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Norm
Carlson
UF’s Assistant Athletics
Director and Historian
AUGUST 2011
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CONTENTS
AUGUST 2011 • VOL. 12 ISSUE 08
departments
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Tapas
Senior Center
Calendar of Events
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Theatre Listings
Crossword Puzzle
Reading Corner
ON THE COVER – Norm Carlson,
UF’s Assistant Athletics Director and
Historian, poses for a photo opportunity
in the Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, otherwise
known as The Swamp. Carlson has been
a fixture at UF since 1963 as the Sports
Information Director and still can be found
in his office in the Ben Hill Griffin Stadium,
sharing with the world what he knows
about UF’s athletics program.
PHOTO BY TJ MORRISSEY for LOTUS STUDIOS
columns
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Healthy Edge
by Kendra Siler-Marsiglio
features
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by Ellis Amburn
Norm Carlson
The Gators Go-To Guy For 50 Years
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Flavor of Summer
Enjoy Hand-Crafted Ice Cream, Frozen Yogurt
and Gelato Flavors to Beat the Heat
Embracing Life
by Donna Bonnell
BY ELLIS AMBURN
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Enjoying Act Three
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Perspectives on Aging
by Carlos Muniz
BY CAROLYN TILLO
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The Show Must Go On
A Group of Ocala Residents are Working Hard
to Keep The Marion Theatre’s Doors Open
BY BONNIE KRETCHIK
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¡Hola Barcelona!
Unmasking Barcelona, One Site at a Time
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Desiree Farnum
It’s good to be back in Florida. The
family and I took a trip to Ohio to
see the kids and grandkids. That is a
long drive, but we made good time,
suffered no nasty weather, traffic jams
or mechanical difficulties (although
the door to the bathroom in our hotel
wouldn’t close all the way unless we
lifted the toilet seat). Since that’s the
worse we suffered, I’m certainly not
complaining.
It was great getting the whole family
together and exploring new territories.
We also ate a lot of food. Wife and I have
both decided to monitor our diet more
diligently as a result of this trip, and see
who can drop pounds the quickest. I
got a jump-start on her by getting sick
last week and thus reducing my caloric
intake to about 100 calories — for the
entire week. I don’t recommend it.
But it’s good to be back at work again.
I forget how easy it is to take good
health for granted, and I got a little
reminder.
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As we put the finishing touches on
Senior Times, I’m happy to say we have
some great stories to share with you.
Writer Ellis Amburn had a chance to
sit down with Norm Carlson, long-time
UF Historian, and he shares his story
with us in this edition.
When I think of hot August days and
nights, I think of ice cream (had some
last night at about midnight — so much
for monitoring my caloric intake). Our
writer Carolyn Tillo talked with some of
the ice cream parlors in both Ocala and
Gainesville to see what flavors are being
offered up to help cool the summer heat.
Additionally, Bonnie Kretchik tells
us all about the Marion Theatre while
Mary Kypreos visits Barcelona.
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TAPAS œ AUGUST
AUGUST 21, 1911 — FRANCE
The Mona
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AUGUST 14TH, 1941
David Van Cortlandt Crosby is an American guitarist, singer, and
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career, he was a founding member of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills
& Nash (who are sometimes augmented by Neil Young). Crosby is a
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August Birthdays
Rosalynn Carter (84)
August 18, 1927
Tony Bennett (85)
August 3, 1926
Itzhak Perlman (66)
August 31, 1945
Eydie Gormé (83)
August 16, 1928
Ben Bradlee (90)
August 26, 1921
AUGUST 15TH thru 17TH, 1967 — BETHEL, NEW YORK
The Woodstock Music
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Woodstock is widely
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moments in popular music
history. During the sometimes
rainy weekend at Max
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farm in Bethel, NY (approx.
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town of Woodstock), 32
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days to more than 500,000 people. Joni Mitchell’s song “Woodstock” which
commemorated the event became a major hit for Crosby, Stills, Nash &
Young. In 1997, the site of the concert and a large portion of the surrounding
area was purchased to create the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. On
August 13, 2006, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young performed to 16,000 fans at the
new Center — 37 years after their historic performance at Woodstock.
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August 1st, 1981 — MTV launched with the
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THE STORY BEHIND
Reagan Fires Striking
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During a press conference regarding the Professional Air Traffic
Controllers Organization strike, President Reagan stated: “They are in
violation of the law and if they do not report for work within 48 hours
they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated.” When the
48-hour deadline passed, Reagan fired the 11,345 PATCO workers who
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life. This ban was later rescinded by President Clinton in 1993.
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Athletics owner Charles O. Finley, seeing
an opportunity to sell tickets, offered $300
prize-money to the player who could grow
and maintain the best facial hair until Opening
Day. Although most former A’s players shaved
their handlebar moustaches after the team
traded the bulk of their players in 1975–76,
Fingers maintained his after signing with the
San Diego Padres as a free agent in 1977, and
still has the moustache today.
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In 2000, an enormous
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fire actually causes the trees to flourish. Soon after a fire dies out,
chemical changes triggered by the flames’ heat causes new buds to
shoot out of the trees. The fire’s hot winds can also help distribute
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COMMUNITY œ RECREATION CENTER
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PHOTO TAKEN JULY 15, 2011
THE ALACHUA COUNTY
SENIOR RECREATION CENTER
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Anyone driving by the new Alachua
County Senior Recreation Center will
notice new sidewalks, eye-catching
landscaping and crepe myrtles starting
to bloom.
“Construction is nearly complete,”
said Anthony Clarizio, executive director of ElderCare of Alachua County.
“I believe that they received their CO
[certificate of occupancy] last week. We
are now able to move in. Just waiting on
interior furnishings.”
Clarizio said the move in is scheduled
for early August.
“We do have some programs planned,”
he said. “The Primetime Institute has laid
out its fall schedule. And we are meeting
with other groups who are starting to
plan informational sessions in the fall.”
While some limited activities will be
offered in the coming months, such as
area bridge clubs and AARP sessions,
the full programming schedule will not
begin until January.
“The computer labs and fitness center
will be opening,” Clarizio said. “We’ll be
launching the web page in September.
We’re working out the final kinks. In
addition, I am going to try to bring in
some performers for the holidays. Local
high schools and jazz bands, performing
arts centers, a series of open houses and
tours, and all of those kinds of things
will be happening.”
Clarizio said they have just purchased
a computer system that will allow each
Senior to have a membership card. Seniors can swipe their card and a schedule will come up on a touch screen.
Members can select the programs they
plan to attend that day.
But for now, Clarizio said they are
still focusing on moving in, getting set
up, and learning how use the building.
“It looks really nice,” he said. “It’s
amazing how the building has come
together.” s
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BEYOND THE NORM
Norm
Carlson
The Gators Go-To Guy
for Fifty Years
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“I keep up with the
history of the athletic
program, write
articles about it, and
make speeches to
groups on our athletic
history, which started
in 1906. In 1908 we
became the Gators.”
orm Carlson, the University
of Florida’s genial 77-yearold assistant athletics
director and historian, spends his
days in legendary Ben Hill Griffin
Stadium telling the world about how
Gainesville’s Gators came to be ranked
alongside Stanford University as “the
highest rated athletic program in the
United States.”
He attributes UF’s supremacy to the
leadership of athletic director Jeremy
Foley, who came on board in 1992,
hired Billy Donovan, Urban Meyer,
and Will Muschamp, and spearheaded
an athletic program that garnered national championships in
basketball in 2006 and 2007 and in football in 2007 and 2009.
“These are positive times around here,” Carlson said, adding that UF and Stanford “are similar schools because of good
leadership, which leads to national
positive attention.”
Running an athletic program is big
business, and promoting it is Carlson’s
job. The operating budget for University
of Florida sports is $85,832,812. With
revenues of $90,744,037, the University Athletic Association,
which runs the program in conjunction with the UF
administration, is able to make a $6 million contribution to the
university’s general fund.
PHOTOS PROVIDED WITH PERMISSION
BOTTOM LEFT: Norm Carlson in a file photo taken in 1988. Florida finished with a 7–5 overall that year under coach Galen Hall.
BOTTOM RIGHT: (from left) Danny Sheldon, Jeremy Foley, Norm Carlson and Mike Wasik in Atlanta, GA for the 1995 SEC Championship. The Gators
dispatched Arkansas in a 34-3 victory under Steve Spurrier’s “Fun ‘n Gun” offense. Quarterback Danny Wuerffel received the MVP award.
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With an enrollment of 59,614,
UF is one of the world’s largest educational institutions,
comparable to the University of
Minnesota (65,000); Ohio State
(62,807); the University of Texas (50,987); New York University (43,404); and UCLA (40,000).
In size UF dwarfs neighboring
Georgia (34,885); LSU (28,871);
Auburn (25,078); Ole Miss
(19,536); and Vanderbilt (12,714).
The world’s most prestigious
academic centers are nowhere
near the University of Florida
in terms of enrollment: Harvard (21,225), Oxford (20,330),
Columbia (19,672), Cambridge
(18,396), and Yale (11,593).
The UF athletic program
that it is Carlson’s job to write
and talk about is staggering in
size and reach. In addition to
its celebrated varsity teams,
PHOTO PROVIDED WITH PERMISSION
there are 60 intramural and
Norm Carlson and then Assistant Sports Information Director, Bert Lacey. Circa 1970.
club sports, including weightlifting and archery. More than
90 percent of the student body can be found in the campus’s
history, which started in 1906. In 1908 we became the Gators,”
stadia and on its playing fields. A visitor to the campus driving
he said.
along Lemerand Drive (named after Florida booster and resThe advent of Albert E. Gator, as UF’s mascot came to be
taurateur Gale Lemerand) or Stadium Drive passes a veritable
known, occurred in the mall that today contains the Copper
mountain range of sports venues: the towering 90,000-seat Ben Monkey and other shops and restaurants on University AvHill Griffin Stadium at Florida Field, christened The Swamp
enue directly across from the campus.
by Steve Spurrier; the 12,000-capacity Stephen C. O’Connell
“A man named Phillip Miller had a sundry shop — today
Center for basketball, known as the O’Dome; the 6,000-seat
we’d call it a pharmacy — and he was looking to sell pennants,”
Alfred A. McKethan Stadium at Perry Field (baseball); and the
Carlson said. “UF was only two years old and didn’t have a penJames G. Pressly Stadium and Perse Beard Track (soccer, track, nant, school colors, or a mascot. Miller’s son went to the Uniand field). Some members of the so-called Gator Nation, which versity of Virginia and knew of the Michie factory that made
is composed of UF students and faculty, the athletic program,
pennants, so Phillip Miller asked his son to have Michie make a
alumni, and sports fans, say that stadium row reminds them
University of Florida pennant that he could sell in his store.
of the pyramids along the Nile, so mammoth, clustered, and nu“’What should it look like?’” Miller’s son asked. “’What’s the
merous are UF’s monumental temples to sport.
mascot?’”
