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Movie madness Guests dress up in costumes inspired by the movie Caddyshack for United Way fundraiser at Majestic Theatre Page 17

PHOTO BY DAWN CURRIE, Resident artist at the Gallery of Hope

An early morning view of the Atlantic Ocean and the Ocean Grill

Galleries galore Downtown

Artists gaining a foothold along 14th Avenue Page 19

Work begins on $2.3 million bus system home Page 3

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While the SRA remains focused on serving seniors in our community, in these tough economic times Go Line has seen its ridership rise sharply as its users in need of public transportation have become younger.

Since the early 1990s, the SRA, previously the Council on Aging, has overseen the Community Coach program, providing seniors with free door-to-door transportation to nonemergency medical appointments.

In 2000, using the Community Coach’s existing phone lines, dispatchers, drivers and vans, the SRA established Indian River Transit.

That new system was mandated by the federal government as the county’s population grew.

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ridership increase dramatically since she took over and the economy began to nosedive making public transit a necessary alternative for many in the community.

“The Senior Resource Association kind of runs two businesses,” says Deigl.

Deigl earns a $91,000 salary annually not including benefits and a car allowance. SRA records indicate she spends 32.4 percent of her time on Go Line operations with that same percentage apportioned toward her salary.

Deigl was brought on board in 2006 to lead the organization into a new phase of its development. While Deigl is vastly knowledgeable, articulate and competent, she finds herself handling increasingly divergent needs from both organizations.

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Two years after receiving a $2.3 million federal stimulus grant intended to help create jobs, construction is set to begin on the county’s new 5,000-square-foot transportation complex.

Located on 43rd Avenue just north of the supervisor of elections office, the Indian River County Transit Administration Building will accommodate a system going through a growth explosion, with an increase of almost 300 percent in ridership since 2006.

Made entirely with environmentally-friendly materials manufactured in the U.S., the new building will house 60 Senior Resource Association employees who work in transportation services, and a fleet of about 60 buses, currently housed at the SRA’s

headquarters on 14th Place.

Last month, Barth Construction, a Vero Beach-based company that also built Gifford Middle School and the fire station at Riverside Park, cleared the land for the project. Local engineers, Schulke, Bittle and Stoddard, are responsible for the design.

With this new move, Karen Deigl, president and chief executive officer of the SRA, will be splitting her time between two offices and two operations. The SRA is a nonprofit organization that provides the elderly with a variety of services based on their ability to pay. The Senior Resource Association oversees Community Coach, Meals on Wheels and other senior-related services.

At the same time, Deigl also runs the county’s bus transportation service -- Go Line -- which has seen its

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Workers have started clearing land for the new transportation complex on 43rd Avenue.

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an MPO,” says Phil Matson, director of the county’s Metropolitan Planning Organization, which regulates, reviews and audits the public transit program.

The MPO oversees the creation of long term and short term transportation plans, as well as gives input to the Department of Transportation where to direct a portion of the federal and state gas tax drivers pay at the pump.

That “tax trust fund” helps pay for the operating costs of Indian River Transit, says Matson. In addition, the SRA is required to negotiate matching funds from the county and municipalities it serves. Matson says that his organization ensures “transportation doesn’t benefit special interests.”

Public transportation is particularly important in areas with high concentrations of seniors, explains Matson.

It restores mobility and improves the quality of life for people who would otherwise be home bound.

Because Indian River County by percentage has one of the “largest

senior populations of any community in the country,” says Matson, it remains logical for the SRA to continue administering public transit.

And apparently, the SRA is doing a very good job at it.

On August 10, the SRA was awarded the 2011 Urban Community Transportation Coordinator of the Year by the Florida Transportation Disadvantage Commission.

Matson attributes the steady increase in public transit ridership, which is purported to have provided almost 900,000 Go Line bus trips this year to date, to Deigl’s ability to obtain grant money, improve the system by expanding services, and raise public awareness about the Go Line routes.

However, in 2008, a survey conducted by the MPO revealed a significant decrease in the age of bus riders, with the largest concentration (23 percent) being women between the ages of 20 and 29. In fact, 53 percent of the riders using the Go Line bus system are between the ages of 20- and 45-years-old.

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After a week of confidential negotiations between representatives of the Vero Beach Museum of Art and the Vero Beach Art Club, Museum Executive Lucinda Gedeon wrote a letter to members of the Art Club late last week that prompted a sharp rebuke from Art Club attorney Keith McCormack.

Though clearly frustrated, McCormack stopped short of accusing Gedeon of negotiating in bad faith.

“The letter cannot be seen as anything other than an effort to undermine the leadership of the Art Club,” McCormack said. “Having been unable to obtain concessions from the Art Club leadership, the Museum sent out a letter to a significant number of Art Club members.”

Gegeon countered that her letter to Art Club members, many of whom are also members of the Museum, was in no way intended to undermine the leadership of the Art Club.

“My letter was meant to clarify a lot of questions that have appeared in the press, in emails and in letters to me,” she said. “As Museum director, I felt I should speak directly to them.

A lot of hurt feelings are taking root.”

In her letter dated Aug. 19, Gedeon writes she thinks it may be time for a new relationship between the Museum and the Art Club.

“I want to be clear – the history of the Museum and the contributions of the Art Club and countless dedicated citizens will always be honored; however, with growth comes change… and we should be able to examine that without rancor,” she wrote.

At the center of the dispute between the two organizations is a $1-a-year lease they share on 7.2 acres in Riverside Park. Earlier this summer, according to McCormack, the Museum attempted to negotiate a revised lease without the Art Club’s knowledge or participation.

Assistant City Attorney Peggy Lyon confirmed that in its negotiations with the City, the Museum sought to remove the Art Club from the lease.

The Museum also proposed to delete a clause giving the City the right to review and approve rates charged for use of its facilities and for admission to exhibits, classes, lectures and other programs and events.

Lyon said that after receiving objections from the Art Club she reviewed the original 1981 lease, as well as a 1985 agreement between the Museum and the Art Club. She determined that any changes to the lease must be agreed to by all three parties to the original lease -- the Museum, the Art Club and the City.

According to Lyon, at the Art Club’s insistence the clause giving the City oversight of Museum rates was restored to the revised lease just prior to its approval by the City Council on July 17.

The original lease has been revised several times since 1981, each revision necessitated by expansions of the Museum’s facilities. According to Lyon, the removal of the Art Club from the lease and the deletion of the clause providing for City review and approval of rates were both requested by the Museum. Neither proposed revision, she said, is necessary in order for the Museum to proceed with its current $4 million expansion.

McCormack said he and the Art Club’s leadership remain unclear why the Museum wants the Art Club off the lease. Officials of the Museum refused comment.

In the letter to Art Club members Gedeon wrote, “It is clear that as cotenants, the Museum and the Art Club do not equally share the obligations of the lease agreement with the City, which for many does not seem fair.”

At an Aug. 4 meeting of the 500-member Art Club, a number of

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The initial contract is expected to just cover preliminary work, including data gathering. A formal budget is expected to be prepared later for council review.

City Manager Jim O’Connor said he hopes the formal budget can be ready within a couple of weeks.

Money for the attorneys will come from the city’s electric utility fund.

The City Council selected the law firm of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge to serve as the city’s attorneys. The firm, which will report to the council, will

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charge a blended rate for its primary attorneys of $500 per hour, $350 for junior associates and $230 for legal assistants.

The city also may have to hire a separate bond counsel in connection with wholesale electric contracts it has with the Florida Municipal Power Agency.

It has been estimated a bond counsel could cost from $250,000 to $300,000.

The city needs to try to resolve issues with its FMPA contract as part of any sale to FPL.

Council moves closer to sale of electrical system The Vero Beach City Council last week approved the first reading of a referendum question that could allow for the lease of the land the city’s power plant sits on to Florida Power & Light. A public hearing and final vote on putting the question on the Nov. 8 ballot will be Sept. 6.

Mayor Jay Kramer voted against the motion, saying that not enough informationwouldbeavailablebyNovember forvoterstomakeaninformeddecision.

Still to be determined are the final purchase offer and the possible financial implications of a sale on the city’s property tax rate. The City Council could hold public hearings and even another referendum after gathering this information, according to Acting City Attorney Wayne Coment, but it is not required to take such action.

FPL representatives recently said they would probably keep the city’s power plant in place for at least five years if they take it over. The company will maintain the plant until it is able to make upgrades to its transmission network to allow for the plant’s eventual decommissioning and dismantling.

County to buy 350 acres at Blue Cypress Lake The County Commission last week

used $1 million of federal money to buy and protect 350 acres along the northwest shore of Blue Cypress Lake.

