The Coastal Star September 2011

September 2011

Volume 4 Issue 9

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

Hurricane Irene The coastal communities caught the wave of Hurricane Irene as the storm moved through the Bahamas.

A look at Irene’s local impact, PAGE 17

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Municipal mergers more talked about than acted on

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And then there’s the unincorporated county pocket, which can boast a gentlemen’s club so private you might mistake it for a gas station.

Drive by Gulfstream Texaco about four o’clock any afternoon and you’ll see them starting to gather, gentlemen of a certain age, seated in a row of lawn chairs against the office window, maybe sipping a beer or three, smoking, chatting, joking, cursing — lying about all those fish that got away. Look closely and you’ll note a small sign behind them in the window. Do Not Feed The Seated. Gulfstream Texaco, in the county pocket near Ocean Ridge and Briny Breezes, is the only gas station on A1A between Fort Lauderdale and See TEXACO on page 11 Palm Beach. It also is a gathering spot for a group of regulars.

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Barrier island towns, each trudging through their individual budget nightmares, have been batting around ideas for saving money that involve more than the usual cutting of library hours or eliminating a job or two.

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Editorial

Successful change requires open discussion tireless, strong leadership to make changes of this magnitude a reality.

I’m not worried about the leadership. Our coastal area may be small in population, but it is huge in intellect and business acumen. Our local mayors have already taken the first step toward exploring what might be gained by studying potential benefits of consolidation of services. They are on the right track.

I am concerned about negative perceptions regarding Florida’s Sunshine Laws. Our elected officials must keep in mind that these laws allow for the public (and the media) to be openly informed about all changes proposed for our communities.

Can protocol be a challenge in a small town?

Absolutely. But, open discussion is an essential part of maintaining public trust.

And trust is critical if we are to work together to build a sustainable quality of life in this very special place we call home.

At every budget workshop along the barrier island, there is a call for looking beyond this year’s spreadsheet to explore how each town might prepare itself for a continuing drop in real estate value — the primary source of revenue for our coastal towns — and a rising cost in services provided by the larger governing bodies to the west.

How we move our towns forward with sustainable local economies is an exercise being discussed throughout America. Since these challenges are not unique to our area, The Coastal Star is beginning a series exploring how similar issues have been raised and addressed in other locations. In this first installment, reporter Thomas R. Collins explores the challenges encountered when merging governing bodies.

Hopefully this series will help our residents — and elected officials — better understand the pitfalls and possibilities of changing the way we do business in our coastal towns.

The challenges are daunting: building unified public sentiment, working within Florida’s openmeeting laws and developing

Mary Kate Leming — Editor

Activist for a polio-free world gets a shock

By Linda Haase Betsy Owen has a powerful message: “As long as one child in the world has polio, every child in the world is at risk.”

Owen, a 70-year-old coastal Delray Beach resident, is a polio survivor — and she’s passionate about helping others avoid the disease.

Her efforts are worldwide — including immunizing children in Chandigarh, India, in 2009. “It was such a worthy endeavor,” says Owen, a retired teacher who contracted polio and rheumatic fever when she was 18 months old (her two older brothers also were afflicted simultaneously).

Her tireless work was lauded by the Rotary International board of directors, which recently honored her with its highest honor, the Service Above Self Award, which recognizes Rotarians who embody the group’s motto of “Service Above Self.”

“I knew nothing about getting this award. It was a great honor and I was so shocked that I could not speak,” recalls Owen, whose father was also a Rotarian.

“I opened my mouth to talk and nothing came out — and my friends will tell you that is most unusual.”

Owen, a Florida native, also was given the International Service Award for a PolioFree World.

Community service has always been a part of Owen’s life. She always had the most community service hours among her peers at school for volunteering at orphanages and other places, and as a child, her family spent every summer in the Bahamian islands where they would help her father, an orthopedic surgeon, offer free medical care for the residents.

She and her brothers would take turns helping her dad, her mom and other volunteer medical personnel. But when they weren’t helping, they swam in the warm waters

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“We didn’t realize it but we were doing exercises to help rejuvenate our muscles (which had been weakened by polio),” explains Owen, whose bout with polio weakened her left leg and right arm. “ I wouldn’t be walking around today if hadn’t been for the natives helping me strengthen my limbs,” says Owen, who has returned the favor in many ways, including getting computers, books, magazines and other items to donate to Nassau and other islands.

Owen, an Emory University graduate, doesn’t let the remnants of her polio impact her life — she walks 3 miles a day down A1A and she and her husband take

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up one new sport every year.

They’ve been ballooning, kayaking, dog sledding and race car driving. They are also avid fishing enthusiasts and sailors.

Owen, who taught English, photojournalism and mass media for more than 40 years (20 of them at Spanish River High School) is also involved with The Children’s Home Society, the Executive Women of the Palm Beaches and many Rotary literacy projects.

She especially loves helping children, and is thrilled when she crosses paths with former students, who called her “Grandma.”

Although she and her husband travel frequently, she has a soft spot in her heart for Delray Beach.

“The people here are very laid back, it’s a hometown attitude. We are here to help each other. That is what life is Ú all about.”

Clarification

By tasting samples of Delray Beach’s water gathered from Gulf Stream Town Hall [Whose water tastes best?, August 2011] we may have implied that all of Delray Beach’s water would taste the same regardless of where the sample was gathered.

A more comprehensive sampling may have been to gather water from the city halls in Delray Beach and Boynton Beach as well from the coastal towns.

The Coastal Star article described a purely subjective taste test and in no way suggested that any municipal water was unsafe to drink.

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9/11 anniversary a time for reflection, a reminder of need for Real ID

September is a transitional month for Americans. We celebrate Labor Day, enjoy the start of autumn, and football season begins. In Florida, September is also viewed with caution as it’s the peak month of hurricane season.

For all of us, the events that occurred on 9/11 10 years ago gave September an entirely different meaning.

Most people remember exactly where they were the moment we learned that American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center.

America had been attacked by terrorists, who had boarded and hijacked planes and turned them into weapons of mass destruction.

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But it rarely ends up happening, with the proposals often done in, experts say, by concerns over loss of identity and by the complex logistics.

“To my knowledge, which is certainly not exhaustive, this is not something that happens with any frequency at all,” said Scott Paine, associate professor of government and world affairs at the University of Tampa.

Mayraj Fahim, a New Yorkbased local government advisor, said that it can sometimes make sense for towns to merge, but often with each jurisdiction maintaining some degree of autonomy and with the aim of economic development.

“It’s different for every area,” she said. “But you need something that gets the region working together and operating with each other and looking to expand on whatever their strengths are.”

Voters have resisted In Princeton, N.J., voters will go to the polls in November to decide whether Princeton Township and the Borough of Princeton should join to become the singular Princeton, operating as a borough.

The 16-square-mile township (pop. 17,000) encircles the more densely populated 1.8-square-mile borough (pop.

14,000).

They already share 13 services — including fire protection, planning, sewer and recreation — but have separate police forces and zoning departments.

“When you have 13 shared services and two separate governing bodies, it creates a very cumbersome way to govern,” said Princeton Township Mayor Chad Goerner, who supports the idea even though his mayorship would be eliminated and he’d have to run again to retain public office. “It’s hard on the citizen to go to one meeting.

The terrorists were able to operate openly and escape detection in part because they secured legal state driver licenses and ID cards. A driver’s license not only grants driving privileges, it also serves as an identification to access a variety of banking, retail, transportation and community services and benefits. It presumes legitimacy of the holder.

Thirteen of the 19 9/11 terrorists secured Florida driver licenses and IDs. Eight of these terrorists had lived in Delray Beach and Boynton Beach and three in Hollywood.

Before 9/11, many people viewed the issuing of driver licenses or state ID cards as a

Coastal community population comparisons

Manalapan: 406 Briny Breezes: 601 Gulf Stream: 786 South Palm Beach: 1,171 Ocean Ridge: 1,786 Highland Beach: 3,538 Palm Beach: 8,348 Lantana: 10, 423 Delray Beach: 60,522 Boynton Beach: 68,217 Boca Raton: 84,392 PB County:

1,320,134

Source: 2010 U.S. Census

And we want them to go to two.”

A majority of voters in the borough, and a majority in the township, must approve the merger for it to happen.

Merging “the Princetons” has been put to a vote, and failed, three times in the past 60 years — and the smaller borough has been the one resisting, worried largely about a loss of identity and control, Goerner said.

This time, new state law in New Jersey makes merging more feasible, allowing each jurisdiction to keep its own ordinances and their own advisory planning districts, Goerner said.

There is a concern that merging would lead to a loss of the borough’s historic character, Goerner said, adding that he thinks the combined economic resources of the two entities would actually protect the borough’s character because it would be less likely to have to turn to redevelopment for tax revenue.

A consultant recommended consolidation, saying that it would save $3.1 million a year.

But, “the debate has really just gotten started,” Goerner said.

Savings can be elusive The few studies on savings after government consolidation have focused mainly on cities merging with counties — and

clerical task — if they thought about it at all. Some saw this as a simple “administrative” function.

Now we know better.

Post-9/11, driver licenses and ID card issuing has become part of our national security system. Constitutional tax collectors are now part of that “security system” because the Florida Legislature transferred these services to us in 2010.

The federal Real ID Act requires that every person prove his or her identity to receive a state driver license or ID card. That requires everyone to visit a service center with specific and original documents. The Department of Homeland Security requires proof of

birth, Social Security and residence.

You have until 2014 (50 or younger) or 2017 (50 or older) to comply. After 2017, possession of a Real ID will be required to board a commercial flight or enter a federal building.

The Real ID security process has resulted in a dramatic increase in people coming to our offices. We have longer lines and wait times.

The increase is temporary, though, because a person only has to become Real ID compliant once. We expect the crowds to diminish after 2017, because users will be able to renew online.

Our staff works hard to process residents’ Real ID

driver license or ID card as quickly as possible. Readers can help by taking the time to prepare and by bringing the correct documents.

Our website, at www. taxcollectorpbc.com, has a listing of the documents.

Terrorists murdered 2,977 innocents on 9/11. The death toll didn’t stop there. America was soon at war. More than 6,000 members of our armed services have died in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11. My prayers are with the surviving families and friends. As Americans we feel their loss and hope to see the safe return of our troops serving abroad in the very near future.

they have found that the savings doesn’t always pan out in those cases.

A Harvard review of the literature on the subject found that a variety of factors can sometimes lead to “diseconomies of scale,” rather than economies of scale.

Sometimes, labor-intensive services such as police simply have to be replicated when an area is expanded, meaning there isn’t much savings. Plus, larger bureaucracies can put politicians out of touch with residents, leaving them with less incentive to keep costs down; personnel benefits often simply rise to the level of the employees who are most generously provided for; and transition costs to the new consolidated government can be higher than expected.

Pleasant Lake, northwest of the Minnesota’s Twin Cities. In 2002, all three became just the city of Rockville, with a total population of 2,500.

Voters in all three municipalities approved the merger. In that case, there was one clear, primary goal: merging would make it easier to build a new city hall and fire hall, something each jurisdiction wanted. At the time Pleasant Lake’s “city hall” was just a “small little cabin,” said Rena Weber, the city administrator and clerk in Rockville.

Plus, the areas of Pleasant Lake and Grand Lake outside the city wanted to hook into a sanitary sewer line, something the merger made possible.

Since then, six small sections have de-annexed from the city, Weber said.

Overall, though, the consensus is that the merger has worked well, she said. The key was that voters were open to the idea, Weber said.

“I don’t know that there was a whole lot of opposition to it,” she said. “I think they had open minds.”

box or before then. Often, city leaders look to their staffs for input — and those same staff members might have their jobs at risk if a merger were to happen, Paine said.

“City staff are among the first to raise thoughtful arguments against consolidation,” he said.

Even if there would be savings should a city merge, the savings might come from services that had been tailored specifically for a city’s residents and might be considered too important to give up, he said.

Often, it is the worry about loss of identity that sinks a possible consolidation, Fahim said.

“People have sort of a tribal thing,” she said. “They think that consolidating with someone else is going to take something away from them,” even if maintaining that identity means that “they’re going to be sinking.”

Merging can make sense if it is done thoughtfully and not just as a reflex against budget problems, she said.

“It’s not just about sharing of services because you’re desperate,” she said. “If you have that mentality you’re not going to get much from it. You have to do it in an ambitious Ú way.”

Cities value uniqueness On Anna Maria Island just south of Tampa, merging of three towns — the cities of Anna Maria (pop. 1,503), Holmes Beach (pop. 3,836) and Bradenton Beach (pop. 1,171) — was discussed as recently as 2009.

The idea, initiated by Holmes Beach, was that the cities could operate with fewer employees. But the talks fell apart when Anna Maria was not interested, said Diane Percycoe, that city’s treasurer.

In the end, Anna Maria felt that that the cities were too different — Anna Maria, for instance, has hardly any commercial property compared to the others.

“The island cities here are unique,” she said.

She anticipates that there might be future talk about consolidating certain services, but there are no such discussions now.

Tiny towns took the plunge In rare cases, consolidations of municipalities actually do take place.

One example is the merger of the city of Rockville, Rockville Township and the town of

Budget-cut reflex not enough Government experts say that efforts to consolidate usually fail, either at the ballot

— Anne M. Gannon, Palm Beach County tax collector

Cities to study joint emergency response center South County’s three largest cities have agreed to jointly fund a study to determine the feasibility and benefits of combining police, fire-rescue and emergency 911 calls into a single dispatch center.

Boynton Beach, Boca Raton and Delray Beach have each agreed to pay one-third of the total cost — $18,000 each — to determine whether consolidation of dispatch services would improve service to residents of their three cities as well as reduce costs.

The six-month study will be conducted by RCC Consultants Inc. It will be completed in two phases, with needs assessment and evaluation of alternatives in phase one and conceptual design for a new dispatch center in phase two.

Once the study is complete, a report will be presented to each city with a transition plan and recommendations concerning equipment, staffing, financing and governing.

— Staff report

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30 years ago, ‘Body Heat’ sizzled with scenes from Lake Worth

“You’re not very smart, are you? . . . I like that in a man.”

That’s the appraisal Kathleen Turner made of William Hurt in Body Heat.

Hard to believe the film that made Lake Worth famous was released 30 years ago.

Actually, the movie, which ignited the careers of several stars, was shot in November and December of 1980, with little fanfare. The Palm Beach Post ran a brief note about casting for 400 extras and a few weeks later added a photograph of writer/director Lawrence Kasdan.

The movie may have sizzled, but the weather didn’t.

Victoria Preuss of West Palm Beach (and a copy editor for The Coastal Star) then lived in Hollywood and was an extra in that supposedly steamy beach scene that actually was shot 50 miles south at a band shell on Hollywood Beach.

“Though it was supposed to be a heat wave, it was in fact quite cold out,” Preuss recalled. “All the extras had sweaters and jackets, which we had to push down out of sight in the seats whenever the camera rolled. And Kathleen Turner was getting spritzed to look like she was perspiring.

Filming went on overnight and during breaks I got hot tea from a Chinese food shop that stayed open for the business.

“I spent the 20 bucks or so I got in my Central Casting paycheck on cough medicine, as I recall. Still, it was kind of

William Hurt and Kathleen Turner heat up the night during a scene from Body Heat that was shot in Hollywood. ‘Kathleen Turner was getting spritzed to look like she was perspiring’ during the filming, remembers Victoria Preuss, one of the extras in the movie.

a hoot.”

Then-Mayor Dennis Dorsey was in his heyday — utilities were cheap, the city was growing — but at the time the movie wasn’t that big a deal to him.

“The producers went to the city manager and asked what they had to do,” Dorsey recalled. “The City Commission said it would be fine as long as filming didn’t disturb the city and affect its ability to do business. But I didn’t get involved, other than to approve the applications.”

A vacant store at the corner of Lucerne and Dixie was converted into Stella’s Diner and a vacant lot across the street became a used car lot that caused some confusion for one commissioner until Dorsey reminded him about the film. The company used the now-demolished Scotia

Plantation in Hypoluxo for exteriors and some sexy scenes between Hurt and Turner.

Too bad the company filmed under the radar.

Kasdan had written The Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Body Heat was his first shot at directing. Remember The Big Chill? That was his. Silverado, Grand Canyon, French Kiss. Out next year, Darling Companion, starring Kevin Kline and Diane Keaton.

The only star with any name recognition was Richard Crenna, whose lengthy résumé of film and TV work was topped by the The Real McCoys.

Known mostly for his work in theater, Hurt had won good notices for Altered States. Turner had been a regular on The Doctors. The

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movie also kicked off the careers of Mickey Rourke and the tap-dancing prosecutor — another ex-Doctors cast member — Ted Danson. A year later he would debut in a sitcom called Cheers.

A couple of other notes: Kim Zimmer, the actress who played Turner’s lookalike friend Mary Ann in the movie, actually replaced her on The Doctors; Danson actually does like to tap dance; and Body Heat’s executive producer, although uncredited, was George Lucas.

Dorsey, since retired from his funeral home business but still dabbling in politics, later moved to Hypoluxo, just a couple of blocks from Scotia Plantation and remembers it being overgrown and full of raccoons: “They were ferocious. Go down that street and they’d come charging at you.”

Two city commissioners were hired as extras — Ron Exline and Mark Foley.

Exline, who later served as mayor, is a businessman holding a valise as Hurt walks by. Foley eats a burger at “Stella’s” counter.

