Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach, one of the sons of

Johann Sebastian, is one of the links between the music of the baroque and the classical period.

Dog owners in the Southeast need to be particularly concerned about the dangers of contaminated water following the deaths of several dogs this summer. Dogs are especially susceptible to cyanotoxins found in blue-green algae that attack their nervous system. Toxic algae can be found all over the United States, so all dog owners need to be on the lookout and know what to do if their pet ever comes in contact with it.

BIO:

Dr. Wendy Ellis has lived in the Lakewood Ranch/Sarasota area for the last 17 years. Dr. Ellis earned her B.S. at the University of Georgia and graduated from the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine in 2002. Since she was a little girl, she has had all kinds of animals – including dogs, iguanas, mice, hamsters, guinea pigs, and fish.. Dr. Wendy owned an Emergency and Specialty Hospital for 10 years in south Sarasota, and has worked in emergency medicine for 17 years. She has also worked in general veterinary practices, vaccine clinics, and spay/neuter clinics. She brings with her a wealth of knowledge to treat all types of diseases and injuries. In her free time she enjoys Orange Theory, running, gardening, and going places with her son and 2 dogs.

Although born in Germany, Handel adopts Great Britain as his country, producing operas and operatorios

like the famous "MESSIAH"

Kristin Burton is a Medical Thermographer and Trainer in Central Florida. She owns Central Florida Medical Thermography and has over 15 locations in the state. She was raised in a holistic family that focused on nutrition. From an early age she knew she wanted to help people discover vibrant health.

Her college studies included pre-med, biology, medical technology and ultimately natural health. She has never stopped studying and learning and continues her education on a daily basis.

Kristin had been a successful Wellness Coach for over 20 years when she was invited to study under Dr. Carol Chandler – who is considered the Mother of Modern-day Thermography.

Soon, Kristin was imaging and training new Thermographers from all around the globe and became the principal Thermography Instructor and Trainer for Med-Hot Thermal Imaging – the most elite, professional brand of Thermography on the planet.

After several years of working with Dr. Carol, Kristin started her own thermal imaging business, Central Florida Medical Thermography, and continues to work with and train new thermographers for Dr. Carol to this day.

Kristin has grown her business to 10+ locations around the state of Florida and has three Thermographers working for her.

She is passionate about Thermography and educating the public on its benefits. She speaks to groups, emcees health events and has her own coaching business supporting other Thermographers from around the world!. Kristin is passionate about helping other Healthcare professionals harness the power of this amazing modality to more efficiently treat their patients. Her message is one of “Health Discovery” and how Thermography is the perfect vehicle for that message!

GREW UP IN PENNSYLVANIA

GRADUATED FROM SPRING FORD HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1966 THEN ENLISTED IN THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS AND MADE HIS CAREER - STARTED HIS MARTIAL ARTS TRAIING IN OKINAWA IN 1966-67 WITH MASTER TATSUO SHIMABUKU IN ISSHINRYU BEFORE HEADING TO VIETNAM

MOVED TO FLORIDA 1988

HIGHLY DECORATED VIETNAM COMBAT VETERAN UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS

SERVED IN TET OFFENSIVE VIETNAM 1967-1968

SERVED WITH 1st BATTALION /9th MARINES / BRAVO COMPANY

(THE WALKING DEAD)

HEAD NCOIC INSTRUCTOR AT QUANTICO VIRGINIA (THE BASIC SCHOOL) WEAPONS INSTRUCTOR FOR OFFICERS AFTER SERVING IN VIETNAMSOME OF HIS MILITARY AWARDS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL, VIETNAM CAMPAIGN MEDAL w stars, VIETNAM

SERVICE MEDAL, VIETNAM CROSS OF GALLANTRY, VIETNAM CIVIL ACTION

MEDAL, NAVY UNIT CITATION, PRESIDENTIAL UNIT COMMENDATION, PRESIDENTIAL CITATION, NAVY AND MARINE CORPS MEDAL, NAVY COMMENDATION, PURPLE HEART w star and THE COMBAT ACTION RIBBON

ALSO RIFLE AND PISTOL SHARPSHOOTERSERVED AS POST COMMANDER 1994-1999 AMERICAN LEGION POST 273 (LARGEST POST IN FLORIDA) NOW LARGEST POST IN THE COUNTRY (1ST VIETNAM VETERAN TO BE POST COMMANDER POST 273)

