The Coastal Star June 2011

June 2011

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

Volume 4 Issue 6

Along the Coast

Bring quarters: Beach parking prices continue to rise

By Angie Francalancia The beach is timeless, forever lapped by waves and shaped by shifting sands.

Not so the parking meter, a ticking intrusion into the untroubled landscape that is a day at the beach.

Parking meters or daily fees are the norm at city beaches up

and down the east coast, and as cities wrestle with budget shortfalls, they’re making sure to capture money from every potential spot. More parking meters are going in at previously free spots in Boca Raton, and fees are going up at beachside meters in Lake Worth — coincidentally, the cities with the largest area beaches. Fees rose earlier this

year at beachside meters on Palm Beach as well.

“I think if you look up and down there are very few places where you can park at the beach for free. There should be some recognition that it does cost money to have a beach,” said Boca Raton Assistant City Manager Mike Woika.

At city beaches between Palm Beach and Boca Raton

there are 3,780 parking spots — including 400 spaces along or adjacent to A1A in Delray Beach — according to city officials.

Palm Beach County’s parks add an additional 597 spaces.

At all but 377 of those spaces — those in the county’s three small parks in Ocean Ridge and Gulf Stream — beach patrons will pay to play on the

sand.

Boca Raton is installing 202 meters to four locations where beach parking previously was free: the pavilion at Palmetto Park; Red Reef Park West; and two spots on the west side of A1A where beach lovers previously could park and walk across the street to the sand: See METERS on page 7

Along the Coast

Bad news gets less bad for town coffers Decline in property values eases

By Tim O’Meilia

The Palm Beach Coralytes synchronized swim team recently performed a water show called Synch In The Big Easy at Aqua Crest pool in Delray Beach. Alexi Gropper (16-19 age group) is held up by her teammates during the opening performance. See story, Page 21. Photo by Tim Stepien

South County homes and businesses are still leaking taxable value, but this year it’s closer to a dribble than a dam break.

While eight of nine coastal towns lost more than 5 percent of their taxable real estate value in 2009, only Manalapan declined more than that last year, according to preliminary figures released May 26 by the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser.

In fact, Briny Breezes was one of two Palm Beach County towns — Jupiter Inlet Colony was the other — to gain value. The taxable property in the coastal mobile home town is up 2.37 percent.

Ocean Ridge, South Palm Beach and See TAX on page 4

County Pocket

Remembering a magical place called Belair Drive

By Ron Hayes In the summer of 1969, a registered nurse with two young daughters to raise started looking for someplace to live closer to her job at Bethesda Memorial Hospital.

“I didn’t want to stray too far from work,” Jeanne Punté

Inside Beach cruisers

Big, comfy bikes offer new ways to put pedal to the metal.

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Smokin’ gifts for Dad

How to choose the right stogies for Father’s Day. Page 24

remembers, “so I would leave for the 3-to-11 shift a half-hour early and roam the streets looking for places near the beach.”

Eventually, she found Belair Drive, 10 small homes on an unincorporated cul-de-sac just south of Briny Breezes.

To the post office, it was in Boynton Beach.

To the phone company, it was in Delray Beach.

To the sisters, it was heaven.

When Kim Jones, 13, and her sister Tami, 11, moved in that August, Gulfstream Park was 15 years in the future. The parking lot was a scrub thick with Florida holly, the tiny street was lined

Tami Pleasanton (left) and Kim Jones remember See BELAIR on page 13 growing up in the county pocket. Photo by Jerry Lower

Utilities protests

Opponents to cost of burying Gulf Stream wires remain vocal. Page 14

Meet your neighbor Sid Walesh traded the corporate world for an artist’s life. Page 25

Get away locally

Resorts allow you to take a trip without leaving town.

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Editorial Summer is all about numbers

I spent a lovely, breezy evening this past month riding on a golf cart counting trailers in Briny Breezes. Although the U.S. Census counted 800 housing units in the community, my detailed accounting found 484 — not counting bath houses, public buildings or empty lots.

Go figure.

I spent a lot of time doing just that — figuring — this past month. May was one for the numbers: sea turtles, property tax rates, budget workshops, special assessments, hurricane projections and even the latest circulation numbers for Florida’s daily newspapers.

The upshot of all this number crunching? Some good news, some bad.

Sea turtles: Although most of the nests counted are north of Riviera Beach, the county is seeing a trend toward more sea turtle nesting along our beaches.

In Ocean Ridge alone there have already been 25 more nests counted than at this time last year. By all accounts, that’s good news.

Taxes and budgets: When it comes to tax rates, budgeting workshops and special assessments, it’s better that you read a complete account than depend on me to summarize.

Please check out Tim O’Meilia’s excellent tax rate story on Page 1, Margie Plunkett’s Lantana budget story on Page 15, and Steve Plunkett’s Gulf Stream

special assessment story on Page 14.

Hurricane season: I’m usually numb to hurricane predictions this time of year, since they are always revised before we get into the heart of the season. Still, it’s June and we should all be thinking about our evacuation plans. If the La Niña theory is accurate, we should be spared the worst until the later part of the season. But as we know, it only takes one. Be prepared.

Newspapers: Although the ABC service that audits daily newspapers has become more flexible in what can be counted as circulation, the numbers continue spiraling downward.

That’s bad news (no pun intended) for daily newspapers.

So, unless small, independent community papers like The Coastal Star can survive, the number of reporters on the street dwindles as the daily papers shrink. That’s bad because to make good decisions, we need good information.

So, as you make business decisions about how to reach your customers, please consider your local newspaper. When you do, I hope you’ll consider The Coastal Star — even if the editor is a little number-challenged from time to time.

— Mary Kate Leming, editor

Artist dresses up electrical boxes with mosaics

By Tim O’Meilia

What to do about the three weathered, rusting FPL electrical boxes in South Palm Beach that keep the street lights on along the town’s 5/8mile strip of A1A? Why, ask the town’s unofficial artist-in-residence Penny Davidson, who, conveniently, lives next door to Town Hall. After all, she created the life-sized bronze loggerhead turtle crawling atop a rock in front of Town Hall to mark South Palm Beach’s 50th anniversary in 2005.

“They’re an eyesore.

They’re horrendous,” retired movie hair stylist Paul Least said of the electrical boxes.

He campaigned for two years, calling FPL, rallying condo dwellers and pestering town officials to get behind the project.

Not that he had an idea of how to camouflage the boxes.

“Just leave it to Penny, because she’s the artist,” he said.

After getting approval from town officials, Davidson brainstormed with Town Manager Rex Taylor last July.

“I had done stained glass and worked in sea glass but not usually for outdoor exposure,” she said.

Stained glass was out of the question because the 3-foot by 4-foot creation had to be mounted on marine plywood to stand in front of the boxes.

She settled on a glass mosaic.

“It had to be a glass mosaic,” she decided. “I had never done that. How much different would it be than stained glass? Well, there was a world of difference.”

The mosaic was five-andhalf months in gestation from sketch to grout between the glass pieces.

“I wanted to reflect the ambiance of the town,” she said. “My first idea was the ocean. An underwater view seemed like a natural to me.”

Davidson painted what she saw snorkeling. Amid the

Penny Davidson displays one of the mosaic panels designed to mask the rusty electrical boxes that provide energy for the town of South Palm Beach’s street lights. Photo by Lauren Laricchio NOMINATE SOMEONE TO BE A COASTAL STAR Send a note to news@ thecoastalstar.com or call 337-1553.

ocean hues of blue swim a grayish barracuda, a manta ray, a pair of sand dollars, a grouper swimming along the bottom and three yellowstriped sergeant majors near undersea coral.

“I wasn’t going to put a turtle in but I had a big space and he belongs there, too,” she said of the loggerhead with flippers outstretched.

Her condominium, Horizons West, let her use a storage room to cut the glass and then soften and bevel the edges with a grinder. She baked each painted shard in her oven.

Then she included a penny, her signature, on the mosaic, sealed the grout and erected it in front of the FPL box at the Southgate condominium.

Davidson, who won’t reveal her age (“I’m 75 and she’s younger than I am,” said Least, helpfully), took a roundabout journey to her late-in-life art career, just as she and her husband, Sol, took a unique trip leading to settling in South Palm Beach.

Born in New Jersey, she taught in low-performing schools in Des Moines, Iowa, for 30 years, but not art. After her three children left the nest, the Davidsons traveled to find a place to retire.

They bought a houseboat in 1982, put it in the Mississippi River 150 miles from home and puttered around for

five months before reaching South Florida. They logged 5,000 miles, motoring up the Ohio River to visit a son in Pittsburgh, then back down the Ohio to the Mississippi and south to the Gulf of Mexico.

They hugged the Gulf coast to Sarasota and crossed the state through Lake Okeechobee, settling in Delray Beach. They were liveaboards for eight years, finally buying their ocean-view condo.

Out of curiosity, Penny dabbled in street painting at local festivals, then tried her hand at Gator glass fiberglass creations. Then she tried creations made from sea glass found along the shoreline.

The bronze loggerhead that has become a town symbol was her first venture in that medium. She sculpted it in clay, had a mold made and the turtle was poured on site.

“You do it and you find out” whether you’re any good, she says with a shrug.

Now that the underwater mosaic is installed, she’ll start on the next. “I’ve been thinking about a view from the ocean of the condos along the beach, with them reflected in the water,” she said.

The last will focus on the Town Hall as the heart of the town, with its music and lecture series and art displays.

But, who knows, she may change her mind by then.

“The commitment of the town to art in public places is unbelievable,” Davidson said.

And she appreciates that it’s not art by committee.

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Continued from page 1 Boca Raton suffered less than a 2 percent fall.

Or, as South Palm Beach Town Manager Rex Taylor put it: “The increase in the decline is lessening.”

Still, the slight decline means town officials must find bits of bare-bones budget carcass to scrape away again this budget season. Most of the nasty work has been done in the last three years of free-falling tax values — laying off workers, cutting services and dipping into reserves.

“We’ve weathered that storm,” said Boca Raton Budget Director Sharon McGuire, whose City Council kept the tax rate the same by using $2 million in reserves to keep the budget balanced last year and in 2009. “But that can’t be an ongoing plan.

“Hopefully, the values are flattening now, but unfortunately, expenses don’t remain at the same level,” McGuire said.

South Palm Beach, which

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By the numbers Taxing Authority Boca Raton Briny Breezes Delray Beach Gulf Stream Highland Beach Lantana Manalapan Ocean Ridge South Palm Beach All PBC Cities

Palm Beach County Source: Palm Beach County Property Appraiser

suffered the most dramatic South County decline in 2009 at 14.06 percent, improved the most to a 1.48 percent slide.

“Hopefully, the effect we’re seeing is the bottom of the trough, but no one knows how long we’ll be in that trough,” Town Manager Taylor said.

Rising slowly The Property Appraiser’s Office believes property values may be bottoming out as well, but Property Appraiser Gary Nikolits thinks it may be two or three more years before the market begins to rebound.

2009 Total Taxable Value 17,992,026,248 38,943,696 7,098,165,923 705,533,979 1,934,923,016 874,441,768 941,004,813 731,614,907 307,636,118 N/A 141,442,924,169

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20092011 2010 Preliminary Pct. 2010 Total Total Taxable Change Taxable Value Value -7.68 16,609,124,096 16,317,002,283 -5.92 36,635,108 37,503,448 -11.34 6,292,620,872 6,061,426,859 -5.37 667,578,586 653,950,962 -6.08 1,817,192,958 1,728,184,299 -17.30 723,088,943 692,056,227 -4.03 903,062,679 837,851,788 -6.94 680,788,492 676,602,121 -14.06 264,362,442 260,463,094 N/A 87,340,978,832 85,028,820,798 -10.01 127,283,350,504 123,754,428,853

“We have a feeling thing are stabilizing a bit,” said John Thomas, residential appraisals director for Nikolits’ office.

“We’re not really good at predictions, but we’re hopeful.

Throw the chicken bones out, spin the wheel, go see Madame Rosa and gaze into her crystal ball and we’ll come up with our best guess,” Thomas joked.

Hard numbers may be more helpful. Countywide, values dropped 10 percent in 2009, but 2.77 percent last year. Two years ago, every Palm Beach County municipality lost more than 5

20102011 Pct. Change -1.76 2.37 -3.67 -2.04 -4.90 -4.29 -7.22 -0.61 -1.48 -2.65 -2.77

percent of its taxable value and almost half fell by 10 percent or more.

In 2010, things improved.

Twenty-one of the county’s 38 municipalities lost less than 5 percent in value and only 7 dropped more than 5 percent.

Still, the total taxable value across the county is $123.7 billion, compared with $169.4 billion in 2007, before the real estate bubble exploded.

Briny Breezes’ uptick in value is due to the property appraiser having a better handle on land values, since few sales occurred in the aftermath of possible sale of the entire town to a developer three years ago.

“I knew that revenues would be up but I didn’t know they’d be up that much,” said a jubilant Briny Breezes Mayor Roger Bennett. “It means several thousand more dollars for us.”

Ocean Ridge lost less than one percent in value, compared with more than nine percent in 2009. “It would be nice if we got some of it back, but at least we didn’t go down much,” said Town Manager Ken Schenck.

He suspects an uptick in challenges to individual assessments by homeowners in town may have helped soften falling values. “I’d like to think this is the end of it, but I don’t know,” Schenck said.

Gulf Stream lost barely two percent in taxable property in 2010, less than half of the 2009 amount of 5.4 percent. Mayor William F. Koch said it will make planning for next year’s budget easier.

“We’re not bleeding as bad as some other communities,” he said. “Hopefully, next year they’ll all be up.”

Highland Beach, which had a slight decrease in falling values — from 6.08 percent to 4.9 percent — based its budget projections on a similar reduction this year. “So this is a little less and that’s good,” said Town Manager Kathleen Weiser, who said it won’t change the town’s approach to budgeting. “We’re in the early stages, but we’ve given the department heads marching orders to keep expenses the same or less.”

Although Lantana lost more than 4 percent in taxable value, that is much improved from the 17.30 percent decline the year before.

“It’s obviously not as bad a number. It’s a lot better than 10 percent,” which Town Manager Michael Bornstein feared. He estimated the tax revenue loss of slightly less than $111,000. “Our previous years were double digits.”

Commercial property hit Lantana, unlike many coastal towns, has a significant inventory of business properties, which are beginning only now to see a decline in value across the county. “I’m worried about our commercial property taking a hit,” Bornstein said.

Manalapan’s taxable value declined even more than in 2009, the only South County town whose fall increased — from 4.03 percent to 7.22 percent. Thomas, of the appraiser’s office, said more recent sales gave his office a better look at the seaside town’s property values.

Despite the falling revenues, Mayor Basil Diamond doesn’t think the Town Commission will resort to a tax rate increase, a tactic the commission has avoided in recent years. Last year, the town manager and finance director’s positions were combined and other part-time posts joined.

Diamond said the taxable value doesn’t reflect home construction and permitting under way now. “It won’t help us this year, but it will be good for us next year,” he said.

Recently, mayors of coastal towns met to discuss streamlining operations.

“Maybe we can coordinate things better. Maybe we can share positions,” Diamond said.

He is hopeful town boards will agree to finance a study to see how they can coordinate services. “Everyone likes what they have, but there may be some areas we can consolidate,” he said.

Taxable property values will not be final until July 1 and are typically slightly less onerous than this month’s preliminary numbers. Taxable value is not the same as market value and does not include exemptions for homestead and other breaks.

This year the military serving abroad will get an additional homestead exemption for every day they are out of the country. Ú

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Coastal Star reminiscent of newspapers’ better days

I have loved every issue of your newspaper, but this last one was undoubtedly my favorite. To read about Mrs. Touhey’s fairy garden and the cute Shannon family was wonderful, and the icing on the cake was your picture of two of my high school coaches. How fun it was to see them again!

Can you possibly have any idea how much The Coastal Star has meant to me on so many levels?

I am not exaggerating when I say that seeing articles and photographs of people who have impacted me so deeply over the years — and knowing that journalism as it was truly meant to be still exists — has been life-changing in the best of ways.

Your paper takes me back to happy, simpler times … times when my mother and I would sit and read the Delray Beach News Journal on Monday and Thursday summer mornings.

I was very young then, but even so, realized the value of a good neighborhood newspaper.

There is nothing quite like it.

When others either jumped ship or decided it’s easier to forget that nouns and verbs should agree, you and your staff have hung in there with class and perfection.

I can’t thank you enough for that and I am looking forward to many more issues.

reflected. When the correct numbers of actual residents are used, the cost estimate per resident dramatically increase: Ocean Ridge to $1,649 from $1,091 and South Palm Beach to $1,678 from $614.

All five of these coastal towns have an increase in population from the 2000 census.

The U.S. Census takes into consideration important factors to determine the population estimates, such as surveys, housing units, seasonal changes, postal addresses, etc.

Local government costs can be controlled and even reduced, while preserving public safety, but the starting point must be accurate statistics.

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Commissioner Steven Abrams said the project, already under way, would add 28 buoys using money from private donations in conjunction with The Wildlife Foundation of Florida’s endowment fund. Permitting has already been secured.

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Correct census numbers needed when discussing costs

The article in your May paper regarding municipal police and fire costs [Mayors of coastal communities to discuss common concerns] reported questionable information regarding the cost per resident, sourced from the town of Manalapan.

The resident population totals are not correct, according to the population figures released by the 2010 U.S. Census bureau in March of this year. Only the towns of Gulf Stream (720 vs. actual 786), Lantana (9,704 vs. 10,423) and Manalapan (406, this is the only population total that exactly matches the U.S. Census) have numbers listed that are accurate estimates.

The populations of the towns of Ocean Ridge (2,700 vs. actual 1,786) and South Palm Beach (3,200 vs. actual 1,171) are not correctly

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“We have a very active boating, fishing and snorkeling community here and the county plays an important role in providing a safe environment,” Abrams said.

Some buoys have already been installed off the coast of Palm Beach. Plans call for adding 10 more at popular dive sites off the shores of Boca Raton at Patch Reef in September or October.

Next year, provided enough funding is available, buoys will be installed off the shores of Ocean Ridge, south of the Boynton inlet.

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Along the Avenues

Steve Forbes pays a visit to Trump’s place For decades the family yacht tied up at local marinas, the better for dad to entertain big clients and the family to enjoy a little respite from Northeast winters.

Malcolm Forbes died in 1990, but the wining and dining aboard Highlander has continued, albeit at its seasonal berth in Fort Lauderdale. So it isn’t like Steve Forbes is unfamiliar with Palm Beach. In fact, he’s a welcome guest at many homes on the island.

But until a few weeks ago, the businessman, unsuccessful presidential candidate and editor and publisher of Forbes magazine had never been to the home — the estate most synonymous with Palm Beach: Mar-a-Lago.

On a whirlwind tour for Northwestern Mutual to drum up business among its clients and prospects and to inspire company agents, Forbes teamed with Northwestern CEO John Schlifske to host a luncheon of beef filet and sea bass in the grand ballroom and to offer his take on the economy.

“I think within five years,

the dollar will again be tied to g-o-l-d.”

“A weak dollar means a weak recovery.”

In investing, “Emotions are your enemy; consistency is the key.”

Since Mar-a-Lago’s owner was elsewhere, weighing a decision to withdraw — as pace car driver for the Indy 500 — Forbes and Schlifske took a brief look around Mar-a-Lago on their own.

After climbing the iron spiral staircase in the parlor, Forbes could only shake his head.

“It’s amazing,” he said.

Asked if he still harbored any political ambition, the affable Forbes laughed and answered, “I’m an agitator now; I’m in my Tom Paine mode.”

Advice for Trump? Silence and a smile.

Remember Jeff Greene, one of the few candidates rolling in dough who wasn’t elected last year? The onetime Breakers busboy made the Forbes 400 list by investing in, and then betting against, the real estate market. Then last year he ran for the Democratic

ABOVE: Diners enjoy a final breakfast at John G’s on May 30. After 40 years on the beach in Lake Worth, the restaurant is scheduled to reopen this summer at Plaza del Mar in Manalapan.

RIGHT: The Giragos family displays its thanks to its patrons.

Photos by Lauren Loricchio nomination for the U.S. Senate (yes, some Democrats are rich, too!) and was trounced.

For a while we didn’t hear much from Jeff. Having licked

his political wounds, he’s back doing what he does best — buying real estate — but not before signing on in February to The Giving Pledge. That’s

the campaign spearheaded

by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates to urge rich folks to give See AVENUES on page 7

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Continued from page 1 Spanish River Boulevard and East Palmetto Park Road. The rate will be $1.50 an hour, one of the lower meter rates along the coast. But most of these spaces are a little farther or time-limited compared with Boca Raton’s other beachside parking lots.

