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County budget will eliminate nine jobs to meet goalsBY J.G. WALLACEVERO BEACH NEWSWEEKLY

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY – de austere times that Indian River County has endured the last few years have resulted in sharp cuts to the county budget and a significant number of layoffs.

County commissioners intro-duced a proposed 2012-2013 budg-et this month that shaves costs and decreases property taxes, a result achieved in part by cutting nine jobs – five of them through attrition and four from layoffs. de net effect will be to trim $620,426 in payroll expenses.

de elimination of one of the jobs in the proposed 2012-2013 budget could impact the county’s efforts to educate the community about meas-ures that can be taken to protect the health of the Indian River lagoon.

One of the jobs eliminated last week was that of county storm wa-ter education coordinator Diane Wilson. County Commissioner Bob Solari said he is working with Commissioner Peter O’Bryan to develop some new storm water education initiatives and both commissioners plan to champion that cause and work to improve education about fertilizer use and the health of the lagoon.

Solari said he expects O’Bryan to discuss the matter at an up-coming meeting. One approach under consideration is to have in-formation inserted in utility bills.

“de commissioners will have to work a little harder at pushing the education to other areas,” Solari said. “I believe education is the best way to go.”

Solari said he still believes storm water education and informing the community about best envi-ronmental practices to reduce the levels of nitrogen and phosphates

entering the lagoon are important.“Unfortunately we lost Miss

Wilson so we’ll have to do what we’ve done in other areas and try to do more with less,” Solari said.

Sebastian and Vero Beach have both adopted ordinances which re-quires training for commercial ap-plicators and places restrictions on fertilizer use near the water and urg-es caution about blowing grass clip-pings on the streets and sidewalks near the lagoon. County Commis-sioners rejected the idea of adopting a similar measure in February.

At the time Solari said he op-posed the added regulation on ideological grounds, saying too many regulations dull the intellect of the individual and undermine a democratic society.

Solari cited research from Dr. Edie Widder of the Ocean Re-search and Conservation Asso-ciation where a pilot program between the two bridges in Vero Beach showed a sharp reduction of pollutants in areas adjacent to the Vero Beach County Club which uses “best management” practices.

County Administrator Joe Baird told the commissioners the job cuts came from varied areas – golf course operations, human resourc-es, library staff, lifeguard staff, en-gineering and transportation.

In the Parks Department one ranger position was downgraded to maintenance worker, with a $29,100 pay cut. de Human Resources Di-rector position was cut at a savings of $101,064. de Board of County Commissioner’s office eliminated one full-time assistant position, re-placing it with a part-time position for a cut of $38,678 annually.

County residents will face a lighter tax burden in the upcom-ing budget compared to this year with a $3.4 million decrease in

the local tax levy or a 4.7 percent drop. dis represents a cumula-tive drop of more than $25 million since the 2009-10 fiscal year.

“Under the proposed budget, In-dian River County taxpayers will pay less property taxes to county government in 2012 than the cur-rent year,” Baird wrote in a budget workbook summary.

Like much of the nation, Indian River County has been troubled by decreasing property tax values, having lost about $103 million since the 2006 fiscal year.

Budget Director Jason Brown said property values in the county were down 3.6 percent over the past year. Ad valorem, or property taxes, are derived from the total assessed value, but faced with the continuing drop in property values,

county officials have introduced a budget that doesn’t seek to recover those dollars through a “roll back,” rate, which adjusts the millage rate to recover the same amount of rev-enue as the year before.

Instead, the county anticipates collecting $3.4 million less in ad valorem taxes in the next fiscal year. “dat’s another $6 million left in the pockets of the people who actually earned it,” Solari told the Press Jour-nal after the budget workshop.

Of the $252 million budget, the $69.4 million derived from prop-erty taxes represents 27 percent of the total revenue. dis year the ad valorem portion was $72.8 mil-lion. Taxpayers in the unincor-porated areas will pay $6.25 per $1,000 of assessed taxable value, a drop from this year’s rate of $6.31.

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BY IAN LOVEVERO BEACH NEWSWEEKLY

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY -- ce Pelican Island Audubon Soci-ety is not your grandmother’s bird watching group.

ce 1,000-member strong or-ganization is involved with con-servation and environmental education efforts of all sorts that brings with it wins and losses and makes some friends, and others enemies, depending on which side of a particular matter you might stake a position.

ce society works on a shoe-string budget of about $40,000

a year and relies on volunteers to staff its many projects from classrooms to canoe trips on the Indian River Lagoon. It also has worked with the County Commission and municipal city councils to pass environmentally friendly ordinances to preserve and protect wild life.

ce group took a major step forward this month when County Commissioners voted 3-2 (with commissioners Wesley Davis and Peter O’Bryan dissenting) to allow a special zoning exception to build a 2,596-square-foot classroom-office complex on an acre of land

purchased from the University of Florida Foundation.

Construction should begin be-fore the end of the year on the structure which will be located next to the 440-acre Oslo River-front Conservation Area (ORCA) near Oslo Road. ce main empha-sis will be the classrooms which will train volunteers to help with both public and private conserva-tion efforts in the county.

“We set up initially to train vol-unteers for the Oslo Road Con-servation Area,” said Pelican Is-land Audubon Society President Richard Baker. “We had been do-

ing it in collaboration with and in the boathouse at the University of Florida’s Medical Entomology Laboratory next to ORCA, but we thought this is such an impor-tant effort we needed our own facility.”

ce training, coordinated by Janice Broda, consists of six three-hour classes over six weeks where volunteers learn about plants and wildlife. Half the class is a lecture -- often with guest speakers -- and half are tours along the ORCA trails so volunteers can gain first-hand knowledge.

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Artist’s rendition of the classroom-oIce complex the Pelican Island Audubon Society will build next to the Oslo Riverfront Conservation area.

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“One of the unique things about ORCA is that it has about seven or eight different habitats,” said Baker, a professor emeritus in medical entomology at the Uni-versity of Florida. “It has probably the most diverse habitats of any of the conservation areas in Indian River County.”

be training is important since the volunteers serve in many ways as the county’s environmental ambassadors by conducting tours on many of the conservation areas the county has purchased over the years.

“be county has one or maybe two people managing all the con-servation land,” Baker said. “bat is why they need volunteers bad-

ly. If you look at the way Brevard handles its program, it has a lot of staff and spends a lot of money in doing that. Indian River County has decided not to go that route so they need the volunteers to help them out.”

be Pelican Island Audubon Society was a charter member of the IRC Land Acquisition Advi-sory Committee and helped in obtaining two county bonds (in 1992 for $26 million and in 2004 for $50 million) to purchase en-vironmentally important land. With matching funds the county raised $136 million for buying conservation, agriculture and historical lands which has led to the purchase of 35 parcels involv-ing more than 9,700 acres in the county.

