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Volume 32, Number 28 July 15 - July 21, 2011
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Despite falling property tax revenue, the Wellington Village Council voted unanimously Tuesday to keep its tax rate steady at 2.5 mills for the third consecutive year . Council members also voted to set the drainage and solid waste assessments the same as last year. Page 2
CAFCI Youth Talent Show July 23 in RPB
Caribbean-Americans For Community Involvement held auditions Friday, July 8 at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center for its 16th annual Youth Talent Show Extravaganza. The talent show will take place Saturday, July 23 at the cultural center to benefit CAFCI’s Student Assistance Program. Page 3
Continued RPB Blvd. Road Work Delays Annoy Village Officials
After a discussion about extended roadwork delays, the Royal Palm Beach Village Council approved a change order last week for an additional $95,249 and an extra two weeks to finish pedestrian and bicycle lane improvements to Royal Palm Beach Blvd. north of Okeechobee Blvd. Page 7
OPINION Charlie Lynn Leaves Behind Huge Legacy
Wellington lost a transformational leader this week when former manager Charles “Charlie” Lynn died unexpectedly and far too young. If there is any one man who is responsible for what modern-day Wellington is, it’s the man who dedicated 11 years of his life to turning ideas into reality. And although he is no longer with us, the legacy Charlie left behind will continue to have an influence for years to come. Page 4 DEPARTMENT INDEX NEWS ............................. 3 - 14 OPINION ................................ 4 CRIME NEWS ........................ 6 NEWS BRIEFS .......................8 SCHOOLS .............................15 PEOPLE........................ 16 - 17 COLUMNS .................... 23 - 24 ENTERTAINMENT ................26 BUSINESS ...................29 - 31 SPORTS .......................35 - 37 CALENDAR...................38 - 39 CLASSIFIEDS .............40 - 475 Visit Us On The Web At WWW.GOTOWNCRIER.COM
Chick-fil-A celebrated Cow Appreciation Day on Friday, July 8 in the Mall at Wellington Green and other Chick-fil-A locations. People who came in cow-themed attire received a free meal. Shown above are Seminole Ridge High School students Daylee Fisher, Toni Tomlin, Dani Jury and Sierra McLaughlin. MORE PHOTOS, PAGE 13 PHOTO BY DENISE FLEISCHMAN/TOWN-CRIER
Nearby Residents Up In Arms Over Coconut-Northlake Project By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report Some residents near a planned commercial development at the southwest corner of Coconut and Northlake boulevards have launched a campaign to stop the project. Anne Kuhl, whose home is on Hamlin Blvd. to the south of the proposed Shops at Indian Trails, said she did not receive notice of the development, which received approval from the Palm Beach County Zoning Commission last week, and is scheduled to go before the Palm Beach County Commission on July 28. “We just feel there’s a lot of residents out here who don’t want that commercial this close to our neighborhood,” Kuhl said. “We feel that no one knows that this is taking place. Those signs that they put up, those little gold signs, they make it seem like there’s just going to be retail and a restaurant. It doesn’t even say anything about the gas station and the grocery store and all the other stuff that’s supposed to be there.” The proposal calls for the rezon-
ing of 30.71 acres of land from agricultural residential to multipleuse planned development to allow a commercial shopping center. The applicant is proposing a 3,800-square-foot fast-food restaurant with a drive-through lane and a 3,000-square-foot convenience store with 16 gasoline pumps and a 1,000-square-foot accessory car wash. The preliminary site plan also indicates 88,766 square feet of general retail; two financial institutions of 3,236 and 3,764 square feet, each with three drive-through lanes; and 4,000 square feet of medical office, for an overall total of 107,566 square feet. A total of 620 parking spaces would be provided, and there would be five access points to the site, three from Northlake Blvd., one from Coconut Blvd. and one from Hamlin Blvd. County staff determined that compatibility issues for the proposed use have been addressed by code requirements and conditions of approval and did not anticipate any adverse impacts on the surrounding areas.
“We’re just disgusted,” Kuhl said. “We really don’t want a Wendy’s or CVS as the entrance to The Acreage. We moved out here to get away from this commercial. It would be better at Callery-Judge Grove.” She said the Ibis shopping center to the east is near enough for residents’ shopping purposes. “People farther west would need services way more than us in the northeast corner of The Acreage,” Kuhl said. “This is The Acreage. It’s not like Palm Beach Gardens. We’re just very upset that we kind of have no say.” Larry Marcum of 85th Road North said few of his neighbors were aware of the project. “I saw the signs when they went up, and it said it was just going to be a gas station, a convenience store, a car wash and a restaurant,” Marcum said. “They didn’t say it was going to be 31 acres.” Marcum said he attended last week’s zoning meeting but that his protests were largely ignored. “They just shut me down,” Marcum said. “They said everybody See NORTHLAKE, page 18
Wellington Inks Long-Range Planning Partnership With FAU By Lauren Miró Town-Crier Staff Report Florida Atlantic University students will soon have the opportunity to help shape Wellington’s future after the Wellington Village Council agreed Tuesday to a twoyear partnership with the university’s School of Urban & Regional Planning. The interlocal agreement will establish a “living lab” for students both in Wellington and online, allowing them to tackle Wellington’s 2060 goals, including neighborhood revitalization, job creation, commercial redevelopment and equestrian community enhancement, Long Range Planning
Director Tim Stillings said. “It’s a program that will utilize resources from the university to provide a practical perspective to our economic development initiatives,” he said. “It’s a collaborative effort between us and the university. They are providing us with resources that we don’t have inhouse.” It will be similar to hiring a consultant: graduate students, a handful of handpicked bachelor’s degree students and faculty members at FAU will use Wellington’s reallife goals, challenges and unique community to conduct research, which will be presented to the council.
In addition to the research projects, Wellington would receive enhanced communication and planning tools, a dedicated web site for the project, dedicated graduate research assistants during the school year and one graduate intern for three summers. In the three-year contract that was presented, Wellington would pay $252,083, which would finance the faculty, student, web and travel costs. Additional money on the university’s side would be provided by a grant. Village Manager Paul Schofield said that Wellington would get more bang for its buck partnering See FAU, page 4
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Community Mourns Longtime Wellington Leader Charles Lynn By Lauren Miró Town-Crier Staff Report Charles Lynn was remembered this week as a loving husband and father, a great community leader and a gentleman who deserves a great deal of credit for shaping Wellington into the community it is today. Lynn, Wellington’s first permanent village manager, died Tuesday, July 12 of complications following heart surgery. He was 58. His death came four days after he’d undergone a heart-bypass operation at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville. Lynn, a native of Kentucky, attended Murray State University in Murray, Ky., where he graduated in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in urban and regional planning. In 1984, he obtained his law degree from Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights, Ky. He spent more than 30 years working in municipal administration, serving as the assistant city manager of Ocala from 1987 to 1994, and as city manager in Henderson, Ky., for two years
thereafter. He arrived in Wellington just months after the village’s incorporation and led the community for 11 years until his retirement in 2008. For the past two years, he served as town administrator for Southwest Ranches in Broward County. A Wellington resident, Lynn is survived by his wife Patsy, daughter Molly and son Michael. Former Wellington Mayor Kathy Foster remembered Lynn as a family man who always expressed how proud he was of his children. “He was constantly amazed he was a father at that point in his life,” she recalled. “He just reveled in the joy of Molly and Michael. He was thrilled with being a dad and so proud of their accomplishments.” Wellington hired Lynn as its first permanent manager in 1996. He arrived in September of that year and ran the day-to-day operations of the village during its boom years. Despite an evolving government, growing community and See LYNN, page 18
Wellington Mourns — Charles “Charlie” Lynn, Wellington’s first permanent village manager, retired in 2008. He died Tuesday following complications from a heart-bypass operation.
LGWCD Proposes Assessment Hike By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report The Loxahatchee Groves Water Control District Board of Supervisors on Monday approved a one-time assessment increase of $13.50 per acre. According to district officials, the extra money will be used to cover the current and future costs associated with last month’s special referendum, which changed how some board members will be elected. One or more board members will now be chosen by direct election, rather than a proxy vote by acreage election. The assessment rate cannot be raised further, but might be lowered before a final budget is adopted. The adjusted total assessment rate, including the one-time maximum increase, would be $151.45 per acre, according to
District Administrator Clete Saunier. At its May 9 meeting, the board approved its 2012 budget proposal and capital equipment replacement plan contingent on the town and district reaching an agreement providing for the town’s transfer of $150,000 in gas tax revenue to the district and to include the referendum costs. “The Loxahatchee Groves Town Council voted June 7 to confirm the inclusion of $150,000 in gas tax revenue to the district in its 2012 budget,” Saunier said. He estimated that the unanticipated additional costs associated with the referendum election process would be $60,950 for fiscal year 2011 and, because of its passage, would be $45,350 for 2012, for a total of $106,300. That money includes the required urban See LGWCD, page 18
Business Community Urged To Support SR 7 Extension By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report The extension of State Road 7 to Northlake Blvd. has the necessary funding and is crucial to the future of the western communities, but still faces an uphill battle against forces that do not want the roadway completed. Those were the key points raised at a Palms West Chamber of Commerce luncheon panel discussion Monday at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center. The speakers included Florida Department of Transportation Engineer Beatriz Caicedo-Maddison, Palm Beach County Deputy Engineer Tanya McConnell and two SR 7 extension advocates, Royal Palm Beach Councilwoman Martha Webster and Indian
Trail Improvement District President Michelle Damone. Chamber CEO Jaene Miranda said the SR 7 extension has been a local concern for a number of years. The county paid for the first phase of the extension, which took the road from Okeechobee Blvd. to Persimmon Blvd., and plans are underway to continue the extension to 60th Street North. The state has financed continuation of the extension to Northlake Blvd., but that portion is being opposed by West Palm Beach and its Ibis neighborhood, which is adjacent to the proposed route. However, Miranda said, most officials from the western communities agree that SR 7’s extension
to Northlake is needed for safety and efficient traffic flow. The chamber has approved two resolutions supporting the extension, Miranda said, pointing out that the “range line” route, which was the original easement for SR 7, has existed for more than 50 years and that the northern portion of the road extending south from Northlake Blvd. along the east side of Ibis has already been built. West Palm Beach has mounted an environmental challenge on the grounds that the road will go through wetlands, but about $15 million of the $50 million for the project is committed to wetlands mitigation, Miranda said. “We are at a critical juncture to build or not to build, and it is imSee STATE ROAD 7, page 7
Palms West Chamber CEO Jaene Miranda with panelists Florida Department of Transportation Engineer Beatriz CaicedoMaddison, Palm Beach County Deputy Engineer Tanya McConnell, Royal Palm Beach Councilwoman Martha Webster and Indian Trail Improvement District President Michelle Damone. PHOTO BY R ON BUKLEY/TOWN-CRIER
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Wellington Keeps Tax Rate, Drainage Fees & Trash Fees Unchanged By Lauren Miró Town-Crier Staff Report Despite falling property tax revenue, the Wellington Village Council voted unanimously Tuesday to keep its tax rate steady at 2.5 mills for the third consecutive year. Council members also voted to set the Acme Improvement District drainage assessment at $200 per unit, and solid waste assessments at $160 per unit for curbside pickup and $125 per unit for containerized service — all the same as last year. A tax rate of 2.5 mills would mean that a Wellington resident whose property is assessed at $175,000 after exemptions would pay $437.50 in village property taxes next year. State law requires Wellington to set its preliminary tax and assessment rates in July. Municipalities may lower the rates before final adoption in September
but cannot raise them. Next year’s Wellington budget is proposed to be $73.9 million, down about 2.4 percent from the current year. Public hearings on the final adoption of the proposed budget and tax rates will take place in September, when the council will make its final decision. Though officials chose to hold the line on the tax rate, the amount of money Wellington will receive in property taxes next year — approximately $12.76 million — will decline by about $50,000 due to falling property values, Director of Financial Management & Budget Mireya McIlveen said. The rate is lower than the socalled “rollback rate” of 2.527 mills, which would have generated the same amount of revenue as the current year. McIlveen said that the “breakeven” rate, which would use no reserve funds to balance the bud-
get, is 3.1 mills, which would generate more than $15 million in tax revenue. “This budget maintains our current levels of service,” McIlveen said. “It focuses on infrastructure maintenance, including road repaving, swale and surface water system maintenance, and facility and park maintenance.” Additionally, she said, it does not change the hurricane disaster fund, which contains about $3 million dedicated toward hurricane relief. Councilman Howard Coates asked if any positions were being cut. McIlveen said that there were five vacant governmental positions being cut or combined with another position, as well as one position added in the utilities department. “We looked to see if some of those functions could be reallocated to other personnel,” she said,
“or if the position could be restructured.” Village Manager Paul Schofield noted that in the original budget, when property values were expected to be much worse, staff anticipated cutting 17 positions. “Those positions are, for the most part, retained,” he said. “Any position that has been open for an extended period of time [has been removed]. There’s nobody currently on staff that we’re looking to eliminate.” Vice Mayor Matt Willhite asked whether Wellington could draw money from rate stabilization funds if for some reason the budget outlook was bleaker by September, and McIlveen said they could. Currently, Wellington is using $600,000 from its rate stabilization funds to balance the budget, Willhite noted. “I know this money is there for a rainy day,” he said. “And this is
the time to use it. We’re hopefully not going to raise the millage rate on our residents when they are hurting. I think we need to use the money that has been put away for a time like now.” Willhite noted that in this economy, few communities have been able to hold their tax rate for three years in a row. Mayor Darell Bowen noted that rate stabilization money might not be needed if Wellington comes in under budget in the next three months. McIlveen agreed. “That’s what happened last year,” she said. Mayor Pro Tem Dr. Carmine Priore and Councilwoman Anne Gerwig were absent, but Schofield said both support maintaining the current rates. Willhite made a motion to adopt the rate, and it carried 3-0. In other business, the council awarded a $231,000 contract to Browning & Becker Construction
to renovate Wellington’s old municipal complex on Greenbriar Blvd. to accommodate the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office District 8 substation. As part of Wellington’s contract with the PBSO, the village is required to pay for office space. When Wellington’s administration and staff moved into its new municipal complex late last year, the old municipal complex building was designated for the PBSO once a few adjustments were made. The substation, which currently operates out of the original Wellington Mall, was originally set to move in April, but the decision to put the project out for bid delayed construction. Two companies submitted bids on the project, and Browning & Becker was ranked first. Willhite said he asked for the item to be pulled from the consent agenda for discussion. “What is See COUNCIL, page 18
RPB Eyes Code Change Allowing Swim Instructor To Teach From Home By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report The Royal Palm Beach Village Council directed its staff last week to look into allowing swimming instruction as a home occupation without opening the door to other home occupations. At the July 7 meeting, staff members were looking for direction from the council as to whether to include “home instructional services as a type of permitted home occupation.” The issue arose after a woman who gives infant self-rescue lessons in her home pool was cited by code enforcement after the village received anonymous complaints about the activity. According to a staff report, a survey of other municipalities showed that home instructional services can occur inside the home and include classes such as music lessons and academic tutoring, or outside the home and include instruction such as swimming lessons and dog training. Under RPB’s current definition of “home occupation,” the subcategory of “home instructional services” is not permitted since traffic would be generated. Senior Village Planner Bradford O’Brien said his staff had found that other municipalities
allowing home instructional services require that the instructor also be the resident, that there be no more than one instructor and that they have liability insurance of at least $300,000. Instruction could occur between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m., and no more than two cars are allowed to park at the instructor’s home. On lots of less than 1.25 acres, only one student is allowed to receive instruction. On larger lots, three students are allowed at a time. The activity would have to be screened from neighbors with fencing or landscaping. Councilman David Swift asked about noise, and O’Brien said the instructor would have to adhere to the village’s existing noise ordinance, but Swift said he was not sure if that would be enough. “If you have a resident next door where people are giving swimming lessons, and through the entire summer you have a number of kids yelling and disturbing their back yard, what’s the fairness in that?” Swift asked. Vice Mayor Richard Valuntas said he favored the idea of swimming lessons. “It’s a service necessary because we don’t have a municipal pool here in Royal Palm Beach, and the number-one killer of our children in South Florida is
drowning,” Valuntas said. “I understand the concerns with traffic and perhaps noise, but as long as the folks can comply with the ordinances that we have, I think that this is a good idea.” Councilman Fred Pinto said he saw a need for swimming lessons. “This is an important service for our youth, and anything that is going to affect the youth in our village is something that I’m always concerned about,” he said. Pinto said he felt that times were changing and that the council must continually review its ordinances. “We need to make rational, practical adjustments to enable and help our residents, in this case, our kids,” he said. Village Manager Ray Liggins said village code enforcement had cited Sharon Powers of Sandpiper Avenue, who, without direction from the council, would have to cease her infant lifesaving instruction by July 15. Swift pointed out that the models given them that evening were very broad. “It’s not just for swimming pool instruction,” Swift said. “If I wanted to teach guitar and I have a very large amplifier, I would just have to comply with the noise ordinance?” Swift said he had a problem with residential areas becoming
commercial areas. “In an area that has deed restrictions, that is not a problem, but in areas that don’t have deed restrictions, this can become a problem,” he said. Powers said her type of instruction is a life safety issue. “In the State of Florida, drowning is the leading cause of death for kids under 5,” she noted. Powers also pointed out that the village spent quite a bit of money last summer on programs to keep children safe around the water. She explained that the program she teaches is children’s self-rescue. “What I teach is for a 6-monthold baby who falls in the water face first to flip over and float by themselves,” Powers said. “Once they are walking, they learn how to swim, flip over and rest, and then flip back over on their tummy and swim to the wall. We teach them how to survive in a water accident.” Kate Leber, an attorney and the mother of a child who took lessons from Powers, said she is confident now that if her son were to fall in the water, he could survive. “I believe it is an essential service that she is providing,” Leber said. “When she let me know what was going on, I felt it was important for me to get involved as a
concerned parent, as well as an attorney, to help her go through this process.” Leber said she accompanied Powers at the special magistrate meeting where her case was heard. While the magistrate agreed with the value of the service, the decision did not come down in Powers’ favor. “Simply, as the code is written here in Royal Palm Beach, it must generate no traffic,” Leber said. Powers added she had inquired at other places with pools, and homeowners’ associations would not allow it because of liability and traffic. Calypso Bay does not teach survival skills as she does, and does not accept children younger than 3. Swift said he accepted the argument for a need for the service but would rather have an ordinance that covered only home swimming lessons. “Right now you’re talking about home instructional services,” he said. “You’re talking about opening it up to a wide variety of things. If this is really important, then narrow it down to something we can deal with, rather than open it so broadly.” Swift said he felt that the issue is not to create a business opportunity but to help resolve the
health and safety issue of infant drowning prevention. Liggins said that his staff is looking for direction and pointed out that the examples cited were taken from the Palm Beach County and Wellington ordinances. “It’s all up for discussion,” he said. “If we wanted to, we could just limit it to swimming only, no more than one-on-one. We’re willing to take any direction whatsoever.” Valuntas said he favored Swift’s approach to the ordinance but pointed out that there are home occupations the village allows. “To me, the simplest thing to do would be to add this to the list of home day-cares, the assisted-living facilities that are allowed to be in neighborhoods, and to add this as a public safety issue,” he said. Pinto said he felt there was a general consensus among council members on what direction to take. “This is about the welfare and health of our children,” Pinto said. “If staff and legal could come back with an ordinance, or tack it to an existing ordinance that satisfies this circumstance, I would be comfortable with it.” Powers, meanwhile, was given permission to continue her lessons while the new ordinance is pending.
