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Oakland festival celebrates 10 years

YOUR TOWN Rec center ready for summer The West Orange Recreation Center, 309 S. West Crown Point Road, Winter Garden, will offer a series of weekly sports camps for children 8 to 14 years old. The cost is $25 per session.

Camps include: Basketball Camp, session 1 (June 13-17); Volleyball Camp (June 20-24); Cardio Fit and Fun (July 11-15); Basketball Camp, session 2 (July 1822); and Ultimate Sports (July 25-29).

For information, call (407) 254-9245 or visit OrangeCountyParks.net.

The 10th annual Town of Oakland Arts & Music Festival will take place Saturday, June 11, at the Oakland Town Center.

DANIELLE HENDRIX STAFF WRITER OAKLAND The sounds

and melodies of jazz, gospel, rock and other music genres are set to fill the Oakland Town Center Saturday at the 10th annual Town of Oakland Arts & Music Festival.

Presented by the HAPCO Music Foundation — a nonprofit organization dedicated to arts and music education — the festival is the foundation’s way of giving back to the town of Oakland and surrounding communities, which help support HAPCO year-round.

The festival began 10 years ago when HAPCO founder Joseph McMullen became a town comSEE FESTIVAL PAGE 4

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Pedigo earns Eagle status

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The Grays will be going to China soon to adopt their second son, Grant.

Mitch and Lisa Gray, of Ocoee, are hoping to raise enough money so she can accompany him to China to adopt their second son.

Christopher Pedigo, 18, of Troop 210 in Winter Garden, earned his Eagle Scout distinction — the highest rank attainable in Boy Scouts.

Only 4% of all Boy Scouts earn this ranking.

Troop 210 is sponsored

by First United Methodist Church of Winter Garden. It meets at 7 p.m. Mondays, with some exceptions for holidays, in the church Fellowship Hall, 125 N. Lakeview Ave., Winter Garden.

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ack Gray can’t wait to teach his younger brother how to play all the sports the

11-year-old is passionate about.

He is also eager to meet this new

Tampa Bay Storm QB Jason Boltus also coaches at Ocoee.

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brother, 7-year-old Grant, who is awaiting adoption in China.

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Mitch and Lisa Gray and their son, Jack, are eager to meet the newest member of their family from China.

They hope to travel together in the next month to adopt Grant and bring him home. With the Grays is one of their daughters, Rachel.

Students find new passion at Crealde photography class.

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ART 101: STAINED GLASS 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 9, at the Winter Garden Library, 805 E. Plant St. Learn about the creation and history of stained glass. This art form uses colored glass to create designs that interact with light and nature. Create your own version of stained glass using static clings. Registration recommended at (407) 835-7323.

CHAMBER LEAD AND FEED NETWORKING LUNCH 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, June 9, at Dexter’s, 4757 The Grove Drive, Suite 100, Windermere. Cost is $17 in advance and $25 at the door for West Orange Chamber of Commerce members and $25 for others. Includes lunch. (407) 656-1304.

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Star Road, Ocoee. Join us for a workshop on how to find your next patriot, document your lineage and prepare your supplemental application for the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). Even if you are not yet a member of the DAR, you can learn useful information about researching your Revolutionary ancestors and joining the DAR. Hosted by the William P. Duval Chapter, NSDAR. (407) 835-7323.

INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY 4 p.m. Thursday, June 9, at the Winter Garden Library, 805 E. Plant St. Learn the art of composing and framing your shot. Experiment with the ISO, shutter speed and aperture settings on a simulated DSLR camera. Use free online tools to post-process your pictures.

Recommended for adults.

(407) 835-7323.

M/I SUMMERLAKE HOMES GRAND OPENING 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, June 9, at 15186 Southern Martin St., Winter Garden. RSVP to Aisha, (407) 270-1080 or SalesOrlando@mihomes.com.

MINECRAFT MADNESS 11 a.m. Thursday, June 9, at the Winter Garden Library, 805 E. Plant St. Blast, creep or dig your way to the library and celebrate the world of Minecraft with games, crafts and activities. (407) 835-7323.

WEST ORANGE REPUBLICAN WOMEN GENERAL MEETING 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, June 9, at the West Orange Country Club, 3300 West Orange Country Club Drive, Winter Garden. Guest speaker is Deputy Christi Vest, who will discuss current crime trends and specific ways to avoid becoming a victim. Lunch is $20. RSVP to Carolyn Sparks at (407) 248-9559 or (407) 230-3856.

FRIDAY, JUNE 10

ALL ABOARD! 11 a.m. Friday, June 10, at the West Oaks Library, 1821 E. Silver Star Road. Become a conductor and join in for trainloads of stories and crafts.

Ages 3-5. (407) 8357323.

SATURDAY, JUNE 11

OCOEE FIRE DEPARTMENT OPEN HOUSE 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 11, at Ocoee Fire Department Station 25, 563 S. Bluford Ave., Ocoee. Guests can meet the Ocoee firefighters, take station tours and get free blood pressure checks. (407) 905-3100.

POLLO TROPICAL GRAND OPENING 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 11, at 3331 Daniels Road, Winter Garden. Event will include a live DJ, ribbon-cutting ceremony, Maroon 5 ticket giveaways, rock-climbing wall and other children’s activities.

MONDAY, JUNE 13

OCOEE UNVEILING OF FIRST DRAFT OF DOWNTOWN PLAN 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday, June 13, at Ocoee Lakeshore Center, 125 N. Lakeshore Drive, Ocoee.

The city of Ocoee, in partnership with GAI Consultants, is hosting public events to review the progress and input for the Downtown Ocoee Master Plan. In addition to the unveiling, the organizations will host public workshops from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 13 and 14 at the Ocoee City Hall Commission Chambers and Board Room, 150 N. Lakeshore Drive, Ocoee.

RSVP at ​DowntownOcoee.org​ or on the Facebook event page.

STEM DAY CAMP AT TILDENVILLE ELEMENTARY 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, June 13-17, at Tildenville Elementary School, 1221 Brick Road, Winter Garden.

Learning for Life is a division of Boy Scouts of America that promotes and facilitates character, career and STEM education in Orange County Public Schools.

Cost is $150 and includes a daily lunch. John Larsen, (407) 489-4186 or john.larsen@ lflmail.org.

VBS AT FIRST BAPTIST W.G. 6:30-9 p.m. Monday, June 13, through Friday, June 17, at First Baptist Church Winter Garden, 125 E. Plant St., Winter Garden.

The weeklong free event is for children in K4 through fifth grade. To register, visit fbcwg. org or call (407) 656-2352.

VBS AT STARKE LAKE BAPTIST 6 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, June 13, through Friday, June 17 at Starke Lake Baptist Church, 611 West Ave., P.O. Box 520, Ocoee.

Children who have completed three-year-old prekindergarten through sixth grade are welcome. There will be Bible stories, crafts, recreation, food, a photo booth and an inflatable obstacle course. Family night will held June 17. For more, visit starkelakebaptist.org.

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Cody Sumner used a guide to help sort the flakes into three different categories: primary flakes, secondary flakes and tertiary flakes.

