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TITUSVILLE • MIMS COCOA THE CAPE NORTH BREVARD PORT ST JOHN MERRITT ISLAND COCOA BEACH @HometownNewsBrevard @hometownnewsbrevard @HometownNewsBre Vol. 15, No. 4 www.HometownNewsBrevard.com Friday, Feb. 1, 2019 SALUTE REELING IT IN ADVENTURE ABROAD ADOPT ME Friends of the Zachary reeled in a 14- Gisele and Richard Bonzo is a 4-year-old Cemetery is continuing inch sea trout take a tour through male mixed breed its effort to restore a Norway looking for his forever veteran's cemetery home HOMETOWN HEROES 11 CATCH OF THE WEEK 16 TOURING WITH THE TOWNIES 17 ADOPTABLE 7 Community All the right moves Mayor’s Calendar For the complete Community Fitness Calender listings, go to www. hometownnewsbrevard.com/ calendar/community/ Challenge Saturday, Feb. 2 Special Olympics: The shapes up Sons of the American Legion Squadron 117 will sponsor a Motorcycle fund Brevard raiser event for Special Olympics on Saturday, Feb. By Brittany Mulligan 2 . The family event will [email protected] run all day and will be located at 189 Veterans BREVARD COUNTY — In an ini- Drive in Palm Bay. For tiative to help residents get healthy, 11 more informatiom, call mayors have teamed up to participate 321-729-8089 or email in a little friendly competition for the Tom Wood at alpost117@ title of “Most Fit City of 2019.” aol.com. The third annual Health First May- Strut Your Stuff: The or’s Fitness Challenge will begin this Cocoa Beach Woman's weekend, Sunday, Feb. 2 and will run Club will present "Strut Alex Schierholtz/Staff photographer for eight weeks through March 30. Your Stuff" on Saturday, Kario Oquendo, of Astronaut, drives by a defender during ‘Astronaut High Residents may register free at any Feb. 2 at the Cocoa Beach point before or during the challenge. Country Club. This is the School at Eau Gallie High School Basketball Game’ on Jan. 25. The War Eagles “The Brevard County Department annual Fashion Show and lost with a score of 56-62. of Health put together this coalition Luncheon to raise funds of people from about 70 different for scholarships and groups in the county who all said we community service really need to do something about the projects. Doors open at Fairwinds Women’s Expo obesity epidemic,” said Maggie Dick- 10:00, with fashion show inson, VISTA (Volunteer in Service to beginning at 11:00 and America) for United Way. See CALENDAR, page 7 From those meetings was born Get shares local resources Healthy Brevard, and United Way of NEXT LAUNCH By Brittany Mulligan A series of speakers will discuss various top- Brevard took it on as a health initia- [email protected] ics throughout the day from health, wealth and tive of its own. No earlier than February 18: hormone replacement therapy to human traf- “It was that group that decided to A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will MERRITT ISLAND — Women, are you ficking and domestic violence. put together the Mayor’s Fitness Chal- launch a PSN 6 and SpacelL looking for health, beauty or fashion tips? The “My idea of this women’s expo is specifically lenge,” Mrs. Dickinson said. “There Lunar Lander. Fairwinds Women’s Expo will have an abun- to open up conversations for people who aren’t was two mayors who came to our dance of resources, vendors and fun activities to aware of what’s going on in health, senior care, meeting – one was Jim Tulley, the INDEX help you get through 2019 with a kick. [and] some of the political issues that are out mayor of Titusville, and one was Wil- Golf 18 Obituaries 23 The expo is scheduled to take place from 10 there that need to be addressed – namely liam Capote who is still the mayor of Classified 23 Out & About 15 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 9 at the Merritt human trafficking,” said Lisa Hamel, founder of Palm Bay. They were the ones who Crossword 22 Police Report 5 Horoscopes 15 Viewpoint 6 Square Mall, 777 Merritt Island Causeway. See EXPO, page 7 See FITNESS, page 8 American Made Furniture Living Rooms • Bedrooms • Youth Furniture Office Furniture • Dining Rooms • Accessories Open 7 Days A Week • Financing Available • Layaways Welcome 1220 Ridgewood Ave. Holly Hill 386-258-3338 amishhomefurnishings.com 2 Hometown News – NORTH BREVARD– www.HometownNewsBrevard.com Friday, Feb. 1, 2019 Life Styles You’ve got heart You put your heart into everything you do, and so do we! EVENT | KEEP YOUR HEART HEALTHY WHEN | Thursday, February 