RECEIVED “JACK ADAMS AWARD FOR BEING BEST COMMANDER IN STATE 1994-1995SERVED AS DISTRICT COMMANDER 1996-1997 (ALL TIME HIGH MEMBERSHIP)

RECEIVED “JOSEPHINE LOCICERO AWARD” 1996-1997 (BEST CHILDREN/YOUTH CHAIRMAN IN STATE)

SERVED TWO TERMS 1997-1999 DEPT. OF FLORIDA STATE SGT.-AT-ARMS

SERVES ON NATIONAL LEGISTLATIVE COUNCIL FOR AMERICAN LEGION

SERVES AS DEPT. OF FLORIDA POW-MIA CHAIRMAN

NATIONAL POW-MIA COMMITTEEMAN FOR FLORIDA

NATIONAL VICE-CHAIRMAN FOR AMERICANISM COMMISSION FROM FLORIDA

AMERICAN LEGION NATIONAL HOSPITAL REPRESENTATIVE AT BAY PINES VA HOSPITAL FOR OVER 28 YEARS

RECENTLY WAS NOTIFIED FROM NAC THAT HE WAS THE RECEPIENT OF THE NATIONAL VA VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR 2017-2018 FROM VA CENTRAL OFFICE FOR THE WHOLE COUNTRY FOR THE WORK HE DOES AT BAY PINES VAMC. HE REPRESENTS THE AMERICAN LEGION AS THE HOSPITAL REPRENTATIVE AND AN ADVOCATE TO HELP VETERANS

PRESIDENT OF PINELLAS COUNTY VETERANS LIAISON COUNCIL OVER 18 YEARS

ORGANIZED FOOD BASKET PROGRAM AND HOT MEALS FOR HOMELESS VETERANS

ESTABLISHED 1ST POW-MIA MONUMENT IN FRONT OF ANY LEGION POST IN THE COUNTRY IN 1995 AT POST#273

HONORED AS LEGIONNAIRE OF THE YEAR 1999,2002, AND 2005

LIFE MEMBER OF AMERICAN LEGION, VFW, DAV, AMVETS, HONOR SOCIETY 40/8, VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA, AND ALSO A MEMBER OF THE ARMY-NAVY UNION AND “THE FAMILY”(VIETNAM VETS BROTHERHOOD)

ALSO AN HONORARY MEMBER OF THE KOREAN WAR VETERANS AND THE AMERICAN EX-POW’S

SERVED AS HONOR GUARD COMMANDER POST #273 FOR OVER 12 YEARS AND THEN ORGANIZED

THE NEW PINELLAS COUNTY VETERANS LIAISON COUNCIL HONOR GUARD.

ORGANIZED THE LARGO COURT OF HONOR IN LARGO CENTRAL PARK WITH USSOCOM COMMAND JUMP TEAM

IN 1999 HE BECAME PERMANETLY DISABLED DUE TO COMBAT WOUNDS AND SEVERE CANCER DUE TO AGENT ORANGE EXPOSURE WHILE SERVING IN VIETNAM, HAD TO STOP WORKING BUT CONTINUED WORKING AT HOME FOR VETERANS WHO NEEDED HELP

PRESENTED THE SILVER ROSE AWARD IN 2000 FOR TERMINAL CANCER DUE TO AGENT ORANGE EXPOSURE WHILE IN REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM (QUANG TRI PROVINCE)

ALSO HONORED BY THE JEWISH WAR VETERANS OF AMERICA WITH THEIR DISTINQUISHED SERVICE MEDAL AND SPECIAL PLAQUE FOR HIS OUTSTANDING

SERVICE TO ALL VETERANS ON MAY 8, 2001

ON NOVEMBER 12, 2001 DAVID WAS PRESENTED A SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD

AT THE ANNUAL VETERANS DAY PROGRAM AT BAY PINES VA MEDICAL CENTER

BY THOMAS WEAVER, MEDICAL CENTER DIRECTOR AND GENERAL TOM DRAUDE ,USMC FOR HIS DEDICATED WORK ON BEHALF OF ALL VETERANS THROUGHOUT PINELLAS COUNTY!

