizer and poorly treated waste water that ends up in the spring’s watershed. These increased levels have led to algae blooms and decreased clarity in the once gin-clear spring run.

Both the district and the institute agree about the causes, but Knight is concerned that the district has been slow to recognize the problem and remains slow in acting upon it. He said the se sen seniortimesmagazine.com e io enior ior orti tim timesm im me essmaga esm ga gaz azi zi e.c zin e.com e.com m

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The glass bottom boat rides and concert series will continue. However, the zoo animals and amusement park rides have been removed.

problem is that political interests often get in the way of other concerns.

“One way I’ve heard it put well is that ‘they’re essentially following through on the appearance of regulation rather than the substance,’” he said.

Fitzgerald said the district is moving forward deliberately in order to find the most cost-effective long-term solutions and pointed out that there are several major projects already underway to improve wastewater treatment in Marion County. Overall, the district is planning to invest $15 to $18 million over the next few years in water quality projects throughout the region. With other funding, those projects could cost as much as $60 million in water quality investments.

“We’re not just sitting back and studying these things,” he said. “But it’s important to remember that we’re also

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investing in the science and the modeling and all that so we can come up with the most cost-effective solutions.”

As all this is going on, the state will soon have more of a vested interest in the fate of the springs. The private company that operates the attraction under a lease deal with the state has decided it cannot sustain operations there and will turn the property over to the Department of Environmental Protection in October. Ultimately, the springhead will be renovated and merged into the neighboring Silver River State Park.

While the decision has been met mostly with approval from area residents concerned about Silver Springs’ future, some are concerned about losing the attraction’s unique blend of nature and kitschy consumer culture.

“I took my kids there. My dad took

me there,” said Brad Simpson, 54, of Gainesville. “It’s three generations of Silver Springs and I wanted to make it four but now they’re going to miss out on what we saw there. It’s not going to be the same.”

Sally Lieb, park manager at Silver River State Park, said that officials are well aware of the attraction’s unique history and its standing as one of the last great Florida roadside attractions.

When the 242-acre site is merged into the 4,418-acre park, there will be “respect to the history” of the attraction at the newly dubbed Silver Springs State Park. Precisely how the history will be honored will depend on public input and state funding, but “we will definitely feature it in some way,” she said.

While virtually all the land around the springhead has been turned over to seniortimesmagazine.com

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the state during the past several decades, the attraction itself has been operated by private ventures since its inception and has enjoyed wildly different levels of success.

Although humans visited Silver Springs for 10,000 years and the site has been an archeological treasure trove, Silver Springs was largely unknown to Americans until after the Civil War. Visitors before then often complained about the difficult and uncomfortable overland journey over rutted or washed out roads. Following the war, a Vermont entrepreneur cleared the Ocklawaha River and brought in steamboats specially designed to navigate the narrow, shallow, winding waterway to Silver River and the springs.

During the next several decades, as northerners and others sought to “discover” Florida, the overnight journey on the exotic Ocklawaha and Silver Rivers from Palatka became a celebrated travel experience. Writers such as Sidney Lanier and Harriett Beecher Stowe sang its praises in national publications. Luminaries such as Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman visited, adding further to its fame, particularly in the North. By the 1880s, it reportedly drew an average of 50,000 visitors per year via riverboats and an expanding rail system.

As the 1800s came to a close though, Henry Flagler and Henry Plant were extending their railroads further south. The heyday of steamboat travel was coming to a close and people no longer desired the exotic adventure of the Florida interior. Now they wanted luxury and relaxation at the

coastal resorts that Flagler and Plant built along their rail lines. By the early 1900s, Silver Springs was all but forgotten.

In 1924, however, local businessmen Carl Ray and W. M. “Shorty” Davidson teamed up to lease the property from its owner and upgrade it for a potential resurgence. They agreed to reinvest virtually every dollar of revenue back into the business, taking only gasoline and tobacco money for themselves.

They replaced or improved docks and buildings around them, added attractions and poured money into marketing.

Even as the Florida land boom and bust crisis of the 1920s and the ensuing Depression destroyed businesses all around them, the two men were able to grow Silver Springs into a greater attraction than it had been before. Roads were replacing rails and several major ones passed right through neighboring Ocala. Meanwhile, Hollywood discovered the possibilities of filming at the site and the name Silver Springs returned to national prominence.

An odd assortment of exotic animals was added in the 1930s. First, an aspiring herpetologist named Ross Allen arrived at the park with a trunk load of snakes and asked to set up an exhibit. The Ross Allen Reptile Institute would become a world-renowned fixture at the park for decades. A few years later, a man named Colonel Tooey began operating a jungle cruise along the river, where he placed a small colony of rhesus monkeys on a small island in the mistaken belief they could not swim. Colonies of their descendants to this day roam the woods along the Silver and Ocklawaha Rivers.

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A first magnitude spring can discharge more than 100 cubic feet of water per second. There are 33 of them in Florida.

150 MILLION GALLONS MISSING Historically, Silver Springs’ average daily flow is 550 million gallons. That flow rate has dipped below 400 million gallons per day in 10 of the past 20 years.

70 GALLONS PER DAY

The average household uses seventy gallons of water per day, according to national averages.

