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The L AKER FREE The L AKER EAST PASCO EDITION JULY 23, 2014 Orthopedic care that’s close. So you can go far. To help you get back to your active life, we provide services ranging from general orthopedic care and sports medicine to minimally invasive hip, knee and shoulder replacements. To find an orthopedic surgeon, call 877-DOC-5321 (362-5321) or visit BayfrontDadeCity.com. Bayfront Health Dade City is directly or indirectly owned by a partnership that proudly includes physician owners, including certain members of the hospital’s medical staff. 13100 Fort King Road LAKER XL Extra news in an EXTRA LARGE format WE'RE GETTING BIGGER AND WE'RE EXCITED! The LAKER / Lutz NEWS phone: 813.909.2800 • fax: 813.909.2802 www.lakerlutznews.com www.facebook.com/lakerlutznews August 6 The Laker/ Lutz News will be six inches taller. We will be the same size as many daily newspapers. BEGINNING By B.C. Manion [email protected] In her previous role, Carol Scheckler de- livered warm greetings to people when they dropped in at the Greater Zephyrhills Chamber of Commerce. But she stepped away from her job as administrative assistant at the chamber in May, and has since become president of The Samaritan Project, based in Zephyrhills. The chamber job, she said, was her pay- check. The Samaritan job doesn’t pay Scheckler a dime. “Now, I don’t have a paycheck, just a passion and a mission,” Scheckler told members of the East Pasco Networking Group at its July 8 breakfast meeting. In fact, there are no paid positions in The Samaritan Project organization, she said. “None of us get anything other than the reward of knowing we are helping some people,” said Scheckler, who became ac- quainted with the charitable organization when she was working for the chamber. B.C. MANION/STAFF PHOTO Carol Scheckler, president of The Samaritan Project, said helping the homeless is her passion and mission. Not too proud to beg for homeless See HELPING, page 8 By Michael Hinman [email protected] With a new owner and a new name, change has been a constant for Bayfront Health Dade City. But while some may say too much change is bad, Shauna McKinnon knows that what the Dade City hospital has expe- rienced in recent months will only make it better. And that includes planned major changes coming up this winter. McKinnon, who has led the hospital as its chief executive since January 2013, has been making stops around the community sharing news of a $3 million expansion planned to start later this year that will ex- pand the five existing operating rooms, and make some much-needed updates to the pre-operation area and recovery rooms as well. “We have five rooms there right now, but they are quite small,” McKinnon said. “Everything in the medical field evolves over time, and it creates more of a demand for space.We’re simply responding to that demand.” The renovation and expansion could take close to a year to complete, but McKinnon is not anticipating any interrup- tions in service. Enough space will still be made available during construction to keep surgeries going, and the hope is that seeing contractors will build excitement instead of creating any inconvenience at the 13100 Fort King Road facility. Renovating the surgical areas was next on McKinnon’s list once a $3.5 million ex- pansion of the hospital’s emergency room was completed in 2012. McKinnon, how- ever, didn’t lay out the plans with her parent company until after Community Health Systems Inc. completed its $7.6 bil- lion buyout of previous hospital owner Health Management Associates last year. “When I talked to them about it, they See HOSPITAL, page 8 Don Porter: A forward-thinker, with deep community roots COURTESY OF THE PORTER FAMILY Don Porter was described by state Rep. Will Weatherford as a ‘giant of a man.’ Porter died July 1 at age 73. By B.C. Manion [email protected] When Don Porter was growing up in Wesley Chapel, he attended elementary school at a one-room schoolhouse and rode a bus to Dade City for high school. Much has changed in the Pasco County community where he grew up — and Porter and his extended family have played a con- siderable role in creating that change. The memorial service to honor his life was July 12 in the conference center at Porter Campus at Wiregrass Ranch, a satellite campus of Pasco-Hernando State College, on land the Porters donated. That campus is just one tangible sign of the forward-thinking and big picture ap- proach that the entire family has used in making decisions regarding the development of thousands of acres they have owned for decades, Porter’s son, J.D. Porter, said in a re- cent interview. The Shops at Wiregrass, a regional shop- ping mall, and Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel, an 83-bed facility, are two other proj- ects built within the 5,100-acre development of regional impact approved in 2006 on the Porters’ land. Porter, the eldest son of the late James and Martha Porter. He died on July 1, at age 73. The Porters moved into Wesley Chapel in the 1940s, long before development hit the area.They bought land from the Rockefeller Land Trust for Wiregrass Ranch after being forced to sell the land now occupied by Zephyrhills Municipal Airport. The Porters were forced to sell that land at the beginning of World War II, to make way for an Army Air Force training station. In personal interviews and during the me- morial, family and friends described the kind of man Porter was. They characterized him as a passionate fighter for justice, but also a patient listener. They said he was a deep thinker, a loving fa- ther and a faithful friend. Porter enjoyed single malt scotch and Little Debbie snack cakes. He had musical tastes that ranged from Pavarotti to Dave Brubeck, and was a man with his own sense of style. State Rep.Will Weatherford said he was 26 and making his first run for state office when he met Porter. Over the years, Weatherford had numerous roundtable chats with Porter, his brothers, Tom and Bill, and his son, J.D. The men didn’t talk about what Wiregrass would look like in the next five to 10 years, but took a longer view. See PORTER, page 8 Dade City hospital readies $3M surgical expansion COURTESY OF BAYFRONT HEALTH DADE CITY Change has been the order of business at Bayfront Health Dade City over the past year, but hospital chief executive Shauna McKinnon feels the community has embraced all those changes as positive, including the recent announcement to expand surgical services.
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The LAKERF R E EThe LAKER
EAST PASCO EDITION J U LY 2 3 , 2 0 1 4
Orthopedic care that’s close.So you can go far.
To help you get back to your active life, we provide services ranging from general orthopedic care and sports medicine to minimally invasive hip, knee and shoulder replacements.
To find an orthopedic surgeon, call 877-DOC-5321 (362-5321) or visit BayfrontDadeCity.com.
Bayfront Health Dade City is directly or indirectly owned by a partnership that proudly includes physician owners, including
certain members of the hospital’s medical staff.
13100 Fort King Road
LAKER XLExtra news in an EXTRA LARGE format
WE'RE GETTING BIGGERAND WE'RE EXCITED!
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BEGINNING
By B.C. [email protected]
In her previous role, Carol Scheckler de-livered warm greetings to people whenthey dropped in at the Greater ZephyrhillsChamber of Commerce.
But she stepped away from her job asadministrative assistant at the chamber inMay, and has since become president ofThe Samaritan Project, based inZephyrhills.
The chamber job, she said, was her pay-check. The Samaritan job doesn’t payScheckler a dime.
“Now, I don’t have a paycheck, just apassion and a mission,” Scheckler toldmembers of the East Pasco NetworkingGroup at its July 8 breakfast meeting.
In fact, there are no paid positions inThe Samaritan Project organization, shesaid.
“None of us get anything other than thereward of knowing we are helping somepeople,” said Scheckler, who became ac-quainted with the charitable organizationwhen she was working for the chamber.
B.C. MANION/STAFF PHOTOCarol Scheckler, president of The SamaritanProject, said helping the homeless is herpassion and mission.
Not too proud to beg for homeless
See HELPING, page 8
By Michael [email protected]
With a new owner and a new name,change has been a constant for BayfrontHealth Dade City.
But while some may say too muchchange is bad, Shauna McKinnon knowsthat what the Dade City hospital has expe-rienced in recent months will only make itbetter. And that includes planned majorchanges coming up this winter.
McKinnon, who has led the hospital asits chief executive since January 2013, hasbeen making stops around the communitysharing news of a $3 million expansionplanned to start later this year that will ex-pand the five existing operating rooms,and make some much-needed updates tothe pre-operation area and recoveryrooms as well.
“We have five rooms there right now,but they are quite small,” McKinnon said.“Everything in the medical field evolvesover time, and it creates more of a demandfor space. We’re simply responding to thatdemand.”
The renovation and expansion couldtake close to a year to complete, butMcKinnon is not anticipating any interrup-tions in service. Enough space will still bemade available during construction tokeep surgeries going, and the hope is thatseeing contractors will build excitementinstead of creating any inconvenience atthe 13100 Fort King Road facility.
Renovating the surgical areas was nexton McKinnon’s list once a $3.5 million ex-pansion of the hospital’s emergency roomwas completed in 2012. McKinnon, how-ever, didn’t lay out the plans with herparent company until after Community
Health Systems Inc. completed its $7.6 bil-lion buyout of previous hospital ownerHealth Management Associates last year.