Matt Sexton, agent with the nonprofit Conservation Fund, negotiated the county’s purchase from the Pressley Ranch family. Those family members have raised cattle for decades on thousandsofacreswestofBlueCypressLake.

Under terms of the agreement, the Pressleys get $1 million, which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded the county in September 2010 under the North American Wetlands Conservation Act. The county gets the ranch’s northernmost 350 acres, which are surrounded by land owned by the St. Johns River Water Management District.

Sexton’s agency gets $30,000 from the county’s environmental bond fund as a negotiation fee.

County lowers application cost for impact fee refund County commissioners agreed last week to lower the $200 impact fee refund application fee to $75. Applicants cannowavoidtheupfrontcostandhave the fee subtracted from their refunds.

“We want to make sure the people who apply for refunds should be getting the refunds, but $200 is quite a bit more than this (research) really costs,” county Community Development Director Bob Keating told commissioners.

Impact fees are one-time charges the county levies on new homes and businesses, as well as expansions, to offset the increased costs in services required by new growth.

Keating said the county has refunded impact fees to 339 people in the last eight years because they never started construction. He said his research of the county’s database shows 121 building permits on file that are eligible for refund for no start of construction.

Charlie Wilson, president of Vero Beach’s Asset Research and Recovery Inc., says Keating’s staff wrongly

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It’s normal procedure for the fire marshal to investigate a fire’s cause.

The fire didn’t harm any of the surrounding properties.

(These digest items were published in full form in the Press Journal last week after the August 18 issue of the Newsweekly went to press.)

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a multimillion-dollar single-story home on John’s Island last week, Indian River County Fire Rescue officials said.

Indian River Shores Public Safety Director Bill Schauman said severe thunderstorms went through the area before the fire started.

“It still looks like it was weatherrelated,” Schauman was quoted in the Press Journal. His agency is

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The State Attorney’s Office has ruled the Summer Place homeowner who shot and killed a man who was banging at his door in June was justified, the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office announced.

Jack “Sandy” Newstedt, 21, of Sebastian was killed at 2:36 a.m. June 26 in the 9400 block of Periwinkle Drive. Friends and family said Newstedt had wandered through the Summer Place subdivision after a night of bar-hopping. The resident The state fire marshal continues to told investigators Newstedt was banging on his door. The resident grabbed lookintothecauseofafirethatdestroyed

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The McDonald’s on U.S. 1 near State Road 60 opened its doors this week after undergoing a complete demolition. The new store is larger at 5,200 square feet and features an upgraded and enlarged drive-thru.

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Vero Beach officials say they were just following regular procedures after a complaint was lodged and a citation issued to Councilwoman Tracy Carroll and her husband, John, over a short-term rental of property.

The Carrolls were cited by the city’s code enforcement division last month for advertising and renting out a dwelling in a residential area for less than 30 days. The citation regarding property the couple own at 906 Seagrape Lane did not contain a fine, but required the couple to stop advertising for and renting the property.

Planning and Development Director Tim McGarry told the Press Journal the action was taken in response to an anonymous complaint to the office from neighbors in the Riomar area. He said the department does not actively seek out such violations, but responds only when complaints are made.

In a letter to Code Enforcement Officer Susan Clifton, Carroll’s attorney Thomas W. Tierney, wrote that by the city’s own admission “the length of stay of transient occupants is not specifically addressed in the City Code.”

Carroll was identified in the Press Journal as saying she believes she and her husband were singled out for political reasons.

City Manager Jim O’Connor said he talked to the planning department and does not believe it is a case of selective enforcement against the Carrolls.

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After a Florida appeals court ruling against use of the procedure, city police have stopped using search warrants to take blood samples from motorists refusing to give breath tests for alcohol,.

Florida’s5thDistrictCourtAppealinDaytona Beach in May ruled blood can’t be seized, like a handgun, as an item used in committing a crime, court records show.

Police Chief Donald Dappen said he will wait to see whether the Florida Attorney General’s Office challenges the appeals court ruling.

In November 2009, the Vero Beach Police Department became one of a few law enforcement agencies in Florida to implement using a search warrant to obtain blood samples in suspected DUI cases.

According to the appeals court written ruling, “We agree ... that blood cannot be drawn (through a search warrant) based on probable cause that a suspect has committed misdemeanor DUI.”

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a handgun and opened the door, the Sheriff’s Office said. Newstedt lunged through the front door, which is when he was shot, the Sheriff’s Office said.

The State Attorney’s Office reviewed the case and decided it was a justifiable homicide.

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excludes from refunds “hundreds of people” who never built but did get county inspections for work on the foundation boards. He said he has tallied about 900 people who paid impact fees, but didn’t finish a house.

County Attorney Alan Polackwich is expected next month to submit a related legal analysis of Wilson’s claims on impact fees for his clients.

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Dr. Joseph J. Thomas has been selected for his second seating on the state of Florida Board of Dentistry by Gov. Rick Scott.

Dr. Thomas, 50, was first named to the board in 2007 serving as vice chairman and then as chairman for 2009-2010.

The Board of Dentistry is involved with licensing and overseeing members of the dental profession in Florida.

Dr. Thomas said he is going to make one of his priorities more access to

care for those who lack the resources to see a dentist regularly.

“During my last term we made a lot of rule changes that increased the access to care,” he said. “We even changed rules regarding licensure allowing people to come into the state to practice if they promised to work with those who could least afford care. Then two years later they could skip the board exam and then become able to get a full license to practice in the state of Florida.”

Dr. Thomas said he would also like to improve licensing procedures and allow dental hygienists to administer

anesthetics.

“In every other profession you have the nurses able to give you injections, but in dentistry the dentist must do it,” he said. “The dental hygienists must take licensure exams and they are perfectly capable like any other nurse practitioner to be able to administer anesthetics and to improve the access to care.”

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Community Coach to those routes.

“When ridership on the fixed routes increase,” says Deigl, “the need for door-to-door service [Community Coach] goes down.”

There is a big cost differential between the two modes of transportation, explains Deigl. A single oneway ride on a Go Line bus costs the county $1.94; the average one-way ride on Community Coach, which may entail an out-of-town trip, costs $19.83.

Although the buses accept donations and are all equipped with receptacles that make a jingle noise when coins are dropped inside, there is no charge for riding the public transit.

“If we charged a fee, we would lose money,” says Deigl, pointing out that a for-pay transportation system would require kiosks to purchase tickets, additional administrative personnel, and a secure counting room to tally the daily sales.

Moreover, Indian River County is considered a “rural system, consisting of a population of less than 200,000,” she says. Because of that classification, the county’s transit program receives additional funding from the federal government.

A for-pay transit would reduce those federal funds by 25 percent on every dollar it would charge in ticket sales, she says.

Also, seniors and students are re-

quired to pay half the cost of a public transit ticket, further prohibiting cost efficiency in such a system, says Deigl.

Each year, the federal government informs the SRA what it can expect in funding for transportation.

Generally, says Deigl, the county contributes a quarter of the operating budget (this year that was $526,000), leaving the remainder up to her to negotiate with the state and local governments.

For instance, a Job Access Reverse Commute (JARC) grant from the Federal Transit Authority was obtained by Deigl to expand services in Fellsmere from three days a week to five. The grant, however, was contingent on matching funds from Fellsmere. Deigl was able to elicit a commitment of $50,000 a year for three years from the city to add additional routes.

Likewise, when Sebastian was approached about matching a JARC grant to expand service and build a hub, it committed $50,000 a year for two years.

The north county hub, located behind the Burger King at CR 510 and CR 512 in Sebastian, links all buses every half hour so that riders can travel throughout the county and know exactly when they will arrive at their destination.

For the past several years, Vero Beach has benefited from the public

transit system without kicking in any funds. Routes with the greatest densities are bringing riders from outside the city limits into the city’s shopping districts, as well as to the mall.

Currently, the city is considering matching a transit grant with funds to build a permanent hub just west of the railroad tracks at 16th Street. For the time being, a temporary hub is located in the parking lot where the old county administration building was located.

In addition to grants and government contributions, revenue is generated through advertisers and sponsors. Companies can purchase signage on the exterior of the Go Line buses.

The SRA is also actively seeking sponsors for inclement weather shelters at heavily trafficked bus stops.

Sponsors receive a sign printed with their name adjacent to the shelter.

Eight businesses have already signed up, with Kimley Horn being the first.

And finally, Deigl is optimistic about the possibility of securing a $900,000 federal grant that would require matching funds. She envisions expanding hours of service from 7 a.m. To 7 p.m., and creating a nonstop express route from the Vero Beach hub to the mall.

“We spend less than comparable counties,” says Matson of Deigl’s fiscal stewardship. “But, we have ten times the ridership.”

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That information is contained in the county’s Transit Development Plan, a collaborative effort between the MPO and the SRA. A new survey based on the 2010 census figures is scheduled to be conducted sometime next year, says Deigl.