“Artifacts are non-renewable resources that provide invaluable insight into the past life ways of the humans who have lived on this peninsula for nearly 15,000 years. While they are aesthetically appealing, and it is amazing to touch a tool that is thousands of years old, the information they provide us is far more valuable.”

And so much more research is needed in this area.

AMY QUESINBERRY RHODE COMMUNITY EDITOR

Buckets of varioussized flakes of stone sit in closets in the Education Center at the Oakland Nature Preserve. To the average person, they look pretty much the same — like they could have come from any random yard.

But to archaeologist Kevin Gidusko, these little pieces explain when, where and how tools were made centuries ago.

“In examining the different lithic flake types, we can make educated guesses about which stage of production was occurring in the area,” he said.

Gidusko is the public archaeology coordinator for the East Central Regional Center of the Florida Public Archaeology Network. He has dug into a large project with local cultural centers and artifact collectors to record information about the artifacts that have been donated or collected. The project is called CLAASP: Communities of Lake Apopka Artifact Survey Project.

“There is a long history of looting around Lake Apopka (and the state), and that — coupled with not a lot of professional archaeology being done there — has made our knowledge base of the prehistory there pretty slim,” he said. “We’re hoping to engage the public and make them part of the recording and preservation process through open lab days and the creation of interpretive material.”

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ONP LAB DAY Kevin Gidusko is planning another open lab day from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Saturday, June 25, at the Oakland Nature Preserve, 747 Machete Drive, Oakland. Volunteers are needed to sort lithic flakes.

To volunteer, contact Gidusko at Kgidusko@flagler.edu or (904) 392-8065.

“Anyone can come,” Gidusko said.

“Anyone can learn.”

FETCHING THE FLAKES

The last open lab day was May 14, when Gidusko had volunteers sort lithic flakes by the amount of cortex on them. They were given a laminated chart to assist.

“The flakes are a byproduct of stone tool manufacture, and they actually can inform archaeologists about a great deal,” he said.

“Lithic flakes inform archaeologists in several ways. … They are not all made equal; their relative size is one indication about the stage in tool manufacture that was taking place at a site in prehistory. This ranges from larger flakes that are the result of knocking off the cortex of the chert (stone) to quite small flakes that are a result

LAKE APOPKA

Photos by Amy Quesinberry Rhode

“Artifacts are non-renewable resources that provide invaluable insight into the past life ways of the humans who have lived on this peninsula for nearly 15,000 years. While they are aesthetically appealing, and it is amazing to touch a tool that is thousands of years old, the information they provide us is far more valuable.”

— Kevin Gidusko

of retouching, or fine working, of a stone tool. You might expect to see many of the first type of flake at a place where the stone is gathered and many of the second type of flake within the context of a camp or living site, for example.”

And while chert is found in Florida’s western Big Bend area, stone tools have been found throughout much of Florida.

Gidusko said that means it had to be moved to these areas, most likely through trade networks.

“Archaeologists have discovered that chert can be examined and matched fairly accurately to its source location,” he said.

“This means that we can literally trace the path of these stone tools across the state and through time.”

Some say it’s a waste of time to try to identify items from the past. Gidusko strongly disagrees.

Gidusko and three others presented a paper explaining CLAASP at the 81st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in April in Orlando.

Lake Apopka is one of Florida’s largest, covering more than 30,000 acres, and archaeological sites show two Paleoindian Period sites near the lake and intermittent habitation throughout the Archaic to the Contact periods, the authors wrote.

“And yet, at this great lake we have only 56 recorded sites within a one-mile radius of the lake itself, with only roughly half having been evaluated,” they wrote.

Professional worksites have not been in abundance, but locals have been finding arrowheads and pottery fragments, even an old wooden canoe, for decades.

Gidusko argues this information belongs to the people and not any individual.

“The artifacts being recorded at the Oakland Nature Preserve — and hopefully other sites in the future — may potentially serve to shed light on the past peoples of the Lake Apopka region, an area far underserved in archaeological research for a number of reasons,” Gidusko said. “Our goal is to examine whether our ideas about the prehistory of this region might need to be reconsidered based on the artifactual record at hand.

“By utilizing these collections that have lost their context we are also engaging the community in the process of archaeological research, so that they understand and see with their own eyes the amount of effort that is undertaken to better understand our shared past.”

Contact Amy Quesinberry Rhode at aqrhode@orangeobserver.com.

PALEOINDIAN

ARROWHEAD EXAMPLES

Archeologist Kevin Gidusko hopes to uncover more details about the history of life around Lake Apopka through his project, CLAASP: Communities of Lake Apopka Artifact Survey Project.

11,000 B.C. TO 7,500 B.C.

ARCHAIC

7,500 B.C. TO 500 B.C.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL TERMS CHERT A fine-grained sedimentary rock, similar to flint, that is white, pinkish, brown, gray, or blue-gray in color. In antiquity, chert was one of the universally preferred materials for making stone tools (obsidian was another).

CORTEX The rough outer surface of a stone, usually removed to reveal the smooth interior during flint knapping (the making of stone tools).

DEBITAGE Small pieces of stone debris that break off during the manufacturing of stone tools.

LITHIC Of or pertaining to stone.

TERTIARY Third in order or level

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A second son, a second chance CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

DEAR GRANT Jack Gray, 11, wrote a letter to his soon-to-be-adopted brother, Grant, and Mitch and Lisa posted it on a crowdfunding page: Dear Grant, Hi, my name is Jack. I am your brother. I am so excited getting you. You will be in a great family. We do so many things that you will like. Dancing, singing, playing and best of all, having fun. I was adopted too. I also have a cleft palate & lip as well. You will have two sisters. One is 23 years old and the other is (29). I am 11 years old. I can’t wait to show you all of the sports, activities and people I know.

Your dad is a very nice man.

He is kind, thoughtful and very fun and supportive in the sports I do, and he will do the same for you. Your mother loves to sing. She sings pop, Christian, you name it. She can sing it all. She is nice as well and will help you with your homework and she will give you love when you need it.

We all can not wait to see you! We love you very much.

Your brother, Jack

The two already have things in common: Both love being outdoors — and both were born with cleft palates and lips, were abandoned by their birth mother and spent time in Chinese orphanages.

Ocoee residents Mitch and Lisa Gray adopted Jack when he was 2 years old. They had two grown daughters but felt God’s call to adopt internationally.

“The first time his picture showed up on the screen, (Lisa) said, ‘That’s your son,’” Mitch said. “It was the same process with Grant. My wife showed me the laptop and said, ‘This boy needs a home.’ I said, ‘Let’s go get him.’ For some reason their photos jumped out at us and spoke to us.”

The Grays are now in the final stages of the adoption process.

They are just waiting for the Chinese government to pick up their visas and final paperwork package.

“Once they pick it up (June 9) and approve it a final time, they will contact our agency,” Mitch said. “They will give us a severalweek window so we can go get our son.”

A COSTLY PROCESS

The Grays have raised about $6,500 to go toward travel expenses; so far, only Mitch and Jack are able to go unless another $8,500 is raised. They felt it was important for Jack to revisit his homeland and be present as a comfort to Grant.

Airfare could be as much as $2,500 per ticket, and then the family must pay an orphanage donation of $5,700, plus there are the added costs of accommodations, in-country travel, agency guides and paperwork. The actual adoption process costs thousands more.

