Health Matters JULY 2015
E A ST COUNTY
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Lakewood Ranch’s weekly newspaper since 1998
Experts say it’s time to change your eating habits if you are consistently reaching for process ed and convenience foods. PAGES 2-3
GREAT GRAINS Unprocessed grains offer healthy benefits. PAGES 4-5
OUTDOOR ACTIVITY Make your workouts fun in the sun. PAGE 7
PICTURE OF HEALTH
Fanny Younger picked up tennis six years ago. PAGE 12
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THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2015
Sheriff looks east for growth
YOUR TOWN
DOG DARE
Wolves Head Pizza and Wings owner John Breiner hopes to start a tradition with the restaurant’s first hot dog-eating contest beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday. Entry is free, but registration is required by calling or visiting Wolves Head, located at 1837 Lakewood Ranch Blvd. Prizes will be awarded to the top male and female hot-dog eaters. The idea stemmed from employees debating who could eat the most hot dogs, after watching Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. “Guys have big egos, and we were all talking about how we could eat 20 or 30 hot dogs,” Breiner said. “But realistically 15 is what we’re looking for.”
Manatee County Sheriff Brad Steube has a short-term goal of adding 12 deputies and a longterm goal of a new East County zone.
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HISTORY MAKER
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No-Kill Hannah Arduini is becoming an authority on former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. After months of research, Hannah presented a revamped version of her essay on Roosevelt at the Kenneth E. Behring National History Day contest June 14 through June 18, in Washington, D.C. She won the Special Magna Carta Prize, which earned her a medal and a $1,000 cash prize. The original essay won her first place in historical papers at the Florida History Fair. She shared the moment with her mother, Doreen, and her grandparents, Frank and Marcia Albert, who traveled from Connecticut to attend the competition.
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The county’s 2011 initiative strains many local animal rescue efforts.
Humane Society of Manatee County animal care specialist Sarah Thompson spends time with Wally.
AMANDA SEBASTIANO STAFF WRITER
Wally, a 2-and-a-half-year-old black Labrador mix, has woken up at the Humane Society of Manatee County every morning for the past year and a half. He’s been housed at the shelter longer than any animals. He’s skittish, timid and afraid of people, except for a few volunteers and employees at the facility. “I used to sit with him in his kennel and read him stories,” animal care specialist Sarah Thompson said of Wally, who was taken in when authorities raided Napier’s Log Cabin Horse and Animal Sanctuary in February 2014. “He was afraid of me, of humans, really, until one day he dropped his head onto my lap.” Hildy Russell, the shelter’s finance and communications director, wonders whether he will ever find his forever home, in part because he rarely plays with people who visit the shelter. Before the county’s No-Kill initiative, animals like Wally who require extra training, medical bills or have other needs, were euthanized, said Bill Hutchinson, director of Manatee County Animal Services. But since it launched the initiaSEE SHELTER ON PAGE 3A
LWR man charged with toddler’s death Police say a blow to the head resulted in the death of William ‘Quincey’ Pollard, 17 months. KURT SCHULTHEIS OBSERVER STAFF LAKEWOOD RANCH — A Lakewood Ranch man was arrested and charged with the murder of his live-in girlfriend’s 17-month-old son Monday. Richard Williams, 35, of Bradenton, was arrested at 10:45 p.m. Monday and charged with the murder of William “Quincey” Pollard at the couple’s Summerfield Hollow apartment in the 6200 block of Rosefinch Court, according to a Manatee County Sheriff’s Office arrest report released Tuesday. Detective James Wischler wrote in his arrest report that an autopsy determined a blow to the child’s head resulted in his death less than an hour after the blow was inflicted.
SEE WILLIAMS ON PAGE 9A