“The city agreed to the movie in hopes of getting favorable publicity. We thought it would be a murder mystery, Exline said.

“Actually, I was told by a member of the crew that they rented a mansion down in Delray and there were some shenanigans down there.

Darn it, I didn’t get into any of those. “ He also said Lake Worth was a second choice, that a New Jersey site was scratched because of a labor dispute.

But it’s entirely possible that Kasdan knew exactly what he wanted. After all, he was born in Miami.

Exline, no relation to Jim Exline, the convicted

West Palm Beach city commissioner, now calls himself a retired politician, and wishes he knew then what he knows now. But he isn’t complaining: “It’s one of the high points of my career, but I am still waiting for my first royalty check.”

On those same sidewalks where movie stars once walked (Paul Newman a few years later in Harry & Son), the Downtown Cultural Alliance will hold its first Second Saturday Sidewalk Sale on Sept. 10. Bring a card table filled with treasures to support one of the largest yard sales in the region.

The monthly bazaar will range from Dixie Highway to Federal Highway along the curbs of Lake and Lucerne avenues from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

City residents pay $10 per table, non-residents $15. Call 561-533-5272.

11/11/11. The folks who ran Callaro’s in Manalapan hope that’s their lucky day — the opening of their new restaurant in Lake Worth.

Sources confirm that they have a verbal agreement to take over the site that had been occupied since Body Heat days by L’Anjou, with an option to buy.

Fans also are hungry for the reopening of John G’s, but they’ll have to wait a bit longer. Forced to leave their home of 37 years on Lake Worth Beach when the city began restoration of the Casino, the Giragos family quickly found a new space — the former Collaro’s in Plaza Del Mar. The new kitchen is in, See AVENUES on page 7

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Continued from page 6 the old wooden benches are anchored, the old light fixtures hang from the ceiling, and mementoes from the old restaurant are scattered about.

But plans for an August opening have been pushed back a few weeks.

Chris Evert thought she was going to have old rival Steffi Graf on the court with her this coming November at the 2011 Chris Evert/ Raymond James ProCelebrity Tennis Classic in Delray Beach. But not to worry, she’s lined up plenty of other stars.

Thus far the list includes a healthy list of TV and film stars including Elisabeth Shue (Oscar nominee for Leaving Las Vegas), Christian Slater (“Oz” in TV’s Breaking In), Scott Foley (Grey’s Evert Anatomy, Cougar Town), Jeffrey Donovan (Burn Notice) and NBC’s Hoda Kotb, who’ll no doubt grab some cuddle time with new boyfriend, Boca Raton attorney Jay Blumenkopf.

The 22nd annual event is set for Nov. 11-13, with the celebrity gala on Nov. 12 at the Boca Raton Resort & Club. More at www. chrisevert.org.

Down in Delray Beach, David Manero has his second Burger Fi up and running on A1A. Patrons describe the fare as a “more affordable version of the burgers at The Office,” David’s more upscale spot a few blocks to the west. … And just to the north on Second Avenue, in a town I thought had just about every kind of bar except a strip club, the first gay bar in years is open. Tag Bar Manero replaces Paul’s Place Piano Bar, because Paul Mullen, the piano player, took a cruise ship job. Brother Kevin Mullen bought out Paul and changed the tune.

Actually, says Kevin Mullen, Tag Bar welcomes everyone, but will be gay-themed with live entertainment, karaoke nights and even drag queen bingo.

Boynton’s new $300,000 amphitheater is open. Situated just east of the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum and Learning Center, it features a 1,200-square-foot stage and can accommodate 500 guests in lawn chairs. The first

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scheduled even is a downtown open market on Oct. 16 with local arts and crafts, vintage goods and gourmet food.

We still don’t know who bought his oceanfront Manalapan estate, but boxing promoter Don King is still hanging around. Don didn’t say where he’s living when he stopped for lunch at Scully’s in Boynton Beach, but when asked what happened to King the oceanside small-scale Statue of Liberty on his lawn, the old softy told owner Kevin Scully he took it with him.

“I couldn’t leave Lady Liberty behind,” he confessed.

Taste of Tuscany. It’s scheduled for Oct. 2, but you’d better make your reservations now for a special dinner being whipped up by Four Seasons Palm Beach Executive Chef Darryl Moiles. The occasion is a celebration of wines by Antinori, legendary Italian producer since the 14th century. Moiles’ 21st century four-course menu is $125 and includes a sampling reception.

Call 533-3750.

Tastemakers of Boca … is set for Sept. 13 and 14.

The third annual event will feature progressive tastings and cocktails at 11 Mizner Park restaurants. A VIP ticket ($30) is good for one sampling plate and one drink at each spot, including Max’s Grille, Racks, Uncle Julio’s, The Dubliner and Mizner’s newest, Kapow! Noodle Bar. The ticket also includes specials offered at each of the restaurants through Oct. 31.

For info, go to www.ggp.com.

Taking civic duty to a new level. Office holders worthy of election should be able to take a few shots, but can they pour a decent one? On Sept. 21 the mayors of south county’s big three — Boynton’s Jose Rodriguez, Delray’s Woodie McDuffie and Boca’s Susan Whelchel — will test their skills as guest bartenders at Bru’s Room in Delray. The first “Mayors Throwdown for the Arts,” a benefit for Delray’s Plumosa School of the Arts, goes from 5 to 7 p.m. Tips and a percentage of the take will go toward a bus to transport students for field trips and performances.

Thom Smith is a freelance writer. Contact him at thomsmith@ ymail.com.

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Delray Beach

New restaurant parking requirements back on the table

By Margie Plunkett Delray Beach commissioners revived the discussion of downtown restaurant parking, voting 3-2 to reconsider whether to remove incentives once designed to attract restaurants. The ordinance will be heard on first reading Sept. 6.

Early in August, the panel had voted down the measure, noting that more information was needed before making the change — which would entail doubling the required parking for restaurants downtown on Atlantic Avenue. The move also boosts costs for new establishments: If they can’t supply the required parking, they must pay fees as required by the inlieu parking program.

Commissioner Tom Carney asked that the issue be revisited, saying that he felt it had to be addressed sooner

rather than later. “Taking it off the table without a full discussion, I think is a mistake,” he said at an Aug. 16 meeting. The measure, which if approved, would not be retroactive and would affect only applications filed after 5 p.m. Sept. 6, the date of the first reading of the ordinance.

The second reading is scheduled for Sept. 20.

Also voting for reconsideration of withdrawing the parking incentives for these restaurants were Commissioners Angelita Grey and Jay Alperin, who was appointed in August to fill the seat vacated by Fred Fetzer.

All the necessary information was not discussed when the last ordinance came up, said Alperin, adding, “I happened to have been here in ’93 when we did all this (granted parking incentives).” The new commissioner said he had spoken to staff about

getting a lot of the facts he had not heard during the previous discussion.

Mayor Woodie McDuffie and Commissioner Adam Frankel opposed reconsideration.

While the discussion was of removing incentives for restaurants, the city doesn’t know what kind of retail it wants to attract, the mayor said, adding the entire issue should be left for exploration by a new economic development director when that person is hired.

The ordinance that commissioners voted down in August would have affected restaurants on Atlantic Avenue from Swinton to Northeast and Southeast Fifth, bringing parking requirements in line with regulations throughout the city.

While the city once worked to lure restaurants to this section, it is now saturated with the establishments,

city staff contended. When it ended the incentives, the city also intended to follow up with incentives for retail retention and expansion.

Eateries smaller than 6,000 square feet would have been required to have 12 parking spaces per 1,000 square feet — up from six previously — under the rejected ordinance.

Restaurants larger than 6,000 square feet would have been required to have 15 parking spaces per 1,000 square feet.

Costs would have risen for restaurants that couldn’t furnish the required parking and would pay for in-lieu parking — which costs $15,600 per space on Atlantic west of the Intracoastal, $18,200 per space east of the Intracoastal; $7,800 for areas including within the Pineapple Grove Main Street area and $4,000 in the Ú West Atlantic Neighborhood.

City may increase beach parking, marina fees approved by commissioners at a regular meeting before they can become effective and weren’t factored in as revenues to the $92.9 million general fund with a $133,000 surplus that’s proposed for next fiscal year.

Commissioners gave City Manager David Harden and the city staff praise for crafting a budget with a surplus.

“The whole staff has worked very hard to put together this budget, realizing we don’t want to raise our millage rate,” Harden said.

He said the city may be able to cut the proposed tax rate slightly, from $7.19 per

By Margie Plunkett Beachgoers may pay a quarter more an hour for parking in Delray Beach in the next budget year, which would raise about $193,000 in new fees for the city.

The parking increase was one of several proposed fee increases presented at the City Commission’s Aug. 30 workshop meeting.

Others were slips at the city marina, beach parking permits for seniors (in exchange for added parking privileges) and for several programs under Parks and Recreation.

The fee hikes still must be

$1,000 of a home’s taxable value to $7.15.

The proposed fees, which will be brought to Commission again later, include the hike to $1.50 per hour for beach parking from the current $1.25.

Beach parking permits would increase $5 to $85 for a standard pass and to $90 for a senior pass, which would allow seniors access to parking areas along A1A in the off season. That measure, which would add $2,100 in revenue, kicked off a discussion among Commissioners about whether seniors with parking permits could be granted

some parking privileges during the high season as well.

Boaters taking slips at the municipal marina could pay $17 or $18 a foot, which would be a reversal from last year when the city dropped the fee to $16 from $21.

The marina, which also expects to provide free parking to the boaters, now has a waiting list of 34.

Lifting boat fees to $17 per foot would equate to about $12,000 in new annual revenues for the city. The Commission discussed charging even more for slips because of the high number on the waiting list.

The capital program presented at the workshop was $39.7 million, the largest part of which is for general construction (36 percent) and with 29 percent, or $9 million, for beach restoration and renourishment.

Proposed projects include $9.9 million for the beautification of U.S. 1, which would begin in June, and an A1A project to build a pavilion as part of the beach beautification plan and the beach master plan.

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Mary Renaud, president of the Beach Property Owners Association, said cigarette butt litter is a problem on the beach.

“The beach is covered with them.” She said she couldn’t

comment on the receptacles, because she had not seen them, and did not know whether they would help the problem, adding that BPOA members have discussed on numerous occasions the possibility of a no-smoking policy on the beach.

Delray Beach will also use the funding to support a community awareness program including public

service announcements and distribution of pocket ashtrays.

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Gulf Stream

Improvements, cameras for Place Au Soleil entranceway

By Steve Plunkett

Place Au Soleil homeowners will install four security cameras to track comings and goings while they widen the entrance road to their community across the street from the Walmart being built in Boynton Beach.

“I think that’s all part of a message to the outsiders: This is a class town, and beware!’’ homeowner association representative Ned McDonald said.

Town commissioners at their August meeting agreed to act as a “bank of Gulf Stream’’ and lend the homeowners up to $90,000 for the project while the group collects $800 special assessments from its members.

The town also will contribute $10,000 and the Gulf Stream Civic Association $7,500.

McDonald said 15 homeowners had already paid a discounted $750 before letters could go out seeking the money. The association voted 54-6 in favor of the project.

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The revamped entrance will include wider roadways. homeowners have talked about fixing up the entrance for years, McDonald said.

“We really turned the jets on when we learned that Walmart was coming,’’ he said.

The road on either side of the guardhouse is too narrow for fire engines and some delivery trucks, which run over and crumble the curb or hit the guardhouse’s tiled roof. The new curbs will be farther from the guardhouse and swale-

shaped to minimize the chance of their breaking.

McDonald said the improvements would be topnotch. “Whether someone is coming in from the east side of Gulf Stream or from the west side of Gulf Stream, your front entrance is going to be an ‘ahh’ moment. It’s going to be, ‘This is class, this is really special,’ ’’ he said.

The Walmart, at the northwest corner of Federal Highway and Gulfstream Boulevard where the Platinum Gold strip club used to be, is scheduled to open Oct. 26, about two months before the Place Au Soleil project is finished. The store will be open 24 hours a day seven days a week.

“There’s a lot of information out there that indicates that crime surrounding a 24/7 Walmart increases,’’ Town Manager William Thrasher said.

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Gulf Stream

Volk house demolition, 6 house subdivision delayed

By Steve Plunkett In its heyday on the eve of World War II, the British Colonial mansion at 1220 N. Ocean Blvd. was a highsociety scene of elegant soirees. Now the estate, which donated an outbuilding for Gulf Stream’s first Town Hall, may become a six-home subdivision.

Representatives of the late Regina Spence are selling the property to Seaside Builders, which is seeking town approval to subdivide the sixplus acres. The Architectural Review and Planning Board deferred the proposal to Sept.

22 to give Seaside time to talk with neighbors in Hidden Harbour.

“This is not something that we’ve faced before,’’ ARPB Chairman Bob Ganger said. “I’m sure it was done routinely when Gulf Stream

The British Colonial home, designed by noted Palm Beach architect John L. Volk, is slated for demolition as part of plans for a six-home subdivision. Photo by Jerry Lower was being put together, but this is our maiden voyage.’’

Seward Webb Jr., the son of Lila Vanderbilt Webb, bought the land in 1937 from E.F. Hutton, his mother’s former Palm Beach neighbor, said Ganger, a past president of the Delray Beach Historical

Society.

Lila Webb had built and moved into Miradero, where Ganger now lives, but Seward Webb did not care for its Mediterranean Revival architecture.

“He never liked the design of his mother’s house even

though he had done much of it himself,’’ Ganger said.

So Seward Webb, who founded Webb and Knapp real estate in New York City, had Palm Beach society architect John L. Volk draw up a British Colonial design.

Other names on Volk’s client

list included Ford, Dodge, Pulitzer and DuPont. He also designed the Royal Poinciana Plaza and Playhouse in Palm Beach.

Gulf Stream Mayor William Koch Jr. remembered in his teen years dating one of Webb’s daughters, dressing up for a formal dinner and afterward puffing on a cigar with the men while the women had tea in another part of the mansion.

“I’d be sitting around, listening to all these powers of the past,’’ said Koch, who will not vote on the subdivision proposal because his real estate firm listed the estate’s sale.

Koch recalled the elder Webb, who married a daughter of New York City Mayor William J. Gaynor, built a photo lab on the grounds of his home that became the first Town Hall.

“It was the size of a double outhouse,’’ Koch said, noting a picture of the historic structure hangs in the current Town Hall.

Koch said the more than 9,000-square-foot house, which was bought by Edmond and Regina Spence after Webb died, is a shadow of its former self.

“The house today is nothing like the old house,’’ he said.

The proposed subdivision, to be called Hidden Harbour Estates — Plat II, would have two homes with driveways on State Road A1A, two with driveways on the entrance road along the south edge of the property and two with driveways on a private road on the west side. The Spence house would be demolished and the mound it sits on leveled and smoothed into a dip between the house and A1A. Hidden Harbour neighbors have not fully embraced the plan. Martin O’Boyle researched the 1937 deed and told the architectural board it contains a restriction limiting the parcel to three homes.

“We’d love to see the house remain, but I guess that’s not going to happen,’’ neighbor Jim Neeves added.

The developer’s architect, former Delray Beach City Commissioner Gary Eliopoulos, said he would help document the house’s architecture before it was demolished.

Original owner Seward Webb “in Delray was heroic.

He gave the land for what became the Seacrest School,’’ Ganger said.

Regina Spence died in December at age 92; her will has not been made public.

Ganger said she made generous donations to the Delray Beach Historical Society and the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Ú

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TEXACO

Continued from page 1 On one of the chairs, an embroidered throw pillow warns, At The Mention Of My Name, Fish Tremble.

There is no No Loitering sign.

“This is the only place in town where the guys can come and sit down and relax,” says Vinny Dinaneth.

Dinaneth, 56, is the president of this exclusive group, a former cop from Trinidad who also owns and runs the station, when not busy presiding.

All together, the club’s membership is limited to about 20 (mostly) men — residents of the county pocket, former residents of the county pocket, ex-cops turned fishermen, retirees.

And one dog.

When Sam Malloy got out of the Army, he spent a year in the long-gone Pelican Apartments across the road, working for the station’s former owners. That was in 1981. He still drives over from Boynton Beach.

“It’s Mayberry here,” he says. “We’re just hanging out watching the day go by, but it sure beats sitting home watching the news.”

Bill Kendi, 37, used to live in the pocket. Now he, too, travels from the mainland to attend the meetings.

“I come for the wealth of wisdom that Vinny has to offer,” he explains.

The dress code is casual, the behavior code strict.

“The main rule is, no drugs,” says Vinny. “If you’re a druggie, you don’t hang out here.”

Also, no idiots.

“We had one guy that was an idiot, so he got a 99-year ban.”

Actually, the club has one genuine claim to exclusivity.

Gulf Stream Texaco is the only gas station on A1A between Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach. A Marathon station that begat a Gulf station that begat the Texaco, it opened in 1948. The pumps do not accept credit cards, but drive over the bellringer hose and Vinny will rouse himself to provide full service while the others watch approvingly.

There are no dues, but members must be able to take a joke. Endless jokes. Taunts and teases.

“Why you smoking?” Bob Osceola calls to a familiar customer. “I thought you quit.”

“I did,” the customer grins, inhaling deeply.

