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There are some on Council that would like to see the city begin the arduous process of considering how the city would operate with what amounts to a quarter of the general fund revenue being wiped from the books should Vero Electric be sold to Florida Power and Light.

The argument against such an exercise is that until the final terms of a deal are struck there are too many variables to consider such as the reduction in staffing needs without a power plant to run and the extra tax revenue FPL will be paying to the city.

However, it appears if a sale goes through the city will be looking at either having to raise taxes and/ or cut services to continue to balance the budget. Those who want to begin to consider how Vero Beach would operate with potentially millions less in the general fund will have to wait at least another year for serious consideration.

Gorry, as head of the Finance Commission, said he wants his group to begin to consider such things as reorganizing the city government as employees are laid

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that option remains a possibility should the proposed sale to Florida Power and Light fail to take place.

“There is an argument to be made that Florida Power and Light should reimburse the city for some portion of that, but according to City Manager they have not made that offer yet,” Gorry said.

The Council also rejected one of the more contentious budget issues to reach the Council chamber this year when it scrapped City Manager O’Connor’s proposal to reduce the ranks of nine police officers.

O’Connor was asked to come back with another operational structure for a department that some on Council feel is top-heavy in middle management.

Staff and Council members worked through this year’s budget with a keen eye on keeping expenses down in light of a projected 3.4 percent drop in revenue to the general fund from the projected 2011-2012 budget (a drop in general fund revenue from $21,014,783 to $20,292,180).

However, it still will entertain a $5.6 million transfer from the electric fund to help pay for other

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VERO BEACH -- The City Council spent five days last week going over the tentative 20122013 budget. Council members showed tenacity in going through many of the details that comprise Vero Beach’s spending plan, but had little enthusiasm for dealing with some of the major monetary issues facing the city.

When it was all said and done the Council agreed to a tentative tax rate at the rollback rate of at $2.1 per $1,000 assessed valuation compared to this year’s rate of $2.03. The rate is designed to bring in the same amount of tax dollars as the current year, minus new construction. When property values are rising, taxing authorities and local governments have sometimes “rolled back” their tax rate (millage) in order to avoid increasing the amount of tax they collect from property owners.

However, when property are declining, as they have for several years now, in order to avoid losing property tax revenues governments increase, or roll forward their millage rate, as Vero Beach is proposing to do in the coming year. According the City Manager Jim O’Connor the increase in Vero Beach’s property tax rate from $2.03 to $2.1 per thousand will be revenue neutral, given the 2.6 percent decline in property values the past year.

However, more meetings are planned on the budget as department heads come back with answers to specific questions and the Finance Commission weighs in with its recommendation.

While the Council cannot raise

the tax rate from $2.1 per $1,000 assessed value, it could agree to a lower rate when the final budget is approved in September.

The five members along with City Manager Jim O’Connor and Finance Director Cindy Lawson and each of the department directors pored over the 100-plus capital programs the city is considering and asked hard questions about many of the spending projects. Capital projects include expansion of facilities, purchase of major equipment or major maintenance on existing equipment or facilities.

“It was very professional,” said Finance Commission Chairman Peter Gorry, who sat through each of the five meetings. “What they did which they had never done before was to go through each of the department’s major programs. What they had done in the past was to just note a capital program was for five years, but what they did specifically was go into each of the programs to show which are going to hit this year, which are going to hit next year and so on.”

The Council did agree however, to break from past procedure and pay for a $3.4 million overhaul of one of the power plant’s turbines. In the past, the city has borrowed the money for such projects and spread out the costs over time.

Council member Jay Kramer noted that using the electric system’s cash reserves for the turbine project was something those in favor of the system would support because it would make the sale more attractive. In the past the City would have floated a bond to pay for such improvements and

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INDIAN RIVER COUNTY – Superintendent Dr. Fran Adams and her team maintained standards in some Indian River County schools, but there were some failures as well which dropped the school district from a grade of A to B after the release last week of the Florida Department FCAT scores.

The most current round of test scores did not generate the controversy of the earlier release of results of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. The FCAT, which has been mired in controversy since 1999, is the only barometer for administrators, school boards, parents, students and taxpayers if the educational needs of the next generation are on track.

Overall, for the first time since 2007, the Indian River County School District dropped one letter grade to a B. Individually the results were mixed with five elementary schools being able to retain their previous A rating. These schools were: Rosewood Magnet, Osceola Magnet, Liberty Magnet, Beachland and Treasure Coast elementary schools.

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Other schools that retained an A rating were: Storm Grove Middle, St. Peter’s Academy, North County Charter, Sebastian Charter Junior High and Imagine Schools at South Vero.

Adams said that the other schools in the District would now be the subject of intense focus as the staff makes its evaluations of

be prepared to “implement new strategies when the new school year begins in mid-August.”

“We are not going to make excuses,” said School Board Chairman Jeff Pegler. “The school board, superintendent and employees of the Indian River County School District will work harder than ever to ensure that our students

“We are not going to make excuses. the school board, superintendent and employees of the Indian River County School District will work harder than ever to ensure that our students are receiving the best education possible.”

School Board Chairman Jeff Pegler the myriad details that the Department of Education provided on the test performance.

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are receiving the best education possible. We are a team, and we recognize the obstacles before us.”

There is no doubt that “we have a lot of work to do” Cynthia Rountree, Director of Instructional Support said. Schools where attention will be more directly focused in order to enhance improvements on the 2013 FCAT test results will be those schools that received a C grade. These were: Citrus Elementary, Dodgertown Elementary, Oslo Middle, and Sebastian Middle.

However, the grades for four schools would have been worse if the state had not put an emergency rule in place limiting a school’s drop to one letter grade. The state put the limits in due to changes made to the FCATs this year and the recognition that schools needed more time to prepare students for the test.

One school — Highlands Elementary — would have dropped to an F.

Instead, the “hold harmless” emergency rule meant that Highlands got a B from the Florida Department of Education — one letter grade below the A the school got last year. Highlands was one of nine schools statewide that would have dropped three additional letter grades had it not been for the emergency rule.

Glendale, Pelican Island and Fellsmere Elementary schools, which also dropped one letter grade to B’s this year, would have dropped to C schools without the emergency rule.

The school districts three high schools have not yet received their evaluations from the Florida Department of Education.

Another component of the school improvement goal has been the recent reassignment of the management team at various schools. The newly assigned principals and vice principals will seek to make their imprint on their new schools.

This is particularly true of the appointment of Ainsley Seely to Vero Beach Elementary, who will replace Bonnie Swanson when she retires in January 2013. An interesting component of this assignment is that this new leader was herself both a student and a teacher at Vero Beach Elementary.

The students assigned to Vero Beach Elementary will also have the advantage of beginning the school year in a state-of-the-art building that was recently constructed with funds from the federal stimulus package.

An incentive the Florida Department of Education provides to school districts achieving improvements is that “A” grade schools are entitled to $100 per student to be used for performance bonuses or the purchase of school supplies.

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Beachland traffic battle nears solution – next year

BY STEPHANIE LABAFF VERO BEACH NEWSWEEKLY

VERO BEACH -- The Indian River County School Board held its third meeting regarding proposed changes to Beachland Elementary School’s current parent pick-up/ drop-off and bus loop areas and may have come up with a solution.

Unfortunately, the solution will not be in place for the upcoming school year, but could be in place for 2013-2014. The pickup and drop-off area has drawn the concern of conservationists over the destruction of some trees in an oak hammock on the property and residents over the increase in traffic through their neighborhoods.

Assistant Superintendent of Finance and Operations, Carter Morrison told the group, “We have heard your concerns and went back, we have a plan that does not impact the hammock at all.”

The initial proposal routed school traffic through the mari-

time oak hammock, recently dubbed the “Beachland Woods.”

Concerned residents formed a grassroots group protesting the destruction of the habitat of many native plants and animals.

