The Coastal Star September 2014

September 2014

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

Volume 7 Issue 9

Along the Coast

Building boom: Investments in change

Developer assembles properties in Delray, Lake Worth

By Jane Smith

Over the past year, developer Steven Michael parlayed his connections to assemble a portfolio of historic properties from Lake Worth south to Delray Beach.

In Lake Worth, his company Hudson Holdings teamed with Carl DeSantis, founder of Rexall Sundown vitamins, to buy the historic Gulfstream Hotel for $7.22 million in May. The two met nearly a decade ago when Michael Michael had an option to buy DeSantis’ Atlantic Plaza (now called Atlantic Crossing) in Delray Beach.

In Delray Beach, Hudson Holdings partnered with Marshall Florida Holdings in July to pay $17.5 million for several tracts of land that includes the historic Sundy House. When Michael worked for a hedge fund, he met Rick Marshall, a North Carolina developer who trades in oil futures.

“I’m looking to add value,” Michael, 50, said of his development strategy. He’s not a newcomer: He points out that he has lived in Delray Beach for 14 years.

His most recent success came in July when his Hudson See HUDSON on page 12

Atlantic Crossing construction to begin despite pending lawsuit

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Two major developments will bookend Delray Beach’s downtown core in the coming years. The developer of the 9-acre Atlantic Crossing (1) say construction of the mixed-use project will begin this year, despite an unresolved lawsuit. And while construction might be years down the road, another developer has assembled several properties in the Old School Square Historic Arts District, including the landmark Sundy House. Plans call for an “historic village” (2) across the street from Sundy House and a lane of one- and two-bedroom apartments (3) on Swinton Avenue leading south from Atlantic Avenue.

GRAPHIC: Bonnie Lallky-Seibert, renderings provided by developers

By Tim Pallesen

The developer of Atlantic Crossing vows construction will begin this year despite a lawsuit to force redesign.

The $200 million mixed-use project on East Atlantic Avenue got its final city approval in January, prompting residents at the nearby Harbour House condos to sue to force the developer to build an east-west access road off Federal iPic comes Highway to under fire relieve traffic. from nearby A favorable businesses, court ruling for Page 10 the neighbors could stop Atlantic Crossing construction after it begins.

“I would be surprised if the developer took the gamble,” Harbour House condo president Bruce Leiner said.

“We’ve still got a significant debate.”

But Atlantic Crossing project manager Don DeVere said starting construction this year isn’t a gamble at all.

“Our viewpoint is that this is a frivolous lawsuit that will be dismissed,” DeVere said.

“We’re eager to get it resolved, but it’s not impacting our timetable.”

The Harbour House lawsuit names both the developer and the city as defendants. It claims the developer is obligated to build the access road because See CROSSING on page 13

Ocean Ridge

Clock runs out on last remaining commerce in town

By Dan Moffett

After more than a decade on life support, the end appears near for the last commercial district in Ocean Ridge.

The Town Commission has rejected an amendment that essentially would have grandfathered the five-store strip at 5011 N. Ocean Blvd. into compliance

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with the town’s code and allowed it to stay in business.

Town Manager Ken Schenck said the reprieves appear to have run out for the Sivitilli family, owners of the 55-yearold building since 1982.

“If nothing else happens,” Schenck said, “then obviously they’re going to have to close down the businesses on

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the lower floor.”

The town has not set a timetable for the businesses to shut down, however, leaving the three remaining shops at 5011 in an uneasy limbo.

“I don’t know what we’re going to do,” said Christian Riera, owner of the Transition Area triathlon shop who lives upstairs. “We just have to see what

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happens.”

Commissioners said they were expecting a detailed plan for the property’s renovation from Lisa Sivitilli, daughter of the owners, Orlando and Lilianne Sivitilli. But what they got during the Aug. 11 meeting was a oneSee 5011 on page 15

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Editor’s Note

Ocean Ridge ‘main street’ should include commerce

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or two years after we moved into our office at 5011 N. Ocean Blvd., people would stop in asking where the dry cleaner was.

They looked crestfallen when I explained the locations of two businesses across the bridge.

At least once a week throughout our fouryear tenure in the small commercial strip, someone would come in looking for a bicycle repair shop. Once the triathlon shop became online only, we would direct them to Federal Highway in Delray Beach.

Every day outside our office window we marveled at the mix of vehicles visiting Colby’s Barbershop.

Everything from beach cruiser bicycles to trickedout golf carts to Bentleys and pickup trucks — carrying a cross section of our A1A neighbors, all of them happy not to fight traffic getting across the bridge.

When Ocean Ridge commissioners decided not to grandfather in the building at 5011, they did so because they lost patience with the property owner. That’s understandable, but also typical.

I’ve sat through enough meetings where residents are given easements, special code exemptions, and (on occasion) town land because they are “nice people willing to work with the town.”

I’ve also seen these “nice people” turn around and sell their property at a profit several months or years later.

Enough. It’s time to think about the future, and the future should include commercial space along our “main street.”

For those who argue that the 5011 property owners have been costing the town money with a string of lawsuits, I say perhaps it was

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the shortsightedness of the town to ban all commercial business that resulted in this expense.

For those who argue that being residential-only will discourage sober house operations in our town, don’t count on it. Until there are federal legislation changes, recovery housing can be located anywhere. That’s the law.

And, yes, the town of Briny Breezes recently adjusted its comprehensive plan to allow for mixed-use commercial along its A1A corridor, but that was an action of the town. It will take a vote of the corporate shareholders to make that sort of large-scale change a reality, and if you’ve ever sat through a Briny corporate meeting, you know this isn’t going to happen any time soon. Change is slow in Briny Breezes and the residents seem to like it that way.

Ocean Ridge should reconsider a request for grandfathering the 5011 building, or better yet, build a commercial district into the next comprehensive plan update. Yes, this will cost the town some money — and code enforcement will need to become a priority — but the future planning will be worth it.

A successful plan would create a commercial overlay area that would be attractive to developers and small businesses. Keep it humanscaled and easily accessible by foot, bike, golf cart and vehicle, and create a tiny gem of an area that would enhance the allure of our already appealing A1A corridor — regardless of who owns the property today.

— Mary Kate Leming, Editor

An article in the August edition about the Delray Beach Historical Society’s 50th anniversary events contained two errors. Winnie Diggans Edwards is the society’s executive director, not its CEO. Also, the society’s archives are home to 10,000 items, not 1,000 as reported.

Proponent of Sister Cities inspired by travel

By Jane Smith

The owner of the defunct Dolphin restaurant in Boynton Beach likes to think globally.

“I like the idea of finding out about other cultures,” said Christiane Francois of Ocean Ridge. Plus, she loves to travel.

She became involved with the Sister Cities program in 2000 through a then-planner with Boynton Beach, Dan DeCarlo.

He had stopped in Qufu, China, while adopting his second Chinese daughter. He started to develop a friendship with Qufu residents and that eventually led to the start of Boynton Beach’s Sister Cities committee.

“I feel like I have a connection with China,” DeCarlo said. He points to the adopted Chinese daughters, claims that he likely was Chinese in a past life and now teaches at the Confucius Institute in Miami.

His business card front is in Mandarin, the official language of China.

Boynton Beach is a member of Sister Cities International, which boasts 500 cities with 2,000 connections in 140 countries. Delray Beach has two, while Fort Lauderdale has 18.

Francois served as a board member since 2003, when the Greater Boynton Beach Sister Cities Committee gained nonprofit status. In 2012 and 2013, she was president.

She is still involved with the organization and recently picked up some items at Costco to send to her Chinese friends.

The first time Qufu (pronounced shu-FU) sent a delegation to Boynton Beach, it was a day before 9/11. Delegates from Qufu, a city in the coastal Shandong province, made their sister city relationship official at a welcoming ceremony, according to news reports.

Led by Qufu Vice Mayor Liu Zhi Feng, they traded gifts with Boynton Beach city leaders. The delegates received Boynton Beach golf shirts, while city commissioners received gift bags of Confucius souvenirs. Qufu is known as the birthplace of Confucius.

“They had planned to visit other cities in the USA before returning to Qufu, but had to return directly to China (after 9/11 happened),” DeCarlo said.

The Boynton Beach committee of eight, which included Francois, flew to China later that September.

Zhu Ben Sheng, manager for the China International Travel Service and part of the Chinese delegation to Boynton Beach, arranged their trip and served as the tour guide and interpreter. They met the mayor of Qufu, toured the city of 60,000 and feasted on banquets with 25 or 30 entrees.

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group donated hundreds of wheelchairs to disabled residents of Qufu. When they delivered 200 wheelchairs in May 2007, Francois was there.

“They really needed those chairs. They are very poor and couldn’t afford them,” she said at the time. “It was a very moving experience for all of us.”

Francois, who has one adult daughter who lives in Santa Monica, Calif., speaks proudly of the Young Artists Showcase they created with Qufu to honor artwork of middle and high school students. The artwork is displayed each Spring at the Boynton Beach Mall.

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Boynton Beach has a large population of ethnic Haitians and there’s potential for student exchanges and business partnerships with the 500-yearold city, said Francois, who was married for a few years to an engineer from Australia.

The first time the Boynton Beach delegation visited Les Cayes (leh-KAI) in spring 2012, the group received a military escort into the town, Francois said.

The Haitian delegation had to cancel its most recent trip when the central government in Port-au-Prince did not send the money needed to buy the plane tickets, she said. The group has not rescheduled the trip, but she is hoping the members will come soon.

She likes that Boynton Beach has more than one sister city and hopes it adds more. “That would give us more people on the board and from diverse backgrounds,” she said. Ú

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Safe roads promotion set for four days in September

By Rich Pollack

Motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians along A1A beware: Law enforcement officers from several departments will once again

be out in force this month in a concentrated effort to promote the need for bicyclists, motorists and pedestrians to safely share the road.

In an effort coordinated by the South Florida Safe Roads

Task Force, police officers from several departments along the coast — as well as Sheriff’s Office deputies and Florida Highway Patrol troopers — will be conducting a saturation effort on four

separate days in September.

The first of the steppedup enforcement efforts — designed to promote awareness of rules designed to improve safety for bicyclists, pedestrians and motorists

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— will take place from 7 to 9 a.m. Sept. 13 and Sept. 14.

There will also be steppedup enforcement from 6 to 8 p.m. on Sept. 16 and Sept. 18.

As part of the effort to promote the importance of sharing the road, the task force will conduct a Back to School Safety Fair from 9 a.m. to noon on Sept. 18 at Boynton Beach Oceanfront Park. It will feature free food and music, as well as demonstrations from the Florida Highway Patrol that include a rollover simulator and a seatbeltconvincing slide.

Supported by the Florida Department of Transportation and the Dori Slosberg Foundation, the Back to School Safety Fair will also include free bicycle helmets for children and adults as well as helmet fitting, along with other giveaways.

“Our goal is to educate motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians to help improve their own safety as well as the safety of all of those who are sharing the road,” says Tara Kirschner, executive director of the Dori Slosberg Foundation and a spokeswoman for the task force. Ú

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Delray Beach

Historical Society holds keys to city’s past, dreams for its future

By Ron Hayes On Aug. 26, 1964, the Delray Beach Historical Society was born.

On Aug. 26, 2014, it threw itself a birthday party.

“In 1964, a group of caring and compassionate people got together to keep the Delray Beach story alive by preserving and protecting our city’s DNA,” Mayor Cary Glickstein told the crowd of about 100 gathered on the society’s campus at Swinton Avenue and Northeast First Street.

One of the most caring and compassionate was a woman named Ethel Sterling Williams, who arrived in 1896 from Chester, Pa., when she was 5 and Delray Beach was still a little “village by the sea” called Linton.

Sixty-eight years later, when that caring and compassionate group gathered in the Chamber of Commerce building on Southeast Fifth Avenue, Williams was named the society’s first president. They had a charter to sign that day in 1964, and a dream to fulfill.

Half a century later, the Delray Beach Historical Society has a bucolic campus comprised of three historic homes — two moved to the site from Northeast Fifth Avenue and Southeast Sixth Avenue for preservation — an archive of more than 10,000 items chronicling the city’s past and more than 2,000 visitors every year.

“My grandmother realized that nothing was so permanent as change,” Williams’ grandson, attorney William

LEFT: Delray Beach Historical Society president Leslie Callaway addresses the crowd during the the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Delray Beach Historical Society charter signing.

ABOVE: A portrait of Ethel Sterling Williams. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star S. Williams, told the crowd.

“But she also realized how a historical society should link the past and future. She wanted this town to have a sense of place.”

Later, as guests greeted each other, sipping punch and enjoying what was touted as “the largest pineapple cake in the world”— 6-by-2 feet — Williams recalled his grandmother.

“I remember her well,” he said. “She was a very independent thinker, and she wanted Delray Beach to be a viable community that didn’t look like the rest of South Florida.

“She didn’t have much use for chain stores or malls. She thought they didn’t have a sense of place. She had no use for

Starbucks, and she would not put up with high rises on the ocean. She called them filing cabinets.”

Also present at the charter’s signing in 1964 was the society’s first recording secretary, architect Roy M. Simon. He’s 84, and still working every day.

“I had an eight-page speech,” Simon confessed, “but they told me I had to cut it down to a few seconds.”

The crowd chuckled.

“And then the mayor gave my speech.”

And the crowd laughed.

But how do you share a lifetime of memories in just a few seconds? Simon was born on Southeast First Avenue — “second floor, room on the right” — and raised here.

“At one time, this was a beautiful village by the sea, with Atlantic Avenue lined with palm trees,” he said.” Then that disappeared with progress. So we wondered what can we do to save this place.”

What they had done, he noted, was help spare Old School Square from commercial development and start the city’s preservation board, which led to the establishment of the historic district.

The historical society was already two years old when Simon’s daughter, Laura, was born in 1966. Now she serves on the board her father helped found.

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Ellingsworth was born at home here in 1926 and died in 2010.

Now his son, Howard, serves as the board’s treasurer.

“I was born at Bethesda Memorial Hospital in 1960, the year after it opened,” Howard Ellingsworth said, “so I’m sure I was one of the first 100 babies born there that year.

I’d hear stories from my dad about tumbleweeds blowing down Atlantic Avenue when he was a boy, but it was always an awesome place to grow up.”

At Atlantic High School, he remembered, there was a history teacher who told his class, “If you don’t know where you came from, how do you know where you are, or where you’re going?”

For now, The Delray Beach Historical Society is going to keep celebrating 50 years.

In late October, there will be a Halloween Fall Fest.

On Dec. 6 comes a “Golden Pineapple Jubilee,” the society’s big fundraiser.

Next February it will host a “Winter Harvest.”

The Delray Beach Historical Society, which began with a small group of caring and compassionate citizens a half century ago, now has about 300 members and a new drive to reach 1,000 by the end of the year.

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Manalapan

By Dan Moffett

September 2014

New rules in the works for ‘residential’ events

After the furor over the Red Cross plan for a Designers’ Show House on Point Manalapan, town commissioners are working to draft a new ordinance that would prohibit large, multiday special events.

“This is the result of the recent effort to have a monthlong event in our community,” Mayor David Cheifetz said of the Red Cross debacle. “To prevent this problem in the future, we thought we’d have a simple section added to the code.”

Dozens of angry residents complained to Town Hall in July after finding out commissioners had approved

a plan to hold the Show House fundraiser on Audubon Causeway next February.

The backlash was enough to make the Red Cross forget the idea and move the fundraiser elsewhere.

The proposed new ordinance is similar to those on the books in Gulf Stream and several other South Florida coastal communities.

Special events, no matter how charitable or well-intended, are restricted in size and duration, and must have approval in advance from town officials.

Town Attorney Keith Davis, who drafted the changes, said he tried to keep the language as simple as possible and keep the new “residential special

event” rules informal and without requirements for permitting. The town still will allow residents to hold events that are expected to generate traffic of 20 or more vehicles, but their duration must not exceed 24 hours.

Residents can hold multiple events on consecutive days, however, such as dinner parties on successive nights, Davis said.

Property owners are required to notify the town at least two weeks in advance of the events, so police and officials can prepare for the traffic and parking.

The commission gave its blessing to Davis’ draft and will consider a first reading of the proposed ordinance at its

Sept. 23 meeting.

In other business: • Commissioner Peter Isaac, the commission’s point man on the Audubon Causeway Bridge project, said permitting is on schedule, 90 percent of the drawings are done and the engineers think the projected costs will be “fairly spot on.”

Isaac said a definitive assessment of the costs should be ready by September, and the $760,000 project will be ready for commissioners to solicit bids from contractors by Oct. 30. The town would hope to get the bids back by Dec. 11.

“We’re aiming for the commission to award the bid probably in the Town Commission meeting of Jan. 27,” Isaac said, “all with an

aim to start work on the south side of the bridge by the first of April.”

Isaac said the goal is still to get the 37-foot bridge completed by mid-December 2015, with perhaps some cosmetic touchups left for January 2016.

• At what point does a lawn ornament become a statue?

Commissioners decided to hold off on wrestling with that question until they hear from the Architectural Commission.

Chairwoman Daryl Cheifetz said her group wants to weigh in on an ordinance regulating the size and nature of lawn ornaments before town commissioners have their say. Ú

Costly police grievances irk Manalapan commissioners

By Dan Moffett Manalapan commissioners are grumbling about the high cost of litigating grievances with the Police Benevolent Association, and that could mean tougher contract negotiations between the town and union next year.

Since the current three-year contract went into effect in September 2012, Manalapan officers have filed about 10 grievances through the union, according to Town Manager Linda Stumpf. None of them has been upheld.

Though the department and town have prevailed, taxpayers have gotten stuck with the bill for hiring outside counsel to work the cases.

In the last fiscal year, it cost Manalapan $37,082 in legal fees to fight the grievances

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Shortly after returning from his Hawaiian vacation, Vice Mayor Lynn Moorhouse went to the beach for brunch at the Dune Deck. The local dentist

and deal with the complaints filed by resident Kersen De Jong, who has accused the department and Chief Carmen Mattox of misconduct and racial profiling — charges that independent investigations did not substantiate.

Earlier this year, Officer Paul Williams, then Manalapan’s PBA representative, filed a grievance accusing a fellow officer of creating a hostile work environment. Williams lost the case and then left the department in May. The town got stuck with the bill for his complaint, however.

Beyond paying legal fees for that grievance, Stumpf said hiring an outside investigator to conduct the internal affairs review of Williams’ allegations cost about $10,000.

Mayor David Cheiftez, annoyed about paying to

litigate cases the town wins, said he has floated the idea of insisting on a “loser pays” provision for grievances when negotiations on the next PBA contract begin in the spring.

While it’s unlikely the union will easily consent to that, town commissioners are sending a message with the proposal.

“The town was extremely generous with the last contract,” Stumpf said. “The commission definitely wanted to make the point now that there have been too many frivolous grievances filed.

The town isn’t going to be as generous this time.”

Stumpf has allocated money in the 2014-2015 budget for two other cases.

In June, the town fired police Officer David Hul after complaints about his handling of a disturbance at

Manalapan Pizza. Hul, who filed a grievance with the union, is scheduled to have an arbitration hearing with the town in December.

Then there is also the longrunning legal battle between Manalapan and Louis and Wendy Navellier. In 2005, the Navelliers began construction on a pool cabana without obtaining a permit or a variance. Code enforcement fines have accumulated to about $500,000, and the town has spent more than $350,000 in legal fees over nine years.

In court, the Navelliers have accused the town of being unreasonable and engaging in selective enforcement, arguing that other Manalapan homeowners have violated codes but haven’t been penalized or have received variances.

The Florida Supreme Court declined to review the case last year, but attorneys for the Navelliers notified the town last month that they intend to go forward and appeal a magistrate’s decision on the fines that was made in March.

So the battle goes on.

At the Aug. 20 budget workshop, the commission approved a property tax rate of $3.03 per $1,000 of taxable value, up from the current $2.90. The higher rate is still the lowest in Palm Beach County, and the town will have to pull about $167,000 from its reserves to pay for the Audubon Causeway Bridge project.

Budget hearings are scheduled for Sept. 17 and Sept. 23.

Stumpf said she is hopeful the $20,000 set aside for legal fees in the proposed budget will be enough. Ú

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This year, after the beach parking lot was renovated to curb flooding problems, two parking kiosks were installed to replace rusty meters.

“There have been some issues,” Town Manager Deborah Manzo said of the kiosks, including one getting jammed. Eventually, the kiosks will accept credit cards, but that feature won’t be functioning for a few weeks, she said.

John Caruso of the Dune Deck restaurant said some of his customers are angry about parking difficulties and have threatened not to return. He said the restaurant even has lost a star on Yelp, an online business review site, since the parking issues surfaced.

Caruso said disabled people have to pay for parking now and that some have to go all the way

up the ramp to the restaurant to get change and then back to feed the kiosks. “We need to help them out or we’re going to lose them all,” Caruso said. “I don’t have the solution, but it needs a Band-Aid right now.”

The council talked about adding a third kiosk to shorten the waiting-to-pay lines and to compensate when one kiosk is on the blink, or perhaps returning the present kiosks for something else.

“But please, don’t go back to coin-only meters,” council member Phil Aridas, a longtime proponent of credit card-only meters, said. “Meters don’t work.”

The fine for not paying to park is $50, and some council members suggested suspending that fee while kiosk problems persist. Mayor Dave Stewart said he didn’t want to go that far, but that law enforcement may “temporarily have some blinders on.”

In the meantime, Manzo and

the police chief were instructed to look into solutions, which could include adding a third kiosk, replacing present kiosks, posting signs that tell beachgoers to let lifeguards know about kiosk malfunctions — and that both kiosks can be used for the entire lot.

Those who need change to feed the kiosks can usually find it at the Dune Deck. Caruso said he always stocks up on quarters and doesn’t mind helping out.

In other business, the council learned that the $92,000 budget deficit, which the town had planned to cover with money from its reserves, no longer exists. “Most of the balance is due to increased revenues and lower property and casualty insurance premiums than what was anticipated,” Manzo said. “Also, we are no longer paying for the previous attorney’s (Corbett and White) health insurance, which was just over $15,000.” Ú

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Gulf Stream

By Dan Moffett

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Town working overtime on public records requests

In waging their legal wars against the town of Gulf Stream, residents Chris O’Hare and Martin O’Boyle have used Florida’s public records laws hundreds of times in the last 18 months to challenge how their community is governed.

As of mid-August, the town had responded to 1,252 public record requests filed in roughly equal numbers by O’Hare and O’Boyle, according to Town Clerk Rita Taylor.

The requests touch most every imaginable tangent of the disputes O’Hare and O’Boyle have had with the town: fights over the architecture of home entrances and roofs, election rules, Americans With Disabilities Act compliance,

parking regulation, constitutional protections and general governmental procedures.

The two have sought documents, emails, phone texts, receipts, expense vouchers, transcripts and recordings. Between them, O’Hare and O’Boyle have filed dozens of suits and complaints against the town in the circuit and federal courts during the last two years.

Taylor, 83, said she has been working seven days a week since last year and her assistant works Saturday mornings.

The town also has added a full-time temporary office worker, solely to help satisfy the requests.

“Even with the extra temporary worker,” Taylor

said, “a lot of our other work is undone because we’re working on public records.”

Since mid-2013, Taylor says the clerk’s office has logged 4,650 hours handling the public records requests from O’Hare and O’Boyle. She says the office currently is logging about 145 hours per week, or 72 percent of its total work time, dealing with the requests.

Gulf Stream spent about $360,000 in legal fees during the last fiscal year to fight the lawsuits of O’Hare and O’Boyle, and the related clerical work at Town Hall has cost at least another $100,000, officials say.

In recent months, the town has added a folder on its website just to keep track of public records requests and

County Pocket

Resident posts video on development proposal

By Jane Smith

News 9

Boynton Beach real estate broker James Arena wants to preserve the funky Florida lifestyle where beach access is everything.

In mid-August, he starred in a 3-minute video to make surfers and other beach-goers aware of how a nearby proposed development might lower their quality of life.

“I wanted to raise awareness, because a lot of people are not aware of what is happening,” said Arena who lives in Briny Breezes. “I haven’t seen anything done since the late May meeting, so I put the video together.”

That meeting brought together Briny Breezes residents with residents of the “surf pocket” over development of the former “dog beach parcel” that lies between them.

Developer Joseph Basil Sr. met with Villas of Malibu property owners in April to discuss his plans to have a stretch of Old Ocean Boulevard and Seaview Avenue abandoned.

Old Ocean sits between his property and the beach. In exchange, he would provide an access road through his property to the Villas of Malibu.

If the roads were abandoned, Basil’s group could build as many as 36 townhomes. He could not be reached.

Kristine de Haseth, executive director of the Florida Coalition for Preservation, ran the May meeting and encouraged property owners to check their deeds for easements to the beach. She is monitoring the proposed development. So far, she said in late August, no new plans have been submitted.

That’s why Arena made his YouTube video.

“I just feel that if the property goes that way, the area will be changed forever,” he said.

“Financially it would be good,

property values would rise.

But the quality of life would go down.”

The video begins with Arena driving a golf cart down Old Ocean Boulevard while music with a pulsing beat plays in the background. He points out where the gates would go in, restricting access.

The video has a few errors.

He calls the road Old A1A, instead of Old Ocean Boulevard.

And says the developer owns the road when the county actually still owns it.

Even so, his production has an emotional appeal. On the video, Arena says he grew up in Boynton Beach and has been coming to this patch and the Nomad Surf shop since he was born.

He asks viewers: “If you want to stop it, I want to know. Or if you want to let it go so that you can increase the value of this

land, I want to know.” Ú

make them accessible to the public.

O’Boyle and O’Hare accuse town officials of creating their own problems. O’Boyle blames the town for being unwilling to negotiate and choosing a “legal slugfest” over a settlement.

“If you really want to get the legal fees under control,” O’Boyle told Mayor Scott Morgan during the July Town Commission meeting, “you have to really want to get the legal fees under control.”

O’Hare has accused the town of violating the very public records laws it claims to be upholding.

“If you tell your staff to follow the law,” O’Hare told town commissioners during the same meeting, “all this stuff would go away and go back to

normal.”

The town has installed a $3,500 video security system at Town Hall after an incident on July 24, when O’Boyle and two associates entered the clerk’s office and asked for records during a meeting of the architectural review board, officials said.

The new system allows staff to use a video monitor to identify people at the door, talk to them through an intercom and then release the lock electronically — or not.

In other business: The Aug. 8 Town Commission meeting was canceled because of a lack of a quorum. Commissioner Donna White was ill, and Morgan and Commissioner Joan Orthwein were on vacation. Ú

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September 2014

iPic project draws fire from nearby businesses

By Betty Wells

The design proposal for a luxury theater, retail and office complex in downtown Delray Beach has rankled neighboring business owners, who say it will create dangerous traffic flow, restrict access for emergency vehicles and keep customers from their establishments.

Mayor Cary Glickstein said he shares some concerns and is attempting to negotiate a compromise. iPic Entertainment’s proposal is to construct a five-story mixed-use facility with an eight-screen, 529-seat luxury movie theater; 42,869 square feet of Class A office space — including iPic’s corporate headquarters — 7,290 square feet of retail space; and a 279-space parking garage. Planned parking is 50 spaces more than required by city code, according to the Community Redevelopment Agency.