“When I talked to them about it, they
See HOSPITAL, page 8
Don Porter: A forward-thinker, with deep community roots
COURTESY OF THE PORTER FAMILYDon Porter was described by state Rep. WillWeatherford as a ‘giant of a man.’ Porter diedJuly 1 at age 73.
By B.C. [email protected]
When Don Porter was growing up inWesley Chapel, he attended elementaryschool at a one-room schoolhouse and rode abus to Dade City for high school.
Much has changed in the Pasco Countycommunity where he grew up — and Porterand his extended family have played a con-siderable role in creating that change.
The memorial service to honor his lifewas July 12 in the conference center atPorter Campus at Wiregrass Ranch, a satellitecampus of Pasco-Hernando State College, onland the Porters donated.
That campus is just one tangible sign ofthe forward-thinking and big picture ap-proach that the entire family has used inmaking decisions regarding the developmentof thousands of acres they have owned for
decades, Porter’s son, J.D. Porter, said in a re-cent interview.
The Shops at Wiregrass, a regional shop-ping mall, and Florida Hospital WesleyChapel, an 83-bed facility, are two other proj-ects built within the 5,100-acre developmentof regional impact approved in 2006 on thePorters’ land.
Porter, the eldest son of the late James andMartha Porter.
He died on July 1, at age 73.The Porters moved into Wesley Chapel in
the 1940s, long before development hit thearea. They bought land from the RockefellerLand Trust for Wiregrass Ranch after beingforced to sell the land now occupied byZephyrhills Municipal Airport. The Porterswere forced to sell that land at the beginningof World War II, to make way for an Army AirForce training station.
In personal interviews and during the me-
morial, family and friends described the kindof man Porter was.
They characterized him as a passionatefighter for justice, but also a patient listener.They said he was a deep thinker, a loving fa-ther and a faithful friend.
Porter enjoyed single malt scotch andLittle Debbie snack cakes. He had musicaltastes that ranged from Pavarotti to DaveBrubeck, and was a man with his own senseof style.
State Rep. Will Weatherford said he was 26and making his first run for state office whenhe met Porter. Over the years, Weatherfordhad numerous roundtable chats with Porter,his brothers, Tom and Bill, and his son, J.D.The men didn’t talk about what Wiregrasswould look like in the next five to 10 years,but took a longer view.
See PORTER, page 8
Dade City hospital readies $3M surgical expansion
COURTESY OF BAYFRONT HEALTH DADE CITYChange has been the order of business at Bayfront Health Dade City over the past year, buthospital chief executive Shauna McKinnon feels the community has embraced all thosechanges as positive, including the recent announcement to expand surgical services.
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USDA committing $31.5M to citrus greening diseaseThe Laker/Lutz News Staff Report
More than $31 million in funding for re-search and Cooperative Extension Serviceprojects to fight citrus greening disease isbeing released by the U.S. Department ofAgriculture.
Most of the funding for the researchcomes from the 2014 Farm Bill passed byCongress this past spring, with an additional$6.5 million coming from the USDA budget,officials said.
It’s spearheaded for research to combathuanglongbing, commonly known as citrusgreening disease. HLB is a pathogen that is
transmitted by insects that causes fruit toyellow and become bitter.
Although it was first recognized in the1920s, HLB wasn’t found in Florida until thelate 1990s, according to published reports.
“USDA is committed to the fight againstcitrus greening, including making major re-search investments to counter thisdestructive disease,” said USDA secretaryTom Vilsack, in a release. “The citrus industryand the thousands of jobs it supports are de-pending on groundbreaking research toneutralize this threat.”
Because there are wide differences in theoccurrence and progression of HLB among
the states, there are regional as well as na-tional priorities for the Citrus DiseaseResearch and Education Program, whichwill disperse research funds. Projects thatare multistate, multi-institutional or trans-dis-ciplinary will be considered first, officialssaid.
Along with the research, the USDA’s HLBMulti-Agency Coordination Group said itwas funding three new projects to combatcitrus greening.
The first will commit $2 million to fieldtest antimicrobials that have shown promisein combating HLB in laboratory and green-house studies.
The second, also funded up to $2 mil-lion, will support the deployment oflarge-scale thermotherapy, since studieshave shown heating a tree to 120 degreesFahrenheit for approximately 48 hours cankill the HLB bacterium in the upper tree.That allows the tree to regain productivity,officials said.
A third project will use $2.5 million toestablish several model groves in coopera-tion with Florida Citrus Health ManagementAreas that would include systematic sur-veys, timely chemical treatments, newplanting strategies, and the removal of deadand abandoned groves.
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NEW CEO AT FLORIDA HOSPITALWESLEY CHAPEL
Denyse Bales-Chubb is the new presi-dent and chief executive for Florida HospitalWesley Chapel, beginning Aug. 1.
She replaces Brian Adams, who filled asimilar position at Florida Hospital Tampaearlier this year.
“Denyse is committed to our mission andgrowing the legacy of Seventh-day Adventisthealth care,” said Don Jernigan, presidentand chief executive of Adventist HealthSystem, in a release. “I’m pleased to wel-come her to our system, and look forwardto seeing her contributions to both Florida
Hospital WesleyChapel and AdventistHealth System.”
B a l e s - C h u b bbrings more than 25years of health careexperience, most re-cently serving as vicepresident and admin-istrator of AdventistMedical CenterSelma and AdventistMedical CenterReedley, both located in Southern California.She has worked for other organizations aswell, including United WestLabs, ValleyBaptist Health Plan, Tenet Health System,Columbia Healthcare, Lutheran HealthSystems, and Arkansas Valley RegionalMedical Center.
Bales-Chubb has a master’s degree inhealth care administration from WichitaState University in Kansas, and a bachelor’sdegree in medical technology and biologyfrom Fort Hays State University in Missouri.
Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel is an 83-bed facility located on Bruce B. DownsBoulevard in central Pasco County.
KAUFMAN JOINS FATHER’SPRACTICE
Dr. Jon Kaufman has joined the KaufmanEye Institute, which has offices located inZephyrhills, Wesley Chapel, Sun City Centerand Bushnell.
He is the son of Stuart Kaufman, themedical director and founder of the insti-tute, and is a Cornell fellowship-trainedsurgeon.
The younger Kaufman grew up inTampa, and is a graduate of BerkeleyPreparatory School. He earned his bache-lor’s degree in cellular and molecularbiology from the University of Michigan,and his medical training at Rush MedicalCollege in Chicago.
For information, call (855) 733-2378.
RIBBON-CUTTING FOR NANA JO’SNana Jo’s Café, 14748 U.S. 98 Bypass in
Dade City, will have a grand opening andribbon cutting July 26 from 6 p.m. to 10p.m., hosted by the Greater Dade CityChamber of Commerce.
The event will include live music by DCCountry, barbecue chicken and more.
Cost is $8 for adults, $6 for children.
NEW BUILDER AT SILVERADO Highland Homes has started to offer
homes in the Zephyrhills community ofSilverado Ranch off Eiland Boulevard.
The homes, which start at $170,000,range in size from 1,508 to 3,315 squarefeet, between three to five bedrooms, andtwo to three bathrooms.
For information, visit the website atHighlandHomes.org.
DADE CITY CHAMBER WANTSAWARD WINNERS
The Greater Dade City Chamber ofCommerce will host its annual awards ban-quet Oct. 16. With that, it’s seekingnominations for various awards.
Typically, awards are open to memberswho have been a part of the chamber ingood standing for at least a year. Some of thecategories include Business Leader of theYear, Large Business of the Year, SmallBusiness of the Year, Civic Association of theYear and Citizen of the Year.
To learn more about how to nominate,contact Jo Uber at the chamber office at(352) 567-3769, or email her [email protected].
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By Diane KortusPublisher
In the past fewmonths I have usedmy column to boastabout our recent in-dustry audit, whichreports that our news-papers have morereaders than ever be-fore.
Today I want to tellyou why that is. But first, a brief recap.
According to this statistically valid re-search, The Laker/Lutz News is read by 79percent of households in Lutz, Land O’Lakes, Wesley Chapel and Zephyrhills — ormore than 64,000 people every week.
This is a readership increase of 10 per-centage points in the past five years — anachievement we are quite proud of, espe-cially when considering most newspapersare reporting fewer readers, reducing fre-quency, shrinking in size, or beingdiscontinued altogether.
So, what are we doing different here atThe Laker/Lutz News to buck those down-ward trends?
It comes down to three things.1. In our audit, we added questions that
asked readers what types of news and sto-ries they wanted to read in theircommunity paper.
2. We accepted the survey results as factand began focusing more on topics readersranked as most important.
3. We hired additional professional jour-nalists who are experienced reporters,excellent writers and passionate about com-munity journalism.