At Red Reef Park and Spanish River Park there are 1,152 parking spaces, but a day at the beach — or any fraction of a day — costs $18 on the weekends.

To save money, Spanish River Park is closed Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Smaller South Beach Park costs $17 a day on the weekends.

All are a dollar cheaper on weekdays.

Lake Worth Beach is installing new meters at its beach with 688 parking spaces.

The new meters, like the new ones in Boca, allow people to

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Continued from page 6 half their wealth to charity.

Greene likes to spend money almost as much as he likes to make it. Earlier this year he bought a 43,000-square-foot loft in New York’s Soho for $26 million.

With one young son, and another baby due in September, Greene reportedly was looking for some property where he and wife Mei Sze Chan could raise them. On May 3 he bought Tyndal Point, a 55-acre estate in the Hamptons. The price was not reported, though its most recent listing was $44.99 million.

Back in Palm Beach, as a “fun investment,” he got a deal worthy of Donald Trump, picking up the Omphoy Ocean Resort for a reported $42 million.

Not bad considering it offers 134 rooms, a spa and two restaurants, including Michelle Bernstein’s. Through their Ceebraid Signal Corp., previous owners Richard and Leslie Schlesinger had paid $42 million in 2005 for the former Palm Beach Hilton and poured an additional $55 million into renovations.

“We love Palm Beach and want to continue having the Omphoy run as the great hotel that it is,” Greene told The Palm Beach Daily News.

“It’s packed on the weekends.

It’s the most elegant boutique oceanfront hotel in Florida and maybe in the country.”

Speaking of big oceanfront homes, Casa Pugilista is for sale … again. Well, that’s not really the name, but pugilism did buy it for boxing promoter Don King. Now he hopes he’ll have less of a fight trying to sell the Manalapan estate. Asking price: $19.95 million. That’s down from $27.5 million in 2009, but up from the $14.3 million they (technically King’s wife,

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The beachside shuffle

These area beaches are undergoing changes at the meters or in the lots: Palm Beach: Raised hourly rate at beach parking meters from $2 an hour to $5 an hour on Oct. 5.

Lake Worth: Raising hourly rates from $1.50 to $2, replacing older style meters to meters that allow payments via coins, credit cards or prepaid “smart” cards and allows beach goers to pay via mobile phones.

Construction at Lake Worth Beach will decrease available spaces to about 40 percent for the next 11 months.

Boca Raton: Adding parking meters at 202 previously free parking spots at the pavilion at Palmetto Park, at Red Reef Park West off A1A, Spanish River Boulevard and Palmetto Park Road. Metered parking will be $1.50 an hour. Visitors can pay by credit card as well as with coins. pay with coins or credit cards, potentially alleviating the hassle of leaving the sand to feed the meter. The rates are going up from $1.50 to $2 an hour.

At the county’s R.G. Kreusler Park adjacent to Lake Worth Beach, the parking

rates will rise to $2 an hour, matching Lake Worth’s rates in October, said Dave Lill, aquatics director.

But perhaps the biggest deterrent to beach goers is the long-planned reconstruction of the Lake Worth Casino and strip of retail shops that will

Henrietta) paid for the two adjacent lots and houses in 1999.

King, whose Only In America offices lie on the east side of I-95 in Deerfield Beach, turns 80 in August. Henrietta died in December. When he first put it up for sale, he said the kids were grown and it was time to downsize. Now he has even more reason to sell.

So what does $19.95 million bring?

Three acres, 300 feet of beachfront and two docks on the Intracoastal, two houses, two pools, a tennis court, a generator, a grill big enough to barbecue 100 slabs of ribs, an illuminated replica of the Statue of Liberty facing the ocean. The larger house (18,000 square feet) has nine bedrooms. The smaller “guest” house (6,800 square feet) includes five bedrooms, an outdoor cabana with kitchen and an ice cream parlor.

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Seems like only a few weeks ago we were announcing the opening of the Atlantic Ocean Club and its upstairs sibling Buddha Sky Bar on Atlantic next to the tracks in Delray. Actually it opened Jan. 24, and while the Sky Bar is going strong, AOC is history.

Shuttered in mid-May, it’s being replaced by The Pop-Up … but only for four months.

At the helm is Glen Manfra, last heard from as culinary director for David Manero’s restaurants, which include Vic & Angelo’s across the street and The Office, half a block west.

Manfra first emerged two decades ago as the chef at Bice in Palm Beach. He was a partner in Amici and Galaxy Grill, then dropped from the scene for a few years before teaming with Manero.

Sources say the menu will change frequently and will offer lower prices.

New to Delray: Island Flair on the Ave, featuring

Starting over. Apicius, the controversial upscale Italian restaurant on Ocean Avenue in Lantana is history. In its place: Bar Italia. Reportedly under new management, although ownership remains with the controversial Leo Balestrieri. Apicius’ brief stint

News/Along the Avenue 7 cause most of the parking lot to be unavailable.

“We’ll have a rotation of parking spots open for the next few months,” said Lake Worth Public Services Director Joseph Kroll. Construction is expected to start this month, and last 11 months. “I’ve got to keep a minimum of 40 percent open at all times, so that’s about 200.”

Even with the diminished number of slots, Lake Worth expects to raise an additional $116,000 annually from the beach parking area, helping the city to keep its staff of lifeguards.

Keeping lifeguards on the beaches was cited as the reason Palm Beach raised its parking fees in October from $2 an hour to $5 an hour at both midtown and Phipps Park.

But seven months after the meter fees rose, Palm Beach is grappling with the avoidance efforts — a situation Boca Raton may face as well.

“We know regular beach goers are avoiding as best they can the $5 beach charge, and parking in both legal and nonlegal parking spots to avoid the charge,” said Palm Beach Deputy Town Manager Tom Bradford.

But with revenue projections from the increased fees hitting their mark, town officials surmise that tourists are willing to pay it.

“I’m sure we’ll see that, too, because we have a lot of neighborhoods and condos along A1A,” said Woika of Boca Raton. “We’re going to be doing more patrolling of neighborhoods to make sure beach parking is not [occurring] in residential areas.”

As the summer season heats up, with fewer available spots and higher fees at previously free ones, beach lovers may go hunting new slices of paradise.

(It opened last September), was greeted with generally positive reviews for the quality of food, but a mixed bag on service, including unpleasant encounters from Balestrieri toward customers who complained. We’ll wait to judge the book by its new cover.

the folks who run the snack bar claim to make the best burger in Palm Beach and soon will add a roaming food and beverage cart … with full liquor service.

But there’s more. On June 2, they tried a singles night, an 18-hole scramble, including cart and one “adult” beverage for just $20. It could become a regular event.

Palm Beach Golf Course, which Golf Digest has called “the best par 3 in the U.S.,” has a lot going for it: location (smack dab against the ocean), reasonable rates and its recent renovation by golf legend Raymond Floyd. Plus

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They called her “the holdout.”

The year was 1997, and the city of Delray Beach wanted to take Pat Healy-Golembe’s historic house by eminent domain to expand a parking garage near the beach. She said “no sale.”

The developer proposed an alternate plan: It would move her house to a nearby corner, thus freeing up the land for the parking garage expansion.

She said no way.

“It wasn’t about money,” Healy-Golembe says. “We never even talked money. It was all about preserving the house and keeping it in its original location.”

That house is the Scott House, built in 1925 by E. H. Scott, a Delray pioneer, railroad manager and mayor.

The location: 19 Andrews Ave., just off East Atlantic Avenue, about a block from the ocean. It was originally used as a residence for managers of the old Seacrest Hotel, a much-loved resort that occupied the corner of A1A and East Atlantic Avenue for more than 50 years.

Healy-Golembe bought the Scott House in 1985. By being a holdout when the city wanted her property, she earned the respect of her neighbors.

“I still have people thanking me,” she says. “I truly felt that a huge parking garage would have changed the streetscape of Andrews Avenue forever. The presence of my house breaks up the massing, and I think the locals appreciate that.”

Delray Beach’s Historic

Preservation Board appreciates that, too — enough to honor HealyGolembe with a Preserve Delray Award last month.

“Pat has maintained her Mediterranean Revival house in very good condition over the years,” said Historic Preservation Board chair Dan Sloan, “and we thought that was deserving of an award.” Sloan says HealyGolembe’s determination to keep the house in its original spot in the face of mounting development pressure gave her extra points in his book.

“When you move a house, you’re ripping it out of its historical context,” Sloan says, “and Delray has done that so many times to build parking structures, some of which remain underutilized.”

Sloan laments the many old Delray homes that have been relocated to the city’s West Settlers Historic District to make way for new construction elsewhere.

“It’s nice that those homes weren’t demolished,” he says, “but now the West Settlers District is like an orphan home park.”

Truth to tell, the Scott House lost much of its historical context when the Seacrest Hotel was razed and replaced with a Holiday Inn (now the Marriott) in the early ’80s. In 1990, the Historic Preservation Board placed the Scott House on the local Register of Historic Places not only to “remember the previously existing ensemble of structures known as the Seacrest Hotel” but also to protect one of the last Continued on the next page

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Continued from page 8 remaining Mediterranean Revival-style private buildings in the beach area built during the 1920s boom period.

It was the architecture that captured Healy-Golembe’s heart back in 1985. She fell in love with the stately two-story structure with its elaborate arched doorway flanked by two columns. The inside of the house had been remodeled — or “remuddled,” as Healy-Golembe puts it — during the 1960s with shag carpet and linoleum covering the original wood floors and “god-awful drapes.” An interior decorator by trade, she refinished the floors and redecorated the interior, creating a comfortable office and studio for her business.

As Delray Beach’s preservation movement got under way in the 1980s, Healy-Golembe was an active participant, serving on the city’s first Historic Preservation Board alongside people like Clemmer Mayhew, the city’s unofficial historian.

She hosted parties at the Scott House to encourage local residents to support the formation of historic districts.

Today the Scott House is surrounded by hotel parking facilities on three sides — proof that you can’t completely stop redevelopment. But the woman they called “the holdout” doesn’t mind.

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Clutching to a sliver of hope that a breakwater project to protect the eroding South Palm Beach shore can be revived, Palm Beach County commissioners will meet with federal and state environmental regulators June 28.

“Hopefully, that will serve to revive those projects, otherwise it will be incumbent on individual condominiums to protect their buildings,” County Commssioner Steven Abrams told the South Palm Beach Town Council May 24.

County Commissioner Priscilla Taylor called for the workshop after commissioners deep-sixed a breakwater project off Riviera Beach, which effectively killed plans for a breakwater project that would have protected 1.3 miles of shore from the south end of the town of Palm Beach to the RitzCarlton resort in Manalapan, covering both South Palm Beach and the Lantana public beach.

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Neither the county, nor the state, nor the federal Army Corps of Engineers had money budgeted for the estimated $15 million to $25 million project.

Work was supposed to begin in 2013.

Commissioners said they were concerned that abovewater breakwaters would interfere with sea turtles reaching the beach to lay their eggs. However, submerged breakwaters would be much less effective in protecting the beach, computer models have shown. Only Abrams and Commissioner Karen Marcus backed the Singer Island project.

First-year State Rep. Jeff Clemens, D-Lake Worth, also weighed in on beach restoration. “I am not in favor of dredge-and-fill projects, but other approaches are more effective,” he told council members at the May 24 meeting.

“I want DEP (Department of Environmental Protection) to come up with a statewide plan to address the situation.

For each town to come up with its own plan is crazy,” Clemens said.

Councilwoman Bonnie Fischer asked Abrams for county help in gaining beach access for equipment to repair

and build sea walls behind condominiums, if necessary.

Abrams said he would work on that.

In other town business, the council: • Agreed unanimously to move the time of their monthly meetings from 7 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. at Councilman Joseph Flagello’s request so he would not be late.

• Changed the date of the June council meeting to the 28th, rather than the 21st, also to accommodate Flagello’s schedule.

• Renewed unanimously the town’s participation in the county’s urban county program, which would make the town eligible for disaster relief money or federal stimulus money, should either become available. The federal money is administered through the county.

Mayor Donald Clayman said the town would file an appeal June 1 to the U.S. Census Bureau of its official 2010 population count. June 1 is the first day appeals can be filed.

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Commissioner David Cheifetz answers yes and asked his colleagues to consider limits at their May meeting.

“For a long time there was little turnover on the commission,” said Cheifetz, who suggested three terms as commissioner and three terms as mayor, but no more than five consecutive terms.

Town Clerk Lisa Petersen surveyed neighboring municipalities at Cheifetz’s request and reported there are no limits in Palm Beach, Gulf Stream, Lantana, Ocean Ridge or Hypoluxo. South Palm Beach commissioners can serve three terms as commissioner followed by three as mayor.

Petersen also gave a sample of former officials with longer tenures. Kelly Gottlieb and Bill Quigley each served four terms, Edward Singer served eight, G. Kent Shortz 12 and Peter Blum 16.

“If you ignore the last couple of elections and you go back, you’ll see that very, very few elections in this town were competitive. People stayed on as long as they wanted to,” Mayor Basil Diamond said.

Vice Mayor Robert Evans was not convinced.

“I think there’s just too few people that want to serve, and if we do term limits we will find it difficult to find participants,” Evans said. “There are people in this community who are politically active and make a contribution, but most people in

town rely on us.”

He also said Manalapan is smaller than its neighbors and has a smaller pool from which to draw candidates.

Limiting terms would require a charter change approved by Manalapan’s voters. Diamond suggested asking voters to authorize the commission to set term limits by ordinance in case the town in the future wants to change back to having no limits.

Commissioner Donald Brennan said polarization between residents on the Point and on the ocean troubles him.

“Elections here do take on a characteristic of a popularity contest. And in a very small community it gets very personal,” Brennan said. “There is some collateral consequences to these elections when you’re dealing with a population of 400. That’s not a healthy thing.’’

Brennan said having term limits “would take some edge off or alleviate the atmosphere.”

“I do think that more people would come out, I don’t mean this in a pejorative way, of the woodwork if it wasn’t for the confrontational risk of running against my neighbor,” he said.

Commissioner Louis DeStefano said there was no need for term limits when voters can replace an incumbent every two years.

“I think our recent election speaks for the process,” DeStefano said, citing the March losses of Gottlieb and William Bernstein and his and Howard Roder’s victories in 2010.

Brennan said Manalapan’s very small population and a geographic split work against it.

“It’s been very hard to bring these two things together,” he said. “That is not something that other communities have to deal with. Ocean Ridge doesn’t have to deal with the dichotomy between two physically disparate places, two radically different property values.”

Brennan said another benefit of term limits is having new faces dealing with issues such as the water plant and outsourcing police services.

“You get people sitting here for a long time that made many of the decisions that we’re now trying to address,” Brennan said. “You cannot get an open discussion of that if you were the author of the decision.’’

Diamond agreed he had a new perspective on government after taking a two-and-a-halfyear hiatus from officialdom.

“When you’re on a commission or any board for a long time, you settle into a pattern and you’re associating with the same group,” he said.

“I don’t think you’re as fresh as you are when you leave” and come back.

In the end, commissioners asked for a draft ordinance to consider Diamond’s suggestion of setting term limits by ordinance.

“Then we can experiment with it and see if we end up with no commission,” Evans said.

In other business, Town Attorney Trela White reported that Wendy and Louis Navellier’s motion for a new trial on their pool cabana dispute was denied. The Navelliers can still appeal, she said, but a $250-a-day code enforcement fine continues to Ú accrue.

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Briny Breezes has a new clerk, and she’s both experienced and eager to work — driving north from Broward County a few days a week because she says she likes working for small government.

Shari Canada doesn’t live in Briny or own property here, so the Town Council on May 26 appointed alderman Nancy Boczon as the clerk pro tem, meaning for the time being, and in name only. Canada was then sworn in as deputy clerk.

Canada, 36, of Hollywood, will earn $25,000 a year for the part-time job. She has worked in other municipalities and said Canada she found the job when Briny advertised online with the Florida Association of City Clerks.

Canada jumped right into the role at the May 26 meeting, and said she was thrilled. “I love small towns,” she said.

From 2003 to 2005, she was the town clerk for Southwest Ranches, a small rural community in western Broward County. Following that, she worked for five years in the much larger city of Hallandale Beach, training staff, handling all the agendas and legal advertising and serving as municipal supervisor of elections.

In other action, the council: • Instructed Mayor Roger Bennett to continue talks with other coastal managers and mayors about the possibility of joining forces for some town services, such as fire and rescue, water and sewer and police. Most coastal towns buy these services from larger municipalities — although Manalapan does have a small water plant. Bennett said it might be worth discussing consolidation of services along the coast.

• Heard a direct and rather plaintive speech from Town Manager Steve Best, who asked that council members and town residents remember how special Briny Breezes is and keep in mind that everyone should work together. The corporate side of Briny has recently held back on paying $30,000 of town expenses that council members assumed it would pay. Corporation Board President Mike Gut has said the board is unhappy with high attorney fees.

Best has been on the job about a year and said he knew little about Briny’s down-home uniqueness until he took the job.

“I’m sure if you talk to some people, they’re going to tell you this whole thing stinks,” said Best, referring to the disagreement between Briny’s corporate and government factions.

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Gatehouse appearance options discussed

By Steve Plunkett

The gatehouse at Point Manalapan may be rescued by an unlikely knight: the man whose request to remove Australian pines along A1A prompted a review of town policy on exotic vegetation.

Point residents came to the Town Commission’s meeting in April to protest Stewart Satter’s plan to take out Australian pines across from 1400 S. Ocean Blvd., which Satter is demolishing. The neighbors west of the waterway feared that without the trees they would see and hear more traffic and birds would lose habitat.

When Satter heard commissioners and Daryl Cheifetz of the town’s landscape committee go back and forth in May over how to repair a mud hole at the gatehouse, he offered a solution.

“It sounds like it’s like so many things, about money,’’ Satter said. “I will make my landscape architect available to the landscape committee, and I will fund that project where the landscape architect will, at their direction, provide maybe three, four, five, six different options from the simplest option to the most complicated option.

“You can look at those options, and they can look at those options and perhaps maybe even the residents of the Point can vote on those options,’’ Satter said. “And perhaps, depending on the expense of those options, I may even fund the ultimate project.’’

Commissioners first had been asked to approve spending $3,124 to extend pavers and asphalt on the exit side of the gatehouse. An adjacent hedge was removed and now vehicles, particularly trucks, tend to go off the road, Mayor Basil Diamond said.

“It’s a mess and something needs to be done to maintain that property,” Diamond said.

But Cheifetz said she was tired of Manalapan spending $5,000 here and $3,000 there on gatehouse remedies.

“It seems that we keep patchworking a cure for this very important area that has an impact on the aesthetics of the town and also property values, looking at it big-picture,’’ she said.

Cheifetz said she wanted authorization and money to rebuild the paver entrance and put new landscaping in.

“I don’t really see any way to correct that road area unless you redo it,” she said. “It’s going to be obvious where this patch is being placed. Now I don’t know how you’re going to get around that.”

Commissioners asked her to bring them a rendering before they approved spending money, but Cheifetz said she would need money to have a sketch developed.

“I don’t have the exposure

to this as much as the folks that live there, but … I’m very sympathetic to this,” Commissioner Donald Brennan said. “It’s taking on the character of a military base that has got the word that they’re going to close it … because it would almost look better without it, because it’s majorly offensive.”

The landscape committee investigated putting concrete bollards along the road, but learned the town would be liable for any damage done to vehicles. It explored lowering the speed limit to 5 mph, but was told the current 20 mph is the lowest allowed.

Commissioners also considered putting in a speed bump (possible, Police Chief Clay Walker said) or posting weight limits on the Audubon Bridge (no limits allowed).

They also discussed the building’s history.

“Are there pictures of what that guardhouse originally looked like?” Cheifetz asked.

“I imagine that it had a lovely concept that has sort of gone by the wayside due to lack of maintenance, lack of interest, whatever.”

Diamond said he wasn’t here at the start, but said the gatehouse originally had sliding glass doors and just asphalt, no pavers.

He also said the structure has a significant deterrent effect.

“Right now you see a lot of people that are just wandering around, driving around the island. They see that gatehouse; often they will turn and not even come in Manalapan,” he said. Ú

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Barrier islands wary of growth management changes

By Thomas R. Collins Changes to state growth management laws passed during the latest legislative session have area watchdogs and officials wary of the prospects for development in and around coastal barrier island towns.

The changes, pushed through by Gov. Rick Scott and a Republican-dominated legislature, would mean that it is no longer a state requirement for roads, schools and parks to keep up with development — a concept known as ‘concurrency’ — but would leave it up to local governments to require it.

