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BRAIN SURGERY THROUGH YOUR THIGH.

NO, WE’RE NOT PULLING YOUR LEG.

Tallahassee Memorial is one of a few hospitals in the country — and the only hospital between New Orleans and Jacksonville — with board-certified neurosurgeons who perform endovascular neurosurgery, removing blood clots and repairing aneurysms without opening the skull.

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WHEN TWO OF THE BEST HOSPITALS PARTNER TOGETHER — GUESS WHO WINS? YOUR CHILD.

TMH PROUDLY AFFILIATES WITH WOLFSON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL Ranked among the nation’s best children’s hospitals, Wolfson Children’s Hospital of Jacksonville serves children from all over the world with the latest advancements in pediatric specialty care.

Through this new affiliation, Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare and Wolfson Children’s Hospital are working together to shape the future of care for kids throughout the region.

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THEIR LONG AND WINDING ROADS

MAY/JUNE 2016

THEIR LONG AND WINDING ROADS

We check in with senior seniors among us.

We check in with senior seniors among us

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TALKING OUR TOWN'S INFRASTRUCTURE

CHASING TALL ODDS ON FIELDS OF PLAY

TALKING OUR TOWN'S INFRASTRUCTURE

Public projects are pivotal in the life of a community.

Public projects are pivotal in the life of a community

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27 PLAY BALL The editor takes a nostalgic trip around the bases.

32 CHAMPION

Jack Levine fosters exchanges of wisdom and energy among generations.

36 AERIAL PHOTO

A captivating image of a gator caught sunning on a mild March day.

38 PERSONALITY Mark

Zeigler serves FSU as professor, promoter and public speaker.

42 HEALTH & EXERCISE Yoga, around for ages, is showing up in new places.

44 GREAT OUTDOORS

Skunks are no longer seen — or otherwise detected — as much as they used to be.

48 EDUCATION After

38 years, Leon High School choral music teacher Judy Arthur is retiring her pitch pipe.

50 LOOKING BACK

While under glass, Old Joe remains Wakulla Springs’ most revered gator.

54 RELATIONSHIPS Three sisters are reunited in a home specially remodeled for them.

58 SNAPSHOT

A collection of photos submitted by our readers.

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61 FATHER’S DAY FINDS

IN EVERY ISSUE

We suggest gifts for dads of all stripes.

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64 FOR HER The line

between gym clothes and street clothes is blurred.

66 FOR HIM Most men

feel incomplete without their pocket knife.

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EXPRESSION

Attorney and sports agent Tim Jansen is well tailored.

Discover what’s new in the world of retailing.

87 AVIS BERRY The jazz

GASTRO AND GUSTO

90 BOOKS Reggie Garcia

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Pleasure Palate Dinner was positively palatial.

singer is a teacher, too — and a librarian.

on felons working to find a new place in society.

80 HOME COOKIN’

92 STAGE Anjali Austin

Barbecue grills reflect varying degrees of sophistication.

celebrates the crumbling of ballet’s color barrier.

82 DINING OUT Masa has

96 ART Chainsaw artist

blossomed into one of the Capital City’s most favored Asian fusion restaurants.

John Birch transforms Mother Nature.

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Many traditional activities have survived, but things may be looking up for bulls.

106 QUICK TRIP Birdsong Nature Center celebrates 30 years.

ABODES

135 DOORS TO ADORE

There are countless ways to make a good first impression. up your backyard for a sparkling Independence Day celebration.

muddle through a sub-par mojito? Find the right one and get your mojo workin’.

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84 LIBATIONS Why

142 DIY Cornhole sets Portable practical pocket knives

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144 GARDENING

Miss Grow It All knows how to keep tomatoes healthy.

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ON THE COVER: The heat is

on and so is the soup at The Edison restaurant, which has fast become a Tallahassee hot spot with delights including the Tomato Velouté and Ham Hock Soup on our cover. We hope you’ll find the newly redesigned Tallahassee Magazine, itself, to be delectable and something that leaves you hungry for more. Photo by Dave Barfield.

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We orient you to one of the most pristine and picturesque stretches of the Gulf Coast — its merchants, attractions and more.

SPRING GIFT GUIDE

Running short on gift ideas? Consult our gift guide and replenish your supply. You’re bound to discover possibilities you hadn’t thought about.

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DEAL ESTATE

With a focus on homes just listed and just sold and neighborhoods worth a second look, we keep tabs on the area’s rebounded real estate market and emerging trends.

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EVENTS CALENDAR & SOCIAL STUDIES

Tallahassee and environs offer no shortage of celebrations, festivals, 5Ks, and concerts and other performances. What to do? Your decision won’t be easy.

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When you were young, who among athletes did you most admire?

PRESIDENT/PUBLISHER BRIAN E. ROWLAND

EDITORIAL

"Willie Mays. I spent hours in the backyard trying to master his basket catch."

DIRECTOR OF EDITORIAL SERVICES/EDITOR Steve Bornhoft SENIOR STAFF WRITER Jason Dehart EDITORIAL COORIDINATOR Rebecca Padgett STAFF WRITER Shelby Bouck CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Chay D. Baxley, Marina Brown, Rosanne Dunkelberger, Jennifer Ireland, Lis King, Rochelle Koff, Jack Levine, Audrey Post, Nina Rodrîguez-Marty, Kim Harris Thacker EDITORIAL INTERN Nina Rodriguez-Marty PRODUCTION SPECIALIST Melinda Lanigan

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from the publisher

For the past six months, we’ve had a Tallahassee Magazine redesign in the Rowland Publishing incubator. It’s been four years since we overhauled the look, feel and content of the magazine and, in today’s world of publishing, four years is a long time.

Effective with this issue, we present to you a new Tallahassee Magazine featuring a thoroughly refreshed design and, most significantly, a new editorial approach.

I devote my lunch hours to reading city magazines from around the country while keeping an eye out for trends and techniques that the average reader might not detect or appreciate. It might be something as simple as the way in which a photo is cropped or typeface choices. Or, I may take note of story subjects or the overall manner in which a given magazine showcases its community through words and images.

For the past year, I have systematically collected tear sheets from magazines as a way of stockpiling ideas for the Tallahassee redesign. I then turned Rowland Publishing’s creative and editorial teams loose on incorporating these best-of-the-best ideas into the redesigned magazine that you are reading today.

We have opted for more stories of shorter length and bolder images. And we have given our words and pictures more breathing room in our layouts.

Attention spans are short these days and distractions are many. It serves us well, then, to try to convey more information with fewer words and to encourage our writers to make every word count.

The creative team was challenged to bring about a harmonious marriage between words and design elements such that each story is treated like an entree deserving of an exquisite presentation. Doing so requires a special skill set. Our two seasoned publication designers, Jennifer Ekrut and Saige Roberts, possess the creative brainpower and artistic sensibilities that led to the new experience in reading you are enjoying today.

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Our creative director, Larry Davidson, adds the final brush strokes to the hundreds of pages we deliver to you each year.

It’s hard to express in words precisely what he does, but the result is that he makes sure the steak sizzles. He studies every page, image and ad to make sure that when you turn our pages, you are drawn into the presentations you see.

Our editorial team — editors, staff writers, freelance contributors and interns under the direction of our director of editorial services, Steve Bornhoft — combine to bring personalities, events and communities to light and to life. Editors scrub every sentence for accuracy and proper syntax, usage and spelling.

Funny thing about the proofing process. Five sets of eyes may critically read a story and every reader may catch something that needs fixing. Still, it may not be until an issue is delivered that we notice an extra comma or a missing word. “How did we miss that?” we ask ourselves, while trying to remain mindful that we don’t miss many.

I hope you enjoy the redesign and I welcome your comments about it, positive or not so positive. Over the next couple of issues, I can assure you, we will be refining the look and approach we embarked upon in this issue of Tallahassee Magazine.

And, most especially, I want to thank our advertisers and loyal readers. Without you, we would be an empty shelf.

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working on halves — just cause they plant the crops and harvest them, they thinks you owe them more than their share.

To become the character capable of delivering such lines, I adopted the voice of a good friend, Turnip Green Buckner, of Macon, Georgia.

I found it helpful to adopt a stooped posture, which contributed to making me feel burdened and defeated.

Working to assume the character of a man so judgmental, callous and dismissive that he would eliminate, unfeelingly, an entire class of people, I became so consumed by hatred as to be unable to see much or achieve anything. I arrived at a scary place, fearful that this hate once surfaced might not easily be abated.

My scenes in “Tumbleton” were shot mainly in a replica sitting room at the Alabama Pioneer Museum in Troy. Patrons passing by the filming assumed that the players were part of a living exhibit until they heard the vitriolic voice of Travis lambasting his wife and then quickly they moved on.

When shooting at the museum’s main building was complete, we set out for a chapel located across a foot bridge. The bridge was damp and covered in algae and, as Mr. Dehart would have promised, the brogans went out from under me. I cursed in the voice of another. I had become a man I would not choose to be.

SHARI CAKIR

Brogans, as worn by men in latter 19th-century America, were cobbled, I was to find out, such that the left was indistinguishable from the right.

Too, their hard soles made it hard to obtain purchase on surfaces the least bit slick.

About this latter characteristic I was warned by a colleague, Jason Dehart, who loaned me a historically accurate suit of clothes — flannel shirt; wool vest; no-pocket cotton pants with a button fly; wide-brimmed, straw hat; garish galluses; and the brogans — that I wore in playing the role of Travis Wiggins in an independent film, “Tumbleton Road,” the creation of Faye Walker Howell of Dothan, Alabama.

Walker is a collector and recorder of history and something of a firebrand who for 20 years has been interviewing South Alabama residents whose ancestors worked as sharecroppers following their emancipation from slavery. Especially, she spent time capturing the stories of her great grandmother, Roxie, whose father, Jack, was murdered by clansmen because he was deemed to be uppity.

Travis, in “Tumbleton Road,” is a bad, self-loathing man with a small heart and a closed mind. Once, he owned and ran a farm of his own. Now, he has moved and married a landowner, Sarah, and is reduced to watching her run her place as she pleases. His advice, which exits his mouth with spittle and vinegar, Sara routinely ignores.

You just watch what I tell you Sarah, they gonna take more than their share of the crops.

Them coloreds always do. They ain’t satisfied

STEVE BORNHOFT sbornhoft@rowlandpublishing.com

LAWRENCE DAVIDSON

TIME AND TRAVIS TRAVEL As a child of 14 and a member of the Outdoor Life book club, I purchased with paper route proceeds a selection of the month, Allan W. Eckert’s “Wild Season,” which I have read most every spring since. The book details the renewal of Oak Lake, in Illinois, as it recovers from another winter. In its opening pages, a juvenile bullfrog emerges from the detritus that served it as a blanket throughout the lake’s frozen slumber. The frog escapes a great blue heron’s rapier-like beak, but loses sight of predators that attack from below and becomes a snack for a largemouth bass.

Eckert’s work of a modest 244 pages is rich in detail and successfully skirts anthropomorphism. He reminds me annually that a warble is the disruption in the skin of mammals produced by bot flies; that meadowlarks walk, in the manner of chickens, rather than hop; that the mating rituals of raptors are elaborate and deathdefying in ways that human daredevils never could hope to emulate. A reader recoils in reading a passage about a farmer who shoots and kills a great horned owl, unaware of its value as an unpaid pest control service. For all who marvel at nature’s rhythms and resilience and have not reflected lately on our relationship to it, “Wild Season” will prove a onesitting read.

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y brother Tad, in February, sent me a photo of himself and his three sons at a Minnesota Wild hockey game.

“We’ve changed sports,” Tad, a lifelong baseball fan, noted in sending the image. Indeed, all four men wore Wild scarves.

“Have you forsaken the Twins?” I had to ask.

“Just killing time. Ten days until pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training.”

I was relieved. That is, had it become possible for my brother, at his age, to become disaffected with baseball, then I would have been led to wonder — as I would upon learning that good friends are divorcing after decades of marriage — if the same fate might befall me.

That is a fate I would not choose, any more than I would relinquish my trading card collection to Devoe Moore.

I have been a baseball fan since before the Senators departed Washington for Minneapolis, before the Braves headed south from Milwaukee. Playing the game, albeit softball in the main, has been among my greatest joys.

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I have thrice retired from donning cleats and like a struggling swimmer who goes down for the third time, I will not again surface to trot out to a red-clay diamond. Unless I do. After a few months of idleness, I can lie to myself — “I never felt better” — every bit as well as Peyton Manning ever did.

I first played softball as an adult in Ashland, Wisconsin, where once I edited the newspaper. I was promoted too quickly to pitcher and there were days when I prayed for rain. Ashland was a hardscrabble paper mill town. Males there learned to operate chainsaws before they could ride a bicycle and were, like generations before them, into the Paleo diet long before it was cool.

After Ashland, it would be a long while before I would play again. I had gravitated south to Panama City, Florida, another paper mill town, where a man called White Shoes talked me into joining a team sponsored by a funeral home. Fittingly, its pitcher, who worked midnights at the mill, had a dark and depraved and menacing cast about him, rarely spoke and carried his gear in a canvas bat bag that he unzipped deliberately and ceremoniously — a gangster opening his violin case, the Grim Reaper.

Every small town has The Pool Shark and, in Panama City, the funeral home was fortunate to have at its disposal The Pitcher.

Indeed, the team’s lineup, including our death merchant captain, was populated from the top of the order to the bottom with accomplished players. Most had played in a vaunted regional tournament known as The I have thrice Southeastern. True story: retired from One year, White Shoes was donning cleats to ride with others to the big dance and didn’t show. and like a The Undertaker dispatched struggling himself to find White swimmer who Shoes — he knew where to look — and literally goes down for separated the truant from the third time, a woman as he was roundI will not again ing third. Never before or since, I dare say, has White surface to trot Shoes dressed as quickly. out to a redFor the funereal squad, I clay diamond. was a reserve who saw action when injury or illness Unless I do. sidelined a regular. One ››

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night, unexpectedly, I got a start in right-center field and thankfully was not challenged by a difficult chance until the game’s final frame.

The Pitcher was in a jam, sacks juiced in the bottom of the seventh and the Caskets, we should have been named, were clinging to a one-run lead with two out.

Pitch lofted the ball, loaded with backspin, toward the hitter who managed to line it toward dead center. I streaked to my right, stretched across my body with my gloved hand and somehow Divine Providence saw fit to land the ball right in the webbing. Game over.

I fought the impulse to skip in from the outfield and The Pitcher, it seemed — could it be? — was waiting on me. Deferentially, with head down, I passed him on my way to the dugout whereupon he swatted me with his glove on the seat of my pants and muttered, “Thanks for savin’ my butt out there.”

I would have been content to die right there but would have missed out on the night that Peddler’s Alley Tavern, for whom I pitched years later — my son played first base — knocked off the perennial league champs, PRN, a team dominated by demeaning doctors and dandies — prima donnas, all.

Improbably, a pitcher’s duel developed as that game unfolded. The contest was tied at 1 after six innings. I surrendered a run in the top of the seventh, and PRN was supremely confident about closing out the underdog Peddler’s Alley. I was prepared, honestly, to settle for a pyrrhic victory.

PRN walked a batter and our top hitter, whom we called Swede because he briefly had played professional baseball in Scandinavia, came to the plate. Swede stood out from the rest of us. He looked like a ballplayer, an A-Rod among Billy Martins, and wore his pants short, accenting his highly developed calves. He declined to wear a team-issued adjustable cap, preferring his own fitted lid.

Swede stood in, tapped the far side of the plate with his bat, gave a withering look to PRN’s pitcher, a podiatrist who wore a rag on his head and reminded me of the fife player in Archibald Willard’s painting, Yankee Doodle. (You’d recognize it if you saw it.)

Lumpy, an insurance man who had little in common with the dandies who surrounded him and whose wife from time to time raised lumps on his head when he arrived home late, stood up behind the plate, called time out and shouted at the foot doctor, “Don’t pitch to the Swede.”

But Lumpy’s advice was ignored as it was routinely.

The podiatrist grooved one, Swede put the barrel on it and the ball sailed over the fence in left center and landed in the street on one hop.

The proletariat had triumphed. Bernie Sanders had conquered the Clinton Machine. The Cubs had won the Series.

I was young again, and still. And satisfied that Americanized cricket is the greatest game that will ever be. TM

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hen Jack Levine cooked up his needed some help, some event at the “Good Cause Cuisine” way of temple. It wasn’t global. It wasn’t even raising funds and awareness for citywide. It was local. But her idea was nonprofits throughout Florida, always ‘let’s do something good.’” let’s just say it was a spirit who moved After a career in advocacy, mostly for him — specifically that of his maternal child-related causes, Levine decided grandmother, Minnie Cohen. about seven years ago to make She was a 5-foot-tall force a “big transformation” and of nature who emigrated from From top: Chef start his own organization, the Jack cooks up Russia, a suffragette who par- pecan-crusted 4Generations Institute. Its ticipated in the first election crab cakes in mission is to “cultivate the exwhere women were allowed the kitchen; change of wisdom and energy Jack Levine with to vote after the 19th Amend- hosts Dan and among our generations — chilment passed — and every one Robin Hassler dren/youth/young adults, parafter that until she died at age Thompson; ents, grandparents and elders.” guests gather in 92. We’ll let Levine take the the living room; Levine vowed to “channel story from there: Minnie” as he traveled the Barby Moro and “It started in the 1920s prob- PACE Inc. CEO state for his fledgling nonMary Marx. ably, when my immigrant profit, meeting, speaking and grandmother in the Bronx teaching. A talented and crecame up with this very natuative “hobby” cook, his goal ral way … of helping different causes was to try, about once a month, to whip by feeding people at her dining table,” up a meal for a group of about 12 to 24 he explained. “She fed folks (and) while people, share an “idea” and raise funds they were digesting the main course, for different causes. He brings the inbefore dessert, she would very quietly gredients and cooks the food, the hosts look around the table … and her big provide drinks and desserts. line was ‘You know, I have an idea.’ And “I do my best to keep it healthy because they all sat with Minnie’s food in their that’s what people are expecting,” he said. bellies waiting for Minnie’s idea. It was In October, he was in the kitchen of sometimes a family down the street that the Bobbin Brook home of Dan and ››

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Robin Hassler Thompson, creating an array of Mediterranean-inspired small plates for his 50th Good Cause Cuisine event, this time “friendraising” for the PACE Center for Girls in Leon County.

The PACE event was a departure from his usual format. A larger-than-usual crowd of 40 people were expected and, rather than a sit-down dinner, he cooked up a buffet of hors d’oeuvres, including charcuterie, pecancrusted crab cakes served with “backyard honey” mustard, lamb meatballs with freshly-made tzatziki sauce, grilled asparagus, zucchini rounds with parmesan and roasted red pepper, and a bake featuring eggplant, tomatoes and fresh mozzarella.

A frenzy of activity swirled in the crowded kitchen as Levine and his two assistants chopped, assembled, fried, baked and plated while guests wandered by to see what was cooking. “Chef Jack” remained cool; after all, he had done this 49 times before.

Rather than collecting donations for the meal, PACE decided to round up local opinion leaders to hear about the organization, which provides education, career advice and counseling to middle and high-school-age girls who, because of their personal circumstances, are at risk of failing in school or becoming victimized. PACE, which started in Jacksonville and has 18 other locations statewide in addition to Tallahassee, has a particular identity crisis locally. There is a “last chance” secondary school in town with the same name, and people are constantly confusing the two. And, said executive director Kelly Otte, it’s hard for people to understand the nonprofit’s mission.

“People have a lot of misperceptions about PACE. They get this correctional kind of feeling,” Otte said.

She described talking to a potential donor: “She couldn’t get her brain around the idea … that very few of our kids are in foster care, very few are involved in the juvenile justice system. The whole point of (PACE) is to keep them out of the juvenile justice system. You have to be in the facility to understand the atmosphere, because you walk in the door and you trip over these girls who are acting like girls — giggly, a little bit crazy, a little high energy and fun-loving.”

When seeking support, “it’s a constant stream of educating, educating, educating,” she said, which was made easy by the Levine’s Minnie-inspired presentation format.

Now that he’s reached the half-century mark with these dinners, Levine said he wants to expand the Good Cause Cuisine model.

“I’m just one guy, and what I’m hoping to do is have this in many communities,” he said. “Now that it’s been 50 go-rounds, I kind of know the routine and I want some protégés to learn the cooking skills and the management, not only for fun like I do it but as a career path.” TM

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ho really is to say if the gator even was aware of the machine — an unmanned aerial vehicle (U.A.V.) — that hovered above his sunning spot at Okeeheepkee Prairie Park.

If the gator saw the device at all, it likely dismissed the curious looking bird as mere food beyond its reach. It was unbeknownst to the reptile that its privacy had been violated — a parallel case involving a sunbathing Princess Kate comes to mind — and that images surreptitiously obtained would be placed in wide circulation via Tallahassee Magazine.

Poor gator. It was only doing what comes naturally and had no idea that it was running the risk of exposure.

Alligators are ectothermic, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission explains on its website. That is, they control their body temperature by engaging in “thermoregulating” behaviors that include basking in the sun. Alligators are most active when temperatures are between 82 and 92 degrees F and stop feeding when temperatures drops below 70 degrees F. So it was that the gator could not help itself on an unseasonably warm March day. It just had to catch some rays.

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As Professor Zeigler knows, the basic means by which people may speak effectively and persuasively have not changed since Aristotle’s time.

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achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: This is true generally whatever the question is. This kind of persuasion — ETHOS — like the others, should be achieved by what the speaker says, not by what people think of his character before he begins to speak.

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“I was in the middle of a master’s program in education,” he recalled.

“At the end of the first week of class in the spring semester of 1989, a professor from the communication department called me and said ‘We’re one faculty member short. Can you teach a public speaking class tomorrow at 8 o’clock?’ I went, and I loved it.”

Zeigler has taught “Fundamentals of Speech” ever since. The course has grown from 26 students in Zeigler’s first section to between 400 and 500 hundred students. In addition, he teaches three other courses at the Tallahassee campus and two at the London campus in the summer.

Zeigler is also heavily involved in community activities at FSU. “I help recruit football players with Jimbo Fisher, I help with basketball players for Sue Semrau,” he begins. “I serve on committees for the provost and I have the opportunity to be in plays at the School of Theatre — I was in two last year.”

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➸ Thirdly, persuasion is effected through speech when we prove a truth or an apparent truth by means of arguments suitable to the case in question (LOGOS).

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he took off last fall because of his role in the campus production of The Fantasticks.

“I was singing opposite Davis Gaines,” he explains.

“I couldn’t do that to my voice — I couldn’t read 5,000 names out loud. I had to go home and cry every night because I was singing next to Davis Gaines.”

Professors, Ziegler believes, should participate enthusiastically in the life of the university.

“I want FSU to succeed,” he stresses. “We should be so proud and grateful every day to be here.”

That’s not all talk. Zeigler caused a stir last fall by starting the Twitter hashtag #SoMuchMoreThanFootball, a discussion centering on Florida State student and faculty achievements off the field.

In order to make Florida State a name synonymous with “success,” Zeigler focuses, as a matter of his teaching philosophy, not just on making academic superstars or powerful business sharks, but on bringing out aware, sympathetic “My goal, human beings. essentially, is to “My goal, essentially, is to lighten the load lighten the load for people,” he says. “The world is tough enough for people. The without interacting with people world is tough and having them make you feel enough without more burdened. Even when I have to give negative information interacting or criticism, I want the student, with people and or the colleague or the friend, to having them leave feeling hopeful, as opposed to ‘I did wrong, I made a mistake, make you feel I let someone down.’” more burdened.”

Other than public speaking, — Mark Zeigler Zeigler believes that the most important issues he and his students discuss in class are selfknowledge, knowledge of others, understanding of the communication process and community participation.

“We have a responsibility to develop whole people,” Zeigler asserts. “If we neglect matters of the heart, then we’re neglecting a very important part of education. This idea that we will judge the merit of an education based on the starting salary of graduates is insulting to the students, to the faculty, to anyone who knows anything about education.”

It must be difficult to focus individually on students in lecture classes of 30 or 40, to say nothing of 500, but Zeigler makes sure each student sees a link between the concepts they learn in class and the people around them.

“Relevant examples are my secret,” he discloses.

“When you tell a personal story, the person in the audience is listening to that story and identifying with their own personal story. You’ve made a personal connection, even if you’ve never interacted one on one.” TM

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YOGA YOUR WAY

From salty studios to peaceful parks, yoga can be practiced just about anywhere

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Marilyn Monroe claimed yoga improved her legs.

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“There were a lot of people who had never done yoga before but came out just because it was a cool concept they had heard about happening in bigger cities,” said Jay Revell, the executive director of the Tallahassee Downtown Improvement Authority.

Similarly, Tally Yoga is a meet-up group that hosts yoga classes in the fresh air at Litchgate on High Road on a weekly basis. A mat and the desire for inner peace are the only requirements.

Axios Salt Spa and Juice Bar offers salt yoga classes for those seeking ››

The universality of yoga is being proved increasingly by classes that are conducted in unconventional settings.

Some practitioners prefer yoga hot, others favor room temperature. Yoga on salt is an option and — who knows? — yoga on ice may be next.

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ome like it hot. Some prefer meditative and tranquil. Others enjoy practicing the discipline in the presence of kittens. In any surroudings, yoga is ideal for anyone wishing to be sound of mind, body and spirit.

While yoga in parks and public spaces may have started out in bustling big cities, Tallahassee now offers yoga instruction outside of the typical studio setting. Kleman Plaza has become a hot spot for yogis of all levels. There, outdoor classes are presented through the efforts of Tallahassee Downtown Improvement Authority, Florida Blue and Hot Yoga.

The musician, Sting, once speciously claimed that yoga greatly enhanced his sexual prowess.

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to align their chakras. A cozy room with Himalayan salt covering the floor helps open up your airways relieving congestion and deepening the deep breaths that yoga already emphasizes.

“There is nothing else like it in Tallahassee,” Chantelle Yandow, owner of Axios explained. “The movement and deep breathing that you practice in yoga combines with the cleansing of salt therapy for a healthy and fun experience.”

Natalie Spindle leads salt yoga classes, and each month she also offers a yoga class at Proof Brewery. As a way to further relax and kick back, each participant can enjoy a flight of craft brews afterward.

“I love this class because it embodies my desire for yoga to be inclusive of everyone and for it to be a social experience,” Spindle said.

These unconventional yoga sessions aren’t necessarily held outdoors. Kittyoga, offered by the Leon County Humane Society, is for those with two paws and four.

“For people who don’t typically like yoga because it seems too quiet, serious or even inaccessible, Kittyoga is fantastic,” Rachel Williams, the communications director at Leon County Humane Society stated.

“Students come out of each class with their own stories about how a cat curled up in their lap during double pigeon or went to sleep on their stomach during shivasana.”

Some used to view yoga as an activity fit only for young contortionists. Today, yoga is becoming more accessible and social than ever by being offered at many paces in a variety of places. TM

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WHITHER THE SKUNKS? The smell is gone — mostly

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need to ask you something. When’s the last time you saw a skunk? I mean, aside from the little fellas at the Tallahassee Museum. When was the last time you actually encountered one in the “wild” or in your backyard? As roadkill?

Heck, when was the last time you actually smelled one?

I can’t speak for the rest of the state, but in Leon County, it seems your chances of encountering a skunk are about the same as you bumping into, say, a skunk ape.

To investigate this musky mystery I started at the local level. I reached out to Teresa Stevenson, the director and wildlife rehabilitator at the St. Francis Wildlife Association in Havana. St. Francis

takes in injured wild animals, nurses them back to health and sets them back on their way when possible. The only thing Teresa could tell me is that they’ve cared for just three baby skunks in the five years she’s worked there. Even the folks at Critter Control don’t get many skunk calls nowadays. Owner Brandon Lynch said in four-and-a-half years he’s only had two calls. Sightings are rare.

Oh, they’re around, but they’ve never been much of a problem in this particular area, he said.

These facts along called for more digging.

Next, I placed a couple of calls to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, a.k.a. the FWC. After ››

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all, they’ve got the biologists who could settle Fortunately, at the last minute, the FWC came the issue. My initial work seemed to point tothrough for me. Terry Doonan, mammal conserward a legitimate enigma, and now I had some vation coordinator, ’splained it all, starting with pointed questions: Where have all the skunks Skunk 101: Florida is home to both the Eastern gone? Have they been out-competed by other Spotted Skunk (Spilogale putorius) and the critters like armadillos, or has predation taken Striped Skunk (Mephitis mephitis). They can its toll? Where are the sightings, and, uh, smellbe found throughout Florida except the Keys ings? Can we estimate their numbers? Do they (which tells me they have high standards). They congregate seasonally at certain locales, like the frequent brushy fields, weedy pastures and disCapitol (just kidding)? Is there a skunk hotline? turbed areas in residential and suburban areas.

Seriously, curious minds need to know.

They usually roam around at night and are omI reached a live person in FWC public relanivorous. They den in vacant armadillo or gopher tions who suggested I should email my questortoise burrows, brush piles and woodpiles. tions to her and she would farm them out. So I Doonan confirmed that neither species of did and followed up with another call to make skunk is an endangered listed species; however, sure she received the email. No the eastern spotted skunk is on the response. A couple of days later, list of Species of Greatest ConserI called again. Went straight to vation Need in Florida. The purWhere are the voicemail, and the mailbox was pose of this list is to “identify the full. At that point it began to broad range of Florida’s species sightings, and, dawn on me that a conspiracy that are imperiled, or are at risk of uh, smellings? was afoot. It’s the military-inbecoming imperiled in the future.”

Can we dustrial-skunk complex, man!

“I’m not sure sightings are more It’s hiding the truth! rare now than in previous years,” estimate their Without additional live sourcDoonan said via email. “Because numbers? Do es, and a deadline rapidly loomskunks are nocturnal, I don’t think they congregate there is a direct correlation being, I warily drudged my weary way back to Google. I found a tween sightings and population seasonally at website called “Habitat Tracker,” size. Estimating numbers with any certain locales, which appeared to be a joint efassurance will require more formal like the Capitol fort by the Tallahassee Museum research studies, which have not been done at this time. I don’t and Florida State University. For (just kidding)? that there has been a decline a moment my hopes ran high, Is there a skunk know of either species in Florida.” thinking there would be running hotline?

Doonan passed along one last log of observations in the wild. scent-tilla of information: A But upon closer inspection, the somewhat informal request for “tracking” appears to involve skunk observations was sent out about 10 years skunks-in-residence at the museum. That was ago, he said. But it didn’t wind up making later confirmed by Suzie Buzzo, assistant animuch of a stink. mal curator at Tallahassee Museum. Suzie said “That effort didn’t produce a formal report, the Habitat Tracker was being used to teach and the results weren’t intended to provide a kids how to observe wildlife and take notes, but population estimate. We don’t have informait’s not a functioning page anymore. tion on how often skunks are seen as roadkill in “The funding might have gotten cut,” she said.

Florida,” he said.

Still, the website offered up some interestWhich leaves us where we started. Where ing tidbits of general information. On paper, are the skunks now? Apparently, they’re staythe skunk population is “stable,” but populaing under the radar — for the moment. Who tion densities vary, with as many as 50 skunks knows, they could be biding their time and per square mile in a region where striped stocking up on stink juice until they can take skunks are usually found. According to the Inover the world. So, until they choose to come ternational Union for Conservation of Nature out of the shadows, all we can do is keep our and Natural Resources, they are a species of eyes open — and our noses to the wind. TM “least concern.”

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may seem rare, but they can sometimes become a nuisance.

What should you do about them?

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If you have problems with skunks, you may be able to resolve the problem by simply removing the source of food attracting them. The animal may be caught in a trap, but relocating nuisance wildlife is illegal.* If you catch a skunk in a trap, avoid being sprayed by slowly approaching the trapped skunk and covering the trap with a small tarp or towel. The trap must be moved very carefully without jarring the animal or frightening it by letting it see you. Skunks, like all mammals, can carry rabies, but this has not been a serious problem in Florida. FWC does not recommend handling wildlife with your bare hands. ✱ It’s a popular myth that the animal that is a nuisance on your property can simply be “relocated.” It sounds easy enough and one would think that it might be the best for property owner and nuisance animal. However, it’s rare that relocated animals have a good chance of survival, and moving them may even affect the survival of animals in their new “home.” Relocation sounds appealing, but it is tough on the transported animals and can have negative impacts on the animal populations where they are released. Our goal is to coexist with Florida’s wild animals, and we owe it to them to seek low stress and hopefully non-lethal solutions to nuisance animal problems. Usually, that means modifying our own behavior.

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THE MUSIC WOMAN For decades, Judy Arthur has been finding the right pitch

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lmost four decades, six principals and over a thousand students later, Leon High School Director of Choral Activities Dr. Judy R. Arthur revealed how she came to teach at the grand old school on the hill.

Turns out, she almost never did.

“I got here by accident,” Arthur smiled. “I was never supposed to be here.”

