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GOLFERS INSIDE MELBOURNE LOVE DRIVERS New ideas and materials to help hit the ball farther and straighter. Page B9 50% Gift Certificate Program Vol. 8, No. 7 Your Local News and Information Source • www.HometownNewsOL.com Friday, Sept. 9, 2011 HOW WEIRD IS THAT?! SEAN MCCARTHY How weird is that?!? A decade later: Brevard www.hometownnewsol.com Spend any time surfing the Web and you are bound still remembers to find stories that are just 50% Gift Certificate Program too bizarre to be true. Event at Space since 9/11, when violent 9/11, hosted by the Sun- Check Daily for Specials Here's a sampling, edited acts of terrorism targeted tree-Viera Area Association for length. And remember, Coast Stadium will our landmarks, country of Churches. Magic’s just because it's online commemorate 10- and people. Even after a Veterans, active military, 9-year-old lucky charm, doesn't mean it's true! Danny decade, the event remains firefighters, police, emer- will kick off Brevard From news.yahoo.com: year anniversary of McKnight will serve as etched in the memories of gency responders, and Remembers 9/11 by singing Hundreds of panties turn master of ceremonies at the 9/11 Americans and people business and government the national anthem. up along Ohio road event. Mr. McKnight was a around the world. leaders will join attendees Though diagnosed with Authorities in central commander during the By Meagan McGone and On Sunday, Sept. 11, to honor victims and their autism at age 2 with the Ohio are trying to solve a Battle of Mogadishu, a Tammy Roberts Brevard County residents families. possibility of never being panties puzzle: Why were Black Hawk helicopter raid [email protected] will gather at the Space Gates open at 12 p.m., able to speak, Gina has hundreds of pairs of mostly into Somalia in 1993 to [email protected] Coast Stadium in Viera to with the program begin- performed at major women's underwear capture warlord Mohamed commemorate the 10-year ning at 1 p.m. sporting events across the dumped along the side of a Farrah Aidid. anniversary of the attacks Gina Incandela, who rose country. road? Ten years have passed at Brevard Remembers to fame as the Orlando Retired U.S. Army Col. See STADIUM, A2 Fairfield County Deputy Gary Hummel said the undergarments were found Sheriff lauds See WEIRD, A2 Remembering 9/11 Brevard security measures after 9/11 Jack Parker is liaison between federal government and Brevard agencies By Dan Garcia dgarcia@home- townnewsol.com As Brevard County’s top law enforce- ment officer, Sheriff Parker Sheriff Jack Parker believes America has become safer since the terrorist attacks of 9/11. However, that security Firefighters and rescue crews search through the rubble for those lost in the wreckage at ground zero, following can be threatened at any 9/11. time, Sheriff Parker said. So authorities are striving daily to stay a step ahead of potential attackers. Two Brevard County firefighters recall Terrorists know no international borders. For example the 9/11 hijack- ers roamed freely memories of ground zero throughout several countries. By Tammy Roberts their brothers; the smells – the attacks on the World occurred and that so many Therefore, local, state Senior Staff Writer persistent dust and Trade Center. of my guys could have and national law enforce- [email protected] mounds of debris; and the A now 12-year veteran of been there… it just really ment agencies must sounds – relentless rescue Brevard County Fire shook me up.” cooperate to take a unified It’s been 10 years, but crews battling through the Rescue, Lt. Broccolo and A New York native of stand against terrorism, 668205 Brevard County Fire never-ending rubble, will his crew had just returned nearly 30 years, Lt. Brocco- Sheriff Parker said. Rescue Lts. Rick Broccolo be forever etched in their from a call the morning of lo has a cousin and dozens “Quite frankly, at that and Keith Schneider can minds. Sept. 11 when they got of friends who are New time there was a break- still remember every detail Both men traveled to word of what had hap- York City firefighters. down in sharing informa- from that monumental New York City on Sept. 12, pened. It didn’t take long before tion between local and week. 2001, and spent the next “When they first showed he made the decision to federal agencies, because It’s been 10 years, but the three days at ground zero, the towers being hit, I head back home. our missions are some- ENTERTAINMENT B1 sights – the lifeless bodies joining thousands of thought I was going to be “It was just an over- what different,” Sheriff of once-missing firefight- others in the search and sick,” Lt. Broccolo said. whelming pull that made Parker recalled of the ers being carried out by rescue efforts that followed “Just knowing what had years before 9/11. CELEBRATE SOUSA See LIEUTENANT, A5 “But public safety has improved since 9/11. There has been a large- scale effort by law Melbourne professor fosters enforcement and fire rescue personnel to say, ‘How can we work better to share information?’ ” understanding of Muslims Sheriff Parker said. Law enforcement Followers of Islam respected professor at FIT, agencies were fragmented but he recalls feeling a and diversified before ROMANCING THE STOVE B5 seek same goals as twinge of fear when anti- 9/11, Sheriff Parker Americans, he says Muslim hostility arose after recalled. 9/11. “Sometimes, the Low-fat Muslim-Americans are information was one- beef stew By Dan Garcia [email protected] an integral part of many way,” Sheriff Parker said. and American cities – several “The local agencies would frosting in Dr. Muzaffar A. Shaikh, Muslims serve in the U.S. forward intelligence a flash head of the Engineering Congress – but fear and information and never Systems Department at ignorance still prevail know what happened with Florida Institute of Tech- when it comes to the it. nology, shakes his head at Muslim culture and faith, “The federal agencies so-called “Islamophobia” Dr. Shaikh said. may have the grand INDEX in the United States and “What happened in 2001 vision, but it’s the local other Western nations. is certainly a very guys who are going to see Calendar B6 Police Report A5 Dr. Shaikh may be a deplorable act,” Dr. Shaikh Photo by Dan Garcia what is happening, see the Classified B10 Star Scopes B1 Out & About B1 Viewpoint A6 peace-loving, politically Dr. Muzaffar A. Shaikh, a professor at FIT, says of 9/11: moderate, and highly See PROFESSOR, A3 “What happened in 2001 is a very deplorable act.” See SHERIFF, A2 672242 A2 • Melbourne Hometown News Friday, September 9, 2011 8,800 acre working cattle ranch & wildlife sanctuary 3 Hour Tour 4 Hour Tour with Light Refreshment with BBQ Rib & Chicken 758295 $ 95 $ 03 46 p/p +tax 61 p/p +tax Andy Stefanek/staff photographer Color guards from Vietnam Vets of America Jim Rufino and Hank Bornemann, both from Viera, and Bill and Norma Cox of Cocoa, representing Some Gave All Inc, gather at Space Coast Stadium, standing with an I-beam from the World Trade Centers and a 9/11 panel with names of victims. The Brevard Remembers 9/11 event will take place at the stadium at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 11, to remember loved ones lost on Sept. 11, 2001 and support their familes. States citizen,” Mr. McK- Prior to the event, the night said. AVET Project, a nonprofit Stadium In addition to presenta- assisting military members From page A1 tions by Sept. 11 survivors and their families, will host and national officials, a 5K walk, run or bicycle Mr. McKnight encourages Brevard Remembers 9/11 ride at the stadium at 8:30 people to head to the Space features a Moving Tribute a.m. Throughout the 5K, a Coast Stadium on Sept. 11. inscribed with names of timeline of the events that “It’s extremely important victims, military flyovers, unfolded on Sept. 11 will be that we as a nation not music, entertainment, food displayed. To sign up, visit and art, according to the Running Zone at 3696 758296 forget the sacrifices associ- ated with the freedoms and www.brevardremembers.co privileges of being a United m. See STADIUM, A9 10550 NE 224th Street (Orange Ave) OKEECHOBEE COUNTY, FL 34972 Since 9/11, Sheriff Parker unique perspective on how Sheriff has served on the Regional agencies can pool resources Domestic Security Task in the wake of 9/11. From page A1 Force and on the Central For example, a criminal Florida Task Force, efforts suspect may be linked to suspicious purchases and overseen by the U.S. activities in other jurisdic- interrupt the terrorists. Department of Homeland tions, but only a cooperative “Local agencies have to be The Ultimate Security. Additionally, effort will detect that. educated and trained and Sheriff Parker served as “Some of the data may be part of the solution. Brevard County’s public come from a patrol officer Country Lifestyle That’s what 9/11 did for us, safety director from 1997 to in Cape Canaveral at 2:30 in it was an awakening,” the Leave behind the complicated and enjoy a wildlife 2004. the morning,” Sheriff Parker sanctuary lifestyle. Build your dream home in the ultimate sheriff said. setting surrounded by Florida Deer, Bald Eagles, Wild As a result, he has a said. “The patrol officer Turkeys and exotics free to roam. might pull over a van and see some suspicious The Outdoor Envision being surrounded by behavior.