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Young Performers Audition For Annual CAFCI Talent Show In RPB By Jessica Gregoire Town-Crier Staff Report CAFCI, Caribbean-Americans For Community Involvement, held auditions Friday, July 8 at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center for its 16th annual Youth Talent Show Extravaganza. The talent show will take place at 6 p.m. on Saturday, July 23 at the cultural center to benefit CAFCI’s Student Assistance Program, a scholarship fund for local collegebound students. More than 20 children auditioned for a chance to be a part of the upcoming talent show, said CAFCI President Nadine WhiteBoyd, chair of the talent show. “The talent show has become a great way for child performers to
showcase their talent,” she said. The performers include individual and group singers, dancers, pianists, drummers and violinists. The auditions lasted three hours and were conducted in a room where six CAFCI talent show committee members sat at a long table facing the performers. After each child performed, committee members asked them a couple of questions to get to know them personally. The CAFCI talent show committee will decide how many children will be included in the show. “We generally have 20 acts, but we might have a little more this year,” White-Boyd said. All the great talent discovered could bring the show up to 25 per-
Devonte Ho-Hing answers questions from the talent show committee.
formances, she said. The show will last for three hours with a 15minute intermission, during which pizza and drinks will be available for purchase. Former contestants have continued to pursue their talents through performing arts education and other professional performances. The most famous previous talent show contestant is Christopher Grant, who danced backup for Michael Jackson on the “This Is It” tour. “We even had some kids who went on to act in soap operas,” White-Boyd said. The talent show began as a way to encourage children in the community to express themselves artistically, while giving them something to do in the summertime.
Since 1995, the show has grown and continues to offer a positive impact on children and the community. Proceeds will benefit the CAFCI Student Assistance Program, which is an annual scholarship fund that awards six $1,000 scholarships, White-Boyd said. A scholarship application is available on the CAFCI web site and is open to all Palm Beach County students. To be awarded a scholarship, applicants must be exemplary students who shows an interest in the Caribbean community. “The students don’t necessarily have to be from the Caribbean. They can be from any cultural background, but they do have to show some interest in the Carib-
Demi Master tap dances for her audition.
Taylor Renee with her father Richard McNevin.
bean culture,” White-Boyd said. CAFCI is a nonprofit community volunteer organization founded 22 years ago. It is dedicated to bringing the community together through social events and activities. The organization is open to anyone in the community who is interested in the Caribbean community and social involvement. “We have quite a few members who are not of a Caribbean background,” White-Boyd said. “For example, [county commissioner] Jess Santamaria is a member.” For more information about CAFCI and the talent show, visit its web site at www.cafcipbc.org. The Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center is located at 151 Civic Center Way.
Jade Master auditions for the talent show with a song. PHOTOS BY JESSICA GREGOIRE/TOWN-CRIER
Talent show committee members Yvonne Richar dson, Shirley Morrison, Nadine White-Boyd, Ernie Gar vey, Nova Brown and Genieve White in the audition room.
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Charlie Lynn Leaves Behind A Huge Legacy In Wellington Wellington lost a transformational leader this week when former manager Charles “Charlie” Lynn died unexpectedly and far too young. If there is any one man who is responsible for what modern-day Wellington is, it’s the man who dedicated 11 years of his life to turning ideas into reality. If Wellington’s founding fathers are the various developers, businessmen and pioneer residents who helped establish the community back in the late 1970s and 1980s, then Lynn is its adoptive father, raising the village through its formative years. He took what Wellington’s pioneer generation had created and brought it to the next level, turning a vision of Wellington into the reality of Wellington today. Having been hired in 1996 — just a few months after Wellington incorporated — Lynn was at the helm during the community’s most crucial stages of development, changing from a collection of homes into a self-governing municipality. He led the development of Wellington’s infrastructure, basically from scratch, including overseeing the drafting of the first comprehensive plan and deciding how to take that vision and make it happen. He put together a support staff and created departments to handle everything from financial oversight to zoning regulations. And he took a small recreation program and turned it into the world-class parks and recreation system that Wellington treasures today. Some criticized Lynn for not being aggressive enough in his managing style, but that was part
of what made his tenure such an effective one. Nowhere was this more evident than in his dealings with the South Florida Water Management District regarding the drainage problems in southern Wellington’s Basin B. While there were those who would have liked to have solved the issue with litigation, Lynn fought to ensure that calmer heads would prevail, putting together a solution that made sure that Wellington taxpayers wouldn’t be left footing the bill. Other important milestones that happened under Lynn’s watch include the development of the State Road 7 corridor as a major retail area, as well as the opening of the Mall at Wellington Green, both achievements critical to Wellington’s business sector. Perhaps one of Lynn’s greatest accomplishments during his time as Wellington’s village manager wasn’t something tangible, but rather the time itself. The average turnover rate for such a position is four or five years, and he lasted more than twice that long. And that’s every bit as much a testament to his character as his work ethic. Lynn retired from the village in January 2008 after spending more than a third of his career in government working for Wellington. Though his most recent job took him to Broward County, Lynn remained a Wellington resident, choosing to live in the community he helped foster. Charlie Lynn affected many people during his time as Wellington’s manager.And although he is no longer with us, the legacy he left behind will continue to have an influence for decades to come.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Shopping Plaza Wrong For Northlake And Coconut A 30-acre shopping mall to be called the Shops at Indian Trails is proposed for the Northlake/Coconut entrance to our rural Acreage community. It is set for final approval by the Palm Beach County Commission on July 28 after being approved by the Palm Beach County Zoning Commission on July 7. We live adjacent to the proposed site and are very concerned with the location and magnitude of this project. We attended the zoning commission meeting and spoke against the project, along with one other person. After opposing this project for several years now, we are very concerned that Acreage residents are not aware that it is days away from final approval. We are appalled that the Indian Trail Improvement District wrote a letter to support this project, along with the Acreage Landowners’ Association. We wrote to ITID to express our disapproval in October 2010, and yet they continue to support this project. The location for this project is wrong for this part of The Acreage and too close to the Shoppes at Ibis. Residents in the Northlake/ Coconut area do not need or want a shopping mall in this location. We are minutes away from all the shopping, banking, restaurants and gas stations we need by traveling a short distance east on Northlake. The need for retail services is much greater farther west and in the Callery-Judge Grove area, rather than at the Northlake/Coconut site. Callery-Judge Grove conveniently already has unused commercially zoned property and vacant structures ready for develop-
ment. Acreage residents to the west of us already have a shopping center at Orange and Seminole Pratt. The southeastern Acreage residents have Royal Palm Beach and Wellington commercial areas. The northeast Acreage residents have the Shoppes at Ibis and the North Palm Beach and Palm Beach Gardens commercial areas. Why bring the western Acreage residents and the traffic to the northeast corner of the Acreage when there is established commercial property available at Callery-Judge Grove? Why should we be impacted by this project when the need is not in our location? Put the commercial project farther west were it is needed. Our worst fear is that this shopping mall will be built only later to become run down and blighted, which would be a worse-case scenario than if it is never built. When the Shoppes at Ibis and other commercial developments in this area are already suffering with vacancies, and existing businesses are struggling to survive in these bad economic times, why would a project in this location even be considered? We urge our elected leaders to consider what is best for all areas of The Acreage and approve only commercial projects where they are truly needed. For businesses to be successful, commercial rezoning in The Acreage must be driven by the needs of the residents, not by the developers. We ask that all Acreage residents who value their rural lifestyle, who moved here to avoid commercial blight and the pollution and crime that comes with it, write to your county commissioners and let them know this project is wrong for The Acreage. Please attend the July 28 Board of County Commissioners Zoning Meeting and speak out before it is too late. Anne and Gert Kuhl The Acreage
Morelli: Point Of Previous Letter Was Government Regulation Thank you for publishing the erudite letter submitted by Richard Nielsen last week on the economic and social consequences of smoking cigarettes. He makes a convincing argument for not smoking, and he doesn’t seem to be blaming the tobacco companies for the poor choices that his patients have made. I understand some might expect the tobacco companies to contribute to the cost of treating smoking-related medical conditions. Just as blasting companies are strictly liable for the unintended damage they cause. I have been a lawyer for 42 years, I am admitted to [practice in] four states, and have spent ten years as a judge. What I meant to say is that lawsuits against tobacco companies are expensive and often result in settlements in which the lawyers are paid millions and smokers receive nothing. Notice I didn’t use the term “victim” for the smoker. The point I had hoped to make in my earlier letter was that government regulators who act ostensibly to prevent someone from hurting themselves, hurting animals and plants, need to take into consideration the unintended consequences of their actions. Tobacco just happened to be on my mind that day. Let me restate the point of my earlier letter. For the past 50 years, centralizing regulatory control of the economy through the steadily growing heavy-handed approach of unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. is even more costly to society than the treatment for smoking-related conditions. The primary targets of these regulators
has been the tobacco industry, the auto industry, the steel mills, chemical companies, pharmaceutical companies, doctors of medicine, the textile industry, the oil and gas industry, iron pipe manufacturers, heavy equipment manufacturers, even agricultural growers of sugar cane because of the phosphates that encourage algae growth, or the energy plants that use coal because of the CO2emissions, and this is not the complete list. The economic cost of destroying wealth-producing industries in simple terms means fewer taxpayers. When smokers run out of other people’s money, and we are well on our way to doing that, then who will pay for the smokers’ medical treatment? Some say we need more taxes, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (RFla.), who I wholeheartedly support, said we need more taxpayers. I agree. The government cannot survive on taxing fast food workers, and this economy cannot survive the government regulators. Frank Morelli Wellington
Sexton Agrees With Morelli I do not doubt that Richard Nielsen, who last week responded to Frank Morelli’s letter regarding tobacco, was or is a respiratory therapist. As such he undoubtedly witnessed, first hand, people who were horribly devastated by smoking-related illnesses. I am pleased that Mr. Nielsen uses the correct terminology, “smoking-related,” in his letter. Unlike journalists, who usually make such statements as “tobacco kills 450,000 people each year,” Mr. Nielsen appears to realize that it is not tobacco, per se, but smoking-related illnesses that are attributed that amount of mortality. The distinction is important because some of those killed by smoking-
related illness were non-smokers. And not all smokers die from a smoking-related illness. Labeling a particular illness to be “smoking-related” is therefore not a science, but an art. And an art that has been exploited by many surgeons general. I smoked cigarettes for over 25 years. Almost never less than a pack a day, and I usually averaged two packs a day. During my smoking days, I never had a smokingrelated illness. I quit about 35 years ago and still exhibit no smoking-related illness. Obviously I am not alone. Many people who smoke never have a smoking-related illness and most who do, never die from them. I believe that Mr. Morelli made this same point in his letter. I am not trying to say that smoking is beneficial to the smoker. Each smoker must decide whether the pleasure they derive from the practice is worth the expense and the potential health hazard. But the fact that many millions of people do smoke certainly justifies Mr. Morelli’s statements about the impact of the industry on employment and the economy. Finally, I’d like to add a personal preference about the appropriate functions of government. I do not believe it to be appropriate for the government to mandate such things as the printing of lurid pic-
tures of diseased people on legal products. If the result of unbiased research can show, beyond reasonable doubt, that smoking cigarettes at the rate of x packs a day reduces one’s lifespan by y number of years, then it is worth publishing. Beyond that, it is not government business to frighten or disgust people in order to try to influence their personal choices as to what they want to consume — or not. Phil Sexton Wellington
Obama Has The Upper Hand On Debt Ceiling It’s hard to believe the debt clause will come into play. Congress has raised the ceiling 10 times since 2001. But if Congress insists on forcing Uncle Sam into acting like a deadbeat, the president has a clear — if unprecedented — response. He can declare default unconstitutional and arrange to pay the nation’s debts unilaterally. That would certainly demonstrate that the United States is a better credit risk than anyone thought. Shirley M. Bass Wellington
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Tomato The Latest Food To Be Heralded As A Nutritional Powerhouse I am quite convinced that if one lives long enough, virtually every food that wanders through your front door will be championed by someone as a positive wonder worker for your body. The newest candidate brought to the tale is the ubiquitous tomato that some experts classify as a fruit and some as a vegeta-
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continued from page 1 with the university rather than hiring consultants. “The dollar value is substantially less than it would cost us to contract for the same service,” he said. “We’re not just getting the undergraduate and graduate students, we’re getting the faculty and technology people.” Unlike a consultant, who typically works independently, students and faculty will work alongside Wellington staff. Stillings said that the program addresses several of Wellington’s needs. “It provides a university-level education presence in Wellington, which we hope to cultivate,” he said. “It also provides a practical focus on our economic develop-
ble. Yes, in the latest issue of the prestigious AARP Magazine, the
red-skinned, roly-poly cornerstone of a vast variety of salads is nominated as a nutritional powerhouse that fights a phalanx of illnesses from cancer to heart disease. Inherent in the makeup of tomatoes is lycopene, a highly potent antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals — those uncon-
trolled oxygen molecules that cause cellular damage. Respected research has proven that eating foods high in lycopene will protect against a wide range of cancers from prostate to lung and breast. Yes, tomatoes can also help protect against heart attacks by lowering cholesterol. In a three-
week study, it was found that drinking 13 ounces of tomato juice daily lowered LDL or “bad” cholesterol levels by almost 13 percent. Newer research also shows the tomato is well stocked with 9-oxo-octadecadienoic acid, which Japanese scientists found lowered cholesterol and fat in the
bloodstream. Unchecked, these lipids can lead to diseases like arteriosclerosis and Type 2 diabetes. To be honest, I stopped growing tomatoes in the back yard when my daughters married and left the nest. Sure looks like I should resume my farming habits, pronto!
ment, and provides new ideas and a connection to Wellington’s community through innovative approaches and open communication.” Program Director Dr. Jaap Vos explained that living labs are an attempt by the university to become more involved in local communities. “We want to use the knowledge and expertise we have in local communities to help them achieve their goals,” he said. Wellington would be the first community to form such a partnership, he said. Vos said that FAU was drawn to Wellington because of the 2060 initiative, which outlines the community’s goals for the next 50 years. “We think Wellington has some really unique planning opportunities that other communities do not have,” he said, adding that he thought that Wellington is inno-
vative in both its planning and use of technology. Students would benefit in getting real-life experience, while Wellington’s planning staff would receive up-to-date training and access to staff and students’ knowledge. Vos said that the university is looking to tackle a long-term project. “We think that if we really want to make an impact and build on something,” he said, “we need to do this for several years and develop a partnership.” A similar project by students working with the Broward Metropolitan Planning Organization was successful, Vos said.And a project done by students for the City of Fort Lauderdale identified a surprising number of tax-exempt properties, a business district and an industrial district that the city didn’t realize it had. “These projects give an indica-
tion of the kinds of things we want to do as a university,” he said. Schofield noted that the partnership would provide Wellington with a fresh perspective on its 2060 initiative. “Part of what we would like to have happen with this,” he said, “is to have a critical look taken at our planning processes and our thought processes.” Additionally, it provides a research capability that Wellington doesn’t have, which could save money in the long run, Schofield said. Vice Mayor Matt Willhite expressed concerns about the partnership, notably with the cost. “I understand the need to invest in the future,” he said. “But what I can control is what’s happening right now.” He pointed to many residents who were concerned about the price tag of closing Goldenrod Road.
“This is a higher cost,” he said. “And the residents living here now may not be affected by it because they won’t be living here then.” Willhite also said that Wellington has already spent money on similar programs. “I have a lot of concern with the fact that a few years ago, council and staff worked on a 2020 plan,” he said. “Where is that?” Willhite said he would not support the partnership. Wellington Mayor Darell Bowen said he supported the program and thought it offered an opportunity to make Wellington better in the future. “I think that planning is the key,” he said. “If we do it right, I think we’ll get to where we want to go. Otherwise we’ll keep hitting dead-end roads.” Bowen said it would have been nice to have the foresight not to approve so much retail space,
much of which remains vacant. “We would have known then that we should have been trying to create jobs,” he said. “I think that by partnering with FAU, we will only make [the 2060 plan] better. I believe we will make back multiples of what we will spend. Without a plan you don’t get that return.” Councilman Howard Coates asked if the contract could be terminated, and Schofield said either party could cancel the contract with 60 days’ notice. Coates asked Vos if the university would accept a one-year contract, but Vos said it was unlikely. Coates suggested instead a two-year contract with an optional one-year extension, which Vos said would be suitable. The measure passed 2-1, with Willhite opposed and Mayor Pro Tem Dr. Carmine Priore and Councilwoman Anne Gerwig absent.
