Lighthouse Point January 2016

JANUARY 2017

GLOBE TROTTER

Samantha Speedy

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THE CELEBRATORY POWER OF CHAMPAGNE

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THE HUMAN COMMODITY MODERN SLAVES

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HAPPY SNAPS COMMUNITY MOMENTS

P R E M I E R E S TAT E P R O P E R T I E S P R E S E N T S

COASTAL RESORT

EAST DEERFIELD BEACH | LIGHTHOUSE POINT | HILLSBORO SHORES | EAST

NEW GEorGiaN-iNspirEd dEEpWatEr EstatE LIGHTHOUSE POINT, FL $3.95 MILLION

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ESTATES P OMPANO BEACH | FORT LAUDERDALE

A PERSONAL NOTE

W elcome to Coastal Resort Estates. I am proud to invite you on a monthly tour of East Deerfield Beach, Lighthouse

Point, Hillsboro Shores, East Pompano Beach and Fort Lauderdale’s finest estate properties offered exclusively in excess of one million dollars. It is my pleasure and privilege to represent these important estates. Please enjoy this sampling of properties from my current Coastal Resort Estates collection. I wish to thank my valued clientele for their trust, confidence and loyalty throughout the years. My relationships with both buyers and sellers are defined by discretion, integrity, professionalism at the highest level, as well as unparalleled personalized and customized service.

For a confidential consultation and evaluation of your property, please contact me. I look forward to your inquiries anytime.

Best Regards,

Kevin R. Kreutzfeld Lighthouse Point Resident

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Well maintained Lighthouse Point home. East facing backyard with pool, 75’ dock. Remodeled kitchen, open floor plan, wood floors.

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3900 NE 31st Avenue, Lighthouse Point

$1,699,000 5BR/4.5BA

$1,499,000 5BR/3BA

100 ft. of deep water, views from family rm & kitchen, large yard, balcony & pool.

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3150 NE 28th Avenue, Lighthouse Point

$899,000 3BR/2BA

$879,000 3BR/3BA

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$614,000 3BR/2BA

$530,000 3BR/3BA

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4450 NE 30th Avenue, Lighthouse Point

large rooms, open & spacious, fully fenced in yard with room for a pool.

2800 NE 40th Street, Lighthouse Point

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$3,195,000 5BR/5.5BA + office

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2920 NE 48th Street, Lighthouse Point

$1,329,000 3BR/3BA

$1,199,000 3BR/3BA

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4900 NE 28th Avenue, Lighthouse Point

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$829,000 4BR/3BA

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$459,000 2BR/2BA

$349,000 2BR/2BA

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2880 NE 14th St Cswy #411, Pompano Beach

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exposure, direct Intracoastal,no wake zone. Spacious great room floor plan with 3 large bedrooms all with in suite baths. Sit down bar inside and out, brand new fabulous kitchen with waterside breakfast area and snack bar, formal dining and formal entry and new impact glass and new roof. Over 2000 sq ft of newly done patio, wonderful, pool with built in table, 100’ ft new composite dock newly done with boat lift. To view this listing and more, visit our website at www.lhpestate.com

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JANUARY 2017

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HUMAN COMMODITY

In honor of January’s Awareness Month, Lighthouse Point magazine investigates human trafficking in Broward County and introduces you to some of the community’s active players in the fight against trafficking.

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GLOBE TROTTER

Lighthouse Point’s Samantha Speedy set out on a global adventure, which expanded her perspective and brought unexpected joy.

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OUR BLACK HISTORY

In honor of Black History Month, Lighthouse Point magazine takes a trip back in time to share three tales from the area’s storied past, including the lynching of Rubin Stacy, the opening of Braithwaite School and the glamour of the Diamond Club.

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departments LIGHTHOUSE POINT’S PEDIATRIC & ADULT DENTAL SPECIALISTS Dr. Jared Young is a board certified Pediatric Dentist, while Dr. Catherine Young provides excellent general and cosmetic dentistry for our adult patients.

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Creatively Speaking

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Around the Point

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Fish Tales

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Down to Business

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On The Waterfront

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Tidbits and Trivia

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Get Psyched

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Legal Matters

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Personal Development

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Cantankerously Yours

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Dining Out

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Happy Snaps

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Happy Birthday

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Sage Advice

“Tasty” videos saved my life.

News and happenings from around the city and beyond: concerts, movies, classes, culture and more. Plus, this month: don’t miss the annual Taste of Lighthouse Point.

Take the family fishing.

Color your world. A look at Benjamin Moore.

A trip to the Bahamas can be a trip back in time.

E.T. phone home...or not..

Perhaps showing respect to everyone should be among your new year’s resolutions.

The upside of a co-trustee.

Be in the moment.

The Senior Olympics.

Over 100 places to eat, plus some inside scoops. This month we feature Checkers Old Munchen—a classic German restaurant.

There’s lots to be happy about in Pompano Beach: including the Lighthouse Point A’Glow and a new menu at Papa’s Raw Bar.

Kids and pets celebrate their big days.

How to navigate media bias by Earl Maucker, the former Editor of the Sun Sentinel.

On the Cover

Samantha Speedy photographed in Lighthouse Point

by Andrew Itkoff.

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CREATIVELY SPEAKING

BY SUSAN ROSSER

“Chicken Soup for the Soul” ... Literally

The author’s soup simmers away.

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“Tasty” videos saved my life. If you’re like me, during the recent election season, your Facebook feed was chock full of political news (I use that term loosely). I look to Facebook for a bit of mindless entertainment—but during the run up to the election, there was no escape. Even though I tried to avoid the online political drama, I couldn’t help but see political posts and naturally, the ensuing arguments in the comments section below.

All of this led me to declare that I was suffering from election anxiety.

But there was one saving grace: Tasty videos. For the uninitiated, Tasty videos are produced by Buzzfeed and feature a recipe being prepared by two anonymous hands, filmed from directly overhead.

There is no dialogue. There isn’t really even a person— just those two mysterious hands dumping pre-measured ingredients into a pan. The videos are sped up and edited so that each one is about one minute. “Wow, I can make meatball-stuffed garlic bread in a flash.” Every recipe appears easy, fool-proof and quite enticing—albeit pretty fattening.

I love to cook so naturally I am drawn to these videos which play automatically on my Facebook feed. In a valiant effort to fake out the social media giant’s famous algorithm and in order to flood my news feed with recipes, I would click the “like” button every single time one appeared. My goal was that this technique would block out the debates du jour.

It worked. Well not completely.

While I was still sucked into a vortex of the rude and ridiculous, I could count on those video to bring me back from the edge of insanity. Who cares about homeland security, China or the North American Free Trade Agreement when you can be making meatball-stuffed garlic bread?

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I’ve been a fan of cooking shows (and of course eating) for as long as I can remember. But these tightly-edited, fast-paced, one-minute videos are completely mesmerizing. And clearly I’m not the only one who finds them so enticing, as they typically draw millions of viewers. Maybe it’s the simplicity. How difficult can any recipe be when they present it, start to finish, in sixty seconds? Or perhaps it’s just the gentle reminder that cooking brings us together. Who doesn’t love a good casserole? Even my husband who is famous for his sliced watermelon, will watch a Tasty video (with a touch of cajoling) and weigh in on a recipe’s appeal.

During the whole Facebook election debacle, I even went so far as to “unfriend” my sister Debbie.

She and I are on completely opposite sides of the political spectrum and the daily onslaught was too much. We would go back and forth and back and forth and we would all get so angry. But then a Tasty video would pop up and remind me that we are not merely the sum of our political opinions and if we could all share some meatball-stuffed garlic bread, we would all get along much better.

Just yesterday I made a formidable pot of homemade chicken soup. I’m not talking about sautéing some celery and onions and opening a box of chicken stock. I’m talking about the kind my mother taught her three daughters to make. The kind where you put a whole chicken in a stock pot with carrots, onions, celery, garlic, turnips and parsnips, along with fresh parsley, thyme and dill and let it simmer for half a day. A few years ago, my sister Debbie told me she throws in a sweet potato too.

So yesterday, as I was working on this column and thinking about our recent Facebook fiasco, I threw a sweet potato into the stock pot. I called her in the evening and mentioned I made a big pot of chicken soup. It just may be the sweetest batch I ever made.

AROUND THE POINT PEOPLE TO KNOW • THINGS TO DO • PLACES TO GO

Taste of Lighthouse Point

Over 25 delicious local restaurants gather at the Lighthouse Point Yacht & Racquet Club for an evening of wine, food and raffles to raise money for the Lighthouse Point Chamber of Commerce and the local community.

Restaurants will include: Bobby Rubinos, Bonefish Mac’s, Cafe Maxx, BurgerFi, Le Bistro, Red Fox, the Sicilian Oven, Litos, Oceans 234, Papa Hughie’s Seafood World, Packy’s Sports Pub, Olympia Flame Diner, McCoy’s Oceanfront, 26 Degrees Brewery and Whole Foods Market.

WHEN: Jan.17 from 6 to 9pm WHERE: Lighthouse Point Yacht &

Racquet Club COST: $50/per person if purchased in advance; $60/per person at the door.

TICKETS: Available in advance online at lhpchamber.org, over the phone at 754-999-0185; or in person at BankUnited, Liberty Tax Pompano Beach, Balistreri Realty (ask for K.Z. Spalma), Red Fox Diner and Lighthouse Point Yacht & Racquet Club.

Deerfield Beach’s Festival of the Arts

Over 100 South Florida artists will display and sell artwork of all types, right on the beach.

WHEN: Saturday, Jan. 28 & Sunday,

Jan. 29, 10am to 5pm WHERE: Main Beach Parking Lot, 149 S.E. 21st Ave. COST: Free

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Nautical Flea Market

Over 200 vendors will gather for a festival celebrating all things nautical. Boating equipment, fishing gear, nautical antiques and artwork, scuba gear, beach attire, boat shoes, jewelry, motors, anchors, tackle, hard-to-find parts and manufacturer close-outs are just some of the sea-themed items you’ll find. Local dealers and private sellers will also be on site ready to make a deal on new and used boats, motors, trailers and jet-ski’s.

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to 5pm; Sunday, Jan. 22, 8am to 3pm WHERE: Community Park, Federal Highway between N.E. 10th St. and N.E. Sixth St. (1801 N.E. Sixth St., Pompano Beach) COST: Adults/$5; Kids under 12/free Visit NauticalFleaMarket.com for more information.

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AROUND THE POINT EVENTS

Broward Shell Show

Thousands of beautiful and unusual shells from around the world will be on display and for sale. Visit Browardshellclub.org for more information WHEN: Jan. 14 & 15, 10am to 6pm WHERE: Emma Lou Olson Civic Center, 1801 N.E. Sixth St. COST: Free

Cool Wheels Car Show The sixth Annual Cool Wheels Car Show at Quiet Waters Park in Deerfield Beach is one of South Florida’s largest car shows featuring over 500 show cars, a silent auction, food trucks and live entertainment, hosted by three south Florida DJ’s (Eugene Reidy, Scoot the Music Man and Rockin’ Rich).

Across the Universe, The Ultimate Beatles Tribute band will perform. The Car Show will benefit the Youth Automotive Training Center. (YATC). The mission of the YATC is to train and educate at-risk youth in basic automotive repair, academic remediation, job readiness and life management skills.

Students are referred to YATC in a variety of

ways, including through the Departments of Juvenile Justice and Children and Families, as well as YATC graduates, local clergy and word of mouth.

WHEN: January 15 from 9am to 4pm WHERE: Quiet Waters Park (401 S. Powerline

Road, Deerfield Beach, at Shelter #10 SPECTATOR COST: No entry charge for spectators (except for parking fees — $1.50 per person (ages 6 and up)$8 maximum charge per car or van with 6 to 9 visitors).

CAR ENTRY COSTS: Show cars $20 with advance registrations, $25 day of show. To register your car for the show, call Joe at 561-452-3684

Pompano Beach’s Winter Concert Series

The City of Pompano Beach is kicking off the 2017 Winter Concert Series on Jan. 11 with Rockin’ With the Legends.

Both the first show on Jan. 11 and the second show on Jan. 18 (featuring The Crests with Tommy Mara), will be at the Emma Lou Olson Civic Center; while the third show (The Mystics) on Jan. 25 will be at the Herb Skolnick Community Center. For all shows, doors will open at 6:30pm. Shows start at 7:30pm. Tickets are $14 per person. Visit pompanobeachfl.gov for more information.

WHEN: Jan. 11, 18 & 25, Doors open at 6:30pm. Shows start at 7:30pm.

WHERE: The shows on Jan. 11 & 18 will be at Emma Lou Olson Civic Center, 1801 N.E. Sixth St. The show on Jan. 25 will be at the Herb Skolnick Community Center, 800 S.W. 36 Ave. COST: $14/per person

Music at The Pink Church Concert Organist Simon Johnson

The Robertson/ Cole Trio

Simon Johnson, the Organist and Associate Director of Music for London’s famed St. Paul Cathedral, will perform at the Pink Church. Johnson has been involved in a wide variety of national occasions since his 2008 appointment, including the funeral service for Baroness Thatcher, and the Diamond Jubilee and 90th birthday celebrations for her Majesty the Queen.

This event is co-sponsored by the Ft. Lauderdale Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

WHEN: Sunday, Jan. 15 at 4pm WHERE: The Pink Church, First Presbyterian Church,

Pianist Jon Robertson joins forces with violinist Carol Cole and cellist David Cole in a back-by-populardemand performance.

WHEN: Sunday, Jan. 29 at

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WHERE: The Pink Church, First Presbyterian Church, 2331 N.E. 26 Ave., Pompano Beach

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Plant a Living Christmas Tree

Sound Check

By Donna Torrey

Florida Fun Train Opens for Business

ALI CULTURAL On Nov. 28, Ali Cultural Arts and the Pompano Beach Community ARTS WILL Redevelopment Agency (CRA) were awarded a $60,000 grant from A local family has OFFER AUDIO the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to launch the Miss launched new business Audio program. Miss a curriculum The holiday season is inMasters: high gear, andEngineering for many families in Masters, some cities) because they grow too a tall, and are ENGINEERING called Florida Fun Train, in partnership with Girls aMakesusceptible Beats, Inc. (a to non-profit PROGRAM this means shopping for adesigned Christmas tree. When I was lightening strikes and hurricane damage. a trackless, electric train empowers girls by expanding the female presence of DJs, GIRLS child, I usedFOR to get very which sad thinking about all the trees Please, if you own one, don’t plant outside. They just foritchildren’s birthday music producers and audio engineers) will provide hands-on audio that were cut, but then engineering I learned training that Christmas tree don’t belong in our Florida landscape.

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Congratulations of 1990 N.E. 31st Court, Lighthouse of CongratulationstotoSammy Mr. andand Mrs.Danielle Mims atSalem 4960 N.E. 27 Avenue, winner of LighthousePoint, Pointwinner Community’s Lighthouse Point community’s Beauty Spot the Month, awarded Erica Davey, Butterfly Lady Beauty Spot of the Month Award forofNovember, selected by by Erica Davey, TheThe Butterfly Lady.

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AROUND THE POINT CITY BEAT

The Purple Pipe

BY MARIE PULEO

Plans are underway to establish a reuse water system for the City of Pompano Beach water customers within the Lighthouse Point city limits. The new system would require the 494 customers in the affected service area to use only reuse water on their lawns and landscaping, not drinking water.

This month, the Lighthouse Point City Commission will be voting on an ordinance that provides for the implementation of the reuse water system, known as OASIS (Our Alternative Supply Irrigation System), which is operated by Pompano Beach. There will be public hearings for the ordinance at the City Commission meetings at 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 10 and Jan. 24, where residents will be able to voice their opinions.

“This is a very important issue for the residents of our city,” said Mayor Glenn Troast. “It affects a large

portion of residents in the Marina area and east of Lighthouse Drive who receive their water from Pompano.

I’ve spoken to quite a few residents, and they have mixed reactions about it. As mayor, I think the residents need to come out and let their voices be heard. If for some reason they can’t attend the meetings, they can send me an email on the subject, and I’ll make sure their email is read into the record.”

The reuse water is recycled wastewater that has been highly treated, filtered and disinfected for the irrigation of landscape areas. It is delivered to customers through Pompano Beach’s own reuse water distribution system, which is completely separate from the drinking water system. The amount of treated wastewater flowing from the Broward County

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North Regional Wastewater Lighthouse Point City Commission meetings are held in Fletcher Hall, Treatment Plant to located at 2200 N.E. 38 St. the Atlantic Ocean is reduced because For more information about the OASIS reuse water system, visit it is diverted to icanwater.com.

Pompano Beach’s reuse plant.

Residents can write to Mayor Glenn Troast about If the ordinance the reuse water project at is approved, both gtroast@lighthousepoint.com. residents and business owners would be required to connect to the reuse water system.

For the 422 single-family residential customers, the City of Pompano has agreed to make the required connection of their irrigation system to the reuse system at no cost.