The CRA project is at Fourth and Fifth avenues, a site that includes the old library building on Southeast Fourth Avenue, the Chamber of Commerce office building on Southeast Fifth Avenue, and the adjacent public parking lot.

“The design would have a huge impact on the businesses nearby, and the way the parking garage empties into alleys would mean access would be delayed for police and fire trucks,” said Bruce Gimmy, owner since 1990 of the Trouser Shop at 439 E. Atlantic Ave. Gimmy was appointed July 31 to the city’s Parking Management Advisory Board, which advises the City Council on parking policy.

Dr. Robert George, whose family settled in Delray Beach in 1908 and opened a business on Atlantic Avenue in 1911, met on July 10 with Scott Pape, a Planning and Zoning Department

either Southeast Fourth, or Southeast Fifth, adding hundreds of cars daily to already busy streets.

• Plans call for abandonment of the northern half of the south alley of block 101. Closure would impair free access of emergency vehicles and vendors.

• While the parking garage calls for the addition of 279 spaces, construction The new iPic and its related parking may create would eliminate a total of traffic issues. Rendering provided 98 public parking spaces.

George declined to comment on project planner.

In a letter, requested by Pape from the meeting with Pape, the letter, or a George after the meeting, George meeting he had with Glickstein.

Glickstein said he has concerns about outlined the concerns.

“We are deeply troubled in regard adequate parking for the intended uses, to specific elements of the proposed first responder access, the public parking redevelopment of the ‘Old Public Library’ spaces lost and how theater traffic will site and other nearby properties,” the work at the location.

“I also question a site plan that would letter said.

George heads Abeleina Properties force visitor access to such a beautiful Inc., which owns properties at 400 to 406 new building through a public service E. Atlantic. alley that is both unsightly and used The letter stated that 10 other intensely by a variety of service vehicles businesses had the same concerns. … that have no other location for access The objections listed as addressed in and deliveries,” Glickstein said. the meeting are: One of the complaints from business • The main entrance and exit of the owners was that they were not consulted parking garage would open onto the east- about the plan before the CRA accepted west alley of block 101. The traffic already it, and though it meets city code, the city gets backed up on the alley road, and is not listening to their concerns.

“I think there was adequate notice, but adding hundreds more vehicles would I also believe there was, and remains, a make it much worse.

• The opening from the garage is disconnect between the notice provided directly across the alley from the George of what may happen in a complicated Building, at the southeast corner of (Request for Proposals) process and Southeast Fourth Avenue and East what stakeholders understand about the Atlantic, and would make it difficult for complexities and ramifications of the drivers to enter the parking area of the RFP process and the RFP winner’s plans building. and how those plans may impact their • Traffic from the alley would exit onto property/business,” Glickstein said.

Glickstein said he was meeting during the first week of September with iPic developers and planning and zoning staff to address the concerns. iPic did not respond to questions. A spokesman for a public relations firm representing the company said the firm had no comment.

According to the CRA, after the Delray Beach Public Library moved to West Atlantic Avenue, its former site on Southeast Fourth became available for redevelopment. The CRA issued an RFP to solicit development proposals in 2006, but it all stalled during the recession.

In February 2013, the CRA issued another RFP. In August 2013, the CRA awarded the RFP to Delray Beach Holdings LLC — a limited liability entity created for development purposes by iPic Holdings LLC of Boca Raton.

In April, the associated development applications were submitted to the city and are under review. The CRA says completion of the project is anticipated in 2016.

Glickstein noted the growing pains that can come from longtime businesses affected by development.

“The George family has been here since shortly after the town was incorporated,” he said. “We are fortunate to have such generational connections to our past that still play an active role in our city.

“I think Dr. George, as do others like him with such perspective of our town, has valuable and relevant insight that some may minimize as dated. I like knowing I can look to him and other longtime Delray family members like him for wisdom and guidance. That doesn’t mean we may always agree, but it’s a valuable reference point for me.” Ú

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The question whether a nationwide furor over puppymill sales requires a Delray Beach law has been delayed.

City commissioners have imposed a six-month moratorium on allowing new puppy stores into Delray so city officials have time to study the controversy.

The furor struck locally last December with a protest march outside Waggs to Riches, the only pet store selling puppies in Delray.

Six months later, commissioners passed a city ordinance banning the sale of animals from puppy mills on first reading.

But Waggs to Riches owner Kimberly Curler sued Commissioner Shelly Petrolia for defamation and the city attorney advised commissioners to put on the brakes.

Curler praised the City Commission for its delay to study the issue. Waggs to Riches continues to sell puppies. “Four of the city commissioners are attorneys. At least we’ve got some logic,” Curler said.

Mayor Cary Glickstein and Commissioner Jordana Jarjura

joined Petrolia to support the moratorium and keep the issue alive. “The moratorium gives us time to look at how this issue is being handled,” Glickstein said.

Commissioners Adam Frankel and Al Jacquet voted against the moratorium last month. Frankel stressed that Waggs to Riches is the only pet store in the city that sells puppies and kittens. “We create a moratorium going after one lady when there are far larger issues in the city than dogs and cats,” he said.

“Where is the problem that we’re stomping out?” Jacquet asked. “I think we’re going overboard. We don’t want to tell businesses not to come to Delray.”

Animal advocates oppose the sale of sometimes unhealthy puppies and kittens that are mass produced elsewhere and shipped to independent pet stores.

“If I was selling sick dogs and cats, I wouldn’t be in business,” said Curler, who opened Waggs to Riches eight years ago.

Palm Beach Gardens and other cities have banned puppymill sales. Frankel argues that the problem requires federal rather than local regulation. Ú

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HUDSON

Continued from page 1 Holdings team persuaded the Delray Beach City Commission to permit a Central Business District overlay on five parcels in the Southeast section of the Old School Square Historic Arts District. That would allow his group to build taller structures, reduce setbacks from the street and have a hotel.

“It was the right timing,” Michael said. “(Tom) Worrell would not just sell to anyone if he didn’t agree to what we wanted to do.”

Thomas Worrell, a reclusive developer, used to own the historic Sundy House inn, restaurant and gardens and other nearby properties on South Swinton Avenue all within the city’s Community Redevelopment Area.

“We have invested millions without any return,” said Kim Goodyear, president of Worrell Properties, when she spoke at the second commission meeting in support of the overlay. “We need you to support this plan to trigger projects and jobs on the south side.”

When asked for a comment from her boss, Goodyear replied, “I did talk with Mr. Worrell and it is not something that he wants to discuss.”

John Szerdi, Worrell’s architect and a Lake Worth city commissioner, confirmed that Worrell spent considerable sums to renovate the houses but “could not get the rents to offset the renovation costs.”

Delray Beach Mayor Cary Glickstein, who was on the losing side of the 3-2 vote approving the overlay, called the condition of the houses “self-imposed blight.” It would be like Morikami Gardens turning off the sprinklers, letting the gardens go to weeds and then asking the county for approval to build condos, he said at the second hearing in early July.

“It’s sad to me that we are in this situation because the city didn’t do its job (protecting historic buildings).”

Despite pleas from historic preservationists that this decision was precedent-setting for the city’s four other historic districts, commissioners approved the overlay.

That allowed Rick Marshall to invest in the overall project which includes Worrell’s property and Marshall other acquired parcels.

“The community of Delray is vibrant and exciting,” said Marshall, president of Florida Marshall Holdings in Fort Lauderdale. “The Sundy House has a lot of charm, it’s a project I’d like to be associated with.”

Michael plans to expand the Sundy House offerings and move the historic Cathcart House next to it to allow the Sundy House to hold weddings for up to 300 people.

He also plans to create a

Renovations are planned

by Hudson Holdings, the new owners of the historic Gulfstream Hotel in Lake Worth.

Rendering provided

Plans for other sites as well In Boynton Beach, Steven Michael’s Hudson Holdings bought a 1.35-acre parcel along Northeast Sixth Avenue, just south of the city Community Redevelopment Area called Ocean Breeze East. It paid $1.1 million for the land in April 2013.

Then it teamed with Neighborhood Renaissance of West Palm Beach this year for a proposal to develop a market-rate apartment complex on its land and the CRA land, a total of 6.3 acres. The CRA board recently chose the team as the winning bidder, despite the team’s wanting the CRA land for free. The other bidder also did not want to pay.

The CRA had purchased the land and about four acres on the west side of North Seacrest Avenue for $7 million in 2007 from a man who was then-chairman of the CRA. Mark Karageorge, property manager with Neighborhood Renaissance, resigned from the city’s CRA board earlier this year to avoid a conflict of interest. The CRA has no rules about how long after a board member leaves that the person should be prohibited from involvement with a CRA project.

(Karageorge was hospitalized and could not be reached for comment.)

Near the south end of Delray Beach, along Linton Boulevard, sits Linton Towers, another office building owned jointly by DeSantis and Hudson Holdings. Purchased for $6.8 million in August 2013, the 58,069-square-foot building is fully leased, according to Michael.

The property has a 1-acre vacant parcel that they once planned to recruit Starbucks to open a drive-through coffee shop. But one went in nearby.

“I’m not sure what we will do with that extra acre,” Michael said.

— Jane Smith Sundy House Historic Village.

That village would sit at the southeast corner of Southeast First Street and South Swinton Avenue. The historic Rectory house would move down a block and anchor the village.

The village would back up to a four-story boutique hotel. “We want to take Hyatt to the next level,” Michael said.

His group also purchased other nearby properties from Worrell to create a total investment of $21 million in 7.5 acres. Those properties include the check-cashing store at 52 W. Atlantic Ave. and three homes along Southeast First Avenue.

Hudson Holdings’ master plan includes two hotels, “residential inn” units, retail space, a 175-car garage and a park.

They still need City Commission approval for their site plan.

Michael has hired Szerdi to be the project manager. A proposed site plan is in the

Atlantic Crossing, with two additional acres, received approval earlier this year.

Although a lawsuit filed by a nearby homeowner’s group over an abandoned road is pending, the developers say they will begin demolition of existing buildings late this year or early next year to begin construction of a 440-space underground parking garage project — part of a master plan of 80,000 square feet of restaurants and shops along with 79,000 square feet of office space and 356 luxury condos and apartments to be completed by 2018.

Lake Worth has ‘potential’

Szerdi told Michael about the historic Gulfstream Hotel in Lake Worth. It sat vacant for 10 years, stuck in foreclosure litigation for the past four years.

Michael and partner Andrew “Avi” Greenbaum pitched the project to DeSantis, who fronted the complex deal, acquiring the delinquent $16.7 million mortgage Greenbaum and selling hands of eight architects around the hotel for the country in a “conceptual $7.22 million to HH Gulfstream charette,” Szerdi said.

Land Holdings. The mortgage “We’re in no hurry,” Michael was released and another for $5 said. million taken out from Florida When questioned about Community Bank. DeSantis Hudson Holdings’ track record personally guaranteed the loan.

“Outside of Delray Beach, with historic properties, (Lake Worth) has the next best Michael said he worked on some he called “locally historic” downtown,” Michael said. “I in his native Chicago area while believe it will follow Delray.”

DeSantis South Florida was in a real apparently estate recession.

He wasn’t always successful agrees. “We with developments in Delray like Lake Beach. Nearly a decade ago, Worth, it’s when he had an option to got a lot of buy Atlantic Plaza, he kept potential,” downsizing his plans to appease said Perlman, city residents. His proposal now executive DeSantis in mid-2006 called for 239 vice president dwelling units and 110,000 of business square feet of office, retail and development for DeSantis’ CDS dining space on 7 acres.

International Holdings. “We see “But the city turned him the Gulfstream as the catalyst down because we thought it to revitalize the downtown. It was just too much development just needs to be polished.”

The hotel is is within for that property,” said Jeff the city’s Community Perlman, who was then mayor Redevelopment Area and listed of Delray Beach.

on the National Register of Historic Places. The renovation plans would need to go through the city’s review process to allow the owners to claim a 20 percent rebate on the value of approved renovations for federal income tax purposes, or have the taxable value frozen for 10 years for city and county property taxes, said William Waters, community sustainability director for Lake Worth.

No plans were submitted as of late August, Waters said.

The hotel also has an adjacent vacant 1-acre parcel that Michael said they would use to create an additional 125-150 rooms. The overall plan would be submitted soon, he said.

Along South Federal Highway in Lake Worth, Hudson Holdings has purchased 150 dwelling units, primarily in one-story motels, with a goal of buying 500 over the next two years. In late June, Greenbaum said in a news release, “Hudson Holdings believes in the vitality and longterm growth of Lake Worth and feel the South Federal Highway corridor will be a primary beneficiary.”

Greenbaum, 41 and originally from New York, was the inspiration for the Hudson Holdings name. “I was commuting back and forth between New York City and Miami. My office in New York overlooked the Hudson River,” he said. That’s why the Hudson Holdings’ website shows an aerial of Miami and one of Manhattan.

Along South Federal Highway, Hudson Holdings is a major landlord to Gulfstream Goodwill Industries, based in West Palm Beach, Michael said.

“We support their programs,” he said.

Gulfstream Goodwill declined to talk specifically about Hudson Holdings or any of its business partners.

“We enjoy working with Steve Michael,” said Kathy Spencer, program services vice president.

Gulfstream Goodwill serves the homeless and disabled in five counties. Ú

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Delray Beach

Planners look to update downtown development rules

By Tim Pallesen The furor over Atlantic Crossing now has Delray Beach ready to tighten and improve its downtown development regulations.

“We started on the heels of Atlantic Crossing, and we heard about height and density concerns,” Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council urban design director Anthea Gianniotes reported to city officials Aug. 18.

Proposed changes will be discussed by city commissioners and residents in public hearings to be scheduled later this year.

CROSSING

Continued from page 1 it was included in a prior development plan that the city approved in 2009.

“To say we reneged on a past deal is patently false,” DeVere said. “This is a new plan adopted by the city.”

The need for an access road from Federal Highway east to Northeast Seventh Avenue was an issue when city commissioners gave their final site-plan approval by a split 3-2 vote last January.

Coastal residents joined other Atlantic Crossing neighbors to argue that Federal Highway access is necessary to relieve traffic congestion on Atlantic Avenue and narrow side streets.

Mayor Cary Glickstein said the “deeply flawed” traffic plan will degrade neighborhoods.

The majority of city commissioners urged approval of the site plan by stressing the importance of the nineacre mix of restaurants, shops, apartments and offices for jobs and the city economy.

DeVere said construction will begin in October or November to move utilities on the western portion of the project.

Demolition of existing buildings there will begin in December or January, he said.

That will allow excavation for a 440-space underground parking garage to be built by late 2015.

Once the first building opens at the corner of Atlantic and Federal in 2016, existing retail tenants in the eastern

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The push to toughen rules for new buildings in the downtown business district began when Atlantic Crossing developers requested 51 housing units per acre in the downtown’s largest development project two years ago.

A previous city commission approved a conditional use to allow 40 units in December 2012. Downtown growth controls then became a key issue for winning candidates in the last two March city elections.

Treasure Coast planners began interviewing city officials and residents in January under

the direction of their urban design director, Dana Little, who then was hired as Delray’s planning and zoning director in June.

“Delray has arrived,” Little said. “It doesn’t need to beg any more for downtown development. Now there’s something to be said for some restraint.”

Most new downtown buildings would be limited to 30 units per acre in density and four stories in height under the Treasure Coast’s recommendations.

The city still could grant density and height bonuses to developers for specific needs

such as Class A office space.

“That’s the most important issue — what do they have to do to obtain the bonuses,” said Robert Ganger, chairman of the Florida Coalition for Preservation.

The new regulations would require developers to respond to what Gianniotes described as the public’s desire for wider sidewalks, more shade trees and better bicycle and pedestrian movement.

“We’re extremely pleased with the new land development regulations,” said Jim Smith, chairman of Safety as Floridians Expect, which promotes alternatives to vehicle

traffic. The proposed rules would require new residential developments to provide secure storage space for bicycles.

Showers and changing rooms would be required for bicyclists in large downtown office and retail buildings.

Coastal residents should be concerned that the proposals don’t require ground floors of new buildings to be built at higher elevations, Beach Property Owners Association vice president Andy Katz said.

Little said concerns about flooding caused by rising water are better addressed by a fourcounty regional study group in southeast Florida. Ú

portion can be moved to make way for construction elsewhere on the site over two years, DeVere said.

Atlantic Crossing, a joint venture by Ocean Ridge

resident Carl DeSantis and the Edwards Companies of Ohio, will have 80,000 square feet of restaurants and shops along with 79,000 square feet of office space and 356 luxury

condos and apartments when finished.

The project is within Delray Beach’s Community Redevelopment Area.

“We’ve seen unbelievable

response to the availability,” DeVere said.

“We have exciting clients looking at the space, including great restaurant operators.” Ú

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Paragon wins approval for new design of hotel property

By Dan Moffett

After a false start last winter, Paragon Acquisition Group is moving forward with plans to build condominiums on the site of the Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn. This time, however, Paragon isn’t proposing a project that requires changes in South Palm Beach’s height limitations.

At an Aug. 25 meeting of the town’s Architectural Review Board, Paragon unveiled a scaled back — and scaled down — version of the design it showed residents in February.

Instead of 36 condos, the developer presented the town a plan for 33, and instead of an eight-story building, Paragon is proposing six stories over a parking garage.

The changes put the project in compliance with the town’s building rules, and the review board unanimously approved the plans on a 3-0 vote.

“We’re heading in the right direction now,” said Councilwoman Stella Jordan, one of the town’s most vocal advocates for height restrictions. “It’s a very good design, and the changes were necessary.”

With an approved site plan, Paragon can begin applying for the permits needed to start construction. However, several council members said they were skeptical about work on the property beginning any time soon.

Paragon Acquisition Group has presented a plan to build 33 condos in a six-story building over a parking garage on the site of the Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn. Rendering provided by Kobi Karp Vice Mayor Joseph Flagello says the revised design moves the building a couple feet farther to the east, which may complicate getting the federal and state permits necessary to build the seawall.

Flagello also questions how serious the Delray Beach-based developer is about doing the building itself. “They certainly could sell the property to someone else now that they have an approved plan,” he said. “That wouldn’t be surprising.”

In February, Paragon CEO Gary Cohen asked the Town Council to put a referendum on the August primary ballot that would change the town’s charter and land development

regulations to allow an eightstory structure where the old Hawaiian hotel now stands at 3550 S. Ocean Blvd.

The council unanimously rejected Cohen’s proposal, and told the developer to work with residents to come up with a plan they would accept. Cohen bought the property for $8.25 million in November 2012 and has repeatedly said its future is not as a hotel and restaurant, the town’s only business and a nonconforming commercial use.

Before Cohen arrived, the previous owner, Pjeter Palace and Kosova Realty, proposed building a 14-story condo project, an idea that touched off a backlash among residents

which ultimately led to voters approving new height limits in 2010.

Paragon’s revised design,

by Kobi Karp Architecture and Interior Design of Miami, features a saw-tooth layout with staggered floors. To satisfy parking requirements, the plan calls for using mechanical lifts to stack cars in the garage.

In other business, Leanne Welch, Palm Beach County’s environmental program supervisor, told the Town Council on Aug. 26 that preliminary work on a plan to help prevent erosion of the town’s shoreline is running behind schedule.

Welch said an Environmental Impact

Statement that was supposed to be ready early next year might not be ready until May or June. Until the Army Corps of Engineers completes the EIS, the plan to install buried groins along the beach can’t go forward.

“It is frustrating,” said Councilwoman Bonnie Fischer, the town’s liaison on the $5 million project, “but I guess it’s expected.”

Welch said the plan still calls for the town paying 20 percent of the cost, the county 30 percent and the state 50 percent. About 75,000 cubic yards of sand would be used with the groins to help stabilize the shoreline. Ú

Boynton Beach

By Jane Smith

Ambulance rates rising, in line with area market

Starting Oct. 1, residents in Ocean Ridge and Briny Breezes will pay more for an ambulance ride provided by Boynton Beach Fire Rescue.

For a basic ambulance ride, the transport fee will increase by nearly 75 percent to $610, and the mileage rate will increase by 50 percent to $12 a mile.

Intermediate life support rides also will rise to $610, up

43.5 percent, and the most advanced support will increase to $770, or 33.9 percent.

The increase will raise $200,000 for the upcoming budget year that is still tight for Boynton Beach.

“The new rates are identical to the rates Palm Beach County has adopted that will go into effect Jan. 1, 2015,” Boynton Beach Fire Rescue Chief Ray Carter told city commissioners in early August.

City commissioners

peppered him with questions, such as would the increase prevent someone who needs a ride to the hospital from going in an ambulance.

“Absolutely not,” Carter said. The department is trying to update its rates, which have been in place since 2007, he said. He assured the commissioners that the city’s increased rates would not be at the top or the bottom of the county but in the middle compared with other fire rescue

departments.

“The point here is to capture the revenue from secondary insurers,” Carter said. “They are willing to pay these amounts.

Everyone else is collecting them. We felt it was time to get in line with that.”

No members of the public spoke on the issue at both hearings. City commissioners passed it unanimously twice.

Delray Beach charges $650 for a basic ambulance ride; that same transport costs $750 in

Boca Raton.

Boynton Beach’s increase also applies to people using the St. Andrews Club and residents in the county pocket between Briny Breezes and Gulf Stream, areas served by the Boynton Beach Fire Rescue department.

Ken Schenk, Ocean Ridge town manager, said his residents should be able to pay the increase because they have health insurance.

“It’s not cheap,” he said, “but it sure beats the alternative.”Ú

Residents seek vital, visible city center, consultant says

By Jane Smith

The municipal core of Boynton Beach needs a distinct identity with a signature entrance, a Treasure Coast Planning Council consultant told city commissioners.

“Columns like they have in Rollins College,” said Marcela Camblor, an architect, at her presentation in early August.

Camblor presented an amalgamation of what city residents had suggested at a May workshop.

She took suggestions and will come back in October

with a refined plan, said Vivian Brooks, executive director of the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency. It had paid the council $58,000 to help plan the area.

Residents want to create an active, lively city center that is visible, Camblor told a joint meeting of city commissioners and CRA board members.

First, residents want to build on history and preserve the old high school by moving all activities from other civic buildings to it.

That high school-turnedcivic center could serve as an

anchor for the Town Square complex, Camblor said.

The City Hall should be moved south of Ocean Avenue with a plaza in front of it, she suggested in one scenario.

The complex should be connected to Ocean Avenue with pavers or other colors on the street.

And to help pay for it, the city should consider publicprivate partnerships with developers building mixed-used properties along Boynton Beach Boulevard, Camblor said.

At least one commissioner, Mack McCray, wanted to know

what the area would look like without the historic high school. Another commissioner, David Merker, said, “If we keep the high school, we need an exact plan of how to use it.”

Commissioner Michael Fitzpatrick, a retired city firefighter, pointed out a problem with moving the fire station to Town Square. The response times could increase when All Aboard Florida trains start running and live up to the reported 32 train trips daily.

Former city commissioner Woodrow Hay, who is a CRA board member, said he likes

the walkability of the plan and moving City Hall to the south side, but the plan brings up “hot potatoes,” including the width of Boynton Beach Boulevard sidewalks.

Lawyer Michael Weiner, who owns the land under the nearby Postal Service branch, cautioned commissioners against a build-it-and-they-willcome philosophy.

“Retail is hobbled in the 21st century. Little shop spaces can’t be filled,” he said. Dry cleaners and bank branches that serve the neighborhood do well, he said. Ú

September 2014

Along the Coast

By Dan Moffett

Sometime in the next couple months, Circuit Judge Catherine Brunson is expected to settle a three-year legal battle between Palm Beach County and 14 municipalities when she rules on how taxpayers should pay for the Inspector General’s Office.

Around the town hall water coolers and at the commission daises, from Boca Raton to Gulf Stream to Jupiter, the case has raised more than its share of issues and hyperbole — about home rule, the will of the voters, overreaching governance, power grabbing, corruption deterrence, ethical vigilance, illegal taxation and plain old political intrigue.

Former Boca Raton Mayor Susan Whelchel went so far as to describe the case as the county engaging in “double taxation without

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Continued from page 1 page architect’s rendering of a proposed facelift for the building. It wasn’t nearly enough.

“This is not what I thought you’d bring,” Mayor Geoffrey Pugh told Lisa Sivitilli. “You’re not giving us information that we clearly asked you for over and over again. What you’ve brought us is so inadequate it’s hard to put words to it.”

Pugh said the commission wanted to see drawings from all sides to assess the building’s impact on its surroundings.

He said the town was tired of excuses and extensions.

Sivitilli told Pugh it was impossible to present a more detailed plan until the commission ruled on the building’s fate and the family understood better what the town wanted. She said the architect, Randall Stofft, and the planning consultant, Marty Minor of Urban Design Kilday Studios, were well-known to commissioners and could be trusted to handle the mixeduse project.

Stofft isn’t “some fly-bynight guy,” she said. “You know how good his work is.”

Stofft has designed waterfront homes and mixed-use projects in many South Florida communities.

“We’re not asking to put the Taj Mahal there,” Sivitilli said. “We’re not trying to do anything that’s going to change the character of the town.”

Commissioner James Bonfiglio, former chairman of the Planning and Zoning Commission and a vocal critic of the Sivitillis, said he came to the meeting with an open mind but said there was “no way he could justify changing town policy for over 50 years” after seeing the one-page plan.

In one hand, Bonfiglio held up the architect’s drawing. In

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County attorneys and commissioners, meanwhile, have countered that nothing less than the moral foundation of government itself hangs in the balance with Brunson’s ruling. It’s about “democracy and government by the people,” Assistant County Attorney Helene Hvizd argued in court in August.

It all started in 2009 when the County Commission endorsed the creation of an inspector general’s office, and then county voters overwhelmingly approved it in the 2010 election. It was a warranted response to a historic run of embarrassing disgrace during which three county commissioners and two West Palm Beach city commissioners wound up behind bars for abuses in office.

While voters spoke clearly on having an inspector general,

they weren’t asked to decide how to pay the $3 million it would cost each year.

So, county officials met with municipal officials and came up with a formula: The county charged itself about $2 million and then sent each of the 38 municipalities a bill for a proportionate share of the remainder — ranging from about $95 for Cloud Lake, $3,800 for Manalapan, $125,000 for Delray Beach, $149,000 for Boca Raton and $381,000 for West Palm Beach.

Local officials screamed foul. They complained they were not consulted, never mind the meetings the county called. They argued that the county imposed the charges unilaterally and arbitrarily.

They said the county should negotiate more and sign interlocal agreements with each municipality if it wants to dip into local coffers.

the other, he held up a thick stack of court papers from the two lawsuits the Sivitillis had filed against the town — and lost — over the property.

“Here’s what I got that says I shouldn’t change the policy,” Bonfiglio said of the court documents. “Here’s what I got that says I should,” he said of the drawing. “Look at the weight of the stuff that says we should not change the policy.”