Starting off as a Piano Performance major at Florida State University in 1968, Arthur soon found herself “losing my mind from boredom.” She switched to Music Education two years later and knew she had found her niche.

“From day one,” Arthur explained, “it was like, this is where I’m supposed to be.

This is what I’m supposed to do.”

Wanting to work with adolescents, Arthur was set to student teach at Cobb

Middle School. Her first day, however, took an unexpected turn. The mentor with whom she was to work had moved on.

“I showed up at Cobb and there was a note on the door that said, ‘I have gone to Godby High School to be the media specialist,’” laughed Arthur. “I burst into tears the first thing.”

Per suggestion of Cobb’s newly resigned chorus teacher, she wandered down to Leon High School that very same day.

The year was 1978.

Today, after 38 years, Arthur prepares to take her final bow as the longest serving choral director in Leon history. She leaves behind an exceptional legacy distinguished by a desire for inclusivity, an appreciation for collaboration and a fierce commitment to music education.

“I like to think that all God’s children

deserve a chance,” said Arthur. “Since I’ve been head of the department, one of the most important things to me was that every kid in this school could walk in that door and we’d find a place for them.”

And she certainly has. Out of the 2,100 students attending Leon High School, an estimated 1,400 are in Performing Arts.

That’s two-thirds of the student population.

The reason is simple, according to Arthur: “Everybody ought to have art in their life.”

Seeking to provide students with diverse avenues for musical enrichment, Arthur has kick-started a number of ›› LEON CHORUS HISTORY Leon High School has a rich choral tradition.

The choral program was founded in 1929 and remains strong to this day. A total of 11 people have served as Leon’s choral director: Ollie Reese Whittle 1929–1945 Mary Brown 1945–1946 Harold Chapman 1946–1967 Raymond Kickliter 1966–1988 Susan Conrad 1967–1969 Homeretta Ayala 1973–1977 Nancy Marsters 1977–1992 Dr. Judy R. Arthur 1978–present Dr. Darryl Jones 1988–1999 James R. Hershberger 1999–2001 Tabitha Peck 2001–present

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supplementary curricula throughout her career. These include a voice lesson program through which students can receive private vocal instruction from trained professionals.

She also launched the ever-popular summer musical in 1992. This annual collaborative production welcomes high school students from all over Leon County to participate.

Today, Leon Chorus boasts a total of seven curriculum choirs and four afterschool ensembles. Arthur has taught most of them herself at one point or another. With a unique teaching style she playfully described as “intense — in a relaxed manner,” Arthur has sought to transform students into lifelong consumers of music.

Personal power, she believes, was the only way to achieve this.

“There are different kinds of power,” Arthur explained. “Personal power is the only thing that really works — when people do something because they’re so invested and it becomes rewarding for them.”

In recognizing that the hardships of high school are more than just cliché, Arthur has worked hard over the past 38 years to ensure that the adolescent experience is a little more pleasant. She takes her leave knowing that sometimes music is the best medicine.

And it goes both ways.

“In my life there have been days when that’s what got me through,” she smiled.

“Just getting in there and making music with them. You can’t feel negative for too long if you’re in there creating something beautiful.” TM

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School is the oldest, continuously accredited high school in Florida. In 1903, the Board of Public Instruction of Leon County established the 12-grade Leon High School. It was among the first in Florida to institute a physical education program and, in 1917, had its first football team.

In 1936, construction of a new Leon High School commenced. The cost — $500,000 — was considered exorbitant, and the location on Tennessee Street was thought remote.

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LOOKING BACK

FIFTY YEARS OF ‘OLD JOE’

A ginormous reptile, famous in death since 1966

by JASON DEHART

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irst and foremost, you can call off the search. There’s no reward. It was withdrawn more than 30 years ago. Secondly, the mystery of “Who killed Old Joe?” pretty much ended with the “confession” of a man who claimed to be the assassin.

“Old Joe” was an alligator that haunted Wakulla Springs and was given his sobriquet by workers building the Wakulla Springs Lodge for business mogul Edward Ball back in the 1930s. The gator

had staked out a sunny spot in a pool formed by the springs, and his sheer size — 650 pounds and a couple of inches over 11 feet — commanded respect and discretion.

He was also ancient; it’s estimated that at the time of his death in 1966 that he was around 200 years old.

That means the British owned Florida when he first slithered out of the nest, and he was probably witness to a lot of history over the course of his lifetime. There’s no telling how ››

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many hunters, trappers, traders, explorers, Indiit was studied. Old Joe was later stuffed, placed ans, smugglers, soldiers and settlers he crossed inside a glass casket and put on display at the paths with. In modern times, he was not known Wakulla Springs Lodge. to have harmed anybody or anything.

Newspaper reports from 1985 say Ross’s first However, Joe’s luck finally ran out on the confession occurred as he was being questioned night of Aug. 1, 1966. A poacher in a flat-botabout a rash of burglaries but hadn’t yet been tom boat paddled into his realm, saw some eye given his rights. So that confession couldn’t be shine, lined up a shot with a .22 used. Years later, as Ross faced rifle and fired. The dastardly a first-degree murder charge for “assassination” of such a promikilling his wife, he supposedly Established nent Wakulla Springs resident confessed again to slaying Old homestead at prompted Edward Ball, himself, Joe. However, by that time the to offer a $5,000 reward for inforWakulla Springs point was moot because the statmation “regarding the murder.” ute of limitations had passed. Ross prior to any The reward went unclaimed and wound up on Death Row for murconstruction was withdrawn around the time dering his wife but appealed and of Ball’s death in 1981. is now serving a life sentence in in the area.

The sole suspect in Old Joe’s Franklin Correctional Institution Estimated age slaying is Wilton Amos “Skebo” in Carrabelle. His statements are around 200 Ross, who is said to have conthe closest thing we have to solvfessed twice to killing the gator ing the mystery. years. Weight — once right after the incident Today, a plaque on Old Joe’s cof650 lbs. Length and again in either 1982 or 1983. fin reads: “Established homestead 11-foot 2-inches. at Wakulla Springs prior to any The story is Ross didn’t necessarily single out Old Joe for killconstruction in the area. EstimatLived at springs ing. A newspaper article from the ed age around 200 years. Weight on sand bar 1980s states that when he real650 lbs. Length 11-foot 2-inches. across from ized the gator he shot was too big Lived at springs on sand bar for his small boat, he decided to swimming area. across from swimming area. Was just dump the body there in the murdered by assailant unknown — From a plaque spring. The carcass was fished on Sunday night Aug. 1, 1966. on Old Joe’s coffin from the water and sent up to Had never molested man, woman, Florida State University where child or pets.” TM

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The sheriff’s sergeant who obtained a confession in the killing of the Wakulla Springs wildlife refuge’s mascot, Old Joe, didn’t find that development newsworthy. It went unpublicized for two years.

Leon County Sheriff’s Sgt. Keith Daws said he didn’t think the revelation about who took Old Joe’s life would make much difference. The giant alligator’s admitted killer, Amos “Skebo” Ross, is on death row for slaying his wife. While Daws and the late Capt. Joel Broom of the Gadsden Sheriff’s Department were questioning him on that crime, Ross confessed to accidentally killing the 11-foot-2 gator on July 31, 1966. Ross said recently he “never told anyone. I just never messed with it.”

Evidently, Broom mentioned it to someone at the Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Commission because the news was included in the commission’s weekly log two years ago. But nobody else noticed the breakthrough in the case until the Tallahassee Democrat made some calls this week to check on the status of the $5,000 reward for Old Joe’s killer. “Ross was a poacher,” Daws said. “He said he had just shot at a smaller alligator and couldn’t find him. When he did see alligator eyes, he just shot.

Since Old Joe’s body was too big and he couldn’t fit it in his boat, he wasn’t any good to Ross, so he just dumped him into the spring.”

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Thanks to the Tallahassee Builders Association, though, three Capital City sisters, all in their 90s, are together again in a home that is safe, functional and aesthetically pleasing.

“It looks beautiful,” said the most outspoken of the sisters, Autie Searcy McCallum. She had previously lived in the dwelling with her husband, Emory, who passed away in the house in 2007.

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“When I think about it, I just want to cry,” McCallum said.

“And will you look at that closet.”

Autie and her sisters, Tillie and Margaret, spent their adult lives working as public employees and raising families in Tallahassee.

They were close, but eventually life sprinkled them across the region. When the Builders Association’s new charitable outreach program, Builders Care, heard about the sisters three, Autie, ››

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Tillie and Margaret were at separate facilities — only miles apart, but worlds away from one another.

“They’re very sweet,” laughed nursing assistant Yolome Williams. Her daily care of the three women gives her a particularly keen inside look. “They’re definitely sisters. They fuss at each other and then they take care of each other.”

As the first major project of the Builders Care initiative, the association was able to completely reimagine the space for its big debut. Hallways were made wider, the bathroom handicap accessible and the outdoor space perfected for relaxation and late afternoon glasses of iced tea together.

“This was their original home,” said Scott Eppes, from Eppes Decorating Center. His company donated the paint for the entire house. “That made it a good place to start.”

From the roof to the flooring, every bit of product and labor From the roof was donated. Throughout the sixmonth process, over 30 Tallahassee to the flooring, companies were involved. every bit of “How come we are so lucky?” product and labor questioned Autie. “We don’t deserve this. I tell you the truth. We was donated. really don’t.”

Throughout “Well you go on then, and I’ll have the six-month it all to myself,” chimed in Tillie.

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30 Tallahassee “No I don’t,” said Tillie. companies were For ladies in their 90s, the sisters’ friendly banter is impressive. involved.

And that’s just the sort of unexpected rewards volunteers, including Sharyn McThail, who worked on the project on behalf of Federated Insurance Co., grew to look forward to on the job site, located just off of Tharpe Street.

“We thought it was a great cause,” said McThail.

“When they started the Builders Care group within the Tallahassee Builders Association, it appealed to us immediately.”

Since moving in late last fall, the sisters have made the three-bedroom two-bath home their own. Of course, others have been called in on a few occasions (there were pictures to be hanged, conversations to be had, memories made, etc.) but largely the ladies and their nurses have been on their own.

Independent. Just the way they like it.

“When I get to heaven, I’ll finish thanking them and I promise it’ll be in adequate words, too,” said Autie.

“I’ve had a lot of things to be thankful for but nothing like this.”

“I’ll remember this as long as I live,” ended Tillie. TM

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FATHER’S DAY FINDS

WHISKEY ENTHUSIAST

REGARDING MATTERS OF ALL THINGS STYLISH

Gift suggestions for dads of all stripes

➺ A decanter or personalized rocks glass with granite whiskey stones (Hearth & Soul, $60 for the set pictured) and a bottle of his favorite beverage will send a clear message: “I get you.”

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➺ He doesn’t have to drive a Benz to enjoy the luxury of a high-end car cleaning kit. Granted this gift is dancing dangerously close to practicality, but with manly leather wipes and a new steering wheel cover from your local automotive store, plus artisanal leather air fresheners (Hearth & Soul, $18) does it really matter?

ometimes it seems like dads get the short end of the stick when it comes to gift receiving. Yes, he did need new socks. But did he want them? Of course not. That’s not going to happen this year, though. For Father’s Day 2016, Tallahassee boutiques citywide are stocking up on fabulous finds strategically designed just for him.

“I think that’s what makes us so great,” said Candice Thompson, Hearth & Soul’s fashion stylist. “From the whiskey connoisseur and home chef to the guy who loves to get dressed up, we tried to bring in something for everyone.”

— CHAY D. BAXLEY

➺ Smelling good and feeling good are all but synonymous. When it comes to men’s cologne, not much smells better than Bond No. 9 fragrances (Hearth & Soul, $200–$275). Each bottle is filled with the highest quality of natural aromas so the earthy yet fresh smell lasts all day.

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GLOBE TROTTER

➺ Quality leather luggage (Kevin’s, $285– $650) can get pricy — so go in with other family members to get dad a quality bag (or two!) that will last a lifetime.

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➺ Vintage games (Hearth & Soul, $12–$59) are such a fun way to bring out the kid in him.

Everyone will love these family-friendly finds.

When he’s not playing, the games’ rustic charm will look add a ton of character as statement pieces in his office.

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WORKOUT WEAR YOU CAN WEAR OUT Gym clothes have been freed from lockers by REBECCA PADGETT

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designs have blurred the line between gym clothes and street clothes.

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e all know her. The effortlessly chic woman who breezes from the gym to work to volunteering to drinks with friends. How does she manage? The versatility of yoga pants is key.

In a day and age where our schedules are overflowing and the rules of fashion are more liberal than ever, many women are slipping a pair of stylish sneakers or Lycra loungewear into their everyday wardrobes. Many find that the popularity of barre and Pilates has helped bring about this comfy craze.

“More and more the whole ‘athleisure’ line is quickly evolving because people are finding that it’s more functional for their lifestyle,” explained Katie Rose Robinson, Lululemon showroom owner. “It’s becoming more of a lifestyle choice to wear the same outfit you wore to barre class out to coffee with your girlfriends.”

A trickle up effect has occurred as top fashion designers including Alexander Wang, Marc Jacobs and even Chanel have taken a page out of the fitness fanatic’s handbook and now feature pieces inspired by active wear in their runway shows.

While it is not suggested that you wear your patterned tracksuit to work, sportswear works well for errand running, date nights, cocktail hours and weekend adventures. Think sleek leggings or cozy joggers paired with slouchy sweatshirts, kicks in vibrant hues matched with a tennis skirt or a mesh top thrown over boyfriend jeans. Leave the sweatband in the locker room, though. TM

WEARING IT OUT

While this trend is rather loose both in fit and rules, there are a few guidelines to go by. 1 Invest in quality. Just because you wear it to the gym doesn’t mean you should skimp on the quality of the material. You don’t want fabrics that will easily fade or even worse lead to an embarrassing tear. 2 Find your fit. Katie with Lululemon says that the biggest mistake women make with this trend is ill-fitting clothing. Avoid clothing that is too tight or too revealing. 3 Wear with comfort. This trend is not only about being comfortable, but being confident in what you’re wearing.

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➺ THE

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olding working knives have been with us for centuries and are a constant companion for many men today. In fact, receiving that first pocketknife is a rite of passage for young boys. It’s a symbol of trust, responsibility and freedom.

The older you get, though, the more you come to appreciate its utility, a reality that the pocketknife industry appreciates. There’s a dizzying array of folding knives on the market to meet the needs of persons of every walk of life. Selecting just one seems difficult due to the staggering number of choices and styles out there, but it all boils down to its intended use — and how much

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you’re willing to pony up. Even the simple and traditional Barlow-style knife can fetch a pretty penny, depending on the maker and the quality of the material used. Ultimately, though, the “best” pocketknife is simply the one you carry every day.

Some of the makers known for producing quality pocketknives include Benchmade, Boker, Buck, Case, Cold Steel, Gerber, Kershaw, Old Timer/Schrade, Smith & Wesson, SOG, Spyderco and Victorinox (maker of the famous Swiss Army knife). Chances are good you can find the right knife locally at Kevin’s Guns & Sporting Goods, Academy Sports & Outdoors or the Bass Pro Shops Outpost. TM

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SHIRTS AND SUITS

White shirts with French cuffs; suits (he loves wool) custom-made by Tallahassee tailor Arron Gober

BELTS

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PRIZED WATCH

The Rolex Presidential watch he received as a 40th birthday present from his wife, Stephanie.

He’s been wearing it every day since she gave it to him 15 years ago.

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f you peeked into Tim Jansen’s closet, you’d find roughly 20 elegant custom-made suits, impeccable white shirts and dozens of leather shoes from luxury designers like Ferragamo and Gucci. It’s a classy wardrobe worthy of this high-powered Tallahassee defense attorney and sports agent known for his debonair appearance in and out of the courtroom.

But Jansen, 55, isn’t afraid to bend the rules — a little. Look more closely in his closet and you’ll find a custom gold suit from Élevée Lifestyle, known for outfitting NFL stars, including Tampa Bay Buccaneer Jameis Winston — Jansen attracted national attention representing the former Florida State University quarterback. ››

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But Jansen received the gold suit from another client, football coach and former NFL player Corey Fuller, who was a Baltimore Ravens defensive back when he was saddled with gambling charges in 2005. Fuller was acquitted and bought Jansen the extravagant ensemble.

It’s a “sharp suit,” Jansen said, but don’t expect him to wear it when he’s picking a jury. “Unless maybe I was in Miami,” he joked.

Make no mistake though. Jansen does take style seriously.

“It doesn’t make the man but it can reflect the man,” said the former federal prosecutor, wearing his professional attire of blue pin-striped suit, lavender silk tie and lightly starched white cotton shirt with his initials RTJ monogrammed on French cuffs. (Jansen’s first name is actually Russell and his middle name, Timothy, but friends call him Tim).

For 20 years, Jansen has had his shirts and suits made by Tallahassee tailor Arron Gober, who charges anywhere from $895 to $5,000 for a get-up.

“I believe in quality over quantity,” Jansen said. “It’s better to have a few high quality pieces” which can last a lifetime than a bunch of poorly made items.

Gober describes Jansen’s style “as traditional with flair. He likes classic patterns but may twist it a little.”

Jansen said he developed his sense of style right out of law school while working as a special assistant and travel aide to Gen. Alexander Haig when the gravelly four-star general made a brief run for president in 1988.

Living in Washington, D.C. at the time, Jansen sold his Volkswagen Rabbit for $2,500 and bought four suits, a raincoat, some ties and shoes. “I didn’t need a car, but I had to wear suits every day.”

Haig “was military, but he was a sharpdressed man and I learned a lot from him,” Jansen said. “I learned that your appearance is the first thing people see

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WE DEFINE OURSELVES WITH OUR CLOTHING All the world’s a stage, if not a runway. Put your most fashionable foot forward each time you step out the door bearing in mind these inspirational quotations about clothing.

“Dressing well is a form of good manners.”

— Tom Ford

“I like my money right where I can see it: hanging in my closet.”

— Carrie Bradshaw

“Trendy is the last stage before tacky.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

“Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.” — Rachel Zoe about you. Whatever world you’re in, you want to give the impression that you’re up with the times. You feel good when you dress well and you’re taken more seriously.”

Even now, you won’t catch Jansen following fads. “I don’t do the tight, skinny pants.” And his pet peeves are flip-flops, multicolored socks and guys who wear a nice suit and “shoes so cheap and outdated it takes away from the whole outfit.”

The University of Florida graduate wears comfy Lucky jeans, loafers and a button-down shirt even when he’s relaxing in his man cave.

Incidentally, Stephanie, his wife of 24 years, doesn’t shop for him. “People ask ‘Did your wife buy you this or that?’ but I buy my own clothes.”

Most of all, Jansen developed his sense of style to suit him. “I don’t wear clothes for other people,” he said. “I dress to make myself feel good. And if I feel good, I do better.” TM

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” — Mark Twain “Fashion should be a form of escapism and not a form of imprisonment.”

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NOW IN BUBBLEGUM

WHAT’S IN STORE? A roundup of retail happenings throughout Tallahassee

by REBECCA PADGETT

Summer is the time to kick back and relax with a beach read and a refreshing libation. HEARTH & SOUL invites you to indulge in lounging in a Yellow Leaf Hammock. These intricately stitched, practical works of art are both stylish and comfortable and they provide livelihoods for the artisans who make them.

Whether you are riding waves on a sailboat or strolling the beach at sunset, knitwear is a must for a North Florida summer.

HEARTH & SOUL offers two lines that specialize in easy, breezy spring and summer style. Vince is a line for men and women featuring soft knits and cozy cashmeres. The FINE Collection originated in France and employs only the most luxurious fabrics.

Silken and a tad sultry, knits embody summer style.

COTON COLORS’ summer lines feature vibrant hues and bold prints that are sure to brighten up any soiree or backyard barbecue.

The GEM COLLECTION recently brought in two new lines, SOHO Enamel Jewelry Co. and Gabriel & Co. New York.

Both are known for high-end materials including the finest silver and gold.

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BOLD BAGS In the warm months, many of us set off or jet off to use our much-needed vacation time. NARCISSUS specializes in bold bags that are both eye-catching and functional for travel. The latest collection by Rebecca Minkoff blends bright hues and durable materials. The adorable pom-pom bag screams summer. Stock your travel bag with essentials such as punchy shades of Smith & Cult lip gloss, Brighton sunglasses for your beach adventures, travel-size Tocca perfumes and a Bracha keychain to help you locate your keys once you return from paradise.

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1. BUMBLEBEE WAXING & MORE Celebrate the special women in your life with customized facials, body and facial waxing, safe eyelash extensions, eyebrow shaping, manicures, pedicures and more! Contact us to create a customized spa package, or you can buy gift cards directly online. 359 N. Monroe St. (Midtown), 850.264.9686, bumblebee-waxing.com

2. fab’rik Add style to any outfit with a bold statement necklace from fab’rik. You are guaranteed to catch eyes and receive compliments with

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6. VINTIQUE HOME FURNISHINGS & DÉCOR Mud Pie gifts are always an exceptional choice especially when it comes to tabletop entertainment collection pieces. They make great gifts for spring events such as weddings, Mother’s Day, graduations and more. We

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hile the ability to throw a great low-key shindig the dinner was the wine, provided by Caldwell and his is practically a requirement of Tallahassee living guests, George Percy and Steve Ecenia.

— think tailgate — a talent for swankier affairs is Next to the wines, perhaps the second-most celebrated more singular. A penchant for organization and guest at the event was chef Art Smith, famed cookbook entertainment doesn’t often coincide with posh taste and author, former personal chef to Oprah Winfrey and the impressive connections, but when it does, the results are founder of Common Threads, a nonprofit organization nothing short of remarkable. that gives cooking lessons to underpriviElroy and Lisa Caldwell know about leged children. Smith made a Gulf shrimp elegant entertaining. The couple hosts and grits dish a la Bill Neal for the No“At a typical monthly wine dinners, meals created for vember dinner, which Caldwell paired wine dinner, the the purpose of featuring fine wines. Some with a 2012 Williams Selyem unoaked are potlucks, some are meals prepared by Chardonnay Russian River. chef comes out Elroy and Lisa, some are lighthearted douChefs from outstanding local restauto tell us about ble-blind wine tasting competitions, but the rants also contributed to the dinner. the course, then one they hosted last November was espeTerry White, the owner and head chef cially memorable. at Sage, presented a ham crusted cobia goes back in the “Several chefs had expressed to Lisa and with spiny lobster, stone crab gyoza, braskitchen to get me a desire to come to our house, see our sicas and an emulsion of saffron, orange the next course wine cellar and pop some corks,” Elroy and lemongrass. John Minas, former head Caldwell explains. “My thought was that chef at the Governor’s Mansion and now ready. I wanted chefs don’t get to enjoy most wine dinners the executive chef at the Edison, made the chefs to sit because they are always in the kitchen. short ribs ravioli with a puree of parwith us and enjoy “At a typical wine dinner, the chef comes mesan, parsnip and celeriac on a bed of out to tell us about the course, then goes micro arugula. University Center Club everything like back in the kitchen to get the next course pastry chef Maria Streety created a dethe guests do.” ready. I wanted the chefs to sit with us and constructed s’mores dish for the dessert enjoy everything like the guests do. So, my course, with dulce de leche ice cream and — Elroy Caldwell thought was to have multiple chefs with chocolate Kahlua sauce. each doing one course. And their preparaMaybe you don’t know anyone who tion would be done ahead of time, so that runs a restaurant or has written a bestsellonce the event began, they would be in the kitchen only ing cookbook, but you can still take some advice from the to do the plating.”

Caldwells’ Pleasure Palate dinner: Next time you host a The invited chefs prepared four of the seven courses at dinner party, spread the cooking responsibility around so the dinner, with the amusebouche, cheeses and an entree everyone can enjoy the gathering. And, for goodness’ sake, course provided by Elroy Caldwell. Of course, the star of don’t skimp on the wine. TM SEE MORE EVENT PHOTOS, PAGE 172

Celebrated chefs Art Smith and John Minas, in photo at far left, and Terry White (Sage Restaurant), sitting down to dinner, combined to complete the “coursework” at the Pleasure Palate Dinner while also enjoying the opportunity to take part in the partaking.

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gastro & gusto and buy an expensive grill, but over time the fats and enzymes IS WELL from the meat will DONE eat the bottom of the grill. There are services in Tallahassee that will take them apart and steam clean them.”

Entertainers looking for crowd-pleasing grill fodder should stick to basics but do them right.

“When my grandchildren come to see me, what they want is Poppa’s barbecued protective barrier against chicken,” McKracken notes. flare-ups,” McCracken says.

“I cut up whole chickens and “Grills used to all have cerambrine them for 24 hours, then ic blocks or ‘lava rocks’ inside rinse them off and throw them them; those prevented flareon the grill at 325 degrees. I ups, but also helped with watch them very closely until taste. Ceramic briquettes rethey hit 165 degrees — by the ally do help generate flavor.” way, anyone who’s gonna grill High on grilling enthuneeds a good meat thermomsiasm but low on outdoor eter — and then I brush them space? McCracken has anwith barbecue sauce and let it swers. “I’m fond of the Weber caramelize.” kettle grills for space-chalStart by mastering chicken, lenged individuals. It’s easy burgers and hot dogs, but to control the heat and they don’t forget that grills can don’t take up a lot of room. be used creatively, too. Once If you’re so inclined, there’s you’ve got the basics down, a company that makes a conyou’re free to experiment. version kit for a Weber that “Everybody oughta try turns it into a pizza oven.” to do fish on the grill,” McRegardless of what grill Cracken says. “There’s few you purchase, make sure things better coming off a grill you clean it properly to prethan a good piece of salmon vent dangerous accidents. “I or grouper. And pizza!” don’t care if you have a $100 Don’t let this American grill or a $5,000 grill: twice culinary staple intimidate a year the grill needs to be you; with proper tools, comcompletely taken apart and mon sense and quality ingrecleaned. People will go out dients, anyone can grill. TM TEMP CHECK:

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hat better way to announce a few weeks of sweet, sweet freedom than to eat slightly charred beef, pork or chicken outside — with your hands?

In Leon County, Memorial Day weekend marks the end of the school year and the beginning of summer vacation — and nothing says “American summer” like grilling.

Maybe you’ve been grilling for so long that you can light

coals just by staring intently at them, or maybe you’re picking up a pair of tongs for the first time this year. It doesn’t matter. Ken McCracken, a sales associate at Brown’s Kitchen Supply, has advice that will serve you all season long.

If you’re a novice, start by picking the right grill.

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DINING OUT

Midtown’s Masa Refined venue sates appetites for Asian

by CASEY FEINDT

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asa, a regular Best of Tallahassee award winner, combines Asian cuisine, a welcoming ambience and impeccable service to consistently exceed customer expectations.

What began as a concept in the mind of local restaurateur Lucy Ho has blossomed into one of the Capital City’s most favored Asian fusion restaurants. With menu options including Asparagus Beef Maki and Yellow Curry Lamb Chops, Masa has become a culinary cornerstone in Tallahassee.

Sarah Kuta, Masa’s general manager, says the restaurant uniquely fills an expanding appetite.

“We offer Asian-fusion cuisine in a sophisticated atmosphere,” she says. “Asian dishes, especially

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sushi, have been really popular in recent years and it’s only getting more and more trendy.”

Last year, Masa underwent a big move to a larger location due to its rapidly growing success.

“We had been talking about moving to a bigger location for a while,” Kuta notes. “The new location kind of fell into our laps and we jumped at the opportunity. About 10 months was all it took for us to secure the property and get it up and running.”

Why the move? Kuta says that parking at the old location was always an issue and getting a table on a Friday or Saturday evening was nearly impossible. The new venue, while still in Midtown, helped satisfy the need for more tables and more parking and, of course, the demand for more of Masa’s delicious cuisine.

Masa’s menu, representing a fusion of cultures, provides guests with a true smorgasbord of flavors. Thai, Chinese and Japanese elements are paired with Western ingredients such as bacon, black beans and even mango salsa to create new gustatory experiences.

“The owners came up with the menu at the original Masa, and since then we’ve added different dishes,” Kuta says. “What’s really different about our current location is the fact that we have a full liquor bar versus just beer and wine.

We also have a happy hour menu which features both alcoholic beverages and food options.”

Masa’s food is its chief, but not its only, draw.

The decor is sleek and sophisticated. Here is an environment free of dragons and signs of the zodiac. At Masa, elemental black pieces and soft purple lighting set a refined tone.

Kuta says Masa is now hosting more events than ever before. Its spacious layout appeals to a wide variety of guests looking for an elegant meet-up spot.

“One of the main draws of the new location is the different kinds of dining experiences that we are now able to offer,” Kuta points out. “Guests can utilize our outside patio, dine in one of our spacious booths or even opt to eat right at the bar.

“We pride ourselves on our customer service.

We train our staff to learn all the different dishes and also how to operate different areas of the restaurant. It’s almost like learning a different language in a way.”

Masa will continue to refine its approach consistent with its commitment to culinary excellence.

“I don’t see Masa ever being unsuccessful as long as the people of Tallahassee are looking for high-quality sushi and Asian-inspired dishes,” Kuta enthuses. TM

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Muddle 3–5 mint leaves and 2 lychees Pour In ➺ 1.5 oz Bacardi ➺ .5 oz lychee juice ➺ .25 oz lime juice ➺ .5 oz simple syrup Shake 8–10 times Add ice and strain over a highball glass Top with soda water, mint sprig and lychee for garnish

Bella Bella knows more than Italian — they speak mojito, too

by CHAY D. BAXLEY

THE OLD MAN AND THE ARTISANAL LATIN STAPLE Writer Ernest Hemingway helped make

mojitos famous. Before Papa encountered mojitos, however, they were discovered by plundering pirates in Cuba. Once, mojitos were consumed for “medicinal” purposes. Some would say that remains true today.

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’ve always considered myself a Tampa girl with a Tallahassee heart.

I love the richness of the land here. The community’s collective personality has just the right amount of Southern charm to keep things sweet yet sassy. And I mean really, no one needs a beach when you have ancient oaks like these to picnic under. Clay castles last longer anyway.

One thing I do miss from my time in the Bay Area, though, is the Cuban-inspired flava that Florida’s culinary scene has so beautiful melded with. At the top of my tropical most-missed list are mojitos.

Yes, plural. I miss them all.

The perfect combination of spicy mint, light rum, cane sugar, refreshing lime and bubbly soda water, mojitos come to us straight from Havana, Cuba, where the spearmint leafs (or yerba buena) that give the drink its cool twist grow in abundance. If you make the beverage with Bacardi, it’s extra authentic and extra delicious. On a hot day, nothing cools you off faster.

While mojitos have become a favorite of cocktail a connoisseur like myself — hey, Hemingway drank them, too, so I’m in graceful-under-pressure company — they remain a nuisance to many bartenders.

Truth be told, mojitos are a lot of work. The muddling and ratios involved make this beverage one of the more challenging

GREEN TEA MOJITO

Muddle lime juice, mint and sugar together in a Collins glass until leaves bruise lightly. Add ice until glass is three quarters full. Pour in rum and green tea.

highballs to master. I know this, yet I continue to order them around town. Often I’m disappointed, but I never give up. I’m a fighter. Papa would be proud.

One happy day, though, I walked into Bella Bella on Monroe Street. The cozy Italian restaurant and its tasty bubble bread have become a favorite at my house. On the menu they boast of a handcrafted “lychee-mojito.” It was perfect timing. The restaurant’s generous happy hour was in effect, and, having absolutely no idea what a lychee was, I was intrigued.

“At Bella Bella we do our own take on a traditional mojito,” said Warren Cooey, the Italian restaurant’s bar manager.

“It’s a recipe we’ve had on the menu from the very beginning.

One of our past bartenders, Frank, came up with it. It’s a really good idea because lychees have such a light taste in keeping with the nature of a mojito.”

Normally when it comes to mojitos, I’m a bit of a purist.

But this concoction impressed me from the first sip. It’s fresh and citrusy without being overly sweet and stinky, and doesn’t leave me missing its more traditional predecessor.

“In Tallahassee we are always hot,” said Cooey. “It might be cold a month out of the year, so you can really drink light, fruit drinks all of the time. This version keeps in that same mindset but it changes it up a bit.

