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In 1923, he filed for a patent for his Eppsicle.
Married with his own children, he deferred to their judgment and renamed the treat Popsicle – “Pop’s Sickle.”
The Popsicle was invented by 11-year-old Frank Epperson of San Francisco in 1905.
Frank stirred a package of soda mix into a glass of water with a stick and accidentally left it outside overnight. By morning it was frozen solid. When he ran the glass under water, he was able to remove the ice pop using the wooden stick.
He called the icy treat the “Eppsicle.”
Frank shared them with his friends and family, and began selling them in his neighborhood. In later years he expanded and sold them at a California amusement park.
They came in seven flavors: lemon, cherry, grape, root beer, orange, banana, and watermelon. Cherry is still the most popular.
In the late 1920s he sold his Popsicle rights to the Joe Lowe Company out of NY.
The Lowe Company took the Popsicle to national fame when they introduced the doublestick Popsicle allowing two children to share a pop for the same price as a single. It’s rumored that approximately 8,000 were
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Alex Planes, DDS
August 15-18,1969
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Remembering Woodstock Remembering Woodstock
This August marks the 55th Anniversary of Woodstock, the legendary 3-day music festival that took place on a dairy farm near Bethel, New York. Nearly half a million people attended, wildly exceeding all expectations.
Despite, or because of, all the sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll – and rain – Woodstock was a peaceful celebration that earned its spot in American pop culture history.
groovy woodstock trivia
Woodstock was sponsored by four men – John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld and Michael Lang – and ultimately cost more than $2.4 million. The oldest of the four was 26.
$2.4 million
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Heir to a drugstore and toothpaste manufacturing fortune, John Roberts paid for the event using a multimillion-dollar trust fund and a lieutenant’s commission in the Army. The only concert he had ever seen was The Beach Boys.
The festival took six months of preparation. An estimated $50,000 was reportedly paid to rent 600 acres of Max Yasgur’s farm. Woodstock Ventures spent a total of $180,000 on artist fees.
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About 186,000 tickets were sold before the weekend. Organizers believed no more than 200,000 attendees would actually show up. They failed to set up the necessary ticket booths and the fence was so shoddy that it was torn down by the crowds on the first day. Some 400,000 to 500,000 people attended.
600 acres
17 miles
One-time Indian River County resident Arlo Guthrie told the Woodstock crowd, “The New York State Thruway is closed, man,” but his claim wasn’t exactly true. The Newburgh and Harriman exits were closed off to prevent even more people from going to the concert, but the actual thruway remained open. The traffic jam extended over 17 miles and cars were delayed from New York to White Lake for over eight hours.
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15 miles
After leaving their cars due to the conditions, festival-goers walked an average of 15 miles to reach the site. •••
Richie Havens helped solve a Woodstock problem when he played earlier than scheduled because the opening acts were stuck in traffic. He premiered a song called “Freedom,” which is now one of the most standout songs from the festival.
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Jimi Hendrix’s performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner” has been often called “The single greatest moment of the Sixties,” even though it was only witnessed by a fraction of the crowd. Most attendees had gone home by the time he took the stage Monday morning.
British musician Joe Cocker played a most beautiful rendition of The Beatles’ song “With A Little Help From My Friends.” Another iconic performance in Woodstock history.
There were 32 bands that performed, including Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Crosby, Still, Nash & Young, Santana, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Who, Ravi Shankar, John Sebastian, The Band, Canned Heat, and Johnny Winter.
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The Beatles turned down the invite after John Lennon said he couldn’t get them all together. He did offer to play with his Plastic Ono Band, but the promoters turned him down. Other declined invitations came back from Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Bob Dylan, The Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, The Byrds, and Roy Rogers.
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Only three female artists played solo at Woodstock: Janis Joplin, Joan Baez and Melanie. Joni Mitchell was slated to appear, but was convinced by her manager that it was a better career move to appear on Monday’s The Dick Cavett Show rather than “sit around in a field with 500 people.” She has since admitted it was one of the biggest regrets of her life. •••
bands only 3 female solo artists
Unrecognized by Woodstock officials, Melanie wasn’t even issued a performer’s pass. Before she was allowed on stage, she had to show her driver’s license and sing “Beautiful People” as proof of identity.
