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Wellington Council Adopts Preliminary Tax Rate Of 2.44 Mills

Volume 37, Number 29 July 15 - July 21, 2016

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NRI INSTITUTE HOLDS GRADUATION

The Wellington Village Council adopted preliminary budget resolutions approving a Truth in Millage (TRIM) rate of 2.44 mills on Tuesday for its 201617 budget, 0.01 mill lower than the 2.45 mills that funds the current budget. The preliminary budget comes in at $89.6 million, an increase of $4.2 million or 4.9 percent. Page 3

Wellington’s Art Cellar Holds Weeklong Camp For Young Painters

Art Cellar in Wellington held a weeklong art camp for 14 kids last week. Painting lessons all week long included stepby-step paint technique, color theory, brush strokes and more.

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First Sem Ridge Graduating Class Planning Reunion

For Seminole Ridge High School’s first graduating class, it has been nearly a decade since they roamed the school’s halls. Now, a group of former student government members are heading up plans for a reunion. Page 7

Lion Country Campers Learn About Rhinos

Campers at Lion Country Safari’s summer camp have a roaring good time as they learn about the different animals at the safari. Each week of the camp, activities focus on different themes. On Friday, July 8, the youngest campers had the opportunity to learn about rhinos. Page 13

OPINION

Inability Of Congress To Fund Zika Fight Is ‘Simply Inexcusable’

We expect gridlock nowadays in highly partisan issues with deep divisions. However, now it seems that even areas where there is broad, bipartisan agreement escapes the abilities of Congress. Such is the case with the crucial extra funding to fight the burgeoning Zika virus crisis, both here and abroad. We must agree with U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio’s assertion this week that the inability of Congress to act is “simply inexcusable.” Page 4 DEPARTMENT INDEX NEWS................................. 3 - 9 OPINION.................................. 4 NEWS BRIEFS......................... 6 PEOPLE................................. 10 SCHOOLS.............................. 11 COLUMNS...................... 12, 19 BUSINESS..................... 20 - 21 SPORTS..........................25 - 27 CALENDAR............................ 28 CLASSIFIEDS................ 30 - 33 Visit Us On The Web At WWW.GOTOWNCRIER.COM

The NRI Institute of Health Sciences in Royal Palm Beach held a graduation ceremony on Monday, July 11 at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center. At the ceremony, 21 students graduated with nursing degrees, practical nursing diplomas and occupational degrees in diagnostic medical sonography. Shown above are Marlene Sajous, Anthony Ferri, Wilford Bureau, Katherine DeNave and Kaitlynn Reed. MORE PHOTOS, PAGE 9 PHOTO BY DENISE FLEISCHMAN/TOWN-CRIER

Three Candidates Vying To Replace Rep. Pat Rooney

By Julie Unger Town-Crier Staff Report Two Republicans are vying for the Florida House of Representatives District 85 seat in next month’s primary election.

Rick Roth and Andrew Watt are seeking the Republican nomination to succeed State Rep. Pat Rooney, who chose not to seek re-election. The winner of the Aug. 30 primary will face Democratic candidate Robert Simeone in November.

The northern Palm Beach County district includes most of The Acreage. District 85 trends Republican.

Rick Roth — A Palm Beach County native, Roth grew up in the Glades and is a vegetable and sugar cane farmer. He’s the owner of Roth Farms in Belle Glade.

“I’m seeking political office for the first time in my life,” he said. “I’m running because, as a business owner for 30 years and a farmer for 40 years, I’m a little bit frustrated about what’s going on in this country, and I’m concerned about our communities.”

Education, Roth believes, is the most important issue.

“I think we’re failing our kids

today. Too many kids are graduating from high school or college and not able to get a job,” he said.

“I think we have to improve the economy, but we also have to improve the education system in the State of Florida.”

Roth said Florida is a great place to live with a unique environment, and it needs to be taken care of.

Roth wants to improve the economic environment so more people can get jobs and more revenue can be produced through economic development.

“We can use those tax dollars to improve education and improve our environment, protect our resources,” he said. “I think it all fits together very well. We need to grow the pie of economic development. We don’t need to raise taxes per person, we need to increase the size of the pie.”

Roth said his experience as a businessman and business owner, having employed thousands of people and making thousands of decisions, makes him the best candidate.

“If I make a bad decision, it costs me money, so I learn very quickly from my mistakes. I’m not opposed to doing things different-

ly; I like trying different things,” he said. “Technology, information, science — everything is changing fairly rapidly. There are a lot better solutions on how to do things than there were 20 years ago, and we need people who know how to employ those solutions to get things done. That’s why I’m running. We’re not really dealing with the major issues of society today.”

Roth has lived in Wellington, and been married, for 38 years.

“I think I have the bumps and the bruises to prove that I’ve been through a lot of experiences,” he said. “I think 38 years of marriage is a testimony to the fact that I’ve been able to learn from my mistakes and make things better.”

For more information, visit www.rickroth.org.

Andrew Watt — Watt has spent the past six years working as Rooney’s legislative aide. He attended Cardinal Newman High School and Palm Beach Community College before earning his bachelor’s degree from Florida Atlantic University.

After about six years at a software company, Watt decided to get involved in politics and local See DISTRICT 85, page 14

RPB Keeps Tax Rate Steady In Budget With Added Staff

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report The Royal Palm Beach Village Council met last week for a workshop on its 2016-17 budget, which has the property tax rate remaining the same at 1.92 mills, but with increased staff and salaries, thanks to improving property values and the use of money from reserves.

“We’re adding more people,” Village Manager Ray Liggins said at the July 7 workshop. “We haven’t added more people in quite a while. This proposed budget adds two public works employees to maintain irrigation and private pump stations within the public rights of way and public properties. Currently, public works is doing that. With the amount of parks and rec that we’ve added, specifically Commons Park, they just haven’t had the time to give the rights of way the attention that they need.”

The budget also adds one fulltime equivalent employee in parks and recreation, and another in information services. Liggins noted that all the departments are increasingly dependent on information services to do their jobs.

Two positions at the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office District 9 substation approved in this year’s budget will show up for the first time in the 2016-17 budget.

A part-time contracted project manager was also converted to a full-time position.

“There are some significant changes to the budget that we haven’t had for quite some time in the general fund,” Liggins said, adding that no other significant staff increases are anticipated for several years. “We haven’t had any increases like this since prior to 2008.”

Liggins’ budget message noted that policy has been changed so that transfers in and out of the general fund will no longer be used as sources of revenue or expenditures. The fund will be required to sustain itself and will use reserves as necessary. A rate stabilization fund of $5.5 million will become part of the total reserves and will be maintained in the capital improvement fund.

The budget incorporates several policies outlined in the new strategic plan for the 2016-17 fiscal year.

Finance Director Stan Hochman said that the total proposed budget for 2017 is $38,160,175. The general operating budget comprises 60 percent of that, capital projects 35 percent, reserves 3 percent and the stormwater utility 2 percent.

Hochman added that property values are up again, projected at 9.8 percent, from $2.282 billion last year to $2.507 billion now, which went a long way in allowing the addition of four full-time employee positions and the incorporation of strategic plan initiatives.

General operating revenues See RPB BUDGET, page 4

A NOTE TO OUR READERS

As we prepare for the busy fall and winter season, the TownCrier will be taking our mid-summer hiatus the final week in July and first week in August. After the issue of Friday, July 22, the Town-Crier will not publish on Friday, July 29 or Friday, Aug. 5. We will resume our normal weekly publishing schedule on Friday, Aug. 12. Our office will continue operating during this time period, and news updates will be available online. This brief hiatus will not affect the schedule of the Town-Crier’s sister publication, Wellington The Magazine.

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Schiola To Chair LGWCD Board

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report The Loxahatchee Groves Water Control District Board of Supervisors chose Supervisor Frank Schiola as its new chair Monday after Supervisor Don Widing and Supervisor Laura Danowski declined nomination.

Danowski was picked as vice chair, while newly elected Supervisor Anita Kane was tapped as secretary-treasurer. Widing will remain deputy secretary-treasurer.

“We have a lot of good energy here,” Widing said. “I’m looking forward to working with the new people.”

The board also approved a Truth in Millage (TRIM) rate for its $1.5 million 2016-17 budget, without the $10.90-per-acre in-

crease to cover an anticipated $85,000 reimbursement from the Town of Loxahatchee Groves for road maintenance that has been included in the proposed town budget but not yet approved by the Loxahatchee Groves Town Council.

Property owners on unpaved roads now pay $150 per acre, and $107 to $113 per acre in areas with OGEM paving.

LGWCD Administrator Steve Yohe said the board needs to present its TRIM notice to Palm Beach County by July 22, and the council does not meet again until July 19.

“The board is confronted with a couple of issues,” Yohe said. “One, is the board going to receive the $85,000 that they have received previously from the town for a por-

tion of the county gas tax money?

This would be the seventh amendment to the interlocal agreement with the town if they did agree to that.”

Yohe said the board could approve a TRIM rate with the additional $10.90-per-acre increase, and then lower it to the original rate after the town approves the $85,000. He added that an alternative would be to approve the budget without the $10.90 increase and reallocate money from the district’s unassigned funds account.

Yohe said the district provides the lowest-cost maintenance of unpaved roads, although the town has contracted with Bergeron Land Development to maintain its roads.

LGWCD Attorney Mary Viator See LGWCD, page 14

Wellington Regional Medical Center held an open house for its newly renovated and expanded post-partum unit on Monday, July 11. Mothers-to-be and their families explored the many family-centered rooms and suites in the unit and met with nurses and hospital staff. Shown above, John and Courtney Martin are expecting a baby boy. MORE PHOTOS, PAGE 5 PHOTO BY JULIE UNGER/TOWN-CRIER

Wellington Gets To Work On Revised Land Use Code

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report Wellington is planning to scrap its entire land development code and adopt a completely revised version. On Wednesday, Wellington’s Planning, Zoning & Adjustment Board was given an assignment to help village staff with the task.

Planning & Zoning Manager David Flinchum explained that when Wellington incorporated, it adopted Palm Beach County’s set of land development codes, some of which did not apply or were inappropriate for the new municipality. Many of the uses and regulations are now obsolete.

As background, Flinchum said that he and Growth Management

Director Robert Basehart have worked together in various capacities, starting in 1980 when Basehart hired him at his first job with the county’s planning division.

“He and I worked together for many years, and then we both went to the private sector, then I went back to the county, and then he and I ended up here in Wellington,” Flinchum said. “We’ll probably finish up our careers out here.”

That provides them both with a unique perspective.

“The reason that that’s both important and ironic is that both Bob and I are familiar with the original Wellington code, the evolvement from the Palm Beach County code that became the template of the Wellington code,

the various text amendments over the years, and some of the tailoring that was done here in Wellington,” Flinchum said.

He noted that the village is now 95 percent built out and that large portions of the code are now antiquated, with land uses that will never be used.

“We have use types that will never be out here,” he said. “We’re at the point now where we need to face the fact that most of the codes are for vacant new proposals.

We’re getting ready to go into a knock-down, rebuild, redevelopment mode pretty quickly, and we want to have regulations in effect that encourage those type of investments here in Wellington.”

Flinchum said that he has been

tasked with revising the code, and he plans a dramatic overhaul.

“The code now is about 800 pages, and we’re going to cut that in about half,” he said. “The way we can do that is to remove a lot of the uses, remove a lot of the regulations, and focus on what we really need to work with from now on.”

Flinchum said most codes are set up like a matrix, with use types along the left side and zoning categories across the top.

“Within that grid system, you have rows and columns,” he said.

“Where they meet, typically, is the procedural requirement for that use type to get a review and approval.”

Flinchum handed out a list of

residential and commercial use types to board members for them to assign whether they felt the procedure should be permitted, go through the Development Review Committee, be a conditional use or require a special permit.

“It gives me some good feedback, your perspective of uses here in Wellington,” he said. “You’ve got to realize that a lot of the approvals were in place when you came out here, so you may assume that a movie theater is there by rights in a lot of shopping centers.

You may assume that medical offices and veterinarians are allowed by rights, and a daycare is allowed by rights. Very often, some of these activities have been here for See CODES, page 4

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Your Views - Letters To Editor of The Palm Beach Post Re-Print From The Palm Beach Post, July 8, 2016

UNCHECKED GROWTH IS HURTING COUNTY Palm Beach County is becoming a destination for thousands of new residents every year. We need to wake up and acknowledge this. We cannot allow more massive homebuilding and imagine that our paradise won’t die — it’s already suffering.

Years ago, thoughtful Florida legislators created the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA), which had a formula to control overdevelopment. We voters, however, have been regrettably unconcerned about who we elect as our county commissioner. Our current batch of county commissioners, with the notable exception of Commissioner Paulette Burdick, have continuously approved mas-

sive housing developments, disregarding the regulations of our EAA. “When votes on development projects come up at the County Commission, they are usually settled by a 6-1vote. Commissioner Paulette Burdick is almost always the lone dissenter on such votes,” according to The Post (“Proposed change would allow 8 times as many homes west of Acreage,” April 11).

They have recently approved multiple “town-building projects” that will further snarl our traffic, reduce natural drainage, while increasing flooding and saltwater intrusion. Exceptions to the EAA laws lead to more exceptions to the EAA Laws.

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NEWS

Wellington Council Adopts Preliminary Tax Rate Of 2.44 Mills

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report The Wellington Village Council adopted preliminary budget resolutions approving a Truth in Millage (TRIM) rate of 2.44 mills on Tuesday for its 2016-17 budget, 0.01 mill lower than the 2.45 mills that funds the current budget.

The preliminary budget comes in at $89.6 million, an increase of $4.2 million or 4.9 percent. Governmental funds are $52 million, up $2.5 million or 5.1 percent, due primarily to the new Wellington Community Center and the hiring of new maintenance staff, as well as expanded hours for a five-day workweek and a 2 percent increase in the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office contract with two additional deputies.

Neighborhood parks are also being moved from Acme Improvement District into the general fund.

“We have discussed over the past few years that one of the steps with Acme is to either change the assessment rate, change the level of service or move things back to the general fund,” Director of Ad-

ministrative & Financial Services Tanya Quickel said.

Neighborhood parks were funded through the general fund until they were moved to the Acme budget several years ago.

The enterprise budget, which includes the water and wastewater utilities, solid waste disposal, the Lake Wellington Professional Centre and utility debt service, is $16.7 million, up $2.2 million or 15.6 percent.

“The main increase there is in the water and wastewater fund, and that is primarily due to increases in maintenance and infrastructure, new positions and replacement of the Peaceful Waters boardwalk,” Quickel said.

Governmental capital projects are budgeted at $5.4 million, down $406,000 or 6.9 percent. Enterprise capital projects are $4.6 million, up $799,000 or 20.7 percent.

Transfers are $10.7 million, down $969,000 or 8.3 percent.

Debt service is $1.3 million, up $184.000 or 16.3 percent due to the Saddle Trail Park paving bond payments, which is a pass-through

account because the residents are paying for the project, Quickel noted.

