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Art by the Seashowcases localartists. Page 12

County Health Departmentseen losing one third of staff. P8

Shores asks Vero forlower electric rates. P10

State approves new ownerof Marine Bank. P7

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BY LISA ZAHNERStaff Writer

Ray McNulty joins 32963 as columnist

On the beach: Should an entrepreneurs past matter?

Navy explosive disposal boat

Award-winning colum-nist Ray McNulty, who hasworked for newspapers inNew York and Los Angeles aswell as most recently for the

Vero Beach Press Journal, hasjoined the staff ofVero Beach32963 as a columnist andgeneral news writer.

McNultys new column, MyVero, will start appearing inVero Beach 32963 as of theFeb. 6, 2014, edition. McNulty

BY PIETER VANBENNEKOMStaff Writer

The light at the end of thetunnel for a fast-track sale ofVero electric to Florida Power& Light and prospects forlower electric utility rates appeared to get a little dim-mer last week as the Floridamunicipal power co-op wasreported to have hardened itsstance on letting Vero Beachout of the alliance.

Sources close to the negoti-ations told Vero Beach 32963that the terms being demand-ed by the Florida Municipal

Power Agency are ridicu-lous and not only outside thebounds of what FPL is willing

Scot Caviness provides

beach chair, umbrella andgear rentals in front of someof Veros most exclusive

resorts. On the side, heshelped rescue nine peoplefrom the ocean, has cleanedthe beach and has raised

money for local charities.Given the way Caviness hasled his life since arriving in

Vero, his past may come asa surprise.

Last week, Vero Beach32963 reported that the

company owned by Cavi-ness, Shark Bait Beach Gear

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For breaking news visit

BY LISA ZAHNERStaff Writer

Municipal powerco-ops demandssaid ridiculous

2963 Insider

oore leaving law frm;oving back to beach

orney John E. Moore III is leav-

the rm of Rossway Moorean and moving his law practiceck across the lagoon where he

focus on estate planning.

ossway Moore Swan announcesamicable departure of John

Moore, III from the rm. Mr.ore has notied the rm thatintends to establish an inde-ndent private practice focusedely on estate planning services,

m administrator Gail Fredricksond on Monday.

companying Moore to the newation in the Grand Bank & Trustlding at 3240 Cardinal Drivebe a number of his associates

o also specialize in estate plan-g and probate law.

addition to his professional ac-ades, Moore is well-known forphilanthropic activities with the

maritan Center, the Educationundation, Quail Valley Charitiesd the law rms own charitablendation.

has received numerous awardscommunity service a legacycarries on from his father, JohnMoore, who founded the oldach Bank which was later takener by Northern Trust.

ssway Moore Taylor & Swans founded in 1999 by Mooreh partners Bradley W. Rossway,

Atwood Taylor, III; and MichaelSwan. The rm left the beach inril 2010, moving from the Oaknt ofce building to the remod-d Modernage building so them would have space to expand.m Taylor subsequently left them and it became Rosswayore Swan.

World War II bombs in ocean offThe Moorings lead to evacuation

BY STEVEN M. THOMASStaff Writer

U.S. Navy Explosive Ord-nance Disposal technicianssafely moved two bombsapparently dropped by air-

craft during WWII away fromoceanfront homes on the bar-rier island on Monday.

Seven homes were in thepotential blast zone just northof The Moorings and thearea was evacuated while thebombs were lifted and takenout to sea.

There were people homeat two of the houses and theycooperated and evacuatedwith no problems, said Assis-tant Indian River County FireRescue Chief Brian Burkeen.

Scot Caviness and his Shark Bait Beach Gear concession. PHOTO BY BENJAMIN HAGER

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Dale Sorensen Real Estate is knownmainly as a home and condomin-ium sales powerhouse, with some80 agents closing more than $440million in 2013 sales in Indian RiverCounty and North Hutchinson Is-land. But the family-owned agencyis equally notable for the extent of itscommunity involvement and chari-table giving.

The company, its agents and mem-bers of the Sorensen family compa-ny founder Dale Sr., his wife Matildeand their children Dale Jr. and Eliza-

beth donate time and money tomedical, educational and religiouscharities, artistic and cultural orga-nizations, and many groups that helpchildren in all sorts of ways, includingBig Brothers Big Sisters, Children'sHome Society, Hibiscus Children'sCenter, Gifford Youth Activity Cen-ter, Boys and Girls Club, Youth Sail-ing Foundation, Riverside ChildrensTheater, St. Judes Children's Hospitaland the March of Dimes.

