The Coastal Star February 2010

Volume 3 . Issue 2

February 2010

Serving Hypoluxo Island, South Palm Beach, Manalapan, Ocean Ridge, Briny Breezes, Gulf Stream and Coastal Delray Beach

Along the Coast

Boynton Beach

Coming to a corner near you: Walmart?

By Thomas R. Collins

“We have 17 greens without papillomas (tumors) who are staying on longer as patients due to pneumonia or other issues,” he says. Tumors that grow around the eyes are bad news for turtles and can lead to blindness. “We have around 35 turtles with fibropapilloma (a disease is known to be infectious among sea turtles) and are assessing their state of health and awaiting instructions from the state as to what to do with them since we do not have the equipment (carbon

For years, city planners in Boynton Beach have been trying to cultivate an urban feel to Federal Highway, with attractive buildings close to the roadways to make life more pleasant for walkers and to draw new residents to the east.

Now, here comes a business that has a reputation of being about as un-urban as you can get: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. The big-box staple of smalltown, rural life wants to build a store at the city’s southern entryway: the intersection of Federal Highway and Gulfstream Boulevard. The city’s planning board recently recommended approval.

The topic goes to city commissioners on Feb. 16.

The 93,000-square-foot store, which is actually a little below the average Walmart size, would take the place of an abandoned strip mall and the old, crime-plagued Aphrodite’s strip joint and Club Ovation nightclub, all longstanding blotches on the city’s landscape.

Still, you can predict the response of residents in the town of Gulf Stream across the street: outrage.

They say the city is pushing

See TURTLES on page 8

See WALMART on page 3

Green sea turtles rescued during the recent cold snap head back to sea at Red Reef Park after being treated at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center’s new sea turtle rehabilitation center, which cared for more than 100 turtles. Photo by Tim Stepien

New sea turtle rehab center comes to the rescue in a big way

By Mary Thurwachter January’s longer-than-ever cold snap had us all crawling under our covers and turning up the heat. But for sea turtles, warming up wasn’t so easy.

When the water dropped below the normal body temperature of the coldblooded sea turtles, their metabolic rate dropped as well. They became lethargic and stopped swimming and eating.

Many were left floating, and sometimes washed ashore.

By the middle of the month, Gumbo Limbo Nature Center’s new sea turtle rehabilitation center had more patients than they ever imagined.

“We have been getting an average of 20 turtles every day in the past week,” says Kirt Rusenko, a marine conservationist at the Boca Raton facility.

So far, 175 turtles had been admitted and about 90 released since Jan 5. Three were dead on arrival and four were euthanized because of the severity of their condition.

They were buried at the beach.

Briny Breezes

Officer finds patrolling this quiet town a contrast to Boynton Beach

By Kelly Wolfe

It’s 8:03 on a Saturday night in January — arguably the busy season — on a mild evening just after the cold snap.

Boynton Beach Police Officer Mike Mulcahy is on duty.

In the past hour and a half, he’s cruised each Briny street; shined his spotlight in between each trailer; walked the length of the clubhouse and checked the beach for vagrants.

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He has sat at the red light; shined lights on the boats and been invited to a fish fry.

Suddenly, screams pierce the quiet night.

Mulcahy races in that direction. In his bulletproof vest, flashlight and sidearm, he’s ready for anything.

But what Mulcahy discovers is an overzealous swimmer.

This is the Briny beat.

It came at a cost of $212,100 in 2009, and Briny Beach’s contract with Boynton Beach

Boynton Beach Officer Mike Mulcahy takes a break from patrol to watch Phil McQuilling playing ping pong in Briny Breezes.

Photo by Jerry Lower

See BRINY on page 10

Monitoring Haiti

Officials gear up for a potential influx of refugees in earthquake’s aftermath.

Plus: What local people are doing to help.

Pages 12-13 Obituaries, Page 29

House of the Month

A beautifully restored Hypoluxo Island home. Page 38

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We don’t publish advertorials.

You know: the stuff that looks like a news story, but when you begin to read it you recognize it as being purely promotional.

It’s been suggested by other small publishers that we do this as a way to increase revenue and get editorial content for free.

We won’t.

True, we are trying to make a living from The Coastal Star, but we are also attempting to deliver a publication that is trusted by our readers. That’s important to us.

We realize we are hiking into deep woods by starting a community newspaper during economically trying times; and we are trying to keep an open mind when it comes to ideas for generating revenue. The danger is that blurring the line between reporting and advertising could jeopardize the affinity we have built with readers over the past year, and maintaining readers’ confidence is paramount to us.

There is a way to reach our readers with a business message, however, by selfpublishing on our Web site, www.thecoastalstar.ning. com. Just click on Forums and select either Business Announcements or Classifieds.

Both are free. Several local businesses are already using this service to reach our online community.

Similarly, many of our readers have asked us to publish

their columns, stories or opinions.

Among them are proven or aspiring writers, whose work we are interested in sharing — particularly those informative and timely topics that resonate with other readers. Writers can email their work to me at editor@thecoastalstar.com.

In the economics of newspapers, however, story space is created by the sale of advertising. As editor, I am always balancing space needed for news and features with revenues created by ad sales. And there is always more “copy” than there is space.

But once again, our Web site provides an alternative for material that does not make it into print. Reader/writers can post their work at www. thecoastalstar.ning.com. Again, select Forums then choose Island Talk to share your writing.

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Just log in to our Web site and click Photos. Many of our online members do this on a regular basis. It’s always great to see what’s happening in our community.

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—Mary Kate Leming, editor

Marine gave mom early hint of direction

Looking back, there really wasn’t much doubt about what John D. O’Connell was going to be when he grew up. “I have a picture of him when he was 3,” said his mother, Debby O’Connell, a Realtor with Hampton Real Estate in Ocean Ridge. “He was saluting.”

Flash forward 21 years.

The saluting toddler is now a 24-year-old Marine, a first lieutenant stationed in Afghanistan.

“When he heard he was going to Afghanistan, he was thrilled,” Debby O’Connell said. “I was devastated. He loves his country. He’d say to me, ‘Mom, someone has to do this.’ ” As for O’Connell, he’s not exactly sure how it all happened, but he’s glad it did.

“I am still trying to figure out why I became a Marine,” he wrote in an e-mail from his undisclosed posting. “I do know that I love what I do.”

What he does is command a platoon of about 40 Marines who fire missiles — the setup is called HIMARS, for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems — at Taliban positions. Each rocket carries a 196-pound payload of high explosives with a range of about 10 to 50 miles. Suffice it to say, they can make a lot of noise.

Yet O’Connell has a quieter battle to fight: loneliness.

He wrote that his greatest challenge is “the loneliness that comes with being a position commander.”

Lacking peers for casual banter, he said, “When I would see other lieutenants from the battery, it was awesome just to talk with them.”

Down time is spent working out in a “gym” he and his fellow Marines built. “Our pull bar is made out of poles from an old cot,” he wrote.

In the arid plains of woolly Afghanistan, (“When we first

1st Lt. John O’Connell is expected to return home in late February. At left, his platoon launches missiles at Taliban positions. Photos provided

got here, it was 130 degrees.

Now it gets into the low 30s during the night”) he misses the ocean. Brought up in Boynton Beach, O’Connell worked as a dive master in Fort Lauderdale.

A 2007 graduate with a degree in criminal justice from University of North Florida in Jacksonville, he had already attended officer candidate school.

Debby O’Connell misses her son fiercely. “I can’t even watch the news. I just want my son to come home. John and I are very, very close. Even in college, even (in basic training) in California, we’d talk three, four times a week.

“When he was sent overseas in July, the first month, I heard nothing from him. That’s the horror. Not knowing.”

She’s covered the front of her refrigerator with funny

e-mails she receives from her son and counts the days until his return. She sends him care packages, which take more than a month to arrive. “We mailed his Christmas package the day after Thanksgiving, and it got there just in time,“ she said.

Her son’s only proviso: “Don’t send me anything that would embarrass me.”

What do the troops like to get from home? Don’t laugh: “The best things to send are baby wipes. You can’t run out.

“The packages are nice.

When my fiancée would send me stuff, it was amazing because I could smell her perfume in the box. That helps with the loneliness.”

Reading materials? “The most popular magazines were US, People and Cosmo. The Cosmo because the perfume ads are amazing.”

O’Connell is proving his mettle in the war on terrorism.

He is up for review at the next captain promotion board and could be made a captain sometime next year.

The family has a history of military service. Debby O’Connell recalled what John’s grandfather, a military engineer, told his father, who served in the Air Force: “I loved the Marines. They would go in and make it safe, and then we would go in there.”

If all goes according to plan, O’Connell will be home for a visit at the end of this month.

He said to tell his family: “I love you guys and I will see you soon.”

John O’Connell was nominated to be a Coastal Star by his mother, Debby O’Connell, and the staff at Hampton Real Estate.

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forward without making sure the appearance is acceptable and that disturbance to nearby neighborhoods is minimized.

“They seem to be rushing to a decision without several things finalized,” said Ned McDonald, who lives in the Place Au Soleil neighborhood just east of the site.

“We as residents are terribly concerned by the appearance,” said Bob Ganger, who leads the Gulf Stream Civic Association.

And traffic. And crime, he said.

City planners say that because the property is already zoned as Walmart needs it — commercial — there’s little that can be done to prevent the store from coming in. So far, they’ve only tried to contain it, making the discount giant add architectural features to make it more compatible with what planners have in mind for the area. The features include more windows to make it look like there’s a second floor, awnings and features to make it look like there’s more than one storefront.

The planning board’s approval recommendation is contingent on those changes being made. In the process, the board agreed with city planners that the Walmart could be farther away from the road than city regulations call for, saying it won’t impose a great hardship on surrounding properties.

Even as his department recommended approval for the Walmart, Planning Director Mike Rumpf expressed some misgivings.

“My first choice would have been the project previously approved for this site,” Rumpf said, referring to plans for the Heritage Club, a combination of residences and shops, which fell through.

Walmart officials are telling

Walmart’s early plans (above) are being altered in an attempt to meet design conditions outlined by Boynton staff. the city that it is becoming more accustomed to adapting to urban environments.

Community redevelopment officials in the city point out that the store is almost two miles from the heart of the city’s downtown near Boynton Beach Boulevard and say it will provide important services for eastern residents.

And they tout the roughly 300 jobs Wal-Mart says will be created by the 24-hour store.

The company could get $1.5 million from the Community Development Agency for coming — $5,000 per job.

“It doesn’t hurt the downtown, it helps bolster the downtown,” Assistant CRA Director Vivian Brooks said.

“It’s going to draw more traffic to our area.”

That’s part of the worry, Ganger said. Part of that traffic will be delivery trucks. “Trucks are noisy and as they accelerate they spray a lot diesel smoke,” he said.

Residents at Place au Soleil, will pay for their own landscaping plan to present to city commissioners, McDonald said.

Gulf Stream Town Manager

Letters to the Editor slowly going into the ocean Stay on the and no one seems to realize Imperial House this.

Ronni Keating Your article covering the dispute at the Imperial House was very accurate.

This has become a political standoff, when the immediate disaster is evident. The beach is eroding the foundation of this building! The towns will also feel the effect and costs if this is not addressed immediately.

The surf is pounding those temporary boulders now.

Please make this a priority to report! This building is

South Palm Beach

Newspaper welcome What a welcome attraction The Coastal Star is! Interesting articles, helpful information related to contractors, real estate, restaurants, etc.; the newspaper makes for an enjoyable read.

As a resident of South Palm .

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Bill Thrasher said he wished the city had consulted with town officials before the planning board meeting. He said he hopes delivery trucks go in and out on Old Dixie, and not Federal Highway.

“At that meeting, we weren’t afforded the opportunity to get into that part of the discussion,” he said.

He said the nearly three dozen design conditions are a “nice thing,” while adding, “No matter what you do to it, it’s going to end up looking like a big box.”

Residents quote from a report, easily found with Google, in which a group called Wake-Up Wal-Mart concludes that Walmart stores had 400 percent more reported police incidents than nearby Target stores.

Brooks said the reaction is to be expected. But she said the days of shopping at mom-andpops are long gone and the city is just accepting that reality.

“There’s always a knee-jerk reaction to a big-box store and I understand that,” she said.

“Trust me, when it’s open, they’re going to shop there.”

Beach, I found the article on the Imperial House problems to be very informative.

It would be interesting if you were to feature a retrospective story on the 1955 killings of Judge Curtis Chillingworth and his wife, Marjorie, of Manalapan. I remember reading about it, back when I was a little guy!

Thank you for this very nice edition, which serves South Palm Beach and its neighboring communities.

Keep up the good work!

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Manalapan

Sand transfer plant functional; town seeks new manager

By Margie Plunkett

The sand transfer plant at South Lake Worth Inlet is up and running, but the new silence of its electric motor may be offset by the pounding

of pilings through March, according to Manalapan Mayor Tom Gerrard.

“The plant was dead quiet from the outside,” said the mayor. The quiet motor pumps more efficiently than the old,

smoky engine — and the mayor said during the town’s January commission meeting that he thinks a lot more sand will be pumped to the Ocean Ridge side. “That’s good for the county, not necessarily good

for the beaches,” Gerrard said.

The Palm Beach County Department of Environmental Resources Management started reconstructing the sand transfer plant, jetties and a seawall on Bird Island in April. The construction was planned to increase the plant’s efficiency and replace damaged jetties and seawall.

While the plant is operating, construction is still off schedule and the county may be driving pilings for the jetties until March, Gerrard said. That could draw neighbor complaints, as has the noise and lights from a bulldozer that’s been in operation at the sand transfer plant to help move and pump sand accumulated while the plant was out of commission, he said. The town intended to verify that the county plans work only within normally allowed working hours.

In an effort to start building consensus on how much sand should be pumped, Gerrard said he met with Ocean Ridge Mayor Ken Kaleel. “My hope is that it’s an agreement we have between the parties without having to convene a technical committee,” Gerard said. “The bottom line, we don’t have the final say.

“Ocean Ridge is interested in getting more sand on the beach,” the mayor said. “The county said even if it pumped 24/7, it would not satisfy the erosion of Ocean Ridge.”

The county has replenished the sand in the past and paid for it, he noted, adding, “The county is interested in filling that beach with as much sand

as they can.”

January’s commission meeting was the first without Town Manager Greg Dunham, who resigned late last year.

The commission has started the search process and Commissioner William Berstein sorted through some 300 résumés submitted in response to advertisements, including in the Wall Street Journal and Craig’s List and government job Web sites.

Bernstein sorted out six candidates that he recommended, noting that the educational level of the bulk of résumés received was high.

None of the candidates in his short list were from South Florida, although several had experience as town managers in Florida and elsewhere.

Others had experience in the upper ranks of the military and private sector.

Mayor Gerrard directed commissioners to submit their own ranking of Bernstein’s recommended candidates by next meeting, and welcomed them to riffle through the stack of résumés to pull other candidates if they thought it appropriate. At its Feb. 23 meeting, the commission will select the top three candidates to be brought in and discuss the compensation package for the position.

In other business, Manalapan is expecting proposals it had solicited from Boynton Beach and Palm Beach County to outsource management of its water utility to be submitted by this month’s meeting.

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Forget sharks; rip currents are the bigger danger in the ocean

By Ron Hayes In 1975, Steven Spielberg made a movie called Jaws, and we’ve all been terrified of shark attacks ever since.

John Fletemeyer wishes he’d made Rips instead.

By any measure, rip currents are far more deadly than sharks, and South Florida’s winter season brings together both the rough seas that help spawn them and the family and friends from up north who know the least about them.

“In reality, sharks account for only one or two serious incidents a year in Florida,” says Fletemeyer, a research professor with the Laboratory for Coastal Research at Florida International University in Miami. “We estimate between 100 and 150 people drown in rip currents in the U.S. every year.”

Last year, for example, lifeguards at Delray Beach’s eight towers alone affected 59 ocean rescues, of which 53 were caused by rip currents.

“I’d estimate 90 to 95 percent of our rescues are rip current related,” says Bob Taylor, superintendent of the city’s Ocean Rescue division and a 29-year veteran. “Sharks are a nonissue.”

Fletemeyer and his colleague, professor Stephen Leatherman, will host the first International Rip Current Symposium at FIU Feb. 1719 to discuss, in part, surveys they’ve conducted to measure the public’s knowledge of the danger.

How to escape rip currents Relax, then swim out to the side

Rip current SOURCE: International Life Saving Federation

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“We found that tourists know a lot less about rip currents than locals,” he reports. “You get somebody from the Midwest down on vacation and they’re basically clueless.”

To begin with, rip currents are not riptide. And undertows don’t exist.

“A riptide is associated with a bay or inlet,” he notes. “It’s water coming in as a tidal current, then escaping, such as at Palm Beach Inlet. Rip currents really have nothing to do with tides.

They’re more about the underwater topography.”

And rip currents aren’t undertows, either. They don’t pull you under, they

pull you out.

A rip current forms because water naturally seeks the easiest way back to the sea. If a gap exists between two offshore sandbars, the outgoing tide from both north and south will flow toward that gap, creating a current that rushes seaward at 6 to 8 feet per second, strong enough to overwhelm even the most experienced swimmer.

The pull of a rip current is so strong, Fletemeyer warns, that even waders in waist-deep water can be caught, with the very young and very old especially vulnerable.

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Two factors that increase the ESCAPEdrownings are likelihood of rip current east winds, blowing toward the shore, and rough surf, most common during winter months. And while there are usually fewer swimmers in the water during February, they are also most likely to be tourists, increasing the danger.

They don’t know what a rip current is, and they don’t know what do if caught in one.

First, don’t panic. And then ignore your intuition.

When being pulled out to sea, the natural inclination is to swim toward shore. Do that with a rip current and you’re actually swimming against the oncoming current.

Instead, float on your back until the current takes you out and beyond its “neck” and starts to disperse. Then swim parallel to the shoreline, either north or south.

Best of all, though, is to avoid the danger as much as possible by always swimming near a lifeguard, where you have only a 1-in-18-million chance of drowning, according to the Florida Beach Patrol Chiefs Association.

“Rip currents can happen anywhere,” says Taylor, “but a healthy dose of respect for the ocean will take you a long way.”

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Lantana

Bornstein requests — and gets — a pay cut

The Lantana council has approved Town Manager Michael Bornstein’s annual evaluation and accepted Bornstein’s proposal to reduce his salary of $102,000 to $97,000 and to extend his contract through 2012.

Council approved his proposal at their Jan. 25 meeting despite sentiment voiced by several members that Bornstein was worth his salary — and that they would only

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support the proposal because he asked them to.

Bornstein, who also drew praise from residents attending the January meetings, said later that over the last couple of years he has often read about bankrupt companies laying off the rank-and-file, but he never reads about leadership making sacrifices themselves. The town manager said he believed it was the right thing to do.

— Margie Plunkett

February 2010

More beach access points put forth

By Margie Plunkett Lantana isn’t obligated to provide beach access to its neighbors, as far as the county’s concerned, and an increasingly obstinate Mayor David Stewart said he told the county that Lantana won’t allow it for anything less than a six-digit fee.

Mayor and council said at their Jan. 11 meeting that they also planned to send a letter to South Palm Beach to

set it straight on the facts in that town’s correspondence with the county.

The saga of beach access started late last year as the ocean rolled up to Imperial House’s door and threatened to topple the co-op, undaunted by the failed seawall, which needed repairs from earlier storm damage. When Imperial House of South Palm Beach sought beach access to stage equipment and materials to

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repair the wall, Lantana put up a $250,000 fee to cover beachgoers’ inconvenience as well as costs the town said it incurred because of the unrepaired wall. Lantana also said it didn’t want its taxpayers paying for South Palm Beach’s responsibilities.

