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YOUR TOWN WANT TO BE A BABYSITTER? Health Central Hospital is offering a series of two-day courses to prepare students starting at 11 years old to be safe when they are home alone, watching younger siblings or babysitting.

Classes are from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 16 to 17 and July 14 to 15 in the Gleason Room of Health Central, 10000 W. Colonial Drive, Ocoee. Cost is $40 for children of Orlando Health employees and $50 for others. To register, call (407) 253-8795.

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The healing process West Orange-area artists create pieces for Pulse tragedy art exhibition. PAGE 9.

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Man robs Chick-Fil-A, punches woman at GameStop Michael Joseph Mermel Klein is facing battery, petit theft and robbery charges.

GABBY BAQUERO STAFF WRITER OCOEE Law-enforcement officers arrested a man who allegedly robbed a Chick-Fil-A and punched a woman at a GameStop around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 30.

The 27-year-old male sus-

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A sea of blue graduation caps filled the Amway Center’s indoor arena during West Orange High School’s graduation ceremony May 30.

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est Orange High School’s more than 900 graduating seniors proudly moved their tassels to the left side of their caps after their ceremony on Tuesday, May 30, at the Amway Center.

The Class of 2017 valedictorian was Kristin Phanouvong, and co-salutatorians were Chantale Ninah and Nehemiah Garcia.

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Graduating seniors took in the bittersweet words of encouragement and advice from Principal Bill Floyd.

Oakland honors Francine Postell for a lifetime of service.

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Valedictorian Kristin Phanouvong encouraged her classmates to follow their dreams.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 8

ART EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, June 8, at Winter Garden City Hall, 300 W. Plant St. Artists will be on hand to greet the public at the reception. This Art in Public Places exhibit pays tribute to “man’s best friend” and other animals found in the community that provide friendship. The exhibit runs until July 31. (407) 656-4111.

INTRODUCTION TO PILATES FOR SENIORS 2 p.m. Thursday, June 8, at the West Oaks Library, 1821 E. Silver Star Road, Ocoee.

Exercise your way to fitness in this introduction to Pilates class. Learn simple moves that work muscles, help alignment and encourage flexibility. Comfortable exercise or loose-fitting clothing required; yoga mats encouraged. Register at ocls.info/nextchapter or (407) 835-7323.

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WEST ORANGE REPUBLICAN WOMEN FEDERATED 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, June 8, at the West Orange Country Club, 3300 West Orange Country Club Drive, Winter Garden. Guest speakers are Eileen Escalante of Susan B. Anthony-List and Kelly Locke, JMJ Pregnancy Center. RSVP to rebeccatmellen@gmail.com or (407) 230-5968.

SATURDAY, JUNE 10

AFRICAN-AMERICAN FAMILY HISTORY FESTIVAL 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 10, at the West Oaks Library, 1821 E. Silver Star Road, Ocoee.

Library staff, EPOCH, the African-American Historical & Genealogical Society and Wells Built Museum will share resources and services to help you learn more about your heritage. (407) 835-7323.

KICK OFF SUMMER WITH SYDNEY’S FRIENDS 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 10, in Sydney’s Reading and Learning Center, in the center court of the West Oaks Mall, 9401 W. Colonial Drive, Ocoee.

The Read to Sydney reading organization will offer free crafts and a snack for children, and a disc jockey will provide music.

Disney tickets will be raffled off.

To purchase raffle tickets, go to readtosydney.org/raffle.html.

Information at Readtosydney. org.

OAKLAND 11TH ANNUAL ARTS & MUSIC FEST 2 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, June 10, in Oakland Town Center, 221 N. Arrington St., Oakland.

HapCo’s festival celebrates the community with live music, food trucks, children’s activities and exhibiting artists. Free.

(800) 409-6133.

YOUTH VISUAL ART CLINIC 9:30 to 11 a.m. Saturday, June 10, at Oakland Town Center, 221 N. Arrington St., Oakland.

A professional painter will share techniques and tips with 40 young aspiring artists. All supplies are provided. Free and open to ages 8 to 18. Preregistration is required. (800) 409-6133.

MONDAY, JUNE 12

CENTRAL FLORIDA RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 7 p.m. Monday, June 12, at the Central Florida Railroad Museum, 101 S. Boyd St., Winter Garden. Tom Lera will present “Railway Post Office Postmarks and Operations.” Free. (407) 656-0559.

LOVE ROCKS 3:30 p.m. Monday, June 12, at the Winter Garden Library, 805 E. Plant St. Connect with others to paint river rocks with messages and symbols of love and kindness in honor of Orlando United Day. (407) 835-7323.

VBS GALACTIC STARVEYORS 9 a.m. to noon Monday, June 12, through Friday, June 16, at the downtown campus of First Baptist Church Windermere, 300 Main St. A special-needs program is from 6 to 8:30 p.m.

Children entering kindergarten through fifth grade are invited.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14

CELEBRATE SUMMER WITH MIX 105.1 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 14, at the West Oaks Library, 1821 E. Silver Star Road, Ocoee.

MIX105.1 takes the party to the library this summer with fun, interactive events. Take the whole family for music, games,

prizes and more. Ages 6 to 12.

For more information, call (407) 835-7323.

THURSDAY, JUNE 15

BUILD BETTER ART 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 15, at the Winter Garden Library, 805 E. Plant St. Become an artist and contribute to our collaborative art project. All pieces will combine for an amazing collage. Materials and supplies will be provided. Ages 8 and up.

Seating is limited. Register at (407) 835-7323.

FRIDAY, JUNE 16

FOOD TRUCKS AND MOVIE 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, June 16, at Bill Breeze Park, 125 N. Lakeshore Drive, Ocoee. Food trucks will offer tamales, cheesesteaks, seafood, barbecue, burgers and more. The movie, “Sing,” begins at 8:30 p.m. Ocoee Parks and Recreation Department, (407) 905-3180 or ocoee.org.

SATURDAY, JUNE 17

NATURAL YOGA CLASS 9 a.m. Saturday, June 17, on the Serenity Porch of Oakland Nature Preserve, 747 Machete Trail. Join instructor Colleen Puglisi for a relaxing and calming yoga session immersed in nature. Free for ONP members, $5 for others. Register at oaklandnaturepreserve.org/ programs. (407) 905-0054.

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The media center at Oakland Avenue Charter School was dedicated to former Oakland mayor and commissioner Francine Postell.

A dedicated life The town of Oakland and Oakland Avenue Charter School unveiled a plaque that pays tribute to Francine Postell, a lifelong town resident and 21-year teacher in Ocoee.

