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The Sebastian Sun
May 2, 1997
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CITIZEN OF THE DAY

NAME: Matt Brower
AGE: 30.
OCCUPATION: Maintenance
worker for Indian River County Road
and Bridge Department.
BIRTHPLACE: Lapeer, Mich.
MOVED HERE: December 1987.
COMMUNITY SERVICE: Firefighter 
with the Micco Volunteer Fire
Department.
HOBBIES: Model railroading.
FAVORITE AUTHOR: I like any
author who writes a book about the
old west or Civil War.
WHY I LIKE MY NEIGHBORHOOD: I live in 
Barefoot Bay.  It's
peaceful, quiet and a nice place to
live.


WEEKEND PICKS

  Almost 200 experienced sky divers
from around the world will compete
in formation sky diving May 3-4 when
the America's Cup Pro Tour visits Sky-
dive Sebastian at the Sebastian Mu-
nicipal Airport.
  The meet is one of five stops on
the year-long America's Cup Forma-
tion Skydiving Tour in which teams of
four and eight jumpers compete, for
thousands of dollars in prizes.
  The meet will feature free-fall for-
motion teams from the United States,
Germany, Switzerland, France, Eng-
land, Brazil and other countries.
  Four-way sky diving will be
May 3 and the eight-way competition
is May 4.
  Both are open to the public and
spectators also can watch videotape
judging and scoring five minutes after
each team lands.


                                                                            
WHAT DID HE SAY?

  "I don't think (neon) detracts from
anything.  This isn't a high falootin'
fancy town.  This is Sebastian."
                   - Ed Moore
(Moore, a member of Sebastian's
Riverfront Committee, made the
statement April 28 as the committee
was discussing a proposed sign ordi-
nance that would put strict limitations
on the kind of signs allowed in the
riverfront   district.  The committee,
however, decided to allow small
neon signs in the district.)




Medical Science Academy introduces students
into the world of health care
By DAVID KEARNS
Of The Sun

  Nate Raborn reclined on the hospital bed in a Se-
bastian River High School classroom.
    Looming above him were his fellow students,
ready to render a diagnosis.
    Raborn hadn't injured himself weight-lifting or
throwing passes. Instead, he was the "patient" for a
demonstration in a Medical Science Academy class.
    Fellow seniors Missy Moore, Tom Siedelberg,
Matoga Jones and Alyssa Bender attached electrodes
to Raborn's chest and began to monitor his heart
rate on a machine known as an electrocardiogram.
    "Normal sinus rhythm," Siedelberg said, read-
ing the printout from the diagnostic equipment.
    Both Siedelberg and Raborn said they're in the
Medical Science Academy because they want ca-
reers in physical therapy, where opportunities
range from sports medicine to physical rehabilita-
tion.
    Raborn said sports medicine might be a good
area to get into after studying for four years at a ma-
jor college.
   Bender said she wants to be an obstetrician.
Jones has her eye on a career in radiation therapy
and Moore is interested in psychology.
   "I like it (the academy). I've learned a lot here,"
she said.
    For now, gaining experience with the electro-
cardiogram is only the first practical step in their ca-
reers.
    The academy, which now has more than 100 stu-
dents, graduates young men and women who are
qualified to work in local doctors' offices and hospi-
tals in some entry-level positions.
    It also aligns them for further study in any one of
the medical professions, while it gives them an ex-
posure to the reality of health-care careers.
    Students take certification courses in first aid and
cardiopulmonary resuscitation in addition to learn-
ing how to operate the electrocardiograph machine.
    By the time they graduate, these students are cer-
tified to assist professionals in doctors' offices and
hospitals.
    With some extra study and practical work during
their senior year, and with the help of a visiting In -
dian River Community College instructor, they can
even qualify for a job assisting nurses at the bedside.
   These entry-level positions can pay anywhere
from $6 to $8 an hour.  The experience also bolsters
a college application.
    Math teacher Nikki DeLaet is the lead instructor
for the academy.  She is joined by history/social stud-
ies teacher Keelin Hurley; English teacher Jean
Duffy; health-care/vocational teacher Cindy Dalton;
and science teacher Mike McCall.  Ms. DeLaet said
many of her students decided upon medical careers
before they went into the academy.
    "A lot of the students are looking at nursing or
home-health care as a career," she said.
    "Some others aren't thinking about going for-
ward in medicine, but they decided on this academy
because they are looking for a challenge, and some
of the skills (offered) they can always use on a re-
sume, like CPR," she said.
    "We also have a lot of people who want to be-
come emergency medical technicians," she said.
    Sophomores are given a broad overview of ca-
reers in health care during their first year in the pro-
gram, she said.
    They also work for their certification in CPR that
year, along with taking classes in history, math and
science that all incorporate medical applications, ex-
amples and terminology in the lessons and exams.
    Juniors continue these studies and begin to "ca-
reer shadow."
  They learn about all possible
professions in the medical field,
from radiology, nursing to cardio-
logy, by studying specialists in
these field in action as they follow
them from five to eight hours a
week.
  The students shadow profes-
sionals at such facilities as the Se-
bastian River Medical Center and
Palm Gardens Nursing Home.
   Students help by washing pa-
tients, changing bedpans and help-
ing to transport patients.  Many of
the tasks are those nurses may be
too busy to perform.  Ms. Dalton
said this part of the academy is very
important so kids know up front
how it is to work in health care oc-
cupations.
   Ms. Dalton is familiar with the
medical field; she spent six vears
working toward her degree in ra-
ation therapy before discovering
she wanted to do something else
with her life. She completed her
degree, but went on to get her tea-
ching certificates.
   As a teacher, she wants students
to be confronted with the reality of
health care while their young, so
they can be sure this is what they
want to do with their lives. It's a
profession known for long hours of
mentally and physically taxing
work, she said.
    Ms. Dalton joined the SRH
staff six months ago, after having
worked for three years at West-
wood High school in Fort Pierce,
teaching the vocational section of
the Medical Professions Academy.
    "My goal with this is to get the
kids focused on what they want to
do by the time they leave this
school, so they don't waste any
time," she said.
    Ms. Dalton is keen on regional,
state and nationwide competitions
that test high school students'
knowledge of health care profes-
sions, and the industry, as a means
to train her students.
    This summer, she hopes to take
about 12 juniors to observe the na-
tional competition of Health Occu-
pation Students of America, to be
held June 16 -23, in Anaheim,
Calif.. She is raising money for the
trip through local sponsors by host-
ing a walk-a-thon that begins at 1
p.m. May 6 at the SRHS track.
    "When they see how fired-up
these kids (in the competition) are
about the industry, and how much
they know, it will fire them up to
compete next year.
    "They also will see how the
profession reallv is.  It's a cutthroat
world.  You reallv have to know
your stuff," she said.
    Ms. Dalton said two of the big-
gest points she hopes to stress in
the academv is integrity and pro-
fessionalism.
    "Thev have to know how to
function in the professional envi-
ronment," she said.



Camps are natural for
science-loving youngsters
By DAVID KEARNS
Of The Sun

  Officials at the Environmental Learn-
ing Center believe there's no better way
to teach youngsters about the unique eii-
vironment of the Indian River than im-
mersing them in it.
  For the second year, the center will
do just that with its summer camp.
The camp will run from June 23 to
Aug. 1. Registration, which opened April
21, will remain open until all the ELC's
summer classes are filled to capacity.
  "These programs fill up very fast,"
ELC Director Holly Dill said.  Space is
ited to 12 students per class, she said.
  "We have expanded it tremendously
this summer.  The camp covers a broader
age range than last year.  Last year, we
only covered marine ecology, this year
there's much more," she said.
  Mrs. Dill said the ELC summer camp,
held June, July and August, was a success
in 1996 when it concentrated on the fun-
damentals of marine ecology for chil-
dren ages 8 through 12.
  Between 65 and 70 youngsters at-
tended that camp, she said.
  This summer, naturalist Teresa Rock-
wood of Sebastian, will be joined by nat-
uralist David Cox, a former professor of
science at Vassar College in Poughkeep-
Sie, N.Y.
  Cox, who now lives in Sebastian,
helped design the classes this year and
will help teach them.
 Camille Sewell, who runs the ELC's
shorleine conservation and mangrove re-
planting program, also will help teach
the youngsters about mangroves and why
they are important to the environment.
  The ELC has added two new com-
puter systems to its dry laboratory that
should be online by time the first classes
begin June 23.
  The computers will teach youngsters
using a program created by local scien-
tists.  The program is set up to answer
common questions students have about          
the Indian River using photographs, re-
cordings and a large database stored in
the computer's memory, Mrs. Dill said.
  The ELC's aquatic laboratory also has
been rearranged to allow for three large
aquariums donated by Cindy's Pet Cen-
ter, Vero Beach.
  The aquariums will hold two new
displays featuring different aquatic hab-
itats, as well as a terrarium dedicated to
local areas covered with pine, scrub and
oak hammock, she said.
  The following is a schedule of
courses for the summer camp.
  *Our Living World, for first- and
second-grade students, will be held from
9 a.m. to noon, June 23-27.  The one-
week program costs $35 for ELC mem-
bers and $40 for nonmembers and incor-
porates class time and field explorations.
during the first session.
  "Our Living World" is designed to
give the students an introduction to bi-
ology, exploring the predator-prey rela-
tionships using examples commonly
seen in the Indian River, Mrs. Dill said.
  A second session of "Our Living
World," will be offered July 9-11 and
costs $25 for ELC members and $30 for
nonmembers.  It will not devote a full day
to predator-prey relationships, or a full
day to the study of human impacts on the
environment, but both topics will be dis-
cussed during the session.
  *A week-long marine ecology class
for third-and fourth-grade students, also
will be held from 9 a.m. to noon June
23-27 and costs $50 for ELC members
and $55 during the first session.
  Mrs. Dill said students will; be
involved in the marine environment by
using hands-on techniques.  The program
incorporates canoeing, snorkeling and
collecting samples of aquatic life in the
Indian River.
  Students also spend time in the
ELC's aquatic laboratory studying
various creatures under micro-
scopes.
  A second session, from July 9-
11, won't offer a full day of ca-
noeing and mangrove exploration,
but will offer the use of nets in the
Indian River for collecting samples
and snorkeling during the three-
day session.  This session will cost
$35 for members and $40 for non-
members.
  *The ELC will present
"Planet Ocean" for fifth-and sixth-
grade students interested in ocean-
ography and local bird life, from 9
a.m. to noon, June 30-July 2 and
from July 28-Aug. 1.
Classes will incorporate fre-
quent trips to the beach with snor-
keling excursions in the Indian
River as well as trips throughout
the extensive mangroves around
the ELC with students looking at
the local bird life and aquatic crea-
tures.
  The first session costs $55 for
ELC members and $60 for non-
embers.  The second session costs
$75 for ELC members and $80 for
nonmembers and involves a field
trip to Harbor Branch Oceanogra-
phic Institute in Fort Pierce.
  *"Nature's Ways" will intro-
duce seventh-and eighth-grade stu-
dents to three natural habitats,
including the coast, the scrub areas
and an island in the Indian River. It
will be held from 9 a.m. to noon,
June 30-July 2 andJuly 28-30.
  The program, involving field
work and time in the classroom,
costs $60 for ELC members and
$65 for nonmembers.
  *An additional program is be-
ing created for youngsters in kin-
dergarten and pre-kindergarten
called "Little Wonders."
  This camp will be held from 9
a.m. to noon, three davs a week,
throughout the summer. Mrs. Dill
said it will provide an introductory
setting for young children to learn
about the environment.
  The program will be taught by
Patty Schultz, a science teacher at
Sebastian River Middle School.
No schedule has been set for
the program, Mrs. Dill said, but
there should be four or five ses-
sions held throughout the summer,
she said.  Little Wonders will cost
$40 per student, per session.
  To register for any of the pro-
grams, contact the ELC at 589-5050
for more details.


Photo Captions

Nate Raborn, center, gets a lot of attention as Instructor 
Linda Marcelle-Martin, bottom left, tells Alyssa Bender, 
left, Matoga Jones and Tom Siedelberg how to do an 
electrocardiograph analysis on Raborn.

Fellsmere Elementary fourth-graders Carla Raya and
Fernando Herrera were at the Environmental Learning Center
in Wabasso April 25 learning about the area's ecosystem.




Owners hope deli will cut mustard
By DAVID KEARNS
Of The Sun

  The new Sebastian Gourmet Deli
is the culmination of the American
dream for a group of investors and
restaurateurs.
  For business partners Ted
Leiver, Reinaldo Torres and his
wife, Maria Varela Torres, Sebastian
Seafood's move from 1400 U.S. I to
Indian River Drive was a stroke of
good fortune.
  The three, along with a local
business investor who prefers to
remain anonymous, snatched up
the five-year lease on the building
and, after a few renovations,
they're ready for business.
  Sebastian Gourmet Deli will
open by May 5, Leiver said.  The
deli's hours tentatively are 10 a.m.
to 6 p.m. seven days a week.  They
can be reached by phone at 581-
7430 or by fax at 581-7431.
  Leiver plans to stock only the
freshest products.  He said he will
only use breads from Europa Bak-
ery in Melbourne for his sand-
wiches, which will range in price
from about $3 to $5, he said.
  "I want to keep the prices of
the sandwiches under $5 to be
competitive," he said.
  Leiver said  he saw it as a
chance to bring the gourmet flavor
of a New York-style deli to Sebas-
tian.
  His roast beef and pastrami
sandwich will cost $4.95. A tuna or
shrimp salad sandwich will run
$3.50, he said.  Gourmet Deli will
also have fresh potato, tuna or
crab-meat salad daily.
  "The business will be all take-
out," he said.
  Cuban coffee also will be avail-
able, he said.
  Leiver, a native of Chile who
grew up in Switzerland, came to
the United States 42 years ago and
worked in the construction busi-
ness in Long island.  He also ran a
restaurant in Orlando for two years
before moving to Melbourne.
  He met up with the Torreses in
Orlando more than a'year ago and
decided they had the experiencece
in customer service and the drive
to succeed in business he was
looking for in prospective partners
to run the day-to-day operation of
the restaurant.
  The Torreses are originally
from Camaguey, Cuba.  The both
tried to leave Cuba in the 1995'
exodus of thousands of refugees
fleeing for the U.S. on make-shift
boats.
  Both were picked up at sea by
the United States Coast Guard and
spent more than a year in refugee
camps in Guantanamo, Cuba, and
Panama, before being permitted to
enter the United States as political
refugees.
  Torres worked for the Castro
government as an administrator
restaurants. Mrs. Torres worked as
receptionist for the privately
owned Mariposa Hotel in Cama-
guey.  They met and married while
they both were detained at a Guan-
tanamo refugee encampment.
  Torres said he and his wife will
not go back to Cuba.  Now, chances
are good he would be thrown in
jail for leaving.  Besides, he said,
he's living the American dream.
  "Why would I ever go back?
There I work for Castro.  Here I
work for myself," he said.
  "You can never hope to have
your own business in Cuba.  No
one can understand what it's like
there, unless they had lived there,"
Mrs. Torres said.

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Sebastian zoner likes the idea
of helping map Sebastian's future
By
Drew Dixon


  With more than three years of
service on the Sebastian Planning
and Zoning Board, Joe Schulke said
he's been able to sink his teeth
into the position as a board mem-
ber.
  At 31, he's the youngest mem-
ber of the seven-person-panel that
helps maps Sebastian's future.
  "I wasn't intimidated because
the planning and zoning issues are
exactiy what I do for a living," said
Schulke, a civil engineer for
Knight, McGuire and Associates en-
gineering firm in Vero Beach.
  "I think a lot of the board, the
older members, are now anti-de-
velopment.  But from my perspec-
tive, I'm more pro-development
and it's a good counter-balance,"
he said.
  Schulke said he moved to the
ebastian area more than six years
go because of its many facets that
promote family living.
  "I think it's great.  There's a
great mix of people and there are a
lot of young people with kids that
will help my children growing up
here," he said.
  "There are a lot of nice activi-
ties in the city and there's great po-
tential  along the waterfront,"
Schulke added.
  It's the waterfront, of course,
that will present many challenges
to the city's Planning and Zoning
Commission.  While Schulke said
he would like to see more devel-
opment in the area, it cannot come
at a price to the good qualities of
Sebastian.
  "I believe in controlled growth
with limitations.  We have to con-
sider our environment, our city...
Those are the biggest issues," he
said.
  Schulke said he is sensitive to
those issues because he moved to
Indian River County when he was
14 years old when his father an
mother moved here from New Jer-
sey.  He went to St. Edward's Upper
School before going on to the Uni-
versity of Miami. But he returned to
Indian River County and decided to
settle in the Sebastian area.
  He built a house in the Sebas-
tian Highlands about six years ago.
At first, "it was economical to live
in Sebastian.  But, I made a commit-
ment to stay in the city, I enjoy it a
lot," Schulke said.
  He's so enthralled with the Se-
bastian area that he sold his Sebas-
tian Highlands home and built
another in San Sebastian Springs
and moved in with his family in
January.

  Birthdate: Dec. 6,1965.
  Birthplace: Atlantic City, N. J.
  Education: A bachelor of sci-
ence degree with a dual major in
civil and architectural engineering
from the University of Miami.
  Family: Wife of six vears, Na-
dia; daughter Alexandra, 9 months.
  The best part of my job is...
Being involved in the community,
helping people and having a hand
in the future of the city.
  What I like the least about
job is: It's time consuming.
  The most recent movie I saw
in  a theater was: Howard Stern's
"Private Parts."
  The book I'd recommend ev-
eryone to read is: "The Once and
Future King," by T.H. White.
Of everyone in the world,
  The person I would most like to
meet is: President Bill Clinton.
  My favorite food is: Steak.
  If I were going on a trip to
the moon, I would take along:
My daughter.
  When I was growing up, I
always wanted to be: A building
contractor.
  If I were president of the
United States, I'd: Increase spend-
ing for education. 
  When I want to get away
from it all, I: Go out on my Jet Ski
from the Sebastian Inlet.
  The person I admire the most
is: my father, Bill Schulke.
  My proudest moment was:
The birth of mv daughter.
  My favorite sports team is:
University Of Miami Hurricanes
football team
  My favorite television show
is: "Seinfeld."
  On my last vacation, I visited:
Atlanta, Ga.
  The first thing i do when I
wake up in the morning is: Get
the baby out of bed and give her a
bottle. 
  The type of music I enjoy the
most is: Alternative rock.
  If I could do something over
again, I: Wouldn't change any-
thing.
  People who know me the best
know I: Am honest and hard work-
ing.        
  The most exciting time in my
life is: When I got married.

Photo Captions

Reinaido Torres and his wife, Maria, prepare their equipment 
for the opening of Sebastian Gourmet Deli at 1400 U.S. I in 
Sebastian.

Joe Schulke, a member of Sebastian's Planning and Zoning Com-
mission, said he enjoys helping map out the city's future.


Barefoot Bay Ladies Poker Club hands out fun

By DREW DIXON
Of The Sun

  Their expressions are stony, never revealing any
emotion.
  Their eyes, however, scan the faces of their oppo-
nents, hoping for a clue to what cards the other mem-
bers of the Barefoot Bay Ladies Poker Club hold in
their hands.
  "They're serious and don't want to teach people.
You should know what beats what," before coming to
play with the club, said Sally Simpson, who has be-
longed to the organization for about seven years.
  The Ladies Poker Club has been dealing cards in
Barefoot Bay for about 22 years and there's usually
about 30 members competing in games every Friday
from noon until 4 p.m. in Building C.
  "We don't hold a membership drive.  We just have
a meeting each week and whoever shows up is a
member," Simpson said.
  No matter who shows up and how serious some of
the players get, the club is still just that, a club,
according to Anna Marie Linn, the president of the or-
ganization.
  "It's a social event and we have a lot of fun. it's
getting together and seeing if you can win," she said.
  Beside the cards being dealt, there's a great deal
of interaction as well, Linn said.
  "It doesn't matter if you win or not, it's just to
have fun and find out the latest jokes that are going
around.  We try not to be too competitive."
  While the competition is tempered, there's no de-
nying the desire the win.
  "Some of us are pretty good players," said
Blanche Hambric, the second vice president of the
club.  "There are some good poker faces."
  But the ante is really up for the club in the sheer
release it provides Hambric said.
"I relax and it's friendiy. It's my day and I really
look forward to it. It releases the strain and stress" of
everyday living.
  Linn agreed that the approach of Friday and poker
day is something she anticipates every week.
  "It's fun time," she said.  "This is the best thing I
could have done since I've been" in Barefoot Bay.
  There are no club membership dues and, unlike
many other Barefoot Bay clubs, the Ladies Poker Club
runs year round, Linn said.  She explained the only re-
quirement is that anyone who joins a table must stay
for the duration of the four-hour session.
  "If a person is winning and leaves after only an
hour, that doesn't give a chance for people to come
back," she said.
  The rules of the game are established at each table
of six or seven players.
The dealer makes the call, be it five-card stud or
whatever card is designated as wild.
  "If you don't like wild cards, this isn't the place
for you," Linn said.
  With cards running wild, the actual level of gam-
bling is much tamer.
  "The stakes are minimal penny ante," Simpson
said, "If anyone's interested in $5 a pot, forget it.
Some of these people would drop dead at that level."
  Fun and social mingling is the biggest pay-off in
the pot at the Ladies Poker Club in Barefoot Bay, the
women agreed.
Anyone interested in joining can call Linn at 664-
6272.


Photo Caption

Barefoot Bay  Ladies Poker Club members Evelyn Perry, left,
joins Sally Simpson and Anna Marie Linn in a friendly, yet
competitive game.


Singer shares his faith through songs, music
By DAVID KEARNS
Of The Sun

  Sebastian musician Curt Oxford
said he'll never forget the moment
he converted to Catholicism.
Raised a Protestant in Thousand
Oaks Calif., he was singing at St.
Helen Catholic Church in Vero
Beach nine years ago when the no-
tion to convert overcame him, he
said.
  At first, he said, he judged
some of the church's elaborate rit-
uals as outdated until one day, an
elderly woman knelt beside him
and began praying to Jesus with
emotion and intensity.  Her piety
impressed him, he said, and he saw
her ritual as a potential source of
strength.
  "You know how you some-
times hear a quiet voice tell you
something in the back of your
mind?  Well, I heard a voice tell me
not one hair on her head would be
judged," he said.
  Oxford now performs songs
about faith, love and God for the
hundreds of parishioners at St. Se-
bastian Catholic Church every Sun-
day, with musicians Teresa
Rockwood of Sebastian and Vera
Gamirez of Vero Beach.
  But Oxford said the various
paths to God all are valid.  He prac-
tices Catholicism, but still "spreads
the word" as he put it, in churches
of all denominations, he said.
  He said many who never have
turmoil in their life never allow
themselves to face some of life's
more challenging questions, such
as what is it all about and why are
here?
  He never had that problem.  Life
was rough from early on, he said.
  "I was the product of divorce.  I
got mixed up in drugs early on and
by 18, I was in rehabilitation.  But I
got my life back together," he said.
  Turning to God calmed the tur-
bulence in his life, he said.
He said when he accepted God,
he was directed to follow his own
talents that centered around art
and music.
  His grandmother was a creative
person, he said, and his father
spent his whole life working with
his hands as a mason.
  For the past 12 years, he's run a
commercial sign business from his
shop on High Street in Sebastian.
  He has created signs for many
local restaurants, businesses and
subdivisions.  He even made the
large sign on Sebastian City Hall.
  "An artist's drive is to create.
Whether that's creating signs or
music, art is art, it's the same
thing," he said.
  His sign business doesn't stop
him from spreading the word, he
said.
  He met his wife, Rose Marie, 17
years ago, about the same time the
confusion in his life subsided with
renewed faith, but before he joined
the Catholic church, he said.  They
have a daughter, Jamie Ann, 16,
and a son, Jessie, 4.
  "It doesn't matter how you find
God, just that you find Him," he
said.  "Hey, if a man stands on his
head and juggles Bibles with his
feet, and he is convinced that by
doing that, God hears him better,
he probably does," said Oxford.
  "The relationship with God is a
personal one.  It's between you and
him."
  Aside from the traditional
Christian folk songs he performs at
the church, Oxford writes and re-
cords his own music about lost
Souls find their way.
  Oxford is recording a compact
disc with the help of Nashville
ducer, Kevin Wicker.  In April, he
spent about a week in Nashville
adding the vocals to his songs for
the recording.
  Oxford hopes to release this
demo CD, called "God's Way,"
within the next two months.
For the past 14 years, Oxford
also has been teaming up with
three other local Christians, Levan
Douglas, Frank Yochim and Patrick
Michael Williams, to hold informal
religious services each month in
the Indian River County jail.
  "Yeah, we've seen some really,
wonderful things happen inside
that jail over the years," he said.


Photo Caption

Curt Oxford spends his coffee breaks with his guitar,
preparing for his Christian-folk sessions at St. Sebastian
Catholic Church.


Health fair designed to take the fear out of visiting the
doctor's office
By DREW DIXON
of The Sun

  The gadgets and instruments
surrounding a doctor's office, let
alone the threat something could
be wrong, can be an intimidating
environment for a child.
  To help ease that anxiety, Se-
bastian River Medical Center is
holding the fourth annual Chil-
dren's Health & Safety Day from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. May 3 on the
grounds of the hospital, 13695 U.S.
1.
  "We hold it for fun and safety,"
said Daisy Knowles, public rela-
tions director for SRMC.
  Three tents, an education
center, an exhibit center and
food center, will be set up outside
the hospital.
  The exhibit tent will have a
new feature this year, the Teddy
Bear Clinic.
  "Nurses will take the heart rate,
temperature and run down a health
check list," on teddy bears chil-
dren bring to the event, Knowles
said.
"It lessens the anxiety for kids             
when we do (a health checkup) on
their teddy bears," she said.
  Dozens of other displays will
be on hand to help educate chil-
dren on the different areas of
health and safety.
  But Knowles said one of the
most popular is a growth chart pro-
vided by SRMC staff pediatrician
Dr. Susan O'Toole.
  The growth chart will track the
height and weight of children in
relation to their age.  The children
want to see where they are (in re-
lation to) other children and then
they'll go  off and compare it with
each other," Knowles said.
  The Children's Health & Safetv
Day at SRMC is by no means a small
event, Knowles said.
  "We expect between 1,500 to
2,000 parents and kids to attend,
it's the biggest event we have
here."
  Children and parents from Palm
Bay to Wabasso are expected to at-
tend.
  Other exhibits and booths from.
the medical community on hand
during the day will include: the
American Red Cross; Children's
Medical Services; Early Interven-
tion Program; HealthSouth; Indian
River County Healthy Start Coali-
tion; Indian River Body Arts Center;
MADD/Mothers Against Drunk
Driving; Pediatric Night Care Cen-
ter; Professional Animal World; Se-
bastian Police Department;
Sebastian Private Elementary
School & Preschool; Wuestoff 
vard Homecare; Shands Home
Care; Success by 6-United Way; and
The River School.
  Ronald McDonald will also make
an appearance and talk about chil-
dren's safety at 11 a.m.



Everyone is capable
of temporary insanity
by Raymond Dean

When I was a psychiatric resi-
dent in training, one of my profes-
sors threw out a challenge.
He said, "Is there anyone here
who hasn't been crazy, yet?" Sev-
eral of us stewed uncomfortably
before somebody begged for a clar-
ification.  He went on, "You heard
me. I think everyone at some point
in their life gets crazy.  Does any-
one here think they haven't?"
  I had heard enough. I pro-
ceeded to protest that yes, I cer-
tainly was one who had not, under
any circumstances, gotten psy-
chotic.  Several of my colleagues
cheered me on.
  He countered, "Does being
crazy mean the same thing as de-
veloping psychosis?"
  Most of us had assumed it
did. Being "crazy" means being
psychotic, losing touch with real-
ity, going "around the bend," be-
ing "nuts" or several other slang
terms for not being normal, right?
  This wise, but a bit eccentric,
professor went on to make an im-
portant distinction that, at some
points in our life, all of us act in
ways in which if we were objective
and totally removed from the situa-
tion, might consider that behavior
crazy."
  He felt it was important to dis-
tinguish this from true psychosis,
which at the time, implied a seri-
ous mental illness such as schi-
zophrenia, manic-depression or
severe depression.  We all left that
professor contemplating those mo-
ments in our lives in which we had
acted in ways that seemed rational
at the time, but in retrospect, were
not at all.                    
   Pretty soon, all of us were con-
vinced that everyone was capable,
even if just briefly, of temporary in-
sanity.
  Then our department chief got
wind of this and became upset. He
challenged our newfound perspec-
tive and stated psychosis is a clear,
defined alteration in brain chemis-
try, involving primarily the @neuro-
transmitter dopamine.  He offered
multiple studies and impressive
brain research that supported that
concept.
  Typical mental states such
we all get under severe stress may
involve the dopamine system to
some extent, but true psychotic
states involve a massive dysfunc-
tion that occurs only to those with
severe psychiatric illnesses.
  Now we were confused.  This is-
sue was so hot, it was dropped,
with no further discussion.  Part of
the reason it was so hot was that
the medications that were used to
treat psychosis back then were very
nasty, side-effect-laden drugs, and
we were all trained to be absolu-
tely sure somebody was psvchotic
before prescribing these medica-
tions.
  Well, guess what?  It's more
than 15 years later and now we
have a revolution in the medica-
tions used to treat psychosis.  With
the advent of Clozaril, Risperdal
and Xyprexa, we have entered into
atime in which severe psychotic
conditions can be safely, effectively
treated.  We are much farther along
in understanding the biochemistry
of psychosis, and yes, it still
involves dopamine, but more so,
the receptors that receive it.
  This is all great for psychiatry,
but it has raised an interesting new
controversy.  It's really a rehash of
that old controversy I just dis-
cussed.
  Do we now treat people with a
touch of craziness?  I'm sure you
know somebody who's a bit too ec-
centric, maybe gets paranoid once
in a while, possibly has his head in
the clouds too often?  Mavbe others
have magical, fanciful ideas and,
beliefs that nobody else has.  Is it
right to use these newer medica-
tions to help make these types of
people more normal?
  For now, the answer is not
clear.  I believe certain people who
tend toward paranoia, bizarre and
dysfunctional beliefs, hypersensi-
tivity, explosive rage and transient
periods of loss of awareness
of their surroundings can benefit
from these new medicines.  On the
other hand, I worry that, once
again, psychiatry may find itself in
the unacceptable position of trying
to "normalize" society or control
people.
  I think the key lies in two
things.  First, doctors should simply
continue to exercise good 
judgment and   look at individuals
in terms of their own suffering, as
well as the impact they have on
other people. Secondly, I believe
at the public needs to be aware
of this issue. I hope this will hap-
en without the hysteria that oc-
curs when similar concerns were
raised with the advent of Prozac.
Time will tell.

Dr. Raymond Dean is a board-
certified psychologist with an of-
fice in Wabasso.



Letters to the editor



Resident suggests public lead prayer

I read with a great deal of inter-
est Colleen Deslaurier's report in
the Press Journal on the prayer pol-
icy of Sebastian Citv Council.
  She apparently put some effort
into her research, but stopped
short of examining one important
aspect  which, if investigated,
would have pointed to the ridicu-
lousness of the American Civil Lib-
erties Union position as well as
reminded us of another lost facet
of the continuing drama depicting
one more lost item of the things
"that made America great."
  I attended the meeting at which
Councilwoman Ruth Sullivan rec-
ommended the prayer to precede
the meeting.  I understood that At-
torney Valerie Settles was only ad-
dressing the Supreme Court ruling
that forbids a councilperson from
saying a prayer.  There can be noth-
ing wrong with a citizen offering
the opening praver.
  But let us explore another ave-
nue on what makes America great.
I am told an official chaplain
should be an ordained minister
but in the absence of such, anyone
can be a chaplain.  Does being des-
ignated "chaplain" give one a mag-
ical gift or a direct connection to
our God?  Of course not.
The Southern Baptist Conven-
tion is the largest Christian denom-
ination in the U.S.  The
denomination teaches all to pray
pubticly.  It may even insist one be
able to pray publicly.
Show me one Southern Baptist,
who has been a Sundav School tea-
cher for 15 years, and I'll show
a person who can pray, as well
any chaplain and probably as good
as any minister.
The proper, God-fearing mes-
sage to the City Council would be
'let the public pray."
T.T. Connelly
Sebastian


Weldon taken to task for vote

  The recent news report that U.S.
Rep. David Weldon, R-Fl., inserted
the 10 Commandments into the
"Congressional Record" is a wel-
come reminder that unvarnished
political courage has not com-
pletely disappeared from the politi-
cal scene.
  At a time when many oli
pticians will scarcely brush their
teeth before consulting poll re-
sults, Weldon fearlessly demanded
the commandments be made part
of the nation's record.
Can we now look forward to
Weldon's entering into the Record
a recipe for apple pie or the lyrics
to that old song that ends, "Put
them all together and they spell
MOTHER," or one of George M.
Cohan's odes to the American flag?
There is a small irony involved
in Weldon's concern for the 10
Commandments. If memory serves,
one of the most forthright of them
is, "Thou Shall Not Kill."
One wonders if Weldon pon-
dered over that last year when he
joined his mentor, Speaker of the
House Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.,in vot-
ing for the repeal of the ban on au-
tomatic    assault   weapons, the
weapons of choice for some of our
country's most monstrous killers.
J. Robert Constantine
Barefoot Bay


NEWS BRIEFS

Property owners
meeting May 5
   John Ellis, president of the Se-
bastian Lions Club, will be the
guest speaker at the May 5 meeting
of the Sebastian Property 0wners
Association.
   The meeting will begin at 7:30
p.m. at the North Indian River
County Library, Fellsmere Road.

Ohio Club
meeting May 10
   A member of the Citizen obser-
vation Patrol program will talk
about their duties at the May 10
meeting of the Ohio Club of Bare-
foot Bay in Building D&E.
   The meeting will begin at 5:30
p.m. Members are asked to bring a
covered dish to pass and table ser-
vice.

WOWS group
meeting May 5
   The Wows group of widows,
widowers and divorced and sepa-
rated people will meet at 11 a.m.
May 5 in the St. Sebastian Church
parish hall.  After a brown-bag
lunch, the group will take a trip on
the River Queen at I p,m.  For more
information, call 589-1193.

Roseland women
to dine May 7

   The Roseland woman's Club will
hold its spring luncheon noon May
7 at the Roseland Community 
Building on Bay Street.
   The following officers will be
installed: President Muriel Hold
sworth; First Vice President Grace
Eriksen; Second Vice President Do-
rothy Lorenze; Secretary Elaine
Johnson; Treasurer Doris McNutt;
and board of directors, Freida
Brown, Harriet Washer, Effie Mar-
tin and Jackie James.
   All members are asked to bring
covered dishes and to wear hats.

Red Cross
seeks volunteers
   The Indian River County Chapter
of the American Red Cross is seek-
ing volunteers.  Volunteers are
needed with nursing, mechanical,
clerical and crafts experience.
   For more information, call the
chapter house 562-2549.

Model railroad
show May 3-4
   Model railroad enthusiasts won't
want to miss the upcoming model
Railroad Show to be held at the
Vero Mall, 1225 U.S. 1, 10 a.m. to 9
p.m. May 3 and noon to 5:30 p.m.
May 4.
   The show will feature a number
of operating as well as static dis-
plays.  Visitors will be able to see
six fully operating railroads in
"HO," "N" and "G" scales, several
with new additions and scenery.
Plus, members of the Treasure
Coast Model Railroad Club will dis-
plav their personal collections and
railroad memorabilia, including
valuable brass locomotives.

Welcome Wagon
to dine May 6

   The Welcome Wagon Club of Se-
bastian Alumnae will hold its
monthlv luncheon noon May 6 at
the new Knights of Columbus Hall
on Gibson Street.
   Election of officers for the
1997-98 year will be held at this
luncheon.
   Speaking at the luncheon will
be Anne Marguerite del Prado, an
integrated regression therapist.
Members are reminded canned
meats will be collected for the
Lord's Table Soup Kitchen.
   There will also be a goodie bas-
ket raffle donated by the board
with funds added to the charity ac-
count.  For further information call
589-4001.



Week In Review


Sewage issue delays
Crystal Bay hearing

   The developers of the proposed
Crystal Bav community in South
Brevard County ran into another
stumbling block recently, causing
them to ask county commissioners
to delay the April 24 hearing on
the project.
   The County Commission ap-
proved a request by developers An-
ita and David Cragg to postpone
the zoning hearing on the 388-unit
complex proposed for just north of
Snug Harbor in Micco.
Richard Torpy, attorney for the
Craggs, said his clients found out
earlier this week there might be a
problem with the easements run-
ning between the proposed devel-
opment and Florida Cities Water
Co.'s waste-water treatment plant.
The Craggs are working with com-
pany officials to try to hook the de-
velopment up to the utility instead
of using septic tanks.
   "What came up is there might
be a minor easement problem for
running the utility lines to Florida
City utilities," Torpy said.
"According to my client, when
checking the deeds, there appears
to be a gap in the easement we're
trying to resolve," he said.
That gap is not a major prob-
lem, said Rick Enos, zoning official
with the Brevard County Growth
Management Department.
"They have to acquire the prop-
erty (between Crystal Bay and Flor-
ida Cities) to get from the
development to the plant.  It's mi-
nor and it doesn't have anything to
do with zoning," Enos said.  "The
two parties simply don't own all
the land between the two sites.
The original plan to use septic
tanks drew opposition from nearby
neighbors and some county com-
missioners, even though septic
tanks are approved for use under
certain state and county regul
   In order to forego the use of sep-
tic tanks, the Craggs approached
officials from Florida Cities, who
said the utility has the capacity to
take in other customers.
   The latest plan does not indi-
cate the developers intend to go
back to the idea of using septic
tanks for the proposed homes,
Torpy said.
   "We'll be able to do utilities,
but we need to shore up our pre-
sentation," he said, adding that all
of the easements may be in order
and the gap caused by a glitch in
the records.
   He added the Craggs, "absolu-
tely want to go the utilities route."
   The hearing has been post-
poned until May 22.

Sebastian Council
eyes parking rules

   Residents may be limited to
parking in driveways and yards un-
der changes to Sebastian's parking
ordinance suggested April 23 by
City Council members.
   The council discussed pro-
posed changes to the ordinance at
a workshop.  After hearing sugges-
tions by members, Community De-
velopment Director Bob Massarelli
said he would come back to the
council with a revised edition of
the ordinance.
   Discussion included whether
parking in the city's rights of way
should be prohibited except under
certain exceptions such as a party,
funeral gathering or maintenance
vehicles.
Vice Mayor Rich Taracka said of
the 92 people he surveyed, "All
were of the opinion there should
be no parking in the rights of way
or swales."
   Certain exceptions could apply,
but Taracka said all vehicles should
not be parked in the rights of way
for more than 24 hours.  He sug-
gested the Police Department
should have a log to list all sched-
uled parties or other events.  Resi-
dents would call in advance and
notify the Police Department of
their event.
   Council members Louise Car-
twright and Larry Paul said they
had a problem with listing excep-
tions.
   Mrs. Cartwright said it wouldn't
be practical because, for example,
people wouldn't know of a death
in the family ahead of time and
most likely wouldn't think to call
the police about large gatherings.
She said police offi@ers responding
to a complaint would be able to
see if the situation was a special
circumstance.
   Mayor Walter Barnes agreed
with the idea of prohibiting park-
ing in the rights of way.
   "There's no sense in spending
money in cleaning swales, and
then have people parking in
there," he said.  The city has several
areas in which people with "lead
feet" have pulled away from a right
of way after a rain storm and left
their mark, he said.
   "It's a mess," he said.
   Paul said there may be times
when residents would want to tem-
porarily park their cars in the right
of way for other reasons.  A person
returning from fishing may want to
clean a boat or truck off before put-
ting it in the driveway, he said.
Council members also contin-
ued discussion on how many recre-
ational vehicles should be allowed
on a residential lot.  The proposed
ordinance allows two such vehi-
cles, which could include a trailer
camper or boat, for lots less than,
15,0OO square feet, and up to five
vehicles for lots that are about a
half-acre in size.  Council discussed
limiting all lots to two vehicles
parked outside but allowing resi-
dents to keep as many vehicles
stored in their garage as could fit.

Community may get
Winn Dixie store
   Barefoot Bay residents who often
have to travel long distances to do
their grocery-shopping may soon
get a new supermarket in their
community.
   Officials with Avatar Properties
Inc., the Miami developers of Bare-
foot Bay, confirmed April 2
they're once again negotiating with
Winn Dixie to open a store in the
South Brevard community.
   "We will know within 30 days
whether we have a deal or not,"
said Dennis Getman, executive
vice president for Avatar.
   He said recently Winn Dixie of-
ficials approached his company
again about obtaining property in
Barefoot Bay.
   Getman said Winn Dixie is
doing environmental and other
studies on 5 acres of commercial
property along U.S. 1, just north of
Barefoot Boulevard.
   Officials with Winn Dixie said
because they are in negotiations,
they could not comment about the
possible new store.
   This is not the first time Winn
Dixie has been interested in Bare-
foot Bay.  At least since 1993, the
two companies have been talking
about striking a deal.
   An official with Avatar had said
earlier that if companies did strike
a deal, the Winn Dixie built in
Barefoot Bay would be a 44,000-
square-foot building that would
have 242 parking spaces.  The plans
for the site also included entrances
off U.S.1 and Barefoot Boulevard.
Those plans, however, could
change.
   Having a supermarket within
walking distance from their homes
would be a great convenience for
many Barefoot Bay residents who
often have to travel several miles to
their grocery shopping, said Flo
"Canham, president of the Barefoot
Bay Homeowners Association.
   "It would be handy for a lot of
the people here because they don't
like to travel out on the road," said
Canham, adding that many could
ride their bicycles to the store.
"We're going to welcome it be-
cause they moved (the Winn
Dixie) from Roseland to County
Road 512 and it's too far.  A lot of
people were disappointed when
they moved it, including me," said
Barefoot Bay resident John Smith.
   He said the new store may
bring more traffic into Barefoot
Bay, but the streets in the commu-
nity are public and a lot of people
already travel on them.
   Mrs. Canham said because the
negotiations have been going on
for so long, many people in Bare-
foot Bay have nearly lost hope that
it's ever going to happen.
   "This is something that should
have happened a long time ago.
They keep hearing about it, but
nothing happens," Canham said.
"I'll believe it when I see it."

New company hired                     
to kill aquatic weeds
   Sebastian officials hired a new
company April 23 to handle
aquatic weeds in city canals and of-
ficials hope the move kills off fur-
ther complaints about the pesky
plants.
   City Council unanimously ap-
proved a new contract with Ap-
plied Aquatic Management Inc. of
Eagle Lake to control the weeds.
The $24,540 annual contract calls
for the company to kill 70 percent
of the weeds the canals.
   The company will be paid $2,-
045 per month, about $600 per
month more than the city paid its
former weed-control company, En-
vironmental Waterways of West
Palm Beach.
   The new contract is better than
the former contract the city had for
weed control because it ensures a
level of performance, said the city's
storm-water consultant, John Hill
of Craven, Thompson and Associ-
ates Inc. of Vero Beach, who
helped draft the new contract.  The
old contract only told the weed-
management company to spray for
weeds a few times a year.
   The problem with that method
is that if the sprays weren't enough
to kill the weeds, "then too bad,"
he said.  Because of the uncertainty
of the effectiveness of the chemi-
cals, it also meant someone from
the city had to watch company em-
ployees to make sure they were ac-
tually spraying for weeds.
   Sometimes, what happened is
that the only time the weeds were
looked at was when a resident
omplained, Hill said.
   With the new contract, the city
only has to inspect the area to see
if the weeds are gone.  The contract
specifies that within a 100-foot
area, 70 percent of the area must
have no weeds, he said.
   That means there is no limit to
how many times the company is re-
quired to spray. it may have to re-
turn if the percentage of weeds
removed is not met in an area.

58 home permits
issued in 3 months
   The number of new home per-
mits issued for the first three
months of 1997 were about the
same as last year, but Sebastian
Building Official George Bonacci
predicts a large upswing in the
market in the future.
   "We're continuing getting ap-
plications (for new home building
permits) daily," he said.
   While 58 new home permits, for
homes valued at a total of $4.7 mil-
lion, have been issued for the first
three months of the year, Bonacci
said that figure may be misleading.
Applications are sometimes de-
layed a week or so if city officials
need more information about the
contractor, such as what subcon-
tractors will be hired, he said.
   January had the most permits is-
sued, with 22 permits for homes
valued at $1.8 million.  In February,
16 permits were issued for homes
valued at $1.4 million.  Last month,
20 home permits were issued for
homes valued at $1.6 million.
   Last year, there were 52 permits
for homes valued at $3.9 million is-
sued during the first three months
of 1996.  The year ended with 236
permits for homes valued at $18.5
million.  Bonacci said he expects
the city could see a 5 percent in-
crease in homes being built in the
city over last year.
   Growth should continue increas-
ing to at least 2000 and beyond, he
said.
   The city ended 1995 with 183
single-family house permits, with
total values of $13.5 million, down
from 312 homes with values of
$20.9 million in 1994.

Photo Caption

SEBASTIAN RESIDENT THOMAS "TUT" CONNELLY checks out the 
new chairs in the Sebastian City Council meeting room.  The 55 new
chairs, with softer cushions and arm rests, replaced folding chairs.
The chairs arrived April 24 and cost $44.55 each for a total of
$2,450.50.


Unusual outifts unveiled
at club's 'fashion show'
By DAVID KEARNS
Of The Sun

   Ray Kornbrath stunned the 140
members of the German Heritage
Club with his interpretation of a
blushing bride named Raymunda.
As he promenaded across the
stage in Barefoot Bay's Community
Center April 23, Kornbrath's outfit
sported a "sweeping" train, made
with a broom attached to the end
of his dress, and was capped off
with a length of yellow hair that
would have suited Rapunzel's
needs perfectly.
   Club secretary Pat Priore intro-
duced Kornbrath as a "traditional"
bride.
  "She has something old, her-
self; something new, her teeth;
something borrowed, her money
and something blue besides her
veins," she said, as Kornbrath lifted
his gown to display a blue garter
on his leg.
   When club members stayed af-
ter their meeting for some live en-
tertainment they had no idea what
Mrs. Priore and 14 men from the
club had in store for them as      
chairs were being cleared away
from the center of the room.
   The "fashion show" show that
followed the meeting brought
hoots and guffaws from the boister-
ous crowd as the men paraded
from the stage and around the
dance floor.
   "Obviously, these aren't profes-
sional fashion models," said Mrs.
Priore, who announced the models
and gave the particulars on their
outfits.
   Mrs. Priore said she got the idea
for the fashion show from some of
the men in the community who pe-
riodically dress in women's cloth-
ing as a joke during the weekly
square dances in the park.
   "They have done this for some
of the square dances and I was
looking for something different for
the entertainment portion of our
meeting,' she said.
   She had only to mention a fash-
ion show once, she said, and she
immediately was besieged with
volunteers.
   "These guys are incredible
hams.  All they worried about was
their bras," she said.
   What do the participants get
out of it?
   "I have no idea," she said.
   John Baker, for instance,
seemed to enjoy himself thor-
oughly.
   He came traipsing out from be-
hind the curtain with a broad grin
on his face, ridiculously attired as
"Ms.  Sunbeam,". a manifestation of
many fashion puns.
   He wore a "box jacket" made
from a discarded cardboard box,
along with his six-inch "spike
shoes" with long nails taped to his
tennis shoes.
   His stork-like gait was accentu-
ated by cobalt-black sunglasses be-
neath his straw hat and his "toast"
skirt.  Baker had taped dried-up
slices of bread to the skirt just in
case the joke was lost on anyone.
   "The skirt comes in light, me-,
dium or burnt," Mrs. Priore told
the crowd.
   "This is going to destroy the
fashion industry," said Baker's
wife, Joan.
   Other   contestants included
Henry "Herr" Gasparian, dressed
in lederhosen and an authentic Al-
pine hat, who also escorted the,
contestants around the room dur-,
ing the presentation.
   He led out Paul "Paula" Kling
dressed as a traditional fraulein,
Bob "Betty Boop" Heckman; War-
ren "Ms. Idaho" Popp, dressed in a
potato sack and hat from his Min-
nie Pearl-like collection; and John
"Ms.Tetley" Kavorkian, who
donned a tea gown festooned with
tea bags.
   As the celebration of humor
wore on, Al "Alice" Glashauser
stunned the audience with his au-
thentic 'five-carrot" necklace on
his holiday gown.
   He was followed bv celebrity
contestants Socrates "Madonna"
Festin and Roger "Dolly Parton"
Gulliver.
   The evening was capped-off by
Dick "Doubtfire" Hawthorn, who
wheeled out Jack Barry, dressed as
a whining infant on a catering cart.
   The event raised no monev, but
lifted spirits, Mrs. Priore said.

Photo Caption


Ray Kornbrath donned a wedding dress of his own design, com-
pleted with a sweeping train made of a broom during a "fashion
show" held by the German Heritage Club. Club Secretary Pat Pri-
ore called Kornbrath a "traditional' bride.



Extension agent plants ideas
for going native in landscaping
By DREW DIXON
Of The Sun

   Sherry Hamlin has owned a
home in Indian River County for 20
years and for all of those years,
she's been frustrated at her at-
tempts to landscape her yard.
   "I've lost a lot of plants before,
that weren't meant for this (Flor-
ida) type of soil.  A lot of plants just
can't take these kind of condi-
tions," Hamlin said.
   On  April 29, she and about two
dozen other homeowners received
some educational relief at the Envi-
ronmental Learning Center in Wa-
basso when the Florida Yards and
Neighborhbods organization held a
workshop as an introduction to
proper landscaping for a Florida,
home.
   The workshop, "Groovy
Groundcovers and Shrubs," was
run by Janice Broda, a multicounty
cooperative extension agent and
landscape enthusiast.
   "Hopefully it can fill in the
holes in (the homeowner's) under-
standing of landscaping," she said
of the workshop.
   "The workshop won't answer
all the questions, but it will give
them lots of access to resources,"
Broda said.
   But after seeing dozens of non-
indigenous plants and flowers put
around her home, only to have
them shrivel up and die a few
months later, Hamlin said, the
workshop did more than answer
some questions.
   "Some of this stuff I'm defi-
nitely interested in.  I'm looking for
low maintenance (plants), that I
don't have to water a lot and that
look good too," she said.
   The Environmental Learning
Center was just the right laboratory
for the workshop as several indige-
nous plants grow along the path-
ways at the facilities.
   The plants not only grow in the
wilds of Florida, but can grow in
most yards of any home in Indian
River County, Broda said.
   "Properly selected native plants
are low maintenance and give us
the flavor of Florida," she said.
   Getting back to the basics and
landscaping with common plants
are good ways to start, according to
Broda.  She suggested homeowners
start out with a cabbage palm tree,
or a silver blue palmetto or maybe
even a wax myrtle tree because
these trees do grow anywhere in
this area.
   Not only do these local plants
add to the landscape and aesthetics
of a home, Broda said, but, "your
yard can be so many things.  It can
be part of the restoration of (natu-
ral) habitat.
   "Or it can be formal and still
use natural plants because the
plants don't need fertilizer or pesti-
cides," she said.
   Beyond simply enhancing the
beauty of a home, indigenous
plants are more environmentally
sound because those pesticides
and fertilizers you don't have to
use won't run off with each rain
shower and pollute surrounding
nature, Broda said.
   Tuesday's workshop was rated a
success by Broda.
   She said she never wants more
than a few dozen people attending
the hands-on sessions that walk
people through the center and give
them a close look at the plants that
can help homeowners.
   The workshop also served as a
beginning for some of the home-
owners, because their landscaping
habits could change, Broda said,
   She added the cooperative ex-
tension agency will do random,
follow-up survevs of those who at-
tended to see if their landscaping
habits really have altered.

Photo Caption
Janice Broda tells about two dozen Indian River 
County homeowners what plants are suitable for their
yards during a home landscaping workshop April 29 
at the Environmental Learning Center, Wabasso.


News Briefs

Wildlife habitat
to be topic of talk
   "Blueways and Greenways" will
be the topic of a talk by Diane Bar-
ile, executive director of the Ma-
rine Resources Council, at the May
Brown Bag Lunch sponsored by
the Marine Resources Council at
Fisherman's Landing Park in Grant.
   Barile will talk about local pro-
jects, programs and proposals that
provide public access to the water,
open space and healthy habitat for
wildlife.
   Brown Bag Lunch is a weekly
series of speakers held at noon Fri-
days at the park.
   The public is invited to bring a
lunch and enjoy a peaceful hour
beside the Indian River and learn
more about the community and en-
vironment.

Auxiliary breaks
for summer vacation
   The Ladies Auxiliary of the
Micco Volunteer Fire Department
met April 24 at the firehouse.
The April 5 card party was very
successful.  Thanks go to chairwo-
man Vivian Richmond and her as-
sistants.  The basket of cheer was
won by Joy Dangler and the money
tree was won by Francis Vincent.
   The auxiliary held its spring,
luncheon April 17 at the Crow's
Nest and also assisted at the April
20 pancake breakfast.
   The auxiliary's annual chicken
dinner will be Aug. 30.  The auxilia-
ry's next meeting will be Aug. 28 at
the firehouse.

Election of officers
to highlight meeting
   Officers will be elected at the
May 8 meeting of the auxiliary of
the Charles L. Futch American Le-
gion Unit 189 to begin at 1:30
at the Sebastian Legion Hall
Louisiana Ave.
   The slate of candidates pre-
sented at the April 10 meeting in-
clude: president, Dorothy Doucet
and Barbara Wilder; vice president,
Ruth Ann Worthen; treasurer, Ethel
Yanosky and Dorothy Palow; secre-
tary, Alice Allard; chaplain, Arlene
Baker; historian, Marion Meguin;
sergeant-at- arms, Iris Cournoyer;
assistant sergeant-at-arms, Dorothy
Willis and Pearl Williams; and ex-
ecutive committee, Hazel Bond,
Peggy Hino, Doris Clancy.
Nominations also will be re-
ceived from the floor.

