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Attorney: Communities Must Keep Up Fight For SR 7 Extension

Volume 37, Number 30 July 22 - July 28, 2016

Serving Palms West Since 1980

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Environmental attorney Thomas Mullin said last week that the City of West Palm Beach is not giving up its fight against the long-planned State Road 7 extension to Northlake Blvd., and has not yet exhausted all avenues to at least delay the process through litigation. Mullin was invited by Councilman David Swift to give an update to the Royal Palm Beach Village Council on July 14 about the status of the extension. Page 3

Royal Palm Beach Camp Program Hosts Visitors From Ecuador

The Royal Palm Beach Parks & Recreation Department’s summer camp is hosting 28 kids from Ecuador for a two-week camp. On Monday, July 18, they visited the Calypso Bay Water Park. Page 5

Loxahatchee Groves Town Council Adopts Unchanged Tax Rate

The Loxahatchee Groves Town Council approved a property tax rate of 1.4718 mills for its Truth in Millage (TRIM) rate, the same as this year, at its meeting Tuesday. Page 7

TooJay’s Opens New Location In Wellington

TooJay’s restaurant held a VIP preview event Thursday, July 14 ahead of its grand opening Friday, July 15 at its new location at Wellington Green Commons near Whole Foods Market. TooJay’s was previously located in the Mall at Wellington Green. Page 17

OPINION

Trump Plagiarism Episode Shows Danger Of Taking Shortcuts

Plagiarism is “the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.” Discussion on this topic took over Monday night as the Republican National Convention concluded its first day, when two paragraphs of potential First Lady Melaina Trump’s speech were identified as having been previously orated in 2008… by current First Lady Michelle Obama. Page 4 DEPARTMENT INDEX NEWS...............................3 - 10 OPINION.................................. 4 NEWS BRIEFS......................... 6 PEOPLE................................. 12 SCHOOLS.............................. 13 COLUMNS.......................14, 21 BUSINESS..................... 22 - 23 SPORTS..........................27 - 29 CALENDAR............................ 30 CLASSIFIEDS................ 32 - 35 Visit Us On The Web At WWW.GOTOWNCRIER.COM

Tree’s Wings & Ribs in Royal Palm Beach celebrated “Back to the 1980s” with Midnight Karaoke on Friday, July 15. Guests dressed up in 1980s attire and sang 1980s songs. A 1960s night is being planned for September. Shown above, Joey Lutwin sings to his wife Marisol.

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Two Democrats Facing Off In District 30 State Senate Race

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report Two Democrats, State Rep. Bobby Powell (D-District 88) and well-known attorney Michael Steinger, are facing off in the Aug. 30 primary election for the newly drawn District 30 seat in the Florida State Senate.

The newly redrawn and renumbered Senate District 30 covers Royal Palm Beach, Loxahatchee Groves, eastern portions of The Acreage, and extends to the coast to include Jupiter to the north and Cloud Lake to the south.

The winner of the primary will be favored to win the general election in a district that trends Democratic. Either Powell or Steinger will face Republican Ron Berman and write-in candidate Steve Austin in the Nov. 8 general election.

Bobby Powell — Riviera Beach resident Powell, an urban and regional planner, was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2012 and was re-elected in 2014. He is the Democratic ranking member of the Transportation & Ports Subcommittee, and a member of the Agriculture

& Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee, Economic Affairs Committee and the Economic Development & Tourism Subcommittee.

Although out-funded by his opponent, Powell said he hopes to overcome that by focusing on the issues and his own experience.

“In any election, we leave it to the voters,” he said. “Money is an object that people can use to get their message out. What I would say is although the other candidate who is running for the seat may have financial wealth, I would venture to say that as it relates to serving people, being active within the Democratic Party, being active within politics, and working hard, my social and civic capital would make me a very good candidate.”

Money does help get the word out, and Powell has raised quite a few dollars as well. As of June 25, Powell had raised $136,256 and spent $36,258. As of June 25, Steinger had raised $237,235, received a loan of $240,000 and spent $199,776.

“I think we’ve got to get away from the idea of somebody pur-

chasing an election without having served before,” Powell said. “We have to get away from people believing that politics is about buying elections, especially in a district like this where there is a variety of people. Many of the people in this district are middle class, and people who can relate to someone who has had to work his way up and continue to work hard in the community.”

Powell noted that he has numerous endorsements, including the Florida Professional Firefighters, the Palm Beach County Firefighters, the Police Benevolent Association, the Classroom Teachers Association and the Fraternal Order of Police.

“Public safety and education — those are some of the things that I stand on very strongly,” he said.

Powell also has endorsements from the business community, including the Economic Council of Palm Beach County.

“We’ve got every endorsement with regard to working hard and working people, whether it be progressive Democratic organizations See DISTRICT 30, page 16

Indian Trail Adopts New Terminology For District Roads

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report The Indian Trail Improvement District Board of Supervisors approved a set of standard roadway policies on Wednesday, designed to be the first step in collecting money to cover necessary roadway improvements due to encroaching development.

ITID Engineer Jay Foy said the standard, which the board asked staff to develop, uses terms that set apart district roads from those used by other government agencies in order to avoid confusion.

“We specifically avoided typical terminology like arterial or collector road,” Foy said. “We don’t want them to be confused with county roads, state roads or federal roads.”

Instead, the standard uses “major roads,” “minor roads” and “neighborhood roads.”

“The major and minor have specific design standards we want to have,” he said, explaining that the standards will eventually be put into a policy.

“This is not a policy yet,” Foy said. “The first step is to accept the three roads or three sections, and then the second step will be to recommend a future thoroughfare map.”

He pointed out that no specific major, minor or neighborhood roads had been named yet. “This is the first baby step based on everything that has been done since the inception of the Minto property,” Foy said, explaining that it will get ITID into a legal bargaining position to get financing for the necessary road improvements.

Consultant Joe Capra said the plan is to depict roads that handle neighborhood traffic and roads that can handle collector or heavier through traffic.

“We’re going to make the roads more structurally sound,” Capra said, explaining that the district standard does not require the asphalt thickness of county standards. “Because of the traffic that we have seen coming through, the traffic reports that we reviewed from all the developments and everything, there are some roads that we believe that these developers, or the county, or whoever, should provide a better structural number so that they can withstand the traffic that they are telling us that they are going to put on them.”

He explained that the traffic standards are the evolution of a traffic-calming study he did in 2014 that became more of a traffic safety study, which identified the location of traffic accidents over five years.

“I’m not telling you we’re adopting a roadway plan,” he said.

“We’re just trying to tell you how we came up with the idea of being major, minor and neighborhood roadways.”

Capra displayed a map of the district with all the anticipated developments and how they will affect district roads, based on traffic studies that the developers submitted to the county for approvals.

“We basically looked at these developments and the trips they’re telling us are coming onto our roads,” he said. “We may not have agreed with some of these roads that are impacted, but the fact of the matter is that the county is approving them based on this, and we have made comments to this on numerous occasions on what roads we think they are going to impact.”

Capra said the district-paved roads are built to a typical section, and he used Hamlin Blvd. and 60th See ITID ROADS, page 4

CHAMBER NETWORKING

Sound Expert Discusses Noise Control At RPB Amphitheater

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report The Royal Palm Beach Village Council heard a report last week on controlling the noise that will emanate from the new Royal Palm Beach Commons Park amphitheater.

Construction on the amphitheater will begin soon. Some residents who live near the park complained in April that the noise from bands and other special events was unbearable, and the council directed its architects to look for ways to mitigate the noise.

At the July 14 meeting, Village Engineer Chris Marsh said a study was still underway, but a noise consultant had already done work on sound control at the park with a good degree of success.

“We’re going to go over the

recommendations from the noise impact study, and the recommendations from the study are to continue to evaluate it for an additional six months,” Marsh said.

“At that point, we will come back and make a final recommendation on the sound parameters.”

Rusty Cadaret is an acoustical engineer with TSG Design Solutions, hired by the architects to study the sound characteristics for the planned amphitheater. After meeting with staff and taking input, Cadaret said he attended several smaller events at the amphitheater, as well as the village’s Fourth of July event, which is traditionally the largest event of the year.

“We took what was said to heart, so we spent some time at the subsequent events out there taking sound pressure readings, and did a

fair amount of work in predictions and analysis,” he said.

Cadaret’s firm published a detailed technical report, but he went over the executive summary with suggestions on how to improve the current conditions and create a mitigation strategy.

The best and most effective method to reduce the impact of noise is to limit its creation, he said. The next most effective way is to control the noise that is created, and a less effective way is to build barriers around the perimeter.

“The best way to not have a sound problem is to not make the problem,” he said. “The next thing to do if you’re going to make noise, is to control the noise, and then the last way is once you have the sound out there is to try and See SOUND, page 16

The Wellington Chamber of Commerce hosted After-Five Connections Over Cocktails at Pasquale’s Italian Eatery on Thursday, July 14. Attendees mingled and discussed chamber events. The next chamber luncheon will be held Wednesday, July 27 at the Wanderers Club. Shown here is Mark Elie with Wellington Chamber Executive Director Michela Green.

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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 this issue, 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.

Bucher Faces Challenger Spain In Election Chief Race

By Julie Unger Town-Crier Staff Report Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher is being challenged by attorney Christine Spain in her bid for a third term as the county’s top elections official.

Due to the filing of write-in candidate Philip Donovan, the non-partisan election will be held during the primary election on Tuesday, Aug. 30. All registered voters are eligible to vote in the countywide race.

Susan Bucher — Bucher was elected into the position of supervisor of elections in November 2008 and took office in January 2009.

“Prior to becoming the supervisor of elections, I served eight years as a Florida State Representative,” she said.

Joining the legislature following a special election in 2000, Bucher served on a committee that revamped election laws in the aftermath of the controversial 2000 presidential election.

“I continued to serve on that committee for a very long time,” she said. “I came out of the legislature with a very clear understanding of election law. Before I was a legislator, I used to work on campaigns, so I had a pretty good understanding of elections and the functions that happened.

Once I became the supervisor, then I had to educate myself about the processes that were being used in Palm Beach County.”

Bucher said she had a strong support group while getting acclimated to the job, and can now perform every one of the positions in the office.

Bucher has been working with programs to increase voting, with funding for voting equipment and improving elections. Online voter registration will be effective October 2017, she noted.

She was also the first elections supervisor to work with a vendor to use technology that allows photos to be checked at precinct

locations with mini iPads, creating a history for voters based upon their license cards.

“We’ve worked on a lot of projects here to try to streamline the system and make it better,” Bucher said. “We’ve worked on a lot of processes to provide for not only more efficiency, but for more security measures.”

Bucher has lived in Florida for 31 years. She was born in California and has been married to Richard Bucher, a native of Cocoa Beach, for 27 years.

“I’m running for re-election because I believe that I am the best equipped person in Palm Beach County to continue to conduct

elections,” she said. “I believe that I have the appropriate background and the proven track record to hold the job and continue to bring us into increased technology, more training for the staff and efficient elections.”

She wants to continue to advance the office in terms of technology. A private warehouse facility to operate elections is in the plans, and during an off election year, voting equipment needs to be upgraded, she said.

“I believe that I am the best equipped, having researched voting equipment, to be the person to choose the next voting equipment See ELECTIONS, page 4

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By Jorge Milian, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

POKÉMON CRAZE COULD POSE HEALTH RISKS, DOCTOR WARNS

Mesmerizing phone app ‘much worse than texting and walking.’

No injured Pokémon Go players have from pedestrians injured while on their been wheeled into the emergency room at phones more than doubled between 2005 Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center yet. to 2010, according to researchers from But the hospital’s medical director says Ohio State University, who predicted that the total would again double between

it’s only a matter of time.

For the uninitiated, Pokémon Go is not 2010 and 2015. some offshoot of the Zika virus, but a

Chasing Pokémon on foot can be danger-

phone application that has exploded in ous enough. But local police departments popularity since it was released July 6. Us- are concerned enough about drivers playing the real world as a game board, play- ing the game while behind the wheel that ers hunt and attempt to capture cute little they posted warnings on their Twitter acvirtual critters with names like Pikachu, counts.

Bulbasaur and Squirtle.

“Pokémon Go is the new hot thing,” the

The “augmented reality” game is unques- St. Lucie County Sheriff ’s Office tweeted. tionably addictive and can mesmerize its “Please be reminded to play responsibly. participants, who can be seen in public Don’t Pokémon and drive! You endanger places staring at their phones and wan- not only yourself but others around you.” dering around like zombies.

Boynton Beach police advised Twitter

“It’s so much worse than texting and followers: “It’s all fun and games until walking,” said Dr. Scott McFarland, emer- someone ends up in the pokie!” gency room medical director at Palm

Boca Raton police also warned the pub-

Beach Gardens Medical Center. “Your eyes lic. are fixed to the screen and it completely

McFarland is skeptical that those warn-

captivates your attention. I can certainly ings will be heeded, particularly by Pokésee disaster coming.”

mon’s younger players.

McFarland said his 11-year-old son, Jack-

“I am seeing kids, playing this game,

son, walked out of his house recently chas- completely oblivious,” McFarland said. ing Pokémon and nearly walked out into

McFarlane said he understands the

the street before realizing where he was.

game’s attraction. “The visualizations are

“I don’t think children need anything so alluring, you can’t stop looking at else to distract them any more than they’re them,” even as you step into a pothole already distracted,” McFarland said.

Inattentive pedestrians are a grow-

or walk into traffic, he said.

“The ER is already busy,” McFarlane

ing problem. Emergency-room visits said. “We don’t need any more business.”

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NEWS

Attorney: Communities Must Keep Up Fight For SR 7 Extension

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report Environmental attorney Thomas Mullin said last week that the City of West Palm Beach is not giving up its fight against the long-planned State Road 7 extension to Northlake Blvd., and has not yet exhausted all avenues to at least delay the process through litigation.

Mullin was invited by Councilman David Swift to give an update to the Royal Palm Beach Village Council on Thursday, July 14 about the status of the extension after hearing a presentation by his associate John Fumero at a recent Western Communities Council meeting.

Mullin explained that the design of the extension was the result of a process dating to the 1940s.

The Florida Department of Transportation spent decades looking at connections for State Road 7 all the way through the western communities up into Palm Beach Gardens.

“Ultimately, State Road 7 was extended up to Okeechobee Blvd.,” Mullin said. “It came down to how are they going to align it.”

He pointed out that FDOT owns the right-of-way straight through from Okeechobee Blvd. to the Beeline Highway. That was the original alignment, which was set aside due to environmental issues.

“The county has what’s called the Pond Cypress Natural Area.

To address some of the environmental considerations, that’s why you have the reliever road as exists now that goes around Pond Cypress and ends at 60th Street,” Mullin said. “This project is really the next phase of it. It would widen that reliever road from two lanes to four lanes and construct the new road from 60th Street along the M Canal, curving along the southern boundary of Ibis and along the eastern edge of Ibis up through to Northlake. We look at it as an extension of the existing road.”

The issue is over the future road’s location adjacent to the western edge of the West Palm Beach Water Catchment Area and the Ibis neighborhood to the west.

“The mayor of West Palm Beach has spoken out strongly against the project, and the residents of Ibis are not excited about the project being located there on the eastern

side of their boundary,” Mullin said. “The fact that it’s next to the water catchment area, the Grassy Waters Environmental Preserve, as it’s also known, there are some environmental concerns.”

Mullin explained that discharge from the water catchment area eventually makes its way to West Palm Beach’s water treatment plant.

