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TITUSVILLE • MIMS COCOA THE CAPE NORTH BREVARD PORT ST JOHN MERRITT ISLAND COCOA BEACH @HometownNewsBrevard @hometownnewsbrevard @HometownNewsBre Vol. 15, No. 13 www.HometownNewsBrevard.com Friday, April 5, 2019 LOCAL HEROES NICE CATCH TRAVELING ABROAD CUTE AND CUDDLY Sunrise Rotary Club Dr. Richards caught a Andrea McGinty stops Harry's favorite things members donate to 12-pound kingfish off by Germany with the to do are chasing Friends of the the east coast's waters Hometown News lizards and squirrles Cemetery HOMETOWN HEROES 11 CATCH OF THE WEEK 9 TOURING WITH THE TOWNIES 16 PET OF THE WEEK 8 Community Thank you for your service Country Calendar For the complete Community star to Calender listings, go to www. hometownnewsbrevard.com/ calendar/community/ help raise Friday, April 5 North Brevard Art Festival: The North funds Brevard Art League will host their 55th Spring Art By Jamie Desena-McFarland Show Friday through For Hometown News Sunday (April 5-7). The TITUSVILLE — About two years ago, art show will take place at a group of Titusville residents teamed up the Elks Lodge located at to begin the process of establishing a 2955 Columbia Boulevard Boys & Girls Club in Titusville. in Titusville. Available will Now, the team is nearing its financial be art for sale, raffle goal for the opening and is inviting area baskets, a silent auction residents to an event intended to help and more. Hours are April raise the remaining funds. 5, 5-8 p.m. For more The Titusville Sunrise Rotary Club information, call 321-383- will host its first “Old Florida Stomp 7441 or visit www. Down” and barbecue from 5:30-10 p.m. northbrevardartleague. Alex Schierholtz/Staff photographer Saturday, April 6 under the tent at 420 com. Julia St. Adult Easter Egg Hunt: Shirley Fashano, of Melbourne, gives Spec-4 Ellis Neal, of Cocoa Beach, a Viet- The event will feature country music The Melbourne Parks and nam War grateful nation pin and presidential letter during ‘Welcome Home star Ray Scott, who has appeared at the Recreation will host an National Vietnam War Veterans Day’ on March 29, at The American Legion Grand Ole Opry more than 60 times adult Easter egg hunt for Post 163 in Melbourne. and has had four No. 1 hits in the UK, ages 18 and older at the according to a press release. Local blue- Melbourne Auditorium grass artist Robbin the Bank will also located at 625 E Hibiscus play at the event. Boulevard in Melbourne. Barbecue and concert tickets are $50 Purchase Tickets in Teacher salary agreements and can be purchased at the gate or in See CALENDAR, page 8 advance at https://titusvillesunrise.com/ old-florida-stomp-down/. NEXT LAUNCH remain deadlocked Proceeds will benefit the Boys & Girls By Josh Whitener Young’s decision, scheduled for April 23, will Club of Central Florida – specifically for April 7, 6:36-8:35 p.m. EDT: [email protected] decide the outcome of the ongoing battle for the upcoming Titusville location. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket higher pay for Brevard educators. “After personally witnessing the will launch the Arabset 6A BREVARD COUNTY – During a March 27 Similar to the March 13 meeting, Brevard increasing rate of drug abuse in our local communications satellite. meeting, Brevard County Public School’s dis- Federation of Teachers (BFT) and Brevard Pub- hospital and medical offices we decided trict negotiation team offered, again, the same lic School board negotiators came to favorable to join hands with our longtime friend INDEX level of raise for teachers and staff they’ve agreements on contract language that some- Jo Lynn Nelson to begin a fund raiser to Adoptable 4 Obituaries 24 offered since December 2018, when the union what improve working conditions. establish the first Boys and Girls Club of Classified 25 Out & About 15 Titusville,” said Frank and Marilyn Crossword 23 Police Report 5 declared impasse. 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EVENT | YOUR HEART MATTERS WHEN | Wednesday, April 10 | 5–7 pm WHERE | Blue Heron Restaurant, 137 Plantation Dr., Titusville ABOUT | Join us and Dr. Biju Mathews, medical director of Cardiovascular Services at Parrish Medical Center, to learn about keeping your heart healthy and treatments available at Parrish Medical Center. Dinner will be served at this free event, but seating is limited. To reserve your seat, visit parrishhealthcare.com/events or call 321-268-6156. parrishhealthcare.com/events Healing Families—Healing Communities® Friday, April 5, 2019 Hometown News – NORTH BREVARD – www.HometownNewsBrevard.com 3 King Center to undergo major renovations By Brittany Mulligan features a 2,016 seat main theater, small- [email protected] er Studio Theater, rotunda and adminis- trative offices, all of which benefit from BREVARD COUNTY — For 31 years the air conditioning unit system. the Maxwell C. King Center for the Per- The cost for replacing the King Cen- forming Arts has been entertaining audi- ter’s heating, cooling and ventilation sys- ences with acts larger than life to local tem comes at a price of $1.7 million. theatre groups and symphony orches- The overall cost for this project is esti- tras. mated to be $3.6 million, with funds pre- This summer, some exciting changes dominantly coming from the King Cen- will begin to enhance visits to the per- ter’s endowment. Remaining funds are forming arts center. Phases to modernize expected to come in from the State of and update internal systems of the King Florida Cultural Affairs grant for Center are set to take place on the East- $500,000. ern Florida State College Melbourne Additionally, Mr. Janicki explained campus. that a “capital equipment fund” sur- “With the building being over 30 years charge of $3.25 has been built in to each old, the first part of the renovations is ticket sold at the King Center over the going to be replacing some badly needed years to help costs such as this. and corroded air conditioning piping, Renovations to the lobby will cost $1.9 and parts like that,” said Steve Janicki, million and will include a new bar area executive director of the King Center for and an improved security vestibule to the Performing Arts. “Florida summers ease procedures in addition to creating Photo courtesy of BRBH are not kind to air conditioning systems, more lobby space. An artistic rendering of the King Center for the Performing Art’s VIP and we’re no exception to that rule.” Further repairs will feature moderniz- Crown Club room is shown above. Renovations to the King Center will The air conditioning system replace- ing the VIP Crown Room, bold architec- ment will be divided into five or six tural updates to the front entrance and begin this summer through October. phases, added Mr. Janicki, and the sec- repainting the exterior of the entire new outdoor patio area and a rooftop ond part will involve renovating phase building. this time, which is anticipated to last terrace, but not for another few years. one of the lobby. Designing the King Center renova- from June through October. Patrons can “Our community deserves it, and our The renovation project, which has tions and HVAC system will be BRPH still contact the box office and adminis- patrons deserve it, and so do the people been dubbed “Keeping the King Center Architects and Cape Design Engineering trative offices to book tickets for future who have supported us over the many Cool,” will be the most extensive renova- of Melbourne. M. H. Williams Contrac- shows during this time. years,” Mr. Janicki said. “We’re excited tion since the performing arts center tors of Melbourne has been contracted to After completing this round of renova- and looking very much forward to it.” opened, according to officials. perform the work. tions, the King Center Board of Direc- For more information, visit www.king- The King Center for the Performing Performances on the King Center’s tors is in discussion of a second renova- center.com. 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