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t’s fitting that Francine Coleman Postell lives on Postell Avenue. She has, after all, lived in the town of Oakland most of her life, having been born at home in a little house that once stood on West Colonial Drive, just south of Oakland Avenue Charter School.

She has dedicated most of her life to the small town — as a citizen and an elected official — and, in later years, to the young people in Ocoee — as a teacher at Ocoee Junior High/Middle School for more than two decades.

Oakland officials celebrated Postell’s service to her community May 30 during the unveiling of a plaque dedicating the charter school’s media center to the former educator.

Family and friends, school staff and students were present for the program.

Several people spoke, including

“If you would ask me my life story, the only story I could tell you is serving mankind.”

— Francine Postell

Commissioner Joseph McMullen, who said, “When you think of Ms. Postell, you think of someone who gives her all.”

She was humbled by the honor.

“I am thrilled and pleased to be the recipient of this award, the dedication of the library,” Postell said. “If you would ask me my life story, the only story I could tell you is serving mankind.”

The media center dedication is the latest in a program established by the Oakland Town Commission to recognize citizens who have made important contributions to the town. In addition to living most of her life in Oakland, serving on the Town Commission and teaching several generations of students, Postell has been an active member of her church, Mt. Zion African Methodist Episcopal, where a scholarship is established in her name.

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During her junior-high years, Postell babysat a local family in their summer home in Georgia.

After attending Oakland Elementary School, she went to Winter Garden School for junior high.

Postell said she wanted to continue her studies in college but knew her parents couldn’t afford such an expense. At 22, she took employment with the Sadlers in 1954, mainly cooking.

During that time, she married Henry Postell and had two sons, one of whom is deceased. When he relocated to Connecticut, she moved, too, but she left her boys in the care of her mother-in-law.

A year later, homesick for warmer weather and her boys, Postell returned to Oakland; Henry remained up north. Their marriage lasted just seven years.

She went back to work for the Sadlers, too, and was with them a total of 25 years. In 1960, her family grew again when she adopted a 6-month-old boy.

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Postell said that after her employers passed away, she decided it was time to get a college degree. She graduated from Florida Southern College, in Lakeland, with a degree in sociology with a minor in political science. She began and ended her teaching career at the same school: Ocoee Junior High/Middle School. Retirement came in 1998.

In 1987, Postell was elected to the mayor’s seat in Oakland. She served one term but resigned when she developed diabetes.

“It was a lot of stress, so I had to give something up, and I said, ‘Well, my teaching job is the one that’s feeding me,’” she said.

A few years later, she was back, completing another town commissioner’s term.

Postell has received numerous awards and is listed in “Who’s Who Among American Teachers.”

Her latest honor, the media center plaque, is humbling, she said.

“It was very touching,” she said.

“Just to know that the community thought that much of me.”

Contact Amy Quesinberry at AmyQ@orangeobserver.com.

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Francine Postell, now 84, was No. 14 of 19 children, including three sets of twins, born to the Rev. Samuel and Gertrude Herriott Coleman. Several were stillborn, a few died in infancy — 12 lived to adulthood. She and three others are still living.

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Sadler’s Place, located on Oakland Avenue; her father did farm work for Calvin and Frances Sadler, and her mother was their maid.

When Postell was 7, a childless couple in town asked her parents if she could live with them.

“My mom let them take me, and I started calling them Mom and Dad,” Postell said. “I had more opportunities to do different things than my other siblings, so I look at my adoption as a blessing.”

When they divorced five years later, Postell moved to Orlando with the man she called Dad. She returned to Oakland when she was 14, resuming her life under the same roof as her birth parents and siblings. Her birth father died the next year.

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COPS CORNER WINTER GARDEN MAY 18

South Dillard Street. At about 1 a.m., a police sergeant arrested a driver for the alleged theft of a vehicle and an active warrant out of Illinois for aggravated kidnapping. During the time of arrest, the driver was traveling with a female adult and two children. According to the arrest report, local police made an effort to confirm if the children present in the car were the victims of the kidnapping but their efforts were unsuccessful. Law enforcement conducted several individual interviews with both adults and the children.

The male child said the woman was his mother but struggled to provide certain information. The female child stated she was 11 years old and also confirmed the woman was her mother. However, the female adult stated she was 23, which would have made her about 12 years old at the time of birth.

The woman, who struggled to provide the children’s date of birth, claimed giving birth at a young age was normal in Romanian culture and continued to assert both children were hers. As proof, the woman provided the birth certificates for both children, which were located in her purse. During the course of the investigation, according to the police report, officers confirmed that both children had been coached to lie. The woman was charged with possession of Valium not prescribed to her, fraudulent use of personal identification information, providing false information to a law officer and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

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440 block of West Silver Star Road. At about 10 p.m., an officer responded to a restaurant bar in reference to a disturbance. The disturbance was caused by two men who were kicked out of the bar after being belligerent. The subjects were allegedly escorted out of the bar by security but proceeded to bang on the outside windows and attempted to use a flower pot to break the glass, causing one window to crack in several places. The damage to the window was estimated at $600. Both men were arrested and charged with criminal mischief.

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Winter Garden to install light at Hennis Road intersection The city of Winter Garden confirmed it will add a traffic light at the Hennis Road and Plant Street intersection soon to appease concerned residents.

GABBY BAQUERO STAFF WRITER

Following numerous complaints about the safety — or lack thereof — of the intersection at Hennis Road and Plant Street, the city of Winter Garden will be installing a new traffic light at the intersection.

“We’ve had a lot of residents ask for it,” City Manager Mike Bollhoefer said. “They consider it a dangerous intersection with a lot of traffic and such, so we decided to put it in.”

The city will be sending out bid proposals for engineering in June and anticipate to start construction in August. Bollhoefer gave a rough cost estimate of $200,000 for the project and a construction time frame of 30 to 45 days.

Residents who frequently navigate the intersection said the traffic light will help commuters navigate onto Plant Street safely.

Currently, some residents consider the intersection so dangerous that they avoid it altogether.

“I have learned to avoid the intersection when trying to make any sort of left turn,” said Winter Garden resident Lauren O’Shea.

“I think that the lights already present at Ninth Street and West Crown Point (Road) probably contribute to increases in speed and difficulty around Hennis, and it never feels like the lights are timed to allow for Hennis traffic to exit. I take the winding industrial roads to one of the intersections with a light to make my turns.”

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section daily but always navigates it with extreme caution. She said a traffic light is needed because the busy traffic renders a fourway stop sign useless.

