09.29.17 Winter Park/Maitland Observer

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Full steampunk ahead Hope & Help’s annual fundraiser was powered by steam and a good cause. SEE PAGE 7.

SOLE MAN

Winter Park approves new budget

Herman Baker has taken up a greater purpose from his shoe-shine spot along Park Avenue.

A boost to police funding and potential electric undergrounding highlight this year’s budget.

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TIM FREED ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Winter Park City Commissioners gave their final approval on the fiscal year 2017/2018 during their meeting Monday, Sept. 25.

The budget included several changes since its first iteration was presented to city commissioners earlier this year.

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More than 180 Florida artists will showcase their paintings, pottery, sculpture and more at the Winter Park Autumn Art Festival Oct. 14 and 15.

The Winter Park Chamber of Commerce is the proud host of the annual event, now in its 44th year.

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Mead Botanical Garden saw its share of damage from Hurricane Irma — but the community may soon come together to bring Winter Park’s beloved botanical garden back to normal.

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TUESDAY, OCT. 3

NATIONAL NIGHT OUT 2017 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 3, at the Winter Park Public Safety Facility, 500 N. Virginia Ave., Winter Park. Winter Park Police Department along with ADT, the National sponsor for National Night Out, will be hosting an open house at the Public Safety building. The event will include several interactive displays from community businesses, and hotdogs, hamburgers and refreshments will be available.

For more information, call (407) 599-3664.

THURSDAY, OCT. 5

FUN WITH FLOWERS 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 5, at the Winter Park Garden Club, 1300 S. Denning Drive, Winter Park.

Join this workshop to create arrangements using succulents.

Everything is supplied, but bring your own clippers. Please sign up by Oct. 1. Check for $25 can be made out to Winter Park Garden Club. Mail the check to WPGC at P.O. Box 272, Winter Park, FL 32790-0272. For more information, call (407) 644-5770 or email winterparkgardenclub5@gmail.com.

SATURDAY, OCT. 7

LAKES MIDGET & ROSE WATERSHED CLEANUP 6 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 7, at Martin Luther King Jr. Park, 1050 W. Morse Blvd., Winter Park. Join a clean-up effort in and around Lakes Midget and Rose. Breakfast, volunteer T-shirt, snack and water bottle will be provided for all volunteers. Kayakers and paddleboarders are welcome. Meet at Martin Luther King Jr. Park for distribution of supplies. The

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community sponsors for this event are Rollins College and Covanta. To sign up for this event, contact Vanessa Balta Cook at (407) 599-3364 or vbaltacook@ cityofwinterpark.org.

Park Avenue beginning at 5:15 p.m. A pep rally will be held in Central Park immediately following the parade. Show support for Winter Park High School students, faculty and alumni.

WOODSTOCK WINTER PARK 6 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7, at Mead Botanical Garden, 1300 S. Denning Drive, Winter Park.

Grab your bell bottoms and love beads. Mead Botanical Garden will celebrate an evening of peace, love and music as it hosts Woodstock Winter Park, a groovy garden affair featuring the music that defined a generation. The evening includes food, drink and concert by Central Florida Community Arts. Cost is $125. For more information, call (407) 599-3397.

THURSDAY, OCT. 12

TUESDAY, OCT. 10

WINTER PARK INSTITUTE SPEAKER SERIES: LAUREN BUSH LAUREN 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10, at Tiedtke Concert Hall in the Keene Music Building, 1000 Holt Ave, Winter Park, at Rollins College in Winter Park. Social activist Lauren Bush Lauren will present “How to Feed the World, One Bag at a Time.” Lauren is the founder and CEO of FEED, a social business with a mission is to “create good products that help feed the world.” For more information, call (407) 6462559.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 11

WINTER PARK HIGH SCHOOL HOMECOMING PARADE AND PEP RALLY 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 11, along Park Avenue in Winter Park. The annual Homecoming Parade will make its way down

COFFEETALK FEATURING COMMISSIONER CAROLYN COOPER 8 to 9 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 12, at the Winter Park Welcome Center, 151 W. Lyman Ave., Winter Park. If you have a latte beans to grind or you simply want to espresso your thoughts, CoffeeTalk may be the cup for you. This free, popular CoffeeTalk series gives the community an opportunity to sit down and talk with the mayor, city commissioners, and city manager over a cup of coffee provided

by Barnie’s Coffee Kitchen. For more information, call (407) 644-8281.