We like it a lot.” TM

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KEEPING TABS ON ALL THAT MUSES INSPIRE

The Indefatigable Avis Berry AS TEACHER, PERFORMER AND LIBRARIAN, HER PLATE IS FULL

by ROSANNE DUNKELBERGER

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here’s a video featuring Avis Berry Scott Carpenter and Leon Anderson. For singing the up-tempo jazz standard, “A the past two years, she’s been part of the Foggy Day (In London Town),” and group Jazz Copeland, which has given her an backed by the TSOJazz orchestra. The appreciation of what it takes to be in a band filming took place at The Moon last Novem— the management, marketing, scheduling ber. Her smooth, sweet and soulful voice is and rehearsing. a pleasure to listen to, and the pure joie de “We have to consider our time together savivre she projects while singing is infectious, cred, because we don’t have a lot of it,” she said. even when you’re watching it months later on Because making music doesn’t pay all the YouTube. bills, Berry has her other jobs which, she Berry’s two or three times monthly singclaims, aren’t as far afield from her vocal avoing gigs are definitely a highlight of her life, cation as one might think. but not the only thing in her life — not by a After graduation, Berry took a job as a long shot. substitute teacher and found she enjoyed The “40-something” wife and mother of the classroom. She began her career in 2004, two is also a fifth grade teacher at Gilchrist earning a master’s degree in elementary eduElementary and a full-time librarian at Florication, and now teaches fifth-grade science at da State University’s Music Library — a sevGilchrist Elementary School. en-day, 80-plus-hours a week “The classroom is like a stage schedule. too, and I thoroughly enjoy being “It’s crazy, but it’s good fun. in front of students and sharing “The classroom I’m enjoying it. I wouldn’t what I know,” she says. “It’s like I is like a stage stay in it if I didn’t love it,” go to a show every day with those she says. too, and I students … and I love the kids.

Born and raised in ClearThey have their own youthful crethoroughly water, Berry started singing in ativity, and it’s good to be around enjoy being church (“of course”) and later that kind of energy.” joined a community performin front of Things are much more low key ing group called Kids-A-Popat the library job, but it’s still one students and pin. “I think it just built up the that feeds her musical soul. sharing what confidence, plus the feedback “There’s music, the actual from the audience and the I know. It’s scores, there’s sound recordings, community. They just kept video recordings, journal articles like I go to a saying: ‘You are really good, that keep everything new and show every you have something special,’ relevant. Being in the College of and I loved it.” day with those Music, I’m surrounded by … all And then she came to FSU the different forms of music and students.” to major in vocal performusicians.” (She’s about to wrap — Avis Berry mance — with coursework up a second master’s degree in heavy on classical technique Library and Information Stud— and found out just how ies.) It also helps that all of her comuch she didn’t know. “I came into FSU so workers are musicians, who are understanding green,” she recalls. “I loved the discipline and about her taking time off when a gig pops up. the technique of classical music and I still do.”

Berry’s considered dropping a job, but But the spontaneous nature of jazz is laughed when she realized she was already what lights her up. “It’s sophisticated and thinking about other choirs and rehearsals she classy, yet can be funky or it can be free,” could join. “I’m always trying to fill my space,” Berry says. “I feel like the palette is so open, she says. and that caters to the Libra in me, which “At the end of the day, it comes down to: likes options.”

‘Do you love what you’re doing?’ Absolutely.

Those “options” can include performing at Every last bit of it,” she says. “I imagine life local music venues, churches and fundraisers, will slow me down at some point, but for now and collaborating with musicians including I’ll just keep going.” TM

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SECOND CHANCES

Release from prison presents new challenges

by KIM HARRIS THACKER

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Reggie Garcia is a Tallahassee attorney and lobbyist with more than 20 years of experience presenting clemency cases. A Tampa native, Garcia graduated from the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications as well as from the UF Levin College of Law. He was rated an AV Preeminent® attorney by the Martindale-Hubbell agency for both competency and ethics and has been described as an “expert in clemency and parole cases.” Garcia is a frequent public speaker and has been interviewed on radio programs and on national, network and statewide television news programs.

In addition to his two books, “How to Leave Prison Early: Florida Clemency, Parole and Work Release” and “Second Chances: Florida Pardons, Restoration of Civil Rights, Gun Rights and More,” Garcia has also published articles in several magazines and newspapers.

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WHILE MANY PERSONS RELEASED FROM PRISON succeed in readjusting successfully to society, others revert to criminal behavior.

Bureau of Justice Statistics studies have found high rates of recidivism. One study tracked 404,638 prisoners in 30 states after their release from prison in 2005. The researchers found that within three years of release, about two-thirds (67.8 percent) of released prisoners were rearrested. Within five years of release, about three-quarters (76.6 percent) of released prisoners were rearrested.

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f the approximately 1.5 million convictSuch a transition is made possible through ed felons in Florida, about 101,000 are the executive power of “clemency,” which Garhoused in state prisons. Over the next cia defines in “Second Chances” as “an act of 12 months, one-third of these individumercy absolving the individual upon whom it’s als will be released. Some will obtain probation, bestowed from any part of the punishment that but the majority will be expected to integrate the law imposes.” immediately into society. Integration can be a Numerous examples of clemency are includchallenge, however, since one consequence of ed in Garcia’s new book, ranging from President being found guilty of a felony is the loss of civil Gerald Ford’s “full, free and absolute pardon” of rights, including the right to vote, serve on a former President Richard Nixon to Garcia’s first jury, run for elected office and possess or use a clemency case, which restored firearm authority firearm. Without these rights, felons may have to a Tampa man who lived with his family above difficulty becoming employed — a crucial ashis small business. Clemency allows a felon a pect of integration into the larger society. chance at succeeding as a law-abiding and selfFlorida attorney and lobbyist Reggie Garcia sustaining citizen, but it isn’t necessarily an allhas written two books that address this probinclusive pardon. In “Second Chances,” Garcia lem. The first, “How to Leave Prison Early: clearly defines each type of clemency and deFlorida Clemency, Parole and Work Release,” scribes the steps that must be taken in order to was written for prison inmates and their supreceive clemency. porters. The most recent book, The book contains other practi“Second Chances: Florida cal assistance, including definitions Pardons, Restoration of Civil of legal terms, excerpts from perRights, Gun Rights and More,” tinent laws, and short biographies maintains that target audience of government officials who are inwhile also appealing to and involved with clemency. The book is forming the average Floridian. highly informative and organized For, as Garcia writes, “Increasto the point where it could serve ingly, convicted felons are our as a college text, yet the language family members, neighbors, is suitable for every reader. Indeed, school friends, business owners, every Floridian would benefit skilled workers, and former or from reading “Second Chances.” current professionals of every “All Florida employers, comrace, gender, ethnicity, religion munity leaders, elected officials, Tallahassee attorney and socio-economic group. ... We faith leaders and other taxpayers and clemency expert as citizens and taxpayers should should do their part, no matter Reggie Garcia writes authoritatively about help these felons get jobs and how large or small, to help an ofhurdles faced by onetransition back to being law-abidfender become a productive cititime inmates working to ing and self-sustaining citizens.” zen,” Garcia says. TM re-enter society.

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BEAUTIFUL SWAN Anjali Austin, a dancer of color, speaks to ballet’s changing paint box

by MARINA BROWN

Ballet

A Study of Grace Under Pressure Ballet is more than meets the eye although the pastel tutus and stunning backdrops add beautifully to any performance.

Ballerinas demonstrate persistence, determination and technique all while maintaining graceful composure. The art has a language all its own. A few examples …

ALLÉGRO A sequence involving fast and precise movements with quick footwork.

The music often builds and audiences are left captivated.

JETÉ Both male and female dancers perform jetés, which are large leaps often in succession across the stage.

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cropped head draped in an elegant scarf. Delicate, but not thin, she speaks with animation, intensity and humor.

TM: Where did you grow up and how did you first become interested in classical ballet?

AA: I was born in Tallahassee but moved with my grandmother, who raised me, to San Francisco when I was 5. I don’t know why, but this amazing woman was interested in opera. Every afternoon, she and I would have lunch together and listen to Verdi or Puccini. I came to love that music. And she took me to the San Francisco Ballet.

Because of a thoracic malformation, a doctor suggested that ballet classes might help strengthen and straighten my ribcage. A perfect prescription! Movement that I immediately loved, music I found exhilarating. Best of all, I was at the prestigious San Francisco Ballet School. I couldn’t have begun anywhere more propitious.

TM: You studied there until your early teens.

What was it like as a young dancer of color?

AA: San Francisco was wonderful. Latin dancers, Asian dancers, we all felt very nurtured.

I even was in the opera Der Rosenkavalier. You can imagine how my grandmother felt! ››

PAS DE DEUX A pas de deux is a dance involving only two dancers, usually a male and a female, such as the familiar performances in Romeo and Juliet, The Nutcracker and Don Quixote.

PIROUETTES AND FOUETTÉS These are the advanced turns that elicit enthusiastic applause from audiences. They require the dancer to spin around on one leg.

POINTE While ballerinas do in fact point their toes, “pointe” refers to dancing on the tips of their toes. Pointe is made possible by the box of the shoe being constructed of layers of paper, fabric and glue.

— REBECCA PADGETT

PHOTO COURTESY FSU DEPARTMENT OF DANCE/JON NALON

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n early June 2015, a remarkable event occurred that thrilled classical dancers of color (yes, there are indeed such creatures) who had long yearned to don a tutu and pointe shoes rather than be relegated to the leotards and bare feet of modern dance.

Misty Copeland, a petit African American ballet dancer, was named a principal dancer — a prima ballerina — with the American Ballet Theatre. Equivalent to a general or admiral in the military, she attained then a special designation heretofore held only by white dancers. But while Copeland’s promotion was a landmark for an American classical dance company, dancers of various skin tones had occasionally been “swans” before. Only it hadn’t been easy. Now, the future looks brighter That is the message that Anjali Austin, an associate professor of dance at Florida State University for the last 20 years, hopes to bring to her students and to demonstrate in her choreography. We sat down with Austin recently and asked her about growing up black in a white ballet world; the importance of mentors; and the way she’s chosen to look at racial differences.

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expression TM: But you returned to Florida at age 13 in 1973. Was the dance world different here?

AA: About 10 years earlier, things had been very different in the South. At least one performance had been stopped by police entering a theater in Mississippi when an African American dancer had appeared in a classical ballet on the same stage as Caucasian dancers. Certainly, black dancers couldn’t stay in the same hotels as their white colleagues. But things were better in Tallahassee by ’73. I studied with Helen Salter who had started the Tallahassee Ballet. She always made me feel like I could have a career in dance.

TM: You have had a very long career — on the stage and in the classroom.

AA: Yes. When I was 14, the famous African American dancer, Arthur Mitchell, came to teach a class in Tallahassee. He had been a principal with the New York City Ballet and had started his own Dance Theatre of Harlem. He was waiting for a taxi on the FSU campus and I simply marched up and told him I wanted to come to his summer program. As soon as I graduated from high school, I went to New York and, within months, I was accepted into the company.

TM: But were you dancing ballet or did you find yourself doing more modern works, the typical dance form for dancers of color?

AA: I was with the Dance Theatre of Harlem for 13 years and got to do everything from classical works to contemporary dance. Creole Giselle, Firebird, Scheherazade — it was an innovative neoclassical company.

It was also a very integrated company where the older dancers generously mentored younger ones. That kind of support always made us believe we could dance the way we wanted.

TM: Do you think with Misty Copeland’s promotion we’ve come to a “post-racial” place in classical dance?

AA: No, we don’t have a utopia yet. But I prefer to think of it as more “ethnic” than “racial.” What we can see is our shell, but I prefer to think of our heritage as dancers — the wonderful differences in the way we move and approach movement — as what really counts.

TM: What advice would you have for someone, especially people of color, entering the world of dance?

AA: Do the work, technically and creatively. Be curious about your art form; take risks; study from many different teachers and look for options. Take charge of your own artistic and technical growth. This is a wonderful time for visibility as a dancer of color.

There are changes as to how people think about who can dance — and there’s a wonderful responsibility with that shift. TM Austin is currently expanding her choreographic vocabulary with a work called, “Threads”, inspired by her grandmother’s quilts.

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NEW LIFE FOR OLD WOOD

Artist perpetuates nature’s handiwork

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legant, graceful, poised ... words that might be used to describe a genteel Southern woman. Add, “draped in lacy Spanish moss,” however, and the description fits the live oaks that dot Florida’s capital city. These magnificent trees, many of which date back to a time not even Scarlett O’Hara’s grandmother could recall, are the original Southern Belles. So when it becomes necessary to remove one of these landmarks, its departure doesn’t go unnoticed.

On Jan. 18, a live oak that had stood since the 1850s on

the grounds that now house the Leroy Collins Public Library was cut down. The tree was in poor health, making it a safety hazard. Once measuring approximately 5 feet in diameter, the tree’s life has been extended. That is, what Nature once sculpted has been transformed

by Tallahassee chainsaw artist John Birch.

A stump has become a tree fort and two children engrossed in books.

Birch had to work around a portion of the stump to carve the sculpture, but he welcomes ››

Versus a canvas, John Birch prefers what comes naturally: Here, the artist works at the Leroy Collins Library.

John Birch has worked professionally as a chainsaw artist, cutting wood, stone and ice, since 1996.

He and his work have been featured in numerous articles, on videos and television, and in Craftsmen of the Kingdom, a book by Jasmine Spitler. John refers to his King Arthur-brand tools by name (Merlin, Percival and Lancelot) and is quick to point out that, like a knight of the infamous Round Table, he dons the proper protective “armor” for his work: safety glasses, gloves, a cowboy hat and a breathing mask. Many of John’s sculptures can be found throughout Tallahassee as well as in neighboring communities. With proper care, these sculptures will last for decades. For more information and to view Birch’s portfolio, visit his Facebook page, “Sculptures by John Birch,” or follow his truck (you can’t miss it!) to his latest work site.

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this part of the creative process. “A sculpture changes as I’m going,” he says. “I do what I can.”

Birch’s go-with-the-flow attitude also reveals itself in the forms taken by most of his finished products.

Whether he carves a leaping fish, a galloping mustang or laughing child, Birch captures movement. “People connect with art when they see something happening in it,” he explains. “To put action into a piece, you have to have motion. In the Sistine Chapel, God’s hand and Adam’s are about to touch.”

Birch doesn’t aspire to recreate Michelangelo’s works, but several of his sculptures are religious in nature and most of these end up gracing church-owned sites. “It’s a talent the good Lord gave me,” Birch says, “so this is how I pay it back.”

Birch’s carvings, without exception, are symbolic.

Fourteen schools in and around Tallahassee boast his sculptures of mascots and, perhaps, something more: “With the elementary school pieces, I try to put a book into it,” he says. Recently, he created a sculpture of several books, an owl and a wheelchair for the Gretchen Everhart School, whose student body comprises children with special needs. After presenting the sculpture, Birch, who has epilepsy, was invited to speak to the students about what it’s like to be an artist with a disability.

A few hours spent in Birch’s company shows that he doesn’t let anything, be it epilepsy, bad weather or changed plans, hold him back. He’s resilient, just like the wood he works with. TM

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Birch’s highly detailed works on public display include several at public schools including the Montford Middle School, above.

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Flamenco, fado and fighting bulls

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I can’t resist pulling an orange from the tree in our whitewashed courtyard. Then, though I’m in a hurry, I stop to gaze out over the rooftops of Lisbon.

Red roofs, turquoise, ochre and sienna-colored houses crazy-quilt down the steep lanes of Alfama. My neighborhood — the only part of Lisbon not destroyed in a 1755 cataclysmic quake — is situated on the highest hill of Portugal’s capital.

Cast in a chiaroscuro of shoulder-wide lanes and blinding sunlight, Alfama is like an insistent suitor, arresting me in mid-sentence with its beauty and singing a beautiful and melancholy fado throughout the day.

Above: Hypostyle Hall in the sometimes mosque/sometime cathedral at Cordoba, Spain. The site underwent conversion from a church to a mosque and then back to a church. At right: the Belem Tower on the Tagus River in Lisbon. Construction of the fortress took six years and was completed in 1519.

But I’m hungry now, and restaurant-bound, am eager to trudge up, then down, one of Alfama’s nearly vertical becos, those Lilliputian alleys paved in tiny squares of polished stone that have, I’ve noticed, left a good percentage of locals wearing splints and walking with canes.

Yet, the passageways are bustling in Alfama. Tourists stop to snap photos of four-story buildings clad in glistening porcelain tiles. They wave lacy fans back and forth as if the breeze from the massive Tagus River below can’t do the job. And they marvel at the medieval Sao Jorge Castle that tops Alfama like a stony, gray cherry.

For my part, I make my way down the hill to the outdoor café beside the sheltering Se Cathedral where I can luxuriate in my now daily fix of cod. Yes, the fish. COD. “Bacalao a bras,” the humble Portuguese dish that sends Lisbon natives into ecstasy when done well. Shredded potatoes, crumbled cod and an egg.

And maybe an appetizer of chilled octopus ahead of time since seafood is a staple in Portugal. A shady lunch and a glass of wine will give me time to contemplate this place called Iberia, the huge peninsula of Spain, Portugal and a bite of France, that extends into the Atlantic like a handshake toward the West.

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Above: The Prado museum and art gallery (Museo del Prado) in Madrid. At right: a group of flamenco dancers in the streets of Granada.

Flemenco, whose enduring place in Spanish culture dates to the 16th century, incorporates rhythms from India and Africa.

Spain greedily makes up the bulk of Iberia’s mass while Portugal seems to slink down much of its western coast. Convenient for ancient invaders, the peninsula’s formidable coastline became an entry point for waves of takeovers. From prehistoric cavedwellers through Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Vandals and Visigoths, it was the Arab Kingdoms that ended up ruling Iberia for nearly 700 years of breathtaking advances. Visual arts, literature, mathematics, science, architecture, the Moorish dynasties were, some think, the apogee of Iberian culture. But in 1492 all that came to a halt. Not only was Columbus making headlines, but in the reconquest, the same generous queen who had bankrolled the explorer was casting out Jews and Arabs in a kind of holocaust of forced Christianity. What Isabella couldn’t pry loose from the people of the peninsula were the centuries of Moorish influence. Though mosques became churches and Arabic was no longer spoken, music, dance and a North African aesthetic wouldn’t go away.

As I chew my cod — yes, jokes have been made — and sip the slightly fizzy, refreshingly young “vinho verde,” I think with gratitude of the conquistadors of Iberia’s Moors. In Seville, they topped the minaret of the megalithic mosque with a sublime bell tower and called it a cathedral; they turned the Alhambra, Granada’s Sultan’s palace, into the residence of a Christian king; and in Cordoba, they simply added altars in the form of tons of pilfered New World gold to turn the most exquisite mosque in the Western World, the Mesquitza, into a church. Even if religiously opposed, they recognized Arabic beauty on a grand scale and left it alone.

The air has grown chilly by nightfall, and though it is before 9, I can already hear the strains of “fado” rising from the residential fjords of Alfama. With arms propped on a window sill, an old woman looks down at me and waves. Her shoulders are moving ever so slightly to the music. Given an extra hundred years, she could have been one of the first to sing the sad, sweet rhythms of fado — “fate” — which arose among fishermen of the 1800s, the women they left at home, and the poor who struggled with “the way things are.”

In a restaurant, where most fado is sung, a young man, Pedro d’AlMeida, who says he gave up an operatic future to return to Alfama and devote his life to this sorrowful form of song, walks among the tables, opens his palms and makes even those of us who understand not a word, want to weep. The 12-stringed Portuguese guitar seems to cry as well as the strains of fado drift across the city toward morning and Alfama settles into its past.

Spain. Granada. 10 p.m. Flamenco.

My head had ached and my feet tantrumed in Madrid. The glorious Prado museum with its Goyas and Riberas, the almostas-good Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, filled with many of Impressionism’s greatest minor works, involved hours of walking — most of it plunging through crowds thick with Spaniards intent on their 24/7 tapas-crawls. What was needed to clear my head were a few good evenings of flamenco. But I would wait for Seville, Granada and Cordoba, the southerly cities where the influence of the Roma would be more authentic.

Thankfully, the Roma gitanos — gypsies — who gave birth to modern flamenco dance, still perform in Sacramonte in the streets and caves above Granada.

Spain. Madrid. 8 p.m. Fighting Bulls.

It is nearing 10 p.m. Granada, like the rest of Spain, is awakening as the rest of the world readies for bed. In a narrow, white-washed tube of a room, dug into the rocky soil of Sacramonte, the walls are hung with fading photos, brass plates, religious icons and candelabra. Visitors are backed along the walls, away from the rough dance floor. It is hot and claustrophobic, but the air is electric as, at one end, a guitarist, two singers and three dancers enter and silently perch on straight-back chairs. No one speaks until, with eyes closed, one man begins to clap his hands. The guitar responds to the rhythm and embellishes it. Then the others accentuate the rhythm with their palmas, clapping to counterbeats and ones unheard.

As if conjured, one of the women stands and begins to move her wrists. They are like wings, or swans’ necks, or a flower unfurling.

She is graceful, wearing a manton or shawl that sweeps to her knees. Languorous or staccato, her movements take on an urgency that is broken only when her heels have stabbed powerful tattoos in the wooden floor and she at last seems emptied of emotion.

This is flamenco. This is its soul — duende. The singing that wrenches the heart; the rhythms swept from India and Africa, then to be ritualized in 16th-century Spain. This is flamenco, a concoction of intoxicating passion and powerful grit that like it or not, will have its way with you, in the last century or this.

There was only one thing left to do before returning home, before the controversial spectacles vanish forever.

Long ago, I had seen a Portuguese bullfight and now planned to attend one in Spain. I wanted to know if the experiences would be as vividly exciting as they’d seemed many years before. And wondered too, on which side of the “bull wars” and “fight bans” I would fall.

My early corridas had been colored by the Hemingway effect.

Those bullfights in Spain, France and Mexico were steeped in the author’s romantic tales and, yes, Ava Gardner’s front-page fling with a leading torero. I’d read “Death in the Afternoon” three times. Besides, bullfights are Spain, right? The quintessential cultural hallmark of Spanish bravado and drama. Life. Death.

Pageantry pairing a satin suit and a machismo bull.

The first of my two fights was held in Portugal’s elegant Campo Pequeno, a Victorian ring that can hold 9,000. Announcing the fight like a boxing ring girl, a gilded coach with a team of four white horses and an equipage directly from the 16th century arced in courtly circles around the arena. Unlike Spanish contests, in Portugal, the bull is not killed in the ring. Instead, it bursts from a dark tunnel into an immense sandy circle where it will, for the first time, see men on foot. The fight involves a mounted torero placing long, barbed banderillos as he charges his horse toward the bull. Tonight’s bulls looked annoyed but unharmed. The second and final part of the Portuguese fight involved eight unquestionably brave men standing in single-file facing the bull. Provoked to charge them, the first man is hit full in the chest by the bull’s head as he grabs the animal’s horns and his feet shoot sky-high. The other men then attempt to wrestle the bull to a standstill.

And then it is over. The perplexed bull is escorted from the ring by a small herd of bell-ringing oxen and each goes back to his stall, or more likely to the butcher.

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The Madrid corrida is something else. Built in 1931, Madrid’s Las Ventas Plaza de Toros has featured the world’s most famous matadors — Molino, Belmonte, Manolete — idols whose pictures appear in Madrid restaurants alongside some of the mounted heads of the famous bulls they dispatched.

The corrida is packed. It is the last event of the season, and hundreds of students from a bull-fighting school keep up an excited chant. Cigar-smoking men and delicate ladies sit shoulder to shoulder on bleacher seats below the “King’s box,” a kind of Arabian balcony where King Juan Carlos sits when he attends. His wife, Sofia, doesn’t approve of bullfights and doesn’t come.

And then with trumpeted fanfare that sends romantic tingles down the spine, it begins. As in Portugal, all the bulls act surprised when they gallop into the ring. They seem more like frisky dogs let out of a kennel. But too soon, for them, the fun is over.

A matador torments, confuses and exhausts a bull during an encounter in Madrid. In Spain, bulls are killed at the end of fights. In Portugal, the fight ends when men combine to wrestle a bull to a standstill.

There is no doubt we are watching artistry as the matador turns his cape this way and that, the bull following as if it might be a game. And doubtless, there is bravery in stepping into a ring with a 900–1,300 pound animal bred to kill and gore. But this time I see how the bull quickly becomes exhausted. How he is uncertain and confused. And how the odds are impossibly stacked against him as his battered neck muscles refuse to hold his head high and in so doing, after 20 minutes of flailing at a magenta cape, permit the matador to easily dispatch the great bull with his sword.

I won’t go back. I wept for the bull. But a certain nostalgia will remain. Not for the killing of an unsuspecting animal, but for all the iconic practices of ancient cultures that are too often replaced by the bland societal currencies of today. One cannot condone Chinese foot binding nor the neck stretching of Thai hill people, nor the ritual scarring of African tribes. But such odd and bizarre practices, added to the thousands of world languages, hundreds of religious beliefs, and millions of ways to make a good stew gave a uniqueness to the peoples of the planet that in our time teeters on becoming a thin, beige porridge.

Fado, flamenco and fighting bulls. For now, on the Iberian Peninsula, the first two are alive and well. And maybe soon, big black bulls will be, too. TM TALL AHASSEEMAGA ZINE.COM

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EDUCATIONAL LOAFING Birdsong Nature Center celebrates 30 years of environmental stewardship

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Birdsong incorporated as a nonprofit in 1986 and recently celebrated its 30th anniversary by renovating and refurbishing the historic Dickey-Komarek home and gardens. The 565-acre preserve is located at 2106 Meridian Road in Thomasville and is just four miles north of the Florida state line.

Birdsong started out as a cotton

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visit to Birdsong Nature Center is like being inside a vintage Walt Disney nature film. You can almost hear the folksy Rex Allen narration.

The pastoral setting comes complete with quiet, wooded trails, hardwood forests, swamps, wide-open pastures, ponds and ample wildlife, including butterflies, frogs, otters, wood ducks and much more.

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plantation back in the mid-19th century, then changed to tenant farm, cattle farm and finally private homestead. What would eventually become Birdsong Nature Center got its start in the 1940s when the Komarek family developed the natural habitat enjoyed by many visitors today.

They employed the then-pioneering concept of prescribed burning to create a place that supports a wide variety of plant and animal life. Betty Komarek, a teacher and botanist, used her knowledge to develop educational programs for scouts, 4-H clubs, school groups, ➸ Birdsong was designed to be a place teachers, garden clubs for serene observation, and other nature lovwalking and reflection. ers. She also designed To promote that sense of peace, there’s no the six acres around running or jogging on the main house to atthe 12 miles of trails tract the maximum that wind through the preserve. Nor number of birds and can you ride a bike, butterflies. The profour-wheeler or other grams continue today. vehicle. Pets aren’t permitted, either.

Birdsong features The center is open several venues that Wednesday, Friday and optimize your comSaturday from 9 a.m.– 5 p.m., and Sunday from munion with nature.

1 p.m.–5 p.m. Admission For example, there’s is $5 for adults and a large, floor-length $2.50 for children 4–12 years old. Admission is picture window (the free to members. Call Bird Window) at the (229) 377-4408 for more main house that proinformation. vides the ultimate indoor bird-watching experience. The Listening Place, a screened pavilion, is a great place to listen to the sounds of critters in nearby Big Bay Swamp. Bluebird Trail features 40 bluebird boxes from which 100 or more young bluebirds fledge each year. The Butterfly Garden is an enticing place that is full of colorful butterflies from April to November. TM

The mixed hardwood/evergreen forests, open spaces, ponds and lakes in Tallahassee and environs attract a remarkable variety of birds. The familiar cardinal, which would be leading candidate for City Bird honors, is joined at feeders by mourning doves and the tufted titmouse, the Eastern bluebird, goldfinches, house finches, chickadees and more.

Magnificent white pelicans overwintered in Tallahassee this year. Canadian geese, in good numbers, like Snowbirds from Ontario, have taken up permanent residence. And, in the early morning, it is not the crowing rooster that alarms us many times, but gobbling wild turkeys. — STEVE BORNHOFT

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young man arrived in Tallahassee in 1972 with the outlook that many young people have upon moving to Florida’s capital city. The way he had things figured, he would enjoy good times for four years while getting an education at Florida State and then move on — to Vermont, perhaps, or even Canada, somewhere he could ski.

Unbeknownst to him, Tallahassee had other plans for him. The city, it seemed, intended that he grow a business, raise a family and build a solid reputation — right here. And so that came to be. Today, he has been in the same business for 40 years and has two sons and multiple grandchildren.

After working at an antique shop and the Carpet Barn, Brian Barnard opened his own store — Brian Barnard’s Carpet Trader — in 1976 at 1408 Lake Bradford Road. A new FSU graduate, Brian drove to Dalton, Georgia, with a few thousand dollars and a rental truck on a mission to buy as much carpet as he could. When all of that carpet was sold, he would go back and get some more.

After making a few trips back and forth, a man named Buddy Parker noticed Brian’s frequent trips and extended him some credit. This helped Brian out with cash flow and even enabled him to establish some credit. With a growing

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business and stable income, Brian added fulltime employees. Then, he and his wife decided it was time to welcome some new lives into the world. They had their first son, J.R., in 1978, and their second son, Chris, in 1983.

J.R. and Chris started working in the carpet warehouse at a very young age — and were probably more of a hindrance than anything else in the beginning. However, as time went on, both brothers became exceptional employees.

J.R. recalls working all summer when he was 13 years old so he could purchase $600 worth of parts and build a remote control car; he was very proud of that accomplishment.

As time passed, the boys’ purchases went from remote control cars to Ford F-150s. Then, J.R. and Chris moved up from the warehouse and started families of their own.

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“The more Brian’s business flourished, the more he was able to give back to the community in which he flourished.”

The boys naturally learned the value of a dollar and the importance of giving back to your community as a product of the time they spent at the family business. The more Brian’s business flourished, the more he was able to give back to the community that had already given so much to him. He has been particularly generous in supporting Boys Town, Wounded Warriors, Habitat for Humanity and the Lighthouse Children’s Home, just to name a few.

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HISTORY TALLAHASSEE SENIORS TALK ABOUT THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES

History is about people, the lives they lead, the choices they make and the legacies they leave behind. Historic characters make their mark on our world, but what about the average person? What about people whose lives are spent on the fringes of history? Or unassuming folks who wind up playing roles in world-altering events?

Their stories are worthy of being captured before memory fades and the threads are lost forever.

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Margaret, 90 MARGARET HAMILTON’S OLD cat lounges in the front window and basks luxuriously in a sunbeam. Tony is 13 years old, which makes him almost 70 in human years, and she keeps an eye on him as he starts to slow down.

“He has a hard time getting around, but he likes to sit in the sun and watch the world go by,” Margaret laughed.

“We are the same in those ways.”

Margaret is 90, and like Tony, has earned the right to repose. But unlike Tony, she has seen most of what the world has to offer. Over the course of her lifetime she made 116 trips to various exotic locales, including Mexico, Panama and Puerto Rico and has visited old-world countries including Germany, Austria and France as well.

Her life began on a farm in Michigan, but her first husband’s government job would take her to Illinois, Florida, Oklahoma, Alabama and then back to Florida.

New cities have always enlivened her, but with two small children, Margaret craved a town she could call her permanent home.

“One time we were driving through Tallahassee and I said to my husband, ‘This is a nice town, can you transfer here?’ He did. I have been here ever since and my, has this town ever changed,” she said. “But people are always friendly here, and it’s a good clean town. I love the canopy roads. They better not ever get rid of those.”

Margaret worked as a proofreader in the publications department of the Florida Bar Association.

“I helped with putting legal books together and copy editing,” she shared.

“When I was in high school, I was a teacher’s assistant and my job was to cor-

rect the papers of students. I loved doing that and ended up doing it for a career.”

She’s not kidding about how much she adored her job. She retired at age 84.

In the midst of pursuing a career, she decided it was time to achieve the college education she had missed out on when she was younger. So, when her daughter started college at Florida State University, Margaret joined her. She received her bachelor’s degree in history and English, and pursued a master’s degree in historic preservation. But those studies were cut short when her husband died. Instead of continuing on with her academic work, she decided to do some traveling. Something marvelously unexpected happened to her after a while, however.

“I had been a widow for 18 years and never thought I would get married again,” she said. “Killearn United Methodist was having a bus trip to Plains, Georgia, to go to Jimmy Carter’s Sunday school. Roger was also on the trip.

He had just moved to Tallahassee from Miami after the passing of his wife. We hit it off on that trip.”

It’s not clear whether Margaret believes in soul mates, but if a movie were to be made about her life, Roger would be characterized as hers. They knew each other for 10 years and were married for eight. During that time they travelled together, danced together, created art together and shared piano benches.

Margaret always had the keen eye, creative mind and the steady hand of an artist. She introduced Roger to art classes at the Tallahassee Senior Center. There isn’t a wall in her home that doesn’t hold her artwork and that of her late husband.

The living room alone features at least 10 exquisite landscape paintings. Margaret is humble about her work but will show you an entire wall in her art room

dedicated to the multicolored ribbons and awards her art has earned.

The award she is most proud of is the Silver Star, presented to her by the senior center. It acknowledges her countless volunteer efforts at City Hall, Goodwood Gardens, the Little Theatre and the Senior Center’s art council.

Margaret will not deny that she has lived a fulfilling life. But one goal remains.

“There is one thing that Roger always encouraged me to do,” she said. “Finish my master’s degree. I’ve been thinking a lot about that lately. I know a few professors at FSU and could ask them what I need to do. If I can accomplish that, I think I have done everything.”

