VSTYLE Magazine, August 2017

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2 Meet a Villager Music fans do double takes when they see Cher tribute artist Geogianne Hill Plus

8 The Hot! Issue The Villages sees more growth, more services, more attractions

14 Book Review ‘A Lowcountry Heart’ gives insights into Southern writer Pat Conroy

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Georgianne Hill Entertainer relishes performing as Cher look-alike.

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She is doing motions onstage like I would do, and it’s just automatic, and I think, ‘Oh my gosh, she is like my twin!

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eorgianne Hill turns heads when she walks into a room. Her long black hair falls to her waist and her mannerisms and voice have caused numerous people to ask the No. 1 question she has been asked for years: “Are you…?”

She quickly interrupts to reveal she is NOT legendary pop singer Cher.

“All my life and at nightclubs and on cruise ships people say, ‘You look like her,’ and I get comments of ‘You sound like her, and you act like her,’” says Georgianne, 66, a Villages resident who embraces resembling her lookalike and bills herself as “a Cher tribute artist.”

She entertains at social clubs and Savannah Center shows, and the Buffalo, New York, native enjoys portraying Cher and singing “All I Ever Need Is You,” “If I Could Turn Back Time,” and other hits Cher has crooned over the decades.

“I’ll bring a gentleman up onstage to sing, ‘I’ve Got You Babe,’ and they love it,” she says of audiences. “They go crazy over it.”

Even though Georgianne has had long black locks since 1972, she didn’t begin singing until she moved to The Villages in May 2011. A

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friend encouraged her to enter the Sunburst Convention of Professional Celebrity Impersonators in Orlando as a Cher look-alike, and that was the start of it all for her.

Georgianne joined professional singer Gene Ferrari in Las Vegas as they sang for a show.

“It has been an explosion ever since. This is taking me where I never expected to go,” Georgianne says.

She also has a short-hair wig that she wears to separate herself from always looking like Cher, but that wasn’t the case March 23 when Georgianne was in Washington, D.C., to see Cher in concert at the MGM National Harbor.

“I had my hair down and she noticed me,” Georgianne happily recalls. “Every time she came out with a new outfit, she would look down and I’d smile, clap, and give two thumbs up. She always looked at me first, and I guess to see how I liked her outfit, and that was exciting for me.”

She believes Cher made about 10 costume changes during the show.

“When I watch her, we are like twins,” Georgianne says.

“She is doing motions onstage like I would do, and it’s just automatic, and I think, ‘Oh my gosh, she is like my twin!’”

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Taking the smart route Seniors can refresh road skills in driver safety program.

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I like to do thing back to back, but you never know what you’re going to run into as far as traffic. You need to slow down and pay attention to your surroundings.

—DOLORES BRADLEY

his month includes National Senior Citizens Day, Aug. 21, a day created to honor and appreciate seniors and their achievements.

It’s also a reminder that a large segment of the U.S. population is getting older. And as people age, they may need to brush up on their driving skills.

In The Villages’ 55-plus community, the AARP Driver Safety Program offers at least four Smart Driver courses each month. The six-hour class is designed for drivers age 50 and older, and is open to anyone, not just Villagers or AARP members.

Village of Chatham residents Dolores Bradley, 76, and her husband, Ronald, 82, attend the class every three years because it’s a great refresher and helps them qualify for insurance discounts.

The video-based course, conducted entirely in a classroom, covers topics

including health and driving on medications, roundabouts, sharing the road, and planning for that day when you must give up your car keys. The printed materials also are excellent, and instructors answer everybody’s questions, says Dolores, who recommends Smart Driver to other seniors.

She says the course is especially important for older drivers in The Villages, where the roads include golf carts, bicyclists, and out-of-towners.

“Because we’re senior citizens and we’re retired, we don’t need to be someplace in a hurry,” Dolores says. “I like to do things back to back, but you never know what you’re going to run into as far as traffic.

You need to slow down and pay attention to your surroundings.”

That’s smart advice for anyone, not just for seniors.

Be smart To register for the Smart Driver course in The Villages, select a date and call the instructor listed below. The six-hour classes are either two days from 9am-noon each day, or one day from 9am-4pm. The cost is $15 for AARP members, and $20 for non-members.

AUG. 1,2: Colony Cottage Recreation Center, 510 Colony Blvd. Instructor Dick Weingand, 352.633.7565.