Among the services the volun-teers provide in addition to serv-ing as guides is keeping trails clear, removing exotic plants and in Baker’s words “being the eyes and ears” for the public on mat-ters about the land.

Baker also envisions expanding educational efforts to teach chil-dren early on about being good stewards of the environment.

“We have lost two generations to television,” he said. “A lot of children spend just 15 minutes a day outside walking to and getting out of their cars.”

One of the society’s newest projects will be providing vegeta-ble gardens in four-foot by four-foot containers for Indian River County school children. be pro-gram will begin at the newly built Vero Beach Elementary School, but plans are to expand through-out the county.

be new office-classroom com-plex will be comprised of two buildings with a picnic area sep-arating the two. One building will house the classroom and the other will provide office space for

Audubon and ORCA offices.Baker ran into some opposi-

tion for the complex because it will require cutting down some oak trees to build the structure. In fact, the group had to meet the stiff county tree and landscaping ordinances it helped to write. And true to the Audubon’s role these days, the complex will be staffed by volunteers.

be Society has received about $100,000 in pro bono services from Carter Associates, Inc.; ar-chitect Richard Bialosky; Coast-al Tech; AM Engineering; lead consultant Amy boma, and Robin Pelensky in drawing up the plans. It has raised $270,000 in donations toward toward the buildings, but still needs about $150,000 more to complete the construction, landscaping and furnishings.

be society has had a long and storied career in Indian River County. It was started in 1961 as the Indian River Preservation League by local citrus growers, commercial fishermen, sports-men and concerned citizens who mobilized to stop a dredge and fill housing project adjacent to the Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge.

In 1964 the group became a chapter of Florida Audubon, one of 500 chapters and centers with-in the National Audubon Society. Among its ongoing activities are offering college environmental scholarships, monthly speakers in both Sebastian and Vero Beach, birding and pontoon boat trips and sponsoring the Press-Journal “Bird Photo of the Month” that provides natural history information.

Among its achievements has been leading the fight to pass a night time beach ordinance to protect sea turtle hatchlings in Vero Beach and Indian River Shores. be ordinance prohib-

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its lighting on the beach at night during nesting season because the turtles become disoriented and move toward the light rather than the ocean. Another commu-nity contribution was being one of the driving forces behind the En-vironmental Learning Center to help get children out into nature and educate the community.

It also helped organize the fi rstU.S. coastal cleanup in 1986 and was recognized by the U.S. De-partment of Interior for its eff orts. Zis eff ort led to 90 other coun-tries and hundreds of other com-munities following suit, and Keep Indian River Beautiful continues the program to this today.

Ze work of the society has led to being recognized in 2005 and 2011 by the state organization as the best chapter in Florida.

Being such strong advocates for the environment has led to en-

couraging the cities and county to pass a strong fertilizer ordinance for slow-release nitrogen and no phosphorous since nitrogen and phosphorous-based fertilizers run off into the lagoon and are, in Bak-er’s words, “killing it.”

But Baker stresses the group’s advocacy takes each issue on a case-by-case basis and will part-ner with former opponents if the cause is right. Z e Pelican Island Audubon Society has been sup-portive of many county eff orts on behalf of their lands preservation, water issues, and facilitating the community’s quality of life.

“We want to get people interest-ed in nature and get them out to see it fi rsthand,” Baker said.

To find out more information about the Pelican Island Audubon Society visit their website at www.pelicanislandaudubon.org or call (772) 567-3520.

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BY MICHAEL BIELECKIVERO BEACH NEWSWEEKLY

December 7, 1941 will always be remembered as the day we en-tered World War II.

Had the Japanese not attacked Pearl Harbor, it is difficult to say when America would have of-ficially declared war on the Axis powers. As quickly as the Japa-nese conquered most of the West Pacific, though, it was probably only a matter of time before the United States intervened.

According to Indian River Ge-nealogical Society President, Col. Anthony Young, Ret., about one-third of the 40 Indian River County WWII veterans killed in combat served in the Pacific ceater of Operations. For some perspective, more than twice as many local men died in the Pacific in WWII than in all of WWI.

“What happened in the Second World War is very much a part of the fabric of Vero Beach,” Young said. “Quite a bit of what we have is from personal accounts from families who are still in town. We have a lot of information on some, and only a little on others. We couldn’t have done all this five years ago; I have references from at least a dozen databases.”

Connecting the names of the men who are honored at Veterans Memorial Island Sanctuary to their respective stories has been a labor of love for Young, who is a veteran of both Gulf wars. Under his di-rection, and with lots of help from the community, the data gathered on Indian River County’s WWII veterans reads like a movie script.

“PFC James Powers Loudermilk

was in the Fourth Marine Divi-sion, which fought in the battle of Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima,” Young said. “After participating in all those invasions, he was killed on day one of Iwo Jima in 1945. His division lost 1,800 Marines and sustained 9,000 casualties in a month of battle. ce Japanese, in comparison, lost 22,000 men on that island and surrendered just 44. It was a battle of inches.”

Loudermilk was his family’s first son, Young found out after in-terviewing William Loudermilk, James’ uncle. Ellis Loudermilk, James’ half-brother, went on to give his life in the Vietnam War in 1967.

“One of the things I’ve learned while doing research on these veter-ans is that sometimes, one leads to another,” Young said. “If I wouldn’t have found Loudermilk’s account, I wouldn’t have found Sgt. Charles Madison Blair’s account. I looked at Blair’s date of death and it was July 7, 1944, and I saw the second and fourth Marine division were both active at the time. He died the day before, or during, the final bonzai attack by the Japanese forces at Saipan. Our artillery had taken out all of their utilities and it was their last-gasp attack. cey picked up what remained of their weapons and committed to a full frontal as-sault on American forces.”

Putting history with the data provided by a database is one way Young has conducted his research, but first-hand accounts from oth-er veterans have been a vital -- if not rare -- resource as he’s put together the stories of the local veterans of the Pacific ceater of

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Operations from WWII.“Robert Lee Hurst was an Air

Force private from Wabasso who was sent to the Philippines at the be-ginning of the war,” Young said. “It was there where the Japanese over-ran 50,000 of our forces. He sur-vived the Bataan Death March, but he died of malaria while imprisoned at Cabanatuan. fe Army Rangers who liberated the camp were told stories by the surviving POW’s of the men who didn’t make it.”

Young had the opportunity to view some of his letters to home, courtesy of Hurst’s niece, Barbara, as well as accounts from surviving POW’s like Abby Abraham, who published two books on his expe-riences with Hurst’s unit during the Bataan Death March. Hurst and the rest of the men who died on or as a result of the Bataan Death March are remembered at the Cabanatuan American Me-morial in the Philippines.

Joe Hill was another POW who died at the hands of the Japanese. He was shot down as a P-40 pilot in the 18th Fighter Group.

