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Left row, from top: Caroline Lee, Sophia Katz, Reagan Dobrolecki, Anna Lee and Juliana Wilson. Right row, from top: Abby Crant, Melina D’Argenio and Sophie Graham.

Dance masters

Dancers from Elizabeth Parsons School of Dance participated at the Florida Dance Masters Thanksgiving Convention in Orlando, and Anna Lee placed as a finalist in the Jr. Miss Dance competition and received a jazz scholarship.

Caroline Lee received two scholarships for jazz and Top Ten Overall, as well.

Other competitors were Abby Crant, Melina D’Argenio, Reagan Dobrolecki and Juliana Wilson.

Other convention participants were Sophie Graham and Sophia Katz.

Florida Dance Masters advances the art of dance through quality education for teachers and students, promoting excellence in dance.

Parsons has been a member of National Dance Masters since 1958 and Florida Dance Masters since 1987.

Trash talk

Jan. 1 marked the start of unincorporated Orange County’s new automated curbside collection program.

Orange County residents now will be able to use their new 95-gallon garbage and recycling roll carts for collection of their household items.

Also starting on Jan. 1, residents should begin following their new once-perweek collection schedule, which is available at ocfl.net/ CollectionSchedule.

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Stories to watch in 2016

From a new face on the Orange County Commission and at the helm of Dr. Phillips Charities to I-4 Ultimate and a new elementary school, 2016 promises to be a big year for Southwest Orange.

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Windermere Prep club helps the homeless After learning about the homeless population in Central Florida, Windermere Prep students and parents started a club to help.

JENNIFER NESSLAR STAFF WRITER WINDERMERE It all started with a

“60 Minutes” clip.

In 2012, a parent who viewed the story of a Central Florida family that was homeless brought the clip before third-grade Windermere Preparatory School students and their parents.

Fifty students said they wanted to do something about it.

“One of the parts of that clip that moved them a lot was there was a family and they had to put everything in storage,” Amy Healy, one of the parent leaders, said. “There was a little girl talking about how they lost the storage unit and all her Barbies were in there. And it was just heartbreaking. And they connected so much to that hearing a kid say they lost their toys.”

From that day, the 2021 Club began. The club is a parent-child participation organization and is led by Healy and fellow parents Tara Harned, Amanda Vo and Amy Steppie.

The club is named 2021 after the graduating class that started SEE 2021 PAGE 20

2 GIRLS AND A DRESS

Madeleine Geller, a Windermere Prep sophomore, started 2 Girls and a Dress.

Through this project, she collects dresses for students and donates them to local schools and organizations with dress banks.

She started the project last year with a friend, Makinley Gay, who has since switched schools.

When the 2021 club went to Carver Middle School, Geller brought dresses with her to donate to the closet.

As a sophomore, Geller is not part of the 2021 club, but her younger brother Johnny Geller is.

She is currently working to develop relationships with other local schools.

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HIP HATS 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 7, at the Windermere Library, 530 Main St. Celebrate the things that go on your head with crafts and stories all about hats. Ages 6-12. Call (407) 835-7323 for details.

FRIDAY, JAN. 8

SOUNDS LIKE CHICKEN REHEARSALS 6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 8, in the choir room of the First United Methodist Church of Winter Garden, 125 N. Lakeview Ave. Sounds Like Chicken A Cappella, a community-based all-male a cappella group, is celebrating eight years of singing together and is looking for

new members. The group sings contemporary a cappella, barbershop, choral music, folk and more. Tenors, baritones and basses are encouraged to join.

Email tenorthechad@yahoo. com for details.

SATURDAY, JAN. 9

NATIVE-AMERICAN CRAFTS 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 9, and continuing on the second Saturday of each month, at 3415 Silverwood Drive, Pine Hills. The nonprofit Order of the Skywatcher Clan (Native American tribe and 501c3 charity) teaches tribal arts and crafts such as beading, woodcarving, clay sculpting, weaving, jewelry and flint napping while socializing over a potluck lunch. Call John Martello at (407) 293-1739 or email omegaltd158@juno.com for information.

INSIDE OUT: THE HUMAN BODY 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 9, at the Windermere Library, 530 Main St. How many hairs are on your head? What happens when you eat pizza? By exploring the human body with hands-on activities and stories, you can find out the answers to these questions and more. Ages 6-12.

For details, call (407) 835-7323.

release of the Minion movie with games and crafts. Ages 3 and up. For details, call (407) 835-7323.

THURSDAY, JAN. 14

DISTINGUISHED YOUNG WOMEN OF FLORIDA STATE COMPETITION SHOWCASE 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 9, at Garden Theatre, 160 W. Plant St., Winter Garden. Young women compete for more than $3 million in college-granted and cash scholarships. The program showcases the fitness, talent and public-speaking abilities of the state’s best and brightest high school seniors.

Tickets are $20 ($15 for ages 12 and younger). For information, go to distinguishedyw.org.

WARM SEASON VEGETABLE GARDENING 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14, at the Jessie Brock Community Center, 310 N. Dillard St., Winter Garden. Learn the “warm season” vegetable gardening, including soil preparation, adjusting soil pH, fertilizing, irrigation, pests and diseases.

Gardens can be grown yearround in Florida, but spring is the preferred season by most homeowners. Cost is $5 per household. Pre-register at gardenflorida.eventbrite.com.

For information, call the UF/ IFAS Orange County Extension Education Center at (407) 254-9200.

MONDAY, JAN. 11

FRIDAY, JAN. 15

SCIENCE TOTS 10:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 11, at the Southwest Library, 7255 Della Drive, Orlando.

Science Tots introduces basic science concepts to children ages 3 to 5 while having fun and making exciting discoveries. Registration recommended by calling (407) 8357323.

FROZEN SING-ALONG 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 15, at the Southwest Library, 7255 Della Drive, Orlando. Warm up your voices and experience Frozen, the Sing-Along Edition, for the

first time in forever. Children ages 6 to 12. For details, call (407) 835-7323.

SATURDAY, JAN. 16

COOKIES & MILK WITH A COP 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 16, and continuing on the third Saturday of each month, at the Winter Garden Library, 805 E. Plant St. Children are invited to meet local police officers and enjoy cookies and milk. Contact Officer Andrew Raphael at (407) 456-9493 or (407) 656-3636, Ext. 4017.

MINION CELEBRATION 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 9, at the Windermere Library, 530 Main St. Bello! Celebrate the

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CHANGE FOR THE COUNTY STAFF WRITER WEST ORANGE COUNTY This year

marks the last of eight as District 1 Orange County Commissioner for S. Scott Boyd, who has reached his term limit.

Although the general election is not until Nov. 8, the Aug. 30 primary would decide the winner of Boyd’s seat if one candidate secures more than 50% of the vote.

Two West Orange candidates — Bobby Olszewski,current District 3 Winter Garden city commissioner, and Betsy VanderLey, former District 1 Planning and Zoning commissioner and chairwoman — are viewed as the frontrunners.

A third candidate, Dr. Usha Jain, 65, is a physician at Emergi-Care Medical Center in Dr. Phillips who filed for this seat March 13. Her primary reason for running is a legal battle about a code violation pertaining to her business’ sign that had been in place for a decade.

A fourth candidate, Nuren Durre Haider, filed last week.

Since May, Jain has reported no campaign contributions to add to her in-kind total of $209.30 to end April, according to the Orange County Supervisor of Elections site. She said she has had no plans to actively campaign.