She added that the budget focuses on strategic fundamentals, including creating and encouraging safe neighborhoods, revitalization and redevelopment, economic development, protecting the village’s investments, responsive government and respecting the environment.

Quickel said that the proposed rates are all the same or slightly lower and that, even with the ad valorem tax rate decrease, property taxes still will bring in $1.2 million more because of property value increases. Property tax revenue is projected at $17.37 million.

The Acme assessment will stay the same at $230, and the solid waste charge reflects a $5 decrease for curbside collection, from $140 to $135, and for containerized collection, from $105 to $100.

Water and wastewater utility rates are also unchanged at $18.22 for the base rate for potable water and $17.38 for the base rate for wastewater.

A tax roll analysis shows that 73 percent of Wellington properties are single-family residences; 16 percent are multifamily; 7 percent commercial, vacant or other; and 4 percent equestrian.

Changes in the budget include decreases in information technology, administration and financial.

It shows increases in risk management due to higher insurance, solid waste, the building department, planning and zoning, engineering, community services, the professional center due to a scheduled roof replacement, capital projects including water and wastewater projects and additional staffing, parks and recreation with additional programs for the new community center, public safety, and Acme for added staff positions, the road overlay program and vehicle replacement.

Staffing is proposed to go from 302 full-time positions to 315, with added positions in building maintenance, extended operating hours and anticipated increased programming in the new community center. The budget includes

90,180 part-time hours. Raises are proposed at 4 percent. There is also a 5 percent increase to cover medical insurance increases.

The capital plan envisions $5.4 million in governmental projects, including the Acme renewal and replacement program, communications and technology, municipal building maintenance that includes improvements to the Greenbriar complex, neighborhood parks and trail improvements, public works improvements with a new storage facility and the filling of a retention pond.

Surface water management improvements budgeted at $800,000 include the replacement of two variable-frequency drive pumps and trash rakes at Pump Station 5.

“We have applied for a grant that is in process,” Quickel said.

Turn lanes, road raising and traffic engineering are budgeted at $1 million for Big Blue Trace and Barberry Drive, Big Blue and Wiltshire Village Drive, and an extended turn lane at Pierson Road and South Shore Blvd.

Water and wastewater projects

are budgeted at $4.6 million, with the biggest portion going toward the continuing water distribution improvements replacing 40-yearold pipes in several different areas.

Quickel noted that Wellington’s budget makes up 10.41 percent of a Wellington homesteaded property owner’s tax bill. The school district makes up the largest chunk at 34.7 percent. Palm Beach County is next at 23.57 percent, followed by Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue at 14.75 percent, the Health Care District at 4.52 percent, the Children’s Services Council at 2.85 percent and the South Florida Water Management District at 1.52 percent. Non-ad valorem assessments include the Solid Waste Authority at 2.4 percent, Wellington solid waste collection at 1.91 percent and the Acme Improvement District at 3.25 percent.

The village is still seeking community input into the budget.

Wellington’s Budget Challenge will be available online through mid-August at www.wellingtonfl. gov/survey.

Royal Palm Beach Plans To Add More Shelters At Bus Stops

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report At last week’s Royal Palm Beach Village Councila meeting, Utilities Director Paul Webster reported on plans for additional bus shelters on village routes, which led to conversation on interconnectivity and faster connections for the Palm Tran bus system.

New bus shelters, which are a part of the village’s strategic plan, are paid for in part by developers.

At the July 7 meeting, Webster said that there are currently 28 bus stops identified by Palm Tran in Royal Palm Beach. They come in three different configurations: a bench, a bench with a shelter and a stop with no amenities.

In the village, there are six stops with benches, 10 stops with a bench and a shelter, and 12 stops with no amenities. Bus shelter expenditures since 1996 funded from development fees have amounted to about $133,000.

All the shelters are currently 4 feet by 12 feet. None of the larger 7-foot by 16-foot designs are in use in Royal Palm Beach, but there are plans to construct one, Webster said.

Palm Tran routes can be found on the bus system’s web site at www.pbcgov.com/palmtran.

Route 52 serves Royal Palm Beach in a loop through Southern Blvd., Royal Palm Beach Blvd., Okeechobee Blvd. and State Road 7, down to the Mall at Wellington Green, and has several stops that interconnect with other routes to West Palm Beach, Lake Worth and Belle Glade.

That route runs continuously all day, six days a week, Monday through Friday from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., and Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

The majority of stops with benches only are along Royal Palm Beach Blvd., while most of the shelters are along SR 7, Webster said. There are shelters at the south and north ends of Royal Palm Beach Blvd., one in front of the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office substation and at Partridge Lane on Okeechobee Blvd.

Webster said information was requested on the use of the stops, which has led to recommendations for additional shelter locations.

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with more than 200 boardings per month. They identified four locations where shelters are recommended.

The first site discussed is on State Road 80 (Southern Blvd.) westbound, west of Crestwood Blvd., which is separated from the sidewalk by a deep swale.

“We are not proposing a shelter at this location,” Webster said.

“The topography and location is not suitable for installing a shelter at this location. We can take a look at it and see, but it may cost more.”

Village Manager Ray Liggins said the location on a swale would require more construction costs than the other locations, explaining that a similar shelter had been built on an SR 7 swale, requiring more construction costs and more permits.

Liggins added that the SR 80 right of way is an area planned for eventual widening.

“We can make sure that they have a stop with a pad and everything part of that construction so that we can come back at a later date and put the shelter up,” he said.

Vice Mayor Jeff Hmara and

Councilwoman Selena Smith both said they would favor looking into building a path from the sidewalk to the bus stop to make it more accessible.

“We have many sidewalks around here that have culverts providing the flow through swale areas,” Hmara said. “Anything over 200 [boardings] is a reasonable rule of thumb to suggest that we ought to do what we can do to make it convenient, comfortable and accessible.”

Hmara, the village’s representative on the Palm Beach Metropolitan Planning Organization board, said that group spends much of its time planning for alternative modes of transportation.

“Everybody needs to pitch in wherever they can, and one of the places to pitch in is to make it as comfortable as possible in the heat of the day and during rainfall to wait for a bus, especially those areas that are high-traffic and highridership,” he said.

Liggins said he would work with the Florida Department of Transportation to try, at a minimum, to get a pad for a bus stop that’s ADA-compatible. He ex-

pected that FDOT would be receptive to that idea. “It might already be in the plan,” he said. “We just don’t know that at this time.”

Mayor Fred Pinto asked about the possibility of relocating several bus stops to more accessible locations, as well as eliminating some redundant stops, and Webster said Palm Tran has not been cooperative on that front.

Hmara also mentioned improving bus routes, which he said he could bring up at MPO meetings.

“I understand that discussion is a challenging one to have,” he said. “As we keep pushing on this multi-modal ideal of encouraging people to get out of their cars and use other modes of transportation, I don’t mind continuing to bring up the, ‘You’ve got to work with us here on routes and shelters to make it work.’ I may get ignored as everybody else has along the way.”

Webster said a big factor in where Palm Tran locates a stop is driven by public input.

“The public asks for a stop at a particular location, and if they have people who use it, even though it may not be a threshold or

have a shelter at it, they’ll maintain the stop,” he said.

Webster said the village has three shelters in stock that it plans to install, including an existing stop with a slab on the east side of SR 7 near the McDonald’s restaurant, the Walmart stop on the south side of Belvedere Road just east of SR 7 and another near Bennett Auto Supply in the Walmart shopping plaza.

He said the stop at Veterans Park has more than 200 boardings a month and no shelter, but is a timed stop where the driver stops and waits to get on schedule. It has no shelter because people can wait at pavilions in the park.

The stop at Royal Palm Beach Commons Park does not have a shelter, but also does not have more than 200 regular boardings per month. However, village staff is proposing one of the large shelters there because of its location at the park.

Webster said the developer fee for bus shelters is currently $5,000, and staff recommended that the fee be stopped and future shelters be funded under the village’s new See BUS STOPS, page 14

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OUR OPINION

The Inability Of Congress To Fund Zika Fight Is ‘Inexcusable’

In the movie The American President, Michael Douglas as President Andrew Shepherd delivers a speech about the responsibilities of being in high elected office. “We’ve got serious problems, and we need serious people,” he emphatically proclaims.

We expect gridlock nowadays in highly partisan issues with deep divisions. However, now it seems that even areas where there is broad, bipartisan agreement escapes the abilities of Congress. Such is the case with the crucial extra funding to fight the burgeoning Zika virus crisis, both here and abroad.

Public health officials have been begging for the funding for months now to prepare for, study and fight Zika, which is spreading rapidly across Latin America and the Caribbean — and now making inroads here in Florida and elsewhere on the U.S. mainland.

We must agree with U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio’s assertion this week that the inability of Congress to act in the face of this clear and present danger is “simply inexcusable.”

How much to fund Zika fighting efforts and with what restrictions have been under discussion since February, when President Barack Obama requested $1.9 billion to combat the growing scourge. Sadly, it now appears that Congress will go on hiatus for the rest of the summer without addressing a number of serious problems facing our nation, including the invasive Zika virus. The failure of Congress to approve any money to help fight Zika is simply a dereliction of duty when a major health threat is staring us right in the collective face.

Public health officials have been begging for help so that the nation can fight Zika, which is spread mostly by the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito. These mosquitoes are aggressive daytime biters, but can also bite at night.

The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) has reported that more than

1,100 travelers have shown up infected in the continental U.S., including close to 400 pregnant women. There is currently no vaccine or medicine for Zika, which can be passed from a pregnant woman to her fetus. Infection during pregnancy has been linked to certain birth defects. The most obvious and horrifying birth defect known to be caused by a Zika infection is microcephaly, where the child’s head is smaller than normal because the brain itself is badly damaged.

Adding to the concern is the upcoming Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. While the CDC recently claimed tourists traveling between the U.S. and Brazil should not accelerate the spread of the Zika virus around the world, this is not an entirely reassuring position. A number of world-class athletes, including gymnast Carly Patterson, golfers Jason Day and Dustin Johnson, and cyclist Tejay van Garderen, have expressed concern about competing in the Olympic Games due to health issues, which includes both the Zika virus and questionable water quality for swimming and boating events.

Given that these athletes are in far better condition and health than the vast majority of Americans — and thus theoretically better able to fend off infections of any sort — their refusal to subject themselves to the risks of contracting the virus should be a warning to everyone, especially our elected officials, that this is a concern of utmost importance.

Instead, Congress will shut down for two months, leaving the entire Zika situation hanging. President Harry Truman once proclaimed, “The buck stops here.” Sadly, our current commander-in-chief can’t even take action in this case because the much-needed funding legislation to make this happen hasn’t gotten to his desk.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR This Is What Happens When Governments Ignore Their Jobs

For a number of years, we have experienced drought, causing water shortages and numerous wildfires. Remember the Wellington blitz on water violators?

Today, we are visited by a surfeit of water on Lake Okeechobee, and the drain-offs/water releases that have caused numerous serious algae blooms affecting fish, wildlife, water quality, and recreational swimming, boating and fishing.

The governor and the state legislature are quick to blame the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; either they hold to much water or not enough. One causes potential dam failure, which would be catastrophic, the other our new friend, the algae bloom.

Now our elected state officials don’t want to talk about the warnings they were given. They don’t want to address the monies taken from environmental groups and budgets from organizations that try to address these issues They are content to do nothing, and then yell for federal assistance and national disaster status for a problem they ignored and is their responsibility.

We know the causation: fertilizers from farms, waste from ranches and septic tanks — all state responsibility. Only now is the daily press starting to address state responsibility.

But these are the major contributors of their campaigns (big agriculture, ranching, etc...). Is it any wonder they do nothing?

Now, here in Wellington, we have our own potential water crisis, and taking a lesson from state officials, our council, like the proverbial ostrich head in sand, does nothing about the reclamation of our canal banks to avoid tragedy down the road.

Oh, reclamation means simply to take back the canal bank right

of way/easement from those who bought houses that the canal banks were planted already, and or those who chose to plant where they were not allowed. It is the same as if they planted on a neighbor’s property or a neighbor planted on theirs.

The canal banks must be cleared to: 1. Allow maintenance vehicles access.

2. To prevent tree and vegetation matter growing on the easement from falling into a canal blocking water flow in a storm.

3. To prevent backed up water from entering pools or houses.

4. For health purposes, and I would think, to avert liability of the village in the event they choose to continue malfeasance in this area.

They know the reality. They stopped the reclamation immediately before an election for political purposes!

With three attorneys now on the dais, I would hope that one would speak up to this circumstance. It certainly is ignoring their oath to protect, and it certainly is a no brainer.

It is always those who violate codes and laws who are the most vocal, whether it be those who planted in a right of way/easement or those who get a ticket for driving violations. Does anyone admit they were wrong?

What happened to our council representing those who might be afflicted by serious property damage because others encroached where they are forbidden to develop/plant?

It is a lot harder to make unpopular decisions, but that is what distinguishes mediocrity from greatness in leaders.

George Unger Wellington

How To Stop Future Algae Blooms

Regarding the cyanobacterial

“blue-green algal” blooms in South Florida, microcystis aeruginosa likes warm water and needs an abundance of nutrients, nitrogen, but especially phosphorus. As it grows in the nutrient-rich waters of Lake Okeechobee, it then gets carried to the coasts through canals. Along the way, it gains more nutrients from agricultural runoff, septic tank leakage and other sources, such as equestrian waste, that I have studied for over a decade.

Recently, my friend and colleague Dr. Brian Lapointe of Harbor Branch Oceanographic was misquoted in the Palm Beach Post when they said that he said, “It’s not the lake.” I have spoken with him, and it should have said, “It’s not just the lake.”

Dr. Lapointe and I currently have a grant proposal in with NOAA for more than six months now to study nutrients and their sources in the C-51 basin. Hopefully, we can get funded to increase our efforts. I sampled the C-51 on Saturday, June 25 and have pictures of this blue-green algae moving east to the Lake Worth Lagoon.

All sources of nutrients must be greatly decreased to stop future catastrophes: 1. Buy more land adjacent to the Kissimmee River to let the flood plains become the riparian marshes that they were historically. This slows water input to the lake and removes nutrients.

2. Buy the sugar lands south of the lake as we, the people, voted on and create larger Stormwater Treatment Areas (aka, nutrient removal cells or filtering marshes).

3. Have animal manure, notably equestrian, recycled rather than spread in mega-ton quantities on sugar lands immediately adjacent to the L-8 Canal. Horse manure leaches enormous amounts of phosphorus with just water extraction, and the peat soils and karstic bedrocks are extremely porous.

4. Have booms/meshes placed

on the canals draining the bloom-laden water from Lake Okeechobee. This would be akin to collecting the oil off the surface of the Gulf of Mexico following the Deep Sea Horizon oil spill.

5. Get all communities with septic tank disposal systems immediately adjacent to canals, lakes and lagoons shifted to centralized collection/treatment systems.