This is the scene Norm Carlson surveys from his office on
“Alligator,” Miller replied, instinctively referencing the repthe third floor of Ben Hill Griffin, which was erected in 1930.
tiles that hang out on the UF campus around Lake Alice, and
He will have been at his job 50 years next January, having
in the Payne’s Prairie swamp that extends well into Gainesstarted in 1963 as the University of Florida’s assistant athletic
ville’s city limits.
director for communications and the historian.
“They didn’t know what an alligator looked like,” Carlson
“I keep up with the history of the athletic program, write
recalled, “so the people at Michie went to the Yale library
articles about it, and make speeches to groups on our athletic
and researched it. They happened to use blue and orange on
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the sample.” Thus, UF acquired its school colors and one of
the two or three most famous mascots in the nation, right up
there with the Yale bulldog and the Texas Christian University
horned frogs.
Apart from sports, the institution that Norm Carlson has
called home for the past half-century is noted for its programs
in international education, research, and service, including its
cutting-edge, state-of-the-art cancer center and teaching hospital, Shands. UF is one of only 17 public, land-grant universities in the Association of American Universities. Its campus
sprawls over 2,000 acres in the heart of Gainesville, with 900
buildings, 170 of them classrooms and laboratories.
The university’s roots go back to 1853, when the East
Florida Seminary acquired Ocala’s Kingsbury Academy. After
moving to Gainesville in the following decade, the seminary
merged with Lake City’s Florida Agricultural College. It
returned to Gainesville as a university in 1905, and its 102 students commenced classes at its present location on September
6, 1906. Women were not admitted until 1947.
Some believe that Gainesville landed the state’s largest
university by offering a tax break, but Carlson said the city was
selected because “it was on the railroad between Jacksonville
and Tampa.”
The university soon attracted national and then world attention because of its spectacular athletes, most recently Chris
Leak and Tim Tebow, and such outstanding coaches as Urban
Meyer, now a college football analyst at ESPN, and his successor Will Muschamp. But Florida excelled from its beginning
in 1906. Coach John Forsythe scored three winning seasons.
Florida joined the SEC in 1933.
The Gators dominance in collegiate football began at about
the same time Norm Carlson went to work in the UF athletic
department in 1963. He was 30 years old, having been born in
1933 in Omaha, Nebraska. His folks moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where they lived for the next decade. His first memory:
falling through the ice at Center Lake in Iowa. In school he
played baseball and basketball, and at Normandy High his
favorite teachers were the coaches. When his parents moved
to Jacksonville, Florida, he stayed behind, enrolling at St.
Louis University. One day his dad called and quipped, “’It’s 11
degrees up there in St. Louis and 70 degrees here in Jacksonville.’ So I came on down and agreed, this is the place for us.”
Transferring to the University of Florida, class of 1956,
Carlson majored in business administration and minored in
journalism, writing for the Alligator as well as for numerous
newspapers as campus correspondent. After graduation, he
became a sports writer for the Atlanta Journal and in 1959
landed the prestigious job of sports information director for
Auburn University.
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Sylvia and Norm Carlson in 2002 at a celebration for his
40th year at UF.
“At the Atlanta Journal I’d covered the ‘57 and ‘58 seasons
— Auburn was the national champion in 1957 — and I got to
know the Auburn people well.”
He remained at Auburn until the Gators beckoned, accepting their offer and moving back to Gainesville. It was the 1960s
era of Gator football coach Ray Graves, who was celebrating
three nine-win seasons — a total of 70 victories, a record that
would go unchallenged for the next 27 years. In 1966 Carlson
watched Ray Graves guide quarterback Steve Spurrier, who
became a personal friend, to UF’s first Heisman Trophy win.
Graves is also remembered for volunteering his team to test
the then-new Gatorade, the electrolyte-carbohydrate beverage
that UF physicians Dr. Robert Cade, Dr. Dana Shires, Dr. H.
James Free and Dr. Alejandro de Quesada invented to counteract the “wilting” that the Gators were experiencing while
working out in Florida’s subtropical heat and humidity. Fueled
by the UF researchers’ magic potion, the Gators went on a
winning streak that took them all the way to their first Orange
Bowl in 1967. The beverage subsequently went national, producing $80 million in royalties for the university by 1973, and
ultimately became part of the Pepsico empire and a familiar
product on every supermarket shelf and on playing fields the
world over as the jocks’ beverage of choice.
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A witness to the whole saga of UF sports in
the second half of the twentieth century, Carlson
was around for the advent of coach Doug Dickey
in 1970, which took the Gators to the 1973 Sugar
Bowl. Then came Charley Pell in 1979, who was
fired for 107 NCAA major infractions. Gaylen
Hall coached the 1984 team to UF’s first-ever
SEC football championship. Widely thought to be
the best team in the nation, it produced the AllAmerican running back Emmitt Smith.
Steve Spurrier returned as head coach and
made the Gators the winningest Division I (FBS)
program, scoring their first official SEC Championship in 1991. Spurrier’s All-American quarterback, record-smashing Danny Wuerffel, led
the team to four consecutive SEC titles and the
national championship at the 1996 Sugar Bowl.
Athletic director Jeremy Foley hired defensive
coordinator Ron Zook from the New Orleans
Saints as head coach in 2002, and in his first season
in Gainesville Zook engineered wins over Tennessee, Auburn, and Georgia for a perfect record
in the SEC Eastern Division. Sadly the Gators promptly went
south, and Foley fired Zook after two consecutive five-loss
seasons. Then came the golden age of Urban Meyer and Tim
Tebow, followed by the appointment of Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp, who was named head coach in 2010.
During the epic span of Norm Carlson’s tenure in the athletic
department, the University of Florida became one of the nation’s
five largest universities, with 100 undergraduate majors. The Gators became the only athletic program to finish among America’s
top 10 in each of the last 27 national all-sports standings. The
football team, despite recent setbacks, still ranks the best overall
in the Southeast Conference in the last 20 years. In 2010-2011
the Gators men’s and women’s teams combined to take the SEC
All-Sports Trophy for the 21st time in the past 24 years.
And who can ever forget those 366 days during which the
Gator football team won the 2007 National Championship
game and in 2009 took the BCS National Championship? To
live in Gainesville back then was to be King of the World, and
there was a heady excitement in the air every time you spotted Tebow riding his scooter to class (without his helmet) or
Brandon Spikes, Joe Haden, or one of the Pouncey brothers
heading to practice.
With the Gators dominating sports-page headlines from
coast to coast, Norm Carlson became the go-to guy for writers
and producers such as Buddy Martin, who penned the authorized Urban Meyer biography “Urban’s Way” for St. Martin’s
Press in 2008. After speculating that Tebow was the fourth
Florida southpaw quarterback to start regularly after Tommy
Shannon in 1962, Jackie Eckdahl in 1968, and Bobby Hewko in
1980, Buddy Martin went to Carlson for verification, later adding, “Historian Norm Carlson couldn’t remember any others,
but did cite written references to ambidextrous Clyde ‘Cannonball’ Crabtree using both of his arms back in 1928 when
the Gators missed going undefeated after a loss to Tennessee
in the final game. Throwing with both arms is something that
even the wunderkind Tebow can’t do — at least not yet.”
Anyone needing to settle a point about the Gators knows
to ask Carlson. For decades the nation’s sports writers have
heard from him as soon as a Gator superstar begins to emerge.
Recalled Buddy Martin, who held sports editorships at The St.
Petersburg Times and The New York Daily News, “Florida’s
first Heisman Trophy winner was aided, in part, by the efforts
of [then] Assistant Athletics Director Norm Carlson sending a
film clip of Steve Spurrier to 500 television stations and dialing up various writers on Sundays to plug his candidate.”
Such dedication no doubt played a significant role in the
ascendancy of the University of Florida to the heights of collegiate athletic fame. In 2007, Whitman published Carlson’s
magnum opus “University of Florida Football Vault: The History of the Florida Gators,” a lavishly produced, boxed coffeetable gift book chock-a-block with lively narrative, a treasure
trove of photographs, and such artifacts — inserted into sturdy
pockets — as a facsimile of Steve Spurrier’s handwritten resignation announcement and game-day tickets. “A must for all
Gator fans,” gushed one satisfied Internet customer, who had
purchased his copy on amazon.com.
Asked in 2011 how the Gators will do in the upcoming
football season, Carlson replied, “We have a lot of good players and a lot of good young talent. Some of them haven’t been
heard of yet — but will be.”
How about Muschamp?
“He’s a heck of a good coach and a good man — fair,
straightforward, an honest guy. The players love him.”
And how about Norm Carlson? How is he doing at 77?
“I survived,” he said, echoing a favorite refrain of senior
citizens. A family man who lives in Alachua, Carlson was looking forward after the interview “to a cookout tonight with my
wife and grandkids.”
On September 7, 2011, he will celebrate his 78th birthday.
How does it feel to be approaching his eighties?
“I’m proud to have gotten this far,” he said. “I plan to go a
lot further.” s
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HIGH CHOLESTEROL œ KENDRA SILER-MARSIGLIO
Healthy
Edge
Why do doctors show concern when
your cholesterol’s too high?
T
hey are generally worried about
the following scenario: your arteries compromised by cholesterol buildup and inflammation. High cholesterol
makes your heart work too hard, and it
greatly increases your chances of heart
attack and stroke. So, keep your doctors
(and your heart) happy by following the
tips below.
genetics plays a role. For instance, your
genetic makeup may prevent the proper
removal of low-density lipoprotein (LDL)
cholesterol from your blood or may direct
your liver to overproduce cholesterol.