Bonfiglio said he calculated that the Sivitillis’ two lawsuits, in 1997 and 2000, and multiple filings in circuit and appeals courts, had cost the town more than $42,000 to defend. He said the family knew what the town wanted 10 years ago and has done nothing to comply.

“We have nothing in the record that says you will follow through with your agreements,” Bonfiglio said.

“Every time I come before the commission or go before planning and zoning, you seem to have already formed an opinion about the case,” Sivitilli said, challenging Bonfiglio’s assertion that he viewed the matter with an open mind.

The commission voted 4-0 to reject the amendment, with Commissioner Gail Adams Aaskov, who owns a real estate business in the 5011 building, abstaining. The vote effectively puts the Sivitillis in violation of the town’s code and comprehensive plan. The town could decide to levy fines or move to shut the building down virtually at any time.

Lino Marmorato, owner of Colby’s Barber Shop, the strip’s other remaining tenant, was vacationing in Italy when the decision came down.

Before moving across the street into a county enclave in July, The Coastal Star also had its office in the building.

Ocean Ridge has a history of saying traumatic goodbyes to businesses. In 1992,

Busch’s Seafood Restaurant, a landmark eatery that had fed locals and celebrities alike near the corner of Highway A1A and Woolbright Road for a half-century, closed after losing a lawsuit against the town’s ban on commercial enterprises.

Commissioner Richard Lucibella said the commission looked for a way to work with the Sivitillis but couldn’t find one. “This is such a heartbreak for those of us who know you, who know your family, who want to help you. The deck has not been stacked against you,” Lucibella said. “But we’re just out of time now.” Ú

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Perhaps worse, local officials argued that their residents were victims of doubletaxation — paying once as county residents, and then again through their cities and towns. And, moreover, a small community might go years without even benefiting from the inspector general’s services, opponents claimed.

In 2011, 15 municipalities joined together and sued the county (Wellington subsequently withdrew from the group).

“It’s not a challenge to the inspector general itself,” said Boca Raton City Attorney Diana Grub Frieser. “It’s about the funding.”

Gulf Stream Town Attorney John Randolph, who’s played a leading role on the plaintiffs’ legal team, says the suit does not question the legitimacy of the inspector general. “That’s water over the dam. We have an

inspector general.” But the suit does question the fairness of the county’s implementation of the voters’ will through a “tax that is disguised as a fee.”

Several attempts to reach a settlement with a new funding plan more to the municipalities’ liking have run aground.

County commissioners have argued that changing the current method would weaken the inspector general’s office and diminish its autonomy.

Brunson said she will begin deliberating the non-jury case after attorneys present final written proposals for resolution on Sept. 2.

The 14 plaintiffs are West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Gulf Stream, Manalapan, Riviera Beach, Lake Park, Jupiter, Palm Beach Gardens, Highland Beach, Ocean Ridge, Tequesta, Palm Beach Shores and Mangonia Park. Ú

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Commissioners approve proposed amendments for beaches and rentals

By Dan Moffett

Ocean Ridge commissioners have given unanimous preliminary approval to two measures intended to resolve two of the town’s most contentious and complicated issues.

At the Aug. 11 meeting, the commission approved the first reading of an ordinance amendment that regulates use of the town’s public beaches.

The proposed law comes in response to complaints from beachfront property owners about the misbehavior of outof-town beachgoers.

And commissioners also are attempting to repair a troublesome rental registration ordinance that was passed last year. An amended version of the law shifts the focus from registering tenants to registering property owners,

and it reduces fees.

Both of the proposed amendments are scheduled to come up for a second reading at the commission’s Sept. 8 meeting, and commissioners admitted it might take a third reading in October to finish work on the much-debated beach amendment.

Town Attorney Ken Spillias brought the commission a draft for beach regulations that contained language and provisions drawn from other waterfront communities around the state.

“We put a smorgasbord in here and tried to distinguish private from public,” Spillias said, allowing that not all the measures would appeal to commissioners.

The amendment does not attempt to draw a specific line between private and public beach property. The

commission had considered using several possible boundaries — the wrack line, or erosion control line, or simply the wet sand, dry sand line — but has drifted away from making precise definitions.

With the proposed amendment, the line between public and private would be left more in policy than in legal language, leaving enforcement up to police discretion. Similarly, the amendment prohibits excessive noise but does not define it in decibel levels. Generally, police will make the call on what constitutes misbehavior and what doesn’t.

“Most of the provisions that are there are for when police see egregious violations,” Spillias said.

Explicitly banned on the public beaches are glass

containers, pets — and excretion of bodily wastes, which many beachfront residents complained to the commission they have seen too often.

Commissioners decided against banning alcohol consumption on the beaches, believing prohibition would be an infringement on residents.

The proposed fixes to the rental registration amendment are attempts to remedy complaints that the existing ordinance violates privacy rights and is too costly for landlords. The commission passed it last year in an attempt to rein in the nuisance, shortterm rentals of single-family homes.

Spillias offered a revised version of the law that does not require tenants to provide personal information. Instead, landlords are required to

register their properties with the town and pay a $35 annual fee for each property. In the current version, landlords are required to pay $50 for each lease.

“I don’t have a problem with registering properties,” said Commissioner Richard Lucibella. “I do have a problem with registering people.”

Several commissioners agreed that the ordinance has been effective in deterring the nuisance rentals and helping police keep track of neighborhoods. As of August, the town had registered 97 rental units and houses.

Commissioner Lynn Allison said she had grown skeptical about the value of the ordinance, however.

“When we started last year, it was about safety,” Allison said, “but I’m not even sure why we’re doing it any more.” Ú

Ocean Ridge commissioners cut purchases from budget

By Dan Moffett Faced again with dipping into reserves to balance the budget, Ocean Ridge commissioners aren’t buying some things that town officials wanted for the next fiscal year.

Police Chief Chris Yannuzzi isn’t going to get two new patrol cars, a savings of about $76,000. The commission wants the chief to find a way to keep the 5-year-old Ford cruisers scheduled for replacement running for one more year.

Yannuzzi also isn’t going to get $38,500 to replace the outdated alarm system that connects 300 homes to the town dispatch center.

Commissioners are hoping they can get a new system for $20,000 and save $18,500.

The town’s maintenance workers are taking a hit, too.

Commissioners said no to the purchase of a $3,000 golf cart for picking up trash.

Down the road, no-see-ums might be getting a reprieve, too. The commission said yes to renewing a $49,972 contract with Clarke Environmental Mosquito Management to spray against the pesky bugs.

But Commissioner James Bonfiglio questioned whether that’s too much money, considering other budget demands.

“I don’t mind spending money to keep my neighbors comfortable,” Bonfiglio said, “but when you start talking about budget items and saying I want to save $3,000 here, I want to save $5,000 there and $10,000 there, we’re spending

an awful lot of money to make your lives a little more comfortable, just with the nosee-ums.”

Mayor Geoffrey Pugh said it was unfortunate that the town has been unable to find another company willing to submit a competing bid for the spraying, and he criticized Clarke’s performance.

“The efficacy of what they’ve been spraying was poor this last year,” Pugh said. “The service was poor. If there was somebody else we could go with, I’d probably want to award them the contract.”

What stayed in the budget was $85,000 to hire another police officer — a response to complaints from some waterfront residents that misconduct on the town’s beaches warrants stricter

enforcement. The additional officer won’t be assigned exclusively to beach patrolling, but will give the department more flexibility and manpower to watch over the beaches, commissioners believe.

Commissioner Richard Lucibella opposed the hiring, saying he believed the department had adequate staffing. Lucibella also objected to spending $28,500 for a pickup, arguing that the town’s current truck still had life left in it. “I may sound like the Grinch that stole Christmas,” said Lucibella, “but we need to make those hard, $20,000-at-atime decisions.”

But Pugh said the truck was “all rusted out underneath” and the town needed one four-wheel vehicle it could depend on during emergencies.

The commission agreed and decided to buy a new one.

Even with all the slashing and postponing purchases, Ocean Ridge will have to pull about $317,000 out of its reserves to balance the 20142015 budget.

Commissioners kept the tax rate the same as last year at 5.35 during the Aug. 11 workshop, meaning a homeowner would pay $535 for each $100,000 of assessed property value.

Because property values have gone up about 6 percent in the town over last year, total revenues for the new budget are up about $160,000.

Public hearings on the proposed 2014-2015 budget are scheduled for 5 p.m. Sept. 9 and Sept. 16. Ú

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hen he’s not pondering America’s health care challenge, Dr. James DeGerome works to maintain his own good health by jogging from the Dune Deck Café in Lantana to the Lake Worth Bridge and back several days a week.

At 74, the Hypoluxo Island resident is a retired gastroenterologist who practiced in Palm Beach County for 31 years, as well as a former president of the Bethesda Memorial Hospital medical staff and the Florida Gastroenterologic Society.

He built the first ambulatory surgical center dedicated solely to gastroenterological endoscopy, at the corner of Golf Road and Seacrest Boulevard in Boynton Beach, and currently serves as president of the nonprofit Digestive Disease National Coalition in Washington, D.C. In 2009, Dr. DeGerome published The Cure For The American Healthcare Malady, a critique of socialized medicine and prescription for reform that then future Gov. Rick Scott said “does an outstanding job explaining the life and death consequences of governmentrun health care and delivers a carefully thought-out path to high quality, affordable health care for all Americans.”

Now the book has just been republished in an updated paperback edition, incorporating the results of the Massachusetts Medical Society’s survey of that state’s system.

DeGerome and his wife, Carol, have been married for 24 years. She is a former vice president of Carteret Mortgage Co. in Delray Beach, and the couple have three children: James, the director of communications at the University of South Florida; Alison, a documentary filmmaker; and Julie, a regional manager for Cigna/Christie Healthcare in Boston, Mass.

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

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to be an M.D., and his two brothers to be a dentist and a Ph.D. like himself and they all accomplished that. I have five male first cousins and they’re all M.D.s.

Q. Tell us about your medical career; what were the highlights?

A. I went to Georgetown University for my B.S. degree and the New Jersey College of Medicine for my medical degree and was chief resident in internal medicine at the New Jersey College of Medicine. In 1970 I got board certified for the American Board of Internal Medicine and was immediately drafted into the Vietnam War by the U.S. Air Force. I was taken in as an internist and got out as a gastroenterologist.

I answered an ad in the Florida Medical Association Journal that had been placed

by Dr. John Westine, who had a practice at 250 Dixie Blvd., and that’s where I settled in 1974. They needed a gastroenterologist at Bethesda Memorial Hospital and I introduced procedures of endoscopy to the area.

Q. What advice do you have for a young person entering the workforce today?

A. Oh, my God, I don’t know. The future is so complex and in transition that you don’t know what to tell them. Just practice the best you know how.

You always have the satisfaction of making people better, but the circumstances of their practice are going to change rapidly over the next 20 years.

Get satisfaction, that’s the important thing.

Q. Tell us about your interest in the U.S. health care system.

A. I’ve studied health care delivery throughout my entire career by going on rounds and interviewing patients in Canada, the U.K., France and Italy, and gathered my basic data over my career on my vacations — which was somewhat boring to my wife.

I’d run off to the local hospital and talk to the doctors. My initial intent was to reveal that socialized medicine is not all it’s cracked up to be, and I expose the flaws in my book. I believe that it’s not less costly and does not really cover everybody and does not lead to higher quality health care.

Those are my three conclusions.

Then I realized if I was going to criticize socialized medicine, I better have a better cure, so I lay out a nine-point plan based

on a lot of ideas that have been around for a long time.

Q. How did you choose to have a home on Hypoluxo Island?

A. In 1988, I was shown an old, small house by the mayor of Manalapan, Dr. Kent Shortz, an orthopedic surgeon and a friend at Bethesda. I was president of the medical staff and he was the preceding president. He said I have a piece of property I must sell and he showed me this property on the lagoon and I fell in love with it.

Q. What is your favorite part about living on Hypoluxo Island?

A. Ah! I would say the view.

It’s gorgeous. I look out on the lagoon and I can see the ocean from my porch upstairs. A beautiful piece of property I lucked into, and my neighbors are fabulous, wonderful people.

Q. What book are you reading now?

A. Castles of Steel, by Robert Massie, It’s about the birth of the German navy before and during World War I. It’s meticulously researched.

Q. Do you have a favorite quote that inspires your

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A. From William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar,” Act. III, Scene 2: “There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.”

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

A. A colonel M.D. named David Langdon. I was at Little Rock Air Force Base, and then Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, where I did two years of gastroenterology training under Dr. Langdon. I went in as an internist and he convinced me to be a gastroenterologist.

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

A. Probably Clint Eastwood.

I watch “Josey Wales” every now and then when I want to get rid of frustration.

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Project for Cenacle land wins zoning, but not variances

By Mary Thurwachter

Developers were able to persuade a majority of Lantana Town Council members that rezoning the Cenacle property to make way for a 319-unit apartment complex was a good idea. On the other hand, a request for four variances to the code failed to pass muster.

The Cenacle, 10 acres of prime waterfront property that has been home to the Cenacle Spiritual Life Center in Lantana for 60 years, is slated to become Aura Seaside, a luxury apartment complex proposed

by Ocean Ridge developer Jerry Goray and Trinsic Residential Group (a Dallas-based company with an office in Miami).

On July 14, the council gave final approval for zoning and comprehensive plan changes for the 1400 S. Dixie Highway Cenacle property from commercial low density to waterfront mixed use. Vice Mayor Lynn Moorhouse was absent and Mayor Dave Stewart alone voted against the zoning change.

Stewart said the property was some of the last prime waterfront land available in the town and he preferred the site be developed as “a destination,”

something like what is being slated for the Panama Hattie’s property in Palm Beach Gardens.

“This (apartment complex) will not create a destination for our town,” Stewart said.

Council member Malcolm Balfour suggested a restaurant would benefit the site, too.

But no restaurant has been proposed.

The plans for the site would have two-story commercial buildings line Dixie Highway and multi-story residential buildings behind gates.

Developers sought variances on building height, size of parking spaces, fencing changes and decreasing the number of parking spaces from 2.5 per unit to 1.87.

But the council wasn’t having any of that.

Both council member Tom Deringer and Stewart disliked the plan to making parking spaces smaller.

“I drive an SUV,” Deringer said, adding that many others do, as well.

Stewart said the town has a parking problem already and “not everyone drives a Smart car.”

The height limit variance for some buildings was frowned

upon, too.

“I’ve lived in Lantana for 31 years,” council member Phil Aridas told the project’s planners. “It’s always been a small seaside community and I want it to stay that way. You knew about this height limit

when you came in. I hope you saw a little bit of just how this council is working, so when you go back to finesse the next proposal, please keep in mind our codes and how we deal with them in Lantana.”

After the four code variances

were shot down, Aura Seaside’s developers withdrew the site plan, which was also up for a vote at the July 14 meeting.

Manny Martinez, managing director of Trinsic, said plans are being reworked since the variances were not approved. Ú

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Briny approves new lineup of town workers

By Dan Moffett

The Briny Breezes Town Council has unanimously approved the hiring of three employees to complete the town’s transition to a team of independent contractors.

Carol Lang, who worked in Briny’s corporate office for three years, will take over as the deputy town clerk; Sue Thaler, the council president, will become the new bookkeeper; and Jim Phillippi will Lang stay on as the town’s meter reader, doing what he has done for years, but under a slightly modified job description.

Town Attorney John Skrandel had urged the council to change the positions to independent contractor status, instead of town staff employees, to ensure compliance with Internal Revenue Service regulations.

Lang replaces Lesa Shoeman, who held the parttime job since September 2012 but did not want to continue under the new rules. Lang, who moved to Florida five years ago from Long Island, N.Y., where she worked as an education program manager

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for historical properties, will earn $15,200 per year and work in the town office. Last year, Shoeman earned close to $29,000, according to Alderman Barbara Molina.

“Carol has done an exceptional job cleaning up all the files,” Molina said of Lang’s performance as a temporary worker in recent weeks. She was the only applicant for the position.

“Everything is working out nicely,” Lang said. “The team and I work well together.”

She said Briny’s office will be open from 9 a.m. to noon Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, under the restructured clerk position.

Thaler, a certified public accountant with 35 years’ experience in the field, was an easy choice over another bidder for the bookkeeping job vacated by Linda Harvel, Shoeman’s mother. Thaler will earn $10,200 annually; Harvel earned $9,573 in 2013.

“She’s well-acquainted with what needs to be done,” Molina said of Thaler, “and well-equipped to do the job.”

“She does spend an enormous amount of time in here already,” said Alderman Karen Wiggins of the council president’s efforts to keep track of Briny’s bookkeeping.

In other business: • Council members unanimously approved the tentative tax rate of $10 per

$1,000 of assessed property value, the same as the last two years, at the Aug. 28 meeting.

Public budget hearings are scheduled for Sept. 11 and Sept. 25, both meetings starting at 5 p.m.

• The council gave unanimous approval to the first reading of an ordinance that gives Briny’s corporate arm the authority to issue A Row parking permits.

The 5-0 vote endorsed the recommendations of the Planning and Zoning Board.

• State Sen. Maria Sachs, D-Delray Beach, has scheduled a property insurance workshop for Oct. 7, beginning at 1 p.m. in the Briny Breezes Clubhouse.

Consumer advocates and representatives from several state agencies, including Citizens Property Insurance Corp., are expected to participate in a panel discussion that should be of particular interest to Briny residents. As Citizens has tried to rid itself of high-risk properties in recent years, thousands of trailer park residents across the state have found themselves with soaring insurance bills or no coverage at all.

Sachs says Briny residents will get the chance to question state officials directly about insurance issues during the workshop. Ú

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By Emily J. Minor BRINY BREEZES — Helen Deniston — a widow who lost her first husband to cancer, took up square dancing to ease her grief, then fell in love with the partner of her dreams — died July 21 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. She was 77.

Mrs. Deniston was born Feb. 4, 1937, in the tiny town of Sheldon, N.D., the youngest of five.

Her father never had the opportunity to complete school past the third grade. “But he learned that an education was important,” said Lynn Deniston, Mrs. Deniston’s husband.

“He had five daughters, and he got them all through college.”

After graduating from the University of North Dakota with a degree in medical technology, the former Helen Wieg moved to Detroit, on her own, staying with the daughter of a former UND president from whom she had sub-leased a basement apartment. “He told her, ‘That’s kind of a dangerous city, but I have a daughter who lives there,’ ” said Lynn Deniston, retelling the story.

Once in Detroit, Mrs. Deniston worked in the research lab at Abbott Laboratory. She met a GI, fell in love, and the couple moved to Ann Arbor, Mich.

Lynn Deniston said the couple eventually moved to Illinois, where their daughter was born. At that time, Mrs. Deniston quit her job to work as a stay-home mother — a routine she continued when the family moved to Chelsea, Mich.

In Chelsea, Mrs. Deniston stayed active and fit, always enjoying golf, yoga, jogging and swimming. After her husband lost his battle to pancreatic cancer, Mrs. Deniston took up square dancing classes.

Lynn Deniston lost his first wife to brain cancer in 1990, and also took up classes in an attempt to move on, even if just a little.

As it turned out, the two grieving spouses moved forward a lot. They fell in love, and by 1992 they were spending the winters in Briny Breezes — a place they found through mutual square-dancing friends.

Lynn Deniston is a retired professor who taught public health at the University of Michigan. For the past two years, they’ve lived full-time in Briny, he said.

About nine years ago, Helen Deniston began showing signs of early Alzheimer’s. They changed to “round dancing” because the steps were easier to remember, but had to give up the travel they loved.

“For our first 15 years, we got to travel a lot and see many different places,” he said. About two years ago, Mrs. Deniston gave up all the activities that she so loved. Lynn Deniston cared for her at home until the very end.

One daughter, Kristin Rahenkamp, of Niwot, Colo., survives her. Mr. Deniston said they will announce plans for a memorial during Kristin’s visit over the winter holidays.

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Evelyn & Arthur marks third decade by reopening Boynton Annex

By Scott Simmons Walk into Evelyn & Arthur’s Manalapan store and the thing that sticks in your mind is the laughter.

It’s constant.

And judging from visits to some of the eight-store chain’s other locations, it’s to be expected.

“We have great crews in the stores,” said Fred Weissman, the company’s chief financial officer and son-in-law of founders Evelyn and Arthur Lewis. “You want your customers to feel welcome in a space, and if that’s the attitude and the vibe the store is giving off, then that’s great to hear.”

Weissman met the Lewises’ daughter, Adrianne, while the two were working at Macy’s in New York. They soon married, then joined the family business.

“We moved down in February ’86 and joined what essentially was a four-store chain,” he said.

The Lewises founded the store in 1985, after Evelyn Lewis retired to Florida and found she had nothing to wear.

Arthur Lewis had been in the garment business in New York.

“He figured how hard can retail be?” Weissman said.

They had opened a store in Palm Beach, and when winter season ended, they added a swimsuit shop around the corner.

“Then that led to another store at Plaza del Mar next to the Ice Cream Club,” he said.

The chain has stores along both coasts of Florida and plans to mark its 30th anniversary by reopening its Annex on Woolbright Road between Congress Avenue and Military Trail in Boynton Beach.

“We actually were there between 2007 and 2010. It’s in exactly the same spot,” Weissman said. “When the economy got a little soft we decided to pull the outlet into our Manalapan store. It did well there, but we’re ready to have it as a free-standing location. It’s exactly the same as we left it, so we’re going to move back in.”

The Annex will offer merchandise from the previous season at a discount, as well as handbags, jewelry, hats and gift items.

Evelyn Lewis died about a decade ago; Arthur Lewis is

alive and well and living in Boca Raton.

No doubt both were pleased at the atmosphere their stores engender.

“I go in there as the lone guy in the company, taking care of operations and learning how to be handy,” Weissman said. “I don’t get, ‘Hello, Fred, how are you?’ I get, ‘Fred, the light bulb is out. Fred, the door handle has a problem.’ They usually see me as the guy who helps them with their problems. It’s sort of the role that I’ve taken.”

There’s that good humor again, tempered with a dose of reality.

“One of the things that we obviously recognized, was that when the store was founded in ’85, Evelyn was about the same age as Adrianne is now,” Weissman said. “People today, even if they’re 70 or 80, don’t think of themselves as old. They don’t aspire to look matronly.”

He’s proud of the quality of the company’s clothing lines.

“One of the things we do hear back from folks is, ‘Your clothes last too long,’ ” he said.

That longevity is part of what keeps customers coming back, along with that good-

Fred and Adrianne Weissman of Evelyn & Arthur are reopening their Annex in Boynton Beach. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star humored staff.

“One of the gals in Manalapan predates Adrianne and I by a month,” Weissman said. “We really are very fortunate. We have quite a few of the people in the stores pushing 10, 12, approaching 20 years.”

That’s another part of what makes him happy to visit the stores.

“I like to hear stories about good experiences with customers or good experiences with products,” he said. “The

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Business Spotlight Trader Joe’s opens The new Trader Joe’s at the corner of Linton Boulevard and Federal Highway in Delray Beach opens on Sept. 5. RIGHT: Barbara Arnold and Sandra Shinn stock shelves under the watchful eye of a surfing cow.

Other store walls are covered with similar murals celebrating South Florida.

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he Florida Festivals & Events Association has more than 415 members — representing 750 events statewide — and at its 20th anniversary award conference, Delray Beach cleaned up.

The Marketing Cooperative received the following seven SUNsational Awards: • 100 Foot Christmas Tree — five awards total in the $50,000$249,999 range: first place for promo video, first place for tickets and invitations, and third place awards in brochure/ postcard, social media and T-shirt categories.

• On the Ave — one award in the $49,999 and under range: second place in best website for On The Ave Light Up The Night.

• 4th of July Celebration — one award in the $50,000$249,999 range: first place for photography.

The Delray Beach-based Festival Management Group won a total of six awards for two events: • Delray Beach Garlic Fest — three awards in the $250,000 and over range: first place for best social media site, second place for best website and third place for best promotional item.

• Delray Beach Chamber’s Delray Affair — three awards in the $50,000-$249,999 range: first place for best mobile app, second place for best T-shirt and second place for best commemorative poster.

At the same conference the Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency received 1st place in the $49,999 and under Promotional Poster category. A collaboration between the CRA and Maas Media, the poster highlighted the calendar for Movies in the Park and Music on the Rocks.

Wall’s up: In August, the Greater Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce unveiled a Donor Wall honoring 80 donors who contributed between $1,000 and $50,000 toward creating the chamber’s new office space at 140 NE First St. in Delray

Beach. Emiliano Brooks of Emiliano Brooks Productions assisted the chamber by creating the design themes used on the donor wall and Signarama contributed to the design and installation of the Donor Wall.

Stay tuned for more: WellFest Delray 2015 announced that Serena J. Dyer will be a featured speaker at the March 2015 event, which will be held at the Delray Center for the Arts. A South Florida native, she co-authored a book about growing up with her father, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Don’t Die With Your Music Still In You. Also, Tesla Motors will participate in 2015, showcasing its vehicles and conducting scheduled test drives.

A renovation project that offers needed housing: According to the National Housing Conference/Center for Housing Policy, 40 percent of households ages 65 and older have incomes that are less than half of the local area median income, and almost half of the poorest of these households pay 50 percent or more of their incomes for housing. Currently the Delray Beach Housing Authority has more than 250 seniors waiting for affordable housing in the city.

But it is taking steps to alleviate the problem. In July, the Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency closed on a $2.7 million loan to Village Square Elderly Ltd. to help fund 84 new housing units for lowincome elderly residents, which is scheduled for completion in fall 2015. The Village Square project, a partnership between the Housing Authority and Roundstone Development, was created to redevelop the 18-acre Carver Estates site.

The Village Square project also is constructing a 144-unit affordable apartment complex for lower income families and approximately 24 single-family homes that will be offered for sale.

A Boynton Beach restoration: The restoration of the Addison Mizner-designed headquarters for the 102-yearold Boynton Woman’s Club is nearing completion. The work was financed by a matching grant from the Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency and a contribution from the Boynton Beach Historical Society. The club’s historic preservation committee co-chairwomen, Pat Waldron and Barbara Wineberg, oversaw the project.

Boca Raton news: In cooperation with Enterprise Florida and the city of Boca Raton, the Business Development Board of Palm Beach County announced that it has assisted Vicinitas Cancer Care, Cancer Treatment Centers of America Preferred Provider Alliance, to locate its headquarters in Palm Beach County at 1200 N. Federal Highway in Boca Raton. The Business Development Board assisted Vicinitas with site selection, incentive package coordination, and workforce and training needs. The company received a $360,000 training grant from the State of Florida, as well as Qualified Target Industry Tax Refund and Quick Action Closing Fund incentives totaling $1.45 million, with $1.1 million from the state of Florida and a $350,000 contribution from the city of Boca Raton.

Over the next five years, the company will have 200 full-time employees and will occupy 45,000 square feet of office space. Vicinitas projects a capital investment of approximately $4 million to renovate and equip its space.

Vicinitas, a nation-wide network of physicians and other oncology care providers, offers each of its patients a dedicated care manager to schedule all appointments, facilitate understanding of treatment options and coordinate commcommunication among providers.

