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»contents VOLUME 36, number 4

features 90 Top Singles 2013

We’ve given them avatars, but they’re not playing games: Seventeen of the city’s most eligible singles are eager to make a date, while supporting their favorite charities during this fourth annual event, July 20, at Hotel Duval.

102 Tallahassee’s Mentor Formerly a top IBM executive, Steve Evans has spent his retirement years giving advice that changes lives, businesses, nonprofits — and possibly the future of our hometown.

120 Then Comes Marriage Kay Meyer

Experts say weddings are “formalizing” in the 2010s.

We’ve got 35 pages of beautiful photos (such as this one of recent bride Danielle Dunagan), great advice and inspiration to help plan the wedding of your dreams.

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SNAPSHOT Whooping it up in SouthWood.

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CHAT Michael Hayden teaches the acting craft.

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CLICK Business, with a little help from your friends.

HABITAT So much to see in Jo Ostrov’s backyard.

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MS. GROW-IT-ALL Growing tropical plants in North Florida.

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160 ON THE TOWN Life behind the bar.

Weddings with a modern Southern style.

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A million reasons to support Leon High.

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THE NUMERATOR Facts and stats from the gridiron.

MIND AND BODY What your genes can tell you.

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THE GREAT OUTDOORS A sport that takes you to new heights.

HERE TO HELP

life after brain injury.

PARENTHOOD Daddy’s

guide to girls.

AGENDA News from the business world.

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167 CULTURE Singing praises in a unique way.

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CALENDAR Cool ways to spend hot summer days.

208 FLAVOR Make a date with breakfast.

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Wonderful town, beautiful people.

201 THE BUZZ News from Tallahassee’s social network.

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22 Editor’s Letter 25 Contributors 218 The Last Word

On the Cover

While he prefers to operate behind the scenes, we get up close and personal with businessman and mentor Steve Evans. Photo by Scott Holstein.

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»from the publisher

Growing up, the first and most critical mentors in life are your parents.

With the decision to bear children, parents also have the obligation and duty to mentor their child’s development into an individual who can successfully move into society.

This is a job not to be taken lightly and requires lots of time, effort, consistency and, most of all, love — sometimes tough love. Done right, a child’s journey into adulthood will result in a healthy, mature person who is ready, willing and able to be a contributor to society, prepared to assume the parental role and replicate the process to bring along the next generation.

There is just so much one can learn from parents and in school that will adequately prepare one to be successful in a professional life — whether you’re a doctor or a laborer. Professionally, people need training and mentoring in order to become most proficient at their chosen career.

There is an individual in Tallahassee who has risen to the top as a mentor to so many individuals and organizations in the past decade that I can say he has profoundly and positively affected our community’s developmental growth curve in many ways. I believe Tallahassee would not be the community it is today or will be tomorrow without the mentoring and leadership skills of Steve Evans.

I have had the privilege of knowing Steve for the past seven years and am very fortunate to be one of the individuals he has mentored and been there to advise when very complex business situations landed in my lap.

I know my limitations and am smart enough to know when I do not have the skill sets to make the right decision without counsel. Steve is one of the individuals in my life I am fortunate to be able to call and get some time to download the variables. He has the unique ability to listen, ask questions and dissect all the possibilities — most often breaking them into simple categories for me to analyze. He never tells me what to do. Rather, he coaches me through the process of looking at a challenge through a different set of eyeglasses then to see clearly what is the best decision.

A humble “behind the scenes” person, it took a lot for me to convince Steve it was time for the community to know more about him and what he has accomplished.

By reading the feature article about him, I know you will learn much about a great leader who is also a fine, honorable and respected individual — and then take from it a few “gold nuggets” of learning that will make you a better friend, businessperson, parent and individual and ultimately not only make your life better, but also the lives of people you come into contact with.

I know he has for me. Thank you, Steve.

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»from the editor

The People Who Stop

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I had been planning to write this column for a while when the bombing at the Boston Marathon occurred in April. Many friends in my Facebook universe posted a quote from the beloved children’s show host, Fred Rogers, that went like this: “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ ” It gives us hope that the inherent goodness of people is far more prevalent in the world than the horrors perpetrated by a deranged few.

In my life, I noticed something that could be a corollary to this. I think the world is broken down into two types of people: people who stop, and people who don’t.

Unfortunately, I have pretty much lived in the latter group. Most times, when I see an accident or a dog running loose or a down-and-out panhandler, I keep on going. “I don’t have any medical training; I’ll just be in the way,” I think. “I have someplace to be,” or “He just wants the money for beer,” are the thoughts that keep me from being one of Mr. Rogers’ “helpers.”

I think I’m a good person: I volunteer, give money and try to spur others to action by telling compelling stories. My friends would probably say nice things about my generosity. But I have never pulled over to help, and one particular event still leaves me feeling guilty.

Once, while driving to Publix on Mahan Drive, an accident occurred right in front of me. I had to hit the brakes as one of the cars crossed my lane before stopping. I recognized the Mustang, owned by a young man who lived down the street from me. I didn’t know him by name, but I knew that (loud) car and what house he lived in. He got out of the car, bloodied from an injury to his mouth, but walking around. Another man was on his cell phone, calling for help. I drove on. “You have a baby in the back seat,” I told myself. “He’s going to be OK.” Now I know that, even if I couldn’t really “do” anything, I should have been there for him. He could have used a friendly word, and I could have assured his mother that he was all right. It’s certainly what I would hope an acquaintance would do for one of my children in the same situation.

Thankfully, I know several People Who Stop. My friend, Gayla, stopped on the turnpike after an accident where several people were injured and at least one had died. It must be hereditary, because her son did the same thing a few years later (with a baby in the car, I might add). While swimming off Panama City Beach, my daughter’s boyfriend, Ben, saw a sea turtle with a rope around its flipper.

He held on until a boat passed by that was willing haul the turtle out of the water and take it to get help. My coworkers chased a pair of dogs around Miccosukee Road, took photos and plastered them on Facebook (including the Tallahassee Magazine page, where it was shared 41 times, the most ever).

Two guys once took the time to change a flat tire for me.

There’s a special place in heaven for the People Who Stop. And may God bless every one of them.

Rosanne Dunkelberger rdunkelberger@rowlandpublishing.com

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»contributors LAZARO ALEMAN, writer

from denim to lace and everything inbetween …

Lazaro Aleman

Laz is a newspaper/freelance writer who has been in the game 30-plus years, including stints as a news reporter and editor both in Houston and Monticello, Fla. He has covered government, politics, elections and trials, as well as doing business and human interest stories. His articles have appeared in many magazines, including Grit, Farm and Ranch Living, Victorian Homes, Georgia Magazine, Florida Wildlife and this magazine’s sister publication, 850 The Business Magazine of Northwest Florida.

▪ In this issue, Laz writes about Kim Barnhill, who has taken her passion for public health from the county level to statewide as the chief of staff for Florida’s Surgeon General.

Michael Tokars, writer

▪ Mike wrote the story for this month’s On the Town column, about “old school” bartenders. Of the research for this piece, Mike said, “I was totally professional.”

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Tokars is a 25-year-old journalist.

He lives back and forth between his family’s estate on Sarasota Bay — with his husky, Franklin; and live-in masseuse, Linda — and the Red Roof Inn on North Monroe Street in Tallahassee. He enjoys surfing and listening to the Ramones.

Carlin joined Rowland Publishing as a traffic coordinator in 2005, where his oversight of the implementation of new technologies streamlined sales and accounting systems.

These efforts inspired him to pursue his master’s degree in Library and Information Studies from Florida State University. Carlin left the company to become a project manager at a local marketing firm for two years. He has returned to Rowland Publishing to enhance the company’s social media presence and optimize the various internal systems and processes.

Carlin is married, has two children and produces the Nerd Lunch Podcast (nerdlunch.net).

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Snapshot Endangered Birds Whoop it Up

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Some of the SouthWood community’s newest residents are snowbirds — quite literally. A boy/girl pair of endangered Whooping cranes have surpassed the odds by returning twice consecutively, and independently, to a specific location known to enthusiasts as Cow Pond.

These aficionados — “craniacs,” they like to call themselves, have made it their mission to protect this particular pair of whoopers and preserve their habitat.

Large in size and named for their distinctive whooping call, Whooping cranes are migratory birds that summer in Canada and Wisconsin, and fly south for the winter to places like Texas and Florida.

Less than 600 Whooping cranes are left in existence. That number is down from the 1,400 birds estimated in 1860; but up from the 15 counted in 1941. Survival is threatened by natural disadvantages involving biodiversity and predation; but also by various versions of human encroachment — including illegal hunting and the continuing destruction of wetlands that are the birds’ natural habitat.

A great effort to save Whooping cranes began in 1947 by ornithologist Robert Porter Allen and was pushed forward by conservationist groups like ICF and Operation Migration — which employ ultralight aircraft, flown by pilots disguised as Whooping cranes. A flock from Wisconsin was led to the nearby St. Mark’s National Wildlife Refuge.

As for the pair of Whooping cranes in SouthWood ... they have decamped to their summer home in Wisconsin. Reproduction is anticipated; and, according to Lou Kellenberger of the refuge, eggs have been laid up north.

If the lovebirds return this November — with offspring in tow — it will mean Tallahassee is providing a proper sanctuary for these instinctual animals. Karen Willes, a local resident and craniac who photographed the cranes every morning and evening for four months, says continuing to do so is the craniac community’s biggest concern. Avoiding human imprint is imperative to the species’ survival; so if you should visit — please, stay behind the fence. // Michael Tokars

A pair of rare Whooping cranes (previous page) have wintered in southern Leon County for the past two years, to the delight of bird lovers. A sandhill crane (left) paid a visit to their local hangout but traveled on after a couple weeks.

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»life Chat

From Broadway Star to Star Faculty Award-Winning Actor Michael Hayden a Talented New Addition at FSU’s School of Theatre

Michael Hayden has been a steady fixture on Broadway, film and television over the course of his 20-year career. Throughout two decades, he has received many awards and nominations, including a Tony Award nomination for his performance as German defense attorney Oscar Rolfe in the National Actor’s Theatre production of “Judgment at Nuremberg.” After a long, fulfilling career, however, Hayden decided it was time to leave the hustle and bustle of the city behind, in favor of Tallahassee’s community and Florida State University’s School of Theatre.

“Finally I got to the point where I’d done so much of what I set out to do that I wanted to find a different way to express myself and to learn,” Hayden says.

Hayden’s first foray into acting was during high school. A quarterback at the time, Hayden injured the shoulder of his passing arm; so began his love affair with theatre.

When asked what about acting, specifically, he loved, Hayden let out a laugh. “I think it was because I enjoyed showing off, probably.

Being looked at. [That] was how it started, and I became passionate about it, and I loved it. I just loved it. And from then on that’s what I wanted to do. Well, that’s not true; in college I started studying business for half a semester … then I threw my book — literally — out the window.”

After four years at St. Johns University in Minnesota, Hayden became a student at Julliard’s School of Acting. Directly after graduation, he landed his first big break as Billy Bigelow in “Carousel,” first at the Royal National Theatre,

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then at the Lincoln Center Theatre. “That was my first job out of Julliard, and it was Broadway, and I played a lead, and that was my first introduction to the business,” he recalls.

Although stage acting was his first love, Hayden maintains that there is little difference between acting for an audience and acting for a camera. “All the basics of acting are the same, but it’s a much more intimate, quiet medium,” he explains. “A lot of stage actors sort of break the lens; they’re too big. And there are characters you play in film who are big, too, but it’s a very different experience.”

Seeing his students learn these nuances of acting and character portrayal, Hayden says, is the most rewarding aspect of teaching.

“Suddenly they’re doing a kind of work they

didn’t do before … . You want them to learn from You may recall seeing Michael Hayden you, and be distant from on the television you, and at the same time crime dramas “Law you want to engender a & Order” and “Murkind of rebellion so when der One.” they’re acting they’re not worrying at being good.”

Hayden explains that there is much more to acting than being good — and this is one of the main lessons he teaches his students. “If you want to be bad, try to be good. If you want to be boring, try to be good.

It’s such a small goal to have. Doing something so personal and so human — that’s something far more difficult, and that’s what I want my students to learn.” n

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Tallahassee is full of cycling opportunities. Whether you prefer riding down winding, hilly roads or exploring one of our fair city’s many off-road trail systems, you’ll have a blast while getting a great workout at the same time. In the past few years, several of Tallahassee’s off-road trails have been completely renovated and are now considered among the best in the state. The rolling hills in and around Tallahassee provide some serene and scenic adventures for both short- and long-distance rides alike. In either case, finding that perfect ride shouldn’t be too difficult, but you should definitely consider the differences in equipment and gear to make sure you’re properly prepared for the good times ahead. // Laura Bradley Protecting your noggin

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The helmet takes the force of the blow — instead of your head. That’s a pretty good reason to cover it up.

Cycling jersey options Tighter fitting

jerseys offset the wind experienced on high-speed road rides. Beyond being extremely fashionable, the bright colors available increase your visibility to drivers. For mountain biking on off-road trails, some prefer something looser, and not quite as … neon.

Padded shorts! On longer rides, padded shorts make a huge difference. Some prefer tighter fitting, padded cycling shorts for both on- and off-road riding; others prefer baggier shorts — also available with padded inserts. Caution: At 15-25 miles per hour, baggy shorts will slow you down and probably drive you crazy flapping in the wind.

Road bike (Felt F5: $2,069 as shown; Higher Ground Bicycle Co.) Primarily designed for paved roads, these bikes are generally made of lightweight materials like aluminum or carbon fiber (or other materials like steel and titanium) and equipped with drop handlebars (making your body more compact and aerodynamic) and narrower tires with higher air pressure (upwards of 120psi) for less rolling resistance.

Becoming one with your bike Everybody generally starts

out with flat, traditional pedals, but when you’re riding for hours at higher speeds, cycling shoes with cleats that “lock” into the pedals improve overall efficiency. With a simple twist, you can disengage your foot from your bike. Adjusting takes time, but once you’re clipping in and out, you can’t imagine it any other way.

Mountain Bike (Specialized Carve Comp 29: $1,600 as shown; Higher Ground Bicycle Co.) Mountain bikes are primarily used on non-paved, rougher environments. Wide, knobby tires with lower air pressure (around 35–50psi) provide better traction and shock absorption. The front suspension fork helps to level out varied off-road terrain (some mountain bikes have front and rear suspension, providing a much smoother ride when conditions are at their roughest).

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Website Kickstarter Matches Idea People With Micro-Capitalists

By Chay D. Baxley

Having an awesome idea and no cash to fund it is not a great place to be. But back in 2009, something truly revolutionary happened for all the idea men and women out there; something that would place creativity and passion above conventional business models. Something called Kickstarter.

Kickstarter.com is an online funding platform for creative projects. In laymen’s terms, it allows people with ambitions bigger than their wallets to spread the word of their business venture to the masses and lets the public decide if the concept is worth funding. Funders can offer up anything from $1 and beyond — some have even given thousands — to help meet the project’s goal.

But wait; there’s a catch.

Before any money can be received, the askers must set a financial goal, which must be met in its entirety within a certain period of time.

Funding is all or nothing. So, if an aspiring boy band lays out a goal of $5,000 to cover the cost of their debut album, but only receives $1,000 by the time their deadline rolls around, all bets are off. The dough stays with its prospective funders and said boy band will simply have to save up to sing another day.

Don’t worry, the project founders aren’t the only ones taking something away from

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this surprisingly symbiotic relationship. In exchange for their financial support, backers are presented with levels of rewards to both entice and acknowledge their contribution. Potential rewards might include a signed original print from an artist’s personal collection, a film credit, a handmade thank you card or a set of tickets to a band’s opening show. The more you give, the more you get.

Now, what can be funded on Kickstarter?

Almost anything. Anything, so long as it has a certain je ne sais quoi and lands in the creative groove the folks at Kickstarter have etched out for themselves. Areas of interest for the site include art, comics, dance, design, fashion, film, food, games, music, photography, publishing, technology and theater. Though initially intended for offbeat indie projects, the site’s success has also caught the attention of major headliners, like Hollywooder Zach Braff.

Best known for his role on the NBC sitcom Scrubs, Braff’s 2004 directing debut in “Garden State,” a drama-comedy starring Natalie Portman, was a major hit and attracted a new, broader fan base to the writer/director/actor’s quirky style. But nearly 10 years later, there’s been no follow-up film for Braff.

Until now — until Kickstarter.

In a video released on the site, Braff told Chocolate maker Bob Williamson his fans his major was able to expand setback all along was his manufacturing financing. They helped operation and open rectify the issue. a storefront with the “After I saw how the more than $6,300 amazing Veronica Mars he raised via the fans rallied behind that Kickstarter website. project in a mindblowing way, I couldn’t help to think — like so many others – maybe this could be a new paradigm for film makers who want to make smaller, personal films without having to sign away any of their artistic freedom,” said Braff, speaking about a previously funded Kickstarter project.

Braff reached his goal of $2 million in less than a week, with $500,000 to spare.

But just because Kickstarter has officially gone big time doesn’t mean they’re changing their clientele entirely; the little guy’s still welcomed.

Though not the world’s first online funding platform, Kickstarter has certainly been the most successful and enduring site of its kind — nabbing headlines from CNN to Time magazine.

Since its conception four years ago, more than

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Even people in Tallahassee are reaping the rewards of this “power-to-the-people” inspired website.

Meet two of our local Kickstarters:

SRSLY CHOCOLATE Inc., A New Concept in Deliciousness

Bob Williamson has long fancied himself a member of the up-and-coming artisan food movement, with a background in everything from beer brewing to beekeeping. With years in the production side of food under his belt, Williamson finally found his niche as Tallahassee’s very first beanto-bar chocolate maker.

To put his dreams in motion, Williamson’s first course of action was getting involved in local farmers markets, including the Growers Market at Lake Ella. In just a few short months the demand for his tasty treats began to rise.

Soon, Williamson had a difficult decision to make — either find the cash to take SRSLY Chocolate Inc. to the next level, or risk turning customers away.

For Williamson, the problem had a simple solution: Kickstarter.

“I didn’t really want to have a silent partner,” said Williamson. “I wanted to raise all the funds myself; but just didn’t have them. Kickstarter was really the only way to go.”

Williamson, who initially asked for $5,000 from his Kickstarter supporters, ended up walking away just three weeks after the launch of his project with $6,336. The funds from his Kickstarter adventure not only helped to purchase SRSLY the appropriate tools to continue growing but also aided in the jump to retail space.

Today, Williamson has set up shop in local hot spot the Cider Lodge.

Cody ChesnuTT, International R&B Sensation

Embodying a contemporary mix of soul, funk and rock, Cody ChesnuTT is an artistic force

to be reckoned with. Following the emergence of his debut album in 2002 out of the Atlanta music scene, ChesnuTT’s fan base skyrocketed.

Skyrocketed so high, in fact, that when the time rolled around for his second album to be released in late 2012, fans were willing to pay a rather large upfront cost — $22,362.

With a huge chunk of change, a new album entitled “Landing On A Hundred” and an international tour to his name, ChesnuTT is by far the largest Kickstarter success to emerge from the Tallahassee area.

It’s a title he takes to heart.

“It was absolutely amazing,” said ChesnuTT. “Especially in the current climate that we’re in right now where people complain when you ask them to pay $10 for a CD. So it’s just amazing that people would donate $10 to $1,000. It’s mind-blowing to have that kind of support.”

ChesnuTT, who relocated to Tallahassee immediately following the release of his first album in 2003, put the bulk of his Kickstarter allocated funds into the production cost of his new release and the startup of his tour, which concluded April 26 in Bourges, France. n

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participating in emergency relief efforts in hurricane and oil-devastated areas of the state; playing key roles in state and national public health boards — including one dealing with a White House initiative to curb the spread of swine flu pandemic; and helping formulate a volunteer healthcare-provider program in the 1990s that today offers more than $1 billion in donated healthcare services to Floridians who otherwise would go without treatment.

More recently, Kids Incorporated of the Big Bend honored Barnhill as a Champion for Children at its 40th anniversary celebration. In announcing the award, Executive Director Pam Davis praised Barnhill for bold leadership and significant contributions to Florida families and children.

“Kim sees a need and finds a solution,” Davis said. “That’s the test of a true champion.”

Barnhill exhibits that same champion’s attitude as FDOH’s chief of staff, a position she assumed in July 2012 after serving 10 years as public health officer for Jefferson and Madison counties. Her responsibility is oversight of the Office of Performance Improvement, Legislative Affairs and Communications.

“These three programs cover the entire agency, in terms of how we’re communicating our messages and getting the word out,” says Barnhill, a cum laude Florida State University graduate with a bachelor’s degree in health education and dual masters’ degrees in adult education and public health.

She notes that the department’s integrated structure — consisting of 67 county health departments under a central state office — allows for uniform and coordinated responses. Thus, in the event of a public health crisis, the department is able to draw resources from across the state and concentrate its efforts on the affected area. That’s an advantage over most other states’ health departments, which are largely decentralized, Barnhill says.

“There was a threat in the 2011 Florida Legislature to decentralize our county health departments so that they would report to the different county commissions,” she says. “But we were fortunate to ward that off.”

She cites among the FDOH’s recent challenges a fungal meningitis outbreak caused by contaminated steroid injections, a suspected cancer cluster in South Florida and a tuberculosis outbreak in Duval County.

The department’s responses ranged accordingly, from counseling and monitoring the 1,055 Floridians who received tainted injections, to testing the water quality of the river suspected of causing the cancers, to finding hospital beds for the tuberculosis patients.

Another recent major challenge involved the reorganization of the department, which included closing one of only four hospitals in the country that specialized in the treatment of difficult tuberculosis cases.

“We were directed by the Legislature to close the AG Holly State Hospital,” Barnhill says. “We had to design a new system of care for tuberculosis patients, and after 62 years of relying on that hospital for quality care for those especially drug-resistant and multidrug-resistant TB patients, it was a big change.”

Have budget cuts and other state-imposed austerity measures hampered the department’s ability to provide services?

Absolutely not, Barnhill says.

“As public health professionals, we’re going to protect the health and safety of Floridians at all costs,” she says. “We’ve got public health professionals who are going to make the health and safety of Floridians their priority no matter how many hours it takes to get the job done. But I think that in terms of health care nationwide, there’s a new level of

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In her latest position, Kim Barnhill has expanded her public health focus from small, rural counties to the entire state of Florida.

A Passion For Helping Kim Barnhill Looks Out for the Health of All Floridians By Lazaro Aleman Rarely does someone go from high school straight into a public health career, muses Kim Barnhill, chief of staff for Dr. John Armstrong, state surgeon general and secretary of the Florida Department of Health (FDOH). More typically, she says, what happens is one falls into the job and it becomes a lifelong passion.

Barnhill speaks from experience. A veteran public health official who started as a dental hygienist, Barnhill’s commitment to public health remains undiminished after 20 years. Indeed, she is a veritable human dynamo, always on the go and in pursuit of ways to improve the scope and delivery of public health services. Words colleagues commonly use to describe Barnhill are resourceful, effective, dynamic, action oriented and passion driven.

Which explains the University of South Florida (USF) College of Public Health naming Barnhill as Florida Outstanding Woman in Public Health for 2012, an honor reserved for those who perform exceptionally in the field of public health.

In presenting the award, the college cited Barnhill’s many notable achievements. These included raising the level and quality of health services provided to rural residents of Jefferson and Madison counties;

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accountability. And I think because we’re being held more accountable, we’re looking to be as efficient as we can possibly be.”

Lamentably, what happens on the front lines of public health oftentimes goes unnoticed, Barnhill says.

“I often use the analogy of housework, in that it goes unrecognized until it’s not done,” she says. “It’s like me spending a day cleaning house. My kids don’t come home and say, ‘Hey, Mom made the beds, cleaned the toilets and vacuumed the floor’. They wait until I’m out of town on business and the situation starts to deteriorate. Then they say, ‘Dad, when’s Mom coming home?’

Just like people don’t wake up every day with clean air, food and water and say, ‘Gee, those public health “… in terms of health people are doing a great job.’ care nationwide, They wait until there’s an outbreak or hurricane and there’s a new level say, ‘Where are those public health people?’” of accountability.

For her, it was a difficult And I think because decision leaving her former job as county health officer, we’re being held Barnhill says. more accountable, “You ask any of my colleagues in the county health we’re looking to be offices, and they will tell you as efficient as we can it’s the greatest job in the world,” Barnhill says. possibly be.”

The reason, she explains, is that at the county level, — Kim Barnhill one is able to implement programs and projects that improve people’s lives and to see the results.

“Sometimes, when you’re in the state health office, it’s hard to make that connection,” she says.

Even so, she believes she made the right decision.

“I like to think I had an impact at the county level,” Barnhill says. “And I like to think that my time here is also going to make a difference, because in public health, that’s what you want to do — help people.”

She also is learning to appreciate the department’s greater role and reach.

“We’ve got a wide array of programs that don’t relate to county health departments, which were the focus of my first 20 years in public health,” Barnhill says. “So I’m learning a lot, and it’s been an interesting ride.”

What’s more, with 17,000 employees in the department, something’s always happening.

“It keeps me on my toes,” Barnhill says. “I work a lot of hours, but I love what I do.”

Does she see herself slowing down in the future?

Barnhill smiles. She relates how a few years back, her husband sat her down one day and told her she needed to slow down and go easier on herself and their three kids.

“Your motor never stops,” Barnhill says John told her.