As she thoughtfully peers over her coffee cup, Margaret looks back on all she has accomplished.

“Overall, I’ve lived a very good, happy life,” she said with a smile. “It hasn’t always been wine and roses. There have been a few thorns. But you can’t sweat the small stuff. People get agitated about things that won’t even amount to a hill of beans. Have some fun or do something constructive. Don’t worry so much.” — REBECCA PADGETT

One time we were driving through Tallahassee and I said to my husband, ‘This is a nice town, can you transfer here?’ He did. I have been here ever since and my, has this town ever changed.”

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I asked myself, do you really want to kill all these people? I am a Christian.

I try to follow the Commandments.

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Rodney, 80 RETIRED U.S.MARINE Corps Lt. Col. Rodney Letchworth didn’t start the Cold War. But had the shooting started, the Leon County farm boy and Marine bomber pilot trained, was well to stop it. Fortunately, that war never heated up. However, his skills — and his conscience — would be put to the test in the skies over Vietnam.

Letchworth, 80, and his family moved to Leon County in 1941, and times were tough. For a nation still in the grips of the Great Depression, food was scarce, and the U.S. government sought to change that by encouraging families to get back to farming. He said that the government bought 600 acres along U.S. Highway 27 and subdivided it into 10 farms, each 60 acres.

“These farms were offered at a very low price if the buyer would sign a contract to actually grow crops on the land,” Rodney recalled in his 2014 memoir, “Surviving PTSD: A Combat Marine’s Story.”

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one of the farms badly. There was a problem, though.

“He knew that he couldn’t meet all the requirements because he didn’t have enough money to finance living expenses for a whole year until he could raise a crop and sell it,” Rodney wrote.

But a solution soon presented itself.

Rodney’s dad convinced his dad to farm the land while he kept his trucking job.

That worked well enough — for two years — until Rodney’s grandfather got the rambling bug and moved away. Rodney’s dad wound up driving the truck during the day and farming at night.

It wasn’t long before Rodney found himself behind the plow — “It was taller than me,” he says with a chuckle — and he and his brother Gary worked the land and sold enough corn to “satisfy the feds” for the next two years. Incidentally, he said their farm was located on U.S. 27, across from the new National Cemetery.

“You get to be good friends with a mule,” Rodney added. “It was a wonderful way to grow up.”

After graduating from Leon High School, where he lettered in track, Rodney spent a semester at a Bible college in Columbia, South Carolina, before he returned to Tallahassee and enrolled in FSU. “In 1956, I had had three years at FSU and decided to go see the world, so I enlisted in the Marine Corps. I enjoyed it. It was a challenge,” he said.

In 1958, he found himself in Pensacola learning how to fly with the U.S. Navy.

Turns out, the Tallahassee farm boy was a natural aviator. And since he was a Marine pilot, he had to learn how to

land on carriers, which he said was an awesome experience.

In 1959 he was commissioned a second lieutenant and was assigned to Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe in Hawaii.

There he joined VMA 214, the fabled “Black Sheep” squadron, which had earned a name for itself during World War II. Only now, the squadron wasn’t flying the legendary gull-winged Corsair of “Pappy” Boyington fame, but the FJ4B Fury, a souped-up version of the venerable F-86 Sabre.

At the time, Rodney said, the only nuclear deterrent America had in the Pacific was jet bombers packing nukes that were a great deal more powerful than the ones dropped on Japan in 1945. He said the single-engine Furies carried one 2.5-megaton bomb packing the ferocious capability of one million tons of TNT. Now, the Fury was fast — but not quite fast enough to get out of the blast zone of an expanding mushroom cloud.

Dropping the bomb in a conventional manner was out of the question, so U.S. air doctrine at the time called for the use of something called “toss bombing.”

My experience There were three variants of this process; Rodney’s squadron has been that as we practiced the “Over The Shoulget older we tend to der” method. This involved be more pessimistic nothing less than sheer guts. A and less happy. But, Fury would scream in over the that’s no way to live. target at 650 miles per hour, at a pulse-pounding 50 feet off the Life is too short, deck. At a designated point the even at 93, so really pilot would yank back the stick what it comes down and put the plane vertical in a

to is being happy and reflecting that happiness around to other people.”

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Family is more important in your daily life than anything else. Be where the people you love are. That’s why my life is so good. I’ve been very fortunate to always have the people I love next to me.”

Alice Englert

gut-wrenching 4-G climbing loop. Just past vertical, the bomb would detach and continue skyward, gaining altitude, while the pilot executed a half-roll and firewalled the throttle. The bomb would descend in a high enough arc that its trajectory would allow the pilot to get out of the area before impact.

“Pilots called it the ‘idiot loop,’” Rodney said with a laugh. “We practiced that maneuver every day for three years.”

Later, Rodney flew an A-4 Skyhawk in Vietnam and provided close air support for Marine and Army units. This meant he made bomb and gun runs at 50 feet — close enough to see who he was trying to kill. They can see you just as well, too. Skyhawk pilots caught a lot of lead during each mission.

“Our (airframe repair mechanics) had plenty of work digging bullets out of our birds after almost every flight,” Rodney said in his book. “Every morning they would present us with our souvenirs (mangled bullets which they had extracted from the jets). When I came home I brought a box full of them with me.”

Rodney flew 289 missions in 11 months. On his very first mission, though, he quite naturally had a crisis of conscience. He was orbiting a village,

waiting to attack, when it hit him. Could he pull the trigger?

“I asked myself, do you really want to kill all these people? I am a Christian. I try to follow the Commandments. The Good Book says thou shall not kill. I was about to kill a lot of people,” he wrote.

It was moment-of-truth time in the cockpit. He could jettison his bombs harmlessly over the water, go back and turn in his wings. He said a lieutenant colonel had done just that and was disgraced for it. Rodney said he made up his mind to do his job. He rolled in and delivered his bombs on target. He’s wrestled with that decision ever since.

“To this day I still debate with myself whether or not I made the right choice,” he said. “The feeling I experienced the first time I faced that decision and decided to pull the trigger has been forever etched in my brain. I was forever changed.”

— JASON DEHART

Gail, 93 GAIL EDGEWORTH IS TRUE to her Southern roots and meets you at the door with a pearl necklace and earrings set, slight twang and cheerful attitude.

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Athletic RESUME The benefits of youth sports are many; Just don’t bank on playing to make money

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he coach lobs a pitch to 6-year-old Jaylen, who takes a mighty swing and whacks it over the head of the kid looking at the clouds in center field. Home run!

As he rounds the bases, sliding into home just for the heck of it, his cheering parents can’t help thinking: “Wow, our little guy has what it takes to go all the way to the big leagues!”

Before you lose yourself in those dreams of fame and fortune, Mom and Dad, here’s a reality check, courtesy of the NCAA website:

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“Only about two percent of high school athletes are awarded athletics scholarships to compete in college.

(Of the) more than 460,000 NCAA student-athletes, fewer than two percent will go pro in their sport.”

Those involved in the process of training and supporting young athletes say the road to competing in college and beyond can require exceptionally large commitments of time and money. And only parents — and their child — can decide whether it’s worth the sacrifice.

But no parent should ever count on a sports scholarship paying for college.

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“I say this pretty regularly: You should never be planning on that.

That’s a bonus if it happens,” said Dwayne Hultquist, head coach of Florida State University’s men’s tennis team.

Even if a young person has the talent to be recruited by a top-tier, Division I team, NCAA rules limit the number of scholarships given out in any one sport. For example, although the FSU’s men’s tennis team has nine members, the coach is only allowed to divvy up 4.5 athletic scholarships among them. Division II teams have even less scholarship money to offer and in Division III, there are no sports scholarships at all.

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(Per the NCAA, a few teams are what’s known as “headcount” sports — where, even if the student athlete gets only a dollar, that student is a “counter” toward a limited number of scholarships. Because of this rule, players in these headcount sports usually all receive full scholarships at FSU, said Vanessa Fuchs, senior associate athletic director at the university. At FSU, those sports include women’s volleyball, women’s tennis, football and men’s and women’s basketball.)

In all sports, the experts agree that the level of play and player strength has advanced tremendously in the past two or three decades — and it

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For FSU head tennis coach Dwayne Hultquist, above, Terrance Whitehurst, right, exemplifies today’s more powerful game.

The ball is being hit harder and reaction times must be quicker.

“Only about two percent of high school athletes are awarded athletics scholarships to compete in college. (Of the) more than 460,000 NCAA studentathletes, fewer than two percent will go pro in their sport.” — Courtesy of the NCAA website may be advantageous for parents to invest in lessons, camps, travel teams or tournaments to give their young athlete an opportunity to improve skills and play competitively.

“In tennis, the ball is being hit harder and the reaction times have to be quicker than it was when I was growing up playing,” said FSU’s Hultquist. “The strength and conditioning side is really, really important in tennis. Fifteen, 20 years ago tennis players didn’t lift weights and they didn’t condition like they do now.

That is an important component.”

Ryan Robinson, former pro scout, agent and founder of Next Level Baseball, said the advancement is noticeable in pitchers. “Twenty years ago you’d have 20 players in the whole country who were touching 90 (mile per hour pitches), and I would say now you have 500 or 600 amateur players touching 90,” he said. “You have a lot more (skills) training and a lot more physical training where players are having the opportunity to be stronger than they ever were with weightlifting and supplements.”

While Robinson’s Tallahasseebased facility offers an academic-

based after-school program, its main services are geared toward providing teams and individuals with training and opportunities that will take them to the “next level” — where young athletes can find what he calls the “ceiling” of their talent. “You’ve got to work really hard to reach your ceiling,” he said. “I’d say 90 percent (who) ever start to play never reach their ceiling because of one thing or another — they’re not willing to work hard enough, they’re not tough enough, they’re too entitled to take coaching.”

And for most, their ceiling just isn’t high enough to make it in college or the big leagues.

“Basically, in Tallahassee, there’s a league for everybody,” he said.

“There’s a league for kids that want to do it recreationally, which is great.

You need that. And there’s advanced leagues for kids that are a little more serious and then there’s elite travel teams for the kids that are very serious that have parents that are lucky enough to have the financial resources to have them travel around.”

At Next Level, private lessons are $35 an hour, and playing on the

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Florida A&M University is a NCAA Division I school fielding teams in 14 sports — seven women’s and seven men’s.

Florida State University participates in 20 NCAA Division I sports — 11 women’s and nine men’s — with about 525 athletes, both scholarship and nonscholarship students. FSU has six full-time employees who work to assure compliance with NCAA regulations.

Schools in NCAA Divisions I and II provide more than $2.7 billion in athletics scholarships annually to more than 150,000 student athletes.

To play Division I sports, a student athlete is required to graduate high school and have completed 16 core courses and earn a 2.3 GPA in them.

According to EY (formerly the accounting firm Ernst & Young) research, 96 percent of senior-level female executives played sports, and more than half of them played sports in college.

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“I think nowadays parents need to understand that both are important. Remaining focused on academics throughout their junior high and high school career is so important because the NCAA is continuing to increase the academic standards necessary for athletes coming out of high school to be eligible to participate in college athletics.” — Vanessa Fuchs,

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elite travel teams can cost upwards of $5,000 to $6,000 a year. FSU’s coaches offer Seminole High Performance Camp for youngsters from elementary to high school age. Annual cost for the 40-week-a-year afternoon program ranges from $1,950 for once-a-week sessions to $3,950 for unlimited access.

In technique-driven sports like tennis and golf, Hultquist said lessons are pretty much required for advanced-level play.

The hand-eye “It’s very important that coordination a young athlete you get the correct techdevelops in a nique. How to hold the batting cage racquet, your swing … . like this one at You could be an unbelievthe Next Level will translate able athlete, but if you to other sports, don’t have the technique, advises David it would be hard to become Ross, a big great,” he said. league catcher who grew up in Could a baseball player Tallahassee. excel without extras that cost money? “It’s much easier with the help,” said Robinson.

“You’ve got to be, like I call it, a freak athlete to do it without the supplemental help or without the travel baseball, but it can be done.”

What it boils down to is what he calls the “quick twitch” reaction time a person is born with. “It’s how fast your body can move and do certain things,”

he said. In baseball, one of those “things” is deciding whether and how to swing at a pitch that will travel from the mound to the plate in half a second.

That said, expensive lessons and travel ball may not be the smartest investment, if a child doesn’t have the skill or the desire to rise to the elite level. “I don’t blame parents for doing the lessons; they’re trying to give their child the biggest advantage,” said David Ross, a 39-year-old catcher who grew up in Tallahassee and has had a 13-year MLB career, now playing for the Chicago Cubs.

“But there’s some God-given ability you have to have or you may just not be good enough.”

His advice to the parents of wouldbe big leaguers is to take a lesson from his own experience, which included playing YMCA basketball, summer baseball and other sports throughout his youth.

“They never pushed me to do any sport, but they always signed me up because that’s what I liked to do,” he recalled.

Nowadays, kids are pushed to “specialize” in one sport too early and

play too much. “Let your kid do what they want to do; you don’t want them burnt out on baseball when they’re 15. They should learn to be a part of other teams. Whatever you’re playing, you can develop skills that can help in other sports.”

And time to rejuvenate is important. Even as a pro, “I have to take a month or two and not pick up a baseball or a bat,” Ross said. “Kids are more resilient, but as a kid you don’t know your limits. You can go, go, go but I think it catches up to you at some point.”

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IN A CAR GETTING COFFEE

Rick Fernandez and Vince Long tool around town talking about infrastructure

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Infrastructure provides the underpinnings for neighborhoods of all sorts from the eclectic — think Gaines Street, below — to residential, commercial and industrial environs while exerting a profound influence on communities’ futures.

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lick on a light switch.

Take a shower. Drop the kids off at school. Drive to the grocery store.

Stroll around Lake Ella.

Flush the toilet. Catch a plane.

While the word “infrastructure” isn’t on the tip of most people’s tongues, these fundamental facilities and systems are the underpinnings of modern society. Roads, sewers, water pipes, schools, government buildings, parks, sidewalks, electric lines … and the list goes on. Many are unseen, literally underground, while others are so ubiquitous we don’t even give them a second thought — until the lights go out, the toilet backs up, a school is too overcrowded for your child to get in or a favorite road is closed for reconstruction.

Two of the people paid to think about such things — so you don’t have to — are County Administrator Vince Long and City Manager Rick Fernandez. Both were

born in New York City and each has been working in local government for more than 20 years. They spent a rainy morning in Fernandez’s SUV driving a reporter around, pointing out projects of interest while keeping up a running commentary about the inner workings of infrastructure.

By way of background, much of the money to fund infrastructure is included in the annual Leon County and City of Tallahassee budgets — the city’s power plants, wastewater treatment facilities, road repairs and such.

In 1989, voters approved an additional one-cent sales tax (on top of the 6 percent assessed by the state and a half percent for schools) in supplemental money for transportation projects — most notably the expansion of Capital Circle Northeast — and law enforcement facility improvements.

Ten years later, voters approved an extension of the penny sales tax through 2019 for infrastructure relating to transportation, storm water and flood control, and greenspace acquisition and parks.

And in 2014, voters extended the penny

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FAMU WAY AND THE CAPITAL CASCADES TRAIL Blueprint-funded improvements to FAMU Way provide a scenic welcome to the campus. An aerial view (far left) shows the road’s attractive and practical upgrades, including parking, wide sidewalks, linear parks and roundabouts.

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… IN 2014, VOTERS EXTENDED THE PENNY TAX FOR ANOTHER 20 YEARS, THROUGH 2039.

IT’S OFTEN CALLED

“BLUEPRINT” MONEY, NAMED FOR THE CITY/COUNTY ORGANIZATION THAT OVERSEES ITS DISTRIBUTION.

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County Administrator Vince Long says the widening and other improvements to Mahan Drive (top left) made it possible for the regionally popular Bass Pro Shops (above) to fast track their move to Tallahassee. Long and City Manager Rick Fernandez envision this fenced-in retention pond near Market Square (bottom left) as an attractive, walkable park once improvements are made.

tax for another 20 years, through 2039.

It’s often called “Blueprint” money, named for the city/county organization that oversees its distribution.

Most other Florida counties assess this penny tax, but how the millions in Blueprint money generated over the years are parceled out is unique to our hometown and a point of pride for the area’s top administrators.

Long explained: “Most cities and counties, once that penny is authorized, they’ll come up with a list of city projects and a list of county projects — roads and parks, jails and libraries — all your typical county and municipal type uses,” he said. “One of the things we did as a community here that

was so different (is) … the business community and the environmental community … got together and they started thinking: ‘What would be possible if we didn’t just come up with those lists of projects — if we planned holistically and integrated parks and roads, and we found a way where roads could operate as … economic corridors that connected people with commercial activities and we could create parks that were linear and a storm water facility could become a world-class park.’

It was sort of conceptual at that time.”

The city and county commissions at the time caught the vision and assigned staffers to join together with this group, known as the Economic and Environmental Consensus Committee, to start planning.

PUBLIC WORKS From mule-drawn trains to a Mag Lab, Tallahassee has come a long way 1830s Tallahassee’s First Railroad

The mule-drawn train ran from Tallahassee to St. Marks, transporting passengers and products.

1839 The Florida Capitol

Construction of the Greek Revival-style building began, but funds ran out and it was not completed until 1845, when Florida became a state. Total cost: $55,000. It would get a cupola in 1891, which was replaced by a dome in 1901–02, when the north and south wings were also built.

1880S–1890s Gas Comes to Town

On Dec. 20, 1887, the City Council passed an ordinance granting a private company, Tallahassee Gas and Electric Company, a franchise, to furnish gas. The company presented a proposal to provide the City of Tallahassee with gas street lighting. Gas lamps were installed along main streets, including Monroe Street and were turned on a few days before Christmas 1888.

1889–1896 The Old Street Railway of Tallahassee Actually a streetcar drawn by two red mules, Napoleon and Bucephalus, it started at the present railroad station and zigzagged its way to the corner of Monroe and Brevard streets, then the northern limit of the town. The fare was five cents.

1890 Centralized Water System Pours Into Tallahassee

In 1889, the mayor and sevenperson City Council granted a water franchise to the American Pipe Manufacturing Company

to build the Tallahassee Water Works Company. In exchange for the right to sell water to the city’s 1,400 residents, the company provided the city with 60 fire hydrants.

1902 City Electric Plant

The City of Tallahassee issues municipal bonds to build its first electric light plant, and less than two years later issues bonds to expand the facility.

1904 Sewage System

On Jan. 20, 1904, $50,000 in bonds were approved by voters “to make, construct and put into operation a system of sewerage.”

Treatment plants were to be located at the southwest corner of the city limits. The project was completed for around $46,000.

1911 Leon High School

The original high school building opens, located on a Park Avenue site now occupied by the Leroy Collins Leon County Public Library. Built at a cost of $40,000, it was a state-of-theart school, with “electric light, slate blackboards, Venetian shades and opera chairs with folding tablet areas.”

1921 City Builds Old Electric Building (Now in the Center of Cascades Park)

In 1921, the City of Tallahassee built the City Electric Building to serve the growing population and its demand for electricity.

The plant converted coal into gas, providing lighting and heat for city residents. After years of neglect, the area surrounding the building was renovated and now sits overlooking the 24-acre Cascades Park.

1929 Dale Mabry Air Field

The town’s first airport — the runway was unpaved (one grass landing strip) — included a hangar, gas service station and lighting system. The land purchased for the City’s first municipal airport was named in honor of Tallahassee native Army Captain Dale Mabry, killed in 1922.

1949 Tallahassee Memorial Hospital

The city’s new hospital opens its doors at the intersection of Magnolia Drive and Miccosukee Road. The land was purchased for $6,000 and construction cost $1.5 million.

1949 Sam O. Purdom Generating Station

Original land was acquired in 1948 for $16,000. Improvements to date have cost $161 million.

The Purdom Unit 8 project, completed in 2000, was about $105-$107 million in capital cost.

1953 Doak Campbell Stadium

FSU’s 15,000-seat stadium was backed by the local Jaycees, who presented a check for $50,000 to Dr. Campbell, then the university’s president. It was added onto over the years, culminating with a 700,000-square-foot, $100-million University Center Complex completed in 2004 which wrapped classroom, athletic and academic spaces around the stadium and brought the stadium’s capacity to more than 82,000. Construction began in 2015 on an $85 million renovation that will make repairs, add new seating and update skybox suites as well as adding a new 6,000-seat Champions Club seat section in the south end zone.

1957 Apalachee Parkway

Actually part of U.S. Route 27 in Tallahassee. Much of the neighborhood to the immediate north and south of the Parkway, known as Smokey Hollow, was

later condemned as part of federal “urban renewal,” and the black families who lived there were dispersed.

1961 Tallahassee Municipal Airport

The city-owned airport was built to replace Dale Mabry Field. Its primary runway was nearly 6,100 feet long.

This facility cost $3.1 million.

1971 Arvah B. Hopkins Generating Station

Located on a 230-acre site seven miles west of Tallahassee on Geddie Road, the fossil-fuel plant (either oil or natural gas) was expanded in 1977 to more than double its original size.

1981 Civic Center

The Civic Center opened its doors on Sept.14, 1981. Upon opening, the venue was named the Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center. The 12,500-seat multipurpose arena was built at a cost of $33.8 million, financed by the city. Florida State University purchased the Civic Center and gave the arena a major renovation during the summer of 2014, at a total cost of $10 million.

1989 Tallahassee Regional Airport

On Dec. 3, 1989, the city opened the existing $33-million airline passenger terminal. In February 2000, the passenger terminal was officially renamed to honor Tallahassee aviation pioneer Ivan Munroe.

1991 LeRoy Collins Leon County Public Library

After years in the lower level of the Northwood Mall, the county library opened a new $8.5 million main library facility downtown with 88,000 square feet of space.

1994 Mag Lab & Innovation Park

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magnet laboratory in the world.

Headquartered at Florida State University, the 370,000-squarefoot complex was established in October 1994.

1996–2005 Frenchtown Revitalization and the Renaissance Center In 1996, the Tallahassee City Commission approved an aggressive revitalization strategy designed to rebuild the home ownership and economic base of the Frenchtown community. After years of planning, meeting and negotiating, construction of the Frenchtown Renaissance Center was completed in April 2005 at a cost of about $13 million.

1997 Thomasville Road — Capital Circle flyover

Constructed to ease the traffic moving south from the Killearn area.

2004 Blair Stone Road Extension

Two decades in the making, the project extended Blair Stone Road between Park Avenue and Centerville Road to alleviate traffic congestion. Facing fierce opposition, a Citizen’s Advisory Committee was created to gather input from neighborhoods affected by the project to choose a route and make suggestions to mitigate the impact.

2006–2014 Cascades Park

Originally designed to help alleviate flooding problems near Leon High and on Franklin Boulevard, the plans morphed over the years before it opened in March 2014. It’s still a pond that collects storm water, but with creative planning and donations from local groups and businesses, it has become

a popular new park that attracts patrons to downtown Tallahassee for recreation and special events. Total cost: $30 million.

2009–2014 Gaines Street Revitalization

The funds to pay for this project came from a number of sources including sales tax, gas tax and others. Voters initially approved the funding for the Gaines Street project as part of the Blueprint 2000 sales tax extension.

Subsequently, in 2004, the City of Tallahassee and Leon County agreed to set aside $27.7 million of Blueprint 2000 discretionary funds to pay for the road construction, property acquisition and development incentives. Additionally, the City received another $7 million in road maintenance funds from the State of Florida

when the road right-of-way was transferred in 2008. In May 2010, Public Works began reconfiguring the road, which was completed at the end of 2014.

2015 Tallahassee International Airport

On June 29, the City of Tallahassee celebrated the Tallahassee Regional Airport’s name change to the Tallahassee International Airport (TLH).

With the new designation, TLH began accepting commercial carriers traveling from overseas, increasing convenience, connectivity and the opportunity to generate revenue. Three months later, TLH began the Terminal Modernization Project, upgrading its safety checkpoints and making the airport more flyer friendly.

Built at the convergence of Capital Circle Northeast and Thomasville Road, the “flyover” (below) has helped to keep traffic moving at one of Interstate 10’s busiest interchanges. Construction progresses on the Capital Cascades Connector (right), a bridge that will allow pedestrians to cross South Monroe Street and into Cascades Park via a landmark bridge.

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“No exaggeration, it was a complete game changer,” Long said. “It’s just a department of the city and county governments, but people statewide know the Blueprint philosophy. You can build and design where you get multiple benefits from a single project that (is) planned holistically and without regard to city and county jurisdictions.”

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“The idea was if you have little gatherings, a little music or whatever people want to have, they could hang here.” Even the overpass above it was designed to be used as a mini-bandshell.

The area is within eyeshot of the Capital Cascades Connector, a pedestrian bridge over South Monroe Street, scheduled to be completed early this summer. It has taken its knocks for its $5 to $6 million price tag, but its supporters think its modern style evoking a tree canopy will make it a perfect entranceway to what the administrators consider the area’s most recent infrastructure triumph — Cascades Park.

THE CASCADES PARK TRIUMPH

Parked on a hill overlooking the park, the pair took a mental victory lap at what was once a toxic superfund site, transformed into a massive storm water system with recreational features that help it do double duty as a world-class park. In the past, said Long, the so-called highest and best (continued on page 212)

AERIAL TALLAHASSEE

First stop on the Magical Infrastructure Tour was Gaines Street. Plans had been in the works to upgrade and improve the stretch of road lined with mostly old, industrial buildings and vacant lots, but the timeline was accelerated during the economic downturn.

“We did it at time when the costs were the least expensive to the taxpayer and the jobs were needed the most,” Long said.

Of course, there was also the little matter of envisioning how a busy, four-lane thoroughfare could be downsized to two lanes.

“People went absolutely crazy, particularly

our public works staff,” Fernandez recalled.

But $28 million worth of construction that included upgraded underground water and sewer utilities and relocated utility lines carried on. The result today is a collection of wide, stroll-able sidewalks, on-street parking, gas lamps, a roundabout and other amenities that attracted about $250 million in private investment in shopping, restaurants and residences.

Parallel to Gaines is the ongoing upgrade of FAMU Way, a city road that runs along a portion of the Capital Cascades trail as well as a small park. “This is an example of what we want (Tallahassee) to look like,” said Fernandez, pointing out a pair of roundabouts — including one providing a second entrance to Railroad Square — gently curving lanes including bike lanes, medians and lots of landscaping. “You could have done two lanes and made it work, but we wanted it to look special.”

Instead of a grassy ditch surrounded by a chain-link fence, an adjacent storm water pond is terraced with seating that’s “more like a little park,” said Fernandez.

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Her collection achieves a fresh, timeless look by mixing styles, finishes and textures.

“We offer an extensive selection of top brand name products displayed in complete room settings,” said Fortson Turner, fourth generation owner of Turner’s Furniture. “The new Magnolia Home collection contains outstanding pieces that will be well received by our customers.”

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oors matter. Aside from their utilitarian roles, they play a huge part in the way your home looks. The front door provides visitors with that important first impression of your home. The side door is the one you use all through the day, going to work, carrying in groceries, taking out the recyclables. And even when the garage just houses one car, its door is a large feature that has a big impact on your home’s appearance.

Interior doors matter, too. While it’s true that all those open-concept spaces have made them less relevant, we still need some doors for privacy, notes Jeff Lowinski, vice president of technical services for the Window & Door Manufacturers Association.

Doors, both exterior and interior versions, are available in a dizzying variety of materials and styles. Lowinski’s advice is to start out learning about the structural properties of doors, and then proceed to style considerations.

Fiberglass doors can mimic the look of wood doors so perfectly that even a door expert has trouble telling the difference, and they’re way tougher, stand up better to adverse weather, are energy-efficient and extremely low-maintenance. They cost a pretty penny, though.

Steel doors, says Lowinski, are affordable and offer excellent security. Usually they feature a foam core for insulation, and they resist cracking and warping. However, in direct sunlight they can get too hot to handle.

Manufacturers offer so many options that your door can appear custom-made.

And be brave with color. Bright colors for front doors are on trend. Or perhaps take a cue from feng shui, which advocates color choices according to the direction of the door. Who knew that a green or black door facing south brings good luck?

Exterior door materials

If you’re looking to give your home an exterior face lift, one area you might be neglecting is your garage door. Tom Mackey of Overhead Door Company of the Capital City says many of his customers are looking to replace garage doors that are 20 to 30 years old.

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Doors can also serve as windows on the world and lend a feeling of openness to interior spaces. Let’s be clear — in waterfront settings, there really is no alternative to glass, no matter how much Windex may be required.

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How about a pet door? You’ll be thrilled to discover how much attention door manufacturers are paying to man’s best friend. Here are some of the options.

You can get pet doors with electric locks to prevent strays and other critters from coming in. Your pet wears a collar with a key, and when the key is close to the door, it unlocks. Or you might choose some kind of manual direction control.

Set it so that your pet can go out and come in at will or set it so the pet can come in, but not go out again. Then there’s the powered door that senses when the pet approaches and electrically opens the door. Small pets like these doors because it takes no effort to open them, and there’s no flap or door to hit their behinds.

Look for doors with hard plastic flaps for longer life. The soft vinyl type tends to tear, doesn’t provide a tight weather seal and won’t keep out unwelcome visitors, such as raccoons.

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decades, Mackey says the most drastic development he’s seen recently is the variety of garage door options available to homeowners.

“There’s many different colors. Wood doors tend to get very pricey, but we do have one faux-wood door that is stained and sealed that does look like real wood.

The industry has changed. Used to be you only had a couple doors to select from.”

Garage doors have trends that come and go just like interior designs.

The classic French door is stately and elegant, but remember that a door that swings inward will take up floor space and impact furniture placement. Sliding glass doors suit contemporary homes and can be as wide as 10 feet. If you like a wall of glass, consider the French slider, which combines two outer fixed panels and two inner panels that open.

Interior doors Architects lament that too few homeowners pay attention to interior doors. “It’s my pet peeve,” writes Florida architect Bud Dietrich on design website Houzz. “It’s as if the entire world shifted from the 1950s flat door to the six-panel colonial door and forgot everything else.”

Lowinski agrees. “There are so many types and styles available,” he says. “It’s a pity that too few homeowners take advantage of them. It makes sense to choose a simpler door for a craftsman-style home than for a stately Georgian.”

The barn door is the interior designer’s newest darling. “I love the concept of these sliding doors because they are visually interesting as well as spacesaving,” says Emerald Coast interior designer Brooke Williams. “Because they slide on a track, you gain the space where the door used to swing into the room. That gives you more clearance room in tight spaces.”

The Tallahassee Home Depot employee advises that homeowners make sure they have the required space before committing to an interior barn door. “For a 30-inch open, you’re going to need 60 inches worth of track. So many people don’t consider that before they come in.” TM

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flour. Cut a star shape out of cardboard and place the stencil on the grass. Then, spritz the area with water and sift over with flour. This is a star treatment you’ll want to repeat. ➸ The party doesn’t have to end with the sun. String café lights over the patio or twist old Christmas lights around the porch railing for a soft glow. Battery-powered tea lights can also ensure a lasting glow. Place them inside mason jars and arrange along the walkway. Rejuvenate last year’s tiki torches with a fresh coat of paint in red, white or blue. Fireworks alone won’t fight off twilight’s last gleaming — pun intended.

It’s not too late. Start planning now for an electrifying Fourth of July you can definitely pledge allegiance to. TM

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ire up the barbecue and crank up the mower — America’s favorite holiday is just around the corner. This Fourth of July, transform your backyard into the land of the free for a patriotic blowout that’s sure to make Uncle Sam turn red, white and blue. ➸ Nothing says summertime quite like eating out on the porch, sweet tea in one hand and a burger in the other.

Welcome guests to an outdoor meal in cheerful backyard dining space. Arrange picnic tables and benches with red-checkered tablecloths for a classic American look. Or go for a more rustic vibe with mismatched chairs and haystacks. Why not ditch the formality completely? Lay out blankets and throw pillows for a picnic-style experience reminiscent of the 1770s — minus the Founding Fathers. ➸ You don’t have to be Betsy Ross to make stars and stripes look good.

Salute Old Glory with a handmade twist on traditional bunting. Just place a length of red-and-whitestriped fabric along the porch railing and tie it off with a strip of blue rope every two feet, creating a curving effect as you go. If DIY is not your forte, opt for carnival-style pennant flags available at craft stores. ➸ Festoon your patio with patriotic blossoms in red, white and blue.

Americana geraniums thrive in the summer heat. Plant these red blooms in your garden alongside blue and white flowering hydrangeas. Lack a green thumb? Head over to the store for white Baby’s Breath. Tuck bunches of these pretty buds into mason jars or picnic baskets for a charming centerpiece. ➸ Star spangle your lawn with easy-to-make embellishments — all you need is cardboard, water and

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he hamburgers and hotdogs have been purchased, a winter’s worth of spiderwebs have been rinsed from the grill, the red-and-white gingham tablecloths are at the ready and life has given you lemons for lemonade. What more might you require at a barbecue that is sure to be talked about? Why, your very own homemade cornhole set.

