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YOUR TOWN STUDENTS ACE BOOK CAMP Twenty-five Bridgewater Middle students completed a two-week summer book camp with The Crazy Book Ladies, teachers Monique Foister and Melanie Williamson. The Media Center was transformed into a swamp to mimic the setting of the selected novel, “Terror at Bottle Creek,” by Watt Key, a survival story set on the Gulf Coast of Alabama. The finale was a Skype visit with the author. Students enjoyed a swamp fest featuring gator bites, cattails (aka corn dogs), frog (chicken) legs and wish hog mash (mac and cheese).

Windermere to build veterans monument

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The new monument will feature columns that represent each branch of the U.S. military.

HORIZON WEST Both residents and homeowners associations located in the more affluent areas of Orange County Sheriff’s Office’s Sector 3 have been purchasing home-surveillance systems and saving money to hire extra OCSO patrols. But it’s not a sudden increase in crime that has residents handing over their hardearned cash, but rather, it’s the

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It’s been in plans for three years, but the veterans monument to be located in front of the Windermere Town Hall has been given full approval. All that stands in the way now is a difference in opinion about its location, as tense discus-

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Bay Hill resident Matt Durfee and Isleworth resident Anthony Lightman spent a week climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in April.

SEE STORY PAGE 4 The weeklong climb took Matt Durfee, left and Anthony Lightman through a tropical forest, a desert and moorland.

The three-person architect, design and construction team headed by Bill Cresswell, Stephen Withers and Steve Fasen presented a mock-up design of the monument in July’s Town Council meeting.

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ANIMAL HOUSES 3 p.m. Thursday, July 20, at the Windermere Library, 530 Main St. From deep down under the sea to way up high in a tree, how do animals build their homes? Ages 6 to 12. Seating is limited. Registration recommended at (407) 835-7323.

CHAMBER LEAD AND FEED 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, July 20, at Casa Jimenez, 15493 Stoneybrook West Parkway, Suite 120, Winter Garden. The West Orange Chamber of Commerce offers businesses a chance to share their information with the “roaming mic.” This networking opportunity includes prizes, food and networking opportunities. Advanced tickets are $18 for members and $28 for others; and $28 at the door. Pre-register at (407) 656-1304.

AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER SUPPORT GROUP 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, July 20, in Building C, Room 200 at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 4851 S. Apopka-Vineland Road, Orlando. This support group is designed for parents of children and teens on the Autism Spectrum Disorder. Share challenges, ideas, concerns, success stories and fellowship. A trained facilitator offers a brief topical lesson each month. Email care@st.lukes.org or call (407)

LIVE MUSIC: THE RIGHT STUFF 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday, July 20, at Dexter’s of Windermere, 4757 The Grove Drive, Windermere. The Right Stuff plays a wide variety of classic and

modern jazz along with upbeat blues, latin, funk and pop songs along with originals. For more, visit dextersorlando.com. PRENATAL YOGA 6 p.m. Thursday, July 20, at the Windermere Library, 530 Main St. Enjoy gentle poses and movements to keep you healthy, fit and comfortable during pregnancy with yoga instructor Carrie Tavris. Prepare your body and mind for birth while bonding with baby and other expectant mothers. yogababy.weebly.com. YOUNG PROFESSIONALS GROUP 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday, July 20, at Tasting Room Orlando, 7585 W. Sand Lake Road, Orlando. The Dr. Phillips Chamber of Commerce hosts this event; guests are welcome. RSVP to info@ drphillipschamber.org.

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THE GLEN FOSTER SHOW 10 a.m. Friday July 21, at the Southwest Library, 7255 Della Drive, Orlando. It’s time for mayhem with award-winning comedy magician Glen Foster. Ages 6 to 12. Seating is limited. Registration recommended at (407) 835-7323.

WINDERMERE FARMERS MARKET 9 a.m. Fridays outside of Windermere Town Hall, 520 Main St., Windermere. For more information, visit windermererotary.org.

“STAR WARS” GALACTIC GAMES 3 p.m. Monday, July 24, at the Southwest Library, 7255 Della Drive, Orlando. Do you sense the force? Get into gear with galactic games and activities that celebrate the “Star Wars” universe. Costumes welcome. Ages 6 to 12. Seating is limited. Registration recommended at (407) 835-7323. BRADSHAW FUNDRAISER 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 25, at Casa Jimenez, 15493 Stoneybrook West Parkway, Suite 120, Winter Garden. Twenty percent of each check, including alcohol, will be donated to the family of Winter Garden resident Gunnar Bradshaw, who is fighting bone cancer. Live entertainment is planned. (407) 614-1438.

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Windermere police to carry opioid blockers

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Windermere police officers have been issued and recently undergone training for opioid-blocking medication Narcan.

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Windermere Police Department’s officers are better equipped to handle calls involving potential opioid overdoses, thanks to training and accessibility to Narcan. Narcan, also known as nalaxone hydrochloride, is designed to counteract the life-threatening effects of opioid overdose. It essentially blocks the effects of opiates in a person’s system, either through partial or complete opioid competitive binding of mu-receptors to treat opioid overdose symptoms. In short terms, opiates are knocked out of the brain’s opiate receptors. “We understand that we are often the first to a scene,” Windermere Police Chief David O g d e n wrote in a Fa c e book post in June. “Law e n fo rc e m e n t has seen an increase of exposure and danger to first responders. We’ve been preparing our policies, procedures and guidelines for this implementation fo r seve ra l months.” In the form that WPD uses, Narcan comes as a single-dose nasal spray and can be used in an emergency in which an opioid overdose is known or suspected. Called an opioid antagonist, it essentially reverses the opiate’s effects temporarily. The FDA-approved product cannot be reused and has no effect on people who do not have opioids in their systems. “It can be used for heroin and opioid-based prescription drugs like Fentanyl, oxycodone,

hydrocodone, morphine, vicodin, demerol, basically all of the opioid drugs or medicines,” said Windermere Police Officer Ryan Miller, the department’s Narcan coordinator. “It’s something we went through over quite a few months’ span to come up with proper procedures, policies and use.” The nasal spray is inserted into the victim’s nasal passage in one shot. The reverse of opiates’ effects should be seen within the first five minutes of administration. Miller said the first step before deciding whether to administer Narcan to a potential opioid overdose victim is recognizing the symptoms, which include unconsciousness, shallow or irregular breathing, unresponsiveness, “pinpointed” pupils and a blue hue to the lips. If a victim exhibits these signs and an overdose is suspected, the officers can administer Narcan and work on getting emergency medical treatment.