“We really want my wife to go, and even if we have to borrow the money, we’ll figure it out,” Mitch said. “My wife and my mother went the first time, and I can’t imagine (her not being there this time). Meeting your son for the first time, it’s such a big bonding experience. … We will be in Chi-

na for two weeks bonding with Grant. You just can’t lose that valuable time.”

Mitch hopes to have Lisa by his side as he and Jack go to meet Grant for the first time. They have only seen photographs and two short videos of him.

“In all the photos, he’s smiling, so he looks like a very happy young man,” Mitch said. “Jack wasn’t smiling in any of his photos, and that had me worried.

He always looked like he was on guard. I was worried for nothing.”

home? I just wish I could have started thinking this way when I was in my 30s. I would have had five or six.”

PREPARATION

THE BOYS’ STORIES

missioner and decided he wanted to do something involving art education and to spur on its enhancement in the community.

“Some friends I was working with suggested putting on a festival to highlight some of the programs I was working with, so I came to the commission about it … and we had the first festival at the charter school 10 years ago,” McMullen said.

Now, the free festival is being held at the town center and serves as a way to give back to the community, to let the people in it know that HAPCO appreciates its support and involvement in art education.

“At the core of it, it’s letting the community know we appreciate art education for our kids,” he said. “We really want the community to come out and have a great time.”

This year’s festival takes place from 3 to 8:30 p.m. and features

a presentation of both live music and live art. Nine artists will take the stage throughout the day and entertain the audience with the sounds of multiple genres of music, including rock, gospel, jazz, blues, R&B and some funk and country.

In addition to live music, four artists — including some original Florida Highwaymen — are set to impress guests with an array of live art, painting and working on masterpieces throughout the day and answering questions guests may have.

“We’re going to have the artists inside the town center, and you have the chance to interact and connect with them,” McMullen said. “Whenever they get here, they’ll paint whatever they feel.

Sometimes they may paint something from the area, sometimes Florida scenery.”

Guests also can check out a healthcare tent sponsored by Health Central and meet with health-related vendors as they

The Grays have launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for airfare and other costs associated with Jack’s adoption.

To make a donation, go visit gofundme.com/Jacksbrother.

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To prepare Grant for this transition, the Grays are making a book of photos with labels — brother, mother, father, house, dog — and putting together a package that they will mail to their new son.

They did the same with Jack, and they got back a photo of him looking at his photo book.

Both boys were listed as “special needs” because of their cleft lip and cleft palate; but Mitch and Lisa consider this minor because it can be corrected with surgery.

Jack, a fifth-grader at Westbrooke Elementary School, has been under the knife a few times and will have more surgery before he’s 18, Mitch said.

“A lot of people say, ‘Think of what you’re doing for this child, giving him a home,’” Mitch said.

“But I can’t tell you everything Jack has given us. It’s just remarkable. It’s hard to put into words. …

He’s a great kid, and I know he’ll be a great big brother. … He has absolutely changed our lives. He’s my hero.”

At 55 and 52, respectively, Mitch and Lisa know they are the only ones among their friends who have such young children.

“Someone said, ‘You just spent your retirement,’” Mitch said. “I said that’s OK. Why wouldn’t I give a child a home that needs a

The Grays know a little about their sons’ early days. Grant was dropped off at a police station when he was 13 days old. Jack was a few days old when he was left at a first-rate hospital in China.

“We tell Jack, ‘You know your parents loved you very much,’” Mitch said. “He was dropped off at the top hospital that deals with cleft palates. You don’t know how far his mother had to travel to drop him off at that hospital. …

His parents, just like Grant’s parents, probably just couldn’t afford to take care of them.”

The Grays didn’t hesitate to move forward with their plan.

Foregoing an early retirement was an easy decision when it came to providing a loving home for two boys in need. And although they can’t take all of the children in, Lisa has spent a great deal of time advocating for China’s orphans by sharing their stories on social media. The Grays hope many more children can be as lucky as Jack and Grant.

“I tell Jack, this was God’s plan for you,” Mitch said. “It was meant for you to be with us.”

Contact Amy Quesinberry Rhode at aqrhode@orangeobserver.com.

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enjoy the music.

Although festival admission is free, guests can purchase VIP access, which includes two drink tickets, heavy hor d’oeuvres, wine tasting and access to an air-conditioned VIP tent.

For McMullen, the festival is a quality event he hopes will show the community that HAPCO is committed to art and music education, as well as a presentation of what the foundation does throughout the year.

“It’s a snippet of what you’ll see on a regular basis throughout the year in the town of Oakland,” he said. “I love live music and listening to a different array of music.

You get to hear nine acts from different genres and I’m looking forward to hearing different sounds and how the audience will embrace the music. That’s priceless.”

Contact Danielle Hendrix at dhendrix@orangeobserver.com.

IF YOU GO OAKLAND ARTS & MUSIC FESTIVAL WHEN: 3 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, June 11 WHERE: Oakland Town Center, 221 N. Arrington St. VIP TICKETS: bit.ly/1ZssvUb

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MUSIC DaCapo Jazz Trio (Jazz) Drumlines of America (Drumline) East Ridge Jazz Combo (Jazz) Justin Felton and The PRAYze Team (Gospel) Mud Rooster (Blues, jazz) Pocket Change (R&B, funk, soul) Silkee Smoove (R&B, jazz) Spayed Koolie (Country, rock, pop) The Next Gen Jazzlet (Jazz) ARTISTS Isaac Knight (Florida Highwaymen) Kelvin Hair Mary Ann Carroll (Florida Highwaymen) R.L. Lewis (Florida Highwaymen)

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Pollo Tropical opens in Winter Garden Village The Winter Garden Village location is the Caribbean-inspired restaurant chain’s second location in West Orange County.

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GRAND OPENING WHERE: 3331 Daniels Road, Winter Garden WHEN: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, June 11 INFO: PolloTropical.com

STAFF WRITER WINTER GARDEN Six months after

Bojangles abruptly closed its Winter Garden Village location, a new eatery has come home to roost.

Pollo Tropical will celebrate the grand opening of its second West Orange location with a daylong party Saturday, June 11. Festivities begin at 10 a.m. and last until 4 p.m., but Local Store Marketing Coordinator Julianna Wagner

advises patrons to arrive at 9 a.m. to ensure they are among the first 100 customers — who will receive a free quarter-chicken with rice and beans.

“With the grand opening, people should be getting excited about the free-chicken-for-ayear giveaway,” Wagner said.

“We’re also giving away concert tickets to Maroon 5 at the Amway Center. ... And the beach party just includes an array of tropical activities: a live DJ, spin-and-win prizes, a rock-climbing wall.”

The concert-ticket giveaways will be at 1 and 3 p.m.; the winner must be on site to claim the tickets. Face-painting and balloon art are some of the other planned activities for the event.

WHY HERE?

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The first Pollo Tropical location in West Orange County is just east of Lake Sherwood — not exactly the center of the community. Winter Garden Village, on the other hand, is a much more accessible place for this area and offers greater market penetration.

Rocsi is pondering what made that noise.

