Volume 2 Issue 8 The only HSL newspaper October 2012 Hobe Sound COMPLIMENTARY cuRRents

Marty Baum, Indian Riverkeeper, Down to two: Craig Woll and has a lot to say about the Anne Scott for District 3 Okeechobee discharges. Pg 5 County Commissioner. Pg 15

News Making a difference

JILONA Permit to eliminate most shoreline access by the public along the Intracoastal Way in Jupiter Sound has been sent back to the state. Pg 3 Business Close Up

Havana Beads in the Fish House Art Center in Port Salerno uses a centuries old glass-working process, lampworking, to create one-of-a-kind beads. Pg 11

Business

Tim Palmer, a waterman from Rocky Point, dedicates much of A birthday cake crumb cake from Krumbcakes Bakery his life to improving fisheries around the world. Pg 6 feeding Hobe Sound’s craving for crumb cakes. Pg 12 Hobe Sound Currents 2 Inside October 2012

Hobe Sound News cuRRents Two young volunteers collected 1,000 pounds of peanut butter and jelly for House of Hope, Among Dozens of Spots 4exceeding their goal and stocking the shelves for to Find Currents hungry Martin County residents. Tequesta Jupiter Waterways Inn Mail & News The Apollo School in Hobe Sound will be Publix - County Line Plaza Chase Bank a featured part of the county’s Historic Seacoast National Bank Preservation Month celebration throughout 10 Hobe Sound the entire month of October, which will be capped by a CVS Pharmacy first-ever “Preservationist of the Year” award. Winn Dixie 4 Harry & the Natives Hobe Sound Chamber of Commerce Old Dixie Cafe North Ace Hardware Business Publix Customer Service Hobe Sound Tire Texaco Station Hobe Sound Baker and chef Jim Catrini of Krumbcakes Lakeside Village Seacoast National Bank Bakery makes 27 different flavors of crumb Bank of America cakes, his bakery’s biggest seller. Sandwiches, SunTrust Bank 12 Treasure Coast Hospice Thrift Store soups, salads also are on the menu, which Catrini Hobe Sound Produce 3 Brothers Brunch accomplishes with the help of his son, Adam, and his Man Li Chinese Restaurant daughter, Jonna-Li. Tropical Computers Hobe Sound Public Library Martin Memorial Health Systems The Hobe Sound Chamber of Commerce Pettway Grocery Cambridge, Ridgeway, Woodbridge plans to honor the late Phil Algozzini at its community centers popular fundraiser, Casino Night at Hobe Heritage Ridge Country Club 13 The Manors Sound Golf Club, on Saturday, Oct.27. A cruise ship theme has been adopted and “passengers” should wear 12 Port Salerno Pirate’s Cove their fanciest tropical attire. Fish Center Art House Valero’s Bait & Tackle Winn-Dixie Stuart Lifestyle Palm Shopping Center Martin Memorial Hospital MartinCounty Administration Bldg. How nice that you can decorate your home Blake Library for Halloween and keep most of the same Publix Cove Road decorations displayed all the way to the end Jensen Beach 18 Jensen Chamber of Commerce of August. Adding to the festivities are spooky ideas for Jensen Beach Community Center party foods. For a free online subscription, send an email to [email protected] Gardeners who themselves have been transplanted from up north should have no Hobe Sound Currents fear that they’ll miss any gorgeous blooms in 12025 SE Laurel Lane 21 Hobe Sound, FL 33455 their gardens. South Florida has an abundance of plants 18 772.245.6564 to take their place in your garden. Hobe Sound Currents October 2012 News 3

lease, when a passing motorist reported water, except for 645’ section at the north- of Jonathan Dickinson State Park. For New member elected a man “entering in and out of the lanes ern end of the breakwater nearest to the more information, please call 561-745- to Hobe Sound NAC of on-coming traffic” in the 1600 block of CR 707 bridge to allow some boater access 5551 or visit www.FloridaStateParks.org/ S.E. Federal Highway. As deputies were to the coast. JonathanDickinson. Bruce Duncan, en route, a second caller reported that a JILONA working group members also a building con- pedestrian had been struck by a vehicle. are currently working to develop an in- HHHHH tractor, who first The driver, a Port St. Lucie resident, terlocal agreement among several law discovered Hobe was unhurt. The crash is still under in- enforcement agencies to address “bad be- Sound as a teen- vestigation. haviors” on the coastline until the break- Next Hobe Sound NAC ager searching water barrier can be built. meeting Oct. 18 for “the perfect HHHHH wave” at Hobe HHHHH The Community Development Depart- Sound Beach JILONA permit to be ment has confirmed that the next Hobe has been elected FireFest on tap at Sound Neighborhood Advisory Commit- by the Martin resubmitted...again tee meeting will be Thursday, Oct. 18, at County Commis- JD Park Oct. 20 6pm at the Hobe Sound Civic Center in sion to serve on Bruce Duncan, owner The U.S. Bureau of Land Management Zeus Park. the all-volunteer of The Duncan Group has agreed to be included in yet another The Friends of Jonathan Dickinson The public is encouraged to attend, and Hobe Sound revision of the permit application submit- State Park will celebrate FireFest on Sat- may sign up to receive email notifications Neighborhood Advisory Committee. ted by Palm Beach County Environmental urday, Oct. 20, from 1-9 p.m. at the park of meetings, as well as a copy of the meet- “I remember thinking this would be a Resource Management (ERM) for shore- on Federal Highway in Hobe Sound, ing agenda. nice place to live someday,” says the for- line stabilization of the Jupiter Inlet Light- south of Bridge Road, in order to show mer North Palm Beach resident, “and in house Outstanding Natural Area (JILO- the importance of prescribed fire in HHHHH my 16-year-old fantasy world, 1 pictured NA) following a meeting in September of maintaining Florida’s natural habitats. In a shack on the beach, endless perfect the JILONA working group. addition to the live burn demonstrations, waves, a stack of surfer magazines, and “This time, we’re going to tell the state always a big hit with kids, the activi- St. Lucie Inlet Advisory of course the Texaco Station (at the cor- not to meddle with our permit,” said ties include live music, a Haunted River Group continues work ner of Bridge of A1A).” Palm Beach County Commissioner Karen Trail, face painting, marshmallow roast- He completed a bachelor’s degree in Marcus, a JILONA working group mem- ing, and appearances by Smokey the The Martin County Commission ex- history, and landed an internship at the ber. “This is what we want, and that’s it.” Bear, all free with a reduced park admis- tended the life of the St. Lucie Inlet Advi- Loxahatchee Museum in Jupiter, where She pledged to the group that she person- sion of $5 per car. With small additional sory Committee, originally set to expire he met his future wife, Susan. They ally would call Jeff Littlejohn, a deputy fees, visitors may also take a Haunted on Sept. 30, for another six months dur- moved to Hobe Sound 20 years ago, secretary of the state DEP and a former Hayride, go to the Bounce House, or take ing a regular meeting in September. building their home on Palm Street, and resident of Palm Beach County, to see a Swamp Buggy Tour. The 11-member committee was cre- he embarked on a career in home design if he would help ushur the application The Friends of Jonathan Dickinson ated by the commission to provide staff and construction. through the permitting process quickly. State Park is a community- based, non- recommendations on funding and main- “My career in residential home de- BLM’s field office manager, Bruce Daw- profit that advocates for the historical, sign and construction began with a trip son, had withdrawn a compromise per- educational and ecological enhancement Continued Page 4 to Indian River Community College mit application in August designed by the and a technical class in AutoCAD,” he state DEP as a result of heightened public says, followed by jobs with an interior concern regarding plans to block public design company access to the shore. in Lake Worth, then with Schwab Twit- The design, created in concert with ty and Hanser in downtown West Paim ERM, would maintain and encourage Beach, Garcia Brenner and Stromberg in public use of the shoreline by creating an Stuart, by Renar Homes, and finally by 8” wide bench on top of a short wall eight Mathers Engineering, and always com- feet from the proposed retaining walls of muting to work. That experience gave the eroding bluff nearest the Jupiter Inlet him the broad foundation he sought to Lighthouse as a resting bench for paddle- found the Duncan Group, he says, first boardcrs and kayakers. as a design firm, then adding home con- Access to the sandy beach in front of struction. He holds contractors licenses the wall would be only by paddleboard or in six states, specializes in solar energy. kayak through an opening in a concrete “I find that as I age my original as- rock breakwater to be built offshore in the sessment of Hobe Sound specifically Intracoastal Waterway, but Dawson said and Martin County in general still holds he felt that the design was inconsistent true,” he says. “It is a nice place to live, with the objectives of the National Land- and therein is the reason for my applica- scape and Conservation System, of which tion to the NAC. I have the skills, insight, the 121-acre JILONA site is a part. homestead, and business, which this ad- In response, ERM resubmitted the per- visory board can use.” mit in September to the state DEP to build the breakwater barrier off the coast, but HHHHH without any openings at the south end for kayaker access and without any of the re- taining walls previously proposed to halt Hobe Sound pedestrian shoreline erosion. ERM Director Robert dies on US 1 Robbins said that the move had been in- tended to “keep the permit alive,” how- A 25-year-old Hobe Sound man died ever, the majority of the JILONA working after walking into traffic near Jonathan group members charged with overseeing Dickinson State Park and was hit by a car management of the property, objected to on Saturday, Sept. 29, reported Martin a permit that did not include plans for County Sheriff’s officials. shoreline stabilization. Darrell Canini, who lived in the 8800 Robbins and his ERM staff will resub- block of S.E. Sandcastle Circle in Hobe mit the permit this month that will in- Sound, died from his injuries at Jupiter clude three retaining walls, but eliminate Medical Center. the paddleboarder resting bench pro- Sheriff’s deputies first were called to posed by the state, block public access to the area after 10 p.m., said the press re- the shore with a concrete and rock break- Hobe Sound Currents 4 News October 2012 taining the St. Lucie Inlet, but the group’s as Lot #17, which once belonged to the now-closed West Marine building in license, but the first to take advantage of work is at a standstill until Florida At- Coast Guard, but is now part of the pub- Manatee Plaza, and he says he needs ad- the new law was Harry & The Natives in torney General Pam Bondi determines lic domain and of the JILONA site. ditional signage now that the large busi- Hobe Sound. whether a proposed half-cent sales tax In Hobe Sound, volunteers gathered at ness is closed. “Our mother always said that we’d can be used to fund inlet maintenance. Jonathan Dickinson State Park to help re- Pedonti is not alone in his complaint serve liquor over her dead body,” said Kathy Fitzpatrick, the county’s coastal move exotics, according to park officials. to the Community Development Depart- Paula Cooper, a member of the MacAr- engineer and a member of the advisory ment. Its staff called a special meeting thur family that owns the restaurant. committee, made a plea for more time of the Port Salerno NAC for Oct. 11 to “Fortunately, that didn’t happen.” until the attorney general responds. She discuss the community’s signage issues, Any additional revenue for the res- asked also for a comprehensive study of but members were notified at the end taurant will make an impact, according nine maintenance options for the inlet, of September that the meeting had been to Cooper’s brother, Harry MacArthur, requiring the work of a consultant. canceled after it was determined that which was the intent of the legislative ac- “In order for the advisory committee the district commissioner, Sarah Heard, tion that now allows a restaurant within to make any kind of informed decision, would not support a suspension of ad- a CRA to obtain a license if it provides they would all need to be further vetted vertising regulations affecting stand- service for a minimum of 150 patrons and investigated to the cost, the econom- alone “flag” signs. at tables and occupies more than 2,500 ic impact.” Fitzpatrick said. “We are examining alternatives,” said square feet of floor space. The board approved. Bonnie Landry, of the Community Devel- “Before this change, it was not possible opment Department, in an email to NAC to operate a full-service restaurant with- HHHHH members, “but short of a code amend- in the smaller square footage buildings ment (approved by the Local Planning traditionally found in our CRAs,” said Agency and then by the Board of County Kevin Freeman, Martin County’s Com- Enough trash to fill a Volunteers Brian and Winnie Said, on left, of Commissioners) there is no formal way munity Development Director. “We want dumpster to the brim Jupiter and Volunteer Coordinator Linda Fundo, of preventing code enforcement action to support vibrant downtowns, and this on right, with their day’s haul. being taken. Staff are unlikely to pursue change helps accomplish that.” a code change without Commission sup- HHHHH port for that action.” HHHHH The next meeting of the Port Salerno NAC will be 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, Port Salerno stuck at the Port Salerno Civic Center on An- Pounds of food go to chor Avenue, and the public is encour- with CRA sign regs aged to attend. House of Hope The Port Salerno Neighborhood Ad- During Food For Fines week in mid- visory Committee, in response to com- HHHHH September, the Martin County Library plaints by many Port Salerno business- System reported that they received es, have been pushing the Community 534 items that were long overdue and Development Department for a tem- Tequesta expands assumed lost, as they collected 3,237 A dumpster full of trash collected by porary moratorium on the Community pounds of food, according to House of volunteers at the JILONA site for National popular Green Market Redevelopment Area’s regulations for Hope Director Diane Tomasik. Public Lands Day on Sept. 29. business signage. The Tequesta Green Market, held the In addition, two young siblings collect- About 50 volunteers gathered at the “All we’re trying to do is to survive,” first Sunday of each month in Constitu- ed an additional 1,000 pounds of peanut Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding says Tom Pedonti, owner of Tom’s Barber tion Park, has nearly doubled into two butter and jelly, exceeding their original Natural Area on Saturday morning, Shop on St. Lucie Blvd. in Port Salerno, markets, officials announced. goal by 400 pounds. Sept. 29, to pick up trash and debris as as he points to other towns throughout The pavilion area continues to house Anthony Golino, 13, and his 11-year- part of the National Public Lands Day Florida that have placed a temporary the traditional green market of fresh and old sister, Alyssa, conducted their PB&J observance. Before noon, they had filled moratorium on sign regulations in order organic produce, honey, herbs, eggs, cof- drive prior to the start of school after a a dumpster. to assist small businesses to attract ad- fee, seafood and baked goods with 42 volunteer stint at the HOH food pantry The most unusual find at the light- ditional traffic during these difficult eco- vendors currently slated. in Stuart revealed that the PB&J shelves house was an entire playground set, said nomic times. The expansion, however, takes over a were empty. Peanut butter is a popular Dave Wittman, of Palm Beach County “I can’t put out a banner that tells large field between the pavilion and the item for food pantries because it is nu- Department of Environmental Resources people that we’re open without code en- playground, in order to tritious, has a long shelf life and doesn’t Management. (ERM) forcement telling me to take it down,” he cater to nontraditional fare such as require cooking. “It was from the ‘50s,” Wittman said. adds, “and threatening to fine me $1,000 clothing, jewelry and crafts with an ad- House of Hope’s food pantries in Stu- “It was all rusted, just a mess. It probably a day if I don’t. Why aren’t they out there ditional 50 vendors. art, Hobe Sound, Indiantown and Jensen once was part of the Coast Guard facility taking down all those political signs we A popular vendor returns this season, Beach are the largest providers of food there.” The group of volunteers, includ- got all over the county, if they’re so wor- 16-year-old baker Johnny Vancora, who to Martin County residents in need, ac- ing several students from Jupiter High ried about how it looks?” operates under the name Bread by John- cording to Tomasik. Last year, the agency School, concentrated on an area known His shop sits on the north side of the ny. The Jupiter resident baked his first loaf gave out 358,000 pounds of food – the of focaccia at age 12, and he’s been hooked equivalent of about 280,000 meals. Food ever since, and so are his customers. items include canned food, rice, pasta, Market hours are the first Sunday cereal, fresh produce, meat, bread and, of each month from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. of course, peanut butter and jelly. through December, then starting Jan. 6 Other food include an ongoing drive through April 21, the market will run on at Helping People Succeed, 1100 SE the first and third Sundays from 11 a.m. Federal Hwy. in Stuart, at all Walgreens to 4 p.m. Constitution Park is at 399 Sea- throughout October at all seven Martin brook Road in Tequesta. County stores, and by the City of Stu- art through Nov. 16 at City Hall and the HHHHH Public Safety Building. The House of Hope also helps Mar- tin County residents in need by offer- Liquor licenses now ing clothing, furniture, financial assis- tance and case management services. for small eateries For more information about House of Hope, call (772) 286-4673 or visit www. A legislative change was approved sev- hohmartin.org. eral months ago that allows small eater- ies located within a county’s Community Redevelopment Areas to obtain a liquor HHHHH Hobe Sound Currents October 2012 News 5 Indian River Estuary on verge of collapse