“But I can’t stop,” she says. “I like trying to determine what the needs are and then trying to meet them. That’s what I live for.” n

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A New Kind of Giving Leon High and the Everlasting Endowment: A Perfect Match

By Chay D. Baxley

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to fuel projects, or mini-grants, requested by teachers, staff and Getting people fired up about the public school system is support groups at Leon. Some of the money also goes toward no artless task. It often takes a group of concerned citizens with scholarships. a certain amount of finesse, a way with words — and a way with For Leon, the extra cash flow has been the saving grace for many baked goods — to get the ball rolling. programs which otherwise would have never gotten off the ground.

Even so, when there’s a hiccup in funding, it’s nice to know that Programs like Leon reading teacher an institution has something substantial to fall back Rebecca Kirchharr’s Elite Eight Reading on. Because while having over a century’s worth of Club, which introduces the school’s lowest rich history, a legion of supportive parents and a quartile readers to the notion of reading for number of celebrity alumni to your name can make pleasure. Along the way, it focuses on the for great bragging rights, it doesn’t necessarily pay importance of teamwork, time managethe bills. ment and communication skills. Foundation Just ask the folks over at Leon High School. money was used to buy books and provide It was exactly that brand of uncertainty that meals during the club’s lunchtime meetings. inspired a few concerned parents and alumni According to Kirchharr, recognized in 2013 back in 1981 to establish the Leon High School as Leon County’s Teacher of the Year, the Foundation, a community and volunteer-based heart of the Foundation lies in its ability to let organization dedicated to enhancing the academic teachers do what they do best — teach. and extracurricular experience for students “It’s the Foundation that allows things like at LHS. that to happen,” said Kirchharr of her Elite One of the first of its kind in the state, the Teacher Matt Guyton (above), uses Eight program. “We worry about students, we Foundation met with immediate success. a set of hominid skulls in his science connect with students and we don’t have to Today, it’s still functioning, raising money and classes that were purchased with deal with the funding or politics.” money from the Leon High Foundation. then each year divvying up its annual income

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So far, the Foundation’s fundraising techniques have worked beautifully. Supported by a number of generous donors, it has produced lasting effects on the dynamic of the student body. Unfortunately, the whole thing runs the risk of derailment if one year’s fundraising goes off track.

The precariousness of the situation and the ever-fluctuating state of the economy called for a new course of action, leading current members of the Foundation to vote in favor of pursuing the creation of $1 million endowment.

You read that right: One. Million. Dollars.

It’s an unprecedented goal that co-chairs of what has been dubbed the “Keep Leon Strong” campaign, Ida Thompson and Angie Sipple, felt was necessary to ensure the continued quality of the LHS educational experience.

And people seem to be responding to the campaign.

There’s just something about the notion that your donation will always be there, always helping, that Sipple, LHS alum and mother of two current Leon High students, said is more enticing than a simple, cut-and-dried donation.

“People like the idea of ‘OK, my money’s going to last forever,’” she said.

And with the funds being held by the Community Foundation of North Florida, a trusted name in charitable financing, it actually will. Thompson, also mother of two LHS students, said potential donors who may be concerned can be reassured about how their money is being spent.

“Legally, we aren’t allowed to touch the principal of the money,” said Thompson. “Period. There’s no ifs, ands or buts about it.”

If all goes according to plan, the Foundation will allow their grants and program funding to survive off the interest from the endowment, anticipating between 4 and 5 percent each year. With a million dollars in the bank, that would bring the foundation’s annual contribution to Leon to somewhere around $40,000 — an impressive number, and approximately double their current annual budget.

Deciding a million-dollar endowment would be a smart financial decision was easy. Now, the Foundation is presented with the challenge of actually obtaining the funds. It won’t be easy, but with 100 years of LHS graduates to be asked to donate, it is doable.

Fundraising efforts kicked off last fall and have continued well into the summer — targeting class reunions and alumni email archives as potential donors. The Foundation has also updated their website and social media accounts, making online giving more accessible. As of May, $100,000 has been raised for the endowment.

So, will the project “Keep Leon Strong” be challenging? Is it mission impossible? Hard to say, but Leon High Principal Billy Epting doesn’t seem to think so.

“It’s an interesting prospect,” said Epting. “When I first heard they wanted to do a million-dollar endowment I said, ‘Coming up To make a with a million dollars is a bunch donation to the of money.’ But I think that they’ve Leon High School got a very strong plan. Leon is endowment, visit unique because it has such a great leonhighfoundation. history and such a large pool of org. You can also alumni to draw from. I think it’s download a brochure doable. Will we get it by the end explaining the fund, of this year? Probably not; it’ll major donation levels and alternative be an ongoing process. But that’s ways of giving. exciting, too.” n

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Another exciting season of Rattler and Seminole football is about to kick off.

Here are some key stats about your favorite hometown college teams. // Compiled by Jason Dehart

80 gallons

The amount of Powerade and ice water used during a ’Nole game.

» 82,300 Seating capacity of Doak Campbell Stadium.

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seating capacity of Bragg Memorial Stadium.

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The number of footballs used during a single FSU home game.

Twelve are used and rotated and another 12 are held for backup in case of bad weather.

Amount of ice ordered for the sidelines during an FSU home game.

Number of FAMU Rattler wins during the history of the program.

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Number of returning starters on the Rattler roster for 2013.

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$5 million–$7.7 million Average economic impact of a home game in which the ’Noles face a ACC opponent.

Amount FAMU is being paid to play Ohio State University on Sept. 21.

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A Date With Daddy » Plan an evening where

you and your daughter prepare a meal for the rest of the family. If all goes according to plan, you’ll get to enjoy a delicious treat. If not, your daughter will get a lesson in failing gracefully and tips on selecting the best take-out.

» Keep gender roles

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neutral by taking her on a mountain bike ride through well-trailed part of the woods.

» Turn your outing into

an all-day event by taking a drive to a town by the coast. Studies show some of the best conversations arise from road trips. Don’t forget to pack your fishing poles!

A Playbook for Fatherhood The Importance of Spending Time with Your Growing Girl

By Chay D. Baxley She’ll always be Daddy’s Little Girl. But you can’t fight reality — she’s growing up. So it’s vitally important that you allow your relationship to grow with her.

And not just for your sake.

Experts agree your daughter’s future happiness could rely heavily on the content and magnitude of your interactions with her today. Preserving and encouraging the development of your father-daughter bond throughout your child’s life is a key to her successful passage into adulthood — or, at least into a successful, happy adulthood.

That’s a lot of responsibility. So let’s take a step back for a moment and focus on the basics.

In short, girls are tricky. They always have been.

And just because you assisted in the creation of this particular girl, doesn’t mean she’s any easier to read, or that you should always know the right thing to say. Put those fears aside. Truth is, you don’t have to be perfect to be a great dad. You just have to be there.

Evolutionarily speaking, women tend to model their relationships with men after the ones they’ve

shared with their fathers. If your verbal and physical inter- The author is shown actions with your daughter here sharing good are positive and loving, she’s times with her dad, more likely to project those Craig Baxley, during attributes onto relationships a visit to Busch Gar— romantic or otherwise — in dens when she was about 8 years old. her adult life. Plus, spending a little extra one-on-one time together will let your daughter know she has worth and that she shouldn’t tolerate people who make her feel differently.

“When a child is born, their foundation is their mother and their father,” said Jane Johnson, director of prevention for the Florida Department of Children and Families. “If they don’t feel good in that relationship, it’s difficult for them to feel good in any other relationships as they develop later on.”

But it’s not just the moments you share with your daughter that can leave their mark; father-mother interactions also play a key role and can make lasting impressions on a child’s world view. An overall

» Dinner and a movie. It’s a classic. Why mess with success?

» Teach her about

something you’re passionate about.

Whether it be sailing, tinkering with cars, painting, football or something else. Sharing your true interests will make for deeper conversation.

» Try asking her what she’d like to do. We bet she’ll have a few ideas.

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negative recollection of parental relations can have detrimental effects on children’s social interactions and self-esteem.

“A daughter sees her role with men in her life through the relationship she had with her father,” said Johnson. “If she sees her father demeaning her mother or not being respectful, the message she can take with her either consciously or unconsciously is that ‘women don’t deserve the respect of men’ or, that ‘it’s OK to let men disrespect me or talk down to me.’”

Basically, try to make sure her future Prince Charming has big shoes to fill by being a prince yourself. Because years from now, when your daughter’s reminiscing, she’ll be less likely to remember what activities the two of you did together, but how “A daughter sees you did them.

Your time together her role with men in doesn’t need to be extravaher life through the gant to be noteworthy. Even something as simple as runrelationship she had ning errands around town with her father.” can be transformed into an opportunity to spend qual— Jane Johnson, ity time together.

In fact, a drive is the perdirector of fect environment to discuss prevention for the whatever’s on your mind, whether it’s of great imporFlorida Department tance or little consequence. of Children and You can use this neutral Families setting to broach tough subjects like drug and alcohol consumption, peer pressure and relationship advice. Or, just flip through the stations until you find the perfect song for a duo.

Either way, it’s time well spent.

Of course, children’s advocates like Johana P. Hatcher, prevention manager at the DCF, are always in favor of having a heart-to-heart.

“Talk,” emphasized Hatcher. “Talk about your daughter’s everyday activities. Her schooling, her career interests, where she wants to be and what she likes and dislikes. And perhaps more importantly, the father needs to share those things as well. It’s a two-way road to communication.”

Talking is an activity that well-read dads like Phil Meyer, a professional magician, leader of the Killearn Lakes Elementary chapter of All Pro Dad and proud father of two girls, are always practicing.

“As the kids have grown up, I’ve seen that the one thing they want more than anything is simply time and attention,” said Meyer. “The more time and attention I spend with my girls, the more they appreciate it and the closer our bond is.”

Joining an organization like All Pro Dad, which meets at schools or a nearby venue for monthly breakfast, is great place to start.

Not only will you be letting your daughter know that she’s worth carving a chunk out of your day to spend time with, but you’ll be meeting on her turf — an equalizing environment and potential conversation starter.

Fitting everything in isn’t always easy. Sure, there’ll be meetings missed, ballet practices you forget about and track meets you just can’t make. But making the effort is an action experts and “pro dads” alike will tell you is a good place to start.

“It’s hard sometimes, we all get busy, have hectic schedules,” said Meyer. “But time and attention are the key.” n

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»life Agenda ▪ Brian Hayden, a civil litigation attorney with Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell, has been appointed to the Leon County Development Support & Environmental Management Citizens User Group. The 14-member group studies and makes recomHayden mendations to the Leon County Commission about proposed growth management ordinances and other planning issues.

▪ Two Tallahassee residents were among the six to be appointed to the Florida Faith-Based and CommunityBased Advisory Council by Gov. Rick Scott. Richard Albertson, 51, is the president and CEO of Live the Life Ministries. Patricia “Pat” Smith, 52, is the community engagement manager for the Department of Children and Families.

▪ Maureen McCarthy Daughton is now a member of the law firm of Sniffen & Spellman, P.A. Daughton’s practice includes administrative law, labor and employment law, commercial litigation, and land use and environmental law.

in its mission to enhance the legal profession and will also spearhead projects to retain current members and attract new members, specifically young professionals, to ensure TBA is one of Florida’s leading voluntary bar associations..

▪ Robert E. “Bobby” Long is now an associate at the Tallahassee office of Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell where he will focus on clients in law enforcement liability, employment and labor, and commercial litigation matters. Long is a former law enforcement officer and worked as a summer associate with the firm before accepting a commission in the U.S. Navy’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps.

▪ Legal Services of North Florida Executive Director Kris Knab has been selected as the 2013 Richard Ervin Equal Justice Award Winner. She was honored at the Law Day Celebration May 7. Carolyn Cummings, LSNF board member, received the 2013 2nd Judicial Circuit, Florida Bar President’s Pro Bono Service Award.

▪ David Larbalestier, the director of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory’s Applied Superconductivity Center, is now an IEEE Fellow (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). The group bestowed this honor to recognize his accomplishments in materials research and superconductivity.

▪ Linda A. Bailey, managing partner of Linda A. Bailey P.A., has earned board certification in marital and family law, a designation that places her among only 276 lawyers statewide. Board certification evaluates attorneys’ special Bailey knowledge, skills and proficiency in various areas of law and professionalism and ethics in practice. Only board certified lawyers may use the terms “specialist” or “expert” when referring to their legal credentials.

▪ Preston Colangelo is the new managing partner of the LongHorn Steakhouse on North Monroe Street.

Colangelo has worked for LongHorn for more than seven years and has been with the parent company, Darden Restaurants, for 15 years. He was the staffing and training manager at one of the company’s Jacksonville locations before his promotion to this new position.

Brian Lassiter at PBS Teacher Core

▪ Long-time Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center Executive Director Ron Spencer stepped down from his post in May. During his 33-year tenure the civic center entertained millions of patrons with a variety of events, including FSU basketball, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Monster Jam and Sesame Street Live. There have also been sold out concerts by Bruce Springsteen, Garth Brooks and Jimmy Buffett, not to mention special events such as Walking With Dinosaurs, Cirque du Solei and Riverdance.

courtesy pictured individuals; courtesy WFSU (PBS TEACHER CORE)

▪ WFSU has been selected to participate in the PBS LearningMedia Teacher Core, a new teaching program designed to engage teachers using digital classroom tools nationwide. The PBS Core is comprised of 28 K-12 educators and library media specialists from across the country. WFSU has selected Brian Lassiter, a fourth grade Astoria Park Elementary teacher, to serve as a member and work to champion digital learning in Leon County.

▪ Ivan Maldonado was recently named the new director for StarMetro, after serving as interim director since January. Maldonado now supervises all activities of the transit department. Under his leadership, StarMetro’s paratransit division won the coveted Urban Community Transportation Coordinator of the Year award in 2012.

Combined, Maldonado has over 20 years of management and supervisory experience, nine in public transportation.

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▪ Melissa VanSickle, shareholder and attorney with CPHLaw, is the newly elected president of the Tallahassee Bar Association (TBA).

VanSickle will lead the association

▪ Floyd R. Self has joined Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan LLP, in Tallahassee as a partner in the firm’s Energy, Communications and Utility practice group. He is a board-certified state and federal government and administrative practice lawyer who Self handles utility regulatory issues before public service commissions in the Southeast as well as local governments across Florida.

▪ Laura Williams is the new director of marketing at the Florida Sports Foundation, a division of Enterprise Florida, Inc. She will be in charge of managing, coordinating and implementing the foundation’s marketing work. Williams spent 14 Williams years with the Baltimore Orioles’ organization in South Florida.

▪ Laurie Findley was recently selected to be one of 50 ANNpower Fellows and participated in the ANNpower Vital Voices Leadership Forum, a three-day leadership training and mentorship program in Washington, D.C. The ANNpower Fellows received leadership and

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▪ For 11 years in a row, The Zimmerman Agency has captured the No. 1 position as the largest public relations firm in Florida. “Our platinum client portfolio is enviable even for a firm in a major city,” said Carrie Englert Zimmerman, the agency’s president and founder. “From Bali to Dubai and London to New York City, we offer Zimmerman employees the opportunity to work globally but live locally. As a born and raised Tallahasseean, it is particularly important for me to identify amazing talent and nurture their potential through our ‘home grown’ career initiative for Tallahassee’s young business people.”

▪ Capital Regional Medical Center has earned the Get With The Guidelines — Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. This is the fifth year CRMC has come away with this award, the AHA’s way of saying “good job” for treating stroke patients according to nationally accepted guidelines. Get With The Guidelines helps the hospital develop and use acute and secondary prevention guideline processes to improve patient care and outcomes.

▪ The American Public Power Association recently awarded its prestigious Reliable Public Power Provider designation to the Tallahassee’s Your Own Utilities Electric Utility department. The city power service is now numbered among an elite group of only 184 public power providers that have earned this recognition. The RP3 recognition means that the city’s provider has proven itself proficient in the areas of reliability, safety, workforce development and system improvement.

▪ The Jean McCully Family House, a family-focused facility named for a longtime Big Bend Hospice supporter, is coming soon. The building will be set next to the existing Margaret Z. Dozier Hospice House and should open next year. The space is needed; many families and friends who visit Hospice House patients travel great distances with limited resources in order to spend quality time with their loved ones.

In addition, the Dozier house will get a makeover.

▪ The Tallahassee chapter of Ducks Unlimited recently made the President’s Top 100 list as one of the game conservation organization’s best fundraising chapters. Every year the organization’s top moneyraising clubs are placed on the list and thanks to their work, DU is able to continue its mission of conserving, enhancing and restoring North America’s wetlands. The Tallahassee chapter beat out more than 2,700 DU chapters nationwide.

▪ Dean and Gloria Pugh never imagined they’d pick up an award for helping the hungry, but that’s exactly what they did when their company, AMWAT Moving Warehousing & Storage, collected more than 11,500 pounds of food for Second Harvest of The Big Bend. The Pughs received the “Mover of the Year” Award from Move For Hunger, a nationwide hunger relief organization that coordinates efforts with moving companies in the U.S. and Canada.

▪ Florida State University’s Dance Marathon recently donated more than $700,000 to the Children’s Miracle Network at Shands Hospital in Gainesville. The donation represents the yearlong fundraising efforts of more than 1,800 participating dancers who pledged to stand for a 20-hour shift during FSU’s 40-hour event. Since its launch in 1996, Dance Marathon at FSU has raised more than $3.3 million for the Children’s Miracle Network. — Compiled by Jason Dehart n 52 July–August 2013

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BEFORE

AFTER

This is a demonstration of how a small procedure can change facial contours.

Liposuction of the neck

WITH MORE THAN 25 YEARS SURGICAL EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING AT SEVERAL OF THE TOP UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS IN THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING A POST GRADUATE COSMETIC FELLOWSHIP, DR. CLARK FEELS HE BRINGS THE EXPERIENCE AND JUDGEMENT TO SELECT THE BEST SURGICAL PLAN TO REACH YOUR PERSONAL GOAL. HE IS A DIPLOMATE OF THE AMERICAN BOARD OF PLASTIC SURGERY AND AS A MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AESTHETIC PLASTIC SURGERY (ASAPS), DR. CLARK IS AMONG A SELECT GROUP OF BOARD CERTIFIED PLASTIC SURGEONS WHO HAVE ATTAINED THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF ACHIEVEMENT IN COSMETIC SURGICAL TRAINING, CONTINUING EDUCATION AND CLINICAL EXPERIENCE. THESE MEMBERS EARN THE RIGHT TO DISPLAY THE DISTINCTIVE ASAPS LOGO, DEPICTING THE EGYPTIAN QUEEN NEFERTITI, SYMBOLIZING AGELESS BEAUTY. TODAY, THIS LOGO REPRESENTS THE HIGHEST ACHIEVEMENT IN COSMETIC SURGERY.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

KRIST M., CRESTVIEW, FL “There aren’t words to express how grateful I am to each of you for making my experience so amazing!!! Your kindness and professionalism far exceeded my expectations. You all are truly the BEST!!!”

D.M., EGLIN AFB, FL “I would like to thank Dr. Clark (aka ‘The MiracleWorker’) and his entire staff for a phenomenal job! Due to the care, concern and compassion that they put forth this experience has been wonderful. I am only 16 days post-op and I am more than ecstatic about my results. Once my healing process is complete I will post pictures, because the change that this wonderful man has created for me is one that you have to see to believe! All of you will be in my hearts eternally for helping to change my life forever. Thanks again, Dr. Clark!”

CATHY, STAMFORD, CT “Just wanted to thank Dr. Clark and his staff for being terrific. Dr. Clark you have given me my self-esteem. Liz, thanks for being on top of everything and making my surgical experience so easy.”

CHARLOTTE S., HURLBURT FIELD, FL “Dr. Clark’s staff is awesome. They are caring and patient. His staff has made so many post-op phone calls to check on me and make me feel special. I have been wanting this procedure for a long time. Even though I am only a few days post-op and it’s too soon to see the final result, I am sure I will be happy!!”

REBECCA, MIRAMAR BEACH, FL “Dr. Clark, I cannot thank you enough.

My results are fabulous. I cannot say enough about you or your amazing staff. The personal attention you and your staff gave me before and after my surgery was great. Thank you!”

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Décor Practical. Playful. Chic.

Often, parents will go all out for a themed room that appeals to their youngster at that very moment. But the life expectancy of room décor is five to seven years. Will your 3-year-old’s room work for her when she’s 10? Here are some thoughts to consider that will help you create a room that’s fun, functional and child friendly.

1. Every child’s room needs the basics: a bed, bedside table, bureau for clothing, desk, chair and lighting.

2. By carefully picking out furniture to buy now, it can last until you send your youngster to college. The trick is to think practical, not themed.

3. Give a little forethought to how a room will transition through the stages of your child’s life. Let the accessories be trendy: It’s easier on the wallet to change out a pillow instead of a car bed.

4. When searching for design inspiration, decorate around a child’s interests and collections. Use the child’s art, collections and toys to express their creativity.

5. Get creative with paint, graphic wallpaper and color.

6. Always think about safety: Young children try to grab onto window treatments. Their cords are extremely dangerous to the little ones, so make sure they are sturdy and child friendly.

Electrical outlets should be covered and heavy furniture should be screwed into the wall.

7. Forget toddler beds. In a couple years, their legs will be hanging over the edge.

8. Flooring should be stainproof and hardwearing.

9. You can never have enough storage for a child’s room.

Written and styled by Terra Palmer and Calynne Hill, tutudivine.com // Photos by AJ Studios Photography

A Girl’s Haven This picture-perfect, ethereal lavender bedroom has a timeless feminine charm. The room’s soft color palette helps pop the bright pink hue used as an accent. This room promises to grow with the child. It is not caught up in trends but offers the longevity of classic furniture pieces.

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Pops of Color and Pattern Kids’ bedrooms are an opportunity to experiment with prints, patterns and colors. The combination of orange and white and clean lines allow this modern room (facing page) to “pop,” accentuating the spirit and individuality of the child. Preteens will be spending a lot of time in their rooms on their smart phone and tablet, so it’s important to make it feel like a place (left) they love. Dramatic lighting, repetition of a gray and orange color scheme, and thinking out of the box allows this nursery (above) to stand out. Taking closet doors off allows a small room to seem bigger. Painting a wicker chair in your color scheme is a resourceful way to get a dramatic effect.

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Bold and Bright Bold pattern and color add energy and life to this room (above). Navy and white horizontal stripes flank an alcove that allows any tyke to feel like he or she has a special retreat. In this room, smart planning allowed storage to be placed in the alcove. Green accents were used in the rug and child’s stuffed alligator. Built for a boy, this room (next page) has a slight nautical theme in the accessories, but will seamlessly adapt with age. Using smart, classic furnishings, this room will allow the same furniture to be used through out the child’s teen years. As his interests change, accessories can easily change with him.

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The 2013 wedding dress trend includes the lace and ruffles Southern girls adore — with a new twist.

“Not-so-White” wedding dresses are being seen in shades of blush, pink, coral and lavender. Brides also are choosing to make their weddings very personalized by accessorizing with stacks of rhinestone or pearl bangles and opting for a colored shoe. If your wedding is outdoors, don’t forget your Heckuva Heel, to prevent that “sinking” feeling when you or your wedding party walks across the grass. Grooms are finally getting some say so, so don’t be surprised to see deer heads, surfboards or farm tractor motifs on the cake table. Monogramming is still all the rage — that and lots and lots of beautiful flowers!

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SHOP THE STORY 1. Rose Wedding Gown, Vocelles ($2,153) 2. V euve Clicquot Champagne ($50) and Rhinestone Bracelets, Vocelles Bridal (from top: $23, $72, $62, $129, $65, $316) 3. Mr. and Mrs. Engraved Flatware, My Favorite Things ($32) 4. Nigel Knox men’s socks, ($32.50) 5. Custom armadillo cake, Katie’s Cakes and Catering ($475) 6. Heckuvaheel heel protector ($29.95) 7. Key chain, Cole Couture ($14) 8. Monogrammed button-up, Loli and the Bean ($31) 9.

9. Southern Weddings, Amazon.com ($28)

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Gifts from the Garden Jo Ostrov’s Five Acres of Paradise a Work-in-Progress for 23 Years

By Rosanne Dunkelberger // Photos by Scott Holstein

A Japanese garden. A source of healthy food. A haven for wildlife. A place to make music. A quiet spot with Savannah style.

A perfect place for a wedding.

The five acres comprising Jo Ostrov’s yard in Bobbin Brook are all of these things — and so much more. She’s been working on it — planting, moving, creating, nurturing, changing and observing — ever since she and her family moved into their new home 23 years ago.

It started with a little garden outside the window of their breakfast room, designed to attract birds with a mister and feeders.

“My husband (radiologist Steve Ostrov) loves sitting here in the morning before he goes to work and watching birds,” she says.

Inspired by the Birdsong Nature Center’s bird viewing area, they swapped out the original “busy” window with a grid pattern to large panes of glass.

Pass through an arbor covered in fragrant Confederate Jasmine, and prepare to be amazed by the labor of love that reflects her personality and her interesting gardening philosophies.

Ostrov’s backyard is bisected by the brook that gives the subdivision its name and the vista includes a gentle upward slope. There are heavily treed areas and a wide-open sunny meadow.

Near the house are camellia bushes galore — nine varieties, Yuletides and Peppermints and a showy baseball-sized variegated bloom called a Frank Houser. She’s not much for calling plants by their Latin names … or participating in flower shows. “I’m not about entering shows and winning and being competitive,” Ostrov says. “I’m more just about creating beauty and sharing it and being happy.”

