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American tragedy Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons’ at Vero Beach Theatre Guild explores family and country in a time of war Page 16

Aloha to summer Leis were all the rage along with hula and fire dancers for an end of season soiree at the Vero Beach Hotel & Spa Page 14

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Blue Cypress Lake attracts eco-tourists, birders and ornithologists from around the world.

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Vero Council ready to start busy fall agenda Page 3

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The top issue is “the FPL thing,” he said and added he doubts much will come of an offer by the county to buy the city’s water and sewer utility for $28 million that also includes paying off the city’s $24 million debt on the system. A draft report for the city issued by GAI

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ship between taxes and services. “We cut our workforce through natural attrition. We’re efficient and we’re not hurting people in the process by pulling more money out of peoples’ pockets. Staff presented a balanced budget on the rollback rate and it’s crazy to put in a 38 percent millage rate increase.”

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a good deal to sell to FPL,” Kramer said. “I don’t want to risk the taxpayers of Vero Beach to a doubling of taxes to do it. I want the information out there and I want to put my faith in the constituency that when they’re provided with factual information, they’ll make a good decision. I didn’t run for office to force a decision down peoples’ throats.” Kramer said he also hopes the city’s tax rate remains low when the 2011-2012 fiscal budget is finalized and adopted later this month. “Our tax rate is extremely low,” he said. “People have adjusted their budgets to this economy and millage and every change has an equilibrium reaction. It’s not about taxes but about a value relation-

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Water, sewer, electricity and what to do about them will continue to consume Vero Beach officials, residents, self-professed pundits and just about anyone else with an opinion. Debate over the controversial and politically-tinged utility decisions; finalizing a tax rate and budget for the coming fiscal year plus more mundane, day-to-day matters are among a host of issues before city council for decision. It’s the kind of schedule that can turn local elected office into a full-time job. Just ask Mayor Jay Kramer, who met last week at City Hall with the Vero Beach Newsweekly. Seated behind a desk heaped with

stacks of consultant reports and support documentation regarding the proposed electric plant sale to Florida Power & Light, Kramer smiled somewhat wearily as he outlined his immediate objective and desire to make sure that residents have the facts they need to vote on a tentatively scheduled Nov. 8 referendum to seek support for leasing the power plant’s land to FPL. That referendum question is the first step to determine if city residents wish to proceed with a sale. If the referendum is defeated by voters, it would, in effect, make further negotiations to sell the power plant extremely difficult and uncertain. “I want to get the numbers out there to the residents to see if it’s

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Consultants of Orlando valued the water and sewer system at just over $100 million. “It’s a joke of a bid,” Kramer said of the county’s proposal. The city’s Utility Commission on Aug. 30 recommended to city council that “negotiations concerning the regionalization of the water and sewer (utility) should only be pursued if the county raises its offer to about $100 million dollars.” That same day, the city’s Finance Commission drafted a similar recommendation to council “that any conversation with the county on the sale of the water and sewer (utility) cease unless a written offer is received from the county which would result in a sale as a fair market value taking into account the GAI appraisal of $100 million.” FPL has offered to buy the city’s

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The Vero Beach City Council enters fall with a full agenda. electric plant for $100 million in a proposal which also includes assuming pension liability for current

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city electric employees as well as leasing the land where the plant is located. GAI Consultants – a state certified utility appraiser – estimated that the city’s power plant is worth nearly $200 million.

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However, in order to proceed with a sale to FPL, the city would have to settle nine contracts relating to the electric system including the city’s current agreement with the Florida Municipal Power Agency which is an alliance of 30 municipalities involved in electric power generating projects. Vero Beach and some other agency members also have an interest in the Curt Stanton Energy Center, Units 1 and 2 coal-fired power plants and the St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant. The city also has a wholesale power contract with the Orlando Utilities Commission. As an FMPA member, Vero Beach is entitled to receive power from those plants but is also required to pay for the costs of generating that power. If the city sells its electric plant while its contracts are still in effect, the city would

need to make arrangements for the assignment of those contracts and seek other interested and qualified parties to assume the obligations of the FMPA and OUC contracts. Resolving the existing contracts is expected to take time and money if a sale to FPL goes forward. Backing out of a contract the city signed with OUC in January 2010 could potentially result in damages of up to $26 million although final costs have not been determined.

Analyzing the numbers Based on his analysis of the documentation at hand to date, Kramer favors a partial sale of the electric plant to FPL in which FPL would assume service for Vero Beach electric utility customers located outside the municipal boundaries and the city would continue to serve customers inside the city with power from the Florida Municipal Power Agency. About 60 percent of the city’s electric customers are outside city limits. Providing accurate figures is the challenge since there are disparities in what the electric plant is allegedly worth versus the offer for it made by FPL. Additionally, CONTINUES ON PAGE 7

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The Vero Beach City Council this week approved lending its support to host a first round Fed Cup match next year between the United States and Belarus. The approval was contingent on local organizers securing enough private financial backing that the city would not be liable for a $100,000 commitment when the bid is made to the United States Tennis Association. The Fed Cup is a yearly international team tennis competition where players represent their home countries. The men’s equivalent to the Fed Cup is the Davis Cup. City Manager Jim O’Connor said the bid must be in the USTA’s office by Sept. 9. “We are working in the direction of getting the bid in with the presumption that there is no financial exposure to the city,” O’Connor said. “We are talking to some citizens who have done some fundraising and have already raised a considerable amount.” Leading the drive to bring the 2012 Fed Cup Group II first-round matches between the U.S. and Belarus is Randy Walker, who spent 12 years as a USTA marketing executive. Walker owns a home in The Moorings. The two-day event is slated for Feb.

4-5 and will be comprised of two singles matches Saturday and two singles matches and the doubles finale Sunday. The event is being planned at the Vero Beach Sports Village. If the bid is approved, the USTA would erect a temporary 4,000-seat stadium around a brand new hard court at the site. “The Sports Village is about the only place that has the facilities and parking for this,” O’Connor said. The USTA is expected to spend about $600,000 in building the stadium, court and other amenities. Walker has estimated that the event will generate an economic impact of $4 million. The U.S. Fed Cup team is captained by former WTA Tour player Mary Joe Fernandez and Serena Williams is expected to participate in the event. Belarus is led by Victoria Azarenka, currently ranked No. 4 in the world. The U.S., which has won the Fed Cup 17 times, lost to Germany 5-0 in an April playoff and was knocked out of the elite World Group for the first time in the nation-versus-nation tournament’s 48-year history. An unnamed city in Michigan is also considering making a bid, but as Mayor Jay Kramer noted, Vero Beach in February might seem the better option to tennis officials. The USTA is expected to make a decision by the middle of the month.

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Unofficial attendance swells to over 2,800 at Vero High BY MIKE BIELECKI FOR VERO BEACH NEWSWEEKLY

Whether caused by the sputtering economy, a search for more education options or family relocation, Vero Beach High School is now home to over 70 new students who were

not on the administration’s radar two weeks ago. “Right now we are probably 73 or 74 kids over our projection,” Vero Beach High School Assistant Principal Anne Bieber said. “We have not completed our oﬃcial count. We

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may still get some kids after Labor Day who come from up north and we also have kids who maybe have transferred, but haven’t told us.” Enrollment at Vero Beach High School hovered just below 2,700 over the past few school years, and it was already an 8A school—Florida’s largest class size classiﬁcation. To compare locally, Sebastian River High School’s enrollment has been about 2,000 the last three years.

The new students aren’t just transferring from local schools; they are coming from all over the country. In spite of Indian River County’s 15 percent unemployment rate, families are still moving to Vero Beach. “I can tell you that this particular year we have had some students moving from random places like New York, Vermont, Maryland and Iowa,” Bieber said. “I don’t know if these families are coming to live with other

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Proposed Nov. 8 Referendum Question: Calls for a referendum to be held at the Nov. 8, 2011 municipal election to present a ballot question to the electors of the City of Vero Beach pursuant to the city’s charter “on whether or not such electors approve of the lease of the City of Vero Beach Power Plant site for the purpose of selling the city electric facility if the city council finds that such a sale is beneficial to the citizens of Vero Beach.”

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a tour. If they are new to Vero Beach, we want them to know that this is a welcome community and a friendly place to be. We let them know they have support here as they make the transition to us. Learning how to navigate around such a big school has been the biggest adjustment for them.” The school district, which has its class sizes mandated by the state, ultimately will help Vero Beach High School keep up with enrollment demands. “The school district always makes decisions after final counts are done (this year it is to be completed Sept. 8), whether they add a teacher or have a teacher who wants to give up their planning period,” Bieber said. “They are paid the percentage of giving up their planning period and teaching a class that period instead. They plan outside the classroom on their own. Many teachers ask to do that. So, that’s really how we can accommodate the ﬂuctuation of students.”

