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BRADSHAW STRONG NO. 39 Community support has been overwhelming for Gunnar Bradshaw, a former West Orange High baseball standout facing bone cancer. SEE PAGE 4

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Jessica Kernohan, left, and Alfredo Meyer received the Bill Marshall Memorial Scholarship.

The Bill Marshall Memorial Scholarship was presented this year to seniors Jessica Kernohan and Alfredo Meyer, two outstanding water polo players at West Orange High School. The scholarship began in 1994 in memory of Bill Marshall, a West Orange parent who loved youth and swimming and was instrumental in bringing water polo to WO as a sanctioned sport. Each student athlete received $2,000 from Susan Marshall at the recent water polo banquet.

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COOKIES & MILK WITH A COP 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 22, at the West Oaks Library, 1821 E. Silver Star Road, Ocoee. Children can meet Ocoee Police Department officers and enjoy storytime and a snack together. (407) 835-7323. INTRODUCTION TO PILATES FOR SENIORS 2 p.m. Thursday, June 22, at the West Oaks Library, 1821 E. Silver Star Road, Ocoee. Exercise your way to fitness in this introduction to Pilates class. Learn simple moves that work muscles, help alignment and encourage flexibility. Comfortable exercise or loose-fitting clothing required; yoga mats encouraged. Registration recommended at ocls.info/ nextchapter or (407) 835-7323.

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JAMES THE UNBELIEVABLE 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 22, at the Winter Garden Library, 805 E. Plant St. James Songster and his team from “Magic and Mayhem Productions” present the high-energy, interactive “Choose your Own Adventure” workshops that combine storytelling, magic and impromptu comedy and feature a special appearance from the famous “ChaChing The Amazing Bunny.” MagicAndMayhemProductions.com or (407) 222-4412.

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2017 DEBATE LUNCHEON 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday, June 23, at the Ocoee Lakeshore Center, 150 N. Lakeshore Drive. Presented by the West Orange Chamber of Commerce Economic & Governmental Advocacy Committee. Invited candidates are Paul Chandler, Dr. Usha Jain, John Newstreet, Bobby Olszewski and Bruno Portigliatti. Cost is $41 for Chamber members, $51 for others. $1 from

each ticket will benefit the West Orange Foundation. For tickets, go to wochamber.com or call (407) 656-1304. WOHS GOLF SCRAMBLE 9 a.m. shotgun start Friday, June 23, at West Orange Country Club, 3300 West Orange Country Club Drive, Winter Garden. Registration starts at 8 a.m. Benefits the West Orange High School boys golf and tennis teams. A day of golf, lunch, networking and contests and an afternoon of awards, celebration, silent auction, raffles and more. Cost is $65 per player or $240 for a foursome. schoolpay.com/for/boys-golf— tennis-golf-fundraiser-McqO.

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BUILD A BACKYARD ECOSYSTEM 3 p.m. Saturday, June 24, at the West Oaks Library, 1821 E. Silver Star Road, Ocoee. Turn your backyard into a haven for birds, small mammals and helpful insects. Learn what to plant and provide to attract birds, bees, butterflies and bats. At the end, create your own simple bird feeder. Space is limited. Register at ocls.info or (407) 835-7323.

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Andrew Jackson is leaving his position as assistant principal at Kissimmee’s Osceola High to become Bridgewater Middle’s new principal. Jackson lives in downtown Winter Garden with his wife and their two daughters.

of his first priorities is getting to know the students and parents and ensuring effective, transparent communication. “My whole career has been built on relationships, so my first priority is understanding both what’s successful at Bridgewater and what’s not working so we can grow what’s successful and make good decisions to fix what’s not working,” he said. “We’re a good school, but there’s always opportunities to grow academically. I do know that the foundation is here, the community is supportive here for us to be successful and it’ll be my job to communicate and build a collaborative culture where we’re focused on academics and have fun doing it.” And although Bridgewater is expected to grow to around 2,000 students this school year, it’s the smallest school at which Jackson has worked. “Every year I was at West Orange, we grew, so I’ve never not been at a big, growing school,” he said. “It’s kind of a natural thing for me to be at a big school. Bridgewater is 1,000 students less than I’m used to. I’m going to continue to do exactly what I was taught at West Orange when we grew to (more than) 4,000 kids, and at Osceola — I’m going to ensure an environment of acceptability and of safety.”

