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Photo courtesy of Vanessa Smolen From left to right, Shelby Allison, Ashlyn Tucker and Mia Smolen were among about 1,000 who showed up at the West Palm Beach International Airport on Saturday, April 27, to welcome home World War II veterans arriving from that last Honor Flight of Southeast Florida trip. Operation Homecoming is a new part of the local hub’s efforts to honor the veterans. The next arrival will be on Saturday, May 25, at 7:50 p.m. Organizer Vanessa Smolen hopes people will help spread the word in the meantime. For information, call Smolen at (772) 834-9340.
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State urges veterans to apply for VA benefits The Florida Department of Veterans Affairs is on a mission to get more of the state’s 1.6 million veterans to apply for the federal Department of Veterans Affairs’ healthcare and other benefits. Some — particularly the state’s 449,000 Vietnam-era and 140,000 women veterans — seem reluctant to apply for VA healthcare and other benefits. “The last figure I have, and this is 2011 data, is that there were 669,205 veterans enrolled in the VA healthcare system,” Steve Murray, communications director of the FDVA, said. “Surely there’s more today.” The state and federal veterans departments are separate. The state department has about 100 veterans claims examiners, also called veterans service officers, who help veterans navigate the federal VA when applying for benefits. Most work at VA facili-
ties around the state. The Florida Legislature just approved adding 13 new ones in its $74.5 billion 2013-2014 budget. At press time, Gov. Rick Scott had not yet signed the budget, and could veto items in it. It’s doubtful the governor, a Navy veteran, would nix the additional claims examiners who are leading the FDVA’s outreach to get more veterans enrolled in the VA. “During the last federal fiscal year, (veterans) brought in about 13.7 billion federal dollars into Florida’s economy,” Murray said in the previous interview. That’s just in retirement, pensions, healthcare and educational benefits. It doesn’t include ancillary dollars, such as construction of the new Orlando VA hospital, slated to be substantially completed sometime after July, 2013, and finally finished sometime in 2014. The 1.2 millionsquare-foot facility will cost the federal VA at least $612 million.
Donna Carlsen, St. Lucie County’s veterans service coordinator, said there’s a relationship between the number of veterans in areas enrolling for benefits and where the VA puts facilities.
The Veterans Health Administration is split among 23 Veterans Integrated Service Network regions. Each gets a share of the
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federal funding based on several factors, including the populations of veterans enrolled in their healthcare systems. Florida has VISN 8, the Sunshine Healthcare Network, almost to itself. It’s one of only four states with a million or more veterans. Additionally, VISN 16, the South Central VA Health Care Network, serves part of the Panhandle. Carlsen said it’s important for Florida veterans to enroll in the VA to help make up for part-time residents using its healthcare facilities. “What happens in our VISN, because we have such an influx of snowbirds, we don’t get the money appropriated to the snowbirds.” Those dollars go to the VISNs they’re domiciled in. “Their monies don’t come here,” Carlsen said. “So, our VISN is always underpaid.” Carlsen said there’ve been numerous changes to VA policies in recent years, including expansions of presumptive service-connected conditions, various health conditions that are now
presumed to be related to military service. She said if a veteran hasn’t talked with a service officer in the last few years, he or she could have benefits coming now that weren’t available before. “(The St. Lucie County Veterans Service Office) grossed $89 million (in new benefits) due to the new presumptive conditions for Vietnam-era veterans,” Carlsen said. St. Lucie has about 45,000 veterans. Nearly 24,000 with disability ratings from the VA. Murray pointed out another example of increased enrollments in VA having tangible benefits for all Floridians. “Just looking at Tallahassee, where I’m living,” he said. “They’ve looked at the need and said, ‘We need a new national cemetery, just because of the enrollees they have in the VA healthcare system.” Every county has a veterans service office to help veterans apply for benefits. Information about the offices is available at counties’ websites. The FDVA is online at floridavets.org. “This is not your father’s VA and we’d like you to come in,” Murray said.