“You go from there to putting them in the recovery position — laying them on their side so they’re not on their back — and at that time we can initiate CPR or use an AED if we should need to,” Miller said. “With the effects of Narcan it’s not something that will last, so there may be situations where we may have to use another one. Most of our officers will arrive in pairs so they’ll have two on them, which is great.” Narcan will wear off anywhere from 30 to 90 minutes after administration, depending on how much of an opiate is in the victim’s system, so it is only a temporary reversal, and the victim should still receive immediate medical treatment. The Windermere Police Department began training and issuing Narcan to its officers in mid-June in response to a national trend in the increase of availability of dangerous synthetic drugs. “According to the DEA, a large majority of these synthetic opioids are structural derivatives of the synthetic drug Fentanyl,” Ogden said in his post. “Fentanyl mimics the effects of morphine in the body, but with a potency of 50 to 100 times that of morphine, and 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin. Recently, Carfentanil (structurally related to Fentanyl) is reported to be up to 10,000 times more potent than morphine.” The training only takes a couple of hours because the product is simple to use, and Miller said WPD is all for any tools it can get to help the public. “This is something that we may not see very often, but in the chance we do, at least we’ll be prepared to do what we know to assist in saving a life,” Miller said. Each box of Narcan comes with two single-use doses and costs $75. Miller said the department has not had to use Narcan yet. Fo r more i n fo r m a t i o n about Narcan, visit narcan. com.

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Town leaders expect to delay some projects, including park improvements and livestreaming council meetings. NEWS EDITOR

Windermere town leaders have a list of projects they want to fund this year, but because of budget constraints and an unforeseen loss of expected revenue, the town likely will need to prioritize. The town held a budget workshop July 10 to adopt several motions related to the town’s budget, such as approval of a proposed millage rate of 3.25, solid waste assessment and fire assessment fees and the stormwater fund assessment roll. But harder decisions lay ahead regarding the list of projects to fund with its expected revenue of $5,082,535 — about $2 million of which is generated from ad valorem taxes. Windermere Town Manager Robert Smith said the projects on the town’s wish list that likely will need to be delayed pertain to park improvements and the recently proposed project to livestream Town Council meetings. “They’re in favor of getting the council meetings out there, but it’s just a matter of what are their priorities right now,” Smith said, referring to the livestreaming project. “So the question was: Do we want to spend $18,000 on this right now, or do we want to start looking at funding tangible projects that the town can use?” Last year, the town received a $50,000 grant from the Florida Recreation Development Assistance program to replace the Windermere Recreation Center’s fishing pier. This year, it had expected to receive $100,000 to fund park improvements to Central Park and Fernwood Park. However, the state Legislature failed to approve the budget for the program this year, so the town will not be getting that money. To adjust to the loss of the FRDAP grant, the town’s projected expenditures were amended to $5,082,535, Smith said. “The balance of the budget that we had was about $25,000 as far as revenue over expenditures,” he said. “That’s going to be held into contingency reserve until April, when (the council) decides what they want to do if there’s money still available. We basically look at what we need to maintain the level of service

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and the quality of life that the residents need, and then the wants come in second. So the needs were funded first and the wants come in after six months so that we’re not in a situation where we have to make cuts to the things we need.” The projects that will be funded this year amount to about $260,000, Smith added. The projects include a $20,000 project to install LED lighting downtown, $40,000 to build a new downtown parking lot, $40,000 for redesigned town signs, and $160,000 for a project to construct a pedestrianand bike-friendly sidewalk from Main Street to Lake Street. But any other projects may need to wait, particularly because the town’s charter places strict limits on how much it can borrow. The livestreaming project and park improvement projects will be considered again in April 2018. “Because of the financial constraint that we have with the charter that limits us to 12.5%, we’ll have to save up enough money in order to start knocking out these other projects,” Smith said. “Luckily enough, we were able to get some grants from the South Florida Water Management District in order for us to do a project on First and Forest (streets), and we also leveraged some impact fees from Estancia and Rosser Reserve, but from here on out, we’re going to have to save money in order to fund a lot of these projects — unless that 12.5 cap is taken away.” The budget hearings will be held at 6 p.m. Sept. 6 and 25 at Town hall.

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After hiking Hadrian’s Wall in 2010, Matt Durfee, left, and Anthony Lightman decided they wanted to take on another hiking challenge, which led to their hike of Mount Kilimanjaro earlier this year.

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ightning cuts through the blizzard’s snowy haze in a blinding flash, so close it makes some people’s hair stand on end. Wind howls around the mountain, making it hard to hear anything or anyone else. The icy air cuts through layers of clothing with each blast. The idea of taking on Mount Kilimanjaro had been several years in the making for Matt Durfee and Anthony Lightman. It all started in 2010, after the duo spent a week hiking along Hadrian’s Wall in Great Britain. “Hadrian’s Wall was really high on my bucket list for a really long time,” Durfee said. “To go out there and be among the ruins was just appealing to me.” After completing that hike, the two quipped about what their next adventure would be — and that’s when Mount Kilimanjaro was first mentioned. But it wasn’t until this year that Durfee, a Bay Hill resident, and Lightman, a Windermere resident, decided to take on the challenge of hiking the Tanzanian beast. The climb was scheduled for late April. To prepare, both men spend several months at the gym working on their core and legs. They knew the hike up would be hard, but they never anticipated just how challenging it would be. “It was way more than we expected,” Lightman said. Durfee still remembers the moment he looked out of his hotel window and saw Mount Kilimanjaro towering in the distance. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, what have I gotten myself into,’” he said.

