The Coastal Star October 2019

October 2019

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Delray Beach

Rising seas threaten wastewater systems

Gretsas gets commission nod for city manager

By Rich Pollack Sea level rise isn’t just coming, it’s already here.

Sea levels in South Florida rose an average of 3 to 5 inches between 1992 and 2015, according to estimates from the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact, and are expected to rise another 3 to 5 inches by 2030.

The impact can be seen on coastal streets that flood during high or king tides and on beaches where storms like Hurricane Dorian eroded the sand and pushed the ocean closer and closer to the dune line.

“Seasonal high tides are already higher than they’ve been in the past,” says Rebecca Harvey, Boynton Beach’s sustainability coordinator and the steering committee coordinator for the Coastal Resilience Partnership, which includes eight coastal south Palm Beach County communities.

What most of us won’t see is the impact sea level rise is having underground.

There, aging centralized sewage treatment systems and older septic systems — some dating back to the 1960s — are interacting with rising groundwater.

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By Jane Smith

The Delray String Quartet opened the Music at St. Paul’s season Sept.

22 with its first of several shows at its new venue at the church.

Cultural guide

The cultural season has returned with concerts, theatrical productions, art exhibitions and other events that enrich each day. Be sure to see what’s on tap in the ArtsPaper season preview.

See RISE on page 8

Pay it Forward AT2 Celebrations - Page AT4 Dining - Page AT6 Calendar - Page AT27

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Your guide to the 2019-2020 cultural scene Pages AT7-26

Illustration by Rollin McGrail

In the Around Town section, Pages 7-26.

Boca Raton painter Sue Gurland greets other artists during a Delray Beach Art League exhibit at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church the same day. Her painting, Black Panther Dreaming of Peace, is at left. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

City commissioners selected Homestead City Manager George Gretsas to the same job in Delray Beach on Oct. 1 with the hope that he will bring much-needed stability to City Hall.

Gretsas, who will be Delray’s fourth new city manager in six years, will start Jan. 1 at a salary of $265,000, a 23% increase over his Homestead salary of Gretsas $215,384.

He agreed to no salary increases for the first two years.

The vote was 3-2 with Commissioner Adam Frankel and Vice Mayor Shirley Johnson voting no.

Frankel called the contract “exorbitant,” and Johnson said Gretsas was demanding too much.

Gretsas, 51, has to give Homestead three months’ notice, Delray Beach Mayor Shelly Petrolia said. Homestead officials could not be reached for comment at press time.

Gretsas was passed over in September in favor of Tamarac City Manager Michael Cernech, See MANAGER on page 15

South Palm Beach

Roadworthy, readworthy: 50 years of bookmobile

By Ron Hayes

Mike Cavanaugh enters the bookmobile in South Palm Beach, where it stops on Fridays. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

Dog World

Canine retreat opens in Boynton.

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Express lanes

I-95 work between Glades, Linton to start next year.

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On April 15, 1969, the Palm Beach County Commission met to buy a bookmobile.

If the commission approved the contract, this bookmobile would be built by the Gerstenslager Co. of Wooster, Ohio, would arrive within 90 days and would cost the taxpayers $30,500.90.

Four of the five commissioners were on board.

Commissioner Robert F. Culpepper of Jupiter wasn’t.

“I’m not voting against the bookmobile,” he

An artful sisterhood

Meet the ladies whose work fills the sales tables of Holly House at First Presbyterian.

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announced. “I’m voting against the expensive bookmobile.”

“There’s no such thing as an inexpensive bookmobile,” Commissioner E.W. Weaver told him after the vote.

“Well,” Culpepper said, “I just hope it will be used.”

The Palm Beach County Library System’s first bookmobile hit the road 50 years ago this month, in October 1969. Commissioner Culpepper could visit the South Palm Beach Town Hall any Friday See BOOKMOBILE on page 12

House of the Month

An inside peek at a Point Manalapan property.

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Advertising Executives Mike Mastropietro Jay Nuszer

Publisher Jerry Lower publisher@thecoastalstar.com

News Operations Tracy Allerton Chad Armstrong Sara Babb Kathleen Bell Brad Betker Henry Fitzgerald Victoria Preuss Michelle Quigley Clare Shore Scott Simmons Michele Smith Margot Street Tom Warnke Amy Woods

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Seeking a better option than plastic for paper deliveries

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lastic is everywhere.

I walk the beach most mornings and pick it up all along the way. I pull bottle caps and fast-food cups out of my front hedge with some regularity. The amount of discarded plastic I see is overwhelming.

This summer on a family vacation we visited Connecticut and Rhode Island and found ourselves impressed with how many places have banned singleuse plastics. I figured many people would be upset with not getting a plastic bag each time they made a purchase, or would complain about straws and eating utensils made from alternative products, but surprisingly everyone basically shrugged and said “you get used to it.” And we did. Never once was it a problem.

So when I got home, I thought I should begin supporting some of the local groups pushing to ban single-use plastics, but then I saw that the town of Palm Beach was forced to rescind its single-use plastic ban after learning an appellate court had upheld the Florida Legislature’s preemption against local bans of plastic bags and polystyrene containers.

Oh, Florida.

Sadly, I wasn’t surprised.

So, I decided to look closely at my own consumption of single-use plastics and polystyrene containers. I found we do pretty well at home, but lousy at the office.

All the take-out food containers we throw in the trash each week (way too many) are bad enough, but each month The Coastal Star is inserted in a single-use plastic slip in hopes of keeping it dry when it’s delivered.

So what can we do about

the plastic wrapping our newspaper?

We know digital-only publishing is not profitable.

We’d go out of business in a heartbeat if we were digital-only. Same thing with becoming subscriber-based rather than being a total market publication. We must make a profit or we won’t be able to continue providing quality, locally produced journalism.

So, how else could we deliver our print newspaper?

We’re open to ideas.

Using the U.S. Postal Service is one option The Coastal Star is weighing. But that’s not a cheap or easy route. We are working out the numbers, but so far it appears this delivery method cuts too deeply into our bottom line.

Every business has its challenges adapting to a changing world, and maybe no business is facing more challenges than newspapers.

But that just makes the job more interesting.

Some of the nation’s best and brightest business people live in our area, and many of them are readers who tell us how much they value local news. Plus, we believe everyone along the coast would like to see less singleuse plastic tossed in their driveways.

We’re all in this together, so we’re hopeful you’ll let us know your suggestions on how we keep our company viable, but eliminate the plastic.

To make suggestions, email me at Editor@thecoastalstar. com or Publisher Jerry Lower at Publisher@ thecoastalstar. com.

— Mary Kate Leming, Editor

Amy Kazma, honorary chairwoman of the Woman Volunteer of the Year luncheon, sits with her cockapoo Remy, 10, and mini Australian shepherd Spartacus, 6. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

Junior League led Boca mom to embrace life as volunteer

By Margie Plunkett

Amy Kazma of Boca Raton recently became an empty nester, but she has plenty to keep her occupied.

For one, she has been named honorary chairwoman of this year’s Woman Volunteer of the Year luncheon, an annual event that celebrates women nominated by nonprofits throughout Palm Beach County.

The luncheon and fashion show, put on by the Junior League of Boca Raton, will be Nov. 8 at the Boca Raton Resort & Club.

Kazma, 55, has been a member of the Junior League for about 16 years, supporting the organization along with her husband, Mike. The luncheon “is such an incredible event for the community. … They recognize women who are doing volunteer work through various organizations. This year they have 38 women nominated, who are from 38 organizations in Palm Beach County.

“When they asked me, I was honored to say the least,” Kazma said.

Kazma’s responsibilities as honorary chairwoman include championing the event in the community, as well as hosting the nominee reception Oct. 10 at the resort’s Spa Garden.

That event is attended by all the nominees plus past winners.

Kazma will know she has succeeded in her role “if everybody enjoys themselves and feels special,” she said.

Kazma and her husband are involved with a variety of other local organizations, including

If You Go

What: Woman Volunteer of the Year luncheon, hosted

by Junior League of Boca Raton When: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Nov. 8 Where: Boca Raton Resort & Club Tickets: $150 for general seating More info: www.jlbr.org/ woman-volunteer-of-theyear-2 the Florence Fuller Child Development Centers, the Boca Raton Historical Society, Boca Raton Regional Hospital, the George Snow Scholarship Fund and Boca Helping Hands. The family also is part of the Kazma Family Foundation, a nonprofit that grants scholarships and supports education.

The Kazmas moved to Boca Raton 23 years ago. Mike is CEO of Amzak Capital Management. Amy credits him with being a big part of her ability to get involved in the community, by “supporting me and allowing me to make commitments to different organizations financially as I see fit. He doesn’t like the limelight — he likes to sit in the shadows. But he’s always supporting me,” she said.

Their two children, Jennifer, 20, and Nicholas, 18, now attend university, leaving the empty nesters home with their two dogs, Remy and Spartacus.

When Amy Kazma, who has a bachelor of science in communications and public relations from the University of Southern Indiana, first arrived here she didn’t know a soul, she recalls.

She felt fortunate to be a stay-at-home mom, but her husband traveled frequently.

After having her second child, she decided she needed to find something for herself. That’s when she was introduced to the Junior League. She found it a good fit. While it has provided an outlet for her community spirit, it also has altered her personal life.

“Through all my volunteerism is where I’ve found my closest friends,” Kazma said. “When you volunteer, that’s where you find people who are like-minded, because they’re there for the same reasons you are.

“Volunteerism has been a huge part of my life, not just in the time I have spent there, but what it has brought to my life with the friendships and the satisfaction of being able to be involved with these organizations and help out in a small way,” she said.

When Kazma has spare time, she loves to go to the beach with her girlfriends. She and her husband enjoy boating, traveling and hiking when they spend time at their Colorado home. “And now that I’m an empty nester, I can do all those things,” she said.

What does Kazma most hope to achieve in her lifetime?

“I really would like to be looked upon as someone who was a nice individual who cared about my family and friends and the community — and was fortunate enough to be able to share my time, talent and treasure in that community with my friends and family.” Ú

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Manalapan

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Manalapan officials were just about ready to break into a round of high-fives in August when it appeared the Florida Department of Transportation was finally approving a flashing warning sign for the troublesome S-curve on the 1500 block of State Road A1A, a little more than a mile south of Town Hall.

But not so fast. Remember, the FDOT approval process is always a long and winding road.

Days after state officials indicated they were satisfied, they abruptly changed course and said more research is needed.

“There was a report done, and we were told it was going to move forward and move up the chain at FDOT,” Town

Manager Linda Stumpf said last month. “Then we were told, ‘Oops. Oops. No, we’re going to do another study.’’’

For more than a decade, Manalapan has been trying to persuade the state to address the high accident rate at the Chillingworth Curve, sometimes known as the Bentley Curve for the luxury vehicles that have met their demise there.

Former Police Chief Clay Walker petitioned the FDOT for help in 2009. Current Police Chief Carmen Mattox has been working with the agency for most of the past year.

State officials last month told Mattox they want to collect more speed data before moving forward. They also said they were concerned that the flashing lights might annoy residents at the curve.

Studies already completed show at least 17 crashes have occurred there since 2012, most of them at night.

Stumpf said the town is committed to working with the state to find ways to cut the accident rate at the curve.

“We’ll keep pushing,” she said. “This is a safety issue.

We’re not happy it’s been halted.”

In other business, the Town Commission gave final approval to an ordinance that updates the building rules for the Plaza del Mar area, Manalapan’s only commercial zone.

With the new ordinance, the commission lifts the construction moratorium that has been in place since last year.

At least one business owner has been waiting for the moratorium to end. Sandra Foschi plans to move forward with renovations to the former BB&T building at the northeast corner of the plaza.

Foschi hopes to turn the property, which she bought in April for $1.6 million, into a health and wellness center that offers sports medicine, yoga and nutritional support. Ú

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Ocean Ridge

Commission to revisit supermajority vote, may put issue on ballot

By Dan Moffett

Ocean Ridge commissioners are poised to take a second look at a charter amendment referendum proposal that would require a four-vote supermajority to change the town’s density or height requirements for new construction projects.

The measure came before the commission in November and was rejected with a 3-2 vote.

Supporters say the change is needed to rein in the influence of aggressive developers.

Opponents believe the supermajority requirement would allow a twocommissioner minority to obstruct the will of the majority, shifting the balance of power the wrong way.

During the Sept. 9 town meeting, Vice Mayor Don Magruder said he wanted to bring the issue up for discussion again at the commission’s Oct. 7 meeting, which would enable the proposal to go to the voters in the next municipal election.

Magruder said he’s heard “over and over again” from residents who worry that if the town converts from septic tanks to a municipal sewer system, it could open the door to unbridled development and

redevelopment. The issue is under preliminary study.

“I think we need to bring this back for a first reading in October,” he said. “Then in November we can have a second reading, then we can put it as a referendum in March.”

What’s different this time around is the makeup of the commission.

In November, then-Mayor Jim Bonfiglio, then-Vice Mayor Steve Coz and Commissioner Phil Besler joined to vote down the proposal. MaGruder and Commissioner Kristine de Haseth were on the losing side.

Bonfiglio has since left the commission, and Commissioner Susan Hurlburt now holds his seat. Whether the charter amendment moves forward appears to come down to which side Hurlburt takes.

During her campaign last spring, Hurlburt seemed to oppose the amendment. The commission has to be “ahead of the game,” she said, “and you don’t need a supermajority to do that.”

Hurlburt, in an email to The Coastal Star after the Sept.

9 meeting, said she is still studying the matter: “I have not made up my mind … gathering info/input and expect to hear quite a bit more about the

question before and during the next Commission meeting.”

Besler said he believes the supermajority issue should be kicked back to the town’s charter review committee, which originally recommended the idea last year. He said he is concerned about unintended consequences.

“Why are you bringing this up?” Besler asked. “Because you’re worried about sewers or because you want a second bite of the apple with a new commissioner?”

He said a conversion from septic to sewer would take years, so the commission has ample time to examine the

supermajority proposal fully.

“Basically, I agree with everything you want to accomplish,” he said. “But I’m afraid that you’re not going to accomplish what you want to accomplish.”

Coz was absent for the September meeting. De Haseth said she’s “in full support” of bringing the proposal back and then letting voters decide.

In other business: With a 3-1 vote, commissioners approved setting the tentative millage cap for the 2019-2020 budget at $3.35 per $1,000 of taxable property value.

De Haseth voted no, arguing the commission should set the

rate slightly higher and take less from reserves to narrow the budget deficit.

Town Manager Tracey Stevens said it might take as much as $296,367 from reserves to balance the budget. The town has a long list of stormwater and drainage repairs to make, and it had to increase the salaries of employees after a survey showed Ocean Ridge had fallen behind pay scales in neighboring communities.

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Continued from page 1 For centralized sewage treatment systems, rising groundwater brought on by sea level rise will mean the potential for groundwater and stormwater to enter into pipes, forcing the systems to treat more water than planned. That could overwhelm the capacity of treatment plants and is likely to increase the cost of treatment, which would be passed on to users of the system.

“It costs more money to treat, which means everyone pays more,” said Colin Groff, Boynton Beach’s assistant city manager for public services.

Already municipalities are preparing for rising groundwater by lining pipes and enhancing lift stations to make them less susceptible to rising water levels.

Sea level rise and the interaction between septic systems and rising groundwater is even more problematic.

Simply put, sea level rise reduces the area of unsaturated soil between the bottom of a septic system’s drain field and the groundwater. That means there is less soil for the sewage effluent to percolate through.

With reduced percolation, more nutrients — and more fecal coliform bacteria — can make their way into groundwater.

“During times of elevated groundwater levels, septic systems cannot function as designed,” concluded a report produced by MiamiDade County and released in November. “Improperly functioning septic systems can pose an immediate public health risk. There are also many financial and environmental risks, including contamination of the freshwater aquifer, which is the community’s sole source of potable water.”

People who study climate change say municipalities can take steps to mitigate the problems. Although those steps vary greatly for centralized systems versus on-site treatment

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Drain field Percolation & purification

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SOURCE: 2018 Miami Dade Septic System vulnerability report

As water levels rise, septic systems can be compromised by flooded tanks or the lack of unsaturated soil under the drain fields, even at higher ground floor elevations. systems — septic tanks and package plants — they have a common denominator.

All cost money, and that might not always be easy to come by — in part because what’s underground is not always top of mind.

“If people aren’t seeing the impact, they may be less willing to pay for the infrastructure that’s necessary,” said Katie Hagemann, Miami-Dade County’s resilience program manager for adaptation and one

of the contributors to the report.

Miami-Dade, perhaps ground zero for sea level rise in Florida if not the country, is focusing on reducing the number of parcels with septic systems — estimated at more than 105,000.

Sea level rise and centralized systems

With groundwater levels increasing as a result of sea level rise, municipalities in south Palm Beach County are taking steps to keep their systems operating efficiently.

Among the challenges facing centralized systems is the possibility of water from the outside entering into the pipes through ways known as inflow and infiltration.

Although pipes in utility systems are often already

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has an interactive website that lets you find a specific location and then allows you to see models of potential sea level rise. https://coast.noaa.gov/ digitalcoast/tools/slr.html immersed, increased groundwater can put additional pressure on gravity lines and that can result in more water entering the system through cracks or ruptures, Groff said.

That infiltration could result in hundreds of thousands of gallons of water that doesn’t need to be treated entering the system every day. That would mean pumps having to operate more frequently to push water through sewage systems and centralized plants having to do unnecessary treatment that would stress their capacity.

“If you don’t deal with it at the source, it can create a domino effect,” says Chris Helfrich, director of utility services for Boca Raton.

To prevent intrusion, some local municipalities are lining older pipes with a thin epoxy-

infused fabric that expands and hardens into a rigid liner.

Another issue facing centralized systems is the inflow of stormwater from the surface through manholes. As streets flood during heavy storms or king tides, water can seep into gravity lines through holes in manhole covers. Those holes are necessary in most cases to allow gases from the lines to escape.

In an effort to minimize inflow, some municipalities such as Boca Raton add a bowllike device into the manhole to catch stormwater.

Local utility systems are also taking steps to prevent water from entering lift stations by raising the concrete tops and electrical panels higher above ground.

The cost to do both is minimal, Helfrich said.

Although it’s possible for rising groundwater to push pump stations up, buoyance issues aren’t common, Helfrich said, in part because water in the wet wells of the stations adds weight.

Sea level rise and on-site treatment systems

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Gulf Stream

By Steve Plunkett

Town wants to know price of putting in sewers

Following the lead of Ocean Ridge, Gulf Stream will ask its engineering consultants to estimate what it would cost to build a municipal sewer system.

Mayor Scott Morgan told town commissioners Sept. 13 that he had spoken with Ocean Ridge officials after state Rep. Mike Caruso, R-Delray Beach, in August warned Gulf Stream to expect a mandate from the state for septic-to-sewer transition in the future.

“This will be very expensive — I think the person in Ocean Ridge used the word ‘disastrously’ expensive,” Morgan said.

Gulf Stream evaluated its septic system “some 20 years

ago,” the mayor said. “I think that it would be prudent for us … to engage our engineering firm, Baxter and Woodman, to bring that report from the ’90s up to speed, evaluate what it would take to transition the entire town over to sewer.”

Commissioner Joan Orthwein said the previous estimate was “astronomical.”

“I don’t know how the state can mandate to put that kind of financial burden on the individual. I just don’t see that,” Orthwein said.

Caruso “is willing to help us and other local towns within his district approach the state for funding to assist that transition,” Morgan said. “He stressed that there is a push in Tallahassee to advance this

issue faster than most of us thought was what it would be.”

Ocean Ridge has paid its engineering firm to determine the scope of work and estimated price and a financial adviser to recommend ways to finance such a project, Morgan said. “That number could be very high,” he said.

About a third of the homes in Gulf Stream’s Core area connect to a private sewer system.

“The engineering firm should consider whether that sewer will continue as is or whether it would be brought into a new, modern, municipalgrade sewer that we would take responsibility for or whether it would be left in the condition it currently is and taken over by

the town,” Morgan said.

New homes and those undergoing extensive renovations are required to connect to the private sewer system if they are close to it.

“And it’s really not designed as a municipal sewer. It wasn’t built that way,” Morgan said.

Town Manager Greg Dunham will attend an Oct. 7 septic-to-sewer workshop in Jacksonville hosted by the state Department of Environmental Regulation, as will Town Manager Tracey Stevens of Ocean Ridge.

“Because we know that it is going to be such a large, long-term, very expensive project, we’ve put together a citizens advisory board to help the staff do some of the

heavy lifting,” said Ocean Ridge Commissioner Kristine de Haseth, who monitors Gulf Stream meetings as executive director of the Florida Coalition for Preservation.

Multifamily residences on State Road A1A north of Sea Road, which Gulf Stream annexed in 2011, have sewer service from Boynton Beach.

Orthwein said a conversion would hit hardest on the south end of town, which does not have either a private system or connections to Boynton Beach.

“So really you’re talking where the golf club goes down to George Bush [Boulevard],” she said. Ú

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Continued from page 8 how well many of the 50,000plus septic systems in Palm Beach County work, especially those closest to the ocean.

“On the barrier island there could be a big problem with on-site systems, whether septic systems or package plants, because it doesn’t take much for them to be under water,” Groff said.

In conventional septic systems, effluent from tanks enters into a drain field and then percolates through soil where many of the nutrients, such as nitrogen, as well as fecal coliform bacteria, are removed naturally before the effluent reaches the groundwater.

Florida requires that the layer of unsaturated soil — the area between the bottom of the drain field and the top of the water table — be 24 inches deep.

As groundwater rises, however, according to the Miami-Dade County report, that layer of soil may no longer meet the depth requirement in many parts of Miami-Dade.

The report best explains how rising sea levels will affect that process and cause septic systems to malfunction.

“Because much of the treatment of wastewater relies upon the unsaturated soil below the drain field, treatment and disposal are less effective as more of the soil becomes permanently saturated with rising groundwater resulting from sea level rise,” the report says. “A higher groundwater table reduces the volume of soil available to treat and dispose of the wastewater, which increases the likelihood of failure and contamination.”

One of the challenges with septic systems is that failure is not always easy to detect.

Toilets will still flush and homeowners will be unaware that groundwater levels are too high to ensure effluent is effectively treated. In some cases, if groundwater levels are extremely high, residents may

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compromised septic systems because of the disinfectant process, well water can easily be contaminated.

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Preparing for sea level rise

Pipes, pumps and the rising cost of wastewater disposal notice squishy wet spots on their lawns.

“If you can’t see it, chances are you don’t know it’s happening,” said state Rep. Mike Caruso, R-Delray Beach, whose district includes parts of coastal Palm Beach County.

Researchers who put together the Miami-Dade County report, which was sparked by a request from a county commissioner and is one of the few comprehensive reports examining sea level rise and septic systems, estimate that more than half of the septic systems in that county are periodically compromised during storms or wet years.

That number is expected to rise from 56% now to about 64% by 2040, according to the report.

While drinking water provided by public utilities is not threatened by failed or

Throughout South Florida local governments are preparing their centralized systems for sea level rise. Most municipalities are using the latest technology to examine sewer pipes to make sure they haven’t been damaged by tree roots, corrosion or age.

In south Palm Beach County, municipalities formed the Coastal Resilience Partnership and received grants to help cover the cost of a comprehensive climate change vulnerability assessment. The eight area governments that have signed an agreement to pay for the cost of the study are Boca Raton, Highland Beach, Delray Beach, Ocean Ridge, Boynton Beach, Lantana, Lake Worth Beach and Palm Beach County.

While most communities are being proactive, they still face challenges — one of the biggest being the expense of preparing for an event with a timeline that

is difficult to identify.

“There’s a need to work before we see the impacts and we’re not able to predict how soon those impacts will come,” Hagemann said.

In fact, the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact — a collaboration including representatives from Palm Beach, Broward, MiamiDade and Monroe counties — is in the process of updating projections on how soon seas will reach certain levels.

One factor to consider in doing those calculations could be the increasing prevalence of strong tropical systems approaching the coast.

A recent study conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration concludes that sea level rise combined with tropical storms could create even greater problems for septic and sewer systems because the two together will push more water into coastal areas than either one would individually.

In Miami-Dade, conversion from septic to centralized sewer is perhaps the most

viable option, and the county is looking at how to pay for it and where to begin.

In Ocean Ridge, where residents depend on septic systems and package plants, a Septic to Sewer Citizens Advisory Committee is looking at the feasibility of converting to a centralized system.

“It is obvious that action must be taken to protect our environment and quality of life in Ocean Ridge, but what action?” asked Vice Mayor Don MaGruder, who has been attending meetings of the coastal resiliency partnership.

In Gulf Stream, town leaders are asking their engineering consultant to look into the feasibility of septic-to-sewer conversion.

Caruso, who earlier this year sponsored an unsuccessful bill calling for periodic inspection of septic tanks, says the time for action is now.

“We need to rethink our infrastructure and make accommodations for sea level rise,” he said. “It’s expensive — but we can’t ignore it.” Ú

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Town approves new contract for manager

By Dan Moffett

The South Palm Beach Town Council has rewarded Town Manager Robert Kellogg with a one-year contract that lifts the interim status he has worked under since taking the job in December.

“I think that with services the town have received from this town manager and the monies that were spent, we have a tremendous bargain right now,” Councilman Mark Weissman said in endorsing Kellogg’s new contract.

The vote was 4-1 on Sept.

24, with Councilwoman Stella Gaddy Jordan dissenting.

Jordan argued that the manager’s position should be a part-time job and that the agreement with Kellogg should be extended only until January, then reevaluated.

“I do not think for a town this size that a full-time manager is needed,” she said.

Councilman Bill LeRoy disagreed.

“Mr. Kellogg is an asset to us,” he said. “To cut the position back to part-time — it’s absurd.”

Weissman said Kellogg had proved his value to the town over the last nine months and demonstrated why a full-time manager is essential. “The town does not operate on a part-time basis,” he said. “This is not a part-time position.”

Kellogg, in making his case for a new contract to the council, cited three ways he has saved taxpayers money: • Moving town reserves into investment funds that pay a significantly higher rate of return and are likely to bring in $100,000 more annually.

• Changing the vendor for internet technology services to a company that has improved performance, with a savings of about $26,000 a year.

• Managing the hiring and a tight budget of the Police Department before the takeover by the Palm Beach County

October 2019

PBSO Swearing-in Ceremony Town Hall, South Palm Beach — Oct. 1

Final tax rates

South County taxing agencies have finalized their budgets for 2019-2020. Here are their property tax rates per $1,000 of taxable value.

Boca Raton city* $3.68 Boca Beach & Park $0.91 Briny Breezes $10.00 Delray Beach $6.86 Gulf Stream $3.86 Highland Beach $3.80 Lantana $3.50 Manalapan $3.03 Ocean Ridge $5.35 South Palm Beach** $3.59 * Boca Raton households also pay a $145 fire assessment fee. ** Pending final approval at Oct. 4 budget hearing.

Sheriff’s Office. He said that could save $70,000.

“I know there has been discussion about reducing this position to part-time,” Kellogg told the council. “But I do not know any community that has a $2.5 million operation and $4.5 million in the bank that has a part-time employee.”

Mayor Bonnie Fischer sided with Kellogg and commended him for his work on the beach stabilization and restoration efforts. Fischer said a oneyear contract, with a one-year renewal option, is the right compromise between part-time and the longer term agreement Kellogg preferred.

Vice Mayor Robert Gottlieb agreed. “I believe in compromise,” Gottlieb said, “and a one-year contract is good compromise.”

Town Attorney Glen Torcivia said he would negotiate terms of the agreement with Kellogg, who is expected to earn about $104,000 a year. Before coming to South Palm Beach, Kellogg, 66, worked as town manager in Hillsboro Beach and Sewall’s Point.

He is the fourth manager South Palm Beach has had in the last five years. Ú

Sheriff Ric Bradshaw administers the oath of office to former South Palm Beach police officers at Town Hall on Oct. 1. The former South Palm officers are now deputies in District 19 of the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office following the town’s decision to no longer maintain its own public safety department in favor of a 10-year contract for service with PBSO. More than 100 residents, family members and sheriff’s deputies and brass were present for the event, which was followed by a catered dinner. ABOVE: Sheriff Bradshaw (left front) with (l-r) new PBSO Deputies LaForte, Alexandre, Ciraolo, Hull, Farrish and Ladda and new Sgt. Mark Garrison (far right). Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star.

Police officer resigns after arrest but is contesting charges

By Dan Moffett

Not everyone in the South Palm Beach Police Department made the transition to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office this month.

On Aug. 30, South Palm patrol Officer Jose Miguel Fernandez resigned from the department, facing misdemeanor charges of stalking and installing a GPS tracking device that were brought by the sheriff’s deputies he had hoped to join. The town suspended Fernandez shortly after he was booked and posted a $500 bond at Palm Beach County Jail on Aug. 28. Fernandez is contesting the charges against him, and court records show he has a hearing scheduled for Nov. 1.

“The South Palm Beach Police Department holds its employees to a high standard and this is a complete breach of trust to the residents of South Palm Beach,” said outgoing Police Chief Mark Garrison, who became a sergeant with the Sheriff’s Office when the sheriff took over his department on Oct. 1.

The charges against Fernandez grew out of a complaint Garrison received in July from a resident who said he found a GPS device on his

wife’s vehicle. The husband told police his wife had a yearlong affair with Fernandez. He said the affair had ended and his wife believed the officer since then was using the device to follow her.

Garrison turned the investigation over to the Sheriff’s Office. According to a sheriff’s report, deputies traced the GPS tracker to Fernandez and interviewed him at his home on Aug. 16.

Fernandez told the deputies, the report said, that he had purchased the device and admitted putting it on the woman’s vehicle. He told investigators he did it because he was concerned about retribution from the woman’s husband.

He denied stalking the woman.

South Palm Beach hired Fernandez, 50, in November 2016. Before coming to the town he worked three years as a patrol officer next door in Manalapan. Before that he spent 21 years with the New York City Police Department, according to his employment application with the town, retiring with the rank of lieutenant.

Fernandez, who is originally from the borough of Queens, said on his application he completed three years of criminal justice study at Empire State University. Ú

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Boca Raton The proposed ‘diverging diamond’ interchange would have eastbound and westbound traffic on Glades Road switch sides while crossing I-95.

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Construction on I-95 express lanes to start next year; Glades interchange next

By Mary Hladky The next phase of Interstate 95 construction in south Palm Beach County will begin early next year, with the work covering the span from just south of Glades Road to south of Linton Boulevard.

The $148 million project includes the addition of two northbound and two southbound express lanes, and the complete redesign of the Glades Road interchange.

The Florida Department of Transportation is planning a “construction open house” to provide more information to the public in January at Boca Raton’s Spanish River Library, Andi Pacini, a spokeswoman for the project, told Boca Raton City Council members on Sept. 23. A firm date is not yet set.

The roadwork will take more than three years, with completion expected in 2023.

After the express lanes are added, I-95 will have four regular northbound and southbound lanes. Drivers will be able to use the express lanes for travel all the way south to Miami and north to Linton Boulevard.

Motorists will use SunPass to pay express lane tolls, which will vary depending on the time of day and congestion.

A date for construction to begin on the Glades Road interchange has not yet been set.

The contractor for the work, Prince Contracting, will use a new “diverging diamond” design for the interchange. The design already has been used for an interchange in Sarasota and two interchanges in MiamiDade County.

Drivers should have no problem navigating the new design, officials told council members.

The portion of the

The next edition of The Coastal Star will be delivered on the weekend of Nov. 2

interchange that runs east and west over I-95 will include a bicycle lane and a 10-foot-wide pedestrian walkway.

The project will begin as

work wraps up on the stretch of I-95 running from just south of Glades Road to south of Southwest 10th Street in Deerfield Beach. Ú

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BOOKMOBILE

About the bookmobile

Continued from page 1

morning to see how much it’s being used today.

The bookmobile stops at 40 locations throughout Palm Beach County, and little South Palm Beach is one of only two stops that’s so busy it visits every week instead of twice a month. The other is Palm Beach Shores.

From October 2018 to July 2019, bookmobile visitors checked out 50,000 items at those 40 stops. But the South Palm Beach stop alone accounted for just over 5,000 items checked out, or 10 percent of the bookmobile’s total circulation during that 10-month period.

“It’s still our busiest stop,” says Ron Glass, the county’s outreach librarian.

South Palm Beach and the bookmobile are such good friends that on Feb. 8 Town Clerk Yude Alvarez organized a small celebration at Town Hall to mark the 50th anniversary.

Tables were set up in the fire bay, and the bookmobile’s staff and local book lovers enjoyed iced tea and juices, cookies, cupcakes, muffins and scones as music played.

Drop by in January and the narrow space between the shelves can get so packed with book lovers browsing and condo neighbors chatting, you might have a wait to get in.

Drop by on a Friday morning in August, and the crowd is smaller, but no less enthusiastic.

“Without this mobile library, we wouldn’t be here,” says Daniel Colangelo, waiting to check out All The Way, Joe Namath’s latest football memoir. “We appreciate it so much. And the staff! They’re all great.”

The bookmobile arrives at the Town Hall each week bearing about 2,000 items — 1,500 books and another 500 DVDs and music or talkingbook CDs. The bookmobile even carries a birding kit available for checkout. That’s a backpack, adult binoculars, children’s binoculars, lens cleaner and a laminated pamphlet for identifying species.

But to regular users, the

Delray Beach

By Jane Smith City Commissioners gave downtown restaurant owners who offer valet parking a six-

ABOVE: Palm Beach resident Gladys Jacobson looks through the movie selection as Michael Barto, the bookmobile driver of 26 years, helps South Palm Beach’s Mike Cavanaugh check out books. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star LEFT: The original 1969 Palm Beach County bookmobile. bookmobile’s most valuable asset is the staff.

Library Associate Jennifer Busch has been with the library for 19 years. Michael Barto has driven the bookmobile for 26. Twelve years ago, he learned American Sign Language to serve deaf patrons.

And mechanic/multilinguist Francisco Navarro is along in case the great book beast breaks down and to assist Spanish speakers.

Kristen Farley of South Palm Beach brings her three kids.

“I always brag that I’ve never chosen a book for myself,” she says. “They know what I like, and they choose for the kids, too.”

It’s common praise.

“If they see something they think I’d like, they set it aside for me,” says Gladys Jacobson of Palm Beach. “I’m absolutely amazed at how they can select books for readers.”

Small towns were concern

The bookmobile’s arrival at those 40 stops throughout the county comes at the end of a long road that began with a book lover who saw a problem she wanted fixed.

Her name was Ingrid A. Eckler, a member of the West Palm Beach League of Women Voters, and she was concerned about all those residents who weren’t being reached by the independent municipal libraries in the county’s larger cities.

In 1964, Eckler and her fellow Women Voters started agitating the County Commission to create a countywide library service, and in April 1967, the state Legislature created a special taxing district and the county library system was born.

The first branch library opened in Tequesta in September 1969.

In October 1969, that $30,500.90 bookmobile made its first stops at Canal Point and South Bay on Lake Okeechobee, Lake Worth Road

by Florida’s Turnpike and the city of Atlantis.

The South Palm Beach stop arrived in 1982. In 2013, the bookmobile added a stop in Ocean Ridge, but it didn’t attract many borrowers.

“It lasted one year,” Ron Glass says, “then we went right down the street to Briny

Breezes, and it does real well, especially in season.”

But it’s no match for South Palm Beach.

“The bookmobile is No. 1!”

Inalee Foldes is hugging a new biography of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. She’s already read the lives of justices John Paul Stevens and Sandra Day O’Connor. “Mike knows what I like,” she explains, referring to Barto. “This is the first place you come after you’ve been away.”

Today’s bookmobile is not the same one the County Commission bought in April 1969. That one was retired in 1977.

This current model is the sixth bookmobile to serve the county in the five decades since, and it didn’t cost $30,500.90.

Its price tag: $245,000.

But it didn’t cost taxpayers anything.

Look closely at the rear of the bookmobile on the driver’s side and you’ll find, beneath the brightly painted books and lettering, a small rendering of a black fireman’s helmet bearing the message, “FDNY 343.”

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City delays moving valets off Atlantic Avenue

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Todd Herbst, whose Big Time Restaurant Group just opened Elisabetta’s Ristorante, said, “Without the valets, we would never make it.”

Sophia Theodore, who owns Taverna Opa with her husband, said her restaurant needs the valet in front as “a convenience factor. Moving it will hurt my business a lot.”

Staff had recommended moving valet stands off Atlantic Avenue, west of the Intracoastal Waterway, to allow public safety vehicles to get into the

downtown, ease congestion, improve the pedestrian experience and allow cafe patrons to enjoy their meals.

Deputy Vice Mayor Bill Bathurst said, “We want to be a safe town, but we also are a hospitality town. We need to carefully consider anything that breaks the system.”

Commissioners asked staff to come up with a list to improve traffic flow. Those items would include finding a side-street location for drop-offs and pickups of shared-ride services and the free ride service the city recently started. Also,

The Palm Beach County Bookmobile stops at the South Palm Beach Town Hall every Friday from 10:30 to noon.

In Briny Breezes, it stops on alternate Fridays from 1:30-2:30 p.m. The upcoming dates are Oct. 11 and 25.

You can request up to four items a week by calling 649-5476. If the staff is unavailable, leave a message and your call will be returned.

Library cards are also available on the bookmobile.

For more information, visit www.pbclibrary.org.

paid for this bookmobile,” Jennifer Busch says. “We don’t know who it was, but he or she requested only that it feature a fireman’s helmet somewhere on the outside and the number 343, the number of firefighters who died in New York on 9/11.”

Ingrid A. Eckler, first president of the Friends of the Library and a member of its advisory board for 21 years, died in 1998 at age 85.

Culpepper, the only county commissioner to vote against spending $30,500.90 for that first bookmobile, is alive and well at 87, still living in Jupiter, and still happy to chat.

“That $30,000 was a lot of money back then,” he says. “As I said, I didn’t vote against the bookmobile. I voted against the price. But coming from Jupiter, we had no library branch then and the only service we had was the bookmobile, so I was always a strong supporter.”

Then he got on his computer and found an inflation calculator.

“You know,” he said. “That $30,000 in 1969 would be the equivalent of $210,000 today. So if the county were going to pay $245,000 for the new one, that’s $35,000 more.”

The former county commissioner from Jupiter thought a moment and laughed.

“I might vote against it again.” Ú

the commission wants to stop valets from allowing drivers of upscale cars to park all night in a valet space.

Restaurants will pay the city $168 per month for each space, up from $165. Valets must make the operation open to all, although each restaurant can offer discounts or free parking. The maximum valets can charge is $10 for four hours west of the Intracoastal and two hours east of the waterway.

Caffe Luna Rosa, east of the Intracoastal Waterway, will be able to keep its seven spaces on the barrier island. Ú

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The county bookmobile has a scrapbook that shows the first bookmobile in America, in 1905. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

First mobile library was horse-drawn

If you ever visit a bookmobile, spare a moment to remember the woman who first inspired them. Her name was Mary Lemist Titcomb, and in 1905 she was the head librarian at the Washington County Free Library in Hagerstown, Maryland.

“Would not a library wagon, the outward and visible signs of the service for which the library stood, do much more in cementing friendship?”

Titcomb once said. “No better method has ever been devised for reaching the dweller in the country. The book goes to the man, not waiting for the man to come to the book.”

At her urging, the library’s trustees got Andrew Carnegie to give them $2,500, and America’s first “library wagon” hit the road.

Its 2,560 books were drawn

by a horse and driven by Joshua Thomas, the library’s janitor.

Alas, in 1910 a freight train struck the wagon. Both janitor and horse were unharmed, but the wagon was destroyed and the book service was out of commission for a year, until the board’s treasurer donated another $2,500 for a replacement.

The Hagerstown library’s new library wagon was an International Harvester truck, and the age of the motorized bookmobile had arrived.

Titcomb died in 1932 at the age of 80 and is buried at the famed Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts, not far from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau, whose books she no doubt made available to rural readers.

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Delray Beach

Contract awarded for Marine Way redesign

By Jane Smith

After more than a decade of study, Delray Beach is ready to redesign the first block of Marine Way. On Sept. 17, four city commissioners awarded the Wantman Group of West Palm Beach the $1.1 million design contract — with a condition.

They want the staff to work with the four affected property owners to “have a meeting of the minds,” as Mayor Shelly Petrolia called it. “Either side can’t have everything.”

Vice Mayor Shirley Johnson voted no to the contract award because she says the project is being rushed and wants the property owners to be more involved.

The redesign will bring a higher sea wall, a promenade that connects Veterans Park to Marine Way through an underpass beneath the Atlantic Avenue Bridge, a stormwater pump station at the south end of the block, roadway and utility upgrades and pedestrian lighting. Wantman will also obtain necessary permits from state, federal and local agencies.

The estimated $16 million work is set for the 2023-2024 budget year, using penny tax money, according to the city’s capital improvement budget passed on Sept. 17.

The removal of mangroves was one issue that spurred discussion.

“Removing the mangroves

The proposal calls for removal of existing mangroves, building a higher seawall with a dock of limited size and elevating the Marine Way road. Rendering provided by the Wantman Group will allow us to get the permits faster,” said Missie Barletto, deputy director of Public Works. “We’ll have to replace them somewhere else on a

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The idea of mangrove removal irked Deputy Vice Mayor Bill Bathurst.

“There should be a way to

have them and not turn the Intracoastal Waterway into a bathtub,” he said. “How much longer would it take to get the permits if we saved the mangroves?”

Mangroves protect shorelines from damaging winds and waves, and they help filter pollutants. They also serve as nursery areas for fish.

Everyone agrees the first block of Marine Way floods during heavy rains and high tides.

On Sept. 3, the block was under nearly 3 feet of water.

Hurricane Dorian’s strong winds were swirling offshore, pushing ashore brackish water from the nearby Intracoastal Waterway. King tides, the highest of seasonal tides, made the rising water even higher.

The water was so high that resident Genie DePonte and friend Gayle Clark used a kayak to travel the block.

City Attorney Lynn Gelin called the flooding “a health and safety issue.”

DePonte and Adam Bankier, two of the four property owners on the block to be redesigned, spoke during public comment.

“It’s my little bit of paradise with the mangroves,” DePonte said. “I bought my house with the dock. It’s an eminent domain issue when you take real property from the residents.”

The Palm Beach County Property Appraiser includes docks when assessing the taxable value of properties.

But the office does not break down what percent of a taxable property value comes from the dock.

Bankier, who said Intracoastal water has flowed through the first floor of his property, also pointed out that the city is using tax dollars to remove his dock. “Why can’t public money be used to rebuild them?” he asked.

Clark, who lives nearby on Northeast Seventh Avenue and spends a lot of time on Marine Way, said she is fond of the mangroves and greenery.

“We need to save the charm of Marine Way,” she said. Ú

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Boynton Beach

Town Square partner describes minor changes, economic issues

By Jane Smith

One of the private partners in Boynton Beach’s $250 million Town Square project has requested some changes to meet financing concerns.

Developer John Markey told city commissioners on Sept.

5 that he plans for the private portion of Town Square to begin with construction of a fivestory apartment building and a six-story parking garage on Southeast First Avenue.

His firm, JKM Developers, wants to change the private portion of the Town Square site plan to reduce the number of units in the south apartment building by 65 to 196 units.

“We redesigned those units to be larger and be more of luxury-type units,” Markey told commissioners.

The firm wants to add the 65 units to the 104 planned in the six-story apartment building on Ocean Avenue in the center of the project. JKM also wants to lift the 55-plus age restriction on that apartment building to take all qualified renters. The height of the two apartment buildings will remain the same.

The changes are minor

MANAGER

Continued from page 1 but Cernech and Delray Beach could not agree on salary and benefits. He withdrew his application.

In Homestead, which was devastated by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, Gretsas in a 9-year tenure has overseen a $125 million downtown improvement plan that included a new City Hall, police headquarters and restoration of a 1921 performing arts theater.

When he was city manager of Fort Lauderdale for six years, Gretsas worked on rising seas issues, a priority in Delray Beach, and oversaw more than $110 million in projects, including five new fire stations.

He lost favor there, however, when his commission ordered him to play tough with the police union over pension issues. The chief quit his job to run for commission and won. Gretsas’ contract was not renewed for 2011.

While attending the Florida League of Cities annual meeting in Orlando in mid-August, Vice Mayor Johnson ran into Julio Guzman, a Homestead councilman, who asked which city she represented. When she said Delray Beach, Guzman said, “Oh, we’d hate to lose Gretsas. We love him.”

On Sept. 17, Commissioner Ryan Boylston made the motion to tap Gretsas and begin contract negotiations.

“It’s time for us to put the city first,” Boylston said.

That vote was 3-2, with Boylston, Petrolia and Johnson in favor and Frankel and Bill Bathurst voting no.

and can be approved by staff, said Colin Groff, assistant city manager in charge of Town Square. Groff brought the changes to commissioners to keep them aware of what’s happening in the 15-acre project with E2L Real Estate Solutions.

The area is bordered by Boynton Beach Boulevard on the north and Southeast Second Avenue on the south.

Boynton Beach leaders hope the Town Square development creates a downtown with a mix of municipal buildings, a cultural center with a banquet hall, a museum, apartment buildings, a hotel and parks. The city’s estimated share is $118 million.

Ocean Avenue roadwork will be done in time for the historic high school to reopen as the cultural center in early November, Groff told the commission.

Markey predicted construction of the south apartment building and nearby garage would start in the fourth quarter of 2019.

“City National Bank has already committed to financing the parcels, but we want to see if we can get better terms,” he

said. That financing effort will take four to six weeks.

The garage will be finished

by June, Markey said, much quicker than the apartment building because of the precast construction method used for the garage. It will be ready when the City Center opens.

The latest plan has staff members moving into the City Center during the first week of May, Groff said. No commissioner asked where staff would park if the south garage is not finished in time.

Vice Mayor Justin Katz pressed Markey for deadline times, asking when the central apartment building construction would start.

Not until the first or second quarter of 2021, Markey said.

“We’re pushing the market here in Boynton Beach,” he said. “We can do that because we believe in the community. The problem lies in getting the financial world to believe that.”

Markey said his firm needs to finish the south apartment building and start leasing it before a lender would agree to finance the second apartment building on Ocean. “That’s the way the finance world works,”

A week earlier, after Cernech walked away from the negotiating table with Petrolia and city attorney Lynn Gelin, Boylston said he wanted to interview two other, out-ofstate candidates in the top five selected by the city’s recruiter.

But recruiter Robert Burg said they were no longer interested, and Boylston decided Gretsas was the one to bring “stability” to Delray Beach. “Gretsas has worked on big, complicated projects,” Boylston said.

Delray Beach and Homestead have populations of about 70,000 residents, but Homestead’s population is younger with more than 40% below 18, while Delray Beach’s skews older with more than 24% at age 65 and above.

Like Delray Beach, Homestead has historic districts and properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Homestead’s crown jewel, the Seminole Theatre, was reopened in 2015 after remaining dark for four decades.

A citizen-approved bond issue, directed by Gretsas, paid for the restoration of the 1921 theater, which has become Homestead’s cultural hub.

After the vote to hire Gretsas, Boylston asked that only Gelin and recruiter Burg negotiate with him. Boylston did not want Petrolia in the negotiations this time around, after Cernech walked away when Petrolia said she could not support his demand for a $400,000 compensation package.

“I couldn’t support it. I have a fiscal responsibility to this

town,” Petrolia said at a Sept. 10 special commission meeting.

Bathurst, Boylston and Frankel originally voted to hire Cernech. Petrolia’s first choice was Gretsas, but she changed her vote to Cernech when it became clear he had the support of a majority of commissioners.

Also at the Sept. 10 meeting, the contract for interim City Manager Neal de Jesus was formalized.

To avoid confusion, the mayor asked Gelin to read the new terms: De Jesus will receive a $244,000 annual salary that is retroactive to March 1, when he accepted the interim city manager position. When de Jesus returns to his fire chief role, he will receive 180 days’ written notice if the city manager wants to dismiss him and 20 weeks of severance. The severance terms will remain the same, but the length of notice was doubled. His salary as fire chief will be $174,345.

To quell social media critics, Gelin also determined that de Jesus will not have to complete his bachelor’s degree.

When he became the fire chief in March 2016 a college degree was required. Gelin said that de Jesus has the experience and background that can be substituted for the degree.

The vote was 3-2, with Bathurst, Boylston and Frankel voting yes and Johnson and Petrolia voting no.

Petrolia agreed with the salary boost, but did not want the commission to decide terms of the fire chief position — length of notice and education.

“Those terms should be decided by the new city manager,” she said. Ú

he said.

His company has not projected a start time for the north apartment building on Boynton Beach Boulevard, with retail on the ground floor and a nearby garage.

“We are trying to find a way to escalate the [north] garage because the hotel needs it,” Markey said. “We are working with staff to figure out a way to finance the garage.”

While saying he’s not the hotel developer, he knows that company wants to hit the market. The hotel’s developer is E2L Holdings, another partner in the project.

Katz asked about what else the city could do now to avoid future speed bumps that could slow the pace of Town Square.

“The biggest speed bump I see is the market demand for what we propose. I’m a believer. I’m here with an awful lot of money invested in the

community and its future,” Markey said.

He also is concerned about rising construction costs.

“Beyond that, I worry about major things. Is there a madman in the White House who drops a bomb on Iran? I don’t say that to be political, but I say that because we’ve seen people fly airplanes into towers and the [economic] result,” Markey said.

Katz and Commissioner Christina Romelus thanked him for the presentation.

“I sit on the Discover the Palm Beaches [tourism] board.

Its staff is singing our praises for doing the private-public partnership,” Romelus said.

Mayor Steven Grant said the commission needs to have a branding discussion for Town Square.

“We’re not a town and it’s not a square,” he said. Ú

16 Meet Your Neighbor

10 Questions

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MEET YOUR NEIGHBOR: Neil Hennigan

eil Hennigan, chairman of the five-person sewer/septic committee appointed by Ocean Ridge to explore options for a townwide conversion to a sewer system, is no stranger to public service. He previously served on two similar boards and sees great value in the work of such volunteers.

“It’s extremely rewarding,” said Hennigan, 71.

Practically speaking, Hennigan said, “it’s beyond the scope of a town staff that is less than the number of fingers on your hand” to take on such a project in addition to its normal workload.

“The cost of just getting a consultant would make your eyes water,” he added.

“Some of that will still be necessary, but to find the best practices of other towns who have gone through the same thing, we can provide that, and do it in a way where we don’t have to say one thing is better than the other. We can at least be able to say you have what you need to make an educated decision going forward.”

In his view, the current Ocean Ridge commission is more welcoming to volunteers such as himself than it’s been in the past.

“This community is tremendously gifted in the abilities and experiences of those who live here, and many of us have the financial ability to give our time and experiences freely. We don’t want to run for office, or have an agenda. We have to help the town solve some of its issues by using us.”

Hennigan served in the U.S. Air Force and spent 35 years as a United Airlines pilot. He and wife, Zoanne, moved to Ocean Ridge in 2002.

— Brian Biggane

Q: Where did you grow up and go to school? How has that influenced you?

A: I was born in the United Kingdom and emigrated with my parents, to Canada first, [where we] lived in Toronto. Crossed over and lived in Niagara Falls and Rochester, N.Y. each for a year. My dad was a bricklayer, so he worked his way south, left the family in Rochester, and when spring came, we moved to Washington, D.C. I went to high school there, then the University of Maryland.

Coming from an immigrant family, education was the name of the game.

We were never well off when I was growing up. I was the oldest of three children. I put myself through college, ended up joining the Air Force during the Vietnam era, though I didn’t serve there. I became a pilot and after eight years in the Air Force got a job with United Airlines, where I was a commercial pilot for 35 years before retiring in 2013.

My family’s background is Irish, and even in the UK, being Irish means being a second-class citizen. After the war my dad tried very hard to start a business and never got any financial support. So, my dad got a sponsorship out of Canada and went there on his own. He left me and my brother, who was 1, with our mother for another year until we could follow him. It was an odyssey.

I saw how hard it was for my parents to make ends meet. You just know what they did for you. And I can’t let it go; it’s the person that I am. I was the first in the family to be college educated, made it into the Air Force and became an officer. But my dad taught me the value of a hard day’s work. There’s nothing wrong with getting your hands dirty.

Retired pilot and Ocean Ridge resident Neil Hennigan at home with his dog, Potter. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star My mother was as stoic as they came.

