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How does your Cuban Art garden grow?
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More than 300 guests gathered recently to enjoy culinary delights at the 14th Annual Culinary Creations dinner held June 3. Volume 3, Number 8
The Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach will host a free gardening workshop from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, August 15.
Downtown West Palm’s Palm Beach Photographic Centre will present two exhibitions focused on Cuba beginning Aug. 23 and running through Nov. 16.
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THE ACREAGE • LOXAHATCHEE GROVES • ROYAL PALM BEACH • WELLINGTON • WEST PALM BEACH
August 2013
Global challenges
PBA students take ‘trip of a lifetime’ to visit Brazil West Palm’s trolley service is a breeze
Heading to Downtown West Palm? Take advantage of the free trolley service for all your shopping and dining.
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Doctors set to jam at Himmel Theater The 2nd Annual Physicians Talent Showcase featuring an all-physician band, classical guitarist and country-singing hospital CEO is set for Aug. 20.
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We wish every day was sundae! Make plans now to be part of history as the folks at PGA National team up with Luke’s Ice Cream in an attempt to build the “World’s Longest Ice Cream Sundae.” The best part is you get to dig in and eat it afterward!
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Local Happenings ................4, 6 Letters to the Editor.............4, 8 In Brief................................8 Nice and Easy ...................... 10 Arts & Entertainment .............12 Manely Speaking....................13 Community Round-Up ........ 14, 16 Just For the Fun of It ..............17 Outside The Neighborhood ...... 18 Service Directory .............. 18-19 PalmsWestMonthly.com
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A family views the fossil of an Archelon ischyros, the largest of all turtles living or extinct, at the Savage Ancient Seas Exhibit at the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium.
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WEST PALM BEACH — How do you prepare for an important visitor who’s 17 feet wide and weighs 4,500 pounds? You build a bigger science museum. The visitor is Archelon ischyros, the largest turtle ever to swim in the sea. You can gawk at its skeleton in the South Florida Science Center’s new exhibition hall, not far from Tylosaurus proriger, an aquatic lizard 45 feet long. The turtle has been extinct about 65 million years and the lizard nearly 73 million, but our science center has never been more alive. “Savage Ancient Seas: Dinosaurs of the Deep” is the first traveling exhibit to grace the center’s newly expanded, renovated and renamed museum. At a grand opening on June 7, the old South Florida Science Museum officially became the
South Florida Science Center and Aquarium, marking a $5 million expansion that’s seen it grow by a third, from 22,000 to 32,000 square feet. “We were this green building with purple trim and an old logo,” concedes Kate Arrizza, the center’s chief operating officer. “Now we want to be, not just a place where you go to look at science, but a place where you go to do science. The mind remembers what the hands have touched.” Now you can see everything from the real 2,000-year-old mummy of an Egyptian child to an Apollo astronaut’s space suit. At 8,000 gallons, the new aquarium is the largest between Miami and Orlando, home to sharks and stingrays, barracuda, moray eels and a “doughnuthole” design that lets visitors stand in the middle of a coral reef without getting wet. The 4,000 square-foot Florida Exhibit Hall is domi-
nated by an Everglades diorama featuring taxidermied animals native to the area. Press the appropriate button and you’ll hear the Florida panther’s cry or the spoonbill’s song – even the mosquito’s hum. And then there’s “Science in a Sphere,” a 6-foot globe of the Earth that displays data from NASA and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, tracking the movements of great white sharks, solar flares and hurricanes in real time. Oh, and there’s a new parking lot, too. The upgrade has been a long time coming. The South Florida Science Museum debuted on Oct. 21, 1961. “We were a product of the space race,” Arrizza says, “and the Junior League of the Palm Beaches were our founding mothers. Three years later, the fledgling museum doubled in size, and again in 1969. “The country grew,” says Arrizza, “but we didn’t.” Until now. In recent years, a plan to raise $54 million for a new center in Lake Lytal Park had to be abandoned as attendance dwindled and losses rose. Much of the credit for the center’s rebirth belongs to its new CEO, Lew Crampton, who arrived in 2010 to find the planetarium closed and the EXPANSION / PAGE 7
A group of 25 students, faculty and alumni from the Rinker School of Business at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach recently spent 10 days in Brazil during the school’s eighth annual Global Business Trip. The trip was led by Ann Langlois, associate professor of business. Prior to traveling to São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, students spent a semester learning the challenges of doing business in developing countries, specifically Brazil. This trip was first-hand experience in the realities of the social, business and economic environments of Brazil, Langlois said. In Rio de Janeiro, the team visited Green My Favela, a nongovernmental organization working in the Rocinha favela. Rocinha is the largest of the seven favelas – or shantytowns – in Rio, with typical incomes of $100 per week. Green My Favela works with people in the Rocinha community to bring sustainable planting to the area. They convert small outdoor areas into gardens where fruits, vegetables and other greenery are planted that can then be sold at market. This allows residents to create their own sources of food and income. The students planted with residents and visited the favela’s after-school center to paint, teach English and play soccer. “The businesses we visited were more impressive than I BRAZIL / PAGE 9
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M.B.A. student Jessica Lopez demonstrates her iPhone to children at the favela in Rio de Janeiro during a trip to Brazil by students, faculty and alumni of the PBA’s Rinker School of Business.