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Durfee and Lightman chose to climb the Machame route up the mountain, which is one of the most popular routes among tourists. They climbed with a group of 10 others — all strangers — but Durfee and Lightman were the oldest by more than 30 years. “We held our own,” Durfee said. But one of their biggest concerns was altitude sickness. “You cannot prepare for the altitude,” Durfee said. “Nobody knew what to expect.” For Lightman, the altitude proved to be a non-issue, but Durfee lost his appetite for part of the climb and could only stomach the Snickers bars he had packed. As the group reached higher elevations each day, the climate changed from tropical rainforest to moorlands to desert. “It went from 100 degrees to minus 20,” Lightman said. And the higher the group got, the steeper the climb became. “You had to watch every step you took, because if you twisted your ankle, you were done,” Lightman said. “It was mentally challenging as well as physically challenging.” The guides seemed to follow an unmarked trail up vertical cliffs and around boulders. They instructed Lightman and Durfee where to place their hands and feet as they climbed up steep rocky paths.

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Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa, rising to an elevation of 19,341 feet. Every year, more than 20,000 people attempt to reach the summit, but thousands are forced to end their climb early because of altitude sickness. And every year, the mountain claims an estimated 10 lives. Most recently, it took the life of a 35-year-old Irish woman on Friday, July 14.

Sleep never came during the brief stop at base camp thanks to a combination of adrenaline and excitement. At midnight, the group began the final climb to the summit. But that was hours ago, and now exhaustion sets in. Putting one foot in front of the other takes every last ounce of concentration and effort. It’s a vertical climb in darkness and snow.

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“A lot of the times it was head down, step by step,” Durfee said. Every few hours, the group stopped for a water break. They were all required to drink three liters of water every day. And every night, the guides checked everyone’s oxygen levels and heart rate. ‘IT FELT LIKE AN EPIPHANY’

The swirling snow makes it hard to see the group as they hike up the mountainside. Even the light of everyone’s headlamps is dimmed in the storm. The trail is long gone under the snowdrifts. The only trail left is the footprints each person leaves behind. After four full days of climbing, the group reached base camp, where they had dinner and were told to try and sleep for a few hours before the midnight climb up to the summit. The final hike took seven-andone-half hours, climbing straight through a thundering blizzard. Durfee said he realized they had climbed into the storm cloud when lightning began striking the mountaintop horizontally. During the final climb, Lightman’s hands started going numb and losing function. His gloves had taken on too much snowmelt. Worried about frostbite, one of the guides opened his own jacket so Lightman could warm his hands

against his body. After hours of exhausting climbing, they reached Uhuru Peak. “It was the biggest sense of accomplishment of my life,” Lightman said. “I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t think I had it in me to do something that challenging. It felt like an epiphany.” It was at that point that Durfee opened up his coat to reveal a black-and-white necktie buried under seven layers of clothing. It was his father’s tie. He had worn it up the mountain in honor of his father who had died recently. After a moment of reveling in his accomplishment of reaching the top of the mountain, Durfee stepped away from the group. “I got a little emotional,” he said. But the hiking wasn’t over. It took another two days to get down the mountain. By then, they were completely exhausted. To recover from their grueling hike up Kilimanjaro, they spent several days on a safari. “After Kilimanjaro, it was a way to relax for us,” Lightman said. Hot water gushes from the shower head. After going a week without showering, the steady stream of water feels like heaven. And soap never smelled so good.

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Sheridan at Windermere opens its doors The new assisted-living facility welcomed its first residents this week. BRITTANY GAINES STAFF WRITER

It’s already move-in day for some of the new residents who are moving into the newly opened assisted-living facility in Windermere. The Sheridan at Windermere opened Monday, July 17, and will move in 15 new residents by the end of the month and another 20 residents in August. “We’re the first of its kind and the only one in Windermere,” Executive Director Marcia Turner said. Located off Bridgewater Crossings Boulevard, the assisted-living facility has a capacity to house 82 residents in assisted-living and 40 residents in memory care — a total of 122 residents — and there’s already a waitlist for the diamond charter memberships. “It’s been a fantastic process, and we’ve gotten an extreme amount of interest,” Turner said. Although the facility is already welcoming in new residents, it won’t hold its grand opening celebration until later in the fall after the residents are settled in, Turner said. The assisted-living facility includes dining services, regular activities for the residents, a beauty and barber shop, a fitness

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Representatives from the Sheridan at Windermere, Age Advantage, Halo Branded Solutions, Vitas Healthcare, Kindred at Home and Hospice, Advanced Nursing Concepts and the Alzheimer’s Associations gathered for a check presentation ceremony at the Sheridan at Windermere.

center, a mail room, a business center, a cards room and an outdoor walking path. “What a place to spend your time — whether it’s days, months or years,” Turner said. “We’re here for them.” Turner said the facility also has an emergency call system and nurses on staff to care for residents’ needs. “Our motto is enjoy the moments,” she said. “So we embrace their mental, physical and emotional needs and tailor care to fit their needs.”

In anticipation of the facility’s opening, the staff planned to hold a fundraising dog show contest on June 21 in honor of The Longest Day. However, due to the recent outbreak of canine influenza, Tuner said they were forced to postpone the events. Despite postponing the event until a later date, the staff managed to raise $1,500 — thanks to several sponsors — which was donated to the Alzheimer’s Association. “I like that it helps local people,” Turner said of the organization.

The Sheridan at Windermere welcomed home new residents on Monday, June 17.