6. Statewide, do what the Village of Wellington has enacted as a Best Management Practice (BMP) to outlaw any fertilizer use with a middle number (phosphorus in the N:P:K system) higher than 0 or 2 without a certified soil analysis proving that the soil actually needs more phosphorus.

7. The state should get much tougher on agriculture. Yes, we all need to eat, but one crop product should become much cheaper now that relations with Cuba are again open. We should not kill all of this state’s water systems for the benefit of a few.

I will be glad to discuss any or all of this with anyone.

Dr. Bill Louda Loxahatchee Groves Editor’s note: Dr. Louda is a research professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida Atlantic University.

Guns Are Not The Problem

I am responding to our resident socialist/progressive Richard Nielsen’s recent letter (Guns: Where Will It End?, July 1). We know a large number of the Democratic Party is socialist. Thank you, Bernie Sanders.

So Mr. Nielsen writes that the NRA and the Republican Congress and Senate are responsible for Omar Mateen, never mind he’s a Jihad terrorist. Disregard that Obama let eight high-profile terrorists out of Gitmo, and that he’s letting in large numbers of illegals and refugees from terrorist regions of the Middle East. Oh no,

Mr. Nielsen, that means nothing.

He says the FBI was investigating Mateen, but for some reason took him off their lists. And when the gun store owner called and told them he was trying to buy an automatic rifle, they never responded back. Great job, FBI! Some of the facts you left out while praising the FBI. You said we need more gun laws. Really? What about the laws forbidding cocaine and heroin, neither of which are grown here. You can’t buy any of that in the U.S., can we, Mr. Nielsen? No, there’s too many laws against it. And what about all the laws to prevent us from buying prescription drugs.

Can’t get oxycodone, Vicodin and hydrocodone, can we, Mr. Nielsen? Not without a prescription, there’s laws against that.

You gave us statistics on murders each year, and how many with guns (98 percent illegally purchased, I might add), and most of them in cities with the strictest gun laws (i.e., Chicago). And as long as we’re talking about how great those laws have worked, did you know that 47,000 people died of a drug overdose last year?

According to statistics, that’s an all-time high — and that’s with a narcotics unit in every local police department, plus the DEA. I don’t understand it, Mr. Nielsen, there’s so many laws against it. Of course, you leftists are trying to legalize it.

So tell me, Mr. Nielsen, I believe there are laws against murder, rape, assault, etc., so naturally, it doesn’t happen. If we could just make a law against automatic weapons, the bad guys could never get them. Right, Mr. Nielsen?

But… maybe if a few of those people in the Pulse nightclub were carrying legal guns, Mateen would have been shot dead instead of walking around from room to room executing defenseless victims.

Did you ever notice, Mr. Nielsen, these psychos always target gun-free zones. Thank God you socialists haven’t disarmed the police yet. Good guys with guns is always the answer.

So, let me conclude by saying that there are millions of legal gun owners, both Republican and Democrat. The Second Amendment is not number two by accident. Our forefathers believed it was important, right behind freedom of speech and freedom of the press. There will always be those who use those freedoms to commit crimes. That doesn’t mean we should give up those freedoms. Punish those who abuse our freedoms, not the law abiding.

When you live in a country with our freedoms, there will always be people who hate us and want to destroy us. We all know that people who hate us and want to destroy us will find a way.

And please don’t give me any tripe that we deserve it. People risk their lives every day to come to this country.

So remember, if someone wants a gun, they’ll get it, one way or another, and if someone wants cocaine or heroin, there’s plenty to be had. By the way, gun sales doubled in Orlando after that shooting, and I’m sure they weren’t all Republicans.

Thomas Euell Wellington

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continued from page 1 decreased by 5.65 percent and expenditures increased by 5.53 percent due to personnel services increases.

With the 1.92 millage rate, the village tax on a home valued at $190,000 before a homestead exemption would be $269.

The general fund revenue is

Codes

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continued from page 1 30 years and have a zoning history.

Sometimes they were controversial, and sometimes they weren’t.”

Flinchum said attitudes have changed toward some uses, such as cell towers.

expected to be $22,977,957, with about 20 percent of that from property taxes, 26 percent from other taxes and fees, 15 percent from licenses and permits, 18 percent from intergovernmental revenues, 2 percent from charges for services, 1 percent from fines and forfeitures, 5 percent from miscellaneous revenues and 13 percent from the current year fund balance.

Expenditures are expected to be 42 percent for personal services, 40 percent for contractual services

(primarily the PBSO budget), 14 percent for other charges and services, and 4 percent for commodities. “About 80 percent of the expenditures are personnel services,” Hochman noted.

The budget proposes an average of 3.5 percent merit pay increases for all employees, a cost-of-living adjustment of 1 percent and a medical insurance increase based on market projections.

Revenue for the stormwater utility fund is projected at $868,338, which comes from the

village’s stormwater utility fee.

The capital improvement fund will be $14,313,880, with the impact fee fund comprising 37 percent, 55 percent in general capital improvements and 8 percent in reserves.

Significant portions of the capital improvement budget include construction of a southern access from Commons Park to Seminole Palms Park via the FPL easement at a total cost of $575,000, with $275,000 being spent in 2017.

Construction of the Commons

Park amphitheater is to start in 2017 with a cost of $500,000 and a total cost of $968,570.

The Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center expansion is set with a total cost of $2,312,408.

General improvements include basketball court repairs at Robiner, Crestwood, Okeeheelee Blvd. and Preservation parks at a cost of $210,000 for 2017 and a total of $427,017. Security cameras will be installed at Robiner, Marcello, Ferrin and Okeeheelee Blvd. parks at a cost of $75,000. Sports light-

ing replacement is set for Marcello Park at a cost of $115,000, with new LED lights.

Site improvements are planned at the Royal Palm Beach Recreation Center at a cost of $200,000 to include new site lighting, milling and resurfacing of the parking lot, root barriers around the parking lot trees and landscape services for two new entrance signs.

Athletic field resodding is planned at Katz Field and the east fields at a cost of $100,000 in 2017 and a total of $320,000.

“Cell towers, 20 years ago [people] would have filled this room,” he said. “With the hurricanes, people’s dependency on cell phones, trying to talk to their kids, it’s now part of the infrastructure. It’s an assumed, necessary service that people expect.”

Flinchum pointed out that a lot of uses over the years are not as controversial as they used to be.

“They are more accepted,” he

said. “People actually like having certain services available in their immediate area, so we’re trying to get over that stereotype in most of the zoning codes.”

Flinchum said that was the purpose of the current exercise, to get a feel for board members’ perceptions toward certain uses.

He explained that permitted uses can get approval at the staff level.

A DRC approval is a staff-lev-

el process that involves more departments, as well as public safety agencies. Conditional uses go through the PZA board and in some cases the Equestrian Preserve Committee.

There are two types of special permits. “Mostly, they’re administrative, staff-level approvals,” Flinchum said. “It’s for uses not typically in that area, and certain conditions may be needed. Some

of your seasonal uses, like your Christmas trees, your fireworks, certain vendors — those are all special permits.”

Under that same category are seasonal equestrian permits that can go on for several months, and the intensity and traffic, spectators, noise and light issues all come into play.

“What we’re trying to do is simplify the code as much as pos-

sible,” Flinchum said, explaining that Wellington uses three different types of matrixes, one for straight zoning, one for planned developments and a third for the equestrian area.

“We’re trying to combine both the straight zoning and the planned development zoning,” Flinchum said. “When you come back over the next couple of months, you will be addressing those issues.”

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WELLINGTON’S ART CELLAR HOLDS WEEKLONG CAMP FOR YOUNG PAINTERS

Art Cellar in Wellington held a weeklong art camp for 14 kids last week. Painting lessons all week long included step-by-step paint technique, color theory, brush strokes and more. On Friday, July 8 parents were invited to see the campers’ paintings. Learn more at www.artcellarwellington.com.

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Natalie Keys, Gianna Estrada and River Thornby.

Ella Godwin gets artistic.

Art Cellar owner Jennifer Hernandez talks about colors.

Savannah Keys works on her painting.

(Front row) River Thornby, Bella Nazzaro, Kalayn Prinyavivtklu, Victoria Estrada; and (back row) Jayden Hendricks, Ella Garcia, Alexa Facella and Gianna Estrada with their favorite paintings.

Jayden Hendricks paints.

(Front row) Courtenay Sobrien, Ella Godwin and Kaylee Beebe; and (back row) Samantha Velez, Natalie Keys, Savannah Keys and Charlotte Sobrien with their favorite paintings.

WELLINGTON REGIONAL OPENS ITS NEWLY RENOVATED POST-PARTUM UNIT

Wellington Regional Medical Center held an open house for its newly renovated and expanded post-partum unit on Monday, July 11.

Mothers-to-be and their families explored the many family-centered rooms and suites in the unit and met with nurses and hospital staff.

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WRMC CEO Robbin Lee cuts the ribbon to open the facility.

Staff members from the post-partum unit.

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PUBLIC NOTICE The Village of Royal Palm Beach is seeking volunteers for the newly established Senior Citizen Ad Hoc Advisory Board. The Village Council has determined that there is a need to create a local plan to coordinate and provide services, and to address the current and projected impact of the aging population in the Village. If you are a resident of the Village and would like to be considered by the Village Council to serve on this board, please stop by the Village Clerk’s office to pick up an application or it may be downloaded from the Village’s website at http://fl-royalpalmbeach. civicplus.com/DocumentCenter/View/5207. Return completed application to the Village Clerk’s office no later than August 10, 2016 for Council consideration at its August 18th meeting.

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Aldi To Host Local Hiring Event July 27

Known for offering wages and benefits that are higher than the national average for the retail industry, the Aldi grocery store chain will host a hiring event for its Royal Palm Beach warehouse on Wednesday, July 27 from 6 to 9 a.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. Opportunities within include warehouse selector positions at $16 per hour.

The hiring event is in support of the ongoing growth of Aldi in the area. The event will be held at the Aldi offices at 1171 N. State Road 7 in Royal Palm Beach.

For more information about Aldi, which operates more than 1,500 U.S. stores in 34 states, visit www.aldi.us.

Pokémon Event At Barnes & Noble July 16

The Barnes & Noble store in Wellington will celebrate Pokémon on Saturday, July 16 at 4 p.m.

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Community Center Opening Set For Aug. 6

The Village of Wellington invites the public to the grand opening of the Wellington Community Center on Saturday, Aug. 6. A ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled for 9 a.m., followed by an open house with tours of the new building, located at 12150 W. Forest Hill Blvd., through noon. Light refreshments will be provided.

New instructors will be on hand to display innovative and exciting new programs, such as a variety of art and painting classes, photography, dance, tutoring, foreign languages, yoga, Pilates, meditation, dog obedience training, child development and more. Interested participants can register for programs at the open house or register in advance. Early registration is encouraged. To learn more, visit www.wellingtonfl.gov/classes.

The event will also showcase

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new rooms and setup options available for meetings and special functions at the Wellington Community Center. Information on room rentals and reservations will be available, and staff will be on hand to answer questions.

Fall Classes At Dance Art Conservatory

Dance Arts Conservatory in Wellington is getting ready for the fall season. Registration is now open. Classes begin Tuesday, Sept.

6. Class times have been adjusted to reflect the change in middle school release times.

A weekly class trial, where dancers can try as many classes as they like, is available for $35 and is applied toward registration.

To sign up for classes, visit www.danceartsconservatory.com or call (561) 296-1880.

Royal Palm Beach Senior Expo 2016

On Friday, July 22, the Royal

Palm Beach Senior Expo will return to the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center (151 Civic Center Way) from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Terrific exhibitors will be on hand with helpful product and service information for the local senior community. Admission and parking are free.

For all seniors seeking ways to live happier lives, the Royal Palm Beach Senior Expo is the place to be. Professionals will be there to help transition seamlessly through the best phase of life. The expo will provide one-stop-shopping for older adults, their families and caregivers looking to connect with valuable local resources.

For more info., visit www. royalpalmbeach.com or call (561) 790-5149.

Networking Group To Meet July 19

The Friendly Business Networking Group will meet at the new TooJay’s location (2605 S. State Road 7) on Tuesday, July 19 at 8 a.m. For more info., call Stuart Hack at (561) 459-9813.

Mandel JCC Bowl-A-Thon Set For July 24

The Mandel JCC of the Palm Beaches is striking up fun for families and the community with the inaugural Jamie Frank Memorial Bowl-A-Thon on Sunday, July 24 from 10 a.m. to noon. The event will be held at Greenacres Bowl, located at 6126 Lake Worth Road.

Each guest can play two games, and enjoy pizza and refreshments.

Details and registration can be found on the JCC web site at www. jcconline.com/bowlathon.

The event is in support of the Jamie Frank Camp Tikvah Scholarship Fund, established in honor of Jamie Frank, a spirited and joyful young girl who spent her summers at Camp Tikvah at Camp Shalom. Despite being born with a lethal bacterial infection that severely damaged her brain, she lived her life with hope, love and laughter and was an inspiration to all who met her.

In advance of the bowl-a-thon, families are encouraged to participate in a friendly competition to raise funds for the scholarship

fund. Participants can collect spare change in an empty, decorated container and turn in their donations at the Mandel JCC on Thursday, July 21 or Friday, July 22. The winners will receive a prize.

“The highlight of every year for Jamie was summer at Camp Tikvah at Camp Shalom where she loved music, swimming and laughing with her friends. I am so grateful for all of the summers Jamie had there,” recalled Amy Frank, Jamie’s mother.

Camp Tikvah is a premier summer camp experience, featuring an inclusion program for more than 100 children and teens with special needs.

“There is a dire need for more special needs programs in our community, and we are eager to do more,” said Alan Feldman, CEO of the Mandel JCC. “Funds from the bowl-a-thon will allow us to provide more camp scholarships for these deserving children and their families.”

The event registration price is $15 per person through July 21 and $20 per person afterward. For more info., contact Leah Rosenberg at leahr@jcconline.com or call (561) 712-5235.

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First Sem Ridge Graduating Class Planning 10-Year Reunion

By Julie Unger Town-Crier Staff Report For Seminole Ridge High School’s first graduating class, it has been nearly a decade since they roamed the school’s halls.

Now, a group of former student government members — Samantha Greene (president), Caitlin Ramos (vice president), Sam Harris (secretary) and Jessica Oates (treasurer) — are heading up plans for a reunion.

“There was no senior class when we were juniors because it was a brand new school,” Ramos said.

“We were the first-ever seniors at

the school and the first graduating class.”

Some of the students went to Wellington High School and some went to Royal Palm Beach High School for the beginning of their high school careers.

“We all went to the same middle school in The Acreage, and then we got split up,” Ramos recalled.

“The school was a really good thing to bring the people who knew each other in middle school all of a sudden back together for high school.”

Efforts to bring the class together once again through local fundraisers, sponsorships and ticket sales have already begun for the planned 10-year reunion, set for Saturday, June 10, 2017, from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Palm Beach Gardens.

“We’re trying to make a big deal out of it to set a precedent for the future years,” Ramos said.