In contrast, Olszewski and VanderLey each have raised more than $30,000. Both have received

FINANCES AND ENDORSEMENTS BOBBY OLSZEWSKI Olszewski won re-election without opposition to his Winter Garden City Commission seat in the March 2015 election and then filed for this race on Sept. 1. He has raised $30,350 ($333.52 per day) and spent $2,783.32 through November. Marketing, law, advertising, management and real estate are among the most common fields of his donors.

Windermere Police Chief Dave Ogden and councilmen Jim O’Brien and Bob McKinley, District 1 Ocoee Commissioner John Grogan, District 2 Ocoee Commissioner Rosemary Wilsen, District 4 Winter Garden Commissioner Colin Sharman and Florida representatives Randolph Bracy III and Rene Plasencia are notable contributors.

BETSY VANDERLEY VanderLey abdicated her Planning and Zoning Commission seat as a requirement to start her campaign, which began Jan. 30.

Through November, she had raised $94,990.15 ($311.44 per day) and spent $12,448.42. Her benefactors’ most common fields include law, engineering, development, real estate and various entities of Walt Disney World.

Of note are donations from County Commissioner S. Scott Boyd, District 3 Orange County Commissioner Pete Clarke, Oakland Mayor Kathy Stark and District 2 Winter Garden Commissioner Bob Buchanan.

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“ I will always make decisions placing residents and community first, which is a promise that people of Orange County can look forward to under my leadership.”

District 3 Winter Garden City Commissioner Bobby Olszewski and former Orange County District 1 Planning and Zoning Commissioner and Chairwoman Betsy VanderLey are the frontrunners to replace S. Scott Boyd, who is at his term limit.

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endorsements and contributions from many local politicians, movers and shakers, which should make a competitive race.

Should no candidate win a majority vote at the primary election, the top two candidates will face off in the general election.

Bobby Olszewski

BOBBY OLSZEWSKI

Olszewski said he had always had a goal of one day becoming county commissioner, and he felt the timing was right for him in September. He grew up in the Orange Tree neighborhood of Dr. Phillips.

Among community causes Olszewski is passionate about are youth sports and his faith, which merge in his involvement with the Roper YMCA Center, where he became chairman of the board of directors this year.

Whereas VanderLey has embraced Boyd’s support, Olszewski has said he would like to take the District 1 commissioner’s office in a different direction. His campaign centers on a slogan, “Residents and Community First,” with four pillars: ethical leadership, fiscal responsibility, lower taxes and public safety.

“My record as a commissioner is rooted in putting residents and community first, and I will continue this focus as an Orange County commissioner,” Olszewski said. “I do not have any conflicts with private business interests for votes that I will take as an Orange County commissioner. Nor will I purposely pit homeowners against special interests playing both sides of an issue. I will always make decisions placing residents and community first, which is a promise that people of Orange County can look forward to under my leadership.”

Olszewski believes ingenuity of local private businesses and residents will foster success in the community by putting faith in them more so than local government, including with finances.

“Politicians find it easy to spend money because it is not their money,” he said. “As a commissioner, my record shows that I spend public dollars as I would my own family’s, with a clear return on investment.”

Olszewski wants to avoid delays on actions, especially pertaining to overcrowding in local schools, he said. This goes along with the idea of synergistically maintaining the tourism capital of the world and a sense of community in development decisions — stimulating the economy without losing sight of the long-term future or just taking the easy way out, he said.

“Growth is inevitable, and it is critical that we put residents and community first with smart growth,” Olszewski said.

“When you look at what we have accomplished in Winter Garden, you see evidence of what smart growth can do for a community.”

Within this philosophy, Olszewski believes wasteful spending can be reduced to the greatest benefit of the constituency, as well as that a

“When you ask people out here where they’re from, they say West Orange or Winter Garden or Windermere. They identify very strongly with it, and I want to make sure that happens as we grow.”

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lack of tax increases stimulates growth by keeping money with the residents.

“I have never voted for a tax increase,” he said. “Our government always needs to do more with less, rather than taking the easy way out by increasing ... tax burdens.”

This includes doing more to keep the community safe, such as providing all Orange County Sheriff’s Office and county fire rescue crews all they need, he said.

BETSY VANDERLEY

VanderLey, of Oakland, had volunteered for Boyd’s campaign and received a request from Boyd to run to fill his seat. She mulled this decision for two years, ultimately choosing to run based on the magnitude of effects from political decisions, she said.

“I didn’t anticipate ever running for office,” she said. “It was always that I’d help other people I believed in, like Commissioner Boyd and Marco Rubio, people like that I had a lot of confidence in.”

VanderLey estimated she saw 80% of BCC items in her three years on the Planning and Zoning Commission, which meant she already was influencing the community through recommendations, which she enjoyed.

“I ... thought I could roll up my sleeves and do it,” VanderLey said.

“I felt like this is the next step in community service, in a way. I think the West Orange community is extraordinary in how they put their arms around people from the outside and say, ‘Let me help you find a place in Rotary; let me help you find a place in the Chamber.’”

VanderLey wants to offer Horizon West in particular that welcoming, so it feels as if it belongs to West Orange.

“When you ask people in Bithlo where they’re from, they say Orlando,” she said. “When you ask people out here where they’re from, they say West Orange or Winter Garden or Windermere.

They identify very strongly with it, and I want to make sure that happens as we grow.”

As development continues in District 1 — through a process VanderLey hopes to streamline — she wants Horizon West to maintain agricultural roots while inheriting the bike trails and community events she associates with West Orange culture, she said. That kind of development goes with the other economic staple of the district, tourism, both of which she holds experience in as a business developer and contractor who has worked for Disney.

“I understand the business out there and what that brings to the table, and I’m grateful for it,” she said. “I just felt like I could connect people, having been here such a long time. I think that’s a lot of what a commissioner does: They facilitate opportunity in the community, to make sure the infrastructure’s in place for that.”

VanderLey mentioned the school siting process — a controversial topic in this district — needs to change while county commissioners continue improving their relationship with Orange County Public Schools.

“It’s not like we can put a barrier up at the county and say, ‘No more, we’re full,’” she said. “We’re going to have to do it like people from West Orange, where we wrap our arms around everybody and say, ‘Let us help you find your place in our community.’”

Contact Zak Kerr at zkerr@orangeobserver.com.

CAMPAIGN STAFFS OLSZEWSKI Campaign consulting team: Strategic Image Management, led by Anthony Pedicini, Tom Piccolo and Fred Piccolo Campaign manager: Ron Janssen Treasurer: Karen West Website: VoteBobbyO.com VANDERLEY Campaign team: John Dowless, Jennifer McDougald, Wendy Kurtz Treasurer: Teresa Precourt Watkins Website: ElectBetsyVander Ley.com

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The West Orange High relief school is scheduled to open in 2017.

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The Sunset Park Elementary relief school will open this year.

The fast growth of West Orange County, specifically Horizon West, poses a unique challenge for Orange County Public Schools.

JENNIFER NESSLAR STAFF WRITER WEST ORANGE COUNTY Growth

in Orange County is outpacing Florida 2 to 1 and the U.S. 3 to 1, and nearly 45% of homes in the pipeline for Orange County are in the Horizon West area.

As a result of the growth, several West Orange public schools are getting crowded.

For Orange County Public Schools, the growth poses a unique challenge. Orange County builds roads and infrastructure in anticipation of growth, but for OCPS to open a school, there must be a sufficient number of students to attend the school.

“It’s different for (OCPS) because they just don’t go out and build a school and not have the students to put in it,” said S. Scott Boyd, District 1 county commissioner. “It’s extremely important for them to have the timing down as to when they’re going to need another school.”

FIVE-YEAR PLAN

OCPS isn’t ignoring growth and overcrowded schools. In Orange County, seven schools will open this year and 14 more in 2017, according Pam Gould, District 4 Orange County School Board member.