But, for many of us, it’s primarily how
we live that leads to high cholesterol.
If you’re a couch potato, overweight or
frequently eat junk food, then it’s time
AMERICA’S CHOLESTEROL BURDEN
Having high cholesterol puts you at risk for heart disease, the
leading cause of death in the United States. People of all ages and
backgrounds can get high cholesterol.
•
Approximately one in every six adults—16.3% of the U.S. adult
population—has high total cholesterol. The level defined as high
total cholesterol is 240 mg/dL and above.
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People with high total cholesterol have approximately twice the
risk of heart disease as people with optimal levels. A desirable
level is lower than 200 mg/dL.
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For adult Americans, the average level is about 200 mg/dL,
which is borderline high risk.
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More women than men have high cholesterol in the U.S.
Information obtained from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. www.cdc.gov
According to the American Heart Association (AHA), over 1 million American adults have borderline-high risk
or high risk for heart disease because
of high cholesterol. Meaning: many of
your friends and family probably need to
control their cholesterol.
For some people with high cholesterol,
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to take fewer bites of burger and more
brisk walks.
Getting 30-60 minutes of exercise
daily is particularly important.
Exercise stimulates enzymes that move
LDL from the blood and blood vessel
walls to the liver. Steve Riechman, a Texas
A & M researcher, suggests that LDL is
not all bad. Dr. Riechman asserts that
without LDL, you’d die; if you embrace
exercise, LDL helps you build muscle.
Mayo Clinic also offers dietary tips to
help you tame your cholesterol levels:
• Choose healthier fats. Animal product
fats raise your total and LDL cholesterol. Reduce your intake of meats and
dairy. When you do eat meat, choose
leaner cuts.
• Eliminate partially hydrogenated oil.
If you see this on the ingredients list,
you know the item has trans fat in it!
In the US, “trans fat-free” means that
a food contains less than 0.5 grams of
trans fat per serving. How’s that for
a misnomer? Even if these amounts
seem negligible to you, they can add
up quickly.
• Limit the cholesterol in your food. Intake no more than 300 mg of cholesterol daily. If you have heart disease,
aim for less than 200 mg.
• Select whole grains. Whole grains
promote heart health. Choose wholegrain breads, whole-wheat pasta,
whole-wheat flour, and brown rice.
• Stock up on fruits and vegetables.
Fruits and vegetables are rich in
dietary fiber, which can help lower
cholesterol.
• Eat foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids.
Omega-3 fatty acids can help lower
your LDL cholesterol. Walnuts, salmon,
almonds and ground flaxseeds are also
good sources of omega-3 fatty acids.
Your medical provider can help you
with a cholesterol management plan,
which may or may not include medication. If possible, exercise should be the
plan’s cornerstone.
HEALTH ALERT
Just released by the AHA: Research analysis of Coronary
Arterial Disease (CAD) patients found that frequent use
of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (e.g., ibuprofen,
naproxen, celecoxib) increases cardiovascular incidents and
deaths in Seniors.
“Patients should not terminate these
medicines on their own,” Dr. Bavry
said. “They should have a discussion
with their physician.”
This analysis, which is making national news, was performed at UF by Dr Anthony A. Bavry and colleagues.
“Patients should not terminate these medicines on their
own,” Dr. Bavry said. “They should have a discussion with
their physician.” When Dr. Bavry sees CAD patients taking
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), he has an
informed discussion with them about NSAIDs’ potential risks.
He tries to get patients to switch to an alternative agent, such
as acetaminophen, or if that’s not possible, he requests that
they consider reducing the NSAID’s dose or frequency.
Regarding cardiovascular deaths, the risk of death was
doubled by chronic NSAID use when compared with never or
infrequent NSAID use.
To learn more about what cholesterol means to you, check out
AHA’s cholesterol section at www.heart.org
For more information on the NSAID health alert, visit:
www.usatoday.com and search for “NSAID”.
Kendra Siler-Marsiglio, Ph.D. is the Director of the Rural Health
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WE ALL SCREAM
Flavors
of Summer
Enjoy Hand-Crafted Ice Cream,
Frozen Yogurt and Gelato Flavors
to Beat the Heat
by Carolyn Tillo
T
his summer, Gainesville and
Ocala ice cream shops are
serving up funky and fresh
flavors that locals can sink their spoons
into. Fill your mouth with something
other than the smoke of forest fires by
enjoying ice cream, yogurt, gelato or an
organic or vegan dessert. Even dieters
can be a part of the summer ice cream
tradition, with plenty of low-fat and lowsugar flavors to go around. After all, no
one wants to be left out when there are
more than 1 billion gallons of ice cream
to consume each year, according to the
International Dairy Foods Association.
Karma Cream
1025 W. University Ave., Gainesville
Enjoy organic and vegan ice cream,
milkshakes, sundaes, and ice cream sandwiches, or sample vegan cupcakes and
cookies at this unique shop started by
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two UF graduates. Stop by at lunchtime
for a healthy sandwich paired with organic coffee, espresso, tea or beer. Karma
Cream opened two years ago and has
more than 40 organic dairy flavors and
more than 20 organic vegan flavors made
by Three Twins Ice Cream in California.
Employees rotate the flavors daily, with
12 dairy and 12 vegan flavors offered at a
time, said co-owners Payal Patel and Kyle
Fick. Any time a flavor bin runs out, it
gets replaced with a different flavor.
FEATURED FLAVOR: Cardamom
Cardamom is an intensely aromatic
spice often found in Indian cuisine
and traditional Indian chai tea, said
owners Payal Patel and Kyle Fick. Try it
in an organic, homemade waffle cone.
Another unique flavor is Earl Grey Tea!
BASIC PRICES:
SM: $3.40; M: $4.40; LG: $5.20
D’Lites Emporium
4216 NW 16th Blvd., Gainesville
5218 SW 34th St., Gainesville
This locally owned and operated
shop sells low-fat ice cream made with
skim milk. It has about a tenth of the
sugar content of regular ice cream but it
maintains a rich, creamy texture. Grab
some signature soft serve, or take a quart
for the road. D’Lites also sells low-sugar
and fat-free grocery products, which
work as perfect complements to their
‘healthy’ ice cream. Flavors rotate every
three to five weeks.
FEATURED FLAVOR:
Strawberry Shortcake
Cindy Noel owns the locations on
Northwest 16th Boulevard and Southwest
34th Street with her husband Mike
Roth. She describes this flavor as a sweet
alternative to standard strawberry. Cake
batter flavoring transforms an ordinary
flavor into an extraordinary dessert.
Another unique flavor is Carrot cake.
BASIC PRICES:
SM: $2.50; M: $3.50; LG: $4.50
Gelato Company
11 SE 1st Ave., Gainesville
In addition to selling
gelato and sorbetto, The
Gelato Company offers
paninis, sandwiches, and
salads, as well as coffee and
beer. Their signature gelato
gular
contains fewer calories than regular
ith lowice cream because it is made with
fat milk instead of whole milk, heavy
cream and eggs. The dairy-free sorbetto
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syrup. Flavors change every two
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but you can call with a request, and your
favorite flavor will appear in the store
two to three days later.
FEATURED FLAVOR:
Watermelon Basil Sorbetto
Owner Cory Lineback recommends
this fun summer flavor, made with 5
pounds of watermelon and the sugarwater sorbetto syrup. It’s sure to serve as
a light and refreshing snack on a hot day.
Another unique flavor is Amaretto.
BASIC PRICES:
SM: $3.70; M: $3.99; LG: $4.50
FEATURED FLAVOR: Cookies & Cream
Travis Clements, the manager of the
TCBY/Bagel Bakery Express location on
Southwest 34th Street, recommends this
flavor made with Oreos. Another unique
flavor is Pistachio.
flavors at a time. Flavors are listed on
Red Mango’s Facebook page. Red Mango
also serves smoothies, parfaits and
iced tea containing probiotics, said Jon
Austin, owner and operator of the three
Gainesville locations.
BASIC PRICES:
45 cents per ounce
FEATURED FLAVOR:
Pomegranate by POM Wonderful
Jazmine Arnold, the manager of the
Red Mango on Southwest 34th Street,
recommends topping off this yogurt with
blueberries, mochi rice cakes and popping
boba, small balls of mango and strawberry flavor that explode in your mouth.
Another unique flavor is Lemon spritzer.
Red Mango
3333 SW 34th Street, Suite 1, Gainesville
6419 Newberry Rd., Gville (Oaks Mall)
1412 W. University Ave. #10, Gville
TCBY Bagel
Bakery Express
3102 Southwest 34th Street, Gainesville
Start the day off right with a bagel
on of frozen yogurt
and a healthy portion
ery Express, or
at TCBY/Bagel Bakery
enjoy a low-calorie afternoon snack.
The owners of the TCBY locations
ustomers
in Gainesville give customers
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locals to decide what
types of yogurt end
up in their soft servee
machines. Try a
milkshake made
with any yogurt
flavor, or choose
from one of their
16 hand-scooped,
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Pair the yogurt with
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or eggwich for a more
snack. TCBY/Bagel Bakery
Express carries fourr standard
white chocolate
soft serve flavors (white
ter, chocolate and
mousse, peanut butter,
vanilla) and four
specials daily.
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Red Mango’s all-natural, non-fat
frozen yogurt is kosher and glutenfree. It contains Ganeden BC30 TM
probiotics to support healthy immune
and digestive systems. The Gainesville
locations add a new flavor about twice
a month, and each store has six to 12
BASIC PRICES:
45 cents an ounce, including toppings
Baskin−Robbins
Baskin−Ro
2431 E. Silver Spring
Springs Blvd., Ocala
3710 N.E. 13th St, Gainesville
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In addition to its large selection of ice
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Robbins also
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offers milkshakes,
fruit creams (soft
serve mixed with fruit flavors)
and sundae
sundaes. Customers thirsty
for more ccan energize themselves wi
with a cappuccino blast
or re
refresh themselves
with a fruit blast, an
icy blend of fruit
flavors. For a special occasion, try a
Baskin Robbins ice
cream cake.
FEA
FEATURED FLAVOR:
Picnic P
Punch
Try this su
summery blend
of watermelon and green apple
sherbet. Anothe
Another unique flavor is
Rock N’ Pop Sw
Swirl Sherbet.