Despite the huge variety of plants, you won’t find any roses in her garden.

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Just a small part of Jo Ostrov’s yard (above) dedicated to her food garden.

While it looks grass-like, this small meadow (right) where her daughter was married is carpeted with clover.

Ostrov practices her bass picking (next page) on the porch of a “cabin” that’s actually her gardening shed.

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“I don’t plant anything with thorns,” she declares. “I lived in Miami and on our honeymoon I saw bougainvillea, and I loved it and planted it all along my back fence. I would have to trim it, and I would just be cut up. Right now I’m cut up because I’ve been pulling up green briar, a thorny vine.”

Another of her guiding principals is to “plant natives and try to get rid of invasives.”

“It took us 10 years to clear out all the invasives. We had to do it all by hand,” she says. The job continues because the wildlife attracted to her yard eats invasive plants elsewhere and then … “they poop, and I get seeds.”

But it isn’t a thankless task. While she was yanking the bad plants, she discovered two black walnut trees. “So I have black walnuts,” another of what she calls “gifts from the garden.”

Harvesting those nuts is labor intensive and includes hammering them through progressively smaller holes to remove the husks and then running them through a machine — all while trying to keep from being stained by the nuts’ tannin coating.

“This is why black walnuts are $18 a pound,” she says.

As large as her yard is, there are very few grassy areas. And what appears to be lawn from a distance is usually either minimondo grass or an expanse of crimson and white clover.

“I’m very anti grass (and) very pro dandelions,” she avows. The only time she’ll pull them out of the ground is The design of Osfor the couple or their little tortoise, trov’s serene SavanGruska, to eat. “Dandelions are good nah-inspired garden because they bring up selenium and (left) includes iron and brick work, a other minerals that are deeper in the grinding stone and earth. Then they get the flowers, and trumpet vines (below the bees like them. They’re pretty; I left). A wooden just don’t understand. I see those combridge (below right) mercials on TV where they’re spraying allows visitors to dandelions … I understand (spraying) cross the “bobbin” poison ivy. That, I get. Dandelions? I brook that crosses her property. just don’t get it.”

Ostrov’s yard features an outdoor experience for just about any mood.

There’s a hot tub situated under a seathemed gazebo.

And a “secret” garden inspired by ones she saw during garden tours in Savannah. In the center is a massive grinding stone (actually one recreated by a monument maker) surrounded by brick pavers and a bench. The area is enclosed by a hodgepodge of iron fencing covered with lavender trumpet vines and a vine she first saw in Savannah called Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. “The first day (the flowers are) purple, the same bloom then fades to lavender and the third day it’s white. So after three days you have three different colors of flowers on the same plant,” she says. “It’s absolutely beautiful.”

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Another area is dedicated to a Japanese garden. The focal point is a bamboo shelter that has been used as a venue for her daughter’s harp recitals — and a favored spot for a nap in a hammock. She consulted books and visited gardens in an attempt to make it as authentic as possible. There are lots of mosses and only white flowers. “We’re in the same growing zone as Japan so we can have a lot of the same plants,” Ostrov says.

A substantial portion of the acreage is dedicated to a relatively recent enthusiasm for the dedicated gardener — growing food. She has planted lettuces, carrots, potatoes, mushrooms and other vegetables as well as citrus fruits and blueberries.

“The food has been really extremely rewarding for me. It takes long-range planning and attention and nurturing, but when you put your effort into your food and (then) you put it on your plate and you eat it, it’s so much more of a connection. I’m really trying to get people on board with that.”

Going up to the house and garage for tools and supplies got onerous, so she built a toolshed that’s disguised as a cabin in the woods. A sign out front declares it as “Pa’s Pickin’ Porch.” The name’s not just an alliterative device. The Ostrovs really do use it (and their campfire pit) when they indulge in another pastime, playing bluegrass music — Jo on the bass, her husband on the mandolin. In fact, much of their entertaining is done outside.

“It’s totally different than having people sit in the formal dining room,” she says. “People are much more lighthearted and engaged and observing things and they’re more alive.”

In April 2011, the garden was the site of perhaps the ultimate entertaining experience for the Ostrovs — their daughter, Laura’s, wedding. She called her parents in January and asked to have a garden wedding at home, in October, perhaps. Jo Ostrov lobbied her daughter to consider having the ceremony in April, when the weather is fair and the garden is at its most beautiful.

After a couple days consideration, Laura called to say yes.

“I hung up and said to my husband, ‘What did I just do?’.”

Laura was married in the meadow, the shelter in the Japanese garden served as a photo booth and most of the table decorations were flowers she had planted especially for the event. The salad served to their 120 guests was another gift from the garden.

The ceremony was attended by curious birds drawn by the harp music during the “perfect day in April, as I predicted … the ceremony (began) in the afternoon and it went on until 2 in the morning,” she recalls. “It was fabulous. Everybody had such a good time.”

Ostrov is happy to share her idyll with others; visitors are always sent home with something to enjoy, and her garden has twice been part of the Tallahassee Symphony’s fundraising tour. She relates: “People will say to me, ‘Doesn’t it bother you that people might come through and steal your ideas?’ and I say ‘No, I take that as a compliment.’ If somebody takes a piece and brings it home and (recreates) it, that’s fine with me. I don’t have a problem with sharing at all.” n

Laura Ostrov (above) travels down the gravel pathway on her way to her way to becoming Mrs. Schonberg.

Her mother grew vegetables for the salad served to guests as well as the flowers (right) that adorned the tables.

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It is Possible to Grow Warm-Weather Plants in Your North Florida Yard

By Audrey Post

Adding palm trees to your landscape is one way to create a tropical atmosphere quickly. The tall, swaying coconut palms of South Florida postcards won’t survive here, but there are plenty of other palms that will.

The sabal palm (Sabal palmetto), also called A: Florida is a very diverse state in its the cabbage palm, is the state tree and does climate and plant life, as your question ® very well throughout North Florida and the illustrates. Even within North Florida, the Panhandle. It’s a native plant that can take difference between USDA Zones 8 and 9 Ms. Grow-It-All ® salt, making it a good tree for coastal gardens. can be the difference between a light frost Other palms to consider are Washington and a hard freeze. Proximity to the coast is palm (Washingtonia robusta), also known as another factor, because it gets colder inland the Mexican fan palm and the petticoat palm; Windmill than it does along the shore. palm (Trachycarpus fortunei); Pindo palm (Butia capitata); If you’re willing to dig up your tropical plants every and Lady palm (Rhapis excelsa). Most palms require sunfall and store them over our usually brief and mild winlight, but Bamboo palm (Chamaedorea micrspadix) requires ters in a greenhouse or other protective structure, you shade. Depending on the microclimates in your yard, you can add any tropical plants you desire to your landscape. might be able to grow a Canary Island date palm (Phoenix And some people are willing to do that. For most of us, canariensis), which requires sun and is hardy in Zone 9A though, that’s more work than we care to commit to. and farther south.

Instead, we treat tropical plants like annuals, replacing Most palm trees are fairly slow growing, so buy the largest them every spring. Or we plant one or two in large pots tree you can afford, and be prepared to spend some money. and haul the pots inside for the cold season. Decorative An 8- to 10-foot palm can cost several hundred dollars. pots filled with Chinese hibiscus look great on a patio, Other trees to consider are loquats, also known as and they’re relatively easy to stash in a corner of the Japanese plum trees, and citrus trees. Loquats do fine in garage for winter — or you could bring them indoors. our area, but young citrus need to be protected the first Just make sure you give any plant you’re bringing inside two or three years they’re in the ground, even if they ultia good rinse with the garden hose first, so you don’t bring mately will be cold-hardy when established. any insects along.

Q: I’d like to give my yard a tropical look and feel, but I don’t know which plants will survive our North Florida winters. What do you suggest?

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To give your yard a lush atmosphere, select green perennials such as giant split-leaf philodendron (Philodendron selloum), which needs to be in a protected area, and Swiss cheese plant (Monstera deliciosa), with its large rounded leaves punctuated by holes, hence its common name. Both are shade plants that will die back in winter but return in spring if heavily mulched. The same is true for most banana plants.

Many people find the dead foliage of banana plants July and unappealing, but don’t August cut it until new growth in the Garden starts in spring, because it protects the plant. If you » Taking care of the gardener is really hate the sight of the as important as taking care of the brown stalks, put it in an garden this time of year. Do garout-of-the-way location as den and yard chores early in the a background plant. morning to avoid the heat. Wear Other tropical-looking a hat, use sunscreen and drink perennials that do well in lots of water to stay hydrated. most North Florida yards » Apply a final dose of fertilare coontie (Zamia), eleizer for the year to citrus trees. phant ears (Alocasia and Fertilizing after August encourColocasia) and various plants ages new growth, which could commonly called gingers be susceptible to early frosts and but are members of differfreezes in October. ent botanical families. These » Cut back leggy growth on include butterfly gingers annuals such as impatiens and (Hedychium spp.), peacock begonias to encourage bushy gingers (Kaempferia spp.) new growth; fertilize lightly. and shell ginger (Alpinia » Pinch back chrysanthezerumbet), as well as culinary mums and other fall-blooming ginger (Zingiber officinale). perennials.

Make sure you mulch your gingers well. Bouganvillea » Remove suckers from tomato (Bouganvillea spp), the thorny plants and plant in sterile tropical climbing vine with potting soil. They should have bountiful flowers, needs winestablished roots and be ready to transplant into the garden in ter protection but if planted September. in the right spot, it will perform as a perennial. » Plant broccoli, collards, turnips Bird of Paradise (Strelitzia and other fall crops in late reginae) is a beautiful plant August. that adds color to a tropical yard, but you’ll have to bring it inside over the winter. Bird of Paradise can take temperatures in the upper 20s, but its flower buds will be killed.

Ti plant (Cordyline) and Croton (Croton linearis) provide lots of color, but neither can take a freeze. Both are fairly inexpensive, so treat them as annuals and replace each spring. n ©2013 PostScript Publishing, all rights reserved. Audrey Post is a certified Advanced Master Gardener volunteer with the University of Florida/ IFAS Extension in Leon County. Email her at Questions@MsGrowItAll. com or visit her website at msgrowitall.com. Ms. Grow-It-All® is a registered trademark of PostScript Publishing.

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Hope for the Brain Injured After Tragedy, Treatment and Therapies Lead to a Renewed Spirit and Perspective

By Marc Rutledge

For Tallahassee native Shadrick “Shaggy” Lindsey, life has taken on new meaning. He’s more outgoing, more outspoken, and more appreciative of people and opportunities life presents him every day. He was always a friendly, happy guy, but an unfortunate incident on the evening of May 5, 2012 started a series of events that gave Lindsey a new perspective.

While returning home from a party for a family member, Lindsey was attacked and beaten by a group of young men.

He wasn’t robbed, but his attackers felt his “questionable” sexual orientation was enough provocation to prey upon him.

Lindsey was left unconscious, suffering a severe traumatic brain injury. Just a few days shy of his 25th birthday, Lindsey was rushed to the emergency room at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, where his prognosis for recovery was grim. His devoutly spiritual family, however, remained optimistic.

Nurse Lutheria Hollis recalls her initial encounter with Lindsey as “very touching.” “His family formed a prayer circle around Shaggy, doing everything they could to bring forth divine intervention and a miraculous recovery,” she said.

With his mother’s consent, Lindsey was enrolled in a clinical trial for an investigational treatment for TBI. The SyNAPSe study is testing an intravenous progesterone emulsion, intending to bring the first-ever TBI treatment to the marketplace. Progesterone, a steroid hormone known principally for its involvement in the female menstrual cycle and pregnancy, has neuroprotective properties and is produced in both the male and female brain. The trial itself is a five-day double-blind study, Dr. Christopher Rumana, the neurosurgeon who cared for Lindsey explained, meaning that neither patient nor doctor knows who is actually receiving the treatment (rather than a placebo).

“Upon his entry to our facility, we honestly did not feel the chances for Shadrick’s recovery were good,” said Rumana.

“We did, however, feel good that he was able to take part in the SyNAPSe trial. Shadrick’s positive mindset and fighting spirit were perhaps the difference between a partial recovery, and [his] full recovery. Lutheria and our staff did a great job of getting him into the trial and making sure he got all the care and support necessary.” Depending on the results of the trial, Rumana adds, this kind of treatment “could become the standard of care in the future” for head injuries.

After a couple of months of intense therapy — including physical, occupational and speech therapies — Lindsey returned home and has essentially resumed his life. But his perspective has definitely changed. “The time I spent in the hospital allowed me to see my life in a different light; to treasure every single day and moment, and pursue my goals and dreams with more passion,” said Lindsey. “I have started singing in my church’s praise group, enrolled in culinary school to become a chef and I’ve even begun taking ballroom dancing lessons. There’s so much that I want to do with my life, and I now realize that I can take nothing for granted. I [looked] forward to having a very happy birthday celebration this year.” // Laura Bradley contributed to this story.

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The DNA Dilemma Genetic Testing Offers Answers, But Should We Be Asking the Questions?

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By Laura Bradley Genetic testing is a relatively new, rapidly expanding medical field. It’s like something out of science fiction — a simple blood test or cheek swab can reveal genetic predispositions to diseases like cancer. With new technologies, inevitably, come misconceptions, opportunities and legal dilemmas.

Lea Parsley, medical director for the Clinical Genetics Center at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital and a professor at the Florida State University College of Medicine, explained that genetic testing provides crucial information about a patient’s genetic variations and predispositions that can allow a patient and doctor to plan more effective, targeted treatments.

There are two types of genetic variation: normal (which causes common differences like hair color) and abnormal (indicating a predisposition to various clinical genetic disorders). Abnormal variations, for example, affect patients’ abilities

to keep cancer from growing, making them more vulnerable. The subject was front-andcenter earlier this year when actress Angelina Jolie disclosed that she carried the BRCA1 gene, which she said gave her an 87 percent chance of developing breast cancer. Because of that grim statistic, she decided to undergo a preventive double mastectomy in February.

The more important story, though, could be that this type of genetic testing is not covered

by Medicaid or other insurance plans. “I have several patients who may harbor this gene and Medicaid won’t pay for it, which may mean a death sentence for them or their daughters, said Dr. Scott Tetreault, a medical oncologist with Florida Cancer Specialists.

For those who already have cancer, genetic testing can be a very beneficial part of the treatment plan. Genetic scans look for genetic signatures and markers, which can help

determine how to approach treatment through “molecular targeting.”

“Oncologists can obtain a genetic signature of particular markers for that particular tumor to more accurately define a treatment protocol,” Parsley explained.

Unfortunately, this technology is still not perfect. The most common misconception, Parsley notes, is that everyone can get answers from genetic testing. Many families, for instance, come in with children, hoping to learn why the youngsters are lagging behind their peers. “Twenty-five to 40 percent of the time, we find answers for genetic developmental delays. … We know more, but not everything,” she said. For the rest, the answers are still out there, waiting to be discovered as the technology is perfected. Luckily, Parsley notes, “The research is expanding exponentially each year.”

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»style Mind and Body With time and hard work, Parsley believes this field will deliver on its amazing potential. “We’re going to begin seeing better treatment plans for patients across the board,” she explained, adding that this will only happen with great collaboration and improved access to information for physicians and healthcare professionals, as well as medical schools.

“Most medical school curriculums are having to play catch-up to this rapidly moving information, as it will definitely impact how the students treat patients in the future,” she added.

Genetic testing has many great uses today; couples considering conception, for instance, can find out if they are carriers for any genetic diseases or predispositions that could affect their baby. Non-invasive prenatal genetic testing (NIPT) can also determine trisomies like Down’s syndrome, or sex chromosomal disorders like Turner’s syndromes in the mother’s womb.

The moral question becomes, “Just because we can know all of this information, does that mean we should?” For instance, if a pregnant mother’s baby has an unknown genetic variant, is it necessary or wise to let her know, without any idea of what the variant would cause? If a patient in his or her 20s has a genetic predisposition with a bleak outlook, for which there are no good

Most genetic testing is accompanied by counseling to educate patients about the nature of the information they will receive –— and to ensure that, whatever the results are, the patient will be prepared. treatments — such as Lou Gehrig’s disease or early onset Alzheimer’s disease — is life really improved by knowing?

This is why most genetic testing is accompanied by counseling to educate patients about the nature of the information they will receive — and to ensure that, whatever the results are, the patient will be prepared.

“The dilemmas occur in those (illnesses) that we don’t have good treatments for at this point,” said Parsley, adding that genetic counseling helps patients determine whether they really want answers, and also how the answers would impact their future healthcare decisions.

A final, broader concern is how genetic information can be accessed and used by people other than the patient — insurance companies and potential employers, for instance.

At the federal level, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) offers protections against discrimination in attaining individual and group health insurance based on genetic information, as well as discrimination in the workplace. But GINA does not address other forms of insurance like life insurance, long-term care insurance and disability insurance, rendering the protection incomplete for those with various negative genetic predispositions.

The 2013 Legislature considered a bill that would have prohibited “insurers from cancelling, limiting, denying coverage, or establishing differentials in premium rates, based on genetic information under certain circumstances” and “prohibiting insurers from requiring or soliciting genetic information … .” It died in committee in both the House and Senate. n

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A Crash Course The Thrill of Kiteboarding, the Agony of Learning How

By Scott Holstein // Photos by Gabriel Hanway I sit back in the water, knees at my chest, and quickly jam the board on my feet before the next wave hits. As I pull the control bar the giant crescent-shaped orange and black kite flying above me turns in response, diving quickly toward the water.

The kite’s power is transferred down the four lines to the harness around my waist and rips me up out of the water and onto the board. I zip over the swells, heading away from the beach at St. George Island and into deeper water as the kite pulls me along. For several moments, it’s just me, the water and the wind as I enjoy a peaceful but thrilling ride.

All too soon, my imperfect stance and balance get the best of me, and I accidentally lose the board and hit the water face-first. In the confusion of my wipeout, I lose control of the kite. It crashes into the water and a swell immediately swamps it, preventing me from re-launching in the light wind.

I steadily tug one of my lines while bobbing up and down in the Gulf in a futile attempt to force the kite back into the air. John Parsons, my kiteboarding mentor, glides past me. “You’re going to have to swim in; I’ll find your board!”

Frustrated, I roll over onto my back to keep free from my lines and gear and begin the painstakingly slow swim back to shore, dragging my waterlogged kite behind me. It’s the middle of winter, and I eventually crawl onto the empty beach, exhausted and thankful for the warmth of my wetsuit.

I’m a newbie to the sport of kiteboarding and in the months after my only official daylong lesson, I have been hanging out with Parsons, a seasoned kiter, anytime there is enough wind on the weekends to fly the kites.

I easily picked up the basics of flying the kite, but I have struggled from Day One to ride the board properly, likely due to my lack of experience with other board sports and an unusually calm winter full of windless weekends. My continual wipeouts have led me to dub what I do as “kitecrashing.”

And I’ve inadvertently mastered several of my own crash tricks, such as the flying-out-of-the-water “Mullet,” or my Scott Holstein takes on the surf with his favorite, the sinus-filling “Neti Pot.” Kiteboarding, also known as kite- twin tip Liquid Force surfing, isn’t new, but its popularity is “Edge” kite board. exploding. So much so that officials

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Basically, the sport’s main component is a special kite that pulls the rider through the water and can even lift the rider into the air. Lines run from the kite to the harness around the rider’s waist, and the rider controls the kite with a control bar attached to the lines. The most common type of board — the twin-tip board, which is similar to a wakeboard — can be ridden in either direction. There are several different styles of kiteboarding, including races over a course similar to yacht racing, airborne tricks and wave riding.

Although considered an extreme sport, modern kiting equipment utilizes safety features that minimize the risks. Just about anyone in moderate shape with decent balance and coordination can learn to kite. But it’s not cheap. A complete set of gear can cost upwards of $2,000.

Kiteboarding, also known as kitesurfing, isn’t new, but its popularity is exploding. So much so that officials considered adding it to the sporting lineup of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janero.

It doesn’t require a lot of strength; the power of the kite is held by the harness, not the rider’s arms. I imagine having a background in board sports may help with the learning curve. Those with flexible schedules who can kite anytime the wind is blowing will get in more time on the water than those who can only go on the occasional windy weekend.

The first step into the sport of kiteboarding is to take lessons from a professional instructor, costing around $100 per hour. If you’re unsure it’s something you would be interested in, stop by a coastal shop to learn a bit more about the sport to help you decide if it’s for you. Florida State University has had a kiteboarding and kitesurfing club for more than 10 years.

Only students can use the club’s equipment, but others are invited to join them during their forays to the beach.

Whether you pick it up immediately, or (like me) it takes you a little longer, kiteboarding is an exciting and challenging venture. So take lessons, grab your gear and meet me at the beach. I’ll be practicing my new kitecrashing trick, the “ostrich.” n

Appropriately named “Envy,” Holstein’s 15-meter Liquid Force kite allows him to safely surf in winds up to 20 m.p.h.

Holstein (above) is up and ready for a ride.

(Right) After some “water boarding” lessons Holstein is finally victorious and sails across the surf with his instructor/buddy John Parsons.

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In the Neighborhood

All statistics listed below pertain to sales in March 2013 and are provided by the Tallahassee Board of Realtors, Florida Realtor magazine and the National Association of Realtors.

LEON COUNTY

Leon County closed 196 singlefamily home sales — 48 of them paid in cash. 142 were traditional sales, 37 were foreclosures and 17 were short sales.

On average, Leon County’s closed single-family home sales received 92.9 percent of their original list price.

The median sale price for singlefamily homes in Leon County was $180,200 – a 2 percent decrease over last March.

Single-family home inventory (active listings) in Leon County dropped by 10.3 percent between March 2012 and 2013.

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By Laura Bradley In the 1970s and ’80s, cities nationwide began to embrace the suburban trend, with subdivisions and shopping malls cropping up left and right. This trend began to drain downtowns, previously centers of commerce and social gatherings. Tallahassee’s downtown was no exception. While it is a central hub for associations, attorneys and lawmakers, Tallahassee’s downtown has not been an area with great residential or retail concentration in the past couple decades. Now, however, that is beginning to change.

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Jay Revell, executive director for the Tallahassee Downtown Improvement Authority, explains that recently our downtown has begun a renaissance. As closeby areas like All Saints, Gaines Street and CollegeTown have begun to develop into residential and retail centers, the area we can call “downtown” has expanded.

“We have never truly had an urban option for living, and what you are seeing today is the foundation for that urban option. What it’s more about is what part of downtown you identify yourself with. continued on page 88

On average, Florida’s closed single-family home sales received 93 percent of their original list price.

The median sale price for singlefamily homes in Florida was $160,000 — a 15.2 percent increase over last March.

Single-family home inventory (active listings) in Florida dropped by 26 percent between March 2012 and 2013.

NATIONAL

Nationally, total housing inventory increased 1.6 percent to 1.93 million existing homes The national median existinghome price for all housing types was $184,300 — 11.8 percent higher than a year before.

The national median time on the market for all homes was 62 days.

Scott Holstein (All Saints and Plaza Tower), Leon County Tourism Development – STEVE BEAUDET (Andrew’s)

Florida closed 19,631 singlefamily home sales — 9,497 of them were paid in cash. 13,285 were traditional sales, 3,217 were foreclosures and 3,129 were short sales.

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Built in 2001, this home is full of traditional Southern charm, with plenty of land so you can spread out and enjoy the golf course frontage. The home’s interior boasts the same sophistication, with a warm neutral palette and high-end touches sure to impress potential buyers as much as the exterior and location.

“1176 Greensward is situated at the end of a cul-de-sac street making the location one of the most desirable features of this home,” said listing agent Gary Bartlett, adding that the manicured landscape and golf course frontage make the property even more attractive. With a brick exterior and well-maintained hedges lining the home’s facade, the house has definite curb appeal.

Inside, touches of elegance including high ceilings, gleaming hardwood floors, a gourmet kitchen with granite countertops and stainless steel appliances, and crown molding throughout combine with a gorgeous open floor plan, making the house appealing and move-in ready.

With 3,084 square feet, four bedrooms, three bathrooms, formal dining room, separate office space and spacious family room, families will feel at home with plenty of room for everyone to spread out. The house sits on one acre of generous, grassy property, making it perfect for children to play outside.

“It is easy to understand why this home was only on the market for less than a week and received multiple offers in a few days,” said Bartlett. While it has not yet sold, we are willing to guess this property won’t spend too long on the market.

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In our last issue, we featured a home that sold in only three days. This was not a one-time occurrence, as this issue’s single-family detached home proves in Midtown. The Naumann Group had the fivebedroom, three-and-a-half-bath home listed for only three days before it attracted a sales contract.

Listing agent Jason Naumann, with Naumann Real Estate Group, points out that this sale represents a larger trend of people moving back toward the city center, which makes good, quick sales like this more common. “There is such a push for people to move back into town, and this is just one small example of the outstanding demand,” he explained.

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This all-brick house is located in Los Robles, with architecture dating back to the early 1920s. The owners sold this home to move to another historic home in the same neighborhood.

The location was not the house’s only selling point. After purchasing the property for $565,000 five years ago, the previous owners completely renovated and remodeled the entire home, inside and out. They opened the kitchen to the living room and added a custom butcher-block walnut island, stainless steel appliances, custom cabinetry and soapstone countertops. In addition to renovating the guest bathrooms, the young homeowners also converted the house’s existing attic Quick Look space into two bedroom suites with a large custom bathroom and an incredible shared Address: 1574 living space for the children. Additionally, Cristobal Drive they put a new roof on the house, added Listed: $779,000 new HVAC units and re-landscaped the fenced yard, gaining usable space for a Sold For: $720,000 garden and adding a beautiful outdoor Square feet: 4,189 living area.