“I drive through this intersection every day and have the feeling that I’m going to get hit by another car,” she said. “It’s very busy, and cars from different directions are trying to cross it at the same time. … I’ve seen a few accidents already, and I had to brake hard a few times because people trying to cross north to south or south to north don’t calculate how fast the cars are coming on Plant and they

Robbery suspect arrested

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100 block of Maguire Park Street. At about 7:30 p.m., an officer on patrol responded to a complaint about the sound of five consecutive gunshots being fired within a wooded area of a residential subdivision. A resident of the subdivision informed the officer they saw two individuals leaving the area shortly after and described their clothing. The officer located the individuals matching the caller’s descriptions walking around the parking lot and questioned them.

Both individuals claimed they did not have weapons or firearms on them, but a subsequent search produced the discovery of a pistol under the man’s waistband and an empty magazine in his pocket.

The pistol was not stolen, but the man failed to possess a concealed carry permit and was arrested.

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Although O’Shea said she supports the installation of the traffic light, she fears it alone won’t be enough to solve the problem and might even make it worse. Turning left onto East Plant Street is nearly impossible, O’Shea said.

Furthermore, turning right onto Hennis Road while traveling westbound on Plant Street also causes issues, because of the sharp angle that requires drivers to slow down considerably, annoying those behind them.

“Simply adding a light will potentially make the intersection safer … but might cause other issues or exacerbate problems that I think already exist there,” she said. “The one-mile stretch between (State Road) 429 and Ninth Street contains four stop lights. This can be crippling during rush hour when trying to get from 429 to Hennis or past it and, honestly, people rushing through the Hennis area between the two lights may be one reason why the intersection is even more dangerous.

“The lights are poorly timed, and backups can result in sitting in the one-mile stretch for 10 to 15 minutes,” O’Shea said. “Adding a fifth light would, I imagine, make this even worse. I think the city needs to invest in engineering resources to review the entire stretch, including reviewing speed patterns and considering all traffic flow options, especially as they are considering eastward growth of the Plant Street area.”

Contact Gabby Baquero at gbaquero@orangeobserver.com

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After taking food from Chick-fil-A, Michael Joseph Mermel Klein reportedly assaulted a woman at this GameStop location.

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pect, Michael Joseph Mermel Klein, reportedly took a fourcount Chick-n-Minis from the restaurant’s kitchen, according to a police report.

During the robbery, Klein reportedly pushed an employee out of his path and punched a second employee on the head before he headed to the patio area of the restaurant and ate the stolen chicken.

Klein then walked toward a nearby GameStop located in the same plaza and wreaked havoc, leaving a woman bruised and bloody. GameStop employees

declined to comment on the incident, but Lana Tomg, the owner of a nail salon next door to the video game store, said the man also terrorized her customers and employees.

Klein allegedly caused severe physical harm to a woman at GameStop. The woman then ran out of the GameStop and into Lana Nails and Hair Salon to ask for help.

“She ran over here to ask for help, and as soon as I saw her, I saw her face was full of blood all over,” Tomg said. “The man followed her, and he was chasing her … she asked for help but he came in right after her and he told us

everything would be fine and told everybody to calm down and don’t move.”

At first, Tomg initially thought Klein and the woman were a couple who were having a fight, but she then realized something was very wrong when he came after one of her employees. Klein allegedly grabbed one of the salon employees and squeezed her tightly. After a few moments, Tomg jumped over the counter where the register was located and ran out of the door to get help from a nearby mattress store.

“That moment when she came in with blood everywhere, I said, ‘Oh my God’ and she said, ‘I need somebody to help me; call 911,’” Tong said. “And I tried to get the phone, but he came in right after her and said, “You guys will be fine. Calm down. Don’t move.’

Right after that moment, I realized it might be a robbery.”

Two Ocoee police officers arrived on the scene, and Klein exited the nail salon with the woman in a headlock. A struggle ensued as Klein resisted arrest.

Upon arrival at the Orange County Jail, Klein continued resisting officers and was subdued with a Taser and pepper spray. He has since been charged with battery, petit theft and robbery.

Contact Gabby Baquero at gbaquero@orangeobserver.com.

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Teen training dog to help others Fifteen-year-old Ashton Kaatz is working through New Horizons Service Dogs to give a disabled client a four-legged assistant.

Ashton Kaatz, 15, is training 6-month-old Duchess to help someone who needs assistance through New Horizons Service Dogs.

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“That’s really good for her learning to ignore things like children, traffic, fireworks.”

The duo spent two days together recently at Foundation Academy — where Ashton, a Southwest Orlando resident, just finished her freshman year.

“There’s a possibility (Duchess) could be placed with someone in high school or college with PTSD or autism, so being in a hectic environment was really good for her,” Ashton said.

She will continue training the puppy for two to four months, and then the dog will move on to the next level. She will be placed with an inmate in the prison system in South Florida, where her basic behaviors will be strengthened over the next four months.

Her next stop is with another puppy raiser when she turns 1, and then she goes to the advanced

level, where New Horizons professionals assess Duchess to find what job she is best suited for based on her abilities.

She will be placed with a New Horizons client at the end of two years, and after the graduation ceremony, she will go to her new and permanent home. Ashton said she would like to meet the person Duchess will be helping; and she will get to see Duchess again, as difficult as that will be.

“I just have to keep in my head that she’s not mine, that she has a greater purpose in life,” Ashton said.

The teen has enjoyed watching Duchess’s transformation.

“I have always loved dogs and animals, and I think seeing behaviors shaped is a cool thing,” she said.

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She got serious about her plan when she became a teenager and started teaching Maverick, the family dog, to prove she could handle the challenge.

This led her to an 8-week-old puppy named Duchess, a golden retriever that came to live with the Kaatzes in January.

Now 6 months old, Duchess is mastering commands and learning such tasks as turning on a light switch and opening the refrigerator door. She has proven to be adept at learning new tasks, Ashton said.

“We have to stick to certain words, because when she goes to advanced training, we want to have a uniform language for the dog so they don’t get confused,” Ashton said of the training.

Duchess is exposed to a minimum of 30 minutes daily of obedience and mobility task work, plus five hours a week of public socialization.

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Search nearly complete for new Bridgewater principal Former principal Lisa James was transferred to Lockhart Middle School.

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HORIZON WEST Within the next week, Orange County Public Schools is set to announce a new principal for Bridgewater Middle School.

Former Bridgewater Principal Lisa James served at the helm of the school for about three years before she was transferred to Lockhart Middle School in Orlando.

