The Coastal Star May 2013

May 2013

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

Inside

Along the Coast

Volume 6 Issue 5

History Revealed

Gifts for Mom

You can’t go wrong giving something sparkly in honor of Mother’s Day. Home, Health & Harmony

Impactful donations

Impact 100 grants will help five worthy South County charities.

Around Town

The Coquimbo stands grounded on a reef in this 1909 image. Photo courtesy of the Boynton Beach City Library

Sandy uncovers final resting spot of Norwegian freighter Coquimbo

Meet your neighbor

Ocean Ridge garden provides inspiration — and materials — for her creations. Page 26

Beach restoration

Divers monitor reefs for damage and cities await funding for repairs to shore. Pages 6-7

Summer arts

The ArtsPaper is on summer vacation, but Editor Greg Stepanich offers comprehensive cultural coverage.

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By Cheryl Blackerby

teven Dennison walked out of his home in Briny Breezes on a clear day in January, slipped on his wetsuit and flippers, jumped into the cold Atlantic, and snorkeled north along the coast.

He had no destination in mind, just checking out what Hurricane Sandy’s surge had turned up when it hit Palm Beach County’s east coast in late October.

He was about 350 yards offshore in Ocean Ridge when he saw some debris on the ocean floor and had this thought: “Wouldn’t it be really cool if I found a shipwreck?”

No more than 30 seconds later, he saw a big black object on the sand. “Holy cow, this is huge!” he thought. He stopped swimming, trying to comprehend what was in front of him.

Curiosity compelled him to free-dive down 15 feet to investigate.

His heart pounded when he saw it: The huge bow of a ghostly ship jutting from the sand as if rising from its watery grave.

See COQUIMBO on page 9

Steven Dennison discovered the bow of the Coquimbo (top). Photo by Elizabeth Dennison

Boynton Beach

High-rise proposal surprises residents

By Thomas R. Collins

A high-rise would fill the former Bank of America land at Federal Highway and Ocean Avenue. Rendering provided

Towers of offices, rental apartments, shops, restaurants and a hotel would further fill in the Boynton Beach downtown if a proposal enthusiastically supported by the Community Redevelopment Agency and its board — over the objections of some residents — becomes a reality.

A project in one of the most prominent spots in the city — the former Bank of America land at the northeast corner of Federal Highway and Ocean Avenue — would include the new headquarters of Kanner and Pintaluga, a fastgrowing personal-injury law firm that’s looking See HIGH-RISE on page 20

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Opinion/Coastal Star

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Editor’s Note

Shorts season: the pleasant interlude between snowbirds and hurricanes

fundraisers and the frequent visits from friendly Coastal Star readers on their way into (or out of) Colby’s Barbershop next door to the office.

As much as I love the “open the house wide” winter weather and my dear, snowbird friends, May is the month I celebrate the promise of the coming summer. Just recently as the brilliant sunset brushed the ocean clouds with fading peach, there was not another person to be seen along the sand. Paradise. For those of us who stay here braving the summers, this is one of our secret treats — along with a lack of lines at the movie theater and the ability to walk into a restaurant without reservations.

So, as much as I’m dreading the first named storm of hurricane season, I’m ready for summer.

I just need to find another pair of white, rip-stop cotton Bermuda shorts.

— Mary Kate Leming, executive editor

Tom Lynch and Marc De Baptiste started the Delray Beach chapter of the Boys and Girls Club in 1997 and have helped it grow ever since. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

Pair honored for decades of devotion to helping at-risk youngsters

By Emily J. Minor Every community has people like Tom Lynch and Marc De Baptiste. Funny. Kind. Civicminded.

But not every community has people who put their time and talent where their mouth is, like Tom Lynch and Marc De Baptiste.

Consider: Twenty years ago, De Baptiste, a longtime Delray Beach commercial real estate guy, was, shall we say, lassoed into volunteering with the Boys & Girls Club of Broward County.

“I was asked by a dear friend to participate in their meetings in Fort Lauderdale,” De Baptiste remembers.

The meetings, he says, were at night — which meant he’d get off the freeway at Atlantic Avenue and drive east, toward his home. “One night it just dawned on me that if there was a need for a Boys and Girls Club in any community, it was right here in Delray Beach.”

So, he called someone he knew who had just the right combination of being politically well-placed and communityminded: Tom Lynch.

“I think I had just come on as mayor,” says Lynch, the

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former Delray Beach mayor who owns one of South Florida’s largest insurance companies. “I didn’t know much about the Boys & Girls Club.”

Today, it’s a whole different story.

The Boys & Girls Club has been helping America’s youth get through imperfect family, social and economical situations since the late 1800s — when it was started in Hartford, Conn., for just boys. It wasn’t until 1990 that the club changed its name to include girls, and they’ve grown in leaps and bounds ever since.

Today, there are an estimated 4,000 chapters across America, 14 of them in Palm Beach County.

In Delray Beach, the club started small, of course, at first making its home at the old Carver Middle School. In 1998, the program moved to the former Catherine Strong Center. But that space was also small, and very bare bones. For

a while, the club had to turn away kids.

De Baptiste knew this would never do, so he and Lynch started a fund-raising effort to build the club a place all its own. The Naoma Donnelley Haggin Boys & Girls Club opened as a new multimilliondollar facility in 2006. (Haggin donated $1.5 million when she died.)

Last month, club leaders gave Lynch and De Baptiste the Service to the Youth Award.

For the most part, the club offers young residents a place to go when their home isn’t an option. Maybe it’s after school. Maybe it’s on weekends.

Perhaps it’s first thing in the morning.

De Baptiste says he’s loved watching the program grow.

He’s also loved watching all the young people grow into amazing adults — everything from attorneys and teachers to business leaders and club volunteers.

“Quite simply, these children would go home to an empty house if they couldn’t go here and, frankly, knowing that the club wants them is a wonderful opportunity for us all,” he says.

“Children want to be Ú wanted.”

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sprayed and soaked and bleached, but nothing would remove the big, green blob from the front of my favorite white, rip-stop cotton Bermuda shorts.

Wouldn’t you know it? Right when the temperatures are inching upward and the snowbirds are gone. This is shorts season, darn it, and I hope this isn’t an indicator of the summer to come.

We don’t hit hurricane season until June, but already I’m watching weather patterns and fretting about evacuations.

Water spouts in Briny Breezes and tornados at the Lowe’s in Boynton Beach are not good indicators by my calculation. But until we begin to see Bahamas swallows and hordes of dragonflies in the dunes, it’s much too early to tell in my — completely unscientific — book.

By all of my other unscientific indicators it was an excellent season along the coast: the number of sunburns seen in the crowds along Atlantic Avenue, the nonstop parade of well-attended, successful

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Local Voices

Once upon a time

Once upon a time in a trailer park by the ocean, A billionaire came by and caused a great commotion, He promised to make us all millionaires and life would be thrilling.

“Whoopee” said the lawyers “on this we will make a killing.”

We all knew that there is only one Briny.

That it was a unique way of life soon to be no more.

Our families replaced by a giant resort on our ocean shore.

Maybe this is progress — they’d like to call it so, But let us treasure our memories as our separate ways we go.

But wait! The billionaire and lawyers have gone.

Now we can truly be thankful for the Briny we have enjoyed for so long.

Together generation after generation can live in Briny for many years.

We can do this by working together now.

— Jack Taylor Briny Breezes

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Resident group takes lead on sea level rise Protect Our Beaches, a West Palm Beach-based nonprofit group, held its first public meeting in early April to address the effects of sea level rise in Palm Beach County.

The group’s goal is to form a coalition of area associations, businesses and other groups to protect our beaches from erosion due to storm surge and sea level rise. Forming a coalition would provide a more powerful voice and be would be more effective in saving Palm Beach County’s environment, property and tourist economy. “[Hurricane] Sandy was a tap on our shoulder in Florida,” said the group’s founder, Sonny Nardulli, who also serves as president of the Eastpointe Condominium Association on Singer Island. “It is time to act now as our window of opportunity is closing.”

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problem. We need to take chances and say yes to new ideas, with a combination of solutions.”

At a measurement site in Key West, the ocean has risen 9 inches in the last 100 years, with conservative projections by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for an additional increase of 9 to 24 inches in the next 50 years. The rise will continue, and continue at a faster rate.

Attending the event were several condominium association leaders from properties as far south as Highland Beach all the way up to Singer Island; nonprofit groups such as the Florida Coalition for Preservation and the Realtors Association of the Palm Beaches; several coastal community businesses and elected officials, including U.S. Rep. and former West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel and Sen. and former Lake Worth Mayor Jeff Clemons.

Several messages of the presentation were heard by attendees, such as: This is not just an oceanfront homes or coastal community problem.

Due to Florida’s geology and limestone formation, water will rise inland as well. Information

must be shared with our neighbors to the west, not just regarding their vulnerability, but in lost tax revenue to cities when higher taxpaying properties closer to the ocean are lost. For example, in Delray Beach, the homes along A1A pay 60 percent of the city’s property taxes.

The county shoreline needs to be looked at as a total system, not individual pieces.

Our actions do not happen in isolation. For example, sea walls may seem like the best, immediate solution, but they can harm natural habitats such as egg laying for the sea turtles and can damage natural systems in adjacent communities.

Action needs to be taken by all of us now to protect ourselves from not just sea level rise, which we can plan for, but also storm surge, which happens with more intensity and was certainly Hurricane Sandy’s calling card.

The next POB meeting will be held in South Palm Beach County in June. For information, contact Protect Our Beaches at info@ beachescoalition.com or call 561-228-7055. Visit the website at http://beachescoalition.com/.

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Along the Coast

Divers monitor reef for human-caused damage

By Cheryl Blackerby

The dredge is gone. It left Delray Beach on April 15 for New York.

Offshore sand has been pumped onto 1.9 miles of shoreline. The job is done for, theoretically, another decade or so, barring hurricanes.

Residents who had looked at narrowed beaches and escarpments carved out by Hurricane Sandy in late October can rest easy. The shoreline is now reinforced with more than 1.6 million tons (1.2 million cubic yards) of sand.

The $9.2 million project, part of a 10-year renourishment plan that happened to coincide with damage from Sandy, is completed.

LEFT: Photo of the Delray Ledge taken before the renouishment project. RIGHT: Photo taken after the project shows the water at the Delray Ledges obscured by silt. Photos by Reef Rescue and Chase Bilbery There were bumps along the way — tugboat lines dropped and dragged across Flower Garden Reef when the barge moved from the Port of Palm Beach to Delray Beach, work stoppages due to rough seas and mechanical problems, and a silt

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It’s the silt that has Ed Tichenor worried.

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an environmental testing laboratory in New Jersey and he has put his knowledge to work in Florida.

During the dredging, Tichenor monitored the turbidity — silt and other suspended matter in the water.

The dredge’s permit required the turbidity to stay below a certain level outside the dredge’s “mixing zone,” where the sand is pumped from holes in the ocean floor.

“I began to see turbidity levels that were quite high,” he said. Tichenor’s numbers contradicted the samples taken by the dredge contractor, which were low.

He contacted the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, and soon after a FDEP representative and Tichenor together took samples, which again were high. “We watched a contractor take a sample and it failed. The next day, the DEP and I took another sample and it failed again,” he said.

When the level exceeds permit requirements, the dredge must shut down, said Tichenor, adding that the dredge had to shut down for several hours on four days because of high turbidity.

An FDEP spokesperson confirmed that silt levels were high.

“There were five instances where the subcontractor, CZR (the turbidity monitoring subcontractor for the Delray project), reported turbidity excedances and construction activities were discontinued until the turbidity returned to acceptable levels, as required by the permit. No warnings or citations were issued and the project is complete,” said Mara Burger, spokesperson for the FDEP. And she had an explanation for the conflicting turbidity readings. “The differences were that while all samples were being taken from the densest portion of the plume, the samples were taken in different locations, which resulted in different readings by the various parties,” she said.

And the silt plume left behind? “Sometimes, as a result of new beach material a small residual plume can occur,” she said.

In the two weeks after the dredge left, the plume dispersed, said Tichenor, and settled on the coral reefs, which

is what worries him.

“There’s no longer a visible plume, and now the silt has dispersed in the system and may persist for years, slowly degrading the reef,” he said.

“There is no requirement to make that connection between dredging and later damage to the reef.”

Silt, a sediment with a consistency between fine sand and clay, has settled on parts of the reef system from Delray Ledge at the north end of the project to Seagate Reef on the south end, a little less than a mile, he said, adding that the entire reef hasn’t been inspected yet by Reef Rescue divers.

The silt is causing stress to already-stressed coral and can ultimately kill corals, he said.

The silt can harm corals in several ways, all of which are deadly to a reef system.

“The coral generates mucus and expends a lot of energy trying to get the silt off. The silt lowers the light level and corals depend on sunlight to live. And the silt can smother the coral to the point that it may die,” he said.

Silt also affects spawning, which occurs in August and September. The larvae usually settle on hard rock and starts another colony, but if silt is on the rock the larvae can’t attach, he said.

One of Reef Rescue’s network of divers, Chase Bilbrey, took photos of the reef a week after the dredge left, and showed them to Tichenor.

“The ‘before dredging’ and ‘after dredging’ photos are shocking,” said Tichenor. “A lot of silt is in the water and turned everything blue and you can’t see the bright colors of the coral. They aren’t getting enough light and they have a coating of silt.”

Delray Beach’s reefs are in trouble, and area residents should be concerned, he said.

“The corals have diseases, they’re impacted by anchoring, climate change — it’s death by a thousand cuts.”

A big problem, he says, is lack of regulatory oversight in this area and the need for monitoring.

“Once an incident is reported by local volunteers, then DEP will do a survey and take enforcement action,” he said.

It was a dive boat captain, he said, that brought the damage to Flower Garden Reef to the FDEP’s attention. Ú

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Delray Beach

Beach pavilion gets go-ahead for bid phase

By Tim Pallesen

A new pavilion on the beach at Atlantic Avenue has the green light for Delray Beach to select a contractor and start construction.

“We’ve gotten approval from the state to go ahead,” said local architect Bob Currie, who donated the pavilion design.

“Now we’re allowed to get a contractor through competitive bidding.”

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection granted the state permit. City officials set a May 2 preconstruction meeting for interested contractors.

“We’re anxious to get it done,” Currie said. “It looks like it’s finally going to happen.”

The go-ahead is a victory for the Beach Property Owners Association, which raised $59,165 for the pavilion after

going to city commissioners in 2009 to request a master plan to dress up the municipal beach.

“The new pavilion is a big part of the beach master plan,” association President Andy Katz said. “It sets the style and tone for other things that need to be done in the beach area.”

The existing pavilion must be replaced because its steel rods and ties have rusted, making it structurally unsound.

The new design pays homage to Delray Beach in the 1920s.

“But it will be built with modern standards for hurricane protection with stainless steel ties and rods,” Katz said.

The city has set aside $110,000 in its budget to construct the pavilion.

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“This is a great example of public and private cooperation,” Katz said.

The contractor chosen by the city will start construction after city’s July 4 fireworks this summer.

Seaside Builders already has offered to build the pavilion at a reduced cost and Katz said another builder might do the same.

“We anticipate that, once the word gets out, a contractor will do this as a public service,” he said. Ú

The new pavilion will replace the existing pavilion at Atlantic Avenue and A1A. Rendering courtesy Bob Currie

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Delray Beach

Cities await Army Corps funding for beach restoraton

By Cheryl Blackerby

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Delray Beach and Boca Raton are likely to receive longawaited money for damage to beaches by Hurricane Sandy, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The two cities’ beach projects were among 16 projects around the state that the Corps considered for emergency assistance in response to Hurricane Sandy and Tropical Storm Debby.

After the Corps’ damage reports were completed, 12 projects were approved to receive the emergency funds.

“North Boca has received $222,000 out of their proposed $2,340,000. We expect (Boca Raton) to receive the remainder of the funds in the third quarter,” said Amanda Ellison, public affairs specialist, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Delray Beach, she said, “has received $4,460,250 and should be fully funded.”

In all, about $147 million in emergency funds has been approved for the 12 projects as part of the Corps’ Flood

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Control and Coastal Emergency program.

“Each community applied for the program, and we conducted a study to determine who qualified for the program,” said Ellison.

“We had 12 positive outcomes across the state, so this is great news.”

Delray Beach and Boca Raton were told they would receive letters from the Corps advising them if they would get the emergency funds and, if so, how much.

The waiting had been tense for both cities. As of press time, neither city had received official confirmation letters, but officials are hopeful they’re in the mail.

“We’ve been working with them (the Corps) for a while, and we always maintained hope to get funding to assist us,” said Rich Reade, Delray Beach public information officer.

“Is it a surprise? Yes, but a pleasant surprise,” said Arthur Koski, acting director and legal counsel for the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District, which recently had been asked by the city of Boca

CRA audit set to start

State auditors were scheduled to arrive in the offices of the Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency on April 30 to begin an audit for the Joint Legislative Auditing Committee.

The audit was requested

by State Sen. Jeff Clemens, D-Lake Worth, in late March.

Joint Legislative Auditing Committee Chairman Joseph Abruzzo, D-Wellington, then ordered the review into how the CRA is spending its funds — specifically, whether it’s legal for the agency to give money to the Arts Garage, a nonprofit music and theater venue.

Marilyn Rosetti, audit manager for the state auditor general’s office, said that the last time the state conducted an operational audit of a CRA was Selected Best Hearing Healthcare Professionals 2011/2012 – The Hearing Review

in 2006. Four audits of CRAs have been performed, she said.

Rosetti said three auditors were assigned to the Delray Beach review.

“This is an operational audit, not financial, and we don’t want to duplicate a financial audit,” she said. The CRA’s finances are audited yearly by an outside, independent certified public accountant. The CRA budget for the 2012-13 fiscal year includes $310,735 for the Arts Garage.

The CRA gave $304,795 to the nonprofit last year, according to a staff analysis by the auditing committee.

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Luckily, the district hadn’t sent the check yet, said Koski.

The following beach projects damaged by Hurricane Sandy are expected to receive emergency funds, says Ellison: Brevard County — North Reach and South Reach; Martin County; Fort Pierce Beach; Palm Beach County — North Boca Raton, Jupiter/Carlin and Delray Beach; and Broward County, Segment 2.

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“promote tourism and economic development, as well as to nonprofits providing socially beneficial programs, would appear outside the scope of the community redevelopment act.”

Delray Beach Mayor Cary Glickstein has sparred with Abruzzo, saying that the audit is politically motivated.

On April 24, CRA Executive Director Diane Colonna said that the state auditors “have asked for everything,” and “we’re giving them everything that they are asking for, of course.”

Lisa Bright, the former executive director of the Boynton Beach CRA, said at a city commission public hearing on April 16 that, “I am the person who requested the audit.”

She said she did so because Colonna “willingly interjected herself into the investigation of me” giving a deposition during an investigation of Bright’s conduct at Boynton’s CRA. Bright said she had a right to request information about the operations of the Delray CRA, as she “attempts to restore my good name” in an upcoming trial. Bright is suing the Boynton Beach CRA for wrongful termination.

Colonna said that Bright’s statement didn’t surprise her.

“Anyone can say they asked for an audit, or any other kind of information about the CRA.” Rosetti said she couldn’t predict how long it would take to complete the audit, or when results would be released. “Every audit is different,” she said.

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Continued from page 1 The hull that had looked black from the surface was reddish-brown close up, covered with marine organisms. He went down and grabbed the bow, and felt the cold metal underneath the barnacles.

He then saw a metal mast, then another mast, and about 200 feet from the bow he could see the stern and the steering mechanism. The hull was still buried underneath the sand.

“I was in the water for a week after that just looking at it,” he said.

As far as anyone can tell, Dennison, 29, may be the first person in modern times to see the Coquimbo, a Norwegian iron-hulled sailing ship that wrecked on the reef Jan. 31, 1909.

“I have been snorkeling in front of Briny Breezes just about all my life and not once did I see this ship until now.

At first, I was startled and very hesitant before approaching any closer. It was one of those moments that you know you stumbled upon something amazing, but you aren’t quite sure what to make of it all. I was so excited yet almost scared because I didn’t know what I had found,” Dennison said.

Ship’s first sighting

Historians have known the Coquimbo was out there, and they knew the vicinity. A photo was even taken of it on the reef before it sank.

“We all thought it was probably in pieces buried under the sand,” said Voncile Smith, Boynton Beach historian and vice president of the Boynton Beach Historical Society.

Besides Dennison, no one has ever reported seeing the ship as far as she knows.

Roger Smith, state underwater archaeologist, also said there have been no reported sightings of the ship.

The Coquimbo, a barque with two square-rigged masts forward and fore-and-aft sails on the mizzenmast, was carrying a full load of pine lumber from Gulfport, Miss., to Buenos Aires, according to historian and author Janet DeVries, who has researched the Coquimbo and who lived in Boynton Beach for 20 years.

After it struck the reef, the Coquimbo’s foghorn blasts woke up guests at Major Nathan Boynton’s oceanfront Boynton Beach hotel, and all 15 crewmembers, most from Norway, were rescued.

“The hotel did not extend its accommodations to the crew,

The ship uncovered by Sandy was discoverd by Steven Dennison, who photographed it. To see a video of the wreck, visit www.thecoastalstar.ning.com. and they spent the next two months camped on the beach in makeshift tents created from the ship’s sails,” Smith wrote in an article for the Historian, the society’s publication.

The ship, built in 1876 in Glasgow, Scotland, was 204 feet by 33 feet by 21 feet, DeVries said. She found a news story in the Ocala Evening Star, published few days after the wreck, that noted “the vessel is resting easy on the sand. The ocean is quiet and there is no danger yet.”

Several storms’ battering waves finally sank the ship in May of that year and lumber floated to shore, a boon for local builders. Dynamite was used to blow the top deck and liberate the rest of the lumber from the hold, and Dennison said he could see the flare in the metal from the explosion.

The ship’s Norwegian captain, I. Clausen, put an auction notice in the Miami Metropolis newspaper: “On March 30th, 1909, the wreck of the Norwegian bark Coquimbo, stranded off Boynton Beach, with her rigging and apparel, the cargo of lumber in her hold, sundry tackle, stores and provisions now brought ashore on the beach will be sold at public auction to the highest bidders. The auction will be held on the beach opposite to where the ship now lies.”

Many buildings in Boynton Beach were constructed of the lumber, which included 4-by4s, 4-by-10s, and 6-by-12s, some nearly 30 feet long.

Nels Peterson, the cabin boy on the ship, brought the ship’s bell on shore, according to an account of the ship written by James Hartly Nichols, historian at the Boynton Beach City

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The ship is due east of Corrine Street and the steps to the beach, about 350 yards from shore in 15 to 17 feet of water, when Dennison found it.

The steps line up with the bow, which faces north.

After Dennison made his discovery, he contacted his friend Joe Masterson, who founded Marine Archaeological

Research and Conservation group. Masterson has documented and filmed other Florida shipwrecks including the Loftus, submerged about a half-mile north of the Boynton Inlet, for the Florida Division of Historical Resources.

The Loftus is an ironhulled barque very similar to the Coquimbo, and when Masterson saw the Coquimbo it looked eerily familiar.

“I spoke to another archeologist, and to his knowledge no one alive today has seen the Coquimbo wreckage,” said Masterson, who lives in Briny Breezes. “Sandy threw tremendous amount of sand around and uncovered it.”

Masterson measured the ship, videotaped it, then contacted the state and the local historical societies and Roger Smith, who recorded the ship’s discovery in the archaeology files in Tallahassee.

“Much of the Coquimbo’s history is similar to that of the Loftus, which was also carrying lumber when it went down. There was only a 40-year window for that kind of ship, which disappeared once the steam engine was invented,” said Masterson.

The ship’s structure is almost identical to the Loftus, he said.

Both are about 225 feet long.

“But we found only two of the three masts on the Coquimbo,” said Masterson.

“It was really cool,” said Dennison. “We went with a 100-foot tape and measured.

We just spent the whole day on it.”

Dennison moved to Hobe Sound in April, but still found time to snorkel out to the ship.

His parents, Bruce and Caryn Dennison, and grandparents,

Chuck and Betty Foland, live in Briny Breezes in the winter. Dennison grew up in Syracuse, N.Y., but visited Briny Breezes frequently. He walked on Briny’s beach on his first birthday.

He was laid off his job as a technology teacher at a Syracuse high school, and is now studying physical therapy at Broward College.

Dennison has taken his wife, Elizabeth, to the Coquimbo so she could see what he was so excited about.

He is still amazed by that day in January. “It was so eerie, just swimming along and it was kind of boring, then suddenly this huge, huge, enormous black thing. And I immediately had in mind it was a ship no one knew about. It was one of those days you dream about.”

Dennison told a friend of his, a pilot, about the ship, and the pilot said he could see it from the air.

But that might not be for long, Dennison thought at the time. Sand was already shifting over the ship.

“It’s more than likely that in the near future the Coquimbo will be buried by sand again, Dennison said in mid-April.

Vanishing act

On April 25, Dennison happened to be driving by Briny Beezes and on the spur of the moment stopped his car near the wreck, and swam out to see the ship — his ship.

And the Coquimbo was gone.

There was no trace of it. He had GPS’ed the site and there was no mistake. The ship was again buried by sand with not even a bump on the flat ocean floor.

The Coquimbo had made a three-month appearance after 104 years and had vanished again.

Looking at the stretch of drifting sand, which suddenly looked like an endless desert, he thought, “I may never see it again.”

The Coquimbo won’t make another appearance unless there’s a storm with Sandy’s unique “giant swells that sucked the sand out like a vacuum,” he said.

“It’s a reminder that the ocean patterns are changing constantly and if you see something once you may not see it again.” He’s glad he spent so much time on the ship, swimming out at least 30 times.

But shifting sand could mean another possibility, he said: “Now I wonder what else lies several feet beneath the sand.

Only a good storm will tell.” Ú

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By Tim O’Meilia

Manalapan town commissioners voted, by a 4-2 count, to apologize to Town Manager Linda Stumpf for one commissioner’s allegations of misuse of her car allowance.

An examination of town payroll records by the town’s outside auditors cleared Stumpf of any improper use of the $400 car allowance based on her contract.

“All of these (W2) amounts agree to the penny with the detailed payroll records,” Terry Morton of the audit firm of Nowlen, Holt & Miner told commissioners April 23. “It was handled properly and in accordance with the town manager’s employment contract.”

Mayor David Cheifetz ordered the special examination, which

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Stumpf cleared by audit, receives apology cost $3,000-$3,500, after Commissioner Howard Roder accused Stumpf last month of trying to hide the car allowance. He demanded her firing and the return of $5,200 in allowance money.

Stumpf said a recording error on Stumpf a budget spreadsheet put the car allowance in the overtime line item in 2011, although figures for 2010 and 2012 were correctly noted.

“I wasn’t trying to hide anything. It was a simple clerical error,” she said. The auditing firm agreed that payroll and tax records were correct.

Roder also said Stumpf should be driving a townowned car instead of taking

the car allowance.

Town Attorney Trela White disagreed with Roder’s interpretation of Stumpf’s contract.

The contract says, “The town agrees to pay the town manager $400 per month as an automobile allowance, or to provide an existing townowned vehicle for her use, if available, and to provide insurance, gasoline and maintenance for the townowned vehicle at no cost to the town manager.”

White said the town can’t be forced to provide her a car and that it’s typically the manager’s choice whether to take an available car or the allowance.

Stumpf took the car allowance for two years but now drives a 2010 Ford Explorer previously driven by the retired police chief. The current chief drives a 2009

GMC Sierra SUV. Four commissioners said the accusation was unfounded and Commissioner Chauncey Johnstone added that the commission wasted 45 minutes discussing it. “You can keep digging and digging ’til you reach China, but these are the facts,” he said.

Commissioner Louis DeStefano said Roder should take a different approach with his concerns. “Go to the person involved, have a discussion with them and perhaps then an issue like this can be resolved,” he said.

Cheifetz suggested Roder apologize to Stumpf for “impugning her character” but Roder said he had nothing to apologize for.

Commissioner John Murphy joined Roder in opposing the apology. But, unlike Roder, who wants to force Stumpf to drive a town

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car, Murphy said she should take the allowance and put another police car on patrol.

The town has four patrol cars. The chief and lieutenant also are issued cars.

The apology did not end Roder’s dissatisfaction with Stumpf’s performance during her two-plus years as the town’s top administrator. Her contract expires Sept. 30.

He repeated previous concerns that Stumpf previously doctored the town’s crime statistics to persuade commissioners that they replace their police force with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

He also said she badly handled the town’s water rates.

“These issues revolve around the question of good judgment, character, ethics and trustworthiness, which in my opinion are sorely lacking,” Roder said.

In other business, commissioners: n Agreed 5-1 to spend $31,000 for a new police car, although they will dip into town reserves for most of the money. Commissioners said they wanted to create an annual replacement schedule for town vehicles. Stumpf said one exists but during budget sessions the last two years, the commission decided against replacing the police cars.

Roder opposed. n Approved unanimously limiting the use of portable storage units to seven days with the possibility of a sevenday extension by the town manager and exceptions for bad weather. n Delayed spending $2,200 on a landscaping plan for Town Hall until the budget year beginning Oct. 1. Ú

Briny Breezes Town seeks new bids for police coverage The Briny Breezes Town Council will seek bids this month to provide police protection for the 488-mobile home town for the next three years or beyond.

