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If Mother Nature is kind to us this year, the subtle signs of fall along the Space Coast will be all around us. The humidity may have eased a bit, the thermometer may no longer be stuck at 80 degrees or higher, and the Atlantic Ocean and Indian River Lagoon may once again be offering cooler breezes.
Healthcare is a demanding and sometimes heartbreaking field. Yet, for a few special families, the desire to help transcends the challenges — generation after generation.
Miniature pinscher Pumpkin Pie is delighted by visits from Baba Senior Outreach volunteer Janet Inaba. “He’s a good judge of people and he loves her,” said Pumpkin Pie’s owner, Harriett Estelle. Inaba brings both food and friendship to Estelle’s Trinity Towers South apartment on a regular basis.
It sounds like the stuff of fantasy but one of the most iconic heroines in children’s literature is coexisting happily with a tormented master of Impressionism and a slightly air-headed genie, on the Cocoa Beach Causeway.
Most motorists navigating the maze of car dealerships, roadside restaurants and gas stations near the intersection of State Road 520 and Interstate 95 have no clue that just beyond all the asphalt and pavement lies a verdant field of horticultural dreams: the Brevard Discovery Garden.
I learned to make banana pudding the same way a lot of people do: in my grandma’s kitchen, without a recipe, eyeballing the ingredients. We made it often, especially when it was too hot to turn on the oven. It was her go-to dessert to feed a crowd, especially for a Summerlin fish fry. She always made it early in the day, because it only gets better after chilling for hours.
Palm Bay’s Tom Kehoe got his college degree in journalism, but he has spent a lifetime learning Asian philosophy: its ethics, aesthetics and focus on living in harmony with nature.
Embedded firmly in the history of the Space Coast are two very disparate creatures: cows and sea turtles. Long before the rockets’ red glare, cattle were an important part of the area’s culture and economy. As for the sea turtles, they’ve been nesting on our beaches since well before the indigenous Ais were busy harvesting shellfish from the Indian River Lagoon.
The scene is bucolic, timeless. As the morning mist lifts, cowboys on horseback with dogs at their sides weave their way among a herd of cattle. It could be a pastoral scene from the TV drama, Yellowstone. Instead, it is happening in Viera, not far from shopping centers, high-tech companies, restaurants and bustling traffic.
It was a hot day in 1892 as Bone Mizell and two cowpoke companions rode the brush flats of central Florida in search of stray cattle. They spotted a tawny bag of bones with murderous horns — but no brand — at the edge of a thorny thicket.
They start arriving as early as March, these ancient mariners from distant lands. They zero in on Space Coast beaches, but they are not here for the rays and the relaxation. They are here for the survival of their species.
If you live on the coast or in a mobile home, you may have to evacuate in the event of a major storm forecast for your area. While you will undoubtedly get instructions from the local government, it’s wise to create your evacuation plan well before a disaster strikes.
In the most classic of mom-and-pop business launches, Don and Beth Kramer started an in-home senior care company from the kitchen table of their Satellite Beach home.
Suzy McCoy Shriner once asked her friend, Indian River and Brevard County philanthropist and community activist Barbara Ruddy, to describe herself.
Let’s be honest. There are very few of us who, at one time or another, did not boast to our friends and family in northern climes about how benign our winter weather always proved to be.