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Dressed in dignity Developers presented this rendering of what the proposed office development could look like.

Bridgewater development proposes offices, retail Two local doctors have proposed a development for medical/professional offices and retail.

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Windermere High freshman Sasha Graddy is collecting dresses for formal dances to distribute to high-school girls who otherwise cannot afford them.

Windermere High freshman Sasha Graddy founded the nonprofit You Don’t Have To Miss A Beat to provide dresses for formal dances to girls in need.

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Orange County OKs 81-home development in Horizon West The developer reduced the proposal from 113 to 81 homes for the Monk Property PD. GABBY BAQUERO

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Orange County commissioners have approved a developer’s rezone request for a proposed 81-home development in Horizon West.

The rezoning for the proposed project, known as the Monk Property Planned Development, was granted during the March 12 meeting of the Orange County Board of County Commissioners. The residential development will be located on a three-parcel site totaling 49.6 acres,

which was rezoned from Citrus Rural District (A-1) to Planned Development District.

The project – situated west of Duncaster Street, south of Little Lake Sawyer and north of Overstreet Road – met fierce opposition by residents from the adjacent Lakes of Windermere neighborhood in previous community meetings.

The residents cited concerns about the project due to density, traffic and access to the property.

The project applicant – Erika Hughes of VHB Inc. – originally proposed 113 homes on the property, but the proposal was denied 8-1 by the county’s Planning and Zoning Commission in September.

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A local psychiatrist is proposing to build a medical and professional office development in Horizon West.

Orange County leaders and developers hosted a community meeting Wednesday, March 13, regarding a proposed office development on a 2.33-acre property generally located south of Village Lake Avenue and west of Lake Smith Circle in the Village of Bridgewater. The subject prop-

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CHAMBER BUSINESS AFTER HOURS 5 p.m. Thursday, March 21, at Richmond American Homes – Roper Reserve, 412 Silver Dollar Lane, Winter Garden. Join the West Orange Chamber of Commerce for the monthly Business After Hours. Partake in a scavenger hunt while seeing model homes. (407) 656-1304.

FRIDAY, MARCH 22

ANIMALS AROUND THE WORLD 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 22, at the Southwest Library, 7255 Della Drive, Orlando.

Learn about animals from every corner of the world.

Enjoy fun stories, activities and crafts. (407) 835-7323.

SATURDAY, MARCH 23

BIG YELLOW CABOOSE ADVENTURE 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, March 23, at the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation’s Heller Hall, 21 E. Plant St. Families can enjoy live entertainment, hands-on activities and snacks while learning about local history.

Cost is $5 per family. RSVP to jzimmerman@wghf.org.

MONDAY, MARCH 25

LITTLE CHEF: LUCKY CHARMS SNACK MIX 10:30 a.m. Monday, March 25, at the Windermere Library, 530 Main St. Take frosted oats and colorful marshmallows and learn to combine, stir and shape a fun treat. Register at (407) 835-7323.

WRITERS CORNER: FINDING A LITERARY AGENT 7 p.m. Monday, March 25, at the Southwest Library, 7255 Della Drive, Orlando.

Author Sarah Nicolas will discuss what an agent does and doesn’t do and provide a step-by-step guide to finding literary agents, including how to select the right agent for you and your work. (407) 835-7323.

TUESDAY, MARCH 26

SOUTHWEST BOOK CLUB 7 to 8:45 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, at the Southwest Library, 7255 Della Drive, Orlando. “Before We Were Yours,” by Lisa Wingate, is based on a notorious real-life scandal in which an adoption-organization director kidnapped and sold poor children to rich families. Ages 18 and up. (407) 835-7323.

THURSDAY, MARCH 28

CELEBRATING EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN: AN EVENING OF COCKTAILS AND CONVERSATION 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, March 28, at Lakewalk at Hamlin, 14012 Shoreside Way, Winter Garden. The West Orange Chamber of Commerce is celebrating Marva Johnson, Ellen Korbin and Betsy VanderLey, who will share their stories of dealing with obstacles to achieve their successes. Tickets are $36 in advance for Chamber members and $46 for others and for Chamber members at the door. Wochamber.com.

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French chain establishes first U.S. location in Dr. Phillips La Boucherie opened its first U.S. location near Restaurant Row in Dr. Phillips.

ERIC GUTIERREZ STAFF WRITER

A France-based chain restaurant has established its first U.S. location in Dr. Phillips.