“The owners stayed true to the historic Bedrooms: 5 architecture and went above and beyond Bathrooms: 3.5 to ensure the highest quality construction details to carry on the tradition,” Naumann explained. This careful renovation, he added, played a huge part in the house’s quick sale. Other details, such as the owners’ suite fireplace, arch details and a wall of windows, add to the classic, elegant feel of the house.

“In my opinion, the home sold so quickly due to a combination of these factors: the location, the condition and the incredible renovations that were done by the homeowners,” said Naumann.

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In addition to the full furnishing and designer details, all but one room enjoy gorgeous views of the Gulf.

The Crossings, a private gated community at WaterSound Beach, offers the perfect resort amenities to complement the luxurious atmosphere of the condo’s interior. Nature lovers will love the stretch of exclusive beach, in addition to the copious boardwalk and nature trail paths. For additional entertainment, there are multiple pools, restaurants, a mini golf park, a tennis court, and more, making this a perfect beach getaway for anyone in need of some good, old-fashioned rest and relaxation.

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Carrie Hess, mortgage banker with ▪ FHA: requires a 3.5 Capital City Bank, explained, “Prior to percent minimum down mortgage insurance, which is insurance payment covering lenders for the top portion of the ▪ VA (for veterans): reloan should a borrower default, borrowquires no down payment ers were required to put 20 percent down.

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Hess advised that larger down payments are still the better way to go, should borrowers have that option. If not, she pointed out that low rates do enable those with smaller savings to invest in a home.

“If a borrower has the luxury of putting 20 percent down, it is usually their best option,” she said. Considering today’s low rates, and since the market remains very close to bottom, it probably makes sense to buy now utilizing one of the low down payment options if they don’t have that 20 percent already in hand.”

Regardless of what mortgage package you go with, Hess stressed that it is crucial to work with your lender in a timely fashion, providing the necessary documentation required to meet the loan program deadlines.

“Conforming and government lending programs have very specific guidelines, which at times seem illogical, yet are seldom negotiable,” she explained. Getting the information in on time will ensure a smooth start to a lasting relationship between you and your lender.

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This house in one of Tallahassee’s oldest neighborhoods, Myers Park, was built in 1949. With three bedrooms and two bathrooms, the singlefamily home is located on 1075 Myers Park Drive.

It has more than doubled in value since the late ’80s, when it sold for $108,400. Located right by the park, this home is in one of the areas Revell suggests has grown to be informally included in Tallahassee’s downtown.

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That’s where I see the real opportunities for us to help nurture those individual district identities as a part of a greater downtown vision,” said Revell.

While officially downtown is 22 square blocks between Tennessee and Jefferson streets and Gadsden and Bronough streets, structures like Hotel Duval and the new Four Points by Sheraton Tallahassee have combined with these flowering neighborhoods to extend downtown’s unofficial boundaries. This expansion brings many residences, boutiques and restaurants into the fold, and it all means exciting growth for Tallahassee’s downtown.

Revell points out that in any city, downtown areas are all about providing a place where everyone can identify with the city and each other.

And Tallahassee’s downtown is a great melting pot; on any Friday night, patrons of a local downtown bar or restaurant can rub elbows with college students, families and professionals young and old.

“You see a really wide range of diverse cultural backgrounds and also age,” Revell explained. There is no one downtowner demographic. Some people who work downtown prefer to live there to avoid a commute, while some students either rent units or occupy units owned by their parents, and some retirees gravitate toward downtown for its walkability and convenience.

As residents begin to move back toward the city center, some might wonder what downtown area would best suit them. For those who want to be right in the middle of everything, there are three condominium buildings in the downtown center: the Tennyson building, Tallahassee Center and Plaza Tower. Popular nearby areas include Gaines Street, which is currently attracting large amounts of student-oriented development, and All Saints, which has become popular with young professionals because of its proximity to recreational activities and small local shops.

Regardless of which areas people prefer, Revell noted that downtown’s growth is undeniable. “When you look at the real estate development market, student and multi-family housing, which is urban living, is really driving [that] market. These new options for urban living are really happening here in Tallahassee at a faster rate than you’re seeing it in other places because we never had that option; now the option is being built out.”

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It’s Just Business

New Owner, New Showroom ▪ The local Chevrolet dealership, owned by NASCAR superstar Dale Earnhardt Jr., is now in the midst of a $5 million renovation.

The existing sales center building at 3127 W. Tennessee St. is being demolished and replaced with a new 21,000 square-foot showroom, due to be completed in early 2014.

The upgrade also includes adding 13 stalls to the service department, according to dealership General Manager Mike Futrell.

Major changes are also planned for a second dealership, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Buick GMC Cadillac, located at 1850 Capital Circle N.E. A nearly 4-acre grassy parcel has been purchased and is being paved and incorporated into the dealership. The 10-yearold main building will be undergoing major renovations, says General Manager Tim Moore, including additional service bays, finishing the second floor and “substantial” exterior changes as part of GM’s imaging program.

Earnhardt bought Tallahassee’s Chevy and Buick GMC Cadillac dealerships in August 2012, in partnership with Rick Hendrick, who owns the driver’s racing team. Hendrick also founded the Hendrick Automotive Group, which owns 87 dealerships nationwide.

Gaines Gains Ground ▪ The new-and-improved Gaines Street will be home to three mixed-use developments from two nationally recognized, Cincinnati-based development companies, North American Properties and Uptown Rental Properties. Dan Schimberg, president of Uptown Rental Properties, said, “The

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Permanent impact will be $17 million and 157 permanent jobs. The Deck will occupy the south corner of Gaines and Gay Streets; just to the west will be The Block, and at Woodward and St. Augustine the FSU Student Credit Union and Hillel will find their new homes.

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One of the things that struck us about this year’s group of 17 Top Singles was the mash-up of personality types. It was like watching a cast of video game characters: the debonair Hero, the crusading Warrior, the devastatingly beautiful Fembot … and so on.

So, we decided to cast them as just that, applying commonly used video game character types to each single’s personality as a way to introduce them to our readers. Then, each of the singles rated their skills from one to 10. From the nursing “Wizard” to the legal “Fighter,” these singles have it all: burgeoning careers, interesting hobbies, infectious personalities and active social lives.

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Starting at 7 p.m. on Sat., July 20 at Hotel Duval, our “characters” will be auctioned off in what has become one of the sexiest summer events in town. Food, drinks, music and more are the backdrop for this fun-loving event, now in its fourth year. And you have the chance to score a lunch date with one of our Top Singles for the beginning of what may be the ultimate love connection.

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7 Professional knife throwing

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8 Aggression

Running in stilettos

8 Open-mindedness

Age: 24 Charity: Leon County Humane Society Occupation: Reporter, WCTV A northern transplant with a Southern belle’s persona, Kara is a weekend news anchor for WCTV. Under the cascading waves of blonde hair and brilliant smile lies a heart of gold and a passion for her support system of family and friends and the animal-related causes that she champions.

Kara Duffy › Fembot

Age: 28 Charity: Kidz 1st Fund Occupation: Advertising Account Manager, The Zimmerman Agency Cole almost seems stealthy in his ability to charm and finesse just about any situation. Hailing from a prominent local family, Cole exudes Southern charm. From his career with the Zimmerman Agency to the inspired parenting of the 6-year-old daughter on whom he dotes, Cole stands out for his seemingly endless energy and commitment.

Cole Zimmerman › Ninja Persistence Decision-making Schmoozing Sword sharpening Back-flipping

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Jean Bates › Gladiator

Age: 39 Charity: The Animal Shelter Foundation Occupation: Owner, Lucy & Leo’s Cupcakery As the owner of a cupcake shop, Jean is well versed in what it takes to generate smiles. She’s currently president of the Midtown Merchants Association and is a willing participant in any number of local events and charitable efforts. Jean has an enduring energy that continues to propel her to greater success.

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Age: 32 Charity: Society Foundation Occupation: Co-founder, Doorstep Delivery A business warrior with a keen entrepreneurial sense, Daniel has tasted the fruits of success at an early age. The owner of a restaurant delivery outfit, Daniel understands the value of hard work and prides himself on staying grounded through close relationships with his family and friends.

Daniel Sinor › Warrior Stability Assertiveness Accounting Stunt driving Writing calligraphy

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Age: 27 Charity: Mercy Ministries Occupation: Asst. Director Sports Information/FSU Athletics Seminole spirit is not just Zach’s hobby or passion; it’s his career. As the agent of information for the FSU Athletics department, Zach gets to combine his innate love of sports with his expert skill in the communications realm.

Zach Stipe › Agent Communication School spirit

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Public speaking

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Spear throwing

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Morse code

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Meghan Kelly › Dragon Slayer Determination Teamwork Political positivity

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Dragon riding (if trained properly)

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One-hand clapping

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Age: 28 Charity: National Military Family Association Occupation: Chief Operating Officer, Lisa Miller & Associates A seasoned political insider, Meghan’s career entails marketing, research, accounting, event management and more. She is also a member of the Tallahassee Network of Young Professionals. Her infectious and fun-loving personality belies the determined personality within that spurs Meghan to reach any goal on which she has set her sights.

Age: 55 Charity: Cards for a Cure/Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Occupation: Director of Food and Beverage Operations, Hunter + Harp Hospitality A blend of city sophistication and Southern charm, Steve channels his dueling personalities into his role as VP of Restaurants for Hunter + Harp Hospitality properties, including Hotel Duval, Alchemy, Midtown Filling Station, Level 8 and The Front Porch. A community hero, Steve rarely says “no” when asked to participate in a philanthropic endeavor.

Steve Adams › Hero Enthusiasm Flexibility Cocktail mixing

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Jumping from building to building

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Whistling

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7 Taxidermy

Belly dancing

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3 Patience

Masterful mentoring

10++ Curiosity

Cydeon Trueblood › Adventurer Age: 42 Charity: Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Big Bend Occupation: Program Director, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Big Bend Cydeon takes inspired leadership to a new level. A homegrown Tallahasseean and FAMU graduate, Cydeon channels her sense of positivity and adventure into her interactions with community leaders and program volunteers in an effort to take the Big Brothers Big Sisters program to new heights.

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Pulling a rabbit out of a hat 1

Talkative 7

Litigation leading 10

Exuberance 7

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Doug Dolan › Magician Age: 37 Charity: Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation North Florida Chapter Occupation: Attorney By day, Doug is a skilled attorney with masterful skills in technique, research and legal knowledge. By night, he is a talented guitar player in the band The Flip Flop Boys. If it’s not music or law, Doug might be found fishing, sipping on Irish whiskey or taking in some Seminole football.

* It’s nearly impossible for a man to get a woman to say what he wants her to.

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Brian Bohm › Fighter 9

Friendly

8

Conscientious

Decisive Kung Fu (is infinity an option?)

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10

Human lie detector

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Age: 30 Charity: Boys & Girls Club Occupation: Attorney A social butterfly with a talented legal mind, Brian has fought his way out of the image of the typical attorney. He be-bops around in Converse tennis shoes, drives a Jeep Wrangler and nurtures his inner artist when he’s not busy prepping a case.

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Mentor Steve Evans’ Ethical and Business Advice Will Leave a Lasting Legacy in Tallahassee

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W

hen asked why he does what he does, Steve Evans harkens back to a night in the early 2000s, when he boarded a red eye in San Francisco on one of the 300 or so days a year he traveled as an IBM executive.

Another manager from the global technology behemoth’s planning department was on the same flight, so they sat together and began to talk shop. Evans, then 55 years old, recalls asking about the future of IBM’s pension plan, because many of his coworkers were nearing retirement age. The manager, Evans said, told him based on the demographics of IBM’s worker population, the average person who works long enough will only collect a pension for five years before dying.

Throughout the flight to New York his thoughts were “like an old 1920s movie reel in reverse.” Congratulating friends who were retiring, ready to attack their bucket lists, only to hear that a few months or years later this one had developed cancer, or that one died of a heart attack or someone’s wife was killed in a car accident.

“That was a revelation for me. That long flight back,” he said. “So when the time came for me that I could retire, I made a decision that I wanted to. I knew that I’m not the kind of person going out and playing golf every day or fishing. I’m not a stay-at-home, watch-TV kind of guy; but there’s that peace of mind that knew not to worry about it.”

He retired in 2003 at age 57. And Tallahassee has never been the same.

Now, most mornings you’ll find Evans ensconced in the middle of Tally’s Grill, dressed in business casual; the No. 12 breakfast (oatmeal, egg whites, bacon, fruit and coffee) placed in front of him by a server who knows his regular order by heart.

Across from him will be a business owner, nonprofit leader, local politician, up-andcomer, job seeker or a kid with a newly minted college degree listening to the words of what one member of his fan club calls “the wise man on the mountain.”

For a decade now, Evans has shared his wisdom with legions of Tallahasseans, sometimes as a paid consultant, but much more often for nothing other than his personal satisfaction. An aficionado of the “dashboard” — his term for the place where goals are visible and people are held accountable for reaching them — at the end of every year, Evans adds up the number of people he’s mentored. Last year the annual total was about 100 people from ages 18 to 80.

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Evans’ career with IBM began serendipitously in 1973. He was a pitcher working his way around Scenes from a breakfast the St. Louis Cardinals and its farm teams when consultation session at Tally’s Grill between a manager asked for a volunteer to speak at a local mentor Steve Evans and Exchange Club. Evans volunteered, mostly for a business owner. the free lunch, and was approached by a person who asked if he might consider a post-baseball career at IBM. (An aside: This illustrates some of Evans’ most oft-repeated advice: network. “It’s all about connection, I tell people … it’s all about networking,” he said. “You’re not going to make this next step by sitting at home and looking at the Internet. The only way you’re going to get engaged and sharpen up your resume is to start networking. The worst thing you can do is sit at home in front of that computer. You’ll never find anything. People find careers, they find changes in jobs, they find opportunities

by knowing people, by sitting down and having lunch with people.”)

Evans began in sales at IBM during the offseason. When his next season’s contract arrived and he had to decide between baseball and his new company, “it was really no decision at all because I absolutely loved (IBM),” he said. “I found that the teamwork, the camaraderie, the competitive spirit was identical to … what you had in athletics.”

He would work in sales for the next six years, move into marketing management and then hopscotch around the U.S. while moving up to the inner circles of the highest levels of management at IBM. He was onboard during IBM’s greatest times of challenge and change in the early ’90s, when the stock nosedived and the word “dinosaur” was often used to describe the technology company. “During that period of time we made a dramatic shift from a company that sold boxes and technology solutions to a company that really focused on services,” he said. “We went basically from a very small services company that wasn’t even in the Top 10 to No. 1 in the world over the course of the next 10 years.”

Through that painful “reengineering” process, Evans said he learned a lesson that still resonates today for businesses and individuals: “Change or die. As I look back on it, we were probably at the front end of a lot of changes that had to go on,” he said. “The greatest lesson I learned out of all this was the need to consistently reengineer yourself to stay competitive — the need to have skills that can take you into the future, not just satisfy the needs of today.”

Evans came to Tallahassee from Atlanta in 1986, with just a few hours notice to head up IBM’s state government operations in Florida.

He was underwhelmed by the city’s airport, at the time a cement block building with two gates and no jetways. “I’ve done a lot of flying, but I had never in my life walked down to the tarmac,” he said. “I remember thinking, this is the capital of the state of Florida?”

Despite that inauspicious beginning, Evans and his family came to enjoy living here, enough so that when it was time to move back to one of IBM’s headquarters for his next promotion, he opted to stay in Tallahassee and “commute” — hence the 300 travel days per year.

Keeping the home fires burning during all those travel days was his wife of 39 years, Linda, who was a schoolteacher when she

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met Evans on a blind date while he was near the end of his baseball career playing for the Double A Arkansas Travelers.

The schedule during that time was for Steve to be gone during the week while Linda stayed home with their then school-aged children, she said. Those children include a son, Chip (actually Steven Jr.), 36, who is recently married, a Navy SEAL and currently working at the Pentagon. Their daughter, 33-year-old Stephanie, recently moved back to Tallahassee with her husband and two preschool-age children. “She’s the one that at 18 couldn’t wait to get out of the house, and the last five years all she’s wanted to do is get closer to home,” said Linda Evans with a smile.

“Even though he traveled a majority of the year, if Chip or Stephanie had an event or a recognition, his secretary would make certain he was on a plane to come home, because that was what he would want,” she said.

The attention her husband gives to the business community was also shared with his family.

“He is so wise, and everyone seems to seek his counsel. He’s always been a fixer. If you come to him with something, he’s going to find a way to try fix it if it can

be fixed,” she said. “He’s that way with all of us. I would say Steve is my best friend. We have similar interests. He’ll go shopping with me, we go out together, we do a lot of things together.”

The family certainly vacations together. Every summer they spend time on Michigan’s Mackinac Island and are now including the youngest members on this annual sojourn. “Mackinac will take you 100 years back in time,” he said.

“There are no motorized vehicles on the island; the only way you can get there is by boat. And when you get off, there are horses and carriages waiting to get you to your bed and breakfast.”

An alumnus of the University of Michigan, Evans is a Wolverine fan, according to his wife. And a history buff. “He’s a voracious reader and he just loves history. We both do,” she said. “The poor kids’ summer trips included Civil War sites from Georgia all the way up to Gettysburg.”

When she was 42, Linda Evans went to FSU and earned a Master’s of Social Work degree. She is wrapping up a career as a social worker in the Leon County school system.

Steve Evans sat on the boards of several businesses and nonprofits during his working years, including Florida TaxWatch, where he has served for the better part of two decades. In the process, he became a mentor and friend to President and CEO Dominic Calabro, who unabashedly sings Evans’ praises.

“Because of his extraordinary training, I call him the six-million-dollar man,” Calabro said. “He’s helped me become a better president.”

Evans has served on the Greater Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce’s executive committee for several years and was honored with their Servant Leadership award in 2005. Chamber President and CEO Sue Dick explained

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“He is so wise, and everyone seems to seek his counsel. He’s always been a fixer. If you come to him with something, he’s going to find a way to try fix it if it can be fixed.” — Linda Evans

the unique and practical talents he has offered over the years: “With his corporate background he provides an excellent perspective not just from a vision/strategy (perspective),” she said. “He offers specific tactics to obtaining your goals. He also brings with him knowledge from the market. He brings his corporate experience along with the strategic thought process (for) how to move forward.”

But Evans’ greatest gifts transcend his business acumen, according to Calabro.

“His understanding of human nature is second to none,” Calabro said. “He’s not out to sell you his services, he’s out there to do the best for you and the community. Almost always you cannot help but take his advice.

He has right and proper intentions (and his suggestions are) always well thought out.

His reach is much farther than Tallahassee.

He’s also pretty endearing … a very, very gracious soul.”

Lee Hinkle was able to convince Evans to set aside his retirement and serve as interim director of The Florida State University Foundation for a critical year of transition in 2009. “He is smart, he is ethical, he’s just got almost an intuitive judgment about people,” she said. “He is able to read people really quickly and really accurately. He is very good at getting people to do things that they’re good at. He’s a very creative and motivating individual.”

Another FSU entity that benefits from Evans’ expertise is the College of Business’ Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship.

“He saw what the Jim Moran Institute was, which is great, and what it could be, which is even better,” says College of Business Dean Caryn Beck-Dudley.

“Steve sat on our board and has been instrumental in helping frame a vision of the JMI to be not just a leader in the 850 region, but really a leader in the world in training students in entrepreneurship.”

He’s helped students become entrepreneurs and was instrumental in launching an entrepreneur “bootcamp” that helps about two dozen disabled veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan launch businesses each year, she said.

“If you look at where entrepreneurship was even five or six years ago in Tallahassee and where it is now, a lot of that is through Steve’s connections (and his) ability to connect the dots and connect people and ideas together,” she said. “He brings all of those years at IBM, great leadership, as well as a great knowledge of Tallahassee and Florida.”

Community leader Marjorie Turnbull mentions the literal takeaways she gets from meetings with Evans. “We’ll start talking about something, and he’ll take the placemat or a napkin and begin writing and drawing, outlining approaches and jotting down questions to be asked,” she said. “I’ll just take it home.”

While he’s LinkedIn to every mover and shaker in the area, Evans is not particularly high profile in the broader community. And that’s no accident. Almost to a person, one of the appellations most often applied to him is “humble.”

Steve Evans and his family, Linda, Stephanie and Chip (opposite page, top) in 1986, the year he was transferred to Tallahassee by IBM. He had a career as a pro baseball pitcher (opposite page, bottom) in the St. Louis Cardinals’ organization before joining the business giant. While he enjoys traveling to exotic locales such as Egypt (this page, bottom), Evans and his family return to Michigan’s Mackinac Island every summer for a vacation.

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What Steve Says In the course of a far-ranging conversation, retired businessman and mentor Steve Evans shared advice and observations about life at work and in the larger world. Here are a few of his selected comments: On older workers

More and more, companies are looking for the older worker because they bring something they are not finding in the younger worker — work ethic — and they are great team players.

On younger workers

I have a tremendous amount of faith and hope for this generation, I really do. This generation is coming out with more skills and more knowledge than any generation we’ve ever had.

I’m talking about technical skills, critical thinking skills, but they’re coming out with something we’ve not had in several generations and it’s a commitment for some type of social change.

These kids … all want to make a difference, some kind of societal difference. They’re not so much committed to companies as much as they are in using their skills to make a change.

On being practical

People come to me with inventions and say, “Steve, if IBM will just invest a million dollars you guys will control the middle ware market.”

I learned to ask one question: “Did you ever sell one?”

On technology

Technology is having an impact on every aspect of life. It’s no longer what state you live in or what country; you’re competing with people all over the world every day.

On being a good manager

On life balance

On counseling people who have lost a job

On life

It’s not about numbers, it’s about people. I don’t care how complex the industry is, how tough the political climate is, when it’s all said and done, it’s all about people. If they don’t sense you can do miraculous things, if they think it’s all about numbers (and) what you’ve done for me today, then all your gains are short term.

Sometimes they just need an arm around the shoulder, other times they need a kick in the rear. But every time you do it, you do it with a lot of respect.

On creating business plans

What I’ve often found is that you can over study something. Nine times out of 10, if you get the right people and you really get down to a point of honesty and integrity, your gut instinct really tells you what the right thing is to do. Especially if your focus is really clear, it’s not that tough to do.

On who he invited to create a new plan for a division of IBM Crusty people I knew did not want to change.

Those are the people you want to have. If you’re really going to transform something, you have to see who gets it and who doesn’t and eventually deal with it.

I ask people: “How many funerals have you been to? How many times have you heard somebody get up and talk about how much money they had?” Zero. If anything, what you enjoy and appreciate hearing is the difference that person made in their life. That you remember.

(Retirees) work through the bucket list in about three months. They’ve bought the boat, they’ve done the fishing, they’ve played all the golf they can play. They’ve taken the trips, and all of a sudden they wake up one day and … there’s an old Peggy Lee song — “Is that all there is?” I use that so many times when I mentor people. One day everybody wakes up and they think, “Is this all there is to life? There’s got to be something more.”

On things you’re not good at

I hated to speak in front of people. You force yourself to work through your weaknesses.

Over the years I had to work on it. Still do.

On work skills

Do you have the right skills to take it to the next level? Can we reengineer those skills; or do we need to basically go back to the well and acquire those skills?

Steve Evans’ Ongoing Community Involvement

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Fall 2004–Present Applied Fiber Holdings, Board of Directors

Fall 2005–Present Greater Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce, Board of Directors and Executive Committee; and Florida State University’s Jim Moran Institute of Global Entrepreneurship, Board of Directors

Fall 2006–Fall 2012 Community Foundation of North Florida, Board of Directors and Executive Committee

“He’s not out there for the glory, he wants to help people, he really wants to,” said Randy Nicklaus, chief executive officer for the nonprofit 211 Big Bend.

When Rick Kearney, CEO of Mainline Information Systems, was honored as a business leader by the Tallahassee Chamber, one of the people he thanked by name was Evans.

“I relied on him quite a bit for advice and counsel,” said Kearney, who had worked for IBM himself for five years in the early ’80s and started Mainline in 1988 when he was in his late 20s. “He was really a business mentor to me during the early years of our business. When you’re young in age and business experience, you don’t always know the right choices. He was always right on the money as far as what to do.”

While he was still working for IBM, Evans invited Kearney to invest “in a big way” as an IBM business partner and it has paid off with a company now one of IBM’s top partners in the world.

“Steve not only provided me good business advice, but he provided good ethical advice,” said Kearney. “When you’re young and growing a company … you see your competitors doing things that (make) you wonder, ‘Well, should I do that?’”

As an example, Kearney talked about price wars in Mainline’s early days, when companies would “swoop in at the last minute” and make lowball bids “to make the competitor look bad” and seal a deal.

“Steve said ‘Look, first of all you wouldn’t want to do something that you wouldn’t want somebody to do to you and, secondly, that’s no way to start a customer relationship. Spend your time focusing on doing the right thing in the right way, and you’ll reap long-term dividends both to your employees and your customers.’”

Evans’ effect on the region is large and lasting, his proponents say.

