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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCitizens Assisting Others-1994/1995 K-12 The Orlando Sentinel,Sunday,September 25, 1994 sea ®M : I4 4 4I4 4 4=© Motorcycle run to aid Winter Springs girl By Brenda Hegedus OF THE SENTINEL STAFF a County's Harley Own- rv . . d3y... FX d$4 9510 ;0 . T R 4 y ti, ..ers do D Nel- Gronpwill have observa- tion n run to benefit Dawn Nel- korn. Registration will be from 10 t•.. a.m. to noon today at Scott i. -RS '�' t Smith's Harley Davidson, U.S. •Ali _ '' a< • e •i• Highway 17-92, Fern Park. The a 1�f !'� - run will end at Bar Out Back,San- + .�i! • ford.Donation: 5 ' �'-I Akl a $ per person. ai >. Dawn, a victim Winter streptococcus-A 11-year- old, is a vta fi of eating disease •-4 ;, _ infection,hhs lost t a Flesh-eating disease. £ "She has lost her left leg below the knee and portions of her right Nd ) y foot. The run is to help Dawn and her family Put their lives back on Crack For more information contact "' Linda Tompkins at(407)788-8061. - "' . ° '� .:. •°t • fh; r Winter Springs nears ae<: action on tax rate cut WINTER SPRINGS—The City Commission will take the final _. vote Monday night on lowering the - DENNIS WALL/SENTINEL property tax rate by 4.1 percent. The city is lowering the tax rate Indian Trails Middle School students See You at the Pole prayer event. This because officials anticipate receiving more tax money from meet at the flagpole before school to group, praying silently, was organized the state during the fiscal year pray Wednesday as part of the national by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. beginning Oct. 1. A public hearing on the budget ' will begin at 7:30 p.m.at City Hall, . but few—if any—residents are expected to complain about a decrease in taxes. The drop would save the owner (� / of a$100,000 home with a$25,000 1 0 9 a s homestead exemption about$12 a year. Y ` e 1 1. ce Winter Springs resident Sylvia Krummel puts lights on the post office in her display. Unplugging Christmas in Winter Springs ❑Sylvia Krummel is taking mel is busy in her workshop prepar- year at Mummers home. her traffic-jamming ing for the best Christmas ever. Instead of turning her property into J ng Halloween trick-or-treaters will a fantasy land, Krummel, 59, will be Christmas display to the have to weave through a maze of holi- packing her tiny lights, trains, ferns Quality Inn on I-Drive. day houses if they want goodies from wheels,candy canes and villages into Xrummel, Winter Springs' Christmas a moving van and heading for the angel. courtyard at Quality Inn, 7600 Inter- By Will Wellons The makings of the North Pole are national Drive,Orlando. sitting in Krummel's driveway wait- "I'm the most excited that I have OF TK94a1Na STAFF - ing for transport. ever been in my life," Krummel said. On Nov. 7, the city's most famous "Nine years of work has opened a new WINTER SPRINGS — Before the holiday display is moving south —to door for me." ghosts, goblins and Power Rangers International Drive — for the winter. have even hit the street,Sylvia Krum- It was visited by 30,000 people last Please see DISPLAY, K•5 9y, dA3 ✓Y: •t } & t � �' SSt . �r ' ..,.. ... ax L DENNIS WAWSEMMEL Hot glue for the North Pole—that's how Sylvia Krummel makes her figures stick. She's adding displays and more animation DISPLAY from K-1 Krummel's Winter Wonderland She has devoted her life to mak- will be part of the Winter Festival ing the Christmas displays. Last year,the Christmas display celebration on International Abe Rubin, general manager of in the Southern Pines community Drive. Businesses along the street the Quality Inn,is more than hap was almost called off because are plannutg elaborate light dm- py to accept this gift. some neighbors complained about Plays. "We love it.We're just supecex- traf6c. Seminole County deputies Toohey predicted that Krummel cited,"Rubin said.The traffic that stepped in to save the holiday by will be the catalyst for a new cele- almost stopped the display in the directing tmPfic for free. bration. residential community will be wel- One of the many visitors was "This is going to become a tradi- come at the hotel, which is sur- hotelier Garritt Toohey. He visitors, lion,"he said. rounded by restaurants and shops. ed Krummel to move her elabo- Krummel said she is blessed by Rubin expects the display to rate display, which includes more God for this chance to take her stop traffic on the bustling tourist than 100 animated figures and display to a place where it is really street. Word of the transfer is Christmas