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The Royal Palm Beach Village Council last week gave Pet Supermarket permission to use a yellow background in a sign for its new store in the Village Royale Shopping Plaza — a color scheme turned down in June by the Royal Palm Beach Planning & Zoning Commission. Approving Pet Supermarket’s appeal could foreshadow the relaxation of design codes in place at RPB shopping centers.

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Wellington Awards Bid For Goldenrod Park

Wellington is making good on its promise to build a park for residents in the Goldenrod community. Members of the Wellington Village Council agreed last week to award a $198,137 contract to JMW Construction for the building of Goldenrod Park.

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Whole Foods Hosts Back-To-School Party

Whole Foods Market in Wellington held its fourth annual Backto-School Bonanza Saturday, Aug. 18. Safety quizzes were given out, while Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office personnel issued ID cards for kids and handed out coloring books and school supplies. Page 9

OPINION Don’t Be Complacent!

Get Prepared For Storm

As the Town-Crier goes to press, forecasters are predicting Tropical Storm Isaac to become a hurricane and possibly make landfall in South Florida early next week. With the possibility of a Hurricane Isaac less than a week away — coming on the heels of the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew’s landfall in South Florida — time is running out for those not prepared.

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A Quarters Auction was held Wednesday, Aug. 15 at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center to benefit Blooming with Autism. A variety of vendors offered food, makeup, candles, Tupperware, jewelry and more for bid. Shown above are Gold Rush America's Nikki Pezzuti and basket winner Irene Ferrante. MORE PHOTOS, PAGE 8 PHOTO BY DENISE FLEISCHMAN/TOWN-CRIER

Wellington Getting Ready As A Storm Threatens South Florida

By Lauren Miró Town-Crier Staff Report With Tropical Storm Isaac possibly headed to South Florida as a hurricane early next week, Wellington officials told the Town-Crier this week that the village is wellprepared to weather any storm.

“Our preparation begins before hurricane season starts,” Deputy Village Manager John Bonde said Wednesday. “Every employee goes through FEMA-recommended training. In June, we make sure everyone’s training is up to date… and check our supplies.”

He said that Wellington has proven it can respond well in the wake of storms.

“We’ve proven ourselves with [hurricanes] Frances and Jeanne,” Bonde said. “The good news is that many on our staff were here during those storms. We have an experienced core group of people who can help others. That’s not to say we can’t be thrown a curve ball.”

Wellington takes its procedures from a comprehensive emergency management plan that is implemented countywide, he said.

“It includes everything from

tropical storms all the way up to the most severe hurricane,” Bonde explained.

As a municipality, Wellington acts as a first responder after the storm, responsible for clearing roads and making sure emergency responders can get to those in need. Necessary village staff — those who manage emergency operations, operate machinery and do other important tasks — will go on lockdown at select village locations during a storm.

“Once winds get up to 40 miles per hour, staff either goes into lockdown, if they are needed, or go home,” Bonde said. “We can’t do anything when the winds are too dangerous to go out. We prepare before the storm, then afterward execute response and then recovery.”

With Isaac, and a tropical depression right behind it, Bonde said that Wellington is finishing up its details in preparing.

“This week we’re checking our supplies,” he said. “We’re making sure our fueling station is topped off and all our trucks and cars are filled up. We have a more detailed list for each department. For exam-

ple, the parks department goes out 40 hours before a storm hits and makes sure to secure all of our properties. They secure items such as awnings, shade structures and bleachers that can fly away. We make sure all doors are locked and that everything is chained down.”

Once a storm nears, Wellington staff will take shelter in one of the several locations built to weather the storm. Chief among them is the new Wellington Municipal Complex, where current council offices act as the primary emergency operations center for the village.

“The second location is at our public works department,” Bonde said. “They are linked by fiber optic cable.”

Staff will also be on lockdown at Village Park and the Water Utilities Plant, where critical staff will wait out a storm and help clear roads and other important areas when the storm is over. “This year we’re focusing a lot more attention on recovery,” Bonde said. “We want to get the functions of the village back up and running as quickly as possible.”

Bonde noted that during the See STORM, page 16

RPB Council OKs Aldi Plan, But Trees Left As Temporary Buffer

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report The Royal Palm Beach Village Council granted site plan and plat approval last week for the 822,000square-foot Aldi regional warehouse to be built off State Road 7 near the Regal Cinemas, granting neighboring residents’ request to allow a stand of Australian pines remain until Aldi’s new landscaping grows in.

The Aldi warehouse will be built on about 42 acres of the 73-acre site, with the remaining parcels to be developed later, except for one parcel that is already developed with a storage facility.

At the Aug. 16 meeting, Jaime Blackwell of Bobwhite Road in the Willows said he and his neighbors are concerned about the existing vegetation being torn down, exposing them to the construction

project before the new landscaping is installed.

“Many of the residents on my street have received letters from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with plans showing the Aldi project,” Blackwell said. “What they’re showing is that it is coming within 60 feet of the canal behind our houses.”

Blackwell said the plan calls for stripping the land up to the canal’s edge. “By doing this, all of our properties are going to become front-row view to just a crater,” he said. “There is not going to be any vegetation left for as long as it takes to build this property.”

Aldi plans to put up landscaping and an 8-foot wall, but Blackwell was concerned about the condition of the area between when existing vegetation is razed and new landscaping grows in.

“I’ve talked to a lot of my neighbors, and this is not acceptable,” he said. “This is opening all the homes on our street to noise and construction. If that whole area is stripped to dirt, it’s going to be very hard for residents on the street to sell their property within the next two to four years.”

Although most of the existing vegetation is invasive exotics, Blackwell asked that it remain until the construction is done. “We don’t want to look at a warehouse,” he said. “It will take away our privacy.”

Planning & Zoning Director Bradford O’Brien said Blackwell is correct in that plans remove existing vegetation, but the project will be scarcely visible once the wall and new vegetation are installed.

“The line of sight is a distance See ALDI, page 4

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Palm Beach State Gets Town Approval For Fifth Campus

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report Amid standing-room-only supporters and eleventh-hour naysayers, the Loxahatchee Groves Town Council gave final approval Tuesday to comprehensive plan amendments and a resolution that will allow Palm Beach State College to proceed with the development of its fifth campus on a 96.7acre site on Southern Blvd. known as the Simon property.

Much of the three-hour meeting was spent reading more than 100 comment cards both for and against the project, or listening to residents’ comments.

The first comp plan amendment changed the existing mixed use to low-density commercial use on the 21.37-acre southeast quadrant of the property, and a second amendment changed the existing mixed use to an underlying use of lowdensity residential on the remaining 75 acres, which is compatible with the development of a college campus, according to town staff.

The resolution approved a master site development plan — a broad framework for what Palm Beach State intends to do with the property over the next 50 years, according to town planning consultant Jim Fleischmann.

In June, the council recommended transmittal to the state’s Office of Economic Opportunity with little public comment. The amendments were returned with no comments or objections from Tallahassee, Fleischmann said.

Bob Bentz with Land Design South, representing the Simon family, said the first comp plan change would allow the development of the southeast 21 acres of the site. Plans call for the developers to pay for standard paving on B Road from Southern Blvd. to Collecting Canal Road and open graded emulsified mix (OGEM) paving from Collecting Canal to Okeechobee Blvd.

During public comment, Marsha Newell asked how much the town would sacrifice in tax reveSee CAMPUS, page 16

Palm Beach State College President Dr. Dennis Gallon speaks at Tuesday’s council meeting.

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TRIBUTE CONCERT

The Wellington Amphitheater presented a free Neil Diamond tribute concert Saturday, Aug. 18 featuring Chuck La Paglia, a.k.a. Neil Zirconia. Shown above are audience members Rachel Fienberg and Ella Evoy. MORE PHOTOS, PAGE 5 PHOTO BY DENISE FLEISCHMAN/TOWN-CRIER

Programs Highlight Advances At RPBHS

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report Royal Palm Beach High School began a new year this week with promising enrollment numbers, suggesting that more and more students are opting to attend their home school, rather than leave the community for magnet and choice programs elsewhere.

“Our enrollment numbers seem to have been going up,” Principal Jesus Armas said. “Our projection was higher this year than it had been, and our initial numbers show that we should reach that enrollment number. We have the largest freshman class in a long,

long time here. We’re up over 630 freshmen. We’re excited about the fact that we’re keeping our students. They are choosing to come to Royal Palm and be a part of all the things that we have going on.”

The school has two new advanced programs this year. Advancement Through Individual Determination (AVID) is an international program that helps students who are mostly the first among their families to attend college to succeed in a higher-education institution.

“The program does a good job of teaching some of the hidden See RPBHS, page 16

WCFL Marks 20th Anniversary With Big Celebration

By Lauren Miró Town-Crier Staff Report Last Friday night, nearly 2,000 people gathered at Village Park in Wellington to celebrate two decades of football, family and community as the Western Communities Football League celebrated its 20th anniversary.

What began as a small football league playing on a patch of grass in front of Wellington High School has grown by leaps and bounds in its two decades, launching a new generation of football players, academic scholars and standup citizens.

“When the grass would flood, we’d have to play on the other half,” WCFL President Gus Pasquale recalled. “The organization began with a few hundred players. This year we’re at 650 players for tackle football, 550 for flag and 150 for cheerleading.”

League founder Joe Piconcelli was honored with a Legacy Award at the celebration.

To league officials, WCFL was founded not only to provide recreational sports for young children, but to build character and discipline.

“It has been a great program for

the community,” Pasquale said.

“We’re so proud of what it does beyond football. We’re excited to be able to keep the momentum alive.”

The WCFL legacy can be seen in the faces of honored alumni such as Anthony Nelson, Brandon Pendergrass, John Bostic, and Tyler and Shane McDermott, who were inducted into the first class of the organization’sAlumni Honor Roll last Friday.

“These are five young men who grew up playing WCFL football,” Pasquale said. “They have had distinct accomplishments not only

in football at the college level but also academically. We wanted to showcase them as an example for our current players.”

Nelson is a University of Massachusetts graduate, while Pendergrass is a Wake Forest University alum. Tyler McDermott played for Colorado State University, where he is now an assistant football coach. Bostic is a senior starting linebacker for the University of Florida, and Shane McDermott is the starting center on the Miami Hurricanes football team.

“There are bonds created [in the organization] that last forever,”

Pasquale said. “It’s become about more than football.”

The organization offers tackle football for children ages 6 to 13 and flag football for kindergarten through eighth grade, staging 300 games a year. Additionally, it offers a cheerleading program.

Games are held at Village Park on Pierson Road, with this season kicking off Saturday, Aug. 25.

“We are so fortunate, as a service provider, to be within the Village of Wellington,” Pasquale said.

“We know we have support from everyone — from the mayor to the See WCFL, page 16

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RPB Council Overrules Zoning Board On Pet Supermarket Sign

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report The Royal Palm Beach Village Council last week gave Pet Supermarket permission to use a yellow background in a sign for its new store in the Village Royale Shopping Plaza — a color scheme turned down in June by the Royal Palm Beach Planning & Zoning Commission.

Approving Pet Supermarket’s appeal could foreshadow the relaxation of design codes in place at other shopping centers in the village, according to council members.

The zoning panel had recommended denial of the yellow background for the monument sign because it did not comply with Village Royale’s master sign code calling for red letters on a white background.

In June, Pet Supermarket representatives had requested to use its trademark colors on the monument sign along Okeechobee Blvd. near Royal Palm Beach Blvd. “This appeal seeks reversal of a decision by the Planning & Zoning Commission regarding the monument sign,� Planning & Zoning Administrator Bradford O’Brien said at the Aug. 16 council meeting.

O’Brien added that there was discussion at the June zoning meeting about a need to allow tenants to use national trademarks or logos for name recognition purposes. The need to be consistent was also discussed. “The Planning & Zoning Commission decided the request was

not in keeping with the current tenant panels on the monument sign, with white background and red letters,� O’Brien said.

The commissioners recommended approval of the wall sign as submitted, but recommended that the monument sign remain consistent. “The Planning & Zoning Commission did not like the yellow background,� he said.

O’Brien pointed out that national trademark colors have been approved for monument signs at other shopping centers in the village, and that the village code provides that strong consideration be given to identification characteristics of signage, such as trademarks or logos. Because of that, he said village staff recommended reversal of the zoning panel’s decision.

Robert Eisen with Government Process Services, representing Pet Supermarket, said the chain was founded in 1973 and owns and operates about 125 stores across the United States. “It has a consistent sign program using a red and yellow color theme and distinctive letter types registered with the United States Patent & Trademark Office,� Eisen said, adding that the store’s 10,000-square-foot space is not visible from the road. “The only identification that they have of their store and their brand name comes from this monument sign on Okeechobee.�

Eisen acknowledged the shopping center’s master sign program, but did not believe it should apply to his client. “The majority of the tenants, not being national types of businesses, comply with the

shopping center provision,� he noted.

Eisen said he thought the commission erred in its decision about the monument sign. “You are supposed to give strong consideration to the use of logos and trademarks in your sign approval,� he said. “Also the issue in your code, it’s not consistency. Your code does not say all the signs have to be consistent. The code says all your signs have to be compatible.

Really, all they were concerned about was the consistency. They wanted each and every sign on that monument to be exactly the same, and we say that in the case of a national tenant, a strong consideration should be given to allow the national tenant to have his identification.�

Eisen also pointed out that one of the commissioners said the sign would be more attractive if there was more variety, and in light of other national tenants in the shopping center, they might want to go with their national trademarks if the council granted Pet Supermarket its request. “That’s for a future time and a future date,� Eisen said. “Right now our only concern is the Pet Supermarket sign, and we respectfully request that we be allowed to have the yellow background, which is an important component of the national brand identification.�

Mayor Matty Mattioli said he did not approve of giving one tenant a special exception, adding that he thought if a store had good products, consumers would seek it out.

However, Councilman Richard Valuntas said he did not see a problem with the variance.

Councilwoman Martha Webster asked Village Attorney Brad Biggs about Eisen’s contention that the commission had focused more on consistency rather than compatibility, and Biggs said the council would need to determine that.

Webster said she was confident that the other national tenants would step up to ask for use of their trademarks if the council approved Pet Supermarket’s request. “We have made this change for others around the village,� Webster said. “In fact, when we look at some of those examples, I don’t find them unattractive at all. What I do see is branding.�

Webster said the existing monument sign is not very informative. “I live right around the corner and didn’t know Dairy Queen was in there,� she said. “I do think the time has come for us to move up to what’s more relevant in marketing. I would go with this and approve it.�

Vice Mayor Fred Pinto asked whether the council would be creating a competitive disadvantage for other centers. “The problem facing us is that if we grant this, all the other national brands have the right to say, ‘What about me?’� he said, suggesting that perhaps “the entire sign should be redone so we can address the issue across the board for all the national brands and not be so piecemeal.�

O’Brien said the applicant has put forth this particular application now because there is urgency at

this time, and that a proposed general change would be before the board in the near future.

Eisen, whose firm also represents the shopping center, said another application will be presented at the next meeting for overall sign change approval. “Tonight would be the first step toward an application for an overall sign change,� he said. “Over time you will see a change that will result in a better look overall.�

Village Manager Ray Liggins

said that if a new master sign program is approved that includes registered trademarks, applicants can go through the process without zoning and council review. “If it is not approved, they still have to go through this process,� he said.

Valuntas made a motion to reverse the zoning commission order and allow the national trademark colors. The motion was seconded by Webster and carried 41, with Mattioli opposed.

The current monument sign requires Pet Supermarket to use red lettering on a white background. The company was granted approval last week to use its logo colors of red and yellow.

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Ann Clark Takes Over As Principal At Polo Park Middle School

Principal Ann Clark

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report Polo Park Middle School in Wellington opened the new year with new Principal Ann Clark in charge. Clark comes to Polo Park from Poinciana Elementary School, a science, technology, engineering and math magnet school in Boynton Beach.

While she has only been at the school a couple of weeks, Clark has found a warm welcome. “The dedication of the teachers is incredible,� she said. “This staff is phenomenal, they welcomed me, and I feel like I’m home. You walk

in and the kids are fabulous. They introduce themselves and shake my hand. It’s just a really neat spot.�

Clark added that parents have also been very supportive. “I feel like this is home,� she reiterated. “It’s just a lovely place.�

Clark led Poinciana for about two and a half years. Before that, she worked at the district office for three years as an area director.

In that job, she worked with charter schools and alternative schools all over the county. “I went from Belle Glade north and south,� she said. “As an area di-

rector, you move from school to school, and you work on issues at different schools. The principal is very much hands-on.�

Clark served as assistant principal and won promotion to principal while at Lantana Middle School from 1997 to 2007. She started with the district in 1983 at Congress Middle School as a special education teacher, and from there went to Christa McAuliffe Middle School before heading to Lantana, where she started her educational leadership training.

She holds a master’s degree in special education from Florida

State University and certification in educational leadership from Nova Southeastern University.

