AWARD-WINNING NEWSPAPER
Volume 20 Number 5
In a past life...
OF FLORIDA
October 2016
Crowing for a
myseniorlife.com
Page 17
cause
Help save Green Gables Page 7
Charlie’s art lives on Page 12
SENIOR LIFE’S FIVE-STAR
SENIOR LIFE Linda Wiggins
Artist and Nana’s House volunteer Melanie Delman puts the finishing touches on Nana Likes to Crow, which will be among 36 artistic, creative scarecrows along a route across the greater Viera/Suntree area Oct. 6 through 20. BY LINDA WIGGINS
Have you done a great job raising children but you’ve got more to give? Might you have missed the chance to raise children of your own and you want to make up for it? Nana’s House children’s charity could be looking for you. Or maybe you can help others who step up as house parents with your time, talent or treasure. Senior Life sister newspaper Viera Voice could not have picked a better time to name Nana’s House as the charity
SENIOR LIFE Zach Costello
Larsen Motorsports’ Speedy Crow is being created by welder Jake Elliot of parts from military and jet-dragster vehicles from sky and land, each with stories of their own and original vehicle values totaling multi-millions of dollars. to benefit from its Scarecrow Stroll & Harvest Festival this month. The faith-based charity takes in children as an alternative to placement in the state foster care system. The virtually all-vounteer effort is in the middle of construction of an eight-home community with a shared multipurpose building in West Melbourne to expand capacity to 40 children. All of the structures are being built by donor builders who are covering a large portion of the
SCARECROWS See page 14, 16
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