Indian Riverkeeper Marty Baum sounded the alarm at the recent Rivers Coalition meeting in Stuart, telling a standing-room-only audience that the Indian River estuary is on the verge of collapse— and that was before the Army Corps of Engineers doubled the flow of polluted water from Lake Okeechobee to 4.8 billion gallons of water per day into the St. Lucie River. That’s billion with a B. Here’s an excerpt of his comprehensive report, which you may find on line in its entirety at the Indianriverkeeper website: www.indianriverkeeper.org.

he seagrass meadows we have in growth of seagrasses is slow. The other able to us. The Ocean Research and the Indian River lagoon--156 miles alternative is to replant by hand. This Conservation Association (ORCA) in Tfrom Jupiter to Ponce inlets--are is an expensive ordeal, and comes with Ft. Pierce has developed the Fast As- the lifeblood of our diversity. The Indian its own difficulties. Dr. Gilmore tells sessment of Sediment Toxicity (F.A.S.T.) River Lagoon is, maybe was, the most di- me that “farm raised” seagrasses do and Kilroy programs. The Map-a-Mile verse estuarine ecosystem in all of North not readily or successfully transplant. project in Vero is VERY telling, paint- America. This is due largely from the Currently, the most effective way is ing a visual rendering of the pollution, richness of our seven different kinds of to plug healthy grass and relocate it. and its strength. Dr. Widder and her seagrasses. A tropical seagrass meadow Think that through. staff at ORCA have engaged the help of is the third most diverse ecosystem on students to further this project and has planet Earth, only tropical rainforests, expressed interest in bringing this pro- and tropical coral reefs are richer. gram south into Martin County. Like all If you examine one square inch of monitoring, this project is underfunded. sandy or mucky bottom, you will find A collaboration of HBOI and ORCA about 5,000 organisms. Add a couple might bring us a couple of Kilroy’s, one blades of seagrass to that inch, and it Right now, the healthiest seagrass in the St. Lucie, and one at the inlet, but now contains several HUNDRED thou- meadows in the entire lagoon are from that too is lacking the proper funding. sand organisms. Each square meter Stuart to north of the Ft. Pierce inlet. If Kilroy provides “real time” information contributes about five pounds of detri- the rest of the IRL continues its collapse, and was supported by the Stuart News tus, organic litter (read “energy”) back AND we can keep “our” seagrasses editorial staff in October 4, 2011. into the meadow, twice the amount of healthy, we could be the only hope for a At the launching of Kilroy in 2009, a mangrove forest/swamp. Dr. Grant timely reintroduction of the seagrasses U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Tequesta, said, Gilmore at Harbor Branch Oceanogr- that are dying off. The assault on the St. “Recent economic valuations estimate phic Institute tells me that means10,000 Lucie estuary is obscene and it is affect- that the Indian River Lagoon provides fish per acre as a reasonable estimate for ing what were healthy seagrass mead- approximately $3.7 billion per year in healthy seagrass meadows here--in ad- ows all the way to the Jensen Causeway. benefits to Florida’s residents and visi- dition to the 400 species of marine or- If we indeed do become the womb of tors — and recreation, including fish- ganisms that use meadows as a primary seagrass reintroduction, every blade of ing, boating and swimming, is the larg- habitat. The 2008 study by Hayson/Saw- grass will be precious. In my lifetime I est component of the lagoon’s economic yer determined that one acre of seagrass doubt there has been a time when so lit- value. I’m interested in ORCA’s Kilroy is worth $5,000-$10,000 an acre to local tle of the Indian River lagoon could be technology because of its potential to economies. Some studies go as high as so important to the health and vitality ensure these waters will remain healthy $20,000 per acre, but even a conserva- of its totality. and vibrant for generations to come.” tive estimate means a $150-$300 million What we need is improved storm Rep. Rooney’s Stuart office is - sur dollar impact on our local economies. water treatment and data to make the rounded on three sides by a dead pol- The death and destruction being im- correct decisions. At this time, there is luted estuary. Where has he been? Has posed on OUR Indian River lagoon is little or no water quality testing being anyone heard from him? Where is his getting worse. The estimated annual done at the major stormwater discharge support for the monitoring programs, economic value of the Indian River la- points. We don’t really know WHAT or was this just posturing for the press? goon is $3,725,900,000 (that’s billions they are dumping on the lagoon. There It is HIS farm bills that assures that this with a “b”) affect both the communi- is a great need for more monitoring of destruction will continue. Who exactly ties and economies from Titusville to the water. We can’t fix them all, but if is he representing? Jupiter. Everyone along Indian River we knew where the worst of it is com- Citizen action, loud and lots of it, lagoon is directly dependent upon the ing from, perhaps we can get a good will be needed if any changes are to health and vigor of the ecosystem. We bang for the dollars spent and bring come about. It is our right and duty to must demand clean water. Every sin- about meaningful improvements quick- demand clean water. The Indian River gle one of us via our property values, ly. The St. Johns Water Management lagoon is near to collapse and all of us wages, tax bases, services, recreation or District has diverted water into the St. along its length will be hurt when we our direct livelihoods, benefits from our Johns River, thus shielding our lagoon lose that $3.72 billion it injects into our association with the lagoon. Essentially, from unneeded and unwanted water. I economies. The destruction and pollu- everything about our way of life here is applaud those efforts. tion grows daily, and so does the price enhanced and given greater value due The Army Corps of Engineers and of its remedy. The sooner we take ac- to the influence of the Indian River la- the South Florida Water Management tion collectively, all of us along the 156 goon. Every one should be demanding District can waste millions on non-func- miles, the less it will cost us to reverse clean water. Historically, we have been tioning reservoirs, impoundments, and the death and collapse. the last to suffer, and first to recover in sweetheart land deals, but they haven’t We need your involvement please vis- times of recession, and it’s because of come up with the funds to properly it our website and consider becoming a the Indian River lagoon. monitor what they are dumping. Are you member of Indian Riverkeeper http:// Seagrass meadows are imperative to surprised? We should DEMAND that a www.indianriverkeeper.org. ■ the diversity of the Indian River La- solid system of data collection be placed goon, and clean water is what is need- everywhere there are discharge points. --Marty Baum ed for them to flourish. The “self” re- There are some fine systems avail- Indian Riverkeeper Hobe Sound Currents 6 Cover Story October 2012 One fisherman’s idea makes a global impact An idea spawned in the waters off the Treasure Coast a handful of years ago, combined with a lifetime of commercial fishing experience, has been translated into commercial fishing gear that today makes a positive impact on the ecology of oceans worldwide.

t also is taking Tim Palmer, a water- man living on the Manatee Pocket in IRocky Point who first had the idea that became “buoy gear,” to the far cor- ners of the globe to share his knowledge of the seas. “I really was just reacting to the 2001 ban of pelagic longlines in the Florida Straits,” says Palmer, who fishes com- mercially for swordfish primarily off Florida’s coast. “We understood the need for the ban, but the effect on people mak- ing their living from fishing was just dev- astating; you can’t survive fishing with a rod for one fish at a time. There had to be a better way.” Longline fishing uses a long cen- tral line from one to several miles long strung with smaller lines of baited hooks, with from a few hundred to thousands Tim Palmer, a waterman from Rocky Point, attaches the buoy to the float as part of the buoy gear he developed for commercial sword fishing being of hooks at a time. Demersal longlines introduced worldwide. rest on the ocean floor to catch fish that live near the bottom, such as cod, tilefish but because the bycatch of juvenile hours or more. “And that’s when I’ve not float near the surface, attracting and kill- or halibut; however a pelagic longline swordfish was decimating the fishery, accidentally deleted what I’ve just writ- ing juvenile swordfish, sea turtles, sharks hangs from buoys near the surface of and if continued, the swordfish likely ten,” he says with a chuckle, “but that’s and other species, and even ensnaring the water to catch open-ocean migratory would no longer exist in numbers to sup- okay. It’s all just part of the process. We seabirds diving for the bait. species such as billfish and tuna. port any commercial fishing. (in the United States) have the best-man- A television reality show, Discovery The ban on pelagic longlines here was “One day, when I was out on the wa- aged fisheries in the world, bar none, but Channel’s “Swords: A Life on the Line,” due to a marked decline of the sword- ter, the idea hit me to float just one bait- it was not until I started traveling to oth- spotlighted the work of sword fisher- fish population in the Florida Straits ob- ed line from a single buoy,” he said, “so er parts of the world that I realized that.” man off the coast of Newfoundland. served prior to 2000, not just because of the next time I went out, I rigged up 10 Palmer was a Sea Hawk deckhand on the numbers of swordfish being caught, buoys with one line hanging from each. Permits developed the show for Capt. Linda Greenlaw, on At the end of the day, I couldn’t believe His buoy-gear idea was enthusiastically whom the movie “The Perfect Storm” it. I had seven swordfish from 10 lines.” received by the National Marine Fisher- was based, bringing the world’s atten- He knew he was on to something that ies Service. They supported Palmer’s ef- tion not only to the perils and real-life could make a dramatic difference, both forts by developing regulations and per- drama of longlining, but to its environ- for fishermen trying to make a living, mits specifically for commercial fishing mental issues, as well. but also for the health and ecology of the with buoy gear. In the U.S., many of these issues have ocean by reducing dependence on long “Now there are already 30 active per- been mitigated by monitoring the by- lines. He took his idea to the National mits in Florida,” says Palmer, who tags catch and adopting innovative methods Marine Fisheries Service, where his skill the juvenile swordfish he catches before of longlining. Fishermen now include and experience in fishing and his pas- he releases them. “I get plenty of tag re- the use of weights to ensure that lines sion for the ocean’s well being had been captures, proving that buoy gear helps to sink quickly, deploy streamer lines to tapped several years earlier to serve on sustain the fishery.” scare away birds, by setting lines only the National Marine Fisheries Highly The juvenile fish, normally a casu- at night in low light to avoid attracting Migratory Species Advisory Panel. alty of the longliner’s bycatch, is criti- birds, using circle hooks so bycatch may “Yes, I wind up making a lot of trips cal to replenishing the stocks, and now be released, by not discharging offal— to Washington, D.C.,” he says, “but, as a Palmer is sharing this innovation with the entrails of cleaned catch—while lines fisherman, I really appreciate that these other countries, which often contact the are being deployed, by limiting fishing scientists aren’t just sitting at a desk and United States for help in managing their seasons, and even closing fisheries tem- looking out the window while they’re fisheries and to learn modern -commer porarily to ensure the stocks have time making up the rules and regulations cial methods of fishing. Palmer has been to replenish. Now, add to that arsenal of for the rest of us, who are actually on tapped often to go to the far reaches of management tools, the use of buoy gear. the ocean. They listen to the fishermen. the world, donating his time to do so, to “The only way to have sustainable I consider us their eyes and ears on the share his knowledge and expertise at a fisheries,” Palmer says, “is to control water, and we appreciate that.” time that many of the world’s fisheries the bycatch. We are constantly working What he does not appreciate are the are dying because they are unregulated in this country on ways to improve that, reports he must write when he returns and not managed, or managed poorly. but it’s not like that in most of the rest of The buoy gear as it floats in the water with a of the regulations being reviewed, which Pelagic longlining, particularly, has the world. In many parts, it’s like they’re line and a baited hook dangling in the water sometimes takes him as long as five come under attack, because the baits fishing in the Dark Ages.” underneath. Hobe Sound Currents October 2012 Cover Story 7