Multifamily and commercial properties will be required to connect to the reuse system at their own cost, using a licensed plumber. The connection costs can be recovered in one year or less due to the lower cost of the reuse water, according to the Pompano Beach Utilities Administration. OASIS rates start at 85 cents per 1,000 gallons, compared to $2.24 for drinking water, and there are no sewer charges.

With reuse water, property owners would be able to water their lawns any day of the week (except between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.), even during drought restrictions, and because of the nutrients found in reuse water, less fertilizer is needed.

The reuse water project would require a network of pipes to be placed (OASIS is known for its purple pipes and meter boxes, purple being the national color standard symbolizing reuse water). Construction would begin sometime in 2017, and be completed in six years. In a proposed agreement with Pompano Beach, which is overseeing the project, the City of Lighthouse Point has stipulated that work in the Marina area is to be done first, and last no more than three years, so the City can start repaving the roads there. The repaving was scheduled to take place last year, but the City postponed it in order to avoid having the new asphalt torn up during the laying of the reuse water pipes.

For over a year, the two cities have been working on the terms of the agreement. In order for Lighthouse Point to participate in the reuse water project, the City Commission needs to pass the ordinance and the agreement this month.

AROUND THE POINT CITY BEAT

Lights, Camera…Action Lighthouse Point residents will soon have a new way to stay informed of important issues affecting the city, and to become more engaged in the workings of their local government. Beginning in March, they will be able to watch City Commission meetings online.

Last month, the City Commission approved the purchase of a three-camera video recording system that will be installed in the commission chambers. Video recordings of the City Commission meetings, which are

held on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 6:30 p.m., will be posted on the City’s website (city.lighthousepoint.com) two days after the meetings. The videos will be archived and indexed, so users can view all or part of a meeting at their convenience. A key word search will take viewers directly to specific topics listed in the meeting agendas, which will also be accessible.

The cost of the camera system and recording services is $67,188.63 for five years, which includes installation and annual maintenance fees. Since the cost of the video recording service includes an unlimited number of meetings, videos of the City’s various board meetings, such as Planning and

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Zoning, will be added in future dates.

The City Commission had considered including a service that would live stream the meetings, but decided against it because it would have added $15,950 to the total cost over five years. Live streaming is, however, an option that could be added at any time.

For over a year, the City has been posting audio recordings of the commission meetings on its website.

“We’re hoping that the camera system enables residents to have more interaction and a greater understanding of what is going on in the city than they may currently have,” said Mayor Glenn Troast.

The Commission’s decision to purchase the new camera system came after many months of discussions based on information gathered

by City Administration regarding costs, and the vetting of various vendors by a selection committee.

“I’m thrilled,” said Suzanne Citere, a Lighthouse Point resident and owner of RealDance Studio on Northeast 25th Street.

“Most cities in Broward County have this available for their residents now. It was time for our city to have it too.”

Citere, a strong supporter of the project, said that she, like many residents, can’t get away from work or other responsibilities to attend commission meetings.

“Most people are interested in knowing what’s going on, but they’re busy. Now they can be aware of what’s happening at the meetings without ever leaving their home,” she said.

Polling Place Moved for Municipal Election On March 14, the municipal election will take place for the city’s mayoral seat, as well as commission seats 4 and 5.

The polling place at the Education Building of St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church will be temporarily moved while the building undergoes renovation work. Residents in precincts 2B, 4B and 5B will vote at the sanctuary of Trinity United Methodist Church, located at 3901 N.E. 22 Ave., Lighthouse Point.

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AROUND THE POINT GOOD LIBATIONS

Monthly Events Music Under the Stars

This month will feature Havoc 305, a four-piece rock and pop party band that has performed all over South Florida. Music Under the Stars is a free outdoor concert series hosted by the City of Pompano Beach.

WHEN: Jan. 13 (second Fridays) at 7pm WHERE: The Great Lawn (intersection of Pompano Beach and Atlantic Blvds.)

COST: Free

Wilson is an award-winning poet and public speaker.

Artists looking to improve their poems, songs, stories, and delivery are encouraged to attend this workshop.

Classes can be taken sequentially or individually.

Byrd gives instruction and inspiration through writing challenges, group critiques, and a cohesive and succinct lesson plan. Attendees are provided free entrance to Lyrics Lab, which follows.

Old Town Untapped

Midtown Gospel Cafe

Hosted by Lynn Princess Dvine Brown, Midtown Gospel Café features a diverse line-up of gospel artists and musicians. Food is available.

Doors open at 6:30pm with performances starting at 7pm.

WHEN: Jan. 13 (second Fridays) at 6:30pm WHERE: Magnetic Gallery at Pompano Citi Centre, 2201 N. Federal Highway, Suite C104 COST: Free

Fresh Air with Byrd

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WHEN: Jan. 4 & 18 (first and third Wednesday), 7 to 8pm WHERE: BaCa, 41 N.E. First St., Pompano Beach COST: $15

Lyrics Lab at BaCa

Lyrics Lab is a unique, noego, open-mic night every first and third Wednesday of the month from 8 to 11pm. Bring your latest work — poems, verse, songs, lyrics and beats — to share in an intimate space with renowned hosts and poets, accompanied by a two-piece house band. Interested in performing? Arrive early to get your name on the list. Full

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bar with drinks starting at $4 WHEN: Jan. 4 & 18 (first and third Wednesday), 8 to 11pm WHERE: BaCa, 41 N.E. First St., Pompano Beach COST: $10

First Fridays Cuisine & Poetry at Magnetic Art Space

One of the fastest-growing indulgences takes place at Magnetic, Pompano Beach’s pop-up art gallery. Magnetic is designed to showcase Pompano Beach talent alongside international artists, and hosts weekly events for lovers of art, music, film, and poetry, including ArtPop#, Creative Clash, music sessions and an artwalk. First Fridays, Magnetic will host Broward literati, performers, off-the-street talent and resident poet Eccentrich.

Doors open at 7pm with performances starting at 8:15pm. RSVP online.

WHEN: Jan. 6 (first Fridays) at 7pm WHERE: Magnetic Gallery at Pompano Citi Centre, 2201 N. Federal Highway, Suite C104 COST: $10 if RSVP online; $12 at the door

Old Town Untapped

Fun-filled event featuring beer tastings, food trucks, live music, vendors and art exhibits.

WHEN: Jan. 6 (first Fridays), 6 to 10pm WHERE: BaCa, 41 N.E. First St., Pompano Beach COST: Free

Deerfield Beach’s Movies in the Park, Finding Dory

This month’s movie will be Finding Dory, the tale of an enthusiastic fish named Dory (with the voice of Ellen DeGeneres) who loses her memory every 10 seconds.

Bring your blanket and lawn chairs and join your community for a night at the movies, in the park, under the stars. Food trucks, concessions and “glow” items will be available for purchase.

Visit dfb.city/moviesinthepark for more information.

WHEN: Jan. 17 at 7pm WHERE: Villages of Hillsboro Park, 4111 N.W. Sixth St., Deerfield Beach COST: Free

Tuesday Night Beach Dances

Johnny Vincent is a trumpet player who has been performing nearly every Tuesday night in Deerfield Beach for over three decades.

In the 1950s and 60s, Vincent played his trumpet with Gene Krupa and in Dick Clark’s “Cavalcade of Stars.” Vincent will set up to play in the Main Beach Parking Lot in Deerfield Beach for listeners to enjoy and dancers to dance.

WHEN: Jan. 3, 10, 17, 24 & 31 (Tuesdays), 7 to 9 pm WHERE: Deerfield Beach, Main Beach Parking Lot, 149 S.E. 21 Ave., Deerfield Beach COST: Free

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AROUND THE POINT EVENTS

Let Freedom Ring DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. CELEBRATION

Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Washington, D.C.

Join the City of Deerfield Beach along with city leaders, civic organizations and churches to pay homage to the Civil Rights movement and the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This four day long event features a weekend carnival, games and live entertainment, before drawing to a close on Monday with a two-mile long parade and awards ceremony.

WHEN: Festivities

run between Friday, Jan. 13 and Monday, Jan. 16

CARNIVAL HOURS:

Friday, Jan. 13 from 5 to 10pm; Saturday and Sunday noon10pm; Monday 1

to 6pm.

PARADE: Starts Monday, Jan. 16 at 10am MLK JR. CEREMONY: Monday, Jan. 16 at

noon

WHERE: The carnival will take place

at the Oveta McKeithen Recreational Complex (445 S.W. Second St.) The parade runs between the Cove Shopping Center (1580 S.E. Third Court) and the Oveta McKeithen Recreational Complex.

The MLK Jr. Ceremony will take place at the Oveta McKeithen Recreational Complex in the Leo Robb Gymnasium.

COST: Free to attend ceremony and parade; Carnival is $1 per ticket or $25 for a one-day, all-rides wristband. Tickets will be available for purchase on site, at the box office, during carnival hours.

SHUTTLE SERVICE: There will be a complimentary shuttle to transport walkers in the parade from the Oveta McKeithen Recreational Complex (445 S.W. Second St.) to the Cove Shopping Center (1580 S.E. Third Court) between 8 and 8:30am. Shuttle service will be provided back to the Cove Shopping Center from the Oveta McKeithen Recreational Complex following the conclusion of the parade until 2pm, or when the ceremony concludes.

Tropical Postcard Show Over 30 dealers from around the country will gather to display and sell more than a million cards. Visit tropicalpcc.com for more information.

WHEN: Jan. 7, 10am to 5pm WHERE: Emma Lou Olson Civic Center, 1801 N.E. Sixth St. COST: Free

Brandon’s Run for Autism

Brandon’s Run is a local 5k charity walk/run in Quiet Waters Park that benefits research on autism as well as scholarships and job training programs for those affected. Brandon is a local Deerfield Beach resident, running enthusiast and passionate advocate for those like himself struggling with autism. With the help of the International Society of Autism, Brandon started the run in 2014.

WHEN: Jan. 7 at 7am WHERE: Quiet Waters Park, 401 S. Powerline Rd., Deerfield Beach COST: $30 in advance; $35 day-of registration. Runners can register

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Portraying the Horrors of the Holocaust: Art From Hell This event will showcase the art of Nuremberg guard, Nathan Hilu.

Hilu may be the most significant Jewish outsider artist you’ve never heard of. Hilu’s role as a guard at the Nuremberg Trials following World War II has allowed him to create art based on memories of guarding Nazi war criminals. Hilu is now a 90-year-old veteran who lives in New York City subsidized housing, his art will be for sale before, during and after the event.

Rabbi Dr. Michael Berenbaum will give the keynote address.

Berenbaum is a writer, lecturer and teacher who has studied the ethical and religious implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies.

Also taking part in the discussion will be: Laura Kruger, Curator of Nathan Hilu’s works at Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion; and Dr. Irvin Lippman, Executive Director of the Boca Raton Museum of Art. WHEN: Thursday, Jan. 19,

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Wings of Freedom The Wings of Freedom Tour will make three stops in South Florida in January in Ft. Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Boca Raton. The tour showcases two, fully restored bomber aircraft: a B-24 Liberator and B-17 Flying Fortress, as well as a WWII P-51C Mustang dual-control fighter aircraft.

The tour is put on by the Collings Foundation, a non-profit, educational foundation founded in 1979 for the purpose of organizing “living history” events. The event offers guests the opportunity to interact with preserved historical artifacts, honor the sacrifices made by veterans and learn about the nation’s heritage. The Foundation encourages guests to tour the planes and to talk to the veterans who come to visit the aircraft. Celebrating 26 years, the tour has made more than 3,000 visits to airports across the United States and Alaska, allowing approximately 3.5 million people to see the fully restored historic aircraft annually.

FT. LAUDERDALE

Between January 21 at 2:00pm and January 24 until 4:30pm, 5320 N.W. 20th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale

WEST PALM BEACH

Between January 25 at noon until January 28 at noon, 985 Morrison Field Rd., West Palm Beach

BOCA RATON:

Between January 28 at 2pm and January 31 until 4:30pm, 3300 Airport Drive, Boca Raton

COST: $6 - $12. For more information visit collingsfoundation.org

CNN’S ANA NAVARRO SPEAKS AT THE BROWARD COLLEGE SPEAKER SERIES On Jan. 23, CNN’s political contributor and Republican strategist Ana Navarro will speak on the political landscape in Washington as part of the Broward College Speaker Series. Navarro has been a political commentator for a variety of news outlets, including CNN, CNN en Español, ABC News, Telemundo and The View. In its fourth year, the Broward College Speaker Series continues to feature notable speakers from a variety of backgrounds to educate and enlighten the community. From current events in our country, to the insight behind the character traits that determine success, this year’s speakers will share their personal perspectives on the world.

WHEN: Jan. 23 at 7:30pm WHERE: Broward Center for

the Performing Arts, Amaturo Theatre, 201 S.W. Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale COST: Tickets are $60 per person and can be purchased at BrowardCollegeSpeakerSeries. com.

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The Exchange Club of Pompano Beach will host their annual 150 Charity Auction and Drawdown Dinner. Enjoy a steel drum band at the cocktail hour, live music and entertainment during dinner and the thrill of the 150 drawdown reverse raffle. In addition, there will be a silent auction, 50/50 raffle, wine wagon raffles and a live auction, including trips to the Caribbean, a private plane flight with a destination lunch, fishing charter, golf trip package and mountain home vacation. This event is the Exchange Club’s premier fundraiser to support student scholarships, child abuse prevention and local charities such as the Broward Children’s Center, the Children’s Healing Institute, Dynamos, Woodhouse Inc., Honor Flight and the Disabled American Veterans.

WHERE: Lighthouse Point Yacht Club WHEN: Saturday, Jan. 14 from 6 to 11pm.

COST: Drawdown tickets for the event are $150; dinner-only tickets are $100.

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Briesemeister says the fountain, which is located in between three new art venues (Bailey Contemporary Arts, Ali Cultural Arts and the almost-finished Pompano WHEN: Monday, Jan. 16, Beach Cultural Center), is “an 2017, immediately following outstanding example of small club meeting towns setting the trends.”

WHERE: Dixon Ahl Hall, 2220 “Pompano Beach is quickly N.E. 38 St., Lighthouse Point emerging as a national COST: $15.00 redevelopment model… which places a strong INCLUDES: Instructions and emphasis on blending materials. Also available art and technology,” said additional accents such Briesemeister. as colored gemstones The “Fountain Flame” The RMA unveils the first “Fountain Flame” and color ink/paint for in the U.S. as part of a vision to revitalize technology was developed by individualizing your downtown Pompano Beach.

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Trinity United Methodist Church, Trinity Christian School and Trinity Learning Center held a 954-725-1270 or email children's book drive and delivered over 850 books to Pompano Beach Elementary School. This by infrared beams; if the plane is broken, The fountain was the vision of Kim jwr1409@att.net. the gasservice project was organized by Thais Boucher, a member of Trinity United Methodist Church. valve is shut off and the water and Briesemeister and Chris Brown, the founders The books were donated by church members, students of the Trinity Summer Camp program propane flow stops. of Redevelopment Management Associates. and families of the Trinity Learning Center.

It was a great opportunity to lend a hand to a fellow community school with limited resources.

Trinity hopes to continue its relationship with Pompano Beach Elementary School.

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On Dec. 2, Pompano Beach ignited the first “Fountain Flame” in the United States, in the Old Town section of the city, across from Bailey Contemporary Arts. The public art display is a fountain that injects propane into water

TRINITY CHURCH BOOK DRIVE FOR POMPANO BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Trinity United Methodist Church, Christian School and Learning Center held a children’s book drive and delivered over 850 books to Pompano Beach Elementary School. This service project was organized by Thais Boucher, a member of Trinity United Methodist Church.

The books were donated by church members, students of the Trinity Summer Camp program and families of the Trinity Learning Center. It was a great opportunity Principal Stephen Larson, Pompano Beach Elementary School; Pastor Gabe Wright, Trinity United Methodist Church; Thais Boucher; Principal to lend a hand to a fellow community school with limited Debbie Galup, Trinity Christian School Principal Stephen Larson, Pompano Beach Elementary School;

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BY KRYSTAL KINNEY, ROYAL BLUES HOTEL SOMMELIER, LEVEL 3 How does one pick a proper champagne or sparkling wine for New Year’s or any celebration? It comes in a multitude of styles and price ranges these days.

Is genuine French Champagne really the best? Not necessarily. “The best” of anything as subjective as wine has more to do with personal preference and taste.

Some will say that serving champagne throughout a New Year’s dinner is not recommended, however, based on my own experience, and the fact that champagne in the U.S. has seen a seven percent increase in sales, I say drink and celebrate throughout any occasion. I never seem to tire of this refreshing beverage, and serving this most versatile, festive drink at any event is a sure way to make great friends.