Grasslands Brewery boasts their very own DIY cornhole boards featuring the company’s logo. “If you’re looking for a challenge that requires you to learn the skill of wood craftsmanship, then building a cornhole set might be right up your alley,” Gabe Grass, owner of Grasslands Brewery said. “Cornhole involves fun and skill — anytime you can combine the two into a game, it’s a great pastime.”

Cornhole boards are a staple at backyard barbecues and Saturday tailgates.

From the novice to the most ruthless competitor, cornhole is a game that can be enjoyed and played by all.

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Assuming you already have the needed tools in your wellequipped toolbox, the trip to your favorite hardware store shouldn’t cost more than $60.

➸ Once the boards are built, it’s time for the fun

part. Pull out the paint and customize your boards.

The sports fan should consider a tribute to his home team, while the Southern belle may mark her territory with a monogram. If you were not blessed with the stroke of an artist, an eye-catching color will be just dandy.

❑ Four eight foot 2-by-4s. ❑ Four 3/8” x 4” carriage bolts ❑ Four washers ❑ Four wing nuts ❑ One box of 2½” wood screws ❑ Wood primer ❑ Desired paints

➸ With your arsenal of supplies and tools at hand, you are ready to build. The Internet is going to be your best resource. Visual learners will likely benefit from one of the many YouTube tutorials available, while others may prefer step-by-step lists.

➸ The project should take one to three hours to complete, depending on your craftsmanship skills and the amount of time you invest in fancying up the boards. But, in the end, you will have functional boards that will last you long past the dog days of summer.

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beds. For new plantings, water every day or two. For lawns and established garden beds, apply at least half an inch once a week. ➸ Plant warm-season vegetable seeds such as okra, butter beans, pole beans and melons in full sun areas.

Continue to set out tomato plants, as well as various varieties of basil. Make sure they get at least six hours of direct sun a day.

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country, May and June comprise the season to plant tomatoes for that first crop of juicy, home-grown flavor.

Here in North Florida, it’s the time to wrap up the harvest of early tomatoes and sow seeds indoors to prepare for the second crop of tomatoes.

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TIP 1: It generally takes eight weeks from planting seed to transplanting tomato seedlings, so planting seeds indoors in flats or seed-starting pots in June means they’ll be ready to move outdoors into the garden in late August or early September.

Make sure to select determinate, early ripening varieties for your late crop.

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TIP 2: Start your transplants indoors under grow lights, then move them outdoors to a shady area once they have two sets of true leaves. Move them into a sunny area for several hours a day to get them used to outdoor growing conditions for a couple of weeks.

TIP 3: Transplant them into the garden in late August or early September, covering the planting bed with shade cloth or old umbrellas for a few days while the plants adjust to outdoor conditions.

Use tomato stakes or cages to keep the plants off the ground.

Remove the shade protection after three or four days.

TIP 4: Be prepared to protect your lateseason tomatoes in case of an early frost.

You can toss old bedsheets over the plants, then cover the sheets with plastic.

Make sure the cover goes all the way to the ground and the plastic isn’t touching the plants; contact can damage the leaves.

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➸ Fertilize citrus this month.

JUNE

➸ Now is the time to plant palms. Saw palmetto, bush palmetto, European fan palm and windmill palm do well in our area. ➸ Fertilize bulbs that have finished blooming. Leave the dying foliage until has died back completely; it is storing food for next year’s flowers. ➸ Mulch planting beds 2 to 3 inches deep to keep soil temperature cooler and discourage weeds. Make sure the mulch doesn’t touch the base of the plants and trees. Use whatever is readily available to you: pine straw, pine bark or leaves.

Tomato hornworms attack tomatoes as well as eggplants, peppers and potatoes, all warm weather crops that are members of the nightshade family. The caterpillars are green, three to six inches long with a horn-like tail that gives the pest its name. They feed on the leaves of the plants TOMATO they attack, leaving dark green or black droppings. Left unchecked, they can destroy HORNWORM the fruit as well as the leaves. Hand-picking is the best way to manage tomato hornworms, dropping them into a container of soapy water to kill them. You can also drop them into a plastic newspaper bag — after removing the newspaper, of course — smothering them by tying a knot in the top of the bag. Checking your plants after getting your paper out of the driveway each morning makes for an easy-to-follow routine. Natural enemies include braconid wasps, which lay eggs that form white projections on the top of the tomato hornworms. If you see these projections, leave the caterpillars alone and let nature take its course.

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➸ Plant a habitat for butterflies including buddleia (butterfly bush), asclepias (butterfly milkweed), lantana, verbena, purple coneflower (echinacea), pentas and plumbago in full sun. Remember that some butterflies prefer shade, including Florida’s state butterfly, the zebra longwing. Luckily, some plants do well in part-shade as well as sun, including azaleas, firebush, blueberries, cardinal flower, blazing star and some salvias.

©2016 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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A home plays many roles — as a gathering place, a nursery, a sanctuary and as a creator of memories. SuzAnnz approaches design with the goal of making your home all that it can be whether it is

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The kitchen is the heart of a home and a center of activity. The use of natural materials including wicker, wood and granite lends versatility to this SuzAnnz-designed kitchen, which transitions easily from a casual mood to one more formal. White cabinetry makes for a nice contrast.

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These rooms show a twist on traditional with minimalistic use of color — just a pop of a bright hue here and there. The effect is that of comfortable luxury. Soft-hued furnishings mixed with splashes of color make for a whimsical approach.

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A FIRST IMPRESSION SPEAKS volumes, and Rosehill immediately speaks to Tallahassee’s timeless beauty with its verdant, canopied entrance. The winding, tree-lined drive gives way to one of Tallahassee’s most aesthetically pleasing and coveted neighborhoods.

“Rosehill has a very proactive homeowners’ association that is geared toward maintaining its beauty and integrity for years to come,” said Realtor Yvonne Howell of Coldwell Banker Hartung and Noblin Inc. Rosehill beautifully reflects Tallahassee’s natural heritage with its trees, plantings, serene bodies of water and associated wildlife.

This exclusive, gated and quiet community is bordered by North Meridian and Ox Bottom roads and is as safe as it is pleasant.

With its spacious lots, shade trees, lakes, trails and docks, Rosehill feels like it is well off any beaten path. Maclay Gardens, Meridian Park and Forest Meadows are practically in the backyard. Many of the homes are situated on two residential lakes, Lake Jane and Lake Elizabeth, which provide fishing, water activities and gorgeous views to take in with your coffee each morning.

“You can’t help but to fall in love with the soaring oak trees and one of Tallahassee’s prettiest lakes, Lake Elizabeth,” said Realtor Hettie Spooner of Hill Spooner & Elliott Inc. “It is rare to find a gated community in Tallahassee, and then to have such beautiful, custom homes. I truly believe if you are a property owner in this area, you are exceptional.”

Each home is unique in design and architecturally stellar. From palatial brick facades to stately columned structures, the homes vary in style with each offering noteworthy features.

The homes are from 3,000 to 6,800 square feet in size and range in price from $800,000 to $2,500,000.

The delightful combination of picturesque scenery and lavish living results in low turnover rates and content residents. Families plant roots in Rosehill. TM

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“Vieux Carre is a fabulous neighborhood, and I can tell you that from experience as I live there.” — BROKER LORI MATTICE correlates with the excellent caliber of the neighborhood it resides in.

The interior features hardwood and ceramic floors throughout (with the exception of tile in the bathrooms), cathedralstyle ceilings and abundant windows.

The kitchen, living room and dining room are spacious and airy, seamlessly leading from one to the next. There is ample room for seating in this open area, which is ideal for entertaining.

The gourmet kitchen has bar seating perfect for serving party foods or feeding the kids before they head for school.

There is shelving to accommodate a library of treasured family cookbooks, and the stainless steel appliances would suit any chef.

The three bedrooms are spacious yet cozy. The master bed/bath features walk-in closets and double sinks with vanities. A large deck with a motorized Sunbrella awning is the perfect spot for kicking back with a book or enjoying a family barbecue.

Broker Lori Mattice speaks very highly of the beauty of the home and its sentimental place in the neighborhood.

“Vieux Carre is a fabulous neighborhood, and I can tell you that from experience as I live there,” Mattice said. TM

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WHEN PASSING through the upscale residential development, Vieux Carre, the stately beauty of a newly listed home at 3114 Rue Royale stands out. It is not only stunning, but well-appointed inside and out.

The home has a traditional brick exterior, popular throughout Tallahassee. The front lawn is meticulously landscaped with lush grass and plentiful shrubbery that, combined, have the effect of a natural welcome mat.

The home was built in 2003 as a single-family residence equipped with all of the desirable amenities that a modern family could possibly desire. Each room was crafted with immaculate attention to detail and only the highest quality of materials was used in every nook and cranny. The condition of the home directly

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DEAL ESTATE JUST SOLD

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Eye-catching home goes quickly

ADDRESS: 9216 Shoal Creek Drive SALE PRICE: $530,000 BEDROOMS: 4 BATHROOMS: 4 SQUARE FEET: 3,250

THE COLUMNS HAD been erected and the bricks laid. A brand new home had come to life in Golden Eagle. Its buyers were excited by the prospect of becoming its first occupants.

Tricon Builders had envisioned a craftsman-style home that would attract the attention of passersby with its brick façade and abundant windows. The circular driveway beckoned prospective buyers to pull in and take a look.

“With the lack of new construction in this price range and the wonderful amenities of this gated community, it’s no wonder we had so many families looking at this home,” said Realtor Lisa Montgomery-Calvert.

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“This home was beautifully staged once completed, which definitely helped in the quick sale.”

— REALTOR LISA MONTGOMERY-CALVERT

up on a couch in front of the ornately tiled fireplace. Beautifully coffered ceilings add an art deco flair to the room.

The open floor plan leads from the living room into the dining room and kitchen. An island that can be used for meal preparation or a breakfast bar separates the living room and kitchen.

The kitchen features stark white cabinetry, stainless steel appliances, gorgeous granite counters and an elaborately tiled backsplash and gives way to an attached formal dining room.

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Engineered wood floors lead to four bedrooms, two bonus rooms and the study. The master bedroom also features wood flooring and the impressive master bathroom includes double vanities, a jetted tub, light wood flooring, and a glass, walk-in shower.

The screened porch is suitable for use during throughout the year, even when it rains, and adjoins a mudroom.

“This home was beautifully staged once completed, which definitely helped in the quick sale,” said Montgomery-Calvert.

White cabinetry makes for a pleasing juxtaposition against the deep chocolate hue of the wood floors, giving the buyer plenty of creative freedom with the décor of the home. TM

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Opening in May, it will offer TexMex and signature margaritas seven days a week.

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IN PROGRESS

▪ The Tallahassee National Cemetery in in the midst of a $20+ million project that will result in approximately 8,700 gravesites, 12,600 columbarium niches and 2,500 in-ground sites. Tallahassee is one of the six cities in Florida with a national cemetery.

▪ Coffee lovers rejoice. Two new venues offering a quick fix are set to open. A Dunkin Donuts has been proposed for the intersection of Apalachee Parkway and Capital Circle SE. And a stand-alone Starbucks will be built at 1960 Gainsborough Drive; customers will have the option of driving

through or sipping their joe in the 2,200-square-foot shop.

▪ Rebellion Grill and Bar at 1800 W. Tennessee Street could be your new game-day spot.

Order from the counter or opt for table service. And enjoy the self-serve beverage station.

▪ The 38 acres at the southeast corner of Blairstone Road and Orange Avenue will soon be home to a 197,170 square foot Veterans Outpatient Clinic. The $13 million project includes a three-story facility and plenty of parking. The clinic is expected to serve more than 18,000 veterans.

RECENTLY COMPLETED ▪ Atlanta-based Shuler Properties recently purchased 8,960 square feet of retail space with 52 parking spaces to complete The Villages at Apalachee.

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REMEMBERING

ROD DURHAM For countless others, he made life brighter

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show, an experience that led him to better appreciate the value and importance of support from others.

As a Tallahassee Top Single, Rod raised $800 for his charity, the Foundation for Leon County Schools, an organization that encourages excellence in the county’s public schools and also promotes awareness of Type 2 diabetes. On Top Singles event night, Rod did not merely walk the runway; he danced it.

Today, we join countless others in reflecting on the contributions made by Rod Durham, a gentle man who touched many lives both in the literal classroom and the classroom called life. TM

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is captivating laugh and brilliant smile infected everyone he met. To have known him was to have enjoyed an exceptional gift.

Rod Durham was a storyteller, a conversationalist, a dancer and an inspiration.

Members of the Tallahassee Magazine team got to know Rod when he was a contestant in our Top Singles event for 2015. He was featured in the January/ February 2015 issue of the magazine. We are deeply saddened by his passing earlier this year.

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The Tallahassee Memorial Cardiopulmonary Intensive Care The Tallahassee Memorial Cardiopulmonary Intensive Care Unit FCCP Dedicated to and Named for Jyotsna “Dr. Jo” Dalal, MD, FACC,

Dedicated to and Named “Dr. Jo” Octoberfor 14, Jyotsna 1943 – September 15, Dalal, 2015 MD, FACC, FCCP

October 14, 1943 – September 15, 2015 In Geeta Dalal Simons’ Own Words Jyotsna “Dr. Jo” Dalal, MD, FACC, “Hers is a Dalal story of triumph,Own stick-toFCCP , beloved interventional cardiologist In Geeta Simons’ Words Jyotsna “Dr. Jo” Dalal, MD, FACC, itiveness, grit – The American Dream. and Director of Cardiology Associates, FCCP, beloved interventional cardiologist “Hers is a story of triumph, stick-toIt began with and adversity passed awayofonCardiology SeptemberAssociates, 15, 2015 and Director itiveness, grit struggle – The American Dream. with struggle the faith that can be in the Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare passed away on September 15, 2015 Itcoupled began with and life adversity larger, fairer, that with (TMH) Cardiopulmonary Intensive Care coupled withand the faith that conscientious life can be in the Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare effort and honesty, we canconscientious achieve a Unit (CICU) – the very unit where she larger, fairer, and that with (TMH) Cardiopulmonary Intensive Care better life for our children, and makea the saved so many lives.

This revered and effort and honesty, we can achieve Unit (CICU) – the very unit where she world they live in a better place. highly-esteemed cardiovascular disease better life for our children, and make the saved so many lives. This revered and specialist practiced in Tallahassee for world they live in athat better highly-esteemed cardiovascular disease “My mother knew sheplace. wanted to help more thanpracticed 20 years.inInTallahassee recognition for of her specialist people, and she knew should couldtodo it “My mother knew that she wanted help association TMHInand her remarkable The remarkable and beloved Mama, “Dr. Jo,” wearing one of her more than 20with years. recognition of her through healthcare.

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Although she worked Jo MD, FACC, FCCP celebrates daughter Dalal and her widower Naresh cardiologist/internist signature embroidered saris, patientSimons care, Dr. Dalal’s daughter Geeta in Mumbai, where she met my father, Geeta Dalal to Stephen jewel-toned Simons at the elite Atomic Energy Research facility S. Dalal established JyotsnaNaresh “Dr. Jo” Jo Dalal, MD, FACC, FCCP celebrates the marriage of daughter Dalal Simons and herthe widower and graduated from pharmacy school in Mumbai, where she met my father, Geeta Dalal to Stephen Simons Dalal, MD, FACC, FCCP Endowment to S. Dalal established the Jyotsna “Dr. Jo” with top honors, she was not satisfied and – she wanted to cure people.

So, after graduated from pharmacy school benefit TMHFACC, cardiology theirtofamilies and the CICU nursing staff and Dalal, MD, FCCPpatients, Endowment my parents moved to America and through the determination of her powerful with top honors, she was not satisfied – she wanted to cure people. So, after medicalTMH staff.cardiology The CICU patients, was named and dedicated to Dr.nursing Dalal instaff a March benefit theirfor families and the CICU and 25 mind and devoted of her heart,the shedetermination went to medical school.

She my parents moved compassion to America and through of her powerful ceremony.

Presently, thewas CICU is housed in the hospitaltoproper.

Ultimately, it will medical staff.

The CICU named for and dedicated Dr. Dalal in a March 25 was a paragon of self-discipline.

My mother was brilliant, insightful, thorough, mind and devoted compassion of her heart, she went to medical school. She be located Presently, in the M. T.the Mustian Center, TMH’s care facilityit that ceremony.

CICU is housed in thesurgical/intensive hospital proper. Ultimately, will vehemently detail – the walking definition of dedication.

In medical was a paragon of oriented self-discipline.

My mother was brilliant, insightful, thorough, will be under construction in the near future. be located in the M. T. Mustian Center, TMH’s surgical/intensive care facility that school, she detail was always at the of her definition class andofwon every award for which vehemently oriented – thetop walking dedication.

In medical will be under construction the near future. she was eligible – all of this while caring for two children with, of course, the help Tallahassee Memorial’s in Salute school, she was always at the top of her class and won every award for which of my dad, the chemistry professor version of Mr. Mom. she was eligible – all of this while caring for two children with, of course, the help Tallahassee The ceremonyMemorial’s was openedSalute

by TMH Foundation President/CEO Paula Fortunas of mymother dad, the professor of Mr. Mom. “My waschemistry universally loved byversion her patients, some traveling from other who noted, “We are here today to honor a legacy . . . a legacy of determination The ceremony was opened by TMH Foundation President/CEO Paula Fortunas states to see her.

She quickly built a very lucrative practice.

But then, and dedication.”

CICU Nurse Manager Kathy Patterson, ARNP , MSN,CCRN, “My mother was universally loved by her patients, some traveling fromDad’s otherbest who noted, “We are here today to honor a legacy . . . a legacy of determination and longtime friend Dr.quickly Alan Marshall recruited himpractice. to the chemistry delivered a tributeCICU fromNurse the nursing staff,Kathy saying: “We were all inspired by the states to see her.

She built a very lucrative But then,faculty Dad’s at best and dedication.”

Manager Patterson, ARNP , MSN,CCRN, Florida State University and the National High Magnetic Laboratory. amazing Dr. Jo.” Frank MD,staff, FACC, one of Dr.were Dalal’s and longtime friend Dr. Alan Marshall recruited him to theField chemistry facultyMom at delivered a tribute from Gredler, the nursing saying: “We all closest inspiredfriends by the and and DadState made the decision to accept theHigh offer.Magnetic She closed practice and colleagues, the dedicatory remarks. every feature of closest his address, Dr.and Florida University and the National Fieldher Laboratory.

Mom amazing Dr. made Jo.” Frank Gredler, MD, FACC,Inone of Dr. Dalal’s friends came to open another in Tallahassee where she was welcomed into the and medical Gredler underscored Dr. Dalal’s passion, compassion, great faith and vision, “A and Dad made the decision to accept the offer. She closed her practice colleagues, made the dedicatory remarks. In every feature of his address, Dr. community as another well as an office spacewhere with Dr. Comer Cherry, who also Dr. Dalalgreat was faith a driven doctor doing the workDr. of Dalal’s God through science. came to open in Tallahassee she was welcomed into theopened medical Gredler underscored passion, compassion, and physician, vision, “A his home and asspace true dear over Cherry, the decades. friend and colleague Tallahassee andDr.around the world.

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While small “Throughout mother’s long illness,over Dr. the Whitdecades.

Oliver, Dr. Comer in stature, was soResponse large in her devotion to her patients and her profession.”

The Dalalshe Family’s

The Dalal Family’s Response The response from the Dalal family was powerful and moving. Dr. Naresh Dalal, who is the Florida State University O. Lawton Professor in The response from the Dalal familyRobert was powerful andDistinguished moving. Dr. Naresh Dalal, Chemistry and a lead the High Magnetic Field Laboratory, said in of who is the Florida Stateresearcher UniversityatRobert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor his wife of 50 years, “She never said anything other than exactly what was on Chemistry and a lead researcher at the High Magnetic Field Laboratory, said of her wife heartofand mind. “She She left no room for doubtother – a vital in healthcare and his 50 years, never said anything thanasset exactly what was on in family life.” her heart and mind. She left no room for doubt – a vital asset in healthcare and in life.”

Dr.family Dalal’s granddaughters Devi Madeleine Simons, six years of age, and Rani Patrice Simons, five years ofDevi age,Madeleine spoke tenderly of their adored grandmother.

Dr. Dalal’s granddaughters Simons, six years of age, and Rani This was not thefive firstyears time the girlsspoke participated in of a memorial to Dr. Dalal.

Patrice Simons, of age, tenderly their adored grandmother.

Recently, in Philadelphia, presented the Dr.inJo Dalal booktocollection This was not the first time they the girls participated a memorial Dr. Dalal. to the Friends Free Library.

Recently, in Philadelphia, they presented the Dr. Jo Dalal book collection to the Friends Library.

DaughterFree Geeta Dalal Simons’ poignant recounting of her mother’s powerful and beautiful life story Simons’ left the assembled guests withofhearts overflowing with Daughter Geeta Dalal poignant recounting her mother’s powerful gratitude to and the amazing Dr. Jo. and beautiful life admiration story left theforassembled guests with hearts overflowing with gratitude to and admiration for the amazing Dr. Jo.

Cherry, Dr. Frank Gredler, and andillness, cardiacDr.staff, hadDr.worked “Throughout my mother’s longthe andCICU difficult Whitwho Oliver, Comerwith her as a physician and a patient, demonstrated their genuine compassion Cherry, Dr. Frank Gredler, and the CICU and cardiac staff, who had workedand with caring very importantly, preserved her dignity. comprise a team of her as aand, physician and a patient, demonstrated theirThey genuine compassion and lives, including of one aofteam their of own. heroic people working tirelessly to save her caring and, very importantly, preserved dignity.

Theythat comprise The lives of the patients and their families are irrevocably touched, transformed heroic people working tirelessly to save lives, including that of one of their own. by voices, hearts andfamilies hands.are My irrevocably mother hadtouched, the privilege of Thetheir liveshealing of the patients and their transformed experiencing both sides of this. by their healing voices, hearts and hands. My mother had the privilege of experiencing both asides this.caring for and endlessly sustaining others and “My mother spent lot ofoftime forgetting herself. to beforvigilant to the needs of others.

Even “My mother spent She a lottaught of timeme caring and endlessly sustaining others and as she washerself. dying,She in and out of she was for others.

And forgetting taught methe to CICU, be vigilant to theconcerned needs of others.

Even so, it is a fitting tribute that the earnings from the Dr. Jo Dalal Endowment are as she was dying, in and out of the CICU, she was concerned for others. And designated for the CICU – for all those suffering through the night and those so, it is a fitting tribute that the earnings from the Dr. Jo Dalal Endowment are caring for them.

There is –nofordoubt that suffering Mama’s legacy to designated for the CICU all those throughhas thebeen nightpassed and those me and to my children but now, with the Dr. Jo Endowment, it will be extended caring for them. There is no doubt that Mama’s legacy has been passed to wherewith herthe heart’s resided.

Nobe heart will stop eternally the CICU me and tothrough my children but now, Dr. Jopassion Endowment, it will extended on this staff’s watch, not if there’s a way in this world that they can help it." eternally through the CICU where her heart’s passion resided. No heart will stop on if there’s a wayofinher thismother’s world that can help it."

Forthis the staff’s full textwatch, of Mrs.not Simons’ account life,they please contact Foundation@TMH.ORG. TALL AHASSEEMAGA ZINE.COM May–June 2016 For the full text of Mrs. Simons’ account of her mother’s life, please contact Foundation@TMH.ORG.

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THE RIDE FOR HOPE

Presenting Sponsor:

Supporting the Tallahassee Memorial Cancer Center

Honorary Chair Andrei Antohi, 2016 Honorary Chair

The Ride for Hope (TRFH) – in its eleventh year – has become a landmark event in the Big Bend region for cycling enthusiasts, leisure riders and people of all ages coming together to ride, celebrate life and raise funds for cancer care in this region. TRFH memorializes its founder, Lou Farrah, and all proceeds benefit the Tallahassee Memorial Cancer Center. Please visit TheRideForHope. com to learn how Lou, his wife Jenny, their two sons Jason and Jeffrey cast the vision for TRFH.

Heading into their sixth year as presenting sponsor, Dr. Michael Ford and his team at Southeastern Dermatology proudly continues its partnership with the TMH Foundation. “Through the dedicated and ongoing commitment of sponsors like Southeastern Dermatology, Fonvielle Lewis Foote & Messer, Gordos and Bandidos, and many more – this community event would not be possible,” said Aaron Kinnon, TMH Foundation Director of Development.

Andrei Antohi of Fonvielle Lewis Foote & Messer, Attorneys at Law, will serve as TRFH’s 2016 Honorary Chair. Andrei has actively participated in TRFH for many years and is a strong advocate for the event. “Whether through a relative, a friend or a co-worker, we all either already have or will encounter a form of this disease. I have personally witnessed friends and their children struggle against it, as well the loss of family members. This fight extends far beyond the individual, taxing entire families without compassion. At the same time, nothing I have seen has been more inspiring than the strength, courage and unrelenting determination of those battling this disease, or that of their affected family members,” said Mr. Antohi.

He continued, “You may be aware of the remarkable advancement achieved to date in this fight, both on a worldwide scale, as well as locally in our own Tallahassee Memorial Cancer Center. This progress would not be possible without the research of dedicated individuals and events such as the TMH Foundation’s The Ride for Hope. Funds raised by TRFH directly support the growth and development of cancer care available to us and our loved ones locally, keeping us as close to our homes as possible during the fight.”

the event has always been more than just a ride – it’s a family event promoting active living, health information, a family fun festival and an avenue for anyone to support cancer care in this region.

“By registering to ride, sponsoring, hosting a booth at the expo and health fair, or just attending this community event to have fun, gather health information or cheer on the riders, each participant is supporting the Tallahassee Memorial Cancer Center and its mission of providing the most comprehensive and best cancer treatment in the region in order to keep patients and family members close to home as they navigate their way through one of the most difficult seasons in their life,” noted Mr. Kinnon.

Once again, the Florida Highway Patrol is the Course Safety sponsor and will provide invaluable service in escorting the Century and Metric Century lead race groups along with providing general safety and presence on the various courses. The HoneyBaked Ham Co. is the new Friday night Expo dinner sponsor, and, as always, a delicious lunch will be served Saturday by Gordos and Bandidos restaurants – both meals free for all registered riders and at a nominal fee for the general public. TRFH and associated events will be held at the North Florida Fairgrounds – all cycling courses will begin and end there.

Please visit TheRideForHope.com to register for TRFH, review sponsorship opportunities, complete a vendor booth application for the Friday night Expo and/or Saturday Health Fair, see TRFH schedule of events, photos and more.

This fun-filled weekend will kick off Friday evening, June 10, from 4-7 p.m. with TRFH Vendor Expo, Registration/Bag pick up and The Hero of Hope Award Ceremony. The Friday night festivities also include music, buffet dinner, vendor expositions and excitement as riders gear up for the next day.

While the cycling event offers six courses ranging from a quarter mile family fun walk/ride up to a 100-mile “Century” ride,

Cyclists head out for Metric Century ride (68 miles)

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SPIRIT OF CHILDREN

AND THE TALLAHASSEE MEMORIAL CHILDREN'S CENTER CHILD LIFE PROGRAM The Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Foundation, on behalf of Tallahassee Memorial Children’s Center, partnered with Spirit Halloween through the Spirit of Children, during the month of October 2015, to raise funds for children and their families served by TMH. Spirit Halloween stores offered 10 percent off any purchase at local stores and within its website. Upon redemption of coupons

by Spirit Halloween customers, the Spirit of Children matched each coupon dollarfor-dollar. The result was $12,150 for the Tallahassee Memorial Children’s Center Child Life Program.

The Spirit of Children creates additional funding to hospitals throughout the country during the month of October and all year long. The program’s mission is to support children and their families during hospitalization and help to make the child’s treatment less scary and more fun. The Spirit of Children started in 2006 with eleven hospitals and, since inception of the program, raising over $22 million for the benefit of over 130 hospitals in the United States and Canada.

The Children’s Center Nurse Manager, Kim Outlaw, RN, BSN, explained, “The partnership between Spirit of Children and the Tallahassee Memorial Children’s Center is extremely valuable, helping to purchase educational and entertainment items for the benefit of children and their families who are served by TMH.” The TMH Foundation Director of Annual Giving, Judi Wills added, “The TMH Foundation is very excited and grateful for the Spirit of Children’s continued support for hospitalized children and their families by providing additional positive distractions during their treatment.”

A “NEW LOOK” FOR THE TMH FOUNDATION BUILDING The TMH Foundation is very pleased to recognize Yorkshore Flooring, Carpet Studio and Marlin Coatings, Inc. for their recent generous gifts, creating a “new look” for both the interior and the exterior of its building located at 1331 East Sixth Avenue.

Yorkshore Flooring donated the new flooring with Carpet Studio contributing labor and installation and Marlin Coating providing paint for the entire building and the associated labor and services.

TMH Foundation President and CEO Paula Fortunas offered high praise, “The TMH Foundation is indeed grateful to Yorkshore Flooring, Carpet Studio and Marlin Coating, Inc. for stepping up and providing this exceedingly generous support. These improvements definitely serve the best interests of the many donors, and other guests, including TMH colleagues, who visit the Foundation each day, and are, of course, enormously popular with the Foundation staff.”

According to Scott Mountford, owner of Yorkshore Flooring, “It was a pleasure for Yorkshore Flooring to help TMH and the local community by providing a gift of new flooring for the TMH Foundation building.” Carpet Studio owner Kirk Davis added, “Carpet Studio was happy to help and looks forward to continuing its partnership with the TMH Foundation in the future to support TMH and its patients served throughout the Big Bend Region."

Yorkshore and Carpet Studio owners and representatives surrounded by TMH and TMH Foundation colleagues.

Not pictured is Camp Bullock - Owner of Marlin Coatings, Inc. Back row left to right: Janet Borneman, Charles Maphis - Carpet Studio Sales, Scott Mountford - Owner of Yorkshore Flooring, JoLynna King - Yorkshore Sales, Kirk Davis - Owner of Carpet Studio, Aaron Kinnon and David Esher. Front row left to right: Jessica Zeigler, Donna McHugh, Ida Thompson, Paula Fortunas, Judi Wills and Felicia McCoy

ALLEGRO SENIOR LIVING PROMOTES BREAST CANCER AWARENESS Residents of Allegro Senior Living joined together to promote breast cancer awareness, and to raise funds for the Tallahassee Memorial Cancer Center. “This fundraiser is particularly relevant because many of the Allegro residents and staff, who have suffered from cancer, received their treatments at Gail McDonald, Allegro Lead Senior Living Advisor, Janet TMH,” said former patient, Gail McDonald, Borneman, Director of Planned Giving, TMH Foundation Allegro Lead Senior Living Advisor.

Joyce Patterson, Allegro Senior Living Advisor

There was an array of fund-raising activities at Allegro, including a table in the lobby selling baked goods personally prepared by staff and family members, pink hearts to pay tribute to loved ones and a 50/50 raffle offering the opportunity to give and receive. Last year, this event gave residents the opportunity to personalize a pink paver. The pavers are still prominently displayed at Tallahassee Memorial in the Cancer Center’s Healing Garden.

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MAYS-MUNROE THIRD ANNUAL “HAVE A HEART” CELEBRATION IN MEMORY OF RAY MUNROE, JR.

TO SUPPORT THE TALLAHASSEE MEMORIAL HEART & VASCULAR CENTER Ray Munroe, Jr. passed away on March 11, 2012 of complications from cardiovascular disease. Ray left this world too soon, survived by his wife, Lisa Suber Munroe and daughter Laura Michelle Munroe, parents Ray, Sr. and Peggy, brothers Mark and Mike, sister Meghan, extended family and many in the community who loved and respected him. “We wanted to turn this tragedy and loss into an opportunity to help others in our community,” said Peggy Munroe, and that is exactly what they have done.

The Munroe family and the Mays-Munroe “team” have hosted the Mays-Munroe “Have a Heart” celebration for three years. Proceeds from the combined events surpassed $85,000 and are designated for the Ray B. Munroe, Jr., PhD Endowment to benefit the Tallahassee Memorial Heart & Vascular Center. Previously held in May, the third annual “Have a Heart” celebration was moved to “Heart Month” and held on February 4, 2016. The Mays-Munroe showroom was once again transformed to create a festive setting for this celebration in memory of Ray, Jr. and in support of those who suffer from heart disease and their families.

The “Have a Heart” celebration included a welcoming array of delicious food and beverages, live and silent auctions, a raffle and music -- all to raise funds for the TMH Foundation’s Ray Munroe, Jr. Endowment. It was a relaxed and enjoyable evening with old friends catching up and new acquaintances being made. Friendly bid-battles occurred in the silent auction and exciting bid-exchanges took place during the live auction thanks to Malcolm and Marni Mason of Manor Auctions and the wonderful guests who bid for the cause and walked away with some great items.