Kimberly Oldham (left), Bob Osceola and Sam Malloy talk with Gehrig Dergo Jr. (standing) and Bill Kendi (back to camera) on the front porch of Gulfstream Texaco. Photos by Tim Stepien

Gulfstream Texaco owner Vinny Dinareth posted a sign that reads ‘Do not feed the seated’ in the window of his station.

Osceola, 68, is a former parole officer who claims to be a great-, great-, greatgrandson of Chief Osceola, the famed Seminole warrior.

“I come here for the fishing lessons,” he says. “The only problem is, the information’s all wrong.”

At the Texaco, Osceola is best known as the human

partner of Missy, a black Lab retriever and the club’s “official greeter.”

“She’s 22,” he says proudly.

“That’s 150 in dog years. I had her mother, Martha, for 22 years.”

These days, Missy presides beside a bowl of water. Her greetings consist of the occasional wag and a friendly

disposition. Offered free food, she may deign to rise and lick a hand. At this private club, she is granted the respect owed its oldest member.

“You hungry, Missy?” asks Gehrig Dergo. He crosses to his apartment in the Blue Ocean Lodge and returns shortly bearing a hotdog sandwich slathered with Hellman’s mayonnaise.

“There you go, girl.”

Dergo, 53, retired Dec. 1 as a deputy with the Grundy County, Ill., Sheriff’s Department.

On his first venture into ocean fishing, he arrived on the dock with a bass rod.

Grundy County has no ocean, but Dergo will not be allowed to forget his mistake. He can take a joke.

Hanging out one afternoon, he spots an SUV

pulling out of Cordova Avenue.

“Failure to signal,” he announces. “Failure to stop at a stop sign. No seatbelt and he’s hanging on a cell phone.”

Let the teasing begin.

“Hey,” Dergo shouts, “I’m only retired nine months!”

Finally, Gulf Stream royalty arrives. Vern Oldham, 57, has been the chef at that other private paradise, The Little Club, for 30 years. He cooks there, but he socializes here, and when Vinny has a good day fishing, Oldham smokes the catch, no charge.

“I had a couple old Corvettes and had Vinny work on them for me. He knows his trade. I don’t hang out here,” he says. “I live here.”

They don’t really live here, of course. The station closes at seven o’clock. But they come alive here. The language may be rough, but the mood is mellow.

“It’s a pretty eclectic group,” says Dergo. “We’ve got a plumber, an Indian, an ex-cop from Trinidad, and a 150-year-old dog.”

And no idiots. Say something even mildly idiotic and they pounce. A burst of laughter, followed by a blizzard of profanity.

Seated by Missy, Bob Osceola takes in the latest outburst with amused detachment, then passes judgment.

“The love around here,” he Ú says, “is just amazing.”

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MEET YOUR NEIGHBOR: Tall and lanky with a firm handshake, 81-year-old Vince Canning of coastal Delray Beach seems like a no-nonsense fellow.

And he certainly is, when it comes to serving his community. But he’s got a whimsical side, too, evidenced by his Mickey Mouse wristwatch.

“I’ve always worn a fun watch,” Canning says. “When I had the shoe stores, I wore a Buster Brown one, of course.” He retrieves it from a back room and shows off the watch’s face with its classic winking-boy-and-dog logo.

Selling Buster Browns and dozens of other popular shoe brands was Canning’s lifelong career, and the shoe store that bears his name is still going strong in downtown Delray Beach.

Canning is retired now, and devotes almost all of his time to volunteer work.

He keeps a busy schedule. One day a week he picks up day-old bread from Publix and Costco and drives it to Caring Kitchen, which provides meals to the homeless.

He dedicates another day each week to Kiwanis Club activities (he’s been active there for 50 years), and another day to church activities.

A member of St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church, Canning is a founding member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul conference attached to the parish.

Canning has been a gung-ho volunteer since arriving in Delray in the late 1950s. He has served on the boards of directors of both the Boca Raton and Delray Beach Chambers of Commerce and the Delray Beach Playhouse.

Each year he helps build, staff and tear down the 100-foot Christmas tree at Old School Square, and he has headed up the Halloween Parade for 40 years.

For his ceaseless contributions to the community, Canning has been awarded the Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce 2011-2012 Lifetime Achievement Award. He will be honored at the Chamber’s annual Luminary Gala fundraiser Sept. 17 at the Delray Beach Marriott.

“I’m very pleased to be recognized by my peers, and I hope I can live up to what they expect of me,” the evermodest Canning says. Then he adds, “I’m not through.”

— Paula Detwiller

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

A. I grew up in Kansas City, Mo., and lived there until graduation from the University of Missouri in 1951.

Then I entered into the U.S. Marine Corps. It was a startling experience but a wonderful experience. I think the Marine Corps made a better

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

A. These are very difficult times we’re living in. You can be selective, but be prepared to move on to another occupation if need be. Also, be happy with what you’re doing. Don’t continue to be in an occupation that you’re not happy with. Life is too important.

Q. How did you choose to make your home in Delray Beach?

A. When my wife, Pat, and I were married, it was time to settle down and have a little bit of equity, and it was only natural to buy a home in Delray Beach. It was located close to my headquarters store, the ocean was only a block and a half away, and it was an ideal location for house guests.

I was 39 and Pat was 40 when we got married. She was a schoolteacher in St. Louis, and we’d been the very best of friends for 13 years. She’d look me up when she came down here, and I’d visit her in Missouri. I got tired of being alone and realized this lady was the best thing for me, so it was time to do something about it. We’ve been happily married now for over 40 years, and our friendship is much the same as it was back then.

Q. What is your favorite part about living and working in this area?

A. It’s very desirable. I’m surrounded by good people and what I enjoy doing: using the beach, walking, biking and participating in the community.

Vince Canning sits in his namesake shoe store on Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach.

His nephew took over the store in 1995, allowing Canning to pursue volunteer work. Photo by Jerry Lower person out of me, more conscious of other people and more aware of my surroundings.

I was stationed in San Diego and assigned to special service as the equipment manager for the Marine Corps basketball team. I got to see a lot of the West when the team traveled to games against various colleges and universities. This was during the Korean War, and I was lucky enough never to be shipped out.

Q. What inspired you to get into the shoe business? How long did you have the shop?

A. After the Marine Corps, I needed to start a career. My father had worked for Brown Shoe Co. and had made a good living, and I saw there was a future in it. So I worked for Brown Shoe Co. in St. Louis for a couple of years.

By this time my folks had moved to Florida and my dad had a business

on Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach called Warren’s Better Shoes. In 1957, I came to Florida to put down my roots. When my dad retired, I bought his business and renamed it Vince Canning Shoes.

Over the years I accumulated three other shoe stores, one on Atlantic Boulevard in Pompano Beach, one in Boynton Beach at Sunshine Square and one at the Royal Palm Place shopping center in Boca Raton.

When I began thinking about retirement, I sold off the other stores and kept Delray Beach as the headquarters. My nephew Mark Denkler — he and his wife moved here from Houston — they took over the business when I retired in 1995.

Q. What’s your favorite part of the work you do?

A. Working with people. I find it very enjoyable.

Q. Have you had mentors in your life? Individuals who have inspired your life decisions?

A. Here in Delray we have had excellent community leaders.

I’ll mention two of them, Ken Ellingsworth and Marshall DeWitt.

Both of these people were inspiring to me. They were interested not so much in themselves, but in the community, to make this a better place to live.

Q. What book are you reading now?

A. Crazy Horse and Custer, by Stephen Ambrose. He is a wonderful author.

Q. Who or what makes you laugh?

A. My wife — which has a lot to do with why we’re still together after 40 years. Also, I never tire of the TV shows popular in the ’80s such as Mary Tyler Moore, and M*A*S*H. Q. If your life story were made into a movie, who would you want to play you?

A. Robert Redford. He’s good looking, he’s a good all-around person, and if people were to attend the movie, they’d say “perfectly cast.”

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Beach house size goes to zoning commission

By Tim O’Meilia

How big should a Manalapan beach house be?

Until now, the answer has been: not big enough to live in, sleep in, cook in or rent out.

Certainly not big enough to be seen from State Road A1A, so lush landscaping is a must.

By town law, just big enough to have a pair of changing rooms and a small common area: 750 square feet.

But Manalapan town commissioners voted Aug. 23 to ask the zoning commission to consider whether to allow larger cabanas, perhaps setting a formula based on the size of the oceanfront property.

While the question of whether beach house size matters applies to only 30 properties along the ocean south of Chillingworth Curve, the town has wrestled with the issue several times over the years.

“I’m asking that you make a decision based on the size of the lot,” south end

resident George Vlassis said to the commission. Vlassis wants to expand his 500-square-foot beach house to more than the allowed 750 square feet.

Although concerned about landscaping and intruding on the view of neighbors, Commissioner Donald Brennan said, a small cabana “is not a usable structure given the lifestyle of the town.”

The size limits were designed to prevent the beach houses from being used as residences and from obstructing the beach view of neighbors. A few are larger than allowed because they were built before the regulations were adopted.

“I don’t have an interest in putting in a bedroom but I’d like to have a pizza and be able to sit down and watch a ball game,” said Brennan. “You can build a nice place that’s not intrusive.”

By allowing larger beach structures, said Commissioner Robert Evans, “we have the possibility of essentially building new residences.”

He feared heirs may want to split the

property into two lots later.

Ken Kaleel, representing builder Stewart Satter, said multimillion-dollar waterfront properties should not be unfairly limited.

Satter owns four properties along the barrier island.

“So what if the grandkids want to live in the house during the winter? That’s why you own the property,” he said.

Commissioner Louis DeStefano, who also lives south of the curve, opposed sending the issue to the zoning board.

He also suggested that only commissioners who live on the ocean vote on the question.

“I don’t think people on the point understand the issue,” he said, referring to Point Manalapan residents.

Commissioners rejected his idea.

“We want our landowners to be able to do what they want with their land, but we also want to protect the neighbors,” Evans said.

While the zoning commission deals with the issue, commissioners loosened the requirement that cabanas be 30 feet

by 25 feet, allowing a 37.5-foot northsouth length but keeping the total area at 750 square feet.

In other business in August, commissioners: • Approved an ordinance change to allow dock lighting five feet above the docks instead of four, but reducing the maximum intensity of the light from 850 lumens to 480 lumens.

• Asked Town Manager Linda Stumpf for a proposal to reduce the town’s reserves from 59 percent of the annual budget to 40 or 50 percent and use that money to reduce the tax rate. The town has about $2 million in reserves.

Although commissioners have set a maximum tax rate of $2.80 per $1,000 of taxable property value, the manager has suggested reducing the rate to $2.789.

Public hearings on the budget are set for 5:01 p.m. Sept. 15 and 26.

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Police hope tweets will discourage youthful drinkers

By Tim O’Meilia Hooligans in England used Facebook, Twitter and other social media as an almost instantaneous call to riot in London, Birmingham and other British cities.

Manalapan Police Chief Clay Walker hopes electronic communication will have the opposite effect in policing the Boynton Inlet.

Police made half a dozen arrests for underage drinking on the north side of the inlet in the past month and Walker figures word may spread as fast as a tweet can be read.

“Social media is very, very important,” Walker said. “As soon as an arrest is made, they’re on their smartphones and tweeting.”

Walker’s message is that the cove off Bird Island on the north side of the inlet is not the place to break the law.

Complaints by Manalapan residents north of the inlet about noisy parties, trespassing and vandalism have prompted Walker to consult with other law enforcement agencies — the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, Ocean Ridge and Lantana police and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission — in mapping a strategy to police Ocean Beach Park, which is bounded by Manalapan on the north and Ocean Ridge on the south.

The park has become attractive to partiers since $8 million in improvements to the jetties, Bird Island and the sand transfer station were completed earlier this year.

“We’ve met with a lot of agencies in this area to see what their enforcement needs are and how we can cooperate,” Walker said.

Manalapan has a written agreement with the Sheriff’s Office allowing Manalapan

to patrol the north side of the inlet. In addition, it has mutual aid agreements with Ocean Ridge and Lantana. Lantana has a patrol boat, which other smaller coastal towns lack.

“It’s difficult to justify a boat for one small community,” Walker said. He’s offered

personnel instead, an officer to help Lantana’s marine patrol.

Manalapan is teaming with wildlife officers to enforce fishing license and catch limits.

Town police and sheriff’s deputies are also enforcing open container laws and the prohibition of dogs on the

public beach.

“We’ve made ourselves available for mutual aid although we haven’t had any incidents in our jurisdiction,” said Ocean Ridge Police Chief Chris Yannuzzi.

The town’s boundaries extend into the south end of the

park but not as far north as the inlet. The town owns an allterrain vehicle that is useful on the beach, if needed.

Of the underage drinking arrests, Walker said, “Maybe we’re solving a problem not only on the beaches but also in the community.” Ú

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HURRICANE SEASON

A-Z

Any way you look at it, it spells trouble!

I J

is for the Irene, that frightening Cat 3 that skirted us in late August in favor of a trip to New York. We’re glad she remained standoffish! Also for ice. Stock up!

is for Jim Cantore (right), the guy you hope isn’t sent by the Weather Channel to cover your storm. It’s always devastating when he’s around.

K

is for kitchen, where your fridge and freezer are just waiting to go out. (Clean ’em out now!)

Coastal Star Staff

A

is for the African coast. We have it to thank for the birth of our Caribbean storms. Also Alka-Seltzer. Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is when hurricane warnings get downgraded to tropical storm, or when a hurricane misses you all together like Irene did.

B C

is for cone of destruction or cone of terror. Some forecasters may call it the “cone of probability,” but we know better. C is also for cash. You’ll want to have some on hand when the power goes out and ATMs are rendered useless.

D

strikes.

N

is for misery index. It’s bound to soar if, and after, a storm

is for that wonderful neighbor who runs a loooonnnnnnng extension cord from his kitchen to your bedroom — and suddenly you have TV, a fan and a reading lamp. Also for next-of-kin, which the police ask for when you tell them you plan to weather the onrushing storm in your barrierisland home.

is for questioning what family heirlooms to pack in the car before evacuating the barrier island. Also, for the eerie quiet when the hurricane’s eye passes over your neighborhood.

P R

is for power outages and prayer.

If you have the first one, you’ll be using the second one to get your power back.

is for reservations. Make them as soon as you can and preferably at a fine hotel where you can ride out the storm in style.

is for surfing safety. Rip currents abound as hurricanes loom and surfers need to excersise extra caution while hanging 10. Also for shingle, the kind that flies off the roof and is capable of decapitating delicate daisies and then boomeranging back for more. Also: shelters, where you’ll need to go if you can’t prevail on family, friends or a nice hotel.

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is for evacuate, what barrier island residents should do when a hurricane warning is issued.

F

is for feeder bands like those that marched through Boca from Irene. Those bursts of wind and rain are notorious for knocking out power; and for flashlights, which you’re gonna need when the power goes out during the next big storm.

G

is for generator.

How we hate those smelly, noisy and expensive machines, but put up with it all just to keep the refrigerator running.

Also for gas lines at the filling station.

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O Q S T

L M

is for the love you’ll try desperately to remember you have for your family after being stuck in a shuttered-up home for 12 hours while the storm passes over.

is for overwhelmed. Hard to escape feeling this way, although a plan will help.

Look under R for a remedy.

is for barometric pressure. Watch the pressure drop as the storm approaches, hoping that your roof will hold up so you won’t need any blue tarps. Also for batteries, of which no poststorm home can have too many.

is for debris — like that very large oak tree branch that falls on your house. Also for the disaster supply kit (water, food, flashlights, batteries, first aid kit, etc.) that you should have by now!

September 2011

is for happy dance, which you’ll be doing when the power finally comes back on. Also for Home Depot, where you’ll be standing in line for plywood or shutters, if they still have them in stock. And then there’s hurricane hunters, those brave folks who fly right into storms to check them out.

is for Tapcons, those pesky little concrete screw anchors often needed to secure hurricane shutters.

That is, if Home Depot doesn’t run out of them.

V X Y

is for vodka, large swallows of which can help you endure the pelting rain and howling winds.

is for X-ing out the days on the calendar until hurricane season is over. The season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.

is for the yelling we will all try not to do because it’s so darn hot after the storm passes and we have no electricity.

What’s in a name?

U

is for the uncertainty of waiting and wondering and watching TV as the storm approaches. Will it veer north or south? Will it fizzle out before it arrives? Or will we get hammered head-on? Who knows? Also: For “uh-oh,” which you’ll be saying every time you listen to the weather forecasters predicting, “This will be the Big One!”

W

is for watch and warning. Do you know the difference?

A hurricane watch indicates the possibility that you could experience hurricane conditions within 48 hours. A hurricane warning indicates that sustained winds of at least 74 mph are expected within 36 hours.

Z

is for the ZZZZZZs you’ll be missing staying up to watch the Weather Channel.

New definitions of tropical storm and hurricane watches and warnings, as of 2010: Hurricane Watch: An announcement that hurricane conditions (sustained winds of 74 mph or higher) are possible within the specified coastal area. Because hurricane preparedness activities become difficult once winds reach tropical storm force, the hurricane watch is issued 48 hours in advance of the anticipated onset of tropicalstorm-force winds.

Hurricane Warning: An announcement that hurricane conditions (sustained winds of 74 mph or higher) are expected within the specified coastal area. Because preparedness activities become difficult once winds reach tropical storm force, a hurricane warning is issued 36 hours in advance of the anticipated onset of tropicalstorm-force winds. A tropical storm has maximum sustained winds of 39 to 73 mph.