He said that the South Florida Water Management District issued an environmental resource permit jointly to the FDOT and Palm Beach County on Feb. 15, and that West Palm Beach filed a petition challenging the permit on March 22. The challenge is currently in the discovery and deposition phase, with the final hearing set for the end of August.

Mullin said the issues to be discussed include water quantity and quality, effects on environmental resources and wildlife, and real property and drainage rights.

Although the issues are not new, he said that West Palm Beach amended its petition to be clearer as to what its issues are.

Mullin said the environmental resources permit issued recognizes

that the applicants, FDOT and the county, have eliminated or mitigated environmental issues to the greatest extent practicable.

“It’s a very lengthy, detailed process,” he said. “The project has just completed a very lengthy federal review. The federal agencies all weighed in and provided their comments. Design changes were made in response to those comments, so it’s really looking at the various impact and whether they have been minimized and whether they have been mitigated.”

Mullin detailed how environmental impacts have been minimized by modifying the road cross section to reduce wetland impacts, and shifting the alignment to the west to reduce the wetland effects and provide on-site mitigation. A dry detention area was narrowed to allow a wider wet retention pond, and wildlife fencing and crossings were added.

“Between the county and the state right of way, they have 320 feet,” he said. “The original design included all 320 feet. As the result of analysis, we actually shrunk that cross section so that now, instead of being the full 320 feet, it’s only

about 210 feet, and there actually is 109 feet that has been strictly preserved. There’s going to be a conservation easement placed over that area so that there will be no additional development.”

Mullin said that administrative challenges such as this are unique in that an administrative law judge issues a recommended order that must be approved by his agency.

“It walks and talks like a trial, but it is different,” he said. “Some of the rules of evidence apply, but some do not. We can rely on hearsay to the extent that it corroborates other evidence. Instead of a judge, you have an administrative law judge.”

He said the judge works for the Division of Administrative Hearings, part of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation.

“He is going to be an expert in this field,” Mullin said. “His name is Bram Cantor. He is a former environmental attorney who became an administrative law judge.

He has been doing this for a very long time.”

Following the trial, there is a process that can stretch to 60 days.

The administrative law judge will issue a recommended order, but his authority is not final. Objections can still be filed, and Mullin said it could be three or four months after the trial before all issues are resolved.

“He sends his recommended order to the agency,” he said. “The agency will generally just sign off his recommended order and issue the final order, and that order is our final permit.”

He recommended that leaders and residents of the western communities get out and let their voices be heard.

“Collectively, the western communities have just as much population as the City of West Palm Beach,” Mullin said. “Right now, the agencies, whether it’s the EPA, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the South Florida Water Management District, all they’re hearing are the negatives of this project, and there really are so many positives. I think the one recommendation that we could make to you all, which is the same that we made to the Western Communities Council, is that you have a voice.”

Wellington Fitness & Wellness Education Day At Ultima Aug. 20

By Julie Unger Town-Crier Staff Report After a successful Wellington Fitness & Wellness Education Day last year, the special day of promoting a healthier community while supporting teachers will take place again on Saturday, Aug. 20 from 9 a.m. to noon at Ultima Fitness & Wellness.

The event being held in cooperation with Stop Look & Learn, the Village of Wellington, Walgreens and Wellington The Magazine.

General Manager Jeffrey Keller, who joined the Ultima team in December, is excited about making the event bigger and better than last year for Wellington teachers and schools.

“We’re trying to grow it a little bit more so it’s more participation both on the teacher end, but also more participation from the area businesses and donations, so the community can get involved with helping Wellington-area teachers be successful with the students that they have,” Keller said.

Teacher registration will begin Saturday, Aug. 6, during Welling-

ton’s back-to-school block party, where there will be a tent and additional information.

Although teachers are welcome the day of the event without registration, pre-registering will help organizers to anticipate the crowd and the teachers’ classroom needs.

“The more teachers involved, the better. The more teachers involved, the more kids it means we’re helping,” Keller said.

Seminars begin at 9 a.m., with a 30-minute lecture by Lynette Laufenberg where teachers can learn techniques to help students focus in the classroom through various exercises. The second lecture, about managing job stress, is

by Dr. Matthew DiLallo and takes place at 11:15 a.m. and runs for a half-hour.

There will be a 50-minute Pilates class at 9 a.m. and a 50-minute Zumba class at 10 a.m. From 9 a.m. to noon, there will be flu shots and chair massages. All attendees will receive admission to Ultima for the day.

Before the event, there is an 8 a.m. cycling class, which Keller

said attendees are welcome to participate in.

Teacher supply store Stop Look & Learn will also be on the premises to offer their expertise.

Last year, Ultima’s Javonti Greene said, somewhere between 14 and 19 teachers participated.

“There were less people, so they got a lot more supplies. We had a lot of supplies. We had a lot of donations,” Greene said.

Teachers from Binks Forest, Elbridge Gale, Equestrian Trails, New Horizons, Wellington Elementary and Panther Run elementary schools, and Emerald Cove and Wellington Landings middle schools, received supplies that were delivered to their classrooms in September.

Though the community is welcome to attend, the supply donations are for the school teachers at Wellington’s 11 public schools.

Some of the items were: supply boxes, crayons, safety scissors, water colors, markers, pencil cases, sticky notes, pencil erasers, rulers, glue, cardstock paper, journals, clipboards, spiral notebooks,

folders, colored pencils, sharpeners, flash drives, glue sticks, dividers, dry erase markers, binders, highlighters, pens, pencils, loose-leaf paper, calculators, graph paper, sheet protectors, permanent markers and more.

Teachers were given the opportunity to request specific items, and asked for supplies such as paper towels, wipes, tissues, sanitizer, soap, copy paper, paper plates, tape, bandages, envelopes and more.

There were many monetary donations, Greene said, which helped them purchase specific items for the teachers.

Members of the community are welcome to attend the event. A donation garners admission and the ability to use Ultima for the day.

This year, for added convenience, a GoFundMe account was created, which is available at www.gofundme.com/2cgmfhg.

Every donation, no matter the size, helps, Keller said.

Ultima’s Judy Duany is excited to be helping Wellington teachers and students. “We’re known for

Denzil Soleyn gets a flu shot from pharmacist Krista Strathie at last year’s Wellington Fitness & Wellness Education Day. giving back to the community, so this is just another way for us to help the community,” she said.

Everyone at Ultima is looking forward to Aug. 20, and meeting and mingling with Wellington teachers during this special event.

“Ultima is a longstanding family-owned business,” Keller said.

“As a family business, we really care about the children and teach-

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ers in the community and the success that they have in school.

Giving back to them is our way of contributing to that success.”

Ultima is located at 12799 W. Forest Hill Blvd. in the Wellington Plaza. For more information, call Ultima at (561) 795-2823 to speak with Keller, or contact the Village of Wellington at (561) 791-4000 or www.wellingtonfl.gov.

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Trump Plagiarism Episode Shows Danger Of Taking Shortcuts

“Boy, that escalated quickly.” Just to let you know, those opening four words were originally spoken by Will Farrell’s character in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. We offer this official citation because we don’t want to be accused of plagiarism.

Plagiarism is “the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.” Discussion on this topic took over Monday night as the Republican National Convention concluded its first day, when two paragraphs of potential First Lady Melania Trump’s speech were identified as having been previously orated in 2008… by current First Lady Michelle Obama.

This is not the first accusation of plagiarism in politics, even in recent history. In 2008, Hillary Clinton was accused to plagiarizing U.S. Sen. John Edwards during her first presidential campaign. In 2007, President Obama shared speechwriters with Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, and neglected to give Patrick credit for some of his original rhetoric on occasion. In 2014, U.S. Senate candidate John Walsh of Montana bowed out of the race when it was discovered that he had plagiarized portions of his master’s degree term papers at the U.S. Army War College. Most famously, in 1988, Vice President Joe Biden (then a much younger senator) plagiarized British Labour Party leader Neal Kinnock (not just his words, but his biographical details) during his ill-fated presidential campaign. All of these received much media play, and in the current world of Twitter, probably would have received infinitely more attention.

But the curious case of Melania Trump blew up this week, for three primary reasons that make it unique and different from the previous examples.

First, the source. Donald Trump and the GOP have been targeting Democrats and President Barack Obama for some time, so Melania Trump stealing words from the current FLOTUS and claiming it as her own came off as a stunning public relations

blow. Taking words from the “political enemy” and using them for your own purposes reflects very poorly — especially when the lifted phrases dealt with themes like “hard work” and “integrity.”

Second, the vetting process. Professional political campaigns have at their disposal a number of search tools that can be used to ensure plagiarism doesn’t happen. Whether a simple Google search or using a more sophisticated program like Turnitin, which a number of area schools use to check student writing, the Trump campaign had many options at its disposal, but chose not to do the extra work when introducing Mrs. Trump on the national stage.

Third, crisis management. Team Trump fared poorly here, first denying the plagiarism, then refusing to accept any blame for it and blaming the rival Clinton campaign, then determining that two official speechwriters had sent Melania Trump a draft which she rewrote herself. Nearly 36 hours after the speech, an in-house Trump Organization staff writer named Meredith McIver claimed to have made the error, adding that Melania Trump has a deep appreciation of Michelle Obama and reviewed some passages from her 2008 speech, which set up the error that took away from what should have been a wonderful night for Mrs. Trump.

Given the many other topics of vital importance to Americans, was plagiarism the most important on which to focus? Probably not. But it reinforced dominant themes of the Trump campaign, which has shied away from using experienced political experts and established political routines, instead playing on instinct.

If any good has come out of the fiasco, it’s that high school and middle school English teachers have a new and modern example of how to teach students the dangers of plagiarism.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Don’t Drink The Water... Question Authority

I was present during the recent Wellington Village Council meeting at which five people decided to begin adding fluoride to the public drinking water supply here in Wellington, again. Consider how it is that five people are vested with the power to decree that well over 60,000 residents must, once again, ingest or absorb added amounts of fluoride with every drink of water, cup of coffee, morning shower, etc.

Interestingly, the council meeting was packed with dentists from Wellington and surrounding towns who all praised fluoride for its ability to fight dental caries (it supposedly helps prevent cavities in children’s teeth). I couldn’t help but wonder what (or who) mobilized such a confluence of dentists.

They were clearly organized to act as a unit to shut down any opposition and to force this dangerous and poisonous chemical down our collective (albeit uneducated) throats. It smelled fishy, and I wonder why it would be so very important to these dentists to tear themselves away from their oddly scheduled dental surgeries (some still clad in scrubs at 9 p.m. in the evening?). The only thing that I could come up with was that many dentists are so entrenched in their own rhetoric that they refuse to consider the possibility that what they’ve been advocating for all these years may indeed harbor a

very real “downside.”

Space does not permit me to list all of the many health and safety “concerns” raised by water fluoridation. It’s important to know what you are putting into your body, and you’ve got to hear all sides in order to form an educated opinion.

I implore you to take a moment to simply review with an open mind the information presented at www.fluoridealert.org. Even if you discount fully half of what you read on that web site, you must still concede that there remains more than sufficient evidence to make one run the other way when offered the option of adding more fluoride into drinking water. Yes, even if you choose to “poo-poo” the studies suggesting that fluoridation increases one’s chances for bone fractures, certain cancers and brain damage, consider this... most European countries do not add fluoride to their water. There is a movement to stop fluoridation here as well. Palm Beach Gardens and Boca Raton have banned the addition of fluoride to their water.

The harm and potential for harm simply outweigh any perceived value. Fluoride accumulates in the body and it is entering our bodies from many sources, including many foods and nearly all toothpastes. Just read the label on your tube of toothpaste to see the poison warning label! There is good reason for that warning label. Why would you choose to increase the amount you take into your body?

I suggest that those who feel the need for more fluoride should sim-

ply brush their teeth more often.

But please don’t assume that you have a right, or worse yet, a moral obligation, to add it to my family’s water supply. And it’s not just the water we drink... it’s the water we cook with, swim in, shower with.

I certainly pity the unaware mother who regularly bathes her small children in a tub full of fluoridated bath water!

This unanimous council vote is a travesty. A five-member council should not have the power to “drug” 60,000 people with a toxic chemical based upon it’s equivocal effect upon dental caries. Increasing fluoride for one’s dental health (by the way, this in itself is in question by some) must remain an individual decision. In a worst case scenario, this should be decided by public referendum in the voting booth. Anything less is tantamount to tyranny. Remember, if you don’t demand change, you won’t get change.

Dr. Elliott Krakow Wellington

Nielsen Responds To Euell On Guns

Editor’s note: The following letter is in response to Thomas Euell’s letter “Guns Are Not The Problem,” published last week.

When I was in college and part of a debate team, it was generally understood that if one departed from the issue and resorted to personal attacks, he or she has

departed from differences on an issue and have shown themselves to be intellectually impotent.

It would be difficult for even the most astute among us to connect differences on, in this case the issue of guns, to how my recent article with facts was understood or the grade level of the person rebutting without regard to content.

No one is suggesting that any new law will, in and of itself, prevent all the recent and terrible tragedies we have all read about and witnessed on television. We differ on the interpretation of the Second Amendment, where you consider the authors wrote it for an individual’s right to bear arms rather than the right of the people to form militias.

The sad truth is that the sales and proliferation of guns — about 300 million nationwide — has not reduced crime or made us feel safer, and the indiscriminate sales have had an impact on the responsible gun owners.

What is being suggested is a responsible approach to gun ownership by closing the “loopholes” in existing laws that permit the private sale of guns at gun shows.

Private sales permit the indiscriminate sale of guns to anyone without any background check and prevents law enforcement from having the ability to track such weapons, I am a proponent of such measures because I believe it is in the public interest for law enforcement to be in a position to protect law-abiding citizens.

Will this prevent unstable or

terrorists, domestic and foreign, from carrying out all their attacks on our citizenry? Only the naive would think so, but in saying so, that does not mean the gun show loophole or the indiscriminate sale of guns should continue, or that weapons of war should be sold to ordinary citizens.

I believe that if such changes are implemented, it would not solve all the problems presented by guns, but if such changes saved one life, I think such changes are reasonable and do not interfere with responsible gun ownership.

Finally, I do not deny that there are things in “socialist” platforms that I’m inclined to favor, but I think the way I was described was at best, a cheap shot in your weak argument, which lost focus at times and just rambled on through drug issues and the DEA, which was not a part of the discussion.

I have no idea who Mr. Euell is, or more importantly how old he is, relevant to my conclusion, but

I found his distaste for all things socialistic interesting!

I, on the other hand, openly favor some socialistic programs, like Social Security, Yes, Mr. Euell, Social Security was and is a socialist program!

The head of the Socialist Party and candidate for president of these United States was a Socialist named Eugene V. Debs, who had as part of his party’s platform Social Security. Mr. Debs ran afoul of the law and was put in jail, but Franklin Delano Roosevelt adopted Social Security as part of the Democratic platform and won.

My point, Mr. Euell, if, as you indicate, you have great disdain for all things socialistic, and you would not want to be “guilty by association,” I would expect you to distance yourself from a “socialistic program” by sending back your Social Security check in protest!

Richard Nielsen Royal Palm Beach

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continued from page 1 that Palm Beach County purchases,” she said.

Both the warehouse and the voting equipment, Bucher said, are big ticket items in excess of $15 million.

To date, she has saved taxpayers $21.6 million over the last seven years, while increasing training and technology.

“I want to continue to save taxpayers money,” she said. “I believe that I have the proven track record, I understand Florida law, I understand the rules and I understand the services that the voters and the other customers — our candidates — expect from this office. I believe that I can deliver them in the best manner possible.”