The latest correspondence included a Jan. 7 letter from County Attorney Howard Falcon, responding to South Palm Beach’s inquiry to County Commissioner Steve Abrams about use restrictions on Dorothy Rissler Drive that would allow beach access. The attorney said he didn’t believe Lantana had violated use restrictions set by the county, and therefore the property would not revert to Palm Beach County.

Falcon also wrote he didn’t believe the use restrictions gave South Palm Beach or Palm Beach County any rights to access the beach.

And the county itself had to enter an interlocal agreement with Lantana giving it access for beach management. The county has no legal reason to require Lantana to allow South Palm Beach access, the attorney wrote.

Mayor Stewart and council agreed to send South Palm Beach a letter setting straight facts in that town’s inquiry to the county. In December, Town Manager Michael Bornstein wrote similarly to Imperial House’s attorney to address earlier contentions he had made.

Meanwhile, during the early January council meeting Lantana Mayor Stewart got counsel consensus to investigate whether an area of South Palm Beach docks that is actually in Lantana waters is being properly assessed in Lantana’s tax rolls. The mayor says if Lantana isn’t getting money from them, it should be.

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County Pocket

Proposal would have Boynton fire rescue respond to ‘pocket’

By Nirvi Shah

The November night Bill Dunn choked to death, it took Palm Beach County Fire Rescue nearly 13 minutes to get to his home just outside the Boynton Beach city limits.

During the painful wait for paramedics, the dispatcher tried to help Dunn’s friends fill his lungs with air, and get him to vomit and dislodge the food caught in his throat. His friends attempted to follow the dispatcher’s instructions, pleading with the dispatcher to send help, but Dunn had a seizure and stopped breathing.

“We have people dispatched.

Help is on the way,’ the dispatcher said again and again.

But by the time help arrived, Dunn had stopped breathing.

He was dead.

Palm Beach County help was coming from more than five miles away, from a station at Military Trail and Woolbright Road.

Scarcely a mile away, a Boynton Beach Fire Rescue station had no idea about Dunn’s blocked airway.

“We never want to see a tragedy like that happen again,” said County Commissioner Steven Abrams, who represents the area where Dunn lived, known as the county pocket.

Abrams met with Palm Beach County Fire Chief Steve Jerauld and Boynton Beach Fire Chief William Bingham in January to find a solution.

“Boynton Beach stepped up to say that they would work out an agreement where they would cover that entire area in the future,” Abrams said. “A tragedy is just a tragedy unless something good comes out of it.” The agreement would most likely have to be approved by the rest of the County Commission, Abrams said, but he doesn’t expect anyone to vote against it. Any financial obligation on the county’s part would be addressed when the agreement is proposed to the commission, he said.

Boynton Beach Fire Rescue spokesman Steve Lewis said it is too early to discuss the arrangement.

“At this point, it is still a conversation rather than

anything formal,” Lewis said.

County pocket resident Mike Smollon, a retired firefighter and one of Dunn’s friends, was told of his death the morning after it happened. He took it upon himself to investigate.

“He was 48,” Smollon said.

It was at his prompting that Abrams met with both fire rescue agencies. “Someone shouldn’t die because of choking to death.”

Smollon, who worked for Boynton Beach Fire Rescue for 28 years, said he is looking forward to better emergency services for residents of the county pocket. But he is still concerned about how the 911 call on the day of Dunn’s death was handled.

He remembers Boynton Beach paramedics and firefighters responding to calls on behalf of the county many times, both in life-threatening and more routine situations.

“I was in charge of my shift for the last six or seven years,” he said. If county dispatchers called, the procedure was “you send the help. Then you ask questions. Never refuse. Never ever refuse.”

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he was choking to death, so it couldn’t respond.

The agreement between the county and Boynton Beach will have to change all of that.

“They have to get the call,” Smollon said. “That’s all the county’s going to have to do.”

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Help arrived during the last week of January, when a surgical team with volunteers from Disney’s Animal Kingdom, the Georgia State Turtle Center and the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach came to do needed surgeries.

The team from Disney brought a mobile surgical unit, including lasers, and performed surgery on 32 of the fibropapilloma patients.

Volunteers turned out in record numbers to help with the afternoon turtle releases at Red Reef Park. And they got a chance to watch marine conservationists treat the sick turtles behind the large seaturtle tank at Gumbo Limbo.

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Colonial Ridge Club residents seek traffic access control

By Margie Plunkett

Colonial Ridge Club residents want to put up gates to stop motorists and pedestrians from cutting through the property located between A1A and Old Ocean Boulevard as well as using the condo’s parking spaces.

A group of residents and officers made their second appearance before Ocean Ridge commissioners Feb. 1, requesting permission to install an electric gate at the A1A entrance of the condominiums at 5505 N. Ocean Blvd., which would be attached to a wall that already encroaches the town’s right of way. Commissioners approved the request, subject to conditions including approval of a building permit.

“We’re starting the process for them to at least apply for the permit. There are many hurdles ahead of them,” Commissioner Geoffrey Pugh said, including plan review and planning issues. The plan would also

have to meet with approval by Boynton Beach Fire Rescue to insure it provides acceptable access for emergency crews.

If the gates are finally approved, Mayor Ken Kaleel said, the group would be granted a license that commissioners could revoke at any time. The group’s request set off a lively debate among the crowded audience.

The mayor noted that the Commission had required many residents to make changes because they encroached public right-ofways, including cases in which a family with children had to remove a fence and another resident had to move a hedge one foot.

The Colonial Ridge Club first laid out the plan in January that would add gates to entrances on both Old Ocean Blvd. and A1A. The gate at Old Ocean Blvd. would be an entrance only, while the A1A gate would be used solely as an exit.

Patricia Colica and

Mary Ellen Bernklau told commissioners that the gate was necessary to prevent access by motorists using the parking lot as a shortcut between A1A and Old Ocean Blvd., as well as to curtail increasing instances of crime. Besides beach-goers’ frequent use of the parking spaces, the community has had break-ins and an intruder who refused to leave its pool, they said.

“If we tell people they’re encroaching on our property, they swear at us,” said Bernklau.

The exit-only gate also would ease traffic congestion on A1A, which backs up when motorists make a left turn into the community, the group’s representative said.

Commissioners raised safety concerns at the January meeting after they were told residents could use clickers to exit through the entrance gate, and two-way traffic was planned inside the community’s gates.

Town Hall to feature artists’ work

By Linda Haase The walls in Ocean Ridge Town Hall will be transformed from stark to spectacular this month.

Instead of white, barren space, visitors and staff will be greeted by vibrant watercolors depicting banyan trees, feeding koi and palm fronds, oils portraying stunning horizons and bronze sculptures.

The exhibit — which kicks off with an open house/ silent auction/meet the artists at 6 p.m. Feb. 25 — will be displayed for two months.

“Since its official inauguration Oct. 7, 2008, the walls of the new Town Hall of Ocean Ridge have been bare.

That is about to change,” says Ocean Ridge resident Dr. John Wootton, who organized the exhibit.

Hopefully, says Wootton, it will jumpstart other exhibits and activities at the building.

“We have a beautiful Town Hall, but it’s not utilized for many things. We’d like it to be more of a hub for the community since Ocean Ridge doesn’t have any gathering spots other than the beach,” Wootton says. “There’s a book club that meets there monthly, but it would be nice to have more activities. Bringing people in for this exhibit is the first step.”

The artists, Max Matteson, Olga Moore and Steve Greenhut, hope visitors realize the importance of artwork in public places after seeing the exhibit. And, they say, it’s a great way to showcase their art.

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Steve Greenhut’s The Soothsayer of Truths will be among the sculptures and paintings on display at Ocean Ridge Town Hall in an exhibition that opens Feb. 25. with stark white walls, that’s what every artist yearns for,” says Moore, an Art Institute of Chicago graduate whose work showcases the vibrant colors in nature, using deep shadows for emphasis.

Eight of her watercolors will be displayed, including Feeding Frenzy, created after she saw fish clambering for food at the Morikami museum pond.

Greenhut’s bronze sculptures also will be displayed. Greenhut, an Ocean Ridge resident who studied under artist Luis Montoya, starts with clay to create his intricate work.

His display includes The Soothsayer of Truths, an abstract of various people he has known.

Oil paintings from Matteson’s “Horizon Series”

What: Grand Opening Art Exhibition and Reception Where: Ocean Ridge Town Hall, 6450 N. Ocean Blvd.

When: 6 p.m. Feb. 25.

Details: Opening reception includes a silent auction featuring three works (two by Olga Moore and one by Max Matteson). All proceeds from the auction will be donated to public art in Ocean Ridge as will 35 percent of the proceeds from any sold exhibited artwork. are minimalist in nature, imparting a sense of pleasure, rest and repose.

“I use a blending of colors which is very soothing,” says Matteson — also an Ocean Ridge resident, whose work is also displayed at Button Gallery in Douglas, Mich.

“The commission wanted to get some paintings up but didn’t have money to buy them.

John took the bull by the horns and organized this,” says Ocean Ridge Town Manager Ken Schenck.

“These are first-class, professional artists and their work will definitely beautify things. It will also be something else for citizens to see and get involved in.”

Moore and Matteson’s artwork will be available for sale. Proceeds will be used to support public art in Ocean Ridge.

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calls for a 4 percent increase each year. The contact expires Oct. 1. and Briny has sent out a request for proposals.

Residents are expected to be locked in debate over the next few months, weighing the cost of the contract with whether this level of service is required.

“It’s a lot of money,” said Harold “Doc” Burton, who’s had a presence in Briny for the past 40 years. “Does Briny get its money’s worth? I can’t tell you that. It’s something that deserves, and should have, discussion. I don’t know.”

Before hiring Boynton Beach, Briny contracted with the 13-member Ocean Ridge Police Department. This year Ocean Ridge responded to Briny’s RFP with a proposed cost of $185,000 and without conditions stating that if an emergency were to occur in both places at the same time, police officers would respond to Ocean Ridge first — a condition of an earlier contract objected to

by Briny. Still, Briny Breezes had requirements that Ocean Ridge felt they couldn’t meet.

“They wanted us to guarantee that a police officer would sit in Briny Breezes for eight hours,” Terry Brown, Ocean Ridge City Councilman said. “That’s a whole shift. We

Boynton Beach Police Officer Mike Mulcahy catches a light-hearted moment during a dominoes game. Photo by Jerry Lower

can’t do that.”

Briny Breezes Mayor Roger Bennett said the town started to get quite a few “curious visitors” back in 2006, when it looked like a property sale was going to make the residents of Briny millionaires. He said the town’s contract with Boynton is worth the extra money.

“We were concerned with the traffic we were getting,” Bennett said. “That has been really controlled and we don’t have any problem with that now. “ Bennett said he feels a lot more secure with Boynton than he did with Ocean Ridge.

“It’s just my view, but they pay more attention to us,” Bennett said. He added, “They really know the criminal element. They have all kinds of problems in Boynton and they know what’s going on in this world.”

After the swimmer, Mulcahy cruised by the ping pong tournament and exchanged pleasantries with everyone inside.

Then he crossed the street and busted in on a six-woman dominoes game.

“Hide the money, hide the money,” they shout when the tall police officer strides in.

Even with the bulletproof vest, Mulcahy is no match for these ladies.

“Do you have a grandfather?” one asks.

They ask Mulcahy where his counterpart is. (Two Boynton Beach officers are unofficially assigned to the Briny beat.

They take turns on the night shift.)

“We haven’t seen him in a while,” one lady said. Then she points at her buddies. “They asked him to frisk me and he never came back.”

Mulcahy laughs.

He said he’s not bored out here. He said he enjoys the

people, and enjoys keeping an eye on things. When the weather is nice, he rides a police-issued bicycle. It’s a welcome break from Boynton Beach — where crime is so steady the city is a regular on the television show Cops.

“I catch my breath here,” he said.

But when dispatch reports that a gun-wielding man has barricaded himself in his house, Mulcahy can’t help himself.

“I would love to be there right now,” he said.

Harold “Doc” Burton said the biggest crime in Briny involves trespassers — people who aren’t shareholders sneaking on the property and using the laundromat, beach or pool.

These are all matters Briny resident Rita Taylor said could be handled by a smaller department.

“I don’t have anything against Boynton,” Taylor said.

“I just think the needs of Boynton are different than the needs of Briny.”

She said, for her, it’s not so much about the money as it is about having a force that understands the community.

“We don’t have bars or fights breaking out; we’re all too old to fight,” she said. “We have trespassing, loose dogs or a car going the wrong way.”

Theft spree unsettles residents, police advise locking cars

By Margie Plunkett A rash of burglaries from parked autos last month sent Briny Breezes residents a clear message: Lock your cars.

Boynton Beach police arrested a suspect, the 21-yearold son of a Briny Breezes resident, on Jan. 27 after GPS units, cash and other valuables were swiped from several cars in the area, none of them locked. At least two unlocked

homes also were burglarized of computer equipment, camera and cash in the same timeframe. It was unclear if the cases were related.

After the crime spree — rare in Briny Breezes — Town Council played to a full house at the monthly meeting Jan. 28, as about 40 concerned residents filled the seats and learned an arrest had been made.

Questions arose addressing what is the best time for

Boynton’s regular police shift in Briny Breezes, and how the arrest stacked up to others in the past.

“This has been the first crime spree in the area. This is not an everyday event,” said Sgt. Frank Danysh, the Police Department liaison for Briny Breezes. Police don’t know if others were involved with the burglaries, he said.

Boynton Beach police made the arrest after Ocean Ridge

police detectives provided a possible suspect, according to Boynton Beach Public Information Officer Stephanie Slater.

“It goes without saying that we are always appreciative of any organization or individual that provides us with information that leads to an arrest,” Slater said.

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Briny Breezes when the current contract with the Boynton Beach Police Department expires this year. Ocean Ridge had the contract previously.

The suspect surfaced after an Ocean Ridge police investigator checked pawn shop records while looking into 20 similar burglaries in Briny Breezes, Boynton Beach and Ocean Ridge, said Lt. Chris Yannuzzi of the Ocean Ridge Police Department. Boynton Beach documents show police confirmed the lead with records from a pawn database that showed the suspect pawned three GPS units at the Fassst Cash Pawn shop in Boynton Beach, which Briny Breezes residents later identified as units stolen from their cars. After the arrest, police discovered 10 more GPS units in the suspect’s home.

While the incident started with the three burglaries, more later emerged as word of the crimes started to spread and more residents checked the contents of their cars. The suspect was charged with 12 felony counts of burglary, grand theft, dealing in stolen property and false verification of ownership of property to a pawn broker. More charges were pending, police said.

Boynton Beach officers took the opportunity to circulate materials urging Briny residents to “try a little TLC:” Take out valuables. Lock cars. Close the windows.

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Delray Beach

City’s contract with Waste Management under review

By Margie Plunkett Delray Beach’s Financial Review Board will review the city’s contract with Waste Management, looking at issues including discrepancies that, according to one resident’s research, have shorted the city some $176,000 annually.

The Financial Review Board, a commissionappointed panel whose members have business backgrounds in accounting and finance, among others areas, will also review the city process involved in handling the Waste Management contract.

“The Financial Review Board is going to have a field day with this,” Commissioner Adam Frankel said.

Commissioners agreed to the review at a Jan. 26 special meeting, a week

Gulf Stream

Underground electric goes forward in new study The town of Gulf Stream is proceeding with a study of burying electric wires, entering an $18,750 contract with a consultant who worked on Jupiter Island and Jupiter Inlet Colony projects, according to Town Manager Bill Thrasher.

Danny P. Brannon of Brannon & Gillespie in Wellington will conduct the study, which will examine issues including community constraints on work hours and power outages. Brannon expected it to be completed in 30 to 90 days, Thrasher said.

The Civic Association has agreed to pay for half of the study.

— Margie Plunkett

after discussing review by an outside firm and taking a vote of no confidence against its city manager and finance director for their handling of the unresolved issue.

The Commission took the unanimous no-confidence vote to send a signal to City Manager David Harden and Finance Director Joe Safford about the seriousness of the issue, said Commissioner Fred Fetzer, when he initiated the motion.

“I’m out of patience with this whole issue,” said Fetzer, noting it had been about a year since resident Ken MacNamee first brought the issue to the Commission’s attention.”I want it done and I want it done now.”

The commissioner asked what was needed to close the issue and get the money, noting that in meetings on the subject he saw that the

budget was not monitored.

Fetzer said he wondered whether processes needed changing or whether the city should consider changes in staff. “I think we have to consider both,” he said.

Mayor Woodie McDuffie later explained the no-confidence vote is essentially a reprimand that pertains solely to the Waste Management issue. It is not part of a formal process, he said, and will have no other significance once the issue is resolved.

MacNamee, a certified public accountant who has been reviewing the Waste Management records, first brought the discrepancies to the commission’s attention when he suddenly started being charged for rear door trash pickup that he didn’t receive, Commissioner Gary Eliopoulos said.

Safford defended the work of the staff at the Jan. 19 meeting, explaining the errors that it had found and noting the time that was involved in unraveling the discrepancies.

“I will admit we did not catch in the first quarter the difference between the budget and the actual. That’s one line item in a thousand pages of financial reports,” Safford said, adding that it should have been caught and it would have later popped

out in the next few months.

“Don’t slam the internal controls of your finance department because it didn’t catch that one line item,” he said.

Rich Reade, Delray Beach sustainability officer, will act as coordinator between the city, Waste Management and the Financial Review Board.

The Delray Beach staff is conducting a field audit in conjunction with the review, which will be the lengthiest task taking about 90 days.

Downtown mini golf?

Developers of a 36-hole miniature golf course near downtown should have the facility running by the Fourth of July. And to the delight of Mayor Woodie McDuffie, there will be no windmills or clowns, just lush landscaping, representatives of the course said.

Putt’n Around Delray Beach was granted a conditional use to locate on the west side of N.E. 5th Avenue between N.E. 3rd Street and N.E. 4th at the City Commission’s meeting Feb. 2 .

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Officials monitor tragedy, prepare for exodus from Haiti

By Dianna Smith

As the world watches Haiti’s collapse just a few hundred miles from South Florida, locals are preparing for some of Haiti to end up right here, along Palm Beach County’s shores.

The Jan. 12 earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands in the poor, desolate country prompted Palm Beach County Emergency Management Center Director Charles Tear to meet with city representatives recently; assuring them the EOC is ready should a mass exodus head our way.

The county has a mass migration plan, updated just two years ago.

Details of the plan cannot be revealed, Tear said.

However, “We maintain a

state of readiness. We have reviewed our plans. Our job on a regular basis is to monitor everything.”

The coastal towns are often where Haitians come ashore, risking their lives on rickety boats and rough waters to journey to America for better lives.

In May 2009, a boat capsized 15 miles off the coast of Boynton Beach, killing more than 10 people, mostly Haitian, including a pregnant woman and a 1-year-old girl.

Because Haitians were so desperate to leave their country even before the earthquake, many expect more Haitians to flee in the weeks to come.

The earthquake toppled the capital city of Port-auPrince and destroyed outlying villages, leaving more than

1 million people hungry and homeless.

Tear said he doesn’t expect a mass migration right now and the U.S. Coast Guard has also been told to stand down, said Ed Greenfield, public affairs officer for the U.S. Coast Guard Lake Worth.

Right now, it would be difficult for earthquake victims to leave because the Coast Guard is patrolling Haitian waters.

Local law enforcement also regularly patrols the beaches.

Manalapan Police Chief Clay Walker said of his department: “We’re on the lookout for anybody. Who knows where this will lead further down the road.” Walker said that typically rough sea conditions in winter months would make it difficult for Haitians to reach South Florida beaches safely.

Regardless of the rough seas, Delray Beach Mayor Woodie McDuffie said he expects to see an influx of Haitians to the area.