Photo Caption
Sebastian Vice Mayor Richard Taracka, left, and Sal
Neglia, vice president  of the Sebastian Property 
Owners Association, cooked up some fun April 19 at 
the Property Owners Association's second annual
picnic, held at Dale Wimbrow Park, Roseland.



News Briefs

Dodgers holding
youth baseball clinic
   A youth baseball clinic, hosted
by the Vero Beach Dodgers, for
children 14 and under will be held
from 5 to 6 p.m. May 3 at Holman
Stadium.
   After the clinic, all participants
will be admitted to the Dodgers-
Fort Myers Miracle game.
   For more information, call the
Dodgers at 569-4900.

Red Cross offering
swimming classes
   The local American Read Cross
branch and the Vero Beach/Indian
River County Recreation Depart-
ment are offering "learn to swim"
programs July and August at Lei-
sure Square.
   The first session runs from June
9 to July 19, while the second ses-
sion is from June 23 to July 3.  The
third session is July 7 to July 17,
the fourth session runs from July
21 to July 31, while the fifth ses-
sion goes from Aug. 4 to Aug. 14.
   One class is specifically for in-
fants 6 months to 3 years old, with
parental participation.  Classes also
will be held for toddlers, pre-
schoolers and adults.
   The cost of the course is $35
per session, which includes eight
lessons.  Registration is being ac-
cepted now at the Red Cross office
on 2506 17th Ave.

Sebastian Sun Devils
seeking sponsors
   The Sebastian Sun Devils fast-
pitch softball league for girls 14-18
years old is seeking sponsors to
help pay for travel, equipment and
uniforms.
   Each player is required to find
a sponsor and sign a letter of com-
mitment to the league.  The volun-
teer staff consists entirely of
parents and local coaches.
   Anyone wanting to help should
call Jim Barton at 589-6102 or Tom
Batchellor at 562-4024.
   

Smoothies present
checks to charities
   On Marcb 18, Smoothies Ball-
room Dance Club President Bob
Griffiths presented checks to both
Deborah Heart and Lung Founda-
tion and Micco Fire and Rescue
Department in Barefoot Bay.
   Dorothy Haskoor, president of
Barefoot Bay Chapter 5, and Lucille
Lobitz, administration chairwo-
man, and founder of the chapter,
received the check for the Deborah
Foundation.
Frank Frego, assistant fire chief
and his wife, Marge, emergency
medical paramedic, received the
check for the fire department.
Smoothies in the past has given to
several organizations from money
from of the annual flea market
held in Building A.
   The Smoothies Ballroom Dance
Club has been in Barefoot Bay for
more than 20 years.  All owners,
renters, singles and couples are
invited to come as a guest to the
dances.
   The club has live music with
Ed Hornyak and Bob Dale playing
on alternate Thursday nights.
Guests pay $4 per person.
   For a free pass to one of the
dances, call Jo Brown, 664-2946, or
Bob Griffiths, 664-9248.  This is a
one-time offer.  Club membership
costs $4 per members a year.  Ad-
mission to the dance for members
is $3.
   Dance lessons by Bill Serafini
will be offered for $5 per person
starting at 6:30 p.m. in Building A
prior to the dances.
   The summer dances will be
held the second and fourth Thurs-
day of each month, including May
8, 22; June 12, 26; July 10, 24; Aug.
14, 28; and Sept. 11, 25.


Being a good sport is more important
to some athletes than winning games
By DAVID KEARNS
Of The Sun
            
People have different ideas
about what it takes to be a good
sport but there are some common
themes.
   Perseverance, a winning atti-
tude and the ability to accept ad-
versity without blaming others are
the characteristics of a true good
sport, said Nancy Diamond,director
of the Sebastian River Area Little
League.
   Samantha Holler and Danielle
Ford of the Sebastian Senior
Softball League and Senior Baseball
League standout Chad Johnson,
come immediately to mind this
year in the good-sport category,
Ms. Diamond said.
   What makes them natural good
sports?  Ms. Diamond said they each
have the poise to accept bad luck if
it comes and the spirit to elevate
their teammates to work against it,
no matter what happens.
   "These kids are terrific.  You
never see them complaining about
anything, they just love to play and
they're always out there trying to
give their best during the games.
They're all good players, too," she
said.
   Holler played shortstop this
year for Sebastian River High
School's undefeated junior varsity
softball team.  She also plays short-
stop for Dave's Sporting Goods.
Sharks junior Varsity Coach Tom
Batchellor lauds Holler for the ef-
fort and spirit she showed as a
member of his team.
   "She's really a super kid and an
excellent all-around player.  She's
one of those players who doesn't
seek too much attention, and
doesn't get a whole lot of it, but
she's always there for you when
you need her. Just a super kid," he
said.
   Holler said being a good sport
is easy when you love what you're
doing.
   "Softball is the best.  I love the
competition, it's so much fun," she
said.
   Holler said she would never
dream of getting upset at calls or
other players.  Even though she
loves the sport and wants to win
every game, she said softball is still
a game.  It's supposed to be fun.
Ford, 12, said Holler is always
there to lift her teammates spirits
through the tough times, such as
the team's 13-11 playoff loss to Se-
bastian River Medical Center on
April 17.
   "She keeps our team spirit up,"
said Ford.
   Ford, who plays first base for
Dave's Sporting Goods, has learned
the value of a positive attitude both
on and off the field.
   She said it can be counter-pro-
ductive for players to "get down,"
or harshly criticize each other.
   "Being a good sport helps if a
person gets a bad attitude, you can
bring them up.  It helps the team,"
she said.
   Johnson, a relief pitcher and
first baseman for VFW 10210's Se-
nior League team, said being a bad
sport would take something away
from what he is able to accomplish
on the mound.
   Sure, not all the calls he gets
from umpires are ideal, he said,
but that is no reason for him to
lose his composure.
   "I don't ever worry about it
(the bad calls) . If they make a bad
call, or if I don't hit the strike zone,
the next pitch will be right down
the middle," he said.
   Being a good sport, agreed
Johnson, actually makes him work
harder to be the best when things
aren't going his way.
   Dr. Andreas Braun of the Coun-
seling Center of Sebastian, said
sports help youngsters learn about      
their own bodies, learn discipline
and self-esteem.
   Braun said parental guidance
has much to do with whether
youngsters turn out to be good
sports or bad sports.
   Parents need to encourage dis-
cipline and performance on the
playing field and need to encour-
age the values of success, but they
also need to balance that with the
fact that it is just a game, he said.
   The end result of athletic com-
petition is that it is supposed to be
fun, he said, not pile undue mental
stress on a child.
   Parental coaching should be
positive, he said.  Parents should
outline mistakes with examples of
positive performance.  Braun said
that means parents should attend
the games or events, regardless of
how the child, or his team, is per-
forming.
   "There are two complaints we
typically see with sports and fami-
lies.  Fathers either are not active
enough in being there for there
children, or they are often too
involved and domineering, push-
ing them too hard," he said,
   "The unhealthy thing is when
that (parental coaching) becomes
shaming the kids when they don't
perform up to standards the par-
ents set.
   "This can have long-lasting, neg-
ative  effects that go beyond
sports," he said.
   Braun said working with chil-
dren on athletic activity outside of
games and practices is also impor-
tant so that the child gets first-hand
experience and parental interac-
tion, he said.
   Parents need to encourage the
values of good sportsmanship as an
overall way to encourage self-es-
teem, he said.
Dr. Will Mosler, a psychiatrist at
the Center for Counseling and Psy-
chiatry in Vero Beach, agrees with
Braun.  Mosier said parents need
be a positive, active role model to
promoting good sportsmanship in
their children.
   "More important than the sport
itself, is that time playing backyard
ball with Mom and Dad," he said.
"This is when the parent can show-
the sport being played purely for
the enjoyment of the game.



Athletics
play big role
in Fellsmere
-Bill Valvo-

   It only takes a few minutes to
travel from the Barber Street Sports
Complex in Sebastian to the ball-
park on Route 512 and Broadway
in Fellsmere.  You can say it's a
frog's leap if you want to bring the
tiny town's claim to fame into play.
   The setting for the sports pro-
gram in Fellsmere pales by compa-
rison to all the goings on at Barber
Street, but the bottom line remains
the same.  It brings much enjoy-
ment and pleasure to all the kids
who participate in th@ athletic
competition held there.
   John Coppola runs just about
all the activities for the kids in
town.  Currently, the part-time em-
ployee of the Indian River/Vero
Beach Recreation Department, the
sponsor of the programs in Fells-
mere, is up to his neck running the
Little League competition that
more than 150 boys and girls enjoy
this time of the year.
   Coppola has plenty of help,
"We have 18 full-time coaches
helping out in the program and we
get much support from the parents
also."

Coppola, 37, has been in
charge of Fellsmere sports pro-
grams for two years now and has
been the physical education direc-
tor of Fellsmere schools since he
came down from New Fairchild
Conn.  He's married to Carol, and
has three children, John Jr., Court-
ney and Colleen.
   "We have a full program here
in Fellsmere. Flag football and soc-
cer are a big activity, while a year
around karate class is very popu-
lar," he said.
   Soccer draws 250 kids, while
flag football has 160 children ages
6-12 participating.  Karate has a
steady attendance of 50 every
Wednesday night at the school.
   All the programs register the
children right in the Fellsmere El-
ementary School.
   "It's a captive audience and it
works out well," he said.  "Our goal
is to keep the kids active and en-
joying themselves."
   Asked what can be done to im-
prove the athletic programs for the
kids, Coppola said, "Nothing.  Ev-
erything is going just great!"
   This statement is from a guy
who can be seen policing the area,
picking up litter, after the eve-
ning's doubleheaders are finished.



Sharks' lacrosse team poised 
to be strong contender
-Matt Grimison-
                                                                                                     
   The name Indian River Cup prompts
thoughts of yachts speeding through the wa-
ters of the river in tactical maneuvers around
buoys, sails snapping in the wind.
   The reality is a group of high school ath-
letes charging a goal with sticks, and the
only snapping is the ball against the back of
the net when a goal is scored.
   The cup has gone a long way to promot-
ing the growth of a new sport in Indian
River County - lacrosse.
   The cup is a competition between the
girls teams from SRHS and St. Edward's.
The Pirates have won it both years it has
been contested, the most recent a 15-7 tri-
umph April 29.
   But the competition is reaching beyond
wins and losses and helping elevate Sebas-
tian River's athletic program.
   For the Sharks, lacrosse is still in its in-
fancy.
   The team started last year and spent the
season trying to figure out a game that was
foreign to almost every player.
   St. Edward's, on the other hand, has had
a lacrosse program for years, competing
against other private schools from around
the state.
   Sebastian River turned to its Vero Beach
counterpart early in putting together a la-
crosse program, an appeal for help that was
enthusiastically answered by St. Ed's coaches
eager to promote the sport and find some
competition close to home.
   Pirates coach Michelle Sternberg worked
with Sebastian River Athletic Director Mi-
chael Stutzke in tuning him into the game
and even held clinics at the school introduc-
ing the sport to potential Shark players.
   St. Ed's coaches have gone as far as giv-
ing Shark players pointers before matches.
   With that boost, Sebastian River lacrosse
is quickly moving from fledgling to soaring
out of the nest.
   The inaugural season saw the Sharks
struggle and go winless while trying to settle
into the game.
   This year, Sebastian River has turned
from simply trying to play to winning, em-
ploying strategy where there formerly was
only participation.
   As of last week, the Sharks, under coach
Tina Ambers and assistant Frank Rathke,
boasted a winning record as they geared up
for the Citrus League tournament.
   That tournament points to a reason the
Indian River Cup is so important.
   Lacrosse is not sanctioned by the Florida
High School Activities Association, and so
there are no playoffs or state championships.
Instead, many teams in the region have
grouped together in the Citrus League and
the championship is really the only goal to
shoot for throughout the season.
   The Pirates and Sharks have another --
the cup.
   The competition motivates the players
and continues what has become a some-
times spirited athletic rivalry between St.
Ed's and upstart Sebastian River, which is
larger than the private school, but only in its
third year of existence.
   The Pirates obviously still are dominant
in lacrosse, but the Sharks are coming on
strong and seriously should challenge for
the cup in the near future.



Parasailing operation offers
high-flying-thrill for brave
By DAVID KEARNS
Of The Sun

   Being above it all can mean different things to dif-
ferent people.
   For Sebastian resident Matt Richter, it means a job,
running the community's first parasailing operation.
   For those thinking about jumping out of a per-
fectly good airplane, a trip parasailing 600 feet above
the Indian River might be the perfect intermediated
step between standing on the ground and sky diving,
said Richter.
   Three months ago, Richter added parasailing to
his business, Indian River Watercraft Rentals, at Cap-
tain Hiram's Marina, to become the first business in
Sebastian's history to offer this attraction, according
to city officials.
   Richter said the parasailing end of his operation is
booked up two, sometimes three, days in advance, so
anyone wanting a ride must make a reservation.
Those who take the ride get a lofty view of the
river from a heavy-duty nylon perch beneath one of
his three brightly-colored canopies.
   In parasailing, a customer is strapped into a heavy
duty nylon harness beneath a round parachute, which
is opened over the water and towed behind a moving
boat.  Some operations use a dock, or a beach, for
launching and landing customers.
   Richter has a large platform on the back of his
boat and he can launch and land his customers with-
out them ever getting their feet wet, right from the
boat while it's underway, he said.
   Six customers can be taken aboard Richter's boat.
   When they are not parasailing, customers take in the
sights of the Indian River, Richter said.
   Richter said one of the best things about parasail-
ing is it requires little effort or thought bv the cus-
tomer, because the boat's captain and first mate
control the motion of the parachute.
   He and first mate Vicki Fadden usually take their
customers to an area just west of the Sebastian inlet,
away from other boats and any manatee protection
zones in the Indian River, Richter said.
   He leaves the dock at noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. ev-
day, weather permitting.  Prices vary from $40 for a
10-minute flight at an altitude of 300 feet, to $60 for
the 12-minute flight at an altitude of 600 feet.  Cou-
ples can pay $100 for a 12-minute tandem flight at
600 feet.  Reservations can be made by calling at least
day in advance at 589-5560.
   "It's a thrill," said Richter.  "You've got the barrier
island and the ocean on one side, Sebastian on the
other and the Indian River stretched out below you to
the north and south, as far as the eye can see."
   "From 600 feet, you can see everything from
the inlet to the (Sebastian) airport," he said.
   From any height the view of the river is amazing,
he said.
   "Beneath you, you can spot schools of fish, dol-
phin, manatee.  We've even had people spot sea tur-
tles in the river from up there.  It's really 
tremendous," he said.
   But there is no state license to
operate a parasailing business ex-
cept having a captain's license and
Richter has one of those. In par-
asailing, the boat is regulated by
standards set by the U.S. Coast
Guard and the Florida Marine Pa-
trol.  But the harness, rope, parasail
and other apparatus associated
with parasailing does not have to
conform to anv minimum regula-
tions or criteria, said Ed Towey,
spokesman for the Florida Depart-
ment of Business and Professional
Regulation.
   Richter said he has more than
$80,000 in loans and personal
investment staked on the boat and
its conversion into a parasailing
platform.  He said he also pays a
considerable amount for insurance
on the boat and the business.
   "None of us (in the business)
could do this if we weren't safety
conscious.  There's just too much
riding on safety for me to take
someone up when it looks as
though the weather is going to turn
bad," Richter said.
Although parasailing is safe,
Richter said, strong winds can
make the ride bumpy and unpre-
dictible.  He said he won't go out
when the wind is shifting or gust-
ing at more than 20 mph.
   In the three months his busi-
ness has been open, Richter esti-
mates he has taken as many as 100
customers up for the ride of their
lives without the slightest problem.
   He credits understanding the
winds and a conservative approach
for insuring everyone has a safe
and smooth ride.
   "lf the conditions aren't right,
or if the winds start to make the
ride unpleasant, I'll bring a cus-
tomer back down and refund their
money," he said.
   Richter decided a year ago he
wanted another attraction for his
business.  He saw parasailing as the
perfect compliment to his success-
ful operation.
   Richter took a week-long
course in running a parasailing op-
eration to understand the winds
and how to coordinate the boat
with the parasail.


Photo Captions

Travis Keeler, shortstop for Fulford Citrus, left, chats with Beach
Painters third baseman Steven James after their Sebastian Area
Little League game April 26.  Despite the fact Beach Painters won
the game by 13-1, the two show they know how to be good sports.


Matt Richter and first mate Vicki Fadden prepare for another day
on the water as they take customers out parasailing.


Local golf scores

Barefoot Bay
Ladies Assoc.

   April 22, Low Gross, Low Net,
Flight A: Low Gross: Susan Fields,
74. Low Net: Rex Kenney and La-
dema Unger, 61; Esther Lynch, 62.
   Flight B: Low Gross: Helen Ha-
rig, 83.  Low Net: Edie Lauer, 60; Pat
Duncklev, 61.
   Flight C: Low Gross: Rose Marie
Ellis, 80.  Low Net: Doris Trameri
and Cookie Hannington, 57; Rose
Burkett, 59.
   Flight D: Low Gross: Anne
Burke, 88.  Low Net: Ronpie Ham-
mer and Doris Palmatier, 58; Marty
Miller, 59.

Sebastian
Women's Assoc.
April 22, Member Guest, One
Best Ball: Caroline Trillo and Ellie
Horvath, 59; Betty Egan and Phyllis
Miller, 61; Ann Melia and Lila
O'Leary, 63; Barbara Bixby and
Marion Bassler, 63; Ella Tavanovich
and Louise Farrell, 63; Kay Lom-
bardi and Flo Rodweller, 63-, Bert
Jackson and Judy Greenwell, 63;
Modell LaConte and Marjorie Lit-
zenberg, 64; Liz Sanborn and Enid
Jones, 64; Dot Murphy and Barbara
Lynch, 64.

Sebastian
Monday League
   April 21, Individual Quota, Maxi-
mum Handicap 10: Hank Thomp-
son and Barry Balthaser, plus-3; Ed
Meyer, plus-3; Thomas Walsh,
even.
   Handicap 13-18: Jack Gnacin-
ski, plus-5; Ed Cantabene and Chas
Sayward, plus-4; Ted Sluzas and
Geo Bowers, plus-4; Chas Mazella
and Vic Jackson, plus-3; Herb
Brady and Jack Falke, plus-2.
   Handicap 19-22: Bill Kitchen
Jr., plus-8; Bill Shandor and Angela
Viveiros, plus-7; Thomas Stevens,
plus-6; Bob Faust, plus-4; Al Bixby,
plus-3; Lou Maglione and Red
Grange, plus-1.
   Handicap 23-28: John Way-
chowski, plus-9; Tom Wojo and Gil
Whitford, plus-7; Tom Casagrande,
plus-5; Don DeRobertis, plus-4;
John Ritz and Hilda Wangler, plus-
3.
   Minimum Handicap 29: Ann
Melia, plus-8; Geo Meyer, plus-7;
Tom Egan and Bob Markham, plus-
6; Kate Fleming and Marian
Bassler, plus-5; Joe Clark, Cliff
Kinghorn and Henry Meyer, plus-4.

Sebastian Men
   April 23, Three Best Ball 1-6,
One Best Ball 7-12, Two Best Balls
13-18: Handicap 58-71: J. Proko-
piak, D. DeRobertis, D. Spragg and
D. Dulen, 71 and 120; B. Balthaser,
R. Tougas, E. Cantabene and K.
Roth, 66 and 121; D. Melia, F. La-
Conte, F. Stieler and P. Morris, 71
and 123.
   Handicap 72-90: B. Smith, D.
Wright, G. Blome and A. Murphy,
73 and 115; W. Trueblood, R.
Wood, B. Voelker and R. Merritt, 74
and 121; H. Thompson, P. Gustaf-
son, B. Mahoney and A. Cedron, 77
and 121.
   Handicap 91-114: T. Agresta, B.
McGill, J. Valk and H. Brady, 92
and 124; J. James, B. Williams, V.
Kirk and B. Maliar, 105 and 127; H.
Cherry, C. Sproul, R. Markham and
Pete Miller, 114 and 129.


Obituaries

Mary DeCanio
   Mary Teresa DeCanio, 76, of Sebastian, died
unexpectedly April 26, 1997, at Sebastian River
Medical Center.
   She was born May 1, 1920, in New York
City, and had moved to Sebastian 12 years ago
from Delray Beach.
   Mrs. DeCanio was a bookkeeper.  She at-
tended St. Sebastian Catholic Church, Sebastian,
and was a member of the Lady of the Elks, Se-
bastian.
   Survivors include her husband, Joseph; 2
sons, Tom Trautman of Sebastian, and Robert
Trautman of Long island, N.Y.; 2 brothers,
Charles Douglas of West Palm Beach, and Ira
Douglas of Long Island, N.Y.; 2 stepsons, Gerald
DeCanio and Kenneth DeCanio, both of Long
Island; a stepdaughter, Kathaleen DeCanio of
Long Island; 6 grandchildren and 2 great-grand-
children.
The funeral was held April 29 at the Strunk
Funeral Home, Sebastian.

Catherine Delaney
   Catherine Marie Delaney, 94, of Sebastian
died April 26, 1997, at her residence after a
brief illness.
   She was born Aug. 25, 1902, in Syracuse,
N.Y., and had moved to Sebastian two years ago
from Middletown, N.Y.
   Mrs. Delaney was a telephone operator for
Auburn Memorial Hospital, Auburn, N.Y. She
was Catholic.
   Survivors include one son, John J. Delaney
of Sebastian; 2 daughters, Judith Mahalik of
Middletown, Christine Bobbet of Fulton, N.Y.; 9
grandchildren, 10 great grandchildren; and 1
great-great grandchild.
   Mrs. Delaney was being transferred to Lan-
gham Funeral Home in Auburn, N.Y., for ser-
vices and burial in St. Joseph's Cemetery,
Fleming, N.Y.
   Local arrangements were under the direc-
tion of Strunk Funeral Home, Sebastian.

William Harrell
   William L. "Slim" Harrell, 96, of Wabasso,
died April 25, 1997, at Indian River Memorial
Hospital after a brief illness.
   Mr. Harrell was born Sept. 16, 1900, in Hart-
sfield, Ga., and moved to Wabasso in 1947 from,
Lake Wales.
   He was a grove worker and was a charter
member of First Baptist Church of Wabasso.
   Friends may call from noon-2 p.m. Monday.
   A service was held April 28 at Cox-Gifford
Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Jerry Coo-
per officiating.  Interment will follow at Hill-
crest Memorial Gardens in Fort Pierce.
Memorial contributions may be made to the
general fund of First Baptist Church, P.O. Box
846, Wabasso, Fla. 32970, in Mr. Harrell's mem-
ory.

Annabelle Matz
   Annabelle Lee Matz , 84, of Vero Beach and
formerly of Barefoot Bay, died April 24, 1997, at
Integrated Health Services of Vero Beach after a
brief illness.
   She was born June 10, 1912, in Reading, Pa.,
and moved to Barefoot Bay in 1974, living there
until she moved to Vero Beach last year.
   She was a homemaker and a member of
Roseland United Methodist Church.
   Surviving are her husband, Francis; two
daughters, Frances Pianelli, of Long Beach,
Calif., and Jean Matz, of Reading; and one
grandson.
   There will be no services.
   Arrangements are under the direction of
Fountainhead Memorial Funeral Home, Palm
Bay.

Mary Collins
   Mary Jean Collins, 70, of Micco and Indianap-
olis, Ind., died April 22, 1997, in Sebastian.
she was born Nov. 13, 1926, in Lincoln City,
Ind.
   Mrs. Collins was a contract administrator for
26 years at U.S. Naval Avionics in Indianapolis.
   Surviving are her husband, Harold, of India
apolis; two sons, Robert Collins, of Orange,
Calif., and Mark Collins, of Chicago, Ill.; one
daughter, Andrea Jean Land, of Marietta, Ga.;
one sister, Doris Jo Schulte, of Huntingburg,
Ind.; and five grandchildren.
Services were held April 26 at Hendrix Mor-,
tuary in Cumberland, Ind.  She was buried in
Washington Park East Cemetery, Indianapolis.
Arrangements were under the direction of
Hendrix Mortuary in Cumberland, Ind.

James Howell
   James David "Jim" Howell, 81, of Sebastian,
died April 21, 1997, at Sebastian River Medical
Center, Roseland, after a prolonged illness.
   He was born June 8, 1915, in Dixianna, Ala.,
and moved to Sebastian in 1971 from Attalla,
Ala.
   Mr. Howell was a tool and die maker for
Whitney.
   Surviving are his wife of 61 vears, Nada; one
son, Lewis R. Howell, of West Palm Beach; one
daughter, Carol Freeman, of Alabama; three sis-
ters, Girthel Guess, Fronnie Hunt, and Inez Gar-
ner, all of Alabama; four grandchildren; and six
great-grandchildren.
   Friends may call 6-8 p.m. Thursday at Strunk
Funeral Home, Sebastian.
   A graveside service was held April 26 at Hill-
crest Memorial Gardens, Fort Pierce.  Arrange-
ments were by the Strunk Funeral Home,
Sebastian.

John Baron
   John F. Baron, 79, of Sebastian, died April 2@,
1997, at Palm Garden of Vero Beach after a brief
illness.
   He was born March 10, 1918, in Perth Am-
boy, N.J., and moved to Sebastian in 1989 from
Rochester, N.Y.
   Mr. Baron was an aircraft painter with Bell
Aircraft, Niagara Falls.  He was a member of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 10210, Sebas-
tian; American Legion Post No. 189, Sebastian,
and was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II.
   Surviving are his wife, Dorothy; one son, Mi-
chael J. Baron, of Walworth, N.Y., one daughter,
Linda C. Kussee, of Hilton N.Y.; one sister, An-
toinette L. Szczepanik, of Sebastian-, three
grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
   A memorial service will be held at a later
date at veterans of Foreign Wars Post 102 1 0, Se-
bastian.
   The family suggests donations be made to
the American Cancer Society, 1401 21st St.,
Vero Beach, Fla. 32960.
   Fountainhead Memorial Funeral Home,
Palm Bay, is in charge of arrangements.


Ruby Whitney
   Ruby C. Whitney, 79, of Sebastian, died April
21, l997, at Sebastian River Medical Center,
Roseland, after a prolonged illness.
   She was born Nov. 17, 1917, in Bainbridge,
Ga., and moved to Sebastian in 1958 from Palm
Beach County.
   Mrs. Whitney retired from Hale Groves,
Vero Beach, after 28 years.  She attended the
First Baptist Church of Wabasso.  She was a for-
mer member of Moose Lodge No. 1767, Sebas-
tian, and of the Rebekahs.
   Surviving are four daughters, JoAnn Hos-
kins, of Sneads Ferry, N.C., Geri Brock and Mary
Hagle, both of Sebastian, and Ester Rymer, of
Vero Beach; two sons, James W. Bailey, of Or-
lando, and Earcel D. Bailey Jr., of Roseland; 18
grandchildren-, 24 great-grandchildren; and
three great-great-grandchildren,
   The funeral was held April 25 at Strunk Fu-
neral Home, Vero Beach, with the Rev. Jerry
Cooper officiating. interment will be in Crest-
lawn Cemetery, Vero Beach.

Louise Neidig
   Louise F. Neidig, 90, of Sebastian, died April
21, 1997, at Integrated Health Services of Vero
Beach after a prolonged illness.
   She was born Nov. 29, 1906, in Gibbstown,
N.J., and moved to Sebastian 10 years ago from
Dover, Del.
   Mrs. Neidig attended Roseland United Meth-
odist Church.
   Surviving are one daughter, Dorothy Fuchs,
of Sebastian; three grandchildren; and six great-
grandchildren.
   At the family's request, there will be no re-
pose or visitation.  No services are scheduled.
   In lieu of flowers, the family suggests dona-
tions be made to the Visiting Nurse Association,
1111 36th St., Vero Beach, Fla. 32960, in Mrs.
Neidig's memory.
   Mrs. Neidig was a member of the Indian
River Cremation Society.

Benjamin Garufi
   Benjamin S. Garufi, 76, of Sebastian, died
April 8, 1997, at Bethel Health Care, Bethel,
Conn., after a prolonged illness.
   He was born July 28, 1920, in Bridgeport,
Conn., and moved to Sebastian in 1984 from
Danbury, Conn.  He moved to Danbury five
months ago.
   Mr. Garufi was a truck driver for E & F Con-
struction, Danbury, for 20 years; a member of
Ahe Teamsters Union, Florida; and the Polish
American Club, Sebastian.
   Surviving are one son, Joseph Garufi, of
New Fairfield, Conn.; one sister, Martha Bruno,
of Queens, N.Y.; and two grandchildren.
   The funeral was held April 11, 1997, in Dan-
bury.  Interment was at Prince of Peace Ceme-
tery, Brookfield, Conn.
   The family suggests donations be made to
The Tomorrow Childrens Fund, 30 Prospect
Ave., Hackensack, NJ. 07601.
   Cornell Memorial Home, Danbury, was in
charge of arrangements.



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May 9, 1997
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    FROM THE ARCHIVES


      TOP STORY FROM A YEAR AGO
   THIS WEEK: Workers clearing Bra-
   zilian pepper trees at Sebastian Inlet
   State Park stumbled upon archaeolo-
   caIly significant Indian shell mounds
   that officials lost track of decades be-
   fore.
       An archaeologist from the Florida
   Department of State visited the sites,
   which were, in effect, trash piles from
   early Indian tribes in the area. The
   mounds are made up of large heaps
   of shells from oysters, snails and fish
   bones.
       Developer Harold Adams re-
   ceived approval for a special use
   permit to remove sand from property
   east of Chesser's Gap shopping cen-
   ter in Sebastian.
       In order to develop a site into an
   upscale subdivision, Adams needed
   to remove mounds of sand left be-
   hind by General Development Corp.
   after the company dredged the city's
   canals.


      CITIZEN OF THE DAY

         NAME: Sabra Shell
         AGE: 42.
         OCCUPATION: Communication
    consultant and owner of Sebastian
    Cellular phone shop.
         BIRTHPLACE: Gloversville, N.Y.
         MOVED HERE: June 1987.
         COMMUNITY SERVICE: Donates
    to the Kidney Foundation and the
    Make-A-Wish Foundation for children.
    Also a member of the Sebastian River
    Area Chamber of Commerce.
         HOBBIES: Horseback riding, bi-
    cycling and walking.
         FAVORITE  AUTHOR:       Sylvia
    Plath.
         WHY I LIKE MY NEIGHBOR-
    HOOD:    I live in the Sebastian High-
    lands.   I   like  it   because      the
    neighborhood isn't totally built up.  I
    have two kids and two dogs and
    there's not a lot of traffic.  That's the
    reason we moved to Sebastian.


         WEEKEND PICKS

      The Sebastian Church of God, 281
    Delaware St., will serve a spaghetti
    dinner from 5-7 p.m. May 10 at the
    church.
       Dinner will include salad, bread
    beverage and homemade dessert.
       The cost is $5 for adults and $2
    for children IO and under.
       For more information, call 589-
    4894 or 388-1297.


       WHAT DID HE SAY?

      "They're overworked, underpaid
    and underappreciated. Every time
    they put that badge on, they're sus-
    ceptible to danger."
                           -- Edna Willey
    (Mrs.  Willey made the statement after
    donating $50,000 to the Sebastian
    Police Officers Association in memory
    of her late husband, Dr. Harry Willey.
    Mrs. Willey is a resident of Roseland,
    but was a business owner in Sebas-
    tian for years.  The donation, she
    said, was something her husband
    would have wanted.
    
    
    
    SRHA students all business as they 
    prepare for life's road
    By DAVID KEARNS
    Of The Sun

     About 50 seniors in Sebastian River High School's
   Business Academy are learning a land developer's
   headaches are many before his plans turn into money.
      Mary Bertram, a math teacher at SRHS and the lead
   instructor for the academy, said the seniors were
   grouped into teams at the beginning of the year and
   picked a land-development project under way in Se-
   bastian.
      They had to research the projects and present
   them for approval before a board made up of city and
   county officials.
      The senior projects will be presented to the panel
   the last week of May.  The projects will make up 20
   percent of the students' grades in both math and sci-
   ence.
      Sebastian Development Director Bob Massarelli,
   one of the panelists who will rule on the projects, al-
   ready is impressed by what the youngsters have
   learned.
      Similar to any Sebastian developer, the students
   came to Massarelli first; but they visited him to find
   out the history of the projects that include Fey's
   Landing, Winn Dixie and the Collier Creek subdivi-
   sion.
      The students had to research everything, said Mas-
   sarelli, from how the project could be financed right
   down to the property's soil to see if the project would
   work.
      It's the same type of information the professionals
   need to come up with to meet the city's requirements.
   To satisfy the students' instructors, the students also
   must present a business plan on the projects to prove
   they have the potential to make money.
      "They are doing very well on their projects.  I
   think it's a great way for students to learn about gov-
   ernment and business," he said.
      By participating in the Business Academy, stu-
   dents learn many valuable Icssons about what life can
   be after they graduate, Vocational Instructor Margaret
   Cox said.
      Mrs. Cox, a bank manager for more than eight
   years before she began teaching, said the academy is
   the argest at the school with more than 140 students
   enrolled.
       The students take courses during their sophomore
   through senior years that teach them how to get jobs.
   They also study regular subjects, such as English, his-
   tory, math and science, but these course are inte-
   grated with business-related information.
       Twenty additional students from the school's per-
   formance-based diploma program also attend some of
   the classes offered in the academy.  These are students
   who focus on getting their general equivalency di-
   ploma so they can get a job immediately after high
   school.  Some of their vocational assignments include
   writing resumes and cover letters.
       About 85 students, part of the SRHS honors pro-
   gram, also will complete their vocational require-
   ments in the academy.
       Mrs. Bertram and Mrs. Cox are joined in the aca-
   demy by science teacher Diane Kaser; historv teacher
   Jim Mefia; English teacher Dan Smith; and business-
   math teacher Tammy Broxton.
       Junior Jessica Gehrke, 17, said although she now
   wants to become an oceanographer, she appreciates
   what she has learned in the academy.
       "I went into this knowing nothing about business,
   accounting or record keeping. it did teach me a lot,"
   she said.
       Mrs. Cox said one of the most beneficial tools she
   has as a teacher is getting the students to develop
   their own business plans.
       Senior Chris Ramsey started an accounting firm for
   a school project.  He found the space for its office, de-
   signed the floor plan and presented all the specifics
   for the proect in his accounting class.
       "He talked to accountants to find out what some
   of their expenses were.  He even applied for a loan,"
   Mrs. Cox said.
       Twice a year, School-to-Work Coordinator Lynn
   Philips-Hall sends sophomore honor students and ju-
   niors from the academy to "job shadow" people in
   the workplace.
       On April 29, honors students Sonia Magana and
   Silvia Zamora spent their morning helping sort files at
   First Union Bank on U.S. I in Sebastian and watching
   bank managers and tellers in action.
       Both said they eventually want to attend Florida
   institute of Technology to study business manage-
   ment.
       Customer Service Representative Brenda Exposito
   took the girls on a tour of the bank, explaining the
   jobs of each staff member, before giving them some
   tasks to complete.
       She said the girls performed their jobs well.
       "They labeled things for us, helped straighten out
   some supplies for us.  They were great," she said.
       Mrs. Hall said during their senior
   year, top students in the academy
   are highly sought after by local
   business owners who want them to
   work for their companies as in-
   terns.
       Junior Nello Salierno, 17, hopes
   to work as an intern for the Vero
  Beach financial consulting firm of
  Raymond James and Associates
  weekday afternoons durin his se-
  nior year.
      "I know I'm going to go to col-
  lege, and I know I'm going to go
  into business when I get out," Sa-
  lierno said of his future plans.
      Mrs. Hall said the school will
  have even more to offer Business
  Academy students in the 1998
  school vear than it did this vear.
      "The academy will have a class
  in marketing," she said.
      Local business leaders will be
  invited in to speak to the students
  about their career choices and
  achieving their goals in business.
                                                                                        lains to Sebastian River
  Photo Caption
  Brenda Exposito, left, a customer-service representative 
  at First Union, explains to Sebastian River High School 
  students Silvia Zamora, 17, and Sonia Magana, 16, how the 
  company's e-mail system links all First Unions across the 
  nation during the students' job shadowing day.


  
  Possibility of grocery store produces mixed reviews
  By DREW DIXON
  Of The Sun

    A simple carton of acidophilus milk
  with low lactose helps keep John Smith
  from getting an upset stomach.  But how
  he has to go about getting the special
  milk isn't so simple and is rather upset-
  ting for Smith.
      He, like thousands of other Micco
  residents, has to travel many miles to get
  to the nearest grocery store to pick up
  specialty foods or even the best cuts of
  meat.  While there are plenty of conve-
  nience stores near his Barefoot Bay
  home, it's hardly a convenient effort to
  get what he really wants, Smith said.
      "There are many items you can't get
  in convenience stores.  And convenience
  stores are costlier because they don't
  have the extensive volume that you have
  in grocery stores," Smith said.
      That's why he has to travel to either
  Roseland to the south or Palm Bay to the
  north in order to do his weekly shop-
  ping for his everyday household items
  and food.  And even when he goes to a
  supermarket, he has to make out a te-
  dious list of items to pick up.  Because if
  he forgets anything, "It's another 20-
  mile round trip," he said.
      Smith, as do many other South Bre-
   vard County residents, hope recent dis-
   cussions about building a Winn Dixie
   grocery store in Micco come to fruition.
      Avatar Properties Inc. and Winn
   Dixie officials are currently negotiating
   the possibility of adding a supermarket
   in Micco near the entrance to Barefoot
   Bay on U.S. 1. Avatar owns the 5-acre
   site.

      "There's a need for a store in the
   area," said Juanita Kerrigan, vice presi-
   dent of Avatar.  "That is something we've
   recognized for quite a long time.  It's not
   a new thought."
      Winn Dixie officials were unavail-
   able for comment.
      But the mere fact that discussions
   between Avatar and Winn Dixie officials
   are under way is encouraging to many
   residents who live near the site where
   the proposed 44,000-square-foot super-
   market would be built.
      "I think it would be good for Bare-
   foot Bay," Margaret Trygar said of the
   proposed grocery store, Currently, going
   to a supermarket "can be a hassle."
      But despite the traveling involved in
   going to a supermarket, some Micco res-
   idents are not thrilled about the pro-
   posed Winn Dixie.
      Marie Bergamini lives in the Snug
   Harbor development next to Barefoot
   Bay.  "I would hate to see a Winn Dixie
   coming to the front of the Barefoot Bay
   entrance.  That's our entrance too.
      "I worry about the traffic.  That's
   going to be a problem.  Something like
   Winn Dixie is going to have a heavy im-
   pact on U.S. I," Bergamini said.
      She agreed the new supermarket
   would add convenience for area shop-
   pers, but it will be minor and it's not
   enough to offset what she considers
   added headaches from a new supermar-
   ket.
      "I drive (to get groceries) and I
   don't mind.  No matter what you do
   around here, you have to get in
   your car and trot up to Melbourne
   or Vero Beach.  I've been used to
   doing it for years," she said.

      Not everyone, especially se-
   niors who live in Micco, is so will-
   ing to travel to get groceries.  Gene
   Weshler, who lives in Barefoot Bay,
   said a new supermarket nearby,
   "would be a good idea.  There are a
   lot of older people who are afraid
   to drive on the highway. it would
   be good for them.
      "There would   be a little more
   traffic.  I think it would only be a
   minor inconvenience," he said.
     Beyond the traffic issues, Ber-
   gamini said, landscaping along U.S.
   I would be changed forever.  "I
   like the way it looks now environ-
   mentally.  I guess it's coming.  You
   either like it or vou don't.  I don't.  I
   just hope there's nice landscap-
   ing."
      The issue isn't just a supermar-
   ket, according to Smith.  He said
   most Micco residents have to travel
   to see a doctor or a go to a depart-
   ment store.  He said a supermarket
   nearby would provide at least some
   relief and convenience for resi-
   dents of South Brevard County,
   even if it's only for groceries.
      A new supermarket will "put a
   few more bucks toward the value
   of our homes. I don't think  it will
   take it away," Smith said.
      "We look forward to it.  Having
   a few additional people in the area
   wouldn't bother me a bit.  Our
   streets are open," he said

   Photo Caption
   John R. Smith finds traveling to grocery stores in 
   Palm Bay or Roseland for supplies is never a quick 
   trip.

   
   
   News briefs

   PC Users Group
   meeting May 14

     The Sebastian PC Users Group
   will meet at 7:30 p.m. May 14 in
   the classroom of the North Indian
   River County Library on County
   Road 512.
      Janet Isman, Sebastian's com-
   puter system manager and acting
   finance director, will be the guest
   speaker.
      Isman will talk about how the
   city manages its data communica-
   tion between departments and will
   relate some of the networking
   problems she has experienced.
     Visitors are welcome to attend
   meetings.  For more information,
   call Roger Dann at 388-3440.

   Boat club
   meeting May 10

       Captain Hiram's Seafarers' Boat
    Club will hold it's first Raft-Up
    Party of the season starting at 10
    a.m. May 10, with the rain date May
    11, at Bahama Bob's Blue Water
    near the Sebastian inlet.
       For more information, call Bob
    Struck at 388-5248.
       The next meeting will be 7:30
    p.m. May 14 at Captain Hiram's.

    

Barefoot Bay line dancers keep 
in step with each other
By DREW DIXON
    Of The Sun

     A right foot, a left foot and a
    sense of rhythm are the only re-
    quirements to be a member of the
    Line Dance Club of Barefoot Bay.
       "We have over 300 dance rou-
    tines and each one is better than
    the next," said Cookie Hannington,
    a member of the Line Dance Club
    for 14 vears.  After all that time, "I
    know all 300.
       "I enjoy   the sociability, when
    you line dance and then there's the
    exercise," Hannington said.
       The club has been in existence
    for 19 years, thanks mostly to Lee
    Pellicone, who founded the organi-
    zation and has been the only presi-
    dent.
       "Line dancing has been popu-
    lar for ages.  We had line dancing in
    Barefoot Bay before the big craze
    of western music," she said.
       "We don't strictly do country
    and western either," Pellicone
    plained.  She said anyone can line
    dance to just about any form of mu-
    sic once a rhythm is established.

       "We have music from the '30s,
    '40s and '50s.  Whatever is dance
    able.
       "There's some country an4
    western, but it's a mix.  We're a
    little too old for country  and west-
    ern all the time because there's a
    lot of turning," Pellicone said.
       Whatever music leads the line,
    the dance is always enjoyable to
    the club's 40 or so members who
    converge on Building A, every
    Wednesday at 1 p.m. from October
    through April.
    "The sociability" is a big draw
 for Isabelle Greenan.
    "It's also a good mental exer-
 cise," Greenan said.  "You have to
 remember which steps go where.
 It's a very enthusiastic group and
 friendly.  They're very anxious to
 learn, especially this country and
 western craze."
    It's not only the dancing, but
 the friendships that are made,
 according to Greenan.  "I wouldn't
 miss it.  I just love the people."
    The people care for each other
 in the Line Dance Club, Greenan
 said.  She explained when someone
 in the group gets ill and can't make
 a dance session, the other mem-
 bers get a card and evervone signs
 it as a get-well greeting.
    "It's a little more personal than
 the larger groups," she said.
    Breaking from the Line Dance
 Club is difficult.
     "It's something I look forward
 to everv week," Hannington said.
 "I like every dance and have a ball
 every time."
    The Line Dance Club's final
 meeting for the season was April
 30. But, Pellicone said, the 20th
 year of the club is set to shuffle
 into action next fall.  There are no@-.
 dues to join the club and anyone:-t
 interested in more information can
 call Pellicone at 664-2818.

 
 Photo Caption
 Barefoot Bay Line Dancing Club members Isabelle Greenan, left,
 Charlene Buck, Club President Lee Pellicone, Helen Beryl and Joyce
 Allen kick up their heels during a recent session.




 Sebastian man awash in boats he's handcrafted
 By DAVID KEARNS
 Of The Sun

   It wouldn't surprise Andy Schaaf-
 sma of Sebastian to hear that scien-
 tists have found a genetic reason
 for compulsive boat building.
        "I think it's in my blood.  My
    dad did it.  He taught me and I just
    love doing it," he said.
        Even his name, Schaafsma, is
    associated with boat building.  It's a
    Dutch word meaning "planes-
    man," after the ancient Dutch pro-
    fession of carving and fitting the
    pieces of a wooden boat together.
        "The Schaafsma was the one
    who went around and made sure
    everything fit.  He'd use a wood-
    planer to shave down the wood of
    any section that didn't join to-
    gether perfectly," he said.
        Schaafsma, 60, said he has built
    many boats during his lifetime.
    Similar to many boat builders of
    his heritage, he watched how his
    father used wood, Fiberglas and
    epoxy and then improved upon
    these techniques.
        The former college engi-
    neering professor from Norwich,
    Conn., said he builds boats for
    pleasure.  He has sold some of his
    boats in the past, but money is not
    his motivation for building them,
    he said.  Consequently, he now has
    seven boats on his property rang-
    ing in size from 8 feet to 16 feet.
    Thev are all neatly stored on the
    property in or behind his 700-squa-
    re-foot boat-building workshop or
    his oversized, Crowberry Street
    property.
        "I have always enjoyed build-
    ing things and I find that a boat is
    something you can build that has a
    very practical application, aside
    from the joy you get from complet-
    ing a project."
        "I don't build them for beauty
    but for functionality.  But some of
    them do turn out to be very beauti-
    ful," he said.
        Schaafsma is currently modify-
    ing a 16-foot fishing boat he built
    about a year ago. The boat is 7 feet
    wide at the beam, has a center con-
    sole, a live-bait well behind the
    helm and a Honda engine on the
    back.
        Schaafsma is very proud of this
    boat.
        "It only draws 6 inches of wa-
    ter, so I can take it annwhere for
    fishing, and I get 8 miles to the gal-
    lon," he said.
        The  catamaran-style hulled
    boat, made from pine and covered
    with marine epoxy and Fiberglas,
    allows for stability, he said, it's per-
    fect for the inland waters, or even
    the ocean when the winds and the
    seas are calm.
       He started building boats as a
   young boy.
       He and his friends frequently
   sailed the little wooden dingy on a
   small pond near Piscataway, NJ.,
   During his high-school vears, he
   built more than five boats and re-
   furbished countless others, he said.
       Schaafsma joined the Air Force
   and served four years.  He become
   proficient in electronics and dis-
   covered he had a knack for engi-
   neering.  When he returned to
   civilian life, his affinity for me-
   chanical and electrical engineering
   led to a bachelor's degree from the
   University of New Haven, Conn.
       Schaafsma later became a pro-
   fessor of engineering and science
   at Thames Valley Technical Col-
   lege, in Norwich.  He married his
   wife, Barbara, soon after he left the
   Air Force and together they raised
   three children in Norwich.
       "We lived right on the Thames
   River between the Harvard and
   Yale (crew) boathouses, so we
   were always going to the races," he
   said.
       Schaafsma built several wooden
   rowboats and racing sculls for his
   family as the children grew, and
   also refitted a sailboat damaged by
   a hurricane in the early 1970s.
       He sold the boat at a profit, he
   said.
   
   Photo Caption
   Andrew Schaafsma works on his pride and joy, a 16-foot 
   fishing boat, in his boat-building workshop on his 
   property.

   
   
   New shopping plaza reels in video store

   By DAVID KEARNS
       Of The Sun

       Management and employees of
   the Movie Gallery of Sebastian are
   beaming over their store in the
   new Winn Dixie Shopping Plaza at
   County Road 512 and Roseland
   Road in Sebastian.
       The Movie Gallery's new show-
   room opened April 29.  The store is
   open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sun-
   day through Thursday, and 10 a.m.
   to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
       Sales associates and manage-
   ment are preparing a grand-open-
   ing celebration May l7 featuring
   food, entertainment and prizes,
       There will be a free year of
   video rental privileges given away
   during the celebration, Manager
  Michelle Danowski said.
      For five years, the business
  leased a 2,700-square-foot show-
  room in the Food Lion Shopping
  Plaza at C.R. 512 and Fleming
  Street.
      In moving up the road, the
  business jumps into about 4,500
  square feet of space, Mrs. Danow-
  ski said.
      "This place is awesome;" Mrs
  Danowski said, adding the new lo-
  cation affords more room for stock
  and a wider selection of videos.
  About $2,000 in new videos were
  added for the opening, she said,
  with more videos to come as they
  are requested.
      She said the company will
  maintain the same number of em-
  ployees, six, at the new location,
  until more are needed.
      Sebastian resident Frank Lynch,
  who visited the business April 30,
  said he liked the new showroom.
      "This is really nice.  There's
  more space between the aisles.
  This will let people have more
  choices," he said.
      District Manager Kevin Brooks
  said the company had its eye on
  the location since the first reports
  surfaced that a shopping plaza was
  going up at the intersection.
      "We have more visibility at this
  corner.  As the community grows,
  so will we," he said.
      He said the fact Sebastian does
  not have a movie theater does not
  significantly increase his business
  and a new theater in town or in
  Vero Beach will not detract from it.
      "We welcome a theater if it
  comes.  A movie theater actually is
  a perfect complement to the video-
  rental business.  People are always
  going to line up to see a first-run
  movie, and they are always going
  to line up to rent a new video if it's
  good," he said.
      The Movie Gallery, which is
  headquartered in Dothan, Ala., has
  967 stores from Texas to Maine and
  throughout Florida, Brooks said.
      Florida has 125 stores, he said.
      Brooks, who oversees 17 of
  those stores from Brevard to Bro-
  ward, said the Sebastian address is
  now a showplace for the company.
      As a community, Sebastian is a
  joy in which to work, he said.
      " It's a super, super commu-
  nity," he said.
      Mrs. Danowski, who has
  worked for the business since it
  opened as Video Express before
  the name changed in 1994, said
  she also loves the community.
      "This is like family down here
  in Sebastian.  I've known some of
  these customers longer than I've
  known some of my own neighbors
  in Palm Bay," she said.

  
  Photo Caption
  Michelle Danowski, manager of the Movie Gallery, helps
  Tara Ritchie prepare to open the video store that recently                   to the
  moved to the new Winn Dixie Plaza on County Road 512.
                                                  
  
  
  Inn owner is wild about riverfront
  BY
  Drew Dixon

    The riverfront area in the heart
  of Sebastian is close to the heart of
  Steve Wild and he'd like to keep it
  that way.
      He said his appreciation for the
  nautical setting of the city not only
  drove him to build and own a 12-
  room inn about a block from the
  Indian River, but also compelled
  him to serve on the city's River-
  front Study Committee.
      "I love the ocean, the water,
  the river and the islands in the
  river," Wild, who grew up in Vero
  Beach, said.  "There's a lot more ac-
  tivity in the river here than there is
  in Vero."
      Wild was born in Pennsylvania
  and when his family eventually set-
  tled in Vero Beach, his apprecia-
  tion for the water was sealed, he
  said.  He used to surf in the Sebas-
  tian area.  Now he's into riding per-
  sonal watercrafts.
      But after going to college at the
  University of Florida, he returned
  to find the waterways of Vero
  Beach much more restricted than
  he remembered growing up.
      "Sebastian gives you more ac-
  cess to the water than Vero now,"
  Wild said.
      With that in mind, Wild sold
  sold his remodeling business he
  had established in Vero Beach and
  bought the property where the Da-
  vis House now stands.  He threw
  himself into building and devel-
  oping the inn, that opened in 1991.
      Wild not only enjoys running
  the business, but he lives it, resid-
  ing in the Davis House.
      His desire to live and work in
  Sebastian led to his desire to serve
    on the Riverfront Committee, a
    panel formed by City Council to
    provide development guidelines to
    protect the pristine view and ambi-
    ance the river provides.
        "I heard the committee was be-
    ing formed," Wild said.  He imme-
    diately  contacted then City
    Councilwoman Caroline Corum,
    who serves on the committee, who
    recommended his appointment.
        "I feel strongly about the things
    we should do down by the river,"
    Wild said.
        He added there's much to be
    preserved in Sebastian, but, "Be-
    fore we dictate what colors and ar-
    chitecture (a developer can have
    on a new building), we have to
    step back and make sure we're not
    taking someone's right to do what
    they want with his property."
        That's the trick, according to
    Wild.  He said the committee's idea
    to develop a "fishing village"
    theme will be difficult.
        "If you want to do a fishing vil-
    lage, Disney would have to buy the
    whole town.  I think we can have
    normal buildings with a little more
    character.  Don't make someone
    who has a business redo every-
    thing," he said.
        Wild's vision for the impact of
    the Riverfront Committee would be
    to enhance Sebastian so when peo-
    ple drive through the city on U.S. 1,
    "You hit this town and you feel
    like, 'What a neat town.  Maybe
    we'll stop and eat lunch here,'
    he said.
       The work of the committee has
    started to come together, although
    there's more work to be done, Wild
    said.
        "I think we've done a lot.  Now
    it's a matter of looking back and
    accumulating everything we've
    looked at," he said.

        Birthdate: Feb. 3, 1957.
        Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pa.
        Education: Graduated in 1982
    from the University of Florida with
    a bachelor of arts degree in English.
        Family: Single.
        The best part of my job is:
    Keeping abreast of what is being
    proposed along the river and im-
    plementing those plans.
        What I like least about my
    job is: Nothing, I enjoy it.
        The most recent movie I saw
    in a theater was: "Absolute
    Power."
        The book I'd recommend ev-
   eryone to read is: "Travels With
   Charlie," by John Steinbeck.
      Of everyone in the world,
   the person I would most like to
   meet is: Colin Powell.
      My favorite food is: Fresh sea-
   food.
      if I was going on a trip to
   the moon, I would take along:
   The short stories of Mark Twain.
     When I was growing up, I al-
   ways wanted to be: Successful.
     If I were president of the
   United States, I'd: Let people
   keep more of the money they earn.
     When I want to get away
   from it all, I: Go out on the ocean
   on my Jet Ski.
     The person I admire the most
   is: My brother, Indian River County
   judge Joe Wild.
     My proudest moment was:
   When I completed building the Da-
   vis House in 1991.
     My favorite sports team is:
   University of Florida Gators foot-
   ball.
     My favorite television show
   is: Old "MASH" reruns.
     On my last vacation, I visited:
   Lake Tahoe, Nev.
     The first thing I do when I
   wake up in the morning is: Read
   the paper.
     The type of music I enjoy the
   most is: Blues.
     If I could do something over
   again, I: Wouldn't do anything
   over again.
     People who know me the best
   know I: Work hard but enjoy hav-
   ing a good time.
     The most exciting time in my
   life is: Going to college.
   

