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Lucky’s Lake Swim, a daily event for three decades, is closed until the pandemic subsides. AMY QUESINBERRY COMMUNITY EDITOR

COVID-19 closures impact preschools

For 30 years, swimmers have flocked daily to Lake Cane for Lucky’s Lake Swim, a 1-kilometer swimming jaunt across the lake. But that decades-long streak has been broken because of the rapidly spreading coronavirus pandemic. “First time we’ve ever had to shut down,” said John “Lucky” Meisenheimer, the Dr. Phillips SEE PANDEMIC PAGE 4

Although adjusting to a new normal has posed a challenge for parents, the extra family time has been a silver lining. ERIC GUTIERREZ STAFF WRITER

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Lucky Meisenheimer reluctantly has put a temporary halt to the daily lake swim.

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Windermere High’s band director, Rob Darragh, also serves as a staff sergeant and squad leader with the Army National Guard’s 13th Army Band. SEE STORY ON PAGE 4

With businesses, universities and schools closing across the country to stop the spread of COVID-19, preschools and some daycare centers have followed suit. The closure of such establishments that provide childcare for the youngest age groups has left many families with young children adjusting to a new normal. That adjustment has posed a challenge for parents such as Amy Costin, of Windermere. Her daughter is enrolled in the preschool program at Wind e r m e re Un i o n SEE VIRUS PAGE 2

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Church, and her son is enrolled in a program for 2-year-olds at the church. When the church closed its facilities, those programs have since moved online. “Our regular routines being turned upside down has been the most challenging — trying to find our new normal routine,” Costin said. “The kids usually have scheduled activities and a routine, and getting out of that (is challenging). … Without their routine of music and kinder-gym and just the switch-ups of the day with their academics and activities, it’s hard to kind of offer that same thing at home, especially when you have kids ... in three different age groups.” Costin works as a dental hygienist, but her job has been put on pause because of the pandemic. She also is an instructor in the dental hygiene school at Valencia College. Her classes have been converted online, and she’s able to work from home, but someone still needs to be around to watch the children and help them with their online work. Fortunately, she has help from other members of her family. “We’re not able to go into work, (but) my parents — fortunately — are available, so I have my mom’s help to be able to home school (my children),” Costin said. “(For Valencia), I’m downloading different apps for being able to meet and engage with my students. That’s been a challenge at times and a little

more time-consuming trying to keep up with that and all the emails when I’m trying to get my kids situated, as well.” Marci Sgattoni, a preschool teacher at Windermere Union Church, is accustomed to handson learning, and adjusting to distance learning has been a new venture. She has been using online tools to teach her students and keep up with families from home. Each week, she sends out letters by mail filled with fun activities for families to try with their little ones. Sgattoni even sends her students videos each morning just so her students can see her every day. “For the first time, we’re doing preschool from home, which is something I never thought would happen, because one of the main purposes of preschool is socialization and getting children used to being in a classroom and interacting with teachers and their classmates,” Sgattoni said. “We are utilizing email, computer programs and video apps to keep that connection going with our families. For example, for showand-tell this week, on the video app, we’re having the kids send little videos to us of their showand-tell for the letter, “U,” which is what our letter is this week.” Katie Hardy, a first-grade teacher at Foundation Academy Lower School in Winter Garden, has one son who attends Foundation’s preschool and another in the daycare program. With Foundation classes moving online, Hardy balances her time

at home between teaching her “That’s kind of the beauty of students and helping her sons all of this — despite the craziwith their education, as well. ness, we get more time with “It has definitely thrown off the ones we love,” Hardy said. our routine,” Hardy said. “My “When we look and when our husband is still working each kids look back at it, I think that day, so it’s just me home with they won’t remember the toithe boys. … Between my oldest let paper shortage, but they’ll (child’s) schoolwork plus work- remember that we went on faming on my own, I’ve been putting ily walks every day and got to do in some long hours and working school at home.” at night when I don’t usually. “Part of what we’re doing is creating videos for our students,” Hardy said of working from home. “There was one time, I was trying to create a video, and my 1-and-a-half-year-old was crawling on top of my head. Today, I was doing a Google Meet explaining something to a parent, and (my son) was crawling on the table, walking on the table and eating Play-Doh, so it has definitely been interesting.” CAP OFF YOUR NEXT Although COVID-19 has NAPA PURCHASE WITH A thrown off the schedules of these families, there’s a silver lining: Spending some extra time together. “It’s forced family time … but when it comes down to it, family time CHASE ELLIOT HAT (is something) we could Receive a free all use (and) put more Chase Elliott No. 9 Hat time into,” Costin with your purchase of $25 or more. said. “(The) big These custom NAPA Racing hats will fly off the shelves picture is there’s faster than Chase on a qualifying run, so don’t wait long plenty of posito take advantage of this limited time offer! tives to take While supplies last. Mention this ad with qualifying purchase away.” SERVING OUR COMMUNTY FOR OVER 80 YEARS!