Both of them were just classic. And my dad, he’s the core of who I am.

Q: What professions have you worked in? What professional accomplishments are you most proud of?

A: In my second year of college I got a job working for an engineering company that did road design. It was a public entity supported by the petroleum industry and it was located on the campus of the University of Maryland. They were looking for somebody to work in a laboratory parttime, and I was treated as faculty, so I could arrange my classes so I could work two days a week and go to school three days a week. I did that for three years of college and through that was able to be at the leading edge of computers.

By the time I was ready to graduate, I was still going to be waiting six months before I went to the Air Force, and I was taken on as a research associate. That has followed me my whole life, because even after leaving the Air Force, in the two years before I joined United, I was hired as a research scientist and worked for NASA for 21/2 years while I was furloughed. I used those skills in the Air Force also, doing R&D flying and as a project manager. I got to round out my skills [at United] as more than just a pilot, and I’ve maintained my interest in computers all these years. I still remember bringing home my first IBM PC and have had my head in that ever since.

Q: What advice do you have for a young person seeking a career today?

A: I’m a task person, and the joy of flying is, you do your homework, you study, and when you do your job it has a finite beginning, a finite end, and you can evaluate whether you did it well. I always found that enjoyable.

I’ve been to London 50 times, but only one day at a time. It’s always, what is the next thing I want to do there? I’ve

taken advantage of that. We still travel extensively, and I’ve tried to get my children to do the same.

My advice? Don’t get pigeonholed by a job or be afraid of coming to a crossroad. Life is a journey, so take it.

If you can go left or right, and it comes down to it, flip a coin. Don’t be defined by this one thing you do. Find out what kind of person you are or develop the kind of person you want to become.

Q: How did you choose to make your home in Ocean Ridge?

A: We were fortunate that both our sets of parents lived into their 90s. They were here, so we decided it was time to not do it long-distance [from California] anymore. My family was in Sarasota and hers was in Pompano Beach. We looked from the Florida Keys all the way up to St. Augustine. I liked the west coast of Florida, because it was quieter, and we didn’t like how busy Fort Lauderdale and even Palm Beach were.

We made an offer on a place in Jupiter, and one day my daughter came in and told me to turn on the TV, and it turned out to be 9/11. I watched the second tower go down and they were speculating what airline it was, and I saw it was United Airlines. I told my wife United is going to go bankrupt; we were in trouble and this would take us to bankruptcy.

So, we got out of that [deal] and a friend of mine told me about a little community called Ocean Ridge. We came here and found it great.

Q: What’s your favorite part about living in Ocean Ridge?

A: It’s unobtrusive, people leave us alone. It’s small enough you can get your arms around it. It’s close enough you can get anything you want. There are great people here. Good friends, good neighbors, good community.

Q: What book are you reading now?

A: When I was a kid my dad would get me an almanac, or a big coffee table

book, Headline Stories of the Last 100 Years — things to pique your interest. I started a long time ago to grab a volume of the Britannica and start browsing.

Now all that’s on the internet. So, my favorite book has become Wikipedia. I get up each morning, I read the news, and it will take me on a divergent story where I want to know more. And off I go. I always want to know how things connect and Wikipedia works that way.

Q: What music do you listen to when you want to relax? When you want to be inspired?

A: I still listen to classic rock, and I’m still part of the Woodstock generation.

That ain’t going to change. I still like Jimi Hendrix; Crosby, Stills and Nash; Eric Clapton. We’ve got great speakers in the house and it can get loud.

Q: Have you had mentors in your life?

A: The formative person in my life is my dad, and the person who tempered it all is my wife. She came from a different type of family. I grew up with no relatives here; later on, I got one cousin who came. I didn’t have aunts, uncles and births, those things, and you’re sort of the outsider. I met her in college, and she had a 180-degree different background. Her family took my family in, including my parents. She took me from being extremely introverted, so where now I can masquerade as an extrovert. That’s important. And it’s lasted 49 years.

Q: If your life story were to be made into a movie, who would play you?

A: I’d say Henry Fonda in Grapes of Wrath. That’s what my life was like.

Q: Who/what makes you laugh?

A: My Boston terrier, Potter. What’s typical of dogs, I could literally walk out that door, go to the mailbox, and when I came back it’s like he’s seeing a long-lost friend of 20 years.

October 2019

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Along the Coast

Dorian came too late to prevent record number of turtle nests

By Rich Pollack

Despite the impacts of Hurricane Dorian and more recent high tides and rough seas, the number of sea turtle nests in south Palm Beach County has already reached record levels.

That’s not to say that nests weren’t lost and turtle eggs weren’t strewn on beaches following the near-miss of Dorian, but the number of nests destroyed was small, experts say, in large part because the rough seas and high tides came late in the nesting season.

“It was not a big issue compared to what it could have been,” said David Anderson, sea turtle conservation coordinator at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, which monitors nests in Boca Raton. “By the time Dorian came along, most nests had hatched.”

By Gumbo Limbo’s count, Dorian washed out about 131 of the 446 nests that were on the beach prior to the storm’s impact. Of the nests lost, about 85 were viable with eggs still

Sea Turtle eggs were uncovered by rough seas that followed Hurricane Dorian and other tropical systems this fall. Photo provided by Gumbo Limbo Nature Center incubating, while the remaining 46 were believed to be old nests that already hatched.

As was the case with other locations, the majority of nests lost in Boca were midbeach nests, which are more susceptible to flooding than those farther up the beach and closer to the dune line.

That meant that green sea turtle nests, found closer to the dune or actually in the dune, fared better than loggerhead nests, Anderson said.

In Highland Beach, those who monitor turtle activity say about 15% of the nests on the beach before Dorian were lost.

That equates to about 200 nests

Hurricane Dorian relief — gathering supplies Inlet Cay, Ocean Ridge — Sept. 8-14

destroyed.

Overall, Highland Beach monitors recorded about 1,325 nests this season, slightly fewer than Boca’s record 1,375 nests.

“There have been several nests that have successfully hatched since Dorian, and they will continue to hatch into the month of November,” said Barbara James, the marine turtle permit holder for Highland Beach.

Farther up the beach, in Gulf Stream, Briny Breezes and parts of Ocean Ridge, residents and visitors noticed lots of turtle eggs on the beach after Dorian.

Jackie Kingston, president of the nonprofit Sea Turtle Adventures, which monitors turtle activity in that area, estimated that 227 nests remained prior to Dorian and 159 of those were lost.

“It’s still a banner year for us,” Kingston said.

James, Anderson and Kingston say that it is not unusual for storms and high water to affect nests.

“These kinds of events are very normal,” Kingston said.

“The turtles have adapted their nesting strategy for events like this.”

The strategy, James said, is to return to the beach and lay eggs several times in a season.

“Individual sea turtles do not restrict their nesting to only one season,” she said. “They may nest between three and seven times — spaced often by 10 to 14 days. This was programmed

by Mother Nature to assure that at least several nests will most likely incubate successfully.”

The timing of the storm last month was also good news for least terns, a small migratory bird that nests on beaches.

By the time Dorian arrived, Anderson said, the terns on Boca Raton’s beach had finished nesting and the majority of the birds, currently a threatened species in Florida, were gone.

Anderson said a colony of least terns on Boca Raton’s beach had a record number of nests this year — as many as 40 or 50 — and a record number of chicks.

“This was extremely rare,” he said. Ú

Raising money

Swinton Avenue, Delray Beach — Sept. 14

After Debora Whipple sent an email to her neighbors, saying she would collect donations for Hurricane Dorian victims in the Bahamas, the neighborhood stepped up, filling her garage with boxes holding everything from food to medical supplies. Patrol officers from the Ocean Ridge Police Department stopped by to check on progress and offered to assist, and when the Inlet Cay group learned that Nomad Surf Shop in the County Pocket had arranged for boats to deliver supplies to the islands, they joined forces to load a truck that took the donations to boats. The donations included more than 100 dolls for children. ABOVE LEFT: Inlet Cay resident Nancy Dunn carries one of five loads of donations she made to the relief effort. ABOVE RIGHT: Surf shop employees Evan Kuylenstierna and Dylan Armstrong hold Whipple dolls among supplies loaded outside the shop. Photos provided

Firefighters to the rescue

Silver Palm Park, Boca Raton — Sept. 8 Boca Raton Fire Department Capt. Lange Jacobs and Senior Fire Inspector Jay Sumner load generators and other supplies into fishing boats that they used to deliver aid to the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian ravaged the islands. Sumner is president of the Boca Raton Firefighter and Paramedic Benevolent Fund group that organized the efforts.

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Sophia Nicholas and Sivan Morag, along with their mothers, other relatives and friends, raised $325 in just two hours at their lemonade stand to help people in need in the Bahamas following Hurricane Dorian. The girls, both first-graders at Unity School, were taking part in a schoolwide recovery effort. Sivan’s mother, Aura, said, “This summer we took her for the first time to the Bahamas for a summer vacation, we stayed at the Atlantis resort and she was fascinated about the island and their sea animals.

When she saw the news and pictures of the devastation of Hurricane Dorian she said, ‘OK, mom, now is time for my lemonade stand.’ She was asking to do a lemonade stand at our house before and I told her we will do it for a good cause. “ Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

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Along The Coast

With right methods, efforts to control iguanas make progress

By Stephen Moore

Iguanas have become as big a part of the South Florida landscape as sunburned snowbirds. The invasive reptiles are here, they are staying and there are a lot of them.

Coastal towns and residents are grappling with how to deal with the critters, which feed mostly on vegetation, can be harmful to infrastructure by burrowing beneath sidewalks and seawalls, and leave droppings everywhere.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission offers suggestions on how to control, not eliminate, iguanas from individual private property and town- or city-owned public lands.

If people want to kill the creatures, it’s OK by the FWC, but it must be done humanely. A permit is not needed.

“The general guideline is to end the iguana’s life instantly — suddenly and without any suffering,” Zoo Miami animal ambassador Ron Magill told the Sun-Sentinel in February.

“Hitting the iguana on the head with a shovel is OK, as long as you aim correctly and kill it in

Iguana droppings are a major source of concern for residents.

Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star the first stroke. Hit it more than once and you could be charged with a crime.”

The FWC recommends the following: • Shooting the animal with a captive bolt gun (pellet gun) and then decapitating it.

• Stunning the iguana with a yard tool, followed by decapitation.

• A carbon dioxide chamber, if you plan to eat the iguana meat.

• Anesthetic halothane, isoflurane or sevoflurane administered by a veterinarian.

• Cervical dislocation on small juveniles only.

But no firearms can be used.

Florida Statute 790.15(1) states that any person who knowingly discharges a firearm in any public place or on or over the right of way of any paved public road, highway or street, or over

any occupied premises, is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. It is punishable by 12 months in jail and a $500 fine.

Animal cruelty is a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable with a year in prison, a fine of $5,000, or both.

Iguanas are typically found in wooded areas with lots of shrubbery, usually near water.

They are cold-blooded and become much more active in warm weather.

Ocean Ridge’s Jimmy McAndrew, 73, got interested in trying to control iguanas on his property two years ago.

“My then 97-year-old mother-in-law came in the back door and told me there was a dinosaur in the backyard,” McAndrew said. “That’s when I got involved. The iguanas had dug nests in the yards of the properties to my left and right

Briny Breezes

Briny Breezes has fallen behind on maintenance for its sewage lift stations, and that means some unexpected costs for the Town Council.

Town Manager Dale Sugerman told council members during their meeting on Sept. 26 that Harvel Utility Construction, Briny’s infrastructure contractor, says cleaning and inspecting the town’s seven lift stations will cost about $5,000.

Repairs to two fire hydrants are expected to cost about $2,000 more. Ocean Ridge had a similar problem earlier this year with its fire hydrants and ended up spending around $100,000 to get dozens of units back in good working order.

with the problem.

“What we need is a good cold snap,” said Mudd, who lives in Boca Raton. “It’s been nine years since we had a good freeze.

That is one reason why there are so many of them. When it freezes, the iguanas either freeze or become paralyzed — often falling out of trees — and appear dead.”

If you don’t want to wait for weather, the FWC says you can trap iguanas on your property and humanely kill them. You cannot relocate them. State guidelines make homeowners responsible for any animal caught in traps. All traps must be checked at least once every 24 hours.

Property owners can also fill in holes to discourage iguanas from burrowing. Hanging wind chimes and compact discs with shiny surfaces may also annoy iguanas and make them leave your property.

The FWC also suggests using wire mesh screening to create a barrier around plants and installing chicken wire at least one foot beneath the soil around your fences or seawalls to prevent iguanas from digging underneath them. Ú

9/11 Memorial Service

Town Council approves infrastructure repairs

By Dan Moffett

and there were droppings all over my deck.”

He hired Iguana Control, based in Coral Springs.

“They are very good, very helpful,” McAndrew said.

“I haven’t been there in five months, but they had taken about 40 iguanas off the property. They trap and shoot them. They are good to work with and I like them. In fact, I think it would make a good business to go into. It is no small matter here. It’s a big problem.”

Ocean Ridge Town Manager Tracey Stevens said that municipality also hired Iguana Control.

“There were many complaints about the iguanas being very destructive and about feces being everywhere — in pools and on seawalls,” Stevens said.

“The company is using pellet guns and traps. They caught 91 iguanas between Jan. 7 and the end of March. And they got 83 in July. They are doing a good job.”

Some other factors can limit the negative impact of iguanas.

Bryan Mudd, 53, is a licensed alligator trapper who gets many calls on nuisance iguanas. He said the weather has a lot to do

Beyond those expenses, Sugerman said, it will cost another $4,000 to buy a new pump for one of the stations.

The cost of installation has yet to be determined, he said.

The council unanimously approved spending the money to make the repairs. The work is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

In other business: • The Ocean Ridge Police Department officially took over as Briny’s law enforcement services provider on Oct. 1, replacing the Boynton Beach Police Department.

Ocean Ridge Police Chief Hal Hutchins told the council he is urging Brinyites to register with the CivicReady mass alert service. It allows residents to receive real-time emergency

Memorial Fountain, Briny Breezes — Sept. 11

information by email, text or voice message.

Ocean Ridge joined the service this year, and Hutchins said it was invaluable in getting information out during Hurricane Dorian. The service is free and residents can sign up by using the link on Ocean Ridge’s website: oceanridgefl. regroup.com/signup.

• The council approved two new fees for the new fiscal year.

One is a $25 administrative charge for checks to the town that are returned by the bank because of insufficient funds.

The other new fee is a penalty of $10 per business day for contractors or residents who are slow to turn in permit applications to the corporate office after receiving emergency approval for repairs. Ú

About 20 Briny Breezes residents and friends gathered at the Memorial Fountain on Sept. 11 to remember those lost in the 2001 terrorist attacks. Seven flags, including one from the New York City Fire Department, were flown around the fountain. ABOVE: Briny residents Barbara and Roger Klink recently developed a relationship with members of one of the New York stations that lost firefighters. Roger Klink is a retired firefighter from Ohio, where he served for 26 years. Barbara Klink grew up in New York. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

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Council changes mind, opts to install less-intense street lamps

By Mary Thurwachter An effort spearheaded by Hypoluxo Island resident Media Beverly persuaded the Lantana Town Council to change an earlier vote on the intensity of new streetlights.

On July 8, the council approved an agreement with FPL to switch out its high-pressure sodium streetlights with 4,000-Kelvin energy-efficient LEDs, or light-emitting diodes. FPL will cover the expense and the change would save about $1,000 in annual energy costs.

While a conversion was still in the works, the town on Sept. 9 changed its vote on the whiter 4,000K lights, opting instead for 3,000K lamps, a more yellow light.

Council members agreed to reconsider the matter after Beverly provided them with information she had collected, and council members had a chance to talk to residents and do further investigation.

Mayor Dave Stewart, for example, took a road trip to check out comparable streetlights in Juno Beach, Highland Beach, North Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens and Boca Raton.

Last month, council member Lynn

Moorhouse said that since the vote was first taken, he had learned that a light of that intensity (4,000K) does a lot of harm to humans, animals, flowers and fauna and was not a good fit for Lantana. He said the town had received a one-sided story from FPL when the July vote was taken and wanted to hear the other side of the story. He got that in September.

Beverly, who spent several months researching the street lamps, insisted the 4,000K lights would not be in the best interest of residents and would destroy the ambience on Hypoluxo Island.

She gave council members and town staff packets of information she had accumulated through her research and rallied her neighbors to fill the council chambers on Sept. 9.

She also encouraged other residents, many of whom spend summers elsewhere, to email the town to express their objections to 4,000K lights.

One of the reasons council members chose 4,000K lights was they maintained the higher intensity lamps would be better for safety.

But Beverly said her research concluded that brighter lights do not guarantee better safety, but can enable

criminals to more easily identify high value targets, including contents of homes and well-lit vehicles.

“They won’t need flashlights which alert others to their presence, and it’s not only easier for us to see them, but easier for them to see us,” she said.

Beverly cited a study in Chicago that showed a correlation between brightly lit alleyways and increased crime and a Los Angeles study that found crime increased 0.1% with each 1% of increased light.

“In Illinois, three times brighter lighting was installed with crime fighting as the principal function,” Beverly said.

“Over a six-month study in an eightblock test area, nighttime violent crime increased by 32% and property offenses were up 77%.”

In Lantana, Beverly said, that “would translate to our violent crimes increasing from 65 to 85 and property offenses increasing from 128 to 226 based on our numbers over the last 12 months.”

Among those who opposed the 4,000K lights was Kirt Rusenko, marine conservationist of Gumbo Limbo Nature Center and a founding member of the International Dark-Sky Association, Palm Beach County.

An expert on LED lighting, Rusenko said blue light (4000K lights contain more blue light than 3000K) at night is environmentally destructive, increases the hazardous impacts of glare, especially in older adults, is a security risk due to the loss of night vision, and disrupts normal Circadian rhythms in humans (with potential unknown health issues).

Before the Sept. 9 vote was taken, Beverly urged council members to “remember that all of us will be stuck with the decision you make here tonight for the next 10 years, so please don’t turn our neighborhoods into well-lit prison yards like they did in New York.”

By a 4-1 vote, the council approved the lower 3,000K lights townwide, except for about 80 streetlights along Dixie Highway and in other places in town where they thought brighter lights would be beneficial for safety reasons. Town staff will work with FPL to determine where those 80 lights will go.

Council member Phil Aridas said safety of residents was a primary concern and maintained that the 4,000K lights, as recommended in July by the police chief, were the right choice. He cast the lone dissenting vote for 3,000K lamps. Ú

Apartments may be in Kmart shopping center’s future

By Mary Thurwachter

The Lantana Town Council approved a change to the comprehensive landuse plan that could pave the way to replace the Kmartanchored shopping center with apartments.

A petition asking for the 18.6-acre site at the northwest corner of Hypoluxo Road and South Dixie Highway to be changed from commercial to mixed-use development was filed by the center’s landlord, Lantana SDC LLC, represented

by Miami attorney Ryan Bailine.

“Big-box stores are dying,” Bailine told the council at its Sept. 23 meeting. “With the rise and convenience of online retail, big-box stores, like the Kmart, are scaling back their brick-andmortar operations because they are not finding the same type of economic vitality experienced in prior decades.”

The Lantana Kmart has a

long-term lease, Bailine said.

“But if it does decide to shut its doors, finding another big-box tenant for the Kmart building will be difficult given the current economic climate for these types of uses.”

Bailine said his client sees an opportunity to take the worn shopping center, built in the mid-1970s, and work toward an appropriate mixed-use development project known as Lantana Village.

The conceptual master plan proposes to redevelop the Kmart parcel (other parcels included on the land-use plan change are the shopping center anchored by Winn-Dixie and the northernmost small shopping center) with up to 279 residential units. Three out-parcels — containing Bank of America, Dunkin Donuts, Burger King and a Fuel for Fit — are not part of the application.

The only other mixed-use development project in Lantana is Water Tower Commons,

which Bailine said “has been hugely successful in attracting a high-end multifamily developer, which only further demonstrates the town’s unmet need for more multifamily projects.”

The vote to approve a change to the comprehensive landuse plan won by a 3-2 margin, with Mayor Dave Stewart, Phil Aridas and Malcolm Balfour in favor and Lynn Moorhouse and Ed Shropshire against. If the proposal is approved after a second hearing at a future meeting, rezoning will follow.

“I’m hearing about apartments next to a WinnDixie and backed up to a railroad track on a busy road, and that doesn’t sound like a place for high-quality housing,” Moorhouse said. “I wouldn’t want a place next to a WinnDixie.”

Bailine said the vision is to build a marketplace and multifamily housing with topnotch amenities.

“I’m not an architect, so I don’t know how the site would lay out,” Bailine said. “I do know that there are a number of high-quality builders who are interested. I can tell you that, with your support, we will come back to the town with what we believe is a very thoughtful and code-compliant proposal to redevelop this with a market rate rental community.”

He said a site plan would come up for council approval before any building is done.

“If we change this, we can’t unchange this, and I have no idea what you’re going to put there and neither does anybody in this room,” Moorhouse said.

Shropshire questioned whether the proposal’s scale was reasonably related to the neighborhood’s needs. He also mentioned the town’s increased water usage, wondering if a large rental community would overly tax the town’s utilities.

Stewart said he was concerned about traffic and

overall impact. “I am also concerned that the shopping center needs to be updated,” he said. “It is ready for a change.”

In other business, the town: • Approved a special exception use to the mixed use zoning at Water Tower Commons to allow for a gas station with restaurant and convenience store.

Ken Tuma, representing the developer, said the station would not be accessible directly from Lantana Road but that customers would need to drive into Water Tower Commons to reach it on the southwest corner of the property.

The exception will apply only to mixed-use properties with at least 25 acres. Water Tower Commons has 73 acres.

• Adopted a tax rate for fiscal year 2020 of $3.50 per $1,000 of taxable value — which represents a 6.7% increase from the rollback rate of $3.28. Next year’s total combined budget is $19,988,983. Ú

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Delray Beach

Proposed cut-through would help traffic, but neighbors don’t approve

By Jane Smith

A cut-through from the Trader Joe’s plaza to the Delray Place South retail center on Federal Highway in Delray Beach was approved in early September with one condition.

Under a “look-back” condition, the developer must re-evaluate the traffic exit pattern on Tropic Boulevard one year after the project is finished.

If the exiting traffic falls into the “failing” category when connecting with Federal Highway, “the property owner would pay at his cost for the improvements to make it work,” City Attorney Lynn Gelin said at the Sept. 5 commission meeting.

The proposal with more details about the look-back provision has to return to the commission for approval.

The traffic provision is a final step in what’s been a complicated approval process.

In 2016, developer Joe Carosella had proposed renovating the Delray Place South. That plan was rejected by the Site Plan Review and Appearance Board and never brought to the commission.

Carosella now plans to revitalize a 22,045-squarefoot retail center on 1.78 acres between Eve Street and Tropic Boulevard. The cut-through across Eve Street would connect Delray Place North, with its popular Trader Joe’s grocery store, and his new center, Delray Place South. Trader Joe’s traffic theoretically could travel

Linton Blvd.

Trader Joe’s Delray Place North

Eve St.

Delray Proposed Place cutSouth through Tropic Blvd.

Coastal Star graphic/Google Map photo

through the southern plaza and exit on Tropic Boulevard with a traffic light at Federal Highway.

This plan was approved 4-2 by the site plan review board on Aug. 14 after it heard comments from more than 40 people during a nearly four-hour hearing.

Carosella hired attorney Bonnie Miskel to represent the project. Miskel is a name partner in the Dunay, Miskel and Backman law firm in Boca Raton. To promote the project’s chances for approval, he also hired Mary McCarty to lobby for it. McCarty is registered with the county to lobby in Boca Raton and Delray Beach. She’s a former Delray Beach and county commissioner, who served prison time for honest services fraud related to her county role.

Miskel came up with the look-back provision.

At the next commission meeting on Sept. 5, Mayor Shelly Petrolia had wanted to appeal the Aug. 14 approval to review the proposed cut-through across Eve Street, but she lost by a 3-2 vote. Commissioner Ryan Boylston voted with her to appeal the decision.

The others agreed to allow developer Carosella to proceed and do a look-back in one year.

Then, one day before the next commission meeting on Sept.

17, Moskowitz, Mandell, Salim & Simowitz, a Fort Lauderdale law firm representing Carosella, sent an eight-page letter to the city detailing the reason the Sept. 5 commission vote was final and stating that a revote should not be allowed at another

Ocean Ridge

Lucibella seeks acquittal or retrial on battery conviction

By Steve Plunkett

Former Vice Mayor Richard Lucibella wants the 4th District Court of Appeal to vacate his February conviction of misdemeanor battery and tell the judge who sentenced him to enter instead a judgment of acquittal or give him a new trial.

Lucibella, 66, was found not guilty of resisting arrest with violence but guilty of misdemeanor battery, a lesser charge, instead of felony battery on a law enforcement officer. He was ordered to pay $675 in court costs on Feb. 21.

The charges stemmed from an Oct. 22, 2016, altercation in Lucibella’s backyard as Ocean Ridge police investigated phoned-in reports of gunfire. Officers Richard Ermeri and Nubia Plesnik and Sgt. William Hallahan responded.

In an initial brief filed Sept. 16, Lucibella’s appeals attorney, Leonard Feuer of West Palm Beach, states that Circuit Judge Daliah Weiss erred by not issuing a judgment of acquittal and by denying motions for a mistrial, largely repeating points that Lucibella’s defense team made at the trial.

“The motion for JOA argued the officers, who were investigating a misdemeanor, were trespassing on Lucibella’s property when they entered his enclosed backyard. Thus,

the officers could not be engaged in a lawful execution of duty,” Feuer wrote. “Further, the alleged ‘resistance’ amounted to Lucibella stiffening his arm.”

Feuer also complains about prosecutor Danielle Grundt’s asking Ermeri whether Lucibella ever gave a response or explanation for why he had a firearm or why shells were present, to which Ermeri responded no.

“The question and answer amounted to an impermissible comment on Lucibella’s right to prearrest silence and shifted the burden of proof to Lucibella.

The remarks directly addressed Lucibella’s right to possess a firearm, which the question itself cast in a negative light, as if Lucibella needed to explain his possession of a firearm at his own house,” Feuer wrote.

Coming next in the appeal case will be a response to Feuer’s brief by Senior Assistant Attorney General Georgina Jimenez-Orosa.

Between the arrest and Lucibella’s trial, Ermeri was promoted to sergeant and Hallahan retired.

Plesnik has filed a civil lawsuit accusing Lucibella of battery and negligence. She testified at his criminal trial that she missed reporting for police duty for several months because of shoulder problems caused by his actions. Ú

meeting.

At the Sept. 17 commission meeting, Gellin advised commissioners that a revote on Delray Place South would not be allowed. Because it was an appealable item, the vote and revotes needed to have happened on Sept. 5, she said.

The lack of an appeal opportunity stunned Petrolia and commission watchers. “I’ve never seen the commissioners not agree to appeal an item when one of them wants to discuss it,” said Mitch Katz, a former city commissioner.

“It’s a deal with the devil when you let a developer run your city,” Kelli Freeman, a board member of the Tropic Isle Civic Association, told The Coastal Star after the meeting.

She had hoped to have a chance to sway the commission, but now feels the residents were outgunned by Miskel and McCarty.

Nancy Harris, who has lived in the Tropic Isle neighborhood for more than 30 years, said, “Residents have no voice in this project.”

Petrolia agreed that the residents were not heard when the commission appeal was denied. She also said that Miskel and McCarty had pressed the developer’s case to the commission. Both sent emails, called and met with city commissioners and Site plan review board members.

Tropic Isle residents also are concerned about traffic jams on Linton Boulevard and South

Federal Highway.

“During rush hour, northbound Federal Highway from Linton Boulevard backs up to the Boca line,” said Mike Hanuschak, president of the Tropic Isle Civic Association.

At the Sept. 17 commission meeting, Hanuschak talked about proposed changes being discussed for the Plaza at Delray at the northwest corner of Federal and Linton. A Publix grocery store and a Duffy’s fast casual eatery are in the center.

The changes call for retail and restaurant buildings to line Federal and Linton and then condos or apartments would be built behind them, Hanuschak said. He predicted that would bring even more traffic to the congested area.

Officials at Heitman, a Chicago-based real estate investment group that owns the 45-year-old plaza, could not be reached.

Former Tropic Isle resident Valarie Loomer said her family moved away earlier this year because of traffic congestion.

“We didn’t like the overdevelopment,” said Loomer, who has a 12-year-old son. “We liked living there for 10 years and even considered adding a second story to our home.”

They now live in Texas and are considering buying a second home in Hillsboro Beach.

“Delray Beach needs to consider whether it wants to have families or be a vacation destination for second-home buyers,” Loomer said. Ú

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IPic won’t pursue restaurant in Delray Beach complex

By Jane Smith and Mary Hladky

IPic movie theaters in Delray Beach and Boca Raton remain open two months after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

But iPic Entertainment founder and chief executive Hamid Hashemi has abandoned efforts to persuade Delray Beach officials to allow him to open a restaurant on the third-floor terrace of the luxury theater that opened earlier this year just south of Atlantic Avenue between Southeast Fourth and Fifth avenues in the downtown.

The Downtown Development Authority board gave conditional approval for the restaurant in midAugust. But the company did not seek the approval it needed from another city board, which would have made a recommendation to the City Commission.

The terrace will remain vacant, City Attorney Lynn Gelin said in late September.

IPic also had not moved its headquarters from Boca Raton to Delray Beach.

The company had promised to relocate its headquarters within 180 days of the office space receiving a certificate of occupancy. The office space, which is part of the 4th and 5th Delray project that includes the theater,

was still not ready as of late September.

IPic’s bankruptcy case is moving at a fast pace, as the company seeks to restructure its debt or find a buyer.

On Sept. 13, Delaware U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Laurie Selber Silverstein approved bidding procedures for the sale of iPic’s assets.

She set an Oct. 11 deadline for potential buyers to submit bids, with an asset auction to be held on Oct. 17.

A sale hearing to authorize the sale of assets is set for Oct. 28.

IPic launched in 2010 with a new concept: luxury theaters with reclining seats, quality food and drinks brought to patrons, and pillows and blankets.

The chain grew to 16 theaters in nine states.

But in the years since, theater patronage has decreased nationwide and larger theater chains copied iPic’s dine-in option and reclining seats.

IPic’s financial problems worsened in the first quarter of this year and on July 1 it missed a $10.1 million interest payment due to the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama and the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama.

IPic sought bankruptcy protection on Aug. 5 and its stock was delisted on Nasdaq. The stock traded on the over-the-counter market at 48 cents per share as of Sept. 24. Ú

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Sidney Arthur ‘Sid’ Patchett

By Ron Hayes

LANTANA — The Friends of the Lantana Public Library has about 150 dedicated members, but all would agree that when Sid Patchett died on Sept. 18, that library lost its best friend.

And he didn’t even live in Lantana.

Five days a week, from September 1996 when he was named its director until earlier this year, Mr. Patchett commuted from his home in Miami’s Coconut Grove, working to offer in quality what the little town library couldn’t provide in quantity.

“Our shelf space is so limited we can’t hold more than 24,000 volumes,” he would say, “so we don’t stock multiple copies of the bestsellers.

We use our limited budget to create the thinking person’s library.”

As the motto atop the library’s website boasts, this is “A Place For Serious Readers.”

Instead of a dozen new Stephen King novels, Mr. Patchett bought The Princeton Guide to Evolution.

Every library has Wilkie Collins’ classic Victorian mystery, The Moonstone, but Mr. Patchett bought the author’s lesser known works as well.

He was partial to anything published by The University of Florida Press and made sure the magazine collection included The New York Review of Books.

At the Sept. 23 Town Council meeting, Mayor Dave Stewart called for a moment of silent prayer in Mr. Patchett’s memory.

“Sid made the library what it is today,” the mayor said, “and he will be sadly missed.”

Friends of the Library President Teresa Wilhelm praised Mr. Patchett’s management and vision.

“The Lantana Public Library is a one-of-a-kind institution, and so was its director,” she said. “Leading a team of faithful volunteers is no easy task. However, Mr. Patchett was able to keep things moving along on a daily basis like a well-oiled machine. His admiration of literature produced the bountiful and varied collection of books in our library.”

Sidney Arthur Patchett came to Lantana from his birthplace in Utica, New York after a long and exotic journey.

While earning a degree in Latin American history at the University of Miami, he worked as a page at the Miami Public Library, then receive his degree in library science from Florida State University in 1968.

Joining the Peace Corps after graduation, he was sent to St. Lucia to set up a teachers college library there. On St. Lucia, he spotted an ad for a library on Papua, New Guinea, and spent three years at the University of Papua from 1975-78, then went on to Malawi, where he met his wife, Katrina “Trina” Patchett.

After eight more years in New Guinea, he returned to Florida and the University of Miami, where he earned a law degree in 1988, but never took the bar exam.

When the Carteret Savings & Loan collapsed in 1995, the town of Lantana bought the building at 205 W. Ocean Ave. The library, which had been run out of the women’s club, now had its own address, and Sid Patchett found his niche.

“It was really his cup of tea, a new library where he could start and build a collection,” Trina Patchett said. “He wanted it to be an excellent library with a wide range of titles.”

Mrs. Patchett declined to reveal a cause of death or her husband’s age. “Maybe it’s because I’m English,” she said, “but I just don’t think it’s necessary.”

In a 2015 interview, Mr. Patchett was asked if a library that values The Princeton Guide To Evolution over the latest Stephen King thriller might risk being called elitist.

“Probably!” he exclaimed. “And we don’t give a tinker’s dam.

We don’t think it’s elitist. We think it’s an opportunity to serve upward-striving people.”

In addition to his wife, Mr. Patchett is survived by a brother, Michael Patchett of Black Mountain, North Carolina; and a niece, Chavela “Vela” Robin. He was predeceased by two sisters, Phyllis “Hiddy” Doren, and Judith “Dugan” Patchett.

The family plans a private celebration of his life.

Donations in Mr. Patchett’s memory may be made to the Friends of the Lantana Public Library, 205 W. Ocean Ave., Lantana, FL 33462.

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Ted Withall BOCA RATON — Ted Withall was born on Nov. 20, 1918, in El Paso, Texas, to Sam and Katy Withall. He died Aug. 8 at the Boca Raton Hospice, at age 100.

He was born just nine days after the end of World War I, when his father was discharged from the Army and he moved his family back to California.

Ted Withall was a man of many talents.

His high school athleticism led him to college sports where he not only pitched for the freshman baseball team at San Diego State College, in his hometown, but he also became the No. 1 player on the freshman tennis team.

After four years at San Diego State, Mr. Withall transferred to the University of California at Berkeley. After earning his bachelor’s degree and before he put in a year of graduate studies, he took the time out to serve from 1942 to 1946 as a member of the United States Air Corps.

His talent and love for tennis led to a lifelong career when he began to teach tennis to celebrities in and around Beverly Hills.

Mr. Withall’s other love was greatly influenced by the big-band era. He performed in nightclubs and on Hollywood Studio radio shows where he entertained audiences with his gift of song.

In 1947, while at the famously romantic Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, Ted met the love of his life. It was love at first sight, when Mr. Withall spotted a beautiful young woman, Helen Garey (from Big Bow, Kansas), walking into the powder room. He boldly followed her inside and they were married just 10 days later — a marriage that would last for 70 years. Helen died in 2017 at the age of 93 and Mr. Withall missed her dearly over the last two years.

From 1951 to 1956 Mr. Withall’s career took him to

upstate New York, where he succeeded Pancho Segura (ranked No. 1 in the world in 1950) as tennis pro at the Concord Hotel, where he taught during the summer months. He taught in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, during the winter months.

The couple gave birth to daughters Robin in 1952 and Lisa in 1955 and moved to Boca Raton in 1957. Mr. Withall succeeded Fred Perry at the Boca Raton Hotel & Club and was the residing tennis pro for 13 years. He worked at the Hollywood Golf Club in Deal, New Jersey, from 1960-1969 in the summer months.

He left the Boca Hotel for the Tennis Club in Fort Lauderdale and then went to the Beach Club in Palm Beach during the mid-70s for several years. He was offered a vice presidency at the indoor Tennis Club of the Palm Beaches and was head pro at the St. Andrews Club in Gulf Stream.

Mr. Withall joined the U.S. Professional Tennis Association in 1950 and was president in 1972. He was also the first

president of the Florida PTA and was among the first members to be honored as a master pro. He was also the first member to be inducted into the Florida PTA Hall of Fame.

Mr. Withall’s busy work life brought him to many interesting places, where he made lasting friendships on and off the court. His strong work ethic, his attention to detail and his competitive spirit are remembered by the many tennis players who were lucky to have been mentored by him.

His inspiration and guidance greatly influenced his grandchildren, with his grandson, J.J., following in his footsteps as an accomplished tennis pro and his granddaughter, Erin, a talented singer.

He is survived by his daughters, Robin Cox and Lisa McCusker; his grandchildren, J.J. McDonough and Erin McCusker; and his greatgrandchildren, Kane and Van McDonough.

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New play space in Boynton Beach aims to be dogs’ best friend

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annah Wickins operates her dog retreat on this philosophy: A tired dog is a happy dog.

After months of trying to get the drainage system right, the 20,000-square-foot Dog Activity World is open in the former Home Expo space in Boynton Beach. The center features upscale daycare, boarding, grooming, training and a photo studio.

“I tried to see the world through the eyes of a dog,” Wickins said.

Her clients and their owners love it.

Taz, a 7-year-old Lab mix, had a breakthrough day in midSeptember. Initially shy, Taz played with another dog that morning. And the center has the video to prove it.

His owner, Michael Jacobson of Ocean Ridge, was so grateful he bought a doggie ice cream for Taz. Frank Guerrieri of Delray Beach heard about the center from his veterinarian. In September he started to bring his 3-year-old Jack Russell terrier, Penny, and his 4-month-old Australian shepherd, Tucker, for doggie day care.

“The dogs are worn out when they leave,” Guerrieri said happily.

Mark Prendergast, owner of a chocolate Chesapeake Bay retriever named Rip, heard about the center from a friend who worked for a vet. The Lantana resident was pleased to see that the center is airconditioned.

“I couldn’t be happier,” said Prendergast, who drops 3-yearold Rip off at 6:30 a.m.

Aspiring to be a Disney World for dogs, Dog Activity World already has boarders.

Staffers spend the nights to ensure someone is on-site 24/7.

The day care hours are roughly 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Saturdays, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Sundays.

Dogs need up-to-date vaccines and are tested for their temperament. Instead of grouping them by big and small dogs, caretakers sort them by activity level and age. Portable 4-foot-high fencing creates partitions.

Each dog receives a breakaway collar for when the play becomes rough.

For more information, call 340-3740 or visit www.dogaw. com.

Pearlmark Real Estate Partners, a Chicago-based investment firm, has closed on a $44.65 million preferred equity investment to continue development of Atlantic Crossing, a mixed-use project in Delray Beach. The

developer is the Edwards Cos., a Columbus, Ohio-based real estate firm. The funds will go toward completing the project, which is to include 82 luxury condos, 261 apartment units, 83,000 square feet of office space and 73,000 square feet of retail along with 444 parking spaces on 9 acres at Atlantic Avenue and Federal Highway.

The investment was originated by Pearlmark and made on behalf of Pearlmark Mezzanine Realty Partners IV, L.P. and an institutional coinvestment partner. Previously, a $110 million construction loan was secured from Fifth Third Bank, Huntington Bank and Santander Bank.

BRH Plaza, LLC bought residential and commercial units of King David Kosher Hotel Condominium & Spa, 2901 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton, for $11 million last month, according to public records. The registered agent of BRH Plaza is Miami investor Jack Avid. The sellers were Ancon Management Corp., Boca Raton Plaza Holdings Corp., Ancon Transportation Corp., Plaza Beverage Corp., and Boca Raton Plaza Management Corp.

Gold Standard of Care of Greater Palm Beach County sold a 70-unit senior housing facility, Colonial Assisted Living, at 6026 Old Congress Road, Lake Worth Beach, for $6.155 million in late August.

The company, led by Michael Verbitsky, had purchased the property in 2014 for $3.9 million. Records show that the buyer, COPB Estate LLC, secured a loan from Bank Leumi for $6 million.

Manalapan broker Jeffrey Ray reported hot summer sales in real estate, closing a cool $45 million June through September.

The highlight, recorded Sept.

Ray 23, was a 2-acre, ocean-to-Intracoastal estate owned by David and Margaret Lumia at 1340 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan, which sold for $27 million to Villa Del Balbianello, a Florida LLC led

by Eric Thompson of Towson, Maryland. In 2008, the Lumias bought the property for $10.25 million.

The spa-like luxury compound includes a 24,054-square-foot Mediterranean-style main estate and a four-bedroom tennis pavilion with 5,306 square feet. Amenities include a large dock, tennis courts, a 30-by-50-foot infinity-edge seaside pool, a rock waterfall,

ABOVE: Hannah Wickins, CEO and founder, gets kisses from her dog Chase, 41/2, who is listed as the playground administrator on Dog Activity World’s website.

LEFT: Carissa Muth gets a tail wagging from Scooby Jack, 11/2, with some sweet words while he plays at Dog Activity World, a day care and boarding facility.

Photos by Rachel O’Hara/ The Coastal Star and a loggia with a fire pit.

Ray represented the Lumias, and Whitney McGurk and Liza Pulitzer of Brown Harris Stevens represented the buyer.

Two more September closings involved the Lumias.

Recorded on Sept. 24, David Lumia paid $4,932,500 for a waterfront home at 501 S. Atlantic Drive on Hypoluxo Island, buying it from the Octavia Neptune Revocable Trust. Ray represented David Lumia, and the listing agents were Jack Elkins and Bunny Hiatt of William Raveis South Florida.

And recorded on Sept. 10, Margaret Lumia, represented

by Ray, bought a six-bedroom house at 1003 Rhodes Villa Ave. on the Intracoastal Waterway in Delray Beach for $5,617,500.

The seller was Michael Walsh, who was represented by Nick Malinosky and Randy Ely of Douglas Elliman Real Estate.

Starting off Ray’s summer closings, a 3,376-squarefoot, completely renovated condominium in Villa Nova, 3505 S. Ocean Blvd., 10N, Highland Beach, closed June 28 for $1.6 million. Ray represented the buyer, John Gvodas Jr. Scot Karp, an agent with Premier Estate Properties, represented the sellers, Raj and Maureen Marken. Both agents said this represented a recordbreaking sale for the boutique, 24-unit oceanfront complex.

Developer Robert Fessler sold a waterfront estate at 3777 N. Ocean Blvd., Gulf Stream, to Maryland car dealer Jack Antwerpen and his wife, Dolores, for $18.5 million on Sept. 9.

Fessler paid $7.6 million for the house in 2017 and then renovated it with Palm Beach builder Fair Dinkum and Smith and Moore architects.

Antwerpen owns Antwerpen Auto Group, a group of 13 dealerships in Maryland, according to its website. The couple financed the Gulf Stream deal with a $13,875,000 loan from Toyota Financial Consumer Solutions.

Candace Friis of the Corcoran Group and Helene Jefferson of Treasure Coast Sotheby’s International Realty were the listing agents. Christy Larrimore of Engel & Völkers Delray Beach represented the buyers.

Executives Curtis Watkins, Jennifer Wynne, Joseph Marzilli and Stanley Clark — tied to two West Palm Beachbased trucking companies, CGW Transportation and Goodrich LLC — bought the 12,774-square-foot waterfront estate at 300 E. Key Palm Road in the Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club, Boca Raton, for $12,105,000 on Aug. 30.

Previous owners Doris and

Neil Gillman bought the home in 2017 for $12.4 million.

David Roberts, with Royal Palm Properties, represented the seller. Jonathan Postma, with Coldwell Banker, represented the buyer.

Another waterfront property listed by David Roberts, at 324 E. Coconut Palm Road in the Royal Palm club, sold for $6,175,000 on Sept. 16. The sellers were Gary and Videl Rack, and the new owners are Michael and Michelle Hagerty. Gary Rack, who owns Racks Fishhouse & Oyster Bar in Delray Beach, bought the property in 1998 for $1.45 million. Michelle Hagerty’s family owned White Rock Distilleries. Earlier this year, she and her husband purchased an adjacent home at 312 E. Coconut Palm Road for $12.5 million. The Hagertys were represented by J.P. DiMisa with Douglas Elliman of Boca Raton.

Atlantis resident Amy Snook has won election as the Women’s Council of Realtors president-elect for Florida for 2020. Snook is a partner Snook in the All About Florida Homes team of Lang Realty, along with

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co-partner Noreen Payne of Delray Beach. She has been practicing real estate and title insurance for 17 years and is the Florida state secretary for Women’s Council of Realtors.

Snook is also a director of the Realtors Association of the Palm Beaches and Greater Fort Lauderdale, and a director of Florida Realtors.

Michelle Jackson, business development manager of Get Dry Inc., won the Boynton Beach Professionals’ first recognition award, which will be given Jackson out on a monthly basis. “This is a new award created to honor the member who has done the most for the group and the Boynton Beach community,” said John Campanola, chairman of Boynton Beach Professionals.

“Michelle has been tirelessly working to promote the group and all of its members.”

Nancy Flinn of Delray Beach has joined the board of directors of Community Caring Center of Palm Beach Flinn County. In recent years, she served on the boards of directors of the League of Women Voters of Palm Beach County, Arts Garage in Delray Beach, Symphonia of Boca Raton, and the Villas of Ocean Ridge.

The COASTAL STAR The Institute for Regional Conservation received a $10,000 community impact grant from New York Life in support of its Restoring the Gold Coast program, which aims to create community partnerships to teach about environmental advocacy to protect and restore coastal dunes.

The community impact grant program awards grants of up to $25,000 to local nonprofit organizations that are championed by New York Life agents and employees.

John Campanola, an agent with New York Life’s South Florida general office in Sunrise, has been a volunteer with the Institute for Regional Campanola Conservation for more than five years and serves on its board of directors.

TooJay’s Deli was selected as a winner of the 2019 Restaurant Neighbor Award from the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation for the second consecutive year in recognition of its efforts on behalf of Feeding Florida to end hunger in Florida.

“This honor means so much to the entire TooJay’s team who go above and beyond to raise funds for Feeding Florida,” said Max Piet, president and CEO of TooJay’s and board member for Feeding South Florida. “It’s never been more important to us to rally behind the state’s leading organization in the fight to end hunger.”

And when he says above and beyond, he means it. At one point in one of TooJay’s fundraising campaigns, Piet raised the stakes on World Kindness Day and climbed onto the roof of the company’s Lake Worth Beach restaurant, refusing to come down until $10,000 was raised to help Feeding Florida stock its pantries. The fundraising surpassed $14,000.

The Boca Chamber Gala, set for Oct. 26 at the Boca Raton Resort & Club, will thank its outgoing chair, Susan Saturday of BBX Capital Corp., and welcome its 2020 incoming chairman of the board of directors, Michael Daszkal.

He cofounded the accounting firm Daszkal Bolton in 1992, which has grown from a twoDaszkal person outfit to a three-office firm that employs 140 people. He serves as a managing partner and as a member of the executive committee.

The gala is open to the public, and tickets ($250) may be purchased at https://web. bocaratonchamber.com/events/ Boca-Chamber-Gala-5159/ details.

Place of Hope at the Leighan and David Rinker Campus

Business Spotlight 23 will recognize Boca Ratonbased National Council on Compensation Insurance Holdings Inc., as its 2019 Jay DiPietro Hero of Hope at the seventh annual Hope Bash Boca, presented by the Coulombe Family Foundation.

The gala will be held at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 2 at Boca West Country Club, 20583 Boca West Drive, Boca Raton.

Tickets are $300 each and may be purchased at www. placeofhoperinker.org/event/ hopebashtickets.

People with licenses suspended for non-payment can get back on the road thanks to a special program and a day set aside by the Office of the Clerk and Comptroller, Palm Beach County. On Oct. 19, the clerk’s office is authorized to waive collection agency fees for people who pay off their court obligations in full or sign up for a monthly payment plan.

Florida law requires the clerk’s office to turn over unpaid tickets and other outstanding court fines and fees to an outside collection agency if the debt is not paid within 90 days of the due date.

Collection agency surcharges will be waived during Operation Green Light for overdue traffic tickets or criminal court obligations in Palm Beach County. For a driver with a $206 ticket for going 10-14 mph over the speed

limit, that amounts to a savings of as much as $91.60.

All four of the clerk’s courthouse locations will be open for Operation Green Light, which will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. They are: • Main Courthouse, 205 N. Dixie Highway, Room 2.23, West Palm Beach • North County Courthouse, 3188 PGA Blvd., Room 1203, Palm Beach Gardens • South County Courthouse, 200 W. Atlantic Ave., Room 1S124, Delray Beach • West County Courthouse, 2950 State Road 15, Room S-100, Belle Glade.

Payments will be accepted by cash, check, money order and credit card. A 3.5% service fee will be applied to all credit card payments.

For people who pay their debts or go on a monthly payment plan, their suspended driver’s licenses will be reinstated in most cases. To learn more about Operation Green Light, visit www. mypalmbeachclerk.com/ operationgreenlight.

Jane Smith contributed to this column.

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OCTOBER Friday - 10/4 - American Association of Caregiving Youth’s Hearts & “Soles” Casino Night at Boca Country Club, 17751 Boca Club Blvd., Boca Raton. Double down at one of several gaming tables to help the nonprofit carry out its mission of ensuring support services for young caregivers and their families. 6-10 pm. $175. 391-7401 or aacy.org.

10/4 - Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum’s Toasts, Tastes & Trolleys at Boca Raton Resort & Club, 501 E. Camino Real. Tour downtown venues while sampling dinner by the bite and specialty drinks at every location, all to benefit education programs. 6-11 pm. $125. 395-6766 or bocahistory.org.

Saturday - 10/12 - Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics’ Angels for Angels Charity Ball at St. Andrews Country Club, 17557 W. Claridge Oval, Boca Raton. Support drug development to treat and ultimately cure a rare disease that affects the nervous system, delaying development and causing intellectual and physical disabilities. 7-11 p.m. $175. 954776-1999, Ext. 222 or cureangelman.org/ angelsforangels.

Thursday - 10/17 - National League of American Pen Women’s Boca Raton Branch’s New Membership Luncheon & Silent Auction at Indian Spring Country Club, 11501 El Clair Ranch Road, Boynton Beach. Meet artists, composers and writers, enjoy a lavish lunch and bid on fabulous items to benefit scholarships for creative youths. Noon. $35. 737-5544 or

Dinner, dancing, live music, entertainment and the theme ‘Under the Palms’ highlight an evening of celebration and support for the expansion of foster care services for Place of Hope at The Leighan and David Rinker Campus in Boca Raton. Time is 6:30 p.m. Cost $300. Call 483-0962 or visit www.placeofhoperinker.org. ABOVE: (l-r, front) Melissa Bonaros, Linda Taylor, Sue MacDonald, Rebecca D’Emic, Polly Jackson, Angela Santos, Patricia Saffer, (back) Paul Bonaros, Sue Heller, Trisha Wegman, Katharine Moss, Jennifer Hernandez, Dr. Anjali Noble, Trisha Bachman, Rachel Lopez, Mary Randolph Scott, Shari Parson and Neil Saffer. Photo provided by Kelly Wagner/Coastal Click Photography bocapenwomen.org.

10/17 - Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County’s Great Grown-Up Spelling Bee at The Harriet Himmel Theater, 700 S. Rosemary Ave, West Palm Beach. “Bee” a part of the buzz and compete in the 28thannual fundraiser for programs that teach literacy throughout the county. 6 pm. $300$1,000. 279-9103 or literacypbc.org.

10/17 - Boys & Girls Club of Boca Raton’s Securing our Future Soiree at The Addison, 2 E Camino Real, Boca Raton. Enjoy an experience-driven social with culinary stations, handcrafted cocktails and lavish auction items. 6:30-9:30 pm. $250. 683-3287 or bgcpbc.org

Friday - 10/18 - Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation’s Go Pink Luncheon at Boca Raton Resort & Club, 501 E. Camino Real. Listen to multitalented actor, comedian, producer, writer and physician Dr. Ken Jeong give the keynote speech at the 16th-annual affair that benefits breast-cancer detection and treatment initiatives. 11 am1:30 pm. $175. 955-7100 or donate.brrh.com/ gopink.