La Boucherie — located at 7625 Turkey Lake, Orlando — is a French steakhouse that serves up some familiar, classic French cuisine. The restaurant has been open since November, but owners held a ribbon-cutting celebration in February. From foie gras and escargot to Pot-Au-Feu and even roasted bone marrow, La Boucherie’s menu can make any French expat feel right at home.

“It started off in France a while back as a butcher shop,” said Phillip Hicks, director of operations of La Boucherie in Dr. Phillips. “The owner started (cooking when) his customers came in and asked him to cook some of the

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meat for them, so he decided to go ahead and cook some of the meat for them, and everyone loved it so much he decided to open up a restaurant. It just blew up from there.”

La Boucherie offers a casual take on French cuisine. Typically, when someone thinks of a French restaurant, they might think of it as being an upscale or expensive place. La Boucherie goes against the grain from what people stereotypically think of when it comes to a French restaurant, Hicks said.

“In France, it’s a casual steakhouse, which we have the same setup here,” Hicks said. “Typically … when people think about a French restaurant, they think high-end, fancy, expensive, something to only go to once in a while on a special occasion. Our concept here is to have people come in more frequently because we have much more affordable prices.”

In addition to French cuisine, La Boucherie also offers a full liquor bar as well as a selection of salads, burgers and other signature entree items. Lunch and happy-hour specials are offered daily, and brunch is available on Sundays.

“We have a very nice variety of salads,” Hicks said. “We also serve seafood — not a lot, but we have one (seafood dish) on our menu that lives on our menu — the

THREE TO TRY  Foie Gras: Duck liver served with jam and toasted baguette  La Boucherie Burger: Freshly ground beef patty served on a brioche bun with smoked provolone cheese, bacon, lettuce, crispy onions and La Boucherie sauce.  Bone-in ribeye: A 16-ounce steak served with a side of roasted bone marrow, baked potato and an assortment of sauces.

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salmon filet. We have seasonal catch, as well, that changes every so often.”

In the few months La Boucherie has been open, it has attracted many local French citizens craving a taste of home. Many of the dishes offered at the restaurant — like foie gras and escargot — are not easy to find and typically are not served at other restaurants, Hicks said.

“We have a lot of French staples that you can’t find anywhere else, and we have a lot of the French community in the area coming to this restaurant because they can’t find these dishes anywhere else,” Hicks said.

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New mayor in town Windermere Mayor-elect Jim O’Brien is preparing to officially step into his new role on Tuesday, March 26.

DANIELLE HENDRIX BLACK TIE EDITOR

There’s a new mayor in town, and while he might not be sporting colorful pocket squares, he is ready to serve nonetheless.

Windermere Mayor-elect Jim O’Brien previously served as a town council member for eight years and will officially be sworn in as mayor on March 26. He takes the place of retiring Mayor Gary Bruhn, who has led the town for 15 years.

O’Brien is a native of West Palm Beach and received both a bachelor’s degree in social work and a master’s degree in education from Florida Atlantic University.

He worked in nonprofit in south Florida for a few years until he and his wife, Kristin — a Windermere native — married in 2005.

When O’Brien visited Windermere and got familiar with it, he and Kristin knew it was the perfect place to raise their family.

JOURNEY TO SERVICE

For O’Brien, public service always had been something that interested him. His grandfather was a county commissioner in south Florida in the 1960s, and O’Brien shared that same interest in local politics.

“I liked that it was more community based,” he said. “I started going to Town Council meetings and learning a lot about the history of town and the community.”

After joining and serving on the town’s tree board for a while, he decided in 2010 to make a run for Town Council, to which he was elected in 2011.

He was elected during what was a tumultuous time for Windermere. But to O’Brien, that only made his service more important.

During his first term he helped rebuild the town’s foundation.

Windermere got a new police chief and a town manager, and the council members helped review and revise town policies.

“The first couple of years we really spent that time working on the foundation of what it takes to have a good town or municipality,” he said. “Those are the kinds of things we worked on. It gave me a real appreciation and understanding for the nuts and bolts — you understand budget, policies, purchasing, all the things you really need to understand in order to have that big-picture view of what it is we’re trying to accomplish. …I think that we were able to use that base to kind of make sure we made good hires, invested in our people, (to make sure) that we were careful with the budget and that we did those things that set us up to be where we are today.”

Fast forward to the end of 2018, when outgoing Mayor Gary Bruhn announced to town staff that he would be retiring and moving to a new home just outside the town limits. Originally, O’Brien said, he was so surprised that he thought it was a joke. The next question that he — and the entire town —

Windermere Mayor-elect Jim O’Brien previously served as a Town Council member for eight years.

seemed to be asking, though, was the same one: Who was going to be the next mayor?