The architects of Edlund Dritenbas Binkley went back to the drawing board and presented a new plan that would avoid the destruction of any of the oak hammock.

While appeasing the conservationists, this plan did not sit well with residents of the area. The proposal routed all pick-up traffic to the current K-1 loop located on Mockingbird Drive. This plan would involve cars lining up along Mockingbird and then onto Date Palm Road. Residents would be unable to come and go from their homes during school dismissal each day.

Taking both the conservation issues into consideration along with the residents’ complaints, John Binkley of EDB shared a third plan during the meeting held on July 12,

at Beachland Elementary School’s cafetorium. “With this new plan all traffic stacking would be on site in an already semi-cleared area. We feel that of all the solutions we’ve selected, this is the best solution.”

The new plan has the bus loop being relocated to the current K-1 drop-off/pick-up area, with a few adjustments being made to accommodate the size of the buses.

All buses would be able to line up on campus at the same time. This would alleviate any traffic backup and enable a safer and more efficient bus dismissal.

The new car pick-up/drop-off area would start at the current bus loop located at the corner of Beachland Boulevard and Mockingbird Drive. Two lanes of traffic would be routed onto school property, winding through the area located along Beachland.

“Only a few of the rare fruit trees would be affected by this plan. I spent some time with members of

the Rare Fruit Council and they felt that these could be transplanted without any trouble,” Binkley said.

This plan seems to address the concerns of the different groups in attendance, with one exception.

Residents are still concerned there will still be an increase in traffic traveling down Date Palm Road.

Parent and area resident Nathan Polackwich suggested engineers reverse the flow of traffic using the most recent plan. “If traffic enters the school using the existing Sharks Cove driveway on Indian River Drive and exits onto Mockingbird Drive, you wouldn’t have a thousand cars driving down Date Palm Road.”

New Beachland Elementary School principal, Caroline Barker supported the plan. “It keeps all the traffic on the property and out of the hammock. I think we are much closer to finding a solution,” she said.

EDB is looking into the possibility of reversing the flow of traffic using their most recent proposal.

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VERO BEACH — The Vero Beach City Council heard from a number of irate Realtors this week and agreed to allow larger for sale signs within the city limits.

The move will allow real estate agents and property owners to avoid needing different-size real estate signs in the city and county after the action taken at the City Council meeting earlier this week.

The City Council voted to move toward allowing 18-inch by 24inch real estate signs within the city limits rather than continuing to limit them to one-square-foot.

The change in the city’s sign ordinance still has to undergo ad-

ditional public hearings before a final vote by the council. City Manager Jim O’Connor, however, said that based on the council’s action, the city will not enforce the current one-square-foot restriction on the signs.

More than a dozen local real estate agents showed up to urge council members to reconsider its action in March regarding size limitations on size.

The real estate agents said they wanted to be treated the same as other businesses when it comes to temporary signs.

The issue of the size of real estate signs was brought back to the council by O’Connor in response

to a letter written on behalf of the Realtors Association of Indian River County. The letter asked the City Council to reconsider its March vote in regard to the city’s temporary sign ordinance and threatened possible legal action.

The City Council at that time decided to continue with the existing one-foot-square sign restriction on real estate signs despite the recommendation of its Planning and Zoning Board, which wanted to allow larger signs like those allowed elsewhere in the county.

In a letter on behalf of the Realtors Association, attorney George Collins Jr. argued that treating the signs differently was a violation of

the Realtors’ constitutional freespeech rights.

After hearing that 18-inch by 24-inch signs were the standard used in the real estate industry, the Council decided to have that size be the maximum allowed for both real estate and contractor signs.

At the March meeting, real estate agent Karl Zimmerman said having a common size requirement in the city and county could reduce the cost for real estate agents who have to keep different size signs now.

Real estate agent Al Benkert, however, said at the March meeting that he and others wanted to maintain the current size limitations of one-square-foot.

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The commissioners cut one fee beyond what the two officials had advised.

Guanch proposed cutting the permit price for a garage door from $200 to $130. County Administrator Joe Baird, however, said he had been telling community groups it would be cut to $75, based on a prior discussion with Guanch and Keating.

Baird said recent figures show the Building Division is running at a $50,000 profit, compared to last year’s $25,000 deficit that led to tapping reserves.

The proposed permit fees were expected to mean a $105,000 reduction in county revenue in the budget that starts Oct. 1. Keating said he didn’t have a revised revenue-loss figure reflecting the $75 fees for garage-door inspections.

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INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — Despite declining revenues, the County Commission this week agreed to lower permit fees for residents in need of garage door replacements, windows and other home fixtures.

The Commissioners voted 5-0 on a motion from Wesley Davis to lower the costs of some residential specialty permits. Although the county Building Division runs on permit fees, and the housing slump already has led to a drop in that revenue, Davis said those aren’t reasons to charge high rates for individual permits.

“Just because government is running out of money, that doesn’t mean you increase your taxes and fees,” he said.

County Community Development Director Bob Keating and Building Official Jose Guanch rec-

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off or leave their jobs. The city has been trimming staff, dropping from the high-water mark of 543 employees in 2007 to a projected workforce of 421 in the upcoming budget, a 22 percent decline.

Gorry would also like to see the city begin to whittle down overtime, pension and benefit packages union employees have negotiated. In the coming year the city is expected to take a hard line to bring benefits more in line with that of the private sector.

“These things are all tied together,” Gorry said. “I have been trying to understand them and want to take a holistic approach in dealing with them. “ He noted the beginning of this year’s budget process has begun to touch on the issues of what

the city can afford to provide its citizens in the form of services.

Those policies will cover the very broad such as how much to fund the Recreation Department to the mundane such as landscaping but which all affect the bottom line.

“Things like how often do you want to cut the grass on the medians, is one week enough?” he asked. “Should it be every other week? That policy needs to be set by the City Council.”

He noted there was a debate about whether the city should continue its practice of offering free pickup service next to resident’s homes rather requiring garbage be hauled to the curb as is the case with the county.

The Council discussed sending out a survey asking residents their opinions regarding the refuse program.

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Tim Zorc looking for long term solutions for County

BY J.G. WALLACE VERO BEACH NEWSWEEKLY

Tim Zorc, a candidate for the District 3 County Commission seat being vacated by Gary Wheeler and lifelong Indian River County resident, says he has witnessed changes in the county both positive and negative over the past five decades.

“I’ve seen a lot of changes from 1960 when I was born to how the county is today,” he said. “A lot of those were positive, but I’ve seen some areas where we have declined. The biggest one is the Indian River Lagoon. In the 1960’s and 1970’s a Friday night tradition during shrimping season, which would be the cooler months of the year, our family would go with many other local families, and go shrimping off the old wooden Wabasso Bridge.

“You would hang your lantern over the side and you could see the abundant sea life of shrimp and fish by the millions. You would scoop your net down and catch them and that was your shrimp fry for the next day,” Zorc said. “If you go to that same spot now and shine a lantern down there you don’t see anything. You see very, very little sea life that we have. The decline in the Indian River Lagoon is probably one of the most obvious things that we need to look at. How do we work to restore that?”

Zorc is running as a Republican candidate in the District 3 primary against Bea Gardner. The winner will face Anthony Donadio in November, who is a former Democrat now running as a non party affiliated candidate.

The candidate said he believes the decline in sea life and the

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health of the Lagoon can be attributed to a combination of factors.

“You still had the same canals as today emptying into the river,” Zorc said. “Is there more contributing factors that go into canals that come to the river? That obviously has to be part of it.”

Zorc said he wasn’t sure all of the problems are manmade, saying some of the problems may be

natural with flow from the marshlands draining this way now.

Zorc said he would like to look at the water quality, “in reverse,” heading away from the river.

“Let’s check it in stages going west to see where does the spike happen or if it’s just a gradual effect contributing from here almost to the Okeechobee County line,” Zorc said.