Another change would make it more difficult for local residents to challenge changes to local comprehensive plans — the blueprint for future development that is designed to keep projects logical and not overly harmful to the

environment. Those changes could not be put out to referendum for a citizen vote.

Plus, changes to comprehensive plans — now possible at only pre-determined times twice a year — could be done at any municipal meeting, giving residents less time to prepare if they want to oppose them.

The Department of Community Affairs, the state agency that oversees development, would be downsized. The new process would allow the state to comment on the projects with the most profound effects, but would not require such review.

Those supporting the changes say they’re needed to lift up a state economy in which developers are hamstrung by excessive red tape.

Critics respond that, with projects approved but languishing, it is hardly state

oversight that is to blame for the state’s economic woes.

Bob Ganger, president of the Florida Coalition for Preservation, said the system that has been in place for 25 years has “changed dramatically” and is concerned about the possible effects.

The group was formed in 2006 to combat a proposal to turn the town of Briny Breezes into a complex of more than 1,500 condos, timeshares and hotel rooms, and has remained the barrier island’s most staunch advocate of sensible growth.

In part due to the coalition’s work, the state’s Department of Community Affairs swooped in to challenge the enormity of the Briny Breezes project, with meetings attended by Secretary Tom Pelham himself.

“Without the Department of Community Affairs to question the amended comprehensive

plan, clearly the developer would have had the upper hand,” Ganger said.

With a shrunken DCA, a level of protection may be lost, he said. But added it is too early to declare a doomsday.

Financial conditions will mean that development will probably be self-limiting at least in the near future, he said, and citizens could always challenge developments in the courts.

“They’re simply going to shift disputes in to the courts and in so doing slow the process down even more than it would have been otherwise,” he said.

Joanne Davis, who handles community affairs locally for the community-planning group 1000 Friends of Florida, said changes to the burdenof-proof requirements would greatly limit residents’ ability to challenge a project in the courts — and many people may find it not even worth the fight.

“Now, the burden of proof is on the challenger, not the developer,” she said.

She said that putting more control in the hands of local officials — minus state oversight — makes it much easier for developers to have their way.

“Developers are in the habit of lobbying local governments and offering and promising lots of things that may or may not take place,” she said. “And they’re very good at influencing them.”

Briny Breezes Mayor Roger Bennett pointed out that “DCA will not disappear” but said the possibility of less oversight might make it easier for a potential project to be approved.

“In many respects it may be a little easier,” he said. But he said he is not aware of any major development proposals.

“There’s been no talk that I know of,” Bennett said. “It’s been very quiet.”

Michael Gut, the chairman of the corporate board of the mobile home park, said he also is unaware of any proposals.

Jerry Lower, the planning and zoning board director for the town and the publisher of The Coastal Star, said he expects the town’s plans to remain the same.

“The Town of Briny Breezes is working on a comprehensive plan that allows for modest self-redevelopment and the use

of housing that is more stormworthy than the existing mobile homes,” he said. “We don’t see a change in state politics as a reason to alter those goals.”

The Briny Breezes land is not the only parcel that might be seen as juicy development terrain with the changed laws, said the coalition’s executive director Kristine de Haseth.

“There are numerous postwar and multifamily structures on the barrier island that could represent an appealing target for an aggressive developer,” she said in an email.

Ken Schenck, town manager of Ocean Ridge, just north of Briny Breezes, said it remains to be seen how the law will affect development.

“We’ve always got concerns about what they’re going to do,” he said. “We realize something is going to happen there eventually. … In today’s market what they were proposing before probably wouldn’t fly anyway.”

He said the town could always raise concerns with county or state officials — such as traffic concerns with the Department of Transportation.

“How much clout we’d have?” he said. “Probably not much.”

He said it’s also possible that a project in Briny Breezes might even be acceptable.

“It just depends on what they do,” he said.

Ganger said he could not imagine a situation in which a neighboring town would sit idly by while development outside its borders threatens its quality of life, regardless of changes to state growth management laws.

“I really do believe that in our neck of the woods we have well-managed jurisdictions,” he said. “And that it really gets down to your trust in your elected officials to abide by the rules that they’ve already set in prior comprehensive plans “which, in general in our area, are quite reasonable.’’

Davis said local residents cannot afford to take a back seat as development proposals are made.

“There’s never, ever a more important time for them to be in contact with their local government,” she said. “Unless the public engages, they will have no voice. Politicians pay attention to numbers. So show Ú up at the meetings.”

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By Jenny Staletovich

Seven years after it was put on the selling block, WXEL-FM finally sold to Classical South Florida after the Federal Communications Commission approved a deal with Barry University May 16.

The 40-year-old station, started to educate migrant workers and home to local public affairs broadcasting as well as national radio programming, will be known as WPBI. It becomes part of radio empire American Public Media, which owns Classical South Florida and operates 43 stations in seven states and produces, among other shows, A Prairie Home Companion.

The sale had been bitterly fought by local supporters who opposed the sale to a national group, arguing the station would lose its local flavor. In announcing the sale and change in call letters, Classical South Florida said it will “concentrate the program schedule on classical music while continuing to provide news and information programming.”

The deal was applauded

by Miami Shores-based Barry, which bought the station in 1997 and over the years poured $5.3 million into both the radio and television stations. It had been trying to unload the cashstrapped station since 2004.

An earlier deal with a New

York television station fell through and when bidding was reopened in 2009, CSF emerged the winner with a $3.85 million offer.

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WXEL Channel 42 will remain as a PBS television affiliate, offering its lineup of public broadcasting shows, according to a letter from WXEL to supporters. Ú

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“If your objective was to bring two girls up in a natural, safe haven, our mother struck gold,” Kim Jones says today.

“What we are was formed by our mother’s desire to put us in a place that would nurture our talents,” her sister adds.

Today, Tami (née Jones) Pleasanton is the headmistress at St. Joseph’s Episcopal School in Boynton Beach, guiding the education of 260 boys and girls no older than she was then.

Kim Jones retired nearly 20 years ago after a lucrative career as a professional engineer. Nowadays she devotes much of her time to the nesting sea turtles she first befriended as a girl on Belair Drive.

“We’d spend summer nights on the beach with a bonfire,” Kim remembers, “and one evening a massive green sea turtle crawled right by us to nest, and I was hooked.”

As they reminisce together in Pleasanton’s office, 40-yearold memories emerge, of a tiny street that prepared them for a great big world.

“We were latchkey kids, but we didn’t know it,” Tami says.

“We didn’t wear bathing suits until mother decided we’d better, and then we didn’t wear tops for a while because nobody ever came there.”

“We were just sea waifs,” says Kim. Their neighbors were all retirees, they recall, older couples who taught them respect for the elderly.

“Our role models were 80-year-old retired engineers from Pratt & Whitney or housewives who made dinner for everyone and passed around pasta,” Tami says.

Tony and Marie Brunaldi, in the corner house, would tie a 250-yard line to a tree and lay it out over the sand with three or four lifebuoys attached.

“We’d make sure they got in and out of the water safely,” Tami adds. “We became sensitized to older people’s needs.”

They learned to drive on Belair Drive, and Kim, who learned to surf in the ocean just east of their home, has gone on to ride the waves off Easter Island, Tahiti, Bali.

“I think we cooked out every night,” their mother says, “and we always had a lot of fish because we caught it right down there at the beach.”

They kept an aquarium, home at one point to an octopus they found on the beach. The octopus escaped, to be discovered at last

clinging to the bottom of their dining room table.

Later, they bought the house next door at No. 10 for about $30,000. Last year, its assessed value was $242,000.

“I got the bedroom to the east,” Tami says, “so I went to bed every night listening to the waves and woke up to the same thing.”

And then one evening, theft came to peaceful Belair Drive.

“A huge St. Bernard showed up hungry,” Jeanne Punté recalls. “We had a steak on the grill, and she just took it and disappeared into the woods.”

Not long after, the girls heard puppies yelping in the scrub. They gave the puppies away and named the St. Bernard “Passport.”

When Kim left home for her first engineering job in Schenectady, N.Y., Passport went with her.

Tami departed Belair Drive for college in 1976, and their mother, the last to leave, moved to Palm Beach Gardens in 1984.

“It was heaven,” Tami says.

“Everything you wanted and needed was there.”

Not long ago, she adopted a rescue dog from Tampa. The dog, about 3 years old, was named Buffett when she got him — whether for Jimmy or Warren, she’s not sure.

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Critics of utility project cost-share keep up opposition

By Steve Plunkett Wearing red, Gulfstream Shores residents kept up their assault on what the town wants them to pay to put utility lines underground even as town commissioners set June 30 for a public hearing on the plan.

“Tell your consultants to go back. There are other options,’’ said lawyer Marcie Nolan, representing Gulfstream Shores’ 54 condominium units at the commission’s May 13 meeting.

Nolan repeated that Gulfstream Shores wants the special assessments to be based either on lot size or lot frontage.

That would drop per-unit costs, now $6,118 at the complex, to $328, while single-family homes would pay $15,402 on average instead of $10,000, she said.

Edward Johnson, president of the time-share owners at recently annexed Gulfstream Manor, also spoke against the assessments, as did Sophie Bent of Hillside House.

“A lot of our property owners feel the unfairness of the methodology used,’’ Bent said of her 12-unit condo.

At least one complex, the 23-unit Somerset, supports the proposal. “The Somerset voted 100 percent for the methodology you all have chosen,’’ said Nancy Wibbelsman, whose husband is president of the condo association there. “We believe that it was fair for each individual to bear an equal burden because each individual or each family that owns the unit is going to be sharing this burden equally.’’

Bob Ganger, president of the Gulf Stream Civic Association, said while affected property owners polled in a straw ballot approved the project 56 percent to 44 percent, Gulfstream Shores “from the very beginning’’ was opposed to the assessment methodology.

“If one excluded Gulfstream Shores, who voted overwhelmingly against,

More than 30 people attended a recent Gulf Stream Town meeting, some (in red shirts) to complain about undergrounding power line assessments.

Photo by Jerry Lower

the total for the town would have been 65 for, 35 against,’’ Ganger said. Condo residents also disputed variations among condo assessments. Bill Dugmore of Gulfstream Shores said the average unit there is 750 square feet; Wibbelsman told him condos at the Somerset are 1,200 to 1,300 square feet.

“That’s approximately twice the size of a unit at Gulfstream Shores, and you’re being assessed the same amount of money that we are,’’ Dugmore said.

“But you’re benefiting the same amount I am,’’ Wibbelsman responded.

John Caldwell, who lives at the Golf View Club, said his building’s seven units are being assessed $8,200 each, more than 300 other properties on the list.

“With all due respect to our friends from Gulfstream Shores, their average is $6,200 for all of the condos,’’ Caldwell said. ‘’We’re paying $2,000 more than that for our tiny little building, and I just think that’s on its face unfair.’’

Before the public commented, Gulf Stream’s consultants reviewed the safety

and reliability of underground electric wires and defended the fairness of the assessments.

Nolan at two April meetings had charged that the project’s only benefit was improved aesthetics.

Consulting engineer Danny Brannon said he did not know of anyone being electrocuted by an underground system, but said the same is not true of overhead wires. He also said converting to underground is so important to Florida Power & Light Co. that the utility will pay 25 percent of the project’s costs. Brannon said he also has discovered an electric cable under the Intracoastal Waterway connecting Gulf Stream to the mainland. That should negate fears of power outages caused by downed overhead wires in Briny Breezes or Delray Beach, he said.

Lee Evett of Willdan Financial Services said his firm is the only one in Florida to have completed assessment methodologies, in Jupiter Inlet Colony and the towns of Palm Beach and Gulf Stream, as well as 11 others in California.

Only one was challenged in court, and Willdan was upheld,

he said.

“There isn’t a more fair system under Florida law for assigning costs of a particular project than an assessment methodology,’’ Evett said, noting that Palm Beach, like Gulf Stream, has a number of condominiums.

Meanwhile, Gulfstream Shores wrote state Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff requesting that Florida pass a law declaring condominium complexes a single parcel rather than multiple units when special assessments are imposed.

Mayor William F. Koch Jr. then wrote Bogdanoff to say it would be ‘’unfortunate’’ to take legislative action based on “incomplete information’’ about Gulf Stream’s plans. Gulfstream Shores has other ways to challenge the project, he said.

“The established process for local government legislative decision-making has not been completed and should not be cut short,’’ Koch wrote.

The Town Commission approved an ordinance 4-0 authorizing the special assessments and scheduling the public hearing. Commissioner

Chris Wheeler was absent.

“We’ve listened to all your thoughts today and we’re considering them and will consider them,’’ Koch told the condo residents in the filled commission chambers.

Town Clerk Rita Taylor said the hearing, which starts at 9 a.m. June 30, is akin to a “board of equalization,’’ where residents can present grievances over assessments for possible adjustment.

After the hearing, the commission can adopt, reject or modify the assessment roll.

Notices of the hearing had to be mailed to the affected property owners 30 days in advance, Taylor said.

If approved, the assessments will show up on property tax bills in November. The proposed project does not include Place au Soleil, which was built with underground Ú lines.

Note to readers: Gulf Stream’s June 30 public hearing on special assessments comes too late to be covered in our next edition. Please go to www.thecoastalstar.com for updates on the town’s underground project.

Boynton Beach Mizner building offered to city

By Ron Hayes The Boynton Beach Woman’s Club has reluctantly offered to deed its historic, 85-year-old building to the city because it can no longer afford the $70,000 annual operating budget.

The all-volunteer club supports itself by renting the building for weddings and other social events.

Mayor Jose Rodriguez, who brought up the offer at last month’s City Commission meeting, said the 103-year-old club had originally offered to sell the building and he had responded by suggesting a deed transfer.

The full commission has not yet to put the offer on its agenda for discussion.

The Mediterranean Revival building was designed in 1925 by famed Palm Beach architect Addison Mizner, who agreed to donate his services if the cost did not exceed $50,000. A cornerstone was laid in 1932 and the property dedicated to Major Nathan Smith Boynton.

Originally used as the town library, it has been home to the Woman’s Club since 1961 and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Last year, the building’s market value was assessed at $549,393.

The Boynton Woman’s Club building was designed by Addison Mizner. Photo by Tim Stepien

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Budget reveals less bad news than last year

By Margie Plunkett

Lantana kicked off its budget process with the prospect of further drops in property tax revenue and other income that could once again force it to grapple with cost cutting. But as one council member put it, the glass is looking more like it’s half full.

Soon after the town’s May 23 budget workshop, the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser released figures estimating Lantana’s property values dropped 4.3 percent to $692 million. That’s still a vast improvement from 2010, when Lantana saw property values decline about 17 percent, according to property appraiser estimates.

The 4.3 percent decline was on the less painful side of the scenarios Lantana had laid out, which showed: • A 3 percent property value decline would equal a $66,817 drop in revenue.

• A 5 percent drop would equal $111,361, and • An 8 percent reduction would result in $178,178 less revenue.

Lantana — like municipalities everywhere — has been forced to cut back over the last several years and finding new places to reduce spending is ever more difficult. The

town has cut 15 positions from its labor pool in the last four years, leaving Lantana with the equivalent of 93 full-time positions currently.

“I don’t want to see services cut, anybody laid off,” said meeting regular, resident Bob Little. “We’re down to the nitty gritty now.”

Already the town is falling behind, putting off work that needs to be done to keep spending down, Little said. “If you lay people off, it’s going to get worse. You have to find the money somewhere,” he said, adding that maybe the town has to raise taxes.

Among the casualties of budget cutting past: the town’s fireworks display this year.

Lantana will, however, still put on a 90th anniversary celebration, but the Lantana Historical Society will sponsor that with the help of the Kiwanis Club. The celebration will be held at Town Hall.

There are some positives signs. In the current fiscal year, revenue is projected to exceed the budget by $110,000, with a boost from fees and fines, according to the town’s presentation at its budget workshop.

Building permits and zoning fees were up $29,000, parking violations were up $52,000 and code violations

were up $35,000, but were also countered by lower revenue from falling franchise fees, including Florida Power & Light’s, which were down $42,000.

Lantana’s revenue projections for the 2011-12 budget cycle anticipate the continuing challenge from falling property values. But revenues not related to property are also projected to fall $155,000 next year, according to the presentation: Income is on the decline from boat trailer decals, beach decals, parking meters and a charter school that’s closing.

The town expects to gain revenue from a new lease deal from Fire Rescue Station No. 37 that will bring in $63,800; a new cell tower, $22,800; and building and zoning fees, $30,000.

The expenditure side also has its ups and downs, with spending on police pensions expected to decline $85,000, but health insurance costs to rise $170,000.

The next step in the process for Lantana is to review department spending requests and to await the certified property tax valuation expected to be released July 1.

Council will hold its next budget workshop at 6:30 p.m., Ú June 30 at town hall.

Officer charged with multiple robberies

By Tim O’Meilia

A Lantana police officer was arrested and charged with three counts of robbery after he allegedly pulled over Hispanic men and stole their money after they left check-cashing stores.

Officer Mark Ott, 35, faces a maximum of 90 years in prison for three counts of robbery with prejudice for targeting Hispanic men between February and May. Ott, an officer for four

years, was released on $25,000 bail. He is on administrative leave without pay.

According to the probable cause affidavit, Ott made multiple stops of Hispanic men, searched them and returned some of their money. He took $35 to $400 at each stop.

The arrest came after an undercover sting operation resulting from a February incident when he stopped an FBI agent and his son. That led

to an investigation involving the FBI, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office and the State Attorney’s Public Integrity Unit task force.

Ott was arrested May 19 after he pulled over an undercover Sheriff’s deputy and an FBI agent, took $400 in photocopied bills, but kept $150 before letting the men go. The money was later found stuffed in Ott’s tactical vest, according Ú to the affidavit.

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Ocean Ridge officials breathed a sigh of relief this month when a state board overseeing police officer training let three dozen arrests stand even though the officers who made them hadn’t gotten their firearms recertification from a properly certified instructor.

All of the town’s 21 police officers — 14 regular officers and seven reserve officers — had gotten their firearms certification renewed for the 2006 to 2008 period and the 2008 to 2010 period through an instructor who was certified as a general firearms instructor but was not state-certified.

Ocean Ridge Police Chief Chris Yannuzzi said that shortly after he became chief last year, he was surprised to learn of the glitch. “I asked our firearms instructor, ‘Are you state certified?’ … And the answer that day was, ‘No.’ ” He said he then called the state, asking, “What do we do now?”

Town officials — along with officials from other towns in the same boat — had to travel to Ocala to appear before the Standards and Training Commission, part of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. That board issued a waiver for the certification, thereby allowing the arrests made by the officers to stand.

Ernie George, chair of the commission and president of the Palm Beach County Police Benevolent Association, said the instructors involved had gone through most of the training, but hadn’t completed an internship under another statecertified instructor.

“This has happened before where the instructors are totally trained, they have the proper training,” he said. “So we’ve waived it in the past for other counties around the state.”

He said there was never a question about the officers’ proficiency with firearms.

“All the officers qualified on the (gun) range,” he said.

The arrests at risk in Ocean Ridge ranged from burglaries to domestic-violence cases to less serious charges. Arrests in capital cases — including homicides and sexual batteries — are handled by the Sheriff’s Office for the town and therefore were not at risk, Yannuzzi said.

All of the town’s officers were quickly recertified through Boynton Beach, and the town’s firearms instructor has been properly state-certified, he said.

Why hadn’t the problem with the instructor’s certification been discovered earlier?

Requirements on certification changed for the 2006 to 2008 period, and Yannuzzi chalked it up to a “misinterpretation of the Ú rules.”

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The new beach cruisers come in designer colors. The coaster brakes and comfy seats make them popular for ‘CEOs to surfers.’ Photos by Tim Stepien

Beach cruiser bikes: That’s how we roll

By Paula Detwiller Delray Beach native Terri Lambert loves her pink beachcruiser bicycle with the wicker basket and floral-design bell on the handlebars. But don’t be misled: This is not a little girl’s bike, and Lambert is not a little girl. She’s a grownup who happens to have a passion for beach cruisers.

“It’s a way of life,” Lambert says. “And I’m getting another one. I ordered a Lilly Pulitzer limited edition. Go to the website and check it out.” Sure enough, Lilly Pulitzer’s online catalog shows an adult bicycle in “very limited quantities” with a turquoise and black seashell-print frame, a pink saddle, and pink-rimmed whitewall tires.

Designer color schemes represent the latest trend in beach cruisers, those uncomplicated bicycles that have been part of Florida’s beach culture for decades.

Modeled after the classic one-speed Schwinn cruiser bike introduced in the 1930s, beach cruisers are currently enjoying a surge in popularity, especially in coastal communities.