Before heading up the SRA, Deigl was the project manager of the county’s comprehensive needs assessment. One of the areas she identified as deficient in the assessment was transportation.

She began her tenure by launching a “full marketing plan,” she says, which included the name change from Indian River Transit to Go Line: Indian River Transit, with the tag line, “We get you there.”

In addition, she wrapped the buses in a tropical-theme graphic to provide visual awareness, created maps of the bus routes and distributed brochures.

Now, she has grown the public transit from nine Go Line fixed bus routes to 14, including two regional routes to Indian River State College in Fort Pierce and to Barefoot Bay. Aside from Sundays and various holidays, the buses run six days a week from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

She says the increase in Go Line riders has helped bring down costs as some seniors have switched from

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While the 1985 agreement provides for both organizations to exchange mailing lists, according the McCormack, the Museum has refused to give the Art Club a mailing list of its membership. In turn, when the Museum recently requested the Art Club mailing list, the club’s leadership declined.

“The letter from the Museum Executive Director to the Art Club membership is objectionable,” McCormack said, “because both parties agreed to not speak publicly about their dispute and to let their respective leaders work together toward a resolution.”

According to McCormack, he and Art Club President Rita Ziegler hope to resolve their dispute with the Museum through non-binding mediation.

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members publicly speculated that the Museum may want the Club to vacate its rights because the Museum is reporting the full value of the lease in its financial statements. The Museum does lists as one of its assets the full value of its jointly held, $1-a-year lease with the City.

According to the Museum’s 20092010 annual report, it counted as temporarily restricted support for the year $1,792,650, which was based on a calculation of the fair market value of the lease jointly held with the City. In effect, the estimated full value of the lease, less $1, is reported as a contribution from the City to the Museum each year.

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Club will have office space in the Museum’s executive offices. The difference between a lease as compared to a right to space is significant, McCormack said, and one many Art Club members believe would in effect be a breach of the 1985 agreement.

Dawn Miller, a member of the Art Club and a former member of the board, said, “The Museum wants us to be tenants rather than partners.”

In her letter to Art Club members, which addressed the issues of the lease, program space fees and office space, Gedeon wrote, “Historically, the Art Club has enjoyed the use of the Museum for its meetings, programs and special events without any charge. In light of our quantified costs, we are now negotiating the terms of such space use.”

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The only issues the Museum and the Art Club are currently negotiating, Gedeon said, are the terms under which the Art Club will make use of Museum space and facilities.

According to McCormack, a second point of disagreement between the Museum and the Art Club is what he termed a “decrease in compliance” of the 1985 agreement on the part of the Museum and the Museum’s proposal to “cancel” that long-standing agreement.

One of the terms of the 1985 agreement provides that the Art

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Special Olympics provide platform to show ‘I can do it’

BY IAN LOVE VERO BEACH NEWSWEEKLY

When the invitation came, instructors Chris Roger and Ellen Giordano knew where they were going to be last Sunday.

They headed out to the North County Aquatic Center to root on 20-year-old Christyn Devane, who won her heat in the 25 meter freestyle at a regional Special Olympic competition. Devane had informed her teachers at the start of the school year that she would be competing and wanted them to attend.

“I wouldn’t have missed this for the world,” said Roger, who teaches language arts to students with special needs. “This is where she gets to prove and show all she can be.”

“I think this is more special for us than for any of the athletes,” added STAFF PHOTO STAFF PHOTO Giordano, a teacher’s aide in an exEach athlete was honored at an awards ceremony after Christyn Devane of Vero Beach with parents Kim and Ray. ceptional student education class at their race.

Vero Beach High School.

Devane was one of 250 athletes from Indian River, Broward, Martin, St. Lucie and Palm Beach counties in a sectional event. The state swimming finals will be held Oct . 1 and 2 at the North County Pool.

While competition is its own reward in the Special Olympics, it was clear watching family and friends cheer on the participants that this was an event for them as much as for the swimmers. For an instant both they and the athletes they came to cheer were in the game with a goal to be achieved.

Roger has watched Devane “blossom” over the last three years and credits the Special Olympics with showing her a wider world out there in which she could play a part.

“She went from a self-contained, don’t talk to me, don’t touch me student to now she works in the guidance office, she goes out to regular mainstream classes,” Roger said. “She has just blossomed and taken off with her swimming. She is doing extra PHOTO BY GRAYSON HOFFMAN things in her life; she doesn’t just go Lynne Gagnon, a recreation leader for Indian River County, cheers for daughter Amber Fallo during the 50-meter free- to school and go home any more.” style event.

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Devane’s mother Kim has also watched Christyn develop through her participation in the Special Olympics. Her daughter has been competing in Special Olympic events for 12 years.

“I can’t say enough about the experience,” Kim said. “There is no failure, no condemnation.”

There is also achieving a goal and Roger said that can be as important

for the parents to see as the child to achieve.

“They are saying, “look I am growing up and I am going to be OK, I can do this,” she said. “I can compete, I can socialize, I can do it.”

The Indian River County Special Olympics is looking for volunteers and sponsors for the Oct.1 and 2 state finals. If you would like to help, contact County Coordinator

Darla Danis at (772) 778-6400.

Indian River County Aquatics team: Lyndsay Alvey, Christina Bielecki, Brian Boulahanis, Angela Branch, Zachary Briley, Mary Brock, Jeromey Burns, Erik Brynes, Milan Carvelli, Steve Clay, John Cody, Christyn Devane, Brittany Diehl, Justin Diehl, Joey Duffey, Chris Dunphey, Tom Edgewood, Amber Fallo, Persia Fergu-

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This stimulation showed us the money We were somewhat surprised to learn this week that work has been started on a new transportation complex on 43rd Avenue funded by a $2.3 million federal stimulus grant.

We were told that it is not a very exciting project, it was not a place with public access, but will provide housing for 60 Senior Resource Association transportation services employees and what will be home to 60 buses in both the Community Coach and Go Line fleets.

However, the next time someone rails against the failed stimulus program, remember to think of the new shiny home we will have for our buses that get our seniors from place to place and which have seen such a huge increase in ridership from younger riders as the economy turned south.

Commission Chairman Bob Solari cited the success of the Go Line over the past few years as a reason for being against the proposed Amtrak passenger train service down the east coast of Florida that might include a stop for Vero Beach.

One of the reasons he gave for being against it was he did not want to support Amtrak at the possible expense of “our successful local system.”

“The next years will bring with

it battles for scarce resources,” he wrote. “With limited transportation dollars in the future, my fear is that Amtrak will end up taking away dollars from our successful local system.

Amtrak is a want for a few daily passengers; Go Line is a need for thousands of our residents.”

Part of the reason our local transportation system has been so successful is an aggressive campaign to attract state and federal dollars. That money helps pay for the system that is free to riders due in no small part to federal subsidies.

We have no reason to question Mr. Solari’s reasoning for being against an Amtrak stop in Vero Beach nor do we necessarily disagree with his judgment that the ridership will never materialize to make passenger train service a profitable venture.

But one wonders how Go Line would be faring were it not for the aggressive and able grants writing by the Metropolitan Planning Organization. Staff will proudly tell you that for many of the grants they write, they will get three dollars from Washington for every dollar contributed by municipal or county governments.

Let’s be clear, from all our reporting Go Line is a success story filling

“Doing good by doing right.”

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a need in the community. We just wonder when one person’s success story becomes another person’s failed stimulus package boondoggle.

Having said that, the money Washington doles to effective grant writers is first extracted from somewhere.

So, rather than speaking of “federal tax dollars,” perhaps it is more accurate to term it “tax dollars administered by the federal government.”

But then that isn’t exactly accurate either, since something like half of all the money Washington is spending these days exceeds the federal government’s income. In essence, half of all “dollars from Washington” are being borrowed from future generations of Americans. Instead of calling them “federal funds,” let’s call them what they really are, “funds borrowed from future generations of Americans and administered by the federal government.”

But we digress.

As part of the transportation complex story we also began to look into the transportation finances and to determine why Go Line, the county’s federally mandated transportation system, was being administered by the Senior Resource Association.

It turns out that it was a good fit when Indian River Transit was

formed in 2000 by order of the federal government. The SRA was a natural choice to begin providing public transportation for the county because it had much of the infrastructure in place from its Community Coach service for the elderly.

We have learned that many smaller communities rely on elderly service organizations for transportation needs for this same reason.

However, we also learned that Senior Resource Association CEO Karen Deigl spends 32.4 percent of her time on Go Line and has 32.4 percent of her $91,000 salary paid by Go Line.

All indications are that she has been a more than competent advocate for the programs she has been hired to oversee.