In a few weeks, Palmer will trav- el to Dubai, this time to pick up a fishing vessel and take it through one of the hottest spots politically in the world, the Straits of Hor- muz, to Kenya. This time, how- ever, he’s been hired as a training captain to teach other fishermen not only how to fish in an envi- ronmentally responsible manner, how to improve the commercial viability of their catch, but also Courtesy: The Australian Government the mechanics of the boat, which are more advanced that anything they currently use. Spreading the word “Sometimes, it’s just hard for me to He’s been sent to remote fishing villag- believe that I’m doing this,” he says, “a es that have no understanding of how boy raised in a little house in Palm City, to sustain their fishery, but also how to but last month, I was in Dubai, Alaska, handle fish after they’ve been caught, Maine, Washington, D.C., and next watching them eat fish that has spent month, I’ll be back in Dubai and in Ken- 20 hours or more without ice or refrig- ya. To me, that’s amazing.” eration. “That fish had already started to Palmer knew when he was 12 that he turn rancid,” he says. “Of course, their would spend his life on the earth’s oceans digestive systems are used to that, but after a summer job spent longlining. By not ours. We would get sick if we ate fish the time he was 17, as a new high school like that.” graduate, he’d already saved enough of So in addition to teaching them how his earnings to buy his own boat and to to create sustainable fisheries by using become an independent captain. Twen- modern methods, he teaches them also ty-five years later, he’s making a major how to care for their catch. impact on the world’s oceans, and he de- “A fish needs to be put on ice within a liberately did not attempt to patent or to minute or two of being caught,” he says, market his buoy-gear innovation. “or it’s not commercially viable. Some of “I just feel honored that I had the idea,” these people had never heard of ice, so he says. “How many of us get to do now they’re able to improve their econo- something that we can say really makes mies by being able to produce a commer- a difference in this world?” ■ cial product.” --Barbara Clowdus Hobe Sound Currents 8 Voices October 2012 Editorial GUEST Editorials And write one more letter To Kill an Estuary hile you’re writing letters in the area, most particularly that of the n August 26th Lake Okeechobee about the pollution pouring Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Museum. That was at 12.48 feet elevation, farm- Winto our estuaries from Lake should not be the priority at this site. Oers worried about water short- Okeechobee, write one more—to Sec- It’s awkward to criticize the Jupiter In- age and the St. Lucie Canal was at 14.5 retary of the Department of the Interior let Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area feet elevation. Then the Issac rains carne Ken Salazar. This is why: (JILONA) working group, however, and and the US Army Corps of Engineers Had we instilled responsible steward- Mr. Dawson, because they wave the flag (USACOE) and South Florida Water ship of the planet into our children two of environmentalism, but Mr. Dawson’s Management District (SFWMD) opened generations ago, we would not be deal- methods have been underhanded. BLM the gates of the St. Lucie Canal, S-308 at ing with Lake Okeechobee discharges can accomplish its conservation goals the Lake dumping water into the Lake today. We cannot allow opportunities without denying access to the public— from the Canal and S-80 at the St. Lu- to do now that pass us by any longer, although they would no longer be able cie Locks dumping water from the Ca- yet that’s exactly what’s going to hap- to support Ms. Stuve’s dream of creating nal into the St. Lucie River Estuary. Bil- pen if we do not object to the U.S. Bu- a prime wedding destination. lions of gallons a day of polluted water will cause algae blooms and fish kills. reau of Land Management’s sidetracked Mr. Dawson has a history of denying poured into the St. Lucie River and more The polluted water is also going up the handling of the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse public comment at meetings and contin- than 4.5 billion gallons a day also carne Indian River Lagoon and out the St. Outstanding Natural Area. ues to conduct meetings without public from the C-23 & C-24 agricultural ca- Lucie Inlet 6-8 miles offshore, covering We know that children’s own experi- notice. He withdrew a compromise plan nals into the North Fork ofthe St. Lucie state preserve reefs and polluting aquat- ences in natural places make the great- between the state Department of Envi- River. The salty estuary water around ic preserves habitat. Why is this hap- est impact—like spending time on the ronmental Protection and Palm Beach Roosevelt Bridge was replaced by pol- pening? Because there is no outlet for coast of Jupiter Sound atCato’s Bridge County’s Department of Environmen- luted freshwater and oysters began to the water to go south from the Lake the Beach on the Intracoastal Waterway. Its tal Resources Management (ERM) that get stressed and now after 30 plus days, way nature intended, rehydrating the clear turquoise waters reveal an abun- would restore, protect and conserve they are dying. freshwater Everglades and our ground- dance of marine life below and will in- the JILONA site without denying pub- Lake Okeechobee filled up with mas- water aquifers. Why is this happening? spire environmental awareness in our lic access before anyone—even JILONA sive amounts of water from the Kissim- Because the EAA has blocked the “River children—and us—as they absorb the members—could see it. He did not act in mee River valley but also the Everglades of Grass” and we need to restore this breathtaking beauty of an exceptional, the public interest. Agricultural Area (EAA) south of the flow so the water goes south instead of natural shoreline. At this time of heightened public con- Lake was allowed to “backpump” over killing the coastal estuaries and wasting Yet the Bureau of Land Management’s cern regarding the pollution streaming 13 billion gallons into the Lake when the billions of gallons of freshwater to the Bruce Dawson, employed by the Depart- into our waterways, we need heightened agricultural canals were only at I 0.5-11 ocean and the gulf. ment of the Interior, has taken steps to public concern about removing public feet elevation! This is infuriating! At If you want to “Save Lake Okeechobee”, ban public access to most of the shore. access to an outstanding natural area that elevation they were not at a risk of “Save the Coastal Estuaries” and “Save Children and their parents are too noisy, that will inspire stewardship of our nat- flooding and that polluted water is now the Everglades” and “Save Florida’s Wa- too destructive, even when their only ac- ural resources for generations to come. in the Lake! The Lake is now at 15.36 ter” then join us in restoring the River of cess is by paddleboard or kayak. Write that letter to Mr. Salazar and tell feet and the USACOE opened the gates Grass flowway south from the Lake. ■ Their presence “will disrupt the sanc- him that Mr. Dawson probably would to the St. Lucie River to drain the Lake tity” of weddings or other “solemn” be better suited for employment by the down. Now more destruction to the St. Mark D. Perry events held at the Jupiter Inlet Light- Jupiter Lighthouse Museum, not by the Lucie River, killing oyster reefs, sea- Executive Director house, says the president of the Loxa- people of the United States and certainly grass beds, polluting the water which Florida Oceanographic Society hatchee River Historical Society, Jamie not by the residents of Florida. Those are Stuve. Her ambitious vision is to create a not the interests he’s been representing. high-browed historical and cultural tour- Here’s his address: Department of ist attraction and wedding destination on the Interior, 1849 C Street, N.W., Wash- Indian Riverkeeper speaks out the Outstanding Natural Area site that ington DC 20240. Phone 202.208.3100. will “significantly boost the economies” email: [email protected]. ■ t is our right and duty to demand clean existing for our descendants. All of us water. The Indian River lagoon is near should use the litmus test of where do Ito collapse and all of us along its length you stand on sugar subsidies, and how will be hurt when we lose that $3.72 bil- did you vote on the issue for how “we” Dispelling Ridgeway rumors lion it injects into our economies. vote, at all levels. If they are not condemn- The destruction and pollution grows ing the sugar subsidies, and the resultant To the editor deed restrictions in 1989 did not come daily, and so does the price of its remedy. destruction they bring about, they are not Recently, there have been many ru- close to the 100% vote required. There The sooner we take action collectively, all representing YOU. mors and newspaper articles from were several restriction changes in- of us along the lagoon’s 156 miles, the less Remember this as you cross the bridges irate and panicked Ridgeway property volved, including giving ownership of it will cost us to reverse the death and col- and look down upon the brown death, or owners about the court cases concern- all the properties to the POA. Title com- lapse. We need your involvement please cruise in your boat and see naked, barren ing their status as both a mandatory panies might cringe at that one. visit our website and consider becoming lagoon bottom where healthy seagrass association and a 55+ community. The As an original owner, I was guaran- a member of Indian Riverkeeper: www. meadows once thrived, the folks we POA has sought the help of other com- teed a property with warranty deed indianriverkeeper.org. are electing are taking our money and munities by telling them they are in and title insurance and no maintenance We will need thousands of Indian we are PAYING them to do this to us. We jeopardy. This is not true. The issues fees. In spite of this, the POA has given Riverkeeper voices if we are going to force must FORCE them to represent “us” as are unique to Ridgeway. itself the power to interview, require our political representatives to actually they seem unwilling to do the right thing Originally, Ridgeway association was maintenance fees, lien and enforce. represent us, and the minute you become on their own. set up by homeowners as a non-man- Newer residents believed what they involved, you too have become a Indian United and involved we stand, divided datory club. Three homeowners (club were told at the interview. Riverkeeper. Volunteer, support and help and uninvolved we fall. ■ officers) incorporated to accept the Everyone should be upset with the fund any one of, or all of the dedicated conveyance of the amenities from the current situation created by the abuse organizations that are raising the alarm Marty Baum developer. To this day no deed restric- of power by past boards. There are le- and desperately trying to save something Indian Riverkeeper. tion creating an association or requiring gal ways to correct the POA’s mess, but worthwhile for our children’s children. Indian Riverkeeper: www.indianriverkeeper.org membership currently exists. it requires the intervention of the court Demand Clean Water, demand that our Rivers Coalition: www.riverscoalition.org The law requires every owner affected and patience. representatives help rather than obstruct Florida Oceanographic: www.floridaocean.org to agree before a change can be made to June Kinder and enable those who worship the al- ORCA: www.teamorca.org deed restrictions unless the Master Deed The Ridgeway Subdivision mighty dollar instead of healthy vibrant Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute: says otherwise. The vote to change our Hobe Sound ecosystems, and the promise of those www.fau.edu/hboi Hobe Sound Currents October 2012 Voices 9 What census records can tell us if we listen friend of mine regularly reads the This past week, I found myself in yet “I’ve traced her family back three obituaries of strangers because another cemetery, this time in Texas generations on both sides,” my son Ashe finds the abbreviated sto- via internet, as one of my sons had wrote in an email to me, “and there’s ries of others’ lives fascinating. I read discovered the fascination in learning Barbara not a Cherokee, Choctaw, or Chicka- old tombstones for the same reason. family stories. This time, though, it was Clowdus saw to be found.” Mattie Arnold had When we first moved to West Virginia, our own family story, parts of which lived on a Chickasaw reservation I traipsed through many old cemeteries, had been thoroughly researched and with her parents and new husband, encountering family plots with as many documented, easily accessed, and other Unfiltered my son’s great-great-grandfather, ac- as six or seven little markers—heart- parts, not at all. cording to census records, and that’s break cast in stone—with other head- He found that even the part of the Eventually she did live with her aunt, where their children had been born. stones so old the epitaphs were long family that had been documented, who had several of her own children, They had owned their own land. They erased by wind and time. much was omitted between the lines but barrenness had nothing to do with had been white farmers from Arkan- One epitaph in a cemetery near our of dates and names, and that’s where anything. Now we know the facts, even sas who took advantage of the 1887 house sticks especially in my mind of a the real stories lie. He also found that if we don’t know the why. Dawes Act allowing the sale of “ex- woman named Worthy, who had died that family anecdotes, even those The cold light of census records cess lots” on Indian reservations, in in childbirth. Her epitaph confused passed down for generations, are too shined also onto my husband’s Texan itself fascinating. me, ending in: “You died as You lived, subjective to be entirely believed. Some family with its long-accepted story of a The Indian heritage story had been Worthy.” What did that mean, exactly? simply are in error, but others can be mysterious Native American ancestor, just that—a story, a complete fabrica- Others are startlingly funny: “Soldier – downright fabrication, which he uncov- Mattie Arnold, married to a white man, tion. We can only speculate why Su- Father – Drunkard” read one headstone ered with the totally objective light cast who had birthed my son’s great-grand- sie—herself a third cousin, a few times standing tall over a Civil War soldier. by a page written in a census taker’s father and many of his siblings on a removed, of Davy Crockett’s—had told Maybe he was the best drunkard, or the hand that tells a family’s history even Cherokee Indian reservation in Okla- such a tall tale, especially since she most drunk, or set the record for drunk- more clearly than a photo. homa in the late 1800s and early 1900s. had her own colorful heritage. Appar- enness on Mulberry Ridge? My mother’s Norwegian family had “Mattie Arnold is not full-bloodied ently, making up an Indian story that One of my favorites, if not my all-time settled in a small town in Iowa. I knew Cherokee,” my son’s Great-Grand- people were eager to believe was a lot favorite, I found in a remote mountain that, but little else. Her sisters told me mother Susie once whispered to me, more fun. road in West Virginia’s Randolph Coun- that my mother had not been raised by almost conspiratorially. “She was And my son? I think he’s hooked. ty that said “Now Dead For Sure.” Did her parents, that she “had been given Choctaw-Cherokee, and was a half- “Growing to understand who our real someone once doubt it? For many years, away” to a barren aunt who lived just breed at that.” grandparents were and the lives they I could hardly drive by a cemetery with- a few blocks away. Census records Most in her family had heard the lived is fascinating to me,” he wrote. out at least taking a peak to see if I could revealed otherwise: She had lived with same or similar story. It was accepted “The truth I’ve found is far more inter- find someone’s story chiseled in granite her grandparents, not her aunt. She and passed down as fact, with fam- esting and colorful than the myths we or marble with my children imploring, spoke only Norwegian, so she was un- ily traits—the dark skin, lack of facial were told growing up.” Next thing you “Mom, come on. How much longer do able to converse with her siblings living hair, the high cheekbones—being at- know, he’s going to be traipsing around we have to stay here?” nearby until after she started school. tributed to Mattie. some old cemeteries. ■ Cattle Class to Kuwait t was the middle of the winter of Quite a contrast to our arrival in Iran. 1964/65, well out of the tourist At the Turkish border we had fallen Iseason, and Linda and I were just Gordon in with a convoy of returning expatri- about the only strangers in town. The Barlow ates in almost-new Mercedes Benzes Publisher and Editor shopkeepers were anxious that we stay driven down from Germany for resale. Barbara Clowdus around and buy something, and pressed Two days further on, one of the drivers Website Design free drinks on us. But midway through Outside, nearly drove off a cliff, so he was fired Sonic Fish Studios some heavy negotiations, a higher duty Looking In in favour of the team’s new emergency called. There was another pair of back- backup. (Ahem!) We two drove into Printer packers in town, and watching foreign- and me, but I had wanted to see Perse- Tehran in as grand a style as a couple of Southeast Offset Inc ers meet and gabble away in their weird polis, the ancient capital of Darius’s young travel bums ever did. The cattle- languages was an entertainment never Persian Empire. At high school I had boat was a bit of a comedown. Hobe Sound Currents is published to be missed. You really must come! been wonderfully impressed with the A vivid memory of mine from the monthly by World Print Link, 12025 This way! This way! poem Ozymandias: voyage is the flash of a pearly white SE Laurel Lane, Hobe Sound, FL We allowed ourselves to be dragged I met a traveller from an antique land bottom as Linda perched warily on the off to the other side of the town centre, Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone pooping seat way above the poop deck 33455. The entire contents are Copy- into the shop where the others were. As Stand in the desert... (what else?) before I joined the five right 2010 by World Print Link, and it happened, we surpassed our escort’s Nothing beside remains. Round the decay crewmen and faced the bow until we got no portion may be reproduced in part hopes. “Hullo,” I said; “I thought you’d Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the all-clear. It was a dark and stormy or in whole by any means, including be in Japan by now.” “Yeah, we got The lone and level sands stretch far away. night, and I’ve never known how she electronic retrieval systems, without caught up in Lebanon”, Graham said. Persepolis lived up to my expecta- managed. If she’d fallen off, it might the written permission of the publisher. He was an old schoolmate of mine from tions, despite the fact that the poem was have been five minutes before any of us Opinions expressed are those only of our days in boarding school in Brisbane, set in Egypt. You can’t have everything. discovered the loss. Inch’Allah, they mut- the writer. Letters to the editor are en- Australia, who had left London long After taking our few pennies’ entrance tered – “It’s in the hands of God”. couraged, but may be edited for length before I had. Yet here he was in Shiraz, money, the ticket-seller disappeared, We got in at three in the morning, and Iran, still half a world away from which- trusting us not to steal any of the ancient slept on the porch outside the Immigra- and/or clarity. Send to: editor@hscur- ever place in Japan his friend Yoshi stones. We inspected the ruins at leisure, tion shack until the men arrived for rents.com or register at www.hobe- came from. We delayed their departure but once the snow began to fall, we dis- work. Those were early days for Kuwait. soundcurrents.com and post on-line. for thirty minutes with idle chit-chat, appeared too, jumping on the first truck The arrival-procedures have probably Phone: 772.245.6564 then they hit the road again. It wasn’t headed south. The day after the others been brought up to speed since then. email: [email protected] till many years later that I met up with left us, we walked to the western edge One sincerely hopes so. ■ [email protected] Graham again in Brisbane and learned of town and flagged down a bus to the all his news. He signed my Passport ap- nearest port to find a ferry to Kuwait. A native Australian, Gordon Barlow is web address: plication form, then, and we marvelled There were no ferries, for some reason, an economist, an international traveler www.HobeSoundCurrents.com at how long we’d known each other. so we haggled for a passage on a boat and political commentator who lives in the Shiraz was out of the way for Linda carrying cattle. Cayman Islands. Hobe Sound Currents 10 History October 2012 Apollo School tour part of Historic Preservation Month