“We’re continuing trying to grow our footprint, and this is a good area to choose,” Wagner said. “Winter Garden is an important part of the Pollo Tropical community, so we just want to commit to adding more convenient locations for customers.

They don’t have to drive so far to get to others now.”

Mike Petillo, who will be overseeing the restaurant, has been in

the Orlando area for more than 20 years and said the community has been welcoming and excited.

“He’s no stranger to the Pollo Tropical brand,” Wagner said.

“He’s been working with us for a little over seven years.”

Beyond all else, Petillo is excited to serve friendly people, he said.

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Ocoee PD to outfit officers with cameras ZAK KERR STAFF WRITER OCOEE Per the

approval of the Ocoee City Commission at its May 17 meeting, Ocoee Police Department will proceed with a body-camera pilot program.

“It’s something we’ve been working on for quite a while now,” Deputy Chief Steve McCosker said. “We’ve actually worked with the other agencies in the area to develop a body camera policy.

This is a pilot program to … see the benefits.”

With a purchase of 10 tasers from TASER International, police will receive 10 free body cameras, scheduled for delivery in July.

“Right now, what we’re going to do is start with 10 officers ... and issue them body cameras,” McCosker said. “We have different devices for the mounting of the cameras. They can wear them on the sunglasses or on the lapel or on the center of their body.

That’s one of the things we’re piloting — figuring out what is the best configuration for use of the body cameras.”

According to city documents, body-camera recordings are contracted with Evidence.com for five years, with the combined purchase and contract worth

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That plan provides camera upgrades every two-and-a-half years and unlimited data storage.

“The software that we’re purchasing, Evidence.com, that is supposed to link up what the officers capture with the actual cases that they were using them for, so we’re going to be verifying that,” McCosker said.

Last year, police officials had requested elected officials help move toward this purchase, but no date is set yet for these cameras to be active in the field, he said. But he does not think it will be long.

“We’ll definitely be watching for the transmitting of requested videos to the state attorney’s office,” McCosker said, alluding to what would help determine Ocoee Police Department’s next steps in the program. “That’s something we’ve heard other agencies have had success with.”

For example, a lawyer could ask on a weekend to look at video pertinent to a case, and Ocoee Police Department’s custodian of records could then allow the state attorney’s office to view it via a secured website — something the department cannot do at the moment, McCosker said.

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“This is actually an additional member,” McCosker said. “It was approximately a year ago … we had done a very similar request at that time. We were asking for forfeiture funds to equip up to three members. Because the actual tryouts are so rigorous, we actually had two members that qualified.

Since that time, they’ve had an additional tryout, and we’ve had an additional officer complete those tryouts and go through the training. We’re re-asking for the forfeiture funds to supply the special gear that they’re going to need.”

Apopka Police Department has overseen this SWAT entity for years, and Ocoee Police Department was the most recent to join, having done so last year, McCosker said. Members are housed in an on-call facility that Apopka personnel manage and schedule.

“We actually have always said that we would do up to three (members),” he said. “One of our members has resigned from the department, so this will make two. We’ve never had more than two. But we are open to putting three people through. … Some people don’t make it through.

Even after that, there’s still a year of probation. I would say approximately two months ago is when our first two officers had passed the probation period and had the SWAT training.”

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The past couple of years have been a period of transition for Florida’s schools, as one standardized test was phased out and another phased in, but three of West Orange-area schools’ results speak of success.

Orange County Public Schools announced May 19 that Lake Whitney, Whispering Oak and Windermere elementary schools are three of the four schools with the highest scores for the thirdgrade English/Language Arts section of the Florida Standards Assessment in the district.

According to OCPS, the percentage of all Orange County third-grade students who met the state standards on the 2016 FSA in ELA is 54 percent, down one percentage point from last year. However, 88% of Whispering Oak Elementary third-graders and 83% of both Windermere Elementary and Lake Whitney Elementary third-graders met the state standards.

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“It starts with our instruction and our teachers, who really worked hard with students on strategies, not only learning to read but reading to learn,” Montgomery said. “They worked on how to take passages and look at key important details, they taught them Smart 7 strategies, underlying keywords and a lot of practice and collaboration with students working together.”

Lake Whitney Elementary Principal Beth Prince echoed Montgomery’s sentiments, saying the school has hard-working teachers who collaborate and work well as a team.

“I am so proud of my students and their teachers,” Prince said.

“They provide students with targeted instruction during their reading block. They focus on standards-based instruction utilizing FSA-style questioning for classroom assignments, including the Smart 7 reading strategies, multi-response and extended-response questioning, and high-effect strategies with a focus on examining errors in reasoning.”

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Montgomery also attributed students’ success to the parents who work with them.

“I attribute a lot of it to our parents too, working with them at home and having them reading at night,” he said. “It’s that whole school-community partnership between the kids, teachers and parents supporting all of that.”

Although the scores for these schools look good on paper, Superintendent Barbara Jenkins said in an OCPS statement that the district still is exercising caution in interpreting the county’s results, as last year’s initial FSA administration was faulty.

“Nonetheless, we will examine these results carefully,” Jenkins said in her statement. “This information will be used in conjunction with other feedback from parents, teachers and principals to ensure that we meet the needs of all students.”

Regardless, Montgomery expressed his pride in the success of his students.

“I’m very proud of our staff and our kids for the hard work that went into that,” he said. “We just have to maintain and keep doing it.”

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“It’s really what opened the doors for me,” Stanczak said. “I remember walking into the class, and it was in this very large … room. It was kind of dark in there.

The tables were in a U-shape, and the instructor was there, and I was a little intimidated. But when I sat there and I watched this person, I could feel their love for what they do — it came through to me.”

She appreciated the class’s organization. Each week she learned a new lesson on a different subject area in photography.

That was 2012. Stanczak has now seen her photography improve tremendously, and she credits Crealde with helping her get there.

“The folks at Crealde really do make an effort to service our community, and I am guessing that it’s not tremendously convenient for them to come all of the way out here, but they do, and they do make a difference in some people’s lives,” Stanczak said.

Crealde, which is based in Winter Park, hosts several Winter Garden-based classes at the Jessie Brock Community Center.

Crealde has several instructors, but some instructors, including the photography instructors, travel to teach classes.

Stanczak’s schedule didn’t allow her to attend Photography

2 classes, so she worked one-onone with the instructor to expand her knowledge.

Her photos now are often displayed at the Winter Garden Art Association’s galleries, and she is grateful for all Crealde did for her.

Stanczak finds joy in photographing interesting details and unique lighting — a dew on the petal of a flower, a wisp of hair in her granddaughter’s face and a bee buzzing in a flower.

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Stanczak’s photograph, “USA: Land of the Free and Home of the Brave,” was featured in a Winter Garden Art Association Show.

To create the piece, Stanczak and her husband ate three apple pies and a package of hot dogs.

On the opening night of the show, a woman purchased it for her husband. With tears in her eyes, she told Stanczak that her husband had been in the military, and the photo moved her.

“It is the only photo that I have done, that I know of, that really touched another person’s heart, which, in turn, touched mine as well,” Stanczak said. “This would most likely never have happened if I had not taken that Crealde Photography I class at the Jessie Brock center.”

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The graduation ceremony, held at West Orange High School, honored students graduating in a variety of fields, from cosmetology to health science.