At Polo Park, Clark said she is impressed with the number of high school-level courses for highachieving students. “We offer geometry, algebra honors and Spanish, so kids can leave here with high school classes, which is great. Except for five and a half years, my whole career has been in middle school,� she said. “A few things change, but a lot of it stays the same.�

Clark, 51, has lived in Palm Beach County since 1983. Origi-

nally from Miami, she is a native Floridian, born at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

She is married to husband Dave, principal at Olympic Heights High School in Boca Raton. They have two grown children: Billy, 23, who is studying at Lindenwood University in Belleville, Ill., and Kendall, 20, who is at Florida State. For hobbies, she loves to read and garden.

At Polo Park, Clark replaced Scott Blake, who was removed from the post abruptly in July following his arrest on solicitation charges.

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Don’t Be Complacent... Remember Andrew And Get Prepared!

As the Town-Crier goes to press, forecasters are predicting Tropical Storm Isaac to become a hurricane and possibly make landfall in South Florida early next week. With the possibility of a Hurricane Isaac less than a week away — coming on the heels of the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew’s landfall in South Florida — time is running out for those not prepared. For those who haven’t already made plans, done all their storm-supply shopping and made their homes and properties prepared, well, they have a lot of work ahead of them. And time might not be on their side.

When Andrew reached South Florida on Aug. 24, 1992, it was a Category 5. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Andrew was the most costly natural disaster in U.S. history up until that point. The storm cost FEMA $290 million in federal assistance and $746 million for help rebuilding the public infrastructure that was impacted. If Isaac makes a direct hit even as a Category 1, that’s strong enough to cause serious damage and leave Florida in a state of emergency.

If you’re thinking about evacuating the area, the sooner you leave, the better; there’s no way of predicting how crowded the roads will be on Sunday, and the last thing you’ll want is to be in a car race against a storm. For those choosing to stay, the first thing to do is ensure that your

home is fortified and there are no damaged areas. For those without hurricane shutters, plywood will be hard to find on the day before the storm, so it’s imperative you swing by a home improvement store and stock up in advance. For those with shutters, don’t let that feeling of safety lull you into putting off their installation until the last minute. It’s an arduous task and, depending upon how big your home is, can take a long time — time that could be used to make your final preparations.

And you can count on losing electricity. Plan for life without power for weeks and shop accordingly, if you can. If the threat level rises over the next few days, the supermarkets will be full. Beyond all the essentials (water, non-perishable food, batteries, etc.), it’s important to make sure you’re up to date with any medications you may be taking. A storm doesn’t have to physically contact you to cause serious injury.

If you choose to seek shelter, there are two American Red Cross hurricane shelters serving the western communities: Seminole Ridge High School (4601 Seminole Pratt Whitney Road) and Palm Beach Central High School (8499 Forest Hill Blvd.). For more information on hurricane preparedness, visit the National Hurricane Center’s web site at www.nhc.noaa.gov or FEMA’s hurricane preparedness web site at www.ready.gov.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Louda: Beware Overbuilding On Southern Blvd.

At the Tuesday night meeting of the Loxahatchee Groves Town Council, I expressed two main concerns. These were the proposed five-story building(s) at the planned Loxahatchee Groves campus of Palm Beach State College and the intense commercial that is part of the rezoning package of the Simon property.

I was, unfortunately, unaware of the northern height-restricted zone on the PBSC campus and, now knowing of it and other buffering concepts, my concerns over vision into the campus from the general community are greatly allayed.

Given our history of light pollution impacts from the Village of Royal Palm Beach to our east, I do worry about similar impacts from the campus, and our council needs to stay on top of this in a very proactive manner.

I still have deep-seated concerns over the density and intensity of the proposed commercial at B Road and Southern. The potential for a store of the size and disruptive nature of a Publix is extremely troubling. The development of this, and other sites along Southern Blvd., needs to be controlled and planned in such a way as to serve and not injure our community.

I look forward to a wonderful relationship with PBSC and will keep a much closer eye on the commercial developments around it.

Bill Louda Loxahatchee Groves

End The Scourge Of Fireworks On Aug. 10, after sundown, around 9 p.m., someone in Wellington near where I live set off a barrage of fireworks, short-lived but equivalent, in my opinion, to a powerful professional display, at least in so far as the noise it made.

One blast was so loud that it seemed to shake the ground. As my cats came running in from the

patio, I thought it must be gunfire.

But then I saw my neighbors running out from their houses to see what the noise was and where it was coming from. The aftermath of this incident has been considerable. For myself and some of my neighbors, it was very disconcerting and ruined our peaceful Friday evening. For one neighbor, it caused his dog to bolt and run away. As of this writing, the dog has not returned or been found, even though many people have been looking for her.

The person who set off these untimely fireworks was not only inconsiderate but may also have broken the law. It’s bad enough for animals and people who dislike sudden loud noises have to endure this rude and possibly illegal behavior on Jan. 1 and July 4 every year, but this happened on Aug. 10. Does this mean that it’s now a free-for-all concerning fireworks?

In [previous Town-Crier editorials], you relate that “…it’s illegal to buy, sell or explode consumer fireworks, even on your own property unless you have a permit for public display…”

It appears that the problem is, by nature, almost impossible for law enforcement to prevent, so why does the State of Florida allow the sale of illegal fireworks? Is it money? Since the Aug. 10 incident, I have been very concerned for the safety and well-being of animals, not to mention people, when fireworks are used by nonprofessionals. What can or will be done about this dangerous trend of people who simply disregard the law? It seems to be more common with each passing year.

Judy Spahl Wellington

We Know More About Obama Than Romney Editor ’s note: The following letter is in response to Marge Fitzgerald’s Aug. 17 letter titled “The Threat to America is Real.”

E.J. Dionne, author and journal-

ist for the Washington Post, said, “Bad arguments prevail when they go unanswered.” The letter “The Threat to America is Real” is not only a bad argument, it is almost entirely fiction.

The truth has actually been “distorted by spinning a few facts into a mix of fabricated nonsense”

by Mitt Romney’s TV ad claims that the Obama administration has adopted “a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements.” The plan does “neither of those things,” according to Factcheck.org.

The letter-writer ’s claim that President Obama’s records have been “sealed” is also “false,” according to Factcheck.org and the Washington Post. Ms. Fitzgerald’s letter leaves us with other questions: “How many jobs did Romney create/ship to China?” We do know, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that 4 million private-sector jobs have been created in the U.S. over the past 28 months, thanks to President Obama’s stimulus package. How do you know how “pristine Mitt Romney’s closet is,” when he continues to hide his financial “closet” from the American people?

The only year that he has released his tax returns shows that he paid a much lower rate than the middle class pays. He may not have paid any taxes in other years.

When right-wing radicals spew words like “Obama’s corrupt record” without a shred of evidence to back it up, rational, thinking, educated adults question their veracity, while Fox News watchers and Rush Limbaugh listeners nod in mindless agreement. Ms. Fitzgerald probably really doesn’t know much about Barack Obama’s past, but David Maraniss’s biography joins at least a dozen other Obama biographies about the president’s childhood, his years at Columbia University, Harvard Law School, as a law professor at University of Chicago, and as his years as a U.S. senator. Those of us who actually search for facts and truth know as much about Barack Obama as we have ever known about any president.

The truth about Mitt Romney is that he was born into significant wealth, grew up a spoiled prepschool bully and has abused our tax code to avoid paying his fair share of taxes. Barack Obama is the very epitome of the American dream. He is an accomplished, principled man and probably one of this country’s greatest presidents.

Gwynne Chesher Wellington

Plutocracy Or Democracy?

Editor’s note: The following letter is in response to Marge Fitzgerald’s Aug. 17 letter titled “The Threat to America is Real.”

Yes, the threat to America is real but not for the reasons suggested. Are we a nation of two major parties, or has the right just assumed only they “are the truth, the way and the life,” and no one should go to Washington whose philosophy represents all the people and not just those who by birth or marriage has made them a moral authority?

Quoting a past president and one who was the first to tax Social Security, discouraging people from working is not exactly auspicious. I prefer to quote another Republican president, Dwight Eisenhower, who made a speech in 1954. He said, “Should any political party attempt to abolish Social Security, unemployment insurance, eliminate labor laws or farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a splinter group that believes you can do these things... their number is negligible and they are stupid.” (This was taken from Eisenhowermemorial.org.)

Mr. Romney’s involvement in Bain Capital as well as his reluctance to make public his past federal income tax returns is well documented, and with little exception has spread to his “boy who would be king” Paul Ryan. President Eisenhower also warned us of the growing military-industrial complex, which unfortunately, has become a reality with the number of

preemptive wars due to global competition and American interests.

While it is true that Democrats tax us heavily during wartime, it is also true that Republicans just hide the true cost of war through borrowing from China and India, and calling it deficit spending. I find it interesting that Mr. Romney created “Romneycare” in Massachusetts, never dreaming when he defended it that he would later have to condemn it when a weaker version was called “Obamacare” — such irony! You just can’t make this stuff up!

We have two considerations on the table; we can continue under democratic capitalism or we can continue on our way to a plutocracy. The former will keep the door of opportunity open for all Americans, and the latter promises a greater concentration of wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer people with the loss of representative government.

President Clinton signed NAFTA into law and American businesses, our job creators, discovered 39 countries that pay labor less than $2 per day — per day! Does anyone believe that our job creators will bring any of those jobs back? But wait, there’s more!

They get a tax credit for every job they send overseas to the 39 countries, while American labor languishes at home.

Job creators? Ha! Maybe if you live in China or India!

Richard Nielsen Royal Palm Beach

I Want My Vote To Count I call the Republican rhetoric song and dance, and the new

dance is titled “the Republican twist,” and I’ll tell you why.

First of all, if we talk about voting rights, redistricting and early voting laws, which have been retracted, it is a dance to keep the poor, the ethnic groups, the elderly and the college kids, who might vote Democratic, from voting. But they also sing their song out loud on national television, as the Republican [State] Rep. Mike Turzai of Pennsylvania did, when he said, “The new voter ID (law) is going to allow Gov. Romney to win the State of Pennsylvania, done.”

Have they no shame shaking our core beliefs at the U.S. Constitution? The right to vote — it is a right, not a privilege?

So here’s the deal: I don’t mind if we have fair and un-tethered voting laws, and the vote doesn’t come out my way. I do mind very much, however, when I have to tell all of you that in Florida, from 2000 to 2008, my vote did not count. Not when Katherine Harris made Bush president with the blessing of the Florida Supreme Court, and not in 2004 when the Republicans sent their boys in suits to intimidate the voters. Only in 2008, the Republicans mis-stepped in their dance, and now they are doing the Republican twist again by changing the voting rights laws and redistricting.

No matter what you believe in, I don’t think anyone wants to have their constitutional rights taken away from them, because if one group can do it, so can another group do it to you. So if you don’t stand up for someone else’s rights, when it’s your turn, who will stand up for you?

Shirley Bass Wellington

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OPINION

As One Equatorial Guinea Minister Proves, It Pays To Have The Right Papa You may not know the Minister of Forestry in Equatorial Guinea, but Teodorin Nguema Obiang Mangue sure knows all about the United States of America. After all, he has purchased a $30 million Malibu estate, plus a $38 million private jet here, as well as more than $1 million in Michael Jackson memorabilia over the last decade.

Footloose and...

By Jules W. Rabin What is truly amazing about this mid-30s “financial genius” is how, on his less than $7,000

per year salary, he has also bought an $80 million home in Paris, a $15 million property in San Paulo, about $6 million of various specialty wine products and paintings by Renoir, Degas and Gauguin. Did I mention Teodorin is the son of Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the extremely longtime dictator of Equatorial Guinea?

What suddenly has brought these incidental facts to the limelight? It turns out that the United States government has filed a complaint that documents amazing corruption, including detailed allegations of huge bribery and money laundering by the heir-apparent in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea. It says Teodorin built up his fortune by forcing foreign

lumber companies to pay him off for logging rights — big-time. It hints at oodles and oodles of cash-filled suitcases exchanging hands, for example.

A top Justice Department official recently stated, “The United States will not be a hiding place for the ill-gotten riches of the world’s corrupt leaders.”

With this type of United States

government reaction, it may turn out that much of New York City’s high-end residences and commercial buildings may come in for extra scrutiny.

Wasn’t there recently a story about another oil-producing nation’s potentate offering $100 million for a yet-to-be-built Manhattan penthouse space? He topped my bid by a few dollars.

will provide occasional windows of opportunity to see the building.

Village Manager Ray Liggins said there will be three rows of trees between the parking lot of the warehouse and the property line, in addition to the wall.

Vice Mayor Fred Pinto said the big win in the arrangement was persuading Aldi to reverse the site and have the trucking operations away from the homes to the west.

“Is it a timing issue that this was going to be torn down before the new growth is in place?” Pinto asked.

Adam Wilhoit, a Willows resident since 1996, said the area is overrun with exotics. “I’ve scoured every bit of this area we’re

discussing, and I can tell you that after 15 years, it has really become overrun with exotics and most of the wildlife has moved out,” he said.

Wilhoit said that about 15 years ago, the village removed the Australian pines on residents’ side of the canal but not the other side.

“There’s no disagreement with the plan by Aldi from my point of view, but crazy as it may be — I’m no tree hugger, but I’m no fan of exotics — I think my neighbors have a unique request,” he said.

Councilwoman Martha Webster made a motion to approve the site plan with the condition that Aldi leave the strip of Australian pines there until the buffer is built. The motion carried 5-0.

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continued from page 1 of 440 feet from the homes to the portion of the building,” O’Brien said, adding that Aldi is requesting a landscaping waiver to allow a depression in the buffer area to retain water for natural irrigation, rather than a three-foot berm required by village code, which the applicant asserted would require irrigation and sod.

Aldi agent Dana Gillette of Erdman Anthony said the trees on the property are Australian pines, which are not really pine trees but an invasive exotic that

the village requires them to remove.

“It turned out that there were not too many native trees on the site that we could salvage,” Gillette said. “Along the canal bank, there are trees outside the property in the village’s land, and they are Australian pine trees. The village code requires that we do that, and it requires it for good reason, but we will be putting in a lot of landscaping to compensate for that.”

The buffer to the north between the site and existing townhouses will have the 3-foot berm with irrigation with an 8-foot wall due to loading activity on that side, she said.

Gillette also pointed out that the plans had been turned around so

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that trucks would be loading and unloading on the east rather than the west side in order to be away from the homes, although backing the trucks to the loading docks would be more difficult.

“The west side has no openings and will not be visible,” Gillette said. “The east side will be where all the activity is.”

Councilman Jeff Hmara asked about additional landscaping that would be provided as part of an economic grant that the village offered to attract Aldi.

“They have a standard formula to provide a number of trees that did not match up with what our code requires,” O’Brien explained.

“In order to bridge that gap, we came up with an economic grant

in order to attract them to the community.”

He said the amount that the village would give them was small compared with the anticipated economic benefit to the community from Aldi, estimated at $56 million for the first year and about $115 million for the next five years.

Hmara asked about Blackwell’s concern about the visibility of the project if the existing exotics are left in, versus replacing them with native vegetation. “Can you give us a rough feel for the difference in density between what there is right now and what will replace it?” he asked.

O’Brien said the existing Australian pines provide a “wall of green,” where the new vegetation

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EVENING OF MUSIC & FUN AT NEIL DIAMOND TRIBUTE CONCERT IN WELLINGTON The Wellington Amphitheater presented a free Neil Diamond tribute concert Saturday, Aug. 18. Chuck La Paglia, a.k.a. Neil Zirconia, sang all the popular Neil Diamond songs for the crowd at the amphitheater. For more on upcoming events, visit www.wellingtonfl.gov.

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Chuck and Lori La Paglia entertain.

Cliff and Wendy Boady of acoustic rock duo No Strings Attached.

Lillian and George Cutler, Arline and Harvey Rose, and Myrna and Elliott Taubenslag.

Len and Carol Goldberg, Marilyn and Barry Fox, and Alan and Maris Newmark.

Toni and Mel Jason with grandaughters Rachel and Lauren Weiner.

Brandon and Tina McGee enjoy the music.

PALM BEACH COUNTY SCHOOL STUDENTS RETURN FOR A NEW SCHOOL YEAR Palm Beach County public schools began the new school year Monday, Aug. 20. After a relaxing summer break, students were up bright and early Monday morning for their first day back. Shown here are photos from H.L. Johnson Elementary School in Royal Palm Beach.

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Principal Sharon Hench talks with the Naszkiewicz family: mother Jennifer, Jordan, mother-in-law Sharon Kaye, Kaia, father Roy and Tanner.

Tara Ghodis, Soheila Naderi and Kia Ghodis.

Erica Cano, Adriana Gonzales and Damaris Gonzales.