For the past three years, the town has paid neighboring Ocean Ridge $185,000 annually for police service, including nightly patrols and prompt response to calls.

The town will send specifications to Ocean Ridge, Boynton Beach, Delray Beach, Gulf Stream and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, but any agency may submit a proposal. Only Ocean Ridge and Boynton Beach responded to bid requests in 2010.

The town is seeking at minimum three-year contract.

Proposals are due June 15.

— Tim O’Meilia

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The ‘Commissioner Thug’ artwork was replaced in late April with a painting of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum (right) at Martin O’Boyle’s home in Gulf Stream’s Hidden Harbour neighborhood.

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Resident wages public battle for renovation variance

By Tim O’Meilia When he figures he’s been wronged, Gulf Stream resident Martin E. O’Boyle goes beyond the conventional tactics of hiring a lawyer and filing a lawsuit.

He resorts to guerrilla warfare: filing scads of public records requests, flying banners proclaiming his argument, hiring protestors to wave signs and video-taping meetings.

The Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office and the Longport, N.J. borough commission have been targets of his ire in the past.

Now the Gulf Stream Town Commission is in his crosshairs. In March, the commission rejected his plans for a 25-foot high entry tower as part of the remodeling of his 1983 waterfront home.

“What I said to (the commission) was what I plan is a beautiful building and if you don’t like that I will renovate it in a different fashion where I can still comply with the laws of the United States,” O’Boyle said.

In mid-April, he had a squinty-eyed, white Ku Klux Klan-like hood painted between two upper story windows overlooking his backyard, easily visible by boaters in the canal.

Across the hood was lettered “Commissioner Thug.”

Beside the hood was lettered “Stop the Commission” and “This is a satire.” Beneath the hood “WELCOME TO GULFSTREAM” was painted in massive blood-red letters.

A rainbow-hued flag was painted on the doors of his three-car garage overlooking Hidden Harbour Drive.

In late April, the backyard drawings were painted over and replaced with fat-bellied Tweedle dum and Tweedle dee portraits labeled Town Manager William Thrasher and Mayor Joan Orthwein.

The house-painting ploy is just the latest in O’Boyle’s efforts to have his entryway design approved. After disagreeing with Thrasher’s interpretation of the building

code, he rained more than 300 public records requests on town hall, seeking documents on variances and town commissioners’ votes dating to 1990.

O’Boyle has refused to pay the $414 bill, disputing the costs. Town Attorney John “Skip” Randolph advised the town not to comply with other records requests totaling more than $1,000 until O’Boyle pays.

He also is challenging the $1,700 cost of legal advertising.

In a series of 3-2 votes in March, commissioners rejected three of O’Boyle’s four variance requests, concluding they did meet the eight required criteria.

“I have a problem with the massing of the entryway,” Orthwein said before the vote.

She said she feared granting the variances would lead to an avalanche of requests.

O’Boyle insisted that commissioners were substituting their taste for his in the entryway tower design. “It all comes down to a matter of taste. Please defer to our taste,” he asked.

Orthwein declined to comment on O’Boyle’s house painting design except to say, “It’s unfortunate.” Thrasher declined to comment on whether the painting violated the town’s sign code.

O’Boyle hinted that he was willing to challenge an attempt to cite him for a sign code violation. “Maybe I don’t violate the Constitution of the United States,” he said.

O’Boyle used similar tactics in a two-year battle with the New Jersey borough that began in 2007 over a building code citation. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, he filed numerous records requests, several lawsuits and flew a banner over the beach proclaiming the Longport mayor a “puppet.” He also videotaped every meeting.

They settled in 2008 when the borough dropped its code citation and he withdrew his lawsuits. But a legal battle over public records and legal fees raged on for four more years.

In 2011, after then-State Attorney Michael McAuliffe refused to meet with O’Boyle over O’Boyle’s daughter’s DUI conviction, O’Boyle filed more than 1,000 public records requests, flew a banner critical of McAuliffe over the county courthouse and bought advertising criticizing him.

“The Irish guys, they don’t give up too easy,” O’Boyle told the Inquirer in 2008. “A friend of mine said, ‘Irish Alzheimer’s is when you forget everything except the grudges.’”

Asked if he was trying to embarrass the town commission, O’Boyle said, “The commission does a good enough job themselves.”

“I think that’s his purpose: get attention and embarrass the commission,” said Commissioner Bob Ganger, who supported O’Boyle’s variance requests, along with Commissioner Garrett Dering.

“We’d be happy to sit down and work things out. There’s no question that town wants the best design we can come up with,” Ganger said. “No one on this board is trying to make anyone’s life miserable.”

O’Boyle also made a more customary response to the denial of his renovation plan.

He filed an appeal April 16 in Palm Beach County Circuit Court, asking a panel of judges to overturn the commission’s

ruling. His appeal claims the town manager, who is also the building and zoning administrator, and the commission misinterpreted the building code.

O’Boyle also promised to attend all of the town’s architectural review and commission meetings to help ensure the town codes are enforced on the development requests of others.

His questioning at the April commission meeting forced parts of two site plan requests to be postponed.

“If the mayor wants to enforce the code, I’m a good citizen and I will support my Ú mayor,” he said.

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class, there’s very little you can do,” he said. “I know it can be difficult. Delray Beach has wrestled with this and continually lost on merits (when taking the issue to court).”

“We don’t get to pick and choose the parts of the Constitution we like,” Lohman said. “There’s not a legally sufficient solution.”

Small said she still wished there were something that could be done.

“The perception of Lantana is that you can do anything here,” she said. “At least in Delray they fought it.”

She said that avenue property owners were already suffering with the bridge being closed (until November) and that having a sober house would cause property values to plummet.

Alan Ross, who has a shop on Ocean Avenue, criticized the town for not alerting them to news of the sober house.

“We found out two weeks ago at Moe’s gas station,” Ross said.

Stewart said the town was not approached (about the sober house coming in) and could not stop it.

“We have more right to control raucous noise than Ú sober houses,” he said.

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Property owners turned out en masse at the April 8 Town Council meeting to oppose a proposed sober house at 118 N. Oak Ave., around the corner from the Ocean Avenue shopping district.

Phyllis Small, who owns property on the avenue, brought a petition with 300 names on it. They objected to using the multi-residence gated building for a sober house for recovering alcoholics and drug addicts.

Permitting a sober house so close to a drug store that sells alcohol, and bars and restaurants that sell spirits, would be “a disaster,” Small said. “It does not seem logical where people are so tempted when they are attempting rehabilitation.”

She said people in the neighborhood “feared for their safety.”

But the council could offer little consolation.

“We cannot control sober homes,” Mayor Dave Stewart said, “because people are protected under federal law. Addicts are considered protected under federal law.”

The town’s attorney, R. Max Lohman, agreed.

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By Mary Thurwachter

Lantana officials revealed a conceptual plan to turn a oneacre site on the west side of the Intracoastal Waterway into a passive waterfront park with 31 parking spaces.

The site, at 106-120 N. Lake Drive, just north of Ocean Avenue, was purchased early last year by the town for just under $1.2 million and was considered a good deal. The previous sale price in 2006 was $5.3 million.

Proposed amenities for the park would include a handicapped-accessible path from the parking meter area to the water, a kayak/canoe launch, and minor upgrades to the existing pier to make it safe for public use, and porch-swing pergolas around a fountain.

“There will be many more meetings (on the proposal),” Mayor Dave Stewart said during the council’s April 8 meeting. “This is just conceptual.”

“I like it — no carbon footprint,” said Council Member Phil Aridas. “It’s a neat little plus for our town.”

But neighbors to the property were less enthused.

“Residents need to be considered,” said Monica Kaufman, who lives on North Lake Drive. She was concerned, she said, about people walking through her backyard to get to the park.

Town attorney R. Max Lohman said an application process and site plan would follow. “A details discussion at this time is premature,” he said.

Steve Gantz, a father of three who has a home next to the proposed park, expressed worries about loss of privacy.

“I bought this house never expecting a public park next to it. It’s scary.”

Gantz vowed to take the matter to court.

“I don’t want to spend a fortune on legal fees, but you give me no choice. You guys are Ú limiting my options.”

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By Mary Thurwachter

A town-owned triplex on Prospect Road could become the new home for the Lantana Historical Society.

The house at 111 Prospect Road, deeded to the town from the county last year after acquiring it from tax debt, appeared to be doomed to a wrecking ball until town officials had another idea.

“The Historical Society has been burdened with no place,” said Mayor Dave Stewart. “This could be a great opportunity for the town to have a more vibrant Historical Society.”

Despite the fact that the abandoned 2,074-square-foot house would need costly repairs and renovations, inspections revealed the 1956 building to be structurally sound.

Stewart said he was not in favor of the town doing the renovations. However, if the Historical Society wanted to tackle the project, he said the town could consider leasing the building for a $1 a year, much like the arrangement the Chamber of Commerce has for its town-owned headquarters at 212 Iris Ave. The discussion will come up again at the council’s June 10 meeting, when the Historical Society is expected to put forth its plan for fixing up the dilapidated house.

Historical Society president Rosemary Mouring said she had visited the property with a general contractor and was “very much interested.” She said the organization would need to draw up plans and project costs to see if it could manage the undertaking.

“It’s got a lot of potential,” she said.

Some council members questioned whether the Historical Society had the financial means to handle the project.

“Roof repairs are needed, bathrooms need to be remodeled, there’s mold throughout the house, a termite problem and electrical repairs that need to be made,” said council member Phil Aridas.

“Do you have $40,000 to fix up a $30,000 home?” he asked Mouring. “I think we should tear it down and sell it (the property) and put it back into the town.”

Mouring was reluctant to reveal how much money was in the Historical Society’s coffers but said “we should at least have a chance.”

Jack Carpenter, a founding

member of the Historical Society, said the group had several Lantana antiques, including two 1893 desks, it would like to keep in a museum of its own. “Give us a fighting chance,” he said.

Stewart said he didn’t expect the Historical Society to do extensive work right away, but hoped that outdoor improvements, such as taking plywood off windows and securing the house, would be made during the first year.

Vice Mayor Lynn

Moorhouse said he wasn’t in favor of hiring a contractor, but suggested a grass roots plan to spruce up the property.

“We’re not looking at a lot of money if you get some volunteers out,” he said.

And, in the interest of raising money for the Historical Society, Wayne Cordero, owner of the Old Key Lime House (the second oldest house in Lantana), offered to sponsor a fundraiser, which he suggested could net $25,000 for the effort. Ú

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Ocean Ridge

Historic home goes on market for first time

By Mary Thurwachter The historic and photogenic beach home where Maggie Miley and her husband, Pete Schofield, reside is one of the oldest houses in Ocean Ridge and has been in Miley’s family since 1987. That was when her grandparents, Curt and Martha Joa, who lived in the house next door, bought it from the estate of the original owners.

For the first time in its 90year history, the home at 6057 Old Ocean Blvd. is up for public sale as Miley and Schofield prepare to move to new digs elsewhere in Ocean Ridge.

Miley bought the property after her grandparents died within two months of each other in the late 1990s. The Joas, long-time Ocean Ridge residents and avid golfers, also had homes in Germany and Wisconsin. They owned a company in Sheboygan Falls, Wis., that makes machinery to make baby diapers and other disposable paper items.

But the original owners of 6057 Old Ocean Blvd. were Ocean Ridge pioneers — two sets of brothers who were worldrenowned conchologists and known to be a tad eccentric.

They drove old cars, never had an air conditioner and two of them spent much of their time collecting shells or using the ham radio.

When the last two brothers died, they left no heirs, leaving their legal representatives to find a home for their shells and their financial treasure — in excess of $1 million.

The two sets of brothers — Dunbars and McGintys — were from Michigan and their families made their money in the construction business.

When the house was built in 1924, Ocean Ridge had yet to incorporate. That didn’t happen

TOP: Built in 1924 and remodeled in 1988 and 2001, this Mizner-style beach house was one of the first homes built in Ocean Ridge.

ABOVE: The dining room is centrally located for access from both residential wings of this 2,700-square-foot home.

LEFT: A lap pool is nestled between the house and the ocean.

BOTTOM: Owners Pete Schofield and Maggie Miley, posing outside the front gate with a vintage truck, are planning to move to another house in Ocean Ridge.

Photos by Kurtis Boggs/ The Coastal Star

until 1931.

The two-story house was set up like a duplex, Miley said, with kitchens and bathrooms at opposite ends of the house and some common areas, such as the dining room in between.

You had to walk outside on a second floor walkway to get into

the bedrooms, she said.

The design had its perks.

The calming sounds of waves rolling ashore could be heard from every room. French doors opened to the east to allow sea breezes to drift through and cool the dining room. Dade County pine floors held up well

and the pecky cypress garage doors added to the aesthetics.

On the other hand, summertime sleeping in the upstairs bedrooms was a sticky proposition, even with the windows open, since there was no air conditioner.

Edward and Pomroy Dunbar

lived in one side of the house, while their twin cousins, Thomas and Paul McGinty made their home in the other.

Edward Dunbar, an Ocean Ridge commissioner and municipal court judge, died in 1942. His brother, Pomroy, was the town’s first clerk and served as a commissioner for many years and was town manager.

When Pomroy Dunbar and his wife died, the McGinty twins, who were single, inherited their cousin’s portion of the house.

Miley said her family called the McGintys “the scientists.”

The two were known for their beautiful tropical gardens and for their passion for shell collecting. In fact, after Tom McGinty died (his brother died seven months earlier), their million-dollar shell collection was donated to various museums, including the Florida State Museum in Gainesville, Florida Atlantic University, Loxahatchee Historical Society, Morikami Museum and the Palm Glades Girl Scouts Council.

A mollusk expert from the Smithsonian told the McGintys’ legal representatives that the collection was “the finest ever for Florida specimens.” Besides the shells, the brothers left behind more than $1 million.

Eleven nonprofit organizations benefited from the will.

The Joas were approached about buying the Dunbar/ McGinty estate after the brothers died.

“My grandmother said the gardens alone, with every tropical plant imaginable, were worth it,” Miley said. The house itself was in need of a massive renovation.

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The sign on the gate identifies Pete’s favorite pastime. and worked with local architect George Davis.

The renovation was extensive.

“Only the stucco and the slab remained,” Miley said. It took more than a year to complete.

“My grandmother wanted it to have a more French look, so we changed the barrel (roof) tiles for a chateau type,” Miley said. “Then in 2005, I went back to barrel. The house really has its own style. The way the stucco was applied is certainly identifiable from the 1920s. The Unger home on Coconut Lane has the same stucco.”

During the 1988 renovation, the upstairs walkway was enclosed, so people no longer had to go outside to get into the bedrooms. And Martha Joa recruited French stainedglass artist Jean Barillet to install special windows in the courtyard and the four garage door panels. She was familiar with Barillet’s work at St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Boynton Beach and also hired him to do the windows in the family’s chapel in Plymouth, Wis. The Joas didn’t add air conditoning right away, but soon reconsidered. It was, they determined, uncomfortably hot without it for those who bunked upstairs.

Miley undertook another redesign when she bought the property in 2001. She hired Ocean Ridge architects Digby Bridges and Mark Marsh to design a 1,000-square-foot addition to the south side of the house. That gave her some spaces she had always wanted — including a roomy master bedroom with a walk-in closet and a large bathroom with a Roman tub, plus a family room.

Miley, who also has a home in Atlanta, said she has fond memories of her many visits to Ocean Ridge as a child.

“I remember when we would get off the plane and drive down A1A to the house (there was no I-95 then). I would pick up this scent all the way — a jungle smell, musty, moldy, flowery. It was here until the late 1970s,” she said.

“The other thing I remember was the amount of blue crabs on A1A and Old Ocean. When we would cross Old Ocean from the guest house to the main house it was always a challenge not to step on a dead one or get chased by one — and they were large back then!”

As Miley and Schofield (and their frisky pair of Westies) prepare to move, the historic Ocean Ridge home is on the market. The 2,700-square-foot house, with three bedrooms, three bathrooms, two singlecar garages and a sparkling lap pool, is listed with Steve Presson of The Corcoran Group Ú for $3.95 million.

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Ocean Ridge

Board suggests planning firm help steer strip’s future

By Tim O’Meilia

The fate of Ocean Ridge’s five-store business district is back in the hands of town commissioners with the town’s planning and zoning board’s advice to hire a firm to recommend a plan for the next few decades.

The board urged that the planning firm interview residents and hold workshops to determine the feelings of townspeople and the business community, including real estate professionals.

The tiny blip of a commercial district at 5011 N. Ocean Blvd., at the south entrance to town, is scheduled to be phased out by July 2014 under the extension of an agreement with the property owners, Orlando and Liliane Sivitilli.

“This is a discussion we’ve been having for years,” said Town Attorney Ken Spillias, “whether to allow a small commercial district to continue to exist.”

The 5011 property houses Colby’s Barber Shop, the Transition Area triathlon shop, The Coastal Star newspaper, Ocean Ridge Realty and an empty store.

Four apartments are on the second floor. Town Commissioner Gail Adams Aaskov, who owns the real estate firm, does not vote on issues regarding the strip.

At the April 15 Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, former Mayor Ken Kaleel urged the board to recommend the study. “What do we want to see in this corridor for the next 20 to 25 years?” he asked.

In general, the board members favored the idea of small, town-serving businesses that don’t generate much traffic. But commission Chairman James Bonfiglio noted that there was no great clamoring for the businesses to remain.

“I see it as a benefit to its neighbors,” said town planning consultant Marty Minor of Urban Design Kilday Studios. “It won’t have a great commercial impact.”

The 5011 property is flanked by apartments and backs up to a residential area of largely duplexes. Minor

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said because of the shallow depth of the parcel — only 60 feet — it would be difficult to house more than small businesses. The 10 parking spaces in front would not be attractive to a high-traffic business.

Across the street, in an unincorporated strip along A1A, are a Texaco station, a real estate office and an empty branch bank building.

The town of Briny Breezes approved a new comprehensive plan last month that would allow a mix of commercial, townserving businesses and condominiums along its A1A corridor across the street and just south of the 5011 building.

Planning board member Mark Marsh said the strip is not ideal for residential use as called for in Ocean Ridge’s plan.

“If Briny does go ahead and do a village market, you would have one piece of that — a small commercial entity,” he said.

In 1969, the Town Commission voted to phase out the commercial district over 40 years. The Sivitillis sued in 1997 to overturn the commercial ban. A settlement entitled them to stay until 2000. That was extended and extended again last year to 2014.

The Sivitillis had plans to convert the property to three townhouses. “We really have a full intention of doing it,” their daughter, Lisa Sivitilli, told the board. “We asked for the extension because of the real estate market.”

She said that several years ago the family gathered 1,200 signatures of people who wanted the commercial strip to remain.

“We live here. We work here. We’ve always been in the community as residents,” Sivitilli said.

One concern is that should the businesses be forced out, the Sivitillis may not be able to convert the property to residential immediately.

“Let’s try to keep the status quo because we don’t want an empty building. We don’t want a blighted area,” Kaleel said. “Now is the time to do Ú that planning.”

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Gulf Stream

Underground utilities project sees further delay

By Tim O’Meilia

Check your calendar, Gulf Stream residents, and move the start of that long-promised utilities project back another three or four months.

How about Labor Day? The town will begin seeking bids on the $5.4 million project until mid-May and contracts will not be awarded until two months later, pushing the start of construction to August or September, said the town’s engineering consultant, Danny Brannon.

The town has banked prepaid assessments made by residents for two years to put power, telephone and cable lines underground. In fact, the town plans to borrow against the assessments to install new street lights.

The town is awaiting

Ocean Ridge

Crosswalks planned for Woolbright and A1A

By Tim O’Meilia

Crosswalks planned for State Road A1A and Woolbright Road in Ocean Ridge are being challenged by nearby residents.

The town commission scheduled a special meeting May 2 to discuss the complaints so the state Department of Transportation could be notified immediately of the commission’s wishes, Town Manager Ken Schenck said.

The town had asked for the crosswalk installation at the request of Ocean Walk residents north of the intersection. After conducting a traffic and pedestrian survey, DOT engineers concluded that the intersection qualified.

The $44,500 project, paid for with state money, was scheduled to begin immediately and be completed by the end of May. The pedestrian crossings, including signals, signs, street markings and re-done sidewalks and ramps for the disabled, would cross SR A1A on the north and south sides of the intersection and cross Beachway Drive on the east side of the intersection.

A crosswalk is already in place on the west side of the intersection.

The town is planning its own $13,000 crosswalk across SR A1A between the town hall and the Boynton Beach Park.

The town is seeking bids on the crossing design. Ú

the plans from Comcast and AT&T, which have had to adjust their drawings after Florida Power & Light submitted its design in midFebruary.

“We are running behind due to the response of the utilities,” Brannon told the Town Commission April 12.

Brannon also said the town is working on obtaining 37 easements from landowners, mostly along State Road A1A, to bury the utility lines.

Construction was originally to have started in May 2012.

The new delay will push completion of the two-phase project to December 2014 or January 2015.

“Seems like every month takes longer than the previous month,” Brannon said.

Residents have mumbled for months about the delays,

which prompted the town to file a complaint with the state Public Service Commission about FPL’s delay in submitting design plans.

“There is a lot of feeling in this town that we’ve let a lot of people down,” said Town Commissioner Bob Ganger.

“People gave money a long time ago and we’ve had no action.”

In other business: n Mayor Joan Orthwein and Vice Mayor Tom Stanley were unanimously reappointed to their posts for another year. n Commissioners prohibited the use of the Town Hall facilities to outside groups until the town adopts a new policy. Although neighboring condominium homeowner associations often use the town commission chambers for meetings, none are scheduled through the end of the

year. The policy review was prompted by an inquiry by resident Martin O’Boyle to use the chambers for a corporate event. Commissioner Mert Anderson opposed the interim ban. n Commissioners unanimously voted to ban donations from private entities to establish memorials on town property. The commission feared that once a donation was accepted for one memorial, others could not be denied.

“Once you accept a memorial from anyone, you’re opening a Pandora’s box,” said Town Attorney John Randolph. As a result, only town-sponsored memorials will be approved. n Commissioners voted to support a Gulf Stream Civic Association effort to urge AT&T to improve cell phone service on the barrier island. A

civic association survey of 223 residents found that 60 percent said they had weak or no service inside their homes.

But commissioners don’t want a cell tower in town. “We’re speaking out of both sides of our mouths. We want it, but we don’t want the pole,” said Mayor Joan Orthwein. n An example of the proposed six-sided lanternstyle street light being considered by the commission is scheduled to be installed at the Town Hall for examination by town residents by May. The estimated $380,000 project would be paid for by increasing property taxes slightly the next two years.

Fifty-three lights would be installed on interior streets and 35 cobra-head lights along State Road A1A. All would be longlife LED lights. Ú

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Continued from page 1 to move from Delray Beach into a larger space. The rest of the project would be developed by One Boynton LLC, a subsidiary of Washington Real Estate Partners, which has developed projects of all kinds in South Florida and Washington, D.C. CRA officials praise the proposal’s Class A office space — it would be the first such building in the downtown — and they like that portions of the site would be publicly accessible.

They are so eager to see the project built that they’ve offered a CRA-owned, half acre of land, free of charge, to the developers. They say that the narrow strip of land isn’t practical for development on its own, anyway. It would be joined with Washington Real

Estate’s three acres to the south.

Residents at April’s CRA meeting said they felt blindsided by the project — one said the high-rises are an unfortunate addition to “The Great Wall of Boynton.” But board members pointed out that it was the first publicly held meeting on the proposal and that more public meetings would be held.

“We’re not doing it the last minute,” Mayor Jerry Taylor said. “Tonight is the first time we’re hearing about it. It’s being proposed to us this evening …. There are going to be many more meetings about it.”

The project’s site plan will have to come back to the City Commission for approval, but the project, as presented, does not require any changes to zoning and has no obvious barriers to getting a green light under city development rules — several other projects as tall,

or taller, are already built.

Still, residents seemed taken aback by the level of detail already fleshed out about the proposal — such as its 50,000 square feet of office space, its 282 residential units and its calculation of a $562,004.93 boost in property taxes — and by the CRA board’s apparent support for the proposal before any public input had been given.

“This time of year when everybody on the condo association is heading home, you bring up this stuff,” said James Lynch, who lives in a condo about half a mile from the site. “Why do we always have to see big, big buildings going up?”

CRA officials reminded residents that the city’s master plan would already allow a similar project to be built, even without the offer of the narrow strip of CRA property.

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The 222 N. Federal Highway project being proposed by the Washington Real Estate Partners and the Kanner and Pintaluga law firm. All are estimates and the details are subject to change: n 282 residential units n 18,505 square feet of retail n 67,452 square feet of office n 120 hotel rooms n 1,168 parking spaces n Public areas: public walkways and a plaza n Tax boost if fully developed as proposed: $562,000 n Total cost to build as proposed: $128.7 million n Phase 1: A nine-story, 50,000-square-foot office building, with 300 parking spaces, to be paid for and occupied by the Kanner and Pintaluga personal-injury law firm. This would be the first Class A office space in downtown Boynton. Proposed completion: Feb. 2015 n Phase 2: A 14-story, high-density residential tower on the property’s north side, to be developed in partnership with a high-rise residential developer. Proposed completion: April 2017 n Phase 3: A 13-story residential tower on the south side.

Proposed completion: June 2018 n Phase 4: A 12-story, 120-room hotel. Proposed completion: Jan. 2019

Timeline questions What city officials have been saying about the project includes some inconsistencies.

CRA executive director Vivian Brooks told The Coastal Star that Kanner and Pintaluga

came to the CRA in January, asking about the CRA land.

“They were looking for our little piece” of land, she said.

The land “wasn’t feasible” for their project, so “I said, ‘You See HIGH-RISE on page 21

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Airport Authority examines options for tower’s future

By Rich Pollack

Although Congress restored funding to the Federal Aviation Administration late last month to pay for air traffic controllers at major airports and avoid furloughs there, the fate of the tower at Boca Raton Airport — and 148 towers at small airports across the country — remains up in the air.

While the FAA now has enough money to cover the costs of tower operations at the small airports, it has not made it clear how those funds will be applied. As a result, Boca Raton airport officials are still operating under the

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Continued from page 20 need to get in touch with this guy,’ ” F. Davis Camalier, the chairman of Washington Real Estate.

And CRA documents describing the request for proposals — the way government land is offered to potential buyers — say, “They have identified 222 N. Federal Highway as one of the sites they are interested in purchasing.”

But Howard Kanner, the law firm’s founder, said it was the CRA that got the ball rolling.

He said Brooks approached him about the possibility of building on the land.

“She came over and spoke to me about Boynton Beach,” Kanner said. “I had never heard about it until I heard from Vivian.” She sold him on the city’s vision for the downtown, Kanner said.

Now, he said, “Boynton Beach is our No. 1 option.”

At the April meeting, representatives of Washington Real Estate told the CRA board that the law firm would bring about 200 employees to the downtown upon move-in, and will have room to add more.

In an interview, Taylor said he’s excited to have “a couple hundred attorneys” coming to the downtown to work.

Kanner, though, said in an interview that the firm has only about 125 employees — including about 25 attorneys, 25 paralegals and 75 other staff members including receptionists and researchers — working in Delray Beach.

The firm would probably start with 150 employees in the Boynton Beach location, but has plans to grow quickly, Kanner said.

“I would envision in five years it could be 300 to 400” employees, he said.

The language of the request for proposals was geared all along toward a union between Kanner and Pintaluga and Washington Real Estate.

It was ostensibly open to anyone who wanted to respond, but one of the criteria for judging the responses was “opportunities to incorporate

assumption that funding could be discontinued as of June 15.

“At this point, we and all other 148 towers have begun a new campaign to lobby the FAA to fund the towers,” said Janet Sherr, director of landside operations for the Boca Raton Airport Authority.

At a meeting prior to Congress releasing funds to the FAA, the authority began the lengthy process of preparing to self-fund air traffic control tower operations, should a lawsuit and the latest round of lobbying efforts fail to restore funding.

While a decision on whether or not to seek alternative ways

to pay for the tower operations will not come until after other avenues are exhausted, the authority at its April meeting authorized staff to begin seeking out qualified firms interested in taking over tower operation should federal funding evaporate due to government sequester cutbacks.

On the advice of legal counsel, however, the board stopped short of making a firm commitment to self-fund tower operations, despite the efforts of one member, who said he was concerned about mixed messages being sent to the public.

Authority member David

Freudenberg asked that the authority provide the community with a clear statement of what it plans to do if the lawsuit and all lobbying efforts are unsuccessful.

“There is a very clear message to the community that we are aware of the desire to keep the tower open but we’re still saying that the Boca Raton tower is on death row,” Freudenberg said.

Authority attorney, Dawn Meyers pointed out that the board’s decision to take legal action and to proceed with the process of finding a private tower operator should other efforts fail, indicated the direction the panel was headed.

“You have taken two assertive steps showing the community exactly what your intention and commitment is,” she said.

Meyers said that the decision to proceed with a two-step procurement process – which includes a request for qualifications from firms interested in operating the tower, followed by a request for proposals in the event that other efforts failed – did not commit the board to hiring any of the firms that applied.