“Hill was held on the island of New Britain in a prison camp named Rabaul,” Young said. “He is one of four veterans on the

Memorial Island who had been POW’s. His body was recovered and he’s buried at Jefferson Bar-racks in St. Louis.”

Barbour Graves Wilhoit, the only WWII Naval aviator at Me-morial Island, was another pilot who was lost in the Pacific. fe Graves family has memorialized Wilhoit in stained glass at Trinity Episcopal Church in Vero Beach.

“He was a member of the Graves family here in town, and he was a young man who went to college, got his wings and became a flight instructor,” Young said. “fe Press Journal documents his death on July 24, 1945, saying his fighter plane crashed in the Pacific. It was right after VJ Day; shortly be-fore the Japanese surrender.”

fe Navy threw most of its weight into the Pacific after Pearl Harbor in order to contend with the various Japanese strongholds throughout the ocean’s numerous island chains.

Henry Morgan, a Vero Beach High School graduate, began his service on the USS Quincy in the Atlantic in 1939, a destroyer that was sunk near the Solomon Is-lands by the Japanese.

“He was killed during training when the crew was preparing to move out to New Zealand,” Young said. “fis ship was one of the destroyers that protected the Ma-rines as they went ashore.”

Jimmy Doles of Wabasso was a hard one for Young and his organi-zation to track down. After much research, they realized there was a spelling disconnect that happened some 50 years ago.

“Originally, when we went to re-search it, we were looking for Jim-my Does,” Young said. “We went back through newspapers and graves sites, and we discovered the individual we were looking for was actually Jimmy Doles. He handled chemicals in Hawaii and he was killed in an explosion there.”

Clifford Barnwell of Gifford, like Doles, was an African-American enlisted man who died working with chemicals in Hawaii.

“fere were black combat ele-ments in Europe, but the majority of the support organizations (in both theaters of operations) were run by black men,” Young said. “Once you are in battle, you could be purple and it doesn’t matter. Serving in the army and being of equal stature; it was hard coming back to the segre-gated United States of that time for those soldiers.”

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BY J.G. WALLACEVERO BEACH NEWSWEEKLY

VERO BEACH -- It’s a frighten-ing scenario.

You’re far from your home in Vero Beach at a meeting in Jack-sonville. A sudden storm squall snarls traffic and you’re unable to stop in time, striking the back of a stalled semi-trailer.

In a strange city, in an unfamiliar hospital, you are being rushed into surgery by a doctor with no knowl-edge of your medical history.  He doesn’t know about the blood thin-ners you take, or an allergy to peni-cillin or your pacemaker.

Now imagine that a new pro-gram developed by the Florida Agency for Health Care Adminis-tration and Harris Healthcare so-lutions that is being pioneered in Indian River County by Treasure Coast Community Health, Inc. that can provide the doctor with your detailed health records in a digitally secure format. 

Yat is just one potential benefit from the new Florida Health In-formation Exchange program that TCCH launched about a month ago, becoming the first health care provider in the county to adopt the system.

Sherry de Cuba, TCCH’s Chief Information Officer, said she be-

lieves the system will soon be mandated by the state, and join-ing in at the onset made sense for a community health provider that prides itself in innovation.

de Cuba said TCCH will initially be using the system in-house to share information between doc-tors and other staff, but she be-lieves they will soon be able to send information and communi-cate with external specialists as more providers switch over to the system.

“Every specialist that we have we’re trying to approach them to get on Direct Secure Messaging and stop the faxes and be in touch with the right person to get the patient’s information,” de Cuba said. “It’s kind of a first step.”

de Cuba said once more pro-viders are using the system the patient lookup service would al-low doctors in another location to have full access to a patient’s records, as in the case of the hy-pothetical car accident.

“It’s the kind of thing that can make a difference when it comes to survival.

Ye understanding of it has a lot of different perspectives,” de Cuba said. “I know we are just starting to get momentum.”

de Cuba said she recently at-

tended a health information man-agement conference in Orlando and Harris Corporation made a presentation on the system that was well received.

“Eventually I think it will be a re-quirement,” de Cuba said. “From a state perspective they are provid-ing a lot of tools and information.”

Harris representatives have met with other providers and area hospitals and are actively promot-ing the new DSM system across the state.

“Given our size, for us to be so progressive and to take on this challenge now is really remark-able when some of the larger in-stitutions around haven’t even broached it,” said Steve Dorrance, executive director of TCCH. “I didn’t so much look at it from a technical point of view, but from a patient point of view.”

Dorrance said he was impressed with the Health Information Ex-change’s potential to share patient records in a critical care situation. “Yat is hugely important from a patient’s point of view,” he said.

de Cuba said as more provid-ers join the system it will become more fluid and functional, to the point where it will even make it easier for a patient who moves within the state to transfer their

medical records to a new provider.  “Instead of having to pay for

your records or wait for your records to get there your doctor could (contact) your new doc-tor and (send) your records from before,” de Cuba said. “For the pa-tient it makes for a better continu-ity of care.”

Ye system is secure and limited to health care providers with a Na-tional Provider Identification, or NPI code. DSM is a secure email program that allows providers to send and receive messages and at-tachments containing a patient’s clinical data. Ye service does not require providers to purchase special software or pay a fee.

DSM is designed to speed up the transfer of patient information via a web-based interface, ensure the receipt of a sent message via a “read receipt,” and is designed to shift the dependence on faxes, tel-ephone calls, and mail.

Harris Corp. intends to imple-ment a statewide Health Informa-tion Exchange network that will improve the delivery and coordi-nation of health care. Yeir goal is to improve patient care by using health information technology in concert with providing access to critical patient medical informa-tion at the point of care.

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LETTERS WELCOMEVero Beach Newsweekly invites you to send Letters to the Editor on topics of interest pertaining to Indian River Coun-ty. Letters should be 250-300 words and may be edited for length. We encourage an open dialogue, but reserve the right to refuse publication of letters that do not meet our editorial standards.

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Community Forum

Earlier this month the Indian River County Commission adopt-ed a relaxed interpretation of land use regulations that will allow for short-term rentals as short as a day in residential areas.

Owners of single-family homes in the unincorporated areas of the county, such as in the south bar-rier island, need only get a state license and collect tourist taxes in order to rent their homes out as short-term vacation rentals.

Previously considered to be a commercial use of property, short-term rentals (those of less than 30 days) have been the ex-clusive right of hotels and motels. ]e county’s more lenient ap-proach to regulating rentals will not affect neighborhoods with-in the city limits of Vero Beach where restrictions on short-terms rentals remain in force.

Now, with the County Commis-sion’s recent “clarifi cation” of the ordinances, a resident in the Moor-ings could wake up some day to fi nd half a dozen or more cars belonging to a family of 15 parked in a neigh-boring driveway and on the street.

