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Believe it or not, 2020 wasn’t all masks and social isolation! We revisit some of our favorite images of the year. 3-14.
YOUR TOWN STUDENTS COLLECT MONEY FOR FOOD BANK Second Harvest Food Bank has received more than $10,000 thanks to students at two schools: Summerlake Elementary, in Winter Garden, and Hunters Creek Middle. The goal at Summerlake was $1,000, but students and teachers exceeded that amount and then some. Instead of stopping at $1,000, the school collected $8,500 in one week. Some students even emptied their piggy banks for the cause.
Paws for a cause Thanks to the generosity of her friends and family, along with Driftwood Market in Winter Garden, 3-year-old Lorelai Wilber is another step closer to the service dog she needs. STORY ON PAGE 4.
YEAR IN SPORTS Courtesy of Devin Wilber
Lorelai Wilber has Phelan-McDermid Syndrome. Her family is getting a service dog for her from 4 Paws for Ability.
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Mayor with a mission Despite all the changes to sports this year, there is still plenty to celebrate. SEE PAGE 15. PRSRT STD ECRWSS US POSTAGE PAID WINTER GARDEN, FL PERMIT NO. 81
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Walker was Winter Garden mayor from 1933 to 1939. In that time, he brought $250,000 and many jobs to the city. AMY QUESINBERRY COMMUNITY EDITOR
In the 1930s, the city of Winter Garden was so broke that at one point, the remaining money in the treasury would either cover pay-
roll or keep the streetlights turned on — but not both. One man made it his mission to lead the city out of the financial slump by bringing in much-needed dollars and jobs to the small West Orange County municipality. George Walker, a World War I veteran, hesitated when he was asked to run for mayor of Winter Garden during the Great Depression. He was content being a husband and father, managing SEE FOUNDATION PAGE 2
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George Walker, left, opened Walker Electric Company in 1920 in the space now occupied by Attic Door. The west side of the storefront was rented to a stationery business owned by Joe Valdes, right.
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Foundation honors a Winter Garden legend his citrus groves and running his business, Walker Electric Co., in downtown Winter Garden. He agreed to run, and after being elected mayor, he applied for President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The New Deal was a series of programs, public-works projects, financial reforms and regulations designed to boost financially failing cities across the United States. The Works Progress Administration, in 1935, was “an ambitious employment and infrastructure program” that enhanced communities with civic projects and provided jobs to millions of Americans. Jim Crescitelli, operations and program director with the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation, sat down with Walker’s granddaughte rs, Ly n n Wright and
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Amy Bekemeyer, for a Facebook Live session Nov. 23. They discussed old images from the WGHF archives and shared Walker’s legacy in Winter Garden. “You could apply and get hundreds of thousands of dollars to revamp your city,” Crescitelli said. “He got the program right away, and projects came to this town like you wouldn’t believe.” Walker obtained more than $250,000 in federal aid for his projects, many of which were along the shores of Lake Apopka. The lake’s shoreline was undesirable before the WPA projects made their debut. There was nowhere to dock or put in boats to take advantage of the large-mouth bass that filled the waters. Wright said her grandfather and several other businessmen got together to create drawings to be submitted via telegraph for approval. “I remember our grandmother telling both of us Franklin Cappleman … and Granddad sat there at the kitchen table and drew what the fire station
would look like, and they sent it off and got the money for it,” Wright said. When the projects were funded, residents began seeing changes in the city — and especially by the lake — and were eager to try out the new amenities in the Winter Garden Recreational Park. Through this program, Walker built a popular waterfront destination with a pier, swimming pool, yacht basins, boathouses, a seawall and a 12-acre tourist camp named Trailer City. All of these projects remain except for the boathouses, which were razed in 1980. The current pier is one of several that replaced the original, which burned down in 1961. The pool, later renamed Farnsworth Pool, was connected by two wells that provided 100,000 gallons of fresh water flowing through the pool every 24 hours. “That pool was the hottest spot to go to in the summer,” Wright said. “All the moms would drop us off, and there was a little store … they had all the little bubble gums and candies, and it was the best day ever.”