With safety as another priority, Jackson plans to ensure that every staff member possible is outside and around the students whenever they are outside the classroom. A key component of ensuring safety and mutual respect, he said, is getting to know the students and earning their trust. “The kids want a safe environment, and if they hear things and know it’ll be safe to communicate, then that avenue tends to create a climate and culture of safety and respect,” he said. “I’m going to do the best I can to create a culture there of mutual respect, building relationships with the kids, and that will foster an environment that feels smaller than we are.” And although the school year just ended, Jackson already can’t wait for summer to be over so he can meet the teachers, students and parents. “I get to serve a community that cares deeply about their students and their school,” Jackson said. “What an awesome asset that is — to have parents who care and a community that can rally around the school. I am absolutely thrilled to have the opportunity to serve this community, to serve the teachers that are here and to serve the students.”

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ture of former Bridgewater Middle School Principal Lisa James to Lockhart Middle, the Orange County School Board announced the Bobcats’ new principal at its June 13 meeting. Andrew Jackson, a Winter Garden native, is leaving his position as assistant principal at Kissimmee’s Osceola High to take on the role. Jackson was born and raised in Winter Garden and graduated from West Orange High. He graduated from Florida State University in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in social science, and in 1997 returned to teach at WOHS. Four years into teaching social studies and ESE and coaching football at WOHS, Jackson obtained his master’s degree in education leadership from Nova Southeastern University. “My mentor, who is also a Winter Garden resident, is Mike Armbruster,” Jackson said. “He pulled me out of the classroom and made me an academic dean, and that’s what really transformed my career. If he hadn’t done that I’d probably still be teaching and coaching football.” After that, Jackson became an assistant principal at WOHS in 2007, where he served until 2014, when he took an assistant principal position at Osceola High. His interest in becoming Bridgewater’s new principal stemmed from his desire to return to an Orange County school so he could be closer to home. He lives in downtown Winter Garden, along with his wife and two young daughters, the oldest of whom will soon be a kindergartner at Dillard Street Elementary. “Because I knew my daughter was going to be in kindergarten, I started putting out feelers in Orange County just so I could be closer,” he said. “Nothing really interested me until I saw the Bridgewater job open up, and I decided to go full gusto. There’s just something about Winter Garden that is family oriented. ... I have a 5-year-old daughter and a 2-year-old daughter, and I couldn’t think of raising them anywhere else.” Now that he’s taken on the role of principal at Bridgewater, one

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Will to survive Gunnar Bradshaw is sitting on his parents’ front porch, resting in an old barber chair, shirt off, shoes off, a bowl of homemade organic chicken noodle soup on his lap. He eats what he can these days, which isn’t much; chemotherapy has a way of making food taste terrible and making people nauseated. Every 15 minutes or so, a truck drives by, and the occupants honk or holler to Gunnar, a 20-yearold Winter Garden resident who learned earlier this month that he has bone cancer. He likes to keep to himself, so this sudden attention makes him uncomfortable. Ever since the West Orange community learned the resident — an Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University senior on a baseball scholarship — was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, social-media sites such as Facebook and GoFundMe have been filled with updates on his condition. Family and friends have stepped up and organized a series of fundraisers to help his parents, Ronnie and Staci Bradshaw, with mounting medical bills.

tute, in Clermont, which scheduled Gunnar for an immediate MRI scan. The family was called back to the doctor’s office — after a long Memorial Day weekend — and was told it wasn’t his knee, but, in fact, his femur. A growth had been discovered on his thigh bone, and the doctor said it nearly wasn’t detected on the MRI because the scan concentrated on his knee. The Bradshaws held out hope that this was simply a benign growth, and their son continued with his scheduled four-day fishing trip with his buddies. “It was like a last hurrah before 29 weeks of hell,” Gunnar said. After his mini vacation, Gunnar and his parents headed to UF Health Shands Hospital, in Gainesville, last week for a battery of tests and scans. On Tuesday, June 13, a doctor took the Bradshaws into a private room to talk. “As soon as I saw the surgeon’s face, I knew,” Staci Bradshaw said. “I knew.” With the diagnosis of osteosarcoma, life changed for the family. “When I finally woke up and they walked in and Mom was bawling, I knew,” Gunnar said.