Saturday - 10/26 - The Witches of Delray’s Witches Ride beginning at Delray Beach City Hall, 100 N.W. First Ave. Put on a witch costume, decorate that bicycle and join the eighth-annual, fun-filled cruise down Atlantic Avenue to benefit Achievement

Centers for Children & Families. 7:30-11:30 am. $25-$30. 266-0003 or witchesofdelray. org.

NOVEMBER Friday - 11/1 - Best Buddies Champion of the Year at PGA National Resort & Spa, 400 Ave of the Champions, Palm Beach Gardens.

Celebrate eight local philanthropic leaders who have engaged in a 10-week fundraising campaign to raise money and awareness for Best Buddies inclusion programs. Guests will be joined by Super Heros as they enjoy a cocktail reception, silent auction, dinner and live entertainment. 7-11 pm. $250. 972-5312 or bestbuddies.org/palmbeach Saturday - 11/2 - Place of Hope’s Hope Bash Boca at Boca West Country Club, 20583 Boca West Drive, Boca Raton. Enjoy an evening of dining, dancing, live music, entertainment and the theme “Under the Palms” to support the expansion of foster care services at the Leighan and David Rinker Campus. 6:30 pm. $300. 483-0962 or placeofhoperinker.org.

Monday - 11/4 - Bethesda Hospital Foundation’s Women of Grace Luncheon at Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa, 100 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan. Celebrate philanthropy and volunteerism by honoring four local women whose outstanding service has enriched and inspired the community.

10:30 am-1:30 pm. $200. 737-7733, Ext. 84428 or bethesdahospitalfoundation.org.

Tuesday - 11/5 - Cheribundi Boca Raton Bowl Great Chefs Tailgate Showcase & College Spirit Night at Renaissance Boca Raton Hotel, 2000 N.W. 19th St., Boca Raton.

Take pride in Palm Beach County’s only NCAA-sanctioned football bowl game at a casual, open-to-the-public night filled with food, fun and fundraising for Spirit of Giving Network. 6-8:30 pm. $50 in advance, $60 at the door. 362-3661 or spiritofgivingnetwork. com.

Thursday - 11/7 - The Crossroads Club’s Inaugural Gratitude Luncheon at The Seagate Country Club, 3600 Hamlet Drive,

Delray Beach. Buy a ticket to benefit, celebrate and recognize the progress made in fighting addiction in the community.

Noon-2 pm. $175. 278-8004, Ext. 106 or thecrossroadsclub.com.

11/7 - Faulk Center for Counseling’s Community Impact Awards at Broken Sound Club, 2401 Willow Springs Drive, Boca Raton. Help raise proceeds that will impact more than 2,000 South Florida adults and children through individual- and groupcounseling programs. 6 pm. $125. 483-5300 or faulkcenterforcounseling.org.

Friday - 11/8 - Junior League of Boca Raton’s Woman Volunteer of the Year Luncheon at Boca Raton Resort & Club, 501 E. Camino Real. Help celebrate local women and recognize nonprofits throughout Palm Beach County during a Saks Fifth Avenue fashion show by designer Andrea Lieberman.

10:30 am. $150-$250. 620-2553 or jlbr.org.

Friday - 11/15 - Boca Center’s “Jingle All the Way” at Boca Center, 5150 Town Center Circle, Boca Raton. Watch the inaugural treelighting, listen to holiday performances by local choirs and take photos with Santa while benefiting Junior League of Boca Raton and Spirit of Giving Network. 5:30-7 pm. A new, unwrapped toy for general admission, $45 for VIP seating. 620-2553 or jlbr.org.

Thursday - 11/21 - Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County’s Read Together Palm Beach County Finale Event at The Harriet Himmel Theater, 700 S. Rosemary Ave., West Palm Beach. Wrap up the 11thannual campaign, in which adults read the same book at the same time, with the author of The One-in-a-Million Boy, Monica Wood. 6 pm. Free. 279-9103 or literacypbc.org.

Friday - 11/22 - Unicorn Children’s Foundation’s Community Inclusion Awards at Boca West Country Club, 20583 Boca West Drive, Boca Raton. Recognize unsung heroes and those who go above and beyond on behalf of special-needs children and their families. 11:30 am. $125. 620-9377, Ext. 304 or unicornchildrensfoundation.org.

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Women of Grace to honor volunteers for their generosity

By Amy Woods

The Women of Grace Luncheon will celebrate its 20th anniversary next month by recognizing four female volunteers for their philanthropy.

The 2019 honorees and their nominating charities are Kirsten Blazek, American Association of Caregiving Youth; Laura McCutcheon, Best Foot Forward; Dr. Barbara Golden, Jerome Golden Center for Behavioral Health; and Jill Weiss, Susan G. Komen Florida.

“We like to acknowledge women who are out in the volunteer world,” honorary co-chairwoman Karen Phillips said. “For many of us, in an era where we weren’t working all the time, that’s how we spent our days.”

Phillips served as the luncheon’s first chairwoman in 2000 and has championed the cause ever since.

From its humble beginnings in Bethesda Hospital’s Clayton Conference Center with catering by Carrabba’s Italian Grill, to a ballroom at Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa in Manalapan with a chef-prepared meal, the event has generated nearly $2 million for the Center for

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“I’ve been to every single luncheon,” Phillips said. “I am happy that we started to raise an awareness of how much it’s grown over the years.”

Organized by the Bethesda Hospital Foundation, the luncheon’s primary sponsor is The Magnolia Society, a membership of women supporting women, spearheaded by Eileen Augustyn.

“I had a vision of more women participating in funding the women’s and children’s section of the hospital,” Augustyn said.

She recruited one dozen the first year, two dozen the second year and four dozen the year after that, with everyone giving $250 apiece.

The donation level later was raised to $500 and eventually $1,000.

“This has gone on to the point where we are the primary sponsor of the Women of Grace luncheon,”

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Augustyn said. “I was hoping that we would be, and we are.”

Now that she has achieved her goal, she has set another one.

“The goal that I have now is to increase the membership,” Augustyn said. “The more you

What: Women of Grace Luncheon When: 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Nov. 4 Where: Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa, 100 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan Cost: $200 Information: Call 737-7733, Ext. 84428, or visit www. bethesdahospitalfoundation.org. get involved with the hospital, the more it becomes a part of you, and you want it to get stronger.

I just think it’s a sign of the good woman.” Ú

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Enjoy picnic in Old School Square, help feed homeless children

Delray Beach’s Old School Square will be the site of Picnic in the Park, an Oct. 20 fundraiser where businesses, clubs, families, friends and organizations can each throw a picnic on a 12-by-12-foot square.

Making its debut, Picnic in the Park will run from 3 to 5:30 p.m. and raise money to feed homeless children.

For $250 apiece, groups get a designated spot on the Old School Square lawn and are encouraged to choose an international theme, create cuisine that matches the theme and then wear costumes keeping with the theme.

Groups can bring tables, chairs, blankets and tents, as well as decorations and even musical instruments to accent the fun.

“The picnic is an America classic where people get together and have fun,” said Maura Plante, founder of Living Hungry, which has partnered with the Delray Beach Homeless Task Force on the event. “It’s all about having a fun afternoon and raising money for a good cause.”

For more information, call 573-5092 or visit www. livinghungry.org.

Nonagenarian to be honored for his service

A 91-year-old man is helping alcoholics and drug addicts into recovery in Delray Beach.

For such efforts, Tony Allerton, Allerton executive director of The Crossroads Club — a nonprofit founded in 1982 — will be honored at Crossroads’ inaugural Gratitude Luncheon at noon Nov. 7 at the Seagate Country Club in Delray Beach.

“We are so pleased to honor Tony Allerton for his 60 years of service to our community,” said Delray Beach Deputy Vice Mayor Bill Bathurst, co-chairman of the event.

“Through his compassion and experiences, he has touched the lives of countless individuals and serves as an inspiration to all who meet him.”

Every day, Allerton, who has been sober longer than most of his clients have been alive, helps those he sponsors overcome addiction. In 2006, he spearheaded renovations at an old city-storage building to create The Crossroads Club’s current home, which offers more than 150 meetings a week.

Tickets for the luncheon are $175 and can be purchased at www.thecrossroadsclub. com or by calling 278-8004, ext.

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Food delivery to needy cut due to loss of aging truck

Boca Helping Hands has raised nearly $35,000 from the community, and an anonymous donor has committed to match the next $25,000 that comes in, but even if that is generated, another $65,000 will still be needed to replace a large truck used to deliver food to needy people.

The 25-year-old truck regularly picked up items at Feeding South Florida and had the capacity to carry 10 pallets of food. Some of that food was delivered to elementary schools in Boca Raton, Delray Beach and Boynton Beach for children to take home in donated backpacks so they had meals for the weekend.

The truck also brought pantry bags to a satellite location that distributed them directly to families.

“With the loss of this truck, we’re having to use multiple vehicles to fill these needs, resulting in double the fuel and paid drivers,” said Greg Hazle, the organization’s executive director, noting that

the Thanksgiving Box Brigade program might be in jeopardy if the vehicle is not replaced in time. “We are asking for the community’s help to replace this truck.”

For more information, contact Karen Swedenborg, development manager, at 417-0913, Ext. 202 or karen@ bocahelpinghands.org.

Community Foundation welcomes three to board

Michael Bracci, Beth Neuhoff and Jeffrey Stoops have been elected to serve on the board of the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties.

Bracci, president of Northern Trust’s Palm Beach and Stoops Treasure Coast regions, leads all aspects of the bank’s wealthmanagement business in the area. Neuhoff, CEO of Neuhoff Communications, is known for brand-building strategies both locally and nationally. Stoops, CEO of SBA Communications Corporation, oversees nearly 30,000 wireless sites in 13 countries.

“We are pleased to welcome these outstanding business

leaders and community representatives to our board,” said Bradley Hurlburt, the foundation’s president and CEO.

Arc program aims for national recognition

The Arc of Palm Beach County has developed a model to improve acceptance for those with disabilities.

Stand Up is a leadershiptraining program that matches high-performing teens with same-age peers at the nonprofit.

“One of our goals at the Arc is to create positive experiences for the people we serve and open the minds of those who interact with them,” said Kimberly McCarten, the Arc’s president and CEO. “The interactions that happen in this program bridge differences, highlight varied communication styles and establish lasting bonds.”

The Arc adopted Stand Up in 2018. It has been nominated for an award and is on its way to getting implemented on a national level.

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Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton — Aug. 5

Donors gathered with students and faculty members of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine to celebrate the first and only medical school in Palm Beach County at the ninth-annual donor-appreciation reception. The event raised more than $185,000 to dress and equip the Class of 2023, as well as funded scholarships.

It preceded the formal White Coat Ceremony, at which aspiring doctors received the garment that symbolizes their commitment to serving patients. TOP: (l-r) Dr. Stuart and Elizabeth Markowitz, Dr. Mark Rubenstein and Dr. Joanna and Bryan Drowos.

MIDDLE: (l-r) Eugenia and Dr. Thomas Tzikas with Bonnie Halperin. BOTTOM: (l-r) Mark and Liz Larkin, Patricia Carpenter and Randy Colman.

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Bowling for Bread

Strikes@Boca, Boca Raton — Aug. 25

Boca Helping Hands raised a record $16,000 on behalf of area children’s charities during the 13th-annual event that involved more than 200 boys and girls served by the participating nonprofits. ‘We love the synergy and collaboration amongst our charity partners, and we’re beyond thrilled that these amazing kids got to spend an afternoon simply having fun,’ said Greg Hazle, executive director of Boca Helping Hands. ‘That’s what this event is truly all about.’ ABOVE: (l-r) Palm Beach County Commissioner Robert Weinroth, Eric Shaw, Boca Helping Hands Development Director Karen Swedenborg and Hazle. Photo provided

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Saks Fifth Avenue, Boca Raton — Sept. 12

Mayors’ Literacy Initiative Luncheon The Breakers, Palm Beach — Sept. 12

The red carpet was rolled out for Rotary Club Downtown Boca Raton’s fashion-forward countdown to the fifth-annual Boca Raton Mayors Ball. As an exciting prelude to the main event, set for Nov. 16, the club welcomed committee members, honorees and sponsors amid displays of ball gowns and men’s formal wear. ABOVE: Bobby Campbell (in front) with (l-r) Michael Walstrom, Terry and Jerry Fedele and Dyana Kenney. Photo provided by Gina Fontana

Birthday celebration The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood is this year’s book for Read Together Palm Beach County, a Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County initiative. The story revolves around a friendship between a 104-year-old Lithuanian woman and an 11-year-old Boy Scout. The title was unveiled during the initiative’s 12th-annual gathering of local leaders.

ABOVE: (l-r) Lantana Mayor David Stewart, Lantana Town Manager Deborah Manzo and Palm Beach Mayor Gail Coniglio.

RIGHT: Manalapan Town Manager Linda Stumpf with Town Clerk and Library Director Lisa Petersen. Photos provided by Tracey Benson Photography

Seven Bridges, Delray Beach — Aug. 23

Monsignor Tom Skindeleski, a member of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller’s Florida Commandery, was the man of the hour at a fundraiser that generated more than $15,000 for a project in western Palm Beach County that will result in a children’s development center at the First Haitian Baptist Church of Belle Glade. Hosts were Matt and Thais Piotrowski, and among the guests was Toni Mastrullo, commander of the order. ABOVE: Candace Tamposi and David Barninger. Photo provided

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Death or Glory celebrates spooky

hey’re getting spirited in more ways than one at Death or Glory in Delray Beach. A Halloween pop-up has overtaken the bar, where all things spooky are being celebrated through the end of the month.

The bar known for craft cocktails is decorated throughout with All Hallows’ Eve pieces, from skeletons holding hands to skull garlands gracing doorways.

Annie Blake, a partner in the gastropub, says Halloween is a perfect match for the establishment. The pop-up began in mid-September, she said, extending the party.

“Halloween is a stress-free season, without family dinners, presents, or the hope of the often elusive Valentine,” she said. “Our guests are having so much fun with the extension of this whimsical holiday that turns its nose up to all things serious or depressing.”

The menu, changing as it goes along, has 13 cocktails for “ghouls and boys,” some inspired by Edgar Allan Poe. There’s a pineapple-cucumberOrgeat syrup and green pearl onion “Nevermore.”

A dehydrated apple floats on top of an Apple Jack, grenadine, smoked cinnamon bitters affair called “The Tell-Tale Heart.”

There’s a pumpkin-infused rum called “Premature Burial,” and “The Raven” with gin, pineapple, crème de cacao, mint and a black orchid garnish.

Guests are getting a kick out of all the puns and presentations — some in tiki mugs, others a bit more creative, Blake said.

“The Dead on Arrival communal bowl, which we serve in a ‘blood’ bag, and the Buddy of Christ, which looks like it’s served in a prayer candle but rather than focusing on Jesus, features our mascot, my doodle Buddy Marie, have gotten the biggest chuckles.”

Food follows suit, with names for common favorites referring to scary movies or people. The Birds is chicken wings, It’s Alive is octopus, Children of the Corn is cannelloni with corn succotash, and Pumpkin Head is chopped root vegetables with a vinaigrette.

The pop-up continues through Halloween night, when the band Spider Cherry will perform.

Death or Glory is at 116 NE Sixth Ave., Delray Beach. 8088814; deathorglorybar.com.

A Palm Beach County institution has been reborn.

Tom’s Place is now open in the Boynton Beach Mall.

The barbecue place that first opened on Dixie Highway near Glades Road in Boca Raton in 1977 and has had several iterations is under the management of the family of the original owners, Tom and Helen Wright. Their daughter, Belinda Wright, and her brother Kenny have led the effort to reopen.

On Dixie Highway, the place was known for wood-pitsmoked ribs that drew crowds lining up for takeout; the only seats were picnic tables outside.

Celebrities waited alongside construction workers on lunch breaks, and moms picked up dinner after work.

Tom Wright expanded the place slightly, putting in long communal tables. The Wrights eventually moved Tom’s Place to a bigger location on North Federal Highway with indoor seating and table service. It closed after Tom had a stroke in 2004. An outpost opened for a few years in West Palm Beach.

Tom’s BBQ Sauce became a souvenir and would find its way into northbound luggage.

The Southern fare that became a major draw is repeated on the menu at the mall location in the former Buca di Beppo.

Ribs and pulled pork, napped with their namesake tomatobased sauce, fried catfish, smothered chicken, pork chops, mac ’n’ cheese, muffins, collards and black-eyed peas are here, as are the house-made desserts: red velvet cake, pound cake, sweet potato pie. A full liquor bar is in place in the bar room from Buca di Beppo.

Decor is modest with red-checked tablecloths and wood chairs with leatherette.

The walls are peppered with memorabilia such as photos of family and the original Tom’s.

Old customers have found it, reminiscing on social media and eagerly following announcements of the opening.

It was delayed a month for inspections and licenses.

The new Tom’s was at first closed on Tuesdays. That is Belinda Wright’s recovery group meeting day; she is a former addict and was briefly jailed following a drug probe involving her ex-husband.

Now sober, she works with others in recovery and participates in the Crossroads Club in Delray Beach, a support program for people with substance abuse problems.

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The mall store is now open every day. Takeout and catering are available.

Tom’s Place BBQ, in the Boynton Beach Mall, 801 N. Congress. Hours are 4-9 p.m.

Monday, Noon-4 p.m. Tuesday, Noon-6 p.m. Sunday and Wednesday-Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. 843-7487.

Green market season opens this month and runs through spring. The Boca Raton Greenmarket starts its 23rd year and will remain at City Hall. Last season, the market moved from its original home in Royal Palm Plaza to alleviate parking problems.

The Saturday market, held 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., will begin Oct. 26 with its roster of vendors selling fresh produce, seafood, bakery foods, local honey, dog treats, plants and fresh flowers, prepared foods, and home and garden items. It continues Saturdays through mid-May. It’s a dog-friendly market, and has live music.

The Delray Beach GreenMarket also opens Oct. 26 and marks its 23rd year. It was started by the Community Redevelopment Agency as a downtown draw.

It now resides at Old School Square Park on Northeast Second Avenue. Also dog friendly, the market has farm fresh products such as raw milk, local honey, fresh eggs, cut flowers, artisan cheese and locally grown produce from the 65-plus vendors.

Nurseries bring native plants.

Seafood vendors have local fish, and fresh citrus comes from Florida groves.

The market is open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays through mid-May. The Lake Worth Farmers Market under the bridge will be returning this year on Oct. 19 without its founder.

Peter Robinson, longtime

A few of the decorations at Death or Glory are not for the faint of heart. Bloody Mary mix served from an IV is intended to chill your soul. Photo provided greenmarket organizer in Palm Beach County, is retiring. His assistant will now oversee the Saturday market by the bridge at A1A that has fresh produce, plants, prepared foods and bakery items, and artisan products for sale.

A return to the stoves: Chef Bruce Feingold, longtime chef at DaDa in Delray Beach, moves east on the avenue to take over Deck 84 kitchen. He says he’ll work with owner Burt Rapoport to put his stamp on the menu, including dishes such as coconut marinated half chicken with a maple, gochuchangn pineapple and kim chi fried rice. Give it time: Changes will evolve beginning late October.

In brief: Tourism was knocked sideways while Hurricane Dorian made up its mind. Because of that, some restaurants in Flavor Palm Beach are extending the

program to Oct. 8 or beyond.

It features multicourse meals from $20 to $49; check https:// flavorpb.com for details. …

In Delray Beach, 50 Ocean’s Great American Road trip had to detour because of the storm, so Oct. 11 is the next date for the dinner series. Calle Ocho is the inspiration for a Cuban-themed dinner with Latin jazz, cuisine and hand-rolled cigars to finish.

Find details at www.50ocean. com. … 50 Ocean chef Tom Op’t Holt won the first round of Culinary Kombat over chef Adam Brown of the Cooper in Palm Beach Gardens. The contest runs Thursday nights (except Halloween) through Nov. 7 at Salt7 in Delray Beach and benefits the Milagro Center.

Jan Norris is a food writer who can be reached at nativefla@ gmail.com.

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The perfect afternoon snack takes wing The Plate: Five wings The Place: Smoke BBQ Boca Raton, 555 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton; 4303348 or www.eatbbqnow.com.

The Price: $5.99 The Skinny: It was rainy, and every side street in Boca Raton seemingly was underwater.

And I was feeling a bit peckish — hungry, but not starved.

Then I remembered that Smoke BBQ had opened an outpost across from Mizner Park, so I decided to get something to nibble.

The order of five wings was a perfect snack. The meaty chicken was smoked until pink, then flash-fried until

crisp on the outside, complete with a savory rub that complemented the smokiness of the meat. Good, if not good for you, and that crispy skin was amazing.

And the jalapeño cilantro potato salad ($2.50) I ordered on the side was creamy, with

just the right amount of kick from the peppers.

It’s counter service here, so we won’t call it fine dining; just good eating — very good eating.

—Scott Simmons

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PAGE AT14: Nathalia Arja will set the stage afire in Miami City Ballet's production of The Firebird, Feb. 21-23 at the Kravis Center. Photo by Karolina Kuras

PAGE AT18: Get Happy! at the NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale with Rob Pruitt's 2013 work Us, on view Oct. 27–July 5. Photo provided

SEASON PREVIEW Welcome to the new arts season! In this special edition of The ArtsPaper, you’ll find previews by our staff of what’s to come in the visual arts in Palm Beach, Broward and MiamiDade counties; classical, jazz and pop music; opera, dance and theater; film and books.

You’ll see that it’s a packed season, and what we’ve written here is only part of what’s available to fans of culture over the fall, winter and spring months.

Plus, there are longer versions of most of these stories on our website, palmbeachartspaper.com.

So read and enjoy, save the dates, and we’ll see you at the show.

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The Zac Brown Band takes the stage at Coral Sky Amphitheatre on Oct. 18 and 19. Photo provided

An influx of newer faces, voices is energizing the pop sphere

By Bill Meredith ArtsPaper Music Writer

Unlike most previous years, the expected familiar faces aren’t dotting the 2019-2020 South Florida pop concert season landscape.

Elvis Costello and Sting make rare appearances only days apart; soul icons the Isley Brothers stop in 65 years after the group’s formation, and more modern names include the Black Keys, Incubus, Jonas Brothers, Chainsmokers, and Ariana Grande.

Then there’s ZZ Top, Ozzy Osbourne, and other veteran names more familiar with previously popular lineups like John Oates (from Hall & Oates) and Martin Barre (Jethro Tull).

Bridging the wide gap between classic and modern country music, the Zac Brown Band has amassed a huge following since forming in Atlanta in 2002. Namesake vocalist/guitarist Brown has infused his eight-piece band with instruments more associated with bluegrass (violin, mandolin, banjo), Latin (percussion) and Hawaiian music (ukulele) while collaborating with rock stars from Chris Cornell to Dave Grohl to Kid Rock. The three-time Grammywinning group also features Jimmy Martini (violin, vocals), John Driskell Hopkins (guitar, bass, ukulele, banjo, vocals), Coy Bowles (guitar, keyboards), Clay Cook (guitar, keyboards, mandolin, steel guitar, vocals), Matt Mangano (bass), Chris Fryar (drums), and Daniel de los Reyes (percussion). 7 p.m. Oct. 18-19, Coral Sky Amphitheatre, 601-7 Sansbury’s Way, West Palm Beach (833-

215-5121, $39-$521).

has one of rock’s best voices; bassist Tom Petersson and lead guitarist Rick Nielsen are aces, and son Daxx Nielsen mans the drums. 7 p.m.

Oct. 20, Coral Sky Amphitheatre ($37$338).

The “sacred steel” sound of pedal steel guitar in churches, primarily southern AfricanAmerican Pentecostal institutions, has found its leading voice in New Jersey-born Robert You can thank Randolph, 42 — one Moby, or blame him, of Rolling Stone’s “100 for deejays starting Greatest Guitarists to release albums of All Time.” His rather than just play Family Band includes them in the 1990s. vocalist/guitarist A current result is Marcus Randolph, the Chainsmokers, Rock band Incubus plays the Kravis the popular, New vocalist Lenesha Center on Dec. 1. Photo provided Randolph, and York City-launched keyboardist Brett turntable duo of Haas. 8 p.m. Oct. 19, Culture Room, Alexander Pall and Andrew Taggart.

3045 N. Federal Highway, Ste. 70, Fort Since launching five years ago with the Lauderdale (954-564-1074, $32.50-$65). debut EP Boquet, the young electronic dance music darlings (Taggart is now 29; Texas trio ZZ Top became American Pall 34) have earned a Grammy Award roots-rock icons during the 1970s and headlined 2019 editions of the after forming in Houston in 1969. Jimi Ultra Music Festival and Lollapalooza.

Hendrix was a fan of guitarist/vocalist The duo’s latest release is this year’s Billy Gibbons, and bassist/vocalist World War Joy. Opening act 5 Seconds Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard of Summer is a four-piece pop band remained rock-solid on gems from (vocalist/guitarists Luke Hemmings and ZZ Top’s First Album (1971) through Michael Clifford, bassist/keyboardist/ Deguello (1979). By the 2000s, the trio vocalist Calum Hood, drummer/vocalist had basically become a touring caricature Ashton Irwin) from Australia that has of itself. previous collaborations with the duo.

Openers Cheap Trick, fellow Rock and 7 p.m. Oct. 24, American Airlines Roll Hall of Fame members, transitioned Arena, 601 Biscayne Blvd., Miami (786from the 1970s into the 1980s by sticking 777-1000, $20-$325).

Akron, Ohio-based friends Dan to their Illinois-based audio roots.

Auerbach (vocals, guitar, bass, Vocalist and guitarist Robin Zander still

keyboards) and Patrick Carney (drums) formed the Black Keys in 2001 after dropping out of college. They were nearimmediate indie-rock sensations. The duo’s mix of blues and rock influences resulted in its signing with blues-based recording labels while becoming popular on the international jam band touring circuit. Openers Modest Mouse also became indie-rock sensations after forming in Washington state in 1992.

7 p.m. Nov. 5, BB&T Center, 1 Panther Parkway, Sunrise (954-835-7000, $22$1,261).

British vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Elvis Costello, 65, first emerged as part of the mid-to-late-1970s New Wave movement with notable albums like My Aim Is True, This Year’s Model and Armed Forces. But starting with his 1981 release of vintage country music covers, Almost Blue, Costello has refused to be typecast. His latest release is last year’s Look Now with the Imposters. 8 p.m. Nov. 7, Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale (954-462-0222, $88-$613).

Contrary to what many think, perhaps even including himself, Sting was not the entirety of The Police, the most original pop act since The Beatles between 1977 and 1984. Yet Sting’s unparalleled, upperregister voice, songwriting prowess and underrated bass playing have also fueled a long and successful solo career since.

The 68-year-old Brit is likely to play Police material, plus cuts from gems like his 1985 solo debut The Dream of the Blue Turtles and 1993’s Ten Summoner’s Tales

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through his most recent effort, this year’s My Songs. 8 p.m.

Nov. 9, Hard Rock Live, 5747 Seminole Way, Hollywood (866502-7529, $84-$2,438).

The Jonas Brothers became the omnipresent male equivalent of the Kardashians after forming in New Jersey in 2005. Consisting of Joe Jonas (vocals), Nick Jonas (vocals, guitar) and Kevin Jonas (guitar, vocals), the trio became multimedia stars, roaring out of the gate with It’s About Time (2006), before hiatuses, sibling rivalries, creative differences and breakups hastened a 10-year run for each to focus on solo projects. The trio reunited for its 2019 release Happiness Begins.

7:30 p.m. Nov. 15, BB&T Center ($40-$1,777).

Guitarist/vocalist John Oates has remained on the back burner since forming Hall & Oates with 73-year-old vocalist/keyboardist/guitarist Daryl Hall in Philadelphia in 1970. Yet while the 71-year-old Oates wasn’t the lead singer on Top 40 hits like “Sara Smile,” “She’s Gone,” or “Rich Girl,” he co-wrote most of the duo’s 34 Billboard Hot 100 hits, and has dozens of lead vocal credits on album cuts within its extensive catalog. 7 p.m. Nov. 23, Lyric Theatre, 59 SW Flagler Ave., Stuart (772-286-7827, $180$203).

A true 21st-century pop star, 26-year-old, Boca Raton-born Ariana Grande is alternately praised as a four-octave soprano singer and lambasted as a marginal talent who producers only make sound like one.

She’s had all five of her fulllength recordings (including this year’s Thank U, Next) certified platinum; and won a Grammy Award for “Best Pop Vocal Album” for her 2018 release Sweetener. Along the way, Grande also showed her age by getting caught licking unpurchased doughnuts in public, and insulting Americans, in a restaurant video. 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 27, American Airlines Arena ($63-$645).

Sixty-eight-year-old Newark, N.J., native Max Weinberg is essentially the American version of iconic Beatles drummer Ringo Starr — revered for his decades of work within Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, yet viewed by some as a limited, overrated drummer who was in the right place at the right time — namely the Asbury Park area of the Garden State in 1973.

He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the E Street Band in 2014.

Now his Jukebox band will live up (or down) to its name in this general admission, standingroom-only show by taking requests from the audience from more than 200 cover songs listed on video monitors. 8 p.m. Nov. 29-30 at the Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach 4506357, $50-$200).

South Florida’s pop music

ArtsPaper/Music AT9 Elton John, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles. Knight also has a solo recording career from 1978 through her latest release, Where My Heart Belongs (2014).

8 p.m. Feb. 29, Hard Rock Live ($88-$863).

Sting brings his soulful hits to the Hard Rock Live on Nov. 9. Wikimedia Commons photo

Ariana Grande will perform Nov. 27 in Miami. Photo by David Shankbone/Wikimedia Commons

season always includes expected bookings, but California quintet Incubus was not one of this year’s. Formed in 1991 while its members were in high school, the lineup still includes original vocalist Brandon Boyd, guitarist Mike Einziger, and drummer Jose Pasillas, and is rounded out by newer members Ben Kenney (bass) and Chris Kilmore (turntables). Early recordings like Enjoy Incubus (1997) and S.C.I.E.N.C.E. (1998) featured a combination of rock, funk and rap. 8 p.m. Dec. 1, Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach (833-215-5121, $153-$925).

electronica and dance styles into the previous group’s postpunk and New Wave nucleus.

The current lineup consists of Sumner, Morris, longtime keyboardist/guitarists Gillian Gilbert and Phil Cunningham, and bassist/keyboardist Tom Chapman. Its latest release is Music Complete (2015). 8 p.m.

Jan. 14, 15, 17, 18, Fillmore Miami Beach ($101-$183).

Who else but Madonna could book a five-night run in Miami where ticket prices top out at the amount of a used car?

The 61-year-old pop icon has proven savvy at promotion and mixed media since the 1980s, becoming the highest-grossing solo touring artist and bestselling female artist of all time, and a seven-time Grammy Award winner. And she’s no stranger to Miami, where she was photographed hitchhiking naked in her 1992 coffee table book Sex. 8:30 p.m. Dec. 14, 15, 17, 18 & 19, Fillmore Miami Beach, 1700 Washington Ave., Miami (305-673-7300, $225$5,620).

Most bands don’t even last six years, but 60 or more?

Cincinnati-launched funk act the Isley Brothers first formed as the vocal doo-wop trio of O’Kelly, Rudolph and Ronald Isley in 1954, but moved to New York City and hit the charts with “Shout” in 1959.

Jimi Hendrix recorded with the band in the mid-1960s before the singers’ Hendrix-influenced younger brother Ernie joined on guitar, bass, and drums.

The hits “It’s Your Thing” and “That Lady” followed, leading to the protest anthem “Fight the Power,” a 1975 tune that sounds relevant today. 8 p.m. Dec. 20, Kravis Center ($125-$310).

British band New Order has been an on-again, off-again act since 1980, when it formed out of the ashes of the group Joy Division, which collapsed after the suicide of tortured lead singer Ian Curtis at age 23. Remaining band members Bernard Sumner (vocals, guitar), Peter Hook (bass), and Stephen Morris (drums) carried on, eventually incorporating

Possessing one of the greatest natural singing voices in popular music history, 75-yearold vocalist and Atlanta native Gladys Knight earned the first two of her seven career Grammy Awards with her family group, Gladys Knight & the Pips. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. Other Knight Grammy wins occurred between 1986 and 2005, most for collaborations with fellow stars like Dionne Warwick,

Bluegrass sextet the Steep Canyon Rangers formed in 2000 when its members were students at the University of North Carolina, and rose to greater acclaim by starting a collaboration with famed comedian and ace banjoist Steve Martin in 2009. The core lineup of vocalist/guitarist Woody Platt, banjoist/vocalist Graham Sharp, mandolinist/vocalist Mike Guggino, violinist/vocalist Nicky Sanders, bassist Barrett Smith, and percussionist/ vocalist Mike Ashworth has since released records with and without its acclaimed accompanist; the latest was last year’s Out in the Open. 7 p.m.

Feb. 29. Lyric Theatre ($165$354).

Guitarist Martin Barre shifted the scope of the band Jethro Tull as much as any musician ever has with a notable rock act. He replaced original guitarist Mick Abrahams in 1968. Barre’s signature, stinging solos and prowess within complex time signatures turned vocalist/leader Ian Anderson’s bluesy outfit into one of the greatest progressive rock bands. Barre. 72, leads a band with vocalist/guitarist Dan Crisp, bassist Alan Thomson and drummer Darby Todd. It

will also play selections from its latest album, Roads Less Travelled. 9 p.m. April 10, 8 p.m. April 11, Funky Biscuit, 303 SE Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton (561-395-2929, $55-$75).

Seventy-year-old vocalist Ozzy Osbourne rose to fame with Black Sabbath. The British singer then embarked on a successful solo career with the top-selling releases Blizzard of Ozz (1980) and Diary of a Madman (1981), furthering his celebrity by starting the popular festival Ozzfest in the mid-1990s and starring in the MTV reality series The Osbournes in the early 2000s. As a result, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee with Black Sabbath became a 21st-century cult of personality figure. 7:30 p.m. May 29, BB&T Center ($75-$1,238).

In many ways the quintessential modern internet band, Postmodern Jukebox formed in 2011 as a way for Queens, N.Y.-based pianist and arranger Scott Bradlee to film jams with musician friends.

But the group’s stylish YouTube videos, and Bradlee’s creative jazz facelifts of pop tunes by the likes of Lady Gaga, U2 and Katy Perry, showcase his estimable jazz technique and influences from across the wide pop music spectrum. The popular ensemble closes this season’s Festival of the Arts Boca. 7 p.m. March 8, Mizner Park Amphitheater, Boca Raton (800210-0689, tickets available Oct. 1; festivalboca.org).

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October 2019

Classical

Birthday boy Beethoven will be a big presence in 2019-20 season

By Greg Stepanich The shade of Ludwig van Beethoven looms large over this season, as he will the next, because the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth falls in 2020. No fewer than five performances of the Ninth Symphony are scheduled, but there’s also plenty of music by other composers on the way, too. Here’s a look at the stuffedto-the-gills classical season:

OCTOBER

Abram Kreeger’s Piano Lovers series at the Boca Steinway Gallery presents Taiwanese pianist Ching-Yun Hu on Oct. 12 in a program devoted to Franz Liszt. The St. Paul’s Episcopal Church music series of Sunday afternoon events at the Delray Beach church sees the Trillium Piano Trio of Jupiter return Oct. 20 with a new cellist and music of Turina, Smetana, David Lang and Beethoven.

The Lynn Philharmonia welcomes pianist Jon Nakamatsu on Oct. 26 and 27 at the Wold Performing Arts Center for the Third Concerto of Rachmaninov; conductor Guillermo Figueroa also will

lead the student orchestra in Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.

NOVEMBER

The Miami concert choir Seraphic Fire, which will have another Boca Raton series at St. Gregory’s Episcopal, opens its 18th season Nov. 7 with a truly daring event: the Ordo Virtutum, a 12th-century morality play by the German abbess and mystic Hildegard of Bingen.

The Master Chorale of South Florida offers pieces

by Bach, Vivaldi and Handel in a Baroque-themed concert Nov. 17 at the Roberts Theater in Boca Raton, and the Kravis Center’s Regional Arts series gets underway on the 19th with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, featuring the outstanding Russian pianist Olga Kern in the Second Concerto of Rachmaninov.

That same day, soprano Brandie Sutton joins the South Florida Symphony for Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, as well as the Mahler Fourth Symphony (Broward Center, Fort Lauderdale). The Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach launches its seventh season Nov. 21 with piano trio music

featuring violinist Arnaud Sussmann, pianist Gloria Chien and clarinetist Anthony McGill.

On Nov. 24, the excellent cellist Jason Calloway drops by St. Paul’s for three of the Bach cello suites (Nos. 1, 3 and 5).

DECEMBER

Beethoven is the man of the hour Dec. 8 when the eminent conductor Gerard Schwarz begins his tenure as leader of the Palm Beach Symphony; pianist Horacio Gutierrez plays the Fourth Piano Concerto, and Schwarz leads the orchestra, three choruses and four soloists in the Ninth Symphony, all at the Kravis Center. That same day at the Roberts Theater in western Boca, The Symphonia opens its season under Alastair Willis with soprano Robyn Marie Lamp singing Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 on a program that also includes music by Copland, Wagner and Respighi. The Kravis itself opens its Young Artists series Dec. 9 at the Rinker Playhouse with all-female Aizuri Quartet; the foursome will play music by Haydn, Sibelius, Komitas Vardapet, and Carrot Revolution, a quartet by Gabriella Smith.

Gerard Schwarz, known for his work with the Seattle Symphony, now heads the Palm Beach Symphony. Photo provided Seraphic Fire brings its annual Christmas concert to St. Gregory’s in Boca on Dec. 12, while Russian-born pianist Asiya Korepanova performs an all-Beethoven recital Dec. 14 at Piano Lovers, and on the 15th, the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach welcomes pianist Orion Weiss, violinist Yura Lee and the veteran cellist Clive Greensmith for an allBeethoven concert featuring the Archduke Trio. On the 16th, Austria’s Vienna Academy Orchestra is heard at the Kravis in organ and orchestra music

by Haydn, Handel, Mozart and Michel Corrette, with soprano Robin Johannsen joining

director/organist Martin Haselböck for motets including Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate.

JANUARY

Palm Beach’s Society of the Four Arts opens its 2020 season with young musicians from the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia on Jan. 5; on the program are string quartets by Beethoven and David Hertzberg, plus the Piano Quintet of Cesar Franck.

That same afternoon, conductor Carolyn Kuan returns to the Symphonia, joined by the fine Miami-based violinist Daniel Andai for a violin concerto

by Haydn, a suite for strings

by Brazil’s Clarice Assad,

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and the Fourth Symphony of Mendelssohn. Or you could head over to the Kravis for an all-Beethoven sonata recital by the violinist Midori, here accompanied by pianist JeanYves Thibaudet.

On the 8th, Fort Pierce’s Atlantic Classical Orchestra launches its regular series at the Eissey Theatre in Palm Beach Gardens with pianist Gabriela Martinez in the Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, and conductor David Amado leads the band in Beethoven’s First Symphony.

Also on Jan. 8, violinist Bomsori Kim and pianist Juho Pohjonen play sonatas by Schumann and Prokofiev at the Four Arts.

The Jupiter String Quartet brings quartets by Schubert and Beethoven to the Four Arts on Jan. 12, while the splendid violinist Chee-Yun joins the Palm Beach Symphony on Jan. 13 at the Four Arts for the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto; conductor Schwarz has also planned Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony and the Plea for Peace of the American composer Augusta Read Thomas. Over at the Kravis that same day, Poland’s Wroclaw Philharmonic arrives with violinist Janusz Wawrowski to play the First Concerto of Karol Szymanowski. Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero also leads the orchestra in the Symphonic Variations of Witold Lutoslawski and the Brahms First Symphony. It plays a second performance on the afternoon of the 14th with French pianist David Fray in the Second Piano Concerto of Chopin.

On the night of Jan. 14, the Flagler Museum opens its Tuesday night series of chamber music concerts at Whitehall on Palm Beach with the Ying Quartet. A special event is scheduled Jan. 14-26 at Lynn University, with the second Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition, won by the American violinist Sirena Huang in 2017.

London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra visits the Kravis on the 19th with the Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili, who plays the Liszt Second Concerto; conductor Mark Wigglesworth will also offer the Rachmaninov Second Symphony and Walton’s Portsmouth Point Overture.

Pianist Wu Han joins three members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York on Jan. 22 at the Four Arts for music by Fauré, Ravel and Saint-Saëns; also that day, the young Spanish violinist Francisco Fullana offers a solo recital of music by Bach, Paganini, Ysaÿe, Kreisler and Isang Yun at the Rinker Playhouse. The Delray String Quartet, now in residence at St. Paul’s, presents a concert of music by women composers Jan. 24, including pieces by Amy Beach, Fanny Mendelssohn, Rebecca Clarke and the Swedish Romantic Elfrida Andrée.

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The Ehnes Quartet is in town Jan. 29 for the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, and two Beethoven quartets are on the program.

FEBRUARY

The Four Arts opens the month Feb. 2 with violinist Isabelle Faust, cellist JeanGuihen Queyras and pianist Alexander Melnikov in a program of Beethoven piano trios, including the Ghost; the German “piano windtet” Ensemble 4.1 plays music

by Beethoven, Heinrich von Herzogenberg (a friend of Brahms) and Avner Dorman on Feb. 6 at the Four Arts. Guest conductor José-Luis Novo takes the reins of the Palm Beach Symphony on Feb. 7 at Benjamin Hall in Palm Beach Gardens, presenting Mozart’s Haffner symphony and his Flute and Harp Concerto, with soloists Nadine Asin (flute) and Kay Kemper (harp)/ Novo also offers music from his native Spain in the Los esclavos felices overture of the tragically shortlived Juan Arriaga.

The Symphonia offers its birthday tribute to Beethoven on Feb. 9 with conductor James Judd, who will direct the King Stephen Overture and the Fifth Symphony; violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen and cellist Yumi Kendall play the Double Concerto of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. The South Florida Symphony celebrates Beethoven with a performance of the Ninth Symphony on the 9th at the Broward Center; Schumann’s Piano Concerto, with soloist Svetlana Smolina, fills out the program.

The Euclid Quartet plays the Flagler on Feb. 11, with quartets

by Beethoven and Debussy, and at the Rinker Playhouse that same evening, the young American pianist Eric Lu can be heard in recital. Violinist Benjamin Beilman and pianist Andrew Tyson play works for violin and piano Feb. 13 for the Chamber Music Society, and on Feb. 16 at St. Gregory’s in Boca, Seraphic Fire performs the Coffee and Wedding cantatas of J.S. Bach.

Pianist Polina Osetinskaya joins the Russian State Symphony Orchestra on the afternoon of Feb. 17 at the Kravis for the Schumann Piano Concerto; conductor Valery Polyansky also offers two works

by Tchaikovsky. The next day in that same hall, the wonderful American violinist Joshua Bell leads Britain’s Academy of St. Martin in the Fields in the First Concerto of Paganini, with Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture and Brahms’s Fourth Symphony.

Harpist Bridget Kibbey and mandolinist Avi Avital team

Feb. 16 at the Four Arts for music by Bach, Tchaikovsky, Falla and Rodrigo, among others. The American violinist Elena Urioste solos in the Beethoven Violin Concerto on the 19th with David Amado and the Atlantic Classical Orchestra at the Eissey Campus Theatre;.

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is scheduled for Feb. 22 and 23 at Lynn Philharmonia.

The expert violinist Gil Shaham is joined by the New York chamber orchestra The Knights on Feb. 23 at the Four Arts for the Beethoven Violin Concerto; that same day at the Kravis, violinist Michael Barenboim (presents the WestEastern Divan Ensemble’s chamber group in music of Schubert, Brahms, Tartini and Mendelssohn.

The American String Quartet presents an allBeethoven program at the Flagler Museum on the 25th, including the monumental Quartet No. 13 in B-flat, with the perilous Grosse Fuge, and in a mashup of two excellent young foursomes, the Escher Quartet and the Dover Quartet come together Feb. 26 for the Chamber Society in octets by Mendelssohn and Georges Enescu. At the end of the month, the Festival of the Arts Boca opens, featuring the Eroica Trio on Feb. 29 in the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the Symphonia.

MARCH

The Montenegrin classical guitarist Miloš returns to the Festival of the Arts Boca on March 1, while Lidia Kaminska brings her bandoneon to the Atlantic Classical Orchestra on March 4, where she’ll play Piazzolla’s concerto for that instrument. At the Broward Center on the 5th, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Cello Concerto has its world premiere with soloist Zuill Bailey and the South Florida Symphony. Wrapping up the Flagler season on March 10 is the Claremont Trio, and at the Chamber Society that same day is the Miro Quartet, joined by cellist Clive Greensmith for the Schubert “Cello” Quintet.

On the 11th at the Four Arts, Wu Han is joined by cellist David Finckel and violinist Arnaud Sussmann for an all-Beethoven program.

Trumpeter Brandon Ridenour is in recital on the 12th at the Rinker, the Israeli Chamber Project debuts at the Four Arts on March 15 with early works

by Beethoven and Bartok, and pianist Emanuel Ax joins the Rotterdam Philharmonic on the 17th at the Kravis for the Concerto No. 1 of Brahms.

American pianist Garrick Ohlsson comes to the Four Arts for the first time with a program of music by Chopin (Third Sonata) and Brahms, and on the 19th at the Rosarian Academy in West Palm Beach, accordion soloist Hanzhi Wang is featured in the Accordion Concerto of Paul Creston with the Palm Beach Symphony.

On March 22, the German violist Tabea Zimmermann

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Closing out the classical season at the Four Arts on March 29 is the quartet Brooklyn Rider, whose program’s first half will consist of five pieces by young women composers; the second half is devoted to Beethoven’s Quartet No. 15; also that day, the Canadian pianist Marika Bournaki solos in the Beethoven Third Concerto; conductor Laura Jackson also has programmed Julia Adolphe’s Shiver and Bloom and Britten’s Frank Bridge Variations.

APRIL

The brilliant American organist Cameron Carpenter makes a return visit to the Kravis on April 6, and soprano Susanna Phillips collaborates with pianist Anne-Marie McDermott and violist Paul Neubauer for the ending of the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach season. The Atlantic Classical Orchestra closes its

season April 8 with harpist Bridget Kibbey in a concerto by the Brazilian composer Joao Luiz.

Handel’s complete Messiah is scheduled for April 15 at St. Gregory’s in a performance

by Seraphic Fire. The Lynn Philharmonia closes its season April 18 and 19 with the Prokofiev Sinfonia Concertante, with the brilliant cellist Jonah Kim as soloist. Pianist Misha Dichter closes out the Palm Beach Symphony on April 19 with Gershwin’s Concerto in F; guest conductor David Zinman also will lead the band in HyeKyung Lee’s Climbing Tomorrow and the Tchaikovsky Fourth Symphony.

MAY

The Master Chorale of South Florida presents Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah on May 3 at the Wold Performing Arts Center at Lynn University, and Seraphic Fire exits its 18th season on May 5 at St. Gregory’s with a program of music for men’s chorus.

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Opera

Companies playing it safe with tried-and-true offerings

By Greg Stepanich ArtsPaper Editor The three major opera companies in the South Florida region are sticking to the mostly tried-and-true this season, but there are enough surprises to make it a good few months for the opera veteran.

Palm Beach Opera

Over the summer, General Director Daniel Biaggi stepped down from his post in search of new challenges, but will stick around for a little while to allow the new director, David Walker, to feel comfortable at the helm. Biaggi has done an admirable job in rethinking the company as it made the painful transition to one that is leaner but smarter about its productions.

The Young Artists of the company will perform Englebert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, a beautiful, Wagnerian work based on the Grimm fairy tale, at Delray Beach’s Crest Theatre. It should make a good home for this presentation, which includes a set made entirely of paper.

(Dec. 6-8, tickets: $25-$75) The company formally opens its season with the last great opera in the Italian tradition, Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot, a tale of a cruel princess of ancient China who forces her suitors to answer three riddles to win her hand, then has them executed after they fail.

An exiled prince named Calaf decides to take on Turandot and try his luck.

The opera’s Act III opens with Calaf singing “Nessun dorma” (“None shall sleep”), probably the opera aria best known today by the general public. Alexandra Loutsion sings Turandot opposite Stefano La Colla as Calaf, with Leah Crocetto as Liu in performances Friday and Sunday; the roles are taken

by Alexandra LoBianco, Hovhannes Ayvazya and Anastasia Schegole on Saturday.

Keturah Stickann directs, with musical direction by David Stern. (Jan. 24-26, Kravis Center) Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville is up next,

Young Artists of Palm Beach Opera will perform Hansel and Gretel Dec. 6-8 at the Crest Theatre. Photo provided easily the most popular and well-known of all operas in the bel canto tradition of the early 19th century. This charming comedy, which debuted in 1816, concerns Rosina, a ward of Dr. Bartolo, with whom the Count Almaviva is in love. But Bartolo wants to marry Rosina.

To thwart him, Almaviva turns to the cleverest man in town: the barber Figaro.

Mezzo Daniela Mack makes her company debut at Rosina, with Andrew Manea as Figaro, Taylor Staton as Almaviva and Renato Girolami as Bartolo.

Joshua Major directs, with Stern leading in the pit. (Feb. 28-March 1) Palm Beach Opera closes its season with a company premiere, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. The most well-known of the Russian master’s operas, it’s an intimate story drawn from Pushkin of a young woman named Tatiana who is passionately in love with Onegin, but he rejects her.

Years later, he returns to seek out Tatiana, now a married woman. Baritone and company favorite Michael Chioldi is Onegin opposite Russian soprano Svetlana Aksenova as Tatiana (Friday and Sunday); Vladislav Kupriyanov and Yelena Dyacheck take the roles Saturday night. The stage director for this lovely score is Tomer Zvulun, director of the Atlanta Opera. (March 28-30; call 832-7469 for tickets)

Florida Grand Opera

The Doral-based troupe marks its 78th season with three mainstay operas and one 18th-century rarity. Florida Grand performs its operas at the Ziff Ballet Opera House, part of the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami, then does two final performances at the Broward Center for the Arts in Fort Lauderdale.

First up is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni, his epic 1787 version of the Don Juan legend as told by his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. Giovanni, a young, licentious Spanish nobleman, kills the Commendatore, setting up an opera-long pursuit of him as he continues to seduce every woman he can find. Elliot Madore is Giovanni, Elizabeth de Trejo is Anna, Elizabeth Caballero is Elvira, and Nicolas Huff is Ottavio. Asleif Willmer is Zerlina opposite Michael Miller as Masetto. The opera is directed by Mo Zhou. (Six performances, Nov. 19-Dec. 7) Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is next, a beloved weepie that audiences have embraced since its debut in 1904. Butterfly is the story of a Japanese teenager who marries Lt. Pinkerton, a young American Navy officer.

He departs shortly after their marriage, returning three years later married to someone else.

Sandra Lopez is the tragic heroine, Joshua Guerrero is Pinkerton, Stephany Pena is Suzuki, and Morgan Smith is Sharpless, the American

consul. E. Loren Meeker directs, with Ramon Tebar at the podium. (Six performances, Jan. 18-Feb. 1) FGO returns to Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto for its third production. This 1851 classic tells the story of a jester at the court of the lustful Duke of Mantua who mocks the courtiers whose womenfolk have fallen prey to the duke.

But Rigoletto’s own daughter Gilda succumbs to the charming nobleman, and Rigoletto plans revenge. Todd Thomas is Rigoletto, with Piotr Buszewski as the Duke, and Jessica E. Jones as Gilda.

Kathleen Belcher directs, with Pacien Mazzagatti of New York City Opera leading the orchestra. (Six performances, March 28-May 2) The last production in the season is a rarity, Il Matrimonio Segreto (The Secret Marriage)

by Italian composer Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801). Of his 80-plus operas, this is the only one that gets revived, and it’s a sweet buffa about a wealthy father trying to marry off one of his daughters, Elisetta, to a count without knowing that his other daughter, Carolina, is secretly married to the household secretary, Paolino.

The opera will be performed in Spanish at the MiamiDade County Auditorium in downtown Miami. Rafael Porto is Geronimo, Asleif Wilmer and Shaina Martinez are daughters Carolina and Elisetta, Nicholas Huff is Paolino and Nathan Matticks is Count Robinson.

Crystal Manich directs, and Emily Senturia leads the orchestra. (Four performances, April 18-26; 800-741-1010)

Sarasota Opera

Victor DeRenzi’s repertory company in Southwest Florida always offers plenty of reason to drive over to the other side of the state for opera in a beautiful 1,100-seat theater in the heart of Sarasota’s downtown.

