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Art imitates life

Nemours Children’s Hospital celebrates its fifth anniversary with an ‘Alice in Wonderland’-themed gala at Rosen Shingle Creek. PAGE 15A.

LOCAL MARKET RANKED NO. 1 During American Farmland Trust’s summer-long Farmers Market Celebration, the Winter Garden Farmers Market was rated No. 1 in the country.

The city has become proactive in expanding farming in the community.

The local farmers market placed in five categories: People’s Choice, Focus on Farmers, Healthy Food for All, Pillar of the Community and Champion for the Environment.

Magical milestones

Christine Moore

Four locals snared in Polk County sting

Moore, who represents District 7 on the School Board, hopes to succeed Bryan Nelson.

AMY QUESINBERRY

Four of the 277 suspects arrested, including a possible human trafficking victim, are from the West Orange area.

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Christine Moore has spent nine years representing District 7 on the Orange County School Board.

Now, she said she is ready to run for a seat on the Orange County Board of County Commissioners. She filed her candidacy Oct. 2 for the District 2 seat, which is open after Commissioner Bryan Nelson resigned to run for mayor of Apopka.

Moore, of 2145 Palm Crest Drive, Apopka, said she feels now is a good time to leave the School Board because of its recent accolades.

ORANGE COUNTY

GABBY BAQUERO NEWS EDITOR

Undercover detectives from multiple lawenforcement agencies in Polk County arrested 277 people during an investigation targeting online prostitution and

POLK COUNTY

SEE POLK PAGE 8A

SEE MOORE PAGE 4A

SPORTS

SouthWest Aquatics swimmer survives Mexico earthquake.

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Christine Moore files for County Commission

ARTS & CULTURE

Winter Garden resident Dan Muken makes it his job to make others smile and laugh as he performs magic tricks for them during his daily bike rides on the West Orange Trail.

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Gabby Baquero

Dan Muken with his bike and signature biking attire on the West Orange Trail in Winter Garden. Muken enrolled in the U.S. Navy nine days after graduating high school in 1963 and served for four years as a naval photographer.

Winter Garden artist creates custom art from old neckties.

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WEST ORANGE CHAMBER BUSINESS AFTER HOURS 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, at Sonata West, 420 Roper Road, Winter Garden. Join the West Orange Chamber of Commerce for an official grand opening and ribbon-cutting for Sonata West.

Community guests and professionals are welcome to tour, participate in tastings at the High Notes Lounge and see the amenities in this state-of-theart community. For ticket information, call (407) 656-1304.

WINDERMERE HIGH TRUCK OR TREAT NIGHT 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, in the courtyard of Windermere High School, 5523 Winter Garden Vineland Road.

Join the WHS community for fun and safe trick-or-treating, with treats provided by school clubs and sports teams. Food trucks and music are part of the event, too. President@windermereptso. org.

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FRIDAY, OCT. 27

FREE DENTISTRY DAY 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27, at All Aspects Dental, 301 S. Tubb St., D-2, Oakland. Uninsured patients will be accepted on a firstcome, first-served basis and can choose one free cleaning, filling or extraction. Veterans and children preferred. (407) 654-9208 or FreeDentistryDay.org.

JAZZ IN THE PARK 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27, in the Oakland Town Center, 221 N. Arrington St. Hosted by HapCo Music Foundation. Enjoy a relaxing evening featuring live smooth jazz music. Food for sale from Melts on Main Street, Winter Garden. Free. (407) 6561117.

WINDERMERE FAMILY FOOD TRUCK NIGHT 5 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27, near Windermere Town Hall, 520 Main St. Hosted by the Town of Windermere Downtown Business Committee, the event

brings a variety of food trucks to the community. Attendees should take chairs or blankets, as well as an appetite. (407) 876-2563.

join A Cause 4 Paws Rescue at its third annual pet costume contest and parade. (407) 8103547.

SATURDAY, OCT. 28

THE BOO! BASH 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31, at the West Oaks Library, 1821 E. Silver Star Road, Ocoee. Wear your favorite Halloween costume and join in a ghoulish good time with creepy crafts, spooky stories and more. Ages 3 to 12. (407) 835-7323.

SPIRIT OF FLORIDA GOSPEL FEST Noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, at the Apopka Amphitheater, 3710 Jason Dwelley Parkway, Apopka. Hosted by JoJo O’Neal and Glenn Allgood, the fest will include performances from Martha Munizzi, Teki Dericho, Oscar Negron, UCF Gospel Choir and Apopka Community Singers. The event also will feature food trucks, children’s activities, craft, business and health care vendors. SpiritOfFloridaGospelFest.com.

SUNDAY, OCT. 29

GOLF CART TRUNK-OR-TREAT 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29, in the Winter Garden Masonic Lodge parking lot, 230 W. Bay St. Golf cart owners are being encouraged to dress up, decorate their carts and take candy to hand out.

HOWL-O-WEEN PET PARTY 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., with parade at 1 p.m., at Plant Street Market, 426 W. Plant St. Dress up your furry friend and

OUR TOUGHNESS IS YOUR STRENGTH.

TUESDAY, OCT. 31

GOOGLE APPS: BUILD A SURVEY WITH FORMS 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31, at the Winter Garden Library, 805 E. Plant St. Collect the data you need with fun and customizable Google Forms, an easy-to-use tool for creating surveys, event invites, questionnaires and more. Learn how to create and share forms as well as review the data with custom charts and spreadsheets. Seating is limited.

Registration recommended at (407) 835-7323.

ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW EXPERIENCE 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31, at the Garden Theatre, 160 W. Plant St., Winter Garden. Enjoy a night of interactive entertainment with hostess Miss P. Tart.

Watch the 1975 film, play along with a game show, enter a costume contest with prizes and

take advantage of photo opps.

Rated R (17 years and younger must be accompanied by an adult). Movie tickets are $12, prop bags are $5. No outside props allowed. (407) 877-4736.

WINTER GARDEN HALLOWEENFEST 6 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31, along Plant Street in downtown Winter Garden. Enjoy trick-ortreating with the downtown merchants, children’s activities, local craft and merchandise vendors, a hay maze and food.

Presented by the city of Winter Garden. (407) 656-4111.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 1

FALL COLLEGE AND CAREER FAIR 5 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1, at Olympia High School, 4301 S. Apopka-Vineland Road, Orlando. Get more information about potential colleges and careers at this free event. Hosted

by EduMatics. For more, visit edumaticsprogram.com.

THURSDAY, NOV. 2

2017 WOCC GOLF CLASSIC 11:30 registration, 1 p.m. start Friday, Nov. 3, at Orange County National Golf Center and Lodge, 16301 Phil Ritson Way, Winter Garden. Individual rates are $120 to $160; foursome rates range from $420 to $490. (407) 656-1304.

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Christian bookstore opens in Ocoee AMY QUESINBERRY COMMUNITY EDITOR

The Wenrich family wears Purple4papa.

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Purple4Papa Winter Garden resident Diana Wenrich will be wearing purple when she runs the New York City Marathon.

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iana Wenrich will be dressing in purple when she gets up before dawn Nov. 5 and makes her way to Staten Island, New York, to participate in the 47th New York City Marathon.

In addition to her Project Purple race jersey, the Winter Garden resident also will don her purple motivate bracelet — all in honor of her stepfather, Tom Gulcynski. And when she runs past her family and friends who are there to encourage her to keep going in the 26.2-mile race, they all will be wearing purple, too.

Wenrich said Gulcynski has been like a father to her and her sister since she was 10 years old.

He instilled in them a strong work ethic, was a huge motivator and was always encouraging and supportive of them; yet he always respected their biological father and never overshadowed his role, she said.