“I don’t think it’s if, I think it’s how many,” McDuffie said.

“The country was in such dire straits before this that I can’t even imagine what it’s like now.”

Many Haitians have relatives here in Palm Beach County, where the Haitian population is said to be as many as 50,000, including a large Haitian community in Delray Beach.

McDuffie expects it to increase in the next several months, so much so that he’s even thinking about temporary housing. “I want to make sure we’ve got someplace to take care of them,” he said.

But if Haitians do come

ashore, most likely won’t make it very far.

Undocumented Haitians living in the United States on or before Jan. 12 are now eligible for temporary protected status, which is granted to nations in the midst of an armed conflict or natural disaster. If a Haitian qualifies for TPS, he can stay in the country legally for 18 months.

But Haitians who arrive in the states after Jan. 12 will be taken into custody and sent right back to Haiti. Those in Haiti are already being warned not to leave.

Matt Chandler, deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said his agency’s “focus remains on discouraging Haitians from attempting the journey overseas.”

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Boynton Beach fire stations: Station No. 4 at 1919 Federal Highway, and Station No. 5 at 2080 High Ridge Road, are accepting food, water, medical supplies and diapers.

The Catholic Diocese of Palm Beach is collecting money for the Catholic Relief Services. Checks can be sent to Catholic Relief Services, P.O. Box 17090, Baltimore, MD 21203. Write “earthquake in Haiti” in the memo field or call 1-877-4357277.

Community Caring Center of Boynton Beach: The Ocean Avenue Green Market Cafe is accepting blankets, medicine and water on behalf of the community center. Items can be dropped off at 400 E. Boynton Beach Blvd. Call 752-8598 for more information.

Delray Beach fire stations: All fire stations and the Delray Beach City Hall are drop-off sites for canned food, medical supplies, bottled water, flashlights, etc.

Our Lady Of Perpetual Help Church: The Haitian Catholic Mission is accepting non-perishable food and water at 510 SW Eighth Ave., Delray Beach, FL 33444.

St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church: 840 George Bush Blvd., 276-6892, accepting non-perishable food and water.

United Way of Palm Beach County: Donate to the disaster fund at www. unitedwaypbc.org or send checks to 2600 Quantum Blvd., Boynton Beach, FL 33426. Make the checks out to UWPBC/Haiti Relief Effort.

Prayers for Haiti Dozens of parishioners and visitors gathered recently for a service held at St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Delray Beach. Towards the end of the ceremony all the people in attendance were asked to light a candle to honor the survivors and victims of the devastating earthquake. The evening service was delivered in both English and Creole. Photo by Jerry Lower

National American Red Cross is accepting donations at www. redcross-pbc.org, or send checks to the Greater Palm Beach Area Chapter of the American Red Cross, 825 Fern St., West Palm Beach, FL 33401, or call 833-7711. Cell phone users can make a $10 donation by texting HAITI to 90999.

Doctors Without Borders: Donations can be made at 1-888-392-0392 or checks can be mailed to Doctors Without Borders USA, P.O. Box 5030, Hagerstown, MD 21741.

Food For The Poor is accepting monetary donations as well as canned food, condensed and powdered

milk and medical supplies.

These can be dropped off at 6401 Lyons Road, Coconut Creek, FL 33073. You can also call 954-427-2222 or donate online at www. foodforthepoor.org.

The International Firefighters Assistance needs relief supplies and monetary donations. Drop-off sites include any West Palm Beach fire station and checks can be mailed to IFA, 10693 Wiles Road, Suite 119, Coral Springs, FL 33076.

Missionary Flights International needs donations such as blankets, snacks, soap, flashlights and batteries. Drop-off sites includes New Beginnings Chapel, 8431 Lake Worth

Road, Lake Worth, FL 33467 and the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County, 9901 Donna Klein Blvd., Boca Raton, FL 33428. On the Web at www.missionaryflights.org.

Partners In Health: The nonprofit which brings modern medical care to poor communities is accepting monetary donations online at www.standwithhaiti.org.

Or checks can be mailed to Partners In Health, P.O. Box 845578, Boston, MA 02284.

Write “Haiti” in the memo field.

Salvation Army: Checks can be sent to The Salvation Army of Palm Beach County, P.O. Box 789, West Palm Beach, FL, 33402. Write Haiti Disaster in the memo field.

Donate online at www.uss. salvationarmy.org.

UNICEF: Call 1-800UNICEF or donate at www. unicef.org.

World Food Program: Donate online at www. wfp.org or text the word FRIENDS to 90999 and $5 will go toward the effort in Haiti.

Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund: Created by Haitian musician Wyclef Jean. Go to www.yele.org or text YELE to 501501 to donate $5 from your mobile phone.

Youth Co-Op Inc. Refugee Services: Accepting canned goods at its office at 2112 Congress Ave., Palm Springs, FL 33406.

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February 2010

Along the Coast

Delray men among early responders to Haiti

By Christine Davis

Frank McKinney, Delray Beach real estate developer and founder of the Haitian charitable foundation The Caring House Project, has been chartering planes to travel to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, along with medical and search-andrescue experts.

Four Delray Beach firefighters — Ed Beardsley, Ed Crelin, Steve Moews and Greg Tabeek — were part of the first group to respond in midJanuary.

The group set up tents and slept at the end of the runway of the city’s airport.

They took search assignments from United Nations officials and worked with a Peruvian rescue team and Jordanian and Nicaraguan security teams.

“During the time that we were there, 43 people were extracted,” McKinney said.

“We were responsible for four rescues.”

The first people they rescued were trapped in an apartment building, and it took more than 12 hours to dig them out. The third rescue, a man trapped under a metal bed in the collapsed Doctors Without Borders hospital, took a little under three hours to free. A fourth man was taken to the hospital by McKinney, who had been flagged down while acting as an “ambulance driver,” he said.

By the time McKinney’s first team left, there were “2,500 search-and-rescue individuals from 49 countries,” he said.

Now, though, as the search and rescue portion is finished, the relief effort is under way.

“At the point of our departure, huge cargo planes were being offloaded by 5,000 military,” McKinney said.

On Jan. 21, McKinney sent

Delray Beach firefighter Greg Tabeek heads in for a rescue using hand tools; rubber mallet, wedges and saw.

Photo provided a second plane with 3,000 pounds of food to the town of Jeremie.

The Caring House Project has raised $3 million over the past 12 years to build selfsustaining villages. “Through the schools and orphanages, the project has touched the lives of 4,500 people,” McKinney said.

Now, half of the villages are either completely destroyed or damaged.

The Caring House Project was ready to build three more villages this year, but McKinney will put that off until next year, he said. “The funds we had set aside we used for the search and rescue effort.

Our charity is also good at rebuilding, but that’s phase six, and now is not the time for that.”

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Delray Beach

Trunk show to help Wayside House continue rebuilding lives

By Emily J. Minor

There’s a saying among the women who’ve been to Wayside House: God lives in these walls.

And Teresa Bayer believes that, with every fiber of her heart.

Broken and drunk, lost and waiting to be found, Bayer, 50, went through the Wayside House in-house treatment center in 2007 after the deaths of her mother and then her husband. Today, she is one of the thousands of graduates from this collection of homes and offices on Northeast Sixth Avenue in Delray Beach who continue to return and give back.

The treatment center — there are inpatient and outpatient programs — was started in 1974 by Susan B. Anthony, the great-niece of the women’s rights advocate.

Jill Reece, the center’s executive director, came here to direct the center about five years ago. A licensed therapist and herself a recovering alcoholic, she remembers walking into the

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Teresa Bayer, who went through the Wayside House in-house treatment program, volunteers at the center. She loves the monthly alumni meetings, when women tell emotional stories of recovery and sobriety. Bayer has been sober since September 2007.

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“There is just a feeling in that house,” she says now.

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But perhaps, most of all, it’s the friendships with other women — Wayside takes no men —that helps to heal these addicts and alcoholics.

Women arrive at Wayside’s in the worst of shape. They come from jail and prison or from their sleeping spot under a bridge. Many have lost their homes, their jobs, their savings, and their children. The center, which generally has a waiting list for its residential program, spends a lot of energy trying for healthy reunions between recovering mothers and their families, especially kids.

“That’s really important to us,” Reece said.

Bayer was no different. A professional woman who’s

always worked high-end jobs — she once worked on Wall Street and did quite well — Bayer was swigging vodka from a water bottle, nipping even once she started going to AA meetings, lying to everyone.

Then she got a bed at Wayside.

“The unspoken power inside that house just knocked me off my feet,” she said.

Bayer goes back often — recently for the center’s monthly alumni meeting when former Wayside residents stand to tell their often tearful stories of recovery and sobriety.

Wayside is a nonprofit adventure with an annual budget of about $1.5 million.

It gets its money from the Department of Children and Families, Palm Beach County and grants and donations raised through the board.

In early March, it will have its annual trunk show at the Colony Hotel in Delray Beach.

Supporters come by often to see the results of their fund-raising, and they always leave inspired.

“I knew from the moment I walked into that house that everything was going to be OK,” said Bayer, who has not had a drink since Sept. 25, 2007. “And I have not been proven wrong.”

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South Palm Beach

Mayfair House offers beach access to Imperial House

By Tim O’ Meilia The Mayfair House has come to the rescue of the Imperial House, a nearby sixstory co-operative in South Palm Beach in danger of collapsing into the Atlantic Ocean during another angry nor’easter.

The Mayfair House, five buildings north, has offered to allow its neighbors access to the beach through its parking lot for the equipment and materials necessary to build a seawall to protect the Imperial House against the encroaching ocean.

“It’s humanitarian,” said Mayfair resident Joan McManus, who urged her board of directors to allow the access. “If another nor’easter or a hurricane comes, they’re finished. I couldn’t let that happen.”

Imperial House had tried unsuccessfully to persuade the town of Lantana to allow access through the town’s beach. Lantana wanted more

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South Palm Beach appealed last month to Palm Beach County for help, but the county attorney’s office said that Lantana was not overstepping its rights.

“We’re going to take it and run,” Imperial House board member Bonnie Fischer said of the agreement. Not all of the details have been worked out. Imperial House likely will pay a fee but tens of thousands of dollars less than Lantana’s demand.

Mayfair House is in the midst of erecting its own $1.6 million seawall.

In November, waves lapped against a sidewalk surrounding the Imperial House and emergency concrete and boulders were trucked in to halt further erosion.

“Before, there was no hope,” Fischer said. “Now, it’s like a miracle.”

Despite mayor, planning board members keep seats

By Tim O’Meilia For the second time in three months, South Palm Beach Mayor Martin Millar’s attempt to remove three planning board members failed by an identical 3-2 vote.

The mayor called for the removal of planning board Chairman Mike Nevard and members Pat Festino and Dee Robinson at the Jan. 26 Town Council meeting after a fourth planning board member, Michael Mead, complained that the three had conflicts of interest in considering a proposed 10-story hotel.

“Why is everyone afraid of an investigation by an independent body?” asked Mead, who said his complaints to Town Hall were unheeded for several months.

The owners of the Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn, whose plans to erect a larger hotel were rejected last year, complained by letter last month that the three planning board members violated state

law and were biased against the project. Festino and Robinson live in buildings next to the proposed hotel and Nevard lives across the street.

Millar and Councilman Brian Merbler voted to remove the members. Council members Joseph Flagello, Donald Clayman and Charles McCrosson opposed the removal.

In November, the council asked the state ethics commission to review the actions of the planning board members. In response, the general counsel for the ethics board said an advisory opinion could not be given because the facts in the case are in dispute.

He said a formal complaint leading to an investigation and presentation of evidence was the alternative. No complaint has been filed.

“The town has spent $2,000 and 11-and-a-half hours of legal resources on this issue.

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The boat was total loss.

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Elections

Filing open for March 9 municipal elections

By Margie Plunkett

Municipal elections are scheduled for Tuesday, March 9, and candidates for open seats face deadlines in the second week of February.

Election dates at seven municipalities in The Coastal Star’s coverage area run in synch with Palm Beach County Supervisor of Election’s uniform election date this year, the second Tuesday of March. All but one town has seats up for election, although all contenders won’t be known until the end of the candidate qualifying period.

The following seats are open for election:

Briny Breezes: Seats up for election this term are mayor, three aldermen and town clerk. The incumbents are Mayor Roger Bennett and Town Clerk Kathleen Bray and Aldermen Sharon Kendrigan, Nancy Boczon and Karen Wiggins.

Candidates must file by noon Feb. 9.

Delray Beach: Two commission seats with twoyear terms are open and candidates must file by noon Feb. 9. The seats are currently held by Commissioners Fred Fetzer and Angeleta Gray. By the end of January, one other candidate — Darin Wade Mellinger — had filed to

compete for Fetzer’s seat.

Gulf Stream: No seats are up for election.

Lantana: Two council member seats with threeyear terms are open, held by incumbents Lynn Moorhouse and Vice Mayor Cindy Austino. Candidates must file by noon Feb. 9.

Manalapan: Three commission seats with two-year terms are open.

Candidates must file by noon Feb. 9. Candidates for incumbent Peter Blum’s seat must reside on the ocean; for the seat held by Robert Evans, candidates can reside anywhere in the town; and for the seat held by incumbent

Tom Thornton Jr., they must reside in the Point.

Ocean Ridge: One commission seat is open for a three-year-term, held by incumbent Lynn Allison.

Candidates must file by 3 p.m.

Feb. 12.

South Palm Beach: Two council seats with two-year terms are up for election this year. Incumbent Vice Mayor Charles J. McCrosson is moving and won’t run. The second seat that opens is held by Joseph Flagello. One candidate, Iris Lieberman, had filed by the end of January. Deadline for contenders is noon Feb. 9.

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A petition drive to banish a high-rise hotel permanently from the South Palm Beach landscape was rejected by officials on Jan. 26.

More than 20 percent of the town’s 1,300 registered voters signed petitions to put three charter questions on the March 9 ballot. But Town Clerk Janet Whipple ruled that the paperwork did not meet town charter or state law requirements.

If approved by voters, new buildings would have been limited to a 60-foot height, voters would have decided comprehensive plan changes instead of the Town Council and no non-residential uses could be expanded.

The signature drive, headed by resident Stella Jordan, was aimed at preventing any expansion of the two-story Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn, the only non-residential building in town.

Although more than the required number of signatures were obtained (15 percent according to the town charter, 10 percent according to town ordinances), the petitions were not filed the required 90 days before the election.

Whipple also ruled that organizers did not follow other requirements, including forming a five-person committee. She also said they conflicted with state law on comprehensive plans.

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Virginia may be for lovers, but let’s face it, if you could choose where to be on Valentine’s Day, which would you prefer: some icy condo along the Chesapeake Bay or one of the choice beachfront resorts along A1A between Lake Worth and Highland Beach?

To sweeten the pot, several of our local resorts are offering lovebird specials that show off the best in their bedrooms and their kitchens. ª While the Palm Beaches have nothing to compare to the Seine, The Restaurant at The Four Seasons will offer Valentine’s Day images of Paris represented by brilliant flower

arrangements, a chocolate Eiffel Tower, candles and live jazz, plus a special fourcourse menu from Executive Moiles Chef Darryl Moiles. Price: a modest $95 per person. (561582-2800).

After a summer hiatus, The Restaurant reopened in late November with a new look and a more casual atmosphere and a new menu acknowledging guests’ desires for more Atlantic seafood dishes, the fresher the better.

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technology and transportation, Moiles can order Dover sole from Europe at 6 p.m., and serve it the next night, usually enhanced with herbs from the resort’s own organic herb garden, weather permitting.

Sometimes, however, weather prohibits, as the recent cold snap left the garden wilted and useless. It will recover quickly, but in the interim, Moiles can rely on fresh herbs grown locally in greenhouses protected from the elements. ª For six couples only, the Omphoy — a brief northward stroll from the Lake Worth Pier — offers a sweetheart deal: private beach dinners for two, in one of four private

beachside dining rooms or one of two pagodas nestled among the lush foliage on the terrace.

James Beard Award-winning chef Michelle Bernstein has worked up a five-course menu that starts with oysters, a classic aphrodisiac, and caviar and ends with a decadent dessert for two with wine and champagne to complement each dish. Strolling musicians, glistening stars and the sounds of waves breaking on the shore add to the romantic experience. The private dining rooms start at $500, the pagodas at $400.

Once those are taken, or for those with more modest expectations, dining reservations also are accepted at Michelle Bernstein at The Omphoy. Guests wishing to make a day of it can hit Exhale Spa for a deep flow massage or a facial, followed by dinner and then extend the bliss in one of the resort’s 130 rooms with rates starting at $349. (561-540-6440 or www. omphoy.com). ª Based upon first

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Artim has even come up with a take-out Valentine’s special: a bottle of champagne, a seafood platter (12 Gulf shrimp, eight oysters, four stone crab claws, with sauces), fresh salad of field greens, red beets, spiced walnuts, cucumber and a champagne dressing, a main course of two eight-ounce filets mignon with horseradish crust, au gratin potato, asparagus and fricassee of mushroom, and a decadent Cupcake Tic-Tac-Toe Dessert.

Price: $150.

Temple Orange, the resort’s signature restaurant, will offer Valentine’s Day pre fixe menu at $120 per couple on Feb. 13 and 14.

From Feb. 6-21, the Ritz’s Eau Spa is offering “Pearls and Champagne” Valentine’s specials ranging from a $75 do-it-yourself package to a $485 signature treatment that

includes cocktails, chocolates, champagne bubble bath and full body massage. (561-5336000). ª A little farther south, the Delray Beach Marriott’s Romance Package, not only for Valentine’s Day but throughout the season, offers a deluxe oceanfront suite, breakfast for two, a $75 voucher applicable for dinner or room service, bottle of champagne and strawberries upon arrival and late check out. Valentine’s weekend price $449, with promotion code LVU. Additionally, the Marriott’s Seacrest Grill has lovebird specials for nonguests. (561-274-3200). ª And just a block to the west, The Seagate in Delray is offering deluxe rooms, champagne and “tuxedo” strawberries upon arrival and a couples massage in The Seagate Spa for $725 a night from Feb. 11-21. That’s 20 percent off its regular rate. For guests who prefer not to hit one of the many restaurants along Atlantic Avenue, executive chef Adam Gottlieb has worked up a romantic menu. (561-665-4800).

Thom Smith is a freelance writer. He can be reached at thomsmith@ ymail.com.

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Valentine’s Dinner

Recipes for Romance

By Jan Norris

Oyster Soup

1 pint oysters and their liquor, Perhaps the romantics are separated right — the past is more dreamy 3 cups heavy cream than today.

1 tablespoon unsalted butter It was a time when linens 1/3 cup finely chopped celery and china dressed the tables, 1/3 cup finely chopped onion and more formal wear dressed 1 tablespoon lemon juice the diners — who had real Freshly chopped chives conversations and lingered at Salt and pepper to taste the table. Meals were served by a Paprika for garnish staff trained to know the proper silver to lay out, and which wine Strain the liquor from the oysters, to uncork. then strain it again through a fine For a little romance on cloth or coffee filter into a heavy, Valentine’s Day, dress up your 2-quart saucepan. Add cream to own table and serve a romantic oyster liquor. Bring the mixture to meal. Our menu isn’t deep or a simmer over medium complicated. It’s heat; remove pan from inspired by many heat and reserve. from the early 20th In a large saute pan century and meant over medium heat, to be somewhat light, melt the butter. Add providing you keep the celery and cook for portions small; they’re 3 to 4 minutes. Add more appealing on the onion and cook the plate. until translucent, 3 to For those who 4 minutes. Add oysters aren’t proficient at the and cook until their stove (though you’ll edges curl slightly. win points from her if Return the cream to you just try), call your The menu at The Palms Tea Room medium heat, and add favorite restaurant, sautéed vegetables and pick up a three-course in Delray, circa 1910. Courtesy of oysters, stirring and meal (reserve this at cooking until mixture is least a day in advance) the Delray Beach Historical Society piping hot, but do not and set a beautiful boil. table to serve it.