“When you look at communities and you try and match where their success or … the turning point or where some real opportunities were had, oftentimes it points to a specific event or a specific leader,” said Chamber executive Dick. “In this case, we’re going to … realize a lot of opportunities moved forward because of Steve’s willingness to get involved and really give of his time — for nothing more than to advance the overall community.” n

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Spring 2008–Present Prime Meridian Bank, Board of Directors

August 2009– September 2010 Florida State University Foundation (Interim President)

Spring 2010–Present Municipal Code Corporation, Board of Directors

Spring 2012–Present Leon County Sales Tax Committee, Chairman

Fall 2012–Present Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Foundation, Board of Directors

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BUSINESS AND EDUCATION BACKGROUND? Thomas earned his B.S. degree from Florida State University and his D.V.M. from Auburn University. Lucas earned his B.S. degree from FSU and his D.V.M. degree from University of Florida.

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Dr. Simmons and wife, Lindi enjoy their large family of boys, John, Sam and Jack and their dogs, Ellie Mae, Kat and Lola, and feline family member, Tex. After earning a bachelor’s degree from Georgia and his doctorate from Auburn, he became sole owner of NFAH in 1988 and proceeded to add great veterinarians, staff and square footage to make the hospital what it is today. Dr. Simmons is an eagle scout who has shown his interest and devotion to the Tallahassee community by serving on many boards over the past 25 years.

Those include the Animal Shelter Control Board, FL Board of Veterinary Medicine, Christ Presbyterian Church, Be the Solution and Tall Timbers. He is also a member of several veterinary associations such as BBVMA, FVMA, and AVMA. Though his area of interest is orthopedic surgery, he is instrumental in the mentoring of staff in medicine as well as client service.

Dr. Fullerton and wife Christina moved to Tallahassee in 1990 upon graduation from Auburn University.

Both had grown up in California and attended California Polytechnic University at Pomona as undergrads.

They have a daughter, Cara, a recent graduate of Rice University and son George, who will graduate from the University of Georgia this year.

Their empty nest children include a 13 year old Labrador retriever; a shelter adopted geriatric terrier, a 3 year old English cocker and “Took”, a feral rescue cat. For leisure, Dr. Fullerton enjoys traveling to visit family and friends while looking for any opportunity to squeeze in his favorite hobby, fishing. He is a member of Tall Timbers, CCA, IFGA, AVMA, FVMA and former president, vice president, secretary and treasurer of our local Big Bend Veterinary Medical Association. While Dr. Fullerton’s medical interests include spinal surgery, orthopedic surgery and computed tomography (CT) diagnostics, he also truly enjoys the time spent in the exam room discussing a pet’s health with the client.

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Dr. Hagood and wife Hallie have three children, Hannah, L.T. and Hank and are licensed foster parents for the State of Florida.

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Dr. Hagood owned and operated a veterinary practice in Alabama, and worked with the Alabama State Veterinarian’s Office while earning his master’s degree in pathobiology and epidemiology prior to joining the practice. Serving on the Animal Service Center Board, ALVMA executive committee, the Auburn College of Veterinary Medicine Advisory Council and all offices of the BBVMA are just a few of the ways he has served in the community. He is an elder at Wildwood Presbyterian Church and a hard working booster for Chiles Timberwolves Baseball.

Dr. Hagood enjoys camping, riding horses, and being outdoors with his family. His medical interests include diagnostic ultrasound and oncology and he currently serves as medical director of the hospital.

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have a very active household of four young children, the twins, Hannah & Emma, boys, Seth and Sawyer and three 4 legged children. On his days off, Dr. Burkhead enjoys spending time with his family whether it’s homework with the kids, woodworking, fishing, boating, or camping. A graduate of Auburn University, he is a member of AVMA and FVMA where he has served on the Budget & Finance committee, BBVMA as past President and Vice President, Tallahassee Young Entrepreneurs Club and Deacon for Meridian Woods Church of Christ. He enjoys giving back to the community by volunteering for Father Flannigan’s Boys Town of North Florida, where he is current Chairman of the Board. He is our expert on diagnostic ultrasound and endoscopy cases with a special interest in upper airway surgery.

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Tragedy struck in Cairo, Ga., when two teacup poodles were accidently hit by a car. Of the two, only “Lilly” would survive the accident.

Although very much alive, Lilly suffered a severe vertebral fracture in her back leaving her paralyzed. Lilly was expertly cared for by her regular veterinarian until she was stable enough to be transported to North Florida Animal Hospital for assessment, a CT scan, and if possible, reduction and stabilization of the fractured vertebra.

We chose to perform a CT on Lilly because of its superiority to X-rays in allowing us to examine areas of the body in three dimensions. In this particular case the CT allowed us to evaluate the vertebral fracture’s length, angle, amount of displacement and other factors that would determine the best method of fixation.

Lilly was then immediately taken to surgery where the vertebral fragments were put back in place, a bone graft was added and the area stabilized by a spinal staple which combines rods and wire to rigidly maintain fracture reduction.

Lilly was heavily sedated for the first few days post operatively, but as these medications were tapered it became obvious that neurologic function was already improving. Lilly went home after four days where the dedicated care that she received by her owner proved to be key to her successful recovery.

Christy Valentine, D.V.M.

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Margaret S. Hankley, D.V.M.

Best Veterinary Clinic 7 years in a row

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Pets & Vets PROFILES

“Our goal is to provide exceptional specialty care partnered with family veterinarians to ensure the best possible outcome for pets with complex medical and surgical disease.”

Kevin A. Drygas, DVM, Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons

Mark C. Walker, BVSc, Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine

Board Certified Veterinary Surgeon, Capital Veterinary Specialists

Board Certified Veterinary Internist, Capital Veterinary Specialists

WHAT SERVICES DO YOU PROVIDE? We provide all forms of veterinary surgical therapy including elective orthopedic (ACL repair) procedures, complex fracture repair, minimally invasive surgery (arthroscopy and laparoscopy), cancer surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, reconstructive surgery and neurological surgery.

WHAT SERVICES DO YOU PROVIDE? We provide advanced imaging, diagnostics and innovative treatments for complex medical diseases in dogs and cats. My areas of specialty are veterinary internal medicine, cardiology and oncology.

WHO ARE YOUR CLIENTS (WHO DO YOU CATER TO)?

The pet owning population of North West Florida and Southern Georgia spanning from Amelia Island, Fla. to Panama City, Fla. and from Gainesville, Fla. to Valdosta, Ga. Business and Education Background Four years of veterinary school at University of Florida, a general surgery and medicine internship at Alameda East Animal Hospital, Denver, Co., and a three year surgical residency followed by an examination from American College of Veterinary Surgeons.

How long has Capital Veterinary Specialists been in Tallahassee?

We opened our doors for business in August 2012 and have been enjoying Tallahassee and the pet owning community ever since!

How would you describe your business and practice philosophy?

Our business philosophy is simple — treat people fairly and how we would like to be treated if we were in their position. Our practice philosophy is also simple — we regard every dog and cat that comes through our doors as if it were our own, offer the best veterinary surgery available and communicate with owners and referring veterinarians all along the way.

WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TALLAHASSEE AS A PLACE TO WORK? We discovered a need for specialist care in the area from a close working relationship that we developed with the community veterinarians from this region.

HOW, WHEN AND WHY DID YOU GET INTO THIS PROFESSION? I have always had a strong passion for animals and a commitment to the preservation of animal life.

DESCRIBE ANY NEW PRACTICES/TECHNOLOGIES IN YOUR PRACTICE Advanced ultrasonography, arthroscopy, laparoscopy, bronchoscopy, rhinoscopy, cystoscopy, endoscopy, cardiography, CT imaging and MRI imaging Business and Education Background Awards, honors, recognition: BVSc 1990, MACVSc 1996, Small Animal Chapter Prize 1996 (Internal Medicine), DACVIM 1998. Recipient of over $700,000 NIH research grants (2001-2004) The Florida Veterinary Medical Association, Certificate for Patient Care, Continuing Education and Ethical Code, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012, Florida Veterinary Medical Association Gold Star Award, for service to veterinary medicine in the State of Florida, 2007.

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Elegance After Decades of Themed Weddings and Over-the-top Receptions, Classy is Making a Comeback

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“The more mature a bride is, the less likely she is to over-adorn the place.”

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Karla Savery and Andy Mars (shown on page 121) chose Pebble Hill Plantation as the backdrop for their elegant Southern-style wedding (above and right). Savannah (below, far right) was the venue for the 2011 wedding of Diana and Vincent Gillen.

Photos by Justin Demutiis, running bride photo by Terri Smith Photo

his season’s avant-garde wedding is all about grace, lace and lots of leisure. Experts say elements of vintage romanticism and a sense of comfortable refinement are beginning to sink in with many of Tallahassee’s betrothed, coming to life in all aspects of the planning process, from décor to delectables.

The cornerstone of this up-and-coming look is effortless glamor and remembering that, sometimes, less really can be more. It’s a style that complements the natural elements of Tallahassee’s terrain as well as the laidback demeanor of its inhabitants.

In other words, it’s absolutely elegant. And according to local wedding professionals, that’s a style that always translates well into future trends.

“I think that you can have a classic wedding, that you look back in 10, 20, 30 years, and it looks timeless,” said John Gandy of John Gandy Events. “And I think that’s what a lot of brides are going for right now.”

Things haven’t always been so simple. The switch to classic from quirky came right around the time the U.S. economy went belly-up, taking all expenditures of lavishness with it.

Necessary financial cutbacks meant, as far as the wedding planning industry was concerned, things would have to change. Unreasonably priced cakes were quickly replaced with more affordable (and adorable) cupcakes, extravagant centerpieces were streamlined and “themed” weddings, at least in their traditional sense, became a — Beth Murphy, thing of the past.

“I had one father who came to me general manager of SouthWood and said, ‘Look, my stocks are doing horrible; I don’t have the money I Golf Club thought I was going to have for my daughter’s wedding. But we’re still going to do the best we can, and we want it to be an amazing wedding,’” said Gandy. “So, had that daughter gotten married seven years ago, it would have been a totally different event.”

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Couches and chandeliers (above, far left) keep this Carillon Beach wedding elegant, yet inviting.

A touch of gown bling (center) to match the ring. The champagne color was the same, but the styles were different for the dresses of the bridesmaids surrounding bride Katie Hosford (left) in this photo.

Today, weddings are less cluttered. For the bride in search of timelessness, designers are pushing muted hues, textured linens and romantic lighting. Keeping colors subdued allows the integrity of floral arrangements and accents to speak for themselves, giving the event’s ambiance a light and airy feel.

To increase intimacy, furniture rentals are also on the rise. Strategically placed, vintageinspired pieces permit conversation and enhance the mood and style of the ceremony and, perhaps more importantly, the reception.

According to Gandy, the act of bringing sofas, chairs and other conversation pieces into the seating arrangement is as much about creating a visually dynamic layout as it is about making people feel at ease.

“Couples want to make it more homey and more interesting,” he said. “You don’t want to walk into a room and see 20 round tables with white linens and the same centerpiece.”

Mixing and matching shapes and textures creates the perfect balance of unique and tasteful. Some venues, including SouthWood Golf Club, offer a limited amount of staging furniture included in their price. Smart couples know to maximize their venue’s existing elements before splurging on big purchases.

“The more mature a bride is, the less likely she is to overadorn the place,” said Beth Murphy, general manager of SouthWood Golf Club.

Places like Pebble Hill Plantation and Goodwood — John Gandy, of Museum & Gardens are filled John Gandy Events with organic elements that can play into the theme of a wedding. Having the opportunity to incorporate nature is one of the biggest benefits of getting married in the South.

And as far as natural beauty is concerned, not many locales can beat our region on charm: Wispy oak trees? Check. Temperate climate?

Got it. Historic backdrop? Yep, that too.

But it’s not enough just to have great aspects in a venue; you have to know how to use them.

“They have things like chandeliers in trees now,” said Kay Meyer of Kay Meyer Photography. “It’s not over the top, but it’s just

“Couples want to make it more homey and more interesting.

You don’t want to walk into a room and see 20 round tables with white linens and the same centerpiece.”

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such a special touch that’s so unique to our area. Things like that make the event just beautiful, and it certainly makes for a great photograph.”

For couples looking for a more contemporary vibe, Amanda Morrison, conference, services and events manager at Hotel Duval, knows just the place.

“We definitely love to do weddings that are boutique-chic with a more modern and contemporary look,” she said. “As far as color trends are concerned, we’ve been seeing a lot of metal tones, and that tends to look really great in our space.”

Venues and styles may differ, but every event needs an element of food somewhere in its midst. While plated dinners are the status quo of elegance, they’re not the only option. Filling stations, or glorified buffets, are becoming increasingly popular. Scaling back to a night filled with heavy hors d’oeuvres and handcrafted cocktails is also a possibility for a couple looking for a partylike atmosphere.

Karen Chapman, owner of Klassic Katering, said that as of late, there’s yet another option on the table for couples wanting to maintain a sense of formality without breaking the bank.

And the result is pretty delicious.

“If they can’t decide if they want a buffet or to go plated, family-style is a great option,” said Chapman. “That way, guests are seated, we use servers provided with oversized platters of foods that are just wonderful — very much like they do in Italy — and it’s passed to each person at the table.”

In general, the rule of thumb is to select your venue first, then fit your dress or gown to its backdrop.

According to Kristen Vocelle Barstow, owner of Vocelles, the bridal shoppe, things aren’t quite as stuffy as they use to be. While her personal philosophy for bridal couture may be “the only rule is that there are no rules,” she’s still entitled to play favorites.

And right now, that means lace, lace and more lace.

“Lace is huge right now, and I think it’s going to be in style for a while,” said Vocelle Barstow. “Brides just love it; it’s a little different and very flattering. Especially in Tallahassee with all the outdoor, plantation-style venues filled with oak trees.

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Wedding Inspiration Outdoorsy touches

Outdoor celebrations present a great opportunity for unique touches — like this quirky serving detail. Here, a canoe is used to chill drinks for an outdoor reception.

Keeping it casual Ride away in style

Along with this year’s return to elegance, film director Baz Lurhmann has secured 2013 as the year of Gatsby style. In honor of this trend, why not incorporate a bit of wild decadence in your own wedding with a classic car to whisk bride and groom away?

The car pictured above is one of many classics available from A Bride’s Ride.

A modern wedding

Some couples prefer a more modern form of elegance over the ornate, softer looks that often characterize Southern traditional wedding style. Those couples might opt for venues like Hotel Duval as the setting for an edgier, more modern wedding and/or reception.

Family-style dining Add a little photo fun For a more lighthearted reception, offer guests some fun — Photo Fun. A photo booth in the reception space allows guests and party members (and, of course, the couple) to dress up and cut loose, while sending everyone home with mementos to remember the special day.

Instead of the traditional sit-down or buffet dinner, why not try out family-style dining? Karen Chapman, owner of Klassic Katering, points out this growing trend is perfect for the rehearsal dinner, where close friends and family gather after a long day.

Unwind with the people you love most, and let the good (read: yummy) times roll.

If formality is not your style, why not go for quirky? Try using food trucks as vendors for the reception, rather than traditional catering.

Heavy hors d’oeuvres served at a casual outdoor reception will make your wedding uniquely, deliciously memorable. Tallahassee has plenty of options when it comes to food truck cuisine, including Big Easy Snowballs, Fired Up Pizza Truck, Lasang Pinoy Philippine cuisine, Tacos Gringos, and the Lucy and Leo’s cupcake trailer.

Personalized touches

A sweet way to remember the reception’s sweetest moments — from the champagne toast to the first bite of cake — is to invest in personalized touches, like forks engraved with the wedding date, or etched champagne glasses. // Compiled by Laura Bradley and Chay Baxley

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Millennial Wedding Planning There’s No Need For a Groom When You’ve Got Pinterest

By Laura Bradley

My name is Laura Bradley, and I hooked my friend* on Pinterest. She can’t help herself; she now has 32 boards featuring 1,655 pins. And of those, about a third are dedicated to wedding accouterments. Mind you, there’s no fiancé, just a fully planned wedding (or several), with boards dedicated to dresses, rings, décor, shoes, tips and tricks, miscellaneous and more.

Peruse any young, “wired-in” lady’s Pinterest, and you’ll almost certainly find an entire board dedicated to weddings. She might be 23 or 32 — in a committed relationship or completely unattached. With an online portal so perfect for sharing crafty ideas and savvy time-savers, it seems many of us can’t help but start planning (way) in advance. Even I, who have decided to live a life of solitude dedicated to nothing but the written word for the rest of my life (at least for now) have a wedding board. But mine is relatively unimpressive — at least compared to my friend’s.

Some people believe Pinterest could replace wedding planners with DIY couples.

Users can “pin” virtually anything on the web; that means cakes (flavors, decorations,

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vendors…), wedding dresses, flowers, venue and decoration ideas, potential photographers, bachelorette party tricks, maid of honor kits… the boards go on and on.

For the organized couple with ample time, Pinterest could be all they need. For those with no actual wedding to plan, the idea of a wedding can be more than enough. Pinterest users can “repin” other users’ pins, making the site perfect for exchanging ideas and giving life to every girl’s personalized dream wedding. Some users focus exclusively on weddings, providing brides-to-be with a wealth of resources tailored to any taste or sensibility.

In the olden days (you know, back before TLC was even a channel), single girls kept hope chests — trunks filled with table and bed linens, a special dress, sometimes dishes… various supplies for her life as a wife. Up until about the mid-20th century, single ladies would prepare materials for the big day well in advance, and thus would be prepared with some of the needed supplies following her big day.

While it might seem a little unorthodox now, Pinterest is, in its own way, a virtual hope chest. Not only can we use it to plan weddings — we can pin all of the things our grandmothers would have tucked away in their hope chest, and buy them closer to when we need them.

Combine the wedding boards with your home décor boards (Don’t lie. You have at least one.), and you have yourself a full-fledged hope chest. Combine my friend’s home-centric boards with her wedding boards, and you get a hope chest that is about 825 pins strong. Let’s face it; most of those pins will never actually be hers in real life (unless she has a LOT of bridesmaids, a huge appetite for cake and a palatial mansion with 50 kitchens), but she is all set with options for the big day and beyond.

And that, my friends, is what we call wedding planning: millennial style. *No, really. I promise. It’s actually my friend. Not me. n

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Pinterest makes it easy to keep track of favorite vendors and ideas. Danielle and Matt Dunagan’s pinworthy wedding at the FSU Alumni Center, with catering provided by Andrew’s Catering and flowers by Missy Gunnels Flowers.

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Weekend Celebrations Extend the Wedding Festivities With a Destination or a Hometown Welcome More and more couples are opting to extend their nuptial celebrations through a weekend, giving family and close friends more time together, more fun and more memories. Weekend wedding celebrations can be arranged at home or even a nearby destination. Tallahassee is perfectly situated — near a wide variety of coastal and plantation-style resorts that can be reached in a short drive, but far enough to offer a wedding “getaway” to guests.

Whatever you choose, the important thing to ensure is that your guests have enough entertainment (both structured and independent) to stay busy and have a great time all weekend long.

Local wedding and event planner John Gandy observes that many couples are opting for weekend-long celebrations, sometimes at nearby destinations, as a way to focus on those closest to them. “I think it’s a way for people to trim their guest lists … When it’s a destination, it’s easier to have a cut list … without hurting feelings,” he explained.

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By Laura Bradley

Details from the Apalachicola wedding of Michelle Weidner and Tyler Augusty, including a special doorway (previous page) erected to provide a “reveal” moment during the outdoor ceremony.

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these celebrations, Gandy said, noting, “When you’re working with a great planner … they’ll take care of your needs for you and help you keep on track and on time.”

An Apalachicola Affair to Remember

Such was the case with Michelle Weidner and Tyler Augusty’s nuptials — a weekend wedding in Apalachicola, and a destination for many of the guests, who were traveling from Georgia and Tennessee.

The couple wanted the wedding to feel warm and welcoming and for the location to shine as many of the guests got their first taste of Apalachicola.

To achieve this, they kept the color scheme neutral— the bridesmaids dresses, by Shoshanna, were champagne with a hint of gold, and flowers and décor were white and browns with pops of mustard yellow and rust orange.

To ensure their guests experienced the best the area had to offer, the bride and groom picked up the accommodations for their wedding party. The groomsmen stayed on the riverfront at the beautiful Water Street hotel, while the bridesmaids stayed in the stunning Consulate Suites, located above Grady Market. Staying there allowed Michelle to be accessible to visiting family and friends, and the Consulate Suites provided large living rooms where everyone could stop by and say hello, and where the wedding party could enjoy a beautiful view of Apalachicola during their downtime — not to mention, the exposed brick walls provided a gorgeous backdrop for those precious “before” shots of the bridal party.

Welcome bags were full of personal touches that spoke to all of the couple’s favorite places: cookies from Tasty Pastry Bakery in Tallahassee (Michelle’s high school workplace), honey from Tyler’s grandmother’s farm store in Kentucky, GooGoo clusters from Nashville, Georgia peanuts and a Lacey Tiffin print of Apalachicola.

In addition, there was a welcome letter from the bride and groom and an agenda for weekend activities to make everyone at home.

The couple’s favorite local restaurant, The Owl Café, hosted the rehearsal dinner with a menu highlighting local seafood with fresh local oysters, grouper and shrimp. After the traditional rehearsal dinner, they opened up the restaurant’s Wine Room, which Gandy had transformed into a karaoke bar, to all of the out-of-town guests for a karaoke party — which was the groom’s one request.

On Saturday before the wedding, guests enjoyed shopping in downtown Apalachicola, eating oysters at the Grady Market, beach time at St. George Island and fishing. The ceremony in Lafayette Park was beautiful, and full of local flavor, with the gazebo overlooking Apalachicola Bay and old oak trees all around. To complement the natural beauty, flower designer Missy Gunnels kept the arrangements and décor simple: The centerpiece was a stunning arrangement hanging in the middle of the gazebo, under which Michelle and Tyler said their vows.

While the bride loved the idea of an outdoor wedding, she wanted a “doors opening” moment with her father. With a little creativity, Gandy was able to provide “the reveal” by building and installing beautiful doors at the park entrance. This architectural tallahasseeMagazine.com July–August 2013

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piece provided just the moment Michelle wanted, and served as a centerpiece of the ceremony.

The reception at the historic Gibson Inn was full of personal touches. A table on the wrap-around porch featured wedding pictures of the couple’s parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. To further showcase local seafood, as guests arrived, Shells Oyster Bar had a station on the porch, shucking oysters for guests as they strolled in from the ceremony. As for the rest of the menu, Tallahassee’s Catering Capers brought their best with bacon-wrapped dates, cocktail crab cakes with cocktail and key lime remoulade sauces, sweet tea chicken tenders on buttermilk biscuits with spicy peach salsa, Chef Justin’s Gulf shrimp and gouda grits served in stemless martini glasses, a chef-carved herb-crusted roasted whole tenderloin of beef, espresso shots with miniature donuts and more.

One of Michelle’s bridesmaids drew a “reception map” to help people navigate through all of the areas of the event. While the couple’s first dance was to the Talking Heads’ “This Must be the Place” (the song they first danced to in college), the bride’s first dance with her father was a tribute to the coast: Jimmy Buffet’s “A Pirate Looks at Forty.”

On Sunday, the bride’s parents held a closing brunch for everyone at the Gibson Inn to say goodbye, putting the perfect close on a perfect wedding weekend.

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Hosting a Wedding Weekend Here at Home

When bringing family and friends from far and wide into town for your nuptials, it’s crucial to be your guests’ guide through town. Making everyone feel welcome and at home in the new city is easy with some thoughtful, personal touches.

“I always suggest to do a welcome bag,” said Amy Forman, owner of Papaya Wedding Planning. Forman explained that local items and a clear itinerary (with even clearer directions) will have your guests feeling comfortable in no time. When stocking the welcome bags, above all Forman stressed it is important to be considerate.

Scenes from the wedding ceremony and reception of Shannon O’Donnell and Josh Kuch, held at Goodwood Museum and Gardens.

“You want to give them things that they’re going to actually use, like a bag of M&Ms, some gum, some peanuts and almonds — things you think you would want … Act like you’re the guest. What would you want to know if you’re coming into town for an out-of-town wedding? What kind of information would you want? You want to make it pleasurable for them,” she explained.

For Josh Kuch and Shannon O’Donnell’s weekend wedding here in town, Forman filled the welcome bags with just those sorts of things: an itinerary, restaurant ideas, local activities, postcards of Tallahassee, bottled water and snacks, and a copy of Tallahassee Magazine.

The rehearsal dinner was held at the Cabot Lodge, where guests were staying — making the event accessible and easy for newcomers to Tallahassee. The Wharf Express catered grilled delicious coastal comfort food: mahi-mahi with Mediterranean topping, shrimp and cheese grits, coleslaw, and hush puppies.

The next day, the bride and her leading ladies went out for brunch — a move Forman suggests more brides should try. While grooms often get a chance to play golf or unwind before the wedding, many brides and

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their parties jump right into getting ready. In this case, the bride’s grandmother “insisted” on a wedding day brunch for the girls, and it paid off by keeping the bride and her party (relatively) relaxed and happy throughout the big day. Little outings like these also give you another chance to show loved ones some of your favorite local eateries and shops.

The wedding was an elegant affair at Goodwood, with deep, dark purple bridesmaids’ dresses and flowers providing a beautiful contrast against the lush green setting. The reception followed the wedding at the same location, with plenty of delicious local (and universal) favorites catered by Mockingbird Café, which also did the cakes: a hummingbird and red velvet cake with vegan red velvet topper, and German chocolate groomsmen cupcakes. A Country Rose provided elegant floral accents to a fun, exciting evening of dancing and dining. The couple made a contribution to the reception, too, Forman recalled.