When Wenrich got married, both of her fathers walked her down the aisle. When Gulcynski retired five years ago, he and Wenrich’s mother, Eneida, moved to Florida to be closer to their grandchildren.

It’s Wenrich’s turn now to show her support and encouragement as Gulcynski battles stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

He received the diagnosis in

January. Surgery was not an option, because the cancer already had spread to his liver. Immediately, Wenrich started looking for a charity that supports this fight.

“Being a runner, I knew I could make my miles count and found Project Purple,” she said.

She was drawn to the caring CEO and staff, who take the time to learn about the runners and their loved ones. She said it feels like she has inherited a caring family.

“As soon as I was accepted into the Project Purple NYC Marathon team, I started team #purple4papa and encouraged all of our friends and family to wear purple on Wednesdays to encourage him and send him into chemo with high spirits,” Wenrich said.

Friends and family have stuck with it, and each week, her dad’s Facebook page is flooded with photos and messages. Her running group wears purple and dedicates “purple power miles” to him each Wednesday. And many of the staff members at SunRidge Elementary don purple on Wednesdays.

“I am both humbled and grateful for the love and support that fills my dad’s heart week after week,” she said.

Gulcynski’s only option currently is to continue chemotherapy as long as his body can handle it, she said. He is on a chemotherapy schedule of two weeks on the treatment and then one week off.

Tom Gulcynski loves spending time with his grandchildren.

Wenrich said he looks strong, has a good appetite, can take care of his fish tank and, most importantly, is able to spend time with his grandchildren.

“My goal at the beginning was to show my dad how much love and support he has from friends and family, which would motivate him to keep fighting,” she said. “My dad has always encouraged me to complete everything I do with 100% effort. He worked for Ford Motor Company for 39 years and, even in retirement, continues to be very well-respected and admired by all of his colleagues.

“At home, he encouraged my sister and (me) to excel at school and always be self sufficient,” she said. “My dad has instilled a work ethic in me that I have carried into adulthood.”

Her training for the marathon started in July.

“When the running gets hard, I tell myself, ‘It’s not cancer, it’s not chemo, this is a blessing,” Wenrich said. “I always wear my purple motivate band to remind me that every day is a gift.”

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HOW TO HELP Diana Wenrich is raising funds for Project Purple, an organization that contributes financial aid to pancreatic cancer patients and provides scholarships to children of pancreatic cancer patients, as well as to medical students committed to finding a cure. It also funds research for early detection and finding a cure.

The Winter Garden runner has surpassed her $10,000 goal but continues to seek even more funds for the nonprofit.

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Kevin Adams always has wanted to own a bookstore. When he was in college, he ran a small, in-home business, but he had never operated a brick-and-mortar store.

In August, Adams finally realized his dream when he opened FIT Books, a Christian book and gift shop in Ocoee.

When Adams learned all the Family Christian Stores, including three in Central Florida, were closing, he saw his chance to fill the void and open his own store.

He prayed about it and then purchased some of the FCS inventory.

He named his shop FIT Books, Freedom in Truth, after his favorite Bible verse — “John 8:32: “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

The store is set up in the old Family Christian storefront in the shopping center south of the West Oaks Mall.

Merchandise at FIT Books includes hundreds of book titles, ranging from memoirs to selfhelp to children’s books. There are books on marriage and relationships, Bible studies, Christian living and commentaries, as well as Biblical dictionaries and encyclopedias. The store offers Bibles in different languages, including Spanish, French, Portuguese and Chinese. It also stocks a selection of about 500 other Spanish books.

Twenty years ago, Adams was attending Bible college and seminary. He has had careers as a high school and college teacher and in pastoring and church planting, both in Missouri and Central Florida. Locally, he partners with Word on the Street Ministries and Matthew’s Hope.

“If you sum me up in one word, that would be ‘equipping,’” he said. “That’s what I do, this is just another aspect of what I do — equipping the ministry.”

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Tricks on the trail GABBY BAQUERO NEWS EDITOR

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ith his wireless earphones, a dark shirt with bold lettering that spells NAVY and an inconspicuous black bag of magic tricks, Dan Muken sets off every morning to bike the West Orange Trail.

The 72-year-old Vietnam veteran has biked 40 to 50 miles on the trail every day for the past year because, as he says in his own words, it’s 10% exercise and 90% fun. The fun comes in when he gets the opportunity to do the two things he loves best: perform magic tricks and make others smile.

He’s been performing magic tricks since he was 5 after his mother bought him a book on how to do magic tricks with common household items. He did it as a hobby for a few years and used the old talent during toy demonstrations for his toy-selling business, World of Fun. Passers-by would ask him to do magic tricks for birthday parties.

After a while, he eventually got in touch with a company that hired him as a freelance magician and provided him a steady supply of magic gigs.

“It wasn’t something I planned,” he said. “I hadn’t planned on being a professional magician, but when people saw me they asked me to do it for birthday parties. So I said, ‘OK, I’ll do it.’ And they started paying me for it. I enjoyed that a lot. You make money, and you’re having a blast.”

Working as a professional magician for the majority of his life made Muken quite the expert in all things magic. Recounting the details of those moments he’s made other people he met on the

Observer “If we are to build a better world, we must remember that the guiding principle is this — a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy.”

trail laugh in surprise with his performances leaves a glint of pride in his eyes.

But even with more than 100 tricks up his sleeve, including classical card and disappearing coin tricks, his favorite trick is making the day of others who might be having a rough time.

For it wasn’t too long ago that he, as well, went through a rough time.

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LOVE OF HIS LIFE

Despite his lifelong love for magic, his 45-year love for his wife, who died from ovarian cancer in July 2016 emotionally overwhelmed him and he lost all desire to do magic.

Her name was Janice. And to this day, Muken still remembers the details of the day they met on a Saturday afternoon, May 22, 1971, as well as their first date to go watch a Broadway play in New York titled “Fiddler on the Roof.”

Immediately following his wife’s passing, he fell into a deep depression. During that time, he recalled watching television ceaselessly, almost 24/7, he said.

And it took him more than a year before he could even speak about her again. During that time, he took to expressing his grief in solace by writing love letters and poems for her.

TRAIL TO THE TRAIL

It wasn’t until his son visited him one day and urged him to get out of the house and try going on bike rides on the West Orange Trail that Muken began what quickly became a daily routine he grew to love.

So after his son fixed up a 17-year-old bike Muken had let sit unused in the garage for decades, Muken took his son’s advice.

“I took it out to go on the trail by myself that night, and I did a roundtrip of five miles on the trail,” Muken said. “It was the first time I was ever on it, and I said to myself, ‘Wow — five miles.

That’s a lot of miles! I’ll never do that again!’ I thought I could

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Dan Muken and his late wife, Janice Muken, were married for 45 years before she died from cancer in April 2016. “I met a lot of brave people during my service, but she was the bravest,” Muken said. “She never cried during it all, not once.”

“I feel like she’s not giving up on me. She’s making sure that I’m still going to enjoy my life. I really do believe that. Just like I would never let of her, she’s never going to let go of me. I might not see her, but I know she’s near.”

never break that record … but the next day I went out there and I did nine, and I thought, ‘Well that’s definitely going to be the most I’ll ever do.’ But then every day, I added a bit more. And I did it every day and never took a day off because I realized it was really helping mentally and physically. Before I knew it, I was riding almost 20 miles every day.”

Now his average is about 40 to 50 miles a day, with 57 miles being his personal record high. The past 14 months of biking made him lose 72 pounds and helped him slowly heal from the loss of his wife, who he said always encouraged him to love and live life to the fullest.

“I feel like she’s not giving up on me,” he said. “She’s making sure that I’m still going to enjoy my life. I really do believe that. Just like I would never let of her, she’s never going to let go of me. I might not see her, but I know she’s near.”