DeRenzi made operatic history with performances of the complete operas (and all their variants) of Giuseppe Verdi, which took 26 years to accomplish.

The winter opera festival opens with Verdi’s Rigoletto, which also is being presented

by Florida Grand Opera this season. Sarasota’s version stars company regular Marco Nisticò as Rigoletto; Hanna Brammer as Gilda; William Davenport as the Duke of Mantua; Young Bok Kim as the assassin Sparafucile; and Annie Chester as his sister, Maddalena.

DeRenzi conducts a staging

by Stephanie Sundine. (Six performances, Nov. 1-17) The second production is by the Sarasota Youth Opera company: the children’s opera Brundibár, by the modernist Czech composer Hans Krasa.

Written in the 1930s, it’s the charming tale of two kids who go out to buy milk for their

mother, but are thwarted by the evil organ-grinder Brundibár.

The kids eventually win out, with the help of friends from the animal kingdom. Martha Collins directs, Jesse Martins conducts. (Nov. 15-16) Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème, follows next. A beloved repertory item almost immediately after its premiere in February 1896, it’s the story of four starving artists in 1830s Paris. The writer Rodolfo meets cute with another resident of their chilly apartment building, the seamstress Mimì. This opera never fails to enchant audiences with its memorable melodies and dramatic melodrama, and remains one of the most popular works of operatic theater ever composed.

William Davenport is Rodolfo, and Anna Mandina is Mimì, with Filippo Fontana as Marcello and Jessica Sandidge as Musetta. Mark Freiman stage directs, DeRenzi conducts. (13 performances, Feb. 8-March 21) Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, which premiered in 1867, is a popular opera these days, not least because of its familiar Shakespeare story.

Hanna Brammer is Juliette, Andrew Surrena is Roméo, Lisa Chavez is Gertrude, Matthew Hanscom sings Mercutio, and Ricardo Lugo is Frère Laurent. Collins stage-directs, and Anthony Barrese handles the musical duties. (Nine performances, Feb. 15-March 20) Next comes Gaetano Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore (The Elixir of Love), a comic melodrama from 1832 that tells the story of Nemorino, who is in love with the indifferent Adina, and buys a love potion from a quack doctor in a bid to win her over.

Donizetti’s melodic gifts are on exemplary display in this opera, particularly in the aria “Una furtiva lagrima.” Adelaide Boedecker sings Adina, and Geoffrey Agpalo is Nemorino, with John Viscardi as Belcore and Stefano de Peppo as Doctor Dulcamara. Marco Nisticò directs, and John F. Spencer IV conducts. (Seven performances, Feb. 22-March 21) Sarasota closes its season with La Wally, the best-known opera of the short-lived Alfredo Catalani. Premiered in 1892, it is a tragic story based in Austria’s Tyrol Mountains where a young woman named Walburga, or Wally for short, is in love with Hagenbach, who doesn’t return her love. He, in fact, is the son of her father’s sworn enemy, and the opera ends in dramatic fashion when an avalanche carries them both away. Teresa Romano is Wally opposite Rafael Davila’s Hagenbach; Sean Anderson is Gellner, Jessica Sandidge is Walter, with Young Bok Kim as Stromminger, Wally’s father.

Sundine directs, DeRenzi conducts. (Six performances, March 7-22; call 941-328-1300.)

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Jazz scene stuck in a comfortable groove

By Bill Meredith ArtsPaper Music Writer

Jazz may be at a generational crossroads within the 20192020 season in South Florida.

More and more presentations are becoming tributes to icons, echoing centuries of classical music and, more recently, pop and classic rock. A couple such nods to deceased legends are included here. Yet original jazz material is increasingly requiring deeper research.

Shows that could at least partly fall outside the chestnut realm include refreshing jazz/ fusion bookings at the Funky Biscuit in Boca Raton.

Only 28 years old, Oregon native Kate Davis played both bass and violin in the Portland Youth Philharmonic before moving to the Manhattan School of Music to study jazz 10 years ago. The singing bassist’s holiday CD A Kate Davis Holiday (2009) and live recording Live at Jimmy Mak’s (2010) are bookended by her 2008 debut Introducing Kate Davis and this year’s Trophy.

8:30 p.m. Nov. 2, South MiamiDade Cultural Arts Center, 10950 SW 211th St., Cutler Bay (786-573-5300, $35-$40).

Formed in 1981, British act Acoustic Alchemy has been tagged as either smooth jazz or New Age, although neither is an exact fit. Initially founded by acoustic guitarists Simon James and Nick Webb, the group’s non-electric status gives it as much in common with folk, chamber jazz and roots music. James left soon after its formation, replaced by guitarist Greg Carmichael. He and Webb brought Acoustic Alchemy acclaim as an in-flight performing duo on Virgin Atlantic Airways flights. Webb died of pancreatic cancer in 1998, and was replaced by guitarist Miles Gilderdale.

7 p.m. Nov. 2, Lyric Theatre, 59 SW Flagler Ave., Stuart (772286-7827, $335).

Israel-born, New York Citybased guitarist Oz Noy’s 10-CD recording career is bookended by his 2006 debut Oz Live and this year’s sublime Booga Looga Loo. Featuring an all-star cast including bassists Will Lee, John Patitucci and James Genus, and drummers Dave Weckl, Vinnie Colaiuta and Steve Ferrone, the latest disc — like most of Noy’s catalog — epitomizes his motto of, “It’s jazz; it just doesn’t sound like it.” 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. Nov. 5, Funky Biscuit, 303 SE Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton (395-2929, $20-$40).

The last time many South Floridians saw ageless 93-yearold vocalist Tony Bennett live was in February 2018, when he ran across the stage to wave goodbye to an adoring crowd at the Kravis Center in West Palm

Beach.

With more than 100 album releases, 80 singles (including his star-launching “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” in 1962), and 19 Grammy Awards, the artist formerly known as Anthony Dominick Bennett Benedetto still bears a voice that’s a national treasure. Fans will know what to expect, and as always, Tony Bennett will deliver. 7 p.m.

Dec. 8, Hard Rock Live, 5747 Seminole Way, Hollywood (866502-7529, $120-$863).

Vocalist Jane Monheit appeared to be the next big thing in jazz when she rocketed out of the gate at age 22 with her 2000 debut CD, Never Never Land. Now 41, the native New Yorker has enjoyed a solid if unspectacular career that includes two Grammy nominations. On her latest release, The Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald (2016), Monheit wisely enlisted producer, arranger and trumpeter Nicholas Payton. Her touring band includes pianist Michael Kanan, bassist Neal Miner, and drummer Rick Montalbano.

7:30 p.m. Dec. 14-15, Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach (833-215-5121, $39 and up).

Kingston, Jamaica-born pianist Monty Alexander, 75, started his career as a teenager before moving to Miami with his family in 1961. Alexander recorded his debut album, Alexander the Great, at age 20 in Los Angeles in 1964. His instrumental mix of bebop, blues and native Caribbean influences created a unique playing style. See the Monty Alexander Trio at 8 p.m. Jan. 18 at Bailey Hall at Broward College, (954-201-6884, $41$51).

Forty-seven-year-old trumpeter John Daversa may be best-known as Chair of Studio Music and Jazz at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. But the versatile bandleader and musician leads both big bands and small groups under his name, and has recording credits that include Burt Bacharach, Fiona Apple, Joe Cocker, Bob Mintzer, Regina Spektor, and the Yellowjackets.

His self-titled small band also features alto saxophonist/flutist/ vocalist Katisse Buckingham, tenor saxophonist Robby Marshall, keyboardist Tommy King, bassist Jerry Watts Jr. and drummer Gene Coye. 8:30 p.m. Jan. 18, South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center ($30-$35).

Saxophonist Branford Marsalis, 59, emerged from the New Orleans area as part

Abigail Washburn and Bela Fleck will perform together at the Lyric Theatre on May 5.

Photo provided of the uber-talented offspring of Ellis and Dolores Marsalis.

His long-standing quartet, with pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis and drummer Justin Faulkner, has displayed traditional chops through this year’s release, The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul. 3 p.m. Jan. 19, Society of the Four Arts, 100 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach (655-7226, $30), and at 7 p.m. Jan. 22-23 at the Lyric Theatre ($102-$338).

Ever since Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt and French violinist Stephane Grappelli formed their famed Hot Club of France band from 1934-1948, other acts have paid homage to its time-honored musicality and virtuosity. The Hot Club of San Francisco features guitarist Paul “Pazzo” Mehling, vocalist/ guitarist Isabelle Fontaine, violinist Evan Price, guitarist Jordan Samuels and bassist Sam Rocha, and has been doing so from a Bay Area base for more than 30 years. 7 and 9 p.m. Feb. 8, South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center ($35-$40).

Underrated 63-year-old vocalist/guitarist Allan Harris has been called “my favorite singer” by Tony Bennett. The Brooklyn native’s soulful, versatile baritone voice is often imbued by his bluesy guitar playing, resulting in unique fusions of different styles. He may be best-known for his creative salutes to jazz giants like the 1999 release The Music of Duke Ellington, and last year’s The Genius of Eddie Jefferson. This Black Box Theater performance is titled “Long Live Nat King Cole.” 8:30 p.m. Feb. 29, South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center ($30-$35).

Playing in South Florida is always a homecoming for trumpeter and Miami native Terell Stafford. The wellversed 52-year-old, who’s also director of Jazz Studies at the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University in Philadelphia, also grew up in Chicago before earning a degree in music education from the University of Maryland and one in classical trumpet performance from Rutgers University in New Jersey. 7:45 p.m. March 11, Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW

The Branford Marsalis Quartet will play Jan. 19 at The Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach. Photo by Eric Ryan Anderson Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale (954462-0222, $120-$279).

Sixty-two-year-old drummer Simon Phillips has been playing professionally since age 12, and rose to prominence with guitarist Jeff Beck’s 1980 album There and Back. Phillips’ subsequent session catalog includes Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend, Joe Satriani and Peter Gabriel. His Protocol 4 project includes noted jazz/ fusion guitarist Greg Howe, keyboardist Otmaro Ruiz, and bassist Ernest Tibbs. 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. March 26, Funky Biscuit ($35-$55).

Pianist, arranger and musical director Oscar Hernandez has commandeered recordings by the Spanish Harlem Orchestra since its 2002 debut, Un Gran Dia En El Barrio. Founded in 2000, the 13-piece band has since earned three Grammy Awards. The orchestra will perform selections from its latest Grammy winner (for “Best Tropical Latin Album” in 2019), Anniversary. S 8 p.m. March 28, South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center ($36.50-$44).

The latest collaboration of

influential banjoist Bela Fleck, 61, is with his wife, fellow banjoist and singer Abigail Washburn. The 41-year-old had a successful career even before recording three CDs with her 15-time Grammy-winning husband. 7 p.m. May 5, Lyric Theatre, Stuart ($35).

Bassist/vocalist Nicki Parrott has a surprisingly deep catalog of recordings for an artist who only started her professional career in 2000. The native of Australia studied at the New South Wales Conservatory of Music in Sydney before relocating to New York City in 1994, and studied upright bass there with Rufus Reid, Ray Brown and John Clayton.

Parrott’s list of releases since includes side-woman credits with guitarist Les Paul, clarinetist/saxophonist Ken Peplowski, and keyboardist Rachel Z. Highlights under Parrott’s own name include Moon River (2007), Like a Lover (2011), Sentimental Journey (2015), From Joplin to Jobim (2016), Stompin’ at the Savoy: A Tribute to Ella & Louis (2018), and New York to Paris (2019).

7:45 p.m. May 13, Amaturo Theater ($82-$97).

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Former Miami City Ballet dancer Jovani Furlan and MCB’s Ashley Knox in Mercuric Tidings, part of Program 1 to be performed Nov. 8-10 at the Kravis Center.

Photo by Daniel Azoulay

‘Firebird,’ new local works among season’s hot tickets

By Jan Engoren Contributing Writer From dancing gauchos to stately ballerinas and innovative tap dancers to bodybending modern movementmakers, South Florida’s 20192020 dance season takes off in full swing by early October.

With holiday staples such as The Nutcracker, venerated classics such as The Firebird and new programming including

Puremovement American Street Dance Theatre in venues from Miami to West Palm Beach, the season is replete with nothing if not variety.

Household names and audience favorites such as Pilobolus complement the classically trained Balanchine dancers of Miami City Ballet and the Argentinian gauchos performing at the Duncan Theatre’s Friday and Saturday night dance series.

Miami City Ballet

Miami City Ballet mounts its 34th season at the Arsht Center in Miami, the Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale and the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach.

Artistic director Lourdes Lopez has curated a new season that includes its impactful opening, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, the Balanchine-meetsBroadway crime thriller, with music by Richard Rodgers,

opening Nov. 8-10 at the Kravis Center.

Made famous by VeraEllen and Gene Kelly in the 1948 movie Words and Music, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue tells the story of a tap dancer who falls for a stripper with — what else? — a heart of gold. As the two lovers steal time together under the threat of a gangster boyfriend, tension mounts — will the police nab him in time or will she die in the arms of her one true love?

“Audiences will have a wonderful experience for our upcoming season,” said Lopez.

“In addition to the classics, this season is a perfect mix of Hollywood, Broadway, four premieres and Firebird — one of the great Russian fairy tales.

“When you see our incredible artists performing these modern masterpieces you’ll see why MCB is one of America’s top ballet companies,” said Lopez.

The program also includes Stravinsky Violin Concerto, in which MCB and George Balanchine’s signature style push Stravinsky’s score to the max, and Mercuric Tidings, a tribute to the late choreographer Paul Taylor with music by Franz Schubert.

Program 2 presents the company premiere of former New York City ballet master Jerome Robbins’s I’m Old Fashioned (Jan. 17-19, Kravis). Based on the 1942 film You Were Never Lovelier, starring Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth, the dance is a tribute to the stars, and America’s love affair with the silver screen.

The piece opens with Astaire and Hayworth on the big screen — the two Hollywood icons elegantly floating and dancing alongside the MCB dancers in the well-known and iconic duet.

The program also includes a second company premiere, choreographer Christopher Wheeldon’s This Bitter Earth,

with music by Max Richter, Clyde Otis and vocals by Dinah Washington, Balanchine’s Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, and Symphonic Dances, choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky with music by Sergei Rachmaninov.

Program 3 brings the newly commissioned Firebird to flight (Feb. 21–23, Kravis). A company premiere, the ballet was an instant success when it was premiered in 1910 by the Ballet Russes at the Paris Opera House. The performance had elaborate costumes and set designs and music composed by Igor Stravinsky, at that time a 28-year-old unknown.

The current version of the ballet features choreography by Balanchine and Robbins.

The program also includes Twyla Tharp’s Nine Sinatra Songs, with costumes by Oscar de la Renta, and the company premiere of Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes, a groundbreaking work that challenges conventions. Choreography is

by Tony Award winner Justin Peck and the music is by Aaron Copland.

Program 4 closes the season with the 19th-century classic Don Quixote, based on the Cervantes novel, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Ludwig Minkus (March 20-22, Kravis).

The ballet, first performed in Moscow in 1869, is technically demanding and is acclaimed for its virtuoso dancing, its “vision scene” and the Act III pas de deux between lovers Kitri and Basilio.

In keeping with tradition, MCB will present its annual performances of Balanchine’s The Nutcracker (Dec. 27-29, Kravis), a staple of the holiday season. The company’s new production of Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet is accompanied by the Opus One Orchestra. (miamicityballet.org; 877929-7010) See DANCE on page AT15

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Duncan Theatre

The Duncan Theatre, at Palm Beach State College in Lake Worth Beach, will again offer its popular Friday and Saturday night dance series.

Mark Alexander, executive director of Palm Beach State College theater, said, “As we enter our 33rd season of worldclass performances, we are especially proud of our history celebrating modern dance.

“We are committed to sharing innovative choreographic works from emerging and established dance artists from around the globe,” he said.

Premiering Jan. 17 and 18 is BalletX, Philadelphia’s premier contemporary ballet company.

Founded in 2005 by Christine Cox (now the artistic director) and Matthew Neenan, BalletX stretches the boundaries of classical ballet by encouraging formal experimentation while preserving rigorous technique.

Feb. 7-8 will see the return of Dorrance Dance, founded in 2011 by MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient and artistic director Michelle Dorrance, who has managed to get audiences to rethink their concept of tap dancing.

The end of the month (Feb. 28-29) brings the Argentine allmale company, Che Malambo, complete with drumming of the bombos, and singing and whirling boleadoras (lassos with stones on the end).

Directed by French choreographer and former ballet dancer Gilles Brinas, the company’s work celebrates the unique South American cowboy tradition of the gaucho.

On April 3 and 4, Pilobolus returns to the Duncan Theatre for its Come to Your Senses show. Pilobolus, renowned for the astonishing variety of what it can do with power of connected human bodies, has been an area audience favorite for years.

Also coming back for one night only is the all-male drag troupe Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (Feb. 20). The dancers perform the full range of the ballet and modern dance repertoire, including classical and original works. (duncantheatre.com; 8683309)

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On Nov. 3, Complexions Contemporary Ballet presents Star Dust: From Bach to David Bowie in the Kravis Center’s Dreyfoos Hall. Founded by former Alvin Ailey dancers Desmond Richardson and Dwight Rhoden, the ballet company combines various dance styles, including ballet and hip-hop.

March 5 and 6, the Koresh Dance Company of Philadelphia brings its world premiere production of La Danse, a work that pays tribute to Henri Matisse’s iconic painting of the same name.

Created by company founder Roni Koresh, La Danse is set to the music of John Levis, and includes poetry by Karl Mullen.

On April 1, the Japanese dance collective Enra presents Dreams, a program that features the company’s signature blend of physical movement and digital projections. Enra’s director is

Nobuyuki Hanabusa, whose background is in video game design. (kravis.org; 832-7469)

Ballet Palm Beach

Colleen Smith’s Palm Beach Gardens-based school and ballet company offers a steady supply of original works by Smith to add to its roster of dance classics.

First up is Cinderella, set for Nov. 2-3 at the Rinker Playhouse at the Kravis Center.

The classic rags-to-riches fairy tale is accompanied by a great score by Sergei Prokofiev.

Ballet Palm Beach’s annual production of The Nutcracker returns to The King’s Academy Page Family Center for Performing Arts in West Palm Beach from Nov. 29 to Dec. 1, and again Dec. 6-7 at the Kravis Center.

Swept Away, a mixed repertory program featuring live music, takes the stage at the Rinker Playhouse Feb. 1-2, followed by Queen Esther, an original Smith ballet set for March 20-22 at The King’s

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The last show of the season, planned for Mother’s Day weekend (May 8-10), is another Smith ballet, Peter Pan’s Neverland. The ballet highlights the antics of Peter Pan, Tinkerbell and Captain Hook, appropriate for a company that also is a training academy for young dancers. balletpalmbeach.org; 6308235 Boca Ballet Theatre Founded in 1990, Dan Guin and Jane Tyree’s company and school features its young dancers in historically significant classical works and innovative contemporary choreography.

The company's annual, charming take on The Nutcracker for Thanksgiving weekend (Nov. 29-Dec. 1) at the Olympic Heights High School theater in Boca Raton.

Boca Ballet's annual spring repertory concert, featuring guest stars and a mixed program, is set for April 25 and 26.

The Harid Conservatory

Each year, the Boca Ratonbased dance conservatory presents two series of performances for the South Florida community, including classical and neoclassical ballets, modern and character dance, and cutting-edge contemporary works by leading choreographers.

The Nutcracker is scheduled for Dec. 14-15 at Countess de Hoernle Theater on the campus of Spanish River High School in Boca Raton.

For its spring session, the 2020 graduating class will perform a collection of scenes from classical and contemporary ballets. The young dancers also usually debut a newly staged work

by Mark Godden. The spring concerts are set for May 22-24. (harid.edu; 998-8038)

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Kravis Center PEAK Series

This contemporary dance series features performances that focus on ethnic diversity and impactful themes.

“PEAK is a favorite among dance enthusiasts,” says Lee Bell, senior director of programming for the Kravis Center. “It’s packed with groundbreaking performances, including everything from contemporary ballet to hiphop.”

Premiering Oct. 19-20 at the Rinker Playhouse is hip-hop choreographer Rennie Harris’s Puremovement American Street Dance Theatre’s Nuttin’ But a Word! Harris’s work

Last up is La Bayadere, a ballet from 1877 about the tragic love of a temple dancer and her warrior lover. It runs July 31-Aug. 2. (bocaballet.org; 995-0709)

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Palm Beach Art

O’Keeffe, Rembrandt exhibits among highlights of coming season as contemporary artists inspired by designers and icons of high fashion will be on display. The exhibit opens Oct. 30.

(Oldschoolsquare.org 561-243-7922)

By Sandra Schulman ArtsPaper Contributing Writer Women in the arts is the season’s theme in Palm Beach County. The stylish life of Georgia O’Keeffe gets the museum treatment at the Norton, and women’s undergarments are the focus of the Flagler Museum’s new Season of Style exhibit. Meanwhile, tattoo art bares all in Tequesta.

Society of the Four Arts

The Norton Museum of Art

A never-ending source of fascination, the life, art and personal style of the renowned modernist artist is explored here for the first time through her clothing and the way she posed for the camera. Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern exhibits key paintings and photographs that show her mastery of projecting her image — a strong woman artist who steadfastly saw the world her way — with a dreamy, surreal feminist connection between bones and flowers and earthy landscapes. Along with selected paintings and items of clothing, photographs of O’Keeffe and her homes

by Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, Annie Leibovitz, Philippe Halsman, Yousuf Karsh, Cecil Beaton, Andy Warhol, Bruce Weber, Todd Webb, and others will be displayed. Nov. 22–Feb. 4 The Body Says, I Am a Fiesta: The Figure in Latin American Art draws from the Norton’s collections to confront and juxtapose images and ideas about the body in all its cultural symbols and meanings in contemporary Latin American cultures. With painting, photography, sculpture, and works on paper, the body is shown as something to celebrate. Oct. 4-March 3 (www.norton.org; 832-5196)

Boca Raton Museum of Art

The 50th anniversary landing on the moon continues to orbit throughout the media. Carol Prusa: Dark Light takes a new tack and honors female astronomers who contributed to star maps as well as the mysteries of the cosmos. Prusa uses sculpted resin, fiberglass, metal leaf, LED lights, black iron oxide, titanium, and powdered steel to create unusual universe maps of graphite and acrylic works on plexiglas and wood panels; light-speckled domes with internal lights and video. Through Jan. 19 (Bocamuseum.org; 392-2500)

Henry Morrison Flagler Museum

The museum, celebrating its 60th anniversary, will launch its “Season of Style 2” with Inside Out: Women’s Fashion from Foundation to Silhouette, opening Oct. 15.

Form follows function as this exhibit shows how women have shaped American society and how undergarments in turn shaped them.

Inside Out, an exclusive to the museum, examines the relationship between American women and their clothes, set against the ever-changing whims of fashion, societal changes and the political climate. Oct. 15 through Jan. 5 (flaglermuseum.us; 665-2833)

Morikami Museum

The backdrops and buildings of Anime Architecture examine the other world-building process of Japan’s most influential animated science fiction films. Showcasing the artists, designers, and directors of the backdrops that bring to life the urban environments of

A photo of Georgia O'Keeffe by Tony Vaccaro is part of the display at the Norton Museum of Art starting Nov. 22. Photo provided A panel by Hiromasa Ogura is part of the exhibit Anime Architecture at the Morikami Museum.

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anime, curator Stefan Riekeles of Berlin spent years pulling these works together.

More than 100 works by famous animators including Ogura Hiromasa, Watabe Takashi, Oshii Mamoru and Takeuchi Atsushi. This hand-drawn history is a fading art form, as digital has taken over. Nov. 9 to April 3 (www.morikami.org 561-495-0233)

Lighthouse Art Center Tequesta

Tattoo: The Renaissance of Body Art: A one-of-a-kind exhibition, this body ink art show has original art on loan from the wild and wooly Ed Hardy, the iconic Sailor Jerry, and a wide array of 2-D and 3-D tattoo-inspired pieces from contemporary artists across the country. The art and tradition of tattoo is explored here in the fields of primitive, tribal, Japanese, Americana, black and gray, contemporary, and vintage flash styles. In conjunction, the Lighthouse ArtCenter will display custom-styled motorcycles by Ron Finch, who creates outrageous custom motorcycles. Through Nov. 2 (Lighthousearts.org; 746-3101)

Cultural Council of Palm Beach County

In Palm Beach State College: Fine Arts Faculty, the teaching artists of Palm Beach County get their due in this group show that highlights the art instructors in the five campuses throughout the county.

This exhibition, now showing, is a semi-juried format that celebrates the new school year with a fall opening.

Through Nov. 9 On tap are Made in Palm Beach, an exhibit of works by artists who live in one of the 39 cities in the county (Nov. 22-Feb. 1), and Natural Narrative (Feb. 14-May 9), an exhibit of works in and installations in which the artists take on the topic of climate.

(PalmBeachCulture.com; 471-2901)

Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens

Expanding Horizons: Nontraditional Approaches to Photography Gallery kicks off the Gardens’ season in partnership with JL Modern Photography, featuring works by Kimiki Yoshida, Bernard Faucon and Steven Wilkes.

Yoshida’s creates self-portraits that deal with feminine identity. Faucon is a conceptual photographer as well as a poet and philosophical writer with over 200 solo exhibitions. Wilkes is recognized for his fine art, editorial and commercial work. Oct. 2–Nov. 17 The Practice of Optimism: Sculpture

by Federico Uribe and Plastic Reef: Uribe’s whimsical sculptures use the overlooked beauty of everyday objects.

Uribe will create a special installation using recycled materials from the ocean along with smaller artworks in the gallery. Jan. 9–June 2 With These Hands: Sculptures by Jim Rennert: In partnership with the Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary Fair, 14 of Rennert’s sculptures will be on display. Rennert portrays the “everyman,” a figure that reflects the daily struggles of modern man. Jan. 9– June 2 Artists At Home: Photography of Historic Artists’ Homes & Studios Program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation: Representing the evolution of art in America that arcs over 150 years, the 44 affiliated sites, and the artists associated with them, are displayed with historic photographs drawing from materials in their own archival collections. March 26–June 2020 (ansg.org; 832-5328)

Cornell Museum, Old School Square, Delray Beach

Art Couture: The Intersection of Fashion and Art: This exhibit at the recently revamped Cornell Museum celebrates the collision of couture and art. Pieces by fashion designers as well

The biggest of the Dutch masters, Rembrandt: The Sign and the Light, features 68 of the artist’s best-known etchings using modern technology with interactive displays on his printmaking process. A real coup, this is the U.S. debut of the exhibit. Dec. 7-Feb. 2.

For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design presents a visual history of purely American art from 1820 to now with the best of the academy artists — Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Andrew Wyeth, and many more. Feb. 15-April 11 (fourarts.org; 655-7226)

Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach

Now showing through Oct. 25 is New and Now, an annual multimedia exhibition by faculty members and artists-in-residence. It will be followed on Nov. 2 by Bonafied: Jewelry & Illustration, an exhibit curated by instructor Marty Hyman and featuring work by studio artists in Michael Las Casas’ illustration classes (through Nov. 29) Terra Duo: Dimensions in Clay is a duo-faculty show that displays clay works by Sandra Levine and ceramics

by Ronald Shaw, both instructors at the Armory. (Dec. 6-27) The 3rd Biennial “Artists of Art Salon” Exhibition presents works by artists who have given talks at Elle Schorr’s Art Salons since October 2015. (Dec. 14-Jan. 18) Also planned are the annual All Faculty show (March 14-27) and All Artists show (March 14-April 3). (www.armoryart.org; 832-1776)

Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary Fair

The “new” kid on the block, The Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary Fair, has been sold, along with its sister fairs of Art New York, Context, Aqua Art Miami, and Art Wynwood to Informa Markets, who run more than 550 events and exhibitions around the world, including Art Toronto. Nick Korniloff, former owner, has said that Art Miami’s staff will remain in place and all its fairs will continue to run, including Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary through at least next year. Held in a large tent in a parking lot in the median of Okeechobee Boulevard, the site is earmarked for future development by Charles Cohen who has plans for a 28-story office tower. The Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary’s outreach is centered on their partnership with the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens in West Palm Beach, where their exhibitors mount sculpture shows. (artpbfair.com; 305-517-7977)

Art Palm Beach Fair

Art Palm Beach has been running for the last 22 years, and is currently expanding and supercharging its fairs with edgy programming and exhibitors. Last year found artists on site doing mural painting and an alley of interactive booths by Art Plugz that featured a throne made of stacks of faux money and a giant statue by artist Kaws.

Expect curators to be brought in from Europe, and a lineup of stimulating lectures, events and workshops.

(Nextlevelfairs.com; 305-490-4584)

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Art venues explore the lighthearted

By Sandra Schulman Contributing Writer The art season in Broward County looks to be heavy with lighthearted art, from the big-name laden Happy! show at NSU to the merry visual mischief of Mr. Brainwash.

Artist studios get the artists’ point of view treatment at Art and Culture Center, while Fort Lauderdale’s ArtServe celebrates 30 years.

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale

Get your upside on this season at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale’s giddy show Happy!, a yin-and-yang exhibit curated by Bonnie Clearwater, the museum’s director and chief curator. Why Happy!?

“Many of these artists acknowledge that making art is an essential means for them to work out their own trauma and frustrations, and they suggest that art can provide viewers with a sense of well-being that will help them cope with life’s challenges,” Clearwater says.

This large group show aims for the lighthearted and engages art from the 1950s to now with Francesco Clemente, Tracey Emin, Keith Haring, KAWS, Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Rob Pruitt, Mark Rothko, Kenny Scharf, and other big smiley-face names. Oct. 27–July 5 I Paint My Reality, the other new season show, displays the flowering and manifestation of Surrealism in Latin America from the 1930s on. Based on dream worlds, psychoanalysis and random chance, these works challenge the subconscious.

Drawn from the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale’s in-depth collection of Latin American art and promised gifts from the Stanley and Pearl Goodman collection, the exhibition features Frida Kahlo, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Carlos Mérida, Amelia Peláez, Rufino Tamayo, Xul Solar and Remedios Varo, among others.

Nov. 17-June 30 (nsuartmuseum.org; 954-5255500)

Coral Springs Museum of Art

Mr. Brainwash, aka Thierry Guetta, has been colliding street art and pop art in a most artful fashion for decades. Many know him through his acclaimed documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop. Taking the most eyepopping elements from pop art’s catalog and the rough-edged imagery of street art, he creates larger than life exhibitions and collaborations. Mr. Brainwash has taken his art to such big pop names as Madonna, Rick Ross, and KYGO, films such as Molly’s Game, Billions, and Shameless; as well as brands like Hublot, Coca Cola, and Marvel Comics.

Nov. 30–March 7 (coralspringsmuseum.org;

The work of local artist Onajide Shabaka is part of an interactive display at the Art & Culture Center in Hollywood through Oct. 27. Photo provided 954-340-5000)

Art and Culture Center Hollywood

Onajide Shabaka: Floridian Lacunae: This South Floridabased artist has a “studio” that occupies a hike within the city’s urban environment. He takes imagery from lots, considered weed-infested or “vacant,” then makes work — drawings, watercolors, photographs, video and installation to incorporate plants, people, and history in his own narrative manner.

The gallery space will be an interactive work area where viewers are invited to draw with colored pencils and markers on the plants and rocks he has installed. Through Oct. 27

Guest curator Michelle Weinberg has invited more than 50 artists to create drawings of their workplaces to explore how artists perceive their own creative work and lives, different in a way that a photograph might.

Now that art districts are tourist destinations, Artists Draw Their Studios is a way for the public to appreciate within a gallery the spaces that artists interpret as their work space and think tank. Through Jan. 5 (artandculturecenter.org; 954-921-3274)

The Frank Gallery

Inflated: Volume and form make up the dimensions, shape and aesthetic of artworks and sculpture. This exhibit explores the differences and similarities of “inflated form” or “deflated form,” sometimes found in the same work. Nov. 14-Jan. 20 The Academy: New academic works from the new Florida International University Academy of Portrait & Figurative Art will be on display Feb. 13 -April 25.

In Children’s China: Culture, Character and Confucius, viewers leap across the big pond as West meets the East in an interactive exhibit where a fastchanging modern lifestyle plays Chinese checkers with ancient values. May 28-Aug. 8 (thefrankgallery.org; 954392-2120)

Young at Art Museum

Jen Clay has been voted “Best Emerging Artist” by New Times of Broward and Palm Beach and “Best Artist in South Florida”

by SouthFlorida.com for her

bizarre, lifesize textile puppets.

Her newest show, Welcome to You & Me, invites viewers to step into her alien gallery world with characters from the planet in her head. Through Jan. 5 The Japanese concept of “ikigai” or “a reason for being” is the basis for this unusual show, Nice’n Easy: “Innerspace,” that reimagines a home where the very furniture and environment become submerged with a subtropical island. Nov. 2-April 26 (Youngatartmuseum.org; 954-424-0085)

ArtServe

ArtServe serves up its 30th Anniversary Season Preview, with curated visual and performing art that explores culture, spirituality, identity and environment in a fragile world.

Oct. 9-Dec. 2

A whimsical, life-size puppet by Jen Clay is part of Welcome to You & Me at the Young at Art Museum. Photo provided Roots of the Spirit: A collaboration with curator Ludlow Bailey, this multimedia exhibition engages philosophical and spiritual ideas from the African diaspora in visual arts, music, film and dance disciplines.

Jan.15 – Feb. 27 Women’s History Month Exhibition: The 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the vote, sets the stage for an exploration women’s rights.

Guest curator Dayalis Gonzalez presents works from dance to film to photos. March 4–27 Changing Landscapes: Featuring performing and visual artworks, the exhibit comprised of hundreds of works asks audiences to consider the needs of the global environment and the human impact on South Florida’s fragile ecosystem. April 8 - May 29.

(ArtServe.org; 954-462-8190)

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Miami-Dade Art

Season’s standouts: Solo-woman shows

By Sandra Schulman Contributing Writer In Miami-Dade County, the return of Art Basel Miami Beach and dozens of satellite fairs dominates December, but strong shows by female artists Teresita Fernández and Mickalene Thomas are star attractions at the museums.

Art After Stonewall brings major names to the theme, while regional art stars shine at MOCA.

Art Basel Miami Beach

The biggest art fair in America returns to the newly expanded Miami Beach Convention Center in the first week of December. The multi-block behemoth can comfortably handle the 200 top international modern and contemporary art galleries with paintings, sculptures, installations, photography, film, video, and digital art.

Expanding the inside offerings, Art Basel houses editioned pieces by young artists alongside museumcaliber masterpieces. The Nova sector features neverbefore-seen pieces fresh from the artist’s studio and allows curators, critics, and collectors to discover ambitious new talents from across the globe. Other sectors include magazine and book booths, a huge space on the top floor for performance, outside sculpture gardens, a rooftop lounge and two self-service food markets catered by Miami’s star chef Michelle Bernstein, as well as in the new sit-down Restaurant

by Michy’s.

Films are still screened at the outdoor symphony hall wall, while panels and talks give insight to the global art scene. Over 20 other fairs happen during the same week with every hotel lobby and park putting on some kind of art show. It’s overload in the best way possible. Dec. 5-8 (artbasel.com/miami-beach; 305-674-1292)

The Bass

South Florida is no stranger to the phrase In the Cone of Uncertainty, the ominous forecast of a coming storm.

In Haegue Yang’s world, this phrase represents her constant world curiosity, politics and how to manifest those experiments in physical form. Blind installations, light sculptures, and muralesque art will sit alongside themed groups of works. She also incorporates sonic elements.

Yang will be presenting a site-specific wallpaper in the staircase that connects her exhibition spaces. A major work on the first floor, Strange Fruit (2012-13), is made up of sculptures of string lights that

dangle from metal clothing racks, colorfully painted papier-mâché bowls and hands that hold plants. Nov. 2 to April 5.

Mickalene Thomas: Better Nights: Thomas saw a play in New Jersey, Put a Little Sugar in My Bowl, that inspired an installation that will transform the galleries into an immersive art-at-home experience. Set in a 1970s apartment, the installation re-creates the vibe with faux wood paneling, bright wallpaper and couches upholstered in her signature textiles. Better Nights will feature live performances, concerts, activations, a live cocktail bar and guest DJs. The party rages from Dec. 1 to Sept. 27.

Lara Favaretto: Blind Spot: New and recent works including paintings, sculpture and interactive installations will park in the blind spot of Favaretto’s new exhibit. A large site-specific work, commissioned for the museum’s permanent collection, will be a highlight of this show that explores the survival of objects. Dec. 1 to April 19 TheBass.org; 305-673-7530

Perez Art Museum Miami

Art star Teresita Fernández, born in Miami to Cuban parents, is this year’s main attraction at PAMM. Light, space, silk, graphite, onyx, mirrors, glass, and charcoal create immersive, intimate, and vastly evocative installations that evoke lush landscapes, stars and meteor showers, cloud formations, and the night sky. In PAMM’s spacious galleries, Teresita Fernández: Elemental offers a rare opportunity see largescale sculptures, installations, and mixed media works that explore nature, history, and identity. Oct. 18 to Feb. 9 George Segal’s Abraham’s Farewell to Ishmael (1987) is on view for the first time since a complete restoration. The artist is famous for his hyper-real plaster casts from live models.

This is one from a series of works based on biblical stories, all from the Book of Genesis.

Nov. 22 to July 6.

Your Trip to Africa, an exhibition of works by Meleko Mokgosi, an artist from Botswana, draws on Western European painting to create stinging postcolonial imagery.

With painterly skill and deep archival research, he shows the layers of modern southern Africa. Feb. 27 to May 30 (PAMM.org; 305-375-3000)

Teresita Fernández is the featured artist this season at Perez Art Museum Miami. Her multimedia works evoke magical worlds and galaxies. Photo provided His well-known ceramics and paintings cohabit along with lesser-known drawings and installations. The multiple elements form an autobiographical and cultural history of his practice. Ruby uses a mashup of Amish quiltmaking and radical ceramics, shaped by his unconventional upbringing in Pennsylvania Dutch country. Nov. 7 to Feb. 2

Pieces by artist Sterling Ruby will take up two floors of the Institute of Contemporary Art. Photo provided

Wolfsonian FIU

In A Universe of Things: Micky Wolfson Collects, The museum will exhibit Wolfson’s eclectic collections along with celebrating his 80th birthday.

The show coincides with the publication of Founder’s Choice, a tome that highlights 37 key objects selected by Wolfson himself. Opening Nov. 15 Wolfsonian.org; 305-5311001

Frost Museum of Art

Honoring the 50th anniversary year of the Stonewall uprisings, the museum will be one of only three cities in the U.S. to host Art After Stonewall: 19691989. This major exhibition of more than 200 artworks will encompass the whole second floor. Photographs, paintings, sculpture, film clips, video, music, performance pieces, plus historical documents and images explore the pivotal moments of how gay culture gained both recognition and rights. Through Jan. 5 (frost.fiu.edu; 305-348-2980)

MOCA

The Museum of Contemporary Art presents the South Florida Cultural Consortium Exhibition, guest curated by Amy Galpin, chief curator of the Frost Art Museum. Presenting the work of artists from South Florida,

this multimedia show includes painting, video, sculpture, and photography. Work that is informed by identity, politics, displacement, citizenship, and other philosophical and scientific areas is created by 13 artists, all of whom have received Consortium grants toward this exhibit. Through Oct. 20 Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen: This first major U.S. solo show presents performance, sculpture, drawing, video, text, and site-specific installation from the artist’s extensive practice since the late 1960s.

Nov. 24 to March 29 Alice Rahon: Born in France and later nationalized as a Mexican, Rahon was part of the Parisian Surrealist circle as a poet, but turned her creativity to painting in Mexico. Drawn to light and color, she maintained a continuous dialogue of painting and poetry using Mexican landscapes, myths, legends and fiestas. Nov. 24 to March 29 (Mocanomi.org; 305-8936211)

Institute of Contemporary Art

American/Dutch artist Sterling Ruby takes over the second and third floors with over 75 works that span two decades of his career.

Allan McCollum’s exhibition follows more than five decades of the artist’s work.

Connecting McCollum’s “Surrogate Paintings” (since 1978) “Perfect Vehicles” (since 1985) and O ​ ver Ten Thousand Individual Works​(since 1987) to the artist’s current “Regional Projects,” the exhibition zeros in on his unique definition of context as means of site, locality and labor. March 19 to July 19 Janiva Ellis is a Los Angelesbased painter who grew up in Hawaii, feeling isolated as a young black woman. Her artwork manufactures a space for the stories of AfricanAmerican female experiences, while calling attention to the trauma and recklessness of casual racial discrimination.

July 30 to Nov. 1 For Carlos Sandoval de Leon, the artist is creating a site-specific installation to incorporate both new and existing sculptures. De Leon deconstructs, repurposes, manipulates, and hybridizes materials that include bricks, earth, discarded clothes, pearls, soap, safety glass, pizza boxes, armadillo shells and souvenirs sourced from his Brooklyn neighborhood. Dec. 3 to May 8 (icamiami.org; 305-9015272)

Jewish Museum of Florida FIU

At the age of 85, Mira Lehr will be having a one-woman show, A Walk in the Garden, featuring newly created largescale paintings along with 200 aerial sculptures that will hang from the museum’s ceiling.

Oct. 15 to Feb. 3

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Literary events offer peek into South Florida’s rich reading culture

By Christina Wood Contributing Writer South Florida’s long literary legacy includes the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Elmore Leonard and, more recently, James Patterson and Dave Barry.

And of course there are those who enjoy the words written by these folks. Luckily for readers, there are plenty of opportunities to put down your books and enjoy the 2019-20 literary season.

Miami Book Fair

The celebration of literature and community runs Nov. 17-24 in downtown Miami.

It gets started with six nights of readings and discussions with noted authors such as Samantha Power, Richard Russo, and Eve Ensler.

The Festival of Authors is part of the popular Street Fair, Nov. 22-24.

More than 600 authors will be on hand, including Richard Blanco, T.C. Boyle, Oscar Casares, Edwidge Danticat, Teá Obrecht, Tim O’Brien and George Will. In addition

to readings and signings, there will be programs for kids and live music as well as hundreds of publishers and booksellers offering everything from used paperbacks to rare manuscripts.

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Key West Literary Seminar

There’s a reason why this four-day event always sells out. Actually, there are several: the location, the lineup of literary lions — which this year includes three Pulitzer Prize winners and a former U.S. poet laureate — and the fact that each year the seminar explores a different literary theme. In 2020, for the first time, sports writing will be in the spotlight.

You can try getting on the wait list for January’s event (registration is $675).

But there’s a better chance of getting tickets for the 2021 Seminar, which should go on sale in February. KWLS.org

Palm Beach Poetry Festival

Once again, poets will be gathering at Old School Square in Delray Beach. The 16th installment will be Jan. 20-25, and will feature renowned

poets at a number of ticketed public events, including readings, talks, interviews, panel discussions and more.

Poetry workshops will also be offered; the deadline for applications is Nov. 10.

Native American Joy Harjo, who was recently selected as the U.S. poet laureate, will be the 2020 special guest poet. The festival’s Poet At Large for 2020 is Patricia Smith, author Harjo of eight books of poetry, including Incendiary Art, and a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize.

PalmBeachPoetryFestival.org.

Festival of the Arts Boca

From Feb. 28 to March 8, the Mizner Park Amphitheater and Cultural Arts Center in Boca Raton will host the 14th installment of this annual celebration of music, film, concerts and authors.

On the Authors & Ideas schedule: March 2: Novelist Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage

the Bones and Sing, Unburied, Sing. March 3: Cartoonist Roz Chast, the indelible New Yorker chronicler of anxiety.

March 4: Psychologist Ward Dr. Laurie Santos, a professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University.

March 5: Political analyst Amy Walter will be speaking two days after Super Tuesday.

FestivalBoca.org; 866-571-2787

Literary Feast 2020

Since it was launched in 1988, the Broward County Literary Feast has evolved to include several components.

LitLUNCH! (Feb. 21) is a women-centric luncheon featuring a bestselling author.

For LitLIVE! (April 3), which is open to the public, authors participate in panel discussions and book signings at three locations.

A percentage of sales will benefit the Broward Public Library Foundation.

The main event is the Night

of Literary Feasts (April 4). The evening begins with a reception at Bahia Mar–Fort Lauderdale Beach. After enjoying an open bar, hors d’oeuvres, book sales and signings and a silent auction, guests depart for intimate dinners with a featured author hosted in private homes or upscale restaurants. BPLFoundation. org

Palm Beach Book Festival

The short-but-sweet event kicks off in the evening of March 20 and continues 10 a.m.-3 p.m. March 21 at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton.

The event features panel discussions, talks, book signings and photo ops every 45 minutes. James Patterson serves as honorary chair of the festival, which typically brings together New York Times bestselling and celebrity authors.

Leigh Haber, books editor for O, the Oprah Magazine, and coordinator of Oprah’s Book Club, is scheduled to moderate a panel at this year’s event.

Tickets go on sale Jan. 4.

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The touring version of Hamilton makes its way to the Kravis Center in January. Photo by Joan Marcus

A heavyweight (‘Hamilton’), and plenty else to light up the stage

By Hap Erstein ArtsPaper Theater Writer

There are plenty of interesting productions looming in the area this season, but the hottest ticket is unquestionably Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, at the Kravis Center in late January and then the Arsht Center the following month. Do what you must to get tickets. You didn’t need that right arm anyway.

A year ago, the Stage Door Theatre was readying a move to a larger, better equipped venue in Lauderhill, but a few months later the company was forced to fold. A four-show season has been hastily created to keep the lights on at the performance center this year.

And a much anticipated co-production of Paula Vogel’s Indecent was announced between Palm Beach Dramaworks and GableStage,

then fell apart over actors’ union regulations. Chastened, the two companies will try again this year on a world premiere work.

Here’s how the upcoming season looks, in a tour from the top of Palm Beach County to the bottom of Miami-Dade: The Maltz Jupiter Theatre is barreling ahead with its ambitious $24 million expansion, but that does not

stop the company from rolling out another ambitious season.

Of course, it includes major musicals: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Dec. 3-19), Chicago (Jan. 14-Feb. 2), and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (March 17-April 5). But producing artistic director Andrew Kato insists on including plays too, like a new comic, effects-laden Dracula to open the season (Oct. 27-Nov. 10) and the late Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs (Feb. 23-March 8). jupitertheatre.org; 575-2223 In West Palm Beach, Palm Beach Dramaworks is readying a world premiere play about TV pioneer Gertrude Berg, Ordinary Americans (Dec. 6-29), a co-production with GableStage. PBD’s season kicks off with Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire (Oct. 11-Nov. 3), along with two more recent popular works — David Hare’s Skylight (Feb. 7-March 1) and Kenneth Lonergan’s Lobby Hero (May 22-June 7). Also in the mix is another subscription season musical, Adam Guettel’s The Light in the Piazza (April 3-26). palmbeachdramaworks. org; 514-4042

Having begun its season with a successful Man of La Mancha in the Kravis Center’s Rinker Playhouse, MNM Theatre Company is following it up with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Nov. 22-Dec. 8), with more ahead TBA. mnmtheatre.org; 832-7469 In the Kravis Center’s Dreyfoos Hall, the performing arts center has a powerhouse Broadway season lined up, headed by the Tony and Pulitzer-winning hip-hop Hamilton (Jan. 28-Feb. 16).

Perhaps you’ve heard of it? The series opens with the always welcome Fiddler on the Roof (Nov. 12-17), based on the recent Broadway revival —

no, not in Yiddish. It will be followed by the giddy The Play That Goes Wrong (Dec. 10-15), A Bronx Tale (Jan. 7-12), Miss Saigon (March 3-8), the post 9/11 musical Come From Away (March 31-April 5) and Summer (April 28-May 3), a celebration of the disco hits of Donna Summer. kravis.org; 832-7469 The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton opens with an import from Down Under, the tap happy Hot Shoe Shuffle (Oct. 17Nov. 10). The rest of the season is on more familiar ground – The Music Man (Nov. 29-Dec. 29), Evita (Jan. 16-Feb. 23), A Chorus Line (March 12-April 12) and Nunsense (April 23-May 17) starring Sally Struthers, back after her acclaimed appearance in Annie. thewick. org; 995-2333 It’s a season of premieres, of sorts, at Theatre Lab on the Florida Atlantic University campus in Boca Raton. The professional company will be serving up a co-world premiere, Everything Is Super Great (Nov. 30-Dec. 22), then a U.S. premiere, The Glass Piano (Feb. 8-March 11) and a Southeastern premiere, To Fall in Love (March 14-April 5), this last one directed by former artistic director Louis Tyrrell. fau.edu/ artsandletters/theatrelab; 2974784 Boca’s Primal Forces also has a lineup of plays you’ve never heard of before. Artistic director Keith Garsson has found a quartet of scripts that fit his — and hopefully the audience’s — offbeat tastes. There’s Andy and the Orphans (Nov. 15-Dec. 8), Villainous Company (Dec. 18-Jan. 12) and Warrior Class (March 11-April 5). And hands down, Primal wins the longest title sweepstakes with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering

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Cancer Center of New York City (Feb. 5-March 1). primalforces. com; 866-811-4111 Playhouse Productions takes a couple of rental slots at Boca Raton’s Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center with a pair of comedies — My Son the Waiter: A Jewish Tragedy (Dec. 19-Jan. 12) and The Secret Comedy of Women — Girls Only (Jan. 15Feb. 23). playhouseinfo.com/ miznerpark Moving into Broward County, the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center takes up the slack from the belly-up Stage Door Theatre, producing its own musicals. On the slate are West Side Story (Nov. 14Dec. 1), Once (Dec. 5-22), Kinky Boots (Jan. 13-Feb. 9) and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Feb. 20-March 8). lpacfl.com; 954-777-2055 In Wilton Manors, Island City Stage devotes its schedule to LBGTQ-themed works, both classic and contemporary.

Look for Lipstick (Nov. 14-Dec. 15), the boy band send-up Altar Boyz (Jan. 16-Feb. 16), Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer (March 26-April 26) and The Mystery of Love and Sex (June 11-July 12). islandcitystage.org; 954-9289800 At the Vanguard in Fort Lauderdale, Thinking Cap Theatre is still thinking about what, if anything, it will produce. That leaves plenty of room for New City Players in the space, which opts so far to serve up Falling by Deanna Jent, a drama of a family tested by its teenage autistic son (Oct. 10-27). vanguardarts.org; 954610-7263 Slow Burn Theatre Co. has grown less adventuresome in its show choices since moving its operations to the Broward Center. Still, artistic director and resident choreographer Patrick Fitzwater has cultlike but audience-friendly tastes. His season includes such Broadway musical fare as Shrek (Oct. 25-Nov. 10), A Christmas Story (Dec. 13-29), Groundhog Day (Jan. 31-Feb. 16), Ragtime (March 20-April 5) and Footloose (June 5-21). slowburntheatre.org; 954-3237884 Across the plaza from Slow Burn, in the Broward Center’s larger Amaturo Theater, its Broadway series opens with the newly restaged Les Misérables (Oct. 8-20), followed by Jimmy Buffett’s beach party show, Escape to Margaritaville (Nov. 19-Dec. 1). Next are three shows currently running in New York — Disney’s Aladdin (Jan. 8-19), Mean Girls (March 3-15) and Come From Away (April 7-19) — plus the short-lived, but admired Bandstand (May 5-17). browardcenter.org; 954-4620222

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Keep driving to Miami and you will find the area’s leading African-American troupe, M Ensemble. It starts its season with the Fats Waller revue, Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Feb. 6-23), followed by a couple of new plays about the black experience, Emergency (April 9-26) and Cowboy (June 11-26). themensemble.com; 786-3205986 Artistic director Michel Hausmann and artistic associate Moises Kaufman consistently challenge audiences under their Miami New Drama umbrella at Miami Beach’s Colony Theatre. Their eclectic season begins with a new adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Oct. 24-Nov. 17). It is followed by The Cubans (Jan. 23-Feb. 16), a new musical, A Wonderful World (March 5-April 5), and The Great Leap (April 23-May 17). miaminewdrama.org; 305674-1040

Miami’s Arsht Center has many Broadway series shows in common with the Kravis Center. For instance, it will present the tours of Fiddler on the Roof (Oct. 29-Nov. 3), Hamilton (Feb. 10-March 15), Miss Saigon (April 7-12) and Summer (May 12-17).