Another thing to mention is the distinction between Champagne with a capital “C” and all other sparkling wines. The French have done their best to discourage the use of the generic term “champagne.” In fact, within Common Market countries it is illegal to use the name for any wine that does not come from the Champagne region and is not made from the Champagne method. The use of the name is not illegal here in the United States, but it must be qualified on the label by geographic appellation (AVA), such as California champagne or New York State champagne. Although many people mistakenly think that the French Benedictine monk Dom Perignon was the inventor of Champagne, he was in fact the one who perfected it.

He used an astounding blend of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meaner grapes, and improved the fermentation process to keep the bubbles in the bottle.

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When it comes to Champagne, there are three levels to know: vintage, non-vintage, and cuvée. The differences among these levels are fairly subtle to most palates, unless tasted side-by-side. If you do know and prefer one over the other, then be prepared to pay the extra price for them. In my opinion, you will get a better value with a non-vintage Champagne, which represents Champagne houses’ prestige blends. Non-vintage remains consistent from year to year by adding up to 20 percent of the blend from previous years, known as “reserve.”

Sparkling wines from elsewhere are now improving in quality and increasing in popularity, particularly in California. Some leading names are Korbel, Domaine Chandon, Piper Sonoma, Iron Horse, Chateau St Jean and Wente. By the time you read this article, a winery will probably be producing a new sparkling wine in California.

One of my favorite ways to discover a favorite champagne, especially around the holidays, is to give a blind tasting of many sparkling wines. Invite about a dozen people and have them each bring a bottle, then wrap them up so no one can see them and start drinking. In this type of tasting, make sure you serve finger foods throughout to help better differentiate the taste between various types and what works well. No matter what you do this holiday season, drink the power of champagne.

Playing Favorites

Being a sommelier who loves all sparkling wines, I often get asked which my favorites are. Here it goes…

I personally eat a lot of trail mix, as I’m always in a hurry and always hungry. One time, after eating a mouthful of the flavorful mix, I accidentally tasted Veuve Clicquot Rich (Reims, Champagne, France).

The sweetness and clean finish acts as scrubbing bubbles of sorts, then cuts as a brightening agent.

There’s nothing better than sweet celebratory champagne you can pour over ice.

My absolutely favorite wine in the whole world is the beautiful Monte Rossa Franciacorta Saten Brut (Franciacorta DOCG, Italy). This harmonious, elegant and persistent wine has a rich personality that makes it an unmistakable glass of bubbles.

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TO THE POINT FISH TALES

A Day on the Lake

THE LASORSA FAMILY HAD A GREAT DAY OF “FIRSTS” ON LAKE IDA

ABOVE Ella LaSorsa caught her first peacock bass on Lake Ida. RIGHT Joey caught his first largemouth bass.

TOP Vinnie and Sarah LaSorsa with their children Ella age 11, and Joey age 2. Ella caught the largemouth bass pictured.

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TO THE POINT DOWN TO BUSINESS

Richard Lawson and Mark Bidwell

Benjamin Moore knows splashes of color can make any room come to life. Whether you’re looking for a soothing, peaceful blue reminiscent of the ocean, something elegant and creamy for an intimate space, or something bold, that really pops, Benjamin Moore will help you find the perfect tone for your space. Benjamin Moore uses the best resins (the binders that make the film and finish of paints) and highest quality colorants (the pigments that give the paint its unique tone) to create paint that is pristine in its application. Some paint can be loaded with odorous chemicals, but Benjamin Moore paint uses low-odor products to make the process of painting more pleasant. Plus, Benjamin Moore uses the most environmentally friendly products; no lead, formaldehyde or mercury.

And at Benjamin Moore, Color Counselors in Lighthouse Point, customers will find Richard Lawson, a paint expert. Lawson and his family have been running Benjamin Moore since 1972. The business was passed down to Richard, his brothers and cousin by his father and uncle in the late 80s.

Now the family has four stores and 11 employees.

With a wealth of product wisdom, the Color Counselors team works closely with their customers to ensure they get the perfect shade and finish.

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How did you get started with Benjamin Moore?

My father and uncle started the first one in 1972.

They sold the business to their kids in the late ‘80s.

What was your inspiration?

Dad told me to get to work.

What were you doing before running Benjamin Moore?

I went straight from high school to the paint store.

What makes you passionate about your business?

Working with family.

What is the most difficult part about running this business?

Working with family.

What is the most rewarding part of running this business?

Seeing the same faces come back through the years; It makes me feel like I’m doing something right.

How many employees do you have?

Four brothers and one cousin are all equal partners. We have 11 other employees and four stores.

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TO THE POINT ON THE WATERFRONT

Great Harbour Revisited

BY JIM MATHIE

H

ow many of us get the opportunity to return to a destination more than 30 years later and find it almost exactly as you remembered it? Even though my life has changed greatly during that period, it seems Great Harbour Cay, in the Bahamas, has weathered the storm of Father-time. Located in the Berry Islands, north of Nassau, Great Harbour is approximately seven miles long and two-and-a-half miles at its widest point. Developed in the mid-1960’s, it includes a 4,200-foot airstrip, a fully functioning marina with fuel docks and an abundance of fresh water reservoirs. Its year-round population is still under 1,000, making it a jewel in the middle of the Bahamas because of its location adjacent to the Northwest Channel shipping lane. This allows cruise ships, tankers and freighters to pass within a few thousand feet of the island.

I first discovered Great Harbour Cay in the early 1980’s when I instructed the Paramedic Program for Broward College. At that time, the college certified Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL) dive instructors as Emergency Medical Technicians. NCL has a long-term lease on Great Stirrup Cay, located just north of Great Harbour Cay, and it serves as a destination spot for a day of snorkeling and a beach cookout for their cruise ships.

I learned to free-dive in the Bahamas, but it was called skin diving back then. Instead of snorkeling at the surface, it involved holding your breath in order to dive to depths of 30 feet. The purpose was to spear lobster and fish. It was in Bertram’s Cove at Great Stirrup Cay that I speared my first hogfish, which has led to decades of underwater hunting. I even strapped on my first SCUBA tank and gear on that island with a quick instruction by the divers of how to clear your mask and not to hold your breath.

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Great Harbour served as the location to fly in and out of, and had a small grocery store, fuel station and pay phone to call home. There was even a small bar called the Graveyard, which has since closed and been replaced by another called the Backside. I was fortunate enough to visit twice a year for many years.

Imagine my delight when local, Deerfield Beach businessman, Art Kamm invited me for a Wahoo fishing weekend based out of Great Harbour this past November. We boarded his twin-engine Commander plane at Pompano Air Park and flew for an hour, landing on the same airstrip I landed on 30 years ago.

We loaded our bags and provisions into a van and proceeded to Art’s boat, the Reel Deal, located at the Marina. We got fuel at the same fuel dock and passed through the same inlet cut in the coral rock in the late 1960’s.

Even though I didn’t dive underwater on this fishing expedition, I was introduced to high-speed trolling for Wahoo and deep-dropping using electric reels. My visit allowed me to reflect, as well as realize how grateful I am to visit such a beautiful place like Great Harbour Cay. As we boarded Art’s plane to return to South Florida, a small group of NCL employees had just landed to visit Great Stirrup. It was comforting to know even though much in the world has changed in the past 30 years, some things stay just the same.

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E.T. Stay Home

BY JIM TERLIZZI

Astronomers are constantly trying to determine if there is life elsewhere in the universe. In short, are we alone? I hope so.

There is only one reason that an advanced civilization would leave its world and come here. They are hungry. Some sort of cataclysm that wiped out the jelly donut harvest (the only thing an intelligent civilization would choose to eat) would cause them to hunt for food elsewhere.

They probably have seen the Dunkin’ Donut, Dandee Donut and Krispy Kreme commercials, making Earth a likely choice for relocation.

But, here’s where it gets scary. The mother ship arrives from somewhere around Alpha Centauri, parks near Pluto and sends a scout ship to check us out.

The scouts surreptitiously spend a few days here, then head back to the mother ship. The scouting report might sound something like this:

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“Captain, Earth is teeming with billions of carbon-base units, or people, as they are called there. We captured and ate a few of them. They are delicious. Better than jelly donuts. I particularly liked the gooey centers. We had to chase them down though, and they’re pretty quick. I guess one could call them fast food.“ A Type IV civilization on the Kardashev Scale could easily convert us into dinner. I don’t want to be on the menu in exchange for the initial thrill of seeing extraterrestrials. Far better to eat my jelly donuts while being forced to watch episodes of The Kardashians.

Since we are on the subject of extraterrestrials, it brings me to a pet peeve of mine: those TV shows that purport to prove that aliens visited Earth in the distant past.

These pseudo-scientists point to the pyramids, the monolithic statues on Easter Island and the Nazca lines in Peru as “evidence” that we have been visited by “little green men.” (Those are the ones who eat mint-jelly donuts.)

Allow me to point out the absurdity of this: After spending trillions of dollars, we finally perfect warp drive and overcome the myriad problems of space travel.

Even at warp speed, we space travelers probably would have to spend years in suspended animation before reaching our destination.

Upon arrival on another planet, can’t you just see the ship’s captain saying this to the crew: “After we stretch our legs, let’s go build some giant stone statues, scratch the outline of a giant chicken in the dirt, then spend the next 50 years erecting a pyramid. That should play with the heads of future inhabitants.”

Reply from the crew in unison: “Great goof, sir.”

(Talk about a waste, this would be akin to the federallyfunded study to determine if 5-year-olds would still eat food that had been sneezed on, which cost taxpayers $2,000,000. Or the $500,000 spent to study the smells of medieval times. I kid you not, these studies actually were done.)

A more likely scenario for our space pioneers would be this: We invite the natives of Planet X to dine with us, then we kill them and take their land.

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R.E.S.P.E.C.T. A NOBLE RESOLUTION FOR 2017

BY DR. JILL SELBACH

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he new year is upon us and many people vow to make changes in their lives at this time of year. Why not make respect a focus of 2017. It is a very basic core value that most people would agree is a really good thing. Take a moment to ask yourself if you show respect at every opportunity to the people with whom you interact.

Respect has always been an important value in my life and in our society. But lately, it seems that society has lost its respect for respect. I am talking about considering someone else’s feelings, needs, thoughts, wishes, ideas and preferences.

Take note of the interactions of people around you. Do you observe people treating servers in restaurants with respect, bank employees, cashiers at stores or even driving down the highway letting another car change lanes? The 2016 presidential election, the way people behave at sporting events, and social interactions are all arenas where respect has been lost. You can tell a lot about people by how they treat others. Do you treat everyone with respect regardless of their status and whether they have influence or can do something for you? A sign of respect in society is not how the most powerful person is treated, but how the least educated or powerless person is treated. My children deliver

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this magazine and my husband and I help out. I find it so interesting how differently people treat Dr. Selbach, the psychologist versus Jill, the magazine deliverer. However, many people do come out and thank me for bringing their magazine to them.

Think of the ripple effect this could have. If respect for others is kept in the forefront of our mind, life would be so much more pleasant and people would feel better. Really taking a short moment to acknowledge someone’s work and let them know you appreciate them could make a real difference. How often do we hear complaints? And how likely are you to voice your opinion about a negative experience as opposed to letting someone know about something good? A study published in the journal Psychological Science defined a term, sociometric status. It is the level of respect and admiration we receive from peers. The research found that people who had high sociometric status rather than socioeconomic status were more likely to be happy. So people who receive the respect of their peers are more likely to be happy. I say, these people get respect, most likely, by also giving respect.

Initially, respect starts at home and children need to be taught to respect others as this affects how they act at school, with their friends and with other adults. When children respect their parents and their opinions, studies show that the child is less likely to do something the parent shows dislike or disapproval for.

How great it can be if we all take advantage of every opportunity to show respect to those we encounter everyday. I think that of any resolution, respect should be at the top of the list.

I know it will be on the top of mine.

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TO THE POINT LEGAL MATTERS

The Benefits of a Co-Trustee

BY MARTIN ZEVIN, ATTORNEY

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revocable living trust is an excellent legal means to avoid probate on your home and other property. It allows your heirs to inherit your property quickly, without court intervention.

It also saves your heirs thousands of dollars in attorney’s fees and court costs.

The revocable living trust can be useful not only when you die, but also if you become incapacitated.

People mistakenly assume that a durable power of attorney will cover all assets that are in the trust. This is not true. Most revocable living trust documents include specific paragraphs regarding disability. Typically, this language requires that two doctors state in writing that the trustee is unable to carry on his legal affairs.

In these situations, the successor trustee (typically a son or daughter) will need to get written statements from two doctors and then go through legal and administrative red tape before being able to take over an asset of the trust for the benefit of the disabled trustee.

Therefore, if you are the sole trustee of your trust, you should seriously consider an amendment to your trust adding a trusted family member or close friend as your co-trustee rather than your successor trustee. This will allow that person to take over any asset which is in the name of your trust, without the need for written statements from two doctors or court intervention.

If you and your spouse are co-trustees, but your spouse is beginning to have short term memory loss or other signs of dementia, it is wise to replace your spouse as co-trustee with that trusted family member or friend.

If you have accounts in the name of your trust with a bank or brokerage, you will need to provide the amendment to that institution. Proper

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documentation will be required (signature card, copy of driver’s license, etc.) to allow your new co-trustee to access funds in that account.

A durable power of attorney is still important as a supplement to your trust to cover all finances that are outside of the trust, such as an IRA, life insurance policies and all other accounts not titled in the trust.

The durable power of attorney also covers legal matters, like signing contracts, leases and other documents on your behalf, which may have nothing to do with the trust. For example, if you become incapacitated and need to go into an assisted living facility, the person you designate under your durable power of attorney would be able to sign a lease for you.

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Be in the Moment

BY CRAIG HALEY

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reg Maddux is the only pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) history to win at least 15 games for 17 straight seasons. He was also the first pitcher in major league history to win the Cy Young Award for four consecutive years (1992–1995). Randy Johnson was the only other pitcher in baseball history to match this incredible accomplishment.

During those four seasons, Maddux had a 75–29 record with a 1.98 earned run average (ERA), while allowing less than one base runner per inning.

When asked why he felt he had such a successful career, Maddux said that he learned to enjoy every moment, in the moment. He said that most people he knew were always looking forward to something.

They were looking forward to the game being over, going home, seeing a certain person, or going to dinner. He learned to be present in every moment and enjoy where he was at.

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task at hand and execute at the highest possible level.

Maddux’s focus and awareness led him to becoming a World Series champion in 1995, and subsequently he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2014.

As we enter a new year, be sure to live in the moment. Be present with the people you are with and make sure they know how grateful you are to have them in your life.

It’s so easy to take family and friends for granted. We don’t do it on purpose, but we get busy, distracted and many times lose sight of what is really important.

I can’t thank you all enough for being a part of our dojo family. I get the great pleasure of doing what I love to do for a living, and that would not be possible without all of you!

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The 2020 Olympics

BY WENDELL ABERN

SPECIAL EVENTS FOR SENIORS ONLY

Dear Readers, Several years ago, I wrote a column suggesting special events for senior citizens for the upcoming 2012 Olympic Games. I never submitted my ideas to the International Olympic Committee because certain friends convinced me the IOC would never take seriously ideas like the eight-yard dash and the Miami Mumble.

However, I still think we elderly citizens deserve recognition for certain attributes and achievements; even though this year has just begun, I am proposing special geriatricentric events now (65 years and older) because the IOC takes years to add new competitions to their agenda.

Note: Some people may accuse me of presenting some ideas simply because I consider myself qualified. I openly confess this to be true. I would love to add Olympic bronze, silver or gold to go with the only other trophy I’ve ever won.

(Last year, from the American Barber Association: oldest guy to still need a haircut.)

In any case, I hope some of these ideas (for both genders except where noted) make it to 2020:

1 – Smartphone Speed

Smartphones (which are actually portable computers) have only been around for about a decade, and my generation is still trying to master

them. Think of it: how often does someone say to you, “You have to see this picture,” and then fumble for the next several minutes trying to find said photo.

This event would require an official to snap a picture of a contestant with a popular smartphone, enter it into that phone’s picture library, turn the phone off and hand it back to the contestant then begin timing with a stopwatch. Fastest time to the new picture wins gold.

I know of no one personally who could enter this contest.

Most of my friends rely on their 10-year-old grandchildren to retrieve pictures for them.

2 – Natural Body Décor

No piercings. No belly rings. Décor includes liver spots, warts, pimples, blackheads and other beauty marks that occur naturally with age. Awards will be given to contestants in three categories: most growths, darkest growths and patterned growths.

This happens to be one of the categories for which I am eminently qualified. I have so many black and brown spots on my body that every time I pass my neighbor’s Spotted Retriever, he eyes me lasciviously.

3 – The Supermarket Tandem Trek

For women only.

I have resurrected this concept, first suggested for the 2008 Olympics, because so many women seem to be practicing it avidly. In this competition, two women wheel their shopping carts together down a selected aisle in whatever local super market the IOC chooses. The idea is to see how long they can monopolize the aisle so no one else can use it.