At that rate, Silver Springs could supply 7,857,142 households. For reference, there were 7,140,096 households in the state of Florida between 2007-2011 SOURCES: USGS, CENCUS.GOV, STATE OF FLORIDA

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Ray and Davidson also made sure lion people a year were going to Silver travelers across the nation knew of SilSprings, enjoying its signature glassver Springs through a massive and often bottom boat rides along with a variety creative marketing campaign. Silver of other exhibits and attractions that Springs bumper stickers and placemats cropped up within or nearby the attracwere distributed far and wide at service tion. From 1958 to 1961, numerous epistations and hotels. sodes of the television show “Sea Hunt,” “What was so unusual “It’s important to remember that at that time is they blanketed the whole country from a long term perspective this with materials for what is just another chapter in the long was then basically a local or regional attracstory of Silver Springs.” tion,” said Tim Hollis, author and pop culture historian. The starring Lloyd Bridges, were filmed at only thing comparable, he said, was the the springs, and some props remain in famed “See Rock City” marketing camthe springhead. paign and that only happened after the In 1962, entertainment giant ABCowner of that attraction asked for advice Paramount bought the lease from Ray from Ray and Davidson. and Davidson. With the company’s After World War II, as Florida began resources, Silver Springs survived better its great population boom, tourists than most of Florida roadside attracand immigrants alike flocked to Silver tions as the Interstate Highway System Springs. By the 1950s, more than a milsupplanted long-traveled state roads,

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air travel became more common and Walt Disney World reshaped the Central Florida landscape. Between 1960 and 1980 the number of major roadside attractions in Florida was cut roughly in half by closures.

With the glory days clearly moving into the rear-view mirror, ABC sold the lease to Florida Leisure Attractions in 1984. The park has changed hands several times since then, ending with its current operators, Palace Entertainment. Last year, Marion County flirted with the idea of buying out the lease and running the site as a county eco-park, but the move stalled over questions of financial risks and rewards.

Finally, earlier this year, amid declining profits, Palace announced it would spend $4 million to upgrade the park and get out of its lease. The state took over management on October 1.

Knight, from the Florida Springs Institute, said he has heard some cynical arguments that this could actually be bad for the springs since there will no longer be a private interest to lobby for protecting the quality of the water. Still, he hopes the move will be for the best.

“Ultimately, the state should be interested in the public interest and that means taking care of the springs better than they have been,” he said.

In any event, the amusement park that has evolved over the past 90 years is being torn down, the exotic zoo animals have already been removed, and the site will become more like that of other state parks. The signature glassbottom boat rides will continue. Some other concessions will remain operated by private companies under contract.

Some features, such as canoe and kayak rentals, will be added. The concert series, often the largest draws of the year, will continue. Otherwise, much has yet to be decided.

“We’re still in the planning stages, to be honest,” Lieb said, reiterating that

the plans are still very much fluid. Not even the admission fee has been set yet.

“We’re still taking public input,” she said.

Scott Mitchell, director of the Silver River Museum and Environmental Education Center in the park, said that little will change for programs at the museum. The Center hosts educational programs for more than 10,000 schoolchildren each year.

He also pointed out that, no matter

what changes take place, the state has a solid track record in managing parks at other springs and, in any event, humans have been using Silver Springs in different ways for the past 10 millennia.

“It’s important to remember that from a long term perspective this is just another chapter in the long story of Silver Springs,” he said. “It’s just the next chapter in the story of how people use Silver Springs.” s October 2013

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Enjoying Act Three Lana Wood

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n the early 1980s I paid agent Sterling Lord $75,000 for Lana Wood’s book about her famous sister Natalie.

There was widespread interest in the star’s mysterious death after a row with her husband Robert Wagner and Christopher Walken aboard the yacht Splendour.

In 2013 the case was still under investigation as new leads and evidence surfaced.

“A lot of things didn’t add up,” Lana told Matt Lauer on “Today.”

Did she believe Wagner was involved in her sister’s death, as Dennis Davern, skipper of the Splendour, alleged?

“Unfortunately I do,” she declared.

Back in the ‘80s, Lana came to New York to work with me as her editor, and I liked her immediately. She let me have the only chair in her room at the St. Regis Hotel while she perched on the edge of a king-size bed, buxom and alluring.

Her lovers included Alain Delon, Ryan O’Neal, and Sean Connery. In “Diamonds Are Forever,” she played the aptly named Bond girl Plenty O’Toole.

Lana had little to say about Natalie’s death, seeming protective of Wagner, though puzzled and dismayed by his sudden coldness. Her reticence disappointed me. Changing the subject, I panned for gold in other areas.

“Talk to me about your sister’s relationship with James Dean.”

Relieved, she described how Natalie

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met Dean in 1954 when both appeared in a live TV play, “I Am a Fool.” Dean taught her to delve more deeply into her emotions, and she eased his heartbreak after Pier Angeli dumped him for Vic Damone.

Natalie then went after the role of Dean’s girlfriend in “Rebel Without a Cause,” but director Nicholas Ray preferred Margaret O’Brien.

“I will do anything to be a star,” Natalie said, and proceeded to draw Ray into an affair, although he was 43 and she was 16.

A tall, lanky bohemian who sometimes directed in his bare feet, Ray was, according to Joan Collins, “the most exciting, sexiest man.” He and Natalie’s assignations rocked the Chateau Marmont.

Marie Gurdin, Natalie and Lana’s mother, dragged eight-year-old Lana along when she went to the hotel to spy.

“We sat in a parked car to see when Natalie went in, when Natalie came out,” Lana recalled. “I felt like a detective on a stakeout.”

Natalie landed the role, and Dean soon surrendered to her charms. Marie approved, calling Dean “a very nice boy” when Natalie brought him home to meet the family. He serenaded Marie in Russian, her native tongue.