It’s this third element I want to writeabout today.
After I became publisher in 2009, it took
me a while to learn the importance of hir-ing the best reporters that I could find. Ilearned nothing is more important than ex-perience and credibility when it comes togiving readers well-written, relevant storiesthat will engage them and keep them read-ing the paper.
Good writing and fair reporting buildsreadership and loyalty because readersknow they can trust what they read in ourpapers because our stories are accurate, bal-anced and relevant to their interests.
Our journalists were accomplished writ-ers and editors long before they joined TheLaker/Lutz News. They know how to identi-fy stories about interesting people andgroups, how to pick through public meet-ing agendas to find stories buried betweengovernment hype, and perhaps most impor-tantly, they know how to write well.
Frankly, it is a bit unusual for a newspa-per our size to have such accomplishedjournalists. So let me tell you a little aboutour team, beginning with Michael Hinman.
Michael joined us last year as news edi-tor. He has helped us add more serious hardand breaking news to our mix, and hasbrought daily news postings to our website.
His background includes five years writ-ing for community sections of The TampaTribune, including editor of the TempleTerrace News before it was shuttered. Morerecently, Michael was a real estate reporterat the Tampa Bay Business Journal.
He first started covering Pasco County in1997 when he was hired as a reporter forthe Zephyrhills News, and later became itseditor.
The quality of his work received recog-nition over the weekend in Coral Gables,where Michael picked up two prestigiousstatewide journalism awards from theFlorida Press Association.
He received first place in best local gov-ernment coverage for his outstandingcoverage of the proposed elevated toll roadalong the State Road 54/56 corridor. He alsotook top honors in general news about atown hall last year hosted by U.S. Rep GusBilirakis, bringing to light major problemswith flood insurance in our county.
Next is Community Editor B.C. Manion,whose byline has graced our pages for fouryears. She is our most experienced journal-ist, coming to us after 23 years with TheTampa Tribune, where she covered every-thing from city government to schools toregional planning.
But her love is writing about interestingpeople, organizations and places, and that’smostly what she does for us. B.C. has been
the leader of our editorial team as we’veworked hard to improve the quality anddepth of our stories.
B.C has received 11 awards from FloridaPress Association while on our staff, and isone of the most respected journalists inTampa Bay.
Michael Murillo joined us as a freelancewriter last summer. We liked his work somuch that he became an employee in thefall, writing most of our sports stories andalso feature stories about people and thingsto do.
Michael also wrote editorials for theTribune and spent many years as a reporterfor local community newspapers. His wackysense of humor makes him fun to workwith, and his love for community journalismis contagious.
Mary Rathman is the reason our pagesrarely have a grammatical mistake or typo.She scours our sentences, looking for anymisplaced comma or misspelled word. Shehas a sign on her desk that says, “I am silentlycorrecting your grammar,” and indeed, she is.
Besides proofing our work, Mary com-piles three columns that provide usefulinformation for our readers: What’sHappening, Health Notes and Chalk Talk.Mary is a respected and well-liked employ-ee, who started working here more than 10years ago. She also has served the companyin other roles before using her talents to as-sist our editorial team.
While our editorial team is dedicated todelivering a newspaper and website thatour readers can turn to for pertinent infor-mation and lively stories, we know thatmuch of our best work begins with ideaswe get from readers like you.
If you have an idea you’d like to share,please call (813) 909-2800, or email us [email protected]
COURTESY OF KAREL ORTIZ-TAVAREZMichael Hinman, news editor of TheLaker/Lutz News, shows the two trophieshe won for first place finishes at theFlorida Press Association Better WeeklyNewspaper Contest in Coral Gables lastweek. Hinman won for local governmentreporting and general news.
Outstanding journalists make for outstanding papers
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TEENS GIVEN CHANCE TO GRIEVEGulfside Hospice hosted its first teen
night June 26 at the Gulfside Center forHospice Care in Zephyrhills. The event waspart of the Mending Hearts BereavementProgram for teens who have lost a lovedone.
Teens participated in craft activities toexpress their feelings, beaded bracelets witha word that reminded them of their lovedone, painted masks to represent their feel-ings, and lit decorated lanterns as part of amemorial.
For information on upcoming teennights and bereavement services, call (800)561-4883.
GET THE MOST OUT OF INSURANCEMany health care plans must now cover
a set of preventive services like shots andscreening tests under the Affordable CareAct. To better understand insurance cover-age, Bayfront Health Dade City’s freephysician referral service is offering infor-mation on how to get the most out ofinsurance.
Those in need of assistance can call(877) 362-5321, or visit online atBayfrontDadeCity.com.
BALLOON RELEASE AT WEST WINDS
Gulfside Hospice hosted a memorial atWest Winds Assisted Living Facility inZephyrhills July 3, as residents honoredloved ones who have passed away.
A memorial service was led by staff andculminated in a balloon release to remem-ber and honor the lives of their loved ones.
Guests shared stories, poems, songs andprayers.
ADVANCED CARE PLANNING SEMINAR
Gulfside Hospice & Pasco Palliative Careis hosting a free seminar on end-of-life deci-sions and advanced care planning July 24 at2 p.m., at the Hugh Embry Library, 14215Fourth St., in Dade City.
Complimentary copies of “Aging withDignity’s Five Wishes,” a living will, will be
distributed. Light refreshments will beserved.
For information, or to RSVP, call PattySutton at (813) 997-4690.
BEREAVEMENT SUPPORTGulfside Hospice’s bereavement depart-
ment is offering a 10-week Newly BereavedSupport Group beginning Aug. 6 at 4 p.m.,at Gulfside’s East Clinical Office andBereavement Center, 37826 Sky RidgeCircle in Dade City.
For information, call Cecilio De Leon at(727) 992-8034.
VOLUNTEER FOR OMBUDSMAN PROGRAM
Florida’s Long-Term Care OmbudsmanProgram needs volunteers to join its corpsof advocates who protect the rights of eld-ers living in nursing homes, assisted livingfacilities and adult family care homes.
Local councils need volunteers to identi-fy, investigate and resolve residents’concerns. Special training and certificationis provided.
For information, call (888) 831-0404, orvisit Ombudsman.MyFlorida.com.
CARES PROGRAMSCARES Enrichment Center, 13906 Fifth
St., in Dade City, offers these activities:• Adult Day Care: Monday through
Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Participantsreceive breakfast, lunch and a snack, alongwith organized activities. The program pro-vides social and health services to adultswho need supervision in a safe place out-side the home.
Reservations are required, and veteransare accepted.
For costs and available funding, call(352) 519-9300.
• Senior Moments Early Memory LossProgram: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10a.m. to 2 p.m.
For reservations or information, call(352) 518-9300.
VOLUNTEER AT BAYFRONT HEALTH
Bayfront Health Dade City, 13100 FortKing Road in Dade City, is looking for ener-getic men and women to join its volunteerteam, including junior volunteers betweenthe ages of 14 and 18.
Opportunities are available in both clini-cal and nonclinical areas of the hospital.
To learn more about the program, callAmy Fort at (352) 521-1195.
HOSPITAL NEEDS VOLUNTEERSFlorida Hospital Zephyrhills is looking for
volunteers to help with a variety of tasks in-cluding transporting patients to and fromtests, driving the shuttle, distributing mail,cafeteria, clerical and administrative, andmore. Volunteers must be at least 14 yearsold.
There is a minimum requirement of fourvolunteer hours per week.
Volunteers receive a complimentarymeal in the café on the days they work, andrecognition at the annual volunteer ban-
quet. Orientation sessions are twice amonth.
If interested, applications are availableonline at FloridaHospital.com/Zephyrhills,or by calling (813) 779-6256.
SENIOR WELLNESS AT THE COMMONS
The following wellness services are of-fered at The Commons, 38130 Pretty PondRoad in Zephyrhills:
• Ask a Community Care Coordinator:Every Tuesday at 1 p.m. Learn about varioussenior services offered by Community Agingand Retirement Services. No appointmentnecessary.
• Free amplified telephones: ThirdWednesday of every month at 10 a.m. Deaf& Hard of Hearing Services of Florida offersamplified and text telephones and ring sig-naling devices to Florida residents. For anappointment, call (727) 853-1010.
FREE SUPPORT GROUPS ATFLORIDA HOSPITAL ZEPHYRHILLS
Florida Hospital Zephyrhills, 7050 GallBlvd., offers the following monthly supportgroups:
• Depression/Bipolar Support Group:every Monday, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
• Stroke Support Group: every thirdThursday, 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
• Diabetes Support Group: every firstTuesday, 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• Parkinson’s Support Group: every sec-ond Wednesday, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
No registration is required. For information, call (877) 534-3108.