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No incidents of violence occurred at the Woodstock Festival.
Most of the 80 arrests at Woodstock were made on drug charges involving LSD, amphetamines and heroin. Marijuana smokers, estimated to be the majority of the audience, were not arrested at Woodstock.
80 arrests
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They ran out of food on the first day.
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When residents of Sullivan County heard about the food shortages, they rallied with the local sheriff’s office to donate 10,000 sandwiches, water bottles, fruit and canned goods.
1,300 pounds of food was brought in by helicopter. Over 500,000 hamburgers and hot dogs were consumed on the first day of the festival, at a cost of $1 each.
The women’s group of the Jewish Community Centre of Monticello prepared 30,000 sandwiches that were handed out by the Sisters of
1,300 lbs. of food
Members of the New Mexico commune “the Hog Farm” were hired by the organizers to set up camp and act as the “Please Force.” Their leader, Wavy Gravy, walked around dressed as Smokey the Bear and threatened any troublemakers with pies in the face or being doused in fizzy water. They also helped with the food shortage by making tons of brown rice and granola and handing it out for free.
You can’t go to a concert these days without running into tables of merchandise featuring T-shirts, sweatshirts, flags –anything you can fit a logo on. At Woodstock there was no official merchandise to be found. The few souvenirs that people were able to take home with them from the show were programs and bootleg items that were sold by attendees.
Of the hundreds of thousands present, there were three deaths: two from drug overdose and one especially tragic case of a 17-year-old in a mud-covered sleeping bag who was run over by a tractor that was collecting debris.
2hour wait
There was an average wait of two hours to make a phone call. On the first day alone, over half a million long-distance calls were made.
The music world was never the same after the Woodstock Festival in 1969.
2017
The Woodstock Festival site was added to the National Registry of Historic Places in 2017.
Sources: foxnewsnetwork.com, littlethings.com, nydailynews.com, festivalsherpa.com, Loudersound.com, history.com
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In the first part of our series (Issue 162, July 2024), “Cracking the Code: How Much Money Do You Need to Retire or Stay Retired Comfortably?” we covered the fundamentals of income planning and asset protection. We discussed the importance of reverse engineering your retirement plan by starting with your ideal scenario and evaluating your budget needs for basics, lifestyle desires, and potential challenges like health issues or economic downturns. We broke this into two main areas: Certainty of Income and Asset Protection. Certainty of income involves ensuring a predictable and steady stream of funds to cover your retirement expenses, while asset protection focuses on safeguarding your assets against life’s uncertainties through tools like insurance and estate planning. This month, we’ll dive into Strategic Growth and Taxes.
Strategic Growth
CRACKING THE CODE:
How Much Money Do You Need to Retire or Stay Retired Comfortably?
by Danny Howes, EA, RFC
on his lifestyle or financial survival because he had the freedom to allow their investments to do what they need to do. Temporary periods of downturn are inevitable if you will be or are investing in the market. These are necessary for future growth in an economy. You may not have billions of dollars, but the reality is the same for all of us, just perhaps on a smaller scale.
Many people tend to start with this first. “As long as my money grows at X%, we will be fine.” This is very flawed logic. Each of our dollars has to have a job in retirement. As I mentioned above, for income planning, we need predictable income sources to fund the necessary expenses. For emergencies, we need an adequate amount of liquid cash that is readily accessible. For protection, we need to assign dollars and/or other financial vehicles when difficult things happen. After all of those dollars are put to work for those purposes, we can then have the freedom to invest for longer-term growth. The word “freedom” is very important. As we accumulate during our working years, we have the freedom to let our long-term investments and savings grow because our working income is taking care of all of our needs. Therefore, we have the freedom to allow our investments to do what they need to do to benefit our future selves.
During a financial downturn, the late Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet’s partner, was once asked how worried he was that their holdings were down by nearly 50%. His answer? A quick no-hesitation “Zero!” How is that possible? The market had no effect
You may find you have zero appetite for risk or very minimal appetite for it. That is okay as well. There are plenty of ways to grow your money for the long term that can fit within your financial resources and appetite for risk. I have witnessed many people go through their whole retirement without taking any stock market risk and have great retirements. However, it is important to consider that having some dollars working to have long-term appreciation can be an integral part of fulfilling some people’s future needs and desires. My point here is that you must find your freedom point before making those decisions, otherwise, you will find yourself stressed every time you turn on the financial entertainment news.