The Apollo School in Hobe Sound will in Martin County. Built in 1924, its res- tival at the New Monrovia Park in Port on Oct. 26. The dinner and a movie will be a featured part of the county’s Historic toration has been a 15-year project of the Salerno, and a host of lectures, demon- feature a film on Martin County Histo- Preservation Month celebration through- non-profit Apollo School Foundation in strations and workshops. ry called “In Their own Words,” which out the entire month of October. Hobe Sound. The month will conclude with the will celebrate the grand finale of Historic The Apollo School is drawing much at- The month’s schedule will include free Historic Preservation Awards Dinner at Preservation Month and the Historic tention countywide as the building is the tours of the Mansion at Tuckahoe, the the Lyric Flagler Center, 201 SW Flagler Preservation Board’s first “Preservation- only surviving two-room school house 15th Annual Bahamian Connection Fes- Avenue in Stuart from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. ist of the Year” award.

The complete schedule of events

10/1 Monday 10/21 Sunday 5pm-6pm, Kick Off for Martin County 3pm-5pm, Elliott Museum 5th Annual Historic Preservation Month 2012 Old Home Week Social - FREE Stuart Heritage Museum, 161 SW Fla- The Lyric FlaglerCenter, 201 SW Flagler gler Street, Stuart - FREE Ave, Stuart. Contact: 772-225-1961x113 A gathering to celebrate Historic Preserva- tion Month 2012 and recent renovations to 10/24 Wednesday the Stuart Heritage Museum that is housed 10am and 11am, Tour of the Mansion at in the Stuart Feed Store built in 1901, with Tuckahoe - FREE words from Commissioner Edward Ciam- Indian Riverside Park, Tuckahoe Drive, pi (Martin County), Mayor Jacqui Thur- Jensen Beach. For more information con- low-Lippisch (Sewall’s Point), Mayor James tact: Tom Gerace at 772-530-1529 Christie, Jr. (City of Stuart), Mary Walton Jones and Joette Lorion Rice. For more in- 10/10 Wednesday 10/17 Wednesday 10/25 Thursday formation contact: Stuart Heritage at 772- 10am and 11am, Tour of the Mansion 12:30 pm, “History of the Log Cabin 2pm, “In Their Own Words” Movie 220-4600 or Joette Rice at [email protected] at Tuckahoe - FREE of Martin County” Lecture by Vincent About Martin County’s History - FREE Indian Riverside Park, Tuckahoe Drive, Bocchino – FREE Blake Library 2351 SE Monterey Road, 10/3 Wednesday Jensen Beach. Contact: Tom Gerace at 772- The Jensen Beach Garden Club meet- Stuart. For more information contact: 772- 10am and 11am, Tour of the Mansion at 530-1529 ing will be held at the Vincent Bocchino 221-1403 Tuckahoe – FREE Center in Frances Langford Park, Jensen Indian Riverside Park, Tuckahoe Drive, 10/11 Thursday Beach. The public is welcome. Contact: 10/25 Thursday Jensen Beach. Contact: Tom Gerace at 772- 7pm, “Fishing Heritage of Port Gail Rounds at 772-692-2706 6:30-8:30pm, Martin County Historic 530-1529 Salerno” Lecture by John Hennessee Preservation Awards Dinner (doors - FREE 10/19 Friday open at 6pm) Celebrate Historic Pres- 10/6 Saturday Fish House Art Center and Gallery, 4745 1pm-3pm, “Thinking Outside of the ervation Month 2012 and the Preserva- 10am, “History of the Flower Industry SE DeSoto Ave, Port Salerno. For more in- Box, or Using Your Genealogy Library tionist of the Year In Martin County” Lecture by Fred formation contact: 772-631-0443 Without the Computer” Lecture by Sponsored by the Martin County Histor- Burkey - FREE Shirley Pizziferri - FREE ic Preservation Board. The Lyric Flagler Martin County Extension Service Offic- 10/13 Saturday Martin County Genealogical Society Meet- Center (old USO building), 201 SW Flagler es, Martin County Fairgrounds, 2614 SE 10am - 2pm, Apollo School Open ing Blake Library, 2351 Southeast Monterey Avenue, Stuart. Tickets: $20. Contact the Dixie Hwy, Stuart. For more information House - FREE Road, Stuart. Contact: 772-221-1403 Lyric Theatre at 772-286-7827 or www.lyr- contact: Patricia Bonis at 772-288-5654 or 9141 SE Apollo Street, Hobe Sound ictheatre.com [email protected] Visit the only surviving 2 room school house 10/20 Saturday in Martin County that was built in 1924. For 10am, “History of Audubon and Pos- 10/27 Saturday 10/6 Saturday more information contact: 772-546-5272 or sum Long Property” Lecture by Louise 10am, “Early Watercraft of the Indian 1pm, “The Fantastic World of Dr. Men- [email protected] White - FREE River Lagoon - Emphasis on Sharp- ninger” Lecture by Christopher Beck Presented by the Garden Club of Stuart ies” Lecture by Nathaniel E. Osborn – FREE 10/13 Saturday and Audubon of Martin County. Check in – FREE After the talk on Stuart’s “Flowering Tree 10am - Noon, “Restoring Historic at the Audubon House, 621 SE Palm Beach Maritime and Classic Boat Museum, In- Man,” there will be a guided walk of the Buildings” Workshop with Nicole Road, Stuart. Contact: Louise Andrews at dian Riverside Park, Jensen Beach. (The Clifton “Possum” Long Sanctuary by Deb- Norton-Gozdz and Stewart Granfield 772-334-2584 Sharpie “Lahoma” will be docked at In- bie Clark. Presented by the Garden Club at the Historic Golden Gate Building - dian Riverside Park for display) of Stuart and Audubon of Martin County, FREE 10/20 Saturday For more information contact: Nicole Nor- 621 SE Palm Beach Road, Stuart. Contact: 3225 SE Dixie Hwy, Stuart. For more in- 10am, 11am, and 1pm, Local historian ton-Gozdz at 772-287-7330 Louise Andrews at 772-334-2584 formation contact: 772-287-7330 or niki@ and author Sandra Thurlow will share crossroadsarchitecture.biz stories and images of wildlife along 10/30 Tuesday 10/6 Saturday the Indian River from a pioneer youth’s 5pm, Presentation of Historic Plaque 11am-6pm, 15th Annual Bahamian 10/16 Tuesday perspective - FREE for the Captain Sewall House (circa Connection Festival – FREE 10am, “History of the Arts of the Sponsored by the River Kidz as part of 1889) - FREE New Monrovia Park, 4455 SE Murray Treasure Coast” Lecture by Mary Shaw the Environmental Studies Center’s Open To commemorate the completion of the Street, Port Salerno. For more information - FREE House at 2900 NE Indian River Drive, exterior restoration of this historic build- contact: Gloria McHardy at 772-287-6327 Sponsored by the Arts Council of Martin Jensen Beach. For more information con- ing with words by Commissioner Doug County at the Courthouse Cultural Cent- tact: 772-219-1887 Smith, local historian Sandra Thurlow, Ju- 10/8 Monday er, 80 East Ocean Blvd, Stuart. For more dith Weber of the Children’s Home Society 6pm, “In Their Own Words” Movie information contact: Elaine Keller at 772- 10/20 Saturday and others, Indian Riverside Park, Jensen About Martin County’s History - FREE 287-6676 10:30am, Lecture by Barbara Purdy, Beach. For more information contact: Bob Blake Library, 2351 SE Monterey Road, Stu- PhD, on the Old Vero Ice Age Sites Steiner at 772-221-1396 or bsteiner@mar- art. For information contact: 772-221-1403 10/17 Wednesday where the engraved image of a mam- tin.fl.us 10am and 11am, Tour of the Mansion at moth on a fossilized bone (more than 10/9 Tuesday Tuckahoe – FREE 13,000 years old) was found - FREE 10/31 Wednesday 7pm, “The Ashley Gang” Lecture by Indian Riverside Park, Tuckahoe Drive, Sponsored by the Southeast Florida Ar- 10am and 11am, Tour of the Mansion at Alice Luckhardt - FREE Jensen Beach. Contact: Tom Gerace at 772- cheological Society at the Environmen- Tuckahoe - FREE Stuart Heritage monthly meeting, Lyric 530-1529 tal Studies Center, 2900 NE Indian River Indian Riverside Park, Tuckahoe Drive, Flagler Center, 201 SW Flagler Avenue, Drive, Jensen Beach. Contact: Lucille Jensen Beach. Contact: Tom Gerace at 772- Stuart. For more information contact: Stu- Rights at 772-287-0772 530-1529 art Heritage at 772-220-4600 Hobe Sound Currents October 2012 Business Close Up 11

Havana Beads

In the early mornings, the sign hanging on the door of Havana Beads in Port Salerno says, “Closed.” Yet behind the glass storefront, clearly visible to anyone walking in the breezeway of the Fish House Art Center, sits artist Raida Disbrow hard at work shaping beads from rods of glass. “It’s called lampworking,” Disbrow says, “and I can’t let anyone inside while I’m working because of the torch, but people really like to watch. My windows are covered with little fingerprints.” Disbrow holds a narrow rod of glass in the flame of a torch set on the table in front of her. She winds the molten glass around a mandrel, a thin length of stainless steel. As she turns the mandrel, holding it in different positions and allowing gravity to help form the bead, she also uses tools to push and pull the glass into its desired shape. “I am one of the lucky ones,” she says. “I love what I do, and I’m always thinking of new designs. I can hardly wait to start working every morning.”

Raida Disbrow A small kiln sits next to Disbrow’s bench. She will heat the is the “Highlight beads, called “soaking,” at a high temperature to ensure Artist” for the the beads are evenly heated. It may take several hours to August 2012 slowly reduce the heat in order to bring the beads to room edition of temperature. The process is called kiln annealing. the national publication – Bead Trends, which featured Since she can control the size of the stringing hole many pieces of Disbrow’s jewelry in the middle of a bead just by using a larger or smaller mandrel, Disbrow has adapted her beads currently on sale Disbrow sells her hand-crafted glass beads at the Havana individually to other artists and hobbyists. to fit several types of popular bracelets. She also Beads shop. The beads can be made in various sizes, created “Hoop Loops” so customers may customize and can also be made with multiple layers and change the look of their own hoop earrings. of glass, switching colors to create unique The seahorse designs. Small dots of color can be left as – on this necklace bumps on the bead’s surface, or blown into is ceramic, one other shapes. Fine lines are possible with The name of her business, Havana Beads, is an homage to of Disbrow’s tiny rods of glass—kind of like painting her birthplace, Havana, Cuba. She immigrated to Florida own designs. with a glass paintbrush. “I’m also a when she was four. As a child, she was creative, and in ceramist,” she school, she studied interior design. Her jobs, however, were says, with a in bookkeeping and accounting. She began beading as a smile, adding hobby and creative outlet, but grew frustrated that she could to the variety of not find the colors she wanted in her beads, so she studied her designs. lampworking. “I was hooked,” she said.