Zorc has read some of the re-

search by Dr. Edie Widder and the Ocean Research and Conservation Association and is concerned about the declining health in the dolphin population, which seems to be gradually moving further south.

Zorc said he believes the problem of the lagoon’s water quality has to be approached systematically. “I’ve always believed if you have a problem in business that you can do the instant reaction to fix the problem in the moment, but you have to fix it in the long term also,” Zorc said. “We have to look at what the real contributors are. Are they things you can change?”

Zorc said the current commissioners have done some positive things to improve water quality, like the algae turf scrubbers and the Spoonbill Marsh project.

“I think the water quality would be much worse if we didn’t have those things in place,” Zorc said.

“They have been good steps but I think we have to look at how much do we capture and what is coming through.”

Zorc stated that overall he thinks tourism in the county remains strong and that environmental tourism has been steadily growing with activities like kayaking.

He also believes the county could do a better job on standardizing the design of facilities like new fire stations, saying a building could have a standard footprint with only exterior differences.

He said while the commissioners don’t have control over the school district, he is concerned that building practices drive up the cost to the taxpayers.

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Zorc said he often hears that conservatives are not compassionate, a notion he strongly rejects. Zorc is a 1979 graduate of Vero Beach High School, and has worked on numerous political campaigns including George W. Bush, Jeb Bush, and Bill Posey.

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as a construction consultant, after his family business R. Zorc & Sons Builders Inc., closed in 2008 after 50 years in operation. Zorc and his wife Laura founded Christian Family Builders in 2007, an adoption advocacy group, after Laura learned of the plight of orphans in Northern India who freeze to death for a lack of proper clothing or blankets. Christian Family

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ing it up maybe she does. When that popped up here I knew I wasn’t in favor of it at all.”

Even though he disagrees with charter government, which was Wheeler’s key campaign issue four years ago, Zorc has forged a good relationship with retiring County Commissioner.

“One of the differences between Bea and myself is in my 30 years working locally I have dealt with virtually every county office,” Zorc said.

Zorc is proud of his work as a director of the county’s Building Department Enterprise Fund. “The fees it collects has to support all of the department’s operations,” Zorc said. Zorc noted the department bought its office space to avoid paying rent to the county, and covers all its other expenses.

Zorc stated the fund is approaching $3.6 million in operating fund reserves, even with some of the lowest permit fees in the region, and has successfully trimmed staff from 44 employees to 14 as the building industry has slowed in the current economic climate. “When things pick up we’ll add staff again,” Zorc said.

Zorc said he is concerned about the business relationship of Tony Donadio, a local architect running in the general election as a non-affiliated candidate. He is uncomfortable with the large contracts that have been awarded to Donadio on a request for proposal basis, which is based on the company’s qualifications and doesn’t establish a price before the contract is awarded.

Zorc cited two recent contracts totaling $293,000 that Donadio’s firm received to study space needs and design a new evidence storage facility for the Sheriff ’s Department, which will be built at a 2.75acre parcel on 41st Street.

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time,” Zorc said. “When you are going to build something more than once template it.”

Zorc said he believes that most of the county’s privatization efforts have been a success. “If you look at core essential services of the county, what should we be in the business of doing and what shouldn’t we be in the business of doing?” Zorc asked. “The one example of the City (of Vero Beach) government, it produces power, it just doesn’t do it very competitively. You turn your light switch on in the city and the lights come on but you’re paying a 30 percent premium.”

Zorc did give the current commissioners credit for their work on economic development. “They really have done some things to be more attractive for businesses here to expand or businesses looking to relocate here, but we really don’t know how we stack up to other counties.”

Zorc said he is working on a six-county study that will weigh three hypothetical businesses – a medical facility, a manufacturing firm, and a professional office – and compare Indian River County to other counties. “I think the perception is we are not business friendly,” Zorc said. “This little study may show we are extremely business friendly and we need to change our marketing efforts.”

He dismissed the allegations of his primary opponent Gardner, who has said she believes Gary Wheeler’s support for Zorc may result in another push for charter government. “The only way that will be an issue is if she brings it up,” Zorc said, stating he has always opposed charter government, but Gardner initially supported the concept.

“Bea Gardner was at those meetings and I was not,” Zorc said. “If anybody has an interest in bring-

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PHOTOS SUPPLIED A.W. Kemp’s headstone at the Winter Beach Cemetery, it reads, “What hopes A 1916 picture of the Home Guard, taken in front of the Osceola Building on 14th Street in Vero Beach. This picture was taken from a poster donated to the Indian River Genealogical Society. have perished with you, my son”

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INDIAN RIVER COUNTY -World War I was supposed to be “the war to end all wars” according to President Woodrow Wilson. The world had never seen fighting on such a grand scale, with 22 nations -- 18 on the Allied side and four with the Central Powers -- losing a combined 9.7 million soldiers between 1914 and 1918.

With a population of just over 92 million, America lost around 116,000 men (.13 percent of the total population) to the fighting.

To put that number in perspective, Serbia lost 275,000 of its 4.5 million citizens (16.1 percent).

The area that comprises presentday Indian River County was home to about 1,000 people in 1917 when the United States entered WWI. The six men from this area who died while serving in the war against the Central Powers of Europe may not have represented a large number over-

all, but to a community so small and rural it was a loss that was felt deeply.

“In the early teens, Vero Beach’s population was only several hundred,” said Indian River Genealogical Society president Tony Young. “Wabasso, Winter Beach and Fellsmere added significant population to the area as well.”

Some 95 years later, the population of Indian River County has grown to about 140,000 but those six WWI veterans are not forgotten thanks to the Veterans Memorial Island Sanctuary and the vision of a local icon.

“The man who formed Memorial Island, Alex MacWilliam, served in France in WWI,” Young said. “When MacWilliam came back to Vero from his machine gun battalion, my feeling is that he had a soft spot in his heart for all of these veterans from the war that he had fought in.”

Young, a native barrier islander and retired Army colonel, made it a point to not just continue to

honor MacWilliam’s dream, but to expand on it by finding out as much as he could about the local fallen veterans from all of the wars dating back to WWI. “When I look at the veterans -- whether it is WWI, Korea or any of them -- I try to establish a timeline so I can see where they died during the course of the war,” Young said. “In Fay Taylor, Melvin Dills, Felix Poppell, Lonnie Hamilton, Wilson Kemp and Leve Law you have soldiers, a sailor, and a coast guard veteran. Three of them were from Winter Beach -- back then known as Quay -in Poppell, Kemp and Hamilton.

Taylor was from Fellsmere, and Law was from Vero Beach.”

One of the men, Dills, was from a military family from Georgia.

His brother, Clyde, came to Vero Beach on military duty during WWI and lived here for 37 years afterward. Clyde made sure his brother wasn’t forgotten on Veterans Memorial Island, even though he wasn’t from Indian River Coun-

ty. Melvin died of pneumonia brought on by the flu pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, in Camp Jackson (S.C.) July 13, 1918 after just 24 days of service.

His fate sadly was a common one at the time, as complications from the flu killed between 50 and 130 million from January 1918 to December 1920. It is estimated that 3 percent of the world’s population died from the pandemic.

Kemp was the youngest (18) and first to die of the six. He fell victim to the pandemic at Norfolk Naval Hospital Dec 14, 1917 after 32 days of service. The oldest of the bunch, the 38-year-old Law, passed away at the site of Bethel Creek House on the barrier island Aug. 17, 1918.

“War is no different than everyday life -- accidents happen,” Young said. “One of Law’s contemporaries was cleaning his pistol when it fired a round that killed him. His wife, who had moved into a tent on the barrier island at the time, stayed in Vero

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is located in Vero Beach, off Old Dixie by the bridge club.

“If you go inside, his picture is located just inside the door,” Young said. “A Purple Heart citation was issued to the crew, but that’s located at an American Legion Post in Tampa, where the U.S.S Tampa is honored as well.”