“Seventy percent of my rental bikes are cruisers, because that’s what people want,” says Albert Richwagen, co-owner of Richwagen’s Bike and Sport in Delray Beach.

The allure: a comfortable, carefree ride. With wide tires, no hand brakes or gears to worry about, and a cushy seat, cruiser bikes are the signature of a casual, laid-back lifestyle.

They’re also perfect for an aging population.

“Adults will come in and say, ‘I want to buy a mountain bike,’ ” says Richwagen. “I tell them, ‘Your head may say let’s go mountain biking, but

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I put them on a cruiser bike, and they’re off and having fun. You can ride a cruiser all day long, anywhere.”

Not just for paperboys Richwagen, who literally grew up in the bike shop his father opened 50 years ago, has witnessed all of the trends. He says cruiser bikes sold well in the early days, thanks in part to the surfer movie Gidget. Then came Sting-Ray bikes with banana seats and ape-hanger handlebars; 10-speed racing bikes with skinny tires, narrow seats and hand brakes; mountain bikes with beefy frames and fat, nubby tires; and then the “hybrids,” offering comfortable upright seating with a less bumpy roll.

Through the years, Richwagen says, the one-

speed cruiser bike with its classic cantilevered frame could always be spotted in Florida beach communities.

But an innovative design change eight years ago gave the beach cruiser wider appeal — and, like the redesign of the classic Volkswagen Beetle, Baby Boomers sat up and took notice.

California-based Electra Bicycle Co. shifted the seat back and the pedals forward on its “Townie” bicycle introduced in 2003, allowing full foot placement on the ground while sitting on the saddle, and full extension of the legs while riding.

The company’s “flat foot technology,” since adopted by other manufacturers, made cruiser bikes feel safer and even more stress-free.

“I’ve seen steady growth

of beach cruiser sales in recent years,” Richwagen says. “It used to be only guys rode bikes. Now women want them, too.” He points to his shop’s row of candycolored “personality bikes” adorned with decals of hearts, peacocks, cherries, and polka dots.

For the guys, there are bikes with hot-rod paint jobs and tattoo imagery: skeletons, flames, racing stripes.

There’s even a hobbyist club called FreakBike Nation, with an active West Palm Beach chapter. “These guys take beach cruisers and chop ’em up, then add long forks, shark fins, 4-inch tires, you name it,” says Richwagen.

“The more outlandish, the better.”

Cruisin’ to the pub Another local group,

Bike America 3150 N. Federal Highway Boca Raton (561) 391-0800 www.bikeam.com organized by pink-cruiserowner Lambert and her friend Bo Eaton, does a beach cruiser pub-crawl through Delray Beach about once a month.

“We start at Boston’s on the Beach,” explains Lambert’s niece, Kerri Hussey, “and we work our way west along Atlantic Avenue, hitting Deck 84, Hurricane, Falcon House, Tryst and the Bull Bar.” Like the bikes themselves, this rolling barhop has grown in popularity, with the latest outing attracting more than 40 riders.

“From CEOs to surfers, that’s who riding these Ú bikes,” Eaton says.

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By Steve Pike The great American novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote You Can’t Go Home Again about a town called Libya Hill. With all respect to Asheville, N.C.’s favorite son, why would South Floridians want to leave home?

Palm Beach County boasts some of the world’s great destination resorts and beachfront hotels, most of which offer Florida resident packages in the summer and fall, so locals can treat themselves to the same experiences as winter snowbirds, often for a fraction of the cost.

Most of the properties offer more than one summer package, so there should be something for the whole family, whether it’s golf, fine dining, water activities, spa treatments or kids camps.

The “drive” market as it is known — the market between here and south Georgia — has become increasingly important to this area’s resorts and hotels as they seek to fill rooms and restaurants that just a few weeks ago were occupied by northern visitors.

“The locals have been so supportive and so excited to see a luxury product like the Seagate Hotel & Spa in their area,” said Kate Connor, director of sales and marketing at the Seagate, which opened in 2009 on Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach. “We’re starting to see a lot of familiar faces in the restaurant and the spa.”

“A lot of our summer business and leisure business comes from the tri-county area: Palm Beach, Broward and Dade counties,” said David Burke, director of marketing at The Breakers in Palm Beach. “When the recession started hitting a couple of years ago, we started focusing more on the local market — not just in the summer

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Given that gas prices remain in the $4 per gallon range, “stay-cations” might be even more appealing to locals, who can use the money saved on an additional amenity, such as a second massage, a cabana or another round of golf.

“We certainly look to South Florida as being our primary market,” Connor said.

“Traditionally it’s the largest market for the hotels here in the summer, so we are looking at that market to be the strongest part of our occupancy this summer.”

weekday continental breakfast, kids’ meals, kids camp and valet parking; complimentary daily benefits include unlimited tennis and fitness classes.

Guests have access to the resort’s two golf courses (a shuttle is provided to the Rees Jones Course at Breakers West), as well as nine restaurants and the bungalows and cabanas around the pool and beach club. Overnight parking is complimentary SundayWednesday; $20 per night Thursday-Saturday.

Hot tips: The cabana and bungalows around the pool and

beach club are great for parents with kids who might need a nap because the adults don’t have to return to their rooms during peak tanning period.

Local attraction: “We always target the local market in the summer time” says David Burke, vice president of sales and marketing.

“We sell out on the weekends and try to drive business Sunday through Thursday with kids camp and things like that.

In the summer time families have a little bit more flexibility with their schedules so they can come midweek.”

Rooms at the Seagate offer a zen-like feel, with soothing neutral color p

The Seagate Hotel & Spa

1000 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach, 665-4800 Delray Beach’s newest hotel is helping celebrate the city’s 100th anniversary with its Sweet Summer Savings package (through Sept. 30) that begins at $159 per night. The package, which includes pineappleinspired spa treatments, food and cocktails, is a nod to the tropical fruit’s local historical significance.

When Delray Beach was incorporated as a town, pineapples were the area’s primary crop. The

Seagate’s Carefree stay package (through Dec. 22) begins at $199 night and includes a three-cour dinner in Atlantic Grille; breakf in Etc. Café; and complimentary parking.

Hot tip: Want pampering? T the spa’s Pineapple Plantation M Pedi (80 minutes for $100). Your hands and feet are treated with a pineapple-infused mineral sal bath, pineapple enzyme exfoliat Florida honey and pineapple ma and warm stone massage. Perha best of all, a complimentary piñ colada also is provided.

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Addison Mizner’s masterpiece has been a prime destination address for more than 80 years. The resort’s Uniquely Boca package is $199 per night (through Oct. 1) and includes valet parking, breakfast for two, 20 percent off greens fees at the two golf courses, 25 percent off treatments at Spa Palazzo, 25 percent off tennis court time and 25 percent off Camp Boca for kids 3-12.

For those who want to stay on the beach, the Boca Beach Club is a short shuttle ride away from the main resort and features beachfront guest rooms, three pools and private cabanas.

Want luxury plus? Try the resort’s One Thousand Ocean Beach Villas & Residences, a seven-story building that is a mixture of 52 beach villas, residences and penthouse options.

Hot tip: The Boca Raton Resort & Club has some of the top restaurants in South Florida — available only to resort guests and club

The Marriott is across the street from the beach and on the eastern edge of trendy Atlantic Avenue. The hotel’s Red, White and Blues Festival package celebrates Independence Day with Boston’s on the Beach, the popular nearby restaurant. Prices begin at $179 per night (July 1-4) and include overnight accommodations; two tickets per night to the Red White and Blues festival held at Boston’s on the Beach; and a 15 percent discount off the food and beverage check at Boston’s on the Beach (during the time of event only). Outside of the festival dates, Florida-resident rates (through Nov. 30) begin at $127 per night.

Hot tip: Atlantic Avenue, with its mix of bars and restaurants, is particularly pleasant on a warm summer evening, as

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The real treat, however, is Serendipity, the candy and snack shop inspired by the popular Serendipity 3 in New York City. Try the frozen hot chocolate.

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2842 S. Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach, 540-6440 The Omphoy Ocean Resort blends Palm Beach elegance and South Beach chic. Opened in 2009, the Omphoy has quickly become one of the top boutique hotels in South Florida. The Omphoy is offering a “Come for Dinner, Stay for Breakfast” package as well as a Florida-resident package that includes 20 percent off the standard rate plus continental breakfast for two. Their third night free package is $289 per night.

Hot tip: If the beachfront location weren’t enough, there’s Michelle Bernstein’s restaurant that overlooks the beach from the second floor of the Omphoy. The restaurant is open to locals and guests and is a great dining experience. Try the braised short ribs.

Local attraction: “Our traffic for the summer has to come from the state and it has to come from Georgia and South Carolina. We have guests now driving down from North Carolina,” said general manager Deborah Carr.

two year, multimillion-dollar improvement project that included a complete room redesign and the addition of a luxury salon and spa. To help highlight the rooms’ renovation, the resort has partnered with clothier Tory Burch for a gift of up to $500. The Restyle Package (through July 31) includes accommodations in the new guest rooms; a $500 Tory Burch gift card for suites or a $100 Tory Burch promotion card for other room categories; $150 daily spa credit; and complimentary breakfast. A minimum two-night stay is required.

Hot tip: The Four Seasons’ Atlantic

Bar and Grill is a terrific oceanfront patio restaurant known for its tropical drinks.

The Atlantic Bar and Grill hosts the only happy hour on the beach (beginning at 4:30 p.m.). Don’t pass on the conch chowder and the wagyu beef sliders.

Local attraction: “We do great business from Florida residents in the summer time.

Why would anyone go away? You have the beach right there. The local market always has been very important for us. It’s a natural fit. Our Florida-residents rate is probably one of our best-kept secrets,” said Alan Reichbart, director of marketing.

The Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach

100 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan, 533-6000 The resort’s premier summer package is aptly named “Beauty and the Beach,” as it defines The Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach.

Valid through Sept. 15 and beginning at $379 per night, the package includes overnight accommodations in a guest room with a private balcony and a $200 credit per night to be used for treatments at Eau Spa by Cornelia. At 42,000 square feet, Eau Spa by Cornelia is one of the largest and most opulent spas in the Southeast, from its Self-Centered Garden to the rubber ducks in the men’s and women’s pools.

Hot tip: Don’t forget the kids. The Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach has a terrific program for kids ages 5-12 called AquaNuts that features a dedicated playroom, computers, music and costumes. Programs change weekly

The Ritz-Carlton has a spa package that’s good through Sept. 15. and are offered in half-day and full-day options.

Local attraction: “Local travelers make up a large portion of our leisure travelers.

As the rates become more favorable in the summer, we attract many guests as ‘staycation’ visitors. It is a great opportunity for locals to experience the resort and all the amenities we offer,” said director of travel industry sales Tim Luksa.

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Celebrations The Schoolhouse Children’s Museum dinner dance Quail Ridge Country Club

Boynton Beach Sister Cities, Young Artist’s Showcase

St. Joseph’s Episcopal School Go Green Auction

Boynton Beach City Library

Quail Ridge Country Club

Stephen Waldman (left), Susan Buchanan (Co-founder of the Tomorrow Connection), Janis Andrews and Jamie Andrews and Nora Rosensweig attend the April 16 event in honor of the museum’s 10th anniversary.

Wine and cheese reception Delray Beach Public Library

Kelly DuBois (top left), Deanna Patrick, Jackson Langford and Carolina Carney attend St. Joseph’s auction April 8, which raised more than $160,000 for the school.

Christina Cleveland (left), Board President John K. Burke, and Maureen Reutter attend a wine and cheese reception to introduce lawyers and financial planners to the library.

Photos provided Meaghan Donahue, an eighth-grader at St. Joseph ’s Episcopal School in Boynton Beach, received an honorable mention for her artwork. She lives on Hypoluxo Island.

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‘Retirement’ a mere turn of the page

By Ron Hayes

One lazy summer day when he was a boy, Arthur Jaffe wandered over to the Carnegie Library in Butler, Pa., and asked the helpful librarian to recommend a book.

“She gave me a children’s, abridged edition of Robinson Crusoe, and I couldn’t put it down,” he remembers.

“That was the book that got me started on reading as a passion.”

He was 7 that summer day, maybe 8.

On May 7, Jaffe turned 90, and the passion for books instilled by that nameless librarian is now the Jaffe Center For Book Arts, 4,800 square feet on the third floor of Florida Atlantic University’s Wimberly Library.

The initial donation of 2,800 books that Jaffe and his late wife, Mata, donated to the library in 1998 has grown to 9,000 titles that celebrate the book as a work of art in itself. A novel told solely in woodcuts, for example.

A pop-up book about birds that spreads its wings when opened.

A first edition of Huckleberry Finn wouldn’t be a big deal here; an edition bound to resemble a log raft would be treasured.

At the Jaffe Center, it’s the medium of the book, not its message, that’s honored.

On May 6, FAU awarded Jaffe an honorary doctorate of humane letters, and on May

Arthur Jaffe’s passion is books. Photo by Tim Stepien

If you go:

‘Time Flies When You’re Having Fun — Honoring Arthur Jaffe’ — Through Aug. 10 at FAU’s Wimberly Library, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. Library hours: Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-midnight; Friday, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.; Saturday, noon-6 p.m.; Sunday, noon-midnight. Free.

297-0455 or www. jaffecollection.org.

21, the library hosted “Time Flies When You’re Having Fun,” an open house to mark his retirement and celebrate his life.

“Arthur hasn’t taken a day off yet,” said John Cutrone, the center’s director, greeting a steady stream of Jaffe friends and admirers, “so we always refer to it as his ‘retirement’ with quotation marks.”

Indeed, Jaffe will keep the sunny office behind the

exhibition room where he still arrives most mornings. The framed doctorate is on proud display, and so is the 7-yearold boy from Butler, Pa., still twinkling in Jaffe’s eyes when he talks about books.

“I tell people, if you walk out of here today and think about a book the way you always did, you haven’t failed, I have,” he says. “You think a book is a cover, a spine, a front and a back, but that’s not what you see here. We have all kinds of shapes.

Books made of aluminum, or wood. Pop-up books are 500 years old! Illuminated books, new printing techniques, books without words you can read — totally read!”

After service in World War II — he was awarded a Bronze Star, and took part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy — Jaffe became a partner in his family’s chain of department stores.

“I don’t really know when I began buying books, because I wasn’t thinking of building a collection,” he says. “I was buying books for me. I purchased books because I liked the way they looked, the way they felt in my hands.”

In 1984, the Jaffes retired permanently to Delray Beach.

He volunteered at FAU, and when the couple moved to smaller quarters, Jaffe offered the collection to his six children. They relished a book here, a book there, but Jaffe wanted to keep the collection intact. The kids’ loss was FAU’s gain.

At 90, he’s made few

This keepsake poster honoring Arthur Jaffe was printed by hand on a vintage Vandercook 4 Proof Press. Photo provided concessions to age. He gave up tennis a decade ago and no longer drives at night, but Jaffe’s enthusiasm for new frontiers in the book arts is forever young.

Coffee table books?

“Some are great, truly artists’ books, and some cater to showoffs,” he says. “An expensive chandelier doesn’t just give you light. It says, I can afford that chandelier.”

But surely he has no patience with e-books, that purely functional box for downloading text. Isn’t the Kindle the antithesis of the book as objet d’art?

“It’s another form of book,” he says. “I have nothing against the Kindle, but it has some limitations. You can’t open it, and you can’t compare this page to this page, side by side.”

He doesn’t talk like a man who’s truly retired, without quotation marks. Already, new business cards have been printed. Instead of Arthur H. Jaffe, he’s now Dr. Arthur H.

Jaffe, Professor Emeritus.

On the shelf in his office is one of his more recent purchases, an 1884 edition of Robinson Crusoe, illustrated

by George Cruickshank.

“I’ve never actually owned a copy before,” he says.

So he’s reading it, the unabridged, adult edition now, while wrapping up a final project or two at FAU. “Stories On The Skin: Tattoo Culture at FAU” debuted at his “retirement” reception. Completed with Dr. Karen Leader, it’s a photo display of students’ tattoos.

“Fifty years ago,” Jaffe says, “tattoos were considered kind of seedy. Only sailors and prostitutes had them. But did you know that now 45 million Americans have a tattoo? And more women than men.”

It’s simple, really.

“They have messages on their bodies,” he explains, with an eager smile. “I see them as walking books.” Ú

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Celebrations Fix-up day

Lantana Fishing Derby

City Hall, Boynton Beach

Old Key Lime House, Lantana

Mayor Jose Rodriguez volunteered his time on May 21 along with more than 25 volunteers to paint the exterior of Boynton’s City Hall. Considering the current fiscal budget for the community he asked for volunteers to help hold down costs. Photo by Lauren Loricchio

Check presentation

Sandoway House, Delray Beach Grass River Garden Club Co-President Susan Lyons presents a $6,000 check to Nature Center Executive Director Patrick Moorehouse recently at the nature center in Delray Beach.

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Anglers take photographs of Capt. Reese L. Singleton III, whose boat, Old Key Limer, won third place for dolphin, with a 16.01-pound fish in the Lantana Fishing Derby. The awards ceremony for the tournament was held May 15 at The Old Key Lime House in Lantana. Photo by Mary Kate Leming

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Synchronized swim team bonds members with watery workouts

By Emily J. Minor In the evenings when she finally gets home, 11-year-old Lauren Boylan says she’s “just plain tired.”

And that’s probably an understatement.

The pre-teen — who was born in California, raised in Paris, moved to Switzerland and recently was transplanted to South Florida — doesn’t spend her after-school hours texting or catching up on Facebook.

She’s not stretched out in her girlie bedroom, giggling on the telephone Dowling over what happened that day at school.

The daughter of Stephen Boylan and his wife, Daphney Antoine, Lauren is part of the Palm Beach Coralytes, the competitive synchronized swimming group that has been drawing in women of all ages for the past 26 years.

Athleticism. Sisterhood.

Team work. That’s what Coralytes is all about.

That, and fun.

Evelyn Dowling, 83, of Palm Springs, knows firsthand about all these joys.

She’s been involved with the group since the Coralytes began in 1985. They’re based out of the county pool at the Aqua Crest Pool complex in Delray Beach.

“I had never done synchro before,” Dowling says now,

The Palm Beach Coralytes synchronized swim team performed a water show themed ‘Synch In The Big Easy’ at Aqua Crest Pool in Delray Beach. Mom Nancy Kelly (left), Lauren Atchison, Anna Beckwith, Sara Moran, Katrina Figueroa and Kaitlin Kelly (11-12 age group). Photos by Tim Stepien

Former Ocean Ridge resident, Lauren Boylan practices with the Coralytes at the Aqua Crest Pool in Delray Beach. about getting involved. “But Just how many 80-yearI’m a fast learner.” olds are out there competing?

Today, Dowling still “Usually there are just a competes in the bracket that couple of us,” she says. includes octogenarians.

For Lauren Boylan, the

decision to join was paved by Antoine, her stepmom, who went searching for something both inclusive and athletic when they found out Lauren would be moving from Switzerland to South Florida last July. The family lives on the eastern edge of Boynton Beach.

Antoine checked out schools, eventually deciding the international baccalaureate program at Carver Middle School was probably the best fit. (And it turns out, it was.)

But since Lauren had grown up abroad, Antoine said she wanted something extracurricular that wasn’t singular, like the ballet

Lauren had studied as a young girl.

“When my friend told us about the synchronized swimming, I just thought it sounded perfect,” Antoine said. “The minute she got into the group, she was accepted.

No questions.”

Lauren said she “had no idea how it would go.”

“At the start, nothing’s really easy,” she said. “But after the first meet, it was good.”

Linda Coffin, a Coralytes mom who also joined the competition when her daughter joined two years ago, helps handle the team logistics — the public relations, and what-not. But she also swims. And it’s a good workout, considering that when you are a synchronized swimmer, you never touch bottom.

It’s all about core strength.

Each year, the teams compete at a regional level, Coffin says. This year, three teams comprised of swimmers 11 years old and older are headed to national competition in Washington state.

Coffin says she’s loved seeing the friendships form, in and out of the water, and it’s been great not just for her, but for her young daughter.

“They learn to depend on each other,” she says. “You definitely have to be a team to do synchronized Ú swimming.”

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Father’s Day

Cigar shops have advice for choosing right smoke

By Jan Norris

Cigar facts

Smoke shops are stocking up for Father’s Day — one of the hottest (no pun intended) day for cigar sales.

With hundreds of brands and styles to choose from, and cigars priced from $3 to $40 a “stick,” it can be a smoky maze to thread choosing the right cigar for Dad. But local tobacco and cigar experts are ready with advice for cigar buying.