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Bayfront Health Dade City, 13100 FortKing Road in Dade City, now offers the fol-lowing:
• Free Senior Extra Breakfast and WalkingClub: Every Monday at 8 a.m., in MedicalPlaza I, Suite 108, for an invigorating walkand breakfast. For information, call (352)518-1087.
• “Living With Diabetes,” a four-week edu-cation program: Limited to six participantsper session. For information, call (352) 521-1100, ext. 1423.
GULFSIDE HOSPICE PROGRAMSGulfside Regional Hospice hosts a variety
of bereavement groups throughout PascoCounty. The following support groups areoffered:
• Children Grief and Anticipatory Group,5760 Dean Dairy Road in Zephyrhills, everyTuesday, 5 p.m. Call (727) 452-1592.
• Parents Support Group, 5760 DeanDairy Road in Zephyrhills, every Tuesday, 5p.m. Call (727) 992-8034.
• Newly Bereaved Group, 37826 SkyRidge Circle on Dade City, every Wednesday,2 p.m. Call (727) 992-8034.
• West Winds Support Group, 37411Eiland Blvd., in Zephyrhills, everyWednesday, 3:30 p.m., by appointment only.
• Youth Support Group, St. Rita’s CatholicChurch, 14440 14th St., in Dade City, everyWednesday, 5:30 p.m. Call (813) 780-1235.
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The Laker/Lutz News has earned twotop awards from the Florida PressAssociation.
During its annual conference July 11 inCoral Gables, the association awarded TheLaker news editor Michael Hinman withtwo first place prizes in local governmentreporting and general news.
The local government award was basedon a series of stories in 2013 about thenow-cancelled elevated toll road projectthat had been planned over a 33-milestretch between Zephyrhills and New PortRichey along the State Road 54/56 corridor.The general news award was based on cov-erage of a flood insurance town hallmeeting held by U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis lastDecember.
The Laker competed in the top circula-tion category in the state, against similarweeklies with circulation of 15,000 ormore.
“Community newspapers are more im-portant than ever before, because manytimes they are the only place you will findthe stories important to you,” said DianeKortus, publisher of The Laker. “Our re-porters deliver those stories each week, andwe’re proud to get this recognition at astatewide level.”
Judges called Hinman’s coverage of theelevated toll road a “well-researched seriesof articles” that “looked at pitfalls of similarprojects, and presented the pros and cons ofthe road.”
In reporting about a town hall meetinghosted by Bilirakis about rising flood insur-ance rates, judges said Hinman had a “niceuse of observation to capture the mood atthe meeting, ‘Groans, interruptions, occa-sional applause.” Judges also noted Hinman’s“concise explanation of the impact of theReform Act.”
The Florida Press Association is astatewide organization that promotes week-ly and daily newspapers. Its annual BetterWeekly Newspaper Contest recognizesstrong reporting, photography, online workand graphical artwork among all its membernewspapers in Florida.
Since 2011, The Laker/Lutz News haswon 20 awards from the Florida PressAssociation, reflecting its continued dedica-tion to community news.
The Laker takestwo awards atconference
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If you’ve been outdoors lately, no doubtyou’ve observed that Florida’s steamy daysof summer have arrived with a vengeance.
You also may have noticed there are a lotmore kids riding bicycles in the street,splashing around in pools, and hanging offequipment at the local playground.
The roads are busier, too. Cars and truckssnake toward the beach, and families havepacked up to hit the road for vacation. Thereare a lot more people firing up their back-yard grills and having picnics at parks, too.
Summer and its pastimes can offer apleasant break, but is also can lead to illness-es or injuries, prompting unwanted trips tothe local emergency room. There are ways,though, to lower your risk of getting sick orinjured.
Three physicians — from FloridaHospital Zephyrhills, Florida Hospital WesleyChapel and St. Joseph’s Hospital-North —shared their observations about the types ofsummer injuries that typically arrive at theiremergency departments, and they offeredsuggestions to help people avoid the needfor medical care.
On the road“We see increased motor vehicle acci-
dents,” said Dr. Javier Gonzalez, assistantmedical director of the emergency depart-ment at the Zephyrhills hospital. Wear a seatbelt, he added, because it reduces injuriesand save lives.
It’s important to safeguard children, too.
Be sure they have the ap-propriate type ofprotection, such as carseats or child-restraintchairs, he said. Head in-juries tend to increase inthe summer, too, becauseof greater use of bicycles,skateboards and in-lineskates, Gonzalez said.
Be sure to wear helmets and make surethey fit properly, he said. Also, be sure thechinstrap is strapped beneath your chin tohelp protect the side of your head.
Use wrist guards to help prevent injuries,too.
“A lot of these people wear helmets, butwhen they fall, they put their hands downfirst, so they get a lot of wrist injuries,”Gonzalez said.
In the waterThe importance of water safety cannot
be overstated. “In Florida, a lot of peoplehave pools. Make sure they have gates,”Gonzalez said.
Constant vigilance is required when chil-dren are in or around water, he added.
“Don’t take a break to get on the phone.I hear that all of the time, ‘I just went out fora second to speak to somebody or to pickup the phone.’ Before they know it, twominutes have passed by and the child isdead at the bottom of the pool.”
At public pools, be sure the child is withinview of the lifeguard, Gonzalez said.Drownings at the beach often result fromswimmers getting caught in riptides, so be
sure to swim across the current, not against it.“Always wear a life vest, as well, if you
are doing activities like jet skiing,” he said.It’s also wise to do so when you’re cruisingin a boat.
Besides the potential for drowning acci-dents, there are other risks associated withthe water, Cordero said.
Diving accidents can cause serious neckinjuries, she said.
When someone gets hurt diving, it’s im-portant to get them out of the water tomake sure they’re breathing, said Dr. KatrinaCordero, associate medical director of theemergency room at St. Joseph’sHospital–North. Then, make sure they keeptheir neck still until help arrives.
Enjoying the outdoorsWhen you’re having a cookout or picnic,
pay attention to how long the food has beensitting out, Gonzalez said. Some foods mustbe refrigerated, and if they are left out toolong, it can cause people to become ill.
Store uncooked meats in separate coolersto avoid issues with cross contamination.
Dr. Michael LongleyDr. Katrina CorderoDr. Javier Gonzalez
FILE PHOTOGoing to the beach is a fun summer pastime, but three local doctors want to make sure that trip doesn’t end up in the emergency room.
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FREE TACOS AT POST 118American Legion Post 118, 5340 Eighth St.,in Zephyrhills, meets the third Wednesdayof the month at 7 p.m. The lounge is openseven days a week at 3 p.m. Free tacos areavailable from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., every day.Veterans and guests are welcome. Forinformation, call (813) 782-0481.
COBB’S FREE KIDS SHOWSGrove 16 Cobb Theatres, 6333 WesleyGrove Blvd., in Wesley Chapel, is hosting itsfree summer kids shows at 10 a.m., everyTuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.Upcoming shows are “Despicable Me 2” and“Babe” through July 24, and “Cloudy With aChance of Meatballs 2” and “Escape FromPlanet Earth” July 29-31. All movies are ratedPG. Doors open at 9:30 a.m. Schools, groupsand camps are welcome. Same-day ticketingonly. For information, call (813) 948-5444.
TAMPAPALOOZA COMING INAUGUSTTampapalooza will be at the Florida StateFairgrounds, 4800 U.S. 301 in Tampa, Aug. 2-3 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The eventwill include local food, local craft beer, kidsactivities, farmer’s market, music, raffles, stiltwalkers, and an aerial yoga show. Admissionis free. For information, call (800) 345-3247,or visit Tampapalooza.com.
LEARN TO GROW MORINGAMorning Star Fishermen, 33336 Old SaintJoe Road in Dade City, is offering a seminaron “Moringa, the Miracle Tree” Aug. 4 at 7p.m. Moringa is native to Africa and Asia,and its leaves provide protein, vitamins A, Band C, and minerals. Participants can learnto incorporate the plant into their everydayfoods. Guest speaker is Ken Black. Cost is$25. For information, call Ara McLeod at(352) 523-2722.
LIBRARY BOOK BAZAARThe Hugh Embry Library, 14215 Fourth St.,in Dade City, will have a book bazaar Aug. 8-9 from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Therewill be slightly used books, audio and videomedia, magazines and related materials,many priced at less than $3. Forinformation, call (352) 567-3576.