]ough city ordinances do not allow for short-term rentals in a residential area, this was the expe-rience of neighbors in a beachside community last summer when City Councilwoman Tracy Car-roll rented her home on Seagrape Drive for a week to a family of 15.

Opponents of allowing short-term rentals argue they will have a negative impact on neighborhoods.

]e issue has again been raised for clarifi cation, just as it was last summer, when a city resident complained that Carroll and her husband were advertising and of-fering for short-term rental homes they own at 906 Seagrape Drive and at 422 Live Oak Road.

Randy Fryar, who lives near the Carroll home on Seagrape Drive, wrote, in a letter to Plan-ning Director Tim McGarry, “] ereal slap in the face is that Coun-cilmember Tracy Carroll was sent a memo by Department Corre-spondence June 24, 2011. She de-fies the law and proceeds, not car-ing for the property values in our community.”

In the June 24, 2011 letter from

McGarry to Carroll which Fryar cited in his most recent complaint, McGarry wrote, “] e use of a resi-dential building to provide tempo-rary, short-term lodging to the tran-sient public in a manner similar to hotels, motels, vacation rentals, bed and breakfast, and guest houses or lodges, clearly exhibits commercial characteristics thereby restricting such uses to commercial districts and excluding such uses from the City’s residential districts.”

]e issues here are about policy, process and following the rule of law.

Streamlined and limited govern-ment can be good, but not when it means gutting rules intended to protect family residences and neighborhoods. Instead of fulfi ll-ing this responsibility, the County Commission seems more com-mitted to catering to a few real es-tate speculators.

If county residents living in the Moorings and other unincorpo-rated areas want a government that is as committed to preserving domestic tranquility as it is in pro-tecting individual property rights, then this is a policy debate to be

had within the halls of county government.

Residents of the City of Vero Beach live under and are expected to abide by city ordinances that do not allow for short-term rentals of residential property.

But, of course, ordinances can be changed, most of them by a simple majority vote of the fi ve-person City Council. If the property own-ers of Vero Beach want to petition the City Council for a change in ordinances governing residential rentals, that is their right. In the mean time, it remains everyone’s right to expect that city ordinanc-es will be respected, especially by members of the City Council.

]e diff erent approaches the city and county are taking on short-term rentals also raises the ques-tion of what city residents might lose if the city were to be dis-in-corporated and absorbed by the county, as some have suggested. If city residents want to “keep Vero Vero” they might do well to think twice about putting their destiny in anyone’s hands other than their own.

City, County take di5 erent approach to rentals

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BY MARK SCHUMANN

In early May students from the Sebastian River Middle School presented to the Indian River County Commission the results of their science project studying the causes of the Indian River La-goon’s ill health. ]e students also identified possible strategies for reviving the Lagoon, one of the nation’s most vital eco-systems.

Following the presentation, all of the commissioners except one politely praised the students for their thoughtful presentations, and thanked them for their efforts.

As he is often given to do-ing, Vice-Chairman Bob Solari donned his philosophy professor persona, and delivered a mini-lec-ture in which he suggested to the students it would be an act of to-talitarianism to pass an ordinance restricting the use of phospho-rous-based fertilizers.

I’m not making this up! You can see it for yourself by going to the website ircgov.org. ]ere you will find a recording of the May 1 meeting of the Indian River Coun-ty Commission. Solari’s exchange with the students comes about 15 minutes into the meeting.

Solari claims his opponents are without principles, while he alone has a moral compass steering him on a steady course in defense of lib-erty. ]is begs the question of what exactly it is Solari means by “liberty.”

“Liberty” was the guiding prin-ciple of the French Revolution, but it wasn’t long before liberty had degenerated into anarchy, and heads were rolling.

American historian James Mac-Greagor Burnes, in a excellent two-volume series, explains how the “Vineyard of Liberty,” became a “Workshop of Democracy,” as Americans gradually entered into

an expanded social contract in which the collective commitment to equal opportunity and equal justice was balanced against indi-vidual liberties.

Hypothetically, if a certain coun-ty commissioner were to leave his central beach home and was late for the start of a commission meeting, should he be at “liberty” to race across the bridge in his car at whatever speed will get him to his designated parking space in time to scurry inside just as the meeting is called to order?

Speed limits are not an exercise in tyranny. ]e requirement that we all observe designated speed limits is a reasonable compromise in or-der to greatly reduce the number of traffic accidents that would oth-erwise occur if we were all left to drive at whatever speeds we indi-vidually and voluntarily determine to be “safe and reasonable.”

Similarly, given that what is applied to local yards and golf courses eventually drains into the Indian River Lagoon, it is hardly an exercise of tyranny to limit the kinds of fertilizer we are allowed by law to put on our yards.

For someone who so despises government, describing it as a “nebulous collective,” it is in a way ironic that Solari wants to contin-ue serving on the County Com-mission.

Both of his opponents have raised legitimate questions about inconsistencies in Solari’s posi-tions. For example, as a way of temporarily restoring the beach-es, Solari supported mining thou-sands of dump truck loads of sand west of town and hauling them to the beach. ]e plan, touted as better for local sand miners and trucking businesses, turned out to be more expensive and certainly more intrusive.

And yet, when he had an oppor-tunity to support “local preference” in bidding for government con-tracts, Solari served up a 20-minute lecture on how protectionism led to the Great Depression. As with the current recession, the Great De-pression was cause by irresponsible speculation on Wall Street, not by local governments giving prefer-ence to local businesses in the bid-ding of contracts.

While Solari appears ready to

advocate spending tens of mil-lions to reverse the flow of drain-age canals as a way of saving the Lagoon, he steadfastly refuses to support an ordinance restricting the use of phosphorous-based fer-tilizers. Further, he is dismissive of a plan to allow clean, oxygen-ated seawater to flow into the La-goon near Bethel Creek.

How Solari can be for smaller government, while refusing to ex-plore less expensive means of pro-tecting the Lagoon is more than a little ironic.

Here is a question I have won-dered lately: If the average home-owner had to choose between ad-hering to fertilizer restrictions or paying millions of dollars in taxes to reverse the flow of the canals, I suspect many would gladly sur-render the “liberty” to throw what they want on their yards in ex-change for the “liberty” of keeping more of their hard-earned money.

While Solari was completely comfortable spending over $12 mil-lion for a conservation easement on ranch land that isn’t likely to catch the eye of developers for dec-ades, he proved more than eager to “streamline” government by shut-ting down voluntary boards that have traditionally afforded many concerned and interested citizens the “liberty” to participate in local government. So much for “liberty.”

Solari’s political philosophy seems to be an eclectic blend of the thinking of the ancient Greco-Roman philosophers with a funda-mentalist reading of the Federalist Papers. If hearing more about this would be fascinating to you, just attend a county commission meet-ing. ]ere you will almost surely be treated to one of Commissioner Solari’s frequent mini-lectures on political philosophy.