First, is there a proper way to give cigars? “There is an etiquette involved,” said Bob Leone, of Crown Wines and Spirits in Boynton Beach.

“You really never give just one cigar — give two at minimum.

Whenever I give cigars, I bring a handful.” A gift box of five is a good start if you’re not sure if Dad will like them.

How about matching spirits with cigars? Leone said that’s easy. “With a single-malt scotch — I drink Macallan 12-year-old — I’d match it with an Ashton VSG. It’s Ashton’s top line, a Cuban-style cigar,” he said.

For bourbon, he recommends Knob Creek, and because of its sweeter taste, a Romeo and Juliet Reserva cigar. The same cigar works well with aged rum, too, such

n Cigars aren’t returnable to shops because there’s no guarantee the buyer has kept them properly upon leaving the shop’s humidor.

n Cigars are mild, medium or robust in flavor. They are sized from small, medium and large and burn from relatively quickly to up to 90 minutes. Decide how much time dad can commit to a smoke to help choose.

n All cigars need to be cut; a cutter and an ashtray are inexpensive gifts.

n Cigars must be kept properly — never in the refrigerator and never in the heat. A home or travel humidor is another good gift.

as Ron Matusalem 15-year-old.

The cigar is a Cuban recipe in Dominican production, he said.

Over at the Cigar Connoisseur, a cigar shop with full liquor lounge in Delray Beach, manager Matteo Fronzaglia recommends buying dad a handpicked sampler box of several cigars, especially if you don’t know his exact brand.

“I’d get a range of five cigars — different sizes, flavors and wrappers. It could range from $55 to $100,” he said.

Matching dad’s interest to a cigar is one of his specialties.

“For a golfer, look for a bigger ring gauge and longer smoke to last on the course. I’d go with

a Churchill or Corona size; it takes about an hour to smoke.

For a fisherman or motorcycle rider, though, you want a Robusto — something they can toss away if they get a fish on or they have to leave suddenly.

It’s a quicker smoke,” he said.

A fine wine drinker would appreciate a Maduro-wrapped — darker, more robust flavored, in a Churchill size — a long, strong smoke to be enjoyed with a good wine.

What about Cuban cigars?

Joe Fiori from Joe’s Cigar Lounge in Delray Beach said the Cuban cigars, which still carry a mystique, really aren’t as good as those now produced

Joe Fiori of Joe’s Cigar Lounge in Delray Beach says Cuban cigars have a mystique but they’re not as good as those made in Honduras, Nicaragua or the Dominican Republic. Photo by Lauren Loricchio

in Nicaragua, Honduras or the Dominican Republic.

“Everybody wants what they can’t have, right? Cubans did produce the best cigars before the embargo. But today, the agriculture is better in the countries the Cubans fled to.

They took their tobacco seeds with them and are making the same cigars in their new countries.”

He recommends that neophyte cigar buyers trust the tobacconist. “It’s all about putting the person in the right

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cigar,” he said. “Do they prefer mild, medium or more robust flavor? Cigars from a certain region? Knowing their style helps; knowing their brand is even better.”

Lisabeth Bracho, co-owner with her husband, Eduardo Garcia, of Puros Cigars in Delray Beach, enjoys cigars herself. “I can tell you what the cigar is like, because I smoke, too.”

Premium cigars like Padron, Montecristo, Maduro, Kristoff, Macanudos, Oliva and La Gloria Cubana are big sellers at her shop, she said.

These are among the top names in cigars, and are from Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. “The Northern tourists like Cohibas, but locals have different tastes,” she said.

But for unsure buyers, she stays middle-of-the-road with recommendations to be safe.

“We try to give a mediumbodied cigar with a medium wrapper.

The darker the wrapper, like a Maduro — almost black — the bolder the flavor.

Like other shops, hers carries humidors ranging from $29 for 20 cigars, to those holding up to 160 cigars for $179. “They’re beautiful,” she said, and have hydrometers to measure humidity and temperature properly.

At his full tobacco shop, Bennington Tobacconist of Boca, owner James Bennington offers full lines of cigars and smokers’ accessories. He carries travelers’ humidors — small hard-case carriers that contain a humidifier packet.

Davidoff cigars, which sell for around $10 each, are among his most popular. “Those are premium cigars; the Arturo Fuentes are ‘everyday’ cigars that are my best sellers. Both are from the Dominican Republic.”

His whole line of humidors, ashtrays and cutters also make good gifts, ranging from $150 to $2 for a simple cutter. Gift boxes, with a group of cigars plus a cutter also are available during Father’s Day. Ú

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10 Questions

MEET YOUR NEIGHBOR: Sid Walesh of Hypoluxo Island hasn’t worn a tie or a watch in 12 years. He has traded the business suits and 10- to 12-hour workdays for an artist’s life, with flexible hours and much more casual attire.

But it is readily apparent that Walesh hasn’t lost the intensity, focus and sense of organizational structure that made him a successful businessman in the first place.

He has simply poured it into his art.

You see it in the four cocoon-like ceramic spheres marching along a carefully cantilevered cedar beam, each sphere opening a little more than the last to reveal a developing orange sphere-baby. Titled “Metamorphosis,” Walesh’s abstract sculpture could be a metaphor for his own life, symbolizing his postretirement transformation from woodworking hobbyist to award-winning ceramicist.

After his retirement, Walesh enrolled in art school.

“I took classes in painting, photography, jewelry, drawing — I did one of everything,” he says. But ceramics was the medium he liked best. “It gives you more freedom,” he explains.

With freedom came experimentation — and an emerging talent for turning ideas into artwork. The idea for “Spla,” Walesh’s multipiece ceramic sculpture depicting falling raindrops frozen in time, came to him one day and “it was a challenge just to do it,” he says, “to show that it’s possible to take something that’s not fluid [clay] and make it appear that way.”

The piece is one of three Walesh sculptures on display at Boynton Beach City Hall until July 14.

Walesh’s work has been displayed in juried art exhibits in South Florida for the past 12 years and has won numerous awards. His “Sea Spirits” sculpture was recently selected from a field of 1,800 submissions to be exhibited at the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s 60th Annual All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition, which runs from June 28 through Sept. 11.

Having developed his own artistic talent, Walesh — who gives his age as “50-seventeen” because it keeps him thinking young — is helping other adults develop theirs. When he’s not working on his next project, he can be found teaching classes in clay sculpture and ceramics at the Boca Raton Museum Art School.

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

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Sid Walesh Sid Walesh traded corporate life for an artist’s life.

Boynton Beach City Hall is hosting an exhibition of his work, titled “Metamorphosis.”

Works also will be included in an exhibition at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. A divorced father of two adult sons, he lives on Hypoluxo Island.

Photo by Lauren Loricchio

A. I grew up in Two Rivers, Wis., a small city on Lake Michigan, during an innocent and peaceful time. We didn’t lock our doors and milk was delivered to our home. My parents owned a meat market/ grocery store and taught me their work ethic. My Dad was a butcher known for his bratwurst and sausage, Mom was a terrific baker who made coffee cake and crescent rolls.

I’m proud to be a son of a butcher and a baker.

I started college at Case Western Reserve University wanting to be an engineer and ended up with an MBA from the University of Wisconsin.

My early life experiences provided a foundation for me to carve my own path through life.

Q. How and when did you become an artist?

A. One of my hobbies was working with wood, making furniture and simple sculptures. After I retired, I earned a vo-tech diploma in woodworking and took art classes at Penland School of Art in North Carolina and Palm Beach State College.

That training helped me develop more complex artistic sculptures.

While my early sculptures were well-liked by family and friends, my work as an artist was validated when my sculptures won awards in juried art exhibits and finally when I sold my first piece.

My training and work as an artist has allowed me to teach clay sculpture and ceramics classes at the Boca Museum Art School since 2002.

Q. What other careers have you had, what were the highlights?

A. My work career included a variety of administrative positions at several colleges and universities in Wisconsin

If you go Now through July 14 Sid Walesh sculpture exhibit “Metamorphosis,” “Spla,” and “Tripodious Wilma” Boynton Beach City Hall lobby 100 Boynton Beach Blvd. (at Seacrest Boulevard) Lobby hours: Monday through Thursday, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.

June 29 through Sept.

11 Sid Walesh sculpture exhibit “Sea Spirits” 60th Annual All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition Boca Raton Museum of Art Opening reception on June 28, 6 to 9 p.m.

Exhibit opens to the public June 29.

Museum hours: Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.

First Wednesday of every month, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Florida. My most difficult job was trying to save a financially troubled private college in Wisconsin.

Ultimately, I had the unique experience of closing it “with dignity.”

My most rewarding work was as a founder of the New World School of the Arts in Miami. I served on the planning team and developed the financial, staffing, facility and enrollment plans to deliver the intensive arts and academic curriculum for the new school. That school is

now 25 years old and thriving, with high school and college programs in the visual and performing arts.

Q. What advice do you have for a young person pursuing a career in the arts today?

A. Push yourself to work beyond your comfort zone.

Be inspired by the work of other artists, but don’t copy it. Create your own unique original art. Study hard in all of your classes, so you can have a good day-job that provides the resources to pursue your art.

Q. Tell us about your art.

A. My art is inspired by the dramatic texture of Vincent van Gogh paintings, the abstract sculptures of Henry Moore, and the kinetic art of Marcel Duchamp. In creating my sculptures, I build on a thought or message. Each piece clearly says something to me and my challenge is to convey that message to the observers.

I try to create unique sculptures, some with complex engineering in design and construction that prompts the viewer to figure out not only what it means but also how it was made.

My works incorporate color, texture, and reflectivity.

It pleases me to observe viewers as they study my sculptures and see their reactions.

Q. How did you choose to make your home on Hypoluxo Island?

A. My childhood home was on Lake Michigan and I always wanted to live on the water again. Finding a home on the Intracoastal Waterway fulfilled my dreams.

Q. What is your favorite part about living on

Hypoluxo Island?

A. Location, location, location. It’s living on an island, with incredible sunsets in my backyard over the wide water of the Intracoastal and the ocean beach just minutes away. There are many popular restaurants nearby (Dune Deck Café, Old Key Lime House and Lantana Ale House) and easy access to the coastal communities from the Palm Beaches to Boca Raton.

Q. What book are you reading now?

A. The instruction manual for my new printer-copierscanner. Can’t wait to see how it turns out. When I finish that, I’ll start The Bracken Rangers, by Robert Allan Stevens. It’s a factual portrayal of the realities of life as a soldier during the Civil War. Q. What music do you listen to when you need inspiration? When you want to relax?

A. My playlist for both inspiration and relaxation includes the singers and songwriters of the ’70s. I enjoy the classic ballads of artists like Harry Chapin, John Denver, Roy Orbison, Bobby Goldsboro, Jim Croce, Elvis and The Beatles. I play some of that in my art class; my students note that most of it is by members of the “dead musician’s society.”

Q. Do you have a favorite quote that inspires your decisions?

A. I try to follow an inspirational quote from Vince Lombardi: “Only three things should matter: your religion, your family and the Green Bay Packers, in that order.” I paraphrase that as “Values first, then family and friends, then all the rest.”

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Summer Arts

Entre’Act Theatrix learns ‘How to ‘Succeed’ If the success of AMC’s series Mad Men tapped an unsuspected cultural ardor for the early 1960s, then it was inevitable that the era’s signature musical, 1961’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, should enjoy another revival.

Currently showing on Broadway with, of all people, Daniel Radcliffe as J. Pierrepont Finch (the original star, Robert Morse, now shows up on Mad Men), the Frank Loesser-Abe Burrows show that hymns a guy who can bring the “slam, bang, tang reminiscent of gin and vermouth” to his quest for the corner office is set for the Count de Hoernle Theatre from June 16-26.

The show is a production of Entr’Acte Theatrix, which was spun off from the Palm Beach Principal Players, as part of its new alliance with the Caldwell Theatre. This will be the fourth production for Entr’Acte, which has mounted Hair, Cabaret and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

Next February, it will coproduce Cy Coleman’s City of Angels with the Caldwell.

Entr’Acte executive director Vicki Halmos said her company offers a next step for emerging thespians

to get “real performing opportunities.”

“People who are launching a professional career need opportunities outside of school,” Halmos said. “In New York, nobody cares what you did in school. That’s why we called it ‘Entr’acte’: It’s the music before the second act. We wanted to create a résumé-building opportunity for young artists.”

The show stars Shane Blanford as Finch, an ambitious window-washer, and Leah Sessa as Rosemary, the secretary at the World Wide Wicket Company who falls in love with Finch and helps him advance. John Costanzo is J.B. Biggley, Erin Pittleman is Hedy LaRue, and Jeanne McKinnon is Miss Jones. The show will be directed and choreographed

by Kimberly Dawn Smith.

How to Succeed features a cast of 22, and is good for Entr’Acte because most of it is non-age-specific, Halmos said. And its retro setting offers room for diverting stage business.

“We’re going to have some fun with smoking in the office, secretaries who take out their emery boards and do their nails, and office politics,” she said. “It’s all

Leah Sessa leads the cast of Entre’Act Theatrix’ production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, which will be at Caldwell Theatre. Photo provided

done with a great deal of fun, and very tongue-in-cheek.”

There will be a dozen performances of H2S, as it’s sometimes called: 8 p.m. June 16, 17, 22, 23 and 24; 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. June 18 and 25; 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. June 19; and 2 p.m. June 26. Tickets are available by calling 2417432 or going to the Caldwell box office at 7901 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton.

Since 1950, the Florida Artist Group has presented an annual exhibition of work by its members at spaces all over the state.

This year’s show is spending a couple months at the Cornell Museum in Delray Beach before heading to Maitland in September.

Until June 26, visitors to the Cornell can see 84 drawings, paintings, and photographs by 60 artists from across Florida.

The local chief of the Florida Artist Group (Area II) is Cecily Hangen, an abstract artist specializing in geometric shapes, who runs the Hangen Thompson Gallery in Palm Beach.

“The purpose of the exhibit is to show the range of art all over the state,” Hangen said, adding that the Florida Artist Group, which was founded in 1949, used to sponsor a traveling Florida art show that toured the country.

“That’s why we have the title cards with each piece of art that tells what city they’re from.”

Showing concurrently with the FLAG show is Body Language, a collection of 32 watercolor nudes by Rowena Smith, an artist based in Tamarac and a signature member of the Florida Artist Group. The Smith exhibit can be seen in the Cornell’s upstairs gallery.

The exhibit at the Cornell Museum of American Art and Culture at Old School Square is open from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and 1 p.m.

to 4:30 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are $6, $4 for seniors, and $2 for ages 5 to 12 (under 5, admission is free). Call 2437922.

In February, West Palm Beach resident and noted dance photographer Steve Caras was on hand for the Kravis Center world premiere of See Them Dance, a documentary devoted to his work. This month, Caras will be in the studios of WXELTV in Boynton Beach for the television premiere of the documentary, which will be shown during a pledge drive for the station.

During pledge breaks, he will speak with documentarian Deborah Novak and WPTV-Channel 5 anchor Lauren LaPonzina about the film and his career. Those talks will be repurposed for pledge drives by other public TV stations showing See Them Dance.

Caras joined the New York City Ballet as a teenager, and danced for 14 years under the tutelage of George Balanchine, perhaps the most important choreographer of the 20th century.

While working for the NYCB, Caras began taking photographs of the

The Florida Artist Group exhibition at the Cornell Museum includes: Sarasota Corner (middle), by Marge Bennett and Femme Fatale (bottom), by Mary Alice Hartley. dancers, and built himself an important secondary career as a dance photographer.

The show is set to air at 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 7, on WXEL-Channel 42.

Greg Stepanich is the editor/ founder of the Palm Beach ArtsPaper, available online at www. palmbeach artspaper.com.

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City steps up action on high school’s future

By Margie Plunkett The old Boynton Beach high school’s hallowed halls could someday become home to a hospitality establishment, a group of small businesses or even another education provider — and commissioners are pushing to make that happen sooner rather than later.

Commissioners put City Manager Kurt Bressner together with the consultants who just mapped future possibilities for the school so that the two can start developing a request for proposal to find a buyer or partner for development of the landmark.

City leaders were eager to get on with the process after Kevin Greiner of consultants IBI Group said he had turned up potential investors or partners, including TD Bank, in a limited test of the market. “I really want to fast forward to getting something done here,” said Mayor Jose Rodriguez following the presentation.

The report, by IBI and REG Architects, recommended the city: • Develop the school using third-party financing rather than city funds • Decline to develop the project on spec, and • Balance economics with opportunity when selecting

the final development option.

Hospitality, office redevelopment and culture and the arts were likely uses of the building, according to IBI, which noted, among other things, that the unique gymnatorium offers entertainment, conference or banquet potential.

Unlikely uses were residential real estate, retail development, public service or industrial, the group said.

In addition to the gymnatorium, the property’s strengths are its unique design, gateway location, unique public assembly space and architecturally unique interior spaces, Greiner said during the presentation.

The challenges: Demand remains sluggish, vacancy rates are high, property values are low and lease rates are low.

Greiner also urged commissioners to start the design and zoning process for the building right away to avoid delays when a potential developer is found.

Police building discussed In a separate development issue, commissioners asked staff to bring back more information on two sites for a new police headquarters: one, valued at $14.1 million, on High Ridge and the other, at $14.8 million, at Ocean Breeze East on Northeast Sixth Avenue and Seacrest

Boulevard.

The staff was also directed to bring more information on which of the city’s properties could be sold to help finance the project; and to find out what the price is to appraise the properties.

The city has been debating moving its Police Department, which has grown out of its current digs next to City Hall.

The staff also put together financial scenarios for the Police Department to buy some time by staying in its current location. The alternatives ranged from $4 million to $24 million.

The lowest project would buy the city 10 years, and include replacement of carpet and ceiling tile, but no build out, said Jeff Livergood, director of public works and engineering.

The second option would buy the city 20 years and cost $14 million. It would include safety components such as a sprinkling system to battle fires, air conditioning and plumbing work and expansion of space.

The $24 million would allow for construction of a three-story police annex on the site currently occupied

by Fire Station No. 1. That would provide the Police Department’s space needs for the next 30 years, Livergood Ú said.

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They praised the long-time city manager and thanked him for his years of service.

“I take my hat off to Kurt Bressner, who has given us like 11 years of service — the longest of any city manager in Boynton Beach,” said Commissioner Woodrow Hay. “I’m sad that he’s gone, but glad that he’s moving on with his family.”

That sentiment plus gratitude for Bressner’s contribution echoed throughout the evening

meeting. Bressner’s resignation is effective June 15.

“Although I will no longer be city manager,” Bressner said in a statement, “I look forward to doing what I can to continue to build a strong and vibrant community.”

Bressner He said the decision to leave the city was not an easy one.

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Weldon O. Yeager

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PALM BEACH — Weldon Yeager was in Michigan on business when a passing stranger gave him a seat on the Ocean Ridge Town Commission.

In the February 1990 election, both Mr. Yeager and Vera Klein, an 18-year veteran, garnered exactly 269 votes each.

To break the tie, a Boynton Beach city employee named Ken Hall, who happened to be in Town Hall at the time, was asked to pull one of two envelopes out of a blue plastic bag from the Gap store.

Hall turned his back and chose the envelope with Mr. Yeager’s name inside.

Mr. Yeager, who died April 30 at 88, went on to serve Ocean Ridge for the next six years, including two as vice mayor and one as mayor.

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GULF STREAM — Sara Shallenberger Brown, the widow of the former chairman of the board for the company that makes Jack Daniel’s, Southern Comfort and Old Forester, died at her Kentucky home in April.

She had just turned 100 years old.

Mrs. Brown was a vibrant and eclectic philanthropist who loved her family, a good horse race, and giving time, money and influence to her beloved environmental concerns, said longtime friend and part-time coastal resident Alex Campbell.

“She’s probably the smartest lady I’ve ever known,” said Campbell, who saw Mrs. Brown at her 100th birthday celebration in Louisville, Ky., a few weeks before her death.

“I’ve been with some smart ones, but I’ve never met anyone

as smart as Sally.”

Born in Valdez, Alaska, on April 14, 1911, Mrs. Brown was the daughter of Ina Dowdy Shallenberger and U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Martin C. Shallenberger.

Raised in various European Army posts, such as Serbia, Greece and Austria, she was the granddaughter of Ashton Cockayne Shallenberger, a longtime member of Congress and the former governor of Nebraska.

Campbell said he met Mrs. Brown when she was a young woman attending her beloved Sweet Briar College in Virginia, an institute she continued to support all her life.

Her husband, W.L. Lyons Brown, was the former chairman of the family-owned Brown-Forman Corp. Mr. Brown died in 1973.