Frank Gredler, MD, Board Certified Cardiologist with Southern Medical Group, P.A. with Ray Munroe, Jr.’s parents Peggy and Ray Munroe, Sr.

According to Mr. Kinnon, “As Peggy and the Munroe family intended from the beginning, this event and endowment have diverted some of their pain and loss into good, as the outpouring of love and contributions are bringing hope to others with heart disease.” Peggy ended the evening saying, “Ray, Jr. would have really liked this.”

The highlight of the evening was the program which began with Aaron Kinnon, TMH Foundation Director of Development, welcoming everyone and thanking all who made the evening possible – primarily, those who came out to support the Munroe family and the cause at hand. Mark Munroe then spoke about his brother, Ray, Jr., on behalf of the family.

He gave a moving tribute to Ray, Jr., highlighting how he was loved by family, friends and others and of how his life touched so many.

The evening’s keynote speaker was Frank Gredler, MD, Board Certified Cardiologist with Southern Medical Group, P.A. Dr. Gredler discussed some of the advanced technological procedures that are available at the Tallahassee Memorial Heart & Vascular Center. Dr. Gredler said, “At the Tallahassee Memorial Heart & Vascular Center, we are not only implementing new and innovative procedures that are saving lives, but we are also participating in research to know how to better serve patients in the future. For example, one of my colleagues, Dr. Wayne Batchelor, just presented findings in Washington, DC on the disparity and underrepresentation of heart health research on women and minorities. Reducing this disparity will give us a better understanding of how to treat these populations and will save more lives.”

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Ray Munroe, Jr.’s widow and daughter Lisa Suber Munroe and Laura Michelle Munroe

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE SALUTE PAULA S. FORTUNAS After 12 years of distinguished service as both the Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Foundation President/Chief Executive Officer and TMH Vice President/Chief Advancement Officer, and 28 years as the Florida State University Foundation Chief Financial Officer and Vice President for Planned Giving, Paula Fortunas is retiring.

Mark O’Bryant, Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare President and Chief Executive Officer, noted, “I would like to thank Paula for her efforts to advance our institution and recognize her work in positioning us to better serve our region. Paula has been instrumental in advancing the strategic vision of Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare. For instance, Paula forged stronger relationships with our academic partners, which is a major focus of our strategic plan and, further, she was the TMH leader who developed the comprehensive research agreement between Florida State University and Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare.

“Under her leadership, she revitalized the Spiritual Care Department and its Clinical Pastoral Education Program. Paula also worked with community partners to develop the TMH/Big Bend Region’s Animal Therapy Program and has significantly advanced the joint TMH-FSU Medical Music Therapy & Arts and Medicine Program, along with the TMH Volunteer Services Department.

“Finally, Paula worked tirelessly to attract benefactors to support our many clinical programs. Since she came to TMH in 2004 from Florida State University, the TMH Foundation’s gifts and grants have increased 800%. It has been a true pleasure working with Paula and I wish her the best in her retirement.”

Paula was among the first Florida State University alumni to be inducted into the University’s prestigious Circle of Gold and she is also the recipient of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education’s Lifetime Achievement Award. On National Philanthropy Day, she was named Outstanding Fund-Raising Professional of the Year by the Big Bend Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and was a Tallahassee Community College Women’s History Month Honoree.

Paula has been honored by the Tallahassee Democrat as one of the “Twenty-Five Women You Need to Know,” and the TMH Foundation was named the Outstanding Professional Philanthropic Organization by the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Further, Paula was recognized

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by the Girl Scout Council of the Florida Panhandle as its Woman of Distinction in Health, and the more-than 900 professional nurses at Tallahassee Memorial selected her as their Nursing Champion.

According to Roger Champion, Chair of the TMH Foundation Board of Trustees, “Paula is engaged in a variety of local, state and national activities that have enhanced her role as our President and CEO. Her activities include service on the American Red Cross, Capital Area Chapter Board of Directors, the University Center Club Board of Governors, the FSU College of Medicine Dean’s Advisory Council, the FSU College of Nursing Community Advisory Board, the FSU DeVoe Moore Center Oversight Board for the Study of Critical Issues in Economic Policy and Government, the Ronald McDonald House Charities Board of Directors, and the Artist Series Board of Directors. She is also a member of the Tallahassee Kiwanis Club, Zonta International, the Economic Club of Tallahassee, and the Tallahassee Regional Estate Planning Council. We salute Paula and her outstanding record of accomplishment on behalf of Tallahassee Memorial.”

PROTOCOLS FOR PHILANTHROPY will return in the July-August issue of Tallahassee Magazine along with

a scrapbook of highlights and photographs from the April 6 dedication ceremony naming the TMH Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for the Florida State University College of Medicine and saluting the work of the FSU Dance Marathon and the Children’s Miracle Network along with a scrapbook of highlights and photographs from the April 21 Golden Gala and the April 25-30 USTA Tallahassee Tennis Challenger to benefit the D. Mark Vogter, MD Endowment for the Tallahassee Memorial Neuro Intensive Care Unit.

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INTRODUCING AND WELCOMING MICKEY S. MOORE Mickey S. Moore, President and CEO of the Southern Scholarship Foundation, where he has led an effective and aggressive advancement program, has been named President and Chief Advancement Officer of the Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Foundation. Mickey is originally from New Smyrna Beach, Florida, and is a 1991 graduate of Florida State University.

In making the announcement, Mark O’Bryant, Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare President and Chief Executive Officer, said, “Tallahassee Memorial is fortunate to have found a proven leader to succeed the highly-regarded and respected Paula Fortunas.

Mickey has impressive philanthropic experience and a track record of helping an organization fund programs through community financial support. TMH has partnered with our region for over 60 years to offer life saving and health enhancement services.

The TMH Foundation plays an essential role in that community partnership.” Roger Champion, TMH Foundation Chair and member of the selection committee, added, “The focus of the selection committee was to find someone with an understanding of local philanthropic efforts with a proven record of success.”

Mickey spent over 18 years in the financial industry managing and leading in various capacities of consumer finance companies, credit unions, and banks. Prior to joining Southern Scholarship in 2009, he owned and operated his own consulting firm specializing in business development and financial operations for small businesses and nonprofits. His experience and expertise lies

in business development, sales processes and sales management, financial operations, leadership and personnel development, cultural and organizational transitions and turn-key opportunities.

Mickey devotes many hours to nonprofits as a Mickey S. Moore with wife board member, mentor, Audrey Hendrick Moore and son Shane and fundraiser. His board volunteer experiences include the Big Bend Association of Fundraising Professionals, the Big Bend Chapter of the American Red Cross, Rotary Youth Camp, Tallahassee Sunset Rotary and Capital City Kiwanis Foundation. He is a member of Leadership Tallahassee Class 24 and maintains an active membership in Leadership Tallahassee and the Greater Tallahassee Area Chamber of Commerce.

Mickey is married to Audrey Hendrick Moore and they have one son -- Shane. He spends time with Audrey and Shane, attends many FSU sporting events, and is a nationally competitive runner.

As a member of Gulf Winds Track Club, he recently finished in the top 1% at the 2015 TCS NYC Marathon. He also enjoys traveling, eating, writing, blogging, and reading about topics such as leadership, sales, team building, biographies and communication.

THE TMH FOUNDATION BIDS A FOND FAREWELL TO BONNIE CANNON AND WELCOMES JESSICA ZEIGLER Bonnie Cannon, Assistant to the TMH Foundation President/CEO, Special Events Coordinator and Office Manager, retired in February 2016. Bonnie’s career in healthcare began at Seven Rivers Regional Medical Center in Crystal River, Florida, where she served as Business Office Bonnie Cannon Manager for more than a decade. When Bonnie relocated to the Tallahassee area to be closer to her daughter Millie Ann Creel and family, she joined the staff of the Florida State University Foundation and remained there until becoming a TMH colleague in January 2004. During her 12 years at TMH, Bonnie won numerous accolades and awards and was recognized for her “passion and purpose” at the 2011 Administrative Professionals Day ceremony.

Jessica Zeigler succeeded Bonnie Cannon as Assistant to the TMH Foundation President/CEO, Special Events Coordinator and Office Manager. Jessica is a veteran of the TMH Public Relations/Marketing Department, having spent eight years as the Executive Assistant to the Vice Jessica Zeigler President and Chief Communications Officer. Jessica is extraordinarily talented and versatile with considerable experience in special events production. Further, she has been instrumental in the work and activities of the TMH Retired Employees Association and is key to the publication of that organization’s newsletter. Jessica is married to Paul Zeigler. They have one daughter Mattie, two sons Jake and Will and are the proud new grandparents of Hugh Martin Zeigler who was born in March 2016.

1331 East Sixth Avenue, Tallahassee, Florida 32303 Telephone: 850-431-5389 Facsimile: 850-431-4483 Email: Paula.Fortunas@TMH.ORG Website: TMH.ORG/Foundation

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MAY/JUNE For more events in Tallahassee, visit TallahasseeMagazine.com compiled by JENNIFER IRELAND and STEVE BORNHOFT

MAY 12

SPRING FLING

Join Big Bend Hospice for their annual fundraiser

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Enjoy fabulous food and sample the world’s best wines from Napa Valley, Italy, Sonoma Valley, Spain, Germany, Australia and South Africa. Festivities are from 7–9:30 p.m. at Tallahassee Nurseries and tickets are $125 per person.

Call (850) 878-5310 or visit bigbendhospice.org for more information and to purchase tickets.

JUNE 4

DIGITAL GRAFFITI AT ALYS BEACH

→ Staged among the glistening white walls of Alys Beach, Digital Graffiti provides artists with large-scale blank canvases for exploring the intersection of art and architecture. After the sun goes down, buildings come alive with dozens of dazzling original art projections. Proceeds benefit the Alys Foundation. Emerald Coast Magazine is a proud sponsor of Digital Graffiti and hosts the Saturday kick-off party and EC Lounge, where guests can enjoy live entertainment, cocktails and camaraderie beginning at 6 p.m.

MIDTOWN BARRE CRAWL PHOTOS BY JACQUELINE WARD IMAGES (DIGITAL GRAFFITI) AND WOODLAND FIELDS PHOTOGRAPHY (GOLDEN EAGLE BRIDAL SHOW)

MAY 13–15

→ Join the Tallahassee Ballet for their annual fundraiser, a pub crawl through the heart of Midtown. Kick off the summer and experience more than 10 participating bars and venues all while supporting the arts. Participants receive goodie bags that include commemorative cups for tasting drinks throughout the evening, a T-shirt if you pre-register and maps that direct you from bar to bar.

Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 the day of the event. The event kicks off at 4 p.m. and ends at 8 p.m. For more information, visit tallahasseeballet.org/support-the-ballet/special-events.

For a full schedule and more ticket information, visit digitalgraffiti.com.

JUNE 6

GOLDEN EAGLE BRIDAL SHOW

→ Calling all brides! The Golden Eagle Bridal Show will be catering to all future brides and their grooms at the Golden Eagle Country Club. Enjoy samples, demonstrations and other services that are crucial to planning the perfect wedding or honeymoon. Copies of the 2016 edition of Northwest Florida Weddings will be available to help all who are planning a wedding in the best part of Florida.

Tickets are $5 at the door and the event starts at 6 p.m. Pre-register at goldeneaglecc.org.

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NOV. 16 Elroy and Lisa Caldwell took the cooks out of the kitchen for a night of fine wine, good food and delightful company. The seven-course evening featured dishes such as Gulf shrimp and grits, ham crusted cobia, short rib ravioli and a s’mores dish with chocolate Kahlua sauce, crafted by local chefs.

The wine flowed as guests and chefs mingled and munched together.

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FIRST FRIDAY GALLERY HOP

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With a beer in one hand and a burger in the other, traipse through the city’s creative haven on the first Friday of every month.

Check out the unique art galleries and vintage shops this park has to offer. Live music guaranteed. FREE. Railroad Square Art Park, 623 McDonnell Drive.

6–9 p.m. (850) 224-1308

Young talents display their musical bravado in this end-of-the-year recital. $5. Ruby Diamond Concert Hall, FSU campus. 3 p.m.

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WEDNESDAY ROUNDUP MAY 4, 11, 18 AND 25 AND JUNE 1, 8, 15, 22 Grab a quick bite at this weekly food truck gathering. With an exciting spread to choose from, lunch will be anything but boring. FREE. Downtown Food Truck Court, 725 S. Bronough St. 11 a.m.–2 p.m. tallahasseedowntown.com.

OPEN MIC NIGHT MAY 4, 11, 18 AND 25 AND JUNE 1, 8, 15, 22 Calling all performers and performer enthusiasts: Come on down to the Warehouse for this weekly showcase of local talent. Sing, play, act and everything in between, or just sit back and enjoy the show. FREE. The Warehouse, 706 W. Gaines St. 7:55 p.m. sign-up, 8:30 p.m. show.

(850) 222-6188 warehouseopenmic.wordpress.com

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15TH ANNUAL TAILS & TRAILS MAY 7 Lace up and race on at this charity chase benefiting the four-legged residents of the Animal Shelter Foundation.

Choose from the 1 mile, 5K, 10K or half marathon events. $10–$30. Tallahassee Animal Service Center, 1125 Easterwood Drive. 8 a.m.

(850) 894-6738 To register, visit animalshelterfoundation.org.

‘THE FIREBIRD’ MAY 7 Witness the tale of a sinister sorcerer and a mystical firebird in this fairytale ballet exclusive geared toward a younger audience, though sure to be cherished by all. $22–$45. Ruby Diamond Concert Hall, FSU campus.

10:30 a.m. (850) 224-6917

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Uniting in Atlanta, leaders from all over the globe discuss prevalent issues impacting local communities. This live streaming event is tailored to foster meaningful dialogue and leadership growth. $90–$99. TCC Ghazvini Center for Healthcare Education, 1528 Surgeons Drive.

8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

FREE PLANETARIUM SHOW

Contact Marissa for more information at (850) 201-8760 or mainwoom@tcc.fl.edu.

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MAY 7, JUNE 4 Look to skies in this monthly showing of the Tallahassee heavens.

Astronomical experts review constellations, stars and planets during interactive Q&A sessions.

FREE. Challenger Learning Center, 200 S. Duval St. 10 a.m. (850) 644-4629 challengertlh.com

‘IN PERFORMANCE’ WITH THE TALLAHASSEE BALLET MAY 7–8 Formerly of the renowned Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, Antonio and Kirven Douthit-Boyd give an electrifying performance.

Dances include “Chaos” by award-winning dancer, choreographer and instructor Christopher Huggins. $30–$55. Ruby Diamond Concert Hall, FSU campus. Sat, 8 p.m.; Sun, 2:30 p.m.

(850) 224-6917 tallahasseeballet.org

TALLAHASSEE FARMERS’ MARKET MAY 7, 14, 21 AND 28 AND JUNE 4, 11, 18, 25 The earlier you arrive at this weekly market, the better. Local food growers and vendors offer a wide variety of Certified Organic and Certified Naturally Grown foods in a shopping experience you can definitely feel good about.

FREE. Market Square, 1415 Timberlane Rd. 8 a.m.– 3 p.m. (229) 263-1365

kind home during special monthly tours. $15, FREE 12 and under. Spring House, 3117 Okeeheepkee Road.

2–4 p.m. (850) 321-6417 preservespringhouse.org

SPOTLIGHT ON DANCE MAY 14–15 Showcasing a mixed repertoire of classical, contemporary and humorous dance by Pas de Vie Ballet, this season finale is one to savor. $20, $15 seniors and children 12 and under. Opperman Music Hall, FSU campus. Sat, 8 p.m.; Sun, 2:30 p.m.

(850) 290-2247 pasdevieballet.com

MASTERS IN THE MAKING MAY 19, JUNE 16 Unveil your inner Picasso at this monthly art adventure. Instructor Karen Mercer will guide you in recreating works of art

by distinguished artists, focusing on Pablo Picasso in May and Edouard Manet in June. $35 members, $45 non-members. LeMoyne Center for the Visual Arts, 417 E. Call St. 6–8:30 p.m.

To make a reservation, call (850) 222-7622. lemoyne.org

EMANCIPATION DAY CELEBRATION MAY 20–21 Commemorate this momentous occasion in history with a weekend-long celebration. A reenactment of the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation will take place on Friday.

Festivities continue on Saturday with a parade and musical performances at Speed Spencer Stephens Park. FREE. Knott House Museum, 301 E. Park Ave. Fri, 11:30 a.m.; Sat, 9 a.m.

(850) 681-7881 museumoffloridahistory.com

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TALLAHASSEE DOWNTOWN MARKET MAY 7, 14, 21 AND 28 AND JUNE 4, 11, 18, 25 A bustling hub for local craftsmen, vendors and musicians, this bazaar is a treasured Tallahassee tradition. Ring in marketplace season with a weekly visit. FREE. 115 E. Park Ave. 9 a.m.–2 p.m.

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2ND SUNDAY TOURS OF SPRING HOUSE

Stroll through the beautiful and enticing Alfred B. Maclay Gardens in the late spring air at this annual fundraiser. The event begins with a continental breakfast in the park, silent auction and plant sale. Afterward, participants are invited to enjoy a self-guided tour of Tallahassee’s finest public and private gardens. Docents will be present at each garden to guide tour-goers through the horticultural extravaganza.

Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 on the day of the event and may be purchased at Maclay Gardens. Call (850) 487-4556 for more information.

MAY 8, JUNE 12 Distinguished American architect Frank Lloyd Wright left his eminent mark on Florida’s Capital City. Explore his one-of-a-

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JAN. 30 This annual celebration raises money for the annual costume fund at the Tallahassee Ballet and was held at a private residence in SouthWood. Guests enjoyed a cocktail hour, dancing, live music and a delicious dinner from Mom & Dad’s Italian Restaurant.

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Capital Regional Medical Center Ribbon Cutting FEB. 4 The Tallahassee Chamber helped mark the opening of the Capital Regional Medical Center Walk-In Clinic with a ribbon cutting. The new center is located in the Bannerman Crossings Shopping Center and focuses on family medicine.

Attendees at the ribbon cutting enjoyed hors d’oeuvres, libations and Lucky Goat Coffee party favors.

PHOTOS BY LORI MAGEE

1 Mark Robinson and Mandy Bequette 2 Dr. J. Roberto Mendoza, Dr. Brian L. Allen and Dr. Kishor Muniyappa 3 Susie West, Brad Coburn and Rick Oppenheim

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THEATRE TALLAHASSEE PRESENTS: ‘BOEING BOEING’ JUNE 2–19 This is no ordinary night at the theatre. A selfproclaimed Casanova named Bernard enlists the help of his friend Robert as he juggles his three stewardess fiancés, all who have inadvertently just landed in town. Get ready for a slapstick comedy that’s laugh-out-loud funny. $22 adults, $17 seniors and military, $12 students.

Theatre Tallahassee, 1861 Thomasville Road.

Thurs–Sat, 8 p.m.; Sun, 2 p.m. (850) 224-8474 theatretallahassee.org

‘LUCREZIA’ AND ‘MARIA DE BUENOS AIRES’

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19TH ANNUAL FLORIDA AFRICAN DANCE FESTIVAL JUNE 9–11

Seeking to preserve traditional African dance and drumming, the African Caribbean Dance Theatre will stage a series of culturally rich performances that are sure to wow. The festival will culminate in a crowning concert event on Saturday night. $10. Lee Hall Auditorium, FAMU. Saturday, 8:15 p.m. (850) 539-4087. For information about additional events, visit fadf.org.

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MAY 21 Created by the Midtown Merchant’s Association, this family-friendly day begins with a history competition in Lafayette Park and continues with a music festival, food, crafts and beer vendors. Proceeds benefit The Alzheimer’s Project. Thomasville Road between Fifth and Sixth Ave. Free. 3:00 p.m.

Visit iheartmidtown.com for more information.

ROTUNDA RENDEZVOUS JUNE 2 Kicking off Historic Preservation Month, this open reception invites you to engage in discussion geared toward bolstering historic preservation efforts. Refreshments are provided. FREE. Florida Historic Capitol Museum.

5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

(850) 487-1902. flhistoriccapitol.gov

You can experience not one, but two light-hearted, one-act operas in this special double feature.

Strong female leads star in Bolcom’s Lucrezia and Piazzola’s Maria de Buenos Aires. $10, FREE for FSU students with ID. Opperman Music Hall, FSU campus. 7:30 p.m.

(850) 645-7949 music.fsu.edu

PINTS FOR PAWS JUNE 4 Raise your glass for man’s best friend at this homebrew tasting event hosted by the North Florida Brewers League. Donations will benefit homeless furry critters at the Animal Shelter Foundation. Must be 21 and older to attend.

For more information, call (850) 891-2950 or visit pintsforpaws.org.

BRITISH ISLES BAROQUE JUNE 5 The past comes to life in this Baroque concert performed on periodstyle instruments by the Tallahassee Bach Parley. $10 suggested donation.

St. John’s Episcopal Church, 211 N. Monroe St. 3 p.m. tallahasseebachparley.org

punch in this rollicking production of the Tonynominated musical. Watch as ambitious window washer J. Pierrepont Finch climbs to the top of the corporate ladder in 1960s New York. $20 adults, $18 seniors, $16 students, $14 children 12 and under.

Young Actor’s Theater, 609 Glenview Drive For specific show times, call (850) 386-6602. youngactorstheatre.com

11TH ANNUAL RIDE FOR HOPE

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JUNE 10–11

Good art for a good cause.

Place your bid on works by local artists at one of the largest auction events in the state. Proceeds will benefit Big Bend Cares, an educational and support organization assisting those affected by HIV/ AIDS. $20. Donald L. Tucker Civic Center.

7 p.m. (850) 656-2437.

Bike for change in this annual wellness event.

Cyclists and non-cyclists alike can select from six different courses ranging in distance and intensity. Enjoy food, music and entertainment knowing proceeds will benefit the Tallahassee Memorial Cancer Center. $20–45, FREE family Fun Ride and Walk. North Florida Fairgrounds, 441 Paul Russell Road. Fri, 4–7 p.m.; Sat, 9 a.m.–1 p.m.

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4TH ANNUAL ‘ROCKIN’ WITH SPIRIT’ JUNE 24 Like you need another reason to love rock and roll. This benefit concert will have you jamming out to live local bands.

Proceeds go to the Spirit of a Child Foundation, an organization charged with strengthening parent-child relations. $12–$15. Capital City Country Club, 1601 Golf Terrace Drive. 6:30– 11:30 p.m. (850) 728-4255 spiritofachildfoundation.org

YOUNG ACTOR’S THEATRE PRESENTS ‘HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING’ JUNE 24–JULY 3 Small actors pack a big

CELEBRATE AMERICA JULY 4 Let freedom ring at this annual patriotic blowout replete with food, vendors, live music and a showstopping fireworks display.

FREE. Tom Brown Park, Capital Circle N.E. 5:30–10:30 p.m.

Call Jan Bubsey for more information at (850) 891-3860 or visit talgov.com.

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the ladies know the best way to fuel up for the day is with an awesome brunch Sage Restaurant fits the bill with great food and stellar cocktails.

a little retail therapy is good for the soul The curated items at Hearth & Soul create one of Tallahassee’s most unique shopping experiences.

Furry friends love Tallahassee’s chain of parks!

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The ladies stay fit and ready for anything at Train. Fight.Win. on Gaines Street.

Railroad Square Art Park and Gaines Street are the perfect places to explore on a Tallahassee weekend.

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The ladies end their adventure at one of Tallahassee’s premier hot spots, Madison Social, for some great food, drinks and a spectacular sunset!

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2Cellos FEB. 6 The Croatian duo came to the Ruby Diamond Concert Hall as a part of the Opening Nights series. Attendees enjoyed a cocktail hour before the eclectic show began. The cellists employ their classic instruments in playing upbeat music accompanied by flashing lights and fog.

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Boots for Babies FEB. 19 Guests dusted off their boots and joined in a fun evening at Shiloh Farm to benefit Brehon Family Services’ programs. As attendees noshed on food provided by 4Rivers Smokehouse, they also enjoyed a silent auction, music by Deja Blu and a bonfire.

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1 Michael and Carol German with Margi and Derek Wright 2 Mark and Stacie Forbes, Nicole Koski, Bill and Kelly Shiell 3 Susan Drake, Alison Ashcroft, Maryann Schuman and Bert Riedel

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HE FUR FLEW — well, not really — at The Moon Jan. 23 as local VIPs musically battled at the Celebrity Showcase for K-9s and Kool Kats to benefit the area’s Pets Ad Litem (PAL) program. PAL President Bonnie Malloy provided the welcome, TNT 94.9 radio personality Jason Taylor was emcee (as well as a combatant in the Media Melee, facing off against Mark Hinson and Susan Ledford, who represented the Tallahassee Democrat) and the performers were backed up by the Brown Goose Band.

The first battles featured representatives from local animal welfare groups including Lisa Glunt (Leon County Humane Society), Hongwei Chen and Adam Duncan (Cauzican Care), Yaeli Rockwell (It’s Meow or Never for Ferals), Ethan Sellers, and Allison BehrmanHoff and Mario Palmentieri (PAL).

Other bouts included contests between high school music teachers Chris Sarju Seepersaud (SAIL) and Ed Prasse (Leon), young singers Brady Foutch and Cori Norton, and local music scene celebrities Frank Ranicky and Moon owner Scott Carswell (who, was celebrating his 28th wedding anniversary with his wife, Julie.) Accompanied by a bevy of beautiful models, Jane Marks and Marsha Doll provided the grand finale with a “sparkling” lip-synched rendition of Irene Cara’s “Fame.”

Among those enjoying the night’s entertainment were Marcia and Bob Thornberry, Dan and Ella Parisi, Cindy Owen Briley, Gerry Phipps, Michael and Kyle Davina, Ashton Wildman, Ralph DeMeo and Katie Watson.

PAL advocates for the legal rights of animals as well as providing education in responsible pet ownership.

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FEB. 20 The 12 top nominated salons in Tallahassee competed in the area’s fiercest runway show at The Moon Nightclub. Guests enjoyed delicious food from Social Catering and libations while they watched and voted for this year’s top salon. The winner of the 2016 event was first time competitor Sucré Beauty Bar and their model, Corinna Strayer.

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ALLAHASSEE’S OWN celebrity chef, Art Smith, returned home and, along with chef friends Lagran Saunders and Ben Baldwin, cooked up Pigmania, a celebration of all foods porcine as well as the Southern hospitality of the late Nella Schomburger. The Jan. 22 event benefited Goodwood Museum and Gardens and was held in the venue’s Carriage House.

One the menu were two whole pigs, provided by Register’s Meat Company, raw oysters courtesy of Shell Oyster Bar, ham sandwiches, sausage and corn chowder, sweet potato and bacon scones, Southern favorites including homemade pimiento cheese and jams and fried chicken, and all the sides — homemade pickles, slaw, beans, and mac and cheese.

Among those enjoying the barbecue feast were Cissy and Stewart Proctor, Ed Murray, Michele Eubanks, Caroline Conway and Ryan Poole, Kim Smiley, Tina Hunter, Rebecca and Will Davis, McKenzie and Steven Lohbeck and the executive directors of Goodwood, Nancy Morgan and Jennifer Humayun.

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ORE THAN 150 PEOPLE attended a special event to both recognize and roast longtime Florida Retail Federation president and CEO Rick McAllister, who retired in December after 14 years of leading the organization.

They gathered at the University Center Club to thank McAllister with an event that featured a mixture of appreciation from former staff, Florida retail industry leaders and board members as well as the CEOs of retail trade associations from North Carolina, Michigan and Illinois. Rick and his wife, Cindy, have retired to their home in Destin.

Former Tallahasseeans at the event included Cindi and Mark Marsglio of Walmart and Adam Babbington, director of government affairs for Disney.

Among the local business and community leaders on hand to bid McAllister farewell were Bill Herrle, Ann Langston, Dr. Susan Fiorito, Melanie Lee, Monesia Brown, Sally West, Darrick McGhee, Jon Johnson, Debie Leonard, April Salter and Charlie Roberts.

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OW IN HIS 36TH YEAR on the job, John F. “Jack” Harkness, executive director of The Florida Bar, has outlasted every association chief in town. On Jan. 28, the Bar recognized his service by naming its state headquarters building in his honor in a celebration that attracted 300 people, including past Bar presidents and members of the Board of Governors, coworkers, justices, judges, lawyers, family and friends.

Among those attending were Supreme Court Chief Justice Jorge Labarga and justices Ricky Polston, Charles Canady, Barbara Pariente, James E.C. Perry and Peggy Quince as well as former chief justices Major Harding and Stephen Grimes.

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ALLAHASSEE’S OWN celebrity chef, Art Smith, returned home and, along with chef friends Lagran Saunders and Ben Baldwin, cooked up Pigmania, a celebration of all foods porcine as well as the Southern hospitality of the late Nella Schomburger. The Jan. 22 event benefited Goodwood Museum and Gardens and was held in the venue’s Carriage House.

One the menu were two whole pigs, provided by Register’s Meat Company, raw oysters courtesy of Shell Oyster Bar, ham sandwiches, sausage and corn chowder, sweet potato and bacon scones, Southern favorites including homemade pimiento cheese and jams and fried chicken, and all the sides — homemade pickles, slaw, beans, and mac and cheese.

Among those enjoying the barbecue feast were Cissy and Stewart Proctor, Ed Murray, Michele Eubanks, Caroline Conway and Ryan Poole, Kim Smiley, Tina Hunter, Rebecca and Will Davis, McKenzie and Steven Lohbeck and the executive directors of Goodwood, Nancy Morgan and Jennifer Humayun.

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ORE THAN 150 PEOPLE attended a special event to both recognize and roast longtime Florida Retail Federation president and CEO Rick McAllister, who retired in December after 14 years of leading the organization.

They gathered at the University Center Club to thank McAllister with an event that featured a mixture of appreciation from former staff, Florida retail industry leaders and board members as well as the CEOs of retail trade associations from North Carolina, Michigan and Illinois. Rick and his wife, Cindy, have retired to their home in Destin.

Former Tallahasseeans at the event included Cindi and Mark Marsglio of Walmart and Adam Babbington, director of government affairs for Disney.

Among the local business and community leaders on hand to bid McAllister farewell were Bill Herrle, Ann Langston, Dr. Susan Fiorito, Melanie Lee, Monesia Brown, Sally West, Darrick McGhee, Jon Johnson, Debie Leonard, April Salter and Charlie Roberts.

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Among those attending were Supreme Court Chief Justice Jorge Labarga and justices Ricky Polston, Charles Canady, Barbara Pariente, James E.C. Perry and Peggy Quince as well as former chief justices Major Harding and Stephen Grimes.

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FEB. 20 More than 400 people traveled to the Phipps Family Farm to enjoy dinner, drinks, entertainment and silent auctions to benefit Tree House of Tallahassee.

Auction items ranged from a hunting trip in Argentina to an adorable purebred Weimaraner puppy. Tree House uses event proceeds to provide a homelike environment for children who have nowhere else to go.

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▪ Gary Yordon, host of “The Usual Suspects” and founder of the political consulting firm, the Zachary Group, was recently presented with the Silver Medal award during the 2016 American Advertising Federation-Tallahassee awards program. Gold “ADDY” winners at this year’s event included Taproot Creative; Evolution Media, Inc.; Moore Communications Group; Frame, LLC; The Pod Advertising; Impact Visual Media; Compass Marketing & Consulting; Sachs Media Group; Peter Mitchell Associates; Josh McLawhorn; SalterMitchell; BowStern; Gandy Printers; Thames & Chestnutt and Skye Creative. Compass Marketing was also the Best of Show winner.

then supported students involved in jazz, symphonic and marching bands at Belle Vue Middle School and Godby High School.

She also served as a foster grandparent at Sealey Elementary for 25 years before retiring in 2015. She has also regularly volunteered at her church.

▪ Eddie Mae Bennett, a longtime Leon County school volunteer, was recently presented with the Champion of Service Award by Gov. Rick Scott, the Florida Cabinet and Volunteer Florida CEO Chester Spellman. Bennett started volunteering at John G. Riley Elementary School in 1977.

She was a teacher’s aide for 10 years and

▪ Tallahassee native Wayne Hogan is the new executive director of the Florida Sports Hall of Fame. Hogan is owner and CEO of Mango Media, a public relations consulting firm in St. Petersburg. Hogan has been involved in collegiate athletics administration for more than 35 years, 17 of them spent at Florida State University as sports

▪ Dr. Christopher King of Tallahassee, an optometrist with MyEyeDr. Optometry of Florida, LLC, was recently reappointed to the state Board of Optometry by Gov. Rick Scott.

He was reappointed for a term beginning February 11 and ending October 31, 2019.