   Photo Caption
   Steve Wild enjoys the view from the Davis House, the
   inn he built and owns on Indian River Drive in Sebastian.

        
        
        
   NEWS BRIEFS

   Ohio Club
   meeting May 10

     The Ohio Club of Barefoot Bay
   will hold its next meeting at 5:30
   p.m. May 10 in Building D&E.

      Members are asked to bring a
   dish to pass and table service.

      Members are asked to bring a
   dish to pass and table service.

        A member of the Citizens Ob-
   server Program organization will
   talk about the duties of the pro-
   gram's volunteers.

   
   Sisterhood to install
   new officers May 16

       On May 16, the new officers of
   the Sisterhood of Congregation
   Beth-El will be installed by Syd
   Resnick following services.

       The new officers are; President,
   Sandy Hoder; first vice president-
   membership, Ruth Klein; second
   vice president - program, Janice
   Rosenberg; third vice president -
   ways and means, Alma Torres; trea-
   surer, Adele Orlinsky-, correspond-
   ing secretary, Isabelle Resnick; and
   recording secretary, Charlotte
   Rosenberg.

   
   
   Lack of confidence can hinder child
   By Dr. Will Mosier

    Dear Dr. Will,
       My daughter is very smart,
   but she is afraid to attempt
   things that are new to her.  If
   she is not able to figure out a
   problem on the first attempt,
   she gives up.  She must have got-
   ten this from me, because I was
   the same way when I was her
   age.  How do I help her to have
   more self confidence?
                         Worried Mom
       Dear Worried,
       It can be very painful for par-
   ents to watch their children ap-
   proaching some situation which
   could be very rewarding, but with-
   out the confidence necessary to en-
   joy it, learn from it and see it to its
   completion.  The lack of confi-
   dence can sometimes be so strong
   that a child will not even attempt
   an activity.
       At times like these, it is cer-
   tainly the parent's responsibility to
   be supportive and encouraging.
   Sometimes, parents become very
   frustrated at seeing their child give
   up and resort to harshness, crit-
   icism, bribes or threats.  This will
   make the situation worse by re-
   inforcilng the child's fear of failure.
       How, then, does a parent teach
   a child self-confidence?  Many par-
   ents have found the following            .
  methods useful.
      *Be a role model for self-con-
  fidence.  Demonstrate to your child
  that certain situations may be anxi-
  ety provoking, but you can main-
  tain a confident attitude
  nonetheless.     Demonstrate your
  confidence with words so your
  child can hear you.
      *Take on new tasks yourself.
  Allow your child to see that you,
  too, struggle, but that you treat it as
  a challenge and tackle it.
      *Take on new activities with
  your child.  Find an activity that you
  have never done before and do it
  with your child.  Go to your local li-
  brary and get a book or videotape
  about the activity and go through
  the information with your child.
      *Emphasize effort instead of
  level of performance. if your child
  thinks only an "A" or a home run
  will please you, her confidence
  will suffer.  Before tasks say, "Do
  the best you can."
      When your child does well, say,
  "You must have really tried hard at
  that." When she tries, but does not
  do well, say, "Nice try" and add a
  hug and a smile.  When your child
  does not put much effort into a
  task, say, "Next time, you'll be
  ready to try hard."
      *Teach your child a wide
  range of practical life skills.  Within
  vour child's ability level, and with
  supervision, help your child learn
  to cook, use tools, pick out clothes
  to wear and clean up after herself.
      *Help your child to acknowl-
  edge the fear underlying lack of
  confidence.  Ask questions such as,
  What could go wrong" or "What's
  the worst thing that can happen?  A
  lack of self-confidence usually
  stems from either a fear of failure
  or fear of rejection.
      *Reward your child for trying
  new things. if your child is reluc-
  tant to roller skate at another
  child's birthday party, but does so
  anyway, praise the effort, "I'm
  proud of you for trying the skat-
  ing," or reward the effort, "I think
  anyone grown up enough to try
  skating like you did deserves to
  stav up a little later tonight."
      *Have your child use imagi-
  nary skills to form mental pictures
  of performing successfully, Say,
  "Close your eyes and picture your-
  self answering all the questions
  correctly."
     *Involve your child in activi-
  ties in which she has a high proba-
  bility of success such as sports or
  crafts.  When a child is exposed to a
  wide range of activities early in
  life, when there is not a great deal
  of pressure, there is usually a
  higher level of confidence.
     *Ask the right questions.  Try
  to predict situations in which your
  child's confidence might be low
  and ask questions such as, "What is
  the best way to feel comfortable
  around the other kids?"
     Remember, confidence grows
  out of confronting difficult tasks.
  Difficult tasks are usually not done
  with a high level of skill or success
  initially.  Almost everyone has peri-
  ods of low confidence. These
  methods can help equip children
  to keep those periods brief.
     Dr, Will Mosier is a diplomate
  of the American Board of Medical
  Psychotherapists and American
  Board of Forensic Medicine.  If you
  have a question you would like ad-
  dressed in this column, write to Dr.
  Mosier at P.O. Box 6830, Vero
  Beach, Fla., 32961-6836.

  
  
  Letters to the editor

  Bay residents
  shut out by leaders
   
   What has happened to Barefoot
  Bay?  With the Recreation District
  in charge, residents have no voice
  or vote on any business matters.
      With the Homeowners Associa-
  tion, we did have a voice and vote
  on park operations until the in-
  competence of our leaders once
  again took that away from us.
      These so-called leaders have
  been defying bylaws, procedures
  and Florida statutes.  Are they tell-
  ing us we don't know what we are
  doing or how to vote on what's
  best for Barefoot Bay?
      A special meeting was called to
  amend a motion already passed at
  a previous meeting of 450 atten-
  dees not to squander $25,000 on
  lawyers' fees to fight the proposed
  incinerator.
      I strongly oppose this incinera-
  tor, but, unfortunately, the plain-
  tiff in, this case is within his legal
  rights and no amount of money or
  public opinion is going to change
  the law.  Let's hold that money un-
  til he fails to fulfill his legal obli-
  gations, then take legal action.
      At this special meeting, no men-
  tion was made or seconded to res-
  cind the previous vote.  The new
  vote, taken with 128 residents in
  attendance, is illegal, null and
  void and the original vote still
  stands.  Whether this action was
  done accidentally or by ignorance
  of the law is no excuse, and those
  responsible should be dealt with
  severely.
      There are certain members of
  the Barefoot Bay Recreation Dis-
  trict and the Homeowners Associa-
  tion who think they are above
  rules.  We certainly do need new
  leadership because our vote is a
  precious privilege and should not
  he tampered with.
      Since we are governed and
  chartered by Florida and its statu-
  tes, should a state investigator be
  appointed to look into the out-
  rageous sale of this park and all as-
  pects of its operations by the
  Barefoot Bay Recreation District
  and the Homeowners Association?
                           Walter Clyne
                           Barefoot Bay

  
  
  
  NEWS BRIEFS

  Sebastian veterans
  award scholarships

      Scholarship committees of local
  veterans organizations recently se-
  lected deserving recipients of their
  annual scholar programs.
       Students receiving awards at Se-
   bastian River High School's schol-
   arship night May 13 are: Amy
   Bissonnette and Anna Christopher- 
   son, $1,000 each from the Ameri-
   can Legion Post No. 189, and
   Sheena Palley, $1,000 from the Vet-
   erans of Foreign Wars Post No.
   10210.
       In addition, Krishna Hathaway
   of the River School was selected to
   receive $1,000 from VFW Post No.
   10210.
       Also, Maria Nasci will be the re-
   cipient of a $500 award from the
   Ladies Auxiliary of VFW Post No.
   10210.

   
   AARP Chapter
   plans picnic
       
       The American Association of Re-
   tired Persons Chapter 3234 of
   North Indian River County will
   hold a catered picnic/barbecue at
   12:30 p.m. May 21 at the home of
   President Dick Dittmann, Rose-
   land.
       Tickets are $7 and the deadline
   for tickets is May 15.  For tickets call
   Dittmann at 589-6103.

   
   Mid-Atlantic Club
   meeting May 20
       
       The Mid-Atlantic Club of Bare-
   foot Bay will hold its annual picnic
   from 5-8 p.m. May 20 in the patio
   area of Pool 3 in Barefoot Bay.
       In case of rain, the picnic will
   move to Building A.
       Henry Tari of Barefoot Bay will
   provide music for the evening.  For
   tickets call 664-2679 or 664-9305
   no later than May 14.
       This will be the club's last
   meeting until September.

   
   Jewish Social Club
   meeting May 18

       In April, the Barefoot Bay Jewish
   Social Club had its paid-up mem-
   bership dinner at the Hampton
   House.
       At 11 a.m. May 18, the club will
   hold a pool party at the pool pavil-
   ion.
       The club will provide charcoal
   and watermelon.  Members must
   bring their own food and drinks.
        This is the last meeting until
    September.
        All activities held in Barefoot
    Bay facilities are open only to Bare-
    foot Bay residents and their regis-
    tered guests.



    Sebastian POA
    gets $50,000 gift
      
      Members of a Sebastian police
    officers group were reeling May 2
    after a Roseland woman made a do-
    nation that increased its coffers 16
    times.
       Edna Willey gave the Sebastian
    Police Officers Association $50,000
    in memory of her late husband, Dr.
    Harry Willey.
        "It's fantastic; it blew me
    away," Detective Joe Dillon said.
    "She said she just wanted to give
    something back to the police. it's
    huge, absolutely."
        Mrs. Willey is a resident of
    Roseland, but was a business
    owner in Sebastian for years, she
    said.
        The donation to the association
    was something her husband would
    have wanted, Mrs. Willey said;
    since police officers toil diligently
    at a largely thankless job,
        "They're overworked, under-
    paid and underappreciated," Mrs.
    Willey said.  "Every time they put
    that badge on, they're susceptible
    to danger."
        The association is a support or-
    ganization for Sebastian police offi-
    cers not affiliated with the officers'
    union, run through the Police Be-
    nevolent Association.
        Dillon founded the Sebastian
    Police Officers Association about
    two years ago to ensure officers
    would have a group in place to
    help them financially or in any
    other way if they needed it.
        The group also has performed
    some community service in the
    past.
        Recently, the association has
    been undergoing changes, Dillon
    said, including forming a board of
    directors and considering allowing
    other employees in the department
    to join.
        The donation likely will spur
    more changes.
     Before, the association had
  about $3,000 in its budget, Dillon
  said, a sum taken wholly from dues
  collected from officers.
     With the financial windfall, the
  association likely will look into
  more structured ways to spend
  money, including the possibility of
  scholarship funds and trusts, Dil-
  lon said.
     The  donation came two days
  before the five-year anniversar, of
  Willey's death in an auto accident.
     The couple gave to other chari-
  ities in the county in the past, Mrs.
  Willey said, including the Salvation
  Army and Humane Society.
     While some of those donations
  have been large endowments, no
  single donation has been as sub-
  stantial as the $50,000 for the po-
  lice association.
     Mrs. Willey, a retired nurse,
  said experiences both she and her
  husband had in the medical profes-
  sion in New Jersey with injured po-
  lice officers was one reason for the
  donation to the association.

  
  Sullivan calls for ban
  of on-site mulchers

   Carole Phelps thought some-
  thing was seriously wrong when
  she heard a loud noise coming
  from her business recently.
     When Mrs. Phelps, co-owner of
  Phelps    Garage     and     Towing,
  checked her building, she found a
  6-inch piece of metal had fallen
  through her roof, landing almost
  on the same spot where a me-
  chanic had been working.
     Luckily, the, mechanic had just
  left the garage to take a car on a
  test drive, she said.
     The piece of metal, ejected
  from a mulching machine at Grace
  Landing's construction site across
  Louisiana Avenue, has become the
  catalvst of a debate whether mulch-
  ers should be allowed on construc-
  tion sites.
     The incident is one reason why
  City Councilwoman Ruth Sullivan
  believes changes need to be made
  to the city ordinances allowing
  mulchers on construction sites.
     Mulchers are used to chop de-
  bris from a land-clearing project
  into smaller pieces, Some compa-
  nies take the mulchers to the site
  instead of hauling debris off-site.
      Mrs. Sullivan said she wants to
  see council pass an ordinance mak-
  ing contractors take the debris off
  site to an isolated area where a
  mulcher can be set up perma-
  nently.
      The city has grown so much
  that houses, businesses and con-
  struction sites are closer together,
  Sullivan said.
       Because of the continuing de-
  velopment, the time is past now
  where they can haul the mulchers
  in," she said.
      C.A. Cramer Jr., project director
  for Henry Fischer & Sons Inc., the
  company using the mulcher at
  Grace's Landing, said in a written
  statement that accidents are un-
  usual.
      "In the seven years of running
  the operation, it is the first inci-
  dent that has happened.  A person
  is more likely to be involved with
  weed eater or lawnmower in a resi-
  dential area than bv debris from a
  mulching machine.  You are proba-
  bly more likely to be struck by
  lightning," he said.
      Sebastian Community Devel-
  opment Director Bob Massarelli
  agreed the situation was unusual.
      Fischer moved the mulcher to a
  more isolated area on the site after
  the incident, Massarelli said.  The
  company also fixed the garage's
  roof, he said.
      Massarelli said using the
  mulcher on site may be one of the
  few alternatives developers have
  now that the burning of debris is
  so heavilv regulated by the city.
      In   October, Sebastian  City
  Council tightened its outdoor bur-
  ning ordinance by making devel-
  opers burn debris farther away
  from roads and houses.
      Massarelli said making contrac-
  tors haul the material away would
  increase truck traffic in the city.

  
  Building design
  will follow theme

    Kidney dialysis centers weren't
  part of most old Florida fishing vil-
  lages, but engineers for a proposed
  center at the old Keen's grocery
  store in Sebastian say designs for
  the buildin@ will conform to that
   architectural style.
      Site plans for a clinic, to be run
   by Nashville, Tenn.-based Gambro
   Health Care, were given tentative
   approval May 8 by the Sebastian
   Planning and Zoning Commission.
   Citv Council still has to give final
   approval.
      Gambro will be signing a 20-
   year lease for the building at 1424
   U.S. I with Vero Beach resident
   James Spoto, who is buying the
   building.  The center will occupy
   part of the building, while the
   front half will be turned into medi-
   cal offices.  
      City Planner Tracy Hass said the
   elevations and color scheme of the
   building will conform to the old
   Florida fishing village theme the
   Riverfront Committee has adopted.
      Spoto's brother, Ron Spoto, at-
   tended the meeting and said the
   building will be painted pale
   yellow or "whatever color schemes
   will fit best" with the riverfront.
      In addition, James Spoto has
   agreed to preserve a piece of wet-
   lands on the property and make it
   into a scenic easement as recom-
   mended by the Riverfront Commit-
   tee.  Project engineer Randy Mosby
   of Mosby and Associates in Vero
   Beach said the area could have
   been used to expand the parking
   lot.
      Dialysis patients will be
   brought to the center by vans and
   stay for three or four hours at a
   time.  Rooms will overlook the
   river, Hass said.
      The commission approved the
   site plans on condition the build-
   ing be limited to five doctors while
   the dialysis center is in operation.

   
   Plans for The Slab
   include raw bar, deck

      The Slab, a common sight
   bastian's Indian River Drive, may
   soon become an observation deck
   beside a raw bar.  But this time, city
   officials plan to set a time limit on
   construction.
      Sebastian Planning and Zoning
   Commission    May 8 unanimously
   approved a site plan for a 90-seat
   raw bar to be built at Sembler's Ma-
   rina at 1660 Indian River Drive.
   The   8,200-square-foot     concrete
   slab, first built at the site in 1990,
   will be made into an observation
   deck beside the raw bar.
    Sebastian City Council must
  give final approval to the site plan.
    The plan for the raw bar was ac-
  tually a minor modification to the
  original site plan for a restaurant,
  Community Development Director
  Bob Massarelli said.  But because of
  the extensive history the project
  has had with the city, staff felt the
  entire plan should be resubmitted
  and presented to the commission,
  he said.
    For more than six years, the slab,
  which hangs over the shallow
  shore of the Indian River, has re-
  mained unchanged and no work
  has been done on the project.  By
  late 1993, Sebastian   officials had
  given Sembler Marina Partners Ltd.
  six extensions on the building per-
  mit before deciding not to grant
  any more.
    In recommending approval for
  the project, Massarelli attached sev-
  eral conditions including that a
  time schedule for each phase of
  construction and a completion date
  be set.  He said the schedule would
  be negotiated later with the build-
  ers.  Construction should begin
  within a vear.
    if work starts and then stops
  within six months, Massarelli said
  approval of the project should be
  withdrawn.
    Buz Underill, general partner of
  Sembler Marina Partners Ltd., said
  there were never any false starts
  with the project.
    "We've said this was not going to
  happen overnight," he said.
    The group went through a
  "credit crunch" in the 1990s and
  money wasn't available to build the
  restaurant, he said.  The project
  since has been changed to be im-
  plemented in small phases and the
  group is ready to start the first
  phase with the raw bar, he said.
  Subsequent phases would be con-
  struction of a restaurant and retail
  shops.
    The slab cost the company
  $273,000 to build and hasn't of-
  fered much of a return since it has
  been sitting idle, he said.
    Other conditions attached to the
  project included:
    *The building must meet eleva-
  tion requirements by the Federal
  Flood Insurance Program and city
  codes.
   *Plans for the building's pota-
  ble water well location, sewer svs-
  tem and floor plan must be
  approved by the countv Health De-
  partment.

  
  Photo Caption
  SEBASTIAN CITY HALL HAS A NEW ADDRESS on the highway,
  the super information highway, that is. Access to City Council agen-
  das, meetings and the city's monthly calendar now can be obtained
  by calling up the city's new home page on the Internet.  In addition,
  people can access a brief history of the city, council meeting dates
  and times and the city's code of ordinances.  Through the city's
  home-page address (http://www.cityofsebastion.org), people can
  send e-mail to the city (cityseb@iu.net).  By the end of May, City
  Clerk Kay O'Halloran, right, and Deputy City Clerk Sally Maio, left,
  said they hope to have the complete version of the home page.  The
  page can be accessed now, but some of the listed topics, such as
  information about the golf course and airport or the city newsletter,
  have not been connected to the home page yet.

  
  (Chamber of Commerce articles provided by Chamber)  

  First Round of Summer
  Slam '97 Gets High Marks

      The first round of the
  Sebastian River Area Chamber
  of Commerce's Summer Slam
  '97 was a hit with players and
  sponsors    alike,   says     Ray
  Coniglio of the Indian River
  Talking Phone Book, who co-
  chaired the event with Michael
  Garrett of Sebastian River
  Medical Center.
        Sixty players took to the
  links at Grand Harbor's River
  Course on April 19 for the first
  of three rounds of golf to be
  played throughout the sununer.
  The purpose: to enjoy golf at
  some of the area's best courses
  and to raise money for the
  Chamber.
     "Grand Harbor  outdid
  themselves,"   stated    Coniglio.
  "The Course   really handled the
  tournament    well, from the
  parking lot   to the luncheon
  banquet afterward."
   Coniglio thinks the tournament
  will build, with more players
  signing up for rounds two and
  three, which will be played at the
  Indian River Club on July 19 and
  at the Grand Harbor - Harbor
  Course on Sept. 20.
        Round two will be a "Best
   Ball" format with a shotgun start
   at 9 a.m. There will be team and
   individual prizes and a luncheon
   following play.  The third round
   will be an "Individual" format
   and will be played in the
   afternoon - the   starting time has
   not    been   set   yet,   with    a
   dinner/dance      following      the
   tournament.
      The team from Capt.  Hiram's -
   consisting of Gary Lustic, Martin
   Carter, Ben Bishop and Steve
   Wild - posted the   best score, 11
   below par, in the first round,
   which was a "Scramble" format.
      Other members of the toum-
   ament committee included Cham-
   ber President Ed Moore of the
   Ferndale Lodge, Stan Cichewicz
   of SunTrust, Brad Pearse of
   Impact Strategies and Rich
   Nalbandian of Dodgertown.
       Major corporate sponsors for
   the tournament are Monnett Eye
   Center, Oak Point Development
   Group, Sebastian River Medical
   Center, The Indian River County
   Talking Phone Book, Wuesthoff
   Health Systems and Vero Beach
   Chrysler      Plymouth         (who
   purchased the golf balls for the
   tournament).  Lambeth Groves is
   sponsoring     the programs and
   individual  hole sponsors are
   Sebastian Insurance, PIP Printing
   and Professional Solutions.
        Golfers can still sign up at
   $100 a round or $175 to play in
   both remaining rounds, Coniglio
   said.
      For more information, call the
   Chamber at 589-5969.    
   
   
   Photo Caption
   One of 15 foursomes who took part in the first round of 
   the Chamber's Summer Slam '97, the team from Sebastian 
   River Medical Center consisted of, from left, Paul Graham, 
   Seth Baker, John MeEachern anq MichaeI Garrett.

   
   
   
   Elks Club names Maynard city's top police officer
   By DAVID KEARNS
   Of The Sun
    
    Sebastian Police Detective Debra
   Maynard may shy away from cam-
   eras, but she never shies away from
   her duty of investigating crimes
   and protecting the rights of chil-
   dren.
      Maynard was given the 1997
   Officer of the Year Award by the
   Sebastian Elks Club, a fraternal or-
   ganization in Sebastian, The award
   was presented to Maynard April 26
   during a dinner banquet held at
   the club lodge at County Road 512
   and Fleming Street in Sebastian.
      Originally from Melvindale,
   Mich., Maynard moved to Florida in
   1986.  That year, she attended the
   corrections officer academy at the
   Mid-Florida Technical institute in
   Orlando.
      After graduating from the aca-
   demy, Maynard worked for more
   than four years for the Brevard
   County Sheriff's Department as a
   corrections officer at the Sharpes
   Correctional Facility.
      Maynard received additional
   training to become a police officer
   in 1991 and accepted a position in
   the Sebastian Police Department
   that year.  She was promoted to po-
   lice detective in 1993.
      Since then, she has specialized
  in investigating crimes of domestic
  violence and violence against chil-
  dren, as well as handling her other
  cases, she said.
      Her work is strengthening the
  section of the investigations divi-
  sion, designed to solve crimes of
  domestic violence and against chil-
  dren, Capt.  David Puscher said.  
      "Debra Maynard has consis-
  tently demonstrated her profes-
  sionalism and knowledge in her
  field and is certainty deserving of
  this  most prestigious award,"
  Puscher said.
     Fellow     police     investigators
  Denis Hovasse and Joe Dillon said
  Maynard is a wealth of information
  when it comes to recognizing signs
  of domestic violence in the home
  as well as on other aspects of po-
  lice work.
      "I think she deserves it (the
  award).  We learn a lot from Deb-
  bie," said Dillon.
     Maynard said she was moti-
  vated to become a police officer by
  a very simple need to do good.
      "The need and desire is to help
  people.  That's it," she said.
      As a single mom, Maynard said
  the additional reward she gets out
  of helping children and families
  makes her job even more satisfy-
  ing.
      Sebastian Elks Club Activities
  Director James Caffray said his club
  has recognized the department be-
  fore, but never with a banquet.
      "This lets the police officers
  know that the community is be-
  hind them in what they do for us.
  Sometimes officers are out there
  writing tickets and listening to
  complaints thinking, 'what am I
  doing this for?' " he said.
      "The award to Debbie also
  shows people that there are differ-
  ent kinds of police officers who
  really help out the community.
  She's not out there all the time
  with a gun hunting down the bad
  guy, so to speak, but what she does
  for families and kids, with the do-
  mestic violence (unit), you have to
  reward that," he said.
      Two months ago, club mem-
  bers asked for an officer to honor
  and Maynard was chosen by Sebas-
  tian Police Chief Randy White.
  White was unavailable for com-
  ment on Maynard.

  Photo Caption
  Jim Caffray, left, of the Sebastian Elks Club, congratulates Sebas-
  tian Detective Debra Maynard for being named the club's Officer of
  the Year. Joining Caffray in congratulating Maynard was, from left,
  John Sevenliss, chairman of the International Police Association of
  Indian River County; Fred Jones, a Florida Highway Patrolman and
  president of the Sebastian Fraternal Order of Police; and Capt. Da-
  vid Puscher.

                

  Major League teams in close race
  for pennant in Sebastian Little League
  By DAVID KEARNS
  Of The Sun

    As the regular season winds
  down in the Sebastian River Area
  Little League, L.A. Tile has risen to
  the top of the heap in the Major
  League Baseball division.

      But L.A. Tile hasn't clinched
  the title yet in the division that's
  made up of 9-12 year olds.

      Father and Son could come
  to win the championship if the
  team wins both its remaining
  games during the regular season
  and beats L.A. Tile at the end o
  season.

      L.A. Tile is heading into its final
  regular season game with a 9-1 re-
  cord for the second half of the reg-
  ular season.

      Father and Son stood at 8-1 May
  5, but had two games scheduled:
  May 6, against Daniel Electric, and
  May 9 against Fischer Force.

      L.A. Tile took the first half of
  the season, which ended April 20,
  with a 8-1 record, compared to
  Father and Son's record of 6-3.

      L.A. Tile can clinch the champi-
  onship if it defeats Rinker Materials
  May 9 at the Barber Street Sports
  Complex, and Father and Son loses
  either of its two remaining regular-
  season games.

      If L.A. Tile loses its last game,
  and Father and Son wins its games,
  the the teams will go into a one-
  game playoff for the champion-
  ship.
      If both teams finish the second
  half with 10-1 records, a game will
  be played May 13 to decide the
  winner of the second half of the
  season.  Another game will be
  played May 14 to decide the cham-
  pionship.
      Fischer Force, managed by
  Chuck Skala of Sebastian, could
  shut down Father and Son May
  Daniel Electric doesn't beat the
  team May 6.                           
      Skala's team is coming off a
  tough 9-9 tie with Hale Groves May
  2. The game, called at 10 p.m., was
  only in the sixth inning and league
  officials are searching for a date to
  finish the game.
      Rinker Materials and Daniel
  Electric currently are tied for last
  place in the division with record
  of 5-13.
      Manning Financial and Tozz6l
  Brothers Construction are tied for
  sixth place with records of 7-11.
  Fischer Force is in fifth place with
  a record of 7-10-1, following L.I.
  Tree Service, in fourth place, with a
  10-9 record.
      Hale Groves is in third place
  with an 11-6-1 record.
      Teams essentially out of the
  running for the championship have
  given their best efforts to spoil an
  easy sweep for L.A. Tile, but to no
  avail, Don Pescia, the league's ex-
  ecutive vice president, said.
      On May 2, L.I. Tree Service had
  it's last game and almost defeated
  the top team in the division.  By the
  fourth inning, the team was lead-
  ing L.A. Tile 3-0.
      L.A. Tile Manager Lenny Tunstill
  encouraged his boys from the
  third-base coaching box, willing
  his team's bats to come alive.
      "It's like we're dead out there
  tonight.  There's no energy," Tuns-
  till said.
    L.I. Tree Service Assistant Coach
  Noel Wideberg was hoping to force
  L.A. Tile into a playoff match
  against Father and Son as a positive
  way to finish the season.

    "It would be nice for us to be
  the spoiler," he said.  "The boys are
  playing well because the season's
  over for us.  Now the pressure is off
  of us and on them."

    Although Tunstill seemed re-
  signed to a loss, his players came
  through and defeated L.I. Tree Ser-
  vice, 11-3, late in the game.

    The Indian River County cham-
  pionships for Major League Base-
  ball and Senior League Softball are
  being held at the Barber Street
  complex this year.

    At 7 p.m. May 19, Sebastian's top
  Major League baseball team takes
  on Gifford's best team.  Vero Beach
  American also plays Vero Beach
  National that day to decide the
  team that will compete later in the
  week against the winner of the Se-
  bastian/Gifford game, Pescia said.

   The county championship for
  Senior Softball begins at 7 p.m.
  May 20 at the complex.

  
  Photo Caption
  L.A. Tile third baseman Brennan Quiqley is ready to make 
  his move to second as L.I. Tree Service first baseman 
  Erroll Wilcox and second baseman Seon Wideberg wait for him 
  to make his move.



  Collector cans plans for future purchases
  By Bill Valyo

     For years, this writer was a big
  baseball-card collector.
     Not a day went by that I didn't
  buy a pack or sometimes 10,of the
  memorabilia.  I couldn't wait until I
  could tear off the wrapper and get
  to see what "big name" or rookie
  card was now in my private collec-
  tion.
     When the business of baseball
  cards went haywire a couple of
  years ago, I slowed down on the
  purchases.  No more buying cards
  for 49 cents for a pack of 10.  To-
  day, you're lucky to find 10 cards at
  $2.99 and no bubble gum.
       This   past   week,     Pinnacle
   Brands, a manufacturer of baseball
   cards, announced it will begin sell-
   ing cards in a can.  It seems the in-
   dustry has had problems with
   youngsters (and adults) stealing
   pads off the counters, so they came
   up with the new packaging.
       Brian Cavaness of Millennium
   Cards Comics in Sebastian, does
   not like the whole concept of base-
   ball cards anymore.
       "There are too many compa-
   nies manufacturing cards now.  It
   used to be simple," said the busi-
   ness man from Fellsmere Road.
       That statement is so true.  Back
   in the early '80s, there were only
   four companies that put out cards.
   It was easy to pick out one issue
   you liked and stay with it for
   awhile.                       
       Topps was the company with
   the most prestige at that time.  You
   got the cards with a stale bubble
   gum strip and just the sweet aroma
   when you opened the pack made
   you feel good.  Today, Topps is the
   Heinz 57 of the sports card field.  It
   puts out tons and tons of cards, a
   shapes and sizes.
       Ed Beigel, the owner of Sebas-
   tian Sportscards, sees the new
   "card in a can" as a novelty and
   will be stocking them this week.
       He said the company will put
   out 24 different cans with a special
   ballplayer on each one.  He will
   even get a can opener for his cus-
   tomers to use.  This writer wonders
   if, as for all food products, ingre-
   dients and fat content will be put
   on the back of the can.  For in-
   stance, Cecil Fielder of, the Yan-
   kees could have a whopping fat
   content.
       For this writer, it looks as if I
   will have to be content gazing at
   my collection of Duke Snider, Ted
   Williams and Pete Rose and leave
   the cans to Campbell's.

                                                                                                                              
   Track standouts at SRHS hoping to head to state meet                                                                                                           
   By Amy Montalbano
                                                                                                            
       It's that time of year again, when members of the track
   and field team of Sebastian River High School headed to the
   South 11 regional meet.
      The athletes won the right to go to the May 8 meet at
  Cardinal Gibbons High School in Fort Lauderdale by per-
  forming well at the May I Class 4A, District 13 champion-
  ship meet.  If they do well at the regional meet, it's on to the
  state meet May 15 at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
      Other schools from Titusville, Rockledge, Cocoa, Kis-
  simmee and Melbourne came to the school's track May 1 to
  apply all of their skills and strategies into one meet.
      Track-team members had a lot on the line. 
      The team prepared under the watchful eyes of coaches
  Michael Stutzke and Randv Bethel.
      Stutzke, the school's athletic director, has coached cross
  country and track for three years.
      Bethel, who also has coaching experience in track, re-
  cently was named the Sharks' head football coach, replacing
  Doug Baker.
      The regional qualifiers in the pole-vaulting event in-
  clude state defending champion Sarah Adams.
      Adams reached a height of 10-feet, 6-inches.  Adams won
  the girls event to go undefeated for the season.
      Junior Andrew Porter also made it to the regionals with a
  qualifying height of 15 feet.
      In addition, sophomores Mandy Hausenaur and John
  Margnelli also qualified in pole-vaulting, with Hausenaur
  reaching 8-feet, 6-inches, and Margnelli finishing with a
  height of 11-feet, 6-inches.
      In short and long-distance running events, Junior
  Tammy Warren led the girls in the 13200-meter race with a
  time of 13:07 minutes.  She also placed second in the 1600-
  meter race, coming in with a time of 5:48 minutes.  It was
  one of the few times Warren has not won that race.
      Titusville-Astronaut's Sadie Wells won the race and prob-
  ably is the favorite to win the event at the state meet.
      Tasha Swaby moved on to the regional meet in five
  events. She placed third in the 100-meter event an finished
  the 200-meter event with a fourth-place finish.
      She took second in the shot put at 32-feet, 9-inches, and
  long jump, at 16-feet, 3.5-inches and was part of the second-
  place 4xlOO team, along with Sonja Ealy, Tracy Rolle and
  Shameka Thomas.
      In the 4x8OO meter event, the team of Ben Lees, Chris
  Ramsey, Peter Bissonnette and Shawn Jokinen placed fourth,
  giving them a spot in the regional meet.
      In other events, Anwar Dudley placed third in the triple
  jump with a distance of 43-feet, 1-inch.
      In all, members of the Sharks track team came out with
  impressive records to advance to the South 11 regional meet
  in Fort Lauderdale where they will compete in 10 events.

  
  
  Sebastian Cyclones finish up encouraging year
  By DAVID KEARNS
  Of The Sun
       As the Sebastian    Cyclones fin-
   ishes its first season in Brevard
   County's Competitive Youth Soccer
   League, one thing is for certain: the
   league is very competitive.
       Coaches, parents and athletes
   all are encouraged by what the
   three teams in the Cyclones organi-
   zation have accomplished during
   the spring season.
       The Cyclones are asking Sebas-
   tian to come and watch the final
   games of the squads made up of
   12- and 14-year-olds the weekend
   of May 10 at the field behind Bar-
   ber Street Sports Complex.
       The 12-year-olds play their fi-
   nal two games of the season at 10
   a.m. May 10 and 2 p.m. May 11.
   The 14-year-olds will take the field
   at noon May 10.
       Sebastian    Cyclones      registrar
   Jane Richter said about 47 young-
   sters, ages 9 through 14, played on
   the three teams from Sebastian.
   The traveling division of the league
   holds its matches from Titusville to
   Vero Beach during the 10-game
   season.
       Mrs. Richter said by putting
   three traveling teams from Sebas-
   tian in combat with talented and
   experienced teams from Brevard,
   the Cyclones organization is show-
   ing its confidence in the growth of
   soccer in Sebastian and the ability
   of the players from this area.
       The season began March 8.
   Over all, the team of 14-year-olds
   has faired the best with a 2-6 re-
   cord.  The squad is coached by
   Dave Zukowski of Vero Lake Es-
   tates, with help from Assistant
   Coach Dave Cherry of Sebastian.
       "I've got 16 kids on this team
   and they all are excellent, so it's
   hard to single any one kid out.  If I
   had to say who our most-improved
   player is, without a doubt, that
   would be Patrick Hall," Zukowski
   said.
       Zukowski said Hall, who plays
   halfback, always can be counted on
   to make the play on offense or de-
   fense. Zukowski's son, Daniel,  at
   forward, is the leading scorer for
   the team, he said.
       The team of 12-vear-olds is
   coached by Todd Gou@e, with help
   from Assistant Coach Paul Szafarz,
   both of Sebastian.  This team has a
   record of 1-5-1, with its lone win
   coming by forfeit in April.
      During the week, the 12-year-

  olds regularly  are seen practicing

  on the Cyclones' home-field.  Par-

  ents park their cars off Tulip Drive

  and bring lawn chairs out to the

  sidelines to watch their youngsters

  work out.

      Similar to the other Cyclones

  teams, the squad of 12-year-olds is

  made up of 16 talented soccer play-

  ers, said Szafarz, all of whom

  walked on the field during a Feb-

  ruary tryout with hopes of making

  any team.

      All were taken because all were

  needed, he said.  Consequently, all

  three teams field both boys an

  girls.  Boys outnumber the girls

  about 5-1, but talented girls see just

  as much playing time as their male

  counterparts, Szafarz said.
    
    "Everyone on the team is very
  competitive 'That's all we ask, and
  they all give us that," he said.
    Szafarz said this is a learning
  year for all three teams.
    "Sure, our record isn't the great-
  est, but the skill level has gone way
  up since we first started," he said.
    "You expect that when you put a group of
  kids together for the first time, playing
  against better teams.  You're going to see
  them get blown out all the time.  That never
  happened to us.  Most of the time, we keep
  them from scoring until late in the game,"
  he said.
      Erick Manrique at halfback on the team
  of 12-year-olds, is a very skilled and ded-
  icated player, Szafarz said.
     
     Another standout on the team is Josh Bo-
  
  net in goal, said Szafarz.  He is helped out on

  defense by right-fullback Jessica Eriksen.

      Utility player Josh Schwartz and right-

  halfback Brad Cortez are coming into their

  own and forming more of a cohesive threat

  on offense, with Manrique leading the

  charge.

      "This team is going to be excellent next

  year," Szafarz said.

      Cortez said his team needs to learn how

  to "close the deal' and win one, or both, of

  these final two games of the season.  A win at

  home would be a nice way to end it, he said.

      "We're good.  Most of the time we're

  ahead at the half, but we just kind of give up

  or something," he said.

      The 11-and-younger team, coached by
  
  John Jordan of Sebastian, is 0-7, but Mrs.

  Richter said the younger kids are just getting

  into soccer for the first time.


      "It's going to take a little time, but

  they'll get it," she said.

      The 11-and-younger team will finish its

  season May 10 in North Brevard County, she

  said.
      
      Now, all youngsters interested in soccer

  have the fall recreational season to look for-

  ward to, she said, or they can opt for another

  season of competitive soccer during the fall.

      Registration will be held from 2-6 p.m.

  May 17 at the Barber Street complex for both

  programs.  Call Jane Richter at 388-9341 for

  more information on both programs.


  Photo Caption
  Laxman Shapiro and goalie Josh Bonet fight for the ball
  during a recent practice.



  Obituaries



        Michael Kelley

    Michael George Kelley, 49, of Se-

  bastian, died April 30, 1997, at Se-

  bastian  River Medical Center,

  Roseland, after a prolonged illness.

      He was born April 7, 19, 8, in
  
  Plymouth, Mass., and moved to Se-

  bastian in 1986 from Howell, NJ.

      Surviving    are   his    parents,

  George A. and Rubina G. Kelley, of

  Sebastian; and one sister, Rubina

  G. Kelley, of Howell.

      Mr. Kelley will be transferred to

  J. J. Shepherd and Sons Funeral

  Home, Pembroke, Mass., for ser-

  vices and burial in Fernhill Ceme-

  tery, Hanson, Mass.

      Strunk Funeral Home, Sebas-

  tian, is in charge of local arrange-

  ments.

         
         John Currivan

    John "Jack" Currivan, 78, of Se-

  bastian, died May 3, 1997, at his

  residence after a brief illness.

      He was born April 8, 1919, in

  Cos Cob, Conn., and moved to Se-

  bastian in 1989 from Lake Wales.

      Mr. Currivan was a U.S. Army

  veteran of World War II.

      Surviving are his wife of 32

  years, Sally; two daughters, Patricia

  Harrington, of Danbury, Conn., and

  Mary Jane Weber, of Lakeland; one

  sister, Frances Dalzall, of Stamford,
  
  Conn.; one brother, Frank Curri-

  van, of Riverside, Conn.; seven

  grandchildren; and four great-

  grandchildren.
      
      At the family's request, there
  
  will be no repose or visitation. ,No
  
  services are scheduled.

      Mr. Currivan was a member of
  
  the Indian River Cremation Society.

          
          
          Paul Sullivan

      Paul Lee "Sully" Sullivan, 74, of
  Sebastian, died May 5, 1997, at Se-
  bastian River Medical Center, Rose-
  land, after a brief illness.
      He was born May 31, 1922, in
  Junction City, Ohio, and moved to
  Sebastian-one year ago from Lan-
  caster, Ohio.
      Mr. Sullivan was a mechanic
  and a Lutheran.  He was a U.S. Army
  veteran of World War 11, a recipient
  of the Bronze Star and was a U.S.
  Air Force veteran of the Korean
  War.  He was a member of the
  American Legion Post No. 888, Co-
  lumbus, Ohio.
      Surviving are his wife of 47
  years, Norma; two sons, Terry Lee
  Sullivan, of Sebastian, and Michael
  Paul Sullivan, of Ashland, Ohio;
  one daughter, Cheryl Linehan, of
  Sebastian; one sister, Harriet Bo-
  wersock, of Junction City, Ohio;
  seven grandchildren; and two
  great-grandchildren.
      Funeral services were held May
  8 at the Strunk Funeral Home cha-
  pel, Sebastian.
      Interment followed at Sebastian
  Cemetery, Sebastian, with military
  honors conducted by the American
  Legion Post No, 189 and the Veter-
  ans of Foreign Wars Post No.
  10210, both of Sebastian.

           
           Tom Perry

      Tom Perry, 83, of Sebastian, died
  May 4, 1997, at Indian River Memo-
  rial Hospital after a brief illness.
      He was born May 18, 1913, in
  Bluffton, Ohio, and moved to Se-
  bastian in 1976 from Toledo, Ohio.
      Mr. Perry was a retired accoun-
  tant, author and photographer.
      Surviving are his wife of 27
  years, Ann; one son, Navarre T.
  Perry, San Diego, Calif.; one daugh-
  ter, Dianne     Perry   Vanderlip,
  Denver, Colo.; five grandchildren;
  and three great-grandchildren.
      At the family's request, there
  will be no repose or visitation.  The
  family is holding a private cele-
  bration at Mr. Perry's residence.
      In lieu of flowers, the family
  suggests donations be made to the
  charity of one's choice in Mr. Per-
  ry's memory.
      Mr. Perry was a member of the
  Indian River Cremation Society.




  END



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   FROM THE ARCHIVES


    TOP STORY FROM A YEAR AGO
 THIS WEEK: Barefoot Bay officials
 were considering imposing a curfew
 on juveniles who live in the commu-
 nity.
      Members of the homeowners as-
 sociation met with officials from the
 Brevard County Sheriff's Department
 and County Commissioner Nancy
 Higgs to discuss what action they
 might take after an incident the week
 before.
      A security guard was beaten af-
 ter he told some teenagers to leave
 the community's basketball courts.


    CITIZEN OF THE DAY

      NAME: Cheryl Lalime
      AGE: 50
      OCCUPATION: Registered nurse
 at Indian River Memorial Hospital.
      BIRTHPLACE: El Paso, Texas.
      MOVED HERE: May 1967.
      COMMUNITY SERVICE: Member
 of the First Church of the Nazarene in
 Sebastian.  Also donates to the Hu-
 mane Society of Vero Beach.
      HOBBIES: I like to bike, to walk
 and read.
      FAVORITE AUTHOR: Billy Gra-
 ham.
      WHY I LIKE MY NEIGHBOR-
 HOOD: I live in the Sebastian High-
 lands and I like the peace and quiet.
 It's a nice friendly neighborhood.

  WEEKEND PICKS

     This year marks the 20th anniver-
  sary of the General Federation of
  Woman's Club, GFWC Sebastian
  River Junior Woman's Club.  Members
  meet in the Sara Wentworth Rose
  Memorial Clubhouse, 952 U.S. 1.
       On May 17, members will hold an
  open house celebration 1-4 p.m.
  People ages 12 and up are invited to
  join the general, juniors and ju-
  niorettes for a light lunch.  Mem-
  bership information will be available.
  In 1928, the clubhouse, established
  by the Sebastian Woman's Club, was
  built and dedicated in Mrs. Rose's
  memory.  The Junior Woman's Club
  was formed in 1977.  This group of
  volunteers has contributed financially
  and socially to the community since
  that time.  Projects include partici-
  pation in the Fourth of July parade,
  haunted houses and special projects
  for neighbors in need.



       WHAT DID HE SAY?

     "We're impressed.  It's the kind of
  building that you need, and that in a
  year or two, you won't have to build
  a bigger one."
              - Tom Beauford
  (Beauford, of Little Hollywood, made
  the statement May 8 at a Micco
  Homeowners Association meeting af-
  ter residents viewed a video of the
  newly completed Cuyler Park Commu-
  nity Center in Mims.  The Brevard
  County center's design is similar to
  the one proposed for the South
  Mainland Community Center off Allen
  Avenue in Micco.  The proposed com-
  munity center, as the center in Mims,
  also will have a 10,000-square-foot
  gymnasium next to it.)



  Summertime shouldn't mean youngsters
  break from learning
  By DAVID KEARNS
  Of The Sun

   Area educators stress that just because a student's
 body is not in school during the summer break, that's
 no reason for his or her brain to take an extended va-
 cation.
     In fact, teachers say students can get a better start
 on the upcoming school year if they have kept them-
 selves mentally and physically active during the
 break.

        Jere Spearman, primary education specialist at Se-
    bastian Elementary, said the worst thing parents can
    do for their children during the summer is to allow
    the television and the videocassette recorder to be-
    come their constant companion.
        "Then they will become a couch potato," Mrs.
    Spearman said.
        Mrs. Spearman urges parents to plan many trips to
    the local public libraries during the summer.  This is
    especially beneficial for the younger children to
    maintain their reading skills, she said.
        "Help them make selections on books and take
    them home and read them together.  Reading is a very
    good way to help them pass the time," she said.
        She also suggested parents and youngsters work
    on arts and crafts projects together, using common
    household materials.
        Projects of any kind are beneficial, she said.
        "One summer, my son and I started a bug collec-
    tion.  We bought books and we researched the things
    he found.  He loved it.  We limited television time at
    our house, so we had to come up with other things
    for all of our kids to do," she said.
        Having raised three children, Spearman said she
    had to look for new and inventive things for her
    youngsters to do over the summer, but she is con-
    vinced the effort paid off when her children went
    back to school in the fall.
        "Reading in their areas of interest was a great way
    to spend the time.  Games, puzzles, the crossword
    puzzles in the newspaper, we did all of these things.
    We also did a lot of sitting down and talking,to each
    other," she said.
        Mrs. Spearman recommended structured, physical
    activity during the summer to keep youngsters out of
    trouble and to make sure they sleep well at the night.
        Some of the programs available to youngsters dur-
    ing the summer include:    
        * The North Indian River County Library on
    County Road 512, Sebastian, will hold "Communica-
    tion Station" during the summer months.
        Starting June 16, youngsters ages 6-12 can learn
    about everything from computers to calligraphy from
    10 a.m. to noon Monday through Thursday at the li-
    brary.
        Some evening sessions also are available.  Chil-
    dren from 18 months to 3 years can enjoy stories,
    songs and puppet shows from 10 a.m. to noon start-
    ing June 17.  A wide range of books and tapes also
    will be made available to all children.
        Once a week, volunteers from the community will
    be on hand during communication station to read to
    children who have completed first through third
    grades.  Every Friday from June 13 to Aug. 1, the li-
    brary also will host speakers from 10-11 am.  Present-
    ers will include Tae Kwon Do experts and a
    storyteller from the Muskogee Creek Indian tribe.
    There will be no presentation on July 4.
        Registration for the library's summer programs
    opened May 5, said Shirley Wolstenholme, the li-
    brary's youth coordinator.
        These programs are free to all children but par-
    ents must register them or pick up tickets for the Fri-
    day presentations in advance.  Contact Mrs.
   Wolstenholme at the library for dates and times of all
   the programs at 589-1355.

       * The South Mainland Library of Brevard, on
   Ron Beatty Boulevard in Micco, also is holding sum-
   mer programs for area children.
       Presentations for students ages 7 to 12 will be
   held at 2 p.m. Wednesdays in the library.  Registration
   is required, These presentations include demonstra-
   tions by Tae Kwon Do instructors from Chung's Mar-
   tial Arts Academy in Melbourne and Therapy Dogs of
   Brevard County.
       Contact the library's acting director, David
   McMurrin, at 664-4066 for details.
       Programs designed for children ages 3-6 also will
   be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays in the library.  No
   registration is required.  Featured presenters include
   Brevard County Sheriff Phil Williams, who will talk to
   children about "Stranger Danger" June 25.
       *   The Center for the Arts on Riverside Park
   Drive in Vero Beach will hold summer art classes for
   kids of ages three to 15.  The programs run two hours
   every day for two weeks.  Nine local artists and educa-
   tors teach youngsters everything from finger painting
   to photography in four sessions June 16 to Aug. 8.
       Materials fees range from $5 to
   $30 for some of the classes.  Regis-
   tration for the art programs opened
   April 17.  Call 231-0707 for details.
       *   The American Red Cross is
   hosting five, week-long swimming
   lesson sessions beginning June 49.
       Sebastian residents can take
   swimming lessons from Red Cross
   instructors from 9 a.m. to noon at
   the KOA campground swimming
   pool in Wabasso, or from 7:30-
   a.m. at the Leisure Square Swim-
   ming pool in Vero Beach.
       The prices for the courses run
   $30 for the Wabasso course or $35
   at Leisure Square.
       The Red Cross also is hosting
   an open house for youngsters ages
   10 to 17 who are interested in join-
   ing the Volunteer Youth Leader-
   ship   Program.     The     program
   enables them to learn about the of-
   fice environment and computers
   while they volunteer at Red Cross
   offices.
       The open house, featuring
   pizza and soda, will be held 5-7
   p.m. May 16 at the American Red
   Cross building at 17th Avenue and
   25th Street in Vero Beach.
      Contact American Red Cross
   Youth Director Ryan Van Buren at
   562-2549 for details on all of these
   programs or to register for swim-
   ming lessons.


Photo Caption
Muriel Cobb of Sebastian plans to spend a lot of time 
reading with her daughters, Jamie Jordan, 9, and Tiffany
Cobb, 15 months, at the North Indian River County Library 
this summer.


  Parents, teachers eagerly await school's expansion

  By DREW DIXON
  Of The Sun

    Holly Vannoy, a teacher at Sebastian El-
  ementary for the last three years, said
  she's frustrated by the crowded condi-
  tions in her fourth-grade classroom.

      "If you're standing in front of the
  classroom with six rows of students, it
  makes it hard to manage.  There's less dis-
  cipline, less one-on-one with the stu-
  dents, it makes it hard to teach," Vannoy
  said.

      That's why she's hoping a planned ex-
  pansion of the school will help alleviate
  crowded conditions.

      Last week, the Indian River County
  School Board approved a $1.95 million
  expansion of the school.  Construction is
  set to begin next month and the expan-
  sion should be completed by the fall of
  1998.

      The additions to the school will in-
  clude a 11,450-square-foot building with
  five classrooms f@r kindergarten students
  as well as more computers in the school's
  media center and expansion of the cafete-
  ria and kitchen.

      "We have no empty classrooms right
  now," said Sebastian Elementary Principal
  Claudia McNulty.  "As we look at the antic-
  ipated growth in the (Sebastian) area,
  (the expansion) is going to give us space
  over the next few years."

      She said the increasing number of res-
  idents in the North County has caused the
  school to fill to capacity.  In turn, to make
  room for more students, some students
  from the Vero Lake Estates area who
  would have attended Sebastian Elemen-
  tary have been rezoned to attend Dodger-
  town Elementary in Vero Beach.
      The expansion is welcomed, but it's
  not an end-all to the North County space
  problem, McNulty said.
      "I think it's necessary.  It's going to
  give us a little more time before we build
  a new school," she said,.
      While the district's budget plan in-
  cludes a new school in the next five years,
  the expansion is of immediate concern,
  said Dorothy Talbert, District One School
  Board member whose district represents
  much of Sebastian.

      "There's definitely a population in-
  crease (in the North County).  This expan-
  sion is sorely needed. we'll have more
  classes and more places to put students,"
  she said.
       She still believes a new elementary
  school is imminent for North County and
  she said the search for a site for the new
  school is ongoing.
       The expansion delays the urgency for
  a new school, said Greg Smith, executive
  director of facilities for Indian River
  County Schools.
       "In essence, (the expansion) carries a
  new school a little further out in our plan-
  ning.
       "When you add seats, it reduces the
  responsibility of adding a new school.
  Those are seats that won't have to go to a
  new school," he said.
       A new school would make for less
  crowded elementary classrooms in the Se-
  bastian area.  But since it's not clear when
  a new school will be built, McNulty said
  the expansion is what needs to be dealt
  with immediately.
       While the expansion may be practical,
  Ellen Probst, the    media   specialist at the
  school who taught fourth grade for 8
  years, said the crowded conditions still
  will be difficult to handle.

       "It's awful.  I had 35 students in fourth
  grade and it's unmanageable," Probst
  said.
       She no longer teaches fourth grade,
  but  her position as media specialist will
  be affected by the expansion of the media
  center.  "I'll have no more space, but it
  will increase access to about 30 comput-
  ers," Probst said.
       The biggest advantage to the expan-
  sion, according  to Probst, is "it will help
  because it will spread out students. The
  smaller the classroom, the better."

       That's the key to the expansion,
  McNulty said.
       "You don't have to put as many stu-
  dents in one place at one time.

    Any new seats at Sebastian El-
  ementary are welcomed by parents.
  Lucy Lovely, of Sebastian, has two
  daughters, a second-grader and a
  fifth-grader, attending the school.
       "I think it'll be good for the
  kids.  There will be more room to
  learn," Lovely said.
       "The classrooms are small.  The
  cafeteria is very small. if they make
  it all bigger, that would be good,"
  she said.