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families, if they have found employment here or diﬀerent things like that.” Indeed, the majority of Vero Beach High School’s new students have come from out-of-state and private schools. Making the adjustment to a new school isn’t always easy for a teenager. It is the job of people like Vero Beach High School guidance counselor Jessica Wood to help with the transition. “A lot of the students I’ve seen coming from out-of-state are from cities as big as our school,” Wood said. “And there are kids from private schools who are not used to the sheer volume. Some of those kids are used to a high school with 30 students. We’re the size of a small college campus. “I guess our biggest challenge is making sure new students feel welcome here and whenever we get a new student, they get paired up with one of our oﬃce aides to be taken on

A partial sale proposal has not found favor with other council members and FPL has not indicated any interest in such a deal. “I want to present the numbers truthfully and give them (residents) the facts – kind of like Sgt. Joe Friday,” Kramer said with a chuckle in reference to the terse character of the 1950s TV show Dragnet.

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Although not opposed to a sale if the final figures prove it would be beneficial, Kramer said there are “a lot of issues to deal with to reach a win-win situation” and noted that residents have some definite opinions about the issue. “What I’m hearing is they want FPL rates but they don’t want taxes to go up,” he said. “Yet $5.7 million comes in (to the general fund) annually from the plant. Do you want to save $14 on your power bill and pay $600 more in taxes? “Right now there is a onetrack mindset – just sell to FPL,” Kramer said. “Those for the sale are building momentum so that the momentum will over-ride the facts. The goal is to build the momentum so when those facts come out, it doesn’t matter what they are,” Kramer said.

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there is on-going debate regarding the financial impact the sale would have on the city’s general fund budget which currently receives about $5.7 million annually from electric plant revenue (Enterprise Fund) transfers. Separating hard facts from opinion and conjecture is a challenge, Kramer said, since the issue is riddled with strong feelings on all sides. Even the FMEA trade association – to which the city belongs at an annual cost of $35,000 – has taken a position on the issue, claiming that FPL’s $100 million offer to buy the city plant is a poor one and also alleges that the city would experience less reliable electric service and slower responses to storm-related outages. Kramer praised recently hired

city Manager Jim O’Connor for keeping a steady hand on the proceedings while assessing the issue. “Being an experienced manager, he knows how councils work and he gets things done,” Kramer said. “He’s big on delegating and maximizing productivity and he has taken council’s direction that this (a utility sale) is where council wants to go and he gets us good, credible and factual numbers.”

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LOCAL NEWS DIGEST FPL vote placed on November ballot VERO BEACH — The City Council voted this week to place on the November ballot a referendum allowing voters to state their preference if Vero Beach should sell the electric utility to Florida Power and Light. The referendum question approved by the City Council and to be placed on the Nov. 8 ballot will ask voters if they agree with leasing the land the power plant sits on in connection with the possible sale of the electric system if the City Council finds such a sale is beneficial to the city. Mayor Jay Kramer was the lone vote against putting the referendum on the November ballot. He said his preliminary accounting showed the city’s tax rate might have to rise by more than 90 percent if the sale went through. His preference is to wait until more data is available to evaluate the impact of a sale on the city’s finances. Councilman Craig Fletcher said if the referendum issue fails then there is no point in expending money toward the possible sale. If the city waits and holds the referendum later and the issue fails, the city would have spent a lot of unnecessary money on attorneys and other experts. It also would be cheaper for the city to have the question placed on the November ballot than as part of a separate referendum on its own. The electric system transfers about $5.7 million a year into the city’s general fund.

FPL could set electric sale price by October VERO BEACH — Florida Power & Light Inc. is hoping to have a proposed price for the city’s electric system ready by the end of October, though actually concluding a deal could take years to accomplish There are nine diﬀerent contracts

relating to the city’s electric system that still have to be resolved, with the most significant relating to the city’s wholesale power contracts with Orlando Utilities Commission and the Florida Municipal Power Agency. Vero Utilities Commission Chairman Herb Whittall thinks it could take a year or two or perhaps longer to come to a final resolution. The cost of doing the transaction could ultimately cost about $6.4 million, according to Gerald Hartman, of GAI Consultants Inc. The final version of the appraisal is expected to be completed by Sept. 20. The report values the city’s system at $191.3 million or $184.9 million when transactional costs are deducted. In order to conclude any deal with FPL, the city would have to come to an agreement in regard to its wholesale power contracts. In its report, GAI estimated the city might have to pay damages of $20 million to $26 million if it terminates its agreement with OUC. City Manager Jim O’Connor, however, said the actual numbers still have to be determined. He said Vero Beach representatives plan to meet with OUC around the middle of September.

County disputes city’s water, sewer appraisal INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — County oﬃcials say the $100 million water and sewer appraisal price is far too high and would make it impossible for a Indian River to move forward with a possible purchase for the system. And some Vero Beach City Council members raised their own concerns about the appraisal. A draft report prepared by GAI Consultants places the value of the city’s system at $100.9 million, or $105.9 million before adjustments for market conditions and transactional costs are made. “An asset is worth what someone will pay for it,” said county Budget

Director Jason Brown. “Remember we would still need $28 million to connect the utilities and accomplish the removal of the waste water plant from the lagoon. When we plug in that number (financing $128 million), the only way we could fund it would be through a significant rate increase to our current customers and to our new city customers. That doesn’t make sense, why would we do that? “So it is not worth $100 million to the county and I don’t see anyone else out there willing to pay that.” At the city council this week, council members Pilar Turner and Tracy Carroll both said they had questions about the appraisal that would likely take hours to go through. The Council as a whole decided to hold a special meeting just to discuss the water and sewer and the electric utility appraisals. GAI Consultants wrote both those reports. The county had anticipated a high appraisal and has already voted to spend up to $50,000 to have attorney Robert Nabors with Nabors, Giblin & Nickerson of Tallahassee and Raftelis Financial Consultants Inc., which has an office in Orlando, do a separate evaluation. “The (county) staff believes (GAI Consultants) will come up with the highest possible valuation it can,” County Attorney Alan Polackwich said at the time. Brown said GAI did provide the ways of valuing the water sewer system -- the cost approach, the income approach and the comparable sales approach -- but in each instance made assumptions and that would provide the highest return. “Their cost approach was one that would generate the highest number possible the replacement cost, minus depreciation,” Brown said. “A more appropriate way to value it might be to depreciate the value of the assets you have based on what the price was when you constructed them.” Brown noted other issues with the

report such as placing a value on Indian River Shores assets that the county contends do not belong to the city and a failure to include debt service when considering evaluating the system by the income method.

Vista Meadows golf course set for November opening INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — The Vista Meadows golf course is expected to reopen in early November as the American Golf Club Vero Beach according to new owner John Hendricks. The once-popular Vista Meadows 27-hole golf course lies oﬀ U.S. 1, south of Vero Beach, where it is shared by residents in the 1,512-unit Vista Royale and 644-unit Vista Gardens condominium communities. Hendricks, manager of Jupiterbased Golf Operators Link of Florida LLC, said he hopes to open the 18hole section in Vista Royale about Nov. 1, following an Oct. 22 public reception. American Golf Club bought Vista Gardens’ nine holes on the north end of the property from its prior owner, Vista Golf LLC of Vero Beach, for $200,000, county records show. Hendricks is leasing the Vista Royale section from Vista Golf. Plans include starting the 18-hole leased section back into play before he opens the nine holes American Golf Club bought. “I’m starting with the middle nine and the southern nine because they’re on the same irrigation system,” he said. “If I tried to open the northern and middle nines, I’d have to work with two diﬀerent irrigation systems.”

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INDIAN RIVER COUNTY -- In a 5-0 vote, the Indian River County School Board this week passed a new property tax rate of $8.24 per $1,000 of assessed property value, which would save the average homeowner about $105.91 over last year’s tax bill. Under the new tax rate, which is about a penny lower than last year’s rate, a homeowner with a $187,280 home and a $25,000 homestead exemption would pay about $1,337 in school taxes. Last year, that home would have had an assessed value of $200,000 and would have paid about

VERO BEACH — Already facing a shrinking budget year in 2012, the city is looking at possibly tens of thousands of dollars in ﬁnes after a Federal Aviation Administration inspection. The audit raised concerns about whether the city is in compliance in how its land is being used. The report prepared by FAA Airports Program Manager William C. Garrison, found that the city was using portions of airport property for non-aeronautical use. The city’s electric and water and sewer department both have operations on the airport property. The use of airport land for nonaeronautical purposes is not prohibited, but users of the land are supposed to pay fair market value for the lease of the property. Garrison’s report said a few of the city’s business relationships did not appear to be included in any land use agreement. In addition, the city did not appear to receiving any compensation for these uses. Inspectors also looked at some issues raised in an anonymous letter sent to the FAA that alleged improper charges are being imposed on the airport by the city. There was also a question of whether the airport was being adequately compensated for some of the underground facilities the water department has on airport land. The report also said the airport needs to be compensated for water taken from airport land if it is not already. FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said such compensation would be more in the range of thousands or

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$1,443 on the school portion of its tax bill, district records show. County property records show the county as a whole saw assessed home values fall by about 6.4 percent. The new rate is 7.28 percent lower than the rollback rate of $8.51. The rollback rate is what the district would have to charge to get the same amount of money as last year without a drop in services. Also, the board unanimously approved the district’s $307 million budget for the 2011-2012 school year. The budget includes 70 staﬀ reductions, including no assistant principals for the magnet schools and 25 fewer aides for exceptional student education than in previous years. Those positions saved the district about $2.8 million. The cuts in ESE education come as the district is seeing fewer students needing the services. Budget records show ESE student enrollment fell from about 3,300 last year to a projected 3,044 this year.