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Independence residents have been spreading encouragement and positivity to others through sidewalk chalk. DANIELLE HENDRIX ASSOCIATE EDITOR

f you’ve been beating cabin fever by walking around your Horizon West neighborhood lately, it’s likely that you’ve seen some incredible chalk art and words of encouragement. With the Chalk Your Walk nationwide movement, residents are using chalk on sidewalks and driveways to spread messages of positivity and draw artwork to bring a smile to people’s faces. In the Independence community, residents were given complimentary chalk and encouraged to “spread joy and inspiration through the power of sidewalk chalk.” They could then post photos of their chalk art to be entered into a raffle for a prize. “I saw another community in another state doing it and I shared a post … we posted that on the Independence community group and then everything started to post about it,” resident Jennifer Benton said. “Our lifestyle director, Tim Gesing, talked to the HOA and got them involved and even offered prizes. He’s still trying to do his part in keeping the community involved, too, while following the orders that we have. Chalk Your Walk was definitely driven by the community, and Tim took it to the next level.”

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Joshua Cress, Abigail Heritage and Kendall Cress teamed up to touch up the sunset they had started a few days prior.

Benton said other Horizon West communities — including Orchard Hills, Summerlake, Hamlin and Summerport — have jumped on the Chalk Your Walk movement, too. Those walking through these neighborhoods are likely to see an array of positive messages — “Stand tall,” “This too shall pass,” “Distance your hands, not your hearts,” “Peace and health to all who pass this way” — as well as mosaics of colored paver stones and fun artwork. In the Independence community, one resident shared her drawing of baby Yoda. Another took on the task of drawing various Pokémon, such as Squirtle and Bulbasaur. Rainbows also are commonplace as a symbol of hope following a storm. Another resident drew a hopscotch game and included some stones nearby. Independence resident Melissa Cress and her family enjoyed some time in the sun chalking the sidewalk outside their home last week. It started with herself and her youngest son, Joshua, working on a pink flamingo accompanied by the words, “Stand tall.” They moved on to an outer-space drawing and soon were joined by Cress’ daughter, Kendall, and her friend, Abigail Heritage. “We got the idea from the Independence Facebook site and went from there,” Melissa Cress said. “We had a lot of fun. I really appreciate that (the HOA) has embraced it, because we do have pretty strict guidelines that we have to follow as a neighborhood … but to know that we can kind of put our guard

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down for a little bit and just enjoy each other is nice. Being able to put comments like ‘Stand tall’ — and I’ve seen other people say, ‘We’re all in this together,’ ‘We love you, keep going’ and all of that — they’re just really nice comments I don’t think people would have said otherwise.” While creating their chalk art, Kendall Cress and Heritage teamed up for a couple of hours to work on a color-melting sunset that took a lot of effort. “I thought it sounded fun, and it was cute,” Kendall Cress said of the Chalk Your Walk movement, adding next her inspiration for the sunset. “I was thinking, ‘Let’s go to the beach,’ but we can’t, so we brought the beach to us.” Heritage also drew one of the bees from “The Bee Movie,” inspired by the movie the two had

watched the night before. She said Chalk Your Walk has been a great way to look past the gloom and uncertainty brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. “We’re painting all these happy things, and it makes it feel like the times aren’t as bad as they are,” Heritage said. “I’m not stuck inside right now — we were out having fun painting and chalking together.” For Melissa Cress, one of the benefits of everything that has happened in the last few weeks — and a benefit, too, of Chalk Your Walk — is that people have been more apt to spread some positivity and inspire others. “Even when my husband and I go out and ride our bikes in the evening, when we pass other people, they’re saying hi, which a couple of weeks ago people wouldn’t have done that,” Melissa Cress said. “I think a lot of this chalk art had something to do with it, too.”

Happiness blooms from unused arrangements Summerport resident and florist Jo Carter isn’t letting COVID-19 cancellations stop her from spreading joy in the community. ERIC GUTIERREZ STAFF WRITER

No. 1 Flowers owner Jo Carter isn’t turning lemons into lemonade, but the sentiment is the same. Following a flood of COVID19-related event cancellations and postponements, Carter and her flower distributor, Orlandobased Pennock Floral, had a surplus of floral arrangements — all sitting in coolers without a purpose. Rather than seeing them go to waste, Carter, a Summer-

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port resident, now is using them to spread a few smiles in Winter Garden, Windermere and Horizon West. “I went and I picked up lots and lots of flowers and decided I would make some arrangements to give out to the community (and) to our first responders to try and put some smiles on people’s faces and to give me something to do since all of my April and May weddings have been postponed or canceled,” Carter said. “I feel (like) everyone is down right now. Our economy is down right now, and I just like to see peoples’ faces when I (give) arrangements. … The slogan I went with (is), ‘I hope this makes you smile.’ That’s the only reason why (I’m doing this): to give people something to smile about; give them some hope. This too will pass, and we’re in this together.”