There also were tiki huts by the yacht basin for families and friends wanting to enjoy a picnic by the lake. To the east, Trailer City was established as “temporary housing for well-heeled travelers who came to Winter Garden to spend money on Plant Street in the shops and go to the restaurants,” Crescitelli said. “And now it’s permanent.” Public structures were built near the lake, too: a community center for small gatherings and a larger city auditorium, later renamed Little Hall and Tanner Auditorium (now Tanner Hall). Walker also built a fire station (now SoBo Art Gallery on South Boyd Street), a city hall building (on downtown Plant Street) and a sports complex (on Park Avenue) named Walker Field in his honor. “Granddad loved baseball,” Wright said. “We’ve always been told Granddad loved Mamma, he loved baseball and he loved his grandkids. … Even on his lunch break, he would be on the fields.” An avid sportsman, Walker was the director of the Lake-Orange
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Walker, a native of Savannah, came to Winter Garden with his wife, Mattie, in 1919. In the following year, he opened Walker Electric Company and Appliance Store on Plant Street in the space now occupied by Attic Door. He also was active in civic affairs as a member of the First Baptist Church of Winter Garden and the Lions and Rotary clubs. “She was his biggest cheerleader,” Wright said of her grandmother. After his death in 1955 at age 61, she remained in their home on South Boyd Street until her death in 1989. “Neither Amy nor I were alive when Granddad Walker passed, and we sit here as though we walked, talked, knew him, hugged him, ate with him — because she made sure that his grandchildren knew exactly who he was,” Wright said.
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n many ways, Lorelai Wilber is a typical 3-year-old girl. She is a happy child who is always smiling and laughing. She loves playing with her baby dolls and especially enjoys swimming and climbing. She also is incredibly unique: She was diagnosed with autism and is one of more than 2,500 people worldwide diagnosed with Phelan-McDermid Syndrome.
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Phelan-McDermid Syndrome is a rare genetic condition caused by a deletion or variation of the terminal end of chromosome 22 in the 22q13 region, or a disease-causing variant of the SHANK3 gene. Lorelai also is diagnosed with autism. According to the PhelanMcDermid Syndrome Foundation, it is estimated that 1% of people with autism have PMS. “Lorelai was born absolutely perfect,” said her mother, Devin Wilber. “The doctor kept saying she was perfect, she gained weight well, she nursed well. At about 14 months, she had a verbal regression and then just kind of kept going backward from there — stopped speaking, stopped interacting — and everybody kept telling me, ‘Oh, she’s fine, she’s fine.’ So we reached out to a couple different programs to see if they could have her tested for autism at about 15 months.” The Orlando family went through Florida State University’s First Words Project, which gave them a red-flag report. They took that to Early Steps for another report, which they brought to Lorelai’s pediatrician. Finally, they were referred to a developmental pediatrician, from whom Lorelai officially received a diagnosis of autism in February 2019. “Then we realized that she kept having gains and losses,” Wilber said. “We ended up going to a neurologist to see if she was having seizures. We did a 24-hour EEG, we did an MRI, and then we went to a geneticist.” In September, Lorelai received the PMS diagnosis. Each person is different, but people with PMS may experience things like low muscle tone, gastrointestinal issues, seizures, intellectual dis-
The Wilber family wore green on Oct. 22 for Phelan-McDermid Syndrome Awareness Day.