— Dan Muken

Moore seeks commission seat CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A

“While more improvement is still needed, I believe after the success of this current school board — winning the Broad Prize for Urban Education, Governor’s Sterling Awards for efficiency and customer service, over a 40-point increase in graduation rates, increased pass rates on AP exams, deployment of 100,000 digital devices to middle- and high -school students — it is time to leave on a high note,” she said.

The candidate said she believes the county does an extraordinary job with the county’s infrastructure.

“However, collaboration and mutual visioning with other local governments is necessary

in this highly competitive, global job market,” Moore said. “More attention could be paid to recruiting employers and new industries to Pine Hills and Ocoee. Emergency management could have been more collaborative with municipalities, faith-based and civic organizations.

“Safe-walk initiatives could be coordinated in school zones where high numbers of students approach school walking or biking,” she said. “Public works functions, while highly responsive to constituent concerns, could be more equitably scheduled.”

Moore is hoping to forge a better relationship between the School Board and County Commission.

“In the past, there has been a school-siting ordinance that was

outdated; in fact it hadn’t been updated in 25 years,” Moore said.

“This caused difficulty in highgrowth areas for opening new schools. The district voluntarily gave up building high schools in rural settlements in exchange for clarifying rules governing school sites opening ‘by right.’

“Safe walk and bike routes could be better planned and constructed if the two bodies were more collaborative,” she said.

“Emergency management during hurricanes could be expanded with the county and school district working more purposefully together.”

Moore was elected to the Orange County School Board in the fall of 2008 and served as vice chair from 2012-13. She has been

“While more improvement is still needed, I believe after the success of this current school board — winning the Broad Prize for Urban Education, Governor’s Sterling Awards for efficiency and customer service, over a 40-point increase in graduation rates, increased pass rates on AP exams, deployment of 100,000 digital devices to middle- and high -school students — it is time to leave on a high note.”

— Christine Moore

the chair of the board’s communication committee during her entire tenure on the board.

During Moore’s nine years on the School Board, she rebuilt 15 schools, initiated a studentand parent-led school-grounds beautification program, created the annual Apopka Arts and Jazz Festival, authored a local history book and began Ocoee Blue Jay and Cardinal Days.

Moore is a real-estate agent with Weichert Realtors — Hallmark Properties. She is a member of the Apopka and West Orange Chambers of Commerce, Museum of the Apopkans, Winter Garden Heritage Foundation, Orange County History Center and Friends of the Wekiva. She belongs to and plays in the orchestra at Trinity Baptist Church.

She has a cum laude music education degree from the University of Michigan. She lives with her two adult children and granddaughter in Apopka.

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But when the business owner walked outside the store to place the new license plate on the scooter and returned to collect the payment from the suspect, the suspect left the store and drove away on the scooter. The scooter was later recovered on 11th Street, and the man was arrested. The man initially told police he was haggling with the business owner over the price but paid for the scooter. He later said he had simply forgotten to pay.

1000 block of West Colonial Drive. At about 1:50 a.m., an officer performed a traffic stop on a vehicle driving with only one functioning tail light. Police dispatch advised the driver had a history of illegal narcotics violations and failures to appear.

The officer asked the driver for consent to search the vehicle, but the driver denied the officer permission. A K-9 officer was called to the scene to perform an air sniff of the vehicle. The K-9 alerted to the vehicle and the officer conducted a search. The officer found a backpack with a grinder possessing a green leafy substance that tested positive for cannabis. The driver was arrested and charged with possession of cannabis and drug paraphernalia.

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West Colonial Drive. At about 10:45 a.m., an Oakland police officer was notified of a reckless driver by a Winter Garden police officer. The Oakland police officer located the vehicle, which had a large horizontal crack on the windshield and was following a red van at an unsafe distance. The officer performed a traffic stop on the reckless female driver, who displayed erratic behavior and nonstop fidgeting upon being questioned. The officer suspected the driver was under the influence of a narcotic and called for a K-9 officer to perform an open-air sniff. The female driver admitted there was marijuana in the center console and said it belonged to her son. A used syringe was also located in her purse. The

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Conroy Windermere Road.

An officer conducting an area check spotted a blue Kia with the headlights on parked adjacent to the guard shack within a residential subdivision. The Kia was in the exit lane but was not pulled up to the edge of Conroy Windermere Road to see oncoming traffic. The officer shined a flashlight into the vehicle and saw a woman sleeping in the driver’s seat. The Kia’s engine was running, despite the driver’s unconscious state. The officer woke the driver, and the woman opened the car door, prompting the officer to detect the smell of alcohol emanating from the vehicle’s interior. When asked if she was lost, the woman stated she was trying to reach the Dr. Phillips area and had come from “Bloodhound Brew.” The driver said she had consumed two drinks and agreed to perform field sobriety exercises.

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Of the 277 individuals arrested, 209 were arrested for soliciting a prostitute, including four juveniles ages 16 and 17 years old.

Among the 209 charged with soliciting prostitution services are three men from the West Orange area: Julio Escobar, 28, and Daniel Johnson, 28, both of Winter Garden, and Willett Tyler, 32, of Ocoee.

During the weeklong investigation — titled “Operation No Tricks, No Treats” — undercover detectives posed as prostitutes and individuals in search of prostitutes in fake online ads posted on various social media platforms, websites and mobile apps.

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The operation also led to 51 arrests of suspects charged with offering to commit prostitution, including Arlene Mukesh, 20, of Winter Garden. Five of the 51 arrested are suspected of being possible human trafficking victims, including a 21-year-old black female from Ocoee.

Seventeen out of the 277 total suspects were arrested for human trafficking, transporting for prostitution, deriving proceeds from prostitution, aiding and abetting prostitution, lewd battery, traveling to meet a child, use of a computer to seduce a child, and possession of drugs and/or drug paraphernalia.

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Kissimmee 34759 Hwy Kissimmee Oct. 19 at 11:00AM & 1:30PM Oct. 17, 18 & 25101 at34746 10:00AM 440 South Boulevard 19 &KISSIMMEE 26 at 11:30AM WEBSITE DIRECTIONS 757 S Orange Ave, Orlando 32801 Oct. 9, 16, 23 at 2:00PM PERKINS 1110 Oct. 27 at 11:00AM & 2:00PM Orlando 32806 Lake Mary 32746 Oct. 28 at 3:00PM Oct. 10, 17, 19, 24 & 26 at BJS RESTAURANT BREWHOUSE Orlando 32807 2577 Simpson Rd,AND Kissimmee 34744 Oct. 13 at 11:00AM & 2:00PM 1600 & W2:00PM Osceola Pkwy LOGANS ROADHOUSE 348 CORRAL ALTAMONTE Oct. 24 at 10:00AM Oct. 27GOLDEN at 11:00AM &&2:00PM 2421 Pkwy 11:30AM 2:00PM PREVENTIVE MEDICAL Oct. W 19Osceola at 2:00PM PINERO PREVENTIVE MEDICAL Oct. 27 at 11:00AM & 2:00PM PINERO Kissimmee 34741 FAMILY PHYSICIANSROBERT OF POINCIANA 3060 West Sandlake Road, SPRINGS 897 GUEVARA DENNYS 6520 Kissimmee 34741 1720 S Orange Ave, Suite 200 1720 S Orange Ave, Suite 200 FAMILY PHYSICIANS OF WEST 11 & 20 at 11:00AM ROADHOUSE BUFFET CLOUD 1050 Cypress PkwyOct. 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District completes design of future Bridgewater relief school Orange County Public Schools showed parents the finished designs for Site 37-M-SW-4.

GABBY BAQUERO NEWS EDITOR

HORIZON WEST The district shared

the completed designs for the $37.8 million school designated to relieve the overcrowded Bridgewater Middle School during a community meeting held Oct. 18.