“I didn’t set out to do (public service) to become mayor,” he said. “I feel like it more came toward me. Doing this is something I’m really passionate about, but it takes the one commodity you can’t create any more of and that’s time. I have a young family and a job that I have to work to pay the bills that I enjoy. … By the same token, a lot of people were saying, ‘Hey, you should really think about this.’ I got a lot of encouragement from people I respect and trust.

“Mayor Bruhn was supportive,” he said. “I called him, and I asked what he was thinking, and he said: ‘I think you should do it. You’ve been prepping for it for eight years and have always shown good temperament and a steady hand.’”

With encouragement surrounding him from Bruhn, his family, friends and many in the community, O’Brien decided to take the opportunity.

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

One of the things Bruhn has taught him over the years, he said, is that public servants need to be thinking all the time and ensuring that they’re present in both the local and greater communities.

“I don’t know how he does as much as he’s able to do,” O’Brien said. “He’s at every single event, and he’s here to do the work. He really goes out, and he’s the leader. He participates and listens and is very engaged, and I’m going to do that to the best of my ability.

We sure appreciate him doing

that, and he’s really put us in a good place to continue to move forward.”

One of the most important things O’Brien hopes to do is help keep Windermere small but smart. The goal, he said, is to continue to grow the town’s infrastructure at the right level, make the right investments, have the key personnel needed and keep the same community feel that people love.

“It’s just a little slice of peace in all of the activity that goes on around us,” he said. “We’re really fortunate to be in West Orange. …That’s the beauty that Windermere brings with it. It’s not just buildings and trees; what makes it work are the people that give back to it and are passionate about and committed to it.”

His first priorities upon officially stepping into his new role are working with staff to continue promoting transparency and efficiency in communications, as well as improving communications with residents and increasing volunteer-committee participation.

Another important issue, he said, is keeping on track with various pieces of infrastructure improvement in terms of water and sanitary sewer, as well as keeping up with roadways and town facilities.

“One of the pieces we’re working hard on is that we’re in a difficult spot with traffic here, but it doesn’t mean we don’t need to continue to address it,” he said.

“I think we’ll have to do that in a multitude of ways, some smaller and some bigger. … It’s my hope that we can make some inroads

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“We’re really fortunate to be in West Orange. …That’s the beauty that Windermere brings with it. It’s not just buildings and trees; what makes it work are the people that give back to it and are passionate about and committed to it.”

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there in terms of as much mitigation as possible. It’s a pretty big challenge, and I know it frustrates people, whether you live here or don’t.”

Finally, he said, he hopes to encourage input from residents — specifically in having them bring potential solutions to the table when discussing an issue.

“I think we have a lot of talented folks in all different spectrums and we could certainly benefit from that,” he said. “The six folks who sit up on Town Council don’t have the answers for everything, but we certainly can act as the conduit to move those things forward.”

Looking ahead, O’Brien said he knows he has big shoes to fill.

However, he also has a great support system behind him in the form of family, friends and neighbors.

“I’m appreciative of all the kind words and support that I’ve been given, not only now but over the past eight years, and I’m appreciative for some of those tough words, too,” he said. “I listen to them and learn a lot. I appreciate everyone’s confidence and faith. I’m going to work hard to do a really good job and continue to make us proud and make sure we’re a place where everyone wants to be.”

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‘Yes’ to the dress DANIELLE HENDRIX BLACK TIE EDITOR

With prom season fast approaching, every department store soon will be filled with a sea of dress choices for high-school girls everywhere.

But with many of those dresses also coming with a hefty price tag, it can be hard for some girls to afford the attire typical of formal dances.

Cue new nonprofit You Don’t Have To Miss A Beat, founded

by Windermere High freshman Sasha Graddy.

YOU DON’T HAVE TO MISS A BEAT

Graddy, 14, was excited to attend her first high-school formal dance last fall. It was September, and homecoming was right around the corner. She and her friends were looking forward to their first homecoming dance, but that excitement was tinged with sadness — one friend couldn’t attend the dance because she couldn’t afford a ticket or a dress.

“The idea came to mind because I was thinking of how to get her to come with us,” Sasha said.

“I thought of us all pitching in money to help, but it occurred to me that there are other girls just like her who couldn’t go because of the cost. I was thinking about a charity (centered on) collecting dresses. I thought it’d be a good idea to make a nonprofit and have my mom help with it getting approved by the government.”

Sasha’s mother, Miryam Graddy, worked with her daughter first to come up with a name for the nonprofit.