abilities and the inability to communicate verbally. “It was shocking, because a lot of people for a long time had told us that they didn’t think it was genetic, so we kind of got blindsided,” Wilber said. “It was a little shocking and actually kind of scary, because you don’t know what the future holds for your child. You just want your child to be safe and happy.” A lot of children with autism like to run off, Wilber said, so her family is always focused on Lorelai’s safety and knowing where she is at all times. “She will climb a fence, she will run out a door, and if she does get away then we won’t be able to call her back,” Wilber said. “Given the chance, she would run and run and run and never come back. We were getting really nervous.” That was when Wilber and her husband began looking into getting a service dog for Lorelai — but not just any service dog. 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY
The Wilbers found 4 Paws for Ability, an Ohio-based nonprofit that places service dogs with children with disabilities and veterans who have lost use of limbs or hearing. 4 Paws offers a three-unit system — the child, dog and handler — in which the dog can do things such as track the child or be tethered to them to ensure their safety. Because Lorelai is nonverbal, Wilber said, the dog could serve as a social bridge to help her make friends. And when she gets anxious, the dog would be able to give her deep-pressure sensory input. However, it costs between $40,000 and $60,000 to raise and fully train one of these dogs.
4 PAWS FOR LORELAI The average cost to breed, train and raise a 4 Paws for Ability service dog is between $40,000 and $60,000, and the Wilber family has been responsible for raising $17,000 of it. Although they’ve hit their fundraising goal for the dog itself, they will continue to fundraise to cover expenses associated with traveling to Ohio to receive and learn to work with the dog when it is ready. To donate to Lorelai’s MightyCause page, visit bit.ly/38aZoAU. To learn more about 4 Paws for Ability, visit 4pawsforability.com. For more on PhelanMcDermid Syndrome, visit pmsf.org.
Recipients must raise a portion of that before breeding and training — which can take two-and-onehalf-years — can begin. Wilber began fundraising with T-shirts for the cause, which raised the first $7,000 needed. Then, on Giving Tuesday this year, she decided to share Lorelai’s story and her need for this dog again. “I was like, ‘You know what, I’m just going to put it out there. I know it’s so close to the holidays, but I’m just going to do it for Giving Tuesday,’” she said. “I think we raised about $8,000 that day with people just sharing her story and donating. … It just happened so quickly. I really, truly expected it to take forever.” Lorelai’s grandmother, Jodi Acevedo, played a special part in
the process, too. Acevedo owns her own watercolor business, Whimsical Watercolor, and is one of the artisans at Driftwood Market in Winter Garden. On Dec. 12, Acevedo was at the market selling her work to help raise money for Lorelai’s dog. Additionally, Driftwood Market donated a percentage of its sales that day to Lorelai’s cause and also took donations, and the Winter Garden community answered the call. Between Giving Tuesday and the Driftwood Market fundraiser, the Wilbers were able to reach their fundraising goal for Lorelai’s new service dog. Although it will be another couple of years before the dog is ready, they are ecstatic to be able to help their daughter in this way. “I was so panicked for so long,” Wilber said. “I was like, ‘Oh no, this is going to take forever ... the fact that it’s happened so quickly — and the community has been so amazing about it and has really rallied behind us and been excited to help Lorelai — is just more than we’ve ever expected. … It’s the beginning of some normalcy. We’ve done so much to change our world to keep Lorelai safe.” When it comes down to the long journey, Wilber says it is worth it to ensure safety and security for her daughter. She added that Lorelai has taught her so much about life and being a stronger person. “Honestly, I never knew being broken down could make me feel so strong,” Wilber said. “It’s feeling like you don’t know where to go and you don’t know how to make your baby better, but she’s made me a stronger person. If I don’t fight for her, who’s going to?”
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A career in theater and singing led Dr. Phillips High grad Michael James Scott back to his hometown and on stage at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts as Genie in ‘Aladdin.’ Published Jan. 23, 2020.
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A DNA test connected Ocoee resident April Ciarlone with her father — now she’s also building a relationship with a younger brother and sister. Published Jan. 16, 2020.
John Peek assumed the role of the chief of the Oakland Police Department following Steve Thomas’ retirement Jan. 3, 2020. Published Jan. 16, 2020.
Above: Shelly and Windermere Police Chief Dave Ogden, and former Windermere Mayor Gary and Kay Bruhn enjoyed the seventh annual Windermere Wine & Dine Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020. Published Jan. 30, 2020. Left: Callen Tornatore reached new heights on the rock-climbing wall at the 16th annual Windermere Treebute event Saturday, Jan. 16, 2020. Published Jan. 23, 2020.