Hamilton was 21 when died on Oct. 5, 1918 at Camp Jackson just as Dills had nearly three months prior. Like Dills, he was a victim of the flu pandemic.

Taylor, who was also 21, died in battle a week later during the Meuse-Argonne offensive in France fighting German forces.

This was one of the decisive Allied victories that lead to the Armistice a month later on Nov. 11. A Gold Star adorns Taylor’s headstone in Fellsmere.

“The Gold Star is the symbol for when a family member dies in the service to the country,” Young said. “If you look at the crest of Taylor’s headstone, you’ll see it there. Today, with the soldiers who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq, their stones are adorned with Blue Stars. If you drive on the highway, you’ll see a Gold Star or Blue Star highway and those are highways dedicated to service members.”

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The next veteran who passed away in the service of his country was 19-year-old Felix Poppell on Sept. 26, 1918. The Winter Beach native had served almost 18 months aboard the USS Tampa when his ship was sunk by a German submarine off the port of Milford Haven, Wales.

“Of all of the six veterans, Poppell is the one who was able to serve with a distinguished crew,” Young said. “His ship, the USS Tampa, was a Coast Guard cutter that sailed to England and was assigned to a Navy base in Gibraltar. Escorting convoys from Gibraltar to England during the war, they had made 18 successful runs where they had lost only two ships out of 350 total.”

That fateful September day, the Tampa received word there was a possible U-boat in the area and headed out to confirm the sighting.

“There was a big explosion and the search party only found two bodies,” Young said. “It was the single-largest loss of men for the Coast Guard in all of WWI. All of the crew members are on a monument to that ship at Arlington National Cemetery.”

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CenterState Bank held a grand opening reception for its new 14,000 square-foot building near downtown, with about 200 guests and dignitaries in attendance.

Andy Beindorf, Executive Vice President and Regional President, noted most of the staff has been in Vero since the 1990’s. Many are from the former Indian River National Bank which was known for its personal service and community relationships.

John Corbett, CenterState’s CEO and President, said he was confident in the staff ’s long-term friendships in the community and fortunate to partner with such great bankers.

“We have all went through these tough economic times and the one thing you don’t want to see are any more downturns,” said Corbett. “I have never seen Andy Beindorf down.”

Beindorf praised CenterState Bank and his Vice President of Commercial Lending, Chris Bie-

ber, who was in charge of the building project from the beginning.

“Thanks must go to Chris for making this such a fun process over the last 12 months,” said Beindorf.

Bieber said the project was made easy by working with such local powerhouses as Summit Construction, Edlund, Dritenbas & Binkley Architects and Carter and Associates.

“Everything in this building and all the components of the design and construction comes from Indian River County,” said Bieber, point-

ing out the exception of cast beams which are not made in this county.

“It was designed right because all these people knew each other and work so well together,” he said. “These guys know how the other team thinks.”

“We wanted to construct a landmark building,” said John Binkley. “We looked at all the local historical buildings and created this beautiful Italian Renaissance Mizner-styled building.

CenterState Bank’s new location is at 855 21st Street.

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while deputies in Brevard County work a combination of 8-hour and 10-hour shifts.

It is hard, then, to see how McMullen’s support for 12-hour shifts and the associated increase in overtime expense is anything other than pandering for votes, or clinging to an outmoded way of doing things that taxpayers can no longer afford.

From street rioting in Athens, Greece to the highly charged race for Indian River County Sheriff the basic issue is still the same: will governments be able to adjust to new economic realities?

Though every Sheriff ’s Office employee deserves to be valued for their contribution to public safety, the fact remains the economy is in recession, property values are at best stagnant and the average homeowner is already under financial pressure, if not under water. This is no time to return to unbridled spending. Voters concerned with fiscal responsibility and professionalism should reelect Loar for another four-year term.

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ised patrol deputies he would reinstitute 12-hour shifts. Deputies tend to prefer the longer shifts because they end up working 14 days per month rather than 16, and at least during the Raymond-McMullen years patrol deputies were scheduled to earn overtime pay each and every pay period.

McMullen has yet to offer a credible explanation of how he will return to 12-hour shifts without increasing overtime. Rather, he simply repeats his mantra that people are more important than money. While no one disputes that basic principle, it is also true that money is not a limitless resource, and the willingness of taxpayers to support excessive spending has already been sorely tested.

While McMullen contends a return to 12-hour shifts is vital for public safety, it is interesting to note that none of the neighboring Sheriff ’s Offices schedule patrol deputies to work 12-hour shifts.

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nual raises of up to 12 percent.

Collective bargaining votes that have taken place during the past four years have largely been the result of employees seeking union protection in the face of budget cuts. And despite the fact that McMullen is critical of Loar for these union votes, he is more than pleased to accept and tout the union’s endorsement.

Whatever else might be said about the management of the Sheriff ’s Office from 2001 through 2008, it is undeniable that Raymond, and his captains, including McMullen, spent every tax dollar that flowed their way as a result of the then rising tide in property values.

When Loar took office in January of 2009 he began reducing non-patrol staff, renegotiating contracts with vendors and cutting overtime expense by going from 12-hour to 10-hour shifts for the patrol division. For four years now Loar has managed to live within an ever-declining budget that is down to $37 million.

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In the race between former lieutenant Bill McMullen and incumbent Sheriff Deryl Loar, voters face a clear choice of either returning to the days when the Sheriff ’s Office was run by and for “good ol’ boys,” or of supporting the fiscal responsibility and professional accountability Loar introduced to the office four years ago.

Loar, who served with the Florida Highway Patrol 19 years before he was elected Indian River County Sheriff is 2008, has exercised a level of fiscal discipline not seen in the Sheriff ’s Office in recent memory. When he assumed office in January 2009, Loar faced the challenge of cutting millions in expenses from a budget that had grown 63 percent in eight years, from $27 million in 2001, to $44 million in 2008.

McMullen joined the Indian River County Sheriff ’s office in 1987, and was responsible for the operation of the jail from 2001 to 2009. As one of former Sheriff Roy Raymond’s captains, McMullen shares in any assessments of Raymond’s administration.

Ironically, though McMullen is critical of Loar for further unionization that has taken place in the Sheriff ’s Office the past four years, the first successful vote to unionize was held under Raymond’s watch, when McMullen served as one of his top aides.

Unionization during RaymondMcMullen years happened despite the fact that the Sheriff ’s Office was flush with rising tax revenues and was passing out an-

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Shifting from property to instruction is a wise investment The Indian River County School Board is asking voters to approve a four-year supplemental tax that will cost the average homeowner $77 a year and will raise an additional $8 million a year to help pay for what are being described as “critical needs.”

The easy conclusions to come to are first to see the School Board’s request as just another example of government’s insatiable appetite for tax dollars, or, conversely, to resolve that when it comes to educating our community’s children we should spare no expense.

With little consideration of the complexities of school funding, it is easy to make an argument against the School Board’s need for an additional $8 million a year over the next four years. If the supplemental tax is unnecessary, $32 million will be extracted from property owners over the next four years to the detriment of the local economy.

On the other hand, given declining local tax revenues and drastic cuts in state and federal funding for education, if Indian River County voters decline to approve a legitimate request for school funding, then an already challenged school system will be left without the resources needed to properly educate our community’s children.

The Indian River County Taxpayers Association is opposing the School Board’s supplemental funding request, arguing that the school system already has more than enough money. What the group doesn’t seem to appreciate is that for several years now the school system has been doing more with much less.

If the School Board were proposing to spend the additional $8 million a year on more land or buildings, it would be difficult to support such a request. But unlike past boards that spent excessively on land acquisition and school construction, the current board is simply looking for ways to fund instructional positions and to pay for much needed technology upgrades.

The “critical needs” for which the School Board says it will use supplemental funding include retaining 31 positions that will other-

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wise have to be eliminated in 2013, when the designated funding for those positions expires.