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‘LIFE COULD BE A DREAM’ Runs through Sunday, Oct. 8 at the Winter Park Playhouse, 711 Orange Ave., Suite C, Winter Park. Enjoy an upbeat musical comedy about Denny and the Dreamers, a doo-wop singing group preparing to enter the Big Whopper Radio contest to help them realize their dream of making it big. Featuring a score of classic ’60s hits including “Fools Fall in Love,” “Tears on My Pillow,” “Runaround Sue,” “Earth Angel,” “Unchained Melody,” “The Glory of Love” and more. Cost is between $15 and $42. For more information and showtimes, call (407) 645-0145 or visit winterparkplayhouse.org.

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ing weeks and months, Mead Botanical Garden Executive Director Cynthia Hasenau said.

It would be an effort to restore the 47-acre garden that has been closed to the public because of unstable limbs hanging from trees after Irma.

A potential clean-up effort would focus on cleaning up the north side of the main roadway, including the legacy garden area, the trailhead, the restrooms, the historic smaller amphitheater and the Mead Botanical Garden offices. However, it all is under the condition that the city is able to remove all the dangerous hanging tree limbs first.

A clean-up day set for Saturday, Sept. 30 was canceled because of the hanging debris.

“That is what has made the garden unsafe for visitors,” Hasenau said. “The decision has been made to address a portion of the garden first, to get a portion of the garden safe.”

Hasenau said Mead Garden officials hope to return the garden to a sense of normalcy as soon as they can.

“The garden holds a lot of meaning to so many people,” Hasenau said. “There are large numbers of people where the garden is part of their regular routine. They visit the garden on a daily basis — if not multiple times a week.”

Some aspects of the botani-

cal garden are still on hold, including the on-site offices.

The branches and the continued lack of power has forced the team to work elsewhere.

The damage has forced weddings to relocate as well, and it may even hinder a longstanding tradition — the fall migratory bird watch walks.

“Those happen every Saturday morning in the month of October,” Hasenau said.

“With the devastation, it’s going to seriously impact those bird walks, because not all the parts of the garden are going to be open. It won’t be the entire 47 acres.”

It’s been a difficult period of transition, Hasenau said, but the community has rallied around the garden. She said the support has been wonderful.

“We’ve already gotten a number of calls from people offering to volunteer,” she said. “We will be taking them up on it.”

The portion of Mead Garden that receives the cleanup effort will be reassessed afterward to make sure it is safe and ready to be reopened to the public.

Events such as the Woodstock Winter Park annual fundraiser event Saturday, Oct. 7, still are scheduled for the coming weeks, Hasenau said.

Residents are encouraged to follow Mead Botanical Garden on Facebook and visit meadgarden.org for clean-up effort updates.

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What’s next for the YMCA? After a parting of ways, the YMCA is continuing its service to help former Crosby Wellness Center members find another location.

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Stephanie Harley, Audubon Park Elementary PTA President: “I think the kids came up with some more creative names than the adults, so it’ll be interesting to see where it lies.”

New name, new identity

The Baldwin Park elementary school will select new name, mascot and colors.

TIM FREED ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Audubon Park Elementary School is on the verge of getting a new name. But what will the Baldwin Park school be called?

In the wake of a new K-8 school coming to Audubon Park and taking the “Audubon Park” name, the elementary school at 1750 Common Way in Orlando will take a new moniker, Audubon Park Elementary PTA President Stephanie Harley said.

The name change is being led by principal Anna Ferratusco but eventually will be voted on by the Orange County School Board after input from the school community. That vote is set to take place in January, Harley said.

There’s mixed emotions throughout the school about the name change, but Harley, who has a first-grader at the school, said she’s excited.

“As a PTA, we’re definitely excited,” she said. “If you’ve noticed on our school, at our

entrance, there’s no name. At other schools there’s actually a name. We’re ready for it; it’s time.”

The school not only will be picking a new name but also a new mascot and new colors. Surveys recently were distributed to all of the parents and students at the school.

Harley said she couldn’t disclose her choices but said she’s heard a wide range of mascot ideas from Peacocks and Grasshoppers to Panthers and Bobcats.

Other ideas have tied into Baldwin Park’s history as a U.S. Navy base.

“I think the kids came up with some more creative names than the adults, so it’ll be interesting to see where it lies,” she said.