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sions regarding the monument during the July 11 Town Council meeting made clear. However, Windermere Mayor Gary Bruhn was pleased with the design and arrangement of the six columns that will make up the monument: five to represent each military service branch — Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard — and one to explain the monument itself. “The designs were very nice,” he said. “Stephen Withers is an architect, and he did a full-scale mock-up, and that kind of went a long way to show what it would look like. … I was very pleased with the whole design of each of the columns, the plaques that were going on them and also the location of where each was going in — that was very well done.” Regardless of Bruhn’s approval, other council members felt the columns, which were proposed to be positioned outside the perimeter of the circle holding the flagpole, should be located within the circle. Although the council failed to reach an agreement, it did

approve the monument itself. However, it plans to have the three-person team working on the monument revise their designs and then continue the discussion in a special council meeting scheduled for Monday, July 24. The monument, which is expected to cost $25,000, is a mutual effort between the town of Windermere and the Windermere Rotary Club. To complete the project, which they expect to have fully completed by Veterans Day on Nov. 11, they will be asking for donations. But Bruhn plans to hold off on asking for donations until the plans and designs are finalized. “I don’t think we should be raising money until we show people exactly what it looks like,” he said. “My position is, I wouldn’t donate anything until I know what it’s going to look like — I wouldn’t want to put my name on something that I didn’t necessarily like, so to speak.” Any money donated that is not spent on the memorial will go to a similar cause, such as Home At Last or another organization aimed at helping veterans.

fear that a low law-enforcement presence in their area has motivated criminals to target their neighborhoods. “There definitely doesn’t seem to be, visually, a lot of patrols in the area for proactive patrolling,” said Paul Pestrichello, who resides in Independence. “It seems to all be reactionary based on people calling to report crimes, and I think the lack of that visual deterrent and the lack of patrols kind of give people the sense that there’s not a lot of law enforcement in the area, so they’re more apt to commit these petty crimes in our area.” The perceived lack of patrols comes in the midst of a deputy shortage that OCSO is trying to address. OSCO spokeswoman Ingrid Tejada-Monforte said because of staffing numbers, crime statistics, growth trends and economic indicators, the sheriff needs to add 200 deputies. As of June 23, OCSO had 1,467 deputies — an increase of 48 from the number of deputies employed in June 2016. But of those 1,467 deputies, 121 are assigned to Sector 3, which includes Winter Garden, Ocoee, Pine Hills, Windermere, Dr. Phillips and MetroWest. OCSO officials said the department handles the deputy shortage by shifting its resources to fulfill calls for services. Such a shift requires OCSO to pay overtime to several of its deputies and have specialty units, such as school resource officers, take on patrol shifts. Officials said the shortage is because of the department’s high

turnover rate and competition from other law-enforcement agencies. “Our experienced, highly trained staff are sought after by others,” Tejada-Monforte said. “Six hundred and sixty-one sworn staff separated from the agency since 2011; 74 sworn staff left for other law-enforcement agencies in Florida since 2013; (and) 67 applicants withdrew from our process last year to take a position with another agency. Also, there are noncompetitive pay issues, and nearly all agencies are hiring — many agencies are competing locally, regionally and nationally.” Despite the shortage, Pestrichello had no complaints about OCSO’s response times to his area — which OCSO said ranges from an average of about six to 19 minutes depending on the call and its priority in Sector 3 — but he and his neighbors have realized the criminals even commit their misdeeds in broad daylight. Most recently, Pestrichello has heard of people with home surveillance that catch people on video smashing in car windows, people walking around the neighborhood at night checking for unlocked car doors and people slashing open screened-in porches to steal the furniture inside. “A lot of people have pictures and videos and such of all this happening in their home-security systems and it shows that these people feel confident enough to walk around our neighborhood and just try to open cars on the street,” Pestrichello said. The psychological effect of knowing the criminals feel that confident spurred Pestrichello

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Sound mixer Joe Foglia worked with Zach Braff — who starred in the TV show “Scrubs” — for nine years.

Although Foglia works behind the cameras and lights in the sound department, his occupation has provided him and his 15-yearold daughter Grace Foglia, who travels everywhere with him, the chance to meet many movie stars and watch them in action. “Two weeks ago, we were asked to go do a one-day gig with Dwayne Johnson in Atlanta for the show ‘Ballers,’” he said. “And so, you know, Grace and I went up and we got to meet him. It’s not like we look forward to it but we just like to meet different people and see how they are — and most people are really nice.” Foglia can’t recall all the names of those he’s met over the past three decades of his career, but his daughter Grace, who keeps up with her father by attending Florida Virtual School, reminds him of all the big-name musicians and actors they’ve met during his work. Meeting all the new people and traveling to different locations is his favorite aspect of the job. He’s not forced to work in an office building and do the same thing every day. Although nowadays, the work comes easily to him, given his decades of experience and the multiple scenes in which he’s had to capture audio. “If there’s a script written and an actor’s got to memorize it, it’s up to me to record it,” he said. “And the skills come in when you are given many obstacles. For instance, shooting a scene at the airport or shooting a scene with a loud air conditioner going — no matter the environment — you have to deliver the best quality sound so that they can use it to put the show together. So it’s a challenge every time and doesn’t get boring because you’re always going to different locations, you’re seeing different places and you’re meeting new people every single day.” The biggest challenge for him now is trying to anticipate how a director is going to shoot a scene and then how to capture the sound needed without getting in the way or sacrificing audio quality. But as long as he has his trusty sidekick and daughter Grace next to him, he’s up for it.

