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BACK IN TIME pg.28

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WISH YOU WERE HERE pg.144

Gainesville’s Hoggetowne Medieval Faire celebrates its 25th Anniversary

Satchel Raye offers some insight into how his lifelong dream became a reality

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CONTENTS WINTER 2010 • VOL. 01 ISSUE 04 >> A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING

Much More Than Junk

Lightnin’ Salvage

Lightnin’ Salvage Enterprises Adds a Unique Element to Satchel’s

PHOTOS BY TJ MORRISSEY FOR LOTUS STUDIOS

BY AMANDA WILLIAMSON

orn of old ﬁve-and-dimes, ﬂea markets, and from the mind of Satchel Raye, Lightnin’ Salvage Enterprises created a fantasy-like space where customers can shop for novelty items, seek out various collections — or contribute to them — and simply relax and enjoy the atmosphere, all while waiting for a table. A hodgepodge of creative ideas and efforts, Satchel and his team built Lightnin’ Salvage Enterprises out of the neglected property remains of an old car-detailing company. However, the dream company has been with him since 1989, when

Satchel and his buddy, Brent, decided to start collecting junk. “Back in those days, people would throw out some good stuff — antiques,” Satchel said. “After collecting the junk, we decided we should name it. Brent said, ‘How about Lightnin’ Salvage?’” From there on, the fake company continued to show up in their lives — anything they created bore the initials “LSE;” or if they helped a friend move, it would be Lightnin’ Salvage Movers doing the job. “So, when I went to open another place, I wanted it to have its own identity,” Satchel said. He felt

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By Amanda Williamson

Lightnin’ Salvage Enterprises just seemed to ﬁt with the place, which houses a variety of attractions. Lightnin’ Salvage includes the Five & Dime store, the Junk Museum, lounge, a bocce court, a greenhouse and a variety of other exhibitions, like the Fountain-O-Junk. Though the attractions share a lot with Satchel’s pizzeria, they have their own place, separate from the restaurant. The Five & Dime is an eclectic mix of Satchel’s-branded items, novelty toys and Florida souvenirs. Satchel hired Judy Keathley, the store manager, to develop the Five &

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What began as an imaginary company used to describe many of Satchel Raye’s endeavors, Lightin’ Salvage has grown into a music venue, a five-and-dime store and a junk museum - as well as a place to spend time while waiting for a table to become available.

>> ARTS & EDUCATION 1

Oak Hall’s

Cofrin Arts Center

By Jessica Chapman

PHOTOS BY TJ MORRISSEY FOR LOTUS STUDIOS

BY JESSICA CHAPMAN

aintings, sculptures, drawings, oil colors — all are

“He never wanted anything named after him, though,” said

[artists] in the same room, they’ll ﬁnd a way to get together. We learn

common in a typical school art department. It is uncommon, however, for art students to have an art gallery,

Robert Ponzio, an art teacher at Oak Hall who helps put together the exhibits with fellow art teacher Gary Bone. “He didn’t want any

about each other.” Although it was a huge success, including standing-room only on opening night, Ponzio and Bone said

featuring world-renown artists, right outside the door. But for Oak Hall students, passing through the

recognition.” Eventually, however, the administration was persuaded to name the

“The One Mountain, Many Paths” show took a long time to plan — about a year.

school’s Cofrin Arts Gallery between classes is typical. The gallery, which sits between the school’s auditorium and music

gallery after its benefactor. The school’s most recent show, “One Mountain, Many Paths,” was one of the most successful in the

The November and December show, however, was a much easier project. The exhibit features Richard Heipp, the interim director of the

hall, is named after David Cofrin, whose family funded the Harn Museum of Natural History. And until recently, when the Harn

gallery’s three years. “One Mountain, Many Paths” featured religious art from around the country, including Islamic, Jewish,

School of Art and Art History at the University of Florida. Ponzio said solo artist exhibits are usually easier than big exhibits like “One

Museum announced plans to add an Asian art wing in Cofrin’s name, this was the only art gallery in

Christian and Hare Krishna art. Bone and Ponzio said many pieces were gathered through friends of

Mountain, Many Paths.” Heipp focuses a lot of his art on digital prints, a form of artwork that

honor of Cofrin’s commitment to the arts in Gainesville. Cofrin was a long-time

friends, and were from artists with work from around the world. The exhibit opened about

is growing in the art world. His “Visible Man” artwork will be featured in the exhibit, opening

philanthropist and ﬁnancial supporter of the Harn Museum. His two daughters went to Oak Hall, a private school off Tower Road, and he helped provide funding for an

the same time the Dove World Outreach Center announced plans to burn the Qur’an. Ponzio and Bone said the exhibit helped show religious tolerance.

Nov. 5 with an evening reception from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and will last until the end of the semester on Dec. 18. Heipp said digital prints are primarily featured in the show.

extension to the music hall at the school.

“Art acts as a bridge between cultures,” Bone said. “If you put

Many of the “Visible Man” pieces are large scale — about 5 feet by 6

1. The Cofrin Arts Center offers students a chance to broaden their cultural horizons. 2. In addition to paintings, numerous sculptures, pottery, digital prints and other forms of art are also featured. 3. Robert Ponzio (left) and Gary Bone. 4. The “One Mountain, Many Paths” exhibit that ended in September 2010 was one of the gallery’s best yet, Ponzio and Bone said. The exhibit featured art from different religions as a way to show religious tolerance and acceptance.

feet, he said. The project focuses on the difference between looking

it translates or evokes emotion.” Heipp said he will have one

at images and seeing images. He said in today’s society, people are bombarded with images all the time, so particulars of the image are

painting at the show, but it might not be recognizable as such; the image is painted to look like a digital print. It is painted in such

sometimes lost. A main feature of “Visible Man” is prosthetic eyeballs. The eyeballs are a metaphor for people’s

a way, he said, that makes people wonder if there is a difference. Digital print artwork is becoming more common in today’s society.

perceptions of themselves and how identity forms. “Art is all about ideas,” he said. “Success or failure [is based on] how

Heipp said one advantage to digital prints is the time spent. Painting a picture of reasonable size takes about continued on next page

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Cofrin Arts Center Oak Hall School has its very own art gallery. Named in honor of David Cofrin, a long-time philanthropist and financial supporter of the Harn Museum, the Cofrin Arts Center provides students and visitors with a new exhibit nearly each semester.

“OH, MY!”

Mick Hubert The Voice of the Florida Gators for Over 20 Years PHOTO BY TIM DARBY/UF COMMUNICATIONS

BY CHRIS WILSON

art of what makes sports memorable are the sights and sounds of the game. Gainesville residents and University of Florida Gator fans have been

Hubert calls the play-by-play for all Gator football, basketball and baseball games. He also does the occasional soccer game. In total, Hubert said he does play-by-play for

treated to the memorable calls of play-by-play man Mick Hubert for

about 100 events per year. He also does interview-style call-in coach’s

the past 20 years. Hubert hopes he has a long stretch of Gator games

shows on the radio and television highlight shows.

ahead of him as he begins his 21st year in the booth. “I enjoy working with the people here,” Hubert said in a recent interview. “Jeremy Foley is the greatest athletic director to work for. My wife teaches Kindergarten in Gainesville. We enjoy living here. The variety of the sports I get to call is great. It’s a good place.”

“I like the sport I’m doing at the time I’m doing it,” Hubert said. “When football comes around, I’m fully immersed in football. With football, you’re high and far away, so I feed off the crowd. Basketball, I’m on the ﬂoor, so I feed off the emotion of the players. I can see their faces, hear the shoes squeak, the whistles continued on next page

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By Chris Wilson

The Voice of the Gators For more than 20 years, Mick Hubert has treated Gator fans to his play-by-play radio commentary. Hubert calls the plays for all Gator football, basketball and baseball games, in addition to the occasional soccer game.

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>> FEATURES

ON THE COVER

Malgorzata Sobala and Ali Che’Ree (Gosia and Ali) trade their instruments to share a light moment on the lawn of the Thomas Center. These musicians have been playing together since 1995, both as a duo and with a full band.

Karaoke Singing for the for the Fun of it BY ALBERT ISAAC

Back in Time Hoggetowne Medieval Faire Celebrates its 25th Anniversary BY AMANDA WILLIAMSON

Living History Lessons Society for Creative Anachronism BY KEVIN ALLEN

COLUMNISTS

Gosia and Ali Jazz, Rock, Swing - This Group Does it All BY ALBERT ISAAC

Satchel: The Man Behind The Pizza A Lifelong Dream Becomes Reality BY NICOLE LYNN GREINER

Handmade Holiday Bazaar GLAM: Gainesville Local Art Mart BY DENISE TRUNK KRIGBAUM

46 Crystal Henry NAKED SALSA 84 Brian “Krash” Kruger GATE CRASHING 126 Jessica Chapman ADVENTURES IN APPETITE 159 Albert Isaac DIFFERENT NOTE

In Their Shoes A Look At Some People Of Gainesville BY ALLYSEN KERR

110 Interfaith marriages A Message of Understanding, Tolerance and Unity

INFORMATION 70 Going Out to Eat 94 Community Calendar 162 Advertiser Index

BY JANICE C. KAPLAN The articles printed in Our Town Magazine™ do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Tower Publications, Inc. or their editorial staff. Our Town Magazine endeavors to accept reliable advertising; however, we can not be held responsible by the public for advertising claims. Our Town Magazine reserves the right to refuse or discontinue any advertisement. All rights reserved. © 2010 Tower Publications, Inc.

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136 PHOTO COURTESY OF JOHN JACOBBE

Caleb Jacobbe, an 8-year-old who died in 2006 of Wilms’ Tumor, pauses for a photo with Boston Red Sox ﬁrst baseman Kevin Youkilis.

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Bill Hatfield Publishes Second Novel Writer, Musician Continues Sci-Fi Saga BY LARRY BEHNKE

122 Enter the Bat Zone The Lubee Bat Conservancy Hosts its Annual Festival BY AMANDA WILLIAMSON

130 A Green Way to Go Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery BY DENISE TRUNK KRIGBAUM

136 Caleb’s Pitch Making Gator Dreams Gator Memories

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MESSAGE >> FROM THE EDITOR

Yep, that’s me and the family in Tennessee — minus our daughter, however, who now has a family of her own. As a youngster, I was so lucky to have a family that believed in taking vacations. Regardless of how low our funds were (and believe me, they were often low), my parents always found a way to head to the mountains — usually in the summer. Since we are native Miamians, the mountains were always a special treat. And, of course, we also made frequent trips to the

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Florida Keys, sometimes to camp, other times just for a day of fishing. The point is, we were always doing things together as a family. Now that I’m older with a family of my own, we have continued this tradition; we have always made a concerted effort to have regular family getaways. A couple of years ago, we were fortunate to have found a winter wonderland in Gatlinburg, and the boys saw snow for the very first time. We all took great pleasure making (repairing) a snowman, and pelting one another with snowballs. It seems like only yesterday when all of our children were,

well, children. But, blink an eye and they grow up and have children of their own. One day I’m the kid; the next day I’m the grandpa. This month is particularly noteworthy because our daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren are moving away, leaving the sunshine state for Ohio. We will miss them greatly, and although it’s not easy, I do realize our children have to live their own lives, follow their own paths, and make their own family memories. And we will just have to add Ohio to our destination when planning our family vacations. So, the cooler weather is finally blowing in, and thoughts of the holidays fill my head. I’m certainly ready to head to the hills and see some snow (although I think we will settle for Daytona this year). In this issue of Our Town Magazine, we bring you a wide variety of stories ranging from Operation Christmas Child to the Hoggetown Medieval Faire to the Stop! Children’s Cancer Holiday Concert. We will take you on visits with Mick Hubert — the voice of the Florida Gators — as well as with the musical duo of Gosia and Ali. Our writers met with authors, artists, singers, and restaurateurs to bring you a cornucopia of interesting stories. So please sit back and enjoy all we have to offer in this edition of Our Town Magazine. I sincerely wish you a happy and safe holiday season. s

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STAFF >> CONTRIBUTORS Ashley McDonough

Michelle Ashworth

is a student of life who enjoys writing and being active in the community. An avid traveler, Ashley has a Masters degree in Public Administration and enjoys interacting with the many unique people who call Alachua County home.

is a student in UF’s College of Journalism and Communications. She enjoys going to the beach, traveling, trying new things, snorkeling and spending time with her friends and family.

Mcdonough.ashley@gmail.com

chelle11286@hotmail.com

Janice Kaplan

Chris Wilson

has been a freelance writer for five years. In her spare time Janice loves cooking, Gator sports, Jimmy Buffett anything and spending time with her husband and kids.

has been a professional editor and writer for community publications in Gainesville and Tampa for more than 10 years. He also has a passion for history and sports. Chris and his family live in Newberry.

kaplan_ janice@yahoo.com

cwilson5000@msn.com

Allysen Kerr

Denise Trunk Krigbaum

is a fourth-year student in UF’s College of Journalism and Communications. Besides writing, she’s also a musician and enjoys photography, the arts and technology.

is a freelance writer, adjunct professor at UF, wife and a mom. She has lived in Gainesville for eons and has managed to turn over a few stones while here. She has found many hidden gems. More remain to be discovered.

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>> HEY BABY YOU’RE A ROCK STAR

Karaoke Singing for the for the Fun of it

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BY ALBERT ISAAC he approaches the stage with a slip of paper in her hand. Her heart is pounding in her chest. She is shaking, forcing her legs to move. This is her first time singing before a live audience — her first karaoke experience. But it will not be her last. Garnette Hathaway was 50 years old when she finally got up the nerve to sing in public. She became immediately addicted. Now she not only sings karaoke, but she is also a KJ — a Karaoke Jockey. Hathaway is but one of many Karaoke Jockeys that can be found in the bars and restaurants and bowling alleys of Gainesville. For the past seven years, she has hauled all of her equipment into venues — loudspeakers, monitors, amplifiers, microphones, fans (the electric kind), music, television monitors, backdrops (that she made herself) and even colored lights. Because of the workout she gets from her line of work, she said she canceled her gym membership. Hathaway described the emptynest syndrome that helped pave the way to her KJ career.

“I went from having no life — began at a snack bar in Kobe City kids are gone — to this whole big in Japan. “It is said that when a new life,” Hathaway said. “One strolling guitarist could not come thing leads to another and you get to perform at the bar due to illness hooked. You start buying CDs, and a or other reasons, the owner of the little machine to practice at home. bar prepared tapes of accompaniAnd then a friend and I decided to start the business.” Hathaway said she spared no expense, getting the very best equipment so her singers could sound their very best. She also has a wide variety of songs. “I have a big library, from Sinatra Karaoke Jockey Garnette Hathaway addresses the to Elvis to Steely crowd during a recent karaoke night at The Dirty Bar in Dan to modern Gainesville. She enjoyed singing so much that she began rock and everything her karaoke business seven years ago. in-between,” she said. “People want to revisit it.” ment recordings, and vocalists Karaoke comes from an abbrevienjoyed singing to the tapes,” states ated Japanese compound word: karaokescene.com. “kara” from “karappo” meaning Karaoke has since been comempty, and “oke” from “okesutura,” mercialized, becoming popular in or orchestra. not only Japan, but also throughout continued on page 25 As legend has it, karaoke the world.

Garnette Hathaway takes a break from her KJ duties at The Dirty Bar on a recent Tuesday night. Hathaway found her voice on a karaoke stage when she was 50 years old.

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LEFT: Bob Harris and Marti Reno share the stage to sing a duet. ABOVE: Darcy Housner ﬂashes a smile to the crowd during her tune.

o continued from page 23 As Hathaway busied herself for a night of entertainment at The Dirty Bar, she cited a variety of reasons people enjoy singing. “My belief is that karaoke is very therapeutic,” Hathaway said. “A lot of people have come to Karaoke and found it to be very healing. Some people have even gotten over traumatic events.” Hathaway, who is also an artist, found her passion for karaoke after her children had moved out. She had always dreamed of being a singer but was painfully shy. “I was too shy to let anyone hear me,” she said. “If anyone walked into my room, I would choke. I was that shy. But, you grow up. You have life experience. You get married, and then the kids grow up. I was

really a thriving artist, but emptynest syndrome hit.” She said she was doing portraits in a local restaurant when she heard singing from another room. “I’m thinking, that sounds like a real singer,” she said. “I peaked in the other room and here is this woman singing, doing Karaoke.” Hathaway decided to give it a try. She bought a Linda Rondstadt album and practiced her music. And then it was time to perform. She brought a friend to the stage with her. “ I was shaking,” she said. “You couldn’t even hear me on the microphone. But, everybody was sweet and pleasant and they applauded. I realized: this isn’t so bad. The people were encouraging and the KJ was encouraging.”

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On the other hand, selfproclaimed Karaoke Junkie Melissa Vloedman has never had reservations about singing in public. “I love attention,” she admitted. Vloedman stepped off the stage after delivering a rousing rendition of her favorite karaoke number, “Me and Bobby McGee,” and encouraged her friends to select a song and get up on sing. Vloedman said she has been singing karaoke since she was 16 or 17 years old. “I found my karaoke passion at a young age,” she said. “I was on a school trip, and I snuck out of my hotel room. Me and a couple of girls slithered downstairs to sing ‘Loveshack.’” She has been hooked ever since. “I do continued on next page

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Wednesdays 9 p.m. - close 818 W. University Ave. 352-505-5337

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Wednesdays 9:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. 112 SE 1st St. 352-372-1010

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Tuesdays and Wednesdays 8:30 p.m. - midnight 2441 NW 43 St. 352-373-1141

Fridays 9:30 p.m. - 2 a.m. 606 NW 75 St. 352-332-6671 www.napolatanos.com

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Thursdays 7:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. 5112 NW 34 St. 352-376-9500 www.gatortales.com

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on stage. A good Karaoke Jockey encourages the singers — as does a good audience. “You are in a safe zone,” Vloedman said. Her advice to her fellow Karaoke singers: “First off, Shane Wolf belts out a tune during his time on the karaoke practice your stage at The Dirty Bar. song. I practice all of the time. have a Karaoke machine at my Everywhere, actually,” Vloedman home,” she said. “I have no shame said. “And don’t worry about what singing by myself.” anybody else thinks. I can guaranBoth Vloedman and Hathaway tee you that even if they are doing agree that one does not have to bad, they are having fun. And I’m sing particularly well to enjoy being having fun with them.”