CHRISTMAS IN JULYThe Lodge at Wilderness Lake Preserve,21320 Wilderness Lake Blvd., in Land O’Lakes, will have a Christmas in July CraftFair July 26 from noon to 3 p.m. There willbe vendors, a children’s artwork exhibition,bounce house, and more. For information,call Terri Spicola at (813) 995-2437.
DONATE TO PET PANTRYDogs Day Pet Pantry, 14012 Seventh St., inDade City, is looking for donations of petfood and pet supplies to help pet ownersfacing economic hardship in the Dade Cityarea. Items needed are dry or canned dogand cat food, cat litter, and collars andleashes. The pantry accepts donations from10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.
PASCO GENEALOGYThe Genies, a small informal genealogicalgroup, meets every Friday at 1 p.m., at theChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,9016 Fort King Road in Dade City. Forinformation, call (813) 788-8894, or (813)715-7133.
RESTORE SALE DATESHabitat ReStore’s discounts on items thathave been in inventory for a while is nowon Mondays. Senior Day has moved toTuesdays, when a senior citizen discount is20 percent. Dade City ReStore also will hostmonthly silent auctions. Habitat ReStores
are located at 15029 U.S. 301 in Dade City,and 4700 S. Allen Road in Zephyrhills. Forinformation, visit Habitat.org/restores.
LEARN TO TANGOThe Tampa Bay Tango Club and TampaDowntown Partnership are offering a freeweekly tango class at Curtis HixonWaterfront Park, 600 N. Ashley Drive, inTampa, on Thursdays at 6 p.m. The danceclass will run until March 12. All skill levelsare invited. For information, call (813) 221-3686.
AMVETS EVENTSAMVETS Post 550, 4645 Airport Road inZephyrhills, offers bingo on Mondays from2 p.m. to 5 p.m. On Fridays and Saturdaysfrom 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., visitors can buymeals ranging in price from $7 to $10. Theentertainment schedule is available onFacebook at AMVETS Post 550. Forinformation, call (813) 780-8180.
BINGO AT TIMBER LAKESTimber Lake Estates, 30301 CountrysideDrive in Wesley Chapel, continues to offerThursday bingo throughout the summer.Doors open at 4 p.m. A full kitchen menuwill be available starting at 4:40 p.m.
ZEPHYRHILLS EAGLES CLUBZephyrhills Eagles 3752, 4149 New RiverRoad, is seeking new members. The clubhosts steel darts on Tuesdays at 2 p.m., barbingo on Wednesdays at 1 p.m., ladiesnight on Thursdays at 6 p.m., euchre onFridays at 1 p.m., karaoke on Fridays at 7p.m., a coin show the first Saturday ofevery month, and Sunday breakfast from 8a.m. to 11 a.m. For information on events,visit Zephyrhills Eagles No. 3752 onFacebook.
CARES SENIOR ACTIVITIESCommon on Pretty Pond, 38130 PrettyPond Road in Zephyrhills, will host thefollowing CARES Crescent EnrichmentCenter senior activities:• Multimedia Art Instruction by DonHeinke: Mondays at 9:30 a.m. Bring ownsupplies. Cost is $15. For information, call(813) 748-5364.• Watercolor Classes with SandiLallemand: Fridays at 9:30 a.m. Bring ownsupplies. Cost is $10. To register, call (352)523-1213.
COLONY HILLS BINGOThe Colony Hills Community, 35144Wagner Way in Zephyrhills, hosts weeklybingo Wednesday nights. Early bird bingois at 6 p.m., and regular bingo starts at 7p.m. Doors open at 3:30 p.m. Snackkitchen features hot dogs, popcorn, cakeand drinks. For information, call (813) 788-4121.
CENTENNIAL EAGLES EVENTSCentennial Eagles Dade City, 15924 U.S.301, hosts nickel bingo on Wednesdaysand Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., barbingo on Thursdays at 7 p.m., Fridaydinners from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., and apool tournament on Fridays at 7 p.m. Thepublic is welcome to all events. Forinformation, call (352) 567-9755.
AMERICAN LEGION KARAOKE NIGHTAmerican Legion Post 15, 37745 ChurchSt., in Dade City, hosts indoor corn tosstournaments the third Saturday of everymonth. Registration is at noon, and gamesstart at 1 p.m. For information, call BobCase at (813) 713-4588. The club meetsthe second Monday of the month at 7p.m. Karaoke night is the first Friday of themonth from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Thereis an air rifle Junior Shooting SportsProgram for boys and girls ages 8 through18 every Wednesday at 5 p.m. Forinformation, call (352) 518-0021.
SQUARE DANCING AT BETMARThe Belles and Beaus square and rounddance group of Betmar Acres hosts amainstream- and plus-level dance everyWednesday at 7 p.m., in Clubhouse 2 at37137 Lakewood Drive in Zephyrhills. Forinformation, call (989) 742-4639.
Vegetable gardening seminarPasco County Cooperative Extension Service isoffering a free vegetable gardening seminarAug. 2 at 9 a.m., at Clayton Hall, PascoFairgrounds, 36702 State Road 52 in Dade City.Topics include tips on when to plant and how tocare for a Florida vegetable garden. For informa-tion, call (352) 518-0156.
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Students across Florida, as well as inPasco and Hillsborough counties postedgains on statewide end-of-course, or EOC,exams.
Scores improved in all of the assessmentareas in Florida, with the biggest gain beinga 10 percent improvement in U.S. History.
Pasco has one of 13 school districts inthe state that posted gains in all four EOC as-sessments, with its biggest improvementbeing an 8-point increase on the U.S. Historyassessment, Florida Education commissionerPam Stewart reported.
The passing rate for Pasco students tak-ing the test for the first time improved on allfour assessments, improving by 2 percent inAlgebra I; 2 percent in biology; 3 percent ingeometry and 8 percent in U.S. History.
Hillsborough’s scores improved in two ofthe four assessment areas, with a 14 percentpercentage gain in U.S. History and a 4 per-cent gain in Algebra I.
Pasco students outperformed the state inthe percentage of students achieving a pass-ing score or higher in 2014, except forAlgebra I.
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the Biology I assessment, and an 8-percentimprovement on the same assessment atZephyrhills High School.
Both Wesley Chapel and Wiregrass alsoposted big improvements in the passing rateon the geometry assessment. WesleyChapel’s passing rate improved by 22 per-cent. Wiregrass Ranch boosted its passingrate by 13 percent. Students at both
Zephyrhills and Sunlake high schools im-proved their passing rate by 6 percent, withSunlake achieving a 73 percent passing rateand Zephyrhills boosting its passing rate to60 percent.
Wesley Chapel principal Carin Nettleswas delighted with her school’s results.
“I am thrilled about our scores,” she said.“We are very proud of the work our mathdepartment has done.”
The principal credits collaborationamong faculty members during professionallearning community meetings. Teachers aresharing “the best common lessons and as-sessments for our students,” she said.Teachers also have provided tutoring tohelp their students succeed.
Superintendent Kurt Browning said in arelease that because the scores “reflect whatwe are teaching in the classroom, end-of-course exams present a much moreaccurate picture of our students’ learningduring this time of transition than do high-stakes tests” like the Florida ComprehensiveAssessment Test.
Algebra IStatewide: 65 percent, up 1 percentPasco: 65 percent, up 3 percent increaseHillsborough: 60 percent, up 4 percent
U.S. HistoryStatewide: 66 percent, up 10 percentPasco: 72 percent, up 8 percentHillsborough: 74 percent, up 14 percent
GeometryStatewide: 64 percent, up 1 percentPasco: 67 percent, up 3 percent Hillsborough: 64 percent, down 3 percent
Biology IStatewide: 68 percent, up 2 percentPasco: 70 percent, up 3 percentHillsborough: 63 percent, no change
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She learned about it through TimMitchell, who was president of theZephyrhills chamber at the time, and presi-dent of The Samaritan Project as well.
“I met a lot of unique people, cominginto the office, applying for assistance,”Scheckler said.
She felt compelled to get involved.“My dad is a minister. I was raised that we
were to help those less fortunate,” Schecklersaid. “Not to turn our backs on them, not tostereotype them, but to help them.”
The Zephyrhills woman understandshow it feels to struggle.
“When my husband and I moved up in1982, we did it for a reason. We were losingeverything,” she said.
Her husband, a semitrailer driver hadbeen through two major gas wars.
“This was our fresh start,” Schecklersaid. “That’s why this project is so impor-tant to me. I have been there. I knowfirsthand what it is to lose everything.”
The Samaritan Project has been helpingpeople since 2008. It operates on dona-tions and fundraisers.
“We assist people with past due rentand utilities,” Scheckler said.
The organization keeps its operationalcosts low.