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Cindy Guererro, facial specialty program graduate, addressed fellow graduates.

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Harris was a pioneer in educational achievement for children in Winter Garden. Her commitment was not only for those who were successful but also for the troubled ones. Harris gave 35 years of service to thousands of students.

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Medals at states and the Golden South Classic in shot put are just the start for West Orange High’s Daija Kiser. Page 16

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Hunter Mercer went 3-for-3 with a pair of RBIs June 3 in the regular-season opener for the Winter Garden Squeeze.

The Squeeze topped DeLand, 10-8.

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STAFF WRITER WINDERMERE The throng of high-

ason Boltus is on the road

schoolers hitting Lake Down with their rowboats after school has decreased to about 45.

This is not from reduced interest — rowing continues to thrive and grow in West Orange County — but because Orlando Area Rowing Society has again extended its season into June for the USRowing National Championships. Those 45 represent five boats bound for the June 10 to 12 regatta in West Windsor, New Jersey: women’s and men’s varsity 8+, women’s and men’s lightweight 8+ and women’s varsity 4+.

“My novice year, when I joined, there were probably 40 girls on the team,” said Olympia student Maddie Sabis, who joined OARS in fourth grade and is in the women’s lightweight 8+ boat. “Now, my junior year, we’re almost at 100, so the more competition, the more people are pushing themselves to be in the top boats and working even harder. And now states isn’t even our goal — now our goal is to get as many boats to nationals as possible, which wouldn’t be possible if we hadn’t been recruiting years ago.”

Hard work at practice for months was the other major factor for the team’s success this season, Sabis said. For example, she said boats from Sarasota had been defeating them all season, but sticking to the practice plan culminated in a sudden victory May 14 and 15 at the USRowing Southeast Youth Championships in Sarasota.

“I remember fall season, when we’re doing all those long (rows) just to build our cardio,” she said.

“I’m like, ‘Why am I doing this?

This is really rough.’ But then it all pays off when you’re beating all those other teams and you can call yourself a national-level athlete. It’s awesome.”

The OARS men’s lightweight 8+ boat conversely earned a bronze medal at regionals, the men’s and women’s varsity 8+ boats each placed second, and the women’s varsity 4+ boat finished third. All four also qualified for nationals;

to Tampa most mornings

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Olympia High School placed fourth in the state in Class 8A in the final standings for the FHSAA Floyd E. Lay Sunshine Cup All-Sports Awards. The standings are based on a combination of points awarded for a school’s boys and girls athletic teams.

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West Orange High School placed seventh in the state in Class 8A in the final standings for the FHSAA Floyd E. Lay Sunshine Cup All-Sports Awards.

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Dr. Phillips rising senior quarterback Marvin Washington received a scholarship offer from the UCF Knights June 2. Washington solidified the Knights as his top choice two days later, committing to UCF June 4.

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Jason Boltus has competed professionally in the Arena Football League since 2012.

Jason Boltus’ dual roles as a quarterback for the Arena Football League’s Tampa Bay Storm and offensive coordinator for the Ocoee High football team led to a chaotic spring season — with lots of time spent driving.

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Buoyed by a six-run third inning, the Winter Garden Squeeze topped the DeLand Suns 10-8 in the team’s home opener June 3.

The Suns (1-1) got even a day later, though, topping the Squeeze (1-1) 9-4 in DeLand June 4.

The Squeeze will host the Leesburg Lightning (1-2) at 7 p.m. Friday at Heller Bros. Ballpark.

Orlando Area Rowing Society is sending five boats June 10 to 12 to New Jersey.

ZAK KERR

Chase Pilato received the win, and Andrew Kane was credited with the save in the Winter Garden Squeeze’s 10-8 victory over DeLand June 3.

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Jason Boltus is the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Ocoee.

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Daija Kiser Daija Kiser won bronze at states with a shot put beyond 40 feet and followed that performance by earning silver at the Golden South Classic. She has been preparing for AAU shot put competition this summer.

What did you think of shot put when you started?

When I first started, I was in middle school, but then I quit because they were trying to make me run. I came back in my 10th grade year because my coach asked me to, and I didn’t want to tell him no. I just came, picked it up and threw it. I was like, ‘Hm, I threw it pretty far.’ So I just kept doing it.

What did your state performance feel like?

It just felt like a regular track meet. I didn’t feel too much like “Oh, yeah!” I feel like I need to work harder because people are going to start gunning for my spot.

What appeals most to you about shot put?

Coaches just ask me to do it because of my shoulders. In middle school, I didn’t think anything of it. I didn’t worry about sports until I got here.

Other than form, what do you do to train?

My coaches said I threw the

THE BASICS YEAR: Rising senior HEIGHT: 6 feet EVENTS: Shot put, discus BIRTHDAY: June 16, 1998 BIRTHPLACE: Orlando

shot put like a baseball, so I went to the football goal post and just started throwing over it. What made me throw over that is just that I was scared to hit it, and I didn’t want to mess up my ball, so I just threw it as hard as I could over the goal post.

What is a misconception about shot put?

That’s a good question.

People ask me a lot of questions, about how it looks — why do I have to keep it at my neck instead of holding it out? They just think they can throw it like a baseball, and it’s not like that.

What other sports do you play?

I play volleyball and I play basketball.

Do you have a favorite class?

I did like guitar at the beginning of the year, but then it started getting harder. One of my favorite classes is reading.

I like to read.

Do you have a favorite book?

It’s called “Tears of a Tiger.”

I don’t know why that’s my favorite book, but it is.

What TV shows do you like?

I watch a lot of cartoons.

I watch “Clarence,” “Spongebob,” “Steven Universe,” “Family Guy,” stuff like that.

Which chore do you mind least?

Cleaning the bathroom.

I just would rather clean the bathroom than the rest of the stuff, because it’s easier. (Others) don’t really be in the bathroom.

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only five teams qualified more than OARS’ five boats of at least four rowers.

“For races, you train for months at a time, six days a week, three hours a day,” said men’s varsity 8+ captain Nicholas Hall, a West Orange senior who will row at Stetson after three years at OARS. “All that work comes down to a race that’s just over six minutes long.”

Because synchronization is crucial but makes rowing look easy, even parents can fall short in appreciating the exertion of it, which Sabis said can leave her feeling faint.

“You have to make every second of the stroke as together as possible, so it looks like we’re barely even trying,” she said.

“But I know when we finish a race everybody feels (tired).”

Windermere Prep freshman Jason Kwatra said faster rowing usually looks easier, citing his view of 2012 Olympic rowing before he started last year. But his perspective changed.

“It’s kind of like one of those things you agree to do with a friend, maybe as a joke at first,” Kwatra said. “It’s a lot harder and more time-consuming than it seems, but it becomes a lot more enjoyable than a lot of other sports I’ve played. … It’s the most mental.”

Hall agreed, noting how instead of having distinct roles, every member of any boat must constantly give a full effort and match his teammates. Despite the 10 different high schools — plus home schools — the 45

national qualifiers attend, they feel they can trust their teammates inside and outside the boat, cherishing friendships from all over the area.

“I do like all the friends I’ve made,” Sabis said, “because I have friends that go to West Orange and Dr. Phillips — and I go to Olympia — so it’s cool to know people who go to different schools when at our schools we’d be rivals.”