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She opened her shop the day before the Port Salerno Seafood Festival last January. “It was absolutely the best, possible timing,” she says. “I sold enough in the very first day to pay my rent for This necklace with beads the month, and I’m thinking, this is great!” created by Disbrow was The Havana Beads shop shelves are – featured in the filled with Disbrow’s own designs Bead Trends’ for necklaces, earrings, and Since the closing of Finz Bar & Grille Restaurant, however, traffic into her shop has declined dramatically, she says. article about bracelets made of hand-crafted the artist. Disbrow supplements store sales with internet sales on the lampwork beads. Etsy artists website, and she also writes a blog for beaders. Since they are made of glass, the “I may also hold some beading workshops in the fall,” she beads shrink slightly as they cool. If says, “We’ll see....Whatever happens, it’s still better than left to cool in the shop, the outside getting up in the morning and doing accounting all day.” “skin” of the bead will cool faster – than the inside. The stress point between the cool, shrinking outside Contact information: and the still-hot center of the bead Raida Disbrow often grows to the point that the [email protected] www.havanabeads.com bead will crack; therefore the beads havanabeads.etsy.com are actually cooled in a kiln. 954.464.1360 Hobe Sound Currents 12 Business Spotlight October 2012

real food and lots of it

In the Winn-Dixie Marketplace Plaza on Bridge Road in Hobe Sound. Open six days a week, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.; closed Sundays. The crumb cake! Call 772.546.7473

hen the Banbury “I’d like to interview “Well, yes, I guess,” he said, “but I’m life out of me,” he said, his voice drop- Cross bakery you and your dad and really too busy to talk, because I have ping to a near whisper. “I didn’t want the Wchanged owners take some pictures,” I no help,” tossing the end of his sentence restaurant anymore. I didn’t want any more than a year ago, resi- James Catrini, owner of told her. over his shoulder at me as he walked part of it. I just wanted out of here.” He dents questioned whether or the Krumbcakes Bakery “Well, the only day we away. Okay. sold the bakery, perhaps too quickly, he not the new owners would in Hobe Sound could possibly take time Flash forward to the spring of this added, and left. live up to Hobe Sound’s high to do that is Saturdays,” year. The second new owner had closed After having owned seven other res- standards. The initial re- she responded. “That’s Banbury Cross abruptly and moved taurants over his long career, Jim had sponse by neighbors encouraged me to our slowest day.” out. Within weeks, though, remode- developed solid relationships with his stop by. The food was good, fresh, and The following Saturday, the place was ling seemed to be taking place inside. I vendors, one of whom called to tell him generously proportioned. packed. I didn’t bother to go in. Flash for- peered through the window and spotted that no orders were being placed at Ban- I talked to the server, Jonna-li Catrini, ward a few weeks, and Banbury Cross is a familiar face, Jonna-li Catrini. bury Cross. Jim called his brother in Stu- daughter of the new owner, baker and closed. Within weeks, it’s opened again, “Well, this is a surprise,” I said, as art, who came to Hobe Sound and con- chef James Catrini, who had brought this time with a second new owner. she opened the door. She responded, firmed Jim’s suspicions that the bakery his family from Long Island to Hobe “Would you like for me to write a story “To you and to me both.” No, it’s too had closed. The crisis brought Jim back Sound after purchasing the bakery in to introduce you to Hobe Sound?” I asked early for a story, she told me. Renova- to Hobe Sound to retrieve what equip- early summer 2011. They opened their him, handing over a copy of Hobe Sound tions are incomplete. ment he could, to remodel and to reopen. doors on June 13. Currents, while buying a dozen cookies. Within a short time, neighbors began “The response has been overwhelm- telling me that I “really ought to do a ing,” he said. “Everyone told me that the story” about the new café that opened in summers are slow here, but they haven’t the Banbury Cross location. been slow for us.” It opened? Jim recalled the previous summer “We’re not really ready for a story,” when his New York crumb cakes had said Adam Catrini, Jonna-li’s brother. sold like hot cakes, prompting one Hobe “We’re not really open for business yet. Sound customer to say he ought to We just unlocked the doors so that peo- change the bakery’s name to the Crumb ple would have a place to go since Bridge Cake Bakery. Bagel closed, especially the bicyclists. Of “That stuck in my head,” he said, “so course, they usually just get a banana, that’s what it is: Krumbcakes Bakery, but at least it’s here for them.” and we can’t keep crumb cakes in stock. He said to come back in October or No- Adam spent eight hours on Sunday mak- vember when they had finished remode- ing nothing but crumb cakes, and they’re ling and would have had time to hire and all gone in two days.” train additional help. That’s when they He now offers 27 different kinds, and would talk to me, but definitely not now. he keeps the names of customers on lists In June, a headline in The Stuart News to be called when a particular flavor goes announced: New owner of longtime into the oven. He plans soon to start tak- Hobe Sound bakery and café makes ing internet orders for shipping them changes. Sigh. throughout the U.S. “Well, we didn’t know he was going He also bakes croissants for their to write a story,” said Jim Catrini, who sandwiches, and makes the soups for invited me into his kitchen in Septem- their lunches, and takes orders for din- ber to sit a spell as he swam through ners-to-go, posting a monthly menu of mounds of paperwork, orders and men- meals. He attributes the popularity of us. “That reporter just came in here to his food to the “real butter, real milk, eat, and he asked a few questions,” add- real cream” and no pre-processed foods ing that much of the story was “just plain he uses. He also takes special orders for wrong,” perhaps to ease my frustration. gluten-free foods, vegetarian dishes, Finally, though, he was ready to talk. and even uses agave syrup in place of “First of all,” he said, “I want you to sugar when requested. tell the people of Hobe Sound how ap- “When people come in here, it’s be- preciative I am of their support. They cause they want real food,” he added, have been so kind, and I am ecstatic to be “and because there is nothing we won’t back in this location.” make for you, as long you just give us He talked about the sudden death in some advance notice.” July 2011 of his wife of 36 years, Billie Sue, And the remodeling? just three weeks after they’d opened Ban- “We still haven’t finished,” he laughed. bury Cross, the rawness of the memory They may never get the time. ■ washing across his face. “It sucked the --Barbara Clowdus Hobe Sound Currents October 2012 Chamber of Commerce 13 Chamber invites public to ‘Sail the Good Ship Algozzini’ he annual Casino Night fundrais- style gaming, a cash bar, prizes and a him and wanted to honor and remember Copley’s RV Center, Braman Motorcars er for the Hobe Sound Chamber prize wheel. him by dressing up in tropical attire and of Jupiter, Tara Biek Creative, The Skin Tof Commerce on Oct. 27 takes a Algozzini, who died in May, man- enjoying a cruise-themed fundraiser.” Inn, and Barton’s Jewelers, Inc. new twist this year. The popular event aged the Algozzini’s souvenir store In addition to Metz Construction Com- Call the Hobe Sound Chamber at 772- will pay tribute to a founding Chamber on Federal Highway in Hobe Sound pany, Casino Night also is sponsored by 546-4724 or visit www.hobesound.org for member and unofficial “Mayor of Hobe with his sister, Elaine, which had been Oakowsky Properties, Capps Roofing, more information or to reserve tickets. ■ Sound,” Phil Algozzini, by adopting a launched in 1947 by their parents, Nick cruise ship theme. All the “passengers” and Vera Algozzini. will be wearing Algozzini’s signature at- “Many locals in Hobe Sound remember tire, the Hawaiian shirt, as they take their Mr. Algozzini for his warm and fun-lov- chances at casino-style gaming on board ing personality and his unique charm,” A promotion announced the Good Ship Alogozzini, aka the Hobe said Angela Hoffman, executive director Sound Golf Club on Bridge Road. of the Chamber. “He was fondly referred Sponsored by Metz Construction to as the ‘Mayor of Hobe Sound’ because Company, the event starts at 6:30pm. he knew everyone by name, and his was Tickets are $50 and include heavy hors one of the first businesses in Hobe Sound d’oeuvres, live entertainment, casino to thrive and prosper.” Sailing on the Good Ship Algozzi- ni- Casino Night will benefit the Hobe Sound Chamber of Commerce. Guests in their tropical cocktail attire will mingle with captain and crew while enjoying unique island cuisine, gaming for prizes, a steel drum band and DJ. Casino prizes will include electronics, spa packages, designer jewelry and golf packages. Tickets and sponsorship opportunities are still available. “Phil was extremely involved in the Denise Dublin, of St. Lucie County, has been promoted to director of operations at Family Hobe Sound Community, always do- Private Care, a nurse registry in Hobe Sound and a member of the Hobe Sound Chamber nating to local charities and as a found- of Commerce, according to company officials. Employed at Family Private care for nine ing member, participating in Chamber years, Dublin will direct operations for Florida’s east coast. Prior to Family Private Care, events,” said Jan Otten, membership di- Dublin had been employed 20 years at Martin Health Systems and five years at Treasure Phil Algozzini rector for the Chamber. “We truly miss Coast Hospice in Stuart.

Otten honored for work with inmates familiar face at any Hobe Sound Speech and Evaluation Contest at the Chamber of Commerce event, Wolf High Technology center of IRSC ARich Otten of Hobe Sound,was in Stuart, an annual event featuring the honored recently by his peers in Toast- best humorous speakers and evalua- masters International, an organization tors from Toastmasters Clubs through- devoted to developing public speaking out the area. and leadership skills through practice Otten’s dedication in bringing Toast- and feedback, as “Outstanding Member masters Gavel Clubs to the inmates of of District 47, Division D.” Florida Corrections Institutions was rec- The local Hobe Sound Toastmasters ognized. Through his efforts, inmates Club is sponsored by the Hobe Sound at five Florida correctional institutions Chamber of Commerce and meets twice now are learning the fundamentals of ef- a month at the Hobe Sound Bible College. fective speaking and leadership, giving Otten was presented a lapel pin, a voice to their thoughts and learning how citation, and a resounding standing to express themselves and accept criti- ovation during the recent Humorous cism without resorting to violence. Otten, a Coldwell Bank- er realtor and also owner of DancenSound, has devoted several years to Toastmasters, attaining its highest level, Distin- guished Toastmaster. He also has served as founder and club president of the Hobe Sound Toasters, the Area Governor, and as Gavel Club Liaison to Di- vision D of Toastmasters International. The award was present- ed by District Governor Matt Kinsey after Otten Photo: George Kleine was nominated by Area Governor John Hockey. ■ Toastmasters District 47 Governor Matt Kinsey, left, --George Kleine Richard Otten and his wife, Janet Otten. Hobe Sound Currents 14 Tributes October 2012

♦ ulPa Hagman, 63, of Hobe Sound of cancer Aug. 25 in Hobe Sound. The died in a car accident at the intersection banker succeeded David Rockefeller as of Federal Highway and SE Monroe chief executive in 1980 and as chairman Street in south Stuart on Saturday, Sept. the following year. Under their ten- 29. Also injured and transported to ures, the company expanded to operate Martin Memorial South Hospital where in more than 50 countries, including he was treated for non-life-threatening Russia, Egypt and China, where U.S. injuries was George Daughtrey, 52, banks hadn’t previously done busi- also of Hobe Sound. According to the ness. Chase merged with J.P. Morgan Florida Highway Patrol, Hagman was & Co. in 2000 to become JPMorgan stopped at the intersection of Southeast Chase, now the largest U.S. bank by Monroe St. and U.S. Highway 1 while assets. He was born in Bronxville, N.Y. Daughtrey was driving his GMC Sub- After Navy service, he graduated in urban northbound on U.S. Highway 1 1947 from Brown University in Rhode in the inside lane. Hagman had a green Island. He had served on the boards of light to proceed across the intersec- Celgene Corp., Firestone Tire & Rub- tion, but for unknown reasons Hag- ber, International Paper and Texaco. man turned left onto the inside north- He also was a board member of New bound lane and drove southbound in York’s Museum of Modern Art and the the northbound lanes, colliding with New York Zoological Society. Daughtrey. The accident still is under investigation, and the Hagman family ♦ Roman Frank Panek, 89, died are making funeral arrangements. Sept.17 at Treas- ure Coast Hospice ♦ Mary P Davie, 79, of Hobe Sound, House in Stuart. died Sept. 12 at Manors at Hobe Sound. Born in Sunderland, Born on Staten Island, N.Y., she moved Mass., Mr. Panek to Hobe Sound in August 2011 from moved to Hobe Bronxville, N.Y. A former owner of M. P. Sound with his Davie Construction and vice president wife, Elsie, in 1993, of John Davie Construction, she was from West Hartford, a member of St. Christopher Catholic Conn. He was a Navy veteran of World Church in Hobe Sound. Survivors in- War II, serving as a pharmacist’s mate clude her son and daughter-in-law, Rob- and receiving the Asiatic Pacific Ribbon, ert and Patricia Matthies of Hobe Sound; American Area Ribbon and World War grandson, William Matthies; and niece, II Victory Ribbon. He received his bach- Felicia Darella. She was preceded in elor of science degree in pharmacy from death by her husbands, Robert Matthies, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in Sr. and John F. Davie. Memorial Contri- 1949. A pharmacist for 44 years, owned butions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Kottenhoff Drug Store for 30 years in Association, 3333 Forest Hill Blvd, West West Hartford, Conn. He also was ap- Palm Beach, FL 33406. pointed by former Connecticut Gover- nor Thomas Meskill as Commissioner of ♦ JaCKIE Dean Wethington, 63, died Pharmacy from 1974-1980. He was also Sept. 30 at Martin a past president of Charter Oak Figure Hospital South Skating Club, in West Hartford, Conn. in Stuart. Born in Survivors include his wife of 66 years, Paris, KY, he has Elsie T. Panek of Hobe Sound; son, live in Hobe Sound Richard B. Panek of Southington, Conn.; since 2003, coming daughter, Joan P. Nelson and husband, from Aiken, S.C. Nils C. Nelson, both of Jupiter, Fla.; He was a musician sister, Wanda Alton of Ventura, Calif.; and former horse grandson, Adam B. Panek of Wethers- farm manager. He attended Commu- field, Conn., and numerous nieces and nity Baptist Church in Stuart. Survi- nephews. vors include his wife of 28 years, Rita Memorial contributions may be made to Faye Wethington of Hobe Sound; son, Treasure Coast Hospice, Thomas Wethington, and wife Penny of Knoxville, Tenn.; daughter, Sandy Carol ♦ Anthony Sarno, 89, of Hobe Sound, Wethington of Knoxville, Tenn; mother, died Sept. 7, at his residence. Born in Katie Wethington of Nancy, Ky.; step- Central Islip, N.Y., he moved to Hobe daughter, Melissa Marlow and husband, Sound in May 1980. He was an over- Shane, of Margaret, Ala.; stepson, Mi- head lineman, retiring from Long Island chael Millican of Cullman, Aka,; sisters, Lighting Company, having worked Evelyn Smith of Ky. and Wanda Moore there for 34 years. He served in the of Melbourne, Fla.; brothers, Mike Weth- United States Army during World War ington of Ky. and Everett Wethington II. He was a member of St. Christopher of Charleston, S.C; five grandchildren Catholic Church and had been an usher and three great grandchildren. He was there. He is survived by his wife of 68 preceded in death by his father, David years, Frances Sarno of Hobe Sound; Wethington; sister, Nellie Wethington; daughter, Catherine A. Sarno; son, and brother, David Wethington. Memo- William Sarno; daughter-in-law, Liz rial Contributions may be made to St. Sarno; seven grandchildren, Elena and Jude Children’s Hospital. Meredith Ball; Wayne, Jeff, Lori and Toby Sarno; and great grandchildren ♦ Willard Carlisle Butcher, 85, the Jade, Ava, Tristan, Anthony and C. J. He former Chase Manhattan Bank chair- was preceded in death by his brothers, man and chief executive who helped George, Michael and Peter and sisters, lead the bank’s global expansion, died Mary and Madeline. Hobe Sound Currents October 2012 Politics 15 Martin County Commission District 3 Race

he political contest that may have election, although Doug Smith, (R) Dis- er Patrick Hayes, Republican, in the pri- age voters to become informed, ask them the most immediate impact on trict 1, still faces a write-in candidate mary on a platform of no growth outside questions, learn who they are, because Tour lives is the one in our own who has not campaigned. the current urban services boundary. one of them will be your next Martin backyard for the Martin County Com- Craig Woll, a No Party Candidate from Each candidate has a website that goes County Commissioner in November. mission, District 3. The other commis- Hobe Sound, is challenging Anne Scott, into detail about his or her background Hobe Sound Currents asked one ques- sion seats that had been open, Districts a Republican from Jupiter Island, who and philosophy as to the direction that tion of both candidates, and these are 1 and 5, were decided in the primary soundly defeated one-term commission- Martin County should take. We encour- their responses.