Wedding and event planner extraordinaire John Gandy gave us some tips to make sure your celebration is as successful as these weddings. Keep them in mind as you plan your (or your favorite bride-to-be’s) weekend wedding festivities.

Planning is everything

Structure and scheduling are at the core of weekend wedding planning. When picking the date, make sure you are not competing with any major holidays or events (such as home football games or graduations). This will make your guests happy — and your wallet, too, as hotel and venue rates are lower during slower weekends.

Give your guests some guidance

As guests arrive and check in on Friday afternoon or evening, make sure they receive an itinerary (or even a welcome basket) with your event schedule, and also some local activities they can do on their own during down time. This will keep everyone busy and happy, even as you and the wedding party make the final wedding preparations.

Keep a relaxed — but

“One really cool thing about this eventful — schedule Sometimes couples have welcome wedding is that the groom made all receptions on Friday during their the beer. He homebrewed all the beer rehearsals so everyone can settle that everyone drank,” she said. in. If not, you can always plan to The next morning, the couple meet your guests after rehearsing, held a Sunday brunch at the bride’s at the rehearsal dinner. Usually mother’s house — a calmer close to Saturday is wedding day; your an exciting wedding weekend. guests can work their way through “The brunch is wonderful to have some of the local activities on after the wedding because it’s lowtheir welcome itinerary during the key, it’s a little more casual than set-up before the wedding. After the wedding itself, and it’s typically the wedding, the reception gets held at someone’s house. Usually it’s everyone together to celebrate the at the parents of the bride’s house,” couple’s nuptial bliss. On Sunday, explained Forman. make sure everyone gets a good One unique idea for weekend wedsend-off with delicious a delicious dings Forman suggested is to open brunch or lunch. gifts at the Sunday brunch, rather than at home or at the reception. The calm, intimate setting is the perfect place to look at all the meaningful gifts from loved ones — and to thank them in person. n

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The SouthWood House is a beautiful historic home, rich in history set amongst live oaks and native flowering plants. The grounds create multiple options for a wedding ceremony and reception, and the House offers a traditional setting with large, spectacular rooms including a grand bridal suite that is available to the bride and her bridesmaids prior to the ceremony.

Plan your next affair at Goodwood, nestled in a grove of live oak trees in the heart of Tallahassee.

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For the Perfect Plantation Wedding Destination . . .

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oney Lake boasts one of the most beautiful, unique, and captivating settings in the nation for an unforgettable destination or local wedding. Picture your wedding day at fabulous Honey Lake Plantation Resort & Spa: gentle breezes floating across pristine Honey Lake, intoxicating fragrances of azaleas and jasmine wafting about magnificent centuries-old stately oaks, family and friends celebrating together, sparkling white chairs, flowing emerald-green lawns, an enchanting ceremony, evocative warm, humid nights, the glamour, the stunning wedding gown, the romance.

Afterward set the regal tone for your new life together at a sunset reception in the Lakeside Pavilion or high atop majestic Whispering Pines hilltop in the lavish ballroom of your choice: Jasmine, White, or even a stunning gala fit for a king and queen in Honey Lake’s Grand Ballroom. And for the most intimate and romantic honeymoon, well, there can be no better place for it than in paradise: The Honey Lake Honeymoon Suite awaits you.

For a truly inspired and unforgettable event, you’ll find no grander setting than Honey Lake Plantation Resort & Spa. Luxurious and impeccably appointed, and offering gracious services, this enchanting plantation retreat knows how to celebrate and offers all the amenities that you’ve ever dreamed about.

You can be assured that whether you dream of an extravagant formal banquet in our Whispering Pines Banquet Hall for hundreds of guests, or an intimate gathering of your closest family and friends, we will work

closely with you to tailor every moment to match your personal style and preference. Let us know exactly how you’ve always imagined it, and our personal wedding professionals will design the perfect plantation wedding package.

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Islander Beach Resort Fort Walton Beach, FL Islander Beach Resort sits within Fort Walton Beach, one of Northwest Florida’s scenic, romantic and unforgettable wedding destinations.

Brides can choose from a variety of wedding packages to make their special day perfect in every way. The picturesque beachside ceremony provides a wedding backdrop that exudes elegance, and the indoor reception venue accommodates up to 150 guests.

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Islander Beach Resort Reception Area Rental includes tables and chairs for up to 70 people. If party is larger than 70 guests, additional tables and chairs may be rented through an outside vendor. Quiet time is 10pm, and all events must end at this time as to not disturb other guests staying at the resort.

760 square foot meeting room for reception or rain back-up available for $595. Half day rental also available Monday - Thursday for $250.

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Destination Wedding… No Passport Needed by: Susan Jarvis Moody

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or brides dreaming of a destination beach wedding, the options are endless, exotic, and sometimes expensive.

With the launch of a full suite of wedding packages offered by ResortQuest by Wyndham Vacation Rentals® , Tallahassee brides can now put their passports away and head to the Emerald Coast for the beach wedding of their dreams. Centrally located in Fort Walton Beach, The Islander Beach Resort provides the perfect setting for indoor and outdoor ceremonies and receptions and their wedding vendors and professionals will make planning destination weddings as stress free as possible.

With a spacious and picturesque reception area, which accommodates up to 150 guests and complimentary use of the beach for the ceremony, the wedding professionals provide brides with as much, or as little, help and support as they need to plan, organize, and carry out their dream weddings. The venue price includes tables and chairs for up to 70 people and use of the kitchen for the caterers and vendors of their choosing. “At the Islander Beach Resort, we can offer brides plenty of options when it comes to selecting the most appropriate vendors for their visions and their budgets,” said Joyce Danser, ResortQuest Director of Group Sales. The Islander Beach Resort contracts with “I Do” Beach Weddings, to provide both al a carte options

and full packages for planning, coordinating, and managing both services and receptions.

Destination and beach weddings continue to be a hot wedding trend. “Destination weddings are a great way to bring family and friends together for an extended celebration. By offering brides and grooms plenty of options, we can help ensure that the details of their special day are taken care of with prompt and professional service and expertise. We want our wedding parties to enjoy their celebration and their guests, and not stress about the logistics,” continued Joyce Danser, Director of Group Sales.

The Islander Beach Resort is located within a short distance of the restaurants, bars, boutiques, and galleries of Downtown Fort Walton Beach, and is directly on the beach. Guests can choose from condominium sizes ranging from studio suites to three bedrooms, and all guests have access to beach service, the large swimming pool, hot tub, and fitness center.

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Let the music of the gentle waves accompany you down the aisle and instead of a unity candle, join together as one as you combine the white sand of these glorious beaches into one special vase. The wedding photography will feature a backdrop of the last golden rays of the sun and the beginning of a jewel-colored sky.

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‘Acoustic Happiness’

Call it acoustic folk, Americana, soul roots or grassroots.

But whatever name you apply, the trio “The New 76ers” is definitely a hit around Tallahassee.

Why such a name? It evokes a sense of musical revolution, according to Kelly Goddard, rhythm guitarist, vocalist and one-third of the trio. Husband Danny sings and plays lead guitar and Kelly’s brother, Brian Durham, plays upright bass and sings as well.

“We like to think of ourselves as starting a revolution with our music, in the sense that we give our love and good vibes out to people that are listening,” she said. “I’m also a ‘centennial baby’ and that’s kind of where we came up with the name.”

Theirs is an accessible, back-to-the-basics form of music that defies being pegged into any type of genre.

They draw inspiration from all different kinds of American roots music, including folk, country, blues and even some rock ‘n’ roll.

“They describe (their sound) as ‘acoustic happiness,’ ” said Lori Ryan, who’s known the band’s members for 13 years. Ryan also owns the Mockingbird Café where the trio has made regular appearances for the past nine years.

“They’re amazing. I’ve had so much fun watching the band, watching their music evolve and their families grow,” Ryan said. “They’re all wonderful songwriters. Danny’s voice is unbelievable, and he’s a wonderful guitarist and songwriter. They absolutely pack the house.”

The Mockingbird Café isn’t the trio’s only gig. They’ve been featured prominently at regional music festivals like the Great Southern Music Festival, The family members Suwannee Springfest, MusicFest, who create The New the Tallahassee Museum’s annual 76s “revolutionSwamp Stomp, Twangdango, ary” style of music Havana Fall Out and Monticello’s are (left to right) Southern Music Rising. husband-and-wife The group released its first twoDanny and Kelly song CD single on Ping Records Goddard, and her in March 2010 and followed that brother, Brian Durham. with “Superhighway,” their first full-length studio record, in 2011.

Another full-length album is in the works. In addition to their own album, they’ve also played backup for local artists Grant Peeples and Brian Bowen, and each has helped out as recording artists on several releases over the past two years.

Their next appearance at the Mockingbird Café is scheduled for Aug. 10. For more info, go to the trio’s website, acoustichappiness.com. — Jason Dehart

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A Drink. A Friend.

A Willing Ear. Grab a Seat and Unwind With Tallahassee’s Old School Bartenders

By Mike Tokars // Photos by Shannon Griffin A good bartender has class, moves deliberately and with confidence; existing somewhere between enthusiasm and pseudo-contempt for the job. But always meaning business and always polite. Chiefly, a good bartender is always in charge: in charge of his bar and in charge of his customers’ good time. If a bartender times things perfectly, with that old school kind of genuine class, a sense of wisdom will float about the place — reverberating along the bottles behind him like gospels bouncing down a giant xylophone ... and then you trust him, and you should; because the Good Word pinging across those shelves is an invitation to friendship and sanctuary — and what more does one need to trust a man? Booze?

Well, OK then, booze it is.

Naturally, booze is the most crucial variable in this equation.

People in need of friendly sanctuaries tend to also need to let their guards down for an hour … or five, and a good bar tended by a good bartender is a good place to do such. Interesting guards definitely drop in Tallahassee. We’re not talking about college students, but about Thirty-eight-year-old the core of this town — the folks who turn Brian Jones (previous Tallahassee’s gears from 9 to 5. For there is page) is a youngish much more than college in our college town, bartender with an oldand this vital organ demands just as much school attitude while he booze as the keg-guzzling coeds — but for pours drinks at the 5th completely different reasons.

Avenue Tap Room.

When these Tallahassee drinkers drop their guards, they do so in good bars like The Lounge and Andrew’s and Finnegan’s Wake; in front of good bartenders like David Garber, Brian Jones, Jack Brookshaw and Mike “Doc” Hochstein. These men have been tending Tallahassee’s bars for decades and operate within a tight connection that runs from bar to bar.

“It’s a good job,” says Brian Jones of Midtown’s 5th Avenue Tap Room. “If you work at it and learn the business, you can put yourself in the middle class.” Mixing drinks is an accessible route to the American Dream and is one that especially caters to the restless spirit, as bartending allows for a particular lifestyle — let’s call it Up-and-Go — for which the occupation could not be better suited. And it’s also a delightfully scenic trip ...

David Garber has been bartending since 1982, when he started at Andrew’s Capital Grill & Bar downtown on Adams Street after a two-year stint as a clown with the Ringling Bros.

Barnum & Bailey traveling circus. David has experienced all kinds of things from behind the bar: from off-the-clock political discourse, to private parties hosted by drug-addled pop star sex fiends; he even had a gun pulled on him once at Poor Paul’s Pourhouse, where he was manager in the 1980s.

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I would stay; if I didn’t like it, I would leave and go someplace else,” he explained. “I can be anywhere; and then I walked into Andrew’s, and they hired me on the spot. I never left (Tallahassee) after that one.”

David continues to travel as much as possible, his life the very definition of working for the weekend. “I prefer to leave town, and I’ve always been that way,” he says. “I’ve always just gone anywhere ... just to get out of town, and just go.”

Jack Brookshaw of Old Town Cafe has a similar relationship with the job, as does Doc Hochstein of Doc’s Sports Bar and Finnegan’s Wake. Both men agree the job fits the Up-and-Go lifestyle.

“You can make pretty good money bartending —— you don’t get rich, but you can live well with a peace of mind, and you can have a lot of fun —— and maybe that is being rich.”

– Jack Brookshaw, Old Town Cafe Born and raised in Philadelphia, Jack says, “One day, two of my buddies and I just hopped in our car and moved to Florida.” He was 22 years old. Jack went on to manage Barnacle Bill’s throughout the ’80s and ’90s, where he became friends with a regular customer by the name of Jimmy Buffett.

Doc Hochstein took the freewheeling drinkslinging wanderlust even further than David and Jack, all the way to the realm of “halfway there, living on a prayer,” in fact; and made out OK. Doc started bartending in 1964, when he got his first gig at Ted’s (now Ken’s Tavern) on the Tennessee Strip. One night he found a stone drunk Jim Morrison — then a student at FSU — incapacitated outside of the bar and gave the

Jack Brookshaw once served island crooner Jimmy Buffett at Barnacle Bill’s. Now he’s pouring drinks at Old Town Café.

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“People need an echo board, to listen to themselves; I don’t think they wanna hear what I have to say —— they wanna hear it for themselves, out loud ... and I always say ‘Yes.’” – David Garber, Andrew’s Capital Grill & Bar

soon-to-be world famous rocker a ride home. In the late ’60s Doc opened his first bar, The Keg, where he hired Lynyrd Skynyrd to play one night, before they got famous, for $100. He ran The Keg until the itch to leave Tallahassee took hold in 1970, and he bartended his way out West. Doc says, “I was a hippie in Lake Tahoe for a year and a half; it was fun. You can make pretty good money bartending — you don’t get rich, but you can live well with a peace of mind, and you can have a lot of fun — and maybe that is being rich.”

At 69 years old, Doc is now retired. In the early 1980s Doc married his longtime girlfriend, a Pan American flight attendant, in Las Vegas and set up shop in Tallahassee, opening Doc’s Sports Bar which he ran until retiring for the first time in 1997. Doc came out of retirement when Finnegan’s Wake opened in 2005, “to help get things moving,” and ended up managing the Irish pub for seven years.

During that time Brian Jones came on board, with Doc’s approval. Brian moved to Tallahassee in ’97 and ran The Leon Pub for 12 years. At 38, he is the youngest of Tallahassee’s good bartender connection. If David, Jack and Doc are “old-school bartenders” — and according to each other, they all are — then Brian represents the “new school,” and he carries the torch well.

I met Brian while drinking at The Lounge –– a modern speakeasy out by the Interstate 10 on Timberlane Road, where David drinks on weekends. David once worked at The Lounge for two weeks, filling in for their head bartender, Mark, who worked alongside David during his beginning days at Andrew’s. It was Mark who suggested Jack Brookshaw for this story saying, “That Jack, he’s really old school.” But by all accounts, Mark at The Lounge is Tallahassee’s quintessential old school bartender. Unfortunately, he wouldn’t agree to a formal interview.

However, Mark seemed intrigued with the story, and he pours a hell of David Garber’s (opposite page) wandering lifestyle an absinthe — and a good 15 hours ended in 1982, when he spent sipping that liquid wonder settled in behind the bar at while chatting with a good converAndrew’s Capital Bar & Grill. sationalist will yield all kinds of You’ll find Brian Jones (above) good knowledge; and it will also serving up a good time at the reveal holy truths.

5th Avenue Tap Room.

The holy truth in the heart of this thing is the fact that good bartenders do much more than tend bars — they are the drinkers’ friend, and always-agreeing psychiatrist, who creates a fantasy world separate from everything else. In this other world, in the bar, people can relax and recuperate, reorganize, get situated, have a laugh and even hide. Good bars run by good bartenders are crucial, because waves need a place to break.

On this, David says, “People need an echo board, to listen to themselves; I don’t think they wanna hear what I have to say — they wanna hear it for themselves, out loud ... and I always say ‘Yes.’” This is a unique service, provided by the good bartender.

While openly addressing Tallahassee’s drinkers, David summed it up nicely, saying, “Whatever the reason is that you came in — if everything worked out for you, then we were successful.” Jack, Brian and Doc all agree. It is the good bartender’s job to be there for you, and they always are. n

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The Shapes of Music Sacred Harp Singers Enjoy a Special Musical Heritage

By Jason Dehart // Photos by Scott Holstein There’s no mistaking the sound of a Sacred Harp singing group. If you grew up in any small wooden Primitive Baptist church in the South, you may have heard a version of it. Or, you might have even heard it in movies like “Cold Mountain.” It’s a loud, rhythmic, a cappella form of song — chant-like, primitive and powerful. It raises the rafters and makes the floor shake. For those who experience it, and who “get it,” there’s an undeniable emotional power at work behind this living, musical tradition.

A small and dedicated group of Sacred Harp singers call Tallahassee home, and they intend to pass this old tradition on to future generations.

“Sacred Harp” was one of about 100 oblong hymnals produced in the mid-19th century. The first edition was written by B.F.

White in 1844, and new editions of the book come out every other year or so. But the Shape note singers music theory it codified, called “shape note form a traditional hollow square during a singing,” goes back even further. Shape Tallahassee gathering. note singing was an early way of teaching Each side is a different rural people how to sing. The name “shape pitch; a central leader note” comes from an early 19th century selects the song and system of writing and printing notes in directs the group. special shapes that enable the untrained to quickly identify different sounds on a music scale. Unlike a conventional seven-note scale and its familiar set of syllables (do-remi-fa-sol-la-ti), the “shape notes” of Sacred Harp singing use only four syllables (fa-sol-la-mi) to teach pitch.

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“It’s part of a practice that was originally developed in New England, the Boston area, by the Puritans and got pushed out after the Revolutionary War,” said Sarah Kahre, 29, a music history major at Florida State University.

Kahre started shape note singing in the spring of 2007, after she attended a screening of “Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp” at Railroad Square. At the time, she was interested in writing a term paper for a class on music history in the United States, and her professor suggested she go see the movie. She’s been hooked ever since.

“I’ve never sung Sacred Harp and not been happy about it,” she said.

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Sacred Harp is not the only form of shape-note singing, but it seems to be the most predominant kind today, Kahre said. Once it left New England, shape notes moved South and found a home among country churchgoers throughout the hills and piney woods.

These rural folks used the four-note system to teach people how to sing, and there were different shape-note books in different regions. The Sacred Harp book itself originated in Georgia and spread from there, she said.

“You had other books. There was a publisher in Virginia, the Hesperian Harp, there was the Harp of Tennessee, and Missouri Harmony was in Missouri and Illinois. The Sacred Harp is closely related to a South Carolina book called the Southern Harmony because the publishers were brothers-in-law. There’s a story that B.F. White had contributed to Southern Harmony originally and was a co-compiler of that book and then, when his brother-in-law went out and got it published, B.F White’s name wasn’t in it, he got mad and moved to “In sings where Georgia. He came up with his own book.” a lot of people Most of the other forms of are singing, if the shape note singing died out after the Civil War, she said, acoustics are good, and other styles changed maybe your book over time.

“A lot of them changed vibrates, your styles and changed what kind body vibrates, and of shapes they were using, and changed what kind of you go from one tunes they were including, but song to another Sacred Harp didn’t,” Kahre said. “People were interested song and there is in what was new. And the such a variety of Sacred Harp survived among people that were interested in spiritual subject what was old.”

To a musician or singer matter in the songs, steeped in traditional music that it’s an intense theory, the four-note system may seem a little strange. experience.”

But the effect of a roomful of – Alice Bejnar, a voices singing to the rooftops is a very moving experience. founding member Shape-note singers arrange of the local Sacred themselves in a hollow square, around a central song leader.

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Being inside that sound is amazing, Kahre said. “When I teach students about it, and you play it for classes, you see people cringe because it is a very rough sound. It’s not that western classical ideal of beauty,” she said. “I explain to people, you know, Sacred Harp singers do hear Sacred Harp singing as beautiful, but the beauty comes from that power of the singing. The reason you sing so loud is that any imperfections that might be in the singing, when you sing it that loud, and have that many people doing it, it’s like burning off the chaff. It doesn’t matter anymore. Because of the power of the sound that surrounds you.”

Carrying on this old-time folk tradition led to the creation of the local singing group nearly 20 years ago, Bejnar said. Today they have a core group of between eight and 15 people, and meet twice a month at different venues. Their numbers are often augmented by out-of-town visitors who have been known to drive three hours one-way for a chance to sing Sacred Harp.

Bejnar fell in love with Sacred Harp on a trip to Tennessee years ago, and that newfound musical awareness led her to discover shape-note groups in parts of Alabama, Georgia and Florida.

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“I heard of Sacred Harp and sang it in my early to mid-20s and immediately loved the sound of it,” she said. “It definitely was in my blood, and I was motivated to go to those sings in North Florida and South Alabama. And the people are so friendly. If you sang Sacred Harp, they loved you. No questions asked.”

Reaching out to other groups led her to the Lee family of Hoboken, Ga., a tiny town just east of Waycross on the northern edge of the Okefenokee Swamp. The Lees are a family community of shape-note singers and, even though Sacred Harp isn’t meant to be a performing art, family members made two appearances at the Florida Folk Festival back in the late 1950s.

But for 50 years or so after that, the community of shape-note singers kept themselves isolated, Bejnar said. That is, until they were invited to the first big Tallahassee group sing in 1994.

“The Lees came to our sing, and friendships began between that family and not just the Tallahassee singers but the singers in Southeast Alabama and North Florida, and they got to know each other,” she said.

Kahre said the Lee family developed their own unique singing practices during the time they were separated from the larger Sacred Harp community.

“So, they kind of became celebrities in the Sacred Harp world after they rejoined, because they’re such a strong singing family and they sing so well. They also sing differently in interesting ways,” she said.

Striking a Chord

Shape note singing may have close ties to religion and the South, but today it is non-denominational and can be found all over the United States. It spread because it was a distinctly American folk art that appealed to everyone regardless of region or religion. “(Sacred Harp) was really an underdog book,” Kahre said. “Not that many people were singing from it up until the mid-20th century when music scholars started discovering it in the late 1920s.

About 1976 people started getting really interested in American history, so there’s some involvement there. Also, some influential leaders in Georgia in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s really worked on getting Sacred Harp spread nationally … because people were so interested in American folk music. So it appeals to people in that sense, across the country, and that’s why you can find it all over the place now.”

While it may have been largely divested of its “church” background, it can still touch some people in a spiritual way. Different people will get different things out of it, but others may just turn completely away, according to singer Morgan Bunch, 65, a data administrator at the Florida Department of Transportation. Bunch said he’s known about Sacred Harp for more than 40 years but started singing it at the first Tallahassee all-day sing that Bejnar started some 20 years ago.

“People tend to have very strong reactions to the music,” he said. “The first time I heard a Sacred Harp song, I thought it was the most incredible thing I had ever heard. This was a recording.

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singing, and it was like finding a missing piece of myself.”

“Shape notes” are just that: notes On the other hand, some people react a drawn in specific little bit differently, Bunch chuckled. “My shapes that help the sister came through Tallahassee one time untrained eye learn and I said ‘You’ve got to listen to this music.’ musical pitch. and played a recording for her, and she got this horrified look on her face,” he said.

But the music can have other effects.

Kahre grew up in a Methodist church but today considers herself an agnostic. She was never exposed to anything like Sacred Harp singing before she joined the Tallahassee group in 2007. Still, the ancient hymns she’s learned since joining the song group have helped her deal with some trying times.

“I lost my grandfather a few years back …. I am not a religious person, (but) there was one tune in particular that I found really comforting,” she said. “I’m not sure that I believe in heaven … and yet I’m comforted by this tune telling me my grandpa is in heaven.

Even when I was in Missouri for the funeral with my family — and no one in my family sings Sacred Harp — the songs that came into my head were all Sacred Harp songs, and that was just a part of how I got through that.”

Bejnar knows from her own personal experience how comforting the songs are.

“Both of my parents have died since I stared singing Sacred Harp, and I’ve heard other people say this in our group, that it helps us through those times,” Bejnar said.

“Because it’s not a worship service, not everyone who is there necessarily needs to respond to the music in a religious way,” Kahre said. “That expectation isn’t there. Well, for some people it is, for others it’s not.” n

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FAMU Annual Grape Harvest Festival August 24 This annual event offers something for everyone in the family — from a vineyard run/walk 5K at 8 a.m. (registration starts 7 a.m.), hula-hoop games, fun and educational trailer rides, tastings of three wines and 40 varieties of grapes, live music, free grape picking, the traditional grape stomp, a raffle and more. Round up the family and head out to FAMU’s Center for Viticulture and Small Fruit Research, located at 6505 Mahan Drive.

For those who are not running, the event begins at 8 a.m. and runs until 4 p.m. Entry costs $5, but is FREE for children under 12. For more information, contact Angela Harper, (850) 599-3996.

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The BIG Bash August 23 Shimmy on over to Big Brothers Big Sisters’ Fourth annual BIG Bash, Tallahassee’s Champagne Party at Hotel Duval.

Guests celebrate in Great Gatsby style at the BIG Bash, which has sold out in its first three years. Starting at 8 p.m., the champagne will flow as more than 300 guests turn the Hotel Duval ballroom into a glitzy 1920s shindig. There will be tasty eats, dancing, commemorative photos, a live auction and more. The BIG Bash is a celebration to raise awareness and raise funds for the proven, long-lasting, one-to-one mentoring that Big Brothers Big Sisters provides.

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Through July 7

‘Legally Blonde: The Musical’ Harvard’s beloved blonde takes the stage by pink storm in this fun, upbeat musical about selfdiscovery. Based on the adored movie, this musical version of “Legally Blonde” is ridiculously enjoyable from start to finish. $18 adult, $16 students and seniors, $14 children 12 and under. Young Actors Theatre, 609 Glenview Drive. 7:30 p.m.