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Transcending grief After losing her son to a genetic disease four years ago, Shelly Ogden developed interest in a hobby that helps her feel closer to him. GABBY BAQUERO NEWS EDITOR WINTER GARDEN Kneeling on the floor, she tenderly kisses an old stuffed teddy bear and gently places it on the ground beside her. She slowly looks upward, reaching for the red silk cloth and pulls herself up off the floor, climbing higher and higher until she’s suspended in mid-air with only her strength keeping her aloft. With her muscles burning and a last look down at the teddy bear that once belonged to a 4-year-old boy named Kaleb, Shelly Ogden strikes an elegant pose. To any onlooker, she is a strong and graceful aerial performer focused solely on the choreography of her aerial silks routine. But as she expertly manipulates the cloth around her body and flies through the air, Ogden’s thoughts are all of her son. “I know you’re not really flying,

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but you feel like you are because you’re high up in the air and you perform tricks, and rolls and falls and you just feel a little bit closer to heaven,” Ogden said. “It makes me feel like he’s here — like I can reach him. I know I can’t but, you know, for a minute it makes me feel that way.” HER INSPIRATION

The last four years have been emotionally challenging for Winter Garden resident Ogden and her husband, David Ogden, Windermere’s police chief. The Ogden family lost their son, Kaleb, Oct. 3, 2012, to Sandhoff disease — a fatal genetic disorder characterized by a progressive deterioration of the central nervous system with symptoms identical to Tay-Sachs disease. At the time of his death, Kaleb was 4 years old and eight days. But, it’s the struggle Kaleb faced during his four years of life that drives Ogden to challenge herself and endure the burn of her muscles as she holds every pose and conquers her fear of heights. “At the end of his life, he couldn’t even move,” she said. “He lived a tough life, but he lived it bravely. So I figured, if he can do that, then I can suck it up for a minute or two. He’s kind of my inspiration.” Ogden, who used to work as a detective for the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, has been taking aerial classes intermittently for

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“After he passed, I didn’t want to be in the house,” she said. “I went to the cemetery a lot, and on my way back is when I passed this little dance studio. And I thought, ‘You know, maybe I should start doing something.’ I thought I signed up for an aerial yoga class, but much to my surprise, it was an aerial silks class. It was the hardest thing I had ever done, but I really enjoyed it.” As a soft-spoken introvert who shies away from the spotlight, it took years of practice and persuasion from her private aerial instructor, Lauriel Marques, to do a public performance. She finally participated in a show June 1. Marques helped her choreograph a routine to a sentimental song by Danny Gokey, titled “Tell Your Heart to Beat Again.” With the idea of instilling meaning to her choreography, Ogden plans to have her next aerial routine performed to a song titled “Tears of an Angel” that highlights the strength and bravery of kids such as Kaleb. “I could sit at home and be depressed all the time, and no one would fault me for it,” she said. “But that’s not the way to honor his memory.”

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Gary is survived by his loving wife, Laveta N. Marsden; his daughter, Lorie Crabtree (the late Jimmy Crabtree); his brother, Kenneth Marsden (Giovanni D’Alessandro); and his grandchildren, Mattie Crabtree and Jacob Crabtree. A private service is to be held for family. Arrangements have been entrusted to Baldwin Fairchild Winter Garden.

CAROL ALLEN, 60, of Winter Garden, died Saturday, June 24, 2017. Baldwin Brothers, Orlando.

JAMES H. NORRIS SR., 68, of Ocoee, died Sunday, June 25, 2017. DeGusipe Funeral Home and Crematory, Sanford.

KENNETH FORD, 85, of Winter Garden, died Friday, June 9, 2017. DeGusipe Funeral Home and Crematory, Ocoee.

JERRY DEAN NOEL, 73, of Winter Garden, died Sunday, June 11, 2017. DeGusipe Funeral Home & Crematory, Ocoee.

EDNA E. HARRIS, 85, of Ocoee, died Saturday, June 17, 2017. Collison Carey Hand Funeral Home, Winter Garden.

ELIZABETH D. “BETTE” PARKHURST, 76, of Winter Garden, died Sunday, June 18, 2017. Baldwin Fairchild Funeral Home, Winter Garden.

MIRIAM ISON, 91, of Winter Garden, died Friday, June 9, 2017. Collison Carey Hand Funeral Home. BERNEST T. JONES, 83, of Ocoee, died Friday, June 30, 2017. Collison Carey Hand Funeral Home, Winter Garden. THU D. LE, 80, of Winter Garden, died Wednesday, June 14, 2017. Winter Oak Funeral Home & Cremations, Winter Garden. TONY TOAN N. LE, 55, of Ocoee, died Thursday, June 29, 2017. Robert Bryant Funeral andn Cremation Chapel, Orlando.

MARK R. PERSAD, 41, of Winter Garden, died Monday, June 12, 2017. Woodlawn Memorial Park and Funeral Home, Gotha. DANIEL M. PIERRE, 72, of Ocoee, died Tuesday, May 30, 2017. DeGusipe Funeral Home and Crematory, Ocoee. BILLIE BON THERRIAN, 82, of Oakland, died Sunday, June 18, 2017. Orlando Direct Cremation Service, Altamonte Springs. THOMAS “PAUL” WILSON, 84, of Winter Garden and Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, died Tuesday, June 27, 2017. Baldwin Fairchild Funeral Home.

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W.H. Tibbals, appearing before the Winter Garden City Commission, requested the parking problem by his place of business be relieved. The commissioners agreed to place one 12-minute meter in the corner space at Plant and Main streets to see if that would help.

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Disney’s theme park had its first taste of the Old West, when four gunmen held heavyequipment operators at bay on Reams Road and almost demolished the earth-moving equipment.

THROWBACK THURSDAY THE WINTER GARDEN TIMES JULY 13, 1978 In the Among the Lakes section of a 1978 issue of The Winter Garden Times, it was announced that Bennett and Eva Bean were the new owners of the Windermere Country Inn. Their plan was to continue “the same fine service” for which the family-type restaurant was known. The Beans expanded the dinner menu and homemade dessert offerings, too.