However, there may come a tipping point where the operation of Go Line is no longer a natural fit with the operation of Community Coach. Go Line, whose ridership has increased 300 percent since Deigl took over in 2006, is seeing a younger ridership as the recession takes its toll and we all settle in to a new economic normal.

We don’t think we are at that tipping point yet, but do hope that county officials keep on top of the growing transportation needs of all their citizens.

Mark Schumann, Publisher 978-2246 mark.schumann@scripps.com

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Presenting facts in a way that casts confusing shadows, or that blurs subtle, yet important distinctions is known as spinning the truth. Many political operatives, partisans, some radio talk show hosts, as well as the editors of the barrier island weekly are exceedingly skilled at carving off just the thinnest slice of truth necessary to make their point. They are all accomplished masters of spin.

Last week, in another one of its frequent “Insight Editorials” devoted to the not-so-lofty purpose of criticizing the local daily newspaper, the writer of 32963’s “Insight Editorial” blended the backhand skills of a world class tennis professional with notable writing skills in putting topspin, sidespin, and backspin on comments made by an executive of the E.W. Scripps Co. during a recent quarterly conference call with analysts.

Asked about the markets in Florida and California, two of eight states in which E.W. Scripps publishes daily newspapers, Timothy Stautberg, senior vice president/newspapers, characterized the current economies of Florida and California, both hard hit by home mortgage foreclosures, as “train wrecks.”

The island weekly put some backspin on Stautberg’s metaphor, implying he said the Press Journal is a train wreck, while what he was actually speaking about was not the newspaper but the current state of the economy – a subtle but important distinction.

The unspun truth is that, despite the island weekly’s wishes to the contrary, the Press Journal, Treasure Coast Newspapers, and the E.W.

Scripps are on track to earn a profit in 2011. Further, because the company has no long-term debt, it is a favorite of stock analysts among media companies.

Now that the island weekly is asking for donations, or contributions, or voluntary subscriptions, or whatever they are calling them, one has to wonder about Vero Beach 32963.

The island weekly may very well be earning a profit, as it so frequently and proudly claims. Without full financial disclosure, though, how can anyone considering making a donation/contribution be assured their $120 to $2,400-a-year gift isn’t going to line the pockets of investors, rather then to hire more reporters, as has been promised.

Twenty-four hundred dollars a year, you ask? That’s right, for just $2,400 a year, you, too, can have breakfast monthly with the publisher of the island weekly. If you want to ask questions of, and share

ideas with local journalists, another option is to join the reporters and editors of the Press Journal and the Vero Beach Newsweekly for a FREE “Coffee and Community” Oct. 5, at the new McDonald’s on U.S. 1.

Concerning the island weekly’s frequent calls for full disclosure, how about some transparency concerning its investors? Who is actually behind the island weekly, and are they really in need of donations/ contributions?

Then there is the whole question of unbiased, impartial reporting.

Without full financial disclosure, how can readers know the gifts of donors/contributors will not influence the island weekly’s coverage of news, such as in its likely endorsements of candidates in the coming City Council elections? Talk about a can of worms!

The whole idea of a serious, financially stable newspaper appealing for donations seems bizarre.

And here is something else that seems a little bizarre. As frequently critical as the barrier island weekly is of the Press Journal, Treasure Coast Newspapers and it’s parent company, E.W. Scripps, it seems a stretch to imagine the editors there actually own Scripps stock. And yet, there they are taking nearly an hour out of their supposedly busy schedules to listen in on quarterly conference calls with stock analysts.

I have become convinced that no one reads the Press Journal more closely that the editors of the island weekly. In fact, I have come to think of them as OMARs, Our Most Avid Readers.

Why the obsession with criticizing and attacking your local daily?

And why the not-so-concealed ill wishes for a newspaper serving, not just the barrier island, but the whole community? Without a degree in psychology, I am not even going to hazard a guess.

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How many keys does it take to open a door?

RABBI MICHAEL BIRNHOLZ

Fifteen years ago I went to serve my first High Holy Day in HoughtonHancock, Michigan.

I had just returned from my year in Israel and as a second year Rabbinical student had not really led a lot of services yet.

There I was on my way to the Upper Peninsula in Michigan to lead worship, read Torah, and sing the important parts of the service. It was the first huge undertaking of my Rabbinical School experience.

On one of my first days in Hancock one of the members of the congregation dropped me off at the Temple Building. The member let me in, showed me around and left me to make my preparations and get oriented.

One of the first things that I needed to do was take out the Torah Scrolls, roll them to the proper sections (High Holy Day readings are out of our reg-

ular sequence) and practice my reading.

I took out my study aides and cleared off the podium for my work.

Then I turned to the Ark located on the east side of the RABBI sanctuary (orient- MICHAEL BIRNHOLZ ed to Jerusalem).

Carefully, I grabbed the handles of the door and pulled.

They did not budge.

Okay, I might not be the strongest of people, but they can’t be that hard to open. I took a breath and tried again. Wow, they were really stuck.

Maybe, I had to lift up a little and then the doors would pop open.

One more try was unsuccessful. I looked a little closer. Torah Scrolls are precious so maybe there was a

lock. I found a switch which I lifted and tried again. I searched for a key. I tried to cross my hands over. I pulled and banged and twisted. Nothing worked.

For half an hour I tried everything I could do to liberate the scrolls. I was getting really embarrassed. Some Student Rabbi….I couldn’t even get the Ark open. As I started to slump to the floor in failure, my sleeve caught the handle and the doors slid open.

They did not pull they slid!

The lessons of this experience were not hard to discern. The door that slid reminded me that I needed to be patient and that I may need to be ready to ask for help sooner. I also realized that I needed to have faith. It may take many times and attempts to find the key.

In this season however, a different message comes to mind. If you try, try, try again and it does not work, try something different. This is why the

Jewish sages set aside a whole month to intensively prepare for our High Holy Days which open with Rosh HaShanah (the Jewish New Year) and end with Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement).

We are supposed to repent and atone for wrongful acts against God, people, and world God created during this season. The sages set aside a month to practice, test, try and try again the skills and experiences we need to make sure we are on the path to a meaningful and righteous life or make the turns necessary to get there.

Let us all be open to different keys and look for new ways to turn the handle to open the door way to a better future and world.

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.

Beware when you think about buying fake designer wares

BY LISA RYMER

As I was perusing the season’s new arrivals at a clothing boutique in Vero Beach, I distinctly heard my name from across the room.

The most darling shoulder bag was beckoning me to come hither. Its leather was so supple, the color all the rage and the size fit me perfectly.

Of course, the pièce de résistance was the large gold clasp emblazoned with the initials of a famous clothing designer.

I asked the shopkeeper the price and was taken aback by its affordability.

“Is it real?” I inquired, my racing heart suddenly accelerating.

“No, it’s a knock-off straight from the streets of New York,” she replied.

I stood motionless, wondering what to do next. In the meantime, another fake handbag by the same designer caught my eye. And then, when I saw the brand new wallet in

the showcase, the very one that has been featured in all the fashion magazines available to me for just a fraction of the cost, I almost succumbed.

Almost.

It is bad enough LISA RYMER that Louis Vuitton, Prada, Hermès or Tory Burch lose a couple of million this year because of copycat sales. That loss equates to about 750,000 domestic jobs usurped by overseas factories manufacturing illegal replicas.

The human tragedy is even worse: children working as slave labor to produce the counterfeit goods, human and drug trafficking associated with piracy, and the terrorist activity the money supports.

There is no way of knowing how many children are forced to work

in the counterfeit industry producing clothing, software, electronics, toys and even medication bearing a trusted brand name, but without consent of the company owning the trademark.

China and Thailand are often cited as the worst perpetrators of pirated goods, with fewer labor laws protecting children and virtually no enforcement.

Dana Thomas, a former fashion columnist for the New York Times and a correspondent for Newsweek magazine, recalls visiting a factory in Thailand, where six or seven children under the age of ten were seated on the floor making counterfeit designer handbags.

“The owners had broken the children’s legs and tied the lower leg to the thigh so the bones wouldn’t mend,” he writes in his book, “Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster. “[They] did it because the children said they

wanted to go outside and play.”

The International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition approximates that the sale of counterfeit goods represents as much as seven percent of the world trade, or $600 billion annually.

Because the penalties for piracy are more lenient than drug trafficking, many drug traffickers are using established drug transport routes to move counterfeit goods, supplementing up to half their revenue. The same organized crime rings also deal in human trafficking for prostitution.

So, the next time you see a designer replica, be it a watch, a purse or a pair of sunglasses, remember the kids and resist the impulse. It’s not about protecting Gucci or Yves St. Laurent.

The only way to change the world is to begin by changing ourselves.