Saks Off Fifth signed a 10-year lease for the 23,343-square-foot space that used to be Loehmann’s at Somerset Shoppes at Lyons Road and Glades Road in Boca Raton. Saks is under construction and is expected to open in the first quarter of 2015. Randy Tulepan, vice president of New Yorkbased Roberts Equities, represented the owner and David Emohovich from Katz and Associates represented the tenant.

For sales recorded Aug. 18, Senada Adzem, director of Luxury Sales for Douglas Elliman, represented the sellers of two units at One Thousand Ocean condominiums in Boca Raton. The warranty deed of the first property, apartment 501 owned by David Cohen, was recorded on Aug. 12 and sold for $6.5 million. The buyer’s agent was Niki Higgins of Douglas Elliman. The second property’s warranty deed, apartment 105 owned by Jeffrey and Patricia Schneider, was recorded on Aug. 18 and sold for $4.2 million. The buyer is listed as Casey Taryn Scherr, who was represented by Don Kealy of Westpark Realty of Broward Inc. According to Palm Beach County records, a company tied to the Blackstone Group, BRE Newton Hotels Property Owner, acquired the Residence Inn Boca Raton, at 525 NW 77th St., in a transaction recorded on Aug. 18, for $12 million. LES Res Boca Raton of Dallas sold the 120-room hotel to BRE. In August, Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, a partner of Boca Raton Regional Hospital, was named one of “100 Hospitals and Health Systems With Great Oncology Programs” in 2014 by Becker’s Hospital Review, which recognizes hospitals for quality patient care, cancer outcomes and research. Boca Regional’s Eugene M. & Christine E. Lynn Cancer Institute joined the Moffitt Oncology Network in June 2013.

Also, Boca Raton Regional Hospital is the recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence for the 10th year in a row and was named one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014, by Healthgrades. The hospital was also recognized for the third consecutive year in U.S. News & World Report’s 2013–2014 Best Hospitals listing as a topranked hospital in the South Florida metropolitan area.

Concerning financial successes, on Aug. 26, officials at the hospital announced that both Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor’s Rating Services have raised the hospital’s investment grade credit rating from BBB- to BBB. Concurrently, both Fitch and S&P gave the hospital a “stable” ratings outlook.

Also in the county: In August, Engel & Völkers announced the openings of its three new South County brokerages owned by Boca Raton real estate attorney Rick Felberbaum.

The locations are at 900 E. Atlantic Ave. in Delray Beach, 310 E. Palmetto Park Road in Collins Boca Raton, and 4855 Technology Way in Boca Raton. The designated broker is Boca Raton resident Claire Collins. Felberbaum also announced that he plans to open three more offices in South Palm Beach County within the next 12 to 18 months.

YMCA of South Palm Beach County’s annual report announced support from organizations; an award; and new developments of its drowning prevention, diabetes prevention and YBike programs. A $35,000 grant from The Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation, a $30,000 grant from the Town of Palm Beach United Way,

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and the Baker Summer Camp Scholarship Program grant through Autism Speaks will support the Y’s services to underprivileged children and those with special needs. The Peter Blum Family YMCA of Boca Raton was rated five out of five stars by Family Central’s Palm Beach County Quality Counts program.

Nixon aide Roger Stone, will reveal the dark secrets of Watergate, the Ford pardon, and the famous 18½-minute tape gap, which he’s covered in his recently released book, Nixon’s Secrets from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sept. 10, at the Gold Coast Tiger Bay Club’s monthly luncheon held at the City Fish Market, 7940 Glades Road, Boca Raton. The cost is $35 for members or $45 for nonmembers. For information and to RSVP, visit www. goldcoasttigerbayclub.com or call 852-0000.

Each month at the not-forprofit Secret Garden Café’s Appetite for Art, “Hungry Artists Help Hungry People.”

September’s theme, Mango is King of Fruit, will celebrate island music and cuisine, featuring grilled red snapper and mango salsa. Music will be by Dymin and September’s featured artist is Nicole Persley.

Her distinctive style is bold, eccentric and primary. Appetite for Art will be held at the Secret Garden Café, 410 E. Boynton Beach Blvd. in Boynton Beach, from 6 to 9 p.m. Sept. 27. The price is $40. Also, the public is invited to attend an artist’s reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 26. Cost is $20.

It’s September and Flavor Palm Beach time, when food and wine enthusiasts can take advantage of discounted prices for prix fixe menus at 50 of Palm Beach County’s finest restaurants. Three-course lunches are priced at $20 and dinners are priced from $30. Each reservation made through FlavorPB.com benefits the Palm Beach County Food Bank, which aims to eradicate hunger in Palm Beach County.

For a full list of participants and to make reservations, visit FlavorPB.com.

Palm Beach’s Colony Hotel will close for the first time in 40 years. According to Roger Everingham, the hotel’s vice president and general manager, The Colony’s front doors will be locked on Sept.

2 so that decorator Carleton Varney, president of Dorothy Draper & Company, can complete his multimilliondollar transformation of the Palm Beach landmark. A gala celebrating its reopening will be on Oct. 10.

“Carleton Varney and Brinsley Matthews have done an amazing job of bringing our guest rooms to new life,” Everingham said. “Lively may even be an understatement considering the variety of colors; our just finished fourth

The COASTAL STAR floor, for example, has 19 different paint colors. Each room and suite is different — no cookie-cutter rooms here — put together with a lot of vivid upholstery, unique lamps and artwork, many by local artists.

The result is a happy, classy feeling, but still with our classic British Colonial foundation.”

It’s official. The Style Bar Day Spa is now the salon of choice for Palm Beach Makos Cheerleaders. The organization, which supports Palm Beach County charity and community groups, will shoot its 2015 swimsuit calendar and squad photo this September with hair services to be sponsored by Style Bar. The spa is located at 2875 S. Ocean Blvd., Suite 108, Palm Beach.

Also the spa is now offering to bring a full-service list of its spa treatments to private homes, businesses and yachts. For information, call 585-9788.

Classes in drawing, painting, mixed media and photography at the Armory Art Center’s Lake Worth Annex, 1121 Lucerne Ave., will start Sept.

2. Also four studio spaces are available. For information, visit www.armoryart.org/annex or call 832-1776, ext. 33.

Six summer interns of the 11-week Arthur R. Marshall Foundation for the Everglades’ summer internship program celebrated their graduation at E.R. Bradley’s Beach Club in Lake Worth on July 31.

The interns, who focused their research project on strategies to counter sea level rise, including Everglades restoration and recommendations for the U.S. Coast Guard, presented their research at the second annual Sea Level Rise Symposium, July 25, hosted by the Marshall Foundation, League of Women Voters of Palm Beach County and Oxbridge Academy.

At their graduation, the interns gave brief presentations Arthur R. Marshall Foundation for the Everglades’ summer internship program about their interests and experiences. “The program opened my eyes to how many different disciplines are involved in Everglades restoration and environmental issues,” said intern Morgan Mooney of Boca Raton. “It has inspired me to be part of the solution.”

Suzanne Ross was promoted to executive director for the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center, Boynton Beach. She had served as the museum’s development Ross officer before assuming the role of interim executive director after Judith Klinek retired in June. Ross also has held positions locally with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation,

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Easter Seals and the Florida Oceanographic Society.

Carolina Zerboni, managing partner of Seasons 52 in Boca Raton, has attained Darden Restaurants’ Diamond Club status for showing strong and inspiring leadership while also achieving top financial performance. The Boca Raton Seasons 52 is at 2300 NW Executive Center Drive.

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The Chamber of Commerce of The Palm Beaches appointed Jamie Walton to the position of director of special events.

She will also be responsible for driving sponsorship revenues.

Formerly, Walton served as director of development for Easter Seals Florida.

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In June, Kim Rae Greenberg joined Chapin, Ballerano & Cheslack, a law firm with offices in Delray Beach and Boca Raton, as an associate attorney. She will focus her practice on transactional real estate and corporate law.

Before joining the firm, she represented clients as a real Greenberg estate attorney in her Coral Gables firm and title agency, Kim R. Greenberg, P.A., handling the acquisition, disposition, and financing of residential, commercial and institutional properties.

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Helping to save lives, one donor at a time

regg Francis, Barry Kaplan and Leora Lieberman wrapped up their inaugural radio talk show with a sigh of relief.

They’d made it through the hour without a single faux pas and — they fervently hoped — listeners had learned a thing or two about their nonprofit organization, the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation.

Then they got the phone call. On the line was Holly, who heard their broadcast (The Gift of Life with Gregg, 4-5 p.m. Tuesdays on 1470 AM/ WWNN) and desperately needed their help.

Her 6-year-old niece, Sami, has Fanconi anemia, a rare, inherited blood disorder that leads to bone marrow failure.

Her best chance for a normal life? A bone marrow transplant.

Her family anxiously — and continuously — scans the international database of registered donors. So far, no match for the adorable little girl with a condition that affects one out of every 350,000 people.

But that daunting challenge doesn’t deter this Boca Ratonbased registry that facilitates bone marrow and blood stem cell matches and transplants for patients with leukemia, lymphoma and other bloodrelated diseases.

They sent out an S.O.S. — Save Our Sami.

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To ask a question or comment during the radio talk show, call 888-565-1470. that we would do whatever we could to make sure she lives a fruitful life,” Francis, the foundation’s chief operating and financial officer, told listeners during a recent radio show.

Gregg Francis (left), Barry Kaplan and Leora Lieberman with Sami. They hope to find a matching bone marrow donor for Sami. Photo provided by the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation He, Kaplan and Lieberman are in touch with Sami’s family regularly. They adore the spunky, tutu-wearing, chickenfarming South Florida resident and self-proclaimed princess.

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how to help. It starts with us, it continues with you, and it ends in Sami living the long, fruitful life she deserves. There are moments in life when you can make a difference. Now is your chance. Now is that time.

“No match exists for Sami yet, but her match is out there, her lifesaving chance is waiting to be found. This is one of those moments when someone’s life is in our hands, when Sami’s life depends on our efforts, on your efforts.”

Want to help Sami — and thousands of others who need blood stem cell or bone marrow transplants? (Amazingly, one in 200 Americans will receive a transplant.) You can volunteer, become a donor or donate to the cause.

Donors, who need to be between 18 and 60, can get their cheek swabbed to see if they are a match for someone in need. These tests cost $60 each to process — and the nonprofit foundation, which relies on donations for operating expenses — is grateful for any contribution for their lifesaving mission (they have tests awaiting processing but need money for the lab fees).

The foundation says it has saved about 2,800 lives since 1999. But, that’s not nearly enough, Francis says. “Our mission is to find a match anytime. Anywhere. For anyone,” he emphasizes. “We save lives. Plain and simple.

We’re here to give people a second chance.”

Those who work and volunteer at the foundation’s 11,000-square-foot Boca Raton headquarters are passionate about their cause. That carries over to their radio talk show, which was named the No. 1 show on 1470 AM/WWNN after only five weeks.

The interactive show — which began July 8 and can

be heard from North Miami to central Orlando — features inspiring interviews with people who have had life-saving bone marrow transplants, donors, medical doctors, celebs who support the cause and listeners who call in to the station. Their stories will make you laugh. And cry.

“We want people to appreciate the life they have.

And we want them to know there is an organization like this in their backyard and that we would love for them to come take a tour and see what we do,” explains Francis. “We’ve met a lot of people who are willing to save a perfect stranger’s life, a lot of very selfless people. It’s very gratifying.”

Kaplan, the foundation’s business development coordinator, says the radio show will also offer a chance to clear up “the big three” misconceptions about being a bone marrow transplant donor: that it is painful, that the bone marrow won’t regenerate and that there is a lengthy recovery period.

It’s a serious subject, but they plan to infuse humor and a bit of bantering. “We are trying to get out the message without being morose,” Kaplan says.

They want listeners to understand the gravity of the situation, but realize there is hope, there are second chances, and there’s a way to give others a most precious gift: the gift of life.

Linda Haase is a freelance writer on a quest to learn — and share — all she can about how to get and stay healthy.

You can reach her at lindawrite76s@ gmail.com.

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Health & Harmony Calendar Note: Events are current as of 8/29. Please check with organizers for any changes.

SEPTEMBER 6 Saturday - 9/6 - Saturdays @ Sanborn: Yoga Class at Sanborn Square, 72 N. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton. Saturdays. Registration: 8:45 am; class: 9 am. Free. 393-7703.

9/6 - Jazzercise at the Boynton Beach Civic Center, 128 E. Ocean Ave. All ages and levels.

M-Sat. 9-10 am. Fees start at $38/month.

742-6240.

9/6 - Taoist Healing Exercise for all ages at Veterans Park, 802 NE First St., Delray Beach.

Learn and practice ancient breathing and stretching techniques. Saturdays. 9:30-10:30 am. Per class: $5/residents; $6/non-residents.

243-7350.

9/6 - Yoga Class at the Train Depot, 747 S. Dixie Hwy., Boca Raton. 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.

9/6 - Cardio Kettlebell Class for ages 14 and up at Veterans Park, 802 NE First St., Delray Beach. W (6-7 pm) and Sat. (9:30-10:30 am).

6 classes: $60/residents; $65/non-residents.

243-7350.

9/6 - Qigong Class for ages 14 and up at Veterans Park, 802 NE First St., Delray Beach.

Saturdays, 9:30-10:30 am. Per class: $5/ residents; $6/non-residents. 243-7350.

9/6 - Yoga at the Beach - Saturdays at Red Reef Park West, 1221 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton, and M-W-Th. at Red Reef Park East, 1400 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. Build strength and flexibility, improve postural alignment and stabilize the core. Registration at the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd., or on-site before class.

Cash not accepted on-site. Sat.: 10-11 am; M-W-Th.: 6:30-7:30 pm. $15/residents, $19/ non-residents per class, or 60 day membership (unlimited classes) for $65/residents, $81.25/ non-residents. 393-7807.

9/6 - Judo Class 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.

9/6 - Capoeira Fitness for ages 12 & up at Sanborn Square, 72 N. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton. Every Sat. 10:30 am. Free. 393-7703.

9/6 - Zumba Class at the South Beach Park Pavilion, 400 N. State Road A1A, Boca Raton.

Every Sat. 10:30 am. Free. 393-7703.

SEPTEMBER 7-13 Monday - 9/8 - Jazzercise: Strength/45 at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. 50-minute muscle toning workouts feature a combination of weight training and stretching. 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. 954-913-7659.

9/8 - 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. M & W. 9:40-10:30 am.

First class free. 8 classes: $56/residents, $70/ non-residents. 16 classes: $96/residents, $120/ non-residents. 954-913-7659.

9/8 - Tai Chi for Beginners of all ages at Veterans Park, 802 NE First St., Delray Beach.

Learn natural ways to relieve tension, stress and pains. Mondays, 11 am-noon. Per class: $15/residents; $20/non-residents. 243-7350.

9/8 - Parkinson’s Exercise Class at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. All ages. Mondays, 11:30 am-12:30 pm. First class is free. 8 classes: $32/residents, $40/non-residents. 16 classes: $60/residents, $75/non-residents. 347-3950.

9/8 - Men’s Issues Support Group at the Faulk Center for Counseling, 22455 Boca Rio Road, Boca Raton. Mondays, 6:30-8 pm. First session free, $5 thereafter. 483-5300.

9/8 - Tuck Jazzie Jam Aerobics at the Ezell Hester, Jr. Community Center, 1901 N. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Bring a towel and workout mat. M&W. 7-8 pm. $3/at door.

742-6550.

9/8 - Meditation Mondays at the Highland Beach Library, 3618 S. Ocean Blvd. Mondays, 7 pm. Free. 278-5455.

Tuesday -9/9 - Circuit Training at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Workout targets multiple muscle groups to build lean muscles. Modifications for pregnant moms as well as beginner to advanced fitness levels. Every T&Th. 8:40-9:25.

4 classes: $36/residents, $45/non-residents; 8 classes: $66/residents, $82.50/non-residents; 16 classes: $118/residents, $147.50/nonresidents. 347-3950.

9/9 - Get Fit Mom’s Boot Camp at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Workout incorporates cardio exercises, strength training, running drills, body weight resistance training, agility drills and core strengthening. Modifications for all levels of fitness. Every T&Th. 9:30-10:20. 4 classes: $36/residents, $45/non-residents; 8 classes: $66/residents, $82.50/non-residents; 16 classes: $118/residents, $147.50/nonresidents. 347-3950.

9/9 - Women’s Issues Support Group at the Faulk Center for Counseling, 22455 Boca Rio Road, Boca Raton. Two times: Tuesdays, 10-11:30 am or 7-8:30 pm. First session free, $5 thereafter. 483-5300.

9/9 - Yoga at the Highland Beach Library, 3618 S. Ocean Blvd. Participants should bring their own yoga mat. Every T&Th, 10:15 am. $10.

278-5455.

9/9 - Big & Loud: Parkinson’s Disease Exercise Program at Bethesda Heart Hospital, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Held again 9/23. 10:30-11:30 am. Free.

292-4950.

9/9 – Breastfeeding Support Group at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, 800 Meadows Road. Tuesdays, Noon -1:30 pm. Free. 9555415.

9/9 - Zumba Gold Fitness Class for ages 55 & up at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. Enhance quality of life through music and dance. Tuesdays, 3-4 pm. Per class: $5/ residents, $6/non-residents. 243-7350.

9/9 - Boot Camp In Your Neighborhood at Hester Center, 1901 N. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Military style exercises, stretching,

running, sprints, lunges, push-ups, abdominal work and group fitness. T/Th. 6-7 pm. $10 at the door. 742-6550.

Wednesday - 9/10 - Yoga for ages 18 and up at Veterans Park, 802 NE First St., Delray Beach.

Wednesdays, 9-10:30 am. Per class: $10/ residents; $15/non-residents. 243-7350.

9/10 - Flu, Shingles and Pneumonia Shot Clinic at Alzheimer’s Community Care Center, Our Savior Lutheran Church,1615 Lake Ave., Lake Worth. 10 am-noon. Get all you vaccinations in one convenient location. Also held 9/12 at Phyllis & Julius Siegel Alzheimer’s Care & Service Center at Advent Lutheran Church, 4680 N Dixie Hwy., Boca Raton. 9 amnoon and at Betty Kroll Specialized Alzheimer’s Care & Service Center at Seacrest Presbyterian Church, 2703 N. Seacrest Blvd., Delray Beach.

1:30-3:30 pm. Registration: 683-2700.

9/10 - Moving Foward: Support and Discussion Group at the Faulk Center for Counseling, 22455 Boca Rio Road, Boca Raton.

Wednesdays, 1-2:30 pm. $5. 483-5300.

9/10 - Parkinson’s Exercise Class at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. All ages. Every Wednesday. First class is free. 8 classes: $32/residents, $40/ non-residents. 16 classes: $60/residents, $75/ non-residents. 2-3 pm. 347-3950.

9/10 - Divorced and Separated Support Group at the Faulk Center for Counseling, 22455 Boca Rio Road, Boca Raton.

Wednesdays, 6-7:30 pm. First session free, $5 thereafter. 483-5300.

9/10 - Tai Chi Class at the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd.

Emphasizes moving meditation for focus, concentration, release of stress and attention skills. Two sessions on Wednesdays: beginners, 6:10-7:10 pm; intermediate, 7:10-8:10 pm. 8

Health & Harmony H5 classes: $48/residents, $60/non-residents; 12 classes: $66/residents, $82/non-residents.

393-7807.

Thursday - 9/11 - Yoga Class at the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd.

Thursdays, 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.

Friday - 9/12 - Zumba Gold Fitness Class for ages 55 & up at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. Enhance quality of life through music and dance. Fridays, 9:30-10:30 am. Per class: $5/residents, $6/non-residents.

243-7350.

9/12 – Breastfeeding Support Group at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, 800 Meadows Road, Boca Raton. Every F. 1-3:30 pm. Free.

955-5415.

SEPTEMBER 14-20 Sunday - 9/14 - Breathing Excercises for Health, Vitality and Stress Management at Unity of Delray Beach, 101 NW 22nd St. Charlene Wilkinson teaches the theory and practice of breathing techniques. 1:30 & 3:30 pm. Love offering. 276-5796.

Wednesday - 9/17 - Healing Hands for Arthritis at various Palm Beach County locations of Massage Envy to benefit the Arthritis Foundation. In this one day event, $10 from every massage or facial will be donated to the Arthritis Foundation. www. massageenvy.com.

Thursday - 9/18 - Emotional Support Group for Spanish-Speaking Adults at Faulk Center for Counseling, 22455 Boca Rio Road, Boca Raton. Thursdays, 3-4:30 pm. $5 each session. 483-5000.

9/18 - Qigong Class for ages 16 & up at

Sugar Sand Park, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Bring a yoga mat or towel and wear comfortable clothing and athletic shoes.

Thursdays through 11/20. 7-8 pm. Per session: $18/resident; $22.50/non-resident; Full eight weeks: $120/resident, $150/non-resident.

347-3900.

Friday - 9/19 - Senior Health Fair at the Boynton Beach Civic Center, 128 E. Ocean Ave. Free vision testing, massages, and blood pressure and cholesterol screenings. 9 amnoon. Free. 742-6570.

Saturday - 9/20 - Let’s Get Physical at Meadows Park, 4305 N. Congress Ave., Boynton Beach. CrossFit of Boynton Beach and i9 Sports conduct outdoor activities. Learn new exercises, enjoy healthy snacks and win prizes.

All ages. 9-10:30 am. Free. 742-6243.

SEPTEMBER 28-OCT. 4 Tuesday - 9/30 - Secrets of Blood Tests Revealed: Why Are They So Important?

- Presented by Marty Jacob, M.D., Internal Medicine, Bethesda Hospital East, at the West Boynton Branch Library, 9451 S. Jog Road, Boynton Beach. 2 pm. Free. 734-5556.

9/30 - Zumba with a Gospel Flavor at The Carolyn Sims Center, 225 NW 12th Ave., Boynton Beach. Interval training with a dance component. For adults. T&Th. through 11/16.

7-8 pm. $60/residents, $75/non-residents.

742-6640.

Thursday - 10/2 - Surgical Weight Reduction Symposium - Presented by Miguel A. Lopez-Viego, M.D., at Bethesda Hospital East, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Learn how laproscopic gastric bypass and Lap-Band surgery can change lives. First Thursday of each month. 6:30 pm. Free. 7377733, Ext. 84688.

H6 Religion

Finding Faith

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o matter what you might have heard, Southern Baptists in Delray Beach are not to be feared.

The first evidence of this personality change is the sign in front of First Baptist Church — it now simply says FBC Delray without the word Baptist.

“We’re proud to be First Baptist,” senior pastor Steve Thomas explains. “But historically Baptists are known for what we’re against.

We don’t want you to think we’re going to beat you up if you don’t think like us.”

The new, softer approach is a big change for the Baptists who began worshiping at the historic Sundy House in 1912.

The congregation had 500 members back when IBM and Motorola were South County employers. First Baptist moved to its impressive fifth

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First Baptist of Delray tries a softer approach location on Military Trail south of Linton Boulevard in 1992.

The Rev. Thomas is known on Delray’s beach as a surf fisherman who sails the only green, yellow and blue trimaran sailboat. He arrived in 2008 when First Baptist membership had dipped to 120 people. Membership is up since then.

The softer tone is evident in Sunday worship, which Thomas describes as “less judgmental and prideful.” The music has a contemporary feel.

“People should know we preach everything the Bible says. The message is not what most people would call fire and brimstone,” he said. “But we still say there’s a hell.”

Members of FPC Delray now are frequently seen at the beach wearing “Free Prayer” T-shirts giving out water

bottles to share God’s grace.

“We don’t want the name Baptist to be a stumbling block. For some people, it almost becomes a negative thing,” associate pastor James Brown said. “We’re just trying to drop some of the baggage.”

He sits six hours each day in the Starbucks at Florida Atlantic University.

Rabbi Moshe Goldstein is a counselor, but he’s also the most successful matchmaker on campus.

Eight of his protégés have married fellow Jews and committed to an Orthodox Jewish Goldstein lifestyle this year. Three more are seriously dating.

“Marriage is everything when we do our work,” Goldstein explains.

Goldstein works for the Jewish Education Center of South Florida, located in a single-family home near an Orthodox Jewish synagogue in east Boca Raton.

His mission is to educate FAU students about their heritage and connect them to other young Orthodox Jews.

Goldstein, 36, spent 13 years in rabbinical school.

But he looks the age of most college students and has no trouble striking up conversations at Starbucks.

He counsels 75 to 100 students, offering the center as an oasis where they can study and stay once a week if they commit to orthodox lifestyle, which doesn’t allow driving automobiles on the Sabbath, among other things.

Marriage is appropriate only after two or three years of serious study and commitment, Goldstein said.

About 25 young couples have purchased homes within walking distance of the synagogue east of FAU since Goldstein began his work at Starbucks five years ago.

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church is celebrating its 100th anniversary by transforming itself as a cultural destination for downtown Lake Worth.

The historic congregation is hosting its new Artists in Residence initiative as a unique blend that includes classical music and social justice theater.

The Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival will rehearse and perform its fall concert series at St. Andrew’s, starting Sept. 19.

The Voices of Pride, a county gay men’s chorus that began in 2003, also will call St. Andrew’s its home. The congregation’s outreach to gays and lesbians has helped it grow to 170 members.

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First Baptist Associate Pastor James Brown and Senior Pastor Steve Thomas stand in front of the church’s new sign, which does not use the word ‘Baptist.’ Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star Residence group is the Core Ensemble, a music theater company that has toured the country for 20 years to highlight social justice issues.

St. Andrew’s already is the home for People Engaged in Action and Community Effort (PEACE), which works with the Sheriff’s Office.

Artists in Residence organizer Margot Emery said St. Andrew’s wants to provide a quality cultural environment that develops Lake Worth’s image as a cultural destination.

“On Emery our 100th anniversary, St. Andrew’s is firm in its belief that culture and the arts are essential to human development and well-being,” Emery said.

The picturesque little church on the corner of Lucerne Avenue and North Palmway was built a year after the 1928 hurricane blew down the original 1914 church building.

Temple Emeth, a Conservative Jewish erdr nsynagogue, has closed after 40 years west of Delray Beach.

The congregation thrived in the 1970s to the 1990s when many World War IIgeneration Jews retired to western Delray.

But Temple Emeth proved to be a one-generation congregation. The 355 remaining members are mostly in their 80s.

Membership had reached 2,000 members in 1996.

About a third of Jews

in Palm Beach County are synagogue members. A recent study found that 18 percent of American Jews identify with the Conservative movement, down from 43 percent in 1991.

The Temple Emeth congregation will merge with Temple Torah west of Boynton Beach. Temple Emeth buildings and land on West Atlantic Avenue will be sold to a Christian congregation for a church.

Monseigneur Thomas Skindelski of St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church in Delray Beach has just returned from leading an expedition into the jungles of Guatemala.

Father Tom and 14 Catholic Skindelski men of the Knights of Columbus spent nine days building and repairing classrooms at a school that the church supports. He also served Mass in remote villages that seldom see a priest.

The St. Vincent congregation sent school and medical supplies, rosaries, holy cards, clothing, tools and candy for the children.