“We do not pay rent. We have one over-head (cost), that is our Internet, because asyou know in this day of technology, every-thing relies on the Internet.”
The project has spent more than twoyears in the St. Joseph’s Catholic ChurchEducation Building in Zephyrhills in 500square feet of space, including the bath-room and air-conditioning room.
“My private office is the bathroom,” shesaid, noting whenever she has to make aprivate call to a landlord or utility companyor somewhere else, she steps into the bath-room to do it.
But the organization is moving to muchlarger quarters at 5722 Eighth St., inZephyrhills. Last week, the SamaritanProject signed a two-year lease, rent-freelease for the 1,400-square-foot home,thanks to the generosity of a local couple.
In addition to its own fundraising ef-forts, the organization received a $76,000Emergency Solutions Grant earlier this yearfrom the Florida Department of Childrenand Families and the U.S. Department ofHousing and Urban Development.
“With this grant, we are able to get theminto housing,” Scheckler said. “We can paytheir first month’s rent, we can pay theirelectric deposit, water deposit, the securitydeposit.”
There is a drawback, though. The organi-zation must raise matching funds for thegrant money it spends, Scheckler said. Thegrant also requires applicants to fill out aform that’s about 20 pages long.
“We don’t make the rules. We strictlyabide by the rules,” she said.
Still, the project is thrilled to be able tohelp more people, Scheckler said. The grant
is aimed at preventing homelessness andgetting people without housing back intohomes.
Sixty percent of the grant is earmarkedfor getting people back into housing, shesaid, and the need is great.
“We had 151 homeless, registered stu-dents, just in Zephyrhills,” Scheckler said. Atany given time, there are 1,500 to 2,000registered homeless students in PascoCounty.
One of the biggest challenges is findinga place for these people to live thanks topast evictions and credit issues, she said.“Landlords won’t step up.”
“If you know landlords who own prop-erty, ask them to trust us,” Scheckler said.“Our organization is backing these people.We follow them for six months. I do a casemanagement every 30 days on everyonethat we assist.”
Despite challenges, Scheckler said hervolunteer work has moments of sheer joy.
“The biggest thing is, when you walk upto this client and you go, ‘Here’s yourlease,’” she said, with her voice breaking andtears in her eyes, “I do get real emotional.”
A couple of weeks ago, the organizationmoved a young woman and her father intoan apartment. The woman has special needsand the pair had been living in a truck.
“Habitat for Humanity stepped up anddonated the furniture,” Scheckler said.“When I walked them in the apartment, Itold (them), ‘This is yours. This is all yours.The furniture. The TV. Everything.’ How doyou put a price on something like that?”
While many youths are couch-surfing tokeep a roof over their heads, there also areelderly people who are in desperate need,Scheckler added.
“We have an 87-year-old woman whocouldn’t pay her water bill. She was livingoff of pool water, drinking water out of apool,” she said. “Did we step up and helpher? Absolutely.”
After telling the group about TheSamaritan Project’s mission, Scheckler wentinto her fundraising mode.
“Any of you women in here wear jewel-ry?” she asked, to set up a pitch for afundraiser planned for Aug. 10. She alsourged them to get involved in the HarvestFestival, another fundraiser on Nov. 1, or tohit the links on Feb. 7, at its annual golfbenefit.
Scheckler frequently speaks at churchesand civic organizations to drum up supportfor the cause.
“What we really, really, really need is sup-port of the community,” she said. “Ourmotto is ‘Working together to make a bet-ter community.’ That’s what we want to do.”
And Scheckler said she’ll do whatevershe can to make that happen.
“I am not too proud to beg,” she said. “I
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“I never knew a man who could speakless and say more than Don Porter,”Weatherford said.
“In my business, you get to meet a lot offamilies that have very large landholdings. It’snot rare for a family to have thousands ofacres — there’s a lot them in the state ofFlorida,” Weatherford said. “But I’ve never meta family, I’ve never met a man — until I metDon — that was so keenly more focused onthe future of his community than on howmuch money he would make off of it.”
While Porter was proud of the accomplish-ments in the development arena, he wouldresist being credited as the leader or the patri-arch of the family, J.D. Porter said. That rolebelonged to Don’s father, James Porter.
J.D. Porter said his father, his uncles andthe rest of the extended Porter family haveshared a collective vision and a collectivewill for what has been done so far, and for
the foundation that has been laid for futureachievements.
“Development was a very important partof his life,” J.D. Porter said. “But if you had atop five list, I’m not sure it would make it.
“At No. 1 was family. It wasn’t just mymom, my sister and myself,” he said, but hisdad also cared tremendously for his parents,his brothers and their families.
Porter’s daughter, Quinn Miller, recalled afather who taught her how to ride a bicycle,accompanied her to father-daughter dances,and was her biggest fan during her softballdays.
Porter was quite the athlete himself. Heheld a baseball state record for years afterstriking out 20 of the 21 batters he faced dur-ing a championship. He attended Ole Miss ona baseball scholarship, and he used the sign-ing bonus he received from the Houston Colt45s to buy his family’s home.
Miller said her dad taught her to think forherself. She remembers being frustrated byhim when she would want to commiserate
over a problem or disappointment, and hewouldn’t let her or offer her advice.
Instead, he listened and then asked herquestions.
She now understands that he wanted herto arrive at her own solutions.
“He had a way of offering perspective byforcing introspection, not (offering) his opin-ion,” Miller said.
Porter’s cousin, Mike Gramling, andPorter’s friends Will Roberts, Doug Mansonand Tom Touchton, also spoke at the memori-al. When the Porters arrived in WesleyChapel, there was no electricity and the fami-ly lived in a moonshiner’s cabin, Gramlingsaid. Porter’s mother prepared meals on aColeman stove.
Roberts said they used to joke that Porterwas “sweater-rich.”
“He had more sweaters than Bill Cosby,”Roberts said.
He recalled a time when Porter took him,his brother and J.D. to a basketball game at theUniversity of South Florida Sun Dome. Porter
was wearing a beret, a sweater, brown leatherpants and black Italian zippered ankle boots.
“Nowadays, the sight of man dressed likethat with three young boys might be causefor an Amber Alert. But that was Don in all ofhis glory,” Roberts said, drawing a roar oflaughter from the nearly 240 at the memorial.
Manson was in his late 20s when he metPorter.
It was obvious, he said, that Porter’s lifewas centered on his family. The two mennever had a conversation that didn’t beginwith an update on their families.
Porter was a multi-dimensional man, withmany interests, said Touchton, who knewPorter for about 60 years. One of his favoritepoets was Lawrence Ferlinghetti, of the beatpoet generation.
Porter especially liked Ferlinghetti’s “I amWaiting,” which repeated this phrase, “I amperpetually awaiting the rebirth of wonder.”
“I suggest Don has to wait no longer,”Touchton said, “because in leaving us, he hasfinally found his rebirth of wonder.”
PORTER, from page 1
agreed that we need to be able to respondto the needs of our community and ourpatients,” McKinnon said. “We had a hugeexpansion of our ER a couple years ago,and the OR was the next obvious step.”
For McKinnon, it’s hard to believesometimes how much has happened tothe 120-bed hospital in just the past year,with the new name, new owners and ex-pansion. But one thing she’s been proudof is how the community has embracedthose changes, especially putting “DadeCity” back in the hospital’s name for thefirst time since the 1990s.
“One of the benefits that we have ingoing through a rebranding is to be ableto retain the name which the hospital has
been recognized for in the community,”McKinnon said. “Lending ourselves to theBayfront name in brand recognition hasbeen wonderful. And to be able to retainthe name Dade City was very welcomedby our community.”
Upgrades to the surgical units won’tfinish McKinnon’s wish list for future im-provements. There is still a lot more she’slooking to do to help Bayfront HealthDade City keep up with the ever-changingmedical environment.
“We already have a lot of ongoing proj-ects, like the redesign of our patientrooms, and the redesign of our orthopedicjoint center,” she said. “We need to be pre-pared for more growth and how we’regoing to respond to that. And because wecare about our patients and the communi-ty, we’re prepared.”
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Also, be sure to thoroughly cook meat andchicken, he said.
All three doctors said drinking water isimportant to avoid dehydration.
“There’s a misconception that you canactually keep up with your hydration onceyou’re outside, or once you’re doing the ac-tivity,” said Dr. Michael Longley, medicaldirector of the emergency department atthe Wesley Chapel hospital. “The reality isyou really need to pre-hydrate. Drink a loteither the night before or a couple of hoursbefore you’re going to be outside.