      Crowded classroomes are some-
  thing Melissa Freeman would like
  to see her daughter, a second-
  grader, get away from.  "I think
  they're kind of crowded, especially
  the younger ones," she said.
      "The more room the better,
  and more teachers would be better,
  too.  They should get more teachers
  to go with the space," Freeman
  said.
      Additional teachers should be
  on the way, McNulty said.
      "We'll have five new class-
  rooms and we'll eventually add five
  new teachers.  But it won't happen
  immediately," she said.
      McNulty said there also will be
  an additional room but what that
  room will be used for has not yet
  been decided.  She said it may be
  available for exceptional student
  education.
      She added parents and teachers
  will have to wait and see what will
  be the long-range impact of the exi
  pansion.
                                                                              
  Indian River County School District officials say this is 
  how the expanded Sebastian Elementary will look when work 
  is completed.

  

  New grocery feeds customers' satisfaction
  By DAVID KEARNS
  Of The Sun

    Cam Bergeron drove about 12
  miles from Sebastian inlet State
  Park and Recreation Area, where
  she lives and works, to attend the
  new Winn Dixie's opening cele-
  bration May 8.
      Mrs. Bergeron, who lives less
  than 10 miles from another large
  supermarket in Brevard County,
  said the few extra miles were
  worth the effort.
      "This is the closest Winn Dixie,
  which is where I shop.  It's really
  beautiful," she said.
      Sebastian resident Marie Bier-
  ney said she lives close by the new
  store at County Road 512 and Rose-
  land Road.  She may not have had to
  drive a long way for the opening,
  but she said she has been waiting

  seven years for a store so large and
  so close to home to open.

        "It's gorgeous.  Everything's
   right here.  Next, they'll be selling
   clothes.  That's the only thing that I
   can see that they don't have yet,"
   she said.
        The two area residents were
   not alone in their approval of the
   new store.
        "I think it's beautiful, comfort-
   able and convenient," said Cleo
   Hart of Sebastian.
        "Nothing bad to report from
   me," Mrs. Hart said.
        And the hour of the store's
   opening, 7 a.m., didn't stop many
   residents from arriving early to se
   what was inside.
        By the time doors opened,
   store managers said, about 300 res-
   idents were lined up outside the
   doors of the new 44,000-square-
   foot store.
        Many sought to take advantage
   of Winn Dixie's gift certificates for             
   about $20 worth of free items avail-
   able to the first 200 customer@@
   through the gates, said Fred Far-
   ney, district manager for Winn
   Dixie Stores.
        "We gave out all the tickets,
   right away," he said May 8. " It
   seems like just about everyone
   from Sebastian has been here to-
   day."
        Famey, who oversees all of the
   Winn Dixie stores on Florida's East
   Coast from West Melbourne to Port
   St. Lucie, said the location was
   ideal for a new grocery store.
        Late last year, Winn Dixie
   cials closed the area's original
   in the Roseland Plaza while await-
   ing the new store to be finished,
   Farney said.
        "They (company officials) al-
   ways look for an area that's grow-
   ing to put these newer stores and
   this area is definitely growing,"
   Farney said of the move to the Se-
   bastian Highlands.
        Farney said he didn't know why
   company officials elected to close
   the former store before the new fa-
   cility, with about twice the space of
   the old, was finished.
        The new store includes a deli/
   bakery with a sit-down food court
   and concession area on the west
   side of the building.

       Hot meals, sodas and "sand-
  wiches are available in the food
  court.  Other touches include a flo-
  ral shop, fruit bar and a one-hour
  photograph laboratory.
       A dry-cleaning service area still
  is being built near the manage-
  ment offices just inside the build-
  ing, but it should be done
  sometime before midsummer, said
  Mike Klenotich, the store's co-man-
  ager.
       Senior Manager Robert Brandt
  overseas the management team, in-
  cluding Klenotich and about seven
  managers from the various depart-
  ments.  The store will be staffed by
  about 250 employees year roun&,
  Farney said.
       "Most of our employees live
  right here in the Highlands.  We put
  an ad in the paper and hired them
  all from right here," Farney said.
       "We had to call in a few co-
  managers and other employees
  from other stores in the company
  to help us open this up, but most
  of the folks you see working here
  will be from the community," he
  said.
       Klenotich said the response
  from shoppers on the first day of
  business was tremendous.
       "It's been fabulous.  We're just
  glad to have everyone from Sebas-
  tian back shopping with us again,"
  he said.
  
  
  Photo Caption
  Winn Dixie employee Tracy Detwiler helps out Marie Bierney 
  on opening day May 8 at the new Winn Dixie store.

  

  Planning board wants Sebastian to flourish,
  yet retain natural treasures
  By
  Drew Dixon

    Sebastian native Carl Fischer has
  seen the city flourish during his
  life and now he's happy to be part
  of a panel that guides that growth.
       Fischer has served on the city's
  Planning and Zoning Commission
  for about four years and is cur-
  rently the chairman.
       "With my knowledge of doing
  developing through my family over
  the years, and doing projects, I felt
  I could help the city out," Fischer
  said.
       His interest in growth is not
   only limited to the planning board,
   but he also owns and is a broker at
   Town & Country Realty on U.S. 1.
   He also worked for his father's de-
   velopment company, Henry
   Fischer and Sons Development.
      The insight into the growth of
   the city gives Fischer an under-
   standing of what needs to be done
   for the future of Sebastian, he said.
      "Traffic circulation, road im-
   provements and thoroughfares will
   be necessary to develop new busi-
   ness," he said.
      While Fischer wants to see Se-
   bastian flourish, he said, he's still
   cautious about infringing upon the
   natural treasures that make the city
   unique.
      "I've always loved the Sebastian
   area and I've always been involved
   in our community," he said.
      That     involvement      includes
   memberships      in     organizations
   such as the Friends of the Sebastian
   River, the Sebastian Historical So-
   ciety, the Sebastian River Area
   Chamber of Commerce and the Se-
   bastian Elks Lodge, where he's        
   trustee.
      But  it's the time he spent away
   from Sebastian that brought out his
   true love for the area, he said.
   Fischer graduated from the Art in-
   stitute of Chicago, where he ma-
   jored in fine arts, specializing in
   photography. It's a passion he still
   enjoys and brings him closer to the
   natural surroundings of Sebastian,
   he said.
       "Sebastian is a good area to do
   fine arts," Fischer said.  "I like to
   get out in the Sebastian River and
   work with images and the ecosy-
   stem.
       "It helps me get involved in the
   environmental side and makes me
   more aware through photography,"
   he said.

       Many of his photographs dot
   the walls of his office and occa-
   sionally, Fischer enters his wor
   in art shows, he said.

       His appreciation of the natural
   surroundings of Sebastian and the
   city's impending growth calls for
   "a delicate balance," he said.

       Fischer added he's encouraged
   by recent land acquisitions by In-
   dian River County officials to pre-
   serve environmentally sensitive
   areas, such as the Sebastian River
   Buffer Preserve.

       Meanwhile, Sebastian as a city
   will continue to grow, Fischer said,
   and its future lies in annexation of
   lands west of the city.

       "I'm an advocate of annexation.
   Right now, our boundaries are lim-
   ited," he said.  "Going west is the
   most important thing.  That's where
   the large acreage (of land) is, near
   Interstate 95.  That's an important
   issue.  Whether people want to an-
   nex or not ... that would be the
   problem we'd have to overcome."

       Birthdate:June 25, 1964.
       Birthplace: Sebastian.
       Education: Bachelor Of Arts de-
   gree in fine arts from the Art Insti-
   tute of Chicago, class of 1986.
       Family: Single.

       The best part of my job is:
   Working with the planning of the
   city.

       What I like the least about
   my job is: Nothing.
       The most recent movie I saw
   in a theater was: "Ransom."

       The book I'd recommend ev-
   eryone to read is: "Astra and
   Flondrix," by Seamus Cullen.

       Of everyone in the world,
   the person I would most like to
   meet is: Newt Gingrich.

       My favorite food is: Italian.

       If I was going on a trip to
   the moon, I would take along:
   Lots of water.

      When I was growing up, I al-
   ways wanted to be: A photogra-
   pher.

      If I were president of the
   United Siates, I'd: Balance the
   budget.

      When I want to get away
   from it all, I: Go canoeing On the
   Sebastian River and take pictures.

       The person I admire the
   most is: My father, Dr. Henry
   Fischer.

      My proudest moment was: I'm
   still working on it.

      My favorite sports team is:
   Boston Celtics.

      My favorite television show
   is: "Seinfeld."
      On my last vacation, I visited:
   Watervliet, Mich.

      The first thing I do when I
   wake up in the morning is:
   Drink lots of coffee.

      The type of music I enjoy the
   most is: Easy listening.

      If I could do something over
   again, I'd: I wouldn't do anything
   over again.

      People who know me the best
   know I: Help everybody.

      The most exciting time in my
   life is: My service on the Planning
   and Zoning Commission and work-
   ing on volunteer projects for the
   Sebastian River.
   
   
   Photo Caption
   Carl Fischer, chairman of Sebastian's Planning and Zoning 
   Commission, said he's devoted to helping the city continue 
   to grow, but wants to preserve its natural beauty.

   
   
   Barefoot Bay club serves up fun for its members
   By DREW DIXON
   Of The Sun

       Call out, "Tennis anyone," in
   Barefoot Bay and you're liable to
   get swarmed by about 170 people
   who are always out for a good
   game.

        The Tennis Club
   Bay stays active all year long on
   the five courts next to the Com-
   munity Center, said Harold
   Holmes, club president.
        "It's tennis that brings them all
   together," he said.  "We have
   some hardcores.  I play seven days
   a week."
        But, there are plenty of players
   who take to the courts just for fun,
   too.
        Bill Pickett has been a member
   of the Tennis Club for about 10
   years and said he enjoys the fact
   there are members with all kinds
   of experience who play.
        "It's wonderful; there's all lev-
   els of play.  We get people that
   never picked up a tennis racket
   before they were 60. It's a lot of
   fun and most of these people are
   content to play right here in Bare-
   foot Bay," Pickett said.
        Ray Viens is one of those play-
   ers who never faced the net be-
   fore moving to Barefoot Bay nine,
   years ago.
        "I hated tennis.  The people
   here are very tolerant.  Now, I'm
   down here at 6 o'clock in the
   morning," ready to play tennis, he
   said.
        The close-knit environment sur-
   rounding the Tennis Club is what
   makes it special, according to
   Holmes.
       "Everybody knows everybody.
   People get to know each other in
   the Tennis Club, more so than
   other clubs" at Barefoot Bay, he
   said.
        The social contacts made
   through the Tennis Club are invalu-
   able, according to member John
   Mazza.
        "I've been playing tennis a long
   time.  But the organization here is
   wonderful," he said.
        "There's no better way to meet
   people than through the Tennis
   Club.  My whole social life revolves
   around tennis," Mazza said.
        An element that leads to greater
   sociability in the Tennis Club is the
   structure for competition, Holmes
   said.  The club has the tennis courts
   reserved every morning during the
   weekdays from 8 a.m. to noon.  He
   said there's a sign-up sheet and it's
   first come, first served.

      "You can't be selective about
  who you play,"   Holmes said. He
  also explained there are often wait-
  ing times before players can take to
  the courts and that's when a lot of
  friendships are made.
      "When you're waiting there for
  a court to get open, you get to so-
  cialize and talk with people.  That's
  why you get to know everybody
  there," he said.
      The competition never gets too
  intense, either, and that leads to
  better times on the court as well,
  according to Pickett.
      "The biggest thing about term
  is to play people at your own level
  When the, average age is 65 to 70,
  you're not meeting a lot of whiz-
  kids," he said.
     Though not a whiz-kid, 81-year-
  old Wirt Greenan is the oldest
  member of the  club to take to the
  courts and he said he's not about to
  let his game slip.
     "I'm just going to keep this thing
  going until I'm 84," he said.
     "We've got the greatest group
  I've ever played with.  They're real
  fine people and they're good play-
  ers.  There's no place like Barefoot
  Bay," Greenan said.
     Members of the Tennis Club also
  learn and improve  their game pre-
  tty much at their own pace, Pickett
  said. Not only was    Pickett a mem-
  ber of the tennis team at Bowling
  Green State University in Ohio, but
  he also coached tennis for a high-
  school team.  But he never really
  tries to tell people how to play at
  Barefoot Bay.
     "I try sometimes, but people re-
  sent that.  They don't want someone
  telling them   what to do. The big-
  gest problem   is keeping my mouth
  shut," he said.
     The club does try to provide
  equal time on the courts for every-
  one.  The schedule allows Monday,
  Wednesday and Friday to be open
  for any member.  Tuesdays are des-.
  ignated for men club members only
  and Thursday is for women mem-
  bets only, Holmes said.  All games
  are doubles matches.
     The club also organizes four
  tournaments each year for members
  only.  And there's always a
  Christmas party.
     It costs $5 a year to join.  Anyone
  interested can call 664-5517.

 
 Photo Caption
 John Mazza, left, watches as 81 -year-old Wirt Greenan serves 
 up what he hopes is the winning point at a gathering of the 
 Barefoot Bay Tennis Club.  Greenan, the oldest member of the
 group, has no plans to become a spectator.


         
         
  Crossing guard zoning in on speedy motorists

  By DAVID KEARNS
  Of The Sun

    if you are driving near the inter-
  section of Delaware Avenue and
  County Road 512 during the day
  and you hear someone reprimand-
  ing you from the side of the road,
  slow down immediately.
      Chances are you are moving
  too fast in Sebastian Elementary's
  school zone for the likes of school
  crossing guard Larry Morris.
      Maybe you've just missed the
  large flashing lights above you and
  crossed into the school zone a little
  faster than the legal limit of 20
  mph.  Don't take Morris' shout per-
  sonally, just consider the source
  behind the reprimand.  The 67-
  year-old Sebastian resident said he
  takes his job protecting school
  children very seriously.
      Morris, an ex-Marine and for-
  mer carrier for the U.S. Postal Ser-
  vice, basically is a nice guy who
  said he loves kids.  He wants to see
  them all grow up to be healthy,
  wealthy and wise, he said.
      "When kids' lives are involved,
  I get very upset if I see people
  aren't doing what they're supposed
  to," he said.
      If the presidential motorcade
  were moving through his intersec-
  tion too fast, Morris said, the com-
  mander in chief would get the
  same warning, "Hey, slow down!"
  as everyone else he sees speeding
  through the school zone.
      Morris left the Postal Service
  with a disability in 1988.  He has
  been crossing youngsters at the
  same corner for about four years
  between the hours of 7:45 a.m. and
  9 a.m. and 2:35 p.m. to 3:35 p.m.
   Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and
   Friday.  Wednesdays, however, his
   afternoon shift is from 1:15 p.m. to
   2:15 p.m. because the students get
   out of school a little after 1 p.m.
   those days.
       The affable nature and his peri-
   odic banter with friends, students
   and parents belies a seriousness
   about his $5.45-per-hour iob.  His
   salary is paid from the Sebastian
   Police Department's budget.
       Similar to any of the 10 cross-
   ing guards who monitor the young-
   sters and shield them from harm
   near Sebastian and Pelican Island
   elementary schools, Morris has
   seen his share of close calls.
       "People have to be more care-
   ful.  Parents forget that they are par-
   ents after they drop their kids off,"
   he said, "They go too fast."
       Morris also is concerned the
   school-zone sign in the eastbound
   lane of C.R. 512 is too close to the
   school and particularly too close to
   the road's intersection with Dela-
   ware Avenue.  Many children cross
   from the Sebastian Highlands at
   that intersection, he said.
       The distance now between the
   intersection and the sign is only
   150 feet, he said, voicing concern
   many driver in the eastbound lane
   apparently don't see the flashing
   light in time to make the transition
   from 35 mph to 20 mph.
       Morris, a father of two and
   grandfather of three, said the Se-
   bastian Police Department is very
   good about stationing a patrol ve-
   hicle at the intersection during the
   crossing hours, but even with the
   officer, some people still go to
   fast through the intersection,  he
   said.
       "That can be an expensive
   ticket.  Twenty mph above the
   speed limit in a school zone is an
   automatic $500 fine.  I've seen it
   happen," he said.
       Indian River County Commis-
   sioner Fran Adams listened to
   many of Morris' suggestions about
   how to make the intersection safer
   and she put Morris in contact with
   the Indian River County public
   works engineers, who also listened
   and acted on some of his sugges-
   tions.
       Last  year, county officials
   moved the "end of school zone",
   sign in the westbound lane of CR
   512 about 100 yards farther west
   from where it was originally.
       The move makes sure parents
  leaving the school after dropping              
  off their own children don't re-
  sume a normal speed until they are
  well down the road, Morris said.

                                                                                e
  
  Photo Caption
  Larry Morris helps Nikki DeDominicis, her dad, Donald, and her 
  dog, Lucy, cross the street at Delaware Avenue as the youngster
  heads to Sebastian Elementary.

  
  
  News briefs

  
  Bloodmobile
  to visit Sebastian
    
    The Indian River Blood Bank
  bloodmobile will visit the follo
  ing sites in May:
      * May 17 - Sebastian Moose
  Lodge, 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
      * May 20 - Sebastian River
  Medical Center, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
      * May 27 - Sebastian River
  Medical Center, 11 a.m. to 2 P.M.
      * May 28 - Fellsmere Elemen-
  tary, 2-4 p.m.
      * May 29 -Sun Ag Inc., 12:30-
  4 p.m.
      * May 31 - Publix, Sebastian,
  10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
      Donors must weigh at least 100
  pounds, be in good general health
  and be at least 17 years old.  Each
  donor receives a free mini-physi-
  cal, blood typing and cholesterol
  test.  Call 567-4266 for additional
  information.

  
  Red Cross
  seeks volunteers
   
   The Indian River County Chapter
  of the American Red Cross is seek-
  ing volunteers.  Volunteers are
  needed with nursing, mechanical,
  clerical and crafts experience.
      For more information, call the
  chapter house, 562-2549.

  Ethnic club
  awards scholarships
    The Polish American Social Club
  of Vero Beach will be awarding
  $10,000 in scholarships to local
  students.
      Students from Sebastian River
  High School receiving scholarships
  are: Bryan Cichewicz, $1,000; Anna
  Christopherson, $500; Michael Ro-
  vella, $1,000; Holly King, $500;
  Alejandra Cendejas, $500; and Lor-
  riane Kachele, $500.
      Krishna Hathaway of the River
    School was given a $500 scholar-
    ship.
       The Polish American Social
    Club is a non-profit organization
    that annually generates funds for
    charitable   purposes, including
    scholarships.  Applicants were eval-
    uated on academic achievement, fi-
    nancial need, participation in
    school/extracurricular/church ac-
    tivities, as well as an interview and
    references.  Scholarship applica-
    tions may be obtained at the
    School Guidance office.

    
    Swingtime Band
    holding concert

     The Swingtime Band, a unit
    the Melbourne Municipal Band,
    will hold a 49th anniversary cele-
    bration dance for Radio Station
    WMMB-1240 8-11 p.m. May 17 at
    the Melbourne Auditorium, 625 E.
    Hibiscus Blvd.
       The 16-piece band will provide
    dancing and listening music from
    the '40s, '50s and '60s, fitting the
    period when WMMB went on the
    air.
      Larry Brewer will emcee the eve-
    ning.  Band vocalists Connie Silli-
    man and Len Fallen will be joined
    by WMMB personalities Mark
    Pence, Rob Nichols and Bobby
    Browne in solo performances.
    There will be snacks and mixers
    available for this BYOB event.
      Admission is $7 per person and
    tickets may be  purchased at
    WMMB, Atlantic Music, Marion Mu-
    sic or at the door.  There will be
    open seating.
     For further information, call 724-
    0555.

    
    Soccer Association
    registration begins

     The Sebastian Soccer Association
    has scheduled a series of registra-
    tion dates for the fall season.
       The first session is scheduled
    from 2 to 6 p.m. May 17 at the Bar-
    ber Street creative playground.
       Additional sessions are sched-
    uled for May 20, 22, 28, June 7 and
    12.
       Early registration fee is $30.  All
    players must be accompanied of by
    a parent and bring a copy of their
    birth certificate.
      For more information, call 388-
    9341.

   
   Sandridge schedules
   junior golf clinic
     
     There will be a free junior golf
   clinic and information session for
   the summer program May 17 at the
   Sandridge driving range.
       The clinic is scheduled to be-
   gin at 10 a.m. at the south end of
   the range.  Kids will be able to sign
   up for junior instruction programs
   and the Treasure Coast junior Golf
   Tour.
       There will be refreshments and
   hot dogs after the clinic.  For more
   information, contact Bela Nagy at
   Sandridge at 770-5003.

   
   Junior Golf Academy
   starting in Sebastian
     
     The Sebastian Municipal Golf
   Course has announced the return
   of the junior Golf Academy this
   summer.
       Scheduled to begin June 2,
   the program will cover all aspects
   of the game.  Instructors will be di-
   rector of golf Pat Cerjan and head
   pro Greg Gardner.
       Cost for the program is $25.
   Registration will be taken from 9
   a.m. to noon on June 14 and 21.
   For more information, contact Cer-
   jan or Gardner at 589-5708.
   
   
   Sebastian Sun Devils
   seeking sponsors
     The Sebastian Sun Devils fast-
   pitch softball league for girls 14-18
   years old is seeking sponsors
   help pay for travel, equipment a
   uniforms.
       Each player is required to find
   a sponsor and sign a letter of com-
   mitment to the league.  The volun-
   teer  staff consists entirely
   parents and local coaches.
       Anyone wanting to help should
   call Jim Barton at 589-6102 or To
   Batchellor at 562-4024.

   
   Local Red Cross
   offering lessons

      The local American Red Cross
  branch and the Recreation Depart-
  ment of Vero Beach/Indian River
  County are offering "learn to
  swim" programs July and August at
  Leisure Square.
      The first session runs from June
  9 to July 19, while the second ses-
  sion is from June 23 to July 3. The
  third session is July 7 to July 17,
  the fourth session runs from July
  21 to July 31, while the fifth ses-
  sion goes from Aug. 4 to Aug. 14.
      One class is specifically for in-
  fants six months to three years old,
  with parental participation.  Classes
  also will be held for toddlers, pre-
  schoolers and adults.
      The cost of the   course is $35
  per session, which includes eight
  lessons.  Registration is being ac-
  cepted now at the Red Cross office
  on 2506 17th Ave.

  
  Volleyball league
  starting in Sebastian

      The Vero Beach/Indian River
  County Recreation Department will
  be starting an open volleyball pro-
  gram for men age 55 and over.
      Games will be held on Monday
  and Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:30
  p.m. at Sebastian River Middle
  School.
      The school is four miles west of
  Sebastian on County Road 512.  The
  gym will be open for any man 55
  or older who wishes to play.
      There will be a $1 per player
  per night fee.  Appropriate footwear
  is mandatory.
      Call Cliff Hoose at 589-4785 or
  567-2144 for more information.

  
  Exchange Club
  holding tournament

      The Exchange Club of Sebastian
  will hold its Sebastian Inlet Blue
  Water Open Fishing Tournament
  May 24 at the Sebastian River Ma-
  rina and Boat Yard, located one
  mile north of the Sebastian River
  bridge in Micco.
      Cash prizes of $4,800 in three
  prize categories, Dolphin, Kingfish
  and Grouper, will be awarded with
  $1,000 for first place, $500 second
  place and $1
     Cost is $125 per boat.  Captain's
  packets must be picked up at the
  captain's meeting, set for 6 p.m.
  May 23 at Sebastian River Marina
  n@d Boat Yard.  To be eligible for
  prizes, all boats must check out be-
  tween 6:30-9:30 a.m. and no later
  than 4:30 p.m. at the inlet.  Weigh-
  in will be from noon until 4:30
  p.m., with an awards presentation
  at 6:30 p.m.
      All proceeds from the tourna-
  ment will benefit the Exchange
  Club of Sebastian's project fund to
  be directed toward the prevention
  of child abuse and other youth and
  community-oriented activities in
  Indian River County.
      For further information, call
  tournament co-chairman Kevin
  Crowe at 589-8208 or Rick Giteles
  at 589-7222.

  
  
  
  People losing out by staying home
  By Dr. Raymond Dean                               

  Last week, on National Anxiety
  Day, I had the privilege of being a
  co-chairman of an open meeting
  with Dr. Joseph Altieri and Dr. Ken
  Director, both of whom have of-
  fices in Vero Beach.  It was a rare
  event when the three of us could
  get together to speak and answer
  questions about anxiety.

      A funny thing happened; very
  few people showed up.  As a fre-
  quent public speaker, I realized
  these things happen; sometimes
  the weather drives them off, some-
  times there is some other major
  event going on; sometimes the
  word didn't get out in time. Some-
  times, there's no reason.
      But on the way home, it
  crossed my mind that anxiety dis-
  orders include agoraphobia, a pe-
  culiar disorder in which people are
  afraid to leave the house.  I won-
  dered how many people perhaps
  would have wanted to attend the
  seminar but couldn't because
  their agoraphobia.

      Agoraphobia is not a rare disor-
  der.  It affects at least 2 percent of
  the population and estimates of
  this problem continue to rise. This
  does not surprise me in the least.
  Before I explain, let's just explain
  what it's like to have agoraphobia.

      Many people with this condi-
  tion essentially are housebound.
  When they attempt to leave their
  homes, they develop intense anxi-
  ety and fearfulness.  For most of
  them, if they venture far from
  home, they will experience panic
  attacks, which is the most severe
  form of anxiety attack.  When peo-
  ple have panic attacks, they feel as
  if they are going to die.  Their chest
  aches, they can't breathe, they get
  dizzy and faint, their heart races
  and, occasionally, they get nau-
  seated and vomit.  Many people ex-
  periencing their first panic attack
  dial 911 and go to the emergency
  room for a presumed heart attack.

      Fortunately, panic attacks gen-
  erally are harmless and respond
  well to medications.  The associ-
  ated agoraphobia, if it came as a re-
  sult of avoiding getting panic
  attacks, often clears up as well.
  However, sometimes it doesn't.
  This brings up the key philosoph-
  ical point of this week's column
  (didn't think I'd forget this time,
  did you?).  Isn't our society foster-
  ing the development of agorapho-
  bia when all you read about in the
  newspapers or see on television
  are murders, accidents and other
  calamities?  Isn't it wise to just stay
  home?

      In fact, in the '80s, the "me"
  decade, there was a yuppie phrase,
  "Let's cocoon tonight." Cocooning
  became an accepted term for get-
  ting all of one's entertainment and
  emotional needs met at home.
  With bigger and better televisions
  and sound systems and the advent
  of the videocassette recorder, one
  could bring the movies home.

     Several other developments
  have spurred on the development
  of cocooning, including home-de-
  livery of pizza and other food,
  home-delivered dry cleaning, even
   home-delivered groceries.  We also
   have the Home Shopping Network
   and other dial-in services.  Then we
   have house calls by massage thera-
   pists, nurses, aides and helpers of
   all kinds.  Now, with the Internet,
   we can do our banking at home.
       The day has come.  We probably
   can live much of our lives now
   without ever having to leave the
   house.  Perhaps we should call the
   '90s the "agoraphobic decade." I
   should, of course, mention that
   those true sufferers of severe agora-
   phobia probably have a biochemi-
   cal predisposition to developing
   this illness and that most people
   will not develop panic attacks even
   if they cocoon too much. Further, I
   must admit that I like to stay home
   and enjoy my family and private
   time as much as anybody.  But I
   worry about the collective effect of
   a national trend toward isolation
   and reliance on media for informa-
   tion.
      While we may gain a modicum
   of security in not risking being
   shot, raped, mugged, etc., we lose
   a piece of our humanity via the loss
   of community, sharing the simpler
   pleasures of life and missing out
   on many of the joys of being out in
   the world.
      Dr.  Raymond Dean is a board-
   certified psychiatrist, author and
   public speaker prq@ticing in Vero
   Beach.

   
   
   LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

   Resident supports
   proposed Winn Dixie
    
     After reading the article concern-
   ing the possibility of a Winn Dixie
   supermarket in the area adjacent to
   Barefoot Bay, I would like to advise
   your readers that Marie Bergamini
   does not speak for all the residents
   of Snug Harbor Village and Lakes.
      Mrs. Bergamini speaks only for
   a small group of people.
      The convenience of going to a
   store located close by will more
   than offset any yet-to-be seen traf-
   fic problem.

    If Mrs. Bergamini wishes to
  keep traveling for quite some dis-
  tance to buy her groceries, she
  most welcome to do so.
      She also is entitled to her opin-
  ion, and I respect her right to voice
  it.
      However, a large majority  of
  the people in this area would pre-
  fer such an addition rather than an-
  other fast-food outlet, used car lot
  or another unneeded medical
  plaza.
                      George R. Bissey
                                 Micco

              POETRY CORNER


                Grandfather

  Heavy grey hair surrounds
  A stern face ravaged by time
  Shadowed eyes speak of years of life
  Heartaches, some past grieving
  Mistakes made, tragedies survived
  Some dangers passed by, unrecognized
  Forget the compromises made
  For peace and harmony's sake
  Grudges released and gone
  This is the age of miracles
  Hope buoys him up and on
  Time can write upon a clean slate
  And he can assist this one's fate
  A smile softens the chiseled features
  As his fingers curl tenderly around
  Those of the newborn child's
  This special heaven-sent creature
  His very own grandson.
                                 Iva Lee Wolfe
                                 Sebastian

  
  
  
  News briefs

  Bay Democrats
  meeting May 22

   The Barefoot Bay Democratic
  Club will hold a roundtable dis-
  cussion on Cost of Living Index
  change and its effect on Medicare,i
  payments at 7:30 p.m. May 22 in,
  Building D&E.
    All residents are welcome to at-
  tend the meeting.  For more infor-
  mation, call 664-1871.

   Mensa society
   plans examination

       Space Coast Area Mensa, the lo-
   cal chapter of American Mensa Ltd.,
   the high-IQ society, will conduct
   an entrance examination session
   May 31.
       SCAM testing coordinator Jon
   Warner will hold the session in
   conference room C, Cape Ca-
   naveral Hospital Medical Plaza, 701
   West State Road 520, Cocoa Beach.
       Participants should bring valid
   identification and arrive at 12:30
   p.m.
       The three-hour examination
   lasts until 4 p.m. There is a $25 fee,
   payable to American Mensa Ltd.,
   due at the time of testing.
       Warner encourages walk-ins.
   There is no pre-registration for the
   session.  The minimum age for test-
   ing is 14 years.
       Mensa is an international orga-
   nization with only one criterion for
   membership.
       Applicants must score at or
   above the 98th percentile on a
   standard IQ test.
       Space Coast Area Mensa serves
   both Brevard and Indian River
   counties.
       For  more information, call
   Warner at (407) 635-8581, or Ken
   Tidey at (407) 639-1911.

   
   Mammal rescue
   topic of talk

    Ann Spellman, a marine research
   associate with the state Department
   of Environmental Protection, will
   take about the rescue and recovery
   program for endangered, threat-
   ened and protected marine mam-
   mals at the May 23 Brown Bag
   Lunch sponsored by the Marine Re-
   sources Council.
       The lunches are held at noon
   Fridays at Fisherman's Landing
   Park in Grant. The public is invited
   to bring a lunch and enjoy a peace-
   ful hour by the Indian River.

   
   Property owners
   meeting in Roseland

    The Roseland Property Owners
   Association will hold its monthly
   meeting at 7:30 p.m. May 20 at the
   Roseland Community Center, Bay
   Street.

   
   Theater auditions
   announced for June
      Auditions for the Summerstage
   productions of "Grease" and an-
   other play to be announced will be
   held June I at 2 p.m. and June 2 at
   7 p.m. at Riverside Children's
   Theatre in Vero Beach.
      Students ages 12 and older are
   eligible to audition for the produc-
   tions.
      A prepared monologue is not
   required, but 16 bars of prepared
   music is requested if auditioning
   for the musical.
      Productions for Summerstage
   will be July 18-28.
      For more information, call 234-
   8052.

   
   Barefoot Bay Irish
   to end season
      
      May 21 will be the last meeting
   of the season for the Barefoot Bay
   Irish-American Club.
      The Sebastian Singers will en-
   tertain at the meeting that will be
   held at 7 p.m. in Building A.
      At April's meeting, appreciation
   plaques were presented to Bob and
   Mary Moran and Bob and Betty Bai-
   ley.  At meetings prior to the St. Pat-
   rick's Day dinner dance, the
   couples gave exhibitions and
   taught   members two dances:
   "Siege of Ennis" and "Stack of Bar-
   ley.
      The trio of Bob  Heckman, Bill
   League and Al Huhn entertained in
   April.
      Meetings will resume at 7 p.m.
   Sept. 17 in Building A.
 
 
 Episcopal women
 meeting May 17'
    
    The Episcopal Church Women's
 group will meet May 17 at St. Eliza-.
 beth's Episcopal  Church, 901
 Clearmont St., Sebastian.
      The Rev.  Bob Lieffort will cele-
 brate the Holy Eucharist at 10 a.m.
      Wine and cheese will be served
  during the social hour hosted by
  the group's officers.
      This is the group's last meeting
  until September.
      All Episcopal women are mem-
  bers and are invited to attend.

  
  Deborah chapter                        
  meeting May 23
     
     Ann Davies, a registered dieti-
  cian, will talk about nutrition and
  menu planning as they relate to
  cardiac and pulmonary care, at the
  May 23 meeting of the Deborah
  Chapter of Barefoot Bay.
      The meeting will begin at 10
  a.m. in Building D&E.
      The barbecue picnic will be
  held from 10 a.m. to noon June 2
  at the pavilion.
      Members are asked to bring
  their own utensils and place set-
  tings.
      Donations of salads are needed.
      Members are asked to sign up
  at the May 23 meeting.
      Tickets will be available for the
  chapter's fund-raiser in October.
      The fund-raiser will be a Coun-
  try Western Barbecue and dance,
  with music by Larry Brewer of
  WMMB in Melbourne.


  
  Week in Review

  
  Barefoot Bay trustees hold on to $12,000
  
    The Barefoot Bay Homeowners
  Association won't be getting any 
  money from Barefoot Bay Recre-
  ation District, at least not for now.
      During the district's monthly
  meeting May 9, district trustees ta-
  bled a decision whether to give the
  association about $12,000, the
  amount the association used to get
  from Avatar Properties Inc., which
  the company collected from guest
  passes.
      "At the moment, I think the
  question is moot.  We need the
  money to pass the budget," said
  district Chairman Ben Krom. add-
  ing the district is already working
  with a tight budget for fiscal 1998.
      "The budget plays an important
  part.  We're already digging into
  our savings to balance (the bud-
  get)," said John Olyslager, district
  second vice chairman.
      The issue was brought up be-
  cause of a letter association Presi-
  dent Flo Canham wrote to Krom
  reminding him of the Feb. 13
  meeting, at which she, Krom, asso-
  ciation Vice President Joe Genera-
  zio and Barefoot Bay Community
  Manager Helen Hambro all met
  and discussed the possibility of ob-
  taining the money from the dis-
  trict.
      The $12,000 was the associa-
  tion's main source of income, Can-
  ham said in her letter.
      Generazio, who was at the May
  9 meeting, was upset by the trust-
  ees' decision to table the issue.
      "When the takeover from Av-
  atar happened, you said nothing
  will be changed.  That tells me two
  things.  Either half of your board
  doesn't know what they're talking
  about, or they outright lied," Gen-
  erazio said.
      At the meeting, the trustees
  unanimously approved the pro-
  posed fiscal 1998 budget of $4.38
  million.
      The budget includes a $740,-
  000 payment on the $8.9 million
  loan the district took out earlier
  this year to buy the recreational fa-
  cilities from Avatar.  Money to pay
  off the loan is coming from fees
  and miscellaneous revenue froi
  the facilities, such as the sale
  food, beverages and merchandise.
      One of the additions to the pro-
  posed budget was to set aside
  about $73,000 in case the district
  needs to pay property taxes.
      During a special workshop May
  1, the trustees learned from the
  district's attorney, Mitch Barlow,
  that because of a recent court ru-
  ing, there is a question whether
  public bodies have to pay real es-
  tate taxes on the property they
  own.
      Working already with a lean
  budget, trustees decided to dip
  into the district's savings and not
  raise maintenance and other fees,
  in order to pay the taxes.
      Final approval of the budget
  will take place during a budget
  hearing at 7:30 P.M. June 10 in
  Building A. The public is welcome
   to give its input, but only in mat-
   ters relating to the budget, Krom
   said.

   Builder reapplies
   for permits
      Officials of CornerStone Select
   Homes have reapplied for seven of
   the nine building permits that
   were revoked May 1, but this time,
   Sebastian building officials plan to
   keep tighter tabs on their progress.
      Sebastian  Building   Official
   George Bonacci said the building
   company intends to come in to re-
   apply for the remaining two per-
   mits by the end of the week.
      CornerStone's year-old building
   permits were revoked May 1 be-
   cause the company didn't start
   building homes on the sites within
   a year of the permits being issued.
   The company was given five days
   to reapply for new permits or clean
   up the lots.
      Company officials could not be
   reached for comment, but, when
   the permits were revoked, Vice
   President Dan Lambdin said Cor-
   nerstone didn't realize the build-
   ing permits would expire.  The plan
   was to build homes on the lots af-
   ter they were sold, not let the lots
   sit idle, he said.
      He said work would begin on
   the sites soon.
      The new permits will come
   with new rules and a set schedule
   to make sure the homes are built
   within a certain amount of time,
   Bonacci said.  He would not com-
   ment on the rules and schedule be-
   cause he has not yet discussed the
   details with CornerStone officials,
   he said.
      But Bonacci said company offi-
   cials know the city won't allow
   them to drag out building on the
   properties.
      To get the new permits, Cor-
   nerstone had to pay new applica-
   tion fees that vary according to the
   structure and design of th houses
   planned for the lots.  Bonacci said
   the fees were about $700 per
   house.                     
      "Now it's a new setup," he said.
      Between January and October
   1996, CornerStone received per-
   mits for lots on Pelican Island
   Street, Spring Valley Avenue, Bris-
   tol Street, Day Drive and Empire
   Terrace.  City code requires con-
  struction to begin within six
  months or the permits are sus-
  pended.
      Some residents living near the
  lots complained to city official 
  that dust from the lots cleared of
  vegetation was blowing onto their
  properties.
      One of the sites on Empire Ter-
  race already has a concrete slab.
  That site, Bonacci said, will be
  priority.
      "That's got to be  done," he said.,
      Bonacci said other companies
  probably won't be subject to the
  same type of program as Cor-
  nerstone because up to now, the
  city never has had a problem with a
  developer getting so many permits
  at once and not working on the
  projects.
      Bonacci said CornerStone also
  had applied for several other per-
  mits during the year and com-
  pleted those homes within a few
  months.

  
  Micco to buy
  rescue truck
    
    Micco Fire Chief Ron Beatty has
  a new tool to help cut down res-
  cuers' response time.
      During the Micco Homeowners
  Association meeting May 8, Beatty
  said a contract for a new heavy-
  duty rescue truck has been signed.
      The truck, he said, will make it
  easier for his rescue workers to re-
  spond to accidents because they'll
  have all the tools they need in that
  one truck.
     "Right now, I have rescue
  equipment on three vehicles. Now
  I'll have it on one," Beatty said. If
  people are trapped in cars, we'll be
  able to get them out quickly be-
  cause we'll have all the tools right
  there."
      Beatty said the truck costs
  about $162,500.  The department
  will pay for the truck in payments
  of $25,000 a year for seven years.
  He said the truck is being paid for
  through the fund-raisers the Micco
  Volunteer Fire Department holds
  throughout the year.
      Although most people would
  worry about making $25,000 pay-
  ments each year, Beatty is not one
  of them.
      He said South Brevard residents
  have always been generous with
  their donations.
      "I have no problem what-
   soever, " Beatty said.  "We have a lot
   of people who donate money."
      It might be a while though be-
   fore residents can benefit from the
   new truck.  Beatty said the truck
   won't be delivered to the station
   until about October.
      The news of a new rescue truck
   wasn't the only thing that had
   Micco residents ooohing.
      At   the    meeting,     residents
   viewed a video of the newly com-
   pleted Cuyler Park Community
   Center in Mims, whose design is
   similar to the one proposed for the
   South Mainland Community Center
   off Allen Avenue in Micco.
      The center in Mims has a large
   main room with stage in it. Not far
   from the main room is a kitchen
   with a stainless-steel service table
   and new kitchen equipment.
      Like the community center in
   Mims, the one in Micco also will
   have a 10,000-square-foot gymna-
   sium next to it.
      Residents said they're hoping
   the gymnasium will help to keep
   children busy and out of trouble.

   
   Bay homeowners
   can't help with taxes
     
     The Barefoot Bay Homeowners
   Association Executive Board won't
   be helping the Barefoot Bay Recre-
   ation District pay for property
   taxes, which the district may have
   to pay this year.
      The board voted May 6 against
   the proposal.
      Treasurer James Dace said it
   would be a  nice gesture if the
   homeowners    would earmark part
   of the money they received from
   the class-action lawsuit against Av-,
   atar Properties Inc. to help the di-
   trict, in case it has to pay real estate
   taxes.
      "As a gesture the homeowners
   could pay for half of that if
   needed," Dace said.
      The district decided recently to
   set aside about $73,000 in its fiscal
   1998 budget after receiving a warn-
  ing from its Iawyer, Mitch Barlow,
  who said a recent court ruling
  makes it unclear if the district can
  keep its tax-exempt status.
      Most board members seemed
  to side with board Chairman Joe
  Generazio, who said he didn't
  think the association should help
  the district with any extra money.
  The district already gets mainte-
  nance and other fees from the
  homeowners.
      After a short discussion, board
  members voted 13 to 1, not to help
  the district.  Dace was the only one
  in favor of helping the district.
      At least one of the district
  members who attended Tuesday's
  meeting said he was disappointed
  with the board's decision.
      "We're sorry they don't see the
  light," said District Board member
  John Olyslager.
    He said some of the association's
  board members may not under-
  stand money collected by Avatar
  last year was to pay for taxes in Jan-
  uary, and it's up to the district to
  come up with money this year to
  pay for taxes by next January.
    This was the last meeting the ex-
  ecutive board will hold until Sep-
  tember.

  
  Panel considers
  landscape ordinance

    Sebastian's Riverfront Committee
  wants to make sure the riverfront
  district keeps its nice shade of
  green.
    So they want the city to pass an
  ordinance making developers have
  more trees and landscaping than
  now required in other parts of the
  city.
    The committee spent about two
  hours May 12 discussing a pro-
  posed landscape ordinance for the
  riverfront district.
    If approved, the ordinance "es-
  tablishes additional requirements
  over and above what the rest of the
  city is required to do," Community
  Development Director Bob Massa-
  relli said.
    The ordinance, for example,
  would require 25 percent more
  trees be planted at riverfront dis-
  trict development sites than now
  required, he said.  The city now re-
 quires one tree for every 35 feet
 along a street and one tree for ev-
 ery 50 feet in the side and back
 areas of a piece of property, he
 said.
     Developers could get bonus
 points, however, for planting tall
 trees and for preserving trees al-
 ready on the site, he said.
     Landscaping would be required
 to be planted around new build-
 ings under the proposed ordi-
 nance.  This idea will be used as a
 way to break up the building's
 mass, Massarelli said.
     "Right now, people could pave
 right up to the building," he said.
 Required landscaping would de-
 pend on the height of the building.

 
 
 Photo Caption
 A SEBASTIAN COUPLE LOST THEIR HOME AND THEIR DOG in a fire 
 May 11 at their house at 573 Jay St. The fire damaged every 
 room of the 1,400-square-foot, two-bedroom home occupied by 
 Toni and Ellen Tobin, according to Indian River County Fire 
 Lt. Blades Robinson.  The Tobins were able to escape 
 unharmed, but their golden retriever died in one of the 
 bedrooms. The blaze ignited shortly after noon and quickly 
 raced through the dwelling, aided by the fact the home's 
 sliding glass doors shattered, allowing a lot of oxygen into 
 the home to fan the flames. Above, Indian River County Fire-
 fighter Je Valentino, left, and Engineer Robert Cox make the 
 area off limits to people May 11 until fire inspectors could 
 investigate the scene.  On May 12, Indian River County Fire 
 Inspector Robert Von Buelow said the fire was caused by 
 problems in the electrical wiring.

 

 Educators visiting SRHS to learn about programs
 By DAVID KEARNS
 Of The Sun

     Call it another win for the home
 team.
     Sebastian River High School has
 been selected by the Southern Re-
 gional Education Board to serve as
 a demonstration site for educators
 from 15 southeastern states.

     Ten schools were chosen out of
 650 high schools in the region.

     SRHS is the only school in Flor-
 ida to have been selected for the
 honor of introducing innovations
 in education, SRHS Principal Fran
 Adams said.
     About 100 educators and legis-
 lators will tour the school Oct. 15-
 17 and Feb. 18-20.
     The visitors will look at the
 school's academy structure and its
 team approach to education.

       "I think it's quite an honor for
  a school that's only been in exis-
  tence for three years," Mrs. Adams
  said.

       Mrs. Adams credits the school's
  performance during recent stan-
  dardized testing of its seniors.

       A low drop-out rate also played
  a part in the selection, she said.

       Mrs. Adams said the school's
  drop-out rate for 1996 was .2 per-
  cent, compared to the state average
  for high-school seniors of 4 per-
  cent.

       The Southern Regional Educa-
  tion Board took several factors into
  consideration in making its selec-
  tion March 30, she said.

       The board is an Atlanta-based
  consortium of educators and legis-
  lators from 15 states established in
  1948 to gather information and ad-
  vise school boards how to improve
  their education systems.

       Governors from all of the states
  in the region serve on the board.

       The Southern Regional Educa-
  tion Board's communications di-
  rector, Mary Johnson, said the
  board's main focus has been a pro-
  gram called "High Schools that
  Work," in which the high schools
  in the region currently participate.

       "High Schools that Work" con-
  form to 10 key principles designed
  to improve the programs for stu-
  dents of every academic level and
  age.

       Mrs. Johnson said aside from
  the SRHS academy structure, the
  emphasis placed on realistic career
  paths for vocational students also
  was weighed during the selection
  process.

       Mrs. Johnson said SRHS is set-
  ting a standard in Florida for elimi-
  nating some lower-level courses
  for students on a vocational path,
  and replacing them with hands-on
  classes that can prepare the stu-
  dents for jobs after graduation.

       "We have been using (Sebas-
  tian River) as an example of a high
  school that has replaced the gen-
  eral track," she said.

      Mrs.  Johnson said the low drop-
  out rate indicates SRHS currently is
  successful in raising the bar on aca-
  demic standards without losing
  students.

      SRHS Career Counselor Lynn
  Philips-Hall attended a meeting of
  the board May 5 in Atlanta to ac-
  cept a $5,000 grant to host educa-
  tors in the region.

      She spoke briefly about the
  programs at Sebastian River.

      "After I got through, everyone
  said they wanted to tour this
  school," she said.

      Mrs. Hall said  it's not just the
  weather and the sunshine that has
  these teachers interested in com-
  ing to Sebastian.

      There's a lot under one roof in
  the way of innovations for other
  educators in the nation to con-
  sider, she said,

      Many of the innovations at
  SRHS, such as the international
  baccalaureate program, the career
  academies or the performance-
  based diploma program, would be
  enough to draw attention to a
  school.  Sebastian River has them
  all, she said.

       
       
       
  Local golf scores


        Barefoot Bay
    Ladies Association

   May 6, Nine and 18 Hole Get-To-
  gether, Scrambles: Helen Harig,
  Helen Comer, Dolly Williamson,
  Marge Basmagy, Marty Miller, He-
  Ien Syring and Irene Lavoile, min-
  us-3; Susan Fields, Doris Trameri,
  Rose Burkett, Valeri Maginnis,
  Jeanne Osborne, Wilma Jeffry and
  Alta Zinssar, even; Linda Keith, Do-
  rothy Denning, Edna Kohnen, Do-
  rothy Rolser, Rose Carlo, Ivie Speed
  and Mary Jane Boyden, even; Helen
  Penci, Sandy Flynn, Jackie Nuern-
  berger,   Harriet    Beatty,    Doris
  Palmer, Rose Ellis and Betty Burke,
  plus-1; Ann Leist, Betty Stockman,
  Ellen Arienta, Fran @ Henry, Doris
  Palmatier, Betty Metzen and Char-
  lotte Bissonette, plus-1; Marge Try-
 gar, Irene Starr, Julie Gagliano, Peg
 Coryell, Betty Griffin, June Atta and,
 Violett King, plus-1; Doris Cataldi,
 Mary Belanger, Dot Maselli, Betty
 Simpson, Betty Miller, Eleanor
 Schwartz and Barbara Gleasor,
 plus-2; Tina Mallet, Rose Marie El-
 lis, Marcella Thomson, Jane Vick-
 ary, Ruth Anderson, Don Benz and,
 Norma Hitchens, plus-2; Hazel Kin-
 ney, Marie Yates, Pat Cooper, Bar-
 bara Baker, Pat Little, Joan Rizzo
 and Ray Pelliccia, plus-2; Flo Rod-
 weller, Carol Reynolds, Jo Man-
 ikowski, Fran Hulbert, Helen
 Percak, Henrietta O'Connor and
 Garnetta Russell, plus-2.

        Barefoot Bay
    Men's Association

   May 7, Two-Man Best Ball,
 Champion Flight: Joe Johnson and
 Pete Frontera, minus-11; Fran Pe-
 terson, Bob Mazza and John Lay-
 den, minus-10; Bob Oenbrink, Al
 Lukos and Art George, minus-10;
 Ray Jansen and Ken Thomas, min-
 us-9.

    Flight A: Matt Trygar and Allen
 Atkin, minus-11; Ray Luzar, Forest
 Wood, Pete Layden and Bob Wan-
 nop, minus-9; John Fortier, Al Hor-
 vath, Tom Guntaer and John
 Melkun, minus-9; Paul Alberta and
 Vinnie Vince, minus-7.

    Flight B:      Herb Maginnis,
 George Clapper and Frank Calise,
 minus-9; Ted Maginnis, Chuck
 Thornn and Marty Nuernberger,
 minus-9; Mike Laprogato, Chuck
 Simpson, Frank Furino and Buck
 Zinn, minus,-8; Bob Reed, Ed Sulli-
 van and Bill Laputz, minus-7; Gene
 Hirchbeck, John Pantangelo and
 Bill Despagnsi, minus-7.

    Flight C: George Schlosky, Dan
 Backman and Gordon Boyden,
 minus-15; Ralph Harig, Bernie
 Schreiber and Paul Linder, minus-
 15; Jack Stack and Al King, minus-
 14; Bill Simberlund and Lee Sanz,
 minus-13.

         Sebastian
       Monday League
    May 5, 1 best ball on par 4s, 2
  best balls on par 5s: Flight A --
  Hank Thompson, Jack Falke (-7),
  Nick Cerro, Dee Little (-6), Art
  Maas, Jack Fredrick (-6), Geo Bow-
  ers, Duane Crocka (-5).
      Flight B - Ted Sluzas, Joe Sta-
  checki (-II), Bill Demoe, Walt
  Miller (-7), Red Grange, Don Lei-
  son (-6), Dick Smith, Ed Meyer
  4).
      Flight C -- Paul Morin, Phil
  Roper (-13), Lou Maglione, Joe
  Clark (-II), Chas Sayward, Clark
  Drumm (-7), Bud Trowbridge, Bob
  Jensen
      Flight D   - John Waychowski,
  Joe Scanlan   (-9), Jim Jordan, Herb
  Beyea (-8),  Ray Petteys, Perry End-
  leman (-7), Kate Fleming, Bill-
  Fleming (-6), Art Murphy, Ken
  Roth (-4).

         Sebastian Women's
           Golf Assoc.
    May 6, 1 best ball on par 5s, 2
  best balls on par 4s, 3 best balls on
  par 3s: Bert Jackson, Bonnie McCla-
  nahan, Anne Melia, Pat Firtion 113,
  Alice Good, Mocdell LaConte, Pau-
  line Hammond, Jimmy Preus 114;
  Dot Murphy, Kay Lombardi, Claire
  Whiteman, Edna Willey 115.
  
  
  
  News briefs

  Corps needs sewing volunteers
    
    The Production Corps of the
  American Red Cross, Indian River
  County Chapter, a United Way
  agency, needs volunteers for sew-
  ing.
      Items such as smocks, shifts,
  maternity clothes and children's
  clothes are needed.  The items are
  given to disaster victims, nursing
  homes, day-care centers, veterans
  hospitals and other programs.
      Participants meet 9-11 a.m. at
  the chapter house every second
  and fourth Wednesday from May,
  through September.
 Patterns and materials are avail-
 able.  Groups are welcome to par-
 ticipate.
      For more information, call 562-
 2549.

 
 Sebastian auxiliary
 holds banquet
    
    The Sebastian River Medical
 Center  Auxiliary held  its annual
 awards banquet in the hospital din-
 ing room.
      Members received pins and
 bars indicating the hours of service
 they performed.  Charter members
 were honored and committee
 chairmen were given pins in ac-
 knowledgment of their efforts.
      Helen Ganter, past president;
 amassed the most hours: 17,500.
 Auxiliary  President   Maryellen
 Snodgrass presented a certificate
 for 20 years' service to Edna Kaziu-
 konis.  Stephen Midkiff gave a simi-
 lar certificate to Dorothy Hersey.
 There were 126 on hand to enjoy a
 dinner prepared by the hospital
 staff.
      Margie Argosett, a registered
 nurse, capped the evening off with
 vocal offerings, including some
 with her son, Everett.

 
 Smoothies dance
 slated for May 22
    
    The Smoothies Ballroom Dance
 Club invites Barefoot Bay residents
 to dance the night away starting at
 8 p.m. May 22 in Building A.
      Music will be by Ed Hornyak
 and dance lessons will be offered
 by Bill Serafini from 6:30-7:45 p.m.
 The cost of the dance is $3 for
 members and $4 for guests.
      Dance lessons cost $5 per les-
 son for both guests and members,
 although members taking lessons
 will be given a special $1 entrance-
 fee discount for each dance.
        
      Membership cards must be pre-
 sented at all functions and partici-
 pants are asked not to wear shorts.
      Cake and coffee will be served
 and there is a cash bar.
     Dances will be held on the sec-
  ond and fourth Thursdays of the
  month.  The next dance is sched
  uled forjune 12.