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CRIME NEWS

Vehicle Burglaries In Wellington Neighborhoods

By Lauren Miró Town-Crier Staff Report AUG. 16 — Several residents called the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office substation in Wellington last Thursday morning to report vehicle burglaries.According to separate PBSO reports, three residents woke to find that someone had entered their vehicles and stolen valuables. According to the first PBSO report, sometime between 8:30 p.m. last Wednesday and 7:40 a.m. the following morning, someone entered the victim’s unlocked car, which was parked in the Estates of Wellington. According to the report, the perpetrator(s) stole an iPod, amplifiers and speakers, as well as sneakers and clothing. The stolen items were valued at approximately $1,120. DNA evidence was taken at the scene, but there were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report. In a second PBSO report, a resident of Turnstone Drive reported that sometime between 7:30 p.m. last Wednesday and 6 a.m. the following morning, someone removed a black-and-gray backpack containing $8 cash and several keys from his vehicle. The victim said that his car alarm had been malfunctioning and that he would silence the alarm without checking to see if there was anyone near his vehicle. In a third PBSO report, a deputy was dispatched to another home on Turnstone Drive after the victim discovered several items missing. According to the report, sometime between 6:30 p.m. last Wednesday and 6 a.m. the following morning, someone entered the victim’s unlocked vehicle and stole a wallet, change from the ashtray, a flashlight and glasses. The victim said she did not see anyone enter the vehicle. There were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report.

AUG. 17 — Two residents of the Wellington’s Edge community contacted the PBSO substation in Wellington last Friday morning to report vehicle burglaries. According to separate PBSO reports, the victims found their windows smashed and valuables stolen.

According to the first PBSO report, sometime between 1:20 and 6 a.m. someone broke the front driver’s-side window, reached into the vehicle and stole a brown designer wallet containing several bank cards, the victim’s driver’s license and Social Security card and more. There were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report.

In a second PBSO report, the victim parked and locked his car outside his home at approximately 2:30 a.m. When he returned to his vehicle at 8 a.m., he discovered someone had broken his front driver’sside window. The perpetrator(s) removed an Escort radar detector and a 3.5-inch Lone Wolf knife with wooden handle. The stolen items were valued at approximately $750.

There were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report.

••• AUG. 15 — A Jupiter man was arrested early last Wednesday morning on drug charges following a traffic stop near the intersection of Southern Blvd. and Benoist Farms Road. According to a PBSO report, a deputy was on patrol in the area when he observed a black Honda weaving in the middle lane of traffic. According to the report, the deputy initiated a traffic stop and made contact with the driver,

20-year-old Jacob Sadowsky. A second deputy arrived and said he could smell marijuana coming from inside the vehicle. According to the report, Sadowsky had red, glassy eyes and the odor of alcohol on his breath. A search of the vehicle found a small amount of marijuana in the driver’s-side compartment, as well as a glass pipe with marijuana residue. Deputies also discovered approximately 9.9 grams of marijuana in a bag in the trunk, along with .1 grams of cocaine. Sadowsky was arrested and taken to the Palm Beach County Jail, where he was charged with possession of marijuana, cocaine and drug paraphernalia.

AUG. 16 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Acreage/Loxahatchee substation was dispatched to a home on 80th Lane North last Thursday morning regarding a theft. According to a PBSO report, the victim had been in the hospital since June 29, and her neighbors have been caring for her animals.

According to the report, the victim said she returned home to discover several items missing. The victim said that several tools were missing from a toolbox, along with two coin banks and her wallet with her bank checkbook. Additionally, she said someone had removed a tabletop pool game and a plastic toolbox from her closet. According to the report, the victim said she had not given anyone permission to take those items. There was no further information available at the time of the report.

AUG. 17 — Two West Palm Beach residents were arrested last Friday evening on charges of shoplifting from the Walmart Supercenter on Belvedere Road. According to a PBSO report, a loss prevention officer observed 54year-old Allen Edwards and 45year-old Sandra Thacker enter the store and load two shopping carts with items. The officer also reported observing Thacker place several clothing items in her purse.

According to the report, Edwards and Thacker then proceeded to the domestic department where they began placing all the items from the carts into plastic bags.

The officer said she then observed them pass all points of purchase without making an attempt to pay for the items. According to the report, the loss prevention officer stopped them and recovered $268.75 in merchandise. Both Edwards and Thacker were arrested and taken to the county jail, where they were charged with petty theft from a merchant, second offense.

AUG. 18 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Acreage/Loxahatchee substation was called to a home on Tangerine Blvd. last Saturday evening regarding a theft. According to a PBSO report, sometime between 5 p.m. last Thursday and 5 p.m. last Saturday, someone removed a generator, patio chairs, showerheads and a vacuum from the home. According to the report, the victim was served an eviction notice, but it was extended several months. The deputy said that there were no signs of forced entry, but observed that another family lives on the same property in another dwelling. The stolen items were valued at approximately $2,000. There was no further information available at the time of the report.

AUG. 19 — A deputy from the See BLOTTER, page 16

Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County is asking for the public’s help in finding these wanted fugitives: • Michael Davis is a white male, 5’8” tall and weighing 155 lbs., with brown hair and brown eyes. He has a tattoo on his chest and a scar on his abdomen. His date of birth is 07/04/61. Davis is wanted for failure to appear for jury trial on a charge of battery on a law enforcement officer. His occupation is unknown. His last known address was River Bluff Lane in Royal Palm Beach. Davis is wanted as of 08/16/12.

• Jeremiah Flores, a.k.a. Ernesto Valdez, is a white male, 5’7” tall and weighing 235 lbs., with black hair and brown eyes. He has multiple tattoos. His date of birth is 01/05/85. Flores is wanted for failure to appear on charges of possession of cocaine with intent to sell, possession of marijuana and driving while license suspended, canceled or revoked. His occupation is landscaper. His last known address was Fleming Avenue in Greenacres. Flores is wanted as of 08/16/12.

Remain anonymous and you may be eligible for up to a $1,000 reward. Call Crime Stopper s at (800) 458-TIPS (8477) or visit www.crimestopperspbc.com.

Michael Davis

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RPB Council OKs County Grant To Help Fund Inspector General

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report The Royal Palm Beach Village Council last week approved an interlocal grant agreement with Palm Beach County to pay the village’s share to fund the Office of Inspector General.

County Commissioner Jess Santamaria attended the meeting Thursday, Aug. 16 to stress that the arrangement was only temporary until a lawsuit filed by 14 municipalities is resolved, and that the money should come from a 0.25 percent assessment from contractors’ fees.

Royal Palm Beach had previously sent its portion to the county, but Palm Beach County Clerk & Comptroller Sharon Bock is holding the money in escrow until the lawsuit is resolved.

Village Manager Ray Liggins explained that the village had received a request from Palm Beach County to enter into the agreement to provide financing for the inspector general. At a meeting in June,

the council directed staff to revise the agreement to provide for a return or credit of granted money in the event the county does not prevail in the lawsuit.

For fiscal year 2012-13, the village’s share will be $26,000, which will be paid to the county in four installments. Once approved by the village, the agreement would be forwarded to the Palm Beach County Commission for approval, Liggins said.

Santamaria said he has been a strong supporter of the Commission on Ethics and Office of the Inspector General from the beginning.

“The beginning goes back to the year 2006, when a national magazine gave Palm Beach County the shameful title of ‘Corruption County.’I agreed, from my own personal knowledge and experience over the last 30-something years, that there was corruption in Palm Beach County,” he said. “It was that type of national recognition that made me decide to run for the

Palm Beach County Commission.”

He pointed out that in the ensuing two years, several prominent elected officials and businessmen went to jail. “I felt I was going to do something about regaining trust as an elected public servant,” Santamaria added.

Soon after Michael McAuliffe was elected state attorney in November 2008, he asked Santamaria to be the first county commissioner to testify before a grand jury to investigate whether corruption still existed in the county. Over the next three months, more government officials and businessmen testified.

“At the conclusion of that investigation, the grand jury made a 54-page report, and the conclusion was, ‘Yes, we still were Corruption County.’ As a result, they recommended the installation of the Office of Inspector General,” he said.

One of the key elements of the report was that the office should be financed by 0.25 percent fee on contractor fees. “That is being for-

gotten and actually being intentionally avoided by certain municipalities, headed by West Palm Beach,” Santamaria said.

He said the county commission voted unanimously to approve the grand jury recommendation before a standing-room-only crowd supporting not only the installation of an inspector general but that it be financed by vendor fees. “This one-fourth of one percent is really peanuts,” he said. “One fourth of a percent on a $100,000 contract is $250; on a million-dollar contract, it’s $2,500. It’s really an insignificant amount to charge the vendors, but sufficient to fund the Office of Inspector General, and not to charge it to the taxpayers.”

In response to public input, the commission then conducted a referendum in November 2010 asking if the municipalities should come under the jurisdiction of the inspector general, which passed with a 72 percent margin. “Once again, the public demanded that all 38 municipalities go under the

oversight of the Office of Inspector General,” Santamaria said.

Problems began because some cities, headed by West Palm Beach, decided to fight the funding in court, then Bock decided to hold money that had been contributed in escrow. “The funding by the remaining cities that have in fact supported, including Royal Palm Beach, are being held by Sharon Bock, so now the Office of Inspector General cannot afford to hire adequate help to do its investigations,” he said.

Santamaria stressed that the funding being approved that night would only be a temporary solution. “This grant is temporary because it is not the way it was supposed to be,” he said. “The taxpayers should not pay for the Office of Inspector General. It’s supposed to be paid by the vendors.”

Mayor Matty Mattioli said RPB has always supported the inspector general. “Do you have any idea when this court thing will be resolved?” Mattioli asked.

“Apparently, nobody knows,” Santamaria replied. “I hope the courts rule on it soon. That is my expectation, and I hope that the public remembers that this is not the way it is supposed to be. I am putting all candidates on notice that any officials who oppose it and are creating all of these obstacles are in danger of losing their seats in the coming elections.”

Councilman Richard Valuntas made a motion to approve the agreement, which carried unanimously.

In other business, the council agreed to move $63,000 from the village’s reserves to the 2013 capital improvement fund to build a dog a park at the new Royal Palm Beach Commons Park. Councilwoman Martha Webster had brought up the idea, and Liggins noted that a dog park had been mentioned several times in mailings regarding suggestions for Commons Park amenties. It did not, however, wind up on the park’s master plan.

Wellington Awards Bid For Goldenrod Park

By Lauren Miró Town-Crier Staff Report Wellington is making good on its promise to build a park for residents in the Goldenrod community.

Members of the Wellington Village Council agreed last week to award a $198,137 contract to JMW Construction for the building of Goldenrod Park.

The park was part of the plan promised to residents when council members decided last year to block Goldenrod Road as it turns into Azure Avenue, Director of Operations Jim Barnes told the Town-Crier Wednesday.

“With the road closed, it meant residents had to go further to get to Azure Park,” he said. “This provides recreational facilities for the families in that neighborhood.”

At the time, the road closure was a controversial topic, with many residents upset about losing access to a park. At the Aug. 14 council meeting, Councilman Matt Willhite said Wellington was keeping its commitment to residents.

“There was quite a bit of discussion about the closure of Goldenrod Road and what we were doing for the Goldenrod neighborhood to replenish the use of a park in that area,” Willhite said. “I think it’s important to recognize that we are going forward with the commitment that we made to the residents of Goldenrod. We said that we were going to build a park for them and make amenities available for them to use.”

The new park, to be located on a vacant piece of property just east

of Hyacinth Place, will include a playground, pavilion and half basketball court.

“We acquired a piece of property on Goldenrod from a resident that was not taken care of very well,” Willhite said. “It was an empty piece of property. [The park] will include all those amenities that we put into our village parks.”

Council members were able to choose from three playground plans and opted for a playground with two slides, monkey bars and a climbing apparatus.

Barnes said that the park could be completed by the end of the year.

“I expect to have the notice to proceed issued in early September,” he said. “If everything goes well, I expect it to be complete by

the end of the year or in early January.”

Construction will be financed through the neighborhood parks program capital budget.

Though JMW Construction did not submit the lowest bid, because of the village’s local preference policy, it was given the option to match the low bid, Village Manager Paul Schofield told council members last week.

Councilwoman Anne Gerwig said she was glad to be able to give the children of Goldenrod an answer on the park.

“I know a little boy named Anthony who I can now tell what the park is going to look like,” she said at last week’s meeting. “He has been asking me when the park is going to be built. I thank the council for making this happen.”

A rendering of the play structure chosen for Goldenrod Park.

Sign Up Now For Inaugural Wellington Kids Triathlon

Charity Golf Tourney — P aws 4 Liberty volunteers Nancy Plotkin and Terri Dagnan, disabled veteran Marine Lance Corporal Joseph Rainey with Tanker (goodwill ambassadors for Paws 4 Liberty), Paws 4 Liberty Executive Director Heidi Spirazza with Sergeant, Ed Portman, Sgt.-at-Arms John Isola, Commander Mike Pancia, Tom Wenham, Binks Forest Director of Catering Whitney Buchanan and head golf pro Wheeler Stewart.

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American Legion Charity Golf Tournament Sept. 8 At Binks Members of the Wellington American Legion Chris Reyka Memorial Post 390 met Thursday, Aug. 16 at the Binks Forest Golf Club to discuss the Future Heroes Charity Golf Tournament to be held Saturday, Sept. 8 at Binks.

Proceeds will benefit the Future Heroes Scholarship Fund and other local youth, patriotic and veteran support programs. The tourna-

ment will have a 1 p.m. shotgun start followed by a barbecue dinner, awards and a silent auction.

The tournament will be run by volunteers to celebrate fallen lawenforcement hero Sgt. Chris Reyka and other law enforcement personnel, firefighters and veterans.

For the second year, volunteers and service dogs from Paws 4 Liberty will be volunteering on the

golf course with the legionnaires.

Sponsorship and advertising opportunities are still available. The cost to enter the tournament is $100 per player or $35 to enjoy the barbecue dinner and awards only.

For more information call John Isola at (561) 795-2721, Mike Pancia at (561) 324-5403 or Ed Portman at (561) 602-4409, or e-mail wellingtonlegion390@gmail.com.

By Lauren Miró Town-Crier Staff Report Calling all kids — come swim, bike and run your way to better health and fitness during the inaugural Wellington Kids Triathlon on Saturday, Sept. 22.

Children between the ages of 4 and 14 are invited to take part in the triathlon, which will begin with laps at the Wellington Aquatics Complex and include a bike ride and run along South Shore Blvd.

“A lot of municipalities have started offering kids triathlons,” Community Programs Manager Michelle Garvey told the TownCrier. “It’s for kids of any level.

Every kid who participates will get an award, and the top male and female from each age group will get a trophy.”

Garvey said that Wellington has collaborated with the Wellington Runners Club and other organizations to make the event work for children of all abilities in a positive and fun environment.

Participants must have been born between 1998 and 2008, and will be divided into five separate groups that must complete different distances.

“It will begin with a swim in the Wellington Aquatics Complex,”

Garvey said. “Then they will bike from the parking lot along South Shore and back. The run will be on the same course.”

For safety, the road will be closed and there will be volunteers along the route to help children, Garvey said. There will also be lifeguards on duty in the pool.

The competition is divided by age group, from the youngest group — the “Trikes” — to the “Super Seniors.”

The Trike group is for children ages 4 to 6 (born between 2006 and 2008). They will swim 25 yards, bike 0.4 miles and run a quarter of a mile. Children ages 7 and 8 (born in 2004 and 2005) — the “Juniors” — will swim 50 yards, bike 1.6 miles and run 0.7 miles.

The next group, the “Super Juniors” will include children ages 9 and 10 (born in 2002 and 2003).

They will swim 100 yards, bike 2.4 miles and run 0.7 miles. The “Seniors” — children ages 11 and 12 (born in 2000 and 2001) — will swim 150 yards, bike 4 miles and run 1.25 miles.

Lastly, the “Super Seniors,” who are those age 13 and 14 (born from 1998 to 1999), will swim 200 yards, bike 4 miles and run 1.25 miles.

Garvey said that the event

would be staggered, with the oldest children beginning first.

“They’ll be separated by a good amount of time,” she said. “The race starts with the oldest group at 7:30 a.m. The youngest group begins at 8:45 a.m. So there’s a good hour between them.”

For the bike portion, Garvey stressed that racers do not need a triathlon bike. “Any bike is allowed,” she said, noting that even bikes with training wheels would be allowed.

Although participants are required to be able to swim on their own, lifeguards will be on duty to help if there is a problem.

“Parents will be able to help in the transition areas,” Garvey said.

“That’s where they come out of the pool and need to get on their bikes and put their helmet on. Parents can be in that area, but we ask that they don’t go out on the course with their children.”

The registration deadline is 6 p.m. on Sept. 19, Garvey said. The cost is $35 per participant. No signups will be accepted the day of the race, and registration is limited to 250 participants.

For more information, or to register, visit www.wellingtonfl.gov or call (561) 791-4005.

‘A lot of municipalities have started offering kids triathlons,’ Community Programs Manager Michelle Garvey said. ‘It’s for kids of any level. Every kid who participates will get an award, and the top male and female from each age group will get a trophy.’

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QUARTERS AUCTION HELD IN ROYAL PALM TO BENEFIT BLOOMING WITH AUTISM

A Quarters Auction was held Wednesday, Aug. 15 at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center to benefit Blooming with Autism. A variety of vendors offered food, makeup, candles, Tupperware, jewelry and more for bid. The next auction will be Wednesda y, Sept. 19 to benefit the Arielle Anacker Cancer Foundation. For more info., contact Julie Bryant at juliebryant@my2.tupperware.com or (561) 797-1501.