Its exclusives this season are Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Jan. 1-5) and Jesus Christ Superstar (Jan. 23-28). arshtcenter.org; 305-949-6722 In the Arsht’s smaller Studio Theater, Zoetic Stage offers up the area premiere of The Wolves (Oct. 31-Nov. 17), a metaphorical drama of high school soccer girls, as well as a post-Broadway staging of resident playwright Chris Demos-Brown’s unblinking look at race in this country, American Son (Jan. 9-26).

The company continues its march through the Sondheim canon with A Little Night Music (March 19-April 12)

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and concludes with Hannah Benitez’s Gringo Landia (May 7-24), about a Cuban man’s return to his native land after 50 years away. zoeticstage.org; 305949-6722 Also in the Arsht’s Studio, City Theatre celebrates its 25th year of producing a menu of 10-minute plays, Summer Shorts (June 4-July 5). Before that, however, it offers a rare full-length script that it is high on, The Cake (Dec. 5-22), about a North Carolina baker caught in a dilemma over whether to supply a cake for a lesbian wedding. citytheatre.com; 305755-9401 Actors’ Playhouse on Coral Gables’ Miracle Mile opens with a jukebox musical of Johnny Cash songs, Ring of Fire (Oct. 30-Dec. 8). Following the jukebox theme is ABBA’s Mamma Mia! (Jan. 22-Feb. 23), then the classic Camelot (March 18-April 12) and a new

adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express (May 13-June 7) by the prolific Ken Ludwig. actorsplayhouse. org; 305-444-9293 Coral Gables’ GableStage produces provocative theater year round, so it is hard to tell where one season ends and the next one begins.

Still on through Oct. 20 is Wiesenthal, the one-man show about the crusader who brought over 1,100 Nazi war criminals to justice. Ostensibly, the company’s season then begins with Lucas Hnath’s suppositional look at the 2012 presidential primary, Hillary and Clinton (Nov. 23-Dec. 22), followed by Ordinary Americans (Jan. 18-Feb. 16), fresh from its premiere at Palm Beach Dramaworks. Also on tap are Life Sucks (March 21-April 19) and Kissing Che (May 23June 21). gablestage.org; 305445-1119

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Community Theater

Playhouses offer antic romps, familiar music for young and old

By Dale King Contributing Writer As a new season begins, community theaters are ramping up their main stage and ancillary offerings to accommodate theater lovers of every stripe.

Entering his third year as executive director of the Delray Beach Playhouse, Kevin Barrett promises a season of variety and quality in its five main stage offerings, “a really exciting cabaret line” and a series of nostalgic concerts. Not to mention occasional musical memories performances.

Meanwhile, Lake Worth Playhouse is all set to entertain regulars and newcomers.

The vintage building on Lake Avenue offers varied productions on the main stage and in a 53-seat black box theater, along with a roster of foreign films.

Both show houses have been around for a while. Delray is beginning its 73rd season; the Lake Worth venue, its 65th.

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Looking to the season ahead, Barrett said the first show — Calendar Girls — is perhaps most notable. “It was a big hit in England. Many community theaters in England produce it, but it’s not shown often in the United States.”

If You Go Delray Beach Playhouse: 950 NW Ninth St. 272-1281, Ext. 5, or delraybeachplayhouse.org Lake Worth Playhouse: 713 Lake Ave. 586-6410 or lakeworth playhouse.org.

Parlor in Chinquapin, La., is one of the most popular and frequently performed plays.

The show plays May 15-31.

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The Delray Beach Playhouse regularly mounts entertaining, energetic musicals, such as As the World Goes Round in 2018. Photo provided by Delray Beach Playhouse He said the play is much like the film starring Helen Mirren.

Running Oct. 4-20, the show focuses on Annie Clarke, who encourages her Women’s Club to help her raise money for a local hospital. Their annual English bridges calendar has been a flop. So they decide to go with a calendar featuring nude portraits. Surprise! It’s a big success. “This hilarious true story has been embraced by audiences around the world,”

said Barrett.

Keeping with the Brit theme, next comes See How They Run. “Every year, we try to find a good comedy,” Barrett said.

This story of an American woman in England shortly after World War II takes riotous turns when some unauthorized folks try to use her to disguise their identities.

When the constable arrives looking for a spy, he finds a lot of people who aren’t what they

seem. The show runs Nov. 29Dec. 15.

A musical production arrives with the new year in Some Enchanted Evening: The Songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein, which runs Jan. 31-Feb. 15.

The production includes tunes from Oklahoma, South Pacific, Carousel, State Fair, the King and I, Cinderella and The Sound of Music.

“I like to go with a good murder mystery,” said Barrett.

And the Delray Playhouse choice this year is Stage Struck.

“This is a show that’s largely stayed under the radar.”

“We like to hear gasps,” from the audience, he said. Stage Struck is likely to do it. The show runs March 20-April 5.

Wrapping up the season is a popular favorite, Robert Harling’s Steel Magnolias. “We decided to put on a brand-name show,” Barrett said, and this is it. The tale of the folks who frequent Truvy Jones’ Beauty

The season began Oct. 3 with the musical comedy Sister Act. The show, with a score by Alan Menken, was nominated for five Tony awards, including Best Musical. It runs through Oct. 20.

Next up is Inspecting Carol, a holiday hit from Seattle. A man who asks to audition at a small theater is mistaken for an informer for the National Endowment for the Arts. What follows is a festival of errors.

The show runs Nov. 14-Dec. 1.

Jan. 16 brings the wellknown musical Gypsy to the Playhouse stage, running through Feb. 2. Arthur Laurents’ show explores the world of two-bit show business with brass, humor, heart and sophistication. The celebrated score by Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim boasts tunes like “Let Me Entertain You,” “Some People,” “You’ll Never Get Away From Me” and “If Momma Was Married.”

The season continues with Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution, which runs Feb. 27-March 15.

Concluding the season, with an April 9-26 run, is the familyfriendly musical, Annie, with its familiar score by Charles Strouse.

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Winter screenings will bring us Harriet Tubman, Mr. Rogers and the Joker

By Hap Erstein ArtsPaper Film Writer

Welcome to the movies’ serious season, when the awardworthy films unspool.

This fall, there seems to be a pre-occupation with the 19th century (The Current War, The Lighthouse, Harriet, The Aeronauts), movies we usually expect in the summer (Joker, Gemini Man, Doctor Sleep) and a host of films featuring Adam Driver (The Report, Marriage Story, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker).

As always, expect a few of these subjectively chosen films to drop out before their release date and plenty of others to get pushed into 2020.

Joker (10/4) — The baton has passed from Jack Nicholson to Heath Ledger to, now, Joaquin Phoenix, playing Batman’s most iconic villain in this origin tale. And if the movie is half as creepy as its trailer, we are in for a dark time in Gotham. Directing is Todd Phillips, previously best known for the Hangover series. This one should change his image instantly.

Pain and Glory (10/4) — The great Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar logs his eighth collaboration with Antonio Banderas in what is being touted as the director’s most personal work yet. Banderas plays a director looking back on his life and career, battling his demons and clinging to his fixation on his mother.

The Current War (10/4) — The punning title refers not to a contemporary skirmish, but the battle between Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) over whose electrical system — direct or alternating current — will power the world. We remain intrigued, even though this one has been sitting on a shelf for more than a year.

Gemini Man (10/11) — It will be hard to know whom to root for as Will Smith as an aging hitman faces off against a younger version of himself.

Ang Lee directs, and continues his fascination with technology, as he clones Smith with computerized graphics and ups the realism with high frame rate. But will this be a hit on the order of his Oscar-winning

Life of Pi or a stumble like Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk?

Jojo Rabbit (10/18) — It is not unusual for a 10-yearold boy to have an imaginary friend, but Jojo Betzler’s happens to be Adolf Hitler.

New Zealand filmmaker Taiki Waitiki goosesteps his way to the other side of the camera to play a Hitler worthy of a road company of The Producers. Just as we were ready to dismiss this movie as a terrible idea, it won the People’s Choice Award at Toronto, a frequent precursor of Oscar gold.

The Lighthouse (10/18) — A grizzled old Irish lighthouse keeper (Willem Dafoe) and his younger apprentice (Robert Pattinson) go about their mundane chores on a remote New England island, circa 1890s, slowly going mad. The two actors comprise the entire cast, if you don’t count the mermaid they begin to see.

Directed by Robert Eggers, best known previously for the very haunting The Witch.

Harriet (11/1) — Engineer and conductor of the Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman gets an actionpacked biopic treatment, as

Cynthia Erivo plays famed Underground Railroad leader Harriet Tubman in Harriet, out Nov. 1. Focus Features photo the film’s heroine, worthy of immortality on the $20 bill, is shown transforming from scared runaway to courageous freedom fighter. Broadway’s Cynthia Erivo (The Color Purple) gets a great cinematic showcase, and from early reports makes the most of it.

Motherless Brooklyn (11/1) — Edward Norton wrote, directs and stars in this murder mystery set in 1950s New York, playing a loner private eye with Tourette’s syndrome, seeking the killer of his only friend and mentor (Bruce Willis). Alec Baldwin, Willem Dafoe and Gugu Mbatha-Raw show up in support in what has been called Norton’s Chinatown.

Doctor Sleep (11/8) — Are you ready to return to the Overlook Hotel for a sequel

to The Shining, based on Stephen King’s follow-up book?

Tricycle-riding Danny Torrance has grown up — now played by Ewan McGregor — and works at a New Hampshire nursing home, comforting the dying in his new guise as Dr. Sleep. He almost escapes his past, until he encounters a young woman with extreme “shining” powers.

Could there be “redrum” in Dan’s future?

Ford v. Ferrari (11/15) — Back in the 1960s, American car designer Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon) and driver Ken Miles (Christian Bale) battle corporate interference and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford and challenge Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The film’s

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Taylor Swift, left, is among the big-name stars taking on feline characters in the big-screen version of Cats, out Dec. 20.

Universal photo climax is the hour-long race, so you might want to make your own pit stop halfway into the movie.

The Report (11/15) — Unsung hero of the post-9/11 era, U.S. Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones (Adam Driver), is tasked with investigating CIA torture policy, an assignment which takes him down the rabbit hole of deceit and duplicity. A fact-based drama of the type that Hollywood rarely makes anymore, and if the box office is anemic for this one, they will probably make even fewer. Still, as impressive as Driver is said to be, expect Annette Bening as Sen. Dianne Feinstein to steal the film, possibly earning her the Oscar that has been long just outside her grasp.

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (11/22) — Just when we figured out that Tom Hanks was really Ben Bradlee, Sully Sullenberger or perhaps Walt Disney, he morphs into beloved children’s TV host Fred Rogers. In this unofficial follow-up to the documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Rogers is seen re-inventing kids’ television and turning a skeptical magazine profile writer into a true believer.

The Irishman (11/27) — Mob hitman Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran (Robert DeNiro) looks back on his involvement in the murder of union capo Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino) in this epic — 3-hour, 30-minute — crime saga. It has been simmering in director Martin Scorsese’s brain for years, now realized thanks to bankrolling by Netflix. Along for the ride are such other Scorsese favorites as Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel.

Don’t go tired, but go.

Marriage Story (12/6) — As the film begins, Charlie (Adam Driver) is a Brooklyn theater director and Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) is his leading lady both onstage and off.

But when she yearns to move to California and break into films, cracks begin to show in their marriage. Writer/director Noah Baumbach is said to have drawn on his divorce from actress Jennifer Jason Leigh for inspiration.

The Aeronauts (12/6) — Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones, paired so successfully in The Theory of Everything, are reunited in this far less earthbound, fact-based tale of an historic 1862 hot air balloon flight by a meteorologist and an adventuress. Expect personality clashes and weather battles, along with some breathtaking visuals high above London.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (12/20) — Is it just me or has the quality of this great, iconic space epic gone down since Disney bought the franchise? Still, a new episode is an event to be much anticipated. In this case, a face-off between the surviving Resistance and the First Order is being billed as the final chapter of the Skywalker saga, but of course that will really depend on the box office results.

Rey (Daisy Ridley) is at the center of the movie, but we hear that Lando Calrissian and Emperor Palpatine put in appearances, as well as Carrie Fisher as Princess/General Leia, thanks to re-edited outtakes from past films.

Cats (12/20) — The musical

that started the British invasion of Broadway finally makes it to the big screen almost 40 years later. Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber collaborates with T.S. Eliot (from beyond the grave) on a song cycle about Jellicle cats, introducing themselves and vying to be chosen to ascend to the Heaviside Layer. Who would want to be in such a movie? Jennifer Hudson, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Taylor Swift and James Corden, to name a few.

Bombshell (12/20) — The toxic atmosphere at Fox News begins at the top in the person of Roger Ailes (John Lithgow), who gets his comeuppance at the hands of sexually abused female employees and on-air talent, played by such blonde lookers as Margot Robbie, Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman. Already covered in a made-for-TV movie, has such tabloid material not yet satiated the public’s appetite?

Uncut Gems (12/25) — Diamond district jewelry store owner and dealer Howard Ratner’s (Adam Sandler) life and career are in constant crisis. His marriage (to Idina Menzel) is breaking down and unpaid loan sharks are circling him for the kill. But Howard is undaunted, ready to maneuver out of danger yet again. Or maybe this time will be the endgame.

Either way, the frenetic Safdie brothers — Josh and Benny (Good Time) — capture the New York street milieu with uncanny accuracy, and Sandler is said to be giving the performance of his career.

Yes, even better than in Happy Gilmore.

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Former fire chief’s exhibit in Boca focuses on autumn

By Margie Plunkett The autumn colors are at full peak in Boca Raton, displayed in forests of brilliant trees, on mountains and in valleys — courtesy of Kerry Koen and the Boca Raton Public Library.

Koen is the photographer who produced the downtown library exhibit “Autumn in New England,” a collection of scenes from Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. His images depict everything from farmhouses, covered bridges and country roads to lighthouses and sunrises.

“It’s such a beautiful part of the country and very friendly,” Koen said. “People are always appreciative of you coming to visit their trees and foliage.

They’re very proud of it.”

Some might know Koen, 75, better as a firefighter and former fire chief of Boca Raton and Delray Beach.

But photography has been part of his life since his days at Seacrest High School. He went to Southern Illinois University to study commercial photography, but became interested in government and earned a bachelor’s degree in public administration from the University of Memphis. Koen is also a graduate of the National Fire Academy, has an associate’s

After rising from firefighter to fire chief for the city of Boca Raton, Kerry Koen has returned to his first calling, photography.

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in culinary arts from Johnson & Wales University and has done master’s coursework at Florida Atlantic University.

During high school, Koen shot photos for the school newspaper and yearbook. In college, he worked on local newspapers and was a stringer for the UPI wire service.

He’s used photography in his profession and as a hobby ever since.

“The technology has changed so much from the time I started until now. Nothing

that I learned in photography school exists anymore,” he said.

“Not just the fact it’s all digital, it’s the technology of printing — and the camera itself is a computer.”

There was a time when Koen shot in black-and-white film because color was expensive.

“Now you get color for free,” he mused.

While one of his favorite cameras was a Rolleiflex twinlens reflex, today he uses his phone’s camera for everyday photographs. He also has a

Nikon with telephoto lens.

Koen enjoys food and travel photography. Most mornings he frequents Boca Raton beaches to capture the sunrise.

The city’s website is showcasing one of those photos.

Exhibits he’d like to curate include Chicago architecture — near where his daughter lives.

The library exhibit is Koen’s first. The images were taken during mid-October trips he and his wife, Lynne, made.

They stayed in Woodstock, Vermont, and traveled from

there. Among his favorite spots: Cadillac Mountain in Arcadia National Park and Bar Harbor, both in Maine.

Koen has learned from talking to exhibit visitors that his photos stir memories. “I realized this was not for me, it was for them. They had found something in it for them, mostly a memory or two.” Ú Autumn in New England will be on display at the downtown library, 400 NW Second Ave., through Oct. 25.

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October 2019

Community Calendar Note: Events are current as of 9/25. Please check with organizers for any changes.

OCTOBER 5

Saturday - 10/5 - Hustle2EndHunger 5K Run/Walk/Family Fun Day at John Prince Park, 4759 S Congress Ave, Lake Worth. Benefits CROS Ministries. Rain or shine: 6 am register; 7 am run start; 8 am recognition. Collect pledges. $40/runner; pledges/walker. 2339009; crosministries.org 10/5 - Pickleball at Delray Beach Tennis Center, 210 W Atlantic Ave. M-F 8 am-9 pm; Sat 8 am-6 pm. $3/resident; $4/non-resident; $1/add for night play lights. Monthly pass available. 243-7356; mydelraybeach.com 10/5 - Lawn Bowling at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St, Delray Beach. Takes skill/practice.

Age 18 & up. M/W/F/Sat 9 am-noon. Annual fee $15/resident; $20/non-resident. 243-7350; mydelraybeach.com 10/5 - Southern Handcraft Society Holiday Harvest 2019 at Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd, Boca Raton. Most vendors accept cash or check only. 9 am-1:30 pm. Free admission. 732-2597; shsboca.com 10/5 - Community Open House at Ann Norton Sculpture Garden, 253 Barcelona Rd West Palm Beach. 10 am-6 pm. Free. 832-5328; ansg.org 10/5 - Croquet Lessons at The National Croquet Club, 700 Florida Mango Rd, West Palm Beach. Every Sat 10 am-noon. Free.

Reservations: 478-2300; nationalcroquetclub. com 10/5 - Ride & Remember Bus Tour departs from Spady Cultural Heritage Museum, 170 NW 5th Ave, Delray Beach. 2-hour tour; focus on 5 historic districts. Every T/Th/Sat 10 am. $35.

Reservations: 279-8883; spadymuseum.com 10/5 - League of Women Voters Cool Topics: Local Impacts of Global Climate Change at Hyatt Place, 104 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. Expert panel. Part of RISE: A Climate and Art Weekend. 10 am-noon. Free; free parking Old School Square Parking Garage. RSVP: 9684123; lwvpbc.org 10/5 - The Writer’s Studio at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Every Sat 10 am. Free. 638-7251; delraylibrary.org 10/5 - Japanese Traditional Music: Beginners Koto Classes at Morikami Japanese Museum and Gardens Theater, 4000 Morikami Park Rd, Delray Beach. Every Sat through 11/16. Beginners II 10:30 am-12:30 pm; Beginners I 1-3 pm. $150/member; $155/nonmember. 495-0233 x210; morikami.org 10/5 - The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Part of Page Turners Saturday morning book discussion. Adults. 10:30-11:30 am. Free. Registration: 266-0194; delraylibrary. org 10/5 - Blogs: Preparing to Launch at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults.

10:30 am-noon. Free. 393-7852; bocalibrary.org

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10/5 - Multiples & You: Casting Your Self Portrait at Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. Ages 16 +. Using basic mold-making techniques, focus is on casting in multiples in order to embellish a final 3-Dimensional casting of your own face. Every Sat through 11/16.

Noon-3 pm. $150. 450-6357; artsgarage.org 10/5 - An Eye for Art: A Look at the Elements at Artist’s Eye, 604 Lucerne Ave, Lake Worth. Exhibit runs through 10/27. T-Sun noon4 pm. Free. 586-8666; lwartleague.org 10/5 - Latinx Community Day at Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S Olive Ave, West Palm Beach. Celebrates South Florida’s unique, diverse community and the Norton’s collection of Latin American art. Music/dance performances, films, art-making workshops for all ages, tours in Spanish & English, special exhibition The Body Says I Am a Fiesta: The Figure in Latin American Art, more. Noon-5 pm.

Free. 832-5196; norton.org 10/5 - The Wonder of Poetry: A Poetry Workshop Facilitated by Guillermo CancioBello at Old School Square Crest Theatre, 51 N Swinton Ave, Delray Beach. 1 pm. $10. 8682063; palmbeachpoetryfestival.org 10/5 - Pickleball at Pompey Park Community Center, 1101 NW 2nd St. M-F 9-11 am; F 6-8:30 pm; Sat 1-4 pm. $3/resident; $4/non-resident; $1/add for night play lights. Monthly passes available. 243-7356; mydelraybeach.com 10/5 - PBA Theatre presents The Wizard of Oz at Palm Beach Atlantic University, 500 Fern St, West Palm Beach. Runs through 10/12.

Th-Sat 7:30 pm; Sat 2 pm. $15/adult; $10/senior 65+; $5/student w/ID. 803-2970; pba.edu 10/5 - Sea at My Door: Saving South Florida from the Rising Tide with Dr. Keren Bolter at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Adults. 2:30-3:30 pm. Free.

266-0196; delraylibrary.org 10/5 - Billy Elliot The Musical at Showtime Performing Arts Theatre, 503 SE Mizner Blvd, Boca Raton. Every Sat through 10/26 4 pm. $25.50/adult; $15.50/student. 394-2626; showtimeboca.com 10/5 - 8th Annual Side-by-Side Festival for String Orchestra at Florida Atlantic University Kaye Auditorium, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton.

Talented high school students perform side-byside w/members of FAU Symphony Orchestra under direction of Dr. Laura Joella. 7 pm. 2973000; calendar.fau.edu/arts 10/5 - Roman Street at Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. 8-10 pm. $35-$45. 4506357; artsgarage.org 10/5 - The Mersey Beatles: Four Lads from Liverpool at Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center, 201 Plaza Real, Boca Raton. 3 & 8 pm. $39-$55.

844-672-2849; miznerparkculturalcenter.com 10/5 - First Nighters at Lynn University Wold Performing Arts Center, 3601 N Military Tr, Boca Raton. Hobnob w/performers; have your photo taken w/the stars. Follows performance of Bee Gees Gold: The Tribute. 9 pm. $20. 237-7750; lynn.tix.com

10/7 - Ocean Ridge - First Monday at Ocean Ridge Town Hall, 6450 N Ocean Blvd. 6 pm. Agenda: oceanridgeflorida.com 10/7 & 22 - Boca Raton - Second & fourth Tuesday at Boca Raton City Hall, 201 W Palmetto Park Rd. 6 pm. Agenda: myboca.us 10/8 - South Palm Beach - Second Tuesday at the South Palm Beach Town Hall, 3577 S Ocean Blvd. 2 pm. Agenda: southpalmbeach.com 10/11 - Gulf Stream - Second Friday at Gulf Stream Town Hall, 100 Sea Rd. 9 am.

Agenda: gulf-stream.org 10/14 & 28 - Lantana - Second & fourth Mondays at Lantana Town Hall, 500 Greynolds Cir. 7 pm. Agenda: lantana.org 10/15 - Delray Beach - First & third Tuesdays at Delray Beach City Hall, 100 NW 1st Ave. 4 pm.

Agenda: delraybeachfl.gov 10/15 - Boynton Beach - First and third Tuesday at Boynton Beach City Hall, 100 E Boynton Beach Blvd. 6:30 pm. Agenda: boynton-beach.org 10/22 - Manalapan - Fourth Tuesday at Manalapan Town Hall, 600 S Ocean Blvd. 10 am.

Agenda: manalapan.org 10/24 - Briny Breezes - Fourth Thursday at Briny Breezes Town Hall, 4802 N Ocean Blvd. 4 pm.

Agenda: townofbrinybreezes-fl.com 10/5-6 - Sister Act The Divine Musical Comedy at Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave. Runs through 10/20. Sat/Sun 2 pm; Th-Sat 8 pm. $29-$35/show; $65-$75/dinner & show package. 586-6410; lakeworthplayhouse.org 10/5-6 - Bee Gees Gold: The Tribute at Lynn University Wold Performing Arts Center, 3601 N Military Tr, Boca Raton. Sat 7:30 pm; Sun 4 pm. $50-$70. 237-9000; lynn.tix.com 10/5-6 - Calendar Girls at The Delray Beach Playhouse, 950 NW 9th St. Runs through 10/20.

Sat/Sun 2 pm; W-Sat 8 pm. $35/adult; $15/ student. 272-1281; delraybeachplayhouse.com 10/5-6 - Flamencas en la Luz (Flamencas in the Light) (G) presented by Clarita FilgueirasFlemenco Puro at Willow Theatre at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton. Sat 8 pm; Sun 2 pm. $30. 347-3948; willowtheatre.org 10/5-6 - Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov at Florida Atlantic University Studio One Theater, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. Sat 7 pm; Sat/Sun 2 pm. $22. 297-6124; fauevents.com

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Sunday - 10/6 - 2019 Concerto Competition Final Round at Lynn University AmarnickGoldstein Concert Hall, 3601 N Military Tr, Boca Raton. Finalists perform before 3 guest judges; morning & afternoon sessions. Winners perform as soloists with Lynn Philharmonia 11/9-10. 9:30 am-1 pm. Free. 237-9000; lynn. tix.com 10/6 - Nihongo: Introduction to Japanese Part 1 at Morikami Japanese Museum and Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd, Delray Beach. Introduction of the Japanese language and culture. Every Sun through 11/17. Level I 10:15-11:25 am; Level II 11:25 am-12:35 pm; Level III 12:40-1:50 pm; Level IV 1:50-3 pm. $90/ member; $100/non-member. Registration: 4950233; morikami.org 10/6 - Sado: Tea Ceremony Beginners Class at Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd, Delray Beach. Study the traditional art of Sado, The Way of Tea. Tea Ceremony Workshop is required for those who

have never taken a Tea Ceremony Class but wish to start studying Sado. 2 lessons/month (Sun 10/6 & 13 & Th 10/10 & 24). 10:15 am-12:15 pm. $50/member; $55/non-member. Registration: 495-0233 x210; morikami.org 10/6 - Japanese Traditional Instrument: Koto Workshop at Morikami Japanese Museum and Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd, Delray Beach. 10:30 am-12:30 pm. $50. 4950233 x210; morikami.org 10/6 - Bridge Duplicate at Rutherford Community Center, 2000 Yamato Rd, Boca Raton. Sanctioned A.C.B.L. duplicate bridge game for the experienced player. Light lunch.

Partners available for singles. Every Sun 12:304 pm. $10/at the door. Reservations or partners: 338-2995; myboca.us 10/6 - ACBL Sanctioned Duplicate Bridge at Temple Sinai of Palm Beach County, 2475 W Atlantic Ave, Delray Beach. M-Th 12:30 pm; F 12:15 pm; Sun 1 pm. $12/includes lunch. 2768071; templesinaipbc.org 10/6 - Sado: Tea Ceremony Intermediate Class at Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd, Delray Beach.

Study the traditional art of Sado, The Way of Tea. Tea Ceremony Workshop is required for those who have never taken a Tea Ceremony Class but wish to start studying Sado. 2 lessons/ month (10/6 & 13). 1-4 pm. $50/member; $55/ non-member. Registration: 495-0233 x210; morikami.org 10/6 - Kaffee Klatsch To Celebrate GermanAmerican Day at American German Club of the Palm Beaches, 5111 Lantana Rd, Lake Worth. Kitchen is closed. Complimentary German cakes/coffee served. Presentation of proclamation of German-American Day, plus a variety of German & traditional hits. 2 pm. Free.

967-6464; americangermanclub.org 10/6 - The Wolfepak Band at Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. 7-8:30 pm. $25-$35.

450-6357; artsgarage.org 10/6-7 - Auditions for See How They Run: A Farce by Phillip King at Delray Beach Playhouse, 950 NW 9th St. 6 Men (age

18-mature), 3 Women (age 18-mature).

Rehearsals begin 10/28. 7:30 pm. 272-1281 x5; delraybeachplayhouse.com Monday - 10/7 - Pickleball at Ezell Hester, Jr. Community Center, 1901 N Seacrest Blvd, Boynton Beach. Combines badminton & tennis.

Adults. T/Th 10 am-1 pm; M/W/F 9 am-noon. $5; $50/30-visit pass. 742-6550; boyntonbeach.org 10/7 - Institute for Learning in Retirement at Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. Classes led by university professors, retired professors, community activists, professionals. Sign up for as many per semester as you want. Check website for times, course descriptions; call for brochure. Session runs through 12/5. Every M/Th 9:30 am-4 pm & W 9:30 am-12:30 pm. $135/8-week session. 8830999; iliretirement.org 10/7 - Socrates Cafe at Highland Beach Library, 3618 S Ocean Blvd. Every M 10 am. Free.

278-5455; highlandbeach.us 10/7 - GPS Apps at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Part of Appy Hour class series. 10:30 am-noon. Free. Registration: 2660196; delraylibrary.org 10/7 - Senior Bingo at Pompey Park, 1101 NW 2nd St, Delray Beach. Adults age 50 & up. M/W 10:30 am-noon. Free. 243-7356; mydelraybeach.com 10/7 - Mah Jongg/Canasta at Rutherford Community Center, 2000 Yamato Rd, Boca Raton. Ongoing weekly sessions. Light snacks served. Players are required to bring their own Mah Jongg sets or Canasta cards and trays.

Every M 10:30 am-1:30 pm. $20/at the door.

367-7035; myboca.us 10/7 - Forum Club of the Palm Beaches Luncheon at Kravis Center Cohen Pavilion, 701 Okeechobee Blvd, West Palm Beach. Speaker Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Robert Spalding: 5G and Threats from China. Book signing follows. 11 am doors open; 11:45 luncheon. $40/member; $50/applicant; $60/guest ticket ordered by member; $125/public. RSVP: 304-0570; forumclubpalmbeach.org 10/7 - Empowerment Zone at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Resume/job/ computer assistance. Every M/Th 1-4:30 pm.

Free. 266-0798; delraylibrary.org 10/7 - Cloud Computing at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 1:30-3 pm.

Free. 393-7906; bocalibrary.org 10/7 - Intermediate Italian at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. Every M 1:30 pm. Free. 393-7906; bocalibrary.org 10/7 - Advanced Squares at Ezell Hester, Jr. Community Center, 1901 N Seacrest Blvd, Boynton Beach. Age 18 & up. Every M 2-4 pm. $6. 731-3119; boynton-beach.org 10/7 - Baruch Meir Piano Master Class at Lynn University Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall, 3601 N Military Tr, Boca Raton. 2 pm. 2379000; lynn.edu/events 10/7 - Word Level 1 at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Prerequisite: Mouse, Keyboard & Computers 101. Adults.

5:30-7:30 pm. Free. Registration: 266-0196; delraylibrary.org

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AT28 Community Calendar 10/7 - Beginner’s Italian Night Session at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. Every M 6-7:30 pm. Free. 393-7906; bocalibrary.org 10/7 - Playhouse Actors’ Workshop at Delray Beach Playhouse, 950 NW 9th St. Focus on audition technique, monologue work, scene study, comedic timing, character analysis, more. All skill levels and experience. Age 18+. Every M through 11/18 6:30-9:30 pm. $99/month. Limited enrollment: 272-1281; delraybeachplayhouse.com 10/7 - Improv Drop In at Improv U, 105 NW 5th Ave, Delray Beach. Newcomers/advanced players. Great for actors, artists, stand-up comedians, accountants, everyone in between.

Every M Improv Drop In 7-9 pm; every W Improv Games Drop In 7-9 pm. $10. 844-561-4242; theimprovu.com 10/7 - Scotty Dog Squares Dance Club at Boynton Beach Senior Center, 1021 S Federal Hwy. All skill levels. Age 18 & up. Every M 7-9 pm. $6. 865-2611; boynton-beach.org 10/7 - Bike Nite at Tilted Kilt Pub & Brewery, 3320 Airport Rd #1, Boca Raton. Held by Fury Road Riders; benefits Natural High, national non-profit dedicated to inspire youth to have a reason to say no to drugs/alcohol. Tilted Kilt donates 10% of food bill to Natural High. Every M 7 pm. 504-3310; furyroadrc.com Tuesday - 10/8 - Pickleball: Advanced Play at Delray Beach Community Center, 50 NW 1st Ave. Adults. T/Th/F 9 am-1 pm. Monthly pass $20/resident, $30/non-resident; per day $3/resident, $4/non-resident. 243-7250; mydelraybeach.com 10/8 - Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Adults. Representatives available 2nd T 9 am-noon. Free. Appointments suggested: 655-8944; delraylibrary.org 10/8 - Photos at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Part of Appy Hour class series. Adults. 10:30 am-noon. Free.

Registration: 266-0196; delraylibrary.org 10/8 - Chess Club at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St, Delray Beach. Knowledge of the game necessary. Age 18 & up. Every T/F noon-4:30 pm. Free. 243-7350; mydelraybeach.com 10/8 - Boca Raton Noon Toastmasters at Train Depot, 747 S Dixie Hwy. Improve public speaking, leadership abilities. Every T 12:15-1:15 pm. Free. 251-4164; toastmastersclub.org 10/8 - Google My Maps & Tour Builder at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 1:30 pm. Free. 393-7852; bocalibrary.org

The COASTAL STAR 10/8 – Socrates Café at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Philosophical discussions. Every T 1:30-3 pm. Free. 393-7852; bocalibrary.org 10/8 - Modern Line Dance Class at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St, Delray Beach. Enhance quality of life through modern music, dance.

Age 50 & up. Every T 1:30-2:30 pm. Per class: $5/resident; $6/non-resident. 243-7350; mydelraybeach.com 10/8 - Art Crew at Arts Warehouse, 313 NE 3rd St, Delray Beach. Every 2nd T. 5:30-7:30 pm. $5/ non-members. 330-9614; artswarehouse.org 10/8 - Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn by Donald Spoto part of The Talk of Kings Book Discussion Group at The Society of the Four Arts, 240 Cocoanut Row, Palm Beach.

5:30 pm. Free. 655-2766; fourarts.org 10/8 - Pinochle at Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. Every T/Th 6-9 pm.

Free. 393-7807; myboca.us 10/8 - Interactive Acoustic Music and Art in The Park at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St, Delray Beach. All ages. 2nd T 6-9 pm. Free. 2437350; mydelraybeach.com 10/8 - Money Smart Series 1 Class 1: Your Money Values and Influences at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 6-7:30 pm. Free. 393-7906; bocalibrary.org 10/8 - Foreign Film Series: Omkara (PG-13) at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 6:30-9 pm. Free. 393-7852; bocalibrary. org 10/8 - Adult International Folk Dance at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St, Delray Beach.

Every T (except 2nd T) 6:30-9:30 pm. Per class $5/resident; $6/non-resident. 913-475-1112; mydelraybeach.com 10/8 – Open Play Basketball 30 & Over at Delray Beach Community Center, 50 NW 1st Ave. Every T 7-8 pm. Free. 243-7000 x5001; mydelraybeach.com 10/8 - All Arts Open Mic Night at Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. 2nd T 8-10 pm. $5.

450-6357; artsgarage.org 10/8 - Blue Tuesdays at Boston’s on the Beach, 40 S Ocean Blvd, Delray Beach. Host Famous Frank Ward. Every T 8:30-11:30 pm.

Free. 278-3364; bostonsonthebeach.com Wednesday - 10/9 - Adult Watercolor Painting Workshop at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St, Delray Beach. Class lesson/lecture, emphasis on composition/drawing, then a painting demo. Remainder of time is one-onone instruction, finishing w/class critique. Age 18 & up. W 9 am-noon or 1-4 pm. Monthly

$35/resident; $38/non-resident. 243-7350; mydelraybeach.com 10/9 - Family Promise of South Palm Beach County at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Housing assistance for children and families who have become temporarily homeless. Adults. Counselors meet w/clients by appointment only every W 9 am-noon. Free.

266-0196; delraylibrary.org 10/9 - Great Decisions presented by Boynton Beach City Library at First Presbyterian Church, 235 SW Sixth Ave. 10 am-noon. Free. 742-6390; boyntonlibrary.org 10/9 - GFWC Women’s Club of Delray Beach Inc. at the 505 Teen Center, 505 SE 5th Ave., Delray Beach. 2nd W 10:30 am. Free. 843-6821; mydelraybeach.com 10/9 - Getting Around at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Part of Appy Hour class series. Adults. 10:30 am-noon. Free.

Registration: 266-0196; delraylibrary.org 10/9 - Beginner’s Italian Day Session at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. Every W 10:30 am. Free. 393-7906; bocalibrary.org 10/9 - Socrates Cafe at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Philosophical discussions. Every W 11:30 am-1 pm. Free. 2660194; delraylibrary.org 10/9 - Scrabble for Experienced Players at Highland Beach Library, 3618 S Ocean Blvd.

Every W 1 pm. Free. 278-5455; highlandbeach. us 10/9 - Beginner’s Coding for Adults: Part 1 at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 1:30-3 pm. Free. 393-7906; bocalibrary. org 10/9 - Beginner’s Spanish at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. Every W 1:30 pm. Free. 393-7906; bocalibrary.org 10/9 - Ukulele Jam at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Teens & adults.

5-7:30 pm. Free. 266-9490; delraylibrary.org 10/9 - Writers’ Corner at Boynton Beach City Library, 115 N Federal Hwy. Manuscript critiquing by published authors. Every 2nd W 5:30-7 pm. Free. 742-6390; boyntonlibrary.org 10/9-13 - A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams at Palm Beach Dramaworks, 201 Clematis St, West Palm Beach. Runs W-Sun through 11/3. Times vary, check website. $57/preview nights; $92/ opening night; $77/regular admission. 5144042; palmbeachdramaworks.org Thursday - 10/10 - Quilters meet at Boynton Beach City Library, 115 N Federal Hwy. Share

October 2019 quilting information, perpetuate quilting as a cultural and artistic form. Every Th 9-11:30 am.

Free. 742-6886; boyntonlibrary.org 10/10 - Dramawise Series: A Streetcar Named Desire at Palm Beach Dramaworks, 201 Clematis St, West Palm Beach. Attend all or a portion of the program. Act 1 10-11:30 am; Intermission/lunch at a downtown West Palm Beach restaurant 11:45 am-12:45 pm; Act 2 1-2 pm. Contact box office for tickets: 514-4042 x2; palmbeachdramaworks.org 10/10 - News of the Week with Frank Cerabino at Florida Atlantic University Friedberg Auditorium, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. Part of 8-week Series at FAU Osher Lifelong Learning Society. Every Th through 12/5. 10-11:30 am. $60/annual membership; $100/member; $130/non-member; $20/onetime guest at the door. 297-3171; fau.edu/ divdept/lifelong 10/10 - Adult Multimedia Class at Intracoastal Park, 2240 N Federal Hwy, Boynton Beach. Watercolor, pastel, acrylic; design/ composition. Every Th 10 am-noon. Per class $25/resident; $31/non-resident. 742-6650; boynton-beach.org 10/10 - Smart Home ft. Alexa at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Part of Appy Hour class series. Adults. Held again 5:30-7:30 pm 10/28. 10:30 am-noon. Free.

Registration: 266-0196; delraylibrary.org 10/10 - Knit ‘N Purl at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Rotating facilitators. Held again 10/24. 10:30 am. Free.

266-0194; delraylibrary.org 10/10 - Adult Acrylics Art Class at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St, Delray Beach. Acrylic painting techniques for beginners; instructor available for advanced painters. Call for list of supplies. Age 18 & up. Every Th noon-3 pm. Per class $10/resident; $12/non-resident. 243-7350; mydelraybeach.com 10/10 - Senior Bridge at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St, Delray Beach. Experienced players welcome. Partners not needed. Every Th Noon-4 pm. Annual fee $15/resident + $1/ game; $25/non-resident + $2/game. 243-7350; mydelraybeach.com 10/10 - Instagram 101 at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 1:30 pm. Free.

393-7906; bocalibrary.org 10/10 - Hack Proof Yourself: Digital Afterlife at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Prerequisite: Mouse, Keyboard & Computers 101. Adults. 2-4 pm. Free. 266-0196; delraylibrary.org

10/10 - Norton Cinema: Battleship Potemkin at Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S Olive Ave, West Palm Beach. 2-3:15 pm. Free w/ admission. 832-5196; norton.org 10/10 - Lux Salon Grand Opening at 3469 Boynton Beach Blvd #5. Raffle benefits The Women’s Circle; pink hair extensions benefit Lynn Cancer Institute Go Pink Challenge. Food/ drinks, prizes, raffles, giveaways, more. 5-8 pm.

Free. 733-8338; myluxsalon.com 10/10 - Exhibit Opening Reception: Student Exhibition #1 at Boca Raton Museum Art School, 801 W Palmetto Park Rd. Exhibit runs through 10/24. 5:30-7:30 pm. Free w/admission. 392-2500; bocamuseum.org 10/10 - Artists Guild Gallery Opening Reception at the Artists’ Guild Gallery, 2910 N Federal Hwy, Boca Raton. Refreshments. 6-8 pm. Free. 278-7877; bocaguild.com 10/10 - Conservation Leadership Lecture: Saving the Planet with Sex and Sunscreen at Palm Beach Zoo, 1301 Summit Blvd, West Palm Beach. Presented by Margo McKnight, President & CEO, Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society. 6-8 pm. $35. 547-9453; palmbeachzoo.org 10/10 - The Next Generation Road Rascals Car Show at Lake Worth Casino Building & Beach Complex, 10 S Ocean Blvd. 2nd Th 6-9 pm. rstarr2010@gmail.com 10/10 - Night Line Dancing Class at Rutherford Community Center, 2000 Yamato Rd, Boca Raton. Every Th through 10/31.

Beginner 6-7 pm; Beginner & High Beginner 6-8 pm; High Beginner 7-8 pm; High Beginner & Intermediate 7-9 pm; Intermediate 8-9 pm. $50/resident; $63/non-resident. 367-7035; myboca.us 10/10 - Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Part of Novel Idea Book Club. Adults. 7-8 pm.

Free. 393-7852; bocalibrary.org 10/10 - One Hundred and Fifty-Six Pictures a Year … and Counting: Awesome Films that Got Lost in the Crowd with Kurt F. Stone at Florida Atlantic University Friedberg Auditorium, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. Part of 8-week Series at FAU Osher Lifelong Learning Society. Every Th through 12/5 7-9 pm. $60/ annual membership; $100/member; $130/ non-member; $20/one-time guest at the door.

297-3171; fau.edu/divdept/lifelong 10/10 - Adult Tango Dance at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St, Delray Beach. Every Th 7:50-10:50 pm. $15/resident; $16/non-resident. 243-7350; mydelraybeach.com

The COASTAL STAR

October 2019 10/10 - Hip Hop Revolution: Back to Basics at Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach.

Celebrate Hip Hop Culture, join rappers w/ graffiti artists, Hip Hop dance, DJ/s from all over South Florida. 9 pm-midnight. $10. 450-6357; artsgarage.org Friday - 10/11 - Supervised Bridge Play at Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. John Black. Partners not needed. Adults.

Every F 10 am-noon. $10. 393-7807; myboca.us 10/11 - Balkan by the Beach: International Folk Dance at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St, Delray Beach. Benefit of exercise, pleasure of dancing to beautiful music. No experience or partner needed. Age 50 & up. Every F 10:45 am1:15 pm. Per class $5/resident; $6/non-resident.

243-7350; mydelraybeach.com 10/11 - Bill Gove Golden Gavel Toastmasters Club at Duffy’s Sports Grill, 4746 N Congress Ave, Boynton Beach. Every F noon-1 pm. $12/lunch or $5/soft drink; cash only. 742-2121; billgovetoastmastersclub.com 10/11 - iPhone/iPad Basics at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Adults.

Held again 11/1. 1-2:30 pm. Free. 266-0196; delraylibrary.org 10/11 - Adult Coloring Club at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Every 2nd F 1:30 pm. Free. 266-9490; delraylibrary.org 10/11 - Art After Dark at Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S Olive Ave, West Palm Beach. Every F 5-10 pm. Free. 832-5196; norton.org 10/11 - Free Friday Concert: Remix at Old School Square Pavilion, 51 N Swinton Ave. Gourmet food trucks, cash bar. Bring lawn chairs, blankets. No pets or outside food/beverage. Weather permitting. 6 pm gates open; 7:30 pm concert starts. Free admission/donations appreciated. 243-9722; oldschoolsquare.org 10/11 - Laser Shows at South Florida Science Center and Aquarium, 4801 Dreher Tr N, West Palm Beach. 2nd F 7 pm. $10/advance; $12/at the door. 832-1988; sfsciencecenter.org 10/11 - Castoffs Square Dance Club at Boynton Beach Civic Center, 128 E Ocean Ave. Basic modern western square dancing. Every F 7-9:30 pm. $6 at the door. 731-3119; boyntonbeach.org 10/11 - Concert: Joseph Kingma, Pianist at Palm Beach Atlantic University Rinker Hall, 326 Acacia Rd, West Palm Beach. 7:30 pm. Free 803-2970; pba.edu 10/11 - 9th Annual Drag Show at Florida Atlantic University Kaye Performing Arts Auditorium, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. 8 pm. $10. 800-745-3000; fauevents.com 10/11 - Screen on the Green at Bryant Park, 100 S Golfview Rd, Lake Worth. Different movie every month. 2nd F 8-10 pm. Free. 588-8344; lakeworth.org 10/11 - Carli Munoz Trio at Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. 8-10 pm. $35-$45. 4506357; artsgarage.org 10/11-12 - The Art of Storytelling: Word, Image, Movement with Robert L. Forbes at Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach. F 5:30-9 pm; Sat 9 am-4:30 pm. Tickets start at $10. 888-468-6722; go.pba.edu/ storytelling 10/11-13 - 46th Oktoberfest at American German Club, 5111 Lantana Rd, Lake Worth.

Traditional German food, music, entertainment, biergarten, more. Family fare. Held again 10/1820. F 5-11 pm; Sat noon-11 pm; Sun noon-8 pm. Online admission tickets: $10/person; $6/ child 7-14; free/child 6 & under; $15/preferred parking. 967-6464; americangermanclub.org Saturday - 10/12 - Travel to Japan: Intro to Language and Culture Workshop at Morikami Japanese Museum and Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd, Delray Beach. One-day workshop, basic introduction to language and culture. Learn to ask directions, how to order food, more. 9:30 am-4:30 pm (break noon-1 pm). $90. 495-0233 x210; morikami.org 10/12 - Street Photography: Candid Portraiture Class at Creative Arts School, 51 N Swinton Ave. All levels. 10 am-1 pm. $75. 2437922; oldschoolsquare.org 10/12 - Taste History Culinary Tours of Historic Lake Worth & Lantana conducted

by Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History departs from Macy’s (outside East Entrance) Boynton Beach Mall, 801 N Congress Ave. 4-hour tour includes bus/walking, food sampling, visits to historical/cultural sites. 2nd Sat year-round, rain or shine. Reservations required: check website for available dates. 11 am. $53-$60/adult; free/child under 18. 6388277; tastehistoryculinarytours.org 10/12 - The Way of Tea: Sado Demonstration at Morikami Japanese Museum and Gardens Seishin-an Teahouse, 4000 Morikami Park Rd, Delray Beach. Observe Japanese sado by the OmoteSenke tea group, an ever-changing tea ceremony demonstration rich in sensational subtleties. Noon, 1:30 pm & 3 pm. $5 w/paid museum admission. 495-0233 x210; morikami.org 10/12 - Book+Art Discussion: Stony The Hollywood Daughter by Kate Alcott at Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S Olive Ave, West

Green Markets Boca Raton GreenMarket every Saturday beginning 10/26 at City Hall (north side), 201 W Palmetto Park Rd. 8 am-1 pm. Free. downtownboca.org; 299-8684 elilly707@aol.com Delray Beach GreenMarket every Saturday beginning 10/26 at Old School Square Park, 50 NE 2nd Ave, one block north of Atlantic Ave. Fresh local produce, baked goods, gourmet food items, plants, live music, children’s activities. 9am-2pm. 276-7511; delraycra.org Lake Worth Farmers Market every Saturday beginning 10/19 by the bridge at A1A. 1873 Lake Ave, Lake Worth. 9 am-1 pm. Free. 547-3100; lakeworthfarmersmarket.com 547-3100; lakeworthfarmersmarket.com Palm Beach. 2-3:30 pm. Free. 832-5196; norton. org 10/12 - Ching-Yun Hu in Concert at Boca Raton Steinway Piano Gallery, 7940 N Federal Hwy. 4 pm. $25/advance; $30/at the door. 5730644; pianolovers.org 10/12 - Member Appreciation Paint Night at Sandoway Discovery Center, 142 S Ocean Blvd, Delray Beach. Animal encounters, photo opportunities, animal artist demo of SeeMore the screech owl, all guests take home their portrait of SeeMore, light refreshments, more.

Age K-adult. 5-8 pm. Free/member only.

Register: 274-7263; sandoway.org 10/12 - Lynne Marie speaks and signs her book Moldilocks And The Three Scares at Murder on the Beach Mystery Bookstore, 104 W Atlantic Ave, Delray Beach. 6 pm. Free. 279-7790; murderonthebeach.com 10/12 - Free Comedy Show at Capital One Cafe, 330 E Atlantic Ave, Delray Beach. Every 2nd Sat 7-7:45 pm. Free. 844-561-4242; theimprovu.com 10/12 - Sick Puppies at Improv U, 105 NW 5th Ave, Delray Beach. Held again 10/19. Showcase 7:30-8:30 pm $10/online, $15/at the door; Improv Comedy Show 9-10 pm $15/online, $20/ at the door. 954-667-7735; sickpuppiescomedy. com 10/12 - BelO at Kravis Center Rinker Playhouse, 701 Okeechobee Blvd, West Palm Beach. 7:30 pm & 10 pm. $32; 832-7469; kravis.org 10/12 - Lil’ Ed and The Blues Imperials at Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. 8-10 pm. $30-$40. 450-6357; artsgarage.org 10/12 - The Joe Cotton Band at Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center, 201 Plaza Real, Boca Raton. 8 pm. $25. 844-672-2849; miznerparkculturalcenter.com 10/12-13 - Artists in the Park presented by Delray Beach Art League at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St. Fine art exhibition/sales. 10 am-4:30 pm. Free. 843-2311; delrayartleague.com

10/12-13 - Chris Mann: Phantom Voices at The Wick Theatre and Costume Museum, 7901 N Federal Hwy, Boca Raton. F 8 pm; Sat 2 pm. $75-$95. 995-2333; thewick.org 10/12-14 - 6th Annual USTA Columbus Day Open at Delray Beach Tennis Center, 201 W Atlantic Ave; Delray Beach Swim & Tennis Club, 2350 Jaeger Dr; Boca West Country Club, 20583 Boca West Dr; The Club at Boca Pointe, 7144 Boca Pointe Dr; Wycliffe Country Club, 4650 Wycliffe Country Club Blvd, Lake Worth. Over 250 best juniors in the country compete in Boys’ & Girls’ 12s, 14s, 16s & 18s age divisions; one of USTAs largest Level 2 nationally sanctioned events. Starting times posted online. Singles format. 8 am matches begin. Free/spectator admission. Schedules/draw information: 330-6003; yellowtennisball.com/columbusday-open

OCTOBER 13-19

Sunday - 10/13 - Gold Coast Down Syndrome’s 25th Annual DownRight ExtraOrdinary Walk at John Prince Park, Center Drive Pavilion, 4759 S Congress Ave, Lake Worth. 1-mile walk, free breakfast, bounce houses, pony rides, live entertainment, more. Food for purchase. Family fare. 8 am registration; 9 am opening ceremonies; 9:15 am walk. $20/advance; $30/after 10/6. 752-3383; goldcoastdownsyndrome.org 10/13 - Handbells Perform at First United Methodist Church of Boynton Beach, 101 N Seacrest Blvd. 8:30 & 11 am. Free. 954-9471951; fumcbb.com 10/13 - Playwright’s Forum Masterclass with Jacqueline Goldfinger at Florida Atlantic University Theatre Lab. 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. 12:30 pm. $30. 297-6124; fauevents.com 10/13 - Friends Music Series: Violinist Randi Rishenfeld at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 3-4 pm. Free.