“It’s a play on words,” Sasha said. “I thought it was a very clever thing because the dancing, formal dresses…it was cute. You can be included with everyone. I felt bad for my friend because she couldn’t come with us. ‘You Don’t Have To Miss A Beat’ just seemed like the perfect name for it.”

Sasha also is artistic and came up with the logo herself. The logo consists of five girls wearing dresses, and they are drawn on a slant to form the shape of a crown. A ribbon spanning the bottom of the logo reads the nonprofit’s name.

The process of getting her idea approved a nonprofit took a few months. Paperwork had to go through both the federal and state governments, which are tasked with approving or disapproving a nonprofit request based on the organization’s mission.

Everything was finally verified and approved as of a few weeks ago, and YDHTMB now is an official 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

DISTRIBUTING DRESSES

Sasha’s organization is set up to work directly with school administration, which helps with determining the students of qualified need and facilitates the process.

YDHTMB is currently hosting a dress drive prior to prom season.

All dresses of any style or size are accepted, and donations are taxdeductible. There is a large donation box in the front office where dresses can be dropped off, and Sasha and her mother are willing to work with donors who may not be able to get their dresses to the school.

Earlier in March, Sasha met with the school’s PTSO and other parent groups explaining her nonprofit’s mission and how it works.

When Sasha receives the donated dresses, she inventories them by taking pictures and including size measurements. She creates an information sheet for each dress and keeps it in a binder.

Sasha wanted to ensure that the dress-selection process was fair and protected the privacy of the girls who will be using them.

She asked her friend who wasn’t able to attend the last dance about what her preferences were and

decided on the current process.

Additionally, Windermere High administration is in charge of determining qualified need.

“I don’t know who the girls are — only the selective members of the school (administration) know so it’s not embarrassing for them,” she said. “I give the binder to a school administrator and they meet with the girls individually. The girls can select whatever dress they want from the binder, school administration gives me that paper, I bring the dresses and they get it to the girls. After the dance the girls return the dress and we get them cleaned so they’re reusable for the next dance.”

In addition to Sasha and her mother collecting and providing the dresses, the school also will pitch in by providing tickets to the girls in need.

“The dance is in May, and all communications say we’re doing the drive through April 5,” Miryam Graddy said. “That’ll give her enough time to clean the dresses, photograph them, put them in the book and get them to administration in time so they have time for the girls to look through them.

For this high school they do the dance at a nice hotel and it’s like $100 a ticket. It’s really nice that the school is willing to (provide tickets).”

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

Thus far, Sasha has collected close to 20 dresses. Though her current drive ends April 5, she will be accepting donations of both dresses and financial contributions year-round. Donated funds help take care of the cleaning fees for the dresses and also can be used to purchase gently used dresses to add to the inventory. She hopes to collect enough dresses of different sizes and styles that every girl who needs one will have one.

“We are doing the drive right now to get ready for prom, and past that we’ll probably do a drive for homecoming,” Miryam Graddy said. “If people want to donate outside of those windows we won’t turn them down.”

Although Sasha is only a fresh-

“We are doing the drive right now to get ready for prom, and past that we’ll probably do a drive for homecoming. If people want to donate outside of those windows we won’t turn them down.”

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man and will be the main person running YDHTMB for a few years, she hopes to be able to pass her leadership down to younger girls by the time she is a senior and preparing to graduate from Windermere High.

“I’m going to be the one who does all these steps until I graduate,” she said. “I’m hoping I can leave a legacy at the school and I want to pass it down to a girl in a younger grade than me so that it can just start a tradition at the school. It’s a new school and might be something fun that they can carry on.”

For Sasha, knowing she will be facilitating opportunities to attend high-school dances other for girls like her friend is rewarding in and of itself.

“Knowing I’m making a difference is one of the most fulfilling things,” she said. “It makes me happy to help people. It feels good knowing that I’m making a change for these girls and they’re probably really happy that they can come to a dance with their friends.”

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erty is zoned as Planned Development and has a future land-use designation of Village.

Developers are proposing to construct 27,000 square feet of office space on the property. The project proposes two two-story buildings to be built in two phases with one building constructed in each phase. One building is proposed to be 15,000 square feet and the other will be 12,000 square feet. The development would be intended for medical and professional office uses but also would include some limited retail uses.

A retail and residential mixeduse project once was proposed for the subject parcel a few years back, but those plans changed after the property was purchased

by Dr. Sherin Parvez and her husband, Dr. Saleh Parvez. The Parvezes both live in the Village of Bridgewater.