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Blooming with Autism volunteer Fran Phister with founder Jodi Goldberg.

Dean Tendrich, Rick and Tara Ramsey, Michelle Gauthier and Robin Barmore do their bidding.

Event organizer and Tupperware representative Julie Bryant offers a set for bid.

Becky Miller of Simply Said Designs with tile winner Kelley Proulx.

Cookie Mione won a necklace from Premier Design’s Lynn Acierno.

Shoppers Angie Lamb and Kami O’Sullivan.

Milena Meehan wins the 50/50 raffle presented by event organizer Julie Bryant.

Anneth Breier is a happy shopper.

Raschelle Young with Evelyn Escobar, who won this shirt.

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WHOLE FOODS MARKET IN WELLINGTON HOSTS ITS BACK-TO-SCHOOL BONANZA

Whole Foods Market in Wellington held its fourth annual Back-to-School Bonanza Saturday, Aug. 18. Safety quizzes were given out with plates for a $5 donation to the Police Athletic League to be used for school supplies for local children in need. Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office personnel issued ID cards for kids and handed out coloring books, and school supplies and safety information.

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Deputy Scott Poritz, Wellington Councilman Matt Willhite with his son Mark, Cpl. Alex Nunes, Capt. Jay Hart, Lt. Eli Shaivitz and Sgt. Mike Kletzky.

Deputy Humberto Mejia, Deputy Jason Gray and Deputy Jason Horowitz with Anna and Antonio Borroto on the Kawasaki 750.

Christian D’Orazio completes a safety quiz as Deputy Scott Poritz looks on.

Deputy Scott Poritz, Sgt. Mike Kletzky, Store Team Leader Blake Ledbetter, Marketing Team Leader Lauren Belinsky, Capt. Jay Hart, Lt. Eli Shaivitz and Deputy Luis Ledbetter with K9 Clue.

Sgt. Mike Kletzky, Rylee DeBlasis and Deputy Sohail Khan.

Jodi and Maxwell Burkholz with Deputy Luis Ledbetter and K9 Clue.

Adrianna and Giavanna Fioravanti get fingerprinted by PBSO volunteer Theresa Mirolla.

Jayden Dunkle with PBSO Reserve Sgt. Chenry Baughman.

Zachary D’Orazio gets safety info from Cpl. Alex Nunes.

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NEWS BRIEFS Open House Sept. 9 At Wellington Jewish Center The Wellington Jewish Center will hold an open house, shofar factory and family barbecue Sunday, Sept. 9 from 4 to 6 p.m.

Learn how to make and use a kosher shofar at the free shofar factory. Then come “meet and greet” other people in the community. Join Rabbi Mendy Muskal for a family barbecue and find out what the center has to offer.

For parents, they will show your teenager why he or she will love coming on Monday nights. You will have a chance to see the schedule of lectures and classes, as well as sign up for Hebrew school. The event will have something for the adults and something for the kids.

The cost is $5 per person for the barbecue. The Wellington Jewish Center is located at 13860 Wellington Trace, Suite 4.

For more information, call (561) 333-4663 or visit www.wellington jewishcenter.org.

Wellington Water Disinfection Begins Sept. 1 Wellington water utility customers may notice a slight chlorine taste and odor in their drinking water from Saturday, Sept. 1 through Sunday, Sept. 23, as the result of a temporary change in the water disinfection process.

During this period, the disinfection process will change from the normal combined chlorine/ammonia treatment to a free chlorine treatment. Periodic use of this temporary treatment process is recommended by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and the American Water Works Association as a precautionary measure to ensure that water remains free of bacteria. These temporary conditions will not cause adverse health effects.

Due to this temporary change, specialized users of water, such as tropical fish owners, residents with pools, businesses, hospitals and blood/dialysis clinics may need to make adjustments to maintain their present water quality parameters.

Customers may also notice additional fire hydrant flushing by

Wellington’s Water Utilities Department personnel during this period. Flushing ensures the free chlorine residual reaches all portions of the distribution system.

This process will be discontinued on Sept. 23, and treatment will revert back to the normal combined chlorine/ammonia process.

For more information about Wellington’s water, visit www. wellingtonfl.gov, go to the “Departments” tab and select “Utilities.”

For more information, contact Water Treatment Facility Supervisor Sean McFarland at (561) 7914037 or Village Engineer Bill Riebe at (561) 753-2466.

Sons Of Italy Pizza Party Sept. 19 In RPB The Michelangelo Lodge #2864 of the Sons of Italy in America will host a pizza party Wednesday, Sept. 19 at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center (151 Civic Center Way).

The lodge meets the third Wednesday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural

Center and is holding an open enrollment during the month of September. The cost for the pizza party is $15 per couple for a whole pizza and soda, or $7.50 per person for half a pizza and soda.

For membership information, call Dennis Piasio (561) 641-1643.

For pizza party reservations, call Pat De Vivo at (561) 249-1298.

Benefit Gala For ‘Lucy’ Sept. 27 In Lake Worth “Evening with the Stars,” a benefit gala for Lista “Lucy” Faircloth, will be held Thursday, Sept. 27 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Cottage in Lake Worth (522 Lucerne Ave.).

Everything for the benefit gala — from raffle items and live entertainment with special guest appearances — has been donated so that 100 percent of the proceeds will benefit Faircloth while she continues to fight her battle with cancer. She is currently undergoing radiation treatment for the next several months. She is a single mother of two and is struggling financially.

As guests mingle with cocktail in hand, there will be plenty of en-

tertainment to keep the vivacity high. The red carpet event will feature live entertainment by the I Love Lucy Canine Crew and many professional celebrity impersonators. The main stage will showcase special guest appearances by Camille Terry as Marilyn Monroe, Alvis Sings Elvis and many more in the entertainment field.

To attend the gala, a donation of $20 at the door will be your ticket to walk the red carpet. For more information, contact Tracy Smith Coffey at echoltd3@gmail.com.

Nominations Sought For YWCA Humanitarian Award The YWCA of Palm Beach County is seeking nominations for its 2012 Barry Krischer Humanitarian Award. Established in 2008 to honor the then-retiring state attorney, the award recognizes a law enforcement, social services or healthcare professional who has gone beyond the normal “call of duty” to assist or advocate for a victim of domestic violence.

As state attorney for the 15th

Judicial Circuit, Krischer made domestic violence a priority by establishing the Domestic Violence Elimination Program (DOVE), which provides advocacy to battered women upon their entry into the criminal justice system; drafting and lobbying for domestic violence legislation; and helping create the Simon C. Fireman Home Safe Center for Children to decrease the trauma to mothers and their children during child sexual abuse investigations.

The commended service must have taken place between Aug. 1, 2011 and July 31, 2012. Nominations should include the nominee’s name, title, place of employment with phone number, supervisor’s name with phone number, a onepage description of the activity or activities with the victim, and the name and phone number of the person(s) making the nomination.

The award will be presented during Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Thursday, Oct. 11 at the PNC/YWCA Women in Power Luncheon at the Gardens Mall.

The deadline for nominations is 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 28.

For more information, or to request a nomination form, call the YWCA at (561) 640-0050, ext. 115.

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TEMPLE B’NAI JACOB IN WELLINGTON HOLDS ITS ANNUAL OPEN HOUSE EVENT Temple B’nai Jacob of Wellington held its annual open house Sunday, Aug. 19. It was an opportunity to learn about the congregation, meet Rabbi David Abrams and get information about religious school. The temple is located at 12794 W. Forest Hill Blvd., Suite 6, inside the original Wellington Mall. For info., call (561) 793-4347 or visit www.tem plebnaijacob.com. PHOTOS BY DENISE FLEISCHMAN/TOWN-CRIER

(Front, L-R) Mel Gross, Andrea Cohan, Susan Feldman and Rabbi David Abrams; (back row) Morry Silverman, Robert Solomon, Liz Thal and Jerry Bank.

Allison Robbert, Erika Raichbach and Wendy Ginsberg.

Oliver Chase gets help from Valerie Solomon as Josie Chase looks on.

Herb Terry and Morry Silverman look over plans for the temple’s new building.

Maxime Rothschild, Marisa Feldman, Valerie Solomon and Erika Raichbach.

Oliver Chase watches as Samantha Solomon paints his hand.

BUCKLER’S CRAFT FAIR BRINGS CROWD TO THE SOUTH FLORIDA FAIRGROUNDS Buckler’s Craft Fair returned Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 18 and 19 to the South Florida Fairgrounds. Vendors sold a variety of crafts from jewelry to clothes. For more info., visit www.bucklercraftfair.com.

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Fannie Wood of Trophies, Novelties & More shows Liz Lorence a key chain.

Suzanne’s Homemade Jams & Jelly owner Suzanne Mixon gives Julian Simon a sample.

Up to My Knees in Crafts owner Barbara Mills sells handmade children’s clothing.

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NEW HORIZONS HOSTS OPEN HOUSE

New Horizons Elementary School celebrated the new school year by hosting an open house. Parents and students were greeted by their teachers as they visited their new classrooms. They enjoyed touring the school, perusing the school store, visiting with old friends and making new friends. Pictured here are parents, students and staff members registering for school programs.

SRHS Yearbook, School Picture Information Seminole Ridge High School will hold school picture days for underclassmen (freshmen, sophomores and juniors) Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 5-6 during English classes.

Picture payment envelopes will be available from English teachers during the last week of August, the week prior to picture day. There will be a school picture makeup day in October.

The deadline for Hawk seniors to have senior yearbook portraits taken is Saturday, Sept. 22.

To be included in the senior section of Seminole Ridge’s first allcolor yearbook, seniors must have that portrait taken at Maia Photography in Jupiter. Call the photo studio at (561) 865-6242 or visit www.maiaphoto.net to schedule a portrait session and take advantage of the summer specials available before the end of August. A $15 sit fee is due at the time of the session, and seniors can bring two different outfits for a personal photo shoot as well.

On Tuesday, Oct. 9 seniors can have their portraits taken on

the SRHS campus. There will be a $15 sit fee for portraits only; a personal photo shoot with different outfits can only be done at the studio. Visit yearbook sponsor Susan Menke in Room 7-110, e-mail her at susan.menke @palmbeachschools.org, or call Maia Photography to set up an appointment for Oct. 9.

• Yearbook: Senior Quotes — Seniors, the 2013 yearbook will include a personal quote under your portrait in the senior section. To get senior a quote card, see your English teacher or drop

by Room 7-110. All quote cards must be turned in by Friday, Oct. 12.

• Yearbooks Discounted as School Year Begins — Until Friday, Sept. 7, Seminole Ridge 2013 yearbooks can be pre-ordered at the 25 percent discounted price of $60. Purchase a yearbook online at www.yearbookorder center.com or bring $60 in cash or check to Susan Menke in Room 7-110. The 2013 Seminole Ridge yearbook will be entirely in full color and will cost $80 after Sept. 7.

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TKA Football Players Visit Children’s Hospital Leading members of the King’s Academy Lions football team recently took a break from training camp and spent the afternoon visiting with children receiving treatment in the oncology department at the West Palm Beach Children’s Hospital.

Seniors Marcus Houston, Daniel Delgado and A.J. Pasquale joined coach Heath Nivens, as well as juniors Garrett Larson and James Holland, on the special visit. The players spent the afternoon visiting with children and teenagers in the hospital and shared stories, played video games, handed out candy and tossed miniature King’s Academy Lion footballs with the children.

The players made it clear that the trip had an immediate impact on them and not just the children they were visiting. “It was remarkable to see how strong the kids were,” said Pasquale, the senior quarterback, of his experience at

the hospital. “It was a great feeling knowing that we could help brighten their day.”

Houston, the senior defensive back, agreed. “The trip was a humbling experience and showed me how thankful I should be,” he said.

“I had a great time seeing a smile come across the kids’ faces.”

The Lions will begin their season with the Kickoff Classic against the Benjamin School on Friday, Aug. 24 at 7 p.m. on the King’s Academy campus.

The King’s Academy is a nationally recognized private Christian school serving approximately 1,200 students from preschool through 12th grade and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the Association of Christian Schools International and the Florida Association of Christian Colleges and Schools. The King’s Academy serves students and their families across Palm Beach and Hendry

(Front row, L-R) A.J. Pasquale, James Holland and Garrett Larson; (back row) Marcus Houston and Daniel Delgado. counties at its main campus at Belvedere Road and Sansbury’s Way in West Palm Beach, its Clewiston campus on Caribbean Avenue and its satellite preschool

campuses in Greenacres, Palm Beach Gardens and Royal Palm Beach. More information about the King’s Academy is available online at www.tka.net.

New Student Orientation At Berean Christian More than 100 students at Berean Christian School in West Palm Beach started just a little earlier than the rest of the school population — the new students, that is.

Thursday, Aug. 9 was new student orientation at Berean Christian School.

New students and their families gathered in the school cafeteria to meet with school administrators, take a tour of the campus, try out their lockers and meet with their teachers. Berean Student Council and National Honor Society members were on hand to assist in many ways. They gave tours, buddied up with students and even helped

serve lunch. The morning finished with a cookout luncheon for new families. Students and parents had the opportunity to mingle together on an informal level. Great prizes were given away, including CDs, gift cards to local businesses and school lunches.

The focus for Berean Christian School this year is to help students develop a “Kingdom mindset.” Berean Christian School encourages students spiritually, emotionally, socially and academically. To learn more about this or any program at Berean Christian School, visit the school’s web site at www.bcsbulldogs.org.

Students and parents enjoy lunch during the Aug. 9 event.

Resource Depot Teacher Appreciation Aug. 25 Local nonprofit Resource Depot will hold a 14th birthday and teacher appreciation event Saturday, Aug. 25 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at its location at 3680 Investment Lane, Suite 1, Riviera Beach.

The first 100 teachers who arrive ready to shop will receive gift bags, refreshments, entertainment and other surprises. Be sure to bring your teacher ID. “Many teachers who come through our doors are given $100 or less for supplies to last the entire school year,” Executive Director Jennifer O’Brien said.

Resource Depot’s mission is to provide these teachers an alternative to purchasing some (or even all) of their classroom supplies new. “The alternative Resource Depot presents is that of reuse,” O’Brien said. “Not only does working with reused or re-purposed materials help teachers stretch their budgets and keep these items out of the landfill for a second or third lifecycle, but it reinforces in a very practical way the importance of environmental conservation for both the teachers and their students.”

By making a very nominal dollar donation, educators can access Resource Depot’s warehouse and fill their classrooms with as many items as they can carry out.

From three ring binders, to paper, folders, books, art supplies, foam shapes, tubes and more Resource Depot has something for every teacher of every grade level and area of study.

In addition to providing classroom materials, Resource Depot opens its doors to school groups for field trips, where students and teachers learn to use non-tradition-

al, reused and recycled materials creatively while opening their eyes to ways that we can all be more environmentally conscious. It also provides teacher training sessions and on location workshops, as well as “This2That” workshops teaching creative reuse to anybody and everybody who wants to learn, hosted by Whole Foods Market.

Resource Depot is always looking for material donations to help these teachers fill their classrooms.

Visit www.resourcedepot.net or call (561) 882-0090 for details.

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Kids Cancer Foundation End-Of-Summer Party The Kids Cancer Foundation recently sponsored an end-ofsummer party for local kids and their families battling childhood cancer.

The young patients and their families were treated to an afternoon of family fun made possible by the following local sponsors: Once a Month Charities, Joey’s Outback Adventures, Costco, nutritionist Cindy Collins, chef Debbie Appleseed, Girl Scout troops 20100 and 20114, TJ Spirit Zone and the American Heritage High School National Honor Society.

Thanks to Once a Month Charities and Costco, there were plenty of cold drinks and tasty treats for the kids and families to snack on. Once a Month Charities also provided backpacks for the kids filled with school supplies. Joey’s Outback Adventures sent their mascot Joey the Kangaroo to pay a visit and hand out toys that they had collected

at their “Christmas in July” event. Collins and Appleseed stopped in to talk about healthful school lunches and snacks and to bring some healthy treats for the kids and families to sample.

The Girl Scouts and TJ Spirit Zone provided fun craft projects and American Heritage High School National Honor Society came by to lend a hand at the event.

All the children and families were able to enjoy an afternoon of fun, far removed from the doctor’s office and hospital. And best of all, they had an opportunity to just have a great time being kids.

The event was a pleasant reprieve for the children and their families to just relax and have fun and to, at least momentarily, forget their daily struggle battling childhood cancer.

If you wish to learn more about the Kids Cancer Foundation, a

Joey the Kangaroo joins the children at the Kids Cancer Foundation’s end-of-summer party. nonprofit charity whose mission is to provide hope and support to local children and families battling childhood cancer and/or

blood disorders, visit the foundation’s web site at www.kids cancersf.org or call Michelle O’Boyle at (561) 371-1298.