AUG. 8, 11: Laurel Manor Recreation Center, 1985 Laurel Manor Drive. Instructor John Shepard, 352.399.2344.

AUG. 9 (ONE-DAY COURSE): HarborChase of Villages Crossing, 13517 NE 86th Court, Lady Lake. Instructor Chet Kowalski, 352.430.1833.

AUG. 19, 26: Paradise Recreation Center, 1403 Paradise Drive. Instructor John Shepard, 352.399.2344.

AUG. 21, 25: Savannah Center, 1545 Buena Vista Blvd. Instructor Charlie Webb, 352.693.2562.

Dates in other communities can be found at aarp.org/findacourse or by calling 877.846.3299.

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What’s Hot in The Villages Bigger and better: The community sees more growth, more services, and more attractions.

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HOT ACTS In little more than two years, the Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center has elevated its lineup to national headliner quality. The Sharon, a 1,000-seat, stateof-the-art venue, has become home to singers, bands, and theater productions that appreciate premium acoustics.

In the coming months at The Sharon: DEBBY BOONE will “light up your life” Sept. 8. The Grammy-winning singer’s show is expected to blend ’60s Las Vegas favorites, selections from the Great American Songbook, and stories about father Pat Boone and mother-in-law Rosemary Clooney.

Country star CLINT BLACK performs Sept.

15, with tickets on sale Aug. 2. Clint has been one of country music’s most prolific songwriters since his 1989 debut. He has released more than 100 songs, and sold more than 20 million albums worldwide.

Stage, film, and TV veteran BEN VEREEN arrives Oct. 7 with his one-man show, “Steppin’ Out.” Ben may be best-known for his Tony-winning performance in “Pippin,” and older fans will recall his heavy-duty TV role as Chicken George in “Roots.” (Anyone remember him in “Tenspeed and Brown Shoe” with Jeff Goldblum?)

BERNADETTE PETERS will bring her siren’s song to the stage Oct. 14, with tickets

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on sale Aug. 23. Many a male Villager likely crushed on Bernadette while growing up in the ’70s, and here she is seemingly ageless in 2017. She’ll boom out Broadway hits by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim, Rodgers & Hammerstein, and many others.

Members of the band KANSAS apparently are not yet “Dust in the Wind,” but instead are wayward sons carrying on. The classic rock band, which began in the 1970s, performs Dec. 9. The band from Topeka has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, and in 2016, released “The Prelude Implicit,” a wide-ranging progressive rock album.

For more erudite patrons, the HELSINGBORG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, all the way from Sweden, takes the stage Jan 24. Popular for concert tours and recording projects, they will perform an overture, a violin concerto, and a symphony by the master himself, Ludwig van Beethoven.

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Before this sentence ends, the Morse family may have scooped up another big parcel of land. A flurry of purchases this year gives the developer of The Villages control of property up and down the turnpike corridor in Sumter County and extending into Leesburg in Lake County.

Once developed, the properties will connect the southern end of The Villages on State Road 44 to the ongoing development of the Village of Fenney on County Road 468, and spread the 55-plus community farther in all directions. The Villages has marked its new territory along County Road 468 with miniature covered wagons with the community’s logo on the sides.

The number of homes on the new properties could reach the tens of thousands, adding countless residents and inevitable commercial development, which will bring more revenue, more roads, more traffic—more Morse.

During his annual address to Villagers this year, developer Mark Morse says at least 14,000 houses are planned in and around Fenney and the new Village of Southern Oaks, one of this year’s land acquisitions.

Purchases were made on all sides of Fenney, which is east of U.S. Highway 301 and south of Florida’s Turnpike in Wildwood, and on both sides of the turnpike. Southern Oaks, east of Fenney and extending to the Lake County line, totals about 4,500 acres. Wildwood policies potentially would allow for as many as 20,300 homes in Southern Oaks, according to city documents.

The Villages developer also bought about 2,000 acres southward down the turnpike and on each side of County Road 470, connecting Southern Oaks to Leesburg, Mark says.

Another purchase of 650 acres on the south side of State Road 44 will enable golf cart traffic from the Brownwood area to connect with the Villages expansion to the south, Mark says. For connectivity, he mentioned two possible bridges over State Road 44 at Buena Vista Boulevard and near Lake Deaton Plaza, and two tunnels are planned to go under County Road 468 to reach Fenney.