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Hurricane Irene

Along the Coast

Equinox can exaggerate tidal flooding this fall

By Tim O’Meilia

High waves splash along the pumping plant at the Boynton Inlet as Hurricane Irene passed over the Bahamas. A few hours after the top photo was taken, a wave injured eight stormwatchers and officials closed the jetty. Later in the day, spectators took to the beach north of the inlet and risked the storm-driven waves.

Photos by Jerry Lower

The autumnal equinox arrives Sept. 23 and that means higher than usual spring tides could threaten to slosh down coastal streets this fall.

Huh? Spring tides in the fall?

“It all has to do with the Earth, the sun and the moon lining up during the full moon and the new moon. And it has to do with the equinox,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Dave Ross in mysteriously vague terms.

And twice-monthly spring tides have nothing to do with the seasons. The strongest tides — usually 20 percent higher than normal — occur during the new moon when the gravitational pull of the sun and moon are aligned on one side of the Earth.

Add a pinch of help from the equinox, when the sun crosses the Earth’s equator, and the spring tides that follow are usually the strongest of the year.

The Boynton Inlet will have tides 3.8 feet higher than mean low water Sept. 27-28 and 3.9 feet higher Oct. 27, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecasts.

Compare those with other high tides that typically reach 2.8 to 3.1 feet above the mean low water levels.

Along the Intracoastal Waterway near Highland Beach, tides will rise 3.7 feet higher Sept.

27-28 and 3.9 feet Oct. 27. At Lake Boca, near the Boca Inlet, the

September highest tides are 3.5 feet Sept 27-28 and 3.6 feet Oct. 27.

But the biggest difference will be along the Intracoastal Waterway in Ocean Ridge. The Sept. 27-28 tide will reach 4 feet higher and 4.1 feet Oct. 27.

The high tides of autumn sometimes have caused street flooding, but many coastal towns have updated their drainage systems in recent years. Ocean Ridge, for example, installed $4 million in improvements near Woolbright Road several years ago and another project is under way at the end of Coconut Lane to ease flooding problems.

Occasionally silt buildup on the ocean side of the Ocean Avenue bridge will flood the street, as it did several months ago.

“Our main concern is not storm surge because of the coastal ridge.

Our concern is flow into the inlet that will hit us from behind,” said Ocean Ridge Police Chief Chris Yannuzzi.

The same is true for Highland Beach, where flooding from the Intracoastal is more worrisome than ocean tides.

Two years ago, Manalapan cured its frequent flooding problem along State Road A1A near the RitzCarlton and the Plaza del Mar with a state-financed drainage program that installed new drainage and raised the road 18 inches.

“It happens every year,” said meteorologist Ross. “We have the spring tides and the equinox to Ú enhance them even more.”

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September 2011

Ocean Ridge

Guard camps on island for post-disaster training

By Ron Hayes On Aug. 22, while Hurricane Irene was still making up its mind about Florida, 28 National Guardsmen in a vacant lot just across A1A from the Ocean Ridge Police Department were making sure they could help if disaster struck.

“Basically, we’re on a proofof-concept mission,” said Lt. Eddie Jesse, 30, an Iraq vet and the unit’s public affairs officer. “We’re testing our monitoring systems after Jesse a natural disaster.”

Proof-of-concept mission?

That’s how the National Guard describes a training exercise designed to make sure a good idea works.

The idea is to create, very quickly, a sort of supercommunications system that would link all the law enforcement agencies within a 50-mile radius in the aftermath of a storm or other natural disaster. The sheriff’s office and local police departments could talk to each other. Radar and satellite systems could provide air traffic control to direct emergency helicopters. Live TV feeds would give ground workers an aerial view, the better to direct relief efforts,

and Internet access would be available 24 hours a day.

Why Ocean Ridge?

“After a storm, emergency helicopter tend to navigate along the coast if air traffic control towers are knocked out,” Jesse explained, “so we needed a site near the ocean.”

And that’s how those airconditioned tents, satellite and radar trucks and 50-foot aerial antennas came to spend two weeks just south of Oceanfront Park.

“We convoyed down from Camp Blanding,” Jesse said. “It took us 12 hours.”

And two flat tires.

A second radio center was also established at Hugh Taylor Birch State Park in Fort Lauderdale, while the 28 men and women are staying, as they say, at an undisclosed location — a nearby hotel.

“But it’s a 24-hour operation,” Jesse explained.

“This site is manned 24 hours a day.”

So how’s the proof-ofconcept mission proving so far?

“Theoretically, it should take us two days to get operational,” Jesse said. “We were semioperational in two, but it took five days to get everything we wanted, with everyone able to talk to everyone else.”

Meanwhile Police Chief Chris Yannuzzi was thrilled to have the National Guard just across the street.

“We’re very accommo-

ABOVE: Twenty-eight National Guardsmen set up in a vacant lot across from Ocean Ridge Town Hall to test their ability to assist in the aftermath of a natural disaster.

RIGHT: Communications Specialist Eddie Rivera of Jacksonville (left) and PFC Pierre Cyr of Sarasota check equipment in one of the air-conditioned tents.

Photos by Jerry Lower dating on this side of the Intracoastal,” he said. “We’re all in this together, so maybe if we get a real storm next time, they’ll come back.” Ú

Town seeks budget cuts to avoid tapping reserves

By Margie Plunkett and Mary Kate Leming Ocean Ridge employees will forgo cost-of-living increases this year and the town will continue to make do with a part-time maintenance worker as commissioners push for cuts that will help prevent spending from reserves in the $5.3 million budget.

“We can’t continue to drink champagne on a beer budget,” Commissioner Zoanne Hennigan said, speaking of town employees’ salaries and benefits.

Commissioners also agreed to accept $30,500 in additional budget cuts recommended by staff and asked for two proposals on what the budget shortfall would be if the tax rate remained at $5.30 per $1,000 of a home’s taxable value and if it were lowered to $5.25.

The panel approved a tentative tax rate of $5.30 at its July meeting, with the intent to lower the rate as possible before final budget approval.

The preliminary rate can still be decreased, but cannot be raised. The current tax rate is

$5.25 per $1,000.

The budget prepared by the staff is based on a rate of $5.15. Even though the general fund budget is $39,776 less than last year, a $150 million drop in property values over the last two years means an annual revenue drop of about $740,000, the town’s budget message said.

This year’s property value increased a slight 0.32 percent.

The preliminary budget had included a 3 percent raise for employees, which would have meant a total $60,200.

Converting the maintenance worker to full-time from part-time would have cost an additional $19,000, the budget says.

Commissioners are considering other possible cuts, including medical benefits and a requested Police Department investigator position. Town Manager Ken Schenck has a proposal in hand from another health provider, but has not yet studied it indepth.

The preliminary budget includes $82,000 in salary and See OCEAN RIDGE on page 11

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News 19

South Palm Beach Town sets budget workshop The South Palm Beach Town Council has scheduled a budget workshop at 7:15 p.m. Sept. 12 to discuss suggestions made by residents during the first public hearing on the budget, at 6:45 p.m. Sept. 6.

The second and final public hearing is set for 6:45 p.m. Sept.

20, before the monthly council meeting.

The council has set a preliminary tax rate for 2012 at $4.32 for each $1,000 of taxable property value, the same rate is this year.

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benefits for an investigator.

The budget proposal notes that the Police Department drastically reduced overtime payments by moving to 12hour shifts this year.

Commissioners queried Police Chief Chris Yannuzzi about whether a consultant could help complete the policy and procedure manual required for accreditation, noting they don’t want to pay anything out of reserves other than one-time expenses.

Mayor Ken Kaleel also asked Schenck to get a quote from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office for providing police protection for the city.

“We don’t want it, but we have a duty to look at it,” the mayor said.

Ocean Ridge and other coastal communities have been exploring consolidating services, including those offered by police departments.

Commissioners noted their commitment to that project.

But Yannuzzi pointed out, “We want other towns to come here. We want to be the draw.”

Tentative budget adoption is set for a meeting at 5:01 Ú p.m. Sept. 12.

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News 20

Lantana

Flooding and ballfields get council action

By Margie Plunkett The Lantana Town Council hopes a newly approved $711,765 contract will pull the plug on a drainage problem at North Atlantic Drive and Beach Curve Road on Hypoluxo Island that has spanned decades.

The winning bid, quoted by Intercounty Engineering Inc. of Pompano Beach, was the low offer of four bids submitted in late July in response to a town solicitation.

The drainage improvement project to correct the problem is expected to take at least six months, and will be followed by a long-awaited road paving project, according to Town Manager Mike Bornstein.

The area has chronically flooded for 30 or 40 years, according to Bornstein, who like Mayor David Stewart recalled the waters claiming at least two vehicles — including a police car — and on occasion providing a venue for boatertowed water skiers.

Frustrated neighbors recently came out to a budget meeting ahead of the drainage contract bidding deadline, learning that the money had

TOP: Paul Shersty (center) announces the weight of a wahoo caught by team ‘Killer Buzz’ of Boca Raton during The Mark Gerretson Memorial 17th Annual Fishing Tournament in Delray Beach. The 42-pound wahoo was one pound heavier than the closest competitor and was good enough to give the team the $4,050 prize for overall largest fish. (From left), Chris Green, Chris James, Blake Johnson and Ben Zafir.

RIGHT: Nicholas Sarmousakis, 9, holds a $100 check and trophy for top junior angler he was awarded for catching a 3.8-pound triple tail.

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Separately, council members approved an agreement with the Lantana Athletic Association that allows the association to use and maintain the Lantana Sports Complex for the 2011-12 year.

The new contract is an extension of one last year — a move that allowed youth sports to continue at the complex while reducing the financial burden on the town.

The town previously had spent approximately $400,000 a year to operate the complex, but the agreement has reduced the town’s obligation to less than half of that sum, Bornstein said, noting its costs include debt payments.

The LAA would use fields at the complex, including the Quadraplex and Field Two, to provide baseball and softball for the public. In exchange for use of the fields, the LAA maintains the fields and pays for use of electricity, including lighting.

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Boynton Beach

Downtown progressing in fits and starts

By Angie Francalancia Boynton Beach celebrated the completion of its amphitheater at the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum and marina-entry feature with tours and music last month — a milestone in a slow progression to convert Ocean Avenue into a dining, shopping and entertainment destination.

But at the same time, other parts of the plan experienced hiccups. The Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency agreed to start over in its quest to find a restaurateur to lease the Ruth Jones Cottage, which was moved in June to the corner of East Ocean and Southeast Fourth Street.

And over at the Boynton Marina, the easternmost anchor of the plan, the CRA gave Splashdown Divers until Aug. 25 to vacate its dive shop.

That’s the latest salvo in an 18-month feud with business owner Lynn Simmons, who says she was promised a longterm lease.

There can be no long-term lease, CRA Executive Director Vivian Brooks says, because that building is slated to be torn down.

“They bought this property with a Palm Beach Waterways

Workers put finishing touches on the entrance to the marina.

Photo by Jerry Lower grant,” intended to keep it as a working marina and keep existing businesses viable, Simmons said. “What am I, chopped liver? Why would they give me false hope?”

Late last month, Splashdown was still operating its dive shop at the marina.

The hiccups are small, given how long the planning has taken, say downtown champions like City Council Vice Chairman Bill Orlove.

“What I’m really happy to see is that we are finally moving forward with these plans and that things are really starting to

change for the better,” Orlove said. “There are several free events planned for next year in the amphitheater. We’re also going to have an open-air market there.”

By Sept. 28, the CRA will be examining a new set of potential tenants for the Ruth Jones Cottage, looking for one that can hit it out of the park, said Brooks.

She’s looking for someone who can give Boynton Beach a novel café and assure the CRA that the business can make it, assurances Brooks couldn’t get from Sandra Gagne, with whom the CRA initially contracted.

Gagne, who planned a caféstyle restaurant of comfort food, “could not produce the financial data to show they had the working capital to make it through the first year,” Brooks said. “We kind of worked with this particular business for a while because they’re local people. These are tough times, and we get it. But you at least have to have money to pay the gas, electric, water and supplies.

To me, we’ve gotta try to hit a home run. We don’t want to have a failure out of the box.”

Meantime, Kaufman Lynn Construction, contracted to move the cottage from its original location three blocks

Boynton Beach has completed its amphitheater at the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum. Photo by Mary Kate Leming

The city hopes to find a tenant for the recently moved Ruth Jones Cottage. Photo by Jerry Lower away and renovate it, will shore up the structure and install the rough plumbing on the 1920s-era home before setting it on a foundation. The City Council, sitting as the CRA Board in August, approved several changes to the contract to add extra structural support as well as vault the ceiling,

giving the tiny structure a more open feel.

“As with any historic restoration project, there were some unknowns,” said Bruce Cavossa, vice president of operations for Kaufman Lynn.

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Delray Beach

More than 60 years after it was built, Wright-by-the-Sea still is owned by the same family, and welcomes back many of the same guests each year. Photo by Jerry Lower

Seaside get-away is all Wright with the regulars

By Mary Jane Fine Here’s what it is: an oceanfront motel on A1A in Delray Beach, one of the last of the family-owned variety, cloud white with blue trim, two acres of landscaping around a kidney-shaped pool and a shuffleboard court and a croquet area and a Seminolewoven octagonal chickee hut for picnics and parties, a destination whose loyal clientele return year after year after year after year.

Here’s what else it is, depending on whose view you take. Patti Carlson, the selfdescribed “front desk girl,” calls it “a laid-back tropical paradise,” and greets visitors with a big smile and the slogan “Welcome to Wright-by-theSea, the best place to be!”

Events coordinator Tammy Tatum sees the place as “the way [life] used to be,” which is, she adds, “probably why the employees stick around.”

Robin Hickman, the housekeeper who is one of them — 30-plus years and counting — remembers it as the locale she used to ride past, decades ago, vowing, “I’m gonna work there … and now I am.”

But to Katherine Wright Willoughby, the motel’s meaning goes even deeper. To her, each January, February and March, it was home.

Her father, osteopathic physician Dr. Russell M. Wright, built the motel in 1950, partly, for its first few years, as a seaside retreat for family and friends. Later, he expanded it, with a second two-story row of rooms, and Wright-by-the-Sea welcomed more of the public.

“The story is that Dr. Wright was swimming in the ocean and he saw this land,” says Tatum, who wears a marineblue shirt and a white skirt, the motel’s signature colors. (Even her eyes are blue.)

The motel’s general manager, Jack Anastas, adds, in a phone call from his upstate vacation site, “It was the closest point

Wright-by-the-Sea founder Russell Wright (left) and a friend prepare a pig for roasting in the earlier days of the oceanfront Delray Beach establishment. Family photo

ABOVE: Events coordinator Tammy Tatum greets guests.

LEFT: Housekeeper Robin Hickman has worked at the motel 30-plus years and maintenance man Miguel Lemus is a 22-year employee.

Photos by Jerry Lower to the Gulf Stream — three miles — which keeps us warm in the winter and cool in the summer. When he found the Anastas property, there wasn’t even a bridge across Linton [Boulevard].”

Willoughby, who runs the Shakespeare & Co. bookstore in Highlands, N.C., remembers her childhood winters in Delray Beach with fondness. “I used to find a lot more interesting things beachcombing than I

do now,” she says, laughing, in a phone interview. “One time, I found a wonderful bowl that came from Africa, and, once, a wooden trunk.”

The Wright family lived in Detroit then, driving south to their getaway property in the throes of snow and ice. Dr. Wright, his daughter says, had a good reason to open the motel: “He felt very strongly that it was a very healthy thing for people to get out in the sun and get some exercise.”

In those days, Wright-bythe-Sea followed the common practice: open for guests five

months of the year and closed for summers, a rhythm that held until the 1970s.

Since then, the motel’s guests have been coming year-round, from Germany and Sweden and Argentina as well as from across the U.S. So many German tourists visit — word-of-mouth being the best advertisement — that Wright-by-the-Sea’s small inhouse library stocks Germanlanguage books.

After pointing that out on a recent morning, Tammy Tatum leads visitors on a brief tour: a two-bedroom, two-

bath suite with pull-out love seat, its kitchen stocked with “everything you need in there but the food”; her favorite suite, a one-bedroom whose kingsize bed boasts an ocean view; and then the honeymoon suite, where two walls are picture windows. It once was Dr. Wright’s own apartment.

Housekeeper Hickman is tidying the place up now, in the wake of just-departed guests.

She remembers the good doctor fondly, remembers taking care of him in the months before he died, in 2002, at age 98.

“I said to him, ‘I bet when you hired me, you didn’t know what you were gettin’,” she says, grinning. “He said, ‘Yes, I did.

That’s why I hired you.’”

Willoughby remembers Hickman’s caring for her dad, too — “She was wonderful,” Willoughby says. “It was very comfortable for him.”

And she remembers how maintenance man Miguel Lemus, a 22-year employee, helped Wright wrestle the veritable forest of sea grape trees, once tall as palms, that nestles below the suite, now a sea of sea grape stretching toward the ocean. And, she says, “He taught my son to speak Spanish, really well.”

The Wright family — three children, five grandchildren — still own Wright-by-the-Sea. That sense of family, of caring, still lingers. It’s there on the small blackboard, hung outside the office, where guests can learn the surf temperature (83 degrees, this day), high-and-low tide times (10:55 a.m. and 5:05 p.m.), and the day’s cautions, if any (HOT sand — wear shoes; jellyfish possible).