Lisa Rymer is a newspaper and television journalist who resides in Vero Beach. She can be contacted at LisaRymer@comcast.net.

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Guests munched on hors d’oeuvres as canine cops tried to take a bite out of crime decoys at the cocktail reception held to raise money for H.A.L.O., a no-kill animal shelter.

This past weekend, H.A.L.O. & Stray No More Inc. topped their previous fundraising success from last year’s event by filling all 120 openings for the golf tournament at the Indian River Club.

To kick off the animal friendly event, Director Jacque Perone and Coordinator Kim Kerns combined a cocktail reception with a Sheriff ’s Department K-9 demonstration as the “Dog Bones” band played hits by the pool.

H.A.L.O. is located in Sebastian and was founded by Perone five years ago. It is the only shelter in Indian River that does not euthanize stray animals no matter how long they are with them at the shelter. Their objective is to find every pet a happy home and give them a fulfilling life with a human companion.

They are constantly promoting neutering and spaying pets and have donated many hours to caring for stray animals and finding them homes.

Perone and H.A.L.O. has found a good friend in the Florida Veterinary League. They were at the golf tournament giving pet vaccinations but also are there when there is a sick or injured animal at the shelter and with those that cannot afford health care for their pets.

At the reception on Friday night, K-9 Sergeant Pat White directed the K-9 exhibition in an informative as well as entertaining display of what the dogs could do.

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Marion Fisher, Barry Minette, Marybeth Cunningham, Chuck Cunning, Karen and Gene Mack paired with similar personalities of an officer in the team so that they work together better and bond faster.

When the dogs get too old to work, they go to live with them and are cared for as long as they live.

A little known fact is that the officers speak German or similar languages when commanding their dogs. K-9 dogs are all brought in from Europe where dog breeding is under the strictest regulation.

America does not have strong regulation and many dogs, although they may have great papers, can be interbred or over-bred by owners.

In Europe, dog competitions called Schutzhund are as popular as soccer

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powerful sense of smell than humans and German Shepherds are considered the best for the job because of the shape of their snouts which was best for tracking the scents.

Surprisingly, the dogs have not been neutered. White said that once a male dog was snipped he sort of lost his will and took away instinctual aggression bringing an under-

standing laugh from the audience.

Most of the canines are male, but females are usually used for less aggressive work such as looking for disaster victims, Alzheimer patients and drug searches.

It is only rarely they are used as criminal trackers.

The dogs were put through their paces and seeing them fly through the air full force to attack a decoy officer or running all out at the speed of light amazed the guests and drew

rounds of appreciative applause.

All the guests at the event were huge animal fans and said they were at the event because they loved their pets like their family and wanted to support the good works of H.A.L.O. Most owned multiple animals but that did not stop H.A.L.O. on Saturday at the golf tournament from trying to get them to take home just one more at the adoption tent.

They even took several of the animals on the golf carts around

the course to tempt them. Kim Kerns said that one lucky little Pomeranian named Pumpkin found a home by the end of the day and that is what it was all aboutâ&#x20AC;Śfinding a home for a dog, cat or other animal, one pet at a time.

To support H.A.L.O., or to donate cleaning supplies, pet toys, kitten and puppy milk or blankets, you can go to their website, www.halorescuefl.org or drop off at the shelter, 710 Jackson Street in Sebastian.

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Michael Kint, CEO of United Way and Sabrina Starr of the Majestic with their enthusastic crowd of Caddyshack fans

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Vero Beach had the “Caddyshack” characters beat for tacky golf wear and open wallets at the Majestic Theatre fundraiser for United Way last Wednesday.

The theme may have been classic 70’s country club attire, but the location was anything but “Bushwood.”

By the way, that was one of the trivia questions, “What was the name of the club where the movie supposedly took place in Nebraska?” Actually, the movie was filmed in Dania, Florida.

Another trivia tidbit that had Emcee Chris Bieber flinging out prizes to the audience who came out for this year’s newest United Way fund raising venue.

Bieber and his friends at United Way were trying to come up with a fun new

idea to get people to participate.

When they hit on the idea for a classic movie night with costumes, it was “Caddyshack” all the way. Asking people to pay $15 per ticket and dress like the characters seemed doable and they threw in a trivia contest with treats.

The Majestic Theatre has a reputation for putting on new, interactive movie events so Kris Gault and Chris Bieber decided to approach them with the idea first.

Sabrina Starr who is in charge of The Majestic’s public relations and events said the Theatre jumped on board right away. She said, “We just like to keep our hand in the community which has supported us all the way. We’re locally owned and operated and enjoy supporting community organizations.”

The Majestic seems to have found the perfect combination of movie theater and event venue. Many of their offerings have caught the interest of both beachside and mainland residents such as their live series of

operas At The Met which are very popular.

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the numbers since the skies opened up with a huge storm just before the event which may have scared off a few who had planned on attending.

Just before the movie, they played a short and amusing film about the United Way with the battle cry of “Think United. Give United. Live United.” The film work was donated by Jeff Sledd of the Mental Health Association as a bit of cross organizational support.

Chris Loftus, United Way Chair, said that they want to be even more successful than last campaign. That is a lofty goal considering that last year they raised $2,350,000. She said this was probably one of their more “outlandish” events but the volunteers came up with it and they went with it. Anything that works to bring in money to help support their community outreach programs is felt to be worthwhile.

To support the United Way visit their website at www.UnitedWayIRC.org.

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Ashley Franke, Don Loftus and Helen Tracy

Milestones Vero Beach followed the ceremony.

The bride graduated from Jupiter Best-Wytrval High School.

VERO BEACH — Staci Wytrval The groom graduated from John of Sebastian, Carroll High School. daughter of The couple reside in Sebastian.

Randy and Beth Wytrval BIRTHS of Vero Beach, LAWNWOOD REGIONAL was married Harper Monroe Cheston, a to Cody Best daughter, was born to Daniel and of Sebastian Megan Cheston of Vero Beach on on July 23, at July 25.

Round Island Beach Park in Vero Beach with Summer Bullington INDIAN RIVER MEDICAL officiating.

CENTER Best is the son of Wink Best of Fort Adam Thomas Pfahler, a son, was Pierce and Linda Davi of Fort Pierce.

Kristen Schmidt of Vero Beach was born to Eric and Laurel Pfahler of Semaid of honor, with Jade Miensma bastian on July 4.

Kaley Michelle and Ryley Juand Michele Dees as bridesmaids.

Michael Best of Summerville, N.C., les Neal, twin daughters, were born was best man; Mike Dees was usher. to Adam and Michelle Neal of Vero A reception at Heritage Center in Beach on July 15.

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BY CHRISTINA TASCON FOR VERO BEACH NEWSWEEKLY

Downtown Vero Beach has spent many years developing an identity and it is fitting that it is being considered by many as “The Art Destination of the Treasure Coast.”

Mainstreet Vero Beach, the City, the Chamber of Commerce and the Cultural Council have worked diligently in the past to encourage visitor-friendly establishments to come into the area. But when the artists began to move in their paintings, pottery, and artwork, the area really blossomed.

There are eight established art galleries; plus a new gallery which is to open in October called Darby Fine Art, and a dozen other design related businesses or artistically connected dining spots within the Historic Downtown designation.

Gallery 14, Tiger Lily Studios, Artist Guild Gallery, Flametree Clay Art Gallery, Lighthouse Art & Framing, Gallery of Hope, Mainstreet Studios and Tropic Art and Frame are all within a three to four block area on

14th Avenue.

Barry Shapiro, owner of Lighthouse Art & Framing bought the business over a year ago when it was located on 17th Street, but his goal from the start was to get a downtown location on 14th Avenue.

“This area is becoming a destination district,” he said. “People want to come here for the art galleries and shops like mine and the restaurants. This place is very vibrant.”

Lila Blakeslee, is one of the owners of Gallery 14. A couple of years after its doors were open in 2006, she came up with the idea to combine the eateries, galleries and shops to form an event called Downtown Dine and Design.

At that time there were only two galleries, but many of the other shops were either home design related or showcased art in their shops and restaurants.

The Dine and Design events began to build area recognition to both mainland and barrier island residents and visitors. Everyone benefited from the publicity and as time

Artists Guild Gallery went on the quarterly events have become popular among the locals.

Mary Ann Hall, one of the coowners of Gallery 14 said she has definitely felt the impact as the galleries moved in.

“I can see more and more street traffic walking by in the last three years. Many people who come into the gallery tell me they didn’t even know all these shops were here,” she said.

Artist Guild Gallery was formerly located on Royal Palm, but moved to 14th Avenue. President Marjorie Bohler said she is “so happy we are in the current location now. The new gallery is in a wonderfully professional area and being in the center of town offers much more exposure.

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local economy.”