FROM THE ARCHIVES Winter Garden’s citrus display is featured at the 1932 Central Florida Fair in downtown Orlando. Winter Garden was poised to become the largest shipping point in the world for citrus and vegetables grown in the region, and elaborate displays like this served as marketing tools to promote the agricultural industry in West Orange County. The display also publicizes Lake Apopka’s bass fishing, a major tourist draw in the first half of the 20th century. The Winter Garden Heritage Foundation will feature images like these in “Selling Sunshine,” an upcoming exhibit of photographs portraying 150 years’ of citrus advertising.

The Winter Garden Heritage Foundation, which seeks to preserve our heritage and architecture while creating new cultural experiences, is celebrating its third decade with the debut of its History Research and Education Center.

45 years ago

The West Orange Chamber of Commerce is now officially in business after receiving its new charter from the Secretary of State in Tallahassee. The K&S Restaurant served frog legs to some of the breakfasters; Dock Reeves brought them from his new neighbor store, Henry’s Portion Meats. Red Ison would have no part of them, but Ward Britt, George Joiner and Homer Craig took care of Red’s share.

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The town of Oakland planted an oak-leaf holly tree near the original Town Hall building to honor the late Nelle Hoover for her beautification work as a leader in the Oakland Garden Club. Among those at the tree planting were Hoover’s daughter, Ruby Wilkes, and granddaughter, Dee Yowell. Movies scheduled at West Orange 5 were “Ratatouille,” “Ocean’s Thirteen,” “Transformers,” “Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer,” “Evan Almighty,” “Live Free or Die Hard” and “Licensed to Wed.”

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Congratulations to Ocoee High football coach Jason Boltus for winning his first championship as a professional quarterback. Boltus, who was promoted from Ocoee’s offensive coordinator to its head coach this spring, helped lead the Jacksonville Sharks past the Columbus Lions in the National Arena League Championship July 10, tossing two touchdowns.

Speaking of local coaches who still compete, Windermere Prep lacrosse coach JoJo Marasco was announced as one of 49 players named to the training team for US Lacrosse ahead of the 2018 Federation of International Lacrosse Men’s World Championships. Tryouts were held July 10 to 12 in Maryland.

Katie Schorr, of SouthWest Aquatics, competed at USA Swimming Nationals earlier this month, placing 47th in the country in the 50-meter freestyle with a time of 26.21.

Four swimmers from SouthWest Aquatics competed at the CCCAN Championships in Trinidad earlier this month. Mayrangela Rodriguez, 16, represented Puerto Rico; Regan Allen, 14, represented Trinidad & Tobago; Ava Bartolomei, 14, represented Puerto Rico; and Iza Ruiz, 12, represented Puerto Rico.

Olympia rising senior Troy Golden, a 6-foot3 linebacker for the Titans football team, has committed to Colorado State.

or some swimmers, the pool is their gym, and they are right at home within their lane lines. But, for others, the shore line is the place to be. Open-water swimming is not a new concept, especially in places where lakes, rivers and oceans are prominent features. In fact, it goes back as far as the 1700s and 1800s. One of Benjamin Franklin’s lesser-known feats was swimming in London’s Thames River from Chelsea to Blackfriars — a distance of about three-andone-half miles. Dr. John “Lucky” Meisenheimer, a Dr. Phillips resident who runs Lucky’s Lake Swim at his Lake Cane residence, believes taking the plunge outside the pool became more popular among the masses with the advent of triathlons. “When triathlons started, it all of a sudden became necessary to swim in open water,” Meisenheimer said. “I would say of the people that come out here and swim, eight or nine out of 10 have been involved or will be involved in triathlons. A small percentage are actually true competitive simmers. The vast majority are being attracted through triathlons, and for that I thank triathlons.” Meisenheimer, an accomplished open-water swimmer himself, said back in the 1970s and ’80s, he could probably count the number of open-water swims in Florida on one hand. Now, he wouldn’t even know where to begin.

Open-water swimming has taken off with the popularity of triathlons, and Lucky’s Lake Swim in Dr. Phillips is one place to dive right into it.

Windermere team wins softball state title The Minors (ages 8-10) All-Stars team bested the competition last weekend to earn a state title. They will travel to compete in Tennessee this weekend. STEVEN RYZEWSKI SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

The young ladies from Among the Lakes made quite an impression in Land O’ Lakes. The Windermere Little League Minors (ages 8-10) All-Stars softball team went undefeated in the Florida State Championships last weekend, sweeping through pool play and the state championship game to achieve a combined record of 4-0. In three games of pool play, Windermere outscored its opponents 30-6. In the state championship game, the local girls bested Tampa’s Bayshore Little League 8-3. Now, the girls will travel to Clarksville, Tennessee, where they will face state champions from other Southeastern states such as Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina and South Carolina in the Tournament of State Champions. The girls will hit the road Thursday morning — but not before Mayor Gary Bruhn sends them off in style. As the team looks to bring home one last championship, coach Shawn King says the ability of the entire roster to contribute has been a huge factor. “The biggest thing for this team was the teamwork and how it played through,” King said. “Some teams just bring 10 or 11 (players) — we actually brought 14 girls, and they all got to participate and they all contributed. Every single girl — up-and-down the lineup — they all contributed.” Additionally, the team’s main pitcher — Lexi King — has yet to allow an earned run in All-Stars. Whatever the result this week-

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MEET THE TEAM “It’s (triathlons) really changed the picture of open-water swimming a lot and introduced a lot of people to it,” he said. But transitioning from the pool to open bodies of water isn’t as easy as it sounds. There are no lane lines to follow, the water temperature cannot be controlled, and the water’s current needs to be considered. And although participants are swimming in a lake with wildlife in and around it, most creatures SEE SWIMMING PAGE 17

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“You’re free — your mind can wander. You get in a groove and just become one with the water.” — Lucky Meisenheimer

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Jack Waddingham Jack Waddingham’s strong play on the pitchers’ mound, at the plate — he homered during pool play — and on the field helped his Dr. Phillips Little League 11-year-old All-Star team to a district championship. After that, Waddingham and his teammates went 1-1 in the Section 5 Tournament, ending their postseason run.