Former students should join the reunion’s Facebook page for easy communication, information about upcoming fundraisers and volunteer opportunities, Ramos said.

The next fundraiser will be a cornhole tournament on Aug. 20 at Gators Shack, hosted by South Florida Cornhole.

The Class of 2007, Seminole Ridge High School inaugural graduating class, will celebrate its 10th reunion next year.

“Anyone who wants to join in sponsorships, auction items, give- least three months in advance to is something Ramos is looking on the fun is invited to attend. All aways, decorations, a slideshow, cover the deposit. forward to. skill levels are welcome. There registration and setup/cleanup on “Then we can really focus our Local companies are welcome will be prizes for the top-placing reunion day. leftover funds on things we can to donate and sponsor the reteams,” Ramos said.

Parents and friends would be give to the graduates while we’re union. Former students are asked At the end of the summer, there helpful with handing out name there,” she said. to submit old photographs for the will be a yard sale fundraiser. tags and working on registration There will be a photo booth, event, and share any fundraising Items are being collected, and the the day of the event, Ramos added. giveaways, door prizes, raffles ideas. announcement will be made on Formal invitations have not yet and more, as former students reTo purchase tickets, learn about the web site. gone out. Conversations and plans connect in person, rather than on sponsorship opportunities and There are many committees to have been facilitated on Facebook social media. more, visit www.hawks2007rehelp volunteer and help with the and the web site.

“It will be nice to actually catch union.wordpress.com, join www. reunion. Former students, and Tickets are $80 for singles and up with people,” she said. facebook.com/groups/SRHStheir families and parents, are $145 for couples. Ideally, Ramos Reconnecting with old friends, Classof2007Reunion or e-mail welcome to help with fundraising, said, tickets will be purchased at especially those who moved away, hawks2007reunion@gmail.com.

ITID Question 1: Why Are You The Most Qualified Candidate?

From now until the Aug. 30 primary election, the Town-Crier will ask questions each issue to the seven people running for two seats on the Indian Trail Improvement District Board of Supervisors. This week’s questions: What makes you the most qualified candidate to sit on the Indian Trail Improvement District Board of Supervisors?

What changes would you like to see at ITID over the short term and the long term?

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Ryan Bernal — My education includes two master’s degrees in public administration and accounting. I will be obtaining a Florida Certified Public Accountant license in the next couple of months, along with a Certified Government Finance Officers certificate from the Florida Government Finance Officers Association.

For experience, I have worked within the heavy construction crew of the Village of Wellington’s Utilities Department installing water and sewer lines, as well as 48-inch cement and metal culverts. The field work has given me invaluable perspective of the importance of adequate water drainage and the difficult work its maintenance entails.

Over the last four-plus years, I have worked for the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office in the procurement, budget and financial reporting/internal controls divisions. I have worked as buyer, contract analyst and financial analyst garnering experience no other candidate has in conducting the fiscal operations and seeing to the creation and maintenance of the organization’s financial statements.

The changes I would like to see at ITID over the short term are to the implementation of traffic-calming plans, establishment of a plan of action to address the impending impacts on drainage and roads for the future surrounding communities and develop a capital replacement schedule. Long term, I would like to see more transparency from the district, safer roads, better project management, improved and maintained drainage, and incorporation.

Gary Dunkley — I am qualified

Ryan Bernal

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because I continue to bring different views and encourage discussion on many topics on policy and procedure that have come before the Indian Trail Improvement District board. My original run as a board member was based on flaws I perceived in the drainage and maintenance of the district. ITID is a vast area (110 square miles to be exact), which needs constant and continuous oversight. To balance recharging our water needs (our wells) versus making sure we never have another recurrence of Isaac, which flooded our residents’ land and roads for days and was inexcusable, in my humble opinion.

Some of the short-term changes I would like to see is a board that puts the residents first. Installing the inverted siphon, which is so badly needed for drainage and which sadly my fellow board members decided could be put aside for three years, is very disheartening. Just repairing and retrofitting our system of roads and canals is a 20-year plan at $1 million-plus per year. Finding better ways to control dust on our dirt roads and balancing maintenance on our paved roads while reining in the costs for our residents will be quite a feat. The threatening over-development of the Westlake and G.L. Homes lands will impact our roads, and our landowners who have paid for them. Hopefully my continued presence on the ITID board will serve to make the issues we are facing come to a conclusion, which will protect and benefit all residents of ITID. We have serious issues, and we need a serious board to defend our quality of life. I believe I am the board member you need.

with the most past educational credentials. I believe what makes you more qualified over others has more to do with the ability to work with the other board members, local and state level representatives, and the community directly in achieving a single goal. I also believe that you should have the ability to learn and be prepared for upcoming agendas that are within our district boundaries, while understanding the consequences of each issue that is presented.

To the second part of the question, regarding the short-term and the long-term goals, I feel that they are one and the same... to work together as a whole in achieving the best possible outcome without any biases or outside interferences.

We are at a turning point in our community and need to all be single-minded in direction. The issues will always change, but the methodology of resolution should not. We have all different types of residents here in the ITID area, and we all care about our roads, parks and water management, along with a manageable budget. Together, this can be accomplished with the right people working together.

Steve Roberts — In response to the first question, I would have to say that being the most qualified doesn’t mean that you are the one

Timothy Sayre — What makes me the most qualified candidate?

Having a good grasp of math and the ability to look at both sides of an issue while being subjective; weighing the choices and making the best choice while preserving all that is unique about The Acreage. I am able to ask questions that best probe the matter at hand and help determine what course of action should be taken, whether it be a vote, a call for further study (more information) or to see how it will impact other previous or pending decisions or courses of action.

As for changes, there needs to be more opportunity for community input and involvement on matters

that affect not only the board, but also those living in The Acreage.

This input should not be limited to three minutes once a month, but should possibly be in an open forum (not Facebook, a real forum board hosted on the ITID site) where items of interest or upcoming agenda items are posted so all sides of the issue can be discussed in a civilized open forum board. This would allow anyone, including those who cannot make it to meetings, to have input into the items that are coming before the board. With technology that is available today, there is no reason that a community board forum cannot be available for input and discussion.

ITID SEAT 4

Betty Argue — Seat 4 needs a fresh, creative, open-minded perspective from someone with knowledge of The Acreage and the surrounding communities, ITID’s charter, the county’s comprehensive plan and state statutes. I am that person. I have experience and education in real estate, law and business. I am firmly committed to The Acreage and the surrounding communities through my service as the PTO president of Loxahatchee Groves Elementary School, committee chair of my sons’ cub scout troop, and as a founding member and president of Alerts of PBC. My unwavering commitment to community has been demonstrated in the various community meetings that I have consistently attended or viewed over the past several years, seeking discussions from residents with varying opinions, continued research and a quest for innovative solutions for issues facing the community. I will represent and respect all residents of The Acreage, even when we may disagree. ITID needs someone who is not firmly entrenched in an agenda to urbanize The Acreage or to jump in bed with the first option presented.

Prioritization of ITID’s responsibilities are crucial to the health and well-being of all residents, with roads and drainage infrastructure clearly the most important priorities, while balancing improvement of parks

and development of horse trails bolstering our rural equestrian lifestyles. I think it is important to return to fiscal and contractual responsibility, accountability, oversight and transparency, including the objective involvement of the inspector general. In the capacity of ITID supervisor, I would serve all residents of the district with honesty and integrity.

Michelle Damone — I feel that I am the most qualified for Seat 4 because I began in this community as a volunteer with the PTA, then coached for the Acreage Athletic League. I participated on the Recreation Advisory Committee and served on the Acreage Landowners’Association board when it was actively involved in government affairs before I served my first term as an Indian Trail Improvement District supervisor. I entered the race as a park advocate and served my first term among six of the most astute leaders, who taught me well. I listened, asked good questions, prepared for meetings and learned the art of being both a leader, as well as visionary on behalf of our community.

What I’d like to see change at ITID is for other board members to be prepared when making decisions on behalf of the community and trusting the professionals that have earned their certification in their craft to advise the board.

Ultimately, the board makes the final decision, but trusting a solid administrator and the district’s professional staff will reduce professional fees, increase the decision-making process so we can act swiftly and accomplish the goals set by the board. Through efficiency, we can achieve more and give the taxpayers what they have earned and deserve throughout the district.

Betty Argue

With large tracts of land submitting plans to the county to develop, it is most important to allow for experience to guide us through these times. Just to say “no” is irresponsible. I want to be a part of the team that leads us into a brighter future.

Keith Jordano — I have over 40 years’ experience in the business world; 25 years as a business owner in insurance and finance, 10 years as a government consultant and 10 years in supply with the U.S. Navy Reserve, as well as construction experience working for my family construction company. I also have a degree in business management from Loyola University. I understand what The Acreage needs as a 17-year resident. I have also been involved in leadership positions serving as president or on the executive boards of the Acreage Landowners’Association, the local chamber of commerce, the Rotary Club, the Unity for Kids special needs school, and professional and civic organizations.

I want ITID to get back to basics; drainage, roads and parks.

We are still at risk for flooding, our roads need maintenance and upgrades, and our community park is not completed after many years of planning. We need term limits to get fresh ideas and leadership and not turning the position on the board into a career. We also need to bring aboard the county’s inspector general to prevent fraud, waste and abuse of our tax dollars and power.

Long term, we need to work together with all those concerned to make sure that all of the planned developments do not destroy our quality of life, cause more drainage issues, clog and destroy our roads, and create safety problems.

Michelle Damone

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NRI INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES HOSTS GRADUATION CEREMONY IN RPB

The NRI Institute of Health Sciences in Royal Palm Beach held a graduation ceremony on Monday, July 11 at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center. At the ceremony, 21 students graduated with nursing degrees, practical nursing diplomas and occupational degrees in diagnostic medical sonography. Graduates had family and friends watching as they received their graduation certificates and a yellow rose. The new nurses also received their pins. Refreshments were served after the ceremony. PHOTOS BY DENISE FLEISCHMAN/TOWN-CRIER

Faculty with diagnostic medical sonography grads: Dr. Hans Meyer, Chriss Kloba, Wilford Bureau, Marlene Sajous, Syndie Leurbours, Anthony Ferri, Katherine DeNave, Sailys Ibarra, Kaitlynn Reed and Dede Nemet.

Guest speaker Lacara McKay, Royal Palm Beach Mayor Fred Pinto and Pastor Michael Rose.

Dr. Joe Kloba, NRI Institute Chief Administrative Officer Dan Splain and former Royal Palm Beach Mayor Matty Mattioli.

Faculty with nursing grads: Elizabeth Stolkowski, Dede Nemet, Maria Gort, Madearion Spears, Junias Mesidor, Lia Vigne, Sabine Jerome, Juliet Diaz, Natalie Ponce de Leon and Dr. Mercedes Meyer.

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Faculty with practical nursing grads: Elizabeth Stolkowski, Dede Nemet, Maria Gort, Didi Wells, Herlande Cineas, Kadiann Reid, Antonia Pierre Louis, Cherie Ashley, Shanay Pitter, Natalie Ponce de Leon and Juliet Diaz.

Faculty members Chriss Kloba, Dr. Hans Meyer, Anthony Ferri, Elizabeth Stolkowski, Juliet Diaz, Maria Gort, Natalie Ponce de Leon, Dr. Mercedes Meyer and Dede Nemet.

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Local Chef Clay Carnes Wins Grand Finale On TV Show ‘Cutthroat Kitchen’

Just call him “Cutthroat Clay.”

Recently, local chef Clay Carnes became the first chef to win three championships with his cooking on the Food Network’s hit show Cutthroat Kitchen finale.

The “Cutthroat Kitchen: Time Travel Tournament” pitted 16 past winning chefs against one another to create iconic meals from five decades, spanning the 1950s to the 1990s. Carnes first won his 1970s-themed week before taking home the Cutthroat Kitchen title in the 1990s-inspired finale.

Each episode challenged contestants to prepare an appetizer, entrée and dessert while celebrity chef host Alton Brown auctioned off themed sabotages for the chefs to use against their opponents.

Carnes won his 1970s heat, defeating three other chefs despite

the sabotages like having to prep and cook while riding a banana seat bicycle. The finale episode saw him having to dance as a member of a boy band, wear the baggy pants inspired by MC Hammer while nailing bags of thyme to a board, share a ship’s bow with another chef, and navigating a DoubleDare themed obstacle course of desserts.

Carnes used strategy, saving most of his money to purchase the harder sabotages at the final round, while accepting sabotages he knew he could handle.

Carne is set to open his newest restaurant, Cholo Soy Cocina in West Palm Beach later this summer, serving Latin street food with Andean-American selections and tacos crafted from freshly made Florida organic

white corn tortillas, locally grown produce, non-GMO corn tortillas, and top-quality meats and ingredients.

The French Culinary Institute and ALMA (La Scuola Internazionale di Cucina Italiana) graduate made his start as chef de cuisine at Cucina Dell’ Arte in Palm Beach.

From there, he transplanted to Cuenca, Ecuador, leading the team at Mansion Alcazar.

Carnes returned to South Florida in 2011 to open the Grille in Wellington. He was then executive chef of the White Horse Tavern.

Known for an eclectic cuisine that reflects his Italian, Mediterranean, Latin and North American exposure, Carnes is routinely invited to the Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival and Swank Table farm dinners.

Chef Clay Carnes At Cholo Soy Cocina, Carnes will work with a number of local farms and purveyors. Staff will grow peppers, herbs and other vegetables on the patio and rooftop garden to create specific flavors found only in certain regions of the world.

Dream Sponsors Members Learn Lessons From Real Life Hero

Crestwood Middle School eighth grader and National Junior Honor Society member Amanda Ng (shown above in the center) wanted to do an awareness project on the Fourth of July. Having been invited to so many barbeques for the Fourth of July, she complained to her mother, Sandi Ng, that “no one remembers who gives us our independence.” Her mother challenged her to make a difference. With her network of supporters, she was able to manage donations and bought hundreds of toy soldiers, yes, little GI Joe men. She made a sign and asked everyone attending the festivities in Royal Palm Beach to take a soldier home and thank him every day for our freedoms.

GROUP SHOWS SUPPORT FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT

Estella Pyfrom (second from left) and her assistant Lisa McRay (second from right) accept a check from Dream Sponsors board members.

Board members at Wellington-based Dream Sponsors Inc. recently spent a Friday afternoon listening to and learning from a real life hero CNN Hero Award recipient Estella Pyfrom, founder and CEO of Estella’s Brilliant Bus (www.estellasbrilliantbus.org).

Her assistant, Lisa McCray, later accepted a sponsorship check from Dream Sponsors.

The sponsorship marks the beginning of Dream Sponsors’ efforts to support local, needs-based organizations that cater to children, especially where education, basic necessities and self-sustainability are concerned.

While Dream Sponsors continues its work in Africa, the organization remains cognizant of the needs faced by many vulnerable children in the United States.