Christine Spain — Spain has been a business attorney and CPA for more than 30 years. She

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continued from page 1 Street as examples of roads built to the district standard with a thinner asphalt surface that are expected to get a lot more traffic.

“A road that we see is Persimmon Blvd.,” he said. “Whether we

has lived in South Florida for more than 40 years, working in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties through her practice in Boca Raton. She currently lives in Palm Beach Gardens.

“I’m not a politician. I’m a concerned citizen, which is why I got involved,” she said.

Spain’s husband, Paul Spain, is a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in District 21.

He is the Republican candidate challenging Democratic Congresswoman Lois Frankel in her re-election bid.

Spain said that she has been involved in many campaigns as an activist — and has not been happy with how county elections are run.

“It’s really who counts the vote, sometimes more than who is voting, that really matters,” Spain said. “We’ve just had a lot of problems in Palm Beach, especially since 2000, but a lot in the immediate past eight years with issues every election — whether

they’re problems with the ballots, whether they’re problems with mistakes, losers being declared winners, problems with the ballot where they have to be manually entered, creating all kinds of errors.”

The Supervisor of Elections Office, she said, does not treat its volunteers fairly.

“A lot of people who have volunteered, have frankly been quite abused by that office. It’s quite a hostile office — very partisan,” Spain said. “Palm Beach voters and residents deserve better than that. With close races, every time there’s a close race, we can’t have things determined because of manipulation, errors and failure to maintain accurate voter rolls.”

For example, an independent public interest group made Spain aware of an inquiry claiming more than 100 percent of the eligible voting base has voted. “I’d be very interested in following that, but it’s just very typical of the things that are going on,” she said.

Spain would like to restore integrity and confidence and public trust into the electoral system.

“I have a lot of background in independent and internal audits, internal controls and fraud detection, as well as technology,” she said. “I’d like to make some improvements with the voting machines, for instance. How do people know that their vote is counted?”

Spain suggested that a receipt be given to voters after they vote to show their vote was counted.

She also wants a citizens’ advisory board that is supportive rather than defensive.

“Instead of being defensive when people bring problems and complaints to you about what they see going on at the polls, you should welcome those things,” she said. “Those are opportunities to improve the system. Instead, those people are met with such hostility, told that they can’t prove it, told that they don’t know what they’re talking about… That’s just

Susan Bucher not acceptable. These people give up their time and they volunteer, and we should all — no matter if its Republican or Democrat — we should all be vitally interested in seeing fair elections, neutrally and impartially conducted.”

Her platform, Spain said, is to prevent voter fraud and to restore

Christine Spain public trust in the voting system.

When people don’t trust the system, she explained, they become cynical and don’t vote.

“Then you’ve got public officials being elected by fewer and fewer people each time, and that’s just not right,” she said. “Like I said, we deserve better.”

like it or not, that is a road that the county has shown that is going to get a lot more traffic.”

He added that the approval of Avenir will put a lot more traffic on 140th Avenue North.

“I’m not telling you what I like and what you like,” he said. “I’m telling you what they’re telling us.”

Capra said they are trying to improve major roads to county

standards.

“They are really building them to handle traffic,” he said. “They have put a thicker roadway section and they have put a shoulder that is paved.”

He explained that the county puts a 2.5-inch-thick asphalt pavement on arterial roads, where the district uses 1.75 inches. The county uses a 6-foot paved shoulder, while the district has a 6-foot

stabilized shoulder with sod on it.

The county also has sidewalks on both sides, whereas the district has a sidewalk on one side of some of the roads, but also has swales on both sides.

“There is a difference in how the county builds its roads and how we have built our roads, and there is a good reason why we have built them to this standard, because they were just neighborhood roads,

rural neighborhood roads that were not planned to be handling the traffic that can come out here,” Capra said.

He said the developers are proposing two-lane roads, but the traffic will be not only heavier, but traveled by heavy trucks.

Also recommended is to increase the elevation of major roads to the level that will handle a 25year storm.

“The point is we’re not only addressing the thickness of roads, we also want to place them at the right elevation so they don’t flood,” Capra said.

He said the minor roads will probably keep the same district standard.

Supervisor Michelle Damone made a motion to accept the report, which carried 4-1 with Supervisor Jennifer Hager opposed.

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ROYAL PALM BEACH’S CAMP PROGRAM HOSTS VISITORS FROM ECUADOR

The Royal Palm Beach Parks & Recreation Department’s summer camp is hosting 28 kids from Ecuador for a two-week camp. On Monday, July 18, they visited the Calypso Bay Water Park, where the visiting campers played together with local kids. The visitors, ages 5 to 13, are interacting with the American campers to learn more about the American way of life and culture.

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The campers traveled to Royal Palm Beach from Quito, Ecuador.

Estephania Natalia Zambrano comes down the water slide.

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Construction Advisory

Construction is underway on the Forest Hill Blvd. C-13 Culvert Replacement Project, Village of Wellington officials announced last week.

The project, taking place just south of Wellington Trace, will narrow the existing four-lane section of Forest Hill Blvd. to two lanes in order to facilitate construction activities. Construction will take place Monday through Saturday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., with occasional evening utility projects. Work will be suspended on Sundays.

Delays are expected, so residents are advised to use extra

Mateo Flores makes his way across the water.

caution while approaching this stretch of Forest Hill Blvd. Local and pass-through traffic is encouraged to use Wellington Trace or Big Blue Trace as alternatives to bypass the construction.

The Forest Hill Blvd. C-13 project will improve infrastructure on a portion of Forest Hill Blvd., including the existing culvert and the accompanying low-lying area near the culvert.

The project includes the replacement of an existing failing 30-inch culvert with a new 60-inch reinforced concrete culvert, and the reconstruction of approximately 820 linear feet of roadway, including striping and signage, concrete curbing and sidewalk, drainage piping and structures, landscaping, irrigation, grading and sodding.

Project completion is expected in

Kids float down the lazy river.

Dereck Rivera and Ismaeol Blanco in the water.

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November. For more info., visit www.wellingtonfl.gov.

Kravis Preview Performance To Benefit MCCPB

Marcie Gorman-Althof and Michael Lifshitz, the producing partners behind MNM Productions, recently announced that the Thursday, Aug. 4 preview performance of The World Goes ’Round, a musical revue showcasing the music of legendary Broadway songwriters John Kander and Fred Ebb, will benefit the Metropolitan Community Church of the Palm Beaches (MCCPB) and Joy MCC in Orlando. Both faith communities serve their local LGBTQ communities, which is particularly

important since the massacre last month at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.

Packed with popular songs from both Broadway (Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss of the Spider Woman and 70, Girls, 70) and Hollywood (Funny Lady and New York, New York), The World Goes ’Round will run for 15 performances at the Kravis Center’s Rinker Playhouse, starting with the preview performance on Aug. 4 and running through Aug. 21.

“We are so very grateful to MNM Productions for their incredibly generous support of the Metropolitan Community Church of the Palm Beaches and Joy MCC in Orlando,” said Rev. Dr. Lea Brown, senior pastor of MCCPB, which is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year. “MCCPB is

The campers enjoy a day at the water park.

Alexander Chavez at Calyspo Bay.

Esteban Rivera comes down the water slide.

at the very center of providing hope and healing for the LGBTQ community following the devastation of the Pulse massacre. The financial support from this benefit performance will help us to stay strong for those who need us now more than ever.”

The talented cast of The World Goes ’Round includes Clay Cartland, who can currently be seen in 1776 at Palm Beach Dramaworks; Jinon Deeb and Michael Scott Ross, who appeared in MNM’s recent production of Hair at the Kravis Center; and Shelley Keeler and Leah Sessa, who co-starred in MNM’s Carbonell-nominated production of Side By Side by Sondheim.

Tickets for the special preview performance are $110 each for a limited number of stage-side

cocktail table seats, and $50 each for reserved seating. They are now available for purchase at the Kravis Center box office (701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach), by phone at (561) 8327469 or online at www.kravis.org.

Goodwill To Mark 50th Anniversary

Gulfstream Goodwill Industries will hold its 50th Anniversary Gala on Saturday, Nov. 12 from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Kravis Center’s Cohen Pavilion in West Palm Beach, led by co-chairs Carol Roberts and Richard Rampell. For more information, call Julie Kratzenberg at (561) 848-7200, ext. 3248, or e-mail jkratzenberg@gulfstream goodwill.org.

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‘Fit For Hope’ In RPB July 23

On Saturday, July 23, a group of hard-core fitness fans will be squatting, lifting and jumping to raise money and awareness of Florida’s foster kids.

Place of Hope is hosting “Fit for Hope Day” with Hard Exercise Works and Chick-Fil-A Wellington, as part of its summer-long fitness campaign. The event will be held from 9 to 10:30 a.m. at Seminole Palms Park (151 Lamstein Lane, Royal Palm Beach).

Participants are encouraged to give a $10 donation for Place of Hope’s efforts to raise $10,000, which pays for the care of one child in their care for one year.

For more event details, visit www.placeofhope.com/fit-forhope.

Healthy Adults Run At PBCHS On July 30

The first annual Healthy Adults Run benefiting Antoinette Wilks’ Olympic Campaign, in conjunction with the Palm Beach Central

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High School Track & Field Program, will take place Saturday, July 30 at 9 a.m. at Palm Beach Central High School. The event will be presented by Timothy W. Schultz, PA, Attorney at Law. For more info., visit www.healthyadultsrun.com or call (561) 5749670.

Aug. 27 ‘Keys To Homeownership’ Workshop

Wellington’s Community Services Department will host a “Keys to Homeownership” workshop on Saturday, Aug. 27 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. to educate residents looking to purchase their first home.

Homeownership is often described as the “American Dream.”

Unfortunately, for many residents, this dream is just that, a dream.

Lack of knowledge is often the biggest barrier to homeownership.

Through its partnership with the Palm Beach County Affordable Housing Collaborative, Wellington will bring together representatives from each area of the homebuying process. Participants will

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learn the importance of credit, the mortgage experience, the purchase process, downpayment assistance, homebuyer subsidy programs and working with a Realtor.

The “Keys to Homeownership” workshop will take place at the Wellington Community Center (12150 W. Forest Hill Blvd.).

Breakfast and lunch will be served, followed by a TV raffle. To RSVP, call the Community Services Department at (561) 791-4796.

Seating is limited.

Brady’s Heroes Golf Classic Nov. 5 At Madison Green

The second annual Brady’s Heroes Celebrity Golf Classic will take place Saturday, Nov. 5 at the Madison Green Country Club to benefit Honor Flight South Florida, the NFL Alumni Charity for Kids and the Anthony Rizzo Family Foundation. There will be hole contests, prizes and more at the tournament, which starts with registration at 8 a.m. and concludes with awards and dinner at

3 p.m. Sponsorships are available.

For additional information, or to register for the event, visit www. bradysheroescharitablefoundation. com.

Wellington Seeks Cleanup Volunteers

Wellington is calling on residents to roll up their sleeves and make a difference in the community during the International Coastal Cleanup on Saturday, Sept. 17 from 10 a.m. to noon.

In Wellington, volunteers will pick up trash and loose litter along Greenbriar Blvd. and Greenview Shores Blvd., as well as the Folkestone/Yarmouth community.

Come early and receive a free T-shirt.

To register for the event, download the volunteer application form by visiting www.wellingtonfl.gov and clicking on the “International Coastal Cleanup” image in the scrolling events section. Completed forms can be returned to the Community Services Office (1092 Wellington Trace) or scanned and e-mailed to Community Pro-

grams Manager Scott Campbell at scampbell@wellingtonfl.gov.

Volunteer registration forms can also be completed on site the day of the event.

For more information about this event, call Campbell at (561) 7914105. For information about other Wellington programs, events, activities and updates, visit www. wellingtonfl.gov.

School District Launches Back To School Site

School starts in less than a month, and now is the time to begin preparations for the return to the classroom.

The School District of Palm Beach County has created a Backto-School web site with everything families need to get ready to return to district schools. Located at www.palmbeachschools.org/ backtoschool, the site is a onestop-shop with information on finding your school and registering, health requirements and immunizations, applying for free and reduced-priced meals, this year’s student and family handbook, an

introduction to the new regional superintendents, school times, calendars and back-to-school news.

“Whether you’re a parent ready to get the kids back to school or a student not wanting the summer to end, the countdown clock is posted for everyone to view,” Chief Communications and Strategic Engagement Officer Amity Chandler said.

“As for our schools, we can’t wait to welcome our students.”

The Education Network, the district’s TV station, has posted videos to the site that address frequently asked questions about the start of school, as well as safety tips for drivers and students.

School supply lists are available on each school’s web page, which is searchable from the Back-toSchool page. Bus routes will be posted on Aug. 10.

The page will be updated daily as more information becomes available. For more info., follow the School District of Palm Beach County at www.facebook.com/ pbcsd and Twitter @PBCSD. Back-to-School photos and comments posted by parents and students using #BTS2016 and #PBCSReady will also appear on the page.

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Loxahatchee Groves Town Council Adopts Unchanged Tax Rate

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report The Loxahatchee Groves Town Council approved a property tax rate of 1.4718 mills for its Truth in Millage (TRIM) rate, the same as this year, at its meeting Tuesday.

Based on the average homesteaded property value in town of $180,820, a homeowner would pay $192.54 after exemptions, which is up $2.73 from this year’s average due to rising property values. The rollback rate for the town would be 1.2822 mills.

The council also approved a solid waste assessment rate of $256.27 per customer, also unchanged from this year, although the contract was up $8,573 to $437,218. The collection rate is unchanged due to a $100,302 supplement from the general fund, which is less than the $115,000 supplement last year because about 100 new customers were added.

In recognition of the town’s 10th anniversary, Town Manager Bill Underwood recounted the history of the town’s taxable value, which went from a value of $362,613,089

in 2008, plummeted to a low of $178,882,163 in 2014, and has climbed back up to a value of $258,253,505 for fiscal year 2017.

“The massive reduction was 51 percent, and you’ve recovered back up, but it is phenomenal the level of reduction that you had,” Underwood said.

He also pointed out that during the recent recession, for a non-agricultural five-acre homestead, the council reduced the solid waste collection rate from a high of $323.73 in 2010 to the current rate of $256.27 due to supplements from the general fund.

“The council has been able to continue operations and continue to save money,” he said.

Underwood also noted that when property values dropped, the council also dropped the tax rate, where the opposite frequently occurs in municipalities when they are trying to collect the same amount of dollars in order to continue to operate.

Total ad valorem dollars paid to the town are coming back up. They went from a high of $516,724 in 2008 to a low of $203,926 in 2014.

The proposed amount is $361,093 for 2017.

The total just value, the actual market value of the town, rose to $445,705,703 in 2015 from $362,087,003 in 2014, he said.

Broken down into categories, the just value of homestead property was $196,119,527 in 2015 from a low of $162,496,582 in 2013; agricultural land value was $92,565,059 from a low of $58,953,972 in 2013; and non-homesteaded residential property was $83,067,702 in 2015 from a low of $44,693,949 in 2013.

Assessed taxable value was up for homesteaded property to $134,135,728 in 2015 from a low of $124,537,077 in 2013.

Agricultural assessed value was $10,870,596 in 2015, up from $10,837,144 in 2014, but still down from $11,186,470 in 2013.

Non-homesteaded property assessed value was $67,414,346, up from the low of $44,561,941 in 2013.

Back to this year’s budget, appropriations would be $1,365,923, or 41 percent, to the general fund; $1,118,893, or 34 percent, to

the capital improvement fund; $442,198, or 13 percent, to the solid waste fund; and $416,571 to the transportation fund.