And it’s there in the loyalty of guests whose parents once brought them here and who choose to return with children of their own.

“They’ll come back,” Tatum says, “and they’ll ask, ‘Is my room ready?’ And it’s ‘my room,’ the one they always stay in.” Ú

September 2011

The COASTAL STAR

Summer Arts You Go Girl,

by Missionary Mary Proctor, is one of the works that will be in the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s Outsider Visions: SelfTaught Southern Artists of the 20th Century.

Musical series parked at Arts Garage To walk in on the office of the Arts Garage in downtown Delray Beach these days is to see the familiar signs of creative chaos that bespeak an energetic enterprise in progress: heaps of papers, clusters of wires, takeout coffee cups.

In its short lifespan, the arts organization outgrowth of the Creative City Collaborative has made vigorous use of its space in the city parking garage building at 180 N. First St., most notably with a twicemonthly jazz concert series that has drawn some of the best-known South Florida jazz performers to the Garage, and to what Executive Director Alyona Ushe calls a “phenomenal” response.

That series is pretty well sketched out through the end of the year — rising Boca Raton vocalist Chloe Dolandis will star in the Garage’s New Year’s Eve celebration — but late last month the group added Classical Explosion, a series of chamber music concerts done in tandem with the South Florida Symphony, formerly the Key West Symphony.

It’s all part of the growth of the Garage, Ushe (pronounced Ahsh) says.

“The idea for the Arts Garage has always been interdisciplinary. The classical component has always been a part of our programming,” said the Russian-born Ushe, who came to the Garage from the New Orleans Opera. “We started the jazz to experiment, and then we didn’t want to take too much on when we first opened our doors. We wanted to focus on getting the jazz off the ground. But while we were doing that, we were thinking about what else we could bring to the table.”

In addition to the South Florida Symphony, which is scheduled to perform three concerts at Old School Square’s Crest Theatre (Dec. 4, Jan. 29 and March 11), the Garage will be working with Jon Robertson, who leads the Lynn University Conservatory of Music, and the Palm Beach Opera, whose members will perform a season-preview concert in December.

This month, musicians from the South Florida

Symphony will perform the String Quintet in C (D. 956) of Franz Schubert, as well as the C major Quintet of Luigi Boccherini, on a concert set for Sunday, Sept. 11. Jace Vek, an Emmy-winning composer now resident in Delray Beach, offers his Buddha Sky music exposition on Sept. 17, and on Sept. 18, singers Edwin Cahill and Julia Kogan present an evening of songs by Kurt Weill, spanning the German composer’s output from Weimar to Broadway and Hollywood.

That’s in addition to the ongoing Jazz Project, which brings vocalist Nicole Yarling to the Garage on Sept. 10 and singer Debbie Orta on Sept.

24. Ushe says the ultimate goal of the organization is nothing less than artistic freedom.

“The mission … is to create a venue where artists really want to experiment and blossom,” she said. “I don’t want to do strange things for the sake of doing strange things, but if there’s logic and meaning and passion involved, absolutely.”

For tickets, visit artsgarage.eventbright.com; for more information about Arts Garage, visit www. delraybeacharts.org or call 245-0180.

The actress Karen Stephens, who last month played Lorraine Hansberry in a Women’s Theatre Project mounting of Ann Davidon’s Chitterling Heights, returns to her CarbonellStephens nominated performance in Sarah Jones’ Bridge and Tunnel at the Boca Raton Theater Guild this month.

Bridge and Tunnel, which was first produced by Meryl Streep and won a special Tony in 2006, is a tour de force of acting and accent chops in which Stephens plays 14 characters from New York City’s outer boroughs who have gathered in a Queens theater basement for a poetry jam. The characters include a Chinese woman whose lesbian daughter is having

a relationship crisis, an aging Jewish grandmother, a Jordanian woman obsessed with The Beatles, and a wheelchair-bound Mexican man.

Jones’ play is about the immigrant experience, and about the least-heard voices in the national conversation.

Stephens won warm reviews for her performance of the piece in December 2009 at the Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota, and in October 2010 at the Women’s Theatre Project, which performs in Fort Lauderdale.

The Theatre Guild shows are set for Sept. 9-11 at the Willow Theatre in Boca Raton’s Sugar Sand Park.

Performances are at 8 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 9; 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10; and 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11. Tickets are $15; call 347-3948. Visit www.brtg.org.

Art notes: The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach will be closed from Sept. 12 to Sept. 30 while workers reinstall galleries.

Museum officials said the rehanging will give visitors “a more engaging experience” with its collections. The first new exhibit, debuting Nov. 3, will be American artist Dave Cole’s installation Flags of the World. … Three new exhibits open at the Boca Raton Museum of Art this month, including portraits from the museum’s collection (Sept. 6-May 13), and work by the Colombian conceptual artist Federico Uribe (Sept.

21-Dec. 4). Also opening Sept.

21 is Outsider Visions: SelfTaught Southern Artists of the 20th Century, a collection of 75 works by creators such as Mose Tolliver (aka Mose T) and the remarkable Howard Finster. The show closes, fittingly enough, on Jan. 8, the birthday of another selftaught Southerner, Elvis Presley.

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

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The COASTAL STAR

Community Calendar Note: Events are current as of 8/26. Please check with organizers for any changes.

SEPTEMBER 3 Saturday - 9/3 - Sand Sifters Beach Cleanup at Oceanfront Park, 6415 N. Ocean Blvd., Ocean Ridge. 8-10:15 am. Free. 7349128.

9/3 - Ultimate Performer Singing Competition Registration at Pompey Park, 1101 NW 2nd St., Delray Beach through 9/16.

Three age brackets: 8-18, 19-29 and 30 & up.

The competition will take 16-20 weeks with semi-finals and finals taking place during the last four weeks at a venue TBD. Participant fee: $20/residents, $25/non-residents. Park hours: M-F: 8 am-9pm; Sat.: 9 am-8 pm; Sun.: 1-6 pm. 423-7356.

9/3 - Art Exhibit: Contemplating Cats and More! by Karen “Zuk” Rosenblatt at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Runs through 10/3. Library hours: M-W 9 am-8 pm; Th-Sat. 9am-5 pm. Free. 266-9490.

9/3 - Quick Start Tennis Clinics at the Tennis Center, 3111 S. Congress Ave., Boynton Beach.

Three-week session runs Saturdays through 9/17 and held again 10/1-10/22. Age 5-6: 9-9:45 am, $25/resident, $32/non-resident; age 7-10: 10-11 am., $30/resident, $37/nonresident. 742-6575.

9/3 - The Writer’s Studio is held at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Held again 9/10, 17 & 24. 10 am. Free.

736-8044 or www.delraylibrary.org.

9/3 - Exhibit: Attack of the Bloodsuckers and Tree Houses: Look Who’s Living in the Trees! at South Florida Science Museum, 4801 Dreher Trail North, West Palm Beach. Learn about bugs that bite and live in the trees.

Runs through 9/11. M-F: 10 am-5 pm; Sat.: 10 am-6 pm; and Sun.: noon-6 pm. $11.95/adults; $10.50/seniors; $8.95/ages 3-12; free for children under three years. 832-1988.

9/3 - Fossil Dig at the Sandoway House Nature Center, 142 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach. See fossils from sharks, rays, mastadons, mammoths, turtles, tortoises and more. T-Sat. 10 am-4 pm, Sun. Noon-4 pm. $2 in addition to general admission. 274-7263.

9/3 - Tooth For Thought at the Sandoway House Nature Center, 142 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach. Make a shark tooth necklace while learning fun and interesting facts about our oceans top predators. T-Sat. 10 am-4 pm, Sun. Noon-4 pm. $3 in addition to general admission. 274-7263.

9/3 - I Love Art classes are taught at the Boynton Beach Art Center, 125 SE 2nd Ave. Create amazing art utilizing recycled items.

10:30 am-noon/Ages 4-8; 12:15 -1:45 pm/Ages 6-10. Four week session. $36/residents, $45/ non-residents. 742-6221.

9/3 - Exhibition: Coloring Outside the Lines: Crayon Art, History and Innovations is held at Cornell Museum of Art & American Culture, Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. Exhibit runs through 10/23. T-Sat.: 10:30 am-4:30 pm, Sun.: 1-4:30 pm. $10/general, $6/seniors, $4/ students (13-21), $2/children (4-12), Free/ members and children ages 3 and under. 2437922 or www.oldschool.org.

9/3 - Exhibition: 48 Colorful Quilts is held at Cornell Museum of Art & American Culture, Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. Three quilt exhibits are on display: Palm Beach County Quilters Guild

Competition Collection - 25 large, themed quilts showcasing 25 years of competitions for the South Florida Fair; Colorganics - 13 art quilts, each 15x30 inches; and ZIPT - 10 art quilts each 18x24 inches, incorporating at least one zipper - created by members of Quilters Innovative Design. Exhibit runs through 10/23.

T-Sat.: 10:30 am-4:30 pm, Sun.: 1-4:30 pm. $10/general, $6/seniors, $4/students (13-21), $2/children (4-12), Free/members and children ages 3 and under. 243-7922.

9/3 - Group Swim Lessons at the John Denson Pool, 225 N.W. 12th Ave., Boynton Beach. For kids ages 3 and older. Young children must be potty trained. Classes are held Saturdays in four-week sessions. Four one-hour classes per session. Session 1: 9/3-24.

Level 1, II & III: 11 am-noon. Cost per session is $30/resident, $38/non-residents. 742-6645.

9/3 - Exhibition: The Art of the Image - an Eclectic Mix of Photographs by Nathan Dean at FAU’s Wimberly Library, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. Exhibit runs through 10/27.

Library hours: M-Th 8 am-midnight; F: 8 am-6 pm; Sat.: Noon-6 pm; Sun.: Noon-midnight.

Free. 297-0455.

9/3 - Art Film - City Lights (1931 - NR) at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. 8th annual series celebrating silent film from the early 20th century cinema. 2 pm. Free with paid museum admission: $8 adults, $6 seniors, free for children 12. 392-2500.

9/3 - Polo Presents Valerie White on Saturdays at The Colony, 155 Hammon Ave., Palm Beach. Held weekly. 9:30 pm. Free. 6598100 or www.thecolonypalmbeach.com.

9/3-4 - columbinus at Actor’s Workshop & Repertory Co., 1009 N. Dixie Hwy., West Palm Beach. columbinus is a documentary drama that probes the psychological warfare of alienation, hostility, and social pressure that goes on in high schools across America. Show runs through 9/18. Sat.: 8 pm; Sun.: 2 & 7 pm; 9/9-10, 16-17: 8 pm; 9/11 & 18: 2 & 7 pm. $25/ adults, $15/students. 833-7529.

9/3-5 - USTA Regional “Summer Smash” Tennis Tournament at the Delray Beach Tennis Center, 201 W. Atlantic Ave. More than 500 players in the Boys & Girls 12s, 14s, 16s and 18s divisions. Match Sites are the Delray Swim & Tennis Club, 2350 Jaeger Dr.; the Delray Beach Tennis Center, 201 W. Atlantic Ave.; Hunters Run Country Club, 3500 Clubhouse Lane, Boynton Beach; The Polo Club Boca Raton, 5400 Champion Blvd.; Boca West Country Club, 20583 Boca West Dr. and Broken Sound Country Club, 2401 Willow Springs Dr., Boca Raton. Matches begin daily at 8am.

Spectator admission free. 330-6000.

9/3-4 - Six Years is performed at the Caldwell Theatre, Count de Hoernle Theatre, 7901 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton. Sat. 8 pm; Sun. 2 pm. Tickets $38-$50, depending upon seating and date of performance; Full time students $10. 241-7432.

SEPTEMBER 4-10 Sunday - 9/4 - 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.

9/4 - Yoga with Live Music is held every Sunday at the Colony Hotel, 525 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. 9:30-11 am. $20. 703-1236.

Monday - 9/5 - Labor Day 9/5 - SPIN Classes at Oceanfront Park, 6415 N. Ocean Blvd., Ocean Ridge. Get yourself

September 2011

Municipal Meetings 9/6 & 9/20 - 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.

9/6 & 9/20 - South Palm Beach - Usually fourth Tuesday of each month in the South Palm Beach Town Hall Council Chambers, 3577 S. Ocean Blvd. Budget hearing at 6:45 pm followed by regular meeting. Agenda available at: www.southpalmbeach.com.

9/9 & 9/22 - Briny Breezes - Usually fourth Thursday of each month at Briny Breezes Town Hall, 4802 N. Ocean Blvd. 4 pm. Agenda available at: www.townofbrinybreezesfl.com.

9/12 & 9/19 - Ocean Ridge - Usually first Monday of the each month at Ocean Ridge Town Hall, 6450 N. Ocean Blvd. 9/12: Budget hearing at 5:01 pm, regular meeting to follow. 9/19: 5:01 pm budget hearing. Agenda available at: www.oceanridgeflorida. com.

9/12 & 9/26 - Lantana - Second & fourth Mondays of each month at Lantana Town Hall, 500 Greynolds Circle. 7 pm. Agenda available at: www.lantana.org.

9/15 & 9/22 - Gulf Stream - Usually second Friday of each month at Gulf Stream Town Hall, 100 Sea Road. 9/15 : Regular meeting at 4 pm, followed by budget hearing. 9/22: 5:01 pm budget hearing. Agenda available in clerk’s office.

9/15 & 9/26 - Manalapan - Usually fourth Tuesday of each month at Manalapan Town Hall, 600 S. Ocean Blvd. 9/15: budget hearing, 5:01 pm. 9/26: Regular meeting prior to 5:01 budget hearing. Agenda available at: www.manalapan.org. in shape by taking your fitness routine to a gorgeous location. Class meets M- F: 6-8 am and 4:30-8:30 pm. $1. 287-0953.

9/5 - 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. 10:15-11:15 am. Free. 659-3884.

9/5 - 25th Annual Labor Day Police Challenge is held at the beach on Atlantic Avenue and A1A in Delray Beach. Contest between police departments of Delray Beach, Boca Raton and Boynton Beach. Challenges begin at Noon. Awards Ceremony at 3 pm at Boston’s on the Beach, 40 S. Ocean Blvd. Free for public. 276-9657.

9/5 - 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.

Tuesday - 9/6 - Family Storytime is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Listen to stories, sing songs and learn fingerplays. Infants-Age 5. Held again 9/20 & 27. 10-10:45 am. Free. 742-6380 9/3 - Coral Reef Shark Feedings are held daily, T-Sun., at Sandoway House Nature Center, 142 S. Ocean Blvd. Delray Beach.

Feeding at 10:30 am T-Sat. and 1:30 pm Sunday. Free with $4 admission to the nature center. 274-7263.

9/6 - Group Swim Lessons at John Denson Pool, 225 NW 12th Ave., Boynton Beach. For kids ages 3 and older. Classes held T-F for two weeks. Eight half-hour classes per session.

Session 1: 9/6-16; Session 2: 9/20-30. Parent & Tot: 11 am; Level 1 & II: 2:30, 3, 5, 5:30 & 6 pm; Level III & Pre-Competitive Swim: 3:30 pm; Cost per session is $30/resident, $38/nonresidents. 742-6645.

9/6 - Turtle Talk Tuesdays at the Sandoway House Nature Center, 142 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach. Learn about all four species of turtles and tortoises that call Sandoway House home. 2 pm. Free/members, $4/Ages 3 and up.

274-7263.

9/6 - KidFit at The Carolyn Sims Center, 225 NW 12th Ave., Boynton Beach. Indoor and outdoor games designed to get kids moving and to increase physical fitness. Four-week session is held Tuesdays through 9/27. Ages 5-11. 3-4 pm. $2/day. 742-6641.

9/6 - Karate Class is held at the Boynton Beach Civic Center, 128 E. Ocean Ave. Children are introduced to martial arts training and character development. Ages 5-10. Held T & Th through 10/13. 3:45-4:30 pm. $115/resident, $144/non-resident. 708-3081.

9/6 - Quick Start Tennis Clinics are held at the Ezell Hester Jr. Community Center, 1901 N. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Fourweek session runs Tuesdays through 9/27.

Age 4/4:30-5 pm. age 5-6/5-5:30 pm, age 7-8/5:30-6:15 pm and age 9-12/6:15-7:15 pm.

Ages 4-6: $20/residents, $25/non-residents; ages 7-12: $30/residents, $38/non-residents.

742-6550 or www.boynton-beach.org.

9/6 - Teen Tennis is held at the Delray Beach Tennis Center, 201 W. Atlantic Ave. Ages 12-18 learn the sport and have fun. 4:30- 6 pm on Tuesday and Thursday. $24. 243-7360.

9/6 - Karate/Martial Arts Classes at Pompey Park, 1101 NW 2nd St., Delray Beach.

Ages 9 to adults learn Karate along with a blend of other combat martial arts. Class held every T & Th. 6-7 pm. Free. 243-7356.

9/6 - Youth Kickball League at The Carolyn Sims Center, 225 NW 12th Ave., Boynton Beach. Six week session is held T & Th through 10/13. Ages 8-9: 6-7 pm; ages 10-12: 7-8 pm. $40/residents, $50/non-residents. 742-6641.