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Gunnar is a second baseman for the Embry-Riddle Eagles, and when he started having knee pain two months ago, he attributed it to baseball, perhaps an issue with his meniscus. He iced his right knee twice a day and kept pain relievers in his system. “I kept powering through it, kept playing,” he said. He finally had his trainer look at it, and the two began working on the swollen knee. When he went home for the summer in early May, he went to West Orange High School to visit his old coach, Jesse Marlo, and to hit the ball with some of the highschool players. He noticed his right leg was shaking. A few days later, when he was playing golf, the same thing happened. His father insisted they pay a visit to the Sports Medicine Insti-

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“I didn’t think this would ever happen to me,” said Gunnar, who will turn 21 in two weeks. “You don’t even think about cancer at 20 years old.” He is facing 10 weeks of chemotherapy, which will hopefully shrink the tumor, followed by the removal of about eight inches of his femur and a full knee replacement. After that, he faces 19 more weeks of chemo. “The doctor said right now the goal is to save his life and then his limb,” Staci Bradshaw said. “The doctor said, ‘We will get him as near to dead as possible and then bring him back.’” Friends and neighbors have shown tremendous support since the diagnosis, the Bradshaws said. “We are overwhelmed with the outpouring of love and support from the community,” Staci Bradshaw said. “It has been amazing. It’s a blessing. … It’s very easy (for us) to give, and it’s hard to receive.” “It’s very humbling,” Ronnie Bradshaw added. Several of Gunnar’s good friends shaved their heads in a showing of solidarity. His dad did, too. Gunnar and Lane Cross, who had planned to get baptized this summer, bumped up their plans, and a baptism was held in Lake Butler the weekend before he left for Gainesville for his first treatment. Soon after the diagnosis, longtime family friend Rena Cross showed up with a hand-sanitizer station to place near their front door. On Sunday evening, Lisa Combs delivered a warm chunk of roast. Doctors recommended that Gunnar go on an all-organic diet. He must avoid acidic foods and raw meat, and the only soda he is allowed is Dr Pepper. “They said this cancer doesn’t play well with others,” Staci Bradshaw said. Organic food can be pricy, and the family is hoping to find someone willing to sponsor his diet until he’s cancer-free. He’s had trouble eating anything since his first rounds of chemo last week. “Food sounds delicious, but

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appelling down the side of a sevenstory building was easy for Erin Akers because she’s not afraid of heights, but confined-spaces training was a bit of a challenge for the Winter Garden resident, who is working toward becoming a firefighter.

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Two former West Orange Wildcats and West Orange Warrior football players competed in a recent SEC game. Garrett “Juice” Johnson is a wide receiver for the Kentucky Wildcats, and Sean Kelly is a punter for the South Carolina Gamecocks. With them is Eric Poole, who was one of their coaches during their Wildcats years.

HISPANIC HERITAGE Ocoee is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month through Oct. 15. The month recognizes the contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans to the United States. Motorists traveling on Clarke Road will see festive “Ocoee Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month” pole banners dotting the street. Viewers can tune in to Ocoee TV to watch a fourpart series titled “Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy that Shaped a Nation.” The show will air at 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays on Channel 493, Bright House Networks.

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Erin Akers is nearly finished with her firefighting training, and then she’s hoping to get a position with a local fire department. She and her 6-year-old son, Liam, live in Winter Garden.

