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INSIDE WEEK OF JUNE 13-19, 2013 www.FloridaWeekly.com Vol. III, No. 36 • FREE FROM THE Take Heart The iconic sister-band plays the MOUTHS Cruzan Amphitheatre. A25 w OF ... SHARKS SOCIETY See who was socializing in Palm Beach County. A18-19, 21, 29 w ▲ Blacktip shark BY MARY JANE FINE Local mjfi ne@fl oridaweekly.com team FISHING RODS, TWO OF THEM, RIGGED WITH hunkered down on the beach, leaning ▲ Nathan 200-pound test line and brass reels the back in a crouch, weight on his heels, Unger, Take Tango home works to size of a prizefighter’s fist, stand anchored pulling hard on the line, which is pulling second Tango is 9 months old and likes in the sand, maybe a quarter-mile north just as hard in the opposite direction. from right, other cats and people. A6 w improve of John D. MacArthur State Park in North The rod bows forward, the monofila- and Josh Palm Beach. But after an hour of wait- ment stretches taut. The battle is on. He Jorgensen, antibiotics ing, Nathan Unger is not optimistic that a pulls, reels, pulls some more before his far right shark will latch onto either one. buddy, Zack Bowling, a back brace for shark “Last time out, nothing,” he says. “The cinched around his middle, takes over, time before, a nurse shark. The time pulling, leaning wa-a-ay back, leaning for- bites before that, nothing.” ward, pulling, reeling, pulling, reeling. But, minutes later — “Something’s out there!” Josh Jorgensen shouts. He’s SEE SHARK, A10 w Proposed laws could open visas to foreign buyers of high-end properties BY ROGER WILLIAMS At the same time, those laws might also benefit from the new rules. Dandy chicken rwilliams@fl oridaweekly.com make American real estate markets more If buyers meet those qualifications, tem- lucrative, especially in Florida. porary visas would be automatically grant- Bay Bay’s fried chicken and w Nobody said life was a rose garden, Sponsored by both Democrats and ed, along with the opportunity to apply for waffles have a kick. A35 and nobody said immigration reform by Republicans such as Florida’s Sen. Marco permanent visas. the U.S. Congress couldn’t give well-off Rubio, the legislation would open the Foreigners who buy or rent properties foreign homebuyers a hand up in the American door wide to foreign buyers of valued at $250,000 or more, meanwhile, Download fierce competition to get an American properties valued at $500,000 or more. could extend the 180-day visa which is our FREE visa, either. Such buyers would have to be 55, have now the maximum allowed by law, to 240 That’s the aim of newly proposed laws health insurance, pass a criminal back- days. App today now before Congress, laws designed in ground check and maintain ownership of Canadians, in particular — because of Available on large part to make enforcement of immi- their properties while remaining in the the iTunes App gration policy more effective. U.S. for at least six months of the year to SEE BUYERS, A8 w Store. w PRSRT STD OPINION A4 SOCIETY A18-19, 21, 29 SANDY DAYS A26 U.S. POSTAGE PETS A6 REAL ESTATE A22 EVENTS A32-33 PAID FORT MYERS, FL HEALTHY LIVING A11 ANTIQUES A24 PUZZLES A34 PERMIT NO. 715 BUSINESS A16 ARTS A25 CUISINE A35 Call 561.625.5070 for a physician referral A2 NEWS WEEK OF JUNE 13-19, 2013 www.FloridaWeekly.com FLORIDA WEEKLY COMMENTARY Self-help comes from coping with challenge readsr self-help books now, apparently to sands of acres, jobs were not always alone, which is the paradox about people achievea even greater perfection. assigned by gender. riding solo. There was a pause after Robinson’s com- My grandfather helped by scrubbing the In her case, she lives with books, radio rogerWILLIAMS ment,m while McEnroe, who once won seven kitchen and doing some of the cooking. and television, her resilient patience, her [email protected] GrandG Slam tennis titles, looked for some- His five daughters helped at various times feisty determination, and her extraordinary thingt nice to say. by riding, building fence, branding and ability to think for herself, all the tools of “Really?” he replied, trying to keep any chopping wood, like my grandmother. She self-help. At almost 86, my mother can’t see any- hint of sarcasm out of his voice. “That helped by cooking on a wood stove in the She also lives with the ghosts who remain thing. would be pretty hard to do.” kitchen for all comers, including guests and her loved ones and friends — her parents, But that did not prevent her from “watch- In