      All Barefoot Bay singles and
  couples are welcome to attend.
  Guests of members also are wel-
  come.

      For more information, call 664-
  9248 or 664-2946.

  
  Garden club holds
  installation luncheon

    The Indian River provided the
  background for the April 12 instal-
  lation luncheon of the Pelican Is-
  land Garden  Club  held  at
  Riverview Park in Sebastian.

      Renee Cointepoix installed the
  following officers for 1997-98:
  president, Margaret Miquelon; vice
  president, Trudy Hertling; record-
  ing secretary, Alice Cronk; trea-
  surer,  Ginny  Whitmore;
  corresponding secretary, Eileen
  Burke.

      Mrs. Cointepoix presented each
  new officer with a corsage, the
  color indicative of the office.  Ca-
  tered box lunches provided the
  meal.  Joan Gramm and Olive Snar-
  ski, hospitality chairmen, were in
  charge and made the desserts.

      Pat Zukowski gave a report for
  the tree committee.

      The club, as one of its projects
  for next year, will be responsible
  for the landscaping and planting of
  trees, plants and flower gardens on
  the west side of the Barber Street
  lake, south of County Road 512.

      The committee, consisting of
  Zukowski, Gramm, Mrs. Cointe-
  poix, Marion Steussing and Edith
  Johns, will work with City Manager
  Thomas Frame and Bob Massarelli,
  community development director,
  to draw up a master plan for the
  park.

      The last PIGC meeting of the
  season will be held at 1:30 p.m.
  May 19 at United Church of Sebas-'
  tion, was organized in 1961 and is
 part of the Florida Federation of
 Garden Clubs Inc.
     The club, a nonprofit organiza-
 tion, was organized in 1961 and is a
 part of the Florida Federation of
 Garden Clubs, Inc.
 It has 0 members.
 
 
 
 VFW installations
 slated for May 17
   
   Post 10210, Veterans of Foreign
 Wars, Sebastian, will install auxil-
 iary and post officers at the post,
 815 Louisiana Ave., beginning at 2
 p.m. May 17.  A buffet and enter-
 tainment will follow the installa-
 tions.

 
 Democrats arrange
 potluck social
   
   The Indian River Democratic
 Club has planned a potluck social,
 at 4 p.m. May 24 the home of Inez
 Fielding, 1197 Gardenia St., Sebas-
 tian.  All Democrats are invited to
 celebrate this year's political victo-
 ries and discuss future state and lo-
 cal campaigns.
    Highlight of the afternoon will
 be the awarding of two $500 schol-
 arships to meritorious seniors.  One
 is from Vero Beach High School
 and the other from Sebastian River
 High School.
    Participants are asked to bring a
 potluck dish.  For directions, call
 589-4480.

 
 TOPS announces
 weight losers
 
 Take Off Pounds Sensibly, Chapter
 473, met May 6 at the Roseland Fire
 Hall. out of the 33 who weighed
 in, the best losers for the week
 were Marty Villarose and Veronica
 Ogilvie.

 
 July celebration
 has booth spaces
   
   Booth spaces are available for
 Sebastian's Fourth of July cele-
 bration.  Spaces are 10xlO-feet for
 crafts, business information, clubs,
 organizations and churches and
 lOx2O-feet for food vendors.
     If interested in a booth, or plac-
 ing an ad in the program, call
 Cindy Anderson at 388-3622.  The
 deadline for advertising is June 3.

 
 Day Of Caring
 slated for Oct. 25
    
    Plans are under way for the
 fourth annual United Way of Indian
 River County "Day of Caring"
 scheduled Oct. 25.  This year
 United Way is soliciting projects
 from all Indian River County non-
 profit agencies.  Projects in previ-
 ous years have been specific to
 United Way member agencies with
 tasks that included painting,
 landscaping, fence building and
 sharing time with pre-schoolers or
 at-risk youth.
     Potential projects should pro-
 vide four hours of work for about'
 100 people.  Agencies will be re-
 sponsible for gathering the nec-
 essary   supplies and equipment.
 United Way will arrange and coor-
 dinate the Day of Caring volun-
 teers.   The community will be
 invited  to participate in this event
 - companies, service organiza-
 tions, neighborhood groups and,
 individuals.
     if you have a project that will
 benefit the community, share your
 idea with Kerry Harris at United
 Way, 567-8900, by May 28.
     United Way of Indian River
 County supports local health and
 human service agencies providing
 programs and services to Indian
 Rivet County residents.

 
 Plant seminar
 planned for May 27
    
    Choosing the right plant for the
 right place in your Florida yard can
 be confusing - but a few simple
 steps, before you visit the nursery,
 will help you select plants and
 trees compatible with the vari
 site characteristics throughout your
  yard.

      A Florida Yards and Neighbor
  hoods Program workshop can sim-
  plify these important decisions for
  you and help you avoid common
  costly mistakes.

      Right Plant,  Right Place will be
  presented by Indian River County
  Extension Director Dan Culbert 10
  a.m. to noon May 27 at the North
  Indian River County Library in Se-
  bastian.  Admission is free, but seat-
  ing is limited so call 770-5030 to
  register.

      The presentation will discuss
  the characteristics important in se-
  lecting plants and trees for the vari-
  ous areas of your yard, including
  soil, light, temperature, structural
  limitations, exposure, maintenance
  reduction, pollution prevention,
  wildlife attraction and functional
  benefits.

  Choral concert scheduled
  for May 21 at high school

   Sebastian River High School and          
  Sebastian River Middle School will     
  come together for a night of choral     
  music starting at 7 p.m. May 21 in        
  the high school's auditorium.           
      This will be the final concert of     
  the year and will include perfor-    
  mances by mixed ensembles, la-
  dies' choirs and the SRHS madrigal
  singers.
      The concert is open to the pub-
  lic at no charge.
      For more information, call 564-
  4269.
  
  
  Photo Captions
  
  THE SEBASTIAN AREA CIVIC ASSOCIATION awarded $7,000 in 
  scholarships to 11 graduating seniors from Sebastian River 
  High School during a ceremony May 9 at the Roseland 
  Volunteer Fire Department. Above, Lori Barber is handed a 
  check for $1,000 by Sebastian Police Officer Shawn Daley
  after being announced by Elsie Crowe, the association's
  scholarship chairwoman.  The scholarship was made in memory 
  of the late Madeline Smith, a former member of the 
  association.  Other students receiving scholarships were: 
  Jamey Hines, $1,000 in honor of the association's'vice 
  president, Everett Goss of Sebastian; Abel Chico, $ 1,000 
  in memory of the late J. Randy Joachim, a former association
  member; and Alejandro Cadejas, Lorraine Kachele, Sevag 
  Davidian, David Gruber, Bradley Lienebrink, Kelly Miller, 
  Amy Montalbano and Brandi Monte, all of whom received $500
  from the association.

  SEBASTIAN RIVER HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL FRAN ADAMS got
  two $500 checks from SharkMart co-owner and General Manager
  Dennis Bryant on May 13 after SharkMart and the Mobile 
  Educational Alliance each donated $500 to be used in 
  educational programs for the school.  Mrs. Adams said the 
  money will be put to good use in acquiring software for the 
  school's mathematics department.  "Money is always good," 
  Mrs. Adams said.  "It allows teachers to be able to purchase 
  things they need for the classroom.  We really appreciate 
  what the SharkMart and Mobile Corp. are doing for the 
  community."  Bryant said, "It's nice for us to be able to 
  give something back to the community."


 
 
 Obituaries



      Hobart Jennings

   Hobart "Hobe" Jennings, 75, of
 Micco, died May 4, 1997, at Sebas-
 tian River Medical Center, Rose-
 land, after a brief illness.
     He was born Aug. 25, 1921, in
 Marion, Ill., and moved to Micco
 six months ago from Kimberling
 City, Mo.
     Mr. Jennings was co-founder of
 Kimberling Hills Corp., Kimberling
 City.  He was a U.S. Army veteran of
 World War II and a recipient of two
 Bronze Stars.  He was a member of
 Elks Lodge No. 2505 and American
 Legion, both of Kimberling City,
 and a former member of the Kim-
 berling Hills Country Club.

     Surviving are his wife of 18
 
 years, Emma Lou; one son, James

 H. Jennings, of Blue Eye, Mo.; one
 
 sister, Lois Lundy, of Belleville, Ill.

     in lieu of flowers, the family

 suggests donations be made to Elks
 
 Lodge No. 2505, Kimberling City,

 Mo. 65686, in his memory.
     
     Strunk Funeral Home, Sebas-

 tian, was in charge of arrange-

 ments.

         
         
         Irene Hanna

    Irene Hanna, 68, of Barefoot

 Bay, died May 10, 1997, at Sebas-
 
 tian River Medical Center, Rose-

 land, after a prolonged illness.
     
     She was born June 7, 1928, in

 Waterford, Conn., and moved to

 Barefoot Bay in    1985    from

 Eastpointe, Mich.
     
     Mrs. Hanna was an employee of
 
 the city of Eastpointe for 20 years,

 prior to retirement.  She attended

 Concordia Lutheran Church, Bare-
 
 foot Bay, She was a member of St.

 Marks Lutheran Church, Roseville,

 Mich,; the German Heritage Club,

 Barefoot Bay; the Shriners-Ladies

 Oriental Shrine of North America;
 
 the 96th Infantry Ladies Auxiliary;

 the Ladies Auxiliary of Veterans of
 
 Foreign Wars Post No. 4425, Bare-

 foot Bay; the Polish American So-

 cial Club, the Barefoot Bay 18 Hole

 Ladies Golf Association; and the

 Michigan-Wisconsin-Minnesota

 Club.  She was a volunteer for the

 Sebastian River Medical Center

 Auxiliary, Roseland.

     Surviving are two daughters,
  Nancy Patterson, of Saginaw, Mich.,
  and Joyce Vroom, of Warren, Mich.;
  two brothers, William Laputz, of
  Barefoot Bay, and Stephen Laputz,
  of Ledyard, Conn.; one sister, He-
  len Maynard, of Milford, N.H.; two
  stepdaughters, Judy Rampey, of
  Princeton, NJ., and Karen Frank, of
  Warren; and six grandchildren.        
     Funeral services were held May
  13 at the Strunk Funeral Home, Se-
  bastian.
     In lieu of flowers, the family
  suggests donations be made to St.
  Marks Lutheran Church, 26830
  West Park, Roseville, Mich. 48060,
  or to VNA Inc., 600 Courtland St.,
  Suite 300, Orlando, Fla. 32804-
  9987, in Mrs. Hanna's memory.

         
         Barney Cofer

    Barney B. Cofer, 68, of Wabasso
  died May 10, 1997, at his resi-
  dence.
     He  was born Feb. 6, 1929, in
  Elizabethtown, Ky., and moved to
  Wabasso 17 years ago from his
  birthplace.
     Mr. Cofer was the owner and
  operator of S and S Trucking Co.,
  Wabasso.  He was a member of the
  Moose Lodge, Sebastian.
    Surviving are two sons, Ricky
  Cofer, of Williamstown, Ky., and
  Phillip Cofer, of Florence, Ky.;
  three daughters Gwen Benner, of
  Milwaukee, Wis., Vicky Patterson,
  of Brentwood, Tenn., and Sandra
  Mudd, of Palm Springs, Calif.; four
  sisters, Louise Gick, of Newport            
  Beach, Calif., Jane Pfeiffer, of Rad-
  cliff, Ky., Doris Dowdell, of Eliza-
  bethtown, and Clara Vernon, of
  Florala, Ala.; 12 grandchildren; and
  three great-grandchildren.
    A memorial service will be held
  May 17 at Elizabethtown.
    The family suggests donations
  be made to the charity of one's
  choice in Mr. Cofer's memory;
    The Strunk Funeral Home, Vero
  Beach, is in charge of local ar-
  rangements.

     
     Solomon Zwerin

  Solomon Zwerin, 88, of Barefoot
  ay, died May 11, 1997, at Mariner
  Health of Atlantic Shores, Mel-
  ourne, after a prolonged illness.
   He was born Dec. 22, 1908, in Pa-
  ssaic, NJ., and moved to Bare-
  foot Bay in 1990 from Clinton, N.J.
     Mr. Zwerin worked for U.S.
  Rubber, Passaic, as a machinist.  He
  was a member of the Italian-Ameri-
  can Club, Barefoot Bay.
      Surviving are one son, Stan
  Zwerin, of Barefoot Bay; four
  grandchildren and six great-grand-
  children.
     Private services were held May
  13.  Fountainhead Memorial Funeral
  Home, Palm Bay, was in charge of
  arrangements.

            
            John Lisle

    John Dayton "Big John" Lisle Sr.,
  67, of Micco, died May 11, 1997, at
  Sebastian River Medical Center,
  Roseland, after a prolonged illness.
      He was born Aug. 28, 1929, in
  Columbus, Ga.
      Mr. Lisle was a certified public
  accountant.  He was a graduate of
  Tri State University, Angola, Ind.
  He was a U.S. Army Air Corps vet-
  eran of the Korean War and a recip-
  ient of a Purple Heart. He was an
  auditor for Lockheed in Marietta,
  Ga., and worked from 1957 until
  his retirement for NASA, at Cape
  Canaveral.
      Surviving are one son, John
  Dayton Lisle Jr., of Micco; one
  daughter, Helen Dutton, of Rose-
  land; two brothers, X.O. Lisle Jr., of
  Kenansville, and Robert Lisle Sr., of
  Snead; two sisters, Mary Ellen
  Wright, of Springfield, Mo., and
  Edna Ruth Walker, of Vero Beach;
  five grandchildren; and three great
  grandchildren.
      A memorial service was held
  May 15 at Strunk Funeral Hom
  Chapel, Sebastian.

      
      William Fekishazy

      William "Bill" Fekishazy, 84, of
  Sebastian, died May 11, 1997, at Se-
  bastian River Medical Center, Rose-
  land, after a prolonged illness.
      He was born Feb. 27, 1913, in
  Roseton, N.Y., and moved to Sebas-
  tian in 1982 from Newburgh, N.Y.
      Mr. Fekishazy was an engineer
  for the state of New York for 21
  years.  He was a member of Moose
  Lodge No. 1767, Sebastian; Black
  Rock Fish and Game Club, Corn-
  well, N.Y., for 50 years; and United
  Commercial Travelers.
      Surviving are his wife of 51
  years, Jennie; two sons, Philip An-
  gelo, of Charlotte, N.C., and Wil-
  liam Fekishazy, of Fairfax, Va.; four
  sisters, Elixabeth Gibney, of New
 Windsor, N.Y., Julia Pisani, of New-
 burgh, Ann Chum, of Deltona, and
 Helen Gekakis, of Las Vegas; seven
 grandchildren; and nine great-
 grandchildren.
    A memorial service will be 11
 a.m. May 17  at Strunk Funeral
 Home, Sebastian.
    In lieu of flowers, the family
 suggests donations be made to St.
 Sebastian Catholic Church, P.O.
 Box 78-1212, Sebastian, Fla. 32978-
 1212 in Mr. Fekishazy's memory.

       
       George Ritchie

   Former Barefoot Bay Recreation
 District Trustee George Montgom-
 ery Ritchie, 66, died May 8 at his
 home in Barefoot Bay after a long
 illness.
    In 1985, Ritchie moved to Bare-
 foot Bay from Kennebunk Maine.
 In 1987, he joined the Homeown-
 ers Association Executive Board,
 and was its president in 1990.
    He served on the board's  secu-
 rity, utility and legislative commit-
 tees, and was a liaison between the
 association and the Micco Volun-
 teer Fire Department.
    In 1991, Ritchie joined the
 Barefoot Bay Recreation District
 and served as its chairman from
 1993 to 1994.
    Those who knew Ritchie said
 one of his most important contrib-
 utions to Barefoot Bay was his
 work in 1996 as chairman of the
 district's Acquisition Committee,
 which negotiated an agreement
 with Avatar to buy the recreation
 facilities for $8.3 million.
    Aside from the recreation dis-
 trict and homeowners association,
 Ritchie also was an active member
 of the Loyal Order of Moose Sebas-
 tian River Chapter No. 1767; Ameri-
 can Legion No. 81, Melbourne,
 Barefoot Bay Golf and Country
 Club; Italian American Club, Sebas-
 tian; the Fraternal Order of Orioles
 No. 272, Micco.
    Ritchie also  served in the Air
 Force during the Korean conflict.
    Ritchie was born May 30, 1930,
 in Boston, Mass.  He was a retired
 real estate broker.
    Surviving are two daughters,
 Jean L. Ritchie, of Barefoot Bay,
 and Susan C. Ritchie, of Kalama-
 zoo, Mich.; a sister, Barbara A.
 Hamby, of Barefoot Bay; and two
 grandchildren.
    A memorial service was held
  May 14 Wednesday at the Loyal Or-
  der of Moose Sebastian River Chap-
  ter No. 1767, Micco.
     In lieu of flowers, donations
  can be made to Brevard Hospice,
  P.O. Box 560965, Rockledge, Fla.
  32956-0965, or Micco Volunteer
  Fire Department, 301 Barefoot Bay
  Blvd., Barefoot Bay, Fla., 32976, in
  Mr. Ritchie's memory.


  Players ready for Legion ball
  By Bill Valyo

    One of the best programs for
  youngsters in the past 50 years in
  this country has been America Le-
  gion baseball.
     Geared for boys ages 15 to 17,
  the organization has mustered
  more than 10,000 legion posts
  throughout the United States to
  compete in local, state, regional,
  and sectional play. The winners
  from each section of the country
  play for the national championship
  in Omaha, Neb.
     Although the team that rep-
  resents Sebastian for the past four       
  years wears the emblem of Post
  189, Sebastian's local American Le-
  gion, the post does not officially
  sponsor the team for legion com-
  petition.
     This  year, George Young's Se-
  bastian team will have an A squad
  for the first time in its history and
  will be competing with teams from
  Martin and St. Lucie counties, in
  addition to Melbourne, South Fork
  and Jupiter.
     Also, for the first time, the local
  squad will match up against Vero
  Beach's Post 39.  The two teams
  will open the season in an A game
  June 3 at Vero Beach.  The first
  home game for Post 189's A team
  will be against Melbourne in a dou-
  bleheader June 7. The first game
  starts at 1 p.m. at Sebastian River
  High School.
     Most of the squad, which will
  number 18 players, will be picked
  from Sebastian River High School
  students who were on the varsity
  team there this past year.
      Coach Young and his assistant,
  Wayne Sims, will be holding
  tryouts for both the A and B squads
  May 24-25 and a meeting of all
  prospects will be held at 3:30 p.m.
  May 19 at the field at SRHS.
      Some of the high-school varsity
  members who have indicated they
  will try out this year are cen-
  terfielder Tom Siedelberg, catcher,
  Steve Harshman and pitcher Mike
  Diamond, third baseman/pitcher
  Marshall Carter and pitcher Brent
  Selph.
      it will be an interesting year for
  local followers of American Legion
  baseball.  There will be a stretch in
  the schedule and it is expected to
  have 45 games played in six short
  weeks.  That's a lot of baseball.
      It's youth baseball at its best.


  Golf league members have reputation as being
  dediacted, tough competitors
  By DAVID KEARNS
  Of The Sun

    Members of the Sebastian Men's Golf Association
  golf league are a dedicated lot.
      Never mind the weather, most of them show up
  for their tee times rain or shine.
      The league holds its weekly shotgun-start tourna-
  ment from 8-11 a.m. Wednesdays at the Sebastian Mu-
  nicipal Golf Course.
      The league's founder, Ray Tougas of Sebastian,
  said since 1981, when the league started with about
  40 members, interest in the league has grown right-
  along with the city.
      It's grown because of its reputation for tough
  competition and the improved conditions at the
  course, Tony Zamparello, league president, said.
      Zamparello said the league keeps its 150 members
  interested in the weekly Wednesday games by provid-
  ing a variety of competitions throughout the year.
      League dues are $20, plus a $4 fee per week for
  each player to take part in each of the 52 tournaments
  held each year.
      The $4 fee is put into a pot and divided each week
  between the winning teams in A, B and C flights, or
  groups of players arranged by handicap, Zamparello
  said.
      A popular competition is a game in which four-
  man teams in each flight are given a quota of par and
  birdie shots to make based upon their individual
  handicaps.
      Zamparello and tournament chairman John Kel-
  lough and Joe Tatro make up schedules for some of
  the tournaments in advance, deciding which players
  will be grouped together and setting up the games.
  The plans are subject to change, he said, by rule of
  the majority or rain, he said.
      "The guys know what to expect if they read their
  schedule.  Most of them just show up.  They don't care
  what they play," he said.
      Zamparello said most members of the league also
  are members of the Sebastian course but the club is
  not exclusive. Those who are not members of the
  course can pay $25 dues per year and still be mem-
  bers of the Sebastian Men's Golf Association and take
  part in its Wednesday league.

      Zamparello said anyone interested in joining the
  league should call league Treasurer Jack Falke at 589-
  8065 for details.

      Zamparello said league handicaps run the gamut
  from 5 to almost 36.  The membership mix also is
  wide, with players ranging in age from their early 40s
  to late 80s, he said.

      Zamparello said this year, two elder statesmen of
  the league, Bernie Cotton, 86, and Paul Gustafson, 89,
  have been the only club members to sink a hole-in-
  one.

      Club Champion Barrett Balthaser currently holds a
  5-handicap.  He won the title of champion during the
  league's annual President's Cup held in late Novem-
  ber.

      Balthaser averaged a 71 during two rounds of tour-
  nament play.  He said he will look for Bob Beebe, who
  has a handicap of 7, and Mike Muller, with a handicap
  of 9, to be tough competitors in the race to become
  club champion at the end of this year.

      "Most of us are out here at least two or three times   
  a week. These guys are all very competitive," he said.

      Balthaser was not alone in praising the efforts of
  Pat Cerjan, the course's director of golf, for working
  to improve conditions at the course during his two
  years on the job.

      "In the last two or three years, the condition of
  the course has  improved tremendously. It's just a
  nicer place to play golf than it ever has been," said
  Balthaser.

      Cerjan said he has been focused on keeping the
  fairways and the greens well groomed throughout the
  year.
  
  
  Photo Caption
  Sebastian Men's Golf Association founder Ray Tougas keeps 
  his head down after stroking a putt while Sebastian's 
  current club champion Barry Balthaser holds the flag for 
  him.



  
  It's back to school for Sebastian River's athletic director                                                                                      asti                        Ri;v"
  By Matt Grimison


     The Bo Jackson advertising campaign a
  few years back had as its premise Bo
  "knows" everything, from football to base-
  ball to boccie ball to cooking, cleaning, surf-
  ing, skating, filleting fish, gigging frogs and
  rounding first base with a stainless-steel hip.
     Sebastian River had its own version of
  the Bo-of-all trades, but this one was real
  and knew everything about making hobbled
  athletes feel better.
     Bo Vechazone, the Sharks' athletic
  trainer, left two weeks ago to pursue another
  college degree at the University of Central
  Florida.
     Vechazone has been a fixture at the
  school since arriving shortly after its 1994
  opening.
     He has attended as many of the athletic
  program's home games as possible, and
  even some of the contests on the road.
     Because of that attendance record, he
  probably was one of the most well-known
  faces on campus, moving easily among lum-
  bering football players, darting track run-
  ners, swinging tennis players, rolling
  bowlers and flipping cheerleaders.
     Vechazone's presence was the result of
  Athletic Director Michael Stutzke's resolve to
  have a full-time trainer at the school, a new
  trend among high schools.                    
     Stutzke cut a deal with Rehab Manage-
  ment Systems in Micco to have them provide
  one of their trainers to the school for blan-
  ket coverage of the athletic program.
     The school's booster club picks up the
  tab for the trainer, a new approach using the
  concept of having one club for all sports.
     Vechazone proved invaluable to not only
  the Sharks program, but to visiting team
  members who happened to get hurt.
     He always stood at the ready with ice to
  reduce swelling, tape to support weak joints
  and advice for the healthy on how not to
  join the downtrodden ranks.
     For all those appearances, much of his
  most important work was behind the scenes.
     He spent long hours working with ath-
  letes coming off injuries, tucked away in the
  dark recesses of the gym or weight room,
  teaching them strange rehabilitative exer-
  cises that often had them walking  like a
  duck or lunging like a matador.
     A few of those rehabs were for serious
  injuries, such as when Heather Anderson
  blew out her anterior cruciate ligament last
  year playing volleyball.
     After surgery and a tedious year of work,
  Vechazdne had Anderson ready to play again
  this season, and she stood out as a hitter in
  volleyball and and a standout goalie in soccer.
      The major sense of loss felt from Vecha-
  zone's departure was by the students.
      He bonded with many athletes he
  helped, both long-term projects such as An-
  derson and the one-visit injuries that lined
  up outside the training room on a daily basis
  for quick-hit morsels of advice.
      His youthful demeanor also put him on a
  level with many of the students that teachers
  and coaches simply could not reach because
  of their positions.
      At a recent track meet, one of his last
  events for the Sharks, a group of athletes
  walked by Vechazone and one asked what
  she was going to do when he was gone.
      Vechazone quickly said there would be a
  new trainer to replace him.
      "But they won't know me like you do,"
  came the protesting reply.  "We're going to
  miss you, Bo."

  Golfer wants to return to greens when he's in the pink
  By DAVID KEARNS
  Of The Sun

    Eddie Pogodzinski misses the joy he gets from
  smacking a golf ball down the fairway under a clear
  blue sky.
      The five-time Barefoot Bay Golf Club champion,
  who still holds the course record of shooting a 55 over
  the 18-hole course, lost the sight in his left eye when
  his retina detached in November.
      Now, two operations later, he waits for the return
  of his peripheral vision and the critical depth percep-
  tion he needs to get back out on the links.
      The, 78-year-old Barefoot Bay resident said his doc-
  tors told him he may be able to return to the course in
  a couple of months if the healing of his corrective sur-
  gery goes well.  But the most strenuous thing he is
  able to do in the meantime is take a walk in the eve-
  ning.
      Ironically, Pogodzinski's home is only steps away
  from the course's practice green and the first fairway.
      His other physical activity while he waits for his   
  eye to heal is tending the garden surrounding his
  home with the dim sights and full sound and smell of
  that golf course only yards away.
      "I watch the guys out on the course and my heart
  goes out (there), but I can't go," he said.
      Pogodzinski, or "Pogo" as his friends call him, has
  been playing golf since he was 9, he said.
      "I like it because you're on your own. If you make
  a mistake, you pay for it," he said.
      "It's a gentleman's game. People who play golf are
  pretty honorable.  Certainly, there's always the oppor-
  tunity to cheat, but the way it's played here, people
  are pretty honest," he said.
     His fascination with the game began while he was
  growing up in Easthampton, Mass., and continued
  through high school, where he also played soccer,
  tennis and basketball.
     While training in  Shreveport, La., for his missions
  as a gunner aboard a B-26 bomber before World War
  11, Pogodzinski became the Third Air Force Com-
  mand's champion in golf, hitting the links at the
  courses near the town whenever he could play.
     The war and a Purple Heart interrupted his play,
  however.  On his 12th bombing mission over France, a
  piece of shrapnel from German anti-aircraft fire found
  its way into the B-26, wounding Pogodzinski on his
  left side and his left hand.
     In an effort to repair his hand, bone from his right
  hip was removeed and grafted into his hand.
     He took a year to recover fully and readjust his
  game.  Along the way, he met and married a Louisiana
  belle named Corinne.
     After he attended Louisiana State University, the
  couple raised two sons while Pogodzinski worked for
  the U.S. Department of Defense and then later, his
  own land-development corporation.
     He and Corinne, who worked as his administrative-
  secretary, retired to Barefoot Bay in 1972.
     Corinne, also a golfer, teamed  up with her hus-
  band when the couple took the mixed-doubles cham-         
  pionship at the Barefoot Bay course the year they
  moved into the park.
     Now, Pogodzinski waits for the good word that
  will put him back out on the course.
     "It's going to be any day now.  If I can wait that
  long," he said.


  Photo Caption
  Eddie Pogodzinski of Barefoot Bay has shelves of trophies in 
  his home. The awards remind him of his days on the golf 
  course.



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FROM THE ARCHIVES

TOP STORY FROM A YEAR AGO
THIS WEEK: The U.S. Fish and Wild-
life Service held a public workshop,
moderated by state Rep. Charlie
Sembler, R-Sebastian, as a brain-
storming session to gauge public
opinion on the future of the Pelican
Island National Wildlife Refuge as far
as public use was concerned.

At least some who attended the
workshop said they would like to see
a viewing platform built on the bar-
rier island so Pelican Island could be
seen in ways other than by boat.



CITIZEN OF THE DAY

NAME: Charles Warmuth.
AGE: 65.
OCCUPATION: Retired police of-
ficer.
MOVED HERE: January 1983.
COMMUNITY SERVICE: Volun-
teer member of the Indian River
County Emergency Management of-
fice.  A member of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars with service in World
War 11.
HOBBIES: Bowling, personal wa-
tercraft and going on cruise ships.
FAVORITE AUTHOR: Edgar Allen Poe.
WHAT I LIKE ABOUT MY
NEIGHBORHOOD: I live in the Se-
bastian Highlands.  There are very
friendly and down-to-earth people.


WEEKEND PICKS

  Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post
10210, and the Charles L. Futch
American Legion Post 189, Sebastian,
will hold joint Memorial Day services
at the Veteran's Memorial at Post
10210, 825 Louisiana Ave., Sebas-
tian.
  Ceremonies will begin at 11:15
a.m. Master of ceremonies will be Ed
Murphy of Post 189.
  Featured speakers will be U.S.
Rep. Dave Weldon, R-Palm Bay, and
Sebastian Vice Mayor Richard J. To-
racka.
  The public is invited to attend.
  An open house and refreshments
will follow the ceremony at Post
10210.


WHAT DID HE SAY?

  "There are so many posts who did
away with their honor guards be-
cause they couldn't get anyone to
join.  These guys have sick wives at
home whom they need to take care
of.  But they turn out for this.  They are
dedicated."
                  - Arthur Baisley
(Baisley, a 70-year-old World War 11
veteran and chaplain of the Sebas-
tian River Area Veterans of Foreign
Wars Post 10210 and the Charles L.
Futch American Legion Post 189, said
officials from the posts are concerned
about the future of their honor guard.
With the youngest member being 62
and the oldest 84, the men are wor-
ried their honor guard, that provides
the last military salute for a deceased
comrade, may slowly be dying with
them.)


SRHS students on fast track to finding
an excellent career
By DAVID KEARNS
Of The Sun

  Sebastian River High School's Marine and Automo-
tive Academy is a place where students learn how to
turn the sweat of their brow into cold cash.
  Academy instructors Duncan Thomas and Robbie
Robinson enjoy reminding their students that skilled
mechanics and technicians are pulling down be-
tween $30,000 and $50,000 a year, if they land jobs
with the top companies.
  "They're really screaming for qualified techni-
cians out there," Thomas said.
  Thomas recently took his students on a tour of the
Sea Ray Boat factory in Merritt Island to show them
the trade and the money can go together if a me-
chanic is skilled and works at his or her craft to per-
fect it.
  At Sea Ray, his students watched highly paid pro-
fessional marine mechanics, technicians and engi-
neers while they worked designing, building and
testing high-performance boats.
  Last year, Thomas took his students to the Mer-
cury electronics plant in St. Cloud.  One thing corn-.
mon to both trips, he said, was the abundance of
work on the shop floor and a high number of jobs in
both facilities.
  "That plant in St. Cloud has 300 employees work-
ing there.  They build all the electronics for the corn-
pany from the ground up," he said.
  The abundance of jobs holds true for the automo-
tive industry as well, Robinson said.
  About 140 students take part in the marine and
automotive sections of the vocational academy,
which also includes culinary arts.
  Most of the kids who join the mechanical side of
the academy have an idea they want to work as me-
chanics or technicians, but they want to try it out first,
Robinson said.
  Robinson, former owner of Courtesy Auto Service
of Vero Beach, and Thomas, who ran his own heavy-
equipment repair shop in Fellsmere, both know just
how the mechanical business works.
  Students enter the academy in their sophomore
year and gain the basics in shop safety in both the
marine and automotive areas while learning about all
the equipment they will use over the next three
years.
  Students also take classes in mathematics, taught
by Anne Lau.  Mrs. Lau uses examples pertinent to me-
chanics, such as finding the volume of an engine cyl--
inder or monitoring the drip rate of oils of different
weight.
  Judy Kloski and Donrda Watkins team up to teach
English; history is taught by Antiny White; and Nich-
ole McKenzie-Williams teaches science.
  The junior year is the time when lessons turn to
the practical side of working in the industry.  Similar
to any trade, the price for learning is hard work in en-
try-level jobs that may not be that glamorous.  The in-
structors don't sugarcoat this fact.
  But the lessons have given select youngsters a
foot in the door to the industry.
  Some seniors, recommended by either Robinson
or Thomas, hold jobs with local mechanics' shops in
the automotive or marine industry.
  "The comments we get on the kids is how well
they handle themselves in the shop, not necessarily
how much they know," Robinson said.
  About half of the juniors and seniors enrolled in
the program work after school. If they have what it
takes, the instructors will recommend them for work
as apprentices.
  Ray's Outboards in Grant took on SRHS junior
Curtis Kimbrough as a mechanic's apprentice in Feb-
ruary.  He's been working there in the afternoons
since being recommended by Thomas.
  Office Manager Amanda Church said she couldn't
be happier with Kimbrough's performance.
  "He's very intelligent.  He knows a lot from
school," she said.
  As for his work ethic, Ms. Church said Kimbrough
definitely has it.  He's also been coached that the en-
try-level world of a marine mechanic is not a glorious
one, she said.
  "When I interviewed him, I let him know a
lot of what he would be doing was going to be
the dirt-work to start out.  He already knew that.
They've prepared him and the way they do,
things over there at the school is very similar to
how we do things here," she said.
  Billy's Auto and Towing Service of Vero
Beach hired junior Terrance Brown in March.
  "So far so good," said Manager James How-
ard.  "We're training him and he's learning."
  Both Thomas and Robinson strive to make
their shop as similar to the real world as possi-
ble.
  About a month ago, the two instructors in-
stalled a time clock in their office so the stu-
dents might get an understanding of the real
world.
  "We got the idea from Piper Aircraft," Rob-
inson said.  "They have a firm policy with their
time clock that's a good example to go by."
  Rather than docking pay for the students if
they are late to their shop classes, the instruc-
tors dock daily grade-points.
  "That's the real world.  You show up for
work, on time," said Robinson, who added the
lessons in the academy aren't all about time-
clocks, engines and brake jobs.
  "We do test them just the way any shop
manager would but we also make it fun.  It has
to be fun," Robinson said.
  Robinson said the students are given tasks
to complete in areas that interest them in his
course.  They also can bring in their own auto-
mobiles to trouble shoot common problems to
make their own cars run better, he said.
  And he surrounds the students in his class-
room with humorous cartoons that apply to the
world of engine repair.
  If you can't laugh in this business, you
don't have a sense of humor," Robinson said.

Photo Caption
Juniors Matt Hall, left, and Jody Thornton are busy
rebuilding an engine for Hall's boat in their Marine
and Automotive Academy class.


Red Cross honors Micco woman for service both at
home and abroad during World War II

By DREW DIXON
of The Sun

  For Adeline Higgins, serving in the
American Red Cross during World War 11
meant helping soldiers deal with what
could have been their final days on earth.
  Back then, it never crossed her mind
that one day, her devotion to her work
and those servicemen would land her in
the American Red Cross' Hall of Fame.
  Higgins said she was a pacifist as the
war in Europe raged on and before the
United States got involved.
  "Then, I realized there were so many
soldiers involved.  And after Pearl Harbor,
I was no longer a pacifist," Higgins said.
  She said she felt compelled to get
involved and in 1943, she joined the
American Red Cross and was off to Lon-
don, England, to help the troops fighting
the war.
  "Ifelt very fortunate being able to
serve," she said, and she was happy to
accept the position that gave her a mod-
est pay for overseas service.
  Now, Higgins, 77, enjoys her retire-
ment life in Micco.  But she said she's
never forgotten her experiences with the
Red Cross.
  The relief agency never forgot her as
well and last month, Red Cross officials
acknowledged Higgins' service by an-
nouncing her name would be added to
its Hall of Fame.  A profile of Higgins also
is being added to the Red Cross Registry
at the national headquarters in Washing-
ton, D.C.
  Higgins had a diverse career in the
Red Cross.  She remembers being thrust
into the middle of World War II when
she arrived at a 3,000-bed, makeshift ho-
tel for American servicemen in London
that was run by the Red Cross.
  "It was a very busy time.  We had so
many programs," Higgins recalled of her
duties in London.  "We did a great many
favors for the GIs.  We held dances and
we even wrapped Christmas presents for
them, too."
  In addition, Higgins was responsible
for conducting tours of London for Amer-
ican soldiers on leave.  Those tours in-
cluded trips to the English Parliament
building as well as other areas of the city.
  While the experience was exhilarat-
ing for Higgins, she said, "It was terribly
sad because of the German bombing ev-
ery night.
  "In England, You would get to know
(the troops) and you'd see some of their
buddies and they'd tell you (their friend)
was shot down.  And we saw so many of
the GIs in the hospital... ," she said.
  As the war drew to a close, Higgins
crossed the English Channel to France to
work at Red Cross facilities in that coun-
try before moving on to Germany and
Austria as American soldiers continued
the occupation of those nations after the
war.
  Higgins' service in World War 11 first
gained her national recognition when
she received a Bronze Star for "meritori-
ous service" from President Harry Tru-
man.
  In June 1946, Higgins finally re-
turned to the United States.  But her Red
Cross service was far from over.  She im-
mediately went to work at a veteran's
hospital in upstate New York.
  In 1948, she went on to serve on the
Courtland County, N.Y., Red Cross board
and established the first Red Cross blood
program for a 500-square-mile area in
New York.  She also served on the Court-
land County Legislature, the equivalent
of a county commission in Florida.
  Higgins continued to contribute to
the Red Cross and is still a dues-paying
member to this day.
  She moved to Micco in 1981, where
she became the first president of the
Micco Homeowners Association.  She said
she enjoyed continuing her public ser-
vice, "Because I'm a people person."
  Higgins said she's currently writing a
book about her experiences in the Red
Cross.  She doesn't have a title yet, and
she's not sure when it will be published,
but she said she's determined to com-
plete the work.
  While Higgins' entry in the Red Cross
Hall of Fame will be on display in the na-
tional headquarters, her profile also is
featured on the Red Cross'a World Wide
Web site (HTTP://www..arcregistry.org).

Photo Caption
Adeline Higgins, who served overseas in the Red Cross 
during World War II, now lives in Micco.



Baby furnishings big business for Roseland woman
By DAVID KEARNS
Of The Sun


  Three and a half years ago, Carol
DiSomma got an idea from her
grandson that she turned into the
successful business she runs from
her Roseland home.
  She considered how expensive        
were things such as baby strollers,
walkers, high chairs and other
pieces of baby furniture.  She knew
some of her friends who are grand-
parents had purchased similar
items to have them on hand when
their families came to visit.
  But buying baby furniture
seemed wasteful, especially when
it might be obsolete when the fam-
ily came to visit next year or the
kids may have outgrown it, she
said.  So, the idea for Small World
was born.
  Mrs. DiSomma, 60, runs her
own one-woman operation that
rents baby furniture by the week.
She said the grandparents in town
keep her hopping year round.
  Mrs. DiSomma will pick up and
deliver baby items such as strollers,
car seats, potty seats, cribs and
walkers, anytime, day or night, she
said.
  Her delivery van with the com-
pany logo and phone number, 399-
5555, is a familiar sight around Se-
bastian, where she does the major-
ity of her business.
  She charges between $10 and
$15 per week for the baby furni-
ture and services more than 100
regular customers from Vero Beach
to Barefoot Bay.
  She keeps the boooks and the
inventory at her home in Roseland.
She keeps track of all the latest @in
baby-care equipment in parenting
magazines so that she rents only
the safest up-to-date equipment to
families.
  "I'm always making sure that
what I rent is safe.  Nothing I rent
has been recalled," she said.
  Safety and cleanliness are prio-
rities, she said.  She cleans and ster-
ilizes the equipment after every
use, she said.
  She said she wasn't really sur-
prised the idea was successful.  She
knew the moment the idea popped
into her head that she had some-
thing.
  "After I bought a few things for
my grandson, I began to wonder
what some of these grandparents
here do when their families come
to town," she said.
  At that time, she and her hus-
band, Robert, ran a small used-fur-
niture store and rental service.
They added a line of baby needs to
their rentals and that portion of
their business quickly devoured all
their effort and time when the re-
quests started coming.  They had a
hit, she said.
  Within a year, the DiSommas
closed the doors to their store and
ran the Small World rental service
out of their home.  Mrs. DiSomma
took orders over the telephone and
kept the records, while her hus-
band drove the delivery van for
their growing business.
  But five months ago, her hus
band died, leaving her all the re-
sponsibilities for the business.
  "I didn't think I could keep
running it, but all of my customers
begged me to keep the business
open," she said.
  "My husband knew Sebastian
and Barefoot Bay like the back of
his hand," she said.
  After dealing with her loss, she
reopened her service.
  The first order of business was
to find out how to get to her cus-
tomers' homes.  She bought de-
tailed maps of Barefoot Bay,
Sebastian and the beachside com-
munities.
  Mrs. DiSomma said the best as-
pect of her job is the human con-
tact and the fact the orders don't
stop coming, although they do
slow down a little during the sum-
mer.
  "I have made so many friends
doing this.  You don't get rich
doing it, so the most rewarding
thing is the human contact and
helping people.  Plus, it keeps me
going, always on the move," she
said.

Photo Caption
Carol DiSomma of Roseland delivers a service for residents with
grandchildren coming to visit.  She rents baby items such as strol-
ers, toys and cribs.



Officer proud to be positive model for
Sebastian's elementart students
By
Drew Dixon

  While growing up, Shawn Daley
always wanted to be a police offi-
cer.  Now that he's Sebastian Police
Department's school resources offi-
cer for elementary schools, Daley
is fulfilling his dream while help-
ing children.
  "I like being around the kids
and acknowledging them. it makes
me feel as though they know me
and I'm being a positive role
model," Daley said.
  Daley first was hired as a patrol
officer for the city department in
1994.  Four months ago, he was as-
signed the school resources duties,
a job he wanted.
  His interaction with students at
Pelican Island and Sebastian el-
ementary schools is something he
relishes and takes seriously, Daley
said.
  "I feel now's the time that you
can turn them around.  If they can
trust the police, they can come to
us and tell us anything.  Maybe I
can reach them that way," he said.
  The approach to children is the
most important thing, Daley said.
Instead of representing a punish-
ing figure, he tries to connect with
children.
  "I try to be friendly and show
them that I do care.  I eat lunch
with them, play games or just talk.
I try not to be a counselor, but
more of a friend and answer their
questions," he said.
  Daley said it's easy to be
friendly to children living in a
town such as Sebastian.  He moved
here in 1990 shortly after going to
high school and taking some col-
lege courses in Vermont.  When his
parents moved here, he soon fol-
lowed.
  He originally took a job in
grounds maintenance at John's Is-
land Country Club.  He kept apply-
ing to several police departments,
hoping to get a job in law enforce-
ment.
  "I've always been interested in
police work.  I preferred Sebastian
because I lived here and it gave me
an edge, I think," he said.
  Daley has been able to settle in
Sebastian, which isn't difficult, he
said.  "It's quiet, but I like the
growth. it's growing and getting
busier.  If I want to go to a city, it's
not far way.  I like the bedroom-
community atmosphere."
While his career continues to
fall into place, Daley's personal life,
has flourished as well.  He got mar-
tied two years ago and he and his
wife have a 16-month-old daugh-
ter.
  For fun, he and his family like
to go to Riverview Park in Sebas-
tian.
  "My daughter likes animals and
she likes to see the squirrels," he
said.
  Daley's hobbies include weight
lifting and running.  "It relieves a
lot of stress.  I deal with stress bet-
ter and it builds confidence," he
said.
  Birthdate: Sept. 25, 1971.
  Birthplace: Montpelier, Vt.
  Education: Studied architec-
ture at Vermont Technical College
in Randolph, Vt.
  Family: Wife of two years, Mar-,,
issa; daughter, Alexis, 16-months.
  The best part of my job is:
Being with the kids and being a
positive role model for them.
  What I like the least about
my job is: Paperwork.
  The most recent movie I saw
in a theater was: "Anaconda."
  The book I'd recommend ev-
eryone to read is: "A Tale of Two
Cities," by Charles Dickens.
  Of everyone in the world
the person I would most like to
meet is: President Bill Clinton.
  My favorite food is: Pizza.
  If I was going on a trip to
the moon, I would take along:
My wife and daughter.
  When I was growing up, I al-
ways wanted to be: A police offi-
cer.
  If I were president of the
United States, I'd: Reduce taxes.
  When I want to get away
from it all, I: Relax and listen to
music.
  The person I admire the most
is: My older brother, George Daley,
Jr.
  My proudest moment was:
When my daughter was born.
  My favorite sports team Ls:
Notre Dame's Fighting Irish foot-
ball team.
  My favorite television show
is: "Home Improvement."
  On my last vacation, I visited:
Disney World. 
  The first thing I do when I
wake up in the morning is: Take
a shower.
  The type of music I enjoy the
most is: Rock-n-roll.
  If I could do something over
again, I'd: Get a college degree.
  People who know me the best
know I: Like to stay fit.
  The most exciting time in my
life is: When I made the Vermont
state playoffs on my high-school
soccer team.

Photo Caption
Shawn Daley, Sebastian Police Department's school resources offi-
cer, said he wants to serve as a role model for elementary stu-
dents.


SRHS musicians prove they're superior
By DAVID KEARNS
Of The Sun

  Sebastian River High School has
come away from another music
festival sounding just a little bit
superior.
  At the Florida State Solo and En-
semble Festival, held May 5-7 at
Florida international University in
Miami, members of the SRHS sym-
phonic band distinguished them-
selves yet again with more
superior ratings.
  Sebastian River High School
Band Director Carl Hancock said a
superior rating at a statewide mu-
sic festival is definitely an accom-
plishment worthy of praise.
  "Getting a superior at one of
these festivals means that you are
one of the best musicians in the
state," he said.  "That's something
to be proud of."
  Hancock commended the per-
formance by Chrissy Giddens, a ju-
nior from Sebastian, who took
home a superior rating for a colle-
ge-level, alto-saxophone piece she
committed to memory and per-
formed flawlessly, Hancock said.
  Other superior awards in the
solo performance division included
SRHS junior Ricky Brown, on trom-
bone; Andy Oliver, on tuba, Chris
Falzone, James Eddie and Jason
Flinn, all three of whom took supe-
riors for their performances on the
French horn.
  Hancock said he was also en-
couraged by the performances of
his students  within the ensemble
portion of the festival.
  "We had a very interesting
trumpet trio with a timpani accom-
panying the piece," he said.
   Joel Wunderlich, Mark Duhame
and Paul Christophersen played
alto, tenor and baritone parts on
their trumpets in a very compli-
cated piece, he said, accompanied
by Todd Partee on the timpani, or
small kettle drums.  Their ingenuity
and execution won them the supe-
rior rating, Hancock said.
  "It really sounded neat," Han-
cock said.
  Sebastian  River also won supe-
rior ratings for a saxophone octet
that included eight parts played by
Giddens, Heather James, Philip
Nooch, Ryan Beasley, Steven Mel-
agrano, John Pulvermacher, Josh
Schacht and Andy Dickinson.
  "I'm very proud of them all,"
Hancock said.



Women veterans meet to share their experiences
By DREW DIXON
Of The Sun

  The ways of a soldier's life is something a lot of
men can understand and share with each other, but
it's not as common for women who served in the
armed forces to find a veteran to whom they can re-
late.
  That's why the Women's Veterans Club of Barefoot
Bay was formed, according to founder Mildred Kel-
liher.  She said she met another woman in the commu-
nity 10 years ago and realized they had served in the
same areas during World War 11.  She started inviting
other women veterans to her home and "it snow-
balled from there."
  Now there are 40 members in the group that's
been holding steady in Barefoot Bay for a decade.
  "This is a group that likes to reminisce about our
service," said Kelliher, who was a U.S. Military Police
soldier and barracks sergeant in the Marines from
1943 to I945 in Arlington, Va., and Hawaii.
  "Many people don't appreciate what the women
went through," Kelliher said of her experiences in
the military.  She recalled she took a reduction in rank
from sergeant to corporal so she could be transferred
overseas to Hawaii during WWII.
  "I had to lose a stripe because (I had) too much
rank above the men.  They weren't too happy to have
the women getting the pay they were getting.  When
they took the women into service, we weren't very
popular," she said.
  Most of the members of the Women's Veterans
Club of Barefoot Bay served in WWII and that pro-
vides the common bond, said member Ardith Miles, a
U.S. Army Nurse in England, France and Luxembourg
from 1944 to 1946.
  "We share our experiences of where we were and
the things that happened," Miles said of the Women's
Veterans Club.  "They're a varied group of women.  A
lot of people don't understand because they didn't go
where we were.  You feel someone understands you
better," discussing experiences with the group.
  Most of the members of the Women's Veterans
Club also are members of Veterans of Foreign Wars
posts, but Miles and Kelliher agreed that VFW posts
are often dominated by men and it's unique to have a
group solely for women.
  Another unique quality to the group is that it
opens membership to women who are foreign nation-
als and had foreign military service.  VFW posts are for
U.S. service personnel only.  There are four members
of the Barefoot Bay Women's Veterans Club that ser-
viced in the British military.
  Vicki Taylor was a radar operator in the Women's
Auxiliary Air Force in Britain during WWII and wit-
nessed much of the shelling of London during the
German blitzkrieg.  She said she's happy the Barefoot
Bay Women's Veteran Club is there for her.
  Taylor explained she was donating blood one day
in Barefoot Bay and one of the nurses mentioned the
club to her.  "I said, 'I wasn't American.' But she said
it didn't matter.
  "I've been a member for seven years.  It's a great
group to be in.  We are a social group, but it's sort of a
bond that you have with women.  We can look at each
other and know we did our best," Taylor said.
  Another form of bonding and comfort for Taylor,
she said, is the fact that all four British members of
the group served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
  "Everybody's in the same boat and we all had to
do something," during WWII, Taylor said.
  While the club is mainly social and holds monthly
luncheons and get-togethers, they also are proud to in
area parades such as those on Memorial Day, Labor
Day and Loyalty Day.
  "I think I like it when we get together for parades
and remember those people that didn't come back,"
Taylor said.
  There are no club dues for the Women's Veterans
Club of Barefoot Bay.  Anyone interested in joining
can call Kelliher at 664-1026.

Photo Caption
Ardith Miles, lest, and Mildred Kelliher of the Women's 
Veterans Club of Barefoot Bay at the Veterans of Foreign
Wars plaque at Building D & E.



News briefs


Taxpayers group issues awards

  The Taxpayers'Association of In-
dian River County awarded a $500
scholarship to Bradley William
Luenebrink, son of Aline Luene-
brink of Sebastian, at the Sebastian
River High School Awards night on
May 13.
  Luenebrink has successfully
completed SRHS's Marine and
Metal Fabrication program and
plans to pursue studies in the ma-
rine mechanics technology field at
Seminole Community College, San-
ford.
  The awards are given annually
to a student from Vero Beach High
School and to a student from SRHS
who graduates from the Perfor-
mance-Based Diploma program
and enrolls in an accredited, post-
secondary educational institution.


Auxiliary picks Girls State delegate

  The American Legion Auxiliary,
Unit 189 of Sebastian, is sponsor-
ing Kathy Barcus as a delegate to
Girls State of Florida.
  Barcus is a junior at Sebastian
River High School and the daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. William Barcus
of Palm Bay.
  Barcus attended a tea for Girl
Staters on May 4 at Post 117 in Palm
Bay.  An orientation program was
presented, informing the girls of
what to expect.
  Girls State provides citizenship
training for girls completing their
junior year in high school.
  It is attended by 300 girls who
have the opportunity of experienc-
ing our democratic form of govern-
ment.
  It is held at Florida State Uni-
versity in Tallahassee.
  The girls may also receive dual-
enrollment college credits from
Tallahassee Community College.
  Barcus has a 3.9 grade-point av-
erage.  Activities include the varsity
lacrosse team, junior representative
on the Student Council, vice presi-
dent of the junior class, member of
the National Honor Society, the
Pre-Calculus Math Team, the Inter-
national Baccalaureate Program
and the Prom Committee.
  She also does tutoring and was
a delegate in the Close-Up Wash-
ington Program.
  Girls State will be held June 6-
13.