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We treat everyone like family Photo courtesy of Meredith Dayna Levy Indian River State College will present Meredith Dayna Levy’s 2012 play “Decision Height,” from May 23-25. It tells the story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots program during WWII and was written as an Honors Thesis at Hollins College in Virginia.
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FORT PIERCE — In 2012, when Meredith Dayna Levy was a senior at Hollins College in Virginia, she submitted the play, “Decision Height” as her Honors Thesis. The play tells the true story of six women volunteers in the Women Airforce Service Pilots program who shuttled planes to airbases in the United States and Britain during WWII. It takes place at the airfield in Sweetwater, Texas, where the
women were being trained, and it explores their lives and what motivated them to fly. David Moberg, director of Indian River State College’s Performing and Visual Arts department and a playwright himself, has selected “Decision Height” as part of the McAlpin Onstage Summer Program. It will be presented May 23-25 at the Wynne Black Box Theatre. Moberg serves as the regional point person for the New Plays Project of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festi-
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we will do with 12 months’ of papers!” The breakdown went as follows: four first-place, one second- and seven third-place awards. Chief photographer Mitch Kloorfain was the big winner with three first places and one third. First place: Ad campaign, Martin County dentist Dr. Michael Sohl. Personal column, Mitch Kloorfain, “Here by a phone call, love and an adoption.” Original sports event photo, Mitch Kloorfain for a lacrosse photo taken at Halpatiokee Park. Community news event photo, Mitch Kloorfain, “Color Run,” a photo of a color run in Orlando featuring a local couple. Second place: Full page color
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Photo courtesy of Steve Murray The Ambassador of France to the United States, Francois Delattre, personally awarded five World War II veteran with the insignia of Knight in the Order of the Legion of Honor for helping to liberate their nation in 1944 to 1945, on Thursday, April 25. France has honored more than 1,000 Florida vets with the Legion of Honor insignia in recent years. WWII veterans can find out more about being awarded the insignia by visiting the consulate’s website, consulfrance-miami.org. There’s an application at the site.
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Florida Veterans Council: Are vets connecting? By Patrick McCallister For Veteran Voice It’s called Florida Vets Connect, but some are wondering if it’s reaching everyone who asked. When veterans get or renew Florida driver’s licenses or identification cards, they can check a box requesting contact from the Florida Department of Veterans Affairs, and supply an e-mail address. It’s an effort to help veterans get all the benefits they’ve earned. Michael McDaniel, department adjutant for the American Legion Department of Florida, told the FDVA that he checked that box last June when he renewed his license. “I have yet to be contacted,” he said. McDaniel made his comments at the last regular meeting for the Florida Veterans Council, Thursday, April 25. In an interview after the meeting, Steve Murray, communications director for the department, said he can’t comment on an incident of a veteran not getting the requested contact. “I can’t speak to any technical glitches or why (McDaniel) didn’t get it,” Murray said. Vets Connect is a joint effort of the Florida Department of Highway and Safety Motor Vehicles and the state’s veterans department. It started in 2010. The FDVA estimates that there are about 1.6 million to 1.7 million veterans living in the Sunshine State, but less than half are enrolled in the federal Department of Veterans Affairs. Many likely have unclaimed benefits their service earned
Among other functions, the state veterans department has the Agency for Benefits and Assistance. The agency has about 100 veterans service officers working mostly at federal VA medical facilities. They also train the state’s county veterans service officers. The state and federal departments are separate. them. Among other functions, the state veterans department has the Agency for Benefits and Assistance. The agency has about 100 veterans service officers working mostly at federal VA medical facilities. They also train the state’s county veterans service officers. The state and federal departments are separate. Murray said the email addresses veterans give are passed along to eWareness, an internet marketing company owned by veteran Brian K. St. Ours. The company is paid $5,000 a year to send e-mails to the requesting veterans. In an email follow up to a Veteran Voice interview, Murray said that from October to March, eWareness sent 238,513 requested e-mails. However, there are a number of things that can prevent the one-time contacts, for example, complicated emails that are easily misspelled. Additionally, Murray said that