They are very, very generous peo-ple, says Marta Schneider, a long-time Childrens Home Society boardmember and past board chair. They

care about children and what hap-pens to them.

The Childrens Home Society ofFlorida provides critical services tokids coming out of foster care andother teens struggling to finish highschool under difficult circumstances.

Our Youth Transition Centerhouses and mentors 12 youth whohave aged out of foster care and pro-vides services to 40 more things likejob counseling, life skil ls training,mental and physical healthcare andacademic support, Schneider says.

Our other facility here, Baines Hall,houses homeless youth who are try-ing to get through high school.

Elizabeth Sorensen has served on

committees for us and the companysupports all our events as a sponsor.They have been with us for at least 10years and it has been a wonderful re-lationship.

Having grown up here, you havea vested interest in the community,says Managing Partner Dale SorensenJr. The organizations and charitieswe support make the community bet-ter and we have always felt it is just apart of our business to be involved.

When the Sorensens moved manyyears ago from their original office,

located at the intersection of A1A andBeachland where the U.S. Trust is to-day, they donated the building to TheSamaritan Center, a Catholic charitythat assists homeless families.

Matilde and others raised money tomove the building to its current loca-tion on 41st St. north of airport, whereit remains in use today.

We use it every day, says Progra mAdministrator Tracey Segal. It hous-es two offices, a kitchen and a confer-

ence room.Organizations th

fight cancer and hecancer patients aanother focus of thSorensens philanthropy.

The Sorensens antheir agents are ve

generous peoplesays Carole Plante, c

chair of Answer to Cancer, a grouof about 200 organized in the GranHarbor community to assist cancpatients receiving radiation and chmotherapy in Indian River County.

We raise about $60,000 a yeamainly through our Dine and Ninevent, a dinner and golf fundraiseWe work with the Hospital Foundtion to decide how to use the moneTwo years ago, we did over the lobbof the radiation center and made

BY STEVEN M. THOMASStaff Writer

Sorensen a leader in sales and charitable giving

Above: Sorensen family members and agents withdiners at last weeks Soup Buffet event that raisedmoney for the American Cancer Society.

Right: Dale and Matilde Sorensen donated the buildingwhere their rst ofce was located to the Samaritan

Center, where it i s still in use today.


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uch nicer and more comfortable fortients. Last year we put $105,000o the infusion center with the

me aim of improving patient com-rt at a very difficult time.Sally Baskin, one of Sorensensents, has supported us for sevenars and the company helps us, too.

asked them if they could up theironsorship a little bit this year tot more money toward the comfortthe patients and they immediatelyd yes. They are wonderful people.

Last Friday, Sorensen Real Estatet up a tent and tables and chairs innt of its Cardinal Drive office to

rve soup made and donated by itsents and local restaurants to sup-rt the American Cancer Society, a

search, treatment and advocacy or-nization. It was a fun, festive eventat drew a good lunchtime crowd

d raised $915 for ACS.We do mini fund-raisers for the

merican Cancer Society through-t the year, says Sorensen DirectorMarketing and Technology Jenni-Bailey. The soup buffet is some-

ng we do when weather is cold.ur agents provide different types ofups and bread and we open it upthe public and invite friends, fam-and neighbors to come and have

up. The price is whatever donationople want to give and al l the money raise goes to ACS Relay for Life.

The company sells candy at thent desks of its three Vero offices,

lds periodic fundraisers and fieldseam for the annual Relay for Life

alk with the goal of ra ising $10,000r ACS during the year.It isnt a massive fundraiser, Dalerensen Jr. says of last weeks soupffet event, but it really shows thelture of giving back we have at ourfice. Owners, agents, and staff are

on board and it truly is a reward-g feeling knowing we are an office

caring agents that excel at morean just real estate.Members of the Sorensen family

devote considerable personal timeand resources to charitable and com-munity causes besides helping theChildrens Home Society, ElizabethSorensen was co-chair of the 2013Festival of Trees that raises fundsfor Riverside Childrens Theatre, andDale Jr. heads out to sea each yearto catch fish for fish tacos that aresold at the Relay for Life event buthe emphasizes the central role of hisagents in t he companys charity jug-gernaut.

The agents often bring charityinitiatives to us and I remember oneyear when they voted not to have aChristmas party so the money thatwould have paid for t he party couldbe used to help children at FellsmereElementary school.