“My full name is Svetlana,” Lana told me. “Natalie’s was Natasha.”

Onstage and off, Dean stayed in character as the angry rebel Jim Stark,

sometimes hurting Natalie but turning her into a convincing actress. When he died in a car crash, she wept at the premiere of “Rebel” and built a shrine to him in her home.

I later met Dennis Hopper, who’d also been in “Rebel,” and he said he was only 18 when Natalie propositioned him.

“Women in the ‘50s didn’t come on like that,” he averred, but her moxy excited him. One evening after Natalie had been with Nick Ray, Hopper collected her at the hotel and they spent the night together.

“A jailbait chick who was still damp from her tryst with our middle-aged director” was Dennis’s idea of heaven.

Elvis Presley was another of Natalie’s conquests. She complained to Lana after meeting his mother in Memphis, “I don’t have a chance. Get me out of this. Gladys wrecked everything.”

Elvis’s ex-wife Priscilla, another 1980s author of mine, told me when I edited “Elvis and Me,” “I liked Gladys and got along with her, but she was the type who’d hit someone over the head with an iron skillet.”

To extract Natalie gracefully from Memphis, Marie invented a family emergency requiring Natalie’s presence in LA. “God, it was awful,” Natalie wailed to Lana. “Elvis can sing, but he can’t do much else.”

That’s not what Priscilla told me. She was satisfied with their life until she gave birth to Lisa Marie. Afterward Elvis wouldn’t touch Priscilla. His attachment to Gladys rendered all mothers holy — and taboo.

As Mickey and Sylvia put it in their ‘50s hit, love is strange. s Ellis Amburn is in the Hall of Excellence at TCU’s Schieffer School of Journalism. Involved daily in volunteer community service, the High Springs resident is the author of biographies of Roy Orbison, Elizabeth Taylor and others. ellis.amburn@gmail.com.

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About 1 in 8 women get breast cancer.

After skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common kind of cancer in women.

Fortunately, the combination of breast cancer awareness, early detection though proper screens, and better treatments are decreasing breast cancer death rates. Each year, the breast cancer death rate is 2 percent less for women ages 50-74 and 1 percent less for women

age 75 and older.

Many of the women over age 65 who are diagnosed have early stage breast cancer (stage 1 breast cancer). With stage 1 breast cancer, tumors are 2 cm. or less in size and havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t spread to lymph nodes.

Although the rate of breast cancer is greater in older adults, Dr. Benjamin Smith, assistant professor in the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Department of Radiation Oncology, reports that breast cancer in older women is, on average, slightly less aggressive.

According to the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the two main strategies for early detection are: 1. Clinical Breast Exam. During this exam, a healthcare professional checks the breasts and underarms for lumps or other changes that could be breast cancer signs.

2. Mammogram. A special x-ray of the breast often can ďŹ nd cancers too small to feel. If you are between 50 and 74, the NIA recommends a mammogram at least every two years.

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Women age 75 and older who do not have aggressive-looking tumors (when the cells are examined under a microscope) do not typically benefit from radiation therapy.

1. Lumpectomy and endocrine therapy (a treatment which blocks estrogen in the body for hormone-sensitive tumors) 2. Lumpectomy, endocrine therapy, and localized radiation therapy 3. Mastectomy (doesn’t require radiation therapy).

What are the current clinical recommendations regarding radiation after lumpectomy?

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network recommends that women age 70 or older with stage 1 breast cancer that is estrogen-receptor positive should not receive radiation therapy.

However, Dr. Smith was unsure that this recommendation was the best advice, as many of his older patients who didn’t receive radiation therapy had recurring breast cancer, and those who had undergone radiation therapy did fine with it. Using large data set studies, he began to research the National Comprehensive Cancer Network’s recommendation.

Dr. Smith’s research showed that women between ages 70 and 79 with stage 1 estrogen-positive breast cancer had a lower risk of having a mastectomy in their follow-up period if they received radiation therapy. [Mastectomy would indicate cancer recurrence and that patients were removing the breast

to treat the recurring cancer.]

Dr. Smith’s studies also showed which women do not benefit from radiation therapy. Women age 75 and older who do not have aggressivelooking tumors (when the cells are examined under a microscope) do not typically benefit from radiation therapy.

If your healthcare professional thinks that you have an aggressivelooking tumor, Dr. Smith’s research suggests that you and your provider consider radiation therapy.

For more information about studies led by Dr. Benjamin Smith, access him in the University of Texas MD Anderson Center directory at: faculty. mdanderson.org/Benjamin_Smith/ Default.asp. s Kendra Siler-Marsiglio, Ph.D. is the Director of the Rural Health Partnership at WellFlorida Council and Co-Director of CommunityHealth IT (communityhealthit.org).

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Community Voice Halloween Surprise

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n October 26, while thinning trees on our lot on its lower north side, about 60 feet uphill from the creek and deep in the woods, I discovered what appeared to be a metal chest about 1 1/2-by-4 feet, faintly protruding from the surface. It lay covered by a thin coat of sand, soil and recently fallen leaves.

It was located on a part of our wooded North Florida 2+ acres that I had never examined closely before.

The “chest cover” was rusted but fairly solid. I guessed it was about 60 to 80 years old. It had probably been situated there decades before these Gainesville neighborhoods were settled.

If someone had been seeking an isolated spot to hide something, this remote sandy hillside surrounded by oldgrowth trees would have been just right. There was never any sign of trash having been dumped in the area.

