The Coastal Star July 2012

July 2012

Volume 5 Issue 7

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

Along the Coast

PBSO still on table in Ocean Ridge, Manalapan Boynton withdraws from plan

By Steve Plunkett

Proposals to have sheriff’s deputies patrol Manalapan and Ocean Ridge crept ahead in June while a similar offer in Boynton Beach screeched to a halt.

Boynton Beach commissioners directed city staff June 19 to not move forward with a plan by the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office to provide police services. The proposal would have meant a $5 million savings in each of the first two years while cutting almost a third of the city’s 165 police positions.

“I want my Police Department, period. I don’t want any sheriffs, I don’t want any outsiders into my boundaries,” said Herb Suss, one of a handful of residents who spoke, all in support of keeping the city’s officers.

Commissioners embraced the citizens’ point of view.

“My position on it has not changed since day one — I don’t want to go with PBSO,” Mayor Woodrow Hay said.

Boynton Beach’s city manager is See PBSO on page 13

A legacy of service The flag is at half-mast as the town of Gulf Stream reflects on Bill Koch’s 46 years as mayor.

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Kate, the leatherback sea turtle who has a problem nesting, heads back into the Atlantic Ocean after a failed attempt to lay eggs along the beach in Ocean Ridge. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

Nature gets a helping hand

Humans assist when Kate the leatherback sea turtle cannot dig a nest

By Tim O’Meilia

Officially, she’s female leatherback turtle UUN669. That’s what the tag on a back flipper reads.

But everyone calls her Kate.

She’s the one still on the beach at midmorning, scraping around in the hot sun, her flippers trying to clear a spot to lay her eggs.

On May 31, Kate was spotted across from the Boca Highlands, at the Boca Raton-Highland Beach line. The day before that, she was in Ocean Ridge.

Before that, she was in Palm Beach.

Late in April and early in May, she trundled ashore in Juno Beach.

That’s not unusual. Leatherbacks often make three to five trips ashore in a season to make nests and lay their eggs, said Kelly Martin, a biologist with the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach.

Sea turtles usually come ashore at night, deposit their eggs and waddle back into the surf by dawn. All within a couple of hours. Not Kate. She’s out there well into the day, attracting a crowd and becoming something of a celebrity.

“She’s always on the beach after

daylight,” Martin said. “You don’t really see turtles coming out in the daytime.

Quite a few people know her now. ” Martin and others who have examined Kate say she has an abnormality in her carapace or her flippers that prevents her from digging a proper egg chamber. She needs human help.

Turtle monitor Chris Perretta and Robin Trindell, who heads the sea turtle management program for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, were among those who See LEATHERBACK on page 5

Delray Beach

Neighbors could be called to testify in Caron sober house trial

By Tim Pallesen

The Caron Foundation wants coastal Delray Beach residents to testify how they blocked Caron’s attempt to house recovering addicts and alcoholics near the ocean.

Caron attorney Jim Green told a federal judge in April that trial testimony will reveal a “a hostile and organized community reaction to our attempt to locate in an affluent area near the ocean.”

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The impish primate is a popular decorating theme in local resorts, restaurants and stores.

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Court papers show Caron has listed 72 potential witnesses in its federal discrimination lawsuit against the city. Many of the witnesses live near a Seaspray Avenue house where Caron wants to house seven patients in recovery.

Green wants to know the role that one particular neighbor — former County Commissioner Mary McCarty — played in organizing opposition to sober houses.

Green said he discovered

McCarty’s involvement when examining emails between neighbors and city officials.

“Mary McCarty is a smart lady who has not always been on the right side of truth, justice and the law,” Green said.

McCarty has avoided the spotlight since her release from federal prison last year. She was sentenced in 2009 to 3½ years in prison after she pleaded guilty to a federal felony count See CARON on page 10

Around Town

Chris Evert’s sons follow in their parents’ footsteps on the tennis courts and the fishing boats. Page 8

Meet Your Neighbor

This Boca Raton resident was inspired by her Navy SEAL son to produce a book honoring our soldiers. Page 15

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Editorial

Towns should work with their neighbors before settling for PBSO

“Sweeping action may be gratifying and may create the aura of strong leadership, but its unintended consequences may lead to costs that are too high to bear.”

— Teresa Sullivan, reinstated University of Virginia president

While visiting Washington D.C. this past month, I became fascinated with the dramatic ouster (and subsequent reinstatement) of the University of Virginia’s president.

The above quote struck a cord with me on a local issue: the possible outsourcing of our local police protection to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

After sitting through hours of heated discussion in frigid commission chambers, it is obvious that coastal residents have an emotional connection to their local law enforcement and to their hometowns.

It is also clear that many who have been elected to sit on the dais feel it is their fiduciary responsibility to implement “sweeping action” in the face of what they call the “unsustainable” costs of community policing.

I urge caution — and cooperation.

Consider this: The circulation area of The Coastal Star [the barrier island communities of South Palm Beach through coastal Boca Raton] reaches 3 percent of the households in Palm Beach County. But, these households represent 16 percent of the taxable real estate value of the county.

Sure, ocean and waterfront contribute to this value, but so do intangible quality of life issues. Our elected officials must recognize these and begin talking with

neighboring communities — before any sweeping (and irreversible) changes are made that may threaten the very existence of our small towns.

Town leaders should pursue the formation of a barrier island task force to look at the policing evaluations being done now town-by-town and make logical (and fiscally responsible) suggestions for future planning along the coast. Policing is the hot topic right now, but there are many more that should be addressed as we consider our coastal future.

The Florida Coalition for Preservation has been requesting that officials in our towns assign members to an A1A Visioning Committee that could compile and consider both the fiduciary and intangible concerns of coastal residents. They have offered to help locate an outside consultant to facilitate these discussions and keep participants focused on what matters most to our residents today and in the future.

Why not take them up on it? I’ve heard some say that we’ve tried this before and it didn’t work. Reminds me of a boss I once had who said, “We tried a woman in that job before and it didn’t work.”

In both cases this is a lazy and unacceptable response.

Task forces and visioning groups don’t provide quick or easy solutions. But to avoid unintended consequences, our elected officials must avoid implementing sweeping changes and demonstrate strong leadership by talking with their neighbors.

Mary Kate Leming, Editor

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Dr. Thomas Balkany is a cochlear implant surgeon and researcher. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

Pioneering ear surgeon gives thousands the gift of hearing

By Paula Detwiller Dr. Thomas Balkany of coastal Delray Beach decided at age 12 that he wanted a career in medicine. It happened the day his mother took him to the doctor for a nasal obstruction.

“I just thought it was wonderful that the doctor was able to help me,” Balkany says.

“He was so calming, and I said to myself, ‘I want to be that guy.’ ” Balkany became that guy — specifically, an ear, nose and throat guy — complete with his own soothing bedside manner.

He chose hearing restoration as his sub-specialty, and went on to become a world-renowned cochlear implant surgeon and researcher. As founder of the University of Miami Cochlear Implant Program, he has given thousands of deaf children and adults the gift of hearing.

“This procedure totally intrigues me,” says Balkany, now 64. “It’s more than a living, it’s a passion — because I’ve seen what a difference it can make in people’s lives. And not just for the child or the deaf adult, but for the whole family.”

A cochlear implant is a computerized device that bypasses the damaged hair cells in the inner ear and converts sound waves into electrical energy to stimulate the auditory nerve.

Since their approval by the FDA in 1985, cochlear implants have evolved into highly sophisticated microprocessors with enough computing power to fly a jet airplane, Balkany says. And he should know: he holds 14 U.S. and international patents on cochlear implant technologies, and has written three books and more than 300 scientific publications on the topic.

He also has trained more than 300 surgeons and actively worked with manufacturers to

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develop and test experimental implants.

In recognition of his tireless work in improving cochlear implant design, functionality, and surgical standards, Balkany received the AXA Advisors Lifetime Achievement Award from the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce in May. The inspiration for his life’s work came during medical school at the University of Miami when his wife, Diane, who was then the director of a home for developmentally disabled children, introduced him to a 14-year-old resident named Deano.

“Deano was a ward of the state of Mississippi, and he was being warehoused in this South Florida facility,” Balkany says.

“My wife noticed he was very different from the other kids.

He didn’t speak but he was bright and alert. We brought him to the medical school for testing and discovered he just couldn’t hear.”

That experience tugged at Balkany’s emotions; he couldn’t do anything to help Deano, but he resolved to work toward helping other kids avoid Deano’s fate.

“Every day without hearing is a day when that child is falling behind in their intellectual development,” Balkany says. “Hearing is not just about the sound of the doorbell or listening to Mom teach you how to say ‘Da Da.’ It’s about the entire development of the intellect and social structure of the child.”

Balkany recalled one of his most memorable cases, a

young deaf boy whose family was initially against cochlear implants.

“Eventually, as his hearing loss progressed, the family decided to let the child have the cochlear implant, at 18 months.

He was one of the youngest recipients at that time.

“Now he’s graduating from high school as a leader in his class, played all the sports, and happens to be really cute so he gets lots of girls chasing after him,” Balkany says with a grin. “He’s extremely bright, and now gives lectures about cochlear implants to national organizations.”

To date, Balkany has performed cochlear implant surgery on approximately 1,000 children and another thousand adults from North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. One of those adults is 59-year-old Jim Frogner of Lantana.

Frogner was a little concerned when he first met Balkany because of the surgeon’s large hands. “He could palm a basketball, no problem!” Frogner says. “But the more I got to know him, I felt totally confident. His hands are huge, but they’re rock steady when he’s doing microsurgery.”

In his spare time, Balkany enjoys being a “family guy” and writing poetry, a lifelong hobby. Some of his poems have been published in the Miami newsletter of Mensa, the international high IQ society he joined in college after passing the requisite intelligence test.

With his calm, unassuming demeanor, it’s not readily apparent that Balkany is a highly accomplished surgeon, a gifted poet, or a Mensan.

“He’s the kind of guy you’d love to sit on the back porch and have a beer with,” says Ú Frogner.

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Highland Beach

Town Hall revamp considered

By Steve Plunkett

A $750,000 proposal to revamp Town Hall would allow people to get from the main lobby to commission chambers without going outside and consolidate the Police Department at the rear of the building.

Architect Mark Marsh of Palm Beach-based Bridges, Marsh and Associates gave commissioners a tour of the plan at their June 26 workshop.

The renovations would cover part of the north wing, the central area and the south wing, which includes the commission chambers, he said.

“What’s not included is the post office. It is not going away. It stays as is,” said Marsh, whose recent designs include the town halls of Palm Beach and Ocean Ridge.

The overhaul will be limited to the Town Hall’s existing configuration, what Marsh called its envelope.

“We’re not expanding. We’re just reshuffling space to make it more efficient and respond to more current technologies,” he said.

Marsh’s plan moves the commission chambers from the back of Town Hall to the front and creates a 7-foot-wide gallery connecting the north wing and a new chamber lobby. Bathrooms outside the chambers and off the current lobby would be consolidated into one set of ADA-compliant facilities.

Marsh said the biggest change would be to the commission dais, which would widen from a horseshoe shape to more of a crescent.

Commissioners would get individual computer monitors to keep up with proceedings.

Marsh’s firm was paid $58,000 to develop the plan, which does not include costs of audio-video upgrades, other technology improvements and some furnishings. Those items could add at least $50,000 to the cost, he said.

The project would take three to four months to draw up construction documents and review bids and six months of actual construction. Police Chief Craig Hartmann said his officers could use other offices in Town Hall during the work.

Finance Director Cale Curtis said the project could be paid for with reserve funds, a tax increase or a bond. Former Mayor Arlin Voress said commissioners could raise the current $350,000 spending limit to avoid triggering a referendum.

Vice Mayor Ron Brown said the town should use its reserves and then figure how to replenish them.

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Ocean Ridge

A decade-long tennis ‘return’ takes athlete to Paralympics

By Emily J. Minor

When he was a kid back in Fort Wayne, Ind., limping along all of a sudden, out of the blue, forced to give up all the sports he loved, Noah Yablong never dreamed it would come to this.

Never.

“Once I got diagnosed, it all pretty much just stopped,” says Yablong, 23, who has a not-so-little something called Legg Calve Pertheshen. “Before that, I played everything — basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, golf, swimming.

The whole shebang.”

But when he was 10, Yablong was diagnosed with the rare and degenerative hip disease that stops blood flow to the bone, eventually causing the bone to die.

It got to the point where the young kid who was so fast that coaches on the other team would issue a heads-up when Noah Yablong came up to bat couldn’t even walk without excruciating pain.

Today, he’s in a wheelchair, able to walk very, very short distances.

That’s the bad news.

The good news? Here’s a kid who made lemonade from lemons. Big time. And this July, Yablong, the son of Nan and Jeffrey Yablong of Ocean Ridge, will represent the United States in the Paralympics wheelchair tennis competition.

Go ahead. Take a peek on YouTube.

Wheelchair tennis is pretty awesome.

From his chair, Yablong can deliver a killer serve. His backhand is stellar. And in his special chair with the tilted wheels and stabilizing mechanism, he can turn so quickly and accurately, predicting the path of the ball as though he has some sort of odd intuition, that one of the sport’s best coaches snatched him up when he was just a kid — Kari YergReddy.

“We used to send him down here and he’d spend summers with her,” says his mother. “She recognized that he had talent, and was a nice kid.”

Noah and his family moved to Ocean

Ridge about two years ago.

So ever since middle school, he’s worked out with the best — eventually giving up his other love, wheelchair basketball, to focus on tennis. In 2007, Yerg-Reddy was named United States Professional Tennis Association Coach of the Year and has been a World Team Cup Coach seven times.

Noah Yablong said he got the call that he’d made the Olympic team a few weeks ago. Indeed, the phone roused him from a sound morning sleep.

Bigwigs don’t worry about time zones when there’s good news to deliver. Now he’s training like a maniac, more than 30 hours a week, intense cardio and strength, going at it in the mornings, taking the afternoons off, and then going back for more at night.

Oh, and one other thing. He just graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in mechanical engineering and engineering management. His mom said they chose Arizona because it had the best adaptive sports program.

For Noah Yablong, living with a disability is second nature by now, just part of who he is.

Indeed, he’s always had an interest in understanding disabilities. When he was a kid, before he was even diagnosed, he used to spend hours with a best buddy at the Turnstone Center for Disabled Children and Adults in Fort Wayne.

His friend had muscular dystrophy, and Yablong would go to the center and work out. Once he got over the shock of the diagnosis, he knew he’d be able to eventually get back into sports.

But he admits he never dreamed it would come to this: London. The Olympics. The whole family there to support him. “We’re breaking the bank,” says his mom.

Noah Yablong will be overseas for about three weeks in July.

“I generally don’t get nervous, which I guess is kind of a blessing,” he says. “But once I get there and get on the court, Ú that’s when it will hit me.”

Noah Yablong, 23, is Paralympics bound. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

For information about how to help with Noah Yablong’s journey to London, go to his Facebook page and click on Journey to the 2012 Paralympic Games.

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Continued from page 3 “We’re in a situation now where we have the capability to move from the ‘70s and the ‘80s to 2020 and beyond. And it’s probably the cheapest time frame we’ll ever have to do it,” Brown said.

The proposed budget for fiscal 2011 included $100,000 to update the commission chambers and $200,000 to refurbish the Police Department. Neither item survived budget workshops; neither appeared in the 2012 proposal.

Commissioners will have a special meeting at 1:30 p.m.

July 17 to set a tentative tax rate for 2012-2013. Curtis in May told commissioners he anticipated a $1 million budget gap. Unless commissioners raise taxes or cut spending they will fall below the desired $2.35 million in reserves in two years, Ú he said.

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BELOW: Gumbo Limbo staff members and Highland Beach onlookers carry an exhausted Kate back to the surf. RIGHT: Turtle experts Chris Perretta (left) and Robin Trindell, confirmed Kate’s identity from her tag before digging a nesting cavity on the beach in Ocean Ridge. BELOW RIGHT: Kate, a rare ‘day-time’ nester, heads back into the surf. Photos by Staci-lee Sherwood and Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

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tended to Kate in Ocean Ridge.

“We were just observing her and she was looking like she was doing things turtles do to lay their eggs, trying to kick away the sand,” Trindell said.

After it was clear that wasn’t working, Trindell and Perretta crept up behind the 800-pound turtle and helped dig a chamber.

But eventually Kate crawled back out to the ocean without making a deposit.

“She could have been struck by a boat previously and sustained an injury or perhaps she has some genetic anomaly that causes the difficulty in nesting,” Perretta said. “It is pure speculation either way and may remain one of nature’s little mysteries.”

The next day, monitors for the Highland Beach Sea Turtle Program spotted a tagged leatherback on the beach after daylight. After learning it was Kate, Staci-lee Sherwood and volunteers from the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center followed instructions from the Marinelife Center biologists and dug a chamber for the turtle.

Eventually Kate laid her eggs.

“She was so exhausted, we had to help her back into the water,” said Kirt Rusenko, marine conservationist at

Leatherback Turtle Facts Named for its smooth, rubbery skin.

Status: Critically endangered Size: The largest and deepest-diving of the sea turtles, ranging 4 to 8 feet long and weighing 700 to 1,500 pounds.

Range: Lives in the open water of the temperate and tropical Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Nests in tropical and subtropical regions, including beaches from Melbourne to Fort Lauderdale, from March to July.

Food: Jellyfish and other soft invertebrates.

Life span: 45 years, estimated. Believed to be sexually mature at 16.

Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife; Loggerhead Marinelife Center

Gumbo Limbo. They used a blue tarp from the Marinelife Center.

“She had been out of the water for more than seven hours,” Rusenko said.

The leatherback nesting season is winding down, although loggerheads and other species are still laying eggs, and Kate is likely finished with her motherly chores.

Workers at the Marinelife Center had previously helped her make egg chambers this

year to successfully lay eggs.

She was first tagged last year in Juno Beach, which was probably her first year of nesting, Martin said. She was named for the young daughter of the center’s board of directors, who joined the monitoring team the morning Kate was found.

The center gives unscientific but human names to many of their tagged and all their rehabilitated turtles. The center

has been tagging leatherbacks since 2001 in an ongoing project to study the mating, nesting and migratory habits of the leatherbacks. Turtle monitors have seen 148 different tagged leatherbacks in the Juno area this spring. Those turtles have made 360 or so trips to the beach, the third highest number since the project began.

Gumbo Limbo has counted 32 leatherback nests so far this season. They are always far

fewer than loggerhead turtles on South County beaches.

Based on leatherback behavior, it may be a year or two before Kate returns to Palm Beach County.

Her first batch of eggs laid in Juno Beach hatched June 27 and dozens of hatchlings were last seen scurrying for the ocean.

The Boca nest won’t hatch for Ú another month.

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Elections

Gulf Stream executive and advocate files for House 89 seat

By Tim Pallesen

Pamela Goodman fought hard for redistricting as a League of Women Voters leader.

So the Gulf Stream resident says it makes sense for her to become a candidate now that the boundary for a coastal South County state Goodman House district has been redrawn with equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans.

Goodman, a Democrat, has filed to oppose Bill Hager, an incumbent Republican, in the District 89 race this fall.

“If we allowed the incumbent not to have an

opponent, what we aimed at achieving would not happen,” Goodman said. “How could I allow that to happen?”

Goodman served as president of the Palm Beach County League of Women Voters from 2005 to 2009 before she advocated redistricting as vice president of the Florida League of Voters for three years.

The Florida Legislature was forced to redraw district boundaries for this year’s elections after Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment to eliminate districts that favor incumbents and political parties.

The representative for District 89 will serve coastal residents who live between the ocean and Federal Highway, from Boca Raton to Palm

Beach.

Registered voters are 37 percent Republican and 36 percent Democratic in the new district. The others have no party affiliation.

Goodman, 56, has volunteered for community causes such as literacy and public broadcasting since she and her husband, Barry, moved to Gulf Stream in 2000.

She is president of the county’s Homeless Coalition, which opened the first government-supported homeless shelter on June 25.

Goodman was raised in Iowa, where she attended the University of Iowa for three years. She worked 14 years for Limited Express, a women’s apparel company, where she rose to be president and CEO. Ú

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Motorists will have hundreds of new parking options each evening and on weekends in Delray Beach.

Mayor Woodie McDuffie got the word that the city can open the County Courthouse parking garage for use after hours seven days a week as city lawmakers and staff continue puzzling through creation of a viable parking plan and how to pay for it.

The additional garage spaces, part of a 500-space parking complex near the library, came in answer to questions the mayor had on his to-do list following City Commission’s workshop meeting June 12. At that meeting staff presented downtown parking options that included metering, an assessment and the status quo in an attempt to resolve longstanding parking issues.

“It’s insane to me to think that we have that many spaces sitting there once they close the courthouse,” McDuffie said at the workshop meeting.

The city had use of the garage in the early 2000s and opening it now would come with the same stipulation: The city has to staff it.

Commissioners and staff have discussed using its parking garages for an employee parking program designed to open more spaces for patrons by shifting the cars of the 3,000 people who work downtown from prime spaces to secondary areas.

The second question on the mayor’s list, still to be answered: How many of those

employees are downtown at specific times of the day and night?

At the June workshop, commissioners didn’t appear ready to accept a metered parking option as proposed for the downtown area between the Intracoastal Waterway and Swinton Avenue, backing away from elements such as charging patrons to park during the day and varied rates designed to manage parking.

The meeting ended with staff planning to check further into assessment options — including voluntary assessment — and reworking its numbers to reflect commission requests such as for free daytime parking if meters are used.

The proposed metering option “is the craziest system I’ve ever seen,” commented Commissioner Adam Frankel.

“This is the most confusing system in the world.”

Frankel, who does not want meters and favors staying with the city’s current parking system, pointed to Boca Raton’s Mizner Park as an example of what happens when meters are installed: “No one’s there.”