Wednesday - 9/7 - Coaching the Mature Driver is presented by Safety Council of Palm Beach County, Inc. at Temple Emeth, 5780 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. Drivers 55 and over get an insurance discount for three years when they take this course. 9 am-4 pm. $10. Held again 9/19 at South County Civic Center, 16700 Jog Road, Delray Beach and 9/22 at Weisman Delray Community Center, 7091 W. Atlantic Ave. 845-8233.

9/7 - Tot Tumbling for Kids is held on Wednesdays at the Boynton Beach Civic Center, 128 E. Ocean Ave. Ages 1 and 1/2 to 5 years old learn age-appropriate gymnastics skills through the use of tot-sized equipment.

10:30-11:55 am. Six-week session runs through 10/12. $57/residents, $71/non-residents.

742-6240.

9/7 - Tots ‘n Tales Storytime - Ages 3-23 months listen to books, sing songs, do silly dances and make new friends at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Held again 9/21. 9:45-10:30 am. Free. 742-6390.

9/7 - Ready, Set, Read Storytime - Ages 3-5 years listen to stories, sing songs, dance and

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make a simple craft at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. 11:30 am-12:15 pm. Held again 9/21. 742-6390.

9/7 - Kinderdance is held at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. Developmental dance/movement and fitness program stressing the basics of ballet, tap, acrobatics, and creative dance. Ages 3 to 6 years. Six-week session held Wednesdays through 10/12.

11:30 am-12:15 pm. $105/residents, $115/nonresidents. 243-7350.

9/7 - Socrates Café - Weekly discussion group at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Held again 9/14, 21 & 28. 11:30 am. Free. 266-0194.

9/7 - Garden Walk Wednesdays at the Sandoway House Nature Center, 142 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach. Walk through the native butterfly garden and learn what types of plants butterflies like. 2 pm. Free/members, $4/Ages 3 and up. 274-7263.

9/7 - Back to Life is an educational program for those undergoing spine surgery at Bethesda Heart Hospital, 4th Floor Conference Room, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach.

Learn what to expect before, during and after surgery. Held the 1st & 3rd Wednesday of each month. Registration required. 2-3 pm. Free.

737-7733 Ext. 84688 .

9/7 - Teen Gaming is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Grades 6-12 play video games. Held again 9/14, 21 & 28. 3-4:30 pm. Free. 742-6390.

9/7 - Electrophysiology and Its Applications in Our Daily Lives is presented

by Farahnaz Angella, M.D. as part of the Heart Symposium Series at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, Clayton Conference Center, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. 4:30 pm. Free.

731-2273.

9/7 - Drills and Skills is held for ages 7-12 at Delray Beach Tennis Center, 201 W. Atlantic Ave. Work on technique with challenging drills and games. M, W and Fri. 4:30-6 pm. $24.

243-7360.

9/7 - 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.

9/7 - Meet Me at the Museum: Hot Summer Night is held at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. Celebrate the last days of summer with tasty BBQ treats and two glasses of wine (followed by a cash bar). View a collection of vintage surfboards while you unwind with the Caribbean sounds of live steel drums. Take a guided tour of the 60th Annual All Florida Juried and Art For The People: 20th Century Social Realism exhibitions. 5:30-8 pm. Museum members: $10/advance, $15/at the door; non-members: $15/advance, $20/at the door. 392-2500.

9/7 - Habitat for Humanity 20th Birthday Celebration at Ovenella, 499 S. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton. Features one complementary drink, appetizers, music, games and more.

5:30-8 pm. $20/advance, $25/at the door.

829-6070.

9/7 - Adult Fit for Women at The Carolyn Sims Center, 225 NW 12th Ave., Boynton Beach. Six-week session is held Wednesdays through 10/12. 6:30-7:30 pm. $60/residents, $75/non-residents. 742-6641.

9/7 - Delray Beach Youth Council meeting is held at the 505 Teen Center, 505 SE 5th Ave., Delray Beach. Meet new people and earn community service hour. Meets bi-weekly on Wednesdays. For middle and high school age kids. 6:30 pm. Free. 243-7158.

9/7 - Turk Mauro Quartet is presented as part of the Jazz Bossa & Blues Live series at Carmen’s Restaurant At the Top of the Bridge, 999 E. Camino Real, Boca Raton. 7-10:30 pm. $10/person. 886-4570.

9/7 - Zumba Class is held at the Boynton Beach Civic Center, 128 E. Ocean Ave. Fitness program inspired by Latin dances. Runs through 10/12. 7:30-8:30 pm. $40/resident, $50/non-resident. 742-6240.

Thursday - 9/8 - 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.

9/8 - Dance to Your Own Beat is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 508 S. Seacrest Blvd. Ages 1-5 engage in fun exercises and dance movements. Held again 7/14, 21 & 28.

10-11 am. Free. 742-6380.

9/8 – Knit ‘N Purl is a twice monthly class presented at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Held again 9/22. 10:30 am. Free. 266-9490.

9/8 - Inside and Outside of Shells at the Sandoway House Nature Center, 142 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach. Learn and 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.

9/8 - 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 9/22. 4-5 pm. Free. 7426380.

9/8 - Executive Forum Lecture Series at FAU’s Office Depot Grand Lecture Hall, Room 101, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. Guest speaker is Duane Stiller, founder and president

September 2011 of Woolbright Development, Inc. Presented

by FAU’s College of Business. 5:30-7 pm. Free.

RSVP at www.fauadamscenter.org. 297-2980.

9/8 - Wine Tasting is held at Old Vines, Wine & Spirits, 900 E. Atlantic Ave. #3, Delray Beach.

Held again 9/22. 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. 276-2076.

Friday - 9/9 - Grandparent’s Day at the Senior Center, 1021 S. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach. 9:30 am. Free. 742-6570.

9/9 - Lunch and Learn: Examining the Impact of Public Policy on Mental Health is held with guest speaker Paul Gionfriddo at the Mental Health Association of Palm Beach County, 909 Fern St., West Palm Beach.

Noon. $10/members, $15/non-members.

Reservations: 832-3755.

9/9 - Young Artwork Classes for Children ages 2-5 at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. Children learn about drawing, painting, printing and sculpture. Six-week session runs through 10/14. 2:30-3:15 pm. $95/ residents, $100/non-residents. 243-7350.

9/9 - Tae Kwon Do is offered for beginners and intermediates at The Carolyn Sims Center, 225 NW 12th Ave., Boynton Beach. Ages 5-adult learn the mental and physical skills of self-defense. Six-week session held Fridays through 10/14. 6-6:45 pm/beginners; 6:457:30 pm/intermediates. $60/residents, $75/ non-residents. 742-6641.

9/9 - 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 a breathtaking sunset. Performances at 6:30 & 7:30 ($2 with admission). 5:30-8:30 pm. $7/non-member adults, $5/kids, free for members and children 3 and under. Final stroll of the summer. 4950233.

9/9 - Zumba at the Carolyn Sims Center, 225 N.W. 12th Ave., Boynton Beach. Enjoy high-energy music while sculpting your body through resistance training and Latin dances.

For ages 16 and up. Held every Friday. 6:457:45 pm. $7/class. 742-6641.

9/9 - Canvas is shown at Unity of Delray Beach, 101 NW 22nd St. Film’s theme is love over severe illness. Free popcorn and soft drinks. Discussion follows. 7 pm. Love offering.

276-5796.

9/9 - Polo Presents Motown Friday Nights with Memory Lane at The Colony, 155 Hammon Ave., Palm Beach. Music from the Temptations, the Supremes, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye.

Held weekly. 9 pm. $20 cover includes free drink coupon. 659-8100.

9/10 - Ride & Remember Trolley Tour is sponsored by the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum. 2-hour tour focuses on 5 historic districts. Departs from Delray Beach Parking Garage, NE 1st Ave. Held the second Saturday of each month. 10 am-noon. $15. Reservations: 279-8883.

9/10 - Second Saturday Sidewalk Sale is held in downtown Lake Worth from Dixie Highway to Federal Highway along both Lake and Lucerne Avenues. Treasures, bargains, specials and tasty tidbits with live music and art. 10 am-4 pm. Free. 533-5272.

9/10 - Chinese Moon Festival Family Day at the Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach. Mid-Autumn Festival with music, art activities, tours, Chinese food, and more. 10 am-5 pm. $12/adults, $5/ages 13-21, free/children under 13. 832-5196.

9/10 - Gymnastics for children ages 4 and up begins at the Ezell Hester, Jr. Community Center, 1901 N. Seacrest Blvd. Kids classes designed for introductory skill development on the vault, bars, beams and floor. Six-week session runs Saturdays through 10/22 - no class 10/15. Age 4-7: 10-11 am; age 8 and up: 11 am-noon. $57/residents, $71/nonresidents. Registration: 742-6550.

9/10 - Start Smart Soccer - Children develop fundamental skills at the Catherine Strong Park, 1500 SW 6th St. Six-week program is for ages 3 to 6 and runs through 10/15. Parents/ guardians must attend. 10:30-11:30 am.

Six-week session: $20/residents; $25/nonresidents. 243-7194.

9/10 - Piano for Children is offered on Saturday’s at the Boynton Beach Civic Center, 128 E. Ocean Ave. Beginner, intermediate and advanced classes meet on Saturdays through 10/22. 10:30 am-1:30 pm. $48/resident, $60/ non-resident. 742-6240.

9/10 - West African Masks is presented as part of the Meet a Master, Create a Masterpiece series at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. Students have an opportunity to create a masterpiece in the style of a featured artist. For grades 3-5.

1-2:30 pm. $5/non-members; free/members.

Reservations: 392-2500 Ext. 106.

9/10 - Concert: Return to Forever IV with Zappa Plays Zappa is presented at Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton. Return To Forever IV members include Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White with Jean-Luc Ponty and Frank Gambale.

Zappa Plays Zappa features Dweezil Zappa playing the music of his late father, Frank Zappa. Gates open at 7 pm, concert 8-10 pm. $50.85-115.30. 393-7827 or www.myboca.us.

9/10 - Concert: Nicole Yarling performs at the ArtsGarage, 180 NE 1st St., Delray Beach.

The COASTAL STAR Featured soloist with Jimmy Buffet and her own Little Nicky and the Slicks. Instruments include voice, violin and fiddle. BYOW. $20/ advance, $25/door. 8-10 pm. 243-7129.

9/10 - RePROM! at Old School Square Gym, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. A prom DoOver! Wear whatever you want, from formal to funky, spike that punch, dance all night, get crazy! DJ, cash bar. 8-11 pm. $35/includes one drink ticket and one prom photo. 243-7922.

9/10-11 - Everything Orchids: A Shady Affair Plant Sale is presented at Mounts Botanical Garden, 531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Showcasing a select number of top orchid and shade plant growers, artists and craftspeople. Event features fun and informative lectures, a silent auction of horticultural tabletop arrangements and, from 3-5 pm on Saturday, a special dedication and ribbon-cutting of the remodeled bridge and overlook in the Zimmerman Shade & Color Garden on the Island. 10 am-4 pm. $5/nonmembers, free/members. 233-1757.

SEPTEMBER 11-17 Sunday - 9/11 - Operation Homefront: Florida Freedom Walk & Run at 101 S. Flagler Drive, West Palm Beach. Supporting military families and first responders and acknowledging the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Accuchip timed. Medals to top 3 overall and top 3 in 5 age groups, 10 and under to 70+. Participants may register online at www.active.com. 7:30-10:30 am. $25-$30/ individual, $50-$60/family. 932-1650.

9/11 - Patriot Memorial Dedication: Parade of Heroes and 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony at Wellington Amphitheater, 12100 Forest Hill Blvd. Parade begins at 8:30 am, followed by Remembrance Ceremony and dedication of Wellington’s Patriot Memorial, 12198 Forest Hill Blvd., a column which stood between floors 69 and 71 of the second tower of the World Trade Center. 8:30-11 am. Free.

791-4000.

9/11 - Childbirth Education Prenatal Class is offered at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Provides an overview of the signs of labor, breathing techniques and more. Bring two pillows and a blanket. Wear comfortable stretchy clothes; no dresses or skirts. 9 am-4 pm. $75. Payment must be made before class date. Registration: 369-2229.

9/11 - Grandparents’ Day at the Flagler Museum, 1 Whitehall Way, Palm Beach. Tour Whitehall and enjoy family-friendly activities in the Flagler Kenan Pavilion and have a photo taken in front of Railcar No. 91. Noon-5 pm.

Free with museum admission. $18/adults, $10/ ages 13-17, $3/ages 6-12, free/children under age 6. 655-2833.

9/11 - Celebrate Freedom: A Time of Healing and Remembrance at St. Paul Lutheran Church & School, 701 W. Palmetto Park Road, Boca Raton. Community event to honor American heroes with ceremonies for police, fire and U.S. military personnel. Free food and refreshments, live music, children’s activities and craft fair. Noon-4 pm. Free (freewill offerings accepted). 395-0433.

9/11 - Patriot Day at the Lantana Center, 3rd St. Join in a day of remembrance, awareness and fundraising. BBQ, buffet, pizza, bake sale, face painting, crafts and raffles. Proceeds benefit the Palm Beach Fireman’s Benevolent Fund, Palm Beach Police Fallen Officer Memorial Fund, Operation Home Front Florida Forgotten Soldiers Outreach. 11 am-6 pm; Remembrance ceremony at Noon $7/plate for BBQ, buffet and pizza. 752-6195.

9/11 - “Initial” Art is presented as part of the ARTful Adventure Sunday series at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. Family program features art workshops and live performances by talented actors, musicians and dancers. 2 pm. Free program with paid museum admission. 392-2500.

9/11 - Schubert & Boccherini by South Florida Symphony Orchestra Quintet at Arts Garage, 180 NE 1st St., Delray Beach.

Featuring the Schubert Cello Quintet and the Boccherini Cello Quintet in C Major. BYOW. $35.

6 pm. 243-7129.

Monday - 9/12 - Quilting Bee - Twice monthly quilting class presented at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Held again 9/26. 10 am. Free. 266-0194.

9/12 - Distributive Justice is discussed as part of the Great Books group at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Meets the second and fourth Monday of each month.

10-11:45 am. Free. 742-6886.

9/12 - Singin’ In The Rain (1952) is presented as part of the “Made in Technicolor Film” series at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Held the first Monday of every month. 1 pm. Free. 266-9490.

9/12 - Ronald McDonald Magic Show at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Celebrate Library Card Sign-Up Month with magician Ronald McDonald. All ages.

4:30-5:30 pm. Free. 742-6380.

9/12 - Baby Care Prenatal Class is being offered at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, Sand Dollar Room, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Learn to ensure your newborn’s health, safety and well-being. 5-8 pm. $35.

Registration: 369-2229.

9/12 - Got Gaming? is presented at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. Held again 9/19 & 26. 5:15-6:30 pm. Free. 266-9490.

9/12 - Delray Blazers Co-ed Basketball Skills Camp/Clinic for girls and boys ages 8-17 at Pompey Park, 1101 NW 2nd St., Delray Beach. Instruction in various basketball skills and fitness. Camp is designed to recruit participants for the Delray Blazers and Lady Blazers Travel Basketball programs. Camp runs through 9/30. M-R, 6-8 pm. $40/resident, $45/ non-resident. 243-7356.

9/12 - 4th Annual Blue Mass for Police & Fire is held at St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church, 840 George Bush Blvd., Delray Beach.

Mass to honor the present and past men and women of local Police and Fire Rescue Departments, as well as the men and women who lost their lives on September 11, 2001.

Dessert reception follows. 7 pm. Free. RSVP at 276-6892 or www.stvincentferrer.com.

9/12 - Jam Session at Clay Glass Metal Stone Gallery, 605 Lake Ave., Lake Worth. Play and sing along with local acoustic musicians. Held the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month. 7-9 pm. Free. 588-8344.

Tuesday - 9/13 - Happy 90th Birthday, Winnie the Pooh! - Infants to age 5 dress as one of the characters from The Hundred Acre Wood, march in the character parade, make a special Pooh craft and watch a Pooh movie at the Boynton Beach City Library, 508 S. Seacrest Blvd. 10-11:30 am. Free. 742-6380.

9/13 - Carpal Tunnel and Thumb Arthritis is presented by Angelo Incorvaia, M.D., as part of the Community Lecture Series at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, Clayton Conference Center, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. 4:30 pm. Free. 731-2273.

9/13 - Games @ Your Library is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 508 S. Seacrest Blvd. Grades K-5 play video games. Held again 9/27. 4:30-5:30 pm. Free. 742-6380.

9/13 - A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul is presented as part of the Evening Book Group at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 6 pm. Free. 266-9490.

9/13 - 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.

9/14 - Spinal Stenosis is presented by Stewart Eidelson, M.D., Orthopedic Surgeon, 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.

9/14 - Start Smart for Pre-Teens at Catherine Strong Park, 1500 S.W. 6th St., Delray Beach. Introductory Soccer Program teaches basic fundamentals. Six-week program is for ages 6 to 12 and runs through 10/19. 5-6 pm. Six-week session: $20/ residents; $25/non-residents. 243-7194.

9/14 - Concert: Nicole Yarling with the Gold Coast Jazz Society Quartet at the Highland Beach Library Community Room, 3618 S. Ocean Blvd., Highland Beach. 5 pm.

Free. 278-5455.

9/14 - Readers’ Theatre: The Taming of the Shrew at The Four Arts King Library, 3 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach. This is a reading activity, so participants will not be asked to memorize lines or move around the room.

However, “hamming it up” is encouraged.

5:30-7 pm. Free. 655-2766.