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In 1994, Mr. Yeager built a 14,000-square-foot home on an ocean-to-lake lot in Manalapan, but never moved in, choosing to live in Palm Beach instead. In 1999, the home, inspired by the architecture of Villa Vizcaya in Miami, was sold to boxing promoter Don King for $7.8 million, at the time the secondhighest home price ever recorded in the town.

In addition to his widow, Mr. Yeager is survived by a son, Mark Yeager; a stepson, David Gilman; three granddaughters, one great-granddaughter, and a brother, David.

A graveside service was held May 3 at Roselawn Cemetery in Tallahassee.

Memorial gifts in Mr. Yeager’s memory may be made to the Royal Poinciana Chapel, 58 Coconut Row, Palm Beach, FL 33480, or Hospice of Palm Beach County, 5300 East Ave., West Palm Beach, FL 33407.

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“He was smart. Everyone said he was a gentle, kind guy, and he certainly was with me.”

During his time in office, the commission hired both Bill Mathis, who served twice as town manager, and Police Chief Ed Hillery, who retired after 17 years.

“I recall him to be a very efficient commissioner who was well-respected in the community,” said longtime Town Clerk Karen Hancsak.

“He was very knowledgable and was definitely an asset to the town while he served.

After he moved to Palm Beach, he would periodically stop by Town Hall to say hello and it was always a pleasure to see him.”

Weldon Osborne Yeager was born July 26, 1922, in Hillsboro, Ohio. A graduate of Wayne State University, he served in the Army Air Forces during World War II. Active in Republican politics, Mr.Yeager once served in the Michigan state Legislature and was appointed

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Bath and Tennis Club and Campbell said Mr. Brown was the club’s second president. His wife was equally supportive, pushing the club’s growth toward what it has become today.

After Mr. Brown’s death, Mrs. Brown branched out with her philanthropy, supporting major national environmental concerns back in the day when “green” was certainly not a household word.

“She loved so many things,” Campbell said. “You’d think that everything she was on was her favorite charity.”

Her love for nature and preservation put her inside the boardrooms of many prominent organizations, including the Nature Conservancy, the Audubon Society, the Garden Club of America and the American Farmland Trust. She was a founding member of the Kentucky chapter of the Nature Conservancy and was key in developing Louisville’s Waterfront Park.

Still, while Mrs. Brown loved her old Kentucky home, she continued to return to Florida as often as she could, Campbell said, and visited Gulf Stream regularly until about a year before her 100th birthday.

Survivors include her four children, 12 grandchildren and 29 great grandchildren.

Campbell said she died peacefully, of natural causes.

“When you get to be that age, I don’t think you need an excuse to die,” he said.

Funeral services were held May 4 in Louisville, which is where Mrs. Brown is buried.

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Replacing a pastor is a delicate operation

How congregations go about appointing a successor minister is a question prompted by the popular Rev. Dr. Ted Bush’s recent retirement.

“After 27 years of tremendous leadership, First Presbyterian Church of Delray Beach has embarked on the daunting process of finding someone who can fill his big shoes,” says Rob Tanner, head of the pastor nominating committee.

Ron Arflin, chaplain at Abbey Delray South, knows just how daunting a process.

“That used to be my job,” said Arflin. “I worked with congregations Arflin in conflict resolution and helping to find new pastors with about 55 congregations in northern Virginia.”

Arflin, co-president of the Delray Beach Interfaith Clergy Association ran down the myriad hurdles: Background checks.

Reference checks. Phone calls. Interviews. Hearing the person speak, “so that you get some idea of the skills in that area.” More interviews.

Later, invitations to conduct the Sunday worship service, have a cookout with the youth of the church or “whatever might be a chance for people to meet the person.”

A week or so more to digest, then a decision. Arflin advised requiring a certain percentage of the participants to agree at a church meeting — anywhere from 85 percent to 90 percent — rather than “have people debating whether you ought to be there or not from the very beginning.”

Along the way, particularly following a pastor who was beloved, “Allowing people a chance to move through the grief process,” he said. “To make a healthy decision takes time, and it takes deliberate acts to move to that time.”

Our area churches employ permutations of those steps: • The Rev. Joanna Gabriel served for five years as an assistant minister at Unity of Delray.

When Unity Light of the World in Miami Gardens lost its minister, she was among the guest speakers for many months before becoming their permanent minister last September.

More typically, she said, “The Association of Unity Churches keeps a database of ministers, with their resumes, and a database of churches,” allowing the association to facilitate mutual contact and, hopefully, matches made in

heaven.

• At Boynton Beach Congregational United Church of Christ it took a seven member search commitee fiftynine meetings and much prayerful consideration over a two-year period to vet the approximately 60 profiles of available ministers provided by the National Conference of Congregational United Church of Christ in Cleveland, Ohio.

After making their decision the individual was brought with her spouse to preach a sermon and learn about the congregation.

“We are pleased that our unanimous choice has been accepted with enthusiasm.

We feel the Rev. Georgia Hillesland serves our needs,’’ said June Finke the chair of the search commitee.

• “Every Christian Science church has two Readers,” said Donna Brueggman of the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Delray Beach.

“Every year on the second Thursday in February, we hold an election for our First and Second Reader. Those elected begin their term as Reader the first Sunday in April for a year.”

How’s that for democratic process?

At First Presbyterian, said Tanner, “Our church members have recently completed a survey that has developed input for the important church information form.

“The CIF will be our announcement to the Presbyterian world we are searching for a senior pastor and this document defines who we are as a church and what we seek in our next leader.” With the Presbytery’s approval the committee can place the CIF on the Church Leadership Connection to begin matching applicants to the church’s requirements.

“The role of senior pastor requires strong positive characteristics that are so much more than just having preaching skills or having deep biblical knowledge or having strong relationship skills,” said Tanner.

“Pastors in today’s Christian churches are challenged by social and economic issues that require that special person who will have the dynamic ability to develop with us the future vision to keep and expand our deep tradition as ‘the Community Church by the Sea.’” C.B. Hanif is a writer and inter-religious affairs consultant.

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Since its inception, Pet Tech has trained more than 30,000 pet owners and 500 instructors.

Homeland Security officials rely on this safety training program to train their dog handlers.

Less than one week after graduation, I had to put my safety skills to the test. Chipper, my 60-pound golden retriever-husky, excitedly raced to the front door to greet one of my friends. Somehow, Chipper’s back right foot got caught in the rug. Her fast movement caused her to rip off one of her back nails.

I heard a yelp and looked over to see Chipper limping my way with a trail of blood on my white tile. Quickly, I grabbed my pet first aid kit. We placed Chipper on her side and my friend kept her from wiggling. I elevated Chipper’s right back leg above her heart and placed one hand on her pressure point to slow the spewing blood. I then placed gauze pads on her wound.

After the fourth gauze pad, the bleeding had stopped. I wrapped her foot and contacted my veterinary clinic to alert them we were on our way.

My quick action kept this situation from becoming worse and the veterinarian praised me for my bandage-wrapping skills. Chipper’s foot was examined, re-wrapped and she was given a week’s worth of pain medications and antibiotics to hasten her recovery.

Whew! I am happy to report that two weeks after this incident, Chipper was able to participate in our annual Leash Your Fitness weekend camping trip that included an 8-mile hike.

Thom Somes, the Pet Tech founder who is known as “The Pet Safety Guy,” has dedicated his life to saving pets’ lives. He shared this startling statistic in class: “According to a recent study by the American Animal Hospital Association, one in four pets who died after experiencing a trauma would have survived if they received pet first aid.”

He is on a mission to improve those odds.

His classes are designed to help pet owners not only react to emergencies, but to be proactive in their efforts to keep their pets healthy.

Since graduation, I’ve become a more responsible pet owner to my dogs, Chipper and Cleo, and my cats, Murphy and Zeki.

Once a week, I invest the time to slowly and thoroughly give each pet a full-body wellness assessment. I look and smell inside their ears and mouth. I glide my hands through their coats to look for suspicious lumps, bumps or cuts. I carefully examine each paw and inbetween their toes for any issues. I look into their eyes to see if they are clear and free of mucous and not cloudy. I know how to take their pulse, check their breathing and more.

I jot down information for each pet in a two-page worksheet and date it. I’m prepared in case my pets start acting sluggish, lose weight or display other abnormal signs. Rather than guessing, I will be able to provide my veterinarian with accurate data, which may aid him in pinpointing the right diagnosis and administering the proper treatment.

I hope that I never have to perform CPR on my pets, but I feel better able to act should an emergency occur. I encourage you to enroll in a pet safety and wellness course taught by a Pet Tech-trained instructor.

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Got a smart phone? For $4.99, you can download the PetSaver app that provides instant access to pet health and safety with the push of a button and the swipe of your finger. Enter the code word: ARDEN. To find a trainer in your area, just visit the PetTech.net site and click on the instructor directory.

In Palm Beach County, here are the Pet Tech instructors to contact to attend a class: • Laura Kays: nopaws4concern@msn.com and 561-809-3213 • Bob Burnell: RobertBurnell@SitMeansSit. com and 561-543-5583 I was able to reach Burnell, a Boynton Beach police officer and professional dog trainer. As a former K9 officer, Burnell told me that he wanted to learn more ways to protect pets.

“With all the K9 handler and different dog training I’ve completed, dog first aid never came up, so I decided to take this (Pet Tech) instructor training,” says Burnell.

In doing a recent monthly nose-to-tail wellness assessment on Kody, his 4-yearold Belgian Malinois, Burnell discovered a suspicious lump on his back. The tumor was surgically removed, biopsied and, fortunately, turned out to be benign.

“Our dogs look to us and if something is wrong and we don’t know what to do, we are letting them down and ourselves,” says Burnell, who presented a lecture on pet first aid at the Law Dog Conference held in Las Vegas in late May. “I feel like I have much more knowledge so that I can better respond to situations involving injured pets.”

And so can you. Play it safe; sign up for a Pet Tech class in your area and truly be your pet’s best friend.

Arden Moore, Founder of Four Legged Life.com, is an animal behavior consultant, editor, author, professional speaker and certified pet first aid instructor. She happily shares her home with two dogs, two cats and one overworked vacuum cleaner. Tune in to her Oh Behave! show on PetLifeRadio.com and learn more by visiting www.fourleggedlife.com.

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JUNE 4 Saturday - 6/4 - Sand Sifters Beach Cleanup at Oceanfront Park, 6415 N. Ocean Blvd., Ocean Ridge. 8-10:15 am. Free.

Registration: 734-9128.

6/4 - Quick Start Tennis for ages 5-10 at the Boynton Beach Tennis Center, 3111 S. Congress Ave. Start playing almost immediately. Saturday sessions through 6/28. Tuesday sessions begin 6/14 and runs through 6/28. Times and costs vary by age and session: $25-$37. 742-6575.

6/4 - Farm Your Backyard Vegetable Garden Workshop is presented at Mounts Botanical Garden, 531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Now is the time to begin planning a vegetable garden. Hands-on workshop on how to successfully grow vegetables. Registration required. 9 am-2 pm. $30/Mounts members, $40/nonmembers. 233-1757 or www.mounts.org.

6/4 - Exhibit - Free Ride: History of Surfing in South Palm Beach County at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest. Exhibit showcases historic photographs, vintage surfboards, postcards, club patches and other surfing memorabilia.

Co-sponsored by the Palm Beach County Surf History Project. M-R: 9 am-8:30 pm, Sat.: 9 am-5 pm. Free. 742-6390.

6/4 - I Love Art classes are held for ages 4-10 at Intracoastal Park Clubhouse, 2240 N. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach. Create art utilizing recycled items with a weekly theme. Four week session. 10:30 am-noon/ Ages 4-8, 12:15-1:45 pm/Ages 6-10. $36/ residents, $45/non-residents. 742-6221.

6/4 - Cheerleading classes are held at the Boynton Beach Civic Center, 128 E. Ocean Ave. Cheers, jumps, tumbling, partner stunts and pom-pon routines. 6-week session. Ages 3-10 (grouped by age.) 11 am-noon. $75/ resident, $94/non-resident. 742-6240.

6/4 – Exhibit: Woodland Wonders Theatre is a Wonderland at the Spady Museum, 170 NW 5th Ave., Delray Beach.

New exhibit transports visitors to a Florida Woodland. Youngsters create an original story, make music and dance with this interactive exhibit featuring video and live storytelling of African fables and folktales.

Runs through 7/30. M-F: 11 am-4 pm, Sat.: 10 am-2 pm. $5/adults, $3/seniors, free/ members. 279-8883.

6/4 - Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Health Fair at Pompey Park, 1101 NW 2nd St., Delray Beach.

Activities include outreach, free HIV testing, educational information on a variety of diseases, entertainment, food and giveaways. Presented by the Comprehensive AIDS Program of Palm Beach County. 10 am-2 pm. Free. 274-6400 ext. 32.

6/4 - Exhibit - Out of This World: Extraordinary Costumes from Film and Television at the Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach.

Features more than 30 costumes and related objects from science fiction films and television programs. Runs through 9/4. T, W, F & Sat: 10 am-5 pm, Th: 10 am-9 pm, Sun.: 11 am-5 pm. $12/adults, $5/ages 13-21, free/ members and children under 13. 832-5196.

6/4 – Child Safety Prenatal Class is offered 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 per couple or $25 per person.

Registration: 369-2229.

6/4 - The Writer’s Studio is held at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Held again 6/11, 18 & 25. 10 am. Free.

736-8044.

6/4 - Beginning Soccer at the Carolyn Sims Center, 225 NW 12th Ave., Boynton Beach.

Designed for beginners, kids learn the basics of dribbling, passing and scoring as well as improve their coordination. For ages 6-10.

Two four-week sessions: Session I: 6/4-25; Session II: 7/7-30. 10-11 am. $25/residents, $32/non-residents. Registration: 742-6641.

6/4 - Group Swim Lessons at the John Denson Pool, 225 NW 12th Ave., Boynton Beach. For kids ages 3 and older. Young children must be potty trained. Saturday classes held Saturdays throughout the summer. Four one-hour classes per session.

Session 1: 6/4-25; Session 2: 7/9-30; Session 3: 8/6-27. Level 1, II & III: 11 am-noon. $30/ resident, $38/non-residents. 742-6645.

6/4 - I Love Art Class at the Intracoastal Park Clubhouse, 2240 N. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach. Projects include recycled products. Six-week session meets Saturdays through 6/25. Ages 4-8 at 10:30 am; ages 6-10 at 12:15 pm. $45/non-resident, $36/ resident. 742-6550.

6/4 - Tumble Me Silly Class at Pompey Park Gym, 1101 NW 2nd St., Delray Beach.

Children ages 3-8 years learn basics of tumbling and gymnastics such as flexibility and coordination of the body. Saturday classes through 7/9. 11 am-12:30 pm. $25/ residents, $30/non-residents. 243-7356.

6/4 - Gifts from the Garden at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. Learn new ideas for making cards and gifts using pressed and dried plants, flowers, herbs and local native flora.

Adults only. 11 am-12:30 pm. $15/members, $22/non-members. Reservations: 391-8110.

6/4 - Art Film - David Hockney: A Bigger Picture (2009 - NR) at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. Hockney returns to paint his native Yorkshire.

Held again 6/8 & 12. 2 pm. Free with paid Museum admission: $8 adults, $6 seniors, free for children 12 and under. 392-2500.

6/4 - RAIN: A Tribute to the Beatles is held at the Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. All music and vocals performed live. 2 & 8 pm. Tickets start at $20. 832-7469 or www.kravis.org.

6/4 - Royal Room Cabaret Performance: Tony DeSare at The Colony, 155 Hammon Ave., Palm Beach. Held again 6/17-18. Dinner 6:30 pm, show 8 pm. $70/show only, $110/ dinner and show. 659-8100.

6/4 - Max’s Harvest Pre-Opening VIP Party is held at 169 NE 2nd Ave. in Pineapple Grove, Delray Beach. Cocktails and a sampling of menu items. 7-9 pm. $25. Proceeds benefit arts and education programs at Old School Square Cultural Arts Center. Space is limited. RSVP required: 243-7922, Ext. 1.

6/4 - Concert: The Free Radicals - Presented as part of the Music @ Mizner: A Summer Tribute to the Legends Series at Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton. 8 pm. Free. 393-7703.

6/4-5 - Orchid Basics lecture at the American Orchid Society, 16700 AOS Lane, Delray Beach. 11 am-1 pm. $10/members, $15/non-members. 404-2031.

6/4-5 - Ed Asner as FDR at the Caldwell Theatre, Count de Hoernle Theatre, 7901 N. Federal Hwy, Boca Raton. Play recounts the highlights of FDR’s 12 years in office and revisits some of the country’s most desperate hours. Sat. 2 pm & 8 pm; Sun. 2pm & 7 pm.

Tickets $40-75. Students, $10. 241-7432.

JUNE 5-11 Sunday - 6/5 - Sunday Breakfast is held each Sunday at VFW Post 5335, 500 NE 21st St., Boynton Beach. 8-11:30 am. $2.50-$5. All are welcome. 732-1989.

6/5 - Childbirth Education Prenatal Class is offered as a refresher course at

Bethesda Memorial Hospital, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Provides an overview of the signs of labor, breathing techniques and more. 9 am- 4 pm. $75.

Registration: 369-2229.

6/5 - The 6th Annual Body & Soul 2011 is held at the Achievement Center for Children and Families, 555 NW 4th St., Delray Beach.

A fun-filled day of activities to nurture the mind, body and soul. Enjoy yoga, Fab Abs, minispa services, guest speakers and a healthy lunch. Proceeds benefit the Achievement Centers for Children and Families in Delray Beach. 9:30 am-2 pm. $20/ advance, $25/at the door. 866-9068.

6/5 - Yoga with Live Music is held every Sunday at the Colony Hotel, 525 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. 9:30-11 am. $20. 7031236 or www.yogafox.com.

6/5 - Founders Day at the Flagler Museum, 1 Whitehall Way, Palm Beach. View the premanent collection of art and objects related to the Gilded Age, and climb aboard Henry Flager’s Railcar No. 91. Noon-5 pm.

Free. 655-2833.

6/5 - Concert: An Evening of Song with Zack Coblens and Analy Mendez is performed at Unity of Delray Beach, 101 NW 22nd Ave. at Swinton Avenue. Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Faure, Williams and more.

4 pm. Free will offering. 276-5796.

6/5 - Concert: Fedora Horowitz and Jeanne Tarrant is presented as part of Music At St. Paul’s, 188 S. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. Virtuosic music for flute and piano. 4 pm. Doors open 30 minutes before concert time. $18/preferred seating, $15/ requested donation, $5/students. 276-4541.

Monday - 6/6 - Boca Beachcombing - Meet for an introductory talk about seashells at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton, then caravan over to Red Reef Park to walk the beach in search of ocean treasures. Open to all ages. Held again 6/20. 9:30-11 am. $5/ members, $8/non-members. Reservations: 391-8110 or www.gumbolimbo.org.

6/6 - Caffeine for the Soul is presented by the Palm Beach Jewish Center at Starbucks, 150 Worth Ave., Palm Beach. Join other women every Monday for learning and inspiration in an hour of Torah study and discussion. Homemade pastries will be served. 10:15-11:15 am. Free. 659-3884.

6/6 - One World, Many Stories Readers Theater at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Act out short skits based on famous children’s books and folk tales from around the world. Readers Theater is a read-aloud from a short script using minimal props and costumes. Attend each session in order to be in the performances. Grades 1-4. Held Mondays and Tuesdays, 6/7, 13, 14, 20, 27 & 28. 12:301:30 pm. Free. 742-6380.

6/6 - Black Narcissus (1947) is presented by assistant director Mykal Banta as part of the “Made in Technicolor Film” series at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 1 pm. Free. 266-9490.

6/6 - Global Art Inspirations at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest

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Community Calendar 31 Blvd. Discover your inner artist by creating artwork inspired by cultures from around the world. Grades K-4. Held again 6/13 & 20. 4-5 pm. Free. 742-6380.

6/6 - Junior Tennis Clinics at the Boynton Beach Tennis Center, 3111 S. Congress Ave. Learn fundamentals. Monday classes run through 5/27. Wednesday classes begin 6/8 and run through 6/29. Ages 5-6: 4:15-5 pm, Ages 7-15: 5-6:30 pm. $25-$56. 742-6575.

6/6 - City of Boynton Beach Historic Preservation Ad Hoc Committee meets at Fire Station #2, 2614 W. Woolbright Road.

5 pm. Public invited. 742-6268.

6/6 - Got Gaming? is presented at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Held again 6/13, 20 & 27. 5:15-6:30 pm.

Free. 266-9490 or www.delraylibrary.org.

6/6 - 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.