Taxes
Last but certainly not least, you must make sure you evaluate all of the above decisions through a tax lens. Taxes are a potentially huge drain on your finances if not planned properly. This goes for your income planning, investment growth, and estate planning. Like it or not, we have a partner who is selfish, “Uncle Sam.” He will take his entitled cut every time. Our goal is to pay as little in taxes as possible. It’s devastating to see people unknowingly and unnecessarily pay the IRS more than they should. The tax code is complicated, even more so in retirement, compared to our working years, unless, of course, you own a business. Nonetheless, taxation in retirement is an entirely different animal and will bite if we don’t have a solid plan that takes it into consideration.
Danny Howes, EA, RFC EAST COAST TAX AND FINANCIAL PLANNING
by Steve Glaser OF VERO
What Is One Aspect Of Your Personality You’re Grateful For?
Trying
You need resilience if you want to achieve your goals.
Susan Creber AIC
Always do what you have to do to get the job done.
Cole Ripple
I pray to God every day thankful for all my blessings and hope He forgives my sins and makes me a better person.
Corey Troup
FINANCIAL ADVISOR, EXPERIOR FINANCIAL GROUP
As a second grade teacher, you never know what’s going to happen minute to minute and I always adapt to the situation as needed.
Ava Zisman
2ND GRADE TEACHER
REVIEWS
by Penny Cooke
“If” you didn’t see the movie IF in the theater at the start of summer break, it would be a great end-ofsummer movie to stream for the kids. But don’t be mistaken, adults will love it, too. As a matter of fact, one reviewer stated that if your kids don’t enjoy it now, “it will have a completely different meaning to them in 10, 20, or 30 years. As an adult, you’ll almost definitely enjoy it.”
Maybe that’s because we all have our inner child pestering us in adulthood.
IF stands for “Imaginary Friends.” Most of us had at least one as a kid, right? But did you forget them or push them out of your life as you became older?
IF is a live-action fantasy with animation. It’s about 12-year-old Bea (Cailey Fleming), whose father (John Krasinski, who wrote, produced, and directed the film, as well as played the voice of Marshmallow) is about to have heart surgery in the same hospital where her mother died a few years earlier. At age 12, Bea feels she is mature enough to handle the situation without her father’s comical antics to help her to feel better, which are actually heartwarming. They go to New York City where her father will have his surgery and Bea can stay with her grandmother while he’s in the hospital.
On the way to the store, Bea meets a neighbor, Cal (Ryan Reynolds), who is trying to help imaginary friends find new owners. What ensues is a lively and colorful adventure as Bea joins
Cal in matching IFs to new children.
Cal takes Bea to the Memory Lane Retirement Home for lost IFs where she meets Lewis (voice of Louis Gossett, Jr.), an elderly teddy bear IF who runs the facility on Coney Island. Lewis encourages Bea that some IFs don’t need new friends but need to be reunited with old ones (or maybe it’s the other way around). To practice, she helps her grandmother find her IF, a butterfly named Blossom (voice of Pheobe Waller-Bridge), using music to stir her heart.
She then helps a man, Jeremy (Bobby Moynihan), find his IF, a large purple creature named Blue (voice of Steve Carell) by bringing in a smell from his childhood to help him remember.
Bea realizes no matter how old she is, she still needs her IFs, especially during difficult times.
After a scary report from the hospital, Bea visits her father, along with all her IFs, leading to a touching encounter between Bea and her dad.
As the film nears its end, many scenes are brilliantly tied together.
By the way, additional voices of IFs are star packed, including George Clooney, Bradley Cooper, Matt Damon, Christopher Meloni, Maya Rudolph, Jon Stewart and many others, plus several comedians. Brad Pitt is credited as Keith, even though his character is invisible and has no words (symbolizing his appearance as Vanisher in Deadpool 2).