BASIC PRICES:
SM: $1.49; M: $1.8
$1.89; LG: $2.99
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Bruster’s Real
Ice Cream
BASIC PRICES:
Single: $2.75; Waffle: $3.62;
Extra scoops 90 cents each
2707 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala
Dairy Queen
Enjoy a scoop of ice cream, or
indulge in sundaes, banana splits, and
homemade ice cream cakes and pies.
Bruster’s ice cream is made fresh daily,
and it takes ice cream maker Mike
Churchill about 20 minutes to mix each
flavor. You can order your own favorite
mix of ice cream and candy by trying
a Bruster’s Blast, a blend of vanilla ice
cream and candies such as Reeses,
Snickers and M&Ms.
FEATURED FLAVOR:
Black Raspberry Chocolate Chunk
Mike Churchill, the ice cream maker
at Bruster’s Real Ice Cream in Ocala,
recommends this rich and fruity flavor,
made with real raspberries and soft
chocolate chunks. Another unique flavor
is Peaches n’ cream.
3960 S.W. Archer Rd., Suite B, Gville, FL
because it is “the best of both worlds” — a
peanut butter cookie mixed with Dairy
Queen’s smooth soft serve. Another
unique flavor is Oreo Brownie earthquake
(Oreo mixed with soft serve, topped with
marshmallow topping, whipped cream,
hot fudge and crushed Oreos)
9700 N.W. 39th Avenue, Gainesville
4430 W. Highway 326, Ocala
2020 S.W. 135th St., Ocala
Dairy Queen’s milkshakes were voted
number one in a 2010 fast-food survey
by ZAGAT.com, a restaurant review
website. But there’s more to love than
milkshakes at Dairy Queen. Enjoy a
Dairy Queen Original Blizzard, made
with soft serve blended with candy, or
try a classic banana split. Complement
a frozen treat with a burger, chicken
sandwich or salad.
FEATURED FLAVOR:
Nutter Butter Blizzard
Ron Adams, the store operator of
the Dairy Queen on East Silver Springs
Boulevard, recommends this blizzard
BASIC PRICES:
Variety of options from $2.29 - $4.59
Mochi
3841 S.W. Archer Rd, Unit E, Gainesville
1638 W. University Ave., Gainesville
202 S.E. 2nd Ave., Gainesville
Although it is named for its mochi
rice cake toppings, this shop has
more to offer. Its nonfat and low-fat
frozen yogurt contains probiotics to
aid digestion. Mochi dishes out eight
to 10 flavors at its two locations, and
flavors change every one to two weeks.
Customers choose from more than
40 toppings when they decorate their
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desserts. Each yogurt is served with
an eco-friendly, biodegradable spoon
and a napkin made from recycled
paper. Mochi also serves ice cream
bonbons made with mochi rice cakes
on the outside and strawberry, vanilla,
chocolate, mango sherbet, green tea or
red bean yogurt on the inside.
FEATURED FLAVOR: Dulce de leche
Allison Shepherd, the shift manager
of the Mochi on Archer Road,
recommends mixing Dulce de Leche
with Mochi’s original yogurt for the
perfect blend of sweet and tart flavors.
Another unique flavor is Strawberry
Kiwi or Blueberry
BASIC PRICES:
45 cents an ounce
Sweet Dreams
3437 W. University Avenue, Gainesville
Sweet Dreams carries 24 flavors of ice
cream at any given time, and customers
can always expect to find vanilla,
chocolate, mint and coffee. The other
20 flavors rotate randomly, depending
on how fast they sell. In addition to ice
cream, Sweet Dreams sells banana splits,
floats, malts, brownies and root beer. On
July 17, National Ice Cream Day, Sweet
Dreams serves up a selection of crazy
flavors, including Avocado and Southern
Kickin’ Butter Pecan. Customers can get
special sampler bowls so they can try
each unusual flavor, and they can enjoy
live music at the end of the day.
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blend themselves. He compares eating
this flavor to biting into a candy bar.
Another unique flavor is Guinness.
BASIC PRICES:
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3443 SW Archer Rd., # A3, Gainesville
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Customers choose toppings and ice
cream to make their own creations,
or they can try one of Cold Stone’s
signature creations, including Apple Pie
A La Cold Stone or Birthday Cake Remix.
If they’re in the mood for something
different, Cold Stone offers an Ice
Cream Cookie Sandwich or a Cold Stone
Signature Cupcake, stuffed with cake,
fudge, and ice cream and covered with
frosting. Cold Stone also serves shakes,
smoothies and sundaes. Choose from
20 flavors daily, and expect a new flavor
each month this summer. Flavors rotate
when the flavor bin runs out.
FEATURED FLAVOR: Mojito Sorbet
Dylan King, the assistant manager of
the Cold Stone in Ocala, recommends
Mojito Sorbet Ice Cream, a minty flavor
perfect for the summer months. Cold
Stone suggests mixing Mojito Sorbet
Ice Cream with pineapple and whipped
cream for a refreshing twist on this
cocktail-inspired creation. Another
unique flavor is Strawberry basil.
BASIC PRICES:
Variety of options starting at $3.49
Mr. B’s Big Scoop
8399 Southwest 80th St # 16, Ocala
Opened by Blaise Bonaventure in
2009, this shop offers a selection of 20
flavors, as well as vanilla and chocolate
soft serve. In addition to selling ice
cream, Mr. B’s serves sundaes, shakes,
banana splits and smoothies. Customers
can indulge their sweet cravings yearround with seasonal flavors, including
Pumpkin in the fall. The shop also offers
sugar-free flavors such as pistachio.
FEATURED FLAVOR: Butter Pecan
Employee Moses Sam recommends
this traditional and delicious flavor for
the summer months. Another unique
flavor is Superman – a blue, red, and
yellow-colored vanilla ice cream.
BASIC PRICES:
Variety of options starting at $1.99
Scoops
8602 SW Highway 200, Ocala
At this traditional ice cream shop, they
offer floats, shakes, malts, ice cream sodas,
sundaes and smoothies. There’s about
40 flavors of ice cream to choose from,
including eight no-sugar-added varieties
and a selection of low-fat yogurts. The
family-owned establishment has been
operated by Paul and Anne Murphy and
their daughter Amanda since 2003.
FEATURED FLAVOR:
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Amanda Murphy recommends
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for this light and refreshing summer
flavor, perfect for fruit lovers and sweet
lovers alike. Another unique flavor is
Black raspberry or Cappucino Kahlua.
BASIC PRICES:
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9421 Southeast Maricamp Road, Ocala
Richard Miller opened Taste of Paradise five years ago to bring tropical ice
cream flavors to North Central Florida.
In addition to serving more than 34
flavors, the Jamaica native sells Jamai-
can beef patties and Caribbean breads.
Taste of Paradise also serves up sundaes,
banana splits, milkshakes, and floats.
FEATURED FLAVOR: Grape Nut
When they see this flavor name,
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DIALOGUING œ ELLIS AMBURN
Enjoying
Act Three
We don’t see things the way they are;
we see things the way we are.
I
n youth and middle age, I was driven
by emotion, and by the delusion that
I was the center of the universe. Everything was about me. My senior years
have given me a new pair of glasses. I
now see that very little is about me, and
that what other people think and say
about me is really about them. With this
attitude, I rarely get upset or worry, and
I feel comfortable in my own skin.
The process known as Dialoguing
helped bring about this sea change
in my nature. In 1987 I collaborated
on a memoir with Michael Edwards,
an actor/model who’d played Joan
Crawford’s lover in “Mommie Dearest.”
I’d met Michael in 1985, while working
with Priscilla Presley on her memoir,
“Elvis and Me,” which dealt with Elvis’s
domineering, Svengali-like abuse. After
her marriage to Elvis imploded on
October 9, 1973, Priscilla and Michael
Edwards began an affair that lasted
seven years, and they were still involved
during the two-and-one-half months
that Priscilla and I worked on her book.
During that time Priscilla, Michael,
and I hung out together in Los Angeles,
and on weekends we drove up to her
ranch in Montecito, near Santa Barbara,
staying in the big ranch house. To me,
their relationship was the exact reverse
of Priscilla and Elvis. Priscilla was
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now the dominant partner, Michael
as discontented as she’d been with
Elvis. Predictably they too broke up. It
happened the last week of my work with
Priscilla. Her daughter Lisa Marie, then
16, and I were both caught up in the
emotional fallout. Lisa appeared at my
hotel door asking, “Where’s my mother?
Can I have $5 for the Toyota?”
During that time
Priscilla, Michael, and
I hung out together in
Los Angeles, and on
weekends we drove up to
her ranch in Montecito.
When Priscilla’s memoir shot to
the top of the bestseller lists, Michael
Edwards and I decided to tell his side
of the story. St. Martin’s Press paid us
$150,000, which we split 50-50. We
called it “Priscilla, Elvis, and Me.”
The minute we finished the book,
Michael fired me and took my name off
the title page, but promised to respect
our 50-50 split. Thanks to a recovery
program I was in, which advised me to
keep my mouth shut in most situations,
I said nothing, went home, opened my
notebook, and began to Dialogue.
Here’s how it’s done. First, say
the Lord’s Prayer. Then bring your
attention to your breathing. Breathe
in God, breathe out peace. After fiveto-15 minutes of this, your attention
shifts from you to the spirit within.
In this meditative state, the chatter of
the mind — how dare he fire me, etc.
— subsides, and your mind becomes a
blank slate. When more thoughts pop
up, let them dance across the screen of
consciousness, play themselves out, and
fade away.
The mind in its perfect state is empty
and ready to Dialogue. The words come
fast and automatic; jot down everything.
When conversing with God, He gets the
first line. When talking with another
person, you get first crack.
Me: Hey, Michael, why did you fire me?
Michael: You don’t like me. I was
always afraid you were going to quit
before we finished the book.
I was in shock. With my lack of
self-esteem, I had no idea he feared I
would leave him. Now I could grasp the
implications of something he’d once told
me: “Being deserted by Dad made me
feel unwanted.” When I returned to my
apartment, the phone was ringing.
“I’m rehiring you,” Michael said. “Can
you come right back over?”
Our work together went smoothly
after that. “Priscilla, Elvis, and Me”
became a The New York Times
bestseller, and Michael graciously cited
“Ellis Amburn, for being by my side
every step of the way.”