How exciting was it to win the District 14 Tournament? I was very excited, because we beat a really good team (Winter Garden) in the finals. I knew it from the start that we had a really good team, from what I had seen in the regular season. Which game of the district tournament was the most memorable? Probably the first game against Winter Garden, because everyone had a good game. How do you think the team did during the Section 5 Tournament? I think we did (well) in the first game. We hit really well in the first game, but in the second game, the pitchers (for Oviedo) were a little faster, so we had to adjust. What can you and your teammates learn from that defeat to get better for next summer? Probably just to be ready and practice against faster pitchers; get used to the speed. If you have two strikes against a good hitter, what is your go-to pitch? Probably (a fastball) right over the outside corner. Keep the batter guessing.

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If you could play a game in any Major League Baseball stadium, which would it be? I think Wrigley Field, because it looks like the most fun to play in with the ivy on the walls.

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The tournament’s top performers are all smiles in front of the statue of Arnold Palmer at Bay Hill.

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What’s the best baseball advice you have gotten? To always keep a positive attitude, even if you’re down, because you can always come back and win at some point. My parents told me that. What’s your favorite subject in school? Math — I think it’s really easy, and I’m really good with numbers.

Last week’s Jim Bell Memorial Junior at Bay Hill attracted some of the best junior golfers from around the nation to honor the memory of one of Southwest Orange’s biggest advocates for the game.

What is something related to math that you learned about this past school year and found interesting? Fractions. It goes along with everyday life — like cooking proportions.

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Some of the nation’s top junior golfers descended upon Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club & Lodge in Dr. Phillips last week, not only to compete for a championship but also to honor the memory of one of the game’s great advocates in Central Florida. The tournament was the second playing of the American Junior Golf Association’s Jim Bell Memorial Junior. Jim Bell, who died in 2015, was the tournament director of the Bay Hill Invitational (now known as the Arnold Palmer Invitational) for 27 years — from its inception in 1979 through 2005. Bell was also a board member of the AJGA and was passionate about growing the junior game, said his widow, J. Gail Bell. The tournament, which was played in 2016 at Alaqua Lakes in Longwood, was relocated for

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2017 to the course to which Bell dedicated so much of his time. “We love that it’s here — it’s just got a special meaning,” Melinda Bell, Jim Bell’s daughter, said. The event itself did not disappoint — even if Mother Nature threw in a couple of wrenches by way of rain delays. Although Leopoldo Herrera III, of Doral, ran away with the boys division to win by six strokes, Izzy Pellot’s victory in the girls division involved an exciting, four-hole playoff. Pellot, who is just 12 years old and is from nearby Apopka, edged Heathrow’s Jenny Kim on the 13th hole, after the playoff initially began on the 10th hole. Both golfers finished the tournament with a score of 226. Play concluded July 13, and the tournament victory was the first for each golfer on the AJGA. In total, nearly 80 junior golfers competed at Bay Hill last week, including 17 out-of-state

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do not pose a threat to swimmers. Meisenheimer said he has seen carp, bass, turtles, otters, alligators and more — but he adds that if you don’t bother them, they won’t bother you. Before becoming an accomplished open-water swimmer, participants need to first focus on becoming excellent pool swimmers. Most open-water swims don’t have lifeguards on duty, and it can be dangerous if a swimmer is in distress while out in the middle of a lake. “What we usually recommend is starting in a local swimming pool,” Meisenheimer said. “I always recommend the YMCA. The Y has instructors who can teach you how to swim. Once you’re comfortable with the distance you swim there, that’s a good sign you’re ready to take on open-water swimming.” At Lucky’s Lake Swim, participants are vetted before they are allowed to swim. If you attempt the one-kilometer swim, you must first be confident that you can complete it. “We don’t want people to attempt the swim; we want them to complete the swim,” Meisenheimer said. “The idea is you should be capable of doing it before you ever get in. Going out and attempting something you’re not really trained for is a really bad idea.” New participants must wear a green swimming cap for their first three crossings, which helps identify them in the water so other swimmers can look out for them. And some form of flotation device is required for every

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TIPS FOR OPENWATER SWIMMING n Know how to swim well. If you’re not a strong swimmer, consider taking lessons or practicing in the pool daily to build your endurance. n Don’t get in the water until you know you’re capable of completing the distance. n Swim with a buddy. Being with someone who knows the area and any obstacles makes every swim safer. n Warm up. Be sure to stretch all your muscles so they don’t tense up in the water. n Hydrate before and after your swim. n Eat something high in protein and low in fat in the hours leading up to your swim. This will help ensure you’ll have energy to expend. Courtesy photo

swimmer for his or her first 25 crossings. At Lucky’s swim, safer swimmer buoys are provided. And if you were to go out to Lake Cane, nearly every morning you’d see a group of swimmers — whether it be 25, 75 or more than 150 — making their way out past each buoy to the other side of the lake and back. For many of them, it’s all about the exercise, socialization and feeling of accomplishment after each crossing. “It’s just that feel-good feeling you get from swimming,” Meisenheimer said. “If I don’t swim, I feel kind of crappy during the day. If I do swim, it mellows me out and I just feel better. I think the majority of people you find who are regular swimmers will tell you the same thing. They feel refreshed and ready to go after they do their swim. You’re free — your mind can wander. You get in a groove and just become one with the water.”

The girls from Windermere are headed to Tennessee for the Tournament of State Champions.

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end in Tennessee, the Tournament of State Champions is the end of the road for this particular age group in Little League. When the girls reach ages 11 or 12, though, they can compete to go all the way to the Little League Softball World Series — and so the hope, then, is that this experience this weekend will be a positive one that can help facilitate that opportunity. “It’s all about experience and ... that they see what (their hard work) has resulted in and the fun that they’ve had,” King said. “Those are the lessons that they’ll learn and they’ll get energized to put the extra effort in.”