Commissioner Al Jacquet also doesn’t want meters, but wants to get employee parking off the street. “There’s a high chance of getting more hurt than help from the parking meter. We have enough parking spaces in the city. We’re just not using them.”

Proposed metered rates would range from $1.50 an hour on side streets to $2 on Atlantic Avenue, intending to steer motorists to park on lesstraveled streets and the city’s

lots and garages, where rates were $1 and 50 cents an hour respectively. The plan provided one free hour of parking downtown during the day.

“In addition to calling the plan’s varied rates confusing, commissioners also objected to paid parking downtown during the day and wanted to consider a voluntary assessment plan rather than metering.

“My suggestion would be have it free parking in the daytime to a certain time, then to start paying,”said Commissioner Angeleta Gray.

“I’m willing to put meters on Atlantic Avenue, but have them on at night. We need to generate more revenue.”

She said she preferred that the commission explore a voluntary assessment of at least the area downtown.

The city’s attorneys are looking at the assessment option, City Manager David Harden said, with a question to the ethics commission of whether commissioners would be in violation of ethics policy by soliciting businesses for the voluntary assessment.

“I’m not sure I’d be prepared to assess small businesses these days,” said Commissioner Tom Carney. Carney said he wasn’t saying no to meters, but he was “convinced meters during the day are probably not good for our merchants.

“It has to be carefully implemented and consistently applied,” he said.

McDuffie said “I’d like to simplify” the metered system.

“This is really confusing. At an individual meter, you can make it simpler.” Ú

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William F. Koch Jr., 1921-2012

Devotion to community, public service marked long life

By Ron Hayes If the people of Gulf Stream remember William F. Koch Jr. as lovingly as he remembered the town, history will have been served.

At his death on June 17, Bill Koch had been Gulf Stream’s mayor for 46 of his 91 years.

But he’d come here first as a boy in the late 1920s, and he remembered it well.

He remembered when Gulf Stream had caves where the St. Andrews apartments stand today, because he’d played in them.

He remembered “Cap,” the local beachcomber of his youth, and kept the broken neck of a green, hand-blown bottle Cap gave him, all his life.

Mayor Koch remembered Prohibition, when lanterns were hung from the town’s water tower to guide rumrunners through Boynton Inlet.

“He used to tell me he remembered when his grandfather would take him to Key West on the old Flagler railroad, and watching the coal sparks fall in the water,” his son, William Koch III, remembers.

“He used to tell me how much he loved doing that.”

Mayor Koch was a Midwestern boy who grew to become a Florida man and made Palm Beach County a better place without making a lot of noise while he did it.

“He never asked for public recognition for anything he did,” said his daughter, Claudia Koch Burns. “He never sought out the limelight, or accolades for his public service. He just truly enjoyed helping build his little area of South Florida.”

William Frederick Koch Jr. was born Feb. 18, 1921, in Ann Arbor, Mich., the son of William Frederick and Luella Koch, and first saw Florida during winter visits to his grandfather’s Delray Beach home.

At Ann Arbor High School, he was a freestyle swimmer who made the Olympic trials.

In Delray Beach, he was a lifeguard.

He enrolled in Rollins College, then left to serve in World War II. As a bombardier in the U.S. Army Air Corps, he flew in a squadron of B-17s on D-Day. His plane had a painting of the actress Lana Turner on the side, and its mission was to destroy railroad targets in Nazi-occupied France. Looking down, Bombardier Koch remembered what he saw.

“The trees were covered with what looked like giant white flowers,” he told his son. “But they weren’t. They were the parachutes of our guys who had been shot and just left hanging there.”

After the war, he returned to college, earned a degree in business, and met his wife.

Bill and Mary Lou Koch — whom everyone knows as Freddie — celebrated their 64th

TOP: Bill Koch and his wife, Mary Lou, with polo stars Del Carroll, Buddy Combs, Russell Firestone and William Mayer.

MIDDLE: Koch (third from left) flew 27 missions during WWII. ABOVE: Koch got the honor of cutting the ribbon when the Delray Beach entrance to Florida’s Turnpike was opened.

LEFT: Congratulations were in order for friend and town clerk Rita Taylor after the recent annexation vote, while Vice Mayor Joan Orthwein and Bob Ganger look on.

BOTTOM: The state-issued Airport License honors Bill Koch’s involvement at Bethesda by naming the helipad there Koch Field.

Family and Coastal Star photos anniversary on May 31.

In 1956, he opened a realty office in Delray Beach, and when he complained about the mosquitoes tormenting Gulf Stream’s polo field, the town gave him $150 and named him mosquito commissioner.

He sprayed twice a week and joined the commission.

The mosquitoes stayed, he remembered, and he left to serve on the county’s planning board.

Ten years later he returned, was appointed mayor, and stayed mayor through 15 terms,

for the next 46 years.

Rita Taylor, the town clerk, has known him since the early 1970s.

“He was always here before the Town Hall opened so we had an opportunity to discuss business,” she remembers.

“Many people probably didn’t see the side of him I saw. He could be gruff, but to me he was a very kind gentleman. He had a lot of empathy for mankind.”

When state environmentalists declared Australian pines a non-native species and ordered them

destroyed, Mayor Koch led the fight to have State Road A1A through town declared a historic highway. The trees are still there.

After checking in at the Town Hall each morning, he drove on to the real estate office.

“He was really amazing,” remembers Muriel Mowry, the office manager for 11 years. “He just had so much energy for his age. He came in every single day and would go out to lunch with the guys and his friends.”

He favored the Fifth Avenue Grill and La Cigale.

“We always had to flip for lunch,” remembers George Elmore, a friend for 30 years.

“Of course, when he’d lose, he’d grumble, and when somebody else lost he’d tease them a little.

Talking to him, he was gruff and outspoken, but he was a very caring man.”

Another lunch pal was Joel Strawn, his personal attorney since 1966.

“You never needed to worry about what was on his mind, because if you asked him, he would flat-out tell you,” Strawn remembers. “He was forceful and honest, but with a great sense of humor.”

In his time, Mayor Koch served on the boards of Episcopal churches; WPBT-2, the public television station; and SunTrust bank.

In the mid-1950s, he was among a group of residents who decided Good Samaritan Hospital in West Palm Beach was too far away. Four years later, Bethesda Memorial Hospital opened in Boynton Beach.

“He was involved from day one and stayed on as a board member,” says Roger Kirk, the hospital’s current president and CEO. “We were always a little better prepared when we knew we were going to face Mr. Koch, because we knew he would ask the tough questions. But we grew to love and respect him.”

After his death, Mayor Koch’s daughter was asked if he had any hobbies. She had to think for a moment.

“If he had a hobby,” Claudia Koch Burns said at last, “I guess you’d have to say it was community service.”

In addition to his wife, son and daughter, he leaves a daughter-in-law, Laura, of Gulf Stream; a son-in-law, Scott Burns; a grandson, Scott Frederick Burns, and a granddaughter, Lauren Christine Burns, all of Phoenix, Ariz.

The family suggests that donations be made to Bethesda Hospital Foundation, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach, FL 33435.

In 1929, when Bill Koch was a little boy playing in Gulf Stream’s caves, the town had 16 registered voters.

Today, there are 650.

In 1929, the town’s total assessed value was $111,260.

Today, it’s $652 million.

When Bethesda Memorial Hospital opened in 1959, it had 32 doctors and 70 beds.

Today, there are 650 doctors on staff and 450 beds.

In his 91 years, Mayor Bill Koch saw Gulf Stream grow and change, and change again, from hidden caves to dazzling mansions. Some of the changes he championed, and some he opposed, but he always worked for what he thought best for his town.

And for that, he should be Ú remembered.

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July 2012

Around Town

Nicky Mill follows parents in tennis, fishing

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t was a high school tennis tournament, more than 40 years ago, in Pompano Beach. The final score was 6-0, 6-0. The winner was upset because her opponent managed to score one point in the match.

Four decades and millions of points later, Chris Evert watched her son play in the state high school tournament.

He lost in the No. 2 singles quarterfinal, 6-1, 6-1; but in the No. 2 doubles final, his overhead closed out the match and an undefeated season and clinched the team title for Saint Andrew’s School.

It felt like the greatest victory of her life “because my son won,” Evert said after Nicky Mill’s match.

But unlike Mom, who had one of the greatest careers in sports history, Nicky is finished with tournament tennis.

“I’m sad,” Evert said, “because, of all the boys, he took his tennis the farthest. He was a nice player, but he is his father’s son.”

Evert and former husband Andy Mill raised three sons, all athletic but more inclined to dirt bikes, skateboards, surfing and, in Nicky’s case, fishing.

“He’s a natural with a fly rod,” said Mill, who is featured in an article on the “sexiest

grownup guys” in the current issue of AARP, The Magazine.

“He’s caught a pile of fish (tarpon) this year between 120 and 140 pounds.

“It was great watching him play tennis, but he’s only 5 feet 8 inches [tall] and in today’s game he’s under gunned. He’s gonna be one hell of a fisherman. But whatever the boys want to do is fine with me.” Mill said, “ I just want to teach them what passion and living large are. If they can do that, they’ll always be successful.”

Nicky will enter Lynn University in the fall. Older brother Alex attends FAU. No. 3 Colton is still in high school.

Also on the court, the child of another sports legend did very well at the state high school tennis finals. Undefeated in 14 matches for American Heritage in Delray, junior Rasheeda McAdoo won the state Class 2A singles and over-all singles titles and teamed with Mia Horvitt to do the same in doubles. More recently her dad celebrated an NBA title. Pro basketball Hallof-Famer Bob McAdoo is a Miami Heat assistant coach.

The event is called S.O.S. but the only people needing help

might have been the few who couldn’t stop wolfing down the cobia morsels, or were a bit skittish at trying octopus.

S.O.S. is Share Our Strength — Taste of the Nation, an annual orgy of dining delights from several dozen top restaurants at the Kravis Center’s Cohen Pavilion. The money it raises through ticket sales and auctions support Feeding South Florida food bank, No Kid Hungry Florida afterschool meals, the Boys and Girls Club and the United Way, plus community garden and programs that teach families how to eat healthy.

Despite making a big jump from Café Boulud in Palm Beach to the country club scene at Addison Reserve in Delray Beach, Zach Bell once again teamed with Clay Conley of Palm Beach’s Buccan and Imoto to chair the event. For added oomph, they brought in Mango Gang’s original Allen Susser.

“I wish we had more,” Bell said as he surveyed the packed hall. “I’ll be happy when there’s only enough room for them to sign their names on the bid cards. With more than half the kids in the public schools qualified for lunch help, we need to do a lot more.”

Nicky Mill with dad Andy and a permit fish he caught on a fly rig in Cuba last year. Photo courtesy Andy Mill Boca philanthropist Bobby Campbell is a popular fellow around Lynn University. He just gave the school $1.2 million to build a new soccer stadium worthy of the Fighting Knights’ many national championships.

This stadium Campbell allows Lynn to expand the athletic offerings to include lacrosse. Fundraising will continue for the project, which has a $2.6 million pricetag.

Campbell’s company, BBC International, based in Boca Raton, is one of the leading children’s and athletic footwear design and sourcing companies in the world.

Delray’s Falcon House, known more recently as Triple Eight Lounge, has closed.

Owner Karl Altermann, a longtime veteran of South County restaurant wars, left for greener pastures near Orlando.

Tough luck for Miera Melba.

The Delray interior designer was the fifth competitor dismissed from HGTV’s latest Design Star series. Judges cited “poor time management and an unfinished project.”

Summing up her experience, Melba said, “I wanted to prove to the world that my designs were timeless and ageless and I could represent the Baby Boomer generation.

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July 2012

The COASTAL STAR Revelers at Boston’s on the Beach enjoyed the music of The New Orleans Suspects and dozens of other bands during the annual July 4th Red, White and Blues Fest.

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thought I’d get a lot farther.”

For more than two decades, Michael Capponi has been the go-to guy in South Beach.

First it was the nightlife, the club scene and the parties, and while he continues to be a major presence, boys grow up and expand their horizons. For Capponi, construction seemed like a good idea. He teamed with Ken Gross, former VP at WCI and Todd Pennington, former Exec VP of Bovis Lend Lease, to create Capponi Construction Group.

With a résumé that includes The Bass Museum of Art, The Forge Restaurant l Wine Bar and Loren and J.R. Ridinger’s Casa de Sueños estate, he is now ready to expand his influence. On July 26, he’ll cut the ribbon at his second office at 444 East Palmetto Park Road in Boca Raton.

Capponi will hit the social circuit a couple of weeks earlier — as a bartender at Ta-boo in Palm Beach on July 11. It’s a special fund-raiser for WPB Friends of Fisher House, a program that provides homes away from home for families of veterans receiving care at military and VA medical centers. He’ll be joined by Andres Fanjul, Carlos and Tommy Morrison, Jane Holzer, race driver Jay Cochran, CBS Tech correspondent Herb Tabin, Food Network personality Josh Lyons and NFL Hall of Famer Tucker Frederickson. Also on the bill: a Chinese auction, Black River Caviar Station, designer showcases. $20 donation. Call 317-1101.

The grand opening of the iPic Theater complex in Boca’s Mizner Park took on a little extra flash with an appearance

by Paula Abdul. She and boyfriend Jon Caprio were guests of Boca plastic surgeon Dr. Daniel Man. Turnout at the ultra-plush cinema has exceeded expectations and should improve, says its visionary creator and CEO Hamid Hashemi, now that Tanzy restaurant is open on the ground floor.

Tanzy’s roots reach deep into the soil of Italy. Everything is fresh. Herbs are plucked from a small garden in the patio and from a five-acre tract in West

Boca. Instead of a sushi bar, guests can whet appetites at the Parma Bar — cured meats, cheeses and breads handpicked

by Executive Chef Angelo Morinelli, formerly of Cucina d’Angelo in Boca Center.

In recognition of National Ice Cream Day, July 15, Corporate Chef Andre Lane will offer an unusual gelato: rosemary and olive oil gelato. You have to taste it to believe it.

The wait is almost over for Publix shoppers. The Sunshine Square Publix in Boynton Beach that has been undergoing a remodel for the past year is set to reopen on August 2 at 7 a.m.

Shoppers can expect a larger more updated store when the doors reopen. The new store will be about 14,000 square feet larger and have better access from both Woolbright Road and U.S. 1.

A lot of water has gone over the falls since Deliverance was released 40 years ago.

Amazingly, all four stars of that iconic movie are still alive, so it made perfect sense for Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty, Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds to get together. The reunion, including the canoes used in the film, was recorded at Burt’s institute in Jupiter for a special Blu-ray reissue of the movie.

Cox was back in those mountains the weekend of June 24 performing at the inaugural Chatooga River Festival in Rabun County, Ga., He signed copies of his book, Dueling Banjos: The Deliverance of Drew, a collection of stories about the movie, and performed with Billy Redden, the movie’s iconic banjo picker, whose distinctive look was provided not by genetics but by a makeup artist. Redden, 56, didn’t pick then but does now.

Voight’s ties to Palm Beach County go back to the ’60s.

His parents Elmer, better known as “Whitey,” and Barbara were among the first residents at PGA National, now BallenIsles, which opened in 1962. Whitey, a popular New York-based pro golfer, died in a car crash in 1973; Barbara lived out her life at BallenIsles, dying of cancer in 1995.

The Caldwell Theatre Company may be closed as it

struggles to beat bankruptcy, but the building, the Count de Hoernle Theatre, is open and about to host another show. Jesus Christ Superstar, a joint production of Entr’Acte Theatrix and Palm Beach Principal Players opens July 5 for 10 performances.

As a special treat after the Sunday, July 8, matinee, the producers will host a special piano bar/pizza party tribute to Jan McArt, who founded the Royal Palm Dinner Theatre and now serves as director of Theatre Arts Program Development at Lynn University. Reserved seat tickets are $25 in advance, $35 with the party. Call (877) 7107779.

Lantana may be a small town, but it has a big voice. The Palm Beach County League of Cities said so recently by presenting Mayor Dave Stewart with its first William “Bill” Moss Memorial Member of the Year Award.

Stewart was honored, Lantana Town Manager Deborah Manzo said at the June 24 Town Council Stewart meeting, because he has “given his heart and soul to the League.”

Manzo related the comments of League Executive Director Richard Radcliffe: “His (Stewart’s) handprints are left on the League like no other. Probably his greatest achievement was the spearheading of the Let Us Vote referendum. He is the man who from the back of the room would say something that pushed the limits of what is politically correct and make everyone smile and cringe a little at the same time. Yet he was also the one who from the back of the room would say something and everyone would think, ‘Thank God that he said that because it needed to be said and I’m not doing it.’”

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

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July 2012

Along the Coast

Coastal planners trying ‘inlet-to-inlet’ coordinated shore approach

By Tim O’Meilia

Until now, beach protection was an exercise in putting a jigsaw puzzle together. Everyone had a piece but maybe that piece didn’t fit with their neighbor’s.

South Palm Beach condo owners fretted over how to get groins and breakwaters to save their rapidly eroding beach.

Lantana wanted to protect its newly built seawall. Northern Ocean Ridge residents worried over getting enough sand around the Boynton Inlet to protect its shoreline. Manalapan feared losing too much sand to Ocean Ridge.

Environmental groups championed the turtles and the marine habitats, often butting heads with towns and oceanside residents.

Beach restoration was all about jockeying for a higher position on the funding list.

Now state officials are pushing a new approach to restoring and managing the beaches: regional instead of fragmented. Holistic instead of haphazard.

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Ray Jones, an opposition leader who lives across the street from Caron’s controversial Seaspray Avenue house, said he’s ready to testify.

“It doesn’t bother me,” Jones said when informed that he is on Caron’s witness list. “It’s all about getting to the truth.”

Jones said McCarty hasn’t actively opposed Caron.

“She is on our email list and might have made a comment or two,” he said. “But she hasn’t been actively involved in this.”

Green traces McCarty’s opposition to sober houses back to 2007 when, as a county commissioner, she opposed giving $9.5 million in health care revenue bonds to Caron to build treatment facilities and offices in Delray Beach and Boca Raton.

“She has a long history of agitating against people in recovery,” Green said.

Green sued the county on Caron’s behalf after the 2007 denial, quoting McCarty in that lawsuit as saying she didn’t want Delray Beach to be known as “the drug rehab capital of the world.”

McCarty didn’t respond to phone messages seeking comment.

Caron filed its federal lawsuit in February after Delray Beach commissioners approved ordinances to make it more difficult for treatment providers to operate in residential neighborhoods.

Caron’s legal team has reviewed 50,000 documents so far to prepare for its trial against the city, Green said.

Caron also spent $27,788 to get 200,000 emails that have been sent or received by 16 city

“After all, sand knows no political boundaries,” said Danielle Fondren, chief of the state’s Bureau of Beaches and Coastal Systems. “Regional management is a better way to manage the beaches.”

The 15.7-mile slice of barrier island from the Lake Worth Inlet to the Boynton Inlet, officially titled the South Lake Worth Inlet, is the state’s guinea pig for a regional beach management plan.

“This is a 180-degree turn from what we had three or four years ago,” said state Rep. Jeff Clemens, D-Lake Worth, who helped champion the new approach. “This is a complete paradigm shift. If it works here, it could work in other parts of the state.”

Instead of sitting in judgment on beach projects that cross its desks, Department of Environmental Protection officials are a key part of writing the plan. About 60 local, state and federal officials, engineers, biologists and environmental advocates have met twice — at Jonathan Dickinson State Park

in May and in Palm Beach in June — to begin hashing out the regional plan.

South Palm Beach, Manalapan and Lantana each sent representatives, joining Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, state officials, the Army Corps of Engineers and several environmental groups. Lake Worth has not attended.

A rough draft is expected

by September and a final document in December.

If the Palm Beach island regional plan is a success, the Boynton Inlet to Boca Raton Inlet could be the next area to have a regional plan, said county deputy environmental resources director Dan Bates, but no firm plans have been made yet.

While the plan was being hashed out, DEP Secretary Herschel Vinyard toured the inlet-to-inlet stretch with local representatives, including Palm Beach Mayor Gail Coniglio and South Palm Beach Councilman Robert Gottlieb.

The inlet-to-inlet plan tentatively includes nine

officials since 2007 to learn who has said what to whom to restrict sober housing.

“We’re trying to uncover backroom communications between the political machine and elected officials to determine the true intent of the city’s ordinances,” Caron executive vice president Andrew Rothermel said in March.

Caron also notified 40 coastal residents on May 11 that their communications will be sought as evidence for trial.

“These people have been vocal opponents of my client and its patients and appear to be willing to do anything and say anything,” Green said.

The Caron witness list includes 45 families who live near planned sober houses at 1232 Seaspray Ave. and 740 N. Ocean Blvd.

Also named as witnesses are Beach Property Owners Association officers Mary Renaud, Andy Katz, Anne Bright, Virginia Courtney and three others.

Kristine de Haseth, chairwoman of the Florida Coalition for Preservation, also will be a witness along with seven current and former city commissioners and five planning and zoning board members.

The store manager for Tiffany’s on Worth Avenue will testify that Delray coastal residents asked him to “steer clear” of sponsoring Caron’s annual fund-raising gala in Palm Beach, court papers say.

Mayor Woodie McDuffie and Planning and Zoning Board chairman Cary Glickstein are expected to be key Caron witnesses after federal Judge William Dimitrouleas criticized them in an April order for making comments against recovering addicts and

alcoholics.

Dimitrouleas said then that Caron has shown “a substantial likelihood of success at trial in demonstrating that the city has discriminated.”

Federal laws prohibits housing discrimination against recovering addicts and alcoholics.