“It looks promising that we’re going to connect everything,” Mark says in his presentation.

For good measure, the developer is adding a new small community in the north end of The Villages.

Chatham Acres is laid out between First Baptist Church at The Villages and the yet-to-be-built Soulliere Villas on County Road 42 in Marion County.

Chatham Acres will include seven ranchettes of about five acres each, possibly attracting horse owners, and will have golf cart accessibility to The Villages, Jennifer Parr, vice president of Villages sales and marketing, says in the Morse presentation.

Meanwhile, the developer has been “fast-tracking Fenney,” Mark says, as continued approvals this year from the city of Wildwood will result in hundreds more homes being built on that site. Additional new construction soon will continue to the south, the developer says, starting with roads and infrastructure and ending…never?

Hot shots More Villagers may be “locked and loaded” with the addition of a 50,000-square foot Shooters World. The indoor gun range and retail center will be constructed at the corner of Powell Road and County Road 44A near Brownwood Paddock Square.

“It will be a really neat place for you to be able to go and learn how to shoot a handgun, get your concealed weapons permit, or get whatever your shooting needs might be,” Kelsea Manly says in this year’s Morse family presentation to Villagers.

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VILLAGES Hot restaurants In the north end, a new Cody’s Roadhouse is coming to the Mulberry Grove shopping center on CR 42. This will be the third Cody’s in The Villages.

On CR 466, Habanero’s Mexican Grill is coming to Southern Trace Plaza, and Metro Diner, “Where the Locals Eat,” is coming to Buffalo Ridge Plaza, taking over the former Perkins Restaurant location in front of Walmart.

In the south end, a new Flippers Pizzeria is slated for the Grand Traverse shopping center on SR 44. Flippers also has a location at Spanish Springs Town Square.

Villagers have been hungry for details about one other possible new restaurant since Honest John’s Whiskey and Provisions closed in midApril. A new restaurant, named for TV chef Guy Fieri, was announced as taking over the location at Lake Sumter Landing.

Commercial property management representatives did not return calls to confirm the move, but the department’s website proclaims: “Coming Soon! Guy Fieri’s American Kitchen & Bar.”

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HOT BROADWAY SOUTH The Sharon has lined up several touring productions in 2018 to bring a little glitz from the Great White Way to The Villages: “DIRTY DANCING,” Jan. 12-13 – Fans of the 1987 coming-of-age film will have “the time of their lives” when they see the stage musical, billed as an “unprecedented live experience, exploding with heart-pounding music, passionate romance, and sensational dancing.”

“CABARET,” Feb. 12-13 – The classic musical, set in pre-World War II Berlin, features some of the most

memorable songs in theatre history, including “Cabaret,” “Willkommen,” and “Maybe This Time.”

This version is based on Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall’s Tonywinning production.

“ROMEO AND JULIET” and “CARMEN,” Feb. 20-23 – These timeless classics will be performed by the Moscow Festival Ballet, founded in 1989 by Bolshoi Ballet principal dancer Sergei Radchenko. Under his direction, dancers from across Russia forged an exciting company.

“JERSEY BOYS,” April 13-14 – The award-

Hot recreation centers The new Fenney and Blue Heron recreation centers opened this summer in the Village of Fenney, The Villages’ expansion south of County Road 468.

Fenney Recreation Center, 3200 Fenney Way, is set on a beautiful, natural “true Florida” site, and the center was designed in an old Southern rural style, Villages design director Tracy Mathews says in a presentation this year to Villagers. “It’s really different than anything we’ve had to offer before,” she says.

The touch that sets it apart is the décor of about 125 to 150 pieces of artwork donated by Villages artists. Fenney also has a resort-style pool, fitness center, bar and grill, nature trails, and a fire pit.

The unique aspect of Blue Heron, 2905 Fenney Way, is a small park and walking trail on the property, with plenty of greenspace for picnics and outdoor exercise. The neighborhood-size recreation center includes an adult pool and the requisite shuffleboard, cornhole toss, and petanque/bocce courts.

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winning musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons is worth the price of admission for the group’s hits alone, including “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Sherry,” “Walk Like a Man,” “Oh, What A Night,” and “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.” “A CHORUS LINE,” April 18-19 – This musical is more than “One Singular Sensation”—it’s considered a masterpiece for its celebration and true-to-life depiction of performers and their struggle to achieve greatness on the Broadway stage.