When I’m willing to surrender my
ego 100 perecent in prayer and meditation, I get the answers I need — and
more. We earned out our advance, and
with my first royalty check, I bought a
house in Florida. s
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SILVER SCREEN
The Show
Must Go On
A Group of Ocala Residents
are Working Hard to Keep
The Marion Theatre Open
by Bonnie Kretchik
I
t is a typical Friday evening in
Downtown Ocala. Art lovers stroll
through the several galleries
browsing the local artists’ creations.
The eateries, offering everything from
Mexican to Italian to sushi, are full of
hungry patrons. And a group of pirates
are making their way down South
Magnolia aboard their trusty ship.
Well, OK, perhaps that last part is
not a “typical” occurrence, but it was
the scene on May 20 when the City of
Ocala, Carmike Cinemas and the nonprofit group, Save the Marion Theatre,
presented a “Pirate Invasion.”
The concept behind the invasion
of swashbuckling heroes is twofold.
First, the event celebrates the oneyear anniversary of the newly opened
historic Marion Theatre under the
management of Carmike Cinemas.
The theater, which has a rich history
in Ocala, has been opened and
subsequently closed several times
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over the past few decades. The Pirate
Invasion event also served as a means to
promote the building that is so much a
part of Ocala’s history and is in danger
of closing its doors once more.
The Marion Theatre opened in 1941.
For 30 years it was the town’s premier
movie house before closing in 1971.
Current theater manager, Chris May,
believes that the theater is an important
facet of Ocala’s history.
“So many people have stories about
seeing movies here,” May said. He
recalls a documentary about the musical
group Royal Guardsman in which the
Ocala-born drummer saw a film at
the Marion Theatre that inspired him
to begin drum lessons, thus playing a
pivotal role in his band’s future success.
“This theater is such an important
part of so many people’s lives, it would
be such a shame for it to close again,”
May said. And his fear of the theater
closing is a very real possibility. The
PHOTO COURTESY OF
JUDY GREEN
Pamela Stafford, left, of
Historic Ocala Preservation
Society, and Buddy Martin (not
shown) of Save the Marion
Theatre, kick off the Pirate
Party in front of the theatre.
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PHOTOS COURTESY OF JUDY GREEN
Diana Barge, former Ocala Mayor Gerald Ergle
and Anna Stephenson with Orlando’s Capt.
Jack Sparrow character impersonator.
TOP: After the parade, the street party crowd
lingered as families took photographs and
visited with the pirates.
theater has had a tumultuous past,
having opened numerous times to the
excitement of the public, only to close
not long after.
In the 1990s the theater was home to
the Discover Science Center before it
moved to Brick City Park in 2002. For
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five years the historic theater sat vacant
until 2007 when John Travolta and
Kelly Preston raised funds through a
motorcycle-themed premier for the film,
“Wild Hogs.” The event raised close to
$15,000 to put towards renovations and
to help pay the rent.
When the theater opened again in
August of 2007, it was restored to a
movie house and managed under the
direction of Brian and Tava Sofsky.
During this era of the historic theater’s
revival, the Marion Theatre showed
primarily independent and classic
films as well as hosted select concerts.
While definitely an original concept, the
theater could not draw the attendance
necessary to keep it alive. The Sofsky’s
cite low attendance as the main culprit
for having to terminate their lease.
“The money the Trovolta’s raised
helped pay the rent but couldn’t help
with business, not enough people were
coming in to keep it going,” said Josh
Duke, an employee who has been with
the Marion Theatre for more than a
year now.
Between 2007 and 2009, the theater
hosted sporadic concerts under the
direction of Lee Farkas. But the same
pattern emerged. Attendance was poor,
and when Farkas could no longer afford
the rent, the Marion Theatre’s doors
were shut once more, and this time it
seemed like they were closed for good.
But the little theater that could got its
big break thanks to a chance encounter
at the Vanguard High School Reunion.
David Passman, a former Ocala City
Councilman, just happened to be in
attendance that night and as luck
would have it, he is the CEO of Carmike
Cinemas, the fourth largest theater
chain in the United States. Negotiations
ensued between the city of Ocala, which
owns the building, and Passman, and
after digging up recollections of his
childhood experiences there, Passman
was convinced that this historic building
could not be allowed to close.
And so, Carmike Cinemas became
the Marion Theatre’s newest tenants.
The city hosted a grand re-opening
celebration that featured the airing
of “Sex and the City” followed by the
premier of “Sex and the City 2” at
midnight. The event served as a means
to remind the public of the theater’s
presence and to spark interest in this
historic landmark.
Today, the theater boasts two digital
projector screens capable of airing
both 2D and 3D films. The upstairs
theater has a 28-ft screen and is capable
of holding 100 people while in the
downstairs theater about 300 people
can view films on the 38-ft screen. It
also serves the typical movie theater
refreshments as well as beer and wine, a
nice treat for the over-21 patrons.
“We’re not even trying to compete
with the larger chains in town,” said
current theater manager, Chris May.
“We couldn’t even begin to house that
many people, we just want to keep
this building running as what it was
originally intended to be, a movie
house.” But May’s intensions are not
running as smoothly as he would have
hoped. Once again, in April, the Marion
Theatre found itself in danger of closing.
As the first year of operation under
Carmike Cinemas drew to a close,
negotiations to keep their current tenant
seemed to be at a standstill.
“Business is always slow when you
first get started and you expect that,
more money goes out than comes in
for a while,” Duke said. “But business
started to really pick up over the winter.”
Yet business just never seems to pick
up enough for the Marion Theatre.
Carmike Cinemas and the City of Ocala
were not sure they could keep this
theater alive any longer.
Once again, just when it seemed
that the Marion Theatre had aired its
last film, in comes its knight in shining
armor. Buddy Martin, a self-proclaimed
man of the media, was born and raised
in Ocala. The former Ocala Star Banner
writer and current owner of his own
media company, Buddy Martin Media,
heard that the theater was in danger of
closing and knew he could not stand by
and let that happen.
“You can’t just let a historic building
like that die,” Martin said. “I figured one
thing I could do was start sending out
e-mails.”
Martin also aired a live broadcast
of his radio show, “The Buddy Martin
Show,” directly from the theater in an
effort to start spreading the word.
“The theater represents Ocala’s past,
present and future, but so many people
don’t even know about it,” Martin said.
Through his efforts he also helped
establish the Save The Marion Theatre
Group. The group is comprised of
several members of the community
who work to promote the theater and
encourage people to come in.
The group raised more than $1,000
to put towards saving the theater and
also managed to get 800 signatures on a
petition to the city urging it to keep open
negotiations with Carmike Cinemas.
“The theater is too precious to the
community to let it close without
a fight,” Martin said. But he knows
that this is only a temporary fix; what
the theater really needs is patrons.
Surprisingly, 80 percent of the people
who signed the petition had never even
been there.
And while the Carmike Cinemas and
the city of Ocala have agreed to keep it
open for another year, the theater is not
guaranteed survival just yet. The Save
The Marion Theatre Group is working
diligently to spread the word about
the unique venue. With events like the
“Pirates of the Caribbean 4” premier
— in which the group brought to the
downtown square a life-size pirate
ship complete with pirates, as well as
two of the movie’s stars, Duke and Doc,
Ocala’s own black horses — the group
hopes to introduce the theater to a new
generation of fans.
“I went there as a kid, so many people
did, and we all have memories, but that’s
not enough to keep it open,” Martin said,
who noted that “everyone you ask has
a story about the theater. It’s time to
remind people why they loved it and get
today’s generation in there and let them
develop some stories of their own.” s
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CRAVING APPRECIATION œ DONNA BONNELL
Embracing
Life
Author Robert Cavetti said, “Three
billion people on the face of the earth
go to bed hungry every night…
…b
ut four billion people go to
bed every night hungry for
a simple word of encouragement and
recognition.”
I do not know if Cavetti researched
those statistics, but my instincts say he is
somewhat accurate. Too many humans
are malnourished and even more are
starving for recognition of their selfworth. Both are sad scenarios. Food is
a basic requirement for humans. It is a
travesty when anyone lacks the necessary sustenance for survival. Fortunately, many folks are working towards
solving the world hunger crisis.
Since acknowledging the intrinsic
value in others is an abstract idea, understanding the role it plays in our emotional well-being seems unimportant.
Yet, it is critical. Psychologist William
James described our desire perfectly:
“The deepest principle in human nature
is the craving to be appreciated.”
James helped me face a personal
dilemma. Feelings of unworthiness are
a potent negative emotion in my life. I
do not expect anything in return for my
work or good deeds. So why does it hurt
when I am not recognized? Why is it important to know those gifts are valued?
My honest self-evaluation created an
inner turmoil, a guilty sense of selfish-
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ness. Is my sensitivity a byproduct of my
insecurity?
Maybe so, but I am not alone. How
many times has a lack of appreciation
been the reason for failed marriages?
How often do employees vent their
frustrations about being overworked,
under-paid and not appreciated?
lines away from his cashier station. On
my way out, I paused to thank him for
his help as an office aide during his senior year in high school and mentioned
how proud I was watching him in his
current job. Individuals who heard the
compliment acknowledged the conversation. He exuded pride.
The next time I saw him, he stopped
what he was doing and gave me a hug.
Now, every time I enter the store, his
gregarious grin warms my heart. This
young man may have been starving for
appreciation and I helped to fill his void.
In return, he enriched my life. It was
fulfilling to see him embrace his own
self-worth. The old cliché, what goes
around comes around proved to apply in
a positive way in this situation.
Appreciation is a free form of currency. Most people will do more for
recognition than they will for money.
Sam Walton, co-founder of Wal-Mart,
is famous for his philosophy, “Appreciate everything your associates do for
Yes, we all crave approval. However, do we express
enough gratitude to others for their good deeds?
Sincere appreciation is a very powerful
sentiment — it boosts our passion, purpose and spirit. While building our selfesteem, it gives us energy and motivation.
Yes, we all crave approval. However,
do we (do I) express enough gratitude
to others for their good deeds? After
analyzing my own actions, I discovered
another way to enhance and enjoy life.
I found myself applauding the accomplishments of peers and loved ones.
However, random recognition of contributions by individuals not in my circle of
family and friends needed improvement.
