Palms West Monthly • March 2014 • Page 1
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Palms ms West We IPC hosts students
Break out your Zoo’s big night green at Irish Fest
International Polo Club Palm Beach in Wellington welcomed fourthgraders Jan. 21 to an educational event about the sport of kings.
Downtown West Palm Beach will be a sea of green March 8-9 during Irish Fest on Flagler. Fun includes bagpipes, children’s entertainment, the Dublin Pub Tent and Irish dancers.
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Thanks to nearly 400 guests, the Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society raised $1.19 million at its annual Dinner Dance Jan. 31 at The Breakers with the theme, “A Garden in the Wild.”
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THE ACREAGE • LOXAHATCHEE GROVES • ROYAL PALM BEACH • WELLINGTON • WEST PALM BEACH
TIME TRAVEL
March 2014
Give local actress Candyce Tiffany Lewis 45 minutes and she’ll transport you back in time to World War II-era West Palm Beach. Spreading love on Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day was extra special for a group of seniors as FPL and Meals on Wheels teamed up to spread some love using FPL’s environmentallyfriendly electric vehicles.
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What are the benefits of a personal trainer?
Finding the right personal trainer to assist in reaching your fitness goals can help keep you motivated both in and out of the gym.
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Ante up for ‘Tyler’s Team’ Poker Classic The Palm Beach Kennel Club in West Palm Beach will serve as the site of the annual “Tyler’s Team” Charity Poker Classic, featuring a Texas hold ‘em-style fundraiser Sunday, March 23.
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Local Happenings ................4, 6 In Brief................................8 Nice and Easy ...................... 10 At the Movies .......................12 On Stage .............................12 Health Matters ......................13 Community Round-Up ........ 14, 16 Faces & Places ..................... 18 Outside The Neighborhood ...... 20 Just For the Fun of It ............. 21 Service Directory .............22, 23 PalmsWestMonthly.com
By AMY WOODS Palms West Monthly
WEST PALM BEACH — Uniformed schoolgirls enter the doors of St. Ann’s on Olive Avenue. The owner of The Hut on Flagler Drive serves hamburgers and root-beer floats to teenagers driving convertibles. Servicemen departing for duty from the train station on Tamarind Avenue wave and whistle. That’s what actress Candyce Tiffany Lewis has passengers aboard the Historic Trolley Tours in West Palm Beach believing during an interactive journey through the World War II-era city. “My goal is always to take people away somewhere, get them out of the grump and see their faces light up,” Lewis said. “My goal is for people to learn, enjoy, then walk away with their heart filled with happiness.” The Historic Trolley Tours are in full-steam-ahead mode this season, offering fascinating 45-minute forays into life in the county seat during the 1940s. They are an accurate – and amusing – assessment of the area, departing four times each week from the Richard & Pat Johnson History Museum. “History has always been in my background,” Lewis said. “It just made simple sense to me to be a part of that era and that time, and for the last seven years, I’ve been doing this.” Between 20 and 30 passengers join Lewis, who portrays the character Evelyn Chapman, on a step back in time as Chapman and her black lace dress, satin gloves and ruffly parasol embody the detailed script written by Leesa Gordon of Just Peachy Productions. “My goal was to create a tour that was really engrossing and wasn’t just, ‘Here on your right, here on your left,’ “ Gordon said. “We’ve all seen those tours. I wanted people to feel like they’re taking a tour with a real person – that they were in real time in West Palm Beach.” Gordon read books about the city’s history, raided the archives at the Historical
Society of Palm Beach County and identified important landmarks regardless of – as in the case of The Hut – whether they were still standing. “We basically came up with, here are the places that we think people should see, and then we had to think about the routing,” she said. “Knowing the landmarks and where they are and a little bit about them, I created this story.” The story weaves wartime with West Palm Beach’s architectural style, development movement, fashion district and real-estate boom, adding in factual characters such as Cornelius McGillicuddy, the longest-serving manager in Major League Baseball history, whose Philadelphia Athletics Springtrained on a field
TOUR INFORMATION: WHEN: Tours take place at 3 and 4 p.m. Fridays; and 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Saturdays through April. WHERE: The Richard & Pat Johnson History Museum at 300 N. Dixie Hwy. COST: $5 per person; children 10 and under are free. IF YOU GO: Reservations are required. Call (561) 833-8873.
that eventually made way for the Kravis Center’s parking garage. “I wanted them to know that Palm Beach County has a really deep history that has SEE TOUR / PAGE 13
Photo submitted by The King’s Academy
The King’s Academy 11th-grader Sara Basore soars high as the cheerleading team performs a “Kick Full Basket toss” at the Competitive Cheerleading Championship in Kissimmee held Feb. 1.
TKA wins state cheer competition By AMY WOODS Palms West Monthly
Local actress Candyce Tiffany Lewis, aka Evelyn Chapman, in full costume.
It was the Lady Lions of The King’s Academy versus the Lady Warriors of West Nassau High School in competitive cheerleading’s state championship – and the West Palm Beach school prevailed. The girls, competing Feb. 1 in Kissimmee, performed flawlessly to defeat their rivals and last year’s state champions by five points in the Class 1A Small NonTumbling Division. They beat 25 other teams to secure the title. It was the school’s fifth consecutive State Championship. “This year, TKA competed with 12 girls on the floor, putting us in a different division for states,” varsity coach Tim Pike said. “We would have to face the defending state champion and national runners-up, West Nassau High School. Our athletes hit an incredible routine, and while holding the last move of their finals routine, they knew, the coaches knew and everyone TKA / PAGE 13