“The project, as it was before, was to be mixed use with residential above and retail below,” District 1 County Commissioner Betsy VanderLey said. “This doctor ended up purchasing it and wanted to make it medical above and retail below, generally speak-

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VanderLey added that the subject property already is approved for retail use, but the office use proposed for the project still needs to be approved.

Dr. Saleh Parvez said he envisions the development to be mostly different medical offices, but the development would be open to housing other types of offices, such as law, engineering or other professional offices. He added that he would be selective in terms of the type of retail that would go in the development but was not able to specify at the time

the percentage of retail spaces versus office spaces.

“We’d like to build a community (facility) for the physicians,” Parvez said. “(It’s mostly going to be a) medical office facility and possibly some select retail — something like a French bakery (or) coffee shop.”

Parvez said he and his wife will have their own practice at the development. He also said the purpose for the proposed development is to offer local medical professionals an option to open their own, private practices in Horizon West in a space that isn’t

owned by any corporate hospitals in the area.

“My goal is to do something for the community so the people in the community can be benefited by reaching out to healthcare professionals in their own community without going to the big (hospitals) such as Advent(Health) or Orlando Health,” Parvez said.

“They can go directly to the doctors. … It will be a nice bridge between the doctors and the community — local as opposed to corporate is the idea.”

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reduced its request to 81 homes with 50-foot-wide lots and agreed to keep the existing Estate Home District land-use designation. Previously, the developer requested a change to Garden Home District, which allows four homes per acre and minimum 32-foot-wide lots.

As a result, P&Z recommended approval of the rezone request in January with certain conditions, but Lakes of Windermere residents remain concerned.

Jon Johnston, president of the Lakes of Windermere HOA, remained opposed to the project and asked county commissioners to ensure the project included similar amenities to the surrounding neighborhoods and adequate parking spaces.

He also requested that any damage to the neighborhood’s roads be repaired by the developer after construction. Orange County District 1 Commissioner Betsy VanderLey said the county will address any needed road repairs.

“The one thing we can address most readily is the construction traffic crossing that road and making sure we’ve got an assessment of the road conditions prior to construction and after to repair any damage,” VanderLey said.

Lakes of Windermere homeowner Jesse Rhoads emphasized the project would still create a significant inconvenience because vehicles can only access the new neighborhood via the Lakes of Windermere’s crowded streets.

“Our streets in Lakes of Windermere are barely wide enough to

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get two cars parked on the streets at the same time, and if you have construction crews coming in there or even a fire engine, it’s not going to be able to make it through,” Rhoads said. “So we’re going to have a public hazard because we don’t have wideenough roads for the access roads in and out of that subdivision to accommodate these new homes.”

Hughes said she understands the concern, but the property is geographically challenged.

“Unfortunately, this property is landlocked,” Hughes said. “We have a large wetland system along our western border; we have the Lakes of Windermere ... to our east, and there is a power line easement along the south.”

Hughes added VHB is in the process of designing the project’s preliminary site plan and the construction access and parking issues will be taken into consideration.

VanderLey said her staff will make efforts to ensure the road widths in the new neighborhood are appropriately sized, but she cannot do anything to fix the problem in the existing Lakes of Windermere.

“I’ve asked staff to take a look at the width of those roads going forward to make sure you can safely get a firetruck down the road and parking on one side, at a minimum,” she said. “But, obviously, in terms of a neighborhood that’s already built, there’s really nothing I can do. I’d love to offer them something, but there is nothing I can offer them in terms of retrofitting their areas without impacting their front yards.”

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ARTS + CULTURE Garden Theatre artistic director retiring Rob Winn Anderson will be retiring from the Garden Theatre after being involved with it for more than a decade.

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After more than decade of dedication to the Garden Theatre, Artistic Director Rob Winn Anderson will be retiring from his position with the downtown Winter Garden theater at the end of 2018-19 season.

Prior to joining the Garden Theatre, Anderson, 60, worked in theater and the performance industry around the country for more than 23 years.

He joined the Garden Theatre in 2008 as the writer and director of “Curtain Up,” a gala event that honored the opening of the then newly renovated and restored theater. “Curtain Up” featured talent from the local community, as well as Broadway star Davis Gaines. He served as consulting artistic director for about three years before becoming the Garden Theatre’s first, full-time artistic director in 2017.

“I’ve been doing this for 47 years,” Anderson said about his career. “I started working professionally since I was 13, and I have loved it, but it’s time for me to move on and just see what might be next for me.”

The vision Anderson had for the Garden Theatre took shape after he took on the role of artistic director.