Taking liberties with libertyCOMMUNIT Y FORUM

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BY REV. SCOTT ALEXANDER

It is a wonderful thing when sci-ence and religion speak with one clear and consistent voice.

Such is the case with human genetic science, and all the many religions around the world which seek to affirm the oneness and connectedness of the human fam-ily.

fe scientists who recently mapped the entire DNA code for our species found that all human beings share an amazing 99.9 per-cent of the genetic markers. What this scientifically means is that all the many physical and racial dif-ferences that exist between hu-man persons can be accounted for by no more than one one-thou-sandth of the genetic code.

Science has now given us per-haps one of the greatest truths about ourselves: we human beings are overwhelmingly and irretriev-

ably alike.fis fact -- that

we human be-ings are vastly more alike than we are different -- fascinates me from a scientific perspective and inspires me from a theological one. My personal faith tradition, Uni-tarian Universalism, has always been one which theologically and ethically emphasized the oneness and interrelatedness of the human family.

And this religious impulse – to understand humanity as one – lies at the center of many of the world’s faiths. British theologian and writer Karen Armstrong – who has spent her career in the field of comparative religion – believes that as we move into the

complicated human future on this planet, an ethic of human oneness and compassion must animate all of us.

In her 2008 Charter for Com-passion, Armstrong states, “fe principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical and spiritual traditions, calling us al-ways to treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves. Com-passion impels us to work tire-lessly to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to dethrone ourselves from the center of our world… and to honor the invio-lable sanctity of every single hu-man being, treating everybody, without exception, with absolute justice, equity, and respect.”

Yet sadly in our world today, hu-man beings still find so many ways to angrily focus on our differenc-es, rather than celebrate our com-monality. Here on the Treasure

Coast, for example, you regularly hear people complaining about people who look, act, speak, or think differently than themselves. fe many intolerances directed at these simple human differences are a tragedy in the American ex-perience, and are sadly found else-where in the world as well.

Karen Armstrong is profoundly right. If humanity is ever to cre-ate a global culture worth having, human beings everywhere must increasingly see, celebrate, and respect the powerful (and I would say holy) commonality and one-ness that exists between us -- eve-ry one of us.

Rev. Scott W. Alexander is the min-ister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Vero Beach, and has been a minister, author, and educa-tor for almost 40 years. He is an avid cyclist and outdoor enthusiast who loves living in Vero Beach.

BY RABBI MICHAEL BIRNHOLZ

I love the Olympics and what the Games represent:  sportsman-ship, camaraderie, cooperation. 

fe Olympic flag specifically has five rings with colors so that every flag of every country is rep-resented.  I am always in awe how the Olympic Games bring togeth-er so many different cultures and history. As you watch the various sports you see powerhouses and tiny teams, established traditions and newly formed units.

For me there is a coolness and excitement in getting to see sports that rarely are on display.  fe Ol-ympic Games are a real treat eve-ry four years. Yet as this year’s Ol-ympics open it is hard not to think about the Israeli Olympic team on this the 40th anniversary of the

Munich Massacre of 1972.

fe 1972 sum-mer Olympics in Munich was sup-posed to be a re-demptive event. In the shadow of Hitler’s Nazi driv-en games in Ber-lin in 1936, the return of the games to Germany was to be a showcase of a modern, inclusive, free, and democratic country.  Sadly, in the midst of this celebration of international sports -- cooperation through competi-tion -- heinous violence became the central story.

Palestinian terrorists attacked the Olympic village, targeting the Israeli team. In the wake of the

failed rescue attempt, 11 mem-bers of the Israeli delegation died.  Regardless of one’s opinion on the nature and dynamics of the Israe-li-Palestinian conflict, there is no room to rationalize the murder of these athletes at the Olympics, which is supposed to epitomize international cooperation and be above political conflict.

In the wake of the attack there has been much controversy about how to honor and remember these 11 men and this event.  For 40 years many have argued over the when, what, how and why to honor or not honor these men.  Yet, through it all I am surprised to see how many articles do not even print the names of the Israeli athletes killed during the Munich Games of 1972. 

Acts of memory can be sim-ple and powerful, just as is the Olympics medal ceremony.  As these games are set to begin, I know what I will be doing.  I will stand in silence and say these names: Yossef Gutfreund, Moshe Weinberg, Yossef Romano, Kehat Shorr, Amitzur Shapira, Andre Spitzer, Yakov Springer, Eliezer Halfin,  Mark Slavin, David Berg-er and Ze’ev Friedman.

I remember, I do not forget. I long for a world where every life is precious and we could actu-ally work out our differences on a sports field.

Rabbi Michael Birnholz has served Temple Beth Shalom in Vero Beach since 2002. One of his goals is bringing Jewish values and wisdom to the wider community.

Let’s celebrate all that makes us alike

Honoring Olympians murdered in the ‘Munich Massacre’

REVERENDSCOTT ALEXANDER

RABBI MICHAEL BIRNHOLZ

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BY CHRISTINA TASCONVERO BEACH NEWSWEEKLY

The “Love Doctors” have been organizing toy drives since 1994 and have gone from bring-ing in $2,900 per year to over $180,000. Waldo’s contribution to that drive now tops 10 per-cent of that total and includes hundreds of donated toys.

A seriously sarcastic Rich Dickerson along with local Vero Beach resident Glenn Curtis make up the “Love Doc-tors” duo on their irreverent South Florida REAL Radio 94.3 talk show.

What both take seriously are the “Love Doctors” Chari-ties. Lee Olsen and Joe Smith at Waldo’s Restaurant do their part by making the Waldo’s Christmas in July bigger and better each year to help local children.

“We have a soft spot for char-ities which help children,” said

Smith. “We’ve been involved with the “Love Doctors” for years and not just for Christ-mas in July; it’s a year-round thing. Something just touches our hearts when it comes to these kids.”

]is year they expanded the event to include Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday they held the Karen McKloskey Memorial Golf Tour-nament at Sandridge Golf Club and Sunday they began with a Poker Run/Pub Crawl which blossoms each year into a huge toy drive bash with the band Smoking Man rocking the crowd.

“We’ve got a lot of people in need,” said Curtis, known on the radio as ‘Dr. Glenn.’ “They made us very successful so this our way of giving back.”

At least 1,200 people showed up to party and estimates were that $18,000 would be raised.

