Author: Photography by Greg Hills

Ruth Scheer, a resident of Windsor since 1999, has had a rewarding, longtime career in nonprofit and foundation work.

In her complete home renovation, designer Page Franzel had a chance to customize to her exact tastes while also creating a test lab for her business.

There are 53 members in the club, many prominent in their profession in Vero Beach and around the country.

In Vero Beach numerous venues offer duplicate bridge. Yet a growing number of players flock daily to the Vero Beach Bridge Center, a converted bowling alley on 14th Avenue just south of downtown.

As the founder, conductor, artistic director and the big gun of business development for the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra, the 34-year-old Collins is driven by a motor that seems to be revved up all the time.

Twenty-five years ago, Nat Jackson received a gift that would change the future of the Garden Club of Indian River County. It was an ornament from the Garden Club of Virginia, and instead of hanging it on the tree she took it straight to her club president, Mary Graves. Jackson thought their club could design their own ornaments and sell them as a fundraiser.

After 40 years of trying to find her niche in art, Maria Sparsis took a pottery class at the Vero Beach Museum of Art. Now, the prolific potter is part-owner of The Flametree Clay Gallery.

Tiger Lily artists Sharon Sexton, Glenda Taylor, Julia Carter, Cristina Abizaid, Shotsi Cain Lajoie, and Travis Blanton, seated, create works of art as individual and intriguing as they are.

The Circle is a philanthropic group currently consisting of 126 women who each contributes $250 annually. Their gifts can be pooled for greater impact to support community, family and school outreach programs.

Keith Rommel has co-written two screenplays based on his first two novels. The movie version of "The Cursed Man" is being released at the end of this month on Halloween eve in California.

A self-proclaimed “Renaissance man,” Bill has always seen something extraordinary in the ordinary. With a background in plastics and a knowledge of thermoforming he had only previously used for industrial applications, he thought he might apply it to his art.

There are more than 6,800 music therapists in the United States who are board certified; over 300 live and work in the state of Florida. Indian River County had none until Burkart arrived on the scene, toting her guitar, experience and a deep desire to help others.

Like good literature, good movies present ideas and stimulate the intellectually curious to explore different viewpoints and theories – many times with a historical or social perspective and often in visually and artistically experimental ways. And just like a good book, a good film lends itself to study, discussion and further thought.

True story. A man buys a 90-year-old, broken-down wood sailboat because he likes its lines. He marries the female dock master to win a bet, and together they spend the next 30 years living on board, restoring the recalcitrant money pit with no help from their rambunctious crew of eight Chihuahuas.

After high school, Martel enrolled in a local junior college then transferred to the University of Miami to study biology. And a little art ... I was two weeks late getting into the class and the teacher wasn’t too happy about it, but I showed him a few pieces of my artwork. He said, ‘You’re a realist. Why don’t you think about medical illustration?’”