Caron plans to charge $55,000 a month to each of the seven recovering addicts who it hopes will occupy each of Caron’s two high-end sober houses near the ocean.

Attorneys defending the city against Caron’s lawsuit in court papers named seven planning and zoning board members, five city employees, seven Caron employees and a Jupiter private planner as their trial witnesses.

Dimitrouleas has not set a trial date. Ú

projects already in the planning stages, including the stalled breakwater project in South Palm Beach and Lantana and the inlet pumping station in Manalapan and Ocean Ridge.

The bulk of the projects are in the town of Palm Beach.

Municipal leaders insisted that dune restoration be included in the regional plan.

“I feel good about the fact that the state and the Corps are trying to work together with local folks and stakeholders,” said South Palm Beach Town Manager Rex Taylor. “It’s good to bring everyone together because we’re all interested in a beach that’s to everyone’s benefit.” Plans for breakwaters and groins along a 1.3-mile stretch of shoreline of South Palm Beach and Lantana were stalled earlier this year after county commissioners killed a similar project on Singer Island.

As part of the regional plan, a joint environmental impact study would be included to cover the South Palm Beach project and Palm Beach’s restoration plans for what is

known as Reach 8, adjoining South Palm Beach’s project.

Separate studies for both projects previously had been halted.

Steven Abrams, Karen Marcus and other Palm Beach County commissioners indicated June 19 they would consider reviving the environmental study. Marcus said she remained opposed to breakwaters and groins and hoped other alternatives would come out of the study.

Although several environmental groups participated in the meetings — including the Surfrider Foundation and Palm Beach County Reef Rescue — neither committed to signing the final agreement.

Emily Helmick, vice chair of the county chapter of Surfrider, said the regional approach was good, but “we don’t want a situation where the local environmental concerns are bypassed.”

The next meeting is scheduled for July 13 in Palm Beach. Ú

Ocean Ridge Commercial strip granted an extra year Businesses at 5011 N. Ocean Blvd. can stay at least until June 2014.

Town commissioners decided to grant building owners Orlando and Liliane Sivitilli one extra year before they must move their tenants and convert the building to townhomes. The Sivitillis had asked for a three-year extension. “We should not be continuously extending this agreement,” Commissioner Zoanne Hennigan said.

Commissioners also sent the issue of whether the town should abandon its 1969 ban

on commercial properties to the Planning and Zoning Commission. The Sivitillis sued to block the town from enforcing its ban and signed an agreement in 2003 that they would convert the building to residences in 10 years. But they asked for the extension because of the bad real estate market.

Their five business tenants include Commissioner Gail Adams Aaskov’s real estate office and The Coastal Star.

Four apartments are on the second floor.

— Steve Plunkett

Manalapan

Point roads get upkeep; builder gets permit extension

By Steve Plunkett Roads in Point Manalapan will get their first new coat of asphalt since the 1960s.

Delray Beach-based Hardrives Inc. submitted the winning bid of $293,140 to resurface all the roads on the Point. Four other companies bid $325,000 to $370,000 for the work.

The state maintains the condition of South Ocean Boulevard. Mayor Basil Diamond said the Point’s roads had not been refurbished since their original installation. The paving project is expected to take 30 days.

Town commissioners

also granted an 18-month extension to the building permit for 1040 S. Ocean Blvd. provided the owners agree to finish the exterior of the mansion and landscaping within six months.

“It’s an eyesore right now. It looks abandoned,” Vice Mayor Donald Brennan said.

Casto Homes Inc. asked to extend the permit, which was set to expire July 12, noting that owner Daniel and Beth Kloiber are getting a divorce and dividing up their assets.

“They assure us they plan to finish the structure, but don’t want to aggressively move forward until final disposition of the property is agreed

upon,” Jimmy Casto of Casto Homes wrote the town.

The Kloibers bought the property in 2008 for $9.2 million and two years ago pulled a building permit for an $8.6 million, 23,805-squarefoot residence. If the extension had not been granted the Kloibers would have been required to obtain a second permit at double the original $189,738 fee.

Commissioners insisted the outside be finished as soon as possible.

“The interior is less important because it doesn’t affect the neighborhood,” Ú Diamond said.

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Manager’s evaluation, chamber refurbishing occupy council advisory board appointments were made to meet charter requirements.

Resident Isabella RalstonCharnley repeated her opinion that recommendations made by previous advisory boards should be discarded because the boards were improperly constituted.

In other business at the June 26 meeting, the council voted unanimously to spend about $10,000 to refurbish the council chambers. The room will be repainted, the carpet cleaned, accent wallpaper will be added behind the council dais, the peeling popcorn ceiling will be

The chamber also is used for lectures, other meetings and art shows.

Council members also postponed indefinitely a discussion on letting Manalapan take over police and dispatch services.

Councilwoman Stella Jordan, who proposed considering the year-old offer from Manalapan Mayor Basil Diamond, said she needed more time to investigate the legal ramifications.

Diamond had suggested that South Palm Beach could save $500,000 or more, depending on how the merger was structured. Ú

replaced with a textured finish, the shredded carpet near the entrance will be replaced with entry tile and the speakers improved.

The council appointed Councilman Robert Gottlieb in May to make recommendations on refreshing the chambers.

“The carpet is worn out; painting has not been done in years and years. We just need some rejuvenation,” Mayor Donald Clayman said then.

The council will consider during budget hearings this summer whether to install a video screen and a new audio system.

Lantana

Town scoops up waterfront land at bargain prices Three new parcels will expand Town holdings on the Intracoastal

bargain prices. In December, Stewart said buying the land was an opportunity similar to the $4,000 Lion’s Club 1940s land purchase, which eventually gave the town a beach.

At the council’s June 11 meeting, Stewart said he thought the effort was a “great opportunity” that would preserve waterfront property for future generations, which is one of the town’s long-range goals.

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town like other cities that gave up their waterfront,” Stewart said.

The town hasn’t said what its plans are for the land, although there has been some speculation about turning it OceanaAve. into park.

Not everyone supported the purchase. Council Member Tom Deringer, who voted against the land buy in December, also cast the lone “no” vote on the current investment.

“Why are we purchasing more property?” he asked.

“We didn’t even have enough money last year to have fireworks. We haven’t had enough money to fix the parks we have and yet we’re buying more?”

Last year, the town dipped into its reserves to balance the budget and make some needed improvements, including road and drainage repairs and some landscaping.

Since parking for restaurants and shops on Ocean Avenue is at a premium, some have suggested the newly acquired properties be turned into a parking lot.

There will already be some relief to Ocean Avenue parking woes since the council gave a thumbs-up to a rezoning request from Wayne Cordero at The Old Key Lime House to build a parking lot next door at 106 S. Lake Drive.

A house owned by Cordero will be torn down to make room for the parking lot. Ú S. Ocean Blvd.

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By Mary Thurwachter

For the second time in seven months, Lantana plans to splurge on a waterfront land purchase on the west side of the Intracoastal Waterway just north of Ocean Avenue.

The town will spend $965,000 for lots at 206, 210 and 302 N. Lake Drive.

When last sold in 2005, the price for the land was $3.3 million. The current market value, according to the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser, is $1,223,074.

In December, the town bought Intracoastal property just steps away at 106-122 N. Lake Drive for $1.2 million.

That property last sold in 2006 for $5.3 million.

Money for both buys came from the town’s reserves.

Most Town Council members were supportive of the move to scoop up waterfront properties at such

Atlantic D rive N.

Rex Taylor’s seventh anniversary as South Palm Beach town manager is this month and to mark the occasion his employers will review his performance for the first time.

But not before he does it first. Then next year, the council will come up with a permanent evaluation form and process.

“The charter requires an evaluation,” said Councilwoman Stella Jordan, who first brought up the topic in May. “I’m more interested in getting it done than the actual form.”

Taylor and Jordan have discussed an evaluation format but nothing had been determined.

This year, Taylor will fill out a self-evaluation by the middle of August and each council member will do a similar critique.

The reviews could be discussed at the July 24 council meeting. No one has expressed any displeasure with Taylor’s performance.

“We really need to get this done. Then, if we need to, we can revise it for next year,” Jordan said, referring to the evaluation format.

Aside from the town attorney, the manager is the only employee who reports directly to the council.

This isn’t the first time the council has revamped its procedures because it wasn’t following the town charter. Last year, the council revamped how

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Continued from page 1 still working on a proposal to patrol Ocean Ridge and Briny Breezes.

In Ocean Ridge, former Mayor Ken Kaleel is analyzing what services the town should demand from the Sheriff’s Office. Kaleel was the one who first suggested asking how much the sheriff would charge to patrol Ocean Ridge.

Town leaders chose him to report on what the town needs and what alternatives it might have after Commissioner Zoanne Hennigan said she did not think Town Manager Ken Schenck or Police Chief Chris Yannuzzi could gather the information comprehensively and without bias.

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“Many of you thought that this was just a financial issue. It’s far more than that,” Hennigan said. “From what I’ve seen there’s serious relationship issues between the officers and the chief, between the chief and the town manager and between some of the commissioners and residents with the town manager.”

The decision to continue discussions with the Sheriff’s Office came June 4 after commissioners heard nearly two hours of comments from the public.

“To throw out the proposal completely and stop doing anything to me is a little, is a lot shortsighted,” Mayor Geoff Pugh said.

The sheriff offers to put two deputies on patrol 24 hours a day and a third deputy from

3 to 11 p.m., or a total of 10 officers, for $1.15 million for each of the first two years.

Yannuzzi would become the supervising lieutenant; dispatchers would have to apply for vacancies in the sheriff’s communications center.

Schenck said the proposal means a $544,000 savings for Ocean Ridge taxpayers, about $410 a year for a $500,000 home.

“It’s not worth a couple of hundred bucks on my tax bill,” former Commissioner Terry Brown said.

The town’s Police Department now has eight officers on the road, four sergeants, a lieutenant and the chief. Commissioners told Yannuzzi to go ahead and hire an additional officer they authorized in March as well as

News 13 fill a vacant dispatch position.

The sheriff’s proposal would give Ocean Ridge officers higher salaries, cheaper medical insurance and a take-home car.

Their union reopened contract negotiations with the town June 20.

Kaleel said he would report back in August or September.

He has gathered input from eight or nine other citizens so far, he said.

Manalapan commissioners, meanwhile, held a workshop on its sheriff’s proposal June 25, only to schedule another one for 9 a.m. July 18. Town Manager Linda Stumpf is to develop a comparison of enhancements Manalapan could make to its Police Department vs. possible partnerships with other agencies vs. the sheriff’s offer.

Mayor Basil Diamond lamented the waves of letters and emails circulating through town in which residents “cherry-pick facts” to back up their positions.

“This has to be an objective decision. It should not be swayed by emotion,” Diamond said.

Commissior David Cheifetz said he researched surveillance drones and found cameras could be mounted on affordable balloons, mini-blimps and even tiny helicopters.

“You can have an air force,” he told Police Chief Carmen Mattox.

The town hired one fulltime officer and one part-timer, Stumpf reported.“It will help us a lot with overtime. It will help us [patrol] on the beach,” she Ú said.

Beach-visitor numbers swell, but staffing lags

By Margie Plunkett

A tsunami of visitors has boosted attendance at Delray Beach’s beach to record highs.

The surging number of beach-goers grew by more than 200,000 last year alone, a “phenomenal” performance that brought the total to 1.7 million in 2011, according to Ocean Rescue Superintendent James Scala.

Three quarters into fiscal year 2012, attendance has reached 1.4 million.

A count is done twice per day at lifeguard stands along the city beach.

“Our beach attendance has

been growing exponentially,” Scala said.

The onslaught of sunbathers has nearly doubled in the last decade. In 2001, a total 973,651 people frequented the beach, dipping from about 1.1 million in 1999. Delray Beach Parks and Recreation staff estimates the total will reach 1.9 million in 2012 and 2.1 million by 2013.

New hotels that have sprung up in Delray Beach have aided some of the swell.

And the city’s overall gains in popularity in recent years have contributed to the beach crowds as well, Scala said.

The fallen economy and

tepid recovery get some credit, too, in Scala’s estimation.

As residents and tourists tightened their financial belts, they sought more free and inexpensive pastimes, like going to the beach, he said.

The sprawl of sun worshippers also poses challenges for the city, with a growing number spilling into unguarded sand space.

In 2011, about 45,172 people spent their beach time in areas without lifeguard supervision, compared to 18,001 people a decade earlier.

Ocean Rescue would like to start guarding those areas, but supervising the new areas

would involve more expenses than adding a couple of new lifeguards, Scala pointed out, noting that rescue stands and other equipment also would be necessary.

An expansion into unguarded space would stand more of a chance “in better economic times”, said Linda Karch, Parks and Recreation Director. “We’re lucky we’re not losing lifeguards.”

Booming beach attendance also means a growing number of rescues and public assists.

So far this fiscal year, Delray Beach already counts 36 rescues, compared with 40 for the full year of 2011. It

has responded to 23 medical emergencies, compared with 25 for all of 2011.

Public assistance in 2012-todate — 59,815 — has already surpassed the 59,531 for the full 2011.

Parks and Recreation is requesting $1.4 million for Ocean Rescue this year, an increase of $70,000 over last year. The only change to staff is to bring back part-time hours that were formerly cut.

Delray Beach currently has about 21 ocean rescue staffers.

Despite the beach’s growing attraction, “staffing has pretty much stayed the same,” Scala said. Ú

Gulf Stream

Stop signs and new school zone will slow motor traffic

By Steve Plunkett

Town police, who monitor a 20 mph speed limit throughout Gulf Stream, will install six stop signs and establish a school zone on Gulfstream Road to slow motorists even more.

Delivery trucks and construction vehicles combine with the town’s lack of sidewalks to create a dangerous situation for pedestrians,

Police Chief Garrett Ward said.

The stop signs, both northbound and southbound, will go up on Gulfstream Road and Polo Drive at Middle Road and also on Polo at Lakeview Drive.

“That will clearly slow traffic and it will also address some of the blank corners,” Ward said.

The speed limit would drop to 15 mph in the new school zone on Gulfstream

Road between County Road and Lakeview. Non-flashing signs would warn drivers to go slower for three hour-long periods starting at 7:30 a.m. and 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.

“I think when people see a school zone sign they’re going to slow down immediately regardless of the time frame,” Ward said. “We have no sidewalks, so children walking to school are constantly in the street.”

2012 Preliminary Taxable Real Estate Value

Palm Beach County, its cities and towns, and other taxing authorities use these tax-roll numbers to set their tax rates and budgets. Local governments rely on the property appraiser’s early estimates to project how much money they can expect to receive from property taxes in the coming year.

The % Change column reflects the total taxable value less new construction not yet on tax rolls.

2011 Taxable Value Boca Raton $16,363,274,000 Boynton Beach $3,752,272,309 Briny Breezes $37,552,579 Delray Beach $6,149,055,201 Gulf Stream $655,987,005 Highland Beach $1,732,047,474 Lantana $693,539,420 Manalapan $827,434,621 Ocean Ridge $679,547,225 South Palm Beach $262,590,986 Palm Beach County $124,269,694,034 SOURCE: Palm Beach County Property Appraiser Office

2012 Taxable Value % Change $16,633,097,754 +1.20 $3,694,284,781 - 1.93 $36,116,595

- 4.12 $6,218,550,013 +0.27 $730,525,575 +1.13 $1,757,053,296 +1.46 $682,059,810 - 2.04 $839,901,799 +0.93 $694,961,131 +1.79 $258,222,553

- 1.71 $125,403,839,154 +0.26

Parents of students at the Gulf Stream School had sought the zone. Parent Scott Fogarty said 45 children from town now walk to school.

“It’s tripled in the last three years.”

“I think we can expect that demographic to continue to Ú grow,” Ward said.

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MEET YOUR NEIGHBOR: Ann Rutherford

hat does being an American mean to you?

That’s the question Ann Rutherford asked her son David to ponder as he was shipping out to Afghanistan just after Sept. 11. She handed him a small notebook and asked him to write down his thoughts on the subject while serving with his Navy SEAL platoon.

David did that and more. He passed the notebook around to his fellow SEALs. As they worked together day by day, tracking Osama bin Laden and his followers through the mountains and caves of Afghanistan, the SEALs wrote about being American, and defending America. Fresh memories of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon fueled their writing.

When David came home and returned the notebook to his mom, she felt compelled to share the handwritten personal essays inside. She published them, along with 26 of her own photographs showing Old Glory flying proudly, in a book called Flags of Freedom: A Pictorial Salute to American Soldiers.

“I have taken thousands of photos in my life,” says Rutherford, who lives in Boca Raton’s Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club. “And when I looked at my collection, I noticed there were a lot of American flags. Over a period of 35, 40 years, I took flag pictures, and everywhere we went on vacation I searched for a cemetery or someplace where I could find a flag to photograph.”

Why did she focus on the Stars and Stripes?

“I guess because I’m a patriot,” she says. “And I didn’t realize how strongly I felt about our country until I started working on the book.”

Rutherford, 67, describes herself as a “doer.” She was a tennis champion growing up in Michigan, winning a statewide tournament at age 13 and later playing throughout the Midwest in the Wightman Cup junior program.

A car accident at 22 changed her life in an instant, and became the impetus for moving to Florida. It happened when her husband, Charlie, was in law school at Wayne State University.

“We were on our way home from Detroit for Christmas,” she says, “It was icy, and we spun around and hit a cement overpass. I was sitting in the back seat holding our firstborn son, Eric, and the front seat broke loose and crushed my leg. I had a cast on for nine months, trying to take care of a 1-year-old. It was a traumatic experience in our life, so we decided, no more Michigan.”

The Rutherfords arrived in Pompano Beach in 1971,

Ann Rutherford of Boca Raton brought her charitable activism to another level with her book Flags of Freedom, honoring the men and women who serve in the armed forces. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star moving to Boca Raton in 1973, when Charlie opened a law practice there.

They had a second child, David, and became involved in community and charitable organizations.

Ann started a career as a real estate agent in her 40s and continues to work as a Realtor for Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate in Boca Raton. She still excels at tennis, despite lingering nerve damage from the accident.

As we mark another Independence Day, Rutherford wants Americans to give more credit to the men and women of the U.S. armed forces.

“Whatever you are, Republican or Democrat, it doesn’t matter… If we didn’t have our service people, we wouldn’t have the freedoms we have. I mean, these troops are giving their lives for us,” she says.

— Paula Detwiller Q. Where did you grow up and go to school?

A. I grew up in Muskegon, Mich. I graduated from the University of Michigan, where I met my husband, Charlie.

Q. What are some highlights of your life?

A. Sports have played a huge part of my life, tennis in particular. Winning some state junior tennis championships in Michigan was very exciting. My family and I are event-oriented, so watching my sons in their

sports championships and theatrical performances was thrilling. Sharing our family’s successes couldn’t be more rewarding for a mother.

I also have been very involved in the charity community in Boca for a long time. I am a founder of the Boca Bacchanal Wine Festival for the Boca Raton Historical Society, which is in its 10th year. And, of course, this book, Flags of Freedom, is a very special endeavor for me.

Q. What is your favorite part about living in Boca Raton?

A. Charlie and I have made lifelong friendships and participated with these same friends in helping to shape Boca Raton into one of the most civic-minded communities in the country.

We have participated in charitable events at Florida Atlantic University, Lynn University, the Boca Raton Regional Hospital, Boca Bacchanal Wine Festival, Saint Andrew’s School, Festival of the Arts, and my favorite charity, Spirit of Giving, of which I am a board member.

Q. What do you consider your greatest accomplishment in life?

A. Being married to Charlie for 44 years, and raising two sons, Eric and David. They are now young adults and have the same compassion for life as my husband and I do.

Q. What did you learn about yourself from writing Flags of Freedom?

A. The more I worked on the book, the more I came to realize how much the book and its subject — our soldiers, and the freedom they have given Americans to live life as we do — affected me emotionally.

My patriotism and the pride I have for my son David for whom the book was created, is unmatched.

The words written by his SEAL teammates have touched many people with family members who have served their country. I am donating part of the profits from the book to the Navy SEAL Foundation.

Q. Do you have plans to do another book? If so, what would be the topic?

A. I want to do a book on the veterans who have reentered civilian life after serving their country.

Through my photography and character studies, I want to show the struggle they have in this process. Hopefully we Americans will come to realize how important it is to help these veterans reclaim their lives.

Q. If someone made a movie of your life, who would you like to play you and why?

A. I am not worthy of such an idea, but I would probably pick Anne Hathaway, an upand- coming movie actress who continually lights up the screen

in her understated way. My maiden name is Ann Hathaway.

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

A. This is probably unusual, but I like the Nike quote, “Just do it.” That slogan exemplifies my attitude about life — which is to approach life and, in turn, problem-solving as if there is no excuse not to succeed if you give it your best effort.

Q. What was your most humbling moment?

A. When I was 44, I started my real estate career at Arvida Realty, which was comprised of all top producers, and I was a novice.

I would get stomach pains every day when I walked into the office. It took months before I felt I could handle the pressure and could fit in with the group of accomplished Realtors.

Q. Who or what makes you laugh?

A. I am a member of an investment club named Blush, composed of eight good friends.

If the monthly meetings were taped it would be very embarrassing because we laugh more than we invest!

To purchase a copy of Flags of Freedom: A Pictorial Salute to American Soldiers, visit http://navysealtributebook. blogspot.com/2011/09/911anniversary-book.html.

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The newest members of the Town Commission were at opposite ends last month when recommending a salary boost for the almost-as-new town manager.

Vice Mayor Ron Brown praised Town Manager Kathleen Weiser and proposed Weiser giving her a 5 percent raise.

“She’s really made it a town that’s fun to walk into the Town Hall,” Brown said. “I think we’re very lucky to have her here, and I’d like to see us raise it to the max of 5 percent.”