Anderson has been an integral part of the growth and development of the Garden Theatre throughout his 11-year tenure. He’s credited with helping steer the theater into regional prominence and establishing it as one of the leading theaters in Central Florida, according to a media release.

“Rob is a remarkable collaborator, and we are profoundly grateful to him for his leadership, passion and dedication,” Executive Director Nao Tsurumaki said. “Over the past decade, he has dedicated his creative life to the Garden and has cultivated a growing community of artists, audiences and supporters.

I’m so grateful for his contribution, and we’re excited to celebrate his achievements and legacy.”

In his time with the Garden Theatre, Anderson said his proudest accomplishment would be raising the level of the theater’s production value. Today, the Garden Theatre not only pulls from the wealth of local talent in Orange County, but also it attracts talent from around the country.

“The Garden has grown in many different ways,” Anderson said. “It started out, really, as just a booking house for other theaters to use (for) concerts and dance shows, and then they started to feel like producing some theater of their own.

I feel like my biggest achievement — my biggest contribution — has been raising the production values, raising the quality of the shows that happen at the Garden and bringing in designers and different directors who really have helped us raise the

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Rob Winn Anderson first joined the Garden Theatre in 2008 when he was invited to write and direct the theater’s opening gala, “Curtain Up.”

standards (at the Garden Theatre). … We’ve received just an influx of actors and designers who wanted to work with us from all over the country. We use people from all over.”

Although attracting talent from around the country has been a benefit to the Garden Theatre, Anderson added that casting has always been difficult over the years.

“Casting is the biggest challenge,” Anderson said. “We have a very large talent pool in Orlando, however, they don’t really come to Orlando to work in theater. They come to Orlando for the attractions, so that big pool isn’t really open to us the way that it would appear that it is. Retaining casting and retaining that talent all the way up until opening is probably the biggest challenge.”

The growth of the Garden Theatre did more than just bring top-quality talent and shows to the Winter Garden community. The theater has become a destination for visitors and tourists, and it has even played a part in the revitalization of the downtown area, Anderson said.

“When it (Garden Theatre) reopened, Plant Street was pretty much a ghost town,” Anderson said.

“There were only a couple of shops opened. Everything else was closed or boarded up, and the Garden Theatre is really responsible for the revival of (downtown) Winter Garden because businesses started to come in. Everything that (downtown) is now, the theater is truly at the heart of that.”

Anderson has been able to produce some of his own original work with the Garden Theatre during his years of involvement. The theater debuted the premiere of Anderson’s musical, “Christmas by Committee,” and the premiere of his play, “A Tennessee Walk,” which was later produced at Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre and at Jacksonville State University.

“The Garden has been really gracious in that they have produced some of my original work,” Anderson said. “I’ve had three different things produced on the Garden stage that I wrote, and I would say (seeing) ‘A Tennessee Walk,’ which was in last season, … was a really great moment — (seeing) that play

come to life on stage.”

The curtain may be closing on Anderson’s time with the Garden Theatre, but he urges the theater to keep moving forward with the progress that’s been made.

“The Garden is very brave,” Anderson said. “My only message is just to continue to be brave. I’ve always said that that was one of the most attractive and important things about the Garden Theatre is that they are brave.”

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It was a dominant weekend for the Olympia boys and girls water polo teams at the Winter Park Invitational at the YMCA Aquatics Center on Saturday, March 16. The Titans boys team would win the tournament as they would go 4-0 with wins over Ransom Everglades, St. Thomas Aquinas, South Broward and Belen Jesuit. Meanwhile, the girls polo team won the girls tournament, going a perfect 4-0.

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In Olympia’s 21-9 win over Wekiva on the baseball diamond on Thursday, March 14, Richey Lakes had a great night at the plate, as he would go 4-for4 with a two doubles, two RBI and accounted for four runs. Adding to the offensive explosion was Brenden Riley (4-for-5 with a double, three RBI and two runs scored).

The output pushed the Titans to 7-0 on the season.

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In The First Academy’s dominating 14-1 win over Trinity Prep in softball on Thursday, March 14, Rachel Sheridan led the way for the Royals as she went a perfect 2-for-2 from the plate, notching two RBI. The strong hitting, along with Kasey Preisser’s 2-for-3 batting, helped push the Royals to 5-6 on the season.

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A big night for a trio of Panthers helped lead Dr. Phillips to a 19-3 win over Brother Rice (Ill.) in boys water polo on Thursday, March 14. At the Dan Lynch Classic in Chicago, Dan Magrino, Colin Bryant and Sole Fratila each had four goals for the Panthers, while James Sweet would go off for three goals, two assists and three steals.

