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• Happy Father’s Day Sunday to all the Dad’s out there! Remember to call or be with your father and always remember him fondly if he is gone, but will always be with you in your heart.
• Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale will be opening an urgent care and imaging center with 11 full time employees Sept. 15 at 1799 S. Federal Highway at the site of a former mattress firm which was demolished and a nearly 8,000 sq. ft. facility will be built as a free standing facility capable of transmitting test results instantly to the hospital to be read. • The Luxury Chamber features State Rep. Bobby Powell, 6 to 8 p.m. June 18 at Peninsula On The Intracoastal, 2690 N. Federal Highway, Boynton Beach. Fl. 33435. RSVP to register at www.luxurychamber.com to network with upscale business and professional people. • Keyes President Mike Pappas speaks at the Gold Coast Tiger Bay Club lunch 11:30 a.m. July 8 at City Fish Market, 7940 Glades Road at the Florida Turnpike in Boca. RSVP and register at www.goldcoasttigerbayclub.com • Boca Raton’s taxable real estate is tops in the county at $18.1 billion, according to the latest estimates from the county’s property appraiser. • Boca Dunes Golf and Country Club and Boca Greens Country Club are the latest communities that could see new homes built on golf course land. The preliminary proposal for Boca Dunes calls for building 245 townhomes on 31 acres of the golf course at the community south of Palmetto Park Road and west of Lyons Road. Also, initial talks for Boca Greens call for building about 70 townhomes using 11 acres in the golf course clubhouse area and potentially another 10 acres of open spaces at the community near Kimberly Boulevard, west of State Road 7. • Boca Raton City Council agreed to shell out $622,000 to build an administrative building at the Boca Raton airport. The Florida Department of Transportation will kick in 80% of the $3 million building cost, and the expansion is designed to attract a
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“Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one” -Colossians 4:5
U.S Customs office that will open the airport to international traffic. The city’s financing comes from airport user fees and not from taxes. • The second season of the USA Network series, Graceland begins June 11 at 10/9 central. The show is set in Southern California, but has been filming all over South Florida including locations in Boca Raton, but the future of South Florida’s film and TV production industry is now uncertain as state lawmakers failed to approve a tax credit funding package. The production tax credit funding of $296 million is already used up through 2016 and without incentives producers may go elsewhere for the tax break. Industry sources estimate film and TV production generates $1 billion in economic impact annually in Florida and provides 25,000 jobs. • Arturo Gismondi will be opening La Nouvelle Maison at 455 E. Palmetto Park Road, inspired by the former La Vieille Maison, which was Boca’s best high-end French restaurant and where a Chabad may be built at the former La Veille Maison site on Palmetto Park Road in Boca. Gismondi also is the owner/chef of Trattoria Romana, Cannolli Kitchen and the Biergarten. His father and Uncle started Arturo’s in north Boca. Thanks to Skip Sheffield for this. • Another Broken Egg Café has opened in Royal Palm Plaza with an “egg breaking” ceremony scheduled for June 16th, the Shrimp House has opened in the Food Court at Town Center, Boca Raton, Ideal Image has opened in the Town Commons, formerly Glades Plaza and Fork & Knife has closed in Royal Palm Plaza after being opened less than a year. • TR San Marco Coup sold the San Marco at Broken Sound apartment complex to San Marco Holdings LLC, after paying $36 million for it in 1993. • The Boca Museum of Art will offer free access to the general public every Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. during June, July, and August. • The Florida Department of Transportation will improve 441 from Glades Road to Sample with a $9.3 million first phase of coordinated traffic signals, adding sidewalks and 5 foot bike lanes, improved intersections, new bus shelters with electronic message boards and increased landscaping. • Palm Beach County Commissioners may approve increasing trash collection
services from $1 to $4, depending on the area of the county. • Cash strapped Public Television station WXEL in Boynton Beach is discussing merging to survive with Miami PBT station WPBT, and the union is designed to save programming costs paid to the national network, which both stations carry most of the same programs at the same time. • The cash rich South Florida Seminole Indian Tribe is on the acquisition trail, looking to buy a bank to service its 2,500 members who receive $120,000 each per year from gambling revenue. Local banking pros say the tribe will also add to its considerable profits by setting up a major loan operation at the bank. Seminoles gross $800 million annually in South Florida alone from its three casinos. • The Life is at the Delray Square Performing Arts Center, 4809 W. Atlantic Ave, Delray Beach through July 27. Call (561) 880-0319 or visit www.delraysquarearts.com for more information and to purchase tickets. • Cafe Cinematheque Foreign Films with Shelly Isaacs is every Thursday at 10:30 a.m.at Movies of Delray 561-638-0020 and Friday at 1:00 p.m. at Movies of Lake Worth 561-968-4545. Visit www.moviesofdelray.com for more information. • Watch Movie Talk with Morrie Zryl on www.wrpbitv.com Thursdays at 6 p.m. and Fridays at 6 a.m. • Watch Barry Epstein live at 10 p.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. Friday on www. wrpbitv.com with to win free tickets to the Cinemark Theatres. You can be on too to promote your business. Call 561.852.0000 for details. • 22 Jump Street and How to Train Your Dragon 2 opens Friday at the Cinemark Palace and Premiere theatres. Words and Pictures opens at the FAU Living Room Theatres, Movies of Delray and Movies of Lake Worth. Don’t miss it. Four stars! Just a Sigh also opens at the FAU living Room Theatres. Spiderman 2 and Blended opens at the Last Picture Show in Tamarac and 22 Jump Street and Palo Alto opens at the Classic Gateway theatre in Fort Lauderdale. • On the Radio: Sounds of the 70s is through July 27 at the Broward Stage Door theatre, 8036 W Sample Rd. Coral Springs. Call 954.344.7765 or visit www.stagedoortheatre.com for more information and to purchase tickets.
Barry Epstein, APR, is a noted public relations, marketing and political consultant based in Boca Raton, president of the Luxury Chamber, the West Boca Leaders networking group and the founder and former president of the West Boca Chamber of Commerce; with a weekly internet television show on the Boca Tribune website. His motto is Public Relations is the enemy of anonymity. Fax column items to 561.451.0000. His column/blog is in the Boca Raton Tribune and on the Boca Tribune website (and click on columnists), on Facebook, as well as on the front page of the Sun-Sentinel/Jewish Journal website.
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