Just before serving, add the lemon Begin with a glass of juice, chives, and season with salt champagne, and serve an amuse and pepper, to taste. Ladle into soup bouche of three cherry tomatoes bowls and dust with paprika. Serve on a small plate. Hollow them with sliced baguette. with a spoon and fill with 1/2 Makes 4 servings. teaspoonful of soft cheese (goat or blue). Tuck a fresh basil leaf into the top of it and drizzle very Fillet with lightly with olive oil. Sprinkle Bordelaise Sauce chopped basil around the plate to two 4-ounce fillets, thick cuts dress it slightly.

2 garlic cloves, halved Next, serve the oyster soup.

1 teaspoon cracked black pepper Buy some good baguettes and 1 teaspoon vegetable oil slice thinly to serve alongside.

Coarse salt, to taste Serve a white Burgundy or un1/2 teaspoon crushed tarragon oaked chardonnay, or a pinot gris For the sauce: with this.

2 tablespoons olive oil Follow that with the fillet and 4 to 6 ounces mushrooms, thinly bordelaise sauce, with mashed sliced potatoes and steamed baby 1 shallot, chopped, or 2 green onions vegetables alongside. A rich 1 clove garlic, finely minced Bordeaux, cabernet or super 3 tablespoons flour Tuscan is in order.

1 1/2 cups dry red wine, such as Retire to the living room, with pinot noir or cabernet sauvignon candles, dim light, soft music, 1 can (about 10 1/2 ounces) and your dessert of flourless condensed beef broth chocolate cake (it’s easy, but 1/4 teaspoon dried leaf thyme available to buy if you can’t bake) Salt and pepper, to taste topped with some fresh berries For serving: Mashed potatoes and and a dollop of whipped cream steamed baby vegetables (no fake stuff!) and a glass of Preheat oven to 400 F. Rub all Port, or more bubbly. surfaces of fillets with cut garlic The rest is up to you. halves. Mix together pepper, salt to

Oyster soup is lighter than oyster Nick Morfogen of 32 East provid taste, and tarragon; rub fillets with mixture.

Heat heavy iron skillet over mediumhigh heat; add oil and fillets. Sear on both sides till slightly crusty. Remove from heat; put fillets on a broiler pan and place in oven (reserve skillet).

Cook to desired doneness (about 8 minutes for rare, 11 for medium-rare, 14 for medium well and 17 for well; but test by making a small cut into one to check). Do not overcook; fillets will continue to cook slightly once removed from oven.

Meanwhile, make sauce: In reserved skillet heated over medium-high heat, add olive oil, mushrooms, shallot and garlic. Stir and saute for about 90 seconds. Add flour and stir; add wine, slowly, stirring up any bits on bottom of pan. Stir and cook for 3 minutes. Add broth and thyme and stir well; cook, simmering over medium heat until mixture is reduced by nearly half. Season with salt and pepper; keep warm.

To serve, spoon about 2 tablespoons of sauce on plate; top with fillet.

Garnish with a sprig of thyme.

Served with a small portion of mashed potatoes and steamed baby vegetables.

Makes 4 servings.

Flourless Chocolate Cake

4 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped 1/2 cup unsalted butter 3/4 cup sugar 1/2 cup good quality unsweetened cocoa powder

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chowder, but no less flavorful. Antiques: Bowls, liners and large plate are Lenox’s The Colonial pattern, introduced in 1920. Spoons are in Towle’s Old Colonial pattern. Chef ded a bowl for our photo. Photos by Tim Stepien

Art and antiques events will whet collectors’ appetites for finery

Flourless chocolate cake is simple to make, but you also can buy it and dress it up with fresh berries. Our photo model is from 32 East in Delray Beach.

3 eggs, beaten 1 tablespoon vanilla or bourbon Pinch of salt For serving: 1 cup raspberries or strawberries, cleaned, washed 1 teaspoon Cointreau or almond extract Whipped cream Mint leaves Preheat oven to 325 F. Grease an 8-inch square cake pan and dust well with cocoa powder. Melt chocolate with butter in a double boiler over simmering water. Remove from heat and cool slightly; stir in

sugar, cocoa, eggs and flavoring and salt. Pour batter into prepared pan.

Bake at 325 F for 25 minutes. Remove and cool on a wire cake rack.

Make sauce: Reserve 1 whole berry for each square of cake served. Put remainder of berries and flavoring into blender or food processor; process until smooth. (Strain if desired.)

To serve, place square of cake on small plate. Spoon a pool of sauce alongside the cake. Pipe rosette of whipped cream on top of cake and place whole berry and mint leaf on top.

Makes 9 ultra-rich servings.

It’s high season for antiques in South Florida. In the next month alone, there will be four major art and antiques shows in Palm Beach County, two of them noteworthy for the caliber of their wares, including all the finery necessary to set an elegant table for Valentine’s dinner.

In addition to those, there also is a specialty glass and dinnerware show in Pompano Beach, and an estate sale that’s guaranteed to be loads of fun.

And, if that’s not enough, you even can party among the finery in West Palm Beach.

Enjoy!

— Scott Simmons West Palm Beach Antiques Festival: Shop for antique glassware, furniture, silver and glassware, as well as newer collectibles. This show, the largest of the season, with more than 1,000 dealers, typically takes up several buildings at the fairgrounds, so allow plenty of time to walk and shop.

9 a.m.-5 p.m. Feb. 6; 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Feb. 7 at the Americraft Expo Center at the South Florida Fairgrounds, off Southern Boulevard in West Palm Beach. Tickets: $7

adults, $6 seniors, free for 16 and under. $1 discount coupon available at: www.wpbaf.com.

Phone: (941) 697-7475.

American International Fine Art Fair: See Old Master paintings, sculpture, jewelry and other fabulous things at this show, which is vetted by leading museum curators and experts. Designer Nancy Corzine, known for her contemporary luxe designs, is among the lecturers (3 p.m. Feb. 7). There also will be lectures on Van Cleef and Arpels jewelry (3 p.m. Feb. 6 and 1 p.m. Feb. 8) and on the legal issues of art appraisals (noon Feb. 7), among others.

Noon-7 p.m. through Feb. 8 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd. (across from CityPlace), West Palm Beach.

Tickets: One-day pass, $25; one-day pass with catalog, $45; multiday pass, $35; multiday pass with catalog, $55; student, $10. On the Web: www.aifaf. com. Phone: (239) 949-5411.

Delray Beach Antiques Show: This show is small in size but traditionally is big in style and substance. The 30 dealers will offer period furniture, paintings, prints,

glass, ceramics, textiles, rugs, silver, clocks, jewelry, maritime antiques and folk art from five centuries. Dealers specializing in such items as Staffordshire pottery and antique brasses will exhibit at the show. Each item is backed by a guarantee of authenticity, according to the show’s presenter, Armacost Antiques Shows.

10 a.m.-6 p.m. Feb. 6; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Feb. 7, Delray Beach Community Center, 50 NW First Ave., Delray Beach. Tickets: $10 ($8 online). On the Web: www.

ArmacostAntiquesShows.com.

Phone: (202) 441-7407.

Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show: This is where royalty would shop; even one of the lecturers is a British lord.

Two hundred dealers from around the globe will bring some of the finest in jewelry, furniture and Old Master paintings.

And about those lectures — the first is 1 p.m. Feb. 13, and features that aforementioned noble, the Right Honourable Lord Raynham, Patron, American Friends of British Art, who will lecture on “The See ANTIQUES on page 22

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Townshends: An English Noble Family and Their Art.” Other lectures include talks by Gloria Lieberman of Skinner Inc., who will lecture on jewelry (3

p.m. Feb. 13), and the Flagler Museum’s own John Blades (1 p.m. Feb. 16), who will expound on “Tiffany at the World’s Columbian Exposition.” Visit the show’s Web site for a complete schedule.

11 a.m.-7 p.m. Feb. 13-15; 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Feb. 16, Palm Beach

County Convention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd. (across from CityPlace), West Palm Beach.

Tickets: $15 daily; $25 for a four-day pass. On the Web: www.palmbeachshow.com.

Phone: (561) 822 5440.

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February 2010 The South Florida Depression Glass Club’s 36th annual show promises a little of everything from museum-quality pieces of art glass to that iced tea tumbler you need to replace in Mom’s Fostoria pattern.

Dealers come from all over the country, so you never know what you’ll see.

There also will be glass repair on site, as well as raffles and door prizes.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. Feb. 13; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Feb. 14, Emma Lou Olson Civic Center, 1801 NE Sixth St., Pompano Beach.

Tickets: $6.50. On the Web: www.sfdgc.com. Phone: (305) 884-0335.

Evening on Antique Row: The 15th annual Evening on Antique Row, sponsored by the Young Friends of the Historical Society of Palm Beach County and the West Palm Beach Antique Row Art & Design District, offers a great chance to help the historical society and enjoy a night out on the town. The high-end shops along Antique Row will be open, and booths up and down the highway will offer samples of

fare from such places as III Forks Restaurant, Cafe Boulud, Cafe Chardonnay, C’est Si Bon Cucina Dell’Arte, Echo, Four Seasons Resort, Marcello’s La Sirena, Sushi Jo, Temple Orange at The Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach and White Apron Catering, among others.

6-9 p.m. March 6, between the 3300 and 3900 blocks of South Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach. Tickets: $45; $100 for general admission and afterparty at Hotel Biba. Tickets available at check-in booths at the event, or online at www. historicalsocietypbc.org.

Kofski Antiques Estate Sale: This is as much a social event as it is a shopping opportunity. Decorators, designers, socialites — you name it — queue up for the sales, which offer everything from antiques to household items.

9 a.m.-3 p.m. March 6-7, Kofski’s Estate Sale Facility, 5501 Georgia Ave. (at Bunker Road), West Palm Beach. On the Web: www.kofskiantiques. com. Phone: (561) 585.1976.

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Reproductions of Laura Woodward’s work can be seen at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd., through April. A similar exhibit at the Delray Beach Historical Society, 3 NE First St., runs through May. Courtesy of the Sam and Robbie Vickers Florida Collection

Art and Books

Before Flagler, there was Woodward — and her paintings

By Ron Hayes

In the 1890s, that golden Gilded Ager, Henry M. Flagler, enticed his fellow multimillionaires to discover the subtropical splendor of Palm Beach.

But who enticed Flagler?

In the beginning, she bowed to Victorian modesty and signed herself simply, “L. Woodward.”

From 1890 until 1919, Laura Woodward painted Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Jupiter, Miami and the Everglades.

In oil and watercolors, she captured the bloody reds of the island’s hibiscus blossoms, the cool blue shade of its jungle paths, the palm trees beside Lake Worth.

She came to Palm Beach four years before Henry Flagler, and when she carried paintings of its flaming royal Poinciana trees back to St. Augustine, the Standard Oil tycoon came after, and built a huge hotel he dubbed the Royal Poinciana, where Laura Woodward lived and painted for the next quarter-century.

“She was Florida’s most important 19th-century woman artist,” says Deborah Pollack, “and one of its greatest publicists.”

Pollack, a Palm Beach art

historian and dealer, is the She painted the original author of Laura Woodward: Bethesda-by-the-Sea church, The Artist Behind the Innovator the Jupiter lighthouse, the black Who Developed Palm Beach, community in Palm Beach. At a beautifully illustrated 61, she painted the Everglades. biography, published in Might she have painted conjunction with the Manalapan or Gulf Historical Society of Stream?

Palm Beach County.

“There’s no To mark the book’s documentation of her doing any work publication, two local between Palm Beach exhibits featuring and Delray Beach,” reproductions of Pollack says, “but it’s Woodward’s work are highly likely. We know running concurrently she painted in Fort at the Boynton Beach City Pollack Lauderdale and Miami, Library and the Delray and stopped along the way.”

Beach Historical Society.

Woodward sold her “She was an entrepreneur,” paintings from a studio at Pollack told a recent gathering the Royal Poinciana and at the library. “Not rich, but very gutsy. She perpetuated the licensed their reproduction as “chromolithographs,” early post notion of Florida as a tropical cards. She painted hundreds of paradise.” works until 1919, when failing Born in 1834 in Mount eyesight forced her to stop.

Hope, N.Y., Woodward was in her 50s and already an In 1926, she moved to join a established member of the caregiver’s family in St. Cloud, Hudson River School of nature near Orlando, and died two artists when she first came to months later.

St. Augustine in the mid-1880s. Back in Mount Hope, the But ultimately, St. Augustine headline in the local paper read, proved too tame, so Woodward “Laura Woodward Spinster came south, settled into the Artist Dies At Age Of 92.”

Coconut Grove House in what But to her biographer, the was then called Lake Worth, pioneer artist was no spinster. and painted. And painted.

“She never married,” Pollack “Frequently the wild animals concedes, “but she was in love with nature, and she was interfered with my work,” she married to her work.” once said.

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Delray designers create dramatic spaces on a smaller scale

By Christine Davis

The 2010 Red Cross Designers’ Show House takes up residence at CityPlace South Tower in West Palm Beach through Feb. 20. This year, 18 designers transformed four units on the 19th-floor middlepenthouse level of the 20-story luxury tower.

Two designers are from Delray Beach. One of the four units, a 1,968-square-foot, twobedroom, two-bath unit with a den houses Excentricities South’s boutique, organized by Frank Maguire, and Virginia Courtenay decorated the living room, dining room and kitchen in one of the other three units.

Frank J. Maguire, co-owner of Excentricities South, has organized the Red Cross Designers’ Show House boutique for the last four years.

In the past, he has set his space up in a garage and in a lobby.

This year, though, he has an entire apartment to display furniture, art and accessories, as well as offering a little bistro catered by Tim Trill.

Since the boutique is set up in a unit just under 2,000 square feet, it affords the perfect opportunity to see how best to display furniture and items in a smaller space, he said.

Maguire’s tips

• Don’t overload. Keep it as simple as possible and use a tape measure.

• A spot of color is good. If you paint your farthest wall a

If you go

The show house is at 550 Okeechobee Blvd. in West Palm Beach and runs through Feb. 20. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and noon to 4 p.m. on Sundays. Tickets are $30. For information, contact Maura Nelson at 650-9131 or nelsonm@redcrosspbc.org, or www. redcrossshowhouse.org.

Frank J. Maguire of Excentricities South uses a mirror to maximize space. Photos by C.J. Walker

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“Since they are greenconscious, they chose a sofa with soy cushions. Fabrics are 100 percent wool. And you can’t get any greener than 18thcentury antiques: They’ve been saved through the ages.”

• Don’t overlook, or be fooled by, scale and proportion.

One entire wall features a grouping of Richard Tobias’ water photography. Groupings are nice in small spaces, but you can go big, too. In the dining room, one large Tobias piece fits just as nicely.

• Edit. In the living room, what fits are one loveseat and two chairs. Stop right there.

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• Rugs. The right size for a small place can be moved to a larger home.

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MEET YOUR NEIGHBOR: Sheree Ladove Funsch wears many hats. She’s the CEO of her company, La Dove Inc., which is about ready to introduce a new high-end haircare product line. She’s a busy mother with two daughters, Samantha, 14, and Ashley, 8, and three step-children, Dane, 21, Connor, 18, and Maclaine, 13. And because her business is here in Florida, and husband Daniel’s business is in New Jersey, she is back and forth between two homes.

In addition, she’s the cochair of the Lupus Foundation of America’s Butterfly Ball, to be held at Mar-a-Lago Feb. 27 and she hosted the pre-ball cocktail party in January. The goodie bag given to guests at the Butterfly Ball will contain her Label M, a line developed in London that was a sponsor of London Fashion Week.

About her busy life, she said: “It’s been such an incredible adventure.”

Following her dreams is not altogether easy, she acknowledges. “The children go to five different schools.

Scheduling is definitely a challenge. I’m addicted to my calendar and my BlackBerry.

“Time is so priceless — follow your dreams.”

Thinking back, she puts her dreams in perspective. “I was watching Connie Sellecca on TV when I was young. I remember thinking she is so beautiful. Now, she has been my friend for 16 years.

It’s so bizarre to remember watching her and admiring her, and then doing a business deal with her and being her friend. It’s amazing. You can’t even imagine what you can accomplish or where your life will go.”

She’s working on another dream, too. “This sounds kind of crazy, but I’ve always wanted to build an amazing family compound in the Bahamas, so we purchased a property and we are starting to draw plans.

That will be something that will make me very happy.”

— Christine Davis Q. Where did you grow up and go to school? How do you think that has influenced you?

A. I grew up in Palm Beach.

Although I was an A student, school was not the biggest influence in my life. It did give me structure and goals to strive for. More importantly, growing up in Palm Beach, there was a lot of financial advantage and it always bothered me when young

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Sheree Ladove Funsch

Sharee Ladove Funsch at home in Gulf Stream. ‘I just followed my heart and let it take me on this amazing journey.’

Photo by Jerry Lower girls were more concerned about what designer labels for clothes, shoes, etc., they were buying to compete against each other. No consideration was made for how fortunate they were financially and how they could use some of those resources to truly help others less fortunate. I try to instill those values in my own two daughters.

Q. What professions have you worked in? What life accomplishments are you most proud of?

A. I was again very fortunate and grew up at my father’s company, La Dove Inc., a personal-care manufacturing company. I performed nearly every job from a very young age. Every summer, while my friends were at summer camp, I was filling bottles in the factory and developing new products in the laboratories.

I wanted to be a litigator and was on my way to Yale Law School after graduating from Rollins College in Winter Park, when my dad asked me to spend my last summer in the business. I had grown up in the business, and I thought, one more summer?

Ugh. OK, fine. This summer changed my life. For the first time, we were launching a professional hair-care line into the professional salon industry, and I became the liaison between our laboratory and the

hairdressers.

Hairdressers and chemists do not speak the same language, and there was a tremendous need for someone to get the two on the same page and create amazing products.

This really intrigued me. I had a great time, and ended up not going to law school. Bed Head products were born! The rest, as they say, is history.

Although being a founding partner in Bed Head products at the age of 22 was an amazing accomplishment, selling it to Unilever last year was very rewarding. My greatest accomplishment was when I bought the company from my dad and his Wall Street partners nine years ago and became CEO. Q. What is it about the Lupus Foundation that inspires you to become involved?

A. Anne Bright (of Delray Beach) opened my eyes to lupus. She is an amazing woman. I’ve known her for a long time, since I grew up with her son. She is such a loving, caring, dear woman and when you know someone so amazing who’s touched by the disease, it touches your heart and you want to help. She is an inspiration to all.

Q. Tell us a little about your volunteer work. Why is it important to you?

A. I have been so blessed

and I feel you need to give back. The feeling it gives you to help people in need is like no other feeling of accomplishment.

When I visited a small village on a tiny out-island in Fiji last year, I was so moved by the beautiful people and so appalled by their devastating poverty. You might expect to see poverty like this in Africa, but it never crossed my mind that you would find it in the beautiful tropical paradise of Fiji. I actually spent months down there to help build a school for the children of the village and donated money for a desalination system so they would have clean water to drink.

Q. What advice do you have for a young person selecting a career today?

A. The only advice I have to give for young people is the same advice that I preach to my daughters: Follow your dreams. Do something that will truly make you happy everyday. Don’t ever do anything purely for money or you will be miserable. If you love what you do, it will show.

You will end up successful and money will come.

Q. How did you choose to make your home in Gulf Stream?

A. I chose to live in Gulf Stream because it is one of the

few places left in South Florida that still has a small hometown feel.