Mayor Jay Kramer commented that he has begun to notice a lot more pride in the district with the renovations and it is doing a lot to bring the area recognition. “I am re-

ally seeing more affluent crowds in the downtown area who have an appreciation for the arts,” he said.

McGarry said she believes art galleries are a positive asset to a city and draws people to the area and it has certainly been beneficial to the downtown revitalization effort.

Friday, August 26th, marks the next Downtown Dine & Design which will be held from 5 - 8 p.m. The 3D District is located along 14th Avenue and nearby streets when establishments will be open for what is being called the “Summer Sizzler Stroll.”

Riverside Children’s Theatre to hold open house and casting call

BY CHRISTINA TASCON FOR THE VERO BEACH NEWSWEEKLY

Beginning at 10 a.m. On August 27, something will be happening in almost every practice hall and stage at the Riverside Children’s Theatre as part of an open house and casting call.

Many parents may have watched their little ones ham it up in front of their relatives but never thought to let them “get their talent on” at the Riverside Children’s Theatre. The RCT has something to offer to both kids and their parents too.

The RCT will be holding an open house at 10 a.m. to noon to let peo-

ple familiarize themselves with the programs and classes with door prizes and refreshments being offered to the public. Linda Downey, the Director of Education at the RCT, said that the open house “is a good opportunity for parents to see what is really happening at the theater and perhaps get involved.”

Schedule of Events: 10 - 12 a.m.: Open House and a separate 3-4 year-old pre-school drama & Music class with music, dance and “Get Tangled” story time 10 a.m.: Auditions for “Rapunzel and Me, A Muzical” for 8 & up

10 a.m.: Auditions for “Nutcracker: In Swingtime,” 6-7 years 10 a.m.; 8-10 years 11 a.m.; 11-13 years noon; 14 & up 1 p.m.

Noon: “RCT’s Got Talent,” for kids 7 years & up 2 pm: Tryouts for the Junior Theatre Festival shows “Aristocats Kids” 7-9 years and “The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley Jr.”, for ages 10 - 18. These shows will travel to Atlanta for the annual Festival competition.

Classes begin September 6. Call 772-234-8052 or visit www.riversidetheatre.com for a complete schedule of classes.

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Marsh Landing Restaurant, 44 N Broadway in Fellsmere, $17 in advance and $20 at door, luncheon and speaker.

RSVP by Aug 24, 772-473-3037.

Aug 28: The Dragonfly Quilt Shop located at 1910 Old Dixie Hwy will be celebrating their 4th Birthday from 10 am-2 pm. There will be vendor representatives, product demo’s, featured local artists, and more. dragonflyvero@aol.com.

Aug 30: Photography Workshop, Ages 14 and up, free, learning to demystify camera functions and take better pictures. Island Images Gallery of Hope, 2036 14th Ave. Ste. 101, in Downtown Vero Beach. 10-11 am, Register at 772-643-6994.

Sept 1: “In Remembrance of 9/11” on the 10th Anniversary held at Grand Harbor Clubhouse, 11:30 am, luncheon and speakers Jack Kemp, To submit your calendar listing please email: who was in Morgan Stanley on the verobeachnewsweekly@gmail.com

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sion of the Recreation Department’s gymnastic classes in Leisure Square, 3705 16th St., 8 am, all ages, parents must accompany child. 772-770-6500.

Aug 27: “Punt, Pass & Kick” by the IRC Recreation Department, a local competition on the arm of the NFL. Kids aged 6 to 15, boys and girls, may enter to do one lace kick, one throw and one punch. The best of each age group will move on to sectionals and win awards & medals. 16th St. Sports Complex on corner of 16th St. and 17th Ave. No fee but must register at 8:30 am. 772-226-1732, ircgov.com.

Aug 27: “Get Tangled” The Riverside Children’s Theatre is putting on an adaptation of Rapunzel at the Agnes Wahlstrom Theatre with children ages 3 & 4, 10 am, tickets are $10.

772-234-8052, riversidetheatre.com.

Aug 27: “Women’s Equality Day” Annual event hosted by IR NOW,

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70th Floor, and Ed Kennedy, a NYC Firefighter who was a first responder the day of the attack. $17 plus cash bar. Reservations only, 772-778-9000.

Sept 3: End of Summer Luau at the Vero Beach Hotel & Spa’s “Heaton’s Reef,” 3500 Ocean Dr, 6-11 pm, Island music, Hawaiian inspired buffet, tropical drink specials, Fire and Hula Dancers, pay at door, $20 includes buffet and entertainment. Dress is tropical beachwear. 772-469-1060.

Sept 10: Free Monthly Concert Series by the Oceanside Business Association, live music by “Other People’s Music.” Food, beer, wine and refreshment vendors at Humiston Park on Ocean Dr. Bring a chair or a blanket to sit on but no coolers please.

Benefits the VNA. 772-532-7983, VeroBeachOBA.com Sept 10: “RCT’s Got Talent” Talent competition for local children ages 3-4 at the Riverside Children’s Theatre, 3280 Riverside Park Dr., tickets $8, call 772-231-6990.

Sept 10: Back to School Bash Internationally known Hypnotist and Master Magician Gary Roberts will appear at the Vero Beach High School Performing Arts Center, 1707 16th St., 6:30-8 pm, Tickets are $10 at door, call 772-770-4811.

Sept 13: Fundraiser for Substance Awareness Council at Chili’s Restaurant. 940 US1, 11 am-11 pm. 10 percent of sales to go to benefit SAC. www.sacirc.org.

Sept 15: “Cha-Cha and Pizza” to kick off National Ballroom Week.

USA Dance, Heritage Center, 2145 14th Ave., 7 pm, $8-$10, 772-7709684, verodance.org.

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Every Saturday: Oceanside Business Association’s Farmer’s Market, 8 am-noon. Located in the parking lot just south of Humiston Park on Ocean Dr. www.VeroBeachOBA.com, 772-532-2455.

Every Sunday: Farmer’s Market from 9 am-2 pm in downtown Vero at the corner of 14th Ave. & 21st St. Contact Eric Hessler by email: eric@ mainstreetverobeach.org or call the Main Street office, 772-480-8353.

Aug 25: Facebook Workshop hosted by the Vero Beach Christian Association. Learning to use Facebook as another tool for your business by “Taking Your Business to the Next Level.” Luncheon and speaker at Carrabba’s, 1285 US 1. 11:30 am, $14$17, RSVP to lunch@vbca.org Aug 25: Mulligan’s Beach House Back to School Party to benefit Boys & Girls Club. 5-8 pm. Kids eat free.

20 percent of proceeds go to charity plus lots of fun for the kids and more.

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Aug 26: Dine & Design “Summer Sizzler Stroll” – Downtown merchants, studios, galleries and restaurants participate in this special summer event to beat the heat. 5-8 pm in Historic Downtown Vero Beach.

772-480-8353, or call Gallery 14, 772562-5525.

Aug 26: Meet the Locals Pottery Show at the Flametree Clay Art Gallery on 14th Avenue. Reception with refreshments & hors d’oeuvres, 5-9 pm. Coincides with the Summer Sizzler Stroll event in Historic Downtown.

Aug 27: Riverside Children’s Theatre Open House and Fall Auditions.

Agnes Wahlstrom Youth Playhouse, 10 am tryouts for children over the age of 6. 3280 Riverside Dr. 772-234-8052.

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BY NICK THOMAS

How can I review a very good restaurant and turn it into a rant on one of my main food peeves? Behold.

The Polo Grill, on the corner of Ocean Drive and Flamevine Lane is a lovely restaurant. I enjoy it so much, in fact, that I took my mother there the other NICK THOMAS evening, knowing she would like it too.

Not only does the Polo Grill occupy an excellent space in the prestigious Portales de Vero building – just dimly lighted enough, just woody and leathery enough, just clubby and cool enough -- the restaurant offers a menu, mature service, and a price point that says both “you are in a fine-dining establishment” and “this is about the customer. We don’t need to prove we’ve studied the latest menu from the French Laundry or Charlie Trotter’s, and we’re not here to take a bow.”

They don’t seek to shock, surprise, or even innovate. Instead, they calm-

ly, confidently seek to tickle that little happy spot in your brain that processes the culture of years past, fond memory, comfort.

So when the Polo Grill offers an appetizer of seriously hot escargots in garlic butter, served in a purposebuilt ceramic plate, they are not trying to be ironic. The dish simply is what it is. And it is what we hope and expect it to be. We all know the snails come from a can, and we all know we’re eating a quarter stick of butter. But my-Oh-my, they are yummy.

Even my Italian Mom, who claims to dislike garlic (go figure), couldn’t help but join the party.