The general consensus is that many parents prefer the school’s name to be “Baldwin Park Elementary,” Harley said, though the decision ultimately lies with the School Board.

One of the most recent name changes to happen in Orange County took place just a stone’s

throw away in College Park earlier this year, although under much different circumstances.

The middle school at 1201 Maury Road in Orlando had been known as Robert E. Lee Middle School since it was first founded back in 1955. A desire from the community to change the name grew during the 2015-16 school year.

After an electronic survey with 1,000 responses and submitted essays from 700 students, the majority supported a name change to College Park Middle School, which was made official by the Orange County School Board Feb. 14.

Audubon Park Elementary has stood at its current location along Common Way since the 2007-08 school year, when it moved from the old 1500 Falcon Drive location.

Harley said the top three options for names, mascots and colors will come back for a final vote soon after the initial survey period, which closed today.

It was a split that surprised both the Winter Park Health Foundation and the YMCA, as well.

After an 18-year partnership, the two entities no longer will be collaborating on the brand new Center for Health & Wellbeing, which includes the Peggy & Philip B. Crosby Wellness Center.

The move from its old 30,000-square-foot facility to its new home within the Center For Health & Wellbeing, which had been overseen by both organizations, came as a means of upgrading the facility — which was to be utilized by paying members of the Y. With the split, former Y members must find a new home.

“YMCA membership has always enabled, and will continue to allow all members, to use all Ys in Orange, Seminole, Osceola, Brevard, Lake and Marion counties,” YMCA officials said in a prepared statement. “Over the last several months, the YMCA has relocated services and amenities across all of its locations so members of the former Crosby YMCA Family Center could continue their wellness journey.”

There are four different YMCA locations in the Winter Park area, with the Winter Park YMCA located about one mile away from the former Crosby location.

According to the WPHF, the move to separate from the Y came because of the Y’s disinterest in some of the items the WPHF was seeking, including a medical-fitness certification.

However, YMCA officials said

they supported the idea of pursuing the certification and that is was the WPHF that cut off discussion regarding the memorandum of agreement.

“We had every intent and unwavered commitment to see this happen, and we were taking all the steps necessary to put in place this collaboration,” said Dan Saginario, vice president of brand and cause advocacy for the YMCA of Central Florida.

“When we got to the memorandum, it was written in a way that was un-signable, because it would put the Y at risk with certain liabilities for us to not be good stewards of what the community has entrusted us with.

“So unfortunately, there wasn’t any flexibility to make any alterations to that agreement,” he said. “We reached out and said we want to continue to have conversation and dialogue, because we thought we were close.”

Once the deadline was reached, no deal could be made, and the two went separate ways.

YMCA officials reached out to the WPHF but was denied any further discussion, Saginario said.

Now, YMCA officials are concentrating on the four facilities it has in the Winter Park area.

“We are turning our attention on how we can best serve the needs of our community,” Saginario said. “The Crosby members that were there, we welcome them into the Winter Park YMCA, as well as the Downtown, and the Oviedo YMCA and the Blanchard Park YMCA. We are going to continue to actively invest in those facilities to make sure we are meeting the needs of these members for the next generation.

“We are integrally a part of the community, and we will always have a commitment to live our mission —improving lives of all here in Central Florida in spirit, mind, and body,” he said.

“That’s what we are all about.”

“When we got to the memorandum, it was written in a way that was un-signable, because it would put the Y at risk with certain liabilities for us to not be good stewards of what the community has entrusted us with.”

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Shoe shiner spreads the love two people, and I just went to doing what I was doing.”

TIM FREED ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Herman Baker knows he’s exactly where he’s meant to be. How does he know?

God told him.

That place is outside the store front of Kennedy’s All-American Barber Club along Park Avenue, where Baker shines shoes six days a week.

Dressed in a sharp black-andwhite outfit of slacks, dress shirt, vest and a flat cap, Baker blends right in with the red-and-white Americana storefront of Kennedy’s, like a character from an old film.

Baker is an upbeat shoe shiner who will ask anybody how their day is — and that’s exactly why God put him there, he says.

“Hey captain, how ya doin?’,” says Baker to a random passerby.

A customer takes a seat on the raised chair along Park Avenue and Baker goes to work.

“Since I got you in the seat, let’s make it dance,” Baker says.

Layers of leather lotion are carefully yet quickly applied over a pair of brown leather shoes and rubbed in with a flurry of swipes from his buff towel.