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CLUES ACROSS 1. Our 10 numerals 7. Horseshoe cleat 11. Ear shell 12. Soprano solo 13. Vestments 14. Heart’s singer Wilson 15. Set of type in one style 16. Withdraw from work 18. Ancient Hebrew coin 20. Megacycle 21. 26th British letter 22. Colonnaded Greek walks 24. Russian sourgrass soup 26. OK Corral’s Wyatt 27. Cheremiss 28. Schenectady County Airport 29. Laptop 31. Actress Farrow 32. NYSE for Murphy Oil Corp. 33. Talk noisily 35. New Testament 36. Tax collector 37. Mediation council 39. Not in use 41. Act as master of ceremonies 43. Skin lesions 44. Stiff bristle 45. Equally 46. Pool dressing room 49. Eyebath 51. Thick piece of something 52. Angry 55. 20th Hebrew letter 56. 3rd largest Colombian city 57. Gum arabics
59. A song of praise to God 60. Dispatcher CLUES DOWN 1. Word shortening 2. Tore down (var. sp.) 3. 22nd state (abbr.) 4. Tropical constrictor 5. Hostelry 6. Examine and expurgate 7. Small restaurants 8. E. Asian anis liquor 9. Infestation of head louse 10. New Yorker film critic Pauline 11. An orange-red crystalline dye 13. Indicates position 16. Root mean square (abbr.) 17. Electronic counter-countermeasures 19. 12-31 greeting 22. Fastens
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23. Himalayan wild goats 25. One who overacts 28. Facial gesture 30. Absence of aggression 34. China 38. Older Bridges brother 40. Plays 42. Term denoting psychic abilities 43. Oral polio vaccine developer 44. Any habitation at a high altitude 46. Hyperbolic cosecant 47. Russian mountain range 48. An aromatic salve 50. Venezuelan fashion designer initials 53. Highest card 54. 5th son of Jacob 58. Music storage device
PORT ST. LUCIE — Everglades Area Health Education Center and Workforce Solutions have launched a public awareness campaign to promote Everglades AHEC’s tobacco cessation services to new audiences throughout its four-county region-Quit Burning Cash, Quit Smoking Today. Workforce Solutions will provide information on their website and in their centers for the Quit Burning Cash, Quit Smoking Today campaign to educate participants about the Everglades AHEC’s cessation programs; Quit Smoking Now uses a six-week format and Tools to Quit uses a two-hour format. Everglades Area Health Education Center seeks the enrollment of tobacco users wanting to quit and will provide all the necessary tools, resources and skills they will need to be set up for success. “Quitting smoking can make a significant financial impact on a struggling family affected by unemployment,” Workforce Solutions President/CEO Richard Stetson said. “This partnership allows our staff to refer interested clients to the Everglades AHEC program.” For those trying to quit alone, the success rate is quite low, around 7 percent. These cessation programs have a significantly higher success rate of approximately 33 percent. Workforce Solutions will refer interested job seekers and local businesses to the program. If you are interested in being referred or learning more about this free program, please log on to the Workforce Solutions at www.YourWorkforceSolutions.com and fill out the referral form. Everglades Area Health Education Center is funded by the Florida Department of Health to provide tobacco dependence treatment services to help people quit using tobacco. They also train current health profes-
“Quitting smoking can make a significant financial impact on a struggling family affected by unemployment,” Workforce Solutions President/CEO Richard Stetson said. “This partnership allows our staff to refer interested clients to the Everglades AHEC program.” sionals and health professions students about how to work with patients that use tobacco. Everglades Area Health Education Center has two different types of group programs which are both offered free of charge. The first is called Quit Smoking Now. Quit Smoking Now is a six-session program, one hour per week. The second is called Tools to Quit, which is a two-hour, one-time session. Both programs offer free patches, gum or lozenges to help with the nicotine withdrawal symptoms that occur when people quit using tobacco. Workforce Solutions is a private, nonprofit, Florida corporation with a board of directors consisting of private business, economic development and education representatives, community and state agencies, and elected officials. Members of the board represent the diversity of businesses, organizations and trades that operate in the Research Coast Region, including Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, and St. Lucie counties. Chartered by the state of Florida to create and manage a workforce development service delivery system responsive to the needs of businesses and job seekers, Workforce Solutions offers award-winning complimentary programs and partnerships recognized locally, statewide, and nationally. Our staff members are certified workforce professionals often recognized by their peers as leaders in workforce development and can be reached by calling 1-866-4U2HIRE or 1-866-482-4473 or learn more about us on the web by logging on to www.YourWorkforceSolutions.com.