Q. What is your favorite part about living in Gulf Stream?

A. You know your neighbors. You can take your children to the wonderful Gulf Stream School in a golf cart and it is so safe. I thought it would give my girls an idyllic childhood. We all just love it there!

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Local Voices

Mom and me

A son learns to say goodbye

By Thomas R. Collins A month ago I watched an adult film with my mother.

Let me explain.

My mom has advanced dementia and lives in a nursing home. Her roommate has satellite TV, with the TV big enough to share, but she’s not so good at working the remote.

The roommate was surfing the channel guide, ended up in the adult pay-per-view section, and before I knew it, the “Confirm” button was highlighted on the screen. I got up to grab the remote before she hit “Enter,” but it was too late.

I won’t go into details, other than to say this: The cast members were beyond foreplay, it’s a 50-inch screen and the volume was high.

Pandemonium ensued until I finally got it off the screen.

Amid the debacle, though, there was something to treasure and to marvel over: My mom laughed.

At that time, she never smiled, let alone laughed.

Susan Clara Nivens, my mother, is only 62. She cannot reliably feed herself, does not walk, and usually cannot tell

you the color of the sky if you ask, although she can surprise you. Her demeanor is usually expressionless. When she talks, it’s monotone.

Three months ago, she was in the St. Mary’s ICU on a breathing machine with pneumonia. She has clots in her leg and is on bloodthinners.

If the professionals are right, she is most likely in the last year of her life.

So it takes a real jolt to generate enough electrical activity in her brain to cause laughter. Apparently, spontaneous porn on a giant TV screen is enough.

I’ll take it.

Small pleasures are really all I have left with my mom. nnn In the 10th grade, I wrote an essay called A Mother Made of Steel, about the trials that my mom went through after a divorce from my father and then the death of her second husband. She had devoted her life almost entirely to my brother and me, working hard as an administrative assistant, keeping troubled marriages as much out of our view as possible, clipping coupons,

Thomas R. Collins visit his mother, Susan Clara Nivens, at her nursing home. Family photo wearing Kmart clothes, splurging on absolutely nothing, saving for my college and always making sure that we knew, as we grew up in a Baltimore row house, that there was nothing in the world more important than us.

My heart always went out to the poor people of the world, the people I heard about on

TV, not realizing we were pretty much poor ourselves.

I gave the essay to my mom.

She kept it for 20 years.

And things never got any easier for her.

When I went to college, my brother and his wife moved in with her, along with their two children, which became three.

They had terrible substance

abuse problems. I tried in vain, year after year, to persuade my mom to show some tough love and kick him and his wife out.

She could never muster it.

After college, I moved to Florida for a job. I ponder now what might have happened if I’d lived closer. I tell myself that my mom always really wanted me to do what was best

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professionally. But I wonder.

By the fall of 2008, seeing my mom’s mental condition declining and my brother’s substance abuse continuing, my wife and I brought my mother, brother and niece to live in Florida. (My brother’s other two children and wife had moved out.)

A month later, I got emergency custody of my niece, whom I’ve since adopted. I got guardianship of my mom. My brother moved back to Baltimore.

He has since passed away.

I haven’t told my mom. nnn My mom lived with us for a month.

It was the strangest time of my life. She would come out of the bathroom with her underwear on top of her pants.

Or worse, wearing no clothes at all, setting off a panic before she was redirected. She would constantly reheat coffee and not drink it. In the car, she’d ask 50 times where we were going.

It was impossible to care for my mom, raise my niece and work, too. I moved my mom to an assisted living facility. It was the most painful thing I ever did. But I knew I had no choice. nnn The younger a person is when dementia sets in, the faster it progresses. It’s like a roller coaster with a bunch of downhills but no uphills. Steep

drop, plateau, steep drop.

In September, she started declining severely. She would pace relentlessly at the assisted living home, resting only fitfully in a chair in the TV room. Her speech grew quieter and quieter, then went away almost completely. I tried to capture voice fragments on a recorder.

She started having problems swallowing.

One day, we got a call from the assisted living facility.

My mom had fallen in the dining room at breakfast and turned blue. She was taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center. She had pneumonia because of food in her lungs.

She was there two weeks, much of it with a tube down her throat. I held her hand and stroked her hair for hours on end. She couldn’t respond to what I said. I kept asking her to “gimme a squeeze,” and she’d squeeze my hand every time. Every time, I was relieved.

She was eventually released, but the prospect of getting food in the lungs again hangs over us like a storm cloud.

I chose a nursing home, and she’s living there now. nnn I’d heard great things about Hospice of Palm Beach County. I called them and

eventually I decided on palliative care, with more emphasis on comfort than anything else. My mom will not go to the hospital again. And she won’t go on a breathing tube or a feeding tube. When death is imminent, we have the option of bringing her home.

For a while, I felt every minute I spent with my mom could be our last.

Her speech came back.

She mostly says one word at a time. Her default word is, “Yes.” “How are you feeling?”

“Yes.” “How was lunch?” “Yes.” Sometimes she gets out short sentences. They’re all bonus words, ones I might never have heard.

I’ve taken to talking to my mom at extremely close range, often with our foreheads touching, looking her in the eyes so closely that she has nothing but my eyes in her field of vision. We are like lovestruck 18-year-olds.

I tell her, “I love you,” to which she almost unfailingly responds (repeats? ) “I love you.”

Sometimes, she gives the more reassuring, “I love you, too.” Sometimes, I strive for more acknowledgement: “I love you very much, Mom. You know that, right?” “Yes,” she says.

I press my hands to her cheeks to feel her warm skin.

I know it will not feel warm forever, and that haunts me. I hug her repeatedly. I ask her for pecks on the cheek and she always delivers.

A change in her heart medication has helped make

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her more aware, but I know it’s not helping the actual dementia.

Our visits mainly consist of my pushing her to a pond on the nursing home grounds, hoping to see a wading bird or two, then visiting the nursing home chapel, and watching TV. If she sees a bird fly away and follows it with her eyes, or gets through two lines of a prayer without stumbling or is able to give me the name of the TV show we’re watching, it’s a great day.

I still ask her to “gimme a squeeze.” Sometimes, she doesn’t, and says, “Yes” instead.

A few weeks ago, my niece, my wife and I were in the activities room with her, playing the piano, and holding her hands and doing silly dances in front of her as she sat in her wheelchair. My mom started laughing and smiling ear to ear. My heart swelled.

A week or so later, I visited her alone. We again went to the activities room and

I danced for her again. She started smiling. I kept dancing.

Then she blurted, “Get me outta here.”

My blood ran cold. “What?”

I said. “Get me outta here,” she repeated.

I didn’t know whether this was really coming from her or whether another resident had screamed, “Get me outta here” recently and she was repeating it. But she seemed to be having a relatively good day and I worried that, at that moment, she was indeed thinking clearly.

I explained to her that if her health were better, everything would be different. I have no idea whether she understood.

I can only hope.

I can only look in her eyes, tell her I love her and caress her warm skin again.

Thomas R. Collins is a freelance writer living in West Palm Beach. He is a frequent contributor to The Coastal Star.

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By Mike Readling

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February 2010

Cold snap forces end to inshore gamefish harvest

The unprecedented cold temperatures that sent shivers up the spines of South Floridians in early January did a lot more than provide intriguing video of chilled iguanas falling out of trees.

Waters from the Keys north

absorbed more than a week of temperatures not seen in recent memory. The result was a fish kill that choked waterways with fish carcasses across the state.

In South Florida the major victims were snook, tarpon, snapper, lookdowns, catfish and black drum. It is estimated that more than 1.5 million snook

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The cold threshold for these tropical species is right around the 55-degree mark. Once the water temperatures dips below that number, the fish become lethargic and eventually die.

Inshore waters in Palm Beach County were measured at 51

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Realizing the effects the weather had on the inshore gamefish population, the Florida Wildlife Commission made the unprecedented move of closing the harvest of snook, bonefish and tarpon less than a week after the cold weather abated.

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Tarpon and bonefish are closed for harvest until April 1.

Catch and release is still permitted.

The FWC has also been busy assessing and closing offshore fisheries, though that closure had nothing to do with the cold weather.

The commission shut down the recreational and commercial harvest of shallowwater groupers, including gag, black and red grouper, rock hind coney, graysby, yellowfin, yellowmouth and tiger grouper.

The closure, which runs from Jan. 19 through April 30 in the Atlantic Ocean and Monroe County state water (inside of 3 miles from shore), was implemented due to what the FWC determined was overfishing.

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Obituaries

Elena M. Forrester

By Emily J. Minor GULF STREAM — Elena M. Forrester, a native of San Francisco and a world traveler who moved to Gulf Stream in 1972 and told her family she’d never leave, died in her sleep at her beloved home on Jan. 11.

She was 99.

Mrs. Forrester’s son, Alex Lilley, said they thought perhaps his mother would make it to her 100th birthday in May. “She’d never really been sick,” he said.

But over the summer, she suffered a bad reaction to a medication. “That almost knocked her out,” he said.

She recovered, but never fully. By December when her son visited, she was weak and barely able to speak, he said.

Born in San Francisco in 1910, she studied in Italy after her graduation from that city’s famous Miss Burke’s School in 1928. While overseas, she learned to speak fluent Italian. After World War II — married and with children — she moved with her family to Paris for four years, her son said. There, she learned fluent French.

Lilley said his mother was a loyal friend with a nice sense of humor, but she was also determined to excel at the

things she set out to do.

“If she was going to be good at something, she was going to be good at it,” he said. “If she wanted to be a good cook, she didn’t just dabble in it.”

An impressive golfer even into her 90s, Mrs. Forrester was a member of the Gulf Stream Club and active at St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church. She also enjoyed playing bridge.

Her first husband, Neil Lilley, died in 1976. Her second husband, Bob Forrester, died in 1997. A daughter, Elena Lilley, passed away in 2004.

Besides her son, who lives in Southern California, she is survived by two grandchildren and a great-grandson.

Lenore G. Rubinstein

By Tim O’Meilia SOUTH PALM BEACH — When the men went off to World War II, Lenore Rubinstein went to the ballpark. A reporter for Newsweek, her editors made her a sportswriter during the war.

But the male sportswriters refused to allow her in the press box, times being what they were. So she bought tickets and covered the games from the stands.

She kept track of her own game statistics, since the official numbers were handed out only in the press box.

“She was among the first who cracked that glass ceiling for women,” said her longtime friend, Ann Davis.

Mrs. Rubinstein died Jan. 22 at the age of 93. She had been a South Palm Beach resident for 30 years.

She is best known in Palm Beach County as a stalwart

By Ron Hayes COUNTY POCKET — When she wasn’t strolling the beach, chatting with friends and strangers alike, Nora Priest was contacting politicians with letters and phone calls in support of liberal causes.

In Boston, where she spent summers, Mrs. Priest fought for civil rights during the school integration crisis of the 1970s. In Palm Beach County, she agitated to keep bus service along State Road A1A. “She was the hippie of the neighborhood,” recalls her longtime friend and neighbor, Jolyn Slebodnik. “My mother, my grandmother and my friend. She was a fighter for the underdog, and had an

and relentless member of the League of Women Voters. She filled nearly every position during her 30 years with the League, including two twoyear terms as president, when she was in her 70s and 80s. She was treasurer at the age of 88.

Friends described her as a “mover and a shaker,” always positive. “She spoke her mind and her mind was a good one,” said Davis, a colleague in the League.

Mrs. Rubinstein was born and reared in New York City and graduated from Hunter College. She later earned a master’s in education from the University of Pittsburgh.

She was fond of telling stories of her early days at Newsweek. “At first, she was running copy,” said her daughter, Judith Ahronheim.

“Then they had her ride herd on Ring Lardner Jr. Her job was to drag him out of the bars,” she said of the prize-

Nora Priest

innocence about her that would let her write a letter to the president.”

A resident of the county pocket since the late 1960s, Mrs. Priest died Jan. 7 at Vitas Hospice after a long illness.

“The cause of death is she was 92 years old,” reports her daughter, Faith Priest, of Brookline, N.H. “She was done. We used to tease her that she had a great run — World War I, World War II and the Great Depression.”

Born April 1, 1917, in London, Nora “Noni” James emigrated to the U.S. through Ellis Island as a child.

In 1942, she married Elvin H. Priest, a musician, and the couple began vacationing in this area in the early 1950s, staying at motels until the late

winning writer. “When he was too drunk to type his column, she typed it for him.”

Mrs. Rubinstein taught journalism at Allegheny Community College and the University of Pittsburgh and worked 30 years with the League of Women Voters in Pittsburgh before moving south.

She was active on the scholarship committee at the Gale Academy of Environmental Science and Technology at Forest Hill High School. She is survived by her daughter, a son, Peter Rubinstein, and two grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband of more than 60 years, Gilbert Rubinstein, in 2000.

A memorial service was held Jan. 26 at Tillman Funeral Home. Donations may be made in her name to the Alzheimer’s Community Care Association, 1651 Lake Ave., Lake Worth, FL 33460.

1960s, when they bought their winter home at 11 Surf Road.

“In Boston, when I was growing up, she had us going door to door, campaigning for anybody who was for civil rights,” reflects her daughter.

“She just embraced life and wanted to leave this a better place.”

In addition to her daughter, Mrs. Priest is survived by her husband of 68 years; a son, Barry, of Bedford, Mass.; and two grandsons, Peter Nickerson and Jason Potteiger.

Donations in Mrs. Priest’s name may be made to the Prasad Project, 465 Brickman Road, Hurleyville, NY 12747, which provides eye and dental care in the U.S., India and Mexico; or to a local food pantry. A memorial service will be held on Cape Cod in the spring.

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Howard A. Kloss

By Mary Katherine Stump OCEAN RIDGE — Howard A. Kloss passed away on Dec. 29. He was 85.

Mr. Kloss was born and reared in Chicago, and worked as a stationary engineer for the Chicago School Board until his retirement to Florida in 1990.

He also invested in real estate during his time in Chicago.

He served in the Merchant Marines during WWII and spent much of his time in Florida gardening. He was preceded in death by his wife of more than 40 years, Alice Kloss, who passed away in 2005.

For 15 years, Mr. Kloss and his wife were cared

for by John Bias, who had previously been employed to maintain the couple’s pool.

“We hit it off,” said Bias.

“Then one day he called me and asked if I would take care of him and Alice, and here I am.”

The Klosses had no children or close family, and neither did Bias. Over the years, the three became like family. “Howard was just unbelievable. Very generous.

I just can’t believe he’s gone.

Walking around the house is hard. I still expect him to be here,” said Bias.

“I promised him I’d never put him in a nursing home.

He wanted to die at home, and that’s what he did.”

Godfrey A. Rockefeller

By Ron Hayes DELRAY BEACH — He had a name that inspires awe, and accomplishments to match, but Godfrey Rockefeller wore both lightly.

“He was very much a gentlemen, with a wonderful reaching out to people from all stations of life,” says his daughterin-law, Regina Rockefeller. “He treated everyone the same, whether the person parking a car or the president.

He was respectful of everyone in life.”

The executive director of the World Wildlife Fund from 1972 to 1978 and a resident of Delray Beach since 1979, Mr. Rockefeller died unexpectedly Jan. 22 at the St. Andrew’s Club. He was 85.

A graduate of Phillips Academy Andover and Yale College, Mr. Rockefeller served in the U.S. Marine Corps during both World War II and the Korean Conflict, then went on to serve as president and chairman of the Helicopter Association of America.

He was also president of Acosta Groves, a family citrus business in Mims Florida.

In addition to his service as executive director, Mr. Rockefeller served as a World Wildlife board member from 1978 to 1985 and council member from 1984 to 1993.

He was president of both the Prouts Neck Country Club in Maine and the Hillsboro Club in Pompano Beach, but golf was not a passion.

“He wasn’t a golfer or a tennis player,” his daughterin-law said, “but an avid reader and sailor.”

Once a year, however, Mr. Rockefeller played tennis, in a grudge match with three friends, each of whom had graduated from a different college or university.

“He used to joke that the match was won or lost the night before, depending on how much he could get his opponents to drink,” she recalled.

In November, Mr. Rockefeller attended the first wedding of a grandchild when Lisa Rockefeller married Edward Sebelius of Boston, Mass.

“We were very glad to have had that time together,” his daughter-in-law said.

Mr. Rockefeller’s wife of 53 years, Margaret Kuhn Rockefeller, died last year.

In addition to his daughter-in-law, he is survived by a sister, Marion R. Stone of Greenwich, Conn.; his children, Godfrey A. Rockefeller Jr., of Lexington, Mass.; Judith S. Rockefeller of Cape Elizabeth, Maine; Caroline R. Spencer of Willow Creek, Mont., and Parker B. Rockefeller of Annapolis, Md.; and 10 grandchildren.

A memorial service was held at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Delray Beach on Jan. 30.

The family asks that donations be made to the St. Paul’s South Florida Haiti Project, 188 S. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach, FL 33444, or the Living Classrooms Foundation, 802 S. Caroline St., Baltimore, MD 21231.

Read Thom Smith’s tribute to Palm Beach’s Bill Brooks online at www.thecoastalstar.com

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2/6 - Trash and Treasure Yard Sale at the Old School Square Entertainment Pavilion, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach.

8 am-1 pm. Free. 243-7922 ext. 319.

2/6 - 11st Annual Everglades Day Festival is held at Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, 10216 Lee Rd., Boynton Beach. Arts in the Everglades promotes awareness, appeciation and an understanding of the Everglades. 8 am - 4 pm. 734-8303.

2/6 - Surf Saturdays are held at Oceanfront Park, 6415 N. Ocean Blvd., Ocean Ridge for beginner surfers ages 6 +.

Bring sunscreen, bottled water and water shoes. 8:30-10 am. Held again 2/20. $25/ resident, $31/non-resident. 742-6650.

2/6 – Child Safety Prenatal Class is offered as a one-day weekend class at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Learn infant CPR for children up to eight years old and how you can assist in an emergency. 10 am–noon. $40/couple or $25/per person.

Payment must be made before class date.

Early registration recommended. 369-2229.

2/6 - “In & Out of this World” Art Exhibit featuring work by Delray Beach artists Kit Snider and Robert Van Brott will be on display through 2/24 at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Library Hours. Free. 266-9490 or 266-0194.

2/6 - Stand-Up Paddle Boarding Lessons for ages 15 + are offered at Oceanfront Park, 6415 N. Ocean Blvd., Ocean Ridge. 10:30-noon. Held again 2/20. $25/resident, $31/non-resident.

Includes use of paddle board and paddle.

Registration: 742-6650.

2/6 - The Life of Harriet Tubman - is presented to honor Black History Month at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Class offered again 3/6. 1 pm.

Free. 266-9490 or 266-0194.

2/6 - FCAT Tutoring is offered by the Delray Beach Public Library Teen Advisory Board at 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Math, Science, Reading and Writing is offered for grades 3-5 on Saturdays. Held again: 2/13, 20 & 27. 1-3 pm. Free. 266-9490.

2/6 - Daddy/Daughter Dance is held at the Boynton Beach Civic Center, 128 E. Ocean Ave. For daddies and daughters of all ages. 6-7:30 pm. $4 per person. 742-6221.

2/6 - Palestinian Judaism in the First Century: Understanding the Semitic Mind of Jesus is presented by Dr. Mitchell Reddish at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church (on the northeast corner of Lucerne Ave. and North Palmway) in downtown Lake Worth. 7:30 pm/lecture. 6 pm/evening prayer. 6:30 pm community potluck supper.

Public invited. 582-6609.

2/6 - 25th Gem of an Evening Gala to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is held at the Flagler Museum, 1 Whitehall Way, Palm Beach. Black-tie affair includes cocktails, dinner, dancing, and live auction. 6:30 pm. $500. 686-7701.