FREE SPIRIT WORSHIP CENTER COMMUNITY OUTREACH EVENT

Members of the Children of the American Revolution at the annual packet party.

CAR Members Attend Florida Packet Party Free Spirit Worship Center in Greenacres held its annual community outreach event Saturday, Aug. 11. Some of the free activities included fully stocked bookbags, school uniforms, health screening, a bounce house, a visit from the Greenacres Fire-Rescue fire engine and emergency truck, face painting, hot dogs and hamburgers, and a Christian hip-hop artist. Free Spirit Worship Center is located at 364 Swain Blvd. For more info., call (561) 596-8772 or (561) 596-8773, or visit the center’s web site at www.fswcc.org.

Shown above, Free Spirit Worship Center members enjoy the event.

Children of the American Revolution societies from around the state attended the annual packet party for the Florida State Society Children of the American Revolution to discuss this year’s theme, “Rolling with the Brave.”

The event was hosted by the Fifer George Weissenfels Society, whose own Kaitlin Matyskiel is the Florida state president of the Children of the American Revolution.

She introduced to the group her state project, which is to raise money to support the 33rd Nation-

al Veterans Wheelchair Games, which will be held in Tampa in 2013.

Also in attendance were Senior State Society President Lindsey Cook Brock and his wife, Billie Sheckler Brock.

Members of the various societies will volunteer their time as well as raise funds to contribute to the event. They enjoyed the presentation and acted in skits that highlighted other groups and topics the societies support, including mountain schools, conservation efforts and endangered species.

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Kayla Adams Graduates UF As Outstanding Scholar Wellington resident and Dreyfoos School of the Arts graduate Kayla Adams has graduated from the University of Florida summa cum laude with a double major.

She also received the Outstanding Four-Year Scholar Award.

Adams graduated with majors in fine arts and linguistics and a 3.9 grade point average. She was one of five graduating students, out of thousands in the Liberal Arts School, to receive this award.

Adams’ interests have ranged from sculpture and African agriculture to fireflies. In 2009, she spent a semester studying woodcarving in a rural community in the Bahamas.

Adams completed two major research projects. One examined the ways ambiguity can be processed in both language and vision, exploring their parallels and differences. The other project was a yearlong study of perforated forms in nature. She has presented her range of work at seven art shows, including two solo exhibits.

Adams has sought to expand art into other disciplines, and she coordinated several projects between artists and scientists. She established ScArt, an official science and art student organization, and the blog Art/Science Collective. Adams said her most valued academic achievement was the creation of “Analogous Thinking in Arts and Sciences,” a course and lecture series she developed with UF professors and one for which she served as a teaching assistant.

The initiatives she fostered

Kayla Adams brought nationally recognized artists and scientists to the university. She has received numerous awards for her work in science and the arts, including one from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Adams also spent time outside of student artistic endeavors. She taught crochet as a UF leisure instructor and partnered with second-language learners at the English Language Institute to help them improve their English. She was a mentor for the Collegiates Helping As Mentors in Public Schools (CHAMPS) and the Golden Door, a program for the social and financial rehabilitation of the homeless.

Adams moved to Wellington with her parents Ilene and Norm Adams and sister Rachel in 2003.

She plans to pursue a master’s degree in studio art.

Pinkerton Graduates Basic Army Training Army Pvt. Zachary Pinkerton has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C. During the nine weeks of training, Pinkerton studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayo-

net training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy, the military justice system, basic first aid, foot marches, and field-training exercises.

Pinkerton is the son of Ken Pinkerton of Tyrone, Ga., and grandson of Gary Church of The Acreage.

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PLENTY OF FUN ACTIVITIES FOR ALL AGES AT TEMPLE BETH ZION OPEN HOUSE Tem ple Beth Zion in R oyal Palm Beach held an open house on Sunday, Aug. 19. Community members were in vited to meet new Rabbi Richard Polirer and the temple’s Hebrew school staff. The event included raffles, a bounce house, hot dogs, refreshments and more.

Tem ple Beth Zion is located at 129 Sparrow Drive. For more info., call (561) 798-8888.

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Carl Margulies sells tickets.

Rabbi Richard Polirer was on hand to meet visitors.

Scott Seigel and Stephen Rosenberg prepare hot dogs.

Children’s author Kimberling Kennedy showcases her book Why You Should Laugh Three Times a Day.

Spencer and Michele Wyman.

Meredith Pressler enjoys a hot dog.

Cast Members Needed For Upcoming Play ‘Art Of The Pin-Up Girl’ For South Florida playwright Heather Storm, the prospect of turning a dream into reality is now closer than ever.

Storm, writer and creator of Art of the Pin-Up Girl, a musical romp through the history of the American pin-up, first envisioned the project more than 10 years ago.

Following a staged reading in New York City that “went very well,” according to Storm, a second reading is planned locally. The New York reading was staged at Shetler Studios’ Theatre 54.

“We had an excellent turnout with about 80 percent of the house full of audience members who were delighted, and the feedback was tremendous,” Storm said. “We can’t wait to do

it again here in South Florida.”

Casting will soon begin for a staging and future live performances of Art of the Pin-Up, with filming for multimedia presentation also in the plans. Dates, times and venues will soon be announced.

“We are looking for six to eight female performers who can sing, dance and act for stage and for filming, and who also can style themselves in a vintage/retro/‘pinup’ look,” said Storm, who offered a look at the characters currently being cast.

The characters are Ruth Etting, a 1920s radio and Ziegfeld star, alto, slim, beautiful; Anna Mae Clift, a Greenwich Follies showgirl of the 1920s, alto, blonde, Southern belle; Lena Horne, an African-

American movie star of the 1940s and 1950s, beautiful, soprano; Bettie Page, a queen of the pinups, black hair with bangs, beautiful, alto, bluesy voice; Alberto Vargas, a tall, slim, Hispanic male, handsome, gentile, can be a nonsinging role; and Baron von Lind, a narrator, male, suave, conversational, dynamic, baritone.

“We are also casting additional roles, both male and female, for speaking roles and chorus,” Storm said, “and we also need excellent dancers (jazz/swing/ballroom) for full company numbers and musicians, including horns, guitar, piano and other instruments.”

Submissions should be made via e-mail to palmbeachbystorm@ gmail.com. Include links to all dig-

ital profiles, including pictures and sound and video files (if available).

The roles being cast for the reading are unpaid at this time. Copy, credit and meals will be provided for the filmed portions. This is nonunion.

Art of the Pin-Up Girl is an original musical that takes a fond look at the history of pin-up girls — those iconic, perfectly proportioned beauties who have adorned magazine pages, posters, calendars and bedroom walls for more than a century.

Originally inspired by a coffee table book, The Great American Pin-Up, Storm set out to create a story that weaves tales of actual people and events into the tapestry of a musical trip through the

time and space of pin-up art in America.

The 15 original songs in the musical were composed by Gregory “Popeye” Alexander, Storm’s husband and a well-known South Florida composer, producer, singer and radio personality. Alexander is lead singer for the International Players and Memory Lane and also plays bass and keyboards for PoKoLoko based in West Palm Beach. The music was co-produced by Alex J. Weir of PokoLoko at Dreamhouse Studios in West Palm Beach.

To listen to musical excerpts from Art of the Pin-Up Girl and learn more about its origins and the pin-up icons who inspired it, visit www.artofthepin-upgirl.com.

An original pin-up girl poster by pinup artist Baron von Lind to promote the new musical.

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WELLINGTON BALLET’S ‘NUTCRACKER’ AUDITIONS

JIM ROCKETT HONORED

Wellington Ballet Theatre held auditions for its second annual Nutcracker Tea on Saturday, Aug. 18 at the Dance Arts Conservatory. The performance will feature highlights of The Nutcracker and also showcase the company’s winter repertoire. The audition consisted of a master class given by Melissa Waters and included a classical barre and the execution of various technical steps for the student to perform. For more info., visit www.wellingtonballettheatre.com.

Dancers learn audition combinations.

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We travel the region and we see that we are truly blessed to have gone from that little patch of grass to the world-class facilities we have now.”

Many of the program’s alumni have gone on to join local high school football and cheerleading teams — something evident by the number of jerseys on display at Friday’s event.

“There were a slew of former players out there,” Pasquale said.

“One of the neatest things was watching all of the little kids out there interacting with the older kids who are now in high school. It’s a great gift to see kids I’ve known since they were 6 years old in Wellington, Palm Beach Central and King’s Academy jerseys.”

Thanks to a scholarship provided by Equestrian Sport Productions, WCFL will be able to ensure that every child who wants to play can — no matter their financial hardship.

“Part of our mission is to never deny families from participating in

Sarah Marsengill prepares to perform her audition.

Dancers stretch to complete their warm-up.

Loxahatchee Groves Vice Mayor Jim Rockett received a certificate of completion for the 2012 Institute for Elected Officials held June 22-24 in Tampa from Bill Underwood of Underwood Management Services, the town’s management contractor. Underwood also taught the course.

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the league, no matter their finances,” Pasquale said. “Mark [Bellissimo] wanted to get involved and set up a hardship scholarship.”

Pasquale said these funds are crucial, as league sponsorships have dwindled.

“It’s a combination of individual folks who have financial challenges and a significant detraction in sponsorships,” he said. “Many of our sponsors were construction companies, Realtors and other industries like that. This community was hit really hard in the real-estate department.”

Equestrian Sport Productions has pledged $10,000 a year for

three years to help needy children participate. Bellissimo, the company’s CEO, said he first heard of the league from board members who attended events at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center last year.

“We invited the schools to come to our events,” Bellissimo said. “I had met Nick Iannone — one of the board members — at our event. We got to know each other and struck up a conversation about WCFL.” Bellissimo said he attended a flag football game and was sold on the close-knit community surrounding the game.

“They told me that they were having challenges with sponsorships and trying to provide resources for kids who didn’t have the money to play,” Bellissimo recalled. “I was impressed with the amount of participation from the community and what a great job they’d done with the organization.”

Bellissimo said he and his wife, Katherine, were touched by their story.

“We want to provide resources for children to participate in this great organization,” he said. “It represents all that’s great about

Mark Bellissimo presents WCFL President Gus Pasquale with money for the financial hardship scholarship program. this community. It’s a special or- goal, whether its football, equesganization that I would not have trian sports or music,” he said. been exposed to had we not done “Unfortunately, in difficult times our Wellington schools program.” it’s more challenging for families As a frequent coach of his chil- to participate. Hats off to a great dren’s sports teams as they grew group of people who are really up, Bellissimo said he recognizes making a difference in this comthe benefit that the organization munity. Anything we can do to brings to the community. help is great.”

“My wife and I both realize how For more information about the important it is that kids are out organization, or to become a sponthere being active and pursuing a sor, visit www.wcflfootball.com.

(L-R) Anthony Nelson is recognized as one of five inaugural members of the Alumni Honor Roll; honoree Brandon Pendergrass with WCFL founder Joe Piconcelli; and cheerleaders enjoy the evening.

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continued from page 1 nue if the council approved the changes.

Councilman Ron Jarriel said the use had been agricultural before the mixed-use designation was given a year ago, which garnered very little tax revenue. “With 21 acres of commercial, the taxes will be 10 times the amount we have gotten over the years,” he said.

Vice Mayor Jim Rockett made a motion to approve the change, which carried 5-0.

The next amendment brought the 75-acre campus property back to low-density residential and incorporated a special policy that will govern future development of the college campus. “This ensures that the town will have the opportunity to participate in planning,” Fleischmann explained.

Councilman Tom Goltzené said he was concerned about the planning guidelines, including the buffers. Since the applicant is not required to submit specific site plans with a comp plan amendment application, he used the right-of-way buffers on Southern Blvd as an example. The guidelines call for one tree every 60 feet at least 12 feet tall and hedges 30 inches tall.

“I think we’re getting a real short shrift with what’s being proposed by the landscaping,” Goltzené said.

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continued from page 1 curriculum in education, such as organizational skills, time management and study skills,” Armas said. “We did some recruiting last year, and we’re starting out with one section of it, and that’s a good thing for us.”

The school has also been accepted for part of the Cambridge University examination process, which offers an Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE). “We are now officially a Cambridge University school,” Armas said. “AICE courses and the eventual test give students college credits that in the Florida Statutes are equal to IB and AP courses. They’re accelerated courses with an exam at the end, so we continue to increase the number of high-level courses that we can offer our students.”

In addition, the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) academy, started last year, is growing.

“We started with the one section last year, which is typically how you start a new program,” he

Collene Walter with Urban Design Kilday Studios, representing the college, said they would have a detailed presentation, but the item under discussion was the comprehensive plan amendment.

Nina Corning asserted that if the council agreed to the amendment, it would no longer have regulatory power on the land. She also asserted that the plan would allow a potential student body of 138,000.

“Once you approve this, you can’t go back,” Corning said.

But attorney Brian Seymour, representing the college, said the number Corning was referring to is full-time teaching equivalents, not individual students, pointing out that Miami-Dade Community College, the state’s largest college, does not have that many students.

“Traffic concurrency limits the number of students,” Seymour said.

Indian Trail Improvement District President Michelle Damone said she anticipated her daughter would be attending the college if it is built. “I’m actually very jealous of your community,” she said.

“If only I could have a college instead of all that commercial we have. I think the location is perfect.”

County Commissioner Jess Santamaria said the campus would be good for the community. “I actually encouraged [PBSC President] Dr. [Dennis] Gallon to select this site. The people who will benefit

the most are your children and grandchildren,” he said.

Rockett made a motion to approve the amendment, which carried 4-1 with Goltzené opposed.

Town Attorney Michael Cirullo pointed out that the 4-1 vote was sufficient under the town charter requirement for super-majority approval of comp plan amendments.

The council also approved a resolution for the master site plan.

Seymour said the resolution has provisions requiring the college to work with the town, following guidelines in the town’s comp plan.

Gallon pointed to the school’s history of developing campuses with respect to the environment.

The Lake Worth campus is 114 acres that was given to the college by the county in 1955. “It was quite barren, and there was not much in the area,” Gallon said. “We have taken great pains to develop as it is today. It is one of the most well-preserved areas in that location.”

He said the Palm Beach Gardens campus would be the nearest model to the way the college would like to develop the Loxahatchee Groves campus because it already has a lot of foliage on it. “It’s been well-preserved and has good boundaries,” Gallon said. “That is what we hope to duplicate on this campus.”

Jose Murguido of Zyscovich Architects, representing the col-

lege, said the abundant foliage on the property will give the college a running start. “It has wetlands, cypress knees and great edges,” he said. “That will create the connection to the community. It has a rich ring of buffers, and a lot of material is already there. The idea is to preserve it.”

Walter, who is a registered landscape architect and land planner, said one primary goal is that the site design incorporate natural areas. “Starting from the outside and working in, we will look at more than what the town code requires,” Walter said. “We want to be sure it fits in with the community.”

Murguido also pointed out that the master plan is a 50-year plan and the college intends to begin development on the south end.

“For all intents and purposes, the land will remain virgin for a long, long time,” he said. “It will be consistent with the rural vista guidelines. The important thing is the spirit and vision that it carries to preserve the beauty of the town.”

Goltzené said he was disturbed that the master plan had no specifics on how the site would be developed. “They don’t have any idea at all what they’re going to do,” he said.

Rockett said it was clear to him that college representatives had listened to the town’s suggestions and made the changes that it could. He said he had driven up to see the Palm Beach Gardens cam-

said. “We still have one section, and we’ve added an elective section. It will be in its second year.

It’s growing, and it will continue to grow. When we begin programs like this, we certainly don’t expect to start off with a lot of sections.

We’re very pleased right now at the direction that it’s going. We’ve got good kids in there. We’ve got good teachers, and the program will pick up as we get farther and farther.”

Armas said the Excelsior academy offering Advanced Placement courses is in its third year and is also growing. “We continue to get a lot of people,” he said. “That one comes with very stringent entrance requirements, an entrance test, and you have to be level four or five in both reading and math coming out of the eighth grade, so it’s a very tough, elite academy.”

Now with two sections, he is pleased with the progress at Excelsior. “Not that many students coming out of middle school qualify to even be enrolled in it,” he said. “If we have 635 kids in the freshman class, only about 100 of those would qualify to be in it, and right now we have 30-some-odd kids in it, which means we’re getting about 30 percent of them who

actually want to be a part of that academy, which to me is a high number.”

The medical sciences program is possibly the school’s strongest success story.

“For the first time in the school’s history, the medical sciences program filled all of its seats and has a waiting list to get in as ninth-graders, so it continues to be popular,” Armas said. “We have students coming in from outside who choose it as a choice academy. It’s popular, and the students in there are doing very well. Many of them are in our highest Advanced Placement classes.”

The school is to the point now that if students do not choose medical sciences as a No. 1 choice, they’re not going to be able to get in. “Even then, you still might not be able to get in,” Armas said. “In the old days, you could wait and see if there were still slots open.

That’s over with. There’s a waiting list to get in.”

In his third year as principal, Armas is excited by the momentum he sees. “Coming off last year, our numbers are good on our tests, and we had a great graduation,” he said.