The buried chest, still unopened, soon acquired a charm of its own. What could it contain? My first thought was of gold coins, hidden from the Feds after gold ownership became illegal as a Depression antihoarding measure in the 1930s. No one wanted to turn their real gold coins in to the government for “silver certificates.”

Secret stashes, left by long-deceased hoarders were not that rare, at least not in our imagination. And if not gold, what?

Confederate currency? One of my sons observed, incorrectly perhaps, that such bills would be more valuable than modern American money for the their collector’s value alone. Another son cautioned that the chest possibly contained harmful material and the local police should be notified before attempting to open it. My wife and I gradually came to believe that it was just an economical Depression-style child burial that had gradually

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begun to work its way to the surface. In fact, I had begun to ponder where I could buy an inexpensive cross to memorialize the site in our side yard.

My spouse, whose mind never seems to stop working, proposed that we host on Halloween noon a “chest-opening party” to be followed by a Chinese carryout dinner. Alas, one

son and spouse had already made plans to be out of town on that hallowed day so instead, at 2 o’clock two days earlier, three of us trundled my wheelbarrow down to the still-secret location armed with pickaxe, shovel, ball-peen hammer, chisel, whisk broom and work gloves, and set about to remove the metal lid from its forest refuge. I gingerly brushed clear the metal cover; my first-born son pointed out that the lid had what seemed to be a large nut affixed — not what you would expect on a coffin lid. I clumsily lifted one side of the lid with the pickaxe and discovered underneath… sand. Our lid was the rusted upsidedown bed of a toy wagon, with all its other parts removed!

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CALENDAR UPCOMING EVENTS IN ALACHUA & MARION BO DIDDLEY FREE CONCERTS

pieces. Admission $25. 352-373-1166.

Fridays 8:00pm GAINESVILLE - Bo Diddley Plaza. From April to November, Friday nights come alive as local and regional bands are showcased under the stars in downtown Gainesville. www.gvluculturalaffairs.org.

DON’T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF Through October 6 Time Vary MELROSE - Melrose Bay Art Gallery, 103 State Road 26. The gallery’s new season begins with “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff,” featuring associated works

by Peter Carolin. 352-475-3866.

PRIMETIME INSTITUTE CLASS Thursday, October 3 2:30pm - 4:30pm GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th Blvd. PTI presents: Juan Ponce De León and the Calusa Indians: 500 years ago in Southwest Florida. Dr. William Marquard, Curator of Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, will share the known facts about Juan Ponce de León’s voyages to Florida, especially to the southwest coast. 352-332-6917.

LADY GAMERS Friday, October 4 1:30pm HIGH SPRINGS - The High Springs Woman’s Club, 40 NW 1st Ave. The Lady Gamers meet for fun, friendship and food — and let’s not forget the cards, board games and any other activities you would like to bring to the group. 386-454-0794.

UNITED DOWNTOWN Friday, October 4 6:00pm GAINESVILLE - Downtown. A free, community event held on Friday night before Gator home games by United Way North Central Florida. 352-333-0855.

CAUGHT! Friday, October 4 7:00pm - 8:30pm GAINESVILLE - Pofahl Studios, 1325 NW 2nd St. Hosted by Prioria Robotics and Dance Alive National Ballet, the Ani Collier Photo Art Exhibit will feature champagne and hors d’oeuvres as well as the auction of two of Collier’s favorite

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PIECES OF DREAMS Friday, October 4 5:30pm - 8:00pm GAINESVILLE - Thomas Center, 302 NE 6th Ave. Opening ceremony of the Thomas Center’s newest exhibition, “Pieces of Dreams: The Art of Lorelei Esser.” The exhibit features immersive installations of three-dimensional sculptures, mobiles and wall reliefs created from repurposed materials. The exhibit runs through January 4. 352-334-5067.

SWAMPTOBERFEST Friday, October 4 5:00pm GAINESVILLE - The Opera House, 110 SE 1st St. Food and drink specials at over 35 participating locations around town. The event will feature drinking games and contests with prizes, as well as Swamptoberfest craft beer and Germaninspired cuisine. Donate laundry detergent to The Opera House to get a discounted VIP wrist band. www.firstfridaygainesville.com.

YARD AND BAKE SALE Saturday, October 5 8:00am - 2:00pm HIGH SPRINGS - High Springs New Century Woman’s Club, 40 NW First Ave. Collectables, housewares, decorations, and other boutique items will be for sale, as well as the cakes, pies, breads an cookies the Woman’s Club bakers are known for. 386-454-0794.

FALL HARVEST AND PEANUT FESTIVAL

OCALA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA October 5 - 6 Times Vary OCALA - Ocala Breeders’ Sales Auditorium, 1701 SW 60th Ave. Opening weekend of the Ocala Symphony Orchestra’s 37th subscription concert season will feature “A Brave New World” and begin with the exploration of America in its early beginnings. Richard Wagner’s Christopher Columbus Overture will begin the program. Tickets: www.ocalasymphony.com.

HORSIN’ AROUND FALL FESTIVAL Sunday, October 6 2:00pm - 5:00pm ARCHER - Hope Farm, 9722 SW 153 Ave. Bring the children to visit the horses at HOPE — Horses Helping People — and enjoy an afternoon of fun activities. Pony rides, bounce house, carnival games, face painting, hay ride, and much more! Free admission to the farm and then purchase tickets for activities. 352-4950533. www.horseshelpingpeople.org.