Another aspect of rowing that sets it apart is the setting.

Hall said the ability to travel all over Florida and even to rivers in Tennessee for competition leads to seeing all sorts of natural vistas, as opposed to a virtually identical field or court.

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Then, there’s practice — the Arena Football League team hits the field from 10:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. each day. Once practice ends, players will seek treatment from the team’s medical staff or hit the film room.

Except, from April 25 to May 20, Boltus instead rushed to his car, hoping to be on the road back to Orange County by 1 p.m.

As the offensive coordinator for the Ocoee High football team, Boltus would have just over two hours to get to Ocoee in time to lead the Knights’ quarterbacks and offense during spring practice each day at 3:15 p.m. — and traffic on Interstate 4 can be as unpredictable as it can be frustrating.

It would be nearly 6 p.m. by the time Ocoee was off its practice field, adjacent to its stadium on campus, though practice could be followed by a staff meeting. This went on from the first day of spring practice April 25 through the Knights’ 6-0 spring game victory May 20 at University High.

All told, it was a busy spring full of long days for Boltus, who lives in Apopka with his wife and two dogs — but one he wouldn’t change.

“It’s kind of rewarding in both ways — I still get to play (professionally) and then get to go back and coach the guys,” Boltus said.

The chaotic schedule is nothing new for Boltus, who has been quarterbacking in the AFL since 2012, coaching under Knights head coach Ben Bullock

since 2014, when the two were at Mount Dora High.

“It’s a little more time-consuming — I have to find hours to stay up a little later and get up a little earlier,” Boltus said, describing the balancing act.

Bullock and Boltus’ move to Ocoee proved to be a big win for the Knights, who tripled their win total in the new staff’s first year on campus — and especially for someone such as Steven Hogan, a recently graduated senior at Ocoee who was the starting quarterback in 2015.

“He brings drills that he does every day in his professional career, and he comes back and does the drills with me,” Hogan said.

The bond between Boltus and Hogan is more influential now that Hogan has signed to play at St. Scholastica, a Division III program in Minnesota.

Boltus, who found success as a professional quarterback after coming from a small school, counsels players that sometimes a smaller school can be an ideal situation.

“I’m kind of the living testament to that,” Boltus said.

Boltus is in his second season with the Storm, his fourth AFL team, after a record-setting season in 2014. The New York native become the team’s single-season leader in pass attempts (714), also tying for first in completions (408) and second in passing yards (5,025) and passing touchdowns (98).

Because of his teaching responsibilities at Ocoee, Boltus did not join the team until the

SEE BOLTUS LIVE The Tampa Bay Storm have a pair of home games on the schedule in the coming days, hosting the Jacksonville Sharks at 5 p.m. June 11 and the Los Angeles KISS at 7:30 p.m. June 18.

third game of the season, and the team’s offense seemed to suffer without him. Tampa Bay is currently 1-8.

Since his return, though, Boltus has settled into the starting role and led the Storm to the team’s first win of the season May 29, putting up a game-high 358 passing yards and six touchdowns in a win against Arizona.

With Boltus, the offense has begun a return to form, and the veteran quarterback believes the team can be a force by the time the playoffs start in August.

“It’s just a matter of getting hot at the right time,” Boltus said.

And, as though his stats hadn’t built enough of a fan following for Boltus, he now has an additional fanbase here. Several Knights made the trip to see Tampa play the Predators May 13 and Hogan said he has been to several games in Tampa.

The recently graduated Knight said his favorite part is when Boltus and the Storm offense start to get rolling and fans seated near him begin to sing the praises of the team’s quarterback.

Said Hogan, “I’m always like, ‘That’s my coach.’”

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WHY MESS WITH THE CURRENT SYSTEM? There’s an old saying that “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” That begs the question: Is the current system for determining who makes the playoffs in Florida high-school football broken? Although that answer can be a matter of perspective, here are some reasons changes are being considered.

1

District disparity.

Under the current format, district champions and runners-up gain admittance into the postseason, regardless of the size of the district.

This can be problematic in light of the varying sizes of districts. Extremes include a two-team district in Class 2A (both teams are guaranteed a playoff berth before playing a single down) and a nine-team district in Class 7A — making for two wildly different paths to the playoffs.

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Playoff blowouts.

Because a weak district could lead to otherwise unqualified teams competing in the postseason, the average margin of victory in last season’s playoffs was 21 points, something many would like to see improved upon.

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The Week 11 issue.

District schedules are completed by the end of Week 10 — the second-to-last week of the regular season. This means that the final week of the regular season, Week 11, is meaningless from a postseason point of view.

Although some schools use this week for a rivalry game, as West Orange and Ocoee have in past years, coaches of playoff-bound teams are likely to rest starters or coach differently knowing that their playoff berth is already secure.

One benefit of a points system would be making every game meaningful.

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Conference relevance. Whereas winning Orange County’s Metro Conference can be a big deal in other sports, the honor is kind of lost in a football landscape in which teams have trouble scheduling Metro opponents once they get past their district scheduling obligations. A wide-open scheduling format would allow conferences such as the Metro to return to some prominence, as they would help with filling up a 10-game schedule and also possibly renew some “neighborhood rivalries” that have fallen by the wayside because of changing district landscapes.

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WINNER Ahead of a June 14 meeting of its board of directors, the FHSAA is looking closely at altering the way it determines who makes the playoffs in football — even considering scrapping districts in favor of a points system.

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hange is in the air, folks.

The use of districts in determining who makes the state playoffs in high-school football in Florida is under scrutiny, as a pointsbased alternative is gaining momentum ahead of a June 14 meeting of the FHSAA’s board of directors.

Reports surfaced within the past month that the FHSAA was exploring the possibility of changing its format. Since then, spokesman Kyle Niblett said the organization has been gathering data and seeking input from coaches and athletic directors representing the FHSAA-member schools that play football — 70% of whom have voiced some degree of discontent with the current system.

Currently, within each classification, there are four regions that each

include four districts. District champions and runners-up make up the eight teams that make the playoffs from each respective region — 32 playoff teams for each classification.

It’s a simple enough system, but one that has courted problems over the years.

The points-based alternative being discussed is looking to remedy such problems by eliminating districts entirely.

Instead of by districts, regions would determine their eight playoff teams by final standings in a points system.

Scheduling would be completely open, as schools would no longer have a portion of their schedules predetermined by district obligations.

Specifics on how points would be awarded has been up for discussion, but the gist seems to be that the points a team receives for each win or loss will depend on the final record of that respective opponent — rewarding tough scheduling.

For example, in one suggested point structure that is making the rounds, a win against a team that finishes with a final winning percentage of 80% or better (eight to 10 wins on a 10-game schedule) would earn a team 50 points, as opposed to just 35 points for beating a team that finished with a winning percentage of less than

40% (three wins or less on a 10-game schedule).

Inversely, losing to a good team would carry more points than losing to a bad team.

Teams would have to schedule at least eight games to qualify for the playoffs.

Point systems can have drawbacks, of course, as can eliminating the built-in scheduling that districts provide — scheduling that many smaller programs outside of urban areas rely on.

