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Gregory Enns
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Allen Osteen
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Janie Gould, Jerry Shaw,
Gloria Taylor Weinberg,
Camille S. Yates, Willi Miller,
Susan Burgess, Sandra Thurlow,
Catherine Enns Grigas,
Wm. F. Crary II, Greg Gardner
Christina Tascon, Alisha McDarris
Siobhan Fitzpatrick Austin
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Ed Drondoski, Bob Dobens,
Rob Downey
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Of spring and a bird’s-eye view
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Those halcyon days when
the Los Angeles Dodgers
would help usher in the
arrival of spring on the
Treasure Coast are gone, but luckily
the hallowed ground where they
played in Vero Beach is still much
the same. Even the roofless dugouts
at Holman Stadium, unique in all
of baseball, have been preserved
at the complex now known as
Historic Dodgertown.
Dodgertown was in the doldrums
after the Dodgers moved their spring
training activities west in 2008.
Minor League Baseball took over
the facility in 2009 and called it Vero
Beach Sports Village. But less than
two years later, it faced being shuttered
again. Luckily, former Dodgers
This photo of a cattle roundup was taken by an aerial drone in
a collaborative effort by Bud Adams, his son Robbie and his
grandson Sam. Bud Adams, whose photography has appeared
in Indian River for the last eight years, recently purchased the
drone, below, to capture a new perspective on ranch life.
owner Peter O’Malley and partners,
including his sister, Terry O’Malley
Sneider, stepped in to save the 80-
acre complex and continue its use as a sports facility.
As Willi Miller writes in “Dodgertown Renaissance” beginning
on Page 10, “It’s much more than baseball these days at
Historic Dodgertown.” Besides hosting a professional South
Korean team that uses the renovated complex for off-season
training, Historic Dodgertown this spring is also running
college and high school softball camps and a lacrosse camp,
to name just a few.
The loss of the Dodgers was enormous to Vero Beach,
but luckily Dodgertown still thrives and contributes to the
Treasure Coast economy and the spring training tradition
continues in Vero Beach.
Another organization providing a boost to the Treasure Coast economy is Indian River
State College by helping entrepreneurs through its Virtual Incubator program. As Greg
Gardner writes in our story beginning on Page 42, the program is part of IRSC’s Brown
Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and helps entrepreneurs with their business
plans while also helping to find funding for their ideas.
That story is part of our annual Trends in Education section in this issue. One major
trend we discovered taking place at several schools is the transition from textbooks to using
digital devices such as iPads for nearly all a students’ reading needs. That story begins
on Page 48.
And speaking of technology, rancher and photographer Bud Adams doesn’t let technology
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pass him by. Adams’ photography has appeared in our Back Country feature since the
magazine started eight years ago. The 88-year-old Adams, who began taking photographs
of Adams Ranch when he was 10 years old, recently purchased an aerial drone so he could
capture a new perspective of ranch life. Adams’ son Robbie flies the drone while Robbie’s
son Sam operates the camera. Besides the photo above, one of their recent photographs
taken with the drone appears on Page 128. Talk about giving readers a bird’s-eye view.
Enjoy the many other stories in this issue, and have a great spring.
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