“We must anticipate that potentially you may be in a position where you’ll have to choose whether or not to keep the tower open,” she said. Ú

the RFP site into a larger overall site plan and redevelopment of one or more adjacent parcels for larger scale development.” The only empty piece of land next to the CRA land belongs to Washington Real Estate.

“The obvious responder would be the adjacent landowner,” Brooks said. “We don’t want to leave our little piece of land standing there.

That wouldn’t make sense from a planning perspective.”

The CRA bought the land for $900,000 in 2002 for the extension of Boynton Beach Boulevard and access to Marina Village. Until recently it had been used for a weekly Green Market. According to the Palm Beach County property appraiser, the CRA land now has a market value of $425,000.

Campaign contributions Camalier, who owns a villa in Manalapan, donated $500 — through one of his corporate entities — to Taylor’s political campaign on Feb. 7, five days before the request for proposals was approved by the CRA board. And, through three more corporations, he donated an additional $1,500 to Taylor on March 1.

Taylor, who said publicly that he met with Camalier three times about the project before it was formally unveiled, said the donations were not geared toward generating support for the project proposal.

“No, I don’t think so at all — he’s been around for a long time,” Taylor said. Instead, he thought Camalier was hoping for Taylor to get re-elected to bring more stability to the City Commission.

“That does not entice developers when commissioners are at odds,” he said.

Taylor, after lengthy discussion at the April meeting, saved the last word for himself and asked the developers to get the whole project built twice as fast as their six-year timeline.

“I’ve been trying to develop this downtown for more than 10 years,” he said. “Be aware that we want to move on this Ú thing.”

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Dan Young

By Ron Hayes MANALAPAN — To the fellow Hoosiers who knew his auto dealership, he was “Big Dan Young, Chevy dealin’ man.”

To the local institutions that benefitted from his generosity, Dan Young was known for his big heart.

Mr. Young was killed March 29 in an automobile accident at the corner of Dixie Highway and Ocean Avenue in Lantana.

He was 83.

“I always found him to be such a gracious, giving person,” said Pat Thorne, a friend of nearly 20 years.

“Sometimes you hated to mention a charity you were working with because you were afraid he’d think, ‘Oh, I have to give them money.’ ” Among the local institutions that Mr. Young supported are Northwood University, Hospice of Palm Beach County, the International Society of Palm Beach, the Gulf Stream School and Scripps Research.

“My heart broke when I received the call about his death,” said Ben Starling, director of philanthropy for Scripps and a longtime friend.

“Dan was a champion of all

things good and noble, who could always be counted on to be a leader in any fundraising endeavor. He gave from the heart.”

Mr. Young also had served as director of the JFK Medical Center Foundation, where several rooms bear his name.

“He was just a very caring and compassionate person,” said Madelyn Christopher, the center’s vice president of physician services. “Having been both a donor and a patient here, he just wanted things to be better for those admitted to the hospital, and once he took something on, he was dedicated to it.”

Dan E. Young was born on June 28, 1929, in Indianapolis and took pride in having developed his retail car dealership from humble beginnings.

Mr. Young shared his life with his longtime companion, Valerie Christopher.

In addition to his brother, John, and sister, Beverly Sinkin, he is survived by his wife, Shirley Pollard Young, and their children, Alan V. Young, Cathy Young Dyer, William A. Young and Jennifer Young Taggart; seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Memorials in his name may be made to Scripps Research, Office of Philanthropy, 130 Scripps Way-4B2, Jupiter, FL 33458.

Robert L. Becker Jr.

By Ron Hayes GULF STREAM — Robert L. Becker Jr., a winter resident of The St. Andrew’s Club for several years, died peacefully on April 15. He was 87.

A lawyer who specialized in securities and transactional law, Mr. Becker joined the Pittsburgh, Pa., firm of Kirkpatrick, Pomeroy, Lockhart & Johnson in 1949 and remained its longest-serving partner at the time of his death.

Robert Louis Becker Jr. was born in 1924 in Milwaukee.

During World War II, he served on the destroyer U.S. Walke in the Pacific theater, was discharged as a lieutenant j.g., and went on to graduate from Cornell Law School in 1948.

In obituaries published both here and in Pittsburgh, his family made a point of

noting that he had “been a friend of Bill W. since April 17, 1995.” The phrase is a wellknown reference to Alcoholics Anonymous and its founder.

During his years here, Mr. Becker volunteered at The Hanley Center in West Palm Beach and The Crossroads Club in Delray Beach, reaching out to offer encouragement to others.

“He was delightful,” said a friend and longtime board member at The Crossroads Club, a nonprofit meeting facility for people recovering from addictions. “Very outgoing, with a wonderful sense of humor and very athletic.”

Mr. Becker remained active, attending the 7 a.m. meetings almost every day, said the friend, who asked to remain anonymous.

During his recovery, Mr. Becker had been treated at the Hanley-Hazelden clinic in Minneapolis, his friend said,

and volunteered at The Hanley Center, keeping in touch with former alumni to help them stay well.

Mr. Becker is survived by Annette Willock, his wife of 32 years; three children from a previous marriage, Anne Hulley of Northampton, Mass.; Emily Naunheim of San Mateo, Calif., and Robert L. Becker III of Honolulu; eight grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren.

A memorial service was held April 26 at Third Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh, where he had served on the Session and taught Sunday school for many years.

The family has asked that donations be made to The Hanley Center, 5200 East Ave., West Palm Beach, FL 33407, or The Crossroads Club, 1700 Lake Ida Road, Delray Beach, FL 33444, or to a charity or organization of your choice.

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Lantana mayor thanks town for cooperation Dressed un-legislatively in a T-shirt, shorts and boat shoes, Lantana Mayor David Stewart made an impromptu visit to the April 23 meeting of the South Palm Beach Town Council.

“I just wanted to thank

your city,” Stewart told council members. “With the bridge situation, both cities have had to work together.”

Specifically, he was pleased that South Palm Beach police responded to a call in his Hypoluxo Island neighborhood to check on an elderly resident who didn’t answer the phone when her son was away.

Lantana and South Palm Beach have a mutual aid agreement to cover Hypoluxo Island while the East Ocean Avenue bridge is under construction. Stewart confirmed that the bridge is scheduled to re-open by Dec. 1, “if we don’t have hurricanes or

other drawbacks.”

“I shouldn’t say this but sometimes I think (South Palm Beach police) have been more responsive to calls than I think our department is,” he said.

There is good reason for that.

According to Google Maps, Stewart’s home is one mile (four minutes) from the South Palm Beach police station but, with the bridge closed, seven miles (18 minutes) from the Lantana police station via the Lake Worth Bridge.

“When something like the bridge (closing) happens, it’s good to have cooperation,” Stewart said.

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Aquatic muralist, living her dream, reels in Vegas TV-show project

By Ron Hayes

Judy Dempsey knew exactly what would happen. But she wrote the email anyway.

Hey Guys: I am a mural artist in South Florida. I am a huge fan of your show. My specialty is underwater sea life and I would be interested in donating a mural for one of your projects …

And hit Send.

“I expected to get a reply that said, ‘Thank you, if we ever need …’ ” she admits.

Four hours later, the phone rang and Dempsey was talking to Irwin Raymer, whom dedicated TV viewers know as “The General,” a star of the Animal Planet series Tanked.

Along with his son and sonin-law, Raymer owns Acrylic Tank Manufacturing of Las Vegas, which boasts that it’s the “No. 1 Aquarium Maker In The World.”

Every week, The General and his crew travel the planet, building customized aquariums.

Beer-keg tanks and pinball tanks. A customized tank for a nail salon and a tank with remote-controlled submarines.

“Lifestyles of the Fish & Famous,” they boast.

An aquarium built from a car? That, too.

“Were you serious?” The General asked Dempsey, and on March 5 she was flown to Las Vegas and put up in his 14room mansion.

When she flew home to Boynton Beach on March 21, the exterior wall of Acrylic Tank Manufacturing had been adorned with a 10-by-80 foot mural of a mammoth aquarium filled with great white sharks and a greenback turtle, stingrays, sea horses, eels and living coral.

“It’s on the side of our new building,” reports The General, “and between 300 and 500 people pass it every day and say ‘Oh, God, how beautiful!’ She was very sweet and had dinner with my family. We had a fun time while she was here.”

What begins in Boynton Beach, however, doesn’t stay in Boynton Beach.

You may not know her name, but it’s hard to live here and not know her work.

Dempsey’s tropical seascapes adorn the side of Beachcomber Arts on Federal Highway and a wall in the city’s industrial arts section. Her dolphins are on a pharmacy on Woolbright Road.

She’s painted the children’s room at the Boynton Beach City Library and the Delray Beach Marriott’s pool bar.

Private homes in Boca Raton, Cape Cod and the Bahamas are alive with her aquatic works as well, but none quite so ecstatically as her own

house in a quiet neighborhood west of I-95.

Mermaids swim on her living room wall, and a marlin in the den. In the backyard, a concrete patio has been painted to resemble a koi pond. Orchids and parrots, flamingoes and sunflowers: Dempsey lives in a flurry of tropical colors.

Born in Toronto, she came to this house when she was 2, and except for a few years away for what she calls “a bad marriage,” she’s lived here ever since.

But it didn’t always look like this.

“Twelve years ago, I moved back in with my father,” she says. The marriage was over; she was 33, a single woman looking for a new life.

“I had a dumb job in a frame shop,” she says, “making basic money, but I always wanted to do murals.”

She’d studied for two years at the Fort Lauderdale Art Institute and dropped out at 18.

“When I was younger, I used to say I was an artist and sit in a chair and do nothing,” she says.

Dempsey started a painting club, several women meeting weekly on her back porch.

A friend urged her to take a chance, put herself out there, and try to find work. Her father was not supportive.

And then, based on her early work, she was hired to paint polo ponies on the bedroom wall of a 6-year-old girl in Wellington, and then an underwater scene in the den.

The owners paid her $8,000.

“I quit my job at the frame shop and handed my father a grand,” Dempsey says. “The next day, he packed my lunch and said, ‘Go get another one.’”

She’s been getting them for 12 years, but never as big as the mural she created in Las Vegas.

“I worked 14 hours a day for two weeks, with one day off to visit the Strip,” she says. “It’s all hand brush, no airbrush.

Tour buses came by to see the company and people were taking my pictures while I worked.”

A crew from Tanked came by as well and spent two hours filming her at work for a timelapse sequence in an upcoming episode.

“I didn’t get paid for the work,” she says, “but it was worth it. They’re going to link to my website, so I may get more jobs.”

“I never dreamed that I could do this for a living. Now I make a living, but it’s more to me than a living.

“It’s what I always wanted to do.” Ú Tanked is broadcast at 9 p.m.

Fridays on the Animal Planet channel. Dempsey’s episode has not yet been scheduled. Visit www.judydempseyart.com.

Judy Dempsey, owner of Art Explosion of South Florida, decorated her Boynton Beach home with underwater scenes, such as this one on a living room wall.

Dempsey’s works can be found throughout the city, including the Medication Station Pharmacy on Woolbright Road. Photos by Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star

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Christina Benisch uses elements found in her Ocean Ridge garden for her award-winning flower arrangements. This year she represented the Grass River Garden Club at the Society of the Four Arts, and in 2010, she represented the Ocean Ridge Garden Club at the Norton Museum of Art. Photos by Libby Volgyes/The Coastal Star

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MEET YOUR NEIGHBOR: Christina Benisch

ou could say that Christina Benisch has looked at life from both sides now, and finds both sides appealing. In the past, she has traveled the world and has had more than her share of exciting escapades.

Now she’s enjoying her family, pets, garden and Florida’s natural beauty; what could be more fabulous, she asks?

As a child, she lived in Africa and Mauritius, while going to school in England. “After college, my first job was with a theatrical agency and from there, I went to work for a writer who was a film producer, and then I went to Kenya to visit my parents, fell in love with the country and stayed there for five years.

I worked for a safari company and absolutely loved it.”

Following that, she worked for Pan Am for 18 years. “That was a great life, and I really loved it, too,” she said.

While working for Pan Am, she met her husband, Robert, on a blind date.

“We hated each other when we first met,” she said. “He had just come from arguing a case in the Supreme Court, and I had no idea what that was about.

I thought he was too New Yorky and alpha dog, but he grew on me, and I grew on him, so here we are 32 years later.”

They lived in New York City until their two daughters, Justine, 29, and Olivia, 28, went to high school. At that point, they moved to Connecticut, and when the girls went off to college, the Benisches decided they wanted to move south for the winter.

“My husband is a golfer, so, the first year, he chose Hilton Head. It was freezing. You had to break the ice to tee off. The next year, he let me choose and I had just read about Delray Beach.

I thought it would be interesting to go there and rent. Then we rented in Ocean Ridge, and bought our house in Pelican Cove. I never thought I’d live in a gated community, but it’s so easy.”

Benisch doesn’t share her husband’s passion for golf, but she has some passions of her own. She makes items with shells and creates jewelry with her daughter, which she sells through her business, Dragonfly; and gardening has become an obsession.

“I started gardening when I

Christina Benisch’s award-winning arrangement in the “Fungus Among Us” class at the Garden Club of Palm Beach’s show. moved from New York City,” she said. “We bought Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn’s home on five acres in Eason, which is now for sale. It had some serious gardens, but Jessica had gardeners. When I bought it, I had only me, myself and I to do the gardening.”

Here, she planned and planted the gardens around her home in Ocean Ridge, which was “a wasteland” when she bought it.

Now it’s blooming beautifully, and she recently won the blue ribbon in the Garden Club of Palm Beach’s show, “From the Ground Up” in the “Fungus Among Us” class, using plants from her garden (bromeliads, sago palm, kukuma fern, protea).

“I had some interesting pieces of fungus that I bought from a flea market in Connecticut, and when I learned about the “Fungus Among Us” class, I said, ‘Aha! I can use that,’ and I found this container made of bamboo wood. I knew I had the props that would work, and I was thrilled that I won. I felt like Cinderella. It was a nice achievement.”

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

A. I was born in Trinidad and grew up in Ghana, South Africa, Mauritius and East Africa. My father was with the British Colonial Service, so we traveled extensively, which gave me a love of

adventure and a somewhat nomadic existence after my college years. My school years, from age 10 to 18, were spent in convent boarding schools in Cape Town, South Africa and Sussex, England. This was “the English way” at the time and it gave me an independence and self-sufficiency, although at times it was a rather lonely childhood.

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

A. My first job was working for a film producer and theatrical agent in London, after which I worked for a safari company in Kenya in the early ’70s where I organized safaris for Stewart Granger and the king of Bhutan among others. I also worked on the movie Living Free.

In Nairobi I was hired as a flight attendant for Pan Am because I spoke French and Swahili and had to make the in-flight announcements in those languages. It was a glamorous job in those days as we flew all over the world and met lots of interesting people and celebrities. There were many highlights, but I remember most of all the dangers of being in Tehran when the shah was overthrown and his image was being burned in the street outside our hotel, and also being in a coup in Liberia when the army rebels took over the country.

I now operate an antiques and design business in Connecticut and Delray as well as create shell and coral mirrors, lamps and cachepots for decorators and designers in the area.

Q. How/when did you begin flower arranging?

A. Moving from Manhattan to Connecticut 15 years ago gave me a new appreciation of nature and a love of flowers. I joined a garden club up north and became hooked. I now belong to the Grass River Garden Club as well as the Ocean Ridge Garden Club down here.

I am constantly walking Old Ocean Boulevard picking up discarded palm fronds, seeds, twigs and assorted flotsam and jetsam for various floral projects.

Q. How did you choose to make your home in Ocean Ridge?

A. Once our daughters were in college we decided to head south for the winters. As my husband is a golfer, Florida was a no-brainer and I liked the

sound of the Delray area as it was small and artsy. We rented from a friend who had a home in Ocean Ridge, fell in love with the community and bought shortly thereafter.

Q. What is your favorite part about living in Ocean Ridge?

A. The sun and the sea. Looking at the water every single day. The small-town atmosphere. It is easy to get involved in life here and to make friends.

Q. What book are you reading now?

A. I just finished reading Black and White Sands, by Elma Napier, a biography of a British aristocratic family who gave up their lifestyle and went to live in Dominica in the 1930s.

Recommended by a friend who lives between Ocean Ridge and Dominica. I am about to start Canada, by Richard Ford, also recommended by a friend.

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

A. Well it was “Just do it,” but I opened this month’s Oprah magazine and a quote jumped out: “Instead of worrying about getting older, we can focus on leading a brilliant life.” I thought that was kind of cool, so it may become my new mantra.

Q. Have you had mentors in your life?

Individuals who have inspired your life decisions?

A. Many individuals have inspired my life decisions at different times through the years, but I will always remember the kindness and gentleness of my father and the courage and humor of my brother as being inspirational.

I turn to my practical and grounded husband to provide a balance to my occasionally erratic and out-of-the-box ideas and notions.

Q. If your life story were made into a movie, who would you want to play you?

A. Probably Dustin Hoffman, who did such a good job with Tootsie.

Q. Who/what makes you laugh?

A. Silly below-the-belt British humor and my witty and irreverent daughters, who constantly poke fun at me and tweet my motherly faux pas and malapropisms for all the world to see. As they say, if you can’t laugh at yourself …

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Arts Garage gets chance to buy its home

By Betty Wells

The Arts Garage, Delray’s Beach’s small, popular music and theater venue, needs to raise $2.5 million in 30 months to pay the city for its home — 10,000 square feet of retail space at the Old School Square parking garage. The executive director believes it can happen.

Dozens of residents praised the nonprofit during an April 16 public hearing packed with more than 200 people at City Hall. The City Commission then voted to let the Arts Garage stay in the spot and have until 2015 to pay for it.

The law firm Kanner & Pintaluga had wanted to buy the space, saying it needs room to expand from about 90 employees to 200.

Proposed were three options: sell the space to the firm for $2.5 million; sell about half the space to the firm for about $1 million, leaving the Arts Garage in place; or sell all the space to the firm Schmier and Fuerring, which would have leased it back to the Arts Garage. The commission unanimously rejected those options.

“The answer is clear,” said Mayor Cary Glickstein. “The best user for that space is the performing arts center we are lucky enough to have there now.”

Commissioners Shelly Petrolia and Angeleta Gray voted with Glickstein; Adam Frankel voted no, and Al Jacquet was absent.

Alyona Ushe, executive director of Creative City Collaborative, the nonprofit that runs the Arts Garage, said the organization has raised about $700,000 in the past year.

When created a little more than two years ago, the group got 75 percent of its budget from the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency. Now, it’s the opposite — the CRA portion is 25 percent, she said, as the CCC has received donations and grants from national and local foundations.

“Two and a half million dollars for a capital campaign is not a lot of money,” she said.

“There’s no reason we shouldn’t be able to raise that.”

After the meeting Petrolia said that she, too, was confident the nonprofit could raise the money. “I’m not really surprised at the support people have shown,” she said. “It brings so much to the city, and the right decision was to keep it.”

Kenner & Pintaluga offered the city $1.7 million for the property last year. The Arts Garage then told the city it would offer up to $2.5 million.

The law firm matched that.

Jensen Grant, a lawyer with Kenner & Pintaluga, told commissioners that the firm has grown from 10 or 12 employees in 2006 to 94. The employees are not an insular community, he said, and eat lunch and dinner in the city. The firm is at 101

Pugliese’s Way. “Unfortunately unless we’re given the additional space here in downtown Delray, we’re probably going to be looking at moving out of Delray Beach,” Grant said.

Frankel said he was “disappointed in the campaign of fear put on by the Arts Garage,” and said he believed the city should accommodate both organizations. Boynton Beach has made incentive offers to the law firm, and Frankel said “we’ll … be reading about Boynton Beach rolling out the red carpet” for the firm.

Glickstein said that while an expanded law firm is a welcome addition, “it does little to advance our long-term goals.”

The mayor cited a study, Arts & Economic Prosperity IV, by the nonprofit Americans for the Arts, that was released in 2012.

The study showed that nonprofit

arts and cultural organizations pumped almost $45 million into the Delray Beach economy in 2011, nearly four times as much as comparably populated cities such as Miami Beach; Boulder, Colo.; and Portland, Maine.

The study collected data from 12 nonprofit Delray Beach groups to calculate money spent in the community, jobs produced, how much audiences spend outside the venue and other effects.

The Arts Garage, in Old School Square at 180 NE First St., was not included in the study.

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n ancient times, Greeks and Romans revered mothers with special feasts honoring mother goddesses.

But Mother’s Day, as a modern-day holiday, is relatively young.

In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a resolution setting aside a specific day, the second Sunday in May, to honor the role that mothers play in family life — all because of the efforts of Anna Jarvis.

At age 12, she was inspired by her mom to celebrate mothers. She heard Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis say a class prayer to end a lesson See JEWELRY on page H2

Children’s book series earns local author a huge honor.

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TOP: Necklace of multicolored shell pearls, $195-$225. At Unique Boutique, Delray Beach.

ABOVE: Casta Flore flower ring with green and pink tourmaline, gold and diamonds, $2,900. At Furst, Delray Beach.

LEFT: Freshwater ‘soufflé’ baroque pearls; strand with 18k gold clasp with diamonds, $4,500. At Jewelry Artisans, Manalapan.

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At Harry’s Designer Jewels, owner Harry Vhagia recommends: • One-inch hand-crafted, heart pendants of sterling silver or 14k or 18k yellow or white gold, with diamonds, semiprecious or without stones, hearts in sterling silver or white gold for moms who prefer silver jewelry, from $200 to $5,000.

300 Esplanade No. 51, Royal Palm Place, Boca Raton; noon8 p.m. everyday; (561) 393-9899.

Continued from page H1 on mothers of the Bible: “I hope that someone, sometime will found a memorial mothers day commemorating her for the matchless service she renders to humanity in every field of life. She is entitled to it.”

The daughter never forgot that prayer, vowing on her mother’s Pennsylvania grave in 1905 to devote her life to dedicating a day to honor all mothers, living and deceased.

Jarvis never married and had no children.

She gave up her job to focus on writing letters to lobby elected leaders, clergy members, women’s clubs and anyone else she thought could influence the creation of a Mother’s Day. Fast-forward 99 years to Sunday, May 12. This Mother’s Day will celebrate traditional mothers, as well as honoring all women who nurture us.

True, it is more commercial than the day Jarvis conceived.

She valued handwritten letters and white carnations, her mom’s favorite flower.

But spending time contemplating the precise gift to please your mom may ease some of that guilt.

Many mothers are fond of jewelry, perfume or books. But to come to the right decision about a specific piece of jewelry, youngsters and adult children will need to do some detective work.

What type of metal does she prefer: sterling silver, yellow or white gold, or platinum?

What type of gemstone does she prefer? The American Gem Trade Association lists popular colored gemstones and cultured pearls with lore and background information on its website (www.agta.org).

What is her personal style — modern, traditional, classic or Art Deco?

Armed with that information, consumers then can successfully navigate a jewelry store.

Here are a few coastal jewelers to help with your selection:

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At Private Jewelers, the owner recommends: • Beautifully detailed stackable rings, one to represent each child. Exquisitely crafted in platinum, white, and yellow gold set with an array At Officine Panerai, sales associate Adam Narvez recommends: • Jaeger-LeCoultre RendezVous watch, rendition of timepiece from 1940s, very feminine, not too large and not too small, starts at

At Jewelry Artisans, store manager Emi Evans recommends: • Large freshwater “soufflé” extra-large baroque pearls, natural colors of peach, white and lavender; strand with 18k gold clasp with diamonds about $4,500 (above).

$14,000 in stainless steel, then $37,000 in 18k gold. The watch features a sun–moon indicator for day and night.

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• 7 carat diamondencrusted heart pendant, featuring pavé diamonds, in 18k white gold with chain, about $14,700.

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Photo provided of precious gemstones and diamonds, from $475-$2,500.

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At Furst jewelry store, owner Flavie Furst recommends: • Handmade initial letters in gold or silver with birthstone, $119, suitable for young or older mothers.

• For gold earrings, semiprecious and precious stones, $500-$600, suitable for young or older mothers.

• Diamond stud sitting atop a flower, $600, for moms 25-35.

• Casta flore ring that features green and pink tourmaline on a gold band with diamonds, $2,900, for moms 35-55 (right).

123 NE Second Ave., Delray Beach; 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m., Mon.-Sat.; 272-6422.

At Unique Boutique, owner Karen Beaton recommends: • Multicolored shell pearls, in single strands, $195-$225, with magnetic clasps (right).

• Sterling silver freshwater pearl collars in one-of-akind design, $350$795.

• Collection of Tahitian pearl jewelry (earrings and strands), starting at $1,700.

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If tea suits Mom, there are plenty of choices brewing

By Jan Norris Those looking to take tea with Mom near her big day this month have a few traditional choices, or they can go mod at the Ritz-Carlton.

Afternoon tea — the ritual of a pot of tea served with little sandwiches and sweets on silver trays — has given way to test tubes and whoopie pies at the Ritz in Manalapan.

Hotel spokeswoman Christine DiRocco explains, “It’s more like a coffee break.

Tables are set for couples.

We bring a pot of water and you choose your teas — they’re loose leaf — from test tubes. The server presents an assortment and then pops the cork on them and lets you sniff.”

They’re served with a few sweet tidbits, also contemporary. Red velvet whoopee pies, Temple Orange marmalade with scones, the house-made banana bread and a chocolate-covered strawberry are among the offerings.

“We’re keeping it more casual,” DiRocco said.

That’s in contrast to the Victorian-style teahouse set up in Delray’s TeaLicious Tea Room.

Mirjana Matesic, the owner, said her version of the tea is more like a high tea — the afternoon meal for commoners — with more substantial sandwiches and sweets. “We serve high tea any time of day — we embellish it.”

The terms “afternoon” and “high” tea confuse Americans who eat on a different timetable than most Europeans, she said.

“Europeans eat a later lunch that stands in for dinner, and they need something in their stomachs to tide them until bed later. High tea is an actual meal, and it was served at home.

Afternoon tea was served with the scones and clotted cream, light finger bits, and served in the grand hotels as an afternoon break from shopping or socializing.”

The term “high tea” refers to the height of the home dining table, versus the lower tables set in most parlors around tufted chairs and sofas.

Her version is set in a tearoom reminiscent of English parlors, with mismatched chairs, table linens, flowers and the three-tiered trays.

The prix-fixe meal includes soup and salad, and a variety of canapés like stuffed mushrooms and mini-quiches, which are followed with several hot and cold sandwiches — walnut chicken salad, grilled chicken panini, turkey reuben and a smoked salmon croissant. Crab and shrimp salad, spanikopita, crab cakes and a vegetarian hummus with grilled eggplant, sweet peppers, tomato and fresh mozzarella bring a different flavor to this tea. The classics, egg salad and

If you go

TeaLicious Tea Room 4997 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach 638-5155; tealicioustearoom.com Tea served MondaySaturday, 11:30-4 p.m.

The Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach 100 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan 533-6000; ritzcarlton.com Tea served daily, 3-5 p.m.

The Chesterfield 363 Cocoanut Row, Palm Beach 659-5800; chesterfieldpb. com Tea served daily, 3-5 p.m.

Café des Beaux-Arts at the Flagler Museum 1 Whitehall Way, Palm Beach 655-2833; flaglermuseum.us Tea served Mother’s Day weekend; the cafe is then closed until November.

cucumber sandwiches, also are available.

More than 60 teas are offered — and Matesic can tell teagoers about the health benefits of each. “We have green teas and teas for detox. I drink teas for my health.”

But she appreciates those who want the true experience and offers them to both adults and children — the Princess Tea for is just for youngsters aged 5 to 10.

“Of course, we serve scones we bake here every day. We fill them up,” Matesic said. “Some leave with a doggie bag.”

A similar but scaled-back version is at the Chesterfield in Palm Beach, a Brit-owned hotel. In its cozy library, among stuffed chairs and the low tables, the hotel present a selection of traditional and flavored teas, scones, clotted cream, preserves, pastries and four sandwiches — egg salad, sliced cold chicken with arugula and herb mayonnaise, cucumber with butter, and smoked salmon with a dill cream cheese.

Also available here is the “cream tea” — the tea service with only scones and cream.

Chesterfield spokeswoman Joy Groover said groups can arrange the “Victorian

TOP: Friends Josepha Peters of Winter Haven, Shake Potoukian of Fort Lauderdale, Cecile Guekjian of Miami and Rosemary VanWitzenburg of Fort Lauderdale raise a cup at TeaLicious Tea Room in Delray Beach. The women meet all over the state to try different tea rooms.

ABOVE: Daniella Russo, 8, a second-grader at Morikami Park Elementary School, sips her decaffeinated cherry vanilla tea at TeaLicious Tearoom.

ABOVE RIGHT: The Abigail Rose at TeaLicious offers a variety of freshly made canapes, tea sandwiches, fresh ripe fruits, mini sweets and warm scones served with preserves.

Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star tea experience,” with teamaximum. leaf readers and women in If using sugar or lemon Victorian dresses lecturing in the tea, the sugar goes in on the history of tea, and tea the cup first, then a thin slice etiquette. (never a wedge) of lemon, then A special afternoon tea the water poured over the luncheon also is presented at strainer full of loose teas (never the Café des Beaux-Arts at the bags — an abomination to Flagler Museum for Mother’s traditionalists).

Day weekend. In season, the Milk goes in last, if at all. tea lunch is served Tuesdays The superstition is “to put through Saturdays. milk in your tea before sugar The Breakers no longer offers is to cross the path of love” — afternoon tea. perhaps leaving you unwed.