“You’re losing water with every breathyou take, you’re losing water with the heatitself. You’re losing water with sweating andyou’re losing water with the activity thatyou’re doing. It’s compounded and there’sjust no way to keep up if the tank isn’t fullto begin with,” Longley said.
How much you need to drink variesbased on your size. An adult should drink aliter or two before they go out. A childshould drink about half of that, Longleysaid.
To help people drink enough water,Longley offers this piece of advice: “I tendto tell kids and adults, alike, to add a littleextra salt to their meal. It drives the thirst. Ithelps the muscle function and it helps youto hold in a little of the water, as well.”
People who suffer from heat cramps,heat stroke and heat exhaustion haven’t hy-drated before they go outside, Longley said.Often, people don’t realize how hot theyare because they’ve been out in the sun forhours, take a dip and feel a cool breeze.
Sunburn is a problem, too, St. Joe’sCordero said. People often underestimatethe intensity of the sun here.
“They fall asleep on the beach,” she said,and when they wake up, they have painfulsunburn.
The same thing can happen when peopleare out working in the yard and haven’t ap-plied sunscreen, she said. They get busy andforget how much sun exposure they’ve had.
Cordero also offered this tip to avoid be-coming dehydrated: Carry a bottle of wateror Gatorade around with you, to remindyourself to drink. Some people like toquench their thirst with a beer or anotheralcoholic drink.
“Beer is OK,” Cordero said. But “don’t letit be your only means of hydration.”
Rockets’ red glareThe increased amount of recreation dur-
ing summer months tends to result in morepeople visiting the ER with injuries,Longley said. “We see a lot more brokenbones.”
It’s also a time of year when there’s anuptick in fireworks injuries, which are typi-cally unique injuries that require expertmedical attention.
“Explosions can cause all sorts of tissuedamage locally,” Longley said. “Particles canbe inhaled. They can be embedded in theeye.”
The injuries can get complicated quickly.“Something that seems simple can be
way more complex a few hours later,”Longley said.
Sometimes the steps taken immediatelyafter a fireworks injury can make a big dif-ference, Cordero said. If a fingertip isblown off, for example, it’s important to tryto find the fingertip, she said. It should beplaced in a cloth that has been dampenedwith water, placed in a plastic bag, andthen all put into a larger bag that has someice in it.
“You don’t want any direct contactwith ice,” Cordero said. “That could causesome tissue damage.”
SUMMER, from page 5 Tips for a safer summer• Drink plenty of water to avoid dehydra-tion. Start drinking water before you headout for the day, and keep drinking itthroughout the day to stay hydrated.
• If you’re grilling, be sure to cook yourmeats thoroughly. Also, do not allow chil-dren to be near hot grills.
• If you’re having a gathering, be sure tokeep foods that need refrigeration incoolers until shortly before you needthem. Keep them away from direct sun-light and don’t leave them out for morethan an hour.
• Wear helmets while riding bikes, skate-boarding or rollerblading. Wear wristguards, too.
• Be vigilant when there are childrenaround water. A happy gathering canturn tragic within minutes.
• Wear sunscreen to avoid sunburn. Besure to reapply it if you decided to take adip in a pool or at the beach.
• Wear life jackets on boats and seat beltsin cars.
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BOOT CAMP FOR NEW TEACHERSThe School of Education and Social
Services at Saint Leo University, 33701 StateRoad 52 in St. Leo, is offering a freeBeginning Teacher Boot Camp for first-timeteachers in Pasco and Hillsborough countyschool districts.
The camp is July 25 from 8:30 a.m. tonoon in the Student Community Center.
New teachers are invited whether theygraduated from Saint Leo or another institu-tion.
Topics will include classroom manage-ment strategies, contract rights andresponsibilities, workplace acronyms, andhow to work with school support person-nel and fellow teachers.
To attend, [email protected], with thephrase “Beginning Teacher Boot Camp2014” in the subject line.
STUFF THE BACKPACKFirst National Bank of Pasco is hosting its
fifth annual Stuff the Backpack Drivethrough Aug. 4.
School supplies needed include pencils,pens, scissors, index cards, notebooks, fold-ers, paper, glue sticks, Ziploc bags, crayons,erasers, rulers, highlighters and pencilboxes. Monetary donations will be used topurchase additional school supplies.
Donations can be dropped off at its threelocations:
• 13315 U.S. 301 in Dade City• 37215 State Road 54 in Zephyrhills• 4518 Gall Blvd., Zephyrhills
KIWANIS CLUB SCHOOL SUPPLYDRIVE
The Kiwanis Club of Greater West Pascois having a school supply drive through Aug.5.
Gulfside Hospice thrift shops will collectdonations at its five sites, including 37925Sky Ridge Circle in Dade City, and 36524State Road 54 in Zephyrhills.
Anyone who donates to the drive will re-ceive a voucher for 25 percent off a singleitem (excluding sale items and furniture)valid for up to one week after donation ismade.
For information and shop locations, visitGHPPC.org.
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2014 Back to School Bash will be Aug 9from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., at 6333Wesley Grove Blvd., in Wesley Chapel.
The event will include face painting,games, haircuts, health screenings, schoolsupplies and more.
The theme for this year’s bash is the“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” which willbe the theater’s major summer release.
PASCO COUNTY SCHOOLSREOPEN AUG. 18
Students in Pasco County will return toschool for the 2014-15 school year Aug. 18.
Notable dates on the calendar are:• Possible hurricane makeup days are
Nov. 24-25, and Feb. 16• Veterans Day will be a school day• Thanksgiving holiday is Nov. 24-28• Winter break is Dec. 22 through Jan. 2• Spring break is March 16-20• Last day of school is June 3For complete calendar information, visit
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TEACHERS GET IN FREE AT ZOOThrough Aug. 14, Florida certified teach-
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It is open to teachers in Pasco andHillsborough counties, as well as Pinellas,Polk, Hernando, Manatee and Sarasota.
Teachers must present valid professional ortemporary teaching certification, pay stub andFlorida ID to receive the offer. Eligible teacherscan purchase up to two additional one-daycompanion tickets at a discounted rate.
For information, call (813) 935-8552.
STETSON LAW OPEN HOUSEStetson University College of Law will
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By Michael [email protected]
While a development review committee
headed by Pasco County administrator
Michele Baker was focused on how fast
boats should travel on a private lake, Bobbi
Smith had a much bigger concern about a
proposed new community near Caliente
Resorts in Land O’ Lakes.
“The thing is truly the safety issue of get-
ting in and getting out,” said Smith, who lives
on a small rural road just off U.S. 41 in the
community of Silver Lakes. That street, bare-
ly wide enough to hold a single car, could
carry traffic from another 100 houses if
Southern Crafted Homes is allowed to build
on more than 68 acres around Curve Lake.
The land is owned by John and Theresa
Edwards, and is filled with old orange groves
at the gravel end of Fletch Road. About 40
homes are currently located near the lake
on Fletch and Barcellona roads, which all
exit to a busy, four-lane Land O’ Lakes
Boulevard. And even with the smaller num-
ber of homes, there’s no traffic light, so cars
typically back up on Barcellona as traffic
looks to get out on the busy thoroughfare.
“There’s no way you can have all those
homes, and have just one road to get out,”
Smith said. But if Southern Crafted Homes is going
to build homes, they’ll also have to build up-
graded streets along Fletch and Barcellona
that will accommodate higher traffic loads,
Baker said during a recent development re-
view meeting. Upgrades would include two
distinct lanes of traffic, and even curbs.
The new community also could be re-
quired to consider building roads across
neighboring properties, known as intercon-
nects, which would link the new Edwards
community to Caliente Boulevard to the
northwest and Ehren Cutoff to the east.
However, those roads won’t happen until
neighboring parcels are developed into
homes, and Smith and others already living
in Silver Lakes say that development there
could be decades off, if ever.
That brings the focus back to Fletch
Road, which was partially paved in the late
1990s when the Silver Lakes community
was built. A traffic analysis says Fletch is in
good shape, county officials said, so
Southern Crafted wouldn’t have to do any-
thing with the paved portion of the road.
Baker, however, was concerned that a 15-
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By Michael [email protected]
Writing a book is often a difficult
process. Finishing one can be an exhausting,
emotional ordeal for the author that be-
comes a real challenge to complete.
But it wasn’t like that for Zephyrhills resi-
dent Nancy Carroll McEndree. It was much,
much worse.“I went into (post-traumatic stress disor-
der) every chapter I wrote,” McEndree said.
“I sat in my chair or in my office and I wept
uncontrollably. I ended up in the hospital.”