Additionally, the School Board maintains the supplemental revenue is needed to help pay for unfunded and underfunded state mandates for everything from textbooks to computers.

Without approval of the supplemental tax further cuts will likely have to be made in order to pay for textbooks, computer software and hardware mandated by the state. Class sizes will also likely increase.

Part of the School Board’s challenge is to meet unfunded and underfunded state mandates. By 2014, for example, the Florida Legislature, in its infinite wisdom, mandated that 50 percent of all instruction be delivered digitally.

For its part, the Florida Department of Education dictates what textbooks should be bought, when, and from which suppliers. If the School

Board fails to comply with these mandates, it risks losing state funding.

Here are the numbers: The proposed supplemental millage is .6, or 60 cents per $1,000 in taxable property value. This request is over and above the base school tax of $7.90 per $1,000 in taxable property value, and represents a 7.6 percent increase in what homeowners and business would otherwise pay.

School officials maintain the supplemental tax is “revenue neutral” since it will replace two earlier authorizations set to expire in 2013. If approved, the additional tax will, in fact, replace earlier measures approved by voters, one for .35 mills approved in 1990, and a second for .25 mills passed in 2010.

The 31 positions in question have been paid for by the two-year .25 mill tax approved by voters in 2010. According to school officials, the remaining supplemental revenue will go toward books, computers, other digital devices such as tablets, and the computer software and infrastructure needed to provide state mandated digital instruction and computerbased testing.

Anyone concerned with the rising cost of education could begin by challenging the lobbyist-infested Florida Department of Education and Florida Legislature. Make no mistake about it, behind every state mandate there lurks a lobbyist representing a textbook publisher’s association, or a provider of on-line curriculum, or some other business interest.

These lobbyists descend on Tallahassee pushing for more and more state mandates on local school boards. Many of these mandates accomplish little more than to further restrict local control of schools.

From fiscal years 2009/10 to 2010/11 total non-capital funding dropped 10 percent.

Non-capital spending per student now stands at $6,413, compared to $7,040 in 2007. This is hardly the time to experiment with starving schools of funding as a way of achieving better performance. Voters would be wise to approve extending the supplemental millage another four years.

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people are looking for holidays.

Are these good reasons to give more weight or emphasis to a holiday/observance over another?

How we spend our time, how we prioritize our activity and attention is a set of choices. Our investments in the sacred days that are on our calendar are an important factor in this equation.

It is just one more time and place to weigh our values against our actions. This is a powerful opportunity check ourselves and focus on what heals and energizes us to create peace and fellowship and make sure we are not simply giving our time and energy to the superficial and sweet.

Rabbi Michael Birnholz has served Temple Beth Shalom in Vero Beach since 2002. One of his goals is bringing Jewish values and wisdom to the wider community.

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know of it, the percentage who has observed it is infinitesimal.

The events acknowledged by Tisha b’Av, the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, begin in the Bible with the failures of the scouts of Numbers and the destruction of the First Temple of Jerusalem. The rituals of the day also acknowledge the destruction of the Second Temple, the beginning of the First Crusade, the expulsion of Jews from England (1290) and from Spain (1492). This is a day of ultimate loss, tragedy and lamentation.

As powerful as the story of Chanukah is, it does not compare to the values of loss and survival, destruction and renewal that is expressed on Tisha b’Av. But, Chanukah is lighter (in story, food practices – latkes and doughnuts and ritual with the Menorah and dreidel) and a time of year when

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een or Memorial Day? Valentine’s Day or Earth Day? This is not just a problem of American culture. It is a significant problem in Judaism (and RABBI other religious MICHAEL BIRNHOLZ cultures) as well.

In my lists of can’t miss holidays you notice Chanukah. While it is well known in the world and well observed in the Jewish community it is very much a minor holiday. The books that tell the story of the Maccabees are not even in the Hebrew Bible.

Contrast this with the memorial day of Tisha b’Av (observed July 28th this year). I am willing to bet that many of you, Jews included, have never heard of it. For those who

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Many of us have been plagued with forgetting birthdays or anniversaries, but how many of us admit missing holidays?

Who could forget Christmas or Easter (I schedule around them even though I don’t celebrate them) or Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Chanukah or Passover?

But, I am guessing all of us can list minor holidays or observances that barely get our attention -- Flag Day, Columbus Day, or Arbor Day. How many holidays, Saints Days or observances can we really note before we lose that sense of a special, holy day? And yet there is a whole group of holidays in the middle of this spectrum in which we over celebrate a minor day or we ignore a day of real significance. Which deserves more energy, treasure or time -- Hallow-

Watch out there may be a devil in your computer

By Milt Thomas Computers are wonderful machines and I could not live without mine. But you need to consider your computer as a fair weather friend, because if you are not careful, it will stab you right in the Facebook.

This morning alone, I was going through my spam folder to see if an email I wanted was in there by mistake. I found several of them, that once opened, display only a hot link (a long website address, usually in blue). I know enough to realize these are fake and under no circumstances should I click on to those hot links because they are from the devil inside my computer.

That devil is always trying to lure me in to the digital underworld where I could be held hos-

tage and taken for every cent I own. He appears in other ways, too. For instance, an email from a company you do business with that starts with “Dear Customer.” A legitimate email from a company MILT THOMAS you do business with will always begin with your name. The “Dear customer” salutation is from the devil you don’t know.

Often, you can tell it is not legitimate if it begins with, “Dear friends in Christ,” or comes from the finance minister of Nigeria.

I’ve had emails from friends telling me they are stranded in London with no cash to get home.

Right.

Terms like hacking, phishing and spoofing may sound like game show terms, but they are all ways to find out your personal information and could spell financial disaster. But there are ways to prevent hackers from getting at your personal information. The most obvious is not to click on to any link described above.

One common mistake people make is to use the same or similar passwords on all their accounts.

You might as well email your password directly to the hacker because he will learn it sooner or later. The safest bet is to use totally different password on all your accounts. And don’t make them easy to hack – capitalize one letter at random and be sure to have letters and numbers in the password.

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If you go to McDonald’s or Panera’s to use their public Wi-Fi, keep in mind the word “public.” It means anyone could be monitoring you. If you are checking email, make sure you log out of your account before closing. If you don’t, it is like leaving your door wide open before going to bed at night.

The most common reason hackers are successful is because so many computer users make it easy for them. Take the necessary precautions, or you will have a devil of a time with the consequences.

Milt Thomas is a Vero Beach resident and an experienced freelance writer/author with a 20-year background in the music industry. He currently writes biographies, blogs, lectures, travels extensively and is an active member of the National Press Club.

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Tim Marshall, Vero Beach Art Club president Mary Ellen Koser and Deb & Ken Daige

The “Art of Networking” held at Blue Star Wine Bar hosted by the Cultural Council Of Indian River County brought out a wide variety of members.

From non-profit groups to possible sponsors and from artists to gallery owners, the people who needed to see and be seen were able to connect with each other.

One of the first to wander into the eclectic and cool interior of Kitty Wagner’s newest restaurant was Bobbi Burdick of the Treasure Coast Women’s Association and who is also a member of the CCIRC. “We have a division of our Club that is specifically designated for the Arts,” said Bobbi Burdick. “In November we have a Creative Craft Bazaar and we also give out an art scholarship each year.”

It benefits organizations like theirs to stay connected with others in the cultural arts just as it does the service industry attendees like Tyler Fox and John Edwards of VeroBeach.com and Tim Marshall of Staples.

As members sipped wine and nibbled on a delicious array of snacks, deals were being made, business relationships were formed and everyone took the time to relax and get to know each other.

Interim Cultural Council Director Barbara Hoffman also reminded members of upcoming events and deadlines for the reformatted Cultural Council Event Planner.

“Mainstreet and the Cultural Council have many of the same people in our membership,” said Kathleen Prouty. “It is important for all of us to work together particularly on promoting the Arts District.”