What a sweet film! We watched it with our grandkids, and they loved it. If this one starts out a little slow for you, stick with it, it makes more sense as it goes along. I enjoyed it more the second time, and it’s one I would watch over and over. You’ll catch things you missed the first time, and it will make the film even more meaningful.
You may want to purchase it. After all, we mustn’t let our sense of imagination get away from us, no matter how old we are!
IF
Penny Cooke
Penny Cooke is an award-winning author of Pursuing Prayer - Being Effective in a Busy World, and the children's book, The Wake-up Prayer. Penny co-hosts the podcast, Seeds of Hope with Del (Bates) and Penny on Wednesdays on Vero's Voice Facebook page. Learn more at pennycookeauthor.com
Another Glass of Grüner Veltliner?
Lby Glenn Sudnick, CERTIFIED SOMMELIER
et’s take some time to sit back and talk about this great wine. The Grüner Veltliner (Groo-ner Velt-LEEN-er) grape is the most commonly planted vine variety in Austria. It is enjoyed all over the world and creates a medium- to full-bodied wine with stone fruit aromas of white peach, floral, and even fresh peas. The flavor extends through with ripe white peach, lime, lemon and grapefruit. The finish is enticing with warm spicy notes.
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This wine is so diverse that it pairs well with many dishes, from bitter greens, asparagus, artichokes, salads, Asian, Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese cuisines, and even your favorite pork tenderloin dish.
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Interestingly enough, I found a Grüner from Marlborough, New Zealand that hits all of these high notes and a lot more. The Jules Taylor Gru, as they like to call it, has floral and lime blossom notes with hints of almond. It is unique and persistent with all of the qualities of a satisfying wine.
I recently served chicken breast baked with herbed goat cheese, garlic and pomegranate. Then, as a complement, I decided on sautéed asparagus dressed with sliced almonds. This dish, along with my choice of the Jules Taylor Grüner Veltliner, was a good way to bring friends together and celebrate the end of another Florida summer. To cap off a wonderful meal, we finished with a fresh mango gelato covered with whipped cream, topped with some stevia picked fresh from my garden.
Ah, paradise!
Cheers!
August 10-17
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by Steve Glaser OF VERO VOICES
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Kindness is the quality of being friendly, generous, and
considerate.
What is the kindest thing someone has ever done for you?
When I had covid, a group of dear friends sent homemade soup, bread, and bakery items to my family. It was enough for a week! It made me cry as it was so sweet of them.
Kathleen Provancher
REALTOR & TEAM LEADERPROVANCHER TEAM
When our two-year-old son, who had just suffered a stroke, was heading to Boston to undergo experimental brain surgery, a close friend brought him a plastic tube labeled “Chris’s Stuff!” It was filled with Barney toys which was his favorite cartoon character.
Dale
Glading RISK TAKERS FOR CHRIST
A good friend of ours owned a beautiful condo in St. James Plantation, Southport, North Carolina, and gifted our family a one-week vacation there. They even included a gift certificate for a golf foursome and a $200 credit for the clubhouse restaurant. They knew as full-time missionaries we could never afford such a wonderful vacation.
Deanna Glading RISK TAKERS FOR CHRIST
My son brought me a puppet from Mexico.
Jayne Hartman
VOLUNTEER, RIVERSIDE THEATER
Someone came to my home, weeded my garden, and planted beautiful flowers.
Liz Sherman BROKER, LIZ SHERMAN REAL ESTATE
When I had my hip replacement, my co-workers got together and sent me a beautiful card.
Diane Hacker GUEST SERVICES, RIVERSIDE THEATER
I received a beautiful compliment! Women are vain and always love to be complimented.
Donna Kramer
VOLUNTEER, RIVERSIDE THEATER
A friend surprised me with an unbelievable vacation to Hawaii.
Liz Boley SALES & MARKETING, D•R•HORTON
My dear friend Aleta took great care of me when I had my eye surgery. Leanne Olszewski
I have wonderful memories from my childhood when my mother surprised me with a Cabbage Patch doll.
Noelle Blumer
VOLUNTEER, RIVERSIDE THEATER
I was recently divorced, my daughters were just a few years old and their pediatrician gave me a check so I could buy them Christmas presents.