Commissioner Louis

Stern, elected with Brown in March, recommended a “very nice, handsome increase” of 3 percent. Mayor Bernard Featherman and Commissioners Dennis Sheridan and Doris Trinley were happy with a 3.5 percent raise.

Stern upped his recommendation to 3.5 percent to match the majority; the percentages were averaged to come up with 3.8 percent.

That translates to $4,750 a year more for Weiser, whose salary the past year was $125,000. She became town manager on June 30, 2011, after a little more than four months as interim manager.

She earned $6,000 a month with no benefits except for a $600-a-month car allowance

during the interim stint.

Weiser replaced former Manager Dale Sugerman, who was suspended for five months with pay after the commission learned he planned to suspend Town Clerk Beverly Brown for sending off-color emails on her official computer.

Sugerman was paid $144,000 his last year; the town also paid $708 a month for his leased SUV, gasoline, maintenance and insurance. In June, Sugerman took a job as town manager in Lake Park.

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Former Town Manager Dale Sugerman ended the Highland Beach chapter of his career and started a new one the next day 28 miles to the north.

Highland Beach commissioners grudgingly approved paying Sugerman and his attorney $215,000 to settle his lawsuit against the town at a special meeting June 26. Sugerman claimed his employment contract was breached and his civil rights violated.

“He was totally insubordinate to the Sugerman commission,” said Commissioner Dennis Sheridan, who took office after Sugerman was suspended and his contract not renewed. “I personally feel he should not get a nickel.”

But Mayor Bernard Featherman said they had no alternative. “We left this in the hands of our attorney and our insurance company,” he said.

Town Attorney Leonard Rubin said Highland Beach’s insurance covers $145,000 for the civil rights claim. The town will tap its reserve fund for $70,000 attributed to the breach of contract claim.

Sugerman declined to say how much he must pay his lawyer. Rubin said he did not know the specifics of Sugerman’s arrangement, but said lawyers working on contingency typically receive one-third of any money.

On June 27 commissioners in Lake Park ratified a contract with Sugerman making him

manager of their town, on the west side of the Intracoastal Waterway between Riviera Beach and North Palm Beach.

Lake Park Vice Mayor Kendall Rumsey blogged that he was looking forward to Sugerman’s July 2 arrival.

“I am confident that he will provide a leadership we can all be proud of!” Rumsey wrote.

The town at the last minute changed the employment agreement, Rumsey said, raising Sugerman’s salary to $120,000 from $110,000 and making a 10 percent pension contribution instead of 6 percent.

Sugerman, 60, was the first choice of four of Lake Park’s five commissioners to become town manager.

“I have worked in Palm Beach County as a local government manager since 1994 and therefore am very familiar with all aspects of being a key leader for a South Florida community,” Sugerman wrote in his application, noting he is also a scuba diver, juggler and motorcyclist.

“I have no reservations about Dale’s ability to be town manager,” former Boynton Beach City Manager Kurt Bressner emailed Lake Park.

Sugerman was one of Bressner’s assistant city managers until he went to Highland Beach in March 2005.

Bressner also was a consultant to Lake Park for its town manager search.

Highland Beach commissioners suspended Sugerman for five months — with pay — until his contract expired June 30, 2011, after learning he planned to suspend Town Clerk Beverly Brown for a month without pay. Brown by mistake emailed him jokes

she was forwarding to friends on her official computer about Canadians not being politically correct.

Sugerman investigated and found more jokes, some “sexually oriented or defamatory,” that Brown had forwarded at work, including one alluding to President Obama and using the N-word.

A retired Palm Beach County circuit judge reviewed the case in April 2011 and sided with Brown’s lawyer and then-Town Attorney Tom Sliney, saying a suspension without pay would be a “draconian’’ penalty. A written reprimand in Brown’s personnel file for one year was more than adequate, he ruled.

Besides paying Sugerman’s $12,000-a-month salary, Highland Beach let him continue to use his leased Nissan Murano SUV during the suspension. Commissioners hired Kathleen Weiser, a former Punta Gorda assistant city manager, as his interim and later permanent replacement.

Sugerman, a Hypoluxo resident, was a finalist to become Lantana’s town manager in April, the same month he and his wife became first-time grandparents. Last August, his wife posted a picture online of them sitting in front of the Taj Mahal in India. At a May court hearing Sugerman’s attorney said her client was in Europe.

While Brown kept her monthly $6,200 salary intact, she had to pay a $6,000 legal bill from fighting the proposed suspension. Sliney told Brown the town should not reimburse her attorney’s fees, she said, because she admitted sending the emails, a violation of town policy. Ú

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Charles A. McCutcheon

By Christine Davis

BOCA RATON — Charles A. McCutcheon, 83, of Boca Raton, who served as Palm Beach County sheriff and Boca Raton police chief, died at home on June 19.

His long career in law enforcement began as a patrol officer in Delray Beach in 1954. In 1955, he worked as a deputy constable in Palm Beach County. He joined the Boca Raton Police Department in 1956, and served as a detective, detective sergeant, lieutenant and assistant chief before becoming the fifth police chief for the city in 1970.

Mr. McCutcheon served as chief until 1980, and then joined the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office as undersheriff

for Sheriff Richard Wille. In February 1995, Gov. Lawton Chiles appointed him the 13th sheriff of Palm Beach County following Wille’s retirement.

McCutcheon served as sheriff until he retired in Dec. 31, 1996.

“How much can you say about someone so near perfect?” Wille asked. “He was consistent, true and loyal, more than anyone I ever met. He was really concerned about his employees and his friends. He was a great administer and a wonderful friend.”

Chief Rick Jenkins of the North Palm Beach Police Department worked with Mr. McCutcheon for more than a decade. “He was my undersheriff and my mentor,” Jenkins said. “He was a class act, the first police executive to bring higher education to law enforcement. He recognized that education for policing

was critical in the 1960s, and he pushed it in the ’70s and ’80s. He’s responsible for professionalizing South Florida policing.”

Mr. McCutcheon’s sons Michael and Patrick followed their father’s lead with careers in law enforcement. Michael was with the Boca police for 28 years. Patrick is a commander at Palm Beach County School District Police Department.

Born in Washington, Penn., on Sept. 4, 1928, Mr. McCutcheon went into the Army after high school and worked as a surveyor in the Philippines. When he returned, he went to Washington Jefferson College.

“In 1953, he, my mother, and my brother, Michael, came to Boca Raton on vacation and they decided to stay,” his son Patrick McCutcheon said.

“My dad never thought about being a cop before. It’s

kind of ironic. He always liked to tell the story that he ran out of money when the car broke down and couldn’t get back to Pennsylvania.”

“A friend of my dad’s was a chief (chief detective Joseph Sobansky) back home, and suggested that my dad check with Hugh Brown (who was then the Boca Raton police chief). My dad met him, and he got my dad a job.”

Mr. McCutcheon received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Florida Atlantic University and a master’s degree in public information from the John J. College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York.

He was a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy and the U.S. Secret Service School. In 1968, he was one of nine officers chosen nationwide to study law enforcement for a year as a fellow of the U.S. Department of Justice under the Law Enforcement Act. Mr. McCutcheon was preceded in death by his wife, Joan.

Funeral services were held on June 23 at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Boca Raton.

The family has suggested that donations may be made to the Boca Raton Police Athletic League in memory of Charles A. McCutcheon.

Frank J. Devine

By Ron Hayes

DELRAY BEACH — After retiring from a distinguished career in the U.S. Foreign Service, Frank Devine brought his diplomatic skills to Palm Beach County, first as an adjunct professor at Palm Beach Atlantic College, then as executive director of the Delray Beach Property Owners Association.

A former American ambassador to El Salvador, Mr. Devine died June 2. He was 89 and had lived here since 1988, after postings to Colombia, Chile, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, El Salvador and Uruguay, where he met his wife, the former Barbara Ryan.

The couple were married for

49 years, until her death in June 2002.

“He was very proud to have served the United States and the Foreign Service,” said his daughter, Margaret Rose Devine. “He was very loving to his family, and always such a gentleman. Everybody always said he was such a gentleman, and very kind. He had beautiful manners.”

Frank J. Devine was born on June 30, 1922, in Albany, N.Y. He was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the National War College and served with the U.S. Army in World War II. Mr. Devine began his career in the Foreign Service as the American vice consul in Barranquilla, Colombia, in 1948, and retired in 1980.

From 1981 to 1988 he was the executive director of the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce in New York.

In 1988, he was named Diplomat-In-Residence at Palm Beach Atlantic College, where he taught Latin American business in the Rinker School of Business, as well as Spanish and Latin American culture.

Beginning in 1988, he served for two years as executive director of the Beach Property Owners Association.

In addition to Margaret Rose, of Highland Beach, he is survived by a second daughter, Penelope, of Denver, Colo., and a son, Frank, of Madrid, Spain; two grandchildren, Frank IV and Cooper; and a sister, Marie.

A funeral Mass was celebrated June 9 at St. Lucy Catholic Church in Highland Beach.

The family suggests that donations in Mr. Devine’s name be made to DACOR, an organization of foreign affairs professionals, at 1801 F St. NW, Washington, DC 20006.

Ann Boden

By Mary Thurwachter

HIGHLAND BEACH — Even during the final months of her life while battling a long illness, Ann Boden retained her positive and fun-loving outlook, according to her next-door neighbor Judith Krovetz.

“She was a wonderful woman, a beautiful spirit,” Krovetz said. “She was

funny and sweet and knew how to tell a good story.”

Mrs. Boden, 74, of Dublin and Lisburn, Ireland, and finally, Highland Beach, died peacefully on June 15.

Mrs. Boden traveled the globe as an Aer Lingus stewardess, and had many stories to share about her experiences, Krovetz said.

“She loved her children so much and they were unbelievably wonderful to her,” Krovetz said.

Those children include

Dolores, Conor, Áine, Niall and Caitriona. Other survivors include her grandchildren, Chloe and Karel; her sons and daughters-in law Mark, Lisa, Steve, the late Tanguy; her sister Pat and Jim Sherry; and her sisters and brothers-in-law Dorothy, Imelda, Brian, Terry, Marie, Una and Gail.

Her husband, Oliver, preceded her in death.

A funeral Mass for Mrs. Boden was held on June 19 at St. Jude Catholic Church in Boca Raton.

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Coloring the wind: Kite flyer brings billowing art to the beach scene

By Paula Detwiller

Today it’s the 90-foot squid — swaying, nodding, riding the breeze above Delray’s public beach. Tomorrow it might be the 150-foot cobra, snaking through the summer sky. Or the giant cat, pouncing high in the air.

“I love kites, but this is the first time I’ve seen one that big,” says beachgoer Richard Olmedo of Coral Springs.

“That’s amazing.”

The collection belongs to Randy “the Kite Man” Lowe of Delray Beach, a retired math teacher and kite-flying hobbyist.

He owns about 50 of these gigantic kites, purchased

from manufacturers around the world at sky-high prices: about $5,000 each for the largest models. He keeps them in a storage container on his property.

“They crush down into the size of a shopping bag, and I have ’em all labeled and organized so I can find the ones I want very easily,” Lowe says.

When the weather is clear and the sea breeze is right (between 10 and 15 miles per hour), Lowe hauls his kites down to the beach and puts on a show. You’ll find him at the south end, near the Casuarina Road entrance.

The first thing he does is screw a metal stake deep into the sand and attach a line

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Randy ‘the Kite Man” Lowe with some of his collection. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star connected to his pilot kite, which looks like a floating orange mattress. Once the pilot kite is up and flying, Lowe carefully lays out the “show kite,” holds it aloft to catch air, and then clips it to the pilot line. This gives him his “anchor in the sky,” keeping the enormous kite where he wants it.

“Most of the kites I have are one-of-a-kind,” he says. A crowd favorite is called the Top Half. It’s the torso, arms and head of an enormous volleyball player reaching for the ball. The ball is a separate kite, flying just beyond Top Half’s reach.

Together, these kites get the most second looks. (Is that a

flying torso?)

“To me it’s art, you know? I don’t just float kites up there, I always have a theme,” Lowe says. “If I’m flying a whale, I certainly want to have a couple of lobsters on the side, and a crab or a jellyfish or a seahorse.

It’s an arrangement.”

Lowe says he’s been flying kites for the last 20 years.

During his math-teaching years in Boston public schools, Lowe used his hobby to bring to life math principles, such as the Pythagorean theorem.

During field trips, he would have students figure out the length of the kite line — the hypotenuse in the imaginary right triangle — after giving them the measurements of the other two sides. “So when we got back into class, they understood what I was talking about: A-squared plus B-squared equals C-squared.”

Comfortably retired now at 60, married but with no children of his own, Lowe likes to see children react to his colorful, whimsical kites.

“I’ve had kids run all the

way down the beach saying, ‘Mom, look at that!’ They are fascinated, and that’s what we need more of. Get the kids off the phones, away from the televisions, and out breathing fresh air.”

In fact, he’d like to take his kite demonstrations to local schools, either to celebrate special occasions (graduations, football games) or to use them for hands-on learning.

Since moving to Delray Beach a year ago, Lowe has been hired to entertain at occasional private parties (like the one on Memorial Day at the Delray Beach Club) and has signed a contract with the Boca Raton Resort and Club to fly his kites at their private beach club on weekends.

He is licensed and insured through the American Kitefliers Association, and promotes his services on his website (www. randythekiteman.com).

“It’s something to do and I enjoy it,” he says. “I’m just living life, having fun. And I’ve earned every minute of it.” Ú

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Nomad Surf Shop’s much anticipated Summer Surf Camp was cause for great excitement in my family. The camp impressed me with its relaxed approach. My kids (ages 6 and 10) had tons of fun in a non-intimidating and safe environment. A small group size (maximum of 12) catered to all abilities and skill levels.

The camp consists of five weeklong sessions.

It was wonderful to watch a new generation of young surfers steadily improve their skills. I saw my children’s confidence and self-esteem grow. What stood out most was the camaraderie among the new friends.

The inaugural Summer Surf Camp was held in June with a small tribe of surfers (and wannabees) along with their skilled, friendly instructor ‘Dre’ and three assistants.

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Greg Young (from left), Becky Walsh, Sylvie Bergeron, Headmaster Joseph Zaluski, Maureen Reuter and Heidi Sargeant hold a check for $210,000 at the Gulf Stream School’s year-end Auxiliary Luncheon.

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A detail of the wallpaper at the Ritz-Carlton’s resort club lounge shows dapper monkeys sipping martinis. Photo provided

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M NKE YS From a Ritzy lounge to restaurants, monuments and handbags, monkeys retain their whimsical appeal

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hat could be more fun than a barrel of monkeys? How about a swanky club lounge that mingles chic mid-century sensibility in a modern day interpretation that incorporates a bunch of adorable monkeys on a playful, but pretty, wallpaper?

You can find it all at the RitzCarlton, Palm Beach, where the redesigned resort club lounge was unveiled earlier this year.

The lounge, with alluring ocean views, is open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily to hotel guests who book rooms and suites on the

club lounge floor ($429-$1,299, depending on season), and serves complimentary food and beverages — including a pitcher of top-shelf martinis.

The Ritz recruited New York City design guru Eric Villency to design the resort’s 2,000-squarefoot lounge. He used Carrera marble bar tops, a custom-made tufted bar featuring vintage serving ware, stylish light fixtures, posh dining chairs, and, yes, custom-designed monkey mural wallpaper to achieve a retro Palm Beach look.

“We spent a lot of time visiting the vintage shops [in West Palm Beach] — probably almost every one along U.S. 1,” Villency said when talking about working on the three-month room transformation. “Palm Beach has such a strong historical See MONKEY on page 26

Addison Mizner and his monkey Johnnie Brown (perched on his shoulder) visit a parrot in Palm Beach during the 1920s. Photo courtesy of the Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum

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Designer Eric Villency stands in the Ritz-Carlton’s 2,000-square-foot resort club lounge, which he designed with a mid-century vibe and monkey-themed wallpaper. Photos provided

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Continued from page 25 heritage that we wanted to have elements that had real authenticity.

Small details create a personal connection and are a great way to create a unique experience.”

Having spent a fair amount of time in Palm Beach over the years (his late grandmother had a home there), Villency said there are several instances of monkeys being utilized in design motifs throughout Palm Beach history. He wanted to draw upon that part of the local narrative.

“There is an irreverence and lighthearted humor that monkeys evoke (something we played up in our design with sunglasses, parasols and martini glasses) and that dovetailed perfectly with the feel we were trying to create,” Villency said.

He collaborated with New York City textile designer Kim Wook to create a handsome design using iconic imagery to tell a stylistic and historical narrative. Wook’s pattern, “Monkey Cocktail,” represents the botanical history and “monkey business” of Palm Beach before and after the shipwreck of the Providencia.

Stocked with coconuts, the Spanish ship was on its way from Havana to Barcelona when it ran aground near Palm Beach. Folklore attributes the shipwreck as the catalyst for the coconut palm trees, which have become synonymous with Palm Beach.

Some have said monkeys were onboard, although that has not been verified.

“Monkeys were added in (to the room design) as something poppy, recognizable and fun,” Wook said, “but also with character that could be memorable about the Ritz for people going through the club lounge.”

Mizner and monkeys

The monkey characters,

A martini sits in front of wallpaper depicting a monkey cocktail party in the RitzCarlton’s resort club lounge.

Wook said, came from the story of Johnnie Brown, a spider monkey often seen on the shoulder of Palm Beach architect and Boca Raton developer Addison Mizner.

Historians say Mizner loved Johnnie and even handstitched a silk-lined sombrero, with chinstrap, for him.

Johnnie is buried in Via Mizner, the first shopping arcade on Palm Beach’s Worth Avenue. The tiny animal cemetery, which also contains the remains of Ruth Sachs’ dog Laddie, has become a popular tourist stop. Sachs and her husband, Morton, bought Mizner’s Worth Avenue villa and lived there 47 years.

Boca Raton’s Fred Eckel, a longtime partner of the late historian Donald Curl, spent years with Curl researching Mizner and his architecture.

He said Mizner had many

pets and more than one monkey.

“I think he picked it up (having monkeys as pets) in Guatemala when he lived there for awhile,” Eckel said.

“He liked exotic pets. He was a colorful person and a good dinner guest. Of course, not everyone wanted a monkey in their house and Mizner would leave them at home then with a maid or someone.”

As to the frequently repeated story of Mizner greeting hotel guests at the Boca Resort & Club wearing a bathrobe and carrying a monkey on his shoulder, Eckel couldn’t say for sure. “I imagine he had the monkey with him morning, noon and night, so he may have been wearing a bathrobe some of the time, but whether he wore it in the hotel, I don’t know.”

Mizner designed the Everglades Club, the Gulf Stream Golf Club, and many homes in Palm Beach and Boca Raton. His legacy included the Boca Raton Hotel (now the Boca Raton Resort & Club), where the trendy Monkey Bar pays homage to Mizner and Johnnie Brown.

The architect and his monkey are also commemorated in an 11-foot bronze monument in Royal Palm Plaza. It shows Mizner with a design pencil in one hand and Johnnie Brown on his arm.

Of course, the Johnnie Brown moniker can be found in various places throughout the area, including Johnnie Brown’s

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The Monkey Bar at the Boca Raton Resort & Club pays tribute to Addison Mizner and the iconic Johnnie Brown. The bar is closed for the summer but will re-open In November. Photo provided restaurant on Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach in the same spot Elwood’s once occupied.

Going ape for monkeys

Designers and artists have found monkeys appealing for a very long time. Rascally monkeys adorn the walls at Taboó on Worth Avenue, for example.

And a naughty, smoking simian painted by Gainesville artist Diane Voyentzie can be found hanging above the piano in The Palm Beach Grille.

Frank Maguire of QuigleyMaguire in Pineapple Grove in Delray Beach said the interest in monkeys in design comes and goes.

“I’ll put one in a room for Sharp a little humor,” Maguire said.

“It’s kind of a whimsical thing.”

Barbara Sharp, a Sebastian muralist and fabric designer, is more smitten with them.

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“I’m the Monkey Queen,” Sharp said. Her home is filled with monkey art.

“I have monkey rugs, candlesticks, statues, pajamas and even monkey slippers.”

Many of her paintings adorn the wall of the Atlantique Café in Delray Beach.

“Their little (monkey) faces have human characteristics,” she said, and, like so many others, she finds them hard to Ú resist.

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Local teens compete in Western Junior Championship

By Steve Pike

Athletes are often judged on two things: talent and IQ, the latter of which has nothing to do with test scores. Here’s all you need to know about John Connelly III’s golf IQ: “Spyglass Hill is a hidden secret. It’s a better course than Pebble Beach,� Connelly said as he sat in his Gulf Stream home. “Pebble is just more famous.�

Understand that most golfers see the famed Pebble Beach Coe Golf Links near Carmel, Calif., as the mecca of American golf. Spyglass Hill is just an afterthought. Also understand the Connelly just turned 17. Seems his eye for golf course designs comes as natural as his swing. “I’d say that’s where he

really got hooked on golf,� said his father, John Jr., who owns Nautical Furnishings Inc. in Fort Lauderdale, and who is a member at The Country Club of Florida.

John Connelly III, a juniorto-be at the Culver (Ind.) Military Academy, along with Gulf Stream’s Caulen Coe, each competed in the prestigious Western Junior Championship, June 18-22 at The Country Club of Florida in The Village of Golf.

The “Western,� as it’s known, is the oldest junior tournament in the U.S. Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson have played in the event, which has been won by such future PGA Tour stars as Jim Furyk, Rickie Fowler and Hunter Mahan.

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John Connelly III of Gulf Stream. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star a top 10 finish until a finalround 78 left him with a fourday score of nine-over-par 297, tied for 49th. Connelly shot opening rounds of 83 and 78 and didn’t make the cut.