PRIMETIME INSTITUTE CLASS Tuesday, October 8 2:30pm - 4:30pm GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th Blvd. PTI presents: Home Care, Assisted Living or Nursing Home? Which Care to Use and When. Caretender staff will explain what might be indicators that someone needs to consider outside assistance for home care and what indicators signal someone needs to be in assisted care or nursing home care. 352-332-6917.

HIGH SPRINGS AARP CHAPTER Wednesday, October 9 11:00am HIGH SPRINGS - St. Madeleine’s Family Center, 17155 NW Highway 441. Monthly AARP meeting; a meet-and-greet at 10:30 a.m., a presentation often including a guest speaker and a noon covered-dish luncheon. 386-454-9834.

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9:00am - 4:00pm WILLISTON - Heritage Park. Antique tractors, classic cars, amusement rides for children, entertainment all day long, Little Peanut King, Queen and Baby contest, arts, crafts, great food all celebrating one of the largest crops in the area: the peanut!

352-528-5552. www.willistonfl.org/.

Wednesday, October 9

QUILT SHOW Saturday, October 5 10:00am - 3:00pm NEWBERRY - Dudley Farm Historic State Park, 18730 West Newberry Rd. Come see traditional, appliqued, vintage and art quilts. At 11 a.m., there will be a “bed turning” where quilt experts will look at each quilt and discuss age, condition, colors and patterns. 352-472-1142.

11:00am - 1:00pm GAINESVILLE - Wesley United Methodist Church, 826 NW 23rd Ave. “The Greatest Emblem in the World” – Ray Davis Jr.. Gainesville Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution meetings are held the 2nd Wednesday of the month October thru May. Luncheon price is $12.00 reservations are required by October 5th, No shows will be billed. For more information: gainesvilleDAR@gmail.com.

PRIMETIME INSTITUTE CLASS Thursday, October 10 2:30pm - 4:30pm GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th Blvd. PTI presents: The National Parks’ Institutes and Field Schools

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- Great Learning Vacations. Cynthia Karle will describe the institutes and present details and photos from two programs in Yellowstone National Park. 352-332-6917.

UNITED NATIONS DAY Thursday, October 10 9:00am - 1:00pm GAINESVILLE - Gainesville’s Woman’s Club, 2809 West University Ave. Come discuss why the world still needs the UN and how the UN still needs the world with Gainesville’s United Nations Association. A group of dedicated professionals will explore this vital topic. 352-378-4853.

BIRDS AND CONSERVATION Thursday, October 10 7:00pm GAINESVILLE - Tower Road Library, 3020 SW 75th St. Join Mike Manetz for a look at Costa Rica’s fabulous birds, seen on his recent Birds and Conservation tours, which feature his photography. 352-333-2840.

TEE OFF FOR TA-TA’S Friday, October 11 11:30am OCALA - The Country Club at Silver Springs Shores, 565 Silver Rd. All proceeds go to Making Strides Against Breast Cancer/The American Cancer Society. Lunch/registration at 11:30am, shotgun start, four-person scramble at 1 p.m. Cost is $75 per player. Includes green fees, cart, range balls, lunch, snacks, beverages and more. 352-732-3881.

TRAXLER DAY Saturday, October 12 9:00am – 1:00pm ALACHUA - Spring Hill Methodist Church, 23300 Old Bellamy Rd. Enjoy “Olde-time” music and shop the Craft Fair complete with homemade candies, canned and baked goods. Food and dessert available. All proceeds benefit the mission work of the United Methodist Women.

PINK PUMPKIN PEDAL-OFF Saturday, October 12 8:15am GAINESVILLE - Cancer and Genetics Research Complex, at intersection of Mowry Road and Gale Lemerand Drive. Come ride for a cure. A choice of three different routes (from 20 to 62.5 miles) will tour the UF campus, Gainesville’s historic district and the Gainesville Hawthorne Trail. All event proceeds will go to the therapy-resistant breast cancer research fund at UF Health’s Cancer Center. www.pinkpumpkinpedaloff.org.

FAMILY LITERACY FESTIVAL Saturday, October 12 10:00am – 12:00pm GAINESVILLE - Headquarters Library. The festival focuses primarily on children, all of whom receive a free age-appropriate book at the event.352-334-3929 or visit www.aclib.us/services/literacy.

Gainesville mes Senior Games October 11 - 13 3 Times Vary GAINESVILLE - Multiple locations across Alachua County. The Gainesville Sports Commission (GSC) is proud to host the 13th Annual Gainesville Senior Games Presented by UF Health. This local Senior Games is sanctioned by the Florida Sports Foundation and is a qualifier for the Florida State Championships.

If you are 50 and older and enjoy competition, this is for you! Info: 352-338-9300.

Email: info@gainesvillesportscommission.com.

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SENIOR HEALTH FAIR October 17 9:00am - 12:00pm GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th Blvd. Take your health into your own hands with Gainesville’s third annual senior health fair.

50 vendors will be providing information on a variety of health care topics and free diagnostics like blood pressure tests and flu shots. The event is free to the public. 352-265-9040.

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HIGH SPRINGS - O’Leno State Park. Experience a Native American gathering with dancers, musicians, artisans and traders, as well as a living history reenactment of the 1836 Seminole War Battle of San Felasco Hammock. 386-454-1853.

THORNEBROOK ART FESTIVAL Saturday, October 12

HALLOWEEN COSTUME AND GARAGE SALE

10:00am - 5:00pm GAINESVILLE - Thornebrook Village, 2400 NW 43rd St. More than 120 fine art booths will be along the tree-covered paths for the 29th-annual art festival. Music, children’s activities, and food will be available. www.thornebrookart.org.