Greg Moody, Orange County Public Schools area superintendent of the West Learning Community, said the superintendent annually reviews vacancies across the district and appoints or transfers principals based on need.

Moody and other OCPS officials hosted a parent-input meeting Tuesday, May 30, to gather suggestions and ideas on what they would like to see in a new principal.

“When a principal vacancy occurs, we typically will meet with parents and staff — separately — to provide an opportunity for them to give us input on the leadership traits, knowledge, skills and

experiences they are looking for in their next principal,” Moody said.

Parents looking for change at the school came up with a list of attributes they hope to see in the new principal, which included experience because of the school’s size, zero tolerance for bullying and a willingness to involve the community. They also would like changes to the curriculum, including the creation of electives that will feed into the new Windermere High School.

Among the nearly 50 parents in attendance, current school-related concerns included losing staff to Windermere High, handling the large size and continued growth of the school and continuing to ensure student safety while maintaining the student population.

“A lot of parents wanted to see traits of a principal that would be able to take on the responsibility and understand the size of the school,” said parent Jane Dunkelberger. “We’d like to have a seasoned principal who would be able to recognize its needs moving forward with the growth and how to maintain an ‘A’ school — someone who can translate data into areas

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of need, because there are areas of need in that school. It’s everchanging and growing.”

Dunkelberger said other suggestions included adding more administration staff and resource officers to promote safety.

With the school already set to reach 200% capacity by the start of the 2017-18 school year, and the opening of its relief school still a couple of years away, the ability to effectively manage the overcrowding with the resources at hand seemed to be at the top of parents’ list.

“If we’re going to be overcrowded the next three years, give us the resources, tools and assistance the school is entitled to,” Dunkelberger said. “Give us what we need to maintain the growth. There’s resources out there; it’s just hoping that the new principal will have open eyes and an open heart in helping us bring these resources to these kids.

“We understand it’s not going to be a perfect world, but having the School Board come and ask this community what they’d like to see, I appreciated it,” Dunkelberger said. “(They) showed that our opinion matters. I’m curious to see who they’re going to end up choosing. We just hope they’ll be able to find some experienced to be able to tackle the continued growth of the school.”

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She is retiring after 24 years at Dillard Street, and she and her husband, Kevin, are moving to North Carolina. Co-workers held a retirement party Wednesday, May 17, and former students, teachers and administrators were invited to wish her well.

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UNVEILING OF THE SEA-TO-SEA FLAG WHEN: 10 a.m. Monday, June 12 WHERE: Orange County Administration Center, 201 S. Rosalind Ave., Orlando DETAILS: Section 93 of the legendary Sea-toSea Rainbow Flag was originally displayed on June 17, 2016, in tribute to the lives taken at Pulse and in support of freedom-lovers worldwide.

ORLANDO LOVE: REMEMBERING OUR ANGELS WHEN: 7 p.m. Monday, June 12 WHERE: Lake Eola Park Amphitheater, 512 E. Washington St., Orlando DETAILS: Community leaders and elected officials will hold a one-year remembrance ceremony at Lake Eola Park. The ceremony will include remarks by community leaders, musical performances by Olga Tañón and Sisaundra Lewis along with a memorial reading of the 49 names.

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Jene Omens never will forget the night he stood in a sea of hundreds in downtown Orlando listening to the sounds of sorrow and heartbreak.

“What ripped into me the most was being among thousands of people saying goodbye,” he said.

“I remember the sun setting into night followed by the ringing of the church bell, not once, but 49 times. The sound of each gong reverberating through downtown Orlando symbolized the release of each of the 49 souls to a spiritual place.”

It was a moment — a day — that Omens took back to his studio to capture in his art. And he wasn’t alone.

Over the last 12 months since the shooting at Pulse nightclub, artists across West Orange have poured their emotional sorrow into their work.

“I always do a painting after a tragedy,” said Winter Garden painter Patrick Noze. “So for Pulse, the emotion came naturally.”

Although Noze had no personal ties to any of the 49 victims, his brother is gay.

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WEST ORANGE ARTISTS Alicia Betancourt — “Two Hearts One Pulse” Denisse Berlingeri — “Infinite Love” Cheryl Bogdanowitsch — “Rainbow Tree” Doug Bringle — “Pulse” Arlene Friberg-Vivaldi — “49 Dancers” Patrick Noze — “Forever Love” Jene Omens — “Love’s Release”

“I see it as a human tragedy,” he said. “I live in a community where it’s open, so you know these people much more than when I was growing up. They’re human beings, and you love them.”

As more artists began creating Pulse-related art, the curator at the Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens in Winter Park took notice.

“I kept getting phone calls from artists who wanted to do something,” curator Rachel Frisby said.

In response, Frisby decided to host a summer-long exhibition at the museum to commemorate Pulse, calling it Summer of Love: Reflections on Pulse.

“It really started with artists wanting a voice,” she said.

More than 150 artists from across the United States, even some from other countries, submitted artwork to the gallery. In the end, about 60 were accepted for the exhibition, with more than half of the featured work from Florida artists.

“They floored me,” Frisby said about the submitted work. “This is a celebration of love.”

For Winter Garden artist Arlene Friberg-Vivaldi, creating a piece for the exhibit was a difficult decision.

“I wasn’t keen on doing it because it was really sad,” she said. “I managed to stay away from the story when it was happening because it was just too deep. I was just overwhelmed by that number (49).”

When she finally decided to enter a piece, she focused her creation on the 49 victims, creating a single pane of glass depicting a dancing person for each one.

“I wanted to view it from its enormity by the number of frames,” Friberg-Vivaldi said. “I wanted people to look at it and say, ‘This is what hate looks like — it takes the lives of individuals.’ It’s almost like screaming, ‘Look at this. This is bad. This is tearing us apart.’”

In the case of Windermere resident Denisse Berlingeri, when she sat down to create a mosaic sculpture for the exhibition, she knew she wanted it to convey the beauty of love. “(The sculpture) is a couple, but I didn’t identify them as a man and man or a woman and woman or a man and woman,” she said.

Ruth Ellington’s “Overcome” is the featured piece for the exhibition.

“People can interpret it as they want. It’s true love, and it’s infinite because I tried to make the arms the symbol of infinity love.”

In addition to submitting her sculpture to the museum’s exhibition, Berlingeri also became involved in the Orlando Traveling Memorial that features a 100-foot mural.

“Even though I didn’t know any of the victims, it felt like I knew them because I’m Puerto Rican, and some of the victims were Puerto Rican,” she said. “It’s a way to demonstrate solidarity with them.”