The Western marked the beginning of the season for Connelly, who has been playing golf since he was 8 years old. He played in the U.S. Golf Association Junior Amateur qualifying tournament following the Western. He also plans to play in the World Series of Junior Golf this month in Stratham, Mass., as well as the Deutsche Bank Open in August in East Falmouth, Mass., not far from where his family has a home on Nantucket Island and a membership at Nantucket Golf Club. Connelly’s

mother, Bessie, often plays in tournaments at the club.

Between tournaments, her son practices daily and makes occasional visits to see Martin Hall, well-known swing coach at Ibis Golf & Country Club in West Palm Beach. Connelly has working with Hall for the past six years.

Next month Connelly will travel with his father, mother Bessie (an avid golfer) and older sister, Kelly, a student at Georgetown University, for a golf trip to Ireland, where they will play such fabled courses as Ballybunion and Lahinch.

Then it’s back to Culver Military Academy, which has some surprising connections to Gulf Stream. For example, famed course architect Pete Dye, a part-time resident of

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The late Frank Batten, founder of The Weather Channel, was a Culver alumnus and part-time Gulf Stream resident who donated more than $70 million to the school.

The Connelly family at one time owned Batten’s house on Palm Way before moving into their current home next to The Little Club. “We didn’t know that at the time,â€? John Connelly Jr. said. “But around Culver we kept seeing all these plaques and references to Frank Batten and began wondering if it was the same man.â€? Ăš

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Fitness boot camp trainees undergo a series of strength and balance exercises on Delray’s public beach. Photos by Paula Detwiller/The Coastal Star

Yoga on the beach? Now that’s a stretch

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ariety is the spice of life, so how about spicing up your fitness routine this summer?

Experts say that when you do the same old workout week after week, your body adapts and hits a fitness plateau. You also run the risk of overusing the same set of muscles, which can lead to repetitive stress injuries.

Cross training, or mixing other forms of exercise into your workout regimen, can fire up new muscle groups, challenge the cardiovascular system and rejuvenate the mind — especially if you do it outside. Here are three outdoor coastal-area fitness classes that will break the boredom, but not the budget.

Steve’s Boot Camp on the beach

When: 8 a.m. Sundays Where: Delray public beach, across from the Marriott Hotel Cost: $10 Don’t let the name “boot camp” intimidate you. Personal trainer Steve Mattingley may look like an Army drill instructor, but if you have an old injury or other physical limitation, he’ll show you how to modify an exercise to do it safely and effectively. And you don’t have to call him “sir.”

The hour-long class is a mix of stretching, strengthening and cardio drills, both on the sand and in the water (provided the ocean isn’t too rough).

“The sand gives a little bit, so there’s lower impact on the knees and the joints compared to running on concrete. And when we go into the water — again, there’s little impact on the joints, so you can really work the muscles.”

Regular participant Juani McCormick, 52, says Steve’s boot camp has helped her develop healthier habits, such as not staying out too late, or drinking too much on Saturday nights.

“It’s very much worth it. I like being outdoors, and it gets my Sunday started on the right foot,” McCormick says.

For information, contact

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Yoga under the sky

When: 9 a.m. Saturdays.

Registration at 8:45 a.m.

Where: Sanborn Square, 72 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton (between Mizner Park and Royal Palm Place) Cost: Free About 50 people, from teenagers to senior citizens, routinely unroll their mats on the tile-and-stone floor of the Sanborn Square pavilion and let instructor Leslie Glickman guide them through a free Saturday morning yoga class.

“They love being in the open air, they love no mirrors, they love seeing the trees blooming and the clouds going by,” Glickman says. “There’s nothing like it.”

When the last “namaste” is uttered and the hour-long class ends, many participants carry their bliss with them into nearby shops and restaurants.

“That was my intention,” Glickman says. Last year she submitted a proposal to the city of Boca Raton, suggesting that a free community yoga class could help increase weekend foot traffic downtown. In response, the city launched Saturdays @ Sanborn Fit & Fun Fitness Program, which includes yoga and other classes (see next item).

Questions? Contact Glickman at 306-3626 or leslie@yogajourney.com.

Zumba for the health of it

When: 10:30 a.m. Saturdays Where: South Beach Park Pavilion, corner of A1A and East Palmetto Park Road Cost: Free If you like moving to high-energy Latin-inspired music, Zumba (pronounced “zoomba”) is a great way to burn calories and tone muscles.

Since January, Boca Raton city employee and part-time Zumba instructor Nicole Gasparri has been leading this lively aerobics class at the Sanborn Square pavilion as part of Saturdays @ Sanborn.

Beginning July 7, the class moves to the beach pavilion to take advantage of cooling summer breezes.

Don’t worry if you’ve never tried Zumba before.

“You’ll notice that here, it’s not about getting it right, it’s about fun and having a good time,” Gasparri says.

“Everybody’s dripping sweat at the end. We get a good workout!”

To learn more, contact Gasparri at 393-7703 or see www.downtownboca. org/?p=4493.

Paula Detwiller is a freelance writer and lifelong fitness junkie.

Find her at www.pdwrites. com.

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30 Religion

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An Ocean Ridge writer who spent seven years searching for eulogies that were given for inspirational Catholics has been awarded recognition for the Best Audiobook in 2012.

Carol DeChant’s recording contains 16 of the 50 eulogies in her book Great American Catholic Eulogies. She received her award from the Independent Book Publishers Association on June 4 in New York City.

“Eulogies are meant to be heard, so we were delighted to be able to provide a representative sampling from the book that people could experience much like those who might have listened to them when they were given,” said DeChant, a 20-year Ocean Ridge resident.

Her book offers a spectrum of American Catholic history through the lives of men and women of every era since the American Revolution. Those who were memorialized made significant contributions in social, public, church or military service, or through art, music, literature, media and sports.

The figures eulogized range from former President John F. Kennedy and political commentator William F. Buckley Jr. to singer Rosemary Clooney and baseball great Phil Rizzuto.

Some were originally written remembrances that were performed verbally for the first time by professional

actors in the audiobook.

“We inevitably reflect upon our own life when we hear a eulogy, wondering how we will be remembered,” DeChant said in explaining her book’s purpose. “Because eulogies are about the deceased but for the living, they can help us find the strength to go back to our life, to live it more deliberately.”

Some of the people who delivered the eulogies in her book are unexpected. For example, former President Ronald Reagan gave the Kennedy eulogy many years after his death when Reagan was helping to raise money for the Kennedy Presidential Library.

“I like it when death brings respect from someone who didn’t agree with that person when they lived,” DeChant said. “We can all rise to such an occasion if we are willing to do it.”

Some of the eulogies are humorous as well as instructive.

“This is not a dismal book at all,” she said. “Laughter can be very healing at a time of mourning. A well-done eulogy can bring smiles to people who knew the deceased.”

DeChant said gender balance was her greatest challenge in researching the book because women have not been eulogized in American history as men have.

“This neglect is not because men wrote our history, but also because of the humility of female leaders,” she said. Ú

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Finding Faith

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Congregation comes together at pastor’s home

he pastor’s home has become a festive place for the elderly parishioners at Boynton Beach Congregational Church these days.

It began when the new pastor, Georgia Hillesland, invited everyone to her home to get acquainted and enjoy her strawberry and blueberry pudding cake.

Hillesland, 61, asked parishioners what was missing at their church. Many said they missed the church dinners and potluck suppers.

“A sense of community was what they missed most,” Hillesland said. “I love to cook and share that with people. So I was able to set my priorities.”

A Memorial Day picnic was the latest social event at the pastor’s house. The Thanksgiving and Christmas parties were appreciated, too.

“Everybody feels like we’re one big family now,” Helen Wilson, 91, said. “She’s like the mother of our family, even though many of us are a lot older than she is. It’s amazing how people have responded.”

Hillesland became the pastor of Boynton Beach Congregational early last year. The previous pastors all were men. Although the church had 200 members in the 1990s, membership had declined. The last pastor lived in Port St. Lucie.

“We needed someone with a warm caring heart. Too many of us are alone here,” said June Finke, who chaired the search committee. “I got very irritated when some said they didn’t want a woman minister.”

Finke persisted and Hillesland was chosen. “For her to reach out was exactly what we needed,” Finke said.

About 55 attended the Memorial Day barbecue and pool party at the pastor’s house last year. Hillesland cooked a turkey with all the trimmings for Thanksgiving.

Guests chose between homemade apple, pecan and pumpkin pies. The entire congregation followed their pastor home after church services on Christmas Eve. “I’ve never before been invited to a minister’s house in my life,” church member Wade Hawkins said. “Usually ministers are not as open and friendly as she is. Everybody loves her.”

“Picnics and potluck dinners require someone to get it going,” Fred Birdsall said. “Unfortunately, we’re all getting old. So she’s become a great hostess.

“Our past ministers have been men, and we men let our wives do it.”

Hillesland’s husband, David, helps with the entertaining and plays flute at church.

Now the members are

Parishioners fill their plates during a Memorial Day picnic at the home of the Rev. Georgia Hillesland, pastor of Boynton Beach Congregational Church. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

The Rev. Georgia Hillesland (right) leads a prayer during the picnic at her home.

The Rev. Buzzwell McNutt of First Baptist Church in Boynton Beach and a child pose with the sand sculpture he built. inviting others to meet their new pastor. The congregation is growing again.

“We’ve found that people are hungry for both social activities and the Lord,” Hillesland said. “I want them to feel they are appreciated and part of my family. The best way to get to know them is to share.”

The pastor faces only one problem. “I might have to get a bigger house,” she said.

Boynton Beach Mayor Woodrow Hay was ordained as a Baptist minister on May 27 after fielding questions about how religion mixes with politics.

“Some say politics are so dirty that a reverend should not be involved,” noted the Hay Rev. Gerald Kisner, a member of the ordination council that evaluated whether Hay should become a minister at St. John Missionary Baptist Church.

Hay, who was appointed

mayor last February after five years on the City Commission, was confident with his response.

“I think it’s high time we get people of wisdom and knowledge on the dais who have compassion, love and joy — all the attributes that God has given us,” he said.

“We need more people of God in City Hall, just like we do in the White House.”

Construction is under way for Holly House, a place where the hard-workingladies of First Presbyterian Church of Delray Beach can socialize while making crafts.

“They’ve been saving their money for quite a few years to pay for the new Holly House,” property committee chairman Bob Teninga said. “They just love the fellowship and getting together.”

The 3,600-square-foot building on the campus of the church will cost $500,000 and be completed in four months.

About 50 women gather on Tuesdays and Thursdays to make handicrafts, such as knit sweaters, Christmas wreaths and aprons, which they sell at a church bazaar each November.

“My women travel all over the world and come back with ideas of what we can sell at the bazaar,” said Regie Moorcroft, chairwoman of the Holly House Ladies.

“They’re really talented.”

The women also organize First Presbyterian’s annual rummage sale, which this year raised $24,000. The money has been spent to buy new pew cushions, a refrigerator and other unbudgeted items for the church.

The Holly House Ladies also form a Christian support group for each other.

“The girls all like to

socialize,” Moorcroft said.

“Now we’re all going to be together in one big open room.”

A church has taken evangelism to the beach with a pastor who does sand sculptures.

“I realized that I wasn’t coming in contact with anyone by hibernating in my office,” the Rev. Buzwell McNutt of First Baptist Church in Boynton Beach said.

So a year ago Rev. McNutt began meeting families who stopped to marvel at his elaborate sculptures. “I get to tell folks who I am and why I’m here,” he said.

Parents shot photos last month of their children sitting in McNutt’s creation of Lightning McQueen, the racecar character in the Disney movie Cars. McNutt will teach sand sculpture during a beach cleanup and free party hosted by the church from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on July 21, at Oceanfront Park in Ocean Ridge.

Tim Pallesen writes about people of faith, their congregations, causes and community events. Email him at tcpallesen@ aol.com.

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The Arts

Sculptor gives birth, over and over again, to pre-natal art

By Mary Jane Fine The theme here is not a subtle one. Room after room is pregnant with meaning.

Nearly every sculpture, every figure, carries a baby within.

Sculptor Norman Gardner offers a tour of his handsome Townsend Place apartment, a few blocks south of Mizner Park. It is, of course, also a tour of his art and, in the process, a tour of his life and philosophy, honed over 80-plus years of life.

“We’ll start here,” he says, rising from a comfortable armchair to pause in front of the solid bronze Cat weighing nearly 100 pounds and carrying, in the open oval of its tummy, a polished bronze kitten. Nearby is Mermaid Maternity, inspired by a remembered story of the romance between a mortal man and a sea nymph, done in aluminum-filled epoxy and painted white, its edges trimmed in black. Then there is Sitting Pretty, a small bronze Cubist-style figure, a babe beneath its breasts. And Madonna and Child. And Labor of Love. And . . .

And his 92-page, selfpublished book, The Undiscovered Art of Pregnancy, subtitled “A Glowing Tribute to Pregnant Women.”

His youngest daughter, Miriam, provided the impetus for this body of work when, five months pregnant, she showed him a sonogram of his soon-to-be next grandchild.

“One look at that tiny creature, fully formed and wriggling inside my daughter’s belly, melted my heart, liquefied my brain,” Gardner writes in his book, “and launched me on a collision course with destiny that was to transform the remaining years of my art career.”

Norman Gardner with a sampling of his sculptures that depict women with babies in the womb. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star Destiny has not been kind — he has sold very little in the 13 years since he fixated on what he terms Pre-Natal Art — but he has persisted, refusing to return to his more salable work, work like the small, bronze bullfighter that was snapped up by a New York gallery, some years back, and sold the very next day. No, he remains true to his vision.

“I’m just too obstinate, and I believe in it,” he says. “I’m kind of obsessed with the idea, and having four daughters and nine grandchildren, I have to do it this way because I can’t give birth myself.”

His stainless-steel sculpture, The Births of Venus (yes, plural), does so in his stead.

His original piece, an homage to the Botticelli painting of Venus standing on a scallop shell, featured an open space

in the goddess’s abdomen — perfect, he decided, for the insertion of a baby.

“This to me was the Golden Fleece, the Holy Grail, and Life’s Beautiful Beginnings,” he writes in his book, “all wrapped up in one.”

He came to believe, the book notes, that “selective censorship” has discouraged museums and galleries from exhibiting “artworks that reveal unborn babies floating inside their mother’s wombs,” and that “this attitude is a hold-over from the Dark Ages when such explicit depictions of the pregnant condition were considered ‘a source of idolatry and paganistic excess.’ ” The book, though, also charts his research into such art, with illustrations ranging from Leonardo da Vinci’s drawing of a fetus

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in the womb to the 35-foothigh Virgin Mother with its cutaway pregnant belly by contemporary British artist Damien Hirst.

Gardner’s sculptures make no attempt at anatomical correctness. They are abstract and graceful with a nod to the Cubists (enough so that one museum curator, he says, in declining to display his work, dubbed it “derivative”).

His fascination with art, with sculpture, dates back to childhood, when he carved toys from wooden crates and won, in first grade, a bronze medal for his drawing of a Model T. He earned his degree in mechanical engineering from New York’s City College in 1949 and, later, after a stint in the Army, earned his master’s degree in fine arts at the Pratt Institute, where he

then taught for a dozen years.

Along the way, Gardner worked at designing everything from guided missiles to toys to product packaging for Avon and Estée Lauder.

But, always, there was sculpture. He often began with a cardboard model, subsequently realized in stainless steel or bronze. At one point, he says, “I had a very successful career selling art. I sold dozens and dozens of sculptures. I had six galleries in Florida handling my work.”

The work he calls “my masterpiece” is here, a tabletop piece in the dining area.

“Everybody and his brother have made ‘The Fall — Adam and Eve and the Apple,’ ” he says. “But not one has bothered to show the baby.” Now, there they all are: the snake entwined around a tree; the apple, balanced on Adam’s hand; the baby, curled into a space in Eve’s Belly. Its title: The Original Son. Gardner’s obsession with the pre-natal is rivaled only by his obsession with puns. So a painting in the bedroom he shares with his wife, Katy, is titled All the Nudes That Fit We Paint, taking off on The New York Times motto “All the News That’s Fit to Print;” two others, Girl Before a Miró and Nudes Defending a Law Case riff on Picasso’s Girl Before a Mirror and Nude Descending a Staircase, by Marcel Duchamp.

The fun is tempered a bit, these days, by the scarcity of sales. He picks up a tiny model, fashioned from cardboard and Elmer’s glue and turns it around in his hand.

“Now that I’m retired and penniless,” he says, and smiles, “I’m back to cardboard.” Ú

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Summer Arts

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Theater back at foreclosed Caldwell building, if only for 10 shows

he closing in April of the Caldwell Theatre Co. after money problems forced it to dim its footlights was a blow to more than the company itself and its audiences.

It also was a shock to the whole South Florida theater system, akin to what happened last June with the shuttering of Florida Stage.

But while that company’s artistic team, led by Lou Tyrrell, is coming back to life at Delray Beach’s Parker Arts Garage, the Caldwell itself has not regenerated.

Abhorring the theatrical vacuum that left the Count de Hoernle Nuccio Theatre empty, Entr’acte Theatrix has stepped in to bring theater back to the building on Federal Highway in Roche Boca Raton with 10 performances this month of the Andrew Lloyd Webber rock musical Jesus Christ Superstar.

Entr’acte was booked into the theater in any case before the Caldwell went under, but could have looked elsewhere after the building was foreclosed on. But Vicki Halmos, Entr’acte’s executive producer, said it was important that her troupe stay put.

“After thinking about it and talking about it, we said, ‘If we can do something to bring attention— not to the Caldwell Theater Company because I don’t think they have the wherewithal to do it or to save themselves — but certainly to bring visibility to the venue, then we should do it,’ ” Halmos said.

And she hopes that the community itself will rally around the building in order to save it as a performing space. After all, the bank doesn’t particularly care what’s there as long as it’s paying rent, she said.

“It very easily could turn into something else if people don’t start paying attention,” she said.

Entr’acte is an offshoot of Halmos’ Palm Beach Principal Players, which was founded to give theatrical opportunities to high school and college performers.

Entr’acte continues the mission of giving performance chances to those players at later stages of their careers.

Polish composer Alexandre Tansman, who will be represented by his Septet for woodwinds, trumpet, viola and cello, written in 1930.

For personnel and financial reasons, the festival can’t be expanded as is, Ellert said.

But early in the coming season, it’s possible the musicians will perform some winter concerts, perhaps as part of an Orpheus Chamber Orchestra-style ensemble.

Changes in schedule at the Palm Beach Opera and other ensembles have left some of the musicians at looser ends than they have been in the past, so the festival musicians are talking about filling up that time with a new venture.

“We’re trying to figure out if there’s anything we can do in September, October,

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Written as a rock record in 1969 by Webber and his longtime lyricist collaborator Tim Rice, Jesus Christ Superstar was considered edgy and even blasphemous at its stage premiere in 1971, but its catchy score (I Don’t Know How to Love Him, Superstar, Everything’s Alright) and its contemporary energy, similar to Hair and Godspell, have helped make it a staple of community repertory for decades.

For Halmos, the show — currently in revival on Broadway and in production for another revival in London, and done by her Palm Beach players about a dozen years ago — has a timeless message of establishment-shaking that is as fresh as Tahrir Square.

“It seemed to be relevant now because of all the uproar going on in the Middle East, and to bring attention to the political aspects of that,” she said. Specifically, to the idea of a rock-the-boat figure who challenged the status quo and made a revolution, Halmos said.

“You see a lot of that going on today, and it’s been going on through history,” she said, and yet it’s also contemporary.

“It’s a young man’s story, it’s an idealist’s story, it’s a story for this generation.”

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Paws Up for Pets

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In surf or pool, know how to make dogs’ swim-time safe

grew up near a small lake in northwest Indiana where the only wave action came when my older siblings hurled themselves off the anchored raft to perform cannonballs into the water. During my decade living in Lantana, I loved swimming the warm waters of the Atlantic Ocean year-round.

Today, I live within a mile of the Pacific Ocean and share my home with a 12-pound terrier-mix named Cleo who would rather “hang 20” on a surfboard than fetch a tennis ball in the backyard.

Cleo is a proud member of the So Cal Surf Dogs, a group of canines ranging from a Bernese mountain dog named Nani to a bulldog named Dozer to plenty of dogs matching Cleo’s size. They range in age from 1 to 11 and include a bunch of water-loving dogs whose heritage will forever remain a mystery.

Many dogs enjoy water — whether it involves racing along the shore, splashing into the water to fetch a tossed ball or sunning on the deck of a boat.

But the new water-loving breed these days is the surf dog, the canine who lives to balance on a foam surfboard (better gripping surface for their paws) and catch waves that glide him to shore. What started out as a

Arden Moore gives Cleo a hug after her terrier mix helped set three world surf records in competitions on the west coast.

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Closer to home Adam Steinberg and his surfing dog, Booker D. Surfdog are hoping to stage an event by the end of the year.

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fluke, a curiosity about seven or eight years ago has now evolved into a canine sport attracting thousands of awed spectators.

And on June 16, surf dog history was made at the Loews’ Coronado Bay Resort Surf Event held in Imperial Beach in San Diego County.

Members of the So Cal Surf Dogs, including Cleo, packed onboard a specially designed, 15-foot surfboard and rode into the Guinness Book of World Records three times. Their first record: most dogs to ride a single surfboard (17 dogs).

Their second record: joining legendary surfer Scott Chandler in setting a world record for most dogs (eight) with a surfer.

Beach before the end of this year and are working on plans with Nomad Surf Shop owners.

What is scheduled is the Booker D. Surfdog Space Coast Invitational set for Oct. 6-7 in Melbourne. The event will benefit the Central Brevard County Humane Society.