Hot stop

With at least 50,000 golf carts in the community, Villagers know it’s important to take care of their rides.

Finding service has become much more convenient since 2015, when The Villages Golf Cars started opening stations with drive-up fuel pumps and drive-thru maintenance. The company has locations at each of the town squares: Gordon’s Garage at Lake Sumter Landing, Goedken’s Garage at Brownwood, and Gantenbein’s Garage at La Plaza Grande near Spanish Springs.

The service stations provide all types of maintenance, from annual

service to full rebuilds, for both gas and electric carts. Customers also may take advantage of drop-off service, complimentary loaners, and nonethanol gas at the pumps.

The positive response from Villagers has been “overwhelming,” owner and CEO Lori Resmondo says, adding she’s not aware of any other location in the country, let alone in The Villages, that has drive-up stations for golf carts.

And with more growth coming south of Brownwood, another filling station may one day be on the drawing board, she says.

Hot market Construction of a new Walmart Neighborhood Market, liquor store, and fuel station on County Road 466A is progressing this summer. The new plaza is between the Colony Professional Plaza and the Sarasota Executive Golf Course.

The market, about one-fifth the size of a WalMart Supercenter, “should be serving turkeys

by Thanksgiving Day,” Kelsea Manly, director of operations for The Villages, says in a Morse family presentation to Villagers this spring.

HOT TOWN CENTER

The rustic environment around Brownwood Paddock Square is going upscale. The area will be home to a new hotel and spa, including a restaurant overseen by celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck, and the Brownwood Center for Advanced Medicine, a state-ofthe-art, 250,000-square-foot specialty care clinic.

The Brownwood Hotel & Spa will be “unbelievably beautiful,” Villages design director Tracy Mathews says in a presentation this year to Villagers. The hotel will include 150 guest rooms, a multipurpose courtyard for meetings and functions, and 10,000 square feet of conference rooms.

The two sites will be connected, so visitors of patients at the clinic can stay at the hotel if necessary. The clinic will be managed in a partnership with Anchor Health Properties, based in Virginia.

“They’re renowned throughout the country for bringing advanced medical care to communities, and we’re extremely excited about it,” Tracy says.

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Gastroparesis: Food for thought Not many people know about gastroparesis, a condition where your stomach fails to empty food in a normal fashion.

STORY: JAMES COMBS

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unday dinner is laid out. You feast your eyes on some of your favorite dishes—turkey, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, glazed carrots, and cranberry sauce.

But after only a few bites, a strange feeling overcomes you. Without warning, the post-lunch bloating sensation rears its ugly head, leaving you feeling as stuffed as the turkey. You naturally brush it off as indigestion or lack of appetite.

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Unfortunately, it could be a much more serious problem known as gastroparesis.

Gastroparesis means you have weakened stomach muscles. In most cases, it is caused by damage to the vagus nerve, which helps stomach muscles empty food into the small intestine. In healthy adults, this process typically takes four hours. For patients with gastroparesis, it could take days.

The condition is incurable, leaving sufferers with debilitating bouts of nausea, stomach pain, and bloating.

Low energy and malnutrition are also associated with the disease,

which affects more than 1.5 million Americans, according to the International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders.

It affects women more than men. In fact, about 80 percent of idiopathic gastroparesis cases involve women, according to the National Organization for Rare Disorders.

Besides damage to the vagus nerve, other causes of gastroparesis include diabetes, multiple sclerosis, bulimia, and abdominal or intestinal surgery.

Here’s an overview of the disease:

Symptoms: Vomiting Nausea Feeling full after a few bites of food Vomiting undigested food Acid reflux Abdominal bloating Abdominal pain

Risk factors: • • • •

Diabetes speed of stomach emptying, Abdominal or intestinal surgery such as pain medications Infections such as a virus • Scleroderma, a connective Medications that slow the tissue disease

Changes in bloodsugar levels • Hypothyroidism • Nervous system diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease

Lack of appetite Weight loss and malnutrition Source: Mayo Clinic

Complications from gastroparesis: Malnutrition: Your body does not absorb enough nutrients due to vomiting.

Dehydration: Again, due to ongoing vomiting.