There are two women who shop regularly in my local Publix, and if I can learn their names, I will establish them as early favorites to romp in this event.

4 – Indelible Insults

By the age of 65, many have acquired the ability to insult stingingly. And memorably. But it does take patience, care and effort, which many aspiring curmudgeons and termagants lack.

Donald Trump is a fine example. Currently, his insults are neither clever, nor thoughtful. Telling someone he or she is a “disaster” completely lacks panache.

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Unlike all other driving competitions, this one will be conducted only during rush hour traffic. If such a contest were held in South Florida, for example, it would begin at 8:30am on I-95 at, say, Sample Road, and end at Broward Blvd. in downtown Ft. Lauderdale (usually, about a 45-minute drive at that hour).

I recently made this trip with my friend, Rosemary, driving. It took her two hours and ten minutes.

7 – Obnoxious Grandparenthood

This will not be an actual event at the Olympics, but a trophy will be given at the beginning of the games.

I propose the IOC make a public announcement of this award by the middle of this year. They will invite anyone to send a letter of 100 words or less to their website, describing the person, city he or she lives in, number of grandchildren and at least three examples of obnoxiousness.

Winners will be determined by five carefully-selected grandchildren between the ages of 10 and 21.

If my grandchildren do not win this event for me, I will write them out of the will.

8 – Incessant Interruptions

Before incorporating this event into the Olympic game schedule, it will require intense consideration by the rules committee.

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In truth, the contest will be to determine who talks the most during the screening. The person who elicits the most, “Would you please shut ups!” will be named the winner. *If the IOC responds favorably to these ideas, I will let you know.

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THE MAGICAL MIX OF HIP ‘N’ GRIT:

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hen I first moved to South Florida back in March from Venice Beach, California, the first reaction I usually encountered was: “What in the hell are you doing in Pompano Beach?” I would laugh and explain how I landed here quite by accident, visiting here while at a disorienting crossroads in my life and craving something new. “I came here on vacation and never left,” I joke.

After telling people about Venice — a quirky beach town near Los Angeles with a sidewalk circus of artists, fringe of grit and history as a bad-part-oftown-turned-hip by artists and hippies — people would then ask me if I had yet been to Wynwood Walls in Miami. I heard about the Wynwood district from about a dozen people before I actually got the opportunity to go.

Wynwood was described to me as a place to see some amazing street art (where every wall was covered in elaborate graffiti murals), sip coffee at unique cafés, listen to open-air DJs spin house in Wynwood Yard and enjoy a monthly art walk where food trucks would serve me greasy street tacos and

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piping hot Cuban sandwiches. I was told that if I loved Venice Beach, I would probably love Wynwood.

And people were right. I do love Wynwood. I love the multi-colored madness of its street gallery, the sight of artists up on ladders with spray paint inhand, the quirky fashions striding down sidewalks and the many little hidden pockets where bars and restaurants are tucked away behind old industrial buildings.

Like most hipster-infused, avantgarde arts districts across the nation, Wynwood is another example of a historically seedy part of town, once littered with abandoned warehouses, being transformed into a rebellious artists’ urban island. Like most arts districts, Wynwood maintains a delicate balance of raw grunge and gentrified coolness.

Wynwood is unpolished and unapologetic, and I love that. Some arts districts I’ve been to have become too polished, becoming overrun with yoga studios and organic, vegan bakeries, loosing the bohemian roots that once made them interesting (to some extent this happened to Venice, where it borders Santa Monica). But Wynwood (at least from my limited, outsider’s perspective) has done a good job of maintaining its grittier roots. In fact, driving in to Wynwood, my friend from the Netherlands asked me if he was sure Google Maps was taking us to the right place. We had just driven under a bridge where the smell of urine permeated the air, homeless encampments lined the walls and a woman was blocking the street pushing a cart of rattling cans. Then we had turned down a street that felt more like a back alley, with run-down brick apartment buildings with laundry hanging from windows, graffiti tags on every post, a stained mattress leaning against a dumpster and a zombielike man with bloodshot eyes slouched against a stoop. Just a few [CONTINUED ON PAGE 64]

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blocks later, the whole mood shifted as we began to descend into Wynwood and see sleek galleries and trendy clothing boutiques.

This fascinating mixture is part of the allure of Wynwood.

Only time will tell, however, if it can maintain a balance or if it will become too cool, pushing out all the raw in favor of upscale charm. Wynwood is, as I’ve discovered, relatively young when it comes to arts districts. Wynwood didn’t really see the beginnings of its creative transformation until 1987, when a group of South Florida Art Center’s artists who had been pushed out of Coconut Grove by high rent prices opened the Bakehouse, a 2.2 acre working artist’s space built in the old Flower’s Baking Company, which had been abandoned in 1981.

And arguably, Wynwood didn’t really start to see the bulk of its transformation until 2006, when Goldman Properties (the force behind the revival of SoHo) took an interest in the area and began buying up properties. Tony Goldman, a passionate supporter of street art and the name behind Goldman Properties, had a knack for seeing potential in areas where all others could see was urban plight. While he and his family started molding the area in 2006, it wasn’t until 2009 that Goldman conceived of Wynwood Walls — an outdoor gallery of murals.

“Wynwood’s large stock of warehouse buildings, all with no windows, would be my giant canvases to bring to them the greatest street art ever seen in one place,” Goldman said of his

vision in an article on the Wynwood Walls’ website.

In its first year, the Walls project brought in Jeffery Deitch to co-curate. Deitch, who went on to become the museum director of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, helped Goldman bring in a diverse mix of both American and international artists ranging from old school graffiti bombers to more modern and traditional painters.

Since then, the Walls have seen over 50 artists representing 16 countries and have covered over 80,000 square feet of walls. Forbes even named Wynwood on their list of America’s hippest neighborhoods.

With all the praise, Wynwood could become another example of an arts district that gets too cool, and too expensive, to hold the artists who helped revive it. But perhaps this isn’t a bad thing. Perhaps it’s just the natural cycle of urban transformation. Perhaps the starving artists will move on to transform the next village of abandoned warehouses. And in some respects, Wynwood doesn’t seem to be as much credited to an organic, grassroots uprising of artists as it is to the vision of Goldman himself (though I am no expert). Regardless, the place is just plain cool. Colorful.

Vibrant. Buzzing.

So for now, I choose to enjoy Wynwood, with its eclectic bars, restaurants, cafés, galleries, music, art and, yes, hipsters.

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IN HONOR OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING AWARENESS MONTH

Last month, Lighthouse Point magazine ran a feature on Sharon Stephenson, the owner and entrepreneur behind Blooming Bean, a newly opened coffee shop on the first floor of the Bailey Contemporary Arts center. During our interview, we quickly discovered Stephenson’s deep passion and commitment to help end human trafficking. We also learned about Tony Sparks, a Pompano Beach resident who leads a military-style rescue operation for trafficked children around the world and consulted on the Hollywood blockbuster movie series “Taken.”

We were intrigued; we hadn’t expected a lesson in human trafficking alongside our espresso. Our initial intrigue, however, was quickly followed by a deeper curiosity and line of questioning: Is human trafficking really an issue here in Broward County? If it is a problem, how and why?

And who are the local players fighting against the problem?

We set out to investigate.

What we found was basically this: human trafficking is indeed alive and well in South Florida. Florida ranks third behind California and Texas for the number of calls to the National Human Trafficking Hotline. This could be both indicative of the scope of the problem, and of an increase of calls due to awareness campaigns. Quantifying an underground economy such as human trafficking can be difficult, but all the sources Lighthouse Point magazine spoke with agreed that human trafficking is indeed a local problem. Broward County ranks third in the state for the highest number of human trafficking cases per county. And, a whole host of local organizations are involved in both the fight against human trafficking, and the rehabilitation of its victims.

For this feature, Lighthouse Point magazine speaks with some of Broward County’s leaders in the local fight against human trafficking.

BY DANIELLE CHARBONNEAU

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The Local Fight Against

CHILD TRAFFICKING

VERIFIED VICTIMS FOR BROWARD COUNTY IN 2015

“I feel like I just got kicked in the gut,” said the woman sitting next to me at the conclusion of the Broward County Human Trafficking Coalition (BHTC) quarterly meeting held at Nova Southeastern University on Dec. 6. The whole crowd looked a bit shell-shocked. We had just listened to a young woman share her harrowing tale of sexual abuse as a survivor of human trafficking — the term used to refer to modern slavery (most commonly for sex or labor).

December’s coalition meeting had gathered roughly 50 impressive and passionate leaders from law enforcement, the FBI, child protective services, school educators, medical professionals, attorneys, psychologists, case workers, homeland security, nonprofit directors, academia and a whole slew of other individuals all engaged in Broward County’s fight against human trafficking.

The BHTC hosts such meetings to share knowledge and build a strong network of both government and nongovernmental organizations to battle human trafficking in Broward County. The co-op is a testament to both the active efforts being made in the county, and the large scope of a local problem.

After the survivor (who we will we call Sarah for the purposes of this article), finished sharing her story, the coalition gave her a standing ovation and proceeded to barrage her with questions, all centered around how the coalition could better serve potential and actual victims of human trafficking in South Florida.

Sarah (a Florida native with pale skin and a shy, yet confident demeanor) told the coalition her story, provoking a chorus of gasps and sighs of disbelief.

Sarah was sold for sex by her own mother. The first

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time Sarah’s mother, a crack cocaine addict at the time, sold her for sex, Sarah was only 11 years old. She was first sold for the price of $10. Sarah’s mother had been prostituting herself for drugs and had brought Sarah along to her business affair. This time, the “john” (a term used for men who purchase sex), requested Sarah instead of her mother. Her mother obliged and for the next two years Sarah became her mother’s commodity, bought for sex and sold for drugs by her mother and her mother’s drug dealers.

Though Sarah’s story might not fit the stereotypical definition one thinks of when thinking of trafficking, by law, any child under the age of 18 who is used for the purposes of commercial sex is considered the victim of trafficking. By law, no child can legally consent to sexual exploitation. Sarah’s horrific story is what the Attorney General refers to as a “services case” — a trafficking case in which the child is part of the social services system.

While these cases are prominent, Jumorrow Johnson, the Vice President of Education and Outreach for the BHTC, said it is a huge misperception that cases like Sarah’s are the only kind. In fact, the number of “community children” cases (in which the child is under the care of their guardians, not the state) has increased.

At the December BHTC meeting, a representative from the PACE Center for Girls read the most recent numbers from the Broward Sheriff’s Office, Child Protective Investigations Section (BSO CPIS) who keeps statistics on the number of cases that come through their offices identified as having Human Trafficking (HT) or Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) indicators. Of those cases, some are then staffed, meaning they are assigned investigators and social services. From those investigations, some are then verified as indeed being human trafficking cases; and of them, some are marked as being “community children.”

From May 2016 to Nov. 2016 (in just seven months) in Broward County, 111 cases were investigated for HT. Of the 111, a whopping 93 were community children (under the care of guardians), while only 18 were dependent children (social services dependent). These numbers have vastly increased since 2015. As Victor Williams, a special agent on the South Florida Human Trafficking Task Force, pointed out in the meeting, in 2015, only 99 cases were investigated total, 68 being community children.

“It’s happening. It’s absolutely happening…and thats a lot of 14 YEARS OLD kids,” said Johnson. “That’s the highest number we’ve had for community children. That’s why what we do is so important.

THE 101 Those numbers are because people are calling in. When they are seeing something, they are saying something.”

From her 20 years of experience as a victim’s advocate, Johnson suggests that community children are actually more sought after than services children by manipulative traffickers who recognize that community children are more vulnerable in many ways.

“Remember community children have a lot more to loose than dependent children do, so they are a lot easier to control. They come from love and values and morals and have an understanding of reputation and honor. A pimp understands that anything that tarnishes that could be devastating. So the trafficker uses that to keep them under their thumb,” she said.

THE TACTICS

Johnson gave several examples of the tactics used by traffickers when it comes to community children. The first being the “Romeo Pimp:” a trafficker who romances a girl, winning her heart, meanwhile collecting photographs and videos (often unbeknownst to her) that he can then hold over her.

These Romeo Pimps even insert themselves into the family during the grooming process to both woo the girl and learn more ways to manipulate.

“He’s essentially dating her into the life,” said Johnson.

Becky Dymond, a trauma therapist who founded Hepzibah House (a rehabilitative home in Boynton Beach for survivors of trafficking) says she sees these types of cases frequently.

“The perversity of it is he [the pimp] knows that when you first meet a gal, you listen. He wants to hear what her dreams are, what her aspirations are, what is important to her, what makes her tick, what motivates her, because then he’s going to use all of those things to trap her and keep a carrot in front of her.”

Johnson said another tool traffickers use is to lure individuals on the promise of modeling and acting gigs.

Tony Sparks, the founder of Phantom Rescue, a Browardcounty-based non-profit that uses trained, ex-military professionals to rescue kids who have been abducted, also counts social media as one of the major culprits to blame for increasing human trafficking.

Sparks agrees with Johnson that the misperception that trafficked children are all from bad communities is a “huge misnomer.”

“I often hear people say, ‘oh these were wayward children.’ No. I’ll show you plenty of cases that they’re not,” Sparks said. “Out of the 49 children we have recovered [at Phantom Rescue], not one was a services abduction.

There’s this perception that it’s only the services child that ends up in trafficking -- it’s a bunch of poppycock.”

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WHY SOUTH FLORIDA?

Carmen Pino, Assistant Special Agent In Charge of Homeland Security Investigations and a spokesperson for the South Florida Human Trafficking Task Force (a team that works with Homeland Security, the Attorney General’s office, local law enforcement and non-governmental agencies to combat and prosecute human trafficking), helped shed some light on what exactly human trafficking is, and why South Florida is what he calls a “hot spot for human trafficking.”

Human trafficking, he says, is often misunderstood as human smuggling; Images of people being transported in the hulls of boats or imprisoned in closets is what many minds conjure up in association with the term human trafficking. The term, however, actually refers to any form of modern slavery (most commonly people used for the purposes of sex or labor).

By law, a person who has been trafficked is anyone who has been forced to work by means of “force, fraud or coercion.” Force, he says, refers to brute physical threat. Forms of coercion most commonly include blackmail material, debt owed, threats to family members, kidnappings, the threat of deportation and other forms of psychological manipulation. Fraud generally refers to individuals who have been lured to work under false pretenses. These include people who are brought to the U.S. on legitimate visas and “lured by the American dream, only to find the American nightmare.”

In addition, by law, any child under the age of 18 who is used for commercial sex purposes is considered the victim of human trafficking (under the rationale that no child can give consent to be used for commercial sex purposes).

South Florida, Pino says, is a “hot spot for human trafficking” because of its geography and culture. For starters, he said, South Florida is one of “America’s playgrounds.”

“We have a very big tourism industry, especially in the South Beach area where it has that vibe,” said Pino. “It’s very cosmopolitan and unfortunately there is an underground economy that really drives this. People come into town and they just don’t want to be at the beach, they want to do drugs and hire escorts.”

“We are also a big area for labor trafficking,” Pino said.

“The reason being its ties to the tourism industry.”

A vast array of hotels, bars and restaurants, plus a highly lucrative winter season when snowbirds descend on South Florida, all make the area ripe for human trafficking.

In addition, the agricultural businesses offer ample opportunities for exploitation.

Wherever there’s a need, Pino says “someone will step in to feed that need.” The people who feed these needs range from organized crime syndicates, to the “romeo pimp” who lures a young girl into the sex trade by romancing her, to labor placement organizations who use trafficked individuals at construction sites or in large hotels. Then there are what Pino refers to “indentured servants” who are kept by wealthy families as nannies or housekeepers. The range is vast, but Pino says South Florida is ripe for many of the forms.

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TRAFFICKING VICTIMS Tony Sparks, a Pompano Beach local, has been shot, cut and stabbed more times in the last ten years than in his entire 25-year military career. That’s saying a lot for a man who implemented and oversaw the removal of Blackwater in Iraq.

Since retiring from the army, Sparks started Phantom Rescue, Inc. a non-profit organization officially aligned with Homeland Security and the Broward Human Trafficking Task Force to help rescue children who have been abducted and are stuck in potential trafficking situations. In his ten years running Phantom Rescue, Sparks has made 49 rescues, both in the United States and abroad.

Sparks started Phantom Rescue with a professionally-trained team of ex-military members who wanted to utilize their military training to make a difference. They had seen the ravages of human trafficking abroad and started to see trafficking as a prominent problem in the U.S. They formed Phantom Rescue in 2005 to help locate, strategize and rescue children. In addition, Phantom Rescue helps run awareness seminars to educate people on human trafficking and how to prevent local abductions.

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Sparks’ team at Phantom Rescue steps in.

“We have several guys that work on the dark web at night on the internet, basically looking for children every night,” explained Sparks. “We’ll take the picture that a parent provides, or we’ll do a scan, or whatever strategies we can use to find that child.”