Michael C. Marsh TEAM SUCCESS ENTERPRISES
My dad sent me on an amazing vacation to Italy and Spain.
Maddy Jaschek ESTHETICIAN
by Barbara Freund
Summer Favorites MORE
NANA’S POOR MAN’S CAKE
My grandmother made this cake frequently. The aroma coming from the oven brings back fond memories that still make me smile. It’s a moist spicy raisin cake, easy to make, and uses only one saucepan. It’s also known as a Depression Cake and was popular in the 1930’s because it does not use eggs or milk, items harder to come by or expensive at that time.
INGREDIENTS
12-ounce or 15-ounce box of raisins (about 2 cups)
2 and 1/2 cups water, divided 1/2 cup Crisco shortening
2 cups granulated sugar
1 and 1/2 teaspoon each: salt, cloves, cinnamon
3 cups flour, divided (2 cups/1cup)
1 and 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Preheat the oven to 350°. Grease a 9 x 13 inch baking pan (I use PAM baking spray.)
2. In a medium to large saucepan combine the raisins and 2 cups water. Bring to a boil and simmer gently for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in Crisco until it melts. Cool thoroughly.
3. Add the sugar and salt, cloves, cinnamon. Stir in 2 cups flour, then add 1/2 cup water, then the remaining 1 cup flour.
4. Sprinkle on baking soda and stir in completely. Don’t overmix.
5. Pour into prepared pan and bake about 25 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean.
6. Leave cake in the baking pan to cool. Wrap with Saran and foil, or store in an airtight container.
Note: My grandmother baked in the mornings and used leftover coffee for cooking the raisins. She used a glass instead of measuring cup which made it tricky to get a precise recipe from her, and I don’t think she used the same amounts each time either, yet her cakes always turned out. And she used Crisco which was very popular back then; the blue-labeled can of Crisco was always in our kitchen when I was growing up. Crisco came out in 1911 as an alternative to lard, touting “It’s all vegetable! It’s digestible!” It eventually fell out of favor because of the artery-clogging hydrogenated oils. They did change their recipe, cutting the amount of transfats in one serving to less than .5 grams, allowing them to claim it contains zero transfats.
The name “Crisco” comes from the phrase “crystallized cottonseed oil.” I just feel better using butter. This recipe is the only time I use Crisco. Substituting butter just doesn’t work.
MY MOM’S BAKED BEANS
These are Rhett’s favorite baked beans. He likes them for breakfast, English style, with scrambled eggs, a slice of summer tomato, and toast covered with butter and raspberry jam.
INGREDIENTS
3 tablespoons butter
1 medium/large onion, chopped 32-oz can Bush’s Original Baked Beans
1/4 cup Heinz ketchup
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
Dash ground cayenne, to taste Bacon strips, optional
DIRECTIONS
1. Sauté onion in butter until translucent, approximately 20 minutes. Add remaining ingredients; cover and cook over low heat for 15 minutes.
2. Can be topped with bacon strips and baked in a 350-degree oven for 20-30 minutes, until bubbly.
A refreshing summertime treat!
WATERMELON SALAD
INGREDIENTS:
There’s no set measurements – use how much or how little you like.
Seedless watermelon, cut into one-inch cubes, chilled Red onion, thinly sliced
Crumbled Greek feta cheese
Balsamic glaze (not vinegar)
Chiffonade of fresh basil leaves
ASSEMBLE:
• Arrange the watermelon cubes and onion slices onto salad plates. Sprinkle on the feta cheese, drizzle with the balsamic glaze. Garnish with ribbons of basil.
Notes:
Red onions add color to salads but can also add an unwanted strong bite. The sulphur compounds causing this bite can be minimized by placing onion slices in ice water for 20 minutes.
You can make your own balsamic glaze by combining 1 cup balsamic vinegar and 2 tablespoons brown sugar in a saucepan over high heat; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium, stir, and simmer until reduced by half, about 10 minutes. Should be syrupy and coat the back of your spoon.
Chiffonade is a cutting technique and produces more attractive cut herbs. Stack basil leaves, largest one on the bottom, roll length-wise into a little cigar, and cut thin slices cross-wise, producing the confetti-like strands of basil.
by Marianne Howell STYLIST
The aim with Sudoku is to place the numbers 1-9 exactly once in each region and in each row.