For a proper tea, there are Lemon and milk (not cream) rules, of course. are never served in the same Greet the host or hostess cup as the milk will curdle. first, then other guests.

The spoon is always placed The hostess always pours if a behind the cup on the saucer butler or maid isn’t present, and and never left in the cup. in her own good time. She may The cup is lifted by holding ask if you’d like sugar and how the cup handle with thumb many lumps. Two should be a and all four fingers; the pinky-

Tea comes in glass test tubes at the Ritz-Carlton. Photo provided

up move is an affectation. It’s impolite to look over the rim of the cup as you drink.

If you are not served by a butler, use fingers to choose one or two small items from the trays. Typically, the savory foods are eaten first, but since scones are baked especially for the teas, you’re encouraged to eat these first while they’re warm. Scones are split with the knife, and cream and preserves are placed on the serving plate.

Condiments are spread on each bite separately. No proper tea foods should require fork and knife; they’re eaten out of hand.

Leading up to Mother’s Day, the teas in area tearooms are booked ahead; reserve in advance and for large groups at any day. For the special TeaLicious Tea Room Mother’s Day tea, there are two seatings and by reservation only. The Chesterfield and the RitzCarlton will offer Mother’s Day brunches instead. Ú

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Paws Up for Pets

ABOVE: A special memorial statue will honor retired canine officer Drake, a former patient of Dr. Ken Simmons, that died of bullet wounds after a burglary at its home.

RIGHT: Dr. Ken Simmons visits with Zeek Moore, Hannah Banana Marinus and Lexi Panitz in the Doggie Day Care at the Barkeritaville Lagoon at Simmons Veterinary Hospital in Lake Worth. Libby Volgyes/ The Coastal Star

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Vet seeks better legal status for police canines

hen I first came to Palm Beach County to begin my career as a reporter for the Sun-Sentinel, one of my biggest moving challenges was finding the right veterinarian for my cats, Little Guy and Callie. That was 1987 — well before the Internet exploded with business websites, Facebook, phone apps and other social media venues.

Back then, one had to rely on word of mouth in finding a good veterinarian and other

health professionals. I put my reporting skills to use, interviewing dozens of people in my neighborhood and in the newsroom who had cats and dogs. They shared unfiltered feedback on their veterinarians.

In the end, the name that came popping up at the top was Ken Simmons, DVM, a veterinarian in Lake Worth. For the nine years that I lived in Lantana, he helped keep my feline twosome healthy.

At the time, he had a

conventional practice with a lobby often filled with dogs, cats and other companion animals. He was a young veterinarian, just five years out of earning his degree from the University of Florida, but was already showing signs of being innovative, progressive and most of all, eager to help pets beyond exams and veterinary procedures.

Fast forward to today.

Simmons is no longer my veterinarian, but that is strictly because of geography. I now share my home in San Diego County with two dogs, Chipper and Cleo (who surf!) and two cats, Zeki and Murphy. My foursome receive twice-a-year wellness examinations by the veterinary team at Melrose Animal Hospital. I learned decades ago from Simmons of the importance of such visits that can often help veterinarians detect and treat health conditions early, before they advance and before they become expensive.

In researching ideas for this pet column, I stumbled onto Simmons’ website. In addition to conventional veterinary care provided, his clinic also houses the Barkers Hotel, the Purrington Inn and the Bark Park playgrounds. He has evolved from being strictly a veterinarian to creating a one-stop place featuring pet activities and amenities.

But what caught my attention is his efforts to not only memorialize one of his

former canine patients, but to change the law to provide more medical benefits for police dogs throughout Florida. In late November, three people broke into the Greenacres home of Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Bobby Boody. He was not home, but his retired K9 patrol dog Drake was. Drake, a muscular, 80-pound German shepherd, was shot five times.

When he was brought to the Simmons Veterinary Hospital, Simmons went to work to try to save his life.

“There were two bullet holes in his head, he was shot two times in the neck and a fifth bullet shattered his left leg,” recalls Simmons. “We were able to stabilize him, but he had lost a lot of blood and I was concerned about a bullet that had hit his esophagus. There was also a mass in his abdomen about the size of a watermelon.

So, I made arrangements to have Drake flown to the University of Florida in Gainesville where there was a team of surgeons waiting for his arrival.”

Sadly, Drake’s condition worsened and the decision was made to euthanize him the day after Thanksgiving. His death has motivated Simmons to champion the cause of police dogs, both active and retired.

He is proposing the Police K9 Bill of Rights to Florida legislators that would provide lifetime medical benefits to these dogs, reclassify them as canine law enforcement officers — not equipment — and protect

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In addition, Simmons hired artist Jocelyn Russell to create a life-sized bronze sculpture of Drake at his clinic’s Barkeritaville Dog Park. The base will inscribe the names, dates and departments of service dogs across the country killed in the line of duty or died of natural causes.

His hope is to unveil Drake’s statue at a special ceremony by Memorial Day. “For 25 years, I’ve been putting the names of my patients who have passed on in memorial stones, but I felt compelled to do more for Drake,” says Simmons. “I remembered Drake when he was a healthy, strong police dog and that is the image that comes through in his bronze statute.

He protected us and that is why I am pushing hard for a bill of rights for all police dogs.

Together, we can do the right thing for these amazing dogs.”

To learn more about the Drake Memorial Project, visit www.simmonsvet.com.

Arden Moore, founder of FourLeggedLife.com, is an animal behavior consultant, editor, author, professional speaker and master certified pet first aid instructor. Each week, she hosts the popular Oh Behave! show on PetLifeRadio. com. Learn more by visiting www. fourleggedlife. com.

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May 2013

Finding Faith

Cafe Esperanza trainees get ‘helping hand’ toward new career, fresh start

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oca Helping Hands is getting a helping hand from the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce in its new jobtraining initiative to fight poverty.

Café Esperanza — a new catering service that provides training to the unemployed — started by catering a lunch for new chamber members.

“Everything was delicious,” chamber President Troy McLellan proclaimed afterward. He encouraged others to try the catering service, too.

Boca Helping Hands, an interfaith effort known primarily for its soup kitchen and food pantry, graduated its first 10 catering students on April 10.

Students go through three phases of training to

gain hospitality industry experience and prepare for restaurant jobs.

“We are taking bold steps to break the crippling cycle of poverty that grips so many families,” Helping Hands executive director James Gavrilos said.

Gavrilos said he was particularly proud to have the chamber as Café Esperanza’s first client.

“Only when the business community and the nonprofit community come together can we effectively wage the war on poverty,” he said. “We hope the business community will consider using Café Esperanza for their staff lunches, business breakfasts and teambuilding dinners.”

The chamber has more than 1,300 businesses as members.

McLellan said he hoped being

Cafe Esperanza catering student Alex Depas (right) serves hors d’oeuvres to George Taylor and Noreen Burpee Salah at the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce lunch. Photo provided the first client would give “a comfort level” for others.

“Our message was that we’re using them and you should, too,” he said.

Mayor Susan Whelchel, a guest at the March 12 luncheon, also applauded the food.

“I thought it was absolutely outstanding,” the mayor said.

“I will use them the next time I need a caterer.”

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Roxane Lipton was searching for a purpose 10 years ago when she moved from New York City to Boca Raton.

“I didn’t play golf. I didn’t play cards. I needed something to do,” she said.

So Lipton joined the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County and met with a small group of women in her home to discuss an idea.

A decade later, the Jewish Women’s Foundation that Lipton founded has given $560,000 in grants to help Jewish women and children here and around the world.

“Women loved the idea of being able to give to other women and children,” Lipton said. “We found that women face similar problems all over the world.”

Sixty women each give $2,000 every year and then decide the most worthy causes that will receive their money.

“We work collaboratively to fund our commitments and engage in a lively and stimulating evaluation process to allocate our resources,” foundation chairwoman Mara Reuben said.

“Our understanding of the challenges confronting Jewish

women and children, locally and globally, has deepened along with our resolve to impact their lives and future,” Reuben said.

The foundation received 80 grant proposals this year.

Three local programs that received grants were iPads for Autism, the PJ Library and Let’s Get Healthy.

The iPads library lending program is a cutting-edge way to educate women and children with autism to unlock their potential. The PJ Library (see below) teaches the tenets of Judaism through children’s books. The third program provides nutrition counseling to 20 single women who receive food from the Jacobson Family Food Pantry.

Women in Israel received grants to complete college, excel in science and technology, and run successful campaigns for elective offices.

Jewish children in Boca Raton, Delray Beach and Highland Beach are getting free books in the mail.

The books from PJ Library celebrate Jewish culture, values and tradition.

Registration is under way for 3,000 families with children ages 6 months to 8 years to receive books in their mailboxes each month.

To promote the opportunity, nearly 50,000 sample books were mailed out last month. The books come with a resource guide to help parents share the experience.

PJ stands for pajamas.

Joanna Drowos, a physician and mother to two preschoolers, launched the book giveaway in South Palm Beach County with other mothers.

“PJ Library provides families with the perfect

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platform to spent time together, combining Jewish values with a love of reading,” Drowos said. “I can’t think of a better way to engage young Jewish families and strengthen our community now and for the future.”

Parents can contact library director Elana Ostroff at (561) 852-6080 or go to www. pjlibrary.org to register.

“This extraordinary program will help us embrace and engage the next generation,” library chairwoman Ilene Wohlgemuth said.

Worship by The Avenue Church is now a tradition at the largest annual festivals in downtown Delray Beach, their organizer says.

Nancy Stewart-Franczak, who organizes Delray Affair and Garlic Fest, says vendors hesitated to work Sundays when she first expanded the festivals into three-day events.

Then she included The Avenue Church worship service on stage at Old School Square on Sunday mornings.

“A lot of people have told me it was a blessing to them.

They had struggled over whether to participate in our events,” Stewart said. “Now it’s become a tradition that The Avenue Church uses the main stage at Old School Square for all the events we do.”

Church volunteers washed dishes at Garlic Festival this year and participated in other downtown events that Stewart organizes for the Chamber of Commerce.

Senior pastor Casey Cleveland is delighted by the opportunity.

“Jesus was always with the people,” he said. “We want to go as Christ went.”

More than 1,000 people braved pouring rain to celebrate a bar mitzvah at Mizner Park Amphitheater for the synagogue that’s become a vibrant center of Jewish life in East Boca Raton.

CROS Ministries members Carolina Martinez, 27, (left) of West Palm Beach and Tracy Tenore, 28, (right) of Boynton Beach paint the house of Delray Beach resident Willie Lee Thomas, 89, with the help of SonCoast Church member Dot Bast (center) of Delray Beach during ‘Curb Appeal by the Block 2013.’ Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star

Dr. Allen Bezner of Highland Beach, who later received the Maimonides’ Physicians Award from Chabad of East Boca, sits next to Marjory Bitson and Alan Bergstein in the front row during Chabad’s bar mitzvah at Mizner Park. Photo by Lisa Nalven Chabad of East Boca, the only synagogue east of Federal Highway, drew a crowd on March 20 with the

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We will be having two singing camps this summer taught by renowned Delray Beach Chorale Director, Eric Keiper.

The first camp is for students ages 6 to 12 for two weeks starting June 17th. The second camp is for students ages 13 to 18 for one week starting July 8th. For further camp information, call 561-276-6347.

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first Boca Raton appearance of Mordechai Ben David, a popular Hasidic singer and songwriter.

“Rather than celebrate our bar mitzvah year with a dinner that limits participation, we wanted to do something that would bring the greater community together,” Rabbi Ruvi New said. “Nothing does it quite like music.”

Ethan Bortnick, 12, the youngest entertainer to headline a Las Vegas show, also performed. The Freilach Orchestra and Shira Choir flew from New York City to join in. The synagogue presented 15 awards for outstanding contributions to the Boca Raton community.

Howard Kaye received the Community Service Award.

The Kosher Market Place was judged best for kosher quality.

Jewish music returns to the

Mizner Park Amphitheater on May 19 for a 65th anniversary celebration to honor the state of Israel.

The Maccabeats are young men who perform a cappella, with a fan base of more than 10 million views on YouTube.

Israeli folk dancers from the Donna Klein Jewish Academy also will perform.

Children’s activities at the free event start an hour before the 4 p.m. stage show.

Organizers expect thousands to attend.

Tim Pallesen writes about people of faith, their congregations, causes and community events.

Email him at tcpallesen@ aol.com.

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Secret Gardens RIGHT: A full-size pirate ship complete with cannons and a gang plank is shaded by massive oak trees in the side yard of David Nordhausen’s Boca Raton home.

BELOW: Botanical highlights of his yard include; the underside of mature bird’s-nest fern, a heliconia bloom and a vivid red bromeliad.

Photos by Jerry Lower/ The Coastal Star

Ahoy! Look out for pirate’s private paradise on garden tour

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f asked to describe the garden at David Nordhausen’s home in Boca Raton, I’d tell you it’s Tarzan meets Captain Kidd. After all, Nordhausen has created the closest thing he could to a jungle in his front yard and, in his side yard, yes, he has a pirate ship complete with plank.

“I’ve always thought of myself as a pirate,” says Nordhausen who is an arborist by profession and a buccaneer for amusement.

He fell in love with lush vegetation after traveling to Guatemala, Costa Rica, and the Caribbean islands. When he got

home he realized there wasn’t much in his front yard. “So I decided to create a controlled jungle unlike anything I’d found in Florida,” he says.

This is just one of the homes you can visit as part of the Mounts Connoisseurs Garden Tour on May 11 and 12, sponsored by Mounts Botanical Garden in West Palm Beach. In its 10th year, the tour will also feature homes with plenty of bromeliads and tropical fruit trees as well as the “over-thetop” garden of a Palm Beach mansion.

While these gardens are fun to see, the tour is designed

to educate. “Our mission is to show people how they can garden in Palm Beach County and to let them experience different styles of gardens,” says Mounts Botanical Garden Director David Sistrunk.

In 1990, Nordhausen bought his property because it had four live oak trees on it. “These trees had never been butchered so they spread way out,” he says.

Today they also tower 40 feet into the air.

He added two royal poincianas to create a dense canopy. Then he set his sprinkler system to mist the air. The water trapped under the trees creates the perfect microclimate for his exotic plants.

It’s also a nice place for humans because, on any day, the temperature under the trees is 15 to 20 degrees cooler than anywhere else, he says.

As you follow the Chicago brick paths, you’ll find the giant leaves of the philodendron monstera climbing the trunk of an oak as it reaches for the sun.

A giant antler fern hangs from a limb.

The charming fans of the Fiji palm, a banana tree and a spreading travelers palm add to the greenery. And a Japanese maple with delicate orange flowers fills a terra cotta pot.

Stand quietly for a minute and you’ll recognize the rich resonating tones coming from the hand-tuned wind chime in a poinciana tree. Its music fills the air as does the murmur of water spilling over two fountains. On cool nights, Nordhausen lights the fire pit in this outdoor living room.

At the end of his property you come to a large gate made from well-aged wood found in Mexico and dating back to the 1850s. It’s edged with copper and sports hand-forged iron hardware. Don’t miss the carved wood sign announcing that The Defiant, Nordhausen’s pirate ship, is “anchored” behind the gate. The skull and cross bones flag on the fence removes any doubt.

Through the gate you come upon the stern of the ship set under and around a towering

If You Go

The Mounts Connoisseurs Garden Tour, May 11 and 12, includes visits to six private gardens on Saturday; and, on Sunday, a garden in Palm Beach plus Mother’s Day Tea at Mounts Botanical Garden, 532 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach, where representatives from local plant societies will answer your gardening questions.

Tour tickets good for both days $25; $20 for Mounts members. At time of purchase, you will receive information about the gardens on the tour and directions.

For locations to purchase tickets, visit mounts.org or call 233-1757. oak tree. “At first I thought I’d build a deck that would look like a ship. But when I found a carpenter who loves boats, I decided to build a ship to use as a deck,” he says.

There’s a pier with pilings and a ramp that leads onto the main deck. Notice the authentic cannons and deck guns.

Nordhausen says two of the cannons are 10-pound Dutch armaments from 1610.

With all this going on you may have questions about the eclectic mix of plants.

Two master gardeners will be stationed at each home on the tour to answer your gardening questions.

Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley is a certified master gardener who can be reached at debhartz@att. net when she’s not digging in her yard.

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Pencil in first Fridays for the dying art of letter-writing

By Ron Hayes Hardly anybody sends them anymore. Almost everybody still loves them to get them.

We telephone. We email. We text.

Some even tweet.

But how many people send old-fashioned letters, written with a pen, sealed with a kiss?

“I got a letter in the mail one day and it was a revelation,” says John Cutrone. “I stood at the mailbox thinking, ‘Look, I got a real letter!’ ” A friend in Maine had actually taken the time to write.

Imagine that.

Cutrone, director of the Arthur & Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts at Florida Atlantic John Cutrone, director of the Arthur & Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts at Florida Atlantic University, was inspired. He would brew a pot of coffee, put University and founder of Real Mail Fridays, talks as AnnaMaria Windisch-Hunt applies postage to one of her 20 thank-you notes. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star out a plate of cookies, provide some nice pens and India ink, said. “The mailman has been fancy paper, and invite the my best friend because I not public to stop by and write. only sent beautiful letters, I “Real Mail Fridays” was received them.” born.

As the Cuban rhythms of the On the first Friday of each Buena Vista Social Club played month between 4 and 6 p.m., softly in the background, a small but dedicated band of Windisch-Hunt added ornate correspondents gathers on the decorations to an envelope, the fourth floor of the university’s first of 20 thank-you notes to Wimberly Library to make those friends. someone near or far stand by a At the next table, Diane mailbox and exclaim, “Look, I Schwartz of Delray Beach sat got a real letter!” intently filling a page with the “It’s just about spreading lyrically cursive script kids the joy I got from receiving a don’t seem to learn anymore. simple letter,” says Cutrone.

“Dear Coz,” she began — a “Plus we’re going to save the birthday letter to her cousin in post office.”

Boca Raton.

Judith Klau of Delray Beach chats with other letter writers while He’s joking, but the U.S. “Instead of buying composing a letter to her grandson, Pfc. Joshua Sandage, 21, Postal Service isn’t. It lost one of those cards with a who is stationed at Fort Benning, GA. almost $16 billion last year. The manufactured sentiment, I’m nation’s love affair with email telling her why I love her,” said is only a small factor in the Schwartz. “Letters are very dear downturn — mandated pension to me.” payments bear most of the So dear, in fact, that blame — but the challenge is so Schwartz is the author of great the postal service briefly Girl Friend, a self-published, flirted with an end to Saturday epistolary novel of World War deliveries.

II. Every Forever stamp helps.

“When I was a kid in World At the group’s third meeting, War II,” she said, “I met a Free on April 5, a woman named French sailor whose ship had AnnaMaria Windisch-Hunt docked in New York. I saw that arrived from Lake Worth cute beret with the pompon …” with a list of 20 names and They became friendly, and addresses. Her bicycle had been when he sailed for France, the stolen from her van recently, sailor wrote her. she explained, and these 20 “Dear Debra … I prefer Diane Schwartz of Delray Beach writes a birthday letter to her Facebook friends had chipped much more the short evenings in to get her a new one. with you than the long Sundays cousin in Boca Raton. Schwartz is the author of Girl Friend, a self-published novel of World War II. “I’m also a calligrapher,” she without you …”

A detail of a seagrape leaf AnnaMaria Windisch-Hunt was mailing as a thank-you note.

If You Go

What: “Real Mail Fridays” — an effort to revive the dying art of snail-mail.

Where: The Arthur & Mata Jaffe Center for Books Arts in the Wimberly Library, 777 Glades Road on the Florida Atlantic University campus.

When: 4-6 p.m. on the first Friday of each month.

Cost: A donation of $10 is requested.

For more information: visit www.jaffecollection. org or call (561) 297-0455.

Schwartz is 87, but she still has, and treasures, that letter. It appears verbatim in her novel, with the names changed.

“The only people who write letters are people in their declining years,” she lamented.

“We were taught grammar, and how to write, and how to express ourselves. Nobody does that anymore.”

Judith Klau of Delray Beach sat beside her, composing a letter to her grandson, Pfc. Joshua Sandage, who is 21 years old and stationed at Fort Benning, Ga. Is it true that young people don’t send real mail anymore?

“To me he does,” Klau said.

“He’s written two wonderful letters to me, and I’ve written about 21 to him. At least.”

Meanwhile, Cutrone, the director who started Real Mail Fridays, was satisfied with a small, unadorned sheet of paper and black ink.

He was writing to FAU President Mary Jane Saunders, he said, just a simple note to thank her for her support.

He thought it might make her feel good, Cutrone said, to get a real letter. Ú

Gardening Calendar Note: Events are current as of 4/26. Please check with organizers for any changes.

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Saturday - 5/4 - Urban Farming: Vegetables Growing & Bees at Mounts Botanical Garden, 559 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Learn how to grow summer vegetables in the sub-tropics and how to prepare a garden for next season’s harvest. The Palm Beach County Beekeepers Association will also provide helpful information. Attendees receive a seedling to take home. 9 am-1 pm. $30/members, $40/ non-members. 233-1757.

Tuesday -5/7 - Boca Raton Garden Club General Meeting in the BRGC clubhouse, 4281 NW 3d Ave. Elizabeth Hoffman presents, “The Natural Preserve Areas of Boca Raton.” 1 pm. Free. 395-9376.

Saturday - 5/11 - Tropical and

Subtropical Fruit Workshop at the Clayton Hutcheson Building, 559 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Presented by Palm Beach County Cooperative Extension Service and University of Florida/IFAS. Learn how to handle environmental stress, nutrient and fertilizer management, irrigation management, pests and their control, pollination requirements and production of cultural practices of tropical and subtropical fruit. 9 am-4 pm. 233-1725 or www.pbcgov. com/coextension.

Saturday - 5/18 - Summer Gardening Strategies at Mounts Botanical Garden, Auditorium, 531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. It’s summertime and the growing will be easier with these sure-fire tips on how to help a garden thrive during the hot, humid season. Learn about plants that tolerate the heat & humidity. 9-11 am. $20/members, $25/non-members. 233-1757 or www. mounts.org.

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Healthy sex life life is ... healthy

few years ago, while recuperating from surgery on a broken leg, I visited a naturopathic medicine practitioner who had suffered a similar injury.

She gave me a lot of practical advice — including a line I will never forget.

“You will heal well if you eat nutritious food and get plenty of sleep and sex,” she said.

Hmm! I’d never had a doctor prescribe sex before.

Maybe Marvin Gaye was on to something when he wrote the lyrics to Sexual Healing: And when I get that feeling I want sexual healing Sexual healing is good for me Makes me feel so fine, it’s such a rush Helps to relieve the mind, and it’s good for us At the time, though, I just didn’t have “that feeling.” My libido was stuck in neutral.

Thanks to a new book, Kiss and Tell: Secrets of Sexual Desire from Women 15 to 97, I have been reassured that “neutral” is a natural state of being for women, especially those who’ve been with the same partner for many years.

“It’s not because we don’t like sex. It’s because we have about one-tenth the amount of testosterone (the sex-driveproducing hormone) men do,” says Anne Rodgers, a former Palm Beach Post editor who wrote the book along with Wellington gynecologist Dr. Maureen Whelihan. “So our partners need to learn ways to shift us into drive.”

The book is based on a survey of 1,300 women — all patients of Dr. Whelihan’s — and follow-up interviews with 100 of those patients. The women were asked questions such as what stimulates their desire, what they think about during sex, and what is their

Anne Rodgers (left) and Dr. Maureen Whelihan collaborated on the new book Kiss and Tell. Photo provided by Lee Hershfield

quickest route to orgasm.

Kiss and Tell is part social history (with first-person accounts of the impact of the 1960s sexual revolution) and part Penthouse Forum (it appeals to the voyeur in all of us). We meet Alexa, a self-described bisexual who enjoyed the swinger lifestyle for 16 years; 55-year-old Marie, who says she could go without sex and be fine with it; and Catherine, who had her first orgasm at 82. The survey includes women who are single, married, divorced,

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widowed, straight, lesbian and bisexual.

“There are a million things that stimulate women’s desire,” Rodgers says. “One woman wrote, ‘the smell of suntan lotion.’ Another wrote, ‘wearing tight thong underwear.’ But for women of all ages, kissing ranked very high as the No. 1 trigger.”

I have to agree. A good kiss can launch a very good lovemaking session.

And as the book makes clear, women who have satisfying sex lives are happier.

But I wondered: Are they healthier? Why exactly is sex “good for us,” as Marvin Gaye put it?

Whelihan, who is a founding partner of the Center for Sexual Health and Education in West Palm Beach, was happy to address my question in an email.

“Sex is an integral part of both physical and emotional wellness,” she wrote. “There is an innate need to be touched.

Human contact stimulates the natural transmitters in the brain like dopamine and norepinephrine that give us drive and energy.

“Sexual activity burns calories and increases the heart rate and blood pressure,” she continued. “Stimulating the pelvic floor with thrusting and orgasm help maintain pelvic support as well as bladder function well into a woman’s 80s. Regular intercourse keeps the vagina supple and lubricated without the need for estrogen creams.

“Statistically,” she concluded, “women who have sex three times a week live seven years longer!”

All the more reason to discover the secrets of desire.

Kiss and Tell is available for sale online at kissandtellbook. com or Amazon.com.

Paula Detwiller is a freelance writer and lifelong fitness junkie. Find her at www. pdwrites.com.

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Health & Harmony Note: Events are current as of 4/26. Please check with organizers for any changes.

MAY 4 Saturday - 5/4 - Saturdays @ Sanborn: Yoga Class at Sanborn Square, 72 N. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton. Held every Sat. Registration: 8:45 am; class: 9 am. Free. 393-7703.

5/4 - Jazzercise at the Boynton Beach Civic Center, 128 E. Ocean Ave. All ages and levels welcome. Class runs M-Sat. 9-10 am. Fees start at $38/month. 742-6240.

5/4 - Boca Bootcamp - Tuesdays & Saturdays at Spanish River Park, 3001 N. State Road A1A, Boca Raton. Class combines bodyweight exercises, cardio-kickboxing, and aerobics to build lean muscle and burn calories. For all levels of fitness. Try the first class for free.

Saturdays 9-10am. Per 4-pack: $40/resident, $50/non-resident; per 8-pack: $75/resident, $94/non-resident; per 12-pack: $100/resident, $125/non-resident. 393-7807.

5/4 - Yoga Class at the Train Depot, 747 S. Dixie Hwy., Boca Raton. Classes held M-Sat: 9:30-11 am & T: 6:30-8 pm. 5 classes: $65/residents, $81.25/non-residents; 10 classes: $110/ residents, $137.50/non-residents; 20 classes: $200/residents, $250/non-residents. 477-8727.

5/4 - Judo Class - Saturdays at the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd.

Warm-up exercises, instruction, practice and tournament training. Two sessions: Wednesdays - Mixed ages & ranks: 6:30-8 pm; Advanced: 8-9 pm; Saturdays - all groups: 10am-noon. Per month: $21.50/resident, $27/ non-resident. 393-7807.

5/4 - Capoeira Fitness for ages 12 & up at Sanborn Square, 72 N. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton. Classes held every Sat. 10:30 am. Free.

393-7703 or www.downtownboca.org.

5/4 - Zumba Class at the South Beach Park Pavilion, 400 N. State Road A1A, Boca Raton.

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

5/4-6 - Yoga Workout at the Beach - Held every Saturday, Sunday and Monday 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. Sat. & Sun.: 10-11 am; M: 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. Registration: 393-7807.

MAY 5-11 Sunday - 5/5 - Yoga with Live Music - Held every Sunday at the Colony Hotel, 525 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. 9:30-11 am. $20.

703-1236 or www.colonyyoga.com.

Monday - 5/6 - Jazzercise/Body Sculpting at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Sculpted arms, a strong core, tight glutes, and firm legs are the focus of this challenging 50-minute muscle toning workouts that feature a creative combination of weight training and stretching. Held every M & W. 8:45-9:35 am. First class is free. 8 classes: $56/ residents, $70/non-residents. 16 classes: $96/ residents, $120/non-residents. 347-3950.

5/6 - Mom’s Morning Workout at Boca Raton Community Center Annex, 260 Crawford Blvd. Lose weight, tone up, get sculpted and build endurance. M-W-F: 9-10 am. Per 6-pack: $90/resident, $112.50/non-resident; monthly membership: $150/resident, $187.50/nonresident. 393-7807.

5/6 - Yoga in the Garden with Rassika Sabine Bourgi at the Society of The Four Arts, Pannill Pavilion, 2 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach.

Held every M-W-F through 5/31. 9-10 am. $15 per session. Reservations: 805-8562.

5/6 - Jazzercise/Light at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton.

50-minute class pairs moderate aerobics with exercises designed to improve strength, balance, and flexibility. Held every M & W. 9:40-10:30 am. First class is free. 8 classes: $56/ residents, $70/non-residents. 16 classes: $96/ residents, $120/non-residents. 347-3950.

5/6 - 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. Held every Monday. 11 am-noon.

Per class: $15/residents; $20/non-residents.

243-7350.