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Walford Campbell, 52, has a wonderful multi-cultural background as varied and rich as his ceramic pottery vessels which has gained him many international investors.

His works have been featured in The Ceramics Monthly Magazine and The Australian Ceramic Magazine among others.

Campbell was born in Jamaica, moved to England when he was nine, returned to Jamaica to teach art as an adult and exhibits in Trinidad, Jamaica, Germany and Japan.

That is all before he moved to the United States to make a living as a full time artist on the Treasure Coast.

His mother wanted him to study dentistry and go into the medical field. As a nurse she felt the career would assure him a solid future.

“My mum absolutely ruled the house so I went with her when she took me to apply at all the dental schools, but luckily she never went into the interview with me,” said Campbell. “I actually had already gotten myself placed in art school.”

After first studying at the Walsall School of Art in England, he went to the University of Darby Lonsdale College to study studio ceramics. His Fine Art instructor’s teachings of realistic clay sculptures influenced his work and he began to put together a

portfolio of that style to “get into University.”

for Campbell’s taste, so he switched to studying ceramic

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Walford Campbell with a collection of his work at Under the Oaks Fine Art Show 2012

After attending classes, Campbell was unable to relate to the work his new instructor was teaching.

Compared to the realistic sculptures he had previously studied and enjoyed, the style was much too modern

pottery.

“He believed sculpture should be in the style of Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth and I did not like that concept at the time,” Campbell said.

Both Moore and Hepworth are known for large-scale,

uation in 1982, Campbell began teaching at a private school in England. Campbell had not planned on a career as a potter, but by this time he was committed to his ceramic pottery art.

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to develop his high-fired reduction stoneware glazes for which he is now well known.

He read an article about a famous JaCampbell says he was young and agmaican artist named Cecil Baugh in the gressive and his artwork caught the inCeramic Monthly and wrote to him in terest of an art organization in Germany Jamaica. Baugh took his letter to the through an article written about him.

Edna Manley School for Visual Arts and They began to sponsor his work and the principal wrote him and offered him eventually he was invited to exhibit in a job.

Hamburg, Germany and then in Osaka The school was one of the only art and Tokyo in Japan. schools in the English speaking CaribNow in the U.S., his new pieces are bean and Campbell accepted a full time more sculptural now, returning full art teacher position there. What Campcircle to his early training. Each piece bell did not realize was that the pay that comes from a deeper place inside now. they had offered was not enough to live “The work has a greater connection to on now that he no longer worked at a me,” he said. “I think as you get older, private school where his room and board your art becomes more personal.” was supplied.

The designs Campbell paints on his “It looked like a good amount of money pots, vases and bowls are very delibut I had never had to completely supcate. Highly sought after and applauded port myself before so I thought I was gofor their beauty, his pottery and new ing to be able to get by on that salary,” sculptures are in constant demand. he said.

Gentle Japanese inspired flowers and Campbell was forced to devise a second stark primitive shapes stem from Campincome so he opened up his own studio bell’s vibrant life experiences. His work just to survive. “I had never worked so constantly changes as his life progresshard in my life,” Campbell said in his liltes and he keeps a bit of all of it in each ing English-Jamaican accent. piece. This makes his body of work inThe studio became very successful terestingly diverse and commercially mainly because his work was completely successful. different that what everyone else was do“I’m drawn to all forms of art,” Camping in Jamaica. Campbell’s pieces were bell said as he explained why his collecstoneware whereas most of the Jamaican art was terra cotta.

Campbell has returned to some of his conceptual tion was so varied. “I’ve digested eveStudies in geology gave him the knowl- sculpture teachings with this piece entitled ‘Lisa’s rything and brought all of that into my edge to utilize local minerals to be able Twist’ work through my own interpretation.”

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Little Shop of Horrors offers delightful summer fun

BY BARBARA YORESH VERO BEACH NEWSWEEKLY

VERO BEACH -- If you can believe that the third highest grossing off-Broadway show of all time features a blood-thirsty plant named Audrey, then you definitely don’t want to miss the Riverside Children’s Theatre Summer Stage production of “Little Shop of Horrors” which opens Friday, July 20.

And even if the notion of a silly/scary 1960’s era rock musical which was based on a low-budget, 1960 sci-fi thriller featuring a bit part to then-unknown actor named Jack Nicholson seems beyond your comprehension, then all the more reason to attend this summertime, fun-filled show presented by the talented young performers of RCT. Directed by RCT’s Kevin

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Quillinan and sponsored by the Richardson Family Foundation, “Little Shop of Horrors” is from a book and lyrics by Howard Ashman with music by Alan Menken.

The pair went on to pen such hits as Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.”

The show is also based on that now-iconic and campy “B” film by Roger Corman with a screenplay

by Charles Griffith.

The show debuted in 1982 off Broadway and performed 2,209 times before closing in 1987. Since that time, the show has been a favorite to produce – particularly among children’s, community and regional theatres.

Often described as silly and scary – all to the pop rock ‘n roll, Motown and doo-wop sounds of the ‘60s – “Little Shop of Horrors” is set it a skid row florist shop owned by the irascible Mr. Mushnik. Working there as well are Seymour and Audrey, two young, discontented adults searching for life’s purpose.

The “fun” begins when Seymour – following a sudden solar eclipse - finds a curiously exotic Venus fly trap-like plant in the wholesale florist district. Bringing the plant back to the florist shop, he names it “Audrey” in honor of his coworker for whom he has a crush.

Alas, “Audrey” the plant doesn’t appear to thrive in Mushnik’s shop despite Seymour’s best caretaking ministrations. But in what becomes for “Audrey” a life-saving event (and for the rest a Pandora’s box of escalating problems), Seymour pricks his finger on a rose thorn and “Audrey” (the plant!) opens its pod-like “lips” to capture Seymour’s blood.

Though it’s hardly Scott’s Miracle-Gro plant food, blood is what “Audrey” wants and needs and

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Seymour allows the sanguinary plant to continue to feed off his blood. Before long, the bloodthirsty plant has attracted lots of attention and customers to Mushnik’s shop. While Seymour’s nebbish status grows in the process, his co-worker Audrey is experiencing problems with her abusive dentist boyfriend.

Audrey’s mutual feelings for Seymour are revealed in song as she envisions a life with him in the suburbs.

By this time, Seymour is experiencing difficulty providing “food” for the voracious plant which suddenly finds its own, demanding voice when Seymour stops the blood feedings. Though “Audrey” tried to convince Seymour to kill the sadistic dentist, Orin’s overdosing on nitrous oxide finishes accomplishes the job instead and Seymour ends up feeding Orin’s

body to “Audrey.”

The plant is thriving and so is Mushnik’s business, but now there is a missing dentist, some incriminating blood stains and a police investigation of the matter to complicate things.

All the while, “Audrey” wants to “eat” and one by one, first Mushnik and then others fall prey to the plant’s diabolically insatiable maw.

Recommended for children ages 6 and up, “Little Shop of Horrors” performs July 20, 21, 27 & 28 at 7:30 p.m. and July 21, 22, 28 & 29 at 1:30 p.m. Tickets are $12-$18 for adults and $6-$9 for students.

Riverside Children’s Theatre is located at 3280 Riverside Park Drive in Vero Beach.

For more information or for tickets, call (772) 231-6990 or visit online at www.RiversideTheatre. com.

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Aerial Antics youth Circus, Recreation Dept. Performing Arts gymnastic performances, 7 pm, St. Edward’s School, $5-$6. 772567-2144.

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In Historic Mainstreet art district, art galleries and businesses offer open house receptions. Free. 772299-1234.

AUGUST 8 ! Symphony of the America’s

Summerfest Concert, Christ by the Sea, 7:30 pm, local musicians & Mission Chamber Orchestra of Rome, hosted by Cultural Council. 772-770-4857.

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BY MICHAEL BIELECKI VERO BEACH NEWSWEEKLY

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY -Water sports are a huge part of the lifestyle here in Indian River County, starting with something as basic as swimming at Leisure Square and leading to such complex activities as kite boarding on the Sebastian Inlet.