Blood-sugar level changes: The frequent changes of food passing into the small intestine cause erratic changes in blood-sugar levels.

Decreased quality of life: Flare-up of symptoms makes keeping up with life’s daily responsibilities difficult.

Source: Mayo Clinic

Treatments: Florida Hospital Waterman offers several treatment options to help patients live a better quality of life. Those include:

• Instead of eating two or three large meals each Thus, nutrients are put directly into the small day, eat six small meals per day. intestine, bypassing the stomach. This procedure • Replace some solid meals with liquids such is used only when gastroparesis symptoms as soup. are severe.

• Eat meals that contain little fiber or fat.

• Parenteral nutrition is an alternative to the • Medications may help control nausea and vomiting. jejunostomy tube. A physician places a catheter • Other medications help the stomach empty faster. into a chest vein, delivering nutrients directly • A surgical procedure called jejunostomy entails into the bloodstream and bypassing the inserting a feeding tube into the small intestine. digestive system.

Source: floridahospital.com/waterman/gastroparesis

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“A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life” Pat Conroy was one of the best Southern writers in this century. Though he is gone, readers can enjoy this little book of essays, blogs, and speeches.

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With “A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life,” readers are given the opportunity to have conversations with beloved Southern writer Pat Conroy.

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f you are a reader, it is often a great thrill to meet one of your favorite writers. This generally takes place during a book signing where you may get two minutes to talk (or gush, as I am prone to do) with the person whose books you adore.

With “A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life,” readers are given the opportunity to have conversations with beloved Southern writer Pat Conroy. His books about family, struggles with mental health issues, and life in his muchloved South Carolina always leave an impression and are seldom forgotten.

Many of his books were made into successful films, such as “The Great Santini” with the remarkable performance

by Robert Duvall. Because his fiction so closely resembled his real life, Pat’s story of an abusive husband and father was not much appreciated by his family.

His other well-known works include “The Prince of Tides,” “Beach Music,” and “The Lords of Discipline.” I must admit my favorite is “The Prince of Tides.”

The beauty of the little book, “A Lowcountry Heart,” is that the essays and articles written by Pat give the reader insight into the person he was as

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much as the writer he became. They’re short and easy to read and often begin like he just met you on the sidewalk with a “Hey, there.”

Another element that makes this book so much fun for a fan of Pat’s is hearing about books he read and his reaction to them.

He goes into great detail about what the writer’s work meant to him, and I swear he makes you want to read every book he mentions because he makes it sound so wonderful.

Like most Southerners, Pat adopted a deep and abiding love for food, and again, like most of us, developed the physical problems that go along with enjoying too much of a good thing.

He talks about what he did to change his physical health around after being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol.

He had amazing discipline because he turned it all around with diet and exercise.

This is not a book you’d think of as a beach read, but it is delightful to read if you’re a Pat Conroy fan. He talks candidly about old friendships and family relationships. In one of the essays, he calls a former classmate whom he had a terrible crush on when they were in eighth grade. What makes it fun is she remembers nothing about the experiences he recalls with singular clarity. A friend who read one of Pat’s books told her about him thanking her in one of his books, so she went to a signing but still didn’t recognize him.

It’s this kind of humor and honesty that make all these wonderful, short pieces worth reading again and again.

Added to these great stories from Pat are those from his friends and loved ones following his death. The introduction by Cassandra King Conroy is a loving tribute to her husband. We find in the end he was referred to as “The Great Conroy” by his friends. Even his eulogy is included and helps readers feel just how much he was loved and appreciated.

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About the Author Pat Conroy was an award-winning author. This included a special citation from the National Education Association for his work as a teacher in a small one-room schoolhouse on Daufuskie Island in South Carolina. Though he loved teaching there, he was furious at the way these children had been neglected by the school system. He was fired after his first year because of his unconventional teaching methods.

He was the oldest of seven children and was most often the target of his father’s abusive nature.

Because his father was an officer in the Marine Corps, the family moved many times. He was in 11 different schools before finishing high school. At his father’s urging, he attended The Citadel, where he received his bachelor’s degree. It was his time there on the basketball team and reconnecting with those men many years later that resulted in the memoir, “My Losing Season.”

He was dedicated to righting social injustice and had a love of words that will be with us always in his books. His legacy is a treasure for all of us who love reading and writing.

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