My personal campaign for growth in
gratitude began with a small gesture and
grew into a mammoth message.
I recently saw a former student at a
local supermarket. We quickly smiled at
each other while I waited two checkout
the business. Nothing else can quite
substitute for a few well-chosen, welltimed, sincere words of praise. They are
absolutely free and worth a fortune.”
Walton is correct. This exercise
helped me understand one of the laws of
the universe which states, what you give
you get in return. When we demonstrate
genuine gratitude, that person will return the gift.
If we all develop an attitude of gratitude, a rewarding cycle of appreciation
will follow. No one needs to go to bed
hungry for acknowledgement. It is a
very simple need to satisfy. s
Donna Bonnell is a freelance writer who
moved to Newberry in 1983. She enjoys living and working in the town she now calls
home. donna@towerpublications.com
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EUROPEAN VACATION
¡Hola Barcelona!
Unmasking Barcelona, One Site at a Time
by Mary Kypreos
I
never envisioned myself
vacationing in Barcelona. It is
not that I had an aversion to
Barcelona or Spain but as my husband
Nick always says: “Hey Mary, there is
something really, really old. Do you want
to touch it?”
The answer to the question is always
a resounding “Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes.”
Call it stereotypical, and as it turns
out inherently incorrect, but Barcelona
never made it on my “cities-withancient-ruins” list, at least not compared
to Greece and Italy, and consequently
never held real interest for me.
As it turns out, all it took to pique my
interest in Barcelona was one e-mail
from a traveling buddy and we were in,
no convincing necessary.
Unlike other trips we have taken, we
did very little research on Barcelona
aside from finding a hotel and checking
to see if it had an aquarium (I always
half-joke that a love for aquariums is the
only thing Nick and I have in common).
After meeting up with our friends the
first night in Barcelona, we kicked off
the next morning with a free, 2.5-hour
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tour of the old town guided by Gorka of
Runner Bean Tours. Although this option
seems to be available in every European
destination (and most people love it),
Nick and I had never participated in
one as we were always more inclined to
ramble around on our own.
It seems, however, that randomly
walking and getting lost in a city
contradicts actually getting to know a
ancient history (which meant I endured
a lot of Nick’s teasing, and yes, I touched
a lot of ancient objects).
We saw (touched!) Roman pillars
and architecture surrounded by modern
apartments; we stood in the same street
where the Catedral La Seu’s namesake
was tortured for not renouncing her
faith; we witnessed the damage at Plaça
Sant Felip Neri from a bomb during the
One of the biggest things I was looking forward
to in Barcelona was taking in a Flamenco y Olé
show, and I was not disappointed.
city, and although 2.5 hours was a long
time to stay focused in any situation, our
guide was informative and entertaining.
Gorka taught us quite a bit about
Barcelona’s political history. And the
advantage of the tour, as compared to
sitting in a classroom, was that Gorka
showed us, too.
Barcelona is not only one of the
largest cities in Spain, it’s also the capital
of Catalonia, which has a rich and
Spanish Civil War; we saw the Spanish,
Catalan, and Catalan Independence flags,
hinting at the movement for a Catalonia
completely free from Spain’s influence.
Most importantly, Gorka introduced
us to Tió, the single most entertaining
Christmas tradition we have ever
encountered.
Tió is very simplistic. All one needs is
a small log, two sticks to serve as front
legs, a cute smiling face, a traditional
PHOTO BY MARY KYPREOS
Built for the Exposición Universal de Barcelona in 1888,
the Arc de Triomf features reddish bricks, Moorish Revival style and of course, a palm-tree lined walk-up.
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red Catalan hat called the Barretina and
Voila! Meet Tió!
Tió officially appears on Dec. 8
and is fed and kept warm every night
until Christmas Eve, at which point
Catalan children hit Tió with sticks
while singing his song and encouraging
him to, well... to poop out presents for
everybody.
I am excited to say that Nick and I
purchased our own Tió at a very large
Christmas market in town, and he was
present in our Christmas celebration;
however, we did not hit him with sticks.
After the free tour and painstakingly
searching through hundreds of Tiós for
our very own, we headed to the Hard
Rock Cafe for lunch (Some of you might
be thinking, “The Hard Rock Cafe?!
What about Spanish food?” But don’t
worry; we’ll get there). After living
in Europe for over a year, Nick and I
found a Hard Rock Cafe in Rome and
discovered heaven. Not only could we
get free drink refills, but my coke came
with ice! And the spare ribs! I never
knew I would miss those. Frankly, if you
find yourself missing American food on
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PHOTOS BY MARY KYPREOS
Sunset turned out to be the best time to visit the Palau Nacional de Montjuïc, which is on a hill overlooking the city. It afforded beautiful panoramas of
the city below. OPPOSITE: Catedral La Seu’s namesake, Santa Eulalia, was a Roman girl who was tortured and murdered for refusing to renounce
her faith. Thirteen white geese reside within the cloister of the cathedral, representing each year of her life.
vacation, I would recommend the Hard
Rock Cafe over McDonalds any day. Not
only is it tasty, but I like my Barcelona
souvenir cup.
Naturally, after eating our fill of
appetizers, spare ribs and unending
soda, we needed to burn it off, and we
discovered no better way to accomplish
this then to skip the Telefèric de
Montjuïc Cable Car to the Palau
Nacional de Montjuïc and hike up the
hill instead.
Walking provided not only a chance
to work off our vacation fat but also
many panoramic views of the city from
which to rest and take pictures. After
many faux-promises of retribution
from our friends, we finally reached the
Montjuïc Fortress at dusk.
I highly recommend not only visiting
the fortress (and not just because it
dates back to the 1640s) but trying to
visit during dusk or dawn. Watching
the sun go down over a panorama of
Barcelona was a flat-out, hands-down
gorgeous sight to take in. Plus, the
fortress also featured gardens and very
large weaponry on which to play.
After climbing up to the Montjuïc, it
was decided (notice it was not we who
decided, as I am terrified of heights)
that the only way to make it to our
dinner reservations on time was to take
the cable car down. Fear of heights and
shaking hands aside, we made it to solid
ground without incident, and I was even
able to register a few seconds more of
the breath-taking Barcelona scenery
from above.
One of the biggest things I was
looking forward to in Barcelona was
taking in a Flamenco y Olé show, and
I was not disappointed. We attended
the dinner and show at the Palacio del
Flamenco where I enjoyed my first taste
of Paella Mariscos, or Seafood Paella,
and Sangría before settling in for the
show. We watched as dancers sung,
twirled, stomped, clapped and generally
made their bodies do things in a way
that both amazed me and shamed me for
my inflexibility.
Our second full-day in Barcelona
started with a visit to the L’Aquarium
Barcelona. Nick and I share a love of
aquariums and together have visited
aquariums in Atlanta, New Orleans and
Berlin. Although Atlanta is our favorite
over-all aquarium, Barcelona is the best
we’ve visited in Europe thus far.
“A series of 35 tanks, 11,000
animals and 450 different species, an
underwater tunnel 80 metres long, six
million litres of water and an immense
Oceanarium, the only one in Europe,
turn this centre into a unique, reference
leisure show,” says its website.
Admittedly, Atlanta is our favorite
aquarium for their “oceanarium,” and
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Although L’Aquarium Barcelona features large ocean-dwelling creatures
such as sharks and giant species of fish, my favorite has always been
the tiny (compared to humans), colorful sea horses.
so we throughly enjoyed Barcelona’s, which featured very
large sharks and a myriad of ocean life. We loved to sit on the
benches and just watch as the animals swam by.
We ended our last night on La Rambla, a tree-lined touristy
street in Central Barcelona to find ourselves some tapas.
Perhaps we did this too late, or perhaps it caters too much to
tourists, but I would not recommend eating on La Rambla.
Our tapas were not very good and after looking at a number of
menus, it seemed that each restaurant served the same items.
However, La Rambla was an excellent place to stroll and buy
local art for our “places we’ve seen” collection.
After such a disappointing dinner, we wanted to end our
trip on a high note so we headed back to what is now our
favorite bar in Barcelona: Margarita Blue (not to be confused
with Rita Blue, a different Barcelona bar).
Margarita Blue has an excellent Spanish atmosphere
and an extremely friendly, bilingual wait staff, but
most importantly, they had the best nachos and tacos.
Unfortunately, Nick played the logic card and convinced
me not to order food that night as we just had dinner, and
although his reasoning was sound, I regret not getting a final
order of those delicious nachos.
It was an excellent end to an amazing trip as Margarita
Blue was not only good for food, but also had a great selection
of drinks, both familiar (margaritas, piña coladas, tequila
sunrise) and exotic (megroni, origen’ale, gimlet).
No, Barcelona never made it onto my must-see European
tour, but it should have. The city was beautiful and the most
culturally rich city I have been to thus far. It was a great place
to relax and enjoy the sites and cuisine, and a place Nick
and I plan to visit again as there was too much to see and
experience over one long weekend. s
LUCHA POR ÉL PODER œ CARLOS MUNIZ
Perspectives
on Aging
Human beings all throughout the
ages have always craved for power
to the point of risking their lives in
its pursuit.
P
ower is often used as a tool for the
control of others, and when used
for that purpose it becomes the face of
evil. Only when employed for the benefit
of mankind is it able to bring happiness to all. It should only be used as an
instrument of love. That is what it is
meant to be used for.
Power can be gained in several different ways. At times it is through money,
at other times though education and
time, as it is then the product of individual effort and as such well deserved
and real. It is usually in these cases that
it is put to use in a constructive way as
an instrument of love.
There was a time when women were
only able to obtain power as a reflec-
tion of their spouse. But now times have
changed, and more often than not we
encounter weak and submissive husbands whose only claim to power comes
as a handout from their strong and
prominent wives.
Children usually gain power over
their peers by their physical strength, using it at times in the form of bullying and
abuse. This form of destructive power
doesn’t last long, creates enemies, and
eventually destroys the bully himself.
For some people the only way of feeling powerful is by joining a powerful
leader and his followers. Those are weak
and passive individuals who cannot
aspire for more.
Power in itself is not good or evil; it all
depends on how it is obtained and how
it is used. s
Dr. Carlos Muniz is a retired psychiatrist
from Gainesville. He may be contacted
through the editor, Albert Isaac.