9/14 - The Hal Roland Trio - Presented as part of the Jazz Bossa & Blues Live series at Carmen’s Restaurant At the Top of the Bridge, 999 E. Camino Real, Boca Raton. 7-10:30 pm. $10/person. 886-4570.

Thursday - 9/15 - Sand Casting at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. Collect shells on the beach in Red Reef Park and make a sandy shellcovered wall hanging. Meet at Gumbo Limbo and caravan to Red Reef Park. Ages 7-14 with an adult. 2-3:30 pm. $7/members, $10/nonmembers. Reservations: 391-8110.

9/15 - Skill Drill Basketball at Catherine Strong Park, 1500 S.W. 6th St., Delray Beach.

Basic fundamentals needed to compete in organized team basketball. The six-week program is for ages 6 to 12 and runs through 10/20. 5-6 pm. Six-week session: $20/ residents; $25/non-residents. 243-7194.

9/15 - Executive Forum Lecture Series at FAU’s Office Depot Grand Lecture Hall, Room 101, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. Guest speaker is Allan Schuman, chairman emeritus of Ecolab, Inc. Presented by FAU’s College of Business. 5:30-7 pm. Free. RSVP at www. fauadamscenter.org. 297-2980.

9/15 - Photography Exhibit Reception: Wild Florida at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest. Photographs of Florida’s wildlife in their natural habitats are on display on the second floor. All of the artwork is for sale with ten percent benefitting the Friends of the Boynton Beach City Library and the City of Boynton Beach Art in Public Places. Exhibit runs through November during regular library hours: M-Th: 9 am-8:30 pm, Sat.: 9 am-5 pm. Meet the artists and learn about their work. 6 pm. Free. 742-6390.

9/15 - Great Grown-Up Spelling Bee to benefit the Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach

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26 Community Calendar County is held at Harriet Himmel Theater at CityPlace, 700 S. Rosemary Ave., West Palm Beach. Corporate teams compete for trophy.

Free. 800-273-1030.

9/15 - Reach Out Party is held on behalf of Genesis Community Health 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. 6-8:30 pm. $25 includes hors d’ oevres and one free drink ticket. 278-1700.

9/15 - Deborah Sharp speaks and signs her new book, Mama Sees Stars at Murder on the Beach Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach. 7 pm. Free. 279-7790.

Friday - 9/16 - Lunch and Learn: Interventions to Prevent Bullying and Cyberbullying is presented with guest speaker Kimberly A. Mazauskas at the Mental Health Association of Palm Beach County, 909 Fern St., West Palm Beach. Noon. $10/ members, $15/non-members. Reservations: 832-3755 or www.mhapbc.org.

9/16 - Running For Fitness at Catherine Strong Park, 1500 S.W. 6th St., Delray Beach.

Program targets children who need help developing basic motor skills in exercise, fitness and cardiovascular exercise. Six-week program is for ages 6 to 12 and runs through 10/21. 5-6 pm. Six-week session: $20/ residents; $25/non-residents. 243-7194.

9/16 - Basic Driver Improvement Class is presented by the Safety Council of Palm Beach County, Inc. at Temple Emeth, 5780 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. 8:30 am-12:30 pm. Held again 9/21 at Boynton Beach High School, 4975 Park Ridge Blvd. 5:30-9:30 pm. Free. 845-8233.

9/16 - Contrasts: Studies in Black and White - Artists open house at Clay Glass Metal Stone Cooperative Gallery, 605 Lake Avenue, Lake Worth. 6-9 pm. Free. 588-8344.

9/16 - Paul Levine speaks and signs his new book, Lassiter at Murder on the Beach Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach. 7 pm. Free. 279-7790.

9/16 - Concert: Jackiem Joyner at The Funky Biscuit (formerly Club 303), Royal Palm Place, 303 S.E. Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton. 7-9 pm. Free. 392-8920.

9/16-17 - John Davidson performs his new show, “50 years as a Hollywood Square” at the Atlantis Country Club, 190 Atlantis Blvd. 5 pm: Dinner and cocktails, 7 pm: performance. No cover, but $15 minimum food and beverage.

Reservations required: 965-5788.

Saturday - 9/17 - International Coastal Cleanup is held at various locations including: Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. Sponsored by the Ocean Conservancy and Keep Palm Beach County Beautiful, Inc. All ages may participate, but adults must participate with children under the age of 18 - no drop-offs. 8-11 am. Free.

Registraion: 338-1542 or www.gumbolimbo. org. Also held at The Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach, 100 South Ocean Blvd., Manalapan, with coffee and light breakfest available. Supplies provided. 8-10 am. Free. 540-4819.

9/17 - Farm Your Backyard Vegetable Garden Workshop is presented at Mounts Botanical Garden, 531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Focus of program is on establishing and managing small vegetable projects, with helpful tips on site preparation, seedling establishment, planting, maintenance and harvesting. 9 am-2 pm. $40.

Registration: 233-1757.

The COASTAL STAR 9/17 - EVP (Extreme Volleyball Professional) Pro Mens & Womens Tour is held on the beach near the Seagate Beach Club, 1000 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. 8 am-6 pm. Spectator admission free. 279-1380 ext. 3.

9/17 - 1st Annual Get Your Game On XBOX 360 Tournament is presented by Our Father’s Project, Inc. at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. Cash prizes. 9 am- 7 pm. $25. 541-8879.

9/17 - S.N.A.G.: Starting New At Golf for ages 5-10 begins at the Ezell Hester, Jr. Community Center, 1901 N. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. The SNAG teaching system is a child-friendly, easy method for teaching basic skills to kids who want to learn to play or improve their game. Four-week session runs Saturdays through 10/8. Age 5-7: 9-10 am; age 8-10: 10-11 am. $30/residents, $38/nonresidents. Registration: 742-6550.

9/17 - Saturday Skate Clinic at the Hobbit Skate Park, 505 S.E. 5th Ave., Delray Beach. Learn all aspects of skateboarding including board set-up, safety tips, history of skateboarding and skateboard graphic design. Each student must provide their own skateboard, helmet and knee/elbow pads. For ages 5-15. 9 am-noon. $25/residents; $30/ non-residents. 243-7158.

9/17 - Breastfeeding Prenatal Class is taught at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Expectant parents to learn the benefits of breastfeeding, keys to success, supply and demand, positioning, breast pumps, returning to work and weaning. Both parents encouraged to attend. 10:30 am–12:30 pm. $25/couple.

Registration: 369-2229.

9/17 - Handstand/Tumbling Clinic + Handstand World Record Attempt at Intracoastal Park Clubhouse, 2240 N. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach. The USA is attempting to break a World Record for the most people doing a handstand at the same time. For boys and girls ages 4-12. Coaches will instruct and spot participants on handstands and other tumbling moves. At 1 pm it is handstand kickoff time across the country. Each participant receives a certificate noting they were part of the Handstand World Record Attempt. 11:45 am-1:15 pm. $10/residents, $13/residents.

901-0637.

9/17 - Island Flair on the Ave at West Atlantic Plaza, Atlantic Ave. & NW/SW 5th Ave., Delray Beach. Open aired Caribbean style market that includes live music, craft vendors and Caribbean food. Held every 3rd Saturday of the month. Noon-7 pm. Free. 531-4046.

9/17 - Greater Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce Luminary Gala Annual Awards Celebration at the Delray Beach Marriott, 10 N. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach. Fine dining, dancing, silent auction and a live performance

by Fred Astaire Dance Studio. 7-11 pm. Tickets start at $150. 279-0907.

9/17 - Divas On Stage is performed at Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave. See your favorite Queens as your favorite Divas! 8 pm. $15. 586-6410.

9/17 - Jace Vek Experience perform at Arts Garage, 180 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. BYOW. $15/advance, $20/door. 8 pm. 243-7129.

9/17-18 - Orchid Culture lecture is held at the American Orchid Society, 16700 AOS Lane, Delray Beach. Learn the essentials for successful orchid growing. 11 am-1 pm. $10/ members, $15/non-members. 404-2063.

September 2011

Ralph Mesa, general manager of Mercedes-Benz of Delray Beach, and Mariya-Khristina Shurupova, of Fred Astaire Dance Studio, compete in the Fourth Annual Boca’s Ballroom Battle to benefit the George Snow Scholarship Fund. The event, held Aug. 19 at the Boca Raton Resort & Club, raised a record $211,000.

Photo by Jerry Lower SEPTEMBER 18-24 Sunday - 9/18 - Lake Worth Tropical Triathlon 2011 - Presented by the Greater Lake Worth Chamber of Commerce at Lake Worth Beach, 10 Ocean Blvd. Patricipants will have a 1/4 mile ocean swim off Lake Worth beach, 11-mile bike course along scenic Federal Highway and a 3.1-mile run through Bryant Park and parallel to the Lake Worth Lagoon. 7 am. Registration $80-99, depending on category. Register at www.active.com.

582-4401.

9/18 - Keeping You in Stitches: A Patchwork of Color! at the Cornell Museum of Art & American Culture, Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. See art quilts in the COLORGANICS exhibition and learn how to combine colors and patterns to create your own art quilt squares. 1-3 pm. $5/family admission. 243-7922.

9/18 - Trillium Piano Trio - Presented as part of Music At St. Paul’s, 188 S. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. This opening concert of the 24th season will feature Mozart, Smetana and Saint-Saens. 4 pm. Doors open 30 minutes before concert time. $20/preferred seating, $15/requested donation, $5/students. 2764541.

9/18 - The Songs of Kurt Weill at Arts Garage, 180 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. BYOW. $30/advance, $35/door. 7 pm. 243-7129.

Monday - 9/19 - Joint Journey is an educational program for those undergoing

total joint replacement at Bethesda Heart Hospital, 4th Floor Conference Room, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Learn what to expect before, during and after surgery. Held the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month.2-3 pm.

Free. Registration: 737-7733 Ext. 84688.

9/19 - Talk Like a Pirate Day is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 508 S. Seacrest Blvd. Grades K-4 (plus siblings) showcase their pirate voice in a pirate talking contest, listen to pirate stories, sing a sea shanty and make a special pirate craft. 4:30-6 pm. Free. 742-6380.

Tuesday - 9/20 - Eon: Dragoneye Reborn

by Alison Goodman is presented as part of the Teen Book Discussion group at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Grades 6-12. Registration required. 6-7:30 pm. Free.

742-6390.

9/20 - Kindermusik at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. Ages: newborn to 3 years. Session runs Tuesdays through 10/25.

Times vary according to age. $90/residents, $101/non-residents. 243-7350.

9/20 - FAU Astronomical Observatory - Public viewing day at FAU’s Boca Raton Campus, Science & Engineering Building, #43, 4th floor, 777 Glades Road. Viewings held on the 1st Friday and 3rd Tuesday of each month.

8 pm. Free. 297-STAR. Wednesday - 9/21 - Drop In Craft Day Children in grades K-4 are invited to make a special craft at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. All materials provided.

4-5 pm. Free. 742-6380.

9/21 - Mayor’s Throwdown for the Arts is held at Bru’s Room Sports Grill, 35 NE Second Ave., Delray Beach featuring Boynton Beach mayor Jose Rodriguez, Woodie McDuffie, mayor of Delray Beach and Susan Whelchel, mayor of Boca Raton as celebrity bartenders.

Event benefits Delray Beach’s Plumosa School of the Arts. 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. 276-3663.

9/21 - Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane is presented as part of The Talk of Kings Book Discussion Group at The Four Arts King Library, 3 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach. 5:30 pm. Free.

655-2766.

9/21 - Evening Walk with the Director is held at Mounts Botanical Garden, 531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Experience the evening frangrances of exotic flowers.

Participants should meet at the front entrance.

6-7:30 pm. $5. 233-1757.

Thursday - 9/22 - Two By Two Storytime - Ages 24-35 months listen to stories, sing songs, dance and do fingerplays at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. 10-10:45 am. 742-6390.

9/22 - The Creative Genius of Federico Uribe: Curator’s Highlight Tour at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. 2:30 pm. Free with paid Museum admission: $8 adults, $6 seniors, free/children 12 and under.

392-2500.

9/22 - National Yoga Month is celebrated at The Omphoy Ocean Resort’s Exhale Spa at 2842 S. Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach. Yoga class followed with live DJ, light bites, drinks and trunk show. 5:30 pm. Free. 540-6440.

9/22 - Executive Forum Lecture Series at FAU’s Office Depot Grand Lecture Hall, Room 101, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. Guest speaker is Dave Blaszkowsky, associate director

of data and analytics of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Presented by FAU’s College of Business. 5:30-7 pm. Free. RSVP at www.fauadamscenter.org. 297-2980.

9/22 - Champagne & Caviar Tasting to benefit Hospice of Palm Beach County Foundation at One Thousand Ocean, Boca Raton. Joann Economou of Petrossian will guide you through an exclusive cavair tasting while educating you about the differences in caviar. Champagne pairings complement the experience. Space is limited to 50 guests. 6:308:30 pm. $75. Reservations: 988-2742.

Friday - 9/23 - The Porges Cup Golf Challenge presented by the Boynton Beach Chamber is held at Cypress Creek Country Club, 9400 S. Military Trail, Boynton Beach.

Golf, food and fun. 11:30 am: Registration, lunch, practice; 1 pm: Shotgun Scramble.

Price includes box lunch, green fees, cart with refreshments on the course and a BBQ awards dinner: single golfer $100, foursome $375.

732-9501 or www.boyntonbeach.org.

9/23-25 - Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill is performed at Studio One on the FAU Boca Raton Campus, 777 Glades Road. Held again 9/30-10/2. F & Sat.: 7 pm; Sun.: 1 pm; $20.

800-564-9539 or www.fauevents.com.

Saturday - 9/24 - SeaAngels Beach Cleanup/International Coastal Cleanup & National Public Lands Day at Ocean Inlet Park, 6990 N. Ocean Blvd., Ocean Ridge.

Sponsored by Ocean Conservancy and Keep PBC Beautiful. Held the last Saturday of each month. 8-10:30 am. Free. 846-1351.

9/24 - Girls Basketball Clinic for ages 1017 at Pompey Park, 1101 NW 2nd St., Delray Beach. Learn basketball skills and fitness that will prepare the participants for the Annual Cooper Union College Girl’s Basketball & Volleyball Clinic. Eight-week session runs Saturdays through 11/12. 9-11 am. Free. 2437356.

9/24 - Edible Gardens Workshop at Mounts Botanical Garden, 531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. 9 am-1 pm. Free. Registration: 233-1757 or www.mounts.org.

9/24 - Poetry Writing Class at Intracoastal Park Clubhouse, 2240 N. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach. Learn the difference between prose and poetry; the use of poetic techniques and figures of speech. Six-week course will be either Saturdays through 11/5 (no class 10/8) or Wednesdays 9/28 through 11/2. 10 am-noon. $75/residents, $94/non-residents.

742-6221.

9/24 - Narrated Bus Tour of Historic Delray Beach – Conducted by the Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History is a 1 hour and 45 minute tour of 10 historic sites departs at 11 am from MLFH inside Boynton Beach Mall, 801 N Congress Ave, Ste. 483, Boynton Beach. $15/ adult & senior citizen, Free/children under 18 (max 5 children free per family.) 243-2662.

9/24 - Art Film - John Marin: Let the Paint Be Paint! (2010 - NR) at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. Held again 9/25 & 28. 2 pm. Free with paid Museum admission: $8 adults, $6 seniors, free for children 12 and under. 392-2500.

9/24 - Beauty and the Beast at Showtime Performing Arts Theatre, 503 SE Mizner Blvd., Ste. 73, Boca Raton. Held Saturdays through 11/19. 2 pm. $14/adults, $10/children. 3942626.

9/24 - Concert: Debbie Orta performs at the ArtsGarage, 180 NE 1st St., Delray Beach.

BYOW. $20/advance, $25/door. 8-10 pm. 2437129 or www.delraybeacharts.org.

SEPTEMBER 25-OCTOBER 1 Sunday - 9/25 - “A Dogs Day” Event and the “Run for the Animals” Poker Run is presented by A Second Chance Puppies and Kittens Rescue is held at Okeeheelee Park, 7715 Forest Hill Blvd., West Palm Beach. 10 am-4 pm at the Micanopy Pavilion. Vendors, food, drinks, adoptions, live music, raffles, pet photography. Free. Well-behaved, leased dogs invited. 949-903-9518.

9/25 - 16th Annual Blessing of the Animals Service & Festival at Saint Joseph’s Episcopal Church, 3300A S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Have your family pet blessed and receive a certificate. Petting zoo exhibit, exhibits of local pet organizations and vendors and demonstrations by the Boynton Beach K-9 Unit and Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Mounted Unit. 2-6 pm. Donations benefit Busch Wildlife Sanctuary. 733-3533 or www.stjoesweb.org.

Monday - 9/26 - Guests of the Nation is discussed as part of the Great Books group at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Meets the second and fourth Monday of each month. 10-11:45 am. Free. 742-6886 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

9/26 - Ines of My Soul by Isabel Allende is presented as part of the Afternoon Book Group at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 1 pm. Free. 266-9490.

9/26 - Swindle by Gordon Korman is discussed as part of the Book Gabbers Book Discussion group at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Grades 3-5. 6:30-7:30 pm. Free.

Registration: 742-6886.

Tuesday - 9/27 - Boca Beachcombing - Meet for a talk about seashells at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd.,

September 2011 Boca Raton, then caravan over to Red Reef Park to walk the beach in search of ocean treasures.