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T.J. Washburn, Adam Graham, Kristin Shirilla and Mason Criswell starred in the Garden Theatre’s epic comedy, “Ben Hur.” Published Feb. 20, 2020.
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Jeff Sandgren savored the sweet taste of victory after completing the For the Love of Chocolate 5K Saturday, Feb. 8, near Cinépolis in Hamlin. Published Feb. 13, 2020.
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Mehari Van Der Riet, first place; Andrew Nyland, second place; and Matthews Nicoletti, third place, were the top three male runners at Foundation Academy’s Love FA 2020 Boosterthon Color Run Friday, Feb. 14. Published Feb. 20, 2020. Left: Stuart Eldridge, the beloved leader of the Edgewood Children’s Ranch, devoted his life to guiding youth toward their best potential in life. He died Jan. 28, 2020, at age 59. Published Feb. 6, 2020. Below: The West Orange Chamber of Commerce kicked off the roaring 2020s with the annual Big Orange Awards Friday, Jan. 31, at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort. Published Feb. 6, 2020.
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Ocoee High School football standout — and University of Louisville signee — Dexter Rentz Jr. was shot and killed in Orlando Saturday, April 25. Published April 30, 2020.
Dr. Charlotte Charfen, emergency physician and owner of the Oakland Manor House, battled the COVID-19 pandemic in Central Florida. Published April 16, 2020.
MARCH The Ocoee community and the West Orange Babe Ruth League honored the memory and legacy of Mayor Scott Vandergrift by officially renaming Central Park as Vandergrift Central Park. Published March 5, 2020.
Janette Exton, center, and her daughters — Rileymarie, Cataleya, Madison and Kiehanna — loved seeing their Windermere Elementary School teachers drive by during a pandemic parade. Published April 2, 2020. Green Sky Growers by Valencia College in Winter Garden serves as an interactive classroom on aquaponic and hydroponic systems. From left: lab assistant Rose Alilin and lab supervisors Robby Pletcher and Tatjana Togafau. Published March 19, 2020.
FLAG of Central Florida co-founders David Linn and Jason Hoffman worked with volunteers to help those on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic while supporting local restaurants. Published April 23, 2020.
Despite having to cancel their honeymoon plans, Hamlin newlyweds Stephanie Machado and Jesus La Rosa still celebrated married life in self-quarantine. Published March 26, 2020. Left: It was an afternoon of family fun on wheels during the third annual St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Trike-A-Thon at Children’s Lighthouse. Published March 5, 2020.
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Hundreds gathered at Derek Chauvin’s Windermerearea home to protest the death of George Floyd. Published June 4, 2020.
Battalion Chief Brian Sanders retired after 30 years with the Winter Garden Fire Rescue Department. Published June 25, 2020.
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Juan Montano Matamoros was discharged from Health Central Hospital June 5 after battling a severe case of COVID-19 for more than a month. Published June 18, 2020.
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After an attacker killed John and James Savey and hospitalized Lisa Savey in the hospital, residents did what they could to help. From left: John Savey, James Savey and Mason Cardy. Published Aug. 6, 2020.
After six years, the Windermere Police Foundation reached its milestone investment goal of $100,000 to establish a scholarship fund in fallen Officer Robbie German’s honor. Published Aug. 27, 2020.
West Orange High School’s seniors were able to feel some sense of normalcy return Saturday, Aug. 15, as they took the time to bring their creativity to life through painting their parking spots. Alexandra DiCastro got some help from her mom, Terry. Published Aug. 20, 2020. 345428-1
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Vaquoda Bradford and her daughter, London, prepared to move into their brand-new house in Winter Garden through West Orange Habitat for Humanity. The Bradfords are pictured with house-building sponsors Charlie and Karen Roper. Published Oct. 8, 2020.