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CHRISTMAS AT WALDOSFROM PAGE 17

Love Doctors Glenn Curtis and Rich Dickerson

Joe Smith with Bud Girls Danielle Hulton & Jamie Long with Lee Olsen far right

Aubrey Baker dances to the music of Smoking Man poolsideMichele & Wes Garcia with Anne Marie Rossmell man the front as visitors dropped toys for the kids all weekend long

Front: MJ Vereen, Tammy Marks & Carolyn Danigian and Back: Ben Martin, Terri May and Ben Albrecht

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19Community CalendarEVERY FRIDAY` Farmer’s Market 3-6 pm, downtown Vero, corner 14th Ave & 21st St. 772-480-8353.

EVERY SATURDAY` Oceanside Business AssociationFarmer’s Market, 8 am-noon. Ocean Dr. & Dahlia Ln. 772-532-2455.

JULY 27 & 28` In the Ru` Golf TournamentBenefits HALO Rescue and Stray No More, Cocktail party 27th at 6:30 pm, Tournament 28th at 8 am, Indian River Club. 772-360-9294.` Comedy Zone SUMMER NIGHTS!Grilled food from Hale Groves and treats from Kilwin’s avail-able. CeeJay and Chris Cope, 7:30 & 9:30 pm, $15 plus food, prices vary. 772-231-6990.

JULY 27-29` Summer StageAt Riverside Children’s geatre, Little Shop of Horrors, Anne Mor-ton geatre, 6280 Riverside Dr., $6-$9/$12-$18. 772-231-6990.

JULY 27, AUGUST 3 & 10` Sunset Boat TourCruise Indian River’s native man-grove coves with Capt. Chop, Ft. Pierce City Marina, $15-$20, res-ervations. 772-464-4445.

JULY 28 & 29` Tour deTurtles Migration MarathonBarrier Island Center, 8385 South Hwy. A1A, (just north of Se-bastian Inlet, $20/$35, Saturday cocktails & hors d’oeuvres 6 pm; Sunday 8 am for Sea Turtle Re-lease. 321-723-3556.

AUGUST 2-4` “The Jacksons”Aerial Antics youth Circus, Recrea-tion Dept. Performing Arts gymnas-tic performances, 7 pm, St. Edward’s School, $5-$6. 772-567-2144.

AUGUST 3` Downtown Gallery Art StrollIn Historic Mainstreet art district, art galleries and businesses offer open house receptions. Free. 772-299-1234.

AUGUST 5 & 19` Dancing in the StreetsSongs of the 60s, geatre-Go-Round, Joey’s Bistro, 2075 Indian River Blvd., 4 pm, $45. 772-252-9341.

AUGUST 8` Symphony of the America’sSummerfest Concert, Christ by

the Sea, 7:30 pm, local musicians & Mission Chamber Orchestra of Rome, hosted by Cultural Coun-cil. 772-770-4857.

AUGUST 10 & 11

` Comedy Zone SUMMER NIGHTS!Grilled food from Hale Groves and treats from Kilwin’s available. Mary Asher and Tim Kidd, 7:30 & 9:30 pm, $15 plus food, prices vary. 772-231-6990.` Tennis Marathon Bene_tJungle Club, Ages 6+, $15, 7 am-7 pm, benefits Harvest Food & the Source. 772-321-7800.

AUGUST 11

` Call of the ChampionsMusic of the Olympics, Space Coast Symphony Orchestra, 7 pm, $20, Trinity Episcopal Church, 2365 Pine Ave. 855-252-7276.

` Youth Sailing FoundationChili Cookoff, VB Power Squad-ron Station, 5 pm, $10, call if you want to bring chili for contest. 772-567-9000/772-978-1701.

AUGUST 12` “Elk’s for Kids”Spaghetti Dinner, 4-7 pm Elks Grand Ballroom, 1350 26th St., $8/$5 for kids under 12, to buy school supplies for underprivi-leged kids. 772-562-8450.

AUGUST 16` Fabulous 50’s PartyMulligan’s, 5-8 pm, family fun, dress in 50’s garb, Rock n’ Roll SpongeBob, 10% sales to go to Ep-ilepsy Foundation. EpilepsyFLA.org.

AUGUST 17-19` Antiques and Vintage ShowAt Indian River Fairgrounds & Expo Center, 7955 58th Ave., Fri noon-5 pm, Sat 9 am-5 pm & Sun 9 am-4 pm. floridaantiqueshows.com.

AUGUST 18` Hole-in-One Golf TournamentHarbor Chase, benefits Alzheimer & Parkinson Association, $100, includes fees & lunch. 772-778-7727.

AUGUST 23` Rock’N Blues Fest Johnny Winter Band, Edgar Win-ter Band, Rick Derringer & Kim Simmonds, Sunrise geatre, 117 South 2nd St., Fort Pierce, 7 pm, $49. 772-461-4775.

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BY CHRISTINA TASCONVERO BEACH NEWSWEEKLY

VERO BEACH -- The cur-tains at Riverside Theatre are mostly closed for the summer season but the Waxlax Stage is kicking it into high gear this year for their Comedy Zone Summer Nights!

Theatre-goers may be famil-iar with the comedy shows that Riverside has been presenting for the last five years but they have added music and food this summer to enhance the “night out” experience.

If you have never been to any of Riverside’s Comedy Zone shows it really is quite a treat.

Tables are intimately set around the room and offer convenient cocktail service and a close up connection to

the comedians. The room is like many traditional comedy nightclubs, but is much clean-er and offers friendlier service than many which serve as bars as well as a comedy stage.

When exploring ways to make the show into a full night of enjoyment for their guests, Riverside Theatre Managing Director Jon Moses sought something they had not of-fered before.

To celebrate the Comedy Zone’s fifth anniversary, Riv-erside officials decided to of-fer a menu including food and dessert choices an hour before each show began so people could come and relax. They set up tables inside and outside and added strolling musicians who performed acoustic guitar

and sometimes sang. “We’re always looking for

ways to improve our events and the experience people have at the theatre,” said Mo-ses. “So in trying to make the experience more complete, I reached out to two local busi-nesses that we’re already work-ing with here.”

Kilwin’s scrumptious sweets have had a place at Riverside’s show openings throughout the year but for the summer comedy shows they have add-ed a wider variety of desserts. Their specialty is their biggest seller. “The Vero Beach Twist,” is a chocolate covered pretzel filled with caramel and sprin-kled with sea salt.

“We have a lot of fun being there,” said Julie Denning, who

is co-owner of Kilwin’s with her husband Jef. “Lots of our regular customers visit us and we also get to meet the people who don’t know Kilwin’s yet and introduce them to what we have at the shop.”

Hale Groves also came on board to offer Jimbo’s famous Steak Burgers, boneless jerk chicken and other tasty items.

“We have a really great rela-tionship with the Riverside and everyone over there is such a great bunch -- we love partner-ing with them,” said Jim Car-roll, one of Hale Groves River Market’s kitchen managers.

Guests may pick up their se-lections on the way in or have a waiter deliver them to their table inside.