Numerous village officials attended last year’s commencement,

which to Armas indicated the beginning of a solidarity between the school and a village whose council had felt disenfranchised due to the school’s attendance boundaries spreading outside the village, with little if any input from the village.

“One of our goals coming in was that we wanted to ensure that we feel that Royal Palm Beach High School, as the high school of the community, should be a beacon for the community,” Armas said.

“We should be hosting events like Relay for Life. Our graduation ceremony should be one that the entire village can celebrate.”

Having the mayor and three council members attend graduation is crucial to that goal. “Of all the things that we have going on, we feel that is one of the truest indicators of how we’re progressing, of momentum that we have currently, and how we feel that the school is going in a really good direction,” Armas said.

Armas said he is very confident in his staff’s ability to sustain the momentum. “We’re excited about our faculty and staff,” he said.

“Our faculty continues to be an expert group. They’re very good, and they do a good job of furthering our vision.”

pus, was impressed and added that he’d also noticed the healthy commercial community there.

Lung Chiu, inspector general for the Palm Beach County School District and a member of the town’s Finance Advisory & Audit Committee, said that as a 12-year resident, he supports the project. “I believe this is the best thing that has happened to Loxahatchee Groves,” he said. “I can tell you my family of five wholeheartedly support this project.”

Chiu said he looks forward to his children coming back from college and possibly getting jobs at the campus, and that he looks forward to it having cultural facilities there.

Mayor David Browning said he disagreed with those who oppose the college because it would not contribute to the tax base. “There

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continued from page 1 busy hurricane seasons in 2004 and 2005, Wellington made a point to open the Wellington Aquatics Complex.

“You might wonder why that’s important,” he said. “The kids were out of school; schools were closed; there was no electricity and no air conditioning. The pool ended up being really popular. People were calling us three days after a storm wanting to play baseball.

They are desperate to get their lives back in order.”

But Bonde stressed that Wellington must first address crucial services and major problem areas before it can address residents’ needs.

“Our first priority is clearing debris,” he said. “Then we have to do things that involve clearing infrastructure. In the first 72 hours following a major storm, we have to work on infrastructure and then

are a lot of churches in Loxahatchee Groves that do not benefit me, but I’m not going to say there’s nothing in it for me,” he said.

Darlene Snowball said she was 100 percent for the college. “My son could be going to this college instead of Palm Beach Gardens to get his engineering degree,” Snowball said. “I would go back to school myself as soon as this college is built.”

Goltzené said he was going to vote for the resolution but that he would have preferred a larger buffer to the north than the 50-foot one in the master plan.

“I had other ideas of preservation,” he said. “All I can do is trust them that they will do what they say.”

The motion, made by Rockett, carried 5-0. building up services. Depending on the severity of the storm, we could be back in 12 to 24 hours, but we ask people to be realistic.”

Bonde encouraged all residents to be well-prepared for the storm on their own.

“Make sure your home is secure,” he said. “Make sure you have a family plan. Make arrangement for your pets and pet foods, and for necessary medications.

Have enough supplies — they tell you have enough supplies for three days, but I say more like five to seven. Make sure your friends and relatives know your plans.

Sometimes people panic when they can’t get hold of their loved ones.”

Those who are well-prepared are less likely to become victims themselves, he said.

“Be prepared. Don’t become a victim,” he said. “Make sure your homes are secure and do what you need to do to exercise your own emergency plan. If residents would assist us in that, they won’t have to rely on government as much after the storm.”

Blotter continued from page 6 PBSO substation in Royal Palm Beach was dispatched to a home on Cordoba Circle last Sunday afternoon regarding a delayed residential burglary. According to a PBSO report, sometime between 4 p.m. last Tuesday and 4:30 p.m. last Sunday, someone entered the vacant property and removed a stainless steel Maytag stove and refrigerator along with an air conditioning compressor. The deputy observed no signs of forced entry. According to the report, the complainant said that there was no lock box with a key at the property, and that only the new owner and Realtors had a key to the front door. There was no further infor-

mation available at the time of the report.

AUG. 21 — A resident of Hemingway Court contacted the PBSO substation in Royal Palm Beach Tuesday to report a theft. According to the report, the victim said that last Thursday at approximately 3 p.m. she was shopping at the Walmart Supercenter on Belvedere Road. According to the report, the victim stepped away from her cart, and someone removed a black purse containing her wallet with her driver’s license. The deputy contacted the store to see if her purse had been placed in lost and found, but it had not. There were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report.

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Despite threatening weather, the Acreage Horseman’s Association's tack sale and swap meet held July 15 at Nicole Hornstein Equestrian Park was a huge success. There were saddles, pads, bridles, halters, riding clothes and boots, helmets, artwork, knickknacks and more.

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Acreage Pop Warner Teams Ready For New Season

The Acreage Steelers Pop Warner Football Club traveled to Jupiter Community Park on Saturday, Aug. 18 to play in a series of preseason scrimmages. The Acreage Steelers are in their third season and have three full teams: the Tiny Mites, Junior Pee-wees and Junior Midgets. Page 31

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Business Enjoy High-End Dining Along With Great Entertainment At The Grille

Serving up trendy cuisine, the Grille Fashion Cuisine is an upscale restaurant in Wellington. Owners Juan Gando, Dustin Parfitt and Clay Carnes opened the restaurant in October 2011. The Grille has turned into not only a place to go for quality food but also a place for great nightlife and entertainment. The owners wanted to create a place where people could enjoy high-quality food and a fun night out with friends, family or a date. Page 23

Sports SRHS Football Eyes Return To The State Playoffs This Season

The Seminole Ridge High School varsity football team has its sights set on the state pla yoffs again this year. The Hawks, who went 9-3 last season, hope to surpass that and move further toward a state championship title, head coach Matt Dickmann said.

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Acreage Group Features Tack Sale And Swap, Free Clinics It was a great idea — the Acreage Horseman’s Association planned to hold a tack sale and swap meet at Nicole Hornstein Equestrian Park. For a nominal fee, anyone could rent a space, set up tables and sell their stuff. The date: April 29. The problem: It poured all day long. I’d had the sale on my calendar, but I looked out the window and shook my head, disappointed.

The sale did go on, however; but an additional rain date was announced: July 15. I couldn’t wait. The day dawned overcast, and before 8 a.m., showers briefly swept through.

Not again, I thought, and waited, hoping.

Sure enough, although the clouds hung around, the rain held off; and the sale went off without a hitch. About a dozen people or groups offered all sorts of horse-related items for sale. There were saddles, pads, bridles, halters, riding clothes and boots, helmets, artwork, knickknacks, even a cart and harness.

Christina Izquierdo was there displaying her custom-made western hatbands. “I thought this would be a good place to let people see them,” she said. “They’re crystal stones on leather bindings, all different designs.”

“I brought along a bunch of boxes of all kinds of stuff,” added Meghan Garcia. “It’s all doubles and triples of stuff I had sitting around Get updates all week long... follow Ellen Rosenberg on Twitter at twitter.com/ HorseTalkFL or stop by the Tales from the Trails page on Facebook and click “like.”

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By Ellen Rosenberg at home. I never sell singles, things I have only one of — you never know when you might need something. Only problem is, I think I’ve bought more stuff from other people than I’ve actually sold.”

Volunteers from Luv-A-Pet, a local cat and dog rescue group, had a booth. Kelly Knotts, their director, had also brought along a mini horse.

“We’re selling pet- and horse-related items which were donated,” she explained. “All proceeds go directly to helping the animals we’re trying to get adopted. We’re located in the Publix shopping center in Royal Palm Beach.”

Two other horse groups also had booths with items for sale.

“It has been a nice day,” said Jennifer Swanson of Pure Thoughts Horse Rescue. “It’s good working with the Acreage Horseman’s Association.”

“It has been going OK,” said Ruth Menor, executive director of the Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center. “We’re selling excess items people have donated. In addition to raising some money, an event like this is a nice

The recent AHA tack sale and swap was a great success. way to get some publicity and meet other people in the horse community.”

Indeed, the friendly atmosphere fostered just that, a sense of being part of a large horse community. Someone stopped me and asked for the name and number of someone I’d done

an article about two years ago. I jotted down her name and called the next day with the contact information for Joy McKay, who cleans horses’ sheaths.

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I Never Know What I’ll Find When Pulling Up To A Yard Sale Everyone knows I love a good yard sale.

I didn’t go to many as a child, mostly because my mother didn’t want to drag four hyperactive children from house to house, putting the neighbors on edge. (I was one of those kids on a leash when I was a toddler because I had to touch everything. Still do!)

As the kids grew up, Mom occasionally ventured out with my younger sister, Pam, who was the first among us to appreciate vintage goods sporting non-vintage price tags.

But when I got to Florida, my first new friend was into the yard sale thing and dragged me along. I’ve been hooked ever since. Not only do I like the bargains, but I like the brotherGet your Sonic Boomer humor every day!

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The Sonic BOOMER hood. There’s a silent understanding between people who can’t throw anything out before giving the rest of us a stab at it. We’re recyclers, in a way.

And we’re certainly not in it for the money because no one gets rich having a yard sale.

Most yard sales will net the owner approximately $150 and a sunburn. Most of us pack things up swearing we will never do it again.

Yard sales are just too much effort and a waste of a Saturday. If we purchased posterboard

and stakes for our signs, ran a few ads and gave out free coffee, we may actually end up in the hole. But we do do it again. We simply can’t throw out our junk until we at least try.

Last weekend I was at a sale where the huckster was really, really trying. “Come one, come all!” she shouted. “We have everything you need and lots of things you don’t!”

Her garage was overloaded with books and electronics. “Buy a book! Spend the summer reading! Books make great gifts!” she hollered.

She also had a few tables of “other.” I like “other.” There were vases and candles (two yard-sale staples) as well as faded silk flowers (another thing no one can seem to throw out, no matter how old and dusty they are).

I picked up a stainless-steel pitcher with a cork attached to the bottom of its lid. It weighed a ton, and I had never seen anything like it.

Embossed on the bottom was the manufac-

turer, and that’s when I realized it was an old Thermos. It was totally cool.

“How much is this?” I asked.

“Twenty bucks.” She waited a half a second. “I’ll do $15.”

“I’d take it for $10…” “$12 and it’s sold!”

I handed over 12 bucks, and that’s when I saw the sign that read, “For Charity.”

“Which charity does this sale benefit?” I asked.

“The happiness congregation of India,” she replied. “It promotes the idea that people need nothing to be happy.”

Odd. “I needed this Thermos…” I started to say, but she had already turned to the next shopper, yelling: “Buy something! Buy it even if you don’t need it! Buy something at this sale!

Do it right now!”

Do they even have yard sales in India?

‘Expendables 2’ Offers Great Action With Cute One-Liners If you go to The Expendables 2 expecting high drama with an exceptional group of dramatic players, you’ll be disappointed. On the other hand, if you simply want Grade A, hightestosterone action, this film is for you.

Like its predecessor, the movie focuses on a rather elderly group of mercenaries doing their business and having fun along the way.

The leader, Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), is a pilot/motorcycle builder and rider/mercenary who winds up doing noble things in the name of money. In this film, after an opening sequence involving rescuing a couple of prisoners from Nepal, the mysterious Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) demands that the gang do a “small, easy mission.” A plane with a valuable item on board has crashed and they have to retrieve the item.

They do, but get ambushed by Mr. Vilain (Jean-Claude Van Damme) who not only takes the item (a computer) but casually murders the one young male on the team, Bill (Liam Hemsworth) who, to carry the caricature further, was about to leave to be with the one woman he really loved.

Stallone, his assistant Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), a knife and combat fighting expert, and a mixed bag of others go after Vilain,

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continued from page 21 people but meeting friends, catching up on horse events and, of course, buying things that, while I didn’t exactly need, I could probably use. I ended up with a saddle pad, saddlebags, a hay bag, a girth, yet another bit, two fly masks and a cute framed horse print.

“The sale is going well,” said Christy Hildebrand. “I’ve made some decent hay money.”

Recently unemployed but with lots of good skills, Hildebrand was also trying to find a home for her bombproof, older horse. “Hard times,” she sighed.

Beverly Woodard cleaned out her tack room and hauled along the excess. We swapped stories about rescuing horses.

leader of a small army of psycho thugs who plan to grab tons of bomb-grade plutonium from Russia. Given time and assistance from a group of Russian women, Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Willis, etc., wipe out what seems like thousands of younger, but obviously not tougher, men.

I had the stray thought that if we got these guys together along with their really cool weapons (that somehow seem far more advanced than what we’re using now) and sent them to the Middle East on Sept. 12, 2001, they would have wiped out the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and the rest of the different terrorist groups in about a week and with a lot better oneliners than we currently get from our politicians.

A good piece of the movie in between bat-

tles was taken up with one-line wisecracks going back and forth. As expected, the Governator was the best at it, adding several times that “I’ll be back” until one of the other characters just snaps at him, “You keep saying that.”

Describing the acting performances in the film is almost useless. Stallone does express remorse at Bill’s death but is so “manly” that except for a couple of lines about death and honor, you would barely realize that he even realizes the kid is gone. Statham plays a henpecked boyfriend, actually speaking to his girlfriend on his cellphone in the middle of missions, until, of course, the fighting begins and he starts killing.

Dolph Lundgren plays a wacky Swedish mercenary with a background in engineering who can’t make bombs but kills well with a gun. Terry Crews and Randy Couture round out the rest of the mercenary crew. Yu Nan, a martial arts expert, plays Maggie, forced on the group because of special lock-breaking skills, but who can kill with the best of the boys. Van Damme matches Stallone’s lack of gesture for lack of gesture, but Scott Adkins, playing the bad guy’s psycho sidekick Hector, outperforms all the others.

Having well-known action stars provides a comfort level for the audience. We can quickly identify with them, particularly when the dialogue constantly refers to old movie roles.

And, for an old codger like myself, I enjoy when the AARP generation sweeps down and wipes out all the young thugs.

The action is very cartoonish, bodies flying everywhere during some of the action scenes (and we all know that the good guys will win in the end… except for the poor, martyred kid whose death sets off the action) and the bad guys have absolutely no redeeming features. In one scene, Schwarzenegger and Willis rip the doors off a smart car (Arnold complaining that he had shoes larger than the vehicle) and drive it through an airline terminal, blasting bad guys from both sides while Norris takes out all the bad guys in a few waiting rooms. And, at the end, there’s an extended battle scene between Stallone and Van Damme that works its way through at least a half-dozen clichés.

This will never be rated as a great movie or even a really good one. But it is fun; the oneliners come fast and furious to separate the long battle scenes. In other words, a good popcorn film.

“I wish there were more people here,” she said. “At least the weather is holding out. It’s nice running into people we know. This is like a whole bunch of horse people coming together for a community event.”

And it was. People brought horses and put on riding demonstrations. Three girls rode their horses, some bridleless, which was impressive, one even doing bridleless reining and cutting. I don’t know which I enjoyed more, chatting with friends or finding great bargains.

“The sale was a great success,” said Linda Rainbolt, pleasure director of the Acreage Horseman’s Association.

She had brought along two western saddles needing a new home. “I think it was excellent. Everyone had fun, and there was a lot of good stuff for sale,” Rainbolt said. “We’ll be holding these sales twice each year, in November and May.

In addition, the group will be holding free weekly riding classes at the equestrian park on all sorts of topics.

“Everyone’s welcome; you don’t have to be an AHA member to participate or watch,” Rainbolt said. “There will be clinics on showmanship, grooming and conditioning, western pleasure, hunter/jumper, reining and cutting, trail class obstacles, de-spooking, western dressage, dealing with behavior problems, driving and anything else anyone can think of or would like to see. They’re held different days of the week, either on weekday evenings or on a Saturday or Sunday. Check our web site for specifics.”

The goal is to get people out so they can enjoy doing things with their horses.

“Some people have lovely horses that just sit out in the yard doing nothing,” Rainbolt explained. “We’d like to see horse people being active, connecting with friends and neigh-

bors in the horse community, organizing local trail rides. It’s a great way to meet others while learning something fun and useful.”

For more information about the Acreage Horseman’s Association and for clinic dates and times, visit www.acreagehorseman.com.

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By Leonard Wechsler

The booth run by Luv-A-Pet volunteers.

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Grille Fashion Cuisine owners Clay Carnes, Juan Gando and Dustin Parfitt.

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By Jessica Gregoire ella, and the servers and host come out in Town-Crier Staff Report character costumes waving large sparklers in Serving up trendy cuisine, the Grille Fash- the air. ion Cuisine is an upscale restaurant in Well“It’s not your average bingo,” Gando said. ington. Owners Juan Gando, Dustin Parfitt and “Josh Cohen makes it fun because he interClay Carnes opened the restaurant in Octo- acts with the people.” ber 2011.

There is also a live DJ, as well as various The Grille has turned into not only a place prizes and free drinks to be won. “You never to go for quality food but also a place for get bored playing this bingo,” Gando said. great nightlife and entertainment. The owners “Everybody is laughing, dancing, singing and wanted to create a place where people could having fun.” enjoy high-quality food and a fun night out After Cohen picks a ball, he challenges with friends, family or a date. people to do certain things, from dancing “The kind of food we have, you won’t find on the table to answering trivia. The night it anywhere,” Gando said. “It is really good is filled with comedy, drinking, dancing and Palm Beach–style food.” prizes.