6/6-10 - British Challenger Soccer Camp is held at the Ezell Hester Jr. Community Center, 1901 N. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Ages 3-16 have a rare opportunity to receive high-level coaching from a team of international experts. Times and cost vary by age: $120-$213. Registration: 742-6550.

6/6-10 - Gymnastics/Jazzerkamp is held at the Ezell Hester Jr. Community Center, 1901 N. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach.

Gymnastics, jazzercize or a combination of both disciplines. 9 am-3 pm. Individual discipline: $47-$59, Combined: $75-$107.

Registration: 742-6550.

Tuesday - 6/7 - Group Swim Lessons at the John Denson Pool, 225 NW 12th Ave., Boynton Beach. Ages 3 and up must be potty trained. Weekday sessions are T-F, with eight half-hour classes per session. Session 1: 6/7-17; Session 2: 6/21-7/1; Session 3: 7/5-15; Session 4: 7/19-29; Session 5: 8/2-12. Level 1: 9-11:30 am; Level II: 9-10 am; Level III & IV: 11:30 am. Cost per session is $30/resident, $38/non-residents. 742-6645.

6/7 - Seining the Lagoon at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. Explore the grasses and flats of the Intracoastal Waterway. Participants catch and release a variety of fish, shrimp, crabs and marine life. Ages 10 to adult. Held again 6/21. 9:30-11 am. $5/members, $8/ non-members. Reservations: 391-8110.

6/7 - Family Storytime is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Stories, songs and fingerplays. InfantsAge 5. Held again 6/14, 21 & 28. 10-10:45 am. Free. 742-6380.

6/7 - Coral Reef Shark Feedings are held Tuesday through Sunday, at Sandoway House Nature Center, 142 S. Ocean Blvd.

Delray Beach. Feeding begins at 10:30 am T-Sat. and 1:30 pm Sunday. Discover what Atlantic Ocean reef fish, nurse sharks, and spiny lobsters eat for breakfast. Free with $4 admission to the nature center. 274-7263.

6/7 - Toddlers Group Swim Lessons at the John Denson Pool, 225 NW 12th Ave., Boynton Beach. Children under age 5 must be accompanied by an adult in the water.

Weekday group sessions are held T-F, with eight half-hour classes per session. Session 1: 6/7-17; Session 2: 6/21-7/1; Session 3: 7/5-15; Session 4: 7/19-29; Session 5: 8/2-12. 1111:30 am. Cost per session is $30/resident, $38/non-residents. 742-6645.

6/7 - Open Swim at the John Denson Pool, 225 NW 12th Ave., Boynton Beach. Pool and water park supervised by certified lifeguards. T-F: 1-5 pm, Sat.: Noon-5 pm. $2/ adults, $1/children ages 5-17, free/children 4 and under. 742-6645.

6/7 - Turtle Talk Tuesdays at the Sandoway House Nature Center, 142 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach. Learn about the turtles and tortoises that call Sandoway House home. 2 pm. Free/members, $4/Ages 3 and up. 274-7263.

6/7 - Games @ Your Library is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 508 S. Seacrest Blvd. Grades K-4 play video games. Held again 6/14 & 21. 2-3:30 pm. Free. 742-6380.

6/7 - Minute to Win It is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Play a version of the famous TV show.

Grades 5-12. Held again 6/21. 4-5:30 pm.

Free. 742-6380.

6/7 - Tales of a Madman Underground by John Barnes is presented as part of the Teen Book Discussion Group at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 4:30 pm. Free. 266-9490.

6/7 - Tony Wagner presents “Overcoming the Global Achievement Gap” at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. Presented by Oxbridge Academy.

5-6:30 pm. Free. Registration: 832-3231.

6/7 - Karate/Martial Arts Classes at Pompey Park, 1101 NW 2nd St., Delray Beach. Ages 9 to adults learn Karate and other combat martial arts. Class held every T & R. 6-7 pm. Free. 243-7356.

6/7 - FAU Astronomical Observatory Public Viewing Night observations at FAU’s Boca Raton Campus, Science & Engineering Building, #43, 4th floor, 777 Glades Road. Held the 1st Friday and 3rd Tuesday of each month, beginning at 8 pm.

Free. 297-STAR. 6/7 - Gynecologic Cancers: Early Diagnosis and the Role of Robotic Surgery is presented by Frank Cirisano, M.D., Gynecologic Oncologist, 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.

6/7-9 - Turtle Walk at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. Ages 8 and up. 9-11 pm. Held weekly each T, W & Th through 6/30. $8/members, $15/non-members. Registraton: 391-8110.

Wednesday - 6/8 - Grandparents Raising Grandchildren - Educational Program Series at the Palm Beach County Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, 559 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Learn about legal issues, guiding behaviors and discipline, computers, resources, support, managing stress and much more. Held again 6/22. 10 am-Noon. Free. 233-1739.

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6/8 - Learn with Legos @ Your Library at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Make whatever your imagination conjures up using Legos. Ages 3-9. Held again 6/22. 10-11 am. Free. 7426380 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

6/8 - Socrates Café - Weekly discussion group at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Held again 6/15, 22 & 29.

11:30 am. Free. 266-0194.

6/8 - Senior Health Fair at the Boynton Beach Mall, 801 N. Congress Ave.Noon-3 pm.

Free. 742-6570.

6/8 - Garden Walk Wednesdays at the Sandoway House Nature Center, 142 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach. Walk through the native butterfly garden at the historic home adjacent to the ocean. 2 pm. Free/members, $4/Ages 3 and up. 274-7263.

6/8 - Teen Gaming is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd.

Grades 6-12 play video games. Held again 6/15 & 22. 3-4:30 pm. Free. 742-6390.

6/8 - VFW Post 5335 Weekly Dinner is held at 500 NE 21st St., Boynton Beach each Wednesday. Diverse menu. 4:30-7 pm. $8. All welcome. 732-1989.

6/8 - Angel Roque Orchestra performs at Benvenuto Caterestaurant, 1730 N. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach. Dinner dance features 9-piece Latin and American band and 3-course gourmet dinner. 6-9:30 pm. $55.

Scheduled again 7/13 & 8/2. Reservations required: 364-0600.

Thursday - 6/9 - Art Exhibit: Matt Bought & Margaret Ziede at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Runs through 7/27. Library hours: M-W 9 am-8 pm; Th-Sat. 9am-5 pm. Free. 266-9490.

6/9 - Quilters meet every Thursday at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest.

Share quilting information and perpetuate quilting as a cultural and artistic form.

9-11:30 am. Free. 742-6886.

6/9 - Dance to Your Own Beat is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 508 S. Seacrest Blvd. Ages 1-5 engage in exercises and dance movements using scarves, musical instruments and a parachute. Held again 6/16, 23 & 30. 10-11 am. Free. 742-6380.

6/9 – Knit ‘N Purl - Twice monthly class presented at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Held again 6/23. 10:30 am. Free. 266-9490.

6/9 - Inside and Outside of Shells at the Sandoway House Nature Center, 142 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach. Investigate different types of shells from one of the largest shell collections in Florida. 2 pm. Free/members, $4/Ages 3 and up. 274-7263.

6/9 - How to Train Your Dragon (PG) Presented as part of the Sizzling Summer Movies Series at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. 2-4 pm. Free.

742-6390 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

6/9 - Read to Hogan the Reading Dog at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Each reader gets 10 minutes with Hogan. All ages. Held again 6/16, 23 & 30. 4-5 pm. Free. 742-6380.

6/9 - Ellenville’s Moonlit Farmer’s Market is held each Thursday at Ellenville

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Food, wine, kids activities, music, local farmers and artisans, fresh produce and more. 4-8 pm. Free. 245-7347.

6/9 - Art After Dark at the Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach.

Special exhibition, live music, films, tours, cash bar and menu options from Café 1451.

Held every Thursday. All ages welcome. 5-9 pm. $12/adults, $5/ages 13-21, free/under age 13. 832-5196.

6/9 - Wine Tasting is held at Old Vines, Wine & Spirits, 900 E. Atlantic Ave. #3, Delray Beach. Held again 6/23. 5:30-7:30 pm. Free.

276-2076.

6/9 - Dine Out For A Cause benefits the Delray Beach Public Library. Join celebrity chef/daredevil real estate artist, author and Delray Beach resident Frank McKinney at the Buddha Sky Bar, 217 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. McKinney has pledged to match, dollar for dollar, all money raised at this event. 6-9 pm. Reservations: 450-7557.

6/9 - Writers Corner is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd.

Monthly program gives writers a helping hand to get their work published. 6:30-8 pm.

Free. 742-6886.

6/9-12 - Camp Kappawanna - The New Lisa Loeb Musical at the Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach.

Grammy-Nominated Singer/Songwriter pens a hip, cool musical for kids of all ages. Th-F: 10:30 am; Th, F & Sun. 1 pm; Sat.: 11 am & 2 pm. $25. 832-7469.

Friday - 6/10 - 8th Annual “Linking Women to Learning” Scholarship Luncheon is held at the Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. 11:15Noon/silent auction, 12:15/ luncheon and program. Proceeds from silent auction go

to scholarships for graduating high school seniors and women returning to college. $50 each/members and one guest, $60/ non-members, $75/at the door. 684-4523 or www.womenschamberfoundation.org.

6/10 - Fossil Dig Fridays at the Sandoway House Nature Center, 142 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach. See fossils from sharks, rays, mastadons, mammoths, turtles, tortoises and more. 1 pm. Free/members, $2/Ages 3 and up in addition to general admission. 2747263 or www.sandowayhouse.org.

6/10 - Tooth For Thought at the Sandoway House Nature Center, 142 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach. Make a shark tooth necklace while learning about our oceans. Noon. Free/ members, $3/Ages 3 and up in addition to general admission. 274-7263.

6/10 - Sushi and Stroll Summer Walk is held at The Morikami Japanese Museum and Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach. Experience the gardens, enjoy taiko drumming, a cold drink and sunset. Performances at 6:30 & 7:30 ($2 with admission). 5:30-8:30 pm. Free/members, $7/ non-member adults, $5/kids, free /children 3 and under. 495-0233.

6/10 - Zumba at the Carolyn Sims Center, 225 NW 12th Ave., Boynton Beach. Resistance training and Latin dances. Ages 16 and up.

Held every Friday. 6:45-7:45 pm. $7/class.

742-6641.

6/10 - FAU Summer Concert Band at Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton. An old-time concert-in-thepark with marches, Broadway tunes and a sing-along. The band is comprised of college students from major Florida universities.

Bring a blanket or chair. 7 pm. Free. 393-7827.

6/10-12 - The International Pole & Exotic Dance Fitness Convention of 2011 at

the Palm Beach County Convention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach.

Showcases stars from around the world that may otherwise not get noticed. Proceeds benefit Quantum House. F: 3 pm registration; Sat.: 8 am-10 pm.; Sun.: 8 am-4 pm.

Convention, $30-$110, individual workshops, $20 and up. 410-952-0524. Complete schedule at www.poleconvention.com.

6/10-11 - The Offering by Many But One Christian Performing Arts School is presented at the Crest Theatre Entertainment Pavilion, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. Fri. & Sat. 7 pm and Sat. 3 pm. $15. 243-7922 Ext. 1.

6/10-11 - Royal Room Cabaret Performance: Jennifer Sheehan at The Colony, 155 Hammon Ave., Palm Beach.

Held again 6/17-18. Dinner 6:30 pm, show 8 pm. $70/show only, $110/dinner and show.

659-8100.

Saturday - 6/11 - About Boating Safety Class is taught at the Spanish River Park HQ building, 3001 N. State Road A1A, Boca Raton. Class satisfies requirements for youth to obtain the Florida Boating ID card. 9 am-5 pm. $35. 391-3600.

6/11 - Little Wonders is held at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. Introduce children to plants and animals with a hike, crafts and stories. For ages 3 & 4. Held again 7/2. 9:30-10:15 am. $5/members, $8/non-members - per child.

Reservations: 391-8110.

6/11 - Where Does Your Novel Start? is presented as part of the Authors Academy Series at Murder on the Beach Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach. Taught by South Florida author Randy Rawls. First of eight workshops. Attend all eight workshops and get one free. 10 am-noon. $25/session.

Registration: 279-7790.

6/11 - Pro/Am Golf Classic to Benefit Hospice of Palm Beach County at Atlantis Country Club, 190 Atlantis Blvd., Lake Worth. Luncheon at 11:30 am sponsored

by Carrabba’s Italian Grill followed by a Copter Drop, where balls are dropped from a helicopter - the three closest to the hole win.

Shotgun start 1 pm. Awards reception with silent auction follows. $250/golfer or $75 for awards reception only. 685-4423.

6/11 - Nature Craft for Dad - Design and decorate a card and gift bag for Father’s Day using natural objects at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. For ages 7-12. 1-2:30 pm. $10/ members, $15/non-members. Reservations: 391-8110.

6/11 - Pablo Picasso, Perspectives in Drawing is presented at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. Monthly children’s program investigates a master artist on exhibit at the Museum. Create a masterpiece in the style of the featured artist. For grades 3-5. 1-2:30 pm. $5/nonmembers; free/members. Reservations: 392-2500 Ext. 106.

6/11 - Jazz Legend Ira Sullivan performs at Arts Garage, 180 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. $20/advance, $25/door. BYOW. 8-10 pm. 2437129 or www.delrayarts.org.

6/11-12 - Advance Orchid Repotting lecture at American Orchid Society, 16700 AOS Lane, Delray Beach. 11 am-1 pm. $10/ members, $15/non-members. 404-2031.

JUNE 12-18 Monday - 6/13 - Summer Surf Camp begins at Oceanfront Park, 6415 N. Ocean Blvd., Ocean Ridge. Presented by Hula Surf and Paddle School ages 6 and up learn ocean safety, respect of beaches, marine life, plus surfing and stand up paddle boarding.

Equipment included. 8:30 am-1 pm. Held again 6/20 & 6/27. $175/week for residents, $225/week for non-residents. 742-6221.

6/13 - Colorful Creations is held the Boynton Beach Art Center, 125 SE 2nd Ave. Ages 4-5 learn letter and number recognition while enjoying songs, stories and crafts. Four week session held on M, W & F. 9 am-noon. $42/residents, $55/non-residents. 742-6221.

6/13 - Sports & Fitness Zone at the Carolyn Sims Center, 225 NW 12th Ave., Boynton Beach. Basketball, flag football and field trips with a sports theme. Ages 5-12. Camp runs through 8/5. 9 am-1 pm. $220/residents, $275/non-residents. 742-6641.

6/13 - Summer Junior Lifeguard Aquatic Camp at the John Denson Pool, 225 NW 12th Ave., Boynton Beach. Eight one-week sessions: 6/13-7/1 & 7/11-8/12. Junior Lifeguard Training, water safety skills and open swim. M-F, 9 am-2 pm. $50/resident, $62/non-resident per session. 742-6645.

6/13 - Quilting Bee - Twice monthly quilting class presented at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Held again 6/27. 10 am. Free. 266-0194.

6/13 - The Fall of the House of Usher is discussed as part of the Great Books group at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Meets the second and fourth

June 2011 Monday of each month. 10 am-noon. Free.

742-6886 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

6/13 - Summer Nature Journal at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. Use field journal (provided) to make sketches and notes. Ages 7-12. 2-3:30 pm. $10/members, $15/non-members.

Reservations: 391-8110.

6/13 - 12th Annual Culinary Creations Dinner is held to support Quantum House/ Palm Beach County Chefs in Distress Endowment Fund at the Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach.

Champagne reception, silent auction, dinner with four courses by 25 chefs and their teams. 6:30 pm. $125. 494-0515.

6/13 - World of Magic with Gary Goodman - Learn the art of magic performance from Florida’s Premier Magician at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Six-week session runs Mondays through 7/12. Ages 7-17: 6:30-7:30 pm, $170/ resident, $212.50/non-resident. 347-3900.

6/13 - IBM’s 100th Birthday Party is presented by IBM Boca Raton and the Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum at Town Hall, 71 N. Federal Hwy. Look back at the amazing contributions of the local office since coming to Boca Raton in 1967 in this exhibition, which runs through 7/8. 7 pm.

Free. Reservations: 395-6766, Ext. 100.

6/13-17 - Skate Camp is held at 505 Teen Center, 505 SE 5th Ave., Delray Beach. Ages 5-15. Prizes and giveaways. Snacks and drinks daily. 9 am-noon. Held again 6/277/1. $125/residents, $150/non-residents.

243-7158.

Tuesday - 6/14 - Flag Day 6/14 - Dance Trends Youth Dance Program is held at the Boynton Beach Civic Center, 128 E. Ocean Ave. Children learn the discipline and art of dance in a fun and loving atmosphere. Runs through 7/23. Class times and prices vary. 742-6240.

6/14 - Little Hands is held at the Boynton Beach Arts Center, 125 SE 2nd Ave. Ages 1224 months enjoy creative play with caregiver.

9:15-10:15 am. 4-week session on Tuesdays. $20/residents, $25/non-residents. 742-6221.

6/14 - Young Explorers is held at the Boynton Beach Art Center, 125 SE 2nd Ave. Ages 2-4 improve eye-hand coordination through creative movement and music.

10:30-11:30 am. 4-week session on Tuesdays. $20/residents, $25/non-residents. 742-6221.

6/14 - Claying Around is held at the Boynton Beach Art Center, 125 SE 2nd Ave. Ages 8-14 learn basic techniques of pottery with emphasis on cylinders, bowls, saucers and flowerpots. Tuesdays or Thursdays beginning 6/16. 1:30-3:30 pm. $32/residents, $40/non-residents. 742-6221.

6/14 - Teen Advisory Board at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. 4:30-5:30 pm. Free. 266-9490.

6/14 - The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz is presented as part of the Evening Book Group at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 6 pm.

Free. 266-9490.

6/14 - 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. 7-8 pm. Free. 742-6380.

Wednesday - 6/15 - Playdough Fun Day at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Ages 3-5 years make shapes and letters with Play-dough. Held again 6/29. 10-11 am. Free. 742-6393.

6/15 - Art Film - Paul Klee, The Silence of the Angel (2005 - NR) at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. The writings, life and work of visionary artist Klee unfold.

Held again 6/18. 2 pm. Free with paid Museum admission: $8 adults, $6 seniors, free for children 12 and under. 392-2500.

6/15 - The Talk of Kings Book Discussion Group: How to be a Movie Star by William Mann at the King Library, 2 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach. Mann join this event via Skype.

5:30 pm. Free. 655-2766.

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Municipal Meetings 6/6 - Ocean Ridge - First Monday of the each month at Ocean Ridge Town Hall, 6450 N. Ocean Blvd., Ocean Ridge. 6 pm. Agenda available at www.oceanridgeflorida.com.

6/7 & 6/21 - Delray Beach - First & third Tuesdays of each month at Delray Beach City Hall, 100 NW 1st Ave. 6 pm. Agenda available at: www.mydelraybeach.com.

6/10 - Gulf Stream - Second Friday of the month at the Gulf Stream Town Hall, 100 Sea Road 9 am. Agenda available in clerk’s office.

6/13 & 6/27 - Lantana - Second & fourth Mondays of each month at Lantana Town Hall, 500 Greynolds Circle. 7 pm. Agenda available at www.lantana.org.

6/21 - South Palm Beach – Normally fourth Tuesday of each month in the South Palm Beach Town Hall Council Chambers, 3577 S. Ocean Blvd. 7:15 pm. Agenda available www.southpalmbeach.com.

6/23 - Briny Breezes - Fourth Thursday of each month at Briny Breezes Town Hall, 4802 N. Ocean Blvd. 4 pm. Agenda available at www.townofbrinybreezes-fl.com.

6/28 - Manalapan - Fourth Tuesday of each month at Manalapan Town Hall, 600 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan. 9:30 am. Agenda available at www.manalapan.org.

6/15 - Northwood University Information Session at Northwood University, 2600 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Learn about degree opportunities for Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Business Administration. Financial aid sessions and open house provided. 6-7 pm. Free. Regististration: 800-622-9000.

Thursday - 6/16 - Ergonomics: Perfecting Your Posture is presented by Delray Medical Center at La Cigale, 253 S. Federal Hwy., Delray Beach. Sponsored by Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce. 11:30 am-1 pm. $45. 278-0424.

6/16 - Father’s Day Show & Ice Cream Social at the Boynton Beach Senior Center, 1021 S. Federal Hwy. 1-3 pm. Free. 742-6570.

6/16 - Guided Tour of the Historic Boca Raton Resort & Club - Explore the world famous resort’s history with a 1.5 hour walking tour at Boca Raton Resort & Club, 501 E. Camino Real. Held every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month. 2 pm. $10/BRHS members, $15/non-members, $10 valet fee per car. Reservations: 395-6766 ext. 100.