“We’re looking forward to surfing off Melbourne because the waves roll in on a long push off the coast and Booker can ride a very long wave in — much longer than the waves in the Pacific,” says Steinberg, who readily admits that his dog is a far better surfer than he is.

No matter if your dog likes to make a splash in the ocean, a lake or a pool, here are some

Their third record: most dogs (eight) with a surf tandem (Chandler and his daughter, Tyler). The performance not only raised applause and worldwide media coverage, but generated donations for the ASPCA. On the East Coast, the surf dog garnering the most headlines is a black-and-white pit bull mix with the cool name, Booker D. Surfdog.

He and his owner, Adam Steinberg, ventured across the country to surf at the dog beach in Coronado a few years back, but now prefer staging surf dog demonstrations up and down the East Coast. They hope to stage an event in Boynton

tips to keep your dog safe: n Fit your dog with a proper-fitting life jacket. Select one that sports a handle on top to make it easier for you to grab your dog. n Scope out the water before allowing your dog to enter.

Do not let your dog swim in small ponds constructed to drain water from housing developments because they contain a lot of harsh and harmful chemicals. Skip ponds at golf courses because of the parasites that harbor in those murky waters. n Teach your dog how to enter and exit a pool. Start with water play in the shallow end and teach him that this is a “safety spot” to allow him to get out of the pool. Better yet, invest in floatable doggy ramps or stairs. n Keep them healthy. No matter where your dogs make a splash, make sure they are up to date on all their vaccines to protect against parasites and giardia. Always fit them with life vests and thoroughly rinse them with clean water afterward. n Know when enough is enough. End the workout before your dog becomes overtired and prone to injury.

Even though Cleo may have the drive to surf for two hours, I limit her time in the water and reward her with healthy treats, a warm bath and a therapeutic massage. This post-surf routine keeps her motivated to enjoy the next surf outing.

To learn more about surf dogs, I invite you to visit the So Cal Surf Dog website: www. socalsurfdogs.com.

Arden Moore, founder of FourLeggedLife.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. com.

July 2012

The COASTAL STAR

Community Calendar Note: Events are current as of 6/29. Please check with organizers for any changes.

July 7 Saturday - 7/7 - Sand Sifters All American Cleanup and Launch of Jellyfish Drift Project - Beach cleanup at Oceanfront Park, 6415 N. Ocean Blvd., Ocean Ridge. Artist Paul ‘Paulo’ Slater’s jellyfish painted art panel will be attached to a light weight bamboo raft outfitted with a GPS devise and set adrift in the Gulfstream. Event will also collect supplies for the Forgotten Soldiers Outreach Group. 8-10:15 am. Free. 734-9128.

7/7 - Boynton Beach Community Farmer’s Market is held in the parking lot at the Southeast corner of Boynton Beach Boulevard and Federal Highway. Held year round every Saturday. 9 am-2 pm. Free. 714-2745.

7/7 - Saturdays @ Sanborn: Yoga Class at Sanborn Square, 72 N. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton.

Held every Sat. Registration: 8:45 am; class: 9 am.

Free. Zumba 10:30 am. 393-7703.

7/7 - Shuffle Board/Disc Knockout at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. A game involving skill and strategy for all ages. Held W, F & Sat. 9-11 am. Annual fee: $15/residents, $25/ non-residents. 243-7350.

7/7 - Lawn Bowling at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. For ages 18 years and up. Held W, F & Sat. 9 am-11 am. Annual fee: $40/residents, $45/non-resident. 243-7350.

7/7 - Yoga Class at the Train Depot, 747 S. Dixie Hwy., Boca Raton. Held M-Sat: 9:30-11 am & T: 6:30-8 pm. 5 classes: $65/residents, $81.25/nonresidents; 10 classes: $110/residents, $137.50/ non-residents; 20 classes: $200/residents, $250/ non-residents. 477-8727.

7/7- The Top 20 Secrets of Great Singers: Their Mindset & Methods at the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. Class teaches aspiring singers professional standards and musical/non-musical techniques. 9:30 am12:30 pm. Held Saturdays. $20/residents, $25/ non-residents per class. 393-7807.

7/7 - Chess Club at the Boca Raton Public Library, 200 NW Boca Raton Blvd. For ages 7 to 17. Held again 7/14, 21 & 28. 10-11:30 am. Free.

Registration: 393-7968 or www.bocalibrary.org.

7/7 - Bricks 4 Kidz for grades K-5th at the James A. Rutherford Community Center, Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Road, Boca Raton. Design and build machines, catapults, pyramids, derby cars, buildings and other constructions out of LEGO bricks. Four-week course runs Saturdays through 7/28. 10-11 am. $40/residents, $50/non-residents.

367-7035 or www.ci.boca-raton.fl.us.

7/7 - Beginning Soccer at the Carolyn Sims Center, 225 NW 12th Ave., Boynton Beach.

Designed for beginners ages 6-10. Four-week session runs through 7/28. 10-11 am. $25/ residents, $32/non-residents. 742-6641.

7/7 - Orchid Care 101 Workshop - Presented at Mounts Botanical Garden Auditorium, 531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Bring an orchid (up to 6 inches) to be repotted or mounted.

Several methods demonstrated. Supplies available for purchase. 10 am-1 pm. $25/Mounts members, $35/non-members. Registration: 233-1757.

7/7 - Drop-In Story time - Music, stories, finger plays and action songs stimulate learning at this weekly program at the Boca Raton Public Library, 200 NW Boca Raton Blvd. All ages accompanied by an adult. Saturdays 10-10:30 am. Free. 393-7968.

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

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

7/7 - Saturdays @ Sandborn: Zumba - Class at Sanborn Square, 72 N. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton.

Held every Saturday. 10:30 am. Free. 393-7703.

7/7 - Art Activity: Gooey Gobs and Squishy Stuff is held at the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center, 129 E. Ocean Ave., Boynton Beach. Ages 2-4. Come dressed for a mess. Saturdays 10:30-11 am. Free with paid museum admission: $4/ages 1-17; $4.50/seniors; $5/adults. Registration: 742-6780.

7/7 - Realistic Drawing/Painting Instruction Class at the James A. Rutherford Community Center, Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Road, Boca Raton. Learn basic techniques essential to quality, realistic paintings. Four-week course runs Saturdays through 7/28. 12:30-2:30 pm. $65/ residents, $81/non-residents. 367-7035.

7/7 - Art-E-Ology: Andy Warhol, Pop Art for grades 3-5 at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. Children learn about a master artist on exhibit at the museum and have the opportunity to create a masterpiece in the style of the artist.

1-2:30 pm. $5/child. Reservations: 392-2500 Ext. 106 or www.bocamuseum.org.

7/7 - Realistic Drawing/Painting for Children Class for ages 7-12 at the James A. Rutherford Community Center, Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Rd., Boca Raton. Focus is on the theory of light & shade, perspective, composition & proportion.

Four-week course runs Saturdays through 7/28.

2:30-4:30 pm. $40/residents, $50/non-residents.

Additional materials will need to be purchased after the first class. 367-7035.

7/7 - Teen Car Club - Held Saturdays at the “505” Teen Center, 505 SE 5th Ave., Delray Beach. Hands on learning on the basics on how to keep up on the maintenance of your vehicle. Girls welcome. Ages 12-20. 4-6 pm. $5/non-members. 243-7158.

7/7 - Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost is presented at FAU’s Boca Raton campus, Studio One, 777 Glades Road. Held again 7 pm 7/13 & 21, 1 pm 7/14-15. 7 pm. $20. 800-564-9539.

7/7 - Musicals on Film: From Broadway to Hollywood... and Back is presented as part of the Fundamentals of Film series held in the Betty Waldron Theatre at Actor’s Rep, 1009 N. Dixie Hwy., West Palm Beach. Features clips from films and discussion. 8 pm. $10. 543-8455.

7/7 - Concert: South Florida Symphony Orchestra at the Arts Garage, 180 NE First St., Delray Beach. Featuring Antonin Dvorak American String Quartet, Opus 96 in F Major and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in G Major, K.387. $20-$25/advance, $25-$30/door. 8 pm. 243-7129.

7/7-8 - Yoga Workout at the Beach - Held every Saturday and Sunday at Red Reef Park West, 1221 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. Build strength and flexibility, improve postural alignment and stabilize the core. Classes held on the grass overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway. Cash not accepted on-site. 10-11 am. $15/residents, $19/ non-residents per class, or 60 day membership (unlimited classes) for $65/residents, $81.25/nonresidents. Registration: 393-7807.

7/7-8 - Willy Wonka Junior is performed at The Delray Beach Playhouse, 950 NW 9th St., Delray Beach. Sat.: 4 & 7 pm; Sun.: 1 & 4 pm. $15/adults, $12/children (ages 18 and younger). 272-1281, Ext. 4 or www.delraybeachplayhouse.com.

7/7-8 - Broadway At The Plaza is presented as part of the Sizzling Summer Cabaret series at The Plaza Theatre, 262 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan in the Plaza del Mar Shopping Center. A greatest hits show featuring music from all-time favorites like Guys and Dolls, Fiddler on the Roof, My Fair Lady, Chicago, Funny Girl, The Sound of Music, Les Miserables, and more. Sat.: 7:30 pm; Sun.: 2 pm. $25. 588-1820 or www.theplazatheatre.net.

7/7-8 - Showtune! A Jerry Herman Musical Revue is presented at FAU’s Boca Raton campus, University Theatre, 777 Glades Road. Popular Off-Broadway musical revue celebrating the words and music of composer Jerry Herman. Held again 7/12, 14, & 19-21. Sat.&Sun.: 1 pm. $20. 800-5649539 or www.fauevents.com.

7/7-8 - Cabaret Verboten at the ArtsGarage, 180 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. Runs W-Sat. through 7/29. $35/reserved table seating, $30/general admission. W-F: 7:30 pm; Sat.: 2 pm; Sun.: 7 pm.

243-7129 or www.delraybeacharts.org.

7/7-29 - Hairspray is performed at Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave. Evening Performances: 7/7, 13-14, 20-21, 27-28, 8 pm; Matinee Performances: 7/7-8, 14-15, 21-22, 28-29, 2 pm; Dinner & Show Night: 7/5, 6 pm pre-show dinner at Paradiso Italian Restaurant prior to 8 pm show. Tickets: $26-$30 for individual and regular performances, $23-$27 preview performance and $35 opening night gala. $50-$65 for dinner and show. 586-6410 or www.lakeworthplayhouse.org.

July 8-14 Sunday - 7/8 - Sunday Breakfast is held each Sunday at VFW Post 5335, 500 NE 21st St., Boynton Beach. 8-11:30 am. $2.50-$5. 732-1989.

7/8 - 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.

7/8 - Torah Studies Course explores Judaism’s relevance in modern life held at Chabad of Delray Beach, 7495 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. 12week session held Sundays through 9/23. 9:30-11 am. $40/session. 496-6228.

7/8 - Printmaking with a Twist is presented as part of the ARTful Adventure Sunday series at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real.

Creative family fun and interactive opportunity for all ages. 2-3 pm. Free with paid museum admission: $8/adults, $6/seniors, free/children 12 and under. 392-2500 or www.bocamuseum.org.

7/8 - 21st Annual Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival is celebrated with a performance at Crest Theatre, Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. Held again 7/15, 7/22 and 7/29. A new program presented each weekend. 2 pm. $25/single event, $85 for 4-concert subscription, free/students with ID. 800-330-6874.

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Municipal Meetings 7/5 & 7/17 - Delray Beach - Regularly first & third Tuesdays of each month at Delray Beach City Hall, 100 NW 1st Ave. 6 pm. Agenda available at: www.mydelraybeach.com.

7/9 & 7/23 - Lantana - Second & fourth Mondays of each month at Lantana Town Hall, 500 Greynolds Circle. 7 pm. Agenda available at www.lantana.org.

7/9 - Ocean Ridge - First Monday of each month at Ocean Ridge Town Hall, 6450 N. Ocean Blvd. 6 pm. Agenda available at www.oceanridgeflorida.com.

7/10 - Boca Raton - Regularly second & fourth Tuesday of each month at Boca Raton City Hall, 201 W. Palmetto Park Road. 6 pm. Agenda available at www.ci.boca-raton.fl.us. 7/24 meeting cancelled.

7/13 - Gulf Stream - Second Friday of the month at the Gulf Stream Town Hall, 100 Sea Road 9 am.

Agenda available in clerk’s office.

7/18 - Manalapan - Regularly fourth Tuesday of each month at Manalapan Town Hall, 600 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan. 9:30 am. Agenda available at www.manalapan.org.

7/24 - South Palm Beach - Fourth Tuesday of each month in the South Palm Beach Town Hall Council Chambers, 3577 S. Ocean Blvd. 7:15 pm. Agenda available at www.southpalmbeach.com.

7/26 - Briny Breezes - Fourth Thursday of each month at Briny Breezes Town Hall, 4802 N. Ocean Blvd. 4 pm. Agenda available at www.townofbrinybreezes-fl.com.

Monday - 7/9 - Watercolor Painting Workshop at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. Class lesson and lecture with emphasis on composition and drawing with one- on- one instruction and class critique. Held every Monday.

Adults. 10 am-1 pm. Per class: $30/residents, $35/ non-residents. 243-7350.

7/9 - Lava Cameo 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. 7426886 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

7/9 - Beach Treasures - Meet for an introductory talk about seashells at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton, then caravan over to Red Reef Park, 1400 N. State Road A1A to walk the beach in search of ocean treasures. All ages. Held again 7/24. 10-11:30 am. $5/members, $8/non-members. Reservations: 338-1542 or www.gumbolimbo.org.

7/9 - Senior Bingo at Pompey Park, 1101 NW 2nd St., Delray Beach. Adults ages 60 years young and up. Every M&W. 11 am-noon. Free. 243-7356.

7/9 - Tai Chi for Beginners of all ages at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. Learn natural ways to relieve tension, stress and pains.

Mondays 11 am-noon. Per class: $15/residents; $20/non-residents. 243-7350.

7/9 - Mah-Jongg at the Highland Beach Library, 3618 S. Ocean Blvd. Intermediate and advanced.

Held every Monday. 12:30-1:30 pm. Free. 2785455.

7/9 - Dream Big - READ: Readers Theater for grades 2-5 is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Act out short skits based on famous children’s books and folk tales.

Held again 7/10, 16, 17, 23, 24, 30 & 31. 1-2 pm.

Free. 742-6390.

7/9 - The 2012 Presidential Campaign is presented by Dr. Robert Watson as part of the Lifelong Learning Community Institute series held at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Part of the summer semester, featuring explanation of the dynamics of the primaries, the upcoming election, the convention, third party influence and more. First of a three-part series.

Class continues 7/16 & 23. 2-3:30 pm. $50/session or $20/class (space permitting). 266-9490.

7/9 - Fun for 6 to 8 Year Olds: Crazy Chemistry at the Boca Raton Public Library, 200 NW Boca Raton Blvd. Crafts and reading adventures for kids 6-8 years old. 3:30-4:30 pm. Free. Registration: 393-7968 or www.bocalibrary.org.

7/9 - Yoga Sunset at the Beach - Held every Monday at Spanish River Park, 3001 N. State Road A1A, Boca Raton. Build strength and flexibility, improve postural alignment and stabilize the core. Classes held next to lifeguard stand number 18. Cash not accepted on-site. 6:30-7:30 pm. $15/ residents, $19/non-residents per class, or 60 day membership (unlimited classes) for $65/residents, $81.25/non-residents. 393-7807.

7/9 - Sophisticated Discussions: A Singles Group - Join over-50 peers in a supportive group discussion at the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. Held Mondays. Refreshments.

7-8:30 pm. Free. 393-7807.

7/9-13 - Junior Lifeguard Classes are held at Oceanfront Park, 6415 N. Ocean Blvd., Ocean Ridge. Program educates participants ages 9-17 about the role of professional lifesavers through lecture, drills and hands-on use of rescue equipment. Must pass a swim test before entering program. 8-11:30 am. $88/residents, $110/nonresidents. Registration: 742-6565.

Tuesday - 7/10 - SPIN® Class at Oceanfront Park, 6415 N. Ocean Blvd., Ocean Ridge. Classes held seven days a week on boardwalk overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Sunrise to 9 am and 4 pm to sunset. Donations accepted. 287-0953.

7/10 - Baby ‘n Me with Ladybug Yoga is held at the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center, 129 E. Ocean Ave., Boynton Beach. Ages 6 weeks to crawling. Parents gain strength and flexibility while bonding with their new little ones. Held every Tuesday. 10-11 am. Per class: $6.50/members, $7.50/non-members. 742-6780.

7/10 - Family Storytime is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Listen to stories, sing songs and learn fingerplays. InfantsAge 5. Held again 7/17, 24 & 31. 10-10:45 am. Free.

742-6380 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

7/10 - Breastfeeding Support Group at The Red Tent, 20 S. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. Bring your baby and join a community of mothers and mothers-to-be to discuss breastfeeding questions.

10 am-11:30 am. Free. 309-4314.

7/10 - Pompey Park Senior Club at Pompey Park, 1101 NW 2nd St., Delray Beach. Field trips, breakfasts, games and events. Meets every Tuesday. 10 am-1 pm. $10-$20 annually. 243-7356.

7/10 - Beginners Yoga at the Highland Beach Library, 3618 S. Ocean Blvd. Participants should bring their own yoga mat. Held every Tuesday & Thursday. 10:15 am. $10. 278-5455.

7/10 - Adult Folk Dance Class at Pompey Park, 1101 NW 2nd St., Delray Beach. Adults (18 and up) learn new dances from around the world for physical fitness, exercise, and fun. Class held every Thursday. 10:30 am-12:30 pm. $6/class. 243-7356.

7/10 - Mommy ‘n Me Circle Time: Gentle Growers is held at the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center, 129 E. Ocean Ave., Boynton Beach. Instructor Meredith Abrams uses Waldorf Education strategies to create a warm, nurturing environment for observation and discussion of infant behavior. Recommended for ages 1-2. Held every Tuesday. 10:30-11:30 am.

Free with paid museum admission: $4/ages 1-17; $4.50/seniors; $5/adults. Registration: 742-6780.

7/10 - Socrates Café at the Highland Beach Library, 3618 S. Ocean Blvd. Weekly discussion group devoted to supporting philosophical inquiries of all ages and walks of life. 10:30 am.

Free. 278-5455.

7/10 - A Story ‘n More: Interactive Story and Craft - Cheryl Lane brings children’s books to life through interactive performance, singing, movement and props at the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center, 129 E. Ocean Ave., Boynton Beach. 11:15 am-noon. Held every Tuesday. Free with paid museum admission: $4/ages 1-17; $4.50/seniors; $5/adults. 742-6782.

7/10 - Chess Club at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. Knowledge of the game is necessary. All levels welcome. Ongoing event held T & F. Noon-4 pm. Annual fee: $20/residents, $30/ non-residents. 243-7350.

7/10 - T-Shirt Printing Teen Crafternoon at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Grades 6-12 use stencils, block stamps and silk screens to print their own t-shirts. Supplies provided. 3:30-5 pm. Free. 742-6393.

7/10 - Etiquette Class with Palm Beach Etiquette at the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center, 129 E. Ocean Ave., Boynton Beach. Etiquette expert Sherry Thomas helps mold kids ages 4-9 into young social stars. Class covers everything from table manners to Internet safety. Held Tuesdays through 7/17. Ages 4-6: 3-4 pm; ages 7 & up: 4:15-5:15 pm. Per class: $22/ members, $25/non-members. 742-6780.

7/10 - Small Fry Storytime for ages 3 and up at the Highland Beach Library, 3618 S. Ocean Blvd.

Features songs and a craft project. Held every Tuesday. 4 pm. Free. Registration: 278-5455.

7/10 - The Road Home by Rose Tremain is presented as part of the Evening Book Group at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 6 pm. Free. 266-9490.

7/10 - 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. Held every T & Th 6-7:30 pm. Per class: $5/residents; $6/non-residents; or monthly $35/residents; $40/non-residents plus a one-time $25 for uniforms. 243-7356.

7/10 - 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 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

7/10 - Touched By the Sun: Writing From a Florida Point of View is presented as part of the Authors Academy Series at Murder on the Beach Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach. 7-9 pm. $25. Registration: 279-7790.

7/10-11 - Hammock Trails - Go on a guided walk of the boardwalk at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd, Boca Raton. All ages. Held every T at 10-11 am & W 10 am-noon. Free. 3381473 or www.gumbolimbo.org.

7/10-15 - Divorce Party - The Musical is held at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, Marshall E. Rinker, Sr. Playhouse, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. For adult audiences. Runs through 8/19. T-Sat.: 7:30 pm; W, Sat. & Sun.: 1:30 pm. $31.80-$39.75. 832-7469 or www.kravis.org.

Wednesday - 7/11 - Barre Fitness Classes are held at the Boynton Beach Civic Center, 128 E. Ocean Ave. Class uses elements of ballet, pilates and yoga to stretch, tighten and tone entire body.

Held Wednesdays through 8/15. 9-10 am. $66/ resident, $83/non-resident. Registration: 7426240 or www.boynton-beach.org.

7/11 - Love to Knit meets every Wednesday at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Make preemie hats, blankets for pets or other community-based knitting projects. 9 amnoon. Free. 742-6886.

7/11 - Tales & Treasures Family Craft Time at the Boca Raton Public Library, 200 NW Boca Raton Blvd. Ages 2-5, accompanied by an adult, hear a story and enjoy a craft activity. Held again 7/18 & 25. 10-10:45 am. Free. Registration: 393-7968.

7/11 - Seining the Lagoon at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton.