Revenue to the general fund includes the public service tax of $369,143, ad valorem tax of $361,093, intergovernmental funds of $349,687, permits and special assessments of $239,000, charges for services of $38,500, fines and forfeitures of $1,000 and miscellaneous funds of $7,500.

General fund appropriations are $323,594 to town management, $304,521 for law enforcement, $163,334 to planning and zoning, $120,100 to code enforcement, $146,849 to non-departmental uses, $89,980 to general government, $87,435 to the town council and $5,000 to public works.

The transportation fund includes a $77,764 supplement to the Loxahatchee Groves Water Control District, repairs to lettered roads of $8,668, trails of $28,140 and operational expense for roads of $302,000. Underwood said transportation will receive about $32,000 more from gas tax revenue.

The capital improvement plan includes about a $400,000 contribution to complete South B Road improvements that should be done in November, and will use $718,893 for projects in the budget. Continued road surveys

are budgeted for $100,000, and $400,000 is budgeted for road and drainage construction, $40,000 for the North Road trail and $50,000 for other trails. An additional $28,983 supplement will go to the LGWCD toward road acquisition.

Next LGLA Meeting Set For July 28

The Loxahatchee Groves Landowners’ Association will meet Thursday, July 28 at 7 p.m. at the Palms West Presbyterian Church (13689 Okeechobee Blvd.).

The speaker for the evening will talk about the Florida trails and greenway system and explain the concept of connectivity and how it can be achieved.

This is an open meeting where residents will get a chance to discuss issues of concern that they may have related to things that are going on in town. The meeting is open to the public, but only LGLA members with paid dues can make motions or vote. For more info., contact Marge Herzog at (561) 818-9114 or marge@herzog.ms.

Harry Potter Event July 30 At Barnes & Noble In Wellington

The Barnes & Noble store in Wellington will hold a Harry Potter Countdown to Midnight Celebration on Saturday, July 30, starting at 8 p.m. At midnight, the epic eighth story and a special rehearsal edition script book, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts

One & Two, will be released.

The Countdown to Midnight party will include family fun activities, a special Muggle Wall where customers can share their favorite memories of Harry Potter and amazing giveaways. For more info., call (561) 792-1292.

ITID Question 2: What Are Your Thoughts On Development Plans?

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 are your thoughts on development projects planned in areas adjacent to The Acreage? What can or should ITID do regarding these planned developments?

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Betty Argue — ITID has no control over county decisions regarding planned developments.

ITID does have control over our roads but has failed to assert its authority. The county has claimed rights on our roads that it does not have. Should 60th Street and Persimmon Blvd. be extended to Seminole Pratt Whitney Road, they will become major thoroughfares as busy as Northlake Blvd., benefiting developers and to the detriment of ITID residents and roads.

The City of Westlake could increase its number of homes and commercial with no accountability to ITID, surrounding communities or the county, other than a check to the county for impact on county roads only. GL Homes and Delray Linton Groves have asked for an increase in residential units and commercial space. They need our roads. ITID must defend its rights and protect our roads. It is crucial to consider all options to mitigate impact, protect our roads and residents. I will work in concert with the other supervisors to achieve that. Most importantly, ITID residents should not bear the financial burden of development impact.

This can only be accomplished by an active, not passive, board.

I have been at the forefront opposing the Minto development.

Our residents deserve to be respected, not trampled. Do you trust the person who has supported and advocated for Minto, voted against protecting ITID rights, as well as turned over ITID roads to the county, giving up ITID control during her 16-year tenure, to protect ITID rights now and in the future?

Michelle Damone — In 1996, I built and moved into my home here in The Acreage. I loved the community exactly how it was, but so did many others. Empty lots surrounding my home were

Betty Argue Michelle Damone Keith Jordano cleared and had homes built on Keith Jordano — This is a good them. Should I have protested my example why more residents of neighbors from moving in? Do The Acreage need to get involved they not have the same right to and vote for the honest, qualified build as I had? candidate. Our elected officials So, as a community leader, in Tallahassee voted for a law I have reached out to all of the that fit one land mass — what is developers to listen to their plans now called Westlake. This law and have had input on items that was past several years back, so directly affect our community and I’m not happy that the longtime have offered suggestions based on members of the ITID board let my 20 years of knowledge of the this happen under their watch. The area. I also do not treat them dis- ITID board should have lobbied respectfully, and I firmly believe the elected officials harder not to a “just say no” approach will only approve. Again, money won out, lead to results forcing us to live not the will of the people. Why is with decisions that do not comple- it that big money can get approval ment our community. for all this development, and we ITID’s responsibilities are limit- cannot get a mile of road done? ed. Since we live in unincorporated The planning is not there. The total Palm Beach County, the Board number of homes and commercial of County Commissioners has development will affect our quality final approval on development. of life.

However, ITID has influence and ITID and all the voting residents has power of its internal roads and need to speak up. How? By voting drainage. If any candidate suggests for candidates who can be trusted “closing roads” as a solution; it is to do the right thing. We need to not in the best interest of the pub- work with local and state elected lic’s safety, health and welfare. It is officials. We need to work with irresponsible. 911 response times the developers to become good are already higher in The Acreage neighbors and not enemies. We than other areas of the county. will need to improve our roads, Trust me, if you need an ambu- build alternate roads to help with lance to arrive at your home to traffic and install traffic-calming save your loved one’s life, you will features. We will need to make want to rip up every speed hump sure our drainage is improved, or open a road for that emergency not made worse. We will need to vehicle to arrive. improve and add public services I am extremely disappointed by and safety. Most of all, not make Minto’s use of their incorporation The Acreage pay for it. power. It happened overnight, and it was not in the best interest of the ITID SEAT 2 area. However, I firmly believe it was an abrupt decision made by Ryan Bernal — The projects Minto after entering several costly are the culmination of a lack of lawsuits filed by the ALERTS representation and respect from group, 1000 Friends of Florida the county commissioners and the and individuals. I feel Minto was state. These projects will bring the forced to use incorporation to headaches of a non-conforming/ avoid millions of dollars spent in non-rural lifestyle to our back frivolous lawsuits. yards.

You can either be at the table I painfully remember the comor on the menu. I choose to be at missioners voting in favor of the the table with positive influence in Minto deal despite their advisory shaping our area for future gener- council’s unanimous disapproval. ations to enjoy.

They knew its passage would be a

slippery slope for similar projects to be approved, despite having inadequate infrastructure in the area.

The roads are already unsafe and unsuitable for the area’s current populations. Peak commuting hours currently experience traffic slowdowns, and gridlock is always a minor accident away on each of the primary routes to and from the community.

The county’s neglect for our area’s interests should serve as a call for incorporation and greater self-control of our own future.

Until then, ITID has little say in the matters outside its jurisdiction.

However, that should not stop ITID from making our current residential roads safer and developing appropriate plans of action to address the projects’ impacts on increased traffic and potential drainage issues. The added traffic and lagging infrastructure will bring commuters onto the residential roads of The Acreage, so ITID must keep that traffic as calm as possible. Thus far, traffic calming has primarily been a talking point, while lives are being lost on our roads. A speed bump or a roundabout should be installed preemptively, rather than as a result of a fatal accident. One life lost on our roads is one too many.

Gary Dunkley — The developments in and surrounding The Acreage are a serious threat to our infrastructure. This area was never meant to accommodate the traffic projected by these developments.

The reason Palm Beach County had a comprehensive plan was to protect residents and their ways of life. Minto/Westlake, Walsey/GL Homes, Sluggett, Lion Country, Arden and Vavrus/Avenir were all zoned one home per 10 acres.

Their 1,000 percent increase in density was based on pure greed.

We at ITID paid $500,000 for a study which showed our existing roads could not and should not be impacted in such a way. Some of my fellow board members ran in the last election based on ITID fighting this gross injustice, saying we were going to court to fight for our residents’ rights. When elected, they voted not to use the study.

The residents of The Acreage own their roads, they paid the taxes, they paid for the maintenance of the dirt roads, the paving of roads, and our drainage system. They deserve ITID elected officials who fight to keep The Acreage an area

where our children can continue to ride a bicycle, ride a horse and walk safely, as they have in the past. These developers need to come to the table showing how their traffic works in our area, not the other way around. The people of The Acreage have been very good stewards since the first home was built 40-plus years ago. Close to 15,000 of the 17,000 lots exist, and residents of ITID deserve their way of life. They deserve their investment to be protected.

Steve Roberts — My thoughts of the proposed developments that are being considered adjacent to us are twofold. I do believe that there is a great opportunity for us to grow and create additional jobs for the residents here, higher revenues for the small businesses we have and property value increases that benefit all of the Indian Trail Improvement District’s residents.

I have seen developments first hand create major improvements financially over the past 20 years that I have been in the real estate finance industry. On the other hand, the increased traffic will have to be monitored to ensure that our equestrian community and children are protected and kept safe. In working with the developers, engineers and with community input, I am extremely confident that these issues and concerns can be addressed efficiently and effectively. Our community is going to have the additional growth, and unless we are able to reach out and voice our concerns, we will be living in a situation where the neighbors feel like our enemies, and that is not what we need or want.

ITID has an obligation to ensure that our roads are maintained, our water management is under control and our parks are kept up.

Additional traffic and residents of neighboring communities will have an impact. That being said, we will have to be a voice of reason and strong in requests that we are compensated for the additional

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wear. We need to be vigilant in having a plan for strengthened infrastructure that does not financially burden our residents, and that public safety services are being offered to help keep everyone in ITID safe.

Timothy Sayre — There are so many facets to this question that involve The Acreage, the owners of the property and the planned development (over development) of some areas. This comes along with the establishment of a new city adjacent to The Acreage.

Development is inevitable, but with development comes the need and, in my opinion, the responsibility of the developer to provide the additional services and infrastructure to support the additional residents without impacting, or with as little impact as possible, on the lives of those already in the area.

What can or should ITID do regarding these planned developments? ITID has spent money on traffic-calming studies. It needs to implement calming according to the needs of each area and not simply impose a single strategy throughout The Acreage. It needs to push for a designation of a traffic backlog district so future property value increases are used in our area to help alleviate the cost of new and improved road structures.

The board needs to stand firm on its previous advisement to the county that they will not allow Minto to use our roads for their monetary gain.

Any future or presently planned communities need to be worked with and asked to submit signed letters of intent to not build more than the currently allowed one home per 1.25 acres. (I know it used to be one per five or 10 acres where they bought, but that has been undone by the county).

ITID should steadfastly refuse to move beyond the current twolane roads that exist as paved roads, such as Orange, Temple, Mandarin, etc.

Steve Roberts Timothy Sayre

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MIDNIGHT KARAOKE HEADS ‘BACK TO THE 1980S’ AT TREE’S WINGS & RIBS

Tree’s Wings & Ribs in Royal Palm Beach celebrated “Back to the 1980s” with Midnight Karaoke on Friday, July 15. Guests dressed up in 1980s attire and sang 1980s songs. A 1960s night is being planned for September. For more info., visit call (561) 791-1535 or visit www.treeswingsandribs.com.

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Mirasol Lutwin, Judy Boettiger and Tamara Ploskunan dance.

Midnight Karaoke owners Marisol and Joey Lutwin.

Christine Yow and Kaylon Yow sing “Suds in the Bucket.”

Rick Rounsavell sings like Willie Nelson.

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Odette Salerni and Aida Mendez sing.

Clyde and Darius Richards sing “Soul Man.”

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Mounts Botanical Garden Plans ‘Windows On The Floating World’

The Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden recently announced that construction will start this fall on a new permanent exhibit, Windows on the Floating World, a series of see-through walkways and permanent and moveable aquatic plants that will allow visitors to feel and connect with the tropical wetlands around them.

“The immersive installation of Windows on the Floating World will reveal a full spectrum of the wetland garden at Mounts,” explained Polly Reed, president of the Friends of Mounts Botanical Garden. “Boardwalks, benches and displays constructed over and around the wetlands will allow visitors to relax, reflect and learn about ecology.”

Reed said that the exhibit will

educate the public on the importance of practices that will better help this natural resource.

“A wetlands is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, and takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem that serves as home to a wide range of plant and animal life,” she said.

Windows on the Floating World will feature transparent, open-gridded, 3-foot-wide walkways on the surface of the wetlands to give visitors the feeling of walking on water. Within these walks are four windows that will be planted with aquatics and changed out with rotating and seasonal botanical exhibits growing from submerged containers. Additional highlights will include waterfalls flowing

over natural stone, an area for wading birds, and a wall covered with Bromeliads, offering some of the best foliage colors in the plant kingdom.

“Most importantly, our Windows on the Floating World exhibit will be a place for demonstration and education,” Director of Programs Rochelle Wolberg said. “This environmental installation will provide an immersive experience for visitors, prompting them to more closely examine the nature surrounding them and its inner workings. For school children and their teachers, it will be an exceptional model to educate on water quality and usage, and the role each one of us can play in water conservation.”

Presented in cooperation with

Palm Beach County’s Art in Public Places program and projected to cost about $500,000, Windows on the Floating World is funded in part by Margaret Blume, the Batchelor Foundation, Palm Beach County and the Friends of Mounts Botanical Garden.

Mounts Botanical Garden contains more than 2,000 species of plants, including Florida native plants, exotic and tropical fruit trees, herbs, palms, bromeliads and more. Located at 531 N. Military Trail in West Palm Beach, the garden is open Monday through Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m.

The suggested entry donation is $5 per person. For more info., call (561) 233-1757 or visit www. mounts.org.

A rendering of the planned Windows on the Floating World exhibit at the Mounts Botanical Garden.

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Ellen Stern Of Wellington To Join Fashionistas On Visit To Israel

Justin Fox aboard the USS William P. Lawrence.

Navy’s Justin Fox Participates In War Exercise

A 2012 Park Vista High School graduate and Loxahatchee native is serving in the U.S. Navy and participating in the world’s largest international maritime warfare exercise, the Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC).

Petty Officer 3rd Class Justin Fox is a damage controlman aboard USS William P. Lawrence, currently operating out of Pearl Harbor.

A damage controlman is responsible for all installed and portable damage control equipment, and also provides at-sea firefighting capability. “I’m looking forward to the communication and cooperation between the different navies,” Fox said.

RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2016 is the 25th exercise in the series that began in 1971.

The participating nations and forces will exercise a wide range of capabilities and demonstrate the inherent flexibility of maritime forces. These capabilities range from disaster relief and maritime security operations to sea control and complex warfighting. The relevant, realistic training program includes amphibious operations, gunnery, missile, anti-submarine and air defense exercises, as well as counter-piracy, mine clearance operations, explosive ordnance disposal and diving and salvage operations.

The Department of the Navy’s Great Green Fleet yearlong initiative will also play a major role in RIMPAC. The initiative highlights global operations using energy conservation measures and alternative fuel blends to demonstrate how optimizing energy use increases resiliency and operational readiness. During RIMPAC, almost all participating units will operate using an approved alternate-fuel blend.

Twenty-six nations, 45 surface ships, 5 submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel will participate in the biennial Rim of the Pacific Exercise. This year’s exercise includes forces from Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the People’s Republic of China, Peru, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Tonga, the United Kingdom and the United States.

“We’ve conducted exercises with many foreign navies, and this pulls it all together,” said Cmdr. Walter C. Mainor, the commanding officer aboard USS William P. Lawrence. “The average age onboard is 25, and the expectations we have for them are so great. They just continue to exceed them.”

Fox enjoys his role on the ship.

“I love the people I work with,” he said. “I love my job. All of the people in my shop are excellent to work with.”

Ellen Stern of Wellington, along with 34 other Jewish fashion industry mavens from around the world, was selected to join the journey of a lifetime and see Israel beyond the headlines while connecting with Israel’s fashion leaders later this month.