In the West Orange area, the first new school to open will be the relief elementary school for Sunset Park Elementary. The school is set to open this year, and

REZONING WEST ORANGE HIGH n Community meeting: 6:30 p.m.

Jan. 11 n School Board Rule Development Workshop, 4:30 p.m. Jan. 28 n Public hearing, 5:30 p.m. March 8. Ocoee, Olympia and West Orange High students could be impacted.

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Rezoning timeline for Sunset Park Elementary relief school: n Public hearing, 5:30 p.m. Jan. 26 All meetings will be held at Ronald Blocker Educational Leadership Center, 445 W. Amelia St., Orlando.

the School Board is scheduled to finalize its zoning at a Jan. 26 public meeting. The new school will help alleviate overcrowding, but the zoning likely will require some families who recently moved to a new school to uproot again — something Gould said is a challenge of moving into a new, high-growth area.

“We’re trying to do what we can to accommodate, but because they have so many kids out there, it’s just really hard with the growth in the area,” Gould said. “We’re kind of stuck going either way on that one.”

In 2017, two relief schools will open — one to relieve MetroWest Elementary and a second to relieve West Orange High School, which currently has 4,121 students enrolled — more than 1,000 greater than its 2,994 capacity.

Gould expects the new high school finally will put West Orange High under capacity and — more importantly — keep it there as growth continues along State Road 50 and the western end of the county toward Lake County. Students in these areas will likely attend West Orange.

“We know there’s going to be growth, because right near (West Orange) are new developments coming out of the ground,” Gould said.

Furthermore, balancing the student numbers will be critical to ensuring the new high school doesn’t become overcrowded.

“It will be enough under (capacity) that we have a good portion of students, but not so close to the capacity number, where we’re going crazy again,” Gould said.

Beyond 2017, a relief school will be needed for Bridgewater Middle, which currently is more than 500 students over capacity.

Parent Judy Paulsen has had two children attend Bridgewater as it has battled overcrowding.

“We definitely need the relief,” she said. “When a school is overcrowded or when it doesn’t have the infrastructure to handle the number of students, that’s a detriment to everybody — to the students, to the teachers — and it just makes it a harder learning environment, harder to teach and harder to learn.”

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A school to relieve area middle schools is slated within OCPS’s 10-year plan, set to open in 2019. Gould hopes to move the opening to 2018, but it depends on the district’s budget and capabilities.

An additional elementary school is planned for 2020.

WHAT’S NEXT?

As a Realtor and West Orange resident, parent Jane Dunkelberger knows the area is desirable. Dunkelberger has kids in Sunset Park Elementary and Bridgewater Middle.

“After being in the area close to 10 years, I knew there was a lot of growth coming since the Horizon West plan had been on the books,” she said. “I had been studying the growth that was coming, and when the market went down, I knew it would come back and it would come back fast and furious.”

Dunkelberger is thankful for Gould’s work in stressing the need for relief schools in the area. She wants to see the school system continue to become more proactive in planning relief schools.

“People are going to continue to come,” she said.

A few years ago, Gould and Boyd brought developers to OCPS to talk about the trends they were seeing, to bring OCPS up to date on what is happening in the area.

The next high school planned for the area will be placed in the Seidel Road area, but it is not currently in OCPS’s 10-year plan. Gould plans to watch trends carefully in the next few years to see if she will need to push it into the 10-year timeframe.

OCPS also is working on a relief school site between Dr. Phillips High School and Freedom High School, to help alleviate capacity issues at both schools.

Dr. Phillips High School is over capacity but is able to handle it because the area on the north part of campus functions well, Gould said. Before OCPS can set timeframes for the Dr. PhillipsFreedom school, it must obtain land. The relief school is not in the 10-year plan, but Gould anticipates it may be moved into the plan in the course of the next few years.

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Independence Elementary Total enrollment: 786 Program capacity: 786 Keene’s Crossing Elementary Total enrollment: 896 Program capacity: 812 Sunset Park Elementary Total enrollment: 1,217 Program capacity: 753 MetroWest Elementary Total enrollment: 1,584 Program capacity: 1,237 Bridgewater Middle Total enrollment: 1,565 Program capacity: 1,040 Dr. Phillips High Total enrollment: 3,576 Program capacity: 2,799 West Orange High Total enrollment: 4,121 Program capacity: 2,994

NOT DONE YET

There is still plenty of room for development in Horizon West.

A total of 21,000 acres of available land designated for commercial use is still there.

In addition, 25,000 acres of residential land use and 18,000 acres of agriculture is still available, according to Rick Singh, Orange County property appraiser.

“Indications are this will continue — when you have people moving to the area,” Singh said. “People are moving back to Orange County faster than they are moving back to the state of Florida.”

In the area, 1,655 new homes were sold in 2014, and updated numbers indicate that 1,400 singlefamily homes are in the pipeline for Horizon West in the next year.

The new frontier in development is coming to south Horizon West — in a development called Village I — and even beyond Horizon West, along the Avalon 545 corridor as it intersects State Road 192, Boyd said.

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Lines in the sand District redrawing remains the pivotal issue as Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Daniel Webster faces a Democratic adversary — either State Sen. Geraldine Thompson or former Orlando Police Chief Val Demings.

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For District 12 State Sen. Geraldine Thompson, who represents much of West Orange County as part of her district, her decision to run for the seat of Florida’s 10th District in the U.S. House of Representatives was based in large part on the shifting maps of Florida districts.

“I decided in July when I realized that the Senate maps were going to be redrawn,” she said. “All 40 of the senators would have different districts, perhaps, than what we currently have, and this would be the third (cycle) in a row that I would have to run.”

When Thompson saw her whole Florida Senate district was within the newly drawn U.S. House District 10, she thought one way or the other she would have to run and chose to run for Congress, she said.

Thompson’s main challenge in the Democratic primary should be former Orlando Police Chief Val Demings, who ran against Republican incumbent Daniel Webster in 2012 and lost by just 3.58%. Although no primary challenger for Webster has emerged as of press time, political newcomers Angel Vega and Fatima Fahmy also have filed for the Democratic nomination.

But for Webster and Demings, perhaps the biggest issue of this race is the history of the 10th District’s map and its present state, dictated in part by the 2010 Fair Districts Amendment to the Florida Constitution, which bans districts drawn to help incumbents or members of a political party.

On Oct. 9, Tallahassee circuit judge Terry Lewis ruled in favor of the first proposed map from a coalition of plaintiffs led by the League of Women Voters. The Florida Supreme Court upheld Lewis’s decision by a 5-2 ruling Dec. 2.

“It is my understanding that it would be in effect for the 2016 elections, pending any action by a federal court to state otherwise,” Florida Senate spokeswoman Katie Betta said.

The area of the 10th District drastically changes from the previous election year, 2014, when its area consisted of a northern portion of Polk County; almost all of the western half of Lake County; West Orange County, from Ocoee in the north to the county borders with Lake and Osceola counties; and a curly branch encompassing areas such as Williamsburg, Sky Lake, Belle Isle and Edgewood up to Audubon Park, College Park and Lake Fairview.

Now the 10th District is just

the westernmost 60.8% of Orange County’s population, with boundaries along the southern border with Osceola County and the western and northern borders of Lake County. The eastern boundary mostly follows Interstate 4 south from the Seminole County line until the interstate juts southwest, at which point the boundary moves east to follow Semoran Boulevard through Orlando International Airport to the Osceola County line. This district holds 56.6% of Orlando’s population.

In the 2012 elections, 35.7% of registered District 10 voters were Democrats; 39.8% were Republicans. In the redrawn district, according to Florida Senate statistics, those respective percentages were 45.9% and 27.9%. Among voters registered for that year’s elections, 41.8% within the new district shape identified as black or hispanic.