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

Email him at tcpallesen@ aol.com.

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St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic School, Delray Beach — Aug. 18

Dealing with the emotion of the first day of school for kindergarten students can be handled in a variety of ways. ABOVE: Daniele Murphy of Hypoluxo relaxes daughter Rylee with a quick ‘phone call’ at St. Vincent Ferrer. RIGHT: Ann Rodriguez of Boynton Beach uses the timeless method of a comforting hug before leaving daughter Clara with teachers and staff.

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Family-friendly church generates new excitement

By Tim Pallesen

The older members of Grace Community Church wanted to see more children when they gave their church away two years ago.

The church at 715 S. Federal Highway in Boynton Beach was given to the Journey Church, a growing congregation of young families who had been worshipping on Sundays at a west Boynton Beach high school.

After two years and a $1.7 million makeover to raise the roof and become more kidfriendly, the grand opening of Journey Church East was celebrated by nearly 700 people on Aug. 24.

“Isn’t this fantastic? You must see the children’s church,” Elwood Holley, a former Grace Community member, greeted old members as they arrived for the first Sunday.

Holley had been Grace Community’s spokesman in 2012 to explain the giveaway.

“We want to see a happy growing church instead of one that is shrinking,” he said at the time.

The former Grace Community members experienced that happiness Aug. 24 as new faces — many of them young families with excited children — poured through the doors.

“It’s a blessing to see what God plans for this community,” Gladys Whigham said. “All things are possible with God.” “A lot of us are coming back.

I’ve seen some of our ushers, ladies from the nursery and people from our band,” said Staci Holloway, another Grace Community member who left

Projection system displays and modern music are part of the attraction at the Journey Church. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star in and saved us,” Holloway said.

“This is amazing.”

The remodeled Journey Church East is unique

before 78 remaining members voted to give away the church.

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“We are all so excited to be back in our home church and to see it so filled with new members,” Holley said. “We definitely look forward to seeing all the kids and excitement.” Ú

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Paws Up for Pets

To endure first year with a young cat, embrace kitten’s viewpoint

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id you just adopt a kitten? To maintain your sanity, please repeat after me: I will survive.

Yes, you will survive all the fun, folly and frustration that characterize a feline in his first year of life. I promise. And I’m living proof.

Recently, I adopted a spirited and affectionate male orange tabby from my local humane society. Casey is just 4 months old and weighs less than 5 pounds. As I was bringing him home, I realized that is has been 15 years since I’ve adopted any feline well under 1 year old.

The last time occurred in 1999 when I rescued an abandoned kitten from an apartment complex and named

her Murphy Brown (she is now a spry 15 years old). To put that time duration into perspective, consider that in 1999, gasoline averaged just $1.22 per gallon, Mattel’s Barbie Doll turned 40, the hot movie was American Pie, and impeachment proceedings were being brought against President Bill Clinton.

Facebook and selfies did not exist in our vocabularies.

Paralleling my crazy kitten antics are The Coastal Star’s publishers, Mary Kate Leming and Jerry Lower, who recently plucked a tiny orphaned kitten from a street near their Ocean Ridge home.

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striped tabby named Pippi has soared up the ranks from mere office cat to become the newspaper’s CFO (that’s Chief Feline Officer).

For Leming, Lower and me, life for the next year will be anything but boring. Welcome to what I call the Wonder Year.

During the first 12 months of a kitten’s life, you will wonder where your tabby gets so much energy, why this surprisingly agile and athletic youngster decides to leap from the sofa to the recliner and, most importantly, if you will be able to maintain your sanity.

Repeat after me: I will survive. This magical first year may be filled with feline mischief and mayhem. But kittens do a body (and mind) plenty of good.

Among the benefits kittens bestow upon us: • They tap into our nurturing side. Fast-growing kittens need us to feed them healthy meals many times per day and to tutor them on proper litter box etiquette. In the case of Pippi, it has meant thinking literally outside the (litter) box for Leming, who has resorted to using a deep plastic storage tub as Pippi’s bathroom because of the feline’s quirky habit of standing up while urinating. The walls of conventional litter pans would not be high enough to contain this odiferous spray.

For Casey, I quickly switched to litter boxes with lids to keep him from gleefully creating

litter confetti all over the floor.

• They are not influenced by affluence. Anything and everything seems to be a prized toy for Casey. Sure, he enjoys the store-bought feather wand and trackball (a ball is inside a donut-shaped plastic toy with openings for a feline to paw to push the ball around in circles).

But Casey equally loves flying in and out of a brown paper grocery bag and swatting any ice cube that drops onto the kitchen floor with the moves that would rival an all-pro hockey player. A crumpled paper wad is fetching fun for Pippi. She snoozes in a wicker basket under Leming’s office desk.

• They embrace the power of play. Good luck trying to work for hours on the keyboard or engaging in marathon texting sessions on your phone.

Kittens like Pippi and Casey will have none of that. Often without warning, they will dance across the keyboard, interrupting our thoughts and displaying gibberish on the computer monitors. But it is their reminder for us to not be all work.

As Leming notes, “I think Pippi is good for me because I have a tendency to stare at the computer screen intensely for a long time. I can’t do that anymore with Pippi around.

She reminds me that I need to take breaks away from the keyboard.”

• They make us tidier in the office and at home. Since Casey’s arrival, my kitchen counters and office work spaces are void of any lightweight object that can be swatted and sent soaring. Bathroom doors

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Pippi relaxes atop a lunchbox.

Note: Events are current as of 8/29. Please check with organizers for any changes.

are kept closed to prevent Casey from unrolling the toilet paper down the hallway.

And in Leming’s case, she can no longer enjoy the simple pleasures of sipping water from a glass or trying to eat a sandwich at her desk. “If you aren’t looking Pippi will stick her nose in my water glass or try to steal my sandwich,” notes Leming. My advice: Switch to spill-proof beverage containers with lids and feed your kitten before bringing out any lunch food to limit this feline thievery temptation.

Pippi, Casey and frisky, fun-loving kittens everywhere view each day — heck, each moment — as opportunities to be enjoyed and embraced. The biggest lesson I’ve learned from Casey is to live in the me-now and not fret over past mistakes or ponder future possibilities.

Thinking like a kitten offers more values than one may realize. And I promise: You will survive the Wonder Year.

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.

ON THE COVER: Photos by Kathleen Bell, Jerry Lower, Mary Kate Leming, Scott Simmons and Arden Moore/ The Coastal Star

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Saturday - 9/6 - Countdown to Zero Adoption Event at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach.

More than 30 animal rescue groups will be on site with more than 600 animals in search of a home and discounted adoption fees. 10 am-6 pm. Free. www. countdown2zero.org.

Monday - 9/15 - Dog Obedience Classes at the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. Six-week session runs M through 10/27. Beginner: 6-7 pm; Intermediate/Games: 7-8 pm. $90/residents, $112.50/non-residents.

393-7807 or www.ci.boca-raton.fl.us.

Tri-County Animal Rescue’s dedication of a new Sunshine Cat Room and screened-in patio was ‘purrrfect’ for the 70 cats and kittens living at the shelter. The event drew a crowd that comprised animal advocates, Boca Raton city officials, business leaders and firefighters. The $10,000 renovation project included installation of new drywall, flooring, air-conditioning and a washer and dryer. ABOVE: Robert Weinroth, Kim Spencer, Ardath Rosengarden, Tri-County Animal Rescue co-founder and executive director Suzi Goldsmith, Sandy Greenblatt, Sharon DiPietro and Frank Occhigrossi. Photo provided

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Great new gear debuts for water enthusiasts

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s a boater and angler, I’m always on the lookout for products that make my outdoor experiences more frequent, fun and successful.

Hundreds of noteworthy products were on display at the American Sportfishing Association’s annual ICAST trade show, an international gathering of producers of fishing- and boating-related gear held this summer in Orlando.

Here’s a small sampling of water-related products spotted during a whirlwind tour of the ICAST show: Osprey inflatable paddleboard: This fishing paddleboard measures 11 feet, 2 inches. It’s 36.5 inches wide and 6 inches thick when inflated and has tie-down rings for mounting coolers, footrests and a seat. But the real beauty of this paddleboard is transportability. It weighs 36 pounds and rolls up into a duffle bag, meaning you could carry it in the trunk of a car or check it as baggage on an airline flight. Offered by The Creek Co., the Osprey fishing paddleboard sells for about $1,500 with a pump and case.

Details: www.creekcompany. com.

Olukai water shoes: This California company enlists Hawaiian lifeguards to test its sandals. Olukai’s Nohea mesh boating shoes looked cool, comfortable and water-friendly.

Their removable footpads can be machine washed. The Nohea men’s boating shoes sell for about $85. Details: www.olukai. com.

Borboleta fishing lures: These brightly colored lures

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come straight from Brazil with names such as Perversa, loosely translated from Portugese as “nasty girl.” They’re designed to catch snook, tarpon, largemouth bass and are known in Brazil for catching peacock bass. Hand-painted Borboleta lures are available for about $13 through Fishfreak Online, a Palm Beach County tackle retailer. Details: fishfreakonline. com/perversalures.html.

The Osprey inflatable paddleboard sells for about $1,500 with a pump and case. Photo provided The polarized versions come with a one-year warranty and sell for about $65. Details: www. vigoreyewear.com.

boats. Dangled under a boat, flashers have been known to attract wahoo. They sell for $10-12 each. Details: www. hotspotlures.com.

SnowLizard waterproof cellphone case: The company’s cellphone cases keep water out, have built-in batteries and solar panels that can help keep a phone charged when you’re out there. The SLXtreme 5 for the iPhone 5 sells for about $150. Details: www. snowlizardproducts.com.

Hot-Spot flashers: These colorful pieces of metal made in Canada are designed to reflect light and attract fish.

In the ocean, spear fishers use flashers to attract fish such as dolphin and wahoo.

They’re also becoming popular among anglers fishing from

Engel live-bait cooler: This small cooler has a tight-sealing lid, meaning it can roll over in your car, full of shrimp and salt water, and it won’t spill.

This bait cooler comes with an aerator and can be used as a regular cooler. The 13-quart bait coolers are popular with anglers fishing from kayaks and paddleboards because they can double as a seat. The Engel bait cooler sells for about $75.

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Mustang Elite inflatable life jacket: This next-generation inflatable life jacket has a back panel that reduces strain on the neck. It provides 26 pounds of buoyancy when inflated.

The company says the hydrostatic trigger won’t blow up the jacket until it enters the water, meaning it should not inflate when drenched by rain.

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September 2014

Tip of the month Walk the beach with a fishing rod.

Casting from the beach is an enjoyable way to catch snook and other fish as bait schools move close to shore in September. By later in the month, the annual fall mullet run might have started.

Watch for the dark brown “clouds” of mullet in the surf.

Schooling mullet often leap out of the water as they are chased by tarpon, bluefish, snook and other predators.

Throw a heavy casting spoon or a plug rigged with 40- to 50-pound leader around the edges of the schools. If the mullet have not arrived yet, try fishing for snook along the beach in the morning. Consider bending down the hook barbs to facilitate the release of snook.

Even though snook season opens Sept. 1, snook must be 28 to 32 inches in total length to be legal, meaning many will be released.

Try fishing for snook with a soft-plastic bait such as a D.O.A. CAL Shad Tail or hard lures such as MirrOlure’s MirrOdine or the Yo-Zuri Crystal Minnow. If the water is clear, try tying your snook lure to 30-pound-test fluorocarbon leader.

Daily bag limit: One snook.

Reminder: Stay away from swimmers, and don’t fish in guarded swimming areas when fishing from the beach.

Flotsam • Joe Lucas of Delray Beach and his son, Ryan, won the 20th Annual Mark Gerretson Memorial Fishing Tournament with a 34.2-pound kingfish caught using live bait off Highland Beach. Lucas and his son were fishing with another fatherand-son team — Tim Knapp and his son, Miles — in the Aug. 9 tournament. Craig Elmore won the dolphin award with a 27.6-pound mahi mahi.

Steve Sasso’s 14.8-pound bonito won the mystery fish award. Nicholas Samousakis won top junior angler with a 13.8-pound kingfish. Joan Vertefeuille’s 16-pound kingfish won top lady angler.

No wahoo were weighed in this year’s Gerretson tournament.

Mark’s brother, Jim Gerretson, won the Family Fun Award for fishing with his daughters and their husbands.

• The X Generation 440 Challenge fishing tournament is set for Sept. 13 based at Palm Beach Yacht Center in Hypoluxo. Cash prizes will be awarded for the heaviest kingfish, dolphin and wahoo.

A $500 award is being offered for the largest cobia, mutton/yellowtail snapper, bonito and blackfin tuna.

Organizers guarantee $5,000 for the heaviest kingfish. The entry fee is $225 per boat through Sept.

9 and $250 by Sept. 12. The captain’s meeting and final registration are set for 6-8 p.m.

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A Delray Beach fishing team won the 20th Annual Mark Gerretson Memorial Fishing Tournament with this 34.2-pound kingfish, caught by Tim Knapp (second from right). Joe Lucas (second from left) and Knapp fished with sons Ryan Lucas (far left) and Miles Knapp (right). Photo by Emiliano Brooks Productions Yacht Center in Hypoluxo. xgenerationtournaments.com.

• The International Coastal Call Pete Cammarano at Cleanup is set for the morning 502-7022 or go to www.

Outdoors H11 of Sept. 20 and will include waterfront cleanup locations in Boca Raton, Delray Beach and Boynton Beach. Participants are asked to preregister at most locations by contacting the site coordinator. Most cleanups begin at 8 a.m.

A list of locations and site coordinators can be found on the Keep Palm Beach County Beautiful website, www. keeppbcbeautiful.org.

• Peter Hinck of Dragonfly Boatworks will share tips for fishing from kayaks and standup paddleboards Sept. 3 at the West Palm Beach Fishing Club. Capt. Ray Rosher of Miss Britt Charters will discuss

late-season dolphin fishing at the club’s Sept. 24 meeting.

Both meetings begin at 7 p.m. at the fishing club’s headquarters, 201 Fifth St., West Palm Beach. The meetings are free and open to the public. Call 832-6780 or www.westpalmbeach fishingclub.org.

Willie Howard is a freelance writer and licensed boat captain.

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How to help stranded marine mammals? No selfies or talking!

By Cheryl Blackerby Sick sea mammals that land on Florida’s beaches are a sad fact of coastal living. Florida is the No. 1 state for marine animal strandings.

Sympathetic humans want to help, but they often cause more stress to already stressed-out animals: • They crowd around a beached dolphin, posing for selfies.

• While pouring water on dolphins and whales to cool them, they pour water into their blow holes.

• They stroke and talk to them, which frightens a wild animal.

• Many people touch the animal, which greatly increases

Agencies stage a mock manatee rescue in the Intracoastal Waterway near Boynton Beach. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star the chance of transmitting diseases to the sick marine mammal (and also increases the

chances of the animal giving people — especially children and persons with compromised

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immune systems — diseases, bacteria and fungi).

• They push the animal back to sea because it looks OK; but if a marine animal is on the beach, it’s sick or injured.

These were some of the points made during a Marine Mammal Rescue Workshop Aug. 20 at the Intracoastal Club House in Boynton Beach.

About 100 law enforcement officers, first responders and Marine Animal Rescue Society volunteers attended.

Speakers included scientists from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University.

There are only three things you should do when you see a stranded marine animal on the beach, said the experts: Call for help (888-404-FWCC or local law enforcement), keep the animal upright and stay quiet.

And if you’re really serious about helping, prepare for a long stay; it may take five or six hours for a rescue crew to get there, so organize shifts to stay with the animal.

Most importantly, listen to law enforcement who will arrive on the scene and set up perimeters. In mass strandings, the situation can quickly get out of control when crowds gather.

Other things to remember when you see a stranded whale, dolphin or manatee, said Pamela Sweeney, Biscayne Bay Aquatic Preserves Manager: Tell the dispatcher at the wildlife hotline as much information as you can, including the estimated length of the animal, the precise location (including GPS coordinates), and any human interaction such as propeller injuries and nets binding the animal.

Take photos to send to the dispatcher and include the name and phone number of the

person who took the photos.

Look for scientific tags and record the number on the tag.

Dead animals should not be disposed of. Officials will want to perform necropsies to determine the cause of death.

“When a marine mammal is on the beach, we need all hands on deck,” said Steve Burton, stranding coordinator and marine mammal specialist at Harbor Branch. “You need to stay calm and quiet. Help is on the way.”

Burton showed photos of 22 pilot whales that stranded at Avalon Beach near Fort Pierce on Sept. 1, 2012. The whales needed constant care by volunteers under the direction of rescue supervisors from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Florida Fish and Wildlife and Harbor Branch. Local law enforcement and lifeguards helped manage the situation.

A complicated scene with many bystanders quickly became organized with tents providing shade for animals and volunteers, and water and food for volunteers until transportation could arrive for the animals to be moved to wildlife hospitals.

Topics at the workshop included mass-stranding event coordination, rehabilitation protocols, necropsy techniques, and in-water training and exercises. On-the-water mock manatee rescue and rehabilitation and rescue techniques with dolphins and whales were demonstrated.

The workshop was presented by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection/ Biscayne Bay Aquatic Preserves along with the county’s Department of Environmental Resources Management, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, MARS and FAU’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. Ú

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SEPTEMBER 6

Saturday - 9/6 - Sand Sifters Beach Cleanup at Oceanfront Park, 6415 N. Ocean Blvd., just north of Ocean Avenue in Ocean Ridge. Meet at the pavilion in the lower parking lot. 8-10:15 am. Free. Contact Jeff at JeffLev02@gmail.com.

SEPTEMBER 7-13

Sunday -9/7 - Bird Walk at Green Cay Wetlands, 12800 Hagen Ranch Road, Boynton Beach. Hosted by the Audubon Society of the Everglades. Meet at the nature center. 5:30 pm. Also held: Sept. 20 at 8 am. Free. 385-9787.

Tuesday- 9/9 - Seining the Lagoon at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. Hand-held dip nets and large seine nets allow participants to catch and release a variety of fish, shrimp, crabs and marine life. Wear clothes that can get wet. Old sneakers or watershoes only. Ages 10 to adult, children must be accompanied by an adult. 3-4:30 pm. $7/members, $10/ non-members. Reservations: 544-8615.

9/9-10 - Hammock Trails - A guided walk on 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. Every T & W. 10-11:30 am. Free. 544-8605.

Thursday - 9/11 - Beach Treasures at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. Meet at the center to learn. Caravan to Red Reef Park, 1400 N. State Road A1A, and search for ocean treasures. All ages, kids must be accompanied by an adult. 3-4:30 pm. $5/ members, $8/non-members. Reservations: 544-8615 or www.gumbolimbo.org.

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SEPTEMBER 14-20

Sunday - 9/14 - Bird Walk at Spanish River Park, A1A and Spanish River Blvd., Boca Raton. Check website for parking tips.

Held again 8 am, 9/27. 8 am. Free. 393-7815 or www.auduboneverglades.org.

Monday - 9/15 -Wakodahatchee Wetlands Bird Walk at 13206 Jog Road, Delray Beach. Meet leader at the top of the boardwalk. 7:30 am. Free. 385-9787.

Wednesday - 9/17 - 2014-15 Boynton Beach Beach/Boat Decals go on sale at Intracoastal Park Clubhouse, 2240 N. Federal Hwy. (T-Sat. 10 am-2 pm) and City Hall, 100 E. Boynton Beach Blvd. (M-F 8 am-5 pm) Beach decal: $40. Boat decals: $50. 742-6650.

9/17 - Seacrest Scrub Bird Walk at 3400 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach.

Sue Young leads. 8 am. Free www. auduboneverglades.org.

Saturday - 9/20 - International Coastal Cleanup at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton.

Sponsored by the Ocean Conservancy and locally by Keep Palm Beach County Beautiful, Inc. Groups and individuals must pre-register; community service hours awarded. All ages may participate, but adults must participate with children under the age of 18. 8-10 am. Free. Reservations: 544-8615 or www.gumbolimbo.org.

9/20 - International Coastal Cleanup at Sandoway House Nature Center, 142 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach. Presented by the city of Delray Beach and the Sandoway House as part of the 29th Annual Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup. Supplies will be provided.

Registration form available online. 8-10 am. Free. 243-7277 or beardsleyd@ mydelraybeach.com.

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• MARINERS CAY 1/1 $1,099 • LAKE WORTH SEASONAL 3/3 $4,250

SEPTEMBER 21-27

Tuesday - 9/23 - 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. 7035638 or www.boynton-beach.org.

Wednesday- 9/24 - National Wildlife Refuge Bird Walk at the Arthur R. Marshall National Wildlife Refuge, 10216 Lee Road, Boynton Beach. Meet at the Marsh Trail. $5 refuge entry per car. 7:30 am. www.aububoneverglades.org.

Saturday - 9/27 - 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. Free.

369-5501 or www.seaangels.org.

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House of the Month

Each month, The Coastal Star features a house for sale in our community. The House of the Month is presented as a service to our advertisers and provides readers with a peek inside one of our very special houses.

LEFT: This home has 65 feet of canal frontage and can accommodate a 52-foot yacht.

BELOW: A luxurious pool and spa area overlooks the water and offers plenty of space for outdoor entertaining.

Gracious waterfront living at Place Au Soleil

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his classic four-bedroom, 4½-bath center-hall colonial waterfront home has a pool/spa and a dock that can accommodate a 52-foot yacht, complete with 65 feet of canal frontage that leads to the Intracoastal Waterway in Gulf Stream’s Place Au Soleil.

Completely renovated and expanded in 2010 with impact glass windows throughout, this gracious two-story residence boasts 5,297 square feet of living area with Brazilian cherry and marble floors, central vacuum system, formal living room with fireplace and large custom gourmet chef’s kitchen with granite and stainless.

The first-floor guest suite has a mini kitchen, and each bedroom offers an elegant private bath.

The home offers desirable southern exposure, an open pool, a huge secondfloor covered balcony with wood ceiling, travertine marble decking and large side yard on an oversized lot.

Live in the tradition of waterfront luxury.

Offered at $2,795,000 by Cheran Marek, Tauriello & Company Real Estate Inc.; 561-870-8855.

ABOVE: The gourmet kitchen overlooks the pool and waterfront.

It offers plenty of prep space, as well as custom cabinets and granite countertops.

LEFT: The formal living room has a fireplace and plenty of windows to take advantage of the home’s southern exposure.

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European-inspired estate with unsurpassed attention to detail. $4,995,000

1200 SE ATLANTIC DRIVE 5BR/6BA 9,754 SF European custom waterfront estate. Old world charm with modern luxuries. Heated pool/spa and dock. Offered fully furnished. $4,850,000

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TOP: Grandview Preparatory School ninth-graders Albin Engstrom, Bennett Kubach, Tasman Rosenfeld and Alexander Abbasi demonstrate their invention, Shark-X, at Sandoway House Nature Center in Delray Beach. ABOVE: The magnetic device, on a fake hand, repels nurse sharks in the center’s pool. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

Students’ invention purports to keep the marine carnivores at bay

By Ron Hayes

Shortly before 10 a.m. on a recent Saturday, four ninth-graders from Grandview Preparatory School in Boca Raton presented themselves at the Sandoway House Nature Center, ready to battle three sharks.

Or baffle them, anyway.

Bennett Kubach, 14, of Ocean Ridge; Albin Engstrom, 15, of Boca Raton; Alexander Abbasi, 14, of Delray Beach; and Tasman Rosenfeld, 14, of Pompano Beach were neatly dressed in the school’s white polo shirts and khaki pants.

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Continued from page AT1 Not an edible human arm. This was one of those gag rubber hands with sleeve and cuff attached, made to be dangled from closed car trunks for the entertainment of fellow motorists and law enforcement officers.

“We ordered it from Amazon,” Bennett explained.

This morning, the wrist wore a waterproof neoprene bracelet enclosing three magnets. The magnets are small, only threequarter-inch in diameter and eighth-inch thick, but still capable of lifting about 12.5 pounds each. Powerful enough that a single anklet, the boys believe, emits enough magnetic energy to deter sharks.

They have dubbed their product “Shark-X.” If Shark-X works — and they are certain it does — those magnets will override the electromagnetic sensors in a shark’s nose, disorient the swimming beast and steer it away from tourists, swimmers and surfers.

Tasman Rosenfeld, 14, who describes himself as “the inventor of Shark-X,” is a surfer.

“The ampullary glands on a sharks’ nose are electroreceptors,” he told the members of the press. “It’s an inner compass, really, and sharks use it for navigation.

Their nose knows where north is.”

Wear one of his Shark-X anklets, Tasman promised, and its subtle magnetic pull will baffle the shark’s sense of direction and steer it away.

“We haven’t tested them on a Great White yet, but they’re incredibly effective on stingrays,” he added. “It’s not going to keep you 10 feet away from a shark, but it’s going to keep you from losing a limb.”

In at least one test, Shark-X has already proved itself a

Bennett Kubach, Tasman Rosenfeld, Alexander Abbasi, and Albin Engstrom, inventors of Shark-X. Engstrom hold the magnetic ankle strap. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star stunning success, besting a sock-monkey purse, genderspecific emergency kits and other inventions, to take first place in the school’s Entrepreneurial Fair.

“We’re trying to tie our curriculum to real-world results, and this is a great example of that,” said Jackie Westerfield, Grandview’s head of school, watching proudly from the edge of the crowd.

Recently, the four entrepreneurs tested Shark-X on some stingrays at what they describe as “an undisclosed location in Miami because it wasn’t pre-approved.”

The stingrays responded dramatically, they reported, opening their mouths wide and changing direction almost immediately.

“It’s like a flashlight shining in your eyes,” Bennett Kubach explained “It’s really irritating, so they want to turn away.”

Now they would demonstrate the product on the three

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nurse sharks that rule in the Sandoway House pool.

“Not a lot of people die from sharks, but a lot lose their arms and stuff,” Alexander Abbasi noted. “Would you like to take that chance?”

As about 50 fathers, mothers and children gathered around the kidney-shaped pool for the morning shark feeding, Valentine Fine, the center’s weekend manager, confirmed Alexander’s assertion.

“Sharks don’t eat people,” he assured the crowd. “They bite us by mistake. So it’s important not to confuse them. Do not pet sharks.”

And they don’t bite us all that often, either, Fine agreed. Last year, he said, there were only 23 shark bites in Florida, and no deaths at all. In an average year, there are only five shark deaths worldwide.

“However, there were 10 last year,” he noted.

The trio of nurse sharks at Sandoway House would not

require a bigger boat. They are only about 5 feet long, but frisky and sleek. As Fine dropped shrimp into their mouths, they sucked them in with a startlingly loud popping sound.

“They’ve been around about 400 million years, and they haven’t evolved at all,” Fine marveled.

At last the entrepreneurs were introduced as “the gentlemen of Grandview Preparatory School.”

Tasman Rosenfeld, equipped with a headset microphone, acknowledged the applause.

“I’m the inventor of SharkX,” he told the crowd, and delivered a brief discourse on the science behind his invention.

The arm was lowered into the water.

The sharks approached, slid within 2 or 3 feet of the hand, and turned away.