Sharks kick off season Aug. 29

  The Sebastian River High School
Sharks football team will start its
season Aug. 29 with the Kickoff
Classic at Fort Pierce-John Carroll.
All home games begin at 7:30 p.m.
in Sharks' stadium.
The following is a listing of.the
team's games for the season:
Sept. 5 at Satellite
Sept. 12 vs. Lake Placid
Sept. 19  vs.Titusville
Sept. 26 vs.West Palm Beach-Cardinal Newman
Oct. 3  Open
Oct. 10 at Clearwater Central Catholic
Oct. 17 vs. Fort lauderdale-Pine Crest
Oct. 24 vs. Kissimmee-Gateway
Oct. 31 at Melbourne
Nov. 7 vs. Boca Raton-Pope John Paul
Nov. 14 at North Palm Beach-Benjamin



Rare instrument makes musician well known
By DAVID KEARNS
Of The Sun

  Dominick Eggen said he never
dreamed a musical instrument as
obscure as a baritone would end
up paying for part of his college.
  Now the 17-year-old Sebastian
River High School senior won't be
going to college without it.  Eggen
was awarded a $6,000 scholarship
by the musical department of Flor-
ida State University in Tallahassee
for his ability with a brass instru-
ment Eggen calls the offspring of
tuba and a trombone.
  He's gladly taking the scholar-
ship, plus a $700 check from the
Vero Beach Music Teachers Associ-
ation, and will attend Florida State
this fall.
  Eggen said wants to follow in
the footsteps of SRHS Band Direc-
tor Carl Hancock, who also went to
Florida State, and become a music
teacher after getting his bachelor's
degree.
  "Music teaches you so many
things about professionalism, com-
petition, how to act, how to per-
form before judges. it teaches you
about discipline and it's fun," he
said.  "Mr.  Hancock has been a
great teacher."
  Eggen said Hancock has
opened the world of music up to,
many students at the school.  Be-
fore he joined the symphonic band
he had no idea who Italian com-
poser Antonio Vivaldi was.  Now Vi-
valdi rates as one of his favorite
composers.
  Learning music is about listen-
ing, Eggen said.  Hancock made
sure he and all the other band stu-
dents listened well and learned.
  "Mr. Hancock said one of the
best ways to learn an instrument is
to listen to an accomplished musi-
cian play the instrument and im-
itate them.  Then, as you get better,
you go more and more on your
own," he said.
  Eggen also credits another tea-
cher for introducing him to the
baritone.
  Four years ago, Sebastian River
Middle School Band instructor Vin-
cent Capo told Eggen his skills
were more suited to the baritone,
rather than the trumpet.
  "He was right because this has
really worked out for me," said
Eggen.
  Eggen credits Hancock for
showing him how essential the in-
strument is in an ensemble, and
how versatile it can be in a solo
performance.
  He has learned well, said Han-
cock.
  Eggen brought back a superior
rating, the highest of five possible
marks, for his solo performance
during the State Solo and Ensemble
Festival May 5-7 at Florida Interna-
tional University in Miami.
  His choice of music for the per-
formance was "The Blue Bells of
Scotland."
  "I'm not Scottish.  It's a nice
piece and it plays well.  When I was
at summer band camp, I was told
that it's a piece judges go for be-
cause it's complicated," he said.
  "It's familiar enough so that if
you're doing it right or wrong, the
judges know right away," he said.
  When he auditioned for the
judges at the Florida State music
department, they didn't need time
to think about whether they
wanted Eggen.
  "They pulled him aside and
told him right away he had a schol-
arship," Hancock said.
  Hancock credits Eggen's driv-
ing intellect and his natural ability
for getting this far in music.
  "He's very intelligent.  He's
taken a few advanced-placement
classes like calculus and others and
he's done really, really well," Han-
cock said.
  Hancock said Eggen was one of
those students teachers look for
when deciding who may be inter-
ested and have a natural gift for the
subject matter.
  "He's always had a strong inter-
est and a natural talent.  Some of
my fellow teachers have told him
that he could be anything he wants
to be," he said.
  Eggen's younger sister, Beth,
also plays the bass drum in the
SRHS band.  Younger brother Tim,
9, and sister Jill, 8, also are taking
piano lessons and doing well, said
Eggen.

Photo Caption
Dominick Eggen and his baritone, a brass instrument he calls the
offspring of a tuba and a trombone, will be going to Florida State
University next  fall.


Poppies symbol of remembrance 
for those who died in war
By DAVID KEARNS
Of The Sun

  Members of the Charles L. Futch
American Legion Post 189 Auxiliary
take their annual job preparing
poppies for distribution with re-
newed reverence every year.
  The poppies, handmade by vet-
rans and distributed to American
gion posts across the country,
will be handed out May 23-24, at
local grocery stores, convenience
stores and many other well-visited
locations in the Sebastian area.
  Members of the auxiliary met
May 16 to unwrap the poppies and
prepare them for distribution.
  The veterans and auxiliary
members who hand out the small
flowers will be asking for dona-
tions to fund veterans' programs,
help the needy and rehabilitate
hospitalized servicemen.
  Although made of paper, the
symbolic significance of the poppy
carries a great deal of weight, said
Alice McDaniel, community service
chairman for the post's auxiliary.
  "They are to honor the dead
and help the living," Mrs. McDa-
niel said, quoting an expression
that has been used to describe the
flowers since the end of World War
I when the poppy was adopted as a
svmbol of sacrifice by the Ameri-
can Legion, she said.
  "It's a memorial honoring
those who have given their lives
for their country," she said.
  The tradition goes back to the
aftermath of the first World War,
she said.  Surviving soldiers noticed
that in the battlefields in France,
the poppies were growing every-
where, particularly where soldiers
were buried or had fallen.
  "They noticed that there were
these red poppies everywhere.
They covered the ground in the af-
termath of battles and in between
the white crosses all over Fland-
ers," she said.
  Auxiliary member Shirley
Thornton said the money raised ev-
ery year goes for needed toiletries
and other items need by veterans
undergoing surgery or rehabilita-
tion in veterans' hospitals.
  On May 24, members of the
American Legion Post 189 also will
place memorial flags upon the
graves of service veterans and on
the graves of those who fell in
combat overseas.
  On May 25, Memorial Day ser-
vices at area churches also will be
graced with the white crosses cov-
ered in the poppies.  The crosses
also were made by members of the
auxiliary.

Photo Caption
Alice McDaniel, left, and Dorothy Willis, both members of the
Charles L. Futch American Legion Auxiliary Post 189 of Sebastian,
prepare memorial poppies for distribution during the Memorial Day
weekend.


News briefs

First Baptist Church holding Bible School

  The First Baptist Church of Bare-
foot Bay invites children age 4
through grade 12 to join in "The
Wild and Wonderful Good News
Stampede."
  Each day includes an exciting
worship rally where participants
will celebrate the good news of Je-
sus Christ.  Each day will feature
fun Bible-learning activities, food,
music and crafts
  "The Wild and Wonderful
Good News Stampede" will be
held June 23-27 at the First Baptist
Church of Barefoot Bay, 303 Bare-
foot Bay Blvd. The sessions will be
held from 9 a.m. to noon.  For more
information, call 664-1040.


German Heritage Club
meeting May 28

  The Barefoot Bay German Heri-
tage Club will hold the final meet-
ing of the season at 7 p.m. May 28
in Building A.
  Entertainment will be by the lo-
cal square dance clubs.
  There are a few tickets remain-
ing for the popular Oct. 18 "Octo-
berfest."  Call 664-3926 for
information or reservations.


Red Cross offering Swimming lessons

  The local American Red Cross
branch and the Recreation Depart-
ment of Vero Beach/Indian River
County are offering "learn to
swim" programs July and August at
Leisure Square.
  The first session runs from June
9 to July 19, while the second ses-
sion, is from June 23 to July 3. The
third session is July 7 to July 17,
the fourth session runs from July
21 to July 31, while the fifth ses-
sion goes from Aug. 4 to Aug. 14.
  One class is specifically for in-
fants six months to three years old,
with parental participation.  Classes
also will be held for toddlers, pre-
schoolers and adults.
  The cost of the course is $35
per session, which includes eight
lessons.  Registration is being ac-
cepted now at the Red Cross office
on 2506 17th Ave.


Sebastian Sun Devils seeking sponsors

  The Sebastian Sun Devils fast-
pitch softball league for girls 14-18
years old is seeking sponsors to
help pay for travel, equipment and
uniforms.
  Each player is required to find
a sponsor and sign a letter of com-     
mitment to the league.  The volun-
teer  staff consists entirely of
parents and local coaches.
  Anvone wanting to help should,
call Jim Barton at 589-0612 or Tom
Batchellor at 562-0424.


SISA looking for players

  The Sebastian International Soc-
cer Association is looking for play-
ers for the 1997-98 season.
  Participants must be males aged
17 or older with soccer experience.
For information, call 589-8508'
or 589-8784.


Auditions set for theater productions

  Riverside Children's Theatre will
present two exciting Summer-
stage productions this year and au-
ditions for the productions will be
held at 2 p.m. June I and 7 p.m.
June 2 at the Agnes Wahlstrom
Youth Plavhouse.
  The two shows being cast are
the smash Broadway musical
"Grease" and  " Steel Magnolias,"
the portrait of eccentricity in a
small Southern town.
  "Steel Magnolias" will cast six
women and "Grease" some 17
male and female roles.  Students
ages 12 and older are eligible to
audition.  A prepared monologue is
not required but 16 bars of pre-
pared music is requested if audi-
tioning for the musical.
  Scripts will be available for pe-
rusal before the audition or can be
signed out at Riverside Children's
Theatre.  Students enrolled in the
RCT's Summer Theatre Conserva-
tory will be given priority in cast-
ing for the Summerstage
productions.
  For more information, contact
the theater at 234-8052.


Historical House changes hours

  Visiting hours at the Grant His-
torical House will be changing dur-
ing the summer.
  Starting June 3, the Grant His-
torical House at 5795 U.S. I will be
open 1-4 p.m. Tuesday through Fri-
day. it will be closed Saturday, Sun-
dav and Monday through July 31.
  In August, the historical house
will be closed to the public while
members from the Grant Historical
Society clean and do maintenance
work on it.  The house will reopen
to the public on Sept. 2.
  For more information, call the
Grant Historical House at (407)
723-8543.


Parents can tame temper tantrums
By Dr. Will Mosier

Dear Dr. Will,
  My 2-year-old is at that stage
where he will throw horrible
temper tantrums if he doesn't
get his way.  It is especially diffi-
cult when we are at the store.  If
he wants me to buy him some-
thing and I don't get it for him,
he will throw himself on the
floor and start yelling and
screaming until I give in.  How
can I get him to stop his temper
tantrums?
        Embarrassed in Sebastian
Dear Embarrassed,
  Temper tantrums are among
the most troubling and irritating
problems that parents face.  When
they occur in public, they can be
very embarrassing and make par-
ents question their ability to con-
trol their own children.  Parents
often find themselves losing their
own tempers when dealing with
the temper tantrums of their chil-
dren.
Tantrums occur for a reason.
They are a child's way of express-
ing a level of frustration that the
child has not yet learned to express
in a more socially competent man-
ner.  Tantrums can be verv manipu-
lative,   especially     if    children
occasionally get their parents to
give in to their demands.
Techniques for dealing with
tantrums depend on parents being
well prepared to cope with the
stress thev will experience at the
moment the child is staging the
tantrum and knowing what steps
they need to take to not reinforce
the tantrum.  Consider the follow-
ing options for managing temper
tantrums:
  *Be a positive role model for
self control.  Avoid letting the chil-
dren see or hear you displaying
your temper tantrums.  If you are
going to throw a tantrum, never do
so when the children are around.
  *If the child is not hurting
himself, not hurting anyone else
and not destroying property, ig-
nore the tantrum.  If your goal is to
really stop all temper tantrums, it is
absolutely imperative to ignore a
tantrum while it is occurring.
  *If the tantrums are so disrup-
tive that normal family functions
cannot be maintained, designate
specific place for tantrums.  Do not,
however, discuss this with a child
during a temper tantrum.  Talk to
the child about it only at a neutral
time (ie. a time when neither vou
nor the child are upset).
  You could say, "You keep hav-
ing tantrums and they really bother
me, so from now on I'm going to
allow you to have them in
(place)." if the child does not go
or starts to have a tantrum some-
where else and won't go to the as-
signed place, physically move him
to the designated place.
  *If the child is hurting some-
one else or destroying property,
you should physically restrain the
child and say, "I cannot allow vou
to hurt (name the person or iden-
tify the property) therefore, I will
restrain you until I feel safe that
you understand that you cannot
hurt (name of the person or the
property again)."
  *If your child has temper tan-
trums in public (the grocery store
is a common place), ignoring it is
still the most powerful thing to do.
Do not give in to the demand and
do not bribe the child to stop. if
you do, you will be creating the
foundation for greater discipline
problems as the child gets older.
  To minimize the risk of temper
tantrums occurring:
  *Have clear rules about what
behavior is expected in a public
place.  For example, vou could say,
"When we get to the grocery store,
I know vou may want certain kinds
of cereal.  I won't allow vou to pick
out cereal that has too much sugar
in it.  Even if you choose to have a
temper tantrum about it, vou still
will not be allowed to have the
item."
  *Consider the child's point of
view on the outing.  If you are in
the grocery store, talk with your
child, give him the responsibility
of picking out certain items and
putting them into the basket.  Point
out some acceptable healthy
snacks or other foods the child is
allowed to have.  This should only
be done at a time when his behav-
ior is acceptable.
  *Help your child learn how to
use relaxation skills.  There are
tapes that are available to help
even the young child learn how to
relax, or you may ask for help with
this from a qualified mental-health
professional.  Once the child has
learned some relaxation skills,
help him learn some appropriate
times to use these skills.  For exam-
ple, if you see the child beginning
to become upset and think a tem-
per tantrum may be imminent, you
could say, "It looks like you may be
starting to get upset.  This would be
a good time to take just a minute or
two to practice your relaxation
skills."
  *Teach the child specific frus-
tration-reduction techniques.  Show
the child how to appropriately deal
with frustration by being an exam-
ple of healthy self-control.  You
might say," I'm getting frustrated
with this.  I think I'll stop and take a
few deep breaths."
  When the child is beginning to
become upset you could say, "You
remember when I was getting ftus-
trated and stopped to take a few
deep breaths?  You could do that
now.  "
  *Use humor to head off tem-
per tantrums. Try to keep in mind
some things which will usually get
at least a smile out of vour child.
Try these when you see your child
beginning to get frustrated.
  *Process the temper tantrum
after it is over.  This must be done
at a neutral time (when neither
you nor the child are upset).  When
the child has calmed down, com-
ment on the tantrum, saving you
understand the child was very
upset.  Ask the child to recall what
led up to the tantrum.  Give the
child a way to handle the situation
differently.  You can even reenact
the situation to help the child prac-
tice alternative behavior.
    The way you respond to temper
tantrums during the "terrible twos"
will determine the type and
amount of discipline problems you
will have when your children are
adolescents.  There is no such thing
as a generation gap between par-
ents and teenagers.  It is a commu-
nication gap that started being
forged during the temper tantrums
of early childhood.
    Dr. Will Mosier is a diplomate
of the American Board of Medical
Psychotherapists and the American
Board of Forensic Medicine. If vou
have a question about a faniily mat-
ter that iou would like addressed
in this column, write to Dr. Mosier
at P.O. Box 6836, Vero Beach, Fla.
32961-6836.


POETRY CORNER

Tribute to a Conquering Spirit

      I write of one conquering spirit who touched
         My heart and mind with particular magic
     That erased the crippling effects of depression
          instilled a fresh insight and inspiration
      Rejuvenated my ability to reach out and touch
         I write of one conquering spirit, who teaches
            Others with mature understanding
     Who met life's burdens and strike with a smile
          Who lives not for tomorrow's promises
          Or in regretful ponderance of yesterday
   But for the continuing challenges and joys of today
       Those who listen for that "small, still voice"
      In humble reverence -- respectful silence
           Are the special ones known to God
   And who have their names written in the Book of Life
     Knowing how to give love is the essence of life
           Thank you, God, for the spirit of love
                The love that conquers all 
                         
                            Iva Lee Wolfe, Sebastian



Work continues on City's New Visitors Center
(articles on the Chamber of Commerce supplied
by the Chamber)

  Although moving day is still some time off
- probably August or September - Sebastian
River Area Chamber Of Commerce
President Ed Moore is pleased with the
progress that has been made preparing the
building at 700 Main Street for eventual
occupancy by the Chamber and the
Sebastian River Area Historical Society.
  Improvements that were required by the
10-year lease entered into by the city, which
owns the building, and the two non-profit
agencies already have been done, Moore
explains.  Those repairs included: a new roof,
pressure cleaning and painting the outside of the
building with a high quality exterior paint
specified in the lease, and removing two, non-
working wall air-conditioning units and replacing
them with windows.
  Moore estimates the work that already has
been done on the building is worth about
$10,000.  And it's all been done by volunteers
who donated both labor and materials to the
project.
  The next phase will be to begin work on the
interior, Moore notes, and will require close
coordination with the Historical Society, which
will locate its museum on the west side of the
building with the Chamber's offices and visitor
information center on the east side.
  "I'm excited about the opportunity to show
people that this town has a history and a future."
Moore said.  "We'll be able to offer visitors the
chance to see both at one location."
  The Chamber is especially grateful to Carl
Fischer of Town & Country Real Estate, who
has been coordinating the work, Moore notes.
Others who have donated labor, materials or
both include: Mickey Capp Builders, Main Street
Hardware, Tom Cercle Land Surveyor, Henry
Fischer & Sons, MGB Construction, Sebastian
Rotary Club, A+ Signs, Don Smith Paint,
Sebastian River Art Club, Jerry Smith Tile,
Lyon's Aluminum, BellSouth, Barker Air,
Conditioning & Heating, Vero Beacher Decor,
Gene Rauth, and Robert Farruggio, painter.
  A painting party is scheduled on May 31 to
begin work on the interior of the building.  Any
clubs or organizations who want to help are
invited to call the Chamber at 589-5969, Moore
says.


Photo Caption
Robert Farruggio, in foreground and
Carl Fischer paint the exterior of the
Visitors Center at 700 Main Street.


Web Attracts Chamber Members

Members of the Sebastian River Area Chamber of
Commerce have joined the information revolution by obtaining
Web sites and e-mail addresses.
You'll find the following Chamber members at the locations
indicated (all web addresses begin with http://):
* Captain Hiram's - indian-river.fl.us/hirams
* Crystal Water - www.water-com
* David Jamar/Re/N4ax - www.davidjamar.com
* Ferndale Lodge - www.sebastianfl.com/lodging/ferndale
* Islander Resort - vero-beach.fl.us/islander
* Profold, Inc. - profold.com
* Realty Place - fl.living.net/firm/ 1 00003 6
* Skydive Sebastian - skydiveseb.com
* Steven Lulich PA - www.lulich.com
* Town&Country Realty -www.sebastianfl.com/towncountry
* Vetrol Data Systems - www.vetrol.com

Photo Caption
Chamber 'appreciates' teachers ... In observance of 
"Teacher Appreciation Week," the Sebastian River Area 
Chamber of Commerce presented plaques to public and private
schools in North Indian River County.  Chamber President Ed 
Moore presents a plaque at Sebastian Elementary to 
Elementary Specialist Gere Spearman and 5th grade teacher 
Patty Gentry, on right, who also chairs the School 
Improvement Team at the school.  The plaques expressed the 
Chamber's appreciation for all the teachers at each school, 
said Moore.



News briefs


Italians holding holiday cookout

  The Italian-American Club, 250 Fellsmere Road, Se-
bastian, will have a Memorial Day cookout May 25
starting at I p.m.
  Hot dogs and hamburgers will be featured.  Music
will be provided by Firecreek.


RSVP board hears report

  The monthly meeting of the advisory board of the
Retired Senior Volunteer Program was held at the Se-
nior Center in Sebastian on May 8.
  Margie Krovocheck, director, reported on a $1,000
donation given to RSVP from the Polish-American
Club of Vero Beach to be used for volunteer recogni-
tion.
  She reported that Meals on Wheels and Congre-
gate Meals, run by the Council on Aging of Indian
River County, contracted with the Indian River School
District to provide meals for the coming year.
  The board will take a summer hiatus and will re-
sume meetings Sept. 1 1.


Red Cross needs volunteers

  With Hurricane season just around the corner, the
American Red Cross of Indian River County needs di-
saster volunteers to work in mass care, administration,
registration and shelter management.
  Nurses or people with other special skills are
needed.  All training is free.
For more information, call 562-2549.



Week In Review


Hospital trustees get clinic opinion

  If push comes to shove, the In-
dian River County Hospital District
now has a legal opinion that sug-
gests it could win a court fight if
Indian River Memorial Hospital
tries to go ahead with the contro-
versial Sebastian outpatient clinic
without trustee approval.
  The trustees, though, em-
phasized May 15 they would prefer
not to have to resort to that ex-
treme.
  "We do not seek legal action,
but we do want the right to ap-
prove or disapprove and if we can,
work it out in any other way we
want to," Hospital District Chair-
man Allen Seed said, summing up
the majority opinion.
  IRMH has been moving forward
with the clinic on the basis it does
not fall within the parameters of
the master lease between the Hos-
pital District and the hospital, and
therefore the district does not
have a veto right.
  Its board of directors in Feb-
ruary rejected a Hospital District
request to put the clinic on hold
until a specific business plan is in
place and the trustees could review
it. The business plan is not due un-
til June.
  However, Hospital District at-
torney Alan Polackwich issued an
opinion last week that says the
multi-million dollar project does
fall within the master lease and so
is subject to the $500,000 structural
improvement approval require-
ment.  All major improvements in
excess of $500,000 must be ap-
proved by the trustees.
  The hospital has already paid
$700,000 for the land without seek-
ing trustee approval.
  Polackwich also wrote the
meetings of IRMH and the subsid-
iary that is actually doing the pro-
ject - Health Systems of Indian
River - are subject to the Sun-
shine Law and the Public Records
Act.
  While not committing himself
or the IRMH board to giving the
trustees right of approval, IRMH
President Michael O'Grady said if
the hospital could not get a "broad
consensus" on the value of the pro-
ject, "the fallout would be awful."
Still, he said that once every-
thing is presented, he is confident
the merits of that project and an-
other $20.6 million joint venture
IRMH is embarking on will sell the
trustees.
  At least on the Sebastian pro-
ject, O'Grady still has a tough sell
as several trustees expressed con-
cern - again - about duplication
of services.  The proposed clinic
would sit a stone's throw away
from Sebastian River Medical Cen-
ter.
  O'Grady's case, for the mo-
ment, wasn't helped by a lengthy
presentation Thursday from SRMC
Administrator Stephen Midkiff.
  Midkiff said he didn't mind
"healthy competition," but the pro-
posed size of the clinic - nearly
32,000 square feet - and the num-
ber of physicians that will staff it is
an indication IRMH is acting as a
"predator" and not defensively just
to protect its market, as IRMH con-
tends.
  Midkiff also said he believed
there were ways for the two enti-
ties to co-exist without duplicating
services.
  O'Grady will have a chance to
respond to Midkiff's presentation
at the trustees'June meeting.


Sember's Marina requests appeal

  Sembler's Marina officials want
time to better understand the con-
ditions the Sebastian Planning and
Zoning Commission attached to its
approval of a raw bar site plan.
  Just in case an agreement can't
be worked out between them and
the city, they filed a request for an
appeal.
  The plan for a 90-seat raw bar
and observation deck at the 1660
Indian River Drive marina was ap-
proved May 1, but with several con-
ditions added, including that a
time schedule for each phase of
construction and a completion date
be set.
  Buz Underill, general partner
for Sembler Marina, said the group
wants to clarify what this and other
conditions mean to the project.  But
since it only had 10 days after the
commission meeting to file an ap-
peal, the group wanted to have one
on record, he said.
  "(The conditions) may be
fine," he said.  The time schedule
condition was not included in
Community Development Director
Bob Massarelli's report recom-
mending approval of the project,
he said, so the group didn't have a
chance to prepare for it before the
Commission's meeting.
  In a letter to Sebastian City
Council requesting the appeal, Un-
derill asked the hearing not be
scheduled for 45 days so the group
can meet with city staff and the city
attorney.
  "We want to have the opportu-
nity to clarify a couple of these
items," he said.
  The condition was added as a
precaution, so the city doesn't get
into another situation in which the
property sits for five years with no
work done on the project, Massa-
relli said.
  The raw bar is to be built next
to a 6-year-old concrete slab, which
hangs over the shallow shore of the
Indian River.  By late 1993, Sebas-
tian officials had given Sembler
Marina Partners Ltd. six extensions
on the building permit before de-
ciding not to grant any more.
  The plan presented May 1 to
the commission was a minor mod-
ification to the original site plan
for a restaurant, Massarelli told the
commission.
  Other conditions attached to
the project included:
  *The building must meet el-
evation requirements by the Fed-
eral Flood Insurance Program and
city codes.
  *Owners must provide a copy
of the building's drainage plan as
approved by St. Johns River Water
Management District.
  *Plans for the building's pot-
able water well location, sewer sys-
tem and floor plan must be
approved by the county Health De-
partment.


District agrees to filter rainwater

  When rainwater runs down the
steep incline of Main Street in Se-
bastian it flows unhindered into
the Indian River carrying all kinds
of harmful substances - garbage,
vegetation, even motor oil and
grease.
  But a plan approved by St.
Johns River Water Management
District May 14 will place the
equivalent of a water softener on
drainage pipes, cutting down on
much of the pollutants.
  The district's board voted to
pitch in $35,000 toward installa-
tion of a "baffle box," a large ce-
ment contraption placed in the
ground and attached to drainage
pipes.
  Inside the box are chambers
that pluck out debris and sus-
pended sediments in the water be-
fore it hits the river.
  "These baffle boxes are ex-
tremely effective in reducing the
volume of pollution," district
spokesman Jeff Cole said.
  The city will pay $34,500 into
the project and earmark $100,000
for replacing the drainage system
as it moves away from the river, a
project that will be done with the
Florida Department of Transporta-
tion.
  The district often enters into
agreements with cities to install
the boxes through its Indian River
Lagoon Program, which is charged
with improving the health of the
river, Cole said.
  The May 14 vote will bring the
first box to the city.
Vero Beach has one box on
Mockingbird Lane, Cole said.
  The boxes are designed to carry
out the same function as larger
drainage ponds, which filter out
pollutants in storm water before it
hits a body of water such as the In-
dian or Sebastian rivers.
  In areas where there is not
enough land to install a pool or
pond, the boxes help clean the wa-
ter in a fraction of the space.
  The suspended dirt and other
materials in the water bring with
them nutrients such as phospho-
rous and nitrogen from lawn ferti-
lizers.  If they reach the river,
nutrients promote the growth of al-
gae and suck oxygen out of the wa-
ter.
  Work on Sebastian's baffle box
will start within six months.


Taco Bell, Subway coming to store

  Sebastian residents soon won't
have such a long trip when they
want to make a run for the border.
  A Taco Bell Express and Sub-
station will be opening soon
inside Sparky's convenience store
at U.S. 1 and County Road 512, said
Billy Keel, chief financial officer
for Sparky's Oil Co.
  Renovation of the existing store
will begin within the next few
weeks, he said.  Once construction
starts, both food areas will be open
within four to six weeks or by early
August.
  "We're trying to give our cus-
tomers as many choices as possi-
ble," he said.
  Keel estimated the renovation,
in which new equipment will be
installed and other equipment
taken out, would cost about
$150,000.
  The Subway station will be like
other stores of its kind, while the
Taco Bell Express will be a little
smaller than other Taco Bells and
have a limited menu, he said.  But
customers should be able to get
the most popular Mexican food
items.  Prices will be about the
same as other fast-food restaurants
of the same name, he said.
  Setup should be similar to the
McDonald's restaurants seen in
Wal-Mart stores, he said.  Both Taco
Bell and Subway will have their
own independent station and em-
ployees will wear uniforms for that
particular store.  Sparky's will stay a
full-sized convenience store, he
said.
  Customers won't be able to get
their food without going into the
store.  A drive-through window is
not planned in the renovation,
Keel said.  "The (location of the)
spot won't allow it," he said.
  Opening brand-name fast food
in convenience stores has become
the trend in the industry, he said.
  "It seems to make @ense," Keel
said.  "The infrastructure is there.  It
just works all the way around."



Council waits for advice on error

  Sebastian City Council decided
not to do anything, at least for the
time being, about its mistake in as-
sessing Oyster Bay Resort for a
county water line.
  City Attorney Valerie Settles
said at the May 14 meeting she had
conferred with other attorneys,
who agreed with her April 23 sug-
gestion the city not refund resort
owners for the over-assessment un-
less the entire project is revisited.
  "It would be imprudent to re-
fund money without taking a look
at the whole assessment and seeing
if anyone else was mischarged,"
she said.
  At its April 23 meeting, council
admitted the city had made a mis-
take in its 1995 special assessment
of Indian River Drive property
owners for a county water line, but
then didn't know what to do about
it.
  Property owners were assessed
the cost of the $700,000 Indian
River County water-line project on
the riverfront.  In January, Rock-
ledge resident Max Abram, presi-
dent of the board of directors for
Oyster Pointe and Ovster Bay Re-
sort, wrote to City Manager Thomas
Frame to say an error had been
made in the assessment.
  Oyster Bay's assessment was
based on 195,019 square feet in-
stead of the actual 90,605 square
feet of the property, The miscalcu-
lation resulted in a $14,000 over-
assessment.
  Frame earlier said the resort
was oversized by 113 percent and
was billed $26,229 when it should
have been billed $12,315.
  Mrs. Settles suggested council
wait to take any action until Frame
returned from the out-of-town con-
ference he was attending.
  Abram said after the meeting
he wasn't sure what he expected
the council to do and didn't know
what his next step would be.
  Mayor Walter Barnes and Coun-
cilwoman Ruth Sullivan did not
participate in the discussion be-
cause Barnes is a shareholder at the
resort and Mrs. Sullivan lives in the
assessment area.
  In other action, the council:
  *Approved a fifth 60-day exten-
sion on a 15-year Falcon Cable
franchise agreement.  The
agreement expired Sept. 23 but has
been continuously extended while
Frame and Mrs. Settles work on a
new agreement and cable franchise
ordinance.
  "It's a complicated issue, It's
going to take some time," Barnes
said.


Sharks' trio bound for Fort Scott

  Three Sebastian River athletes
are heading off to play college
football, and where they're going
will be no place like home.
  Tailbacks Lee Shedrick and
Charles Johnson and linebacker
Chris Jefferson signed letters of in-
tent Tuesday to play for Fort Scott
Community College, in Fort Scott,
Kansas.
  "It'll be a big challenge for the
kids," said coach Randy Bethel.
"But if they stick to their guns and
work hard they'll be all fight.
  The trio are the second, third
and fourth players from the foot-
ball program to play college ball.
  Assistant coach David Lunsford
facilitated the opportunity since he
knows Fort Scott coach Kevin
Gundy, Bethel said.
  Coaches sent Gundy video tape
of the three players and he liked
what he saw, Bethel said.
  All three players will receive fi-
nancial aid-based scholarships,
Bethel said.
  They each could have gone else-
where, but chose instead to stick
together, Bethel said.
  "They all had different options,"
Bethel said.  "But this turned out to
be the best package for them."
  The three players were bright
spots in a disappointing year for
the Sharks.
  Johnson and Shedrick were the
meat of the team's offense, rushing
for 537 and 407 yards, respectively.
  Johnson rushed for 1,030 yards
in just eight games as a sopho-
more, finishing his career with 2,-
465 yards, and Shedrick returned
two kickoffs for touchdowns.
  Jefferson was one of the leading
tacklers on the team and a vocal
leader.
  Johnson will almost certainly be
used at running back, Bethel said,
but where Shedrick and Jefferson
fit in is unclear mainly due to nu-
merous talents.
  Shedrick was the team's leading
tackler from his safety position as
well as an offensive power, and his
closing speed on runs or passes is a
strength, making defensive back a
possibility as well as offense.
  Jefferson has a year under his
belt of both linebacker and de-
fensive end, and played center on
the offensive line.
  Wherever they end up, the fact
the trio is going to a community
college could mean they see action
sooner.
  "I know they have a better shot
at playing right away," Bethel said.
That's not to say the roster will
not be competitive.
  Community college football in
the Midwest is somewhat of a mi-
nor league for the big schools,
where talented players who may
not have the grades or be qualified
for other reasons spend a couple of
years before moving up to Division
I schools.


Photo Caption

RAYMOND RAY AND HIS WIFE, VIRGINIA, weren't at home May 16   
their Barefoot Bay home at 515 S. Dolphin Circle was 
destroyed by fire in a matter of minutes as firefighters from 
four agencies battled to save three houses nearby.  No one was 
injured in the fire, which investigators said started
beneath the stove where wiring for the kitchen appliances ran 
together.  When firefighters arrived at 2:35 p.m., the house 
was fully engulfed in flames, and they had to scramble to save 
the other three houses.  "We had to let the first one go and 
concentrate on extinguishing the other three," Brevard
County Fire Rescue Lt. Tom McDevitt said, adding two of the 
three homes actually had begun burning. "We had to protect the 
structures catching on fire, otherwise they would go up, too." 
Ray said his house was worth about $65,000, and investigators 
said the other three houses sustained a combined $13,000 worth 
of damage.


River School open house set for May 31
By DAVID KEARNS
Of The Sun

  The River School of Roseland is
opening its doors May 31 for its an-
nual open house at the campus on
the grounds of the Kashi Church of
Roseland.
  The River School, operated by
the Kashi Foundation, was founded
in 1979 by Oxford Professor
Thomas Byrom and Ma Jaya Bhaga-
vati, a spiritual leader and artist.
  School Principal Anjani Cirillo
said the event, to be held from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m., is an opportunity for
members of the community with
questions about the private school
to check out the facilities, pro-
grams and learn what the school
has been doing for its almost 20
years in existence.
  Currently, about 120 students
from pre-kindergarten to the 12th
grade attend the school.
  While some of the students live
on the grounds of the Kashi
Church in Roseland, most are from
Sebastian.
  A smaller percentage of the stu-
dents commute from either South
Brevard County or Vero Beach.
Tuition runs $250 per month
for the classes.  Fall session begins
Sept. 8, but some summer art
classes are scheduled to begin in
June, she said.
  The staff consists of about 18
full-time teachers and more than
five part-time instructors, she said.
All classes at the school are small,
Ms. Cirillo said, and no class has
more than 10 students at a time.
  "It's the relationship between
the student and the teacher that's
the heart of the student's ability to
achieve," she said.  This intimate
environment is a benefit of the
school that will not be sacrificed as
the school grows, she said.
  The high-school courses all are
geared toward getting youngsters
accepted into good colleges and
universities, she said.
  "People recognize the value of
this intensive education here.  And,
hey, the life experiences that these
kids get here is unmatched," she
said.
  Students are required to com-
plete 75 hours of community ser-
vice between their freshman and
senior years.
  This community service
involves volunteer work with many
local services and charities.
  Students regularly volunteer at
Mary's House, a Sebastian hospice
for babies with AIDS.  They also
perform their service at The River
House, a respite in Sebastian for
terminally ill patients.
  "We consider community ser-
vice to be an important part of our
curriculum.  We try to graduate a
whole, complete person," she
said.
  Ms. Cirillo said the competitive
Scholastic Aptitude Test scores of
former River School students and
the community-service hours com-
pleted by River School graduates
have garnered more and more at-
tention from college recruiters
across the country.
  This year, Senior Student Coun-
cil President Krishna Hathaway ac-
cepted several scholarships that
will help him attend Brown Uni-
versity in Providence, R.I. Last
year, senior class valedictorian
Tony Cho-was accepted to North-
western University in Chicago, Ill.,
where he is studying political sci-
ence, Ms. Cirillo said.
  The school added Taekwondo
to its physical-education classes in
1991 and a roller-hockey rink ear-
lier this year.
  Another new addition is a sixth
classroom building now being
built on the school's grounds.  The
new building will house seventh-
and eighth-grade classes next year
and will create space for a new sci-
ence laboratory on the campus.
  In keeping with the teachings of
the church regarding tolerance for
all world religions, Ms. Cirillo
said, no one religion is stressed at
the school and religious doctrine
is not presented to the children at
the school, other than a compara-
tive religion class taught to juniors
and seniors.
  However, the values of self-re-
spect, discipline and tolerance are
stressed in every course taught at
the school, she said.
  The River School can be
reached at 388-1453.

News briefs

Junior Golf Academy starting in Sebastian

  Want your youngster to be another Tiger Woods?
The Sebastian Municipal Golf Course has an-
nounced the return of the junior Golf Academy this
summer.
  Scheduled to begin June 24, the program will
cover all aspects of the game.
  Instructors will be Sebastian's director of golf Pat
Cerjan and head pro Greg Gardner.
  Cost for the program is $25.
  Registration will be taken from 9 a.m. to noon on
June 14 and 21.
  For more information, contact Cerjan or Gardner
at 589-5708.


Sebastian Sun Devils seeking sponsors

  The Sebastian Sun Devils fast-pitch softball league
for girls 14-18 years old is seeking sponsors to help
pay for travel, equipment and uniforms.
  Each player is required to find a sponsor and sign
a letter of commitment to the league.
  The volunteer staff consists entirely of parents and
local coaches.
  Anyone wanting to help should call Jim Barton at
589-6102 or Tom Batchellor at 562-4024.


Local Red Cross offering lessons

  The local American Red Cross branch and the Rec-
reation Department of Vero Beach/Indian River
County are offering "learn to swim" programs July
and August at Leisure Square in Vero Beach.
  The first session runs from June 9 to July 19, while
the second session is from June 23 to July 3.
  The third session is July 7 to July 17, the fourth
session runs from July 21 to July 31, while the fifth
session goes from Aug. 4 to Aug. 14.
  One class is specifically for infants six months to
three years old, with parental participation.
  Classes also will be held for toddlers, pre-school-
ers and adults,
  The cost of the course is $35 per session, which
includes eight lessons.
  Registration is being accepted now at the Red
Cross office on 2506 17th Ave.


Volleyball league starting in Sebastian

  The Vero Beach/Indian River County Recreation
Department will be starting an open volleyball pro-
gram for men age 55 and over.
 Games will be held on Monday and Wednesday
from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Sebastian River Middle
School.
  The school is four miles west of Sebastian on
County Road 512.
  The gym will be open for any man 55 or older
who wishes to play.
  There will be a $1 per player per night fee.  Appro-
priate footwear, such as sneakers, is mandatory.
  Call Cliff Hoose at 589-4785 or 567-2144 for more
information.

Photo Caption

BAREFOOT BAY'S VETERANS MEMORIAL near the golf course was 
spruced up recently by members of the community's Greehouse 
Club.  Bob Massel, the club's president, said the giant 
yellow and orange marigolds were grown from seed at the 
greenhouse on Dottie Lane with the idea of planting them
at the memorial to brighten the area near the golf course 
and to honor those who served in war.  Above, from left, 
Dave McAllister, Edward Voohis, Mildred Kelliher and Ardith 
Miles check the plants at the memorial, just in time for the 
Memorial Day weekend.


VFW commander-elect hopes younger vets step forward 
to become leaders in organization
By DAVID KEARNS
Of The Sun

  When Russell Watson takes over
as commander of the Sebastian Vet-
erans of Foreign Wars Post 10210
this June, he will be following in
his father's footsteps by assuming a
leadership role in the organization.
  His dad, Harry Watson, a sol-
dier in Europe during World War 1,
served as the Massachusetts State
Commander of the Veterans of For-
eign Wars.
  Times have changed and the
ranks of those who have served in
battle on foreign soil are growing,
Russell Watson said.
  Sebastian's VFW post is the fas-
test-growing post in the state, Wat-
son said.  He was elected
commander in early May and will
take over the position from Dick
Dean.
  Post 10210 now has 650 mem-
bers from Sebastian and the sur-
rounding area.  The membership is
expected to grow within the next
few months, Watson said.
  The challenge in the coming
year, said the commander-elect, is
to gain new membership from
Vietnam and Gulf War veterans.
  The interest from these two
groups in the veteran's organiza-
tion historically has been lower
than the participation of other-era
veterans, Watson said,
  "I don't know why that is, but
that seems to be changing," Wat-
son said.  "Maybe now that many of
them are in their 40s, they have
had a change of heart about the 
organization."
  Watson, 71, is encouraged that
a Vietnam veteran and a two Gulf
War veterans were elected as offi-
cers in early May.
  Mary Young, who served in the
Navy during the Gulf War was
named post adjutant and her hus-
and, Gary, who also served in the
Navy during the Gulf War, became
the post's sergeant-at-arms.
  Richard Bird, a U.S. Army corn-
at soldier during Vietnam, was
lected junior vice commander.
  "We want to get more of these
unger veterans involved," Wat-
on said.
  Watson served as the post adju-
tant and as the chairman of the
house committee for the Sebastian
group during his five years of
membership.
  He is also a member of the
VFW and the American Legion Post
189's combined Honor Guard,
which will parade its colors 11
a.m., May 26 during a Memorial
Day service at the Veterans' Memo-
rial on Louisiana Avenue in Sebas-
tian.
  U.S. Rep Dave Weldon, R-Palm
Bay, and members of the Sebastian
City Council will be in attendance.
  "We have a great relationship
with Dave Weldon, Mayor (Walter)
Barnes, Vice Mayor (Richard) Ta-
racka and all the council mem-
bers," Watson said.
  Watson came up through the
Navy ranks to achieve a leadership
role at sea, where he spent a large
chunk of his life.  He served as a ra-
dar technician aboard a U.S. Navy
destroyer escort during World War

II.
  Similar to thousands of Navy
seamen with him during the battle
of Okinawa, Watson passed tense
moments huddled aboard his ship
during the fighting. In the battle,
Japan's last-ditch efforts to hold
back the U.S. Navy advance on the
island-nation involved flying their
planes, loaded with explosives,
into U.S. Navy ships.
  "I watched a good friend of
mine's ship get hit with a kami-
kaze.  He survived, but it was bad,"
Watson said.
  Watson was one of the first U.S.
soldiers ashore at Nagasaki after
the United States dropped the sec-
ond atomic bomb on Aug. 9, 1945.
  The crew aboard his ship, U.S.S.
Miller, went ashore in September
to pick up about 400 Australians
who had been held as prisoners-of-
war since 1942 in a village about
10 miles outside Nagasaki, Watson
said.
  "These guys were all emaci-
ated.  We put all 400 of them on a
ship 'designed for a crew of 160.
They ate everything in sight," he
said of the Australians.
  "Everything was just flattened.
You can't imagine what it looked
like.  The devastation was every-
where," Watson said of Nagasaki.
  After the war, Watson earned a
bachelors degree in horticulture
from the University of Massachu-
setts.  He later joined the U.S. Coast
Guard and, for 11 years, worked
aboard weather-monitoring ships
above the Arctic Circle.
  Later he joined the permanent
crew of the U.S. Coast Guard train-
ing vessel Eagle, a three-masted,
sailing ship used to train cadets at
the Coast Guard Academy in New
London,Conn.
  For five years he was the ship's
commander and during a 1972
training mission to Texas, he was
presented with an Honorary Admit-
al's title in the Texas Navy, by
Texas Gov. Preston Smith.
  He met his wife, Patricia Pie-
per-Watson, an artist, in 1972 while
stationed in New London.  The cou-
ple married in 1989 and moved to
Sebastian in 1992.
  "One of the things we like
about the area is the lack of hap-
hazard building and construction
that you see in other parts of Flor-
ida.  There's very little crime here.
It's just a nice, quiet place to live,"
he said.

Photo Caption

Russell Watson and his wife, Patricia Pieper-Watson, pose before
an oil painting of the U.S. Coast Guard vessel Eagle, a training ship
Watson commanded for five years.  The World War II veteran will
take over as commander of the Sebastian Veterans of Foreign
Wars Post 10210 in June.



News briefs


Exchange Club honors students

  The Sebastian Exchange Club
honored Sebastian River High
School students Tom Siedelberg
and Rachel VanDeVoorde and Se-
bastian River Middle school stu-
dents David Fahmie and Mary
Maniaol at its May 6 luncheon
meeting at Capt. Hiram's.
  Students of the month are cho-
sen by faculty throughout the
school vear for outstanding perfor-
mance.
  Along with their certificates of
recognition each receives a thesau-
rus.  The Exchange Club is a service
organization which promotes the
revention of child abuse.


Summer day camp registration May 31

  Registration for summer day
camps at the Grant Community
Center, 4580 First St., will be held
from 9 a.m. to noon May 31 at the
center.
  The camps are open to young-
sters entering first grade to those
who have completed sixth grade.
  The camps will be held from 8
a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Fri-
day.
  The fees are:
  *Session 3: June 9-13, $35 per
week plus field trip fees.
  *Session 4 and 5: June 16-20
and 23-27: $47 per week plus field
trip fees; daily swimming lessons
are included.
  *Session 7, 8 and 9: July 7-11,
14-18 and 21-25: $35 per week plus
field trip fees.
  For more information contact
The Brevard County Parks and Rec-
reation Department, 407-952-4580.


Brevard County sets school dates

  The Brevard County School Dis-
trict has established the following
dates and times as the minimum
dates for registration for the 1997-
98 school year.  Each school is be-
ing asked to adjust its particular
registration for specific grade lev-
els to fit the needs of the commu-
nity and provide convenient times
for working parents.
  For high-school and middle-
school youngsters, registration will
be from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 5 and
6 at the schools.
  For elementary school students,
registration will be held from 8
a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 6.
  For more information, contact
your school.


Soccer Association holding registration

  Registration for fall soccer will
be held from 6-8 p.m. May 28, 9
a.m.-noon June 7 and 6-8 p.m. June
12 at the Barber Street Creative
Playground.
  All new players must bring a
copy of a state birth certificate.
Coaches and sponsors are invited
to participate in the league. For
more information, call 388-9341.


Plant seminar planned for May 27

  Choosing the right plant for the
right place in your Florida yard can
be confusing, but a few simple
steps before you visit the nursery
will help you select plants and
trees that are compatible with the
various site characteristics through-
out your yard.
  A Florida Yards and Neighbor-
hoods Program workshop can sim-
plify these important decisions for
you and help you avoid common,
costly mistakes.
  Right Plant, Right Place will be
presented by Indian River County
Extension Director Dan Culbert
ftorn 10 a.m. to noon May 27 at the
North Indian River County Library
in Sebastian.  Admission is free, but
seating is limited so call 770-5030
to register.
  The presentation will discuss
the characteristics important in se-
lecting plants and trees for the vari-
ous areas of your yard, including
soil, light, temperature, structural
limitations, exposure, maintenance
reduction, pollution prevention,
wildlife attraction and functional
benefits.

Day of Caring slated for Oct. 25

  Plans are underway for the
fourth annual United Way of Indian
River County "Day of Caring"
scheduled Oct. 25.
  This year, the United Way is so-
liciting projects from all Indian
River County nonprofit agencies.
Projects in previous years have
been specific to United Way mem-
ber agencies with tasks that includ-
ing painting, landscaping, fence
building and sharing --time with
preschoolers or at-risk youth.
  Potential projects should pro-
vide four hours of work for about
100 people.  Agencies will be re-
sponsible for gathering the nec-
essary supplies and equipment.
  United Way will arrange and
coordinate the Day of Caring vol-
unteers.  The community will be
invited to participate in this event
-- companies, service organiza-
tions, neighborhood groups and
individuals.
  If you have a project that will
benefit the community, share your
idea with Kerry Harris at United
Way, 567-8900, by May 28.
  United Way of Indian River
County supports local health and
human service agencies providing
programs and services to all Indian
River County residents.



Students take over tennis courts
By Bill Valyo

  Usually, youngsters waiting in
the early hours of the morning for
the school bus just cluster in bun-
ches, passing around homework
and cramming for a test.
  Not so for about 24 Sebastian
school children who probably have
started a new trend in waiting on
the corner.  You come thirty min-
utes early and take a few tennis les-
sons before being picked up for
school.
  That's what is happening at the
tennis courts on Shumann Drive
each school day morning from 7:20
to 7:50 a.m.
  A member of the Friendly Ten-
nis Club of Sebastian, Jake Adams,
waits for the kids and gives them
some "before school" lessons in
the fine art of racket-wielding.
  When this writer ambled over
to the courts one morning this past
week to see how the new courts
being built were coming along,
Jake came by to extend some
friendly conversation about the
new facility going up with federal
grant money given to the city
three years ago.
  Jake said,"The kids from age 5-
11 promptly come to the courts
each morning for instruction."  He
added, "I get a lot out of them in
that period of time."
  After the young tennis players
scrambled across the street to
catch the bus for school, some of
the senior club members began to
make an appearance, a daily oc-
currence for most of them.
  Ralph Cousins, Don Scott, John
McManus, Marcel VanWolvelcard,
Joe Lacavita, John Snipes and Jane
Huber were the players playing
that morning.  Huber, the only
female chasing after the white
ball, is a very active tennis player
in Sebastian and she looked sharp
on the courts.
  Before he joined a foursome for
some action, Cousins told this
writer the new foundation being
worked on that morning has a def-
inite slope on one of the courts,
but after discussion with the Del
Conte Construction Co. of Stuart,
they were able to make a few
changes.  Del Conte expects the
courts to be finished for play by
the end of June.



Stone back in the swim of competition
By DAVID KEARNS
Of The Sun

  Athletes are always measuring
themselves against their past
achievements.
  It's one of the many driving
forces that has propelled Leonard
Stone to the 1997 National Senior
Games that end May 28 in Tuscon,
Ariz.
  Stone will be completing in the
100 and 50-yard versions of the
breaststroke, freestyle and back-
stroke.
  Certainly he's had a lot of activ-
ity in his life to keep him fit for the
event.
  In his 90 years of living, Stone,
the athlete, also has been a Ca-
nadian bush pilot, in charge of a
75-foot U.S. Coast Guard Boat de-
taining Italian soldiers during
World War II, a store owner, a
building contractor and a family,
man.
  He retired to Barefoot Bay with
his wife, Pauline, 20 years ago and
in 1991, he finally found the time
to devote himself to athletics.
  In 1995, when he qualified for
the National Senior Games, Stone
said he wanted to see a few more
gold and silver medals added to his
wall.
  He surprised himself in the
Florida State Senior Games in De-
cember 1995 coming away with
four gold medals in swimming
events and a gold and two silver
medals in track-and-field events.
  He was given the State Senior
Games' Athlete of the Year Award
for 1995 and got a letter of recogni-
tion from Gov. Lawton Chiles for
his athletic performance.
  The following year, 1996, was a
banner one for Stone.  Articles ap-
peared in local newspapers and in
a national magazine regarding his
athleticism in the face of turning
90 that summer.
  In June, one month before his
birthday, Stone was given the
honor of running the Olympic Re-
lay Torch out of Manatee Park in
Fort Pierce amid a throng of specta-
tors.  The event was nationally tele-
vised.  Stone received calls from as
far away as Los Angeles from
friends who had seen his perfor-
mance.
  People didn't know it as they
watched him proudly carrying the
flame from the park, but sometime
before Stone took the torch in his
hand and after he had qualified for
the national event, he had gone
blind in one eye and he injured his
left leg.
   In March 1996 Stone and a few
other swimmers were driving back
from a race in Vero Beach when
they were involved in a car acci-
dent on U.S. 1.
  Stone, who was sitting in the
front-passenger seat, received the
brunt of the injuries.
  He lost the sight in his left eye
when his head hit the dashboard.
  He lost two teeth and the left side
of his body was seriously bruised.
  Perhaps because of his physical
condition, no bones were broken,
but the crash did cause problems
with the muscles in his left leg.
  "The doctor said that the sheath-
ing of the tendons came off with
the impact.  That's maybe even
worse than having a broken leg be-
cause it takes an awful long time to
heal," he said.
  He's working through physical
rehabilitation and weightlifting to
restore his leg but even now, he
said, it still goes numb periodically
and causes him pain when he's
swimming.
  He had qualified to run the 100-
yard-dash in the nationals and to
throw the avelin in the event, but
he opted out of those contests be-
cause of his leg.
  Yet, Stone said, sports and corn-
petition keeps him feeling good
and mentally alert.
  "After I get a good workout I
feel serene - sound.  I crave that
feeling," he said.  "I guess I have
all my life."
  A recent comment he made to a
younger athlete, who complained
that there wasn't enough time in
the day to work out regularly sums
up his philosophy.
  "Hey, the grim reaper is behind
all of us.  You have to keep running
to stay ahead of him," he said.

Photo Caption
Leonard Stone works out early in the morning as he 
prepares for his bid for the gold at the National
Senior Games.



Even the one that got away can win a prize
in the annual Exchange Club tournament
By DAVID KEARNS
Of The Sun

  Warm up your engines and get out your rods, reels
and repertoire of fish tales for the Sebastian Inlet Blue
Water Open Fishing Tournament.
  The fourth annual event, put on by the Exchange
Club of Sebastian, will be held 6:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
May 24 at the Sebastian River Marina and Boat Yard
one mile north of the Sebastian River bridge in Micco.
  The tournament is an open-water competition,
event co-Chairman Kevin Crowe said.  Contestants can
catch their fish anywhere in the open sea on the day
of the contest, he said.
  The cost, to enter is $125 per boat.  Captain packets
must be picked up at the Captains meeting, starting at
6 p.m. May 23 at Sebastian River Marina and Boat
Yard.  To be eligible for prizes, all boats must leave
the dock between 6:30-9:30 a.m. and report back to
the dock no later than 4:30 p.m.
  Weigh-ins will take place from noon until 4:30
p.m. at the marina.  The awards presentation will be
held at 6:30 p.m., Crowe said.
  Crowe said most fishermen would like to walk
away from the event with some of the $4,800 prize
money put up by the Exchange Club of Sebastian.          
  Cash prizes will go to participants who pull in the
larger dolphin, grouper and kingfish during the day.
The heaviest fish in each category wins a check for
$1,000.  Second-biggest takes home $500 and the
third-largest fish brings home $ 100 in each category.
  Prizes also will be given to a fortunate junior an-
gler who pulls in the largest fish and to the boat hav-
ing the greatest overall catch, in terms of legal size
and number of fish in the three categories.
  However, even if a participant fails to land a single
fish he or she can qualify for the Hard-Luck Trophy,
an award going for the best sob story of the tourna-
ment, Crowe said.
  Crowe said all participants with "one-that-got-
away." stories are encouraged to take the microphone
during the weigh-in period to discuss, or fabricate,
reasons why they didn't bring home a prizewinner.
  A panel of judges will grade the stories for con-
tent, style and implausibility, Crowe said.
  "It's basically a liar's trophy, but it's part of the
celebration and everyone has a lot of fun with it," he
said.
  Crowe said nonparticipants are asked to come
down enjoy food and refreshments dockside and
watch the weigh-ins and the awards ceremony.
  Last year, more than 53 boats ranging in length
from 20-to-50 feet entered the event, but some of the
winning fish were small compared to weights from
previous years.  Crowe said bad weather kept many
boats closer to shore and the larger fish in deeper wa-
ter.
  This year should be different, said Crowe, if the
good weather holds up and if reports of recent
catches from local fishermen are true.
  "They have been catching some good-size dol-
phins off shore and a lot of them," he said.
Crowe said he expects more than last year's 53
participants at the event.
  "It should be a good year for the tournament," he
said.  "This is really what those with some of the larger
boats are into.  This is a good way for them to put all
that equipment and knowledge to some good use."
  All proceeds from the tournament will benefit the
Exchange Club of Sebastian's project fund that's used
for the prevention of child abuse and other youth and
community oriented activities in Indian River County,
Crowe said.
  For further information about the event, call
Crowe at 589-8208 or event Co-Chairman Rick Giteles
at 589-7222.