settings—both indoors wanted. But she has mixed emo- leaking out and Rubin said bus and outdoors—to his hotel. lions about leaving behind all the tours to International Drive are Krummel said she first thought people who have stopped by her being planned. Toohey was "full of hooey." But home for nine years. "We've had a bunch of calls earlier this year, hotel officials I love all the people that have from local people that want know called back. And in March the come to the house. They are like When it is going to open;' Rubin planning for Christmas began. family; she said. "I hope some said. Now she is scurrying with the stop by and say hi." frantic pace of an elf on Christmas Krummel said she came from a The display will be lighted Eve to build new displays and add poor Georgia family that could not nightly from Thanksgiving more animation. afford a lighted Christmas tree. through the first of the year. 9el /0 -23 Boy opens his house of cards to needy kids By Will Welions The boys' sets have football, basketball, baseball and hockey OF THE SENTINEL STAFF cards. Girls packs include all sports with a heavier dose of bas- WINTER SPRINGS — Nine- ketball along with Barbie, Fivel year-old Robert"Scooter"Morgan, Goes West and even Madonna. got his nickname from baseball, Bob Morgan, Robert's father, but he's making a name for him- jokes that all the cards are PG-rat- self as the St.Nick of sports cards. ed. The Keeth Elementary student Robert notes that these packs has collected 100,000 sports cards are not just a bunch of duds that over the past six months. He is nobody would want. packaging them as gifts for needy "They include Shaq, Anfernee children. Hardaway, Nolan Ryan, Jose Can- He'll deliver his first batch this seco, Reggie Jackson. ... all the afternoon to several hundred major players,"Robert said. youths at the Children's Wish "I think it is pretty neat to do- Foundation Christmas Party. Lat- nate cards to kids that don't get a er, he hopes to go to other chil- chance to collect," he said of his dren's groups. first foray into charity. Robert, a card collector since he Scooter, as he is known around was 4 years old, got the idea for a school, enjoys most sports, riding card giveaway when his mom said his bike,in-line skating and build- his collection was always a mess. ing his model fort. The idea gelled when he saw pro- motions for Shaquille O'Neal's But philanthropy for this honor charity work during last year's student only goes so far. He won't NBA playoffs, be parting company with his own An All-Star himself—of the Lit- sports cards from his favorite tle League baseball variety — team—the Orlando Magic. Robert resolved to start his Kards "I just cannot give them away," for Kids program and pass cards he said with a shrug. to children who were not so fortu- Still Mom and Dad are proud of nate. his efforts. "I had so many cards, it was hard to keep track of them," he "When he decided to do this', he said of the collection, which num- sat down, got the information and bered in the thousands. got organized. He has done about But instead of getting rid of a BO percent of the work himself," mess, Robert solicited donations said Bob Morgan. from area card shops. His collec- Officials with the Children's tion grew to a 100,000 card pile Wish Foundation are thankful. that needed to be sorted into 100- ' card gift packs. "I think it is wonderful that a With the help of his mom, CM- healthy child would like to give dy, Robert has prepared nearly back to the community to a child 400 gifts packs to give away this with life-threatening ill- weekend. The packs are designed nesses,"said Ernie Wilding, a to please both boys and girls. board member. Winter Springs mom learns a lot white protecting others' children By Beth Taylor at her children's school. "There are OF TM SWIM.&TN'r children out there who, because life's - SANFORD -- not fair,can't hire at- Snaek to is hardly p� torneys to speak for a novel eriPerienee them. ...Pm finding for most kids. But 'n that Guardians can I ' for the little girl sit- make a difference." ling at the kitchen. She soon discov- lehle With her foster ered, however, that brotherx and sisters, _ watching videos and ally ttmtine is a big sitting through class- room lectures is far. d` Until a few months different from deal- t her life held lit- ing with troubled str*Atture. When families in real life. her drug-addicted t - There's a lot you mother failed to pick " ".t „N need to know," her up from the baby Deism v n4EOauwsemNi MCC ollough said. sitterg-one day, the Debra MaColloU 9 h of Winter My favorite