2/6 - Sandoway Winter Gala - Fun-filled fundraising event at the Ocean Club, 6849 N. Ocean Blvd., Ocean Ridge. 6:30 pm/ cocktails, 8 pm/dinner, silent auction, and island music. $175. 274-7263.

2/6 - Starry, Starry Night — Dancing on the Square is presented by Support Dance, Inc. at Old School Square Cultural Arts Center, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. 6:30 pm. Performances by students

at the Dreyfoos School of the Arts and the ENCORE! Dance Company, silent auction, wine, hors d’ oeuvres, dessert and coffee. $75. 282-1240.

2/6 - 48th Annual Boca Raton Community Hospital Ball is held at the Boca Raton Resort & Club, 501 E. Camino Real. Black-tie gala is signature fundraising event for the hospital. 7 pm-midnight. $400. 955-3249.

2/6 - Bal Des Arts 2010 Black & White Ball is held at the Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach. 7 pm.

Features a special exhibition of “Avedon Fashion 1944-2000.” $1,000. 832-5196.

2/6 - Cosi fan tutte is performed as part of One Opera in One Hour by the Palm Beach Opera’s youth artists at the Harriet Himmel Theater, CityPlace, West Palm Beach. 9 pm.

833-7888 or www.pbopera.org.

2/6-7 - Boca Raton Museum of Art Annual Outdoor Juried Art Festival is held at Mizner Park, 327 W. Plaza Real, Boca Raton. 10 am-5 pm. Free. 392-2500, Ext. 211.

2/6-7 - Chakra Workshop with Christopher Baxter is held at The Buddha Lounge, 1405 N. Federal Hwy., Delray Beach. Friday 8am-6pm. Saturday morning yoga 9:30-11am, Chakra workshop 1-5 pm.

703-1236 or www.yogafox.com.

2/6-14 - 25th Annual Finlandia Days takes place at Suomi Talo-Finland House, 301 W. Central Ave., Lantana and American Finnish Community Club,908 Lehto Ln., Lake Worth. For event schedule contact: 310-4058 or www.finlandiadays.com.

Feb. 7 - 13 Sunday - 2/7 - Yoga with Live Music is held every Sunday at the Colony Hotel, 525 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. 9:30-11 am. $20. 703-1236 or www.colonyyoga.com.

2/7 - Lebanese film Caramel at the Foreign Film Festival - presented by Tamara Hadassah of Palm Isles/Palm Isles Cancer Research at the Palm Isles Theatre, 9545 Palm Isle Drive, Boynton Beach.

Screening, commentary and discussion of Carmel Lebanon. 10 am. $7/film. 735-4734.

2/7 - Art Exhibit at Clay Glass Metal Stone Gallery features works by Joyce Brown, Betty Wilson and Theo Sable, at 605 Lake Ave., Lake Worth. W-Sun. 1-9 pm.

Free. 588-8344.

2/7 - Four Chaplains Memorial Services are presented by the Boynton Veterans Council and the City of Boynton Beach at St. Mark Roman Catholic Church, 643 NE 4th Ave., Boynton Beach. 2 pm. Refreshments follow ceremony. 276-1796.

2/7 - Sunday Musical Matinee Series - guitarist and singer-songwriter Kraig Kenning at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 2 pm. Doors open 1/2 hour before each performance. $15/ individual performance, $40/four-concertseries. 266-9490 or 266-0194.

Monday - 2/8 - Norman Scofield Watercolors Exhibit continues at Veterans Park Community Center, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. Works of local artist and educator are displayed with sale proceeds benefiting the Delray Art League’s Scholarship Fund. 8:30 am-4:30 pm/M-F. Exhibit runs until 4/15. 243-7350.

2/8 - “Open Your Heart” Hab-a-Hearts Annual Luncheon to support the Palm Beach Habilitation Center is held at The Mar-A-Lago Club, 1100 S. Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach. 11 am. Includes wine reception and auctions. $200. 965-8500.

2/8 - Musical Luncheon is presented by the School of the Arts Foundation Guild at The Colony Hotel, 155 Hammon Ave., Palm Beach. Performances by music students from the Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts. 11:30 am. $100/members, $125/ non-members. 805-6298.

2/8 - Hot Pink Luncheon is presented by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation at The Breakers Mediterranean Ballroom, 1 S. County Rd., Palm Beach. 11:45 am. Tickets prices start at $550, tables of 10 $5,000 and up. For more information 646-497-2622 or www.bcrfcure.org.

2/8 - Great Books readings and discussions meets the second and fourth Mondays of each month at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd.

Held again 2/22. 12-1 pm. 742-6380.

2/8 - Op, Pop and... exhibition continues through 2/19 at Margot Stein Gallery, 512 Lucerne Ave., Lake Worth. Exhibition includes work by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine, Larry Rivers, Ed Ruscha, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, George Segal, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Indiana and Mel Ramos. Noon-4 pm and by appointment.

582-5770 or www.margotsteingallery.com.

2/8 - The News on the News - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is presented by Palm Beach Post columnist Frank Cerabino as part of the Lifelong Learning Center @ the Library series held at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Course gives students a behind-the-scenes look at the process of news gathering and dissemination at a time of momentous change both inside and outside the newsroom. 2-3:30 pm. Class continues 3/1, 8, 15, & 22. Premier memberships available for $15. $35/Each 3-4 session course, $45/ each 5-6 session course. 266-9490.

2/8 - AmeriCorps Volunteer - A literacy AmeriCorps member is available M-Th at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Tutoring and homework help is offered for children and teens. 2:30-6:30 pm. Free. 742-6396.

2/8 - FCAT Tutoring is offered by the Delray Beach Public Library Teen Advisory Board at the library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Math and Science is offered for grades 3-5 on Mondays. Held again: 2/15 & 22. 4-5 pm. Free. 266-9490.

2/8 - 6th Annual Circle of Hope Dinner Gala to support the Women’s Circle is held at Benvenuto Caterestaurant, 1730 N. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach. Cocktail reception, live music, dinner and live & silent auctions. 6 pm. $75. 364-9501.

2/8 - Florida’s Amazing History & Why You Should Care - presented by author Eliot Kleinberg at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 6:30 pm. Free.

266-9490 or 266-0194.

2/8 - Heading South is shown as part of Florida Atlantic University’s film series to benefit Haiti in the Performing Arts Building, room 101, 777 Glades Rd., Boca Raton. $10 suggested donation benefits Partners in Health. 7 pm. 297-3860 2/8 - Valentine’s Day Origami Crafts Make a unique Valentine’s Day gift at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Grades K-5: 6-7 pm; grades 6-12: 7-8 pm. Free. 742-6393.

2/8 - Bill W. and Dr. Bob - The incredible and often humorous story of the two men who pioneered Alcoholics Anonymous is be performed at the Crest Theatre at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. 7:30 pm 2/8-10 & 2/15-17; Matinees 2/10 & 17 at 2 pm. $38. 243-7922.

2/8 - U.S. Coast Guard Auxillary Flotilla 54 meets the first Monday of each month at Boynton Beach Boat Park, 2010 N. Federal Hwy. Boaters and non-boaters welcome. 8 pm. 966-2158.

2/8-3/3 - Art Exhibit by South Palm Beach resident Dorothy Polayes is ongoing at the South Palm Beach Town Hall, 3577 S. Ocean Blvd. Free. Exhibit can be seen by appointment. 588-8889.

Tuesday - 2/9 - PSA, Cholesterol and Glugose health screenings are provided

by Delray Beach Medical Center at the Boynton Beach Senior Center, 1021 S. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach. 9 am-noon.

Free. 1-888-479-2221.

2/9 - Florida: A Crime Writer’s Paradise - presented by author Tim Dorsey as part of the Author’s Series at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Tim will also feature his book Gator A-Go-Go. 9:30 am. Free. 266-9490 or 266-0194.

2/9 - Family Storytime is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Listen to stories, sing songs and learn fingerplays. Infants-Age 5. 10-10:45 am.

Held again 2/16, 2/23. 742-6380.

2/9 - Ceramic Sculpture Exhibition at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach. Large scale ceramic sculptures in the form of stylized human heads. 10 am-5 pm/T-Sun. Through 3/7. 495-0233.

2/9 - Coral Reef Shark Feedings are held daily, Tuesday through Saturday, at Sandoway House Nature Center, 142 S. Ocean Blvd. Delray Beach. Feeding begins

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2/9 - Pinball Palooza: The Art, The History, The Game continues at the Cornell Museum of Art & American Culture, Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. Visit a collection of vintage pinball machines and pinball art from a private collector. T-Sat. 10:30 am-4:30 pm.

Runs through 3/28. $6/ general; $4/seniors & students (13-21); $2/ages 5-12, Free/ under 5. 243-7922.

2/9 - Evening Book Group - The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa is presented by rotating book group leaders at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 6 pm. Free. 266-9490 or 266-0194.

2/9 - Pajama Storytime is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Ages 3-6 (plus siblings) listen to stories, sing, dance and make a special craft while in their pajamas. Don’t forget to bring a teddy bear! 7-8 pm. Free. 742-6380.

Wednesday - 2/10 - FCAT Tutoring is offered by the Delray Beach Public Library Teen Advisory Board at the library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Reading and Writing is offered for grades 3-5 on Wednesdays. Held again: 2/17 & 24. 4-5 pm. Free. 266-9490.

2/10 - Teen Gaming at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Grades 6-12 play video games. Offered again 2/17.

Free. 6-7:30 pm. 742-6380.

2/10 - Rock and Roll: Its Roots, History, and Special Sounds is presented by Dr. Robert Weber as part of the Lifelong Learning Center @ the Library series held at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Course includes music and videos. 6:30-8 pm. Class continues 2/17 and 3/3. Premier memberships available for $15. $35/Each 3-4 session course, $45/ each 5-6 session course. 266-9490.

2/10 - Cy Schonberg Memorial Concert Series is held under the artist direction of Dr. Robert Sharon at South Palm Beach Town Hall. 7 pm/doors open, 7:30 pm/ performance. Single event tickets are $25. Event held again 2/11, 24, 25, 3/3 & 3/4. For complete series tickets or more information: 588-8889.

2/10 - Bell Society Dinner and Show with Johnny Rogers is held for the Mental Health Association at The Colony Hotel, 155 Hammon Ave., Palm Beach. 7 pm. Prices start at $500. 832-3755, Ext. 109.

2/10 - Tim Dorsey speaks and signs his new book, Gator-A-Go-Go at Murder on the Beach Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach. 7 pm. Free. 279-7790.

2/10 - Grand Opening - Yoga at Artful Dreamers Studio, 112 S. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach. 7 pm. Also offered 2/11 at 9:30 am. Love offering. 736-3200.

Thursday - 2/11 - Boynton Beach Library Quilters meet every Thursday from 9-11:30 am at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S Seacrest Blvd. 742-6390.

2/11 - Playdough Fun Day @ Your Library - Come make shapes, letters or whatever you want at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S Seacrest Blvd. Ages 3-5 years. 10-11 am. Free. 742-6380.

2/11 – Knit ‘N Purl - twice monthly class presented by rotating facilitators at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Class is offered again on 2/18. 10:30 am. Free. 266-9490 or 266-0194.

2/11 - Healthy Lifestyles is presented at the Boynton Beach Civic Center, 128 E. Ocean Ave. Presentations led by Jazzercise instructor Cathy Albanese. 10:30 am-1 pm.

Free. RSVP: 742-6240.

2/11 - NA ‘AMAT USA Annual Scholarship Luncheon is held by the Palm Beach Council at Benvenuto’s, 1730 N. Federal Highway, Boynton Beach. 11:30 am. $45. 954-970-8609.

2/11 - Trash or Treasures - Art & Antique Appraisal Show - presented by Bill Hood & Sons Auctioneers & Appraisers at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 2 pm. Free. 266-9490.

2/11 - Read with Hogan the Reading Dog at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Each reader gets 10 minutes with Hogan. All ages. Also held 2/18, 2/25. 4-5 pm. Free. 742-6380.

2/11 - Un-Valentine’s Day Cookie Decorating - Decorate broken heart

Municipal Meetings 2/8 & 2/22 - Lantana - second & fourth Mondays at Lantana Town Hall, 500 Greynolds Circle. 7 pm. Agenda available at www.lantana.org.

2/12 - Gulf Stream - second Friday at the Gulf Stream Town Hall, 100 Sea Road. 9 am. Agenda available in clerk’s office.

2/16 - Delray Beach - first & third Tuesdays at Delray Beach City Hall, 100 N.W. 1st Ave. 6 pm. Agenda available at: www.mydelraybeach.com.

2/23 - Manalapan - fourth Tuesday at Manalapan Town Hall, 600 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan. 9:30 am. Agenda available at www.manalapan.org.

2/23 - South Palm Beach - fourth Tuesday in the South Palm Beach Town Hall Council Chambers, 3577 S. Ocean Blvd. 7:30 pm. Agenda available at www. southpalmbeach.com.

2/25 - Briny Breezes - fourth Thursday at Briny Breezes Town Hall, 4802 N. Ocean Blvd. 4 pm. Agenda available at www.townofbrinybreezes-fl.com 3/1 - Ocean Ridge - first Monday at Ocean Ridge Town Hall, 6450 N. Ocean Blvd., Ocean Ridge. 6 pm. Agenda available at www.oceanridgeflorida.com cookies at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S Seacrest Blvd. Grades 6-12. 6-7:30 pm. Free. 742-6380.

2/11 - Benefit for Haiti is presented by the Fine/Performing Arts Dept. of Santaluces High School, 6880 Lawrence Rd., Lantana. 7 pm. $5 benefits Haiti recovery. 357-6120.

2/11- Emerald Isle Dinner Dance is held for the American Ireland Fund at The Breakers, 1 S. County Rd., Palm Beach.

Founders of Austism Speaks will be honored. 7 pm. $500. 212-213-1166.

2/11 - FAU Student Authors read from this year’s edition of Coastlines at the Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center, 201 Plaza Real, Boca Raton. Coastlines is FAU’s literary magazine. 7 pm. 297-2974.

2/1 - The Price of Sugar is shown as part of Florida Atlantic University’s film series to benefit Haiti in the Performing Arts Building, room 101, 777 Glades Rd., Boca Raton. $10 benefits Partners in Health. 7 pm. 297-3860.

2/11 - Bridging Japanese and American Styles of Communication is presented by Dr. Lauren S. Crane at Morikami Museum and Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach. 7:30 pm. $7/members, $10/ non-members. 495-0233, Ext. 235.

2/11-13 - Annual Step-AboveRummage Sale - at First Presbyterian Church of Delray Beach, 33 Gleason St., Delray Beach. 9 am-3 pm/thursday, friday & saturday. Free. 276-6338.

Friday - 2/12 - Parker Ladd’s Author Breakfast Series continues with Jenet Conant, The Irregulars and Lady Colin Campbell, Daughter of Narcissus: A Family’s Struggle to Survive Their Mother’s Narcissistic Personality Disorder at Cafe Boulud at The Brazilian Court Hotel, 301 Australian Avenue, Palm Beach. 8:45-10 am. $100 includes breakfast, parking and a copy of one of the featured books. 366-4301.

2/12 - Pre-K Rhythm & Rhyme: Symphony of the Americas - Kids delight as master musicians play classic children’s songs at the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum, 129 E. Ocean Ave., Boynton Beach. Special guest will be a trombonist. Ages 2-5. 10:30 am-noon. $2.50 plus museum admission. 742-6782.

2/12 - Spring/Summer 2010 Swim Collections is presented by ERES at Absolutley Suitables at The Breakers, 1 South County Rd., Palm Beach. 1-4 pm.

212-937-0171 or 212-937-0180.

2/12 - Bob Roberts Society Orchestra Enjoy dancing to music from the ‘20’s, ‘30’s and ‘40s at the Boynton Beach Civic Center, 128 E. Ocean Ave. Dances are held every Friday through 3/26. 1:30-3:30 pm. $4 at the door. 742-6240.

2/12 - Dinner and Classic Movies at The Palms is presented by Church of the Palms Men’s Club in the Church Friendship Center, 1960 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach.

Salisbury Steak dinner ($8) followed by romantic classic Wuthering Heights. 5:30 pm. 276-6347.

2/12 - Private Preview Evening of the Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show benefits the Historical Society of Palm Beach County at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. Champagne reception, hors d’oeuvres, cocktails, live entertainment and an advance look at more than 200 exhibitors. Cocktail attire.

5:30-10 pm. $175. 832-4164, ext. 0.

2/12 - Tennis Anyone? - Friday night mixers at the Boynton Beach Tennis Center,

3111 S. Congress Ave. Three 45-minute rounds or three sets of mixed doubles.

6-9 pm. $12/resident, $15/non-resident.

742-6575.

2/12 - Curiousities: Rick Valicenti & 21st Century Thirst exhibit opens with a lecture by the artist at University Galleries at Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Rd., Boca Raton. 7 pm. Free. 297-2966.

2/12 - Julie Compton speaks and signs her new book, Rescuing Olivia at Murder on the Beach Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach. 7 pm. Free. 279-7790.

2/12-14 - 11th Annual Delray Beach Garlic Fest is held in downtown Delray Beach. Festival hours: 2/12 - 5-10 pm, 2/13-11 am-10 pm, 2/14-11 am-7 pm.

Enjoy garlic-inspired gourmet food, over 150 vendors, children’s rides and activities, and cooking demonstrations including the “Smokin, Hot & Spicy” Fire Fighter BBQ and “Garlic Chef” competitions.

Muscial entertainment includes: Jumpin’ Johnny and The Blues Heathens (2/12-5:30 pm), Fabulous Fleetwoods (2/12-6 pm), Everclear (2/12-8:30 pm), Son of Man (2/13-1 pm), Andy Childs (2/13-3 pm & 2/13-12:30 pm), Taylor Road (2/13-4 pm), The Resolvers (2/13-6 pm), The Wailers (2/13-8:30 pm). $10. 279-0907.

Saturday - 2/13 - A Day of Professional Pruning in the Garden is coordinated by the Florida Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture at Mounts Botanical Garden, 531 N. Military Trail., West Palm Beach. Learn from local arborists. 8 am-4 pm.$5. 233-1757.

2/13 - Surf the Right Way - 3-part class teaches basics of surfing at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. Ages 10-14. Classes continue 2/20 & 2/27. 9-10:30 am. $45/members, $50/nonmembers. Reservations: 391-8110.

2/13 - The Great Backyard Bird Count at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. Join a walk to search for birds for this 13th annual event. Open to all ages, children must be accompanied by an adult. 9-11 am. Free.

Reservations: 391-8110.

2/13 - Sea Shell Spectacular exhibit opens at Sandoway House Nature Center, 142 E. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach. Collection includes 10,000 shells from around the world donated from a private collection.

Runs through 3/26. Museum hours: T-Sat./ 10am-4pm, Sun./noon-4pm. Free/Museum members, $4/Non-members. 274-7263.

2/13 - Family Fun Program: Valentine’s Accessory Making is presented at The Morikami Japanese Museum and Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach.

Explore the culture through hands-on arts and crafts. 10 am-5 pm. $2 with museum admisstion. 495-0233 ext. 237.

2/13 - Briny Breezes Bazaar is held in the Briny Auditorium just west of the stop light on A1A. 9 am-noon. Homemade lunch sales from 10:30 am-1 pm. Electronics, bikes, lamps, kitchen items, clothing, furniture and more. 278-6738 or 272-0816.

2/13 - Teddy Bear Valentine PJ Party is held with Kindermusik at the Intracoastal Park Clubhouse, 2240 N. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach. Kids age 1-6. Come in your pajamas. 11 am-noon. $5/resident, $7/nonresident. 742-6650.

2/13 - Hands Across the Sand is a gathering to prevent near-shore oil drilling in Florida’s coastal waters. 1 pm/meet at beach in your area. 1:30 pm/hold hands forming lines in the sand. Information: www.handsacrossthesand.org.