Similarly, when taking my order for a time-tested and included-in-theprice Caesar salad, our waiter took a moment to inquire whether I wanted the anchovies we all know are part of the traditional recipe. I said I loved anchovies, and my salad arrived with half a dozen extra.

Knowing the reliability of the menu from previous visits – familiar picatas, marsalas, franceses – I took about as big a leap as one can at Polo Grill, and I ordered the breaded pork cutlet, the schnitzel, served with a sauce of slightly sweet, slightly tart

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But Mom piped up regardless and said she loved cream Brulee. I said, “by all means.” And when it was presented, it was wonderful. Served in a wide oval ramekin, and only half-aninch deep, the custard was light and not too sweet, and the kitchen took advantage of all that surface area to highlight the kitschy, but nonetheless wonderful, crackling burnt-sugar over layer.

So . . . , with nothing to prove, and with a kitchen that obviously has its house in order in every other conceivable way, why would they turn out the less-than-stellar, mushy-inthe-middle crab cakes that my Mom ordered?

I can’t think of a single other recipe that practically every cook on the planet agrees should be prepared a

certain way – whole lump crab meat, bound with only a hint of egg white and seasoning, and with just barely enough bread crumb to catch the crab juice thrown off by minimal cooking -- that is so often abused or flat-out ignored by restaurant cooks.

After speaking with the management at the Polo Grill, I get what they are up against. They use the best ingredients, but to insure that they can turn out a consistent crab cake that holds together for cooking and serving, they have to err on the side of using more filler and less crab. And to prevent a wayward shard of crab shell from finding its way into someone’s larynx, the “lump” crab meat has to be sacrificed and broken down as it is picked over by hand.

“So why bother serving crab cakes at all?” I asked.

“That’s simple. They’re a very popular item.”

Nick Thomas is a lawyer and certified family mediator. Reach him at nthomasslaw@comcast.net.

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It certainly seems every time you turn around, the prevailing wisdom regarding diet and exercise changes.

First, the nutritional pyramid was flipped on its side, re-prioritizing the food groups and their recommended portions. Then, the previously suggested 30-minute exercise regimen was increased to a full hour. And now, a New York Times bestselling book insists that the formerly prescribed three to four days a week workout for overall physical fitness should be extended to a full six days.

That’s right, if you want to get healthy and stay that way, you have to exercise six days a week.

Published in 2004, “Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You’re 80 and Beyond,” by Chris Crowley and Harry S. Lodge has gained a cult-like following among seniors seeking to slow down – if not reverse – the aging process.

Although much of what is presented in the book is not new, Crowley, a retired lawyer in his 70s, and Lodge, an internist in his 40’s and a member of the Columbia University Medical School faculty, have written an engaging manifesto that combines feelgood anecdotes and hard science.

Basically, the authors claim that if you want to feel younger: exercise every day, spend less money than you earn, don’t eat junk food, and get involved in meaningful relationships.

A sedentary life, they say, sends a cellular message to the body preparing it for its demise. In other words, what you do, eat and feel today is going to manifest physiologically tomorrow.

And as it turns out, you would be hard pressed to find someone that disagrees.

Dr. Peter Wernicki, an orthopedic surgeon with a fellowship in sports medicine at Pro Sports in Vero Beach, co-authored his own book, “Sports Medicine for Coaches and Athletes: Older Individuals and Athletes Over 50,” (Overseas Publishers Association, 2000). He concurs that a six-day-a-week exercise schedule is the ideal, but that it should be something that a person works toward, not jumps into.

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“Any athlete should build into it slowly,” warns Wernicki, who is preparing for a 100 mile bike ride this year. “Don’t start at six days a week.”

Wernicki used to be an avid runner, participating in countless marathons, triathlons and ironman competitions. As he approaches the age of 50, he has switched to biking “because it’s easier on my joints,” he says.

He recommends a cross-training workout schedule, alternating cardiovascular activities, such as biking, running and swimming three to four times a week, and weight lifting on the other days.

“The rule of thumb,” says Wernicki, “is that you shouldn’t increase your speed, distance and time more than ten percent a week.”

Dr. Seth Baker, a cardiologist at Indian River Cardiovascular Services, also works out six days a week because “it makes me feel better,” he says.

However, over the years he has changed the way he works out.

A former football player at Johns Hopkins University, he used to exercise to get bigger, stronger and faster. Now, he recommends working out for overall muscle tone and flexibility.

“You’re not trying to achieve a certain heart rate anymore,” explains Baker, who points out that the same number of calories are burned running five miles and walking five miles. “It’s the duration of the exercise that’s important.”

He recommends a fitness program of sixty minutes a day, six days a week that includes plenty of stretching. However, he says that it’s important that people don’t get discouraged if they can’t achieve those goals right away.

“If you can’t do it at one time, break it down to fifteen minute workouts twice a day,” he says. “Then increase the workouts at a comfortable pace.”

Both Baker and Wernicki say that nutrition fits into the fitness equation as much as exercise.

“Stay away from fad diets,” says Baker. “You need to have a balanced diet, eating good foods from all the food groups.

In fact, Gary Kitchell, a Vero Beach-based physical therapist and world class personal trainer to elite athletes such as John McEnroe, Ivan Lendl, and Andre Agassi, says the American obsession with exercise is based on the fact that people in this culture eat too much.

“If we would eat less, we would be healthier and need to exercise less,” says Kitchell.

He points out that many diseases, like diabetes, heart disease, hypertension and even colon cancer can be food-related, and that by eating less as a society, the prevalence of such illness will decrease.

Personal trainer Bill Dayton guides Robert Lyles through a workout at the Jungle Club.

Crowley and Lodge agree. They say in the book that by eating “clean foods,” which are whole, unprocessed foods that do not contain chemical preservatives, and exercising six days a week, people going into their golden years “can eliminate 50 percent of all illnesses and potential injuries.”

Moreover, the authors claim by adhering to the rules set forth in their book, seniors can “stave off 70 percent of the normal decay associated with aging.”

Richard Barattini, director of Longevity Fitness Club and Spa, says the benefits of working out six days a week are clearly evident. For years, he has

seen women over the age of 50 come to his gym on a daily basis.

“You can feel and see the energy flow,” he says.

“The proper physical activity is beneficial for anyone at any age.”

Barattini, who is in his 70s and works out almost every day, reminds people to seek out trained professionals before embarking on a new exercise program.

“Vero Beach is fortunate to have many different health facilities to choose from,” he says. “It gives folks an opportunity to look around and choose what’s best for them.”

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Irene H. Lamothe Irene H. Lamothe, 96, died Aug. 13, 2011, at the Atlantic Health Care Center in Vero Beach. She was born in North Attleboro, Mass., and moved to Vero Beach in 1996, coming from Fort Pierce, where she had moved in 1983 from Bellingham, Mass. She was a member of St. Helen Catholic Church, Vero Beach.

Survivors include her daughter, Lucille Brennan of The Villages; sons, Norman Lamothe of The Villages, Ronald Lamothe of Woonsocket, R.I., and Gerard Lamothe of Vero Beach; sister, Grace Remillard of Woonsocket; 19 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s Support Group, 2300 Fifth Ave., Suite 150, Vero Beach, FL 32960. A guestbook is available at www.coxgiffordseawinds.com.

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Samuel F. Holden Samuel F. Holden, 93, died Aug. 16, 2011, at the VNA Hospice House in Vero Beach. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and lived in Vero Beach for six years, coming from Indiantown. He worked as an appraiser in the real estate industry.

He served in the Air Force. Survivors include his wife, Seneida; sons, Frederick and Philip Holden; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be made to the

Mildred Russ Hudson Mildred Russ Hudson, 79, died Aug. 14, 2011, at Indian River Medical Center in Vero Beach.

She was born in Gifford and lived in Vero Beach. She was a member of Davis Temple Church of God In Christ, where she served as church mother, evangelist and missionary.

Survivors include her sons, Bobby Donnell Hudson of Gifford and Allen Pernell Hudson of Washington, D.C.; daughters, Elizabeth Bethel and Victoria D. Hudson, both of Vero Beach; brothers, Sylvester Leroy Russ of Vero Beach and Rafus Russ Jr. of Hyannis, Mass.; sisters, Clara Jackson, Lucille Buckner and Helen Drisdom, all of Vero Beach; 20 grandchildren; 42 great-grandchildren; and nine great-greatgrandchildren. A guestbook is available at www.stonebrothersfuneralhome.com.