(850) 386-6602, youngactorstheatre.com

Through July 12

For more information, contact BBBS Chief Outreach Officer Kristie Teal at (850) 386-6002 or visit bigbendmentoring.org.

‘Generations’ Art Exhibit This K-12 student exhibition project emphasizes artistic legacy through art by young, local students.

FREE. FSU Museum of Fine Arts, 530 W. Call St., 250 Fine Arts Building, FSU Campus.

Mon–Fri 9 a.m.–4 p.m., Sat and Sun 1–4 p.m., closed July 4. (850) 644-6836, mofa.fsu.edu

Through July 19

The Artists’ League Annual Summer Salon A juried exhibition of local area artists, there also will be an opening reception on June 14, 7–9 p.m.

FREE. FSU Museum of Fine Arts, 530 W. Call St., 250 Fine Arts Building, FSU Campus.

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Tallahassee’s Top Singles July 20 Join Tallahassee Magazine as we auction off dates with 17 of Tallahassee’s most eligible bachelors and bachelorettes. Each single has chosen a charity, which the winning bid will benefit — making your investment in a hot date all the more meaningful. Hosted at Hotel Duval, this event features additional attractions including food and libations, music, a live auction and more.

The party starts on Saturday night at 7 p.m., and admission is $75 per single and $125 for couples. For more information, call (850) 878-0554, or check out tallahasseemagazine.com.

Through July 21

Anne Mergen: Florida Cartoons This travelling exhibit features the work of pioneering editorial cartoonist Anne Mergen and explores the impact of her work on Florida politics.

FREE. Museum of Florida History, 400 S. Monroe St. Mon–Fri 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Sat 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Sun and holidays noon–4:30 p.m. (850) 487-1902, flhistoriccapitol.gov

Through July 27

Florida Artist Group Annual Member Show and Symposium This exhibit is dedicated to the work of The Florida Artist Group, the oldest statewide, not-for-profit art group in the state. FREE. LeMoyne Center for the Visual Arts, 125 N. Gadsden St. (850) 222-8800, lemoyne.org

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Long Summer Art Series Every Saturday, the gallery will feature an artist who will bring in a finished piece and one that is in progress, as well as starting a new piece as attendees watch. This will expose and demonstrate various components of the artistic process across different media. Lemonade and snacks will be provided, making this the perfect retreat from the summer heat. FREE. LeMoyne Center for the Visual Arts, 125 N. Gadsden St. 1–3 p.m. (850) 222-8800, lemoyne.org

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July 5, Aug. 2

First Friday at Railroad Square On the first Friday of each month, shops and studios in Railroad Square stay open selling artwork, jewelry and vintage clothing as Tallahassee residents gather for a night of the arts. Most galleries are also open for your viewing pleasure. FREE. Railroad Square Art Park, 567 Industrial Drive. railroadsquare.com

July 5, Aug. 2

Downtown Thomasville First Friday For a unique outing, check out First Friday in downtown Thomasville.

Shops and boutiques extend their hours and stay open late to offer visitors fun, great entertainment and special deals. After a long evening of shopping, nab a delicious meal at one of Thomasville’s famous downtown eateries. FREE. Thomasville Downtown Historic District, Broad St. and Jackson St., Thomasville, Ga. 5–9 p.m.

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July 6, 27

SoMo Stroll Enjoy a day of thrifting, strolling or riding on a paved bike trail, and roller derby. Bring your bike or rent one at The Great Bicycle Shop.

Stops include Southern Chicks, The Great Bicycle Shop, Junk and Treasure Alley, Leon Recycling, Good Finds and finally the Hansel E. Tookes Rec Center at 2101 Wahnish Way, where you will see a roller derby bout. Food trucks will also be at the final venue, providing another delicious reason to participate in this fun, unique event. $12, FREE for children 12 and under. South Monroe/Woodville Hwy and FAMU campus. 10 a.m.–10 p.m.

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Special Events at Downtown Marketplace Tallahassee’s Downtown Marketplace is being held all summer long, from 9 a.m.–2 p.m. every Saturday, with dozens of vendors, including artists, farmers and restaurants. Come out to the French market July 13 to celebrate Tallahassee’s French connections. Or, if you’re more the beachy type, check out the “Beach Shirt Market Bongo” contest Aug. 24, wearing your most outlandish beach shirt — you might even win a prize!

July 20, Aug. 17

Third Saturdays at Railroad Square Art Park On the third Saturday of every month, Railroad Square Art Park hosts live music and yummy food from Tasty Treats Restaurant in the Square. There are often children’s activities, vendors and live music.

FREE. Railroad Square Art Park, McDonnell Drive. (850) 766-1257, railroadsquare.com

July 26, Aug. 23

Curator’s Tour On the fourth Friday of each month in 2013, the Florida Historic Capitol Museum will be running a special curator’s tour of their exhibit, “Navigating New Worlds: Identity, Perception and Politics in Florida.”

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Florida Craftsmen Annual Members Exhibition View the finest contemporary glass, jewelry, fiber, wood, ceramics, metals and mixed media made by Florida Craftsmen members. The group’s mission is to empower the fine craft artisans of Florida, enrich the community and engage future generations. Suggested $1 donation, children and members FREE. Sara May Love Gallery, Gadsden Arts Center, 13 N. Madison St. Tues–Sat, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

(850) 875-4866, gadsdenarts.org

Aug. 2–Oct. 5

‘Scenes from Nature’ View Natalia Andreeva’s artistic interpretation of the journey from the harsh winters of her birthplace, Siberia, to her new home in Florida’s hot, humid climate. Suggested $1 donation, children and members. Zoe Golloway Exhibit Hall, Gadsden Arts Center, 13 N. Madison St. Tues–Sat, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. (850) 875-4866, gadsdenarts.org

Aug. 2–Oct. 5

‘Children: My Special Joy’ This exhibition showcases a sampling of the children’s portraits Virginia “Ginny” Coultas has done over the years. Several portraits are of children Coultas met during her travels through Africa, South America and Cuba. Suggested $1 donation, children and members FREE. Bates Children’s Gallery, Second Floor, Gadsden Arts Center, 13 N. Madison St. Tues–Sat, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. (850) 875-4866, gadsdenarts.org

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T.O.U.R. Guides Show visiting friends and family a good time at an unbeatable price as local attractions offer free admission on special dates. On Saturday the 17th, Maclay Gardens and Mission San Luis will be participating by offering free admission. Maclay Gardens, 3540 Thomasville Road; Mission San Luis, 2100 W. Tennessee St. Maclay Gardens, 8 a.m.–1 p.m.; Mission San Luis, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. visittallahassee.com/tour

Aug. 24–25

Big Bend Bird Club Exotic Bird Fair and Festival Come out for a festival full of birding fun for the whole family. Among other entertaining and exciting options, the fair offers a performing bird show, special kids’ activities, raffles and prizes, and delicious food. The grand prize drawing will be on Sunday at 4 p.m. $8 two-day admission, $5 general admission for a single day, FREE for children 10 and under.

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TMH Announces Surgical and ICU Expansion Plans Since arriving at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare nearly ten years ago, Mark O’Bryant focused on improving the quality and financial stability of the area’s largest healthcare system. Many improvements happened quickly. But, he knew that one needed advancement would take many years to realize because TMH was not in a financial position to fund the project at that time.

“It took nearly ten years of steady financial performance, and a strict adherence to three successive strategic plans, for TMH to be able to fund one of the largest construction projects in the history of Leon County,” said Mark. “I am proud of our colleagues for their efforts to position us to move financially forward on a project that will have a lasting impact on our community.”

In May, the Tallahassee Memorial Board of Directors approved a conceptual design of that project, a 294,000 square foot Surgery and Adult Intensive Care Unit expansion to be located on the south side of the existing campus on the corner of Miccosukee Road and Medical Drive. The approximate cost of the project today stands at $170 million.

“While our current surgical areas remain functional, they sit inside a building constructed many years ago,” said Mark. “Our vision is to develop a structure that will facilitate the surgical suites of the future, taking into account space required for changing technologies that we anticipate will be incorporated into the surgical process. This building will also be designed to grow with our community, providing Story continued on page 2.

The Florida State University College of Nursing Dedicates The Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Center for Research and Evidence-Based Practice The Florida State University officially named and dedicated the Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Center for Research and Evidence-Based Practice at Florida State University’s College of Nursing on Monday, May 13. Eric Barron, FSU President and Dianne Speake, FSU College of Nursing Interim Dean, presided with remarks by Roxanne Hauber, FSU College of Nursing Associate Professor and TMH Nurse Scientist, James Whyte, FSU College of Nursing Associate Professor and Director of the Center, Paula Fortunas, TMH Foundation President & CEO, Barbara Alford, TMH Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer, and Mark O’Bryant, TMH President & CEO.

Left to Right: Dianne Speake, FSU College of Nursing Interim Dean; Marie Cowart, TMH Foundation Trustee and Dean Emerita of the FSU College of Social Sciences; Roxanne Hauber, FSU College of Nursing Associate Professor and TMH Nurse Scientist; Barbara Alford, TMH Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer; Eric Barron, FSU President; Paula Fortunas, TMH Foundation President & CEO; Mark O’Bryant, TMH President & CEO.

The two organizations will collaborate on research to optimize healthcare for patients, their families and the community through improved nursing practices. “The creation of this Center marks the largest direct investment in research infrastructure in the 60-year history of the College of Nursing,” said Dr. Barron.

“Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare and the TMH Foundation have once again shown their profound commitment to the profession of nursing and to research by establishing this generous endowment for which we are most grateful,” noted Dr. Whyte. “The college will, Story continued on page 2. tallahasseeMagazine.com July–August 2013

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TMH Announces Surgical and ICU Expansion Plans continued a state-of-the-art platform for the next 50 years. As such, the building will include space that will allow for expansion without significant disruption to existing services.”

The facility will connect to the current acute care building near the Bixler Emergency Center and will focus on patient centered improvements such as a convenient patient drop-off, improved way-finding, and easy access to the entire campus. No new parking areas will be constructed since the building will make use of parking spaces that are underutilized.

The surgical center will initially have 20 operating rooms with shell space for 12-16 additional rooms. The operating suites will be proximate to the existing Bixler Emergency Center, thereby improving flow for patients requiring immediate surgical intervention.

The adult intensive care units will be relocated to this expansion with an initial build out of 48 ICU rooms, and shell space for an additional 24 rooms. Architects will design the space to minimize travel distance from ICU to medical and surgical areas.

With the approval of the Board of Directors completed, the next steps will include securing bond financing for the project before moving to detailed architectural and engineering design.

A focus of the plans will be the incorporation of sustainable elements in the facility’s design. Scheduled to be included in the final plans are vista views of a central garden area and the use of local materials.

The project is scheduled to take at least four years for the development of plans and construction.

The Florida State University College of Nursing Dedicates The Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Center for Research and Evidence-Based Practice continued in turn, provide TMH with technical and statistical assistance, research resources such as University libraries and information technology, a conference room, office spaces and linkages with faculty, clinicians and interested students.”

“Located in Florida State’s Duxbury Hall, the Center will serve as the focal point for inter-disciplinary healthcare research collaborations across the FSU campus and with Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare’s nursing staff,” explained Dean Speake.

“This Center will provide the structure and opportunities for TMH clinicians, Florida State students and faculty to make significant contributions to the advancement of nursing science and practice.”

“This Center is truly an expression of the complementary missions and common goals of the FSU College of Nursing and Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare,” said Mrs. Fortunas. “It will serve as a positive influence on the research culture of both institutions, under the guiding principle of improving patient outcomes and delivery of evidence-based care.”

Mr. O’Bryant concluded the program with a special salute to Florida State University, the College of Nursing, its faculty, staff and students. “Tallahassee Memorial is both honored and proud to enter into this research partnership and to have its name associated with Florida State’s distinguished College of Nursing.”

Dr. James Whyte, FSU College of Nursing Associate Professor and Center Director, Outlines Goals and Objectives The short and long-term goals of the Tallahassee Memorial Center for Research and Evidenced Based Practice at the Florida State University College of Nursing Center are around forwarding the research programs at both TMH and FSU. In the short term, the focus of the Center will be on assisting with the establishment of additional evidencebased projects being performed by TMH staff. Key to this effort is the integration of FSU faculty on these projects.

The mix of team members from TMH with clinical expertise and FSU faculty with research expertise is key to the success of this partnership. The long-term plans for the Center are to forward the health services research agenda at FSU to achieve a greater national standing. This goal, as well, focuses on partnership.

The Center staff won’t rest until TMH has met its goal of achieving Magnet Hospital Status. In short, the goal is to cement a national reputation for both partners in this endeavor.

Dr. Roxanne Hauber, FSU College of Nursing Associate Professor and TMH Nurse Scientist, Highlights the Center’s Current Research In developing a culture of excellence, the Tallahassee Memorial Center for Research and Evidence-Based Practice at the Florida State University College of Nursing works with advanced practice nurses and frontline nurses who are committed to improving the quality and safety of nursing care through the use of systematic inquiry and best evidence. Over the past three years, TMH nurses have been involved in the acquisition of skills in gathering and appraising evidence, and when necessary, developing evidence related to best practices aimed at providing the best care possible for their patients and families.

Their efforts have included projects such as: Kathleen Barnett, RN, MSN, CNS, and the staff of the post operative unit have implemented the use of P-6 acupressure as an adjuvant to treating post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV). This effort has been expanded by Kristin Cantrell, MSN, Greg McLanahan, M.D. and the nurses involved in the care of patients undergoing surgery, by developing best evidence protocol for patients at high risk for PONV. Jessica Bahorski, RN, MSN, PNP-BC and a team of pediatric nurses are conducting a large research study to determine what interventions are most effective for decreasing pain and distress associated with needle sticks in children based on a child’s gender and age.

Donna Florence, RN, MS, CNS, Andrea Powers, CRNA, family care nurses, and Barbara Cottrell, MSN, ARNP, FSU College of Nursing faculty member, conducted a quality improvement project to determine which of three medications was most effective in mitigating intense itching, an uncomfortable side effect of an epidural medication often experienced by their labor patients.

And, the most recent collaboration among Cara Pappas, ND, ARNP, FSU College of Nursing faculty member, Stephen Quintero, MD, FSU College of Medicine faculty member and Medical Director of the TMH Transition Center, Judy Griffin, ARNP, TMH Transition Center and Dean Watson, MD, TMH Chief Medical Officer, addresses ways to improve outcomes for those with chronic conditions and limited resources.

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»culture SOCIAL STUDIES A Night In The Tropics April 27, 2013 2-1-1 Big Bend held its annual fundraiser April 27 at the Tallahassee Antique Automobile Museum. “A Night In The Tropics” was the theme for the event, which consisted of casino-style games, a BBQ dinner, games, silent auction, dancing and more. // Lynda Belcher

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Played on a clay court surface, the event brought out many of Tallahassee’s tennis aficionados to enjoy top-level competition among players looking to make it to the U.S. Open. // Caroline Conway

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From a lively parade to the numerous vendors lining the downtown area, the festival was the culmination of several weeks’ worth of celebratory events marking the springtime season. // Caroline Conway Raoul Clarke and Pat Greene

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»culture SOCIAL STUDIES American Cancer Society Spring Garden Party April 18, 2013 Local members of the American Cancer Society gathered for an evening of foods, drinks and to raise awareness of the local chapter’s ongoing efforts and events at the annual Spring Garden Party. // Lynda Belcher

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»culture SOCIAL STUDIES Boys & Girls Club 2013 Kids Soiree April 4, 2013 The Tallahassee Boys & Girls Club hosted its annual Kids Soiree fundraising event April 4 at the Tallahassee Automobile Museum.

The keynote speaker for the event was ESPN College GameDay Analyst Desmond Howard. The event also included a silent auction with an array of items, including memorabilia autographed by Taylor Swift, One Direction, Muhammad Ali and more. // Caroline Conway Letreze Gooding and Michelle Wilson

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Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts Oscar Party February 24, 2013 A little bit of Hollywood came to Tallahassee Sunday, February 24 at Hotel Duval with the Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts Oscar Watch Party. This annual event screens several films that have ties to the Tallahassee area and invites students, alumni and donors to enjoy food, drinks and festivities. // Photos courtesy of Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts Samantha and Wes Strickland and Amanda and David Broadfoot

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»culture SOCIAL STUDIES Children’s Home Society Chef’s Sampler April 21, 2013 More than 45 local restaurants provided samples to a massive crowd at the Children’s Home Society’s Chef’s Sampler fundraiser at Tallahassee Mall on Sunday, April 21. This annual event also boasted live jazz and a kids zone for attendees to enjoy as they feasted on seafood, steak, dessert and more. // Lynda Belcher Mike Bailey, Gloria and Dean Pugh

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Celebration Awards Dinner March 28, 2013 The Celebration Awards Dinner was held at the University Center Club on March 28 in honor of Doctor’s Day. Two local doctors were honored at the dinner: David Miles and Dean Watson. // Betsy Barfield Photography

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»culture SOCIAL STUDIES Network of Young Professionals Golden A.C.E. Awards Gala March 23, 2013 The Network of Young Professionals held its Golden A.C.E. Awards Gala at Hotel Duval on Saturday, March 23. This annual event recognizes the achievements of several young professionals in the community. DJ Scully kept the crowd dancing and attendees took the opportunity to network throughout the event.

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Haute Headz Fashion For A Cure March 2, 2013 Haute Headz salon opened up its new location at Betton Place for a “Haute Starry Night” fashion show to raise awareness for Nicolette Hoffman for the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America.

Attendees were treated to clothing displays from Narcissus, Cole Couture, Olde Fields and more. Bumble and Bumble gift bags and a cocktail reception were offered to VIP guests. // Lynda Belcher

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Tallahassee’s glitterati were out in full force at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare’s Golden Gala event, held May 1 at the Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center. Musical guest Maroon 5 made this one of the hottest entertainment tickets of the year; guests also enjoyed free-flowing cocktails before an extraordinary dinner amidst a fully-transformed exhibit hall space, where event planner John Gandy completely transformed the space with plenty of fragrant flowers, white sheathes of airy fabric and festive twinkling lights. However, the true talk of the evening revolved around the Oscar-worthy fashion adorning many of the ladies, from sexy, sophisticated cocktail dresses to floor-length evening gowns worthy of a red carpet. Following dinner, the band rocked the crowd for two complete sets, delighting the audience with some of its biggest hits, including “Moves Like Jagger” and their current smash single “Daylight.” Among those working the crowd were City Commissioner Andrew and R. Jai Gillum, TMH CEO and President Mark O’Bryant, TMH Foundation CEO and President Paula Fortunas, Drs. Michael Forsthoefel and Jana Bures-Forsthoefel, Blythe Waters Newsome, David Campbell, Dr. Shawn Ramsey, Centennial Bank Tallahassee Market President Matt Brown, Khanty Xayabouth, Monica Corbett and Dr. Joe Camp. Also spotted in the crowd were Dr. Larry and Connie Harper, Dr. Ken Kato and Nan Nagy and Dr. Lou and Calynne Hill (she was wearing a maroon net dress — in honor of the entertainment — custom-made by Caroline Heidenreich’s Mae Couture).

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On April 13, friends and family gathered to celebrate the engagement of Brittany Allen and Bradley Jackson at the lakeside home of longtime friend and Florida Lottery Secretary Cindy O’Connell. Co-hosts included the groom-to-be’s parents, Erwin and Stefanie Jackson as well as his grandmother, Charlotte Weaver of Boynton Beach. Bradley’s brother and best man, Brian Jackson, made the trip from Tampa to attend the event. Representing the Allens were Brittany’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Allen and her

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Brittany and Bradley met in the fall of 2003 during a Springtime Tallahassee Belles & Gents party when he was a senior at Lincoln and she was a sophomore at Chiles. Bradley became the 2004 Mr. Springtime Tallahassee and in 2006, Brittany became Miss Springtime Tallahassee. The July 6th wedding will make history, as their union will mark the first time a Mr. Springtime and Miss Springtime will become man and wife!

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With a whisper of the secret password, guests were admitted to The Dapper Ball at Alchemy Spirits & Concoctions and transported to an era gone by with a lavish affair reminiscent of the infamous parties we read about in “The Great Gatsby.”

Attendees got in the Roaring ’20s mood with a screening of the 1974 film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic as well as live Big Band entertainment and a burlesque show. Erin and Rachel taught partygoers the finer points of the Charleston when they weren’t performing in several naughty costumes they handcrafted for the event. Also handcrafted were the cocktails, including one of the night’s most popular, The Clover Club, made with gin, dry vermouth, lemon juice, turbinado syrup, fresh raspberries and egg whites. Festively attired attendees included Dayne Catalano, Randy Esponda, Alexandra Allen, Martina Zango, Steve Leacock, Brian Walker, Jenn Wells, Matt Shields, Martina Zango, Adrianna Juran, Shelby Berson and Marsha Nix. Ginna Raymer of Sage Restaurant served up pastries while the guys and dolls were kept well lubricated by Alchemists Joey Viola, Kevin Emmanuel, Patrick Caine Ake, Dennis Mason, Michael Pelt, Nathaniel Compton and Evan Bown.

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On April 4, the LeMoyne Center for the Visual Arts was the site of a special book signing and reception honoring the Father of American Opera (and Tallahassee’s own) Carlisle Floyd. In addition to culinary delights and edible art, Floyd and his biographer, Thomas Holliday, signed copies of the book, “Falling Up.” Guests were treated to Floyd’s music, readings from the book and a Q&A session with the composer. Among those attending were Sallie Ausley, Lina Knox, Terrie and Bobby Brooks, Dick Puckett, Shems and Eric Hamilton, Ken and Kathleen McDermott, Norma and Lenny Maestrogiacomo, Ann and Greg Choppin, Carla Connors and Mart Hill. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Goodwood Museum and Gardens’ Carriage House was the place to be April 10, when the book “Coco Chanel:The Legend and the Life” by Justine Picardie was reviewed by Dr. Susan Fiorito. Attending were Anne Rowe, Mary Anne Moore and Almena Pettit. Eleanor Connan spoke about her years of

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Comedian Jeff Foxworthy — of “you might be a redneck fame” — came to Tallahassee and raised $220,000 for the Kidz1st Fund at a private fundraiser hosted by Hale’s Place Plantation. Kidz1st is the charity started by Florida State Head Football Coach Jimbo and Candi Fisher to support Fanconi Anemia research, the rare disease that affects their son, Ethan. The guest list included Minnesota Vikings’ quarterback and FSU great Christian Ponder, Dustin Hopkins, Carrie and Curtis Zimmerman, Devoe and Shirley Moore, Coach Mike and Carol Martin, Jim and Carole Smith, Les and Ruth Akers, Bill and Cherie Hodges, David Ramba, Andy Haggard, Randy and Becky Spetman, Chuck and Ann Roberts and many members of the FSU coaching staff. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Josie Gustafson enjoyed a long “girls’ weekend” to celebrate her birthday at Alys Beach. Enjoying the fun times were Bri Smith, Terra Palmer, Brady Thompson, Elizabeth Hightower, Autumn Mayfield, Heidi Valveri and Sara Merrill. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Tallahassee Police officers traded uniforms for dressy evening attire May 11 when they were honored at the 2013 Police Ball, presented by the Tallahassee Citizens’ Police Academy Alumni Association’s (TCPAAA). This year’s event, chaired by Kristine Lamont, was held at the University Center Club, with Lt. James Fairfield as emcee. TPD Chief Dennis Jones and TCPAAA President Erik Sayler, joined in to recognize three outstanding officers.

Officer David Aldridge, Patrol Field Training, was named 2013 Officer of the Year. Finalists were Investigator Sonya Bush, Criminal Investigations and Investigator Brianne Shaut, Special Investigations.

The Tallahassee Democrat, Capital City Bank, FSU Credit Union, Redwire, Star & Shield Services, LLC, Bank of America, Dr. David Bellamy of TOC and Durra-Quick Printing all helped underwrite the annual event, along with numerous in-kind donors.

Those enjoying the celebration, along with officers and their families, included Tallahassee’s City Manager Anita FavorsThompson and Larry Thompson, Commissioner Nancy Miller and John Bus, Commissioner Gil Ziffer and Gail Stansberry-Ziffer, former Second Circuit Court Judge Josefina Tamayo, Roxy and Scott O’Brien, Dr. Patrick and Kathy Cook, Rick Minor and Jessica Lowe-Minor, Jeannie Booth and Mark Wallheiser, Wayne and Sandra Poppell, Jana Sayler, Cathy Kohnke, former City commissioner John Paul Bailey and past School Board member Donna Harper.

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Area breast cancer survivors were celebrated at the Second Annual Rock the Pink LipSync, held at the American Legion Hall on April 21. The event netted $7,000 to benefit the Tallahassee Memorial Sharon Ewing Walker Breast Health Center, represented by TMH Foundation President/CEO and Janet Borneman. A team of volunteers treated guests to a colorful lineup of performances and silent auction. Attendees enjoyed a light dinner, donated by Little Caesars Pizza and Refreshment Services Pepsi. Guests also nibbled on a variety of sweets donated by local businesses.

Rocking the stage were the Chrome Divas, Elizabeth Mack, Seminole Women’s Rugby Club, Noah Kant-Rauch, Pam and Onbrea Maldonado, TMH Foundation Rockettes (Flecia McCoy, Judi Taber, Latonya Townsend and Brianna Negrete), the Jewcy Girls (Stefanie Posner and Heather Kufert), Temple Israel’s Junior Youth Group, Women’s Belly Dance Center, Julia Banfill, Emily Fenton, Miranda Vanderberg, Rocky Hanna and City Commissioner Gil Ziffer and the Ziffettes (Colette Washington, Joanne Suggs, Laurie Hartsfield, Gail Stansberry-Ziffer and Raoul Lavin).

