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SHE'S OMNIPRESENT FOR THE ARTS

Sep 26, 2024 | winterparkmag.com | Greg Dawson

“Toni!” Staffers at the Panera on Aloma Avenue greet Toni Dedik like an old friend when she walks in. They also know her phone number and her standing order: iced coffee and a cinnamon crunch bagel. “It’s so nice when I come in and they all holler out my name,” she says.
Variety evaluation is key to sustainable crop production

Jul 18, 2024 | thescottishfarmer.co.uk | Greg Dawson

Explore crop innovations (Image: web) Early summer sees combinable crop growers bombarded with invitations to attend field trial open days – often with the promise of a BBQ and the chance for a blether away from the coalface. While some trials events have a strong customer relations emphasis, on many other trial sites across the country there is valuable work going on once the catering van departs and the banners are packed away.
OLD DOGS, NEW FASHION TRICKS

Jun 24, 2024 | winterparkmag.com | Greg Dawson

Before reading further, study the photo of the four men. They are, left to right, actor Tom Nowicki, former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins, Winter Park Magazine editor and publisher Randy Noles, and Rollins College English instructor Mike McLeod. I took the picture. Trust me, I would have blended right in with this motley crew.
COVID CAPTIVITY AND MASKED EMOTIONS

Apr 1, 2024 | winterparkmag.com | Greg Dawson

Besides 16 expired COVID-19 Antigen tests,about 100 masks, a few mini bottles of hand sanitizer, my vaccine card and a pulse oximeter, my only souvenir of the pandemic is a Publix receipt for $428.62 on April 14, 2020, when the Winter Park Village store held its first early-morning, seniors-only shopping hour.
DEPUTY DAWG’S EYES, A TURKEY’S NECK

Jan 3, 2024 | winterparkmag.com | Greg Dawson

Thirty years ago, when I was unwrinkled, I saw a documentary about aging gracefully that ended with the dreamy scene of a wizened but still lovely nonna dining with her doting extended family in the shade of a hilltop olive tree in Tuscany.
Does Scotland's Distilling Industry Need to Rethink Sustainability?

Nov 4, 2023 | thescottishfarmer.co.uk | Greg Dawson

Cultivating Scottish cereals faces growing complexity, chemistry adaptation to disease, and weather shifts. (Image: web) Greg Dawson, deputy managing director at farming coop, Scottish Agronomy takes a look at a different way for the supply chain to meet sustainability goals as weather and disease play havoc with a traditional distilling variety.
OLD GUY, WHITE DOG, ONLINE DRAMA

Oct 5, 2023 | winterparkmag.com | Greg Dawson

“Greg! I think they’re talking about youon Facebook.”“Wait … what?”“Our apartment complex Facebook group,” said my wife, Candy. It was news to me that the residents have a Facebook page. But then the entire cyber revolution has been news to me. How hard up for material do you have to be to post about me? In the Orlando Sentinel newsroom, where I worked for 25 years, that was called a slow news day. There must be some mistake. “Come over and look at it on my phone,” Candy said.
NOT ALL WAR HEROES ARE SOLDIERS

Jun 29, 2023 | winterparkmag.com | Greg Dawson

Anderson arrived at the home of his Lviv host family, the Gnativs, in December, 2016. Pictured above is Anderson with (left to right) Nazaar, Denis, Vika, Khris, Luba (holding Anya) and Solimiya. Father Oleh Gnativs is a furniture maker, but since the invasion furniture sales have stalled. So Anderson sponsored Khris so she could work in the United States and send money home to her family while continuing her university education online.
PARKING HELL, BUT SOUP TO DIE FOR

Apr 1, 2023 | winterparkmag.com | Greg Dawson

Illustration by Dana SummersYou know you’re getting close to Trader Joe’s in Winter Park when traffic starts backing up on U.S. 17-92 near Morse Boulevard because vehicles with blinking turn signals are waiting to enter a parking lot that’s already packed and gridlocked. These are lemmings who have marched off the cliff before, somehow survived, and keep coming back to do it again and again.