As Omens contemplated what to create to commemorate Pulse, he recalled a sculpture he had scrapped a while back.

“The first version wasn’t working, but then I went to the vigil, and it just clicked,” he said.

His bronze sculpture, “Love’s Release” sits in the corner of the exhibit at the Albin Polasek Museum. It depicts two figures kissing, one on the ground and one in the air. A small rainbow flag is grasped in the hand of the one left behind. “‘Love’s Release’ is an expression of a goodbye and a release of the human spirit with one last kiss,” Omens said. “(The flag shows) he’s not alone. There’s unity.”

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“With your own piece, sometimes you’re too involved and every word that drips out of your pen is so important,” Nater said.

“But when you’re working on a story someone else started, you feel freer to be creative without censoring yourself, and it just all helps people to expand as writers and gets them to work on genres that they haven’t done before, for instance.”

Being a full-time English professor, Nater is also familiar with the struggle of finding time to write and believes being part of a group adds accountability, which presumably encourages one to quit delaying the writing process until it’s already bedtime.

So far, Nater has only had one meeting in which three people attended, but she hopes to have more come in as she works on getting the word out about the group via social media and her personal contacts. The two-hour biweekly gatherings of literary minds will be planned for 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. the second and fourth Thursday of the month. For the time being, Nater conducts the meetings at the northern end of Plant Street Market by the outside dining area.

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The group, called Winter Garden Writers, is open to anyone, and its primary aim would be to encourage and assist both aspirational or seasoned writers in honing their craft.

Originally from Boston — the city informally known as the literary hub of the country — Nater is the sole person behind the initiative. Nater, who has been an English professor at Valencia College since 1991, genuinely believes the group could benefit the writing community and might even make the process of writing a novel less of a solitary task and more of a social experience.

“We give feedback in a very simple way: You tell them what sings about the piece, you know what you liked or thought was cool, and then you say what confused you and what might need more developing or editing,” Nater said. “So we’re really gentle, but people are scared to share their writing. I still get nervous and speak too quickly when I’m reading my own writing aloud.”

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Groundbreaking ceremonies will take place for a new 150unit Ramada Inn on the southwest corner of State Road 50 and Maguire Road in Ocoee.

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Shawnee Airlines made its inaugural flight from Maguire Airport to Walt Disney World, initiating service into the STOLport at WDW. (STOL stands for “short takeoff and landing.”) The daily flight from Maguire, which takes eight minutes, is one of 11 scheduled into WDW each day.

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The West Orange Branch YMCA is considering development of a five-acre site off Beulah Road, donated by Mary V. Tanner in memory of her husband, E.M. “Doc” Tanner.

The Winter Garden Heritage Foundation, which seeks to preserve our heritage and architecture while creating new cultural experiences, is celebrating its third decade with the debut of its History Research and Education Center.

Lakeview High School was built 90 years ago on land donated by pioneer Luther Fuller Tilden. From the beginning, a mascot in the guise of a red devil led its sports teams and guided pep rallies to a fever pitch of excitement.

The original serious-looking devil was eventually replaced by a smiling, cartoonish figure. In 1975, Lakeview High School transformed into Lakeview Junior High, and students voted by a 13-to-1 margin to retain the mascot. In 2005, the figure found itself in the center of a controversy when a family began to petition for its removal, stating that they did not want children “cheering for the devil.”

The complaint was presented to the Orange County School Board, which promptly lobbed it back to the people of Winter Garden; they overwhelmingly chose to keep the mascot.

The 1959 photograph depicts that season’s cheerleaders, from left, going up and around the devil’s megaphone: Christine Stacey, June Graves, Myra Barker, Joyce Dowdy, Mary Frances Irrgang, Faye Moran, Joyce Wilson, Sylvia Adams, Jody Felts and Jeannette Wise.

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THE TIMES MAY 29, 1980 Downtown Ocoee, which includes McKey Street and Bluford and Franklin avenues, was bustling with businesses in the 1980s, and the merchants took out a joint advertisement to let residents know what services were available.

A few of these still are operating today in the same location.

Ruby Maloy, of Winter Garden, received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Rollins College.

She and her husband, Foy, have three sons. The youngest, Craig, is a junior at West Orange High School.

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Alternate reality Gotha resident Rick Terrell released his first virtual-reality game, Disc League, on both the Samsung Gear VR and HTC Vive platforms.

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Imagine slipping on a headset and immediately being transported to another world.

It’s becoming a reality, with the onset and constant development of virtual-reality games. Virtual reality is a computer-generated simulation of a different environment with which users can interact in a seemingly real way, with the use of electronic goggles and hand controls with sensors.

While using the headsets, users can be immersed in a game, movie or place in a realistic manner.

They can look any which way — up, down, side to side — and even move within the virtual environment using controls.

Gotha resident Rick Terrell was fascinated by the burgeoning tech and its potential.

“If you think of mobile phones, we had PDAs, Windows Mobile, Blackberries, Nokias and then iPhones,” he said. “Along a similar

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Terrell recently developed his first monetized virtual-reality game, “Disc League,” but he got his start in the industry in late 2012, when he got the Oculus Rift headset from its Kickstarter campaign. While attending the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference in Orlando that year, Oculus was there with its prototype — a phone duct-taped to ski goggles.

“It was the most fascinating experience I’d ever had,” he said. “As a kid who grew up in the 1990s, I loved Playstation, and for me, when the mobile (phone) revolution came along, I wasn’t as excited. It wasn’t as immersive.

Putting my head into the Rift I said, ‘Wow, this is the next Playstation; this is the next step.’”

He and two other friends set out

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The idea of Disc League is to throw discs to hit other players in order to score points.

in 2013 to create a virtual-reality demo. Oculus even reached out to the group about it, but at that point, Terrell wasn’t ready to step out on his own yet.

With a background in professional games and experience working in defense and at a game studio, Terrell also completed an MBA degree at the University of Florida while he worked with flight simulators.

In 2015, he decided to step into the industry on his own, first creating a children’s application that involved interacting with an artificial intelligence before making a prototype of “Disc League.”

The game involves throwing power discs in a futuristic world.

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moving the hand controls, players get to actually throw, curve and twist the discs through the use of their range of motion.

“This type of competition, where you’re running, throwing, catching and dodging, sounded awesome to me,” Terrell said.

“It’s fun, it’s intuitive, visually it’s pleasing, so really from an experience standpoint, I thought it would be a great experience.”

The game released in December 2016 on Samsung Gear VR’s platform and, most recently, in May on the HTC Vive.