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Wells Fargo Hosts RPB Ribbon Cutting To Mark Wachovia Merger By Jessica Gregoire Town-Crier Staff Report Wells Fargo Bank held a grand opening celebration at its Royal Palm Beach branch Tuesday, July 12 to celebrate the completed merging of Wachovia with Wells Fargo in South Florida. The merger marked the last of the Wachovia branches to be converted into a Wells Fargo in the state, Wells Fargo District Manager Dinorah Shoben said. She noted that the transition took three years to complete and includes more than 6,000 branches. Palms West Chamber of Commerce representatives were on
hand to take part in a ribbon-cutting ceremony and welcome the bank to the community. Shoben, a longtime chamber member, expressed her gratitude in a speech and presented the chamber with gifts. “We have worked really hard to get where we are today, with blood, sweat and tears from our employees,” Shoben said. The merger happened last weekend, with all the area Wachovia branches changing signs and logos to Wells Fargo. Shoben said Wells Fargo has worked diligently to make the transition easy for its employees and customers.
Wells Fargo District Manager Dinorah Shoben, Royal Palm Beach Branch Manager Marie Antuna and Gold Coast Central Division Market Consultant Shirley Marrero.
“We are having a great response to the change, and the employees are very excited,” Shoben said. “Our customers love Wells Fargo.” Besides the appearance, the employees and customers will not see drastic changes to the banking system. The customers will keep the same checks, cards and accounts. “We have grandfathered all the accounts,” Shoben said, noting that if members want to convert to a new Wells Fargo account, they also have that option available to them. “Our vision is to really satisfy
all of our customers’ financial needs and help them succeed financially,” Shoben said. As a thank-you gift, Shoben presented a $15,000 check to Palms West Chamber member Carol Patton for the Junior Achievement of the Palm Beaches Biz Town program. “The chamber has been really supportive throughout the years and for this event,” Shoben said. The Wells Fargo Royal Palm Beach branch is located at 11707 Okeechobee Blvd. For additional information about Wells Fargo, visit the company’s web site at www.wellsfargo.com.
The Palms West Chamber’s Mary Lou Bedford, Scott Brown, Maureen Gross, Linda LoBianco, Faye Ford, Debi Leed, Jessica Clasby and Jaene Miranda.
The Palms West Chamber commences the ribbon cutting.
Wells Fargo District Manager Dinorah Shoben presents a gift to Palms West Chamber CEO Jaene Miranda. PHOTOS BY JESSICA GREGOIRE/TOWN-CRIER
RPB COMMUNITY BAND PRESENTS SUMMER CONCERT AT CULTURAL CENTER
The Royal Palm Beach Community Band kicked off its summer concert series with a performance Tuesday, July 12 at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center. The next concert will take place Aug. 23 at 7 p.m., also at the cultural center. Admission is free. For more info., call (561) 790-5149. PHOTOS BY JESSICA GREGOIRE/TOWN-CRIER
Band members Rita Keller, D’ette Matthews, Janet Hakala and Judy Bennett during intermission.
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Man Arrested For Battery On Palm Tran Ride To Mall By Lauren Miró Town-Crier Staff Report JULY 12 — A man was arrested Tuesday for aggravated assault following a confrontation outside the Mall at Wellington Green. According to a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office report, the victim and a friend were riding a Palm Tran bus to the mall when 25-year-old Wendell Clarke approached them, gestured to them with his hands making a shooting action and said “bang bang.” According to the report, as the victim and his friend exited the bus, Clarke punched the victim in the face. When the victim defended himself with his walking cane, Clarke took the cane from the victim and struck him several times in the head. The victim was taken to Wellington Regional Medical Center for head injuries, while Clarke was taken to Delray Medical Center for a possible stab wound. Clarke was arrested and later taken to the Palm Beach County Jail where he was charged with aggravated battery. ••• JULY 9 — A Royal Palm Beach man was arrested last Saturday evening on drug charges following a suspicious incident. According to a PBSO report, a deputy from the Royal Palm Beach substation was at a home on Kensington Way when he observed 26-year-old Ryan Omeara in the back yard trying to conceal something in the bushes. The deputy made contact with Omeara, who said he lived at the home. According to the report, the deputy recovered from the bushes two plastic containers, which had cocaine residue, a brown dish with marijuana residue, two bottles of a vitamin supplement and a multicolored marijuana pipe. Omeara was arrested and issued a notice to appear in court. JULY 10 — A deputy from the PBSO substation in Wellington was dispatched last Sunday morning to a home on Aster Avenue regarding a theft. According to a PBSO report, the victim left her turquoise Raleigh bicycle unlocked in her front yard. Sometime between 8 p.m. last Saturday and 10 a.m. the following morning, someone stole it. The bicycle was valued at approximately $50. There were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report. JULY 10 — A resident of the Willows called the PBSO substation in Royal Palm Beach last Sunday afternoon to report a burglary. According to a PBSO report, the victim left for vacation on Sunday, July 3 and returned home last Sunday to discover that several electronics items were missing. The perpetrator(s) stole a Wii game console and an Xbox 360 game console, along with a Kodak digital camera. According to the report, the home was not otherwise disturbed. However, the deputy believed that the point of entry was an unlocked kitchen window. The stolen items were valued at approximately $850. According to the report, a neighbor saw several juveniles hanging out at a nearby home and said it was known the family was on vacation. JULY 11 — A resident of Via Toscana called the PBSO substation in Wellington early Monday morning to report an act of vandalism. According to a PBSO re-
port, the victim left her home around noon last Sunday and arrived home at approximately 1 a.m. the following morning to find that the window on her front door had been smashed. The victim contacted the PBSO because she was worried that there may still have been a burglar in the house. According to the report, a deputy arrived and checked the residence, but found that the front door was still locked and no one was inside. The victim did not find anything missing in the home. The broken window was valued at approximately $300. There were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report. JULY 11 — A deputy from the PBSO substation in Royal Palm Beach responded to a home in the Victoria Groves community Monday regarding a burglary. According to a PBSO report, sometime between 9 a.m. and 7:45 p.m., someone entered the victim’s home through the unlocked rear door and stole a television, DVD player and diamond-encrusted watch. The stolen items were valued at approximately $1,000. There were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report. JULY 12 — A deputy from the PBSO substation in Royal Palm Beach was dispatched to a home on Linda Court on Tuesday regarding a burglary. According to a PBSO report, sometime between 6 p.m. last Sunday and 6 p.m. Monday, someone stole a 24” Mongoose bicycle from the screened enclosure at the front of the victim’s home. The stolen bicycle was valued at $200. There were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report. JULY 12 — A deputy from the PBSO substation in Wellington responded Tuesday morning to a home in Sturbridge Village regarding a stolen vehicle. According to a PBSO report, the victim parked his scooter in the back of his home Monday at approximately 11 p.m. When he awoke the next morning, it was gone. JULY 12 — A resident of Greenview Shores called the PBSO substation in Wellington on Tuesday afternoon to report a burglary. According to a PBSO report, sometime between 6 p.m. Monday and noon Tuesday, someone entered the victim’s vehicle and stole a blue backpack containing a school book and Sony voice recorder. The deputy found no signs of forced entry, and the victim said she believes the vehicle was unlocked. The stolen items were valued at approximately $235. There were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report. JULY 12 — A deputy from the PBSO substation in Royal Palm Beach was dispatched to the Walmart Supercenter on Belvedere Road late Tuesday night in response to a stolen vehicle. According to the report, the victim parked his white 2001 Mitsubishi Eclipse in the parking lot at approximately 3 p.m. When he got out of work at approximately 11 p.m., he noticed his car was missing. According to the report, the victim said no one had permission to take his vehicle, and he did not know anyone who might have taken it. The deputy found no signs of forced entry or towing. There were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report.
Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County is asking for the public’s help in finding these wanted fugitives: • Osman Lotero, a.k.a. Jose Sanchez, is a white male, 6’1” tall and weighing 260 lbs., with black hair and brown eyes. He may have a shaved head. His date of birth is 01/09/74. Lotero is wanted for failure to appear for jur y trial on charges of trafficking in cocaine, conspiracy to traffic in cocaine, unlawful possession of property for trafficking controlled substances, possession/production of drug paraphernalia and felon in possession of a f irearm/ammunition. His occupation is pressure cleaning. His last known address was Pinetta Circle in Wellington. Lotero is wanted as of 07/ 14/11. • Jose Villa is a white male, 5’7” tall and weighing 175 lbs., with black hair and brown eyes. He has tattoos on his hand, arms and chest. His date of birth is 06/20/75. Villa is wanted for failure to appear on charges of sale of cocaine and possession of cocaine with intent to sell. His occupation is maintenance. His last known address was Dorchester in Greenacres. Villa is wanted as of 07/14/11. Remain anonymous and you may be eligible for up to a $1,000 reward. Call Crime Stoppers at (800) 458-TIPS (8477) or visit www. crimestopperspbc.com.
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ITID Seeks Changes To Northern Seminole Pratt Widening Plan By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report The Indian Trail Improvement District Board tabled a special permit for the widening of Seminole Pratt Whitney Road from Orange Blvd. to Northlake Blvd. Wednesday until district staff can talk to county staff about possible changes that will make the proposal more Acreage-friendly. Heeding words from former supervisor Mike Erickson, who asked that the road have features that distinguish the area as The Acreage, the board decided to look at the plan more closely. The work consists of the widening of Seminole Pratt from Orange Blvd. to 87th Road North from two lanes to four lanes. The design considers a possible future widening to six lanes. The total length is 1.808 miles, and there are three drainage retention ponds. The permit, which the county
applied for in 2006, was reviewed by the previous district engineer, whose comments were satisfactorily addressed. District Administrator Tanya Quickel said the project is not scheduled to actually begin for two or three years. “This is just part of the special permit process we are asking you to approve,” she said. During public comment, Erickson said he was not satisfied with the thought that had been put into the plan. “I highly recommend you table this tonight, and here’s why,” Erickson said. “When you look at Seminole Pratt going south, you’ve seen the concrete poles and you’ve seen what they’re doing on lighting. The reality is I think you can make them do better in the heart of the district. I don’t think the downtown area of CalleryJudge on up through Orange on Seminole Pratt should look the
same way as what they’re doing down south.” Erickson added that before the district issues a permit, supervisors should discuss having one of the stormwater retention areas double as a park. “If you actually get out the map that was given to us a while ago about the one-mile and the twomile radius to parks, you’ll actually find there is a gap in that whole northwestern corner there,” Erickson said. He reiterated that there is no urgency in approval of the permit and would like to have presentations to the public so residents can give feedback on the plan. “Go through it just a little bit more before you sign off on a special permit,” Erickson said. “I’m not interested in not giving them a permit, but I think the public deserves some of that input.” He added that he thought ITID
might be able to get the county on board to go with its ideas. Supervisor Carol Jacobs agreed and amended a motion she had made earlier to approve the permit to table it instead. ITID President Michelle Damone said district staff would go back to County Engineer George Webb to discuss the plans further. In other business, the board approved a piggyback bid for road striping in portions of the district, not to exceed $87,000. Jacobs asked if it is to purchase striping equipment, and Quickel said it is just to pay for striping in areas of the district that need it. Jacobs asked whether ITID staff had looked into purchasing equipment and training someone to use it in order to do it themselves, and Quickel said they had. “The cost for that would be over $100,000, and that would not include the crew to do the work,” Quickel said.
Damone asked whether, if they put the project out for bid, it might be less expensive, and Quickel said that several piggyback bids had been looked at, and this was the cheapest one. She said an expense of no more than $100,000 a year had been put in the budget, with portions of roads done each year. ITID Vice President Carlos Enriquez asked District Engineer Tony Las Casas whether ITID could have its own striping crew and if it would be a matter of hiring more people and obtaining the materials and equipment. “In my past experience, striping crews are not generally a part of most road contractor crews,” Las Casas said. “It’s for a reason. In order to do it effectively and cost-effectively, it’s one of those special type operations. It isn’t like painting a house. My recommendation would be to go with a licensed contractor.”
Las Casas said the plastic striping that will be used lasts eight to 10 years typically, although the contract grants only a one-year guarantee. Jacobs said she favored the project but would prefer a local contractor. “I am totally against the piggyback stuff, especially when there are so many guys out of work,” she said. “These guys already have a contract with the county. There’s a lot of guys who are hungry. They’re looking for work. We might be able to bid it out and get a cheaper price and give it to someone who might be losing their house, but it’s here, and I’m going to go with what staff recommends right now.” Supervisor Ralph Bair said the bid process takes 60 to 90 days, and they sometimes wind up with only one bidder. “That’s why I want to go with this,” he said. Bair made a motion to approve the plan, which carried 5-0.
Continued RPB Blvd. Road Work Delays Annoy Village Officials By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report After a discussion about extended roadwork delays, the Royal Palm Beach Village Council approved a change order last week for an additional $95,249 and an extra two weeks to finish pedestrian and bicycle lane improvements to Royal Palm Beach Blvd. north of Okeechobee Blvd. The July 7 change order was a result of two issues with the existing asphalt surface. After initial milling of the outside lanes, it was discovered that about 6 percent of the remaining asphalt was not thick enough. In order to restore the structural integrity of the road, an additional 2.5 inches will need to be added to those sections of roadway, according to an RPB staff report. The second issue is that the top layer of about 6 percent of the roadway is cracking, creating the need for about 1 inch of those sections of the road to be removed and replaced. Minor drainage modifications were also requested. Village Engineer Chris Marsh said he had reached an agreement
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continued from page 1 portant for us to take action,” Miranda said. Webster said the county and FDOT have worked diligently to get the extension finished and that Royal Palm Beach has pledged support for the project. “For all the energy, time, the money, your tax dollars that have been put into this, it has been stopped, consistently stopped, within the last couple of years by the City of West Palm Beach, and we need your help,” Webster said. “The municipalities have been supporting this, but we need you now to get out there and fight with us to make this thing happen.” Webster urged people attending the luncheon to contact their legislators and county commissioners and let them know they support the extension. “It’s so important that this road go through,” she said. “If we don’t have that road, if there is an emergency, how are we going to get out of here? We need this road for economic development; we need it for our residents; we need it for the safety of our communities.” Webster said the road was
with the contractor, Semper Fi Services, for the change order, but the contractor backed out of the agreement early last week, saying its subcontractor insisted on an additional two weeks to complete the project. Originally on the consent agenda for the July 7 meeting, it was pulled for discussion. “We weren’t comfortable with that type of amendment without the council’s discussion because of the timing of the job already going to the point that it has,” Marsh said. Village Manager Ray Liggins said his staff tried to reduce the extension to one week, but the contractor insisted on two, which would put the date of substantial completion at Aug. 15, before school resumes on Aug. 22. “There are not a whole lot of alternatives here,” Liggins said. Mayor Matty Mattioli asked why they could not put more workers and equipment on the job, and Marsh said the work is being done by a subcontractor who refused to enter into an agreement with the contractor without an additional two weeks. “We have no agreement with
the subcontractor,” Liggins explained. “Our agreement is with the general contractor.” Liggins said the option before the council is the quickest way to get the job done. “I would like to have the commitment from the company that this is all they need,” he said. Councilman Dave Swift asked what the consequences are if it turns out the work is not finished by Aug. 15, and Liggins said the village would collect damages of $2,000 for each day the project does not reach substantial completion. “The idea would be that he would complete the work, and if for some reason he cannot complete the work, that’s why we have a bond in place and we would step in,” Liggins said. “I don’t think the issue here is their ability to complete the work. It’s just when.” Liggins said he would rather grant the contractor the time extension than put the entire project in default. Swift said he was weary of the delays with the project. “I will vote on this and hold my nose,” he said. “I am so unhappy with your work.
promised to the western communities a long time ago, and community leaders have put their faith in FDOT to finish the road, but it may be lost without unified support. “West Palm Beach has put together an expensive and aggressive campaign to stop this,” she said, pointing out that it appears the fight for the extension of Roebuck Road from Jog Road to the SR 7 extension has been lost. That road’s right-of-way is behind the West Palm Beach developments of Baywinds, Andros Isle and River Walk, which opposed the road. “I’ll tell you, State Road 7 is more important,” Webster said. “We need to be able to move to Northlake Blvd.,” she said, pointing out that northbound traffic off the SR 7 extension now flows directly into The Acreage. Webster recalled a flier produced by West Palm Beach against the extension, alleging that “a piece of the Everglades” would be lost if it were put through. “I can tell you why it’s a little piece of the Everglades, because they put 8,000 units in there and they have 4,000 acres that they have developed, she said, referring to the collective developments of Ibis, Baywinds, Andros Isle and River Walk. “Their part is pretty darned little because that’s all that’s left after their development.” Damone said The Acreage des-
perately needs the extension completed to ease the traffic that has been routed there since the extension was opened to Persimmon and Orange Grove boulevards. “I’m not going to be my cheerful self,” Damone said. “I have a strong opinion on this matter, so, you are going to hear a very bold Michelle Damone this afternoon. Since I arrived in The Acreage, this has been an issue, and it’s time to close this issue and resolve the problem.” She accused West Palm Beach of hypocrisy, saying that the city’s fliers depicting environmental concerns omit that it destroyed 300 acres of wetlands to create Ibis. “Never mind that it’s around the Grassy Waters Preserve,” Damone said. “Now they fear for snail kites? I’m sorry; I don’t buy it. That’s all hogwash.” Damone said community leaders need to compromise on issues, and that area leaders already have, by agreeing to allow the extension to deviate west from the original range line route into The Acreage. “That was our compromise — that we didn’t construct that road to go through the West Palm Beach Water Catchment Area, but it’s still not good enough, so the county stepped up and sunk $60 million into the program to get that road to 60th Street,” Damone said. “Do you know where 60th Street leads to? The M Canal, which is
I can’t say it any stronger than that.” Semper Fi Services supervisor John Tyer said he had just arrived in town to assess the situation and would be managing the job to completion. “This is my first day here,” he said. “You can shoot the messenger, but I’m trying to get up to speed on what’s going on.” Village Attorney Brad Biggs asked Tyer if he was aware of the $2,000-a-day damages if his company does not hit the completion date. “I’m aware of that,” Tyer said. “At the same time, that’s in lieu of any major weather events or other changes in conditions that we can’t control. Other than that, the time allotted is five weeks, and we accept that responsibility.” Councilman Fred Pinto said he wanted to go on the record as being very unhappy with the performance of the company. Councilwoman Martha Webster asked how the recent rainy weather had affected the project, and Tyer said so far they are progressing as they should, but they were entering a critical portion of the job, namely the paving.