Dream Sponsors is expanding

its collaborative efforts locally, while continuing to think and act globally. The sponsorship will provide one South Florida youth with an opportunity to travel with the remarkable, two-week Tech Innovation Bus Tour 2016, arranged and hosted by Estella and her team of volunteers.

Also, Dream Sponsors will host collaborative partner Emmanuel LeinaTasur, the founder of Sirua Aulo Academy in Masa Mara, Kenya in early August.

This will be the first visit to the U.S. for Tasur, who has worked to provide top quality education in the marginalized area of Maasailand, as well as providing enhanced education to sponsored youth of the Wellington-based organization.

For more information, visit www.dreamsponsorsinc.org.

Commissioners Earn Presidential Advocacy Award

Members of the Farm Credit of Florida recently stopped by PBSO District 9 in Royal Palm Beach recently to thank the men and women in law enforcement for their service. District 9 staff took time to visit with the staff of Farm Credit and thank them.

Three members of the Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners were honored by the Florida Association of Counties (FAC) as recipients of the Presidential Advocacy Award during the recent FAC Annual Conference & Exposition in Orange County.

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Mayor Mary Lou Berger of District 5, Commissioner Melissa McKinlay of District 6 and Commissioner Priscilla Taylor of District 7 were each recognized for going above and beyond on behalf of county residents during the 2016 Florida Legislative Session.

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The end of the school year was extra-special for the fifth graders at Wellington Elementary School.

The Fifth Grade School of Rock End of Year Celebration was a huge success. Fifth-grade

parent volunteers and teachers worked hard in planning this special day to create lasting memories.

Students attended the event dressed to the max representing

rock ’n’ roll from the 1950s through the present day. The cafeteria was transformed into a rock ’n’ roll paradise.

The DJ played a variety of songs representing the different

eras. There were games, dancing, food, photo booths and much more.

Wellington Elementary School wishes its graduates great success in their middle school journeys.

Reduced School Meals

Families are encouraged to apply for free and reduced-price meals through the School District of Palm Beach County for the 2016-17 school year before Aug. 1 to ensure that applications are processed when children return to school on Aug. 15.

Applications can be submitted online on the district’s School Food Services web site at www. palmbeachschools.org/sfs, and are also available by visiting the main office of any Palm Beach County school.

Only one application is required per household.

Eligibility for free or reduced-price meals is based on household size, income and other requirements.

Breakfast is always available to all students attending Palm Beach County schools and does not require an application.

For more information, call (561) 357-1114.

To learn more about the School District of Palm Beach County, visit www.palmbeachschools.org.

RPBHS DANCERS SHINE Fifth-grade students dance during the celebration.

AT LEGACY DANCE CHAMPIONSHIPS TKA Welcomes Award-Winning College Counselor School volunteers Ashlea Sutton, Sonia Wilson and Sherri Crossey.

Ryan Anthony, Emerson Vital and Dylan Strout enjoy the day.

The King’s Academy will welcome Steve Peifer to its faculty as director of college counseling starting with the 2016 semester.

Peifer was awarded the 2010 National Association of College Admissions Counselors Excellence in Education Award, the 2013 North American Coalition for Christian Admissions Profes-

sionals Guidance Professional of the Year and the 2007 Yale University Counseling Award.

Peifer, author of A Dream So Big, was honored by CNN in its “Heroes for Championing Children” program for his “commitment to the welfare of young people” in founding a school lunch program that feeds 20,000

students every day in Kenya.

Peifer earned his bachelor’s degree in political science/government from Northern Illinois University and earned a College Student Counseling and Personnel Services certificate at UCLA. Previously, he was associate director of college counseling at the Oxbridge Academy of the Palm

Beaches and director of college guidance at Rift Valley Academy/ Africa Inland Mission in Kenya.

The King’s Academy is a nationally recognized private Christian school serving approximately 1,200 students from preschool through 12th grade. More information about TKA is available online at www.tka.net.

New PBSC VP To Focus On Graduation Rates

Dr. Roger L. Yohe, who has nearly three decades of administrative and teaching experience at Arizona community colleges, has joined Palm Beach State College as the new vice president for academic affairs.

Yohe started his 27-year career in 1989 with a one-year temporary faculty appointment before becoming a founding professor of computer information systems the following year at Estrella Mountain Community College in Avondale, Ariz. In 2000, he was promoted to director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, where for 10 years he was responsible for e-learning, technology integration, faculty development and multimedia development. He also taught doctoral-level courses in Educational Leadership at Arizona State University.

Yohe said his past experiences have prepared him for his new role, and he looks forward to continuing to get to know the college, its faculty and staff and helping to

move the college forward. That includes tackling a key college initiative: boosting student completion rates.

He likened his process of learning the intricacies of PBSC to that of preparing for a new class of students. “I knew all of my students’ names before the first day of class,’’ he said.

Yohe said he will visit every campus immediately and “look, listen and ask questions about what should be done to improve academic affairs and student completion.”

“I was able to determine early that there was a yearning for the college to improve. Any great organization needs to improve to be relevant to its stakeholders,’’ he said. “I want to be involved in an organization that is really dedicated to student success and completion and how we can improve.”

Yohe was chosen after a national search. He replaced Dr. Sharon Sass, who served in the role for 17

years before retiring. Dr. Ginger Pedersen served as the interim vice president of academic affairs for 18 months.

Yohe arrives at a significant time for the college, which centralized academic affairs as part of a reorganization by PBSC President Ava L. Parker this year. He also arrives as the college works toward Gov. Rick Scott’s challenge to Florida’s 28 colleges last fall to boost their graduation rates for full-time students to 100 percent in three years.

Student completion also remains a key metric for performance-based funding.

Yohe said ensuring student completion requires a holistic approach, including ensuring adequate learning environments.

He wants to explore what policies and procedures get in the way of student completion.

“It’s everyone’s business. We all have a role. It’s not just the teacher’s job or advisor’s job,” he said.

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Arianna Sanchez, Jada Brown, Sheila Azpiri, Shirley Mendina-Trenche and Verneka Williams, five members of the Wildcat Dancers Dance Team from Royal Palm Beach High School, recently competed at the Legacy Dance Championship Nationals in Orlando. The dancers were awarded for their talent and technique in their competition routines, all choreographed by Dance Director Michele Blecher. The “Ying and Yang” routine won duet/elite gold and second place overall; the “Freddie Says” routine won small group/gold and third place overall; the “Hallelujah” routine won small group/gold and second place overall; and the “Famous” routine won elite gold/first place overall. Shown above are dancers Shirley Medina-Trenche, Jada Brown, Sheila Azpiri, Verneka Williams and Arianna Sanchez accepting their first place overall championship on the Legacy Dance stage.

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With One Mission Nearing Its End, I’ve Got Huge Plans Ahead

I have heard of people who can’t sleep because they’re terrified of something, or nervous, or anxious or depressed. I can’t sleep when I’m excited, and I was excited last night.

It was because, yesterday, I mapped out what the months ahead could hold for me... and things look pretty good.

By the end of the summer, I’ll be 99 percent confident that the two kids I’ve been babysitting since they were born will be ready for either preschool or a new babysitter, even if that babysitter is a stranger or new to the game. The kids are on pretty firm ground — smart but not sassy, cute but not conceited, self-confi-

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The Sonic BOOMER dent but not bossy. Plus, they like each other. My work here is done.

Because I had weekends “off,” Mark found me something to do. He bought me a cottage nearby in Kansas City so I can enjoy cool breezes in the summer and en-

joy Florida the rest of the time. The cottage was in pretty good shape, but that didn’t stop us from changing everything about it.

We painted every floor, wall and ceiling twice; ripped out walls; replaced plumbing fixtures; re-wired everything; and completely remodeled the kitchen. We’re so close to finished now that, last weekend, Mark turned on the water heater. I ran a celebratory bath, feeling like I was on a Survivor episode where I’d won a day trip to an island spa.

Once both babysitting and home renovation are behind me, I want to travel.

I’ve been to Europe, noted its location and points of interest, and, to tell you the truth,

I prefer the United States. I want to see a lot more of those states, preferably from the balcony of various resorts or seaside dining tables. I made a list of which state I want to be in every month from now through next January. Then I reread the list three times, just for fun.

I want to check in with family members who have been “on hold” for the past four years while I changed diapers. That necessitates travel to Texas, California, Nevada, Virginia and beyond. Poor, sad, pitiful me. I can hardly wait.

When I’m not traveling, I want to dink around in my antiques store. The girls (and guy) have been doing a wonderful job with

it while I’ve been gone – good sales, happy customers — but I want to shake it up a little bit. I mean, we’ll soon be entering our 14th year of business. I want to have a gigantic sidewalk sale, clean out the dead wood, bring in a few trailers full of new stuff and rearrange everything. The store doesn’t need it — I do.

I want to write more — maybe another children’s book, maybe a novel, maybe jokes for the stand-up act I plan to do on cruise ships someday.

Oh, I’ve got plans, all right. Big plans.

Big exciting plans.

You can see why I couldn’t waste time sleeping.

‘Dave And Mike’ An Amusing, But Meandering, Comedy Romp

Just when the news makes us yearn for a good comedy, we get Dave and Mike Need Wedding Dates. The good news is that it is often funny; the bad news that it is a bit of a mess. The plot meanders, never quite really hitting home, but there are times the audience is near-hysterical with laughter. Yes, the leads play idiots, but they are nice ones. They screw up because they are stupid, not evil, and that makes a difference.

Dave (Zac Efron) and Mike (Adam DeVine) are partners in the wholesale liquor business. Their father (Stephen Root) notes that they constantly ruin every family event by coming stag, hitting on women, and then messing things up. Their baby sister Jeanie (Stephanie Beard) is getting married in Hawaii, and the boys are ordered to get “respectable dates.”

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‘I’ On CULTURE

By Leonard Wechsler rick) and Tatiana (Aubrey Plaza), just fired because Alice comes to work both drunk and stoned, decide to get the free vacation.

They pretend to be good girls who just accidentally run in to the boys (Tatiana arranges to be hit by a car so Mike can “save” her) and get invited to the wedding.

The two girls win over the family, but soon begin causing even more destruction than the brothers ever have. Alice slips a masseur money to give the bride-to-be a “special massage.” Mike catches Tatiana

in a steam room fooling around with a lesbian cousin. Dave and Alice actually become friends, while Mike is furious enough to create a disaster at the wedding rehearsal. Alice slips some ecstasy to the uptight bride, and we have further disaster.

Things fall apart until all the main characters realize they were at fault and work to make things right.

The movie is quite derivative… think Wedding Crashers, which is mentioned rather a lot. The biggest difference is that in this film, the woman are the wilder ones. The guys are good-natured goofs who manage to screw things up. The two girls go far deeper into the sleazy pool. Alice is either stoned or drunk or both most of movie. Tatiana is openly using Mike, giving nothing back. But the idea that both sexes can be wild and weird is a fun one.

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act nicely, even if she is in a fog.

Efron and DeVine are good as the two guys. DeVine yells a lot and makes faces (Tatiana says that he looks like a funhouse mirror version of what a handsome guy should look like), but he does show a nice sweetness. Efron is a great straight man.

His sense of timing has really sharpened over the years. Kendrick is good as Alice.

She manages the comedy scenes well and handles the more serious elements so nicely that you actually like her despite the problems she causes. But Plaza steals the film. Her comic timing is superb, often wonderfully underplayed. Her act as a second-grade teacher, wearing large eyeglasses, and nibbling very delicately on the end of a pencil, fooling no one except these dumb men, was delightful.

Even the steam room scene with a very funny Alice Wetterlund is well-played as she talks about being able to get backstage

passes to Rihanna concerts (Alice is crazy about that singer), but Tatiana will have to be “friendlier” if she wants to score those passes for her friend. The look on Plaza’s face in that scene is priceless.

Special kudos should be given to Beard, who turns out to be the target of a whole lot of awful things that wind up making her seem a victim while somehow sailing through all of the crises.

The biggest weakness in the script is that the men are so totally clueless that even these drunken, rowdy ladies seem far too good for them.

I must confess that I laughed along with the audience, although there was a bit of guilt later. This is a decent comedy of the Judd Apatow variety (although he had nothing to do with the film), but it probably would be best to wait until it shows up on cable... and make sure the kids are not around.

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BUILDING UP SPORTS ACADEMY CAMP VARSITY AT WELLINGTON LANDINGS

Wellington Landings Middle School is hosting weekly sessions of the Building Up Sports Academy Camp Varsity until Aug. 5. On Friday, July 8, parents were invited to see a slideshow of the kids’ activities during the week and see kids get sportsmanship awards.

The week’s theme was Stars and Stripes. The kids played physical games such as dodgeball, tug of war, sack races, water balloons, kickball, pillow hockey and soccer. The kids also made tie-dyed shirts and enjoyed fishing. For additional information, visit www. buildingupsportsacademy.com.

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Daniel Acosta during the basketball bouncing relay race.

Camp attendees with coaches.

Iseult, Frank, Lilly and Jeni Broglio.

Trevor Hirsch and Zidane Guerrier take part in a sack race.

Weekly sportsmanship champions (front row) Gabby Fuentes, Lilly Broglio and Alexandra Fongemie; and (back row) Jackson Doeren, Angelia Sieli and Alianna Mauro.

Danielle and Nathan Lopez.

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CAMPERS AT LION COUNTRY SAFARI LEARN ABOUT RHINOS AND MUCH MORE

Campers at Lion Country Safari’s summer camp have a roaring good time as they learn about the different animals at the safari.

Each week of the camp, activities focus on different themes. On Friday, July 8, the youngest campers had the opportunity to learn about rhinos, including how the safari’s rhinos are weighed and given medicine as they are transported from their night home to roaming the safari. Wildlife team members Sarah Huber and David Backus answered the children’s questions. Learn more at www. lioncountrysafari.com.

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Gabby Ferrailo pets Blossom, a baby rhino.

Campers Liam St. John, Noah Fallon, Kalor Rogers, Gabby Ferrailo, Julianna Schiller, Jett Rogers, Joseph Henslay-Cooper, Marianna Morrison and Pierce Hall.

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District 85

Replacing Pat Rooney

continued from page 1 government, joining Rooney’s campaign.

“I grew up around government; I grew up around politics,” he said.

“It’s something I’ve always had an interest in. I’ve been very lucky to spend the last six years heavily involved in what goes on in our community, both in the local and state level, working on a range of issues from education to healthcare to growth management.”

Watt, 36, is married to wife Kate, and they have three children, Ethan, Reese and Ainsley. He is the son of Jim Watt, a former Palm Beach County commissioner and state representative.

Watt, who has called Palm Beach Gardens home his whole life, has been able to see what has been done well, what hasn’t been done well and what could be done better to serve the community.

He’s starting to see more changes due to the Scripps Research Institute, and is paying close attention to what is going on with schools, particularly public schools and testing.

“Once they graduate high school, are they going to be able to, if not go to college, [be] ready for a career, some sort of job,

LGWCD

TRIM Rate

continued from page 1 stressed that the board must adopt a TRIM rate that evening, with the understanding that it could always reduce the rate.