“I get excited when people get in it (the game),” Terrell said.

“They get in there, start throwing the disc, accept it and just do it.

When someone kind of intuitively

Rick Terrell also runs the monthly Orlando Virtual Reality meet-up, a place where anyone can come and experience virtual reality or jump into VR projects and learn more about it.

For more information, visit meetup.com/Orlando-Virtual-Reality.

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Chrissy Michelle Dooley-Calhoun was born on Oct. 17, 1973, at West Orange Memorial Hospital in Winter Garden, Florida, to George Michael and Carolyn Blair Dooley.

Chrissy enjoyed her childhood years growing up in Central Florida in the little town of Ocoee. Chrissy attended and graduated from West Orange High School in Winter Garden, Florida, in 1992. She moved from Ferndale, Florida, to Prattville, Alabama, shortly after high school and continued her education with study in psychology at Auburn University.

Chrissy studied Juris Doctor (J.D.) at Jones School of Law, Faulkner University, in Montgomery. She was a former prosecutor at Eclectic Municipal Court and program director of Legal Studies Department at South University.

Chrissy met the love of her life, Jeremy Calhoun, in Montgomery, Alabama, where they later married in 1995. Chrissy and Jeremy made their home in Eclectic, Alabama.

Chrissy departed our earthly world at 10:30 a.m. May 31, 2017, with her family by her side. Chrissy is survived by her husband, Jeremy Calhoun; children, Amanda Leigh Dooley-Calhoun, Rebecca Lynn Calhoun and Mason Monroe Calhoun.

Chrissy leaves behind her maternal grandfather, William Johnson Blair of Enterprise, Alabama, formerly of Ocoee and Ferndale, Florida; brothers, Shannon Michael Dooley, of Pike County, Alabama, and William Matthew Dooley, of Eclectic, Alabama; aunt, Patricia Blair Alexander (Peter), of Florida; uncle William Russell Blair, of Alabama; aunt, Deborah Sue Glass, of Florida; aunt, Linda Dooley-

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Chrissy also leaves behind her mother-in-law, Deborah Haynes Poole; and her large extended Blair, Dooley and Calhoun family members. Chrissy is also survived by her best friend, Alysia Vierhout Rohen, and her loving family of students, colleagues and friends.

Chrissy was predeceased in death by her paternal grandfather, George Michael Dooley Sr.; maternal grandmother, Jean House Blair; father, George Michael Dooley; and her mother, Carolyn Blair Dooley.

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In 1971, Libby and Jack retired to their dream home, which they planned and built themselves, in Valkaria near Melbourne. The home, with its park-like three acres, fish pond, banana trees, swing, teeter-totter and treehouse, was paradise for their grandchildren.

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JACOB O. HAYNES DIED MAY 22, 2017.

Jacob O. Haynes, a loving husband, father, grandfather and friend, passed away on Monday afternoon, May 22, 2017, in Richardson, Texas, at the age of 82.

J.O. was born on Feb. 10, 1935, in Winter Garden, Florida, and he married Georgia Cokinos on Jan. 2, 1958, in Bainbridge, Georgia.

J.O. is survived by his wife of 59 years; two children, Kevin Christy Haynes, of Richardson, Texas, and Wendy Haynes-Armstrong and husband, Harvey, of Baton

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A former resident of Trailer City in Winter Garden, Libby was born on March 2, 1920, in Carter County, Kentucky. She married Jackson T. Litteral on June 26, 1937. They were married 58 years before his passing in 1995.

During World War II, Libby and Jack moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where Libby worked as a cutter/welder at Bethlehem Shipyards before welcoming their son, Jackson R. Litteral, in 1944.

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Libby was predeceased by her husband, Jackson T. Litteral; parents, Robert E. Johnson and Ollie Mae Fannin Johnson; and brothers, Ernest Johnson and William Johnson.

She is survived by her son, Jack R. Litteral (Bonnie), of Winter Garden; grandchildren, Lisa Litteral Thies (Charlie), of Tallahassee, Jack T. Litteral (Jennifer), of Clermont and Kristin H. Litteral, of Tallahassee; great-grandchildren, Andy, Annika, Jack Riley and Jace; sister, Eula J. Harrison, of Melbourne; and numerous nieces and nephews.

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The City of Ocoee Planning and Zoning Commission will, on Tuesday, June 13, 2017, at 7:00 p.m. or as soon after as possible, hold a public hearing in the City Commission Chambers located at 150 N. Lakeshore Drive, Ocoee, Florida in order to consider and make a recommendation on the adoption of the ordinance(s).

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players arrives in the Winter Garden area to suit up for the Squeeze. With limited practice, becoming a

team, creating chemistry and vying for a Florida Collegiate Summer League Championship is somewhat of a trial-by-fire process.

UPCOMING HOME GAMES

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Cody Burgess has seen a power surge in his home run numbers. It may be enough to get a franchise to call his name next week at the MLB Draft.

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There is an evolution happening to the game of West Orange alum Cody Burgess.

Burgess, a center fielder for the Winter Garden Squeeze this summer, is a rising senior at Florida Southern, where he transferred after starting his collegiate career

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Coach happy for season to begin after chaotic spring Jay Welsh had to resign as head coach at Celebration High after a controversy over transfer players.

STEVEN RYZEWSKI SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

Jay Welsh likes his job as head coach of the Winter Garden Squeeze.

Welsh, in his second year as the manager for the Squeeze after previously coaching their Futures League counterpart — the Tangelos — will be the first to say as SEE MOVING ON PAGE 19

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Florida Little League District 14 held its Top Team tournaments last week. Champion teams from respective local Little Leagues within the district played one another in a tournament. In the Minors (ages 9-10) tournament, the team from Ocoee won the championship.

In the Majors (ages 11-12) and Juniors (ages 13-14) tournaments, teams from Windermere prevailed.

Steven Ryzewski

The Squeeze feature several local alumni on its roster.

STEVEN RYZEWSKI SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR WINTER GARDEN

They show up on a Tuesday.

By Friday, they’re taking the field as the Winter Garden Squeeze.

Such is the nature of summer league baseball, in which college baseball players from around the country come together for two months to hone their skills, get in some extra repetitions and show off for professional scouts.

For someone such as West Orange alum Ryan Welsh, a pitcher for the Squeeze and rising junior at Florida Southern, it recalls the good ol’ days of travel baseball circuits in high school.

“It definitely kind of feels like travel ball, when there was kind of like people coming in and coming out all the time,” Ryan Welsh said ahead of the Squeeze’s opener June 2, a 5-2 loss to Leesburg.