Community Calendar AT29 393-7968; bocalibrary.org 10/13 - Babel by Jaqueline Goldfinger at Florida Atlantic University Theatre Lab. 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. 3 pm. $20. 297-6124; fauevents.com 10/13 - JD Danner at Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. 7-8:30 pm. $10-$20. 4506357; artsgarage.org Monday - 10/14 - Columbus Day 10/14 - Exploring Google: GMAIL 1 at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Prerequisite: Mouse, Keyboard & Computers 101. Adults. 10:30 am-noon. Free. 266-0196; delraylibrary.org 10/14 - Reference USA at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 10:30 amnoon. Free. 393-7906; bocalibrary.org 10/14 - 22nd Annual Boca Raton Regional Hospital Golf Tournament at Boca West Country Club, 20583 Boca West Dr. Benefits BRRH Ron & Kathy Assaf Center for Excellence in Nursing. 11 am. $900/individual; $3,400/ foursome; $125/19th Hole cocktails & dinner guest. 955-4142; donate.brrh.com/golf 10/14 - Celebrate Columbus Day with Friends of the Uffizi at Arturo’s, 6750 N Federal Hwy, Boca Raton. Luncheon, simulcast of dedication of the Hall of Maps & the Titian Room. Noon-2 pm. $60/person includes tax/gratuity. Questions: 201-401-1077; Reservations: 997-7373 10/14- Acting for Adults at Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. Every M/W through 11/20 noon-2 pm. $200. 450-6357; artsgarage. org 10/14 - Come and Get Your Happiness: Hollywood Musicals During the Great Depression and World War II with Sheryl Flatow at Florida Atlantic University Friedberg Auditorium, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. Part of 4-week Series at FAU Osher Lifelong Learning Society. Every M through 11/4 12:30-2 pm. $60/annual membership; $50/member; $65/ non-member; $20/one-time guest at the door.

297-3171; fau.edu/divdept/lifelong 10/14 - Build a Website with HTML-1 at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults.

1:30 pm. Free. 393-7852; bocalibrary.org 10/14 - Word Level 2 at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Prerequisite: Mouse, Keyboard, Computers 101 & Word Level 1. Adults. Held again 2-4 pm 10/16. 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. Registration: 266-0196; delraylibrary. org 10/14 - Homecoming Comedy Show featuring Chris D’Elia at Florida Atlantic

University Kaye Auditorium, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. 7 pm. $10. 800-745-3000; fauevents.com 10/14 - Ebb & Flow: The Cinema of the Human Diaspora with Shelly Isaacs at Florida Atlantic University Friedberg Auditorium, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. Part of 4-week Series at FAU Osher Lifelong Learning Society. Every M through 11/4. 7-9:30 pm. $60/annual membership; $50/member; $65/ non-member; $20/one-time guest at the door.

297-3171; fau.edu/divdept/lifelong 10/14-17 - From A Funny Lady to “Funny Girl!” at The Delray Beach Playhouse, 950 NW 9th St. Runs through 10/23. M-Th 2 pm; M-W 7:30 pm. $35/adult; $15/student. 272-1281; delraybeachplayhouse.com Tuesday - 10/15 - Exhibit Opening - Inside Out: Women’s Fashion from Foundation to Silhouette at Flagler Museum, One Whitehall Way, Palm Beach. How women have shaped American society, how undergarments have shaped them. Exhibit runs through 1/5. Free w/ museum admission. 655-2833; flaglermuseum. us 10/15 - Drawing with Charcoal and Pastel: For the True Beginner at Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. Every T through 11/12 9:30-11:30 am. $110/resident; $137.50/non-resident. 393-7807; myboca.us 10/15 - Does American Foreign Policy Make America Strong? With Robert G. Rabil at Florida Atlantic University Friedberg Auditorium, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. Part of 8-week Series at FAU Osher Lifelong Learning Society. Every T through 12/3. 10-11:30 am. $60/annual membership; $100/member; $130/ non-member; $20/one-time guest at the door.

297-3171; fau.edu/divdept/lifelong 10/15 - Exploring Google: GMAIL 2 at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Prerequisite: Mouse, Keyboard, Computers 101 & Gmail 1. Adults. 10:30 am-noon. Free. 2660196; delraylibrary.org 10/15 - Ikebana Flower Arrangement: Ikenobo Class at Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd, Delray Beach. Traditional flower arranging using fresh flowers. Every T through 10/29.

Beginners 11 am-1 pm; Intermediate 1-3 pm. $52.50/member; $70/non-member; + $60/ flower fee. Registration: 495-0233; morikami. org 10/15 - eBooks & Magazines @ Humana Delray at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Part of Appy Hour class series.

AT30 Community Calendar Adults. 11:30 am-1 pm. Free. Registration: 2660196; delraylibrary.org 10/15 - How Low Can You Go: The Great Operatic Basses from Feodor Chaliapin to Rene Pape with Paul Offenkrantz at Florida Atlantic University Friedberg Auditorium, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. Part of 4-week Series at FAU Osher Lifelong Learning Society.

Every T through 11/5 12:30-2 pm. $60/annual membership; $50/member; $65/non-member; $20/one-time guest at the door. 297-3171; fau. edu/divdept/lifelong 10/15 - Pinterest 101 at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 1:30-3 pm.

Free. 393-7906; bocalibrary.org 10/15 - PowerPoint Level 1 at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Adults. 2-4 pm. Free. Register: 266-0196; delraylibrary.org 10/15 - Excel Level 1 at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Prerequisite: Mouse, Keyboard & Computers 101. Adults.

Held again 2-4 pm 10/23. 5:30-7:30 pm. Free.

Registration: 266-0196; delraylibrary.org 10/15 - Your Memories, Wisdom, and Blessings: Chronicling Life Moments with Minx Boren at Florida Atlantic University Continuing Education Building, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. Part of 4-week Series at FAU Osher Lifelong Learning Society. Every T through 11/5 3-4:30 pm. $60/annual membership; $100/ member; $130/non-member; $35/one-time guest at the door. 297-3171; fau.edu/divdept/ lifelong 10/15 - Money Smart Series 1 Class 2: You Can Bank on It at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 6-7:30 pm. Free. 3937906; bocalibrary.org 10/15 - A High Wind In Jamaica by Richard Hughes at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Part of the Tuesday Evening Book Discussion Group. Adults. 2nd T 6-7 pm. Free.

266-0194; delraylibrary.org 10/15 - Adult International Folk Dance at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St, Delray Beach.

Every T (except 2nd T) 6:30-9:30 pm. Per class $5/resident; $6/non-resident. 913-475-1112; mydelraybeach.com 10/15 - The Tuesday Murder Club Book Group: A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd at Murder on the Beach Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. 6:30 pm. Free. 279-7790; murderonthebeach.com 10/15 - FAU Astronomical Observatory public viewing day at Florida Atlantic University Science & Engineering Building 4th floor, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. 1st F & 3rd T 8 pm. Free.

297-STAR; physics.fau.edu/observatory Wednesday - 10/16 - 2019 Women of Distinction Breakfast at Boca West Country Club, 20583 Boca West Dr. Presented by Soroptimist International Boca Raton/Deerfield Beach. Christine E. Lynn, Honorary Chair; Helen Babione, Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree. 8:30-10:30 am. $75. RSVP online: soroptimist4women.org 10/16 - Senses of Cinema Films for Thought Class at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton. Age 25+. Every W through 11/13 10 am-12:45 pm. Per class $12/ resident, $15/non-resident; full session $50/ resident, $62.50/non-resident. 347-3900; sugarsandpark.org 10/16 - Objection! Current, Contentious and Confusing Legal Battles with Irving Labovitz at Florida Atlantic University Friedberg Auditorium, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. Part of 6-week Series at FAU Osher Lifelong Learning Society. Every W through 11/20 10-11:30 am. $60/annual membership; $75/member; $98/non-member; $20/one-time guest at the door. 297-3171; fau.edu/divdept/ lifelong 10/16 - Exploring Google: Google Drive at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Prerequisite: Mouse, Keyboard & Computers 101. Adults. 10:30 am-noon. Free. 266-0196; delraylibrary.org 10/16 - League of Women Voters Hot Topic Luncheon: How to Attract Viable Candidates for Political Office at Atlantis Country Club, 190 Atlantis Blvd. Speakers: Pam Goodman, President/CEO Ruth’s List Florida & Marion Frank, Candidate Recruitment Chair, Republican Party. 11 am doors open; 11:30 am lunch/program. $35. RSVP: 968-4123; lwvpbc. org 10/16 - Gold Coast Tiger Bay Club: Paul Stebbins, Founding Member of FixUS at City Fish Market, 7940 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. 11:30 am-1:30 pm. $35/member or first-time guest; $55/non-member. 620-8888; goldcoasttigerbayclub.com 10/16 - The Russian Arts: From the Tsars to the Firebird with Terryl Lawrence at Florida Atlantic University Continuing Education Building, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. Part of 8-week Series at FAU Osher Lifelong Learning Society. Every W through 12/11 12:30-2 pm. $60/annual membership; $100/member; $130/ non-member; $20/one-time guest at the door.

297-3171; fau.edu/divdept/lifelong 10/16 - Ikebana: Flower Arrangement Sogetsu Class at Morikami Museum and

The COASTAL STAR Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd, Delray Beach. Contemporary flower arranging using fresh flowers. Every W through 10/30 1:30-3:30 pm. $52.50/member; $60/nonmember; +$60/flower fee. Registration: 4950233 x237; morikami.org 10/16 - Florida Lore: The Barefoot Mailman, Cowboy Bone Mizell, the Tallahassee Witch and Other Tales with author Caren Schnur Neile part of Florida Voices Book Discussion at The Society of the Four Arts, 240 Cocoanut Row, Palm Beach. 1:30 pm. Free. Reservations: 6552766; fourarts.org 10/16 - Beginner’s Coding for Adults: Part 2 at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. 1:30-3 pm. Free. 393-7906; bocalibrary.org 10/16 - Silver Science Days at South Florida Science Center and Aquarium, 4801 Dreher Tr N, West Palm Beach. Special afternoon for adults/ retirees. Age 60 & up. 2nd W 2-5 pm. $10. RSVP: 370-7740; sfsciencecenter.org 10/16 - Bingo at Temple Sinai of Palm Beach County, 2475 W Atlantic Ave, Delray Beach. $2,500 in prizes every week. Every W 5 pm doors open; 6 pm early bird; 6:30 pm first game. $15. 276-6161 x128; templesinaipbc.org 10/16 - Holly House 50th Anniversary Celebration at First Presbyterian Church Delray Beach, 33 Gleason St. Crafts & treasures made at Holly House on display, drinks, hors d’oeuvres, desserts contributed by the Fellowship Committee. 5 pm. Free.

Reservations: 276-6338; firstdelray.com 10/16 - Creating Graphics with Adobe Illustrator at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Prerequisite: Mouse, Keyboard & Computers 101. Adults. 5:30-7:30 pm. Free.

266-0196; delraylibrary.org 10/16 - Zonta Club of Boca Raton at Pavilion Grille, 301 Yamato Rd, Boca Raton. 3nd W 5:30 pm. $30. 482-1013; zontabocaraton.org 10/16 - Digital Storytelling at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults.

Held again 10/23 6-7:30 pm. Free. 393-7852; bocalibrary.org 10/16 - Speaker Series: The Gardener Did It at Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd, Delray Beach. Mystery writer Naomi Hirahara discusses the role of the Japanese American gardener in her personal life and her Edgar Award-winning Mas Arai series, and in the landscape of America. Sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities. 6 pm doors open; 7 pm event. $7/member; $10/nonmember. 495-0233 x237; morikami.org 10/16 - Studio 201: A Streetcar Named Desire at Palm Beach Dramaworks, 201 Clematis St, West Palm Beach.

Join professionals for a social mixer/ performance. 6:30 pm. $25. 514-4042; palmbeachdramaworks.org 10/16 - The John O’Sullivan Memorial Concert: Remembering the 1960s and Woodstock at Florida Atlantic University Kaye Auditorium, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. 7 pm. $20/person; $15/Osher Lifelong Learning patron. 297-6214; fauevents.com 10/16-18 - Thoroughly Modern Millie at Lynn University Wold Performing Arts Center, 3601 N Military Tr, Boca Raton. W/Th/F 7:30 pm; Th 12:30 pm. $15. 237-7000; lynn.tix.com Thursday - 10/17 - Exploring Google: Google Applications at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Prerequisite: Mouse, Keyboard & Computers 101. Adults.

10:30 am-noon. Free. 266-0196; delraylibrary. org 10/17 - Hack Proof Yourself: Password Managers at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Prerequisite: Mouse, Keyboard & Computers 101. Adults. Held again 10:30 am-noon 10/25. 2-4 pm. Free. 266-0196; delraylibrary.org 10/17 - Boca Pen Women Annual Membership Luncheon & Silent Auction at Indian Spring Country Club, 11501 El Clair Ranch Rd, Boynton Beach. Meet member artists, writers & composers. Lavish lunch, silent auction; benefits scholarships for young women in the arts. Noon. $35. Reservations: bocapenwomen.org 10/17 - Bards of a Feather: OpenMic Round Robin Poetry Reading at Hagen Ranch Library, 14350 Hagen Ranch Rd, Delray Beach. 1 pm. Free. 894-7000; palmbeachpoetryfestival.org 10/17 - United States Citizenship: 100 Questions Parts 1 & 2 at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 1-2:30 pm.

Free. 393-7852; bocalibary.org 10/17 - Technology for Improving Healthcare and Treatment at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Part of FAU Research in Action series. Adults. 2-3 pm. Free.

393-7852; bocalibary.org 10/17 - Norton Cinema: The General at Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S Olive Ave, West Palm Beach. 2-3:15 pm. Free w/admission. 8325196; norton.org 10/17 - A Streetcar Named Desire: Dramawise at FAU, Boca Raton at Florida Atlantic University Continuing Education Building, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. 3-4:30

pm. $60/annual membership; $30/member; $35/non-member & one-time guest at the door.

297-3171; fau.edu/divdept/lifelong 10/17 - Concert: Hurricane Harmonizers at Highland Beach Library, 3618 S Ocean Blvd. 5 pm. Free. 278-5455; highlandbeach.us 10/17 - Happy Hour: Data Doesn’t Define My Child Description at Space of Mind, 102 N Swinton Ave, Delray Beach. 5-7 pm. $20.

Register: 877-407-1122; myspaceofmind.com 10/17 - Meet the Artist: Marc Reese, Principal Trumpet at Palm Beach Symphony, 400 Hibiscus St, Suite 100, West Palm Beach.

5:30 pm. $50. 281-0145; palmbeachsymphony. org 10/17 - The Delray Beach Historical Society’s Heritage Lecture Series: Emperors of the Deep at Old School Square Field House, 51 N Swinton Ave. In partnership w/Sandoway Discovery Center. Speaker William McKeever, author and conservationist. Full-bar cocktail reception, hors d’oeuvres, author meet/ greet, book presentation, documentary film sneak peek, book signing. 6-8 pm. $25/person.

274-9578; delraybeachhistory.org 10/17 - The Grand Bee Literary Fun & Games at Harriet Himmel Theater, 600 S Rosemary Ave, West Palm Beach. Hosted by/ benefits Literary Coalition of Palm Beach County. Literary-themed trivia/spelling competitions. 6-9 pm. $325/individual; advertising/sponsorship opportunities available. 279-9103; literacypbc.org 10/17 - 3rd Thursday Art Meets Music at Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. 3rd Th 7 pm. Free. 450-6357; artsgarage.org 10/17 - Dean’s Showcase No. 1 at Lynn University Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall, 3601 N Military Tr, Boca Raton. 7:30 pm. $10.

237-9000; lynn.tix.com 10/17-20 - Hot Shoe Shuffle at The Wick Theatre and Costume Museum, 7901 N Federal Hwy, Boca Raton. Runs through 11/10. Sat/ Sun/W/Th 2 pm; W-Sat 7:30 pm. $75-$85. 9952333; thewick.org 10/17-20 - Lungs by Duncan MacMillan at Lake Worth Playhouse Stonzek Studio, 713 Lake Ave. Runs through 10/27. Th-Sat 8 pm; Sun 2 pm. $23. 586-6410; lakeworthplayhouse.org Friday - 10/18 - Discover Studio Open Lab: Genealogy at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. Held again 11/1. 10:30 am12:30 pm. Free. 393-7906; bocalibrary.org 10/18 - iPhone/iPad Intermediate at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Prerequisite: iPhone/iPad Basics. Adults. 1-2:30 pm. Free. 266-0196; delraylibrary.org 10/18 - Computer Basics: Intro to Windows 10 at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 1:30-3 pm. Free. 393-7906; bocalibrary.org 10/18 - Comedian Dana Eagle Book Signing at Faulk Center for Counseling, 22455 Boca Rio Rd, Boca Raton. 2-3 pm. Free w/registration: 483-5300; faulkcenterforcounseling.org 10/18 - Free Friday Concert: TK Blu at Old School Square Pavilion, 51 N Swinton Ave. Gourmet food trucks, cash bar. Bring lawn chairs, blankets. No pets or outside food/beverage. Weather permitting. 6 pm gates open; 7:30 pm concert starts. Free admission/donations appreciated. 243-9722; oldschoolsquare.org 10/18 - Piano Trios by Schubert and Mendelssohn at Palm Beach Atlantic University Rinker Hall, 326 Acacia Rd, West Palm Beach. 7:30 pm. Free 803-2970; pba.edu 10/18 - Centennial Celebration for Jose Fajardo: Featuring The Jose Fajardo Jr. Orchestra at Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. 8 pm. $35-$45. 450-6357; artsgarage.org 10/18 - Outstage Night: A Streetcar Named Desire at Palm Beach Dramaworks, 201 Clematis St, West Palm Beach. OutStage@ PBD features special performances/events that engage/inspire the LGBTQ community.

Pre-show reception, production, post-show reception w/the actors. 8 pm. $316/season subscription; $92/single ticket. 514-4042; palmbeachdramaworks.org 10/18 - Off the Ave Stand Up Comedy Show at Improv U, 105 NW 5th Ave, Delray Beach.

Every 3rd F 9:30-11 pm. $10. 844-561-4242; theimprovu.com 10/18-20 - Dead Man’s Cellphone by Sarah Ruhl at Florida Atlantic University Studio Two Theater, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. Runs through 10/27. F/Sat 7 pm; Sat/Sun 2 pm. $22.

297-6124; fauevents.com 10/18-19 - Harrison Greenbaum: What Just Happened? at Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center, 201 Plaza Real, Boca Raton. 7:30 pm. $29-$39. 844-672-2849; miznerparkculturalcenter.com Saturday - 10/19 - 2019 West Palm Beach Walk to End Alzheimer’s at Meyer Amphitheatre, 105 Evernia St, West Palm Beach. 2-mile walk. 7:30 am registration; 8:30 am ceremony; 9 am walk. No registration fee.

967-0047 x9816; alz.org/walk 10/19 - Taste History Culinary Tours of Historic Delray Beach & Boynton Beach

October 2019 conducted by Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History departs from Macy’s (outside East Entrance) Boynton Beach Mall, 801 N Congress Ave. 4-hour tour includes bus/walking, food sampling, visits to historical/cultural sites. 3rd & 4th Sat Year-round, rain or shine. 11 am. $53$60/adult; free/child under 18. Reservations: 638-8277; tastehistoryculinarytours.org 10/19 - 2019 Lantern Festival: In the Spirit of Obon at The Morikami Japanese Museum and Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd, Delray Beach. Japanese folk-dancing, Taiko drumming, lantern floating ceremony, farewell fireworks.

Japan’s summer homage to ancestors who return for a brief visit to the living. Tickets limited; no tickets sold at the gate. 3-8 pm. $20/age 11+; $12/child age 4-10; free/child 3 & under. 495-0233 x237; morikami.org 10/19 - Story Central: TBA at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults.

Held again 11/2 4:30-6 pm. Free. 393-7906; bocalibrary.org 10/19 - Art Walk at Boynton Beach Art District, 406-422 W Industrial Ave. 3rd Sat 6-9 pm. Free.

786-521-1199; boyntonbeachartdistrict.com 10/19 - Florida’s Funniest Female at Boca Raton Innovations Campus, 4920 Conference Way N. Age 18+. 7 pm doors open; 8 pm show. $25. Flamingocomedyfestival.com 10/19 - United States Air Force Band and Singing Sergeants at Florida Atlantic University Kaye Auditorium, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. 7 pm. 800-745-3000; fauevents. com 10/19 - The Queen’s Ball at Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. Celebrate the crowning of our brand-new Garage Queen. 8-10 pm. $25-$35. 450-6357; artsgarage.org 10/19-20 - Rennie Harris Puremovement American Street Dance Theater: Nuttin’ But A Word! at Kravis Center Rinker Playhouse, 701 Okeechobee Blvd, West Palm Beach. Sat 7:30 pm; Sun 1:30 & 7 pm, $32; 832-7469; kravis.org

OCTOBER 20-26

Sunday - 10/20 - Playwright’s Forum Masterclass with Christopher DemosBrown at Florida Atlantic University Theatre Lab. 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. 12:30 pm. $30.

297-6124; fauevents.com 10/20 - Picnic in the Park at Old School Square. 51 N Swinton Ave, Delray Beach.

Benefits Living Hungry. International cuisine theme; bring a themed picnic, staging, decorations, etc.; lifesize picnic games; cash bar available. 2-5:30 pm. $250/12-person team.

Register: 400-2712; livehungry.org 10/20 - Concert: Trillium Piano Trio in Beethoven’s First part of Music at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 188 S Swinton Ave, Delray Beach. 2:30 pm pre-concert lecture; 3 pm concert. $20/person; free/age 18 & under. 2764541; music.stpaulsdelray.org 10/20 - Author Talk & Book Signing with Dave Barry at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 3 pm. Free w/registration.

393-7906; bocalibrary.org 10/20 - Coral Gables by Christopher DemosBrown at Florida Atlantic University Theatre Lab. 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. 3 pm. $20.

297-6124; fauevents.com 10/20 - The Sunday Sleuths Book Group: Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz at Murder on the Beach Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. 3 pm. Free. 279-7790; murderonthebeach.com 10/20 - The Music and Times of Harold Arlen at Lynn University Wold Performing Arts Center, 3601 N Military Tr, Boca Raton. Part of American Songbook Series. 4 pm. $30-$50.

237-9000; lynn.tix.com 10/20 - Liszt & His Circle at Lynn University Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall, 3601 N Military Tr, Boca Raton. 4 pm. $20. 237-9000; lynn.tix.com 10/20 - Joyann Parker at Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. 7-8:30 pm. $25-$35.

450-6357; artsgarage.org Monday - 10/21 - The Only Woman in the Room part of Woman’s Perspective Book Group at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. 10 am. Free. 266-9490; delraylibrary.org 10/21 - Meet the Computer: Meet Your Mouse at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Adults. 10:30 am-noon. Free.

Registration: 266-9490; delraylibrary.org 10/21 - Build a Website with HTML-2 at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults.

1:30 pm. Free. 393-7852; bocalibrary.org 10/21 - Word Level 3 at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Prerequisite: Mouse, Keyboard, Computers 101 & Word Level 1&2. Adults. 2-4 pm. Free. Registration: 2660196; delraylibrary.org 10/21 - A Life for Peace, from Apartheid to Democracy at Florida Atlantic University Osher Lifelong Learning Auditorium, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. Speaker Ela Gandhi, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi. 4 pm. $35/general admission; $100/VIP. 297-6124; fauevents.com 10/21 - Directing for the Stage Class for Adults at Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave.

Age 18+. Every M through 12/2 5:30-7 pm. $225/session. 586-6410; lakeworthplayhouse. org 10/21 - Boynton Beach Historical Society Meeting: 100 Years of Local Surfing History with Tom Warnke at First Presbyterian Church of Boynton Beach, 235 SW 6th Avenue. 6:30 pm. $14/non-member.

Limited seating/RSVP: 772-225-1961; boyntonhistory.org 10/21 - Palazzo at Lynn University Wold Performing Arts Center, 3601 N Military Tr, Boca Raton. 7:30 pm. $10. 237-7000; lynn.tix.com Tuesday - 10/22 - Nosh! Fall Flavors at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. 10-11:30 am. Free. 266-0194; delraylibrary.org 10/22 - Jazz and Java: Singers and Swingers Class at Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. Discuss/listen to America’s great voices from the 1950s to the present. Adults.

Every T through 12/17 10-11:30 am. $120. 4506357; artsgarage.org 10/22 - Meet the Computer: Keyboard & Typing at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Prerequisite: Mouse. Adults.

10:30 am-noon. Free. Registration: 266-9490; delraylibrary.org 10/22 - Friends Book Club: The Secret Wife

by Gill Paul at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 10:30-11:30 am. Free. 3937968; bocalibrary.org 10/22- Acting for Adults II at Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. Every T/Th through 12/5 Noon-2 pm. $200. 450-6357; artsgarage. org 10/22 - Jazz and Java: Early Jazz and Swing Class at Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. Learn about/discuss the origins of jazz, including blues, work songs, gospel. Adults.

Every T through 12/17 1:30-3 pm. $120. 4506357; artsgarage.org 10/22 - #SelfieClass: The What, How, & Why of Selfies at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 1:30-3 pm. Free. 3937906; bocalibrary.org 10/22 - PowerPoint Level 2 at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Prerequisite: Mouse, Keyboard, Computers 101 & PowerPoint Level 1. Adults. 2-4 pm. Free. Registration: 2660196; delraylibrary.org 10/22 - 12th Annual PR Yak-Yak at ER Bradley’s. 104 N Clematis St, West Palm Beach.

Sponsored by Gold Coast PR Council & Public Relations Society of America. 5:30-7:30 pm. $25/includes one free drink; free/valet parking.

RSVP online: goldcoastprcouncil.com 10/22 - Excel Level 2 at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Prerequisite: Mouse, Keyboard, Computers 101 & Excel Level 1. Adults. 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. Registration: 266-0196; delraylibrary.org 10/22 - Money Smart Series 1 Class 3: Your Income and Expenses at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 6-7:30 pm.

Free. 393-7906; bocalibrary.org 10/22 - Charles Todd speaks and signs his book A Cruel Deception at Murder on the Beach Mystery Bookstore, 104 W Atlantic Ave, Delray Beach. 7 pm. Free. 279-7790; murderonthebeach.com Wednesday - 10/23 - Meet the Computer: Computers 101 at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Prerequisite: Mouse & Keyboard. Adults. 10:30 am-noon. Free.

Registration: 266-0196; delraylibrary.org 10/23 - The Mission of a Lifetime: Lessons from the Men Who Went to the Moon by Basil Hero at The Society of the Four Arts, 240 Cocoanut Row, Palm Beach. Special author presentation. 1:30 pm. Free. Reservations: 6552766; fourarts.org 10/23 - Social Media Symbols: Hashtags, Icons & Emojis at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 1:30 pm. Free. 3937906; bocalibrary.org 10/23 - From Farm to Trash to Table at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Adults. 2-4 pm. Free. Registration: 266-0196; delraylibrary.org 10/23 - Poetry Open Mic on the Avenue at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Walk-in poets accepted as time permits.

4th W 6-7:30 pm. Free. Reserve a spot by 5 pm 10/22 by email: mykal.banta@delraylibrary.org; 266-0196; delraylibrary.org 10/23 - Women’s National Book Association Meeting & National Reading Group Month at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Speaker Hank Phillippi Ryan. 6:30 pm. Free. 279-7790; wnbasofla@ gmail.com 10/23 - Belly Dance Class at Rutherford Community Center, 2000 Yamato Rd, Boca Raton. All ages/abilities welcome. Every W through 11/27 6:30-7:30 pm. $65/resident; $81/ non-resident. 367-7035; myboca.us Thursday - 10/24 - Hack Proof Yourself: How to Stop Robocalls at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Adults. 10:30 amnoon. Free. 266-0196; delraylibrary.org 10/24 - Meet the Computer: Organizing & Managing Your Files at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Prerequisite:

The COASTAL STAR

October 2019 Mouse, Keyboard & Computers 101. Adults.

10:30 am-noon. Free. Registration: 266-0196; delraylibrary.org 10/24 - 211 Helpline’s 3rd Annual Lifeline Luncheon at Kravis Center Cohen Pavilion, 701 Okeechobee Blvd, West Palm Beach. Speakers John Francis, Ph.D. and Shainna Ali, Ph.D. 11:30 am. $150. RSVP: 383-1144; 211palmbeach.org 10/24 - Photoshop II at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 1:30 pm. Free.

393-7852; bocalibrary.org 10/24 - Interfaith Cafe at South County Civic Center, 16700 Jog Rd, Delray Beach.

Speaker Lindsey Roland Nieratka, Sustainability Manager for the City of Boca Raton. 7-9 pm.

Free. meetup.com/Interfaith-Café 10/24 - Naomi Hirahara speaks and signs her book Iced in Paradise at Murder on the Beach Mystery Bookstore, 104 W Atlantic Ave, Delray Beach. 7 pm. Free. 279-7790; murderonthebeach.com 10/24 - Science on Tap: Tammy Ma at Due South Brewing Co, 2900 High Ridge Rd, #3, Boynton Beach. Discuss latest trends in science/ technology w/a world-class scientist. Age 21+.

7 pm. Free. 370-7740; sfsciencecenter.org Friday - 10/25 - Discover Studio Open Lab: Windows 10 at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 10:30 am-12:30 pm. Free.

393-7906; bocalibrary.org 10/25 - The Regency Book Club: Vanity Fair, Pt. 2 at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 1-2:30 pm. Free. 393-7852; bocalibrary.org 10/25 - Beginner’s Laptop & Internet at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 1:30 pm. Free. 393-7852; bocalibrary.org 10/25 - Free Friday Concert: Chain Reaction at Old School Square Pavilion, 51 N Swinton Ave. Gourmet food trucks, cash bar. Bring lawn chairs, blankets. No pets or outside food/beverage. Weather permitting.

6 pm gates open; 7:30 pm concert starts. Free admission/donations appreciated. 243-9722; oldschoolsquare.org 10/25 - Adult Ballroom Dance Class at Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. Singles and couples welcome. Every F through 12/13. Beginner (Salsa) 6:30-7:30 pm; Intermediate (Tango) 7:45-8:45 pm. $78/ resident; $97.50/non-resident. 393-7807; myboca.us 10/25 - FAU Jazz Orchestra - Back to Basics: Volume 3 at Florida Atlantic University Kaye Auditorium, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. 7 pm. $10. 800-745-3000; fauevents.com 10/25 - Florida’s Funniest Comedians: Myke Herlihy & Kevin White at The Delray Beach Playhouse, 950 NW 9th St. 8 pm. $20.

272-1281; delraybeachplayhouse.com 10/25 - Paul Marinaro at Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. 8-10 pm. $40-$50. 4506357; artsgarage.org Saturday - 10/26 - The Witches of Delray 8th Annual Delray Beach Charity Ride starts at City Hall, 100 NW 1st Ave. Benefits Achievement Centers for Children & Families.

Participants required to have bike check, sign liability waiver (parent/guardian must sign for age 14-18). 7 am check-in; 7:45 am ride begins. $25/advance; $30/day of. 276-0520; achievementcentersfl.org 10/26 - 3rd Annual Coalition Cup Golf Tournament at Boca Country Club by Waldorf Astoria, 17751 Boca Club Blvd, Boca Raton.

Benefits Child Rescue Coalition. Awards ceremony, BBQ dinner, silent auction, prizes.

7:30 am-2:30 pm. $225/individual; $800/ foursome. 208-9000; e.givesmart.com/events/ dGR 10/26 - How to Buy Your First House at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Adults. 10 am-1 pm. Free. Registration: 2660196; delraylibrary.org 10/26 - Blogs: After Launch at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 10:30 am-noon. Free. 393-7852; bocalibrary.org 10/26 - Nihongo: Japanese Language Intensive Workshop I-A at Morikami Japanese Museum and Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd, Delray Beach. Each level should be taken sequentially before moving on to the next level. Must meet prerequisites. Held again 11/9. Noon-4 pm. $100. Registration: 495-0233; morikami.org 10/26 - TedXBocaRaton 2019 at Florida Atlantic University Kaye Auditorium, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. 1 pm. $80. 800-745-3000; fauevents.com 10/26 - iMovie Magic at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 1:30-3 pm.

Free. 393-7906; bocalibrary.org 10/26 - Boca Chamber Gala at Boca Raton Resort & Club, 501 E Camino Real. Cocktails, dinner. 6 pm. $250. Reservations: 395-4433; bocachamber.com 10/26 - Florida’s Funniest Comedians: Myke Herlihy & Kevin White at Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center, 201 Plaza Real, Boca Raton. 7:30 pm. $12-$29. 844-672-2849; miznerparkculturalcenter.com 10/26 - Moonlight Thief Returns at Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. 8-10 pm.

$20-$30. 450-6357; artsgarage.org 10/26-27 - Lynn Philharmonia No. 2 at Lynn University Wold Performing Arts Center, 3601 N Military Tr, Boca Raton. Sat 7:30 pm; Sun 4 pm. $50/box; $40/orchestra; $35/mezzanine. 2377000; lynn.tix.com 10/26-27 - Playhouse Playwrights’ Festival Play Readings at The Delray Beach Playhouse, 950 NW 9th St. Sat 8 pm; Sun 2 pm. $10. 2721281; delraybeachplayhouse.com

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Sunday - 10/27 - Making Strides Against Breast Cancer presented by Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. 6:30 am registration; 8:30 am walk. Walk to raise funds.

425-9389; makingstrides.acsevents.org 10/27 - The Bill Bone Tropical Triathlon at Lake Worth Beach Park, 10 S Ocean Blvd.

Benefits Lake Worth Community High School JROTC program. See website for events/prices; paid parking. billbonetropicaltri.com 10/27 - Playwright’s Forum Masterclass with Patricia Cotter at Florida Atlantic University Theatre Lab. 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. 12:30 pm. $30. 297-6124; fauevents.com 10/27 - 10th International Festival + Priesthood Sunday at St. Mark Catholic Church, 643 St. Mark Pl, Boynton Beach. Ethnic food, entertainment, raffle. 1-5 pm. $30/adult; $10/child under 10. 734-9330; stmarkboynton. com 10/27 - Larry Kendorza’s Hornucopia at Boca Raton Shrine Club, 601 Clint Moore Rd. Presented by Hot Jazz & Alligator Gumbo Society. 1-4 pm. $5/member; $10/non-member.

330-9303; hagsjazz.com 10/27 - After All I Did for You by Patricia Cotter at Florida Atlantic University Theatre Lab. 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. 3 pm. $20.

297-6124; fauevents.com 10/27 - Friends Speaker Series: Deborah Shilian at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 3-4 pm. Free. 393-7968; bocalibrary.org 10/27 - Lindsay Garrison in Concert at Boca Raton Steinway Piano Gallery, 7940 N Federal Hwy. 4 pm. $25/advance; $30/at the door. 5730644; pianolovers.org 10/27 - Zimmermann’s Cafe Chamber Music at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 100 N Palmway, Lake Worth. Music, food, wine, coffee, fellowship. 4 pm. $20/cash or check at the door. 537-1520; facebook.com/ zimmermannscafechambermusic 10/27 - Artur Menezes at Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. 8-10 pm. $35-$45. 4506357; artsgarage.org Monday - 10/28 – Great Books presented by the Boynton Beach City Library at Benvenuto, 1730 N Federal Hwy. 2nd, 4th & 5th M 10-11:30 am. Free. 742-6390; boyntonlibrary.org 10/28 - Online Living: Battle of the Browsers at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Prerequisite: Mouse, Keyboard & Computers 101. Adults. 10:30 am-noon. Free.

266-0194; delraylibrary.org 10/28 - 8th Annual South Florida Science Center and Aquarium Conservation Cup Better Ball Golf Tournament at Mayacoo Lakes Country Club, 9697 Mayacoo Club Dr, West Palm Beach. 10:30 am registration/ welcome lunch; 11:30 am putting contest; noon shotgun start; 5:30 pm cocktail party/awards presentation. $500/2-person team; $1,000/

foursome. 370-7738; sfsciencecenter.org 10/28 - Educated by Tara Westover part of Afternoon Book Group at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. 1 pm. Free. 2660194; delraylibrary.org 10/28 - Build a Website with HTML-3 at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 1:30 pm. Free. 393-7852; bocalibrary.org Tuesday - 10/29 - Online Living: Look It Up Online! at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Adults. 10:30 am-noon. Free.

266-0194; delraylibrary.org 10/29 - Roaring 20’s Museum Gala and Luncheon at The Wick Theatre and Costume Museum, 7901 N Federal Hwy, Boca Raton.

Lavish Ragtime Luncheon, 1920’s Fashion Show.

Champagne reception, 1920s- themed 3-course luncheon catered by The Addison. 1920s attire suggested. Noon. $125. 995-2333; thewick.org 10/29 - Tropical Wanderings: South Florida Jewish History with Sylvia Gurinsky at Florida Atlantic University Continuing Education Building, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. Part of 4-week Series at FAU Osher Lifelong Learning Society. Every T through 11/19. 12:30-2 pm. $60/annual membership; $50/member; $65/ non-member; $20/one-time guest at the door.

297-3171; fau.edu/divdept/lifelong 10/29 - Personal Productivity Apps at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults.

1:30-3 pm. Free. 393-7906; bocalibrary.org 10/29 - Smart Digital Assistants at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults.

1:30-3 pm. Free. 393-7906; bocalibrary.org 10/29 - PowerPoint Level 3 at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Prerequisite: Mouse, Keyboard, Computers 101 & PowerPoint 1&2. Adults. 2-4 pm. Free. Registration: 2660196; delraylibrary.org 10/29 - Excel Level 3 at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Prerequisite: Mouse, Keyboard, Computers 101 & Excel Level 1&2. Adults. 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. Registration: 266-0196; delraylibrary.org 10/29 - Memoirs of the Soul at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton. Writing course shows how to record the voyage of your life. Instructor Dr. Rachel Panton, Writing My Life Memoirs, LLC. Adults 35+. Every T through 11/19 6:30-8 pm. $40/resident; $50/nonresident. 347-3900; sugarsandpark.org 10/29 - Last Tuesday Jam Session at Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. Last T 8 pm. Free/performer; $5/patron. 450-6357; artsgarage.org Wednesday - 10/30 - Women Making Movies: Sisters in Resistance at Levis JCC Sandler Center, 21050 95th Ave S, Boca Raton. 1 pm. 558-2520; levisjcc.org 10/30 - Excel Level 2 at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Prerequisite: Mouse, Keyboard, Computers 101 & Excel Level 1. Adults. 2-4 pm. Free. Registration: 266-0196; delraylibrary.org 10/30 - Wearable Technology at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 6-7:30 pm. Free. 393-7906; bocalibrary.org Thursday - 10/31 – Halloween (See Page H13 for Halloween and Fall events) 10/31 - Hack Proof Yourself: Hacked? Now What? at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Prerequisite: Mouse, Keyboard & Computers 101. Adults. 10:30 am-noon. Free.

266-0196; delraylibrary.org 10/31 - The Poetry of Love & Sex: From 1450 to Today with Jeff Morgan at Florida

Community Calendar AT31 Atlantic University Continuing Education Building, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. Part of 4-week Series at FAU Osher Lifelong Learning Society. Every F through 11/22. 12:30-2 pm. $60/annual membership; $50/member; $65/ non-member; $20/one-time guest at the door.

297-3171; fau.edu/divdept/lifelong 10/31 - Money Smart Series 1 Class 4: Credit Reports and Scores at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 6-7:30 pm. Free. 393-7906; bocalibrary.org Friday - 11/1 - Online Living: Social Media at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Adults. 10:30 am-noon. Free. 266-0194; delraylibrary.org 11/1 - Sumi-e Ink Painting Class at Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd, Delray Beach. Every F through 11/22.

Floral 10:30 am-12:30 pm; Landscape 1:303:30 pm. $55/member; $60/non-member.

Registration: 495-0233; morikami.org 11/1 - The Gilded Age with Taylor Hagood at Florida Atlantic University Continuing Education Building, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton.

Part of 4-week Series at FAU Osher Lifelong Learning Society. Every F through 11/22. 12:302 pm. $60/annual membership; $50/member; $65/non-member; $20/one-time guest at the door. 297-3171; fau.edu/divdept/lifelong 11/1 - How to Spot Fake News at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 1:30-3 pm. Free. 393-7906; bocalibrary.org 11/1 - Vincenzo Bellini - The Sicilian Orpheus: The Two Great Masterworks with Giuseppe Albanese at Florida Atlantic University Friedberg Auditorium, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. Part of 4-week Series at FAU Osher Lifelong Learning Society. Every F through 11/22. 3-4:30 pm. $60/annual membership; $50/member; $65/non-member; $20/one-time guest at the door. 297-3171; fau. edu/divdept/lifelong 11/1 - Exhibit Artists Reception at Artist’s Eye Gallery Boutique, 604 Lucerne Ave, Lake Worth. Runs through 12/1. 6-8 pm. Free. 5868666; lwartleague.org 11/1- Opening Reception: Reclaimed Exhibit at Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. Runs T-Sat noon-6 pm through 11/24.

6-8 pm. Free. 450-6357; artsgarage.org 11/1 - First Friday Art Walk at Downtown Development Authority, 85 SE 4th Ave, Delray Beach. Self-guided tour through a myriad of styles in art, photography, furnishings, live entertainment at Atlantic Avenue Galleries, Pineapple Grove, Artists Alley Studios & Galleries. 6-9 pm. Free. 243-1077; downtowndelraybeach.com 11/1 - Free Friday Concert: Vam Band at Old School Square Pavilion, 51 N Swinton Ave. Gourmet food trucks, cash bar. Bring lawn chairs, blankets. No pets or outside food/beverage. Weather permitting. 6 pm gates open; 7:30 pm concert starts. Free admission/donations appreciated. 243-9722; oldschoolsquare.org 11/1 - Cowboys and Frenchmen at Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. 8-10 pm. $35-$45. 450-6357; artsgarage.org Saturday - 11/2 - Junk in the Trunk at Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Rd, Boca Raton.

Participants sell items from the trunk of their vehicle or space remaining in designated area.

Music; food for purchase. 8 am-noon. $20/ space; free/shoppers. 367-7035; myboca.us

11/2 - Cranksgiving Bike Ride & Food Drive starts at Dewey Park, 100 NE 4th St, Boynton Beach. Benefits Community Caring Center Thanksgiving baskets. 8.2-mile roundtrip includes stops at 3 grocery stores; riders are encouraged to purchase nonperishable food; van follows riders to collect food purchases. 9 am. $15-$20/person; free/child 13 & younger; +$20 minimum food purchase commitment.

364-9501; cccpbc.org 11/2 - Lawn Bowling at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St, Delray Beach. Takes skill/practice.

Age 18 & up. M/W/F/Sat 9 am-noon. Annual fee $15/resident; $20/non-resident. 243-7350; mydelraybeach.com 11/2 - Shibori Indigo Workshop: Shibori Napkins at Morikami Japanese Museum and Gardens Oki Education Center, 4000 Morikami Park Rd, Delray Beach. 10 am-4 pm. $50 + $20/material fee. Register: 495-0233 x210; morikami.org 11/2 - With Nothing to Regret, Nothing to Wish Reversed: A Poetry Workshop Facilitated by Staci Kiner at Old School Square Crest Theatre, 51 N Swinton Ave, Delray Beach. 1 pm. $10. 868-2063; palmbeachpoetryfestival.org 11/2 - Omotesenke School Tea Ceremony Workshop at Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens Seishin-an Teahouse, 4000 Morikami Park Rd, Delray Beach. Learn basics of sado Tea Ceremony necessary to know in order to learn more about the aesthetics of sado or better understand, fully enjoy the tea ceremony.

Workshop is a prerequisite to study sado at Morikami. 1-3 pm. $40. Registration: 495-0233 x237; morikami.org 11/2 - Commercial Music Ensembles at Florida Atlantic University Kaye Auditorium, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. 7 pm. $10. 800-7453000; fauevents.com 11/2 - First Nighters at Lynn University Wold Performing Arts Center, 3601 N Military Tr, Boca Raton. Hobnob w/performers; have your photo taken w/the stars. Follows performance of McArdle & McKechnie Celebrate Sondheim & Hamlisch. 9 pm. $20. 237-7750; lynn.tix.com 11/2-3 - Boca Raton Fine Art Show at Mizner Park Amphitheatre, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton.

10 am-5 pm. Free/donations accepted. 941-7553088; hotworks.org 11/2-3 - Charities Hand and Hand Fine Art Show at Palm Beach County Convention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd, West Palm Beach. Artists and Charities Hand in Hand bring together the community, local leaders, artists, non-profit organizations. 20% of all art sales benefit local nonprofits: Armory Art Center, Dreyfoos School of the Arts, Peggy Adams Rescue League. 11 am-5 pm. $10/optional admission fee includes gift bag. 415-419-4292; artistsandcharities.com 11/2-3 - Bram Stoker’s DRACULA: The Radio Play at Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave. Sat 7 pm; Sun 2 pm. $25/adult; $15/age 12 & under. 586-6410; lakeworthplayhouse.org 11/2-3 - McArdle & McKechnie Celebrate Sondheim & Hamlisch at Lynn University Wold Performing Arts Center, 3601 N Military Tr, Boca Raton. Sat 7:30 pm; Sun 4 pm. $50-$70.

237-7000; lynn.tix.com 11/2-3 - Ballet Palm Beach Presents Cinderella at Kravis Center Rinker Playhouse, 701 Okeechobee Blvd, West Palm Beach. Sat 7:30 pm; Sat/Sun 2 pm. $42. 800-572-8471; balletpalmbeach.org

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Finding Faith

Health & Harmony

Filmmaker documents dad’s Alzheimer’s battle. Page H3

Help for Bahamas

Hope for displaced pets, and boaters take supplies to islands. Pages H6, H8

Linda Prior, Marie Buss and BJ Mays (l-r) wear crocheted baby blankets they created for Holly House at First Presbyterian Church in Delray Beach. Buss is 93 and Mays is 91. On this occasion they gathered at Buss’ house. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

A sisterhood of artful ladies

Secret Garden

A park with butterflies and abundant bird life. Page H7

Happy Halloween

By Janis Fontaine

Crafters at First Presbyterian of Delray Beach, including some dynamic nonagenarians, keep Holly House hopping as it marks its 50th year

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During the past 50 years, the ladies of Holly House have been praised for giving more than $250,000 to their church, First Presbyterian of Delray Beach, and local charities.

People laud them for the longevity of both their annual rummage sale and Holiday Gift Shoppe, which have raised most of that money. Others speak of their admiration for the women’s creativity and craftsmanship, while bargain hunters marvel at the deals they get on a cornucopia of handmade items the women make and sell.

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Continued from page H1 more than the history and more than the joy of stretching their creative muscles, it’s the relationships that sustain these women.

When they lose someone, it’s still a shock. But in the same way many hands make light work, the ladies of Holly House provide many shoulders to lean on.

Helen Antal, 92, one of the oldest ladies of Holly House, died in August. She was a “Table Lady,” part of a team of versatile crafters who could easily learn new projects. Helen took her place beside Marie Buss, 93, and BJ Mays, 91, every Tuesday, where they brought almost three centuries of handcrafting experience to the table.

And Helen was a top recruiter; she told anyone who would listen how much fun Holly House was. She said, “It’s a way to make new friends and contribute your time and talent to raise money for church improvements.”

It was easy to get BJ involved.

She and her husband visited quite a few churches before they found First Presbyterian, and it wasn’t long before BJ found the ladies of Holly House.

Marie was different. She needed coaxing. “I’m not a go-getter,” Marie said, “but Helen welcomed me and got me involved. She made me laugh.”

Their friendship blossomed and they even vacationed together with their husbands, so Helen’s death hit Marie especially hard. But there, right beside her, were her Holly House friends, ready to support her.

Now at home with a back injury, Marie keeps her fingers dancing with a crochet hook, turning yarn to baby blankets and lap robes.

“There are eight ladies who are in their 90s,” said BJ, the youngest-looking 91-year-old ever.

But attrition isn’t an issue.

New members, in search of a diversion or friends or to give back to the community, continue

Holly House member BJ Mays dresses angels for the Holiday Gift Shoppe at First Presbyterian Church of Delray Beach.

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What: Holiday Gift Shoppe, handcrafted decorations, décor, jewelry, baby blankets and decorations.

Where: Holly House at First Presbyterian Church of Delray Beach, 33 Gleason St. When: 10 a.m. to noon Tuesdays and Thursdays in October and November, beginning Oct. 8, except Thanksgiving Day, and 10 a.m. to noon Nov. 30, the Saturday following Thanksgiving. In December, the shoppe also will be open on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Info: 276-6338 or www. firstdelray.com/grow/ women Ocean Ridge resident Gina Logan (right) laughs with Delray Beach resident Jane Amme during work on last year’s Holiday Gift Shoppe. The holiday bazaar and the winter rummage sale are Holly House’s main fundraisers. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star to join. they exchanged a bit of gossip. lover Nancy Crell makes dog “That’s how God works in our The ladies of Holly House treats and toys. The florists have lives,” BJ said. make more than quilts. They an array of wreaths and trees, About 30 women meet for a craft one-of-a-kind items, from coastal decorations highlighting couple of hours on Tuesday and jewelry to tableware. They have mermaids and plenty of poinsetThursday mornings. Some come made wreaths from recycled tias and holly berries. every week, others when they corks and trees from seashells.

But many items are coastal can. It’s a relaxed setting, like the Knitted, crocheted, painted, products intended to be perfect quilting bees of the mid-1800s sewed, quilted, embellished, in our homes by the sea all year when women would gather to repaired or decorated, the results long, like the all-season lightwork on one another’s quilts. all show the ladies’ magic. house trees, driftwood crosses, Bees were also social events Some women have their own oyster shell wreaths and sandwhere women counseled and en- passion projects: Tina Pinto likes scapes in glass containers. couraged each other. And maybe to make teddy bears. Animal And that money they raised?

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It paid to restore the church’s Fellowship Hall and the memorial garden; it purchased custom-made cushions for the pews; it bought a golf cart and new refrigerator; it replaced the steeple blown down during a hurricane; and it upgraded the AV system, bringing better sound to the sanctuary.

Outside the church, the ladies of Holly House have supported Goodwill, Family Promise, Habitat for Humanity, the Haitian Foundation, Dress for Success and Ginger’s Closet. But the group’s grandest achievement came in 2013 when the ladies built their own space to hold Holly House in perpetuity.

If it were a real business, the Gift Shoppe would have failed long ago. “We always charge the lowest price we possibly can,” BJ said.

But it’s not a business.

“The ladies are a sisterhood and the work is a mission,” said member Linda Prior, 76.

And it’s a mission the ladies plan to continue.

There is one thing they won’t do: Ask anyone in the group to analyze her productivity. Those crocheted pumpkins they’re going to sell for $3? It might take the ladies three hours to make one, which seems like a lot.

“How long it takes to make something depends on how much we talk,” BJ explains.

They could work faster if they didn’t talk so much. But the talking? It’s the most enjoyable part. Ú

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Delray event to showcase new Alzheimer’s documentary

ric Gordon was planning to make a 15-minute film about Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials. When he was finished, six years later, he had created When All That’s Left is Love, a feature-length documentary.

Winning hearts and film festival awards across the country, the movie is an intimate, unflinching look at the love and labor of Alzheimer’s caregivers. It follows his mother, Marilyn Gordon, as she cares for her husband and his father, Sheldon “Shelly” Gordon, in their Boynton Beach home before he died in 2013.

The film also tells the story of the Gordons’ neighbor Arline Rothman as she cares for her husband, Hy, an Alzheimer’s patient who died in 2016.

“I’m just one of thousands of people who are caregivers,” Marilyn says now, downplaying her efforts in caring for Shelly, a manufacturer’s representative known for his sense of humor.

And though modest, she is correct. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that 80% of individuals with Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia receive care at home. Annually, 15 million Americans spend more than 17 billion unpaid hours caring for friends and family with dementia.

Being an Alzheimer’s caregiver can exact a punishing toll. As people with the degenerative brain disease gradually lose their ability to function independently, their caregivers are more likely than others to develop anxiety, depression and other illnesses.

Eric hopes his tribute to these caregivers will serve to educate, raise awareness and shine a light on available resources — from clinical trials to support services for caregivers and their loved ones.

The film will have its Palm Beach County premiere at what he calls a community engagement screening from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Oct. 30, at the Movies of Delray, 7421 W. Atlantic Ave. Events will begin at 9 with a continental breakfast, followed by the screening at 10.

Afterward, Alzheimer’s disease experts will lead discussions in each of the theaters, and moviegoers can browse information tables and discuss resources with representatives from organizations such as the

In a moment from the documentary When All That’s Left Is Love, Marilyn Gordon cares for her husband, Sheldon ‘Shelly’ Gordon. He died in 2013, and their son Eric’s film shows how Marilyn coped as an Alzheimer’s caregiver. Photo provided Roskamp Institute and Dignity Memorial, both of which helped fund the film.

The event is free, but Gordon reservations are recommended and can be made by calling 305-785-3570 or visiting Eventbrite.com: When All That’s Left is Love.