How many points are awarded for losing to a good team can be tricky when margin of defeat isn’t considered.

The positives include more freedom for programs to schedule as they see fit. It also could lead to a return to prominence of conferences such as Orange County’s Metro Conference, whose role in football is diminished by districts that increasingly operate across county and conference lines and take precedence over other scheduling obligations.

Although it is not an official proposal, the FHSAA also has floated the idea of a hybrid model of both playoff systems. In such a model, districts would exist and their champions would make the playoffs, but the remaining playoff spots would no longer be reserved for runners-up and instead would be awarded based on the points system.

The June 14 meeting of the FHSAA’s Board of Directors is only the first step in a threestep process. Any change would not take effect until the 2017 season, at the earliest.

Although there is a certain inclination — especially by longtime followers of football in Florida — to retain the district system and all the tradition that stems from it, it is also tough to argue that there is not a better way of doing things.

Bad teams making the playoffs benefits no one, and neither do meaningless regular season games. Right now, if a team is in a four-team district, it has essentially got three games that truly matter.

There are also loaded districts where really good teams are left out. Less a call to “fairness,” fixing that problem is a way of ensuring that our state playoffs in our signature sport have the best possible teams and matchups — and that’s a win for everybody.

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PLAYOFF POSSIBILITIES Nothing about the ideas being looked at by the FHSAA is set in stone, but, generally speaking, there seem to be three “big-picture” resolutions that may start to take shape at the June 14 board of directors meeting.

1

Nothing changes. Although there appears to be popular support for change, if the FHSAA cannot put together a new format that receives similarly popular support, there is a chance that any change could be scrapped altogether.

2

Bye-bye, districts. The specifics are still to be determined, but if the FHSAA were to adopt the points system as it has been discussed thus far, it could mean eliminating districts entirely. Within the existing four regions for each classification, eight playoff teams would be determined by their final seeding in the points standings.

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Compromise. One option that has circulated as the FHSAA polls its coaches and stakeholders is a combination of the current system and the proposed replacement. This could manifest itself as a system where districts remain and district champions earn automatic playoff berths, but instead of automatic berths to runnersup, those playoff spots would instead be determined by the points system.

Editor’s note: The above scenarios are three general paths the process could take, though not the only ones.

The nature of the evolving discussions means a new idea or format could arise before the FHSAA’s board of directors meeting on June 14 in Gainesville.

ALREADY IN USE

Point systems currently are used in other states, including Alabama, Ohio and California, among others.

WHAT’S NEXT? A board of directors meeting at 9 a.m. June 14 at the FHSAA’s Gainesville headquarters includes the football playoff structure as a discussion item. If the directors agree to move forward with any proposal from that discussion, it would be given to an advisory committee of athletic directors in September and, if successful there, voted on in November.

Any changes would take effect for the 2017 season, at the earliest.

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Lake Hancock estate sells for $1.105M Drive, Winter Garden, sold May 23, for $249,000. Built in 2013, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,720 square feet. The price per square foot is $144.77.

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n estate in the Isles of Lake Hancock community was one of two West Orange-area homes that sold for more than $1 million from May 20 to 26.

The home at 14543 Isleview Drive, Winter Garden, sold May 20, for $1.105 million. Built in 2000, it has four bedrooms, three baths, two half-baths, a pool and 4,880 square feet of living area on 1.14 acres on Lake Hancock. The price per square foot is $226.43.

The town house at 15327 Avenue of the Arbors, Winter Garden, sold May 25, for $212,000. Built in 2012, it has three bedrooms, two-and-one-half baths and 1,766 square feet. The price per square foot is $120.05.

The home at 14457 Pleach St., Winter Garden, sold May 24, for $189,000. Built in 2006, it has three bedrooms, two-andone-half baths and 1,518 square feet. The price per square foot is $124.51.

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The home at 14420 Breda Center Loop, Winter Garden, sold May 23, for $310,000. Built in 2016, it has three bedrooms, two-and-one-half baths and 2,464 square feet. The price per square foot is $125.81.

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This Isles of Lake Hancock home, at 14543 Isleview Drive, Winter Garden, sold May 20, for $1.105 million. This traditional David Konkol estate features more than 180 feet of lakefront on Lake Hancock.

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The home at 2319 Aurelius Drive, Winter Garden, sold May 23, for $400,273. Built in 2016, it has six bedrooms, three-andone-half baths and 3,773 square feet. The price per square foot is $106.09.

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The home at 15135 Driftwood Bend St., Winter Garden, sold May 25, for $340,199. Built in 2015, it has five bedrooms, three baths and 3,152 square feet. The price per square foot is $107.93.

The home at 14649 Old Thicket Terrace, Winter Garden, sold May 20, for $317,000. Built in 2006, it has four bedrooms, three-and-one-half baths and 3,436 square feet. The price per square foot is $92.26.

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The home at 14234 Aldford Drive, Winter Garden, sold May 20, for $379,161. Built in 2016, it has three bedrooms, two-andone-half baths and 2,789 square feet. The price per square foot is $135.95.

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The home at 5364 Bowman Drive, Winter Garden, sold May 25, for $960,337. Built in 2015, it has five bedrooms, five-andone-half baths and 5,450 square

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The home at 7725 Purple Finch St., Winter Garden, sold May 26, for $395,711. Built in 2016, it has three bedrooms, two-andone-half baths and 2,184 square feet. The price per square foot is $181.19.

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The home at 7924 Iceland Gull St., Winter Garden, sold May 24, for $256,000. Built in 2013, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,794 square feet. The price per square foot is $142.70.

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The home at 16191 Wind View Lane, Winter Garden, sold May 25, for $281,990. Built in 2016, it has four bedrooms, three-andone-half baths and 2,489 square feet. The price per square foot is $113.29.

four bedrooms, two-and-onehalf baths, a pool and 2,037 square feet. The price per square foot is $115.37.

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MEADOW RIDGE

The home at 431 Douglas Edward Drive, Ocoee, sold May 26, for $421,500. Built in 2009, it has four bedrooms, two-andone-half baths, a pool and 2,939 square feet. The price per square foot is $143.42.

25, for $272,900. Built in 2016, it has four bedrooms, two-andone-half baths and 2,041 square feet. The price per square foot is $133.71.

OCOEE COMMONS

The home at 902 Hire Circle, Ocoee, sold May 23, for $302,500. Built in 2006, it has five bedrooms, four baths and 3,225 square feet. The price per square foot is $93.80.

The home at 9318 Mira Valle, Winter Garden, sold May 26, for $282,000. Built in 2015, it has four bedrooms, two-andone-half baths and 2,041 square feet. The price per square foot is $138.17.

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The home at 1518 Sagebrook Court, Ocoee, sold May 23, for $257,000. Built in 2011, it has four bedrooms, three baths and 2,574 square feet. The price per square foot is $99.84.

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The home at 272 Highbrooke Blvd., Ocoee, sold May 25, for $255,000 (short sale). Built in 2002, it has five bedrooms, three baths and 3,052 square feet. The price per square foot is $83.55.

The home at 1434 Plumgrass Circle, Ocoee, sold May 20, for $240,000 (short sale). Built in 2012, it has four bedrooms, three baths and 2,516 square feet. The price per square foot is $95.39.