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Singing karaoke is all about letting loose and having a good time, Hathaway said, regardless of how well one can sing. “Singing in and of itself is a very important function that I think Americans have lost,” Hathaway said. “We gave it over to the professionals. Think about the pubs in Ireland, everybody swinging their mugs and singing together. Now you can experience what it’s like to be a so-called rock star, to be a singer on a stage. I was astounded that there are so people that can sing, but are shy.” Hathaway said her stint as a KJ has been a seven-year-benefit. “It’s a miracle how therapeutic this whole thing is,” she said. “I really feel I’m doing something good.” s

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>> IT’S JUST A FLESH WOUND

Back in Time Hoggetowne Medieval Faire Celebrates its 25th Anniversary BY AMANDA WILLIAMSON ome the weekend of January 29, the fields of the Alachua County Fair Grounds will be transformed into a rollicking medieval market, with vendors from throughout the country selling their wares. King Arthur and Queen Guinevere will parade through the streets with their royal troupe, allowing the 50,000 anticipated guests to witness life, culture and fashion the way it was between 500 and 1000 years ago. The 25th Annual Hoggetowne Medieval Faire will have more than 160 artisans to awe, entertain and educate the public. And not to mention, most of their goods are up for sale. They will be demonstrating such skills as woodcarving, blacksmithing and jewelry making. It will also feature eight stages of entertainment, which vary from the live jousting tournament to the

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living chess match, as well as the Royal Pavilion. The stages include jugglers, jesters and magicians. Linda Piper, events coordinator at the Gainesville Division of Cultural Affairs, said the event is “truly a step back in time to the medieval ages.” People come from all over the south just to get a chance to walk through the streets of a medieval festival, Piper said. This year, the theme will focus around King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. It will be Merlin, Lancelot and Guinevere at the living chess game. According to the Hoggetowne Medieval Faire website, the jousting tournament is one of the Faire’s most notable attractions. Piper said that the professional performers, New Riders of the Golden Age, put it on. Knights in full armor gallop toward each other on the jousting

field, battling to earn the favor of the king and queen. Thomas Lewis, a volunteer at the faire for the last 14 years, said that the jousting is definitely a favorite attraction. “People get knocked off horses, and hit with swords and quarterstaves,” he said. The Royal Procession, led by the continued on next page

PHOTOS BY ALBERT ISAAC

ABOVE: Visitors are treated to a variety of entertainment at the Hoggetowne Medival Faire, including jousting matches, musical acts and sword ďŹ ghting by Knights in shining armor. RIGHT: A young man is Knighted by King William and Queen Caroline of Hoggetowne, portrayed by Michael and Fontaine Huey, during a 2008 Medieval Faire.

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PHOTOS BY ALBERT ISAAC

LEFT: Magician Isaac Fawlkes entertains the visitors in the shade of a tent-canopy. In addition to children’s rides, axed-throwing and a variety of unusual costumes, visitors can also see a magic show. OPPOSITE: Shelli Nock performs her daring aerial act at the Hoggetowne Medieval Faire in 2008.

a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Jousting on Friday will commence at 11:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. On the living chessboard, Merlin the Magician, headmaster of the Joseph of Arimathea School of Chivalry, along with his prized student Lancelot, will be up against Lady Morgause, the head mistress of the opposing school, Orkney

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King and Queen of Hoggetowne, will consist of more than 100 actors and musicians, and will amble to the tournament field at 12:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, in preparation for the jousting match. The jousting will begin at 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. On Friday, the procession will start at 11:00

State University. In addition to the jousting and chessboard shows, there will be a variety of musicians, magicians and comedy acts. Barely Balanced is an acrobatic comedy show in which the actors perform on stilts. Empty Hats is a singing group that performs the closing song for the Pub Sing, “Beggars to God.” Lewis feels like it is perhaps the “favorite song of the faire.” The Pub Sing is performed each day during the last thirty

January 29-30; February 4-6 at the Alachua Fair Grounds, 900 NE 39th Avenue (Next to the Gainesville Regional Airport on SR 222) Pets are not allowed inside the Faire. Due to limited parking on site a shuttle bus service will be provided at no cost every 15-20 minutes from off site parking. Follow the signs to additional parking. Unfortunately, there will be no wheelchairs available for rental.

minutes of the faire. “It’s a 30 minute review of quite a few of the performers — Empty Hats, The New Minstrel Revue, and the gypsies from the Gypsy Camp,” Lewis said. The Faire is a family-fun event, with plenty for the children to do. There are various games reminiscent of the middle ages, such as archery, knife throwing, and the human maze. There are also various human-powered push and barrel rides. Children can ride on the backs of ponies, camels and elephants. Children can also approach the King of Hoggetowne to be knighted. The King will place his sword on the child’s shoulder and announce him or her as a Sir or Lady of Hoggetowne. In the past events, the children have been given a certificate to show their new status. They can also participate in wax hands, hair braiding and face painting. In addition, the Faire provides a game called “The Clue Quest” for the children and adults to entertain themselves during the shows. “It’s a giant who-dun-it,” Lewis said. The game provides a riddle that the adventurers must solve. Every time they see an actor in medieval garb wearing a ribbon, a guest can ask for a clue. But, before the actor relinquishes the clue, he will ask that the guest do something. Lewis said that the tasks are completely random. “Whether it’s running in a circle, screaming, ‘amuck, amuck, amuck,’ or proposing to a total

stranger,” he said. The smells of Hoggetowne oggetowne are enough to make any ny guest hungry. The delectable aromas mas drift from the food vendors, filling the air with the scent of bloomin’ onions, fresh-baked pastries, es, and giant turkey legs. “The Italian sausage sage there is the best,” Lewis said, “followed followed by the turkey. It’s like a ritual. tual. I have to have both of them before the Faire is over.” But, Lewis felt like ke there were no vendors at the Faire re that carried bad food. “They’re all great,” at,” he said. Piper said that guests should arrive early y to witness the opening of the gates. es. “I love 10 a.m. when the trumpets blow and the gates open and all the entertainers iners are up front to greet you,” ou,” she said. In addition to being greeted by multitudes of medieval knights and jesters, arriving early ensures that a guest will not have e to fight with traffic and parking issues. Last year, the Faire aire reached capacity, and the gates had to be temporarily closed. d. “It’s the 25th anniversary. niversary. It’s a very special year.” .” Lewis said. “I would not miss out on this.” s For more information, visit rs.org www.gvlculturalaffairs.org

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“You don’t always run into someone who puts on 40 pounds of armor and runs out to fight.” Known for its displays of fighting and crafts at the annual Hoggetowne Medieval Faire, the local SCA chapter mixes history and combat with crafts and fellowship, and attracts a wide variety of enthusiasts. “If you open the Yellow Pages, and flip to any page, you’ll find someone who is in or has been in the SCA,” boasted the Baron, Master Rurik Petrovitch Stoianov — or, as he is known during the day, Steve Harrett. Harrett/Master Rurik, who has been in the Society for about 27 years, said the organization is a 50-50 mix of fun and learning — with the learning covering about 1,200 years of largely European and Asian history. “It’s a fun way to learn history,” said Barbara Crawford, who doubles as an 11th century Turk, BarbHah-Rah. A former Baroness herself, she was drawn in

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by the history she learned as she created her persona. Character creation is the key to the SCA. Members are encouraged to draw up an alternate identity, complete with back-story. This means researching the period of interest, which can run from the fall of Rome through Elizabethan times. Some members turn to their family history in coming up with a persona. Such was the case with Melanie David, who drew upon her Welsh heritage to become Gwennan Ferch Gwydion. This also played into her interest in the King Arthur mythos, where she found the ethos of the time attractive. “Most people don’t tend to realize, it’s about history,” said Joe Cardeilhac, who joined the SCA — and became Jochi Batu — after seeing one of the group’s Medieval Faire demonstrations about ten years ago. “There are people here who know so much about [a period], they can teach it.” While the history may drive the Society, it is probably the mock combats —participants in homemade armor attacking each other with rattan wood swords —that define the SCA for most of the public. Unlike the more choreographed demonstrations put on by re-enactors (including the Medieval Faire), SCA melees are unscripted and, within safety rules, free-wheeling. “You don’t always run into someone who puts on 40 pounds of armor and runs out to fight,” said Holiday Griffin, a University of Florida student. As Celtic warrior Caitriona (“the last name’s pretty long,” she said with a wave of the hand), Griffin trains would-be fighters as the Knight Marshal. She said that sometimes people “stare at me like I’ve grown another head” when she is wearing her armor. But then they get intrigued, she added. That visual pageantry is often the initial draw,

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BY ALBERT ISAAC he is from Poland. He is from Malaysia. Together they make beautiful music. Malgorzata Sobala and Ali Che’Ree, better known as Gosia and Ali, have been musicians for most of their lives. Gosia studied classical music at the Frederic Chopin School of Music in Warsaw, Poland; Ali sang and played guitar in his native Malaysia. Both of them landed in Gainesville to attend the University of Florida. Gosia, whose principal instrument is flute, nearly became a violinist. When she was in elementary school, her mother — an administrative director for a military artistic ensemble — would bring her to work with her. Gosia would watch the performers behind the scenes, and one day a choir director heard her singing and

suggested she pursue a career in music. At nine years of age, Gosia decided she wanted to be in the school of music. But they wanted to assign her to play violin. “I cried,” she recalled, sitting on the couch with her husband, Ali, in their Gainesville home. “I didn’t want it.” A teacher suggested she play the flute and offered to start her on the recorder. “’What’s a flute?’ I asked,” Gosia said with a laugh. “That’s how I ended up with flute.” There was only one flute at the school and she had to audition to play it. After three months playing the recorder, she auditioned. “I remember that I was just so happy that I won,” she said. “I felt so special. So, that’s how I started playing.” After graduating, and touring continued on next page with a

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musical troupe, Gosia left Poland at the age of 25 to attend UF on a full music scholarship. She earned her Bachelor’s degree and then headed to Florida State University to pursue a Master’s Degree in Flute Performance. Ali, on the other hand, traveled to Gainesville for other reasons. “I came here to study nuclear physics,” Ali said.

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But before physics — and after — there was always music. This self-taught musician was entertaining audiences in Malaysia when he was a mere child. “My father gave me a guitar when I was 8,” Ali said. “And as a kid, I was performing at age 9. I was doing radio shows and TV shows.” “He was wearing disco pants,” Gosia said with a smile. “I saw

pictures. He looked very dorky.” “I was never really comfortable being a front person,” Ali admitted. “He had an amazing voice as a child,” Gosia continued, having watched recordings of Ali’s performances. “Completely natural. Very open. Very free. Amazing inflections.” But then, Ali injured his hand during a rugby game in Malaysia.

“So I had to stop playing guitar for a little bit,” he said. “At 17, I had a chance to come to school to study physics.” Ali had four years under his belt and almost graduated, but the pull of music was irresistible. “I started playing here and there,” he said, “and then I got heavy into it.” Ali began playing bass. One day, a friend gave him a month of free

of Gainesville may have been relatively unaware, but elsewhere these professional musicians were getting a lot of work, and opening for such greats as Lionel Ritchie, Michael McDonald and Donna Summer. “We had never expected our group to succeed so much,” Gosia said. “We didn’t expect to be able to support ourselves with music.” Ali’s accomplishments include

xylophones, recorders, kazoos, singing, dancing and more, are held at University Auditorium. “They say it’s the biggest concert of the year,” Gosia said. “I’m so proud of them. I don’t know what I enjoy more, performing myself or watching them perform. It is a real high. I really love this job.” In addition to teaching, for the past three years Gosia has performed with the Florida Lakes

“The response was so huge,” Gosia said. “We had so many people that it was a fire hazard and we couldn’t do it there any more.” lessons at the Gainesville Guitar Academy. He went, but instead of taking lessons he was asked to give lessons. Gosia, too, was teaching at the academy. A single mom, she was commuting from FSU on weekends to support herself through the flute studio she had established while at UF. “It just happened that Ali came by, and we started talking,” Gosia said. “And we started working together. He paid me $25 to learn a song. He gave me a tape of ‘True Love’ and gave me a week to learn it. That was my audition. I must have done really well.” And although Gosia had never performed jazz, she soon found herself doing just that — and many other styles as well. The duo began getting work, mostly “corporate gigs” outside of Gainesville. They began playing up and down the East coast. For four years, they played every New Year’s Eve in Washington, D.C. “As a matter of fact, we were working more outside of Gainesville for many years, than we were working in Gainesville,” Ali said. “We felt like nobody really knew who we were. Our agent was taking us everywhere.” In the early years, residents

playing at innumerable jazz festivals and opening for Spyro Gyra, Yellowjackets and Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. According to their website, Ali has performed with Wynton Marsalis, Ernie Watts, Bobby Shew, Special EFX’s Chieli Minucci, The Cars’ Elliot Easton and Bo Diddley, to name but a few. Although his first love is jazz, Ali said he enjoys all kinds of music. “I can’t call myself strictly a jazz bass player,” he said. “I refuse to be a jazz snob.” While Ali no longer teaches at the Gainesville Guitar Academy, Gosia is still involved with her students. She has developed her own music program at Brentwood, where she has taught part-time since 1995. “It’s something I really enjoy doing,” she said. “And now I’m teaching at Montessori. I really feel like it’s a job that makes a difference. I feel like this is important.” The first big performance with her students was a holiday show put on at Oak Hall. “The response was so huge,” Gosia said. “We had so many people that it was a fire hazard and we couldn’t do it there any more.” Now these shows, with performances that include

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Symphony in Mount Dora. She has also traveled with the International Flute Orchestra. Last year they went to her native Poland. “I was a guest there,” she said. “It was the most exciting, thrilling experience. I cannot tell you how fun it was.” She described staying in five-star hotels in her own city, seeing friends and family, and giving tours. She was also the official translator in the orchestra. “Before the concert,” she said, “I would stand up in the orchestra and translate everything they were saying.” But as a classically trained musician, Gosia admits that learning jazz has been a challenge, even though it is much easier now. “I still feel like I’m learning,” Gosia said. “I wish I had more time to study jazz.” “As a classical player, she had all the tools,” Ali added. “She has the vocabulary. Now she has to use all her vocabulary and make up her own poetry. But you do have to go by the rules of the jazz. Rules of harmony. Just like I can’t just throw random words at you, you’ll never understand what it is I’m trying to say.” “It’s so much easier now than it was continued on next page

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“I refused to play with the sequencer, until I realized how good the sound was. I was a purist. For me, to even use amplification was a huge step.” before,” she continued. “It’s the way you use your brain. Because the structure is there. That’s what I always struggle with. How do you have the freedom with the structure? It’s a very rigid structure. Jazz is not easy.” Gosia and Ali’s musical styles are as diverse as their backgrounds, and include Rock, Jazz (traditional and modern), R & B, Latin, Island, Brazilian, Salsa, Big Band and more. These versatile musicians can be found playing as an acoustic duo or backed by a 9-peice band, and most combinations in-between. They sing in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian and Polish. Ali speaks Portuguese and Spanish. Gosia speaks Russian and studied French in school. She has also studied Portuguese so she

could sing in that language. “I try to be as authentic as possible,” she said. “I really love languages.” They said they do a few Italian songs, but neither speak the language. Both are studying Italian, however. “My goal is to speak fluently, because we are going to Italy next year,” Gosia said. Since bringing an entire band to some venues is not always practical, as a duo they play along with a MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) sequencer, which provides accompaniment to their live performances. Ali records live tracks into the device to create original arrangements. “I refuse to buy commercially available MIDI arrangements,” he said. “I felt bad enough that we don’t have the whole band together.” “At the beginning, I refused to play with the sequencer, until I realized how good the sound was,” Gosia said. “I was a purist. For me, to even use amplification was a huge step. I did not tell anybody at the beginning that I was performing because I was so worried that people would not respect me because I was doing something not pure. I was really struggling with it.” While Gosia and Ali play many private performances, they can be found every Tuesday and Wednesday evening at the restaurant O!Os Tapas and Tinis,

playing as a duo. During a recent gig, tucked into the corner by the entrance, the two played a wide variety of songs encompassing many different styles, at a volume that never infringed upon conversation in the crowded venue. They played swing, jazz, rock and pop with equal ease, singing solo or together with melodious harmonies. At one point, during a break in her solo, Gosia spotted a friend and rushed out to speak with her. A consummate professional, she was back in position to play her part without missing a beat. It was apparent they knew many of the people in attendance. Between sets, they mingled. Gosia shared stories about her family and her music, about feeling she has finally found her voice. “I enjoy performing now more than ever before,” she said. “I have these moments when I really feel that I’m letting go and I’m coming from a really enjoyable place.” At the end of the evening, Ali pulled the car around to the front and began packing up their equipment. Gosia related a story about the time an agent talked with her at the restaurant. He was saying that she must not want to find success, playing in small venues in Gainesville. “Look at me,” she said with a broad smile. “Do I look unhappy? “Some people have a calling, and I’ve found it. Performing is an absolute calling for me.” s

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a creepy toddler nurser. No, like many other “terrible” choices I’ve made as a mother, this one just works for us. Because she’s allergic to cow’s milk, I’d have to try and wean her off of me and onto soymilk or some alternative. My milk is more nutritious, it’s free, and it’s quite portable. It’s also a surefire way to get her to nap. It’s a lifesaver when she’s teething. It ensures that I maintain a healthy diet, so that she’s getting the best nutrition possible. Not to mention the wicked case of mastitis that will inevitably ensue, should I decide to one day just cut her off. She’s happy and healthy, and so am I. So why the stigma? Why was it the right thing to do at 11 months and 364 days, but horrifying at 12 months 1 day? And why is it creepy for my child to drink my milk, but it’s the social norm for kids to drink milk from another animal? I just don’t understand how what I’m doing is “unnatural” and “gross,” but if I give her processed milk from another species, it is “normal.” Now don’t get me wrong. I plan to stop one day. I don’t intend to give her milk breaks in kindergarten. I think once it interferes with her social life, I’ll throw in the towel. And really I’m hoping that she’ll decide to give it up before it comes to that. But for now, I’ll just take it one creepy day at a time. Because if I’ve learned anything about parenting karma, it’s that the only thing you know for sure about the future is that you don’t know anything at all. s

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There’s nothing we cannot do! Over the years, Keith Pace has worn many hats. He has served in the Navy, built sets at the Hippodrome State Theater, and even been a wine consultant. But the passion that has stuck with him over two decades is jewelry, and he puts that passion to good use at Pace Custom Jewelers and Time Works.