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FALL MARKET FESTIVAL AND BBQ COOK-OFF

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Saturday, October 12 9:00am - 4:00pm NEWBERRY - Downtown, along Seaboard Drive. Newberry Main Street Organization’s Fall Market Festival will feature arts and crafts, kids games and rides, funnel cakes, shaved ice, health and service booths, a farmers market, live entertainment and BBQ food. www.newberrymainstreet.com.

ANNUAL ANIMAL BLESSING Saturday, October 12 10:00am OCALA - Grace Episcopal Church, 510 SE Broadway St. Sponsored by the Grace Episcopal Church Animal Therapy Ministry, the third Annual Animal Blessing will feature animal and wildlife rescue groups, exhibitors, clowns, demonstrations, therapy dogs, music, contests and refreshments. Animals on leashes or in carriers are welcome! www.graceocala.org.

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8:00am - 3:00pm GAINESVILLE - Pofahl Studios, 1325 NW 2nd St. Hosted by Dance Alive National Ballet, there will be costumes and great garage sale finds — plus a few unexpected surprises! 352-373-1166.

Sunday, October 13 3:00pm GAINESVILLE - Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 100 NE 1st St. Organist John Lowe will perform on the Visser-Rowland organ. The concert is free and open to the public. A reception (wine and hors d’oeuvres) follows. www.holytrinitygnv.org.

IHN GOLF EVENT Monday, October 14 7:00am GAINESVILLE - Mark Bostick Golf Course, 2800 SW 2nd Ave. The Interfaith Hospitality Network will be holding its 13th Annual “Fore the Families” golf charity event. Sponsorship opportunities available. 352-378-2030.

LUNCHEON Tuesday, October 15 11:30am OCALA - Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, 200 SW College Rd. The Parish Health Ministry team will present its original Food for Thought luncheon.

2:30pm - 4:30pm GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th Blvd. PTI presents: ACTIVE Brain – What’s Going on Up There? Kim Foli, Research Coordinator, will describe the ACTIVE study, designed to gain greater understanding of changes in brain structure and function as people age, to help prevent and diagnose brain diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer’s. 352-332-6917.

ALACHUA COUNTY FAIR Oct. 18 - Oct. 26 Times Vary GAINESVILLE - Alachua County Fairgrounds, 3100 NE 39th Ave. General admission $5. Children 12 and under free with paid adult admission.

352-354-3708. www.alachuacountyfair.com.

PAYNES PRAIRIE 5K Saturday, October 19 8:00am MICANOPY - Paynes Prairie State Park, 100 Savannah Blvd. Start your day with the sunrise at Lake Wauburg and enjoy this mostly-trail run through the uplands of Paynes Prairie.

Registration closes on October 17. 352-466-4966.

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Saturday, October 19 7:00pm GAINESVILLE - The Villages Savannah Center, 1545 Buena Vista Blvd. Dance Alive National Ballet presents the classic love triangle and story of good versus evil. www. thevillagesentertainment.com/events.

GAINESVILLE KIDS TRIATHLON Saturday, October 19 8:00am GAINESVILLE - Citizens Field, 1100 NE 14th St. The Fourth Annual Gainesville Kids Triathlon will be open for kids ages five to 15. The race will consist of swimming, biking and running.

There will also be a Tri4fun division will be open to anyone over the age of five that would like to participate just for fun. Registration is $35. www.gainesvillekidstri.com.

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Saturday, October 19

10:00am - 5:00pm GAINESVILLE - Florida Museum of Natural History. Explore the lives of bats, bees, birds, and butterflies. There will be a butterfly plant sale, butterfly releases and a pollinator parade where guests can come dressed as their favorite pollinator. 352-846-2000.

8:00am – 12:00pm OCALA - Silver Springs Shores Park, 642 Silver Pass. Start the holiday season with a cleaner house and some extra cash by participating in the Friends of Marion County Parks and Recreation community yard sale. Through Oct. 13, interested participants can reserve a 10-foot-by-20-foot space for $10 before Oct. 1 or for $15 after Oct. 1. All proceeds will provide scholarships for eligible children to attend recreation programs funded through the Friends of Marion County Parks and Recreation scholarship program.

352-671-8560 or visit marioncountyfriends.org.

FALL PLANT SALE AND ORCHID SHOW October 19 – 20 9:00am - 5:00pm GAINESVILLE - Kanapaha Gardens, 4700 SW 58th Dr. Come see the Kanapaha facility admissionfree, while also browsing around 40 booths of plants. The event celebrates Kanapaha’s October opening in 1987. 352-372-4981.

WALK OF REMEMBRANCE Saturday, October 19 9:00am - 12:00pm OCALA - Sholom Park, 6840 SW 80th Ave. Remember a loved one and find comfort in friendship and shared experiences. The ceremony leads participants on a tranquil stroll through the Labyrinth, enhanced by the uplifting power of live music, and ends with the beautiful and touching butterfly release.

Register online at www.hospiceofmarion.com.

Pick up a map near Bo Diddley Plaza, visit more than a dozen spots, including local landmarks like the Hippodrome and The Sequential Artists Workshop. Watch live performances throughout the night. www.artwalkgainesville.com.

FALL FESTIVAL CRAFT SALE Saturday, October 26 10:00am - 4:00pm HIGH SPRINGS - New Century Woman’s Club, 40 NW 1st Ave. Unique hand-crafted gifts, decorations, homemade food items and baked goods. Gift baskets available for chance drawings. They will be drawn at the Woman’s Club Holiday Expo on November 22 and 23. 386-454-0794.