The Shark-X bracelet was removed from the rubber wrist

and dropped into a netted pool skimmer.

The skimmer was lowered into the water.

Again the sharks approached and retreated.

A skeptic might wonder if perhaps it was the hand or skimmer that discouraged the sharks, but Tasman’s mother, Janelle Rosenfeld, had no doubts.

“I think it does work,” she said. “Seeing the stingrays’ reaction was amazing, but for me, as a mom, the exciting thing is to see how he was able to take a scientific idea and turn it into a product.”

Her son wants to solve the problems of the world, she said — and make a lot of money so he can be a professional surfer.

Shark-X should sell for about $15-20 apiece, Bennet Kubach estimated. Boyond that, the boys’ marketing plan is still being developed.

They’re in the process of having the name “Shark-X” trademarked, but won’t be able to patent the product because the use of magnets and neoprene is not considered “novel” under current patent law.

“I live right near Nomad’s Surf Shop,” Bennett said, “so I may ask them to carry them.”

He doubted he’d be wearing one much, though.

“I don’t swim a lot, but I like to run on the beach,” he said.

“I’m more of a sand person.

But I’m proud of what I’ve learned about sharks.”

Albin Engstrom also was pleased with what he’d learned about sharks and magnets.

“I want to become a doctor,” he said, ”but if you have this product, you won’t have to come to the hospital with a shark bite.”

He paused to consider his words.

“But it’s not sharkproof. It’s shark-repellent,” he added.

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Delray Beach has been selected as the setting and filming has begun for a new independent film called After Midnight, produced by Delray Beach production company Brave Man Media.

Damian Fitzsimmons is directing the film, which is based on a true story, according to production manager Ian LaQua. “The two writers grew up on Long Island,” LaQua said.

“It’s based on events from their childhood to the age of about 22. It’s a kind of timeless coming of age story, with comedy moments and dramatic moments. It’s true to life, about growing up in a small town in America.”

LaQua added the film will primarily shoot at 3rd and 3rd, a restaurant and bar at 301 NE Third Ave. in the heart of the Artist District.

Other locations include Delray Beach Memorial Gardens Municipal Cemetery, several residential homes in the West Atlantic Avenue area of Delray Beach and a home owned by the Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency.

Delray native Vance Vlasek plays Liam, one of the movie’s three main characters. A 2010 graduate of Florida Atlantic University, Vlasek, 26, has performed at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami and the Broward Stage Door Theatre in Coral Springs, among other venues.

He said the movie will have a real Florida feel to it.

“The movie is about three friends who grow up together in a small town called Seaside,” Vlasek said. “It takes place in 1972. The friends are bumming around, not knowing what to do with their lives. They’re working lousy jobs in a restaurant.

Then one of the friends gets an opportunity to open a bar up for young people. It’s a fun and touching story.”

LaQua said Fitzsimmons and former partner Tyler Ford, who now works in Los Angeles and New York, co-founded Brave Man Media six years ago.

“We mainly do commercial work, documentaries and short films,” he said. “This is our first feature film, but we’ve been steadily moving toward this for the last five years.”

After Midnight has a budget of about $500,000 and features a cast of unknown actors culled

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“At the end of the day we’re However, LaQua said the entire atmosphere, because everybody just happy to be doing a film believes in the movie and cast is very talented.

“We’ve got great principals here in Delray, which most of us wants to get it done. They’re and a terrific supporting cast,” relaxed but focused. The perfect call home,” LaQua said. “We’ve he said. “We’re really excited to been really happy with all the balance.”

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fter nearly two weeks of Teen Jeopardy competition, Alan Koolik of Boca Raton and Jeff Xie of Edison, N.J., surprisingly were tied with $54,200 in winnings. So on the Aug. 1 broadcast, for one of the few times in history, the winner was decided by a tie-breaker.

Category: The Civil War. Clue: The Koolik battles Shiloh and Collierville were fought in this state.

Both knew the question, but Xie buzzed in a few milliseconds quicker with “What is Tennessee?” to claim the $75,000 top prize. Koolik, 17, a senior at Pine Crest School, still kept his winnings and said the experience was “one of the most exciting moments of my life.”

Koolik led through the semifinals, amassing $25,000, and added $29,200 in Final Jeopardy to total $54,200. Xie who had started the night with $15,000, wagered his entire pot, doubling his winnings to $39,200 and forcing the tie.

The hardest part, however, may have been keeping a secret for four months; the shows were taped in March.

Paul Aho made it home in mid-August, if only for a few days — his daughter Eliza married Ben Elias on the beach in Delray Beach. The weather was great. He saw old friends.

Everything was up … except the surf, which for Aho was a bummer, since he doesn’t see many waves near his new home in Paducah, Ky.

Surfers, however, are perennial optimists and Aho knows he’ll have other chances to catch waves, plus he’s stoked that his book, Surfing Florida, a chronicle of the sport and lifestyle in the state that was published last spring, is selling a few copies.

“Sales are going as they should be,” Aho said, knowing his is a niche market.

While his passion is surfing, the former Ocean Ridge resident is professionally an artist who has been recognized locally and internationally.

He was the first recipient of the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County’s Ubertalli Award for Artistic Achievement. He twice received fellowships from the South Florida Cultural Consortium.

For two years, he has served as dean of Paducah School of Art and Design at West Kentucky Community and Technical College and recently completed his first capital project, raising $2.5 million to match a state grant.

So Aho is positive.

“I like it fine here,” said Aho of the campus that’s only a couple of miles from the Ohio River, “although I’d like it better if it were a thousand miles closer to the ocean.”

Aho’s previous recognition includes the All Florida Juried Exhibition, the oldest juried event in the state, that runs through Oct. 18 at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. His work is not included this year, but among the nearly 100 entries are several from local artists. Donna Hixson, Malanie Hurwitz and Florence Roghaar from Boca; Sharon Lee Hart (Boynton Beach);

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Lynelle Forrest, Isabel Gouveia and Clarence “Skip” Measelle (Lake Worth) and Suzanne Scherer and Pavel Ouporov plus Robert Vail (Lantana).

Wayne Thornbrough, also from Lantana, claimed one of five merit awards and $500 for his inkjet print Outside Looking In. Miami artist Tony Vazquez won best in show for his 160-pound sculpture depicting decrepit aluminum espresso pots made from bitumen, a petroleum byproduct.

Surprisingly, Sundy House in Delray Beach hasn’t come up with a dish that includes sawgrass, but the abundant sedge did get a mention recently. New owners Steven Michael and Rick Marshall hosted a reception for the Arthur R. Marshall Foundation for the Everglades to introduce its new boss and announce plans for its annual gala.

Marshall CEO Mark Pafford is best known now as a member of the Florida House of Representatives for West Palm Beach. Previous jobs included senior coordinator for the village of Royal Palm Beach, legislative assistant to then Florida Rep. Lois Frankel and CEO of the Alzheimer’s Association Southeast Florida Chapter.

Early in his career, he worked as a naturalist at a Miami public park and he’s ready to fight the good fight to protect Florida’s fragile environment. That means raising money, much of which comes from the River of Grass Gala, which this year will be held Dec. 6 aboard the 167-foot yacht Lady Windridge (233-9004 or email info@ marshall.org).

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Unless you just have to shop in the vicinity, you might save some aggravation by avoiding the area in Delray Beach around Federal and Linton on Sept. 5 and for a few weeks after. That’s the day Trader Joe’s arrives, and if everyone shows up who said they would, the streets will be impassable. The soonto-open Boca Raton store is still accepting crew member applications through Sept. 13.

Interested individuals must apply in person at the store, 855 S. Federal Highway, Boca Raton, and can obtain an application on site or online at www.traderjoes.com/pdf/ employment_application.pdf At the age of 9, Leslie Uggams was the opening act at Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater for the likes of Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington. As a teenager, she won a ton of cash — “$12,500’’ on Name That Tune and caught the eye and ear of Mitch Miller who put her on Sing Along With Mitch.

She won a Tony for Hallelujah, Baby!, had her own show on CBS and received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for her role as Kizzy in Roots.

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ABOVE: Michael Gibson’s fans came to Boca’s Ballroom Battle equipped with largerthan-life photo cutouts.

FAR LEFT: Chris Holcomb and Sayra Vazquez stunned the crowd with their wheelchairbased performance.

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and Bloomie’s manager Paula Pianta, the 10 competitors in the seventh annual Boca Ballroom Battle raised more than $210,000 for the George Snow Scholarship Fund. Boca’s answer to Dancing With the Stars was held Aug. 16 at the Boca Raton Resort and Club.

For their performance, each contestant was paired with a professional dancer from Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Boca, but unlike previous years, no awards were given for footwork, only for legwork in raising money.

“Everybody had a great time and the money’s still coming in,” fund spokeswoman Gabriella Snow said. Once again former WPTV reporter and now mother of twins Paige Kornblue returned from Texas to emcee and was joined by Tony Dovolani of Dancing with the Stars.

Established in 1982, the fund has awarded more than $6 million in educational grants.

Last year 73 students received $580,000.

Long-vacant Old Calypso, on the east side of the Intracoastal in Delray Beach, will reopen in mid-October as Hudson at Waterway East. Concept: classy, casual, contemporary American with a menu featuring seafood, steak, and pasta, washed down with craft beer, spirits and wine.

The proprietor, new to the area, is identified as Sam Bonasso, former proprietor of an Outback Steakhouse in Mason, Ohio, a bedroom community about 20 miles northeast of Cincinnati.

According to county property records, the property was bought in July 2013 for $2.75 million by Walnut Grove Investment Partners in Boynton Beach. Walnut Grove’s address is the same as that of Bevan Behn Wilson, known to hockey fans as Behn Wilson, a defenseman for nine seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers and Chicago Blackhawks. He retired in 1988.

Restaurant wizards Dennis Max and Rodney Mayo are at it again. Max has been cooking up a storm in one form or another since the ’80s, Mayo followed suit a few years later and both are expanding their operations in Delray Beach.

Max’s Harvest, the popular farm-to-table spot on Northeast Second Avenue, will be joined

by Max’s Social House in the old ’20s era cottage at 116 NE Sixth Ave. Head chef will be Scott Pierce, presently sous chef at Max’s Grille in Boca Raton.

Max grabbed it after Tampabased Ceviche closed July 31.

An upscale gastropub, it will feature four “Fusion Towers” — large chrome-and-glass drinkmaking machines that can infuse a beer or cocktail with just about anything a customer might desire.

For Mayo, who also has a stake in Tryst and Dada in Delray Beach, the concept is much simpler — coffee and doughnuts. He’s teaming with Boca restaurant broker Tom Prakas to turn the former Atlantic Smoothies shop at 123 E. Atlantic into Subculture Coffee. The big difference:

the coffee beans will be freshroasted and the pastries from Prakas’ new venture, Rhino Doughnuts. Prakas sells freshroasted fair-trade coffee at his Rhino shops, but the beans aren’t roasted in-house.

R hino’s website lists a future location at 126 NE Second St. in Boca’s Mizner Plaza, formerly Beany’s sandwich shop. It’s just a short walk from Mayo’s Dubliner pub and Kapow!

Noodle Bar in Mizner Park and even closer to another new Mayo-involved venture, Shaker & Pie. An Italian gastropub, anchored by flying pizzas and hip cocktails, it’ll be next door to iPic and its hip Italian bistro, Tanzy.

And another: This establishment used to be the Clearview Lounge. Then it was Ted Teddy Bear’s. Now, after a transformation by its new owner, Ryan O’Riordan, it opened up in July as the Vintage Tap, a “juke joint” beer garden featuring live music, 20 craft brew taps and full bar. It’s at 524 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach.

It was inevitable that football fans would be reminded permanently that Howard Schnellenberger played a major role in establishing the football program — actually the entire athletic program — at FAU. On Aug. 20 the school’s trustees voted to name the field at FAU stadium in his honor, made possible by a contribution from an anonymous donor.

Dedication will come Sept. 13 at FAU’s first home game, against Tulsa.

Too bad they couldn’t name the stadium for Howard, although S-C-H-N-E-L-L-E-NB-E-R-G-E-R might not fit on the wall facing I-95.

Plus, stadium naming rights are a different animal.

Remember the fuss last year when the trustees tried to cut a $6 million deal with private prison operator GEO Group.

Big embarrassment that cost FAU President Mary Jane Saunders her job. If only IBM hadn’t packed up and left, but Boca is home to other big companies. How does Office Depot Stadium sound?

Howard, whose autobiography, Passing the Torch, was published Sept.

1, calls it the highlight of his coaching career, although he’s still short one milestone — the College Football Hall of Fame.

The sticking point: his won-lost record. At Kentucky and Alabama, where he was responsible for signing Joe Namath, he was an assistant coach, so “credit” went to Bear Bryant. No credit either for helping Don Shula build the Dolphins.

The University of Miami, formerly known as “Suntan U,” became a national powerhouse, as his teams went 41-16 and won its first national championship.

He turned also-ran Louisville into a contender and built FAU from no program to bowlbound in five years.

But as a head coach, his teams were 158-151-3, barely .500, and National Football Foundation rules require a hallof-fame candidate to have a .600 winning record. Unless …

A special committee that examines “unique cases” could recommend induction. Look in Webster’s. Next to the definition of unique is a photo of Howard.

Meanwhile, the FAU stadium will host a bowl game Dec. 23. A creation of ESPN, it will feature Mid-America Conference and Conference USA champs. Of course, FAU would love to represent Conference USA. The city and the county will split a $240,000 production fee to ESPN, but it still needs a name. For $200,000 the city can acquire naming rights, and the “Boca Raton Bowl” — thanks to the weather plus two 30-second pro-Boca commercials — would mean good PR. The ALS Bucket Challenge has dominated the headlines in recent weeks, in some cases pushing other causes that also need to raise millions into the shadows. Alzheimer’s is one.

As with ALS, the suffering is eased only by death. For the first time, the National Walk to End Alzheimer’s will be held in Boca Raton. The walk, set for Oct. 11, starts at Mizner Park Amphitheater. To register or to volunteer, go alz.org/walk or call 496-4222. Unless it rains or you choose to jump into a fountain, you won’t get wet.

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

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er colleagues in the music industry had suggested for years that she consider performing the songs of Joni Mitchell, but when it came time to do it, jazz singer Tierney Sutton found the idea somewhat daunting.

“I knew how great she was, and then I was intimidated … it was not an easy thing to go about doing,” Sutton said.

“Once I was into it, it was pretty clear what to do and how to go about it. But quite literally the 20 years leading up to it were intimidating, Sutton because I thought, ‘I want to do this right if I do it.’ ” But tackling the music of the great Canadian songwriter turned into a joyful process for Sutton, one that resulted in an elegant album released last year called After Blue, which she recorded not with her longtime band but with guest collaborators such as the Turtle Island String Quartet, singer Al Jarreau and flutist Hubert Laws. After Blue was nominated for a Best Jazz Vocal Grammy Award this year, Sutton’s sixth such nomination.

This month, Sutton will perform songs from her Joni Mitchell project in four shows at Jazziz Nightlife in Boca Raton, two each on Sept.

9 and Sept. 10. She will be accompanied by guitarist Serge Merlaud and bassist Kevin Axt, who play with her on her newest album, Paris Sessions, which comes out a week after the Boca Raton concerts.

A native of Milwaukee who grew up in the REO Speedwagon era but fell in love with jazz via artists such as pianist Bill Evans instead, Sutton, 51, said she was familiar with some of Mitchell’s music — the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young version of Woodstock, for instance — and knew there were some songs that had already been covered by many other artists, such as A Case of You and River, that she was not going to revisit.

But as she investigated Mitchell’s work more thoroughly, she found herself wanting to pay attention to “Joni’s jazz roots,” and that led her to more unusual choices for the album such as The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines, which Mitchell wrote to a tune composed for her by jazz bassist Charles Mingus. And then there were discoveries such as Little Green, which Mitchell wrote after giving up her baby daughter for adoption in 1965.

The mother of an 18-yearold son named Ryan, Sutton felt that song’s lyrics (“There’ll be icicles and birthday clothes/ And sometimes there’ll be sorrow”) deeply, and considers

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it Mitchell’s most important song. And it’s been one that audiences have responded to with the same kind of emotion.

“The first time I sang a little bit of the song, I found myself tearing up as I sang it,” Sutton said from her home in Los Angeles. “The lyrics of that song are a fantastic example of her mastery of the songwriting form. The images with which she tells that story, it just chills me … And I will say, in touring this material and performing the songs, the number of times that I’ve had people audibly sobbing have been not a few.”

Mitchell’s work has come in for serious scholarly study in the past few years (McGill University musicologist Lloyd Whitesell’s The Music of Joni Mitchell, from 2008, is particularly notable), chiefly because Mitchell writes complex, jazz-inflected harmonies that make this music ideal for jazz exploration.

Sutton’s version of Woodstock, with pianist Larry Goldings, is treated moodily, with Goldings providing a Debussy-with-abeat accompaniment, and in Big Yellow Taxi, she scats the tune over drummer Ralph Humphrey’s light brushwork.

In Be Cool, she joins Jarreau for a charming, witty duet, decorated by Laws and Goldings’ funky Hammond B3.

It’s a tasteful, intelligent way to treat these songs (the record includes two standards Mitchell sang on her 2000 orchestral album, Both Sides Now: Don’t Go to Strangers and Answer Me, My Love), and sheds fresh light on the work of this artist.

Mitchell, 71, who has concentrated primarily on her painting for the past two decades, is, like Sutton, a resident of Los Angeles, though the two haven’t met.

But Sutton already knows what she thinks about her fellow singer’s legacy.

“I think as honored and respected as she is, she’s an underappreciated figure,” Sutton said. “She really is up there in the pantheon of great songwriters and great artists, at the very, very top. I really can’t think of anybody — anybody — who has her combination of compositional skills, lyrical skills, and skill as a performer and singer.

“All of those things together in one person: I think she’s singular.”

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More jazz: September is shaping up to be quite a month for jazz in the southern part of the county, with Todd Barkan, who ran the Keystone Korner jazz club in San Francisco in the 1970s and since 2001 has been the director of Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, joining the staff of Delray Beach’s Arts Garage as its programming chief.

Barkan’s imprint has turned the Garage lineup into a powerhouse September, beginning with the English jazz singer Polly Gibbons, who makes her North American debut at Arts Garage on Sept.

12, accompanied by a trio helmed by the terrific jazz pianist Shelly Berg, whose day job is as head of the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami.

Gibbons, who follows her appearance in Delray with concerts in New York and Boston, was nominated for a BBC Jazz Award in 2006 and her first album, Gibbons My Own Company, was released last month. Gibbons has a bluesy, smoky alto (you can hear her do a good wee-hours reading of Avery Parrish’s After Hours on her website) and a stellar sense of swing, and likely has a long career ahead of her.

A week later, the jazz-fusion pioneer Larry Coryell plays two dates (Sept. 19 and 20) at the Arts Garage. One of the finest guitarists in jazz history, a confidante of Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis and Gary Burton, and a prolific composer whose opera, Scenes from War and Peace, is scheduled for a December premiere in Slovenia (of all places), he’s made more than 100 recordings, and also is the author of an excellent book about improvising that jazz students should hold close to their hearts. Now 71, Coryell

is as busy as he ever was, and being able to see him in the confines of the Arts Garage offers an opportunity to see a fretboard legend in an intimate space.

Finally, Coryell the Garage has scored a big win with the splendid jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut, affectionately known as “The Nutman,” who will appear Sept. 27. Chestnut, a native of Baltimore, is one of the most important jazz pianists currently working, a virtuoso with Chestnut an Oscar Peterson-style feel for melodic improvisation and a rock-solid sense of swing.

Tickets for all these shows, all at 8 p.m., begin at $25, and patrons can bring their own refreshments. Premium seating for parties of six range from $190 to $240. Call 450-6357 or visit www.artsgarage.org.

Music note: Joanna Marie Kaye, who was known simply as Joanna Marie in her years as host of Classical Variations on WXEL radio, has returned to South Florida after two years at WQED in Pittsburgh. Newly married to The Symphonia Boca Raton artistic director, Jeffrey Kaye, she has been named director of the Festival of the Arts Boca for its ninth iteration, Kaye which will be held March 5-15 at Mizner Park in Boca Raton. No word on who might be coming to the festival, but the lineup will be officially announced Nov. 14 with a media event that will feature Time for Three, the string trio that bills itself as a “classically trained garage band.”

Art: Last month, the National Press Photographers Association held a two-day

confab in West Palm Beach in which winners of the association’s 2014 best photo contest were honored, and some 60 of the nation’s top photojournalists were on hand to meet with fellow members of the camera-wielding “tribe,” as the group likes to say.

An exhibit of their work, Best of Photojournalism 2014, was scheduled to close Aug. 30 at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre, but organizers have decided to extend the free exhibit until Oct. 31.

“It’s become one of the most popular exhibits we have had in the museum. People are just coming out of the woodwork to see this show,” said Fatima NeJame, the center’s CEO. “We’re attracting people that have never been here before, and they’re leaving us comments like: ‘How long is this show going to be here, because I want to bring my friends.’

“When you have a winner like that, why not make more time for it?” she said.

The show contains about 100 images from more than 60 photographers, and touch on subjects such as the Boston Marathon bombing and the fracking boom that has transformed North Dakota.

“These are images that people have seen in the media, and they are stories that connect with people,” NeJame said, adding that the exhibit also has been remarkable for another reason. “It’s so amazing: Usually, there is a clear favorite in the exhibit, but with this, they are going through the whole show, and they’re saying it’s the best show we’ve ever had.”

NeJame said the center is talking to the NPPA about holding the Best of Photojournalism conference annually in West Palm Beach, perhaps moving it to May or June rather than August (the awards are announced in March).

“Photography is about touching people’s lives, and people are able to relate to these images,” NeJame said.

“It’s current, it’s topical and it touches them.”

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Greg’s List THROUGH SEPTEMBER Re-Purposed/Re-Seen: The Cultural Council of Palm Beach County presents this exhibit of industrial effluvia reworked as art, including such things as coat hangers and clock parts, as the council points out.

Eight artists including Bertrand Jubert, Deborah Meisel and Nicole Galluccio present works fashioned from societal throwaways through Oct. 18. The show is a collaboration with Resource Depot, a West Palm Beach nonprofit, which helps salvage supplies for schoolteachers and students.

Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and admission is free.

Call 471-2091 for more information or visit palmbeachculture.org.

NOW THROUGH SEPT. 14 Brice, Cantor & Jolson: The local theater scene doesn’t really get going again until October, but some venues are still carrying on, such as Alan Jacobson’s Plaza Theatre in Manalapan. He’s brought back a revue of music featuring work by three of the most beloved figures of the early 20th century vaudeville tradition: Al Jolson, Fanny Brice and Eddie Cantor. These three entertainers made their names before the start of World War I, so these are songs and routines that evoke a very different era: Makin’ Whoopee, You Made Me Love You, Second Hand Rose

Showing exemplary photojournalism seems especially important now, with the brutal execution this past month of photojournalist James Foley at the hands of the murderous Islamic State.

Although journalists have come in for decades of politically motivated criticism that has served to weaken the public’s sense of this profession’s importance, people like Foley and his colleagues risk their lives in the absolute worst parts of the world so that vital information can be brought to the rest of humanity.

It’s not for nothing that dictatorial governments such as that of Russia’s Vladimir Putin make sure they muzzle the press first, and it’s worth stopping by the center in downtown West Palm this month to take a look at the images these gifted artists have captured, and remember that we would all be in a much darker world without them.

The center is at 415 Clematis St. Hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Monday through Thursday, and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Call 253-2600.

Moon over Norton: For the ninth year in a row, the Norton Museum of Art presents its Moon Festival this month, a celebration of the Chinese holiday and the museum’s collection of Chinese art. The event lasts from noon to 5 p.m.

Sept. 6, and includes a tour of the collection, a porcelainmaking demonstration and children’s lantern-making workshop, and a 3 p.m. concert

by Liu Fang, a performer on the pipa, the Chinese lute. After the concert, it’s moon cakes for everyone.

Admission to the museum is $12, but the festival is free to Palm Beach County residents because it falls on the usual free-admission day of the first Saturday of the month. Info at 832-5196 or www.norton.org.

The COASTAL STAR and several others, including George Gershwin’s first big hit, Swanee. Melissa Boher Jacobson, Jon Zimmerman and John Lariviere wrap up their monthlong repeat run of this revue before the new season of the theater opens in October; shows planned for the months ahead include Forever Plaid, She Loves Me and The Assembled Parties. For more information about the revue, call 588-1820 or visit www.theplazatheatre.net.

SEPT. 18-SEPT. 20 Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival: The chamber players mount their second annual series of winter programs, set for Sept. 18-20; Oct. 10-11 and 23; and Nov. 5-7. The 7:30 p.m. concerts are at Lynn University’s Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall (Thursdays), St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Lake Worth (Fridays), and the Lighthouse ArtCenter in Tequesta (Saturdays except for Nov. 5, which is a Wednesday). September’s concerts will include Bohuslav Martinů’s La Revue de Cuisine, Aaron Copland’s Duo for Flute and Piano; other pieces planned for the series are Beethoven’s Eyeglasses Duo for viola and cello, and a new wind quintet by Marshall Turkin, the retired orchestra executive and Boca Raton resident who has returned to composition in his late 80s. Call 800-3306874 or visit www.pbcmf.org.

SEPT. 21 Trillium Piano Trio: This Jupiter-based group’s return to the concert stage every

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September is the infallible sign that a new music series is underway at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Delray Beach. Pianist Yoko Sata Kothari, joined by violinist Ruby Berland and cellist Christopher Glansdorp, will perform music by Beethoven, Czech late Romantic master Josef Suk (who married one of Dvořák’s daughters), and English composer John Ireland (who taught Benjamin Britten). This concert will open the 27th season of the Music at St. Paul’s series; other concerts coming up this year include a concert by violinist Tomas Cotik and pianist Tao Lin in music by Piazzolla; the Baroque ensemble Fuoco e Cenere in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons; and the Miami Chamber Players in Mozart piano concerti as performed with string quartet. Call 2786003 or visit www.stpaulsdelray.org.

SEPT. 27-SEPT. 28 Lynn Philharmonia: There are a number of orchestral ensembles in the area that enjoy regular followings, and one of the first ones to play every season is the Lynn Philharmonia, the student orchestra of the Lynn University Conservatory of Music. Music director Guillermo Figueroa, in his first full season with his student charges has scheduled at least one piece of contemporary music on each of the six programs he’s presenting this year, including works by Marshall Turkin (In Memoriam), Christopher Rouse (Der Geretette Alberich), Behzad Ranjbaran

Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival founders Michael Forte (left), Michael Ellert and Karen Dixon are gearing up for a second season of music in September, October and November. Photo provided (Flute Concerto) and Harold Farberman (Triple Play, a clarinet concerto). The September programs feature Figueroa, a violinist, as soloist in Puerto Rican composer Ernesto Cordero’s Ínsula, a suite

for violin and strings. Also on the program is Elgar’s Cockaigne Overture and the Fourth Symphony of Brahms. Tickets range from $35-$50. Call 237-9000 or visit www. events.lynn.edu.