HSC: What do you see as the greatest challenge facing Martin County residents over the next four years, and what is the role the Martin County Commission can/will play in addressing that challenge?

Anne Scott Craig Woll Republican, Jupiter Island No Party Candidate, Hobe Sound www.AnneScott2012.com www.CraigWoll.com

artin County faces many chal- sion should restore and strengthen the he greatest challenge facing Mar- once did. We need to create a communi- lenges in the coming years. goals and protections of our Comp Plan tin County residents is also the ty, now more than ever, in which existing MGrowth has been and will to safeguard against further waste of Tgreatest challenge facing America. businesses will thrive, and new business- continue to be the major issue. Most if time and money on projects like Extreme That is to find a way for people – with es will want to join. We need to make per- not all of the issues we face relate direct- Sports, Hobe Grove and Harmony. various opinions and alliances – to reach mitting an easier process to facilitate this ly to the issue of growth. The Commis- Inlet navigability and dredging, agreements creating forward progress growth. We need to find new industries sion will formulate the policies that will beach re-nourishment, and water qual- as a community. Opposite sides now dig and businesses that will bring green and guide our local government in facing ity in our river and estuary are ongoing in their heels and are willing to “wait it modern jobs to our county. This is one of these challenges. This is a powerful re- issues that are critical to our quality of out” until one side gains the upper hand those “which side of the aisle are you on” sponsibility, and the Commission must life. The Commission must work in co- in representation, and then gets their issues about which I spoke earlier. listen to the voice of its citizens while operation with other governmental en- way. This thought process has brought It has long been suggested in Mar- determining what is in the best long tities to form a plan and find a dedicated our governments to a point where we tin County that there are two groups of term interest of the County. source of funds to address these issues. stand on either side of the aisle and talk people — pro-growth or anti-growth. Economic Growth: Our environmental policies must be about how wrong those on the other side We must change this way of thinking. The economy, including employment, clear and must be enforced with rigor, are. Just look at what our political cam- Uncontrolled residential development, is an issue of global proportions. There fairness and impartiality. We must not, paigns have been reduced to. There are which no one wants, is different from is an ongoing national debate on the as we have in the past, authorize de- fewer and fewer issues addressed and solid business growth. Uncontrolled proper role government should play in velopment that negatively impacts our more and more attacks made. This type residential growth increases infrastruc- economic recovery and growth. Some seagrass beds, shorelines, wetlands and of activity is keeping us from moving ture cost. In order to assist in the preven- of our current commissioners believe river water quality. forward as a nation and also as a county. tion of unbridled residential growth and being a business-friendly government Budget Management: The answer is for our leaders and rep- sprawl, please join me in supporting a means competing to attract business by Political rhetoric would have us be- resentatives to dialogue and be willing to strategic plan for business growth. offering tax relief, rebates and outright lieve that Martin County is divided hear each other. We must demonstrate to In addition to the increased tax rev- cash incentives. However, the monu- between “Growth” and “No Growth” those we represent that we are willing to enues we will receive as the result of a mental failure of Digital Domain dem- constituencies. It is not. Growth is in- engage in a thoughtful sharing of ideas, carefully structured strategic business onstrates give- away bidding wars to evitable. Where and how we grow is the which must include a deep respect for plan, we will also be preparing our coun- lure business is a very bad idea. fundamental issue. Living within our different opinions, for the environment, ty for the return of our youth as they fin- To earn a reputation for being a budget and not raising taxes is a clear and for our economic prosperity. ish high school and college, come home business-friendly county, the Commis- priority. Growth will require additional One of the issues that needs to be ad- and look for a place to work. I want my sion should adopt measures to assist infrastructure. The cost of building and dressed immediately in this way is how children to be able to return here, to make both new and existing businesses. Such maintaining infrastructure is determined our county can find ways to fund our a good living, and to raise their families measures might include providing help by the Commission but borne by the tax- government so it can provide us with the in the same great place they were raised. to navigate and comply with our rules payers. No decision should ever be made services we deserve. Over the past sever- I hope that you agree with me and will in a more timely and efficient manner. without due consideration for its ef- al years we have cut our county’s budget allow me to be part of the team of com- Conducting business with the county, in fect on the taxpayer. Spending taxpayer by more than 15%. The ramifications missioners that moves Martin County particular the permitting process, must money on speculative growth measures of these budget cuts are the lack of ap- into this new century and prepares us be more user-friendly. while reducing the quality and condition propriate maintenance of our public fa- for many centuries to come. Growth Management: of current services is not acceptable. The cilities, including ball fields, diminished In today’s economy, intellect and crea- taxpayers of Martin County know this, library hours, and deferred road and tivity are the resources that drive pros- even if some of our current commission- building maintenance. We must become perity. Quality of life issues must, there- ers apparently do not. better stewards of the many varied and The Martin County Elections fore, be a priority for local governments. As Thomas Jefferson said “The pur- wonderful assets we have in our county. office is preparing for an overall It is our superior quality of life, not tax- pose of government is to enable the We need a better, more-reliable stream 80% turnout Nov 6. The ballot payer funded freebies, that will attract people of a nation to live in safety and of funding. With the reality that housing for the presidential election will and retain businesses. Our Comprehen- happiness. Government exists for the in- values will return only to realistic and be two pages long, containing 11 sive Plan, a nationally recognized model, terests of the governed, not for the gov- genuine levels, as the real estate market constitutional amendments. For is the foundation for the superior quality ernors.” Martin County is a great place now is indicating, we cannot expect that more info, or how to vote by mail, of life, excellent schools and adequate to live and work, and we must all strive our property taxes alone will be able to go to www.martinvotes.com. infrastructure we enjoy. The Commis- to join together to keep it that way. fund county operations at the levels they Hobe Sound Currents 16 What ‘n Where October 2012

Saturdays in Saturday, Oct. 20 October National Wildlife Refuge Hike To help celebrate “National Wildlife Refuge Week,” Oct. 14-20, natural- Men Walk a ist Tracy Boothby will guide a walk along the estuary, through the coastal Mile in her hammock and sand pine scrub trails located adjacent to U.S. Highway 1 in southern Martin County beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 20. The Refuge Shoes provides critical habitat to a wide variety of A fundraiser for SafeSpace in indigenous species, including several threat- Martin County, the domestic ened and endangered species. There is no violence shelter, kicks off charge to attend and all ages Domestic Violence Awareness are welcomed. Reserva- Month in Martin County on tions are required by calling Saturday, Oct. 6, in downtown 772.546.2067 or via www. Stuart with the first of three hobesoundnaturecenter. walks featuring men wear- com. The Refuge and Nature ing 4-inch, red stilettos Center are located at 13640 SE as they walk a mile. If you Federal Highway in Hobe Sound, missed that one, there’s two miles south of Bridge Road. another at Tradition on Saturday, Oct. 13, and in Vero Beach on Wednesday, Oct. 27. For more information, go Saturday, Oct. 20 to SafeSpaceFL.org, or call 772.223.2399. Images Fashion Show & Luncheon The GFWC Hobe Sound Women’s Club invites you to help celebrate its 20th Friday-Saturday, Oct. 26-27 anniversary with a unique Fashion Show and Luncheon on Saturday, Oct. 20, at Lost Lakes Golf Club. “Images” will honor women, their fashions Indiantown Rodeo Saturday, Oct. 6 and life role transitions over the 20th century, with vintage and new styles, We know it’s fall because the Indiantown Rodeo Mini-triathlon many from local non-profit thrift stores. The event includes a silent auction finally made its way around the calendar again. of donated items from local businesses and attractions, which helps fund the Advance, discounted tickets for this family-friend- for Sunshine club’s many projects of arts, conservation and education. Tickets are $40. For ly, popular event on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 26- information and tickets call Peggy Kane at 772.545.8586. 27, are on sale NOW at all Seacoast National Bank Kids branches. The rodeo will be staged at the Timer Powers Park on Citrus Boulevard in Indiantown with gates opening at 5 p.m. Friday, with the show beginning at 7:30 p.m. The rodeo is a professional Wednesday, Oct. 24 event, sanctioned by the Professional Cowboy Rodeo Association (PCRA) and the Women’s Pro The 7/50 Project Workshop Rodeo Association (WPRA) with points earned by Seven Counties/50 years: A blueprint for ensuring economic prosperity and participants counting toward qualification for the the best-possible quality of life for Southeast Florida will conduct a Public prestigious National Finals Rodeo. There’s gonna Work Group meeting in each of the seven counties in the region. The Martin be some serious competition here. County Work Group meeting is Wednesday, Oct. 24, beginning at 8:30 and Seven events will be featured each night: bare- ending at 12:30 at the Indian River State College Chastain Campus, Wolf back riding, saddle bronc riding, bull riding, Technology Center, on Salerno Road. For more info, go to the Seven50 web- Prudential Florida Realty is set tie-down roping, steer wrestling, team roping and site: http://seven50.org. for its 3rd Annual Sunshine women’s barrel riding. In addition to the rodeo Sprint, a USA Triathlon-sanc- events, the Nouveaux Honkies will play before and tioned mini-triathlon fundraising after the rodeo. Food and beverages will also be event on Saturday, Oct. 6, at the available. Stuart Causeway to raise monies Friday, Oct. 26 Advance tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for for The Sunshine Kids. The Sun- Halloween Ghoula at The Mansion children 12-years-old and under. Tickets at the gate shine Sprint course consists of a will be $15 for adults and $8 for children. For more quarter-mile swim in the Indian The Mansion at Tuckahoe in Jensen Beach is the site for Treasure Coast information, visit www.indiantownchamber.com River Lagoon, a 9.5 mile bike Wildlife Center’s Owl’s Howl Halloween Ghoula from 7 to 11 p.m. on Friday, or call 772-597-2184. ride up Hutchinson Island to the Oct. 26. Tickets are $75 with proceeds to support the mission of the Treasure Jensen Beach Causeway turna- Coast Wildlife Center for the rehabilitation and return round and back, then a 2.6 mile of sick, injured or orphaned wild animals to their run/walk over The Ernest Lyons natural environment. A buffet is included, Saturday, Oct. 27 Bridge to MacArthur Blvd. and and a cash bar will be available. Costumes back to the finish line. Individu- are encouraged, or dress in classy casual Suddenly in Command! Tickets can be purchased at www. als and teams need to register The U.S. Coast Guard tcwild.org or by calling 772.286.6200. online at: www.sunshinesprint. Auxiliary Flotilla 59 com. Photo IDs are required at located in Sandsprit Park check-in, and for a complete list is offering a boating safety of rules, visit the website. For primer designed for those more information the the non- Saturday, Oct. 27 who do not normally profit, The Sunshine Kids, go to operate a boat, but could www.sunshinekids.org. Halloween Trunk suddenly be “in com- mand” if an emergency or Treat arises. The four-hour course will include a hands- The Hobe Sound Community Presbyte- on approach and use of basic safety equipment rian Church will again host its annual Halloween and will be Saturday, Oct. 27, from 9 a.m to 1 Trunk or Treat event on Saturday, Oct. 27, from 6-8 p.m. Membership in the p.m. at the Coast Guard Auxiliary facility at 3443 church is not required to participate in either decorating your car trunk or SE St. Lucie Blvd., Sandsprit Park in Stuart. Cost, in participating in the activities. A best-decorated trunk and best-costume including materials, is $15. For more info, go to prizes will be awarded. There will be games, face painting, a fun house, http://cgaux59.org. Reservations are required treats and much more. may be made by calling 772-342-0971. Hobe Sound Currents October 2012 What ‘n Where 17