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2/13 - 8th Annual Book Talk - presented by the Boca Raton Branch of the National League of American Pen Women features eight authors discussing their latest books at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 2-4 pm. Free. 266-9490.

2/13 - “Romance Under the Stars” - The 55th Annual Bethesda Ball for the Bethesda Memorial Hospital Foundation held at The Breakers, 1 S. County Rd., Palm Beach.

Black-tie event with with dinner, dancing, entertainment and auction. 6:30 pm/ cocktails and silent auction; 8 pm/dinner and dancing. $350. 737-7733, Ext. 5600 or www.bethesdaball.com.

2/13 - 55th Annual Palm Beach Heart Ball is held for the American Heart Association at The Mar-A-Lago Club, 1100 S. Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach. Black-tie affair celebrates global achievements in cardiovascular research, science and medicine. 7 pm-midnight. $750. 697-6657.

2/13-15 - Artists in the Park is held at Veterans Park , Atlantic Ave. at the Intracoastal, Delray Beach. 10 am- 4:30 pm. Held again 2/20-21 &2/27-28. www. delrayartleague.org.

2/13-15 - ArtiGras Fine Arts Festival 25th annual event features 300 juried artists along with artist demonstrations, Youth Art Competition, ArtiKids children’s interactive activity area, Celebrity Art Auction, entertainment and more. Abacoa Town Center, 1155 Main St., Jupiter. Sat. & Sun. 10 am-6 pm, Mon. 10 am-5pm. Advance tickets $6; $10 at the gate; children 12 and under are free. 748-3946.

Feb. 14-20 2/14 - Concert featuring Sidney Outlaw at First Presbyterian Church of Delray Beach, 33 Gleason St. 4-6 pm. Free.

276-6338.

Monday - 2/15 - Presidents’ Day 2/15 - Alex Berenson speaks and signs his new book, The Midnight House at Murder on the Beach Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach. 1 pm. Free. 2797790 or www.murderonthebeach.com.

Tuesday - 2/16 - Games @ Your Library is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 508 S. Seacrest Blvd. Grades K-5 play favorite video games. Held again 1/19. 4-5 pm. Free. 742-6380.

2/16 - Heart Symposium - Status of Cardiac Surgery in China - presented by Michael J. Carmichael, M.D. at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, Clayton Conference Center, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. 4:30 pm. Free. 731-2273.

2/16 - Palm Beach Wine Auction is held for the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts at The Breakers, 1 S. County Rd., Palm Beach. 6:30 pm. A champagne and wine reception followed by a five-course dinner and wine auction. $750. 651-4320.

Wednesday - 2/17 - Creative Kids is held at the Boynton Beach Art Center, 125 SE 2nd Ave., for ages 3+. 9-11 am T&Th through 3/25. $48/residents, $60/ non-residents Registration: 742-6650.

Information: 742-6221.

2/17 - Tots ‘n Tales Storytime - Ages 3-23 months listen to board books, sing songs, do silly dances and make new friends at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. 9:45-10:30 am. Held again 2/24. 742-6390.

2/17 - Ready, Set, Read Storytime Ages 3-5 years listen to stories, sing songs and make crafts at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. 11:30 am12:15 pm. Held again 2/24. 742-6390.

2/17 - Forgiveness, Compassion and Justice: Masterworks of Western Music is presented as lecture and performance by Dr. Heather Coltman as part of Expressions of Peace Week at Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Rd., Boca Raton. 1-2 pm. Free. 297-0155.

2/17 - Paris & The Jazz Age is presented

by Dr. Terryl Lawrence as part of the Lifelong Learning Center @ the Library series held at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Course gives students a close look at the players in this time of seemingly endless parties who gathered in Paris and on the Cote d’ Azur.

2-3:30 pm. Class continues 3/3, 10, 17, 24 & 31. Premier memberships available for $15. $35/Each 3-4 session course, $45/each 5-6 session course. 266-9490.

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February 2010

Eight more weeks of great weather Assisted by Lantana Mayor David Stewart, Palm Beach Post columnist Frank Cerabino (filling in for Lantana “Lou” Canter) emerged from the lifeguard stand on Lantana’s public beach Feb. 2 and proclaimed, “We don’t need no stinkin’ groundhog to tell us that there will be six to eight more weeks of great weather and plenty of tourists.” Also in attendance was the Lake Worth Muck Monster. Photo by Jerry Lower 2/17 - Manalapan Library Book Club discusses The Help by Kathryn Stockett. 3 pm. J. Turner Moore Memorial Library, 1330 Land End Road., Manalapan. 588-7577.

2/17 - JAMbooda: Music & Movement is held for ages 2-4 at the Boynton Beach Civic Center, 128 E. Ocean Ave. 4:30-5:30 pm Wednesdays through 4/24. $30/ residents, $38/non-residents. 742-6221.

2/17 - Middle East and Terrorism Update is presented by Dr. Walid Phares at South Palm Beach Town Hall as part of the 14th annual Cultural Series. Event held again 2/18. 7:30 pm. Single event tickets are $25. For complete series tickets or for more information: 588-8889.

Thursday - 2/18 - Two by Two Storytime - Ages 24-35 months listen to stories, sing silly songs and do fingerplays while making new friends at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S Seacrest Blvd. 1010:45 am. Held again 2/25. 742-6390.

2/18 - Peace and World Conflicts is presented by Dr. Renat Shaktidunov as part of Expressions of Peace Week at Florida Atlantic University, Senate Chambers/ Student Union, 777 Glades Rd., Boca Raton.

10 am-noon. Free. 297-0155.

2/18 - Understanding Other Cultures - How We View Others - is presented by Charles Omana and Carl Wetzstein at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 10:30 am. Free. 266-9490 or 266-0194.

2/18 - Boynton Woman’s Club Fashion Show to raise money for their scholarship fund. 11:30 am. $40 includes lunch. Tickets must be purchased in advance. 369-2300.

2/18 - U.S. Senator Bill Nelson tackles economic issues during the noon luncheon of the The Forum Club of the Palm Beaches held at the Cohen Pavilion at the Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. $30/member, $40/guest tickets purchased by members, $40/applicant tickets, $55/public. 304-0570.

2/18 - Great Documentaries Film Series - Roger & Me - commentary by Assistant Director Mykal Banta at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 1 pm. Free. 266-9490 or 266-0194.

2/18 - Art and Buddhism is presented by Dr. Carol Damian as part of Expressions of Peace Week at Florida Atlantic University Student Union, 777 Glades Rd., Boca Raton.

4-6 pm. Free. 297-0155.

2/18 - Wine & Jazz in the Botanical Gardens is held at The American Orchid Society, 16700 AOS Lane, Delray Beach.

Held the third Thursday of each month through April with live music, food and a sunset stroll through the gardens.

5:30-7:30 pm. $20/members, $25/nonmembers. 404-2031.

2/18 - Cadence Crazy - fundraiser for the Santaluces High School Marching Chiefs Drumline around the tiki bar at Crane’s BeachHouse, 82 Gleason St., Delray Beach.

Food, drink, silent auction and live music. 6 p.m. $20. 278-1700.

2/18 - The History of the Olympic Games is presented by Manalapan resident Dr. Christos Papatheodorou at the J. Turner Moore Memorial Library, 1330 Land End Rd., Manalapan. 6 pm. Free/Library members, $5/non-members. 588-7577.

2/18 - Teen Advisory Board - Teens, let your voice be heard at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Grades 6-12. 6-7 pm. Free. 742-6380.

2/18 - Free Film Showing - Ramen Girl - at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach. Includes movie, an introduction on ramen culture and a tasting of ramen noodles prepared by the personal chef of the Japanese Consulate General of Miami.

Limit 6 tickets. 7-10 pm. RSVP: 495-0233.

2/18-20 - Heart Healthy for American Heart Month Cooking School is offered at The Ritz-Carlton, 100 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan. Executive Chef Ryan Artim demonstrates the latest culinary trends and offers valuable tips and tricks for preparing and presenting gourmet meals at home. $1,300/single or $1,800/couple.

Includes two nights in an ocean view guestroom, cocktail reception, classes with the chefs and special meals. Reservations required: 533-6000.

Friday - 2/19 - Kindermusik Classes for Kids are held at the Intracoastal Park Clubhouse, 2240 N. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach. Ages 1-4 experience movement to music and exploration of instruments.

Times vary according to age. Class runs through 3/26. $90/resident, $112/nonresident. 742-6650.

2/19 - Parker Ladd’s Author Breakfast Series continues with David Finkel, Good Soldiers and Lauren Weber, In Cheap We Trust at Cafe Boulud at The Brazilian Court Hotel, 301 Australian Ave., Palm Beach.

8:45-10 am. $100 includes breakfast, parking and a copy of one of the featured books. 366-4301.

2/19 - Discover Your Inner Artist through Water Media classes begin at the Intracoastal Park Clubhouse, 2240 N. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach. Learn design and composition. 9:30 am-noon. $58/ residents, $73/non-residents. Friday classes run through 3/26. 742-6650.

2/19 - Pre-K Fun with Food: For the Birds! - Kids make environmentallyfriendly bird feeders at the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum, 129 E. Ocean Ave., Boynton Beach. Ages 2-5. 10:30 am. $2.50 plu museum admission. 742-6782.

2/19 - Ocean Avenue Concert Series with Calypso & Island Music by Wild Fire is held at the Ocean Avenue Amphitheatre, E. Ocean Ave. between Seacrest Blvd. and N.E. 1st St., Boynton Beach. Bring folding chairs.

Food & drink available for purchase. No pets. 6-9 pm. Free. 742-6246.

2/19 - Confetti Gala is held as The Arthritis Foundation’s annual black tie event at The Breakers, 1 S. County Rd., Palm Beach. Entertainment, auctions, dinner and dancing. 7 pm. $450. 833-1133.

2/19 - P.J. Parrish will speak and sign his new book, The Little Death at Murder on the Beach Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach. 7 pm. Free. 279-7790.

2/19 - Night Explorers Walk is held at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. Families explore with a naturalist. 7-9 pm. $7/member, $10 non-member. Reservations: 391-8110.

2/19-21 - Cabaret is presented at The Crest Theatre at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. Tony Award winning musical takes you deep into the decadent life of 1929 Berlin. 8 pm/F & Sat., 2 pm/Sat. & Sun. $42. 243-7922, Ext. 1.

Saturday - 2/20 - I Love Art Classes for Kids are held at the Intracoastal Park Clubhouse, 2240 N. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach for ages 4-10. Each session has a unique theme and encourages reading.

Class times vary according to age. Runs through 3/27. $48/resident, $60/nonresident. 742-6650.

2/20 - Growing & Using Herbs in South Florida is held at Mounts Botanical Garden, 531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Create your own container with a selection of herbs. 9 am-noon. $45/ members, $55/non-members. Registration deadline 2/1. 233-1757.

2/20 - Gymnastics Classes for kids ages 4-16 are held every Saturday at the Ezell Hester, Jr. Community Center, 1901 N. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach.

Students develop strength, flexibility and coordination and have fun doing it. Ages 4-5: 10-11 am; ages 8-16: 11-Noon. Classes run through 3/27. $57/resident, $71/nonresident. 742-6550.

2/20 - Breastfeeding Prenatal Class - taught by lactation consultants at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach is an

opportunity for expectant parents to learn: benefits of breastfeeding, keys to success, supply and demand, positioning, breast pumps, returning to work and weaning.

Both parents encouraged to attend. 10 am–noon. $25. Registration: 369-2229.

2/20 - Sado, The Way of Tea demonstrations are held at the Morikami Museum Tea House, 4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach. Noon, 1, 2, and 3 pm.

Experience the tranquil setting of an authentic teahouse. $5/with museum admission. 495-0233.

2/20 - True Grits a Window on Appalachia is presented by Connie ReganBlade as part of the luncheon theatre series hosted by The South Florida Storytelling Project at the Willow Theatre at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton.

Buffet-style lunch followed by a story telling peformance. 12:30 pm. $25. 3473948 or www.willowtheatre.org.

2/20 - Flower Pressing class is held at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. Learn to press flowers the old-fashioned time-consuming way and the newer, quicker way. Adults only. 1-2:30 pm. $15/members, $22/nonmembers. Reservation: 391-8110.

2/20- 19th Annual Discovery Ball is held by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at The Breakers, 1 S. County Rd., Palm Beach.

Black-tie ball with music by Greg Denard Orchestra. 7 pm. $750. 868-4300.

2/20-21 - 16th Annual Lake Worth Street Painting Festival - Watch as more than 400 artists use the pavement as canvas to transform downtown Lake Worth into a temporary outdoor museum of original art and masterpiece reproductions. Festival also includes strolling minstrels, jazz, classical music, dance, theatre, improvisation and an array of street side cafes. The festival takes place on Lake Avenue. Free parking. 10 am 6 pm. 582-4401.

2/20-28 - Delray Beach International Tennis Championships (ITC) are held at the Delray Beach Stadium & Tennis Center, 201 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach.

Tournament showcases tennis’ greatest talents in the combined ATP Champions Tour and the ATP World Tour. Confirmed players include: John McEnroe, Patrick Rafter, Mats Wilander, Mardy Fish, James Blake, Tommy Haas and more. Box Seats: $150-250; Reserved Seats: $30-35, Grandstand: $15-30. For special promotions and events, visit www.yellowtennisball. com or call 330-6000.

Feb. 21-27 Sunday - 2/21 - Childbirth Education Prenatal Class is taught by a licensed nurse at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. One day refresher course provids an overview of the signs of labor, breathing techniques and more. Bring two pillows and a blanket. 9 am–4 pm. $75. Payment must be made before class date. Registration: 369-2229.

2/21 - Ice Cream Social at South Palm Beach Town Hall, 3577 S. Ocean Blvd. 2-4 pm. Free. 588-8889.

2/21 - Harmonic Motion performs at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in downtown Lake Worth. Duo performs Middle Eastern, Armenian and North African music. 4 pm.

Reception follows with middle eastern foods. $20/adults, $10/students. 582-6609.

Monday - 2/22 - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is presented by Lee Wolf as part of the Lunch & Learn Series in the Weiner Banquet Center in the Cohen Pavilion at the Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. 11:30 am. $150. 832-7469.

2/22 - Global Challenges for a Compassionate World is presented as a panel discussion as part of Expressions of Peace Week at Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Rd., Boca Raton. 3:30-5 pm.

Free. 297-0155.

2/22 - Tibetan Buddhism and China is presented by Dr. Victor Mair as part of Expressions of Peace Week at Florida Atlantic University, Senate Chambers/ Student Union, 777 Glades Rd., Boca Raton.

4-5:30 pm. Free. 297-0155.

2/22 - Art in the City of Boynton Beach is the topic of the Arts Connection program at the Boynton Beach Library, 208 S. Seacrest, Blvd. 6-8 pm. 742-6026.

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February 2010 2/22 - The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling - Book Gabbers book discussion at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Grades 3-5.

6:30-7:30 pm. Free. 742-6380.

2/22-23 - Chita Rivera performs at the Crest Theatre at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. 8 pm both days. $42. 243-7922.

Tuesday - 2/23 - ITTY-Bits Basketball is held at Ezell Hester Jr. Community Center, 1901 N. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach.

Ages 3-5 learn skills and movement in an educational environment. Runs through 3/30. 10-11 am. $40/resident, $50/nonresident. Registration: 742-6550.

2/23 - Nobel Prize Voices on World Peace: Dalai Lama, Obama, Walesa and Mandala is presented as panel discussion as part of Expressions of Peace Week at Florida Atlantic University, Senate Chambers/Student Union, 777 Glades Rd., Boca Raton. 10 am-noon. Free. 297-0155.

2/23 - The View from 30,000 Feet: Understanding the Historic Perpective of Today’s Global Markets is presented by American Health Association as part of the Lunch-n-Learn series. Lecture held at Robb & Stucky Interiors, Conference Room, 2nd Floor, 200 Plaza Real, Mizner Park, Boca Raton. 2 pm. RSVP: 394-8572.

2/23 - Advances in Hand Arthritis presented by Angelo Incorvaia, M.D., as part of the Community Lecture Series at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, Clayton Conference Center, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. 4:30 pm. Free. 731-2273.

2/23 - Mr. James’ School of Magic - Let Mr. James, our very own magician, astound you with his illusionary abilities at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Grades K-5. 4:30-5:30 pm. Held again 6-7:30 pm. Free. 742-6380.

2/23 - A Raisin in the Sun is performed by the Theater Academy at Boynton Beach Community Hight School at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. A scene from the play will be performed and the cast will answer audience questions.

6-7 pm. Free. 742-6390.

Wednesday - 2/24 - Drop-in Craft Day at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Make original art projects.

Grades K-5. 4-5 pm. Free. 742-6380.

Thursday - 2/25 - Harry Markopolos - The fraud examiner who exposed the $50 billion Madoff scam speaks at the Crest Theatre at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. 2 pm & 7:30 pm. $25/general admission, $40/reserved (includes valet parking and a post-lecture reception). 243-7922 ext. 1.

2/25 - Red Cross South County Gala Kick-Off Reception is held at Tommy Bahamas in Mizner Park, 418 Plaza Real, Boca Raton. Steel drum band, tropical cocktails and hors d’ oeurves. 6-8 pm. Free.

994-2060.

2/25 - The Lord’s Place SleepOut occurs at the Meyer Amphitheater, 104 Datura St., West Palm Beach. Hear stories of those who have been helped out of homelessness. Come for the program or stay for the night. 7 pm. $25/minimum donation. 4494-0125, Ext. 1130.

2/25 - Songwriters in the Round benefits Leadership Palm Beach County at the Harriett Himmel Theatre, CityPlace, West Palm Beach. 7 pm. Country music songwriters perform their hit songs. $400/ table of 4, $750/table of 10. 833-4321.

Friday - 2/26 - Parker Ladd’s Author Breakfast Series continues with Nelson DeMille, The Gate House and Robert Feldman, The Liar in Your Life: The Way to Truthful Relationships at Cafe Boulud at The Brazilian Court Hotel, 301 Australian Ave., Palm Beach. 8:45 am-10 am. $100 includes breakfast, parking and a copy of one of the featured books. 366-4301.

2/26 - Pre-K Fun with Food: Popcorn Flowers - Kids use popcorn to create flower paintings at the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum, 129 E. Ocean Ave., Boynton Beach. Pre-k ages 2-5. 10:30 am. $2.50 plus museum admission. 742-6782.

2/26 - Jewels of Life Designer Showcase & Fashion Luncheon is held by the American Lung Association at Club Colette, 315 Peruvian Ave., Palm Beach.

Noon. Fashion show and silent auction. $250. 659-7644.

2/26 - Showcase the Writing introduces new writers from the Writer’s Academy to the public at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. All genres of work are presented by professional actors who create the form of “story-theater.” 7 pm. $10. 832-7469 or www.kravis.org.

Saturday - 2/27 - Hermit Crabs - Little Wonders & Big Wonders - Learn about plants and animals with a hike, crafts and stories at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton.

Ages 3 & 4/ 9:30-10:30 am. Ages 5 & 6/11noon. $7/members, $10/non-members.

Reservations: 391-8110.

2/27 - Pirates - Make your own pirate flag at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. Ages 7-12 (Adults not required to stay). 1-2:30 pm. $12/members, $18/non-members.

Reservations: 391-8110.

2/27 - Butterfly Ball supports the Lupus Foundation of America, Southeast Florida Chapter at Mar-A-Lago, 1100 S. Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach. Black-tie event with cocktails, silent auction, four-course meal and entertainment. 7 pm. $600. 279-8606.