MUSIC IN THE PARK Sunday, October 20 2:00pm - 4:00pm HIGH SPRINGS - James Paul Park and Community Garden. Every third Sunday, come enjoy local music and fresh air out in the park. Bring lawn chairs, refreshments, and blankets. Free. 352-275-4190.

ARTWALK GAINESVILLE Friday, October 25 7:00pm - 10:00pm GAINESVILLE - Downtown. Self-guided tour of downtown’s galleries, eateries and businesses.

Give the gift of reading to a Child.

Did you know 27% of 3rd grade students in Alachua County did not pass the Reading portion of the FCAT in 2010*! *based on latest public test results

HALLOWEEN SWING DANCE AUTISM FUNDRAISER Saturday, October 26 7:30pm - 12:30am GAINESVILLE - The Movement, 1212 N. Main St. Come dressed up and ready to dance at the third-annual “Swingin’ for Autism” Halloween Swing Dance. Professional swing dancer Demery Strickland will be teaching a workshop, as well, to help raise funds for the UF Center for Autism and Related Disabilities. There will be Halloween costume contests and raffles. Admission is $20, $10 for students. 352-514-4238.

Lower that statistic! Become a ReadingPals volunteer!

Our Partners: Alachua County Public Schools & Childrens Movement of Florida ReadingPals, a United Way of North Central Florida initiative, pairs a volunteer and an Alachua County student for one hour a week to learn together through reading. United Way is currently recruiting ReadingPals volunteers. ReadingPals is funded by the Barnett Grant.

Please call 331-2800 for more information.

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COLOR ME RAD 5K Saturday, October 26 9:00am ALACHUA - Rembert Farm, 13126 NW 174th Ave. Run for Haven supporters can save on this “tsunami of color” 5K. Cost differs by sign-up date. Register online at www.colormerad.com.

FALL HARVEST FESTIVAL Oct. 26 - Oct. 27 Times Vary MICANOPY - Downtown Micanopy, NE Cholokka Blvd. A scenic location for the 39th annual fall arts and crafts festival. 352466-7026. www.micanopyfallfestival.org.

BOOK SALE Oct. 26 - Oct. 30 Times Vary GAINESVILLE - The Friends of the Library, 430-B N. Main St. More than 500,000 books, records, games, CDs, DVDs, audio, video, paintings, posters, prints, puzzles and magazines have been donated for the sale. Most prices range from 25 cents to $4. All profits are used for the Alachua County Library District and for community literacy projects. 352-375-1676. www.folacld.org.

CARILLON CONCERT Thursday, October 31

Florida Bat Festival Saturday, October 26

10:00am - 4:00pm

GAINESVILLE - Lubee Bat Conservancy, 1309 NW 192nd Ave. This year’s event will provide a wide range of activities for the entire family, including bouncy huts, fun crafts, a prize raffle, live music and bat-themed merchandise for sale. Free admission.

352-485-1250. www.batconservancy.org.

Coon Hollo Corn Maze Oct. 5 - Nov. 4 Times Vary MICANOPY - Coon Hollo, 22480 N. Highway 441. Admission includes five-acre corn maze, a hayride out to feed the cows, a ride on the farm train, pasture putt-putt golf course, a hay fort, an obstacle course and more. $9 for adults, $8 for Seniors; $7 for ages 4-12; and $6 for military, law enforcement & firefighters. www.coonhollocornmaze.com.

9:00pm - 10:00pm GAINESVILLE - Century Tower, UF. A special Halloween-themed concert performed on the 61-bell carillon. 352273-3181. www.arts.ufl.edu/carillon.

STAND DOWN FOR HOMELESS VETERANS October 31 and November 1 Times Vary GAINESVILLE - MLK Multipurpose Center, 1028 NE 14th St. Homeless Veterans will be connected with an array of services. Local service providers will be on hand to help Veterans connect to job services, food stamps, housing and a wide variety of other services.

CHOIR Sunday, November 3 4:00pm GAINESVILLE - Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. Howard Goodall’s ETERNAL LIGHT (with Dance Alive National Ballet).

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THEATRE Acrosstown Repertory Theatre.....................619 S. Main Street, Gainesville Curtis M. Phillips Center ........................................... 315 Hull Road, Gainesville Fine Arts Hall Theatre - SFC ........................... 3000 NW 83rd St., Gainesville Gainesville Community Playhouse ....... 4039 N.W. 16th Blvd., Gainesville Hippodrome State Theatre................................. 25 SE 2nd Place, Gainesville UF Constans Theatre ................................................. Museum Road, Gainesville Nadine McGuire Blackbox Theatre ................... Museum Road, Gainesville Insomniac Theatre Company ............................E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala Ocala Civic Theatre ..................................4337 East Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala High Springs Community Theater .......... 130 NE 1st Avenue, High Springs

352-371-1234 352-392-ARTS 352-395-4181 352-376-4949 352-375-4477 352-273-0526 352-392-1653 352-897-0477 352-236-2274 386-454-3525

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Zombie Town: A Documentary Play October 9 - November 3 Join the walking dead of Harwood, Texas, as a theater group tries to interview the survivors of a zombie apocalypse. This “mockumentary” will feed your appetite for all things zombie. www.thehipp.org.