Stern, who holds a bachelor’s degree from Clark University and a master’s degree from the University of Delaware, has worked as a freelance fashion photographer in Milan, Italy and New York for designers, advertising agencies, boutiques and magazines. She has also

created a line of couture handbags, with designs made from rare and unique silk flowers and leaves that sold in museums and fine jewelry stores. She has also been invited to participate in museum shows and has appeared on Oprah Winfrey.

Stern is a professor of photography at Lynn University in Boca Raton.

The trip, held July 26 through Aug. 3, will include Jewish fashionistas from the U.S., Canada, Australia, Estonia, Greece, Panama and South Africa. For eight days, the women will travel from Safed in the north to the Dead Sea

and Masada in the Judean Desert, on a trip to strengthen their Jewish identities.

The trip, organized by the Maryland-based Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project (JWRP) and Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, will also bring the women to key spots on Israel’s fashion map.

This special trip, which is the first of many planned industry-specific trips aimed to bring Jewish values to key influencers in society, will also feature a JWRP Fashion Week event in Tel Aviv with leading Israeli fashion names.

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ST. RITA CHURCH HOSTS VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL

St. Rita Catholic Church completed its first week of Vacation Bible School on July 15. Campers participated in a week of dance, crafts, music and religion geared toward the theme of “God-topia, a place where we can do all things through Christ who makes us strong.”

The second week of VBS begins July 25. Call (561) 795-4321 for info. (Left) Nick Kapsos and Sophia Kapsos help Dominic Lettera with a Jonah craft. (Below) Music Leader Katie Keffler, VBS Director Donna Roselli and Dance Director Heather Goodrich.

Local Philanthropist Honored With Two Awards

Keith Carson, founder of the South Florida-based Believe in Santa Foundation, just returned from Branson, Mo., where he joined about 800 professional Santa Clauses and Mrs. Clauses for Discover Santa 2016, or more commonly referred to as the Kringle Family Reunion.

Carson’s nonprofit organization was honored with two prestigious awards during the five-day convention, the largest group of Santas ever to meet anywhere in the world. The International Brotherhood of Real Bearded Santas (IBRBS) presented its Santa’s Heart Award for National Charitable Group Santa of the Year to Carson at a ceremony aboard the Branson Belle.

During the closing ceremo-

nies, which featured this year’s inductions into the Santa Claus Hall of Fame, Carson was given the Through the Eyes of a Child Award by the Santa Claus Oath Foundation for his efforts in helping children in need.

The all-volunteer Believe in Santa Foundation helps children in need all year long by providing visits from Santa Claus, who brings gifts, poses for photos and spends quality time with each child. The organization assists children living in poverty, crime victims, disaster survivors, the hospitalized, the terminally ill and children of a serviceman or woman.

For more about the Believe in Santa Foundation, visit www. believeinsanta.com.

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SCHOOL NEWS

Summer Community Service Program A Success For Palm Beach Central Students

More than 50 Palm Beach Central High School students recently participated in the school’s first Summer Community Service Program.

The two-week program, developed and supervised by social studies teacher Karen Zaremba, was a response to two needs within the school community. Students earned community service hours, a graduation requirement, and the school’s hallways received a much needed fresh coat of paint.

There are already plans to expand the program next summer to provide on campus community service opportunities to more students.

(Left to right) Patryk Wysocki, Lizbeth Del La Rosa and Isaiah Sierra, and Alexandra Fonseca.

NEW HORIZONS LIBRARY OPEN FOR THE SUMMER

New Horizons Elementary School has again opened its media center to students in the summer in order to prevent the dreaded summer slide.

Students entering grades 1 through 5 at New Horizons are encouraged to visit the library on Wednesdays throughout the summer to check out materials, log their summer reading on the computer and take Reading Counts comprehension quizzes. The media center also features family-friendly crafts and a Lego maker station so that siblings and parents can be involved. (Right) Media Specialist Jeannie Robbins with a group of summer readers. (Far right) Parissa Brown enjoys reading.

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School District’s New Regional Offices Open

The reorganization of the School District of Palm Beach County’s regional offices took effect July 1, a move that provides more direct support and resources to each of the district’s schools staff and students.

With this reorganization, the district has moved from five area offices with one area superintendent assigned to all of the schools in that area to four regional offices — South, North, Central and Glades — with a regional superintendent and instructional superintendents

in each region dedicated to a smaller concentration of schools.

These four regional offices and their leadership teams will deliver specialized support to schools and principals to meet the goals of the district’s strategic plan, with a focus on improving outcomes for students by increasing reading on grade level by third grade, ensuring high school readiness, increasing the graduation rate and fostering post-graduate success.

For more information, visit www.palmbeachschools.org.

Input Wanted On District Social Studies Courses

The School District’s Instructional Materials Department has scheduled a public viewing of the two finalists chosen by adoption committees for grades 6-12 Social Studies courses. Materials will be available from now through Oct. 28 in both print and digital formats for anyone to review.

Community input will be used to help make final recommendations for district adoption. Implementation of the district adopted programs will occur in the 2017-18 school year, pending administrative approval and funding.

“The impact on students and teachers when making instructional material adoption review decisions is far reaching,” said Tina Sparks, instructional mate-

rials specialist. “Materials will be used to educate our community’s children for the next five years in each of these courses. Not only is this a significant expenditure, but the adoption process is particularly critical to ensure textbooks chosen are comprehensive, accurate and developmentally appropriate, include multicultural fairness and advocacy, and are aligned to Florida Standards.”

Recommendations will go to the Palm Beach County School Board for approval in March 2017.

Materials can be reviewed at the McKesson Building, 1400 N. Florida Mango Road, West Palm Beach. For more info., contact Sparks at (561) 684-5127 or tina. sparks@palmbeachschools.org.

New PBSC Student Trustee To Aims Help And Inspire Students

When David Hernandez enrolled full-time at Palm Beach State College in fall 2012, he never imagined that he would one day become the student trustee.

At 16, he moved to Palm Beach County from Puerto Rico with his newly divorced mother and struggled to learn English. The language barrier crushed his plans to graduate in 2008 with his class at Olympic Heights High School, and, initially, his spirit. But then his neighbor, Bryan Cruz, inspired him to obtain a GED and a higher education. He drove Hernandez to his GED preparation classes and helped him hone his English.

Now, the 25-year-old aspiring nurse anesthetist will take his seat at the dais for his first PBSC District Board of Trustees meeting

Aug. 9, representing the school’s 48,000 students for the 201617 academic year. A committee selected him for the nonvoting position after an application process open to all students. He is the 16th student to serve in the role since the five-member governor-appointed board created it in 2001 to give students a voice on college policies and issues. He replaces Jesse Pulliam, who served for 2015-16.

“I never, ever thought that I would hold such a position. Now that I have been selected, it does feel very rewarding,” Hernandez said. “I always thought of the position as the pinnacle of leadership at PBSC. It’s a comforting feeling to know that your voice is being represented to address some of

the issues and concerns from the student body.”

Hernandez graduated last December with an associate’s degree, following the completion of the gold track, the highest level in the Honors College. He is now enrolled in a nursing degree program.

He has served as an ambassador, president of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society and a member of the Student Government Association.

For two years, he served as managing editor of the Beachcomber student newspaper, and he has represented PBSC at National Model United Nations in New York and helped with the development of the college’s Model Legislature program. He is currently president of the Nursing Student Association and vice president of Phi Theta

Kappa on the Lake Worth campus.

“It’s been an outstanding experience. I’m forever grateful for all of the opportunities that Palm Beach State College has afforded me,” Hernandez said. “From the faculty and staff to the students, I’ve been blessed to receive mentoring opportunities, as well as become part of organizations that represented the ideals of servant leadership.”

Hernandez wants to create a better sense of community among PBSC students, administration, student leaders and faculty. “We can all collaborate to help each other grow,” he said.

He wants to ensure that all students are highly aware of the clubs, organizations and initiatives that open the doors to opportunities like many that he has received.

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“Only a few students attend Board of Trustees meetings. Most don’t know the roles the Board of Trustees plays at Palm Beach State College,” he said.

Hernandez also wants to create opportunities for students to participate in New Student Convocation, which is the best time to encourage students to get involved.

Marcella Montesinos, manager of the Honors College and chair of the Student Trustee Selection Committee, said the committee interviewed four students.

“I’m absolutely excited to see David continue what he’s learned through his leadership in clubs and organizations and take that next step to represent the student body,” Montesinos said. “In his interview, he had great ideas on how

David Hernandez to be able to hear student concerns.

Everyone on the committee was excited about his innovative ideas.

We think he’s going to do great.”

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How’s My Garden? The Weeds Feel I’ve Done A Marvelous Job

Remember last month when I told you that I was going on vacation and leaving my garden in a “survival of the fittest” situation? Evidently, it took me at my word. And, just in case you had any doubt, weeds are way more fit than vegetables.

I was only gone 10 days but, when I returned, the weeds were lush, willowy and four inches tall. There were numerous varieties, each one greener than the last.

Their roots were firm and entwined. Their stalks were strong and supple. Their leaves were as big as paper plates with nary a bug bite to besmirch their beauty.

I grabbed a machete and finally located my three tomato plants. They were weak,

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The Sonic BOOMER sickly and clinging to each other for moral support. Their roots were exposed and brown. Their stalks were limp and porous. Their leaves drooped dejectedly and looked as if the tiniest breeze would blow them away — if it could only get through to them.

A baby bunny, surprised at my arrival, looked up fearfully and learned to hop for the first time, a skill necessary to make the leap that would free him from my voluptuously overgrown garden.

I sent a photo of “Birnam Wood” to my daughter who, impressed by the height of things, asked me if there were any sunflowers. “How the heck should I know?”

I replied. “I can’t even see the sun from in here.”

Still, I desperately wanted to have somehow nurtured a tomato. I rooted around amongst the many, many leaves and lo and behold, I discovered a small, round, yellow tomato. I was disappointed, until I remembered that the person who sold me

the plants told me they would be yellow, not red. So I was happy — excited, even.

Here on my very own “farm” in my very own backyard, I had brought a tomato into the world. I plucked it from its spindly-legged home, hacked my way out of the garden and took it inside.

Full of pride, I washed it and placed it on a miniature pedestal to photograph for my Facebook page, small retaliation for the numerous photos of agricultural bounty I’ve been having to view on other people’s Facebook pages. Surely viewers would think it was just one tomato of many bushels of tomatoes.

That’s when tragedy struck. My wee little tomato rolled off its pedestal onto the

counter where it turned its back to me. And there, I am not lying, was the unmistakable imprint of a black frowny face on its round yellow head.

It may as well have screamed at me, “You tried! You failed! Now leave us alone!”

And you know what? My scarred little tomato was right.

I had turned the ground once, raked once, thrown water down once and gone off to greener pastures on vacation. I don’t deserve a tomato.

What’s more — I don’t deserve a garden. But let’s take a vote.

Uh-huh. I thought so.

The weeds feel I did a marvelous job.

‘Ghostbusters’ Reboot An Amusing Movie, But Not Amazing

Many of us anticipated the reboot of Ghostbusters, this time with females playing the main roles, as a blast from the past. As it turns out, it is an amiable film — not bad, but clearly a sequel to the originals. It is more amusing than out-andout funny but, then again, we remember the original now as funnier than it actually was. It was an anomaly; a comedy with a lot of special effects.

Erin (Kristen Wiig) teaches physics at Columbia University, just about set for tenure, when she learns that a book she co-authored many years earlier with childhood friend Abby (Melissa McCarthy) that had a limited printing (two copies) is being sold on Amazon. Since the book theorized the existence of ghosts, it made her look foolish, and she lost her professorship. She joined Abby and psycho engineer Jillian (Kate McKinnon) at a sleazebag college, and soon they all lost their jobs.

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By Leonard Wechsler They wind up setting up above a Chinese restaurant, where they are soon joined by MTA employee Patty (Leslie Jones) and boy toy Kevin (Chris Hemsworth), easily the dumbest character to appear in a movie since Dumb and Dumber 2.

As you might expect, ghosts show up, and the government is unable to do much except try to keep the increasing number of paranormal events secret. So, who you gonna call?

They grab a nasty ghost at a rock con-

cert, but are still pushed aside until, you guessed it, the big event comes and the four women have to fight it out. There is more ghost battling in this one than in the original. The original men had a few small battles before the big one with Mr. Marshmallow. Here, there are lots of smaller battles.

There was talk in the media that the people who disliked an early trailer hated women. The real question, of course, is whether the movie is good. Worrying about having women fighting is nonsense.

Had it been done in reverse, most of what the women did could have been done by men. The biggest change seemed to be a bit more of a focus on relationships and the hiring of that boy toy.

The cast was fine. They are all good performers, and they handled the requirements well. Wiig and McCarthy, as the friends, had a chance to get a bit sentimental, while McKinnon and Jones

got most of the good lines. McKinnon, who plays the role way over the line, comes across the best. Hemsworth plays his role well, although if this were a role played by a woman, feminists would be picketing. Cecily Strong was good as the mayoral assistant Jennifer, who always comes on too strong, milking a few laughs from not great material, and Andy Garcia did a nice job as a mayor who does not want to hear any bad news.

What separates this from the original?

The best thing about the men’s version was how understated the actors actually were. Dan Aykroyd played the straight man, Harold Ramis was the dedicated scientist and Ernie Hudson joined in later on. It was Bill Murray’s deadpan Venkman who stole the show, and that was by generally underplaying everything. The fact that he was a con man who was at first using paranormal studies as a scam, added to the fun. All of them did cameos in the

film (although Ramis, now deceased, was just seen as a bust at the college) as did the ectoplasm star (Slimer), the Marshmallow Man, Annie Potts and the old firehouse.

In this film, despite the fact that McCarthy generally plays over the top, she mostly kept her cool. It would have been more fun to see her really let go. But she and Wiig worked together smoothly as old friends. Since we basically knew what was going to happen in advance, however, there was fairly little suspense.

But overall, it was a fun time. The whole audience relaxed into it; folks were willing to accept the anticipation of events that would certainly happen and were nicely entertained.

Should you see it? With ticket prices as high as they are, this is a borderline case.

Your money would not be wasted, but you can wait and see it in a few months with On Demand. It’s fun — but not that much fun.

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ANNUAL ALL BREED DOG SHOWS RETURN TO SOUTH FLORIDA FAIRGROUNDS

The 76th and 77th All Breed Dog Shows, presented by the Jupiter-Tequesta Dog Club, was held Saturday, July 16 and Sunday, July 17 at the South Florida Fairgrounds Expo Center. More than 1,000 dogs in 138 breeds or varieties competed to win the Best in Show title each day. Special events included the Best Veteran in Show competition, junior handlers and puppy competitions, and a drill team demo. There was also an eye clinic and heart clinic where veterinarians were available to evaluate the health of dogs. For PHOTOS BY DENISE FLEISCHMAN/TOWN-CRIER more info., visit www.jtdc.org.

Robin Stetson with giant schnauzers Shale and Jasper, both owned by Cathy Cario.

Bella and Magic with owner and handler Robert Moser.

Connie Elrod of Norwex with Tango.

English setter Bella with her owner and handler Daniel Frabelo.

Rosie Feeley with Cassidy at the K9 Fitness Lab exhibit.

Tuna makes friends with Rich Thayer and Jan Stholey as owner and handler Janice Hightower looks on.

Norwich Terriers Tansey, DynaMolly and Ruby with owner Melanie Bryson.

Miniature American shepherd Toby with breeder, owner and handler Robyn Lauck.