“We are Gainesville’s best source for custom jewelry and jewelry repair and watch/clock repair,” said Pace, who opened his store in 2002. Pace Custom Jewelers and Time Works features a range of products and services as wide as Pace’s history, and is the only certified Bulova clock dealer in north central Florida. Whether you’re looking for a unique work of wearable art, repurposing an existing piece of jewelry, have a clock or watch in need of repair or

want to purchase a new one, all of your needs can be served right at the store. “We do all the things that a jeweler does, as well as most things other jewelers have given up on,” said Pace. “What others ship out to be done, we do it here.” Pace and his staff take great pride in all of their work, but it is some of the more unusual requests that set them apart from other stores. Pace has been known to make clocks out of unusual objects such as lamps, keeping its original parts intact so the new clock can still function as it always did. He will also repair any jewelry brought to his store, regardless of the value – something that not every jeweler will do. “I’ll be honest about the cost of the repair versus the value of the piece,” he said. “But if it’s important enough for you to fix, we’ll fix it. What I’m here for is more about the sentimental connection to your piece.” Pace’s talents span countless styles and functions of jewelry making. Have a ring or pendant that you don’t wear anymore but can’t bear to sell or give away? He can turn it into a new, one-of-a-

kind piece that reflects your style. Pace is also an expert stone cutter, which is of particular help when he works with Native American jewelry; Pace Custom Jewelers and Time Works also has the area’s best selection of hand-crafted pieces from the Navajo, Zuni and Hopi tribes. “We specialize in repairs that others consider impossible,” said Pace. “We can fix anything but a broken heart.”

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Satchel stands before his fountain-o-junk, a sculpture created with the help of his young son and friends several years ago. Once described by a passerby as the Fountain of Youth, this work is comprised of mostly toys and cement.

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BY NICOLE LYNN GREINER t has been a long time since Satchel Raye sold his shoes for a plane ticket home from Thailand. He had saved his money from working at Leonardo’s to travel to Europe and Thailand. “I realized I was getting short on funds and sold my shoes and my backpack and had just enough — to the dollar — to get a ticket to Miami,” he said. From there he called some friends who loaned him money for a bus ticket back home. Satchel landed in Gainesville and eventually became the owner of one of Gainesville’s most prominent pizza places: Satchel’s. Satchel’s is a one-of-a-kind restaurant, partly because not

many eateries offer seating in a hollowed-out van, or have a junk museum behind the restaurant. It all began when Satchel was 16 years old, working as a dishwasher in a small Italian restaurant in Jacksonville. During his time there, he went from washing dishes to making subs to creating pizzas. To this day, Satchel still prefers washing dishes. Satchel said he loved working in the restaurant business, and when he began school at the University of Florida he continued to do so. After receiving his AA degree from UF, Satchel decided to travel the United States. During his journeys, he worked at various pizza places and learned how to

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create different kinds of pizza. However, Satchel felt there was always something missing in other restaurant’s pizzas, and he wanted more than anything to open his own shop in Gainesville. “I always liked living in Gainesville best,” he said. “I was drawn back.” After returning to Gainesville, he started a family and decided the time was finally right to open his restaurant. In 2003, Satchel opened the doors, and from the beginning he wanted it to be family-oriented. “When I opened, my son was almost a year and half old,” Satchel said. “I had been heavily involved in care-giving, and I wanted my own family to continued on next page

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Satchel takes the presentation of the restaurant very seriously and tries to make his establishment unique have a fun place to hang out since I was at work all the time.” Over the years, the restaurant has added more tables and employees to accommodate the flow of customers. Patrons are never surprised to hear the words “one-hour wait,” which is typical for this popular restaurant on Friday’s and Saturday’s during rush hour. However, through the years, Satchel has worked to minimize the wait time, as well as adding some attractions for customers to help pass the time. Lightnin’ Salvage — part gift shop, lounge and junk museum — is one such attraction.

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Lightnin’ Salvage has items such as Slinkys, pick-up-sticks and all kinds of old-fashioned gifts. Satchel said they spend a lot of time finding new and interesting things to sell in Lightnin’ Salvage. Judy Keathley, who runs the day shift and buys merchandise for Lightnin’ Salvage, said the shop gets a lot of business. “There’s a lot of creative energy around the place,” Judy said. Some of the most interesting parts of the shop, she said, are the various collections covering the walls, from clothespins to bottle caps, from magnets to horseshoes.

The shop walls are as eclectic as the restaurant itself. One day, someone tacked a hose end onto the wall. It was not long before customers started bringing in old hose ends. Satchel said one of the most important things about his restaurant is the creative appeal. Presentation is crucial for a restaurant and almost as important as the food. Satchel takes the presentation of the restaurant very seriously and tries to make his establishment unique by adorning it with local art and original pieces such as chimes, sculptures and wall hangings made by Satchel and other employees. “If you’re going to go out to eat, you deserve more than just a meal,” he said. Satchel, an art major in college, has always considered himself an

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Satchel said he fell in love with this old van the moment he saw it. He drove it for 10 years, and even lived in it for a while. "It was still running good when I decided to put a table in the back, so I would drive it to work and let people sit in it on the weekends, then drive it home," he said. "After a while I bought a new vehicle because it was getting so much use as a table." Satchel eventually took out the engine and put it in John Orth's old 1962 Ford Falcon station wagon. "Then John built the table where the engine was, up front," Satchel said. "I miss that van. I really liked driving it." PREP ROOM

On Friday and Saturday nights, this prep room is used as overﬂow when the kitchen gets backed up. Most nights there are seven people in the 20 x 30" kitchen, along with a lot of equipment. "I've tried to get in there as an 8th person, but it's just not feasible," Satchel said.

artist. He said he loves that he is able to do both. Since opening, Satchel’s has gone from one employee to a 50-employee restaurant. Satchel said he cares a lot about his staff; nearly 30 have been working for the restaurant for two years or more. However, when a restaurant offers flexible hours, profit sharing and bonuses, it is hard to quit, he said. For Satchel, his pizza restaurant is a dream come true, but a very busy dream to say the least. He said he works about 80 hours a week — 30 in the restaurant and another 50 from home, doing booking and some ordering.

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“There’s always something that needs to be taken care of,” he said. A question often asked of Satchel is when will he open another pizza shop. His answer is that most likely he will not, at least not in Gainesville. He said one day he might open a small shop in St. Augustine, but that time is far away. The idea of commuting between shops does not appeal to Satchel, nor does he feel the need to open another shop when there is always room for improvement in the original Satchel’s. “You can always improve on service, efficiency and ambiance,” he said. s

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BY AMANDA WILLIAMSON orn of old five-and-dimes, flea markets, and from the mind of Satchel Raye, Lightnin’ Salvage Enterprises created a fantasy-like space where customers can shop for novelty items, seek out various collections — or contribute to them — and simply relax and enjoy the atmosphere, all while waiting for a table. A hodgepodge of creative ideas and efforts, Satchel and his team built Lightnin’ Salvage Enterprises out of the neglected property remains of an old car-detailing company. However, the dream company has been with him since 1989, when

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Lightnin’ Salvage Enterprises just seemed to fit with the place, which houses a variety of attractions. Lightnin’ Salvage includes the Five & Dime store, the Junk Museum, lounge, a bocce court, a greenhouse and a variety of other exhibitions, like the Fountain-O-Junk. Though the attractions share a lot with Satchel’s pizzeria, they have their own place, separate from the restaurant. The Five & Dime is an eclectic mix of Satchel’s-branded items, novelty toys and Florida souvenirs. Satchel hired Judy Keathley, the store manager, to develop the Five &

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“The thing that is really fun about it is that it is always changing,” Dime into what it is today. In the beginning, Satchel and Judy talked a lot about what kind of feel the store would have, Judy said. Satchel, as a child, would venture into the local dime store, as did Judy. “I know the feeling of the treasure hunt while going into the old five-and-dime, with the 50 cent bins to dig through,” Judy said. So they, of course, wanted it to

be reminiscent of an old dime store, bringing back to life these nostalgic memories. But surprisingly, they also felt it should evoke thoughts of the endangered Florida Juice stands, containing that “old-timey Florida stuff,” Judy said. “It was just kind of a vision of combining these things,” she said. They wanted people in their 70s, as well as college students, to see

toys from their childhood, and be taken back — toys that were impossible to find at the local Toys R’ Us. Judy said that they try to include items in the store that go beyond the physical meaning. “Sometimes someone will ask for a specific item — a toy they had when they were a kid,” Judy said. If that happens, she tries to get online and find it to add to the inventory. The Junk Museum collections can be seen throughout the back part of the parking lot, but there is also a decorative element to the Five & Dime, as well as to the lounge.

Musician Neil Lofgren plays once a month with his band Sweet Harmony, and also hosts the open mic night twice each month. Sitting behind him is David Laffrey.

Danny Lore is the booking agent for Satchel’s and the night manager of Lightnin’ Salvage. He also manages the bar/lounge located behind the restaurant, and sets up the Bocce Tournament “Battle of the Balls.”

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This triangular junk museum sign was originally used for the business behind Satchel’s. When they moved, Satchel decided to make the space into a junk museum, and then a ﬁve-and-dime shop and a lounge. The junk museum part is made from smashed bottle caps.

In the store, hidden among the merchandise, a person searching for the collections can stumble upon birds, marbles, and clocks. In the lounge, innumerable cameras hang from the ceiling. A chandelier made of keys dangles impressively over the booths. And cut hoses of various colors fit snuggly between two ceiling beams, bulging out in the middle. Even the bathroom has been spruced up with collections of toilet paper dispensers, thimbles and votive candles. In fact, every inch of Satchel’s property has been decorated or landscaped in some way. Or at least, it will be. Satchel said that he still has a couple spots of dirt left

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something to do while you wait for your cell phone to ring and say your table is ready.” And, that is what most of the added attractions are for: entertainment. In a restaurant where the wait time is frequently an hour or more, entertainment is a must. In addition to the Junk Museum and

Satchel said, “and it’s my favorite space.” He decided to incorporate that into his restaurant. Though there are not tables in the greenhouse, there are a couple of benches. Satchel welcomes anyone who would like to eat inside. “You can’t beat nature,” he said.

LSE includes the Five & Dime store, the Junk Museum, Lounge, a bocce court, a greenhouse and a variety of other exhibitions, like the Fountain-O-Junk. the store, there is also a greenhouse, several playgrounds for the kids and a bocce court. Satchel discovered bocce, Italianstyle bowling, at a friend’s house and thought it was a lot of fun. Satchel’s had the rectangular space in the back, and so it seemed like something fun to add. “I have a greenhouse at home,”

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o continued from page 61 but now it has a collection of booths built in. And at Satchels, even the booths are reused. The yellowish, and perhaps familiar, booths that form a line parallel to the playground are from an old Subway Restaurant. “It’s been a constant evolution,” Satchel said. “We still find things that we want to change.” But, that is easy to accomplish when Satchel is influenced daily by his life. Items can be incorporated into the various spaces simply by catching his eye, or the eye of resident-artist John Orth. But, the important thing is that people are happy. People enjoy the surprises they can uncover at Satchel’s and Lightnin’ Salvage Enterprises. “One of the things I love is that people who are here are happy,” Judy said. “They are happy to be in this space.” The place is small and family-run, which adds something different than the large chains, she said. Satchel put in a lot of effort, and still does, to create the large art exhibit that is his restaurant and Lightin’ Salvage. Satchel said the place, in the beginning, had termite damage and needed to be repaved, among all the required permitting that needed to be filed. Not to mention the team of nearly 50 employees working each week to bring life to the restaurant and to Lightnin’ Salvage. “If you build it, they will come and if you say it, it will happen,” Satchel said. And through the years, that has been the case. People flock to Satchel’s to explore his funky art establishment, and enjoy his pizza. s

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TOP: Velvet Seahorse was one of about 30 vendors who ﬁlled the Thelma Boltin Community Center for the Gainesville Local Art Mart in November 2009. ABOVE: Kim Taylor, Gainesville Local Art Mart organizer, at her Sassy Crafter booth during the 2009 event at the Thelma Boltin Community Center.

Ave., in the Duckpond neighborhood. Now in its third year, GLAM brings together a community of local vendors and introduces them to people who are enthused about shopping locally to find unique items to give as gifts or keep for themselves. Event organizer, Kim Taylor, is a crafter herself. Her line of products sells under the name Sassy Crafter. Along with Kat Lisle, she co-founded the event three years ago when it was called the Handmade Holiday Bazaar and was held outside in front of the store Loop de Loop. This is the first year Taylor has organized the event herself. Taylor said GLAM crafters tend to push boundaries, often using recycled materials, such as one artist who makes wallets from coffee bags. Other vendors evoke whimsy or an ironic sense of humor to produce what Taylor said can be called functional art. “It’s not kindergarten crafts,” Taylor said. “It’s not popsicle sticks and paste.” The 30 vendors at this year’s event will sell items such as jewelry, baby and children’s clothing and toys, lamps to handmade tiles, hula-hoops and other items. For the second year in a row, Twink Beauty, owned and operated by Karen Welk and Rhiannon Pollard, will sell items from their line of handmade, non-toxic beauty products for adults and babies. Twink Beauty will have for sale a whole new batch of soaps, some with a holiday theme, as well as a range of baby products such as diaper cream, and a baby wipe solution at this year’s event. She and Pollard got involved when GLAM organizer Taylor found their business through the online craft sales website ETSY.com, and e-mailed her info about the 2009 event. Welk, a Gainesville resident and mother of three small children, said she enjoys participating in GLAM. “I really appreciate being a part of it. GLAM a great way to reach potential customers — often people who want to support local business,” Welk said. “Plus, vendors can get in touch with people in their community.” Welk said GLAM has the additional benefit of connecting vendors — local businesses owners — with each other, so they can offer mutual support. “We have been a part of other craft shows,” Welk said. “But, largely because of Kim Taylor, this is the best organized and promoted one we have been to.” Taylor said about 500 people attended last year’s event. This year there will be a $3 cover charge to offset the cost of renting the venue. Goody bags filled with vendor treats will go to the first 100 visitors. “I hope Gainesville will always have an event like this,” Taylor said. “It is a great alternative to existing options for holiday shopping.” s

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Adam’s Rib Co. 211 NW 13th Street, Gainesville, Florida 32609 Monday - Saturday: 7am to 9pm — Sunday 9am to 9pm

BARBECUE – Looking for the best BBQ in Gainesville? Then look no further than Adam’s Rib Company. Adam’s Rib is North Florida’s Premier Barbecue restaurant, serving North Florida’s finest beef brisket, pulled pork, bbq spare ribs and slow smoked chicken and turkey. Choose from over 20 sauces – from honey sweet to habanero hot – and everything in between. Don’t forget dessert, like their scrumptious “Mom’s Banana Pudding” and their famous Peach Cobbler. Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, Adam’s can cater any event locally. Come see why Adam’s is putting the Ribs back in BBQ!

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Bagel Bakery 4113 NW 16th Blvd., Gainesville (In the Millhoper Plaza) Mon-Fri: 6:30am to 5pm • Saturday 7:30am to 4pm • Sunday: 8am to 4pm

The Bagel Bakery, located in the Millhopper Shopping Center next to Publix, is the perfect neighborhood bakery and eatery. From freshly made bagels to scrumptious breakfast and lunch sandwiches, the friendly staff is always eager to help in any way. Menu options include bagels, bagel sandwiches, salads, melts, flavored cream cheeses, fair trade coffee roasted on-site and coffee drinks, smoothies, fruit bowls/cups, danish, huge muffins, cookies, brownies and more! A popular choice for either breakfast or lunch, why not have them cater your next office or staff meeting? Locally owned and operated, the Bagel Bakery is perfect way to start your day!

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Beef O’Brady’s 6500 SW Archer Road - Kanapaha Station Plaza Monday - Saturday: 11am to 11pm

“BEEF’S,” AS THE REGULARS CALL IT, is a family-style sports pub with plenty of TVs so the entire family can come in and enjoy the games. We offer new and improved video games for the kids, and a nice, well-rounded menu for the entire family. Beef’s has great 1/2 lb. burgers and wings for Dad, and a variety of sandwiches and salads for Mom. We also have an affordable and fast light fresh lunch menu that includes soup, salads and fresh wrap sandwiches. Remember, kids eat free on Tuesday nights and we have a Daily Special everyday, with Happy Hour from 3-7 p.m. Give us a call about our many catering Options. We’ll see ya At Beef’s soon!

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Calico Jack’s (CJ’s) 3501 SW 2nd Ave., Gainesville, FL (In the Creekside Mall) OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK

SEAFOOD & OYSTER BAR – Located in the heart of Gainesville, CJ’s is still serving the freshest seafood in town. For almost 30 years, thousands of Gainesville residents have enjoyed what Calico Jack’s has to offer – something for everyone. As the area’s finest oyster bar, Calico Jack’s serves over 7000 oysters per week. Known for their great wings, ice cold beer and full service bar, it’s the perfect place to meet friends and family or tailgate before a Gator game on one of the largest patio’s in town. Open 7 days a week with happy hour everyday, join them each Thursday for 40 cent Oysters.

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Flying Biscuit Café 4150 NW 16th Blvd., Gainesville, FL 32605 Located between The Fresh Market and Hollywood Video

BREAKFAST – The Flying Biscuit is out to reinvent breakfast in Gainesville! Maybe you’ve tried their soon-to-be-famous creamy, dreamy grits or their “moon dusted” breakfast potatoes, but did you know you can have them at anytime? With a unique open menu, all the items that appear are available throughout the day. With a variety of healthy and hearty dishes, The Flying Biscuit caters to a variety of tastes. With options ranging from the Smoked Salmon Scramble, the Bacon Cheddar Chicken Sandwich or the Tofu and Tater Salad, there’s something for everyone.