The Cress family used their chalk to draw anything from sunsets and outer space to a flamingo and a bee.

“Being able to put comments like ‘Stand tall’ — and I’ve seen other people say, ‘We’re all in this together,’ ‘We love you, keep going’ and all of that — they’re just really nice comments I don’t think people would have said otherwise.” — Melissa Cress

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Carter has a variety of flowers such as roses, orchids, gerbera daisies, hydrangeas, peonies and more. Residents who know of someone who could use a smile can contact Carter to arrange for a delivery. She also has given her flowers to random homes in local neighborhoods. “Everything is free,” Carter said. “We’re not taking money at all, so if (residents) know of anyone that could use a smile (they can call us). We’re (also) just going through the neighborhoods and dropping them off on doorsteps — ringing the doorbell and leaving — with our masks and gloves.”

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Band director called to duty DANIELLE HENDRIX ASSOCIATE EDITOR

irst responders and health care workers have been on the front lines of caring for coronavirus patients for several weeks now in the United States. They test and treat individuals with symptoms of the virus. They set up testing centers and help ensure travelers are following proper health protocols. They sacrifice their health overall to help others. They are heroes on the battlefield — and among them is Windermere High’s band director, Rob Darragh. Along with his duties as the school’s band director, Darragh also serves as a staff sergeant and squad leader with the Army National Guard’s 13th Army Band. Members of his unit recently were called to South Florida — the epicenter of Florida’s COVID-19 outbreak — to assist with various tasks. It happened during Orange County Public Schools’ scheduled spring break. “It’s interesting, because the extended spring break happened, and then we got notified … the first part of spring break that we were on kind of an alert status,” Darragh said. “A couple days later it was like, ‘Yep, report in.’”

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Darragh’s unit’s original tasking was to come to Miami and set up screening centers and screen people in whatever role they were assigned. There were test swabbers, specimen collectors, traffic directors and more. “There was one at C.B. Smith Park and another at Hard Rock Stadium where the Dolphins play, which is a massive testing center,” Darragh said. “It’s a very large operation and requires a lot of staffing and things like that. Then we were re-tasked in the middle of all this to go to an airport locally and to also screen New York passengers — any flight from New York, New Jersey or Connecticut coming in, and I think New Orleans has been added to that list recently. … We run three shifts at the airport because of the way the flight schedules are working.” At the airport where the National Guard currently is, Darragh said, they have to wear masks and gloves, along with other personal protective equipment. Members of the National Guard then bring passengers off the planes to where Department of Health workers are there to screen and take paperwork from them. “We’re really just there to make

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“We try to give back to the community as much as we can with the National Guard, and it’s kind of our mission. It’s all about serving the people of the state.” — Rob Darragh

sure everything is good,” he said. “We have law enforcement with us, as well. Really, security and making sure people follow the correct procedures outlined by the governor is my purpose right now. Earlier this week, we were at the testing center and bounced around different spots. Some of us would swab, some of us were collecting hazard waste … some of us are collecting the samples, and they get refrigerated and sent off for testing.” Throughout these tasks, National Guard members must follow the advisories and guidelines set forth by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At the end of the day, everyone takes the necessary precautions to ensure they take care of themselves, their families and others, Darragh said. Darragh’s unit also is unique because all the soldiers in the 13th Army Band are musicians. Some also are teachers and doctors or serve in other capacities. Although the reason for the unit coming together this time isn’t ideal, it gives its members a chance to reconnect while serving. “You see all these different career fields doing their jobs here

at the National Guard, and they all have these civilian lives,” Darragh said. “My commanding officer in the guard is the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School band director, so he and I were just talking yesterday about marching band and what we’re doing. I get a chance to collaborate with other band directors even doing the National Guard. “We all come together when it’s time to do the mission, and you would never know we were an Army band,” he said. “We try to give back to the community as much as we can with the National Guard, and it’s kind of our mission. It’s all about serving the people of the state.” BALANCING THE BAND

Although Darragh is actively serving with the National Guard, distance learning began for Orange County Public Schools students March 30. That includes his band students. However, he and his students already are a few steps ahead, thanks to early preparation done before the full effects of COVID-19 even began to have an impact on the community. Each year, Darragh hosts eighthgrade nights, when students who will be freshmen and join the band in the fall learn the fundamentals of both marching and playing in preparation for their transition from middle to high school. Many of those already have taken place, along with Darragh’s leadership camp, which is part of his selection process for the band leaders next year. Interested students go through a week of leadership camp, and drum majors are selected from a separate audition. The band also has much of its music for the marching show. All this was done prior to Spring