PERCEPTION
L W O F E R N U S
How many colors are in this graphic?
LOGIC RIDDLE
Can you figure out who won the game?
The Reds, the Grays, the Blues, and the Blacks have a round-robin tournament. Each team plays each other team once, for a total of six games.
The Blacks won more games than the Blues. The Grays lost more games than the Blues. The Reds tied the Blacks. (This was the only tie in the tournament.)
Who won the game between the Reds and the Blues?
WORD WHEEL
How many words of three or more letters can you find in the wheel? Each word you find must use the central letter and each letter can only be used once. Can you find a word that uses all nine letters?
FACE BOOK
WORD LADDER
Change one letter of the top fourletter word to create a new word below. Continue the process, ending with the word on the bottom rung.
WORDS
SERVE OR DESERVE
by Beth Walsh Stewart
Ilove words. I play with them. I think about their meaning. I break them apart and try to figure out how they came to be. Sometimes I recognize that the original meaning has been lost in the common usage of a word so I look for another choice to better describe what I’m trying to convey.
Folks that know me watch me sidestep one certain word regularly. The word is DESERVE. I’m not a fan. When I take it apart, the prefix DE means “away from” or “separation from.” Now, you see it, right? When I worry about what I deserve, I move away from service; I become entitled and not a part of the whole. I separate myself from my fellows in a way that may hurt me or them.
Long ago, when this word was formed, it spoke of the difference between slaves and their masters. It reeked of division and judgment, suggesting that one person was superior to another.
Devotion to service is a high spiritual state often tied to agape love. It is common in families with a devoted parent attending to a child who is unable to exercise selfcare. It shows up in other places, especially when there is desperation or great need. Service is love in action. It has been called the hands and feet of God on earth.
Whether or not we serve others shows up in the way we live and what we attain. For the service-minded, it doesn’t matter what we “deserve;” it matters only what we can achieve together. Can we make this world better?
When I’m in a grove and I want that beautiful grapefruit high on the branches, I might need a stepstool or a tall friend to help me reach my goal. This is a simple example of how connection will allow me to achieve my highest good. Connection will help me get the sweetest fruit, but I might have to ask for help. I might have to allow someone to serve me. That’s the hardest part for some of us. Our pride tells us that we should be able to achieve our goals without help, or our false pride screams that we are not worthy to ask for assistance. Either way, pride keeps us separated and apart, worrying about what we deserve.
Quit settling for the low-hanging fruit. Reach higher. Ask for help if you need it. And while you’re up there, grab an extra grapefruit for someone else. That will be the juiciest part of your day, I guarantee it.
Beth Walsh Stewart, MTh, is the Creator of BethWe, the nonprofit that was the impetus for this work. Dedicated to rescuing the stragglers lost in the shadows of the road of life, Beth is best-known for her Good Seed Podcasts, 12-Step seminars, weekly blogs, g.o.d. speaks books, and uplifting workshops. Beth lives by this motto: I have been called to help my brother find his authentic self and his God, and I best accomplish this end by sharing my pursuit of the same.
Beth Walsh Stewart
Pastor Warren Kelly Brother Danny Lopez
Mind Games Answers
Puzzles on page 26
WORD LADDER:
FACE
RACE
RACK ROCK ROOK BOOK
PERCEPTION:
There are only 3 colors in the graphic. The green boxes each look different because the eyes combine adjacent colors, but they are in fact the same color.
WORD WHEEL:
Some of the words that can be made from the wheel include: furs, fuse, lens, lows, news, noes, nose, ones, onus, ours, owes, owls, owns, refs, roes, rose, rows, rues, runs, ruse, self, serf, sewn, slew, sloe, slow, slue, slur, snow, sole, sore, soul, sour, sown, suer, sure, surf, urns, user, wens, woes, enols, euros, ferns, flews, floes, flors, flows, flues, fouls, fours, fowls, froes, fuels, furls, loser, louse, lunes, lures, noels, norse, nurse, oners, resow, roles, rouse, rules, runes, snore, sower, swole, swore, sworn, unsew, wolfs, worse, wrens, felons, flours, frowns, loners, lowers, owners, resown, slower, worsen, flowers, fowlers, ourself, reflows, sunflower
LOGIC RIDDLE:
The Reds.