Last week’s change order giv es the contractor until Aug. 15 to complete the Royal Palm Beach Blvd. project. PHOTO BY R ON BUKLEY/TOWN-CRIER
“There are some parts of construction you cannot do in a downpour,” Tyer said. “You need recovery time to be able to clear out the debris and so forth to be able to continue.” Webster asked whether they plan to work overtime to get the job done, and Tyer said his company’s portion of the work is largely done, and it is up to the subcontractor to do the paving.
“It’s the paving that’s going to take the longest time,” Tyer said. “Once we get them on board, our work here is going to be coming to a quick end. When we get finished, it’s going to be me pushing our subcontractor to get the paving done and be finished.” Webster made a motion to approve the change order extending the contractor’s completion time, which carried unanimously.
(Above) The panelists on the dais. (Left inset) Indian Trail President Michelle Damone urges business leaders to get involved. PHOTOS BY R ON BUKLEY/TOWN-CRIER
the City of West Palm Beach’s water supply that goes through the heart of The Acreage. If The Acreage assures that there is no intrusion into the water that goes through the heart of our community, why can’t they trust us to build this road as a compromise around the community without any more impact to the water catchment area? It’s hypocrisy.” Damone also pointed out that “this is about the safety and welfare of the people who reside in the western communities.”
She noted that there was a brush fire recently that threatened to jump Northlake Blvd. into The Acreage that would have cut off one of the important escape routes. “Which route would we have taken to evacuate our families safely?” she asked. “All we had was Royal Palm Beach Blvd. and Seminole Pratt. That is not appropriate.” Damone praised the Palms West Chamber for the role it has taken. “You guys are tremendous, and I applaud you on the efforts that you are making because I truly believe that elected officials need to hear from the business leaders, too,” she said. “Our governor needs to hear from us.”
She further pointed out that Ibis residents cut through The Acreage and Royal Palm Beach as well. “I guarantee you, if I stand at the corner of Coconut and Orange every morning and afternoon, I’d find a lot of Ibis stickers,” Damone said. Damone said that many Ibis residents are retired and have more time to lobby and attend hearings than residents of the western communities, so she encouraged people attending the luncheon to take off work early to attend the hearing on this issue next January to let their voices be heard. For more information about the project, visit www.sr7extension. com.
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Allen West To Speak At Wellington Chamber Luncheon On Aug. 10 The Wellington Chamber of Commerce has announced that U.S. Congressman Allen West (RDistrict 22) will be the keynote speaker at an Aug. 10 luncheon to be held at the Wanderers Club at Wellington (1900 Aero Club Drive). There will be no luncheon in July. West was elected to Congress in 2010. Before retiring as an Army lieutenant colonel, West served as a field artillery officer in several combat zones in Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom, where he was battalion commander for the Army’s 4th Infantry Division, and in Afghanistan, where he trained Afghan officers to take on the responsibility of securing their own country. In 2004, after serving 22 years in the U.S. Army, West retired from the military and brought his family to South Florida. The event is sponsored by Connor Financial Group. Located at 8461 Lake Worth Road, Connor Financial Group is an independent firm with advisors concentrating in investment management, retirement planning and income management, and trust management. For more about Connor Financial Services, call (561) 713-1333 or visit www.connorfinancial.com. Registration will take place at 11:30 a.m. and the luncheon will begin promptly at noon.
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Congressman Allen West The cost to attend the luncheon is $20 for chamber members with RSVP, $25 for members with no RSVP and $30 for the general public. Seating is limited to 150 and this event will sell out. Early reservations are suggested. Tickets to the August luncheon can be purchased online at www. wellingtonchamber.com by clicking the “Pay for Tickets Here” tab. For additional information on attending this or any future Wellington Chamber of Commerce event, or for general information about the chamber, call Executive Director Michela Perillo-Green at (561) 792-6525 or visit the chamber’s web site at www.wellington chamber.com.
NEWS BRIEFS Next LGLA Meeting Set For July 21 The Loxahatchee Groves Landowners’ Association will hold its monthly meeting Thursday, July 21 at 7 p.m. at Palms West Presbyterian Church (13689 Okeechobee Blvd., Loxahatchee Groves). The guest speaker will be a representative from Scripps Florida who will provide a background on the mission of the Scripps Research Institute, its expansion to Florida, its major activities and an update on the achievements made at the Scripps Florida facility. The lecture will be conducted via a PowerPoint presentation followed by a question-and-answer session. For more information, call Marge Herzog at (561) 818-9114. All LGLA meetings are open to the public.
Report Problems On Wellington Web Site Beginning Monday, July 11, residents are now able to easily report code violations, potholes and other issues by visiting Wellington’s Citizens Action Center at www.wellingtonfl.gov. This upgraded system will allow residents to create personal accounts to log in and communicate with staff without having to rely on e-mail. The Citizens Action Center is divided into four categories: Find Answers allows residents to easily navigate through frequently
asked questions; Make a Request allows residents to report a problem or register a complaint; Ask a Question allows residents to submit a question to the appropriate staff member based on the category selected for the question; and My Support Center allows residents to check the status of requests and questions previously submitted. To visit the Citizens Action Center, log on to www.wellington fl.gov, go to the E-Services tab and click on Citizens Action Center.
Travel Baseball Tryouts In Wellington The Wellington Colts 11-U travel baseball team is looking for talented and dedicated players for the upcoming 2011 fall season. Positional players are needed. Players and parents must be dedicated and committed to travel baseball for the season. Tryouts will be held Tuesday, July 26 at 5:30 p.m. and Saturday, July 30 at 10:30 a.m. at Olympia field 6 in Wellington. Players must not turn 12 before May 1, 2012. For more info., contact coach Mike Sasson at (561) 676-9578 or e-mail coltstravel@aol.com.
Donate Used School Uniforms In Wellington For several years, the Spirit of Giving Network, a coalition of individuals, organizations and businesses, has collected new, used
and outgrown uniforms for both public and private schools to donate to needy families. Used clothing is washed, mended and folded before distribution. Wellington will act as a donation site for school uniforms. Solid colored polo-style shirts and pants, shorts, skirts and jeans of all sizes for grades elementary through high school are needed. These items can be dropped off at the Wellington Community Center (12150 W. Forest Hill Blvd.) as well as Village Park (11700 Pierson Road). Donations will be accepted through Aug. 4. The uniforms will be distributed to eligible students residing in Palm Beach County at the Community School Bash on Aug. 13 at the Naoma Donnelley Haggin Boys & Girls Club of Delray Beach. For more info., contact Karen Krumholtz at karen@spirit ofgivingnetwork.com.
Garage Sale At Wellington Marketplace A community swap meet/garage sale will take place Saturday, Aug. 6 in the parking lot of the Wellington Marketplace. The event will be co-sponsored by the Asphalt Angels Car Club, which will be raffling off prizes. Shopping center tenants will also be offering exclusive deals and discounts during the event. There will be a Bloodmobile and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office will offer child finger-printing, bike safety and car seat inspections.
Admission is free. The cost for vendors is $10 (bring your own table/setup). Setup will begin at 7 a.m. with the event commencing at 9 a.m. There is no pre-reservation for spots; space will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more info., visit www.the wellingtonmarketplace.com.
Consignment Show July 23 The Palm Beach County Convention Center will host a oneday-only consignment sale Saturday, July 23 in its exhibit hall. This is a great opportunity to purchase reasonably priced, quality used items while letting consignors clean out what they no longer need. You definitely do not want to miss out. The Salvation Army will be on site to collect any unsold items registrants are willing to donate. These donated items will be transported to their stores and sold at a later date. Funds generated will benefit the Salvation Army’s many programs and services in the county. The Palm Beach County Convention Center is located at 650 Okeechobee Blvd. in West Palm Beach. Event hours are from 7 a.m. to noon. Booth spaces range from $40 to $50. Entrance admission is $2 before 9 a.m. and free after. Attendees are encouraged to take advantage of the early open. For more information, call Laurie Long at (561) 366-3008 or visit http://sale.pbconventioncenter. com.
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CAR SHOW/SONGWRITERS FESTIVAL RETURNS TO WELLINGTON AMPHITHEATER
The Wellington Amphitheater held another Classic Car Show/Songwriters Festival on Saturday, July 9. The concer t opened with young vocalist Taylor Renee, followed by Bobby “G” Gugliuzza and Pauly “G” Granato of Wehumanz, and concluding with Suzanne Cannon and John Smotherman of Illumination. PHOTOS BY DENISE FLEISCHMAN/T OWN-CRIER
John Smotherman and Suzanne Cannon of Illumination perform.
Pauly G. and Bobby G. with their six-strings.
Big Dog Ranch Rescue volunteers Denise Guevara, Sindy Conover, Carole Browne, Lorrie Browne, Denise Driscoll and Barbara Hughes.
Curt Coulter with Ci Ci and Sunny 104.3 FM’s Christie Banks with Winnie.
Martin Zobel with his 1934 replica Mercedes.
Jordan, Jennifer and Christian Greco enjoy snow cones.
WELLINGTON SUMMER CAMPERS ENJOY DAY OF FUN AT THE AQUATICS COMPLEX
Wellington Parks & Recreation summer camp kids have been keeping cool in the pool at the Wellington Aquatics Complex. The village offers more than 20 camps and sports academies thr oughout the summer months. For more info., call Wellington Parks & Recreation at (561) 791-4005. PHOTOS BY DENISE FLEISCHMAN/T OWN-CRIER
Max Weiss, Keith Pry, Austin Sasko and Zachary Perez take a leap.
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Sarah Hamilton jumps off the diving board.
Sophia Fevola comes down the waterslide.
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WELLINGTON CHICK-FIL-A CUSTOMERS EAT FREE ON ‘COW APPRECIATION DAY’ Chick-fil-A celebrated Cow Appreciation Day on Friday, July 8 in the Mall at Wellington Green and other Chick-fil-A locations. People who came in cow-themed attire received a free meal. For more info., visit www.chick-fil-a.com. PHOTOS BY DENISE FLEISCHMAN/T OWN-CRIER
A group from Planet Kids came prepared.
Marketing Director Angela Bloom (standing by the cow mascot) with Griffin, Celeste, mom Amy and Lindsey Dale.
Angela Simon and Briena Brooks brought in neighborhood kids for the free meal.
Chick-fil-A Marketing Director Angela Bloom, Jane Marie Baldwin and Manager Brian Barnes with the cow mascot.
August, Hunter, dad Randolph and mom Chrystie Russ.
Royal Palm Beach Parks & Recreation summer camp kids.
Wellington Garden Club Helps With Habitat For Humanity Home This summer, the Wellington Garden Club is continuing its long association with Habitat for Humanity. National Garden Clubs Inc. and Habitat for Humanity have been partnering to landscape Habitat homes across the United States since 2000. The Wellington Garden Club donated financially to the building of Habitat homes in Palm Beach County from 2004 to 2006. In 2007, the club expanded its activity to doing the landscape designs, purchasing and installing the trees and shrubs for homes in West Palm Beach, Riviera Beach, Lake Park and Greenacres. Linda DeSanti and Lisa Ferrano have been the co-chairs of the club’s Habitat for Humanity Landscape Project since 2007. Using
“Florida-friendly” shrubs and trees and incorporating requests from the homeowners have been key elements in the program. This summer, the Wellington Garden Club will be landscaping a second and third new home in Greenacres, in the same neighborhood as the home that was completed on July 10. Since a new Greenacres building code now requires the use of all native shrubs and 50 percent of the trees (four per lot) unless natives already exist there, the chairs have been evaluating new growers for plant material. The local Habitat affiliate has supplied “young” volunteers to handle the heavy work so that club members are free to advise on proper planting procedures.
Julie Schnee, Lisa Ferrano and Ernest Washington of Habitat for Humanity with future homeowner Stacy Crissinger and Florida Federation of Garden Clubs District 10 Gov. Barbara Hadsell.
A close-up of the foundation planting.
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‘Next Wave’ Young Artists Featured At The Lighthouse ArtCenter The Lighthouse ArtCenter had a packed house of more than 250 art and music lovers on Friday, June 24 to open an exhibition featuring the “Next Wave” of young artists all under the age of 35, from Florida all the way to Brooklyn, N.Y. “We want to remind young adults that the Lighthouse ArtCenter is also their ArtCenter,” Executive Director Katie Deits said. “It’s not just for older people and kids in ArtCamp. ‘Next Wave’ is an opportunity for different generations to connect.” The exhibit’s judge, Dana Funaro, is co-director of Gavlak Gallery in Palm Beach. “I was greatly impressed by the talent and enthusiasm displayed in ‘Next Wave’exhibition,” she said. “When selecting the winners, I
kept in mind the premise of the show: Young artists pushing the boundaries of what art is today. I was drawn most to the works that embrace an unorthodox approach to the medium while maintaining a high level of skill. ‘Next Wave’ is a wonderful opportunity for young artists in the community to gain exposure in a comfortable and encouraging gallery setting.” Show organizers were happy with the results. “We could not be happier with the passion, artistic skill, imagination and professionalism that the ‘Next Wave’ artists brought to the exhibition,” said Megan Elyse Bell, assistant director of education. “The young artists in our community are hungry for a local art scene to share ideas and inspiration with fellow artists, and we here at the Lighthouse
Exhibition winners (L-R) A.J. Brockman, Eric Burke, Ronald J. Shaw, Karen J. Rossin (accepting for Rachel Rossin), Monica MiGivern, O’Neal Bardin III and Erin Curry.
ArtCenter are dedicated to creating an atmosphere where artists of all ages can evolve and grow.” At the opening reception, after the band Lion in the Bush performed a couple of sets, Bell presented awards to the artists, selected by Funaro. Erin Curry received Best of Show for graphite on paper work Traces of Spun 2 (priced at $1,400); O’Neal Bardin III received first place for pencil and ink drawing Beads (priced at $250); Nick Whipple received second place for luminous sculpture painting Buddies (priced at $150); and Rachel Rossin received third place for the oil on canvas Offerings (not for sale). Honorable mentions were awarded to A.J. Brockman for the graphic design print No, Seriously (priced at $75); Eric Burke for
the ceramic Swirl Vase (priced at $40); Monica McGivern for the Polaroid fine art print Water Babes (priced at $375); and Ronald J. Shaw for stoneware Horsehair Platter (priced at $75). Several of these award-winning artists will participate in a lecture series at the museum’s monthly third Thursday event at 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 18, during which they each will present a short talk describing the background and inspiration for their artwork. Admission to third Thursday is free for members and $5 for non-members, and wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served. It is sponsored by the Meyer Law Firm. For more information on the Lighthouse ArtCenter Museum, visit www.lighthousearts.org or call (561) 746-3101.
The band Lion in the Bush entertains the gallery crowd.
Erin Curry is awarded Best of Show by Megan Elyse Bell.
First-place winner O’Neal Bardin III with Megan Elyse Bell
NCCI Holdings Campaign Raises Money For Three Animal Shelters It was a tight race, but in the end Calvin the hedgehog nosed into the winners circle. He joined cat Meg, dog Max and Floyd, a kitten who sleeps on the snout of his canine buddy Moose, as winners of the NCCI Holdings Inc. Cutest Pet Contest. The winning pets were among 144 contestants, all of whom tugged on the judges’ heartstrings and helped raise $1,000 for three local animal shelters. “The judges agonized over the photos employees submitted of their pets to find the cutest five critters in each category,” said Julee Jontzen, an NCCI manager and lead captain for the program. “After that, employees voted and the
winners emerged.” The pet contest was designed to raise funds and awareness for the three shelters: the Tri-County Humane Society, the Humane Society of Broward County and Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League. Besides voting, NCCI employees collected pet items, made check and cash donations, and hosted the Peggy Adams Pet Mobile’s visit to NCCI to showcase animals up for adoption. Many of the pets entered into the contest were rescued from shelters themselves. And, of course, each had a cute and cuddly backstory, including Calvin, an African pygmy hedgehog. “He loves to snuggle and lie on
your lap, and as his quills relax, he will roll on his side to let me lightly rub his fuzzy belly,” said Calvin’s owner, Chantel Weishaar. “Every morning he hears me come in his room and pops his head out from under his little covers.” The three shelters take in thousands of pets every year. They save animals from puppy mills, natural disasters and animal cruelty. As the economy has worsened, the need for good homes for animals has grown. All of the shelters need help year-round. Contact your local shelter to make a donation and for volunteer opportunities. NCCI matched employees’ donations of $10 or more to the shelters.