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Piesanos Stone Fired Pizza 5200 NW 43rd St. #302, Gainesville, FL 32606 Mon-Thurs: 11am-10pm Fri-Sat: 11am-11pm Sunday: 12pm-10pm

ITALIAN – Piesanos family friendly restaurant is proud to use only the finest ingredients available, including Grande® brand premium mozzarella, provolone & romano cheeses. Dough is made fresh daily & all pizzas are baked in our unique Granite Stone Fired Pizza Oven. Specialty pizzas, calzones, and fresh salads complete a large selection of Italian cuisine. An excellent choice for lunch, specials start at only $6.99. Their full service bar compliments any meal. Call ahead for pick-up for those busy nights. Delivery is also available through GatorFood.com

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The Pita Pit 3841 SW Archer Rd - Gainesville Mon- Thu: 10am to 1am • Fri - Sat: 10am to 2am • Sunday 11am to 1am

Located at 3841 SW Archer Rd. in the Robinswood Plaza next to Chipotle. The Pita Pit is open late ‘til 1am or later, providing dine in, takeout, and delivery. Let our fresh, healthy pitas be your go-to choice for your next event or gathering. We offer all kinds of specialty platters, breakfast, meat, and veggie pitas. Our soft healthy pitas are light and tasty and come stuffed with your choice of fresh, tantalizing ingredients. Everything is made to order, sizzling hot off the grill. Also serving salads, smoothies, and all the extras to make it a meal!

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ITALIAN – Francesca’s honors itself on being a special place with a special taste. Family owned and operated, this Northern Italian restaurant offers almost everything in house being made from scratch daily. With a great atmosphere, delightfully priced lunch specials, and Live Jazz Sundays this restaurant is a total gem. Mention this listing in Our Town magazine to enjoy $5.00 off any order of $20.00 or more. Offer may not be combined with any other discount or offer. Limit one redemption per table. Offer ends January 31, 2010. Located behind SunState Federal Credit Union on 43rd Street.

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Sound Decisions Making the Right Choice for your Hearing Care

iminished hearing can drastically affect the quality of life in individuals who are affected by it. The effects range from difficulty understanding people and conversation in noisy situations to a feeling of isolation and in many cases even to depression. According to the National Institutes on Deaf and Communications Disorders (NIDCD), it is the third most common health problem in the United States. Advancements in hearing aid technology are makings these devices so impressive that most of the preconceptions many people have are wrong. These devices are unnoticeable, and a once common complaint, difficulty hearing in background noise, has been remedied in large part due to devices that provide more natural hearing. Although hearing problems are commonly associated with the normal aging process, more than half of all hearing impaired persons are under the age of 65. There are a growing number of younger people who appear to be suffering from hearing impairment, primarily due to exposure to loud levels of music and noise, which are preventable 100% of the time. Hearing difficulties are often unrecognized by the person involved, and as a result, most people wait 7 to 10 years before seeking help. In addition to hearing loss due to aging and/or noise exposure, there could be other more serious causes of hearing loss. To receive the best care, the first step is to visit a Licensed Audiologist who can evaluate your hearing and determine the

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type and degree of your hearing loss. They can then make an appropriate recommendation. According to Jagadish Swamy, Au.D, Chief Clinical Audiologist at Audiology by Accent, Audiologists today earn their Doctorate degree in Audiology from a recognized University and have to be licensed in that State to practice. Due to the nature and complexity of our hearing mechanism, it is very important to go to a Licensed Audiologist, who will perform a thorough and comprehensive evaluation of your hearing and make the appropriate recommendation. “At Audiology by Accent we take a comprehensive approach concerning your hearing healthcare and we will provide you with all the information you need to make an informed decision to address your hearing problems” Swamy said. According to Dr. Swamy, who has more than 20 years of experience in this field, managing hearing loss appropriately is more than merely buying hearing aids. “The amount of information and the expansion in technology can be overwhelming at times” according to Swamy, which makes it even more important to consult with a Licensed Audiologist who you can trust and have all your questions answered. “At Audiology by Accent, we also work closely with the ENT physicians, who address these hearing difficulties from a medical perspective and provide appropriate care when required” said Swamy. If you are concerned or uncertain about whom to see about your hearing loss, consult your family doctor and they will help guide you to a

qualified Licensed Audiologist. Today there is plenty of good news for people suffering with hearing loss. Seeing a Licensed Audiologist should cost no more and many times less than seeing a person with fewer credentials. As with most things today, technology in hearing healthcare is improving rapidly and the variety of treatment options have never been better. Hearing loss is such a difficult disability because it affects quality of life in so many ways. We lose connections with family and friends and sometimes the stress alone makes us want to withdraw from life’s activities. Today’s hearing technologies can help you take your life back! Don’t let the sounds you love pass you by. At Audiology by Accent we have technologies for every budget and lifestyle. We are also very sensitive to today’s economic environment and have taken significant steps to help our patients realize the benefits of better hearing. Your hearing health and wellbeing are too important to neglect. Don’t let diminished hearing rob you of many of life’s joys. Please visit Accent’s new office, Audiology by Accent, so they can help you fulfill all of your hearing healthcare needs. Call (352) 271-5373 today for a consultation and hear what you have been missing!

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STORY AND PHOTOS BY ALLYSEN KERR rom economic status to occupation, shoes say a lot about the people wearing them. Penny loafers may say lawyer or professor while Crocs may say health professional. They even say something about personality traits. Old Navy flip flops versus Rainbows may say a person is more concerned with price over quality. The people wearing these shoes are everyday ordinary people. You may spot them in the park or at your children’s games. Some of them are parents, business owners, or University of Florida alumni, but what they all have in common is their passion for the jobs they do right here in Gainesville.

STEPHEN BURR OCCUPATION: Driver, UPS People anxiously await his arrival. They sometimes jump up-and-down with excitement when they see him driving by. They may even get mad at him when he’s late, but Steve Burr is not a celebrity. He’s your friendly neighborhood deliveryman. For 19 years Burr has been working in the warehouse and delivering packages for UPS. He moved to Gainesville from Ft. Lauderdale to attend the University of Florida and took a job with the company about two years later. On a typical day, Burr’s black leather sneakers take him through a sometimes 11-hour workday between the hours of 9 a.m. to about 8 p.m. and make 120 to 130 stops. “I’m just pumping all day except for an hour for lunch,” Burr said of his sometimes 11-hour shifts.

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Burr said he likes his job because it keeps him moving. His UPS van is his office, and his clients are the UPS customers he delivers packages to along the way. “I know what I have to do when I leave the building in the morning and I know how long it should take,” Burr said. He likes being out in the community and meeting people all day. When he is not working he is home with his wife and two children, ages 10 and 8. The weekends are family time in the Burr household, which means usually attending his children’s football games. “Even during the week when they have games I’m rushing trying to get off so I can continued on page 79

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coffee, and shipping out orders. “I don’t think it’s fair to make everyone else do all of the grunt work and then me sit in the air conditioning,” she said. “I wasn’t raised that way and sometimes it’s hard to remember that I am the manager, and I find it hard to just sit and not be in it.” Tina has lived in the Gainesville area since the 1970s and raised Amanda in town. The two have worked for Sweetwater for a

general to care about fair trade coffee or to even know that it exists — especially people her age. “Most people that are going to college aren’t going to be working with coffee or bananas,” Amanda said. “They’re more focused on what they’re going to school for.”

“Most people that are going to college aren’t going to be working with coffee or bananas” doing. This way it will be easier to get up in the morning, he said. “I’m living my dream,” Burr said. “I’m sweating and I’m out here in the world and all that good stuff but this is what I chose. I’m healthy, I have no qualms about that...it’s just what I do.”

AMANDA & TINA ADKINS OCCUPATION: Manager And Core Production/Sales Marketing, Sweetwater Organic Coffee Company Take a trip down to one of Gainesville’s local coffee roasters and you’re likely to meet Amanda Adkins and her mom, Tina. This t-shirt and Croc-wearing mother and daughter team work for Sweetwater Organic Coffee Company. At just 25, Amanda is one of the youngest staff members at Sweetwater — and probably the most influential. Why? Because she is the manager. Amanda got into the coffee business because of a friend and although she manages the daily operations you will not find her just sitting behind a desk. “I pretty much do everything but roast,” Amanda said. The “everything” she refers to includes putting bags together, packing

combined two years (Tina came to Sweetwater because of her daughter). “Working for a company that actually pays the people what they’re supposed to be paid for doing the work they’re doing gives you a good deep down feeling,” Amanda said. “You’re actually involved with the people you’re doing business with,” Tina said. Located at 1331 S. Main Street, Sweetwater is an all-organic, fair trade company that is about community, making things fair for everybody, they said. They help increase the quality produced by small-scale farmers by educating them and making sure that they get fair prices for their coffee, Tina said. “That’s why drinking coffee that’s fair trade is a good feeling.” Tina recalls having to tell many people that Sweetwater is not a coffee shop, but a place where they actually roast the coffee on a daily basis. On a given day they roast between 100 to 200 pounds of coffee. Not only do some people misunderstand Sweetwater’s purpose, they also misunderstand what it means to be fair trade. Amanda finds it difficult to get people in

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Tina (left) and Amanda (right) Adkins hold beans waiting to be roasted. The green beans in Amanda’s hands are what they look like before they go through the roasting process where they could look as dark as the beans in Tina’s hand.

For Amanda, working in a business that supports fair trade is so much more than about herself. “It makes the whole world better,” she said. “It’s selfless, you know.” Many people don’t think about how much the farmers go through or receive for payment, Tina said. “They have to handpick these cherries, you know, off the trees and up in the mountains and carry the bags or basket of cherries to be processed.” Tina said it takes about 2,000 beans to make one pound of coffee. Fair trade does not just affect coffee growers; even vegetables farmers in Gainesville struggle to get fair pay for their produce, Amanda said. continued on next page

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Their message to the Gainesville community: read and pay attention to purchases. If a person is interested in fair trade they should also make sure that the item does not just say fair trade, but that it is certified.

ERICK THOMPSON

A Child’s World has been serving between 30 to 40 children last summer. Erick Thompson says the economy has slightly dampened business at A Child’s World because people choose to have their friends baby sit instead of paying for daycare.

OCCUPATION: Owner And Director, A Child’s World In 1990, Erick Thompson’s life was headed in a new direction. Thompson and his wife were expecting their first child. He was working in the restaurant business but he believed the nature of his job would not allow him to be an effective father. He was looking to get out. At the same time, some ladies wanted to retire from child daycare and wanted to sell their business. Thompson learned of the opportunity, bought the daycare, and has been working with children ever since. Located at 3237 SW 41st Place,

A Child’s World serves children from six weeks to around 12 years of age. They are open year-round and offer nursery care, daycare and preschool services. “I was able to raise my kids here,” Thompson said, wearing simple tennis shoes, jeans and a polo. “They were here everyday with me growing up so it was pretty neat.” He loves children and understands that when working with children it is important to love them and have a lot of patience. Seeing the children learn and their expression of love has been a very fulfilling experience for him. “You get to see the kids grow up and sometimes when they are 15, 16 years old they’ll come back and say hi. You get to see how they’re doing in high school,” he said. “Then sometimes you read the newspaper and you get to see kids that have gone to your center in the newspaper, you know,

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Gate Crashing On Deck: AM/FM Music Fest DATE: SUNDAY AUGUST 26 VENUE: EIGHT SECONDS reetings, live music aficionados! This week we look in on Gainesville’s AM/ FM (“About Music, For Music”) Festival, a free all-day show at a venue more typically used as a “cowboy bar,” most often featuring recorded music. Recently, however, the rather cavernous interior, with a stage along the righthand (west) wall, and bars scattered around the periphery, played host to a variety of Gainesville live music instead. The mechanical bull was not in use, although some tasty BBQ was available. The impressive lighting array on the main stage was underutilized, but the sound overall was decent enough for such an echo-laden hall. The Haps, a two-guitar/ bass/drums group, with the classic Stratocaster/Les Paul pairing (Travis Martin and Darren Andrews, both of whom also sang), played ‘90s-ish, groove-heavy altrock, with the LP player doing some nice “chimes” on one song. They were joined by the solid rhythm section of Chris Chaires (drums) and Brian Nelson (bass). The Haps were followed

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on the acoustic “stage” (actually just a portion of the dance floor) by Coffee Project — guitarist, Jake Crown with harmonica (on a neck-holder a la Dylan, Neil Young, etc.), doing the anti-folk thing, which is basically punk rockers doing their version of folk. He played with a couple backing vocalist/ friends on the first couple songs (a gal on one song and a guy on another), at one point describing a song as being about “Johnny, who disowned his friends and was an ***hole to everyone.” I could swear that one song had the exact changes to the Zager and Evans classic “In The Year 2525” (minus the overwrought futurism, of course) but that’s probably just me. Next on the full-band stage was the Gris Gris Boys, one of the many projects of longtime local artist and producer Rob McGregor. In the years since he retired Grain, McGregor has headed up this punk/country/rock trio for the better part of a decade. Rob’s flipped right-handed Gibson SG guitar (he’s lefthanded) has reappeared in this band, which continues Grain’s power trio format, with continued on page 86

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drummer Eric Cheek and occasional backing vox from bassist Jimmy Kinzer. One memorable song was introduced with “Who Gives a ****?” (use your imagination), and was typical McGregor: Creedence meets The Who goodness. Loud, but in a good way. Michael J was up next acoustically, a shaven-headed troubadour with the ability to jump to a second vocal register and a seamless use of a looper, a digital device allowing him to lay down an acoustic guitar rhythm track and, during the same song, to then put a lead guitar track over it in real time. Very impressive.

and a fiddle (Hamilton Rott; no drums). Vocals alternated between McGregor, Leeper and dobroist Jason Hedges. Think the soundtrack to “Oh Brother Where Art Thou?” and you’ll be in the ballpark stylistically. McGregor played acoustic guitar, plus occasional harmonica. Switching back offstage to the acoustic un-stage was Travis Atria, also from longstanding local rock band Morning Bell. Playing a lefty Taylor acoustic guitar with Beatlesesque vocals and a scary falsetto ability. Again, I mean that in a good way. Finishing up the early evening portion of the show on the full-band stage was

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Ancient River next appeared on the band stage, another power trio featuring a Gibson SG, played by singer J. Barreto, joined by the rhythm section of Zachary Veltheim (bass) and Chad Voight (drums; whom I remember from Gainesville mod rockers the Remedies). Dialing down the volume a notch from Gris Gris Boys, they were sort of a more psychedelic version of The Band. The guitar rode the line between clean and breaking up, depending on how hard the guitarist hit it. Which is a good place to be. Breaking the stage/offstage alternating scheme, the next band up was also on the full-band stage, another McGregor project, Company Man. This is the acoustic distaff side to his rock projects, with Jackie Leeper (also in another McGregor band, the Damn Wrights) playing standup bass, plus a dobro

local faves the Righteous Kind, a third band continuing the unofficial Gibson SG theme for electric guitarists. The Kind play a mix of ‘60s/’70s psychedelic/rock and their own originals, and are the brainchild of guitarist/singer Charles Martin, formerly of rockabilly quartet dblWIDE. The Kind is also a quartet, but substituting a keyboard for second guitar, and made up of seasoned Gainesville regulars (including Bruce Brashear on Hammond organ and ex-dblWIDE drummer Larry Thompson). Their set concluded with an impressive cover of Bowie’s “Space Oddity” sung by bassist (and erstwhile alternative politico/artist/ humorist) Tom Miller. For a free day (and night) of local music (the evening continued well after I had to leave), the AM/FM fest is hard to beat. Watch for future editions. Now, go see some bands. s

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spiritual support, and coordination of care. “Palliative care puts the patient at the center,” said Quetina Jones, RN and the Palliative Care Champion at Caretenders. “The goals that are created by the team reflect where the patient is, where we want to see the patient go and how we as a team are going to make those goals happen.” “Our program is for patients with active, progressive diseases for whom the focus of care is quality of life,” said Linda Murphy, Executive Director at Caretenders. “We begin the conversation with the patient by determining just how much health care they desire and fashion a program suited to the patient’s goals. Palliative care can improve the life of so many of our patients. Care in the home allows our patients to experience less suffering while avoiding unnecessary tests, emergency room visits and

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BY JESSICA CHAPMAN aintings, sculptures, drawings, oil colors — all are common in a typical school art department. It is uncommon, however, for art students to have an art gallery, featuring world-renown artists, right outside the door. But for Oak Hall students, passing through the school’s Cofrin Arts Gallery between classes is typical. The gallery, which sits between the school’s auditorium and music hall, is named after David Cofrin, whose family funded the Harn Museum of Natural History. And until recently, when the Harn Museum announced plans to add an Asian art wing in Cofrin’s name, this was the only art gallery in honor of Cofrin’s commitment to the arts in Gainesville. Cofrin was a long-time philanthropist and financial supporter of the Harn Museum. His two daughters went to Oak Hall, a private school off Tower Road, and he helped provide funding for an extension to the music hall at the school.