Windermere High student Ava Madara competed in BroadwayWorld’s Next On Stage dance competition. Published Oct. 8, 2020.
Kaylin Bergeson, left, and Maya Brooks are the creators of Diversify the Classroom, which aims to bring books of other cultures into elementary schools. Published Oct. 22, 2020.
A partnership between St. Luke’s United Methodist Church and Grow Orlando is empowering east Winter Garden residents through practical and economic opportunities. Brothers Montavious and Macarri Jackson, of east Winter Garden, are two of the youth farmers. Published Oct. 22, 2020.
Cheer teams, bands and JROTC members across Orange County made their return to Friday Night Lights for the first time. Before the season began, Orange County Public Schools announced it would not allow the groups to participate during the football season. Published Oct. 1, 2020.
Windermere Town Manager Robert Smith, left, and Windermere Police Chief Dave Ogden stand among the rubble of the Windermere Municipal Complex, which was demolished Monday, Oct. 19. Published Oct. 22, 2020.
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Carson Holley starred as Matilda in the Garden Theatre’s production of “Matilda The Musical.” Published Nov. 26, 2020.
Winter Garden Fire Chief Matt McGrew spent 14 years creating a “succession culture” in the department. He said it is time to pass the chief’s reins to someone else to lead the team. Published Nov. 12, 2020.
Dressed as Woody from ‘Toy Story,’ Carter Pitters-Lowery took in a sunny morning as he, his mother, Kiera Pitters-Logan, and his family waited for the Windermere Halloween parade. Published Nov. 5, 2020.
Tasha Harrison started a mobile fresh-flower business in downtown Winter Garden, and customers are lining up to take home a bit of natural beauty. Published Nov. 5, 2020. Horizon West resident Averi Harold, 12, started her own baking business to help pay for her horse-riding lessons and save up for a horse of her own. Published Nov. 12, 2020.
Right: The West Oaks Library in Ocoee is getting a new look throughout, including paint, carpeting and shelves. Published Nov. 26, 2020.
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Laura Bartlett and Erin Blackkette, two West Orange-area friends, spearheaded the Cast Member Toy Box, their final act of making magic as Disney cast members. Published Dec. 3, 2020.
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A Windermere couple has adopted and fed generations of peacocks and peahens on their property, and the birds have made it their permanent home. Published Dec. 10, 2020.
For 30 years, local musicians have come together to celebrate fellowship and music as a part of The Ocoee Parking Lot Bluegrass Jam in Ocoee. Published Dec. 17, 2020.
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Fred Borsoni can be found most days on the construction site of the latest West Orange Habitat for Humanity home being built. He has volunteered with the organization for 20 years. Published Dec. 10, 2020.
Sporting their birthday-bead necklaces, veterans Henry Goehres and Dennis Turner shared a birthday moment that neither man will forget. Goehres turned 104, while Turner hit the big 70. Published Dec. 10, 2020.
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AdventHealth Transplant Institute recently completed a paired kidney transplant between two families at the same hospital. Hallie Thomas, Richard’s wife who donated her kidney to Emery; Richard Thomas, kidney transplant recipient, and their son; Dr. Michael Angelis, center, transplant surgeon, surgical director of kidney transplant, and his team; Jamie McKenzie, Emery’s mother and a nurse who donated her kidney to Richard; her son and daughter, 4-year-old transplant recipient Emery Bock; and Robert Bock, Emery’s dad. Published Dec. 3, 2020.
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Kate Johnstone is one of many equestrian athletes who spent time practicing at Sunnybrook Farm in Winter Garden.
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Foundation Academy’s Zoe Sedo was lifted onto her teammate’s shoulders as they celebrated their win over Real Life Christian Academy in the Class 2A, District 10 championship Thursday, Feb. 6.
Danny Lee barely missed the hole after a chip shot out of a bunker on the 14th hole during the 2020 Arnold Palmer Invitational.
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Former Cincinnati Bengals offensive line coach Robert Couch is the new man in charge of the Windermere High School football program.
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