The trio of Bryce Hubbart, Carson Montgomery and Palmer Bittick lead the way from the mound for the Wolverines.

At Windermere High, a stable of pitchers is looking to propel the program forward in its second season.

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n the game of baseball, there are a lot of things that separate the good teams from the bad.

Concepts like strong situational hitting and smart base running can make a big difference, but it’s the action on the mound where most coaches will tell you a baseball game is won and lost.

Out on the racetrack at Ocala Gran Prix, Bridgewater Middle sixth-grader Alex Jacky leaves competitors in the dust.

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Luckily for the Windermere baseball team, the Wolverines have a pitching staff that any program would love to have — the team knew what is had coming into the season.

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In Dr. Phillips’ 2-0 win over Lake Nona in baseball on Tuesday, March 12, senior pitcher Logan Bryan had a stellar performance, as the righty tossed a complete game shutout — striking out seven and allowing just a single hit in the process. The hard-fought win notched the Panthers their fifth victory of the season.

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lex Jacky lives the life of every normal, 12-year-old kid: He goes to school, works on homework and enjoys just having fun.

But for Jacky, a sixth-grader at Bridgewater Middle, his idea of fun is a bit more intense — as in “speeding up to 70 miles per hour as he weaves past other drivers around the racetrack” intense.

While his parents drive him to school, on most weekends it’s Jacky who is the one doing the driving, though it’s on half-mileto mile-long tracks that are usu-

ally around 30 feet wide.

It’s there on that smooth, black asphalt at the Ocala Gran Prix facility where he has his fun as a budding kart racer. There, he gets to do what he likes the best — speed. “(I enjoy) getting to go fast — getting to be inches from the ground, going super fast,” Jacky said. “Getting the momentum through the corners and (feeling the g-force).”

And it makes sense that going fast is something that Jacky has gotten incredibly good at, seeing as how he first took interest in the sport when he was just 3 years old.

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“We knew we were going to have some good talent,” said junior Carson Montgomery, a FSU verbal commit. “I just think the area is insane for baseball, because it’s Florida. We have three kids going

received a nice toy vehicle from his grandpa to ride around in — that’s when a passion for racing started to take shape in the young Jacky.

“It was battery powered and had rubber tires, so it was kind of quick,” said Eric, Alex’s father and mechanic. “It was made for 8-year-olds and I was like, ‘Let’s take him out to the parking lot and see what he does with it.’ We put him in, put a little bicycle helmet on him and the kid put his foot to the floor and burned the tires off and took off.

“We were like, ‘That’s not what we expected,’” he said. “The thing did 10 to 15 miles per hour, so it wasn’t like he was hauling mail or anything, but for 3 years old he was moving right along. He would just go out there and do laps and just burn laps and squeal the whole time by — the

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ACC and another kid going D1, and one that was going D1 before — we could have five D1 players.

It’s crazy.”

Montgomery is one of the big arms that head coach Eric Lassiter has starting for the Wolverines, alongside teammate Bryce Hubbart. Throw in closer Palmer Bittick and you have a trio of guys who toss shutout inning after shutout inning.

While each offers up his own specialities, the duo of Hubbart and Montgomery are the guys who bring MLB levels of heat.

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What first got you into baseball?

played travel ball ever since.

I was about 6 or 7, and I went to one of my friend’s birthday parties and it was just held in the backyard. I was very addicted to just sports in general at a young age — my parents could never figure it out — and they had a whiffle ball tournament and that’s when I knew, “This is my sport.”

What was your first real experience with baseball?

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What’s your first year of high school ball been like?

It’s been great — being a freshman at the school has been great. I’ve always been looking forward to playing at Olympia since I was 8 — I’ve been watching games forever. My teammates have just been amazing to me … our chemistry is just great and we love one another. I think I’m probably having the best experience I could ever have as a freshman.

You’ve not been playing long at Olympia, but do you have a highlight moment thus far?

Our first preseason game — I played fall ball for the team, but it was only a couple of games — and I get up to the plate and I’m

excited, because I’ve been waiting for this moment for forever. I get up there and on the second pitch I hit my first home run on the big field, and I was just stoked — everyone in the crowd was in awe.

What’s been the biggest challenge of playing highschool baseball so far?

The biggest challenge for me is staying consistent. I don’t think it’s more of a challenge than a goal for me — every game, no matter how I play, I’m always concerned about how the team is doing and how we are all interacting as a group. I’m just glad at how the team is gelling well.