“I made this film out of love,” says Eric, an awardwinning director and producer who earned an MFA in film production from the University of Miami and a certificate in documentary arts from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

“This was a very difficult project to make. I still cry every time I watch this film. Every time, it gets to me.”

As his father’s disease progressed and taxed Marilyn’s physical and emotional endurance, Eric moved home to help her. Today, she says she remembers feeling constantly tired. But Eric says he saw her at a breaking point.

“You can see it in the film. I don’t think you saw it because you loved him so much,” he tells her. “You stopped taking care of yourself. You stopped going to your own doctor appointments. I saw it from being a step back. It was 24 hours a day. I mean, she was beyond tired. She was always doing laundry or always attending to my dad. It was heartbreaking.”

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“He had to see or know where I was 24 hours a day,” Marilyn remembers of her husband. “He just needed that reassurance that he wasn’t left alone.”

The Rothman family had similar concerns about Arline’s well-being.

“It was very, very difficult because I saw an educated, wonderful human being deteriorate. And I wanted to actually take care of Hy for the

whole time,” Arline says. “But I, myself, was getting sick and my family felt that I could no longer do it. They said, ‘We’re losing Dad and we don’t want to lose you, too.’”

After Hy, an engineer, entered assisted living, Arline visited him daily. She was with him when he died.

“It was a very difficult job for me to do,” Rothman says. “But you know, I often think if I had to do it over again, I would do it

the exact same way, because he was a very good person.”

Eric Gordon says he is grateful to Rothman and her family for allowing him access.

“I’m blessed they let me into their world,” he says.

“It was difficult,” Rothman says of Gordon’s making the film. “I had to acclimate to it and I just pretended that he wasn’t there. The worst thing for me was at the end, when my husband passed away. I didn’t even know if I wanted that in the video. My husband was a very nice-looking man and the end was just so terrible.”

But if what these women lived and learned can help others, they say it will have been worth it.

“My mom is a true hero and I don’t think she even sees it,” Eric says. “She doesn’t see she’s making a difference in the world. She’s so unassuming about it, but everywhere I show the film, they’re hugging me and crying and saying, ‘Tell your mom I just want to give her a hug.’”

Joyce Reingold has a lifelong interest in health and healthy living.

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October 2019

Health Notes

FAU gets grant for study on cataract therapies

Researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt College of Medicine received a five-year research project grant totaling $1,738,565 from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health for a project that uses a new tissue engineering approach.

This research could help in the development of new therapies to prevent and treat cataracts.

The project is focused on identifying the role of lack of oxygen to the cells and tissues in the body, and oxygen on the formation of the eye lens.

An intraocular lens is a tiny, artificial lens. It replaces the eye’s natural lens when it is removed during cataract surgery. There is also a version that corrects astigmatism.

While trifocal lenses have been available for years in other countries, they were approved by the FDA in August.

Goldman is a former assistant professor of clinical ophthalmology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Palm Beach Gardens.

His office is at 3502 Kyoto Gardens Drive, Suite B, Palm Beach Gardens.

In September, Boca Raton resident David A. Goldman, M.D., of Goldman Eye, performed eye surgery using a new type of trifocal lens.

It is a hightech option for people with cataracts Goldman to gain clear vision at all distances — near, mid and far — thus reducing the need for glasses after surgery.

Watershed Treatment Programs closed its facilities at 4905 Park Ridge Blvd., Boynton Beach, and 200 Congress Park Drive, Delray Beach, in September, laying off 231 workers. The reason, according to news reports: “Unfortunately, due to addiction care industry trends the Watershed has had to close our doors to new admissions.”

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October 2019

Health Calendar Note: Events are current as of 9/25. Please check with organizers for any changes.

OCTOBER 5

Saturday - 10/5 - One Day Childbirth Preparation Class at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, 800 Meadows Rd. Couples prepare birth of their first child by discussing birthing options, practicing birthing skills. 9 am-4 pm. $125/couple. Register: 955-4468; brrh.com 10/5 - Fitness @ Sanborn: Yoga Class presented by Yoga Journey at Sanborn Square, 72 N Federal Hwy, Boca Raton. Every Sat 9-10 am class. Free. 393-7703; downtownboca.org 10/5 - Kemetic Yoga at Spady Cultural Heritage Museum, Williams Cottage, 170 NE 5th Ave, Delray Beach. Calming, therapeutic yoga.

Bring mat, water; wear comfortable clothing.

Every Sat 9:30-11 am. $10/person. 279-8883; spadymuseum.com 10/5 - Yoga Class at Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. Every M-Sat 9:30-11 am. 5 classes $75/resident, $94/non-resident; 10 classes $130/resident, $162.50/non-resident; 20 classes $240/resident, $300/non-resident.

477-8727; myboca.us 10/5 - Adult Tai Chi Class at Delray Beach Community Center, 50 NW 1st Ave. Every Sat intermediate 9:30-10:30 am; beginner 10:4511:45 am. Per class $15/resident; $17/nonresident. 243-7000 x5001; mydelraybeach.com 10/5 - Welcome New Baby! Sibling Class at Bethesda Heart Hospital, 2815 S Seacrest Blvd, Boynton Beach. Learn about the new baby joining family. Decorate a onesie, celebrate with a birthday cupcake. Age 2-6; must be accompanied by parent. 10-11:30 am. $10/ parent & child; additional siblings $5/each; payment due before class date. 369-2229; publicrelations@bhinc.org 10/5 - Judo Class at Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. Warm-up exercises, instruction, practice, tournament training.

W 6:30-8 pm mixed ages & ranks, 8-9 pm advanced; Sat 10 am-noon all groups. Per month $21.50/resident; $27/non-resident. 3937807; myboca.us 10/5 - Yoga at the Beach at Red Reef Park West (Intracoastal side), 1400 N Ocean Blvd, Boca Raton. Register/get parking pass at Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. Classes held on grass overlooking the Intracoastal. No cash accepted on-site. 1st & 3rd Sat 10 am. $10/ class; 60-day membership (unlimited classes) $65/resident, $81.25/non-resident. 393-7807; myboca.us 10/5 - Fitness @ Sanborn: Tai Chi Class presented by Happy Tai Chi Boca Raton at Sanborn Square, 72 N Federal Hwy. Every Sat 10:30-11:30 am class. Free. 393-7703; downtownboca.org 10/5 - Zumba Class at South Beach Park Pavilion, 400 N State Rd A1A, Boca Raton. Every Sat 10:30 am. Free. 393-7703; downtownboca. org 10/5 - Conscious Aging for a Happy Life at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Part of annual Health & Wellness Week series. Adults. 11 am-noon. Free. 393-7852; bocalibrary.org 10/5 - Aikido Class at Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. Explore effective, non-violent methods of conflict resolution.

Every Sat 12:30-2:30 pm. Per month $25/ resident; $31.25/non-resident. 393-7807; myboca.us 10/5 - What’s the Deal with a Plant-Based Diet? at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Part of annual Health & Wellness Week series. Adults. 1-2 pm. Free. 393-7852; bocalibrary.org 10/5 - Chair Yoga at Unity of Delray Beach, 101 NW 22nd St. Every Sat 1 pm. Free. 276-5796; unityofdelraybeach.org 10/5 - Safe Baby: Prepare, Prevent & Respond Prenatal Class at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, 2815 S Seacrest Blvd, Boynton Beach. Learn safe practices, what to do in an emergency. Held again 11/2. 2:30-4:30 pm. $10/couple; payment due before class date.

369-2229; publicrelations@BHInc.org 10/5 - Reduce the Stress of Caring for Your Aging Parents at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Part of annual Health & Wellness Week series. Adults. 3-4 pm. Free.

393-7852; bocalibrary.org 10/5 - CA (Cocaine Anonymous) at Unity of Delray Beach, 101 NW 22nd St. Every Sat 6 pm.

Free. 276-5796; unityofdelraybeach.org 10/5-6 - Yoga Class at South Palm Beach Town Hall, 3577 S Ocean Blvd. Every Sat/Sun 9:30 am (9:15 am 8/3 only). $5/class. 588-8889; southpalmbeach.com

OCTOBER 6-12

Sunday - 10/6 - Yoga in the Park (Gazebo) Class at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St, Delray Beach. All ages. Every Sun 10-11 am. Per class: $10/resident; $11/non-resident. 243-7350; mydelraybeach.com

The COASTAL STAR 10/6 - Maternal Wellness at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Part of Health & Wellness Week series. Adults. 3-4 pm. Free.

393-7852; bocalibrary.org 10/6 - CODA (Codependents Anonymous) at Unity of Delray Beach, 101 NW 22nd St. Sun 6 pm. Free. 276-5796; unityofdelraybeach.org 10/6 - Yoga at the Beach at Red Reef Park East, 1400 N Ocean Blvd, Boca Raton. Register/ get parking pass at Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. No cash accepted on-site. W/ Sun 6:30 pm. $10/class; 60-day membership (unlimited classes) $65/resident, $81.25/nonresident. 393-7807; myboca.us Monday - 10/7 - Circuit Training at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton. Workout targets multiple muscle groups to build lean muscles. M/T/Th 8:30-9:20 am or 9:30-10:20 am. 1 class $12-$15; 4 classes $40$50; 8 classes $70-$88; 12 classes $100-$125, 15 classes $125-$156. 306-6985; fitmomboca@ aol.com 10/7 - Life Issues: A Support Group for Adults at Faulk Center for Counseling, 22455 Boca Rio Rd, Boca Raton. W 6-7:30 pm or M 10-11:30 am. $5/session. 483-5300; faulkcenterforcounseling.org 10/7 - Yoga at the Library at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Every M 6 pm. Free. 266-0194; delraylibrary.org 10/7 - Joint Journey at Bethesda Heart Hospital, 2815 S Seacrest Blvd, Boynton Beach.

Learn what to expect before, during and after surgery for total joint replacement. Every Th 10 am. Free. 737-7733; arianea@baptisthealth.net 10/7 - Chair Yoga at Rutherford Community Center, 2000 Yamato Rd, Boca Raton.

Mindfulness meditation followed by exercises done on a chair. Adults. Every M through 12/30 3:30-4:30 pm. $8/class. 477-8814; myboca.us 10/7 - Mandala & Meditation Workshop at Art-Sea Living, 112 S Federal Hwy #7, Boynton Beach. 5-8 pm. $40/person, $60/2 people. 7372600; artsealiving.com 10/7 - Surgical Weight Loss: The Next Step to a Healthier You at Bethesda Heart Hospital, 2815 S Seacrest Blvd, Boynton Beach. 2nd M 5:30 pm. Free. 853-1600; publicrelations@bhinc.org 10/7 - Traditional Yoga at First Presbyterian Church Boynton, 235 SW 6th Ave. Certified instructor. Padded floor. M & W 6:15 pm. $8/ class. 732-3774; fpcboynton.com 10/7 - Men’s Issues Support Group at Faulk Center for Counseling, 22455 Boca Rio Rd, Boca Raton. Every M 6:30-8 pm. $5/session. 4835300; faulkcenterforcounseling.org 10/7 - Boca Raton Multiple Myeloma Support Group at Rutherford Community Center, 2000 Yamato Rd, Boca Raton. Meet, interact w/fellow myeloma patients, their family members, friends. Learn new aspects of treatment/management. 1st M 6:30-8 pm.

Free. 901-5938; 637-4682; myeloma.org Tuesday - 10/8 - Women’s Issues Support Group at Faulk Center for Counseling, 22455 Boca Rio Rd, Boca Raton. Every T 10-11:30 am. $5/session. 483-5300; faulkcenterforcounseling.org 10/8 - Big & Loud: Parkinson’s Disease Exercise Program at Bethesda Heart Hospital, 2815 S Seacrest Blvd, Boynton Beach. Held again 10/22. 10:30-11:30 am. Free. 292-4950; RLatino@BHInc.org 10/8 – Breastfeeding Support Group at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, 800 Meadows Rd. Every T noon-1:30 pm. Free. 955-5415; brrh. com 10/8 - Exercise: Activity with Wonderful Side Effects at Hagen Ranch Road Library, 14350 Hagen Ranch Rd, Delray Beach.

Presented by Mike Cortese, PT, Bethesda Hospital East. 2 pm. Free. 894-7500; publicrelations@BHInc.org 10/8 - Zumba Gold at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St, Delray Beach. Age 50+. Th/F 9:3010:30 am, T 3-4 pm. Per class $5/resident; $6/ nonresident. 243-7350; mydelraybeach.com 10/8 - Tai Chi Class at Rutherford Community Center, 2000 Yamato Rd, Boca Raton. Moving meditation for focus, concentration, release of stress, attention skills. Every T Beginners 5:30-6:30 pm; Intermediate 6-7 pm; Advanced 6:30-7:30 pm. 8 classes $48/resident, $60/ non-resident; 12 classes $66/resident, $82/ non-resident. 393-7807; myboca.us 10/8 - Breastfeeding: Health Benefits for Mom and Baby at Bethesda Heart Hospital, 2815 S Seacrest Blvd, Boynton Beach. Certified lactation consultant teaches expectant parents about benefits of breastfeeding. 6-8:30 pm.

Free. 369-2229; publicrelations@bhinc.org 10/8 - Zumba at Pompey Park, 1101 NW 2nd St, Delray Beach. Adults. Every T 6-7 pm. $50/12 classes. 243-7356; mydelraybeach.com 10/8 - LGBTQ+ Support Group at Faulk Center for Counseling, 22455 Boca Rio Rd, Boca Raton. Joint program w/Ruth & Norman Rales Jewish Family Services. Separate groups held simultaneously: Adults; Friends & Family.

Every T 6-7 pm. Free. Register: 483-5300 x116; faulkcenterforcounseling.org

10/8 - Al-Anon 12-Step Study at Unity of Delray Beach, 101 NW 22nd St. Every T 7 pm.

Free. 276-5796; unityofdelraybeach.org Wednesday - 10/9 - Yoga Class at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St, Delray Beach. Ages 18 & up.

Every W 9-10:30 am. Per class: $10/resident; $15/non-resident. 243-7350; mydelraybeach. com 10/9 - Moving Forward for Widows & Widowers: Support and Discussion Group at Faulk Center for Counseling, 22455 Boca Rio Rd, Boca Raton. Every W 1-2:30 pm. $5/session.

483-5300; faulkcenterforcounseling.org 10/9 - Chair Yoga at First Presbyterian Church Boynton, 235 SW 6th Ave. Certified instructor. Every W 4:30 pm. $8/class. 732-3774; fpcboynton.com 10/9 - Japanese Karate Shito Ryu at Rutherford Community Center, 2000 Yamato Rd, Boca Raton. Physical exercise, mental discipline. Adults. Every W/F 6-7 pm. Monthly $120/resident, $150/non-resident; $35/gi. 3677035; myboca.us 10/9 - Divorced and Separated Support Group at Faulk Center for Counseling, 22455 Boca Rio Rd, Boca Raton. Every W 6-7:30 pm. $5/session. 483-5300; faulkcenterforcounseling.org 10/9 - Family and Friends at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, 800 Meadows Rd. Basics of infant, child and adult CPR, relief of choking.

Held again 10/16 & 26 (9-11 am). 6-8 pm. $25.

Register: 955-4468; brrh.com 10/9 - AA Meeting at Unity of Delray Beach, 101 NW 22nd St. Every W 7:30 pm LGBTQ; 8 pm Men’s meeting. Free. 276-5796; unityofdelraybeach.org Friday - 10/11 - Mobile Health Clinic at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Medical and behavioral health services to homeless and underserved adult patients in the community, with or without insurance. 2nd & 4th F 9 am-4 pm. Free. 266-0798; delraylibrary. org 10/11 - Stretching The Mind, Stretching The Body at Rutherford Community Center, 2000 Yamato Rd, Boca Raton. Vamps, Arnis (hip circle), hand movements. Adults. Every F through 12/27. 1-2:15 pm. $7/class. 477-8814; myboca.us 10/11 – Breastfeeding Support Group at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, 800 Meadows Rd. Every F 1-3:30 pm. Free. 955-5415; brrh.com 10/11 - Open AA Meeting at Unity of Delray Beach, 101 NW 22nd St. Every F 7:30 pm. Free.

276-5796; unityofdelraybeach.org Saturday - 10/12 - Yoga re-stART at Arts Warehouse, 313 NE 3rd St, Delray Beach.

Health &Health Harmony & Harmony Calendar H5 Age 16+. 10:30-11:30 am. $15. 330-9614; artswarehouse.org

OCTOBER 13-19

Monday - 10/14 - Diabetes: Nutrition and Lifestyle Choices at Bethesda Heart Hospital, 2815 S Seacrest Blvd, Boynton Beach.

Presented by Nicholas Mosakowski, RDN, LDN; part of Bethesda Hospital East Be Healthy, Be Well Program. 3 pm. Free. 731-2273; publicrelations@bhinc.org 10/14 - Surgical Weight Loss: The Next Step to a Healthier You at Bethesda Heart Hospital, 2815 S Seacrest Blvd, Boynton Beach. 2nd M 5:30 pm. Free. 853-1600; publicrelations@bhinc.org Wednesday - 10/16 - World Spine Day: Get Spine Active at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, 800 Meadows Rd. Yoga & tai-chi demonstrations, 5 minute chair massages, safe-lifting station showcase, tips to improve posture. 10 am-2 pm. Free. 955-5704; brrh.com 10/16 - Medicare Annual Enrollment Updates: October 2019 at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Adults. 6-7:30 pm.

Free. 544-8576; bocalibrary.org Thursday - 10/17 – Practicing Self-Care at Neiman Marcus Boca Raton, 5860 Glades Rd. Presented by Boca Raton Regional Hospital Lynn Women’s Institute. Part of Peaceful Mind Peaceful Life Series. Special lecture with meditation/mindfulness experts Barb Schmidt & Michelle Maros. Champagne reception w/ lunch by-the-bite, learn how practicing selfcare can bring balance. 11 am. $40/advance; $45/at the door. 955-7227; brrh.com/WIEvents 10/17 - Project C4OPE: A Forum Series for Families in the Opioid Crisis at Pompey Park Community Center, 1101 NW 2nd St, Delray Beach. Presented by Hanley Foundation, Project COPE (Connect for Overdose Prevention and Education) designed to connect people who share the experience of a loved one who has died of opioid overdose, survived an overdose, or are at a high risk for overdose.

Every 3rd Th 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. 268-2357; hanleyfoundation.org/project-c4ope Saturday - 10/19 - Boot Camp for New Dads Class at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, 800 Meadows Rd. 9 am-noon. $25. Register: 9554468; brrh.com

OCTOBER 20-26

Tuesday – 10/22 - Big & Loud: Parkinson’s Disease Exercise Program at Bethesda Heart Hospital, 2815 S Seacrest Blvd, Boynton Beach.

10:30-11:30 am. Free. 292-4950; RLatino@ BHInc.org

10/22 - 5 Wishes/Advance Directives at West Boynton Branch Library, 9451 S Jog Rd, Boynton Beach. Presented by TrustBridge; part of Bethesda Hospital East Be Healthy, Be Well Program. 2 pm. Free. 734-5556; publicrelations@bhinc.org Wednesday - 10/23 - Discover Wellness: Mind, Body, Spirit and a Dose of Prevention with Parvathi Perumareddi at Florida Atlantic University Continuing Education Building 31-D, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. Part of One-Time Event Series at FAU Osher Lifelong Learning Society. 3-4:30 pm. $60/annual membership; $30/member; $35/non-member & one-time guest at the door. 297-3171; fau.edu/ divdept/lifelong

OCT 27-NOV 2

Tuesday - 10/29 – 2-Week Meditation Immersion Course at Boca Raton Regional Hospital Lynn Women’s Institute, 690 Meadows Rd, Boca Raton. Includes course book, journal, guided meditation, certificate upon completion. Held again 11/2 10am-4pm, 11/5 6-8pm, & 11/9 10am-4pm. 6-8 pm. $399. 9557227; brrh.com/WIEvents Wednesday - 10/30 - When All That’s Left Is Love at Movies of Delray, 7421 W Atlantic Ave. Local filmmaker Eric Gordon’s documentary about the caregivers of individuals suffering from dementia. Sponsors and caregiver support organizations available. 9 am continental breakfast; 10 am screening. Free. Register: bit. ly/2KdwPqd 10/30 - Online Living: Health Research at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Adults. 10:30 am-noon. Free. 266-0194; delraylibrary.org Friday - 11/1-3 - Yoga Fun Day at Old School Square, 51 N Swinton Ave, Delray Beach. Yoga healing, meditation, chants, belly dancing relaxation workshops, vendors. 10 am-5 pm.

Tickets $49-$499. Yogafunday.com Saturday - 11/2 - Adult Tai Chi Class at Delray Beach Community Center, 50 NW 1st Ave. Every Sat intermediate 9:30-10:30 am; beginner 10:45-11:45 am. Per class $15/ resident; $17/non-resident. 243-7000 x5001; mydelraybeach.com 11/2 - Safe Baby: Prepare, Prevent & Respond Prenatal Class at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, 2815 S Seacrest Blvd, Boynton Beach. Increase awareness of safe practices, what to do in the event of an emergency. Held again 11/2. 2:30-4:30 pm. $10/couple; payment due before class date.

369-2229; publicrelations@BHInc.org

FINE HOME FURNISHINGS & ACCESSORIES

H6 Pets

The COASTAL STAR

October 2019

Paws Up for Pets

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Local shelters step up after Dorian displaces dogs, cats in Bahamas

kicked off this year with a magical vacation to Grand Bahama island, less than an hour’s flight from Palm Beach International Airport.

Although I was there to relax, I was also on a mission to tour — and do my radio show from — the Humane Society of Grand Bahama in Freeport, home of friendly dogs and cats affectionately nicknamed potcakes and potcats.

There, I met Tip Burrows, the can-do shelter director originally from Frostproof.

She proudly gave me a tour of the facilities that have been weathering economic and Mother Nature storms for 51 years.

Cats and kittens purred and circled me in the new cattery, and happy dogs plopped into a row of “sits” in the open courtyard for me to dole out treats. I marveled at the new exam rooms with X-rays machines, anesthesia machines, updated computers and surgical area.

Then Hurricane Dorian hit on Sept. 1 — the strongest hurricane on record to strike the Bahamas, with sustained winds of 185 miles per hour.

This Category 5 hurricane took the lives of people and pets and wiped away the airport in Freeport while pounding the islands of Grand Bahama and Abaco for more than 30 hours.

How to help

• Make monetary donations or provide pet supplies to two local shelters: Tri-County Animal Rescue, www.tricountyanimalrescue.com or 482-8110; and Big Dog Ranch Rescue, www.bdrr.org or 791-6465.

• A GoFundMe account has been set up to accept donations for the Humane Society of Grand Bahama. Learn more at its Facebook page, www. facebook.com/HumaneSociety-Of-Grand-Bahama-162364503775279.

• Go to the Bahamas Humane Society website at www.bahamashumanesociety.com/donate.

The once fully furnished shelter is now a battered shell of a building. Same goes for the Bahamas Humane Society in Abaco.

“We were not expecting a 25-foot storm surge to reach our shelter, which was not in an evacuation zone,” says Burrows. “Several days before the storm, I was contacted

by GreaterGood.org and IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare), who often work together in these situations. But none of us really had any idea that the

Columnist Arden Moore is surrounded by Bahamian potcakes, mutts named for the leftover rice in the bottom of cooking pots that islanders occasional feed them. Early this year Moore visited a shelter in the Bahamas that Hurricane Dorian destroyed last month. Photo provided damage to our shelter would be so extensive and that we would need to evacuate all our surviving animals for health and safety reasons.”

Staff at two local shelters — Tri-County Animal Rescue, based in Boca Raton, and Big Dog Ranch Rescue, based in Loxahatchee — counted their blessings that Dorian just brushed the Eastern coastline.

And then they got to work to help.

Suzi Goldsmith, co-founder and executive director of TriCounty, and Lauree Simmons, founder of Big Dog Ranch Rescue, coordinated efforts to arrange for planes and boats to bring about 40 displaced dogs from the affected Bahama islands to their centers.

“But for the grace of God, it could have been us hit by Dorian,” says Goldsmith.

“These potcakes knew they had been rescued and their temperaments are marvelous.

We lined them up and gave them baths, cleaned their ears, treated them for fleas and ticks and gave them food. Once we get the healthy green light from our veterinary staff, we will put them up for adoption.

It was the right thing to do.”

Island dogs, it turns out, can have parasites different

Pet Calendar Note: Events are current as of 9/25. Please check with organizers for any changes.

OCTOBER 5

Saturday - 10/5 - 1st Annual Barkfest at Mizner Park Dog Park, 751 Banyan Tr, Boca Raton. Food vendors for pets & pet parents, mobile grooming station, pet adoptions, canine performers, DJ, costume contest. Dogs must be leashed. 10 am-2 pm. Free. 367-7073; myboca. us/specialevents 10/5 - 20th Annual Blessing of the Animals with Rev. Laurie Durgan at Unity of Delray Beach Gazebo, 101 NW 22nd St. 10 am-noon pm. Free will offering. 276-5796; unityofdelraybeach.org 10/5 - Annual Blessing of the Animals at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Children’s Garden, 188 S Swinton Ave, Delray Beach. 4-5 pm. Free. 2786003; stpaulsdelray.org

OCTOBER 6-12

Sunday - 10/6 - Blessing of the Animals at Mulligan’s Beach House Bar and Grill, 10 S Ocean Blvd., Lake Worth Beach. 10 am. $25/ includes brunch. eventbrite.com/e/blessingsof-the-animals-tickets-56157073318

from those found in dogs in South Florida, so Goldsmith had to contact veterinarians in the Bahamas to get the right medications to treat Giardia, diarrhea and a parasitic infection known as coccidiosis.

“These potcakes are all doing great inside our isolation building,” says Goldsmith.

“They all need to gain weight and are being fed three times a day. They are being spayed and neutered and updated on their vaccinations. And they are happy dogs.”

Goldsmith has endured far too many hurricanes, directly and indirectly. Two years ago, Hurricane Irma teamed up with a tornado to wallop Palm Beach County. The storm destroyed Tri-County’s 2,400-square-foot isolation building. Seven staffers stayed to protect the 200-plus shelter animals during the storm and all escaped without injury. The shelter was without power for a week.

Still, she knew that Houston from Hurricane Harvey and Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria fared worse than Palm Beach County that year. She quickly reached out to pilots of private planes to transport dogs from Puerto Rico to the Tri-County shelter and dispatched trucks loaded with pet food, medicine and bedding to Houston shelters.

This is why I respect and admire shelters for stepping up and helping other animal organizations harmed by hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, floods, earthquakes and other natural disasters.

“We are here for the animals. Always have been and always will be,” says Goldsmith.

Arden Moore, founder of fourleggedlife.com, is an animal behavior expert and host of the Oh Behave! show on petliferadio. com. Learn more at www. ardenmoore. com.

Monday - 10/7 - Dog Obedience Class at Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. Every M through 11/18. Beginner: 6-7 pm; Games: 7-8 pm. $95/resident; $117/nonresident. 393-7807; myboca.us

OCTOBER 13-19

Saturday - 10/19 - Dogs’ Day in the Garden at Mounts Botanical Garden, 531 N Military Tr, West Palm Beach. Complimentary water/ treats for dogs. Family fare. 10 am-3 pm.

Event included w/Garden/Stickwork Exhibit admission: $10/non-member; $5/child age 5-12.

233-1757; mounts.org

OCTOBER 20-26

Wednesday - 10/23 - Beginner Dog Obedience Class at Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. Every W through 12/4 (no class 11/27). 6-7 pm. $95/resident; $117/non-resident. 393-7807; myboca.us

OCT 27-NOV 2

Sunday - 10/27 - Blessing of the Pets at First Presbyterian Church of Delray Beach, 33 Gleason St. Pets must be on a leash or in a carrier/container/cage. 4 pm. Free will offering benefits Deacons’ Scholarship Fund. 276-6338; firstdelray.com

October 2019

The COASTAL STAR

Gardens H7

Secret Garden

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Varied fauna inhabits park oasis, from butterflies to bobcat

keeheelee Nature Center, situated within the 1,700-acre Okeeheelee Park not far from I-95 and Florida’s Turnpike, is beloved by birders as well as those who want to enjoy a quiet walk through unspoiled nature.

“I think of us as a little oasis in the city,” says Heather Moody, manager of the center in West Palm Beach.

Most of the original 1,000acre parcel, acquired in 1973 for the park, was a shell-rock mine studded with mine pits and gouged earth. But as the park took shape, a 90-acre area along its northern border was discovered to have never been mined or developed.

The county decided to turn that bit of pristine habitat into a nature center, which opened in 1992, says Moody.

The pine flatwood forest filled with slash pines, cabbage palms and saw palmettos is interspersed with ponds. The area is home to lots of wildlife, including native white-tailed deer that are kept in a six-acre compound for their own safety.

After all, a native bobcat has been spotted on the property.

Begin your exploration of the area by visiting the butterfly garden that winds around the exhibit building. Here, the candle bush is covered with yellow sulphurs that use it as a host plant.

Coontie is the sole host plant for the caterpillars of atala butterflies, which, once near extinction, are now in abundance. And the multiflora passion flowers attract the bright orange Gulf fritillaries.

From here you are welcome to wander the two-and-a-half miles of interconnected trails that are either paved or covered with sand and pine needles. A map, available at the Nature Center, makes them easy to navigate.

Garden Calendar Note: Events are current as of 9/25. Please check with organizers for any changes.

OCTOBER 5

Saturday - 10/5 - Grooming the Garden at Mounts Botanical Garden, 531 N Military Tr, West Palm Beach. Volunteers assist weeding/ pruning. No experience required. Bring sunscreen, hat, gloves, water. 1st Sat 8:30 am.

Free/member. 233-1757; mounts.org

OCTOBER 6-12

Sunday - 10/6 - The Art of Bonsai at Morikami Japanese Museum and Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd, Delray Beach. Explore new techniques to artfully train/trim trees. Bring your own tree, pruning tools, bonsai pots, soil, wire. Every Sun through 11/3. Intermediate 9 am-noon; Beginner 1-4 pm. $45 materials fee (beginners) + $81/member; $91/non-member.

Reservations: 495-0233; morikami.org Wednesday – 10/9 - Delray Beach Orchid Society at Veterans Park Recreation Center, 802 NE 1st St, Delray Beach. 2nd W 6:30 pm.

Free. 573-2422; delraybeachorchidsociety.com Thursday - 10/10 - Boca Raton Orchid Society at Safe Schools Institute, 1790 NW Spanish River Blvd. Free/member & 1st-time guest. 810-6547; brosonline.org Saturday - 10/12 - Palm Beach Palm & Cycad Society Annual Plant Sale at Mounts Botanical Garden The Event Field Gate 2, 559 N Military Tr, West Palm Beach. Talk to experts,

If You Go

ABOVE: A yellow sulphur butterfly takes flight after laying eggs on the leaves of a candle bush plant near the Okeeheelee Nature Center’s main building.

LEFT: Yaupon holly berries provide some fall color to the wetland at the West Pond of the Nature Center.

Photos by Jerry Lower/ The Coastal Star “I always say you might get lost, but you won’t get lost for long if you just keep walking,” says Moody.

Throughout the park, the feeders, ponds and native flora attract small birds, water birds, owls, hawks and raptors. “This is a big birder spot. And I’ve been told that this is the place to see painted buntings,” says Moody.

These colorful birds usually start arriving when the weather begins turning cool. “By November and December, they are rocking and rolling,” she says. “They stay into March or April when they start tapering off, but they always come back.”

Other species you might see are warblers, ovenbirds and a brown thrasher that has been spotted near feeders at the

choose from a wide variety of plants. 9 am-4 pm. $5/non-member. 386-7812; mounts.org 10/12 - Rare Fruit Council Annual Tropical Fruit Tree & Plant Sale at South Florida Fairgrounds Buildings 6-10, 211 Fairgrounds Rd, West Palm Beach. Volunteers on hand to answer questions. 9 am-2 pm. Free/admission & parking. pbrarefruitcouncil.org

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Tuesday - 10/15 - Florida Native Plant Society at Mounts Botanical Garden, 531 N Military Tr, West Palm Beach. Subject: Joint Meeting with Audubon. 3rd T 7 pm. Free. palmbeach.fnpschapters.org

OCTOBER 20-26

Wednesday - 10/23 - Guided Walking Tour at Mounts Botanical Garden, 531 N Military Tr, West Palm Beach. 10 am-4 pm. Free w/ admission. 233-1757; mounts.org Friday - 10/25-27 - Orchids on the Square: Delray Beach Orchid Society Annual Show and Sale at Old School Square Fieldhouse, 51 N Swinton Ave. F/Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 10 am-4 pm. $5/admission; free/child under 6. 576-2422; delraybeachorchidsociety.org/dbos-show.html

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Saturday - 11/2-3 - Plant-A-Palooza at Mounts Botanical Garden, 559 N Military Tr, West Palm Beach. More than 80 vendors; assortment of plants/accessories. Sat 9 am-4 pm; Sun 9 am-3 pm. $10/non-member; $5/child age 5-12. 233-1757; mounts.org

Nature Center.

But perhaps the center’s biggest claim to fame is its gopher tortoise population.

The tortoises historically would have been in this habitat but, because of the mining operation, they abandoned it.

In the 1980s, more than 80 of them were relocated to the property from a construction site near The Gardens mall.

Since then, the tortoises have settled into their burrows and grown to a population of about 100.

“It’s pretty much a guarantee that you are going to see one when you come here,” says Moody.

And when forest fires flare up, these same burrows have protected tortoises and other animals that call them home.

Boca Raton Garden Club ready for holiday bazaar

The Boca Raton Garden Club will have its annual Holiday House bazaar from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 1-3 at the clubhouse, 4281 NW Third Ave. “Our crafters have been creating handmade items since May this year,” President Nancy Richards said. “We have seasonal decorations for Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Christmas, as well as unusual creations for year-round enjoyment.”

Holiday House is the club’s largest fundraiser and includes a bake and plant sale.

Proceeds support the gardentherapy program at Florida Atlantic University, youth gardening at local schools, an environmental camp and scholarships.

For more information, call 395-9376 or visit www. bocaratongardenclub.org.

As you walk the trails, you’ll notice many of the palm trees have charred trunks.

Wildfires are nature’s method of eliminating debris from the forest so the sun can reach the wild coffee, coco plums, muscadine grapes, shiny blueberries, beauty berries, ferns and other plants that grow beneath the canopy.

But in this populated area, natural fires are too dangerous to let burn. So, in order to help prevent wildfires yet maintain the forest, the area is subject to controlled burns. The last one was about four years ago, says Layna Moehl, the center’s fulltime naturalist and volunteer coordinator. The next one is slated for 2020.

As you wander through these woods or stand on the

Okeeheelee Nature Center is at Okeeheelee Park, 7715 Forest Hill Blvd., West Palm Beach. Follow the signs from the entrance to the Nature Center.

Information: www. pbcparks.com or 233-1400.

Hours: The Nature Center exhibit building is open 1 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday. The trails are open daily, dawn to dusk.

Admission: Okeeheelee Park, Nature Center and trails are free.

Programs: For information about programs presented at the Nature Center including nature walks, raptor and deer walks as well as yoga classes, visit the center on Facebook or at http:// discover.pbcgov.org/ parks/OkeeheeleeCenter/ UpcomingPrograms.aspx Volunteers: Are always needed. Volunteers do everything from clearing underbrush to planting bushes to feeding the eight white-tailed deer on the property. Contact Nature Center manager Heather Moody, 233-1407 or HMoody@pbcgov.org.

edge of the marsh, you can’t help but understand the importance of these native habitats that deserve to be protected and maintained.

Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley can be reached at debhartz@att. net.

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Local boaters shuttle supplies to Dorian-battered Bahamas

cean waters off the coast of Palm Beach County were filled with boats zooming east toward the Bahamas on the morning of Sept. 7 — the first Saturday after Hurricane Dorian pounded the northern Bahama islands.

Private boaters and owners of marine-related businesses — many of them accustomed to running their vessels to the Bahamas for fishing and diving excursions — rallied to deliver food, bottled water, generators, hygiene products and other supplies to people who lost their homes and belongings in the hurricane.

The Old Bahama Bay marina at West End, Grand Bahama Island, was overwhelmed with private boats delivering supplies on that first Saturday after the hurricane, said Steve Sprague, co-owner of Tuppen’s Marine & Tackle in Lake Worth Beach.

“The people were so happy to get the supplies,” said Sprague, whose store and boat dealership were jammed with donations for the relief effort.

Sprague said his friend Paul Smolcheck of Wellington used his boat to bring food and a grill to Bootle Bay on Grand Bahama Island. He cooked hamburgers and chicken sandwiches for anyone who wanted them at the marina on that first Saturday after the hurricane.

Fishing for Families in Need (F4fn.org), a nonprofit started in 2007 by students at St. Andrews School in Boca Raton, began taking contributions for the Bahamians soon after the storm.

The students collected, sorted and packed a truck full of donations from business donors, including Nomad Surf Shop and Belzer’s Hardware in Boca Raton, to help people affected by the hurricane on Grand Bahama Island.

ABOVE: Hurricane relief supplies jam the boat showroom floor at Tuppen’s Marine & Tackle in Lake Worth Beach.

Tuppen’s co-owner Steve Sprague, along with others from Palm Beach County, used their boats to transport donated goods to West End, Grand Bahama Island, on Sept. 7, the Saturday after Hurricane Dorian pummeled the northern Bahamas. Willie Howard/The Coastal Star ABOVE RIGHT: Members of the football team and the Caribbean Club at St. Andrews School in Boca Raton sorted and packaged donated goods for hurricane relief. The nonprofit Fishing For Families in Need, founded by St. Andrews students, delivered the goods to the YMCA in Freeport. Photo provided by Fishing for Families in Need RIGHT: A woman lifts a basket of food brought by South Florida boaters to the marina at Old Bahama Bay on Sept. 12.

Photo provided by Steve Sprague The donated goods were shipped to the YMCA in Freeport for distribution in mid-September, said Nicholas Metropulos, executive director for Fishing for Families in Need.

Capt. Mike Simko, an avid angler and broker with HMY Yachts, worked with the West

Palm Beach Fishing Club to collect donations for the Running Mon Sunrise Resort & Marina in Freeport.

The fishing club donated generators and fuel for the relief effort, while fishing club members donated food, clothing and supplies needed to clean up the hurricane-ravaged

resort.

Simko planned to lead a group of boaters to deliver the donations after waves from Hurricane Humberto subsided.

Jeremy Efron, owner of Tight Lines Marine in Lantana, collected water, food, children’s toys and other supplies at his boat dealership and planned to

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deliver the donations in a 35foot Contender to Green Turtle Cay. “One of our friends who lives there will take everything and distribute it,” Efron said.

“It’s so sad what happened over there.”

Efron said he planned to take two extra drums of gasoline on the boat because fuel is likely to be scarce in the Abacos. If people on the boat have spare fuel, he said, they’ll leave it for the Bahamians.

Coming events

Oct. 5: Basic boating safety class offered by Coast Guard Auxiliary, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the headquarters building at Spanish River Park, 3939 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. Fee $35 (or $5 for youths ages 1219). Register at the door. Bring lunch. Call 391-3600. Leave a message.

Oct. 23: Jordan Funt of Three Buoys Tackle discusses deep-drop fishing off the coasts of Florida and the Bahamas, 7 p.m., West Palm Beach Fishing Club, 201 Fifth St., West Palm Beach. Free. 832-6780 or www. westpalmbeachfishingclub.org.

Oct. 26: Basic boating safety class offered by Coast Guard Auxiliary, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the classroom building next to the boat ramps, Harvey E. Oyer Jr. Park, 2010 N. Federal

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Highway, Boynton Beach. Fee $20. Register at the door. Call 331-2429.

Oct. 30: Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show opens and continues through Nov. 3 at Bahia Mar Yachting Center, the Broward County Convention Center and other marinas. Adult admission $53 for Oct. 30 preview or $34 on other days. Admission $15 for ages 6-15. Details and tickets at www.flibs.com.

‘Reef darts’ deployed

One of 30 concrete poles on heavy bases is shoved off a barge in 463 feet of water off Palm Beach Inlet on Aug. 19 as part of the West Palm Beach Fishing Club’s ‘reef dart’ artificial reef program. Willie Howard/The Coastal Star

Thirty surplus concrete power poles on heavy concrete bases, known as “reef darts,” were scuttled Aug. 19 in nearly 500 feet of water east of Palm Beach Inlet as part of the West Palm Beach Fishing Club’s effort to create a deep artificial reef.

Outdoors Calendar Note: Events are current as of 9/25. Please check with organizers for any changes.

OCTOBER 5

Saturday - 10/5 - Sand Sifters Beach Clean Up at Oceanfront Park, 6415 N Ocean Blvd, Ocean Ridge. Meet at pavilion in lower parking lot. Bring water, hat, sunscreen. Bags, gloves, grabbers provided. 8-11:30 am. Free. jefflev02@ gmail.com 10/5 - Coast Guard Auxiliary: About Boating Safely Course at Spanish River Park HQ Bldg, 3939 N Ocean Blvd, Boca Raton. Boating terminology, boat handling, navigation rules, federal & Florida regulations, more. Certificate & Florida Boating ID card on completion; possible insurance discount. 9 am-5 pm. $35/adult; $5/age 12-19. Held again 11/2. Register: 391-3600; cgauxboca.org 10/5 - Tram Tours of the Marsh at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, 10216 Lee Rd, Boynton Beach. M/W/Th 1-2:30 pm; M/W/Th/Sat 10-11:30 am. $5/automobile; $1/pedestrian. Reservations: 733-0192; loxahatcheefriends.com 10/5 - Outdoor Marine Aquarium Feedings at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N Ocean Blvd, Boca Raton. All ages; children must be accompanied by an adult. Daily 12:30 pm. Free.

544-8605; gumbolimbo.org 10/5 - Sea Turtle Talk at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N Ocean Blvd, Boca Raton. All ages; children must be accompanied by an adult.

Daily 2 pm. Free. 544-8605; gumbolimbo.org

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Sunday - 10/6 - The Art of Nature at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N Ocean Blvd, Boca Raton. New program explores a variety of artistic methods to view/appreciate nature. Oct program focuses on a Mindfulness Walk through the Hammock Forest. Ages 7+; children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. 10-11 am. $5/member; $8/non-member.

544-8611; gumbolimbo.org Monday - 10/7 - Florida Trail Association Loxahatchee Chapter at Okeeheelee Nature Center, 77115 Forest Hill Blvd, West Palm Beach.

1st M 7:00 pm refreshments; 7:30 pm meeting.

307-7792; loxfltrail.org Tuesday – 10/8 - Guided Nature Walk at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N Ocean Blvd, Boca Raton. 1/4-mile natural trail winds through the butterfly garden, coastal hammock, mangroves, to a sandy beach by the Intracoastal. All ages; children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Every T/Th 11 amnoon. Free. 544-8615; gumbolimbo.org Wednesday - 10/9 - Lantana Beach Cleanup at 100 N Ocean Blvd. Gloves/ bags provided. 2nd W 9-10 am. 585-8664; nshawah@lantana.org 10/9 - Beach Treasures at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N Ocean Blvd, Boca Raton.

Learn about seashells, the animals that make them. Caravan to Red Reef Park, 1400 N State Rd A1A, to search for ocean treasures. All ages; children must be accompanied by an adult.

3-4:30 pm. Free. Reservations required: 5448615; gumbolimbo.org

Saturday – 10/12 - Intracoastal Adventures: Kayaking at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N Ocean Blvd, Boca Raton.

Short talks about South Florida’s unique animals/ecosystems. Age 6-adult; children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

9-10:30 am. $20/member; $25/non-member.

544-8605; gumbolimbo.org

OCTOBER 13-19

Sunday – 10/13 - Intracoastal Adventures: Full Moon Spookanoe at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N Ocean Blvd, Boca Raton.

Short talks about South Florida’s unique animals/ecosystems. Age 8-adult; children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

6-7:30 pm. $20/member; $25/non-member.

544-8605; gumbolimbo.org Thursday - 10/17 - Early Birding with Al at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N Ocean Blvd, Boca Raton. Learn about native and migratory birds from an experienced birder; walk the Ashley Trail/boardwalk in search of warblers, gnatcatchers, woodpeckers, other avian species. Binoculars recommended. Meet on the nature center front porch. Age 10+; children must be accompanied by an adult.

8:30-10 am. Free. 544-8605; gumbolimbo.org Saturday - 10/19 - Intracoastal Adventures: Stand Up Paddle Boarding at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N Ocean Blvd, Boca Raton. Short talks about South Florida’s unique animals/ecosystems.

Age 12-adult; children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. 9-10:30 am. $20/

member; $25/non-member. 544-8615; gumbolimbo.org

OCTOBER 20-26

Wednesday - 10/23 - West Palm Beach Fishing Club at 201 5th St. Speaker Jordan Funt: Deep Dropping Here and in the Islands. 7 pm. Free. 832-6780; westpalmbeachfishingclub.org Saturday - 10/26 - Sea Angels Beach Cleanup at Ocean Inlet Park, 6990 N Ocean Blvd, Ocean Ridge. Last Sat 8-10:30 am. 3695501; seaangels.org 10/26 - Intracoastal Adventures: Canoeing at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N Ocean Blvd, Boca Raton. Short talks about South Florida’s unique animals/ecosystems.

Age 6-adult; children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. 9:30-11 am. $20/ member; $25/non-member. 544-8605; gumbolimbo.org

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Thursday – 10/31 - Sea Angels Beach Cleanup at Ocean Inlet Park, 6990 N Ocean Blvd, Ocean Ridge. Last Sat 8-10:30 am. 3695501; seaangels.org Saturday - 11/2 - 6th Annual LagoonFest at West Palm Beach Waterfront, 100 S Flagler Dr. Wildlife presentations, kayak clean-up tours, paddleboard yoga demos, mural painting wall, live touch tanks, live art exhibits and more. 9 am-2 pm. Free. 233-2400; lagoonfest.com

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The fishing club deployed similar dart reefs in shallower water with the help of Palm Beach County’s Department of Environmental Resources Management.

Reef darts rise 20-35 feet off the bottom on the ocean and attract small baitfish and larger predator fish.

The deep reef darts can be found in 463 feet of water east of Palm Beach Inlet (also known as Lake Worth Inlet).

Coordinates: 26/46.986 N & 79/58.164 W.

Tip of the month

Walk the beach with a fishing rod during the fall mullet run to catch jacks, tarpon, bluefish, snook and other game fish that follow schools of finger mullet. Try a sturdy, 7-foot spinning rod

spooled with 20-pound line and 40-pound leader. Try fishing with a heavy casting spoon such as a Kastmaster.

Flatten the hook barbs with pliers if you plan to release most of your fish. Carry pliers to remove hooks. If you plan to keep a snook, bring a measuring tape to make sure the snook is between 28 and 32 inches in total length.

A Florida saltwater fishing license and snook permit are required (unless exempt) to keep a snook. Bag limit: one snook per day.

Willie Howard is a freelance writer and licensed boat captain. Reach him at tiowillie@ bellsouth.net.

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Religion Calendar Note: Events are current as of 9/25. Please check with organizers for any changes.

OCTOBER 5

Saturday - 10/5 - Weekly Torah Study at Temple Israel of West Palm Beach, 1901 N Flagler Dr. Every Sat 9:30 am. Free. 833-8421; temple-israel.com 10/5 – Catholic Grandparents Meeting at Ascension Church, 7250 N Federal Hwy, Boca Raton. All welcome. 1st Sat 10-11:30 am. Free.

289-2640; diocesepb.org 10/5 - Saturday Shabbat Service at Temple Sinai Palm Beach County, 2475 W Atlantic Ave, Delray Beach. Every Sat 10 am. 276-6161; templesinaipbc.org

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Monday - 10/7 - Legion of Mary at St. Mark Catholic Church Chapel, 643 St Mark Pl, Boynton Beach. Follows 8 am Mass every M. Free. 7349330; stmarkboynton.com 10/7 - Monday Morning Women’s Bible Study at First Presbyterian Church of Delray Beach, 33 Gleason St. Every M 10-11:30 am.

Free. 276-6338; firstdelray.com 10/7 - Women’s Bible Study at Seacrest Presbyterian Church Conference Room, 2703 N Swinton Ave, Delray Beach. Every M 10 am.

Free. 276-5633; seacrestchurch.com 10/7 - Rosary for Peace at St Vincent Ferrer Adoration Chapel, 840 George Bush Blvd, Delray Beach. Every M 7 pm. Free. 276-6892; stvincentferrer.com Tuesday - 10/8 - Lectio Divina (Divine Prayer) at St Paul’s Episcopal Church, 188 S Swinton Ave, Delray Beach. Traditional Benedictine practice of scriptural reading, meditation, prayer. Every T 9-10 am. Free. 2764541; stpaulsdelray.org 10/8 - St Mark Bible Study at St Mark Catholic Church St Clare Room, 643 St Mark Pl, Boynton Beach. Every T 7-8 pm. Nominal fee/free-will offering for study guide. Register: 734-9330; stmarkboynton.com 10/8 - Erev Yom Kippur (Kol Nidre) Evening Worship Service at Temple Israel of West Palm Beach, 1901 N Flagler Dr. 7:30 pm. Tickets required: 833-8421; temple-israel.com 10/8-9 - Yom Kippur 10/8-9 - Yom Kippur Services at Chabad

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Learning about phone scams, cyber crime of South Palm Beach, 224 S Ocean Blvd, Manalapan. T 6:35 pm candle lighting; 6:45 pm Kol Nidrei; W 9:30 am morning service, noon Yizkor, 5:15 pm Ne’ilah prayer, 7:45 pm Break Fast meal. All welcome, no tickets/membership required. Reservations: 889-3499; info@ chabadspb.org 10/8-9 - Yom Kippur Services at Chabad of East Boca Raton, 120 NE 1st Ave & Hyatt Place Hotel, 100 E Palmetto Park Rd. T 4:30 pm Mincha @ Chabad; 6:42 pm Candle Lighting/ Fast Begins @ Hyatt; 7 pm Kol Nidrei Service @ Hyatt; W @ Hyatt 9 am morning service; 11:45 am Sermon; 12:15 pm Yizkor Memorial Service; 5:15 pm Mincha; 6:15 pm Neilah Closing service; 7:33 pm Holiday and Fast Ends; Break Fast Dinner @ Chabad follows Fast End. Reserved Yom Kippur Seating adult $100/day; child $36/day. 394-9770; bocabeachchabad.com/ highholidays Wednesday - 10/9 - Yom Kippur Service at Temple Israel of West Palm Beach, 1901 N Flagler Dr. 9 am/family worship (free); 10:30 am/traditional service; 1:15 pm/afternoon study; 2:15 pm/healing service (free); 3 pm/Hineini creative service (free); 4 pm/ afternoon Torah service; 4:45 pm/Yizkor/N’ilah (concluding service). Tickets required: 8338421; temple-israel.com 10/9-10 - Handbells & Chancel Choir at First United Methodist Boynton Beach, 101 N Seacrest Blvd. Handbells every T Sep-Mother’s Day 6:30 pm. Chancel Choir every W Sep-May 6 pm. Free. 954-947-1951; fumcbb.com 10/9 - Basic Catholicism with Fr. Dan at St. Mark Catholic Church St John Paul II Room, 643 St Mark Pl, Boynton Beach. Every W after 8 am Mass. Free. 734-9330; stmarkboynton.com 10/9 - Centering Prayer at St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church, 3300A S Seacrest Blvd, Boynton Beach. Every W 9:30 am. Free. 7323060; stjoesweb.org 10/9 - Bible Study at First United Methodist Church, 101 N Seacrest Blvd, Boynton Beach.

Every W 11 am. Free. 732-3435; fumcbb.com 10/9 - Wonderful Wednesdays at First Presbyterian Church of Delray Beach, 33 Gleason St. All ages. Every W 5:45 pm dinner; 6:30 pm program. $7/adult; $5/child; $20/max per family. Reservations: 276-6338; firstdelray. com

10/9 - Rector’s Bible Study at St Gregory’s Episcopal Church, 100 NE Mizner Blvd, Boca Raton. Every W 6 pm supper (soup/salad, donation requested); 7 pm Bible study (free).