All three of the owners met at Cucina Grille General Manager Ximena Cordero, Dell’Arte, where they worked as chefs. “We who learned about this style of bingo after all worked together and bring all our styles attending one in New York, developed the here,” Gando said. “But our main thing here is idea. The owners of the Grille don’t want grilled food with a little bit of everything.” guests to just come and eat; they want them The Grille offers daily specials, except for to stay and enjoy their night.

Mondays during the summer when it is closed.

With much to do every night of the week, The large expansive bar also includes a daily the owners are prepared to continue serving happy hour from 4 to 6 p.m. The specials vary up fresh, high-end food. “We have a full bar by day of the week. On Tuesdays, bottles of every night with the best wines and liquors,” wine are half off; on Wednesdays, appetizers Gando said. “The kitchen will be open all night are half off; on Thursdays, drinks are half off; until we close, so people can order food and Fridays are Latin nights; Saturdays are bingo eat while they are playing, singing, dancing karaoke nights from 9 p.m. to midnight; and and just having fun.” on Sundays, there are brunch specials and As experienced restaurateurs, Gando and $20 all-you-can-eat ribs.

Parfitt are also the owners of Oli’s Fashion Bingo karaoke nights have become a new Cuisine in Wellington. Their success with Oli’s popular form of local entertainment and din- led to the opening of the Grille, but this time ing. The evening begins with dinner, followed they teamed up with internationally experiby entertainment with host Josh Cohen. Co- enced chef Clay Carnes. hen first welcomes the guests and announcThe Grille is located at 12300 South Shore es the grand entrance parade. This parade Blvd. in Wellington. For more information, visit pleasantly surprises the attendees as the DJ www.thegrillefashioncuisine.com or call (561) plays “Be Our Guest” from the movie Cinder- 793-2110.

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Peter Fogel To Speak At Sept. 13 Small Business RoundTable Event The Wellington Chamber of Commerce Small Business RoundTable will present a humorous, informative and interactive session with speaker, author, corporate trainer and reinvention expert Peter Fogel, a.k.a. “the Reinvention Guy,” on Thursday, Sept. 13 from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Binks Forest Golf Club.

Fogel will discuss motivation, reinventing oneself, attaining goals and coping with reality — all sprinkled with humor. Blanca Greenstein of Morris Laing Evans Brock & Kennedy, Chtd. will be the moderator. A mixer is scheduled at the beginning of the evening with drinks and hors d’oeuvres. The presentation will begin at approximately 6 p.m.

Fogel’s career started in Las Vegas, Nev. Years later, this same career took him into corporate America. As a comedian in the nightclubs of Las Vegas years ago, he opened for comedy luminaries such as Jimmy “J.J.” Walker, Rita Rudner and Lewis Black. He also performed on or worked for 22 shows, including Married… With Children , Unhappily Ever After and Comic Strip Live, as well as having performed on cruise

ships. Fogel acknowledges that he was living a full life; he was having fun and taking on the all the risks that came along with that type of career.

After turning 40, however, Fogel had a mid-life crisis. “I was successful, but yet, if you looked at my career it had more peaks and valleys than an EKG graph,” he said.

Fogel felt burned out from the gypsy lifestyle of a performer. It was then he decided to make a 180-degree change and reinvented himself into an advertising copywriter. Using his background as an actor and writer, Fogel discovered he had a knack for persuading people to buy products, and he thereby became an in-demand sales writer for multi-million dollar companies such as Vital Max Vitamins, Renaissance Health, Bio-Centric Health, Gold and Energy Report, and Agora Publishing.

Later, Fogel realized he wanted to help others reach true fulfillment through personal growth, change and reinvention — so he became an author. For more information on Fogel, visit his web site at www. reinventyourselfnow.com.

The cost for the session is $10.

Douglas Rill, Burt Reynolds, James Bearden and Bob Nichols.

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Burt Reynolds Institute Announces New Directors Peter Fogel Those planning to attend are asked to RSVP by Sept. 7 by calling (561) 792-6525 or visiting the chamber’s web site at www.wellington chamber.com.

For more information, contact Wellington Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Michela PerilloGreen at info@wellingtonchamber. com.

The Burt Reynolds Institute for Film and Theatre (BRIFT) recently announced the election of a new board of directors.

Stepping in as chair is Douglas Rill, owner of Century 21 America’s Choice in West Palm Beach and Palm Beach. Rill has over 40 years of experience in the real estate industry and serves on the board of the Palm Beach County Film & Television Commission.

Well-known television news journalist Bob Nichols will serve as vice chair for the institute’s board. After

more than three decades as a local reporter, Nichols moved into nonprofit work. He is the former CEO/ executive director of the Grassy Waters Preserve and the owner of MediaMasters LLC. Attorney James Bearden was also elected to the board. He has more than 20 years of experience in corporate, communications and entertainment law. Currently, Bearden is a partner with Bearden, Lewis & Thomas, LLP in Boca Raton.

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Paton New Director Of Development At Marshall Foundation Nancy Marshall, president of the Arthur R. Marshall Foundation for the Everglades, has announced that Ann Paton has joined the nonprofit organization as director of development.

“Ann Paton comes to the Marshall Foundation as a seasoned fundraiser and administrator with substantial experience in creating and sustaining strong community relationships that generate committed stakeholders,” Marshall said. “In fact, her career as a successful fundraiser includes serving as vice president of advancement at Barry University for six years, 2005-2011.”

Paton brings to the Marshall Foundation a 20-plus year background in higher education fundraising. She began in the early 1990s by managing annual fund and alumni relations programs for Dartmouth Medical School, and then moved to the Brown University School of Medicine to run a successful $70 million capital campaign.

In her new position, Paton is responsible for all of the Marshall Foundation’s fundraising efforts,

Ann Paton such as securing gifts from individuals, corporations, foundations, and other private funding sources, as well as long-term development campaigns and various special events, including the annual River of Grass Gala.

The new director of development position is funded by a recent grant from the AWC Family Foundation in Nashville, Tenn. For more information on the Marshall Foundation, visit www.artmarshall.com.

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UPS Store Opens In Courtyard Shops

The Wellington Chamber of Commerce has announced that the UPS Store recently opened a new location in the Wellington Courtyard Shops at 13860 Wellington Trace, Suite 38. UPS has another location at 11924 W. Forest Hill Blvd., Suite 22, in the Wellington Plaza. It has been a member of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce since 2011.

The business is owned and operated by Mark Rosenthal, originally from Bloomfield, N.J. He lived there until he was 13 and moved with his family to Wellington. Rosenthal’s father opened Mailboxes Etc. in the Wellington Town Square in 1993 while Rosenthal continued with his studies.

After graduating from Wellington High School with the class of 1999, he enrolled in the University of Central Florida to study business. In 2003, Rosenthal inherited his father’s business and came back to live in Wellington. He is currently engaged to Andrea D’Addario and is planning a fall wedding next year.

The UPS Store offers many services such as UPS and postal shipping both domestic and international; regular, priority and express mail; insured shipments; signatures and guarantees for packages if needed; faxing; black-and-white and color

Mark Rosenthal of the UPS Store (third from left) with Wellington Chamber ambassadors Mark “Boz” Bozicevic, Laura Hanson, Andrea D’Addario, Bob Salerno and Denise Carpenter. copies; printing from paper or digital printing via computers and external hard drives; a computer area with Internet for customers who come in and need a work space; binding and laminating reports; business cards; folded brochures; direct mail for which a person can physically choose on a map where to target the mailing; door hangers; and mailboxes that are accessible 24/7. The store also sells office supplies, stamps,

packing and moving materials, and greeting cards.

On the rare occasion that Rosenthal is not working, he enjoys watching NFL games and rooting for the New York Giants.

For more information about the UPS Store, visit www.theupsstore. com/6304.htm. They can be contacted via e-mail at store6304@theups store.com or by phone at (561) 3286271.

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‘Sylvia’ Opens Sept. 28 At The Willow Theatre In Boca Raton The Boca Raton Theatre Guild’s production of Sylvia will open Friday, Sept. 28 at the Willow Theatre in Sugar Sand Park. It will continue through Sunday, Oct. 14.

“Give a dog a woman’s name, and you start to treat her like one,” said one of the characters in Sylvia, A.R. Gurney’s clever, funny and unusual play about a man, a dog and the chaos their relationship generates.

Gurney (Love Letters, The Cocktail Hour, The Dining Room) taps into the fragility of human relationships, as well as the joys and frustrations of pet ownership, to create what is often cited as his best work — a delicate balance of humor and poignancy.

Sylvia was first produced in 1995 at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York and starred Sarah Jessica Parker and Blythe Danner. Called “delicious and dizzy” by the New York Times, the play received Drama Desk Award nominations for Outstanding Play, Outstanding Actress in a Play (Parker) and Outstanding Costume Design.

Sylvia focuses on Greg, a middleaged businessman disenchanted with his job and somewhat adrift in life, who finds a stray in the park — a dog named Sylvia who absolutely adores Greg, much to the consternation of his wife Kate. Jacqueline Laggy ( Other People’s Money, Chapter Two) will play Sylvia, the energetic lab-poodle mix, and Keith Garsson (Other People’s Money, Chapter Two) and Patti Gardner (The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife) will play Greg and Kate. Mario Betto (The Sisters Rosensweig, playwright of Combing Through Life’s Tangles) will also star.

Genie Croft, who recently helmed the Boca Raton Theatre Guild’s soldout production of Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, will direct. “I’m delighted to be directing A.R. Gurney’s intelligent, insightful, hilarious script,” Croft said. “Gurney’s variation on the plot of the married, menopausal male falling in love with an exciting, enticing younger woman, who just happens to be an adorable stray dog, offers keen observations

into American life. Yet it is first and foremost a love story, deeply comical and touching, because Sylvia remains a dog with an animal’s instincts and urges.”

Croft was also responsible for guiding the guild’s successful productions of Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound and Charles Busch’s The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife.

The Boca Raton Theatre Guild is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to producing professional productions and advancing the art of theater in the South Florida community.

The Willow Theatre in Sugar Sand Park is located at 300 S. Military Trail in Boca Raton, just south of Palmetto Park Road. Performances of Sylvia take place Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $25, and are on sale now. Tickets can be purchased at the Willow Theatre box office by calling (561) 3473948. For more information about the Boca Raton Theatre Guild, visit www.brtg.org.

Patti Gardner, Keith Garsson and Jacqueline Laggy in Sylvia.

Art, Antique & Jewelry Auction Sept. 15-16 In Boynton Beach What began as a low-key summer sale has swollen into a two-day, 500-plus-lot colossus at Elite Decorative Arts. The weekend event will be held Sept. 15-16 at the firm’s gallery located in the Quantum Town Center in Boynton Beach (1034 Gateway Blvd., Suites 106-108). The auction will offer fine antiques, decorative arts and estate jewelry.

“This will be a solid decorative arts sale with a lot to choose from,” said Scott Cieckiewicz of Elite Decorative Arts. “We thought we could contain it all in one day, but as more consignments poured in, it became evident a second day was necessary. And that’s great. Summer is typically a slow time for South Florida, but all this activity suggests strong demand and a healthy market.”

For those unable to attend in person, online bidding will be facilitated by Artfact.com, LiveAuctioneers. com and Auctionzip.com. Phone

An original handwritten letter by President Abraham Lincoln with a signed engraving and note.

and absentee bids will also be accepted. The auction will start at 1 p.m. both days. Previews will be held on Friday, Sept. 14, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday, Sept. 15, the first day of sale, from 11 a.m. until the first gavel comes down.

One of the expected top lots of the auction is an exquisite 18-karat white gold ring holding a round brilliant cut 3.95-carat natural blue diamond having 129 solare cut facets (estimated value, $60,000 to $80,000).

The blue diamond, boasting VS2 clarity, is flanked by Kite white diamonds and is surrounded by round cut diamonds. The stunning size 7 ring has a diamond weight of 5.7 dwt.

Civil War and presidential memorabilia enthusiasts will be intrigued by an Abraham Lincoln original handwritten letter with hand-signed engraving (estimated value, $8,000 to $12,000). The letter is dated Nov. 12, 1864, and is accompanied by a note also written during the war. The engraving, showing a profile of Lincoln, is 5 inches by 7 inches and signed by engraver Frederick Reynolds.

Artwork will include an artist proof bronze sculpture of a goat by Louise B. Nevelson. The sculpture, signed to the back of the rear feet and measuring 12.75 inches tall by 20 inches long, should bring $10,000 to $15,000. And a pencil on paper of a nude female by Fernando Botero, 22 inches by 15 and a half inches, is expected to hit $30,000 to $40,000.

A pair of watches carries identical pre-sale estimates of $6,000 to $8,000 each. One is a Bulgari 18-karat yel-

low gold and diamond Parentheses (or “Parentesi”) bangle watch with fancy-shaped links featuring a round dial set with single-cut diamonds.

The other is a man’s 18-karat yellow gold Rolex President Oyster perpetual day/date watch with gold hands and leather case.

Two decorative accessories also have the same pre-sale estimates ($3,000 to $5,000). The first is a footed, oval-shaped Tiffany & Company sterling silver entrée dish with a repoussé pomegranate design. The second is a beautiful pair of 18thcentury Sevres yellow porcelain lidded urns, 21 inches in height, each having a panoramic landscape scene with playing cherubs.

A Grant Wood oil-on-canvas painting and a Jacobus Stainer violin and bow with case each is expected to command $4,000 to $6,000.

The painting by Wood depicts a landscape scene with figures in Anamosa, Iowa, circa 1910. It is 12 inches by 15 inches. The violin, bow and original fitted wooden case are circa 1660, with a total weight of about 6 lbs.

Two watercolor renderings worth noting are a harbor scene, signed lower center by Ralston Crawford, measuring 13 inches by 19 inches and matted and framed (estimated value, $5,000 to $7,000); and a watercolor on card stock by Robert Havell Jr., depicting a London landscape, inscribed en verso, circa early 19th century (estimated value, $5,000 to $7,000).

Returning to estate jewelry, a gorgeous two-piece 18-karat yellow

An original oil painting by iconic American artist Grant Wood. gold necklace and bracelet suite, holding 75 round cut white diamonds and measuring 15 and a half inches in length, could climb to $7,000 to $10,000; and a dazzling Marlene Stowe 18-karat yellow gold and platinum diamond heart bangle with a wide design and having a yellow gold and satin finish, should hit $6,000 to $8,000.

Elite Decorative Arts’ next big sale after this one will be a fine artwork and decorative arts auction slated for Saturday, Oct. 13, also in the firm’s Boynton Beach showroom. Quality consignments are still being accepted for that auc-

tion and the one after that, too, scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 10.

It will be the biggest Chinese auction of the year for Elite Decorative Arts.

Elite Decorative Arts is always accepting quality consignments for future auctions. To consign an item, an estate or an entire collection, call (800) 991-3340 or e-mail info@eliteauction.com.All e-mails are promptly replied.

To learn more about Elite Decorative Arts and the upcoming calendar of events, to include an online catalog of the Sept. 15-16 auction, visit www.eliteauction.com.

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SPORTS & RECREATION

SRHS Football Eyes Return To State Playoffs This Season

By Lauren Miró Town-Crier Staff Report The Seminole Ridge High School varsity football team has its sights set on the state playoffs again this year.

The Hawks, who went 9-3 last season, saw their state championship hopes dashed in the second round of the playoffs when they narrowly lost to Palm Beach Gardens High School.

“It was a nail-biter,” head coach Matt Dickmann told the Town-Crier. “We lost on the goal line.”

This year, Dickmann hopes to see his team surpass that and move further toward a state championship title.

“We’d like to repeat as district champions, which is going to take some fighting effort,” he said. “We’d like to make it further than the second round. You always want to improve.”

Dickmann said the key to a good season will be keeping a healthy and hungry team.

“We’ve got to stay healthy,” he said. “That’s number one. And we’ve got to earn it. No one is going to give it to you.”

This year, the Hawks are without

star running back Gary Holmes, who ran 1,481 yards and 24 touchdowns for the team last season alone. Replacing him, Dickmann said, will be a team effort.

“It’s hard to fill Gary Holmes’ role,” he said. “I think we have some pretty good guys who will step in as a team. Our three new backs are Elie Turene, Silas Spearman and E.J. Elien. I think they’re all going to do a great job in the back field. You can count on all three of them to be solid, balanced players.”

The Hawks also graduated wide receiver Darian Williams and fullback Alex Santacroce.

“We had a good group of seniors that we lost,” Dickmann said.

“Those were guys who were really tight at the bag — guys you could count on.”

Additionally, the Hawks will be short a starting safety for their first several games, he said.

“We lost Mike Almonte as our starting safety last year,” he said.

“He broke his fingers and has to have surgery, so he’s probably going to be out for several games.”