RPB CAMPERS MEET ANIMALS FROM MCCARTHY’S WILDLIFE SANCTUARY

Royal Palm Beach Recreation Center campers took a field trip to the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center on Friday, July 15 to see animals from McCarthy’s Wildlife Sanctuary. Kids got to learn about the animals, as well as hold and pet some unusual animals. For more info., visit www.mccarthyswildlife.com.

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Gold Coast Dressage Hosts Wellington Clinic With Devon Kane

Dressage riders from around Wellington came together on an especially hot Florida morning this month to hone their skills with USDF gold medalist Devon Kane at a clinic hosted by Gold Coast Dressage Association (GCDA) and sponsored by Choice of Champions International.

The riders, of varying levels, were able to learn valuable information from Kane, an international competitor, at Diamante Farms, which is a year-round, top notch training facility just minutes from the Adequan Global Dressage

Festival and the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington.

Kane, who hosts successful clinics across the United States, was thrilled to host this event at Diamante Farms, which she and her mother, Terri Kane, own.

“I think that clinics are great because you can really help people with a specific issue,” Kane said.

“It is a unique opportunity for me to really make a difference for the participants and give them something to take home and work with.”

Kane has trained under three

Olympians and has earned a slew of impressive titles in prestigious dressage arenas around the world — all before the age of 30. She has been unstoppable in the show ring ever since she stepped into the spotlight as the individual gold and team bronze medalist at the North American Junior and Young Rider Championships in 2007.

Kane earned the title of 2014 U.S. Dressage Finals Grand Prix Champion with her self-trained horse Destiny, and represented Team USA at the Nations Cup CDIO5* in Falsterbo, Sweden, in 2015. She is currently bringing several other horses up the ranks, with which she has been scoring over 70 percent at major U.S. horse show venues this year.

As well as being a successful rider and sought-after clinician, Kane is the head trainer at Diamante Farms. The property was perfectly suited for hosting the GCDA clinic, with a naturally bright and airy covered arena that looks over the impeccably manicured property. Kane was happy to spend her day with the horses, riders and auditors that took part in the GCDA clinic. “It’s always fun to work with different people and horses and meet new combinations,” she said.

Rider Anna Niehaus and her horse Ziggy, a 10-year-old Oldenburg gelding, received even more than Kane’s instruction by participating in the clinic. Niehaus, who is well known in the area as a local Realtor, and Ziggy had a difficult start to their hour-long session

with Kane, as Ziggy adjusted to his new surroundings.

The pair finished on a high note, though, and Niehaus was named the Most Improved Rider of the clinic. As Most Improved Rider, she earned a Choice of Champions International gift basket complete with an embroidered saddle pad, hat and popular Choice of Champions products like Super Joint Solution and Easy Does It. “Anna’s horse was a little hot and tricky, and she really stuck with it and got him through some of the issues he was having,” Kane said. “She did a great job at expos-

ing him to new things while still keeping him calm, and throughout the ride she achieved some really nice results.”

Kane was grateful to her own sponsor, Choice of Champions International, for donating the Most Improved Rider award, and to the Gold Coast Dressage Association for partnering with her to host the clinic. The GCDA is an educational organization dedicated to supporting local and national amateur dressage, as well as growing the knowledge and public awareness of animal care and welfare. GCDA’s efforts include providing ed-

ucational programs, clinics, shows and seminars intended to promote classical riding. The Kane family was proud to host a GCDA clinic at their family farm. Giving back to the Wellington community has always been an important part of Diamante Farms’ mission.

For more information about Devon Kane and to find out how you can benefit from her experience, talent and knowledge at a clinic, visit www.diamantefarms. com or e-mail diamantefarms@ icloud.com. To learn more about the Gold Coast Dressage Association, visit www.gcdafl.org.

control legislation, which he has fought for as a state representative.

“When it comes to firearms, people can talk about how they are going to change the way that we look at firearms, but I have a record and a history of filing legislation that deals with firearms,” Powell said. “People will ask, ‘What will be your first bill when you get into office?’ If you think about it, some of us who have been in office can actually look back and see what our first bill was that we actually filed, and in 2013, the first bill that I filed was House Bill 97, which would have allowed local governments to have a say-so, gave the power and authority back to local government if someone wanted to carry a concealed weapon inside of a government function or government building.”

Powell holds a bachelor’s degree in public relations from Florida A&M University and a master’s degree in urban planning from Florida State University.

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Michael Steinger — Steinger, a successful trial attorney who has not held or run for office before, said that he felt it was time to give back to his community.

“Before I made the decision to run, I sat down with my wife and 12-year-old twins and talked about it as a family and realized that because we are so blessed in

everything we have in our lives, we always have an obligation to give back. My family encouraged me to do just that,” he said. “With my law firm, Steinger, Iscoe & Greene, fighting for people, for the injured, for those who don’t have a voice for the last 20 years in the judiciary here in Palm Beach County, I decided it was time to use my voice to help everybody in the county.”

A Palm Beach Gardens resident, Steinger said one issue he is passionate about is education. He was raised by a single teenage mother who worked two jobs to put food on the table and a roof over their heads.

“I went to public school, and I received public assistance for school lunches, so I understood and do understand what it’s really like to struggle,” he said. “My mother always said to me that the one thing that will change your life is education. On that, she was completely correct.”

He was the first in his family to graduate from college and then went on to law school.

“Schooling and education is the thing that changed my life, so that is the biggest issue that I’m most passionate about,” he said. “We’re 46th out of 50 in per-student funding in the country as a state, so we are way down there, and we need more dollars toward education.

I think every kid deserves an

opportunity like I had to be able to live the American dream. They can only do that with the proper education.”

Steinger was born in New York and grew up in Arizona, where he attended public school. He went to law school in Los Angeles and moved to Florida in 1995.

He said the mid-decade redistricting and renumbering of districts, although done to more properly represent the people of Florida, has been a major source of confusion for everyone, especially since District 30 only a few weeks ago was on Florida’s west coast.

“Everybody in the last few weeks just got a brand new voter registration card,” he said. “People are completely lost in their districts. People are completely lost on where they are registered to vote. I’ve had people tell me, ‘You’re running in District 30?

That’s on the west coast of Florida.’ I told them, ‘No, it’s here,’ and that has confused a lot of people.”

With the district considered Democratic, he said the race between him and Powell will probably decide the eventual winner.

“It runs about 12 points Democratic, so that is probably correct,” Steinger said. “Especially in a presidential election year, that is going to be tough to overcome.”

Steinger said he is putting a lot of his own money into the cam-

Bobby Powell paign because he believes in what he has done in the last 20 years for the community.

“I’m willing to put my time, effort and my resources to work on behalf of everyone in Palm Beach County,” he said. “Besides my own contributions, I’ve received contributions from hundreds of different individual people. I have not, like my opponent in the Democratic primary, been accepting monies from a whole bunch of special interests. What I don’t want to happen is see special interests control this Senate seat.”

Steinger added that he got into the race late, in May when Emily Slosberg pulled out, after most of the endorsements had been made.

Michael Steinger “Sitting politicians have come to me now and said, ‘Wow, we wish we had known you were in.’ So, they have been very helpful behind the scenes in assisting me, but the bulk of the endorsements got out before I even got in.”

He said Slosberg pulling out had a lot to do with his decision to jump in.

“We had a lot of similar views, and I thought she was able to serve the constituents of this county properly,” he said. “When she determined that she did not want to, then I certainly thought it was my opportunity and obligation to step in.”

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recommended using sound monitoring equipment placed at specific distances from the stages.

“We know that low frequency is a problem,” he said. “We know that controlling low frequency is very hard. There is technology out there to direct low-frequency energy.”

Cadaret told the council that he had spoken with the sound provider on the Fourth of July about arranging speakers in a cardioid configuration that cancels low-frequency sounds with noticeable success. “Unfortunately, the skies

opened up before we were able to get some real objective measurements,” he said. “Subjectively, I can tell you it worked quite well.”

Cadaret said landscaping is also being worked into the amphitheater project to limit sound escaping from the park, but stressed that controlling the source is much more effective. Acoustic treatments within the stage itself will also help.

“The goal there is to have acoustic treatments within the stage so musicians don’t have to play as loud,” he said.

They also looked at building a wall around the spectator area but found it would need to be much too large to do any good. “We don’t think that’s a really good way to go,” he said.

Cadaret concluded by saying that there’s no guarantee that a sound mitigation strategy would be completely satisfactory to everyone, and that the imposition of sound level restrictions could have a negative impact on the performance quality and result in audience dissatisfaction. The goal is to find a balance between the

two through continued monitoring and community engagement.

Councilman David Swift and Vice Mayor Jeff Hmara both said they were pleased with the result of the Fourth of July celebration.

Hmara said he had monitored the sound with a cell phone app.

“It seems like we may have the right combination of things now, and while I didn’t step behind the stage and use my highly precise sound app, the measurements that I took were significantly less than what we had experienced during the previous event,” he said.

Mayor Fred Pinto said he was glad to see that the study was focusing on low-frequency sound, because that was the major complaint from residents around the park.

Marsh said speaker towers will be part of the amphitheater design as the result of the study so far, but much of the sound design is still ongoing. He said landscaping will be installed near the end of construction.

“Managing the noise at the source is what we see as the policy,” Marsh said.

Anna Niehaus (left) won the Most Improved Rider prize, sponsored

by Choice of Champions International, at the Gold Coast Dressage Association Clinic with Grand Prix trainer Devon Kane (right).

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continued from page 1 or business organizations,” he said.

“I’ve got great relationships in the legislature.”

Powell added that there are wealthy people all over the state who have never been involved in politics who are willing to freely spend their money to serve people they had never previously had an interest in serving.

“It’s happening in Tampa, it’s happening in Miami, it’s happening in Broward, and it’s happening here in Palm Beach County,” he said. “When it comes to being a Democrat, I’ve worked with the party. I’ve gotten awards for being with the League of Cities for the work ethic that I have. I’ve passed legislation every year, and I’ve worked with many members of the legislature.”

Powell pointed out that more than 30 members of the legislature have endorsed his campaign, including Senate Minority Leader Arthenia Joyner and House Minority Leader Mark Pafford.

“When that many people stand with your campaign, it shows how that person is the best candidate,” he said. “I work very well with most members of the legislature.”

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Cadaret recommended controlling the noise by using specially designed speakers positioned up high to direct the sound down to the intended audience, especially in the low frequency range, which is found most objectionable to unintended recipients. He also

Grand Prix dressage trainer Devon Kane partnered with the Gold Coast Dressage Association to host a clinic at her Diamante Farms in Wellington.

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TOOJAY’S CELEBRATES NEW LOCATION IN WELLINGTON GREEN COMMONS

TooJay’s restaurant held a VIP preview event Thursday, July 14 ahead of its grand opening Friday, July 15 at its new location at Wellington Green Commons near Whole Foods Market. TooJay’s was previously located in the Mall at Wellington Green. Treats and eats were presented, as well as special catering items. To learn more about TooJay’s, call (561) 784-9055 or visit www.toojays.com.

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Area Director Brett Carper, Director of Training Rachel Richal, General Manager Michael Pichette and Vice President of Food & Beverage Dennis Snuszka.

Michelle McGovern with Kelley Burke.

Vice Mayor John McGovern joins daughters Emilia and Victoria, and Scarlett Siskind, to enjoy cookies.

Monica Oakes, Stephanie Shannak and Jessica Lower serve food.

Dr. Maria Vallejo of Palm Beach State College, Assistant Director of Catering Sarah Fuchs and Royal Palm Beach Councilwoman Selena Smith.

Linda and John Spillane, Dr. Maria Vallejo and Central Palm Beach County Chamber CEO Mary Lou Bedford.

Wellington Vice Mayor John McGovern, Mayor Anne Gerwig, Councilwoman Tanya Siskind and Councilman Michael Napoleone with TooJay’s staff members.

WELLINGTON CHAMBER NETWORKING EVENT AT PASQUALE’S ITALIAN EATERY

The Wellington Chamber of Commerce hosted After-Five Connections Over Cocktails at Pasquale’s Italian Eatery on Thursday, July 14.

Attendees mingled and discussed chamber events. The next chamber luncheon will be held Wednesday, July 27 at the Wanderers Club. Attendees will meet Brian Mast, a U.S. Army war hero. For more information, visit www.wellingtonchamber.com.

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Sandi Johnson has a guilty pleasure. “I love window-shopping online for horses,” she said. It was this mini obsession that started an unlikely chain of events that led Crystal, a lost horse that owner Cecelia McDaniel believed was dead, to return home alive. Ellen Rosenberg’s Column, Page 21

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Michael Garofalo To Lead Broncos Football Team

When one thinks of the model offensive lineman, Palm Beach Central High School’s Michael Garofalo comes to mind. The 6-foot-4, 285-pound offensive tackle will enter his senior year for the Broncos as one of the team captains. Garofalo has been a three-year starter for the Broncos. Page 27

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Wellington shooting guard Alex Dieudonne graduated in the spring and signed a letter of intent to continue his basketball career at Clayton State University in Georgia.

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An Unlikely Chain Of Events Brings A Lost Horse Home

Sandi Johnson, owner of the Jupiter Equestrian Center, has a guilty pleasure.

“I love window-shopping online for horses,” she said. “It’s very addicting. I want to save them all. It’s hard for me to restrain myself.”

One site in particular drew her in: the Facebook page for the kill pen at Bastrop, La. (www.facebook.com/bastroplouisianakillpen). It is addictive, but it’s also hard to watch. They showcase each horse with running commentary from the rider. Nice horse after nice horse, all breeds, ages, sizes and colors. And all destined for a Mexican slaughterhouse if not bought by someone else. The lucky ones are marked “Safe and Sold.” The rest…

Last October, one mare caught Sandi’s eye, a 10-year-old palomino whose shipping date was fast approaching. Sandi kept watching her video. The mare had three days left, then two.

On the day she was due to ship out at noon, the truck broke down on the way to Bastrop; a slight reprieve.

“I couldn’t wait any more,” Sandi said.

“I called and spoke with someone who had spent some time with her. He said she was a real sweet mare, even had her Quarter Horse registration papers. I bought her for $900 and paid through PayPal. They sent her to a quarantine barn for five days, then pulled a health

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By Ellen Rosenberg certificate and a Coggins, and I organized a hauler to ship her here. All in all, she cost me around $2,000. Lulu Lemon was a bit thin. In no time, she put on weight and had the most gorgeous dappled coat.”

Sandi documented Lulu’s progress on her Facebook page. A friend and former riding student, Sarah Moore, watched Lulu’s progress and became curious about the kill pen site. She started watching the horses, and one day she spotted one that looked oddly familiar.

Sarah works at Dark Horse Tack in Royal Palm Beach. The owner, Cecelia McDaniel, has four photos up on the wall behind her desk of two horses she used to own. One, a gray Arabian mare, had a distinctive snip, a white marking, on her nose. Sarah saw the photo every day at work, and darned if one of the horses at Bastrop didn’t have an identical snip. She told Cecelia, who shook her head.

“Impossible,” Cecelia said. “That horse is dead.”