This need to foster familiarity on the fly is a shared predicament and

one that Ryan’s father — Squeeze head coach Jay Welsh — said is offset by the abilities of the players.

“Thank God they’re good,” Jay Welsh said. “The talent across the board in this league is so good that you can do that. You can have that luxury where you don’t need a whole lot of practice time.”

Beyond the shared nature of the circumstance, though, is a slight advantage for the Squeeze: the pre-existing familiarity of the players on the roster. The Winter Garden franchise has been around for four seasons. In the first two years, the Squeeze fielded a roster that had a decidedly Southwestern flavor, thanks to then-coach Ruben Felix’s connection in states such as Texas.

The past two seasons, though, have seen a shift, with General Manager Adam Bates and Welsh putting an emphasis on getting local players who went to schools SEE SQUEEZE ON PAGE 19

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Luke Carey, a water polo player for Olympia High during varsity season and the Orlando Thunder during club season, won the Top Gun Water Polo Shooters Challenge at Saint Andrew’s in Boca Raton last weekend.

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The Florida Gators baseball team played a do-or-die game in the Gainesville Regional June 5 against BethuneCookman, a game they won 6-1. Olympia alum Michael Byrne earned the save, tossing 2 1/3 scoreless innings. Also during the tournament, Byrne earned a win and and another save for Florida (45-17), which now advances to host Wake Forest this weekend in a Super Regional.

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The Florida District 14 Little League Tournament of Champions (ages 8-9) starts June 8 at South Lake Little League, with a championship game tentatively set for June 13.

A LOOK BACK AT 2016 Regular season record: 19-23 Playoffs: Lost 2-1 to Leesburg in play-in game Top hitter: Tyler Halstead — .372 average, 34 RBIs, 4 HRs, 51 hits Top pitcher: Jarred Neal — 54.2 innings pitched, 6 wins, 2.47 ERA, 40 strikeouts, named league’s top pitcher

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Keyshawn Goins In his debut as a West Orange Warrior, transfer receiver Keyshawn Goins hauled in five receptions during the Warriors’ spring game May 26 against Gainesville — including a 65yard reception that helped set up West Orange’s field goal in its 10-7 win.

What was it like to have a strong showing your first time out as a Warrior?

I came here, so I’m already transferring from another school, so I had to prove something to (my team). I can’t just come here without showing I can play.

What do you think you need to improve on to potentially become a college-level receiver?

To get my speed up and my strength, most definitely. I just have to keep working on my game and stay focused and to make sure I’m good educationally — everything off the field.

What was the vibe like this spring, as the program bounced back from a disappointing season last fall?

It’s a new beginning. We’re going to leave our own legacy, just like the kids who did what they did before us.

Is there a professional receiver you look up to?

Amari Cooper.

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I followed his career all the way through college. He’s a big man, but he doesn’t play like he’s just a big man — he plays with a chip on his shoulder.

You also like basketball.

Do you think the Cleveland Cavaliers have any chance of coming back in the NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors?

They can. You got to think about it: Golden State, they brought in more players, just to stop one player — LeBron.

I think (the Cavaliers) have a chance.

Do you have any idea of what you would like to study in college?

I want to major in engineering, building houses and stuff. I like building things, and I think it would be something good to learn and do with my life.

Then, if anything, I can own my company.

Who is your favorite superhero?

The Flash. He’s fast and nobody can stop him.

If you could have any superpower, what would it be?

Speed, so I could use it for football.

I would be unstoppable.

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Comeback kid

A sprained neck kept 13-year-old gymnast Amani Herring from competing in nationals, but it fueled her motivation to come back better than ever next season.

DANIELLE HENDRIX STAFF WRITER

For Windermere resident Amani Herring, flipping and tumbling isn’t just a hobby.

It’s in her blood.

The 13-year-old has been taking gymnastics since she was 3 years old and has spent the last six years training at Orlando Metro Gymnastics L.B. McLeod.

Her mom, Marissa, was also a competitive gymnast and is now a certified personal trainer and women’s fitness specialist who owns Garage Mama Fitness. Her dad, Kim, is a former NFL player and owns Trinity Sports Performance.

Amani, a rising eighth-grader, devotes about 30 hours weekly to her gymnastics training and maintaining her Level 9 status.

But at the same time she’s honing her skills, she’s constantly building on them and learning new ones — most recently, a Yurchenko double, which at Level 9 she cannot use in competition. She likely will compete at Level 9 again next season, and her goal is two-fold: to be one of the top five Level 9 gymnasts in the country and to make it to nationals once again.

This season was the first time Amani had qualified for nationals, after taking first place allaround champion in early April at the Level 9 regional competition. She was set to head to Michigan to compete nationally.

“I love how competitive people are,” Amani said. “I like traveling to other places with my friends and seeing how many different teams there are.”

But two weeks before nationals, she fell off beam and landed hard, spraining her neck and forcing her to take a week off of training and miss out on nationals. Even after she got back in the gym, it took about three weeks to get past her mental block and go backward on the beam again.

“It was very hard to get over what I did,” Amani said. “I was like, ‘I don’t feel like going back up again; I don’t know if I want to do this again.’ My coaches Jason

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Amani Herring has performed gymnastics for 10 years and loves competing.

and Carrie helped me through a lot, and (mental coach) Wendy Bruce. It’s definitely a mental sport. I’m not as strong mentally as I am physically — I’ll go for something but I have to think about what I’m actually going to do. You can’t just give up on what you’re doing; you have to keep pushing.”

Marissa said the sport has given her and her husband the ability to teach Amani life lessons.

“We always tell her, ‘You’re not going to have a perfect day, but you don’t quit,’” Marissa said. “She’s 30,000 times better than I ever was, and they defy gravity, in a sense. The force of what they do — it’s insane. It’s more to me making sure she stays mentally healthy. There’s a lot of people who bend over backward to make sure she’s on top of her game. It’s just awesome to see her overcome and still be successful — she’s just naturally talented, and that’s a gift and a privilege.”

With hours of work and literal

blood, sweat and tears put into training, the sport takes a toll on gymnasts’ bodies. As athletes, Kim and Marissa work to ensure that Amani is well-rounded and healthy enough to continue.

“You’re super proud as a parent, but this sport is so intense mentally that you just want to keep them sane in order to get to the next round,” Marissa said.

“Unfortunately this year, we had a setback, but at least you know you can make it again, and that’s what’s really cool — moving forward for the next year, it’s ‘What can you improve on?’”