Explore the grasses and flats of the Intracoastal Waterway behind Gumbo Limbo. Wear clothes

Lake Worth’s Favorite Backyard Fabulous Brunch - $15.95 Prix Fix Brunch includes 2 Mimosas or Bloody Mary’s

Live Music Thursday - Sunday 2-4-1 HAPPY HOUR 4p-7p 7 Days .50 Cent Wings Every Monday / $1.00 Tacos Every Tuesday 4p- until we run out

Wine Down Wednesdays

$5 Glasses of Wine or $5 off Bottles of Wine with Dinner

Pool Party Sunday - Wednesday - Free Pool Game with purchase

Eat Free on your Birthday with the purchase of another meal Wednesday July 4th- .76 Cent Draft Beer, Free Barbeque and Live Music from 4-8

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7/11 - Playdough Fun Day at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Ages 3-5 make shapes, letters or whatever they want with Play-dough. Held again 7/25. 11 am-noon. Free.

742-6393.

7/11 - Belly Dancing with Sherezzah for adults at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. No experience or partner required. Held Wednesdays through 8/15. 12:30-1:30 pm. $60/residents, $65/ non-residents. 243-7350.

7/11 - Book Buddies is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Practice your reading skills with a teen volunteer or take turns reading to each other. All ages. Held again 7/25. 1-2 pm. Free. 742-6380.

7/11 - Silver Science Days: Old Fashioned Ice Cream Social at the South Florida Science Museum, 4801 Dreher Trail North, West Palm Beach. Every second Wednesday of each month guests ages 62 and over can experience the museum, learn from guest speakers, view a planetarium show and enjoy refreshments. 2-5 pm. 832-1988 or www.sfsm.org.

7/11 - Murder & Mayhem in the World of Art by Dr. Terry Lawrence is presented as part of the Lifelong Learning Community Institute series held at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Part of the summer semester, featuring discussion of scandals, forgeries and intrigue in the world of art. First of a three-part series. Class continues 7/18 & 25. 2-3:30 pm. $45/session or $20/class. 266-9490.

7/11 - Materials Exploration: Tub Time is held at the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center, 129 E. Ocean Ave., Boynton Beach. Ages 2-4 explore tubs sensory material then use an array of tools to dig in. Held Wednesdays 2:303:30 pm. Free with paid museum admission: $4/ ages 1-17; $4.50/seniors; $5/adults. Registration: 742-6780.

7/11 - Teen Gaming at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Grades 6-12 play video games. Held again 7/18. 3-4:30 pm. Free.

742-6390 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

7/11 - Alligator Feedings at Daggerwing Nature Center, 11200 Park Access Road, Boca Raton. Listen to a short talk about the baby alligator while he is being fed. All ages. Every W & F at 3:15 pm. Free.

629-8760 or www.daggerwing.org.

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The COASTAL STAR 7/11 - Boca Raton GreenMarket is held each Wednesday at Glades Plaza, Glades Road at 19th St. 4-7 pm. Free. 368-6875.

7/11 - Wednesday Dinner is held each week at VFW Post 5335, 500 NE 21st St., Boynton Beach.

8-11:30 am. $2.50-$5. All are welcome. 732-1989.

7/11 - Family and Friends at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, 800 Meadows Road. Learn the basics of infant, child and adult CPR, relief of choking, and child and infant one-person CPR. Course runs 2+ hours. Held again 7/25 & 8/1. 6-8 pm. $20. Registration: 955-4468.

7/11 - Tai Chi Class - Wednesdays at the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. Two sessions: beginners, 6:10-7:10 pm; intermediate, 7:10-8:10 pm. 8 classes: $48/residents, $60/nonresidents; 12 classes: $66/residents, $82/nonresidents. 393-7807 or www.ci.boca-raton.fl.us.

7/11 - Mind/Body Development with Karate at the Highland Beach Library, 3618 S. Ocean Blvd.

Vibrant, soothing routines applicable to young and old. Wednesdays at 6:30 pm. $10. 278-5455.

7/11 - Judo Class at the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. Warm-up exercises, instruction, practice and tournament training.

Wednewsdays. Two sessions: Mixed ages & ranks: 6:30-8 pm; Advanced: 8-9 pm. Per month: $21.50/ resident, $27/non-resident. 393-7807.

7/11-15 - The Fantasticks is presented in a limited engagement by Palm Beach Dramaworks at the Don & Ann Brown Theatre, 201 Clematis St., West Palm Beach. The world’s longest running musical. Runs through 8/5. Special preview performances: 7/11 - 8 pm; 7/12: 2 & 8 pm; opening night: 8 pm, W-Sat: 8 pm, Sat.-Sun.: 2 pm. $55. 514-4042.

Thursday - 7/12 - Drop-In Story time - Music, stories and finger plays stimulate learning at the Boca Raton Public Library, 200 NW Boca Raton Blvd. All ages accompanied by an adult. Held every Thursday. 10-10:30 am. Free. 393-7968.

7/12 - S.T.E.A.M. Power at the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center, 129 E. Ocean Ave., Boynton Beach. Students get a jumpstart on elementary subject matter through art projects, number experiments, science labs and more. For ages 3-5. Held Thursdays through 8/2.

10:15-11:45 am. Per class: $6.50/members, $7.50/ non-members. Registration: 742-6780.

7/12 - Acrylics at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. Learn basic acrylic painting techniques. Beginners to advanced. Call for list

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Noon-2 pm. six- classes: $55/residents, $60/nonresidents. 243-7350 or www.mydelraybeach.com.

7/12 - Lunch ‘N Learn - Presented by Chabad of East Boca Raton at Fran’s Chicken Haven, 1925 N. Federal Hwy. Textual study of the weekly Torah portion with delicious dairy lunch. Held every Thursday. Noon-1 pm. $5. 361-3939.

7/12 - Funky Fungus at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton.

Join quest to investigate these unique living organisms. Ages 7-12. Held again 11 am-12:30 pm 7/21. 2-3:30 pm. $9/members, $14/non-members - per child. Reservations: 338-1542.

7/12 - Hugo (PG) - Presented as part of the Sizzling Summer Movies Series at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Ages 8 & up. 2-4 pm. Free. 742-6390.

7/12 - Build It! at the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center, 129 E. Ocean Ave., Boynton Beach. Kids learn to launch rockets, build bridges, fly planes and even send a ‘crash car’ down the ‘ramp of doom.’ Held Thursdays through 8/10. Ages 6-9: 2:30-3:30 pm. Per class: $4.50/ members, $5.50/non-members. 742-6780.

7/12 - Read to Hogan the Dog at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Each reader gets 10 minutes with Hogan. All ages. Held again 7/19, 26 & 8/2. 4-5 pm. Free. 742-6380.

7/12 - Ellenville’s Moonlit Farmer’s Market is held each Thursday at Ellenville Garden Center, 220 NE 11th St., Boca Raton. Food, wine, kids activities, music, local farmers and artisans, fresh produce and more. 4-8 pm. Free. 245-7347.

7/12 - Concert: Tony Abbott & Terry Cooper - Popular Music at the Highland Beach Library Community Room, 3618 S. Ocean Blvd. 5 pm. Free.

278-5455 or www.highlandbeachlibrary.org.

7/12 - Wine Tasting is held at Old Vines, Wine & Spirits, 900 E. Atlantic Ave. #3, Delray Beach. Held again 7/26. 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. 276-2076.

7/12 - Hard Knocks on the Rocks is held at Player’s Sports Lounge, 6450 N. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton. All-star Miami Dolphin celebrity bartender battle benefits the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 6 pm. $20/advance, $25/door. 954739-5006.

7/12 - DJ 101 - Held Thursdays at the “505” Teen Center, 505 SE 5th Ave., Delray Beach. Teens learn to use the recording studio and operate the equipment. 7 pm. $5/non-members. 243-7158.

7/12 - Turn Your Dreams into Reality is presented by Dr. Amy Botwinick at the Quantum Healing & Empowerment Center, 12 NE 5th Ave., Delray Beach. Botwinick shares her journey through cancer, divorce, career changes, child raising, authorship, play-writing and touring. 7 pm. $39. 272-3733.

Friday - 7/13 - Kindermusik for newborn through age 4 at the James A. Rutherford Community Center, Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Road, Boca Raton. Children and parents delight in singing, echoing back tones, chants and rhythm.

Eight-week session held Fridays through 8/31. Age 12-24 months: 9:30-10:15 am; age 16-30 months: 10:30-11:15 am; age 0-14 months: 11:30 am-12:15 pm; age 2 1/2-4: 12:30-1:15 pm. $128/residents, $160/non-residents. 367-7035.

7/13 - Art Activity: Paint and Play is held at the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center, 129 E. Ocean Ave., Boynton Beach.

Recommended for ages 2-4. Experience drawing, painting, sculpture, clay and crafting. Held Fridays at 10:30-11 am & 11:30 am-noon. Free with paid museum admission: $4/ages 1-17; $4.50/seniors; $5/adults. Registration: 742-6780.

7/13 - Yoga for Kids with Jyoti Yoga is held at the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center, 129 E. Ocean Ave., Boynton Beach.

Recommended for ages 5 & up. Kids become familiar with the movements of animals while connecting with their bodies and learning coordination. Dress comfortably and bring a towel or yoga mat. Held every Friday. 2:30 pm. Per class: $4.50/members, $5.50/non-members. 742-6780.

7/13 - Young Artwork Classes for Children ages 2-5 at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. Children learn about drawing, painting,

July 2012 printing and sculpture. Two-week session runs through 7/20. 3-3:45 pm. $35/residents, $46/nonresidents. 243-7350 or www.youngartwork.com.

7/13 - Gary Goodman Comedy & Magic at the Boca Raton Public Library, 200 NW Boca Raton Blvd. For elementary school age children, children 8 and younger must be accompanied by an adult.

Tickets available one hour before the event. 3:304:15 pm. Free. 393-7968 or www.bocalibrary.org.

7/13 - Wine Extravaganza at Carmen’s Restaurant At the Top of the Bridge, 999 E. Camino Real, Boca Raton. Features wine sampling for two; sample four wines. Held every Friday. 5-7 pm. $40/couple, $30/person. 368-9500.

7/13 - 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. Drumming performance seating begins at 5:30 pm ($2 with admission). 5:30-8:30 pm. $7/non-member adults, $5/kids, free for children 3 and under. 495-0233.

7/13 - Zumba at the Carolyn Sims Center, 225 NW 12th Ave., Boynton Beach. High-energy Zumba instructor helps sculpt your body through resistance training and Latin dances. For ages 16 and up. Held every Friday. 6:45-7:45 pm. $7/class.

742-6641.

7/13-15 - Aladdin at The Willow Theatre, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Join Aladdin’s adventures as he falls in love with a princess, meets a genie who grants him wishes, fights off an evil sorcerer, and lives happily ever after. F: 7 pm; Sat.: noon & 2 pm; Sun.: 2pm. $10/adults, $5/ children 12 and under. 347-3948.

Saturday - 7/14 - 7th Annual Garage/Estate Sale to Benefit Animal Rescue is held at 1018 Bauhinia Road, Delray Beach. Items donated from local neighborhood. Sale benefits Dezzy’s Second Chance Animal Rescue Inc. to help rescue dog medical bills. 8:30 am-1 pm. 954-588-7045.

7/14 - 10 & Under Tennis is offered at the Boynton Beach Tennis Center, 3111 S. Congress Ave. Ages 5-10 start playing almost immediately even if they’ve never held a racket. All equipment included. 3-week session held on Saturdays. 9 am: ages 5&6; 10 am: ages 7-10. $25-30/residents, $32-38/non-residents. 742-6575.

7/14 - Solo Exhibition: Original Works by Roxene Sloate at the Palm Beach County Cultural Council, 601 Lake Ave., Lake Worth. Runs through 8/11. T-Sat. 10 am-5 pm. Free. 471-2901.

7/14 - Start Smart Football at Catherine Strong Park, 1500 SW 6th St., Delray Beach. Introductory program teaches fundamentals. Four-week program for ages 3 to 5 runs Saturdays through 8/4. 10:30-11:30 am. Four-week session: $20/ residents, $30/non-residents. 243-7194.

7/14 - Big Kids Prenatal Class at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Big brothers and sisters learn what to expect when the new baby arrives and how they can be helpers for mom and dad. Ages 3-8. 10:30 am. $10/family. Registration: 369-2229.

7/14 - Taste History Culinary Tours of Historic Lake Worth and Lantana – Conducted by the Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History departs at 11 am from Macy’s (outside East Entrance) Boynton Beach Mall, 801 N. Congress Ave, Ste. 483. Four-hour tour includes a combination of both bus and walking tour and food sampling, along with visits to historical and cultural sites narrated by a guide. Held the second Saturday of each month. Check website for available dates. $35/adult & senior citizen, Free/children under 18. Reservations: 243-2662 or www. tastehistoryculinarytours.org.

7/14 - Zumba Class at the James A. Rutherford Community Center, Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Road, Boca Raton. Four-week session runs Saturdays through 8/4. 11:30 am-12:30 pm. Fourweek session: $40/residents, $50/non-residents.

367-7035 or www.ci.boca-raton.fl.us.

7/14 - Mr. Popper’s Penguins (PG) - Presented as part of Tween Movie Mania at the Boca Raton Public Library, 200 NW Boca Raton Blvd. Ages 9-12. Free pizza and drinks. Noon-2 pm. Free.

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7/14 - First Boca Burger Battle at Sanborn Square Park, 75 N. Federal Hwy. (along NE 1st Avenue & E. Boca Raton Road), Boca Raton. 20 burger contenders, craft beers, garden market, burger eating contest and live entertainment.

Vote for The Best Boca Burger. 7-10 pm. $50/ person. 338-7594.

7/14-15 - Blue Bell Pirate Weekend is held at Cornell Museum of Art & American Culture, Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach.

A family weekend filled with activities fit for pirates and princesses! Pirates & PG’s on Saturday evening, 7-9 pm. Pirate/Princess Family Funday on Sunday, 1-4 pm. $10/adults, free/kids with adult paid admission. 243-9722 or www.oldschool.org.

7/14-15 - The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Friends is presented as part of the Sizzling Summer Cabaret series at The Plaza Theatre, 262 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan in the Plaza del Mar Shopping Center. Music from hits such as Phantom of the Opera, Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar and Song & Dance. Sat.: 7:30 pm; Sun.: 2 pm. $25; $65/three shows in the series. 588-1820.

July 15-21 Sunday - 7/15 - 23rd Annual Frank Stark Celebration Ride: Hottest Ride in Florida begins at Boca Raton City Hall, 201 W. Palmetto Park Road. Features a scenic ride along the Atlantic coast as well as a tour through Boca Raton. Proceeds benefit Bike Advocacy and many local, state and national bicycle support groups, and local schools. Riders choose either the 30 mile or 62 mile routes. Both routes go north on A1A. The 30-mile route turns at the Boynton Beach Inlet. The 62-mile route turns at Waterfront Commons (Flagler & Clematis) in West Palm Beach. Rain or shine. $35/advance; $40/day of event. Registration opens 6:30 am. 62 mile route begins at 7 am. 30 mile route begins at 8 am.

Lunch at City Hall 10:30 am-1 pm. 742-3605.

7/15 - 3rd Annual Old Time Rock ‘n Roll Concert is held at Unity of Delray Beach, 101 NW 22nd St., Delray Beach. 12 local professional classic rock artists sing dozens of hits from the 50s through 80s. 4 pm. Free will offering. 276-5796.

7/16 - Mix It Up With Young Artwork Class for ages 3-5 at the James A. Rutherford Community Center, Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Road, Boca Raton. Each session features three classes designed to give participants an opportunity to explore art and culture through a variety of mediums. Taught in English and Spanish. Threeday session held M-W through 7/18. Held again 7/30-8/1. 9 am-noon. $110/residents, $137.50/ non-residents. 367-7035.

7/16 - Colorful Creations is held at the Boynton Beach Art Center, 125 SE 2nd Ave. Ages 4-5 learn letters and numbers through creative activities.

Four-week session runs M/W/F through 8/10.

9 am-noon. $42/residents, $53/non-residents.

742-6221.

7/16 - Exhibition: Over Boca Raton: Then & Now at the Boca Raton Historical Society, Old Town Hall, 71 N. Federal Hwy. Exhibit showcases eleven enlarged historic aerials of Boca Raton from the 1940s-1970s and the same views show today. Runs through 1/11/2013. M-F, 10 am-4 pm. $5/adults, $3/students. 395-6766.

7/16 - Joint Journey is a program for those undergoing total joint replacement at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, 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.

7/16 - Fun for 6 to 8 Year Olds: Mike Winter’s Magic Workshop at the Boca Raton Public Library, 200 NW Boca Raton Blvd. Crafts and reading adventures for kids 6-8 years old. 3:304:30 pm. Free. Registration: 393-7968.

7/16 – Child Safety Prenatal Class is offered at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Learn infant CPR for children up to eight years old and how you can assist in an emergency. 6 pm. $25/couple.

Registration: 369-2229.

7/16 - Acting & Musical Theater at Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd.

For ages 6-10. Students focus on vocal exercises, improvisation, individual monologues as well as scenes and routines from popular shows. Fiveweek session runs Mondays through 8/13. 6-7 pm. $60/residents, $75/non-residents. 954-971-9917.

7/16-19 - Video Game Workshop is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd.

Grades 5-12 learn to design video games in this four day workshop. Noon-1 pm. Free. 742-6390.

Tuesday - 7/17 - Young Explorers for ages 24-36 months is held at the Boynton Beach Art Center, 125 SE 2nd Ave. Improve eye-hand coordination through creative movement and music. Class held Tuesdays 9:30-10:30 am through 8/7. $20/residents, $25/non-residents.

Registration: 742-6650.

July 2012 7/17 - Grandparents Raising Grandchildren - Educational Program Series by the Palm Beach County Cooperative Extension Service held at Mt. Olive Baptist Church, 40 N.W. 4th Ave., Delray Beach. Learn about legal issues, guiding behaviors and discipline, computers, resources, support, managing stress and more. Held the third Tuesday of every month. 10 am-noon. Free. 289-8578.

7/17 - Claying Around at The Boynton Beach Art Center, 125 SE 2nd Ave. Ages 8-14 learn basic techniques of pottery including wedging and centering clay. 4-week sessions held on Tuesdays or Thursdays. Thursday classes begin 7/19. 1:303:30 pm. $32/residents, $40/non-residents.

Registration: 742-6650.

7/17 - Games @ Your Library is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 508 S. Seacrest Blvd.

Grades K-4 play favorite video, board and card games. Held again 7/24 & 31. 2:30-3:30 pm. Free.

742-6380 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

7/17 - Just Dance Teen Tournament at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd.

Grades 6-12 get groovy and show their moves in a Wii Just Dance competition. 3:30-5 pm. Free.

742-6393 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

7/17 - FAU Astronomical Observatory - Public viewing day observations at FAU’s Boca Raton Campus, Science & Engineering Building, #43, 4th floor, 777 Glades Road. Viewings held on the 1st Friday (8 pm) and 3rd Tuesday (11 am-1 pm) of each month. Free. 297-STAR. Wednesday - 7/18 - Senior Health Fair is held at the Boynton Beach Civic Center, 128 E. Ocean Ave. Seniors enjoy entertainment, food, health screenings, plus free hair cuts and manicures. 9 am-noon. 742-6570.

7/18 - Art Exhibit: BIG ART: Miniature Golf at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real.

Visitors see - and play on - a diverse selection of artist-created miniature golf holes. Runs through 10/14. T-F: 10 am-5 pm; Sat. & Sun.: Noon-5 pm. $8/adults, $6/senior citizens, $4/students with ID, free/children 12 and under. 392-2500.

7/18 - Learn with Legos @ Your Library is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Make a truck, spaceship or whatever your imagination conjures up using Legos. Ages 3-9.

Held again 8/1. 11 am-noon. Free. 742-6380.

7/18 - Game Buddies is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Play classic board and card games and make new friends. All ages. Held again 8/1. 1-2 pm. Free.

742-6380 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

7/18 - Community Cabaret - Calling all singers, dancers, musicians and stand-up comedians to the Willow Theatre at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Performers must register in advance. Box office hours: T-F, 10 am-1 pm & 5-8 pm; Sat. 1-5 pm and 1 hour prior to shows. 7:30 pm. Admission: $5. 347-3900.

Thursday - 7/19 - Dance to Your Own Beat is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 508 S. Seacrest Blvd. Ages 1-5 engage in exercises and dance movements using scarves, musical instruments and a parachute. Held again 7/19, 26 & 8/2. 10-11 am. Free. 742-6380.

7/19 - Grandparents Raising Grandchildren - Educational Program Series presented by the Palm Beach County Cooperative Extension Service at Lantana Public Library, 4020 Lantana Road, Lantana. Learn about legal issues, guiding behaviors and discipline, computers, resources, support, managing stress and more. Held the 3rd Thursday of each month. 1-3 pm. Free. 233-1742.

7/19 - Made in Dagenham (2012 - England) is presented as part of the Cinema as an Art Form series at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. Moderator offers background material on each film and conducts discussions relevant to themes and cinema technique. 1 pm. $5/members, $10/non-members in addition to museum admission: $8/adults; $6/seniors; $4/ students with ID. 392-2500.

7/19 - Habitat Hunt at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. Hike and learn about different habitats and make a journal with your findings. For ages 7-11. 2-3:30 pm. $9/members, $14/non-members-per child.

Reservations: 338-1542 or www.gumbolimbo.org.

7/19 - The Muppets (G) - Presented as part of the Sizzling Summer Movies Series at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd.

Recommended for ages 5 & up. 2-4 pm. Free.

742-6390 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

7/19 - Children’s Program: Artz Alive featuring live theater and music is presented at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 2-4 pm.

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

7/19 - Bricks 4 Kidz: Intermediate/Advanced Robotics for ages 7 & up at the James A. Rutherford Community Center, Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Road, Boca Raton. With lights, remotes, and programming software, creations made of LEGO bricks come to life. Four-week course runs Thursdays through 8/9. 4-5 pm. $40/ residents, $50/non-residents. 367-7035.