RUN ENDS FOR TWO DPLL TEAMS

Although they were at different stages of their respective journeys, both the 10-year-old and 12-year-old All-Star teams from Dr. Phillips Little League came within one game of advancing last weekend, highlighting impressive postseason runs. DPLL’s 10-year-old All-Star team competed in the state tournament in Viera, where it went 2-1 in pool play. Unfortunately, the team’s first loss — which came in its first game of the tournament against San Carlos Little League — would be the deciding factor. San Carlos won all of its pool play games and went on to win the state championship. Similarly, Dr. Phillips’ 12-yearolds won their first two games of the Section 5 Tournament at Union Park Little League in East Orlando, setting up a decid-

ing showdown with Oviedo. A back-and-forth game that was full of excitement for the first five innings, the local boys were unable to keep pace with the bats of Oviedo in the later innings, falling 18-5. WINDERMERE TEAMS ADVANCE TO STATE

Two Windermere Little League teams advanced out of Section 5 Tournaments last weekend and will be heading southwest this weekend. Windermere’s Little League (ages 11-12) Softball All-Stars will compete this weekend in the state tournament in Fort Myers. Similarly, Windermere’s Juniors (ages 13-14) Baseball All-Stars advanced to state this weekend in Sarasota. Results from both state tournaments can be followed along by visiting FloridaLLB.org.

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extras, say 110 Proved that one was tone-deaf 112 Make a request 115 Waiting area for TV talk show guests 118 Downey of “Touched by an Angel” 122 TRUE things made to a priest? 124 Arrogantly superior 126 Cornered out on a limb 127 Like a loose gem 128 First name in Chinese chairmen 129 Delicious fruit? 130 Psychic hotline operators, supposedly 131 Quite old “Oh my gosh!” 132 What comes before you begin again? 133 Electric car brand

41 Lip-smacking good 43 TRUE conceptions? 44 Blend in a bowl, in a way 45 Aunts, in Tijuana 47 Note on the music scale 49 Isn’t wrong to a grammarian? 51 Quiet “Quiet!” 54 Man in a monastery 55 “What ___ I tell you?” 57 Italian buck 59 Before, long ago 61 Japanese stringed instruments resembling banjos 66 Fender dings 69 Bid to buy shares for cash 70 Prefix with “phone” 72 “... ___ a lender be” 73 Warm, as leftovers? 76 Bishop’s assistant 77 Ordinal number suffix, sometimes 78 It is converted to vitamin A DOWN in the liver (var.) 1 Inspiration of myth 79 Boss of fashion 2 Where a cherry rests on a 81 Lack of a society’s moral banana split standards 3 Stubborn animal 82 Hindi courtesy title similar 4 Thorny bush or patch 5 Insect targeted by boric acid to “Mr.” 83 Long, heroic narrative poem 6 Steeple toppers 84 Foxy? 7 Space or plane prefix 87 U.S. rubber hub 8 Regatta team units 88 Caustic ingredient in drain 9 Streaking celestial bodies uncloggers 10 Rock band equipment 11 Somewhere between point 91 Certain metrical foot in poetry A and point B 95 Have debts 12 Paris-to-Frankfurt dir. 96 Overeating and then some 13 Possible insurance fraud 98 Water park slide cause 14 One with cows, and some- 101 Wailed loudly in grief 103 Crustacean with seven times goats 15 Shakespeare, the Bard of ___ pairs of legs 16 Hereditary hand-me-down 106 Female college students 107 “48 ___” (Eddie Murphy 17 Old starter with “while” film) 20 Sixteenth president 109 TRUE lawbreaking? 23 Put to use, as a tip 111 Complain 25 The girl 28 Things kept between good 112 Play divisions 113 Achy pals 114 Deep ___ bend 31 “He’s making ___, and 116 Bonheur or Parks checking it twice” 117 Nation of the Arabian Sea 34 “-ish” relative 119 Clumsy one’s remark 35 Book of maps 120 Chew over mentally 36 Hex or jinx 121 Not docked in the harbor 37 FALSE finger-pointings? 123 Go after in court 39 Seriously fast computer125 Slum rodent speed unit

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1 Venomous African snake 6 Animal’s pouchlike structure 9 Something Dracula wears 13 “Strike while the iron is hot” is one 18 Road reversal 19 Each, in a market 20 Willy the play salesman 21 Certain wild partier 22 Diamond set by itself 24 FALSE outward appearances? 26 Pentathlon sword event 27 Where “Land ho!” is shouted from

29 Charlotte pro b-baller 30 Bank or hotel posting 32 Subdivision of a larger religious group 33 Teeny go-with 35 “Now I see!” 38 Needing to be located 40 Bob of sportscasting 42 Boxing tool 46 Alarming bell? 48 Noble one 50 Nautical yeses 52 Pro’s detractor 53 Ones missing marbles, south of the border 54 TRUE buddies? 56 Protrusion of the abdomen

58 Any substance lessening purity 60 “___ about time!” 62 Goes along with 63 “H-E-L-P!” relative 64 Differences of opinion 65 Two of a kind 67 Minister relative, briefly 68 Hot breakfast dish 71 Hanukkah item 74 Elevation provider for a golf ball 75 Be a drifter 78 Trouser material, sometimes 80 Type of bag or spoon 82 Entities 85 Place for an orchestra

86 Queensland native 89 Without feet, like snakes 90 FALSE things dropped in court? 92 Former capital of Japan 93 Part of a skeleton 94 It can put you in a strange position 97 Twelve o’clock, once a day 98 Connector under the tongue 99 World’s largest country until 1991 (Abbr.) 100 Put effort into 102 Cylindrical farm building 104 Mole on two legs 105 Moderate yellow-orange 108 Long film with many

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