OCALA CIVIC THEATRE

Les Misérables September 5 - October 13 ACROSSTOWN REPERTORY THEATRE

Fright Night October 11 - 27 An exploration of the eerie, the dark and the downright the frightening, as the theater presents three of Edgar Allen Poe’s most chilling pieces: Masque of the Red Death, The Monkey’s Paw and The Tell Tale Heart.

Directed by Jerry Rose. www.acrosstown.org.

CURTIS M. PHILLIPS CENTER

Phantom of the Opera October 19 Back by popular demand, the Dance Alive National Ballet will present the classic love triangle and a story of good versus evil. Tickets available at the Phillips Center box office.

Mamma Mia! October 14 A mother, a daughter, three possible dads — and a trip down the aisle you’ll never forget. More than 50 million people worldwide have fallen in love with the characters, story and music that make Mamma Mia! the ultimate feel-good show.

UF CONSTANS THEATRE

Never the Sinner October 4 - 13 At the height of the Jazz Age, the nation was riveted by the first “trial of the century,” when two young men of wealth and privilege stood accused of planning a heinous thrill killing simply to prove they could get away with it.

Tony Award-winner John Logan’s suspenseful play Never the Sinner charts the notorious case of Leopold and Loeb, a story rife with sexual intrigue and media sensationalism. Find out if superstar attorney Clarence Darrow will be able to save his unrepentant clients from the gallows.

Guys and Dolls October 18 - 27 How far will Nathan Detroit go to maintain the “Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York”? In his attempt to secure the Biltmore Garage for his next game, Detroit tries to finagle an easily influenced high roller in a scheme involving the Salvation Army, hot box girls and an arranged romance in Cuba.

One of Broadway’s biggest hits, this acclaimed musical comedy features music and lyrics by the incomparable Frank Loesser.

One of the world’s best-loved musicals, Les Miserables is a stunning spectacle of passion and power in early 19th-century France. It is the story of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his years hunted by ruthless policeman Javert.

Set to the backdrop of the French revolution, Valjean must fight for his life to protect those he loves. 352236-2274.

HIGH SPRINGS COMMUNITY THEATER

Murder by the Book October 4 - 27 In this delightful comic thriller by Greenwood & King, sort of Private Lives meets Deathtrap, nothing is what it seems. Murder has crisp, witty repartee (similar to the Hepburn/Tracy movies’ banter), one-up-manship, twists and turns enough to satisfy all armchair detectives. Deadly games abound as tables are turned again and again. Can you guess the final outcome? www.highspringscommunitytheater.com.

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TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER could be very indecent? In the new book “Room 1219” by Greg Merritt, you’ll see how.

On September 3, 1921, at the Hotel St. Francis in San Francisco, Prohibition liquor flowed and Roscoe Arbuckle the star sat talking to Virginia Rappe, the starlet. Arbuckle, who paid for the party, thought he might’ve seen Rappe before, since they’d worked for the same studio.

They had many other things in common, too, and they may’ve flirted — though Arbuckle was married.

And then Rappe had to use the

Anecdotes and rumors still swirl around Arbuckle’s name, and Merritt disproves lies and debunks myths in this true crime book, but that’s not all.

Room 1219 The Life of Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Virginia Rappe, and the Scandal that Changed Hollywood

BY GREG MERRITT c.2013, Chicago Review Press $29.95 / $32.95 Canada 482 pages

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ou couldn’t stop tossing.

You couldn’t really sleep that night, either, so you stumbled to the sofa for some Bad TV — and were surprised to find that late-night viewing isn’t so bad after all. You actually, in fact, found an old black-and-white movie that was pretty decent.

But would you be surprised to learn that in the beginning, Hollywood, despite the innocence of the time,

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Roscoe Arbuckle hated the nickname, “Fatty.”

His mother’s late-born lastborn, abandoned by his father, Roscoe was always a big boy. Other children teased him about his weight but his mother indulged him unabashedly, so in 1895, when he skipped school in favor of appearing on-stage with a comedy revue, she looked the other way. The “chubby eight-year-old,” as it turned out, could really act!

From there to vaudeville to movies (a new medium that initially embarrassed him), Arbuckle, along with his friends Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, honed his sense of comedic timing to become one of America’s best-loved early stars. By 1921, he was wealthy, popular and in-demand for parties.

It was at one of his own parties that Arbuckle met Virginia Rappe.

Born in 1891 to an unwed mother, Virginia Rapp added an “e” to make her name “more exotic” when she was just 16. By then, she had her sights set on being a fashion designer (another “infant industry”) and was quite talented. Like so many young women in Hollywood, she also had hopes of being in the movies and had appeared in a few “flickers.”

bathroom. Minutes later, Arbuckle followed her through the hotel’s bedroom, and locked the door. What happened next ended Viginia Rappe’s life and Roscoe Arbuckle’s career.

But what did happen? Movie fans have been asking that question for nearly a century, and in “Room 1219,” author Greg Merritt looks at the evidence.

Anecdotes and rumors still swirl around Arbuckle’s name, and Merritt disproves lies and debunks myths in this true crime book, but that’s not all. He also gives his readers a sense of what life was like in the 1920s, including the beginning of the movie industry and our infatuation with Hollywood stars. I was very astounded to see what the media was able to get away with, back then. Read this book, and I think you will be too.

True crime fans may find too much film history in this book, but movie buffs will absolutely love it. If you can’t get enough of the “flickers,” then “Room 1219” is a book to toss in your cart. s Terri Schlichenmeyer has been reading since she was 3 years old and she never goes anywhere without a book. She lives with her two dogs and 11,000 books.

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