If a parent comes to Sparks and Phantom Rescue directly, then Sparks helps connect them with the right authorities.

“Then we have to validate that the family didn’t sell the child or that they’re not a part of the bad process where they did something wrong,” said Sparks. “Theres a lot of bad things that occur and this happens a lot.”

Sparks said parents who sell their own children for profit is an increasing problem in the United States.

“In foreign countries its common. It’s very common.

It’s almost a way of life to actually breed children to sell. They become indentured slaves,” he said. “Its huge in Africa. Huge in Indonesia. But its becoming quite common in the United States for parents to take a certain pedigree of child and say, I need to get out of debt, and here’s a pathway.”

If the parents’ story is validated, then Sparks’ team will work with U.S. authorities to help locate and rescue the child.

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know how to not break the rules, but to bend the the uniform doesn’t mean we don’t get hurt. I’ve been heck out ’em, with permission of the local authorities shot, cut and stabbed more times since I retired than and the U.S. Attorney General’s Office,” he said. “Then, the entire time I was in the military for 25 years.” once we target, fix, find and locate, we’ll go into a “In Cuba I was recovering a child -- it was four guys. country, and we’ll go into those countries based on I saw that three of them were asleep at 3 o’clock in the tier level of the country.” the morning. We had a player looking at a radar and Different countries have different policies when it their heat signatures were all horizontal, not vertical, comes to human trafficking. meaning they were asleep. The child was in a chair “A tier one country is like America, Great Britain, vertical, so we went in quietly,” recounted Sparks. “We Canada — one that has a positive, aggressive means “We’ll take off, we’ll climb to 15,000 feet, we’ll sky dive in, we’ll land, we’ll make our to stop trafficking,” said way to a high sight, we’ll work with an on-the-ground person that we have paid to be an Sparks. “A tier two country is a country that says they informant. He’ll help us find the area, we’ll prosecute the target, take the child. We will not are trying to stop human do anything with the bad guys because if you get in trouble in a foreign country and you trafficking, but they’re not kill someone you’re in timeout for the rest of your life. We’ll take the child, we’ll run to the really. A tier three country is a country that says ‘you embassy of origin and then we’ll turn them over. Then we get out of dodge.” —Tony Sparks know what, I’m going to use it [human trafficking] as a handcuffed those three — nothing extreme, just held means of gross national product. And there are more them down, tied them down, taped their faces — but of those countries than you can imagine.” we missed one and he put a huge cut on my shoulder Once a child is located, Sparks’ team plans their with a machete. I had another one in which I went strategy. onto a yacht where a guy had stolen children and I “If it’s a tier one country and they’re going to work spooked the guy. I didn’t see where he was and he with us, we’ll fly in, we’ll do everything by the book, we’ll accidentally shot me twice in the shoulder.” work with the local authorities, we’ll go get the child very While these stories sound crazy to some, Sparks aggressively and we’ll take them to the U.S. embassy said, “they’re just normal stories for me.” or the embassy of their nationality. Then, turn them Sparks’ missions have been so extreme, they’ve over,” he said. “In a tier two country, we’ll work with the been used in Hollywood films. Sparks and Phantom country as much as we can. For example — Papa New Rescue consulted on the movie Taken. The mistakes Guinea called us. They are tier two. They said ‘listen, you the parents and child made in the movie leading to can come here, but you can’t come through the airport, her abduction were mistakes taken from some of you can’t get your passports scanned because when Sparks’ 49 cases. In addition, the plot of Caged No they see that you’re here, they are going to retaliate More by the producer of God’s Not Dead came from against us as the government.” one of Sparks’ real life missions about a father who “Now, say we find a missing child and we’ve located sold his two daughters into trafficking. them in a third tier country. That means the government In addition to making rescues, Sparks said Phantom says ‘you can’t come here, you’re not allowed. And if you Rescue focuses heavily on education. Sparks says do, we’re going to arrest you.’ You don’t take an airplane. there are a lot of misperceptions when it comes to You don’t take a boat. You don’t take planes, trains and child trafficking. automobiles. We’ll go into a country and we’ll either “I often hear people say, ‘oh these were wayward pretend to be a sky diving team or a scuba diving team children.’ No. I’ll show you plenty of cases that they’re — thrill seekers — anything that doesn’t interfere with not,” Sparks said. “Out of the 49 children we have the government,” explained Sparks. “We’ll take off, we’ll recovered, not one was a services abduction (child in climb to 15,000 feet, we’ll sky dive in, we’ll land, we’ll social services). There’s this perception that its only make our way to a high sight, we’ll work with an on-thethe services child that ends up in trafficking -- its a ground person that we have paid to be an informant. bunch of poppycock.”

He’ll help us find the area, we’ll prosecute the target, Sparks guesstimates that only about a third of take the child. We will not do anything with the bad the children abducted are “services children” — or guys because if you get in trouble in a foreign country children who are under the care of the state. Another and you kill someone you’re in timeout for the rest of third he said are what the U.S. Attorney’s Office calls your life. We’ll take the child, we’ll run to the embassy “community children.” of origin and then we’ll turn them over. Then we get “These are your boys and girls next door,” said out of dodge.”

Sparks.

Sparks said these missions can be very dangerous, The last third are what Sparks calls “targeted even fatal. For a mission the team planned in March, abductions by name or pedigree.” This is a child that Sparks’ best friend, co-worker and business partner is essentially profiled and ordered by traits on the of 34 years died during training. dark web, put out for bid, then stolen by traffickers.

“He had a dual parachute malfunction while sky “So these girls are not just a bunch of bad girls diving into Lakeland right outside of Orlando. He where society says ‘I’m not going to deal with them, perished that day while we were training to rescue 20, they’re just a bunch of runaways and drug addicts,’” 20-plus, children,” said Sparks. “I tell you so you see that this is a real job for us. Just because we took off Sparks said. “Well shame on people that think that.”

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of experience rescuing victims, Sparks guesstimates that only about a third of the children abducted are “services children.” Another third he estimates are community children.

“These are your boys and girls next door,” said Sparks.

The last third are what Sparks calls “targeted abductions by name or pedigree.” This is a child that is essentially profiled and ordered by traits on the dark web, put out for bid, then stolen by traffickers.

“So these girls are not just a bunch of bad girls where society says ‘I’m not going to deal with them, they’re just a bunch of runaways and drug addicts,’” Sparks said. “Well shame on people that think that.”

Johnson says human trafficking “doesn’t discriminate.”

“It doesn’t care where you’re from. It doesn’t care where you live, it doesn’t care about your socioeconomic standing or background. Anybody can fall prey to sex trafficking.” she said. “Just because you choose to think that it will never happen where you live doesn’t mean it isn’t happening where you live.

I’m pretty sure that if someone did a survey of every single neighborhood in Broward County, whether its a low-income neighborhood or the suburbs or affluent neighborhoods, there has been a child in every single neighborhood that has been touched in some way.

Saying it doesn’t happen here is like saying there’s 13 months in a year. Its ridiculous.”

A SHIFT IN PERCEPTION

Though by law Sarah’s story is considered a clear case of human trafficking, Sarah herself didn’t identify as

a human trafficking survivor. Instead, she shamefully identified as a child prostitute. As she began to understand what human trafficking is, however, she realized she was indeed a survivor.

This perceptual shift is one that Dymond says is critical for an individual to begin to correctly place their shame on the abusers, traffickers and johns, rather than themselves.

“When I talk to women, they usually self-identify as a prostitute,” she said. “I don’t usually talk to them about it right away, but eventually I’ll come back and ask them: ‘Okay so, whose idea was it, was it your idea?’ ‘No.’ ‘Was it something that you enjoyed? Was it something that worked for you?’ ‘No, absolutely not.’ ‘What if you said, can I just get a job at Target or in public?’ ‘No.’ ‘What if you said, my mom is sick and I need to go visit her, could you?’ ‘No — there were people around all the time. I was always being watched.’ Then I’ll say, ‘Okay, so how much money did you make?’ ‘Oh I made great money, awesome, you know.’ ‘But how much of that did you get to keep?’ ‘None of it.’ I submit to you that you were not a prostitute, that you were trafficked.’ Often that’s when the light bulb goes on.”

Once the light bulb goes on, Dymond says she watches as all the lies, all the blame, all the stuff the traffickers said, begin to unravel.

“It’s like you can just see it kind of breaking over them,” she said. “Our minds will go to a big effort to avoid being helpless and powerless. We don’t want to be a victim. We want to think we had a choice. We don’t want to feel like there was nothing we could do, so, we’ll tell ourselves all kinds of stories.”

Insight from the Experts I would say that human trafficking, sex trafficking, domestic sex trafficking of children does not discriminate. It doesn’t care where you’re from. It doesn’t care where you live, about your socioeconomic standing or background. Anybody can fall prey to sex trafficking. Just because you choose to think that it will never happen where you live doesn’t mean it isn’t happening where you live. I’m pretty sure that if someone did a survey of every single neighborhood in Broward County, whether its a low-income neighborhood or the suburbs or affluent neighborhoods, there has been a child in every single neighborhood that has been touched in some way. Saying it doesn’t happen here is like saying there’s 13 months in a year. Its ridiculous.” — Jumorrow Johnson, Vice President of Education and Outreach for the BHTC; over 20 years of experience as a victims’ advocate and 15 years of experience with the Department of Juvenile Justice.

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“Cultural changes is what I talk about.

Culture made it ok for someone to buy a woman. I’m trying to change hearts and minds. Everyone in the room needs to ask themselves ‘what am I doing to perpetuate this problem.”

— Victor Williams, Special Agent, Human Trafficking Task Force

“As far as from Deerfield Beach down to Pompano Beach, trafficking is alive and well. And if you go from Palm Beach County all the way to Key West, you have every type of human trafficking.” — Tony Sparks, founder of Phantom Rescue, Inc., a Broward Countybased non-profit that uses trained, ex-military to rescue trafficking victims in the U.S. and abroad

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Carmen Pino, Assistant Special Agent In Charge of Homeland Security Investigations and a spokesperson for the South Florida Human Trafficking Task Force, says this perceptual shift — from seeing an individual as a criminal, to seeing them as a trafficking victim — is one that has to happen both on the individual and the societal level.

“We take what is known as a victim centered approach,” Pino said of the Task Force. “And it’s something we as law enforcement and even as prosecutors, and now as legislators, had to come to realize: A 15-year-old girl is not a prostitute, she’s a victim. Why should we be penalizing someone for being duped and being exploited? That was something that has taken many years. These people, whether men, women or children, are victims first. Regardless of the crime that they are involved in, they are in involved because they are being forced to do it. In the old days people would say, oh she’s just a prostitute. Well now our whole semantics have changed. And now you are starting to see that in the law, which is very, very good.”

Both in Florida and in many states, laws penalizing johns and pimps have increased, but many still find them to be minimal. In 2014 Florida increased the penalty for soliciting sex from a misdemeanor and a $500 fine, to a misdemeanor and a $5,000 fine.

“It’s something, but its not enough,” said Williams, who is a huge advocate for changing cultural perspectives on prostitution and human trafficking.

“Cultural changes is what I talk about,” said Williams.

“Human trafficking similar to drug trafficking because you are exchanging a commodity. But the interesting thing about this commodity is that you can resell this commodity.

If I sell you a person, I can sell them over and over and over again. So it’s a very, very lucrative criminal enterprise that carries very little risk for the pimp or the trafficker.” — Adriane Reesey, Project Director of 1Htc, the umbrella coalition for human trafficking organizations in the Southeastern Florida region; experience in law enforcement.

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“Culture is what made it ok for someone to buy a woman. Everyone in the room needs to ask themselves ‘what am I doing to perpetuate this problem.’”

Dymond said the porn industry is one factor that perpetuates the problem. Not only is “a lot of porn done by slavery,” she said (she guesstimates, by her research, about 80 percent), but it also contributes to the culture, hunger and demand for sexual services.

Catherine Mackinon, a feminist professor at Harvard Law School who has studied the connection between human trafficking and the porn industry, writes that “consuming pornography is an experience of bought sex” and thus “creates a hunger to continue to purchase and objectify, and act out what is seen.

And in a very literal way, pornography is advertising for trafficking, not just in general but also in the sense that traffickers and pimps use pornographic images of victims as specific advertising for their ‘products.’”

Adriane Reesey — who is the former president of BHTC, has worked in law enforcement and criminal justice for over four decades and is the Project Director for 1HTC, the umbrella organization that networks human trafficking coalitions in Southeastern Florida — said that in order to combat human trafficking, society must also look at what increases demand. Trafficking, she pointed out, is a supply-and-demand business just like any other.

Pino agreed. Wherever there’s a need, “someone will step in to feed that need,” he said.

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“I think about the women that I’ve worked with long term and they’re like my heroes because I can’t even begin to imagine the amount of work it takes to move past all the trauma. For most of the women I’ve worked with, with maybe one exception, they were all abused as kids, they were all molested as kids, and so the trafficking is just like the exclamation point; it’s just like the latest in a whole history of trauma.” — Becky Dymond, M.S. Counseling Psychology and the founder of Hepzibah House, a rehabilitation home in Boynton Beach for survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation.

“So for South Florida you have the farms and fields, you have the tourism industry, you have the sex trafficking and you have all these wealthy families bringing their staff here, so you can see why South Florida is so big as it comes to trafficking and why it’s such a hotbed for trafficking.” — Carmen Pino, Assistant Special Agent In Charge of Homeland Security Investigations and a spokesperson for the South Florida Human Trafficking Task Force

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In many ways once an individual is rescued from a trafficking situation is when the hard work begins — both on the individual level, and on the institutional level.

“It’s not just like working a narcotics case or a gun case where you put that piece of evidence on a shelf when you go onto the next case,” Pino said. “You have a responsibility now with that victim. It’s very resource intensive.”

And in most states, including South Florida, resources for the rehabilitation of victims are scarce. Pino, Johnson, Reesey and Sparks all agreed that the rehabilitative end of the problem is one area where improvement is needed.

“There are only about 300 beds for about 3,000 victims,” said Sparks. While Pino did not have exact numbers to validate Sparks’ guesstimate, he agreed it’s approximately ten percent.

“It’s not so much scarce resources from law enforcement or prosecution that’s the problem,” Pino said. “Its scare recourses once we have the victims rescued. The number of bed spaces specifically designated for human trafficking victims is pretty low. I could tell you back in 2008, it was non-existent. So the community had to get creative. Social services had to get creative. A lot of times we would have to place victims into either a shelter for women that were battered from domestic violence, or even sometimes homeless shelters. Bed space is one of our greatest challenges, and just finding services alone is difficult. There is a lot of great movement, but it’s not there yet.”

Even if a victim does find shelter, Dymond and Johnson said the obstacles individuals must overcome in treating their trauma, learning a “new normal” and adapting to new life often seem insurmountable.

“Surviving is the first part. Being able to thrive in your life afterwards, thats the challenge. That’s the victory,” said Johnson.

Unfortunately it is common for survivors to actually resist recovery, which can be baffling to family members, service providers and outsiders. Johnson says the reasons for this are many: tremendous fear, not having a supportive place to go, mistrust of the system, the terror of the unknown, a feeling that the “devil you know is better than the devil you don’t,” overcoming the challenges of PTSD and trauma (which contribute to the instinctual fight-or-flight response), drug and alcohol addictions (which are often perpetuated by pimps as a way to coerce), psychological manipulation by traffickers and strong co-dependency.

“They [victims] often become co-dependent on their pimp and their trafficker. They depend on them for food, clothing, shelter, and in many cases, especially with a romeo pimp, these young women actually fall in love with these men, so that’s a huge obstacle we are dealing with now. They feel so loyal to them because at a certain point in time, this guy treated them like no one else ever had. He was kind and sweet and romantic and loving. They don’t understand that it was all a part of the grooming process.”

Many times survivors struggle with Stockholm Syndrome and what psychologists like Dymond call “trauma bonding.”

“The brain does funny things in a dangerous and chaotic situation,” she said. “The limbic system (which takes over in,

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This is why Johnson says it is so important to never judge how someone “should be responding to something that is happening to them.”

Dymond said recovery “is an arduous process.”

“I think about the women that I’ve worked with long term and they’re like my heroes,” Dymond said. “I can’t even begin to imagine the amount of work it takes to move past all the trauma.”

And for some of them who were also abused as children, Dymond said, “the trafficking is just like the exclamation point. It’s just like the latest in a whole history of trauma.”

AWARENESS AND EDUCATION

In her 20 years of experience working with victims and their families, Johnson said that one of the first things parents can do to protect their child from trafficking is to communicate.

“A lot of times when I’m talking to families or parents that find out that their children are involved in the sex trade, and we start getting into the meat of what’s going on, the parents don’t really know the ins and outs of the child’s life.

Communication and being involved is a huge, huge thing; and I’m talking about the children who are being affected who come from homes.”

Johnson also subscribes to the idea that “it takes a village to raise a child.”