For some people the only
way of feeling powerful
is by joining a powerful
leader and his followers.
Those are weak and
passive individuals who
cannot aspire for more.
knowledge, and still at other times by
manipulation and deceit. When obtained in this way it fosters a false sense
of grandiosity and usually doesn’t last
long, following the fate of all artificial
accomplishments. But when gained
through education and knowledge it is
accompanied by humility and humbleness and tends to endure the passage of
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CALENDAR
UPCOMING EVENTS IN ALACHUA & MARION
facility. Following the ribbon cutting will be an
open house celebration until 6:30 pm. Attendees
can enjoy guided tours, hors d’oeuvres and
an opportunity to meet TOI physicians and
administrators. Info: bhulslander@toi-health.com
CARILLON RECITAL
Sunday, August 14
FREE DIABETES SCREENINGS
Monday, August 1
11:00am - 4:00pm
GAINESVILLE. Free Diabetes Screenings
offered at Kmart, 900 NW 76 Boulevard. For
more information call Cholestcheck: 800713-3301 (No appointment necessary).
Wednesday, August 3-4
11:00am - 4:00pm
NEWBERRY. Publix, 14130 W. Newberry
Road. Free Diabetes Screenings. For more
information call Cholestcheck: 800-7133301 (No appointment necessary).
RIBBON CUTTING WEBSTER UNIVERSITY
Monday, August 1
5:00pm - 6:30pm
OCALA. 4414 SW College Road, Suite 942, Market
Street. Webster University is moving to a brand
new facility at Market Street at Heathbrook.
This regionally accredited, non-profit university
based out of St. Louis provides all graduate
programs for Masters degrees and offers
evening classes for working adults one night
per week. Info: amandacebula01@webster.edu
CHROHN’S AND COLITIS
DISCUSSION GROUP
Tuesday, August 2
7:00pm - 9:00pm
GAINESVILLE. Hope Lodge, 2121 SW 16th Ave.
Monthly discussion group for people impacted
by Crohn’s or Ulcerative Colitis. Open to
patients, family friends, caregivers. Casual
meetings with open and frank discussion.
www.ibdgroup.org/ or 352-225-2996
NOT AS I PICTURED:
A FILM BY JOHN KAPLAN
Tuesday, August 2
7:30pm
GAINESVILLE. Squitieri Studio Theatre. University
of Florida Professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning
photographer John Kaplan never planned to
turn the lens on himself, until he was diagnosed
with a life-threatening illness. Over the past
two decades, Kaplan was well acquainted
with capturing tornadoes, the revolution in
the Philippines and many other devastating
circumstances. But this time, Kaplan became
the focal point. In a 54-minute feature length
documentary, “Not As I Pictured,” Kaplan
shares his journey of his fight with a rare case
of lymphoma. performingarts.ufl.edu/events
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QUILTERS OF ALACHUA
COUNTY DAY GUILD
Thursday, August 4
9:30am - 11:55am
GAINESVILLE. Westminster Presbyterian
Church, 1521 NW 34 Street. August 4th the guild
celebrates its eighth birthday with a potluck,
party, cake, and, of course, show and tell.
Learn about the guild, its work, its members,
its plans for year nine. The drawing will be held
for the latticework quilt created by the handquilting bee. Bring a dish for the potluck.
STUFF THE BUS
Saturday, August 6
Noon - 4:00pm
OCALA. 7668 SW 60th Avenue, #500. Charity
event where 100% of the proceeds go to Stuff
The Bus - an operation that collects supplies
and clothing for homeless children attending
Marion County public schools. Come join the
fun at Chiropractic USA of Jasmine as they
host this event which promises to be a fun
filled day with bounce houses, a water slide,
carnival games, raffles, screenings and much
more! You may bring supplies or purchase raffle
tickets - all to benefit the homeless children of
your community. Email: ddisimile@live.com
FRUIT TREES, SEEDS & EDIBLES
SALE
Wednesday, August 10th
4:00pm - 7:00pm
On the 2nd Wednesdays, The Edible Plant
Project’s fundraiser sale is at the Union St
Farmers’ Market near the Bo Diddly Community
in Downtown Gainesville (111 East University
Ave). An eclectic selection of edible plants, fruit
trees, & seeds will be available. The project
is a grassroots, all volunteer non-profit that
promotes edible landscaping and local food
abundance in our area. Volunteers are now
wanted at our nursery. Info: 561-236-2262
RIBBON CUTTING:
ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE
Thursday, August 11
4:00pm - 5:00pm
The Orthopaedic Institute is proud to announce
the grand opening of the new Ocala medical
office complex at 1710 SE 16th Avenue, and
invites colleagues in the business and medical
communities to stop by to see the completed
3:00pm - 4:00pm
GAINESVILLE. UF Campus, Century Tower.
A carillon concert will be presented by
the UF carillon studio. The concert will be
performed on the 61-bell Eijsbouts instrument
housed in Century Tower on the University
of Florida campus. Free and open to the
public. Programs will be available on the
south side of the tower. Bring your lawn
chair or blanket. www.arts.ufl.edu/carillon
THE ALABAMA BLUES
BROTHERS
Friday, August 19
7:00pm
OCALA. Circle Square Cultural Center. Enjoy
a fun-filled night as The Alabama Blues
Brothers take you on a trip back to the movie
theatre! Sing along and laugh at the antics
of this amazing real-life brother act and their
talented backup band as they take you on a
walk down memory lane with an unbelievable
tribute to the Blues Brothers. 352-854-3670
UF FOOTBALL AND
VOLLEYBALL FAN DAY
Saturday, August 20
3:00pm - 6:00pm
GAINESVILLE. UF Stephen C. O’Connell. Event
brings the 2011 UF volleyball and football teams
together to create a festive Fan Day for the
entire public. Come and meet these amazing
UF student athletes and show your support
for the Gator Nation. www.oconnellcenter.
ufl.edu/eventprofile.asp?eventid=1813
NEFARIOUS: MERCHANT OF
SOULS BENEFIT SCREENING
Saturday, August 20
7:00pm
GAINESVILLE. Hippodrome Cinema. A special
regional premiere of Nefarious: Merchant of
Souls. A journey of exploration that Exodus Cry
founder Benjamin Nolot began in 2007 has
taken him to nineteen different countries on
four continents documenting the horrors of the
worldwide commercial sex industry. Nefarious:
Merchant of Souls is the first of three hard-hitting,
feature-length documentaries that expose the
disturbing trends of modern sex slavery and
offer hope for its abolition. Info: 352-375-4477
Retired Greyhound Adoption
8/20/11
11:00am - 3:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Petco,
6869 West Newberry Road.
Gold Coast Greyhound
Adoptions is a non-profit
organization dedicated to
finding loving, permanent
homes for retired racing
greyhounds. Come out
to meet rescued racing
greyhounds. These
wonderful hounds are
available to pet, hug
and adopt. Literature is
provided as well as one-on-one discussions about the care and feeding of these
funny, loyal, tender and highly intelligent hounds. 352-443-3633.
www.goldcoastgreyhoundsgainesville.com
HIPPIEFEST
Wednesday, August 24
7:30pm
GAINESVILLE. Phillips Center. Part of the Chords of
Color for a Cause Festival. In a special collaboration, HippieFest features a five-member powerhouse, comprised of seasoned performers from
the 1970s and 1990s. The five members all have
their own story of how they reached the top of the
Billboard charts along with touring and recordings
with their respective bands. Singer Gary Wright
is known for his smash hit, Dream Weaver that
still remains on classic rock radio stations today.
Then there is Dave Mason, who was inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as co-founder
and original member of Traffic in 2004. He served
as the guitarist, vocalist and songwriter of hits
such as Hole In My Shoe. Another member, Felix
Cavaliere, performed as the vocalist and keyboard
player for the Rascals. He had three number one
hits - Good Lovin’, Groovin’ and People Got To Be
Free, among many other Top 20 classics. Other
members, Mark Farner and Rick Derringer, are also
instrumentalists and vocalists for bands popular
between the ‘70 and ‘90s. Now these diverse
artists combine their talentsto bring audience
members to their feet. www.hippiefest.net
GOOSEPOCKETS
COMEDY SHOW
Saturday, August 27
7:00pm
OCALA. Circle Square Cultural Center.
Goosepockets is a funny name and a hilarious
comedy show featuring three of the nation’s
top comedians, instrumentalists and funny song
singers. Utilizing their distinctive down-home
humor, they deliver a barrage of one-liners,
ad-libs, jokes and songs while presenting a
hard driving, laugh a minute show. Y’all don’t
want to miss this show, y’hear? 352-854-3670
SILENCE IS GOLDEN
Saturday, August 27
7:30pm - to 10:30pm
GAINESVILLE. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
of Gainesville, 4225 NW 34th Street. Easter
Seals at Altrusa House Hosts Movie Night to
Benefit Local Program. Easter Seals at Altrusa
House will present its Second Annual Silence
Is Golden, an informal evening featuring a
Harold Lloyd silent comedy about a freshman
in college and his hope to become popular by
playing football. Experience the wonder of silent
films as they were featured in the 1920’s with
Jonathan Gill, the evening’s featured pianist.
The showing will be accompanied by Jonathan
Gill’s musical improvisation throughout both
films. Contact Melixa Carbonell, Director of
Special Events at 407-629-7881 or mcarbonell@
fl.easterseals.com for more information.
GALLERY TALK:
“THE MIND’S EYE”
Sunday, August 28
3:00pm
GAINESVILLE. Samuel P. Harn Museum of
Art. Richard Heipp, Professor of Painting
and Drawing and Interim Director at the
School of Art + Art History, will discuss
Uelsmann’s imagery and influence in the
history of photography. www.harn.ufl.edu
Living the Gospel
in Downtown
Gainesville!
The Rev. Louanne Loch,
Rector
Dr. John T. Lowe,
Dir. of Music
Sunday Services
8:00am
10:30am
6:00pm
Wednesday Service
12:15pm
100 NE 1st Street
Downtown Gainesville
(352) 372-4721
www.HolyTrinityGNV.org
The Episcopal Church
welcomes you
...and we do mean YOU!
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DOGS NIGHT OUT
August 8
5:00pm
LEESBURG. The second Monday of every
month. Make the rounds of your favorite
outdoor watering hole with your favorite Pooch.