Photo Caption

Ted Ahnemon of Wabasso prepares his fishing boat for the up-
coming fishing tournament sponsored by the Exchange Club.



Adams passes pole-vaulting legacy
on to SRHS teammates
By Matt Grimison

  The spotlight was blinding at Sebastian
River High School last week, and it was
squarely on two-time state pole vaulting
champion Sarah Adams.
  Adams rounded out what can only be de-
scribed as an incredible high school career,
easily defending her Class 4A title for the
school's second-ever state championship.
  The day before the state meet in Gaines-
ville, Adams made one of the most impor-
tant decisions of her life, signing a letter of
intent to attend the University of Florida on
a partial pole vaulting scholarship.
  As the first female pole vaulter to sign on
with the Gators, Adams added to her list of
ground-breaking achievements.
  She was the first female pole vaulter at
Sebastian River and was the first woman to
win the state cham ionship when the state first
recognized the event for girls.  She won the
school's first state championship in any
sport and became the school's first athlete to
compete on the Division I college level.
Amazingly, last year was the first time
Adams ever picked up a pole.
  The spotlight was bright, and Adams
bathed in it with poise and grace uncom-
mon in a high school senior.
  But now it has passed, and a subtle chan-
ging of the guard is taking place.
  For the last two years, Adams has been
the focus of Sebastian River pole vaulting,
and easily the most dominating athlete at Se-
bastian River.
  She is leaving, and even as she had her
shining moment last week, the future of
vaulting at the school was inching toward
the light.
  Adams grabbed the deserved headlines
and accolades.
  But deeper in the stories were three
names that promise to uphold Adams' tradi-
tion of vaulting excellence.
  Mandy Hasenauer, a sophomore, made
the trip to the state meet with Adams and
took third place.
  Her development was even more prodi-
gious than that of Adams - Hasenauer only
began training on the vault seriously after
the regular track and field season ended two
weeks before the district meet.
  Perhaps the most telling, and foreshad-
owing, detail of Hasenauer's performance
was not the medal she won, which made her
second only to Adams in terms of finishes in
state competition for the school.
  It was her height - 9-0.
  That's identical to what Adams cleared
last year.
  The other names are the girls male coun-
terparts, Adam Porter and John Margnelli.
  Porter is among the elite in the state and
cleared a Class-best 15-0 during the regular
season.  He stumbled at the regional meet
and didn't qualify for state, but he is also
only a sophomore with two years left to
compete and a valuable lesson under his
belt.
  Margnelli made great strides during the
year and represented the boys team at state.
While he didn't place, he also got a great
look at state competition, and, you guessed
it, he's a sophomore.
  Sarah Adams' light may be fading at Se-
bastian River, but the sun is not setting on
pole vaulting.



Obituaries


Margaret Trivigno

  Margaret T. Trivigno, 80, of Sebastian, died
May 15, 1997, at Indian River Memorial Hospi-
tal after a brief illness.
  She was born April 12, 1917, in Brooklyn,
N.Y., and moved to Sebastian six years ago from
Spanish Lakes in St. Lucie County.
  Mrs. Trivigno was a homemaker and a mem-
ber of St. Sebastian Catholic Church, Sebastian.
  Surviving are her husband of 56 years, Pete;
one daughter, Pat Giannattasio, of Long island,
N.Y.; one sister, Mary Schutz, of West Milford,
NJ.; two grandchildren; and one great-grand-
daughter.
  A funeral Mass was celebrated May 19 at St.
Sebastian Catholic Church.  Interment followed
at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens, Fort Pierce.
Strunk Funeral Home, Sebastian, was in
charge of arrangements.


Leo Hammond

  Leo S. Hammond, 91, of Montour Falls, N.Y.,
and Wabasso, died May 15, 1997, at Schuyler
Hospital, Montour Falls, after a brief illness.
  He was born Nov. 6, 1905, in Osceola, Pa.,
and was a winter resident in Wabasso.
  Surviving are five daughters, Linda Van Em-
merik, of Glenfield, N.Y., Terry Ball and Ellen
Snyder, both of Sebastian, Laura Rhodes, of
Lindley, N.Y., and Kay Cary, of Tioga, Pa.; 11
grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.
  Funeral services were held May 20 at Cal-
vary United Methodist Church, Lawrenceville,
Pa., with the Rev.  David Watkins officiating.
the family suggests donations be made to
Montour Falls Home, c/o Mrs. Linda Van
Emmerick, R.D. I Box 285-1, Glenfield, N.Y.
13343.


Joseph Crispino

Joseph "Giuseppie" Crispino, 73, of Sebas-
tian, died unexpectedly May 16, 1997, at Indian
River Memorial Hospital, Vero Beach.
  He was born April 6, 1924, in Italy, and
moved to Sebastian in 1990 from Southington,
Conn.
  Mr. Crispino was a forging manager in the
automobile industry.  He was also associated
with the landscaping department at john's Is-
land, Indian River Shores.  He was a Catholic
and member of Sebastian Elks Lodge No. 2714,
Italian-American Club, Vero Beach, and the Li-
ons Club, Forging industry Association, Moose
Lodge and Auxiliary Police, all in Southington,
Conn.
  Surviving are his wife of 18'years, Marie;
two sons, Fiore Crispino of Cheshire, Conn.,
and Joseph D. Crispino, of Wolcott, Conn.; one
stepdaughter, Suzanne Ganley, of Augusta, Ga.;
one stepson, Marc Fleming, of East Hartford,
Conn.; two brothers, Ralph Crispino, of Pom-
pano Beach, and Fred Crispino of Southington;
six grandchildren and three great-grandchil-
dren.
  Funeral services were held May 19 in the
Strunk Funeral Home, Sebastian. interment fol-
lowed at Sebastian Cemetery, Sebastian.
in lieu of flowers, the family suggests that
donations be made to Florida Elks Children's
Hospital, P.O. Box 49, Umatilla, Fla. 32784, in
Mr. Crispino's memory.


Roland Gustafson

Roland R. Gustafson, 77, of Barefoot Bay,
died May 7, 1997, at Indian River Memorial
Hospital, Vero Beach, after a prolonged illness.
He was born Nov, 3, 1919, in Minneapolis
and moved to Barefoot Bay 17 years ago from
his birthplace.
  Mr. Gustafson was a retired engineer for
Electric Machinery Co. in Minneapolis, where
he worked for 30 years.  He attended Hamline
University in St. Paul, Minn., and the University
of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
  Mr. Gustafson was a Lutheran.  He was a
member of the Free and Accepted Masons and
the Shriners, and was a World War II Navy vet-
eran.
  Surviving are his wife of 56 years, Virginia;
two sons, Guv Gustafson, of Victoria, Minn.,
and Greg Gustafson, of Barefoot Bay; one
daughter, Jan Begin, of Sebastian; one brother,
Earl Gustafson, of St. Petersburg; 11 grandchil-
dren and five great-grandchildren.
  At the family's request, there will be no re-
pose or visitation.  A memorial service will be 4
p.m. May 25 at Christ the King Lutheran Church
in Sebastian.
  In lieu of flowers, the family suggests dona-
tions be made to Christ the King Lutheran
Church, 1301 Fellsmere Road, Sebastian, Fla.
32958, or Barefoot Bay Volunteer Fire and Am-
butance Squad, 301 Barefoot Blvd., Barefoot
Bav Fla. 32976, in Mr. Gustafson's memory.
  Mr. Gustafson was a member of the Indian
River Cremation Society.


Jill Gaston

  Jill H. Gaston, 33, of Norwalk, Ohio, died
May 12, 1997, at University Hospital, Cleveland,
Ohio, after a prolonged illness.
  She was born Feb. 24, 1964, in Dayton,
Ohio, and lived in Sebastian from 1990-95.
  Mrs. Gaston was a homemaker and a mem-
ber of First Presbyterian Church, Norwalk.
  Surviving are her husband, Daniel; two
daughters, Ashley Gaston and Lauren Gaston,
both of Norwalk; and one sister, Diane Wallace,
of Dayton.
  The funeral will be 11 a.m. today at First
Presbyterian Church, Norwalk, with the Rev.
Steve J. Ebling officiating.  Interment will follow
at Woodlawn Cemetery, Norwalk.
  The family suggests donations be made to
the American Cancer Society, Huron County
Unit, P.O. Box 342, Milan, Ohio 44846, in Mrs.
Gaston's memory.
  Kubach-Smith Funeral Home, Norwalk, is in
charge of arrangements.


Betty Murray

  Betty Mae "Beth" Murray, 71, of Sebastian,
died May 18, 1997, at Indian River Memorial
Hospital after a brief illness.
  She was born May 15, 1926, in Hillsbo-
rough, N.C., and moved to Sebastian in 1958
from her birthplace.
  Mrs. Murray was a homemaker.  She was a
member of New Hope Ministries, Vero Beach.
Surviving are one daughter, Nancy Weston,
of Charlotte, N.C.; four sons, Skip Lee, of Wa-
basso, Larry Lee, of Hillsborough, Danny Lee, of
Durham, N.C., and Anthony Lee, of Vero Beach;
two brothers, Bryant Ray and Maryland Ray,
both of Hillsborough; two sisters, Virginia
McGee, of Mebane, N.C., and Mary Moree, of
Wabasso; two stepsons, Bert Murray, of Sisters,
Ore., and Russ Murray, of Spokane, Wash.; one
stepdaughter, Arlene Morris, of Central Islip,
N.Y.,; and eight grandchildren.
  The funeral was held May 22 at the Strunk
Funeral Home chapel, Sebastian, with the Rev.
Jack Hart officiating.  Interment followed at
Crestlawn Cemetery, Vero Beach.


END



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May 30, 1997
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           FROM THE ARCHIVES

      TOP STORY FROM A YEAR AGO
  THIS WEEK: A tornado touched
  down just north of the McLarty Trea-
  sure  Museum near Sebastian Inlet
  State Park, knocking down a power
  line, trees and a couple of road
  signs.  Museum employees saw the
  twister come through, pushing over
  two large road signs in front of the
  building located on State Road AIA.
      The Indian River County School
  Board gave its attorney the go-
  ahead to buy land for the site of a fu-
  ture North County elementary school.
  The 36-acre parcel on County Road
  510 near Sebastian River High School
  was to be purchased for $450,000.


      CITIZEN OF THE DAY

      NAME: Autumn Granholm.
      AGE: 24.
      OCCUPATION: Housekeeper at
  Indian River Estates in Vero
  Beach.
      BIRTHPLACE: Raleigh, N.C.
      MOVED HERE: February 1992.
      COMMUNITY SERVICE: Mem-
  ber of the First Church of God in
  Vero Beach and donates to Focus
  on the Family Ministries, based in
  Colorado.
      HOBBIES: Running, arts and
  crafts and singing.
      FAVORITE AUTHOR: Chuck
  Swindoll.
      WHY I LIKE MY NEIGHBOR-
  HOOD: I live in Barefoot Bay.  It's
  peaceful and quiet.

        WEEKEND PICKS

     Volunteers from the Legacy Pro-
  gram at Sebastian River High School
  will serve a barbecue lunch May 31
  at the dedication of the Oslo River-
  front Conservation Area and Herb
  Kale Nature Trail.
      The dedication ceremony will be
  at 10 a.m. A wild hog has been do-
  nated by the St. Johns River Water
  Management District's nuisance hog
  program.  Lunch proceeds will be used
  to provide benches and identifying
  markers along the trail.
      Students from SRHS's Environmen-
  tal Science Academy have been
  working on the trail as a class project
  for the past three years under the Le-
  gacy Program, which is a partnership
  getween the school district and. St.
  Johns.
      Activities for the day will include
  guided tours of the nature trail.


     WHAT DID HE SAY?

  "I think it will be a nice idea.  There
  are so many people who are against
  the United States, I think it's nice to
  hove people interested in it.  Hey,
  there's no better country than ours,
  so let's get a flag out there and rep-
  resent it.
                    - Eleanor Nadeau
  (Nadeau,  president of the Barefoot
  Bay New England Club, made the
  comment after Barefoot Bay resident
  David McAllister said he's writing to
  governors from each of the 50 states
  asking them to donate a flag from
  their state to put on display on Veter-
  ans Way in Barefoot gay.  The flags
  would be on display only on special
  days such as Memorial Day.)


  
  SRHS program helps at-risk students
  get chance to be better prepared for life
  By DAVID KEARNS
  Of The Sun

      Last year, Shaun Pease wasn't doing very well in
  school.  He barely was passing his academic classes
  in Sebastian River High School's Medical Academy,
  he said.
      "I really wasn't doing well at all.  I was getting
  really bad grades," the senior said.
      Now, he's looking forward to three years in the            
  U.S. Army, where he'll train to become a mechanic             
  after he graduates from SRHS.
      Many students who find themselves in academic              
  trouble consider dropping out of school, said Pease's                
  English teacher, Anne Lanier, an instructor in SRHS'         
  Performance-Based Diploma program where Pease is      
  finishing up his senior year.
      The academy was developed to prevent students
  from dropping out of school by providing a way for
  students to work at their own pace on basic courses,
  such as math, English, history and science.
      Ms. Lanier considers Pease a success and a posi-
  tive example of how the academy can turn students
  around. If Pease had dropped out of school, he
  would face a very uncertain future today.  Ms. Lanier
  said.
      Now, Pease already has earned a passing grade in
  his general equivalency exam and he is passing his
  vocational courses at SRHS.  His basic training and a
  positive future awaits.
      Two years ago, Dwayne Grandison also was
  struggling academically.  In his Queens, N.Y., high
  school, he was surrounded by violence and gang ac-
  tivity that made it impossible to concentrate, he said.
      ."Kids were bringing guns into class, so my par-
  ents got me out of there," he said.'
      He moved to Sebastian last year and,for the past
  11 months, Grandison, a 17-year-old ninth grader, has
  been working to catch up in his grades.  He also wants
  to join the Army and become a mechanic someday.
      The teenagers are two of about 90 students at the
  school for whom the Performance-Based Diploma
  Program may be the difference between getting a
  high-school diploma and dropping out of school.
      Ms. Lanier and math teacher, Margaret Darby,
  head up the program at SRHS.  They are joined by
  counselor Jeanine O'Brien and computer laboratory
  manager Kim Cappelen in running the program.
      The students are classified as "at-risk" of drop-
  ping out of school, said Ms. Lanier.
      While she does not like the terminology, she said
  the kids in the program meet the criteria put forward
  by the state as being in danger of dropping out.
      Some have dropped out of school before, or may
  be receiving failing grades.
      But many of these students work long hours out-
  side of school to support their families, she said.
  Some students come from special circumstances that
  hinder their studies, such broken homes, or homes
  where neither parent is in the picture.
      Others simply have problems dealing with a tradi-
  tional classroom setting, she said.
      All these students are tested to determine if they
  have the ability to perform well in the program be-
  fore they are allowed to complete their courses.
      The program makes use of a computer lab with 60
  computers linked under the same educational
  software.  The standardized lessons, created by Jostens
  Corp. of San Diego, Calif., allow students to proceed
  at their own,pace, Ms. Lanier said.
      Ms. Lanier said the fact students are completing
  their courses on the computer and not under the di-
  rection of any teacher, eliminates any potential prob-
  lems students may have with authority figures.
      Students are given daily assignments on the com-
  puter in English, history, math and science.  Ms. Lan-
  ier and Mrs. Darby know immediately what areas
  need improvement, based on how well the students
  complete the automated lessons.
      "The computer becomes their teacher.  We just fa-
  cilitate the process," Ms. Lanier said of the program.
      While not working in the computer lab, students
  also complete their vocational studies in other acade-
  mies so they have job skills when they graduate.
      "It's not for everybody and it's not easy," Ms. Lan
  ier said.
      But the program has been successful in keeping
  SRHS' drop-out rate low, she said.  A key element in
  keeping kids with the program is peer counseling.
      For three hours a week, the students talk about
  their problems with a counselor and among them-
  selves.
      When senior Julie Essery be-
  came pregnant last year, she said
  prenatal care and the needs of her
  baby made the Performance-Based
  Diploma Program the only option
  open to her to get her diplomatic
  She couldn't handle a regular
  course schedule.
      For Essery, 18, the peer-coun-
  seling was extremely important in
  allowing her to express what she
  was going through, she said.
      "I never hang out with my
  friends anvmore because I don't
  have anybody to watch my daugh-
  ter.  This helps.  We get together
  and talk about things," she said.
      Essery now wants to get her di-
  ploma and eventually become a
  neonatal nurse.
      Mrs. O'Brien said for the most
  part, the students in the Perfor-
  mance-Based Diploma program
  don't experience any more or less
  personal problems outside of
  school, than any other group of
  students but they do seem to re-
  quire more counseling.
      "My theory is they really don't
  fit into any regular (school) pro-
  gram.  They tend to be more sensi-
  tive emotionally than other kids.
  They enjoy completing projects on    
  their own at their own pace," she
  said.
      To anyone who would suggest
  these students should not be
  coddled with a special program,
  Mrs. O'Brien does not mince
  words.
      "If we don't coddle them and
  help them, they won't become pro-
  ductive citizens and they won't
  function properly in society," she
  said.
      The Performance-Based Di-
  ploma program was founded in In-
  dian River County in 1987 at Vero
  Beach High School by teacher Judy
  Jones, now the adult education
  principal for Indian River County,
  under the direction of Indian River
  County  School Superintendent
  James Burns, Ms. Lanier said.
      Burns was a strong advocate for
  developing a program to reduce
  the drop-out rate.  The program he
  and Jones created now serves as an
  example for similar programs
  across the country, said Ms. Lanier.

  
  Photo Caption
  Dwayne Grandison, left, Kim Hutchinson and Shaun Pease work 
  at a computer in their classroom.  They are students in the 
  Performance-Based Diploma program at Sebastian River High 
  School.




   Friendly rivalry spurs college-bound students
   to pull down scholarship-winning test scores
   By DAVID KEARNS
   Of The Sun


      For two Sebastian River High School

  honors students, a healthy competition

  on college entrance examinations

  sparked scholarship-winning scores.

      Amy Bissonnette and Brian Bronzo,
  
  seniors in SRHS' honors program, took

  an American government class taught by

  Michael Stutzke at the same time.  During

  class, they ribbed each other about who

  would score higher on the Scholastic Ap-

  titude examination and the American

  College Test.

      While Bronzo technically may have

  won the battle, edging out Bissonnette

  on both exams, they both ended up win-

  ners, Stutzke said.

      Bronzo, 18, of Melbourne Beach, was

  awarded a two-year scholarship to the

  undergraduate medical program at Johns

  Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md.

      Getting the scholarship was the result

  of his 3.6 grade-point average, coupled

  with a 1,370 out of a possible 1,600 com-

  bined score on his Scholastic Aptitude

  Test, and a 31 out of 36 on his American

  College Test, said School Counselor

  Carol Ringgold.

      Currently, tuition at Johns Hopkins

  runs about $19,000 per year.

      Bronzo said he wants to become a

  trauma surgeon or he might go into pa-

  thology after college and medical school.

      Stutzke was so impressed by Bronzo

  that when he found out Bronzo would

  not be attending the senior prom this

  year because he didn't have a suitable car

  to escort his date, he handed the keys of

  his Mitsubishi 3000 GT to the senior.

     "I have a phenomenal belief in the
 goodness of students.  Brian is not one of
 the most vocal students, but he is one of
 the nicest and brightest young men I
 have had the good fortune of having in
 my class," Stutzke said.
     Bronzo credits teachers at SRHS for
 instilling in him the drive and determin-
 ation to succeed academically.
     "They are all terrific, Mr. (Todd)
 DeRegnaucourt, Mrs. Ringgold, they are
 all excellent," he said.
     He said he also was grateful to
 Stutzke for making the class interesting
 as well as providing him a car so he and
 his date, Hilary Heel, could attend the se-
 nior prom.
     Bronzo mav be the first pre-medical
 student at Johns Hopkins who also raises
 bearded dragons in his spare time.  The
 lizards, native to Australia, were a gift
 from his uncle who has his own small
 wildlife refuge near Orlando.  His two
 adult lizards, Susie and Charlie, recently
 produced offspring and yet another
 clutch of eggs arrived in their aquarium
 this past weekend, Bronzo said.
     Bronzo said the lizards will not be
 going with him to Johns Hopkins as the
 university has a prohibition against pets
 in the school dormitories.  They will re-
 main under the care of his family while
 he is away studying.
     Bissonnette, 18, of Vero Lake Estates,
 earned a 1,320 on the Scholastic Aptitude
 Test, and a 29 on the American College
 Test.  These same scores paved the way
 for her scholarship money, as well.
     She will receive almost $6,000 from
 University of Central Florida to attend the
 Orlando school for the next four years.
     She also has been given about $4,500
 from generous clubs and organizations
 in the community.
     "We definitely were competing," said
 Bissonnette about the test scores.  She ad-
 mitted she takes nothing lightly, espe-
 cially when it comes to competition.
     As a junior, Bissonnette flaunted what
 many would consider conventionality
 and tried out for the high-school football
 team.  She made the junior varsity squad
 and contributed on some key plays,
 Stutzke said.
      Bissonnette said she wants to become
  a judge.  Along the way, she hopes to be-
  come a public prosecutor.
     Fascinated by legal issues, she cur-
  rently questions the school's policy of al-
  lowing a prayer to be said during the
  upcoming graduation ceremony because
  it may offend some of the Muslim and
  Jewish stud@nts at the ceremony.
     She also cites the U.S. Constitutional
  provisions separating church and state.
     "I'm Christian, but does that mean I
  don't care how (other students) feel dar-
  ing the ceremony?" she asked.
     As her American government teacher,
  Stutzke said he has always noticed a
  strong academic drive in Bissonnette,
  and as well as a keen sense of right and
  wrong.
     "I believe she has the tenacity to
  make a career in the law. it wouldn't sur-
  prise me within the next 20 years, if we
  were referring to her as judge Bisson-
  nette," he said.   

  
  Photo Caption
  Amy Bissonnette on a bench outside SRHS.

  Photo Caption
  Brian Bronzo and his pet bearded dragons, Charlie and Susie.



  Old clam house being turned into shops, cafe
  By DAVID KEARNS
  Of The Sun

       A former wholesale clam house
  in Grant is conforming rapidly to
  the dreams and designs of its
  owners, Michael and Nikki Qua-
  traro of Grant.
       The din of clammers trading in
  bulk quantities of shellfish at the
  former West Shores Seafood build-
  ing is gone, replaced by the sounds
  of work being done to transform
  the property into the new Water-
  side Plaza.
       The building, adjacent to the
  boat ramp at First Street in Grant,
  now has a bait-and tackle-shop and
  a motor repair shop operating on
  the property.
       These businesses, Rayland Ma-'
  rine Service and the TackleBox,
  have been tenants of the Quatraros'
  since May 1
       If the Quatraros' business plans
  come true, by July 4 a restaurant
  called The River House also will be
  opening on the property.
       Since November, when the
  Quatraros bought the former clam
  house, the 3,000-square-foot build-
  ing has seen some drastic changes,
  both inside and out, said Mrs. Qua-
  traro.
       The changes are the result of
  her husband's tireless effort, she
  said.
       "It was his idea to turn it into a
  plaza and bring a little bit more life
  to Grant," she said.
       "He's one of those people who
  can turn what looks like nothing
  into something really special.  He
  has a gift," she said.
       She said The River House will
  serve hot and cold sandwiches, sea-
  food, refreshments and beer.  About
  700 square feet of dining space un-
  der roof will accompany an outside
  deck overlooking the Indian River.
       The 1-acre property provides
  for expansion and many new ideas,
  Mrs. Quatraro said.
       "We have so many plans for
  this," she said.
       She outlined proposals they
  have come up with, including
  catering business for island parties,
  personal watercraft rentals and per-
  haps a marina on the property.
       But all plans hinge on financ-
  ing, she said.
       "It all depends on what the
  bank says," she said.
      Quatraro owns and operates
  Sebastian Towboat and Salvage, a
  Grant-based business that tows dis-
  abled boats in the Indian River and
  the ocean.  He has three boats
  working the waters between Mel-
  bourne and Vero Beach.
      He always had his eye on pos-
  sible locations for waterside restau-
  rants, she said.  When the Quatraros
  heard the building was for sale
  they bought it.
      Bill and Donna Reprogel of
  Palm Bay are delighted with the
  new location they have chosen for
  the TackleBox.
      The TackleBox moved May I
  from the west side of U.S. 1 just
  south of the Grant Historical House
  to its new home.
      The business had been at its
  former location for about 10
  months before the move, Reprogel
  said.  At the new site, the store has
  more room for live bait, a larger
  sales floor and direct access to the
  river.
      The TackleBox now is open
  from 5:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays
  and until 10 p.m. Saturdays
  Sundays, Reprogel said.
      "The move was purely econom-
  ical.  In the first two weeks we have
  been open we've seen the differ-
  ence in traffic," he said.
      "One thing we get here that we
  didn't get at the other location is
  water traffic.  We've picked up cus-
  tomers from (Grant Farm Island)
  right across the channel.  I think we
  have all of the islanders as regular
  customers now," he said.
      Reprogel said the new location
  allows him to maintain a great
  variety of bait at the new store and
  in greater quantity.
      "The people here in the corn-
  munity have really taken us under
  their wing," he said
      As Michael Quatraro makes the
  changes to that portion of the
  building that will become the res-
  taurant, he and his wife are encour-
  aged at the apparent success their
  tenants are experiencing.
      "We are really excited about
  having our tenants in there and the
  business they are bringing in.  It's
  going to make it that much easier
  for us to show the bank that every-
  thing we have planned for the loca-
  tion can work," Mrs. Quatraro said.

   
   
  Photo Caption 
  Donna and Bill Reprogel say their new store at the Waterside 
  Plaza at First Street and U.S. 1 in Grant, gives them more 
  room to store live bait.


  Inlet Tax District official loves ocean
  (no byline)

      Randy Mosby felt compelled to
  seek a seat on the Sebastian Inlet
  Tax District since he grew up along
  the Space and Treasure coasts and
  surfed at the Sebastian Inlet.
      "I grew up in Merritt Island and
  surfed the inlet for many years.  It
  my love and desire for the ocean
  and the inlet itself," that made him
  run for one of the five seats on the
  board, Mosby said.  In 1994 he was
  elected and since then he's be-
  come vice-chairman of the panel.
      Since then, Mosby said, he's
  come to navigate the nuances of
  public service, which hasn't always
  been easy.
      But Mosby, who runs Mosby
  and Associates environmental engi-
  neering firm in Vero Beach, is no
  stranger to government work.  He
  was the engineering consultant for
  the city of Sebastian from 1984 to
  1991.  He said that has helped to
  prepare him for service on district
  board.
      The perception of the district is
  important, Mosby said.  With a law-
  suit filed against the district by
  some homeowners seeking finan-
  cial compensation for erosion they
  blame on the inlet, Mosby said the
  district's purpose is sometimes
  misunderstood.
      "The main objective (of the
  district) is to maintain a safe, nav-
  igable waterway from the Indian
  River to the ocean.  That's very im-
  portant to me," he said.
      He said he doesn't dispute  the
  jetties at the inlet have  contributed
  to erosion problems for those resi-
  dents who live south of the chan-
  nel, but said to what degree is up
  for up for debate.
      Many of those residents south
  of the inlet "see the district as the
  cause of erosion and for the loss of
  property," he said.
      But residents living in Brevard
  County and many residents on the
  mainland in Sebastian, "respect the
  district," he said.
      Meanwhile, Mosby is enjoying
  his life in Sebastian.
      "It's a place where I'll probably
 end up dying.  This is my home.  I'll
 never go away permanently," he
 said.
      The landscape of the Space and
 Treasure coasts have been part of
 his life since his family moved to
 Merritt Island in 1968 when he was
 15 years old.  His father was an en-
 gineer in the Apollo Space pro-
 gram and he developed his love for
 surfing and for the ocean when he
 moved to Brevard County.
      He no longer surfs, he said, but
 he hasn't given up on adventure as
 he's an avid parachutist at Skydive
 Sebastian.
      He moved to Sebastian in 1980
 and said he's found it an "excellent
 place to raise a family."
      Birthdate: Aug. 27, 1953.
      Birthplace: San Diego, Calif.
      Education: Masters degree in
 structural engineering from the
 University of Missouri in Rolla,
 Mo.; bachelor of science degree in
 environmental engineering from
 Florida Technical University, now
 University of Central Florida.
      Family: Wife, Gloria of three
 years; son, Robbie, 7; stepsons
 Chad, 22 and Cory, 20.
      The best part of my job is:
 Evaluation and review of the tech-
 nical studies being done for the in-
 let.
      What I like the least about
 my job is: Lawsuits.
      The most recent movie I saw
 in a theater was: "Volcano."
      The book I'd recommend ev-
 eryone to read is: The "Travis
 McGee" series by John D. McDon-
 ald.
      Of everyone in the world,
 the person I would most like to
 meet is: Vice President Al Gore.
      My favorite food is: Steak.
      If I was going on a trip to
 the moon, I would take along:
 My wife.
      When I was growing up, I al-
 ways wanted to be: An engineer,
      If I were president of the
 United States, I'd: Cut back taxes.
      When I want to get away
 from it all, 1: Go sky diving.
      The person I admire the
 most is: My mother, Joann Mosby.
      Proudest moment was:
     Being sworn into the Sebastian In-
     -let Tax District.
        My favorite sports team is:
     The St. Louis Cardinals baseball
     team.
        My favorite television show
     is: NFL football.
        On my last vacation I vis-
     ited: Kennebunkport, Me.
        The first thing I do when I
     wake up in the morning is: Take
     a shower.
        If I could do something over
  again, I'd: I don't think there's
  anvthing I'd do over again.
     People who know me the best
  know I: Am sincere.
     The most exciting time in my
  life is: Spending time with my son.

  
  Photo Caption
  Randy Mosby, at his office of Mosby and Associates 
  engineering firm in Vero Beach, says he enjoys
  dealing with the future of the Sebastian Inlet.


  

  Echange club members devote time to children
  By DREW DIXON
  Of The Sun

     The biggest exchange for the Exchange Club of Se-
  bastian is the volunteer time given to children's orga-
  nizations, according to club members.

     "It's a purely philanthropic group and our pro-
  ceeds go toward children," said Rick Giteles, a mem-
  ber of the Exchange Club for about a decade and past
  president.  "It's a group of business people in North
  County that are proactive in the community." 
     There are about 75 members in the Exchange
  Club of Sebastian and they meet every Wednesday at
  noon at Captain Hiram's restaurant to map out plans
  for volunteer efforts in the community.
     "Our primary focus is to get involved with any-
  thing that has to do with child abuse or children's
  programs," said Dan Dufell, president of the club.
  "The  entire club is involved with volunteer efforts
  throughout the city."
     Dufell added it's a matter of civic pride and a de-
  sire to give back to the community that keeps Ex-
  change Club members active.
     Hopefully, that in turn has a big impact on the
  children they help, not only with child-abuse pro-
  grams, but with scholarships for Sebastian River High
  School students as well, he said.
     "I think there's no doubt we get involved and it
  keeps kids off the streets.  It shows them that by
  continuing their education, they can succeed in life.
  It shows kids what they can strive for in life," Dufell
  said.

      The biggest fund-raiser event of the year for the
  Exchange Club is the Blue Water Open Fishing Tour-
  nament held at the Sebastian Inlet.
      This year's Blue Water Open, held Memorial Day
  Weekend, drew a smaller crowd then club members
  hoped because of rough seas.  Registration for the-
  tournament this year came in at 41 boats, Kevin
  Crowe, co-chairman of the tournament, said.
      Even with the smaller turnout, he said, the club
  still mananaged to raise more than $4,000 for chil-
  dren's charities.

      "It's become the premier fund-raiser for our orga-
  nization," Crowe said.  "For us as a club to do some-
  thing very much in the public eye serves two
  purposes.  It's an outlet for volunteering and it's fun."

      Beyond the volunteer efforts to raise money for
  children's charities, the Exchange Club provides a
  good platform for business networking for its mem-
  bers, Giteles said.

      "The Exchange members go out of their way to do
  business with each other.  It's  good for business and
  the quality of business.  Because you know people on
  a personal level," he said.

      The club also lays a foundation for many people
  who move to Sebastian and set up a business, Crowe
  said.
                                                           
      "It's a wonderful place for people in the commu-
  nity to meet people with civic pride.  If someone's in-
  terested in that, we'd be the group for them.'

      There's always room for new members in the Ex-
  change Club, according to Giteles.  He said the club
  was about the only service club in Sebastian when
  was founded in 1982 and it continues to grow.
      "We're always looking for new blood.  We have a
  lot of new businesses moving into the area and they
  should contact us," Giteles said.

      Anyone interested in joining the club can call
  Crowe at 589-8208.  Annual dues in the Exchange
  Club of Sebastian cost about $250 and that covers the
  weekly luncheon at Captain Hiram's.

  
  Photo Caption
  Joe Braun, owner and operator of the Won Sun, stands 
  beside his boat's entry in the Blue Water Open Fishing 
  Tournament, an 18.7-pound bull dolphin that he caught 
  Sunday.  The tournament was sponsored by the Sebastian 
  Exchange Club to raise money for children's charities and 
  is the club biggest fund-raiser of the year.




 Love of youngsters helps keep this volunteer on ball
 By DAVID KEARNS
 Of The Sun

    Don Pescia is the perfect exam-

 ple of the good people who enjoy

 working with youngsters in Little

 League organizations across the

 country.

      Why  do they do it? There's no

 pay involved for all they do, such

 as rolling out the baselines before

 the games, keeping score, main-

 taining equipment, coaching, um-

 piring and putting up with

 complaints.

      Pescia, 57, vice president of Se-

 bastian River Area Little League,

 has a very succinct answer: "It's the

 pure joy of working with the kids,

 seeing their smiling faces and

 watching them grow and learn."

      Pescia has volunteered at Sebas-

 tian River Area Little League since

 he came to the community 4 1/2

 years ago.  The sight of Pescia at the

 Barber Street Sports Complex is as

 familiar now as the American flag.

      At 6 feet, 3 inches tall, his size,

 along with his bald head and clear

 blue eyes, have a commanding ef-

 fect when he directs a parent or

 coach to settle down, back off and

 let the youngsters play ball.

      After participating in Little

 League for more than 20 vears,

 both here and in Long Island, N.Y.,

 his pet peeve has become adult in-

 terference in the game.

      "When the adults start to inter-

 fere with the game, they take

 something away from  the kids. My

 opinion is, the parents should drop

 their kids off and let us take it from

 there.  This is for the kids.  The

 adults need to remember that," he
 said.

      He was Sebastian's tournament
 director for the Indian River
 County Championship in Little
 League baseball and Senior League
 softball May 19-24 at the Barber
 Street Sports Complex.  He oversaw
 the games and made sure every
 coach with a concern or question
 was heard fairly and answered.
      He was responsible for lining
 the fields before each game and
 making sure they were maintained
 throughout the tournament.
      "He would make an excellent
 president of Sebastian River Area
 Little League," League Presidentt
 Nancy Diamond said.
      Pescia is unsure he would take
 over the role if he were elected.
      "Nancy's been kind of groom-
 ing me for the position, but I'm
 not sure I'm ready for it.  That's a
 lot of responsibility and a lot of
 pressure," he said.
      Pescia should know about
 both.
      Before moving to Sebastian
 with   his wife, Mary, and their
 daughter, Brooke, in 1993, Pescia
 worked for 20 years as a policeman
 in the Nassau County, N.Y., Police
 Department.  He was a police de-
 tective for most of his career.
      He said police work made him
 see the value in youth athletics and
 gave him a desire to participates in
 Little League to make it a positive
 experience for youngsters.  His
 time as a Little League volunteer in
 Long island ran concurrent with
 his law-enforcement career and
 continued long after he put up his
 gun and his badge.
      For the past four years, Pescia
 also has been volunteering his
 time in as a van driver for the In-
 dian River Council on Aging.  He
 ferries neighbors in Sebastian to
 and from doctors' offices and helps
 them with other errands.
      The work is rewarding, he said,
 especially at Christmas when he
 decorates the van for the holidaying
 and dresses up in a white beard
 and a red hat.
      "I get a kick out of that," he
 said.
      He and his wife look forward to
  their daughter's graduation from
  Sebastian River High School next
  year.
      "We are extremely proud of
  her," he said.


  
  
  Course of love doesn't always run true
  when couples start planning a wedding
  By Drew Dixon
  Of The Sun

    A wedding day can be the day
  for a couple beginning a life to-
  gether.
      But  as two couples who re-
  cently got married tell it, there are
  many days that have to be ac-
  counted for in planning a wedding.
      Elissa Scarpa grew up in Sebas-
  tian and last year agreed to marry
  Bela Nagy of Vero Beach.
      The two got engaged in the
  middle of 1996 and Scarpa said she
  thought that was plenty of time to
  carefully map out a wedding set for
  Jan. 11, 1997.
      But there were many hidden
  stresses she didn't count on, de-
  spite six months of advanced plan-
  ning.
      The wedding "was a great ex-
  perience, but it was the most stress
  I've had in my life," Scarpa, now
  Mrs. Nagy, said.  "I wanted it to be
  perfect, but it's hard to be perfect."
      The imperfect trials for the Na-
  gys came in unexpected challenges
  that were the furthest things from
  their minds when planning the
  wedding, Mrs. Nagy said.
      "Just finding the dresses for the
  mothers of the bride and groom
  was hard."
      She explained the wedding was
  in the evening and both mothers
  couldn't decide on what style to
  wear.  Her mother searched for a
  dress from Melbourne to West
  Palm Beach.  Meanwhile, her
  mother-in-law kept looking at cata-
  logues for the appropriate dress
  and both women couldn't decide
  until the eve of the wedding.  "It
  went down to the wire," she said.

     That's just for starters.  The ac-
  tual process of inviting friends and
  family to the wedding was a chal-
  lenge in itself, Mrs. Nagy said.  "We
  sent out 300 invitations.  We had to
  have two stamps on the envelope         
  because we had a heavy invitation.
  And we had a stamp on the return
  envelope.
       "That was about $300 just for
  postage.  We didn't even think
  about that," Mrs. Nagy said.

       Out of the 300 invitations,
  about 200 people confirmed they
  would attend the wedding, Mrs.
  Nagy said.  Then it was time to
  coordinate the arrival of all those
  attending.  She said her husband
  had relatives from Hungary who
  had to fly in and there were other
  family members and friends from
  as far away as California and New
  York who had to come to Sebastian
  for the wedding;
       "It can get pretty overwhelm-
  ing," she said.
       As if the arrival of all the guests
  wasn't enough, there was a glitch
  in the 16-member wedding party
  Mrs. Nagy said she never antic-
  ipated.  One of her bridesmaids,
  who was already fitted for a dress
  canceled about three months be-
  fore the wedding.
       "Out of the whole thing, my
  friend dropping out of the wed-
  ding ... That was really hard and
  that hurt.  But I had a wedding to
  do," she said.
       That included reserving the
  church for the ceremony and the
  hall for a reception.  Mrs. Nagy de-
  cided to get married in St. Sebas-
  tian Catholic Church and with
  came the required pre-marriage
  counseling for the couple,
  said.
       The reception hall was about
  the easiest reservation for  the Na-
  gys. Since Mrs. Nagy's father is
  member of the Elks Lodge off
  County Road 512, the couple was a
  shoe-in for the reservation.
       But decorating the hall is
  where Mrs. Nagy said she scored
  big.
      "My theme was around the Star
  Gazer Lily (flower).  They were on
  the invitations and fresh ones were
  on the reception tables and in the
  bouquets.
      "We decorated the entire hall
  ourselves. It was hard, but since we
  did it ourselves it made it more
  special," she said.  The decision to
  decorate the hall herself was also a
  big cost-saver, she added.
      While he bride was preparing
  all the trimmings and dealing with
  the stress, where was the groom?
      "What I took care of was the
  photographer, entertainment and
  honeymoon," Nagy said.
      "Overall, it was a fun experi-
  ence to me.  A lot of things (the
  bride stressed about) weren't a big
  deal to me.  I guess because I was a
  guy. It fell into place and the next
  thing I knew, I was getting mar-
  ried," he said.
      Nagy did  admit arranging the
  honeymoon wasn't as easy as he
  would have liked.
      "It was a little hard.  We were
  looking at places that were in our
  budget and we worked with a
  travel agent," he said.  But that was
  the key, finding a good travel
  agent. Once that was complete, the
  couple settled on Cancun, Mexico,
  for the honeymoon.
      But just as there were difficul-
  ties on finding the right clothes for
  the women, Nagy said, it was
  equally difficult fitting the men.
      The men in his wedding party
  "were from all over the place and
  it was difficult" getting the proper
  measurements for tuxedos, he said.
   Since the men were from differ-
  ent cities, the tailors that measured
  their sizes were slightly different
  and when Nagy and his party went
  to pick up the tuxes, some of the
  sizes were off.  So they had to go in
  Saturday morning, the day of the
  wedding to get some of his party
  refitted, he said.
   The biggest concern for Nagy
  was watching his bride become
  stressed with all her plans.
   "Her stress caused me stress
  cause I knew everything
  turn out fine," he said.
      Nagy explained he under-
  stands why his bride was so con-
  cerned.
      "Every girl grows up thinking
  about how perfect a wedding
  should be.  The guy just thinks
  about it as being a big party," he
  said.
      While the Nagys navigated
  through uncharted territory in
  planning a wedding for the first
  time, other couples have had expe-
  rience.
      John and Barbara Cunningham
  got married Jan. 25.  For the Bare-
  foot Bay couple, it was their sec-
  ond marriage each.  The couple had
  about 50 people attend the cere-
  mony at the United Church of
  Christ in Sebastian.
      Cunningham said the biggest
  surprise for him was the emotion
  involved.
      "It was wonderful.  It surprised
  me when the preacher was talking
  (during the ceremony), I got
  choked up!  I was wondering what
  was going to happen," he said.
      His first marriage in 1947 was
  low key and not formal at all.  So
  his second wedding was a much
  larger affair and he said he enjoyed
  that.  He felt comfortable with the
  way things went, he said.
      "Our theme was welcoming my
  new husband into his new family,"
  she said.
      With both weddings   behind
  them, both Mrs. Nagy and Mrs.
  Cunningham said they have experi-
  ence and some advice.
      "Take a honeymoon right after
  the wedding so the bride can get
  some rest," Mrs. Cunningham ad-
  vised.  She said her honeymoon
  won't take place until this fall
  when she and her husband go to
  Williamsburg, Va.
      For Mrs. Nagy, planning a "per-
  fect" wedding rests upon a good
  support system.
      "Delegate things to do to
  friends and family because you'll
  never get it all done yourself," she
  said.

      Family members and friends
  can start to compete with different
  ideas for the wedding, but in the
  end, "My husband and I just did it
  the way we wanted it.  Don't
  change because someone makes a
  simple suggestion.  Don't be afraid
  to, tell people, 'No I don't want it
  that way,' even if you're going to
  hurt their feelings," Mrs. Nagy said.
      Her husband advises couples
  planning a wedding to keep it all
  in sobering perspective.  "It takes a
  lot for a wedding, but it takes a lot
  more for a marriage.
      "Even though you're going
  crazy, you shouldn't make it out to
  be the only day.  You got to worry
  about the days after (the wedding),
  too," Nagy said.
   The only thing that really got to
  him, Cunningham said, was the
  price of a marriage license.
      "When I first got married, (the
  license) was only $2.50. Now it's
  $87.50. It surprised me," he said.    
      His bride, on the other hand,
  saw the wedding as a much smaller
  event than her first marriage and
  that provided the most unexpected
  pleasure.
      "It was more fun.  It was more
  relaxed.  I was able to think more
  about my family and not so much
  about stage fright," Mrs. Cunning-
  ham said.
      There were still some hitches --
  one of her bridesmaids was her 3
  year-old granddaughter.
      "One of our issues was how to
  get a 3-year-old down the
  aisle.  I made a flower to put
  hair and she didn't want it.  She
  didn't want to go," at first, Mrs.
  Cunningham explained.
      But finally, after a little coax-
  ing, the girl marched down the
  aisle and completed the wedding
  party, Mrs. Cunningham said.
      Equally challenging for Mrs.
  Cunningham was the selection of the
  the wedding music during the cer-
  emony.
      "I didn't know what type of
  theme to use or music to use.  I
  didn't want to be the blushing
  bride.  It was a seniors wedding,'
  she said.
      "I ended up using (music from
  the classical composer) Bach for
  the processional.  'Amazing Grace'
  was played during the teremony,"
  Mrs. Cunningham said.
      She also miscalculated the
  color scheme for the wedding
  cake.
      "I messed up on the order of
  the cake at Publix (supermarket in
  Roseland).  I had chosen clashing
  colors for the cake decorations,
  yellow, turquoise and pink.
      "The bakery department called
  me the day of the wedding and
  said, 'We'd like to use all white.'
  They explained it would have been
  awful (with the original colors)
  and they salvaged it," Mrs. Cun-
  ningham said.
      Her biggest regret in organiz-
  ing the wedding was "not reserv-
  ing things fast enough.  I started
  reserving things two months be-
  fore the wedding and that wasn't
  enough time," Mrs. Cunningham
  explained.
      "I wanted to have the reception
  in Barefoot Bay, but I couldn't get
  the hall reserved," Mrs. Cunning-
  ham said.  Instead, she settled for
  an intimate reception at the church
  parish hall and there was a dinner
  for family members afterward at
  the Holiday Inn Oceanside in Ver
  Beach.
      In all though, the day went
  well, she said.  It was important to
  bring her family together and wel-
  come her new husband into her
  family.

  
  Photo Caption
  When Elisso Scorpo and Bela Nagy got engaged in the middle 
  of 1996, Elissa thought she had plenty of time to plan for 
  her Jan. 11 wedding.  But she found out there are many 
  hidden stresses she didn't anticipate.

  
  
  
  There's something to be said for eloping to Las Vegas
  By Eileen McClelland
  Special to The Sun

        The couple sat listlessly on a bench. The woman, dressed neatly in a
  white suit, drooped nervously as she fiddled with her carnations.  The
  man, clad in a plaid sportscoat, paced and repeatedly glanced at his
  watch, waiting for his name to be called.  Occasionally, he glanced at the
  bungee jumpers across the street.
       "Is this what you expected?" the woman in white asked me.
       Getting married in Las Vegas is what you make of it, I learned.
       With the wrong attitude, the ambiance can be reminiscent of a
  cattle drive.
       The wait at the hired chapel can be long and unnerving, especially
  on Saturdays, prime time for weddings even in Vegas.
       The chauffeur can threaten (jokingly?) to break your legs if you
  don't surrender a $20 tip.
       Some might find it disconcerting to wait in a bridal lineup at the all-
  night marriage license bureau to secure the $35 license.
       But I thought eloping to Las Vegas was the romantic adventure of a
  lifetime.  And my groom thought it was a relatively painless way to take
  the plunge.
       Eloping without telling anyone of our plans added to the sense of
  adventure.  And not worrying about the logistics of accommodating rela-
  tives and friends made the wedding very personal.
       After the three-minute ceremony and five-minute photo session, as
  we walked the Strip, dazed by an onslaught of neon, it was like having
  thousands of friendly, supportive well-wishers at our reception, buying
  us drinks, giving me tokens for the slot machines because "brides are
  lucky."
       We are.  I won.
       Lots of the unofficial guests at our wedding told us they were mar-
  ried there last night or last year.
       After a couple of quick phone calls to family to share our exciting
  news, we were ready for our celebration - a quiet dinner for two.
       According to the Las Vegas News Bureau, about 80,000 marriage li-
  censes are issued every year in Clark County.
       Historically, the most popular wedding day in Las Vegas is Feb. 14.
  Nearly 3,000 licenses are issued on Valentine's Day weekend.  The sec-
  ond most popular day is New Year's Eve.
       You have to set the mood yourself with a Las Vegas wedding.  The
  chapel can supply only the details - the bouquet, the photographer, the
  "minister of the stars," the music (such as it was) the souvenir T-shirt
  and the complimentary garter.
       How you approach it is what counts.  One bride, awaiting a quick
  march down the short aisle at our chapel, expressed her style in black
  lace with pink carnations.  Most of the brides I encountered wore simple
  white gowns or waltz-length dresses, although one woman wore purple.
       Another bride I encountered that day threw a fit at the hairdresser's.
  Fortunately, brides are smiled on in Las Vegas, and the hairdresser was
  only too happy to try again.
       Where else can you go out to dinner in a bridal gown and veil and
  be seated across from another bridal party?  Or have your hairdresser
  refer to you as "my bride," since there may be a roomful of brides having
  their hair done on any given Saturday.  And where else can you pose un-
  der a sign outside the chapel that says "Wedding Information?" They
  don't mention moments like that in bridal magazines.
       Tips:
       * Don't expect a rehearsal.  Our "minister of the stars" just gave
  loudly whispered stage directions as the ceremony commenced: "OK.
  Stand up against the door.  Take his arm." Then she motioned for us to
  walk forward.  When I hesitated at the ring exchange, she hissed "Use
 your left hand." This might be an argument against having it videotaped,
 unless you are trying to create a sitcom episode for posterity.
     * When the chapel sales staff tells you limo service is free except for
 the gratuity, keep in mind that these drivers will go all out for a substan-
 tial reward.  Their efforts might include a friendly threat or two, or an en-
 couragement to short-change the minister in favor of the driver.
     And also keep in mind that the driver who picks you up at the hotel,
 walks you through the courthouse procedure and delivers you to the
 chapel, is not necessarily the driver who brings you back to the hotel.
 That could mean another tip, a taxi ride or a long walk down the Strip.
 And finally, it may not even be a limo. it might be a Towncar, a limo
 wannabe.  Our driver said his limo was in the shop.
     * Most chapels offer package deals.  But maybe you don't want a
 video, and maybe you're happy with carnations, but want the deluxe
 photo package.  Don't hesitate to order a la carte.
     * The minister's donation is extra.  But in our case the minister
 wasn't shy about stipulating what she expected in the way of a "dona-
 tion" - $40 or $50.
     * Don't feel like you have to wear a plain dress or you must avoid
 white if it's not your first or second or third wedding.  No one in Las Ve-
 gas cares what you wear, and no one is likely to report you to Miss Man-
 ners.  So you can pull out all the stops and arrive with a full cathedral
 train, or get married in a bathing suit, if such attire has symbolic, senti-
 mental significance.  No one will blink an eye.  And some chapels rent
 wedding costumes.  You could be Pocahontas or King Arthur.
     * Don't worry much about the music.  Whether you choose CD or or-
 ganist, it's all over so fast you won't be humming it later.  Besides, I had
 the uneasy feeling our ancient, toothless organist expected a tip too.  CD
 players presumably don't demand gratuities.
     * Running off to Vegas doesn't mean you have to go solo.  Bring
 your bored, towheaded ring bearer, your matching pastel bridesmaids
 clutching parasols, your cheering section if you like.  Most chapels have
 plenty of room for guests and even will arrange receptions.
     * Have a massage and manicure, get your hair done on the big day.
 Most large Vegas hotels offer a full range of services and might supply a
 wedding chapel.  One-stop shopping. if you think he'll come back, send
 the groom out gambling while you get ready. .
     The Clark Countv Marriage License Bureau, 200 S. Third St., is open 8
 a.m. Friday through midnight Sunday, and 8 a.m. to midnight Monday
 through Thursday.  The bureau is also open 24 hours on legal holidays.
 Wedding chapels operate 24 hours on weekends as well.
     The cost of having the wedding ceremony at a chapel generally starts
 at about $50, but packages can cost $800, depending on frills.  No blood
 test is required.  There is no waiting period.  Most couples pick up the
 $35 license on the way to the wedding.  No-nonsense civil nuptials are
 also available for a nominal fee.
     All of Nevada beckons for a quick or extended honeymoon.

    Avoid Old Nevada, unless you
 enjoy shoot-em-up melodrama and
 long to buy moccasins, but don't
 miss Red Rock Canyon for roman-
 tic communal with rocks, wild bur-
 ros and blue skies stunning in their
 vastness.

     Lake  Meade and Hoover Dam
 also are an easy drive by rental car
 or tour  bus. And hotels can make
 arrangements for either mode of
 transportation.

      Chapelscan aiso arrange for ro-
   mantic wedding ceremonies on a
   boat at Lake Meade.
      Reasonably priced air-hotel
   packages are available of course to
   Las Vegas.  Our trip on America
   West Airlines included accommo-
   dations at Bally's.  In Las Vegas,
   room rates are lower Sunday
   through Thursday.  Rates are lowest
   December through February and in
   July and August, unless big conven-
   tions are in town.  Las Vegas has
   about 90,000 hotel rooms in all
   price ranges.
      Finally, don't plan a Vegas wed-
   ding unless the whole idea sounds
   perfect.  A honeymoon in Vegas
   isn't the kind of thing to be ambiv-
   alent about.
      Eileen McC]elland is married to
   news editor Allqn Schilling of The
   Stuart/Port St. Lucie News.  She is a
   former Press Journal copy editor.

   
   Photo Caption
   Eileen McClelland and her husband, Allan Schilling, on   
   their wedding day in Las Vegas.

                 
        
                
                
   Sebastian Municipal Golf Course superintendent
   works hard at keeping the fairways green
   By DAVID KEARNS
      Of The Sun

    Paul Rifenbark feels no differently than anyone
   else about the time he spends playing golf - it's
   never enough, he said.
      But he feels fortunate when it comes to how
   much time he actually spends on a golf course.  As su-
   perintendent of the Sebastian Municipal Golf Course,
   that's a minimum of 40 hours every week, checking
   the greens, the irrigation systems, the fairways and
   the equipment used to maintain the course.
     Although he's no Tiger Woods with a club, his
   employers, ISS Landscape Management Services of
   Tampa, the company hired by the city to maintain the
   course, think Rifenbark is shooting better than par
   when it comes to his job.