To write “Remembering Jim: From
Violence, Abuse and Terror to Joy
Everlasting” — a book chronicling her late
brother’s difficult upbringing, bottoming out
as an absent husband and father, and eventu-
al transformation to an active person of faith
— McEndree had to go back to the begin-
ning of their lives. And that meant dealing with her own
childhood, which was filled with memories
of her mother and brothers dealing with
constant physical abuse. McEndree also suf-
fered severe mental abuse and neglect, and
said she even had to spurn her father’s sexu-
al advances. She would have been happy to leave
those memories in the past, except they
MICHAEL MURILLO/STAFF PHOTO
Nancy Carroll McEndree writes her books sitting in a recliner in her Zephyrhills home. She
writes longhand and husband Duane transcribes that work into their computer.
Author provides message of faith
COURTESY OF PENNY NICHOLS
This is the image that Trevor Nichols used to
model the portrait he drew of Land O’ Lakes
High School coach Kris Keppel. See Trevor’s
winning drawing on page 14.
MICHAEL HINMAN/STAFF PHOTOS
Fletch and Barcellona roads are the only
way Silver Lakes residents can get out onto
Land O’ Lakes Boulevard, a four-lane
expressway without a traffic light. If another
100 homes are built, some existing residents
fear the current streets won’t be able to han-
dle the increased traffic loads.
See AUTHOR, page 14
Local art studentwins a trip toWashingtonBy B.C. [email protected]
There’s a lot more to the portrait of Kris
Keppel than meets the eye.
No doubt the pencil drawing is an excel-
lent likeness of the Land O’ Lakes coach, who
has led the high school’s track and cross-
country teams for more than two decades.
The quality of the work is so good that a
professional artist judging U.S. Rep. Gus
Bilirakis’ Congressional Art Competition
deemed it best of show.
By winning the competition, Nichols will
get to travel to Washington, D.C., with one
of his parents. They’ll get a tour of the White
House and Capitol building, and will get to
have lunch in the Congressional dining
room. His art will be in the Capitol building
See ART, page 14
See TRAFFIC, page 14
New community could createtraffic chaos for Silver Lakes
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Local womanrevels in BostonMarathon runBy B.C. [email protected]
Trish Trout can scratch an item off her
bucket list.The Wesley Chapel woman completed
the 118th Boston Marathon on April 21, fin-
ishing the 26.2-mile course in 6 hours and
14 minutes.It was a day that she’ll never forget.
“I was in the center of the Boston
Marathon,” Trout said. “You’re a rock star for
a day. It’s like everybody’s your best friend.”
It came a year after bombings rocked the
event, and security was tight, Trout said.
Military police, Boston police and other law
enforcement officers were stationed about
every 150 yards along the route.
Helicopters hovered over the crowds.
Armored trucks blocked roads. Bomb-sniff-
ing dogs walked through the crowds, Trout
added.“My cheering section could not get to
the finish line because it was lockdown.
Even VIP ticket holders were kept out,” she
said.Despite the heavy security, the atmos-
phere was festive.“It was a beautiful day. The energy was
unreal,” Trout said. “At times, it was breathtak-
ing, just seeing all of those people in
support, and all of the runners. All ages, all
shapes and sizes. It was awesome.”
Spectators lined the course, cheering on
By B.C. [email protected]
Motorists driving on U.S. 41 in Lutz will
notice lane closures while workers com-
plete a $5.4 million waterline project.
But even after the waterline work is
done, traffic disruptions on the six-lane
highway that cuts through Lutz will contin-
ue. The Florida Department of Transportation
will do a resurfacing project on U.S. 41, from
Linnwood Drive to north of County Line
Road, through Lutz. Plans call for resurfacing 7.4 miles of
roadway. Other improvements include intersec-
tion upgrades for pedestrian improvements
and bicycle lanes along the entire length of
the project.The railroad crossing south of Crystal
Lakes Road will be reconstructed as well,
which will require a temporary detour, ac-
cording to FDOT spokeswoman Kris
Carson.Design for the project was completed in
March. The work is expected to begin in the
winter, Carson said. The design work cost
$2.3 million.The resurfacing and other improvements
will cost an estimated $11.5 million, but
those figures may change as the project pro-
gresses, Carson said.
Major resurfacing planned for U.S. 41
See MARATHON, page 12
By Michael [email protected]
More than a decade after she led a cru-
sade to lower new business advertising
signs in Pasco County, Kathryn Starkey is
gearing up to bring the “grandfathered” ones
up to code.The county commissioner says it’s time
her colleagues start looking into enforcing
the sign laws — which typically limit sign
height at 11 feet — uniformly across Pasco,
including those signs that pre-date the 2003
changes to the ordinance. Starkey, however,
says she won’t push it without trying to find
at least some help for business owners, who
would have to invest in new signs.
“One of the biggest complaints I get is
the old signs that are still up, so we got to
figure out a way to help those businesses
bring those signs to our new look,” Starkey
said. “It’s difficult. It’s a financial investment,
but I think we should incentivize them to
bring them up to the current code.”
How to incentivize those businesses is
still a big question mark, but one possibility
could be offering small grants or even low-
interest microloans to help defray the costs,
Starkey said. Businesses with grandfathered signs have
been allowed to keep them as long as they
are not changed in a way that would make
them become “more non-conforming” to the
ordinance. After 11 years, some of those
signs are starting to show their age, and are
looking more and more out of place in areas
where ground-level, or monument, signs
have become the norm.
Starkey’s original goal was to prevent the
growing Wesley Chapel area from becoming
Pasco exploring bringing all advertising signs to the ground
MICHAEL HINMAN/STAFF PHOTO
It’s usually Golden Arches in the sky when
there’s a McDonald’s around. But the newest
McDonald’s at 1733 Bruce B. Downs
Boulevard in Wesley Chapel has a sign at
ground level, thanks to a Pasco County ordi-
nance, and the early efforts of Pasco County
Commissioner Kathryn Starkey.See SIGNS, page 12
PHOTOS COURTESY OF TRISH TROUT
Trish Trout is taking it all in as she runs in the 118th Boston Marathon.
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As the speaker wrapped up his talk, Land
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It all started simple enough.
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rel mark. “I never thought when we started that
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In a short time, Big Storm grew from two
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Mike Bishop, co-founder and head brewer at Big Storm Brewing Co., displays some of the
tanks used in producing four different brews of Big Storm beer from his Odessa location.
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AROUND THE PARKS
By Rae RiceGrand Horizons
That is exactly what it is like being inShipshewana, Indiana, the third largestAmish county in the United States.
It's a step back in time with the soundof the horses and buggies trotting downthe road. The beautiful Amish flower andvegetable gardens, the outstanding Amishcraftsmanship, bike paths, home cooking,the largest flea market in the area, watch-ing the baby Clydesdale ponies romp andplay, and just the peacefulness of beinghere, is beyond words.
Ernie and I are working as camp hostshere at the Shipshewana South ParkCampground for the entire summer.Duties are not bad with mowing, plumb-
ing, some electrical work, greetingcampers, helping them park their rigs, andanswering questions like where to go andwhat to do.
We work 24 hours a week in return forfull hookup of our motorhome. It's such apleasure meeting people from all over theUnited States.
Shipshewana is famous for the hugeflea market, the cleanliness of the area, andthat wonderful Amish food. At nighttimewhen laying in bed, you can hear the clipclop of the horse and buggy trottingdown the road.
There are two big event centers thathost all kinds of musicals and celebritiessuch as singers like The Oak Ridge Boys,Lee Greenwood, Crystal Gayle, The TexasTenors, Sawyer Brown, and many others.
Entertainment goes through Dec. 31.The flea market is open on Tuesdays
and Wednesdays. Wednesday also is a hugeauction day at the flea market.
A couple of things that made us smilewere an Amish buggy pulling a boat downthe road, the tiny ponies, and the littleAmish children learning how to steer thebuggy getting them ready for school nextfall. Another beautiful sight is watching thefarmers in the fields with the team ofhorses plowing and planting for the sea-son.
While Ernie has been hard at work, Iplanted a garden. There is watermelon,cantaloupe, yellow and green onions, let-tuce, cabbage, green beans, tomatoes,radishes, zucchini, eggplant, and someflowers. I've found out already that therabbits like the lettuce, too, so I guess Iwill have to share it with them.
There are three other camp hosts herein the park, and we share the responsibili-ty of keeping the park in top shape.
A step back in time in an Amish county
A peaceful spot for respite at the Shipshewana campground.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF RAE RICEThe horse and buggy was a familiar site in Shipshewana, Indiana.
A bridge used by the Amish in the thirdlargest Amish county in the United States.
The office where Ernie and Rae Rice spendtheir summer months helping out atShipshewana South Park Campground.
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