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INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — Florida Monthly magazine’s has awarded Vero Beach the “Friendliest Small Town” as part of its annual “Best of Florida 2011” contest. Overall, 14 ﬁrst-, second- and third-place awards were received by businesses and attractions in Indian River County. Some of those receiving accolades include McKee Botanical Garden, the Environmental Learning Center, the Vero Beach High School Athletics Program, the Vero Beach Book Center, Deep Six Watersports, the Vero Beach Museum of Art and the Sebastian Inlet State Park. It was the 16th year for the magazine’s competition, which asks more than 115,000 print subscribers to nominate their favorites across 139 diﬀerent categories. People write in their suggestion for their choice in each category and then submit their selection via e-mail or snail mail to publisher Doug Cifers. The magazine, which is based in Altamonte Springs, collates the results and announced the winners in its September edition.

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possibly tens of thousands of dollars. City Manager Jim O’Connor said he did not identify any significant financial impact in his review of the report. The city has asked for 90 days to respond to the report’s finding.

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The September edition of Florida Monthly magazine is available for purchase through the magazine’s website at www.ﬂoridamonthly.com. For a complete list of winners, go to http://ﬂoridamagazine.com/bestof2011.html.

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ponents and other items on the local metal recycling market. Sheriﬀ Deryl Loar called for the added rules, such as notiﬁcation of such metals purchases within 24 hours, saying the county had about 200 stolen-property transactions in the past 90 days. Some recyclers objected to a request that would require them to mail checks to their vendors’ street addresses. Doing so, they said, would create a bookkeeping nightmare. They did favor other requirements, such as making would-be vendors provide proof they own the metals they are trying to sell. Assistant County Attorney Brooke Odom is expected to present a revised proposal, without the checkmailing requirement, for formal public hearing in early October.

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Counting our blessings, respecting our differences The City of Vero Beach was recently honored by Florida Monthly Magazine as Florida’s “Friendliest Small Town.” While this award may be as much as anything a testimony to our local Chamber’s marketing prowess, it is an accolade worth celebrating. For one thing, there is something to be said for having a local Chamber of Commerce as effective as ours has been at promoting tourism. And secondly, Vero Beach is, in fact, a beautiful, friendly community. Sure, the local political debate can become a bit rough at times. City Council meetings may last most of a day, with the weightiest matters on the agenda put off for another time, not for lack of public input, but because the dinner bell was ringing. Civic activists with angular personalities may regularly find their way to the podium from which public input is not just tolerated, but welcomed almost to a fault. Tempers may flare from time to time, even in this friendly, quiet little city by the sea. Perhaps the fever of the debate is reflective of how much people care about preserving the quality of life that makes Vero Beach a gem of a city. While we may want for less expen-

sive electricity to power our air conditioners, flat screen televisions, margarita blenders and golf cart chargers, at least our city is electrified. And while many may wonder about the city’s ability to offer stable water and sewer rates in the years ahead, at least no one is raising immediate concerns about the quantity or the safety of our water supply. Let’s be honest with ourselves: the issues currently under debate locally are what you might term

“white collar problems.” It has been suggested that cavemen had two choices, fight for flight. We moderns have three options, fight, flight or complain. For all the criticism being leveled at local government in general, and elected officials specifically, it is obvious how complaining has become for many a “default posture.” If one is focused on the public discussion around the more contentious issues currently being worked out through

the political process, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that the swirl of contentiousness around city hall is in the larger scheme of things a minor dust storm. Counting our blessings, respecting our diﬀerences, avoiding the trap of sinking into complaint mode, while remaining ever-mindful of the need to create more economic opportunity for the unemployed and underemployed -- perhaps these are our biggest challenges.

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Art club will maintain relationship with Museum To the editor: Recently I was asked if I thought the Vero Beach Museum of Art had outgrown the Vero Beach Art Club. No. The City of Vero Beach and the original crafters of the 1985 Agreement between the VBMA and the VBAC wanted us to work together for the benefit of all of the citizens of Vero Beach and therefore the City agreed to a 50 year lease at $1 per year. The notion that the Art Club has been getting a free ride for the ﬁrst 26

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years of the 50 year co-op agreement is nonsense. In 2011 the Museum assessed the Art Club $7,700 for the use of a small office space, plus approximately $3,000 in other Museum usage related fees. In addition, The Art Club and its members donated hundreds of hours of volunteer time, support to fundraisers, and financial support to their library and summer art camp. The Art Club maintains its commitment to this community, the whole community, to offer services at the lowest possible cost. It awards

scholarships to graduating seniors (ﬁve $2,000 scholarships in 2011). It provides funding for public school art teachers. It also organizes art venues that beneﬁt local artists, the viewing public, and the local economy. In reality, the Art Club has grown considerably in its outreach and will continue to do so, in the Museum, and with the Museum, for at least the remaining 24 years on our agreement.

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There have been discussions in various media on how to use the land under the City of Vero Beach Electric Power Plant after Florida Power and Light tears it down. Of course this assumes that the negotiations between FP&L and the City of Vero Beach reach a conclusion that ends up with the sale of the electric system.

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One use that has been discussed is the building of a Convention Center and Hotel. I happen to work part time as a consultant for an association (700 member companies) that has two conventions a year. At these conventions we only have between 200 and 300 participants. I am involved in the planning of where to hold those conventions. The ﬁrst

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criterion is transportation or how close is the convention location to a large airport. If the location is over a half-hour drive from a major airport, it is not even considered. Since Orlando and West Palm Beach airports are over one hour from here, Vero Beach would never be considered. I also get invited to a lot of conventions of other organizations of which I am a member and go to several committee meetings each year. All those organizations seem to follow the same criteria. As for hotels, a hotel on the ocean is a big draw. A hotel on the brown Indian River Lagoon is not a draw, especially if it is next to a busy bridge and intersection. So I do not see that a convention center or hotel would be at all viable as a going concern on the power plant land. A nice park with a launch-

ing ramp would be a much better use for that land. Herb Whittall Herb Whittall is Vero Beach Utilities Commission Chairman

Fact Check The island weekly claimed recently that the number of visitors to its sister web site, VeroNews.com, “has been growing rapidly while TCPalm.com has been struggling.” This assertion is simply not true. In fact, the number of visitors to Scripps Treasure Coast Newspaper’s online news source is increasing steadily, and is up 13 percent in just the last ﬁve months. The island weekly provided no data to support its claim that its web site, which has just one full-time employee covering the county, is growing rapidly.

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rim) and days of Observance (the 9th of Av or Holocaust Memorial Day) that allow our community to reﬂect and wrestle with the experience. The goal of these days is to understand vulnerability, celebrate survival and consider what we have do/learn from the experience to ensure we are not in the position in the future. These days and rituals of memory oﬀer us ways that we can reinvest the experience of survival to make our world even stronger, healthier, more caring and careful in the future. As we observe this yahrzeit of September 11th let us do these acts of honoring and remembering in ways that create communities, countries and a world of justice, righteousness and peace. 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.

and rescuers and those that they left behind. On any Yahrzeit, the anniversary of death, Jewish tradition instructs us to say prayers and do rituals of memory (visit cemetery, light memorial candle). Our ancestors realized that the ultimate victory to terrorists is if victims disappear from memory. We have to honor those who died or were injured. In their name, we have to ﬁnd ways to bring positive values into our world. Even as we remember, we transform/enhance these prayers and rituals into acts of tikkun olam – actions that repair our world and make it a place of wholeness, holiness and peace. The survivors: all of us who witnessed September 11th and its aftermath, we survived. The United States of America survived. We are changed, but we are still here. The Jewish people have faced death and destruction time and again. As a result we have multiple holidays (Chanukah and Pu-

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way. We don’t defeat this kind of evil or violence by adopting it, but we cannot just expect it to go away. On this anniversary we can use the act of blotting out the name of the perpetrators RABBI as a way of releasing MICHAEL BIRNHOLZ our anger, frustration and loss and then transform that energy into something positive. We have to actively stand up to and against the Amaleks in our world. This is a reminder to make sure that we are not being a bystander but an up-stander. We cannot hide or ignore or pray that evil, hatred and violence will go away. Instead we have to ﬁnd ways, with positive values and communal strength that we stand up for justice and righteousness. Those killed and injured: victims