LAKE SHORE GARDENS

The home at 717 Broadway Drive, Ocoee, sold May 23, for $235,000. Built in 1971, it has

The home at 1350 Plumgrass Circle, Ocoee, sold May 26, for $225,000. Built in 2009, it has four bedrooms, two baths and 1,978 square feet. The price per square foot is $113.75.

SILVER GLEN

The home at 1601 Glenhaven Circle, Ocoee, sold May 24, for $305,000. Built in 1996, it has five bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,452 square feet. The price per square foot is $88.35.

SPRING LAKE RESERVE

The home at 1113 Eagle Run Way, Ocoee, sold May 24, for $261,990. Built in 2016, it has three bedrooms, two-andone-half baths and 2,109 square feet. The price per square foot is $124.22.

WINTER GARDEN BRANDY CREEK

The home at 1012 BJ Brandy Cove, Winter Garden, sold May 20, for $211,200. Built in 2001, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,539 square feet. The price per square foot is $137.23.

GLYNWOOD

The home at 718 Duff Drive, Winter Garden, sold May 23, for $487,000. Built in 2005, it has five bedrooms, four baths

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GROVEHURST AT STONECREST

The home at 12765 Daughtery Drive, Winter Garden, sold May 20, for $332,000. Built in 2005, it has five bedrooms, three baths and 3,366 square feet. The price per square foot is $98.63.

JOHNS LAKE POINTE

The home at 15206 Heron Hideaway Circle, Winter Garden, sold May 26, for $470,000. Built in 2012, it has seven bedrooms, four baths and 4,693 square feet. The price per square foot is $100.15.

OAKLAND PARK

The home at 830 Rhett St., Winter Garden, sold May 20, for $357,500. Built in 2016, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,971 square feet of living area. The price per square foot is $181.38.

STONEYBROOK WEST

The home at 2418 Oakington St., Winter Garden, sold May 20, for $245,000. Built in 2002, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,614 square feet of living area. The price per square foot is $151.80.

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AFFORDABLE GRASS SERVICES, LLC Dependable • Reliable • Insured

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Call for a FREE estimate on Equipment Replacement.

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407-656-1817

We offer financing with approved credit

AUTO SERVICE

(407) 654-8885

703 S. Vineland Rd. Winter Garden, FL 34787

CONSTRUCTION

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Branch Manager

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PET SERVICES

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• Quality • Service • Sales • Installation • Commercial • Residential

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SCREEN ROOMS

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Quality Workmanship from Start to Finish

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• We Do Remodeling & Repairs Too! • Screen Enclosure • Decorative Concrete & Pavers • Glass/Acrylic/Vinyl Windows • Painting • Drywall

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• COMPLETE EXTERIOR HOME CARE SERVICES •

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and One Monthly Price!

PRESSURE WASHING

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Driveways • Home Exterior Shingle Roofs • Screens Pool Areas • Barns • & More!

Quality and Reliable Licensed & Insured

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NEW CONSTRUCTION,

Specializing in BMW, Mercedes and Volvo Service & Sales

REMODELS & ADDITIONS

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$ See store &$filter. Tax$and recycling fee extra. for details. Not valid with any other offers.

Includes up to 7 quarts

Service includes: Front Rear Pads, Pads, Parts Labor.

Full Synthetic & Oil Filter .

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YOUR BUSINESS CARD HERE

Email us: advertisenow@orangeobserver.com

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SERVICE Ocoee, FL

Danny Motes Cell 407-466-4738 Tel 407-654-2395 Fax 407-654-2986

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MASTER ROOFING, INC

Residential • Commercial • Tile • Metal

Leading Central Florida

Roofing Contractor

407.614.5962

Email: keithksj@cfl.rr.com Ocoee, FL 34761

Trusted for 35 Years.

Keith Keller President CCC1325778

RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL RE-ROOF AND NEW CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIRS SHINGLES • TILE • METAL • FLAT ROOFS • DURO-LAST 8208 Steeple Chase Blvd.

Orlando, FL 32818-1706 Office 407-521-8896 Cell. 407-467-4147

TO ADVERTISE CALL

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www.master-roofing.com State License #CCC021396

407-656-2121 720 S. Dillard St. Winter Garden, FL 34787

3 Business Card Sizes to choose from:

3.3" x 1" starting at $21.25 3.3" x 2" starting at $25.50 3.3" x 4" starting at $42.50

COLOR Included on all ads!

Publishes every thursday, and deadlines Friday the week prior.

CHURCH DIRECTORY To advertise in the Church Directory call 407-656-2121or email sfelt@wotimes.com

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 125 E Plant St., Winter Garden 407-656-2352 Sundays 8:30 am Traditional 9:45 am Bible Study 11:00 am Contemporary Awana - Wednesdays - 6pm Pastor Tim Grosshans www.fbcwg.org 2nd Campus: “FOUNDATION WORSHIP” Sundays 9:45 am - All Ages at Foundation Academy High School 15304 Tilden Road - Winter Garden www.FoundationWorship.com 407.730.1867 STARKE LAKE BAPTIST CHURCH 611 West. Ave., Ocoee Pastor Jeff Pritchard (407) 656-2351 Email: starkelakebaptist@gmail. com

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

Advertise your Services or Events on this page weekly.

This page appears weekly in the West Orange Times & Observer and online at orangeobserver.com

Your ad here! 407-656-2121

WINDERMERE UNION CHURCH 10710 Park Ridge-Gotha Rd. Windermere, FL 34786 407-876-2112 Worship times: 9:00am Adult Sunday School 10:00am Worship www.windermereunion.org

720 S. Dillard St • Winter Garden, FL 34787

NON-DENOMINATIONAL

CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION 4950 S. Apopka-Vineland Rd. Orlando Sun.Serv 8:30am, 10:30am, 6:30pm.

407-876-3480 www.ascension-orlando.org

METHODIST

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST

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

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

VBS June 13-17 • 6:30-9:00pm

Matt Dye will be our special guest at VBS. Matt is the pastor of encourage M28 a missional church warn those who are idle and disruptive, the for kids in K4 - 5th grades. in mid-town Atlanta. He also a Konaeveryone.

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He will be our guest To register your child or to get more information (NIV) and for everyone else.

1 Thessalonians 5 : 14-15 but always strive to do what is good for each other at VBS and share a special Father’s Day please visit us online at FBCWG.org message on Sunday, June 19. (NIV) and fororeveryone else. - 1 Thessalonians 5 : 14-15 call 407.656.2352.

Transparant!

Not only has Matthew’s Hope passed our recent IRS Audit with flying colors, we have once again been awarded the Intelligent Philanthropy Seal of Transparency!

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1460 Daniels Road • Winter Garden, FL 34787 • 407.905.9500 • MatthewsHopeMinistries.org

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Join us in our parking lot for a Classic Car Show

Sunday, June 12 10:00 am to 12:00 noon

Come and see beautiful cars while enjoying the great oldies tunes of the 50’s.

Food Trucks on Site.

Open to community • FREE TOURS ALL DAY

*Pay the $2000 move in fee & get the month of June FREE *Memory care as low as $3000/month

Assisted Living Facility #9626

ASSISTED LIVING AND MEMORY CARE

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