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Hats Off to the Green Heart Tribe
Mar 23, 2026
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Vero in Bloom & The Hats in the Garden Luncheon at McKee Botanical Garden is arguably one of the most beautiful daytime events to take place every season.
The Week Ahead

International Lecture Series -- VBMA
Vero Beach Museum of Art
Mar 23, 2026
4:30 PM
10:30 PM
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United Way Powered by Purpose Speaker Series
Northern Trust
Mar 24, 2026
3:00 PM
9:00 PM
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Indian River Symphonic Association -- Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Community Church of Vero Beach
Mar 24, 2026
7:30 PM
2:00 AM
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At a Glance: This Week and Next
For more details on all upcoming events and to register for these, see " The Week Ahead " section here . March 23, 4:30 p.m. -- VBMA International Lecture Series March 24, 3 p.m. -- United Way Powered by Purpose Speaker Series March 24, 7:30 p.m. -- Indian River Symphonic Association: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra March 25, 4 p.m. -- The John and Barbara Ferrera Ocean Science Lecture Series at FAU Harbor Branch March 25, 7:30 p.m. -- Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center:
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Tide Together at Saint Edward's
Saint Edward's School is debuting Tide Together this spring, a brand-new four-week series that reflects the school's long-standing role as a private institution with a public-facing mission. For Indian River County families with toddlers, nothing quite like it exists locally. Certified swim instruction alone would be worth the trip. Here it's folded into a broader weekly experience that gives 2- and 3-year-olds a joyful, low-pressure introduction to school life while giving
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Almost. Right Here, Right Now
Almost, Maine — Riverside Theatre | March 24 – April 12 There is a town in northern Maine that doesn't quite exist. It never got around to being officially organized. Never made it onto any map. It sits so far north it's almost in Canada...almost, but not quite. Just Almost. That word "Almost," is doing a lot of work in this production. Because we all live there. Almost told someone we loved them. Almost stayed. Almost left. Almost picked up the phone. That one person you thi
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Linen Suits and Lemon Drops Make for a Record-Breaking Night at the ELC
Jeff Quattry, Baerbel O'Haire, Jane Smalley ELC board member and Windsor marketing director Jane Smalley invited us along to this year's annual gala, and I'm so glad she did. This year's theme: Mangroves, Moonlight & Milan. The rain forecast moved things indoors and away from the usual spot at the Thomas R. Schidel Pavilion , but the execution was so seamless you'd have assumed that was the plan all along. Guests arrived in linen suits as the sun set over the lagoon, lemon d
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Poetry, Barbeque, and a 15-Year Homecoming
Silvia Curbelo, Michael Hettich and Sean Sexton today (top) and 15 years ago (bottom) The Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation has been holding its annual Poetry and BBQ event every spring for fifteen years, and this Saturday, March 28 , they're returning to where it all began. "In a Southerly Light...Revisited" recreates the very first Poetry & Barbeque, right down to the poets themselves, bringing back Silvia Curbelo, Michael Hettich, and Sean Sexton , who started this whole
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Jungle Trail’s New Window on the Lagoon
This Saturday afternoon on Jungle Trail, Indian River County cuts the ribbon on the Jones' Pier Conservation Area Interpretive Center , designed by R+C Architecture , a new facility that tells the story of one of the county's most intact Old Florida landscapes. The namesake of the pier, the Jones family , shaped this stretch of the Indian River Lagoon for generations. In 1889, Seaborn Jones and his family homesteaded 160 acres on Orchid Island, tendering crops of beans and t
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This Thursday, the Garden Speaks in Scent
Before written language, before maps or money, humans were already crushing a leaf between two fingers, holding it to the light, and deciding it meant something. Temple smoke rising to gods in Egypt and Mesopotamia. Sacred oils anointing the living and the dead. The word perfume itself is born from the Latin " per fumum ," meaning "through smoke," because for most of human history, to release a scent was to send a message to something larger than yourself. This Thursday, Mar
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A Night for the Animals: Cause for Paws Sets a Record at Windsor
N early 300 guests filled the Windsor Beach Club on March 4 for the Humane Society of Vero Beach and Indian River County's 42nd annual Cause for Paws Gala , walking out having made it the most successful in the event's history, raising more than $800,000 after costs. Not a bad evening for the animals. Adoptable dogs and cats mingled with the crowd, stealing hearts with ease. If you were there, you know the cocktail hour demanded a certain amount of willpower. The money matt
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Godspeed, Mr. GYAC
There has never been anyone in Indian River County quite like Freddie Woolfork . He was the Gifford kid who went out into the world, earned his degree from Florida A&M, saw his options and then chose, very much on purpose, to come home and widen the horizon for everyone coming after him. At the Gifford Youth Achievement Center , he helped turn a fragile idea into the “miracle on 43rd Avenue," founded in 1998 to boost the low 25% graduation rate for Black students in the area,
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