Sailing, in its most basic form, falls somewhere in the middle of the aquatic sports spectrum. As both an activity and a mode of transportation, sailing is an activity that can span a lifetime.

But it helps to start young and that is the goal of the Youth Sailing Foundation of Indian River County.

The organization is currently teaching children ages 7-15 how to operate a sailboat at week-long sailing camp.

“We wanted to do something to get the children out in the fresh air and onto the water,” said Youth Sailing Foundation president Charlie Pope. “These kids are learning and having fun out there Instead of sitting at home with their “gameboys” and computer programs.”

A seasoned sailor himself, Pope and his wife sold their house in Dallas back in 1994 and set out to live in their sailboat over the next eight years. They sailed the Caribbean, exploring the various islands all the way down to Venezuela. From there, they made their way to the New York City and eventually Boston Harbor.

In all, the Popes covered 30,000 miles before they settled in Vero Beach. The camp was something Pope set up after establishing the Youth Sailing Foundation after he docked his boat here in town and

Pope and his US Sailing certified instructors are finishing up their final two weeks at the Moorings before they move into their new home near the Alma Lee Loy Bridge on Indian River Drive.

“The Youth Sailing Foundation has signed a lease on a building along Indian River Boulevard, just south of 17th Street,” Pope said.

“We will be able to consolidate all of our operations at this location, and our goal is to be operating out of this building by September.”

At the new facility, students will be able to build their own boats, which they had done up until now at the Vero Beach City Marina. These boats are small (7-feet, 9-inches long and weighting 77 pounds) and relatively inexpensive at $1600 for the complete kit. Assembly of the vessels is completed by the children with their parents and under the complete supervision of trained Youth Sailing Foundation volunteers.

PHOTO BY MICHAEL BIELECKI The foundation also received a The Youth Sailing Foundation is holding week-long sailing camps out of the $7,500 matching grant from the HeMoorings this summer before moving to its new building on Indian River Drive isman Group, and combined with over $9,000 in locally-raised funds, in September. the organization purchased two 420 class size and schedule limitations. Club Racers. These larger boats dropped anchor.

“Each week brings 10 new stu- (almost 14 feet in length and 260 “Sailing camps should be fun, but if they aren’t structured it isn’t fair dents who have to start by passing pounds in weight) will allow instructo the kids,” Pope said. “They need a swim test,” Pope said. “Then they tors to teach students who already to learn, and what they learn here move on to a capsize test, where have a sound foundation in sailing. is something they can carry with students must right their boat by “If you can sail these 8-foot long, them to college and far beyond. My flipping it back from a capsized 80-pound boats then you can sail wife, Chris, likes to say that sailing is position in the water. By Tuesday, a 24-foot boat that weighs a 150 the students are ready to get out on pounds,” Pope said. a lifetime experience.”

The week-long camp has grown the water. There is also class time For more information, or inquirfrom four weeks to six weeks since spent indoors learning about sailing ies about free lessons offered on last year, and like last year, the camp through both live instruction and Saturdays, visit the Youth Sailing sold out all ten spots each week. DVD’s. The children are also taught Foundation’s website at www.ysAccording to Pope, they had to turn to tie various knots, which comes in firc.org or call Charlie Pope at 567away 15 would-be campers due to useful when you dock your boat.”

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Hubert Bailey Hubert Alexander Bailey, 68, died July 3, 2012, in Titusville. He was born in St. Thomas, Jamaica, and moved to Titusville in 2009 from Indian River County.

Margaret E. Darress Margaret E. Darress, 93, died July 3, 2012, at VNA Hospice House, Vero Beach. She was born in Gloversville, N.Y., and was a longtime resident of Long Island, N.Y., and lived in Vero Beach for 15 years, coming from Hobe Sound. Memorial contributions may be made to the VNA Hospice Foundation, 1155 35th Lane, Vero Beach, FL 32960-6521, 772-299-7393.

A guestbook is available at www. foresthillspalmcityflorida.com.

Leonard Grish Leonard W. Grish, 80, died July 7, 2012. He was born in Shenandoah, Pa., and lived in Vero Beach since 2003, coming from Elgin, Ill. Online condolences may be sent at www.coxgiffordseawinds.com.

Pierre Mendy Pierre Mendy, 52, died June 27, 2012. He was born in Boutoupa, Senegal, and lived in Vero Beach for three years, coming from France. A guestbook is available at www.coxgiffordseawinds.com.

Fred W. Dennerline Jr. Fred W. Dennerline Jr., 85, died July 8, 2012, at his home. He was born in Indianapolis, Ind., and lived in Vero Beach for 12 years, coming from Stuart. Memorial contributions may be made to the

Kenneth Lynn Wright Kenneth Lynn Wright died July 11, 2012 at Hospice House, Vero Beach. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his name to Vera S. Gallimore the First Presbyterian Church, 520 Vera S. Gallimore, 89, died July Royal Palm Blvd., Vero Beach, FL 7, 2012, at Indian River Medi- 32960 An online guestbook may cal Center, Vero Beach. She was be signed at www.lowtherfuneralborn in Garden City Park, N.Y., home.com. and lived in Vero Beach since James A. ‘Jay’ Young 2003, coming from Calabash, N.C. Memorial contributions may James A. “Jay” Young, 61, died be made to VNA Hospice House, July 10, 2012, at VNA Hospice 1110 35th Lane, Vero Beach, FL House in Vero Beach. Memorial 32960. A guestbook is available at contributions may be made to www.coxgiffordseawinds.com.

Vero Beach High School Track and Field, 1707 16th St., Vero Scott Joseph Nowland Beach, FL 32960. A guestbook Scott Joseph Nowland, 41, of is available at www.coxgiffordVero Beach, passed away, Sunday, seawinds.com.

July 8, 2012. In lieu of flowers, doAlma Mae Zwiernik nations may be made to the Mastiff Rescue of Florida, Inc., P.O Alma Mae Zwiernik, 86, died Box 156, Lady Lake, FL 32158- July 9, 2012, at Indian River Medi0156. An online guestbook may cal Center, Vero Beach. She was be signed at www.lowther funer- born in Michigan and moved alhome. com. to Vero Beach four months ago, coming from Capac, Mich. MeWilliam F. Powers morial contributions may be William F. Powers, 85, died July made to Free Methodist Church, 8, 2012, at Indian River Medical 34343 Bordman Road, Memphis, Center, Vero Beach. He was born MI 48041. A guestbook is availin New York City and lived in Vero able at www.coxgiffordseawinds.

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East Brunswick, N.J. Memorial Leola Victoria Coleson contributions may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Leola Victoria Coleson, 92, died 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN July 9, 2012, in the Hospice/House 38105. A guestbook is available at of Vero Beach. She was born in www.coxgiffordseawinds.com.

Peoria, Ill., and recently moved to Vero Beach from Sebring.

Edgar P. York Alfred Clark Daugherty Edgar P. York, 96, died July 8, 2012, at Horizon Bay Vibrant ReAlfred Clark Daugherty, 88, died tirement Living, Vero Beach. Me- July 9, 2012, at his home. He was morial contributions may be made born in Pittsburgh and lived in to The Community Church, 1901 Vero Beach since 1975. Memorial 23rd St., Vero Beach, FL 32960. contributions may be made to the A guestbook is available at www. VNA Hospice, 1110 35th Lane, coxgiffordseawinds.com.

Vero Beach, FL 32960. A guestAlzheimer’s Association, 225 N. Michigan Ave., Fl. 17, Chicago, IL 60601. A guestbook is available at www.coxgiffordseawinds.com.

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Joan Catherine Gillette Joan Catherine Gillette, 74, died July 13, 2012, at Kindred Hospital, Riviera Beach. She was born in Framingham, Mass., and lived in Vero Beach for 26 years, coming from Miami. A guestbook is available at www.seawindsfh.com.