“Everyone minds their own business these days and in certain instances you really shouldn’t be minding your business, especially in cases where children are concerned,” she said. “Because people are minding their business, our children are being ravaged on a daily basis. I think the community needs to get back to caring about what is happening to all of our children, not just your child.”

Johnson also advocates for schools to implement workshops or classes that talk about healthy relationships, self-esteem, motivation and how to deal with failure.

“Many kids don’t have social or emotional skills. They don’t know how to respond to failure. They don’t know how to respond to hurt. They don’t know how to respond to trauma.

I think when they are taught how to focus their energy and how to react, it helps them to think better and to make wiser choices,” she said.

Phantom Rescue also teaches courses on how to prevent abductions at schools, companies, community organizations like the Girl Scouts of America and through videos online.

“Our classes target everybody. We put a lot of emphasis on Fortune 500 companies. Rich people have no common sense when it comes to abductions. We’ll target communities of those individuals that just don’t know any better,” said Sparks. “Unfortunately, most people don’t want to hear it. The failure in human trafficking, believe it or not, is the parents.

They just don’t know what to teach their children. Theres not enough police, theres not enough members of the task force, to fix all this if we can’t get our parents to wake up and realize the truth. Its just cold hard facts. No one knows how to stop abductions because they don’t want to read about it, they don’t want to hear it, they don’t want to talk about it, because they just don’t believe its true.”

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Lighthouse Point’s Samantha Speedy set out on a global adventure, which expanded her perspective and brought unexpected joy.

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arrived in Europe with an American flag literally plastered on my back, in the form of a patch on an old denim jacket. As I waited for my baggage in Rome International Airport I watched Italian newscasters analyze a tape of one Trump controversy or another with the headline “Trump: the next Berlusconi?” and thought, “I gotta get a new jacket.”

Six months later, I threw it away in Germany. My backpack had gotten too full of magnets, ticket stubs and other souvenirs to continue carrying it despite our lengthy companionship and it’s remarkably roomy pockets. After months of being thrown under tables at bars, sat on for picnics and generally being treated like a napkin, it less resembled a denim jacket and more a burlap sack. It had suffered greatly under my ownership, but never brought me anything but good fortune—neither my American flag patch nor my thick South Florida inflection seemed to incite anything PREVIOUS PAGE Pulled our rental car over to chase rainbows in Iceland.

TOP One of Iceland’s many ridiculous landscapes LEFT The Northern Lights spotted in the parking lot of my AirBnB.

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP The night before I had to unceremoniously part with my beloved denim jacket; Being denied a monkey’s friendship at Ubud Monkey Forest in Bali, Indonesia; Posing with a celebratory baguette at a peak in Saxon Switzerland National Park; Rainy day fashion at the Plitvice National Park in Croatia

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I had no idea what it felt like to eat wild blackberries in the Isle of Skye, or dance with refugees to an American pop song, or inexplicably participate in a Mexican cacao ceremony in the

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more than a casual conversation about politics or, more frequently, questions about if American high school parties are really like they show in the movies.

The most common reaction I received toward my American citizenship was simply one of appreciation. “Americans never come abroad!” I’d hear. “It’s like, they never learn anything about the world!” I had to restrain from informing them that even before I had made the decision to travel, I had seen the entirety of Planet Earth, so yeah, I knew a thing or two about the world, thank you very much. But, in the end, they were right: I had no idea what it felt like to run half a mile with a 60-pound backpack to catch a train that you can’t afford to miss, and that seems to be a right of passage for everyone in Europe, no matter their nationality. I had no idea what it felt like to eat wild blackberries in the Isle of Skye, or dance with refugees to an American pop song, or inexplicably participate in a Mexican cacao ceremony in the middle of Indonesia.

I don’t know if these objectively wonderful

things helped me understand the world at large, but they certainly taught me a lot about how many kinds of joy there are.

There’s a unique happiness that comes from even very small experiences, each a different flavor, some only available in far-off places.

Even the bad times are hazed over in a nostalgia of adventure: my five-day kidney infection that ended with a trip to an Italian hospital where nobody spoke English is now just a funny story with some residual bitterness that I didn’t get to eat as much pasta as I would have liked. Pushing through setbacks in foreign countries fostered confidence far past what I can even recognize in myself, and, have made me very cocky around public transportation.

As I left Iceland, my last stop before coming home, I was already thinking about going to Asia or South America one day, places that a year ago I thought I would never survive from culture shock alone.

Of course I can do Asia! South America is practically continental! I once showed up for an international flight four days late and I still got there. I can do anything (except donate a kidney).

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A flood of memories come to mind when members of Deerfield Beach’s black community reminisce about Braithwaite, the allblack elementary and middle school that flourished for over four decades in Deerfield’s predominately agricultural community until Broward schools integrated in 1970.

Charlie “Mr. Charlie” Thompson, 90, former head custodian of Deerfield Beach Middle School, shares an impish smile as he remembers the girl who pulled his hat from his head during recess and ran off with it. “I thought she was being mean, but she really liked me,” he said.

“ We had the flag outside where we said the Pledge of Allegiance. Then we went inside and sang, ‘My Country Tis of thee Sweet land of Liberty.’ After that, we prayed. I know I shouldn’t say that, but because of the praying, I think things were better.

—LEOLA BROOKS, 90, A RETIRED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER

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Velemina Williams, 82, who retired from Sears, recalled their school books and desks. “They were hand me downs from the other schools. The desks were worn and the school books had marks in them and some of the pages were missing. We never had any new books.”

“We went to school in the summer because the school closed down in the winter during harvest season so the kids could pick beans,” said Leola Brooks, 90, a retired elementary school teacher whose father was a farmer.

While their memories may differ, those who attended Braithwaite speak affectionately of the

school. Providing their children an education was first priority with many African American parents.

The teachers were well respected and considered family. Lessons were conducted in a disciplined environment, and if a student acted up, he got a whipping with a palmetto frond. When he got home, he got another one. It was a close-knit community and word traveled fast.

“The teachers were strict but very caring,” said Flora Philpart who now works at the Welcome Center at Deerfield Beach High School and attended Braithwaite from 1953 to 1958.

The school was named after William Stanley

OPPOSITE Mrs. Johnson’s second grade class at the Braithwaite School, 1936.

RIGHT A rendering of the Bratihwaite School Photos courtesy of Deerfield Beach Historical Society

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Beaumont Braithwaite (1878-1962), an acclaimed poet and anthologist. His poetry was recognized in literary circles for much of his life; however, he is best known for his work compiling yearly anthologies of published works in periodicals. These helped launch the careers of many American poets.

Braithwaite replaced Colored School No. 13, which had become too small for the 400 students in attendance.

“It was a grudging gesture to the black community, tolerated as long as most black children could be yanked from classes for months at a time to work the fields,” reported Tao Woolfe in a Sun-Sentinel article dated August 18, 1996.

Broward County School Board records show that a five-acre site in Deerfield was acquired for $500 in 1928. A building was constructed and classes began for hundreds of black students. A school motto was adopted—To educate, to elevate and to cultivate— along with a school song and poem. The school colors were purple and gold.

There were no school buses back then; students walked to school, upwards of a mile and a half. Many came barefooted. Before lessons, they followed a patriotic ritual.

“We had the flag outside where we said the Pledge of Allegiance. Then we went inside and sang, ‘My Country Tis of thee Sweet land of Liberty.’ After that, we prayed. I know I shouldn’t say that, but because of the praying, I think things were better,” said Brooks.

Students who graduated from Braithwaite traveled to Miami, Fort Lauderdale or Delray Beach to go to an all-black high school. In 1970, schools integrated in Broward County and Braithwaite closed. The building was sold to Broward County in 1974 for a health center. It later became Northeast Focal Point Senior Center at 227 N.W. Second St. Former students raised money to place a plaque at the site to commemorate their beloved school. It is displayed on a bench in the children’s playground.

TOP The Braithwaite school Illustration courtesy of Leola Brooks ABOVE William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite (18781962), acclaimed poet for whom the school is named.

Photo courtesy of The Van Vechten Trust

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The Diamond Club

“The thrill is gone. The thrill is gone, baby.”

The words from the old BB King song could very well apply to what was once the soul of the black community in Deerfield Beach—The Diamond Club.

From the late 1940s to the 1970s, the thumping beat of a drum, pounding keys of a piano and rhythm of guitars wafted through the opened doors of the dance club. Today, however, the epicenter of entertainment for the black community is mostly forgotten.

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Anybody who was anyone in the entertainment business played at the club.

—ROBERT BAILEY JR., ELDEST SON OF THE ORIGINAL DIAMOND CLUB OWNER.

Located on the west side of Dixie Highway just south of Hillsboro Blvd., the club was historically packed every Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights with young black adults who wanted to listen to some good live music and dance their shoes off.

Willie West, 91, a second generation Deerfield Beach resident, played the piano and sang as a member of the Blue Delrayans who entertained at the club.

“I played there for many years and was the leader of the band,” said West who began his singing career as a young boy belting out blues in the local fields where he picked beans. Later, when he got serious about his singing, he tried to emulate his favorite blues and R&B singers—Junior Parker, Bobby Bland and BB King.

Originally, the club property was a boarding house owned by Robert Bailey Sr. His family lived in the front rooms and rented out the others. Then the facility became a boxing arena. Since there was no ceiling, the ring was open to the elements. A roof was added later and for a short time the building served as a movie theater, which doubled as a community shelter during hurricanes.

Eventually a liquor license was obtained and the facility became The Diamond Club.

The building was quite ordinary on the outside, but inside it was a hotbed of rhythm and blues. The bar was located at one end, the band stand at the other and in between a huge dance floor surrounded by tables and chairs, which accommodated upwards of 250 guests. Some of those who entertained at the club included Bull Moose Jackson, Ruth Brown, BB King and James Brown.

“Anybody who was anyone in the entertainment business played at the club,” said Robert Bailey Jr., eldest son of the original owner.

Gwen Major, a retired teacher’s assistant, lived close to the Diamond Club.

“We went to the church right down the street from it, so we never went to the Diamond Club. We heard that people drank there. I did have an uncle who went there. He loved it. He’d come home a little tipsy singing, ‘Well it’s three o’clock in the morning and I’m sitting here waiting for you.’ I remember having to open the door for him in the early morning because my grandmother locked him out because he was late. He said they’d sing and dance and just have a good time,” said Major.

The dance club became one of the most popular South Florida venues for black folks.

Many came from as far away as Miami and West Palm Beach to listen to the music and dance the jitter bug, bump ’n’ grind, chicken, twist, hully gully and electric slide.

“They used to have cars parked on Dixie

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TOP Dancing at the Diamond Club ABOVE Willie West, an enterainer at the Diamond Club.

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“ The thing my father regretted most was the lynching of that man. He grieved the rest of his life because we had no proof, no trial. They just took him and assumed he was the one based on this woman’s word — MARGARET MCDOUGALD SHADOIN

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Highway from about two blocks south of Hillsboro Blvd., all the way down to Third St., a long way,” said Thompson. “People would listen to the music and dance and those that didn’t dance would sit around and have a good time.

They had fun. It wasn’t wild like it is today.”

In the 1970s, Robert Bailey Sr. turned the club over to his sons Robert, William, Alvin and Adrian. Their cousin Carl Nixon also helped manage the club. With the new managers came a new name—Club Bailey. It operated as a disco and pop music dance club with a DJ and live bands. With the transition, the club opened its doors to everyone.

Club Bailey closed its doors in 1991. The land was subsequently sold to make room for the expansion of Dixie Highway to four lanes.

A Hateful Day

“The thing my father regretted most was the lynching of that man. He grieved the rest of his life because we had no proof, no trial. They just took him and assumed he was the one based on this woman’s word,” said Margaret McDougald Shadoin whose father W.D. McDougald was Deerfield Beach’s first Chief of Police and a sheriff’s deputy.

On a hot July afternoon in 1935, word was out that Marion Jones, a white woman living in Fort Lauderdale, had been assaulted by a black man. Having come to her house for a glass of water, the man followed Jones inside and grabbed her at knife point. As the two struggled, Jones sustained cuts to her hands and arms from the man’s pen knife, but not before her screams and the savviness of her five-year-old son brought neighbors running and sent the man hightailing for his life. An all-points bulletin alerted local law enforcement agencies and residents in Dade and Broward Counties to be on the lookout.

According to Shadoin, Deerfield Beach resident and local farmer Leo Jones was driving north on Dixie Highway in his truck when he noticed a black man stand up, then duck down behind a palmetto. Not recognizing the man, Jones thought it might be the fellow everyone was looking for. He reported the incident to Chief McDougald who immediately called upon several locals to help him search the area. After scouring the woods and coming up empty, the men came to Albert Sample’s house on Dixie Highway.

“Mr. Sample let daddy into the cabins behind his house that were used to accommodate farm laborers in his pineapple fields. But it wasn’t harvest time and the cabins were supposed to be empty,” Shadoin said.

Rubin (also spelled Reuben) Stacey, who was asleep in one of the cabins, was arrested by McDougald and taken to the Deerfield jail. Shadoin recalled that her father informed Broward County Sheriff Walter Clark of Stacey’s capture and immediately transported him to Fort Lauderdale. There Stacey denied he had attacked Jones. Without benefit of a police lineup, Sheriff Clark took Stacey to Jones’ house for identification. The Sunday School teacher confirmed he was the man who had attacked her.

The next day Sheriff Clark heard rumors that a lynch mob was forming and decided to move Stacey to the Dade County jail for his protection. Shadoin recalled that her father, Joe Clark (the sheriff’s brother) and Pop Shulman were called upon to join three other sheriff deputies in the transfer. They never made it to Miami.

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Their vehicle was run off the road and the officers were overpowered by an angry gun-toting mob of, reportedly, between 50 and 100 men. The handcuffed Stacey was pulled from the car, taken into the woods near Jones’ house and hung from a pine tree using clothesline wire, purportedly from Jones’ own clothesline. Several people are said to have shot bullets into his lifeless body.

Over the next eight hours, dozens of residents gawked at Stacey’s corpse as it dangled from the pine. A coroner’s inquest was held, but no one was ever indicted. The finding simply stated that Stacey had died at the hands of “a person or persons unknown.”

In 1998, a Sun Sentinel reporter interviewed a woman who claimed to have been one of those who had shot at Stacey’s body. She intimated that Sheriff Clark and his brother had been personally involved in the lynching, maybe even planning it. She further stated that the brothers had killed other black folk over the years. In 1950, the Governor removed Clark as Sheriff.

He was indicted on charges of corruption, but was later cleared when key witnesses “couldn’t remember” their initial testimony.

“Of all the things Daddy witnessed, what hurt him the most was that the man didn’t get to go to trial,” said Shadoin.

Numbering 331, Florida ranks fifth in terror lynchings from 1877-1950 and first in lynchings per capita.

ABOVE A crowd gathers to view the body of 32-year old Rubin Stacy as he hangs from a tree in Fort Lauderdale on July 19, 1935. (AP Photo)

Some interviews for this piece were taken from those conducted through Project History, a cooperative effort of the Deerfield Beach Historical Society and the Communications and Broadcast Arts magnet program at Deerfield Beach High School.

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DEERFIELD BEACH Amante’s. ITALIAN Close to the International Fishing

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It’s creamy and savory with every bite and is served with a heaping helping of refried beans and rice. 1310 N. Federal Highway, 954-596-1304 $

Barracuda Seafood Bar & Grill. SEAFOOD • BRAZILIAN

Pier, steps from the sand, stands Amante’s Italian Cuisine (and Bob’s Pizza). It’s a wonderful Italian bistro that caters to everyone. You choose from a fantastic, casual family pizza experience to an elegant dinner and everything in between. Amante’s is usually bustling: filled with locals and visiting guests there for a sumptuous, after-beach meal or pizza.

The menu has all the Italian favorite pasta dishes, meat entrées and daily chef specialties. Everything is very well prepared. 2076 N.E. Second St., 954-4261030 $$

Café Med. ITALIAN Authentic Italian restaurant right on the ocean with an Italian chef from Rome. Live music nightly. Serves breakfast and dinner daily.

2096 N.E. Second St. (at the Wyndham Hotel), 954596-5840 $$$

American Rock Bar & Grill. LIVE MUSIC • KARAOKE •

Casa Maya. MEXICAN Start with a margarita and it

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cials, two-for-one full bar all day every day with $6 burger specials every day 4pm-7pm. 1600 E. Hillsboro Blvd., 954-428-4539

Baja Cafe. MEXICAN A hometown favorite is Pepe’s spinach enchiladas with the added chicken or shrimp.