5/6 - Parkinson’s Exercise Class at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Program provides exercises that work to improve one’s balance, flexibility and muscle strength. For all ages. Held every Monday. First class is free. 8 classes: $32/ residents, $40/non-residents. 16 classes: $60/ residents, $75/non-residents. 11:30 am-12:30 pm. 347-3950.

5/6 - Fletcher Pilates Fusion at the Delray Beach Community Center, 50 NW 1st Ave. Held M&W through 6/3. Noon-1 pm. $48/residents, $64/non-residents. (302) 420-7871.

5/6 - Bereavement Support Group meets every Monday at the Faulk Center for Counseling, 22455 Boca Rio Road, Boca Raton.

1-2:30 pm. First session free, $5 thereafter.

483-5300.

5/6 - Reality Diabetes: Food to Fit Into Your Lifestyle - Presented by Marci Sloane as part of the Healthy Living Series at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 2 pm.

Free. 736-8044.

5/6 - Body with Style Aerobics at the Ezell Hester, Jr. Community Center, 1901 N. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Held M&W. 6:30-7:30 pm. $3/at the door. 742-6550.

Tuesday - 5/7 - Cardio Sculpt at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Burn a ton of calories and rev up your metabolism in this challenging combination of strength training moves mixed with cardio intervals and core strengthening. Held every T&th. 8:45-9:30. 4 classes: $36/residents, $45/ non-residents; 8 classes: $66/residents, $82.50/ non-residents; 16 classes: $118/residents, $147.50/non-residents. 347-3950.

5/7 - Heartsaver Automated External Defibrillator (HSAED) at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, Education Center, 800 Meadows Road.

Learn adult, child and infant one person CPR. 9 am-noon. $30/class. Registration: 955-4468.

5/7 - Get Fit Mom’s Boot Camp at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Circuit-based workout incorporates cardio exercises, strength training, running drills, body weight resistance training, agility drills and core strengthening. Held every T & Th. 9:30-10:20. 1 class: $10/residents, $12.50/ non-residents; 4 classes: $36/residents, $45/ non-residents; 8 classes: $66/residents, $82.50/ non-residents; 16 classes: $118/residents, $147.50/non-residents. 347-3950.

5/7 - Beginners Yoga at the Highland Beach Library, 3618 S. Ocean Blvd. Enjoyable program helps you stay fit. Participants should bring their own yoga mat. Held every T & Th, 10:15 am; Chair Yoga: T, 11:30 am. $10. 278-5455.

5/7 - Superpath: The Latest in Hip Replacement - Presented by Elvis Grandic, M.D., Orthopaedic Surgeon, as part of the Community Lecture Series at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. 2-3 pm. Free. 731-2273.

5/7 - Women’s Issues Support Group meets every Tuesday at the Faulk Center for Counseling, 22455 Boca Rio Road, Boca Raton.

7-8:30 pm. First session free, $5 thereafter.

483-5300.

Wednesday - 5/8 - Yoga for Ages 18 and up at Veterans Park, 802 NE First St., Delray Beach. Held every W. 9-10:30 am. Per class: $10/

residents; $15/non-residents. 243-7350.

5/8 - Parkinson’s Exercise Class at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Program provides exercises that work to improve one’s balance, flexibility and muscle strength. All ages. Held Wednesdays.

First class is free. 8 classes: $32/residents, $40/ non-residents. 16 classes: $60/residents, $75/ non-residents. 2-3 pm. 347-3950.

5/8 - Divorced and Separated Support Group meets every Wednesday at the Faulk Center for Counseling, 22455 Boca Rio Road, Boca Raton. 6-7:30 pm. First session free, $5 thereafter. 483-5300.

5/8 - Family and Friends at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, Education Center, 800 Meadows Road, Boca Raton. Learn the basics of infant, child and adult CPR, relief of choking, and child and infant one-person CPR. Held again 5/22. 6-8 pm. $25. Registration: 9554468 or www.brrh.com.

5/8 - Tai Chi Class - Wednesdays at the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd.

Emphasizes moving meditation for focus, concentration, release of stress and attention skills. Two sessions: beginners, 6:10-7:10 pm; intermediate, 7:10-8:10 pm. 8 classes: $48/ residents, $60/non-residents; 12 classes: $66/ residents, $82/non-residents. 393-7807.

Thursday - 5/9 - Delray Beach Walkers Club at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach.

Sponsored by Ocean Rescue and Veterans Park Recreation Center. Held every Thursday. For ages 18 and up. 8 am. Free. 243-7352.

5/9 - Yoga Class at the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. Ongoing classes held Th. 6:30-8 pm. 5 classes: $65/residents, $81.25/

Health & Harmony H11 non-residents; 10 classes: $110/residents, $137.50/non-residents; 20 classes: $200/ residents, $250/non-residents. 477-8727.

MAY 12-18 Monday - 5/13 - Breastfeeding Prenatal Class at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Learn the benefits of breastfeeding, keys to success, supply and demand, positioning, breast pumps, returning to work and weaning. Both parents encouraged to attend. 6:30 pm. $25/couple.

Registration: 369-2229.

Tuesday - 5/14 - 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.

5/14 - Cataracts & Surgical Options Presented by Delray Medical Center’s Dr. Wayne Barish as part of the Healthy Living Series at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 3 pm. Free. 736-8044.

Wednesday - 5/15 - Childbirth Education Prenatal Class is offered as a four-week refresher course at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Provides an overview of the signs of labor, breathing techniques and more. Held again 5/22, 29 & 6/5. 6:30 pm. $75/couple.

Registration: 369-2229.

MAY 19-25 Tuesday - 5/21 - What to Do With my ‘Flopping’ Heart? Living with Atrial Fibrillation - Presented by Daniel Goldman,

M.D., Electrophysiologist, as part of the Bethesda Memorial Hospital Community Lecture Series at the West Boynton Beach Library, 9451 S. Jog Road. 2-3 pm. Free. 7345556.

5/21 - Heartsaver Automated External Defibrillator (HSAED) - Presented by Boca Raton Regional Hospital at the Fire Department, 6500 Congress Ave., Suite 200, Boca Raton. Class designed for the general public and teaches adult, child and infant oneperson CPR. 6-9 pm. $30/class. Registration: 955-4468 or www.brrh.com.

Thursday - 5/23 - Qigong Class at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Burns more calories standing still than if you were running. Bring a yoga mat or towel and wear comfortable clothing and shoes. Thursdays through 7/18. For ages 16 & up. 7-8 pm. Per session: $18/resident; $22.50/non-resident. Full eight-week session: $120/residents, $150/nonresidents. 347-3900.

MAY 26 - JUNE 1 Wednesday - 5/29 - Belly Dancing with Sherezzah at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. A fun, safe, low-impact exercise that can improve your strength, flexibility, coordination, cardio health, and selfconfidence. No experience or partner required.

Runs through 7/3. For adults. 12:30-1:30 pm. $60/residents, $65/non-residents. 243-7350.

Saturday - 6/1 - Pompey Park Walking Club at Pompey Park, 1101 NW 2nd St., Delray Beach.

Program designed to promote health and camaraderie. Runs through 8/31. 7 am and 6 pm. $5/residents, $6/non-residents. 243-7356.

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Business Spotlight Seasonal West Palm Beach resident Kay Paupore (Left) of Canton, Mich., buys shrimp from Lisa and Eric Finn of FinnAtic Fish Co. at the Delray Beach Green Market.

Kurtis Boggs/ The Coastal Star

Fisherman uses Web to put fish on tables

By Jane Smith

The owner of the Finn-Atic Fish Co. has the perfect last name for his fresh fish business: Finn.

Eric Finn, who was graduated from Florida Atlantic University in 2008 with a degree in marketing and a passion for spearfishing, soon soured on the corporate

world. He turned to his love of spearfishing to support himself as a commercial fisherman, selling to restaurants and retailers.

Then last year, he wanted to sell to consumers without the hassle and cost of a physical location. His Internet site went live in October, and is updated daily with the fresh fish available.

“Our specialty is hogfish,” he says of his spearfishing prowess. Hogfish sells for $19.99 a pound, making it the most expensive fish sold by Finn-atic. The fish is filleted by hand.

Lobster, when it is in season, is also popular. “We have a selective way of harvesting that doesn’t involve nets,” Finn, 27, says. “So there’s no waste.”

Finn-atic fish also is available at the Delray GreenMarket on Saturdays until mid-May and the Carnival Flea Market in west Delray Beach on Thursdays.

About half of the company’s sales come from the website, the rest from the markets. A sliding scale of delivery fees ($10-$30) is based on ZIP codes in Palm Beach and Broward counties; orders over $100 are delivered for free.

Wife Lisa, a schoolteacher and co-owner of Finn-atic, helps him at the GreenMarket.

His deckhand and all-around mate on the 23-foot Finn-atic fishing boat is Chris Burke.

Burke’s girlfriend, Christine Nocastro, works the Thursday market.

Finn is mulling the start of a subscription service this summer, so that consumers won’t have to log on to his website weekly but still can receive fresh fish each week.

He is also interested in putting coupons in monthly local magazines to help grow his business.

“Eventually, we’d like to get into shipping across the country,” Finn says. “Many of our green market customers are snowbirds who go back north for the summer but still want fresh fish.” Ú Finn-Atic Fish Co., www. finnaticfishco.com, 789-8316.

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Ocean Breeze Town Homes Ernie Varvarikos, Realtor, Architect Ocean Ridge Resident 561 704 8136 - Email: ernievarvarikos@gmail.com Author Harvey Oyer III has been named Florida Distinguished Author for his trilogy of children’s books.

Children’s author honored for history books

By Ron Hayes

A fifth-generation Floridian, former chairman of the Historical Society of Palm Beach County and prolific chronicler of this area’s pioneers, Harvey Oyer III knows Florida well.

But even he had never heard of the Florida Distinguished Author award, until he won it.

Oyer has been named the Distinguished Florida Author for 2013 by Florida House, a nonprofit, Oyer privately funded “embassy” situated across from the U.S. Supreme Court on Washington’s Capitol Hill.

The education committee, which also honors the visual arts, has named sea life painter Guy Harvey this year’s Distinguished Artist.

Both will be honored during a three-day celebration culminating May 16 with a dinner in the Grand Hall of the Library of Congress.

“I didn’t know anything about it until they notified me,” Oyer said, “There are many great authors associated with Florida — Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings — but if you notice the ones they’ve [Florida House] selected in the past, they tend to be writers who not only lived here, but actually write about Florida. I’m deeply honored.”

Past recipients include Bob Beatty, Carlton W. Ward Jr. and Marjorie Stoneman Douglas.

Oyer’s great-great grandparents, Hannibal and Margretta Pierce, arrived in southeast Florida in 1872.

Their daughter, Lillie Pierce Voss, was Oyer’s greatgrandmother, the first white child born between Jupiter and Miami. A plaque across from the Marriott Hotel in Delray Beach marks the approximate place of her birth in August 1876.

And Lillie’s brother — Oyer’s great-granduncle — stars in The Adventures of Charlie Pierce, a trilogy of children’s books that celebrate his family’s Florida history, and for which Florida House now celebrates him.

“This is the 40th anniversary of Florida House and the 500th anniversary of Ponce de Leon’s landing, so we wanted to honor someone who really celebrated our history,” said Susan Clemons, another fifthgeneration Floridian and a board member of Florida House, who nominated Oyer.

“We’ve never had a children’s author before, and Harvey’s a wonderful person who’s worked so hard to celebrate our state.”

About 85,000 students throughout South Florida now read the Charlie Pierce series as part of their fourthgrade history classes.

“A lot people deserve the credit,” Oyer said. “I wrote the books, but the school districts had to want them, and sponsors like Wells Fargo and the Everglades Foundation and others had to pay for them. I feel very fortunate.” Ú

For more information, visit http://floridaembassy. com and www.the adventuresofcharliepierce. com.

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Seamlessly renovated in 2010 by Seaside Builders, this fourbedroom, 3½-bath home has it all.

Situated on one of the most desirable streets in Delray Beach, it is close to the ocean and two blocks to Atlantic Avenue.

The house sits on a large, lushly landscaped lot with a 10-foot access in the backyard onto a basin and the Intracoastal — it’s the perfect place to launch a kayak or paddleboard or just watch the boats go by.

Inside, all the rooms feature custom millwork, hardwood floors, hurricane-impact windows and doors, and high ceilings with architectural detail.

The charming foyer leads to the warm and inviting living room with wood-burning fireplace.

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The elegant en suite master bedroom looks onto the pool and Intracoastal.

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Rarely available 3 BR, 2 BA direct oceanfront with a northeast exposure offering sweeping million dollar views. An ideal 2nd floor location, this is one of only 3 units in the building offering east and west balconies.

Boyd Schoeller, 561-702-5159

70’ x 132’ Vacant Lot. An ideal location across from City Hall and the Tennis Center. One block off Swinton/ Atlantic intersection. Perfect for professional office or duplex townhomes.

Francisco Perez-Azua, 561-702-0028

Beautiful 3 BR, 2½ BA lakefront pool home with a 2 car garage. 2,400 sq. ft. of living area. Open floor plan with cathedral ceilings, clerestory windows, French doors and Mexican tile floors. A much sought after gated community. Ellen Storck, 561-414-1514

Delray Beach Club ~ $410,000

Sea Fields ~ Delray Beach $389,900

Casa Costa ~ Boynton Beach $375,000

Very spacious 3 BR, 2½ BA tri-level townhome with a spiral staircase and private elevator. Great pool and Intracoastal views. A desirable southern exposure with a first floor covered patio. 2,900 sq. ft. of living area.

Linda Lake, 561-702-4898

Exceptional 1 BR, 1 BA co-op with a southern exposure right across the street from the beach. Impact windows, granite countertops and sold turn-key. Currently only one unit available in this intimate complex with only 30 units. Elizabeth Rurey, 561-302-1552.

Enjoy fabulous ocean and Intracoastal views from this 2 BR, den/office, 2 Bath penthouse unit. Interior features include extra high 10’ ceilings, gourmet kitchen with stainless and split bedrooms. 2 resort style pools.

Mary Renaud, 561-441-0634

Close To The Beach ~ $349,900

Del-Ida Park ~ Delray Beach $349,000

Delray Beach Club Condominiums $345,000

Charming 2 BR, 1 BA Delray Beach home with a 1 BR, 1 BA attached apartment, each with a private, fenced back yard. An ideal location, east of Federal Highway.

Well maintained and close to downtown.

Laura Gallagher, 561-441-6111

Charming 2 BR, 1 BA cottage situated on a large, private lot. Lots of room to expand or convert to office space.

OSSHAD zoning. Walk to shops and restaurants on Atlantic Avenue.

Laura Gallagher, 561-441-6111.

Open and bright 2 BR, 2 BA southeast corner unit on the sixth floor offering outstanding Ocean and Intracoastal views. Very spacious living area with custom mirrors.

Beach access and community pool.

Linda Welch, 561-951-6433

Inlet Harbor Club ~ $289,900

East Wind Beach Club ~ $250,000

Limetree Court ~ $106,000

A boaters dream location right across from the Boynton Inlet. Beautifully updated 2 BR, 2 BA condominium with a screen enclosed porch offering Intracoastal views.

Deeded boat dock and 27,000 lb. boat lift included.

Elizabeth Rurey, 561-302-1552

Right across the street from the beach and one block to Atlantic Avenue. 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath unit on the second floor in the west building. Great ocean and pool views!

A good investment with wonderful rental income.

Elizabeth Rurey, 561-302-1552

Well maintained 2 BR, 2 BA single story villa in a 55+ Boynton Beach community. New ceramic tile floors and plantation shutters throughout, eat-in kitchen with stack washer & dryer, plus a covered porch with hurricane shutters. Linda Welch, 561-951-6433.

900 East Atlantic Avenue | Delray Beach, FL 33483 | 561.278.5570 | www.Tauriello.com

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Thom Smith reports on tennis, cupcakes and more.

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Literacy Coalition

Pilar Macomber was one of dozens of girls who took part in an American Girl fashion show to raise money for the Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County.

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The hummus among us

The Plate visits The Seagate Hotel’s Atlantic Grille for a Middle Eastern delight.

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The Delray Beach Public Library marks its first century.

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Impact 100 members, including Laura Stoltz (raised fist), react as the winners of the $100,000 grants are announced at the Delray Beach Marriott. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

Selected nonprofits profit from group’s largesse

By Christine Davis Impact 100 members neither waste time nor money, but with their signature flair and a fair share of fanfare, they awarded $200,000 on April 18 to area nonprofits Women of Tomorrow and Equine-Assisted Therapies of South Florida.

Through Women of Tomorrow’s mentor and scholarship program, professional women are paired with small groups of at-risk public high-school girls to teach them personal and professional skills necessary for life success, reaching goals and increasing self-esteem.

Founded in Miami by Jennifer Valoppi in 1997, Women of Tomorrow now operates in 43 Florida and 13 metro Detroit cities, serving more than 2,500 at-risk young women annually in 130 public high schools with its network of more than 350 professionals. Valoppi said the Impact 100 funding will allow her organization to have a south Palm Beach County office, hire an area person, double its mentors here and increase its services to an additional 75 young women in south Palm Beach County.

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horses. It serves 130 children and adults annually.

Molly Murphy, the organization’s outreach manager and presenter on April 18, used herself as an example. Diagnosed with cerebral palsy, she became a student in the program when she was 9 years old.

Thanks to the therapeutic exercise afforded through horseback riding that stretched out her muscles, she avoided a series of surgeries.

The Impact 100 funding will allow Equine-Assisted Therapies to take on 75 new south Palm Beach County riders in need and increase the programs’ presence in the area.

Impact 100 is a donoradvised fund of the Community Foundation of Palm Beach and Martin Counties, which acts as the organization’s back office.

Each of Impact 100’s 220 members wrote a check for $1,050.

“We call what we do efficient philanthropy. ‘One woman. One vote. One meeting,’ ” said co-founder

Tandy Robinson of Delray Beach.

In its second year, membership has doubled under the leadership of founders Robinson, Cindy Krebsbach and Lisa Mulhall.

Anyone can be in the organization, said board member Karen Sweetapple of Boca Raton. “You don’t have to put in a lot of time, and people are interested in our organization for that reason.

“We put the word out as much as we could, so that we could take letters of inquiry from nonprofits who proposed to make an impact in south Palm Beach County,” she said.

This year, 85 nonprofits applied in one of five categories: arts and culture, education, environment, family and health and wellness.

“Behind the scenes, members who choose to be reviewers, read, rate and discuss the nonprofits, and decide which ones will be asked for a full grant application,” Robinson said.

At that point, the field was narrowed down to 29. “Those organizations received a 90-minute site visit, and from there, the members decided who would be the finalist in each category,” she said.

On April 18, those five made a presentation to the Impact 100 members at the Marriott hotel in Delray Beach, outlining how they planned to spend the money if they won the funding, how they would impact south Palm Beach County and how they planned to make their proposed program sustainable.

After the presentations, the members voted.

While the top two nonprofits received the bulk of the money, the three other nonprofits received the remaining funds.

They were: Delray Beach Center for the Arts at Old School Square’s program, Delray Reads — Summer Glide; Coastal Conservation Association of Florida’s south Palm Beach County artificial reef habitat project; and Children’s Home Society — Family 4 Kids. Ú

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Sports Legends to salute unintended honoree

eff Bolton was one of the good guys. Great accountant. Tremendous sports fan. Loving husband.

Unwavering father. When he learned six years ago that his son Jason had acute myeloid leukemia, a nasty bone marrow disease that attacks maybe five kids in the U.S. each year, he declared war, physical and psychological.

Bolton He found the best doctors at Dana-Farber Children’s Cancer Center in Boston. He virtually quit work for eight months to keep Jason company during his treatment. He rounded up all kinds of sports memorabilia and autographs, some for Jason, lots for other young patients. As painful as the treatment was for Jason, Jeff did his best to make the boy’s life a party.

It obviously worked. Today Jason’s in remission and back in school in Palm Beach Gardens.

Jeff returned to work, steadily building Daszkal Bolton, the Boca-based accounting firm he co-founded.

But he wasn’t finished. He wasn’t about to forget about all the other kids. He joined the board of the Bone Marrow Foundation and chaired its annual “Sports Legends” event.

The next one is May 5 and 6 at Addison Reserve in Delray Beach — dinner and auction Sunday and golf the next day. The usual good feeling, however, will be tempered — Bolton won’t be there.

On Friday, April 19, while swimming in the Bahamas during the firm’s annual end of tax season holiday, Bolton, 47, was caught by a tricky rip

current. In a flash, he drowned.

“I don’t know too many people as generous, kind and down-to-earth as Jeff Bolton,” close friend Harvey Oyer III said.

After briefly considering a postponement, foundation executives decided to proceed with the Sports Legends event.

Former Pittsburgh Steelers Coach Bill Cowher is the designated “legend,” but the real honoree will be Bolton.

The crowds may not have been SRO, but Delray built considerable capital from the Federation Cup tennis matches on April 20 and 21. Of course, it doesn’t hurt to have the Williams sisters on — and in — your court. Home, after all, is in Palm Beach Gardens, so Atlantic Avenue isn’t unfamiliar.

During the draw ceremony and press conference, Venus, Serena and their teammates couldn’t hold back knowledgeable giggles at the mention of “the cupcake shop,” an obvious reference to Cupcake Couture. A little farther south, Venus had made a post-tennis investment in her interior design career by decorating one of the 52 luxury condos at One Thousand Ocean on Boca Raton Resort & Club property on the north side of the Boca Inlet.

The weather may have played a role in the United States’ favor. To locals, the low 80s were downright pleasant, but with Stockholm in the low 50s, Delray may as well have been Dubai to the Swedes.

Faced with protests from students, faculty and community leaders, prisonsfor-profit company GEO Group withdrew its offer to pay

Varvara Levchenko (left) and Venus Williams laugh at mention of Cupcake Couture during a pre-tournament news conference at the Federation Cup tennis matches in Delray Beach. With them are Sloane Stephens, Serena Williams and Mary Jo Fernandez. The Williams sisters led the U.S. to a 3-2 win over Sweden. Thom Smith/The Coastal Star Florida Atlantic University $6 million for stadium naming rights. FAU President Mary Jane Saunders seems to have adopted a modified Teddy Roosevelt response —“Speak softly but say nothing,” except to brag about school successes.

For example, students from the school’s Diplomacy Program in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters received a seventh consecutive Distinguished Delegation Award for participating in the 2013 National Model United Nations competition in New York City.

More than 6,000 university students from around the world participated in the annual sixday U.N. simulation. Perhaps Saunders should sit in on some of the Diplomacy Program’s sessions. Established in 1996, it provides training “in the art of negotiation, conflict resolution and global problem solving.”

As GEO Group withdrew from the 12-year stadium deal, it simultaneously announced a gift of $500,000 to the school’s scholarship fund. Hmmm — $6 million divided by 12 is, right, $500,000. Yet hardly a peep from protesters. If the $6 million pledge was dirty

money, why is GEO’s halfmillion OK? To pour more spicy wing sauce on the owl, in midApril former athletic director Craig Angelos claimed to have lined up a six-year, $1 million annual deal with a large, unnamed South Florida automobile dealership chain.

His superiors, he said, told him to hold off in hopes of a better deal with … Chick-fil-A. Oops. Chick-fil-A has never sponsored a stadium. Great waffle fries, but much to the dismay of Sunday shoppers at Boca’s Town Center mall, they’re closed on Sunday.

Company policy is rooted in founder Truett Cathy’s vow to “not deal with money on the ‘Lord’s Day’.” Then last summer Truett’s son and company COO Dan Cathy spoke out against gay marriage, and word got out that the company’s charity wing had given millions to oppose gay rights.

Furthermore, when the stadium opened in 2011, Chick-fil-A was there … until it was bounced by Chartwells, the stadium concessionaire, because of its “late arriving and understaffed” crew, according to Owl Access, a sports website that covers FAU athletics.

Chick-fil-A was replaced by Mississippi Sweets, a local barbecue restaurant.

Tired of waiting, the car dealer drove off, and the search for a stadium sponsor has resumed. It won’t be GEO Group Stadium. Or Owlcatraz.

But don’t expect the hoot and holler to subside just yet.

Some alums are sticking by their alma mater. The Gotta Luv Them Fishing Tournament will benefit the FAU National Alumni Association. Kickoff party and auction are set for May 31 at Deck 84 in Delray Beach, with lines-in next morning at 8. Top prize for the biggest kingfish, dolphin, tuna or wahoo is $2,500. Entry fee is $400 per boat.

The tournament is sponsored by the Gotta Luv Them Foundation, which was just established by three FAU alums, Chris Trentine, José Herrera and Tyrone Bradley, to promote fundraising that benefits education, especially at FAU. Contact: (954) 900-6080 or gottaluvthem.org.

After a week’s delay, Stage Left Theatre’s production of Last of the Red Hot Lovers enjoyed sold-out performances at Boynton Beach’s Madsen Center. Next up, July 8-11, is The Cat Princess, the first summer children’s show.

Auditions are set for May 6 at 7 p.m. at Madsen Center, 145 SE Second Ave. (Call 301-5404 or email peterpag@comcast.net or stagelefttheatre.net for details).

“We got in half a season and will do the kids shows in the summer and see how it goes,” Artistic Director Peter Pagliaro said.

With two plays and two musicals planned for the fall, Pagliaro is optimistic for a change. For 18 years he ran the Royal Playhouse, first in Royal Palm Beach, then in suburban West Palm Beach for 10 years, then one more year in Lake Park before moving to Boynton.

“We’ve been bouncing around,” Pagliaro said. “We had great facility at Syms Plaza in West Palm Beach (Forest Hill and Military Trail) until Syms went under and the bank foreclosed on the center. Now Boynton has offered us the

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chance. We’re still working on it. Some things have to be fixed, such as noise, but we hope we have a home.”

Stage Left didn’t win any Carbonells, South Florida’s version of the Tony Awards, but Palm Beach County theaters dominated the nominations and the winners at the ceremonies. Even the Caldwell Theatre Company, which shuttered last year, copped nominations for The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity: best play; best actor — Brandon Morris; scenic design — Tim Bennett; and sound design — Tom Shorrock.

Scoring the most awards — nine — was the Maltz Jupiter Theatre. Palm Beach Dramaworks took home one.

Fledgling Plaza Theatre in Manalapan managed to draw two nominations for Driving Miss Daisy, John Archie for best actor and Harriet Oser for best actress.

Now it’s forging full speed ahead with Waist Watchers, which has been extended to May 12, and then will break for six weeks before resuming from July 24-Sept. 1.

On May 13 and 20, Wayne LeGette and Mia Matthews will perform Being Alive, The Music of Stephen Sondheim.

They’ll be followed by 8-Track, The Sounds of the ’70s (complete with bellbottoms) from June 13 to July 7.

Before moving to Palm Beach and joining the social whirl, Matthews spent many years as a theater, television and film actress in New York. (5881820).

The Caldwell, incidentally, may not be dead. Marilynn Wick, CEO and president of Pompano Beach-based Costume World, the nation’s largest costume company, has announced that she’s buying the shuttered theater on North Federal in Boca. In the renamed Wick Theatre, she plans to stage six shows, a mix of classic plays and Broadway

Delray Beach and Boca’s Golden Bell Education Foundation. Tickets start at $30 and include tastings from (Burt) Rapoport’s Restaurant Group and two drinks. Details at rapoportsrg.com/surf.

Delray Beach yoga instructor Jessica Om poses on the PranaSleep bed to demonstrate the upscale finishes in the new townhomes that were debuted at the Marriott in Delray Beach. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star musicals.

Wick will move her Broadway Collection Museum to the site and plans an October opening. Because her business is costumes, she’ll leave the production to Douglas Evans, a veteran of more than 100 productions. Evans also serves as president of the Society for the Preservation of the Great American Songbook and spent five years as general manager and founding president of Classical South Florida which took over WXEL radio. He also served as CEO of Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment and president of its Broadway China Ventures.

Now if he can just put people in the seats.

Now we know what Hollywood filmmakers mean when they talk about “a little movie.”

Maybe Bruce Mason’s little movie, Chez Upshaw, was chosen to be the closing film at the Palm Beach International Film Festival, to serve as a cinematic equivalent to The Little Engine That Could. Tiny budget, talented cast and crew who worked, despite the prospect of no pay, for the distinction of having its U.S. premiere as the festival’s closing film.

The plot: To prevent foreclosure on their bed and

breakfast, Illeana Douglas and Kevin Pollak convert it into a resort where guests check in and then “check out” by way of assisted suicides.

One problem — the film was terrible. It needed the assist.

It was made in a few days and it showed. Mason’s script gave Pollak and Douglas little to work with. Mason admitted he ran out of money on a Friday and told the crew and cast he might not have anymore. Still they all showed up on Monday.

That’s the old Hollywood spirt.

At least attendees got a glimpse of the new Frank Theaters Cinebowl & Grill in Delray Beach — an indoor amusement park with movies, bowling, billiards, an arcade and restaurant. Seats are reserved.

At the opposite end of the Delray Marketplace is an amphitheater, and on May 11, the cover band to end all cover bands will play.

It’s not like the Surf City Allstars are unfamiliar with the California surf sound. Not only are they led by original Beach Boy David Marks, who rejoined the “Boys” for their most recent tour, but all of the Allstars played with either the Beach Boys or Jan & Dean.