6/16 - Tangled (PG) - Presented as part of the Sizzling Summer Movies Series at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. 2-4 pm. Free. 742-6390.

6/16 - Concert: Classical Pianist Anthony Coniglio at the Highland Beach Library Community Room, 3618 S. Ocean Blvd., Highland Beach. 5 pm. Free. 278-5455.

6/16 - Juneteenth Celebration is held on behalf of the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum at Crane’s BeachHouse Hotel & Tiki Bar, 82 Gleason St., Delray Beach as part of their summer series of third Thursday fun-raisers to benefit local non-profit organizations. 6:30-8:30 pm. $25 includes hors d’ oevres and one free drink ticket.

RSVP: 278-1700.

Friday - 6/17 - Palm Leaflet Folding - at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. Twist and fold palm fronds into animal shapes. For ages 7-14. 10am-noon. $9/members, $14/nonmembers. Reservations: 391-8110.

6/17 - Tae Kwon Do at the Carolyn Sims Center, 225 NW 12th Ave., Boynton Beach.

Learn the mental and physical skills of self defense. For ages 5 to adult. Two six-week sessions: Session I: 6/17-7/22; Session II: 7/29-9/2. 6-7:30 pm. Cost per session: $60/ residents, $75/non-residents. 742-6641.

6/17 - Art Invasion: The Gals is held at Clay Glass Metal Stone Gallery, 605 Lake Ave., Lake Worth. Opening reception with wine and cheese. 6-9 pm. Free. 588-8344.

6/17 - Guest Artist Vernissage is held at Arts Arena Gallery, 777 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. Painters Maryanne & Donald Sarka. Wine & appetizers. 6:30-8:30 pm.

274-7005.

6/17 - Dad and Daughter Date Night is held at Delray Beach Golf Club, 2200 Highland Ave. for all ages. An elegant evening featuring a full-course dinner with music and dancing. 7-10:30 pm. $22.

Purchase tickets by 6/10 at the Delray Beach Community Center, 50 NW 1st Ave. Download registration form at MyDelrayBeach.com/ Delray/Events. 243-7277.

6/17 - Concert: KISS America - A Tribute to KISS - Presented as part of the Music @ Mizner: A Summer Tribute to the Legends Series at Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton. 8 pm. Free. 393-7703.

Saturday - 6/18 - Island Flair on the Avenue is held at Atlantic Avenue and Southwest 5th Avenue, Delray Beach. Live Caribbean music, food and crafts. 9 am-2 pm.

Free. 290-6739.

6/18 - Breastfeeding Prenatal Class is taught at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Expectant parents learn the benefits of breastfeeding, keys to success, supply and demand, positioning, breast pumps, returning to work and weaning. Both parents are encouraged to attend. 10 am–noon. $25. Registration: 369-2229.

6/18 - Father’s Day Family Fun Event is held at Veterans Park, 802 NE First St., Delray Beach. Games, entertainment, food and drinks for fathers, grandfathers and their

Community Calendar 33 kids. Sponsored by Forever My Daddy. 10 am-1 pm. Free. 305-400-4963, Ext. 704.

6/18 - Open House - IBM Boca Raton: A Centennial Celebration is presented by IBM Boca Raton and the Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum at Town Hall, 71 N. Federal Hwy. Look back at the contributions of the local IBM office since coming to Boca Raton in 1967. Exhibit runs through 7/8. 10 am-3 pm.

Free. Reservations: 395-6766, Ext. 100.

6/18 - Juneteenth Family Fun Day and Health Fair at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. Commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, event features fashion shows, dance performances and a “Living Museum” by Carver Community Middle School students. The Health Fair, offering free preventive screenings and education, will be 5-8 pm in the Old School Square Gymnasium. 5-11 pm. Free. 819-1126.

6/18 - Fred Astaire Glee Showcase at the Fred Astaire Dance Studio, 151 SE Mizner Blvd., Suite 16A, Royal Palm Place, Boca Raton. Proceeds benefit the George Snow Scholarship Foundation. 7-10 pm. $15. 3918591.

6/18 - Demonstrations of Sado, The Way of Tea at the Seishin-an Teahouse, The Morikami Japanese Museum and Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach. Four sessions, offered at noon, 1 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm. $5 with paid museum admission. 4950233 Ext. 237 or www.morikami.org.

6/18-19 - Mounting Orchids & Orchids in the Landscape lecture is held at the American Orchid Society, 16700 AOS Lane, Delray Beach. 11 am-1 pm. $10/members, $15/non-members. 404-2031.

JUNE 19-25 Sunday - 6/19 - Father’s Day Classic Car Show at Mizner Park, 590 Plaza Real, Boca

Raton. Featuring classic car collections from the 1920’s -1960’s plus post-war European sports and exotic cars. 9 am-9 pm. Free. Valet parking available for $5. 750-3500.

6/19 - Father’s Day Memorial Service - Presented at Hospice by the Sea, 1531 W. Palmetto Park Road, Boca Raton. Honor the memory of family members and friends. 2-3 pm. Free. RSVP: 416-5059.

Monday - 6/20 - Fairytale Festival at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Dress as royalty, a knight or a dragon and listen to fairytales from around the world. Ages 3 to grade 3. 6:30-8 pm. Free.

742-6380.

Tuesday - 6/21 - An Off Year by Claire Zulkey is presented as part of the Teen Book Discussion Group at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 4:30 pm. Free.

266-9490.

Wednesday - 6/22 - Dig In @ Your Library at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Learn to excavate and map a shipwreck with the Florida Public Archaeology Network. Grades 2-6. 1-2:30 pm.

Free. 742-6380 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

6/22 - Junior Sea Turtle Specialists Class at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. For children ages 8-12 who love sea turtles, marine life or the ocean. Meets again 6/29, 7/6 & 13. Ages 8-12. 3-4:30 pm. $55/members, $65/nonmembers. Reservations: 391-8110.

Thursday - 6/23 - Legend of the Guardians (PG) - Presented as part of the Sizzling Summer Movies Series at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. 2-4 pm. Free. 742-6390.

6/23 - Circles of Light Photographic Exhibit Opening Reception is held at The Dixie Art Loft, 5911 S. Dixie Hwy, West Palm Beach featuring work of National Geographic

34 Community Calendar photographer Raymond Gehman. 5:30-7:30 pm. Runs through 6/28. Free. 585-7744.

6/23 - Art & Jazz on the Avenue is held along Atlantic Avenue and SW 5th Avenue.

Live music and open house for restaurants, art galleries and shops. 6-10 pm. Free. 2791380, ex. 3.

6/23 - Exhibition Open House is held at First Avenue Studio, 342 NE 1st Ave., Delray Beach. wine & cheese. 6-10 pm. 716-5680.

6/23 - Artists’ Guild Art Walk at the Artist’s Guild Exhibition Center, 512 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. Guild members showcase their artwork. 7 pm. Free. 2787877 or www.bocaguild.com.

The COASTAL STAR Friday - 6/24 - Under the Sea Nights at the Museum at South Florida Science Museum, 4801 Dreher Trail North, West Palm Beach. All ages enjoy ocean activities including the opportunity to pet live sharks and stingrays and view the night sky in Palm Beach’s only public observatory. 6-10 pm. $10/adults; $6/children, $5/adult members, free/children members and children three and under. 832-1988.

6/24 - Concert: No Business like Show Business - Presented as part of the “Summer in the City” Music Series at Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton.

7:30 pm. Free. 393-7827.

6/24-25 - Royal Room Cabaret Performance: Will & Anthony Nunziata at The Colony, 155 Hammon Ave., Palm Beach. Held again 7/1-2. Dinner 6:30 pm, show 8 pm. $70/show only, $110/dinner and show. 659-8100.

6/24-26 - Hooray for Hollywood! at the Carole and Barry Kaye Performing Arts Auditorium on the FAU Boca Raton Campus, 777 Glades Road. A celebration of the best movie musicals of all time. Held again 7/8-10, 22-24, & 29-30. F & Sat.: 7 pm; Sat. & Sun.: 1 pm; M 4 pm. $20. 800-564-9539.

Saturday - 6/25 - SNAG (Starting New at Golf) Classes begin at the Ezell Hester, Jr. Community Center, 1901 N. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Ages 5-10 are instructed in basic skills to learn or get better at golf. 9-10 am/ages 5-7, 10-11 am/ages 8-10. Offered every four weeks. $30/residents, $38/nonresidents. Registration: 742-6550.

6/25 - Tiny Turtles - Parents and kids learn about sea turtles at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. For ages 3-4. 9:30-10:15 am. $4/members, $6/ non-members. Reservations: 391-8110.

6/25 - From Idea to Novel is presented as part of the Authors Academy Series at Murder on the Beach Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach. Taught by South Florida author Karen Kendall. Second of eight workshops.

10 am-noon. $25/session. Registration: 279-7790.

6/25 - Hot Glass Torch Work Demo - Watch and learn all about the art of torchworked glass at McMow Art Glass, 701 N. Dixie Hwy. Lake Worth. Get an up close look at the world of hot glass. Space limited. 10 am-3 p.m. Free. 561-585-9011.

6/25 - Tropical Fruit Festival at Mounts Botanical Garden, 531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Taste the tropics. Gene Joyner’s Incredible Fruit Display, lectures and cooking demonstrations. Plants and fruit offered for sale. 10 am-3 pm. Admission $5. 233-1757.

6/25 - Narrated Bus Tour of Historic Delray Beach is conducted by the Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History. 2 hour tour of 10 historic sites. Departs at 11 am from MLFH inside Boynton Beach Mall, 801 N Congress Ave, Ste. 483. $15/adult & senior citizen, Free/ children under 18. 243-2662.

June 2011 6/25 - Fred Lichtenberg speaks and signs his new book, Hunter’s World at Murder on the Beach Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach. 7 pm. Free. 279-7790.

6/25 - Davis & Dow perform at Arts Garage, 180 NE 1st Ave., Delray Beach. 8-10 pm. $20/ advance, $25/door. BYOW. 243-7129.

6/25-26 - Diagnosing Orchid Pests & Diseases lecture at American Orchid Society, 16700 AOS Lane, Delray Beach. 11 am-1 pm. $10/members, $15/non-members. 404-2031.

JUNE 26-JULY 2 Sunday - 6/26 - Klezmer Company Orchestra Present: Spirit of America at the Carole and Barry Kaye Performing Arts Auditorium on the FAU Boca Raton Campus, 777 Glades Road. 3 pm. $17-$38. 800-5649539 or www.fauevents.com.

Monday - 6/27 - Bartleby the Scrivener is discussed as part of the Great Books group at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. 10 am-noon. Free. 742-6886.

6/27 - My Name Is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira is presented as part of the Afternoon Book Group at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 1 pm.

Free. 266-9490 or www.delraylibrary.org.

6/27 - Connect 4 Tournament at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. All ages. 2-3:30 pm. Free. 742-6380.

6/27 - Drop-in Craft Day at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Make an original art project. Materials provided.

Grades K-4. 4:30-5:30 pm. 742-6393.

Tuesday - 6/28 - It’s Bingo Time! at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Grades K-4. 2-3:30 pm. Free. 742-6380.

6/28 - Family Summertime Fun Night at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Dave Goboff and Simply Puppets tell tales from faraway lands using the ancient art form of shadow puppetry. All ages. 6:45-8 pm. Free. 742-6380.

6/28 - S.J. Watson speaks and signs his new book, Before I Go To sleep: A Novel at Murder on the Beach Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach. 7 pm. Free. 279-7790.

Wednesday - 6/29 - Teen Bingo is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Grades 6-12. 3-4:30 pm. Free.

742-6390.

Thursday - 6/30 - Gyotaku - Recreate the traditional art of fisherman documenting their catch by making fish prints at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. For ages 5-14. Supply your own pre-washed shirt, pre-washed canvas bag or pillowcase. 2-3:30 pm. $9/members, $14 / non-members, $4 for each additional project.

Reservations: 391-8110.

6/30 - Toy Story 3 (G) - Presented as part of the Sizzling Summer Movies Series at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. 2-4 pm. Free. 742-6390.

6/30 - Artists’ Guild Gallery Juried Art Exhibition Opening Reception at the Artist’s Guild Exhibition Center, 512 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. See the new exhibit, meet the artists and enjoy complimentary wine & refreshments. 6-8 pm. Free. 278-7877.

6/30 - Michael Wiley speaks and signs his new book, A Bad Night’s Sleep at Murder on the Beach Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach. 7 pm. Free. 279-7790.

Friday - 7/1 - Take a Bite Out of Summer at the Sandoway House Nature Center, 142 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach. Exhibit of over 80 different varities of shark and ray jaws, hundreds of fossilized shark and ray teeth, a replica Great White Shark jaw, a touch table, Hawaiian shark tooth weapons and more.

1 pm. T-Sat. 10 am-4 pm, Sun. Noon-4 pm.

Free/members, $4/Ages 3 and up. 274-7263.

7/1-4 - The 1940’s Radio Hour at the Carole and Barry Kaye Performing Arts Auditorium on the FAU Boca Raton Campus, 777 Glades Road. Christmas comes in July for the 14th summer season. Held again 7/15-17. F, Sat. & Sun.: 7 pm; Sat. & Sun.: 1 pm; M 4 pm. $20.

800-564-9539 or www.fauevents.com.

Saturday - 7/2 - Sand Sifters All American Cleanup at Oceanfront Park, 6415 N. Ocean Blvd., Ocean Ridge. Collecting supplies for the Forgotten Soldiers Outreach.

8-10:15 am. Free. Registration: 734-9128.

7/2 - Mr. Sand at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton.

Come enjoy this program about beach sand and create a sand castle. Dress for a mess!

Ages 7-12. 10-11 am. $10/members, $15/nonmembers. Reservations: 391-8110.

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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.

This warm and comfortable home is nestled on a quiet street in a cul-de-sac in Delray Beach.

The pavered drive leads to the stunning entrance as well as to the sideentry three-car garage.

The views north and south are spectacular from this estate. The dock is a generous 100 feet long and the waterway frontage is 130 feet.

Yachtsman’s dream on the Intracoastal in Delray Beach This custom-built British Colonial estate boasts 6,600 square feet of elegant living area with fine finishes and luxury appointments, a rotunda foyer with windowed cupola, custom elevator and Caribbean rosewood circular staircase. In addition there are Crema Valencia floors, a step-down living room with a 24-foot ceiling and a dramatic double tiered wall of windows overlooking the Intracoastal.

Within, there are five bedrooms plus a den and office, six full baths and three half-baths. All the bedrooms are en suite and the huge master quarters include private sitting area, custom closets, a morning bar and refrigerator plus his and hers baths with oversized marble showers and a free-standing whirlpool tub.

The home is perfect for entertaining with extensive outdoor space: a summer

There is an elevator in addition to the Caribbean rosewood circular staircase. kitchen, beach entry pool with rock-rimmed spa and cabana bath, all of which complement the tropical landscaping and unique architectural details.

A large second story balcony provides water vistas as well as glimpses of downtown Delray, which is within easy walking distance from the house to the area’s shopping and restaurant district.

Offered at$3,950,000; furnishings negotiable.

Linda Lake, Realtor Associate (561) 702-4898 or (561) 278-5570 llake1@bellsouth.net Tauriello & CO Real Estate Inc.

A gourmet kitchen with a 48-inch dual fuel Viking range and two stainless, quiet Bosch dishwashers, SubZero refrigerator and freezer also includes a dining nook with 12foot ceilings and slender windows offering everchanging water views.

French doors lead from the covered patio into the den with fireplace.

Brazilian walnut floors cover the hallway and complete the den.

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U N D E R C O N T R AC T

CASA DI MARE

Old World charm meets modern luxury. Stunning waterfront estate, 6 bedrooms/6.5 baths, deep water dockage, minutes from the ocean. Custom built with the highest level of finishes. Hewn wood and stone floors, gourmet kitchen, paneled library/club room and solid wood cabinetry. Separate guest suite, 4 car garage, impact windows and doors and full house generator.

Waterfalls, pool and koi pond.

Bill Quigley, 561-346-3434 Offered now at $5,175,000

MANALAPAN

Exquisite waterfront home located on a huge lot with lush landscaping, pool, dock with ocean access.

Renovation of this 4 Bedroom, 4.2 Bath home incl. tumbled limestone floors, imported glass tile baths, granite and onyx counters, impact resistant french doors, plus 2 fireplaces. Separate guest suite. Free membership to the Beach Club located at the Ritz Carlton. Major price reduction!

Bill Quigley, 561-346-3434 Offered at $2,900,000

MANALAPAN

Enjoy this view every evening! Least priced waterfront home on the point with 135 ft on the water.This 3 Bedroom, 3 bath jewel features a new kitchen, renovated baths, impact doors and a huge covered patio with pool for outdoor entertaining.

Gratis LaCoquille Beach Club membership At the Ritz with home purchase.

Bill Quigley, 561-346-3434 Offered at $1,975,000

REDUCED

MANALAPAN

INTRACOASTAL ELEGANCE

Stately Manalapan Estate located on 238 feet of water with sensational views. A short distance from ocean access, the home features marble floors, high ceilings, spacious rooms, Viking appliances & impact windows. Huge lot with beautiful pool/spa.

Free membership to the Ritz Carlton LaCoquille Beach club with purchase.

Bill Quigley, 561-346-3434 Reduced to $2,9000,000

One of the best waterfront buys out there. Directly on the widest portion of Lake Worth this custom built 9,000+ luxury estate home lives like a five star resort. From the magnificent cook’s kitchen, to the enormous master suite, 6 bedrooms ensuite, guest house, game room, 4 car garage, your own sandy beach all on a 3/4 acre gated lot with views from every major room.

Val Coz, 561-386-8011 Offered at $2,400,000

MANALAPAN

Sensational 3 bedroom/4 bath waterfront home designed by architect, John Volk. Gorgeous renovations including new kitchen, baths, marble floors & impact windows. Large corner lot with lush landscaping, pool and dock with ocean access. A free membership to the LaCoquille Beach Club at the Ritz Carlton allows homeowners the use of pools, clubhouse, gym, beach & lockers at no charge.

Bill Quigley, 561-346-3434 Offered at $2,395,000

POINT MANALAPAN Located on beautiful Pt. Manalapan, this lovely home features 4 bedrooms, 3.2 baths and nearly 3500 sq. ft. of living space. Lots of windows for plenty of natural light. High ceilings, open floor plan, large covered lanai and sparkling pool!

Bill Quigley, 561-346-3434 New price $998,000

BILL QUIGLEY Manager

Specializing in Coastal Properties in Manalapan, Hypoluxo Island, Gulf Stream

2011

OCEAN RIDGE

Situated east of A1A, and a short stroll to deeded beach, this fantastic contemporary home features vaulted ceilings, an open floorplan, 4 bedrooms 3.5 baths, 2 car garage and 40 ft pool. Gorgeous master suite with updated bath and hardwood floors. 3,650+ square feet of living space on a wonderfully landscaped lot, This pristine property is a must see. An adjoining vacant lot is available to make this a 1/2 acre mini estate.

Val Coz, 561-386-8011 Offered at $1,250,000

OCEAN RIDGE

Just steps to 100 feet of deeded beach and east of A1A, this charming 4 bedroom, 3 bath, 1 car garage, pool home is ready for its new occupants.

Updated throughout with a flexible floorplan that allows for the master suite to be either upstairs or down. Glowing Mexican tile floors and archways grace the interior spaces and a covered loggia, second floor balcony and wonderful gardens fill the outdoors.

Val Coz, 561-386-8011 Reduced to $1,150,000

OCEAN RIDGE 7000+ square feet of custom built luxury on an enormous lot, all within walking distance to the beach. 7 bedrooms, 7.5 baths, resort style pool, 3 car garage, hurricane impact windows and doors, covered loggias, gourmet cook's kitchen, incredible millwork, meticulously built from the soaring ceilings to the hardwood floors.

Val Coz, 561-386-8011 Reduced to $1,695,000

OCEAN RIDGE – VACANT LOTS Build your dream beachside home on either of these 10,000+ square foot lots in one of Ocean Ridge’s prettiest and most private neighborhoods. Both of these lots include 100’ deeded beach.

Possible ocean views.

Val Coz, 561-386-8011 Reduced to $549,000 & $469,000

OCEAN RIDGE

Reduced! Move right into this perfect beach house. 3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, impact glass, new AC, heated pool, newer kitchen and baths, absolutely adorable!

Val Coz, 561-386-8011 Offered at $599,000

VAL COZ

Ocean Ridge Resident since 1985 Specializing in Coastal Properties from Palm Beach to Delray

561.346.3434

561.386.8011

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