This spot by the sea serves seafood with a touch of Brazilian flare such as the Bobo de Camarao, shrimp sautéed in coconut milk, saffron, palm oil and yucca cream baked in a cast iron skillet. 1965 N.E. Second St., 954-531-1290 $$

only gets better from there. This is not your typical Mexican joint—it’s better. Try gobernador tacos: a combination of shrimp with diced poblanos, onions, tomatoes and cilantro on a crispy corn tortilla topped with melted cheese. See, we told you it’s not ordinary. 301 S.E. 15 Terrace, 954-570-6101 $$

Chanson at the Royal Blues Hotel. SEAFOOD

• SEASONAL Chanson gives you the opportunity to eat a fine, fresh seafood meal, and then take a stroll to see the ocean from which it came. 45 N.E. 21 Ave., 954-857-2929. $$$$

Deer Creek Grille. AMERICAN Enjoy the club atmosphere with gorgeous views of the plush gardens and waterfall. The restaurant offers daily lunch and dinner specials, a Sunday breakfast buffet and covered patio dining so you can dine al fresco. 2801 Deer Creek Country Club Blvd., 954-421-5553 $$

Deerfield Beach Cafe. AMERICAN Part of the Deerfield Beach International Fishing Pier, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner to all the beachcombers. So skip the cooler and grab something here—so easy. 202 N.E. 21 Ave., 954-426-0500 $ Frank & Dino’s. ITALIAN If your mom won’t make Sunday gravy, the folks at Frank & Dino’s will take care of you. 718 S. Federal Highway, 954-427-4909 $$$

JB’s on the Beach. SEAFOOD Glorious beach views and a private glass room perfect for business or family affairs. 300 N. Ocean Way, 954-571-5220 $$$

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Kevin’s. SUSHI • THAI The juxtaposition of the outside (a strip mall)— to the inside which is a lovely atmosphere is quite surprising. Kevin’s serves high quality fare for the sushi enthusiast. Very friendly staff serving a lot of regulars. 706 S. Federal Highway, 954-418-3939 $$ La Val de Loire. FRENCH Whether it’s a night out with the family or a romantic dinner for two, this quaint spot in the Cove Shopping Center serves classical French cuisine.

1576 S.E. Third Court, 954-427-5354 $$$

Little Havana. CUBAN If you are looking for authentic Cuban food and music accompanied by speedy service on a busy, crowded night, then look no further. Little Havana has a very accommodating staff to match their even more accommodating menu items. They have fantastic lunch specials, and most of their dinner plates will feed two happily. Their masas de puerco frita and their Little Havana steak are two of the stand-out menu items, aside from their zesty chimichurri. Sadly, you can’t make a meal out of chimichurri, so ask for it on the side with whatever you are ordering. You won’t regret it. 721 N. Federal Highway, 954-427-6000 $$ Ocean’s 234. SEAFOOD Amazing views of Deerfield Beach and the pier with gluten free options available.

234 N. Ocean Blvd., 954-428-2539 $$$ Patio Bar & Grill. AMERICAN Everything is freshly prepared and served just steps away from the beach. Live music nightly. 2096 N.E. Second St. (at the Wyndham Hotel), 954-596-8618 $$ Rattlesnake Jake’s. TEX MEX Dive bar close to the beach with live music and plenty of menu items to choose from. 2060 N.E. Second St., 954-421-4481 $$

Sabor Latino. LATIN A new place in The Cove. 1544 S.E. Third Court, 954-708-2868

Taj Indian Restaurant. INDIAN We have two words for you: lamb korma. This classic Indian dish varies from restaurant to restaurant, and while we don’t have their recipe, we can tell you it’s juicy leg of lamb cooked in a rich cream sauce with raisins and cashews. 201 S.E. 15 Terrace, 954-304-7032 $$

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Tamarind. SUSHI • THAI Did you get caught up in a tornado and land in Nobu—that most famous of all sushi restaurants? Probably not. You’re most likely just at Tamarind which offers a hipper vibe than your run-ofthe-mill sushi place—and some inventive rolls and Thai entreés. 949 N. Federal Highway, 954-428-8009 $$

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enter, the weight of the day lifts off your shoulders. The atmosphere is friendly and fun all around. There is outdoor patio seating available and a large U-shaped bar inside. The portions are generous—certainly enough to take home for lunch the next day. We loved the spicy shrimp tacos—soft flour tortillas filled with Cajun-grilled shrimp in a spicy chile lime sauce, topped with cilantro slaw, avocado and pico de gallo. The menu has a lot more than tacos—there’s all the Mexican favorites plus burgers, sandwiches, steaks and more. And for the little ones there is kids night on Sunday: kids eat for 99 cents from the kids menu. 1015 S. Federal Highway, 954-708-2775 $

The Tipperary Pub. IRISH • AMERICAN A classic neighborhood pub—where if you go often enough, everyone will indeed know your name. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner just in case you need a red eye—half tomato juice, half beer. 1540 S.E. Third St. 954-421-9769 $ Two George’s. SEAFOOD An intracoastal hot spot with live music, a great view and a legendary Friday happy hour. 1754 S.E. Third Court 954-421-9272 $$

Whales’ Rib. SEAFOOD Locals know it well and tourists know it from Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. 2031 N.E. Second St., 954-421-8880 $$

LIGHTHOUSE POINT Bonefish Mac’s Sports Grille. AMERICAN Bar food and a wide array of televised sports games with a game room for kids. 2002 E. Sample Road, 954-781-6227 $ Bura. NORTHERN ITALIAN Enjoy the intimate atmosphere and friendly staff. The gnocchi are little delectable dumplings topped with tender chunks of veal in a light tomato broth. 2014 E. Sample Road, 954-597-6909 $$

Cap’s Place. SEAFOOD Lighthouse Point’s own hideaway, seafood joint dating back to prohibition. Take the short boat ride over to the restaurant. 2765 N.E. 28 Court, 954-941-0418 $$$

Fetta Republic. GREEK Traditional Greek offerings close to home. 2420 N. Federal Highway, 954-933-2394 $$

Hott Leggz. WINGS • BAR FOOD Pub grub at a true sports bar. They even have TVs in the booths. 3128 N. Federal Highway, 754-307-2444 $$

Jane’s Restaurant and Bar. AMERICAN For those of you who have never had the classic Canadian dish Poutine, it’s on the menu at Janes’s Restaurant and Bar. 4460 N. Federal Highway, 754-600-5102 $$

Le Bistro. FRENCH • BISTRO Fresh and local produce is always used. And vegetarian, dairy free and gluten free menu items are available. The restaurant also offers cooking classes. 4626 N. Federal Highway, 954-946-9240 $$$

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Sauces and spices enhance, but don’t overpower the seafood.” That was 1976. Today, Joy and Papa Hughie’s still offers the same fresh seafood. Come join us as we begin the next 40 years with new menu items along with all your favorites.

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wonton wrappers topped with tuna tartare, seaweed salad, red pepper mayo, wasabi and a hit of sirracha. For a taste of New England, the lobster roll can’t be beat— a generous portion of lobster with just the right amount of mayonnaise. Of course you can’t go wrong with the fresh fish sandwich—ask what the catch of the day is.

The fish Reuben is another great sandwich option— just sub in some fresh fish for the pastrami and you’ve got yourself a little healthier version of the classic. All sandwiches come with a side and while French fries are always a delicious option—the restaurant offers a tangy cucumber salad (among other choices) that provides a nice crunch to any sandwich. They are a dog friendly restaurant. 2830 N.E. 29 Ave., 954-941-0246 $$

Pampa Gaucho Churrascaria. BRAZILIAN Traditional rodizio for your inner carnivore. 4490 N. Federal Highway 954-943-3595 $$

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Papa’s Raw Bar. SUSHI • SEAFOOD Situated right next door to their parent restaurant Seafood World, Papa’s does indeed seem like the hip child of an established restaurant.

While the fresh food is the real star, the Keys-inspired décor certainly accounts for part of their charm. The restaurant serves a selection of clams and oysters on the half shell. There are also a few options for cooked oysters including the black and blue version topped with blue cheese and bacon. The menu also goes way beyond the typical raw bar offerings with inventive tacos and sliders.

Papa’s also offers a wide array of sushi and sashimi. Start off with one of the towers of Van Buskirk (you’ll find a few menu items named after locals.) The bare naked lady version is a combination of spicy wahoo and tuna with tobiko and masago topped with spicy mayo and served with taro chips. They serve all your classic sushi rolls but the superstars are their specialty rolls. There are plenty of land lubber options including burgers and hibachi offerings. And to wash it all down, they have about a zillion craft beer options and a wine list too. The Bimini Room which is adjacent to the main restaurant is available for private parties and boasts a Hemingway inspired mural— another respectful nod to the Keys. 4610 N. Federal Highway, 754-307-5034 $$ Seafood World Market & Restaurant. SEAFOOD They offer the freshest seafood with simple ingredients and have a huge selection of seafood to choose from if you want to cook yourself. 4602 N. Federal Highway, 954942-0740 $$$

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Sicilian Oven. ITALIAN • PIZZA High-top seating, casual seating and bar seating to accompany your crispy, thin pizza. Start with the Gorgonzola salad. 2486 N. Federal Highway, 954-785-4155 $

POMPANO BEACH Aconchego Bar and Grill. BRAZILIAN A taste of Brazil in the heart of Pompano Beach. Open for lunch and dinner. 7 S.E. 22 Ave. 954-782-8040. $

Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza. PIZZA • WINGS You can credit this place with bringing the whole “coal-fired pizza craze” to South Florida. Pizza and chicken wings—do you need anymore? Try the cauliflower pizza—good and good for you. 1203 S. Federal Highway, 954-942-5550 $$

The Beach Grille. AMERICAN Delicious eats near the beach with the capability to order online. 3414 Atlantic Blvd., 954-946-6000 $

“Bru” Brudzinski , where else would you go to watch the Miami Dolphins play? Wings and other bar food available. 235 S. Federal Highway, 954-785-2227 $

Bella Roma Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria. ITALIAN • PIZ-

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ZA Tasty dishes, large portions and delivery is available.

40 S.W. 15 St., 954-784-3696 $$

High-quality ingredients, inventive cooking, and a very welcoming staff. 460 S. Cypress Road, 954-942-1633 $$

Bobby Rubino’s. BARBECUE • AMERICAN Specials and

Carrabba’s Italian Grill. ITALIAN Open for lunch and

coupons are posted daily and catering is available. The restaurant also has a large bar room where you can dine at the bar or booths. This place is a Pompano Beach icon. 2501 N. Federal Highway, 954-781-7550 $$

Brew Fish. BAR AND GRILL Dine outside in the tiki hut

overlooking a canal right in Pompano Beach. Comprehensive menu and attentive staff. 200 E. McNab Rd., 954-440-3347 $$

Briny Irish Pub. IRISH • BAR FOOD At the end of East Atlantic Boulevard, steps from the ocean, is Briny’s Irish Pub. There is a large beer selection plus the regular and, dare we say, unique mixed drinks. The kitchen offers an array of bar food as well as some classics like bangers and mash and fish-n-chips. The casual atmosphere is created by an immense array of nautical artifacts and oddities that fill every inch of the pub. The bar is large and there are tables, too—many have ocean views. Music plays constantly, often live with a dance floor if one is inclined. 3440 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954-942-3159 $ Bru’s Room Sports Grill. AMERICAN Named after Bob

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dinner and provides gluten free options. 1299 S. Federal Highway, 954-782-2688 $$

Checkers Old Munchen. GERMAN Sprechen sie Deutsch?

You don’t find too many authentic German restaurants around town. So when you’re looking for a change in your restaurant rotation, take a trip back to the old country at Checkers Old Munchen. The restaurant’s exposed wood framing is reminiscent of the German half-timbered architectural style and the walls are lined with classic German beer steins. For a traditional German meal, try the wienerschnitzel—it’s divine—a lightly breaded veal cutlet (or pork) sautéed in lemon butter and topped with homemade brown gravy. The entrées are served with your choice of two side dishes. The spaetzle (German noodles) are a real homemade treat and not to be missed—throw a little of that brown gravy on them and they could be a meal unto themselves. The red cabbage is both classically sweet and sour and there are other options too including potato dumplings, potato salad and even hot potato salad. As you look around, you can’t help but get the feeling that most of the patrons are returning customers—which, of course, is a great sign.

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And the next time we get a hankering for some schnitzel, we know where to go. Imbibe to your hearts content with their wide assortment of German beers. 2209 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954-785-7565 $$

Chez Porky’s. BARBECUE A low-key spot serving a bunch of southern favorites. 105 S.W. Sixth St., 954946-5590 $$ Cypress Nook. GERMAN This place has been in business for 38 years—talk about staying in power. 201 SE 15 St., 954-781-3464 $

Darrel & Oliver’s Cafe Maxx. INTERNATIONAL This

restaurant is an anchor of the South Florida fine dining scene. 2601 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954-782-0606

$$$$

Dos Amigos. MEXICAN When you feel the hankering for a fajita, this Pompano Beach spot fits the bill. Try the margaritas too. 1308 N. Federal Highway 954781-1955 $$

Fish Shack. SEAFOOD A small, roadside seafood

The southern poutine fries at Galuppi’s are crispy French fries topped with Wisconsin cheddar cheese curds, black pepper gravy, scallions and bacon.

Trust us, they are truly addicting.

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Flanigan’s Seafood Bar & Grill. SEAFOOD • AMERI-

Mediterraneo Cucina Siciliana. ITALIAN True Sicil-

The Foundry. AMERICAN • CONTINENTAL Seating op-

Ruby’s by the Sea. ITALIAN Italian by the sea is more like it. 2608 N. Ocean Blvd., 954-785-7700 $$

tions galore, from bar seating to lounge seating and good old-fashioned casual dining seating. 2781 E. Atlantic Blvd., 754-205-6977 $

Galuppi’s. AMERICAN What could be more entertaining than watching golfers swing and blimps ascend as you sip a drink at an outdoor bar? 1103 N. Federal Highway, 954-785-0226 $ Gianni’s Italian Restaurant. ITALIAN Enjoy tradi-

tional Italian fare while you talk to the traditional Italian staff. Don’t skip the romaine salad with the blue cheese. Enjoy cocktails from their new full bar.

1601 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954-942-1733 $$

It’s all Greek to me. 165 S. Cypress Road, 954-9469199 $

Houston’s. AMERICAN Enjoy this contemporary eatery for lunch or dinner. Outdoor bar and seating on the Intracoastal available. 2821 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954783-9499 $$$

J Mark’s. AMERICAN A relaxing, modern restaurant

and bar with food and service to match. 1490 N.E. 23 St., 954-782-7000 $$$

La Rachetta at Whole Foods Market. PIZZA AND WINE BAR

Get your shopping done while you take care of your appetite. They offer weekly deals on meals and drinks with lots of beers on tap and wines by the glass. For something different, try the sweet southern swine pizza—a light and crispy pizza topped with pork belly, arugula and cheese. Or try one of the plethora of meatballs—all are a satisfying treat. The truffle fries are great with anything. 2411 N. Federal Highway, 954-942-8778 $ LIGHTHOUSE POINT

FOOD South American inspired seafood. Located in a strip mall, but so are a lot of places—give it a try. 900 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954-785-0014 $

McCoy’s Oceanfront. AMERICAN Located at the

The Gyro Joint. MIDDLE EASTERN Eat in, or carry out.

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shack, for a small seafood town. This is truly one of those best kept secret type places. With only a handful of tables, we’re selfishly hoping not too many people get in on this secret gem in Pompano Beach. 2862 N.E. 17 Ave., 954-586-4105 $$

CAN Get green with a deal every day. 2500 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954-943-3762 $$

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La Veranda. ITALIAN La Veranda is superb. The atmosphere is elegant yet comfortable and warm. Being seated in their namesake veranda is a joy in itself.

Inside or out, one can enjoy a truly special evening in the Tuscany inspired surroundings. Be it drinks from their full bar, a bottle from the copious wine selection or naturally the Italian food, everything is served perfectly, so expect to be delighted. The staff takes pride in ensuring you are having great experience. There is a big selection of pasta, entrées and traditional dishes, with new favorites to be discovered that the wait staff will happily explain. You can taste the love in their homemade scrumptious desserts. If you’re looking to celebrate or simply treat yourselves to an evening of superior dining, La Veranda is an excellent choice. Reservations are suggested. 2121 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954-943-7390 $$

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beautiful Marriott Pompano Beach Resort & Spa, dine indoors or pool-side on the covered patio with the beach as your backdrop. 1200 N. Ocean Blvd., 954-782-0100 $$ ian food served for dinner only. Closed on Mondays.