Saturday, Oct. 27 Weekend, Chamber Casino Night Hon- Nov. 9-11 ors “Mayor of Hobe Sound” Stuart Air Show The Hobe Sound Chamber’s annual Casino Night fundraiser on Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Hobe Sound Golf Club will pay tribute to Phil Algozzini, remem- bered as the honorary “Mayor of Hobe Sound” by many locals. “Sailing on the Good Ship Algozzini,” a cruise ship-themed casino fundraiser, is spon- sored by Metz Construction Company and starts at 6:30pm. Tickets are $50 and include heavy hors d’oeuvres, live entertainment, casino style gaming, a cash bar, prizes and a prize wheel. Call the Hobe Sound Chamber at 772-546-4724 or visit www.hobe- Wednesday, Nov. 28 sound.org for more information or to reserve tickets. The Stuart Air Show, sponsored by The Singing Christmas Tree Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, is The Hobe Sound Ministries will present the 16th Annual Singing Saturday, Nov. 3 held each November at Stuart’s Christmas Tree on Wednesday, Nov. 28 and Friday through Sunday, Witham Field, celebrating flight, Nov. 30 to Dec. 2 at 7 pm each evening. Mark your calendars now, because this spectacular event, attended last year by over 6,000 people, will feature Meal or No Meal Benefits honoring the sacrifice of our 75 singers in a beautifully lighted Christmas tree of thousands of lights, House of Hope veterans and active duty military, a 25 piece orchestra, a children’s choir and a drama cast of 50 at the Hobe and featuring aircraft and military Sound Bible College at 11295 Gomez Ave in Hobe Sound. Admission is The seventh annual Meal or No Meal dinner for equipment and displays, children’s free, but an offering will be taken. Call 772-546-5696 with questions or House of Hope will feature old favorites, new fund- activities, and vendor and com- visit www.hobesoundsingingtree.com. raisers and a mystery speaker at 6 p.m. Saturday, munity booths. Proceeds from the Nov. 3, at St. Mary’s Pittenger Center, 701 SE Ocean Blvd., Stuart. Reservations are $100 per person, and event benefit the Road to Victory, all proceeds benefit House of Hope. Live music by Military Museum, and The Special the St. Joseph School Jazz Band, stunning photog- Olympics and other local organiza- raphy on sale from local professionals, a special tions. For air show information, drawing for a $1,000 travel gift certificate, unique visit StuartAirShow.com. auction items, and an inspiring guest speaker of na- tional caliber round out an uplifting, heart-warming fundraiser. The identity of the speaker is kept secret to further heighten his compelling presentation. Its Saturday, dramatic nature is designed to provide a deeper, lasting understanding of hunger and homelessness Nov. 17 in America. Contact 772.286.4673 for tickets, or visit: Tequesta Fest www.hohmartin.org. in Paradise Park Not quite a rodeo, but with all the Weekend, Nov. 2-4 country-western music, cowboy boots and hats, and good ole Jensen cowboy grub, you just might think that’s where you’re going on Sat- Beach urday, 1-7 p.m., at Paradise Park Pineapple in Tequesta. This family-friendly event, no admission charge, of- Festival fers games, carnival rides, lots of Jensen Beach will various vendors, food, brews and host one of the good music. A great way to spend Treasure Coast’s a Saturday afternoon. largest street fes- tivals, the Jensen Beach Pineapple Festival, during the Saturday, Dec. 1 weekend of Nov. 2-4. A Jensen Beach Chamber of Commerce event that celebrates the rich heritage Eagles Art Event of Jensen Beach, featuring more than 100 separate events, including midway rides, an authentic Baha- in Okeechobee mian marketplace from Eleuthera, Bahamas, Jun- The annual F.O.E. 4137 Auxiliary kanoo parade, street entertainers, arts & crafts, and 4th Annual Art Event will start at 9 major concerts by national headliners. Festival gate a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 1, at admission is $15; children 12 and under, admitted 9985 Hwy. 441 North in free if accompanied by an adult. Hours of the Pine- Okeechobee and will last all day. apple Festival are: Friday, Nov. 2, 6pm to 11:30pm; Call Lynn Earley at 863.697.2443 Saturday, Nov 3, Noon to 11:30pm, and Sunday, Nov. 4, Noon to 9pm. Discounted advance general if you would like to participate as a admission tickets go on sale Oct. 17 at all TD Bank vendor. Featuring the Florida High- locations throughout Martin and St. Lucie Coun- waymen Artists Robert Butler and ties and also at Sonic Drive-In Restaurants in North his son, Daniel Butler, and many Palm Beach, Fort Pierce, and Jensen Beach. For more members of the Florida Highway- information about the Pineapple Festival concerts men artists, as well as other fine and events, visit www.pineapplefestival.info. artists from the Florida area. Hobe Sound Currents 18 Lifestyle October 2012 Fall splendor beckons decorators tunning fall colors are out there in full display, so why wait? Many of Sus are ready for some type of change Diana as we move from one season to the next. Cariani Keep in mind that just a few simple things can make a big impact, so focus on certain areas around your home to spruce up this Simply fall season, which can carry you through Seasonal till Thanksgiving. Be sure to show off your front doorstep body parts (all fake of course) to get peo- with straw bales (any size will do), fall ple talking. An extra-fun touch is to put foliage, branches, cornstalks, lots of pump- your monogram on your pumpkin with kins, and let’s not forget to change out our black thumbtacks or whatever color fits summer flowers to the gorgeous mums your theme. You can also do this with mini that will be here soon. pumpkins for your dip bowls, or carve out Different sizes of outdoor lanterns with a small section near the bottom and wedge LED candles in them will add that extra in fake plastic vampire teeth and add a touch to your entry, along with a beauti- couple red eyes. ful fall wreath. If you get your pumpkins Some fall “must-haves” at the dessert early, why not decorate them until you are station are the ever-yummy pumpkin ready to carve them? The kids can paint roll, caramel or candied apples, autumn and glitter them. Use pinecones, leaves, brittle, and toasted pumpkin seeds from twigs and other natural findings from all those pumpkins you’re using. An- nature for whimsical faces. other fitting treat is to make Halloween A cute and simple pumpkin design is to “smiles.” Take thin apple slices (be sure glue a black bow on its stem with black but- to coat the sliced apples in lemon or tons with your house number on the front, orange juice to prevent them from brown- or a little BOO! Create a stunning driveway ing) spread a thin layer of peanut butter with a pathway of luminaries, made with on one side of the top and bottom, place pumpkins or with decorated bags. mini marshmallows on the bottom layer like teeth and top with your other apple slice, so the red apple skin forms lips over the marshmellow “teeth.” Your guests certainly will be able to tell that you en- joyed putting this all together for them. Other quick decorations include colorful Indian corn that you can now pick up from your local supermarket. Get your favorite large vase or clear container so you are able to stand the corn up and around your vase. Secure with rustic twine or a nice fall rib- bon, add your favorite fall-scented candles. While working with the candles, add some leaves and twine around any spare candles you may have around your house for an extra touch, maybe for your bathrooms or Black buttons spell out a favorite for a little niche. Halloween greeting! If you’re looking for a fabulous and When putting your displays together, a quick centerpiece, gather different size decorator’s secret trick is to always try to glass jars, the bigger the better. Fill them work in odd numbers, usually three works each 1/3 way full with the first layer being best. Also use a variety of heights and lev- dried peas, second layer with dried red els like candlesticks, apothecary jars and, beans, and the top layer unpopped pop- of course, pumpkins. corn or a yellow dried bean. Add a candle If you’re planning a get-together, a and ribbon to each jar and display them buffet station seems to work well. Try to on your table for an instant fall effect. set a few tables in separate rooms so your If you’re feeling a little crafty, the white guests mingle and move out of your kitch- tube style dryer vent works great to wrap en. Depending on your space, have your into a circle and secure. Add a stem and drinks on one table, snacks and main food a few dried leaves. Your local pumpkin on another, and your desserts or sweets patch always has discarded broken pump- should have their own space, as well. kins; just ask for the stems for your future Gather all your vases and spray paint dryer vent pumpkins. You can touch these some branches black, hang a few cobwebs up with paint if you choose. and bats from them, and place them on all This fall season is such a wonderful time your tables. Here are a few simple ideas as we start to see a slight change in the that will give your tables that extra “wow” weather, so take a little time now so you factor. Start with a good size pumpkin and can enjoy your beautiful decorations.... carve out the top big enough for your fa- until the end of November. ■ vorite glass bowl to fit (be sure to slant the edge so your bowl doesn’t fall in). Scoop out the inside of your pumpkin and place Diana Cariani, a mother of four from your bowl back in filled with salad, fruit, Hobe Sound, loves to decorate homes and punch or use it for your ice bucket. businesses throughout the Treasure Coast. Decorate a few wine bottles with scary Send her your decorating tips or questions labels; add some cobwebs, bugs, bats, and at [email protected]. Hobe Sound Currents October 2012 Lifestyle 19 Soldiers in old Palm Beach; Murphy houses around town