He does a thorough job with multiple coats of wax before giving them a few strokes with two thick-bristle brushes.

The shoes come out good as new, and Baker is promptly paid and tipped.

“I strive to be the best,” Baker says. “No matter what the out-

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come is, I strive to be the best shoe shiner I can be.

“I want a man to have a good clean shine.”

GOD’S CALLING

The self-employed shoe shiner from Louisiana has been shining shoes along Park Avenue since 2012.

Baker came to Orlando in 2011 and started shining shoes, while also working a part-time job washing dishes at a restaurant across the street from the Amway Center. He was homeless at the time, sleeping places where you wouldn’t want to sleep, he says.

He’d get a hotel room as often as he could with the money he had to shower.

It was a difficult road as Baker learned the ways of shining shoes, doing it for the first time outside the Bank of America Financial Center near the bus station.

“I messed up on a few pairs of

“My job is to love everybody whether you like me or you don’t like me. I’m going to love you all the way to the kingdom. I stand on it.”

— Herman Baker

shoes, but in the process, the Lord cleaned up my mistakes, and people weren’t mad,” Baker says. “I was willing to do whatever it takes to straighten up the mess up. I’ve been rolling ever since.”

But Baker hasn’t forgotten why he started shining shoes — it was all planned, he says.

“I heard the voice of God say, ‘Shine shoes,’” Baker says.

“I said ‘Well, this must be the calling that he wants me to do.’

Nobody taught me how to shine shoes. I got advice from one or

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Some of the biggest amendments included removing the funding that was set aside for police body cameras. That change brought $22,000 back to the city’s general fund and $100,000 back to the forfeiture fund.

That decision was met with displeasure by some Winter Park residents, who said the cameras helped keep officers accountable while getting rid of the “he said, she said” scenarios.

“The body camera is an important tool to quickly get to the bottom of a frivolous complaint and they can protect the integrity of our police department should there be any bad apples,” Michael Lebo said before the vote. “Body cameras help ensure accountability and give the public greater confidence in their police department.”

Multiple city commissioners reasoned there was no need for body cameras as there were no complaints.

“If I’ve never been in a car accident, then there’s no need to get insurance or wear a seatbelt,” Lebo said. “If my house has never been broken into, there’s no need to lock my doors or have a burglar alarm. … This absurd logic is the same exact logic being applied to the argument.”

The police department did however receive a boost in funding — $826,000, an increase of over 6% from last year.

Other significant items on the agenda included the addition of $1 million toward the electric utility fund for the rest of 2017 — taken

IN OTHER NEWS n The commission approved a request from Sydgan Corporation to modify the Development Order for the Ravaudage PD to allow project credit for public on-street parking spaces. n The commission approved a request from O’Tay LLC to build a 42,068-square foot, two-story, office building with an underground parking level on the vacant property at 531 W. Morse Blvd., on the northeast corner of Morse Boulevard and Pennsylvania Avenue.

from the 2017 water revenue surplus.

The move was met with support from residents who had endured several days without power after Hurricane Irma, because a portion of that money will go toward the ongoing power line undergrounding effort.

Improving traffic flow was part of the commission’s focus as well.

It added $150,000 toward traffic signalization improvements along Aloma Avenue.

Commissioners also gave final approval for the upcoming fiscal year’s millage rate. They decided to stay the course, approving the rate of 4.0923 which has been in place for the past nine years. That decision was supported by Winter Park residents such as Nancy Shutts, who believed keeping the rate at what it’s been is for the betterment of the city. The com-

mission considered lowering the rate to 3.4492 mills at its previous meeting, reflecting $500,000 in property tax relief — or essentially $30 to $40 per resident, Shutts said.

“With $500,000 we could probably underground half a mile,” she said. “We could remove and plant several hundred trees.”

FAIRBANKS PROPERTY SALE

The Winter Park City Commission voted regarding the to sell the property at 1111 W. Fairbanks Ave., just east of U.S. 17-92 and south of Martin Luther King Jr. Park.

The city had put the property out to bid with a notice of disposal earlier this year and chose a $3.5 million offer from ComTech Properties Inc. to construct a twostory, 20,000-square-foot office/ medical development.

But city commissioners Greg Seidel and Carolyn Cooper were reluctant to sell the property.

Seidel made a motion to delay the process because of storm water concerns and wanting to leave land for potential improvements.

He said the city isn’t sure how the new library/event center will affect storm water drainage throughout the park.

