Messing About on the River
A local's guide to lunching on the lagoon.
Author: Photography by Greg Hills
The Value of a Gift
Ruth Scheer, a resident of Windsor since 1999, has had a rewarding, longtime career in nonprofit and foundation work.
An Interior Designer Becomes Her Own Client
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.
Down Home Meets Downtown
Southern Social — a fun, vibrant space with uncompromising standards in food, drinks, and service.
Breaking Bread With Patisserie
Mark Edmonds, co-owner of Patisserie, a French-inspired bakery and café on Old Dixie Highway, was on a mission — to resurrect ancient baking traditions using unprocessed heritage grains and heirloom flours.
Luscious Flavors Of The Levant
Sammy’s Mediterranean Café has become known for its friendly staff, fresh ingredients and heart-healthy meals.
Grand Slam
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.
A Maestro’s Magic
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.
Guy Fawkes Night: An Evening Of Food, Fanfare And Fire
In America, November is a month for giving thanks. Families and friends gather to express gratitude for the year's blessings with food-laden tables and a bounty of bonhomie. In Britain, however, November means just one thing: Guy Fawkes Night. This…
Five-Alarm Chefs
We’ve all witnessed the scene. A juxtaposition of duty and domesticity as big, burly, firefighters wheel shopping carts around the supermarket, and a shiny red fire truck sits in the parking lot. “People give us a hard time for going…
Finding Their Niche
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.
Labor Of Love
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.
Pursuing A Shared Passion
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.
Coming Full Circle
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.
A Fascination With Death And Dying
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 Slice Of Heaven
Chef Perrotti, known to his friends as Chet, arrived in March of this year with a wealth of experience under his belt.
Music Matters
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.
The Art Of The Silver Screen
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.
Food For The Gods
Jeremy Crews, a second-generation local apiarist and commercial beekeeper, has been extracting and selling nutritionally dense raw honey straight from the comb ever since he took over his father’s business in 2012. Unprocessed raw honey is one of nature’s purest superfoods, containing 5,000 live enzymes, 27 minerals and 22 protein-rich amino acids.
An Eye For Innovation
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.
A Tale Of Ships And Songs
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.
Water, Water Everywhere
In an effort to improve their health and fitness and to fight the debilitating effect of an autoimmune disease, a couple from the Northeast created an elaborate water spa and sauna at the house they renovated here in Vero Beach.
Heart & Soul Of A Jamaican
While Jamaican food is undeniably some of the most flavorful food in the Caribbean, it is best known for the most fiery of ingredients, the Scotch bonnet pepper. But Campbell claims it is a misconception to say that it is all about the heat. “It’s about the flavors of herbs and spices in the cooking,” he tells me in his distinctive sing-song, Jamaican accent. “Herbs like thyme and spices like allspice, which we call pimento. The basics of Jamaican cooking are the jerk, the oxtail and the curries, which are much lighter than Indian curries.”