The new relief school, which starts construction January 2018, will open in August 2019. Labeled Site 37-M-SW-4, the future middle school will have a capacity of 1,213 students. School officials hope site 37 will alleviate the severe crowding at Bridgewater, which has 2,256 students enrolled as of October 2017 with a capacity of 1,040.

According to the school’s site

plan, site 37 will be located on 25.56 acres south of Tattant Boulevard, directly east of Berkshire Place Townhomes and west of Winter Garden Vineland Road.

At the meeting, school officials informed the roughly 15 parents in attendance that the school will have four buildings encompassing 172,000 square feet arranged around a central courtyard, as well as space for about 12 portables for potential future use.

The building to the north of the courtyard will have the administration office where the main entry will be located, student labs and an art room. The building to the east will be a multipurpose building that will hold the cafeteria, music suite with three rooms dedicated for band, choir and orchestra, and a covered dining area.

The building to the south will be a three-story classroom building for all the grades with 10-foot

wide corridors and an administrative suite on each floor, and the building to the west will have the gymnasium.

The parking lot for parent dropoff and pick-up will have 174 parking spaces and be able to support a 232-car queue line. The school also will have two access points — one solely for buses and one for parents. Three bike racks will be included on the campus.

Parents at the meeting directed questions to school officials involving bike trails and vehicular traffic, because there will be no direct access for parents via Winter Garden Vineland Road (County Road 535). Parents will need to turn onto Lakeside Village Lane.

Jessma Lambert, the district’s facilities director, said the district will conduct a traffic study once the school opens to see if more new crosswalks, traffic signals or stop signs are warranted to man-

age traffic. The other issue parents brought up regarded bike paths for those students who instead ride to school. OCPS officials said the district will work toward a designated bike route.

The district will be hosting a second presentation on the 100% design plans for parents who missed the Oct. 18 meeting.

Another community meeting also will be held near the end of 2018 at the “40% construction update” meeting, where residents may voice concerns about construction traffic.

The future relief school for Bridgewater Middle will be located on 25.56 acres.

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“Golf is particularly challenging, because there are 54 balls in play — there’s 18 ‘fields’ and it’s unique that way,” Larson said.

Larson presented the Emmy trophy as part of a show-and-tell at Foundation Academy, where his boys attend school. There, wideeyed Lower School students had plenty of questions about what he did to earn the award — and how ®one day work in they, too, could television.

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Throughout a career in television that dates back to 1983, when he was a student at the University of Florida, Larson has had some pretty unique gigs. He was the news director for a local television station, directed commercials for a time and, later, did professional sports contract work with the Orlando Magic and the Tampa Bay Rays, among others.

Most recently, since 1996, he has worked on the digital graphics side within golf telecasts and, if anything, the travel was his reward — jetting off to Britain to work on-location for The Open or to Rio de Janeiro for last summer’s Olympics.

It was never about winning an award.

Still, when an award came earlier this year in the form of an Emmy for his role as part of the NBC/Golf Channel remote team covering golf at the Rio Games — well, that wasn’t too bad, either.

“It was really cool,” Larson said, adding the award is heavier than it looks on television. “This is the first time I’ve been on one of those (award-winning) crews, and so that’s a special feeling to know that I got there. It’s really cool, and it’s kind of embarrassing — all the fuss.”

Even before he learned he and the team he was a part of would be recognized with the industry’s highest honor, Larson — who lives in Ocoee with his wife, Brenda, and their two sons, Ben and Sam — felt the Rio experience was one of the high points of his career.

“It was awesome to be a part of that,” Larson said. “I had not been to that part of the world, and it was neat seeing all these athletes and seeing something that big come together.”

For Larson, one of the biggest thrills of the experience actually came while he was off the clock.

“I was waiting for a bus, and (Hall of Fame golfer) Gary Player walked up and waited at the bus stop with us and regaled us with stories for 45 minutes,” he said.

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The annual luncheon, held this year on Wednesday, Oct. 18, at the Rosen Centre Hotel, honors these champions of courage.

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Anniversary of hope Upon his return to the church, he and the congregation began to piece together a plan to bring the vision to life.

Twenty years later, that vision — Shepherd’s Hope — continues to thrive and provide health care to uninsured or underinsured Central Floridians.

“No one could have anticipated the true community impact,” said Marni Stahlman, president and CEO of Shepherd’s Hope. “Everyone involved back at that point at inception knew they were in a compassionate, heartfelt mission to try to create access to health care services for the uninsured.

(Today) the need is still the same — the folks that need our services need them today as much as when we first started. It’s as pertinent and resilient as it was from the beginning.”

Shepherd’s Hope first opened its doors in 1997 and runs on donated time and finances to provide necessary medical care to lowincome families. At its inception, the demand was so overwhelming that families would make long treks to be seen for free.

Today, the organization runs five medical clinics. It also just broke ground on what will be its first permanent, 10,000-squarefoot medical facility, to be located near Maxey Elementary in Winter Garden.

“We had our first patient on Valentine’s Day (in) 1997,” Stahlman said, tracing back to Shepherd’s Hope’s first day in operation 20 years ago. “It was at the West Orange vocational tech center, and that’s one of the cool parts about the new building coming around, because it’s a block from where we saw our first patient.”

MAKING THE DREAM WORK

When Shepherd’s Hope first opened, the concept of a free health care clinic in the state of Florida was virtually nonexistent, Stahlman said.

Barnes received God’s calling while walking along the beach line, but the direction as to bringing it to fruition took a little more thought.

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nesses, schools, faith partners — everybody embraced this,” Stahlman said. “Today, there are 92 free clinics, including Shepherd’s Hope, across the state.”

Those eligible for services have income at or below 200% of the poverty level, are uninsured and not eligible for governmentassisted health care programs, according to the organization’s website.

Doctors, nurses and other volunteers donate their time to regularly staff each of the organization’s five health centers, which typically are open several evenings each week. Area hospitals partner with Shepherd’s Hope to provide routine laboratory and radiology services, and some health agencies provide specialty services for patients needing more advanced care.

“Shepherd’s Hope leads Florida both in the number of patients we see annually and the number of clinics,” Stahlman said.

“I think everyone (involved at inception) envisioned they would make an impact and the mission was designed to help anyone that needed access to health care, but

I truly believe they couldn’t have foreseen how extensive and far reaching and impactful that walk on the beach that day would be 20 years later.”

ROARING ‘20S

This year’s theme for the Famous Faces Masquerade Ball — the organization’s largest annual fundraiser — is the Roaring ‘20s, in honor of its 20th year in operation.

While the gala itself is in its 17th year, it serves this time as both a fundraiser and a celebration of Shepherd’s Hope’s two decades of service.

Responsible for raising 30% of the organization’s operating budget, the masquerade is a significant event each year. Without it, Stahlman said, they wouldn’t be able to extend their mission as far as is needed.

“It really is a very essential component of our operations every year,” she said. “There really is a purpose, and while they’re there enjoying the festivities, we never lose sight of the fact that the purpose of us gathering together is to raise the dollars to support the mission.”

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“We want to to be able to keep doing what we’ve been doing, because we know it works, and it saves people’s lives,” Stahlman said.

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Themed “Life in Color” and held at Rosen Shingle Creek on Friday, Oct. 20, the gala served as both a fundraiser for the hospital and a celebration of its fifth birthday in Orlando. Nemours provides pediatric care to children throughout its Central Florida network.

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Travis and Danielle Payne enjoyed the evening out.

Dr. Kim Ireland, Dalida Couturier and Janet and Ryan Warwick brainstormed Halloween costume ideas at this year’s gala.