Some Winter Park residents shared Seidel’s concern about potential flooding.

“I’m asking you to make the backspace on this decision,” Kim Allen said. “We don’t want to put our library in a position where it’s flooding.”

However, the majority of the City Commission went ahead with accepting the $3.5 million offer.

Chances are that if you pass Baker’s shoe shine station, he’ll ask how you’re doing. Maybe he’ll even give you a nickname like “captain,” “champion” or “m’lady.”

It draws a smile more often than not, Baker says.

Over time, Baker came to realize why he was placed in Downtown Winter Park. God was shaping him to be a servant — someone who can use his position to bring an encouraging word to someone who needs it.

“My job is to love everybody whether you like me or you don’t like me,” Baker says. “I’m going to love you all the way to the kingdom. I stand on it.”

Baker understands that just like the sidewalks and streets wear down a man’s shoes, the ups and downs of life can wear on a person’s soul. Take it from someone who has wandered the streets looking for place to sleep, Baker says.

Realizing that, he’ll go out of his way to ask how you’re doing.

A simple “hello” can pick somebody up, Baker says.

“It’s just something to bring laughter or a smile to your face,” Baker says. “You can say, ‘OK, my day was going bad, but that shoeshine man just brought me back to life.’

“That means a whole lot to me knowing that I did my job. … It would make my day if somebody would turn around and say, ‘I’m doing just fine.’”

GENERAL FUND EXPENDITURES: General Administration: $5,312,121 Planning & Development: $2,255,824 Public Works: $9,567,433 Police: $14,470,520 Fire: $12,779,475 Parks and Recreation: $8,078,786 Organizational Support: $1,509,100 Transfers To Other Funds: $4,219,936 Non-Departmental: -$238,800 Reimbursements from Other Funds: -$4,120,217 Contingency Reserve: $87,828 Total Expenditures: $53,922,006

GENERAL FUND REVENUE: Property Taxes: $20,932,465 Franchise Fees & Utility Taxes: $7,669,149 Licenses & Permits: $2,526,484 Intergovernmental: $7,319,328 Charges for Services: $8,079,699 Fines and Forfeitures: $1,150,169 Miscellaneous: $668,572 Transfers from Other Funds: $5,310,140 Fund Balance: $266,000 Total Revenues: $53,922,006 MILLAGE RATE: 4.0923 PROJECTED RESERVE FUND FOR END OF FISCAL YEAR 2018: $13.7 million PROJECTED RESERVE FUND FOR END OF FISCAL YEAR 2017: $10.7 million

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Maitland sets tax rate, budget Maitland City Council members eliminated $148,000 from the library budget during Monday’s discussion.

TROY HERRING ASSOCIATE EDITOR

During Maitland City Council session that lasted for almost four hours Monday, Sept. 25, the council settled on a final millage rate and budget.

In a 3-2 vote, with Councilmen John Lowndes and Mike Thomas dissenting, the council decided to set the operating millage rate for the 2017 tax year at 4.3453 — a 9.77% increase over the rolled back rate of 3.9584.

The voted millage rate was also set to 0.3300 for a combined total rate of 4.6753.

THE BUDGET

The general fund budget, which was passed once again with the same 3-2 vote, was set for a total of $25,511,959. The utilities fund budget was set to $10,423,200, while $2,631,000 was set for the solid waste budget, and $1,712,000 was allotted to the stormwater environmental utility budget.

Of all the numbers discussed Monday, the most contentious were related to the large fund balance for the Maitland Public Library — which also was asking for an additional $37,000.

“One of the things that concerns me is that they have an unencumbered fund balance of $461,000, and that equals about 65% of their budget,” Thomas

said. “They don’t own anything, they don’t maintain anything, so that seems to be excessive to me.

“They seem to have a practice of, when there is a surplus of city funds, if we give them $100,000 and they spend $90,000, they just stick the $10,000 in the bank and come back to us for full allotment and 5% to 10% increases,” he said.

“I’m not aware of any government body that operates like that.”

Of the $461,000, Thomas said about $175,000 in city overages should go back to the city to be used for other items. Another part of the library’s current fund stems from when it was bought by the city in 1972.

Thomas suggested having the city help oversee and manage the financial aspect of the library, although Vice Mayor Joy GoffMarcil disagreed.

“The library is run much more efficiently than Orange County’s system,” Goff-Marcil said.