    In early May, ISS' top management officials
  named Rifenbark the company's Golf Course Superin-
  tendent of the Year for the work he and his staff of
  nine performed at the Sebastian course in 1996.
      "I was surprised because the course still isn't
  where I'd like to see it yet, but it's still nice to be rec-
  ognized for all the work we have put in," he said.
      Rifenbark said the real work actually began in
  1995 when ISS was awarded the contract by Sebastian
  City Council to maintain the course.  Before that year,
  the course maintenance was handied by city employ-
  ees.
      Rifenbeck said by the time ISS stepped into the
  picture, the course needed work and the grooming
  equipment the city had been trying to use on it was
  old and outdated.
      "I don't want to get into the politics of it, but they
  had gotten themselves into a bit of a bind.  I will say
  that," he said.
      The course needed certain things it had not been
  getting, he said.
      "Grooming, fertilizing, spraying, irrigating and
  maintaining the equipment," Rifenbark said, while
  discussing some of the basics he continues to advo-
  cate and oversee.
      He meets daily with Pat Cerjan, the course's direc-
  tor of golf, to discuss areas of the course that need at-
  tention so they can coordinate play around the
  grooming in progress.
      "It's a never-ending job. We are constantly upgrad-
  ing the golf course as much as we can. You have to be
  concentrating on that and be looking into the  future
  of the course.  As a course gets older, it gets harder to
  maintain," he said.
      Rifenbark grew up playing golf, but he said he
  gravitated towards maintaining courses when he real-
  ized he didn't have the necessary skills to turn profes-
  sional.
      In 1980 he moved to Vero Beach from his native
  Maryland.  He began maintaining and supervising at
  Indian Pines Country Club in Fort Pierce, where he
  worked for 13 years, before taking a job in Sebastian.
      He and his wife, Mary Lee, raised their daughter,
  Christine, in Vero Beach.
      He still manages to find time for a few rounds of
  golf every month but he doesn't play at Sebastian, he
  said.
      "When I play golf, I usually go dig up someone
  else's course and give them a little job security," Ri-
  fenbark said.

  
  Photo Caption
  Paul Rifenbark, the superintendent at Sebastian Municipal 
  Golf Course, keeps a close eye on the greens and fairways
  at the public links.

                                                                                   
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
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Micco teen honored as good citizen                                                                                           n


        By DAVID KEARNS
            Of The Sun

    On her last day of school at
  Southwest junior High School in
  Palm Bay, Krystal Bruns of Micco
  received a nice farewell for the
  summer from her teachers.
      The 14-year-old eighth-grader
  was one of 10 out of more than 2,
  000 students at the school given
  the school's annual Good Citizen-
  ship Award.
      She was also given a bright
  brass pin to go with her certificate.
      To get the award, all seven of
  her teachers had to nominate her,
  recognizing grades, attitude and
  other positive attributes.  All seven
  of Krystal's teachers recognized
  her ongoing academic success, her
  positive attitude in class, her good
  attendance and her spirit of volun-
  teerism.
      Krystat's mother, CheryI Bruns,
  said she always knew Krystal was
  special, but it's nice to be re-
  minded every now and again, she
  said.
      Mrs. Bruns said her daughter
  maintains a solid B average in
  school, but Spanish, which she
  started taking this year, has been
  more difficult for Krystal than any
  of her other classes.

      "She got her first C this year
  and it was in Spanish," she said.

      Krystal said she is challenged
  by Spanish, but she will master it
  and when she does, her grades will
  get better.

      "It's harder than English be-
  cause you have about five different
  ways to say the same word depend-
  ing on how you use it," Krystal
  said.

     Also, Krystal sings alto-soprano
  in the school choir at Southwest Ju-
  nior High and she volunteers her
  free time at the Marine Resources
  Council in Rockledge, where her
  mother works.

     Krystal said because her mother
  has introduced her to environmen-
  tal issues, she has a deeper appre-
  ciation for the Indian River and the
  wildlife living in it.

     This summer, she will volun-
  teer a few hours a week at the Flor-
  ida  Wildlife and  Seabird
  Rehabilition Sanctuary in Rock-
  ledge, helping to rehabilitate in-
  jured seabirds that regularly wash
  up on Brevard County beaches and
  in the Indian River.
     "I want to be a veterinarian
  someday," Krystal said.
     When not singing or volunteer-
  ing, Krystal spends time with her
  brother Ben, 10, her sister, Sandy,
  8, and her mother.
     The children enjoy playing
  games at home or cast-netting for
  fish in the Sebastian and Indian riv-
  ers.

  
  Photo Caption
  Krystal Bruns of Micco ended her academic year on a positive
  note by being named one of her school's annual good citizens.


 

   Talented artist passes skills on to others
   By Margaret Miquelon

      Can you remember when you
   were very little?  I bet you played
   with dolls or trucks.  But not Carol
   Mondshour; she played with paint
   brushes and paints.
      In fact, as far back as she can
   remember, she had a paint brush
   in her hand.  She comes by it natu-
   rally, for her mother and father
   were both accomplished artists.
      Carol said she didn't have for-
   mal training, her talent is a natural
   God-given gift.  In fact, her sopho-
   more art teacher still uses some of
   the scenes she painted as a tea-
   ching tool.
      When Carol married Ben Mond-
   shour he was working for the Balti-
   more Sun newspaper in Maryland.
   They moved to Florida in 1980 and
   have lived here ever since.
      Carol and Ben opened Mond-
   shour's Art Gallery and Supply in
   the former Sands Shopping Center
   on North Hutchinson island.  The
   first painting she entered in an art
   show was wet!  She sold it and
   seven others, so after that, she al-
   ways took a wet painting to each
   art show.
      In 1986, Carol opened her first
   school at the Sebastian Yacht Club
   under the auspices of th@ Indian
   River Community and the Arthritis
   Association of Indian River County.
   From that day, most of the Sebas-
   tian artists have spent some time as
   a student of Carol Mondshour.
      Her students are her family.
   From her studio classroom in the
   KOA Shopping Center on U.S. I,
   she constantly is teaching them
   new techniques, for she doesn't
   want them to be her clones.  She
   urges them to try everything and to
   put their own personalities in their
   paintings.
      I first heard of Carol Mond-
   shour at the North Indian River
   County Library.  She had been
   showing her paintings there and
   had donated a painting of two peli-
   cans on the shore of the river to
   the Friends of the Library to help
   raise money for books and extra
   supplies for the library.
      Chances were sold on the pic-
 ture, and the drawing was held at
 the library during their "Country
 Christmas" Open House in 1995.  I
 was just sure I was going to be the
 winner because I have a thing
 about pelicans, but former Sebas-
 tian City Councilwoman Carolyn
 Corum won it instead of me!  What
 a blow!
     Carol's talents are not restricted
 to just painting.  In 1990, she and
 her committee labored for hours to
 make huge papier-mache and
 chicken-wire pelicans for a float for
 the Fourth of July parade, She has
 illustrated covers for various orga-
 nizations, businesses and the li-
 brary.  She has worked with all
 mediums.
     Her most recent labor of love
 was the 36-inch by 48-inch paint-
 ing of the Lady of Guadeloupe that
 she was commissioned to paint for-
 Our Lady of Guadeloupe Catholic
 Church in Fellsmere.  Now she is
 working on a sculpture of the Lady
 of Guadeloupe that will stand in
 the church.
     "A dauber," according to Web-
 ster's dictionary, "is one who ap-
 plies colors crudely." Some of us
 are daubers   A dauber is what Carol
 Mondshour is not. She is a true
 professional, an outstanding artist
 and a caring teacher.  This is a lady
 vou should meet.
 
 
 Photo Caption
 Artist and art instructor Carol Mondshour offers some tips 
 to her student, Patti Gains of Sebastian.

               
               
               
               Eternal Fires

          Eternal fires burn in every heart
       That has felt the sharp edge of desire
       One so great as to obliterate any fear
       Love perpetuates the tentacles of fire

       Can an ocean of such great emotion
      Continue to stroke the sandy beaches
         To wash away the harmful debris
               And set that one free

       Watch the waves expand and recede
     Leaving nothing to impede the journey
          No shackles, no chains to bind
    Freedom, the sustenance of a great mind

          A lifetime is not long enough
         To fulfill those burning desires
       So, like our shadow, which unseen
                Still is always there

   Love and desire become one and the same
    Memories carry beyond this limited plane
       To where lovers eventually reunite
          When this human life is done.
                   
                   Iva Lee Wolfe
                      Sebastian




  
  Week in review

  
  Teen charged
  in Sebastian murder

    Police arrested a Sebastian
  High School weightlifter May 23
  and charged him with strangling
  his 76-year-old neighbor, Ann
  Marie Fischer.
     Choya J. Hodges, 18, 949 Schu-
  mann Drive, was charged with first-
  degree murder and robbery after
  his arrest at about 3 a.m. He was
  denied bond May 25 by Circuit
  Judge Cynthia Cox and was ap-
  pointed a public defender.  His
  next court appearance will be June
  23 for arraignment.
      Investigators would not divulge
  the exact evidence that led them to
  Hodges, who lived just a few
  blocks away from Fischer's 806
  Schumann Drive house, and some-
  times worked for Fischer doing
  odd jobs.
     Interviews with Fischer's
  friends and family led investigators
  to question Hodges, Sebastian po-
  lice Lt.  Gene Ewert said.
      "He made statements that im-
  plicated his involvement," Ewert
  said.
      Fischer apparently invited
  Hodges to her house to give him
  something for his mother, who was
  Fischer's housekeeper, Hodges' ar-
  rest affidavit stated.
      Hodges initially told police de-
  tectives Fischer fell while he was at
  the residence, the affidavit stated.
  He said he feared people would
  think he murdered Fischer, be-
  came nervous and placed his hands
  around her neck.
      Hodges later admitted he
  choked Fischer, telling detectives
  he heard her gasping for breath as
  he squeezed her neck, the affidavit
  stated.  He also told detectives he
  hit Fischer in the face with his el-
  bow, causing her to fall and hit her
  head on the wall and floor.
      He said Fischer was alive for 30
  to 35 minutes after the attack, as he
  cut the phone lines inside the
  house and gathered together some
  of Fischer's jewelry.
      The affidavit, though, is not 
  clear when the elbow attack and
  choking happened, or why it be-
  gan.
      Police initially believed rob-
  bery was the motive for the killing,
  although Hodges said he took the
  jewelry to make it look like a rob-
  bery.  He said he cut the phone
  lines so anyone calling Fischer
  would not become worried when
  she failed to answer her phone.
      Officers found Fischer's body
  May 20 after her 56-year-old son,
  Albert Fischer, became concerned
  when he could not phone his
  mother.  He asked police to check
  her house.
      Fischer died sometime in the
  afternoon or evening of May 19,
  investigators said.
      Hodges was one of two initial
  suspects.  Police ruled out Albert
  Fischer, also a Sebastian resident,
  after learning he was disabled and
  physically could not have com-
  mitted the crime.

      Albert Fischer said May 23 he
  was glad police had made an arrest
  in the killing of his mother.
      Hodges, at the time of his ar-
  rest, was wanted on an unrelated
  charge for failing to appear at
  court 10 days ago.  A county judge
  issued a bench warrant for the
  teen-ager after he failed to show to
  answer a charge of filing a false po-
  lice report.
      Hodges is accused of reporting
  his car stolen April 4, when the ve-
  hicle turned up in a ditch.  A pas-
  senger in Hodges' car called later
  that day and said Hodges had
  pulled him out of the car after
  wrecking it.
      The slaying is the first in the
  city since 1990. 
      Prosecutors began reviewing
  the case May 23 and now must de-
  cide whether they will bring the
  case to a grand jury.  A grand jury
  indictment would be needed to
  proceed with a premeditated mur-
  der case.
      Ewert said he could not com-
  ment on whether there will be any
  more arrests in the case, or if inves-
  tigators think Hodges acted alone.
      The quick arrest in the case was
  testament to the determination of
  investigators, Ewert said, since
  there were scant obvious clues at
  the crime scene.  There was no sign
  of struggle and investigators ini-
  tially noticed nothing stolen from
  her neatly kept home.
      Hodges' mother declined to
  comment May 23 on her son's ar-
  rest.

  
  Tree Advisory Board
  providing tree list

    Florida is known for its beautiful
  palm trees, but many newcomers
  may not know that red maples or
  bald cypress trees also are native to
  this area.
     For this reason, the Sebastian
 Tree Advisory Board is compiling a
 short, one-page list of recom-
 mended native trees to distribute
 to new homeowners and nurseries
 as a way of encouraging native veg-
 etation in Sebastian yards.
     "It can be overwhelming,"
 board member Donna Starck sald
 about new residents' quests to find
 the native trees that do best in this
 area.  "I think there's a little bit of
 anxious feeling."
     The list of about 12 large and
 small trees includes the bald cy-
 press, with its needle-like leaves
 that turn a coppery red in the fall;
 cabbage palm, which can be
 grouped together to provide a can-
 opy; and live oak, which has thick
 horizontal branches.  Accompany-
 ing each tree name is a brief de-
 scription of the tree, how tall it will
 grow and suggestions about the
 type of soil preferred by the tree.
     By giving the list to nurseries,
 the board is hoping merchants will
 have these trees available, Starck
 said.  The board also wants to in-
 clude the list in packets for people
 starting to build a home so
 landscaping plans can be made be-
 fore the lot is developed, she said.
     Jim Christianson, owner of Re-
 leaf Trees, said people should look
 at what is on their property before
 clearing it.
     "A lot of people save money
 just by having some of the palms
 (on the property) relocated, he
 said.  "If they're buying a new
 home, they might be able to sal-
 vage what's on the lot."
     The board is working on,add-
 ing an introductory paragraph to
 the list so it can be self-explana-
 tory, she said.  The City Council has
 to approve it as well, she said.
     Local nurseries said such a list
 might be helpful to residents.
     "I get questions all day long,
 said Mike Rhodes, sales manager
 for Landscape Stop Inc. in Sebas-
 tian.  Northerners who have just ar-
 rived especially may not be
 familiar with what grows best in
 Sebasiian, he said.
     A longer, more detailed list will
  be included in the city's tree ordi-
  nance, but Starck said the short list
  will be more "user-friendly so they
  don't have to wade through a long
  list. "We just feel it would be eas-
  ier."


  TB threat prompts
  school to offer tests
    
    A Sebastian Elementary School

  employee suspected of having tu-
  berculosis has prompted health of-
  ficials to offer TB testing for faculty
  and students as a precaution.
       Testing was to being the week
  of May 26, although Michele Kie-
  sel, director of nursing for the In-
  dian River  County  Health
  Department, said she believes the
  risk of others at the school getting
  the disease is minimal.
       "The risk of contagion is low",
  she said.
       Sebastian Elementary Specialist
  Jere Spearman said the Health De-
  partment was taking care of all test-
  ing and school officials were
  following directions from health
  officials.
       Students and teachers are not
  overly concerned about getting the
  disease, she said.  "All of us are
  going about our business."
       "It's frightening," said parent
  and Sebastian City Councilwoman
  Louise Cartwright, whose daughter
  attends the school.  "To think mv
  daughter was exposed to TB
  anything else."
       Both she and Sebastian Parent
  Teacher Association  President
  Sandy Czarnecki said they were
  glad the school and Health Depart-
  ment were taking precautions by
  having the tests and by making
  them available to students.
       "It helps relieve us.  It saves us
  from running to our doctors," said
  Czarnecki, the mother of a fifth-
  grader and a kindergarten student
  at the school.
      Most parents also were not too
 concerned about the risk of their
 child getting the disease.
     "We're not panicked," she said.
     Parent Rhonda Drum, who
 works as a media specialist at the 
 school, said she wasn't especially
 concerned, but was glad the school
 was taking precautionary measures.
     "I have every confidence if it
 was anything more serious, more
 serious steps would be taken," she
 said.
     TB is an infectious disease that
 attacks primarily the  lungs and is
 contracted only through airborne
 germs, which can be passed on
 through coughing or sneezing.
     Symptoms include weight loss,
 night sweats, a productive cough
 sometimes with blood, fever, loss
 of appetite and changes in chest X-
 rays.  Casual contact, such as a
 handshake, usually is not enough
 to get the disease, Kiesel said.
     School and health officials
 learned May 26 the employee, a
 custodian at the school, was being
 tested for TB.  Kiesel said the case
 is being treated as a positive diag-
 nosis because of preliminary test
 indications, but final test results
 won't be completed for a few
 weeks, she said.
     Students will be tested again at
 the end of August after school be-
 gins, Kiesel said.  TB can take up to
 10-12 weeks to show up in tests af-
 ter a person is exposed.  Kiesel said
 she didn't know how long the em-
 ployee had been sick and wouldn't
 say how the school found out the
 employee was being tested.
     Those infected with TB can be
 treated before the germs develop
 into the actual disease, she said.

 Club seeks money
 for July celebration

     The Sebastian Lions Club is hop-
 ing to get more bucks for its bang
 this Fourth of July.
     Individual donations seem to
 be trickling in this year and larger
 corporate donations haven't been
 as plentiful, Lions Club Presiden
 John Ellis said.
      Fireworks   alone cost about
 $12,600 to buy and the club needs
 a total of about $20,000 to put on
 the annual event, he said.
      But so far the club has raised
 about $10,000.  About $170 of that
 amount is from individual dona-
 tions.  Booths Chairwoman Cindy
 Anderson said.  The city of Sebas-
 tian is  giving the club $5,000 this
 year to put on the fireworks dis-
 play.
      Last year, the club got $10,865
 in individual donations, she said.
      "Straight donations are way
 down," she said.
      Ellis said he began in January
 sending about 150 letters to busi-
 nesses and residents who gave
 money last year.
      The status of the economy
 doesn't help the club's efforts, he
 said.  "You only can go to the mom
 and pop stores just so often."
      The more money raised, the
 better the fireworks display will be,
 and the better the activities will be,
 he said.  "All this money we accu-
 mulate goes right back into the
 community."
     The Lions  Club began organiz-
 ing the 24-year-old festival last year
 after signing a five-year contract
 with city officials.  Last year, the
 crowd at the parade was estimated
 at 15,000 to 20,000.
      In addition to money, the club
 needs music groups to march in
 the parade, Ellis said.
      "They're hard to come by," he
 said.
      This year's parade theme is
 "Fourth of July on the River,"  he
 said.  U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon, 
 Palm Bay, is scheduled to be grand
 marshal.
      Despite sending letters to
 about 40 schools and musical
 groups, he said he has not gotten
 any commitments from high
 school bands.  Letters were sent to
 all high schools from Titusville to
 Port St. Lucie, he said.
     One of the problems, he said,
  is that band students don't often
  perform in the summer because so
  many members are away.
      Anyone wanting to send dona-
  tions to the Lions Club for the July
  4 event may mail them to: John El-
  lis, 602 Rollinghill Drive, Sebas-
  tian, Fla., 32958.  Checks may be
  made out to Sebastian Lion's Club,
  Fourth of July Celebration.

  
  Bay resident wants
  flags from 50 states

   Barefoot Bay resident Dave
  McAllister wants to convert Veter-
  ans Way into an avenue of flags --
  at least temporarily.
    McAllister said he's writing to
  governors from each of the 50
  states asking them to donate a flag
  from their state to put on display
  on Veterans Way in Barefoot Bay.
      "I know we have residents
  from each of the 50 states here.
  They like to remember where they
  came from.  I think it will be a great
  idea for the community," said
  McAllister, who is also president of
  the Barefoot Bay Veterans Council.
      He said the flags would not be
  a permanent fixture on Veterans
  Way.  McAllister said the flags
  would only be on display on spe-
  cial days such as Loyalty Day, Me-
  morial Day, Flag Day, Veterans
  Day, and others.
      McAllister said he got the idea
  for the flags after he saw a similar
  display at Wickham Park in Mel-
  bourne during an exposition of the
  Moving Wall in April.
      Since Barefoot Bay has resi-
  dents from all states, McAllister
  said he thought it was something
  residents would appreciate and en-
  joy.
      Others agreed.
      "I think it will be a nice idea.
  There are so many people who are
  against the United States, I think,
  it's nice to have people interested
  in it.  Hey, there's no better country
  than ours, so let's get a flag out
  there and represent it," said Elea-
  nor Nadeau, president of the Bare-
  foot @ay New
     Each of the 3-by-5 foot flags,
  McAllister said, will be placed
  along the right side of the road
  leading up to Building A. The flags
  will fly on staffs that will be about
  8 feet tall.
    The staffs will be made of PVC
  piping, and will only require a
  half-inch  hole on the ground. So
  when the staffs are removed, they
  won't pose a danger to anyone
  walking by them, McAllister said.
    He said it will cost about $300
  only for the staffs.  McAllister said
  he's hoping all the flags will be do-
  nated.
    The  Veterans Council has $175
  in its account.  McAllister said some
  of this money will be used for the
  project.  The rest, he said, will
  probably have to be raised through
  donations from regional clubs.
    Although he has     the support of
  the Barefoot Bay Recreation Dis-
  trict and the Barefoot Bay Home-
  owners Association, McAllister said
  he won't be asking them to fund
  the project.
    "We want to do this as a veter-
  ans' project," McAllister said.  "It's
  a veterans' cause; not a homeown-
  ers' cause or a recreation district
  cause."
    However, he said if the groups,
  want to donate money, he won't re-
  ject it either.
    McAllister  said he's hoping to
  have the flags on display by Veter-
  ans Day in November.

  
  Photo Caption
  MEMORIAL DAY WAS CELEBRATED IN INDIAN RIVER COUNTY MAY 26 
  and the sun couldn't have gotten much hotter, but residents 
  turned out by the hundreds at the VFW Post in Sebastian.  
  Ed Murphy of American Legion Post 189, the master of 
  ceremonies at the Sebastian Memorial Day event, told the 
  large audience who gathered at the memorial at the Veterans 
  of Foreign Wars Post 10210 on Louisiana Avenue he thought 
  it was important to instill patriotism in the young and was 
  glad to see children at the ceremony.  "Because of them, 
  our lives are free, because of them, our nation lives," 
  Murphy said before reading the names of deceased soldiers 
  and veterans.  U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon, R-Palm Bay, an Army 
  veteran, was the speaker.


  News briefs

  
  Sebastian Legion
  holds election
    
    The following members of
  Charles L. Futch Post 189, Ameri-
  can Legion, Sebastian, were elected
  or appointed at the regular post
  meeting May 14 to the offices indi-
  cated for the 1097-98 year: Cmdr.
  Edmund Murphy; First Vice Cmdr.
  Nelson Thornton- Second Vice
  Cmdr.  Ken Lefler; Adjutant Larry
  Johnson; Finance Officer Charles
  Long;
     Also    Sergeant-at-Arms       Carl
  White; Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms
  Robert Gallardo; Service Officer
  Edwin Motyka; Chaplain Art Bais-
  lev; judge Advocate Carl White; Ex-
  ecutive Committeeman Lou Ritzer;
  Executive Committeeman Horace
  Cullins; Executive Committeeman
  Henry Grieco.

  
  AARP hears
  scholarship report
    
    Members of the North Indian
  River County Chapter 3234, Ameri-
  can Association of Retired Persons
  enjoyed a picnic and get-together on
  May 21 at the Roseland home of
  President Dick Dittmann and his
  wife, Helen.
     Reports were made regarding
  scholarship contributions to Sebas-
  tian River High School seniors Amy
  Van Antwerp and Abel Chico.
     Each received $250 toward
  their college expenses.
     The next meeting  will be in
  September.

  
  Hurricane technology
  will be lunch topic
    
    Hurricane technology will be the
  focus of the Brown Bag Lunch at
  Ozzie's Crabhouse on U.S. 1 in
  Grant June 6.

      John Williams, a retired meteo-
  rologist and author of "Florida
  Hurricanes and Tropical Storms"
  will discuss the technology used to
  track storms, including modern ra-
  dar systems and how to understand
  their images.

      The talk, part of the Marine Re-,
  sources Council series of hour-long
  presentations on environmental
  and other community issues, be-
  gins at noon at the restaurant.

      Attendees are encouraged to
  bring a lunch for the presentation.

  
  
  Merchant Marines
  meeting June 4

      The Treasure Coast Chapter
  the American Merchant Marine Vet-
  erans will hold its regular meeting
  at 1 p.m. June 4 at the Vero Beach
  Community Center, 2266 14th Ave.

      For more information about the
  group, call G. Mathews, 589-7625
  or Andy Akermanis, 664-6854.
  
  
  
  WOWS to hold
  light lunch, social
      
      The WOWS singles group of wid-
  ows, widowers, divorced and sepa-
  rated people will have its season's
  end meeting at 12:30 p.m. June 2
  in the parish hall at St. Sebastian
  Catholic Church.
      There will be a light lunch and
  ice cream social, followed by cards.
      Members may call 589-1193 for
  more information.

  
  Pie-baking contest
  set for celebration
      
      In conjunction with the Sebas-
  tian River area's Fourth of July cele-
  bration, a pie-baking contest will
  be held in the gazebo at Riverview
  Park, U.S. I and County Road 512,
  at 11:30 a.m. July 4.
     Local stores, individuals and
  women's clubs are welcome to par-
  ticipate.  Pie plates will not be re-
  turned.
      Pies should have name of do-
  nor or organization, if applicable,
  and donor's telephone number.
  Pies will be judged on appearance,
  texture, and taste.
     After a pie is judged, the re-
 maining pie will be auctioned by
 Jack Ellis, Lions Club parade chair-
 man.  Money collected will help de-
 fray celebration expenses.
     The names of all winners will
 be publicized.
     Questions or comments are
 welcome. Call Chairman Joe Blair,
 589-3345.

 
 
 Veterans seek
 yard sale donations

     Members of the local Vietnam
 Veterans of America Inc. are col-
 lecting good, clean household
 items for their annual yard sale
     The chapter will pick up cloth-
 ing, small appliances in good
 working condition, books, tools
 and bicycles.
     It is not, however, able to ac-
 cept large appliances, bedding or
 furniture.
     Proceeds go into the chapter's
 general fund to benefit local pro-
 jects, such as the one for homeless
 veterans      or  veterans'      family
 Christmas.
     To donate, call Russ Crawford
 at 563-9784, or Bernie McGhee,
 563-0124,   to make arrangements
 for pick up.  Most pick ups will be
 done on the weekends.  As soon as
 enough items are collected, the
 chapter will announce the date of
 the sale.

 
 
 Sebastian Sun Devils
 seeking sponsors
     
     The Sebastian Sun Devils fast-
 pitch softball league for girls ages
 14-18 years old is seeking sponsors
 to help pay for travel, equipments
 and uniforms.
     Each player is required to find
 a sponsor and sign a letter of com-
 mitment to the league.
     The volunteer staff consists en-
 tirely of parents and local coaches.
     Anyone wanting to help should
 call Jim Barton at 589-0612 or Tom
 Batchellor at 567-0424.

   
   
   Italian-Americans     
   holding tournament

   The Italian-American Club of Se-
 bastian is holding its fourth annual
 golf tournament for its scholarship
 fund on July 12 at the Sebastian
 Municipal Golf Course.
     The fee is $35 per person and
 registration deadline is July 1. For
 more information,. call Donna
 Moore at 664-9419 or 589-3341.

 
 Sebastian soccer
 registration ongoing

   Registration for Sebastian fall
 soccer is under way.  Kids from the
 age of 4 to 16 are eligible.
     Early registration is $30.  The
 dates are June 7, 9 to 12 a.m., and
 June 12, 6 to 8 p.m.                                                                                                                       i
     All registrations will be held at
 the Barber Street Creative Play-
 ground.
     All new players must bring a
 copy of a state birth certificate.
     For more information, call Jane
 at 388-9341.
 
 
 Speaker plans
 hurricane talk

   Rita Swenk, a longtime disaster
 volunteer and board member of
 the American Red Cross, will be
 the guest speaker at the June 2
 meeting of Sebastian Property
 Owners Association Inc.
     Ms. Swenk will offer advice on
 preparations that should be made
 by homeowners for the coming
 hurricane season, which runs from
 June through November.
     The meeting will be 7:30 p.m.
 June 2 at the North Indian River
 County Library.
     Association meetings are open
 to the public and time will be allo-
 cated for a question-and-answer
 period.

 
 Pilot Club accepting
 show applications

   Treasure Coast Pilot Club, a local
 service organization of profes-
 sional women, is accepting appli-
 cations for the 10th annual Autumn
 in the Park.
     The crafts and artwork festival
  draws thousands of people and is
  the club's main fund-raiser each
  year.
      All proceeds are returned to the
  community in the form of scholar-
  ships and charities.
      Autumn in the Park will be
  held Oct. 4-5 at Riverside Park,
  Vero Beach.
    Artists and crafters who wish
  to participate in the annual festival
  should write for information to the
  jury chairman: Autumn in the Park,
  P.O. Box 7280, Vero Beach, Fla.
  32960.

  
  Welcome Wagon
  to dine June 3

      The Welcome Wagon Club of Se-
  bastian Alumnae will hold its June
  luncheon at Hurricane Harbor at
  noon June 3. Installation of officers
  will be held at the luncheon.
      Incoming officers are Lena Per-
  one, president; Kay Owens, vice
  president; Jean Behr, secretary and
  Phyllis Farmer, treasurer.  Also Do-
  rothy James will remain as alter-
  nate and historian and Marie
  Crispino as head of callers.  LaRue
  Orris will occupy the new position
  as the social and activities director.
      Clara     Baldwin,       Welcome
  Wagon hostess, will do the installa-
  tion.  Entertainment will be pro-
  vided be The Sebastian Singers.
  Members are reminded that canned
  white potatoes are the food to be
  taken for the Lord's Table.

  
  
  SHINE offers
  insurance counseling

      Free Medicare and health insur-
  ance counseling is available to eld-
  ers in Indian River County through
  the  Serving Health Insurance
  Needs of Elders program spon-
  sored by the Department of Elder
  Affairs and staffed by specially
  trained volunteers.
      Sebastian residents may sched-
  ule visits at the Sandridge Shop-
  ping Center by calling 589-1494,
  Anyone interested in further infor-
  mation on insurance counseling
  services or volunteer opportunities
  may   contact SHINE Coordinator
  Edra  Young at 589-5387. Addi-
  tional site locations will also be
  considered in adult communities
  that are willing to provide meeting
  space for volunteers on a regular
  basis.

  
  
  Father Of Year
  nominations sought

    The Commission on Responsible
  Fatherhood has issued a call for
  nominations for the Outstanding
  Father of the Year award.  The com
  mission is accepting nominees un-
  til May 30.
    Candidates may be someone
  who has overcome great obstacles
  to maintain his fathering role,
  someone who has extended him-
  self beyond the norm in his ap-
  proach to fathering, or someone
  who stands out as a role model.
     To obtain a nomination form, or
  for more information, contact In-
  dian River County Healthy Start Co-
  alition at 563-9118.
             



 Volunteers make games happen
 By Bill Valyo

     It was a rainy afternoon that
  greeted Sebastian Little League offi-
  cials for the first game of the In-
  dian River County Little League
  Championship tournament at the
  Barber Street sports Complex.
     Since this writer was to cover
  the tourney, it was a good move to
  check out if the game was going to
  be played. It was raining bats @nd
  balls at my house.
     There is a telephone at the con-
  cession stand and that was my pri-
  mary target.  Call up and get
  someone to tell me if the game was
  on or cancelled. It rang and rang
  and no one answered. It now was a
  matter of getting into my car and
  driving over to see what condition
  the fields were in.
      Entering the complex, it was
   apparent why no one answered the
   phone.  League officials were too
   busy at work to bother.
      League President Nancy Di-
   amond was tossing down a product
   to dry out the basepaths on field
   No. 1 while Don Pescia was raking
   the home plate area at field No. 2.
      Jerry Diamond and Rod Reed
   were busying making sure the
   "Quick Dry" was blending in with
   the muddy dirt.  Diamond looked
   like Santa Claus at Christmas time
   as the dust particles gathered on
   every part of his clothes.
      This foursome had been pre-
   paring fields for play since 4 p.m.
   and when this writer arrived at
   5:45 p.m., they were still hard at
   work.  Game time was at 7.
      Many of us just take this kind of
   labor for granted.  We go to a ball
   game and we just glance at the
   playing field.  Does anyone care if
   the foul lines are straight and the
   box around home plate is regula-
   tion?  Let's just play ball!
      Rod Reed, his shirt and shoes
   caked with red dirt, put it right on
   the money when asked about all
   the hard work.  He replied, "It is
   worth it."
      Pescia, a big guy who looks
   like Kojak, does just about every-
   thing in the park when the game is
   being played.
      He makes announcements off
   the audio system, takes up the col-
   lection in the second inning, keeps
   the umpires supplied with new
   balls and controls the loads of
   youngsters who come to the game.
      The next time you're at the
   park, look around and see what
   fine job these volunteers do and
   when that collection basket comes
   around, donate quickly.


 

        
  L.A. Tile team members prove to be winners        
  despite Little League loss
        By DAVID KEARNS
             Of The Sun

    You might expect members of a
  team that went 19-2 during its reg-
  ular season to be disappointed af-
  ter losing the   final two games of
  the Indian River County Little
  Championship, but not the young-
  sters playing for L.A. Tile of Sebas-
  tian.
      Spirits remain high among
  coaches, parents and athletes of Se-
  bastian's top team in the Major
  League Baseball division, even
  though they claimed the runner-up
  trophy in the county championship
  tournament.
      L.A. Tile  fell to Village Beach
  Market of Vero Beach, 6-5, in the
  third and final game of their series
  May 24 at the Barber Street Sports
  Complex.
      Tile beat Village Beach Market
  6-5, in the first game of the series
  on May 21, but Market came back
  to wallop Tile, 12-6 on May 23,
  scoring most of their runs in the fi-
  nal two innings of the game.  L.A.
  Tile's loss forced a third to decide
  the winner.
      Second baseman Steven Vinski
  had a tough time with the guys
  from Market when he took the
  mound in the second game, allow-
  ing seven hits in the final two in-
  nings.
      But L.A. Manager Lenny Tunstill
  said, as always, Vinski took it like a
  winner and learned from the loss.
      In the final game, Chris Windle
  was on the mound for L.A. Tile.
  Windle struck out five, walked one
  and gave up five hits on the eve-
  ning.  Pitcher Chad Smith of Village
  Beach Market struck out 11, walked
  five and allowed six hits during their
  evening.
      Tunstill, who was assisted by
  Collin Quigley of Roseland and Al-
  len Grant of Sebastian, said his
  boys played above and beyond
  themselves to even be in the series.
  They are younger and smaller than
  the players on the Vero Beach
  team, he said.
    "When you looked out on that
 field before the games, you could
 see the difference between the
 teams, just in the size.  Still, we
 made them work for it," he said .
     "I've always told the team that
 in this game, you never hang your
 head," he said.  "if you've done
 your best, you hold your head up
 and move on and these boys cer-
 tainly have nothing to feel bad
 about.  They went up against an
 older, bigger team and they did an
 excellent job."
     He also was prou they never
 gave up.
     Tunstill said Windle nearly
 turned things around with his bat
 in the sixth inning.  David Tunstill
 hit a single to drive in a run to
 bring the score 6-5, and Steven Vin-
 ski drew a walk.                       
     Windle then drove the ball
 down the third-base line, with
 Tunstill and Vinski going.
     Had it not been for the quick
 reflexes of Village Beach Market's
 third baseman, Mike Russano, who
 tagged third base and threw
 Windle out at first for the double
 play, the series might have ended
 differently, Tunstill said.
   "We started to get that momen-
 tum going back in our favor, but
 (Russano) did a great job covering
 the ball and getting the double
 play and that's what it's all about. It
 was a real nail-biter right up to the
 end of the game," Tunstill said.
   Tunstill commended Village
 Beach Market for its win.
   "They're tough. (Batters) one
 through nine in their order can
 take you over the fence.  You have
 to beat a team like that with pitch-
 ing, and we did that with David
 (Tunstill) on the mound the first
 game of the series," Tunstill said.
   Tunstill said he has been build-
 ing his current team for the past
 three years since it was handed to
 him to by former team manager
 Wayne Sims.  Tunstill assisted
 Simms in 1994 when the two put
 together an undefeated team for
 sponsor Keens' Food-Town.  Keens'
 took the county championship tro-
 phy that year.
    Since only three of his current
 players, David Tunstill, Vinski and
 Tommy Painter, will be moving on
 to senior league next year, L.A. Tile
 will remain a force to contend with
 next season, Tunstill said.
    Team sponsor Larry Alexander
 also will stay with the team, Tuns-
 till said.
    "Larry Alexander told me that
 (sponsorship fee) was the best
 $400 he ever spent," Tunstill said.

 
 Photo Caption
 Umpire Irene Kempf watches Nick Gionoulis score for Village 
 Market as the ball gets away from Tile catcher Tom 
 Bissonnette.

 
 
 Sebastian girls prove they're tough competitors                                                                                                                          0-
 By DAVID KEARNS
      Of The Sun

     Both teams had it locked at different times during
 the game but in the end, First National Bank of Vero
 Beach prevailed.
     Sebastian River Medical Center finished its season
 as the runner-up in the Indian River County Senior
 Softball championship.  The team lost 7-4 to First Na-
 tional Bank after extra innings at the Barber Street
 Sports Complex, Sebastian, on May 22.
     The girls also lost their first playoff game to First
 National Bank, 3-0, May 16 at the sports comolex.  In
 that game, two runs for First National came in the sec-
 ond inning on a Sebastian error in left field and,a call
 of catcher interference at the plate.
     Team manager Kelly Bess said despite the losses,
 she is proud of the way her girls handled themselves
 throughout the tournament and the season.
     "They all played very well together and well as all
 team," she said.
    Bess laments the end of the season because it also
 spells the end of a team that went 18-8 for the season.
 Most of her girls are in their final year of eligibility for
 Senior League Softball.
     "I'm losing about seven or eight of them this
 year," Bess said.
     Star pitcher Michelle Mitchell had a tougher time
 with the Vero Beach team than she did with the
 team's rival in the Sebastian River Area Little League,
 Dave's Sporting Goods.
     Mitchell shone brightly in the first game against
 First National, only allowing two hits.  In the final
 game of the playoff, however, she struck out eight,
 but allowed eight hits and walked seven for the eve-
 ning.
      The Sebastian squad almost had the game wrap-
 ped up in the seventh at 4-2.  But First National short-
 stop, Nicole DelTufo, was not ready to give up.
      Left fielder Allison Eby and pitcher Holly Davis
 walked on base in the seventh, and DelTufo drove
 them both in on a single, tying the game.
      In the eighth inning, Shelby Aspden drew a walk,
 scoring teammate Natalie Baird.  DelTufo followed by
 drivin the ball into right field and an error there al-
 lowed two additional runs to score.
      When Sebastian came to bat, Valerie Trio got on
 base with a single and Tara Bess drove the ball to
 deep left field for the out, bringing Trio to second on
 the tag-up.
      But First National pitcher Holly Davis held on.
 Mitchell drove her second pitch to center field, but
 the ball was snagged by Erin Staab and Laura Caudill
 popped up for the final out to Aspden at third base.
      For the night, Tara Bess had two doubles, fol-
 lowed by Trio, Sara Bess and Mitchell with singles.
 DelTufo, ecstatic after the comeback win, said Sebas-
 tian River Medical Center always has provided tougher
 competition whenever they have played throughout
 the season.
     "They played awaesome tonight.  They are always
 great competitors," she said.
               
 
 Photo Caption
 Sebastian River Medical Center's second baseman, Emily 
 Neely, makes the throw to first during the May 22 Indian 
 River County Championship Senior Softball playoff between 
 Sebastian and First Bank of Vero Beach.

 
 
 Snug Harbor bowlers bring home championship trophy                                                         
 By Walt Steinsiek

      "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again," Aurora Greco
 and her husband, Angelo, of Snug Harbor Lakes said last
 season when their team lost a playoff game and a champion-
 ship.
      A year later, they tried again and on May 12, with their
 team from last year, Three Plus Two, they captured the elu-
 sive 1997 WMMB Bowling League Championship by defeat-
 ing the Alley Cats in the playoff game 1,067-1,032 at the
 Brevard Bowling Center in Melbourne.
      The 24-team league, sponsored by the 1240 AM radio
 station, bowls a 36-week schedule with two halves of 18
 weeks.
      At the end of the season, the winners of each half play
 each other in a one-game playoff for the grand champion-
 ship.
      The Grecos have been members of the league and its ra-
 dio club for seven years.
      Their team recently was honored at the league annual
 bowling banquet held at the Elks Club in Melbourne, where
 they were presented with plaques to commemorate the oc-
 casion, and prize money.
     The team members also received the American Bowling
 Congress/Women's International Bowling Congress Mixed
 League Championship chevrons and pins.
     The champions and their league averages are: Aurora,
 131; Angelo, 140; Laura Davis, 126; Bob Hutchins, 146; and
 Faydra Roma, 124, who met her husband, WMMB Disc
 jockey Rob Nichols, while bowling in the league.
     Aurora, 68, and Angelo are looking forward to celebrat-
 ing his 70th birthday June 9 and their 49th wedding anni-
 versary June 13.
     They retired in 1989 and moved to Florida from their
 hometown of Staten Island, N.Y., where Angelo worked for
 37 years for the U.S. Postal Service.
     She was employed by Thompson Construction Co. and
 currently is working at Riverside Antiques and Collectibles,
 U.S. I in Grant.
     The Grecos have two sons, Anthony and Angelo, who
 both live in Staten island, and one grandson, Michael, who
 lives in New Jersey.
     In 1994, the Grecos moved from Melbourne Lakes to
 Snug Harbor Lakes where they both have contributed time
 and help to its community services.
     She likes to crochet, embroider and cook, especially Ital-
 ian food.
     He reads and putters around the house fixing things.
     WMMB 1240 Am broadcasts from Melbourne and plays
 music from the 40s, 50s, 60s and more.  The bowling league
 is 9 years old.

  


  Obituaries

             
             Virginia Hogg
 Virginia Ann "Ginny" Hogg, 84, of Sebastian
 died may 25, 1997, at Indian River Memorial
 Hospital after a brief illness.
     She was born Oct. 28, 1912, in St. Louis,
 Mo., and had been a resident of Sebastian since
 1982, moving here from Miami.
     Mrs. Hogg was a secretary for the Dade
 County Public School System for 12 years.  She
 was a member of St. Sebastian Catholic Church
 the St. Sebastian Catholic Church Women's
 Guild and the Spring Sociables of Sebastian.
     Survivors include her husband of 53 years,
 Robert Sr.; a son, Robert H. Hogg Jr. of Dover
 Plains, N.Y.; a sister, Julie Killebrew of St. Louis,
 Mo, and a grandson.
     A funeral Mass was celebrated May 28 at St.
  Sebastian Catholic Church, Sebastian.
     Inurnment will take place at a later date at
  Sebastian Cemetery.
     Arrangements are under the direction of
  Strunk Funeral Home in Sebastian.

               Ruth Wagner
    Ruth Elizabeth Wagner, 68, of Sebastian, died
  May 22, 1997, at Indian River Memorial Hospital
  after a prolonged illness. 
    She was born Dec. 6, 1928, in Binghamton,
  N.Y., and moved to Sebastian 35 years ago from
  Melbourne Beach.
     Mrs. Wagner was a retired musical enter-
  tainer.  She also had been employed by Vero
  Beach Country Club.  She was an emergency
  medical technician for Sebastian Volunteer Am-
  bulance Squad, and was a Catholic.
     Surviving are two brothers, John Woods Sr.,
  of Port Crane,,N.Y., and Charles Woods, of Wa-
  verly, N.Y.
     At the family's request, there will be no re-
  pose or visitation.
     In lieu of flowers, the family suggests dona-
  tions be made to a Catholic charity of one's
  choice in Mrs. Wagner's memory.
     Mrs. Wagner was a member of the Indian
  River Cremation Society.

              Ann McKenzie
     Ann Miller Cromb McKenzie, 75, of Barefoot
  Bay, died May 24, 1997, at Indian River Memo-
  rial Hospital after a brief illness.
     She was born Feb. 1, 1922, in Scotland, and
  moved to Barefoot Bay six years ago from Vero
  Beach.
     Mrs. McKenzie was a retired bookkeeper for
  the Riomar Bay Yacht Club in Vero Beach and
  served as a W.A.C. during World War 11.
     Surviving are her husband of 58 years, Alex-
  ander; one daughter, Patricia Hudgens, of Vero
  Beach; and one granddaughter.
     At the family's request, there will be no re-
  pose or visitation.
     A memorial service will be held at a later
  date.
     In lieu of flowers, the family suggests dona-
  tions be made to the First Baptist Church Debt
  Retirement Fund, 2206 16th Ave., Vero Beach,
  Fla. 32960, in memory of Mrs. McKenzie.
     Mrs. McKenzie was a member of the Indian
  River Cremation Society.

                  Hue Moore
      Hue Ngol Moore, 48, of Sebastian, died May
  24, 1997, at her residence after a prolonged ill-
  ness.
     Mrs. Moore was born May 11, 1949, in Sai-
  gon, Vietnam, and had moved to Sebastian 15
  years ago from Fort Lauderdale.
     Mrs. Moore was a cook and of the Pentecos-
  tal faith.
     Survivors include her husband of 25 years,
  Robert; two sons, Lam "Joey" Moore and Tung,
  "Billy" Moore, both of Kissimmee; one daugh-
  ter, Linda A. Moore, of Sebastian; her mother,
  Nguyen Thi Bu, of Kissimmee; and one brother,
  Nguyen Sang, of Kissimmee.
     At the family's request, there will be a pri-
  vate funeral service.
     Memorial contributions may be made to the
  American Cancer Society, 1401 21st St., Vero
  Beach, Fla., 32960, in Mrs. Moore's memory.
     Arrangements are under the direction of
  Cox-Gifford Funeral Home.

             Floyd Townsend
     Floyd W. Townsend, 92, of Sebastian, died
  May 23, 1997, at his residence after a prolonged
  illness.

     He was born Feb. 20, 1905, in Kenoza Lake,
  N.Y., and moved to Sebastian four years ago
  from Fort Pierce.

     Mr. Townsend worked for 42 years for New
  York State Electric and Gas Corp. He was a
  member of St. Sebastian Catholic Church; St.
  Peter's Catholic Church in Monticello, N.Y.,
  Quarter Century Club of New York State Electric
  and Gas Corp.; and the Odd Fellows.

     Surviving are his wife of 48 years, Rita; a
  son, William M. Townsend, of Beach Lake, Pa.,
  and three grandchildren.

     A memorial Mass was celebrated May 27 at
  St. Sebastian Catholic Church, Sebastian.

     The family requests that donations be made
  to St. Sebastian Catholic Church, P.O. Box 78-
  1212, Sebastian, Fla. 32978-1212, in Mr. Towns-
  end's memory.
     Arrangements are by the Strunk Funeral
  Home, Sebastian.

                 Ann Fischer
      Ann Marie Fischer, 76, of Sebastian, died un-
  expectedly May 20, 1997, at her residence.

     She was born Oct. 29, 1920, in Brady, Pa.,
  and moved to Sebastian in 1981 from Montauk,
  N.Y.
    Mrs. Fischer owned and operated the Mon-
 tauket Hotel from 1969-85.  She attended St. Se-
 bastian Catholic Church and was a member of
 Vero Beach Moose Lodge No. 1822, Eagles Se-
 bastian Inlet Aerie No. 4067 and Polish-Ameri-
 can Club, Sebastian.

     Surviving are a daughter, Rosemarie V. Ross,
 of Warren, R.I.; a son, Albert Paul Fischer, of Se-
 bastian; a brother, Clarence Partyka, of North
 Richfield, Ohio; two sisters, Helen Burchacki,
 of Cicero, Ill., and Alice Vulovich, of San Diego,
 Calif; two grandchildren; and two great-grand-
 children.

     At the request of the family there will be no
 repose or service.

     In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that
 donations be made to Hospice of Indian River
 County, 1111 36th St., Vero Beach, Fla. 32960,
 in Mrs. Fischer's memory.

     Arrangements are under the direction of
 Strunk Funeral Home, Sebastian.


                Santo Romano

   Santo Joseph "Sandy" Romano, 39, of Sebas-
 tian, died unexpectedly May 22, 1997, at Co-
 lumbia Medical Center, Port St. Lucie.

     He was born Sept. 9, 1957, in Fort Lauder-
 dale, and moved to Sebastian seven years ago
 from Fort Lauderdale.

     Mr. Romano was the owner and operator of
 S.J.R. Hometown Pool Builder, Sebastian.

     He was a member of the Sebastian River
 Worship Center, Sebastian.

     Surviving are his wife, Donna; a son, Joseph
 Romano, of Sebastian; and a daughter, Kather-
 ine Romano, of Sebastian.

     Funeral services were held May 25 at the
 Strunk Funeral Home Chapel, Sebastian, with
 the Rev.  Arthur Loomis officiating.

             
             Harold Skorstad
     Harold Skorstad, 74, of Sebastian, died May
 21, 1997, at his residence after a prolonged
 ness.

     He was born Sept. 19, 1922, in Norway, and
 moved to Sebastian one year ago from Elmore,
 Vt.
     Mr. Skorstad was a painting contractor for
 40 years in New Jersey, prior to retirement.  He
 was a Royal Norwegian Navy veteran of World
 War II.

     Surviving are his wife, Tina; five sons, Nor-
 man Skorstad, of Brattleboro, Vt., Ronald Skor-
 stad   and    Harold    Skorstad Jr., both  of
 Burlington, Vt., Roy Skorstad, of Ridgewood,
 NJ., and Robert Moore, of Naples; three daugh-
 ters, Monica Coughlin, of Toms River,, NJ.,
 Carol McGinty, of Duluth, Ga., and Kathleen
 Moore, of Pompano Beach; three brothers, Odd
 Skorstad and Rolf Skorstad, both of Norway, and
 Austin Skorstad, of Iron Station, N.C.; one  sister,
 Solveig Skorstad, of Norway; and 10 grandchi-
 dren.

      A memorial service was held May 23 at Trin-
 ity Lutheran Church, Sebastian.

      In lieu of flowers, the family suggests dona-
 tions be made to VNA Hospice, 1111 36th St.,
 Vero Beach, Fla. 32960 in Mr. Skorstad's mem-
 ory.

      Mr. Skorstad was a member of the Indian
 River Cremation Society.

                
                Craig Wilson
     Craig F. Wilson, 40, of Sebastian, died
 21, 1997, at Tampa General Hospital, Tampa,
 after a prolonged illness.

      He was born Aug. 20, 1956, in Jamestown,
 N.Y., and moved to Sebastian 10 years ago from
 his birthplace.

      Mr. Wilson was employed as a securitv offi-
 cer at John's Island, prior to becoming   dis-
 abled.  He was a member of Family Worship
 Center, Vero Beach.

      Surviving are his wife, Sherry; his mother,
 Rose Kellogg Yoos, of Vero Beach; his step,-@'-
 father, Donald Yoos, of Vero Beach; one
 brother, Robert Greg Wilson, of Sebastian; three
 sons, William W. Wilson and Craig H. Wilson,
 both of Sebastian, and Robert Wilson, of Arkan-
 sas; and one daughter, Jerri Lee Reed, of Arkan-
 sas.

      Funeral services were held May 24 at the
 Strunk Funeral Home Chapel, Sebastian, with
 the Rev.  Dexter Goude officiating.  Interment
 will follow at Sebastian Cemetery, Sebastian.

      In lieu of flowers, the family suggests dona-
 tions be made to the Family Worship Center,
 3525 68th Place, Vero Beach, Fla. 32967 in Mr.
 Wilson's memory.

                  
                  
                  Beatrice Tetreault
     Beatrice Marie "Bea" Tetreault, 66, of Sebas-
 tian, died May 21, 1997, at her residence after a
 prolonged illness.

     She was born  Feb. 17, 1931, in Pawtucket,
 R.I., and moved to Sebastian 19 years ago from
 Fort Lauderdale.

     Mrs. Tetreault was a seamstress in the gar-
 ment industry.  She was a member of St. Sebas-
 tian Catholic Church, Sebastian.

     Surviving are her husband of 33 years, Joe;
 one daughter, Linda Sawyer, of Tamarac; four
 sons, Richard Tetreault and Normand Tetreault,
 both of Hobe Sound, Robert Tetreault, of Grant,
 and Bruce Sawyer, of Sebastian; three brothers,
 Arthur Plants, of Pompano, Richard Plants, of
 Delray Beach, and Al Plants, of Sebastian; one
 sister, Emilia Lustier, of Corpus Christi, Texas;
 and six grandchildren.

     Friends may call 7-9 p.m. today at Strunk Fu-
 neral Home, Sebastian.  A prayer service will be
 7:30 p.m. today at the funeral home.

     In lieu of flowers, the family suggests dona-
 tions be made to St. Sebastian Catholic Church
 Building Fund, P.O. Box 78-1212, Sebastian,
 Fla. 32978-1212 in Mrs. Tetreault's memory.

                 
                 
                 Glenn Harp
     Glenn Wortham Harp, 86, of Sebastian, died
 May 21, 1997, at Indian River Memorial Hospi-
 tal.
     He was born Oct. 12, 1910, in Carrollton,
 Ga., and moved to Sebastian 17 years ago from
 Vero Beach.
     Mr. Harp was a member of the First Baptist
 Church, Wabasso.
     Surviving are his wife, Jeanette; three sons,
 Phil Harp, Bobby Harp and Steve Harp, all of
 Vero Beach; one sister, Hazel Blanton, of Mel-
 bourne; seven grandchildren; and three great-
 grandchildren.
     Funeral services were held May 24 at the
 Strunk Funeral Home Chapel, Sebastian, with
 the Rev. Jerry Cooper of First Baptist Church
 Wabasso, officiating.  Interment will follow at
 Winter Beach Cemetery.



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