s the summer heat Apollo street, cottage at the corner of drags on I some- Olympus and Zeus Crescent, on Laurel Atimes think of what Lane, and the “Mermaid Bar” along US1 Suzanne it would have been like here behind the Hobe Sound Fire station. Briley in Hobe Sound in the “old At one time there was a parquet dance days,” before air-condition- floor (remaining to this day) where ing. My neighbor’s father Camp Murphy soldiers enjoyed them- Hopscotch was the railroad chief on the selves. It had an open bar for buying east side of the tracks, and liquor. (African-Americans were re- Photos: Barbara Clowdus as a boy he well remembers quired, however, to use a separate bar on fanning himself with pal- the side, a still-segregated South then.) metto fronds before entering One dark night a jealous soldier shot Suzanne Briley, artist, author, entrepreneur the house to brush thick lay- and killed his rival on the dance floor. It and environmentalist, lives in Zeus Park ers of mosquitoes off (before was the only murder in Hobe Sound for in Hobe Sound. She may be contacted at days of spray cans filled with many years. ■ [email protected]. repellents, too). Another Murphy building houses Jimmy Cargill’s Bait and Soldiers in Johnathon Tackle Shop. Several other businesses and homes in Hobe Dickinson park, or rather Sound also are located in converted Murphy buildings, easy Camp Murphy, near Hobe to spot now. Sound in the swamps behind from the little station in West Palm Beach the inland waterway, back in April 1943 back to Camp Murphy in Hobe Sound. experienced horrific hordes of mosqui- It seems that the people of Palm Beach toes. The camp was a base for teaching were very gracious to the soldiers. A can- super-radar used by the military for a teen near the south side was run by the training school in camouflaged build- fashionable ladies, offering large baskets ings. Unfortunately mosquitoes took of mangoes for free along with large no notice and the soldiers had to wear pieces of cake and pies, which were not raincoats at high noon in the blistering available to the men back at camp. There heat to protect themselves. were lots of records to play and chairs to There was a quiet little road near the sit on. The fashionable ladies tinted their beach. The Ford family had given the hair green, pink or blue, offering hospi- army permission to use it and there were tality and an invitation to tea dances. The no houses nearby, making it a magical soldiers were introduced to heiresses and spot for soldiers to relax during time daughters of the rich and famous from off. On weekends a pass would be given the local “finishing school” as escorts for them to use Palm Beach (which was to the tea dances. The residents of Palm closed for security purposes) and the Beach were kind, making the soldiers feel men would walk over to the highway ( welcome and wanted. US1) to a place marked for people to pick The town was relatively quiet then up soldiers waiting for a ride into town. except there were many wounded in the Often they would take an apartment big hotels. The famous Breakers Hotel near Morrison’s cafeteria (in those days) looked forlorn, and soldiers filled the in West Palm Beach for the weekend, towns of Palm Beach and West Palm enjoying cool iced drinks and renting bi- Beach. In West Palm Beach there were cycles along Clematis Street. Crossing the motion pictures and a few night clubs, bridge to Palm Beach they could spend one of them was the Pelican where a Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday tenor sang “Danny Boy” every night but until it was time to catch the bus back never hit the high note! There was a bandstand at the end of the street with a concert for the soldiers. At the end of the day, when it was time to leave, there were long lines at the bus station waiting to take the young men back to Camp Mur- phy, Hobe Sound, and to Boca Raton, where they were stationed. After the war ended and Camp Murphy closed, soldiers depart- ing, the barracks build- ings were dispersed, removed and demol- ished. A few of them were moved to Hobe Sound where they stand Buildings that once were barracks, canteens and wash houses today. Among them: were transplanted from the former secret Army base, Camp Mur- The Perky Pelican, Bait phy, at what is now Jonathan Dickinson State Park, throughout and Tackle, The Hair Hobe Sound, including The Hair Company on Bridge Road. In front Company, Chuckles, The of a Murphy building is Eric Huber, owner of The Hair Company, Hobe Sound Communi- and behind him, from left, Ehacaear Watwacha, Kendralynn Deem, ty Center, cottages along April Dunworth and Deanna Rothgeb. Hobe Sound Currents 20 Lifestyle October 2012 Diners spark fond memories n old song goes “Dinner in the diner, Nothing could be finer…” Areferring to the dining car of a George railroad train. I think we all know that Kleine the dining car is the basis for many of the modern-day diners, but more than architecture defines a diner—admittedly Pots, Pans, a key element—but so does the simple, Puddin’ & Pies basic American-roadside food and the atmosphere, or ambiance, in which it’s ally “86” baked potato. (That’s diner- served. speak for “out of.”) So you ordered the Combined all in one long, silver-sided mashed, which were creamy, smooth roadside eatery, the architecture, com- and rich with milk and butter. They fort food and a rag-tag ambiance blend were DELICIOUS. Smother them in the to make the Great American Diner a “Swiss Gravy” and heaven was there on touchstone in our collective memory of your plate. ■ road trips, vacations and Friday night dates. George Kleine is a “semi-retired” profes- When my dad gave directions for sional chef who spends much of his time “long drives” (anything over 50 miles), sharing his culinary talents with his fellow he always included at least one diner Ridgeway residents in Hobe Sound. Email recommendation. He also included a him at [email protected]. menu guide to the best offering at said diner. As much as Mom enjoyed cook- ing, Dad enjoyed eating. A pair of traits they passed on to their son. I would rather eat a meal in an old ratty looking diner than in a modern “big box” chain restaurant. The fra- grances of strong coffee, sizzling bacon and years of good old-fashioned cook- ing are as welcoming as the big “Hiya, Hon!” greeting in diners nationwide. Standard diner fare always includes lots of beef, grilled, broiled or stewed, eggs “any style” and desserts of monu- mental proportions. The staff is always friendly, efficient and seems able to remember everyone who ever entered their domain. They could take 10 orders, MISS KINGSTON call them out to the cook, often in a SWISS STEAK (sort of). strange verbal shorthand, drop off your 3 8-10 oz round steaks. coffee, and deliver your meal while still 2 Cups flour smiling. Of course that smile carried a 2 teas dried oregano hint of world weariness and of danger. Somehow you knew better than to cross Salt and Pepper the line with this “wonder woman.” Pound the steaks with a tenderizer Each diner was best known for some mallet and dredge in flour and oregano specialty. The chili. The smothered 1 can whole tomatoes in juice steaks. The apple pie. One famous 2 stalks celery, chopped Vermont diner is best known for its Salt 2 carrots, chopped Pork and Milk Gravy. But whatever 2 large onions, peeled and thinly sliced the specialty, all across America, diners 2 cloves garlic, chopped welcome locals, truckers and travelers 1/2 lb sliced mushrooms with a special “only in America” style 1 Tbsp Gravy Master or Kitchen Bouquet and flavor. 2 Tbsp vegetable oil A favorite of mine was in Kingston, New York, and was a regular stop Heat oil in heavy pan until very whenever our travels took us in that hot, sear the steaks on one side till direction. Dad would take a “short browned. Turn the steaks, add the detour” to get there. The cooks made onions and the tomatoes. Reduce the “griddle cakes” that were light and heat to a simmer, and cover the pan. fluffy, topped them with “dropped Add additional water or tomato juice eggs” and oozing butter. Sounds awful in these cholesterol-worried times but as needed. Simmer the steak for 2 to they tasted real good. When you wanted 3 hours until the meat is tender. Add their “house specialty,” you ordered the mushrooms, simmer for 10-15 the Chef’s Special Swiss Steak—swim- minutes. ming in a rich tomato brown gravy Serve with mashed potatoes (or baked with onions, mushrooms and peppers. The slow-braised steak fell apart under potato if you haven’t run out). the slightest pressure of your fork and I wonder if anyone else has a favorite melted in your mouth. It was always diner or diner memory. Send it to me accompanied by a “choice of potato,” and share it. either mashed or baked. They were usu- Hobe Sound Currents October 2012 Lifestyle 21 Tess offers tips for the transplanted gardener f you are new to gardening in Florida, ing. I am now 15 years into it, and still There are several Florida Yards lectures Beach on November 3- 4. The Tropical and assuming you are from somewhere learning, picking up new things every scheduled on vegetable gardening in Ranch Botanical Gardens on Ranch Trail Ito the north, perhaps you are wonder- day. To speed up the process, I encour- October. These are hosted by Fred Burkey, in Stuart is another option, and they host ing how you’ll be able to do without such age all of you to read the large quantities Florida Yards and Neighborhoods Agent. year-round events with plants for sale. wonderful plants as forsythia, lilac and of information available. The University Burkey also hosts the television program, The Martin County Master Gardeners daffodils. Don’t be homesick. The Treasure of Florida website, solutionsforyourlife. “Your Florida Yard,” which airs frequently are having their annual plant sale Oct. 13 Coast is a gardener’s paradise! For every ufl.edu, has a seemingly infinite amount on Martin County television, MCTV. at the Martin County Fairgrounds, where plant you can’t grow here, there is a new of information on exactly the things you In addition, reach out to local garden- you can pick up some unusual specimens, one to replace it. need to know. ers. Come in and talk with the Master talk with Master Gardeners, and check out You can grow most of the annuals There also are lots of wonderful books Gardeners at the Martin County Extension a demonstration vegetable garden and dis- during the winter, as well as some of the on Florida gardening in the libraries as Service. We can help you with all your plays on hydroponic gardening. The sale familiar perennials, and you can grow well as at bookstores, and books are great questions and solve the mystery of what starts at 9 a.m. Plan to be there early as vegetables, too. This is the time of year to sources for plant identifications. Consider disease or insect might be bothering your there’s a regular following and the plants get started. It’s a reverse season. The cool a subscription to Florida Gardening maga- plants. Perhaps you’d like to work on go quickly. There will be other gardening- season vegetables such as broccoli, peas, zine, with its calendar of all the upcoming becoming a Master Gardener, learn about related items for sale as well. The website spinach, etc., can be started in October. gardening shows and plant sales around native plants, and help spread the word for information is martin.ifas.ufl.edu. Tomatoes and the warm season vegetables the state, as well as pertinent articles by about good gardening practices that don’t My message is this: adapting to Florida can be started in August. In addition, we experts in the field. harm the environment. gardening is easy and fun. Take my sug- can grow oranges, lemons, limes, man- The Stuart News has an informative and Go to plant shows. There are several gestions and before you know it, you’ll be goes, bananas and more that they can only timely gardening article by Carol Cloud wonderful plant shows coming up where a gardening addict....like me. ■ dream of up north. Bailey on Sundays in the At Home section. you can meet experts in their field. One --Tess Murphy I come from Massachusetts and having Look out for announcements in the paper is at Heathcote Botanical Gardens in Fort gardened there for many years, I won- on the Florida Yard lecture series and Pierce Nov. 17-18, and another is at the Master Gardener, Martin County Coopera- dered how I would ever relearn garden- Master Gardener events at local libraries. Mounts Botanical Garden in West Palm tive Extension Service The secrets to finding happiness as we age t 33 years old, Thomas Jefferson positive about its remainder. While this is Most medical inquiries are best served by was just a whippersnapper when sound advice for any age, apparently it all consulting your physician or a qualified spe- Ahe wrote the Declaration of Inde- Nicolette comes down to the individual. As Benja- cialist and this “Ask Florence” is no substi- pendence. But he got a little help from Christie min Franklin said, “The Constitution only tute for professional exams and insights. To Benjamin Franklin, who was 70. gives people the right to pursue happi- reach Ask Florence, email Nicolette.Christie@ As researchers today look to better ness. You have to catch it yourself.” ■ vnaflorida.org. understand why many seniors are expe- Ask riencing increased joy and contentment Florence as they age, Franklin—known for sharing pearls of wisdom—may have had extra • I’m OK, you’re OK: Happier seniors insight into the Declaration’s famous made peace with their past. With the line about our unalienable rights to “life, “striving” phrase of life behind them, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” they settled in comfortably with what Earlier this year Medical Daily re- they had accomplished rather than berat- ported on the Association of Psychologi- ing themselves for unachieved goals. cal Science examining several studies Other factors contribute to senior con- revealing greater levels of happiness and tentment. Opinion polls find that seniors emotional well being among seniors. who engaged in social activities up to six Cautioning that the research was far hours a day report higher levels of hap- from conclusive and a need for “direct piness. Other surveys report that—not evidence” persisted, the researchers surprisingly—seniors who have sex more did note some common characteristics than once a month admit to being very among happier seniors that younger happy. (Just remember to be careful and people—well, actually everyone—would use protection. Don’t be a statistic in the do well to emulate. (Particularly because rising numbers of seniors with STDs.) the researchers found that to “feel better” Exercise (walks are great; walks on the younger people often zeroed in on the beach are better and dancing, if you’re negative traits or statuses of their peers.) able, is best) keeps seniors healthier and Consider: more independent longer. • Keep on the sunny side: Happier But as wonderful and essential as these seniors recalled events with an emphasis outlets are, aging joyfully really comes on the positive. (For anecdotal evidence, down to attitude. It’s never too early to try asking your parents or grandparents adopt a positive attitude about aging. In about World War II or the Great Depres- fact, there’s incentive to do so. Research- sion. I bet they’ll avoid reveling in the ers at Yale University found in 2002 that more upsetting details.) people under 50 who harbored negative • No more drama: Happier sen- views of aging proved more likely to iors avoided relationships—even old suffer cardiovascular troubles than those friends—whose attitudes or actions with positive outlooks. brought them frustration and disappoint- Attitude goes hand-in-hand with ment, seeking out upbeat social circles gratitude. As one researcher said, hap- and surroundings. pier seniors didn’t overlook the losses • Keep it simple: Happier seniors of loved ones or difficult times they’d tended to focus on simpler matters endured, but rather they appreciated that (though researchers admitted this may they were still alive. attribute to losses in cognitive reasoning Happier seniors better understand associated with aging). that life is short—and they chose to stay Hobe Sound Currents 22 Outdoors October 2012 A little rig to increase your catch ctober is the crossover, “variety board. Tie on a snap swivel and hook and less cut-offs. For five years I’ve pack” type of fishing. Snook will it over the cup hook. Now make sure preferred the circle hooks versus the Ohead north on the first power- the leader from the cup hook is out- bigger sloppier kahles. Rich house Nor’easter, feeding on everything side the first peg of the triangle. Take Now to get lower visibility, throw Vidulich as they leave our inlets. Last season I the leader at this first peg and wrap away the swivel part and do a direct tie enjoyed not fishing for them but still it around the triangle and head back on with an Allbright knot. Get on the in- catching lots of snook on large sand to the spool to tighten up. You should ternet or go to the tackle shop and they Pompano fleas. Yes, the almost universal bait, the end up with two parallel lines at the will show you this fairly even knot. Reporter flea, will attract numerous species on bottom peg of the triangle. As drab as this article is, the key by- any foul weather day. Wrap these two lines around 6 to 7 product will be you catching remark- By the way, foul is a wonderful thing times then take the loop at the top of the ably more fish. tion booth at the Florida Sportsman when fishing the surf. Jacked up waves triangle, spread the bottom line wrap Projections on when the migratories Show Oct 13-14 at the South Florida stir up the sandbars and elevate the to pass the top loop through the middle will make their way down from Hat- Fairgrounds in West Palm Beach, spon- crabs and fleas to be chased by a mul- and pull tight. Now you have a perfect teras, N. C., is difficult. My friend, Ryan sored by world distance casting cham- titude of fish. Local pompano, permit, dropper loop. For the second loop just White, has a tackle shop just off Hatteras pion, Tommy Farmer. Further media snook, jacks, bluefish, ladyfish, rabbit pull off the snap swivel and loop this beaches. He’s better known as Hatteras supporting my efforts will be on ESPN fish, and tarpon will be on the feed. A new loop over the cup hook. Proceed Jack and is the state distance casting Radio 760 A.M. Saturdays at 7 in the standard pompano rig will work pretty with the triangle loop procedure to champion many times over. Once the morning. I will do two live broadcasts in good, but if you really want to increase make a second dropper loop. water temps drop to the mid 60’s these October to support a successful pres- your chances listen up. (This will spike Cut the line a foot above this loop and fish leave his region. Depending on cold entation, and I look forward to meeting my commercial relationships again, but attach a swivel. Squeeze the top loop and fronts and late season tropical depres- some new friends. A tip: I’ll have my then that’s not why I write this column!) pass it thru a chartreuse float and maybe sions, we really won’t know until they rig-making boards, spider sinkers and Build yourself a rig-making board. It’s a red bead. For diversity, sandpaper the leave. When they do, I get a call, and surf rods for sale at great prices and will not hard. One three-foot piece of a 1” x color off the chartreuse float until white I contact commercial netters at Jekyl raffle off a $300 super graphite Tommy 6” pine board will suffice. On the right and pass it through. Make sure you at- Island, Georgia. Farmer rod, so don’t miss it! ■ side of the board, 3 inches from one end, tach 2/0 kahle and or circle hooks. Next it’s the always reliable Larry center drive a 10-penny nail securely. A few more solid tips and we’ll dry “Fishman” Finch in Jacksonville. Thirty Now, stay one inch from the top of the up this topic. First the leader can be 30 contacts later, if the stars say so, they Rich Vidulich, a commercial fisherman, board, go to the left 14 inches from the lb. Ande mono, but the best would be will be here. I won’t let you guys miss it. lives in Jupiter and fishes the beaches of end, and drive another 10-penny nail to use a pink fluorocarbon. Fluro has That’s my job! the Treasure Coast. Send your comments/ into the board. From this nail drive in no sparkle and you’ll get more bites This month I’ll be manning a conven- questions to [email protected]. two more nails to form a 6” by 6” tri- angle. The finishing touch is to screw in a cup hook centered on the left side of the board about 2 to 4 inches from the end. Place a spool of 30 lb. test leader on the right nail Photo: Rich Vidulich at the end of the The finished rig board. Pick your trail to spend a day in natural lands n event that takes the whole fam- The NETA Fall BBQ and Trail Day, in- own horses) in the morning, followed by know what businesses have to offer here. ily outside is being planned by cludes guided outdoor events and lunch, lunch at the Jupiter Farms Community The Northeast Everglades Trails Asso- Athe Northeast Everglades Trails will be Sunday, Oct. 14, beginning at 8:30 Pavilion for $5. (NETA members eat free.) ciation is a non-profit organization work- Association (NETA) for mid-October as a.m. Organizers have planned hikes, bik- The afternoon includes an informal ing on behalf of all trail interests, includ- temperatures cool down. ing, paddling or horseback rides (on your meeting to give updates on natural areas ing hikers, bicycle riders, trail runners, and trails, talk about the annual Ocean To horseback riders, water (paddle) trails, Lake Greenway Celebration, have a trail et- and other passive trail users. NETA hosts iquette demonstration of a horseback rider trail events and activities in natural lands encountering a biker or a hiker, announce- and parks, and works with groups to ments and brainstorming for future NETA create a network of interconnected trails events, as well as to answer questions re- throughout this region. garding NETA activities and trail issues. Its marquee event is the annual Ocean NO JOB TOO BIG This year, NETA members may bring To Lake Greenway Celebration (OTL); “gently used” horse tack or outdoor held in February each year. sporting goods to re-sell during this To register for this event, (NETA OR TOO SMALL! event. Set up a small table to sell your membership is not necessary to partici- horse tack, kayak, canoe, SUP, bike, hik- pate), go to www.evergladestrails.org, STEVEN LOFSTEDT ing, camping, or related outdoor gear or email [email protected], or call Lawn Service and keep the proceeds -- or use a portion at 561-762-9576. to renew your annual NETA member- The Jupiter Farms Community Pavil- RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL ship for another year. ion is at the northwest corner of Jupiter LICENSED • INSURED Vendors, clubs, outfitters, associations, Farms Park, located one mile south of In- and eco-businesses may bring brochures, diantown Road on the corner of Jupiter 772.781.1022 • Stuart decals, fliers, or special offers for the ven- Farms Road and Randolph Siding Road. dor table, an opportunity to share and (16655 Jupiter Farms Road, Jupiter, Flor- network with others and to let them ida 33478). ■ Hobe Sound Currents October 2012 Marketplace 23

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