Even now, all these years later, Cecelia tears up at the thought of what happened. Eight years ago, she and her husband, Christopher,

Cecelia McDaniel’s lost horse Crystal the day she arrived home. moved from Jupiter to Ocala with their four and I could visit anytime. He seemed like a horses. “I was only riding two,” Cecelia re- nice guy, very punctual and polite. I’d known called. “The other two, Ladybug and Crystal, him for two years, so I trusted him.” were lawn ornaments. My farrier offered to That turned out to be a mistake. keep them on his property. He told me he had “Unbeknownst to me, he’d used this ruse 2,500 acres nearby, and I could turn them out with other horse owners,” Cecelia said. “When with his herd. He wouldn’t even charge board, See ROSENBERG, page 29

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Wellington Ballet Theatre Seeks Help In Financing ‘Peter Pan’

Wellington Ballet Theatre recently announced the start of its first Power2Give campaign, using the fundraising web site to invite users to help finance the upcoming original ballet of Peter Pan created and choreographed by Director of Ballet Melissa Waters with artistic direction by Rocky Duvall.

“This will be a great show, suitable for all members of the family,”

Company Manager Randy Ballen said. “The Palm Beach Cultural Council was even able to secure us a partial matching sponsor. Our generous sponsor will contribute 50 cents for every dollar donated to this project up to $1,333.33.”

Supporters are asked to help spread the word by sharing the link on social media and through e-mail with their contacts. Visit www.

power2give.org/campaigns/532 to make a donation.

To learn more about Wellington Ballet Theatre, a registered notfor-profit and public charitable organization dedicated to promoting and preserving the dance arts in the western communities, contact Ballen at info@wellingtonballettheatre. org or (561) 296-1880, or visit www. wellingtonballettheatre.org.

ABWA To Hear Incoming President Aug. 10

The Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center was recently the beneficiary of a collaboration with local nonprofit Caps of Love, which recycles bottle caps and uses the proceeds to buy parts to refurbish wheelchairs or buy new chairs with special capabilities. Vinceremos, meanwhile, provides equine-assisted activities for children and adults with disabilities. Valerie Mathieu from Caps of Love (above left, with Vinceremos CEO Bill Carter) received an unusual chair through a donation. It was on tracks and equipped with all the bells and whistles to travel over uneven, wet or sandy ground, and she immediately thought of Vinceremos. She called Ruth Menor, chief program director at Vinceremos, and offered to donate it to the center for use by clients.

“We are so happy to have this unique piece of equipment available for our riders thanks to Caps of Love,” Menor said.

The Northern Palm Beach Chapter of the American Business Women’s Association will meet Wednesday, Aug. 10 at the PGA Boulevard Embassy Suites Hotel in Palm Beach Gardens. Networking will

take place from 6 to 6:30 p.m., with the dinner and program following.

The cost is $22, and guests are welcome.

The August speaker will be Chapter President Sam Markwell,

Local Man Wins Prize At Cheddar’s

Paul Jaremko of Wellington recently won a $300 prize in Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen’s Guest Satisfaction Survey Sweepstakes.

On a weekend getaway to Daytona Beach, Jaremko said, he and his family decided to go with a favorite place from local experience rather than an eatery unknown to them, filled out the survey afterward,

and won the prize. “When we’re in another town, it’s nice to try something new, but we knew we couldn’t go wrong with Cheddar’s,” Jaremko said.

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owner and CEO of PureRomance.

The program title is “It’s Your ABWA.” As incoming chapter president, Markwell will lead an interactive discussion on how members would like to see the chapter grow in the coming year.

A dynamic discussion about the future of the Northern Palm Beach Chapter of the American Business Women’s Association is expected.

To RSVP, call Markwell at (561) 644 2384 or Sally Ott at (561) 3738727. The Embassy Suites Hotel is located at 4350 PGA Blvd. For directions to the hotel, call (561) 622-1000. For more info., visit www.abwanpbflorida.org.

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FPL Upgrading Area Facilities To Be More Storm-Ready

Florida Power & Light Co. recently outlined its electric system upgrades in Palm Beach County being made as part of the company’s overall 2016-18 storm hardening plan.

The enhancements, which have helped FPL achieve the best system reliability in Florida (and 50 percent better than the national average), will position the company to deliver even more reliable electric service for customers year-round.

The company plans to invest

$1.75 billion systemwide over the next three years on the improvements, on top of $2 billion spent across its 35-county area — in addition to ongoing system maintenance and improvement work — to make the energy grid stronger and smarter.

Eric Silagy, president and CEO of FPL, promised a “more resilient energy grid.”

“Our customers are already seeing the benefits of strengthened power lines, with hardened lines showing, on average, a 40 percent improve-

ment in everyday performance,” he said.

Improvements within the statewide plan include the completion of hardening main power lines serving critical community facilities, upgrading main power lines across FPL’s service area, initiating upgrades of smaller neighborhood power lines and continuing to replace wooden transmission line structures with steel and concrete towers. FPL will also continue to deploy tens of thousands of intel-

J&J Farms Hires Clayton Amestoy As Manager

J&J Family of Farms has added a talented, experienced farm leader from Palm Beach County to the family by naming Clayton Amestoy as senior farm manager.

Amestoy is a fourth-generation farmer and brings a lifetime of farming leadership to J&J. He grew up on the Amestoy family farm in Boynton Beach, learning the value of dedication and hard work.

His professional agricultural career includes work as a district farm manager at Pero Family Farms and farm manager of R&A Farms in Boynton Beach. Amestoy received his bachelor’s degree from Florida Southern College in Lakeland.

“Clayton’s lifetime of farming ex-

perience, along with his proven track record of leading farm teams with the principles of farm stewardship, food safety and social responsibility, and his ability to make decisions will make him a great asset,” said Richard Bowman, director of farming for J&J Family of Farms.

In his new position, Amestoy will be responsible for developing and managing all aspects of J&J’s farming and harvesting operations.

J&J Family of Farms specializes in cucumbers, peppers, squash, beans and eggplant, managing more than 14,000 acres in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arizona and Mexico. To learn more, visit www.jjfamilyoffarms.com.

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ligent devices and smart switches, on top of 36,000 installed to date, to help detect and predict problems and restore service faster when outages occur.

This year’s investment includes upgrades to nine main power lines serving key facilities in Palm Beach County. The projects strengthen the electric system to better withstand major storms and allow for faster service restoration following power outages by installing stronger power poles, including concrete poles designed to withstand wind gusts of up to 145 mph.

“FPL is continuing to invest in building a stronger and smarter grid that our customers in Palm Beach County can count on year-round,” said Manny Miranda, senior vice president of power delivery for FPL. “For example, we’re upgrading the system supplying energy to Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue and Palm Beach International Airport.

This not only allows us to restore power to our customers faster, but it aids in getting life back to normal quicker when customers need us the most.”

FPL will also install 23 automated switches on main power lines and 13 automated switches on smaller power lines serving neighborhoods and subdivisions. The automated

devices detect and prevent potential problems along the energy grid, as well as restore and reroute power, when necessary, to reduce the number of customers affected by an outage.

When the planned 2016 work is completed, FPL will have made the following improvements in Palm Beach County since 2006: • Strengthened 20 main power lines, including those serving critical local facilities. For example, in West Palm Beach, these include Palm Beach International Airport, the Palm Beach County Convention Center, St. Mary’s Medical Center, Good Samaritan Medical Center, West Palm Hospital and two 911 emergency communications centers; • Inspected 23,110 power poles, restoring or replacing those that no longer meet the company’s standards for strength; • Cleared 1,970 miles of power lines of trees and vegetation; • Inspected 110 main power lines and equipment using the latest infrared technology, helping FPL address issues before they cause outages; and • Installed smart grid technology, including 50 automated switches on main lines and 442 automated switches on smaller lines, to help detect and prevent power issues.

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Wellington’s Alex Dieudonne Moving On To Play At Clayton State University In Georgia

By Gene Nardi Town-Crier Staff Report Wellington shooting guard Alex Dieudonne graduated in the spring and signed a letter of intent to continue his basketball career at Clayton State University in Georgia.

The 6-foot-4 Dieudonne chose the Lakers over other offers from Stetson University, Kennesaw State, Queens University, The Citadel and Lincoln Memorial University.

“The coach came down to visit me several times, and we talked

Alex Dieudonne tries to control a rebound in the regional finals game against Coral Springs.

about stuff other than basketball,” Dieudonne recalled. “He wanted to get to know me as a person, and I like that a lot.”

The standout guard won accolades during his three-year tenure with the Wolverines. He helped lead the Wellington High School team to three district titles, three conference titles, a regional crown and the state championship his junior year.

“He wasn’t the team captain, but he was our leader,” Wellington coach Matt Colin said. “He was the voice everybody listened to and was the reason for a lot of our success.”

Dieudonne managed to earn recognition as All-County First Team while he dressed in the blue, silver and white, and also made appearances in three all-star games his senior year.

In that final year, Dieudonne averaged 17.6 points per game with 7.5 rebounds — a definite force moving toward the net, and under the net as well. “He is so gifted physically, and was able to get to the bucket for us,” Colin said.

Dieudonne would agree that his strength is getting to the basket, but his attention this summer has been See DIEUDONNE, page 29

Alex Dieudonne goes up for a slam dunk against rival Palm Beach Central.

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Michael Garofalo To Lead The Broncos Football Squad

By Gene Nardi Town-Crier Staff Report When one thinks of the model offensive lineman, Palm Beach Central High School’s Michael Garofalo comes to mind. The 6-foot-4, 285-pound offensive tackle will enter his senior year for the Broncos as one of the team captains.

Garofalo has been a three-year starter for the Broncos. He has

been in the weight room through the summer in preparation for the fall season.

“I’m benching 315 pounds and squatting 425 pounds right now,” he said.

Coach Tino Ierulli, in his third season with Palm Beach Central, has put his faith in Garofalo as one of the team leaders.

“Me, Ben Panitz and Chris Smith

Palm Beach Central offensive tackle Michael Garofalo gets ready to block during spring practice.

are going to be the team captains this season,” Garofalo said. “We want to maintain a strong team discipline.”

Ierulli instills a “play for the man next to you” philosophy. It is that strategy that seems to have ignited a new motivation on the Broncos turf.

“Coach told us we can either sulk about our 2-8 season last year or use it as motivation,” Garofalo said.

Last season’s All-Conference

First Team member Garofalo has attracted the attention of Air Force, Western Kentucky and Stetson University.

“All of the schools interested in me are high academic schools,” said Garofalo, who plans on visiting them soon. “I like Air Force and Stetson, because they are high in academics and set you up for life after football.”

Michael Garofalo pass-blocks during the spring game against Boynton Beach High School.

Garofalo is equally as strong in the classroom, posting a 3.7 GPA thus far, and plans to study construction engineering or business.

The current focus for Garofalo is getting ready for his final season as a Bronco. “Our goal is to return a district championship to the school,” he said.

Garofalo’s leadership ability has See GAROFALO, page 28

Michael Garofalo pushes back a Palm Beach Gardens lineman during a district game last season.

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Royal Palm Bassmasters Fish On Lake Okeechobee

The Royal Palm Bassmasters held a fishing tournament June 12 on Lake Okeechobee out of the J&S Boat Ramp.

First place was won by the team of Mike and J.R. O’Connor, with five fish weighing 17 pounds, 13 ounces.

Second place was awarded to the team of Rick and Roxanne Rickenbach, with five fish weighing 16 pounds, 15 ounces.

The team of Rick Eaton and Bill Latham took third place, with five

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continued from page 27 developed over the past three years, and Ierulli recognizes that by placing him in a mentoring role. The Broncos have been strong in the weight room under the guidance of Ierulli and the team captains.

“I do a lot of work with Chris and Ben and strive to see what we can do better,” Garofalo said. “We keep using that 2-8 season as our motivation, and we have taken that to heart.”

Garofalo clearly has the potential

fish weighing 16 pounds, 8 ounces.

The big fish of the tournament was 8 pounds, 9 ounces, caught by the team of Rick Eaton and Bill Latham.

The Royal Palm Bassmasters meet on the second Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Royal Palm Beach Recreation Center. The club is now accepting applications for new members. For more info., e-mail rpbassmasters@gmail.com or visit www.royalpalmbassmasters. org.

to do big things this season with the Broncos, and will likely continue that success at the next level after graduation. He plans to give a verbal commitment in the coming months.

For the time being, though, the dead aim in his cross-hairs is on getting the Broncos back on track to contend for a district title.

“I think we can definitely be contenders this season,” he said. “We have a competitive schedule again but an experienced offensive and defensive line this season.”

The Broncos will host perennial powerhouse Fort Pierce Central High School in a kickoff classic on Friday, Aug. 19 at 7 p.m.

Mike and J.R. O’Connor

Rick Rickenbach

Rick Eaton and Bill Latham

Acreage Arsenal Poker Tourney Fundraiser At Kennel Club The AYSO 1521 2016-17 boys and girls U12 Acreage Arsenal select soccer teams are taking part in the annual Great Poker Charity Tournament event being held at the Palm Beach Kennel Club in West Palm Beach.

The fundraising event is sched-

uled for Sunday, Aug. 14 beginning at noon.

There will be 20 tables of action and fun activities. The cost to enter the tournament is $50. Half of all funds raised by the soccer club will go directly to the teams, while the other 50 percent will be distributed

as cash prizes. The teams will also host raffles for great giveaways.

No previous poker experience is necessary. Join in to support the boys and girls and for a great afternoon of fun with live greyhound racing. For more information, contact Catherine at aysoarsenals@yahoo.com.

Sign Up Soon For Adult Softball Leagues At Okeeheelee

Adult softball leagues are available for men’s and mixed teams, ages 18 and older at Okeeheelee Park. Registration begins Aug. 1 and ends Aug. 26. League play starts in September.

The men’s league plays Tuesday nights (10 games plus playoffs). The

mixed league plays Friday nights (10 games plus playoffs). The team cost is $495.

Leagues are unsanctioned. Rules are established by the recognized rule book and the department supplemental rule book. Leagues are formed on a first-come, first-served

basis. For more info., contact Adam Schackmann at (561) 963-6722 or at aschackmann@pbcgov.org.

The online registration, visit www.pbcparks.com, under the “General Information” tab, click on Shop, create an account and register for the desired softball program.

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Finding Crystal

continued from page 21 I went to visit them, the address he’d given me had no fences, no pastures and no visible horses. I called him.

He said he was in Texas, and I’d gotten the address wrong. He gave me another one, but the gate was locked. I saw some cows and horses, but not mine.”

However, she kept trying.

“I arranged to meet him there when he said he’d be back in town, but he called and said he’d hurt his back while shoeing a horse and was on pain medication and would call when he was able to drive. He assured me my horses were fine,” Cecelia said.

From there, the story descends into horror territory, but ends with a happy twist.

“For three months I heard excuse after excuse, getting more and more worried and suspicious. I finally called the sheriff, who seemed surprised… He asked if I knew another woman. I didn’t, but she had called and filed a similar report on this guy the day before. She had lost her farm to foreclosure and turned over 17 warmbloods, then gotten the same runaround,” Cecelia explained. “The

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SPORTS & RECREATION farrier was arrested and ordered to give us the names of the people he’d sold our horses to. He didn’t remember who had bought Ladybug, but someone named Larry had bought Crystal. I called him. I’ll never forget what he said. He told me that he hated that horse and had to chase her with a pickup truck to run her enough to get a halter on her.

When she got sick and collicked, he didn’t think she was worth saving, so he shot her. I collapsed when he told me that.”

As the years passed, Cecelia and Christopher moved back to Jupiter.

“One day I heard from a woman who had bought Ladybug. She’d read about the case in the newspaper, and she gave her back two and a half years after I lost her,” Cecelia said.

“That was nice, but I couldn’t get over what had happened to Crystal.

Even though I knew she was dead, every time I saw a gray horse, I had to look, but it was never her.”

Meanwhile, Sarah kept looking at that horse in the video, and the more she looked, the more certain she became.