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During this week, we will be observing the tenth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attack. There are pillars of this yahrzeit/anniversary that we must build this observance around. Perpetrators: Following his death I started calling Osama bin Laden - Osama ben Amalek. This is a reference to the villain of Exodus and Deuteronomy who attacked the weak and weary among the People of Israel. In Deuteronomy (25:17-19) we are commanded to never forget to blot out his name. This concept of blot out the memory means that we don’t ignore or forgive but that we actively acknowledge the evil that Amalek brought into the world and seek to remove it. Throughout history we have encountered other “Amaleks” like Hitler and Haman (the Book of Esther). We respond to them in the same

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Long known as a leader in research and technology education, Florida Institute of Technology alumni gathered in Vero Beach last week to hear about the school’s newest endeavor – football. Approximately 75 past alumni greeted Florida Institute of Technology President Anthony Catanese and the school’s ﬁrst football coach, Steve Englehart, at a plush cocktail reception at the Costa d’Este Beach Resort’s Crystal Room. Englehart’s new team will be named the Panthers. “I’m very excited to have this opportunity, and am ready to go.” said Englehart who is the former head football coach at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind. “We are ecstatic to join the Gulf South Conference as a footballonly member,” President Catanese said. “Our university is excited about bringing NCAA Division II football to the Melbourne community.” Florida Tech was founded in 1958 to provide advanced technological education to the skilled professionals at the space program which became the Kennedy Space Center. It is now considered one of the nation’s best universities for education in economics, the sciences and technology. Guests dined on a full array of hors d’oeuvres as they gathered to hear the latest news from the school and catch up on the careers and direction of their current lives. Alumni seemed excited to meet the new coach and be a part of the initiative to compete with the surrounding schools in the future. The school is targeting ﬁelding a team for the 2013 season. Under the management of Catanese since 2002, the school has made a social impact as well as in technology. Catanese and his faculty have

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rooms and laboratory facilities that are among the best in the nation.” According to Bino Campanini the school’s Assistant VP for Alumni Affairs, Florida Tech has approximately 50,000 alumni and was one of the top 100 universities in the nation. “F.I.T. is in the midst of tremendous growth and we see great potential for the future with Vero Beach as an integral part of our success,” Campanini said.

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reached out to the community and the world with support for causes such as Autism and Haitian Earthquake Relief to teach their students that knowledge should be balanced with compassion. Dr. Catanese says he “is focused on providing high technology with a human touch.” “Students, graduate and undergraduate alike, work side by side with faculty on funded research in class-

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Vero Beach Hotel & Spa hosts end of summer luau

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The crowd came dressed for the occasion in tropical attire to enjoy the ocean breezes & luau atmosphere

The Hawaiian buffet included delicious entrees of pulled pork, fish with mango salsa and roasted chicken

With cooler than usual ocean breezes and a clear sky, the Vero Beach Hotel & Spa patio was packed last Saturday with families, partying singles and couples looking for a romantic night out. Guests got into the Hawaiian groove as they were greeted at the door with flower leis by the friendly staff for the end of summer luau. The Cobalt Room catered the event with entrees of roasted chicken, tropical fish with fruit salsa and Hawaiian pulled pork. The buffet was elegant and delicious, but the crowd could not get enough of an interesting dessert they made called a Pistachio Crème filled Macaroon Cookie. Attendees came dressed for a Labor Day weekend tropical outing and danced to the musical entertainment of Jonathan Panks under the stars. Because of nesting sea turtles, lighting was at a mandatory minimum which made it a more intimate event as night came. Vero Beach’s new City Manager Jim O’Connor enjoyed attending the luau with his wife Sherry and said he has tried to get to all the recent events and the community reception has been wonderful. O’Connor said he felt it was important to attend the activities as part of his job to understand the make-up of the city and its people. Saturday evening’s event was a wonderful mix of mainland and barrier island residents with many national and international hotel guests who all seemed to enjoy the party. Traditional Hawaiian dancers from Oahu entertained everyone with hula dancing and skilled performances by a fire dancer who had the audience awed. One hula dancer taught a few guests some simple moves and then had them show it off to the crowd. When the fire dancer took the floor, the eyes of the children became very wide. His moves were at times dangerous and pretty funny too. Balancing the lit torches and bringing flames to his tongue brought a round of applause. What really wowed the crowd was when the dancer offered to bring the flame to one guest’s mouth and he accepted. Phil Weiler, the unsuspecting participant, said it had a little heat but no residual feeling or taste while everyone applauded loudly for his bravado at the close of the show.

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Theatre Guild packs a wallop with‘All My Sons’

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Prepare to log off the computer, turn off the television and even close that book. The Vero Beach Theatre Guild’s all-American season, in honor of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, kicks off with a production of “All My Sons” by

Arthur Miller. The performance is so compelling, well-acted and thoughtprovoking, it simply must be seen. In the capable hands of veteran director, George Carabin, this American tragedy will resonate with audiences of all ages. As relevant today as it was when it debuted on Broadway in 1947, Miller’s Tony-Award win-

ning masterpiece deals with corruption during war, family versus country, and the complex layers of truth and lies that make up our lives. The play opens up on a Sunday afternoon in 1946, anywhere in America. Joe Keller (James Davis), the family patriarch, reads the paper in the back yard, presumably after church

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Kate Keller (Jo Giesecke) and her husband, Joe Keller (James Davis), discuss their son’s death.

since he’s wearing a suit. The idyllic landscape is replete with picket fence, novel appliances and patriotic reverie. At first glance, the Keller family personifies all that is wholesome and right with the world. As the story unfolds, however, we learn Keller’s elder son disappeared in the war when his plane crashed. Now, his fiancée, Ann Deever (Shelley Adelle), wants to marry the younger son, Chris (Ben Earman), but Kate Keller (Jo Giesecke) refuses to accept that her son is dead and insists that everyone else maintain the façade as well. As we delve deeper, it turns out Keller was exonerated for shipping faulty airplane parts to the U.S. military, resulting in the death of 21 pilots. His business partner, Ann’s father, took the rap for Keller and has been in prison for several years. While friendly on the outside, many of the neighbors accuse Keller of murder behind his back. Inspired by a true story in an Ohio newspaper, “All My Sons” took five years to compose and could have been Miller’s last play. Now considered one of the greatest American playwrights, married for a spell to Marilyn Monroe, Miller was a graduate of the University of Michigan, where he studied journalism and received the prestigious Hopwood Award for a play he had written in four days. But after penning a series of commercial flops, Miller said that if “All My Sons” were not successful, he would find a new line of work. Lucky for us, this play is a work of art. And fortunately, there are local artists to make the script sing. Carabin, who was a professional stage and movie actor and director in his homeland of Romania before being exiled in 1977, has frequently used Miller’s plays to teach the empathetic process of acting. With 11 Guild productions to his credit, Carabin forms and molds talent by demanding his actors think. CONTINUES ON PAGE 17

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“The actor has to understand his instrument,” says Carabin of the voice and movement aspects of acting. “This is a psychological process that starts in the mind.” While the Guild is often known for staging bedroom farces and jovial musicals, actor Larry Strauss (he plays Dr. Jim Bayliss in the production) and his wife, Carole Strauss, assistant director and producer of “All My Sons,” helped the theater take another direction by ushering Miller’s play onto the stage. There are no heroes in this drama; only victims. As one of the leads, Davis, who has previously appeared in secondary roles on the Guild’s stage and is a Vero Beach High School graduate, is sublime as Keller, gradually revealing an emotional depth not evident in the opening scenes. “Everyone’s getting so educated in this country, there won’t be anyone to take out the garbage,” says Keller; a poignant remark that illustrates a man clinging to the past, afraid to face the future. Giesecke, a registrar at St. Edward’s, has been cast in 25 Guild productions over the years. Her character, Kate, is a grief-stricken mother who avoids experiencing loss by creating a series of delusions to protect herself and her family. In a moment of clarity, she cries out, “Because if he’s not coming home, I’ll kill myself!” And later, “That’s why there’s a God, so certain things can never happen.” A local yoga teacher and owner of Yoga Pagoda, Adelle, spent 15 years acting in New York City and, prior to that, in her hometown in Texas. She perfectly captures the struggle for women to gain independence. “I’m playing my mother in a way,” she says before going on stage. “I’m experiencing what women of the 1950s went through.” The play runs from Sept. 15 to 25. Tickets are $20 and $22 (students under 18 are half price), available at the box oﬃce or online at www. verobeachtheatreguild.com.