AT8 Celebrations

The COASTAL STAR

Celebrations

September 2014

White Coats-4-Care

Waterstone Resort & Marina, Boca Raton — July 31

Back 2 School Bash Caridad Center, Boynton Beach — Aug. 9

An estimated 1,200 children received school-supply-filled backpacks at the nonprofit healthcare center’s Back 2 School Bash. The children, all of whom are patients at the center, set an attendance record at the 20-year-old event, which served 1,100 in 2013. ‘We are so appreciative of the community support that enables us to help so many children start their school year off right,’ Laura Kallus, the center’s executive director, said. ‘Scarlett Fave (right) has done an outstanding job of organizing this event for the past 12 years.’

Photo provided

The fourth-annual reception raised more than $60,000 to benefit Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine’s incoming class. More than 220 business, civic and healthcare leaders attended, each giving a donation for underwriting white lab coats and other equipment, funding scholarships and naming auditorium seats. ABOVE: Dr. Richard and Alisa Cohen, with Dr. Alan Bauman. Photo provided

Diaper Bank/Board of Directors Junior League of Boca Raton — Aug. 16

Wine & All That Jazz

Boca Raton Resort & Club — Aug. 23

One of Boca Raton’s largest wine-tasting parties drew more than 350 guests who had the opportunity to sample 100-plus vintages, enjoy hors d’oeuvres provided by local restaurants and listen to live music. The extravagant event was sponsored by the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce and served as a signature highlight of this year’s Boca Chamber Festival Days, a series of citywide activities that take place throughout August. ABOVE: Sally Dixon and Stephen Klingel.

Photo provided

Contacts & Cocktails

Eleven Salon Spa, Delray Beach — Aug. 5

The league’s board of directors and other active members came together for the annual summer project of distributing baby diapers to the communities of south Palm Beach and north Broward counties. This year, nearly 38,000 were given to 16 agencies, which loaded them into trucks to take back to their headquarters. In other news, the league installed its new board of directors for the 2014-15 season at the Delray Beach Club. ‘This year, we will continue the legacy of service by providing more than 35,000 volunteer hours and more than $250,000 to support our mission of training volunteers, developing the potential of women and improving the South Florida community,’ President Andrea Garcia said. TOP: Audrey Morris, Jennifer Gene, Kirsten Stanley, Andrea Garcia, Nikki Stelzer, Meghan Shea, Sarah Doyle, Margi Cross and Samantha Vassallo distribute diapers.

Photo provided by Downtown Photography. ABOVE: (in front) League board members include Vice Presidents Margi Cross and Elizabeth Kelley Grace; Andrea Garcia; Kirsten Stanley; committee member Nikki Stelzer; (in back) public-relations/marketing Chairwoman Audrey Morris; recording secretary Melissa Whelchel; Vice President Jackie Reeves; Sherry Winter; and Vice Presidents Terri Williams and Meghan Shea. Photo provided

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Indulgence

LITTLE BLACK DRESS

Heels

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More than 100 attendees at the Greater Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce’s informal networking event enjoyed a tour of the salon and spa while sipping cocktails. ‘It was a pleasure having members of the Delray Beach Chamber group here,’ the company’s Frank LaDuca said. ‘We enjoyed showing off our space to those who had never been here before.’ ABOVE: Lori McInerney, Mary Bagdasian and Eleven Salon Spa owner Nicole Oden. Photo provided by Janis Bucher

An evening of glamour and giving at the prestigious Delray Beach Club. Panoramic ocean views set the scene for an exclusive indulgent experience benefiting low-income children in our community.

Wednesday, October 8, 2014 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm | 6:00pm VIP Champagne Reception

DELRAY BEACH CLUB | 2001 S. Ocean Boulevard | Delray Beach | 6:00pm VIP Access $100 • General Admission $75

Event Features

Complimentary Pampering Services

VIP Champagne Reception | Live Entertainment

Gourmet Tastings | Wine Tastings | Alternative Healing

Champagne, Wine & Dinner Bites | Live Auction

Massages | Reflexology | Acupuncture | Intuitive Readings

Luxury Raffle | Performance by Achievement Centers’ Elegant Emerald Dance Team

Tarot Card Readings | Hair Tips & Tricks | Makeup Touch Ups

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Community Calendar Note: Events are current as of 8/29. Please check with organizers for any changes.

SEPTEMBER 6

Saturday 9/6 - Farm Your Backyard Workshop at the Cooperative Extension Service, 559 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach.

Learn the secrets of vegetable gardening. 9 am-1 pm. Free. 233-1792.

9/6 - Everyone Judges a Book By Its Cover - Presented as part of the The Authors Academy Writing Workshops for Tomorrow’s Authors at Murder on the Beach Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach. 10 am. $25. Registration: 279-7790 or www.murderonthebeach.com.

9/6 - Inventors Society of South Florida at Ligi Tool & Engineering Inc., 2220 SW 15th St., Deerfield Beach. Meets first Saturday of each month. 1 pm. First meeting free. 213-6581 or 954-486-2426 or 954-934-6711.

9/6 - A Taste of Brazil at Boca Raton Children’s Museum Rickards House, 498 Crawford Blvd.

Sample food and drink from Brazil to celebrate the opening of the new F.A.C.E.S. Brazil exhibit, sponsored by the Brazil International Foundation. 2-4 pm. $10/family. 368-6875.

9/6 - Alligator Feedings at Daggerwing Nature Center, 11435 Park Access Road, Boca Raton. Gather around the alligator tank in the exhibit hall and listen to a short talk about the baby alligator while it is being fed. W & Sat. 3:15 pm. Free. 629-8760.

9/6 - Powell & Pressburger: The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp - Presented as part of the Film Series for adults at the Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. 4-5:30 pm. Free. 3937968 or www.bocalibrary.org.

9/6 - Funtastic Family Festival at Fountains Center, 7000 W. Camino Real, Boca Raton. Benefits The Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation. Featuring a magician, a juggler, Balloon Masterz, face painting, bounce houses, games and crafts. $10/person, free/ages 2 and younger. 4-8 pm. 982-2900.

9/6 - Brazilian Beat at Sanborn Square, 72 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton. Celebrate Brazilian independence with music, entertainment, food, and dancing. 6-11 pm.

Free. 393-7995.

9/6 - 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. Saturdays, 6-8 pm. Free.

243-7356 or www.mydelraybeach.com.

9/6 - International Observe The Moon Night at the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium, 4801 Dreher Trail N., West Palm Beach. Observatory exploration, planetarium show, hands-on lunar STEM activities, guest speaker and Science of a Sphere presentation, plus food, fun and giveaways. 6-9 pm. $7/nonmembers, $5/members, free/all educators in Palm Beach, Broward and Martin Counties with proper ID. 832-1988.

9/6-7 - Cabaret presented by Nicest Theatre Company at Showtime Performing Arts Theatre, 503 SE Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton.

First production of the 2014-2015 season.

Sat.: 7:30 pm; Sun.: 3 pm. $18-25. www. nicesttheatrecompany.com.

9/6-7 - Brice, Cantor & Jolson at The Plaza Theatre, 262 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan. A tribute to the incomparable trio of vaudevillians turned Broadway and movie stars. Runs through 9/14. Th.-Sat.: 7:30 pm, Sat. & Sun.: 2 pm. $35. 588-1820.

9/6-8 - Cabaret on the Plaza: The Leading Men of Stage and Screen Musicals at The Plaza Theatre, 262 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan.

Starring James Cichewicz and featuring songs from Gene Kelley, Robert Goulet, Gordon McCrae and more. Held again 9/13-15. Sat. & M: 7:30 pm; Sun.: 5 pm. $25. 588-1820.

SEPTEMBER 7-13

Sunday - 9/7 - Pancake Breakfast Benefitting the Walk to End Alzheimers at Grand Villa of Delray, 5859 Heritage Park Way, Delray Beach. $5. 9-11 am. 613-1910.

9/7 - Beekeeping 101 at Mounts Botanical Garden Auditorium, 531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Learn basic knowledge about honeybees and how to start hives in your own backyard. 9 am-noon. $35/Mounts members, $45/non-members. Registration: 233-1757.

9/7 - Kick-Off Sunday at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 188 S. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach.

“Kick-Off Sunday” begins at the 10 am service with music by the St. Paul’s Choir. Afterwards there will hot dogs, chips, drinks, and homemade pies. Activities include bounce houses, dunk tank, basketball, and more. 10

September 2014

Municipal Meeting 9/8 & 22 - Lantana - Second & fourth Mondays at Lantana Town Hall, 500 Greynolds Circle. 7 pm. Agenda at: www.lantana.org.

9/9 & 23 - Boca Raton - Second & fourth Tuesday at Boca Raton City Hall, 201 W. Palmetto Park Road. 6 pm. Agenda at: www.ci.boca-raton.fl.us.

9/9 - Ocean Ridge - First Monday at Ocean Ridge Town Hall, 6450 N. Ocean Blvd. 5 pm. Agenda at: www.oceanridgeflorida.com.

9/12 - Gulf Stream - Second Friday at the Gulf Stream Town Hall, 100 Sea Road. 4 pm. Agenda at: www.gulf-stream.org.

9/16 - Delray Beach - First & third Tuesdays at Delray Beach City Hall, 100 NW 1st Ave. 6 pm.

Agenda at: www.mydelraybeach.com.

9/16 - Boynton Beach - First and third Tuesday at Boynton Beach City Hall, 100 E. Boynton Beach Bvld. 6:30 pm. Agenda at: www.boynton-beach.org.

9/23 - Manalapan - Fourth Tuesday at Manalapan Town Hall, 600 S. Ocean Blvd. 3 pm. Agenda at: www.manalapan.org .

9/23 - South Palm Beach - Fourth Tuesday at South Palm Beach Town Hall, 3577 S. Ocean Blvd.

7 pm. Agenda at: www.southpalmbeach.com.

9/25 - Briny Breezes - Fourth Thursday at Briny Breezes Town Hall, 4802 N. Ocean Blvd. 4 pm.

Agenda at: www.townofbrinybreezes-fl.com. am-1 pm. Tickets for food and activities $1 each. 276-4541.

9/7 - Grandparents Day at the Flagler Museum, 1 Whitehall Way, Palm Beach.

Families tour Whitehall with an activity guide for kids and then enjoy family-friendly activities in the Flagler Kenan Pavilion. Noon-5 pm. Free with museum admission. 655-2833.

9/7 - Duplicate Bridge at the James A. Rutherford Community Center, Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Road, Boca Raton. Sanctioned A.C.B.L. game for the experienced player. A light lunch is served. Partners available for singles. Sunday sessions year round. 12:30-4 pm. $10/person, payable at the door. For reservations or partners: 338-2995.

9/7 - Awesome Abstracts - Presented as part of the ARTful Adventure Sunday series at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. An interactive opportunity for all ages to learn, create and enjoy the arts. 2-3 pm. Free with paid museum admission. 392-2500.

9/7 - Concert: Brazilian Voices Choir with Beatriz Malnic - Presented as part of the Friends Music Series at the Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. For adults. 3-4 pm.

Free. Reservations: 393-7852.

Monday - 9/8 - Pickleball at the Ezell Hester, Jr. Community Center, 1901 N. Seacrest Blvd.

Adults of all ages enjoy this fast-paced and exciting sport which combines badminton and tennis. M, W, & F from 9 am-1 pm. $5/at the

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

9/8 - R. U. R. - Part of the Great Books group at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. 2nd & 4th Mondays of each month. 1011:45 am. Free. 742-6390.

9/8 - Pompey Park Senior Club Games for Fun at Pompey Park, 1101 NW 2nd St., Delray Beach. Activities include bingo, cards, dominos and checkers. M & W. 10:30 am-noon. Free.

243-7356 or www.mydelraybeach.com.

9/8 - Quilting Bee - Twice monthly quilting class at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Held again 9/22. 10 am. Free.

266-0194 or www.delraylibrary.org.

9/8 - The Empowerment Zone is a service available to library card holders who wish to create resumes, search for jobs online, teach themselves to type or locate and apply for e-Government services at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Held again 9/15, 22, & 29. Also held: Oct. 2. 1-4:30 pm.

Free. 266-0196 or www.delraylibrary.org.

9/8 - Resume and Interviewing Skills Crash Course for adults at the Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. First Monday of each month. 2-4 pm. Free. 393-7968.

9/8 - NYC Firefighter Ron Parker’s 9/11 Memoir: Chiefs, Pawns & Warriors at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 2 pm. Free. 266-0198.

9/8 - 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. For grades K-12. M & W. 6-8:30 pm. Monthly: $30/residents; $40/nonresidents. 243-7356.

9/8 - Human Powered Delray Pedestrian Safety Awareness Walk along SW 17th Ave., Delray Beach (meet at Catherine Strong Splash Park, 1500 SW 6th St). 6:30 pm. Free. 415-3141330 or www.humanpowereddelray.org.

9/8 - Ju-Jutsu/Self Defense Class at the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. Give yourself or your child (ages 10+) the gift of inner strength, courage, concentration, tenacity, and determination. Mondays, 7-8:30 pm. 8-classes: $50/resident, $62.50/nonresident. 393-7807 or www.ci.boca-raton.fl.us.

9/8 - Sophisticated Discussions: A Singles Group - Join over-55 peers in a supportive, singles group discussion at the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd.

Mondays, 7-8:30 pm. Free. 393-7807.

9/8 - Happy Squares Dance Club at the Boynton Beach Civic Center, 128 E. Ocean Ave. All skill levels welcome. For ages 18 & up.

Mondays, 7:30-9:30 pm. $5. 865-2611.

9/8 - Rough Patch at The Plaza Theatre, 262 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan. Avi Hoffman directs and performs in a staged reading of Charles Gluck’s new play about ordinary people under extraordinary circumstances. 7:30 pm. $10.

588-1820 or www.theplazatheatre.net.

Tuesday - 9/9 - CLA Estate Planning Workshop at Westchester Country Club and Banquet Hall, 12250 Westchester Club Dr., Boynton Beach. Valuable information for seniors on securing one’s estate and retirement planning. 9:30 am-12:30 pm. Free. 866-2528721 or www.claestateservices.com.

9/9 - Roger Stone Speaks at the Gold Coast Tiger Bay Club meeting at City Fish Market, 7940 Glades Road, Boca Raton. Stone is the New York Times bestselling author of “The Man Who Killed Kennedy – The Case Against LBJ”. 11:30 am-1:30 pm. Members: $25/advance, $35/at the door; guests: $35/advance, $45/at the door.

852-0000 or www.goldcoasttigerbayclub.com 9/9 - Affordable Care Act Assistance at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Navigators available for information and enrollment. Tuesdays, 2-6 pm. Free.

Reservations: 400-3726.

9/9 - Couples Round Dance at the Boynton Beach Civic Center, 128 E. Ocean Ave. Learn figures and routines to various rhythms. For

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September 2014 ages 18 & up. Tuesdays. Two sessions: High Intermediate Level: 3-4:30 pm; Intermediate Level: 4:30-6 pm. $12/couple. 352-455-5759.

9/9 - Karate/Martial Arts Classes at Pompey Park, 1101 NW 2nd St., Delray Beach. Students learn Karate along with a blend of other combat martial arts. Ages 9 to adult. T & Th. 6-7 pm. $10/residents; $12/non-residents plus a onetime $25 uniform fee. 243-7356.

9/9 - The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes - Presented as part of the Evening Book Group at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 6 pm. Free. 266-9490.

9/9 - Music and Art in the Park at Veterans Park, 802 NE First St., Delray Beach. Bring family and friends for a night of interactive music and hands-on art. Musicians of all ages are welcome to bring an instrument and join the open “jam session” at the gazebo. For the artists, easels and art supplies are set up and open to anyone wanting to explore their inner creativity in an non-instructional play environment. 6-8 pm.

Free. 243-7350.

9/9 - Waste Land directed by Lucy Walker is presented as part of the Foreign Film Series for adults by the Friends of the Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. 6:30-9 pm. Free. 3937968 or www.bocalibrary.org.

9/9 - Heartsaver Automated External Defibrillator (HSAED) at Boca Raton Regional Hospital Education Center, 800 Meadows Road. Class teaches adult, child and infant one person CPR, as well as the use of the Automated External Defibrillator. 8:30-11:30 am. $30/class.

Registration: 955-4468.

Wednesday - 9/10 - 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 welcome. W & F. 9 am-11 am. Annual fee: $40/residents, $45/nonresident. 243-7350.

9/10 - 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. W & F. 9-11 am. Annual fee: $15/residents, $20/nonresidents. 243-7350.

9/10 - Socrates Café - Weekly discussion group at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Held again 9/17, 24 & 10/1. 11:30 am. Free. 266-0194 or www.delraylibrary.org.

9/10 - Scrabble at the Highland Beach Library, 3618 S. Ocean Blvd. Wednesdays, 1-4 pm. Free.

278-5455 or www.highlandbeachlibrary.org.

9/10 - Belly Dancing at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. A fun, safe, low-impact dance class for ages 14 and up. Wednesdays, 1-2 pm. $5/residents, $6/non residents per class.

243-7352 or www.mydelraybeach.com.

9/10 - Learn to Sew Class at the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. Make clothes for yourself or family. All levels taught.

Also learn how to alter clothes professionally.

Participants must bring sewing machine. Come prepared to work on the first day with fabric, pattern, scissors, pins and thread. Wednesdays through 10/29. 1-4 pm. $50/residents, $62.50/ non-residents. 393-7807.

9/10 - Silver Science Days at the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium, 4801 Dreher Trail North, West Palm Beach. Every second Wednesday of each month guests age 62 and over can experience the Museum, learn from guest speakers, view a planetarium show and enjoy refreshments. 2-5 pm. $5. 832-1988.

9/10 - Modern Line Dance Class for ages 50 & up at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. Enhance the quality of life through modern music and dance. Wednesdays, 2:30-3:30 pm. Per class: $4/residents, $5/nonresidents. 243-7350.

9/10 - The 2014 Midterm Elections: Analysis, Predictions, and Historical Perspective by Dr. Robert Watson - Part of the Lifelong Learning Community Institute at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 3-4:30 pm. $25. 266-0198.

9/10 - The Plaza Theatre Puzzle Players at The Plaza Theatre Performing Arts Conservatory, 250 S Ocean Blvd, Manalapan.

A theatre troupe for people on the Autism Spectrum. Social and life skills training through theatre, music, role play, games and performance. Led by Jeffrey Voner, Palm Beach County School District Behavioral and Autism Specialist and Theatre Professional.

Wednesdays, 4:30-6 pm. $272. 588-1820.

9/10 - Summer Evening Stroll with Garden Director Allen Sistrunk at Mounts Botanical Garden Auditorium & Garden, 531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Sistrunk shares facts about the Garden’s history and discusses plans for its future. Along the way, he’ll stop to discuss rare and unusual specimens and highlight plants that grow well in South Florida gardens. 6-7:30 pm. $10. 233-1757.

9/10 - Adult Painting Class at the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. For beginner and intermediate artists. Participants select the preferred project and medium to work in: Oils, acrylics, watercolors or pastels.

Work at your own speed with individual attention paid to your specific project. W

The COASTAL STAR through 10/8. 6-8 pm. $100/residents, $125/ non-residents. Materials not included. 3937807 or www.ci.boca-raton.fl.us.

9/10 - Habitat Young Professionals Social at Rocco’s Tacos, 5250 Town Center Circle, Boca Raton. 6-7:30 pm. $10 includes a margarita and appetizers. Next HYP Building Day is from 1-5 pm on 9/13. 819-6070 or www.hfhboca.org.

9/10 - Belly Dance Class at the James A. Rutherford Community Center, Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Road, Boca Raton. All ages and abilities are welcome to learn this ancient form of dance. W through 10/15. 6:30-7:30 pm. $65/ residents, $81/non-residents. 367-7035.

9/10 - Delray Beach Orchid Society meets at Veterans Park Recreation Center, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. Meetings held the 2nd Wednesday of each month. 7 pm. Free. 4126752 or www.delraybeachorchidsociety.com.

Thursday - 9/11 - Community Prayer Breakfast hosted by Habitat for Humanity of South Palm Beach at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. National Day of Service of Remembrance. All faiths are welcome. Prayers led by clergy serving the communities of Delray Beach, Boca Raton, and Boynton Beach. 7:30-9 am. Free. 819-6070.

9/11 - Quilters meet every Thursday at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest.

Share quilting information and perpetuate quilting as a cultural and artistic form. 9-11:30 am. Free. 742-6886.

9/11 - 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. For ages 18 & up. Thursdays, Noon-2 pm. Fee for six- classes: $55/residents, $60/non-residents. 243-7350.

9/11 - Senior Bridge at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. All experienced players welcome. Partners not needed. For ages 18 and up. Thursdays, 1-4 pm. Annual fee: $15/ residents +$1/game, $20/non-residents + $2/ game. 243-7350 or www.mydelraybeach.com.

9/11 - Wong Kar-wai Film Festival: My Blueberry Nights at the Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. For adults. 4-6 pm.

Free. Registration: 544-8591.

9/11 - Pest Management at Mounts Botanical Garden Auditorium & Garden, 531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Learn about managing yard and garden pests with conventional and less toxic methods. Bring specimens in sealed plastic bags for identification. 5:30-6:45 pm. $20/Mounts members, $30/non-members.

Registration: 233-1757.

9/11 - Human Trafficking: The Modern Day Slave Trade by Katie Ford - Presented by the Advisory Board of Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the City Fish Market, 7940 Glades Road, Boca Raton. Ford, founder of “Freedom for All” and former CEO of the Ford Modeling Agency is keynote speaker. Freedom for All is a notfor-profit organization that partners with onthe-ground organizations to create long-term, systemic changes to end slavery in the countries where they work and to save lives by freeing people who are held in slavery. Other speakers include Palm Beach County State Attorney David Aronberg and Katarina Rosenblatt, a sex trafficking survivor and founder of “There is H.O.P.E. for Me,” an organization that reaches out to help survivors of domestic violence and

human trafficking. 6:30 pm. $50/person. 2972337 or www.fau.edu/WomensStudies.

9/11 - Writers’ Corner Workshop at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Published authors provide free manuscript critiquing to writers who bring examples of their work. All levels of writers welcome. Meets second Thursday of each month. 6:30-8 pm. Free. 742-6380.

Friday - 9/12 - Current Events Discussion Group at the Highland Beach Library, 3618 S. Ocean Blvd. Fridays, 10:30 am. Free. 278-5455.

9/12 – Knit ‘N Purl - Twice monthly class at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Held again 9/26. 10:30 am. Free. 266-9490.

9/12 - Chess Club for ages 18 & up at Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st St., Delray Beach. Knowledge of the game is necessary. All levels welcome.

Fridays, noon-4 pm. Annual fee: $20/residents, $25/non-residents. 243-7350.

9/12 - Sushi & Stroll Summer Walk at The Morikami Japanese Museum and Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach. Experience the gardens in all their beauty, enjoy taiko drumming, a cold drink and a breathtaking sunset. Fushu Daiko drumming performances seating begins at 5:30 pm (first-come, firstserved) ($2 with admission). 5:30-8 pm. $8/ non-member adults, $6/kids, free for children 3 and under. 495-0233 or www.morikami.org.

9/12 - U.S. Army Field Band Jazz Ambassadors at the Outdoor Pavilion, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. Community concert offers an evening of music by the internationally-acclaimed official touring big band of the United States Army. 7:30 pm. Free.

243-7922, Ext. 1.

9/12-13 - Florida Documentary Film Festival at the Willow Theatre, Sugar Sand Park, 303 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton.

DocMiami and the Willow Theatre bring the international world of documentary filmmaking to Boca Raton. Selections include shorts and feature films covering a wide variety of topics including a competitive international film festival, youth screenings, world premier films, special guests and showings, and an expert panel discussion with industry professionals.

2-10 pm. Held Again 9/13. 11 am-3 pm. $7/allday access. 347-3948.

9/12-14 - 7th Annual Un-Conference, Excelerate 2014 - Presented by Women’s Prosperity Network at Marriott Hotel, 1001 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach.

Conference brings a team of world renowned business experts and millionaire mentors directly to attendees; attendees learn how to pitch their ideas and have the ability to pitch to WPN Investor Panel. Fri ,9 am-9 pm; Sat, 8 am-9 pm; Sun, 8 am-4:30 pm. $347-447. 800-9286928 or www.TheProsperityConference.com.

9/12-14 - The Subject Was Roses at Sol Theatre, 3333 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton.

Held again 9/19-21, 26-28. F&Sat.: 7 pm; Sat.&Sun.: 2 pm. $15/adults, $10/students. 4478229 or www.eveningstarproductions.org.

9/12-14 - Search and Destroy by Howard Korder at Lake Worth Playhouse, Stonzek Theatre, 713 Lake Ave. Directed by Daniel Eilola.

Held again 9/19-21. F&Sat.: 8 pm; Sun.: 2 pm. $15/person. 586-6410.

Saturday - 9/13 - EVP (Extreme Volleyball Professional) Pro, Amateur, & Juniors Southeast Championships on the beach at A1A and Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. National event features professional, amateur & junior

Community Calendar AT11 beach volleyball teams on the EVP Tour. 8 am-6 pm. Free for spectators. 773-387-1198.

9/13 - Ride & Remember Trolley Tour departs from the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum, 170 N. 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.

9/13 - Viola Master Class with James Dunham at Lynn University, AmarnickGoldstein Concert Hall, 3601 N. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Two times: 10 am & 2 pm. Free.

237-9000 or www.lynn.edu/tickets.

9/13 – Infant Safety Prenatal Class at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, 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.

9/13 - Handsome Devil, Films of Alain Delon: Les felins (Joy House) - Presented as part of the Film Series for adults at the Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. 4-5 pm.

Free. 393-7968 or www.bocalibrary.org.

9/13 - Lynn University’s Wind Ensemble - The Wind Symphony: Movement No. 3 at the Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center, Lynn University, 3601 N. Military Trail, Boca Raton. 7:30 pm. $20. 2379000 or www.lynn.edu/tickets.

9/13-14 - Everything Orchids: A Shady Affair Plant Sale at Mounts Botanical Garden, 531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Showcasing top orchid and shade plant growers, artists and craftspeople who share their knowledge and passion for orchids and plants. Features lectures and a silent auction of horticultural tabletop arrangements. 9 am-4 pm. $10. 233-1757 or www.mounts.org.

SEPTEMBER 14-20

Sunday - 9/14 - Reed Farrel Coleman speaks and signs his book, Robert B. Parker’s Blindspot, at Murder on the Beach Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach. 6 pm. Free. 279-7790.

Monday - 9/15 -Resume & Interview Skills at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Learn job hunting strategies and skills. Topics include: resumes, cover letters, interviewing skills, networking, searching EmployFlorida.com and Veteran services. Third Monday of each month. For adults. 9:30-11 am.

Free. 742-6886 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

9/15 - AFWC Wine Social at 13 American Table, 451 E Palmetto Park Road, Boca Raton. More than 50 wines, pairing courses, and raffles. Benefits the Rotary Club. $45/ advance, $50/door. 5:30-7:30 pm. www. americanfinewinecompetition.org/events.