NCCI Holdings Inc., the nation’s largest database of workers compensation insurance information, is dedicated to fostering a healthy workers compensation system. NCCI provides accurate and detailed information and analytical services to its customers across the country. The Boca Raton-based company believes in giving back to the communities where its employees live and work. Find out more about NCCI at www.ncci.com. (Right) NCCI Holdings employees Lindsay Kaye, Beth Miller and Irania Acevedo Montello with an adoptable pup.
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King’s Academy Students Spend Time Serving The Needy In San Diego Ten students from the King’s Academy’s West Palm Beach and Clewiston campuses recently traveled to San Diego to serve the homeless. While participating in an eightday program facilitated by Youth With a Mission called Mission Adventures San Diego, TKA students assisted, encouraged and ministered to the homeless population in the seventh largest city in the United States. “While the purpose of this trip was to help change the lives of
TKA students paint the church.
those in need in San Diego, it became evident to everyone in the group that we were actually the ones being changed,” TKA Director of Student Life Michelle Kolar said. Through participation in activities such as organizing and operating a neighborhood Kids Kamp, serving food to the homeless, and preparing and packaging 2,063 boxes of food for distribution to the needy, TKA students were able to tangibly impact people’s lives by showing love and compassion, while treating them with the dignity that every person and family deserves. “The students definitely stepped out of their comfort zones to meet people at their point of need and share their faith and hope with them,” Kolar said. The group also used funds raised during the school year from Jeans Day to purchase trees, tables, flowers, irrigation and other equipment for a renovation project in the courtyard of their host church. The students moved approximately 650 square feet of sand, installed an irrigation system, painted buildings and cleaned every window. It was a very physically demanding project, but the
King’s A cademy students and Youth With a Mission representatives in the F eeding America warehouse. team felt great joy knowing they had provided the church with a beautiful place to minister to their community. “Knowing there are more than 10,000 homeless people in the San Diego area seemed overwhelming, but our kids stepped up and did what was in their power and abilities to make a difference,” said Melanie Pagan, parent of trip
participant Kaley Pagan. “This was an awesome experience that will be with each of them as they move forward in their lives.” The San Diego trip is a great example of TKA students living out the school’s mission to “impact the world” through student leadership. The King’s Academy is a nationally recognized private Chris-
TKA students help out during craf t time at “Kids Kamp.” tian school serving approximately 1,200 students from preschool through 12th grade and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the Association of Christian Schools International, and the Florida Association of Christian Colleges and Schools. The King’s Academy serves students and their families across
Palm Beach and Hendry counties at its main campus at Belvedere Road and Sansbury’s Way in West Palm Beach, its Clewiston campus on Caribbean Avenue, and its satellite preschool campuses in Greenacres, Palm Beach Gardens and Royal Palm Beach. More information about the King’s Academy is available online at www.tka.net.
Seminole Ridge Student Chosen As Bank Of America Student Leader Acknowledging teens’ critical role as the next generation of leaders, Bank of America is providing 230 civic-minded high school juniors and seniors — including five from Palm Beach County — with a paid, eight-week summer internship at local nonprofit organizations. Among the participating students is Simeon Lyons, a Loxahatchee resident and rising senior at Seminole Ridge High School who is interning at Communities in Schools of Palm Beach County Inc. These students, selected as 2011 Bank of America Student Leaders, will gain hands-on experience and learn valuable leadership skills while providing support to nonprofits in critical need of resources. This year alone, the company is investing more than $1 million in the leadership program and has committed more than $8 million since the program’s inception in 2004. In addition to the internships, student leaders participated in a weeklong Bank of America Stu-
dent Leadership Summit from July 10-15 in Washington, D.C. Now in its fourth year, the goal of the summit is to inspire students, who are already answering the nation’s call to service, to remain committed to service and to equip them with tools and resources to continue their positive contributions in their communities. In addition to Lyons, other local student leaders are: • Beatris Gomez, a Pahokee resident, rising senior at Pahokee Middle Senior High School and intern at Communities in Schools of Palm Beach County Inc. • Mary Matella, a Lake Worth resident, recent graduate of Santaluces High School and intern at Communities in Schools of Palm Beach County Inc. • Ariella Bloch, a Boca Raton resident, rising senior at Boca Raton High School and intern at Communities in Schools of Palm Beach County Inc. • Rachel Roth, a Boca Raton resident, rising senior at West Boca Raton High School and in-
tern at Communities in Schools of Palm Beach County Inc. “As teens are disproportionately affected by high unemployment rates, our Student Leaders program helps match civic-minded youth with nonprofit organizations in need of extra resources,” said Fabiola Brumley, Bank of America’s market president in Palm Beach County. “At Bank of America, we strongly believe that an investment in future leaders plays a pivotal role in revitalizing our communities. Through this initiative, we’re equipping young people with invaluable learning and professional development experiences while helping to create a culture of service in our own back yard.” Through a series of interactive workshops, including sessions on financial education, environmental sustainability, nonprofit leadership and Capitol Hill briefings, the summit broadens students’ understanding of how service creates positive change in communities and how corporate, nonprofit
and government collaboration is instrumental in community revitalization. Highlights include: • Leadership sessions that identify personal strengths, define personal and professional success, develop future goals and identify opportunities for giving back to the community. • A service learning volunteer activity with Operation Homefront to learn more about and support the needs of military families. • Meetings on Capitol Hill to discuss important issues that impact young people such as lack of financial education in secondary schools and affordable opportunities for a post secondary education. • A first-hand look at people and moments that have shaped our country’s history through the photographer’s lens of David Kennerly, former White House photographer and Pulitzer Prize winner for his Vietnam photographs. • A discussion hosted by Wes Moore, youth advocate and author of the book The Other Wes Moore,
who will explore the importance of youth leadership and young people’s vital role in strengthening society. The Student Leaders program is part of the bank’s signature philanthropic initiative that recognizes the service and leadership of nonprofit organizations, local heroes and student leaders working to improve their communities. Each year, Bank of America celebrates the achievements of five exemplary high school juniors or seniors in 45 cities who have demonstrated a commitment to community service by offering them a paid internship and leadership development training. By the end of this summer, more than 1,600 students in 44 U.S. cities and London will have participated in the program. Building on a long-standing tradition of investing in the communities it serves, Bank of America is delivering on a 10-year goal to donate $2 billion to nonprofit organizations engaged in improving the health and vitality of their
Simeon Lyons neighborhoods. Funded by Bank of America, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation gave more than $200 million in 2010, making the bank one of the largest corporate cash donors in the United States. For more info., visit www. bankofamerica.com/foundation.
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FLA TRAIL ASSOCIATION Photo Centre Announces ‘Infocus’ Winners Fatima NeJame, president and programs. He is currently writing HIKES IN THE WETLANDS chief executive officer of the Faces: A Digital Retoucher’s
Members of the Loxahatchee Chapter of the Florida Trail Association took part in a hike on the morning of Saturday, July 9 at the J.W. Corbett Wildlife Management Area. During the hike, they were pleased to find that the wetlands are no longer dr y. For more information about the chapter and upcoming hikes, visit http://lox.floridatrail.org or call Paul Cummings at (561) 9639906. Shown above is Scott Lunsford during Saturday morning’s hike.
Joanne Baker MacLeod’s Nature Paintings At Whole Foods Market Join Whole Foods Market in Wellington and the Wellington Art Society on Friday, July 22 as they celebrate the beautiful nature paintings of local artist and resident Joanne Baker MacLeod. MacLeod has a fine arts degree from Carnegie Melon University, in Pittsburgh, Pa., and has been painting ever since. The current display includes nature paintings of Florida trees, animals and flowers that she was inspired to paint after visiting local wildlife sanctuaries. Art lovers are welcome to view MacLeod’s work in the Whole Foods Market café through August during normal hours or come meet the artist herself Friday, July 22 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The celebration of MacLeod’s art will include a wine and cheese tasting, and live music for a $5 donation. All of the entrance proceeds will
benefit the Wellington Art Society scholarship fund. The Wellington Art Society formed in 1981 with three objectives: to educate and encourage originality among its members; to provide a place where amateur and professional artists may meet on social and business levels; and to present art and promote art appreciation and further advance all cultural endeavors in the western communities. It is the society’s mission to provide scholarships to area high school seniors who wish to continue their art studies at the college level. For more information about the Wellington Art Society, visit www.wellingtonart society.org. Whole Foods Market is located at 2635 State Road 7. For more information, or to register, stop by customer service or call (561) 904-4000.
world-renowned Palm Beach Photographic Centre, has announced the winners of this year ’s juried show “Infocus,” which is currently on exhibition through Aug. 20. A Best of Show cash prize of $950 was awarded to Melinda Moore of Palm Beach Gardens for her entry, Friends Forever. Two merit awards for free tuition for a FOTOfusion passport or a master workshop were awarded to Rosi Calderon of Mexico City and Alan Lubitz of Miami. The Palm Beach Photographic Centre’s 15th annual juried show “Infocus” showcases the work of its student members, both inside the Photo Centre and on its web site, www.workshop.org. This year’s “Infocus” juror was Kevin Ames, whose career has included commercial photography, writing books on photographing women, Photoshop and Lightroom, a column in Photoshop User magazine (“The Digital Photographer’s Notebook”), teaching engagements through the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. At his studio in Atlanta, Ames works with clients like AT&T, Westin Hotels and Honda Power Equipment. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Jezebel, Atlanta Sports and Fitness as well as on corporate web sites, brochures and capabilities
Guide to Photoshop. Also running through Aug. 20 at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre is “Picture My World,” an annual show that features photos and journal writings from local disadvantaged children, ages 8 to 17. This program teaches an appreciation of family and community, the development of self-esteem, nonviolent means of expression and personal responsibility. “Heartfelt thanks is given to our generous members, private donors, foundations, most recently the PNC Foundation and the Fledgling Fund, for enabling ‘Picture My World’ to continue to provide a caring healthy path for our next generation of community adults,” NeJame said. The Palm Beach Photographic Centre is located at the City Center municipal complex at 415 Clematis Street in downtown West Palm Beach. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday. For more information about upcoming exhibits or Fotocamp, call (561) 253-2600, or visit www. workshop.org or www .foto fusion.org. (Top right) Friends Forever by Melinda Moore. (Right) Merit Award winner Allen Lubitz’s photograph.
Hartmann Publishes Book Of Short Stories There are few more endearing sights than a younger sister following her older sisters around, trying to be a part of the fun they’re having. Of course, for the older sisters, the younger is often an annoyance or a plaything. In Don’t Listen to Your Sisters (published by AuthorHouse) by local author Gloria Hartmann, a book of short stories featuring the illustrations of Christian Saavedra, young Gloria is rescued by her Uncle Tony when she falls for her sisters’ funny, foolish and sometimes dangerous pranks. In the short story “We’ll Teach You,” Gloria’s sisters tempt her into learning how to climb a tree with them. She follows them up
the ladder and into the branches, soon climbing higher than her sisters — only to hear them scurry down the tree and pull the ladder down, leaving her in the tree until Uncle Tony comes to her rescue. Even Uncle Tony succumbs to tempting Gloria into “A Harmless Prank” (another of the book’s amusing short stories). While Gloria is helping Uncle Tony in the garden, he asks her to dig a very specific hole for him. She complies and he congratulates her, but when she asks what to do next with the hole, he tells her “now fill it in.” Veronica and Camilla — Gloria’s older sisters — seem to delight in making Gloria’s life mis-
erable, but Hartmann manages to adapt the troublesome stories of her childhood into a fun and amusing picture book. It asks readers to recall what kind of sister they were during their own childhood: the prankster, or the recipient of the pranks. Gloria (Bennett) Hartmann is the youngest of five siblings. Born and raised in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., she survived the foolish childhood pranks of her older sisters and vowed to settle the score. Don’t Listen to Your Sisters is her humorous way of settling that score. She lives in Lake Worth with her husband Bill. For additional information, or to order a copy of Don’t Listen to
Your Sisters, visit Hartmann’s web site at www.funnysisterstories. com. The book is also available at www.amazon.com and www. authorhouse.com.
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TKA’s Kimmy McCoy Interns At Loggerhead CELEBRATING 100 YEARS The King’s Academy senior Kimmy McCoy is taking advantage of the summer months to gain hands-on experience in her field of interest as an intern at the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach. McCoy is participating in a four-week marine rehabilitation internship program and helping the center accomplish its mission “to promote conservation of Florida’s coastal ecosystems with a special focus on threatened and endangered sea turtles.” McCoy noted that “after taking the marine biology course at King’s, I knew I wanted to work in this field and pursued this internship opportunity.” As a rehabilitation intern, McCoy works alongside the hospital coordinator and staff veterinarian as well as with volunteers and the visiting public. She is responsible for transporting turtles from their tanks to the hospital and assisting the hospital staff during treatment and minor medical procedures.
McCoy also gets to ride along with the staff to rescue and recover stranded turtles. Other daily tasks include maintaining hospital cleanliness, preparing food for marine turtles onsite, feeding current patient and assisting hospital staff in the administration of medication. McCoy’s excellent communication skills were a requirement as interns also interact with the visiting public by interpreting patient cases and answering any questions. “It’s a very hands-on program, and I’m glad I chose to get involved,” McCoy said. “I’ve been involved with the Loggerhead Marinelife Center since June of 2010, and I definitely plan on staying with them to be an intern team leader next year.” This experience has strengthened McCoy’s resolve that marine biology will definitely play a part in her future. (Right) Kimmy McCoy works with a loggerhead turtle.
Stofels Enters Cadet Training In Colorado James T. Stofel has entered basic cadet training at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., in preparation to enter the first academic year at the academy. The six-week, two-phased orientation program must be successfully completed by the cadets prior to entering their freshman year.
The training prepares men and women to meet the rigorous mental and physical challenges experienced by new cadets. Phase one involves personal inprocessing, orientation and training in the fundamentals of being a cadet. Cadet trainees are prepared to adjust from civilian to military life and disciplines, and
learn proper wear of the uniform, saluting policies and procedures, drill and ceremony, marching, and living quarters standards. During phase two, cadets train outdoors living in tents while learning to function in field conditions. Cadets apply and practice team work, cohesion and learn to deal with physically and mentally
demanding situations. They complete the obstacle, confidence, assault and leadership reaction courses, and participate in a rescue mission termed Operation Warrior. Stofel is the son of June and Charles Stofel of Lake Worth. He graduated in 2011 from Palm Beach Central High School.
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Charlie Lynn Through The Years — (Clockwise from top left) A formal headshot from his arrival in Wellington; a formal headshot from shortly before his retirement; spending time with his family; inspecting hurricane damage in 2004 with then-Mayor Tom Wenham; getting an award from the Wellington Village Council; with his mother, Rev. Shirley Lynn, at a 2006 council meeting; taking a turn as Wellington The Magazine’s celebrity shopper; and dressed as Elvis at a community event in 1998. TOWN-CRIER FILE PHOTOS
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continued from page 1 changing council, Lynn was a mainstay in Wellington until he resigned in January 2008. “He maneuvered us through some challenging years,” Wellington Mayor Darell Bowen said. “He was a tremendous asset to the community. He navigated us through a very difficult time.” Former Wellington Councilman Paul Adams was part of the inaugural council that hired Lynn. “We went through half a dozen people,” he said. “Charlie just stood out from the crowd.” Adams said that Lynn was crucial to the village in its infancy. “We were lucky to have him in our first days,” he said. “It’s tough to find a good all-around manager. He was the right person at the right time, and he was as committed to Wellington as a person can be.” Former Wellington Mayor Tom Wenham credited Lynn with making Wellington the best community in Palm Beach County. “He was the perfect manager for
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continued from page 1 knows about this. I’ve talked to 20 people around ten blocks, and only one person knew about this.” Marcum said he is having signs printed to post asking residents to voice their opposition to the project. “This is not why we moved out here,” he said. “We moved out here for a rural community, not for every amenity on every street corner.” Former Indian Trail Improvement District Supervisor Mike Erickson said he ran for supervi-
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continued from page 1 area mapping, determining the number of board seats to be chosen by direct election and the terms of office for all board members, which requires amending the district’s enabling legislation. “The district’s reserve fund as of Sept. 30, 2010 totaled $182,054,” Saunier said. “The district’s fiscal year 2011 projected actual expenses yields a shortfall of $22,630. This will reduce the district’s projected reserve fund to $159,424.” Historically, the district’s reserve fund provides a three-month cash flow balance at the beginning of each fiscal year to pay expenses until assessment revenue is received from the county tax collector, Saunier said.
the Village of Wellington,” he said. “He was just what we needed at the time. He took an interest in the village, and he was a good person.” And Lynn paved the pathways that have helped Wellington weather the economic downturn, said his successor, current Wellington Village Manager Paul Schofield. “Charlie put together the basic structure of our government,” he said. “From its expansions, forming departments, dealing with water and sewer. When he left, he had already begun setting up the framework for us to reduce the budget.” Wellington Mayor Pro Tem Dr. Carmine Priore said he believes Lynn would still be with Wellington had he not chosen to resign. “That’s an indication to how well-liked he was,” Priore said. “As a new city, we were all naïve to what the expectations of us were. We all worked very closely with Charlie. We were like a family. We worked through a lot of issues and got a lot of things done.” When Lynn sat down with the Town-Crier in November 2007, after he announced his resigna-
tion, he said one of his biggest challenges had been making Wellington compliant with the Everglades restoration project. Lynn assembled the Surface Water Action Team and recruited top minds to work with the South Florida Water Management District and develop the programs now in place to capture and filter phosphorus-laden water. Without that program, Wellington taxpayers could have been on the hook for untold millions of dollars. One of his proudest accomplishments was upgrading Wellington’s recreation department from a few vacant fields with trailers to a world-class parks and recreation department, which has achieved national recognition. Nearly everyone who worked with Lynn remembered his unique style of leadership. “Charlie was a delegator,” Priore said. “He had his upper management very involved with the council. Charlie didn’t think twice about having [them] come up and talk to council. Each person had their responsibilities, so the council would look toward those people for answers.” Former Greenacres Councilman Richard Radcliffe, who was
recently named executive director the Palm Beach County League of Cities, said he remembers Lynn’s management style to be low-key. “He let things work themselves out to a greater degree as opposed to some people who have a more hands-on management,” Radcliffe said. “Charlie had kind of a looser style where he let things happen that eventually resolved themselves, as they always seemed to do.” Priore said Lynn had the unique ability to seek out and surround himself with top-notch, high-level staff. “He had a lot of personal confidence in his high-level staff,” Priore said. “He knew that sometimes they knew the subject probably better than he did. That takes a lot of maturity. He relied on his staff to come up with good answers, and he was then able to sit on the dais and make responses.” In the 2007 interview with the Town-Crier, Lynn said that his goal was to hire people better than himself and empower them to do their jobs. And that is a legacy that lives on, even today, Priore said. “It gives us the added benefit of having top-notch, quality people who
aren’t afraid to take positions on an issue,” he said. Lynn’s leadership style resonated with his staff as well, Wellington Deputy Village Manager John Bonde said. Lynn hired Bonde in 2003. “Sometimes strong leaders don’t say a lot of words,” he said. “I don’t remember Charlie giving long speeches. If he wanted something, you had to figure out what he was trying to say sometimes because he used so few words. Sometimes we’d joke about it. We’d say, ‘He said this, but what did he really mean?’ And sometimes I think he did that intentionally to encourage us to figure it out.” Friends remember him as a gentleman who always found a reason to smile and could make a friend of any stranger. “He always had a smile, even when there weren’t things to smile about,” Adams recalled. “He was extremely well-mannered — a true Southern gentleman.” Foster agreed. “He was a jovial man who always had a smile and a funny story to tell,” she said. “He had a kind word to say to everyone he met. He never met a stranger.”