“They took the biggest part of it — which is in Orange County — they coupled it with downtown Orlando, Pine Hills, so forth — totally Democrat … and turned my district into a majority minority district,” Webster said. “The lower

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court had said that because my percentage of Republicans had increased by 6/10s of a percent, that was favoring me. In this particular case, the number of Democrats increased by (much more).”

Based on rulings against tiny favors to him, Webster believes this stark change against him also should be deemed unlawful.

He said he would prefer the map to favor and disfavor nobody and be constitutional, including not splitting big cities such as Orlando, which the latest several maps have.

Demings said she was amazed

by Webster’s comments, because she had felt the same in 2012. Webster said his opponent in the prior election — 2010 — had gotten 38% of the vote, the same number he believes he is now limited to.

“I felt like I needed to give him my talking points from 2012, because that’s exactly what I had the first time,” Demings said. “If the lines don’t change at all, we expect to contend better.

Whatever lines are improved are … out of my control. Old (District) 10 or new (District) 10, I believe Daniel Webster is the wrong representative for District 10, because you have to represent everybody. You can’t pick and choose who you want to represent.”

Contact Zak Kerr at zkerr@orangeobserver.com.

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Ultimate solution?

A two-year widening project reaching the Interstate 4 junction at Turkey Lake and Sand Lake roads in Dr. Phillips will improve F-rated traffic when finished — but worsen one of the area’s most congested intersections in the meantime.

ZAK KERR STAFF WRITER DR. PHILLIPS For many residents

in Central Florida, there are three certainties in life: death, taxes and traffic.

Dr. Phillips might know this last certainty better than any other area, especially with its notorious Interstate 4 interchange at the intersection of Turkey Lake and Sand Lake roads.

And for congestion in that area to improve, construction first will have to worsen what is already touted as one of Orlando’s five worst intersections.

“It is probably the worst intersection in Orlando,” local resident Jim Pasquinelli said. “I get tired of hearing about how Horizon West and

An interim Daryl Carter Parkway flyover with Interstate 4 could alleviate traffic on Palm Parkway/Turkey Lake Road, which runs virtually parallel to the west.

Winter Garden are having their communities planned so elegantly, with parks and bike trails … and I can’t even get to a store in a reasonable amount of time. It’s ridiculous.”

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Hayes said the traffic issues have become a public safety concern to the point it reaches Orlando International Airport and interferes with emergency vehicle access.

Another local resident, Jeffrey Yorinks, said waiting more years for traffic relief would put traffic “It is probably the worst intersection in Orlando. I get tired at a standstill.

“I have watched an ambulance of hearing about how Horizon West and Winter Garden try to get by and (get stuck),” Yorinks said. “You want it to get are having their communities planned so elegantly, with there on time or people die, and it’s not going to happen the way parks and bike trails … and I can’t even get to a store in a it is.”

District 1 Orange County reasonable amount of time. It’s ridiculous.”

Commissioner S. Scott Boyd said a grant for traffic relief in Jim Pasquinelli, resident the area of this intersection has been under examination, with

infrastructure projects falling under the $300 million INVEST plan Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs unveiled in July.

The frequent gridlock residents described could be helped by adding extended off ramps to shoot Interstate 4 traffic trying to go north or south on Turkey Lake Road directly into such lanes, as opposed to onto Sand Lake Road, where they currently are forced to pile up at its intersection with Turkey Lake Road, he said.

Renzo Nastasi, Orange County transportation planning manager, said there would be a new interchange at John Young Parkway and Sand Lake Road, as well as an FDOT expansion

of Sand Lake Road to six lanes from that area to the Interstate 4 and Turkey Lake Road location.

Traffic at that already F-rated Sand Lake and Turkey Lake roads intersection would worsen during this painful widening project, scheduled to start July 1 and take two years, he said.

But afterward, traffic would flow much better, with six lanes for Sand Lake Road from John Young Parkway to Turkey Lake Road — about 3 miles. Proposals have included a 10-foot sidewalk along the west side of Turkey Lake Road and 7-foot bicycle lanes on both the north and south sides of Sand Lake Road between Turkey Lake Road and International Drive. Plans for increased undertakings are available at the county website, although some are big and will not come for five or six years, Nastasi said.

As another example of attempts to alleviate traffic, Boyd said he had been seeking ways to get crosswalks on Sand Lake Road off the ground, so that instead of one person trying to cross and gridlocking the intersection for hours as residents attested to, pedestrians could walk over the intersection without affecting traffic. He said county staff had looked at changing cycles after school hours, similar to ideas around Sunset Park Elementary at Winter Garden-Vineland and Overstreet roads near Windermere, where some have wanted increased gridlock in certain areas to reduce speeds.

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The Interstate 4 interchange at Sand Lake Road is part of Segment 2 of the I-4 Beyond the Ultimate project.

study involving this area and stretching up Apopka-Vineland Road is underway, he said.

Expanding from Interstate 4 to South Apopka-Vineland Road is an option county leaders have been considering, he said.

“This stuff takes a while to happen,” Boyd said. “I wish I could fund $45 million into a new interchange — would love to do that.”

That stuff includes a study to evaluate an interim Interstate 4 interchange at Daryl Carter Parkway near attractions, which the Board of County Commissioners approved Nov. 17, Boyd said. FDOT has agreed to initiate an analysis to assess the viability of constructing an

interim interchange, proposing that the analysis be included in the ongoing Interstate 4 Systems Access Modification Report, he said. This interim flyover could be complete within seven years, he said.

If constructed, the flyover would serve as a temporary interchange until the I-4 Beyond the Ultimate project is fully constructed, which could be 15 years away and cost $70 million, Boyd said.

The interim interchange would include two ramps that tie into the existing Daryl Carter Parkway overpass and access Turkey Lake Road/Palm Parkway and Daryl Carter Parkway from Interstate 4. The I-4 Beyond the Ultimate interchange is more complex

with toll lanes, full access and constructed transit corridor, he said.

Nastasi said plans for a Sand Lake Road-Interstate 4 interchange exist but agreed the next phase of Interstate 4 improvements is about 15 years away.

COULD IT GET ANY WORSE?

Some locals believe road improvements take too long and are reactive — not proactive — solutions to immense development in the region, the biggest source of traffic congestion.

Na s ta s i h a s re m i n d e d residents state law forbids denial of a zoned project based on transportation, which adds to the

cumbersomeness of the issue in Pasquinelli’s view.

“You can improve all these roads to death,” Pasquinelli said.

“The amount of development that’s occurring (in this area) is ridiculous in how landlocked Dr. Phillips is and a sense of community that we’re losing. … And then you’re saying let’s wait 10 or 15 years (for other road improvements)? At what point in time do our opinions become valued? All we want is low-impact businesses that serve the community, which we are underserved in, because we can’t get out of the community.”

One proposed development that has been central in this debate is the Rialto II project, a complement of 325 multifamily units to the Rialto residential development it abuts — at the northwest corner of that very Sand Lake and Turkey Lake roads intersection. After the Board of County Commissioners voted 4-3 on July 28 to transmit this project, adoption progress stalled.

Pasquinelli said Rialto II would not fit present commercial zoning of the parcel, and with other nearby expansions in the works, traffic of hundreds of residents in one location from Rialto II would be an issue, he said.

“There is nothing (any) developer can do to alleviate the amount of traffic that 600 cars a day going in and out … are going to create at that intersection,” Yorinks said of the Rialto II proposal. “None of the lights (at that intersection) are properly synchronized; they have never been.”