“If they are running efficiently and they are saving for whatever reason, which I don’t know what that’s about, they shouldn’t be punished for being efficient.”

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brought into discussion the dramatic rise in the library’s funds, which rose from $559,000 in 2011 to the current request of $750,000.

Library Director Stacie Larson said the rate increases were due primarily to giving competitive pay for librarians and those who help around the library, because currently it’s difficult for the library to be competitive with other areas in the state.

“Our salaries are still low relative to other libraries,” Larson said. “When we were hiring a new manager, I talked to many candidates and said, ‘I’ve been with you in leadership workshops and I’d love you to think about becoming our manager,’ and they said that it would be a pay cut.”

Another cause of the spike was new technology, and the cost of bringing it to the library — such as e-books and other items, she said.

After another hour of discussion on the budget issue of the library, which included looking at providing extra funds for health insurance, the council decided to take $148,000 from the library’s budget and earmark it for road resurfacing. It also allocated $30,000 to the library to help cover health-insurance costs.

IN OTHER NEWS n The City Council enacted an ordinance to approve the fiscal year 2018-2022 Capital Improvements Program. n The council moved to adopt an ordinance to modify Chapter 7.5 of the Maitland City Code regarding the development review processes. n The council moved to adopt an ordinance modifying Section 21-5 of the Maitland City Code regarding nonconforming structures relating to fences and walls. n The council moved to authorize the Public Works Department to “piggy back” off the Osceola County contract for bulky fuel purchases in the amount of $347,000 for both bulk fuel and oil purchases for the 2018 fiscal year.

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BEETHOVEN’S NINTH SYMPHONY In two performances, the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra open its 25th anniversary season presenting the masterwork known throughout the world as the greatest piece of classical music ever written. The work is all the more extraordinary, as the Ninth was created when Beethoven was completely deaf. Symphony No. 9 rapturously reaches out to all mankind, asking us to believe in the “brotherhood of man.” Conducted by the worldrenowned Eric Jacobsen, these two performances — at 8 p.m.

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‘MAN OF LA MANCHA’ Having inspired audiences for decades, the Tony Awardwinning musical “Man of La Mancha” opens the new season for Orlando Shakes, our brilliant Shakespeare company. “Man of La Mancha” tells of the aging Don Quixote as his flights of fancy transform his dungeon home into a magical landscape of epic battles and a “glorious quest.”

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‘OF MICE AND MEN’ The multi-talented Central Florida Community Arts brings us John Steinbeck’s theatrical adaptation of his classic novel in which two migrant field-hands find work on a farm during the Great Depression. Lennie is strong but mentally challenged, and his innocent lack of understanding brings him too close to the wife of the boss’ son. The inevitability of fate follows Lennie as his innocence spirals down to tragedy. Call (407) 937-1800 or visit CFCArts.com.

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‘BIG RIVER: THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN’ Adapted from the classic American novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain, “Big River” tells the story of ‘Huck’ Finn, runaway slave Jim and the (musical) journey they take along the Mississippi River.

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by Roger Miller as they navigate their way at a time when freedom and bi-racial friendships could not be taken for granted. This celebration of pure Americana is at the Mad Cow Theatre. For tickets, visit madcowtheatre.secure. force.com.

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DISNEY’S ‘NEWSIES THE MUSICAL’ The Orlando REP proudly announces the opening of its new season as the first theater in the southeastern United States to present the Drama Desk and Tony Award-winning “Newsies the Musical.” Inspired by the reallife Newsboy Strike of 1899, this Disney musical tells of publishing guru Joseph Pulitzer raising the price of newspapers … at the newsboys’ expense. Against all odds, one young leader rises up to help “the little guys” stand up and “seize the day.” For your thrilling dose of inspiration, call (407) 896-7365 or visit orlandorep.com.

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‘THE BEST OF SECOND CITY’ This must-see comedy event features Chicago’s brightest comedy stars in a two-night engagement. The Second City Comedy Troupe finds laughs in everything from Orlando’s “history” to our basketball team mixed with classic sketches by Second City’s celebrated alumni, including Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Bill Murray and more.

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The event is the biggest fundraiser of the year for the nonprofit that focuses on educating and preventing the spread of HIV while also caring for those who suffer from the disease.

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The night’s theme was steampunk and featured two acts that included fanciful headdresses and performances. Local dancers, acrobats and others from around the Central Florida area also performed.