The COASTAL STAR 7/19 - Breezing Through the Arts Trolley Tour begins at Cuthill’s Backyard, 511 NE 4th St., Boynton Beach, at 5 pm. Travel to local art studios and galleries with music, activities and food until 10 pm. Held third Thursday of each month. $20.

737-2600.

7/19 - Native Wildflowers & the 3 B’s (Birds, Butterflies & Bees) - Presented as part of the Summer Lecture Series at Mounts Botanical Garden, Clayton Hutcheson Complex, Exhibit Hall A, 559 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach.

Presentation on native plants for wildlife with a special focus on wildflowers. 6-7:30 pm. $10.

Registration: 233-1757 or www.mounts.org.

7/19 - Open Studios & Galleries at Artists Alley, between NE 3rd & 4th Streets, east of 3rd Avenue & west of the railroad tracks, Delray Beach. Held the third Thursday of each month. 6-9 pm. Free.

276-1177 or www.cacaceart.com.

7/19 - Craft Crew: Beading - Kids ages 9-14 unleash their creativity at the Boca Raton Public Library, 200 NW Boca Raton Blvd. 6:30-7:30 pm.

Free. Registration: 393-7968.

7/19 - Thursday Movie Classics: The Help at Sugar Sand Park Community Center, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. 6:30 pm. $1 admission includes popcorn and a beverage. 347-3948.

Friday - 7/20 - 8th Annual Boomer Expo is held at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, 1 Seminole Way, Hollywood. Presented by Boomer Times and Senior Life Magazine. Exhibits on Health & Fitness, Travel, Finance, Technology, Home Care, Retirement, Lifestyle Products & Services. Prizes.

10 am-5 pm. Free. 736-8000.

7/20 - Children’s Nature Series: Recycling at Daggerwing Nature Center, 11200 Park Access

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7/20 - Alzheimer’s Cafe at the Shirley & Barton Weisman Delray Community Center (of Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service), 7091 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. A unique gathering for people affected by Alzheimer’s disease along with their families, friends, caregivers and professionals.

Held the 1st and 3rd Friday of each month. 2-4 pm. Free. RSVP: 866-7086 or www.bocafed.org.

7/20 - Special: Bits ‘N Pieces Puppets Rumplestiltskin at the Boca Raton Public Library, 200 NW Boca Raton Blvd. For elementary school age children. Tickets available one hour before the event. 3:30-4:15 pm. Free. 393-7968.

7/20 - Delray Beach Bus Loop - Check in at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. Venues includes: Boston’s, The Back Room, Breathe, Salt, Sundy House, Bull Bar, Kevro’s Art Bar, Pepe’s Hideaway, Hurricane Lounge, Cranes Beach House and Dada’s. Proceeds benefit The Delray Beach Public Library, The Spirit of Giving, and the Milagro Center. Receive a free drink at each venue. Check in anytime between 5:30-9:30 pm. Bus Loop card valid from 6-11 pm. $20/ advance, $25/at the door (free admission for designated drivers). 954-574-6000.

7/20 - Family Splash Night at Pompey Park Pool, 1101 NW 2nd St., Delray Beach. Floats are welcome and drinks and food will be available to buy. 6-8 pm. $3/adults, $2/seniors (55+) and children 6-17, free/children under age 6 with paid adult admission. 243-7358.

7/20 - Open Call Art Show held at Clay Glass Metal Stone Gallery, 605 Lake Worth Ave., Lake Worth. Featuring Florida artists in all mediums exploring The Naked Truth in art and life. 6-9 pm.

Free. 588-8344 or www.clayglassmetalstone.com.

7/20 - 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.

Held Fridays through 8/24. 6-6:45 pm/beginners; 6:45-7:30 pm/intermediates. $60/residents, $75/ non-residents. 742-6640.

7/20-22 - Charlotte’s Web the Musical at Sol Children Theatre, 3333 N. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton. Runs through 8/5. F&Sat.: 7 pm; Sat. & Sun.: 2 pm. $12/adults, $8/age 11 & under. Opening night: 6:15 refreshments, 7 pm performance, $15/adults, $10/juniors. 447-8829.

Saturday - 7/21 - Humor Me! Writing Funny Children’s Books is presented as part of the Authors Academy Series at Murder on the Beach Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach. 10 am-noon. $25. Registration: 279-7790.

7/21 - Beach Cleanup & Sand Sculpture Event is hosted by First Baptist Church of Boynton Beach at Oceanfront Park, 6415 N. Ocean Blvd., Ocean Ridge. 10 am-1 pm. After lunch, Pastor Buz teaches children how to build sand sculptures.

Free. 755-1922.

7/21 - I Love Art classes are taught at Intracoastal Park, 2240 N. Federal Highway, Boynton Beach. Children create art utilizing recycled items. Two sessions: 10:30 am-noon and 12:15 -1:45 pm. Session runs Sat. through 8/11. $36/residents, $45/non-residents. 742-6650.

7/21 - Taste History Culinary Tours of Historic Delray Beach & Boynton Beach – Conducted by the Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History departs at 11 am from Macy’s (outside East Entrance) Boynton Beach Mall, 801 N Congress Ave, Ste. 483. Four-hour tour includes a combination of bus and walking tour and food sampling, along with visits to historical and cultural sites narrated by a guide. Held the third and fourth Saturday of each month. Check website for available dates. $35/adult & senior citizen, Free/children under 18 (max 5 children free per family.) Registration: 243-2662 or www. tastehistoryculinarytours.org.

7/21 - Concert: The 60s Featuring Crazy Fingers - Presented as part of the Musical Rewind Free Summer Concert Series at Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton. Bring

The COASTAL STAR a blanket or chair. Food and beverage vendors on site - no coolers, pets, or outside alcoholic beverages. 8 pm. Free. 393-7827.

7/21-22 - The Sinatra Songbook is presented as part of the Sizzling Summer Cabaret series at The Plaza Theatre, 262 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan in the Plaza del Mar Shopping Center. Enjoy the music popularized by one of the world’s most beloved performers. Sat.: 7:30 pm; Sun.: 2 pm. $25; $65/three shows in the series. 588-1820.

July 22-28 Sunday - 7/22 - Weekend Movie Madness: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (G) at Sugar Sand Park Community Center, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. 11 am. $1 admission includes popcorn and a beverage. 347-3948.

7/22 - Little Wonders at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. A hike, crafts and stories for ages 3 & 4, accompanied by an adult. 1-1:45 pm. $5/members, $8/non-members. Reservations: 338-1542.

7/22 - Art Film - Portrait of an Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (1992) at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. Held again 7/25 & 28. 2 pm.

Free with paid Museum admission: $8/adults, $6/ seniors, free/children 12 and under. 392-2500.

Monday - 7/23 - Intermediate Violin: Summer Workhop at the Community Center Annex, 260 Crawford Blvd., Boca Raton. Eightday immersion workshop for intermediate players. Participants should be playing at least one year and be comfortable with note reading.

Instruments provided. M-Th through 8/2. 9:30 am-12:30 pm. Session: $360/resident, $450/nonresident. 393-7807.

7/23 - The Things they Carried 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. 1011:45 am. Free. 742-6886.

7/23 - Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton is presented as part of the Afternoon Book Group at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 1 pm. Free. 266-9490.

7/23 - Miss Doreen’s Art Class is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 508 S. Seacrest Blvd.

Grades 1-4 create their own masterpiece using recyclable materials. Held again 6/26. 3:30-5 pm.

Free. 742-6393 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

7/23 - Bricks 4 Kidz for grades K-5th at the James A. Rutherford Community Center, Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Road, Boca Raton. Hands on experience designing and building machines, catapults, pyramids, derby cars, buildings and other constructions out of LEGO bricks. Four-week course runs Mondays through 8/13. 4-5 pm. $40/ residents, $50/non-residents. 367-7035.

Tuesday - 7/24 - Stroller Tours at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. Gallery tours for new parents/grandparents/caregivers with their young ones (19 months and younger) on the fourth Tuesday of the month. 10-11 am.

Free with paid museum admission: $8/adults, $6/ seniors, free/children 12 and under. Registration: 392-2500.

7/24 - Book Club: Dough: A Memoir by Mort Zachter is presented at the Boca Raton Public Library, 200 NW Boca Raton Blvd. Held 4th Tuesday of each month. 10:30 am. Free. 393-7968.

7/24 - Pop-Up Books Teen Crafternoon at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd.

Grades 6-12 learn the art of pop-up and create pop-up cards and books. Bring a photograph of your choice. Supplies provided. 3:30-5:30 pm.

Free. 742-6393 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

7/24 - Boynton Beach Fishing Club meets the 4th Tuesday of the month at Harvey E. Oyer, Jr. Park, 2010 N. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach. Join other fishermen to discuss hot topics and learn new tricks of the trade. 7-9 pm. Free. 703-5638.

Wednesday - 7/25 - Jurassic Parts: Introduction to Sharks & Rays is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 508 S. Seacrest Blvd.

Grades K-8 learn about the varieties of sharks and rays found worldwide. 2-3:30 pm. Free. 742-6393.

Thursday - 7/26 - Miss Sara’s Dance Class for ages 2-12 at the James A. Rutherford Community Center, Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Road, Boca Raton. Class introduces preschoolers to the basics of ballet, tap, gymnastics, fitness, and creative movement. Six-week class runs Thursdays through 8/20. Age 2: 10:15-10:45 am; age 3-5: 11 am-noon. Age 2: $60/residents, $75/ non-residents; age 3-5: $84/residents, $105/nonresidents. 367-7035 or www.ci.boca-raton.fl.us.

7/26 - Shower (2001 - China) is presented as part of the Cinema as an Art Form series at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real.

Moderator offers background on each film and conducts discussions relevant to themes and cinema technique. 1 pm. $5/members, $10/nonmembers in addition to museum admission: $8/ adults; $6/seniors; $4/students with ID. 392-2500.

7/26 - Nanny McPhee Returns (PG) - presented as part of the Sizzling Summer Movies Series at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd.

Recommended for ages 7 & up. 2-4 pm. Free.

742-6390 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

7/26 - Children’s Program: Percussion is presented by Giving Tree Music at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. 2-4 pm. Free. 266-9490.

7/26 - Boynton Beach Art District Art Walk at 422 W. Industrial Ave., Boynton Beach.

Open studios and galleries, food truck and entertainment. Held the fourth Thursday of each month. 5:30-9 pm. Free. 786-521-1199.

7/26 - Centennial Dine Out for a Cause features celebrity chef Michael Malone at Sundy House Inn & Restaurant, 106 S. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. Fundraiser benefits the Delray Beach Public Library. 6-9 pm. Free. 266-0775.

7/26-29 - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is presented at FAU’s Boca Raton campus, Studio One, 777 Glades Road. R, Sat. & Sun.: 1 pm; R, F & Sat.: 7 pm. $20. 800-564-9539.

Friday - 7/27 - Special: Suzy Hammer Pink Fairy Magic & Music at the Boca Raton Public Library, 200 N.W. Boca Raton Blvd. For elementary school age children, children 8 and younger must be accompanied by an adult. Tickets available one hour before the event. 3:30-4:15 pm. Free. 3937968 or www.bocalibrary.org.

7/27 - Hip Hop Dance Party for ages 5-9 at the James A. Rutherford Community Center, Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Road, Boca Raton. Sixweek session runs Fridays through 8/31. 6:30-7:15 pm. Six-week session: $75/residents, $94/nonresidents. 367-7035 or www.ci.boca-raton.fl.us.

7/27 - Yes in Concert with Procol Harum - Presented by AEG Live at Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton. 7 pm. $35.50-$95.50. 800-745-3000.

7/27 - Ballroom Dance Class at the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. Dancers of all levels and ages welcome. Five-week class is held Fridays through 8/24. 7:30-8:45 pm. $60/ residents, $75/non-residents. 393-7807.

Saturday - 7/28 - Safe Boating Classes are offered by Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 5-4 at Harvey Oyer Park, 2010 N. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach. Instruction to boaters at all levels satisfies the Florida Department of Natural Resources Boating Operation requirements. Topics include: navigation, trailering, anchoring, safety, seamanship, line handling, laws and docking. 8 am. $36 includes materials. 736-8821.

7/28 - Sea Angels Beach Cleanup is held at Ocean Inlet Park, 6990 N. Ocean Blvd., Ocean Ridge. Held every last Saturday of the month.

8-10:30 am. 369-5501 or www.seaangels.org.

7/28 - Exhibit: Acrylics by Ada Spircoff & Key West Style Watercolors by Pat Kaufman at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Exhibit runs through 10/5. Library hours: M-W 9 am-8 pm; Th-Sat. 9am-5 pm. Free. 266-9490.

7/28 - Infant only CPR Class at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, 800 Meadows Road. Parents of newborns learn emergency cardiopulmonary resuscitation and relief of choking. Couples encouraged to attend and may bring infant. 1011:30 am. $20/person. 955-4468.

July 2012 7/28 - Swimming Lessons for Toddlers is held at the John Denson Pool, 225 NW 12th Ave., Boynton Beach. Ages 6 months to 3 years old must be accompanied by an adult in the water.

10 am. Session runs Saturdays through 8/18. $30/ resident, $38/non-resident. 742-6645.

7/28 - Hits from the Swing Era: A Festival Rep Big Band Finale! Presented at FAU’s Boca Raton campus, University Theatre, 777 Glades, Road. 7 pm. $10. 800-564-9539 or www.fauevents.com.

7/28-29 - A Broadway Baby is presented as part of the Sizzling Summer Cabaret series at The Plaza Theatre, 262 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan in the Plaza del Mar Shopping Center. Anny McNeely stars. Sat.: 7:30 pm; Sun.: 2 pm. $25. 588-1820.

July 29-August 4 Monday - 7/30 - Drop-in Craft Day at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd.

Make a craft from leftover summer craft supplies.

Materials provided. Grades K-4. 3:30-4:30 pm.

Free. 742-6393 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

Tuesday - 7/31 - 4th Annual Palm Beach County Summer Golf Croquet League is held at The National Croquet Center, 700 Florida Mango Road, West Palm Beach. Held Tuesdays through 8/28. Doubles matches, 6-8 pm. Toast & Tally, 8-9 pm. $50/two-player team (can include up to four players per team.) Registration limited to first 48 teams. 478-2300, Ext. 3.

7/31 - Tae Kwon Do Class at the James A. Rutherford Community Center, Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Road, Boca Raton. For adults and children ages 6 & up. Learn the art of selfdefense, discipline, self-confidence, self-respect, and respect for others. Students attend the introduction class for one session only, then move to the basic/intermediate level class. Eight-week course runs T&Th, 7:45-8:45 pm and Sat. 9:30-11 am. Introductory session T&Th, 6:30-7:30 pm.

Runs through 9/18. $95/residents, $119/nonresidents. 367-7035.

7/31 - Family Summertime Fun Night: Star Stories - Greek Myths and Legends is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. This shadow puppet show enchants with the stories of the constellations and the night sky. For all ages. 6:45-8 pm. Free. 742-6380.

Wednesday - 8/1 - Cooking Fun Class at the Train Depot, 747 S. Dixie Hwy., Boca Raton. Ages 5-9 learn basic cooking with fresh ingredients.

Instruction in kitchen safety, measurements, napkin folding, and table setting. Parents not allowed in the classroom during class. Three-week session runs Wednesdays through 8/15. 9-10:20 am. $36/residents, $45/non-residents plus a $20/ supply fee. 393-7807.

8/1 - Arts and Crafts Class at the Train Depot, 747 S. Dixie Hwy., Boca Raton. Ages 5-9 have fun working with beads, clay, origami, glow-art, soap making and more. Parents not allowed in the classroom during class. Three-week session runs Wednesdays through 8/15. 10:30-11:50 am. $36/ residents, $45/non-residents plus a $20/supply fee. 393-7807.

8/1 - Exhibition: African Artifacts from the Collection of the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum at the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum, 170 NW 5th Ave., Delray Beach. Runs through September. M-F: 11 am-4 pm. $5. 279-8883.

8/1 - Breastfeeding Prenatal Class is taught at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Expectant parents learn the benefits of breastfeeding, keys to success, supply and demand, positioning, breast pumps, returning to work and weaning. Both parents encouraged to attend. 7 pm. $25. Registration: 369-2229.

8/1 - Dog Obedience Classes at the Train Depot, 747 S. Dixie Hwy., Boca Raton. Six-week session runs Wednesdays through 9/5. Two sessions: Puppy Kindergarten: dogs 10 weeks-5 months old, 6:30-7:30 pm; Beginner Dog Class, 7:30-8:30 pm. $85/residents, $106/non-residents. 393-7807.

8/1-3 - Godspell at Showtime Performing Arts Theatre, 503 SE Mizner Blvd., Ste. 73, Boca Raton.

W: 1 pm; R: 10 am; F: 4 pm. $10. Reservations: 394-2626 or www.ShowtimeBoca.com.

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8/1-5 - Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. Concert Hall, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. Show runs through 8/5. W-Sat.: 7 pm; F & Sat.: 2 pm. Sun.: 1 & 5:30 pm. Tickets $25-$85. 832-7469 or www.kravis.org.

Thursday - 8/2 - Central Station (1998 - Brazil) is presented as part of the Cinema as an Art Form series at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. Moderator offers background material on each film and conducts discussions relevant to themes and cinema technique. 1 pm. $5/members, $10/non-members in addition to museum admission: $8/adults; $6/seniors; $4/ students with ID. 392-2500.

8/2 - Treasure Buddies (G) - Presented as part of the Sizzling Summer Movies Series at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd.

Recommended for ages 5 & up. 2-4 pm. Free.

742-6390 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

8/2 - Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (PG-13) is presented as part of Teen Movie Club at the Boca Raton Public Library, 200 NW Boca Raton Blvd. For ages 13-17. 6-8 pm. Free and includes free pizza & soda. 393-7968.

8/2 - Job Help: Employ Boynton Beach at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd.

A series of classes to help individuals looking for a job. Four-class session held Thursdays through 8/23. 6-8 pm. Free. 742-6390.

8/2 - Surgical Weight Reduction Symposium is presented by Miguel A. Lopez-Viego, M.C. at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Learn how laproscopic gastric bypass and Lap-Band surgery can change lives. Held the first Thursday of each month. 6:30 pm. Free. 737-7733 Ext. 84688.

8/2 - Women’s Circle is held at Quantum Healing and Empowerment Center, 12 NE 5th Ave., Delray Beach. Facilitator is holistic health practioner.

7-8:30 pm. Donations only. 272-3733.

8/2-4 - Fame, Jr. is performed at Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave. Th&F: 10 am & 1 pm; Sat.: 2 pm. Tickets: $11/adults, $8/kids. 586-5610.

8/2-5 - Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead is presented by Alpha Psi Omega (AEB Chapter) at FAU’s Boca Raton campus, Studio One, 777 Glades, Road. Th-Sat.: 7 pm; Sun.: 1 pm. $5.

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

Friday - 8/3 - Exhibit: Modern Applique Quilts at the Highland Beach Library, 3618 S. Ocean Blvd. Runs through 10/26. M-Th: 10 am-8 pm; F: 10 am-4 pm; Sat.: 9 am-1 pm. Free. 2785455 or www.highlandbeachlibrary.org.

8/3 - Friday Night Live: Country Town Presented at Sanborn Square, 72 N. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton. Friday Night Live series fills parts of downtown with live themed entertainment, gourmet food trucks, and more. 6:30 pm, entertainment begins 7:30 pm. Free. 367-7070.

8/3-5 - Coppélia - Presented by the Boca Ballet Theatre at FAU’s University Theater, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. A farcical comedy about a boy, a girl, another girl who’s not really a girl but a doll, and an eccentric doll-maker who attempts to bring his beautiful doll to life. F: 7 pm; Sat.: 8 pm; Sun.: 2 pm. $35/adults, $25/seniors & children.

995-0709 or www.bocaballet.org.

Saturday - 8/4 - Sand Sifters Beach Cleanup at Oceanfront Park, 6415 N. Ocean Blvd., Ocean Ridge. 8-10:15 am. Free. Registration: 734-9128.

8/4 - An Eye for Nature: A Photographic Summer on the Coast with Michael J. Kravit at Sandoway House Nature Center, 142 S. Ocean Blvd. Delray Beach. Participants should have a digital camera (compact or SLR) with a zoom lens.

Instructor Michael J. Kravit covers technical and artistic side of nature photography. 9 am-noon.

Continues 8/11, 18, 25, 9/8 & 15. $495/members, $550/non-members.Registration: 274-7263.

8/4 - From Traveling Pants to Paranormal Romance: Writing the Young Adult Novel is presented as part of the Authors Academy Series at Murder on the Beach Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach. 10 am-noon. $25/includes a free copy of Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You. Registration: 279-7790.

8/4 - Art-E-Ology: Louis Nevelson, 3-D Art for grades 3-5 is presented at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. Children learn about a master artist on exhibit and have the opportunity to create a masterpiece in the style of the selected artist. 1-2:30 pm. $5/child.

Reservations: 392-2500, Ext. 106.

8/4-5 - The Big Bad Musical is performed at The Delray Beach Playhouse, 950 NW 9th St. Sat.: 4 & 7 pm; Sun.: 1 & 4 pm. $15/adults, $12/children.

272-1281, Ext. 4.

8/4-5 - The Sounds of Rodgers & Hart is presented as part of the Sizzling Summer Cabaret series at The Plaza Theatre, 262 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan in the Plaza del Mar Shopping Center.

Standards that were sung by the greatest singers of all time, turned into hits, and still enduring.

Sat.: 7:30 pm; Sun.: 2 pm. $25. 588-1820.

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