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Albert Jay Colkitt Jr. Albert Jay Colkitt Jr., 60, died Aug. 14, 2011, at his home. He was born in Camden, N.J., and lived in Vero Beach for 55 years, coming from New Jersey. He owned Colkitt Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Inc. He was a member of King’s Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife of 41 years, Debbie; sons, Chad Colkitt and Joey Colkitt, both of Vero Beach; daughter, Christin Chisholm of Vero Beach; mother, Anna Colkitt of Vero Beach; sisters, Gail Langfitt of Vero Beach, Audrey Joiner of Melbourne; brothers, Glen Colkitt of Atlanta and Bruce Colkitt of Crownsville, Md.; and two grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to The Source, P.O. Box 2458, Vero Beach, FL 32961. A guestbook is available at www.coxgiffordseawinds.com.

Virginia Gallagher Virginia Gallagher died Aug. 15, 2011, at VNA Hospice, Vero Beach.

She was born in Philadelphia and lived in Vero Beach for 17 years, formerly of Lake Mary. She was a homemaker. She was of the Catholic faith. Survivors include her husband of 64 years, Joseph Gallagher of Vero Beach; son, Joseph E. Gallagher Jr. of Vero Beach; sister, Doris McCaughey of Columbia, S.C.; and two grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to VNA Hospice, 901 37th St., Vero Beach, FL 32960. A guestbook is available at www.aycock-hillcrest.com.

VNA & Hospice Foundation, 1110 35th Lane, Vero Beach, FL 32960.

A guestbook is available at www. coxgiffordseawinds.com.

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Ralph Robert Caporrino Ralph Robert Caporrino, 80, died Aug. 14, 2011, at his home in Vero Beach. He was born in New Jersey and moved to Vero Beach in 1963, coming from Milwaukee, Wis. He was the owner of Caprino’s Italian

Angela Christian Catallo Angela Christian Catallo, 76, died Aug. 10, 2011 at the VNA Hospice House, Vero Beach. She was born in Newark, N.J., and lived in Vero Beach for several years, coming from Short Hills, N.J. She was a member of the Vero Beach Country Club. Survivors include her son, Peter Christian Catallo of Hollywood; and two grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her husband of more than 50 years, William; and son, Dr. William James Catallo.

Services: Arrangements are by Cox Gifford Seawinds Funeral Home and Crematory. A guestbook is available at www.coxgiffordseawinds.com.

Elizabeth J. “Betty” Dutille Elizabeth J. “Betty” Dutille, 82, died Aug. 14, 2011, in Lebanon, N.H>. She was born in Northampton, Mass., and lived in Lebanon and Vero Beach. She was employed by the New England Telephone Co. for 10 years, and the National Bank of Lebanon for more than 20 years.

She was a member of Sacred Heart Parish in Lebanon and St. John of the Cross in Vero Beach. Survivors include her husband, Chester of Lebanon; daughter, Jane Harlow of Lebanon; sons, John Dutille of North Carolina and Jim Dutille of Sunapee, N.H.; brother, James Howe of Unity, N.H.; six grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

A guestbook is available at www. rickerfuneralhome.com.

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Adelaide H. Birchard Adelaide H. Birchard, 90, died Aug. 9, 2011, at VNA Hospice House, Vero Beach. She was born in Delmar, N.Y., and lived in Vero Beach for 10 years, coming from Lenox, Mass. She was a member of Christ the King Presbyterian Church, Vero Beach. Survivors include her sons, Timothy W. Noonan of Alstead, N.H., Rich Noonan of Bozeman, Mont., Dennis Noonan of Portland, Maine, and Tracy Noonan of California; stepdaughter, Jane Kellogg; six grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husbands, Denis T. Noonan Jr. and Arthur Birchard. Memorial contributions may be made to the Salvation Army, 2655 Fifth St. S.W., Vero Beach, FL 32962. A guestbook is available at www.strunkfuneralhome.com.

Restaurant in Vero Beach. He was a veteran of the Korean War, serving in the Army. He was a member of St. Helen Catholic Church, Vero Beach.

Survivors include his daughter, Kathy Hyde of Vero Beach; son, Danny Caporrino of Vero Beach; sisters, Betty Hall of Jensen Beach and Joann Franklin of Fort Myers; and two grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, Tillie Caporrino.

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Mary Myrtice Johnson Bailey Mary Myrtice Johnson Bailey, 84, died Aug. 12, 2011, at VNA Hospice House, Vero Beach. She was a lifetime resident of Vero Beach. She worked as a citrus fruit packer for the Fort Pierce Growers Association for 20 years and retired from Minton and Sons Citrus, Fort Pierce, after 34 years of service. Survivors include her daughters, Annette Coppersmith and Jacqueline Miller, both of Vero Beach; five grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Dink Bailey. Memorial contributions may be made to Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice Foundation, 1110 35th Lane, Vero Beach, FL 32960. A guestbook is available at www.strunkfuneralhome.com.

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Barrier Island Real Estate Sales – August 11-August 17

Address 1850 Bay Road, #2D 5400 Highway A1A, #E-22

Address: Subdivision: List Date: List Price: Sell Date: Sell Price: Listing Broker: Selling Broker:

440 Coconut Palm Road John’s Island N/A N/A 8/15/2011 $2,800,000 Non-MLS Dale Sorensen Real Estate, Inc.

Address: Subdivision: List Date: List Price: Sell Date: Sell Price: Listing Broker: Selling Broker:

385 Riverway Court Seagrove West 6/24/2011 $1,895,000 8/12/2011 $1,650,000 Alex MacWilliam, Inc. Premier Estate Properties

Address: Subdivision: List Date: List Price: Sell Date: Sell Price: Listing Broker: Selling Broker:

630 Lake Drive Riomar Bay 3/2/2011 $1,795,000 8/16/2011 $1,595,000 Premier Estate Properties Alex MacWilliam, Inc.

Address: Subdivision: List Date: List Price: Sell Date: Sell Price: Listing Broker: Selling Broker:

370 Westwind Court Orchid Island 3/18/2011 $1,800,000 8/15/2011 $1,500,000 Dale Sorensen Real Estate, Inc. Dale Sorensen Real Estate, Inc.

Address: Subdivision: List Date: List Price: Sell Date: Sell Price: Listing Broker: Selling Broker:

875 Live Oak Lane Floralton Beach 3/7/2011 $450,000 8/12/2011 $405,000 Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc. Dale Sorensen Real Estate, Inc.

Address: Subdivision: List Date: List Price: Sell Date: Sell Price: Listing Broker: Selling Broker:

3554 Ocean Drive, #702 S Village Spires 2/11/2011 $419,000 8/15/2011 $375,000 Seaside Realty of Vero Beach Premier Estate Properties

Subdivision Harbour Side South Vista del Mar

List Date 9/24/2010 7/18/2011

List Price $245,000 $80,000

Sell Date 8/15/2011 8/12/2011

Sell Price $203,000 $75,000

Listing Broker The Moorings Realty Sales Co. Dale Sorensen Real Estate, Inc.

Selling Broker Palm Pointe Realty Dale Sorensen Real Estate, Inc.

Mainland Real Estate Sales – August 4-August 10

Address 2857 St. Barts Square

Address: Subdivision: List Date: List Price: Sell Date: Sell Price: Listing Broker: Selling Broker:

1650 Rosewood Court W Rosewood Court 6/21/2011 $385,000 8/11/2011 $377,500 Dale Sorensen Real Estate, Inc. Dale Sorensen Real Estate, Inc.

Address: Subdivision: List Date: List Price: Sell Date: Sell Price: Listing Broker: Selling Broker:

2144 4th Court SE Vero Shore 4/13/2011 $399,000 8/12/2011 $375,000 Dale Sorensen Real Estate, Inc. Dale Sorensen Real Estate, Inc.

Address: Subdivision: List Date: List Price: Sell Date: Sell Price: Listing Broker: Selling Broker:

5525 61st Place Eagle Trace 5/1/2011 $399,000 8/16/2011 $370,000 Waterman Real Estate Inc. Re/Max Crown Realty

Address: Subdivision: List Date: List Price: Sell Date: Sell Price: Listing Broker: Selling Broker:

5130 21st Street SW Casa Campo 11/1/2010 $375,000 8/17/2011 $325,000 Treasure Coast Sotheby’s Intl Re/Max Premier Prop Showcase

Address: Subdivision: List Date: List Price: Sell Date: Sell Price: Listing Broker: Selling Broker:

1197 Riverwind Circle Riverwind 6/10/2011 $339,000 8/11/2011 $315,000 Norris & Company Alex MacWilliam, Inc.

Address: Subdivision: List Date: List Price: Sell Date: Sell Price: Listing Broker: Selling Broker:

425 22nd Avenue SW The Preserve 8/30/2010 $269,000 8/15/2011 $260,000 Coldwell Banker Ed Schlitt ISL Sebastian Realty, Inc.

Subdivision Antilles

List Date 6/3/2011

List Price $265,000

Sell Date 8/17/2011

Sell Price $247,500

Listing Broker Norris & Company

Selling Broker Boca Executive Realty

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