And that’s just what Amani is focused on doing in preparation for the rest of the year, and ultimately next competition season.

“You do put your time and effort into this but also have fun with it, because it’s going to get really hard and you’re going to have to push through it,” Amani said.

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“This is the highlight of my year,” Welsh said a few hours before Winter Garden hosted Leesburg in its home opener June 2. “I enjoy the summer coaching more than the high school (coaching) — more than just about anything I do.”

Given how the past few months have gone for Welsh, also a teacher for Florida Virtual School, it would be hard not to take him at his word.

The Squeeze, after all, were not the only team Welsh took over in 2016. Before last summer, he also made his debut as head coach at Celebration High School in Osceola County. There, he hoped to take a program that had won just nine

games — total — in 2014 and 2015 and to establish a new culture.

Welsh was successful, too. The Storm more than doubled their win-total from 2015 to 2016, going 12-11 in their first season under their new staff. This spring, things got even better, as Celebration raced out to an 11-4 start.

But the euphoria was shortlived, as a part of that success was attributed to an influx of four transfers who won starting jobs, including a UCF signee.

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at Polk State College.

Through his two seasons there, Burgess hit for average, batting .340 as a sophomore. Power wasn’t a big a part of the equation, with Burgess homering just once in two seasons as an Eagle.

Then, while playing for the Winter Garden Squeeze last summer, there was a slight uptick in power — Burgess homered three times. A small difference, perhaps, but that wasn’t the way Squeeze head coach Jay Welsh saw it.

“I remember one ball he took and hit off the corner of the batter’s eye, and I was like, ‘Wow,’” Welsh said.

So, when Burgess homered 14 times for the Moccasins this spring — while also batting .325 and driving in 52 runs — Welsh, at least, wasn’t surprised.

Now, that uptick in power paired with the things he has always done well — from flashing the leather in the outfield to stealing bases — has something new on the radar for Burgess: next week’s Major League Baseball Draft June 12. “(Burgess) doesn’t need the reps, but he’s got things he could work on it,” Welsh said, acknowledging that one of his better players may not be around for the entirety of the summer. “Because, maybe if his power numbers that

just started to emerge jump a little bit higher, maybe he’s a draft guy.”

And while Burgess isn’t quite ready to talk about inking a pro contract just yet, he is happy to name those things upon which he is still working to improve — and to shower a little credit and praise upon the Squeeze, where he has played for three of his college summer ball seasons. ”Last year, we had Eddie (Taubensee) here,” Burgess said.

“He’s obviously an ex-Major Leaguer, and he helped me a lot with my swing. … We have coaches here (with the Squeeze) who know what they’re talking about.”

Even though his time back in Winter Garden could be cut short, that doesn’t mean he somewhere he’d rather be.

“You have to play more baseball in order to get better,” Burgess said. “That’s why I don’t take summer off.”

And although he acknowledges he and his teammates are there for personal improvement, he still said he’d like to win some games and end his run at the The Trop.

“The only time I’ve ever been there is going to watch the Rays play,” he said. “It would be kinda nice to play there — especially for my last season.”

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Jay Welsh chats with the umpire and the head coach of the Leesburg Lightning ahead of the Squeeze’s home opener June 2.

FHSAA and the School District of Osceola County cleared the transfers as legitimate, the turmoil didn’t die down.

So, to preserve the positive momentum he had worked to cre-

ate, Welsh stepped down.

“It was a bittersweet down there (at Celebration),” Welsh said. “We did turn that program around. But, when there’s an element of newness in a town that has never expe-

Squeeze

Orange Times & Observer or the Windermere Observer. Six more players went to school somewhere in the Greater Orlando area, and a whopping 15 players on the team compete for in-state colleges across all levels of collegiate play from junior college to Division I programs — another wrinkle the elder Welsh likes to use to his advantage.

“The other thing that I always like to do, and it helps me as a coach, is I say, ‘Hey, guys, you all are from great college programs — if we can do something better, share with me,’” Jay Welsh said.

For Welsh, an additional challenge is balancing development and playing time with trying to win some ballgames. There are no illusions as to why athletes play summer ball: It is to get bet-

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such as West Orange — where the team plays its home games — to come home for their summer ball and play for the hometown team.

As a result, the Squeeze have just one player staying with a host family this summer.

“A lot of guys we have are from around Orlando — it’s pretty nice,” Ryan Welsh said. “I think we definitely have an advantage over other teams (because) we are the most familiar with each other.”

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rienced some success in baseball, you’re going to ruffle some feathers. We did it the right way, and the FHSAA and the (school) district — they all agreed.”

Welsh watched from the sidelines as the Storm won their first district title and played in the postseason for the first time. Celebration went 21-8 this spring.

For Welsh, it has been helpful to transition to working on the Squeeze. As for coaching again at the high-school level, he said he is uncertain whether he pursues it immediately.

“A year off might be good, but I’m always intrigued by the challenge,” he said.

For the next two months, at least, he’ll be enjoying his favorite time of the year.

“I enjoy being a part of their lives,” Welsh said of the Squeeze players. “I love being a part of their baseball story.”

ter as individuals. Every player has something to prove, including some who may have redshirted at their respective schools this spring or did not play much. Summer ball can be a proving ground to make a case for playing time when they return to their school.

Nevertheless, baseball — and, really, any sport — is more fun when you play to win.

“I look at the first six weeks of the season as trying to get everybody what they need to get while staying in the race — not being too far away (from first place),” Jay Welsh said. “Then, you get a better idea of what these kids can do, and from July 15 on you’re playing your best kids.”

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Non-Denominational HAVEN OF GRACE BIBLE CHURCH 13520 Foxcrest Blvd.

Winter Garden, FL 34787 Services 9:30 and 10:30AM 407-952-0510

CHURCH OF GOD

OCOEE CHURCH OF GOD Pastor Thomas Odom 1105 N. Lakewood Avenue, Ocoee 407-656-8011

EPISCOPAL

CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH 241 N. Main, Winter Garden Services: 8, 9:30, & 11am, 7pm www.churchofthemessiah.com CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION 4950 S. Apopka-Vineland Rd. Orlando Sun.Serv 8:30am, 10:30am, 6:30pm.

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FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 125 N. Lakeview Ave Winter Garden Service Times 9:00 AM and 11:15 AM Phone – 407-656-1135 Web: fumcwg.org

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NEXT COMMUNITY CHURCH 13640 W. Colonial Dr., Ste 110, Winter Garden 407-654-9661 • Prayer 9:30AM, Fellowship 9:45AM, Service 10:05AM

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