October 2011
Volume 4 Issue 10
Serving Hypoluxo Island, South Palm Beach, Manalapan, Ocean Ridge, Briny Breezes, Gulf Stream and Coastal Delray Beach
Along the Coast
Trims to Boynton fire-rescue may slow island service
Ocean Ridge resident Howard Schnellenberger will wrap up a career of more than half a century of football during the debut season of Florida Atlantic University’s new stadium on the school’s Boca Raton campus. Photo by Tim Stepien
The house that Howard built
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By Tim Norris
iding shotgun across campus on a Florida Atlantic University golf cart, Assistant Athletic Director Katrina McCormack at the wheel, Howard Schnellenberger lets his right leg slide loose into an eastern breeze. Two weeks before, doctors at the Sports & Orthopedic Center in Boca Raton had removed Schnellenberger’s right hip and installed a high-tech version to improve the original, tested and tortured through hard-core playing days and the practice-and-sideline exertions of Schnellenberger’s 77 years.
FAU ready to kick off first season in new football stadium
He was back on the practice field the following week. He is about to climb, this September morning, into the school’s nearly finished and still unnamed football stadium, on a survey tour. He approaches it as he would any of his shared efforts. “Let’s start down here,” he says, “and work our way up.” To make sure no one confuses the
surgery with his status, FAU announced in August that Schnellenberger’s first year in the new stadium he fought so long to realize also would be his last, his final year as a coach, head or assistant. Anywhere. Schnellenberger has nurtured young men and, with them, campuses and communities for more than 40 years. He learned his trade, he says, from a few of the best teachers football has ever seen — Paul “Bear” Bryant, Blanton Collier, George Allen, Don Shula — and also from his coach at Flaget High School in See HOWARD on page 8
Along the Coast
St. Andrew’s marks 50 years By Mary Jane Fine
A bit of perspective: It was the year Gov. George Wallace allowed two black students to be enrolled at the University of Alabama and President John F. Kennedy guided a nervous nation through the Cuban missile crisis. Diet Rite and Tab debuted that year, and ABC began broadcasting in color.
Inside Halloween tails
Dogs can do tricks for treats in canine costumes. Coastal Life, Page 25
The Beach Boys turned Surfin’ Safari into their first hit. A gallon of gas cost 31 cents. Back then, the western reaches of Boca Raton were a vast tract of scrubland and alligators. It was 1962, the year St. Andrew’s School welcomed its first class. “This was the only thing See ST. ANDREW’S on page 11
All of St. Andrew’s 1,313 students turned out to mark the Scots’ first half-century. Photo provided
Gulf Stream property to be subdivided
Spence estate is earmarked for six homes; house to be demolished. Page 6
Meet Your Neighbor
Former Manalapan Mayor Kelly Gottlieb pilots for charity. Page 14
By Angie Francalancia Starting Oct. 1, fire service — or ambulance service — will take longer to reach Ocean Ridge and Briny Breezes. That’s because Boynton Beach, which provides fire rescue services to both towns, will be removing from operation one of its two emergency vehicles now run out of the closest station. Earlier in the month, members of the Boynton Beach City Commission had discussed closing that station all together, but the idea didn’t have support from a majority of the commission and didn’t arise again as Boynton Beach finalized its budget on Sept. 20. But Boynton Beach saved $378,467 by eliminating six firefighter positions. The positions had been vacant, so no one was laid off. But without the positions in the budget, there won’t be the staff to operate two vehicles out of Station 1 at Boynton Beach and Seacrest Boulevards, which handles most of the calls from Ocean Ridge and Briny Breezes. As of late last month, Boynton Beach interim Fire Chief Ray Carter still was deciding whether to remove the fire truck or the transport vehicle from service. “Of all five of our stations, it is the one with the lowest volume,” Carter said. “There’s no perfect solution. We feel like response times in that general area won’t be impacted based on the first arriving unit. The only thing is we’re going to lose some function one way or another.” Both vehicles carry medical equipment and can act as the first response to a call, Carter explained. However, the rescue truck doesn’t have See FIRE-RESCUE on page 10
Celebrating a century
Delray Beach marks its first 100 years. Page 18