2/27-28 - 13th Annual Downtown Delray Beach / Howard Alan Craft Festival See arts and crafts items from some of the nation’s top crafters in Pineapple Grove, 200 N.E. 2nd Ave., Delray Beach. 10 am-5 pm both days. Free. 954-472-3755.

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Feb. 28-March 6 Sunday - 2/28 - The Way of Taiko: The Heartbeat of Japan - Learn taiko drumming at The Morikami Museum, 4000 Morikami Park Road., Delray Beach. Wear comfortable clothes and shoes; no jewelry. $50. Three sessions: 10:15 am-12:15 pm; 12:45 pm-2:45 pm; 3-5 pm. 495-0233.

The COASTAL STAR Monday - 3/1 - Quilting Bee - twice monthly quilting class meets at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 10 am. Free. 266-9490.

3/1 - Baby Care Prenatal Class at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Three-hour class includes: ensuring your newborn’s

health, safety and well-being, car seat safety, childcare, coping skills and more.

5-8 pm. $35. Registration: 369-2229.

Tuesday - 3/2 - Palm Beach Opera Guild Luncheon & Fashion Show at The Breakers, 1 S. County Rd., Palm Beach.

Proceeds support educational and outreach programs. 11:30 am. $250. 835-7569.

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Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25: Music in the Grove Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25: Black History Month Lectures at Spady Museum Feb. 12-14: Garlic Fest, Old School Square Feb. 20 -28: 2010 Delray Beach International Tennis Championship Feb. 27-28: 13th Annual Delray Beach Downtown Craft Festival Visit our website for more information on the restaurants, galleries, boutiques and cultural experiences in Delray Beach.

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February 2010 3/2 - Ikenobo Ikebana Flower Arrangement - Learn traditional flower arrangement at The Morikami Museum, 4000 Morikami Park Road., Delray Beach.

1-3 pm. Four-week session: (3/2, 3/9, 3/16 & 3/23) is $70 plus a flower fee of $60 for all 4 weeks. Registration: 495-0233.

3/2 - Meditation for Stress Reduction - Seminar presented by Jim Bandler at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 2 pm. Free. 266-9490 or 266-0194.

3/2 - Gateways into Romanticism: Four Symphonies by Beethoven is presented

by Dr. Barbara Barry as part of the Lifelong Learning Center @ the Library series held at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Course gives students a look into how Beethoven’s symphonies provide models of symphonic form and style for later composers. 2-3:30 pm. Class continues 3/9,16 &23. Premier memberships available for $15. $35/Each 3-4 session course, $45/ each 5-6 session course. 266-9490.

Wednesday - 3/3 - Senior Health Center Health Fair is held at the Boynton Beach Senior Center, 1021 N. Federal Hwy. with over 40 vendors. Door prizes. Senior Center ID required. 9 am-noon. 742-6570.

3/3 - Spanish Conversation Group presented by Barbara Wolk at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 2 pm. Free. 266-9490 or 266-0194.

3/3 - Introduction to Japanese Writing Through Calligraphy - Three-week session introduces Japanese Calligraphy at The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach. 2:30-4 pm March 3, 17 & 24. $60.

Registration: 495-0233.

3/3 - Heart Symposium - Questions and Answers about Congestive Heart Failure - presented by Roberto L. Von Sohsten, M.D., at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. 4:30 pm. Free. 731-2273.

Thursday - 3/4 - Sumi-e Ink Painting Floral Class - Four-week session teaches Japanese ink painting, at The Morikami Museum, 4000 Morikami Park Road., Delray Beach. 10:30 am-12:30 pm/March 4, 11, 18 & 25. Offered again 1:30-3:30 pm/ March 4, 11, 18 & 25. $60. Registration: 495-0233.

3/4 - Lunch with Liz @ the Library brown-bag lunchtime program for women, features “All The World’s A Stage,” based on the insights of Glenn Close at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Noon-1:30 pm. Free. 266-9490.

3/4 - Dr. Robert Watson lectures on political scandals through the ages as part of the Lifelong Learning Center @ the Library series held at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Course includes music and videos. 2-3:30 pm. Class continues 3/11&18. Wait list only/class is full. Premier memberships available for $15. $35/Each 3-4 session course, $45/each 5-6 session course. 266-9490.

3/4 - Sowing Goodness is presented by Manalapan resident Jack Staub at the J. Turner Moore Memorial Library, 1330 Land End Road., Manalapan. 6 pm. Free/Library members, $5/non-members. 588-7577.

3/4 - Residents Academy begins at the Environmental Services Administration Building, 434 S. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. Thursday evenings for six consecutive weeks, 6-9 pm. Ages 18 and older. Increase your understanding of the operations and services provided by city departments. Free. Applications available at: www.mydelraybeach.com. 243-7231.

3/4 - Surgical Weight Reduction Symposium - presented by Miguel Lopez-Viego, M.D., Medical Director of the Bethesda Center for Surgical Weight Reduction at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. 6:30 pm. Free. 737-7733, ext. 4688.

3/4 - Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond on the Bounds of Reason is discussed by author Caroline Myss in the Florida Atlantic University Arena, 777 Glades Rd., Boca Raton. Presented as part of the Peaceful Mind/Peaceful World series. 7 pm. $25.

800-564-9539.

3/4-5 - Portraits in Watercolor Workshop is taught by Charles Passarelli at the Cornell Museum at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach.

Learn to analyze the shapes and shadows

of the figure and transpose them into a portrait using proper colors. 9:30 am-4 pm. $200. Pre-register: 243-7922, Ext. 317.

Friday - 3/5 - Parker Ladd’s Author Breakfast Series continues with A.J. Jacobs, The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment and Paul Goldberger, Why Architecture Matters at Cafe Boulud at The Brazilian Court Hotel, 301 Australian Ave., Palm Beach. 8:45 am-10 am. $100 includes breakfast, parking and a copy of one of the featured books. 366-4301.

3/5 - Sogetsu Ikebana Flower Arrangement - Four-week session introduces contemporary Japanese flower arrangement at The Morikami Museum, 4000 Morikami Park Road., Delray Beach.

10:30 am-12:30 pm/March 5, 12, 19 & 26.

Offered again 1:30-3:30 pm/March 5, 12, 19 & 26.$70 + flower fee of $32 for 4-week session. Registration: 495-0233.

3/5 - Pre-K Fun with Food: Dr. Seuss’ Birthday - A birthday celebration with a reading of Oobleck at the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum, 129 E. Ocean Ave., Boynton Beach. Ages 2-5. 10:30 am. $2.50 plus museum admission. 742-6782.

3/5 - Movies on the Ave. are held at the Ocean Avenue Amphitheatre, E. Ocean Ave. between Seacrest Blvd. and N.E. 1st St., Boynton Beach. Bring folding chairs - food & drink available for purchase. No pets. 7-9 pm. Free. Movie TBD. 742-6246.

3/5 - Orfeo ed Euridice is performed as part of One Opera in One Hour by the Palm Beach Opera’s youth artists at the Harriet Himmel Theater, CityPlace, West Palm Beach. 9 pm. 833-7888.

3/5-7 - 7th Annual Palm Beach Fine Craft Show - Over 100 craft artists show ceramics, glass, wood, sculpture, furniture, fiber, jewelry and wearable art at the Palm Beach Convention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. F& Sat.: 10 am-6 pm; Sun.:11 am-5 pm. $15, Seniors $13, Free/ under 12. 203-254-0486.

3/5-7 - The New Christy Minstrels perform at The Crest Theatre at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach.

A nostalgic concert featuring five of the original band members. 8 pm/F & Sat., 2 pm/Sat. & Sun. $42. 243-7922, Ext. 1.

Saturday - 3/6 - Delray Greenmarket - New downtown location in the street on SE 4th Ave. just south of Atlantic Ave. Every Saturday. 8 am-1 pm. 276-7511.

3/6 - Ocean Ave. Green Market - Now at two locations: Schoolhouse Children’s Museum, 129 E. Ocean Ave. and Boynton Beach Mall, 801 N. Congress. 8 am-1 pm.

Every Saturday. 752-8598.

3/6 - Oceanside Farmers Market - A1A and Lake Ave., Lake Worth. Open Saturdays year-round. 8 am-1 pm. 547-3100.

3/6 - Surf Saturdays are held at Oceanfront Park, 6415 N. Ocean Blvd., Ocean Ridge for beginner surfers 6-years and older. Bring sunscreen, bottled water and water shoes. 8:30-10 am. $25/resident, $31/non-resident. 742-6650.

3/6 - Nature in Miniature - Collect plant samples, make slides and more at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. Ages 7-12. 1011:30 am. $7/members, $10/non-members.

Reservations: 391-8110.

3/6 - Morikami Gardens Photography Workshop - 3-day workshop work with professional photographer at The Morikami Museum, 4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach. 10:30am-1:30 pm March 6; 8-11 am March 13; and 10:30 am-1:30 pm March 27. $80. Registration: 495-0233.

3/6 - Sugar and Spice Herbs - Make sugars and salts at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. Adults only. 1-2:30 pm. $15/members, $22/non-members.

Reservations: 391-8110.

3/6 - Tea Ceremony Workshop - Learn the basics of Sado at The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Road., Delray Beach. A prerequisite for those who wish to study Sado.

1-3:30 pm. $35. Registration: 495-0233.

3/6 - Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Annual Gala is held at The Mar-A-Lago Club, 1100 S. Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach.

Dining, dancing and silent auction. $500. 7 pm. 775-9954.

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Members of the Delray Beach Interfaith Clergy Association join the Rev. Dr. Waymon T. Dixon in prayer for the ninth annual Mayor’s Interfaith Prayer Breakfast. Photo by C.B. Hanif

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Pay it forward: message from Delray Prayer Breakfast

It is a basic principle of people of faith that our Maker will judge all. So to suggest which was best among the prayers at a prayer program would be a fool’s errand. Better to report what touched this beneficiary of all the goodwill articulated during Delray Beach’s ninth annual Mayor’s Interfaith Prayer Breakfast.

Mayor Woodie McDuffie, in his introduction, showed again why his is a two-time All America City, with his call to what any individual can do: serve.

“Let’s make 2010 a great year and remember to ‘pay it forward’ — it will come back to you,” the mayor urged the audience of 200, hosted by the Greater Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce, at the Delray Beach Golf Club on Jan. 7.

“Sometimes, helping your community can be as simple as offering a smile, calling a neighborhood latchkey kid in the middle of the afternoon to make sure he’s doing OK or helping an older resident at the grocery store when an item is unreachable for them.”

A prayer for our military was all the more moving given that the minister who offered it, the Rev. Chip Stokes of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, was filling in for retired U.S. Army Col. William J. “Bill” Condry, absent because of illness.

Keynote speaker Trent Green, a former Miami Dolphin and a minister at Calvary Chapel in Fort Lauderdale, inspired with his personal story. He said the

faith he had claimed never truly opened up for him until he gave it priority over all else, including the sport that had been his lifelong preoccupation.

In offering a prayer for our nation, the Rev. Dr. Waymon T. Dixon of St. Paul A.M.E. Church requested he be joined at the podium by fellow members of the Delray Beach Interfaith Clergy Association (in which I also participate).

Flanking him, representing various Jewish, Christian and Muslim denominations, they demonstrated Delray’s — and our nation’s — rich religious, ethnic and gender diversity.

On that bright morning, Cornella Wilder’s reading from 1 Corinthians 12 and 13 also resonated. For example: “Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit”; “To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good”; “And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.”

She later said she chose her verses because “they seemed to best speak to all.”

I suggest pulling out the Good Book and reading them again. Then, go forth and serve some more.

C.B. Hanif is a writer, editor and media and inter-religious affairs consultant.

Find him at www. interfaith21. com.

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36 Pets

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Pets

See Robert Weisblut’s photos of local dogs and their humans on The Coastal Star’s Web site. Photos by Robert Weisblut

OCEAN RIDGE INTRACOASTAL COMPLEX Country Club Atmosphere Luxurious Clubhouse Spacious Yacht Club Overlooking Intracoastal Private Ocean Beach 1 Bedrm Units from $ 98,900 2 Bedrooms from $ 214,900 GULF STREAM Oceanfront Units – small pets allowed Beach & swimming pool From $ 179,900 OCEAN RIDGE Waterfront 3 level townhouse Swimming pool Day Dockage $ 259,900 WOODFIELD COUNTRY CLUB 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, 2 car garage Gated Community – Golf $ 399,900 OCEANFRONT COCEAN RIDGE New 2 bedroom/2 bath townhouse with garage $ 795,000

ANNUAL RENTAL 3 bedroom Home Private Beach Entrance Pool, Dogs welcome – $ 2,800/month OCEAN RIDGE BEACH AREA RESIDENTIAL LOT Yards to the Ocean & Beach $ 578,850 ANNUAL RENTAL Direct Intracoastal penthouse unit with private boat dock Furnished $ 3,200/month or Unfurnished $ 3,100/month ANNUAL RENTAL 2 bedroom, 2 bath duplex Residential street east of A1A Accepts Pets – $ 1,300/month

OCEAN RIDGE REALTY, INC. 5011 N. Ocean Blvd. (A1A) Ocean Ridge, FL 33435 561-276-3220 800-892-2712

Old Ocean Boulevard has gone to the dogs Early in 2010, Ocean Ridge resident Robert Weisblut began photographing dogs and their owners along Old Ocean Boulevard in Ocean Ridge and Briny Breezes.

His project has created more than 100 photos to date

with more expected soon.

Bob has been kind enough to share these with The Coastal Star, so we are offering all 100 photos of your neighbors and their “best friends” online at www.thecoastalstar.ning.com.

Thanks, Bob!

Paws Up for Pets!

Columnist Arden Moore is on assignment.

She will return.

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100s celebrate You have to wonder what’s in the water at the Carlisle Palm Beach in Lantana. Two of their centurian residents, celebrated birthdays last month. ABOVE: Harry Adler was honored for turning 103, while LEFT: Robert Martin turned a young 101. Both celebrated with family and friends.

Garden Club Kathryn Kennedy (right), Director of The Center of Plant Conservation in St. Louis, spoke Jan. 13 to The Grass River Garden Club about the need to preserve the nation’s most at-risk plants. Pictured with her are Gulf Stream residents Alice Matthews (left) former National President of The Garden Club of America, and Beverly Bagley (center), President of The Grass River Garden Club.

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Clydesdales come to town The world famous Budweiser Clydesdales came to Boynton Beach last month and provided a crowd of hundreds with a parade from the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum to the Banana Boat Restaurant. They were also in South Florida for the Super Bowl. Photo by Jerry Lower

St. Joe’s kids

Saint Joseph’s Episcopal School in Boynton Beach students contributed to a food drive in partnership with WPTV News Channel 5. (L to R) – Back Row: Katie Shaw, Madeline Norman, Alexandra O’Brien, Blake McNeal, Dominic Tarro, Nicholas Albino, John Pecaro, Zachary Bradshaw.

Front Row: Griffin Langford, Addison Kasper.

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House of the Month Each month, The Coastal Star features a home 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 very special homes.

The expansive living room is awash with natural light from skylights and walls of sliding doors that open onto the covered loggia and pool/patio area. Inside and out are perfect for year-round entertaining, whether casual or formal.

The pool is nestled into a tropical setting that overlooks the Intracoastal. The backyard is enclosed with a fence, privacy hedges, palms and mature plantings.

Relax on the Hypoluxo Island waterfront

RIGHT: This true chef’s kitchen is the heart of the home with its maple cabinetry, center island prep area with sink and ample storage.

Kitchen opens onto the formal dining room.

A 4,194-square-foot Bermuda-styled one-story waterfront home with barrel tiled roof and dramatic arched entry, this home is set on a lushly landscaped lot with private beach, boat ramp and dock. It is handicap accessible.

The home presents an open floor plan with split bedrooms (three) and three baths.

The master suite has 12foot volume ceilings with crown molding, generous walk-in closets and en suite bath with spa tub, shower and dual sinks. It also opens onto a private loggia with seating area overlooking the tropical backyard and Intracoastal.

At present, the third bedroom is used as a den/study but can easily convert back into a bedroom. It has wood floors and French doors leading to an individual side garden.

This is a light and bright residence showing off all the spendors of South Florida living.

Offered at $1,475,000. Call Diane Duffy, Illustrated Properties Real Estate: 561-767-0860 or email: dianeduffy@comcast.net Call for February Open House Schedule.

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DREAM HOUSE

This is THE Best of Everything! 17,000 sq. ft. lot, 8,000 sq. ft. of Luxury living and relaxing space. 4 bedroom main house, 2 Bedroom guest house. 6 car state of the art garage with Hydraulic lifts for the car collector, game room, office, gourmet kitchen with true butlers pantry and wine room.

New Construction with the style and design everyone desires. $2,950,000

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OCEAN RIDGE COTTAGE

A barefoot stroll to the sand from this 1950’s beach cottage east of A1A. 2/1/1/ on a 10,000 square foot lot.

Enjoy as is or build new, ocean views possible.

For sale at $895,000.

Also available for rent- furnished or unfurnished at $2,000/month.

WALK TO THE BEACH – UPDATED

Great Ocean Ridge property, east of A1A, 3/2 with heated pool, updated kitchen & baths, upstairs master with loft, lovely covered loggia-- all just steps to the sand. Move in and head to the beach! $ 815,000

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BEACHSIDE BEAUTY

Recently updated, this, light, bright beach cottage is sure to charm. Updated granite/stainless galley kitchen, large Florida room, wainscotting and brand new baths, all on a 10,000 sq. foot lot and steps to deeded beach access on one of Ocean Ridge's prettiest streets.

Sold for $550,000

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LIVE AT THE BEACH

100 FEET OF DEEDED BEACH ACCESS STEPS FROM YOUR FRONT DOOR. Totally updated 4/3/1 pool home on oversize lot. Two master suites- one on 1st floor, one on 2nd; great updated open kitchen, beautiful modern baths, move right in! $1,350,000

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This ocean block one story 3/3/2 with den and heated pool has been completely updated from the inside out. Situated on a private, oversize corner lot, features include: impact glass throughout, saturnia floors, granite/stainless kitchen, volume ceilings, more.

Reduced to $1,249,000

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TOSCANA – HIGHLAND BEACH

Watch the sunrise and the sunset from this 3 bedroom 3.5 bath designer decorated condo. Being offered turnkey this 11th floor stunner features 2,880 sq ft of luxury living in a white glove building offering all the amenities including valet parking, concierge service, 2 pools, beach club, fitness center and more. $1,595,000

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INTRACOASTAL POINT LOT

Wide water views from every room in this magnificent Key West style home. Surrounded by 258 ft of water, this 8200 sq ft home features 5 bedrooms in the main house, plus a delightful 1 bedroom guest suite with crow’s nest. Protected deepwater dockage, enormous 1st floor master suite with sitting room & his/hers baths, all within walking distance to beach and Atlantic Ave. Sold for $4,225,000

SOUTH PALM BEACH CHARMER

Lovely 2/2 with screened & covered patio, this 1st floor charmer at the Intracoastal complex of Palm Beach Villas features tile floors, new plantation shutters, small pets ok, and no age restrictions.

Reduced to $199,000

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DIRECT OCEANFRONT DELRAY

This luxurious fully furnished 5 bedroom 5 bath home sits on 1 acre of direct oceanfront and has just received a full makeover and is ready for vacationers.

New furnishings and finishes throughout, designer decorated with pool on the beach.

Available monthly at $20,000 – call for weekly rates.

VAL COZ

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Ocean Ridge Resident since 1985

VACANT LOT–OCEAN RIDGE

Build your dream house on this oversize lot east of A1A. Deeded beach access in a wonderful beachside neighborhood.

Sold for $525,000

Specializing in Coastal Properties from Palm Beach to Delray

561.386.8011 vcoz@fiteshavell.com

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