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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Rick Svetkoff disembarks the F-104 Starfighter after performing an exhibition prior to the start of the Tico Warbird 2013 Airshow at the Space Coast Regional Airport for three performances in March. “It was a record-breaking crowd,” Terry Yon, former public relations officer at the museum, said in a previous interview. “The Thunderbirds really brought the crowds in.” Lilley had the Thunderbirds scheduled for the October Cocoa Beach Air & Space Show. In April he was confident that the Thun-
derbirds would be back on the air-show circuit and fly at that show. They’re not, and that show was canceled. After the Cocoa Beach show was canceled, Lilley helped organize the Melbourne Air & Space Show. The first of the upcoming events is the Vero Beach Air Show. That’s a long unheard name to
many. “It’s the first one we’ve had in 16 years,” Marty Zickert, president of the Veterans Council of Indian River County, said. That show will be on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 5 and 6, at the Vero Beach Municipal Airport,
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There’s been a dearth of air shows for the last few months, but that’s about to change. Three shows are scheduled for the Space and Treasure coasts in the next few weeks. Air shows have been unusually quiet in Florida since spring, Bryan Lilley, owner of B. Lilley Productions, said. The company specializes in air shows. “Normally there’d be 15 (in Florida) from March to November,” he said. “Sequestration canceled a lot of air shows.” Put simply, the federal budget sequestration grounded the Air Force Thunderbirds and Navy Blue Angels. Those crack demonstration teams are the air show rock stars. Without them, tickets just don’t sell nearly as well. Lilley said a number of promoters shut down shows rather than go the 2013 season without the elite flight teams to draw ticket buyers. Back on March 1, Maj. Darrick Lee, Thunderbirds’ public affairs, announced that the air-demonstration team would be grounded after April 1 due to the federal-budget sequestration. The Blue Angels soon followed with a similar announcement. Turned out the last anyone saw of the Thunderbirds for the 2013 air-show season was at the 36th annual Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum & TICO AirShow, Titusville, March 22 to 24.
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Martin commissioner aims to get new veterans home in Indiantown “(The home) would serve Indian River, Martin, St. Lucie, and Palm Beach counties,” Haddox said. “Get a map and draw a 45-mile radius from Indiantown and around. Especially with Palm Beach County, the distance fits pretty well, and the number of veterans works pretty well.”
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VETERAN’S HELP NEEDED John Haddox each, and an assisted living facility with 150. The nursing homes are, by far, the FDVA’s largest function. During its last 60-day session, the Florida Legislature
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Martin County commissioner John Haddox, Palm City, has a word for the Florida Department of Veterans Affairs, FDVA. “Indiantown,” he said. At its last regular meeting — Tuesday, Sept. 10 — Haddox asked the Martin County Commission for its backing to put together a steering committee tasked with finding a land donor and pitching the state to build a veterans nursing home in Indiantown. “(The home) would serve Indian River, Martin, St. Lucie, and Palm Beach counties,” Haddox said. “Get a map and draw a 45-mile radius from Indiantown and around. Especially with Palm Beach County, the distance fits pretty well, and the number of veterans works pretty well.” Among other things, the state veterans department operates six nursing homes with 120 beds
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Capt. Jason Curtis of the United States Air Force Thunderbirds team flew his first air show with the aerobatic team in March at the Tico Warbird Airshow at the Space Coast Regional Airport in Tiutusville. Capt. Curtis flew plane No. 6 in the role of opposing solo.
AIRSHOWS from page 1 3400 Cherokee Drive. Like many municipal airports in Central and South Florida, Vero Beach was a Naval air training station during World War II. The first batch of Navy aviators started training in February 1943. At its peak, there were about 1,400 Navy and Marine Corps members stationed at the Naval Air Station Vero Beach. Among performers now scheduled for the Vero Beach Air Show are the GEICO Skytypers, TinStix of Dynamite, Manfred Radius Airshows. Patty Wagstaff, Matt Younkin, George Koontz, Scott “Scooter” Yoak, Skip Stewart, and
Photo courtesy U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Richard Rose Jr. The USAF Thunderbirds Nos. 5 and 6 performed the ’Calypso Pass,’ during a performance in March at the Warbird Valiant Air Command in Titusville. In mirror formations, one Thunderbird must be inverted, and it is always Thunderbird No. 5. In fact, the ‘5’ on this aircraft is painted on upside down, and thus appears right side up for much of the routine. It was the last performance of the Thunderbirds before sequestration cuts caused many air shows to be canceled this year.