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▪ Michelle Ubben, partner and chief operating officer of Sachs Media Group, was recently named one of the “Top Women in PR” nationally by PR News. She is a veteran communications professional with more than 30 years of senior-level agency and government experience. Her leadership has helped Sachs Media Group become Florida’s pre-eminent independent public relations firms and one of the top 100 such firms in the nation. She oversees the firm’s Tallahassee office as well as three other Florida locations and one in Washington, D.C. In 2014, her work was honored with a national Gracie Award by the Alliance for Women in Media, as well as a regional Emmy nomination for the 30-minute television program,“Intimate Crimes: The Inside

Story of Child Sexual Abuse.” She was also named a Woman of Distinction by the Girl Scouts of the Florida Panhandle in the category of public relations. In 2008, Ubben earned an international Stevie Award for Women in Business and was a finalist for the National Public Relations Executive of the Year in 2006.

▪ Laura Johnson, CEO and founder o f C o to n C o lo rs , recently received the Governor’s Business Ambassador Award.

Johnson started the Johnson Tallahassee-based small business more than 20 years ago. Today there are several locations across the state. The award was accepted on Laura’s behalf by her father and Coton Colors CFO, John Blank; her mother Dee Blank; her daughter and product designer, Kyle Johnson Smith; photographer Sara Kate Johnson and her husband, Milton Johnson.

▪ Melanie Quinton is Centennial Bank’s newest lender. A 14-year banking veteran, Melanie previous served the Florida Alliance

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Tallahassee Top Salon winner, Sucré Beauty Bar for Assistive Services and Technology, Inc., as director of the New Horizon Loan Program. She then moved her non-profit management experience to Big Brothers Big Sisters where she helped children achieve success in life as program director. She currently serves, among other community activities, as a volunteer coordinator for Sunrise Rotary and is an active member of Leadership Tallahassee Class 31.

▪ Thomas Howell Ferguson P.A. has welcomed C a s ey Duncan to its Tallahassee office.

Duncan, a Clearwater native, received both Duncan his bachelor’s degree in accounting and master’s degree in taxation from Florida State University. He will work as a staff accountant in the Tax Services Department.

▪ Brian Ballard, CEO of Ballard Partners, and Kathryn Ballard, a Florida State University alumna and member of the FSU Board of Trustees, are giving the university a $1.1 million downtown building to serve as the home of The Jim Moran School

of Entrepreneurship and The Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship. The three-story, 19,000-square-foot building is the former Guaranty National Bank, located at 111 S. Monroe St. The Ballards’ gift follows a landmark $100 million gift to the university by Jan Moran and The Jim Moran Foundation. That gift was the largest in FSU’s history. The school’s faculty will keep offices in their current colleges and departments on Florida State’s main campus while the donated building will house the school’s staff and its founding director, Susan Fiorito.

▪ Tallahassee Magazine and presenting sponsor Dr. Russell B. Rainey, along with other Top Salon sponsors and supporters, joined Audrey Sweet of winning salon, Sucre’ Beauty Bar, and its model, Corina Strayer, for a check presentation on March 29 at The Edison. A portion of Top Salon event proceeds was donated to Big Bend Hospice, the winning salon’s charity of choice.

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leadership/administration, instructional systems and learning technologies, learning and cognition, and special education studies. The College of Business’s online graduate program (non-MBA) moved into the Top 10 this year at No. 4, up from No. 26 last year. The college’s online MBA program also shot up to No. 44 from its previous ranking of No. 62. The College of Criminology and Criminal Justice’s online graduate program jumped two spots to No. 5. The college offers a master’s degree in criminal justice studies, combining a first-rate faculty with

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Greenwing Field Day Tallahassee Ducks Unlimited hosted its annual Greenwing Field Day at the Ayavalla Airfield. Boys and girls of all ages participated in shooting and fishing activities, wildlife education, hunter safety, retriever demonstrations and law enforcement activities. Ducks Unlimited is the world’s leading wetlands conservation organization and the Greenwings are its youth members.

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agenda the flexibility of the distance-learning environment. The College of Communication and Information’s online graduate program in information technology was ranked No. 21 in the category of computer information technology. The master’s degree is offered by the college’s School of Information. The College of Nursing’s online graduate program made considerable strides, reaching No. 54 from its previous position of No. 87. The online bachelor’s programs took the greatest leap in the rankings, reaching No. 34, up from No. 161 last year. Online undergraduate degree programs include computer science, criminology, social science, and public safety and security.

▪ Kessler Construction of Tallahassee recently won “Best Of Customer Service” on Houzz, the leading online platform for home remodeling and design. The custom home building and remodeling firm was chosen by 35 million monthly unique Houzz users from among active home building, remodeling and design industry professionals from across the country. A “Best Of Houzz 2016” badge will appear on winners’ profiles to indicate their commitment to excellence.

▪ FSU’s Unconquered Scholars Program, which helps students who have experienced foster care, homelessness, relative care or ward of the state status, recently earned national recognition as a “Model of Excellence” from University Business magazine. Florida State is one of 17 American colleges and universities to receive the honor in the winter 2015 round of awards. Since its inception, 91 percent of students in the Unconquered Scholars Program have been retained and posted a combined grade point average of 3.01.

▪ Apalachee Regional Park was recently picked by the Amateur Athletic Union to host the 2016 Cross Country National Championships. This is one of eight such events held across the country each year and will be held Dec. 3 at the 100-plus acre facility. The park is the home course of Florida State University’s men’s and women’s cross-country teams, and the site of several state and regional collegiate and high school meets. Apalachee Regional Park hosted four major cross-country meets last fall including the FHSAA and Atlantic Coast Conference championships.

Leon County’s Apalachee Regional Park is one of the few parks in the nation designed for competitive cross country running events. It is also a popular destination for jogging, hiking and mountain biking.

▪ Unhoused Humanity is this year’s winner of the InNOLEvation Challenge Business Model Competition for its work using community connections and

crowdfunding to get homeless people off the street. Founders Ramon Aleman and Daren McCurdy won $10,000 from the Mark K. Scott Infinity Fund. InNOLEvation Challenge contestants hone their critical thinking skills by building a business model as they go through the stages of the competition.

▪ FASTSIGNS of Tallahassee, a local sign and visual graphics provider, was recently named one of the company’s top locations worldwide at the 2016 FASTSIGNS International Convention in Orlando. The locally owned and operated business received the Pinnacle Club Award, which is given to the centers ranked 26 to 125 in the U.S. and Canada for sales volume between Oct. 1, 2014 and Sept. 30, 2015.

FASTSIGNS of Tallahassee has been in business here for more than 15 years. The company provides a wide range of visual communications solutions including wall, window and floor graphics, architectural signs, trade show displays, vehicle wraps, digital signage and more.

▪ Leon County recently extended the Armed Service Veteran Bus Pass programs for five years. The service is popular with veterans who need transportation for medical and other life-sustaining activities. The Leon County Commission has cooperated with StarMetro to provide the service since December 2014. Nearly 450 veterans have a free annual bus pass, and more than 60,000 trips have been taken with an average of 5,000 trips per month.

▪ Westminster Oaks has renamed its health center the Bertrand Health Center in honor of a bequest by residents Alma and Roger Bertrand. The couple decided to include Westminster Oaks in their estate because of the excellent care Alma received there after moving here in 2011.

The Westminster Oaks Health Center was built in 1997 and is a part of the broader active-living community. It is s a five-star skilled nursing facility providing shortand long-term nursing care. Inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services are also offered. Westminster Oaks itself is an active senior living community that has served senior adults in Tallahassee for more than 30 years.

▪ Office furniture company Perdue Office Interiors of Jacksonville has leased the remaining retail space at Gateway Center, a mixed-use development at the intersection of Monroe and Tennessee streets. Jack Mozley, a 20-year industry veteran, will manage Perdue’s Tallahassee store. Perdue expanded to the Capital City market to better serve clients across North Florida.

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AMWAT MOVING, WAREHOUSING & STORAGE BEST MOVING COMPANY | 2 0 1 4 – 2 0 1 5

AMWAT is one of Florida’s most trusted moving companies with a global reach. We set the standard by providing efficient, reliable and cost effective local, national and international award-winning moving services. FL IM 1026 319 ROSS ROAD 8 5 0 . 8 7 7. 7 1 3 1 | A M W A T M O V E R S . C O M

CAKE SHOP BAKERY BEST BAKERY | 2 0 1 5

BENSON’S HEATING AND AIR AIR CONDITION HEATING | 2 0 0 5 - 2 0 1 5

Your No. 1 heating and air conditioning team!

Benson’s is proud to have provided North Florida and South Georgia with 24/7 service for more than 30 years. Thank you for voting us the best heating and air conditioning company.

BURGERFI BEST HAMBURGER | 2 0 1 5

No fast food to be found. BURGERFI takes artful pride in providing only the highest quality, gourmet burgers made with fresh ingredients. With high standards and flavorful options it’s no wonder they are the best burgers in Tallahassee.

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CAPITAL CITY BANK BEST FINANCIAL INSTITUTION |

DOG ET AL BEST HOT DOG | 2 0 1 5

2012-2013 Proudly baking people happy for over 45 years. We are a full-service bakery, from cakes to cupcakes and pies to éclairs.

Please stop in for a sweet treat and a cup of Lucky Goat Coffee.

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BEST BANK | 2 0 1 4 - 2 0 1 5

A special thanks to Tallahassee Magazine readers for voting us “Best of Tallahassee.” We are honored to have been chosen again. Each day we live to fulfill our brand promise of being “More than your bank.

Your banker.”

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Conquer hunger with one of our 10,230 different hot dog possibilities.

A different hot dog every day for 28 years and three days. Feeling thirsty? Wash one down with a cup of fresh-squeezed lemonade, and top it off with a fried apple pie.

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FSU ALUMNI CENTER BEST BANQUET FACILITY | 2 0 1 5

Conveniently located to downtown and to college campuses, the FSU Alumni Center is the perfect venue for your next special event. With a full-time event staff, your event will be executed to perfection.

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ROWE ROOFING BEST ROOFING REPAIR/SERVICES | 2 0 1 5

Rowe Roofing appreciates the loyalty and confidence of our clients. With over 30 years of roofing experience Rowe Roofing is YOUR dependable roofer. Thank you for voting us Best of Tallahassee, 2015!

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GROWING ROOM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS BEST CHILDCARE PROVIDER | 2 0 1 3 - 2 0 1 5

Growing Room Child Development Centers open the door to a secure, quality, fun and nurturing educational environment based on a balanced partnership with parents. Thank you for voting Growing Room as Tallahassee’s Best Childcare Provider for three straight years. We appreciate your outpouring of love and support year after year!

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HELGA’S TAILORING BEST ALTERATIONS | 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 5

With more than 28 years of experience, Helga’s offers a full range of fine tailoring and alterations services in two locations. We can work with any style or material and are equally adept with both men’s and women’s clothing. Helga’s can create custom clothing and handle last-minute, same-day alterations. Two master tailors are available with two convenient locations.

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THE PROCTOR DEALERSHIPS AUTOMOBILE DEALER | 2 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 5

KEITH MCNEILL PLUMBING BEST PLUMBING SERVICE | 2 0 1 5

MADISON SOCIAL BEST BAR | 2 0 1 4 - 2 0 1 5

Thank you for voting McNeill Plumbing as the area’s top plumbing company for ten straight years! McNeill Plumbing has been dedicated to servicing Tallahassee for over 30 years and always puts the customer first. License #CFC043067

Open every day, Madison Social is Tallahassee’s most exciting Social House that features lunch, dinner, happy hour and late night experiences for all ages. It’s the perfect place to enjoy one of our gourmet brunch items or a refreshing cocktail from our bar menu.

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The Proctor Dealerships are rich in history and service to the Tallahassee community dating back to 1910. Our commitment to our customers and employees continues to be our primary focus at Proctor Honda, Proctor Acura and Proctor Subaru.

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2011-2015 Thank you from all of us at Narcissus for voting us Best of Tallahassee last year! We love and appreciate the support of our customers and look forward to another Best of win this year. Don’t forget to vote on the ballot found in this issue, starting on page 190.

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PINK NARCISSUS BEST KIDS’ CLOTHING | 2 0 1 1 - 2 0 1 5

Thank you from all of us at Pink Narcissus for voting us Best of Tallahassee 5 years in a row! We love and appreciate the support of our customers and look forward to another Best of win this year. Don’t forget to vote on the ballot found in this issue, starting on page 190.

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THE GEM COLLECTION BEST JEWELRY STORE | 2 0 1 3 – 2 0 1 5

Thanks Tallahassee for your continuous vote as Best Jewelry Store! We love being part of your special occasion and invite you to stop by anytime to browse our newest “gems” or to just say hi.

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PROOF BREWING CO. BEST LOCAL BREWERY | 2 0 1 5

Proof Brewing Co. has brought Tallahassee the best and freshest craft beer since 2007.

Enjoy a handcrafted pint in a relaxed indoor setting or spacious outdoor beer garden at our centrally located Railroad Square Brewery & Taproom.

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MILLER’S TREE SERVICE BEST TREE SERVICE | 2 0 0 9 – 2 0 1 5

SOUTHERN SEAFOOD BEST SEAFOOD MARKET | 2 0 0 2 - 2 0 1 5

RUSSELL B. RAINEY, DMD BEST DENTIST OFFICE | 2 0 0 6 – 2 0 1 5

Thank you for voting Miller’s Tree Service as Tallahassee’s best tree service for seven straight years.

We appreciate your continued support and are committed to providing the highest level of customer service in the years to come. “We’ll go out on a limb for you.”

Looking for that perfect Alaskan wild salmon or mahi-mahi filet to throw on the grill? Or maybe some fresh stone crabs or Gulf shrimp? Boats of local fishermen are daily unloading the freshest finfish and shellfish in town. A perennial favorite, Southern Seafood has a wide variety of fresh seafood that will satisfy the most discriminating palate.

Once again, we would like to thank you very much for your vote as “Best Dentist” for the 2015 “Best of Tallahassee” awards!

Through attentive and personalized care, our practice is committed to serving you and our community.

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Shop the area’s best selection of furniture and mattresses featuring the best brands in America and the area’s largest LA-Z-BOY Comfort Studio. Turner’s gives you unlimited possibilities and unbeatable values!

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History is about people, the lives they lead, the choices they make and the legacies they leave behind. Historic characters make their mark on our world, but what about the average person? What about people whose lives are spent on the fringes of history? Or unassuming folks who wind up playing roles in world-altering events?

Their stories are worthy of being captured before memory fades and the threads are lost forever.

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you’re sure to sit a spell as she immerses you in the tales she tells.

She was born 93 years ago in Sulligent, Alabama, a tiny ink dot of a town with less than 2,000 residents.

Her family was in the hatchery and feed store business there, and despite her humble beginnings, Gail has lived a vibrant and fulfilling life.

Gail was a progressive thinker for her time and place.

She received her undergraduate degree from Auburn University and a graduate degree from the University of Alabama. She put off marriage and having kids until she secured a quality education. She knew love would come, and it did. All it cost was the price of a movie ticket.

“It wasn’t that I didn’t know him because he grew up only 10 miles from me, but I didn’t really know him until one Saturday night,” Gail said with a smile. “I went to the movies and was standing in line when a soldier came over to me and we ended up talking. He was home on leave. We dated every night until he left for South Dakota. When he was in South Dakota they dropped the atomic bomb so he was able to come back to Alabama.

From there it was history.”

They waited four years to get married, dated constantly and never missed a night, she said.

“We were married nearly 50 years. We were a good, solid couple,” she said. His name was Hubert, but you will never hear her call him that. She affectionately dubbed him Edge, short for the last name they shared.

They both had a deep appreciation for education; she for home economics, he for finance. Both taught at Florida State University, after teaching at the University of Alabama and University of Southern Mississippi.

“The summer of 1959 I began teaching textiles and clothing and fashion merchandising at FSU,” she explained. “I loved teaching. It was my passion. I would go back right now, if they would take me at my age. Boy, do I miss it. We loved FSU even way back when we didn’t win football games.”

Their work at the university enabled them to teach and travel as a couple for five semesters in London. Over the years they traveled throughout Europe, Australia, South America and even back home in the United States.

Her eyes have taken in beautiful sights, and she has visited some of the most intriguing spots on earth. For all that, though, her home in Tallahassee is where she enjoyed being the most.

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“We started building a home in Waverly Hills when the development was brand new,” she said. “Edge and I used to drive around the nice developments in Tuscaloosa, and we loved this white house with ivy growing up it. We wanted our house in Tallahassee to look just like it, and it did. I lived in that house from 1960 until 2014, but I don’t go back now. I don’t go back to places too well. The new owners took off the ivy, but oh well, that’s life,” she said with a shrug and laugh.

But her eyes portray how she actually feels.

Gail is the sentimental type, and it shows in the trinkets she has collected from her travels, her treasured family heirlooms and FSU emblems. She takes a keen delight in showing visitors her brand-new touchscreen computer; not so much because it’s the latest and greatest in technology, but because it holds family photos.

“My children would have to be my biggest accomplishments,” she said. “I have two daughters that live here and my son is in Panama City. They gave me wonderful grandchildren. I am so proud of them all.”

She recently took up drawing and watercolor classes simply because she felt the desire to do so. She gave her children the first watercolor painting she completed. Now, she sits in her sunny parlor surrounded by keepsakes of all the things in this life that are dear to her and considers the sum total of her life and what it has meant.

“My experience has been that as we get older we tend to be more pessimistic and less happy. But, that’s no way to live,” she said. “Life is too short, even at 93, so really what it comes down to is being happy and reflecting that happiness around to other people.”

— REBECCA PADGETT

Alice, 90 ALICE ENGLERT MAY SEEM DAINTY, but don’t be fooled. The soul behind those fiery brown eyes is full of moxie and gumption — and was on arrival.

“When I was born the doctor said I wouldn’t live,” said Alice, who will celebrate her 91st birthday this summer. “He said, ‘She may last the night, but that’s it.’ I didn’t quite weigh 2 pounds. My grandmother kept me alive by burning her wood stove. So that was the beginning. God blessed me that way.”

Alice Summitt was born in Tennessee on July 9, 1925. Her family moved to Tallahassee when she was 2.

Her father was a new hire at Florida Gulf Life Insurance, which was headquartered in Jacksonville at the time. He thought his young and active family would do well in the Sunshine State and migrated to Tallahassee.

The Capital City was a very small town, and at first they lived on Monroe Street then St. Augustine Street. They eventually settled on West Pensacola Street in a house that today is just steps away from the “new” capitol building.

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“I spent some wonderful years there. Everything was perfect. I can’t even remember anything I didn’t love,” she said.

Alice’s early school years were spent at Caroline Brevard Grammar School, and she remembers chasing after ice trucks from the capital to campus whenever they drove through town. And if the city demolishes her beautiful, beloved alma mater, she said she’ll be “extremely unhappy.” There are too many good memories and too much history.

“I don’t think I could have had better teachers anywhere in the world,” she said.

Alice has an unwavering love for education. She still remembers the name of every teacher she ever had.

She even remembers how one of her teachers scolded her on the first day of school for ringing a bell exclusively reserved for lunchtime announcements. More than anything, she remembers loving competition as a coed at Leon High School, and P.E. was far and away her favorite subject.

Her parents encouraged her continued education after she graduated from high school, and Florida State College for Women presented the perfect opportunity for Alice to hone her skills. Fellow students there needed somebody with Alice’s skill and team spirit to get them motivated to engage in activities such as golf, dance and cheerleading. Alice required no such convincing and quickly landed among the ranks of the college’s coveted F Club, a club that only the most active students were invited to join.

“I remember seeing this magnificent looking person walking out of Wescott. She had a great big F on her chest and a couple of stars along her shoulders. I knew I wanted to get involved. F Club was just a whole different thing,” she said. (continued on page 209) Alice Englert (center) with grand and great grandchildren.

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Dedicated professionals work hard to establish and maintain reputations for trustworthiness, reliability and professionalism in fields that range from legal services to insurance, home improvements and more. In this special advertising section of Tallahassee Magazine, meet some of the area’s top professionals — people who are dedicated to earning your trust and respect while doing what they do best.

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SOUTHERN PINES SENIOR LIVING CHRISTY COOKE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Nestled within sweeping pines and surrounded serenity in the town of Thomasville is SOUTHERN PINES SENIOR LIVING. Southern Pines is designed to meet your needs and offers independent living, assisted living and a secured memory care neighborhood. We ensure each resident receives quality and comfortable care at precisely the level required.

Full dining with three meals a day, an encompassing activities program, caring nurses, medicine management, housekeeping, laundry, transportation and shopping trips are all included for residents. There are four different neighborhoods within the community offering ten various floor plans, many of which have spacious closets and kitchenettes.

The mission of Southern Pines is to become the best place each senior adult resident has ever lived. At Southern Pines people are being loved unconditionally and inspired daily — and they are thriving as a result.

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RJ YOUNG COMPANY CHRIS BETHEA, SALES MANAGER WHAT SERVICES DO YOU PROVIDE? Solutions to securely manage paper and digital information, maintain vital information technology systems and empower businesses with leading printing and copying technologies, including 3-D printing and managed print services.

WHAT DOES A TYPICAL DAY CONSIST OF FOR YOU? Consulting with customers

and prospective customers on strategies to improve efficiency and productivity in their businesses. A goal is to show them how their copier, or multifunctional printer, is an on-ramp to digital information management rather than “just a copier.”

WHY DID YOU CHOOSE YOUR LOCATION? Florida is a growing market with unlimited potential. RJ Young brings a unique product to the table by offering solutions for many of today’s business challenges under one roof to ensure business managers and owners are successful. Many customers in Florida today have to contract with multiple partners to accomplish the goals that RJY can provide in one stop.

WHAT TRAINING HAVE YOU HAD? Our teams are consistently going through

various training from our manufacturing partners such as Ricoh USA, Canon USA, Samsung, Lexmark and more, to be certified to service their products. Our solutions and IT teams retain multiple certifications and complete ongoing training programs to stay on top of software and information technology systems.

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DOUG CROLEY INSURANCE SERVICES

2814 REMINGTON GREEN CIRCLE | (850) 386-1922 | DOUGCROLEYINS.COM

WHAT SERVICES DO YOU PROVIDE? Business and personal insurance, life insurance and group health insurance.

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN IN BUSINESS? Over three decades.

WHY DID YOU CHOOSE YOUR LOCATION? When we built our location on Capital Circle NE, the highway was a two-lane country road. But, we knew Tallahassee was growing north and we wanted to grow with the city.

Capital Circle NE is now a six-lane highway!

WHAT SETS YOUR BUSINESS APART? Our team! Everyone in our office has an insurance license, including our college interns. We value professionalism and strive to provide the highest level of knowledge and service. Insurance is not a commodity. We tailor our clients’ insurance to meet their specific needs.

WHAT IS THE BEST PART OF YOUR JOB? Working with our clients. We

are a local business; we live in the Tallahassee area and our clients are our neighbors. Many of our clients have been with us since we first opened our doors. We have watched their families and businesses grow, and now we insure their children and grandchildren.

WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR YOUR BUSINESS? Our agency

has a group of young agents and customer service representatives that are bringing in new ideas and specialty knowledge. We are continuing to expand and think outside of the box. We have aggressive growth plans for the future!

Our team is what sets Doug Croley Insurance Services apart.

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CHRIS WOREL EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, AMERICAN COMMERCE BANK Chris Worel is a businesspeople person.

“I really enjoy hearing from entrepreneurs and business owners about how they grew their business, what their passion is, what made them decide to go out and independently go into what they do,” Worel says.

That interest aligns with American Commerce Bank’s passion for designing individual financial plans for locally owned companies.

“We take the time to understand the businesses our clients are in,” Worel says. “We focus on understanding what entrepreneurs actually need for their specific business.”

That strategy clearly has been successful. After 11 years in business in Georgia, ACB purchased Probank and opened its first Tallahassee branch at 536 N. Monroe Street last year.

“In Tallahassee, we really want to grow,” Worel enthuses. “We’re just getting started ...

It’s a great size city for us to be in. We’re looking forward to that market growing.”

536 N. MONROE ST. (850) 681-7761 | AMERICANCOMMERCEBANK.COM

MIDTOWN INSURANCE GAYE JOHNSON With 23 years in the insurance business, Gaye Johnson focuses on delivering customized insurance solutions to her clients, with a personal touch. She founded Midtown Insurance in 2012 with this concept in mind.

Midtown Insurance is an independent agency with a wealth of resources and years of experience to meet your needs. Careful listening leads to good solutions and satisfied clients. Gaye and her team take the time to understand each client’s needs before making recommendations.

“Getting to know our client’s needs is paramount to our success,” Gaye explained.

“This is a relationship, not just a transaction.”

Gaye chose the Midtown area as her place of business because of her love for this eclectic, convenient part of town. Visit her office and you’ll see it’s all about the people — and that includes her staff and their office puppy. “It’s a joy to come to work every day and serve our clients,” says Gaye.

Midtown Insurance invites you to call or stop by and see what an agency with heart can do.

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The process of selling or buying a home in today’s real estate market can be a challenge — and finding the right agent(s) can be even more challenging.

Here’s an inside look at what makes the THE HILL SPOONER & ELLIOTT TEAM the right choice for you.

The unique advantage offered to those who choose to work with The Hill Spooner & Elliott Team is evident right from the start. This dynamic group of women comprises three individually talented agents with a combined 50-plus years of experience, who bring a broad range of perspective and knowledge to the sales and marketing experience. Collectively working for you, this trio really outshines the competition.

CALYNNE HILL brings to this group a wealth of expertise gained from her 27 years selling real estate in the Tallahassee market. Calynne’s sphere of influence is vast given the client relationships she has cultivated over time and is only further enriched by her consistent involvement within the community. Maintaining excellent communication is one of the most imperative things you can do to be successful in this business today, and our team strives to exemplify the value added to our customer relationships.

Calynne utilizes her network to ensure our company and our listings are always well exposed, leading to a continuous stream of satisfied customers.

HETTIE SPOONER is the Broker/Owner at Hill Spooner & Elliott, Inc. and

she brings boundless ambition and energy to the group, which has propelled our team to be consistently innovative in all phases of our business. She drives our team to discover new and progressive practices which have taken us to the forefront of the market when it comes to technology and marketing, two key components that allow us to remain a sales leader among Tallahassee agents. Hettie has played a key role in cultivating these skills at a pace that allows us to stay ahead of the curve and retain a high level of success in an ever-changing business.

LINDSAY ELLIOTT, another Tallahassee native, worked with Hill Spooner & Elliott as an assistant for years before becoming a partner. She communicates well with clients and is particularly adept at explaining the ins and outs of real estate contracts and the process. Her intelligence, coupled with a vivacious personality, makes her a pleasure to work with, both as partner and as an agent. Her experience and knowledge is greatly valued among her team and her peers.

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CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER MATT BROWN says community engagement is important to his company and points out, “We contribute to approximately 30 charities which are determined by a committee of our employees.”

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Dr. Ko attended Harvard University where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in biochemistry. She then attended Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where she was awarded the Stephen J. Ryan Prize in Ophthalmology. She received her residency training at Wilmer Eye Institute, a leading program in the country.

Afterward, she went on to fellowship at the Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, a referral center for all of Europe and among the top 5 eye institutes in the world. She has volunteered her time to increasing availability of cataract surgery in underserved rural areas and has provided free cataract surgery in rural China. She has published numerous papers and book chapters on a wide variety of topics in ophthalmology.

Dr. Ko is dedicated to blindness prevention through management of ocular diseases, especially glaucoma. She specializes in Glaucoma Medical and Surgical Management, as well as minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) during cataract surgery.

At Eye Associates of Tallahassee, we look forward to helping you and your family with all your eye care needs.

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Sellers Tile appreciates the difference that quality products can make in a home. It deals only in premium flooring and countertops, ensuring that customers are pleased with the appearance and quality of materials.

Sellers is a family owned business that has provided North Florida and Georgia with exceptional customer service since 1965. Over the years, the business’ sales have grown steadily because Sellers succeeds in retaining established customers while welcoming new ones. More than a store, Sellers takes the time to get to know each client’s wants and needs.

With full-time designers on staff, Sellers is equipped to help you make your home an inviting and warm sanctuary. Their motto is “Let us make your home a dream home.” And, they will.

“Customers should enjoy their design experience,” said sales/design consultant Melinda Inman, who has over 32 years of experience in the flooring industry. “We have an extensive inventory and can help anyone make budget-friendly decisions based on their tastes.”

Sellers takes pride in providing the best values in town in wood, tile, vinyl, carpet, granite, quartz and many other high-caliber materials.

Their services range from fabrication to installation.

“Each customer is specific in what is important and what their priorities are for their home,” said Inman. “We get a feeling of accomplishment when we see how excited they are about the finished product.”

While dealing only in premium products, Sellers Tile has an extensive inventory and can help anyone make a budget-friendly decision that makes one’s home an inviting and warm sanctuary.

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HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN IN BUSINESS? Centennial Bank was started in 1999 in Conway, Arkansas, by a group of businessmen and investors that had previously been in the banking industry. Through smart acquisitions and diligent growth, the bank has branched in to Florida, Alabama and New York. In 2016, Centennial is nearing $10 billion in assets. Centennial Bank expanded into the Tallahassee market through the acquisition of Wakulla Bank and Premier Bank.

WHAT SETS YOUR BUSINESS APART? We pride ourselves on excellent

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WHAT IS THE GOAL OF YOUR COMPANY? Through our community banking philosophy, we are dedicated to consistently exceeding the expectations of our customers, stockholders and bankers while enriching the communities we serve.

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A celebratory road trip to California was up next for Alice, who made the drive with two other gals right after graduation.

“We had read about Las Vegas so we went out there just to go to see what it was like. And I had thought, well, maybe I could get into the chorus line. I really did love to dance,” she said. “But when I saw those girls I thought, ‘I’m not doing that. They can’t even dance.’

They really weren’t dancing. Let’s put it that way.”

The athletic 20-somethings hit the jackpot on their first night in town and won $150.

“That was a whole month’s salary for teachers in Leon County. In fact, the salary was more like $110.

Man, we thought we were really big,” she said.

The “wild west” may have had much going for it, but Alice soon decided the glitz-and-glam aspect wasn’t her cup of tea. Instead of the chorus line, she accepted a full-time position as a Las Vegas teacher.

Whatever they needed, she could handle it, whether it was history, science or physical education. She had a diverse group of students who were the children of Las Vegas performers, and they hailed from all over the globe.

“It was unbelievable,” Alice said. “Every nationality that you can name in the world, they were in my classes. It was the only high school in town, so if they were in high school, they were in my high school.

They were my students, and they were good. That was a great experience.”

A few years later, it was time for a change. She wanted to pursue her master’s degree and decided Columbia University in New York City would do nicely.

The Big Apple had nothing on the pull of a glowing desert sun, though. After graduation she sent out applications and interviewed across the country, but Vegas still felt like home.

“I loved it,” she smiled. “Which is lucky, because that’s where I met my husband, Roger.”

Roger and Alice were colleagues in the physical education department, and their students saw sparks from the very beginning. “We were born on the same day and the same year,” she said. “Isn’t that something?”

After a whirlwind romance, a happy engagement and an intimate wedding, they decided to come back to Tallahassee and start a family. The athletic gene persisted in daughter Carrie Zimmerman, who went on to represent the United States as a gymnast in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal.

“Family is more important in your daily life than anything else,” Alice said. “Be where the people you love are. That’s why my life is so good. I’ve been very fortunate to always have the people I love next to me.”

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“He was happy if I was happy,” Ross said of the military man who taught him to say, “Yes, ma’am,” to older women, a habit that sticks to this day. “He would say, ‘I don’t care what you do, whether you’re a garbage man or the president of the United States, I just want you to do your best at it. You do your best, I have no problem.’

That’s what my dad taught me. That’s what winning is.

Try as hard as you can and do the best you can and come back the next day and do the same.”

Ross’ dad also considered academics as important as athletics. He recalled bringing home a D grade from elementary school. Dad made the youngster dress out and sit on the bench for the entire game. “That was actually a really good lesson. I have him to thank for my work ethic and how to treat people and my teammates.”

His father was onto something. Good grades can help boost an athletic career.

“I think nowadays parents need to understand that both are important,” said administrator Fuchs. “Remaining focused on academics throughout their junior high and high school career is so important because the NCAA is continuing to increase the academic standards necessary for athletes coming out of high school to be eligible to be participate in college athletics.”

With limited athletic scholarship dollars, coaches are recruiting smart students who might be enticed to FSU with an academic scholarship.

“If they get more academic money than they do athletic money, students many times will decline their athletic package and take the more favorable academic package,” Fuchs said.

One of Ross’ three children is a 6-year-old son who will be playing baseball for the first time this spring. No pushing, Ross said, “I want him to love it.” Most of Ross’ teammates from his youth left the game long ago, but he he said he enjoys recalling the good times they had when playing together back in the day.

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use surrounding the property was parking garages.