Art of Medicine founder Ken LaRoe, his wife Dr. Cindy LaRoe and Jonathan Wolf thought the gala had a strong turnout.

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Presented by the Collage Company and First Green Bank, the event auctioned off pieces of artwork to benefit the University of Florida Trauma’s Concussion and Sports Neuromedicine Program to invest in brain injury research. One such painting was from honoree Dr. Cindy LaRoe, who suffered a brain injury during a biking accident and later found comfort in painting.

The night included live and silent auctions, an awards ceremony, performers and a buffet dinner.

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Oct 27 and 28. Taking place at the home of extraordinary culinary talent, the seventh annual Swan and Dolphin Food & Wine Classic showcases the Disney passion for fine cuisine. As you stroll the causeway, you’ll be tempted with a diverse selection of delectable delights prepared by award-winning chefs along with the unique opportunity to sample fine wines, beers and spirits with certified sommeliers on hand to answer all your questions regarding the right wine for your celebration. The two-night event features more than 50 food/beverage stations, 10 food/beverage seminars and opportunities to meet worldrenowned chefs — all with a backdrop of live entertainment.

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“It is a crucial step for a writer to hear their work read aloud by capable actors. PlayFest offers that opportunity.” PlayFest will feature the first staged readings of Mark St. Germain’s adaptation of John Updike’s novel Gertrude and Claudius, commissioned by Orlando Shakes for a world premiere in 2019. Visit orlandoshakes.org or call (407) 447-1700, Ext. 1.

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Debra Vineyard has 13 pieces of her necktie artwork on display at the Winter Garden Library.

Winter Garden artist Debra Vineyard can take a handful of neckties and, with some creative snipping and gluing, turn them into pieces of art.

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As executor of her friends’ estate, Debra Vineyard was tasked with taking care of their home and everything in it after their deaths about seven years ago.

“They were both corporate suit people, and when they passed away, I had to go in and sell the house and all their belongings, and when I saw all their beautiful neckties, I lost it,” Vineyard said.

“That really affected me.

“When it came time to sell their ties, I couldn’t sell them,” she said. “I put them in a bag and took them home, and I stored them in my art closet.”

Fast-forward to the day Vineyard was cleaning out her art closet. She came across the ties and decided to create an art piece in memory of her friends.

She had a picture in her head and set out to depict it with the colorful ties, some scissors, a bottle of wood glue and a canvas.

The result was a rainbow bridge of sorts for her two friends, Jay and Dennis, and their ascent into heaven, she said.

“That was my way of overcoming the death of my friends,” Vineyard, of Winter Garden, said.

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Thirteen of Debra Vineyard’s original necktie artwork pieces are on display through November at the Winter Garden Branch Library, 805 E. Plant St., Winter Garden.

“They always had pushed me to be creative. They had always wanted me to use my creativity. ... They always pushed me, and I find it peculiar that their ties led me to almost a vocation for me.”

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Vineyard has made necktie art pieces for herself and as commissioned projects.

When someone requests a piece, she said, it is typically as a memorial to a loved one who has died. For a more personal touch, whenever possible, she uses one or more ties belonging to the deceased person or close relative.

“It’s very emotional for me as an artist and for them as the recipient,” Vineyard said.

She experienced a beautiful moment when she presented a piece to a man who wanted one dedicated to his deceased brother.

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Vineyard keeps her ties — probably close to 2,000 of them — sorted by color and displayed on tie racks in one of her closets.

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Sometimes, a piece will call for just a small scrap of a specific color, so Vineyard cuts what she needs and hangs it back up to be used in another project.

She starts with an idea and creates a rough draft in her mind of how it will be laid out. On occasion, she sees a picture she likes and begins mentally tweaking it.

Other times, someone suggests a piece or a concept, and she runs with it.

“Like ‘Christopher’s Cardinal’: I knew Christopher loved the mountains and the forest when it was snowing out,” Vineyard said. “There’s a sound. It’s a little whispy sound of the snow hitting the leaves. You can’t mimic the sound, and he loved the sound. He loved cardinals. I knew I wanted it to be a winter scene — bare trees and, of course, with the cardinal.”

The number of neckties she uses in her projects varies. A cardinal picture, which was mostly whites and browns, used about 15.

A recent piece she did of a Polynesian woman included closer to 50.

Each piece is one of a kind.

“I can’t bring myself to copy something I’ve already done,” Vineyard said. “It seems like cheating in a way.”

Vineyard’s art has been shown at SoBo through the Winter Garden Art Association and at an Art in Public Places exhibit at Winter Garden City Hall.

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Another time, a woman whose grandson was just born wanted a picture of the baby as a 4-yearold with Jesus by the sea. Vineyard used one of the grandfather’s ties to create Jesus’s cloak.

“This boy will have this for the rest of his life, and his grandfather gets to live on forever,” she said.

Her personal pieces usually are created from a special memory, such as “Louie in Laconia.”

“Louie in Laconia” was created in memory of Vineyard’s friend, Louie, who died in a motorcycle accident when Vineyard was 19.

When she was a teen, Massachusetts had a helmet law, but New Hampshire did not. So a group of their friends regularly would hop on their bikes and head to Laconia, stopping just at the state line to pull off their helmets and ride freely.

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Students came dressed in costumes and got to enjoy face painting, carnival games, snacks and inflatables.

Reeschelll Walsh, left, and Lauren McKenzie got matching face paintings at the event.

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Right: Molly Fitzsimons, 5, spent several minutes climbing through the inflatables.

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Right: Bo Sowell, left, Ali Sowell, center, and Jet Sowell showed off their costumes at the festivities.

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Transitional Homes, a full est Workshop where our structurally Then there is the Hope Chrefinish, restore and repurpose wood challenged friends repair, furniture as well. These pieces are furniture, and build custom , giving our guests opportunity while then made available for salet the ministr y. creating income to suppor e and intention ht… explain. Our hop Hiding in plain sig and selfnce nde epe ind a life of is to move everyone towardthem more comfortable being sufficiency, not just make addictions and/or mental health homeless. However, due to

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s been atest accomplishment ha d. In nge What do you think the gre cha seeing lives ing to MH? Actuallyfree funding nt me ern for you since comsav gov of ing ed while remain

drug test. That some cases, literally need to drug test, then we or fail, if we are s and restriction. If we feel the Pas ernment funded agency. could not be done as a gov p. hel l wil we able to help, into tell people? Don’t gbuy Anything else younotwogivuld anythin of real value. or ney mo out e eone into your panhandling and do rmation of any kind, let som Never give out personal info es they are hungry, offer to meet them at a car or home. If someone statl get them a meal and then tell them about local restaurant and you wil community outreach.

Matthew’s Hope, your local l be having our u? Matthew’s Hope wilich What’s next for yo will be taking place wh iser dra Fun ty Harvest of Hope Garden Par ving our offices, mo be l wil after that we on November 18. Shortly our new location on Story Rd. This location e, formally known pantries and Hope Chest to m Orange Technical Colleg is just across the street fro n, we will be relaunching our Harvest of as Westside Tech. In additio & Aquaponics/Areoponics Greenhouse. ndation Hope Chemical Free Garden the street from our Firm Fou Conveniently, this is down ter on 9th Street. God has been good to us cen Preschool and Outreach ter than ever! and Matthew’s Hope is bet

We proudly support Matthews Hope because they are taking the call to care for the community seriously. Caring for people has a way of identifying limitations, if you wait to have enough time, resources or patience you will never do anything. That’s why we are partners with Matthews Hope, they mix what little we give with the small gifts of others and through the love of God multiply it to the ongoing blessing of many. It is hard to imagine all that must happen for a guest between their first visit to Matthews Hope and the first night of sleeping in their own place. But it is exactly those in between places that Scott, the staff and volunteers dare to go with people. Walking that long journey requires an amazing amount of energy, resource and tireless love that admittedly Matthews Hope cannot do alone. So we try to help with money, time and prayer. To be perfectly honest it’s not enough and we could be giving more, but that angst is the great value of Matthews Hope. It pushes people forward. Whether we are giving or receiving we are moving forward into God’s love and loving God’s people. The work is not easy and it should never be done alone, but the reward is producing more people who are able to love and I wanna live in a community like that.