In Orange County Planning Division’s Florida Department of Economic Opportunity Transmittal Staff Report, staff calculations showed the proposed

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residential use would generate 196 new p.m. peak-hour trips — a net decrease of 1,838 p.m. peak-hour trips from the currently approved commercial use. This follows a line of thinking that something must be developed on the 6.5 developable acres of this parcel, so the best plan is to minimize it.

“If it stays commercial, it’s 20 times worse than if you go through the multifamily,” VHB Inc. developer Jim Hall said. “Then if you extrapolate it further … the earliest we would ever anticipate ground being broken on this is August of 2016. No one will live there until probably the middle of 2018, and by then, FDOT is doing a new project to improve Sand Lake Road starting in 2016 that could be completed.”

But Pasquinelli and other residents view this high-density housing as adding outside cars by drawing more residents, as opposed to a low-impact commercial entity they believe would pull from cars already on the roads. Almost any development, though, would exacerbate locals’ deep frustration with an inability to drive almost anywhere because of traffic congestion in the area, especially Restaurant Row. Pasquinelli still wonders when — if ever — Dr. Phillips could become a self-contained community for everyday shopping and where residents can go to avoid bad traffic, especially if a mentality of developing every possible acre prevails.

“If you live in Winter Garden or you live in Ocoee, they have easy access to a holistic type of lifestyle,” he said. “All these things have to be done. It really becomes a conundrum.”

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The hospital will be three stories and cover about 97,000 square feet. The location was based on its easy access to State Road 429, the established population of the area, visibility of Winter Garden Village and other considerations.

“We have for years looked at this market as a place where we wanted to extend the mission of Florida Hospital,” said Rob Fulbright, senior executive officer for Florida Hospital Orlando. “When you think of years of planning and strategizing and thinking, to finally be here … it’s thrilling.”

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Car-show organizers search for new sponsor The Sept. 19 Cruz-N-Car Show in downtown Winter Garden might have been the last.

ZAK KERR STAFF WRITER WINTER GARDEN Droves drove to the large parking lot on West Plant Street for what might have been the last Cruz-N-Car Show, a tradition each third Saturday of the month for about seven years.

The longstanding sponsorship of the show from the Winter Garden Merchants Association ended recently, based on cost increases that caused the association to lose money with the show each

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After the industry’s peak in the 1990s and early 2000s, golf courses have needed to respond to what the National Golf Foundation has called a decrease in demand.

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On July 15, 2015, private owners, who all are current members, bought the West Orange Country Club for $1.6 million.

They hired Nick Slattery to manage the club, and his company Down to Earth is working on the maintenance.

The country club has been working to beautify the course — and other features of the club — to make it more appealing to members. More than 40 dead trees were removed from the facility.

The club has spent more than $300,000 in capital expenditures since the club was purchased in July. Some capital improvements include resurfacing the parking lot, fixing the clubhouse roof, painting the clubhouse and installing a new air-conditioning unit inside the club house.

“It’s come together nicely,” Slattery said. “The course is in excellent shape.”

The club also has plans to resurface the tennis courts, repave the pool and install a fire pit. To combat the challenges of the industry, the owners are working on spending money up front to put out a good product and satisfy customers.

Although the owners want to keep a golf course at West Orange Country Club, they also want to create other perks for members and visitors that extend beyond merely a golf club.

“We’re trying to create more of a social feel there than a golf feel,” Slattery said. “It’s not a golf club — it’s a country club.”

The club is trying to build its membership, and Slattery expects to have a full membership and a waiting list within the next three years.

Before the purchase, the club was owned by other members who had an equity share in the club under the name “West Orange Country Club Inc.” It

“The golf industry in a whole is in a decline. The days of private clubs — it’s very tough to make it happen, obviously, with the economy being the way it is, but also with websites like Golf Now, where everything becomes discounted golf. Golf courses are having a really hard time covering costs.”

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Both Windermere and West Orange acknowledge the challenges of the industry.

“The golf industry in a whole is in a decline,” Slattery said.

“The days of private clubs — it’s very tough to make it happen, obviously, with the economy being the way it is.”

Chipok cited breaking even as a key problem for the struggles at the Windermere Country Club.

“The courses that are still around are fighting for those golfers,” Chipok said. “It’s a vicious cycle in that fewer golfers are ... competing with lower green fees, and those green fees aren’t covering overhead on the golf courses.”

Brian Dorn, director of golf at Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club and Lodge, recognizes the decrease in demand reported by the NGF but is positive about the future of the industry.

“While it may seem like golf is on a decline, the level of participation is still very healthy,” Dorn said. “It is just difficult to maintain the growth we experienced during the ’90s and early 2000s.”

Supply in the industry is still greater than demand, and the 2015 NGF study reports that to balance supply and demand, courses must close or more golfers must return to the game.

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The owners of Windermere Country Club announced the golf course and country club will close April 18. Developers have proposed building 95 singlefamily homes on the property, with each unit being a minimum half-acre lot.

Paul Chipok, the attorney representing owner Bryan DeCunha, noted that the golf industry is changing, with a total of 4 million fewer golfers since 2006.

To stay open, the Windermere Country Club needs extensive maintenance, Chipok said. The irrigation system at the country club needs to be redone, an expense that would cost nearly $1 million, according to Chipok. A water system needs to be installed at the clubhouse, because the clubhouse currently uses a well that is not functioning properly.

“Rounds are down, prices on the rounds are down, the course is an older course — and (in addition to) normal maintenance — which is extensive in and of itself — there’s a lot of capital improvements that are necessary,” Chipok said.

To proceed with the plan, the county has requested the developer file a petition to vacate the plat — removing the golf course from the plat.

The Windermere Country Club is currently in the process of filing the petition with the county, according to Chipok.

If the petition is approved, it would change the wording on the piece of land that designates it as a golf course, and it would release development rights from the county to the developer.

Many long-term residents of the Windermere Club, the community that is part of the Windermere Country Club, have voiced fierce opposition to the development.

“We own property on the golf course, and we paid a premium dollar for that property, and if (DeCunha) converts it to property, we’ll all lose a significant dollar value,” said Bruce Hicks, a homeowner in the Windermere Club.

Leigh Ann Dyal, president of the Windermere Club homeowners association, has encouraged community members to meet with county commissioners to ask them not to vote to allow the space to be developed.

“The homeowners association is totally against development of the 95 homes they want to bring in,” Dyal said.

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As the new chairman of Dr. Phillips Charities, Jim Ferber hopes the organization will continue to think of bigger and better ways to build a strong, integrated community.

CATHERINE KERR STAFF WRITER DR. PHILLIPS Youth

development, healthy living and social responsibility. Those are the YMCA’s three areas of focus.

But throughout Jim Ferber’s 21 years as CEO of the YMCA of Central Florida, they also were three of his biggest passions.

“That’s been my life,” Ferber said. “What I do personally and what I did professionally, they work together. It’s hard to separate.”

When Ferber came to Central Florida in the early 1990s, the YMCA had 13,000 members and a budget of $8.5 million. By the time he retired, there were more than 100,000 members and the budget was $80 million. Dr. Phillips Charities invested more than $35 million in the YMCA during that time, encouraging some of the growth.

But even after he retired, Ferber’s fervor for community development didn’t diminish.

If anything, it grew stronger. He became chairman of Dr. Phillips Charities in July 2015 and has a plan for helping the Dr. Phillips area become healthier, more successful and more connected.

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Ferber’s YMCA career started in 1973 in Akron, Ohio, when he was 25.

In 1976, Ferber moved to Houston to take a leadership position with the YMCA there.

The community had similarities to Orlando, although it was much larger, with a population of more than 4 million at the time.