The show benefits the Achievement Centers for Children and Families in

Dining A generous spread of Mediterranean goodness The Plate: Mediterranean Hummus Plate The Place: Jellies Bar at The Atlantic Grille at The Seagate Hotel and Spa, 1000 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach; 665-4900 or theatlanticgrille.com The Price: $9 The Skinny: Sometimes you want something light, and nothing suits a breezy April evening quite like a plate of hummus.

It’s both good and good for you.

The hummus at The Atlantic Grille was smooth and had a nice tang. It was served with wonderfully roasted red peppers that were cooked to intensify the flavor but retained an almost al dente texture — they were not falling apart. Add to that a minor mountain of Kalamata olives and creamy cubes of feta, and

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you have the perfect meal.

But The Atlantic Grille takes it a step further and offers a salad composed of crispy array of mixed greens all topped with fresh balsamic vinaigrette that was redolent with fruit undertones.

It’s the perfect dish for watching the world go by.

We sat out on the patio outside the bar, chatted with the neighbors and smiled as folks of a certain age boogied to a cover band playing the sounds of Barry Manilow.

They clearly were having a blast, and so were we.

— Scott Simmons

If you want the best, go for the wurst … at Bad Ragaz Hall & Biergarten, which has finally opened at Las Ventanas at the corner of Federal and Woolbright in Boynton.

For $58, chef and owner Alessandro Silvestri serves up one of each the nine wursts in the kitchen — including brat, knack, rinds and Weiss — which guests can wash down with a VIB (Very Important Beer) from one of three taps at the table or from more than 75 others from the bar.

On the horizon: May 9, 6-10 p.m. — On the Avenue in Delray Beach.

Artists from Artists Alley in the Pineapple Grove Arts District will show their work along Atlantic Avenue. Chefs from Papa’s Tapas will cook up giant paella to sell. Music by Across the Universe, Beatles tribute band.

May 18, 6-10 p.m. — Old School Square Beer Fest at the Delray Center for the Arts. More than 50 craft brews and wine, live music, food trucks. Advance tickets, $30, $60 for VIP, $10 more at gate. (delraycenterforthearts.org) May 31, 5:30 p.m. — John Scully, the man behind the Pepsi Generation, the man who made Apple more than a fruit, Palm Beach resident and as of March 8, newlywed, will speak about local entrepreneurship at Palm Beach State College’s Duncan Theatre. For tickets, $50, (561) 868-3450 or www.palmbeachstate.edu/ foundation/Steam.

June 1, 1 p.m. — The Great Summer Quest at the RitzCarlton, Manalapan. Corporate teams and individuals participate in limousineassisted scavenger hunt for big prizes, followed by cocktail

party. Benefits Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County.

Entry: $450 individual; $2,500 for team of six. (683-3287).

Here and there: The knot may be closer for former Delray resident and still occasional visitor Nick Loeb and his Modern Family squeeze, Sofia Vergara. The Colombian actress, who survived a bout with thyroid cancer, conceded on Entertainment Tonight, “At 40, nature doesn’t cooperate as much.”

Loeb, a businessman who also developed Onion Crunch, isn’t hurting for cash, but Vergara may have the bigger bank account. Forbes magazine declared her the highest paid actress in television, based on her series pay plus returns from her production company, a Kmart clothing line, and multilingual endorsements for Pepsi and Burger King, among others.

Tony “The Coach” Robbins has bought the spec-built oceanfront home at 750 S. Ocean Blvd. in Manalapan for $24.75 million.

The specs: 12,124 square feet, six bedrooms, seven full baths, four half baths, Robbins two two-car garages, pool, media room, wine cellar, club room, 175 feet of oceanfront and Intracoastal waterfront, two-acre lot.

A reader spotted a plane flying along the beach in Delray recently, towing a banner with the message: TAKE UR THINGS FROM UR CAR. Signed: The Boca Raton Police Dept.

Thom Smith is a freelance writer.

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Arts Garage staying put; Seraphic Fire ends season; Florida art at Boca Museum

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lthough the arts center she has run for two years was in danger last month of going the way of the Florida Philharmonic or Ballet Florida, Alyona Ushe says she didn’t allow herself to think of that possibility.

“I didn’t have the luxury,” said Ushe, Ushe executive director of the Arts Garage in Delray Beach. “If you’re going to fight for something you believe in, you have to believe you’re going to be successful.”

And the fight to keep the Arts Garage in place at 180 NE First St. ended April 16 with a decision by the Delray Beach City Commission to leave the nonprofit where it is for now, rather than make it surrender its city-owned space to a law firm that wanted to use it for a call center. The commission gave the Garage 2½ years to raise enough money to buy the space, and Ushe is aiming to bring in about $3.5 million.

“We’re convinced that we can do it,” said Ushe, whose office now has six full-time employees.

She may expand that to $5 million if the Arts Warehouse on Northeast Third Street is added in. The city bought that building for around $1.1 million in 2010.

“In our ideal world, in a perfect world, we would have an arts district in Pineapple Grove that would have two cornerstones, two anchors.

One would be the Warehouse and the other would be us,” she said. “With the Artists Alley exploding as well, it begins to feel like a true arts district.

Greg Stepanich is editor of The ArtsPaper.

Email him at gstepanich@ pbartspaper. com.

Jazz fusion band Oriente will perform at the Arts Garage on May 11. Photo provided

“And hopefully, we can stop having this knee-jerk reaction to everything that happens here, and look at a strategic plan, look at what’s best for the city, look at what’s best for the arts district, for the artists. ” As it happens, it will be a busy May for the Garage.

In theater, the Garage’s Performing Arts School will present the dance musical Footloose (May 16-19), while in music, jazz pianist Dolph Castellano (May 10) and Miami timba band Tiempo Libre (May 25) are scheduled, along with jazz fusion band Oriente (May 11), funk-Latin band Aaron Lebos Reality (May 24), and blues guitarist Doug Deming with harmonica player Dennis Gruenling (May 18). The month opens May 3 and May 4 with Voices of Pride, the gay men’s chorus, in two concerts to mark the ensemble’s 10th anniversary.

Programs through the summer are booked, and the group is working now on the upcoming season, Ushe said.

Lou Tyrrell’s Theater at Arts Garage, which wrapped its season last month with the world premiere of Duncan Macmillan’s Lungs, will mount four productions next season, one more than it did in 2012-13.

Ushe said she was

This image by George Banet of Highland Beach is in the All-Florida Juried Competition at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. “humbled” by the support Arts Garage has received.

“It’s a new lease on life,” she said. “We have time to make a significant difference and solidify permanently our future here in this county.”

To donate to Arts Garage, call 450-6357 or visit www. artsgarage.org.

It’s your choice: The Grammy-nominated concert choir Seraphic Fire, which added Boca Raton’s St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church to its regular roster of venues two seasons ago, closes its current season at the church May 9 with a program called Cathedral Classics.

This will be a concert of requested pieces drawn from ideas submitted from 323

people on the choir’s email list.

As of late April, the program hadn’t been finalized, but some of the most popular choices were Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere, Mozart’s Ave verum corpus, the Alleluia of Randall Thompson and Thomas Tallis’ If Ye Love Me. The Boca concert comes two days after the release of the group’s newest disc, titled Seraphic Fire. It’s a collection primarily of contemporary sacred music. The choir, founded by Patrick Dupré Quigley, also learned last month that it is the recipient of a $12,500 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support its next recording, which will be called American Voices and should be released in September 2014.

Seraphic Fire will return to St. Gregory’s for the 2013’14 season, which will include a newly commissioned completion by American composer Gregory Spears of the Mozart Requiem, J.S. Bach’s Magnificat, and Haydn’s Seven Last Words. The choir’s two Christmas-themed concerts — a selection of carols by candlelight and Handel’s Messiah — have been sellouts at St. Gregory’s, and the other concerts have had attendance in the 70-to-80 percent range.

“We surpassed our expectations in attendance there, and that goes in hand in hand with the level of support we get through donations,” communications manager

March 16 – May 18, 2013 An Exhibition of Artists in Various Creative Disciplines Who are Authors Hosted by the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County, this exhibition celebrates local artists whose creativity is expressed on the printed page.

We are proud to present not only the work of these exceptional painters, photographers, poets, composers, photojournalists, designers, architects and visual artists, but the artists themselves who will share their art and their vision in a lecture series at our headquarters.

601 Lake Avenue • Lake Worth, FL 33460 • artsCalendar.com/thePalmbeaches NANCY ELLISON • JEFFERY SMITH • HARRY BENSON • STEPHEN GIBSON

JOANNE BERKOW • ANDREW KATO • SANDRA THOMPSON

JOHN LORING • BARRY SEIDMAN • BRUCE HELANDER

CARLOS CASTELLANOS • EDWINA SANDYS • JOHN MERCURIO • GEOFFREY BRADFIELD

Michael Burgess said. “This is a community that has embraced Seraphic Fire.”

The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. at the church just outside Mizner Park. Tickets are $38.

Call (305) 285-9060 or visit www.seraphicfire.org to buy them in advance.

State of talent: For more than six decades, the Boca Museum of Art has hosted a juried competition devoted solely to artists from Florida.

The 62nd version of the AllFlorida Juried Competition and Exhibition opens at the museum May 8 and runs through July 14.

About 550 artists from across the state submitted pieces. This year’s juror, Mark Scala, chief curator at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, chose 149 pieces by 122 artists for the exhibit, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, videos and installations.

Kelli Bodle, an assistant curator at the museum and the curator of the exhibition, said photography is a major part of this exhibition, along with large abstract paintings.

“In society, more people are picking up cameras. They’re more convenient now, and people are using them for fine arts careers,” Bodle said.

“That is definitely the most predominant form for this show.”

Bodle said the exhibit demonstrates that Florida has substantial arts activity.

“From my personal perspective as someone who has lived in the Midwest and the Northeast, we have just as vibrant an arts scene here,” she said. “Miami is burgeoning, Palm Beach is doing well …

We’re hitting almost every county or tri-county region (in the show), and every part of the state seems to have their own little artist enclaves.”

The museum at Mizner Park is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Adult admission is $8; seniors 65 and older get in for $6. Call 392-2500 or visit www. bocamuseum.org.

Notes: This is the last month to see the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens’ farewell exhibit by its retiring curator, Tom Gregersen.

He shares “cool stuff” from the Delray museum’s vaults as a meditation on the art and culture of Japan. The exhibit closes May 19 …

Michael Fagien began his Jazziz magazine 30 years ago while a medical student at the University of Florida, and operated a Jazziz Bistro for some years at the Seminole Casino in Hollywood. His club at Mizner Park, Jazziz Nightlife, opened May 1 with actress-singer Molly Ringwald.

Other acts this month include Nicole Henry (May 9), Larry Carlton (May 15-16), the Yellowjackets (May 22-23), and Nestor Torres (May 29-30).

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Along the Coast

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ifty-eight girls took part in the American Girl Fashion Show put on April 13 at the Delray Beach Marriott. The event raised nearly $30,000 to benefit the Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County.

It took 35 volunteers to keep pace with the more than 750 in attendance.

TOP ROW, left to right: Virgina Kinsey helps the staff of Fly Dry as they style the hair of dozens of dolls.

Helen Peck photographs her daughters, Reagan and Elizabeth, while they perform on the runway. Later in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;green room,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; dad Chris Peck gets hugs from both girls.

ABOVE: As girls dance on the runway during a musical performance, the audience joins in the fun.

LEFT: Jaya Kinsey and Isabella Henderson, with their matching dolls, saunter down the runway together.

BELOW: The excitement of the day has Sophia Dickenson (in the hat) and her new friends screaming for joy.

Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

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May 2013

Celebrations Graduation

St. Joseph’s Episcopal School

Nicholas Michael Kaleel of Ocean Ridge is preparing to graduate from Saint Andrew’s School in Boca Raton. Commencement exercises will take place at the Chapel of Saint Andrew the Apostle on the school’s campus. Prior to Saint Andrew’s, Kaleel attended Gulf Stream School.

Graduating with honors, he is a member of Junior Achievement and attended two Harvard Model Congress meetings in Boston, the largest congressional simulation conferences in the world.

An avid runner, Kaleel was co-captain of Saint Andrew’s boy’s varsity cross-country team. The team attended state championships for two consecutive years. He was also a member of the boy’s varsity track and field team.

Kaleel was a Bethesda Hospital teen and Food for Families volunteer. He is a lifeguard at the De-Vos Blum Family YMCA in Boynton Beach. His hobbies include cycling and surfing. Kaleel will attend the University of Miami this August.

Third-graders Isabela Chido, Boynton Beach, and Casandra Jones, Delray Beach, give each other high-fives after taking first place in a quiz about trash and recycling. All grade levels at St. Joseph’s Episcopal School in Boynton Beach took part in the Earth Day celebration. The school has been awarded a 2013 Green School of Excellence for Palm Beach County for the second year by the Palm Beach County Solid Waste Authority. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

St. Andrew’s School – May 18

Earth Day Educational Celebration – April 18

Caridad Center Board Member Introduction Gulf Stream – April 10

Membership Breakfast Via Mizner Golf & Country Club Boca Raton – April 11

Neil Austrian, chairman and CEO of Office Depot, gave a glimpse into the future at the monthly gathering of the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce.

Austrian explained how the failed merger between Office Depot and Staples helped the company strategize with Office Max more efficiently and said the deal is expected to be completed by the end of the year. ABOVE: Mary Wong, president of Office Depot Foundation, and Neil Austrian of Gulf Stream.

Photo provided

Robert Souaid of Gulf Stream, new to the board of the Caridad Center, and his wife, Jane, hosted a cocktail party at their home to introduce the Gulf Stream community to the work being done at Caridad Center. Located in western Boynton Beach, it is the largest free medical, dental and vision clinic in Florida.

TOP LEFT: Jane and Bob Souaid.

TOP RIGHT: Scott and Hilary Wilson, Delray Beach.

RIGHT: Marilyn Mayer, Rob Mayer, Gulf Stream.

FAR RIGHT: Herve and Vanessa Puyplat, Ocean Ridge.

Photos provided

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Centennial Birthday Bash and Community Day Delray Beach Public Library – April 11 and April 13

Costumed characters, old cars and live music took partygoers on a tour through the decades during the Delray Beach Public Library’s Birthday Bash celebration of its 100th birthday held April 11. Guests, including the 15 ‘Centennial Celebrities’ — the 100-year-old residents invited to the event as guests — reflected on the library’s history of books, culture and contribution to the community. ABOVE: Don and Teri Pfeil, Bob Currie, Dan Murtaugh, John Callahan and Delray Beach Mayor Cary Glickstein. Courtesy photo by Emiliano Brooks Productions

ABOVE: Library employee Jane Weiss wears one of the more than 30 replicas of 1913 bathing caps she made for co-workers to wear during the Centennial Birthday Bash Community Day held April 13.

RIGHT: Dr. Lynda Hunter and her puppet ‘U Too Can’ talks to the children while they make crafts during the 100th birthday celebration. Dr. Hunter is the head of the Children’s Department at the Delray Beach Public Library. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

Singer/Songwriter Showcase

Exhibit Opening

The Spady Museum celebrated an inaugural event at a hip, bohemian hangout and launched its redesigned website all on the same day. Live performances, along with sponsorships, donations and silent-auction bids, helped raise more than $2,200. Photo: Sal Giorlando (second from left), of coastal Delray Beach, presents Charlene Jones, of the Spady Museum, with a check for $400 while Kevin Rouse (left), of Kevro’s Art Bar, and George DeMartino look on. Photo provided

Ocean Ridge artist Ona Steele (left) talks with friends and family who attended the opening of her first major art exhibition, held at the recently remodeled Art House of Delray in Delray Beach. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

Kevro’s Art Bar, Delray Beach – March 24

Art House of Delray, Delray Beach – April 12

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Community Calendar Note: Events are current as of 4/26. Please check with organizers for any changes.

Send your events to Michele Smith at thecoastalstarcalendar@gmail.com

MAY 4 5/4 - Sand Sifters Beach Cleanup at Oceanfront Park, 6415 N. Ocean Blvd., Ocean Ridge. 8-10:15 am. Free. 734-9128.

5/4 - Paddle Away teaches kayaking and water safety tips at Intracoastal Park, 2240 N. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach. Explore the Lantana Preserve and the Ocean Ridge Natural Areas. Ages 15 to adult. Held again 5/18. 8 am-11 am. Per class: $50/residents, $63/non-residents. 742-6221.

5/4 - Boardwalk Tours at Green Cay Nature Center, 12800 Hagen Ranch Road, Boynton Beach. Join a docent for a guided tour. For all ages. Held every Wed. 3 pm and Sat. 9 & 11 am. Free. 966-7000.

5/4 - Birds & Breakfast at Green Cay Nature Center, 12800 Hagen Ranch Road, Boynton Beach. Enjoy coffee and refreshments before embarking on a one hour birding tour with one of the naturalists. For ages 9 and up. 9 am. $3/person. 966-7000.

5/4 - The Writer’s Studio at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Held again 5/11, 18 & 25. 10 am. Free. 6387251 or www.delraylibrary.org.

5/4 - Exhibition: School of Creative Arts Group is held at the Crest Galleries, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. Multi-media exhibit showcasing drawings, paintings, collage, mixed media and photographs by adult and youth students and instructors.

Runs through 11/3. M-F: 9:30 am-4:30 pm, Sat.: 10 am-3 pm. Free. 243-7922.

5/4 - Future Men and Women of Delray Beach at Pompey Park, 1101 NW 2nd St., Delray Beach. Mentoring program designed for adolescents ages 12-18. Mission is to provide adolescent boys and girls a positive role model to help guide them through the complex paths of social life; and to becoming a productive citizen in the global economy.

Held every Saturday, year round. 10-11 am.

Free. 243-7356 or www.mydelraybeach.com.

5/4 - Kendal “Roo” Gillis’ Butterfly Benefit at Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center, 129 E. Ocean Ave., Boynton Beach. Meet Kendall “Roo” Gillis, a brave girl who experienced a catastrophic stroke at age 6. She sells butterfly necklaces to fund her medical expenses and raise awareness for pediatric strokes. Purchase necklaces and create butterfly collages to be displayed at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital. All ages welcome. 10 am-5 pm. Free with paid museum admission: $4/ages 1-17; $4.50/seniors; $5/adults. 742-6782.

Barefoot by the Sea

5/4 - Coral Reef Shark Feedings are held Tuesday through Sunday, at Sandoway House Nature Center, 142 S. Ocean Blvd. Delray Beach. Feeding begins at 10:30 am T-Sat. and 1:30 pm Sunday. Free with $4 admission to the nature center. 274-7263.

5/4 - Cinco de Mayo Fiesta - Presented by the Hispanic-Latino Cultural Alliance at Delray Beach Center for the Arts at Old School Square Pavilion, 51 N. Swinton Ave. Live musical performances, children’s activities and food and beverage vendors. 1-10 pm. $10. 273-3396.

5/4 - Inventors Society of South Florida Meeting at Ligi Tool & Engineering, Inc., 3220 SW 15th Street, Deerfield Beach. First meeting is free. Held the first Saturday of each month. 676-5677 or www. inventorssociety.net.

5/4 - Art-E-Ology: Henri de ToulouseLautrec: Colorful Posters for grades 3-5 at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. Once a month, children learn about a master artist on exhibit at the museum 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.

5/4 - Mother’s & Father’s Day Gifts from the Garden at Mounts Botanical Garden, 531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Activities include painting pots and birdhouses, creating pinecone treasures, planting seedlings and more. Cost of materials is extra. 1:30-3:30 pm. $5/non-members, free/ members & children. Registration: 233-1757.

5/4 - Family Fun Day for all ages at Veterans Park, 802 NE First St., Delray Beach. Featuring singing with Kindermusik, arts and crafts with Young Artwork and live performances with Precious Ballet Butterflies. Also special ensemble performances by the Arts Garage Performing Arts Academy as well as an “Annual Art Exhibit” that will feature student artwork from the Young Artwork program. 2 pm. Free. 243-7350.

5/4 - USA Netball Association at Pompey Park Recreation Center, 1101 NW 2nd St., Delray Beach. A fast, skillful, team game based on running, jumping, throwing, and catching. For females ages 6 and up. Held Saturdays. 2-5 pm. $5/person per day. 2437356.

5/4 - I Remain …. J. Austen at Sol Children Theatre, 3333 N. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton. $12/adult, $8/junior. Sat.: 2 & 7 pm. 4478829 or www.solchildren.org.

5/4 - Student Recital - Presented by the AG Performing Arts Academy at the ArtsGarage, 180 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. $10. 2-5 pm.

243-7129 or www.artsgarage.org.

5/4 - Best of Broadway - Presented by Showtime Performing Arts Theatre at Willow

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Have a great Summer a nd we will see you in the Fall...

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May 2013

Sandoway House Nature Center, Delray Beach – April 14

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The Delray Beach Historical Society and the Historical Society of Palm Beach County joined forces for a program celebrating the history of the Barefoot Mailman.

ABOVE: Arts Garage’s student band, Rogue Set, including keyboard player Maddox Kumar of Ocean Ridge and Will Fogarty of Gulf Stream entertained the crowd.

LEFT: Delray Beach residents Avery Elliott and Morgan Gallagher, made necklaces from beads and shark’s teeth.

Photos by Tim Stepien/ The Coastal Star

• Organic Juice Booth • Flowers by Amazing Creations • Serenity Flow Soaps • Mozzarita Fresh Italian Cheeses • Pasta Amore Raviolis • Tweedle Organic Dog Treats • Local Raw Honey • Finn-Atic Fish Company • Stone Crabs • Raw Milk and Fresh Yogurt • Tespin's Organics

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May 2013

Municipal Meetings 5/6 - Ocean Ridge - First Monday at Ocean Ridge Town Hall, 6450 N. Ocean Blvd. 6 pm.

Agenda: www.oceanridgeflorida.com.

5/7 & 5/21 - Delray Beach - First & third Tuesdays at Delray Beach City Hall, 100 NW 1st Ave. 6 pm. Agenda: www.mydelraybeach.com.

5/10 - Gulf Stream - Second Friday at the Gulf Stream Town Hall, 100 Sea Road 9 am.

Agenda: www.gulf-stream.com.

5/13 - Lantana - Second & fourth Mondays at Lantana Town Hall, 500 Greynolds Circle. 7 pm. Agenda: www.lantana.org.

5/23 - Briny Breezes - Fourth Thursday at Briny Breezes Town Hall, 4802 N. Ocean Blvd. 4 pm. Agenda: www.townofbrinybreezes-fl.com.

5/28 - Manalapan - Fourth Tuesday at Manalapan Town Hall, 600 S. Ocean Blvd. 9:30 am.

Agenda: www.manalapan.org.

5/28 - South Palm Beach - Fourth Tuesday of each month at South Palm Beach Town Hall, 3577 S. Ocean Blvd. 7:15 pm. Agenda: www.southpalmbeach.com.

5/5 - Flute Choir Recital at the ArtsGarage, 180 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. $10. Noon-3 pm.

243-7129 or www.artsgarage.org.

5/5 - Sunday in the Park: Live Music - The Spencer Allan Patrick Trio at the NE corner of E. Ocean Ave. and NE 4th St., Boynton Beach. Noon-3 pm. Free. 737-3256.

5/5 - Color and Gemstones: Positive Thoughts for Successful Living Presented by author Margaret Ann Lembo at Unity of Delray Beach, 101 NW 22nd St. Meet the author and get a personal message. 1:303:30 pm. Love offering. 276-5796.

5/5 - Gillespie-Inspired Paper Sculptures - Presented as part of the ARTful Adventure Sunday series at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. Family program features art workshops or live performances by talented actors, musicians or dancers focused on creative family fun and includes an interactive opportunity for all ages to learn, create and enjoy the arts. 2-3 pm. Free with paid Museum admission. 392-2500.

5/5 - Pottery Painting Tea Party at ArtSea Living, 1628 S. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach. To celebrate the love of family, dress up, have some tea and paint pottery! 2-4 pm. $35/1 child & 1 parent tea pot. Additional cups & saucers available for a fee. $5/each additional person after initial two. RSVP required. 737-2600.

Monday - 5/6 - Quilting Bee - Twice monthly class at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Held again 5/20.

10 am. Free. 266-0194.

5/6 - Dance to Your Own Beat at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Ages 1-5 engage in fun exercises and dance movements using scarves, musical instruments and a parachute in the name of reading readiness. 10-11 am. Free. 742-6390.

5/6 - Watercolour Painting Workshop at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach.

The instructor will provide a class lesson, and lecture with emphasis on composition and drawing, then a painting demo. Held again 5/13 & 20. For adults. 10 am-1 pm. Per class: $30/residents, $35/non-residents. Full monthly payment required. 243-7350.

5/6 - Senior Bingo at Pompey Park, 1101 NW 2nd St., Delray Beach. For adults ages 60 years young and up. Class held every M & W. 11 am-noon. Free. 243-7356.

5/6 - Mah-Jongg at the Highland Beach Library, 3618 S. Ocean Blvd. Intermediate and advanced. Held every Monday. 12:30-1:30 pm. Free. 278-5455.

5/6 - Adult Duplicate Bridge at Harvey E. Oyer, Jr. Park, 2012 N. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach. Ongoing class held every M, W & F. 12:30-3:30 pm. $3/person per game. 7366550 or www.boynton-beach.org.

5/6 - The Empowerment Zone is a service available to library card holders who wish to create their resumes, search for jobs online, teach themselves to type or locate and apply services at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Held again 5/9, 13, 16, 20, 23 & 30. 1-4:30 pm. Free. 266-0196.

5/6 - Delray Divas Step Teams at Pompey Park, 1101 NW 2nd St., Delray Beach. An organized and structured step team that performs at local events and statewide competitions. The program reinforces the role of youth as positive members of the community. For grades K-12. Held every M & W. 6-8 pm. Monthly: $30/residents; $40/nonresidents. 243-7356.

5/6 - Business & Professionals Cocktail Reception is presented by the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County at Excell Auto Group, 1001 Clint Moore Road, Boca Raton. Get revved up for some fast and furious networking with business leaders and professionals from a wide array of industries and fields. 6 pm. $55 (A minimum gift of $180/person to the 2013 UJA/Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County Annual Campaign is required to attend).

Dietary laws observed. RSVP: 852-3128.

5/6 - Pajama Storytime at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd.

Ages 3-6 (plus siblings) listen to stories, sing, dance and make a special craft while in their

pajamas. Don’t forget to bring a teddy bear!

7-8 pm. Free. 742-6380.

5/6 - Meditation Mondays at the Highland Beach Library, 3618 S. Ocean Blvd. Meditate to enhance overall health and well-being.

Held every Monday. 7 pm. Free. 278-5455.

5/6 - Intermediate/Advanced Fencing/ Epee Class at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. A fun and exciting introduction to the sport of fencing, kids learn fencing skills, forge new friendships and have a blast. Held every M, W, F, 7-10 pm, & Sat. 6:30-10 pm. $125/ residents, $156.50/non-residents. 347-3950.

5/6 - U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 54 meets the first Monday of each month at Harvey Oyer Park, 2010 N. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach. Boaters and non-boaters welcome. 8 pm. 966-2158.

5/6 - FAU 24 Hour Theatre Project Presented at at FAU’s Boca Raton campus, Studio One Theatre, 777 Glades, Road. At 8 pm on Sunday (5/5), eight writers get together to write eight five-to-ten minute plays overnight. At 8 am Monday (5/6), eight directors and a cast of actors come in to read/direct/work/rehearse and completely memorize the scripts for performance at 8pm. All proceeds go to the Alzheimer’s Association. Shows may not be appropriate for children under the age of 13. 8 pm. $5.

877-311-7469 or www.fauevents.com.

Tuesday - 5/7 - Pompey Park Senior Club at Pompey Park, 1101 NW 2nd St., Delray Beach. Activities include field trips, breakfasts, games and events, fitness and health activities and social gatherings. Meets every M & W. 10 am-1 pm. Free (fees will be associated with trips). 243-7356.

5/7 - Bounce into Books Storytime - Ages 3-30 months listen to board books and picture books, sing songs, do fingerplays, dance and make new friends at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Held again 5/14. 10-10:45 am. Free. 742-6390.

5/7 - Adult Folk Dance Class at Pompey Park, 1101 NW 2nd St., Delray Beach. Ongoing class held for adults ages 18 years old and up. Learn new dances from around the world for physical fitness, exercise, and fun. Class held every T. 10:30 am-12:30 pm. $7/class.

243-7356.

5/7 - Family Days at the Children’s Library, 2 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach. Held every T & Th through July. Program designed to provide a place and opportunity for families with children to get together during the summer months. All learning games, puzzles, and toys available for in-house check-out. All library computers available for family use.

Guests are welcome to bring a packed lunch.

10:30 am-12:30 pm. Free. 655-2276.

5/7 - Interactive Story: A Story ‘N More at Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center, 129 E. Ocean Ave., Boynton Beach. Children’s books come to life through interactive performance, singing, movement and props. Held Tuesdays through 5/28. 11:15 am. Free with paid Museum admission: $4/ ages 1-17; $4.50/seniors; $5/adults. 7426782.

5/7 - 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.

5/7 - Natural Preserve Areas of Boca Raton is the featured presentation at the Boca Raton Garden Club General Meeting at the BRGC clubhouse, 4281 NW 3rd Ave. 1 pm.

Free. 395-9376.