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“He never wanted anything named after him, though,” said Robert Ponzio, an art teacher at Oak Hall who helps put together the exhibits with fellow art teacher Gary Bone. “He didn’t want any recognition.” Eventually, however, the administration was persuaded to name the gallery after its benefactor. The school’s most recent show, “One Mountain, Many Paths,” was one of the most successful in the gallery’s three years. “One Mountain, Many Paths” featured religious art from around the country, including Islamic, Jewish, Christian and Hare Krishna art. Bone and Ponzio said many pieces were gathered through friends of friends, and were from artists with work from around the world. The exhibit opened about the same time the Dove World Outreach Center announced plans to burn the Qur’an. Ponzio and Bone said the exhibit helped show religious tolerance. “Art acts as a bridge between cultures,” Bone said. “If you put

[artists] in the same room, they’ll find a way to get together. We learn about each other.” Although it was a huge success, including standing-room only on opening night, Ponzio and Bone said “The One Mountain, Many Paths” show took a long time to plan — about a year. The November and December show, however, was a much easier project. The exhibit features Richard Heipp, the interim director of the School of Art and Art History at the University of Florida. Ponzio said solo artist exhibits are usually easier than big exhibits like “One Mountain, Many Paths.” Heipp focuses a lot of his art on digital prints, a form of artwork that is growing in the art world. His “Visible Man” artwork will be featured in the exhibit, opening Nov. 5 with an evening reception from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and will last until the end of the semester on Dec. 18. Heipp said digital prints are primarily featured in the show. Many of the “Visible Man” pieces are large scale — about 5 feet by 6

feet, he said. The project focuses on the difference between looking at images and seeing images. He said in today’s society, people are bombarded with images all the time, so particulars of the image are sometimes lost. A main feature of “Visible Man” is prosthetic eyeballs. The eyeballs are a metaphor for people’s perceptions of themselves and how identity forms. “Art is all about ideas,” he said. “Success or failure [is based on] how

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it translates or evokes emotion.” Heipp said he will have one painting at the show, but it might not be recognizable as such; the image is painted to look like a digital print. It is painted in such a way, he said, that makes people wonder if there is a difference. Digital print artwork is becoming more common in today’s society. Heipp said one advantage to digital prints is the time spent. Painting a picture of reasonable size takes about continued on next page

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four months, so the artist can paint only a few a year. Digital prints can be made much quicker. “Today, digital prints are just as traditional,” Heipp said. “One medium is not better than the other.” The opportunity for Oak Hall students to see a variety of artwork in person, rather than through books or the Internet, can be invaluable, Heipp said. While students can learn something from images on a computer screen, seeing artwork in galleries can convey more. “[It’s like] seeing the cover of a CD,” he said. “It looks good, but until you listen to it you don’t know for sure. It’s a different perspective to see something in person.” In addition to using exhibits like Heipp’s to show different mediums of art, Ponzio and Bone try to focus the exhibit on different global cultures to help teach the students about art and the world. Bone said the shows have a huge impact on the art students at Oak Hall and give teachers at

the school the chance to incorporate art in the classroom. One of the best shows was a Cuban exhibit, Bone and Ponzio said. The artwork was centered on Cuban culture, but when the art teachers discovered that a maintenance man on the campus was a Cuban refugee, they expanded the show. The man spoke at the exhibit and many history classes brought their students. “They are so much more attracted to the work,” Bone said of the gallery’s impact. “It gives us a great platform.” The art center usually has a new exhibit each semester. When the spring semester starts in January, the art gallery will have a Blues exhibit, focused on Blues musician Willy Green. Green will play at the show on opening night, as well. Green is a blues musician who grew up working in the cotton fields. The artwork in the gallery throughout the spring semester show was

inspired by his music. Although many of the shows are chosen to have a global impact on the Oak Hall students, Ponzio and Bone want the exhibits to have an impact on the public too. The exhibit’s opening nights often feature food, dancers, musicians or speakers to help people connect with the culture behind the artwork. “It brings this stuff to life,” Ponzio said. “It’s so much more real.” Bone said artwork has the chance to connect people from different cultures and different walks of life. It is a connection that can have a huge impact on both the students at Oak Hall School and the surrounding public. “We learn about each other,” Bone said. “No semester is ever the same.” s The Cofrin Arts Center at Oak Hall 8009 SW 14th Ave. 352-332-3609 Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Feed-A-Frog Friday 1st Friday of Every Month 2:00pm - 2:45pm Morningside Nature Center, Education Building. Join the fun, get the facts! Youngsters, with an adult, can join a Morningside Nature Center animal caretaker for amphibian and reptile feeding. Free. 352-334-5000

Barnyard Buddies Every Wednesday 3:00pm Morningside Nature Center at the Living History Farm. On this farm, youngsters with an adult can meet and greet animals by helping staff with afternoon feeding. Learning about heritage breeds is fun! Free. 352-334-5000

Prosperous Living Group Every Sunday 6:00pm - 8:00pm Prosperous Living Center, 1135 NW 23rd Ave, Suite F/2. A community of likeminded truth-seekers studying, sharing and teaching multiple paths to prosperity in all aspects of life wealth, relationships, health, personal missions, professions and spirituality. Our

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intention is to uphold each participant on actualizing their visions with a foundation of group-supported integrity. 352-514-3122 www.prosperouslivingcenter.com

Gainesville Comedy Showcase Every Friday and Saturday 7:00pm Clarion Inn and Conference Center, 7417 W. Newberry Road. A live stand-up comedy show on Friday and Saturday nights, featuring the best of our local cast of amateur and professional stand-up comedians. Weekly drink specials and $5 pitchers. Eighteen and over only. Free admission before 9pm, and $7 for the general public after 9pm. 352-332-2224

Haile Homestead Tour Every Saturday 10:00am - 2:00pm Kanapaha Plantation. The Haile family and friends wrote on the walls of the home, all together over 12,500 words. In 1854 the Hailes moved their family from Camden, South Carolina to Gainesville where they established a 1,500acre Sea Island cotton plantation they named Kanapaha.

Union Street Farmers’ Market Every Wednesday 4:00pm - 7:00pm Bo Diddley Community Plaza, 111 E. University Ave. Each week local

farmers, bakers, artisans, musicians, and dancers join with customers in a timeless celebration of this community’s seasonal bounty. www.unionstreetfarmersmkt.com

7th Annual Steel Horse Stampede Sat. 11/6 10:00am Hospice of Marion County’s Education Center, 3231 SW 34th Ave. in Ocala. Registration begins at 8am. Stampede participants will take a 55-mile ride through Marion County, escorted by motorcycle units from Florida Highway Patrol, Marion County Sheriff’s Office, and Ocala Police Department.

Living History Every Saturday 9:00am - 4:30pm Morningside Nature Center, 3540 E. University Ave. History comes to life at the little Farm in the Piney Woods. Park staff interprets day-to-day life on an 1870s rural Florida farm. Come try a syrup-topped biscuit or cornbread baked in a wood cook stove. 352-334-3326

Gators March for Babies Sunday, November 14 from 1:00pm - 3:30pm Turlington Plaza, UF campus. Join the UF community and be a Champion for Babies at Gators March for Babies. Created 7 years ago, this 5k walk has raised over $200,000 in past support of the March of Dimes. Register, raise money and join us for Gators March for Babies! 352-378-9522 www.gatorsmarchforbabies.org

Parsons Dance with East Village Opera Company Wednesday, November 17 at 7:30pm At the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Reserved Seating: $25-$40 352-392-2787 performingarts.uﬂ.edu

Along the way are scheduled stops at each of the four Hospice Houses. Riders will get a close-up view of the beautiful houses available for the area’s hospice patients. 352-854-5218

Veterans Day Concert Sun. 11/7 3:00pm Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 315 Hull Road. The Buchholz High School Band presents a musical salute to our veterans. Tickets are free and available at the door. A donation of one non-perishable food item is requested. 352-392-2787 www.performingarts.ufl.edu

Downtown Festival and Art Show Sat. 11/6 - Sun. 11/7 10:00am - 5:00pm Bo Diddley Community Plaza, Gainesville. The streets of historic downtown Gainesville will be transformed into a celebration of art and creativity at the 29th Annual Downtown Festival & Art Show. 250 of the nation’s finest artists will display unique paintings, ceramics, jewelry and

photography. Children can create their own art at the Imagination Station.

Alachua County Food Security Summit Wed. 11/10 8:00am-3:00pm Trinity United Methodist Church, 4000 NW 53rd Avenue. The Summit will feature an update on the Hunger Abatement Plan and presentations by the Healthy Communities Committee and Florida Organic Growers. Julie Paradis, USDA Food & Nutrition Service Administrator, is the keynote speaker at the stakeholders’ luncheon, featuring food from local producers. 352-264-6749

The Christmas Music of Mannheim Steamroller by Chip Davis Thurs. 11/11 at 7:30pm Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Reserved Seating: $35-$55. 352-392-2787 www.performingarts.ufl.edu

Starry Night Fri. 11/12 5:30pm - 10:00pm Florida Museum of Natural History, Hull Road. See the night sky closer than ever before and explore the world beyond! View a portable planetarium show, or a moonscape in 3-D! Bring the whole family for a fun-filled night of astronomical proportions! This event is made possible in part by the UF Astronomy Department and Alachua Astronomy Club, Santa Fe Astronomy Department and Kika Silva Pla Planetarium. Free. 352-846-2000

6th Annual Florida Bat Festival Sat. 11/13 10:00am - 4:00pm Lubee Bat Conservancy, 1309 NW 192 Ave. This is a unique event for the general public and wildlife lovers to see live fruit bats with 5 ft. wingspans up close and personal. The Bat Festival features free admission and activities, including bat-themed kids crafts and games, educational exhibits and presentations by bat experts. 352-485-1250 www.batconservancy.org

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Interpreti Veneziani Sun. 11/14 7:30pm Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Reserved Seating: $20-$40 352-392-2787 www.performingarts.ufl.edu

BBC Concert Orchestra Sun. 11/21 3:00pm Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Reserved Seating: $40-60 352-392-2787 www.performingarts.ufl.edu

Handel’s Messiah Rocks Frid. 11/26 7:30pm Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Reserved Seating: $30-50 352-392-2787 www.performingarts.ufl.edu

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Cane Boil Sat. 11/27 10:00am Morningside Nature Center, 3540 E. University Ave. A New Thanksgiving weekend tradition: The Longleaf Pine Youth Fiddle & Open String Band Contest at the Cane Boil. Experience life in North Central Florida during the year 1870 at Morningside Nature Center Living History Farm. Visitors can sample fresh cane syrup and homemade biscuits, experience live folk music, farm animals and much more! 352-334-2170

Google and the Future of Books Wed. 12/1 7:30pm UF Levin College of Law. Lecture presented by Siva Vaidhyanathan, Associate Professor of Media Studies and Law, University of Virginia. What does the world look like through the lens of Google? How is Google’s ubiquity affecting the production and dissemination of knowledge? And, what danger does the Google Books scanning project pose for the legitimacy of the doctrine of fair use?

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Chocolate and Champagne Holiday Gala Sat. 12/18 8:00pm Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. “The Ultimate holiday party!” With the Nutcracker Winter Wonderland as your background, you’ll dance on the stage of the Phillips Center to the fabulous sounds of Gosia

Expressions: Open Mic Wed. 1/5 7:00pm Alachua County Library Headquarters, 401 E University Avenue. Join us for an hour of cultural expression. Share your poetry, freestyle, or

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Fruit Tree and Plant Sale Wed. 1/5 4:00pm - 7:00pm Bo Diddley Community Plaza. The Edible Plant Project’s spring sale, at the Union Street Farmers’ Market in the Downtown Gainesville Plaza. An eclectic selection of edible plants, fruit trees, & seeds will be available. This a great time to plant: warm season vegetables & greens, sugarcane & yucca or cassava, which will be available. www.edibleplantproject.org

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Education Ball Sun. 1/23 5:00pm - 9:00pm University of Florida Hilton. Join us for a night in the Big Apple for education, featuring the talents of our local public school students, food, drinks, live dancing, and a silent auction. All proceeds for this New York themed event will benefit the Alachua County Public Schools Foundation. The event is formal.

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Mon. 1/24 - Wed. 1/26 Show times vary Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 315 Hull Rd. The classic story of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped in a spell placed by an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end, and he will be transformed to his former self. 352-392-1900

Hoggetowne Medieval Faire Beginning Sat. 1/29 10:00am to 6:00pm Alachua County Fairgrounds. Step back in time to the 25th Annual Hoggetowne Medieval Faire, Jan.

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12th Annual Air Potato Roundup Sat. 1/29 Call for information Morningside Nature Center. Last year, during the 11th Annual Great Air Potato Roundup, nearly 1,200 eager participants braved the rain to remove 13,270 pounds of air potatoes, 1,740 pounds of other invasive plants, and 1-full 20-yard construction dumpster of trash from sites throughout Gainesville! 352-334-5000

24th Annual Gainesville Children’s Choral Festival Sun. 1/30 4:00pm Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 100 NE First Street. Children from Gainesville area churches and schools sing music learned in their Saturday workshop in this closing service, with guest conductor Vincent Oakes (The Chattanooga Boys Choir) and John Lowe at the VisserRowland organ. Free. 352-372-4721 s

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“OH, MY!”

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BY CHRIS WILSON art of what makes sports memorable are the sights and sounds of the game. Gainesville residents and University of Florida Gator fans have been treated to the memorable calls of play-by-play man Mick Hubert for the past 20 years. Hubert hopes he has a long stretch of Gator games ahead of him as he begins his 21st year in the booth. “I enjoy working with the people here,” Hubert said in a recent interview. “Jeremy Foley is the greatest athletic director to work for. My wife teaches Kindergarten in Gainesville. We enjoy living here. The variety of the sports I get to call is great. It’s a good place.”

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Hubert calls the play-by-play for all Gator football, basketball and baseball games. He also does the occasional soccer game. In total, Hubert said he does play-by-play for about 100 events per year. He also does interview-style call-in coach’s shows on the radio and television highlight shows. “I like the sport I’m doing at the time I’m doing it,” Hubert said. “When football comes around, I’m fully immersed in football. With football, you’re high and far away, so I feed off the crowd. Basketball, I’m on the floor, so I feed off the emotion of the players. I can see their faces, hear the shoes squeak, the whistles continued on next page

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blow, the nets swishing. Baseball is a little slower and not as intense. You have to fill the time and tell stories.”

Hubert’s Early Career Hubert had a clear mission in life: he was going to be a play-by-play sports announcer. His dream began when he was only 8, growing up in a small Illinois town, close enough to the Second City to listen to Chicago sports games on the radio. “I collected baseball cards as a kid,” he said. “I would put them into the teams and I would roll dice. I would be the announcer for this baseball card game. I was the announcer, the statistician, the umpire, and I did it all in my mind. That was a boy with a vivid imagination, which is what captured me to this medium.” Hubert believes that his imagination translated well to radio because the fans cannot see the game’s action. “Radio is theater of the mind,” he said. “If I call a game and there’s 100 people listening, perhaps there’s 100 different images of what’s really going on. But the one thing they need to have is who has the ball, where is the ball, what is the score and how much time is left in the game.” He said watching and listening to some of the best broadcasters enhanced his education and his passion for play-by-play. “I grew up in a town about the size of Newberry,” he said.

Hubert went to Eastern Illinois State for his first year of college, but said he did not stay there because it did not have a good broadcasting school. He transferred to Illinois State, which had a better program. “I worked on campus radio and campus television and I was getting experience,” he said. “What means a lot in this business is experience. You have to do it and you have to record yourself and listen to yourself. You have to have a thick skin, and take your tapes to somebody else to critique you.” Hubert interned, and later landed a job, at a radio station in Peoria, Ill. He was the play-by-play announcer for Bradley University. He then moved on to work as sports director at a TV station in Dayton, Ohio, where he was a nightly sports anchor and he called games for the University of Dayton Flyers. “I’ve done TV and radio at every stop during my career,” he said. Despite having no ties to the University of Florida, he sent in a tape and was chosen from more than 150 broadcasters for the job in 1989. “I got here by the grace of God,” Hubert said.

His Famous Calls Of course, Hubert’s voice can frequently be heard echoing touchdown calls in The Swamp during games. His most famous call from the booth is “Oh my!” Hubert credits Dick Enberg for the phrase.

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“Where I grew up, I would hear Jack Brickhouse doing Cubs games and his famous call was, ‘Hey, hey,’” Hubert said. “I would hear Harry Caray doing the Cardinals games and his call was ‘Holy cow.’ People used to say that to be a sportscaster you had to have a slogan.” Hubert said he never really bought into the idea of having a slogan. But, when a friend moved to California, he would send Hubert tapes of Dick Enberg calling Los Angeles Rams games. “This was the mid-70s and he was on KMPC radio,” Hubert said. “He used ‘Oh my.’ He wasn’t the famous sportscaster then that he is now, but I always thought he was a great sportscaster. ‘Oh my’ kind of fit my personality.” Hubert said that fans now rely on his “Oh my” calls as part of their game experience. “It means something different to everybody,” Hubert said. “I get fans coming up to me all the time who say, ‘Mick, on such-and-such a play, you didn’t say ‘oh my,’ and I’ll say, ‘You know, because it didn’t strike me as an ‘oh my’ play. But I’m so glad it struck you as that; it’s great and you have the fringe license to use it.’ So, if you’ve sat in the stands or in your living room and said, ‘oh my,’ that’s wonderful because now you know how I feel when I use it.” Hubert does not put a quota on how many times he uses the phrase in a game. “Sometimes there might be 15 or 20 and sometimes

there might not be any,” he said. “I don’t think I overuse it. It covers everything. Most of the time, about 90 percent of the time, it’s used for great positive plays, but sometimes it’s used for plays that don’t go well for us.” Hubert has been using this phrase since his days in Peoria. He said former Gator coach Steve Spurrier had mentioned to Dick Enberg that the guy calling plays in Gainesville was using his catch phrase. “Enberg, who I had never met, told Spurrier, ‘You tell your guy back there that I took it from a guy who was broadcasting back in the 1940s,’” Hubert recalled. “That’s broadcasting. You’re always taking stuff.” Another of Hubert’s popular broadcasting tools is his discussion of where the ball is on the field and in which direction the ball is moving. He can frequently be heard telling fans, “Ball moving left to right across your radio dial,” as if the dial represents actual hash marks on the gridiron. “If you’re looking at your audio source, I always want you to see the Gators going from left to right across your radio dial,” he explained. “Radio dial? There are no radio dials anymore. But, still, I want it so that you see when a guy is running for a touchdown, that he’s going from left to right. If you’ve been in The Swamp, you can imagine, ‘OK, I know where he is on that east sideline going north to south.’” Hubert said the same holds true for basketball games. He said he likes fans continued on next page

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3. Favorite SEC town other than Gainesville? Athens, Georgia

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7. What was the last book you read? A biography of Ernie Harwell. But, I’m a born-again Christian and I read The Bible more than any other book.