Sponsored by the Downtown Leesburg Business
Association and Leesburg Partnership. For
information call Joyce at “Two Old Hags” at 352435-9107. Or visit www.Itsyourdowntown.com
DUGOUT CANOES: PADDLING
THROUGH THE AMERICAS
Sundays
1:00pm - 5:00pm
GAINESVILLE. Florida Museum of Natural History.
Don’t miss the boat! This 3,000-square-foot
object-rich and interactive exhibition features
American dugouts from ancient times to present.
Find out how dugout canoes have affected
life and travel throughout the Americas, from
Florida to the Amazon and the Pacific. Discover
the world’s largest archaeological find - 101
ancient dugouts at Newnans Lake and how
scientists study dugouts from the past. Learn
how the dugout tradition is alive and well in
Native communities today. 352-846-2000
LET’S GO DOWNTOWN PLAZA
SERIES
CANCER SUPPORT FORUM
WEDNESDAY NIGHT JAZZ
Tuesdays
Wednesdays
5:30pm - 7:00pm
GAINESVILLE. Community Cancer Center of North
Florida. Hosted every third Tuesday of the month.
This gathering is open to the public and invites
cancer patients, caregivers, friends and family to
engage in a social and educational support group.
This forum is designed not only to give support,
but also provide a community of resources
for those touched by cancer. 352-672-7371
6:30p to 10:00p
GAINESVILLE. Emiliano’s Cafe, 7 SE First Ave.
Karl Weismantel on guitar and vocals with Ricky
Ravelo on acoustic bass play jazz, standards,
pop and original tunes. 352-375-7381
CORVETTE CLUB
First Tuesday of each month
7:00pm
GAINESVILLE. Bear Archery. Monthly
meetings, breakfasts, dinners, car trips and
fun. flvetteset.freeyellow.com/index.html
1ST KLASS KLOGGERS
Sundays
2:00pm - 5:00pm
GAINESVILLE. Carpenter’s Union Local 75, 1910
NW 53rd Ave. Weekly percussive dance classes
for beginners through advanced. Contemporary
clogging to country, bluegrass and Top 40 music.
Please visit website for class times and holiday
schedule. Classes taught by Kelli McChesney,
internationally known clogging instructor with
more than 23 years of clogging and 18 years of
teaching experience. firstklasskloggers.t35.com
Fridays, May - September
GAINESVILLE. Downtown Community Plaza, corner
of SE 1st St. and E. University Ave. The plaza comes
alive every Friday night as local talent and other
cultural events are showcased under the stars.
Hundreds come out to enjoy free live bands,
theater groups, dance performances, Movies
on the Plaza, and much more. 352-334-5064
CONTRA DANCE
FRUIT TREE & PLANT SALE
First Wednesday each Month
4:00pm & 7:00pm
GAINESVILLE. Bo Diddley Community Plaza. The
Edible Plant Project’s spring sale, at the Union
Street Farmers Market. An eclectic selection
of edible plants, fruit trees, & seeds will be
available. This a great time to plant: warm
season vegetables & greens, sugarcane.
BEGINNERS MINDFULNESS
MEDITATION
Thursdays
7:00pm
GAINESVILLE. Shands Cancer Hospital at UF,
1515 SW Archer Rd. Criser Cancer Resource
Center, 1st Floor. Just sitting and relaxing
in our beautiful meditation room can make
a difference to your day. We offer gentle
guidance suitable for everyone. 352-273-8010
YOGA FOR ALL
Thursdays
JAZZ AT LEONARDO’S 706
Thursdays
7:30pm - 10:30pm
GAINESVILLE. 706 West University Ave. The
Marty Liquori Jazztet with Marty on guitar,
Vic Donnell on keyboards and Mr. P on drums
hosts saxophonist Ben Champion, or Trumpet
players Dave Edmund or Gary Langford or
Vocalists and other musicians. 352-378-2001
First Sunday and third Saturday
4:00pm
GAINESVILLE. Shands Cancer Hospital,
1515 SW Archer Rd. Criser Cancer Resource
Center, 1st Floor. Join us for an hour of gentle
stretching, accessible postures and breathing
exercises designed to tone your body and lift
your spirits. This class is suitable for patients,
family, staff and members of the community.
PROSPEROUS LIVING GROUP
2:00pm - 5:00pm
GAINESVILLE. Thelma Boltin Community Center,
516 NE. Second Ave. The Gainesville Oldtime
Dance Society holds a Contra Dance every month.
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Second Sundays
6:30pm
GAINESVILLE. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.
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GAINESVILLE. Morningside Nature Center.
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5:30pm - 6:30pm
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THEATRE
Acrosstown Repertory Theatre.....................619 S. Main Street, Gainesville
Curtis M. Phillips Center ........................................... 315 Hull Road, Gainesville
Gainesville Community Playhouse ....... 4039 N.W. 16th Blvd., Gainesville
Hippodrome State Theatre................................. 25 SE 2nd Place, Gainesville
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antics of their 11-year-old sons. What
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BOOK REVIEW BY
TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER
The Geeks Shall
Inherit the Earth
BY ALEXANDRA ROBBINS
c.2011, Hyperion $25.99 / $27.99
Canada 436 pages, includes notes
A
liens have stolen your teenager.
How else could you explain
that your free-spirited, happy, formerly school-loving child has suddenly
morphed into a mime with a dark mood?
What other reason could there be for
her Saturday nights home, his disinterest in friends, their dread of school days
that are weeks away?
You’ve got your suspicions. You lived
through high school, too: social jostling,
too-tight cliques, self-consciousness,
embarrassment, ostracism, teasing. It
supersedes everything, causes angst, and
you remember it well.
But you turned out okay, and after
you’ve read, “The Geeks Shall Inherit
the Earth” by Alexandra Robbins, you’ll
understand that your teen will, too.
Movies are based on it. School administrators try to lessen it. But ask any high
school student, and you’ll get an earful
about cliques, fitting in (or not), and
popularity — likely, much of it gloomy.
Robbins calls the kids who don’t fit —
the emo kids, nerds, geeks, loners, bandies, freaks, and such — the “cafeteria
fringe.” Those are the kids who eat alone
because the in-crowd won’t allow them
seats at the “good” lunchroom tables.
But, after thinking about her own
classmates, post-graduation, Robbins devised a theory about cafeteria fringe kids.
She calls it Quirk Theory, explaining that
“... the differences that cause a student to
be excluded in school are the same traits...
that others will value... or find compelling
about that person in adult-hood...”
To prove Quirk Theory, Robbins
spent a school year following a gamer in
Hawaii; an Illinois loner; a popular girl
in New York; a “weird girl” in Georgia;
a Pennsylvania band geek; a nerd in
Virginia; and a California “new girl.”
Robbins studied peer labeling and
how quickly it happens — often, for no
solid reason. She examined popularity
and how it can positively be a negative.
She questioned why popular kids can be
mean; why differences are condemned
yet conformity is as important as individualism within a clique; and how teachers’ behavior sometimes mirrors that of
their school’s halls. And she shows how
today’s nerd is tomorrow’s CEO.
Then Robbins challenged her seven
subjects. Could they ignore and overcome their own labels to make friends
with kids from other groups?
It’s hard not to have your heart broken when you’re reading “The Geeks
Shall Inherit the Earth.”
With the seven people whose stories
she presents, author Alexandra Robbins shows us what it’s like in high
schools around the country, which is
(no surprise?) the way it’s always been,
but worse. No matter where you fit in
as a teen (or didn’t), you’ll ache to see
yourself with a reverse telescope.
You’ll especially ache if you have a teenager, but Robbins doesn’t leave her readers
hanging. She gives end-of-the-book advice
for students, parents, and teachers who
want to overcome cafeteria fringe-ness.
And I don’t think I’m ruining anything by
telling you that you’ll also be rewarded
with seven triumphant, happy endings.
Preps, dorks, nerds, and anybody
who cares about them can’t go wrong by
reading this book. For you, “The Geeks
Shall Inherit the Earth” just... clicks. s
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ADVE RTI S E M E NT
DON’T LEAVE YOURSELF
High and Dry
KNOWING THE SIGNS
OF DEHYDRATION
CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE
T
he hot summer months can
take their toll on anyone,
but for seniors the threat is
especially dangerous.
“Dehydration is a significant
issue with the elderly,” said Jami
Proctor, a clinical manager at Mederi
Caretenders of Gainesville. “It can
occur in less than eight hours and it’s
a significant reason for hospitalization.
Approximately 18 percent of seniors
admitted to a hospital for dehydration
die within 30 days.”
Seniors often have a decreased
level of perspiration, a delayed sense
of thirst or decreased senses of taste
and smell. Medications can suppress
hunger or thirst. And even in hot
weather many seniors choose not to
use air conditioning, opting instead to
open windows or turn on fans to avoid
high energy bills or a house that feels
too cold for them.
Caretenders personnel educate
seniors and caregivers on the signs
of dehydration and ways to avoid it.
Some obvious symptoms may include
increased confusion or disorientation,
fainting, headaches and dryness of the
nose and mouth.
“The tongue can get sticky or
tacky, and the skin loses elasticity,”
Proctor explained. “If you pinch the
skin up and it very slowly goes back
down, that is a sign of dehydration.”
Left unchecked, dehydration can
lead to complications such as stroke
or heart failure. Yet the danger can
be averted with simple planning.
Proctor suggests providing attractive
containers such as colorful glasses
and pitchers to entice clients to drink
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to give variety in appearance and
flavor.
“Have things prepared ahead of
time and placed where seniors can
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them through the day and monitor
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Water does not have to be the
only option; liquids that are low in
sugar can help keep dehydration
at bay. Incorporate plenty of fruit,
vegetables and other foods with high
water content into the diet. Sugar-free
popsicles and smoothies are also good
ways to get fluids into a senior’s diet.
Save outdoor activities for the early
morning or evening when temperatures
are lower, and wear a hat and loose
fitting, cotton clothes that allow skin to
breathe. If a senior shows signs of heat
stroke – high body temperature, rapid
pulse and vomiting – get him or her to
a hospital immediately.
With a little knowledge and some
preventive measures, independent
seniors can still enjoy “the good old
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“I wondered if my
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