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Luke Sos and Heidi Nun became fast friends at Oktoberfest.

Sam Kenworthy and Ryan Thomas served up some brews from Crooked Can.

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Visitors could enjoy live music from bands such as Beemo and Jimmy & Eckhard, appearances from stilt-walkers and the Schulplattler Gruppe Alpenrose dancers and dachshund races. Kids could get their faces painted and make crafts or watch a puppet show. Those 21 and up got to indulge in a variety of specialty beers and German foods.

Members of the band Beemo rocked out during its second performance of Oktoberfest.

Members of the Schulplattler Gruppe Alpenrose dancers played a German card game in between performances.

— DANIELLE HENDRIX Raylan Stoddard danced to the music as he celebrated his first Oktoberfest.

Tina Heil brought a spirited Tucher along to enjoy the festivities.

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Events also include: • The Rotary Club will have coffee and donuts available at 8:30AM • Walk Windermere starts at 9AM-10:15 (Town Hall) • Orlando Concert Band is a 45 piece band offering the 45 minute prelude starting at 10:15AM and the patriotic accompaniment • Main Program starts promptly at 11AM • Community information booths • Children’s activities, sidewalk chalk drawing, face painting and more • Demonstrations by several martial arts groups • Lunch - Rotarians will be cooking hot dogs and hamburgers • The famous (infamous?) Rotary beer tent.

Please come and enjoy the day with your neighbors.

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FROM THE WINTER GARDEN HERITAGE FOUNDATION

OCT. 19, 1967 Original local photographs were becoming popular in The Winter Garden Times in 1967, but most of the pictures were of general topics, such as clothing styles and the latest health or war news.

An Oct. 19, 1967, photo announces the latest in women’s fashions: bloomers to replace skirts.

70 years ago

After making a recent survey of the city, Hoyle Pounds, chief of the Winter Garden Fire Department, reported he finds the city in a deplorable condition, declaring the town needs a general cleanup. “I find all kinds of fire hazards in the business district,” he said.

The Winter Garden Welfare League gave a buffet supper in the Edgewater hotel dining room at $1 per plate. Everyone was invited to enjoy the food the ladies will prepare.

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The Citrus Helicopters Inc. was founded to take care of the groves under the Roper Growers Cooperative System. In addition to spraying and other work over the groves, the choppers are available for private charter.

The Winter Garden City Commission changed hands, as Mayor Wilson Griffith administered the oath of office to Mayor George Barley and three commissioners, Everett Farnsworth and C.H. Johnson, starting new terms, and James Jackson, beginning his second term.

Residents of Winter Garden were saddened by the death of Cecil Moorman, who was killed in action in Vietnam. He was a 1966 gradu-

This week’s photograph takes us to the community of Gotha, located five miles southeast of Winter Garden. Once a quiet agricultural and horticultural outpost, Gotha’s center at the intersection of Hempel Avenue and Gotha Road now hums with activity and traffic amid original houses, commercial structures and a church constructed in 1913.

It was originally settled and developed by German families beginning in the early 1880s. By 1925, a brochure extolled its charms as “the delightful town among the pines and orange groves.” The wooden building above once served as Gotha’s first post office built in 1883 by the colony’s founder, Henry Hempel, but was demolished in 2003 when Orange County nixed plans for a “pioneer park” that would have preserved a number of historic county structures such as this.

The mission of the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation is to preserve the heritage and architecture of Winter Garden while creating new cultural experiences. The Foundation also preserves the material culture of West Orange County, using it to educate the area’s youth on the community’s rich history.

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SunRidge Middle’s Matthew McDoom earns MVP honors after district championship win. Page 2B.

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The A/C Guys — Back row: Justin Cox, left, Paul Minor, Mason Minor, Brian Kierstead, Cody Ward, Roberto Fernandez, Trey Owens and Dustin Denman.

Front row: Bobby Larocca, left, Deric Freideman, Tommy Tomarelli, Tyler Best and Dallas Riffle.

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The West Orange volleyball team won the Class 9A, District 3 Tournament last week, which it hosted, defeating Evans and Apopka.

The pair of wins brought the Warriors to 24-0 on the season. West Orange hosted Timber Creek (12-11) Oct. 25 in the first round of the playoffs, after press time.

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The four other varsity volleyball teams covered by the West Orange Times & Observer were defeated in their district tournaments last week, ending their seasons. Ocoee finished its season at 3-18, Foundation Academy was 6-10, CFCA was 7-10, and Legacy Charter was 2-16.

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Both the boys and girls bowling teams for West Orange defeated Windermere Oct. 19. The Warriors boys team won by a scored of 2,168-1,795 and the girls team won 1,721-1,201.

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The Windermere High boys and girls golf teams won the school’s first district titles last week, advancing to this week’s regional meet.

Capping a big week for the Wolverines was the school’s volleyball team, which finished as district runner-up and earned the program’s first playoff berth.

COOL UNDER PRESSURE A team of local ballplayers became national champions after competing in the USSSA Slow-pitch Softball Class E World Series.

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Some of them have been playing together since they were kids on the Winter Garden Little League.

Now, the crew of local softballers have two championship titles and the rings that go with them after coming out undefeated in both the USSSA Slow-pitch Softball Class E State and World Series tournaments.

“It’s the biggest accomplishment you can get,” said team manager Tommy Tomarelli. “It’s pretty much what you play all

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We’ve known each other for years and years and years.”

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Javier Hernandez, a club swimmer for SouthWest Aquatics in Winter Garden, was in Mexico City to compete when the 7.1 magnitude quake occured.

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year for. It was something I will never forget.”

Tomarelli, owner of AC Guys Cooling and Heating Services, decided to sponsor the team three years ago, and the team — the A/C Guys — quickly formed into a team of old baseball friends.

“The majority of us grew up together,” Tomarelli said. “We played baseball in high school together. We’ve known each other for years and years and years.”

Most of them still play together, or against each other, during league nights in Winter Garden, but the A/C Guys provided the group a chance to compete on a

grand scale.

Prior to competing in the worlds, the A/C Guys emerged from the Florida State Tournament undefeated and at the top of the 40 teams that competed.

Going into Worlds, Tomarelli said the team’s strategy was to focus on only one game at a time.

“Don’t look too far past the bracket,” he said. “We had to stick to our game and play our game. If we did that, I knew nobody would beat us.”

The tournament lasted three days with 169 teams competing and was held at Disney's ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex.

The A/C Guys faced eight teams throughout the weekend and were even forced to play in the rain.

“On Friday, we were soaked,”

Javier Hernandez was practicing in one of the auxiliary pools when it happened.

In Mexico City for the 2017 World Para Swimming Championships in September, Hernandez first sensed something was amiss when, while swimming on his back, he noticed the lights overhead moving.

“I thought that was strange, but I ignored it,” Hernandez said.

“Then the lights starting turning off, and when I got my head up,

I saw my coach just yelling, ‘Get out!’ And then once I was out of the pool, I saw the water moving like crazy.”

Hernandez, 17, was experiencing the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that rocked Mexico City Sept. 19.