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Interfaith Marriages A Message of Understanding, Tolerance and Unity BY JANICE C. KAPLAN ast summer, millions of people anxiously awaited the wedding of former first daughter Chelsea Clinton and her fiancĂŠ, Marc Mezvinsky. Some were excited to see happiness for the former First Daughter, while others simply wanted to catch a glimpse of her Vera Wang gown. Regardless of the reasons, interest in the nuptials spanned all age groups and political preferences. Now that the guests are gone and the flowers wilted, the happy couple has started their new life together. But in addition to normal post-wedding adjustments, their life will also incorporate two different religions; Mezvinsky is Jewish while Clinton is a Methodist. Although they have not spoken publicly about their religious plans, it is likely that they have questions (and possibly their own answers) about how their differing faiths will play a role in their everyday lives â€” and

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possibly the lives of their future children. Interfaith marriages have been around for many years, but the Clinton-Mezvinsky wedding highlights the recent prevalence of mixed-religion couples and families. According to a 2007 survey conducted by The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, 27 percent of American adults who are married or living with a partner are in religiously mixed relationships. This number increases to 37 percent when taking into account intra-faith couples, in which both people are of the same religion but come from different denominations or otherwise follow different traditions. (In an interesting twist, Clinton herself is a product of such a marriage. Her Methodist upbringing is due to her mother, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, while her father, former president Bill Clinton, is Baptist.) Once frowned upon in general, interfaith marriages are

becoming increasingly accepted, particularly by the more liberal arms of some religions. The Episcopalian Church, for example, allows such marriages, and most priests in the church will perform the ceremony. Reform Judaism also permits mixed faith households and ceremonies. And more houses of worship are welcoming interfaith families with open arms. Jack and Jessica Hurov of Gainesville have such a family. Married for a year and a half and together for over three years, Jack is Jewish while Jessica was raised Catholic. Jessica has two children from a previous marriage, and she and Jack are expecting a baby boy in January.

Regardless of the religious path (or paths) chosen, raising an interfaith household requires curiosity, flexibility and some careful planning. The Hurovs make their blended family work by finding the common ground between two belief systems. “I think our [kind of] family is increasingly common,” Jessica said. “The religious practices and customs are different, but the core values that we would like to teach the children are definitely the same.” Both religions are observed in the Hurov home, with the major holidays enjoyed by the entire family. They are also members of Temple Shir Shalom, a Reform Judaism congregation in Gainesville. While the Hurovs have chosen one primary place to worship together, other interfaith families choose to attend two separate congregations. Still more find a single place that celebrates a multitude of religious beliefs, such as a Unitarian Universalist congregation. Reverend Meredith Garmon, head of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gainesville, explained that the members who come from other religions often find their own path at his church. “The lines between faiths tend to blur within our congregation,” he said. “A family might come in with one member fairly clearly Jewish identified, and the other member Christian identified or Buddhist identified. But they become Unitarian Universalists with an additional identity. So we have Unitarian Universalist Christians and Unitarian Universalist Buddhists. It’s an approach to our faith life that refuses to see traditions as mutually exclusive. The extra faith identification becomes, to varying degrees, a part of who they are.” Regardless of the religious path (or paths) chosen, raising an interfaith continued on next page

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household requires curiosity, flexibility and some careful planning. Holidays are an extra joyous time for families that light both a Christmas tree and a menorah, but the additional celebration can become overwhelming. Scheduling festivities on separate dates, even when the holidays themselves overlap, helps keep the “reason for the season” for each from getting muddled and shows respect for each individual religion. It might take extra time and organization, but balancing the holidays while giving each the proper emphasis and respect within its context helps to enhance the experience for everyone. Religious education also needs to be considered. Although the Hurovs have chosen to raise their new baby-to-be in Reform Judaism, Jessica’s other children are choosing their own paths. Her daughter attends weekly Hebrew school classes and participates in many activities for young people at the Temple, while her son chooses not to attend religious school but still enjoys events such as the Purim Carnival. Some parents decide to teach their children about faith at home (in lieu of formal religious education) to avoid emphasizing one religion or over-scheduling

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o continued from page 114 with customers. His knowledge of what he sold was astounding, and he could expound long and well on authors, art and comics. It would seem that Hatfield would have quite a collection or rare comic books by now. “I once had all the best prime comics,” he said. “But I figured that since I was in the business of selling comics, that’s what I should do. So, I sold them all.” Books, however, are keepers, and he has thousands on his shelves at home. Hatfield is also an accomplished musician and plays hundreds of songs from memory, a great solo act, just him and his piano. “I’m a singer who plays piano more than a piano player who sings,” he said. Hatfield grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. When his parents moved to Florida he would often visit them, putting many miles on his old Fiat. “I got gigs in Gainesville to pay for my gas,” he said. He found that he really liked it here and decided to make the move. “Music brought me to Gainesville.” Hatfield played around town at Rickenbachers, the Old College Inn (Purple Porpoise) and the Main Street Lounge. In 1979, when his contracted venue switched to disco and a disc jockey, Hatfield found himself unemployed.

“I ate a lot of mac and cheese, and sold plasma,” he said. Then, the owners of a bookstore called Paper Chase needed someone to run their store. A friend gave them Hatfield’s number. His book world suddenly broadened. Hatfield went on to own and run Novel Ideas for 13 years, moving seven times to different locations around Gainesville. When he accumulated overstocks of ordered comics, Hatfield would put a variety of six in a bag and sell the lot at a discount. One of the buried comics had nudity. “Two muddy, watercolor panels of a topless woman,” he said, marked “for mature audiences.” When a mother bought that discount package for her 14-year-old son and discovered the “scandalous images,” a ruckus resulted. Articles and letters ran in the Gainesville Sun, and Hatfield was in trouble with the law. “They didn’t do their homework, and the case got thrown out of court,” Hatfield said. “They couldn’t even verify that I was the owner.” But the damage had been done; business declined and never recovered. “Even if you don’t handle it, mud sticks,” Hatfield said. He closed his business and increased his work at Florida Bookstore where he had gotten a job as his own store went down. The work he had done on his novels languished for years.

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He next became manager of Florida Bookstore Volume II after convincing the owner to stock comics, gaming, sci-fi and related items, on the condition that Hatfield would bring his Novel Ideas clientele in. During his years there, Hatfield found the time to revive and finish his first novel, “Captive Audience.” His music playing took a backseat, but still continues with occasional gigs. He recently played at Napolitano’s. Hatfield’s first novel was self-published by Publish

Hatfield grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. When his parents moved to Florida he would often visit them, putting many miles on his old Fiat. America because of a dilemma in the book world. “Publishers do not want to put out books by first time authors,” he said, “But then how do you publish the first time? It’s a Catch-22.” He said that experience was not the best deal because it required a lot of self-promotion. “Duel Roles” was revived when Hatfield took the book’s draft on vacation with him.

“I started fitting parts together, made it less boring and then got excited about it again,” he said. He worked on it late each night until it was finished. Now Hatfield is a published author with plans for books beyond his new sequel. A third novel in the series is called “Tough Crowd.” His long-term goal, after “Tough Crowd” is done, is to republish all three books as a trilogy. But first he will finish up a murder mystery he has been working on, “Menu for Murder.” These days, Hatfield still works in the book world, now as textbook manager at Santa Fe College. “I love being able to come home at four or five,” he said. His former bookstore work was often 75 hours a week until 8 p.m. Hatfield and his wife Karen have already moved into the house in which they plan to retire, in nine more years, he said. It is a place near Jonesville with two cats, lots of bookshelves and a thousand varieties of hippos — a collection that got out of control after the first hippo arrived as a gift. Karen creates one-of-a-kind jewelry with UF Gatorcolored beads in bracelets, necklaces and earrings. Together, they sell the items on University Avenue before Gator football games, at the Haile Farmers’ Market, and the recent Thornebrook Art Festival. When asked what he did for leisure, Hatfield replied, “What’s that? Is that a French continued on next page

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>> CONSERVATION

Enter the Bat Zone BY AMANDA WILLIAMSON

The Lubee Bat Conservancy Hosts its Annual Festival

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Tasha King, head bat keeper, feeds mango Juicy Juice to Kuri, a spectacled ﬂying fox. 2. PHOTO BY ALBERT ISAAC

Lindsay Allen Dank (sitting) speaks with a visitor at last year’s Lubee Bat Festival as a child peers into the end of a large didgeridoo. Dank has been creating his own style of didgeridoo for years. 3. PHOTO BY AMANDA WILLIAMSON

Old world fruit bats have large, well developed eyes and primarily use sight to orient themselves, whereas microbats use highly developed systems of echolocation and have small eyes.

rom Batman in North America to pollinating wild bananas around the globe, bats play an important role in both international cultures and in the world environment. And this year, on November 13, a thanks is in order. The Lubee Bat Festival is a free family-oriented event that will introduce adults and children to the friendlier side of bats. The Lubee Bat Conservancy focuses on protecting fruit and nectar bats because they are easily susceptible to extinction. These bats are a necessity to the “world’s rainforests and deserts and to the economies of developing countries,” according to their website. Allyson Walsh, director of the Lubee Bat Conservancy, said the festival will include an array of vendors selling anything from jewelry to batty home décor. There will also be crafts and activities for the children, as well as a chance to construct or buy a bat house. Southeast Sharpening Service and Supply Inc. will be helping those interested in the construction. But the main event is the Bat Zone, a walk-through exhibit where guests get a chance to see fruit bats up close. The bat’s cages will be decorated for the season with carved pumpkins, plus a variety of plants and fruits. While most people walk into the

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building nervous, Walsh said that the myths about bats are nearly dispelled by the time they walk out. A common reaction after seeing the long-snouted, big-eyed creatures is “what cute puppies,” Walsh said. “It’s always a huge, eye-opening experience,” she said. Tasha Kiwwng, head bat keeper, said that she has never seen the bats get nervous from the parade of people admiring them. In fact, some bats are just as curious as the visitors. “They all have different personalities,” King said. Some bats will be happy with the abundance of food. Others will be reclusive and hide out in the nighthouse. Others may be right up on the wire, eyeballing the new guests. The festival is conducting a “Planet Green” competition where a grand prize is awarded to the individual or the school class that collects and brings the most ink cartridges or cell phones to be recycled. This year, Lubee is adding another day to the festivities. Friday, November 12, Lubee is throwing a “Wild Night Out,” an evening fundraiser of barbecuing and bat watching. The attendees will join a team of experts from LPG Environmental & Permitting Services, Inc. as they set up echolocation equipcontinued on next page

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PHOTO BY AMANDA WILLIAMSON

Tasha King, head bat keeper, feeds juice to a large ﬂying fox. Old world fruit bats eat the fruit, nectar or ﬂowers of more than 300 plant species. The plants rely on bats for seed dispersal and pollination.

ment to listen to the local bats, as well as netting some of them. It will be held onsite at the field center. Walsh wants to use the Friday event to showcase a potential future project. The field center needs remodeling, and Walsh thinks it will make an excellent retreat for educating children. The event, she feels, could show the opportunity available there. Lubee is not open to the public year-round. The festival is the only day the general public is

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allowed to enter, unless a tour has been arranged. Tours are generally school groups. The decorations added to the cages tend to serve two functions. For the bats, it is food, and a lot of it. For people, the addition of palm fronds and other plants create a jungle-like setting. It may allow visitors to visualize the bats in a natural environment, which for fruit bats is not a cave. At Lubee, the bats get enrichments several times a week to make their

environment more stimulating, King said, even when there is not a festival. The enrichments are used to keep their minds active because in the wild the bats would be flying and foraging for their food. Enrichments allow them to gain some control over the environment even though the bats are captive. Enrichments can be auditory, olfactory, or physical. The physical enrichments, which include ropes and squeaky toys, can be seen during the festival. Their food-related enrichments include pineapple, mango and other fruits, all from local sellers. Some days these are served to them as juice. The bat keepers put nectar, or other enrichments, inside little puzzle contraptions so the bats actually have to work to get their treat. On non-festival days, the bat keepers have even played music for the bats. “We’ve tried playing them some Blue Man Group,” King said. “All heads were turned to the radio.” Most fruit bats are not the tiny bats that flitter through the backyards of North Americans. These old world bats reign over the Indo Pacific part of the globe, such as China or Australia. Some, such as the large flying fox, can have wingspans of up to five feet in length. The whole point of Lubee and its bat festival is to bring awareness to the public of how important bats are to the ecosystems of the world, Walsh said. The bats found at Lubee are amazing seed dispersers, without which most of the forests of the world could disappear. “Without the forests, people wouldn’t have livelihoods,” Walsh said. Bats make up 20 percent of the world’s mammals, she said, and one out of four is threatened with extinction. In fact, there are entire cultures affected by the decline of bats. It is the bio-diverse areas that are most important to Lubee because in these areas bats are vitally important and also extremely threatened.

For example, the baobab tree grows in Madagascar, an island off the coast of Africa. Known as the tree of life, the baobab provides water for thirsty animals and humans, and can hold up to 1,000 gallons. But, the trees are being cut down to make poor quality paper, according to the web site “Bats, Plants, and People.” The ongoing deforestation is threatening the lives of the lemurs that live in the treetops, among many other animals that depend on the tree. The Madagascar fruit bat is a main dish in the area, and is also known to be a pollinator — alongside lemurs — of at least two kinds of baobabs. Lubee helps work with these local cultures that want to protect important areas. In Madagascar,

“That’s a comprehensive approach,” Walsh said. “It’s at all levels.” On the range of animals in jeopardy, from dolphins to pandas, bats rank on the bottom, Walsh said. “We’re making a small impact, but we only have a small amount of funding,” she said. And Lubee is battling some major enemies, such as deforestation. Deforestation destroys the natural habitat of the bats, and therefore forces them into close quarters with humans. Once in close proximity with people, bats become labeled as pests, Walsh said. Persecution to bats can take many forms. In the United States, people generally do not want bats living in their houses so they kill or hurt them trying to remove the

The hardest part is learning how to change people’s minds when the myths and the ideology are culturally ingrained. a forest with a large population of bats is actually policed and surveyed by a village of rice farmers who live in the area. In certain areas, Lubee has teamed up with Disney, who has donated Emergency Fund money to Lubee. Disney and Lubee aided a woman in the Pacific, on Rota Island near Guam, where the local bats were down to a population of 40. Lubee funded educational awareness by creating a DVD about how the bats actually help. It ran on local TV in Rota Island. To get the youth involved, a Lubee-funded festival passed out T-shirts with the slogan, “Extinction is Forever.” “You can only hope that as the youth grows up educated, perhaps they will change some of their culture,” Walsh said. “Maybe one day it will become un-hip to eat a fruit bat.” Lastly, Disney set up cameras to capture any potential poachers. It is a deterrent for the criminals to think they may get caught on camera.

animals. But in other areas, bats are killed for sport and food. Deforestation also puts people at a greater risk for diseases from bats. But on that same note, Walsh said, bats with rabies tend to die very quickly. So, rabies is unlikely to be transmitted by a bat. All the bats at the Lubee Bat Conservancy are rabies vaccinated, as are the keepers who handle them. “We’re unique in the world,” Walsh said, and there is not such a wide collection of old world fruit bats anywhere else on the globe. Because of this, a lot of international researchers are drawn to the small Gainesville conservatory. A project funded by the Air Force, and researched by a team from Brown University, is taking place at Lubee. “It’s the future of flight as we know it, that is being studied,” Walsh said, “and our animals play a big role.” The flight dynamics of the bats are recorded to possibly design a flexiblewinged aircraft.

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Because of the prominence of the facility in the scientific community, even though it is small, Walsh has been invited to attend various conferences, such as a recent event where she was consulted on the problem facing North American bats today. North American bats have a 90 to 100 percent death rate in caves because of a fungus called White-Nose disease. “That means, you could go into a cave and 90 to 100 percent of the bats are dead on the floor,” she said. “It’s dramatic.” In fact, the future of bats in North America is in jeopardy. However, in Florida, the bats are not susceptible to the fungus, which thrives in colder climates. “The point is,” Walsh said, “that as Floridians, we should help conserve bats here because this could very well become a stronghold.” But, Lubee’s size may also be a factor it has to overcome. Walsh said from Lubee’s perspective, under funding is one of the main challenges facing them today. She feels it is because the conservatory is small and not well known to the local community and global community. From a conservation side, Walsh said, the hardest part is learning how to change people’s minds when the myths and the ideology are culturally ingrained. For example, fruit bats eat over-ripe fruit, which is not the fruit farmers will be harvesting. Yet, many farmers kill fruit bats on sight because of this misconception. The Bat Festival is just one way in which the Lubee Bat Conservancy attempts to change people’s perceptions. s

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A Green Way to Go Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery BY DENISE TRUNK KRIGBAUM fter a local environmental activist Dr. Kathy Cantwell learned she did not have long to live, she pondered how she could respect nature in her passing. When Julie Thaler, Cantwell’s partner of 18 years, told her about green burial and a new cemetery opening near Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park, Cantwell decided that was how she wished to be interred. The only problem was that the Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery had not yet completed the legal hurdles required for operation. “She basically said, ‘Do what you have to do to get it because I want to be buried there,’” said Freddie Johnson, president of Conservation Burial Inc, which operates the cemetery. “We had our timeline and she had hers. We had to adjust ours to hers.” A brain tumor took Cantwell July 20, about one week after the paperwork was complete. Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery was ready to receive her. Ecologically conscious North Florida residents, like Cantwell, are now able to make an eternal commitment to preserving the environment. For $2,000, a person with a desire to protect and conserve wild lands can purchase a final resting place in the 78-acre Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery when the time comes. The lightly rolling hills and treed fields of the conservation cemetery east of Gainesville sit adjacent to Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park, the Prairie Creek Preserve, and the Gainesville-Hawthorne State Trail. Land on which cows grazed before Alachua Conservation Trust purchased it is now a permanent home to the remains of at least three people. If the gravesites were not pointed out, a visitor would not

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be aware of them. One is tucked into a wooded area; another has a sapling planted near it. No headstones mark the identity of those buried there. “This is a return to the idea of a cemetery as a park,” ACT executive director Robert Hutchinson said. “The land can be put to various uses, restored to its natural state, and also serve as a cemetery for perpetuity.” Public interest in natural or “green burial” has increased across the United States, with more than 300 approved providers certified by The Green Burial Council since the term was coined in 2005. A 2007 AARP survey of 1,087 people aged 50 or older showed that about one-fifth of respondents (21 percent) said they would be interested in an alternative to traditional burial with embalming. “One of CBI’s main missions is to provide a local green burial option,” said Freddie Johnson, GBI’s president. “Many places don’t have a practical choice for that.”