Chris Darnell with the FlashFire Jet Truck. Veterans can get discounted tickets for the show at the Victory Center Military Store, in the Indian River Mall. Those tickets are $10 each. The mall is at 6200 20th St., Vero Beach. The military store is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday. For more about the Vero Beach Air Show, visit veroairshow.com. Stuart and Melbourne will have air shows the first weekend of November. That action will start at Stuart’s Martin County Airport Witham Field, 2001 S.E. Airport Road, on Friday, Nov. 1, at 5:45 with a flag drop. After the drop, there’ll be shows by the Twin
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Tiger and AeroShell aerobatic teams well into the dark. “It’s a different style show, because you’re seeing aircraft fly with strobe lights,” Michael Roberts, president of the Road to Victory Military Museum said. “They’re aircraft set up to fly at night. They’re set up with lights and pyrotechnics.” Witham Field was an auxiliary facility to the Naval Air Station Vero Beach during World War II. It was later named after Paul “Homer” Witham, the first known Navy aviator from Martin County to die in World War II. The Stewart Air Show continues on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 2 and 3, with acts such as the Lewis & Clark FLS Microjet, Precious Metal Air Racer, Air Sports Parachute Demonstration Team, and the Julie Clark, John Klatt, Dan Buchanan and Gary Ward airshows, along with Elgin Wells’ Starjammer. Stewart and Younkin will also appear at the Stuart Air Show. Veterans will get in free with proof of military service. Roberts said he believes this will be one of the biggest turnouts for the annual air show. “We feel the phones are ringing more than usual,” he said. “We’re getting more and more acts coming to the show, because other shows have canceled. Our ticket sales are ahead of last year, double.” For information about the Stuart Air Show, visit stuartairshow. com. The Black Diamond Jet Team is headlining the inaugural Melbourne Air & Space Show. It’ll be on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 2 and 3 at Paradise Beach, 113 Paradise Blvd. “We just announced our performance lineup this week,” Lilley
said. “We’ve seen a lot of interest on the website.” The GEICO SkyTypers will be at that show, along with John Black in the Super Decathlon, and demo teams showing off the P-51 Mustang, the Grumman Avenger TBF, the F-86 Sabre, and others. For more about the Melbourne show, visit airandspaceshow.com. The crack pilots of the Thunderbirds and Blue Angels are highly-trained and motivated combat aviators who can fly through any melee — except bickering politicians. Previously, Congress passed and the president signed the Budget Control Act of 2011. The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, often called the super committee, formed to work out a deal for Congress to raise the federal government’s debt ceiling to avoid sovereign default on previously-appropriated spending. The committee hatched the idea of giving Congress and President Barack Obama a frightening prospect if they couldn’t agree on budget cuts and revenue increases — sequestration, automatic across-the-board spending cuts over 10 years accompanied by expiring tax reductions. Many believed the prospect of an acrossthe-board budget cuts that could send the nation into recession would force Congress and the president to work toward more agreeable solutions. While some compromises have happened, the Congress and White House are still locked in budget battles that have brought on the budget sequestration. The 2013-2014 budget years starts in October. A spokesperson for the Thunderbirds said the team is practicing for shows next year, but not making schedule commitments until further notice.
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Retired New York City detective Tom Flynn of Port St. Lucie rang the bell in remembrance of the lives lost during each of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 during a memorial service at Indian River State College in Fort Pierce.
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Al Hickey of Port St. Lucie spoke of his experiences as a first responder following the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, during a memorial service at Indian River State College in Fort Pierce. The public event was also attended by students of the school’s police and fire academies who were mostly in single-digit ages at the time of the attacks.
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MARTIN COUNTY — And the winner is … the National Guard sergeant who designed the logo for the Veterans Memorial Bridge while he was serving in Afghanistan. True story. “In my spare time, I worked on it a little bit,” Mickey Planker, Stuart, said. Planker was among about 75 artists who submitted logos to the contest last month. “He had a good piece of art and a really cool story,” Beth Zsoka, bridge project public information officer, said. The Stuart man, along with the rest of the Florida National Guard’s 806th Military Police Company, returned home on Aug. 23 from a deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The company is stationed in Fort Pierce. All submissions to the Bridge Event Planning Committee’s contest
had to be in by Aug. 30. Planker learned about the contest to design the bridge logo from friends’ emails. As he went to work on it, a few ideas weighed on the artist’s mind. He wanted a patriotic theme — minus the overwhelming glitz and glare. His logo featured numerous occurrences of reds, whites and blues, but in varying shades offset by other tones. Planker wanted to pay tribute to fallen service members without sadness. That he did by adding silhouette of a bird in flight. “Bird flying, spirits flying,” he said. His logo also features numerous environmental images, including trees and a sailboat. Planker said getting the environmental images was important because of current events. “(The contest) was going down when they were releasing millions of gallons of water out of Lake Okeechobee,” he said. Zsoka said the logo will be used
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The closest veteran nursing home to the Treasure Coast is the Alexander “Sandy” Nininger Veterans’ Nursing Home, 8401 W. Cypress Drive, Pembroke Pines. The next closest is the Emory L. Bennett State Veterans’ Nursing Home, 1920 Mason Ave., Daytona Beach. Bennett was built in 1993. Nininger in 2001.
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