Summertime Comedy Zone a night out of fun

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Carl ‘Cee-Jay’ Jones will be performing July 27 and 28 Attendees enjoy a cocktail at the bar before the show PHOTOS PROVIDED

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Adding music each night made the events even more special and created a “date night” atmosphere.

“Someone doesn’t even have to buy a ticket to the Comedy Zone to enjoy drinks, food or listen to the music,” said Mo-ses. “One can do all three without seeing the comedians. It’s a way of putting Riverside Theatre foremost in people’s minds when it comes to enter-tainment.”

Denning agrees. “The last shows were sold

out,” said Denning. “When a couple said that they were dis-appointed that they could not get tickets, I told them that it wasn’t a total loss because they could at least have something to eat, a drink and listen to the music. They wound up staying for an hour.”

Most importantly for all, the new venture is an all-around success and is a unique way for locals and visitors to enjoy a night out in the summer.

Lisa and Ron Davidson own the beachside boutique Shells & Things. During the winter season it is hard for the busy proprietors to get out to see a show but in the summer they are able to take a small breath-er. Not only are they able to close a little earlier but the shows are an hour later with 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. per-formances.

“They offer quick, good food and the comedians put on a great show,” said Ron David-son. “We had such a good time and we enjoyed spending time with our friends too.”

Amy Selby, sales director at Springhill Suites, made the ho-tel a year-round sponsor and

gives tickets to clients. “Jon Moses and the staff are like family and a real class act,” said Selby. “We want visitors to ex-perience Riverside so they can get to know it and tell others.”

“I think Riverside is creat-ing a hidden secret of Vero for people to enjoy and bring their friends,” added Carroll.

The next comedy show is set for July 27 and 28 and will star CeeJay Jones and Chris Cope. If you want tickets, you might consider picking them up in advance because chances are, it will be another sell-out.

COMEDY ZONEFROM PAGE 20

Approximately 600 guests attend the Comedy Zone each weekend the show is on stage

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BY MICHAEL BIELECKIVERO BEACH NEWSWEEKLY

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY -- Pat Rice of JPR Images was once you.

He was an amateur photog-rapher who had just bought his first digital SLR camera back in 2004 to take on va-cation with him to Alaska. He decided then he was go-ing take his hobby to the next level.

“I started taking pictures at Vero Beach High School girls’ basketball games for a friend of mine,” Rice said. “At this point in time, the Press Jour-nal didn’t have anyone shoot-ing those games so I would send my pictures into Mike Graham, the sports editor.”

Graham took a look at his pictures, and was impressed with Rice’s work. The Press Journal started printing Rice’s shots, and after some constructive input from Gra-ham to go along with hun-dreds more submitted pho-tos, Rice’s pictures were on par with the paid material the paper was using. Within a year Graham told Rice the paper needed to start paying him for his work.

“I went to the Internet fo-rums and learned how to shoot sports,” Rice said. “If I go out and I get bad pictures now, it frustrates me because I know it isn’t my equipment -- it is my lack of knowledge. That’s why I am constantly trying to improve.”

He maintains that moms and dads don’t need to buy pro-

fessional photography equip-ment to take great pictures of their kids playing sports. Depending on what a neo-phyte photographer wants to shoot, improving the quality of their pictures could simply be a matter of adjusting their cameras or putting them-selves in the right position to get a memory-saving shot.

“If you are a parent shoot-ing during daylight, I think you can shoot with a point and shoot camera,” Rice said. “The biggest drawback peo-ple have now, is not knowing how to use their equipment. A lot of people don’t under-stand or don’t pay attention to their shutter speed. Hav-ing a fast enough shutter speed to stop the action they are shooting is key. And if they don’t have enough day-light, then they usually can’t do that.”

The camera’s aperture (the light coming through the lens), the shutter speed (which acts like the pupil of an eye for the camera), and the ISO setting (which con-trols how sensitive the cam-era is to light) are all things that can be controlled. By learning how to adjust a cam-era to control these things, parents can improve their photography dramatically.

For daylight sports photog-raphy, the ISO setting must be lower and aperture set higher. At night, the ISO set-ting must be raised higher, aperture brought lower, and

Sports parents can easily learn to shoot like the pros

Freezing the players, the ball, and capturing faces are all elements of a success-ful sports picture according to Scripps freelance photographer Pat Rice.

PHOTOS BY PAT RICE

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Not all great sports pictures are action shots. Candid pictures like the one above are a great way to preserve the emotion of a memory Rice says.

the shutter speed must be fast enough to freeze the action.

Getting in good position is another key, no matter if you are shooting softball, soccer or surfing. If your equipment is limited to shooting non-action at night, wait for can-did moments between players and coaches to take pictures.

“You’ll see people’s sports photos and they’ll just show the backs of the players,” Rice said. “Working for the paper has helped me out, because I know what they want. Gen-erally, they want to see faces and they want to see a ball in the scene. I have come to re-alize that each picture should tell a story.

“A digital SLR is going to be better than other options be-cause it allows you to change lenses,” Rice said. “You can get a 70-300mm lens with-out really spending a whole bunch. If it is a Saturday morning on the soccer field, that lens will do fine.”

Shooting indoor sports or under stadium lights with a digital SLR camera, however, will raise the cost of photog-raphy.

“The kids and ball move too fast, and it is such a chal-lenge to freeze all the action without using a distracting flash,” Rice said. “You have to at least get a 50mm f/1.8 lens, which is right around $100, if you want to freeze the action. Even better is the 85mm f/1.8, which is about $360 new. People need to re-alize that the trick to shoot-ing sports indoors or at night is having a fast aperture lens -- fast glass as we call it. It isn’t cheap, but you can do it without spending a fortune, though.”

Rice’s unpublished pictures can be found jprimages.com, where pictures of most of the local high school sports teams can be found along with shots of the marching band, high school symphony orchestra, and ballet and graduation ceremonies.

SPORTSFROM PAGE 23

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25Obituaries

Donald Ray JamesDonald Ray James, 78, died July

8, 2012, at home. He was born in Heilman, Ind., and lived in Fort Pierce since 1978, coming from Boonville, Ind., before moving to Vero Beach 10 years ago. A guest-book is available at www.strunk-funeralhome.com.

John KnoeppelJohn Knoeppel, 75, died July

13, 2012, at VNA Hospice House, Vero Beach. He was born in New York City and lived in Vero Beach for 15 years, coming from New York. Memorial contributions may be made to the Veteran’s Vic-tory Center, 6200 20th St., Suite 160, Vero Beach, FL 32966. A guestbook is available at www.coxgiffordseawinds.com.

Gaylon M. LawrenceGaylon M. Lawrence, 78, of Vero

Beach died July 10, 2012, at the Baptist East Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. Memorial contributions may be sent to: ie Gaylon M. Lawrence

Scholarship Fund for Piggott, Ar-kansas High School c/o Piggott, Ar-kansas State Bank Attn: Paula P.O. Box 307 Piggott, AR 72454.