“When Sarah told me about the horse on Facebook, I didn’t want to look and be disappointed again,” Cecelia said. “Then another friend called and said the same thing.

I watched the video 30 times. I stopped it when they showed her

face, and it all matched: the conformation, the size and that distinctive snip. I called my husband, sobbing.

He said whatever it cost, we’d bring her home. Her kill date was May 5, 2016. That would have been my father’s birthday, if he was still alive.

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continued from page 27 focused on working to improve his ball-handling skills and his jump shot.

He has matured through his career with the Wolverines and said that he is ready for the challenge of playing college basketball.

“I got past the nerves; I’ve been training,” Dieudonne said. “I’m physically and mentally ready.”

Perhaps playing in so many big games for the Wolverines has helped carve him into the confident leader he is today.

“You have to give 110 percent in every practice and every game,” he said.

Colin expects to see big things from Dieudonne. “I think he will

I felt like he pulled some strings.

Crystal came home on May 8, and I can’t say how grateful I am. It’s my fairy tale come true.”

Sandi, who had started the whole unlikely chain of events, is amazed.

“It’s so cool the way this turned

see playing time as a freshman, and he will eventually flourish,” Colin said.

Dieudonne embarks on his new career Aug. 12, but is undecided on a major. He has expressed interest in business and sports management.

“I’d like to stay connected to the game in a hands-on capacity after college,” he said. “I would love to play in the NBA, but maybe coaching could be something I could fall back on.”

Dieudonne is looking forward to the fast-pace style of play at Clayton State and hopes to be an early contributor.

His advice to the younger student-athletes who have the desire to play at the next level is, “Give 110 percent always, and listen to the coach,” he said. “He knows what he is doing, and he helped me a lot.”

To follow Dieudonne and the Clayton State University Lakers, visit www.claytonstatesports.com.

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out,” she said. “I saved one horse, which led to another horse getting saved. These are really nice horses in terrible circumstances through no fault of their own. I hope more people will look at this site and maybe find a horse to bring home and love.”

Alex Dieudonne makes a fast break to the bucket for a score.

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Saturday, July 23 • The Loxahatchee Chapter of the Florida Trail Association will hike nine miles on the Apoxee Wilderness Trail (3125 N. Jog Road, West Palm Beach) on Saturday, July 23 at 8 a.m. Call (561) 859-1954 for more info.

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

• Mounts Botanical Garden will hold a class on Prevention and Diagnosis of Orchid Pests and Disease on Saturday, July 23 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sandi Jones with Broward Orchid Supply and the Bonnet House Museum & Gardens will discuss how to diagnose orchid pests and diseases.

Orchids may be brought in for diagnosis, but they must be in plastic bags to prevent contaminating other plants. For more info., call (561) 233-1757 or visit www.mounts.org.

• South Florida Science Center and Aquarium (4801 Dreher Trail N., West Palm Beach) will host E4 Life: Green, Health & Wellness Expo on Saturday, July 23 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Learn about healthy living, sustainable initiatives and environmental conservation. For more info., visit www.sfsciencecenter.org or call (561) 832-2026.

• The Palm Beach Zoo (1301 Summit Blvd., West Palm Beach) will hold a story time book feature on Saturday, July 23 at 10:30 a.m. with Allie Gator and the Mixed-Up Scarecrow by Heather Alexander. For more info., visit www. palmbeachzoo.org.

• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host Kids Wii U Gaming & More for ages 7 to 12 on Saturday, July 23 at 11 a.m.

Bored of staying home and watching TV? Come and play some of your favorite Wii U and board games. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host Self-Defense for Women on Saturday, July 23 at 2 p.m. Preventative skills, the fundamental of the adrenaline rush and trusting intuition will be among the topics discussed. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• The Acreage library (15801 Orange Blvd.) will host its Lego Builders Club for ages 5 to 12 on Saturday, July 23 at 2:30 p.m. Use Lego bricks to work on creative projects alone or with friends.

Call (561) 681-4100 to pre-register.

• 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.

• The Sisterhood of Congregation L’Dor Va-Dor (3475 W. Woolbright Road, Suite 19, Boynton Beach) will hold a Jewish Film Night on Saturday, July 23 at 7:30 p.m. featuring A Tickle In The Heart, an award-winning film that documents the lives of the Epstein Brothers, who grew up in Brooklyn and formed one of the oldest Klezmer bands still playing. Call (561) 968-0688 or e-mail info@ldorvador.org for more info.

Monday, July 25 • The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host a Book Discussion for adults on Monday, July 25 at 2 p.m. Join in a lively discussion of one of the great American novels, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• 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.

Tuesday, July 26 • The Acreage library (15801 Orange Blvd.) will host Percy Jackson vs. the Olympics on Tuesday, July 26 at 1:30 p.m. for ages 5 to 7 and 3:30 p.m. for ages 8 to 12. The Summer Olympics are getting off to a titanically fun start with a stadium full of ancient Greek mythological challenges. Call (561) 681-4100 to pre-register.

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• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host Art for Adults: Advanced Figure Drawing for ages 16 and up on Tuesday, July 26 at 2 p.m. Practice and develop figure drawing skills by examining the elements of drawing the human figure and the principles of composition. Graphite, charcoal, paper and various other media will be provided, as well as guidance from an instructor should you need it.

Figure drawing experience is required. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host CD Weaving Wall Art for ages 7 and up on Tuesday, July 26 at 2:30 p.m.

Use yarn and recycled CDs to create unique art pieces. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host Balloon Frenzy for ages 8 to 12 on Tuesday, July 26 at 2:30 p.m. Dodgeball and soccer meet balloons in this fun activity. Call (561) 790-6070 for more info.

• Wellington will hold a Family Game Night on Tuesday, July 26 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Primrose Park. Visit www.wellingtonfl.gov or call (561) 7914764 for more info.

• South Florida Science Center & Aquarium (4801 Dreher Trail N., West Palm Beach) will hold its GEMS Club on Tuesday, July 26 from 5 to 7 p.m. GEMS (Girls excelling in Math and Science) offers the perfect opportunity for young girls to learn and grow as they discover the exciting world of math, science, engineering and technology.

Dinner and refreshments will be provided. This program is open to girls in grades 3 to 8, and a $5 registration fee is required per session. July’s theme is “Mysteries of the Night” and will be about bat biology and conservation. For more info., visit www.sfsciencecenter.org or call (561) 832-2026.

• The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host a Teen Takeover for ages 12 to 17 on Tuesday, July 26 at 6 p.m. Enjoy Wii games, board games and more. Bring a friend or make new ones. Snacks will be provided. Call (561) 790-6070 for more info.

• A meeting on incorporation of The Acreage will be held at the Acreage library on Tuesday, July 26 at 6:30 p.m. sponsored by Preserve the Lifestyle of the Acreage Now (PLAN). The purpose of the meeting is to promote the idea of moving The Acreage toward incorporating into a municipality and explain the process. Visit www.facebook. com/preservethelifestyleoftheacreagenow for more info.

• The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host Line Dancing for Adults on Tuesday, July 26 at 6:30 p.m. Learn a few line dances to keep you moving. Call (561) 790-6070 to pre-register.

• The Wellington Village Council will meet Tuesday, July 26 at 7 p.m. at the Wellington Municipal Complex. Visit www.wellingtonfl.gov for more info.

Wednesday, July 27 • 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. at the Aldi offices (1171 N. State Road 7, Royal Palm Beach). Opportunities include warehouse selector positions at $16 per hour. The hiring event is in support of the ongoing growth of Aldi in the area. For more info., visit www.aldi.us.

• The Western Business Alliance will hold a summer lunch event Wednesday, July 27 at noon at Tree’s Wings & Ribs (603 Royal Palm Beach Blvd.). Visit www.thewesternbusinessalliance. com for more info.

• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host Towel Origami for adults on Wednesday, July 27 at 2 p.m. Learn how to make cute critters and other designs using an ordinary towel. Participants must bring one large bath towel (27” x 52”), one hand towel (16” x 30”) and three wash clothes (13” x 13”). Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• The Acreage library (15801 Orange Blvd.) will host its Kids’ Music Circle for ages 2 to 11 on Wednesday, July 27 at 2:30 p.m. Sing, shake and play along with music specialist Noam

Brown during this fun, engaging and interactive activity. Come ready for singing, rhythm-making and creative movement. Call (561) 681-4100 to pre-register.

• The Village of Wellington will hold a Neighborhood Watch Meeting for Lakeside Shores on Wednesday, July 27 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 Vacation Scrapbook DIY for adults on Wednesday, July 27 at 6:30 p.m. Making a scrapbook is an easy and fun way to record vacation memories. Bring photos. Additional materials will be provided. Call (561) 681-4100 to pre-register.

Thursday, July 28 • Digital Vibez will host its fifth annual KidsFit Jamathon event at the South Florida Fairgrounds on Thursday, July 28. In addition to dancing, demonstrations, health vendors, goody bags and raffles, there will be Crazy Games, bounce houses, and other competitions and activities.

For more info., call Digital Vibez at (561) 2449983 or visit www.digitalvibez.org.

• The Arthur R. Marshall Foundation for the Everglades and the Everglades Foundation will host a breakfast to celebrate the graduates of the 2016 Marshall Summer Intern Program at the National Croquet Center (700 Florida Mango Road, West Palm Beach) on Thursday, July 28 at 8 a.m. A $100 donation is requested, which includes two seats at the breakfast. To RSVP, call Nancy Marshall at (561) 233-9004 or e-mail administration@oureverglades.org. For more info., visit www.artmarshall.org.

• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host Adult Coloring: The American Quilt for ages 16 and up on Thursday, July 28 at 10 a.m. Create your own heirloom as you meditate on patterns inspired by traditional American patchwork quilts. Coloring materials will be provided. Call (561) 790-6030 for more info.

• The Acreage library (15801 Orange Blvd.) will host Harry Potter & the Cursed Class on Thursday, July 28 at 1:30 p.m. for ages 7 to 9 and 3:30 p.m. for ages 10 and up. Will your class break the curse by completing all your assignments and solving the riddle of the Summer Sorcerer? Call (561) 681-4100 to pre-register.

• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host Board Game Mania for ages 7 to 11 on Thursday, July 28 at 2:30 p.m. See how many board games you can play in an hour. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host Lego Bricks for ages 6 to 12 on Thursday, July 28 at 3 p.m. Create vehicles or buildings with Lego bricks. Call (561) 790-6070 for more info.

• The Wellington Amphitheater (12100 W. Forest Hill Blvd.) will host food trucks on Thursday, July 28 at 5 p.m. with a free concert by Bobby G. at 6:30 p.m. Call (561) 753-2484 for more info.

Friday, July 29 • The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host “It’s a Craft Bonanza!” for ages 2 and up on Friday, July 29 at 10:30 a.m. Make as many crafts as you want with the supplies from the craft closet. All materials will be provided. Call (561) 790-6030 for more info.

• The Wellington Amphitheater (12100 W. Forest Hill Blvd.) will host a free screening of the movie Spectre on Friday, July 29 at 8:30 p.m.

Call (561) 753-2484 for more info.

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

• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host Teen Wii U Gaming & More for ages 12 to 17 on Saturday, July 30 at 2 p.m. Meet friends for some Wii gaming and classic board game fun. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host Teen DIY Velvet Skateboards

The Town-Crier for ages 12 to 17 on Saturday, July 30 at 3 p.m.

Make a unique, colorful design on a decorative velvet skateboard. All materials will be provided.

Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

Monday, Aug. 1 • Hair Cuttery will be donating back-to-school haircuts to children who need it most this summer. From Aug. 1-15, for every child 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. For more info., visit www.haircuttery.com.

• La Leche League’s Mother to Mother Breastfeeding Support Group will meet Monday, Aug. 1 at 7 p.m. at Wellington Regional Medical Center. Visit www.lllwellington.org for more info.

Tuesday, Aug. 2 • The Palm Beach County Infrastructure Initiative will hold an information session for land use professionals on Tuesday, Aug. 2 at 8:30 a.m. at the Vista Center (2300 North Jog Road, West Palm Beach) on the proposed discretionary local government infrastructure surtax. Call (561) 233-5263 for more info.

• The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host Tween Gaming for ages 8 to 12 on Tuesday, Aug. 2 at 2 p.m. Bring a friend for Wii gaming and board game fun. Call (561) 7906070 for more info.

• The Village of Wellington will hold a Walk and Talk on White Pine Drive on Tuesday, Aug. 2 from 4 to 6 p.m. Visit www.wellingtonfl.gov for more info.

• The Audubon Society of the Everglades will hold its monthly membership meeting on Tuesday, Aug 2 at 7 p.m. at the Palm Beach County library main branch on Summit Blvd in West Palm Beach. Visit www.auduboneverglades. org for more info.

Wednesday, Aug. 3 • Wellington will hold a Neighborhood Watch Meeting at the Coventry Green Clubhouse on Wednesday, Aug. 3 at 6 p.m. For more info., visit www.wellingtonfl.gov or call (561) 791-4764.

Thursday, Aug. 4 • The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host Crazy Collage Creatures for ages 8 to 12 on Thursday, Aug. 4 at 2:30 p.m.

Create a fun monster or zany animal with a wild assortment of craft supplies. Call (561) 7906070 for more info.

• The Wellington Amphitheater (12100 W. Forest Hill Blvd.) will host food trucks on Thursday, Aug. 4 at 5 p.m. with a free concert by the Gypsy Lane Band at 6:30 p.m. Call (561) 753-2484 for more info.

• The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host a Writers’ Critique Workshop for adults on Thursday, Aug. 4 at 6:30 p.m. Share, offer and accept constructive criticism to improve fiction, nonfiction and poetry in a supportive atmosphere. Call (561) 790-6070 to pre-register.

Friday, Aug. 5 • The Wellington Amphitheater (12100 W. Forest Hill Blvd.) will host a free screening of the movie Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice on Friday, Aug. 5 at 8 p.m. Call (561) 753-2484 for more info.

Saturday, Aug. 6 • The grand opening of the new Wellington Community Center (12150 W. Forest Hill Blvd.) will take place Saturday, Aug. 6 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 9 a.m., followed by an open house with tours of the new building through noon. Light refreshments will be provided. New instructors will be on hand to display innovative and exciting new programs. For more info., visit www.wellingtonfl.gov/classes.

• Learn how to play and experience Paralympic sports such as boccia, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball during Adapted Sports Day on Saturday, Aug. 6 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the CMAA Therapeutic Recreation Complex (2728 Lake Worth Road). Call Mohammad Nasser at (561) 966-7078 for more info.

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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PART-TIME ACCOUNTANT ASSISTANT — Part time, flexible, assistant to accountant.

Must be organized self-starter, computer literate (Excel, MS Word), to answer phones, do filing, do scheduling. Must be willing to learn new tasks. Royal Palm Beach.REFERENCES WILL BE CHECKED.Respond to arnoldsachs1@att.net No phone calls.

PART TIME, FLEXIBLE LEGAL SECRETARY/ASSISTANT. — Computer Literate (WordPerfect). Answer phones, schedule hearings, filing, assist with document preparation, etc. ONLY APPLICANTS WITH SOME EXPERIENCE WILL BE CONSIDERED. REFERENCES WILL BE CHECKED. Respond to j.a.abrams@att.net No phone calls.

INSURANCE AGENT: For auto/homeowners insurance — Spanish speaking preferred. Office in Wellington salary negotiable. Contact Robert 561-758-7029.

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

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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

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

CLEANING - HOME/OFFICE 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 RELIABLE HOME CLEANING —Experienced,local, references, pet sitting & house sitting available. Call 561-572-1782.

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HOME IMPROVEMENTS 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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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