Break, and much of it was because of the band’s quest for greatness next year. “We did so well this year — we were fourth in the state, which is huge for this third-year school here — (and) I want to be first in the state this year, that’s my goal,” he said. “The kids, I think, are right there with me. They’re all tracking what needs to happen and they’re all on board. We had that camp, everything went well and I have my leadership selections. “Most bands have not done that, and I think if I wouldn’t have done that, it would’ve been a very different situation,” he said. “This prepares us to press on and keep pressing on.” Students will learn their music, as well as submit video performances and other assignments, as they distance learn for the time being. They might not be able to come together and rehearse, but it keeps everyone playing. “Basically, I’m just pulling double duty,” he said. “In my free time or breaks in the guard, I’ll be on the school laptop doing schoolwork (and) trying to get everybody to do what they need to do for class. … I do appreciate the students and their flexibility through all this. It’s a pleasure to teach when we are as successful as we are and everybody’s on board, and it’s a very good experience for us all, I think.” Darragh added he wouldn’t be able to do what he does without the help of his wife, Lynsey. She is a music theory and keyboard teacher at Windermere High and also teaches one of the jazz bands. Although they are apart, they communicate daily. “She does a lot of things extra for me if I need it done while I’m gone, so it’s quite nice to have her there,” he said. “A lot of what she does is voluntary. I don’t think I could do what I do without her also being there.” Although the societal impacts resulting from the coronavirus pandemic have been challenging, Darragh knows he, his students and society as a whole will come out on the other side. “When you’re hit with something like this, you do what’s necessary, you do your job to the fullest of your ability, and that’s all anyone can really ask,” he said. “A lot of what I do with teaching, the students motivate me, and I do it for them. … With some situations, I don’t believe that you’re always prepared for things, but that’s life, and you learn to be adaptive and you overcome situations. I’m sure we’ll get through this to the best of our ability as a society.”

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resident who started the morning routine popular with many West Orange County residents. “Even when it’s stormy out, we keep it optional. People swim when it’s lightning. … We’ve even swam during the hurricanes. … We’ve swam in a fog bank.” Even as a squall was approaching with 360-degree lightning on one particular Saturday, participants continued to swim. Meisenheimer has lived on the shores of Lake Cane for 30 years, having moved there just so he had access to the lake to swim. He also was coaching people at the time.

The first few swims were held on the weekends, and as the number of participants increased, so did the number of swim days. On a recent Saturday, before the daily event was postponed, the gorgeous weather drew 150 people to the lake swim. “(But) we’re in a world war right now with a very tiny virus,” Meisenheimer said. This virus has forced Meisenheimer to postpone or cancel several of his scheduled events. The 10th annual Eat Pray Swim Easter celebration, which raises money for the Edgewood Children’s Ranch, has been canceled. The Golden Mile for 2020, origi-

nally scheduled for the end of May, will be held Oct. 11, and this year it is being combined with the Rowdy and Lucky 1-mile swim. The proceeds will be split between the Lake Cane Restoration Society and the Rosen YMCA Aquatic Center scholarship fund. The Frogman Swim, a 5-kilometer night swim to benefit the Navy Seal Foundation, is held in late fall and shouldn’t be affected. Meisenheimer takes pride in the Lake Cane Restoration Society, a 501(c)(3) dedicated to improving the quality of the lake. “Four or five years ago, the Historical Society of Central Florida came and designated the swim as

a Central Florida historical event,” he said. “It was quite an honor. The World Open Water Swimming Association ranked our little backyard swim as one of the top 100 swims in the country, which is quite a hoot considering the fact that it’s a backyard swim.” An estimated 10,000 people all around the world have descended upon the lake shore to swim. “It’s hard to believe more people keep coming and coming,” Meisenheimer said. “It’s a destination swim in my backyard.” Updated information on the daily swim and Meisenheimer’s regular blogs are available on the Lucky’s Lake Swim Facebook page.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has left many across the nation without a job. In Orange County, where much of the local economy is driven by tourism and the service industry, many residents have personally felt those impacts, as the virus caused closures of hotels, theme parks and restaurants. In response to this, Orange County government is working toward providing a little financial relief. The county launched its COVID-19 Rental Assistance program Monday, March 23, to assist residents in need. The program will run until May 23. Those interested in the program must be a legal resident of Orange County who has had an unforeseen event occur that causes a need for emergency assistance and lacks the resources to meet that need on their own. A total of 1,500 households will be able to receive rental assistance. To apply, residents must call the Orange County Citizen Resources & Outreach Division to schedule an appointment or submit their contact information online. Residents who opt for the online option will be contacted by an Orange County staff member, who will screen the individual for eligibility and provide additional information. Appointments are filled in the order they’re received. “(For) appointment requests calling into the (hotline), the line is very, very busy,” said Lonnie Bell, director of Orange County’s Community and Family Services Department. “As is normal with a program such as this, we’re getting a huge amount of calls; however, we’re managing those calls. Our goal is to get 32 appointments a day. That gets us to our 1,500 (households) number over two months.” Bell added that once residents receive an appointment, they must take all the required documents to the appointment. Those documents may include photo ID for all adults in the household; Social Security cards for all household members; lease information; bank statements and pay stubs for the last 30 days; any other household income documentation, child support, food stamps, social security, etc.; and, if available, a letter from an employer regarding layoff, reduced hours, etc. The final eligibility for assistance will be determined after all supporting documentation has been submit-