Lynn was well-known and wellliked by officials and residents alike, Wenham said. “Charlie stood out among [leaders],” he said. “He was a real gentleman with the council and with residents. He had a good mind, and he had a nice way about him.” Even when he was frustrated, Lynn was known to smile, Bonde said. “I never knew him to have a seriously bad mood,” he said. “He didn’t yell at people. There was always that smile — that sheepish kind of grin that he gave to everyone.” Schofield remembered him as a Civil War buff who loved to play the violin, which he referred to as the fiddle. “He liked to solve a problem by telling a story or by relating something back to a Civil War battle,” Schofield recalled. “To a number of staff members, he was a good friend, and those friendships became even stronger after he left. He’s someone we’re all going to miss.” Lynn is expected to be laid to rest in his native Kentucky. A South Florida memorial service is being planned, but details were not available as the Town-Crier went to press.
sor originally to voice opposition to the project as it was first presented, which was about 140 acres running from Coconut Blvd. to 140th Street, but the owners of the property and agent Bob Bentz of Land Design South worked with him, ITID and the Acreage Landowners’ Association to tone down the project to what is being proposed now. “The project I opposed was when they wanted to put the project all the way from 140th to Coconut,” Erickson said. “What they’ve done now is said they’ll do it on 30 acres at the major corner of Northlake and Coconut.” Much of the rest of the property has been purchased by the county for lakes, he said, and another portion at 140th Avenue will be for civic use. “They gave us an equestrian trail all the way, and
there will be a pedestrian path,” he said. “We do need services out here. I don’t oppose it. I think what is proposed is a compromise that gives the community a win on more services and takes the Northlake corridor and doesn’t allow it to be commercialized going forward. We now have well over 90 acres on the Northlake corridor that are preserved and buffered conservation easements instead of being able to be commercialized.” Erickson noted that both the ALA and ITID approved of the plan. Bentz said he began working on the project more than five years ago. “The reason it was approved was that we spent a great deal of time working with the Indian Trail Improvement District and the Acreage Landowners’ Association,” he said. “We have probably
been in front of the Indian Trail board for one matter or another the last six or seven years at least a dozen times.” Bentz said the application also went through the two-year land use amendment process with the county commission and the Florida Department of Community Affairs. “In addition to that, the project has been in the newspaper,” he said. In total, Bentz said, there have been seven public meetings before the county zoning commission, planning commission or county commission. “We have two years of analysis and meeting with the residents,” Bentz said. “When they come to a meeting and say, ‘Hey, we never heard of this project before — there have been signs on the project off and on for the last seven years identifying different pub-
lic hearings. I don’t know what else we could have done rather than write personal letters to all 40,000 residents of The Acreage.” Bentz said there will be a 25foot buffer, a 6-foot wall and landscaping along the south side of the property, except along portions that are being preserved or restored as wetlands. He pointed out that much of the property is currently an impromptu course for dirt bikes and ATVs and is infested with invasive exotic plants. “There’s no parking along that buffer at all,” Bentz added. “There’s one loading area for the grocery store that will be enclosed. Where the grocery store is, there’s nobody to the south. There are no
homes that directly abut that portion of Hamlin.” Bentz said he cannot understand why the protesting residents say they were not aware of the project. “I will be happy to talk to and address their concerns,” Bentz said. “I’m just frustrated that they say, ‘Nobody ever told us this, they snuck it through.’ That’s the furthest from the truth.” The project is scheduled to go before the county commission Thursday, July 28. The meeting begins at 9:30 a.m. and will be held in the county commission chambers on the sixth floor of the county governmental center at 301 N. Olive Ave.
In order to maintain an adequate cash flow reserve for the beginning of fiscal year 2013, Saunier said the district should consider levying a one-time assessment rate increase. To cover the shortfalls for 2011 and 2012, Saunier said a rate increase of $10.05 per acre would be necessary for fiscal year 2012, which would be rolled back for fiscal year 2013. Supervisor John Ryan said that in looking at the estimated expenses for both years and having heard from several residents in the district, he anticipated there would be objections to the increase. “I have a sense that we’re going to have objections not only to the process itself, but to any outcome,” Ryan said. “I know that we have not included any provisions for the second and third stages of review that are called for in the statute, and I do anticipate that we will have some of those expenses.”
Since the referendum had not been budgeted and the district is operating on a tight budget, even if they restore the reserve account they would still fall short of what Ryan estimated would be closer to $259,000 needed to get through the end of the year. “For purposes of the TRIM (Truth in Millage) notice, which is the maximum rate, and the discussion at the meeting on Aug. 8, which I’m sure will be well-attended, probably our TRIM notice should at least reflect a one-time assessment of $13.50, instead of $10.05,” he said. Ryan pointed out that that would be a 9.8 percent increase, but it is an increase over an assessment rate that the district has maintained for five years. “I think we should include that amount, the $13.50, as a maximum TRIM provision, subject to, I’m sure, a thorough discussion on Aug. 8,” he said.
Supervisor Frank Schiola added that the increase would not cover legal challenges, if they are raised. “We don’t know if that is going to happen,” he said. “We can’t budget for that... Let’s get the sticker shock out of the way.” Supervisor Don Widing said they could not raise the assessment and mandate a reduction the following year. “That would be up to the board at that place in time,” he said. Schiola said he found it ironic that after years of commenting on LGWCD budgets, he is voting to approve an assessment increase at his first meeting sitting as a supervisor. The motion carried 4-0. In other business, the board elected Supervisor Dave DeMarois as chairman, Supervisor Robert Snowball as vice chairman, Supervisor John Ryan as secretary/treasurer and Supervisor Don Widing as deputy secretary.
County Commissioner Jess Santamaria’s next community forum will be held Wednesday, July 20 from 7 to 9 p.m., center court in the original Wellington Mall, located at the southeast corner of Forest Hill Blvd. and Wellington Trace.
Jess Santamaria To Host Community Forum July 20 The main discussion topics will be the Fiscal Year 2012 county budget and taxes, and hurricane season preparedness. Refreshments will be served. For additional information about the community forum, call Santamaria’s office at (561) 355-6300.
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continued from page 2 the plan for the transition of the PBSO from its current location to this one?” he asked. Director of Operations Jim Barnes said that construction would begin in about two weeks if the contract is approved and permits are pulled. “The project is really in two primary phases,” he said. “One is the administrative office component,
the other is the old meeting hall.” He explained that in addition to offices, the changes would include a fitness center, locker rooms, an eating area and more. “The actual office component that would allow the PBSO to move and begin operating out of the Greenbriar location is about three weeks from permit issuance,” he said. “We expect five weeks from approval tonight.” The balance of the project would take three months, he said. The council unanimously approved the contract.
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Kate Tremain of Wellington is not only a competitive dressage rider; she’s also an intuitive animal communicator. Her clients include domestic and international grand prix riders and professional horse trainers. In addition, Tremain offers teleclasses and in-person workshops. Ellen Rosenberg’s Column, Page 23
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RPB Sports Academy Campers Take A Swing At Tennis
The Royal Palm Beach Parks & Recreation Department offered a week of tennis as part of its Sports Academy Summer Camp from Monday, July 11 through Friday, July 15. Participants learned fundamentals of the sport, developed skills and had the opportunity for match play. Page 35
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My Whole Pet Market in Royal Palm Beach has transformed and expanded its store into an all-purpose center, which now includes All My Pets veterinary clinic. The clinic, which opened this past January and is located at 10323 Southern Blvd., has received a favorable response. The entire center offers pet supplies, pets for adoption or purchase, pet grooming and now medical care in its new veterinary clinic. Page 29
Sports Basketball Part Of ‘All Sports Week’ At RPB Sports Academy
The Royal Palm Beach Parks & Recreation Department offered children the chance to learn about several different types of sports during the “All Sports Week” of its Spor ts Academy Summer Camp held July 11 through July 15 at the Royal Palm Beach Recreation Center. Page 35
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Have A Question For Your Horse? Kate Tremain Can Help Like many other people, Kate Tremain of Wellington is a competitive dressage rider. Unlike most other people, she’s also an intuitive animal communicator. Her clients include domestic and international grand prix riders and professional horse trainers. Tremain said she didn’t even know that “animal communicator” was a field until she took a course in 2008 called “Connecting with Animals” at the Kripalu Center in Lenox, Mass. “I knew it was my calling,” she said. “It was my life’s purpose, what I was meant to do.” Tremain works just from photos; she claims it is just as accurate as doing a live read. She gets no cues from the physical environment and can’t see any expressions or mannerisms — she uses a blind reading to get strong insights into the animal’s personality. In addition to horses, she has also worked with dogs, cats, goats, rabbits, birds, turtles and snakes. But horses are her special calling. “I have a strong background with horses,” Tremain said. “I started riding at 4 and was big into Pony Club. I got away from it when I went to college, then I got back into it, riding dressage with Zenith, my Lusitano stallion.” Tremain said that everyone has ability in this field, but some are more in touch with their intuition than others. Get updates all week long... follow Ellen Rosenberg on Twitter at twitter.com/ HorseTalkFL or stop by the Tales from the Trails page on Facebook and click “like.”
Tales From The Trails By Ellen Rosenberg “Each animal wants to share different information with us,” she said. “That’s why, when someone asks me to do a reading, I never guarantee what I’ll be able to get, what comes through. I have clients send a picture or two and a brief list of questions or things they’d like me to investigate. There are so many things people can ask, and so many things the animals can talk about. I want to focus on just the main issues.” The results vary dramatically. “Sometimes, an animal shares something about an injury or an ailment. I advise my clients to clarify or confirm any health issues with their vet,” Tremain said. “Different animals communicate in different ways. There can be an image, a word, a phrase, or just an overall feeling. Common questions involve the purpose of the relationship, how to progress better in training, is the horse happy, and does the horse know how much I love him. Often I get a special gesture of affection that the horse does, like putting his head down and nuzzling into a person’s hand. The feeling of love is tremendous.”
Some rescue animals have a lot of anxiety or nervousness. Tremain describes it as the horse not being fully in his body. She gets a buzzing feeling, jagged and on edge, rather than a smooth, peaceful, steady flow of information. She also noted that how we feel when we’re around animals influences them. “It’s best to be relaxed and centered when working with a horse,” she said. “The worst thing is to start riding when you’re still holding onto something like being stressed out at work. You have to let go of that image and feeling and move on. Don’t dwell on it. Be in the Kate Tremain with her horse Zenith Interagro. present.” To help animal lovers tuitive clarity and learn to hear and trust their develop their own intuition and animal com- intuition,” Tremain said. “Everyone has some munication abilities, Tremain offers teleclass- degree of intuition. I can help them heighten es and in-person workshops. This past March it with practice. It was very cool. By the end, 19-20, she had a successful two-day work- everyone had swapped photos and gotten shop at the Hilton Palm Beach Airport in West impressions from strange horses.” Palm Beach. Nicole Walsh of Boynton Beach attended “I showed people how to increase their inSee ROSENBERG, page 24
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My Love-Hate Relationship With South Florida Summers I may be breaking state law or committing heresy or something, but I’m just going to come right out and say it — Florida summers are too hot. I know there are people out there right now, traversing the golf course or sitting around the swimming pool, toasting their poor epidermal layers to a crisp, but it’s too stinkin’ hot. While TV weather people are crowing about “another fabulous day in South Florida,” I am asking myself why I moved to the equator. At least it’s drier than usual. Thanks to not getting enough rainfall this year, the steamy jungle we call home is more like Arizona or Texas — high heat but not that much humidity. It’s a step in the right direction. Get your Sonic Boomer humor every day! Follow Deborah Welky on Twitter at twitter.com/TheSonicBoomer. On Facebook, stop by “The Sonic Boomer” page and click the “Like” button.
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The Sonic BOOMER “You’re so lucky,” my cousin in Nevada said. “Thanks to Florida’s humidity, you live in a sauna. Your skin will always be hydrated and youthful.” “Oh, yeah?” I retorted. “What about the fact that every time I take a breath, I’m filling my lungs with spores? What about that?!” Maybe there’s no perfect environment for us humans. I should’ve thought twice before moving anywhere where the air needs to be “conditioned” in order to survive. And, to save mon-
ey, the thermostat should really be set on 74 degrees, not 72, just like in Wisconsin where we’d try to make it through the winter on 68 degrees and a pile of blankets. I try to tell myself that Florida summers are a step up from Wisconsin winters, and that’s true. Winter in Wisconsin used to last nine months. In Florida, it doesn’t get miserably hot until May and I can usually take a deep breath of the outside air by mid-October. So I’ve gained three months of sanity. I need every month I can get because it isn’t merely the heat that drives me crazy every summer in Florida. Not only is it too hot, but there are no decent events or holidays from July 5 through Oct. 30. In Milwaukee, every single festival with an outdoor stage needs to be crammed into June, July and August. Toss in the state fair, and you’re busy right up until school starts. In Florida, we spend the summer going to the movies. If we didn’t have Orlando to escape to, we’d be bored out of our minds. And,
yes, I do occasionally cool off by enjoying the less-crowded beaches. I frolic in the ocean waves slathered in so much sunscreen that the waters part when I wade in. As soon as my core temperature returns to normal, I head for my car, where I promptly scald the backs of my legs upon sitting and my core temperature shoots right back up. It takes until I reach Military Trail for the temp inside the car to drop 50 degrees down to 72, and I’m finally able to get comfortable. And as soon as the parking ticket is paid, I can look back fondly on the day. Ahhh. “Oh, for crying out loud,” you might say. “Just pack up and move if you’re so unhappy.” I must admit I’ve thought about it, but do you know how hot the inside of a moving van gets in the summer? Hot. Each year I “think about it” until fall, and by then I simply love South Florida. So I’ve gone into hibernation. Again. See you in September.
‘Horrible Bosses’ Has Laughs, But An Unbelievable Plot The trailer for Horrible Bosses was funny enough that I looked forward to the movie. It was the best thing about the film. I expected it to be more than a bit silly, but these days, that can really carry a comedy. And we can really use good comedies. This new movie has a fantastic cast, something that can really push a good movie: Jason Bateman, Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell, Jason Sudeikis, and, as probably everyone knows by now, Jennifer Aniston in her scanties. What more do you need? Well, of course, a funny script and a talented director would help. The bosses were horrible enough. Spacey, a maneuvering, amoral control freak, Farrell, a coked-up inheritor of what had formerly been a successful business and Aniston as an oversexed dentist were appropriately horrifying. But the three stooges, as the protagonists should be called: Bateman, Sudeikis and Charlie Day, are such miserable shlumps that it becomes difficult to root for them. I am not one of those critics who seeks to blame either the “woefully failed, uncaring economics of the Bush era” or “the bumbling, incompetent policies of the Obama administration” as a reason why three presumably
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intelligent people would stay in companies where they are being mistreated. Good workers can generally find jobs elsewhere… granted, not as easily now as in good times, but enough so that they do not have to put up with abuse. And there are more than a few laws around to protect workers. But that would not have created a comedy. Although there is a discussion of how the job search would be sabotaged (particularly for Bateman), the jump toward murder creates an enormous gap in the plot, particularly since none of the putupon characters were likely to be willing to actually commit that kind of crime. Furthermore, the script made it clear within minutes that the bosses were terrible. Farrell’s character, Bobby Pellitt, is so deranged that it
would have been far simpler to arrange for him to be arrested for drug possession. The amounts shown would have put him away for a decade or two. And it would not have been difficult for Day to simply leave the dentist to go elsewhere. Spacey was far more controlled and effective; he reminded me of a former boss I had. But the comedy depends on these idiots going too far to get out from under. They clearly have no idea of how to go about doing the job. Jamie Foxx, in a funny small role, is their “adviser.” He gives them all the intricate knowledge that someone who had watched any cop procedural two or three times would have, and the fools violate just about every rule of the game. The cast itself does a reasonably decent job. Bateman is, as usual, a good straight man. Spacey is by far the best of the villains. Sudeikis plays his usual fool, and Farrell is so over-the-top that he gets laughs even though the plotting for the character is ridiculous. The major flaw is that the would-be killers are the least likely to hurt anyone; it is the bosses who are the sociopaths. Aniston has gotten a huge amount of hype for playing a “bad girl.” Actually, she seems
more pathetic, as the movie’s writer seems to think that when a female horrible boss goes so far in sexual harassment that, if male, the character would be a lead on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, it is simply funny. The premise would have made more sense if the bosses decided to get rid of their subordinates, and it would have been a far simpler job. Of course, it would not have been particularly funny, but it would certainly have been different. Will you laugh when seeing the film? Yes. It has a lot of funny moments once you accept the premise that nerds who seem to accept being abused will go to the most extreme ends to make their own lives better, will risk long terms of imprisonment, instead of looking for new jobs, instead of simply facing up to their problems. Of course, if the characters did that, I would be reviewing a timely new drama. It is an OK comedy, pretty funny and probably worth spending a bit of time and money for if the rains continue. It is not close to the best comedy of the year, but it does inch ahead of a couple of our summer “blockbusters.”