Photo Club educates members beyond techniques BY CHRISTINA TASCON FOR VERO BEACH NEWSWEEKLY

The Indian River Photo Club President George Bollis says photography is more than a mere pastime for him and the over 200 members of his organization. “It is a stimulating hobby, but it is addicting,” he said. What he loves about it is “the measurable development of my skills with photographs, but also the knowledge that I learn about the things I photograph.” Members meet on the fourth Thursday of the month at the Vero Beach Community Center and exchange ideas, talk about their last

photo seminar or just show oﬀ the last perfect shot they captured. Local photography shoots are held throughout the year and the photographers display the techniques they learned at monthly contests. Photographs ar judged and earn awards in three categories, of two classes, A for professionals and B for novice photographers. With the invention of the digital camera, photography has grown as ﬁlm and development costs have mostly been eliminated. Even the most amateur photographer can afford to take multiple shots and come out with something they feel proud

to post on sharing sites. With that has come a renewed interest in the art of photography and the Club is a perfect place for the up and coming photographers to learn from more professional artists or to be encouraged in their own work. The theme for August’s meeting, held at the Vero Beach Community Center, was Motion. Key winners are as follows: Class A (Professional) Color: 1st - Richard Thomson; 2nd - Christine Martire; 3rd - Keith Wright-Osment. Monochrome: 1st - Earl Evans;

2nd - Tom Smoyer; 3rd - Larry Renert. Special Techniques: 1st - Billy Ocker; 2nd - Christine Martire; - 3rd Tom Smoyer. CLASS B: (Amateur) Color: 1st - Arlene Willnow; 2nd Susan Stenke; 3rd - Donald Schuster. Monochrome: 1st - Darlene Miller; 2nd - Shelley Stang; 3rd - Hazel Lacks. Special Techniques: 1st - Shelley Stang; 2nd - Arlene Willnow If you would like to join or learn more, go to www.irphotoclub.org.

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a Culture of Safety to Prevent Bullying, Harassment and Bias.” IRSC Mueller Center lecture from 7:30 am-1 pm. $50, contact Cynthia. Stalheber@willis.com. Sept 24: National Estuaries Day, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, 10 am-3 pm, Explore shoreline live plant & animal activity stations; kids’ arts & crafts, games, bounce house & slide – food & drink concessions – Take an Eco Boat Tour of the IRL ($10 per person), 772-242-2293. Sept 24-30: Registration for “Scarecrows in the Garden at McKee Botanical Gardens,” 10 am-4 pm, Monday - Friday. Free entry cost for non-profit or a family. $25 for business organizations. 772794-0601. For registration forms and rules go to www.mckeegarden. org.

978-5553, vnatc.com. Sept 15-25: “All My Sons,” a classic drama by Arthur Miller, Vero Beach Theatre Guild at 2, 7 and 8 p.m. Tickets are $20-$22 (18 and under are half-price), 2020 San Juan Ave., 772-562-8300 or verobeachtheatreguild.com. Sept 16: Lifestyle & Media Auction: Springhill Suites Marriott, 5115 Indian River Blvd., Opportunity to bid for advertising & publicity at auction. Proceeds go to the Sebastian River Chamber of Commerce. $10 members - $20 nonmembers includes hors d’oeuvres. 772-589-5969. Sept 20: “Dining with Democrats,” Potluck dinner at the River House, 350 Acacia Lane, 6:30 pm, 772-231-3303. Sept 23: Treasure Coast Human Resources Association, “Creating

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Sept 28: Florida’s Research Entrepreneur’s Summit with Congressman Bill Posey at Indian River State College, 6155 College Lane, 8 am. Register at irscbiz.com. Oct 1: Special Olympics State Aquatic Championship held at North Aquatic Center, 9450 95th St., Sebastian. Saturday, 9 am-4:30 pm; Sunday, 8:30 am-1 pm. Food vendor on-site, picnic baskets okay but no alcohol allowed. Indian River County Recreation Department is now recruiting volunteers to help at event. 772-226-1732. Oct 8: Family Jamboree at the Indian River County Fairgrounds with games, shows, music, contests, food, crafts and so much more. Vendors may call 772-5630430. Oct 10: Senior Activities Fair, 2-4 pm at the Schumann Hall Senior Center, 686 14th St., 30+ vendor tables and instructors. Call 772469-2062, kdelong@sramail.org. Oct 16: Treasure Coast Bridal Expo & Fashion Show to benefit the Heritage Center. Expo at Heritage Center at 2140 14th Ave. and Fashion Show across the street at Executive Courthouse Center, $8 admission. 1-4 pm, 772-321-6680. Oct 22: Frightening Formals on 14th - Heritage Center Fundraiser. A Halloween dance party with the theme of dressing up in your most outlandish formal outfit with door prizes, dancing and light snacks. $25, 7:30-11:30 pm. Cash bar. Reservations, 772-770-6623. Heritage Center, 2140 14th Ave. www.veroheritage.org.

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A new coach, new offense and new starting quarterback brought a new passing record and ignited high expectations for the Vero Beach High School football season. Coach Lenny Jankowski was all smiles after beating Port St. Lucie 3316 last week. His quarterback, senior Nick Madden, threw for a school-record 346 yards and three touchdowns of over 50 yards in his first start at his new high school (he transferred from John Carroll). Madden topped the 342-yard passing performance of Jeff Searcy in 1997. Jankowski pointed to the work in the trenches for setting up the downfield fireworks. “We like to talk about the fancy stuff—about the guys who score touchdowns—but the offensive line is the key to it,” Jankowski said. “All of our success starts up front with protecting the quarterback.” This was supposed to be a rebuilding year for the Indians as Jankowski took over for Gary Coggin and instituted a spread offense passing attack in favor of the running game favored by the former coach. Back in January Vero Beach was still looking for a head coach to replace Coggin. When interviews took place for the vacant head coaching football job, candidates were asked if they were going to run a spread offense by the hiring committee. Five years of watching a run-heavy Wing-T offense had started to turn off even the most rabid Fighting Indian fans, who only got to see their team pass more than ten times in a game if they happened to be losing. Coggin’s teams had gone 35-20 since switching back from a spread offense in 2006, and for most programs that would be successful. For Vero Beach it was not. In short, the 12th Man — the Vero Beach fans

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The Vero Beach offense got off to a fast start last week against Port St. Lucie. — demanded more. The benchmark for the program remains when Billy Livings led the Fighting Indians to their only state title in 1981. As recently as 2002, the Fighting Indians were a nationally-ranked team. They were Florida’s winningest football program in the 1990’s, with a 96-26 record and state semi-ﬁnal appearances in ’91, ’93, ’94, and ’98. Even the teams of 2002 and 2003 reached the quarter-ﬁnals, sporting records of 12-1 and 9-4 respectively. Vero Beach lost both of its quarterbacks to graduation last year, gained Madden via transfer, and Jankowski nabbed the two most athletic guards—Charlie Miller and Jeremy Bell—from the basketball team to play outside receiver. The team returned receiver Rakeem Marcelle and running back Nate Pryor, and

they became slot receivers in the new spread oﬀense. “Nick is just a student of the game who lives, eats, and breathes football,” Jankowski said. “He continues to get better by basically putting in coaches’ hours instead of players’ hours, in terms of studying and working.

Nick’s presence on the field and his leadership abilities on the field are starting to come out — he’s a very calm, cool customer. “We’re also very fortunate to have offensive coordinator Mike Watkins and quarterbacks coach Joe Marx. We’ve got a lot of eyes on our quarterbacks.” “What we require the quarterbacks in practice is very detail oriented. It’s not about the plays, it is about the detail involved.” Jankowski said slot receivers Marcelle and Pryor, “are talented, athletic guys who are want-to-please kind of players from a coaching standpoint.” At outside receiver, Bell and Miller have proven to be very coachable as they transition from basketball to football. “Charlie and Jeremy haven’t played before, so they don’t have any bad habits,” Jankowski said. “When you are emphasizing details, things a 17or 18-year-old kid who has played for years may not find important, a guy who has never played before will really rely on the finest details. They are both so coachable.” Transitioning a run-heavy team into a passing team has been smooth sailing for Jankowski and his coaching staff through the first game of the year. After a record-setting debut, the offense is everything Vero Beach wanted it to be.

\KJ< YNNH Who: Vero Beach High School (1-0) vs Martin County High School (1-0) Where: The Citrus Bowl, Vero Beach Time: 7:30 What you should know: Vero Beach and Martin County beat their very similar, inferior, run-heavy opponents in their opening games against Port St. Lucie and South Fork respectively. Vero is changing to a 5-2 defense from their standard 4-3 alignment in an attempt to strengthen their run defense against Martin County, which averaged just shy of 7 yards-per-carry last week. Martin County will have to stop Vero Beach quarterback Nick Madden, who is coming oﬀ a record-breaking 346yard performance last week, and his quartet of Division-I caliber receivers, Charlie Moore, Rakeem Marcelle, Jeremy Bell and Nate Pryor.