What’s some of the best advice that coach Chuck Schall has given you?

Just to stay humble playing as a team and for one another — every game is about playing for another. He’s definitely taught us not to be an individual, but to work as a unit.

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gomery’s bread and butter. Right now Hubbart works with a fastball that peaks out around 92 miles per hour, while Montgomery’s heater has been sitting at 92 to 93 miles per hour, while hitting 96 at some points in time.

The crazy thing is that when they’re up pitching, they don’t even realize just how fast they’re throwing.

“Most of the times you’re out there and you don’t feel like you’re throwing hard, that’s the time you’re throwing the hardest,” Montgomery said. “When you’re nice and easy, and just letting it fly, that’s when it’s the hardest.”

And being able to throw those heaters the way they do helps open batters up, Hubbart said, as a barrage of fastballs allows for a setup to other, unexpected pitches.

“Then when they’re expecting fastball, then you can flip to a curveball or changeup and get a swing and miss,” Hubbart said.

“It’s one of those pitches that if you have a sharp fastball and a sharp curveball, they’re worried about one or another and it gets their mind off the one you’re going to throw.”

While the deceptive pitching is setup in Hubbart and Montgomery’s pitching game, Bittick’s style is all about deception from the get-go.

As the team’s closer, it’s up to Bittick to finish off games, which for him is helped along by his use of breaking balls that he shoots from the hip, thanks in part to his submarine style of pitching.

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Bittick’s unique technique came about one evening when he was still at Olympia High School, and decided out of the blue to just do something different.

“Between my freshman year and my sophomore year, one of my buddies — who was a catcher — was practicing framing and different things and receiving the ball, and I got really bored throwing it overhand,” Bittick said. “I started messing around sidearm and, I kid you not, I was probably throwing like that for all of two minutes and the varsity coach walks up to me and goes, ‘How long have you been pitching like that?’ And I’m like, ‘Like six pitches.’”

The submarine style has also helped add on to the deceptive nature of his pitches, as throughout most of his delivery the ball is totally hidden by his body — meaning a batter won’t see it coming out of his hand until the dying second.

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death of it, so we thought, ‘There’s no fear aspect here, so let’s look at something next.’”

The next step for Alex was to try karting, so Eric took him to the local track there in Boise, Idaho — where they lived at the time — to see what he could do.

Over the next few years Alex honed his craft — putting in hours upon hours of practicing — before taking part in his first real, competitive race the weekend of his eighth birthday. That race would see him finish in fifth place.

Since moving to Horizon West back in 2011, Alex has raced 50-to-60,000 laps at Ocala and has grown as a racer in every way, Eric said. For Alex, the growth as a driver has helped get him to where he is now.

“From the beginning I didn’t really know what to do, other than to take it and do it,” Alex said.

“Then from my earlier races I’ve learned how to take other people’s lines and draft off of them through the races, and I’ve gotten better and better from there.”

In fact, in the last two weeks Alex was bumped up to the junior class, where the karts are a bit bigger and heavier, and the racers more talented.

But the funny thing is, despite having to adapt to a new class, his approach before a race is the same.

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racing, which means Alex likes to keep a clean frame of mind.

“There’s not really much (that goes through my head) — I’m just hoping (my kart) stays gripped and I just follow the kart in front,” Alex said.

That strategy is what led Alex to a couple of big wins last year in the Mini-Rok class (the division that he left for juniors this year) and it also helped him recently attain a four-year scholarship from Ocala Gran Prix for his racing efforts from the 2018 season.

But what do his parents think about all of this? While most would be worried about their kid riding in a kart going nose-tonose with others at 70 miles per hour, for them it’s not that big of a deal, really.

“It’s just kind of what we do, so it’s really not something I think about,” Eric said. “I’m more worried about things like, ‘Did I get the air pressures right,’ because each tire is individually done. The only thing that worries me on the race track is if there is a new kid — someone who doesn’t understand the unwritten rules.”

When Eric says that it’s what they do, he means the whole family. Each member of the Jacky family acts in some role — whether it be as a mechanic, in Eric’s case, or as a cheer team.

And honestly, of all the things that have made up the Jackys’ lives in racings — including the ups and downs — it is the family aspect of it all that has really made this whole experience worthwhile.

“For us this is probably the best family activity you could ever imagine — it really is a full family effort,” Eric said. “Racing is us 100% basically — we win together, we lose together.”

Racing has become a way of life for Jacky.

“For us this is probably the best family activity you could ever imagine — it really is a full family effort.”

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