“Without this park it would just be nasty buildings, warehouse, those kinds of things,” said Fernandez.

“You can just imagine how the land use is going to change around this park,” Long chimed in, as he looked at metal buildings and old state office buildings abutting the park. Local arts groups and developers are currently being asked what they envision in their place. “I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see very high quality highrise residential and mixed use.”

As a sidelight, Long pointed out a new, circular sidewalk tunnel under the railroad trestle that runs over Lafayette Street. “The (Cascades Park) project it took us to the bridge … which was one of those artificial barriers. You had to walk out in the street to take your life into your hands,” he said. With improvements made along Lafayette Street, including the tunnel, people from the Myers Park neighborhood can now easily walk to the park.

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Just up the street, construction of the Magnolia MultiUse Trail is in its early stages. Plans had been discussed “oh my god, forever,” according to Fernandez, to improve the stretch of Magnolia Drive between South Monroe Street and Apalachee Parkway. When completed in 2019, the $7.9 million worth of improvements will include covering the drainage ditches on either side of the road with a 10-foot-wide multiuse trail, a traffic signal at Jim Lee Road, sidewalks, and upgraded benches and landscaping.

Driving along the section of Orange Avenue between Blair Stone Road and Southeast Capital Circle, the administrators praised it as an example of forward thinking. While it looks like a 230-foot-wide road to nowhere, they envision it lined with easily accessible businesses, similar to what’s popping up along a similarly large Southeast Capital Circle. By contrast, Capital Circle Northeast is about 130 feet wide. Any major widening projects there would entail condemning property and relocating businesses along the roadway.

North Monroe Street is even more “constrained.”

With businesses built close to the curb, “it’s not like you can go in there and expand sidewalks or medians,” said Long. “You’ll see improvements there. It’s an important

gateway and it’s going to continue to get a lot of attention, it’s just you have a lot fewer options.”

Surveying Orange Avenue, Long said, “This is how you build a road for the next 50, 60, 100 years. As far out as it sounds, we’ve accommodated what future transportation modes might be. If you’re you’re talking about rail or other things, the right of way is big enough to accommodate it.”

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It’s a fact: City and county administrators get together and compare notes and share intel. In their world, Bass Pro Shops is a huge get, bringing jobs, money, visitors and a certain cachet to a community. Its customers travel an average of 50 miles and two and a half hours to shop there. So Long knew if and when the regional outdoors mega-retailer came knocking, it was going to be with a list of demands for infrastructure, fast-track permitting and a request for $6 million in economic incentives.

One day, a representative of Bass Pro did appear, but the company was in a hurry to plant their flag in the area before their competitor did. So, said Long, no incentive was required and the newly widened and improved Mahan Drive — a straight shot from Interstate 10 — made it easy to fast-track the retailer into an existing building in Fallschase, formerly occupied by Sportsman’s Warehouse. When it opened in 2013, the 70,000-square-foot store brought 200 jobs to the area.

“The reason that store is there is this road,” Long said. “You’ve got to ask yourself: ‘Without that road built to that standard, would Bass Pro have come in that close to town or would they do their usual model, which is to be right there on the interstate?’”

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On a quick jaunt up Interstate 10 to the Market Street area, Fernandez pointed out what he called the county’s “hidden gem,” the Miccosukee Canopy Road Greenway, a linear park that meanders from Fleischman Road six miles to the interstate. “I’m there all the time,” he said. He also drew attention to the woodsy area that is slated to become the massive Welaunee community, as well as a spot that could become the newest interchange on Interstate 10.

Getting off at the Thomasville Road interchange, both commented on the infrastructure triumph that is the Capital Circle flyover. “It’s pretty awesome, isn’t it?

They said nobody would use it,” said Fernandez. However, one shouldn’t expect a quick and easy solution to the hot gridlocked traffic mess below it where Killearn Center Boulevard, Capital Circle and Thomasville Road converge. “Having the interchange to the east could take a load off this interchange,” he said. “To fix the problem here is like a billion-dollar solution.” (continued on page 218)

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large crowd gathered on Saturday, Feb. 20, at The Moon nightclub, which had been made fit for the most extravagant of fashion shows. Hundreds of people came together first for a cocktail hour and noshed on irresistible hors d’oeuvres provided by Social Catering. Soon, the lights were dimmed, video screens came to life and all, buzzing with anticipation, were welcomed to the 2016 Top Salon competition and charity fundraiser.

Each salon, their model and chosen charity were introduced through filmed interviews, which revealed tender moments and meaningful relationships that developed during the transformational makeover process.

The stunningly transformed models took their turns taking the stage immediately after the audience saw their “before” photos displayed. Each exuded confidence gained from the training they received from esteemed modeling coach Marsha Doll and reinforced by fashion-forward clothing provided by Narcissus, and of course the endless efforts provided by each salon in the makeover process.

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Once each model had made her final walk, voting commenced via text messaging in combination with the judges votes.

While votes were being tabulated, the audience enjoyed a dynamic fashion show featuring Marsha Doll models sporting swimwear and spring styles by Narcissus, with hair and makeup by the talented stylist, Lindsey Young.

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Schools Are Infrastructure, Too

With an estimated 5 million square feet of building space currently on the books, one of the biggest players in the local infrastructure business is Leon County Schools. In a 2012 report, a volunteer team of community experts estimated the public school system will require a minimum of $621 million to pay for those needs over the next 15 years, including $188 million for new construction and remodeling and $158 million for repairs and maintenance.

Much of that bill is paid for with a 1.5 millage levy in property taxes and a voter-approved half-penny added on top of the state sales tax. Money from the state’s Public Education Capital Outlay (PECO) fund is practically nonexistent.

“In the good old days, the state used to give districts (money) based on a fairly complex formula, for new construction and maintenance,” said James A. Connell, chief of facilities and construction for Leon County Schools. “I don’t believe we’ve gotten any new construction money in many years, and maintenance has dwindled to down to a truly insignificant number. If that was our only funding source, we’d have to close up the district. We’re truly living off the 1.5 million local levy for operations and maintenance, and the half-cent sales tax is funding most of the new construction.”

Major construction projects, like the proposed new south side high school — with a price tag now estimated at between $60 and $65 million — are

funded by selling bonds, which are paid off over a period of time.

Whether it’s a growing number of students; everimproving technologies; new rules and regulations; safety and accessibility standards; or just routine wear and tear, the buildings team is constantly working on school improvements — even on recently built schools.

Take the amendment to the Florida Constitution approved in 2002 that, starting in the 2010–11 school year, set limits on the number of students that could be taught in each classroom.

“When you think about that, all of our schools immediately got smaller,” said Danny Albritton, director of construction, Leon County Schools.

That’s why you see a lot of expansions going on now and more portables. We’re also trying to catch up on some of the core spaces, like administrative areas and cafeterias.”

Or new building codes that require that fresh air circulates in classrooms to limit carbon dioxide — an iffy proposition in Florida’s high heat and humidity. One school’s system is about to be replaced, said Maintenance Director Steve Shelton, with a cost estimated at more than $70,000. “We walk a thin line trying to meet those fresh air requirements and not do damage to the building,” he said.

“There’s a lot people don’t see — schools are big sites,” Shelton concluded. — ROSANNE DUNKELBERGER

REIMAGINING MARKET SQUARE

The area today known as Market Square started with a shopping center near I-10 — soon to undergo a major re-do. Other strips of shops and restaurants popped up independently, growing along with the residential areas in Tallahassee’s Northeast. But there wasn’t coordination in their construction so, even though convenient to each other, they weren’t easily walkable. “You can sort of see the opportunity for pedestrian movement, but it’s not accommodated very well so it creates those artificial barriers,” said Long. Efforts are underway to create a “sense of place” in the area, including a traffic circle at the corner of Market Street and Maclay Boulevard South.

But the piece de resistance of the plan is a new rectangular-shaped park that will incorporate the two large holding ponds just south of Premier Health and Fitness Center.

People walked under a nearby electric transmission line, creating a trail. “We said OK, everybody’s using it as a walkway, let’s create a walkway,” explained the city manager. The city is currently acquiring property, some of it donated. Where there is now an electric substation and wires overhead, a collection of power poles on the ground and a view of the backs of buildings, Fernandez envisions in five years a chain of three ponds and an attractive park. “It’s going to be super gorgeous.”

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE

At the end of the tour, Fernandez and Long did stop for coffee at the Lucky Goat on Capital Circle and discussed a new facet of the latest penny approved for Blueprint. For the first time, funds from the tax will be set aside for economic development — a total of $90 million over 20 years.

The pair are suggesting that Blueprint set aside $20 million of that economic development money to piggyback on the $400 million investment FSU will be making to build a new hotel, parking garage and business school near the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center.

The money, they said, would be used to build 50,000 to 80,000 square feet of meeting space, which would put Tallahassee in the running to host larger gatherings.

“We’ve got over 200 state associations (in Tallahassee) and nobody has their annual conference here because we can’t accommodate their floor space.”

Rather than trying to grow the economy here by offering incentives to existing out-of-state businesses, the two suggest infrastructure is where money is better spent.

“The biggest thing we can do for economic development is exactly what you saw today,” said Long. “(Businesses) come for what we do well — parks, schools; they come for something like the amphitheater.” TM

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THE BEST LITTLE STEAKHOUSE IN TALLAHASSEE

dining guide AMERICAN 101 RESTAURANT ★

In 2015, readers said 101 had the Best Happy Hour around, whether you work 9 to 5 or just want to enjoy a night out with friends. Guests can choose from two happy hours, a selection of delectable martinis and cocktails, two-for-ones and a bevy of other drinks. Mon-Tue 11 ammidnight, Wed-Fri 11 am-2 am, Sat 4 pm2am, Sun 11 am-12 am. 215 W. College Ave. (850) 391-1309. $$ B L D

ANDREW’S 228

A chic urban restaurant serving signature blends of creative American and Italian cuisine in stylish surroundings. Private rooms are available for banquets and meetings. Mon-Thurs 11:30 am-10 pm, Fri-Sat 11:30 am-11 pm, Sun 10:30 am9 pm. 228 S. Adams St. (850) 222-3444.

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AVENUE EAT & DRINK

A downtown restaurant offering a melting pot of flavors fresh from the South, served in scrumptious dining presentations. Sunday brunch is a not-tobe-missed treat. Mon-Fri 11 am-10 pm, Sat 9:30 am-10 pm, Sun 9:30 am-9 pm. 115 E. Park Ave. (850) 224-0115. $$$ B L D

ANDREW’S CAPITAL GRILL AND BAR

After 40 years, Andrew’s is still an energetic, casual, see-and-be-seen spot. House favorites include a popular lunch buffet, hamburgers, sandwiches, salads and pasta dishes. Downtown delivery. Mon-Thur 11:30 am-10 pm, Fri-Sat 11:30 am-11 pm, Sun 10:30 am-9 pm. 228 S. Adams St. (850) 222-3444/Fax, (850) 222-2433.

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Join us for lunch and dinner at our beautiful location on Apalachee Parkway.

Our steaks are not only the best in Tallahassee, but USDA choice midwestern corn-fed beef, specially selected, aged to our specifications and cut daily. We also serve fresh jumbo shrimp and fish — grilled, blackened or fried.

So please join us for lunch and dinner or just meet up for drinks at our fully stocked bar.

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BURGERFI ★

BurgerFi uses all-natural, free-range beef and is dedicated to sustainable practices. Our Best of 2015 winner in hamburger joints, their menu is packed full of tasty, savory and creative hamburger and hotdog creations as well as fresh-cut french fries and gigantic onion rings. Vegetarian options, frozen custard, beer and wine are also available.

Sun-Thu 11 am-10 pm, Fri-Sat 11 am11 pm. 1817 Thomasville Road, No. 7.

(850) 629‑4333. $ L D

CHICKEN SALAD CHICK

Chicken Salad Chick exceeds expectations with 15 different chicken salads to choose from served in a bright setting that earned it Best Casual Dining honors in 2014. There are also deli sandwiches, side items and soups, and a cookie of the day. Multiple locations.

Hours vary. (850) 894-2502. $$ L D

CHRISTOFF’S BISTRO & WINE BAR

Fine wine and craft beer pairings available for menu items. Tue-Thu 5-10 pm, Fri-Sat 5 pm-midnight, Sun-Mon Closed.

1460 Market St. (850) 222-9914. $$ D

CYPRESS RESTAURANT ★

To make a special evening a cut above the rest, bring the celebration to Cypress.

Known for its sophisticated take on Southern cuisine, this restaurant won readers’ votes in 2014 and 2015 as Best Celebration/Special Occasion and Best Fine Dining restaurant. Mon-Thur 5-9:30 pm, Fri-Sat 5-10 pm, Sun Closed. 320 E. Tennessee St. (850) 513-1100. $$$ D

DOG ET AL ★

For the ultimate in comfort food, Dog Et Al offers hand-held deliciousness for the “Down to Earth” and “Uppity” dogs in us all. Foot-long and veggie entrees alike grace this award-winning menu. If the entire family is down for the dog, be sure to ask about their incredibly valued family packs.

Mon-Fri 10 am-7 pm, Sat 10 am-6 pm, Sun Closed. 1456 S. Monroe St. (850) 222-4099.

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Tallahassee’s newest fine dining establishment, The Edison is so much more than just a pretty face. Equipped with a beer garden, wine cellar, casual café, open-air alternatives and a gorgeous view, this historic building and restaurant has quickly become a Tallahassee favorite.

Mon-Thur 11 am-11 pm, Fri 11 am-midnight, Sat 10 am-midnight, Sun 10 am-11 pm.

470 Suwannee St. (850) 684-2117. $$/$$$

HOPKINS’ EATERY ★

Hopkins’, a Best of 2015 winner, provides more than just your average sandwich.

Favorites such as the Ultimate Turkey and the Linda Special and a variety of salad meals keep customers coming back for more. And it’s healthful, too! Multiple locations. Hours vary. hopkinseatery.com

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JUICY BLUE

In the Four Points by Sheraton Downtown, this cool lobby restaurant offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. Unique offerings include tapas with a twist such as the Georgia peaches and caramel.

Sandwiches, salads and a nice variety of seafood, pasta and chicken dishes round out the menu. Mon-Fri 7 am-11 pm, Sat-Sun 7 am-midnight. 316 W. Tennessee St. (850) 422-0071. $ B L D

KOOL BEANZ CAFÉ ★

This colorful, casual spot has been serving up gourmet dishes so tasty and creative it was named Best of 2015 winner in multiple categories.

Diners can expect delicious modern

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Celebrating 50 Years ˜ Thank You!

So much to Celebrate!

Voted Tallahassee’s Best Wine List since 2010 Creative Cocktails, Craft Beers Outstanding Small Plate + Dessert Menu Only Balcony Bar in Tallahassee Great Venue for Celebrations Big & Small

thewinelofttallahassee.net . 850.222.9914 Mon-Thurs 5pm-2am, Fri & Sat 4pm-2am Located at the Orleans@Midtown 1240 Thomasville Rd. (Corner of 6th Ave & Thomasville Rd.)

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NOW OPEN

Your favorite restaurant has a new home 1650 N. Monroe St.

American cuisine, as well as dishes influenced by the worldwide travels of the kitchen staff. Menus change daily.

921 Thomasville Rd. (850) 224‑2466.

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MADISON SOCIAL ★

Whether it’s for a social cocktail, a quick lunch or a place for alumni to gather before home football games, Madison Social offers something for everyone. Madison Social earned Best Bar honors in 2015.

Mon-Fri 11:30 am-2 am, Sat-Sun 10 am2 am. CollegeTown, 705 S. Woodward Ave. (850) 894‑6276. $$ L D

MICCOSUKEE ROOT CELLAR

With its hand-hewn décor, organic menu items and seemingly endless supply of artisan crafted beer and wine, it’s the place to go when a fresh twist on tradition is what the taste buds order. 1311 Miccosukee Rd. (850) 597-7419. $$ D

PAISLEY CAFÉ ★

Guilt-free lunch has never been easier now that Paisley serves up food fresh bakery and garden full of wholesome treats Mon-Fri 11 am-3pm, Sat-Sun 10 am-3 pm. 1123 @ Midtown on Thomasville Rd. (850) 385‑7268. $$ L

SAGE RESTAURANT

EAST MEETS WEST, NOW A FEW BLOCKS NORTH A Fresh Take on Pan-Asian Cuisine and Sushi Join us for Lunch & Dinner Featuring a Full Bar with an Extensive Selection of Wine, Beer & Sake Voted Tallahassee’s Best Sushi & Best Asian Restaurant since 2009

1650 N. Monroe St. | (850) 727-4183 | masatallahasee.com

WHEN YOU ORDER IT, WE COOK IT. IT’S JUST BETTER THAT WAY

Sage’s menu masterfully melds regional influences, including Southern and French. The setting is gorgeous but cozy, and the outdoor patio sets a charming, romantic tone for a relaxed evening.

3534 Maclay Blvd. (850) 270-9396. Mon Closed, Tues-Sat 11 am-3 pm & 6-10 pm, Sun 11 am-2:30 pm. 3534 Maclay Blvd.

(850) 270-9396. $$$ B L D

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SIAM SUSHI

Thai one on at this fine eatery and you will be left wanton for more. An expansive menu includes starters, soups, salads, fried rice, noodles and a host of signature dishes — some ducky, some not — ranging from “Rock the Wok” to Chirashi Sumocombo, a substantial, edible work of art. Mon-Fri 11 am-10 pm, SatSun 12-10 pm. 1700 N Monroe St. (850) 391-9021. $$$ L D

BBQ SONNY’S REAL PIT BAR-B-Q ★

Nothing satisfies a rumblin’ stomach quite like a plateful of hot, savory barbeque; and if you’re looking for the tastiest grilled dishes, 2015 Best Barbecue winner Sonny’s has them in spades. 3101 Dick Wilson Blvd. Multiple locations. Hours vary. $ L D

THE WINE LOFT WINE BAR ★

BREAKFAST/ BRUNCH/BAKERY

When it’s part of your name, of course you’re going to be chosen as the Best of in 2015. Midtown’s Wine Loft features a variety of worldly wines and bartenders who love to experiment. The Wine Loft is ready to help you relax and enjoy the evening.

Mon-Thu 5 pm-2 am, Fri-Sat 4 pm-2 am, Sun Closed. 1240 Thomasville Rd., Suite 100.

(850) 222-9914. $$ D

AZU — A LUCY HO’S RESTAURANT

JASMINE CAFÉ

In the heart of downtown you can enjoy artfully crafted sushi rolls, authentic stirfry, specialty salads, shareable appetizers and a well-stocked wine, craft beer and saki bar all with a view of bustling and beautiful Tallahassee. Eat, drink, hangout and just roll with it. Mon - Fri 11 am – 10 pm, Sat 12-10 pm. 109 E College Ave. (850) 681-6868. $$ L D

MASA ★

For another year, Masa earned the title as the Best Sushi in town — and with good

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Rated Best Hibachi for 2015, Osaka provides dinner and a show with chefs seasoning and preparing your meal right in front of you. It’s a meal that’s sure to leave you satisfied as well as entertained. Sun-Thu 11 am10:15 pm, Fri-Sat 11 am-10:45 pm.

1690 Raymond Diehl Rd. (850) 531-0222.

UP IN SMOKE PIT BBQ

Serving Tallahassee since 1970, Lucy Ho’s offers Japanese-style cooking with Cantonese, Sichuan, Hunan, Peking and Taiwanese influences. Diners also will find a full bar and the freshest sushi.

Mon-Fri 11 am-10 pm, Sat 11:30 am-10 pm, Sun 10:30-9 pm. 3220 Apalachee Pkwy.

(850) 893-4112. $/$$ L D

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OSAKA JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE AND SUSHI BAR ★

Vertigo is home to some of the juiciest, funkiest burgers in town. The modern building provides a no-frills setting to enjoy such favorites as the Vertigo Burger — a beef patty with fried egg, applewood bacon, grilled jalapenos, sharp cheddar and Vertigo sauce. Mon-Sat 11 am-9 pm, Sun 11 am-6 pm. 1395 E. Lafayette St. (850) 878‑2020. $$ L D

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reason. This Japanese fusion restaurant packs bold, delicious flavors into each finely crafted, authentic roll. Mon-Fri 11 am-3 pm & 4:30-9:30 pm, Sat-Sun 12-3 pm, 4:30-9:30 pm. 1001 N. Monroe St. (850) 847-0003. $/$$ L D

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.

Sun-Thu 7 am-9 pm, Fri-Sat 7 am-10 pm.

402 Tennessee St. (850) 597-7964. $ B L D

THE EGG CAFÉ AND EATERY ★

When you’re looking for breakfast favorites, even if it’s lunchtime, The Egg is the place to be. Made-to-order items use the finest ingredients. Voted Tallahassee’s best 14 times, including the 2015 award for Best Breakfast. Light breakfast fare is available at The Egg Express, a second downtown location in the R.A. Gray building. Tue-Sun 7 am2pm. In Evening Rose at 3740 Austin Davis Ave. (850) 907-3447. $$ B L

THE LUNCH BOX

This iconic little café conveniently nestled at the corner of Mahan and Magnolia offers up homestyle breakfasts and plenty of lunch items to choose from. Dine in, take out and outdoor seating is available. 295 N. Magnolia Dr. (850) 942‑9766. $ B L

CAJUN COOSH’S BAYOU ROUGE ★

This Best Cajun Restaurant winner for 2015 brings the best of the Bayou State right to your table. The menu is jam-packed with Louisiana-style dishes, favorites like jambalaya, crawfish etouffee, po’boys and seafood gumbo.

Not in a Cajun mood? Coosh’s also offers

NOW OPEN at Pier Park in Panama City Beach

we roll with the freshest Local Produce, Fresh Gulf Fish, Highest Quality Beef

16 Hibachi Tables | Sushi Bar Private Dining | Large Parties Welcome Open Daily for Lunch and Dinner

TALLAHASSEE | 1690 Raymond Diehl Road | (850) 531-0222

DESTIN | 34745 Emerald Coast Pkwy | (850) 650-4688 PANAMA CITY BEACH | 15533 Panama City Beach Parkway | (850) 588-8403

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Locally Owned Since 2006

IN THE MARKET DISTRICT Locally sourced menu with unique wines by the bottle & glass and craft beer

Voted Tallahassee’s Best Pizza 2007 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012

Midtown 1872 Thomasville Road • 850-222-PIZA (7492) Kerry Forest 2910 Kerry Forest Parkway • 850-668-PIZA (7492)

Tues–Thurs 5–10 pm Fri & Sat 5 pm–midnight (850) 894-4066 ChristoffsBistro.com

1460 Market Street, Suite 3 / ChristoffsBistroAndWineBar

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GREAT SUSHI — DOWNTOWN! Espresso Bar with locally roasted coffee, Sushi to Stir Fry, Specialty Salads, Wines, Craft Beers & Sake M–Th 11:30 a.m.–10:00 p.m. | F 11:30 a.m.–10:30 p.m.

Sat Noon–10:30 p.m. | Sun Noon–10:00 p.m.

Wi-Fi | Eat | Drink | Hangout

109 E. College Ave. (850) 681-6868 jasmine-cafe.com

Our Summer Menu Is Back!

Craving something light and delicious this summer? Try our summer special featuring a scoop of Dill-icious Diva, our summer salad with strawberries, cranberries, Fuji apples, pecans and feta cheese, and a slice of key lime pie.

Our Two Locations Are Ready To Serve You: 1410 Market Street | 850-894-2502 1496 Apalachee Parkway | 850-402-0653

A Simple Concept, A Superb Experience! www.ChickenSaladChick.com

S e r v in g B re ak fa s t, Br unch & Lu n c h

THANK YOU FOR MAKING US TALLY’S TOP CHOICE!

The Egg Cafe & Eatery 3740 Austin Davis Ave. T – Sun 7 am – 2 pm (850) 765-0703 The Egg Express (R.A. Gray Building) 500 South Bronough, Room G-22 M - F 7:30 am - 3 pm | Sat 10 am - 3 pm (850) 907-EGGS (3447) Lite Breakfast Fare

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elegant creative unique d istinctive Visit our new website! info@klassickatering.com | klassic-katering.com 850.894.0423 | 229.672.3368

classic hamburgers, salads and chicken wings. Mon-Tues 11 am-10 pm, Wed-Fri 7 am-10 pm, Sat 8 am-10 pm, Sun 8 am-9 pm.

6267 Old Water Oak Rd. (850) 894‑4110.

black-and-white photos to the bathrooms decorated in album covers, the restaurant has an unmistakable and enjoyable “hole in the wall” vibe. Multiple locations. Hours vary. (850) 224‑9808. $ L D

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KLASSIC KATERING ★

The culinary masterminds behind Klassic Katering know how to transform an event from drab to fab. With a ton of flavor and a pinch of panache, this Best of Tallahassee winner will cater to all of your foodie needs. Mon-Fri 9 am-5 pm, Sat-Sun Closed. 6753 Thomasville Rd #108.

(850) 894-0423.

DESSERT THE CAKE SHOP ★

From your plain vanilla and chocolate to specialties like Snicker’s Candy Bar and Chunky Monkey, The Cake Shop provides delicious cakes, cookies and cupcakes for special occasions or just to satisfy your sweet tooth. It earned honors for Best Bakery and Best Dessert in our 2014 AND 2015 readers’ choice polls. Mon-Fri 8:30 am-6 pm, Sat 10 am-2 pm, Sun Closed.

1908 Capital Circle N.E. (850) 386‑2253. $

GREEK GEORGIO’S

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.

Mon-Sat 4-10 pm, Sun Closed. 2971 Apalachee Pkwy. (850) 877-3211. $$$ D

SAHARA GREEK & LEBANESE CAFÉ ★

Our 2015 Best of winner for ethnic eats, Sahara’s fusion of Greek and Lebanese cuisines is unmatched in the area. A large menu and friendly staff cater to all tastes. And don’t forget to order the falafel! Mon-Wed 11 am-9 pm, Thu-Fri 11 am- 10 pm, Sat 12-10 pm, Sun Closed.

1241 E. Lafayette St. (850) 656‑1800. $$

ITALIAN/PIZZA BELLA BELLA ★

Take your taste buds to Italy with a trip to Bella Bella, voted Best Italian

by Tallahassee Magazine readers in 2015. This locally owned and operated restaurant has a cozy atmosphere with all the classics to satisfy your pasta cravings.

Mon-Fri 11 am-10 pm, Sat 4-10 pm, Sun Closed. 123 E. 5th Ave. (850) 412-1114. $$ L D

JOE MAMA’S WOOD FIRED PIZZA Crisp toppings. Freshly prepared pizza dough. Traditional Tuscan woodfired oven. What more could you ask for? Joe Mama’s offers quintessential casual Italian dining. 307 N. Monroe St. (850) 577-1231. $ L D

MOMO’S ★

After devouring a slice “as big as your head” at this 2015 Best Pizza winner, chain pizza simply is not gonna cut it. From the

CANTINA TALLAHASSEE

The menu includes all your South of the Border favorites — tacos, burritos, chimichangas, quesadillas and more — along with $5 and less fast-food options as well as sharing-sized Platos Con Amigos. CollegeTown, 705 S. Woodward Ave. (850) 273-4002. $ L D

EL JALISCO ★

In the mood for sizzling enchiladas and frozen margaritas? Make your way to the 2015 Best Mexican/Latin American Restaurant, El Jalisco, where they do Mexican cuisine to perfection. Multiple locations. Hours vary. $ L D

BUY FRESH BUY WILD

BUY SOUTHERN

TACO REPUBLIK

An authentic taqueria, Taco Republik specializes in creating tacos and burritos in abstract and delicious ways. Located in the heart of Midtown, this restaurant is beloved for bold flavor combinations and wallet-friendly prices. Mon-Thu 11 am-9 pm, Fri-Sat 11 am-10 pm, Sun Closed. 1122-8 Thomasville Rd. (850) 559‑5464. $ L D

SEAFOOD/STEAK CHOP HOUSE ON THE BRICKS

This family-owned upscale restaurant serves local organic and sustainable meats, seafood, poultry and produce.

Craft beers, fine wines and specialty drinks complement house specialties like Bone-In Ribeye, Plantation Quail and the Chop House Burger. Their Knob Creek Bourbon Bread Pudding is a dessert favorite. Tue-Sat 5-9:30 pm, Sun-Mon Closed. 123 N. Broad St., Thomasville, Ga. (229) 236-2467. $$ D

MARIE LIVINGSTON’S STEAKHOUSE ★

Dining at Marie Livingston’s is upscale yet comfortable and always a special treat. Not just a restaurant that serves up savory cuts of prime rib or marbled steaks, this 2015 Best Steakhouse winner is a Tallahassee tradition, and newcomers owe it to themselves to make it a priority to visit.

2705 Apalachee Pkwy. (850) 562-2525.

Mon-Fri 11 am-2 pm & 5-9 pm, Sat 5-9 pm, Sun Closed. 2705 Apalachee Pkwy.

(850) 562-2525. $$ L D

SHULA’S 347

The legendary Miami Dolphins’ head coach brings 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. Sun-Thu 5-10 pm, Fri-Sat 5-11 pm. 415 N. Monroe St. (850) 224-6005. $$$ L D

WE’RE THE BEST PLACE FOR ALL YOUR SEAFOOD NEEDS.

SOUTHERN SEAFOOD ★

Whether you’re looking for fish, shrimp, oysters, scallops, crab or lobster, these guys have you covered. The 2015 Best Seafood Market winner brings the ocean’s freshest choices to Tallahassee’s front door. Mon-Fri 10 am-7 pm, Sat 10 am-6 pm, Sun 12-6 pm.

1415 Timberlane Rd. (850) 668‑2203.

Visit our comprehensive, searchable dining guide online at tallahasseemagazine.com/Restaurants

1415 TIMBERLANE ROAD in Market Square

850.893.7301 | SOUTHERNSEAFOODMARKET.COM

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postscript

A BLIND VISIONARY

by JACK LEVINE

M

y dad was 60 when I was born. Not only was he the oldest dad on the block, he was older than all of my friends’ grandfathers. He was also a blind man, having lost his sight while in his early 50’s.

After a few days of blurred vision, he became totally blind.

The doctors guessed it was vascular, perhaps an aneurysm on the optic nerve.

It’s said that when one sense goes the others perk up a bit.

Well, eight years after my dad went blind, I came along!

Some things in life don’t require good vision!

Growing up with a blind dad wasn’t easy. Sometimes his blindness frightened me.

On occasion I would play blind, walking through a room with my eyes tightly shut feeling my way with outstretched arms and walking in a halting gait wondering how my dad managed to move around with such effortless grace.

Beginning at age 9, it was my responsibility to read for Dad — mostly newspaper columns, editorials and letters from his friends. Walter Cronkite was his TV news anchor; I read the opinions.

When I read for him, he listened to me struggle through the tough words with patience.

I had to spell out a few. But I’ll never forget the light that would shine from his blind eyes when I got to a phrase in

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an article or friend’s letter that moved him — a new fact or a fresh angle on an issue of concern. When that light went on, I knew I was doing a good job.

He couldn’t see my smile, but I knew he sensed it.

Dad never went to school one day in his life. He was an immigrant who came to this country at the turn of the century to escape the tyranny of forced “conscription” in the Russian Czarist Army. The teenage boys gathered from the shtetles were not really being recruited or given uniforms; they were forced to run through the woods, used as human target practice, to hone the skills of the sharpshooters.

Those few who survived feigned death, crawled back to the village to warn the others, like my father, to run away and escape to the West. He and a friend, Benny, left their families

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at age 14, working their way through Poland over a threeyear period to save enough to board a ship in Danzig (now Gdansk) for the New World, for survival and to be free.

Dad spoke five languages and mastered Braille but was versed in the language of politics the best. He believed it was politics that forced those young kids to run through the woods as human prey, and it was politics and policies that needed to be influenced at every stage of his life.

As I contemplate Dad’s Day I think of how different my childhood would have been if I had a different father — one who was not blind, who could play catch, or take me to a movie, or compliment my drawings. Yet, I know I was enriched by being with a wise old man, helping to narrate his life's events. For as long as I can remember, I saw for two

people. That was both an obligation and an opportunity.

I think of Dad’s Day — now 40-plus years after my Dad’s death — as a chance to cherish the gifts he gave me that had no wrapping paper. His influence lives in the work I do, my appreciation of others’ challenges, and the relationship I have built with my own two sons who never got to meet the old guy with the gray beard and bright, shining eyes.

One of the most significant ways to heed the commandment, “Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother,” is to make a contribution in our parents’ name to a charity which reflects the values we’ve learned from those who paved our paths. Or volunteer to read to a child, visit a lonely elder or send a note to a long-lost friend. What better honor than to give of ourselves in the name of those who gave so much to us? TM

Jack Levine, a Tallahassee resident since 1978, is founder of the 4Generations Institute. Top, Jack, age 5, with his dad.

PHOTOS COURTESY JACK LEVINE

A father’s insightfulness inspired his son

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