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Duncan Theatre raises curtain on new season From its new Literature To Life Stage Presentation Series to holiday favorites such as The Nutcracker, it’s a season you won’t want to miss.
Veterans Day
Events planned to honor our heroes Parades to fireworks are planned to honor our veterans on Nov. 11.
SpongeBob comes to town
SpongeBob SquarePants made a surprise visit to the Wellington Tennis Center to greet hundreds of area kids during the USTA Free Tennis Play Day.
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THE ACREAGE • LOXAHATCHEE GROVES • ROYAL PALM BEACH • WELLINGTON • WEST PALM BEACH
November 2012
The Acreage
Music, food and fun take center stage at Fall Festival By CHRISTINE DAVIS Palms West Monthly
Down home barbecue comes to Clematis If Southern comfort food is what you crave, get ready for the latest eatery to open in downtown West Palm Beach.
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Readers invited to eat pizza to fight breast cancer
Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza has joined local residents to raise money to fight breast cancer.
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Fall Fantasy Craft Show comes to RPB Veterans Park in Royal Palm Beach will host the 11th Annual Fall Fantasy Craft Show Nov. 17 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., just in time for your holiday shopping!
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INSIDE Local Happenings ................4, 6 In Brief................................7 Arts & Entertainment ........... 8-9 Nice and Easy ...................... 10 Community Round-Up .............12 Manely Speaking....................13 Outside The Neighborhood .......15 Service Directory .............. 16-17 Just For the Fun of It ............. 18 Classifieds ...........................19 PalmsWestMonthly.com
Photo by Lucien Capehart Photography
From left, Sienna, Nicole and R.J. Munder enjoy cotton candy at the “Princess and Pirate Ball” fund-raiser held at the The Lake Pavilion in downtown West Palm Beach Oct. 7. Proceeds from the event will help support the Pat Reeves Village Shelter.
Princess for a day WEST PALM BEACH — A treasure hunt, face painting, crafts and dancing were the main attractions at the recently held “Princess and Pirate Ball” at the Lake Pavilion in downtown West Palm Beach. Kids Helping Kids, a program of The Center for Family Services, hosted this inaugural fund-raiser, which supports The Pat Reeves Village Shelter, an emergency shelter in West Palm Beach for homeless families with dependent children that’s staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Children of all ages dressed up as princesses and pirates and got to paint their very own Kids Helping Kids piggy banks. The organization encourages kids to earn treasure for the kids at The Pat Reeves Village. Christine’s Hope for Kids will match their gifts. Amie Swan and Abbie Beebe served as chairwomen of the event. For more information about Kids Helping Kids, go online to ctrfam.org.
Photo by Lucien Capehart Photography
Donald and Angelina Cody share a hug at the “Princess and Pirate Ball” fund-raiser held Oct. 7 in West Palm Beach.
THE ACREAGE — As a teenager, Robert Trepp loved going to fairs in his home state of Connecticut. “I remember the Apple Festival – everybody would come to it. “It was an event that the community looked forward to and we all had a good time. I thought it would be neat to do something like that here in The Acreage.” To that end, he organized The Acreage Fall Festival in 2008. Attracting about 4,000 people annually, it looks like others share his nostalgic feelings. “It’s the largest event west of 441,” he said. “And it’s growing. The first year we did this, we had five pit masters for our backyard rib cook-off. Last year, we had 34.” So, come join the fun at this year’s festival that takes place Saturday, Nov. 10 from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. at The Acreage Community Park. There’s a truck, car and bike show, as well as the backyard rib cookoff. There are free kids’ games, an outdoor computerized laser tag game course, bounce houses and two stages of entertainment, headlined by regional and local artists. According to Trepp, the festival keeps improving and it’s FALL FESTIVAL / PAGE 14
Turtle nesting season closes with record-breaking year Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach has documented 7,341 nests – a new record. By RANDALL P. LIEBERMAN Palms West Monthly
High nesting totals for sea turtles this season have given officials at two sea turtle monitoring stations in northern Palm Beach County hope that one day three species of sea turtles can come off the endangered species list. At John D. MacArthur Beach
State Park in North Palm Beach, park manager Don Bergeron said that – as of Oct. 17 – loggerhead sea turtles have laid a record 1,675 nests in their monitoring area, breaking the previous record of 1,308 set in 1995. The season officially comes to a close Oct. 31. Bergeron said leatherback
turtles are also having a recordbreaking season with 93 nests and green sea turtles are consistent with 227 nests. “We are thrilled with the numbers this season,” Bergeron said. “Two-thousand nests on 1.6 miles of beach is exciting and gives
us hope for the future. No one knows for certain why we are seeing an increase in our numbers, but we suspect that the conservation laws and regulations put in place 20 years ago are taking effect.” At Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach, biologist Kelly J. Martin SEE TURTLES / PAGE 13