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Spring was in its full glory on the evening of April 26 for the Second Annual Pay-it-Forward Fish Fry to benefit the Big Bend Homeless Coalition’s HOPE Community and Home Front for Veterans programs. Kleman Plaza was the perfect setting for the sold-out event that featured a scrumptious dinner prepared, and fully underwritten, by presenting sponsor 101 Restaurant and Lounge. Board members helped serve guests along with the 101 staff. Local bands American Honey, Wanderfoot and the Sarah Mac Band entertained throughout the beautiful evening.

Among the hundreds of folks enjoying the beautiful evening were Virginia Glass, Nan O’Kelley, State Rep. Alan Williams, City Commissioner Andrew Gillum, County Commissioners Nick Maddox and John Dailey, Dr. David Kahn and family, Torrio Osborne, Kristen Black, Kanty Xayabouth, Yolanda Fairell, Elizabeth Mack, Eduardo Marti Kring and BBHC Director Susan Pourciau. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Sunny skies and a cool breeze provided the perfect backdrop for the 19th Annual Tour of Gardens, presented by the Friends of Maclay Gardens, Inc. On May 16, tour co-chairs Jennifer Humayun and Stephanie Wilfong and a team of volunteers hosted a thank-you reception at the charming Gardener’s Cottage in Maclay Gardens for the couples who opened their gardens to the public. On Saturday, May 18, the tour began with a continental breakfast, silent auction and plant sale at Maclay Gardens. Then it was off to the self-paced tour of eight unique gardens spread around the community.

More than 50 volunteers and Gardens staff coordinated the benefit and assisted as educational resources. Thirty-two Master Gardeners were stationed in each garden along the tour to assist the homeowners and public by providing helpful tips and insights.

Gardeners who opened their private gardens were Carol and Marc Fisher, Carolyn and Dean Dandria, Rick and Michele Buchanan, Deborah Lawson, John and Libby Penrod, Scott and Candy Strand, Mary Doug and Bob Wilgus, Gil Ziffer and Gail Stansberry-Ziffer. n

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t’s Tuesday morning. You have a stack of paperwork in front of you that’s taller than your 3-year-old nephew, a phone that refuses to stop ringing, mid-morning hunger pangs, deteriorating mental clarity and (if we’re being honest here) maybe even a case of the grumps. Looking for a quick fix? The solution to your tale of woe is quite simple: Food is fuel, your tank seems to be running a little low and it’s past time to fill ’er up.

These uncomfortable symptoms of a missed breakfast are common ailments for those of us living life on the go. If you count yourself amongst the rushed, chances are eating a wellrounded breakfast isn’t at the top of your to-do list. Yet, perhaps it should be — because after all, isn’t prevention better than a cure?

It certainly is, according to Sarah A. Johnson, MS, RD, CSO, an instructor and doctoral candidate with Florida State University’s Department of Nutrition.

Johnson said the easiest way to get the most out of your day, from start to finish, is to begin on a full stomach by introducing energy-giving fresh protiens and dietary fibers into your system.

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Smoothie Sailing » 1 ½ cups reduced-fat milk » 1 tablespoon confectioners’ sugar » 2 bananas » 2 cups frozen whole strawberries (do not thaw)

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“While you’re sleeping your body uses up its reserves pretty quickly and then turns to breaking down muscle,” Johnson said. “By having breakfast, you can stop this from happening.”

The science behind breakfast is actually pretty intuitive and can be traced to the origin of the word “breakfast” itself. Derived from the Old English word “morgenmete,” (translated as “morning meal”) our modern term of “breakfast” literally means to break the fast from the night before. Its practice is a necessary truth recognized by the English-speaking world for centuries — who are we to deny its validity now?

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We gave you the why, now here’s the how Crisp Quesadillas » 1 teaspoon butter » 2 large whole-wheat flour tortillas » ½ cup grated medium cheddar cheese » 1 Granny Smith apple

Directions: Wash and cut apple into several thin slices.

Melt butter in large skillet, coating the bottom completely.

Place one tortilla in pan and sprinkle with shredded cheddar cheese. Arrange apple slices evenly. Top with second tortilla. Flip quesadilla, letting each side cook for 60 seconds. Yields 4 servings. total time: 5 minutes

A+ Yogurt » Single serving Greek yogurt of choice (try vanilla) » ¼ cup toasted almonds » 2 tablespoons raspberry preserves » 1 teaspoon honey

Directions: Slowly mix all four ingredients together.

Multiply serving size as needed. Enjoy. Yields 1 serving. total time: 2 minutes

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intake. However, skipping the morning meal could lead to overeating throughout the day — an act that often more than makes up for any calories saved by initially going without.

By now you’re undoubtedly looking to change your lackadaisical weekday breakfast regimen. (And why not? You could feel better, think better and maybe even look better.) The first step in breakfast rehabilitation is to, in short, accept the fact that Mom was right — breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. Whether you’re headed to the classroom or the boardroom, opting to start your day out on “E” will put you at a disadvantage both physically and mentally. A health-conscious meal in the morning can offer your taste buds a treat and be chock-full of everything you need to give your day the kick-start it deserves.

There’s never been a better time to start. As the slow-paced days of summer draw to an end and a new school year approaches, weekday morning routines all across Tallahassee will get a little more hectic. Before the madness sets in, start incorporating daily breakfast into everyone’s schedule. Making the change now will allow for a smoother transition as schedules get fuller and will increase the likelihood of breakfast becoming a lasting morning ritual in your household.

Remember, as good as it is for you to start your day out full, it’s even more important for your little ones to get the appropriate vittles and sustenance they need to maintain proper brain function.

“It’s extremely important for children to eat breakfast,” Johnson said. “Studies have shown that when children don’t consume breakfast before going to school they don’t pay attention as well, they don’t concentrate, they don’t work as efficiently and they don’t learn as much.”

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The rewards of waking up a few minutes early go far beyond your taste buds. So shrug off the sleepiness and excuses, folks, you’ve just made a date with breakfast. And with these scrumptious, on-the-go recipes by your side, it’s an occasion you won’t want to miss. n

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228 S. Adams St. (850) 222-3444. $$$ D Avenue Eat & Drink American Fusion. A chic restaurant offering a melting pot of flavors fresh from the South, served in scrumptious dining presentations. Sunday brunch is a not-to-be-missed treat. 115 E. Park Ave. (850) 224-0115. $$$ B L D Cypress Restaurant ★ New Southern. Voted “Best Fine Dining” and “Best Special Occasion” by Tallahassee Magazine readers in 2012.

Sophisticated Southern regional dining in a contemporary, metropolitan setting.

Menu features chef-cut fish and aged meats, fresh in-house preparations, a comprehensive wine list and full bar. Valet parking available at night.

320 E. Tennessee St. (850) 513-1100. $$$ D Food Glorious Food ★ American. Choose from several savory soups, nearly a dozen salads and a great selection of sandwiches and pastas with hot entrées representing a variety of world cuisines. Heavenly dessert concoctions — voted “Best Dessert” and “Best Outdoor Dining” in 2012 by Tallahassee Magazine readers — will please even the most discriminating diner. 1950 Thomasville Road. (850) 224-9974. $$$ L D Georgio’s American. If George Koikos is in the house, you can count on a visit to your table from him during your meal. His hands-on commitment to quality, food, service and a personal touch have kept his restaurants in business for more than 45 years.

2971 Apalachee Parkway. (850) 877-3211. $$$ D The Front Porch Southern, Seafood. The Front Porch is known as much for its fresh Florida seafood as it is the extensive outside dining. The locally owned restaurant has a casual, contemporary vibe. Enjoy the Southern hospitality as you slurp mouth-watering oysters at the raw bar.

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MICCOSUKEE ROOT CELLAR Fusion. With its hand-hewn décor, organic menu items and seemingly endless supply of artisan crafted beer and wine, the Miccosukee Root Cellar is the place to go when a fresh twist on tradition is what the taste buds order. Menu options include gourmet cheese boards, lemon-roasted Gulf snapper, short ribs and crème brulee.

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(850) 597-7419. $$ D Mockingbird Café Fusion. Enjoy hand-cut steaks and Gulf seafood along with American regional, Mediterranean, Asian and Middle Eastern dishes in an upscale refined atmosphere.

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Specialty Andrew’s Capital Grill and Bar American. Andrew’s, a Downtown landmark for 40 years, is an energetic, casual, see-and-be-seen spot. House favorites include a popular lunch buffet, hamburgers, sandwiches, salads and pasta dishes. Downtown delivery. 228 S. Adams St. (850) 222-3444/Fax (850) 222-2433. $$ B L D

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food made this Midtown dining hotspot the “Best Italian” winner in 2012. Try their famous Bubble Bread and delicious pasta specials. Catering available. 123 E. 5th Ave. (850) 412-1114. $$ L D EL JALISCO ★ Mexican. With two-for-one margaritas most nights of the week, where can you go wrong? And the food, named “Best Mexican/Latin American” in 2012, is great too. Endless chips and salsa complement any menu item; the chicken quesadillas and beef tamales will keep you coming back for more. 2022 N. Monroe St. (850) 878-0800; 2915-301 Kerry Forest Pkwy. (850) 668-1002 and 6497 Apalachee Pkwy. (850) 402-0733. $$ L D HASU Asian. Hasu offers nutritiously prepared sushi that comes with a great, welcoming atmosphere for those dining in as well as carrying out. Two convenient locations.

3551 Blairstone Road, Suite 132 (850) 671-4278; 1400 Village Square Blvd., Suite 14 (850) 893-4278. $$ L D JOE MAMA’S WOOD FIRED PIZZA Italian. Crisp ingredients. Freshly prepared pizza dough. Traditional Tuscan woodfired oven. What more could you ask for?

Originally coming to us from our neighbors in Port St. Joe, Joe Mama’s offers quintessential casual Italian dining.

307 N. Monroe St. (850) 577-1231 $L D ; Kiku Japanese Fusion. With a wide selection of sushi rolls and traditional Japanese dishes, Kiku caters to a variety of tastes. 3491 Thomasville Road Suite 12. (850) 222-5458. $$ L D

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Kool Beanz ★ Fusion. This colorful and casual spot has been serving up gourmet dishes since 1996. Diners can expect delicious modern American cuisine, as well as dishes influenced by the worldwide travels of the kitchen staff. Menus change daily so guests can expect something new with each visit.

921 Thomasville Road. (850) 224-2466. $$/$$$ L D Masa ★ Asian Fusion. This sister restaurant to Lucy Ho’s serves up a creative menu with items such as Chilean Sea Bass with mango salsa, Tropical Fruit, Sweet and Sour Chicken and a Fried Cheesecake Roll. In 2012, Masa repeated its win in the “Best Asian” and “Best Sushi” categories. Enjoy an extensive selection of wine, beer and sake in a dark, original and casual dining setting. 1001 N. Monroe St. (850) 847-0003. $/$$ L D

Old Town Café American. Southern hospitality is embedded throughout this family-owned restaurant. Mom’s meatloaf with mashed potatoes and green beans makes you feel like you’re home, not to mention their world famous prime rib, which slowly roasts all day. 1415 Timberlane Road.

(850) 893-5741. $$ L D Osaka Japanese Steakhouse and Sushi Bar ★ Japanese. Knives flash and patrons gasp as talented hibachi chefs “play” with your food while creating delicious chicken, steak and seafood dishes in front of you. Voted “Best Hibachi” by readers of Tallahassee Magazine. 1690 Raymond Diehl Road.

(850) 531-0222. $$$ D Paisley Café ★ American. Guilt-free lunch has never been easier since this “Best Locally Owned New Business” has served up food with seven natural ingredients or less. Where plantain chips replace greasy potato chips and the tea is sweetened only with Florida cane sugar, this new Midtown spot boasts a fresh bakery and garden full of wholesome treats. 1123 @ Midtown on Thomasville Road. (850) 385-7268 $ L THE WINE LOFT Wine Bar ★ American. Enjoy delicious items off the small plate menu and a vast selection of wines in a chic, sophisticated atmosphere.

The Wine Loft boasts a generous array of more than 50 wines by the glass and more than 70 by the bottle that earned it “Best Wine List” honors in 2012. 1240 Thomasville Road, Suite 100. (850) 222-9914. thewinelofttallahassee.net. $$ D

Family/Casual CANOPY ROAD CAFÉ American. Combine fresh ingredients, made-to-order dishes and a welcoming staff, and you have the components of a deliciously successful restaurant. This casual, family-style restaurant proclaims itself a “greasy-spoon diner meets modern Southern cafe.” 1913 N. Monroe St. (850) 668-6600; 4500 Shannon Lakes Road (850) 893-0466. $ B L CHICKEN SALAD CHICK Southern. Chicken Salad Chick offers customers a “custom-fit” chicken salad experience, with 15 original flavors to choose from, as well as gourmet soups, flavorful side salads and freshly baked desserts. 1410 Market Street, D-3.

(850) 894-2502. $ L D Hopkins’ Eatery ★ American. Sandwiches, salads, delicious sweets and more. Voted “Best Deli” by

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My Grandmother’s Potato Salad Salad » 4 cups potatoes, cut in 1/2 inch squares » 1 onion » 1 apple, cut into 1/2 inch squares » 1 cup mayonnaise (homemade) » 1 jar sliced pimentos » 1 small can early peas » 1 cup celery, diced

Mayonnaise » 1 raw egg » 1 teaspoon lemon juice »½ teaspoon ground mustard » 1 /8 teaspoon ground pepper » 1 clove garlic diced very fine » 1 cup olive oil

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Homemade Potato Salad Just Like Mom (and Grandma) Makes It

By Laura Bradley

POTATO SALAD is one of America’s favorite casual side dishes, especially in the summer when we serve it up at barbecues, cookouts, pool parties and more. While it is certainly an all-American classic now, this starchy side has its origins in Europe, where many versions of the dish exist.

After the Spanish brought potatoes back from the New World, most sources point to Germany as the first country to turn these new crops into a salad. German potato salad is served warm with a dressing of vinegar, onions and bacon drippings, rather than the mayonnaise most American families know. The French, rather than using vinegar, made a full vinaigrette with vinegar, Dijon mustard and sweet tarragon. The Greeks are known to serve their potato salads warm with garlic, lemon and olive oil. If you’re getting bored with your approach, perhaps give another country’s take a whirl.

Potato salad as we know and love it here in the United States has its origins in the late 19th century, when European immigrants adapted their traditional recipes to use local ingredients.

Mayonnaise first made its appearance in the recipes starting in the 1940s. Now, cooks add such garnishes as hard-boiled eggs, mustard, celery, pimento, onion, parsley and chives, depending on tastes and preferences.

This family recipe goes back to my grandmother. The mayonnaise is homemade and uses raw egg. The egg should be cooked by the acid in the lemon juice, and I can confirm that everyone in my family is still alive and well with no death scares, but those leery of raw eggs are welcome to use store-bought mayonnaise (if possible, give the olive oil-based mayo a try — the flavor is surprisingly different). n

Mayonnaise Preparation In a blender, place egg, mustard, pepper, garlic and lemon juice.

Pulse to combine. Add olive oil in slow, steady stream until thickened.

Chill until cold.

Salad Preparation Peel and boil the potatoes, adding salt to taste, until just cooked. Chill the potatoes with the onion (quartered) to flavor them. Remove the onion once potatoes are completely cold. Combine the potato, apple and celery in a large bowl. Stir in mayonnaise. Chill until serving. Just before serving, garnish with pimento slices and early peas.

StAY SAFE

Potato salad is a staple for outdoor dining, but it’s also vulnerable to bacteria growth. While mayonnaise is usually blamed, potatoes that aren’t immediately chilled after cooking can be a source of contamination, too. Carry potato salad in a well-chilled cooler that’s stored out of the sunlight until serving time. The rule of thumb is that potato salad should only be left out for a maximum of two hours — and that drops to one hour if the temperature is above 90 degrees.

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Paisley’s proprietor Kiersten Worrell (left) has teamed up with her sister, Shannon Moore, to create “Clean 24” menu items (shown here) suggested as part of Moore’s F.U.E.L. Nutrition practice.

Labor of Love At Paisley Café, It’s All About Relationships

By Laura Bradley

There is something inviting about Midtown’s Paisley Café. The cozy layout and delicious smells create a relaxing atmosphere, and owner Kiersten Worrell wants to make sure everyone feels at home.

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Last January, after 19 years of happily working in banking, Worrell made a decision that would puzzle most of her friends and family: She decided to open a restaurant. Without formal culinary training, it was Worrell’s passion for cooking at home and a sense of fate that drove her.

“Something just kind of came over me,” she remembered. “Lightning struck.”

Worrell expressed an admiration for Tallahassee’s local restaurants, emphasizing how many delicious options the city has to offer. But, she added, she sensed there was room for something a little different. Paisley Café stresses simple food, prepared slowly and with care. Diners will not find sandwiches piled high with toppings, served two minutes after an order is placed. Chef Mike Stanley explained that the restaurant has an a la minute kitchen, meaning everything is made from scratch to order. Additionally, the restaurant uses locally sourced ingredients as much as possible and even makes some components — like the sensationally warm, smooth apple butter — in-house.

Worrell pointed out that the extra care is well worth it, and that good food really can turn customers’ days around. “If you make it beautiful and taste amazing, it can change their mood,” she said, adding later that the most rewarding part of owning the restaurant is seeing the effect it has on

people. “It’s about nourishing someone physically and emotionally,” she said.

In addition to its fresh selections, Paisley Café has teamed up with sister operation (as in, run

by Worrell’s sister, dietician/nutritionist Shannon Moore) F.U.E.L. Nutrition to provide the new options to “clean” eaters in Tallahassee.

“We started a menu that we’re incorporating in our own … It’s called the ‘Clean 24,’ and we’re going to rotate that into our menu so that people can get clean options,” Worrell explained.

Clean eating involves maintaining a chemicalfree diet. The idea is to eat natural foods, like plants and even meats that have not been processed or altered in any way. Clean eaters in Tallahassee can expect the same Paisley style and delicious flavors with these wholesome menu items.

The restaurant is tucked in the back of Midtown’s salmon-colored 1123 building, with small tables inside and a charming garden area for outdoor dining.

Whatever customers order, the most important thing to Worrell is the lasting effect the meal has on their days.

“This is my heart,” she smiled. “I want our food to have a comfort to people, but I also want them to remember that it’s an experience here. There’s a lot of love.” n

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the readers of Tallahassee Magazine in 2012. 1660 N. Monroe St. (850) 386-4258; 1415 Market St. (850) 668-0311 and 1208 Capital Circle S.E. (850) 325-6422. hopkinseatery.com. $ L JERSEY MIKE’S American. With the atmosphere of a classic sub shop, Jersey Mike’s serves up fresh-sliced, authentic Northeast-style subs (with some of the best fresh-baked bread in town). 1801 W. Tennessee St., (850) 765-0712; 3122 Mahan Drive No. 301, (850) 727-5358; 1970 Gainsborough Lane, SouthWood. (850) 765-1259; 1355 Market St., Suite A6, (850) 320-6210. $ L D Juicy Blue American Tapas. In the new Four Points

by Sheraton Downtown this cool newcomer offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. Unique offerings include tapas with a unique twist like the Georgia Caramel. Sandwiches, salads and a nice variety of seafood, pasta and chicken dishes round out the menu.

Local coffee bar Redeye is located in the lobby. 316 W. Tennessee St. (850) 422-0071. $B L D MOMO’S ★ Pizza. Boasting the largest pizza you’ll find in Tallahassee, Momo’s offers big flavor that’s gotten a “Best Of” award in 2012.

Fill yourself up with a slice for yourself or order a pie to share. 1410 Market St. (850) 412-0222 and 1416 W. Tennessee St. (850) 224-9808. $ L D Po’ Boys Tallahassee ★ Cajun. Along with its New Orleans-themed atmosphere, Po’ Boys Creole Café provides an assortment of Southern Louisianastyled dishes with savory favorites like jambalaya, seafood gumbo and red beans ‘n’ rice. Daily specials include a full-service Sunday brunch and a Monday Kids Night. Catering, private rooms and group seating available. 224 E. College Ave. (850) 224-5400; 1425 Village Square Blvd.

(850) 906-0020; and 1944 W. Pensacola St. (850) 574-4144. poboys.com $$ L D Pepper’s Mexican Grill & Cantina Mexican. It’s a fiesta every day at Pepper’s. Enjoy mariachi music as you chow down on fajitas, enchiladas, quesadillas and other Mexican specialties served with their homemade sauces.

1140 Capital Circle S.E. (850) 877-2020. $L D Sonny’s Real Pit Bar-B-Q ★ Barbecue. Enjoy Sonny’s “feel good” barbecue and special sauces. Voted “Best Barbecue” in 2012. 3101 Dick Wilson Blvd., (850) 878-1185; 2707 N. Monroe St. (850) 385-2167 and 1460 Timberlane Road (850) 906-9996. $ L D

THE LUNCH BOX American. This iconic little café conveniently nestled at the corner of Mahan and Magnolia offers up home-style breakfasts and plenty of lunch items to choose from. Dine in, take out and outdoor seating is available. 295 N. Magnolia Drive.

(850) 942-9766. $ B L TOMATOLAND ★ American. This takeout-only deli offers comfort food staples for breakfast and lunch such as quiches, a variety of salads and sandwiches, and a daily blue-plate special. Pick up some chicken tetrazinni or eggplant Parmesan for dinner.

1847 Thomasville Road. (850) 425-8416. $L D UP IN SMOKE PIT BBQ Barbecue. While their barbecue is certainly succulent, Up in Smoke’s other menu options — including fried green tomatoes, meatloaf and grilled salmon — cater to even the pickiest of palates.

402 Tennessee St. (850) 597-7964. $B L D

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Harry’s Seafood Bar & Grill Cajun. A New Orleans dining experience you won’t soon forget! Delicious Creole cuisine, fresh seafood and steaks, rich pastas, sensational salads and more.

301 S. Bronough St. (850) 222-3976. $$ L D Marie Livingston’s Steakhouse ★ Steak. This restaurant specializes in steak — named Tallahassee’s “Best Steakhouse” once again in 2012 — but also serves seafood. Marie Livingston’s has a sophisticated decor, and the menu offers quality and value. 2705 Apalachee Parkway. (850) 562-2525. $$ L D Shula’s 347 Steak. The legendary Miami Dolphins’ head coach brings his philosophy for winning football games — the quest for perfection — to the dining table at his namesake restaurant, located in Hotel Duval. Keep it light and casual with Premium Black Angus Beef burgers or a gourmet salad or opt for one of their signature entrées — “Shula Cut” steaks.

Reservations are suggested.

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13 Dresses

I was in my first wedding when I was 13 and had no idea at the time that serving as a bridesmaid would eventually be added to my list of life skills. Since 1994, I have been bestowed with this honor 12 more times, twice with the highest title — Maid of Honor.

Truth be told, I love weddings. The dancing, the cocktails, the parties, the happiness … the holding up one of your best friends while she hovers over the toilet in her ridiculously heavy wedding dress.

Ah, the things we do for love and friendship.

Being a bridesmaid is not something one should enter into lightly. The commitment is fierce and obligations many. Prepare yourself for between nine months and a year of parties, showers, dress shopping, drink mixing, bachelorette party planning, ex-boyfriend spotting, drama minimizing and dress bustling. Fall short on just one of these duties, and you could have an epic meltdown on your hands. Luckily for me, I mix a fantastic Jack and Diet and have great timing with inappropriate jokes, a combo that can defuse most any volatile situation.

While serving as a maid, I’ve had pretty dresses and not-so-pretty dresses, bows, pleats and ruffles. Each dress was thought out and planned by the bride, in accordance with the theme, colors and style of each wedding. Each bride weighed out style vs. cost and tried to take into consideration that not each maid has the same body type. In short, effort was made.

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By Caroline Conway

My dresses looked great in the before photos, had a gleaming moment of glory walking down the aisle, then hit the reception looking for a party.

Sadly, when worn by me, they didn’t make it through the wedding day unscathed, victims of impalement by decorations, sloshing red wine, sparkler burn holes and Whataburger fancy ketchup. They never had the chance of “maybe I can wear it again.”

A videographer should never, under any circumstances, conduct interviews with your guests, especially the groomsmen. This could haunt you forever.

Each wedding has given me little nuggets of wisdom that I have stored away in my brain for future use.

Gems like drunken people and sparklers don’t mix. No exceptions (see note above). Or, when

you have an outdoor wedding in the summer in the South and your bridesmaids have big hair, don’t act all surprised when you get your pictures. You had it coming for getting married outside with 99 percent humidity.

If you have an open bar, someone will inevitably “slip on an olive” and fall down on the dance floor. Just keep dancing. No need to call more attention the situation. It’s likely they’ll have no idea it happened tomorrow anyway. And a videographer should never, under any circumstances, conduct interviews with your guests, especially the groomsmen. This could haunt you forever. You could learn things about your new spouse that you didn’t want to know. Believe it.

Lastly, make it very clear which basket contains the party gifts for your guests and which holds what your guests will throw at the bride and groom on their way out. Almonds leave bruises.

Each wedding has been very different.

Southern chic, huge and extravagant, small and intimate, sweet and simple, destination … .

While the themes and ambiance are different, the goal is always the same: getting married and having a fantastic party with the people that you love the most. I consider myself lucky to have such amazing friends and couldn’t be happier that I have shared in so many “big days.” Cheers to the next 13! n

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