WHAT TO TAKE TO AN APPOINTMENT Residents who receive an appointment are asked to take the following documentation: n Photo ID for all adults in the household n Social Security cards for all household members n Lease information n Bank statements and pay stubs for the last 30 days n Any other household income documentation, child support, food stamps, social security, etc. n If available, a letter from an employer regarding layoff, reduced hours, etc.

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ted and reviewed by county staff. “We’re asking for … lease information because we’re working with (renters) only,” Bell said. “We’re not working with mortgages. The process for removing someone out of their home if they have a mortgage is much more lengthy. If someone misses a rent payment, they could be evicted in a matter of weeks, and so we’re trying to maintain the stability for those families who are in a lease for an apartment or a home.” The COVID-19 Rental Assis-

tance program is also known as the Crisis Assistance Program, which provides financial assistance to Orange County residents each year. The average cost per client of the program is $1,200, and the cost to serve the 1,500 households over the two-month period would be $1.8 million. The program is a one-time benefit for assistance with one month’s rent. “Rent is normally the largest

expense (for families),” Bell said. “That is why we’re targeting rent as the best means for assisting families during this time. There’s other resources that are available. If they have some money coming in from these other resources, we’d like for them to use that for other expenses. The largest expense, we’d like to help them with, which is (through) the rent assistance.”

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transmission of airborne particles. They serve as a contingency plan for those who can’t obtain surgical masks on the market. “We absolutely know that this is not replacing any type of N95 mask or whatever, but we also believe that having something really covering your face if you need to go out for an hour or two … is better than nothing,” Bani said. Patterns and sewing instructions for the types of masks the group is producing are available on the Army of Masks page. Some of the fabric face masks — made with two layers of cotton, ideally cotton flannel — resemble pleated surgical masks but all are non-surgical masks. The masks all are given to those who need them for free. “The most important thing is it needs to be washable … so it can be reused,” Bani said. “All factories around the world right now are doing not just double but triple, quadruple duty to get as many masks out (as possible), but this is happening at the same time as all the countries in the world, so it’s very difficult.” As of press time, there were more than 50 members of the Army of Masks Greater Orlando/Central Florida group. In one week, the Central Florida group made and delivered more than 1,000 masks — with many more in process. “I know that the orders are just going to increase and increase, because now they come in from other places,” Bani said. “We will see how this evolves. … In regards (to) health care facilities, what I can say so far is that most of our demands come from smaller facilities (such as) nursing homes and assisted living. We have some of the nurses that are on the road and have to travel to go visit people. We had an order mailed out to Spring

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Hill … for a pet hospital.” Bani’s Canadian friend and group moderator, Tonya Dickenson, has been working with a university team to build an app that would match requests for masks with the mask makers themselves. Army of Masks group members complete a form with their information, skill and ability level to be matched with such requests. “I’m convinced that soon (health care workers) will run out of masks, and obviously (fabric masks) are not the best choice — we all understood that, you don’t need to be a researcher to under-

stand that — but our motto is, ‘Having a fabric mask is better than nothing,’” Bani said. “That’s why we are doing that. … My next step will be to encourage everybody to keep on going and to try to find more people (to help).” ‘I CAN DO THIS’

Erin Morris, a Winter Garden/ Horizon West-area resident who owns a small sewing business, has been sewing as many masks as she can in a short period of time. She began seeing posts a few weeks ago about the mask shortages and knew she could do

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something to help. Morris posted in a few Facebook groups asking if anyone needed masks. The first day there were some arguments back and forth from group members debating the efficacy of fabric masks, but ultimately, many people began to realize there was a need. “The first day, there were a lot of naysayers, but then it seemed like almost overnight, it was like an explosion,” she said. “People realized, ‘Oh, these really are needed and have been asked for.’ I have a ton of fabric, and my industrial machine is going as much as I can until I get tired for the day. All these other mask groups started popping up the next day. … It’s kind of scary that they all need these.” Within a couple of days, Morris made and delivered 80 masks, including 20 masks for Matthew’s Hope, 10 for a critical-care nurse and others for various health care workers and organizations. Morris has been making pleated masks that look like surgical masks. Elastic is in short supply at the moment, so at some point, she will have to switch over to making masks with fabric ties. Making dozens of masks at a time can be a daunting task, but Morris is up to the challenge. As of press time, she alone has made and delivered 200 masks. “It makes me feel great that people are finally coming together and helping the community out,” she said. “People have asked me if I’m selling them, and I’m not selling them — I’m donating them to where they need to go first. I feel like it’s the least I can do to help out. I can’t go out and help at the ER or help a doctor treat a patient because I’m not trained, qualified or educated to do that, but I can do this.”