5/7 - Intuitive Painting at Artful Dreamers Studio, 112 S. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach.

Beginners & seasoned painters welcome. All supplies includes. Held again 5/14. 1-4 pm. $35. RSVP: 901-1446.

5/7 - Ikenobo Ikebana Flower Arrangement - Using fresh flowers, students are taught traditional flower arrangement in this three-week class at The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach.

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5/5 - Paint Your Spirit at Artful Dreamers Studio, 112 S. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach.

Beginners & seasoned painters welcome to this daylong retreat. All supplies included. 10 am-5 pm. $75. 901-1446.

5/5 - Cinco de Mayo Street Party at Mizner Park, 449 Plaza Real, Boca Raton. Presented

by Uncle Julio’s Fine Mexican Food features taco stand, outdoor bars, mariachi band, DJ, photo booth and family activities and evening concert. 10 am - 11 pm. 300-3530 or www.unclejulios.com.

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Theatre, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. A musical revue featuring selections from the Broadway musicals Cabaret, Evita, The Wiz, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Damn Yankees and Newsies the Musical. Rated PG. 2 pm. $15/ adults, $10/children 12 & under. 347-3900.

5/4 - Kidz Cultural Class for ages 4-9 at Veterans Park, 802 NE First St., Delray Beach.

Class strengthens kids cardio as they move and groove with music and motion. Held Saturdays through 6/8. 2:30-3 pm. $78/ residents; $83/non-residents. 243-7350.

5/4 - The Kentucky Derby Goes Pink - Presented by The Ellman Foundation at The Addison, 2 E. Camino Real, Boca Raton.

Benefiting the Go Pink Challenge, which supports the Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness Institute at Boca Raton Regional Hospital. Enjoy dinner by the bite, cocktails, gaming, derby wagers and a chinese raffle while watching the 139th Run for the Roses on the big screen. 4-7:30 pm. $100. 955-4142 or www.brrh.com.

5/4 - Kentucky Derby Party at Boca Greens Country Club, 19642 Trophy Drive, Boca Raton. Join Quota International for hors d’oevres, beverages, buffet dinner, raffles, auctions and a live simulcast of the race to benefit Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse, Forgotten Soldiers Outreach and Dolores Taylor Scholarship Fund. 4-8 pm. $65. 9277179.

5/4 - 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 are welcome. For ages 12-20.

4-6 pm. $5/non-members, free/members.

243-7158 or www.mydelraybeach.com.

5/4 - BYOB Wine Glass Painting at Art-Sea Living, 1628 S. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach.

4-6 pm. $25/person. 737-2600.

5/4 - Intergalactic Nemesis at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach.

Science-fiction meets eye-popping comic book art in live, theatrical production. 7 pm. $10 and up. 832-7469 or www.kravis.org.

5/4 - A Night of Hope Benefit presented

by The Dancer’s Academy at Crest Theatre, Delray Center for the Arts at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton, Ave., Delray Beach.

Benefit to raise money for two BAK Middle School of the Arts students, Sandy Hegeman and Hailey Kennedy, both of whom have been diagnosed with leukemia. 20% of the proceeds will be given to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society for research. Additional donations to either one or both girls may be made by check. 7 pm. $20. 926-7685 or email nightofhopebenefit@yahoo.com.

5/4 - South Floriday Symphony’s Blue Door String Quartet: Noir at The Delray Beach Playhouse, 950 NW 9th St. Featuring works by Leonard Bernstein, Louis Grunenberg and Bloch. 8 pm. $25. 272-3523.

5/4 - Voices of Pride at the ArtsGarage, 180 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. Palm Beach County’s gay men’s chorus are an arts organization with highest musical and performance standards. $35-$50/advance, $40-$55/door.

Sat.: 8 pm. 243-7129 or www.artsgarage.org.

5/4-5 - 19th Annual Lantana Fishing Derby is held with lines in at 7 am. No checkin. From 9 am-noon: Kids’ Derby is held at the Lake Worth Pier; Noon-3:30 pm: weigh-in at Old Key Lime House. Event benefits a number of local charities and organizations.

Signature event is the Kids’ Derby. Adult derby awards of $10,000 in cash or prizes.

Award banquet/11:30 am-4pm at Old Key Lime House on 5/5. $200/per boat for up to four anglers. All events open to the public.

585-8664 or www.LantanaChamber.com.

5/4-5 - Waist Watchers: The Musical at The Plaza Theatre, 262 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan. Runs through 5/12. Th.-Sat.: 7:30 pm; Sat.&Sun.: 2 pm. $45. 588-1820.

5/4-5 - Short Cuts 3 is presented by The Playgroup at Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave. Featuring nine short plays by some of the finest local playwrights from Palm Beach, Broward and Miami Dade counties. Sat.: 8 pm; Sun.: 2 pm. $15. 586-6410.

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5/7 - Group Swim Lessons at the John Denson Pool, 225 NW 12th Ave., Boynton Beach. For kids ages 3 and older. Young children must be potty trained. Session are T & Th through 5/30. Level 1, II & III classes: 4:30, 5 & 5 pm. Cost per session is $40/ resident, $50/non-residents. 742-6645.

5/7 - 10 and Under Tennis: Junior Development Clinics for children ages 4-12 at the Ezell Hester, Jr. Community Center, 1901 N. Seacrest Blvd. Four-week session held Tuesdays through 5/28. Age 4: 4:30-5pm; age 5-6: 5-5:30 pm; age 7-8: 5:306:15pm; age 9-12: 6:15-7:15 pm. For ages 4-6, $20/residents, $25/non-residents; for ages 7-12, $30/residents, $38/non-residents.

Registration: 742-6550.

5/7 - Teen Crafternoon: Kawaii Can Craft is held at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Transform a soda can into a Kawaii doll or cartoon character. For grades 6-12. 5:30-7 pm. Free. 742-6390.

5/7 - Karate/Martial Arts Classes at Pompey Park, 1101 NW 2nd St., Delray Beach.

Students ages 9 to adults learn Karate along with a blend of other combat martial arts.

Class held every T & Th. 6-7:30 pm. Per class: $5/residents; $6/non-residents; or monthly $35/residents; $40/non-residents plus a onetime $25 for uniforms. 243-7356.

5/7 - 62nd Annual All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real.

Opening reception for Members and Patrons.

Exhibit opens 5/8 and runs through 7/14.

6-9 pm. Free for members, $10/guests of members. 392-2500.

5/7 - Diamonds & Pearls Dance Team at Pompey Park, 1101 NW 2nd St., Delray Beach. A community dance team program that prides itself on passion, dedication, excellence, and respect that participates in local and collegiate homecoming parades and statewide special events. For middle, high school and college students. Class held every T & Th. 6:30-8:30 pm. Monthly: $30/ residents; $40/non-residents. 243-7356.

5/7 - Line Dancing at the Ezell Hester, Jr. Community Center, 1901 N. Seacrest Blvd.

Held Tuesdays. 7-8:30 pm. $5/at the door.

742-6550.

5/7-8 - Hammock Trails - Go on a guided walk of a quarter-mile boardwalk at Gumbo Limbo nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd, Boca Raton. Open to all ages, children must be accompanied by an adult. Held every T & W. 10 am-noon. Free. 544-8605.

Wednesday - 5/8 - Coaching the Mature Driver is presented by Safety Council of Palm Beach County, Inc. at Temple Emeth, 5780 W.

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845-8233 or www.safetycouncilpbc.org.

5/8 - Shuffle Board/Disc Knockout at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach.

A fun game involving skill and strategy. For all ages, minors accompanied by an adult.

Ongoing event held W & F. 9-11 am. Annual fee: $15/residents, $25/non-residents. 2437350 or www.mydelraybeach.com.

5/8 - Lawn Bowling at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. For ages 18 years and up. Enjoy a sport that takes skill and practice. Everyone is welcome. Held W & F. 9 am-11 am. Annual fee: $40/residents, $45/ non-resident. 243-7350.

5/8 - Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Educational Program Series at the Palm Beach County Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, 559 N. Military Tr., West Palm Beach. Learn about legal issues, guiding behaviors and discipline, computers, resources, support, managing stress and more. Participants should bring a brown bag lunch. Held again 5/22. 10 am-1 pm. Free. 233-1739.

5/8 - Family Storytime at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd.

Listen to stories, sing songs and learn fingerplays. Infants-Age 5. 10-10:45 am. Free.

742-6380 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

5/8 - Socrates Café - Weekly discussion group at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Held again 5/15, 22 & 29.

11:30 am. Free. 266-0194.

5/8 - Casual Listeners Appreciate The Classic Composers at FAU Barry and Florence Friedberg Auditorium, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. First of four lectures presented as part of the Spring Lecture Series at FAU Lifelong Learning Society. Annual membership: $45. Held Wednesdays through 5/29. 1-2:45 pm. $34/member, $54/nonmember. 297-3171 or www.fau.edu/lls.

5/8 - Scrabble at the Highland Beach Library, 3618 S. Ocean Blvd. Held every Wednesday. 1-4 pm. Free. 278-5455.

5/8 - Silver Science Days: The Museum is Not Just for Kids! at the South Florida Science Museum, 4801 Dreher Trail North, West Palm Beach. A special afternoon for adults and retirees. Every second Wednesday of each month guests age 62 and over can experience the Museum, learn from engaging guest speakers, view a planetarium show and enjoy refreshments for only $5. 2-5 pm. 8321988 or www.sfsm.org.

5/8 - Wednesday Dinner is held each week at VFW Post 5335, 500 NE 21st St., Boynton Beach. 4:30-7 pm. $8. All are welcome. 7321989.

5/8 - Group Swim Lessons at the John Denson Pool, 225 NW 12th Ave., Boynton Beach. For kids ages 3 and older. Young children must be potty trained. W & F through 5/31. Level 1, II & III classes: 4:30, 5 & 5 pm. Cost per session is $40/resident, $50/ non-residents. 742-6645.

5/8 - Food Truck Connection is held each Wednesday at Harvey Oyer Park, 2010 S. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach. A weekly gathering of South Florida’s finest food trucks. 5-9 pm. 742-6040.

5/8 - Teen Gaming at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Grades 6-12 play video games using a Wii, PS3 or Xbox 360. Held again 5/15, 22 & 29. 5:30-7 pm.

Free. 742-6390 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

5/8 - Out of Gas on Lovers Leap Preview Performance at Actor’s Rep, 1009 N. Dixie Hwy., West Palm Beach. 8 pm. $15/adults, $5/students with ID. Performances continue 5/9-26. Performance times: 833-PLAY. Thursday - 5/9 - Quilters meet every Thursday at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest. Share quilting information and perpetuate quilting as a cultural and artistic form. 9-11:30 am. Free. 742-6886.

5/9 - Amazing Art at the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center, 129 E. Ocean Ave., Boynton Beach. Held Thursdays through 5/30. 10:30-11:15 am & 11:30 am-12:15 pm. $2.50/members, $3.50/ non-members with paid Museum admission.

Registration: 742-6780.

5/9 – Knit ‘N Purl - Twice monthly class presented at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Held again 5/23. 10:30 am. Free. 266-9490.

5/9 - 10th Annual Heroes in Medicine Awards Luncheon at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. Presented by Palm Beach County Medical Society Services, Inc. 11 am/ reception, Noon/luncheon. $90. 433-3940.

5/9 - 26th Annual Rotary Golf Tournament at Boca Lago Country Club, 8665 Juego Way, Boca Raton. Presented

by Rotary Club of Boca Raton Sunrise and Rotary Club Downtown Boca Raton to honor Dr. Ira J. Gelb. Proceeds benefit the FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine and undergraduate scholarships. 11 am/ registration and lunch, 11:15-11:45 am/Golf clinic, 12:30 pm/shotgun start, 5:30 pm/ reception and dinner. $250/player, $1,000/ foursome. 302-4655 or 302-6494.

5/9 - Straw Hat Luncheon is hosted by The Blooming Bunch Garden Club at the Boca Raton Resort & Club, 501 E. Camino Real.

Luncheon celebrates club’s 40th anniversary and honors their three founding members.

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May 2013 5/9 - Adult Acrylics Art Class at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. Local instructor teaches basic acrylic painting techniques to beginners and available for instruction to advanced painters as well.

Call for list of supplies needed. Held every Thursday. For ages 18 & up. Noon-2 pm. Fee for six- classes: $55/residents, $60/nonresidents. 243-7350.

5/9 - Barbara Corcoran shares her business knowledge and shark savvy in “10 Ways to Lead Your Team to Greatness” keynote luncheon as part of the National Women’s Business Owners Corporation National Conference (5/8-10) at the PGA National Resort and Spa, 400 Avenue of the Champions, Palm Beach Gardens. 12:15 pm. $100. 800-675-5066 or www.nwboc.org.

5/9 - Senior Bridge at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. All experienced players are welcome. Partners are not needed. Held every Thursday. For ages 18 and up. 1-4 pm.

Annual fee: $15/residents +$1/game, $25/ non-residents + $2/game. 243-7350.

5/9 - Mother’s Day Show at the Boynton Beach Senior Center, 1021 S. Federal Hwy. 1-3 pm. $3/person. 742-6570.

5/9 - Are Flowers Jewish? - Presented by Roz Davidson as part of the Author’s Series at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 2 p or www.delraylibrary.org.

5/9 - In Search of a Rational God at FAU Barry and Florence Friedberg Auditorium, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. First of four lectures presented as part of the Spring Lecture Series at FAU Lifelong Learning Society. Annual membership: $45. Held Thursdays through 5/30. 3:15-5 pm. $34/ member, $54/non-member. 297-3171.

5/9 - Kids Create Art at Artful Dreamers Studio, 112 S. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach.

All supplies included. 3:30-5 pm. $20. RSVP required. 901-1446.

5/9 - Art After Dark & Curator’s Conversations: Doris Duke’s Shangri La at the Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach. Changing special exhibitions, live music, films, tours, cash bar and menu options from Café 1451. All ages welcome. 5-9 pm. $12/adults, $5/ages 13-21, free/under age 13. 832-5196.

5/9 - Dx3: Delightfully Delicious DEAR Time at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Grades 2-12 are invited to Drop Everything And Read (DEAR)! Read a book of your choice for 20 minutes in the program room in complete silence.

Afterwards, be transported to another time and place by listening to an exciting readaloud. Held again 5/16, 23 & 30. 5:30-6:15 pm. Free. 742-6380.

5/9 - On The Ave is held along Atlantic Avenue and SW 5th Avenue, Delray Beach.

Live music and entertainment, open air art gallery, and craft brews available for purchase at the Beer Garden on the front lawn. 6-10 pm. Free. 279-1380, ex. 17.

5/9 - Writers Corner at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest. Monthly program offers free manuscript critiquing by published authors. 6:30-8 pm. Free. 7426390.

5/9 - Palm Beach Watercolor Society General Meeting at the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd.

Meetings are held the 2nd Thursday of the month, October thru May. Last meeting of the season. 6:30 pm. $2/suggested donation.

416-9600 or www.pbwatercolor.org.

5/9 - Volleyball at the Ezell Hester, Jr. Community Center, 1901 N. Seacrest Blvd.

Ongoing class held Thursdays. 6:30-8:30 pm. $5/at the door. 742-6550.

5/9 - Spotlight On Young Musicians -Presented at the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. Concert Hall, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. Crossing the threshold from practice to performance is every performer’s dream. This annual event turns that dream into reality for hundreds of talented student musicians. 7 pm. $10/ advance, $12/at the door. 832-7469.

Friday - 5/10 - 2nd Annual International Trade Symposium at Palm Beach State College Small Business Developement Center at Countess de Hoernle Humanities & Technology building, 3000 St. Lucie Ave., Boca Raton. Event tailored specifically for small business owners currently exporting or looking to expand into international markets.

8 am-noon. Free. 868-3120.

5/10 - Sogetsu Ikebana Flower Arrangement Introductory Class Using fresh flowers, students are taught contemporary flower arrangement in this class at The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach. Three-week course meets again 5/17 & 31. 10:30am-12:30 pm. $45/members, $52.50/non-members plus flower fee of $30 for all three weeks. Registration: 495-0233 Ext. 237.

5/10 - Children Of The White House: An Outreach, Community-Wide Family Event at FAU Barry and Florence Friedberg Auditorium, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. A one-time special lecture presented as part of the Spring Lecture Series at FAU Lifelong Learning Society. Annual membership: $45.

3:15-5 pm. $20/member, $25/non-member.

297-3171 or www.fau.edu/lls.

5/10 - Exhibit Opening: Places and Faces

by Phyllis Anselona and Bob Currie at the Highland Beach Library, 3618 S. Ocean Blvd.

Runs through 7/11 during regular hours: T-Th: noon-7 pm; F-Sat.: 10 am-1 pm. Opening: 4:30-6:30 pm. Free. 278-5455.

5/10-12 - Ford Trucks Polo & Balloon Festival at Gulfstream Polo Club, 4550 Polo Road, Lake Worth. Featuring a weekend of hot air balloons, polo, music, balloon rides, food, vendors and more. Balloon rides 6 pm F and 7 am Sat.& Sun.: $200; tether rides 5:30 pm F., $5/person. Funds go to the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund. F: 5 pm-9 pm; Sat.: 6 am-9 am & 5 pm-10 pm; Sun.: 6 am-9 am.

Admission: free with donation to the Injured Marines Semper Fi Fund. 803-652-1181 or www.palmbeachsports.com.

5/10-12 - Still Jewish After All These Years - Presented by the Boca Raton Theatre Guild at the Willow Theatre at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. A oneman show by national PBS star and Florida favorite Avi Hoffman. In this new musical celebration, Avi will take you along on an intimate and casual tour through his career, sharing engaging songs, moving encounters with theater luminaries and humorous stories of his life in show business. Rated PG. Held again 5/16-19. R-Sat.: 8 pm; Sat. & Sun.: 2 pm. $25. 347-3948 or www.brtg.org.

Saturday - 5/11 - The Amazing Mom and Son Challenge- Celebrate Mother’s Day at Delray Beach Community Center, 50 NW 1st Ave. Mom & Son teams “race” around the City of Delray Beach looking for clues and performing challenges to be the first team to cross the finish line. Age divisions starting at 5 years old. $10/adult; $5/teen/ child under age 17. - includes team t-shirts, souvenir team photo and post-race picnic at Community Center (around noon. Guest lunch tickets $5, free for participants).

Mandatory Captain’s Meeting 6 pm, 5/8.

Varied start times by age. Pre-registration required by 5/8. Team check-in starts at 8:30; race begins at 9:15 am. 243-7277.

5/11 - Ride & Remember Trolley Tour departs from the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum, 170 NW 5th Ave., Delray Beach.

2-hour tour focuses on 5 historic districts.

Held the second Saturday of each month. 10 am-noon. $20. Reservations: 279-8883.

5/11 - World Bonsai Day at The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach. Bonsai demonstrations, bonsai 911, plus newly renovated Bonsai Walk exhibit. Bonsai available for purchase. 10 am-5 pm. Regular admission: $13/adults, $12/seniors, $8/ children ages 6-17 & students with valid ID, Free/ children 5 and under. 495-0233.

5/11 - 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, Boynton Beach. A four-hour tour that includes a combination of both bus and walking tour and food sampling, along with visits to historical and cultural sites. Held the second Saturday of each month, year-round, rain or shine. Reservations required - check website for available dates. $40/adult & senior citizen, Free/children under 18 (max 5 children free per family.) 243-2662 or www. tastehistoryculinarytours.org.

5/11 - Family Splash Games at Pompey Park Pool, 1101 N. 2nd St., Delray Beach.

Floats are welcome and drinks and food are available to buy. Noon-3 pm. Free. 243-7358.

5/11 - Gratitude Festival: Gratitude - The Show at Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave. Featuring a high energy, creative, onewoman variety show that will ignite your soul through dancing, live art, comedy and song. Two shows: Noon-4 pm & 7-11 pm. $30/ adults, $15/children. 586-6410.

5/11 - The Music Man - Presented by American Heritage School of Boca/Delray at The Crest Theatre, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. Two shows: 12:30 & 5 pm. $15. 4957272 ext. 735.

5/11 - Poetic Possibilities PoetryWriting Workshop at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts, 51 N. Swinton Ave. Jill Bergkamp leads Palm Beach Poetry Festival hosted class. 1 pm. $10. 756-4298 or www. palmbeachpoetryfestival.org.

5/11 - Annual St. Paul Swing Ding Golf Tournament and Dinner Auction at the Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club,2425 Maya Palm Drive, Boca Raton. Proceeds to benefit

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5/11 - Moms & Daughters play & create together at Artful Dreamers Studio, 112 S. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach. All supplies included. 1-3 pm. $25. RSVP: 901-1446.

5/11 – Child Safety Prenatal Class at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, Parent Education Resource Center, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Learn infant CPR for children up to one year old and how you can assist in an emergency. 1 pm. $25/couple.

Registration: 369-2229.

5/11 - Best of Broadway at Showtime Performing Arts Theatre, 503 S.E. Mizner Blvd., Ste. 73, Boca Raton. Held Saturdays through 5/25. 2 pm. $14/adults, $10/children 12 & under. 394-2626.

5/11 - Celtic Woman at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. Musical experience features classic Irish tunes, timeless pop anthems and inspiring songs all with the signature Celtic Woman sound. Two shows: 2 & 8 pm. $25 and up. 651-4320.

5/11 - Nature Craft for Mother’s Day Design and decorate a card and gift bag for Mother’s Day using natural objects you find at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. For ages 7-12, adults must sign-in children, but do not have to stay. 2-3 pm. $8/members, $12/nonmembers - per child. Reservations: 544-8615.

5/11 - National League of American Pen Women Book Talks at Murder on the Beach Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach.

Book discussion with local authors and publishing information. Held again 5/18. 3 pm. Free. 279-7790.

5/11 - Talent Expo Show is presented by the Talented Teen Club at The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. Featuring singing, dancing and modeling competition. 4 pm. $20/advance; $25/at the door. 832-7469.

5/11 - Surf Into Summer at Delray Marketplace Amphitheatre, 9025 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. Presented by Burt Tspopoty for 2013 “Dream Big Small Business of the Year” recognition by the United States Chamber of Commerce. Food, drink and live entertainment headlined by original Beach Boy founder David Marks and the Surf City Allstars. Proceeds benefit local charities. 7-10 pm. $30/general, $60/premium, $100/VIP. 826-1790 or www.rapoportsrg.com/surf.

5/11-12 - Mother’s Day Tea at Café des Beaux-Arts at The Flagler Museum, One Whitehall Way, Palm Beach. Enjoy panoramic views of Lake Worth while dining on a lunch of tea sandwiches, scones, and sweets complemented by tea. Each mother receives admission to the Flagler Museum, a special corsage, keepsake photo, and a $10 gift card for the Museum Store. Sat.: 11:30 am-2:30 pm; Sun.: noon-3 pm. Members: $60/mother & child, $30/additional adult; Non-members: $100/mother & child, $50/additional adult, $35/additional children. Reservations: 6552833.

5/11-18 - Delray Beach ITF: USTA Boys’ and Girls’ 18-and-Under at Delray Swim & Tennis Club, 2350 Jaeger Dr. Over 200 statewide, national and international Boys’

& Girls’ 18-and-under players in both singles and doubles play. Matches begin daily at 8am. Spectator admission free. Schedules and draw information: 330-6000 or www. yellowtennisball.com.

MAY 12-18 Sunday - 5/12 - Mother’s Day 5/12 - Mother’s Day 2013 at The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach. Enjoy a delicious Pan-Asian lunch overlooking the beautiful Morikami gardens. Featuring a walk through Roji-en encompassing six distinct gardens, a koi feeding area, Japan Through the Eyes of a Child (an interactive children’s exhibit) and the world-class bonsai display. 10 am-5 pm. Regular admission: $13/ adults, $12/seniors, $8/children ages 6-17 & students with valid ID, Free/children 5 and under. 495-0233.

5/12 - Mother’s Day Brunch Buffet at the Atlantis Country Club, 190 Atlantis Blvd.

Enjoy a special Mother’s Day performance

by Valerie White, talented vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who delights guests with Top 40 Hits, Country, Oldies, Blues and Jazz Standards. 11 am-3 pm. $6/adults, $16/ children 12 & under, plus tax and gratuity.

Reservations: 965-5788.

5/12 - Mother’s Day Jazz Brunch at The Pavilion Grille, 301 Yamato Road., Boca Raton. Featuring a brunch buffet and the Deborah Paiva Jazz Duo. 11 am-2:30 pm. $42.95/adults, $19.95/children under 12.

Reservations: 912-0000.

5/12 - Family Fun Fest: Mom & Me at CityPlace, 700 Rosemary Ave., West Palm Beach. 1-4 pm. Free. 659-9057.

5/12 - Diaper Drop — Get Behind It! kicks off to provide at-risk mothers with essential “baby basic” items to help ensure a healthy start for their little ones. Presented

by United Way of Palm Beach County.

Donations: diapers, wipes, new receiving blankets and onesies can be dropped off from 2-4 pm every Friday until 6/20 at the United Way, 2600 Quantum Blvd., Boynton Beach.

375-6621 or www.unitedwaypbc.org.

Monday - 5/13 - Hekabe is discussed as part of the Great Books group at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. 1011:45 am. Free. 742-6390.

5/13 - Bento Boxes! at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Make your own popular Japanese containers used to pack complete meals. For grades 6-12. 5:30-7 pm. Free. 742-6390.

5/13 - Being Alive: The Music of Stephen Sondheim starring Mia Matthews & Wayne LeGette at The Plaza Theatre, 262 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan. Held again 5/20.

7:30 pm. $30. 588-1820.

Tuesday - 5/14 Loving the Skin You’re In at Palm Beach County Library System West Boynton Branch, 9451 Jog Road, Boynton Beach. Sharon Glynn, Director of Programming for the Alliance for Eating Disorders discusses importance of selfesteem and a positive body image in the treatment and recovery from an eating disorder. A Mental Health Month program. 2 pm. Free. 734-5556.

5/14 - Tahitian Dance Workshop at the James A. Rutherford Community Center, 2000

Yamato Road, Boca Raton. Tahitian dance is a strenuous-hypnotic dance, good for the figure and a great deal of fun. Movements are from the waist down, while the waist remains stationary. Held Tuesdays through 6/11. 2:15-3 pm. $40/residents, $50/nonresidents. 367-7035.

5/14 - The ABCs of Atrial Fibrillation Presented by Yoel Vivas, M.D., Cardiologist, as part of the Community Lecture Series at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, Clayton Conference Center, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. 2-3 pm. Free. 731-2273.

5/14 - Games @ Your Library at the Boynton Beach City Library, 508 S. Seacrest Blvd. Grades K-4 play favorite video, board and card games. Held again 5/28. 4:30-5:30 pm. Free. 742-6380.

5/14 - Comic Book Club at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd.

Meeting focuses on comics from Asia.

Sip bubble (boba) tea while reading and watching clips from popular anime. For grades 6-12. 5:45-6:45 pm. Free. 742-6390.

5/14 - The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje is presented as part of the Evening Book Group at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 6 pm. Free. 2669490 or www.delraylibrary.org.

Wednesday - 5/15 - Concert: Lyric String Quartet at the Highland Beach Library Community Room, 3618 S. Ocean Blvd. 5 pm.

Free. 278-5455.

5/15 - “The Legacies of Delray Beach Families” Opening Reception at Spady Cultural Heritage Museum, 170 NW Fifth Ave., Delray Beach. Local artist Michiko Kurisu photographed original images of families and curated their artifacts for inclusion in the show. Runs through August during regular museum hours. Opening reception at 5:30 pm. $5/Museum admission. 279-8883.

Thursday - 5/16 - Exhibit: Flying High: The Story of Kites at Cornell Museum of Art & American Culture, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. Interactive exhibition showcases the history of kites from their origins in ancient China three thousand years ago, to their scientific uses worldwide, to their nostalgic and fun-loving use in America as one of our popular past times.

Runs through 9/29/13. T-Sat.: 10 am-4:30 pm, Sun.: 1-4:30 pm. $10/general, $6/seniors & students with ID, $3/children (4-12), Free/ members and children ages 3 and under. 2439722 or www.delraycenterforthearts.org.

5/16 - Exhibit: A Quilting Evolution at Cornell Museum of Art & American Culture, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. Presented in partnership with the Gold Coast Quilters Guild. Exhibit includes a broad mix of 80 to 100 traditional and art quilts, as well as a selection of the award-winning “Quilted” Artists Books from the 2007, 2009 and 2011 GCQG and the FAU Jaffe Center for Book Arts Biennial Competition. Runs through 9/29.

T-Sat.: 10 am-4:30 pm, Sun.: 1-4:30 pm. $10/ general, $6/seniors & students with ID, $3/ children (4-12), Free/children ages 3 and under. 243-9722.

5/16 - Pen Women Luncheon and Discussion at Delray Beach Golf Club, 2200 Highland Ave. NLAPW presents two talented graduating college women with achievement awards in the field of music. 11:30 am. $25.

RSVP 865-9756 or www.bocapenwomen.org.

Community Calendar AT13 5/16 - Memorial Day Program: Honor Flight is presented by Todd Tucker of Honor Flight of SE. Florida, at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 2 pm.

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

5/16 - 62nd Annual All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition: Curatorial Highlight Tour at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. Enjoy an informative gallery tour that focuses on a current exhibition. 2:30-3 pm. Free with paid Museum admission. 392-2500.