Kane said she has issues with the way assessments are done.

“I just don’t think they are equitable with the town people,” she said, explaining that people are paying different rates, and some businesses that pay assessments do not receive maintenance at all. “I think the assessments are something we need to take a serious look at, particularly if we are going to tack on another $10.90.”

Supervisor Simon Fernandez said he thought the rates should not be raised at all. “The whole budget needs to be revised and verified,” he said.

Widing said that the district and the town had lost their under-

training, something?” he asked.

Creating jobs, a corridor on the Beeline Highway, working on tech and trade jobs, and getting kids ready for the work force are all items of interest to Watt, who has seen Palm Beach County grow and evolve.

“I want to make sure all future development is something that, while we know it is going to have an impact, we want to make sure it has a positive impact, not a negative impact,” he said, focusing on water quality and infrastructure for the growing population.

Economics, education and environment are the three main focuses of Watt’s campaign, he said. His goal is to ensure that growth management includes good, sound regulation to complement the current community and not create problems.

Watt views his residency and raising his family in the district as a unique strength.

“I’ve grown up around this community. I’ve seen the needs of this community,” he said.

Roth, Watt said, has spent most of his time in Belle Glade and not in northern Palm Beach County.

“He doesn’t know the issues of what’s going on, the needs; he doesn’t work with the local community leaders as I’ve done,” Watt said.

For more information, visit www.voteandrewwatt.com.

Robert Simeone — The winner of the primary will face Simeone, a 20-plus-year resident of District 85. He lives in West Palm Beach with his wife, Vivian, and two teenage sons.

A retired U.S. Navy veteran who served in Operation Desert Storm and a member for two years of the Individual Ready Reserve, Simeone graduated from the Indian River Community College Police Academy in 2005 went to work for the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, where he has worked as a deputy in Wellington.

“I saw firsthand what substance abuse and untreated mental healthcare issues were doing to our families and neighborhoods.

As an alternative to arresting those afflicted, I decided to open a professionally staffed and state licensed outpatient treatment facility, giving hundreds of individuals and families in distress a second chance,” he explained.

In 2011, Simeone founded the Children of Wounded Warriors, a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that children of wounded veterans continue to have access to extracurricular activities after their parent’s injury to ensure normalcy and happiness in their lives.

“The charity has done numerous events at the Wellington Amphitheater,” he said.

Simeone also earned a bachelor’s degree in professional aero-

standing of what the gas tax had originally been intended to do.

“Now it’s like the gas tax has become a bargaining chip for roads and who takes them over,” he said.

“I try to separate myself from that.

I’m not in this position to protect the district or the town. We are a community, and that’s what has troubled me from the beginning.”

Widing made a motion to adopt the budget without the $10.90 increase, which carried 5-0.

In other business, the board accepted a quit claim deed to transfer ownership of South B Road south of Collecting Canal Road to the Town of Loxahatchee Groves.

Yohe said the resolution still needs to be signed by the town’s vice mayor and attorney.

“This has been going back and forth for quite some time,” Widing said. “I don’t know if the rest of the board needs additional information, but otherwise, I’m ready.”

Kane made a motion to approve the resolution, which carried 5-0.

The council also directed staff to continue seeking a new emergency line of credit up to $300,000 to be used in the event of a storm or other disaster that requires rapid reconstruction of district property.

Although these types of disasters are normally reimbursed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency or the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Yohe explained that the district had previously obtained a line of credit to immediately repair district facilities until those reimbursements become available.

He said that SunTrust Bank, which had provided a $400,000 line of credit, changed its lending policy and it is no longer available.

Yohe and his staff are seeking other banks to provide that line of credit.

SunTrust charged $1,000 per year for the agreement.

Widing made a motion to continue bank negotiations and seek more letters of interest, which carried 5-0. Once a line of credit is worked out, a resolution would return for final board approval.

Rick Roth

Andrew Watt

Robert Simeone

nautics and a master’s degree in public administration at Embry-Riddle University, and is working on his doctorate in education.

Simeone feels he is well-prepared for office.

“I have gone to Tallahassee multiple times over the years to learn the processes of our state government, particularly concerning first responders and substance abuse issues,” he said.

His top priorities include finding definitive answers to water issues,

in particular alleviation of the current pollution problems stemming from Lake Okeechobee.

“As a centrist, business-oriented Democrat and an environmentalist, I believe the current situation this summer is grossly unfair to our coastal businesses catering to tourists and our residents enjoying the benefits of our treasures,” he said. “This can has been kicked down the road for way too long.

We must confront the reality of climate change, eliminate fracking

in the Everglades, take action on rising sea levels and get the real job done of protecting our coastal environment.”

Simeone feels that he can make a difference.

“I am the best candidate for the position, as the two Republicans running currently in the primary both represent a continuation of failed policies in Florida,” Simeone said.

For more information, visit www.voterobertsimeone.com.

“I went online and tried to figure out how can I get from Royal Palm Beach down to CityPlace or the courthouse,” he said, noting that it could take two hours with several bus changes. “Maybe this is a job for MPO, or maybe it’s beyond our reach.”

Hmara also commented on the austere appearance of the bus stops.

“If you want people to use these facilities, make them attractive, accessible and comfortable,” he said, asking whether there is a way to make them more attractive, such as putting landscaping around them. “I don’t know if there’s anything reasonably do-

able, but these look like an industrial complex. It gets the job done, but I also know there are towns in Palm Beach County that actually make their bus stops a place for art in public places.”

Councilman David Swift made a motion to approve Webster’s recommendation to eliminate the $5,000 developer fee and take future bus stop expenses out of the village’s maintenance budget.

In other business, the council approved the final reading of a landscaping ordinance setting a minimum landscape requirement and that all new single-family developments must participate in the village’s streetscape program.

Bus Stops

More Shelters

continued from page 3 intermodal plan. Once the shelters are installed, the program would become replacement and maintenance. About $12,000 remains in the capital improvement fund for bus shelters.

He said there would have to be discussion of how to purchase the fourth shelter discussed on SR 80.

Hmara said that mass transit is important and commented that the route through the village seems pretty limited.

Glades Citizen’s Criminal Justice Academy A Success

On June 30, 21 participants graduated from the Palm Beach County Criminal Justice Commission’s first-ever Citizen’s Criminal Justice Academy in the Glades area. The graduates represented the cities of Belle Glade, Pahokee and South Bay. Each attended four, three-hour evening classes on consecutive Thursdays at the Belle Glade Civic Center.

The fourth and final class featured a tour of the ultra-modern

West County Detention Center, as well as a demonstration by a PBSO bomb-sniffing dog, and a presentation on crime prevention.

The CJC has been offering its Citizen’s Criminal Justice Academy in West Palm Beach for many years, but this was the first one in the Glades, and it was a great success. Participants were fully engaged, and the CJC has the commitment of its partners to offer a 10-week Glades academy in 2017.

The success of the Glades Criminal Justice Academy was made possible through the work of partners, such as the Office of Community Revitalization, the Palm Beach County Library System and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

For more information regarding future Citizen’s Criminal Justice Academies, contact Rosalind Murray at (561) 355-4943 or rmurray@pbcgov.org.

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TEMPLE B’NAI JACOB THANKS RABBI DAVID ABRAMS FOR YEARS OF SERVICE

Temple B’nai Jacob in Wellington hosted a luncheon in appreciation of the service of Rabbi David Abrams on Sunday, July 10 in the center court of the original Wellington Mall. The temple’s founding rabbi, Abrams recently stepped down as the congregation’s spiritual leader. Rabbi David Sislen has taken over the pulpit. Abrams will stay involved as rabbi emeritus. For more info., visit www. templebnaijacob.com.

Daliah and Jason Weiss with Alan and Teddy Mendelsohn.

Rabbi David Abrams thanks attendees.

Randy Feldman and Emily Thal.

Rabbi Abrams receives a gift from the temple’s youth group.

Robert Solomon and Rebecca Blitman.

Ella Bender and Sallee Silverman.

President Morry Silverman (right) thanks Rabbi David Abrams.

Sharon Abrams and Miriam Copeland.

Andrea Cohan and Sandi Gladding.

Science Center To Host Green, Health & Wellness Expo July 23

The South Florida Science Center & Aquarium, in partnership with the West Palm Beach Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, are teaming up to spread sustainability and positivity at the seventh annual e4 Life: Green, Health & Wellness Expo. With tips, samples, giveaways, tastings and more, guests will experience the sights, smells and sounds of positive living from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 23.

“Science is critical to understanding the power of health and wellness,” Science Center CEO Lew Crampton said. “Which is why we are proud to be hosting the always popular e4 Life: Green, Health & Wellness Expo. In addition to hearing about healthy tips, guests can also learn about key

sustainability practices, which keep us and our planet healthy for years to come. Our participating vendors and sponsors are top-notch, and visitors will surely delight in all of the samples, tips and quality experiences. We are grateful to continue partnering with the West Palm Beach Mayor’s Office of Sustainability to help spread this important and science-based message.”

During the day-long event, the Science Center’s regular exhibits will serve as a backdrop for booths featuring FPL, Braman Motorcars, ABM, the Solid Waste Authority, RGF Environmental and more. Activities include healthy food preparation demonstrations, gardening workshops, information about carbon footprint reduction, energy

efficiency, transportation, a BMW i3 EV on display, environmentally preferable purchasing and other sustainable/conservation subjects.

Representatives from the Palm Beach Zoo will be on site to discuss their conservation programs.

In addition, guests will be able to take a photo with a unique “Lamborgreenie” created by the masterminds at RGF Environmental.

Based off a Lamborghini Diablo, this rare car was transformed into an eco-friendly, all electric driving machine. The RGF “Lamborgreenie” boasts an impressive up to 100 mph speed, a fully integrated computer system, two hours of run time with 144 volts over 1,000 amps and more.

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for e4 Life is even more important than ever, as Mayor Jeri Muoio just established a West Palm Beach Community Greenhouse Gas reduction target of net zero by 2050,” said Penni Redford, manager of the West Palm Beach Mayor’s Office of Sustainability.

“We welcome everyone to check out our booth at the event to learn more.”

In order to spread sustainability, the West Palm Beach Mayor’s Office of Sustainability will give out trees and raffle off rain barrels.

The e4 Life: Green Health & Wellness Expo is included with paid Science Center admission, and West Palm Beach city residents and city employees receive 50 percent off admission with a valid ID. Admission to the South

Florida Science Center is $15 for adults, $11 for children ages 3 to 12, and $13 for seniors over the age of 60. Science Center members and children under 3 are free.

The South Florida Science Center & Aquarium features more than 50 hands-on educational exhibits, a 10,000-gallon fresh and salt water aquarium, a digital planetarium, a conservation research station and more. The current summer exhibit, Grossology, takes visitors on a tour of their bodies.

Located at 4801 Dreher Trail N. in West Palm Beach, the Science Center is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more info., call (561) 832-1988 or visit www. sfsciencecenter.org.

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Lori Royce Creates A Sign For Pure Thoughts

When artist Lori Royce moved up from Broward County, she looked for a nonprofit she could help out. In the past, she had given to dog and cat rescues. She wanted to continue donating to an animal charity. She searched online and found Pure Thoughts Horse Rescue. Ellen Rosenberg’s Column, Page 19

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Carlos Villa Wins Championship In TKD Sparring

Carlos Villa from the World Tae Kwon Do Center in Lake Worth defeated Joshua Hwang of Virginia during overtime to become the 2016 AAU Taekwondo National Champion in their division on Thursday, July 7 at the Fort Lauderdale Convention Center. Page 25

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TooJay’s Restaurant Reopens After Move From Mall To Wellington Green Commons

TooJay’s has announced that the grand opening of its new restaurant, located at 2605 S. State Road 7 in Wellington Green Commons, is set for Friday, July 15.

The new Wellington location is the newest TooJay’s in a family of nearly 30 restaurants. Previously located in the Mall at Wellington Green, TooJay’s has moved to the nearby Wellington Green Commons near Whole Foods Market. Page 20

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AYSO Hosts National Soccer Tournament At IPC In Wellington

From July 4 through July 10, the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) staged its national tournament at the International Polo Club Palm Beach in Wellington. The AYSO made Palm Beach County the host venue this year.

The tournament drew in affiliated teams from all over the country. Page 25

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Lori Royce Creates A Sign For Pure Thoughts Rescue

Lori Royce has always loved horses. Very early on, she knew she would make a living as an artist, and the sheer physicality of horses fascinated her. She wasn’t particularly interested in riding.

“I had no training, and they are large and scary,” she said. “But I love watching them run in a pasture, and they have such sweet, distinct personalities. I loved painting them in all their different gaits and when they’re showing in competitions. I definitely prefer painting them to riding them.”

Back in October, Lori moved up from Broward County to Boynton Beach, and she was looking for a nonprofit she could help out. In the past, she had given to dog and cat rescues and shelters. After she moved, she wanted to continue donating to an animal charity.

“Living close to Wellington, I couldn’t help but see all those beautiful horses,” she said.

“I figured there must be some horse rescues where I could help out in some way, maybe spend time doing something useful, or teach art to students on the property.”

She searched online and found Pure Thoughts Horse Rescue.

“I called the owner, Brad Gaver, and spoke with him. I went out and met him, and we spent about an hour in conversation. He showed me all around, and I was very impressed,” Lori

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By Ellen Rosenberg said. “As I was leaving, he mentioned that he needed a sign at the front entrance. He wanted it to be ‘from the heart.’ I took photographs of possible subject matters, went home that night, and started sketching.”

She researched and read books about horses at the library to visually capture the musculature, proportions and grand stature of the horses.

“Remembering two of my favorite horses that I had petted and talked to at Pure Thoughts, those two horses became the stars of the piece, Two Feathers and Ghost. Both horses have special souls and voices,” Lori said. “Once I realized that both horses needed to be calmly speaking to each other in the scene, I was able to finish sketching out the entire design. Their noses were my favorite part.”

It was important to make sure that the sign informed people about the rescue and included its name, address and phone number, and the fact that they needed volunteers. “I wanted the horses to look sweet, healthy and happy.

I had the two horses talking to each other as if they were saying, ‘We’re glad we’re here,

Artist Lori Royce with her hand-painted sign for Pure Thoughts Horse Rescue. and everything’s gonna be OK now,’” Lori there is that they never get abused, frightened explained. or starved again, and that they have the best, It took Lori six weeks of planning, design- most peaceful life possible from now on. I felt ing, sketching and painting to finish creating much gratitude toward the many horses who the sign. She brought it out, and Brad loved it. lovingly let me pet them and looked into my “He was stunned at how detailed it was,” eyes to say, ‘Thanks for caring.’”