Frank ‘Burt’ Lewis Jr.Frank “Burt” Lewis Jr., 72, died

July 12, 2012, at his home. He was born in Philadelphia and lived in Vero Beach for four years, com-ing from Ocean City, N.J. Memo-rial contributions may be made to North Treasure Coast Chap-ter of American Red Cross, 2506 17th Ave., Vero Beach, FL 32960. A guestbook is available at www.lowtherfuneralhome.com.

Robert L. OzmentRobert L. Ozment, 68, died July

10, 2012, at his home in Vero Beach. He was born in Kokomo, Ind., and lived in Vero Beach for 15 years, coming from his birth-place. Memorial contributions may be made to Treasure Coast Hospice, 1201 S.E. Indian St., Stu-art, FL 34997, www.TCHospice.org, 772-403-4500.

J. Robert MaloneJ. Robert Malone, 87, died July 8,

2012 at his home in Vero Beach. Memorial contributions may be made to Order of Malta, Ameri-can Association, P.O. Box 10023, Uniondale, NY 11555- 0023. An online guestbook is available at www.strunkfuneralhome.com.

Sarah Clement Fisher RichardsSarah Clement Fisher Richards,

98, died July 8, 2012, at Grace Re-habilitation Center of Vero Beach. She was born in Winston-Salem, N.C., and lived in Vero Beach for 11 years, coming from Silver Spring, Md., and Washington, D.C. Memorial contributions may be made to the Humane Society of Vero Beach and Indian River County, 6230 77th St., Vero Beach, FL 32967. A guestbook is available at www.lowtherfuneralhome.com.

James Waddell NugentJames Waddell Nugent died on

July 6, 2012 at his home in Vero Beach. In lieu of flowers, memo-

rial contributions may be made to the Humane Society or the Rotary Charities Foundation.

Thomas E. Vanderheideniomas E. Vanderheiden, 74,

died July 13, 2012, at the VNA Hospice House. He was born in Valentine, Neb., and lived in Vero Beach, coming from Colorado. Memorial contributions may be made to the VNA Hospice House at VNA Hospice House, 1110 35th Lane, Vero Beach, FL 32960. A guestbook is available at www.coxgiffordseawinds.com.

Sarah (Sally) Elizabeth Burba WilliamsSarah (Sally) Elizabeth Burba

Williams died July 11, 2012. In lieu of flowers contributions may be sent to VNA Hospice, 1110 35th Lane, Vero Beach, Florida 32960, or Saint Alban’s Episcopal Church, 333 South Drexel Ave., Bexley, Ohio, 43209. Visit www.schoedinger.com to share memo-ries or extend condolences.

Leo W. Pierce, Sr.Leo W. Pierce, Sr., 93, of Vero

Beach, Florida died July 14, 2012 at his home under hospice care and surrounded by his family. He was born Sept. 27, 1918 in Brook-lyn, NY, the son of John and Ka-thryn Pierce. Prior to moving to Vero Beach in 1984, he was a long time resident of Wynnewood, Pa., where he raised his large family.

He had several jobs leading up to the founding of his company, Pierce Leahy Archives in 1969. He was always proud it was a family business that involved most of his children and that it became one of the largest record storage busi-nesses in the country. He served as CEO for many years and on July

1, 1997 the co mp a ny was taken public on the New York Stock Exchange. He retired as Chair-man of the Board in Febr uar y of 2000 at the age of 82.

He was active with many civ-ic and social groups. He was a member of ie Cynwyd Club and served as president and was a member of the John’s Island Club where he served as a director and tennis chairman.

Charity and helping others was a priority in his life. He was an outstanding philanthropist and founded the Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation in 1997. His foundation has helped hundreds of charitable organizations in the Philadelphia area as well as Vero Beach. He was recognized as Phi-lanthropist of the Year in Vero Beach mainly as a result of his gen-erosity to the VNA Hospice House Endowment. St. John’s University has been an on-going recipient with the establishment of the Leo W. and Marjorie L. Pierce Schol-arship Endowment Fund and the Pierce Residence House.

Surviving are his beloved wife Bet-ty of eight years; four sons, Leo W.

Pierce, Jr. and wife Eve, of Wayne, Pa., J. Peter Pierce and wife Karen of Villanova, Pa., Michael Pierce and wife Kathleen of John’s Island, Vero Beach, and Christopher Pierce of Lancaster, Pa.,; four daughters, Ka-thryn Cox of Havertown, Pa., Molly Pierce of Haverford, Pa.,, Barbara Quinn of Haverford and Constance Buckley of Havertown; 26 grand-children, 28 great-grandchildren, three step-daughters and two step-grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be made to the VNA & Hospice, 1110 35th Lane, Vero Beach, FL 32960 or the Sacred Heart Church, 1739 Ferry Avenue, Camden, NJ 08104. An online guestbook is available at www.strunkfuneralhome.com

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Address Subdivision List Date List Price Sell Date Sell Price Listing Broker/Agent Selling Broker/Agent1180 Reef Rd., #A19 Billows 12/1/11 $369,000 7/12/12 $355,000 The Moorings Realty Sales Co./Judy Hargarten The Moorings Realty Sales Co./Judy Hargarten560 Short Rd. Porpoise Point 4/30/12 $339,000 7/17/12 $315,000 Coldwell Banker Ed Schlitt VB/Kathy Nystrom Coldwell Banker Ed Schlitt VB/Kathy Nystrom5690 Hwy. A1A, #103N Victoria Condo 1/10/12 $349,000 7/16/12 $300,000 Coldwell Banker Ed Schlitt VB/Dustin Haynes Treasure Coast Sotheby’s Intl./Claudia Pascal415 Holly Rd. Bethel by the Sea 8/1/11 $275,000 7/13/12 $273,800 Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc./Hope & Glen Brovont Dale Sorensen Real Estate, Inc./Hope Brovont4601 Hwy. A1A, #508 Riverwalk 3/26/12 $228,500 7/12/12 $228,500 Clic Norris Real Estate/Meg Norris Norris & Company/Stacy Katz2129 Via Fuentes River Mews Condo 5/23/12 $215,000 7/12/12 $202,000 Norris & Company/Lucy Hendricks Norris & Company/Lillian Ellis2135 Windward Way, #308 Harbor Inn 4/5/12 $220,000 7/17/12 $195,000 The Moorings Realty Sales Co./Judy Hargarten Peters, Carlton & Mugford RE/Bevin Mugford5100 Hwy. A1A, #40D Pebble Beach Villas 4/23/12 $169,900 7/16/12 $161,500 Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc./R. Curry & K. Casalino Dale Sorensen Real Estate, Inc./R. Curry & K. Casalino

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