A club swimmer for SouthWest Aquatics in Winter Garden, Hernandez had qualified earlier this year to represent Puerto Rico at the games. In what was supposed to have been the realization of a dream to compete on an international stage, it instead became a SEE EARTHQUAKE PAGE 2B

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Although Javier Hernandez admits he is a little apprehensive about it, he will be returning to Mexico City next month for the rescheduled 2017 World Para Swimming Championships.

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Matthew McDoom On Tuesday, Oct. 17, the SunRidge Middle School boys soccer team faced off against the Bridgewater Middle School team in the district championship finals and won in penalty kicks, 4-2. The game was a rematch for the two teams that had played each other in the first game of the season, with Bridgewater coming out on top. After winning the championship, it was eighth-grader Matthew McDoom who was named MVP.

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I felt confident. I felt like the team got better. We knew how to play so we could stop them better and defend better.

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It felt awesome knowing this was my last year and I won at finals.

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Midfield, because I can play both defense and offense.

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chaotic experience as the swimmers who were practicing were ushered out of the pool and out of the building, many wearing only their swimwear.

Fortunately for Hernandez and the competitors, the location of the championships relative to the earthquake was far enough that they were not in the kind of danger others experienced. Once officials had inspected their hotel for structural damage, the competitors were allowed to return to their rooms. The championships were postponed the next day.

It was certainly a close call for Hernandez, but the scare affected his mother, Nivia Rodriguez, the worst.

Rodriguez was to scheduled to join her son in Mexico City the next week, closer to the beginning of competition (athletes arrived earlier than usual for the competition to acclimate to the change in altitude).

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Tomarelli said. “The fields were drenched in water, but because there were so many teams, they let us keep playing.”

For the final game, the team took the field at the Champion Stadium, the spring training home for the Atlanta Braves.

“We had that place rockin’,” Tomarelli said. “That kept us so fired up, so amped up. We were all running on pure adrenaline.

It was just crazy.”

In the end, it came down to team chemistry.

“Instead of having a bunch of guys you don’t really know, everybody knows each other, knows their positions and what they’re good at,” Tomarelli said.

“It made a big deal, team chemistry, and knowing what your guys can and cannot do. Our defense played lights out that tournament. Our hitting was lights out. It was a complete team effort, top to bottom.”

That winning moment was one that many of the team members will never forget.

“In the softball world, this is your ultimate goal,” said Paul Minor. “It was an absolutely great thing. It was so emotional and unbelievably awesome. It

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Although the coach Hernandez had traveled with had called Rodriguez in the moments after and assured her everything was OK, it was hard to accept that while watching the news.

“The coach told me, ‘It’s not a bad situation,’ and (the kids) were fine,” Rodriguez recalled.

“A few minutes later, I saw in the news all the images, and I thought, ‘What is going on?’”

Luckily, the coach’s words rung true and, once the airport reopened two days later, Hernandez flew home.

Now he’s back at work at SouthWest Aquatics under the tutelage of coach Justin Correia.

Hernandez admits the experience gives him pause about traveling to compete but also said he plans to return to Mexico City in late November/early December, the rescheduled dates for the championships.

“When I started swimming, I would never in my life have thought that I would be able to compete in international competition,” Hernandez said. “A couple years after that, it happened.”

was just a great three days. I cried. Tears were flowing.”

For Brian Kierstead, the win is still sinking in, even weeks later.

“It was pretty amazing,” he said. “It’s one of those things when you get there you think you’re never going to win. It was crazy. We were screaming, running around. It was pretty surreal.”

And the A/C Guys’ fans keep everyone’s spirits up throughout that final game, Tomarelli said.

“Because we’re local, we had so much support from people,” he said. “They cheered us on and rooted us on down to the last out.”

After the win, A/C Guys pitcher Mason Minor was named MVP of the tournament.

Everyone received a championship ring.

“It’s like the Super Bowl,” Tomarelli said.

Already, the A/C Guys have their sights set on a new goal for next year.

“We get bumped up to the D division,” he said. “Of course, the competition gets a little more skilled, so we’ll be facing little bit better teams and better competition. But we’re looking to make the same run in the D division as we did in the E division.”

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CFCA (2-6) earned its second win of the season with a 47-0 thrashing of Avant Garde at home.

Legacy Charter (2-5) also earned a second win of the fall by outlasting TFA-Leesburg, 52-30.

Both teams will play two more games this fall in what the SSAC labels at “matchup games” for teams that do not make the playoffs.

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First, against Carrollwood Day, a long run by Luke Burke set up quarterback Henry Austad’s third touchdown run of the game with 9:39 to play. That score became the game’s deciding touchdown — an interception by Grayson Wagner with 5:29 remaining returned the ball to Foundation and helped seal its victory.

Four days later, the Lions had less trouble with Bishop McLaughlin, leading from start to finish.

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The Knights will return from their bye week and have to try to contain one of Central Florida’s best rushers — the Hawks’ Fred Jackson, who is averaging north of 150 yards per game. Though both teams enter their respective district finales with a 1-4 record in district play, there is more than meets the eye to the Hawks’ mark. Lake Minneola lost games to Lake Howell, Hagerty and Edgewater by a combined 11 points, including a 27-26 overtime loss to the Eagles.

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Oak Ridge at Olympia, 7 Windermere at Celebration, 7 The First Academy at Lake Highland Prep, 7 Eustis at Bishop Moore, 7:30 Halifax Academy at Trinity Prep, 7 Bishop Snyder at Windermere Prep, 4:30 Orangewood Christian at Harvest Community, 7

Foundation Academy (5-3) at Poinciana (2-6)

As Foundation Academy head coach Brad Lord often likes to lament, there is a dearth of small classification schools in Central Florida — specifically in Class 2A, as the Lions are — who are not competing in the independent Sunshine State Athletic Conference. As such, he often has to get creative with scheduling, something that is apparent with Foundation’s Week 10 matchup against Poinciana, a public school that competes in Class 5A. The Eagles have scored more than 20 points just once this season, although Omar Elisis (894 yards, five touchdowns) is one of the area’s top rushers.

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CFCA (2-6) at The First Academy-Leesburg (2-6)

CFCA travels to take on TFALeesburg, whose mascot is also the Eagles, in the first of two SSAC “Matchup” games to close the season. TFA-Leesburg allows a whopping 34.6 points per game, something CFCA will look to capitalize upon after posting 47 points against Avant

Garde last week. Senior Tyas Dixon has been TFA-Leesburg’s most consistent rushing threat all season, averaging 5.9 yards per carry.

Legacy Charter (2-5) at Shorecrest Prep (1-6)

The defense for the Eagles has been a trouble spot at times this season, so this matchup against

Shorecrest lines up favorably in that regard. Shorecrest is averaging just 10.6 points per game and has not scored more than 14 points in a game this season.

Legacy allows an average of 29.4 points per game. Senior Jalen Swift leads the Legacy rushing attack, averaging 112 yards per game on the ground.

West Orange (5-4) — BYE

The Warriors get a week off to rest up ahead of their annual showdown with Ocoee (1-7) for “The Shield” Nov. 3 to close the regular season.

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CFCA COACH FINISHING SEASON WITH HEART OF A TEACHER Stepping into his first head coaching job after previously being a defensive coordinator has been challenge enough for CFCA first-year coach Jeremy Campbell. Add to that the Eagles (2-6) have a young roster that has been riddled by injuries and some frustration could be understandable.

Despite that, through some tough, one-sided losses, Campbell said that emphasis for he and his staff has been to teach and coach-up this young roster so it can return to form in 2018.

“We teach every day,” Campbell said. “We have five seniors of the 22. We’ll miss them dearly (once they graduate), but we are a young team, and our future is bright, for sure.”