Thought For The Day
by Rev. Bill Kearney
Too often when we pray, we are looking for the Burger King answer -- -right away, our way. God’s viewpoint for our situation is not always easy or simplistic. We sometimes have to pray for weeks, months, or even years before we can comprehend our situation from God’s viewpoint. We have to persevere and stand on the fact that God loves us and wants the very best for us.
We need to realize that God’s work is done in our spirit. Our circumstances may fluctuate, but God is unceasingly at work in our lives. God’s viewpoint will become evident when we focus on the principles set forth in His Word.
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REV’S VERSES
by Pastor Rich Ienuso
The Essence of Happiness
Everybody wants to be happy, but few know where to find it. In the following simple prose poem, American naturalist and essayist John Burroughs encourages us to find happiness in the beauty which lies before us.
Look Under Foot
by John Burroughs
The lesson which life constantly repeats is to “look under foot.”
Acts 24:15 states “…have hope towards God…”
Hebrews 6:19 states “… which hope we have as an anchor of the soul…”
1 Peter states we have “a living hope because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”
As we put our trust in the Lord, we can have hope. Never give up. We live in troubling and trying times, but we can be assured that God is still in control.
Do not fear. Put your faith is a living God.
There is hope.
Blessings,
Pastor Rich Ienuso
You are always nearer to the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars. Every place is the center of the world.
Pastor Rich Ienuso
BEACHSIDE
Riverside Theatre
Cliff Norris Real Estate
Village Beach Market
CVS-A1A
Planes Dental Arts
Vero Beach Hotel & Spa
Cobalt
Seaside Grille
Corey’s Pharmacy
Lemon Tree
Ocean Grill
Holiday Inn
Treasure Lane Boutique
Red Onion
The Tides
Ryder’s Gourmet Market
AMAC | Alex MacWilliam
Real Estate
Charlotte Terry Real Estate
Di Mare Restaurant
Marine Bank
Ryder’s Market
Asian Fusion
VERO’S VOICE MAGAZINE
Delivery Locations
IN TOWN
iThink Financial, 1340 US 1
1420 Coffee House, 2001 14th Ave
ACT Computers
Vero Beach Chamber of Commerce
Habitat for Humanity
Certus Memory Care
CVS –53rd
Center for Advanced Eye Care
Big Shots Golf
Mental Health of IRC – 37th PL
Springhill Suites
Regency Park
Oak Harbor Club
Crab Stop
Calvetti’s
Manatee’s La Tabla
Rhonda’s Seafood
Mattress Market – US1
Postal Connection
Vero Beach Book Center
Dunkin Donuts
Vincent’s Italian A & A Insurance
First Watch Restaurant
Hampton Inn
S.T.A.R. Pilates
Ceviche
Michaels on 7th
The ARC
Wooden Spoon - Oslo
IRC Chamber of Commerce
Vero Beach Theatre Guild
County Administration Office
Carole Jean Jordan, IRC Tax Collector
Cultural Council
Beach Bum Bagel
Vero Beach Main Street
Gallery 14
CVS –17th
Main Library
Renaissance Senior Living
Vero Beach Airport Lobby
CJ Cannon’s Restaurant
Perkins Pharmacy – Route 60
Oceans Unite Christian Center
Oceans Cafe
Mattress Market – Route 60
Brackett Library, IRSC
Larry’s Roadside Restaurant
Image 360
Kelley’s Irish Pub
Hemp Nook
Seacoast Bank
Joey’s Seafood
Golf Carts of VB
Majestic Theatre
Einstein Bagels
Touch of Class Dry Cleaners
Green Marlin Restaurant
Molinari Pools
American Legion
Orthopaedic Center of Vero Beach
Orthopaedic Center Physical Therapy
Dean Wellness Center
American Grill
Center City Pizza
Vero Beach Chamber of Commerce
The Red Wok Chinese Restaurant
The Rowe Gallery
Lychee Nail Salon
Vero’s Voice 95 Royal Palm Pointe