5/16 - Wine Tasting at Old Vines, Wine & Spirits, 900 E. Atlantic Ave. #3, Delray Beach.

Held again 5/30. 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. 2762076 or www.oldvinesdelraybeach.com.

5/16 - Curtains Up at Crane’s BeachHouse Hotel & Tiki Bar, 82 Gleason St., Delray Beach, as part of their summer series of third Thursday fun-raisers to benefit local non-profit organizations. As the winning nonprofit organization at last October’s Best Bite on the Ave culinary competition, the Take Heed Theatre Company of Lake Worth will kick off this year’s series. 6-8:30 pm. $25/ person. 278-1700.

5/16 - Artists Alley Open Studios - Held every third Thursday in the new warehouse arts area in Pineapple Grove Arts District, running north and south between NE 3rd and 4th Streets, east of 3rd Avenue and west of the railroad tracks in Delray Beach. 6-9 pm.

Free. www.artistsalleydelray.com.

5/16 - Taste of Boynton’s Food and Wine Red Carpet Event at Indian Spring Country Club, 11501 El Clair Ranch Road, Boynton Beach. An evening of menu items from your favorite restaurants with wine tasting.

Cocktail attire. 6:30-9:30 pm. $40/advance, $50/at the door. 732-9501.

5/16 - Boynton Beach Art District Open Mic Night at 422 W. Industrial Ave., Boynton Beach. Held the third Thursday of each month. 7-10 pm. Free. 786-521-1199 or http://ActivistArtistA.com.

5/16-18 - Robin Hood - Performed by Tampa’s Master Puppeteer Jerry Bickel at the Puppetry Arts Center, 94 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach. Th & F: 10:30-11:30 am; Sat.: 2-3 pm. $6.50. Reservations: 243-4330.

5/16-19 -Footloose! The Musical Presented by Garage Players at the Arts Garage, 180 NE First St., Delray Beach. Runs Th & F: 7:30-10:30 pm; Sat.&Sun.: 2-5 pm. $15-$25. 450-6357.

Friday - 5/17 - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - Presented as part of the Great Books Discussion Group at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 10 am.

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

5/17 - Savage Ancient Seas: The Ancient Aquatic Deep at The South Florida Science Museum, 4801 Dreher Trail North, West Palm Beach. The first attraction at the newly expanded and renovated museum debuts before the official opening. Exhibit educates

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5/17 - Mommy, Mother Nature & Me: Bees at Daggerwing Nature Center, 11200 Park Access Road, Boca Raton. Parents, bring your little ones to experience exciting nature topics. Programs include activities such as: stories, puppets, games, role play, nature walks, and crafts. Ages 2-5. 10:30-11:15 am. $4/child. Reservations: 629-8760.

5/17 - 27th Annual Chamber Golf Tournament is presented by the Greater Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce at Gleneagles Country Club, 7667 Victory Lane, Delray Beach. Games include: putting contests, beat the pro, longest and straightest drives, closest to the pin and hole-in-one. 11:30 am: Lunch and registration; 1 pm: Shotgun start; 5 pm: Cocktails, hor d’oeuvres and awards. $165/ individual, $650/foursome. 279-0907.

5/17 - Alzheimer’s Cafe at the Shirley & Barton Weisman Delray Community Center (of Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service), 7091 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. The Alzheimer’s Cafe is a unique gathering for people affected

by Alzheimer’s disease and related memory loss, along with their families, friends, caregivers and professionals. Share laughter and each other’s good company in a relaxed setting, listen and sing to old time music, dance, make art, play games and munch on snacks. The gatherings create an opportunity to share feelings and explore constructive solutions for caregivers in interaction with others in similar situations. Held the 1st and 3rd Friday of each month. 2-4 pm. Free. RSVP: 866-7086 or www.bocafed.org.

5/17 - Pre-Columbian Collection Gallery Talk at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. Gallery specialist Stacey Giulianti engages and entertains visitors as they view and learn about the Museum’s PreColumbian collection. Held again 5/24. 2 pm.

Free with paid Museum admission. 392-2500.

5/17 - Rock-Paper-Scissors and Paint features works by artists Emilio AponteSierra and Steve Grouse at Clay, Glass, Metal, Stone Gallery, 15 S. J St., Lake Worth. 6-9 pm.

Free. 215-205-9441.

5/17 - Evening on the Avenue at Cultural Plaza in Downtown Lake Worth (Corner of

Lake Avenue and M Street.) Featuring live music, food vendors, crafts and artists selling their artwork. Held the first & third Friday of each month. 6-10 pm. Free. 588-8344.

5/17 - BYOB Canvas & Cocktails at Art-Sea Living, 1628 S. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach.

6-8 pm. $25-$32/person. 737-2600.

5/17 - Adult Ballroom Dance Class at the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. Singles and couples welcome. Five-class session runs Fridays through 6/21. Beginner Dance: Tango, 6:30-7:30 pm; Intermediate Dance: W. Coast Swing, 7:45-8:45 pm. $50/ residents, $63/non-residents. 393-7807.

5/17 - Ocean Avenue Concert: The People Upstairs at Ocean Avenue Amphitheater, between Seacrest Boulevard, and NE 1st Street in Boynton Beach. Food and beverages available. 7-9 pm. Free. 737-3256.

5/17-19 - Punch & Judy, and The Three Sillies at Sol Children Theatre, 3333 N. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton. F & Sat: 7 pm; Sat. & Sun.: 2 pm. $12/adult, $8/junior. 447-8829.

5/17-19 - Sylvia at The Delray Beach Playhouse, 950 NW 9th St. Held again 5/2125, 5/30-6/1: 8 pm; 5/25-26, 6/1-2: 2 pm.

F-Sat.: 8 pm; Sat. & Sun.: 2. $30. 272-1281, Ext. 4 or www.delraybeachplayhouse.com.

Saturday - 5/18 - 1st Annual Eric Patrie Memorial 5K Run/Walk - Presented by Firefighters & Paramedics Benevolent Fund at Anchor Park, 340 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach. Proceeds benefit the Eric Patrie Trust Fund. All registered runners receive a t-shirt and goodie bag. Also offering a free Kids Fun Run, with all kids participating receiving a race number and finisher’s award.

7 am. $25/before 5/16; $30/race day. Email delrayfirebenevolent@yahoo.com or www. firefighterericpatrie.com.

5/18 - 2013 Hospice by the Sea Regatta - Hosted by the Lauderdale Yacht Club, Hillsboro Inlet Sailing Club and the Gulfstream Sailing Club. Race is held on a 12-mile course just off the shores of Fort Lauderdale Beach. Race begins at 11 am.

Post-race awards ceremony and celebration is held at Coral Ridge Yacht Club beginning at 6:30 pm. Live entertainment and casual waterfront dining. $100-$150/vessel; $50/ ceremony and celebration. For copy of official Notice of Race contact: 416-5132 or www. hbts.org.

5/18 - Hillsboro Lighthouse Tour - Meet at the Sands Harbor Resort and Marina, North side, 125 N. Riverside Drive, Pompano Beach.

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Visitors should park in the Pompano Beach City Parking (fee required) across from the Sands Harbor Hotel & Marina. Transportation to and from the Lighthouse is only by tour boat. First boat departs at approximately 9 am. Last boat leaves the Sands Harbor Hotel at 2:30 pm, and the last boat from the Lighthouse returns to the Sands Harbor Hotel at approximately 4 pm. Visitors must have flat shoes with rubber soles and closed toes. Children must be accompanied by an adult and must be a minimum of 48” tall to climb the tower. No pets allowed. 9 am-2:30 pm. $15 transportation fee. 954-942-2102 or www.hillsborolighthouse.org/tours.html.

5/18 - Haitian Flag-Raising Ceremony at Delray Beach City Hall, 100 NW 1st Ave., Part of Palm Beach County’s celebration of Haitian Heritage Month. 10 am. Free. 654-1048.

5/18 - Group Swim Lessons at the John Denson Pool, 225 NW 12th Ave., Boynton Beach. For kids ages 3 and older. Young children must be potty trained. Sessions are Sat. through 6/8. Level 1, II & III classes: 10:30 & 11:15 am. Cost per session is $40/resident, $50/non-residents. 742-6645.

5/18 - Family Fun Workshop: Origami at The Morikami Japanese Museum and Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach. Learn the art of Japanese paper folding and have fun creating a few fun objects. For ages 7 and up only; children must be registered with a parent/guardian.

11:30 am-12:30 pm. $5/with paid museum admission. Registration: 495-0233 ext. 237.

5/18 - The Gumbo Limbo Golf Classic at the Indian Springs Country Club, 11501 El Clair Ranch Road, Boynton Beach. All proceeds benefit the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center’s Gordon Gilbert Scholarship Fund.

The Friends of Gumbo Limbo invite all Gumbo Limbo supporters to join the dinner following the golf tournament. Tournament foursome packages start at $600, individual player packages start at $175, dinner tickets $100.

Both foursome and individual packages include lunch, dinner and on-course beverages. Registration and lunch begin at 11:30 am, tournament shotgun start at 1 pm, and Putting Contest begins at 5:30 pm. Dinner & awards ceremony at 6 pm.

632-2331.

5/18 - 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

Green Markets

Boynton Beach Community Farmer’s Market at Ocean Avenue Park, Northeast corner of Ocean Avenue and Northeast Fourth Street. Locally grown artisan food, fresh baked goods, specialty olive oils, handmade jewelry and more. Held year round every Saturday. 9 am-2 pm. Free. 714-2745 or www.communityfarmersmarketsofsouthfl.com.

Delray GreenMarket is held each Saturday through 5/11 at the Old School Square Park, NE 2nd Ave., one block north of Atlantic Ave. Outdoor venue offers fresh local produce, baked goods, gourmet food items, plants, live music and children’s activities. 9 am - 2 pm.

276-7511 or www.delraycra.org.

Lake Worth Farmer’s Market is held each Saturday, through 5/13 at Old Bridge Park, A1A and Lake Avenue, northeast corner in Lake Worth. 8 am-1 pm. Free. 547-3100 or www. lakeworthfarmersmarket.com. (outside East Entrance) Boynton Beach Mall, 801 N Congress Ave, Ste. 483, Boynton Beach.

Four-hour tour includes a combination of both bus and walking tour and food sampling, along with visits to historical and cultural sites. Held year-round, rain or shine.

Reservations required - check website for available dates. Held again 5/25. $40/adult & senior citizen, Free/children under 18 (max 5 children free per family.) 243-2662 or www. tastehistoryculinarytours.org.

5/18 - International Museum Day: Memory + Creativity = Social Change at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. Since 1977, museums around the world have been showcased as institutions in service to society. On International Museum Day, the Museum is open and free to all.

Noon-5 pm. Free. 392-2500.

5/18 - Creation Station at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real.Activities may include crafting a sculpture out of recycled objects, creating a collage, or solving a jigsaw puzzle. 1-4 pm. Free with paid Museum admission. 392-2500.

5/18 - Art Film - Orozco: Man of Fire (2007) at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. Held again 5/19 & 22. 2 pm.

Free with paid Museum admission. 392-2500.

5/18 - 25th Annual Pro Bono Recognition Evening and Auction at Palm Beach County Convention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. Theme is “Super Heroes: Fighting for Justice, Saving Lives.” Cocktail attire/capes and costumes encouraged.

Proceeds benefit The Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County. 6-10 pm. $150. 6558944, Ext. 257 or www.legalaidpbc.org.

5/18 - Old School BeerFest at Delray Beach Center For The Arts at Old School Square Pavilion, 51 N. Swinton Ave. Beer tasting with 50 craft beers; live music with Preservation (rock & roll covers) and The People Upstairs (funk/reggae); food trucks offering some of South Florida’s best gourment street cuisine; VIP area with complimentary snacks and beverages plus covered outdoor and airconditioned seating and other perks. 6-10 pm. Proceeds support the 2013-14 Free Friday Concerts at The Pavilion. $30-$60/advance, $40-$70/at the gate. 243-7922 Ext. 1.

5/18 - Young Adult Division Societies’ Event at Mizner Cultural Arts Center, 201 Plaza Real, Boca Raton. Presented by Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County Young Adult Division. Thank you celebration of Young Adult generosity for varied levels of donors in their 20s-40s. 8:30 pm. $50.

852-6084.

MAY 19-25 Sunday - 5/19 - Downtown Open Market at Monument Piazza, Royal Palm Place, 308 S. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton. Held once a month on Sundays through May. Features food, art galleries, jewelers and a variety of boutiques. 10 am-4 pm. Free. www. downtownopenmarket.com.

5/19 - Concert: Sunshine Trio - Presented as part of Music At St. Paul’s series at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 188 S. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. The magic of flute, viola and harp, featuring music of Tournier and Debussy. 3 pm. $20/preferred seating, $15/ requested donation, $5/students. 278-6003.

5/19 - Future Stars Performing Arts Competition at the Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center, Lynn University, 3601 N. Military Trail, Boca

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Contestants are top young performers from all of South Florida. Proceeds from the event benefit the activities and projects of the Boca Raton Rotary Club. 4 pm. Tickets $15-$25.

237-9000 or www.lynn.tix.com.

5/19 - Ubuntu, 10th Anniversary Spring Concert is performed by the Young Singers of the Palm Beaches at the Raymond F. Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. Features 350 young singers in the award-winning youth choir. Champagne reception prior to performance. 7 pm. $10 and up. 659-2332.

5/19 & 26 - Meditation and Mindfulness (a two-part class) at Unity of Delray Beach, 101 NW 22nd St. Facilitated by Charlene Wilkinson, classes explore a simple step-bystep guide to meditation and mindfulness practices to make them a part of our everyday life. 1:30-3:30 pm. Love offering.

276-5796 or www.unityofdelraybeach.org.

Monday - 5/20 - Coaching the Mature Driver is presented by Safety Council of Palm Beach County, Inc. at South County Civic Center, 16700 Jog Road, Delray Beach.

Drivers 55 and over get an insurance discount for three years when they take this course. 9 am-4 pm. $10. 845-8233.

5/20 - Retired Educators Social Club at Stratford Court, 6343 Via De Sonrisa Del Sur, Boca Raton. Speaker is Gerard Popp, “Financial Exploitation Crimes Against the Elderly.” Noon. Free. 954-255-6360.

5/20 - The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott is presented as part of the Afternoon Book Group at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 1 pm. Free. 266-9490.

5/20 - The President’s Secret is presented as part of the Author’s Series at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 2 pm. Free. 266-9490 or www.delraylibrary.org 5/20 - Just Juice by Karen Hesse is discussed as part of the Book Gabbers Book Discussion group at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Grades 3-5.

6:30-7:30 pm. Free. Registration: 742-6886.

Tuesday - 5/21 - The Dr. & Mrs. John J. Mayers Collection: Curatorial Highlight Tour at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. Enjoy an informative gallery tour that focuses on a current exhibition. 2:30-3 pm. Free with paid Museum admission.

392-2500.

5/21 - Drop-in Craft Day at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd.

Materials provided. Grades K-5. 4:30-5:30 pm. Free. 742-6393.

5/21 - Steve’s Charity Pizza Challenge at Steve’s Wood Fired Pizza, 9180 Glades Road, Boca Raton. Proceeds benefit The Pap Corps, Tri-County Humane Society and Catherine’s Hope for a Cure. 6 pm. Free. 483-5665.

5/21 - 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 and 3rd Tuesday of each month. 7 pm. Free. 297STAR. Wednesday - 5/22 - Basic Driver Improvement Course is presented by Safety Council of Palm Beach County, Inc. at Temple Emeth, 5780 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. 8:30 am-12:30 pm. $10. 845-8233.

5/22 - Knowledge & Nibbles: Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel presented by Palm Beach Dramaworks Theatre Guild, 201 Clematis St., West Palm Beach. Bring your friends, have a bite, and find out what makes a production come to life. Includes a buffet lunch and discussion. 11:30 am-1 pm. Tickets $25-$30. 514-4042.

5/22 - Beach Treasures at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. Meet at the center to learn about seashells and the animals that make them.

Caravan to Red Reef Park, 1400 N. State Road A1A, and search for ocean treasures. For all ages, children must be accompanied by an adult. 3:30-5 pm. $5/members, $8/nonmembers. Reservations: 544-8615.

5/22-26 - Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel - Presented by Palm Beach Dramaworks, 201 Clematis St., West Palm Beach. Play runs through 6/16. W-Sat.: 8

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ABOVE: Boca Raton residents Adam Fisk and Megan Dahlem give a hand to Cody Matthew during a 25-minute fight with a 300-pound bull shark. RIGHT: After posing for a couple of photos, the FAU students released the shark. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star pm; W, Sat. & Sun. & 5/23: 2 pm. Select 7 pm shows 6/2, 9, & 16. Tickets $47-$70.

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5/22-23 - 2013 Florida Green, Energy & Climate Conference and Expo at Palm Beach County Convention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. Yearly event joins together eco businesses with green energy leaders from municipalities, counties, and regional agencies throughout the State of Florida. Conference allows attendees the opportunity to network, gain new knowledge, and share ideas about sustainable ways of fulfilling Florida’s energy needs through the development and use of renewable energy technology. W: 7 am-6 pm; Th.: 7 am-2 pm. Admission: $200/twoday pass; $125-$175/one-day pass. 790-6200 or www.floridagreenconference.com.

Thursday - 5/23 - Canasta Class at the James A. Rutherford Community Center, Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Road, Boca Raton. Learn the basic techniques of playing the skilled game of canasta; how to count points, keep score, and play of the hand.

Couples and singles welcomed. Each player is required to purchase four decks of cards, two red, two blue, and a canasta tray and bring with them to the first class. Held Th & F through 5/31. 10 am-noon. $40/residents, $50/non-residents. 367-7035.

5/23 - Deborah Coonts speaks and signs her new book, Lucky Bastard, at Murder on the Beach Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach. 7 pm. Free. 279-7790.

5/23 - Big Guy, Little Guy Storytime for ages 4-7 at the Boynton Beach City Library, 508 S. Seacrest Blvd. Little guys, bring your favorite “big guy” (father, older brother, uncle, grandfather, etc.) to the library to listen to stories, sing songs and make a special “guy” craft. 7-8 pm. Free. 742-6380.

5/23 - James E. Buffan Gold Coast Band Concert at the Boynton Beach Civic Center, 128 E. Ocean Ave. 7:30 pm. $7 at the door.

742-6240 or www.boynton-beach.org.

5/23 - The Night Stalkers at Green Cay Nature Center, 12800 Hagen Ranch Road, Boynton Beach. Join a Naturalist on a nighttime boardwalk tour looking at nature from the point of view of its nocturnal residents.

For all ages. 8 pm. $5/person. 966-7000.

5/23 - Turtle Walk at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton.

Ages 8 and up. Held again 5/30, every T, W & Th in June, and 7/2, 3 & 7/9-11. 8:45-11 pm. $8/members, $17/non-members. General public ticket sales begin 5/11. Advance ticket purchase required: 544-8605.

Friday - 5/24 - 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 that can get wet. No flip-flops or sandals. Old sneakers or watershoes only. Ages 10 to adult, children must be accompanied by an adult.

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

Reservations: 544-8615.

5/24 - BYOB Wine Glass Painting at ArtSea Living, 1628 S. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach. 6-8 pm. $25/person. 737-2600.

5/24 - Delray Beach Bus Loop - Check in at Delray Beach Center for the Arts, 51 N. Swinton Ave. Venues to be announced.

Receive a free drink at each venue. Proceeds benefit the Delray Center for the Arts and the Delray Beach Co-Op Marking Program.

Bus Loop card will be valid 6-11 pm. $20/ advance, $35/at the door (free admission for designated drivers). 954-574-6000 or www. busloop.org.

5/24 - Prudy Taylor Board speaks and signs her new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inspiration for Writers, at Murder on the Beach Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach. 7 pm. Free. 279-7790.

5/24 - The Great American Song Book Presented by The International Big Band Jazz Cafe Society at Olympic Heights Community High School, 20101 Lyons Road, Boca Raton.

Dick Cully and his 15 piece big band pay tribute to our Military Veterans, performing the music of the Greatest Big Band Leaders.

Proceeds benefit the Olympic Heights High School Bands. 7:30 pm. $20/advance, $25/at the door. 750-0035.

5/24 - Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers featuring Edie Brickell at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. 8 pm. $35 and up. 832-7469 or 572-8471.

Saturday - 5/25 - Sea Angels Beach Cleanup at Ocean Inlet Park, 6990 N. Ocean Blvd., Ocean Ridge. Held every last Saturday of the month. 8-10:30 am. 369-5501.

5/25 - Start Smart Football for ages 3-6 at the Catherine Strong Park, 1500 SW 6th St., Delray Beach. Introductory program which teaches basic fundamentals of the sport.

Runs Saturdays through 6/15. 10:30-11:30 am. Four-week session: $20/residents, $30/ non-residents. 243-7194.

5/25 - Sandoway House Nature Center’s Beach Walk presented by Dr. Angela Witmer at Sandoway House Nature Center, 142 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach. During a guided walk of the beach, participants discover the dunes, beach animals and learn about the interaction of land and sea. 11 am-noon. $5/ includes admission to nature center. All ages welcome. 274-7263.

5/25-26 - 16th Annual Downtown Delray Beach Craft Festival at the Delray Beach Tennis Center, 201 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. Juried outdoor craft showcase. 10 am-5 pm. Free. 954-472-3755.

MAY 26-JUNE 1 Monday - 5/27 - Memorial Day 5/27 - Memorial Day Ceremony at Boca Raton Cemetery, 449 SW 4th Ave. 9 am. Free.

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5/27 - Memorial Day Observance at Veteran’s Park, 9400 W. Palmetto Park Road, Boca Raton. Veterans Coalition of South Florida presents annual program honoring veterans of armed services featuring procession of colors, guest speakers and patriotic music. 9:30 am. Public invited. Free.

963-6755 or www.pbcparks.com.

5/27 - 8th Annual Memorial Day Service: A Day To Remember - Presented by Forgotten Soldiers Outreach, Inc. and Palm Beach Memorial Park at 3691 Seacrest Blvd., Lantana. Free hot dogs and hamburgers following the ceremony. 11:50 am-2 pm.

Free. 585-6444.

5/27 - Memorial Day Concert: The New Gardens Band, The Indian River Pops and The Robert Sharon Chorale at Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton. 7 pm. Free. 393-7827.

5/27-29 - I’m Still Here!: Harold Prince - The Man Who Transformed Broadway (Part Two: 1970-Present) at The Delray Beach Playhouse, 950 NW 9th St. Held again 6/3-5. All dates: 2 & 8 pm. $30. 272-1281, Ext. 4 or www.delraybeachplayhouse.com.

Tuesday - 5/28 - Origami at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Learn how to make origami cranes, hearts, flowers and more. For grades 4-12. 5:30-6:30 pm.

Free. 742-6390 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

5/28 - 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 -5/29 - Dog Obedience Classes at the Train Depot, 747 S. Dixie Hwy., Boca Raton. Six-week session runs through 7/3. 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.

Thursday - 5/30 - Learn with Legos @ Your Library at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Ages 3-5 make a truck, spaceship or whatever your imagination conjures up using Legos. 10-11 am. Free. 742-6390.

5/30 - Bards of a Feather presented by the Palm Beach Poetry Festival at Green Cay Nature Center, 12800 Hagen Ranch Road, Boynton Beach. Hosted by the Friends of Green Cay Nature Center, Inc. Join a round robin poetry reading of nature-inspired poems. For all ages. 12:30 pm. Free. 9667000 or www.pbcgov.com/parks/nature.

5/30 - Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Educational Program Series at the Palm Beach County Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, 559 N. Military Tr., West Palm Beach. Learn about legal issues, guiding behaviors and discipline, computers, resources, support, managing stress and much more. 6-8 pm. Free. 2331739 or www.pbcgov.com/coextension.

5/30 - BMX Bike Night at the “505” Teen Center, 505 SE 5th Ave., Delray Beach. Open night for BMX bikers for 3 hours. Helmet required. For ages 5 to adult. Held the last Thursday of every month. 6-9 pm. $2/guest pass. 243-7158.

Friday - 5/31 - Polynesian Luau Nights at The Museum at the South Florida Science Museum, 4801 Dreher Trail North, West Palm Beach. 6-10 pm. $11.95/adults, $8.95/ children (3-12), $10.45/seniors (62+), free/ members & children under 3. 832-1988.

Saturday - 6/1 - Motivation Man Olympic & Half Iron Distance Triathlon in downtown West Palm Beach. Presented by The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America.

Body marking & gear set-up: 4:30-6:15 am; Race start: 6:30 am. 175/Olympic individual triathalon, $275/Half iron individual triathlon, $375/Half iron relay thriathlon.

218-2929, EXT. 16 or www.motivationman. com or rkramer@ccfa.org.

6/1 - Little Wonders - Introduce children to plants and animals around them with a hike, crafts and stories at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton.

For children ages 3 & 4, accompanied by an adult. 10-10:45 am. $5/members, $8/nonmembers. Reservations: 544-8615.

6/1 - The Great Summer Quest at The Ritz-Carlton, 100 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan.

Teams of six travel by chauffered vehicles in search answers to clues throughout Palm Beach County. 1 pm/scavenger hunt, 6 pm/ after party. Proceeds benefit The Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County. Food, refreshments, prizes and gifts. Summer chic. $450/individual, $2,500 team of six.

683-3287.

6/1 - Art-E-Ology: Jose Clemente Orozco - Mini Portraits for grades 3-5 is presented at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. Once a month, children learn about a master artist on exhibit at the museum and

have the opportunity to create a masterpiece in the style of the selected artist. 1-2:30 pm. $5/child; free/members. Reservations: 3922500 ext. 106.

6/1-2 - The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is performed by the Plaza Theatre Conservatory at The Plaza Theatre, 262 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan. 6/1: 2 pm & 7:30 pm, 6/2: 2 pm & 6 pm. $45. 588-1820.

6/1-2 - Forbidden Hollywood at the Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center, Lynn University, 3601 N. Military Tr., Boca Raton. A comic once-over is given to blockbuster movies such as Star Wars, Titanic, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Austin Powers and Moulin Rouge and performers that include Cameron Diaz, Nicole Kidman, Jim Carrey, Tom Cruise and legends Marlene Dietrich, Marlon Brando, Doris Day, Barbra Streisand and Louis Armstrong. Tongue-incheek extravaganza provides an evening of laughter, fun and no-holds barred on some of the great musical icons of our time. Sat.: 7:30 pm; Sun.: 4 pm. Tickets $35. 237-9000.

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Your Window Into Palm Beach Real Estate

1695 LANDS END ROAD Fantastic views from stunning 9,700 SF 6BR/6.5BA waterfront estate with deep water dockage. Free Ritz Beach Club membership with purchase! Web ID 993 $4.095M

100 CHURCHILL WAY Exquisite 6BR/6.5BA Mediterranean estate on Manatee Cove.

8,300 total SF with attached guest suite. Free Ritz Beach Club membership with purchase! Web ID 2791 $3.5M

1235 LANDS END ROAD Exceptional 3BR/3.5BA home offers gorgeous wide water views of Intracoastal. Free Ritz Beach Club membership with purchase!

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11 SABAL ISLAND DRIVE Elegant 4BR/5.5BA Mediterranean estate offers host of luxuries.

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4 LITTLE POND ROAD Near the former Vanderbilt Estate, this beautifully appointed 2BR/2BA villa. Gratis Beach Club membership included. Free Ritz Beach Club membership with purchase! Web ID 1097 $695K

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713 SE ATLANTIC DRIVE Beautifully renovated 3BR/2.5BA home located on enchanting Hypoluxo Island. Designer decorated with all the amenities.

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45 AUDUBON CAUSEWAY Classic Point Manalapan estate with over 5,800 SF under air.

Spacious 3BR/4.5BA floor plan features high ceilings and custom crown moldings & cabinetry. Web ID 1224 $1.6M

25 SPOONBILL ROAD Beautifully renovated 4BR/3.5BA with Old World finishes. Direct water views with quick Ocean access. Ritz Carlton Beach Club membership included. Web ID 1228 $2.495M

Bill Quigley 561.346.3434 wquigley@fiteshavell.com

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812 E. MARBELLA LANE Amazing wide water views from this 4BR/4.2BA home with deep water dockage. Oversized great room, vaulted ceilings and pool. Web ID 2792 $1.699M

1555 SOUTH OCEAN BOULEVARD Picturesque parcel that reaches from the Ocean to Intracoastal Waterway, sunrises and sunsets are part of the package at this 5BR/7.3BA estate in Manalapan. Web ID 1110 $10.5M

101 CHURCHILL ROAD 5BR/6.5BA home with Palm Beach & Intracoastal views.

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1105 NORTH ATLANTIC DRIVE Direct Intracoastal Key West style 2BR/3BA home on Hypoluxo Island. Renovated indoors, private gated pool. Private boat dock includes Jet Ski and boat lift. Web ID 2850 $1.995M

70 CURLEW ROAD Stunning details throughout this 5BR/5.2BA with over 6,500 SF. Private guest suite. Gratis beach club membership.

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SOLD

1020 SOUTH OCEAN BOULEVARD Direct Ocean to Lake property with 209’ of direct Ocean frontage on 2+ acres and private dockage. Build your dream home.

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