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OCPS to modify list of Grab-and-Go locations The Grab-and-Go meals program will continue with hours of 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday through Friday, at approximately 50 school sites in Orange County. The list of schools, which can be found at bit. ly/3aEAWbb, will be modified April 1, after press time, to better serve areas with the greatest need. As of Sunday, March 29, these were the schools listed in Southwest Orange: n Windermere High School — 5523 Winter Garden Vineland Road, Windermere n Dr. Phillips High School — 6500 Turkey Lake Road, Orlando n Gotha Middle School — 9155 Gotha Road, Windermere

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SAND LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL As the food service manager, Melissa Hunt is an integral part of the Sand Lake Elementary School family. She’s part of the Health Schools team and a member of the School Advisory Council. An active participant in the school, Hunt takes part in many evening activities and is always willing to lend a helping hand.

What do you love most about your school? I love the students and the camaraderie and passion of all staff members for their job. What’s your favorite part of your job? Getting to feed hungry children a nutritious breakfast, lunch and supper. What made you want to take on this job? I took the job because of vision: Best tasting and high-quality, nutritious meals; customer service; happy, caring, engaged staff; efficient operations; best nutrition for successful students and for the ability to be able to spend more time with my family. What motivates you and pushes you to do your best? Seeing the students smiling faces and knowing that I’m helping the children succeed because hungry students can’t learn. What’s the nicest thing a student has done for you? I love when the students make me cards and notes.

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What’s your favorite place to eat? It depends, I love to eat. A few of my favorites are El Palacio Buffet, Tijuana Flats for taco Tuesday and I enjoy the classic Olive Garden. If you could take a vacation to anywhere in the world, where would you go? Why? There are a few places I would like to visit. I would like to go to Australia to see the great barrier reef, Egypt to see the pyramids and Brazil to see Christ the Redeemer. If you could have any superpower, what would it be and why? My superpower would be teleportation — I hate traffic and being late. Cats, dogs or some other pet? Cats. I have a cat named Asia. Growing up, I had pet rabbits. My favorite one was named Flopsy. If you were trapped on a deserted island and could only take three items with you, what would you bring and why? I would bring a tent for shelter, matches to make a fire and a friend for company and to do things with like play games and talking.

What was your favorite book growing up? I enjoyed reading the “Babysitters Club” books. What is your favorite sports team to cheer for? Indianapolis Colts Do you have any fun talents or hobbies? I enjoy camping and doing things with my children. If you could put any four musicians on an alternate Mount Rushmore, who would it be? Adele, Bebe Rexha, Christina Aguliera, Whitney Houston — ERIC GUTIERREZ

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Bender named principal of Summerlake-area relief school Delaine Bender has been principal of Citrus Elementary School, in Ocoee, for 10 years. Former Freedom High principal Robert Walker is her replacement. AMY QUESINBERRY

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Bender is eager to continue the positive work she did at her previous school. She is proud of the relationships and trust she built with the parents, families, students and community members. Other accomplishments at Citrus include updating technology throughout the campus; providing laptops for teachers and additional laptops for student to use in classrooms; and providing teachers with projectors and document cameras and iPads. In addition to building a strong and supportive PTA and SAC, Bender saw the 2018-19 school grade increase by three percentage points, including learning gains for all students and the lowest 25%. Before becoming a principal, Bender spent 10 years as a teacher with Orange County Public Schools. The new 92,000-square-foot school will have a capacity of 837, but it is expected to open with an enrollment of more than 1,000 students. Fourteen portables classrooms will be set up on the campus. The 14.8-acre property is located on the south side of Porter Road, north of Wood Sage Drive and west of Bluejack Oak Drive. The school will have enhanced technology, as well as art and music lab spaces. An updated design increased the size of the parking lot from 120 to 174 vehicles. The campus will be secure with fencing, cameras and one public entrance.