Sorensen agent Bill Baysura recallshow that came about:

My wife Kelly was the assistantprincipal at Fellsmere from 2005 un-til 2010, when she was promoted tothe principal position at Liberty Mag-net School. Approaching Christmasof 2006, there were several childrenwho came to school without warmclothing and mentioned that theywere hungry. One of the students wasasked by her teacher why her home-work wasn't complete. The little girlsaid that she didn't have enough timeto do her homework before she fellasleep because someone else was us-ing the only candle that was givingthe family enough light to see during

the late evening.I shared this story with Dale Ju-

nior, Joan Cook and other agents inour office and asked if I could bringup the subject of assisting needy chil-dren in Fellsmere at our weekly meet-ing.

By the end of the meeting, I believeI had three personal checks made outto the elementary school. Within twohours, I had 10 e-mails, if not more,with offers of cash, toys, householditems, furniture, clothing, food andmore. Cash donations were used to

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help families turn on their electricity,come current with the rent paymentsand buy other food and householditems that were so desperately need-ed at that t ime.

As Christmas approached andagents became more aware of the de-gree of need, they voted to forgo theirbig annual holiday bash so t he moneycould go to help children and famil iesin Fellsmere.

The Christmas party is a specialevent the agents really enjoy and forthem to give it up for somebody elsewas really tremendous, says MatildeSorensen.

Kelly Baysura isnt at Fellsmereelementary anymore, but we havent

let go of that connection, says DaleJr. We did a food drive for t he schoolthis Christmas.

One thing that I've never men-tioned to anyone outside of my ownfamily, was that Mr. Sorensen toldme to find out how many childrenwere without a Christmas gift for thatyear [in 2006], Bill Baysura says. Iwas able to give him a final numberand without any hesitation he wrote a

check to ensure that every chi ld had aChristmas gift to open.

I can honestly say that the actionsby the Sorensen family and thosewho are affi liated w ith our companyare a big reason I will never work foranother broker in Indian River Coun-ty. They lead by example, walk quietlyand give more than any company oraffiliation I have worked with in myprofessional career.

My dad realized at a young agethat giving back to the communityis necessary, says Dale Jr. That hastrickled down to my sister and me.Dad was very involved with St. Edsand the hospital board when I waspretty young and I was impressed bythat. He has led the way.

When I became Headmaster ofSt. Edward's School in 1966, I quicklyrealized the significance of commu-

nity support, Dale Sorensen Sr. says.As you look at our community todaywith its exceptional medica l facil i-ties, incredible Riverside Theater,outstanding Museum and countlessother exceptional programs, it is ap-parent that stewardship has playedan important role in the qualityof life we enjoy. Giving back to thecommunity is for us a family com-mitment.

ORGANIZATIONS AND CHARITIES SUPPORTED

BY DALE SORENSEN REAL ESTATE

America Serving Veterans Foundation

American Cancer SocietyAnswer to Cancer Golf Tournament

Beachland ElementaryBig Brothers Big Sisters

Boys and Girls Club

Brevard Children in NeedBrian Simpson Walk in Memory of Brian

Childrens Art ContestChildrens Home Society

Christian F.M.

Christian Surfers AssociationCommunity Church

Disabled American Veteranse-Angels

Fellsmere Elementary

Florida Hands & VoicesGifford Youth Activity Center

Habitat for HumanityHALO

Harvest Festival

Harvest Food and Outreach Center

Hibiscus Childrens CenterHoly Cross ChurchHumane Society

Indian River Community Foundation

Indian River Hospital FoundationIndian River Land Trust

Indian River Medical Center FoundationIndian River County School - Art Contest

Impact 100

Johns Island Foundation

Mangrove Garden Foundation

March of DimesMardy Fish Foundation

Masters AcademyMoorings Educational Foundation

Orchid Outreach

Project SmithQuail Valley Charities

Quail Valley Charity CupRiverside Childrens Theatre

Rotary Club of Sebastian

Salvation ArmyScholarship Foundation of Indian River

CountySpecial Olympics of Indian River County

St. Edwards Lacrosse Program

St. Edwards SchoolSt. Edwards School Gala

St. Helens Catholic SchoolSt. Judes Childrens Hospital

Sunrise Elementary

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United WayVero Beach AmbulanceVero Beach Fire Department

Vero Beach Museum of Art

Vero Beach Theatre GuildVero Beach Volunteer Fire Department

VNA & Hospice FoundationVNA of the Treasure Coast

Young Professionals of IRC

Youth Sailing Foundation

Source: List supplied by Dale Sorensen Real Estates

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