21 | 5–7 pm WHERE | Indian River Preserve | 3950 Walkabout Way, Mims ABOUT | Join us and our cardiovascular care team to find out how to keep your heart healthy. Learn about state-of-the-art heart care at Parrish Medical Center. Dinner will be served at this free event, but seating is limited. Visit parrishhealthcare.com/events, or call 321-268-6110 to reserve yours. parrishhealthcare.com/cardiovascular Healing Families—Healing Communities® Friday, Feb. 1, 2019 Hometown News – NORTH BREVARD – www.HometownNewsBrevard.com 3 Longtime teacher shares love of ballet By Jamie Desena-McFarland six practice areas in total: the two original For Hometown News dance studios, along with two larger ones and two gymnastics rooms. TITUSVILLE — Just when Catherine “I’m so impressed with what Mary’s done Alexander thought she was going to take with the school there,” Ms. Alexander said. some time off from a lifelong calling of teach- “It’s really like a family magnet. She’s super ing ballet, an unexpected opportunity came involved with the school and you can tell.” along and she changed her plans. A graduate of the University of South Flor- Now, Ms. Alexander is in a new role as a ida with a double major in business and bal- ballet teacher at Titusville Ballet and Jazz let, Ms. Alexander was attracted to the struc- Center, where she began teaching ballet and ture and organization involved with both pointe to students on the center’s competition areas. team in September. Recently, she passed the Pre-Primary “I have been friends with the owner and through Level 3 certification of American manager, Mary Keegan, since we both taught Ballet Theatre’s National Training Curricu- there over 30 years ago,” Ms. Alexander said lum – a major accomplishment in the field of of her history with the center. “Mary bought ballet education. out the previous owner just after that and has Established shortly after Congress official- grown the school to be [a] well recognized, ly acknowledged American Ballet Theatre as family oriented studio.” America’s national ballet company in 2006, When Ms. Alexander received a call from the curriculum is the only U.S.-based classi- Photo courtesy of Kevin Roberts Ms. Keegan in August offering her a teaching cal ballet certification system. position, she readily agreed – though she had “This is a stringent program that provides Catherine Alexander, shown here with past students, recently began decided just a few months earlier to take a an assessment and verification of a ballet sharing her love of ballet in a new teaching position at Titusville Ballet year off. teacher’s knowledge and ability to train danc- and Jazz Center. “I said, ‘of course, I’d be happy to come,’” ers in classical ballet,” Ms. Alexander Ms. Alexander said. “I had seen their dancers explained. Going forward, Ms. Alexander plans to “Ballet is not something you’re just going to at various events and knew they were good Also an involved community member, Ms. continue to enhance the already successful go in and be good at. For most people, it takes dancers. This is a chance to work with a really Alexander worked for NASA for 33 years and dance center where she now teaches. a certain amount of persistence, and that’s good group; a hard-working group of kids.” in 2012 retired as a project manager in the Additionally, she will continue to share her something that I think carries over into your Because Ms. Alexander had previously Launch Services Program. As part of that love of ballet by offering teacher training work life.” taught at the center, the grounds were not role, she was on the board of directors of Bre- workshops, master classes and choreography To learn more about Catherine Alexan- completely unfamiliar, but they had expand- vard Cultural Alliance, the county’s local arts for competitions. der’s ballet experience, go to www.ABalle- ed. agency, from about 2006 to 2012 serving as “I think the thing I love about ballet is the tExp.com. Whereas there were once two relatively the NASA Kennedy Space Center represen- opportunity to influence kids with the To learn more about Titusville Ballet and small dance rooms, or studios, there are now tative. importance of things like attention to detail, Jazz Center, visit www.titusvilleballetand- persistence and tenacity,” Ms. Alexander said. jazzcenter.com. Father and Son aggener, IV, M le W S family-oriented practice o DD . 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