420 N. Federal Highway, 754-222-9174 $$

Rusty Hook Tavern. AMERICAN Located on the Pompano Intracoastal, sit inside or outside, just keep in mind that the word tavern means a local place to gather around the table. 125 N. Riverside Drive, 954941-2499 $ Sands Harbor Patio Restaurant. SANDWICHES •

WINGS Located in the Sands Harbor Hotel and Marina on the intracoastal, sit poolside or water side, either way, you better know how to swim. 125 N. Riverside Drive, 954-942-9100 $

Seaside Grill. SEAFOOD • AMERICAN Enjoy a view of the Atlantic while enjoying fresh seafood and an ice cold cocktail. Don’t worry if you’re not a fish lover— there are plenty of entrée choices from the land. Located at Lighthouse Cove Resort on the ocean. 1406 N. Ocean Blvd., 954-783-3193 $$

Sette Bello. ITALIAN This is a true gem just south of the Pompano Beach border Expertly prepared Italian food with a bit of a flare—in other words—not like mom used to make…this is way, way better. (No offense to mom.) 6241 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale. 954 351-0505 $$$

Shishka Lebanese Grill. MIDDLE EASTERN It’s not easy to make a good falafel (chick peas, fava beans garlic and cilantro seasoned and deep fried, served with tahini sauce) but the ones at Shishka are worth every single calorie. There are plenty of other choices too from the classic hummus to baba ghanouj to chicken and meat shawarma. 1901 N. Federal Highway, 954-943-2999 $$

Fresh local fish, ocean dishes and seafood salads.

Spanx the Hog BBQ. BARBECUE Using only natural ingredients, dine in, take out, or order custom catering.

147 S. Cypress Road. 954-590-8342 $ Sunset Catch. ITALIAN • SEAFOOD Fresh seafood served daily, and they even have their very own “wine doctor.” 101 N. Riverside Drive. 954-545-0901 $$

Table 2201. MEDITERRANEAN • SEAFOOD Everything at Table 2201 is made on the premises—even the desserts.

We started off our meal with the pygros, a tower of eggplant, potatoes and ground beef topped with a cool yogurt sauce. The dish is reminiscent of the classic Greek dish moussaka, but the cool yogurt sauce replaces the bechemel. Finish off with the Greek yogurt mousse, a lovely lightly sweetened cloud with a hint of cocoa and a strawberry sauce to compliment. Table 2201 has a menu full of your Greek favorites without all of the hooplah. So if you are looking for a genuine Greek dinner without having to dance on tables and yell “opa”— not that there’s anything wrong with that—Table 2201 is a good choice. 2201 E. Atlantic Blvd., 718-600-2236 $$

Take Sushi. JAPANESE • SUSHI Fresh, authentic Japanese fair delivered to your door? Yes, please. 2714 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954-785-2442 $ Talay Thai. THAI Dine on delectable Thai and Japanese dishes, get your food delivered or carry it out. 2233 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954-941-1123 $$

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Umberto’s of Long Island. ITALIAN • PIZZA Family tradition baked into every bite. 2780 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954784-7110 $$ Valentino’s Italian Cuisine. ITALIAN • PIZZA An abundance of Italian fare served for lunch or dinner. If you can’t make it over to dine in, fret not, they offer free delivery. 427 S. Federal Highway, 954-545-4881 $$ Wings ‘N Things. WINGS • BARBECUE It doesn’t look like much from the outside but it’s worth trying it out. 150 S.W. Sixth St., 954-781-9464 $ Yakuza. JAPANESE • THAI Yakuza is an authentic experience. The contemporary Asian anchored décor is a feast for the eyes: warm, inviting and totally unique.

The feeling is authentic and not forced. The attentive servers address each table with personal concern. Central to the dining room is a large classic sushi bar, displaying the fresh fish offerings. But sushi is only part of their menu. Yakuza has a brilliant selection of Japanese and Thai specialties and favorites. Every mouth-watering choice is prepared and presented with care. We were impressed by the freshness and variety of tastes offered. Modern is a fair descriptor as Yakuza offers unique approaches to traditional Japanese and Thai fare, making them new, unique and their own. Try their specials. 2515 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954-951-6077 $$

Zuccarelli. ITALIAN • PIZZA This place is more than just a pizza joint. From eggplant Parmesan to shrimp fra diavlo, you will leave quite satisfied. The portions are generous and come with a fresh house salad. Bring your breath mints because their warm garlic rolls are on point. 1340 N. Federal Highway, 954-941-1261 $$

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Quick & Casual

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Duffy’s Sports Bar and Grill. AMERICAN With more TVs than people, Duffy’s is your destination for all things sports. 401 N. Federal Highway, 954-429-8820

Quick & Casual Biondos Pizza Plus. AMERICAN Have you ever been

in the mood for pizza, but your kids crave burgers and fries? Next time, remember that the “plus” in Biondos Pizza Plus is there to settle the food debate.

606 S. Federal Highway, 954-427-7754.

Bob’s Pizza. PIZZA • ITALIAN Pizza served remarkably

close to the beach—as if pizza could be get any better. 2076 N.E. Second St., 954-426-1030

Burger Craze. BURGERS Top quality ingredients

come together to create unique taste sensations. Enjoy juicy burgers, hot dogs, wings and others daily.

2096 N.E. Second St. (at the Wyndham Hotel), 954596- 5949 $$

Charlie’s Fish Fry. SEAFOOD Fish and chips, lobster bisque, blackened mahi sandwich among other seafood favorites.. 1200 E. Hillsboro Blvd., 954-573-7198 The six slicer at the Sticky Bun in Deerfield Beach.

A satisfying sandwich comprised of six slices of meaty-magical bacon, lettuce, tomato, avocado and a generous slathering of mayonnaise on toasted multi-grain bread. The bacon really is the star here.

Charm City. BURGERS Go ahead, order the tater tots, we know you want to. In fact, order anything on their menu. Try the emperor—an American kobe beef patty with aged Swiss, truffled aioli and sautéed mushrooms—a burger fit for a king. 1136 E. Hillsboro Blvd., 954-531-0300 Coffee Cove. COFFEE SHOP This boutique coffee house is locally owned and operated and is inspired by its location near the intracoastal in Deerfield Beach. This cozy little shop dares to change the feeling of traditional coffee houses, with its bright light colors and beach in-

El Jefe. MEXICAN For a truly inventive take on Mexican street food, this small yet bright and cheery taco joint is full of surprises. Try the El Mistico—a beef barbacoa quesadilla with queso blanco, mole negro and truffle crema. Yes, we said truffles. 27 N. Federal Highway, 954-246-5333 Gelateria. GELATO Cool of with an Italian frozen treat. Offering more than 26 flavors of gelato right by the sea. Open daily from 12pm to 10pm. 2096 N.E. Second St. (at the Wyndham Hotel), 694-428-2850 Mawi’s Cafe. ITALIAN Family owned Italian bistro serving breakfast and lunch all day—paninis, bagels, salads, smoothies and more. 1934 S.E. Third Court, 954-481-8600

The Pickle Barrell. DELICATESSEN Get in touch with your inner New Yorker at this old style deli complete with friendly guys behind the counter filling your sandwich with enough pastrami to feed a family. 33 E Hillsboro Blvd., 954-427-0650 Olympia Flame. DINER With a traditionally huge diner menu, you can’t go wrong at the Olympia Flame. Friendly staff makes you feel like a regular— even if you aren’t—but you should be. 80 S. Federal Highway, 954-480-8402

The Sticky Bun. DELI • BAKERY • BRUNCH. Everyone will find something to munch on, whether it be their flour-less chocolate cake or a short rib panini with fontina cheese and pickled red onions… yum. 1619 S.E. Third Court, 754-212-5569 Tucker Duke’s Lunchbox. BURGERS The names of the burgers are as unique as what’s inside of them. This place can challenge your burger building skills any day of the week. 1101 S. Powerline Road. 954-708-2035

Umberto’s Pizza. PIZZA Family tradition baked into every bite. 233 N.E. 21 Ave., 954-421-7200

LIGHTHOUSE POINT Quick & Casual Burger Fi. BURGERS Everything at Burger Fi is cooked to order which makes it stand apart from some other famous burger places which shall remain nameless. Don’t miss the fries and the larger-than-life onion rings are a meal unto themselves. The breakfast all day burger is topped with a fried egg. 3150 N. Federal Highway, 954-933-7120

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Red Fox Diner. DINER Treat yourself to one of the daily specials at the Red Fox and you just may think that you aren’t at a diner at all—but a bonafide restaurant. But if you are in the mood for some comforting diner food, Red Fox never disappoints. From tuna-melts, to burgers to some of the best biscuits and gravy around, you will always leave satisfied. Breakfast and lunch served daily.

2041 N.E. 36 St., (Sample Road) 954-783-7714

Packy’s Sports Pub. SPORTS BAR If you are looking for a local spot to watch the game, Packy’s always seems to pack them in. 4480 N. Federal Highway, 954-657-8423

Westshore Pizza and Cheesesteak. PIZZA • SUBS Plenty to choose from at this fast-casual joint. Pizza by the slice or the pie, subs and of course the cheesesteaks. Arrive hungry, the cheesesteaks are huge. 3650 N. Federal Highway, 954-393-0322

Jack’s Old Fashion Hamburger House. BURGERS • HOT DOGS Enjoy a burger and tunes on the ol’ jukebox as you sip your milkshake. And top your burger with some of that secret sauce. 591 S. Cypress Road, 954-942-2844

Jersey Dogs. HOT DOGS • ITALIAN Grab a seat at the counter and devour an double Italian which is two all beef hot dogs tucked away in pizza bread and topped with sautéed peppers, potatoes and onions—add a touch of their homemade spicy relish for some kick.

The restaurant also has a seafood night on Wednesdays and an open-mic night on Fridays—but call ahead, the place fills up fast. Yes, this a hot dog joint that accepts reservations. Need we say more? 3330 E. Atlantic Blvd., 754-800-7006

Jukebox Diner. DINER Bright, classic seating, jukeboxes, and that old-school diner feel. 2773 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954-960-5882

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Quick & Casual

old-school eats? Old-school prices. Where else can you get a burger for a few bucks? 143 S. Cypress Road, 954-942-8778

5 Girls Burgers. BURGERS Burgers, better known as broads,

Lester’s Diner. DINER American comfort fare in a retro set-

served by some badass women. A dream come true. 2659 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954-783-8889

ting. 1924 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954-783-2109

Lighthouse Cove Tiki Bar. AMERICAN Seaside eats and hap-

Alice’s Xpress Mediterranean Grill. MEDITERRANEAN Fresh-

py hours. 1406 N. Ocean Blvd., 954-784-2804

ly made and authentic regional cuisine. Open for lunch and dinner. 103 N.E. Third St., 954-941-0410

Miyako. JAPANESE BUFFET Endless sushi and Japanese fare for

Antica Roma Caffé. ITALIAN CAFÉ Thank goodness for places like this, where you can get a classic cappuccino or espresso. They also serve a plethora of Italian panini and desserts.

Cannoli anyone? 1915 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954-366-4346

Bella Monte Italian Deli. SANDWICHES 2688 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954-946-0333

Big Louie’s. ITALIAN • PIZZA A South Florida chain offering classic Italian dishes—get down with a generous portion of chicken Parmesan. 2190 N. Federal Highway, 954-942-5510 Brendans. SPORTS BAR Burgers, wings and more—you get the picture. 868 N. Federal Highway, 954-786-0033

a price that is unbeatable. Hibachi grill for those who don’t do the sushi thing. 1157 S. Federal Highway, 954-783-8883

Pasquale’s Pizza. PIZZA Family owned and operated serving pizza by the pie and by the slice. 2680 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954601-0707 Phil’s Heavenly Pizza . PIZZA Seating indoors and outdoors with gluten free pizza options. 2647 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954943-9270 Pizza Mia. ITALIAN • PIZZA Known for their New York style pizza, but serving much, much more. 3919 N. Federal Highway, 954-582-4444

eats, like a burger served between two glazed donuts. Yes, donuts. 360 E. McNab Road, 954-772-8007

Pudgies Cafe. DELI FOOD • SANDWICHES Serving breakfast and lunch daily, stop in for a burger or an omelette any time any way. 2301 N.E. 16 St., 954-941-1430

Cafe Brie. SANDWICHES • SALADS A little gem of a place that

Rocket Pizza. PIZZA In addition to all your typical pizzas,

serves fantastic sandwiches, salads, quiche and desserts.

2765 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954-532-7800

they also serve a BLT pizza among other original offerings.

601 N. Federal Highway, 954-943-5387

Chez Cafe. COFFEE • BAKERY A warm and cozy place to grab

Steak Shop & Deli. SANDWICHES Everyone needs a cheesesteak now and then. Order one here and you’ll think you’re in the heart of Philly. 1801 E. Sample Road., 954-941-5790

Burgers & Suds. BURGERS • HOT DOGS • SANDWICHES. Unique

breakfast, lunch or a latte.1631 S. Cypress Road, 954-933-3453

Chi-Town. ITALIAN BEEF • CHICAGO HOT DOGS If you call the windy city home and are feeling a bit homesick, you can get your Chicago hot dog fix here. They also serve Italian beef sandwiches and Chicago square cut pizza. 334 E. McNab Road, 954-951-6465

The Dandee Donut Factory. BAKERY • PASTRIES From the classic old fashioned sour cream to Boston cream, these babies are just begging to be dunked. Bagels, breakfast and lunch also available. 1900 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954-785-1461

Cafe Sportivo. CAFE Cash only, but don’t let that stop you.

They are family owned and operated with a variety of espresso drinks. 2219 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954-782-6672

Stingers Pizza. PIZZA • AMERICAN Dine in, or order delivery.

They will bring your pizza to the beach. 1201 S. Ocean Blvd., 954-782-2344 Sunshine Bagel. BAGELS • DELI Serving up bagels and sandwiches in a friendly atmosphere. 260 N. Ocean Blvd., 954788-7498 Tortillería Mexicana. MEXICAN Looking for a taco that goes beyond ground beef and toppings? Not only will they supply you with fresh, unique tacos, but the corn tortillas are made from scratch daily. Bonus! 1614 E. Sample Rd., 954-943-0057 JANUARY 2017 | LIGHTHOUSE POINT

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Even then, some in the tribe undoubtedly thought the scribe had a liberal bias. That’s a whole different topic for another time. Anyway, the big difference now in the dissemination of content is that the gatekeepers of news have changed dramatically. It used to be that newspapers, the networks, the rich and powerful and the government controlled the flow of information. Now, anyone with a device and a connection to the Internet can be the purveyor of distortion and false content.

While this past election has brought this issue to the forefront with ridiculous tweets, television debates where the truth was emaciated before our very eyes, and blatantly false reporting that became all too common, it’s no wonder we hunger for the truth. Complicating matters further, it is important to understand that it’s not just about reporting facts. There are issues surrounding facts that are subject to interpretation.

Reality can be filtered by the news media and further refined by our own individual ideology. We all have some bias that influences the way we see things. We resist when we read or hear things we don’t agree with. We take comfort when what is being said matches our own beliefs.

So where do we turn to find the truth? Who can we trust to interpret data and provide information that is accurate, fair and balanced? A more important question may be: Does it really matter? As terrifying as it seems, there are many out there who seem to be just fine with false news stories — eager to pass them on.

Trust in the established media has eroded over the decades. While that distrust has always been out there, the recent campaign with all the unsavory and uncivil behavior surrounding the election fanned the flames. Bashing journalists and traditional media like newspapers, magazines, radio, television and cable news is a bipartisan sport. Social media

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like Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat, just to mention a few, have millions of readers who could care less about checks and balances, ethics or standards.

Adding to the confusion in this modern world is that we don’t know who is a journalist and who is not. Many of us don’t seem to recognize the difference between a legitimate reporter and some wacko blogger churning out nonsense in mom’s basement.

Further, we find that audiences have fragmented exponentially in less than a generation. Vast numbers of readers and viewers now count on the Internet, personal computers or devices like tablets and smartphones for their information. As traditional media companies have moved to digital, it’s almost impossible for readers to differentiate from one source to another. Publishers call it aggregating content. The real definition is more like stealing information that comes from another source and using it as your own. Credibility is at an all-time low.

But, let’s get back to the terrifying part and how we see it playing out today. Here is a case in point: A CNN correspondent doing a post-election focus group interview of Donald Trump supporters was asking recently about current attitudes. Soon the topic turned to the media and how many in this focus group felt how badly Trump was treated by the media. One woman in particular went on a tirade about dishonest journalists and how she believed that they had done everything possible to derail Trump’s candidacy. “It was all lies,” she said. “You can’t believe anything you get from the media.” The reporter asked if she could provide an example. The woman replied that more than a million illegals had voted for Hillary Clinton at President Obama’s urging, adding further that it was covered up by the mainstream media. The CNN reporter wanted to know where she got that information and why she believed it, since she didn’t trust the media. Her reply: “It was on Facebook.”

As Americans become more polarized, the unscrupulous will seize the opportunity to mislead. It seems today there is an epidemic of fake news. While this election brought out the worst in the political system, there doesn’t seem to be a great deal of change for the better in the immediate future. For those of us who want to be well-informed, the only way to do that is to follow multiple sources of information. Whether it’s social media, traditional media, Internet, digital or printed, we need exposure to all of it. Gravitate to those sources you trust, but don’t stop there. While it’s important to keep an open mind and respect different points of view, you should never accept lies and deceit. As consumers of information we should accept nothing less than the truth.

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