Dickmann called the news “disappointing,” and said he expects him to have to sit out for the first five or

Jalen Young runs a passing drill. six games of the season.

“He’s worked so hard,” he said of Almonte. “You’re not going to find anybody that works harder than he does. It’s disappointing when you see that happen.”

But the Hawks have an experienced, reliable group of starters returning to the team, Dickmann said.

Many of them are three-year starters, including Kyle Shortridge, Omar

Zach DeCosta looks for an open teammate.

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Pierre-Louis, Rayfield Dixon and Jason Shepherd.

“All of these guys have been around for a while,” Dickmann said.

“We also have new players stepping up. That’s the key to staying healthy. If we can stay healthy, we’re better off.”

Dickmann said that the team will be strong both offensively and defensively.

“We have a veteran offensive line,” he said. “A lot of them had playing time last year. The defensive line is also intact, so a lot of good things can happen if we stay healthy. Everyone has to do their part.”

The Hawks will kick off the season Friday, Aug. 31 at Palm Beach Central High School for a 7 p.m. game.

Acreage Steelers Pop Warner Prepare For New Season

By Gene Nardi Town-Crier Staff Report The Acreage Steelers Pop Warner Football Club traveled to Jupiter Community Park on Saturday, Aug. 18 to play in a series of pre-season scrimmages.

Other Pop Warner clubs participated as well, including the host Jupiter Mustangs, the Palm Beach Gardens Gators and the Parkland Rangers.

The Acreage Steelers are in their third season with the 70-year-old

Pop Warner organization and have three full teams: the Tiny Mites, ages 5-7 and 45-75 pounds; the Junior Pee-wees, ages 8-10 and up to 105 pounds; and the Junior Midgets, ages 10-12 and up to 145 pounds.

The local program has grown since its inception, and Bill Pennypacker, the club’s president, expects the program to expand more next season.

Last Saturday, the Tiny Mites squared off against the Parkland Rangers and the Palm Beach Gardens Gators. The Junior Pee-wees

A Tiny Mite Steeler defender sacks a Jupiter quarterback for a loss.

faced the Jupiter Mustangs Gold and White teams. The Junior Midgets also played two different Jupiter squads. All of the teams played on each side of the ball for 15 minutes, offense and defense. Scores were not tallied during the contests. The purpose of the scrimmage was for the teams to prepare themselves for the first game of the season. Prior to the scrimmage, teams practiced daily. Once the regular season starts, teams will practice two to three times a week.

The teams practice at Samuel Friedland Park in The Acreage, and play their official games at Seminole Palms Park in Royal Palm Beach.

Negotiations are ongoing for an official field for the club within Acreage boundaries.

“Pop Warner has changed their rules this year to protect the players, making the game safer,” Pennypacker said.

Pop Warner has approximately 400,000 members nationwide and made the move to limit contact to no more than one-third of the practice.

It’s the first youth sports organization to put a limit on contact during practice.

“The organization is taking concussions seriously with the rule change and making parents aware,” Pennypacker said.

According to Pennypacker, safer equipment is also on the way for Pop

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Warner. The league also has a mandatory play rule, in which each player must see at least eight plays of action during a game, depending on roster size. With the improvements on safety and awareness, the club is confident they will field more teams in the future.

For additional information on Pop Warner football, visit www.pop warner.com.

For more information on theAcreage Steelers Club visit www.public teamzonesports.com/acreagepop warnerfootball. The regular season kicks off Saturday, Aug. 25.

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Seminole Ridge Cheerleaders Host Summer Camp Seminole Ridge High School cheerleaders recently hosted a Universal Cheerleaders Association camp, with seven area schools joining the Hawks in competition among their junior varsity and varsity teams.

“Our varsity and JV earned the coveted ‘Spirit Stick’ and received ‘Superior’ ribbons from the judges each day of camp,” coach Tammy Licavoli said.

The Seminole Ridge varsity team also took second place in the Extreme Routine competition, and the junior varsity team, named Most Improved at Camp, placed first in both the Cheer Routine and Extreme Routine competitions.

Seminole Ridge varsity seniors Taylor Carroll and Nicole Hopkins were chosen AllAmerican Cheerleaders, entitling them to participate either in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade or travel to England

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Larry Payne and Herman Parker

Mike O’Connor

Randy King

Bassmasters Fish On Lake Okeechobee Taylor Carroll and Nicole Hopkins for a New Year’s Day performance. Both were also invited to try out for the Universal Cheerleaders Association as staff instructors.

Three Seminole Ridge junior varsity sophomores — Beatriz Arteaga, Rebecca Birch and Kristina Costanza — were chosen All-American Cheerleaders as well.

Royal Palm Bassmasters held its monthly fishing tournament Sunday, July 15 out of the Belle Glade boat ramp on Lake Okeechobee.

First place was awarded to the team of Larry Payne (boater), with five fish weighing 12 lbs., 14 oz. and partner Herman Parker (coangler) with five fish weighing 9 lbs., 15 oz., for a team

weight of 22 lbs., 13 oz.

Second place was awarded to the team of Walt Zajkowski (boater), with five fish weighing 5 lbs., 11 oz. and partner Randy King (coangler), with three fish weighing 6 lbs., 8 oz. for a team weight of 12 lbs., 3oz.

Third place was awarded to the team of Mike O’Connor (boater), with

four fish weighing 6 lbs., 8 oz., and a dummy weight of 4 lbs., 0 oz. for a total weight of 10 lbs., 8 oz.

The Big Fish of the tournament was caught by Larry Payne: a bass weighing 5 lbs., 5 oz.

Royal Palm Bassmasters meets on the second Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Royal Palm Beach

Recreation Center (100 Sweet Bay Lane). The club is now accepting applications for new boaters and non-boater members. Come and check out the fun you’ve been missing.

For more information about Royal Palm Bassmasters, e-mail rpbassmasters @gmail.com or visit www. royalpalmbassmasters.org.

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SULLIVAN MANEY WINS AT PREP DOLPHINS HONORED BEACH VOLLEYBALL STATE AS ACREAGE SPOTLIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNEY TEAM OF THE WEEK

Sullivan Maney of The Acreage and Hannah Tannone of Atlantis won the Florida Beach Volleyball Tour 14-under State Championship Tournament in Fort Lauderdale on Aug. 12. The pair went undefeated in the 32-team tournament, besting Skylar Schoemig and Randi Fox of Wellington in the final. Maney and Tannone have played four tournaments together, placing first three times and third once. Maney and Bailey Babowicz of Wellington recently placed ninth in the USAV Jr. Volleyball National Championships in Milwaukee, Wisc. Shown above, Maney, Tannone, Babowicz and Schoemig all play for Matrix Volleyball Academy in Deerfield Beach.

The Acreage Athletic League, along with the Acreage Tackle Football League (ATFL) have announced the Prep Dolphins tackle team as the Spotlight Team of the Week. Coached by Ken McDonald, the Prep Dolphins won their Aug. 11 opening game 26-6. Along with McDonald, Robert Sorensen, Robert Cook, Tory Rinderknecht and Martin Medina assist in coaching these 7- to 9-year-old players. McDonald is very proud of the dedication and hard work the players put forth over the summer. The Prep Dolphin players are Derrick Belluche, Rober t Caulett, Daniel Chamberlain, Casey Codell-Emerson, Connor Cook, Jackson Harding, Brandon Hopwood, Kade McDonald, Koby McDonald, Jacob MacQueen, Daniel Medina, Joshua Pilone, Robert Sorensen, Tyler Rinderknecht, Brian Trowbridge, Malakai Williams and Kade McDonald. Not pictured: Jacon Yunck and Ayden Vergin.

Acreage Football Honors Players Of The Week The Acreage Tackle Football League (ATFL) and the Acreage Athletic League (AAL) have announced that the Players of the Week for the Week of Aug. 11 are as follows: Mikey Montalvo, Prep Buccaneers; Daniel Chamberlin, Prep Dolphins; Joey Gallo, Collegiate Dolphins; Richard Diamond, Collegiate Giants; Jeremiah Brown, Pro Buccaneers; Christopher Permenter, Pro Dolphins; Jessie Bailey, Pro Eagles; Jordan Jackson, Pro Giants; Cole Higgins, Pro Patriots; and Christopher Mulrean, Pro Redskins.

Trampoline Team Training In WPB The United States Trampoline and Tumbling national team will be training Friday, Aug. 31 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Gymnastics Revolution (6714 White Drive, West Palm Beach).

There will also be a clinic on Sunday, Sept. 2 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with national coaches and coaches from Cirque Du Soleil.

For info., call (561) 848-4577 or visit www.thegymnasticsrevolution. com.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR Saturday, Aug. 25 • The Loxahatchee Chapter of the Florida Trail Association will host an 8-mile hike at Apoxee Park in the West Palm Beach Water Catchment Area on Saturday, Aug. 25 at 8 a.m. Plenty of water is a must. Call (561) 616-8790 for more info.

• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will feature “Are You Ready for Some Football?” for adults Saturday, Aug. 25 at 10:30 a.m. Get ready for college and professional football. Discover recipes to serve at tailgate parties, bring your favorite recipe to share and get ideas on how to decorate for the season. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• A Benefit Golf Tournament will take place Saturday, Aug. 25 at the Binks Forest Golf Club (400 Binks Forest Drive, Wellington) for Paula Richards, who needs a liver transplant. The $80 per player entry fee includes player gifts, prizes, dinner and more. Tee time is 1 p.m. For more info., call Dave Olszewski at (772) 233-5862.

• Caribbean-Americans for Community Involvement (CAFCI) will present its annual Youth Talent Show on Saturday, Aug. 25 at 6 p.m. at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center (151 Civic Center Way, Royal Palm Beach).

This year’s show will feature “Stars of Tomorrow” from the community. For more info., call Marsha at (561) 386-3146, Shirley at (561) 719-6508, Nadine at (561)351-6895 or the CAFCI office at (561) 790-4002, or email cafci@pbcc.org.

Sunday, Aug. 26 • The Loxahatchee Chapter of the Florida Trail Association will host an easy walk in the shady pinelands of Frenchman’s Forest off Prosperity Farms Road on Sunday, Aug. 26 at 7:30 a.m. with breakfast afterward.

Call Alan Collins at (561) 586-0486 for more info.

• The Kids Cancer Center (12989 Southern Blvd., Building 3, Suite 201, Loxahatchee) will host an open house Sunday, Aug. 26 from 2 to 4 p.m. Tour the center and learn about new programs and services provided to local children and families battling childhood cancer. RSVP to Sandy Erb at (561) 801-3420 or e-mail ske@bellsouth.net. For more on the Kids Cancer Foundation, call (561) 333-8116 or visit www.kidscancersf. org.

Monday, Aug. 27 • The Acreage library (15801 Orange Blvd.) will host “Go Fish” for ages 8 to 12 on Monday, Aug. 27 at 4 p.m. Learn about Florida

fish, make a recycled craft, and play the library’s fishing game. Call (561) 681-4100 to pre-register.

• The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will feature “Legos” for age 8 and up Monday, Aug. 27 at 4 p.m. Builders create vehicles or buildings out of Lego pieces. Call (561) 790-6070 to pre-register.

Tuesday, Aug. 28 • The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host “Tween Game Night” for ages 8 to 12 on Tuesday, Aug. 28 at 2:30 p.m. and at 5 p.m. for ages 12-17. Play Nintendo Wii and board games. Call (561) 790-6070 to pre-register.

• The Acreage library (15801 Orange Blvd.) will host “Club Pokémon!” for ages 6 to 12 on Tuesday, Aug. 28 at 7 p.m. Bring your DS or Pokémon cards to battle, trade and make new friends. Call (561) 681-4100 to pre-register.

• The Wellington Village Council will meet Tuesday, Aug. 28 at 7 p.m. at the Wellington Municipal Complex (12300 W. Forest Hill Blvd.). For more info., call (561) 791-4000 or visit www.wellingtonfl.gov.

Wednesday, Aug. 29 • The Wellington Chamber of Commerce will host a luncheon reception with Palm Beach County Inspector General Sheryl Steckler on Wednesday, Aug. 29 at 11:30 a.m. at the Wanderers Club (1900 Aero Club Drive, Wellington). The cost is $20 for members, $30 for nonmembers and $200 for VIP tables. Sponsorship opportunities are available. For more info., call (561) 7926525.

• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will feature “Shared Stories: English as a Second Language” book discussion group for adults on Wednesday, Aug. 29 at 6:30 p.m. Share your love of reading as we discuss novels and short stories. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host “Hooked on Crochet” for adults Wednesday, Aug. 29 at 6:30 p.m.

Learn beginning techniques or bring current projects to share and work on. Pick up a materials list when you pre-regist er. Call (561) 790-6070 for more info.

• Whole Foods Market (2635 State Road 7, Wellington) will feature “Health Starts Here: Fall Into Desserts” on Wednesday, Aug. 29 at 6:30 p.m. Learn ways to cut out refined sugar and find healthier desserts. Preregister at the customer service desk for this See CALENDAR, page 35

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• Whole Foods Market (2635 State Road 7, Wellington) will host a Savvy Shopper Tour on Tuesday, Aug. 29 at 6:30 p.m. Learn how to shop the store’s private label, weekly specials and family-sized savings. Pre-register at the customer service desk for this free event or call (561) 904-4000 for more information.

Thursday, Aug. 30 • Whole Foods Market (2635 State Road 7, Wellington) will host “Gluten-Free Cooking” on Thursday, Aug. 30 at 6:30 p.m. Learn how to prepare a gluten-free meal that tastes great and is easy for anyone to prepare. Preregister at the customer service desk or call (561) 904-4000 for more info.

Friday, Aug. 31 • The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host a Go Club meeting for ages 8 to 17 on Friday, Aug. 31 at 4:30 p.m.

A local member of the American Go Foundation will teach you how to play this ancient Asian strategy game. Adults with young family members are welcome to play. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

Saturday, Sept. 1 • The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will recruit student volunteers in grades 6 to 12 for “Be a Reading Buddy” classes Saturday, Sept. 1 at 10 a.m. Earn volunteer service hours for school by reading and playing literacy games with a child in grades K to 5 on Wednesdays at 4:30 p.m.

Pick up an application. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• The Acreage library (15801 Orange Blvd.) will recruit “Be a Reading Buddy” volunteers in grades 6 to 12 on Saturday, Sept. 1 at 2 p.m. Earn volunteer service hours by helping a child in grades K to 5 with reading skills.

Pick up an application. Call (561) 681-4100 to pre-register.

Tuesday, Sept. 4 • The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will start “Fall Story Times” for children under 5 on Tuesday, Sept. 4 at 10:15 a.m. Pick up a flier for dates and times. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host “Poetry Recital Practice” for ages 7 to 11 on Tuesdays at 4:30 p.m. Memorize a favorite poem or one you’ve written and create simple props and costume pieces for performance. You must be able to attend the poetry recital on Oct. 9 at

6:30 p.m. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• The Acreage library (15801 Orange Blvd.) will present “The Science Behind Dinosaurs” for ages 6 to 8 on Tuesday, Sept. 4 at 7 p.m.

Learn basic facts about how paleontologists study dinosaurs and make a few hands-on discoveries of your own. Call (561) 681-4100 to pre-register.

Wednesday, Sept. 5 • The Acreage library (15801 Orange Blvd.) will present “Could You Be a Cahill?” for ages 8 to 12 on Wednesdays at 4 p.m. Test your mettle to find out if you could protect the secrets of the 39 Clues. Call (561) 681-4100 to pre-register.

• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will hoar “Reading Buddies” for grades K to 5 on Wednesdays, Sept. 5 through Oct. 24 at 4:30 p.m. If you need practice reading, work once a week with a teen to read together and play literacy games. Pick up an application. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

Thursday, Sept. 6 • The Palm Beach County Commission will hold a public hearing on the budget Thursday, Sept. 6 at 6 p.m. in the government center’s Jane M. Thompson Memorial Chambers (301 N. Olive Ave., Sixth Floor, West Palm Beach). For more info., visit www. pbcgov.com.

• The Acreage library (15801 Orange Blvd.) will present “Anime Origins” for ages 12 to 17 on Thursdays, Sept. 6, 13 and 20 at 6:30 p.m. Check out the latest cartoons and fashions from Japan and make your own Japanese-style snack. Call (561) 681-4100 to pre-register.

• The Wellington library (1 951 Royal Fern Drive) will host a Writers Critique Workshop for adults Thursday, Sept. 6 at 6:30 p.m. Share, offer and accept constructive criticism and comments to improve your fiction, nonfiction and poetry in a supportive atmosphere. Call (561) 790-6070 to pre-register.

Friday, Sept. 7 • The Wellington Amphitheater (12100 Forest Hill Blvd.) will feature a free screening of the movie World Trade Center on Friday, Sept. 7 at 7:30 p.m. Bring your own seating.

Call (561) 753-2484 or visit www.wellington fl.gov for more info.

Send calendar items to: The Town-Crier, 12794 W. Forest Hill Blvd., Suite 31, Wellington, FL 33414. FAX: (561) 793-6090. Email: news@gotowncrier.com.

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