summer, my mother listens to Colo- cow hands. They also pumped water, main- all of her sisters and brothers but one, and ing,” as she puts it, the women’s and the rado Rockies baseball games almost every tained gardens and dug potatoes. When my my father, just to start with. men’s tennis finals in the French Open on night, too, because she’s a tennis fan by curi- mother’s two brothers helped by going off Meanwhile, she remains unfailingly her television last week, while the iconic osity, but a baseball fan by love of the game. to World War II, it was an almost all-female cheerful and modest about her strengths voice of John McEnroe purred away in the Although she set a record for total num- operation. and her abilities, one of which is the capac- background. ber of push-ups without stopping in 1946 at But my grandparents sent all five of their ity to accept her own failure of eyes. There, Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal the University of Colorado in Boulder (is daughters to college, to the University of Although she has to rely on my sister and triumphed on clay beneath cool, overcast that a sport?), her game was baseball. There, Colorado. They thought the girls should be brother-in-law for nearby help, therefore, French skies at the Roland Garros stadium the closest any human has ever come to educated — in part, I imagine, so that if they she keeps that reliance to a minimum by in Paris. perfection with a bat is four out of 10. wanted to do something besides marry a helping herself. I know because I tuned in to the live Never mind help — self-help, steroidal rancher, they could help themselves to do it. She prepares her food each day from Sunday morning broadcast to see what my help or any other kind. Baseball is a game Standing on your own, to them — call it her memory of stocked shelves; chooses mother was seeing without the aid of eyes, of failure. self help, call it rugged individualism, call her clothes each day from her memory of a in Colorado. Knowing that, my mother’s cowboy it an education or an attitude or riding the closet full; conducts a social life each day by Nadal was hammering balls with both father kept some ancient mitts, bats and a line solo — was a cherished virtue. remembering 10-digit telephone numbers; forehand and backhand like a machine, a couple of balls in the spring house by the I think my mother likes tennis in part and helps herself stay fit by letting down slashing lefty mounted on quick feet in a cabin where she grew up, on a sprawling because the players seem to be riding the the heavy old treadmill that was my dad’s torso that manages to be both muscular and mountain cattle ranch 30 miles from town. line solo, too. and walking crisply for extended periods. sinewy at the same time. They all played after supper. But she also likes the sound of something All of which makes me conclude that if Tennis is a sport my mother has never In those days she could still see. Her she shared with my father, who died 14 Rafael Nadal really needs self-help skills, played. I doubt she’s ever held a tennis rack- vision, increasingly diminished by retinitis years or 14 minutes ago, I’m not sure which, he’s not going to get them from a book, or et. But she loves the sound of the action, pigmentosa as she grew older, didn’t quit and never played tennis or golf but tuned even from a great tennis victory. the often-hushed commentary, the sense of her completely until she entered her 40s. into them, occasionally. Instead, he might get them from learning what might be happening — the sense that By the time she was 10 years old, I sus- He was a curious man, curious about to cope with a weakness or a failure or a people have reached a pivotal moment. pect, my mother’s notion of self-help had worlds that were not his. She’s a curious disability. But how’s he going to do that by They’re out there riding solo and trying become inalterable: you helped yourself by woman, which is why she helps herself by being so good? like hell, and that’s something she under- helping everybody else around you. Since “reading” history and fiction in recorded Maybe he should call my mother, a mas- stands. everybody was always trying to help you, books from Colorado Services for the Blind. ter of self-help. So it startled me when NBC host Ted you did everything you could to make sure Curiosity, passion — those can help you She’s probably available to offer advice or Robinson pointed out that Nadal, the great- they didn’t have to.