After 10 years in Houston, he relocated again to Charlotte, North Carolina, where he built a new uptown Y. He said the YMCA soon “caught fire” and became relevant in the community.

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Jim Ferber has been a board member for Dr. Phillips Charities for 13 years.

Ferber was invited to Orlando in 1993 as the new CEO of the YMCA of Central Florida.

“I was exposed to some really great people along the way at all my stops,” Ferber said. “All of my learning for last 20 years, I was able to pull those leadership skills to Orlando.”

Ferber demonstrated his commitment to these Y’s threew area of focus during his years at the YMCA of Central Florida.

“You’re not going to legislate change — it’s not that easy,” Ferber said. “You’ve got to change people’s hearts.”

Ferber has a passion for early childhood development and worked with YMCA teams to open two centers at Walt Disney World to serve cast members. He remembers meeting one woman from Mexico who was a Disney housekeeper and dropped off her children at one of the centers while she worked. When Ferber met her, she was in tears.

“She said, ‘I’m just so happy; these are happy tears because I’ve always dreamed of coming to America where my kids are exposed to early childhood development,’” Ferber said.

“She can go to work and feel great about leaving her kids there.”

In the realm of healthy living, Ferber is a big advocate for prevention-based health care, particularly related to the “Big Four” — heart disease, cancer, memory-related illnesses and diabetes.

“Rather than thinking about always fixing them, how do we prevent them?” Ferber said.

“There’s a lot of changes that need to happen in our system.”

Shortly before leaving the YMCA, Ferber hired a dietician to help the organization integrate the importance of nutrition into all of its healthrelated programs. The Dr. Phillips branch will soon be starting educational services to teach members how to read food labels, avoid certain ingredients and cook in healthy ways.

Ferber retired from the YMCA in October 2014, but his involvement in the community didn’t stop there.

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Jim Ferber, right, and other YMCA and Dr. Phillips leaders at a 1996 groundbreaking for the Dr. Phillips YMCA Family Center.

About 13 years ago, Ferber was asked to join the Dr. Phillips Charities Board of Directors.

He had formed relationships with leaders of the organization, including former chairman Jim Hinson, because of their support for the YMCA.

“When I was asked to come on the board, I found that very interesting and ... challenging, and I was honored,” Ferber said.

Hinson and Ferber became close both professionally and personally. Ferber had offers for positions at YMCAs in major cities around the country, but he stayed in Orlando because he was so impacted by the support of Dr. Phillips Charities.

In July 2015, Hinson resigned, and Ferber was asked to take his place as chairman. Hinson died in September.

“Jim Hinson has had a huge impact on my life and on my career,” Ferber said.

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MOVING FORWARD

Early 1900s — Phillips and his wife, Della, settled in Orlando and established a reputation for philanthropy.

They had two sons, Howard and Walter. Phillips bought a grove on the south side of Sand Lake in Orange County, which later became the site of Dr. P. Phillips Hospital.

Many have described Ferber as a visionary, but that doesn’t mean Dr. Phillips Charities is about to see any immediate radical shifts.

“People think I’ve got this great vision, but it’s based on what the community needs are,” Ferber said. “There’s not a whole lot of changes that I’m going to be making — it’s the evolution. We’re just going to continue to evolve.”

He hopes the organization will help to usher in opportunities for new employers and businesses in Central Florida to sustain the families who live here. One effective way will be to start teaching more technical skills in schools, he said.

But Ferber’s big-picture dream for the Dr. Phillips area is to have an integrated community where partnerships are strong among the YMCA, schools and health care, such as the new Spring Lake Health and Living facility, which will be opening next year.

“You’re going to have this healthy village that’s growing out of this community organically,” he said. “Everybody’s going to bring their own strength to it, but they’re all going to work together.”

Dr. Phillips Charities owns a few more tracks of land that eventually could turn into similar intergenerational villages.

“If you can do it here, if this is working, then how do you replicate it so that it becomes something that anybody could pick up?” Ferber said. “I can get really crazy about what we’re doing here.”

Contact Catherine Kerr at ckerr@orangeobserver.com.

1897 —After earning a medical degree from Columbia University, Tennessee native Dr. Philip Phillips came to Central Florida. He purchased land in Osceola County and began farming citrus.

1953 — The Phillips family established the Dr. P. Phillips Foundation, a charity founded on the principle of “helping others help themselves.”

1959 — Dr. P. Phillips died, and Della followed him in 1968. Howard continued the family’s history of philanthropy, taking up leadership of the foundation and Dr. Phillips Inc. Together, these organizations make up Dr. Phillips Charities.

1979 — Howard Phillips died the sole heir of the family and left the entire inheritance to charitable uses.

1985 — Jim Hinson became president of Dr. Phillips Charities. He held the position until 2008, when he stepped down but remained as chairman of the board.

2013 — Kenneth D. Robinson became president of Dr. Phillips Charities.

2015 — Jim Hinson resigned as chairman; Jim Ferber took the position.

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Neilly Ross, left, and Anna Gay are best friends who also happen to be two of the best water skiers in the world.

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Above: Anna Gay recorded a personal-best trick score of 10,010 in November in winning the 2015 World Waterski Championships.

Left: Within just a few years of picking up the craft, Neilly Ross has become one of the best trick skiers arounds.

FAMILY AND FRIENDS

Both Drew and Russell ski professionally. The two men have been friends since they were roommates as freshmen on the ski team at Rollins College in Winter Park. To this day, skiing remains a big part in both of their lives. Russell, who excels in trick skiing, owns a company called MasterLine based in Oakland that produces ropes and handles for water sports. Drew, a slalom expert, hosts a ski academy near his home.

Their decisions to remain in the Central Florida region — Drew is from Canada originally and Russell is from Virginia — allowed for the two girls to become friends from around the time they could first walk.

With the two veteran skiers expertise combined, it has created a unique environment that has allowed the girls to thrive, competing against — and besting — adult skiers.

“My dad is like the slalom expert, and Russell knows tricking,” Neilly said. “It’s cool that they’re best friends, and Anna and I are also best friends — we spend a lot of time together.”

Beyond training with each other, the friendship has proven valuable for Anna and Neilly while at the events themselves.

Both girls said having a familiar face nearby to joke around with helps take the edge off while preparing to ski against the best athletes in the world.

“They’re a little more relaxed, and it’s almost like they’re a little team,” Russell said.

With both girls having their fathers as their primary coaches, it makes for an interesting dynamic that both creates plenty of bonding time and also can, at times, cause frustration.

“It’s a strange relationship,” Drew said. “To excel at anything means the stakes are high at a personal level, so it could complicate things very easily.”

The two girls train daily, balancing their professional careers with rigorous course loads at two of the Orlando area’s premier private schools. Both girls have over a 4.0 grade-point average. “(Skiing) doesn’t mean that I can slack off with school,” Neilly said. “Skiing actually helps with time management,

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struck midnight on Dec. 31 and ushered in the new year, Winter Garden’s Anna Gay and Horizon West’s Neilly Ross said goodbye to a year that — by any standard — was pretty incredible.

The longtime best friends capped a year full of international travel and competition in November by taking home the top two spots in Women’s Tricks at the 2015 World Waterski Championships in Mexico.

Anna placed first with a score of 10,010 — a personal best that set a record for the competition and made her the youngest male or female to have ever surpassed the 10,000-point barrier. Neilly placed just behind her friend at second with a score of 9,500.

Anna and Neilly finished 2015 as the second- and third-ranked water-skiers in the world under the age of 21, and the two were among a handful of skiers highlighted in an article by Waterski Magazine titled “Pro Skiing’s Future Talent.”