part sitter called police. was meeting the That's how the girl Springs talks on the phone at child and knowing ended up in a foster the Guardian ad Litem offices at she was in a safe en- home. the Juvenile Justice Center. vironment fin the And that's where Debra MCCollough foster home]." came in. The Winter Springs stay-at- But this case is not typical, and get- home mom of three had just graduated ting to know the little girl has not been from a training program for Guardian easy. She can't walk or talk, although," :ad Litem volunteers, MCCollough was therapy offers some hope. She under- :excited-if a bit nervous—about her stands what people say, as MCCollough assignment,and eager to meet the discovered when she asked for curer- :child she would represent in the court her ccrackers k ome.child d wart rnnu sh'aok hdi -"My kids have a pretty good life,but head"no„ -There.ate a lot of kids who need help," Meeting with the child is just part of :said McDonough, whose interests in- elude Please see VOLUNTEER,K-4 playing tennis and volunteering VOLUNTEER,• gi0c111 Mud Duck is a favorite at Winter Springs construction site From a flower-bedecked command post, Editor's note: Because of an Duck." Duck's house.The rug he has is from editing error,this story did not ap- Mud Duck's office is a 6-foot us,too.It came from SouthAmerica." pear last week, though it was ad- high scaffold frame tvithboardsacross Mrs.Hill is the wife of Dolph Hill vertised on Page I. the top and a blue tarp draped across BI, senior project manager for the it.Inside,in the shade,is a net chair school. By DARNED.JOHNSON and an old-fashioned school desk. These comfortable, if primitive, SrAcr REPORTER or THE anew vows Two bouquets of flowers grace what digs arc no indication of Mud Duck's Mud Duck arrives at his office passes for a doorway, and standing work habits.The only time he relaxes every morning before 6 and cleans his outside is a model oil derrick(maybe in his shady enclave is during breaks equipment. Then he makes—you in honor of Derrick himself) with a and lunch. guessed it—mud. windmill on the top. The rest of the time he is filling Derrick Sanderson works for "I think that lady in the trailer square boxes with sand and dumping Unifab,Inc.and prepares all the ce- brought it over here one morning," them into one of two large gas-pow- ment used in the masonry at the new he says. ered mixers.Or he is throwing sacks Winter Springs High School. A na- That lady is Rebecca Hill,project of dry cement mix onto a saw-tooth live of Montego Bay, Jamaica, he engineer with Balfour Beatty,general wheel atop the mixer's hopper. The never uses the term cement, though. contractor on the project. She con- teeth rip the bag open and allow the He says he mixes mud. firms Mud Duck's suspicions. ponder to pour in, eliminating the "That's what they call me," he "The windmill was a wedding need to rip sacks apart by hand. explains in his colorful Jamaican ac- present," she says, and we were The first thing Mud Duck does cent,"because I always mixing all the cleaning out the garage and thought when he arrives on a new constuic- mud so Jerry my bossjust call me Mud it might be a neat addition to Mud lion site is build a platform for his machines. He builds curbs to guide fork lifts to the tubs,he fashions huge blocks to put his pre-sized sand boxes on so he won't have to lift them.Ev- en-thing's:constructed using mud that he makes. On a busy day he might use two pallets of cement, each containing somewhere around 44 bags. The in- gredients go into the mixer, blades turn and gears whine,and a huge vat of cement pours out,ready to be carted away by one of many forklifts supply- ing the masons. Mike,one of the forklift drivers, helped build and decorate the shelter. Many other employees have also made contributions. Derrick Sanderson,age 41 next July 3, has been in this country for eight years. He "made all the mud" for the new school at Hunter Creek 9 before heading to Winter Springs G O / High_ Now he wears a hard hat with a ragged straw hat under it and busily he holds 1t together • + \ 2 \ » 2 \ . . �ya : � \ � �/ \ / G » % will : S \» s Wi ? ; A } ~ ^:\ \ \ ■= 2 . • d , « �} \ \ 17r 111 4.■ 4. / \ / *\ � . © ? \/ \ 2. : } ! « ® \±\ 2* « • / \ •/ \\ \ _�Oviedo _,_ e shovels sand and throws cement bags six months,-Rebecca Hal says At lunch time he sits in his house on That is no reflection on the other his net chair and relaxes crew members,11011CVCT The project "If everybody worked as hard as is currently under budget and ahead he does this school would be done in of schedule 96660 ,