On a field where horses trampling the ground create a cacophony of clip-clopping sounds, long-handled mallets are swung, and men compete in teams while riding animals that can reach body-crushing weights of a thousand pounds, professional polo player Jeff Stuart Hall is at home.
“I was born into this,” says Hall, whose father was in the polo business as a former player and sponsor of the sport.
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One boy’s gift
At his first public speaking event, Timothy Schwab once said, “I want to thank my mom and dad for keeping me alive.” He was only 5 years old at the time.
Timothy was born with cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that can critically affect the lungs, pancreas, liver and intestine. “We didn’t know how to react,” says Tanya Schwab, Timothy’s mother, of his illness. Both Tanya and her husband, Thomas, had never heard of the disease before. But after some research they soon found out that no one case of cystic fibrosis is alike, that the symptoms vary, and even more alarming – there is no cure. Continue reading “THE GIFT OF GIVING”
Joanna Campbell Slan is a self-proclaimed “addict.” Her drug of choice? Writing.
“I go into withdrawals if I can’t write,” Slan, author of new mystery series, The Jane Eyre Chronicles, says.
According to Slan – who just published her first book of the series Death of a Schoolgirl – has always been a writer. Even as a child, Slan would “scribble” down words on a piece of paper and would call it her “book.” But her passion for the written word began as an outlet; an aperture for a better life.
Growing up poor in Vincennes, Ind., Slan was subjected to a tumultuous upbringing. As a child of an alcoholic parent, she recalls a time that seems to reverberate in her consciousness. One night, when she was a little girl she left a glass of water on the counter before going to bed. Her father, an unruly binge-drinker, accidentally spilled it. In the dead of the night he woke her and said, “Your mom is a slob, I’m going to divorce her and you’re going to live on the streets without anything to eat.”
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“I’ve always said the military needs a boot camp to prepare warriors … But they also need an exit camp,” says Sara Lankler.
Sara and her husband, Alexander “Sandy” Lankler are the founders of The Renewal Coalition – a nonprofit organization in Jupiter to assist wounded service men and women in their transition from military to civilian life by offering a week-long retreat.
“Our guys need a decompression time,” Sara says. So in an effort to provide a relaxing environment, she and Sandy donated their water-front properties.
Today is a big day
for Justin Riney.
After stand-up paddling for 165 miles, collecting nearly a thousand pounds of trash and debris, and sleeping in tents on barrier islands and parks, Justin Riney is completing his first of six conservation paddle excursions.
Riney’s ten-day Indian River Lagoon Conservation paddle began in Ponce Inlet on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012 and will end around 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct., 20 in Jupiter Inlet.
Sandra Benavides Weichel 