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urged Proctor to try out for Dave Para, the head coach of the ultraselect 16-and-under All American Prospect baseball team. This ultra-select summer league team fields players from Jupiter, Venice, Miami and Vero Beach counts several Division-I players and former Major League Baseball first-round-picks as alumni. Proctor improved as he transitioned from spring into summer, working his fast ball up from 82 to 87 miles per hour in a matter of just a couple of months. He also had a repertoire of four pitches— four-seam fastball, slider, curve and change-up—he could throw with confidence and mix up for maximum effectiveness. A visit from a local pitching phenom before baseball season helped Proctor with one of his key pitches. “Alex Cobb came early this spring and threw in the bullpen at St. Ed’s,” Proctor said of the Tampa Bay Rays starting pitcher and Vero Beach High School graduate. “His curveball was crazy, and I kind of emulated his grip.” Brown says Proctor has just scratched the surface of how good he will be by the time he’s ready to graduate. In fact, he reminds him of another local Proctor at a similar age—Stuart’s Scott Proctor of the Atlanta Braves. “That’s who he reminds me of in terms of body type and arm slot delivery,” Brown said. “By the time Anderson graduates, he’ll be throwing 93 to 94 mph.” University of Central Florida, Vanderbilt, and University of Texas have shown heavy interest in Proctor since the summer, and he plans to visit the schools after football season. With two full years ahead of him, he’s sure to have several more schools showing similar and increased interest.

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baseball camp this summer drew major interest from the host school, and it piqued Proctor’s as well. After all, burnt orange was in his blood—Proctor’s great grandfather, grandfather and uncle all played football for the Longhorns. “Being from Florida it is hard to be recruited by UT, but I could be the fourth generation to play there,” said the 6-foot-4, 200 pound Proctor. “After camp my last day, the head of the camp (and recruiting director) Coach Franklin told me he wanted to get another look at me in the fall.” Proctor has certainly come a long way from a shoulder injury he sustained playing freshmen football. The process eventually made him choose between rehabilitation from shoulder surgery and playing on the basketball team. Although he liked basketball, he loved pitching more. “Coming off my shoulder surgery the previous year, I wanted to be 100 percent for baseball season my sophomore year,” Proctor said. “It was hard for me not to play, because all of my buddies were still on the team. But I love to pitch — you can control the game by yourself, even more so than at quarterback in football.” A full year removed from his surgery, Proctor quickly made an impression during the Pirates’ baseball season on Masters Academy athletic director and baseball coach Charlie Brown. “The first time I saw him pitch it was at John Carroll,” Brown said. “He stacks up nicely with most Division-I prospects, and has prototypical size for a starting pitcher. He was a little behind because of football, and his dad called me and wanted me to work with him.” Brown liked what he saw and he

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Young soccer players from around the state were kicking up grass this past weekend at the Hobart Soccer Complex where the Indian River Soccer Association (IRSA) hosted 34 teams competing in eight divisions at the seventh annual Labor Day Tournament. The one IRSA team to take overall honors in its division was the under-14 boys’ team, coached by Shawn Campbell. As a kickoﬀ to the fall soccer season, IRSA will be oﬀering local players a free 2 1-2-hour clinic put on by a national touring team as part of festivities at IRSA’s Hobart Soccer Complex on Sept. 24. The event is open to boys and girls ages 6-14. To RSVP, log onto www.chevyyouthsports.com/soccer. Select West Palm. The passcode is kickit. STAFF PHOTO

Members of the Indian River Soccer Association U11 team, Ashley Mueller, Catherine Campione and Grace Dooley. The firstyear u11 team,coached by Mike Duffy, came in second place, losing to a Port St. Lucie Soccer Club team, coached by Matt Livings, son of former VBHS football coach Billy Livings.

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The Indian River Soccer Association U14 boys team took the title for the Indian River Soccer Association Labor Day Tournament held in Indian River County over the weekend. They won the title Sunday afternoon after defeating the Boynton Beach Knights 2-0. Members of the winning team are kneeling from left: Marcus Herndon, Jimmy Check, Kristian Campbell, Bryan Halliday, Hudson Fennell and Tyler Rogers. Standing from left: Ian Hardy, Johan Magana, Kaden Diniz, Bennett O’Brien, Kyle Barkett, Wesley Alexander, Matt Metz, Stephen Garabics, Zach Metz and Coach Shawn Campbell.

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On the western edge of Indian River County, about 20 miles beyond the interstate between Fellsmere and State Road 60, lies a spectacular swamp with an illustrious past. Against the sawgrass marsh and sun-drenched sky, the noble cypress trees draped in Spanish moss at Blue Cypress Lake represent a Florida unfettered by development. As part of the headwaters of the St. John River, Blue Cypress Lake is a combination of filtration marshes, wetland habitat and reservoir of water supply that makes the area a priority in land conservation. Last year, the county was awarded a $1 million federal grant to purchase 350 acres at Blue Cypress Lake. This is the second $1 million grant the county has received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the North American Wetlands Conservation Act. The grants were leveraged against the expenditure of $11.2 million by the county in purchasing the development rights for 1,535 acres at Padgett Branch, which neighbors Blue Cypress Lake. Located in the northwest corner of the 51,482 acres that comprise the lake, marshes and tributaries, the purchase “closes a peninsula of public ownership for conservation resource protection,” say

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Roland DeBlois, chief of environmental planning for the county. Currently, the county is doing due diligence on the land purchase from the Pressley Ranch family, which has for years raised cattle on vast acreage to the west of Blue Cypress Lake. Most of the northeast and south sides of the lake are owned by the St. John’s Water Management District, with a substantial portion of the remainder belonging to the county. Fed primarily by rainwater, Blue Cypress Lake has “one of the most intact marsh systems in the state,” says Steve Miller, director of land management for the St. John’s Water Management District. “It has never been ditched, diked and turned into farmland,” which has helped to maintain water quality and an abundance of indigenous wildlife. Miller’s organization handles wildlife research, controls weed growth and oversees recreational land use, such as fishing and hunting in specific areas. In addition, the agency maintains a series of levies for flood control, as well as the lake’s water levels for drinking supplies in Brevard County and back-up supplies for Indian River County. The moniker, Blue Cypress Lake, is a fairly recent phenomenon, coined for a blue color the morning sun casts on the deciduous cypress trees growing on the shoreline. Prior to the end of World War II, the natural body of water with an average depth of about nine feet was named Lake Wilmington, and PHOTOS: A few hours slowly tooling around Blue Cypress Lake on a pontoon boat is all the time anyone needs to be graced by the sights and sounds of one of Mother Nature’s local outdoor cathedrals. On a single trip around the lake you will likely catch sight of a blue heron swooping in for a landing on a majestic cypress tree, or osprey nesting, or alligators sunbathing. PHOTOS BY MARK SCHUMANN AND LISA RYMER

was leased by the Navy for bomb target practice. “New pilots from naval bases in Melbourne and Vero Beach, where the municipal airport is now located, were taught how to navigate tethering targets in the lake,” says Miller, describing a certain technique that aircraft bombers employed. After the war, the bombs and other debris were removed by the Navy. Now, the biggest threats to the area are lygodium, an invasive weed species that strangles foliage and

requires arial application of herbicides, and drought. This year’s record dry season dangerously reduced the water level of the lake, exposing the roots of the cypress trees, which are the most flood-tolerant of Florida’s wetland trees. The drought could have future impact on various species of birds that thrive in the ecosystem’s delicate balance. That balance, however, requires constant coordination with the needs of the St. John’s River and surrounding communities. After World War II, says

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Charlotte Terry leased the first of her three lots at Blue Cypress Village in 1996.

bass, speckled perch (crappie), bluegill, shellcrackers and catfish. For the past 48 years, Joe Middleton has owned the fish camp. Assisted by his wife, Jeanne Middleton, the couple handles a bait and tackle shop, boat rentals, guided tours and a few units for overnight accommodations. Situated on land owned by the county and leased for a term of 99 years, Middleton’s Fish Camp rounds out Blue Cypress Village, a collection of fishing cabins lining the banks of the lake and three canals. The modest structures belie the stature of many of the residents. According to the county’s tax rolls, leasees include local attorney Chester Clem and his wife, former supervisor of elections, Kay Clem; Byron Cooksey, another local attorney; businessman Bobby Hiers; and Realtor Charlotte Terry. Terry, a Florida native and nature enthusiast, leased the first of her three lots at Blue Cypress Village in 1996. “I wanted a place to write,” says the avid canoeist, who is working on a documentary about the fishing camp. “It’s a whole different lifestyle out here, one that is disappearing all over the country.”