It was an incredible year, for sure. But then, when you consider that Anna is only 15 years old and Neilly is 14, things only figure to get better in 2016 for the two prodigies.

“I was very excited to win (at Worlds) — that is one of the biggest (events) you can win,” Anna said. “At the beginning of (2015), that was one of my goals, to do well there. But, in January or February, I wouldn’t have ever thought that I would have won.”

Anna started 2015 with a bang in January, winning the gold at the Junior Waterski World Championships in Peru. The sophomore at The First Academy followed that up with several other strong performances, but none can quite hold up to what she achieved in Mexico.

“I was shocked,” said Russell Gay, Anna’s father and coach.

“I’ve been skiing since I was 8 or 9, trying to win Worlds – and being so close, so many times.”

Neilly, who competes for Canada at the international level and is a freshman at Windermere Prep, stacked up accomplishments in 2015, including winning the 2015 U.S. Junior Masters Trick Championship, winning the trick competition at the Junior United States Open and placing fourth at the United States Open.

After spending the first six years of her career focusing on slalom, Neilly was inspired by Anna to pick up tricking at age 8.

In a short time, she became the youngest skier to trick more than 7,000, 8,000 and 9,000 points.

“Anna introduced Neilly to tricks, and she fell in love with it,” said Drew Ross, Neilly’s father.

“We made the commitment and Neilly excelled. The results are staggering.”

That type of praise isn’t just the words of a proud father, either.

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and it definitely motivates me. I don’t want to be a kid who gets bad grades.”

THE NEW YEAR

Both girls have lofty goals for 2016. Anna has the world record of 10,460 in her sights, and Neilly is hoping to top 10,000 points. Between trips to places such as Chile and Australia, the two local teens will be at home, hard at work.

“Repetition helps a lot,” Anna said. “Patience is very important.

Frustration comes into it a lot.”

Anna and Neilly each expressed an interest in following in their fathers’ footsteps in another capacity, too — both girls are hoping to ski at Rollins in college.

Considering that is the place where the story began, anyway, it would be a fitting compliment to two proud dads.

“What’s amazed me with these two is how consistent they are,” Russell said of the two girls.

“They’re (excelling) every time they come out.”

FAMILY BUSINESS In addition to their own professional waterskiing careers, Russell Gay and Drew Ross — fathers of Anna Gay and Neilly Ross — both remain involved in the sport in a business sense, also.

Russell owns MasterLine (masterlineusa.com), a company based in Oakland that produces ropes and handles for water sports, among other accessories, as well as Quantum Skis (quantumskis.com).

Drew operates his Drew Ross Ski Academy (drewrossskiacademy. com) from a lake just minutes from his home in Horizon West.

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Although they are among the world’s best in their sport, Anna Gay and Neilly Ross are not alone in being worldclass water-skiers or water sport athletes living in Central Florida — and, more specifically, Southwest Orange County.

“It’s the right place to be,” said Drew Ross, a native of Canada who decided to permanently relocate to the area after originally coming to the region for college. “If (water skiing is) where your passion is and it’s what you’re planning to do, then you end up here.”

Russell Gay, who made the move from Virginia, said the combination of climate, available lakes and a density in talent all play a role.

“We have a lot of natural lakes that are really great lakes to ski on,” Russell said. “The area attracts a lot of good skiers and they kind of feed off each other.”

Both men said having such a strong watersport culture locally is a boon economically.

“The people that are coming here to ski — they’re buying lakefront property,” Russell said.

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Dr. Phillips’ Dylan Meeks will compete for a third consecutive state championship on the mat this spring before leading the Panthers’ defense on the gridiron this fall. wrestling teams at Dr. Phillips.

He has become an extra coach for Miller.

“He’s just one of those athletes that happens to walk in and you’re lucky to have (as a coach),” Miller said.

STEVEN RYZEWSKI SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR DR. PHILLIPS At least as far as the

campus of Dr. Phillips High is concerned, Meeks is a surname synonymous with excellence.

First there was Alton.

Alton, who transferred to Dr. Phillips from Boone High for his senior year, won a wrestling state championship in 2011 and went on to play Division I college football — first at Iowa State before transferring to Iowa Western Community College and most recently signing to continue his career at Northern Illinois.

Then there was Colby.

Colby just concluded his freshman season on the gridiron at Colorado State, where he is an offensive lineman. Colby finished as a state runner-up in wrestling in 2014 and chose to sacrifice one last shot at a state title as a senior to instead enroll early with the Rams in the spring of 2015. He was a threetime letter-earner in football and wrestling as a Panther.

Now there is Dylan.

A junior, Dylan is looking to wrestle for a state championship for a fourth consecutive year.

Competing as an eighth-grader at Central Florida Christian Academy, Dylan made it to the state championship in the Class 1A 195-pound division and fell by decision to a wrestler four years his senior — something he avenged as a freshman at Dr. Phillips by winning the Class 3A 195-pound state title. Last year, as a sophomore, he won another state title — this time at 220 pounds — completing an undefeated season in which he won every match but two by pin.

On the gridiron, with a season yet still to play, Dylan is the Panthers’ career tackles leader and a MaxPreps All-American.

In 2016 he may just complete the unfathomable feat of winning a third consecutive state championship as a wrestler and helping lead Dr. Phillips to an elusive state title in football. If he does, it would, in part, be an accomplishment rooted in the dynamic of being the youngest of three gifted athletes.

“I want to prove that it’s not a fluke, still … I want to prove it’s real. It’s coming.”

— Dylan Meeks, standout junior wrestler and linebacker

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Dr. Phillips junior Dylan Meeks is a two-time wrestling state champion and a linebacker with a number of Division I scholarship offers.

hard work, your effort, the technique you’ve learned and the coaches and people you’ve surrounded yourself with,” Dylan said, reflecting on his passion for each sport. “(Football is the) complete opposite. You have all those guys around you, you have the camaraderie. You can’t just build yourself — you have to help the people around you, too.”

ALL IN THE FAMILY

“The youngest one always wants to win,” Panthers wrestling coach John Miller said. “If it wasn’t for having two older brothers that were as athletic as they were, Dylan may not be what he is now.”

Luckily for Dylan — and Dr. Phillips — he did have two older brothers that were incredible athletes, brothers whom he wanted to be just like. It also helped that the ultra-competitive Meeks boys would wrestle around the house regularly, with each defeat at the hands of Alton or Colby motivating the youngest brother to work that much harder.

Although the brothers excelled at several sports and Dylan recalls playing soccer, baseball and swimming as a youth, the junior standout says by about age 13, he had whittled his athletics career down to football and wrestling — where it stands today. “(With wrestling) there’s no one else, it’s just you — it’s your

THE WRESTLER

First on the docket for Dylan is the 2016 FHSAA Wrestling State Championships the first weekend of March. From an outsider’s perspective, there might be concern about whether Dylan — who was hardly challenged as he marched to a state title as a sophomore — has the motivation required for a third

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Dylan has an answer for that.

“That’s more of a practice thing than anything; I wrestle people (who) are better than me at practice,” said Dylan, who regularly wrestles with collegeage wrestlers to hone his skills.

That the motivation for the reigning champion hasn’t wavered is something Miller sees as valuable to his entire program.

“When Dylan walked in last week, the whole atmosphere in the room changed,” Miller said. “They see this kid who has won a title — not one, but two — working just as hard as he ever had in his life. And they go, ‘Why is he doing that?’”

Additionally, Dylan has no problem working with teammates on the boys or girls

“He’s our quarterback on defense,” Dr. Phillips football coach Rodney Wells said prior to the 2015 season. “He kind of knows what the coaches are thinking — he’s a coach on the field. You’re always looking for a kid that can be an extension of the coaching staff on the field.”