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The Ambassador of France to the United States, Francois Delattre, left, and Florida Department of Veterans Affairs executive director, Mike Prendergast, right, join World War II veteran James Jernegan, center, at the Historic Old Capitol in Tallahassee. On Thursday, April 25, the ambassador personally awarded Jernegan and five other Florida World War II veterans, with the insignia of Knight in the Order of the Legion of Honor for helping to liberate their nation in 1944 to 1945. France has honored more than 1,000 Florida vets with the Legion of Honor insignia in recent years. WWII veterans can find out more about being awarded the insignia by visiting the consulate’s website, consulfrance-miami.org. There’s an application at the site.
PILOTS from page 5 val. He sees many of the plays registered for the Festival. “It was produced at Hollins and I saw it there,” he said. “It won an award. I heard another reading of it and talked to the playwright, I said we’d like to work with it and she was thrilled. It worked out well for both of us.” Moberg said that Levy wanted to write a play about the camaraderie among a group of women. “She attended Hollins, an allgirls school,” he said. “It was extremely meaningful and she wanted to write a play that allowed her to encapsulate that experience. While doing her research, she came upon the story of these women pilots. It was a way of capturing the feeling (of camaraderie.) The play is historically accurate in terms of detail, although the characters are fictionalized.” The all-female cast includes Emily Norcia, Kelly Fischer, Michelle Lucey, Shannon Maloney, Lindsey Mercado, Hannah Williams, Marisa Quijano, Jessica Lesko and Gabriella Rojas. Moberg sees a bright future for the young playwright, who is in the graduate program in playwriting at Hollins. “She’s done a super job,” he
said. “It’s been through 10-12 drafts. It’s just a good show. Her mentor at Hollins runs one of the only Master of Fine Arts programs in playwrighting in the southeastern United States.” This will be the first production of “Decision Height” outside the Hollins College community and Moberg said that the playwright is happy to have it produced. She is, in fact, expected to attend a performance on May 24. The phrase ‘decision height’ refers to the height at which a pilot makes the decision to land the plane or pass and try again. Next week, in an interview with playwright Meredith Dayna Levy, she’ll explore how she chose this subject for her play. “Decision Height” will be presented by IRSC as part of McAlpin Onstage Summer Shows on May 23-25 at the Wynne Black Box Theare. Performances are May 23-25 at 8 p.m. and May 25 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $15. Call the box office at (772) 462-4750 Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-3 p.m. The final show of the summer season will be a cabaret featuring music of contemporary Broadway, on June 6-8. Dessert will be served during intermission. Tickets are $20.
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Hono‰ Flight - One Last Mission You are invited to a community screening of the movie, “Honor Flight, One Last Mission”
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 Mayes Center for Hope 1201 SE Indian St., Stuart Choose between two showings: 2 p.m. or 6:30 p.m. We are handicap accessible
Admission is free, but space is limited. Reserve your seat now at tchospice.org/flight or contact: Mayce DelValle (772) 403-1758
Treasure Coast Hospice will be giving special recognition to all who have served in our armed forces.
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