Dorothy Harrington, Dorothy Harrington, 95, died July 12, 2012, at Indian River Medical Center, Vero Beach. She was born in Richmond, Ind., and lived in Vero Beach for 22 years, coming from Manhasset, N.Y. A guestbook is available at www. coxgiffordseawinds.com.

Susan Hart Susan Hart passed away on July 10, 2012. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to: Saints, Inc. #6, PO Box 518, Wayne, MI 48184 (“In memory of Susan J. Hart-Hall Road Home), VNA Hospice of Indian River County or the charity of your choice. A guestbook is available online at www.strunk funeralhome.com.

Cordelia Emma Hayes Cordelia Emma Hayes, 99, died July 11, 2012, at her home. She was born in Detroit and lived in Vero Beach for six years, coming from Lake Worth.

Carol A. Henson Carol A. Henson, 71, died July 10, 2012, at the University of Miami Hospital, Miami. She was born in New York City and lived in Vero Beach for one year, coming from West Palm Beach. A guestbook is available at www. coxgiffordseawinds.com.

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Address 940 Turtle Cove Ln., #111 400 Beach Rd., #221

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2135 Porpoise Point Ln. S Porpoise Point 2/23/11 $3,500,000 7/6/12 $2,800,000 Shamrock Real Estate Corp.

Christine McLaughlin Treasure Coast Sotheby’s Intl.

Janyne Kenworthy

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4731 Pebble Bay Cir. Pebble Bay Estates 11/22/11 $699,000 7/10/12 $675,000 Alex MacWilliam, Inc. Barbara Parent Dale Sorensen Real Estate, Inc. Steven Zeuner & Mary Pat Slater

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1155 Driftwood Dr. Castaway Cove 5/4/12 $529,000 7/11/12 $499,000 Norris & Company Lillian Ellis Treasure Coast Sotheby’s Intl.

David Ashcroft

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521 Sundance Tr. Indian Trails 7/2/11 $474,000 7/6/12 $450,000 Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc. Elizabeth Sorensen Treasure Coast Sotheby’s Intl.

Linda Riley

Subdivision Beachwalk John’s Island

List Date 11/1/11 6/7/10

List Price $329,000 $190,000

Sell Date 7/9/12 7/6/12

Sell Price $315,000 $160,000

Listing Broker/Agent Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc./Matilde Sorensen Cliff Norris Real Estate/Cliff Norris Jr

Selling Broker/Agent Norris & Company/Lucy Hendricks Cliff Norris Real Estate/Cliff Norris Jr

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Address: Subdivision: List Date: List Price: Sell Date: Sell Price: Listing Broker: Listing Agent: Selling Broker: Selling Agent: Address 3050 Buckinghammock Tr. 3370 Buckinghammock Tr.

Subdivision Buckinghammock Buckinghammock

List Date 12/5/11 5/23/12

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1010 Whitetail Ave. SW Hunters Run 5/15/12 $344,000 7/10/12 $325,000 Prudential Sterling Properties Lynn Raymond Daley & Company Real Estate Sally Daley List Price $259,900 $240,000

Sell Date 7/11/12 7/6/12

Sell Price $235,000 $231,000

Listing Broker/Agent Daley & Company Real Estate/Sally Daley The Land Corporation of FL/Cami Kanner

600 45th Ct. SW Arbor Trace 3/27/12 $340,000 7/5/12 $325,000 RE/MAX Classic Kelly Fischer Real Living Realty Unlimited Fred Reichert

Selling Broker/Agent Weichert, REALTORS Hallmark-VB/Michael Armstrong Palm Pointe Realty/Brenda Montgomery

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PHOTOS SUPPLIED A.W. Kemp’s headstone at the Winter Beach Cemetery, it reads, “What hopes A 1916 picture of the Home Guard, taken in front of the Osceola Building on 14th Street in Vero Beach. This picture was taken from a poster donated to the Indian River Genealogical Society. have perished with you, my son”

BY MICHAEL BIELECKI VERO BEACH NEWSWEEKLY

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY -World War I was supposed to be “the war to end all wars” according to President Woodrow Wilson. The world had never seen fighting on such a grand scale, with 22 nations -- 18 on the Allied side and four with the Central Powers -- losing a combined 9.7 million soldiers between 1914 and 1918.

With a population of just over 92 million, America lost around 116,000 men (.13 percent of the total population) to the fighting.

To put that number in perspective, Serbia lost 275,000 of its 4.5 million citizens (16.1 percent).

The area that comprises presentday Indian River County was home to about 1,000 people in 1917 when the United States entered WWI. The six men from this area who died while serving in the war against the Central Powers of Europe may not have represented a large number over-

all, but to a community so small and rural it was a loss that was felt deeply.

“In the early teens, Vero Beach’s population was only several hundred,” said Indian River Genealogical Society president Tony Young. “Wabasso, Winter Beach and Fellsmere added significant population to the area as well.”

Some 95 years later, the population of Indian River County has grown to about 140,000 but those six WWI veterans are not forgotten thanks to the Veterans Memorial Island Sanctuary and the vision of a local icon.

“The man who formed Memorial Island, Alex MacWilliam, served in France in WWI,” Young said. “When MacWilliam came back to Vero from his machine gun battalion, my feeling is that he had a soft spot in his heart for all of these veterans from the war that he had fought in.”

Young, a native barrier islander and retired Army colonel, made it a point to not just continue to

honor MacWilliam’s dream, but to expand on it by finding out as much as he could about the local fallen veterans from all of the wars dating back to WWI. “When I look at the veterans -- whether it is WWI, Korea or any of them -- I try to establish a timeline so I can see where they died during the course of the war,” Young said. “In Fay Taylor, Melvin Dills, Felix Poppell, Lonnie Hamilton, Wilson Kemp and Leve Law you have soldiers, a sailor, and a coast guard veteran. Three of them were from Winter Beach -- back then known as Quay -in Poppell, Kemp and Hamilton.

Taylor was from Fellsmere, and Law was from Vero Beach.”

One of the men, Dills, was from a military family from Georgia.

His brother, Clyde, came to Vero Beach on military duty during WWI and lived here for 37 years afterward. Clyde made sure his brother wasn’t forgotten on Veterans Memorial Island, even though he wasn’t from Indian River Coun-

ty. Melvin died of pneumonia brought on by the flu pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, in Camp Jackson (S.C.) July 13, 1918 after just 24 days of service.

His fate sadly was a common one at the time, as complications from the flu killed between 50 and 130 million from January 1918 to December 1920. It is estimated that 3 percent of the world’s population died from the pandemic.

Kemp was the youngest (18) and first to die of the six. He fell victim to the pandemic at Norfolk Naval Hospital Dec 14, 1917 after 32 days of service. The oldest of the bunch, the 38-year-old Law, passed away at the site of Bethel Creek House on the barrier island Aug. 17, 1918.

“War is no different than everyday life -- accidents happen,” Young said. “One of Law’s contemporaries was cleaning his pistol when it fired a round that killed him. His wife, who had moved into a tent on the barrier island at the time, stayed in Vero

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In the style of the châteaux built by French nobles during the reign of King Louis XIV, this 3,350 square-foot French Provincial home features four bedrooms, two and-a-half baths, a two-car garage, and pond- sized pool located at 4715 Pebble Bay Circle, Indian River Shores.

Consistent with the era, the home presents symmetrical lines with second floor windows that break through the cornice. It was constructed in 1974 to withstand the elements without compromising aristocratic design.

Palm trees grace the three-quarter-acre lot boasting 200 feet bordering a deep-water canal with intracoastal access, a private dock and hoist capable of accommodating a yacht.

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Plantation shutters allow light into the formal living room.

The family room emits warm ambiance with wood paneled walls, tile floor, and glimpses of the river through the bay windows. A red brick hearth fulfills the reverie of a crackling log fire.

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