That Dylan performs that role is not so much out of a sense of wanting to tell others what to do but rather out of a feeling of duty.

“I’m not sure how much I enjoy it, but I see the necessity of it,” Dylan said. “I see that we can be better if I take this position on the team.”

Dylan is part of an absolutely loaded Class of 2017 for the Panthers, one that will have Dr. Phillips as a popular pick to make a run at the Class 8A state championship. Although the fall is still a long way away, the standout linebacker said he is well aware he has just one more go-round as a Panther.

“I was varsity freshman year and I’ve already sent off three rounds of seniors — one of which included my older brother (Colby),” Dylan said.

“It just hit me: This is the last year that I’m going to play with these dudes, probably ever, for the rest of my life — so I have to make it worth it.”

Recruiting interest has come from several Division I programs already for Dylan, including Rutgers, USF, Indiana and Tulane. More surely will come, and Dylan said he will place an emphasis on academics and schools that will fit his desire to major in physics or engineering.

Dylan joining his brothers as a Division I football player is still on the horizon, though. For right now, the proud Panther still feels he has plenty to prove — starting on the mat.

“I want to prove that it’s not a fluke, still,” Dylan said, reflecting on his campaign to win a third consecutive state title. “I want to prove it’s real. It’s coming.”

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A 10-game winning streak came to an end for the Dr. Phillips boys basketball team Dec. 30 in the championship game of the Holiday Hoopla Tournament. The Panthers placed second in the event after a 75-65 defeat to host Vero Beach.

Previously, Dr. Phillips (12-2) began the holiday break by winning the Hernando Classic Dec. 23.

Senior Justin Tucker was named the tournament’s most valuable player and recorded 25 points in the championship game.

Windermere Prep’s boys basketball team topped Winter Park in the final, avenging a loss to the Wildcats in the 2014 event’s championship.

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Rock Holiday Classic boys basketball tournament came down to the same teams in its championship game as was the case a year ago.

And although the teams were the same, the result was different.

This time, the host Windermere Prep Lakers hoisted the championship trophy, pulling away from the Winter Park Wildcats (10-5) in the fourth quarter to secure a 78-64 win Dec. 30.

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EAGLES UPSET EVANS Included in a busy holiday schedule for the CFCA boys basketball team was an important win against the Evans Trojans Dec. 22.

The Eagles (8-6) defeated the Trojans (9-6), a regular playoff team in Class 8A, 73-68 behind Jacob Newmans 22 points.

TITANS OPEN YEAR WITH WIN The Olympia boys soccer team continued its winning ways into the new year Jan. 4 when it defeated Haines City 3-1. The victory improved the Titans to a 13-1-2 mark on the year.

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In 2014, the Wildcats took the victory — and the tournament trophy — with a 54-45 win.

“This group just figures it out — it’s a very mature team,” Wilson said reflecting on the difference between the two meetings.

Seelman, a junior, finished with 11 points. Seven of those came during a pivotal stretch that saw Seelman tap in a shot to end the third quarter, something he followed by scoring the Lakers’ first five points of the fourth quarter.

“Will woke up last night ... he was a huge lift last night and he was huge tonight,” Wilson said.

Davis would then hit two 3-pointers to put an exclamation point on the run that Seelman started. The senior point guard finished with a team-high 18 points, while standout junior David Nickleberry ended the night with 16 points. Mitch Siegel and Xion Golding each had 12 points, meaning five Lakers ended the contest in double-digits.

The championship victory marks the second time in eight years Windermere Prep has won its holiday tournament, which has featured a mixture of local

teams and out-of-state programs.

“Before the season, we set our goals for the year, and one of them was to win the Rock Holiday,” Wilson said.

Parker Davis was named the most valuable player at the Rock Holiday Classic.

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The 2021 Club hosts drives throughout the year to collect toys, clothes and hygiene products.

Passion for compassion in 2012 by helping the Orlando Union Rescue Mission. They filled an entire van with hygiene products by getting other students to help and asking local dentist offices for donations.

When the class of 2021 was in fifth grade, they visited the Orlando Union Rescue Mission and served cookies and other snacks to the people there.

Many of the founding members consider this their favorite memory from the club.

The club also hosts a dance party, which raised about $2,500 for Matthew’s Hope one year.

It also hosts a Valentine’s Day

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the club. Each year, the older students present to a new class of third-graders and invite them to join the club.

“Seeing people on the side of the road with nothing to eat — no money — it made me want to help out,” Franchot Valdez, one of the founding students of the group said.

Since its inception, the 2021 Club has worked with organizations in the community that serve homeless families.

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sale at which it sells pencils and notepads shaped like hearts.

The organization recently partnered with Bridges of Light, an organization that works with schools to give out clothing, school supplies and food to students in need. Students at Carver Middle School are able to earn “Carver Bucks” for good grades and behavior, and then are able to enter Kay’s Closet of Care and spend their dollars on school supplies, jewelry and any other donated items.

Before Thanksgiving, Bridges of Light contacted the club and told them that the organization was in need of food. In one week, the club asked neighbors, friends and family members to donate food and delivered it to the organization.

Contact Jennifer Nesslar at jnesslar@orangeobserver.com.

Dallas Edward Hazelett, 82, of the Panther Creek Community near Robbinsville, North Carolina, went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015, at Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. He was born in Huntington, West Virginia, and was the son of the late Oscar and Aileen Fizer Hazelett.

Dallas was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and served his country proudly for more than 21 years.

After his retirement from military service, he worked many years as a power generation technician in Tampa, Florida.

He is survived by his loving wife of almost 55 years, Thelma Merlene Clark Hazelett; his sons, Rodney Hazelett of Jacksonville, Florida, Dwight Hazelett and fiancee, Linda VanDyke, both of Robbinsville,

North Carolina, and James Hazelett and his wife, Cindy, of Orlando, Florida; his grandchildren, Celena Frazier, Crystal Hansen, Rachel Wall and Bryan Hazelett; his great-grandchildren, Sebastian, Zoe, Gabriel, Dakota, Quinn, Aiden, Oliver and Alex; and his brothers, Lee Hazelett, of Elkins, West Virginia, Dale Hazelett, of Huntington, West Virginia, and Tom Hazelett, of Dayton, Ohio.

Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Monday, Jan. 4, 2016, at the Townson-Smith Chapel. The Rev. Randy Collins officiated.The family received friends from 1:30 to 3 p.m.

Monday at the chapel, prior to the service. Burial followed at Panther Creek Cemetery. Townson-Smith Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

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THERESA LEIGH LA MARCHE DIED DEC. 20,2015

Theresa Leigh La Marche, 70, former resident of Winter Garden, passed away Dec. 20, 2015 at Osceola Regional Medical Center, Kissimmee, Florida.

She was born March 30, 1945, at Banana River Naval Air Station, Florida, now Patrick Air Force Base. She had resided in Florala, Alabama, for 34-and-one-half years before moving in November 2014 to Kissimmee, Florida.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS PUBLIC AUCTION Live & Online. 1/14 10am. Symmetrical Stair & Door, LLC. 141 Commerce Road, Boynton Beach, FL 33426. Sale will consist of: Machinery & Equip., Forklift, Vehicles, Warehouse items & much more! Preview: Morning of sale 9-10am.

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ITEMS FOR SALE 2010 Black Daix 3 Wheel Scooter. Just over 1000 miles. 150cc. Storage rack, 2 helmets. $1999.00 Gene 651-324-3112 1/14eb ITEMS WANTED 13178 W. Colonial Dr. Winter Garden

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PET SERVICES (CONTʼD)

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