What is a Green Burial? In a green burial, the idea is that everything put into the ground is biodegradable. Green burial uses biodegradable containers, and avoids embalming fluids and vaults. Anything that would harm the land or the water supply is restricted. A conservation cemetery takes the requirements a step further. Unlike a traditional funeral and burial in which fees go to funeral home staffing, steel-lined caskets and a headstone, in a conservation burial, payment covers not just the cost of the maintenance of the 3.5- by 8-foot burial plot, but also funds the land restoration and the purchase of additional conservation

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INSET: Dr Kathy Cantwell has a magnolia tree at the foot of her gravesite in the Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery east of Gainesville. ABOVE: Two people pause for a moment to remember Kathy Cantwell at her grave in the Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery east of Gainesville.

land. Conservation Burial standards are the most stringent and go the farthest toward protecting the land. Green Burial Council, the certifying agency, requires a conservation cemetery adhere to a number of protocols to ensure that burials never degrade an ecosystem and, where possible, facilitate ecological restoration. It requires that biological, geological and hydrological surveys be done to determine where burial should and should not take place on a piece of land, and at what density. Most significantly, conservation burial requires that an established, independent conservation organization, most often a land trust, serve as steward of this land and be willing to hold a conservation easement, which ACT has arranged. This legally enforceable instrument, which runs with the land, guarantees that the standards for conservation burial, set forth by the Green Burial Council, will be upheld in perpetuity. The Green Burial Council’s executive director Joe Sehee said when his agency processes the paperwork

this month, the Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery will be the first conservation cemetery to be certified in Florida, and only the fourth of its kind in the country. One green burial cemetery exists in the Florida Panhandle. Johnson said the former pastureland is already undergoing changes since the cows were removed. “Our partner, ACT, will continue to manage the land under a plan to gradually plant appropriate trees and plants for the two to three ecosystems on the property, while removing exotic species,” Johnson said.

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casket, embalming or a headstone, that price drops significantly. Plots at the conservation cemetery start at $2,000. Sometimes people will request to have a tree planted that is appropriate to the area that would cost a bit extra, Johnson said. The ecological costs of traditional cemeteries and cremation, as well as the expense of a traditional funeral and burial, are also compelling reasons to consider the options. Naturalburial.org compiled statistics that show that in the United States each year 22,500 cemeteries bury about 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid; 90,272 tons of steel caskets; 2,700 tons of copper and bronze caskets; 1,636,000 tons of reinforced concrete; 14,000 tons of steel vaults, and more than 30 million board feet of hardwood, much of it tropical. Cremation has its own environmental costs. Cremation burns fossil fuels, and some older cremation facilities can use significantly more energy compared to newer ones. The energy equivalent used to cremate one person could fuel a car to run about 4,800 miles according to naturalburial.org. Mercury is also emitted when a person with dental amalgam fillings is cremated. Each cremation releases between .8 and 5.9 grams of mercury, equaling between 1,000 and 7,800 pounds of mercury each year. Seventy-five percent of which enters the air and the rest settles into the ground and water. Effective filtration devices that can fully mitigate mercury pollution are expected to be on the market in 2011.

Green Burial Protocol Many of the burial rituals today revolve around maintaining the body for as long as possible. Decay bacteria take over eventually — regardless of whether or not the body is embalmed. Green burial promotes the opposite perspective. Bodies are buried about 36 inches underground — a depth where organisms live that will bring about swift decomposition of the body, which is not encased in layers of concrete, wood or steel.

Anyone can place a flat marker of wood from the area to note the spot where their loved one rests. Visitors, family and friends will not see lines of polished gravestones at each plot at the Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery. Anyone can place a flat marker of wood from the area to note the spot where their loved one rests, Johnson said, but raised or polished stones are not allowed. In accordance with state law, PCCC uses a grid system to record where each individual is buried, and soon they will also have GPS coordinates for each site. CBI plans to build a memorial wall where people can put a plaque with their loved

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one’s name on it. “We want this to be used as a larger system, not just as a designation by individual,” Johnson said. “The land is meant for the community to enjoy. Access will be through the Hawthorne Trail, and bike paths will connect the two properties.” The cemetery also accepts cremated remains. Pets can also be buried in the conservation cemetery on a reduced pay scale. While no state in the U.S. requires embalming, some may require it if burial does not take place within a set amount of time — usually 24 or 48 hours. Proximity to a green burial ground is important. More pre-planning is required to perform a green burial because of the short time frame. If a funeral home is not involved, it is necessary for the friends and family to acquire the death certificate and transportation permit to bring the body to the cemetery. Home funerals, which allow for families to care for the deceased and all aspects of a funeral at home, were still common in the United States until the mid-20th century. A family can hold a home funeral in almost every state, or do it with the assistance of a licensed funeral director. “There is no doubt because of factors of economy, commonsense and conservation, green burials are not going to become less of a trend,” Johnson said. “That doesn’t mean funeral homes continued on page 135

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Caleb was diagnosed with Wilms’ Tumor in April 2005. At first, the odds looked good. The family even went home and settled back into a normal life. But then the tumor came back, and a year later Caleb’s life would be nearing its end. Despite a tragic illness, Caleb’s parents, John and Tammie Jacobbe, said Caleb never asked why and only cried once, when his parents told him the tumor was back. Instead, Caleb spent his time taking

in as much as possible — trips to meet baseball teams and athletes and hospital art projects. When the Jacobbe family knew Caleb would not live much longer, they contacted the Make A Wish Foundation. Caleb wanted to meet the Boston Red Sox. He was very weak and only had a few weeks left, but Caleb went anyway and asked to throw out the first pitch. His parents carried him to the mound, and he threw the ball — his

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Caleb’s Pitch was started in honor of Caleb Jacobbe, an 8-year-old who died in 2006 of Wilms’ Tumor. His greatest memory was meeting the Boston Red Sox, including pitcher Josh Beckett, and throwing out the ﬁrst pitch. Caleb’s Pitch is dedicated to recreating Caleb’s greatest memories for sick children in Gainesville, including meeting Gator Athletes.

last and best memory of his short life. The memory carried him through his last few weeks. “He asked if he was famous,” John Jacobbe said. “Caleb came back smiling for weeks.” On May 10, 2006, Caleb Jacobbe lost his battle. But despite his death, and family living miles away in

and does syringe art projects at Shands UF. All three activities were some of Caleb’s favorites just before his death. A lot of Caleb’s spare time at the hospital was spent doing syringe art, where the children use hospital syringes to squirt paint onto a canvas. Caleb made 37 works of art during his time at the hospital, and before he died he selected who would receive his work. The Jacobbe family also spent a lot of time at the Ronald McDonald House of Boston, a place for families with sick children to stay while the child receives treatment. One of his last meals was a barbecue the House made for him. He had his favorite — flank steak. “[Caleb] had some amazing experiences,” Tim said. “We hold

“Live every day like it’s your last. Treat your family and friends right. That’s what Caleb would want.” Boston, Caleb Jacobbe lives on in Gainesville. In honor of his memory, his uncle, Tim Jacobbe, wanted to recreate Caleb’s last great experience for other people going through the same thing in Gainesville. Although John and Tammie Jacobbe live in Massachusetts, Tim is a University of Florida professor in the College of Education. He chose to honor his nephew’s life by starting Caleb’s Pitch. Caleb’s Pitch is non-profit organization, began in November 2009, devoted to helping children with illnesses to have wonderful memories while being treated at Shands UF. The organization focuses its efforts on the three things that brought Caleb the most joy in the last year of his life. The group has athletic experiences by connecting them with Gator athletes, provides dinner to the Ronald McDonald House of Gainesville,

on to those experiences. Our goal is to recreate those experiences for other families.” Although the organization officially began in November 2009, they were not able to start athletic experiences until the next spring, in 2010. Meeting athletes is one of the highlights of Caleb’s Pitch. The organization works closely with the Ronald McDonald House and Shands UF to help children meet athletes and, so far, they have had five athletic experiences. Christine Brantley’s son Jacob, a 16-year-old leukemia patient at Shands UF, was able to meet the Gator Football team at a spring practice. Christine said the coaches took Jacob to the different practice fields, and the players spent time talking to him during and after practice. “You don’t know what it means to have continued on page 139

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each month. “Our goal isn’t to cure cancer,” Tim said. “What about the kids today? That’s what Caleb’s Pitch is about — trying to help kids and families going through difficult times.” The organization is still very young, though, and Tim said the group has a lot of plans for the future. The group would eventually like to provide limousine rides to the children on their way to meet athletes, conduct syringe art projects once a month, and provide financial support to families staying at the hospital by helping with money for a hotel or gas. To do those things, however, they need money. Tim said Caleb’s Pitch is working on setting up more fundraisers. They are having a Tennis Tournament on Jan. 14-16 in Jonesville, and they have Gator and Red Sox raffles throughout the year, he said. “This is the only way I could think of to help,” Tim said, of starting the organization. “That’s why I

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Bring your holiday meals into the 21st century can smell Thanksgiving dinner before my family gets together to make it. I just have to close my eyes. Oven gold turkey. Steaming garlic mashed potatoes with melting butter on top. Green bean casserole layered with cream of mushroom and fried onions. Whipped sweet potatoes

loaded with pecans and browned marshmallows. Homemade apple and chocolate pudding pies. Our festive recipes, while heavenly, aren’t exactly original. Most are variations on the Pilgrims’ First Thanksgiving. This year, it’s time to bring holiday meals into the 21st century.

Thanksgiving Florida Fried Turkey Just like the pilgrims did it. INGREDIENTS 5 gallons peanut oil* 10 to 15-pound unstuffed turkey 1 stick butter 1/2-teaspoon garlic powder 1/2-teaspoon cayenne pepper 2 tablespoons House Seasoning (1 cup salt, 1/4 cup black pepper, 1/4 cup garlic powder) DIRECTIONS *Cook’s Note: To measure the amount of oil needed to fry the turkey, place the turkey in the fryer, add water to the top of the turkey, remove the turkey and the water line will indicate how much oil will be needed to fry the turkey. Having too much oil can cause a fire. The pot should not be more than three-fourths full or the oil could overflow when the turkey is added. Pour the peanut oil into a 10-gallon pot. Put the pot on a propane cooker and heat the oil to 400 degrees F.

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I surfed the Web and pestered family members to find these fun and fresh recipes. Try one out this holiday season. Or ask your family about any secrets they have tucked away in the family recipe book. You might find a new tradition to make you drool.

Have the turkey completely thawed and dried thoroughly. Tie two cotton strings around the carcass so the bird can be easily lifted out of the oil. Carefully submerge the turkey in the oil. Deep-fry the turkey for 3 to 4 minutes per pound (i.e. a 20 pound Turkey would fry for about 60 minutes or so), and cook until the turkey floats to the top. Remove the bird from the oil and place it on a platter or cutting board. In a small pan, melt the butter. Add the garlic powder, cayenne and House Seasoning. Brush the turkey with the butter mixture. Pour any remaining butter mixture inside the turkey. Allow to cool 20 to 30 minutes before carving. *Be extremely careful when deep-frying the turkey. Keep the oil outdoors on a level and non-flammable surface. Embrace the southern way of doing things — ditch the baking dish and deep fry your bird.

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INGREDIENTS 1/2 medium yellow onion 1/2-pound Yukon gold potato, (about 1 large) 1/2-pound sweet potato, (about 1 medium) 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1-teaspoon kosher salt Pinch cayenne 1 large egg, lightly beaten Vegetable oil 4 teaspoons light sour cream 2 to 3 sprigs flat-leaf parsley (optional)

INGREDIENTS 1 box of Duncan Hines Devil’s Food Cake mix 4 packages of chocolate mousse (found next to the pudding in the grocery store around holiday time) 2 8 oz. containers of Cool Whip 1 package of Heath Toffee bits DIRECTIONS Bake the cake in 13 x 9 pan and cool. Prepare the four packages of mousse in two separate bowls (2 packages per bowl). Chill in the refrigerator.

DIRECTIONS Preheat the oven to 200 degrees F. Put a wire rack on a baking sheet and place it in the oven. Grate the onion on a box grater into a large bowl. Grate both potatoes into the same bowl, grating down the length of the potato to get long strands. Toss the potatoes with the onions as you work to keep them from discoloring. Put the potato mixture in a clean dishtowel and wring out the excess liquid. Toss the latke mixture with the flour, salt and cayenne. Stir in the lightly-beaten egg. Heat 1/4 inch oil in a heavy skillet over medium heat. Working in batches, spoon about 1/4 cup of the latke mixture into the skillet, pressing lightly to form 3-inch pancakes. Take care not to overcrowd the pan. Cook, turning once, until just golden, about two minutes per side. Transfer the latkes to the rack in the oven while you cook the remaining batter to keep them warm. Serve the latkes topped with a small dollop of sour cream. Garnish with a parsley leaf (optional). Serve immediately.

Cut the cake in half, then cut the two halves into chunks. Put the chunks from one half into the bottom of a large, glass bowl. Layer contents of one bowl of mousse on top of the chunks. Add a layer of Cool Whip on top of the mousse. Layer one-half of the toffee bits on top of the Cool Whip. Repeat. Consume. Pray you live to see the New Year.

New Year’s Eve Prosecco Sparkler It’s all about the bubbly. INGREDIENTS (per one drink) 3 dashes of Angostura Bitters or more if desired 1/2 cup chilled Prosecco (a dry sparkling Italian wine) 1 sugar cube DIRECTIONS Add the bitters and Prosecco into a champagne flute. Drop in the sugar cube. Mixture will sparkle and fizz. This twist on champagne will provide more sparkle than Times Square at midnight.

L’chaim!

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impacting your community, often times in a significant way. Most local businesses support their community, by providing employment, charitable donations and local tax dollars. Additionally, they live here and have a vested interest in the area. The money earned remains in the area generating support for the many projects of our towns. When you choose local, everyone in the community benefits. In today’s economy, the story you often hear from most businesses is “we have to do it this way because of the economy,” or “because of the economy, we have to raise our prices.” That is not true for all businesses. In fact, many businesses are thriving and adjusting to the new economy. Instead of providing just good service they have decided to provide outstanding service and persevere through 142 | Winter 2010

this difficult economic environment. An example of a company that has decided to adapt and persevere is Whitfield Window and Door, Inc. of High Springs. The story of this company is the story of a small business, in a small town, in America, where anything is possible. Chris Whitfield and his wife moved to High Springs in 1997 after spending most of their childhood in the Tampa and Panhandle areas of Florida. After visiting some friends in the area and spending a day on the river, Chris and his wife fell in love with the area and with small town life. Not long after that visit, they purchased land near Oleno State park and started a family. Chris has been in the window and door business for 17 years. Almost 7 years ago, he decided to go out on his own and live the American Dream of owning his own business. Chris believes as long as he can stand by his word, treat people right and do an outstanding job for his customers, there will always be work. He has made a point to offer only

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A Penny for Your Thoughts Postcard Book Details Local History Through Words and Images BY CHRIS WILSON very picture tells a story. And the postcards featured in the coffee table-style book, “A Penny For Your Thoughts,” are telling all about the history of Alachua County. The book features images of things that no longer exist in modern Gainesville, from the old redbrick Alachua County Courthouse to the recognizable Cox Furniture Co., which is now home to Harry’s Seafood Bar and Grill.

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The book was compiled and written by Mark Barrow (retired cardiologist, Florida native, local history buff and avid postcard collector) and Murray Laurie, a freelance writer and historian. It was published by the Alachua Press. Barrow has been interested in Florida history since his childhood and has collected old Florida history books for a long time. “I’m from a little Panhandle town called Crestview,” Barrow said. “We used to ride around on Sundays and look for old abandoned houses. I would collect old

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demijohns. My father was a birdwatcher and he would like to go to some abandoned stills. I would collect jugs from the stills. I still have quite a collection.” In the early 1990s, Barrow began meeting with University of Florida university historian Sam Proctor, UF preservation architect Blair Reeves, UF preservation law professor Roy Hunt and Sarah Matheson. All five people shared an interest in preserving Alachua County’s history. In 1993, Matheson, whose husband Chris was a Gainesville mayor for eight terms, donated her house and the group got a grant to restore the home. Barrow and Sam Gallon went on to help establish the Matheson Museum. One of the corporate interests of Historic Gainesville, Inc. was the Alachua Press, which had set out to publish authors of local significance. It has published a handful of books, including “A Penny For Your Thoughts,” and a book about the history of Dudley Farm in Newberry. “We have a narrow audience,” admits Alachua Press president Tony Kendzior. “We’re selling it through local bookstores and on our website.” But for Barrow, the book merges two of his passions: postcards and local history. “I started collecting postcards in 1970,” Barrow said. “Back then, you could buy them very cheap. There had been a lot of postcards that had been released onto the market that had been stored after World War II.” Barrow said postcards can be broken down into distinct eras, each with different printing, photo and material processes. He said that if he looks at a postcard, he can tell you when it was printed without

The railroad passed right by the Brown House, an old hotel on West Main Street. Dr. Barrow said West Main Street is the road that is currently called North Main Street. The Atlantic Coast Line ran through town until 1948.