Lori said. “We spent another hour talking Lori enjoys drawing all sorts of animals. and touring the whole property. I truly felt She works in acrylics, oils, ink washes, very welcomed. My wish for all the horses See ROSENBERG, page 27

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FREE YOGA CLASSES FOR KIDS AT GARDENS MALL

Children will get to put their unlimited energy and superhuman elasticity to work as they learn the art of holding poses in classes kicking off Saturday, July 16 at 9 a.m. at the Gardens Mall. Kids’ yoga classes in the Grand Court will be presented by Athleta and Kidding Around Yoga. Children ages 4 to 12 can enjoy an assortment of fun activities, including basic yoga, singing and dancing. Parents are welcome to nibble and shop at Athleta while their posers hit the mats. A complimentary breakfast bar will feature fresh juice, hot tea, water, fruit, muffins and bagels, with healthy snacks for the children.

The yoga classes are also available on Saturday, Aug. 13. The event is free. Children should bring a yoga mat or beach towel, and a water bottle. For more info., visit www.thegardensmall.com.

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TooJay’s Reopens After Move From Mall At Wellington Green To Wellington Green Commons

TooJay’s has announced that the grand opening of its new restaurant, located at 2605 S. State Road 7 in Wellington Green Commons, is set for Friday, July 15.

The new Wellington location is the newest TooJay’s in a family of nearly 30 restaurants across Florida committed to serving guests with crowd-pleasing favorites.

Previously located in the Mall at Wellington Green, TooJay’s move to the nearby Wellington Green Commons near Whole Foods Market brings fresh contemporary décor while keeping a timeless vintage feel.

The Wellington menu offers famous piled-high sandwiches with sliced-to-order meats and a selection of fan favorites, including matzo ball soup and brisket, along with creative wraps and hand-tossed salads. The new small plates menu, featuring fresh spring tomato cucumber salad, BLT deviled eggs and roasted brussels sprout medley, among other selections, is a delicious way to start a meal.

The tempting selection of freshly

baked pastries from the TooJay’s bakery ranges from seasonal desserts to famous chocolate Killer Cake and all-time favorite mini black and white cookies.

For holidays, office gatherings and events of any size, TooJay’s catering options include breakfast buffets, party platters and dishes designed to make any occasion special.

From sandwich platters to gourmet hors d’oeuvres, dinners and desserts, TooJay’s provides delicious catering options.

“We are excited to open our new TooJay’s location in Wellington and welcome guests to enjoy our updated store décor and more easily accessible parking,” company CEO Chris Artinian said. “We have served Wellington for 15 years and are proud to be part of this vibrant community.”

July kicks off TooJay’s Kids Eat Free, the ultimate deal for families offering one free kid’s meal with one paid adult entrée every Wednesday through Aug. 31. Kids must be 12 or younger and order from the kid’s menu only. This offer does

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TooJay’s continues to invest in the excellence of its existing restaurants and identify additional opportunities for growth. The restaurant currently serves guests in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties, the Treasure Coast, Florida’s West Coast, the Orlando area, the Villages, the Space Coast and Polk County. A new location is set to open at the Palm Beach Outlets later this summer, and six more existing restaurants across Florida will be remodeled.

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Communities In Schools To Host Supply Giveaway Aug. 7

Margaret Bagley, chief executive officer of Communities in Schools of Palm Beach County (CIS), has announced that the organization will host a Back to School Extravaganza to provide free school supplies for students who live in the communities of Royal Palm Beach and Wellington.

The free event will take place Sunday, Aug. 7, from 1 to 4 p.m.

in the Center Court of the original Wellington Mall, located at 12794 W. Forest Hill Blvd.

“CIS is committed to keeping students in school and enabling them to successfully learn and prepare for life, so our goal for this event is to give a free backpack filled with back-to-school necessities to every local student who shows up,” Bagley said.

She offered special thanks to former Palm Beach County Commissioner Jess Santamaria for donating the use of the space to host the nonprofit organization’s first Back to School Extravaganza. The three-hour event will conclude with a big raffle drawing in which parents or guardians accompanying their children can also win special gifts.

Anyone wishing to make a tax-de-

Military Trail Storage Offering U-Haul Rentals

U-Haul Company of Florida recently announced that Military Trail Storage has signed on as a U-Haul neighborhood dealer to serve the West Palm Beach community.

Military Trail Storage, located at 440 S. Military Trail, will offer U-Haul trucks, towing equipment, support rental items and in-store pickup for boxes.

Hours of operation for U-Haul rentals are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday and 9 a.m. to noon on Sunday. After-hours drop-off is available for customer convenience.

Reserve U-Haul products at this dealer location by calling (561) 5941574 or visiting www.uhaul.com.

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ductible cash contribution ($25 will fill a backpack; $50 will cover both a backpack and school supplies), or to donate gift certificates for products or services, can do so by calling event chair Renatta Espinoza at (561) 471-9681.

Since 1984, CIS has been “surrounding students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.” In the 2014-15 school year, for example, CIS served 1,768 students in five different schools: the Roosevelt Lead-

ership Academy for Young Men, John F. Kennedy Middle School, the Gold Coast Academy, the Riviera Beach Preparatory & Achievement Academy and Pahokee High School.

In that year alone, CIS outcomes included a zero dropout rate, an 85 percent promotion rate and an 89 percent graduation rate — based on a limited pool of 193 students served. For more information about Communities in Schools of Palm Beach County, call (561) 471-9681 or visit www.cispbc.org.

Hair Cuttery To Help Underprivileged Children Get Ready For School Year

Hair Cuttery, the largest family-owned and operated chain of hair salons in the country, will be donating back-to-school haircuts to children who need it most this summer. From Aug. 1-15, for every child up to age 18 who purchases a haircut at one of Hair Cuttery’s nearly 900 salons, one free haircut certificate will be donated to a disadvantaged child in the community.

“A new haircut for a special occasion is something we all take for granted,” said Dennis Ratner, founder and CEO of Hair Cuttery.

“Our Share-A-Haircut program ensures that children in our com-

munities aren’t deprived of that simple, but essential, service. If we can send those students back to school with added confidence and a smile on their faces, then we’ve done our job.”

This summer, Hair Cuttery is aiming to donate tens of thousands of free haircut certificates ahead of the new school year. Certificates will be distributed with the help of more than 100 local government and nonprofit organizations. Since 1999, the Share-A-Haircut program has donated more than 1.89 million free haircuts. For more info., visit www. haircuttery.com.

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The American Youth Soccer Organization Hosts National Tournament In Wellington

By Gene Nardi Town-Crier Staff Report From July 4 through July 10, the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) staged its national tournament at the International Polo Club Palm Beach in Wellington.

The event is biannual, and the AYSO made Palm Beach County the host venue this year. The tournament drew in affiliated teams from all over the country, with teams coming from as far as Hawaii. With more than 230 teams converging on the area, the AYSO worked out

a partnership with the Palm Beach County Sports Commission.

“It’s a huge win for Palm Beach County economically,” AYSO Section 14 Director Richard Schwartz said. “We couldn’t do this without the sports commission. It just wouldn’t have been possible.”

Schwartz oversees regions in Florida and the Caribbean. The event has become one of the largest and most prestigious of its kind, and the only venue locally that’s capable of accommodating such numbers is IPC. Thirty fields were

Acreage Arsenal (black & white) battles Okeeheelee Heat in the U14 girls division.

lined up at a single location spanning more than 300 acres, making it easier for teams and spectators to travel. The polo club venue was key in the Palm Beach County Sports Commission’s bid to bring the event to the area.

Divisions for teams started at U10 (under 10) and up to U19 for boys and girls. Teams played five games in pool play, then entered bracket play, to crown division champions on the final day. “The teams get here by way of a lottery system,” Schwartz said.

Teams are selected every two years to participate in the tournament. There were several local teams competing. The Okeeheelee Heat had 14 national teams participating, making up most of the 35 teams from Palm Beach County.

The Acreage Arsenal had five teams competing in the games, from U10 to U14 boys and girls. U10 girls head coach Brian Christie has coached with the club for five years, and brought his team in to compete.

“This year, we formed a U10 travel team based on our record,” Christie said. “It’s huge to be a part of this. We competed in the state games in January and did very well.”

Boynton Beach also has an AYSO program and also had teams competing in the games.

The tournament brings a strong economic impact to Wellington See SOCCER, page 27

Acreage Arsenal (green & black) battles for possession against AYSO California in the U10 girls division.

An Acreage Arsenal player (green & black) finds space up the middle against AYSO Keys in the U10 girls division.

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Acreage Arsenal (green & black) tries to keep the ball in play against AYSO California in the U14 boys division.

Acreage Arsenal (green & black) splits the defenders from AYSO Florida in the U10 boys division.

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WELLINGTON ALL-STAR U8 Carlos Villa Wins AAU Championship COACH PITCH WINS TITLE In Olympic-Style Taekwondo Sparring

Wellington All-Star U8 Coach Pitch recently won the District 7 championship. The boys defeated West Boynton in their final game 11-10 to win the title at Miller Park in Delray Beach on June 20. Shown above are: (front row) Sonny Carbonetto, C.J. Soto, Max Aaron and Preston Applebaum; (middle row) Julius Torres, Sebastian Burnett, Lucas Bratten, Gio Garcia, Zach Lopez, Casey Brodnicki, Jacob Guzik and Sean Glenn; and (back row) coach Chris Burnett, head coach Ruben Lopez and coach Bob Bratten (not pictured: Ryan Withey).

Carlos Villa from the World Tae Kwon Do Center in Lake Worth defeated Joshua Hwang of Virginia during overtime to become the 2016 AAU Taekwondo National Champion in their division on Thursday, July 7 at the Fort Lauderdale Convention Center.

Competing in advanced belt division for 12 to 14 year old boys, under 81.6 lbs., in Olympic TKD sparring, the final standings were Villa in first place, Hwang in second place, and Nicholas Baiz of New Mexico and Ryan Carnes of Florida tied for third place.

Villa, 11, shares winning a medal at the AAU TKD National Championship with his coach, Master Luciano Cesario. Cesario won bronze in the black belt division for men over age 43, between 150.0 to 176.4 lbs., in Olympic Sparring.

Villa will test for promotion to red belt in TKD in August and will compete next at the International Martial Arts Festival in October at Orlando.

The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is one of the largest, nonprofit, volunteer sports organizations in the United States, dedicated to the promotion and development of

Gold medalist Carlos Villa (center) stands with his teammates Lily Landstrom (left) and Nicolas Maldonado (right) at the AAU National Championship in Fort Lauderdale on July 7. amateur sports and physical fitness programs.

The World Tae Kwon Do Center is located 6680 Lantana Road in Lake Worth. Owned and operated since 1997 by Master Gina Anacle-

to, a 5th dan black belt, the center teaches taekwondo sparring and self-defense classes.

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“It was convenient for us, since we’re local,” Christie said. “We still did some fundraising to cover the costs.”

AYSO promotes the game in a

positive way. On the first day, Soccer Fest gave teams the opportunity to bond with each other in pickup games, mixing players from dif-

ferent teams. When the tournament kicked off, players exchanged team pins and lanyards after each match.

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AYSO, visit www.ayso.org. For more information about the Palm Beach County Sports Commission, visit www.palmbeachsports.com.

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Artist Lori Royce

continued from page 19 charcoal and pastels, and is available to do custom portraits. She has been back out to Pure Thoughts a few more times to visit with her new horse friends. She was thrilled when she saw her sign installed beside the front gate. She plans to keep going out, as often as she can. She may even try riding. Brad offered to give her lessons. “It’s a wonderful place that takes you away from your everyday life. And seeing how happy all those horses are makes you feel good. Brad and the volunteers out there do a phenomenal job.”

To learn more about the artist, visit www.roycepaintingsonline.com.

Learn more about Pure Thoughts at www.pthr.org.

Artist Lori Royce during one of her visits to Pure Thoughts Horse Rescue.

The Acreage Arsenal (black & white) takes a shot on goal against the Okeeheelee Heat in the U14 girls division.

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Saturday, July 16 • The Loxahatchee Chapter of the Florida Trail Association will hike in Okeeheelee Park (7715 Forest Hill Blvd.) on Saturday, July 16 at 7:30 a.m. Call Paul Cummings at (561) 963-9906 for more info.

• Congregation L’Dor Va-Dor (3475 Woolbright Road, Suite 19, Boynton Beach) continues its monthly Torah, Talk & A Taste discussion group with Rabbi Barry Silver on Saturday, July 16 at 10 a.m. For more info., call (561) 968-0688 or e-mail info@ldorvador.org.

• Mounts Botanical Garden will offer Advanced Orchid Repotting & Mounting on Saturday, July 16 at 10 a.m. Sandi Jones with Broward Orchid Supply and the Bonnet House Museum & Gardens will demonstrate repotting of an overgrown orchid and mounting orchids on items such as tree tern and cork bark. For more info., call (561) 233-1757 or visit www.mounts.org.

• The Palm Beach Zoo (1301 Summit Blvd., West Palm Beach) will hold a Story Time Book Feature on Saturday, July 16 at 10:30 a.m. with Miles and Miles of Reptiles by Tish Rabe. For more info., visit www.palmbeachzoo.org.

• Wellington will hold a Neighborhood Watch Meeting for Folkestone on Saturday, July 16 at 10:30 a.m. Visit www.wellingtonfl.gov for info.

• The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host Wonderful Weather for ages 2 to 6 on Saturday, July 16 at 11 a.m. Prepare for stormin’ stories, songs and a craft about weather. Call (561) 790-6070 for more info.

• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host The Mountain Dulcimer: Past & Present for adults on Saturday, July 16 at 11 a.m. Musician John Blosser will discuss the history of the mountain dulcimer and give a live performance of this string instrument rich in Appalachian history. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host its Under Construction Lego Crew for ages 6 to 11 on Saturday, July 16 at 11 a.m. Use Lego bricks to make fantastic creations. Work by yourself or as a team to bring building challenges to life. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host an Acoustic Java Jam for adults on Saturday, July 16 at 2 p.m. Experience a caffeinated collection of local talent or bring your acoustic instruments and jam out. Coffee will be provided. Call (561) 790-6030 for more info.

• The Food Truck Safari returns to the Palm Beach Zoo on Saturday, July 16 from 4:30 p.m. until the zoo closes at 9 p.m. Enjoy some of Palm Beach County’s best gourmet food trucks inside the zoo. Enjoy live music and up-close animal encounters. Beer and wine will be available for guests 21 and older. For more info., visit www. palmbeachzoo.org.

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Monday, July 18 at 6:30 p.m. The presentation will integrate four wellness resources to provide information on keeping the body in natural balance. Call (561) 790-6070 to pre-register.

• The Mid-County Democratic Club will meet Monday, July 18 at 7 p.m. at Tree’s Wings & Ribs (603 Royal Palm Beach Blvd.). The guest speaker will be Congresswoman Lois Frankel. Visit www. facebook.com/groups/mcdclub for more info.

Tuesday, July 19 • The Acreage library (15801 Orange Blvd.) will host Super Fast Science on Tuesday, July 19 at 1:30 p.m. for ages 5 to 7 and 3:30 p.m. for ages 8 to 12. Try a variety of short experiments with a room full of fellow scientists. Call (561) 681-4100 to pre-register.

• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host Art for Adults: Beginner’s Figure Drawing for ages 16 and up on Tuesday, July 19 at 2 p.m. Learn to draw by practicing the fundamentals of figure drawing using graphite and charcoal. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host Cirque du Library for ages 6 to 12 on Tuesday, July 19 at 3 p.m. Learn how to juggle, walk the tight rope and play circus games. Call (561) 790-6070 for more info.

• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host Pajamarama Story Time: Mice Are Nice for ages 3 to 6 on Tuesday, July 19 at 6:30 p.m. Have a squeaking good time with stories and songs about mice. Make a special craft to bring home. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• The Kretzer Piano Music Foundation’s Music for the Mind concert on will feature the Irwin Solomon Jazz Quartet on Tuesday, July 19 at 7 p.m. in the Harriet Himmel Theater at CityPlace. Money raised will enable the foundation to expand its music education programs for children in need.

Call (866) 449-2489 or visit www.kretzerpiano. com/kpmf for more info.

Wednesday, July 20 • The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host Move & Groove With Mr. Alex on Wednesday, July 20 at 9:15 a.m. for ages 6 to 18 months, 10 a.m. for ages 19 to 30 months, 10:45 a.m. for ages 2.5 to 3.5 and 11:30 a.m. for ages 3.5 to 5. Reach, stretch, bounce, dance and learn a fun gymnastics skill. Loose clothing and sneakers/closed-toe shoes are required.

Parents/caregivers must be present during program. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• The Acreage library (15801 Orange Blvd.) will host Superhero Day for all ages on Wednesday, July 20 at 2 or 2:45 p.m. Enjoy crafts, games and props for fun, as well as funny superhero photos.

Costumes are encouraged. Call (561) 681-4100 to pre-register.

• The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host Kids’ Music Circle for ages 2 to 11 on Wednesday, July 20 at 3 p.m. Sing, shake and play along with music specialist Noam Brown.

Call (561) 790-6070 for more info.

• Wellington will hold a Neighborhood Watch Meeting for Wiltshire Village on Wednesday, July 20 at 6 p.m. at the Community Services Office (1092 Wellington Trace). Visit www.wellingtonfl.gov or call (561) 791-4764 for more info.

• The Acreage library (15801 Orange Blvd.) will host its Coloring Club for adults on Wednesday, July 20 at 6:30 p.m. Color for fun and relaxation with other coloring enthusiasts. Coloring pages and materials will be provided. Call (561) 6814100 to pre-register.

• The Acreage library (15801 Orange Blvd.) will host Do It for the Vine for ages 12 and up on Wednesday, July 20 at 6:30 p.m. Get crazy with a game called Silent Library. Can you and your squad handle the challenges without cracking up? Enjoy snacks, silliness, pizza and prizes. Call (561) 681-4100 to pre-register.

• Shulamit Hadassah will host resident medium and ghost expert Dr. Susan Kronick on Wednesday, July 20 at 7 p.m. at PBCFR Station 30 (9910 Stribling Way, Wellington). Kronick will tell tales of living four years living in a haunted house in the Catskill Mountains. Call Helene at (561) 512-3172 for more info.

Thursday, July 21 • The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host Scherenschnitte for ages 16 and up on Thursday, July 21 at 10 a.m. Grab scissors and explore the Pennsylvania Dutch folk art of scherenschnitte. Brought by German immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania in the 18th century, this art tradition involves hand cutting silhouettes and symmetrical, lacy designs. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• The Acreage library (15801 Orange Blvd.) will host Sticker Art on Thursday, July 21 at 1:30 p.m. for ages 5 to 7 and 3:30 p.m. for ages 8 to 12. Use scissors, glue, paper, stencils and a variety of stickers to make a personalized, laminated masterpiece. Call (561) 681-4100 to pre-register.

• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host It Only Takes a Minute to Win It for ages 8 to 12 on Thursday, July 21 at 2:30 p.m. Experience the library’s version of the popular TV game show. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• The Choir in the Glades, hosted by the Young Singers of the Palm Beaches, will feature a performing arts showcase on Thursday, July 21 at 3:30 p.m. at the Dolly Hand Cultural Arts Center in Belle Glade as the culmination of a free camp for elementary and middle school children thanks to a gift from author and Palm Beach County resident James Patterson. For more info., call (561) 659-2332, e-mail information@yspb. org or visit www.yspb.org.

• The Wellington Amphitheater (12100 W. Forest Hill Blvd.) will host food trucks on Thursday, July 21 at 5 p.m. with a free concert by the Orange Sunshine Band at 6:30 p.m. Call (561) 753-2484 for more info.

• The Western Business Alliance will hold a social event Thursday, July 21 from 5:30 to 7:30

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• The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host a Hand Lettering Workshop for adults on Thursday, July 21 at 6:30 p.m. Practice simple and easy techniques to make hand lettering pop and impress. Call (561) 790-6070 to pre-register.

Friday, July 22 • The music entertainment of Decades Rewind will be at the Kravis Center on Friday, July 22 and Saturday, July 23. Visit www.kravis.org for show times and tickets.

• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host Dance Time With the Wildcat Dancers on Friday, July 22 at 10 a.m. for ages 3 to 6 or 11 a.m. for ages 7 to 11. Learn a special dance routine with the Wildcat Dancers of Royal Palm Beach High School. Loose clothing and sneakers are required. Parents/caregivers are required to be present during the duration of the program. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• Royal Palm Beach will hold its second annual Senior Free Expo from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, July 22 at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center (151 Civic Center Way). For more info., call (561) 790-5149 or visit www.royalpalmbeach. com.

• Auditions will be held for CAFCI’s annual Stars of Tomorrow Talent Show on Friday, July 22 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Harvin Center (1030 Royal Palm Beach Blvd.) for performers ages 5 to 21. The show will be held on Sunday, Aug. 7 at 5 p.m. at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center (151 Civic Center Way). For more info., visit www. cafcipbc.org or contact Nadine White-Boyd at nvwboyd@aol.com or (561) 351-6895, Clover at (561) 596-1748 or Junette at (561) 346-2353.

• The Wellington Amphitheater (12100 W. Forest Hill Blvd.) will host a free screening of movie The Good Dinosaur on Friday, July 22 at 8:30 p.m. Call (561) 753-2484 for more info.

Saturday, July 23 • The Palm Beach Summer Beer Fest returns to the South Florida Fairgrounds on Saturday, July 23. Visit www.palmbeachsummerbeerfest. com for more info.

• Sean’s Dance Factory will present SDF Big Bang XX at the Kravis Center on Saturday, July 23 at 7 p.m. Visit www.kravis.org for tickets.

Monday, July 25 • The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host Craft-a-Palooza for ages 2 to 8 on Monday, July 25 at 3 p.m. Create multiple crafts from fun selections. Call (561) 790-6070 for more info.

• The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host Coloring for Grown-Ups on Monday, July 25 at 6:30 p.m. Express your creative side with this calming activity. Coloring pages and colored pencils will be provided. Call (561) 790-6070 to pre-register.

Send calendar items to: The Town-Crier, 12794 W. Forest Hill Blvd., Suite 33, Wellington, FL 33414 or e-mail news@gotowncrier.com.

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Transportation and subsistence will be provided by the employer upon completion of 50% of the work contract, or earlier, to workers who are recruited outside the area of intended employment. Applicants must provide documentation that they are eligible legally to work in the United States. Applicants should report or send resumes to Florida Dept. of Economic Opportunity, 107 East Madison Street, Tallahassee, FL 32399, (850) 245-7437, or the nearest local office of their State Workforce Agency, and reference job order #FL10244369. EOE. H-300-16161-445544.

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REAL ESTATE ROOM FOR RENT - ROYAL PALM ROOM FOR RENT LA MANCHA — No Pets/No Kids. Furnished with pool $700 monthly. Call 561-667-3475

55+ CONDO FOR RENT IN ROYAL PALM CONDOMINIUM FOR RENT IN ROYAL PALM BEACH — It is a 2/2 in 55+ community. $1250 per month for rent. First, Last and Security required. NO Pets, NO Smokers, NO Pick-Up Trucks. Call 561-719-0866

BOOKKEEPER

BUSINESS

OPPORTUNITIES WANTED WELLINGTON AREA BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

Part Time, experienced in

WELLINGTON RENTALS SALE Quickbooks, flexibleFOR hours.

8 Units, one location, pool.

Walk to Publix & McDonalds.

One story; 4 units 4/2, 1400 sq. ft.

3 units 3/2/1, 1200 sq. ft.

1 unit 1/1/1 670 sq. ft.

Fenced patios. Owner/builder.

561.329.0240 $1,435,00 (Proof of funds)

Please fax resume to 561-793-1470 or

email to: wellingtoncompany.bookkeeper@gmail.com

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

A/C AND REFRIGERATION

ROOFING

JOHN C. HUNTON AIR CONDITIONING & REFRIGERATION, INC.—Service & new installation FPL independent participating contractor. Lic. CAC 057272 Ins. “We are proud supporters of the Seminole Ridge Hawks” 561-798-3225. Family Owned & Operated since 1996. Credit Cards Accepted

ROBERT G. HARTMANN ROOFING — Specializing in repairs. Free estimates, Bonded,insured. Lic. #CCC 058317 Ph: 561-790-0763.

CLEANING - HOME/OFFICE

ROOFING REPAIRS RE-ROOFING ALL TYPES — Pinewood Construction, Inc. Honest and reliable. Serving Palm Beach County for over 20 years. Call Mike 561-309-0134 Lic. Ins. Bonded. CGC-023773 RC-0067207

WE CLEAN OFFICES & PRIVATE HOMES — Licensed & Insured. Call for an estimate and to schedule your apartment. Discount for Central Palm Beach County Chamber members and to all new clients for first cleaning. 561-385-8243 Lic. #2012-25277

NEIL O’NEAL JR. ROOFING — Roofing & Reroofing. Family owned and operated.

Residential/Commercial. Wood Replacement, Roof Coatings, Solar Vents, Skylights & Roof Ventilation. 561-656-4945 Lic. & Insured CCC1330208.Free Estimates

DRIVEWAY REPAIR

SCREENING

D R I V E W AY S — F r e e e s t i m a t e s A & M ASPHALT SEAL COATING commercial and residential. Patching potholes, striping, repair existing asphalt & save money all work guaranteed.

Li c.& Ins. 1 0 0 0 4 5 0 6 2 5 6 1 -6 6 7 - 7 7 1 6

JOHN’S SCREEN REPAIR SERVICE — Pool & patio re-screening. Stay tight,wrinkle-free,guaranteed! CRC1329708 call us 798-3132. www.poolscreenrepair.com

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

SECURITY — American owned local security company in business 30 plus years.

Protection by officers drug tested. 40 hour course. Licensed & Insured. 561-848-2600

ANMAR CO.— James’ All Around Handyman Service. Excellent craftsman Old time values. Once you’ve had me! You’ll have me back! Lic. Ins. Certified Residential Contractor CRC1327426 561-248-8528

MOVING SERVICES ICON MOVING SERVICES — Provides full service moving, packing & storage. Rated “A” plus by BBB. Lic. & Ins. FREE ESTIMATES. Call 561-338-3157.

PAINTING J&B PRESSURE CLEANING & PAINTING, INC. — Established 1984. All types of pressure cleaning, roofs, houses, driveways, patios etc. Commercial & Residential. Interior & Exterior painting. Certified pressure cleaning & painting contractor. Lic. #U21552 Call Butch 309-6975 or visit our website at www.jbpressurecleaningandpainting.com JOHN PERGOLIZZI PAINTING INC. — Interior/Exterior - Repaint specialist, pressure cleaning, popcorn ceiling, drywall repair & roof painting. Family owned/owner operator. Free Est. 798-4964 Lic. #U18473 COLORS BY CORO, INC. — Int./Ext. Residential painting, over 20 yrs exp. Small Jobs welcome. Free est. Ins. 561-578-2873. Owner/Operated. Lic.# U20627 Ins. Wellington Resident

PET DOCTOR - MOBILE/HOME CARE TIRED OF HOLDING YOUR CAT IN THE WAITING ROOM? — Call Critter Home Care and Stay Home Dr. Don Denoff. 561-517-8705

PET SUPPLIES HAPPY JACK LIQUIVIC® 2X — Recognized safe & effective against hook & roundwarms by US CVM...Grand Prix 561-792-2853 Kennelvax.com

PLUMBING JEREMY JAMES PLUMBING — Licensed plumber, legitimate estimate. Water heaters, new construction. CFC1426242. Bonded Insured. CFC1426242. 561-601-6458

PRESSURE CLEANING/HANDYMAN ALL PRESSURE CLEANING & SERVICES — Residential/Commercial/ Equestrian. Handyman, Fencing, Painting. We do it ALL! Dustin 561-951-8769

PLACE YOUR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AD HERE CALL 793-7606

SECURITY

SPRINKLER SYSTEMS AQUATIC SPRINKLER, LLC — Complete repair of all types of systems. Owner Operated. Michael 561-964-6004Lic.#U17871 Bonded & Ins. Serving the Western Communities Since 1990

TREE SERVICE TREES TRIMMED AND REMOVED — 561-798-0412 D.M. YOUNG TREE SERVICE. Family Owned & Operated Lic. & Insured 1992-12121 Visit our website at dmyoungtreeservice.com

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WALLPAPERING

PAPERHANGING BY DEBI — Professional Installation,Removal. Repair of Paper.

Neat, Clean & Reliable. Quality work with a woman’s touch. 30 years experience.

No Job too big or too small. Lic. & Ins. References available. 561-795-5263

SEEKING EMPLOYMENT NANNY/HOME AIDE AVAILABLE Experienced Nanny/Home Health Aide seeks new position. Flexible hours, full time or part time, day or night. I am a Licensed CNA who has worked as a home health aide and a nanny. I have many years of experience taking care of children, including several sets of multiples, and also experience taking care of elderly at home. The twins I have taken care of since birth are starting school soon, and I need a new position. Price negotiable, references provided upon request. Available in August. Call Pat at (561) 294-1423

OFFICE SPACE OFFICE SPACE TO SHARE - WELLINGTON

Affordable Wellington Office Space To Share • Large office with window • Centrally

located in Wellington off Forest Hill Blvd.

• Large conference room with Apple TV and White Board • Kitchen and Storage • Private side entrance • Plenty of safe parking • $800 per month includes high speed Comcast Internet • Sublet, no lease signing Call or text Gregg at (561) 309-4346

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Manure Removal • Environmentally Friendly

JH Hauling Services Serving the Western Communities for Over 22 Years!

• Working Hand In Hand with Sugar Cane Farmers to Help Solve all of Wellington’s needs

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Wellington Institute of Learning & Development, LLC. 12785 West Forest Hill Blvd. Suite #D | Wellington FL 33414 | (561) 444-3590

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Kim Kinsey,Owner

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We accept McKay Scholarship and we use an accredited curriculum.

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