— TROY HERRING

Left: Angels Gatekeeper (Darcell Stevens) showed off during a performance at the Headdress Ball.

Hope & Help Executive Director Lisa Barr fought back tears as she listened to the story of a woman fighting HIV. Jeremy Huntington, dressed in his steampunk outfit, watched a segment of the Imaginarium show Saturday night.

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“Every year is different, every team is different, but this team has really embraced the challenge of TFA coming into the district.”

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Samarah Hill, Jordan Hardy, Isabella Brady and Cori Gray hope to take the Saints through another strong season.

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ast year didn’t end the way that Head Coach Jeff Wilson, or his team, wanted.

After going 22-4 (4-1 in district), the Saints found themselves on the wrong end of a 3-0 loss to Lake Highland Prep in the district tourney semifinal, ending their season.

The loss stung a bit extra when you consider the Saints were forced to miss postseason play despite winning more than 20 games.

Since then, the difficult loss has played the role of kicking this year’s Saints team, which sits at 12-4 (1-1), into high gear.

“Most of those kids coming back this year were highly motivated,” Wilson said. “We felt like we ended our season prematurely last year, and not that we deserved

to win anything in the postseason, but we certainly felt like we had the opportunity to.”

This year, the competition for the district — and the chance to make the postseason, will be more difficult than the last with the addition of perennial power in The First Academy — which beat Benjamin 3-0 last year to win the 4A state championship.

With an even tougher schedule, Wilson compared the district to the “group of death,” an expression that refers to a specific group in the World Cup loaded with quality teams.

The addition also comes at a time when many players on the Saints’ squad told Wilson to schedule tougher teams throughout the season during their exit interviews.

“Every year is different, every team is different, but this team has really embraced the challenge

of TFA coming into the district,” Wilson said. “It wasn’t that we had a light schedule last year by any means, but they wanted to ramp up the competition even more this year, and TFA was mentioned in the exit interviews.

“When they were added to the district I was a little bit surprised, but on the positive end I was able to accommodate their request,” he said.

Despite the addition of TFA, there is no reason to expect the Saints to see any drop off, especially because only two players were lost to graduation — captains Lauren Cameron and Kat Garvey.

The loss of their leadership hurts, but returning their core of strong players has helped propel the Saints forward. This season, seniors Cori Gray, Teagan Sullivan and Elizabeth Fenichel captain the Saints.

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Gray plays in the middle and has provided real strength on both offense and defense. She has picked up 66 kills, 23 total blocks, and 33 digs — which is second best, first best, and sixth best on the team, respectively.

“She’s going to play at the next level,” Wilson said. “She’s been very steady and solid for us — this is her fourth year on varsity.”

Helping out the seniors this year are players such as sophomore Isabella Brady, who plays at the libero position.

Despite being an underclassman, Brady has stepped up this season with 10 assists, a team high 122 digs, 25 assists and 98 receptions.

“From what I’ve seen, she is one of the top-five liberos I’ve seen all year,” Wilson said. “When I say fearless, she will throw herself in front of anybody, and she anchors our defense.”

Along with the core of players, which also includes players such as freshman outside hitter Jordan Hardy and junior middle Cameron Talbert, there also has been a key addition for the Saints this season.

Transferring from Hagerty is junior outside hitter Samarah Hill, who has taken over from the outside for the Saints and leads the team in multiple categories — including kills (87), serving aces (24) and receptions (104). She also has picked up 56 digs.

With such a strong group of players, and despite the lack in size up and down the lineup, Wilson said the goal is not so much a focus on record but to develop the team as a unit.

“I’m not looking necessarily at a particular win-lose goal — I’m looking at us trying to improve on every single match regardless of who the opponent is,” Wilson said. “The first goal is to get better and closer as a team every day, and the second goal is to play together as long as possible.”

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Edgewater players provide aid after Irma David Anderton and Hudson Driggers spent their day cleaning up a park and several front yards following the hurricane.

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“I thought we were just going to help out some people real quick and then go about our day, but we ended up making it an all-day thing.

It felt really good to help people out.”

A community took a small step toward normalcy after Hurricane Irma last week as two local athletes rolled up their sleeves and went to work.

Edgewater High School football players David Anderton and Hudson Driggers showed support for their community on Wednesday, Sept. 13, as they helped clean up Princeton Park and the yards of five houses throughout College Park.

But they weren’t alone. They also had the help of head coach Cameron Duke, assistant head coach Steve Woods and defensive coordinator Kyle Joyce.