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Car-show organizers search for new sponsor The Sept. 19 Cruz-N-Car Show in downtown Winter Garden might have been the last. ZAK KERR STAFF WRITER WINTER GARDEN Droves drove to the large parking lot on West Plant Street for what might have been the last Cruz-N-Car Show, a tradition each third Saturday of the month for about seven years. The longstanding sponsorship of the show from the Winter Garden Merchants Association ended recently, based on cost increases that caused the association to lose money with the show each

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Ocoee finishes as runner-up in District 14 tournament STEVEN RYZEWSKI SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

For many Little Leaguers in West Orange, District 14’s Tournament of Champions is their first “All-Stars” experience. The tournament for 9-andunder All-Star teams gives the youngsters one of their first tastes of playing against competition from different leagues. Often, those core groups of youngsters will continue on and play together again as 10-, 11- and 12-year-olds. With that in mind, the current group of 9-year-olds from Ocoee Little League is off to a roaring start. Ocoee’s Tournament of Champions team went 4-2 at the event last week, which was hosted by South Lake Little League. Ocoee’s only losses came against Dr. Phillips Little League; once in pool play and again in the championship. Otherwise, the boys from Ocoee outscored teams from Winter Garden, South Lake and Windermere (which fields two All-Stars teams because of the league’s size) by a combined 51 runs. Still, manager Chris Pedri-

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nan said there was more to the team’s success than swinging a big stick at the plate. “They also backed it up with defense,” Pedrinan explained. “We ran a lot — we were very aggressive on the bases, for sure.” After winning three of its first four games in pool play, Ocoee met Winter Garden — which had also started the event with a record of 3-1 — on the final day of pool play. Given the standings, the winner would advance to play Dr. Phillips in the championship game the next day, and Pedrinan says his boys were pumped for the big showdown — a showdown they won, 10-5. “It was an exciting game; they came out really fired up,” Pedrinan said. Now, this group of All-Stars will look to build on their success in the years to come, knowing they are off to an impressive start as a group. “It’s for sure something to build on,” Pedrinan said. “That core will definitely play together for a while.”

MEET THE TEAM No. 2 — Phillip Jones No. 3 — Serico Allen No. 7 — Onrique Archie No. 8 — Daniel Padilla No. 13 — Gage Allen No. 16 — Chance Robinson No. 21 — Camron Pennock No. 22 — Angel Martinez No. 24 — Christopher Pedrinan No. 44 — Ayden Robinson No. 45 — Zavian Palmer No. 52 — Tahj Neal No. 99 — Ryan Allen Manager: Chris Pedrinan Coaches: Sam Robinson and Jay Pennock RESULTS All games at South Lake Little League June 8 — Ocoee 25, Windermere - American 5 June 9 — Ocoee 25, Windermere - National 9 June 10 — Dr. Phillips 14, Ocoee 3 June 11 — Ocoee 23, South Lake 13 June 12 — Ocoee 10, Winter Garden 5 June 13 — Championship: Dr. Phillips 10, Ocoee 0

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ing his 16-under YCF Water Polo team to the Los Angeles area for a similar reason. Ramirez’s current team, which features athletes from Dr. Phillips, West Orange, Bishop Moore and Lake Mary, is going to the place where the competition is at its stiffest. “Especially California — it’s the mecca of water polo in the United States,” Ramirez said. Athletes often travel solo, as well. Olympia High senior Joe Milton, a quarterback for the Titans football team who is committed to Michigan for college, was in Southern California last weekend as part of the Elite 11 quarterback competition. Tanner Ingle, a defensive back for the Dr. Phillips football team

who has scholarship offers from dozens of college programs, has been traveling around the country for college visits and camps. This weekend, Tanner and his family will visit Boston, where he will get a chance to check out Harvard and Boston College. Recently, Ingle was in South Carolina on the campus of Clemson for a camp. “It’s exciting; (there is) always good competition,” Ingle said. In addition to helping to facilitate a path to a college career, traveling during the summer can serve as a preview of a college career where teams and athletes often are flying around the country for road games. “Just the whole idea that we’re going there for a reason and to try and keep it businesslike (is

valuable),” Ramirez said. “That will get them ready for college, because on a college trip, that’s what it’s all about.” Many travel coaches also make a point to encourage the athletes and their families to enjoy their trips and the destinations. “I want them to have time to enjoy the experience,” Bomleny said. As for the coaches, although there is obviously much planning that goes into the trips, it also can be a nice getaway. “It’s fun — it’s enjoyable,” Ramirez said. “We’ve been very lucky with great kids, and some of the parents do travel with us. It’s a nice break.” Contact Steven Ryzewski at sryzewski@orangeobserver.com.

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