ON MAY, 2, 2002 DAVID WAS PRESENTED THE HUMANITARIAN OF THE YEAR

AWARD BY MAYOR BOB JACKSON AND LT. GENERAL MICHAEL DELONG (USMC)

DEPUTY COMMANDER IN CHIEF (MACDILL) AT THE 14TH ANNUAL LARGO

PRAYER BREAKFAST

IN 2004 DAVID COORDINATED AND WAS THE SUCCESS IN MOVING THE VETERANS DAY PARADE AND CEREMONY TO THE CITY OF SEMINOLE...

Growing up in the small town of Moultrie located in Colquitt County deep in South Georgia brought Masa Kenney into contact with an agrarian lifestyle and community. As a young teen, he spent a lot of his time involved with 4-H, FFA, and the annual Sunbelt Ag Expo. The Sunbelt Agricultural Exposition has been billed as America’s largest agricultural exposition for over 4 decades now. Many of his friends lived and worked on farms, and his summers were spent helping them pick crops and tend to cattle. Two of those summers brought him into a deeper understanding and appreciation of the science that is incorporated into agriculture when at the ages of 13 & 14 during summer break he worked in Valdosta for Funk’s G Hybrid Seed Company which conducted a selective breeding program using a technique of self-pollination to create a genetically desirable harvest. His junior and senior years in high school introduced him to a landscaping job and cultivated his love of working with Nature through the beautification of the environment. By working in this field he gained a greater respect and understanding of the symbiotic relationship that plants shared with humans, not just in the exchange of the necessary gases to survive but also the deeper effects that the environment and plants have on people and vice-versa. It was then that Masa decided that he wanted to attend one of the best agriculture universities in the nation and find a career path that involved working with plants.. With no way to pay for college, he joined the U.S. Army and opted for the Army College Fund and the G.I. Bill instead of a one-time cash enlistment bonus to pay for his college education. After a station overseas in Europe and a deployment to the Middle East for Desert Shield & Desert Storm, he went right back to his chosen career path and worked for several different landscape companies and nursery centers while attending Valdosta State College and then UGA. It was while attending classes at UGA that he was introduced to a scientific cutting edge technology in agriculture when he worked in the Horticulture Department’s Plant Tissue Culture Laboratory under Dr. Hazel Wetzstein who is one of the most well respected pioneers in her field of plant genetic research and a recent recipient of the Fellows Award. This is where Masa learned the true scientific process of cultivating plants and how we can work with plants on a genetic level to propagate exact clones from plant tissue and experiment with genetic modification techniques to produce plants that are more desirable in many aspects: higher yield, higher sugar content, resistance to drought, disease, pests, herbicides, etc. Although he had acquired a large amount of his botanical knowledge through his years of work in the industry and in the classroom, it was in that lab that he took a huge leap forward in his understanding and appreciation of Nature.

Masa Kenney graduated from the College of Agriculture and Environmental Science school of the University of Georgia with a Bachelor’s of Science in Agriculture in 1997. He has a major in Horticulture and a minor in Crop & Soils Science. While attending UGA, he was a member of the Horticulture Club and BioTechnology Journal Club. Upon graduation he went to work for a large scale landscape company in Savannah only to return six months later to the incredible city he had come to love in Athens. Here he spent the next 15 years raising a new family, starting a new landscape business, and settling into a city that his family, the Kenneys, had originated from five generations earlier. His landscape business, Lavish Landscapes, LLC, operated for over 12 years and offered services in landscape design, installation, maintenance, irrigation, hardscapes, drainage remediation, licensed chemical applications, and consultations. During this period Masa was a member of the GGIA (Georgia Green Industry Association) and one of the founding members of the original BNI...

Jaclyn is back for an encore presentation with the hero whispers. We wanted her to share her most recent victories both in work and play! Welcome back JLY! jly is an LA-based pop singer-songwriter who reads the world from right-to-left on a guitar for tiny hands. She delivers both sass and sentiment on the ukulele, which makes for a diverse set filled with laughter and heart. She walks through life with a different lens, where the seemingly mundane can become inspiring, and the everyday sounds of life can bring a beat to life. With so many stories to tell, she writes and sings a wide range of songs from dancy EDM club bangers to breezy and tender acoustic serenades. Catchy hooks and tasteful riffs will bring you into her world and the issues that are important to her--feminism, LGBTQ rights, individuality, and Asian American representation.

Susan engages healthcare organizations and nonprofits around CaringBridge’s mission to ensure no one goes through a health journey along by offering free, ad-free websites for those experiencing a health crisis.