The old Alachua County Courthouse was a large red brick building. It was replaced by the County Administration Building on University Ave. between SE 1st St. and SE 2nd St. in the 1960s.

seeing a postmark or a date on the card. Barrow said that when he started his collection, postcards would cost him a few cents to sometimes 25 or 30 cents. Now, he said some collectors will pay $30 to $40 per card, depending on its historical significance. Barrow said he searched mainly for postcards representing Gainesville, Alachua County or the University of Florida. While he has plenty of cards from other areas of Florida, Barrow said his Gainesville, Alachua County and University of Florida collection tops out at about 1,600 images. “We decided several years ago that we might like to do a postcard book,” Barrow said. “We thought we might put one photo per page that would show a lot of the history of Alachua County.” Barrow chose the cards and the Alachua Press designed the book. The book is arranged historically. Several communities are represented, including

Alachua, Archer, Cross Creek, Evinston, Hawthorne, High Springs, Melrose, Waldo, Newberry and Micanopy. Barrow wrote the introduction and all of the captions of the postcards. Freelance writer Murray Laurie added a lot of information about the history of postcards and some other details. “The only problem we had was that there were very few postcards depicting black citizens,” Barrow said. “A. Quinn Jones, who was the first principal of the old Lincoln High, was a collector who saved everything. He gave boxes and boxes of things to the P.K. Yonge Library Special Collections. They had already been catalogued and everything. Murray went down there and found postcards. There was a folder that said ‘Colored Homes of Gainesville, Florida’ that had a lot of postcards. It was fascinating to me, because I had been collecting for 40 years and had never heard of it.” continued on next page Barrow said he has

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Spirit of the Season Happiness Delivered in a Shoebox BY MICHELLE ASHWORTH peration Christmas Child always delivers, and this year is no exception. Every year, Operation Christmas Child, a division of Samaritan’s Purse, distributes millions of shoeboxes filled with toys and other goodies to underprivileged children. Each box also contains a pamphlet, which informs these children about the Word of God and Jesus Christ through Bible verses. Samaritan’s Purse is an international relief agency led by Franklin Graham. It is a nondenominational, evangelical Christian organization that has provided spiritual and physical aid to hurting people all over the world since 1970. Distributing these boxes to more than 120 countries, Operation Christmas Child has been able to reach about 70 million children since 1993 when the program started. Last year, more than 7.9 million gift-filled shoeboxes went to children all around the world. Out of those, more than 12,000 boxes were collected here in the Santa Fe River Area, which includes Alachua, Bradford, Union and Putnam counties. “[These boxes] are probably going to be the only gift that these kids

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ever get,” said Thomas Redmond, Operation Christmas Child’s media coordinator for this area. Redmond has been packing boxes with his family for five years now. Last year, they packed about 200 in his home alone. His two sons, 6-year-old Robert and 1-year-old Jackson, love to help fill the shoe boxes. Although Redmond has not had the opportunity to go overseas on distribution, he said his favorite part about this whole process is the fact these kids are going to know God and Jesus. “They deserve [to know Jesus] as much as my kids do,” he said. In 2009, most of the boxes collected from the Santa Fe River Area went to India. This year, the plan is to deliver the bulk of shoeboxes from this area to Haiti, where there is still a dire need for help. While thousands of people from the area participate by donating shoeboxes, only a handful of teens are invited to deliver the boxes overseas each year. Jennifer Chapman was one of those teens who went on the 2009 distribution trip. Traveling to the San Blas Islands off the coast of Panama, Chapman and about 20 other teens experienced the

distribution process firsthand. “It was neat to see God work in such mighty ways while I was there,” said Chapman, now 17. “They were so happy to have us there.” Chapman, currently Operation Christmas Child’s prayer coordinator for this area, started helping with collection week three years ago. She said her family has been packing boxes for as long as she can remember. “God really uses these boxes,” she said. Chapman is not only the prayer coordinator; she is also a full-time elementary education major at Santa Fe College, an intern at Alachua Elementary, and a Sunday school teacher at Antioch Baptist Church. Although Samaritan’s Purse does have a small group of official staff members, almost everyone involved works on a volunteer basis. This includes Redmond, Chapman, and the Middletons. Sam Middleton and his wife, Denise, are the area coordinators. Sam Middleton volunteers his time with Operation Christmas Child in addition to the 60-80 hours a week he puts into his career as an engineer. Not to mention both of their full-time jobs as the parents of four children.

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Middleton said his favorite part about being involved in this organization is seeing the impact that a simple gift has on a child. These children live in dire situations — war zones, extreme poverty, hospitals. “It brings them back to childhood,” he said. The United States is not the only country that participates in Operation Christmas Child. Austria, Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland and the United Kingdom also distribute shoeboxes to areas of need. Boxes can be actual shoeboxes or plastic containers that are shoebox size. They can be filled with anything from notepads to sandals or toys. They should include new or gently used items. For example,

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Love without Borders Families with Children from Asia BY JESSICA CHAPMAN ucked away in a typical American suburban house, Jordan Miller bounced beside the couch, trying to catch a quick peak of her new hamster, something the 5-year-old girl talked her parents into getter her after starting school. Along with her 4-year-old brother Spencer, Jordan leads her guest into her bedroom, decorated in pink, and points to each new and favorite toy. The bouncing 5 year old is a typical American kindergartener. But just five years ago, Jordan’s future was not as clear as it is now. Five years ago, Jordan Liberty Miller’s life was dramatically different. Even her name was different: Zhan Ming Yue. Her name came from the Chinese orphanage where she had lived for roughly the first ten months of her life. Five years ago, Glen and Jennifer Miller wanted a baby. So in January 2005, about the same time Jennifer realized she was finally pregnant, they were confirmed to adopt Jordan.

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From there began a long adoption process. Although Chinese adoption is more predictable than other countries, the process was made especially rigorous. Jennifer was pregnant during much of the process. The couple went to China three weeks after having Spencer. “It was overwhelming,” she said. “We went from no children to two.”

“Chinese adoption is very predictable. The steps are clearly laid out.” The Millers adopted Jordan at just the right time. In 2005, Chinese adoptions were at its peak. About 7,903 children were adopted that year. The numbers have dropped steadily since. In 2009, only 3,001 children were adopted, according to the United States Department of State, Office of Children’s Issues. Ninety-one percent are girls, mostly babies. With China’s one-child policy, which limits most Chinese couples

to one child, it is common for families to give up baby girls. Sons, not daughters, help their parents as they get older, while daughters marry and move out. This leaves girls to be sent to an orphanage or aborted. “That’s most likely what happened with Jordan,” he said. Although Jordan’s life today is much better than it might have been if the Millers had not have adopted her, being an adopted Chinese child in an American world does not come without difficulties. To help Jordan learn more about her Chinese culture and interact with other Chinese children who were adopted, the Millers became involved in a local support group, Families with Children from Asia. This local group is part of a national organization, Families with Children from China, but changed its name to encompass all Asian families. While the group does organize culture camps and festivals to help children learn about their culture, including continued on page 154

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Each year the Families With Children From Asia support group holds a culture camp for the children to learn about their Chinese heritage. Miller said although the group has a variety of different Asian children, many adoption stories are similar and being part of a support group has helped many members through the adoption process.

o continued from page 152 a Chinese New Year Festival, it also wants children to be around other families who look like them. “It would have been easy to have never brought it up,” Jennifer said. “But she knows she looks different. I wanted to be the one to foster the learning.” FCC Vice President Karen Schofield, who has a 4-year-old adopted Chinese daughter, said she wants the children to be prepared to answer questions about why they look different, especially when first entering Kindergarten. To help answer those questions, the group focuses on helping the children gain confidence about who they are. The group meets once a month for activities and encourages children of all ages to join. Their next big event is Nov. 13, when the group will put on Dollies without Borders. The children will decorate dolls and then mail one to a child in Asia and keep another for themselves. The event is from 10 a.m. to Noon at the Shands Cancer Hospital on the first floor Conference Room. Some of the most exciting events,

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however, are winter events; the Asian Ornament Workshop on December 4 for Christmas and the Chinese New Year Celebration on January 29. The group even teaches Chinese. Ironically enough, though, Jordan has not taken much interest in learning Chinese. Her 4-yearold brother Spencer, on the other hand, is fascinated. Despite a lack of interest in speaking anything but English, Jennifer said Jordan is well aware of where she is from. Jordan knows her Chinese name, Yue, and she even knows the plane route she and her parents took from China to America. Jennifer said many families have stories similar to theirs. Although it only took the Millers about nine months to get through the Chinese adoption process, Schofield said her family’s adoption process - two years — was relatively short compared to most. Both Miller and Schofield said they are lucky they got through the system so quickly. “Chinese adoption is very predictable,” Schofield said. “The steps are clearly laid out.” Life in the orphanage is very different from American life, Jennifer said. They shave the babies’ hair because it’s easier to maintain and prevents lice among the hundreds of babies in their care, and the baby bottles have extra large nipples, so the caregivers can feed them quickly. The Millers learned they would

have their hands full, though. Jordan, they learned, was the loudest, most difficult baby in the large orphanage. “She was wild,” Jennifer said. “It was horrible, but that all ended as soon as she got home.” “She never slept more than an hour,” Glenn added. The only thing Jordan would eat was over-cooked rice, and she would only drink very hot milk, something that worried Jennifer in the first few months. Jordan’s attachment to her parents grew rapidly, and today she rarely wants to leave their sides. Schofield said, however, that this situation is uncommon. Usually, the child does not cry when parents leave because they have never formed an attachment with anyone. She said attachment and other adoption issues are another facet of what the FCC discuses, and the group tries to provide support for families going through the adoption process, as well. “The issues are minimal,” Schofield said of adopted children’s American experiences, “but kids need to be prepared. They learn confidence in who they are.” Although Jennifer said it does not matter to Jordan now, one day she will want to know why she looks different. “I don’t think of her any different,” she said. “But she knows she looks different. It’s just easier to know from the beginning. Most people here feel the same.” s For more information about Families with Children from Asia, contact Vice President Karen Schofield at rschofie@ufl.edu or visit: groups.yahoo.com/group/ FCCGainesville.

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organization founded in 1981 by the Freeman family. Howard and Laurel Freeman were prompted to start the organization after their young daughter, Bonnie, was diagnosed with cancer. Since its inception, the local 501 (c) 3 organization has dedicated the last 29 years to preventing, as well as finding cures, for children’s cancer.

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Musical Director Gary Langford conducting on stage during the 2009 Holiday Traditions Concert, beneﬁting Stop! Children’s Cancer.

Stop! Children’s Cancer has always been locally managed, with a focus on raising the money necessary to continue research at the University of Florida College of Medicine, specifically in the Divisions of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Pediatric Neuro-Oncology.

The 2010 Stop! Children’s Cancer Holiday Concert will take place on Sunday, December 12, at 4 p.m. at the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Funds for the organization are raised through a variety of means: civic group sponsorships, individual, corporate and foundation donations, donations made in honor of friends and families of children affected by cancer, as well as by hosting special events. One of the events the non-profit hosts each year to raise money is a Holiday Concert. This year, the Stop! Children’s Cancer Holiday Concert will take place on Sunday, December 12, at 4 p.m. at the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. The theme for the evening’s musical entertainment is Holiday Traditions: A Musical Celebration. This Holiday Concert features the Alachua County Youth Orchestra, and draws choral and orchestral students from four area musical groups and schools, including Columbia High School, East Side High School, Gainesville Youth Choir & Concertina, and the P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School Ensemble. For the last 14 years, Gary Langford has worked with Stop! Children’s Cancer as the event’s orchestra conductor. Two years ago, Langford also began directing the choir and is now the full musical director for the Holiday Concert. For Langford, the Holiday Concert is about music as well as the community support for a wonderful cause. “We have had incredibly talented youth perform during this event over the years, including cancer survivors who perform solos during the concert,” Langford said. “One year, we even had Sister Hazel perform at the concert. Ken Block, lead vocalist for the band, had a brother who died of cancer so he wanted to be able to contribute to the concert event.” Tickets for the Holiday Traditions concert are $12 for adults, and $6 for children under 12 years of age. Tickets are also available for groups of 10 or more at the rate of $10 per person, but must be purchased at the Stop! Children’s Cancer continued on next page

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Cancer survivor Koryn Williams performs a solo during the 2009 Holiday Traditions Concert.

As a result, the Holiday Concert inspires support for young artists and local talent, as well as for the Stop! Children’s Cancer mission. In fact, people always tell us how heartwarming the concert is and how it truly embodies the holiday spirit for many who attend the event.” This year, the Stop! Children’s Cancer Holiday Concert will feature cancer survivors performing solos during the evening’s program. The Alachua County Youth Orchestra will also be performing a free winter concert later that same evening at the Phillips Center for Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. with free admission. The events hosted on December 12 will highlight youth supporting youth in Alachua County, a sentiment that embodies the spirit of giving back to the community and of the holiday season itself. s

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Different Note Several years ago, I decided to write about procrastination, as I am somewhat of an expert on this condition. ow, I’m finally writing it, but it took a deadline to get it done — and I am late for that. In fact, it is remarkable that I ever get anything accomplished because there is always something else on which to focus my energies and consequently not finish. I will say that despite my procrastinating ways I did complete college faster than anticipated. I was on the 10-year plan and I wrapped it up in a mere seven. Not bad for a card-carrying member of procrastinators anonymous. OK, I’m fibbing. I am not a card-carrying member because procrastinators could never get such an organization together. Nonetheless, my Internet research has shown that there is much to be said about procrastination. Granted, most sites I have found offer little more than “work in progress” banners or nearly empty pages with clever quips about not having gotten around to putting it together yet. In my search, I came across the Procrastinator’s

Creed. I’m not sure with whom to credit these 14 qualities shared by all well-deserving procrastinators, but I would wager it was not a procrastinator. It was probably his spouse. My studies also reveal the existence of the Ancient Order of Two-Headed Turtles, otherwise known as the Procrastinator’s Society. But I doubt anyone has gotten around to joining that organization, either. And then I learned about St. Expeditus, the Patron Saint of Procrastinators. St. Expeditus happens to also be the Patron Saint of Emergencies, Financial Success, Prompt Solutions, Computer Programmers, Merchants and E-Commerce. Computer programmers? This seems rather odd to me. I think of Patron Saints as antediluvian characters who roamed the Earth thousands of years ago, long before the advent of computers and E-Commerce. Nevertheless, St. Expeditus did indeed exist. I saw his picture. On the Internet. And there is even a statute in New Orleans, where he enjoys continued on page 161

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o continued from page 159 a great reputation for expediting spiritual favors. According to my sources, it is unclear whether his name led to his association with expeditious matters, or the other way around. Either way, this ‘expeditious’ association made him the patron of people who had to deliver things on time. As it turns out, according to saintspreserved.com, St. Expeditus achieved his patronage through a mistake. A shipping crate containing human remains from Roman catacombs was sent to a group of French-speaking nuns. On the crate was the inscription “E Spedito” followed by a date. What the nuns assumed to be the name of the Saint in the box was in reality — no lie — shipping instructions. They mistranslated his name to Expedite and dedicated a chapel to him. Thus, St. Expeditus owes his very existence to a series of errors. And now, in case you have never run across this, I present to you the Procrastinator’s Creed (author unknown): 1. I believe that if anything is worth doing, it would have been done already. 2. I shall never move quickly, except to avoid more work or find excuses. 3. I will never rush into a job without a lifetime of consideration. 4. I shall meet all of my deadlines directly in proportion to the amount of bodily injury I could expect to receive from missing them. 5. I firmly believe that tomorrow holds the possibility for new technologies, astounding discoveries, and a reprieve from my obligations. 6. I truly believe that all deadlines are unreasonable regardless of the amount of time given. 7. I shall never forget that the probability of a miracle, though infinitesimally small, is not exactly zero. 8. If at first I don’t succeed, there is always next year. 9. I shall always decide not to decide, unless of course I decide to change my mind. 10. I shall always begin, start, initiate, take the first step, and/or write the first word, when I get around to it. 11. I obey the law of inverse excuses which demands that the greater the task to be done, the more insignificant the work that must be done prior to beginning the greater task. 12. I know that the work cycle is not plan/start/finish, but is wait/plan/plan. 13. I will never put off until tomorrow what I can forget about forever. 14. I will become a member of the ancient Order of Two-Headed Turtles (the Procrastinator’s Society) if they ever get it organized. Now if you will excuse me, I have some things that need putting off. s

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EDUCATION & CHILD CARE Alachua Learning Center .................. 3 Fundamental Therapy Solutions .... 62 Gainesville Country Day School .104 Gainesville Conductive Education Academy ........................ 126 Loften High School ...........................132

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RETAIL / RECREATION Artful Upholstery & More ................. 81 Beacher’s Lodge............................... 106 Bennett’s True Value ......................... 87 Bikes & More ........................................99 Blue Springs .........................................36 City of Gainesville .............................157 Colleen’s Kloset................................... 27 Cootie Coo Creations ..................... 150 Dollar General .....................................135 Enchanted Memories ........................151 Europe Import Grocery.................. 145 Gardener’s Edge ................................. 37 Gator Chomp .......................................115 Great Southern Circus .....................128 Jewelry Designs by Donna ........... 150 Jones Sales and Service ..................113 Klaus Fine Jewelry ................................5 Lentz House of Time, LLC ...............113 Lighting Gallery ..................................121 Museum of Natural History.............62 Music Junction .................................. 150 Pace Custom Jewelers .....................49 Paddywhack.........................................54 Renaissance Jewelers .......................45 Sanders Jewelers .......................... 6, 55 Santa’s Lane .........................................36 Sapps Pawn, Gun and Archery ....155 Target Copy ........................................ 165 TB Goods............................................. 164 UF Performing Arts ...........................24 Valerie’s Loft .......................................... 8 West End Golf Club ...........................118 Wood You Furniture........................100

SERVICE ACT Computer Solutions ................151 Action ChemDry ............................... 129 Affordable Services of Florida ......93 Alachua County EPD .......................135 All About You Painting......................111

AllState Mechanical, Inc................. 134 BBI Construction Management.....117 Bertie Heating & Air ........................ 139 Big Blue................................................... 61 COX Communications .......................16 Creekside Outdoor ............................48 Florizona Fireplace & Gas ...............54 Gainesville Regional Airport ..........113 Lotus Studios Photography ...........20 Mini Maid ..................................................7 Ms. Debbie’s Cakes & Sugar Art ...115 Our Town Business Association....45 Phones and More.............................. 150 Ray French A/C & Heating .............63 3-Way Electrical Service Inc. .......... 81

HOME IMPROVEMENT Amira Builders ..................................... 27 Any One Can Do It Pest Control & Lawn Care ............. 146 Carson’s Cabinetry & Design .......... 13 Decks, Docks and Barns ................ 158 Fences & Gates by IMI .....................133 Graetz Construction .......................... 97 Great Lakes Carpet & Tile ...............85 Grifﬁs Lumber......................................113 Indigo Green Building Solutions .. 108 Jack’s Small Engine Repair........... 160 Mike Hill Construction ...................... 67 Overhead Door ................................. 166 Ronald Clark Construction .............. 81 Whitﬁeld Window & Door............. 142

RESTAURANT Adams Rib Company ........................70 Bagel Bakery ........................................70 Beef O’Brady’s...................................... 71 Calico Jack’s .......................................... 71 Dave’s NY Deli ................................... 138 David’s BBQ .........................................98 Domino’s Pizza ...............................15, 17 El Toro.....................................................96 Flying Biscuit Café ....................... 71, 72 Francesca’s Trattoria ......................... 73 Luca’s Pasta..........................................39 Mad Hatters Café ...............................151 Mamma Mia Pizzeria ....................... 138 Piesano’s Stone Fired Pizza ........... 73 The Pita Pit ........................................... 73 Take Away Gourmet .......................... 47

MISCELLANEOUS Financial Freedom .............................117 Outreach for Kids ..............................155 Waste Watchers..........................30, 116

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