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Smith, the area was hit by hurricanes that caused flooding in Vero Beach, Fellsmere and Melbourne. The Army Corp of Engineers devised a series of levies allowing water to flow or be stored, depending on the water levels of the river, the water use of municipalities, the irrigation demands of agriculture, and the recapture capacity of the lake. “We’re trying to serve all the different masters,” says Smith. For now, egrets, eagles and osprey still flock to the swamp during the year, while the majestic blue heron presents an incomparable silhouette against a cloudless sky. Some endangered species, such as the everglades snail kite and wood stork, have so far been able to adapt to this season’s fluctuations. With such a lush landscape, it’s understandable why local pioneer, Bud Holman, credited for helping build the municipal airport and for luring the Brooklyn Dodgers to the now legendary spring training facility, developed a cattle ranch in 1930 near Blue Cypress Lake. In later years, his fish camp provided a place where the baseball team could relax and enjoy the outdoors. In fact, rumor has it that Joe DiMaggio brought Marilyn Monroe to the fish camp. With some of the cleanest water in Florida, Blue Cypress Lake is an ideal habitat for largemouth

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“It started with bird watchers from Boca and West Palm,” says Middleton. “Then came the photographers for nature books and National Geographic.” Now, visitors from around the world representing six foreign countries regularly stay at Middleton’s camp to observe Florida wildlife in all its glory. But it’s not just wildlife that draws the attention. In front of Middle-

ton’s bait and tackle shop is an ancient-looking canoe carved out of a cypress tree trunk. The drought has also revealed pottery and arrowheads lodged in the mud. The artifacts may be remnants of the Ais Indian tribes that populated the area in the first half of the 1700s. Other remnants of by-gone eras are the cypress stumps that litter the marsh. Many of the trees, which can grow up to 150 feet and live

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When Victor Hart arrived in Indian River County in 1952, he was looking for a better life than the one he had left behind in the Bahamas. What he found was an opportunity to help better the lives of an entire community. Now 80 years old and recovering from a stroke, the man who helped get a water and sewer system installed in Gifford – and throughout the unincorporated areas of the county – is finally on the receiving end of a little help from the community. Hart recently had his dilapidated kitchen replaced with a new one, including floors, cupboards and appliances, through a Habitat for Humanity program called the Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative. Known as a leader in helping people obtain affordable housing, the organization’s community outreach now extends to helping qualified property owners whose homes are in need of repair, weatherization and even painting. If deserving candidates are unable to do the work themselves, Habitat steps in to lend a helping hand. The NRI program, now in its second year, helps address an individual’s quality of life. “I’m baking bread,” says Hart, when asked about the repairs. With barely an eighth-grade education, Hart worked for 25 years at the Indian River Packing Company picking citrus. During that time, he helped found The Progressive Civic League of Gifford, Florida, and a local chapter of the NAACP. “When I came to this community, there were no paved streets, no street lights, no sewer in Gifford,” says Hart, who had 12 children with the late Val-

arese Hart. His family was forced to use an outhouse behind their home. While Vero Beach had a utilities system for residents within the city’s borders, Hart was told by the “powers that be, that he wouldn’t live long enough to see Indian River County in the water and sewer business,” he recalls. Nonetheless, in 1973 Hart says he helped to obtain a federal grant for $10 million to bring the county system into the 20th century. He even appeared on CBS’s “60 Minutes” to discuss his efforts to bring what we now consider the basic necessities to his community. “The director of Indian River’s utilities was a good man, he worked with me,” says Hart about George Liner, who headed up the new department. Over the years, Hart helped establish the C.O.P.E. Commission, which worked with the Sheriff ’s office to address local issues and concerns. He also served on the Juvenile Justice Council and he is the current president of the Gifford Health Center Board. As a representative of Indian River County on the Florida Community Health Board for 14 years, Hart made an annual trip to Washington D.C. to address elected officials about the needs of the citizens they represent. During his visit to the nation’s capital in 2007, Hart suffered a stroke. His recovery has been gradual and the once very independent man now relies on others to help do the things he is not able. Fortunately, Habitat for Humanity is founded on the principle of providing a hand up to people in need. With assistance from a dedicated corps of volunteers and professionals, Hart’s deteriorating house has been transformed.

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If you have followed this column, you may recall my writing last spring about Vero’s apparent love affair with restaurants that serve both sushi and Thai food. Befuddled by the combination at first, I’ve now determined that it’s not so much that sushi and NICK THOMAS Thai food have some natural affinity, but rather that smart restaurateurs understand that most every eat-in Asian restaurant concept goes better (and is more profitable) with a sushi bar wedged into the corner. Since my last column on the subject, close readers have pointed out to me that there are also sushi bars in the fairly straight-forward Szechuan Palace Chinese restaurant on 43th avenue, and at the Fujiyama Japanese steak house out by the mall. So it’s no surprise, I suppose, that Vero’s latest Asian-style eatery, The Noodle House at 4166 Atlantic Boulevard, serves an array of Thai dishes along with sushi. The excitement, to

the extent it exists, is that The Noodle House wades slightly deeper into the cuisine of southeast Asia and the surrounding area by oﬀering an array of noodle dishes, some of which are not otherwise available in Vero. Noting that the Noodle House delivers within a ﬁve-mile radius, and aware that I can’t get Asian food of any description delivered to my house on the island, I thought it would be fun to drive out west and order takeout from The Noodle House, so that

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I could cart it back to the beach and evaluate the noodle dishes as if they had appeared at my door. At home with my son, Elliot, and our buddies from down the street, we set out a buffet of four noodle dishes – one featured cellophane or “glass” noodles, which are native to China and popular throughout Korea and southeast Asia; the second centered on Japanese “soba” noodles; Pad Thai, the national noodle dish of Thailand, contained a linguini-shaped rice noodle; and finally and most importantly, “Pho,” the Vietnamese noodle soup that seems to be growing in popularity everywhere, featured a Chinesestyle flour and egg noodle. With regard to the glass noodles, which are made not from grain but from starch taken from mung beans or potatoes, The Noodle House did a credible job of serving them with a soy sauce-based preparation, but the glass noodles don’t stand up well to 45 minutes in a Styrofoam take-out container. Similarly, the soba noodles, which are made of buckwheat flour, got a comparable soy-sauce treatment. In both case, I can’t say that The Noodle House did much to

push the boundaries of Vero cuisine, given that similar tasting “lo mein” is widely available around town. The Pad Thai was a slightly better choice for our take-out dinner, if only because the rice noodles are dressed a bit more elaborately with peanut, ﬁsh sauce and lime. And even though the noodles go a bit mushy after a rest and a steam in the take-out container, their essence remains. If they were not served equally well at every other sushi/Thai place in town, I would insist you go visit just to give them a try. Finally, The “pho,” which is just fun to say. It’s like the “fa” in “doe, ray, me . . . ,” but you pronounce the “fa” as if you’re slightly out of breath. To my knowledge, The Noodle House is the only place in town serving what is, in Vietnam, a popular breakfast dish.

In this case, The Noodle House uses a very nice ﬂour-based noodle that stands up well to its bath in a beef broth made, at least traditionally, from marrow bones, star anise, cinnamon, and charred ginger and onion, among other things. Served with the necessary accompaniment of basil, bean sprouts, a wedge of lime, and sliced beef, I can say they serve pretty darned good pho. Next time it gets cold out, I may well be heading out to The Noodle House for a big bowl. Nick Thomas is a lawyer and certified family mediator. Reach him at nthomasslaw@comcast.net.

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Hudie Johnson Hudie Johnson Sr., 79, died Aug. 27, 2011, at Indian River Medical Center, Vero Beach. He was born in Hamilton, Ga., and lived in Indian River County since 1954, coming from Georgia. He was a member of Mount Zion AME Church, Vero Beach. Survivors include his sons, Hudie Johnson Jr., Thurston Johnson Sr., and Gregory Johnson, all of Vero Beach; daughter, Brenda Harris of Malabar; sister, Opheia Farley of Hamilton, Ga; 14 grandchildren; and ﬁve great-grandchildren. A guestbook is available at www.stonebrothersfuneralhome.com.

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William K. Hastings William K. Hastings, 90, died Aug. 20, 2011, in Dayton. He was born in Two Harbors, Minn., and retired to

Richard F. Hornchek Richard F. Hornchek, 75, died Aug. 26, 2011, at Indian River Medical Center. He was born in Trenton, N.J., and lived in Vero Beach for 18 years, coming from his birthplace. He was teacher of the year in New Jersey, where he spent his teaching career at Ewing High School as an industrial arts teacher. Memorial contributions may be made to Lakewood Park United Methodist Church, 5405 Turnpike Feeder Road, Fort Pierce, FL 34951. A guestbook is available at www.strunkfuneralhome.com.

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Elva May Friberg Elva May Friberg of Vero Beach and formerly of Cape Elizabeth, Maine died Aug. 26 with family by her side. She was born in Maysville, Maine in 1914, the daughter of Sarah Calhoun Bruce and Charles W. Bruce. She is pre-deceased by her husband, Dr. Harry E. Friberg, her sister Helen Roast and her grand-daughter, Kirsten J. Friberg. She is survived by her brother, Bernard J. Bruce of Cape Elizabeth, sons Richard B. Friberg and his companion, Sheila Daniel of Grants Pass, Oregon and Harry Rob-

Kathleen Hall Kathleen “Kathy” Doris Hall, 67, died Aug. 30, 2011, at her home. She was born in Bay City, Mich., and lived in Vero Beach for two years, coming from Gaylord, Mich. She was president of Northeastern Exploration and Industrial Disposal Inc. and a partner in K&D Aviation. Survivors include her husband of 25 years, Dennis Hall of Vero Beach; son, Glenn Frederick Ruegsegger III of Linwood, Mich.; daughters, Roxanne Marie Dziuban of Plymouth, Mich., Sandy Burkhart and Jennifer Hall, both of Illinois; sister, Cheryl Burke of Auburn, Mich.; and two grandchildren. A guestbook is available at www.seawindsfh.com/obituaries.php.