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Ocoee Downtown Redevelopment Dear Citizens of Ocoee and our Friends in Central Florida, It has been a few months since we last reached out to you on the exciting news of our downtown development projects getting under way. This historic collection of projects is continuing to move along rapidly and you are probably starting to notice detours and other things that indicate construction. Please be assured that all of our efforts in the implementation of our Downtown Projects List will include proper management of traffic, with safety of our citizens our top priority.

We are very excited to report that we are rapidly under way and have accomplished much in these past few months! Maine Street has now been completed from Bluford Avenue to Maguire Road, providing enhanced traffic circulation in the area south of our downtown. This project came in under budget and on time.

You have probably noticed that Bluford Avenue is now blocked and under reconstruction from Silver Star Road to the City Hall entrance. This is because we are now underway with the Bluford Avenue Utilities and Streetscape Project. This project, when completed, will completely transform the views along Bluford Avenue, which will have enhanced underground utilities, beautiful landscaping and fixtures from Silver Star Road to Delaware Avenue.

We are also well underway with the redesign for the expansion of the Ocoee Lakeshore Center, one of Central Florida’s most desired rental event centers. Rhodes and Brito Architects are mere weeks away from final construction documents, and the expansion will soon be underway. This project will allow the Lakeshore Center to host multiple events, or large events up to 450 people, making it truly a West Orange “One of a Kind.”

The City is also moving along very quickly with the Lakefront Park project with the planning firm, S&ME, and our architect, Zyscovich, Inc., is underway with the planning and design of the new City Hall. Lastly, CPH Engineers is not only working closely with Oelrich Construction on the Bluford Avenue project, but they also have been selected to design the reconstruction projects for Oakland Avenue, Taylor Street, and Kissimmee Avenue, and those projects are kicking off in November.

These implementation efforts follow the Downtown Master Plan, which, thanks to the GAI team, have now won two prestigious awards: the Outstanding Project Award from the Florida Planning and Zoning Association and a very honorable Award of Excellence from Florida’s chapter of the American Planning Association.

Please know that with all of our excitement, it could not have been possible without all of the tremendous public input that we have and continue to receive.

Sincerely, The Ocoee Mayor and City Commission

UPCOMING PROJECT TIMELINE

NOVEMBER

JANUARY

2018

1) Receive proposals from firms seeking to construct the Lakeshore Center Expansion

1) Finish underground utility installation in Bluford Avenue ROW

2) Present draft design concept for Lakefront Park Improvements to City Commission for element selection and prioritization

2) Complete Wastewater Force Main Connector construction

3) Provide initial design study for new City Hall to City Commission for feedback

3) Initiate right of way acquisition for Kissimmee Avenue Realignment and Taylor Street Reconstruction projects

4) Installation of underground utilities on Bluford Avenue moves south of Franklin Street

4) Finalize design criteria for relocated City Hall

5) Complete conceptual plan for the Master Downtown Stormwater System

5) Complete Lakeshore Center Expansion project design

6) Start Bluford Avenue Streetscape project in areas where underground utility construction has been completed

DECEMBER 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6)

Select contractor for Lakeshore Center Expansion construction Finalize Lakefront Park Improvements concept plan Complete initial design study for new City Hall Begin design of Oakland Avenue Reconstruction project Complete construction of second left-turn lane at Bluford Avenue and SR 50 Issue RFQ for Master Downtown Stormwater System design firm

FEBRUARY 1) Start construction on Lakeshore Center Expansion project (inside only); outside construction starts mid-March 2) Complete initial design of high-priority elements in Lakefront Park 3) Issue RFP for City Hall Relocation project design-build contractor

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DOWNTOWN PROJECT Status Report for October 23, 2017 Master Downtown Stormwater System

Oakland Avenue Reconstruction

Constructing a centralized stormwater treatment system has been proposed as a means of encouraging redevelopment of the city’s downtown core at a higher density. The project is presently in the conceptual design phase.

Oakland Avenue will be reconstructed as a broad urban boulevard from Taylor Street to Bluford Avenue and serve as the new center of downtown Ocoee.

The adopted Downtown Redevelopment Plan has a portion of the West Orange Trail Connector, which will link Lakefront Park to the West Orange Trail in Winter Garden, located in the boulevard’s median. The city selected the engineering firm of CPH to undertake the design of this and other downtown street reconstruction projects.

The city’s Starke Lake waterfront is the catalyst for downtown redevelopment in Ocoee. Its improvement was listed as the top priority by Ocoee’s citizens during the city’s recent downtown redevelopment master planning effort. A revised park conceptual plan is being created by the design firm of S&ME and is 70% complete. Detailed cost estimates are being prepared in advance of a presentation to the Ocoee City Commission on the overall design concept and possible park elements to be included. Once the final set of park elements are selected and their sequence of construction established, the city will begin the process of acquiring a contractor to start the work. Given the specialized nature of potential improvements, multiple contractors may need to be retained for the work, which will be divided into at least two phases: work before and after city hall is relocated.

Bluford Avenue Reconstruction Bluford Avenue, which is the main north/south route through the city, is being reconstructed to provide a new urban streetscape appearance with extensive support of Ocoee’s downtown development efforts. Design plans are being completed by the engineering firm CPH. The construction work will follow installation of underground utilities, which is currently underway. A single contractor, Oelrich Construction, Inc., is conducting all work in the Bluford Avenue right of way.

City Hall Relocation City Hall is being moved to the northeast corner of Bluford Avenue and McKey Street. This project is using a design-build approach for construction, which starts with the architectural firm hired by the city, Zyscovich, Inc., creating a design criteria package. This document includes elements like floor plans, exterior elevations, and performance requirements. It will form the basis of a request for proposals that will select up to three designbuild companies to provide final design and price proposals for selection by the City Commission.

The selected design-build firm will then prepare construction drawings and erect the building.

Zyscovich, Inc., will serve as owner’s representative to ensure the requirements contained in the design criteria package, as they may have been modified by the construction agreement, are followed by the contractor.

Lakeshore Center Expansion Demand for West Orange County’s top event venue has been so great that the city is undertaking a project to double its capacity just four years after its initial construction. Design work led by Rhodes + Brito, Architects, is currently underway.

Initial construction is expected to begin in March 2018. The city is currently soliciting proposals from construction firms to undertake the work.

McKey Street Reconstruction The construction of a relocated Ocoee City Hall will require that the adjacent McKey Street be reconstructed to provide on-street parking and other related amenities. CPH has been retained as the engineering design firm for this project.

Taylor St, Kissimmee Ave & Trail Segment 3 These three related projects will result in the construction of roundabout intersections on Taylor Street at the McKey Street and Franklin Street intersections and completion of the longest portion of the proposed West Orange Trail Connector that will link the Starke Lake waterfront to the main trail in Winter Garden. CPH has been retained as the engineering design firm for these projects.

Maine Street Extension This project was completed and the street opened to traffic in September 2017. The work continues with installation of a traffic signal at each end of the roadway (Maguire Road and Bluford Avenue).

Bluford Ave Second Left-turn Lane The city is working with the Colonial Drive (SR 50) road widening project’s contactor to add a second left-turn lane from southbound Bluford Avenue onto eastbound Colonial Drive. This project will address the existing congestion imposed on traffic making this movement. Work to add the left-turn lane is presently underway.

Wastewater Force Main Connector This large project is providing a major increase in the city’s wastewater capacity along the Colonial Drive corridor and the downtown core. The final leg of the project is now under construction with the installation of underground pipes on Bluford Avenue south of Silver Star Road.

Silver Star Road Realignment MetroPlan Orlando is sponsoring a federally funded conceptual design project to examine the potential realignment of Silver Star Road (SR 438) where the road is presently a two-lane highway built to rural standards. Being completed in cooperation with the Florida DOT, the study will take about a year to complete and will include public participation opportunities.

To learn more about the vision for the future of Downtown Ocoee, visit www.ocoee.org

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