Open to all ages. 3:30-5 pm. $5/members, $8/ non-members. Reservations: 391-8110.

9/27 - Concert: Debbie Orta - Jazz vocalist peforms with award winning bassist and pianist at the Arts Garage, 180 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. BYOW. $20/advance, $25/at the door. 8-10 pm. 243-7129.

Wednesday - 9/28 - Seining the Lagoon at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. Explore the grasses and flats of the Intracoastal Waterway. Wear clothes that can get wet. Ages 10 to adult.

3:30-5 pm. $5/members, $8/non-members.

Reservations: 391-8110.

Thursday - 9/29 - Rosh Hashanah 9/29 - Signs of Fall - Enjoy a fall hike at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. For ages 7-11. 10:30 am-noon. $9/members, $14/non-members .

Reservations: 391-8110.

9/29 - Executive Forum Lecture Series at FAU’s Office Depot Grand Lecture Hall, Room 101, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. Guest speaker is Steve Calkins, senior vice president of contract sales of Office Depot. Presented

by FAU’s College of Business. 5:30-7 pm. Free.

RSVP at www.fauadamscenter.org. 297-2980.

9/29-30 - High Holiday Services/Rosh Hashanah are held with Chabad of South Palm Beach at the Carlisle/Palm Beach, 450 E. Ocean Ave., Lantana. 10 am/Morning Services, 11:45 am/Shofar blowing with Kiddush Luncheon following services. Hebrew and English prayer books. Services accommodate beginners, pros and everyone in between.

Free. Reservations: 889-3499.

Friday - 9/30-10/2 - L-Dub Film Festival at Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave. Filmmaker reception to be held next door to the Stonzek Theatre 9/30 at 8 pm. Awards ceremony 10/2 at 7pm on the main stage Lake Worth Playhouse. 586-6410.

9/30-10/2 - The Sunshine Boys: A play by Neil Simon is performed at The Delray Beach Playhouse, 950 NW 9th St.Runs through 10/16.

F & Sat.: 8 pm; Sat. & Sun.: 2 pm. 10/4-10/8: 8 pm; 10/8-9: 2 pm; 10/13-15: 8 pm; 10/15-16: 2 pm. $30. 272-1281, Ext. 4.

9/30-10/2 - Palm Beach Home Show at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach.

Local, national and international companies showcase futuristic technology and exciting new products and services to customize your home. F: Noon-8 pm; Sat.: 11 am-8 pm; Sun.: 11 am-6 pm. Free. 954-946-6164.

The COASTAL STAR Saturday - 10/1 - Mayor’s Challenge Golf Classic is held at the Delray Beach Golf Club, 2200 Highland Ave. as a fundraiser for Sister Cities of Delray Beach. 7:15 am/registration, 8 am/shotgun scramble, 1 pm/awards luncheon with prizes. $75. 243-7011.

10/1 - 10th Annual Dollars for Scholars Golf Tournament sponsored by the Lake Worth High School Alumni Foundation is held at the Atlantis Country Club, 190 Atlantis Blvd.

7:30 am/Registration and breakfast, 8:15 am/ Copter Drop, 8:30 am/Shotgun Start, 12:30 pm/Awards luncheon. $125/golfer, $400/4some. Registration deadline 9/15. 642-6888.

10/1 - Sand Sifters Beach Cleanup at Oceanfront Park, 6415 N. Ocean Blvd., Ocean Ridge. 8-10:15 am. Free. 734-9128.

10/1 - Designing, Creating & Maintaining

Your Home Landscape is a three-session workshop held at Mounts Botanical Garden, 531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Learn how to improve a home landscape. 10/1: Evaluation of site conditions; 10/8: Tour and learn about purchasing, planting and establishing plants; 10/15: Tips and techniques to conserve water, reduce pesticide use and minimize maintenance. Registration deadline 9/28. 9 am-1 pm. $50/members, $60/nonmembers. 233-1757.

10/1 - Blessing of the Animals at the Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League, 3110/3200 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Father Frank and Rabbi Frank will be conducting a celebration in honor and remembrance of the animals. 10 am-noon. $10 suggested donation, light refreshments. 472-8855.

Community Calendar 27 10/1 – Child Safety Prenatal Class is offered at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, Sand Dollar Room, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Learn infant CPR for children up to eight years old and how you can assist in an emergency. 10 am–noon. $40/couple or $25/ person. Registration: 369-2229.

10/1 - Orchid Care 101 at Mounts Botanical Garden Auditorium, 531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Attendees are encouraged to bring an orchid (up to 6 inches) to be repotted or mounted. Orchid supplies will be available for purchase. 10 am-1 pm. $30/members, $40/ non-members. 233-1757.

10/1 - 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. Classes are

held Saturdays in four-week sessions. Four one-hour classes per session. Session 2: 10/1-22. Level 1, II & III: 11 am-noon. Cost per session is $30/resident, $38/non-residents.

742-6645 or www.boynton-beach.org.

10/1 - Stitch Rock, an Indie Craft Fair & Bazaar at Old School Square Vintage Gymnasium, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach.

Handmade crafts and unique products. Free swag bag for the first 100 people. D.I.Y. Noon6pm with Fashion show at 3 pm. $5 admission, children 12 and under free with paid adult.

635-8086 or www.rockthestitch.com.

10/1-2 - 17th Annual Downtown Delray Beach Craft Festival from Howard Alan is held along NW & SW 4th Avenues. (330 E. Atlantic Ave.), Delray Beach. Over 100 craft booths. 10 am-5 pm. Free. 954-472-3755.

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September 2011

Paws Up for Pets

Pooch Prom ups the ante on doggie dating Raise your hands if you’ve ever experienced a dog of a date. Yes, we all wish to forget them. But it’s 2011 and now the hot trend is to stage a date night with your dog. Often, these events feature a “paws for a good cause” theme to raise money and awareness.

Earlier this summer, I boldly created a national pet holiday — see nationaldogpartyday.com — and hosted simultaneous parties in New York City and San Diego. I instructed attendees in advance that this was “not your mother’s typical yappy hour,” but rather, a party with a purpose. And during the three hours, your date would be your dog.

I’m happy to report that people reveled in the rare opportunity to live in the moment and well-mannered dogs got to partake in games and healthy treats.

We raised money for two worthy pet charities and plan to expand to four locations in 2012, including one in South Florida.

Cheryl Crowley, a lifelong pet lover, is taking this dog date concept a creative step further. On Sept. 24, she will host the inaugural Pooch Prom at Downtown at the Gardens in Palm Beach Gardens. A pack of clothingclad canines will strut the runway in their finest attires with two being crowned

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John Fowler, Sally Mohler, Genie Serrano, Kendall Rumsey, Cheryl Crowley, Deb Praeg, Jennifer Finnell and Christine DiRocco, along with some of their ‘pooch advisers’ are working to unleash the inaugural Pooch Prom on Sept. 24 at Downtown at the Gardens in Palm Beach Gardens. Photo Tracey Benson

Prom King and Prom Queen, based on a vote by a panel of celebrity judges.

“Imagine a beagle in a tuxedo or a Yorkie in a frilly gown,” says Crowley, president of ImMEDIAcy Public Relations, based in North Palm Beach. “Well, that’s what you may actually see on Sept. 24.”

Don’t let distance stop any of you living in south Palm Beach County. It’s an easy ride up I-95 and you will have your cool dog as your copilot.

In fact, the soiree is limited to 50 well-mannered, wellgroomed, party-seeking dogs, and Crowley says the word is spreading fast that this is one of the social events of the season.

Cost is $45 for one dog and human “chaperone,” or $85 for one dog and two human “chaperones,” with the ticket price including food and libations, a band, live auction and door prizes. And the opportunity to witness the historic crowning of Pooch Prom queen and king would be a memory maker that is simply, well, priceless.

Learn more by visiting www.poochprom.org or by contacting Crowley at 561776-7659.

The benefactor of this tail-waggers-in-tuxedos event is the programs of the Drug Abuse Treatment Association, a nonprofit group that delivers effective programs for children, teens and their families coping with substance abuse and/

or juvenile delinquency in five counties: Palm Beach, St. Lucie, Martin, Indian River and Okeechobee.

Learn more by visiting www. drugabusetreatment.org or by calling 561-743-1034.

The always-clever Crowley also found a way to come up with a canine acronym for DATA that aptly fits this inaugural event: “Dogs are totally awesome.”

A key member on the event committee is Christine DiRocco of Lake Worth, who works at the pet-welcoming Ritz-Carlton in Manalapan.

Happy to report that the preplanning activity inspired her to adopt a sweet-eyed Cavalier King Charles spaniel pup named Mia. “Yep, I confess. I’m one of those crazy pet owners now,” says DiRocco with a laugh.

“Mia is only 3½ months old and she is sooooo cute. She is very friendly, easy going and loves to cuddle. She is a bit young and still getting her puppy [vaccinations], so she won’t be at this year’s prom, but I predict she will be a runaway winner next year.”

OK, the canine challenge has been made. But barking out optimistic predictions is one of the many side benefits of being paired with a pet.

Medical studies conclude that dogs, cats and other pets do a body good.

“Since I got Mia, I am happier and I look forward to going home and scooping her up in my arms and loving her,” says DiRocco. “Mia has changed me for the better.”

Christine DiRocco predicts her Cavalier King Charles spaniel pup will be a winner at next year’s prom. Photo provided Crowley agrees. “My mom bought a dog three months before I was born and I have never been without a dog or a cat or both during my entire life. To me, pets make you a happier, more passionate person.”

You won’t get any arguments from me. What are your thoughts on dressing up dogs? Or planning a “date night” once in a while with your canine chum? Email me at Arden@fourleggedlife.com.

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 Pet Life Radio.com and learn more by visiting www.fourleggedlife.

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Parishioners unite in prayer at St. Joseph Episcopal Church. Photo by Lauren Loricchio

Pastor reaches out at St. Joseph, finds responsive community

The story of St. Joseph Episcopal Church’s pastor of nearly 11 years, the Rev. Martin Zlatic, and the Boynton Beach church’s innovative, youth-driven expansion is one that warms the cockles of the heart.

It all started coming together when “Pastor Marty,” as he affectionately is known, was literally out in the corporate world, traveling the planet for Motorola Inc. His experiences undoubtedly Zlatic could fill a book. For our purposes, let it suffice that he says, “Where Renaissance Commons is now, there Tobias used to be 5,000 Motorola employees in Boynton. Now there’s zero.”

The former Catholic priest and his wife, Dee — now Children’s Minister at St. Joseph’s — found an Episcopal home in Jacksonville where they married. Answering his hankering to return to the priesthood, he was a worker-priest — one who, in addition to his priestly duties, works a secular job — between Motorola and St. Andrews Church in Lake Worth, before being tapped

by St. Joseph’s in 2001.

He was blessed with a congregation whose charisms, or special virtues, include reaching out to youths and to young adults who want a worship experience but for whom the traditional form of worship

might not be the thing.

“And we were able to hire Charles Miley, who was just coming out of Berkley School of Music, and who had a background doing contemporary music in a traditional Episcopal setting, which is a very unique combination,” Zlatic said.

“And Charles came and we started what we call the ‘unplugged’ service.” After settling on the Sunday 11:45 a.m. time niche for the less formal, Episcopal twist on “Rock Church,” there’s been continuous growth.

“Unplugged” is the second largest of the four Sunday services.

But having established the service, its time frame and its musician “who has since forged relationships with local musicians and put together this incredible group who come together to help to lead the music, we didn’t have a place to put him,” said Zlatic. For five years what literally was a storage closet has served as the rehearsal room. Underscoring the urgency of prioritizing a planned expansion was that the church’s traditional choir also is outgrowing its practice room.

Moreover, weekend attendance of around 350 makes St. Joseph’s a medium-to-large congregation, difficult for one person to manage alone.

Recognizing “unplugged” as where the need is, that’s where the church is concentrating. The Diocese of Southeast Florida’s enlightened investment of a $150,000 total matching grant over three years has helped St. Joseph’s hire an additional priest for this

focus.

Of 50 people who formally applied, the best fit was Wendy (Warnke) Tobias.

“Her family has been in Boynton forever,” Zlatic said, “and she also happens to be someone who grew up in this church.” After working at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., the past three years, she’s due on board in October, “hopefully coinciding almost with the launch of the new building, so it’s all going to come together sort of at the same time. So that’s exciting,” he said.

Soon after, the South Palm Beach Deanery of the diocese, of which Zlatic is the dean, will host for the first time in St. Joseph’s history the annual convention of the 83-congregation, Key Westto-Jensen Beach, Glades-tothe-coast diocese.

“It will be here Nov. 11, 2011, a very easy date to remember,” Zlatic said.

In honor of the nation’s veterans, “We are having the Episcopal bishop for the armed forces to be our guest preacher.”

St. Joseph’s is honoring the past and present, yet developing an innovative ministry for the future. It’s a success story of a family- and youth-oriented church, and of the adaptability required to truly serve that makes one want to pray for even more.

C.B. Hanif is a writer and inter-religious affairs consultant.

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September 2011

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 Mediterraneanstyle Delray Beach house has distinctive architectural details.

The spacious kitchen offers state-of-the-art appliances and custom cabinetry, as well as eat-in space.

Beachside mansion in Delray Beach This 4,399-square-foot beachside residence is full of architectural detail, inside and out. Set amid garden-like grounds with mature plantings, the exterior is designed with a leafy color stucco background. Attached are arches, columns, interesting fenestration, decorative bell towers and a barrel-tiled roof. You enter the space via a herringbone-design brick drive leading you to a bougainvillea-covered trellis to the patio, or to a brick pathway to the front entrance.

Around back there is a resortstyle saltwater pool and spa, a covered loggia with carved limestone fireplace and cook area — perfect for entertaining in South Florida style.

You enter the front door into a two-story foyer, which offers display niches, lightfiltering windows and a tray ceiling.

The study has built-in cabinetry and a A curving wood staircase fireplace. French doors open on to the patio. with custom wrought iron railing leads to the second story. The foyer also opens to the 18- by 15foot living room with glearming dark wood floors. It also overlooks, through French doors, the open patio and tropical pool area. Also on this floor are a large (15 by 13 feet) dining room and an eat-in kitchen with state-of-the-art appliances and gourmet touches.

The home has four oversize bedrooms, including a lower level master suite with an Old World-look bath with dressing area and an adjoining walk-in closet (room). This custom home is loaded with amenities and details. It is near Atlantic Avenue as well as within walking distance of the ocean.

Offered at $2,495,000.

Jon D. Rashotsky, P.A.; Mizner Grande Realty Inc. Call (561) 236-0111 or email: sold@jonthecloser.com

Many rooms of the house open on to the tropical patio and pool area, making it perfect for entertaining.

There also is an outdoor fireplace and cooking area.

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SOLD

NEW LISTING

MANALAPAN OCEANFRONT

CASA DI MARE

September 2011

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BEACHSIDE LUXURY ESTATE

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OCEAN RIDGE INTRACOASTAL

compound with fabulous direct ocean views and white sandy beaches just steps away. Private gated enclave of only four homes. Beautiful courtyard pool and spa. Large rooms and high ceilings. Least expensive direct ocean home in the area.

Bill Quigley, 561-346-3434 Offered at $6,000,000

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

Ocean Ridge traditional 2-story Key West style home built in '02 and features 7 bedrooms, 7.5 baths and a gourmet cook's kitchen with marble countertops and center island. Butler's pantry. Dumb waiter.

Outdoor entertainment area with heated pool, spa and pergola. Three car garage and Chicago brick drive and patios.

Val Coz, 561-386-8011 Offered at $1,695,000

Amazing Intracoastal and sanctuary views from this super private waterfront 3/3/2 pool home with $250,000 in recent upgrades.

Val Coz, 561-386-8011 Offered at $995,000

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REDUCED

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MANALAPAN

MANALAPAN 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 $2,900,000

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

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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

OLD FLORIDA AT ITS BEST! Key West style 3 bedroom / 2 bath home with great Intracoastal views. Dock with ocean access.

Bill Quigley, 561-346-3434 Offered at $895,000

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OCEAN RIDGE Major price reduction! Fantastic 4 BR 3.5 BA 2CG beachside home featuring 40 ft pool with spa, huge master suite, hardwood floors, open floorplan, vaulted ceilings, brilliant light and 100’ of deeded beach east of A1A. Adjoining vacant lot available to make this a 1/2 acre mini-estate.

Val Coz, 561-386-8011 Reduced to $1,000,000

OCEAN RIDGE 10,000 sq ft vacant lot on Osprey Dr. Build your dream beachside home. This lot can also be combined with the home for sale at 120 Dolphin for a mini estate.

Val Coz, 561-386-8011 Reduced to $499,000

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DELRAY BEACH

OCEAN RIDGE

Custom luxury home in the highly desirable Seagate neighborhood. Double lot, 10,000+/- sq ft with huge pool, guest house, stunning loggia with outdoor fireplace, a perfect home for entertaining. This bank owned property needs some TLC to bring up to its full potential.

Val Coz, 561-386-8011 Sold for $1,850,000

Single story 3 Bedroom, 3 bath, 2 car garage pool home with office. Recent renovations include impact glass, saturnia and hardwood floors, new baths, custom closets – all on a huge corner lot, completely fenced.

Val Coz, 561-386-8011 Offered at $980,000

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