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After 10 years as principal of Citrus Elementary in Ocoee, Delaine Bender has been hired to lead the relief school for Independence, Keene’s Crossing and Water Spring elementaries. The school is being built in the Horizon West community of Summerlake on Porter Road in Winter Garden. The newest Orange County elementary school, currently named Site 85-E-W-4, soon will have an official name, too — either Summerlake, Lake Hancock or Hamlin. These three names were the finalists in a community vote. After the Orange County School Board approves the final name, the selection process begins for the school colors and mascot. Construction has passed the 40% mark. The walls are up, the roof is on, and painting has begun. Permanent power and the heating/air-conditioning system should be operational next month, and the playfields are expected to be finished. Substantial completion is targeted for June. Teachers, faculty and staff should move in sometime in July — well before the start of the 2020-21 school year in August. Until her school is finished, Bender is reporting to work at the West Learning Community office off Windermere Road. Robert Walker, the former Freedom High principal, is moving to Citrus to replace Bender, who also spent one year there as assistant principal. Bender has begun the hiring process for the new school, and she said a few teachers from Citrus have applied. “The secretary and registrar are coming with me,” Bender said. “They have 20 years of experience each at Citrus. They’re very well versed in policies and procedures and customer service skills, and they are going to be a great asset to me.” When the school year begins, Bender wants to incorporate several clubs that were popular at Citrus: chess, art, music, STEM and books.

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Olympia junior Justin “JT” Lewis led his team in RBI fore the season was suspended. Page 12.

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Atlanta Braves pitcher Shane Greene gets in a workout at the Turn2 facility in Oakland Thursday, March 26.

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he sports fields around the state and country are quiet. The same can be said about the cavernous warehouse that is a part of Turn2 Sports & Performance in Oakland. The usually busy facility is all but empty, sans Barrett Stover of Revolution Sports Performance and his client, Shane Greene — a Clermont local and relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves. With Spring Training canceled, Greene has a lot of time on his hands. He — like other athletes of all levels — finds himself doing his best to keep in shape while the coronavirus keeps the sports world shut down. “I come here in the mornings, and then somedays, I go to another place that is in Orlando — I’m not training there, but I’m doing body function,” he said. “I can use that space like a training room. And then I go home, and I go fishing. SEE TRAINING PAGE 12

Legacy baseball hopes to return to the diamond Before the season was suspended, Jack Chambless and his Legacy Charter High Eagles baseball team were flying high, but questions remain about what happens next. TROY HERRING SPORTS EDITOR

During a baseball season, there’s usually not a lot of downtime to sit and just talk. Yet sitting in the dugout before a game against Orlando Christian Prep, Legacy Charter High School head coach Jack Chambless and his three senior pitchers — Jacob Worley, Justin LaGasse and Andrew Birko — found themselves with a few minutes to spare. It’s the first time in four years with these seniors that Chamb-

less actually had time to talk alone — with no one else around. And in that moment, Chambless decided to share a life lesson. “I had about six or seven minutes just to sit and talk with the three seniors, and I told them that the one wish I had for them is that they could realize the most important moments of their life while they are taking place,” Chambless said. “When you get into your 40s and 50s and you look back on your senior year, you kind of regret that you didn’t enjoy things more and process how important it was.”

That game — which Legacy won 15-5 — was Thursday, March 5, but the message offered by Chambless rang with a clarity that wouldn’t be realized until a week later when the Eagles played what could be their final game of the 2020 season. A day after Legacy beat Foundation Academy 7-2, the Florida Department of Education announced Friday, March 13, that an extra week off would be added to spring break, closing school down for two weeks to keep students safe during the coronavirus. It was later announced that schools would be closed until at least April 30. During that timeframe, Legacy will miss the remainder of its Troy Herring

Legacy jumped out to a 9-2 record before the season was suspended.

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I’m going to be the tannest person that comes out of quarantine.” For just over two hours, Stover puts Greene through a routine that focuses on his lower body with different running and weight exercises. This is how elite athletes get better, Stover said. “A lot of it is just being able to finish his rotation in his front leg,” Stover said. “ It’s something that he has felt could possibly get back to — he had a really good year last year — the next level. It’s something his body doesn’t naturally do well, so for someone who is already an elite-level guy, it’s about where you can find that extra one or two percent.” While Turn2 and Revolution — which work in collaboration — have been doing solely oneon-ones with their most elite athletes, everything else has been shut down. Instead of seeing familiar faces walking through the front door, it’s been a ghost town. “It has decimated business,” Turn 2 partner Randy Pundsack said. “We’re in an environment — and in a group-training format — where we like to run hitting sessions with six to eight athletes and one trainer. We’ve communicated with attorneys and insurance companies … to try and find a way to stay open — and not from a profiteering standpoint. “A majority of our conversation is how can we help these kids — who become accustomed

As a junior on the Olympia High baseball team, Justin “JT” Lewis already has found himself getting a ton of playing time in his first year on varsity. The 6-foot-5 first baseman led the team in RBI and was tied for third in batting average before the season was suspended.

When did you first get into baseball? Like most people, it definitely came from a young age when you first start exploring what you want to do as you grow older. I think it was my dad’s influence. He was a really big baseball guy — still is — and he is one of my leading inspirations.

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How do you mentally get past those struggles? I think it is reverting back to what you know — the basics. For me, if I’m entering a bad hitting streak, I’ll analyze my swing. I have my own set of basic things that I need to do with my swing.