Walsh said she was surprised with the results. “I did this with six to eight horses I didn’t even know, and I was able to pick up all sorts of problems, which the owners later confirmed. Since the workshop, I’ve used the techniques on horses, dogs and cats,” she said. “Sometimes, they have funny things to say. One horse said he likes peppermint candy and hasn’t been getting any lately, so he feels left out. One said he missed the cookies he used to get at a previous barn.” Walsh enjoyed the workshop and would like to take another one. “It was a great experience and helped my communication skills with people as well as with animals,” she said. “I’d like to continue working at it to become more proficient. It’s not weird. If you’re willing to devote the time, effort and energy, ev-
eryone can develop or improve their skills.” Tremain enjoys helping improve the relationships between horses and owners by increasing the trust level with positive, empowering statements. These can be as simple as having a trainer affirm that it’s safe for the horse to trust him, that he’s there to support the horse. She said people who are too rigid or scattered can be hard on horses. Horses care about relationships, patience and trust. Local equestrian Johnnie Robb used Tremain to ask some questions of her two Warmbloods, Boomer and Zen 10. “Both had physical issues. I wanted to know if there was something I could do to help them feel better, and also how they felt about life,” Robb said. “I sent Kate some pictures, and she told me that Boomer was my heart horse but he had some insecurity issues
and also some hock problems, but his spirit was happy, and he liked when I bathed him. He wasn’t as ambitious as he used to be, but he was proud of hearing about how well he’d done in the show ring.” The read on Zen 10 was interesting. “He liked to be admired and wanted more turnout time,” Robb said. “He had tension is his fetlock and liked to be soothed. He had an aura of love around him and a feeling of good energy. Kate was pretty much on track. She told me a lot of stuff I already suspected. It was a good confirmation. She takes things I feel to a higher level of sensitivity. I may use her again. I’d absolutely recommend her. She’s very sincere and genuine. It was a good experience.” For more information, call Kate Tremain at (860) 227-8037, (508) 939-0183 or visit www. katetremain.com.
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Holden Luntz To Judge Lighthouse ArtCenter’s ‘PhotoNow!’
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Respected art and photography expert Holden Luntz will judge “Photo Now!,” a call-to-artists photography and digital-imaging exhibition that will be on view Friday, Sept. 9 to Saturday, Oct. 15 at the Lighthouse ArtCenter in Tequesta. Luntz, director and principal of the Holden Luntz Gallery on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach, has more than two decades of experience in the curating, exhibiting, purchasing and selling of vintage and contemporary photography. “Mr. Luntz is internationally known for his expertise,” Lighthouse ArtCenter Executive Director Katie Deits said. “His knowledge of the photography market and history makes him a natural judge for ‘Photo Now!’” The concept for the exhibition is
representation of various perspectives and world views portrayed through photography and digitalimaging. Luntz, who obtained his master’s degree in fine arts from New York University, has written and published articles on contemporary, modern and vintage 20th-century photography and has helped build photography collections for museums, corporations and private individuals. The Holden Luntz Gallery has mounted shows for Brassai, Bernard Faucon, Irving Penn, Bruce Davidson, Phil Borges, Berenice Abbott, Bill Brandt, Cartier-Bresson, Tina Barney and J.H. Lartigue, among others. The gallery also has represented vintage photography from the Time/Life/Fortune archives. “His participation in the exhibi-
The Colony Hotel Presents Jazz Singer Mary Foster Conklin July 15-16 Back by popular demand, Mary Foster Conklin will perform Friday and Saturday, July 15 and 16 at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach. Conklin’s performances, part of the Colony’s 10th annual cabaret season, will take place in the Royal Room Supper Club. The winner of the 2010 MAC Award for Jazz Vocalist by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs, Conklin is a true jazz original. Her hip, smoky style has been described as both recognizably traditional yet unmistakably contemporary, as she puts her personal stamp on a smart repertoire that spans over eight decades. Her sets are a mix of contemporary material and standards, with an emphasis on the lesser-known treasures of the Great American Songbook. A natural storyteller, Conklin has wowed audiences at the Blue Note, the Iridium, the Metropolitan Room, Sweet Rhythm and the Triad Theatre in New York, as well as the Plush Room in San Francisco and the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles. For more information, visit www.maryfosterconklin.com. The New York Times described Conklin as “a highly creative singer whose style blends cabaret and jazz so thoroughly as to defy any easy categorization.” The Washington Post wrote, “Scratch her witty tough-girl-from Jersey patter and you’ll find a sensitive artist (but not frail) with a wide-ranging boldly colored voice and an open ear for off-beat material.” And TheatreMania.com wrote, “Stylish without pretension, sexy without posturing, and tasteful without strict boundaries, Conklin is a jazz artist with that always hoped-for combination of musical chops and sensitivity to lyrics.” The cost of admission is $100 for dinner and the show, or $65 for the show only. For all Royal Room cabaret performances, the doors open at 6:30 p.m. for dinner and the show starts around 8 p.m., with late shows
Mary Foster Conklin possible on Friday and Saturday nights. To make reservations, call the hotel box office at (561) 659-8100. The Colony is located at 155 Hammon Avenue in Palm Beach, just one block south of Worth Avenue and one block west of the Atlantic Ocean. For additional information about the Colony Hotel, visit www.thecolonypalmbeach. com.
tion is a wonderful opportunity for local, regional and national photographers and digital artists,” Deits said. The submission deadline for “Photo Now!” is Wednesday, July 20 by 4 p.m. Artists interested in participating can pick up a submission form at the Lighthouse ArtCenter Museum or School of Art locations, or download it online at www.lighthousearts.org. An opening reception with wine and hors d’oeuvres and an award ceremony will take place Thursday, Sept. 15 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Admission to the reception is free for members and exhibition artists, and $5 for nonmembers. The Lighthouse ArtCenter is a member-supported not-for-profit community arts organization, providing excellence in art exhibitions,
instruction, education and ArtReach for all ages. Programs are funded in part by the Palm Beach County Cultural Council, the Palm Beach County Tourist Development Council and the Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners. For more information on the Lighthouse ArtCenter Museum, School of Art, exhibitions, programs and events, visit www.lighthouse arts.org or call (561) 746-3101. The Lighthouse ArtCenter is located at Gallery Square North (373 Tequesta Drive, Tequesta, one-half mile west of U.S. Highway 1). Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Admission is free for members and $5 for nonmembers. Admission is free for everyone Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The museum is closed on Sunday.
Palm Beach Dramaworks In West Palm Beach Unveils 2011-12 Season West Palm Beach’s longest residing professional theater, Palm Beach Dramaworks, will launch its 12th anniversary season with Arthur Miller’s acclaimed play All My Sons on Saturday, Nov. 12 at 8 p.m. at the company’s brand-new downtown theater at 201 Clematis Street. The season will continue with a distinguished roster of plays including The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel, The Pitmen Painters by Lee Hall, Master Harold… and the Boys by Athol Fugard and Proof by David Auburn. “It is with great enthusiasm that we announce the inaugural season of our new Clematis Street theater,” Producing Artistic Director William Hayes said. “The larger venue affords us the opportunity to expand our artistic horizons, while staying true to our mission of presenting timeless classic and contemporary plays and Theater to Think About. All My Sons and The Pitmen Painters could not have been staged in our current small venue. All of the masterful works slated for next season celebrate our humanity, with all the conflict and beauty intact.” Inaugurating the 12th season in mid-November is All My Sons by Arthur Miller (Nov. 12 through Dec. 4). This morality play about the cost of lying and the price of truth-telling examines a troubled family and a father who placed duty to his family above the lives of others, and now must face the consequences. The season continues with The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Paul Zindel (Jan. 6-29, 2012). The play depicts a mentally unbalanced woman’s far-reaching effects on the lives of her two daughters, and a young girl’s struggle to keep her focus and dreams alive. Following on Feb. 17 and running through March 11, the curtain will rise on The Pitmen
Painters by Lee Hall. From the writer of Billy Elliot comes the triumphant true story of a group of British miners who discover a new way to express themselves and unexpectedly become art-world sensations. Master Harold… and the Boys by Athol Fugard will continue the season, running April 6-29. When a white South African boy and two black workers he has known all his life connect on one rainy day, their wide-ranging discussions illustrate all that unites us and the gulf that still divides us. The season concludes with the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Proof by David Auburn (May 25 through June 17). In this Tony Award-winning play, the daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance — his insanity. The performance schedule is as follows: evening performances will take place at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and 7 p.m. Sunday. Matinee performances will take place Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m., as well as 3 p.m. on select Wednesdays. Individual tickets cost $47 for all performances. Group rates for 20 or more and discounted season subscriptions are also available. Palm Beach Dramaworks is a nonprofit, professional theater and is a member of the Theatre Communications Group, the South Florida Theatre League, the Southeastern Theatre Conference, the Florida Professional Theatres Association, the Florida Theatre Conference and the Palm Beach County Cultural Council. Dramaworks’ new home theater is located in the heart of downtown West Palm Beach at 201 Clematis Street. For ticket information, call the box office at (561) 514-4042, open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., or visit the Palm Beach Dramaworks web site at www.palmbeachdramaworks.org.
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The staff at All My Pets, My Whole Pet Market and De tails Grooming Salon. PHOTO BY JESSICA GREGOIRE/TOWN-CRIER
My Whole Pet Market Opens New Veterinary Clinic In Royal Palm Beach By Jessica Gregoire Town-Crier Staff Report My Whole Pet Market in Royal Palm Beach has transformed and expanded its store into an all-purpose center, which now includes a veterinary clinic, All My Pets. The clinic, which opened in January, has received a favorable response. The entire center offers pet supplies, pets for adoption or purchase, pet grooming and now medical care in its new veterinary clinic. Owners Jill Scott and Pablo Sanchez have expanded the 10,000-square-foot pet shop, pet supply and grooming center to include an extra 4,000 square feet for the veterinary clinic. The new veterinary section offers a wide variety of animal care and has experienced doctors and veterinary technicians on staff. “We have doctors who specialize in all veterinary care,” Scott said. From checkups to surgeries, the facility does it all in-house. The facility has a lab to check fecal matter for worms, a surgical suite for procedures such as spaying and neutering, and a X-ray room. It also provides prescribed foods. The center has become a one-stop shop for all pet needs. “To my knowledge, we are the only local neighborhood complete pet center,” Scott said. “We are an all-encompassing pet center that handles everything.” At the new center, pet owners are able to do anything pet-related, from grooming to pet education. “We try to educate our owners,” Scott said. With pet education seminars and training classes, the center is able to assist pet owners with their needs. My Whole Pet Market also offers tours of the center for school field trips and birthday parties. The children learn about animals
through interactive activities. “The kids get to watch us feed animals like our moray eel,” Scott said. The children are also able to feed some of the pet store animals. The center also offers a variety of attractions, from bird feeding to animal petting. One of its biggest attractions is its large bird cage, with finches, lovebirds and canaries. People are able to sit inside the cage and feed the birds while the birds fly all around them. The purpose of the attractions is to assist people in being comfortable with animals, especially exotic ones, Scott explained. The center is not your average pet shop or veterinary clinic. “The neighborhood pet shop is a person’s first experience with animals, so we try to make it a fun experience,” Scott said. My Whole Pet Market also offers exotic pets, such as South American parrots. It also offers pets through its adoption program. With a low adoption fee, the center is able to place dogs, cats, hamsters, reptiles and other animals in new homes. For pets owners who need a place to board their pets, especially exotic ones, My Whole Pet Market offers boarding rooms for all types of animals, from birds to reptiles. The owners believe that the relationship between the center and pet owners begins after their purchase or adoption of a new pet and continues throughout the pet’s life. “It’s all about building families here,” Scott said. “We give a lot of support and care to our pet owners because it’s really about maintaining the relationship with families and their pets.” My Whole Pet Market is located at 10323 Southern Blvd. in Royal Palm Beach. For more information about the center and its new veterinary facility, All My Pets, visit www.mywholepetmarket.com or call (561) 790-6612.
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Downtown At The Gardens Welcomes Paris In Town Bistro The owners of the popular Paris in Town Le Café in North Palm Beach recently opened an authentic Parisian dining experience called Paris in Town Le Bistro at Downtown at the Gardens in Palm Beach Gardens. Located in the carousel courtyard behind Whole Foods, the 2,600-square-foot restaurant is designed to feel like a comfortable French neighborhood restaurant serving classic French cuisine for lunch and dinner, as well as weekend brunch. “Guests at Le Bistro will feel like they’re transported to a traditional 1920s-style bistro where they can relax, unwind from the day’s stresses, see people they know and simply enjoy a good meal of bouillabaisse or coq au vin, for example,” co-owner and executive chef Beni Himmich said. “Expect casual yet elegant service, a fresh-made meal, a crepe or cappuccino, all at an affordable price. It’s important for our guests to feel like they can dine here a few nights a week just as Parisians do with their favorite local spots. Our patrons will feel like they’re at
home, knowing that we’ll take care of them while they’re here.” With indoor and outdoor seating up to 150 people, Le Bistro features red leather banquets, rich woods and pendant globe lighting in a relaxed atmosphere with sweeping views of the water and downtown’s popular carousel. Interior design consultation was provided by local designer and Palm Beach Post columnist Margi Vorder Bruegge. There’s also a zinc-topped bar — traditional to France — for those seeking a glass of wine from the restaurant’s comprehensive French-influenced list. Beer and liquor are also available. Future plans for Le Bistro include a crepe cart outside the restaurant in order to bring at least a half-dozen options to Downtown at the Gardens. Paris in Town Le Café introduced crepes two years ago to a resounding success. To make a reservation at Paris in Town Le Bistro, call (561) 6221616 or visit www.parisintown bistro.com. Paris in Town Le Café can be reached at (561) 626-6017 or www.parisintowncafe.com.
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The 2011 Florida Society of Enrolled Agents’ annual conference was held recently at the Gaylord Palms Hotel & Convention Center in Kissimmee. The conference provided the members with the opportunity to network with other tax professionals, enhance their various skills and expand their knowledge on current tax legislation, emerging issues and changes in their profession. On Friday, July 1, the FSEA installed the new slate of officers for the coming year, including local Enrolled Agent Jeffrey Schneider as vice president. The Florida Society of Enrolled Agents is the professional society representing Enrolled Agents in Florida. Members are licensed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury to represent taxpayers before all administrative levels of the Internal Revenue Service, including examination, collection and appeals functions. For more information about the FSEA, visit www.fseaonline. org. The FSEA is an affiliate of the National Association of Enrolled
FSEA Officers — (L-R) Immediate Past President William Weidenbach, Treasurer Sue Anne Curd, Secretary Twila Midwood, President-Elect Ana Magda Guillen, President Anita Manuel and Vice President Jeffrey Schneider. Agents and they urge all tax practi- Agents. The association is dedicattioners to consider the benefits of ed to helping its members keep up joining. the highest level of knowledge, The National Association of En- skills and professionalism in all arrolled Agents is a national associa- eas of taxation, so that their memtion of independent, licensed tax bers may most effectively represent professionals called Enrolled the needs of their clients.
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Lakeside Medical Center Launches Family Medicine Residency Lakeside Medical Center welcomed 10 residents from across the country to its new Family Medicine Residency Program at a reception June 27 at the hospital. Lakeside Medical Center was accredited earlier this year by the American Osteopathic Association to offer the new program at a time when Palm Beach County, and particularly the rural area of the county known as the Glades, is seeing a critical shortage of primary care physicians. The program is funded by a $900,000 grant from the State of Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration and will train a total of 15 residency positions over three years. Nearly 80 people attended the event, hosted by Lakeside Medical Center and one of its community partners in the program, Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine. In a moving ceremony, residents one by one donned their white doctor’s coats, which were presented to them by Dr. Nikerson Geneve, Family Medicine Residency Program director and director of medical education at Lakeside Medical Center. In his remarks, Geneve encouraged the residents to always strive
for the best in their futures as medical professionals. “To be a resident, as you all are, is challenging,” Geneve said. “What will make you rise above the rest and what will define you not just as physicians but as human beings, is how you handle these challenges. I’d like to call on each one of you to do your very best to learn medicine and practice compassion.” The new residents are Dr. Nader Abdallah, Midwestern University Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine; Dr. Tarah Freyman, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Bradenton, Fla.; Dr. Anne Maxey, A.T. Still University’s Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine; Dr. Omar Mubaidin, Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine; Dr. Tricia Nielsen, Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine; Dr. Jasmine Pierre, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine; Dr. Tracy Romanello, Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine; Dr. Na Ly Vang, Touro University Nevada College of Osteopathic Medicine; Dr. Josephine Pearson, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Suwanee, Ga.; and Dr. Tai Vo, Nova Southeastern University College of Os-
teopathic Medicine. Also addressing the gathering were Dr. Ronald J. Wiewora, the Health Care District’s interim CEO and chief medical officer; Dr. James T. Howell, chair of the Department of Rural Medicine and professor of public health at Nova Southeastern University and chair of the Glades Rural Area Support Board; Dr. Anthony J. Silvagni, dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Nova Southeastern University; and Dr. Effie C. Grear, chair of the Glades Healthcare Foundation Board, commissioner of the Health Care District of Palm Beach County and secretary/treasurer of the Glades Rural Area Support Board. In his remarks, Wiewora highlighted how the new residency program can impact the need for qualified primary care physicians in an area with a high prevalence of serious medical conditions such as asthma, high blood pressure and diabetes. “By offering family medicine residents the opportunity to serve our patients, we can substantially impact the health of residents today,” Wiewora said. “It is our hope that the Family Medicine Residency Program will ultimately encourage our residents to practice locally and
Family Medicine Residency Program Director Dr. Nikerson Geneve (right) with the new residents. PHOTO COURTESY JOHN RICKSEN PHOTOGRAPHY
help maintain a continued supply of highly trained primary care physicians into the future.” The Family Medicine Residency Program curriculum includes rotations in emergency medicine, critical care, community medicine, general surgery, ob/gyn and pediatrics. While Lakeside Medical Center serves as the primary clinical training site, the program partners with academic and community organiza-
tions, including Nova Southeastern University, the Palm Beach County Health Department, Florida Community Health Centers and the West Palm Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center to provide a diversified and rewarding educational experience for medical residents. For additional information about Lakeside Medical Center, visit the hospital’s web site at www.lakeside medical.org.