It was a call from Duke’s church that gave the group an opportunity to serve after the hurricane.

The group met at Howard Middle School and went to work from there.

“They were offering some volunteer opportunities, and Wednesday, they reached out to any guys that were in the area that could get to College Park and help out with the cleaning effort,” Duke said. “We had some players and coaches (who) volunteered, got out of the house and served the community.”

Most of the work was cleaning up debris from nearby trees. The call started with the cleaning up the park next to Princeton Elementary School but steadily grew.

The Edgewater group continued to get calls of residents needing help. Edgewater High School SAFE Coordinator Nate Moran needed help moving several heavy logs to the curb. A tree had been cut into several pieces after it fell on Moran’s roof.

Drigger’s grandmother also needed help cleaning up her yard in College Park.

The group of Edgewater players and coaches not only helped her but also her neighbor.

“We ended up helping a lot of people,” Driggers said. “I thought we were just going to help out some people real quick and then go about our day, but we ended up making it an all-day thing. It felt really good to help people out.”

Woods said the community appreciated the effort.

“The first couple people had tears in their eyes thanking us,” he said. “It really hit home.”

Anderton said most of the residents affected by the storm already had cleaned up their own yard themselves, but the residents they helped weren’t physically able to do the work.

“It felt good to help people that we really didn’t know,” Anderton said. “These were the people who needed help more.”

The effort all stemmed from love for the community, and wanting to do the right thing, Duke said.

“I always want our guys to know that this life is bigger than them and that our team is so much bigger than football,” Duke said. “Understanding serving others and putting others before self is kind of a core philosophy of our program. If our guys learn to put other people before themselves, we believe they’re going to be more successful in life, way beyond football.”

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61 Dublin’s land 63 Soccer tally 65 Sound from a toy piano 67 Upright piano 68 Type of quarters 71 Historical record 73 Like lifeguards, probably 74 Artist Maya 75 Tick down 76 Put down, slangily 77 Triceps locales 78 Intermittent streambeds 79 Nonstinging bee 80 The break of day DOWN 84 How scoundrels act 1 Cotton machine 86 Overwhelm with a flood 2 Old name for Tokyo 89 Large grazing field 3 Marble to shoot with 4 How poor builders construct 90 Kitchen soaker-upper 92 Horticulturist’s study things 94 Major league misplays 5 A long way from crowded 95 Expected in 6 Some farm critters 97 Ad directive 7 A Santa in California 100 One who’s kept locked up 8 Grad student’s payment 102 Less hazardous 9 Lion features 104 Highlands youth 10 ___ mama (rum drink) 11 Happen ___ (come across) 106 Broadway star Verdon 12 Dallas-to-San Antonio dir. 107 More than satisfy 108 Despite the fact that, in 13 One way to rush short 14 Mystifies 15 Reaction from a scarecrow 109 Charlotte’s creation 110 Be in hock to sighting 111 Golfing gadget 16 Ordinal number suffix 113 Bert’s sister in books 17 Utter 114 Former name of the phys19 Al Bundy actor ics unit siemens 24 Barely-getting-by grade 115 Hallow ending 26 Miss named?

116 Soon-to-be graduates 29 Creature that allegedly (Abbr.) jumped over the moon 31 Longtime Cuban leader

88 Shirts or skins, e.g.

89 “Bang!” relative 90 Uses scissors 91 Hardly a neat person 93 Handed a speeding ticket to 96 Actress Faris 98 What paramedics sometimes try to find 99 Garments for grade school art projects 101 Charlotte ___ (dessert type) 103 Bopped relative 105 Digit below an ankle 106 Headed for the Hall of Fame 107 Take no more blackjack hits 108 Sensible things to put together 112 Activities that involve very little work 117 Like carved wood 118 Aggressive and impolite look 119 One of the Muses 120 It’s a knockout 121 Follow commands completely 122 Urgings and such 123 Keep getting Money 124 A tremendous amount of centuries

restaurant dish) 69 Was the director of 70 Change in Rome no more 71 Turn from book into movie 72 Rectangular area for fencing bouts 74 Compared 77 It could be 90 degrees 78 Entertain in a lavish way 81 551 in Roman numerals 82 Two things vacations are for, informally 83 Citizen of a certain landlocked republic in Africa 85 Standing in the Army?

86 “___ guilty as you are” 87 Noted Chinese chairman

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