What has kept you in the game for so long? I think it is the adrenaline and the feelings you get from playing a sport. When you’re in the game, it’s like you become a different person — you get to be loose and have fun, and it just has always been like that for me.

Is there a highlight moment for you during your time at Olympia? I do have one from sophomore year. I was on JV, I was hitting in the four hole, and it was a game against Windermere — so it was a really important game — and we wanted to crush them so bad. I go to the plate, and before I know it, I hit the ball deep to left field — that was my one home run I’ve had so far.

What is your favorite thing about playing at first base? What is the hardest part? Playing first base, you’re involved in almost every single play. From the beginning of the inning to the end, there is always something that involves you receiving the ball. The hardest part about playing the position is knowing what to do in a given situation — knowing how to move yourself so you’re in the right spot to make the right play.

What has your first year on varsity been like? It’s been a great experience so far. There is already a lot of cohesion with the guys on varsity, because when I first moved here, I actually played travel ball a year up with them, so I already knew a lot of them. Being able to play with them again is great.

What are the best words of advice that you’ve been given about baseball? It’s that you always have to focus on the now, and not the past. You can’t let a mistake get you down — you have to keep yourself up in the now, rather than living with your past mistakes.

to training every day and look forward to that — expand their potential opportunities to play at the next level,” he said. NO TIME TO BE LAZY Not everyone has access to workout equipment, and with gyms shuttering alongside sports, the challenge for many local athletes is figuring out how exactly to work out at home. Just before the season was suspended, Stover received numerous phone calls from athletes trying to figure out what to do to stay into shape. His answer was basically, “Do whatever you can.” Along with the programs Stover offers via virtual workouts, he said there were numerous makeshift ways of staying in shape. He offered suggestions such as simply standing on a towel — pulling up and twisting as a sort of resistance exercise — or filling up a book bag with cans or water bottles to use for squats. “It’s trying to get as much out of this time period as we can, so guys aren’t just sitting around and doing nothing,” Stover said. Keeping athletes and people in general moving is the biggest concern for trainers around the area, because it’s easy to get lazy, said Micah Kurtz, director of sports performance at Windermere Prep. Kurtz has spent most of the time away from campus sharing full-blown workout routines with the school’s studentathletes via social media. He also has received questions from athletes concerned about losing

the strength and speed gains picked up in the gym. “There is some good news from that, where even if they don’t have access to a gym, strength and aerobic capacity generally can last up to 30 days with minimal training,” Kurtz said. “So if they don’t have access to weight room, but they’re still staying active and doing bodyweight exercises, they’re really not going to lose their strength gain. “Speed and power adaptations go away much quicker — those can diminish within five days,” he said. “So I try and talk with them … make sure you’re getting out in your yard or your driveway or an open space, as long as you’re social distancing, go put force into the ground and run sprints and do vertical jumps.” For an athlete to keep up the pace, Kurtz suggested training four to five days a week — making sure at least two to three involve total-body strength exercises, while the other days focus on speed and agility training. It’s also important to keep up the effort if you’re an athlete, because it’s a chance to get a leg up on others, Kurtz said. “There is a lot of good that can come from this kind of chaos, and it’s really a huge window of opportunity that they can potentially separate themselves from their competition,” Kurtz said. “With everybody being thrown off their normal routine and their gyms being closed, a lot of people can potentially get lazy and slack off.”

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regular season games. There is still no word on postseason play officially, but chances are it could be canceled as well. Just like every other school in the state, there’s uncertainty about if the season will start back up, but Chambless said his players continue to work out on their own. If there is a season, they need to be ready to go, he said. “As soon as the season was postponed the first time — and we have reiterated this when it was postponed again — we emphasized with the players that the coaches would not be able to do anything with them,” Chambless said. “The players have taken it upon themselves to get together in small numbers … and I have been keeping up with my players through email just to find out how their individual workouts are going on.”

How are you staying in game shape right now with the season suspended? I do have my home set-up. I’m hitting and fielding, and my dad is helping me out. It is a little difficult, because we’re not all together. … We still are able to communicate, so we are talking with each other in a little group chat so we can keep ourselves motivated. — TROY HERRING

While players continue their workouts away from campus, the future is still unknown — especially for those seniors looking to take advantage of their last year. “To look back and be like, ‘Wow, I didn’t even know I was playing my last game when I played Foundation — or whatever game it may be,’ that, no question, is scary,” LaGasse said. “But, Lord willing, it won’t happen.” Up until the season was suspended, Legacy was playing some of the best baseball in the area. The Eagles had pulled off a 9-2 record thanks to talent and depth the program has never seen before. At the plate, Legacy has scored 106 runs in only 11 games — last year, the team only scored 178 through 27 games. As the offense exploded, the team’s pitching kept the Eagles always ahead. At one point, the Eagles had three straight

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