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BASKETBALL PART OF ‘ALL SPORTS WEEK’ AT RPB SPORTS ACADEMY
The Royal Palm Beach Parks & Recreation Department offered children the chance to learn about several different types of sports during the “All Sports Week” of its Sports Academy Summer Camp held Monday, July 11 through Friday, July 15 at the Royal Palm Beach Recreation Center. Campers were given the opportunity to try out several sports including basketball, soccer, flag football, baseball and kickball. For more information, call (561) 790-5124. PHOTOS BY LAUREN MIRÓ/T OWN-CRIER
Kyle Campbell breaks away toward the basket.
Brandon Teitel takes the ball across the court.
Nathan Kakas looks to pass.
Nathan Kakas tries to take the ball from Zachary Cohen.
Merrick Molsbee recovers the ball.
Jacob Erb fakes a pass before shooting.
RPB SPORTS ACADEMY SUMMER CAMPERS TAKE A SWING AT TENNIS The Royal Palm Beach Parks & Recreation Department offered a week of tennis as part of its Sports Academy Summer Camp from Monday, July 11 through Friday, July 15. Participants learned fundamentals of the sport, developed skills and had the oppor tunity for match play. For more info., call (561) PHOTOS BY LAUREN MIRÓ/T OWN-CRIER 790-5124.
Campers line up to practice their volley.
Coach Howard Price helps Michael Wong with technique.
Campers practice a balancing exercise.
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PRO BALL COBRAS WIN OKEEHEELEE FOURTH OF JULY TOURNAMENT
The Pro Ball Cobras 13-U travel baseball team won the Four th of July tournament at Okeeheelee Park. Pictured above are team members and coaches. They are: (front row, L-R) Jonathan Rosado, Chandler Miles, A.J. Gallichio, Dylan Santalo and Keaton Baird; (back row) coach Bruce Martin, coach Jim Jeluso, Jordan Dobson, Eddie Deusanio, Jorge Martinez, Manny Bejerano, Bruce Martin, Logan Goldenberg, Coach Rob Snow, Rylan Sno w and Manager Oscar Santalo. Not pictured: Alejandro Rodriguez.
Turpen Wins At Minor League Tour Event At Wanderers Club
Tim Turpen of West Palm Beach birdied the first extra hole for the victory Monday, July 11 at the Wanderers Club at Wellington as the Fuzion Minor League Golf Tour resumed after a two-week summer break. Turpen, 36, and Brenton Flynn, 27, of Nashville, Tenn., had tied at four under par 68, each with six birdies and two bogeys. In the playoff, which began at the par-4 first hole, Turpen sank a 12-foot birdie putt from below the hole moments after Flynn two-putted for par from 40 feet. It was Turpen’s 16th victory since he joined the MLGT in July 2006, his first since August 2010. He earned $810 from the $4,305, raising his career earnings to $66,497.50. Flynn had made three MLGT starts last October, earning $815 with a best finish of a tie for second. He received $575 on Monday. Besides Turpen, other area golfers who competed in the tournament include Bobby Collins of Palm Beach Gardens, who scored 36-34, 70 to earn $317.50; Sal Spallone of Vero Beach, who scored 37-33, 70
to earn $317.50; Erik Asp of Palm Beach Gardens, who scored 35-35, 70 to earn $317.50; Chris Damiano of Jupiter, who scored 35-35, 70 to earn $317.50; Ben Hartman of West Palm Beach, who scored 37-34, 71 to earn $175; Justin Thompson of West Palm Beach, who scored 3636, 72 to earn $120; Will Coleman of Jupiter, who scored 37-36, 73 to earn $76; Pierre-Henri Soero of Palm Beach Gardens, who scored 38-35, 73 to earn $76; Erik Downs of West Palm Beach, who scored 40-33, 73 to earn $76; Brandon Smith of West Palm Beach, who scored 39-34, 73 to earn $76; and Jacob Korb of Jupiter, who scored 38-35, 73 to earn $76. The mission of the Fuzion Minor League Golf Tour is to provide an affordable, top-level professional golf training ground for players who aspire to play on the PGA, Nationwide, Champions and LPGA Tours. The MLGT Q-School contests give the best players an opportunity to earn status on the Nationwide and PGA tours and its title sponsor, FuZion Golf, can provide all members the same club fitting and tech-
Tim Turpen putts. nical analysis available to the top players in the world. The tour was founded in 2004 to help all aspiring golfers take their best shot at playing professional golf on a major exempt status tour. The MLGT’s 69th tournament of its eighth season drew 35 entries. For more information, visit www. minorleaguegolf.com.
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PALM BEACH PIRANAZ ENDS BASEBALL SEASON WITH A STELLAR 16-3 RECORD The Palm Beach 10-U Piranaz travel baseball team finished the season in the Florida Premier Travel League with a record of 16-3. The Piranaz played in the Majors division, which consisted of the best travel teams in South Florida (which are also some of the most competitive teams nationally). The Piranaz led the league in runs scored and gave up the fewest runs. This team has won a number of tournaments this year, and their overall record for the season is 47-10. While the wins are impressive, the team feels that the most important aspect is that the kids continue to learn life lessons about giving 100 percent, win or lose, and how to function together as a group. The entire Piranaz family wants to thank all those who have supported their fundraisers throughout the season.
Fitness Expert Offers Advice On Longevity
Did you know that while the average life expectancy in the United States is currently 78 years — in the 37th place on the worldwide longevity chart — a new government report indicates that only 69 of those years tend to be healthy? There is, however, some promising news coming from another recent study: that if you can reach the age of 50 without high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking, diabetes or obesity, you have less than a one in 10 chance of ever developing heart disease, the leading killer of Americans. “This means that if you take good care of yourself, you will increase your chances of living a longer and healthier life,” said Maribel Bleeker, owner of North Palm Beach Adventure Boot Camp for Women. That is also the core message of the National Health Promotion and Prevention Strategy recently released by President Barack Obama. “Everyone recognizes that prevention of diseases is very important,” Bleeker said. Along with not smoking and eating a healthy diet, regular physical exercise rates high on the prevention “must-do” list. “It’s a known
fact that physical activity can protect us from high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes and obesity,” Bleeker said. “Considering that cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes account for seven out of 10 American deaths each year, we should certainly take prevention very seriously!” How exactly does regular exercise stop these deadly diseases in their tracks? For heart disease, exercise normalizes blood pressure, slows down the build-up of plaque in the arteries, increases the level of “good” HDL cholesterol while reducing the “bad” LDL one, and prevents the formation of blood clots that can obstruct the arteries and lead to a stroke or heart attack. For diabetes, exercise improves the body’s ability to regulate blood sugar level. For obesity, exercise burns calories, as well as helps maintain a healthy body weight — essential in preventing heart disease, diabetes, and some forms of cancer. For more information, contact Bleeker at (561) 315-1239 or maribel@npbbootcamp.com, or visit www.npbbootcamp.com.
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Saturday, July 16 • The Jupiter-Tequesta Dog Club will hold its All-Breed Dog Show on Saturday and Sunday, July 16 and 17 at the South Florida Expo Center (9067 Southern Blvd.). Visit www.southfloridafair.com for more info. • The Palm Beach Chapter of the Rare Fruit Council will host a Rare Fruit Tree Sale on Saturday, July 16 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Agriplex at the South Florida Fairgrounds (9067 Southern Blvd.). A large selection of tropical fruit trees as well as herb and spice plants will be available. Admission is free. Visit www.southfloridafair.com for more info. • Mounts Botanical Garden (531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach) will host “Versatile Bromeliads” on Saturday, July 16 from 9 a.m. to noon in Exhibit Hall A . The workshop will cover the basics of bromeliad culture. There will be demonstrations of various mounting techniques using drif twood, trees and rocks, plus the use of containers. The cost is $30 members and $40 for non-members. Each attendee will receive a special bromeliad. For info., call (561) 233-1757 or visit www.mounts.org. • The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will feature “Wee Hands with Krystan” for age 6 and under Saturday, July 16 at 11 a.m. with nationally certified sign language interpreter Krystan Gogan. Call (561) 790-6070 to pre-register. • Whole Foods Market (2635 State Road 7, Wellington) will hold “Floral Arrangements 101” on Saturday, July 16 from 11 a.m. to noon for age 14 and up. Join floral designer Rosanne Ruby as she teaches classic floral design. Participants must bring their own scissors or clippers and a medium-size vase, or vases can be purchased from the floral department prior to class. Flower s and all other materials will be provided. There is no charge. Call (561) 9044000 to pre-register. • The Palm Beach County Mounted Posse will host a Benefit Horse Show to suppor t local National Barrel Horse Association Youth World Championships qualifiers Saturday, July 16 at the Jim Brandon Equestrian Center (7500 Forest Hill Blvd.). Sign-up and exhibitions will begin at 4 p.m. and competition will begin at 6:30 p.m. Activities will include a bake sale, silent auction, raffle and concession stand. All proceeds will help the youths attend the national event in Jackson, Miss. Contact Renee Kitching at (561) 436-2909 or rakitching@aol.com for info.
• The Palm Beach County Young Democrats will host an ’80s Prom Fundraiser on Saturday, July 16 from 7 to 10 p.m. at Delray Oaks West Clubhouse (SW 22nd Circle, Delray Beach). The cost is $50 per person or $75 per couple and includes an adult beverage, complimentary soft drinks, hors d’oeuvres, prom photo and live DJ spinning all classic ’80s hits. There will be a costume contest, as well as king and queen elections. For info., visit www.pbcyd.org/prom. Sunday, July 17 • MacArthur Beach State Park (10900 Jack Nicklaus Dr., North Palm Beach) will present “Bluegrass Music with the Untold Riches” on Sunday, July 17 from 1 to 4 p.m. The concert is free with park admission. For more info., call (561) 624-6952. • Mounts Botanical Garden (531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach) will host its sixth annual Digital Photography Contest judging Sunday, July 17 at 1 p.m. in the exhibit hall. All of the entries from the photography contest will be projected and commented upon by the judges, who will collectively choose the best five entries in each category. The event is free. For more info., call (561) 233-1757 or visit www.mounts.org. • Grace Fellowship Acreage will host a summer family event called “Hometown Nazareth” July 17-21 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Seminole Ridge High School theater. Families will step back in time, exploring what it was like to live in the town where Jesus grew up. Kids and adults participate in a Bible-times marketplace, sing songs, play teamwork-building games, dig into Bible-times snacks, visit Jesus’ mother Mary and collect Bible Memory Makers. For more info., visit www.gfacreage.com or call Cindy Potts (561) 301-5205. Monday, July 18 • The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will begin Fall Story Times Sign-up for children under 5 on Monday, July 18 at 10 a.m. The session runs Sept. 6 through Oct. 27. Drop by or call (561) 7906030 to pre-register. • The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host “Dizzy Disco” for ages 9 to 12 on Monday, July 18 at 4 p.m. Get down and funky with extreme musical chairs, then make your o wn groovy disco ball. Call (561) 790-6070 to pre-register. Tuesday, July 19 • The Palm Beach County Commission will meet Tuesday, July 19 at 9:30 a.m. in See CALENDAR, page 39
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CALENDAR, continued from page 38 the government center’s Jane M. Thompson Memorial Chambers (301 N. Olive Ave., Sixth Floor, West Palm Beach). Visit www. pbcgov.com for more info. • The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will feature “Checker Challenge” for age 6 and up Tuesday, July 19 at 11 a.m. Practice your strategy while playing checkers. Call (561) 790-6070 to pre-register. • The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host “Summer Book Madness: The Lightning Thief” for ages 8 to 12 on Tuesday, July 19 at 2 p.m. Pick up Rick Riordan’s book when you sign up. Call (561) 790-6030 for more info. • The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will feature “Decorate Your Jeans” for ages 10 to 15 on Tuesday, July 19 at 6:30 p.m. Bring an old pair of jeans and learn a few decorating techniques. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register. • The Loxahatchee Groves Town Council will meet Tuesday, July 19 at 7 p.m. at the Loxahatchee Groves Water Control District office (101 West D Road). Visit www. loxahatcheegroves.org for more info. • Music for the Mind will present Palm Beach Opera resident artists and guests Tuesday, July 19 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Harriet Himmel Theater at CityPlace in downtown West Palm Beach. Call (866) 449-2489 or visit www.pbopera.org for more info. Wednesday, July 20 • Generations: A Hair Salon will host its customer appreciation day Wednesday, July 20 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The salon will offer complimentary Phyto hair treatments. Generations is located at 10240 W. Forest Hill Blvd., Suite 170, in the Pointe at Wellington Green. For more info., call (561) 7532232 or visit the salon’s web site at www. generationsahairsalon.com. • The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host “Minute to Win It” for ages 12 to 17 on Wednesday, July 20 at 4 p.m. Ever watched the game show and thought, “I could do that?” Here’s your chance to prove it. Call (561) 790-6070 to pre-register. • The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host “Teen Advisory Posse” for ages 12 to 17 on Wednesday, July 20 at 6:30 p.m. Share your ideas for future teen programs. Snacks will be provided. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.
• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will feature “Anime Club” for ages 12 to 17 on Wednesday, July 20 at 7 p.m. Watch anime, eat Pocky and check out the library’s newest manga titles. Snacks will be provided. Call (561) 7906030 to pre-register. Thursday, July 21 • The Royal Palm Beach Village Council will meet Thursday, July 21 at 7 p.m. at Village Hall (1050 R oyal Palm Beach Blvd.). Visit www.royalpalmbeach.com for more info. • The Loxahatchee Groves Landowners’ Association will meet Thursday, July 21 at 7 p.m. at Palms West Presbyterian Church (13689 Okeechobee Blvd., Loxahatchee Groves). The association normally meets on the fourth Thursday of each month. For more info., e-mail Marge Herzog at marge@ herzog.ms. Friday, July 22 • Boomer Times & SeniorLife magazine will hold its sixth Sizzling Red Hot Boomer Expo on Friday, July 22 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. The event will feature exhibits on health and fitness, travel, finance, technology, food, home care and retirement. Par ticipants will have a chance to win more than 50 premium prizes. Parking and admission are free. Call (561) 736-8000 or e-mail srlife@gate.net for more info. • The YWCA of Palm Beach County will host “It’s All in the Game,” an event that includes a buffet luncheon, Chinese auction, and board, card and dice games on Saturday, July 23 at 11:30 a.m. at Bear Lakes Country Club (1901 Village Blvd., West Palm Beach). Proceeds from your donation of $55 per person will support YWCA programs. To RSVP, call (561) 640-0050, ext. 115. • The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host “Liquid Science” for ages 6 to 9 on Friday, July 22 at 3:30 p.m. Perform experiments using water and other liquids. Call (561) 790-6030 to preregister. • The Wellington Amphitheat er (12100 W. Forest Hill Blvd.) will show a free screening of the movie Rio on Friday, July 22 at 8:30 p.m. Call (561) 753-2484 or visit www. wellingtonfl.gov for more info. Send calendar items to: The Town-Crier, 12794 W. Forest Hill Blvd., Suite 31, Wellington, FL 33414. FAX: (561) 793-6090. Email: news@gotowncrier.com.
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HUNTINGTON LEARNING CENTER in Wellington needs CERTIFIED PART TIME TEACHERS new and experienced elementary & secondary teachers wanted to instruct K-12 in Reading, Math, SAT/ACT Exam Prep. No lesson plans or homework, paid training and flexible hours. Please e-mail resume to marlenegiraud@hlcwellington.com or call 561-594-1920 and leave a message VOLUNTEER NEEDED — 14 years and over for community service. Have fun with animals & kids 792-2666 WINDOW INSTALLERS W ANTED Lic. & ins. subcontractors only. Top Pay. No Brokers. Call Matt 561714-8490 DRIVERS WANTED — Full-Time/ Part-Time W ellington Town-Car NIGHT DISPATCHER — for Wellington Town-Car. Call for details 561-333-0181 CHRISTY’S BAKERY NEEDS — Counter help. Experienced only. 2 shifts 5:30am - 1:30 pm and 1:30 pm to 9:30 pm. Drop of resume. The Pointe@Wellington Green. 10160 Forest Hilll Blvd. NANNY/AUPAIR Needed urgently for 3 kids Car provided. Must have working experience/good record. $640/wk Please respond by e-mail to g.evans12@aol.com
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