395-8285; stgregorysepiscopal.org 10/9 - The Bishop’s Bible Study at St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church, 101 Homewood Blvd, Delray Beach. Every W 7:15 pm. Free. 2651960; stmaryanglican.com Thursday - 10/10 - Prayer Circle at Trinity Lutheran Church Courtyard, 400 N Swinton Ave, Delray Beach. Every Th 8:05 am. 278-1737; trinitydelray.org 10/10 - Men’s Fellowship at First Presbyterian Church of Delray Beach, 33 Gleason St. Every Th 8:30 am. Free. 276-6338; firstdelray.com 10/10 - Women’s Bible Study Group at First United Methodist Church Boca Raton, 625 NE Mizner Blvd. Childcare available upon request.

Every Th 9:30 am-noon. Free. 395-1244; fumcbocaraton.org Friday - 10/11 - Women’s Bible Study Group at St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church Youth House, 266 NE 2nd St, Boca Raton. Every F 9:15 am.

Free. 395-8285; stgregorysepiscopal.org 10/11 - Couples’ Bible Study Group at First United Methodist Church Boca Raton, 625 NE Mizner Blvd. Childcare available upon request.

Every F 6-9 pm. Free. 395-1244; fumcbocaraton. org 10/11 - Erev Shabbat Service at Temple Israel of West Palm Beach, 1901 N Flagler Dr. Every F 6:30 pm. Free. 833-8421; temple-israel.com 10/11 - Erev Shabbat Service at Temple Sinai Palm Beach County, 2475 W Atlantic Ave, Delray Beach. Every F 7:30 pm. 276-6161; templesinaipbc.org

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Sunday - 10/13 - A Magical Sukkot at Temple Israel of West Palm Beach, 1901 N Flagler Dr. Prepare for Sukkot with pizza, sukkah decorating, magic show! 2 pm. Free. RSVP by 10/10: 833-8421; temple-israel.com Wednesday - 10/16 - Semi-Annual Anointing of the Sick Mass at St. Mark Catholic Church, 643 St. Mark Pl, Boynton Beach. 11 am. Free. 734-9330; stmarkboynton. com Thursday - 10/17 - First United Methodist Church of Boca Raton Pub Theology at

St. Lucy Church, Highland Beach — Sept. 17

Speaking during an event held by the St. Lucy Council of Catholic Women, members of the Delray Beach Police Department’s detective division addressed an audience of 90 women about the increase in crime via computers and from telephone solicitors. Police said a current scam involves calls requesting prepaid credit cards to pay off false IRS bills or false hospital costs for grandchildren. They advised the women to hang up and report the calls to police and not to provide any personal information. ABOVE: (l-r) Peggy Brown, Barbara Sheridan, Anne Mongon, Michele DeGennaro and Highland Beach Police Chief Craig Hartmann. Photo provided Barrel of Monks, 1141 S Rogers Circle #5.

Conversation, fellowship, open discussion. 3rd Th 7 pm. 395-1244; fumcbocaraton.org Friday - 10/18 - Erev Shabbat Service and Dinner in the Sukkah at Temple Israel of West Palm Beach, 1901 N Flagler Dr. 5:45 pm dinner; 6:30 pm special service; Oneg Shabbat dessert reception follows. $18. RSVP by 10/15: 833-8421; temple-israel.com 10/18 - Parents of St. Gregory’s at St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, 100 NE Mizner Blvd, Boca Raton. Potluck dinner, topic discussion

(targeted to young parents w/children age 2-13), group feedback, childcare available. 3rd F 6-8 pm. Free. 395-8285; stgregorysepiscopal. org

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11/1 - All Souls Day Mass of Remembrance at St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church, 840 George Bush Blvd, Delray Beach. 7 pm. Free.

276-6892; stvincentferrer.com

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We Are Messengers will play Oct. 27 in Boca. Photo provided

Christian band’s tour to stop at Spanish River Church We Are Messengers, a Christian rock band originally from Ireland, brings its Power Tour to Spanish River Church, 2400 Yamato Road, Boca Raton, at 7 p.m. Oct. 27. The band’s release of its eponymous debut album in 2016 earned members a Dove Award nomination for New Artist of the Year.

Darren Mulligan is the lead singer and plays guitar. He’s backed up by his touring mates, Drake Kennedy on bass and synth, Drew Kerxton on drums and Kyle Williams on guitar.

Attendees can expect to hear at least three songs from the debut album: Everything Comes Alive, Magnify and Point to You. In 2019, the band released an EP called Honest, which gave fans the song Maybe It’s Ok. That song was named Breakout Single of the Year at the K-LOVE fan awards. The tour is named for the band’s latest release, the single Power.

Fans of the NBC television show Songland might recognize Williams. His song Getting Started won its episode and was recorded by solo artist Aloe Blacc.

Tickets start at $13 when you purchase a friends-and-family four-pack. General admission is $17 in advance, $20 the day of the show. There are also $35 deluxe tickets that include early entry, the best seats and a preshow Q&A. VIP tickets, $55, include the deluxe benefits plus a meet-and-greet photo op.

For more information, visit https://wearemessengersmusic. com. For tickets, visit www. premierproductions.com/tour/ we-are-messengers-power-tour/ boca-raton-fl, or call 855-4841991.

Oktoberfest comes to Boca

Advent Lutheran Church in Boca Raton will host Oktoberfest 2019 from 6 to 10 p.m. Oct. 26 in Advent’s school gymnasium. The evening features German food, beer and music. Tickets are $20. There’s also a cash bar. This fundraiser is to benefit the Freedom Challenge Advent Team. Info: www.adventboca.org/events/

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Volunteers are needed for the Trunk or Treat event at the Lantana campus of Advent Lutheran Church, 2116 Lantana Road, Lake Worth Beach, from noon to 2 p.m. Oct. 26.

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Lantana to scare up Halloween fun at haunted Nature Preserve

By Janis Fontaine

Lantana has a commitment to bringing family-friendly events and activities to its 12,000 residents that are as good as any around. The “Enjoy Lantana” events have included Winterfest, Movies at the Beach, the Easter Egg Hunt at Maddock Park and the July Fourth celebration at Bicentennial Park.

But one of its most popular free events is the Haunted Nature Trail, a Halloween party at the Lantana Nature Preserve at 440 E. Ocean Ave. This year’s event is from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Oct. 25.

The front of the 6½acre preserve becomes a harvest festival and another portion is turned into a haunted trail with live actors ready to scare up Halloween fun. Lantana has hosted the Haunted Nature Trail since 2015.

“The event is really fun,” said Nadine Shawah, parks and recreation coordinator.

“The trail is fun, too, even for adults.”

The front of the preserve is a fall festival with a DJ dance party, kids carnival games (with prizes), a hayride, trick-or-treating and other entertainment geared toward younger kids. The all-ages costume contest, which has a $25 prize, will also be in the harvest festival area.

If You Go

What: Haunted trail When: 6:30-8:30 p.m. Oct. 25 Where: Lantana Nature Preserve, 400 E. Ocean Ave. Admission: Free Info: www.lantana.org/ enjoy-lantana-events NShawah@lantana.org.

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The path at the Lantana Nature Preserve will feature all sorts of haunted characters for the town’s fifth annual Halloween party on Oct. 25. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star Shawah said the fall festival is great for younger kids, but the haunted trail part is probably too scary for children younger than 10. But the older kids will definitely be drawn deeper into the preserve, where the shadows aren’t just shadows and the howling isn’t from the wind. Participants are encouraged to stick close to their guide and not lose track of friends and family along the way.

OK, so it’s not that scary.

This is a family event. The costumes are frightening especially in the dim light, but

there are no weapons and no blood, and no one touches any of the guests. The event doesn’t use any strobe lights, which can trigger reactions like migraines or seizures in some people, and all volunteers are carefully screened.

The Haunted Nature Trail uses about two-thirds of the preserve. Participants can park in the nearby Lantana Beach lot. Handicapped parking is available near the Carlisle senior living facility next door, in town-designated spaces.

Volunteers are still needed.

Call 540-5754 or email

Fright Nights at the South Florida Fairgrounds — Oct. 11-12, Oct. 17-19, Oct. 24-26 and Oct. 31-Nov. 2, South Florida Fairgrounds, 9067 Southern Blvd., West Palm Beach. Four terrifying haunts, plus midway rides, scare zones, games, live entertainment by local bands or DJs and performers. Go to www. myfrightnights.com to learn about ticket packages.

Spookyville — Oct. 1820, Oct. 25-27 and Oct. 31, Yesteryear Village at the South Florida Fairgrounds, 9067 Southern Blvd., West Palm Beach. This non-scary Halloween is designed for kids ages 10 and younger.

Trick-or-treat your way through Yesteryear Village, where costumed volunteers offer treats at historic buildings.

Play games, ride the train, stop in the candy shop, make a spooky craft, get a glitter tattoo, enjoy live music, explore the pumpkin patch. Wear your costume and compete for prizes on both Sundays. Food and drink vendors will be on site.

Cost is $10 and includes trick-or-treating, contests and activities. Free for ages 2 and younger. Hours: 5-9 p.m. Fridays and Halloween, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. www.southfloridafair. com/p/yesteryearvillage/ spookyville Boo at the Zoo! — 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Oct. 18-20 and Oct. 25-27, Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society, 1301 Summit Blvd., West Palm Beach. Entertainment, crafts, costume contest, animal encounters. www. palmbeachzoo.org Shriek Week — Oct. 1819 and 24-26, Sugar Sand Park, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Opens 6 p.m.

Fridays and Saturdays, 5 p.m.

Thursday, a night designed for younger kids. Haunted houses, blacklight game room, family activities, trick-or-treating,

animal shows, carnival games, glitter tattoos, inflatable maze, magic shows, Mystery Marketplace. 347-3948 or www. sugarsandpark.org/shriek-week for event and ticket info.

Boca Pumpkin Patch Festival at Mizner Park — 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Oct. 19-20, Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton. More than 2,500 pumpkins, plus games and activities, carnival rides, a cornstalk maze, a dressyour-own scarecrow village, a pumpkin-decorating craft, a pumpkin food court. $20. Free for kids younger than 2. www. bocapumpkinpatch.com.

Lake Worth Beach Zombie 1K Run — 5:30 p.m. Oct. 25, Bryant Park, Lake Avenue at Golfview Road. $15. Register through Oct. 18 by going to www.facebook.com/ events/2336108486467215.

For more info, call 2607593 or email gjarrett@ lakeworthbeachfl.gov.

Kidsfest and Halloween Festivities 2019 — 11:30 a.m.4 p.m. Oct. 26, Delray Beach.

Includes parade, trick-ortreating on Atlantic Avenue and kids activities at Tennis Center. http://delraybeachcalendar. com/event/1704.

Boynton Beach Pirate Fest and Mermaid Splash — 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Oct. 26 and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Oct. 27, East Ocean Avenue at Northeast Fourth Street, downtown Boynton Beach. Visit the lively pirate village and mermaid lagoon with roaming actors, street performers. Eleven activity areas with entertainment for all ages. 600-9093; www. bbpiratefest.com.

Halloween in the Garden — 10 a.m.-noon Oct. 20 at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 North Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. For ages 2-6. Treats, crafts, face painting and photographs with Luna the sea turtle. Costumes welcome.

Kids must be accompanied by an adult. Members, $7, non-members, $10. Limited parking. Registration required at 544-8611. Details at www. gumbolimbo.org; search the program and events calendar for Oct. 20 or “Halloween.”

Clematis by Fright — 6-9 p.m. Oct. 31, the Great Lawn at the West Palm Beach Waterfront, 100 Clematis St. “Spooktacular” family fun, entertainment and thousands of dollars in prizes in the annual costume contests in categories for kids, adults, families and pets. Free.

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OCTOBER 5

Saturday - 10/5 - Annual Pumpkin Patch at Cason United Methodist Church, 342 N Swinton Ave, Delray Beach. Runs through 10/31.

M-Sat 9 am-7 pm; Sun noon-6 pm. 276-5302; casonumc.org 10/5 - Pumpkin Patch at First United Methodist Church Boca Raton, 9087 Glades Rd. Face painting, refreshments, more. Daily through 10/31 10 am-7 pm. 395-1244; fumcbocaraton. org

OCTOBER 6-12

Wednesday - 10/9 - One Day Camp: Ghosts, Ghouls, Goblins, Oh My! at South Florida Science Center and Aquarium, 4801 Dreher Tr N, West Palm Beach. Age 4-12. 9 am-4 pm. $45/member; $50/non-member; before/after care 7:30-9 am & 4-5:30 pm $10/day. RSVP: 370-7707; sfsciencecenter.orgmcbocaraton.org/ pumpkin-patch Thursday - 10/10 - Fright Nights at South Florida Fairgrounds, 9067 Southern Blvd, West Palm Beach. Haunted houses, scare zones, food/beverages, live entertainment, virtual reality, midway carnival rides, more. Runs through 11/2; check website for dates/details. $30. Myfrightnights.com

OCTOBER 13-19

Friday - 10/18 - Boca Boo Days: James Changefield’s Halloween Magic Show at Boca Raton Public Library, 200 NW 2nd Ave. Wear your costume! Trick or treat activity follows show. All ages. Children 8 years & younger must be accompanied by an adult. 3:30-4:30 pm. Free. 393-7968; bocalibrary.org 10/18-19, 24-26 - 15th Annual Shriek Week:

Trick or Treat Trail & Haunted House Tour at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton. Stroll around the carousel; local businesses greet participants with candy/treats. Trick or Treat Trail F/Sat 6-9 pm; Haunted House Tour age 7-12 F/Sat 6-10:30 pm; 10/24 lite night age 5-12 5-9 pm. $9/haunted house tour; free/trick or treat. Adults must purchase a reservation with their kids. 347-3948; sugarsandpark.org 10/18-20 - 21st Annual Boo at the Zoo at Palm Beach Zoo, 1301 Summit Blvd, West Palm Beach. Held again 10/25-27. F/Sat 9 am-9 pm; Sun 9 am-5 pm. $24.95/age 13 & up; $22.95/ senior age 60+; $18.95/child age 3-12; free/toddlers. 533-0887 x285; palmbeachzoo.org Saturday - 10/19 - Pet Supermarket’s Muttster Mash Halloween Costume Contest at Pet Supermarket locations. Contest for best pet’s and child’s costumes, local vendors, vets, and pet experts, shelters, more. 2-3 pm. Free. facebook.com/ petsupermarket 10/19-20 - 3rd Annual Boca Pumpkin Patch Festival at Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real. Over 2,500 pumpkins, a carnival for all ages. Entertainment, food court. Outside food, beverages & pets not permitted. 10 am-6 pm. $20/general admission; free/under age 2.

393-7890; bocapumpkinpatch.com

OCTOBER 20-26

Sunday - 10/20 - Halloween in the Garden at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N Ocean Blvd, Boca Raton. Treats, crafts, games, face painting. Costumes welcome (no swords or other pointy props, please). Bring bug spray, bottled water. Children must be accompanied by an adult (no charge for adult). Age 2-6. 10 am-noon. $7/member; $10/non-member.

Limited space; Reservations: 544-8615; gumbolimbo.org

Tot & Teens Calendar Note: Events are current as of 9/25. Please check with organizers for any changes.

OCTOBER 5

Saturday - 10/5 - Sensory Saturdays: Special Exploration Hours at South Florida Science Center and Aquarium, 4801 Dreher Tr N, West Palm Beach. For families affected by autism spectrum disorder. No heavy crowds; softened general lighting, decreased noise level/visual stimulation on interactive exhibits wherever possible. 1st Sat 8-10 am. $8.50/ adult; $7.50/senior; $6.50/child 3-12; free/child under 3. 832-1988; sfsciencecenter.org 10/5 - Sensory-Friendly Saturday at Children’s Science Explorium, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton. Explore the museum in sensory modified setting with sound/light adjustments. 1st Sat 9-10 am. Free. 347-3912; scienceexplorium.org 10/5 - Diaper League Sports at Pompey Park, 1101 NW 2nd St, Delray Beach. Fundamentals of various sports w/guidance of recreation staff: T-ball, football, basketball, soccer. Mandatory parent participation. Age 3-5. Every M/Th 6-7 pm & Sat 9-10 am. $20/8-week session. 2437356; mydelraybeach.com 10/5 - Diamonds & Pearls Dance Team at Pompey Park, 1101 NW 2nd St, Delray Beach.

Community dance team program prides itself on passion, dedication, excellence, respect; participates in local and collegiate homecoming parades, statewide special events. Middle/ high school/college students. T/Th 6-8 pm; Sat 9 am-1 pm. Yearly $30/resident; $40/nonresident. 243-7356; mydelraybeach.com 10/5 - Drop-In Story Time at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Music, stories, fingerplays, action songs. Children all ages accompanied by an adult. Every Sat 10-10:30 am. Free. 393-7968; bocalibrary.org 10/5 - Little Wonders at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N Ocean Blvd, Boca Raton.

Hike, crafts, stories. Age 3-4. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Held again 11/2.

10-11 am. $5/member; $8/non-member.

Reservations: 544-8615; gumbolimbo.org 10/5 - smART: Golden Geometrics at Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. Studio workshops for families/intergenerational groups; focus on artistic family fun to learn, create, enjoy the visual arts. 10-11 am. $5/family. Reservations: 392-2500 x106; bocamuseum.org 10/5 - Coral Reef Shark, Alligator & Stingray Feedings at Sandoway Discovery Center, 142 S Ocean Blvd, Delray Beach. Shark T-Sat 10:30 am, Sun 1:30 pm; Alligator W/ Sat 1 pm; Stingray T-Sun 2:45 pm. Free w/$6 admission. 274-7263; sandowayhouse.org 10/5 - Radical Reptiles at Daggerwing Nature Center, 11435 Park Access Rd, Boca Raton.

Learn about these diverse scaly creatures; meet resident reptiles up close and personal.

Age 5+. 10:30 am. $3. Reservations: 629-8760; pbcnature.com 10/5 - Drop-in Craft at Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center, 129 E Ocean Ave, Boynton Beach. All ages. Every Sat. 10:30-11:30 am. Free w/paid admission. Register: 742-6780; schoolhousemuseum.org 10/5 - C-kids: Chabad Kids Club at Chabad of East Boca Raton, 120 NE 1st Ave. Age 3-12. Every Sat 10:30 am-noon. 394-9770; bocabeachchabad.org 10/5 - Story Time at Boca Raton Children’s Museum, 498 Crawford Blvd. Stories, songs, fingerplays parents and children enjoy together. All ages. T-Sat 11 am. Free w/paid admission. 368-6875; cmboca.org 10/5 - Acro Class at Showtime Performing Arts Theatre, 503 SE Mizner Blvd #73, Boca Raton.

Age 3-7. Every Sat 11-11:30 am. $10. 394-2626; showtimeboca.com 10/5 - Singing Starz Group Voice Class at Showtime Performing Arts Theatre, 503 SE Mizner Blvd #73, Boca Raton. Age 4-7. Every Sat 11:30 am-noon. $10. 394-2626; showtimeboca. co 10/5 - Tiny Toes Ballet/Tap Class at Showtime Performing Arts Theatre, 503 SE Mizner Blvd #73, Boca Raton. Age 3-7. Every Sat 11:30 am-noon. $10. 394-2626; showtimeboca. com 10/5 - Nature Detectives at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N Ocean Blvd, Boca Raton.

New mystery each month. Age 5-7 w/an adult.

Held again 11/2. 11:30 am-12:30 pm. $5/ member; $8/non-member. Reservations: 5448615; gumbolimbo.org 10/5 - Science Stories at Children’s Science Explorium, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton. Hear favorite science inspired stories. Age 5+. Every Sat 11:30 am. Free. 347-3912; scienceexplorium. org 10/5 - Kidz Hip Hop Class at Showtime Performing Arts Theatre, 503 SE Mizner Blvd #73, Boca Raton. Age 4-7. Every Sat Noon-12:30 pm. $10. 394-2626; showtimeboca.com 10/5 - Snake, Owl & Alligator Feedings at Daggerwing Nature Center, 11435 Park Access Rd, Boca Raton. Alligator W/Sat; Snake Th; Owl F 3:15-3:30 pm. Free. 629-8760; pbcnature.com 10/5-6 - Little Shop of Horrors at Sol Children Theatre, 3333 N Federal Hwy, Boca Raton. Runs through 10/20. F/Sat 7 pm; Sat/Sun 2 pm. Call for pricing. 447-8829; solchildren.org

10/26-27 - 8th Annual Boynton Beach Haunted Pirate Fest & Mermaid Splash: Tales of the Sea at 100 NE 4th St. Live music, children’s activities, pirate shows, enchanted market, more. Family fare. Sat 11 am-9 pm; Sun 11 am-6 pm. Free. 600-9097; bbpiratefest.com

Monday - 10/21 - Pineapple Jack O Lantern Carving Night at Tin Roof Delray Beach, 8 E Atlantic Ave. Includes pineapple, carving equipment & tea lights. All ages. 7-9 pm. $5.

265-5310; tinroofdelraybeach.com Friday - 10/25 - Trick ‘Em Treat ‘Em Costume Party at Rutherford Community Center, 2000 Yamato Rd, Boca Raton. Munchies, mayhem, games, more. Age 2-5. 10 am-noon. $5/ child. 367-7035; patchreefpark.org 10/25 - 7th Annual Fall Fest at Delray Beach Historical Society, 3 NE 1st St. In partnership with The Rotary Club of Delray Beach. Outdoor movie It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, spooky pumpkin patch, costume contest, ghost stories, vintage games/crafts, adult beverage bar, more. 5:30 pm. Free/DBHS member & under 3; $5/non-member. 274-9518; delraybeachhistory.org 10/25 - Halloween Hoot ‘N’ Howl at Daggerwing Nature Center, 11435 Park Access Rd, Boca Raton. Bring kids in costume. Games, crafts, learn about nocturnal creatures. Bring flashlight, bug spray. Family fare. 6 pm. Free.

629-8760; pbcnature.com 10/25 - Spooky Science Night at The Museum at South Florida Science Center and

Aquarium, 4801 Dreher Tr N, West Palm Beach.

Science crafts, activities, entertainment, exhibits, planetarium shows. 6-9 pm. $14.95/ adult; $12.95/senior; $10.95/child (3-12); $6/ adult member; free/child member & kids under 3. 832-1988; sfsciencecenter.org 10/25 - The Haunted Nature Preserve at Lantana Nature Preserve, 400 E Ocean Ave. Guided haunted trail tours, DJ dance party, costume contest, hayrides, kids carnival games, prizes, more. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. lantana.org Saturday - 10/26 - Trick-or-Treat Along the Avenue, Halloween Parade & Kidsfest starts at Big Al’s Steaks at NE 5th & Atlantic Avenues, walk along Atlantic Avenue, end at Tennis Center, 210 W Atlantic Ave. Family fare.

11:30 am-4 pm. Free. 243-7277; beardsleyd@ mydelraybeach.com 10/26 - 10th Annual Harvest Festival & Scarecrow Contest at Palm Beach County History Museum, 300 N Dixie Hwy, West Palm Beach. 2-5 pm. $10/person; free/kids under 3.

832-4164; hspbc.org 10/26 - 6th Annual Halloween Haunted House at Space of Mind, 102 N Swinton Ave, Delray Beach. All ages. 4-9 pm. 395-4433; bocaratonchamber.com 10/26 - Delray Beach Craft Beer Fest’s A Nightbeer Before Christmas at Old School Square 100 ft. Christmas Tree, 51 N Swinton Ave, Delray Beach. Classic beer garden w/a spooky twist. Fall brews, showing of Tim Burton’s classic A Nightmare before Christmas.

Prizes for best costume. Local food vendors. All ages welcome, but must be 21+ to drink. 6 pm. $5/pours. 243-7922; oldschoolsquare.org 10/26 - 10th Annual Halloween Celebration at Atlantic Grille, 1000 E Atlantic Ave, Delray Beach. Live entertainment, costume contest, door prizes, more. 11 pm costume judging commences. Check website for times/ menu prices. Limited seating/reservations: 693-3507; theatlanticgrille.com

sugarsandpark.org/cobra 10/6 - Bullying Awareness at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Part of Health & Wellness Week series. All ages. 1-2 pm. Free.

393-7852; bocalibrary.org 10/6 - Jr. Shark Biologist at Sandoway Discovery Center, 142 S Ocean Blvd, Delray Beach. Age 5-12. W 3:15 pm; Sun 12:30 pm. Free w/$6 admission. 274-7263; sandowayhouse.org Monday - 10/7 - Oh Baby at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Pre-literacy class: music, stories, rhymes, lap bounces. Age

3 months to not-yet-walking. Every M 10 am.

Free. 266-0197; delraylibrary.org 10/7 - Tales for Tadpoles at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Music/movement rhymes. Age walking-24 months. Every M 10:45 am. Free. 266-0197; delraylibrary.org 10/7 - Early Afternoon Explorers: Bump in the Night at Children’s Science Explorium, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton. Age 6-9 1-2 pm; age 10-12 2-3 pm. $10/resident; $12.50/nonresident. 347-3912; scienceexplorium.org

10/7 - Homework Assistance at Catherine Strong Park, 1500 SW 6th St, Delray Beach.

Grades K-12. Every M-F during school year 2-5 pm. Free. 243-7194; mydelraybeach.com 10/7 - Rhythmic Gymnastics: Beginner 2 at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton. Age 5-6. Every M through 10/28 3-4 pm. $80/resident; $93.75/non-resident.

347-3950; sugarsandpark.org 10/7 - Tail Waggin Tutor Louie at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Elementary school children read to certified therapy dog.

OCT 27-NOV 2

Sunday - 10/27 - Monster Mash at The Swim Center, 21618 St. Andrews Blvd, Boca Raton.

Come in costume. Activities in & out of the water, trick-or-treating, bounce house, face painting, more. Age 6 & up. 11 am-1 pm. Free.

544-8540; theracquetcenter.org/monster-mash 10/27 - Boca Boo Days Halloween Party at Patch Reef Park Tennis Center, 2000 Yamato Rd. All abilities, games followed by Pizza & Ghostly desserts. Wear your costume (sneakers required). Age 3-10. 1-2:30 pm. $3/resident; $4/ non-resident. Registration: 367-7090; patchreefpark.org 10/27 - It Takes Two Halloween Party at The Pavilion Grille, 301 Yamato Rd, Boca Raton.

Costume contest . 6 pm dinner; 8 pm dancing. $10 cover. 912-0000; paviliongrille.com Wednesday - 10/30 - The 2019 Day Before Halloween Party at Murder on the Beach Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. 12 published authors dressed in scariest costumes speak briefly about their books. Free treat bag w/every purchase. Book signing follows. 6 pm.

Free. 279-7790; murderonthebeach.com Thursday - 10/31 - Pavilion Halloween Party at The Pavilion Grille, 301 Yamato Rd, Boca Raton. Costume contest. 6 pm dinner; 8 pm dancing. $10 cover. 912-0000; paviliongrille.com 10/31 - The Silver Scream Halloween at The Addison, 2 E Camino Real, Boca Raton. Benefits Slow Burn Theatre Company. Haunted walkthrough, themed rooms, live entertainment, food, open bar. Adults only. 7:30 pm. $125/ person; $250/VIP; 561-372-0568, theaddisonofbocaraton.com

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Sunday – 10/6 - COBRA Minis Basketballl at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton. Age 3-5. Every Sun through 11/17 10-10:45 am. $80/resident; $100/non-resident.

347-3916; sugarsandpark.org/cobra 10/6 - COBRA Minis Review at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton.

Age 3-5. Every Sun through 11/17 11-11:45 am. $80/resident; $100/non-resident. 347-3916;

At The Seagate Hotel, 1000 E. Atlantic Avenue, Delray Beach *Judging will commence at 11 p.m. (must be signed in and present one hour before judging begins in order to enter costume contest).

The contest will be mediated by our entertainment professionals. The top three costumes will be voted on by fellow guests. The loudest applause wins!

H14 Tots & Teens Calendar Grade K-5. Every M 3-4 pm. Free. Register: 3937852; bocalibrary.org 10/7 - Kids in the Kitchen Cooking Club at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. After-school program introduces kids to cooking fundamentals, nutritional basics, cooking, food safety. New recipe each week.

Age 7-10. Every M through 10/28 3:30-5 pm.

Free. 266-0197; delraylibrary.org 10/7 - Genius Bar at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Grades K-8. Every M-F 3:30-5 pm. Free. 266-0197; delraylibrary. org 10/7 - Power of Play Art Class at Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. Designed to nourish/embrace the Creative Self in young artists, building confidence using a variety of art materials. Age 5-7. Every M through 12/2.

3:30-5 pm. $80. 450-6357; artsgarage.org 10/7 - Teen Game Night at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Age 13-17. Every M 6-7 pm. Free. 393-7968; bocalibrary.org Tuesday – 10/8 - “A” is for Alphabet Art at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Story time with music, puppets, movement, felt boards, fingerplays. Age 2-4. Held again 10/15.

10-11 am. Free. 266-0197; delraylibrary.org 10/8 - Tots in Tutus at Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center, 129 E Ocean Ave, Boynton Beach. Preschoolers ballet. Age 2-5. Held again 10/15. 11:30 am-12:15 pm. Per session $8/member; $10/ non-member + admission. RSVP: 742-6782; schoolhousemuseum.org 10/8 - Daggerwing Visits the Library: Snakes at Glades Road Branch Library, 20701 95th Ave S, Boca Raton. Special program, live animal ambassadors. Age 5+. 3:30 pm. Free.

Reservations: 482-4554; pbcnature.com 10/8 - Fire Safety for You and Me at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Grades K-8. 3:30-4:30 pm. Free. 266-0197; delraylibrary.org 10/8 - COBRA Minis Basketball at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton.

Age 3-5. Every T through 11/19 3:30-4:15 pm. $80/resident; $100/non-resident. 347-3916; sugarsandpark.org/cobra 10/8 - TAB (Teen Advisory Board) Meeting at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. 4:30-6 pm. Free. 266-0197; delraylibrary. org 10/8 - A Culinary Trip Around the World at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton.

Experience traveling to different countries w/ exposure to their food, music, dress, sports, many other cultural differences in a classroom setting. Age 6-12. Every T through 10/29 5-6 pm. $80/resident; $100/non-resident. 3473900; sugarsandpark.org 10/8 - 62nd Annual Cotillion Academy at Wyndham Grand Jupiter at Harbourside Place, 122 Soundings Ave. Presented by Junior League of the Palm Beaches. 21st-century approach to modern-day etiquette. Boys & girls age 8 & up. 2nd T through 3/10 6-7:15 pm. $425-$600.

Register: 667-9992; jlpb.org 10/8 - Anime Night at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Age 9-17. 6-7:30 pm.

Free. Registration: 393-7968; bocalibrary.org 10/8-9 - Sensational Story ‘n More at Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center, 129 E Ocean Ave, Boynton Beach. Children’s books come to life through interactive performance, singing, movement, props. Age 2-5. Every T 10:30 am & W 2 pm. Free w/paid admission. 742-6780; schoolhousemuseum.org Wednesday - 10/9 - Animal Keeper for a Day at Daggerwing Nature Center, 11435 Park Access Rd, Boca Raton. Kids may get messy! Age 8+. 10 am. $10/person. Reservations: 6298760; pbcnature.com 10/9 - Family Storytime at Boynton Beach City Library, 115 N Federal Hwy. Age infant to 5 yrs. Every W 10-11 am. Free. 742-6380; boyntonlibrary.org 10/9 - Yoga Fun for Everyone at Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center, 129 E Ocean Ave, Boynton Beach. All ages. Every W 10:30-11:15 am. Free w/paid admission. 7426780; schoolhousemuseum.org 10/9 - Playground Playdate at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton. Get info about upcoming programs, enjoy free kids’ activities. 11 am-12:30 pm. Free. 347-3900; sugarsandpark.org 10/9 - Tiny Tots Storytime at Sandoway Discovery Center, 142 S Ocean Blvd, Delray Beach. Age 0-4. Every W 11-11:30 am. Free w/$6 admission. 274-7263; sandowayhouse.org 10/9 - Lil’ Explorers: Super Sensory Messy Play at Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center, 129 E Ocean Ave, Boynton Beach. Explore, develop important readiness skills. Age 2-5 yrs. Every W (no class 10/16, held 2 pm after 10/16) 3 pm. Per class $4/member; $5/non-member + admission. 742-6780; schoolhousemuseum.org 10/9 - Little Makers: Osmo & Tiggly at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Age 6-8.

3:30-4:30 pm. Free. Registration: 393-7968; bocalibrary.org

The COASTAL STAR 10/9 - Racing Robots at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Grades K-8. 3:304:30 pm. Free. 266-0197; delraylibrary.org 10/9 - Spanish Storytime at Delray Beach Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Age 0-5. Every W through 12/11 3:30 pm. Free. Registration: 2660197; delraylibrary.org 10/9 - Edible Art Class at Rutherford Community Center, 2000 Yamato Rd, Boca Raton. Create art you eat! Age 6-12. Every W through 10/30 5-6 pm. $65/resident; $81/nonresident. 367-7035; myboca.us 10/9 - Delray Divas Step Teams at Pompey Park, 1101 NW 2nd St, Delray Beach. Organized, structured step team performs at local events & statewide competitions; reinforces role of youth as positive members of the community.

Grades K-12. Every M/W 6-8:30 pm. Yearly $30/resident; $40/non-resident. 243-7356; mydelraybeach.com 10/9 - The Fire Within by Chris d’Lacey part of Tween Book Jam at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Age 9-12. 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. Registration: 393-7968; bocalibrary. org Thursday - 10/10 - Impact Day at DeVosBlum Family YMCA, 9600 S Military Tr, Boynton Beach. See all that YMCA does in South Palm Beach County. Favorite Super Heroes help kickoff the Annual Giving Campaign (5-6 pm). 9 am-5 pm. Free. 300-3238; ymcaspbc.org 10/10 - Impact Day at Peter Blum Family YMCA, 6631 Palmetto Circle S, Boca Raton. See all that YMCA does in South Palm Beach County.

9 am-5 pm. Free. 300-3238; ymcaspbc.org 10/10 - Pre-Coding with Lego Duplo Trains at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Age 3+. 10-11 am. Free. 266-0197; delraylibrary.org 10/10 - Drop-In Story Time at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Music, stories, fingerplays, action songs. Children all ages; 8 & younger must be accompanied by an adult. Every Th 10-10:30 am. Free. 393-7968; bocalibrary.org 10/10 - Manners & Etiquette Class at Rutherford Community Center, 2000 Yamato Rd, Boca Raton. Explore different interactive skills/processes of good manners. Age 3-5.

Every Th through 10/31 10-11 am. $65/resident; $81/non-resident. 367-7035; myboca.us 10/10 - Pre-School Code-A-Pillar at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Age 4+. 3:30-4:30 pm. Free. 266-0197; delraylibrary.org 10/10 - PAWS to Read with Therapy Dog Cozi at Boynton Beach City Library, 115 N Federal Hwy. Every Th. 4 pm. 742-6393; boyntonlibrary.org 10/10 - Chess for Kids at Rutherford Community Center, 2000 Yamato Rd, Boca Raton. Learn about the pieces, how to set them up, move them, interrelate them, do check/ checkmate moves. Age 4-12. Every Th through 11/7. 5:30-6:30 pm. $95/resident; $119/nonresident. 367-7035; myboca.us 10/10 - Teen Pajama Movie Night at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Age 1317. 6-8 pm. Free. 393-7968; bocalibrary.org 10/10-11 - Karate/Martial Arts Classes at Delray Beach Community Center, 50 NW 1st Ave. Karate & blend of other combat martial arts.

Age 9 to adult. Every Th/F 6-7 pm. Per month $10/resident; $12/non-resident; $25/one-time uniform fee. 243-7356; mydelraybeach.com Friday - 10/11 - Tumble Tots with First Steps Dance and Tumbling at Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center, 129 E Ocean Ave, Boynton Beach. Age 2-5 yrs. 11:30 am. $8/member; $10/non-member w/paid admission. 742-6780; schoolhousemuseum.org 10/11 - The Art of the Story at Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center, 129 E Ocean Ave, Boynton Beach. Children create their own art in the style of the featured book.

Age 3-7 yrs. 3-3:45 pm. Free w/paid admission.

742-6780; schoolhousemuseum.org 10/11 - Animal Encounters at Sandoway Discovery Center, 142 S Ocean Blvd, Delray Beach. All ages. Every F 3 pm. Free w/$6 admission. 274-7263; sandowayhouse.org 10/11 - Catherine Strong Girls Club at Catherine Strong Park, 1500 SW 6th St, Delray Beach. Designed to boost confidence, morale, provide positive guidance. Program provides volunteer opportunities, etiquette, personal hygiene training, open discussions, educational guest speakers, health & fitness awareness, arts & crafts, excursions, refreshments. Age 6-18. 2nd F 5:30-6:30 pm. Free. 243-7194; mydelraybeach.com 10/11 - Friday Night at the Museum at Children’s Science Explorium, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton. A night out without your parents! Wear comfy clothes, hang out in the Explorium after hours, watch a movie, do a fun experiment. Age 7-12. 6-9:30 pm. $20/resident; $25/non-resident. 347-3912; scienceexplorium. org Saturday - 10/12 - Mouse Trap Car Workshop at South Florida Science Center Stiles-Nicholson STEM Education Center, 4801 Dreher Tr N, West Palm Beach. Interactive,

inquiry style demonstrates construction process of a mousetrap car. Participants make precise metric measurements, use basic tools, follow verbal & written directions to construct a basic, geared mousetrap car to meet specifications shown on a technical drawing of a mousetrap car. Led by Palm Beach County Science Teachers. Age 9+ (adults welcome, too). 9 am-noon. $20/person. 370-7710; sfsciencecenter.org 10/12 - Expedition: Science Playground at Children’s Science Explorium, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton. A close look at the scientific principles found in the inclusive Science Playground. Age 5+ with parent/guardian. 2nd Sat 9-10 am. Free. 347-3912; scienceexplorium. org 10/12 - Family Studio at Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S Olive Ave, West Palm Beach.

Children w/adult partner tour the special exhibition, then create their own artwork. Age 5-12 w/parents. Held again 10/19 & 26. 10:30 am-12:30 pm. $1/materials fee payable at the door. Registration: 832-5196 x1138; norton.org 10/12 - Anti-bullying Jazz Concert for Kids at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Age 4-10. 1-2 pm. Free. 266-0197; delraylibrary.org 10/12 - Are You Ready for College?: Applying for FAFSA at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Monthly college readiness workshop presented by Scholar Career Coaching. Grades 9-12. 2nd Sat 2-4 pm.

Free. 266-0197; delraylibrary.org 10/12-13 - Science Demos at Children’s Science Explorium, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton. Hear favorite science-inspired stories. Age 7 & up. 3:30 pm. Free. 347-3912; scienceexplorium.org

OCTOBER 13-19

Monday - 10/14 - Baby Bookworm at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Storytime for infants accompanied by an adult.

Age 3 months to walking. Every M 11-11:30 am.

Free. Registration: 393-7852; bocalibrary.org 10/14 - Children’s Fitness Classes/ Gymnastics at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton. Build confidence/ coordination. Every M through 12/16. Age 3-4 40-minute class 1:15, 2 & 2:45 pm; age 5-6 55-minute class 3:45 pm; age 7 & up 55-minute class 4:45 pm. 40-minute class $81/resident, $101.25/non-resident; 55-minute class $117/ resident, $146.25/non-resident. 347-3950; sugarsandpark.org 10/14 - Adventures in Reading at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Discuss beginner reader books; do fun activities related to the books. Child attends independently. Age 4-6. Every M 3:30-4 pm. Free. Register: 3937968; bocalibrary.org 10/14 - Intermediate Coding at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Students must have been in a previous Beginning Coding class to enroll. Age 7-11: 3:30-4:15 pm; ages 12-17: 4:30-5:15 pm. Free. Enrollment: 393-7968; bocalibrary.org 10/14 - Teen Game Night at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Age 13-17.

Every M 6-7 pm. Free. 393-7968; bocalibrary.org Tuesday - 10/15 - Toddlers Tales at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Age up to 3 years; children must be accompanied by an adult. Every T 4 10-10:30 am. Free. Registration: 393-7968; bocalibrary.org 10/15 - Mother Nature & Me: Night Creatures at Daggerwing Nature Center, 11435 Park Access Rd, Boca Raton. Experience nature topics through stories, puppets, games, role play, nature walks, crafts. Age 2-5 w/guardian.

10:30 am. $4/child. Reservations: 629-8760; pbcnature.com 10/15 - Musical Theatre Experience Class: The Addams Family at Showtime Performing Arts Theatre, 503 SE Mizner Blvd #73, Boca Raton. Children audition, act, sing, dance, perform. Age 5-11. Every T through 1/14 3:30-5 pm. $480. 394-2626; showtimeboca.com 10/15 - 3D Printing Class at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Age 8 & up. 3:30 pm. Free. Registration: 266-0798; delraylibrary.org 10/15 - Light Table Fun at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Age 3-5. Held again 10/22. 3:30 pm. Free. 266-0197; delraylibrary. org 10/15 - BeTeen the Lines: A Readers Club at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Age 13+. 1st & 3rd T 4:30-5:30 pm. Free.

Registration: 819-6405; delraylibrary.org 10/15 - Teen Anime Club at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Age 13-17. 6-7 pm.

Free. Registration: 393-7968; bocalibrary.org 10/15 - Teen Book Club: Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Age 13-17. 6:30-7:30 pm. Free.

393-7968; bocalibrary.org Wednesday - 10/16 - Reading & Rhythm for 2-3s at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Literacy enrichment class: stories, music, movement. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Every W 10-10:30 am.

October 2019 Free. Registration: 393-7968; bocalibrary.org 10/16 - Children’s Fitness Classes/ Gymnastics at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton. Build confidence/ coordination. Every W through 12/18. Age 2-3 (parent/child) 40-minute class 1:15 -1:55 pm; age 3-4 40-minute class 2-2:40 pm & 2:45-3:25 pm; age 5-6 55-minute class 3:45-4:40 pm; age 7 & up 55-minute class 4:45-5:40 pm. 40-minute class $81/resident, $101.25/non-resident; 55-minute class $117/ resident, $146.25/non-resident. 347-3950; sugarsandpark.org 10/16 - Homeschool Workshop: Creepy Critters at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N Ocean Blvd, Boca Raton. Join Gumbo Limbo Educators for science-based lessons for homeschool students (a parent is required to stay w/child). Participate in activities related to the monthly topic, prepared specifically with focus on student’s age group. Age 3-5: 2-3 pm; age 6-9: 2-3:30 pm; age 9-12: 2-3:30 pm. $5/member; $3/sibling member; $8/nonmember; $6/sibling non-member. 544-8611; gumbolimbo.org 10/16 - Tie Dye Leaves or Pumpkins at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Grades K-8. 4:15 pm. Free. 266-0197; delraylibrary.org 10/16 - TCG Club (Card Games) for Tweens at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Age 9-12. 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. 393-7968; bocalibrary.org Thursday – 10/17 - Tail Waggin Tutor Stella at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Elementary school children read to certified therapy dog. Grades K-5. Every Th 3-4 pm. Free.

Register: 393-7852; bocalibrary.org 10/17 - Osmo Adventures at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Age 6+. 3:30 pm. Free. 266-0197; delraylibrary.org 10/17 - Teen Tech Lab Series: DJ Workshop at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Age 10-17. 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. 393-7968; bocalibrary.org Friday – 10/18 - Fabulous Fun Friday: Mad Scientist Day! at Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center, 129 E Ocean Ave, Boynton Beach. Fun with crafts/activities match the theme of the week. All ages. 10:3011:15 am. $4/member; $5/non-member w/paid admission. 742-6780; schoolhousemuseum.org Saturday - 10/19 - Code Palm Beach Workshop at South Florida Science Center and Aquarium, 4801 Dreher Tr N, West Palm Beach.

Learn how to code in the world of technology.

Age 7-17. 2-4 pm. Free. Registration: 425-8918; sfsciencecenter.org/code-palm-beach

OCTOBER 20-26

Wednesday - 10/23 - Booktastic Book Club: The Bad Guys by Aaron Blabey at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Free copy of book w/registration. Age 7-8. Child attends independently. Registration: 3:30-4:30 pm.

Free. 393-7852; bocalibrary.org 10/23 - Creative Cloud Lab: Editing and Mixing with Adobe Audition at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Age 12+.

5:30-7 pm. Free. 266-0196; delraylibrary.org Thursday - 10/24 - Youth Makers: Light Up at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Age 9-12. 4:30-5:30 pm. Free. Registration: 393-7968; bocalibrary.org 10/24 - Create It @ Your Library: Zines at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Age 13-17. 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. 393-7968; bocalibrary.org Saturday - 10/26 - 3D Printing Workshop at Stiles-Nicholson STEM Education Center (across the parking lot from the South Florida Science Center), 4800 Dreher Tr N, West Palm Beach. Age 8-15 9 am-noon. $45/per session.

Registration: 832-2026; sfsciencecenter.org 10/26 - Monthly Programming Class at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. In partnership w/Code Palm Beach introduces students to computer coding technology. No experience necessary. Bring laptop or one will be provided. Age 6-14. 4th Sat 2-3:30 pm. Free.

Register: 266-0197; delraylibrary.org

OCT 27-NOV 2

Sunday – 10/27 - S’more Science at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N Ocean Blvd, Boca Raton. Campfire program in the garden amphitheater w/a yummy treat. Different topic each month. All ages; children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. 5-6 pm. $3/member; $5/non-member. 544-8615; gumbolimbo.org Tuesday - 10/29 - Kidokinetics at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton. New sport each week. Soccer, hockey, tennis, basketball, volleyball, golf, hula hoops, obstacle courses, T-ball, more. Every T through 12/17. Age 3-5 3:45-4:30 pm; age 2-4 4:30-5:15 pm (some parent involvement). $84/resident; $105/nonresident. 954-385-8511; kidokinetics.com 10/29 - GEMS Club: Spooky Science at South Florida Science Center and Aquarium, 4801 Dreher Tr N, West Palm Beach. Empower young girls to explore STEM fields. Girls grades 3-8.

High school girls can volunteer to be mentors.

5-7 pm. $7/advance; $9/at the door. Register: 370-7710; sfsciencecenter.org/gem Wednesday - 10/30 - Kidokinetics at Rutherford Community Center, 2000 Yamato Rd, Boca Raton. Educational developmental class. Age 1.5-4 years. Every W through 12/18 10-10:45 am & 11-11:45 am. $72/resident; $90/ non-resident. 367-7035; myboca.us 10/30 - Spiders and Snakes at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Ages 5+.

3:30 pm. Free. 266-0197; delraylibrary.org 10/30 - Green Screen Video Production & Adobe Premiere Pro at Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave. Age 12+. 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. 266-0196; delraylibrary.org 10/30 - Youth Archery Class at Meadows Park Tennis Court, 1300 NW 8th St, Boca Raton Skill development, paper target practice. Age 8-13.

Every W through 12/11. 6-7 pm. $60/resident; $75/non-resident. 393-7807; myboca.us Thursday - 10/31 - Kidz Club at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton.

Social play group for extra social skills practice (e.g., taking turns, communicating with peers, asking questions, more). Fun games, creative activities. Instructor To’Rica Exume, My Florida Therapy. Open to all children with special needs. Age 5-15. Every Th through 11/22 4:305:30 pm. $175/resident; $218.75/non-resident + $5/ materials fee to instructor at 1st class.

347-3950; sugarsandpark.org 10/31 - Lego Buddies at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton. Open to all children with special needs. Age 5-15.

Every Th through 11/21 5:45-6:45 pm. $175/ resident; $218.75/non-resident. 347-3950; sugarsandpark.org Friday - 11/1 - Stories in the Gardens: The Green Literacy Experience at Ann Norton Sculpture Garden, 253 Barcelona Rd West Palm Beach. Celebrate National Family Literacy Month; read a good book in a beautiful tropical garden. Family fare. Special storyteller for children age 2-6. Every F in Nov 9-10 am. Free.

832-5328; ansg.org 11/1 - First Fridays Community Helper: Police Officer at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton. Hands-on activities, information. Age 3-5. 10-10:30 am. Free.

Registration: 347-3900; sugarsandpark.org 11/1 - Rhythmic Gymnastics: Beginner 1 at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton. Age 4-5. Every F through 11/29 3-4 pm. $80/resident; $93.75/non-resident. 3473950; sugarsandpark.org 11/1 - Up, Up, and Away by Mad Science of Palm Beach at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Elementary school age. Children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult.

3:30-4:30 pm. Free. 393-7968; bocalibrary.org 11/1 - Rhythmic Gymnastics: Intermediate at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton. Age 7-12. Every W/F through 11/29 4-5:30 pm $180-$225; W only 11/6-27 $100-$125; F only 11/1-29 $125-$156.25. 3473950; sugarsandpark.org Saturday – 11/2 - Lil Sluggers Baseball at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton.

Designed to introduce children to baseball.

Every Sat through 12/21. Age 4-5 8:15-9 am; age 2 9:15-10 am; age 3 10:15-11 am; age 3.5-4 11:15 am-noon. $144/resident; $180/nonresident. 347-3900; sugarsandpark.org 11/2 - Sensory-Friendly Saturday at Children’s Science Explorium, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton. Explore the museum in sensory modified setting with sound/light adjustments. 1st Sat 9-10 am. Free. 347-3912; scienceexplorium.org 11/2 - Soccer Shots at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton. Indoor intro to soccer program focuses on teaching children skills in a non-competitive environment, builds on skills week to week. Every Sat through 12/14.

Age 2-3½ 9:30-10 am or 10-10:30 am; age 3½-5 10:30-11:15 am. $100/resident; $125/nonresident. 347-3900; sugarsandpark.org 11/2 - smART: Wonderous Weaving at Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. Studio workshops for families/intergenerational groups focus on artistic family fun to learn, create, enjoy the visual arts. 10-11 am. $5/ family; free/member. Reservations: 392-2500 x106; bocamuseum.org 11/2 - Dino-Light at Palm Beach State College Duncan Theatre, 4200 Congress Ave, Lake Worth. Part of Family Fun Series. 11 am. Free.

868-3309; duncantheatre.org 11/2 - Science Stories at Children’s Science Explorium, 300 S Military Tr, Boca Raton. Hear science inspired stories. Age 5+. Every Sat 11:30 am. Free. 347-3912; scienceexplorium.org 11/2 - Code Palm Beach at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Ages 8-17. 1-3 pm.

Free. Enrollment: 393-7968; bocalibrary.org 11/2 - Shrek Jr. at Showtime Performing Arts Theatre, 503 SE Mizner Blvd, Boca Raton. Every Sat through 12/7 4 pm. $25/adult; $15/student.

394-2626; showtimeboca.com

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House of the Month The two-story living room stands beyond the reception hall and features a baronial styled fireplace and a window wall overlooking the Intracoastal.

Hand-carved mahogany doors open into the impressive foyer with a 35-foot frescoed ceiling, mosaic inlaid floors and a butterfly staircase.

The Tuscan-style estate boasts a grand scale (more than 1.5 acres), complete privacy and 383 feet of waterfront.

Magnificent Italian-style estate in Point Manalapan

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his palatial estate with 72,934 square feet of lot, known as Serena Magi, commands a breathtaking vantage point on a tranquil lagoon leading onto the Intracoastal Waterway. It is a stately villa with 16,301 +/- total square feet and six bedrooms, eight and one-half baths, a three-car garage and state-of-the-art amenities throughout.

Inside, the dining room’s chandelier and the library’s hand-carved mahogany mantel are among the mansion’s treasures curated from around the world. The dining room has a 2,500-bottle, climate-controlled wine cellar and butler’s pantry. A chef’s kitchen features a pecky cypress coffered ceiling, custom cabinetry, granite counters, butcher block island and professional grade appliances.

Served by an elevator, the master suite has a large bedroom and sitting room with a fireplace, built-in bar and armoire, a private waterfront balcony and lavish his-andhers baths. Separate staff quarters have their own living room, kitchenette, bedroom, bath and double balconies.

The property overlooks the lagoon. An elegant garden terrace surrounds the pool and grounds, which are privately walled and gated. The palm-lined entry is served by a Chicago brick circular drive and elaborate fountain. A private dock on the Intracoastal completes this extraordinary waterfront estate.

Offered at $7,999,000 by Pascal Liguori, Premier Estate Properties, 561-278-0100, premierestateproperties.com

Particular details outside include a summer kitchen and cabana bath, well-appointed poolside loggia, gazebo bar and infinity-edge pool with spa and tiered fountains.

Each month, The Coastal Star features a house for sale in our community. The House of the Month is presented as a service to our advertisers and provides readers with a peek inside one of our houses.

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