Robert Hilker Dr. Robert R.J. Hilker, 94, died Aug. 28, 2011, at his home. He was born in Paullina, Iowa, and lived in Vero Beach for 15 years, coming from Savannah, Ga. He was a pioneer in the present-day wellness programs and eventually was elected president of the American Occupational Medical Association. Survivors include his wife of 32 years, Mary of Vero Beach. A guestbook may be made at www. lowtherfuneralhome.com.

Roger Dejean Roger Alix Gabart Dejean, 28, died Aug. 26, 2011, at his home. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and lived in Vero Beach, coming from Port St. Lucie. He was a landscaper. Survivors include his mother and father, Carole and Roger Alix Dejean of Vero Beach; brothers, Stephane Dejean of Brooklyn and Edward Dejean of Fort Lauderdale; sisters, Mary Alix Dejean, Regina Dejean and Danielle Dejean, all of New York, and Vicky Dejean Gilbert of Fort Lauderdale.

David Geyer David L. Geyer, 88, died Aug. 29, 2011, at Somerset House, Vero Beach. He was born in New York City and moved to Vero Beach 21 years ago, coming from Scarsdale, N.Y. He retired from W.M. Chelsea Ltd., where he designed ties, scarves and pocket badges for schools, universities and clubs. He was a member of the Moorings Club and the Vero Beach Yacht Club. Survivors include his wife of 64 years, Suzanne M. Geyer; daughter, Carolyn Robinson of Vero Beach; sons, Gregory M. Geyer of Avon, Mass., and “Pumkin” Geyer of Vero Beach; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to Humane Society of Vero Beach & Indian River County, P.O. Box 644, Vero Beach, FL 32961.

Vero Beach, where he lived for 28 years. He was a World War II veteran. He retired from the DM&IR railroad and was a member of Our Savior Lutheran Church. Survivors include his daughter, Kathryn; three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

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Anthony Cafiero Anthony F. Cafiero, 91, died Aug. 30, 2011, at his home. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and lived in Vero Beach for 22 years, coming from Waretown, N.J. During his working career, he established four manufacturing businesses. He was a veteran of World War II. He sang in the International Championship Barbershop Chorus, the Dapper Dans of Harmony and was a member of the choir at Holy Cross Catholic Church, Vero Beach. Survivors include his wife of 68 years, Marie B. Cafiero of Vero Beach; son, Anthony F. Cafiero Jr. of Vero Beach; daughters, Jane Sendrovich of Vero Beach, Joanne M. Cafiero and Janine Myers, both of Rockville, Md.; brothers, John Cafiero and Joseph Cafiero, both of Long Beach Island, N.J.; 10 grandchildren; and six great-grand-

Christin Marie Craig Christin Marie Craig, 41, died Aug. 26, 2011, at Lawnwood Regional Medical Center. She was born in Weymouth, Mass., and moved to Fort Pierce in 2007, coming from Vero Beach. She was a registered nurse at Lawnwood Regional Medical Center. She was affiliated with the Catholic Church. Survivors include her husband, Robert A. Craig of Fort Pierce; son, Nicholas Anthony Craig of Fort Pierce; brother, Michael Jefferson of Vero Beach; and father, Richard Jefferson of Vero Beach. She was preceded in death by her mother, Elizabeth Anne Jefferson.

ert Friberg and his wife, Dawn, and her daughter, Dr. Martha L. Friberg. She leaves 3 grand children and two great granddaughters. Contributions may be made in her memory to the charity of one’s choice. Online condolences maybe expressed at www. hobbsfuneral home.com.

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Marc Billman Marc Billman, 77, died Aug. 30, 2011, at Consulate Health Care, Vero Beach. He was born in Logansport, Ind., and lived in Vero Beach for 34 years, coming from his birthplace. Before retirement, he worked for Amica Insurance as a life sales manager. He was a Marine veteran. Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Kay; son, Todd Billman of Vero Beach; daughter, Beth Dombroski of Glastonbury, Conn.; sister, Barbara Burkhart of Logansport; and three grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his brother, Lionel Billman; and sisters, Elaine Parrott and Jill Shumann.

children. He was preceded in death by his son, Dennis John Caﬁero. Memorial contributions may be made to Fisher House, 111 Rockville Pike, Ste. 420, Rockville, MD 20850.

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Janet M. Barr Janet M. Barr, 89, died Aug. 27, 2011, in West Chester, Pa. She was born in Ayre, Scotland, and lived in Vero Beach for 35 years, coming from Garden City, N.Y. She was a homemaker. Survivors include her son, Donald E. Barr of West Chester; daughter, Jo-Ann B. Titley of Coral Gables; and four grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to Barclay Friends, 700 N. Franklin St., West Chester, PA 19380.

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Address 1905 Barefoot Place W 650 Bougainvillea Lane 1766 Cedar Lane 4600 Highway A1A, #302 917 Coquina Lane, #A-5 101 Park Shores Circle, #8W 5400 Highway A1A, D-23

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1492 Corona Lane Ten Coins on the Ocean 7/16/2011 $5,900,000 8/25/2011 $4,800,000 Premier Estate Properties Premier Estate Properties

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816 Pembroke Court Orchid Island 5/2/2011 $795,000 8/31/2011 $650,000 Orchid Island Realty, Inc. Norris & Company

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700 Beach Road, #248 John’s Island 3/19/2011 $775,000 8/26/2011 $634,500 Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc. Dale Sorensen Real Estate, Inc.

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13070 Highway A1A Ambersand Beach 8/22/2011 $575,000 8/31/2011 $500,000 Billero & Billero Properties Billero & Billero Properties

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745 Iris Lane Orange Park Estates 12/3/2010 $489,900 8/29/2011 $455,000 Peters, Cook & Company RE Alex MacWilliam, Inc.

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2700 Ocean Drive, A-203 Gables of Vero Beach 12/16/2010 $379,000 8/26/2011 $350,000 Alex MacWilliam, Inc. Premier Estate Properties

Subdivision Summerplace Vero Beach Estates Seagrove Caledon Shores Condo Seahorse Beach Park Shores Vista Del Mar

List Date 5/2/2011 12/23/2010 5/24/2011 7/10/2011 3/21/2011 8/2/2010 3/19/2011

List Price $350,000 $299,000 $299,900 $295,000 $154,900 $125,000 $100,000

Sell Date 8/29/2011 8/31/2011 8/30/2011 8/29/2011 8/26/2011 8/30/2011 8/30/2011

Sell Price $307,500 $270,705 $269,700 $260,000 $140,000 $120,000 $89,000

Listing Broker Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc. Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc. Norris & Company Alex MacWilliam, Inc. Peters, Cook & Company RE Paula Rogers & Associates Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc.

Selling Broker Dale Sorensen Real Estate, Inc. Peters, Cook & Company RE Alex MacWilliam, Inc. Alex MacWilliam, Inc. David Walsh & Assoc. RE Norris & Company Coldwell Banker Ed Schlitt

Mainland Real Estate Sales – August 25-August 31

Address 6270 55th Avenue 225 24th Avenue 109 King Fisher Way 101 King Fisher Way 5985 Venetto Way

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6710 3rd Place The Farms 8/2/2010 $900,000 8/25/2011 $865,000 Alex MacWilliam, Inc. Alex MacWilliam, Inc.

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7085 53rd Street Indian River Farms 12/29/2010 $1,049,000 8/26/2011 $845,000 Treasure Coast Realty LLC Peters Cook & Company RE

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6320 Salmon Place Black Bear Reserve 9/25/2009 $599,000 8/31/2011 $469,000 Treasure Coast Sotheby’s Intl David Walsh & Assoc. RE

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1566 50th Court Old Sugar Mill Estate 6/2/2011 $500,000 8/25/2011 $435,000 Dale Sorensen Real Estate, Inc. Coral Shores Realty

Subdivision Eagle Trace Indian River Farms Laurel Reserve Laurel Reserve Fieldstone Ranch

List Date 9/1/2010 4/18/2011 4/14/2011 6/30/2010 6/10/2011

List Price $364,500 $360,000 $280,000 $350,000 $217,990

Sell Date 8/31/2011 8/29/2011 8/29/2011 8/30/2011 8/30/2011

Sell Price $364,500 $345,500 $287,000 $270,000 $213,200

Listing Broker Dale Sorensen Real Estate, Inc. Coldwell Banker Ed Schlitt SEB Peters, Cook & Company RE RE/Max Crown Realty Dale Sorensen Real Estate, Inc.

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