9/15 - History Program: Loxahatchee Battlefield Park at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Program co-sponsored by the Boynton Beach Historical Society. 6:30-8 pm. Free. 742-6886.

Tuesday - 9/16 - FAU Astronomical Observatory - Public viewing day observations at FAU’s Boca Raton Campus, Science & Engineering Building, #43, 4th floor, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. 1st Friday and 3rd Tuesday of each month. 7 pm. Free. 297-STAR. 9/16 - Intro to Archery Class for adults at the Meadows Park Tennis Courts, 1300 NW 8th St., Boca Raton. Beginner’s program introduces participants to the Olympic sport of archery through skill development and paper target practice. Become proficient in range safety, proper shooting form and technique.

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Wednesday - 9/17 - Celebrate Constitution Day at Florida Atlantic University Democracy Plaza (adjacent to the Culture and Society Building), 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. Events include opening ceremony, presentation of colors, the National Anthem, opening remarks

by Kevin Wagner, PhD, presentation from Hon. Dave Aronberg and second annual Robert J. Bailyn Symposium on the First Amendment Panel. 11 am-2:30 pm. Free. 252-194.

9/17 - Homestead Exemption Outreach at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. The Palm Beach County Property Appraiser’s office will take your 2014 homestead exemption application and answer valuation questions. Bring a copy of your deed, proof of residency required. 2-3 pm. Free. 742-6886.

9/17 - Workshop: Grant Training for Nonprofits presented by Impact 100 Palm Beach County at Vegso Community Resource Center, 261 NW 13th St., Boca Raton. Impact 100 Palm Beach County is comprised of women who donate $1,000 annually, pool their funds and vote to award multiple $100,000 grants to local nonprofits in southern Palm Beach County.

They are committed to strengthening the community by awarding high-impact grants in five focus areas: Arts & Culture, Education, Environment, Family, and Healthy & Wellness.

2-4 pm. Free. 336-4623.

9/17 - Focus on Women Presents Stylicious at Delray Beach Club, 2001 S. Ocean Blvd.

Networking, vendors, fashion show by Lynn University students, food and drinks. $25/ members in advance, $35/door, $35/guests.

Vendor tables available. 5:30-7:30 pm. 2780424.

9/17 - Family and Friends at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, Education Center, 800 Meadows Road. Learn basics of infant, child and adult CPR, relief of choking, and child and infant one-person CPR. Held again 10/1. 6-8 pm. $25. Registration: 955-4468.

9/17 - Tastemakers: Rock Roll & Stroll at Mizner Park, 327 Plaza Real, Boca Raton.

Enjoy food, wine, cocktails and entertainment.

Featuring 11 restaurants offering tastings and pairings of specialty food and beverages. Rock to the Shindig Band at the Gazebo & AMP at the Amphitheater. Roll to each Tastemaker restaurant for food and drink pairings. Stroll to the Amphitheater for beer samplings from Gold Coast Beverage Distributors. Booklets available at restaurants: Dubliner, JAZZIZ Nightlife, Kapow Noodle Bar, Max’s Grille, Racks, Ruth’s Chris, Tanzy, Truluck’s, Uncle Julio’s, Villagio, and Yard House. 6-9 pm. $30. 362-0606.

9/17 - Community Cabaret - Calling all singers, dangers, musicians and stand-up comedians to the Willow Theatre at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton.

Performers must register in advance. Box office hours: T-F, 10 am-1 pm & 5-8 pm; Sat. 1-5 pm and 1 hour prior to shows. 7:30 pm. Admission: $5. 347-3900 or www.willowtheatre.org.

Thursday - 9/18 - Economic Freedom and the Wealth and Health of Nations by Dr. Robert Lawson at FAU Barry and Florence Friedberg Auditorium, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. Presented as part of the Fall One-Time Event Series at FAU Lifelong Learning Society.

Annual membership: $45. 2-3:30 pm. $20/ member, $25/non-member. 297-3171.

9/18 - Fashion Night Out at The Boca Raton Children’s Museum (Jason’s Music Hall), 498 Crawford Blvd. Shop, enjoy tapas and some “gal” fun with designer clothing, jewelry, refreshments and live entertainment. Museum open for child care ($5/child.) $5/advance, $7/ door. 368-6875 or www.cmboca.org.

9/18 - Third Thursday Fun-Raiser: HOW Foundation at Crane’s BeachHouse Hotel and Tiki Bar, 82 Gleason St, Delray Beach. HOW Foundation raises awareness for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. 6-8:30 pm. $25. 278-1700.

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9/18 - “Havana Nights: An Evening of Music and Mojitos” - Presented by Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse at The Arts Garage, 180 NE First St., Delray Beach. Fundraiser features Miami-based musical group - Bohemia Cuban Music playing the traditional music of Cuba with a unique, fresh approach. Cocktail reception, 7 pm; performance ,8 pm. $75. 4506357 or www.avdaonline.org.

9/18 - 2nd Annual Palm Beach Chamber Music Fall Festival at Lynn University, Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall, 3601 N. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Featuring Beethoven, Schubert, Martinu, Copland, Marshall Turkin and others. 7:30 pm. Held again 10/23 and 11/6.

Tickets $20. 237-9000.

9/18 - Concert: Songs thru the Ages with Tony Abbott & Jenene Caramiello at the Highland Beach Library Community Room, 3618 S. Ocean Blvd. 5 pm. Free. 278-5455.

9/18 - Late Night Thursday at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real. Featuring a glass of wine, cash bar, gallery tours and free admission. 5:30-8 pm. Free. 392-2500.

9/18 - MolecuBar - Presented by the Young Professionals of the Science Center at the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium, 4801 Dreher Trail N., West Palm Beach. Explore the flavor profiles and chemical reactions behind your favorite libations. Featuring interactive mixology demonstrations, tasting stations, sample bites from area restaurants, great music and more. 6-9 pm. $40/members, $50/nonmembers, $75/VIP. 832-1988.

Friday - 9/19 - Evenings on the Avenue at Cultural Plaza, 414 Lake Ave., Lake Worth.

Featuring live music, food vendors, crafts and artists. Held the first & third Friday of each month. 6-10 pm. Free. 588-8344.

9/19-21 - The Crucible by Arthur Miller at Florida Atlantic University Studio One Theatre, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. Held again 9/2628. F&Sat.: 7 pm; Sun. & 9/27: 2 pm. $23.60.

Reservations: 800-564-9539.

Saturday - 9/20 - Naturalist Program: All about Amphibians at Daggerwing Nature Center, 11200 Park Access Road, Boca Raton.

A family friendly program focusing on the amazing world of amphibians. Learn beyond simple metamorphosis and meet the nature center’s amphibians up close and personal. All ages. 1 pm. $3/person. Reservations: 629-8760.

9/20 - Poems of If and When: The Power of the Subjunctive and the Occasion - A workshop with Julie Marie-Wade at Delray Beach Center for the Arts, 51 N Swinton Ave. A generative poetry workshop which explores personal identity through both speculative and narrative writing with prompts and examples of poems by Lucille Clifton, Sharon Olds, Aaron Smith and Stacey Waite. Wade’s books available for purchase and signing. $10. 1-3:30 pm. www. palmbeachpoetryfestival.org 9/20 - Clean Teen Comedy and Cabaret at The Plaza Theatre, 262 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan. An opportunity for young, local talent to show their stuff. Each performer has five minutes to showcase performance ready, appropriate material. 7:30 pm. $20/adults, $15/ children. 588-1820.

9/20 - Divas on Stage at Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave. Music from the ’40s to the 2000s. Featuring Lupita Hollywood, Melissa St. John, Ricky Rollick and Cupcake Dejour. 8 pm. $15/person. 586-6410.

9/20 - Japanese Reading and Writing Workshop at Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach. Two-day workshop held again 9/27. 1-5 pm. $80. Registration: 495-0233.

9/20 - Vintage Fantasy at Artisans On The Ave., 630 Lake Ave., Lake Worth. Tara Mals and Linda Manganaro use vintage pieces to create new art. 6-9 p.m. Free. 762-8162.

9/20 - Honor Flight Southeast Florida at Palm Beach International Airport, 1000 James L. Turnage Blvd., West Palm Beach. Honors America’s veterans by transporting them to

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Washington, D.C., to visit memorials dedicated to honoring their service and sacrifices. Meet the departing and arriving veterans. Flight times TBD. Free (airport parking charges apply).

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SEPTEMBER 21-27

Sunday - 9/21 - I’ve Got the Power by Rev. Dieter Randolph at Unity of Delray Beach, 101 NW 22nd St. Guest speaker focuses on life, love, prosperity and faith. 9:35 am and 11 am. Free.

276-5796 or www.unityofdelraybeach.org.

9/21 - Piano Faculty Concert at FAU’s University Theatre, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. Performers include Heather Coltman, David Hammer, Krisztina Kover, David Rossow and Leonid Treer in a tribute to Zilpha Friedman. 3 pm. $15. 800-654-9539.

9/21 - The Sunday Sleuth Book Club at Murder on the Beach Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach will discuss Six Years by Harlan Coben. 3 pm. $9.99. 279-7790.

9/21 - Trillium Piano Trio - Part of Music at St. Paul’s, 188 S. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach.

Opening concert of the 27th season features seldom heard masterpieces by Ludwig van Beethoven, John Ireland and Joseph Suk. 3 pm.

Doors open 30 minutes before concert time. $20/preferred seating, $15/requested donation, $5/students. 278-6003.

Monday - 9/22 - My Confession - Part of the Great Books group at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Held the 2nd & 4th Mondays of each month. 10-11:45 am. Free.

742-6390 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

9/22 - The Free World by David Bezmozgis - Part of the Afternoon Book Group at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. 1 pm.

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

9/22 - Mega Challah Bake at Marriott Hotel, 1001 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach.

Jewish women and girls age 16 and older are invited to bake challah together. 7 pm. $20 by Sept. 7, $25 after. 351-1633.

9/22-23 - Auditions for The Odd Couple at Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave. Prepare a one-minute comedic monologue from a play, may also be asked to read from the script.

Please wear comfortable clothing and proper shoes - no flip flops allowed on stage. M&T: 7-10 pm. 586-6410.

Tuesday - 9/23 - Cocktails in Paradise at the Square Grouper, 1111 Love St., Jupiter. Proceeds benefit the Historical Society of Palm Beach County. Ages 21 and over. 5:30-7:30 pm. $25.

Reservations: 832-4164.

9/23 - Succulents: The Crown Jewels of the Garden at Mounts Botanical Garden, Exhibit Hall A, 559 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach.

Learn about these versatile plants and ways to use them in your landscape. 6-7:30 pm. $25/ members, $35/non-members. Registration: 233-1757.

9/23 - The New ValueLine and Other Investor Tools at the Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Instruction on BRPL Investment databases, including the new ValueLine format, Mergent’s Investor Edge and Morningstar. 7-8 pm. Free. Registration: 3937968 or www.bocalibrary.org.

9/23 - Exhibition Opening: Renaissance to Rococo - European Collection Highlights at Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach. An innovative exhibition of old master paintings and sculpture. On display through Jan. 11. 832-5196 or www.norton.org.

Wednesday - 9/24 - Rosh Hashanah begins 9/24-24 - Rosh Hashana Evening Services at the Chabad Center, 7495 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. W: 7 pm; Th.: Mincha followed

by Tashlich & Maariv, 6:45 pm. Price and reservations: 496-6228.

9/24-25 - Rosh Hashanah Evening Service - Presented by the Palm Beach Jewish Center at The Chesterfield Hotel, 363 Cocoanut Row, Palm Beach. Services followed by community holiday dinner. W: 7 pm; Th.: 7:30 pm. $36/adults, $15/ children. Reservations: 659-3884.

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September 2014 9/24-26 - Rosh Hashanah Services Presented by Chabad of East Boca Raton at the Mizner Park Cultural Art Center, 201 Plaza Real.

9/24: Candle lighting an services/6:57 pm, Dinner/8 pm. $54/adults, $25/children under 12. Reserved High Holiday seating: Adults: $100/day; Children: $50/day. 9/25: services/9 am; Mincha/7 pm; Tashlich/6:15 pm. 9/26: services/9 am. 417-7797.

Thursday - 9/25 - Art After Dark & Curator’s Conversations: The Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers Exhibition at the Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach. Featuring special exhibitions, music, films, tours, cash bar and menu options.

All ages awelcome. 5-9 pm. $12/adults, $5/ages 13-21, free for age 12 and younger. 832-5196.

9/25 - Boynton Beach Art District Art Walk at 404-422 W. Industrial Ave., Boynton Beach.

Held the fourth Thursday of each month. 6-11 pm. Free. 786-521-1199.

9/25 - Post Modern META Book Club: Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis at the Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. For adults. 7-8 pm. Free. Registration: 393-7968.

9/25-26 - Rosh Hashana Morning Services at the Chabad Center, 7495 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. 9 am. Tickets and reservations: 496-6228 or www.chabaddelray.com.

9/25-26 - Rosh Hashanah Services, Shofar Blowing and Kiddush Lunch - Presented by Palm Beach Jewish Center at The Chesterfield Hotel, 363 Cocoanut Row, Palm Beach. Services/ W&Th.: 9:30 am; Shofar blowing: 12:30 pm; Kiddush Lunch: 1:30 pm. Free. Reservations: 659-3884 or www.palmbeachjewish.com.

Friday - 9/26 - Coaching the Mature Driver - 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. $12. 845-8233.

9/26 - Boca Raton International Trade Show at Palm Beach State College (Boca Raton Campus) Room HT103, 3000 St. Lucie Ave. Business owners, professionals, sales people and managers seeking to begin or expand their business welcome. Participation on one or more workshops included in admission. 12-7 pm. $20. email info@chameleonentertainments.com.

Saturday - 9/27 - Boynton Beach History Stroll at Boynton Beach Fire Rescue Station #5, 2080 High Ridge Road. Tour the Emergency Operations Center facility and view public art elements.Presented by Boynton Beach Historical Society. 9-10 am. Free. 327-4690.

9/27 - 2nd Annual Festi-Fall Arts & Crafts Show - Presented by the Zonta Club of Greater Deerfield Beach at the Emma Lou Olson Civic Center, 1801 NE 6th St., Pompano Beach.

Featuring a wide assortment of arts and crafts handmade by Florida artists, as well as plants, flowers, a mini-pumpkin patch for the kiddies and craft demonstrations by various vendors.

10 am-3 pm. $2. 299-8684.

9/27 - Family Splash Games at Pompey Park Pool, 1101 NW 2nd St., Delray Beach. Floats are welcome and drinks and food available to buy.

Come and enjoy aquatic games on the water with family and friends. Noon-3 pm. Free. 2437358 or www.mydelraybeach.com.

9/27 - Kitsuke Workshop: The Art of Kimono Dressing at Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach. Learn about this iconic piece of wearable art. 1-3 pm. $35. Registration: 4950233 or morikami.org.

9/27 - Cultural Gaucho Dance from South of Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul at Boca Raton Children’s Museum Jason’s Music Hall in Rickards House, 498 Crawford Blvd. Sponsored by the Brazil International Foundation. 2-4 pm. $5/family. 368-6875 or www.cmboca.org.

9/27 - Beyond The Pale: Angel by Elizabeth Taylor - Presented as part of the Book Club discussion by the Friends of the Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. For adults. 4-5 pm. Free. 393-7968 or www.bocalibrary.org.

9/27 - 4th Annual Iron Chef Competition Presented by The Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum at the Boca Raton Resort & Club, 501 E. Camino Real. Each Iron Chef team of 12 people enjoy a welcome reception and then gather to organize and plan to compete for the best table setting and centerpiece design, wine selection, best entree, and other dishes they create as part of an elegant four-course dinner. Celebrity judges determine the winning team and all participants enjoy a celebration after the competition. 6:30 pm. $175/person. 395-6766.

9/27-28 - Knights of Columbus #13338 NonPerishable Food Drive at Emmanuel Catholic Church, 15700 S. Military Trail, Delray Beach. To benefit the C.R.O.S. Ministries Food Pantry. Sat.: 3:30-6 pm; Sun.: 7:30am-noon. 496-2480.

9/27-28 - Lynn University’s Philharmonia Orchestra No. 1 at the Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center, Lynn University, 3601 N. Military Trail, Boca Raton.

Under the direction of conductor Guillermo Figueroa. Featuring works by Elgar, Cordero and Brahms. Sat. 7:30 pm; Sun. 4 pm. $35-$50.

237-9000 or www.lynn.edu/tickets.

SEPT. 28 – OCT. 4

Sunday - 9/28 - PCT Childbirth Workshop at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, 800 Meadows Road, Boca Raton. Class guides women from pregnancy to labor and delivery and beyond. 8 am-5 pm. $99. Registration: 302-1919.

9/28 - An Appetite for Art Artisan Vendor Market at Secret Garden Cafe, 410 E. Boynton Beach Blvd., Boynton Beach. Crafters, kids cooking and art classes, cooking demos, local wine tastings, live mural painting, music, food, book-signings. 10 am-4 pm. Supports Hungry Artists Helping To Feed the Hungry. 752-8598.

9/28 - Gardening with Ornamental Native Wildflowers at Mounts Botanical Garden Auditorium & Garden, 531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Learn to use wildflowers as groundcovers and as a lawn substitute. 10:30 am-noon. $25/Mounts members, $35/nonmembers. Registration: 233-1757.

9/28 - Florida Wind Symphony at FAU’s University Theatre, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. Works from the golden age of concert bands including Schubert’s Trout Quintet. $15.

800-564-9539 or www.fau.edu/arts.

Monday - 9/29 - Placed on a Pedestal: Sculpting Class at the Art Center, 125 SE 2nd Ave., Boynton Beach. Class provides participants with the fundamentals of sculpting while engaging their artistic abilities. Mondays through 10/20. 9-11:30 am. $40/residents, $50/ non-residents. Registration: 742-6221.

Tuesday - 9/30 - Exhibition Opens: Japanese Design for the Senses: Beauty, Form and Function at Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach. Three distinct exhibitions highlight the design elements, tied together as functional art. On display through 1/18. 4950233 or www.morikami.org.

9/30 - “Lift Off Party” for Gratitude House Fashion Show - Hosted by Evelyn & Arthur, 100 N. County Road, Palm Beach. Honoring National Recovery Month, all purchases during regular store hours that day using the code “Gratitude House” will be 10 percent off, with another 10 percent of sales going directly toward the women’s charity. Reception includes delicious, non-alcoholic “Gratitude Gespritzers,” light hors d’oeuvres, and a preview of Evelyn & Arthur’s newest collection presented by designer Lori Rifkin. Reception: 4 pm. Free. 83315551 or www.gratitudehouse.org.

9/30 - Fashion Film Documentary Series: The September Issue for adults at the Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. 7-8:45 pm. Free. Registration: 393-7968.

Wednesday - 10/1 - Women of Distinction Breakfast - Hosted by Soroptimist International of Boca Raton and Deerfield Beach at the Boca West Country Club, 20583 Boca West Drive, Boca Raton. Annual fundraising event honoring the women of our community who are making a difference in the lives of others. Soroptimist is an international organization of business and professional women who work to improve the lives of women and girls in our community and around the world. 8-10:30 am. $55/guest. RSVP: 8591883 or www.soroptimist4women.org.

10/1 - Objection! Current, Contentious and Confusing Legal Battles by Irving Labovitz, J.D. at FAU Barry and Florence Friedberg Auditorium, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. First of eight lectures presented as part of the Fall Lecture Series at FAU Lifelong Learning Society. Annual membership: $45.

Wednesdays through 11/19. 9-10:45 am. $68/ member, $98/non-member. 297-3171.

10/1 - CPR Class (American Heart Association Heartsaver/AED) at Ocean Rescue Headquarters, 340 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach. Topics include: activating the emergency response system, adult, child and infant CPR, choking, and defibrillation.

1st Wednesday of every month. Ages 14 and up. 9 am-12:30 pm. Free. CPR masks can be purchased for $5 (recommended). 243-7425.

10/1 - Beginners Line Dancing at the James A. Rutherford Community Center, Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Road, Boca Raton. Learn the newest line dancing routines. W through 11/26.

Beginner I: 9:30-10:30 am; Beginner II: 10:3011:30 am; Beginner III: 11:30 am-12:30 pm. $48/ residents, $60/non-residents. 367-7035.

10/1 - Film, Politics and History: How Movies Educate and Entertain by Burton Atkins at FAU Barry and Florence Friedberg Auditorium, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. First of eight lectures presented as part of the Fall Lecture Series at FAU Lifelong Learning Society.

Annual membership: $45. Wednesdays through 11/19. 11:30 am-1:15 pm. $68/member, $98/ non-member. 297-3171 or www.fau.edu/lls.

10/1 - Parenting in the Digital Age by Dr. Edan Alcalay - Presented as part of the First Wednesdays mental health lecture series at the Faulk Center for Counseling, 22455 Boca Rio Road, Boca Raton. 11 am-noon. Free. 483-5300.

10/1 - Unveiling of IMAG_NE - The United States debut of the internationally acclaimed work of art by artist Emma Anna at Sanborn

September 2014 Square, 72 N. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton. Official unveiling with the artist, city officials and free concert by West Boca Raton High School Vanguard Jazz Band. 1-7 pm. Exhibit continues through 11/30. Free. 393-7995.

10/1 - Charmed Circles in the Arts: Glamour, Politics & High Society by Terryl Lawrence at FAU Barry and Florence Friedberg Auditorium, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. First of eight lectures presented as part of the Fall Lecture Series at FAU Lifelong Learning Society.

Annual membership: $45. Wednesdays through 11/19. 1:45-3:30 pm. $68/member, $98/nonmember. 297-3171 or www.fau.edu/lls.

10/1 - Intermediate Line Dancing at the James A. Rutherford Community Center, Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Rd., Boca Raton. Learn the newest line dancing routines. W through 11/26. 4-5 pm. $48/residents, $60/nonresidents. 367-7035 or www.ci.boca-raton.fl.us.

10/1 - Music Americana: In Search of Inspiration by Rod MacDonald at FAU Barry and Florence Friedberg Auditorium, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. First of eight lectures presented as part of the Fall Lecture Series at FAU Lifelong Learning Society. Annual membership: $45. Wednesdays through 11/19.

4-5:45 pm. $68/member, $98/non-member.

297-3171 or www.fau.edu/lls.

10/1 - A Study in Sherlock Holmes and Watson, Moriarty and Adler: 8 Actors Portraying 8 Very Different Sherlock Holmes by Kurt Stone at FAU Barry and Florence Friedberg Auditorium, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. First of eight lectures presented as part of the Fall Lecture Series at FAU Lifelong Learning Society. Annual membership: $45. Held Wednesdays through 11/19. 7-9 pm. $68/member, $98/non-member.

297-3171 or www.fau.edu/lls.

Thursday - 10/2 - Exhibition: The Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers at the Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach. Every other year, the Norton invites a panel of world-renowned artists to nominate emerging photographers whose work is on the leading edge of contemporary art and photography, but have not yet had a solo exhibition at a museum. Those nominees share an exhibition. A separate panel of judges awards one of them the $20,000 Rudin Prize, named for the late New York City real estate developer Lewis Rudin. Exhibit runs through 1/11. T-W, F-Sat.: 10 am-5 pm; Th: 10 am-9 pm; Sun.: 11 am-5 pm. $12/adults, $5/ages 13-21, free/12 & under. 832-5196 or www.norton.org.

10/2 - The Heart of Russian Music, Part One: Masterpieces from the Orchestral, Chamber Music and Art Songs Literature

by Leonid Treer at FAU Barry and Florence Friedberg Auditorium, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. First of four lectures presented as part of the Fall Lecture Series at FAU Lifelong Learning Society. Annual membership: $45. Thursdays through 10/23. 10-11:45 am. $34/member, $54/ non-member. 297-3171 or www.fau.edu/lls.

10/2 - Fall Harvest at Campus on the Lake at the Society of The Four Arts, 2 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach. A unique “greenmarket” at the Four Arts. Roberta Sabban leads a panel discussion with local vendors on how they came to be, their passion for their product, and keeping the local economy thriving. Afterward, shop the wares of these local businesses in an intimate setting, and have a taste or two to celebrate the fall harvest. 10:30 am-2 pm. Free.

805-8562 or www.fourarts.org.

10/2 - Lunch with Liz @ the Library at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Brown-bag lunchtime program. 11:30 am-1 pm. Free. 266-9490.

10/2 - The Rise and Fall of Islamism by Mehmet Gurses at FAU Barry and Florence Friedberg Auditorium, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. First of eight lectures presented as part of the Fall Lecture Series at FAU Lifelong Learning Society. Annual membership: $45.

Thursdays through 12/4. 12:45-2:30 pm. $68/ member, $98/non-member. 297-3171.

10/2 - Anniversary Party with Entertainment by Heart & Soul at the Boynton Beach Senior Center, 1021 S. Federal Hwy. 1-3 pm. Free for pass holders. 742-6570.

10/2 - Practical Planning for Art Collectors and Their Advisors - Presented by the Museum’s Professional Advisory Committee at The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real.

Do you have questions regarding planning for the succession of art and collectibles? Curious about special income, estate, and gift tax rules?

Or concerned with the non-tax characteristics of planning with these assets? Don’t miss out on the opportunity to have all of your questions answered by renowned wealth strategist Ramsay H. Slugg at this seminar. 5:30-7:30 pm. $20/person. Reservations: 392-2500.

10/2 - Spaghetti Dinner - Presented by The Women’s Fellowship at the Church of the Palms Congregational, 1960 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. Includes spaghetti and meatballs, salad, bread, dessert and a drink. Live music. $5/ adults, $2/age 6-12, free/age 5 and younger, or $12/family. 276-6347.

The COASTAL STAR

3rd Annual Girls, Pearls, Hats and Heels Delray Beach Club— Oct. 2

Enjoy an afternoon of shopping with the latest fashions in shoes and accessories from top designers along with silent auctions, lunch and complimentary bubbly. Proceeds benefit the Delray Beach Public Library and the Bethesda Hospital Foundation for breast cancer treatment and educational programs. 11 am-2 pm. $45 in advance, $50 at the door. 2660799. ABOVE: Event Chairs, Caron and Nancy Dockerty.

Photo provided 10/2 - From the Studio of Lisa Leonard: Mozart and Beethoven at Lynn University, Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall, 3601 N. Military Trail, Boca Raton. 7 pm. Free. 237-9000.

10/2-4 - 94th Annual Florida State Beekeepers Association Conference at the Embassy Suites, 1601 Belvedere Rd., West Palm Beach. Featuring nationally-recognized speakers, live-bee demonstrations, vendors

and exhibitors, honey tasting and judging, beekeepers dinner and live auction, plus the latest beekeeping innovations. Th.: 4-9 pm; F: 6:30 am-11 pm; Sat.: 7 am-2:45 pm. Tickets: $65-$240. www.beekeepingconference.com.

Friday - 10/3 - Placed on a Pedestal: Sculpting Class at the Art Center, 125 SE 2nd Ave., Boynton Beach. Class provides participants the fundamentals of sculpting

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10/3 - L’Opera A la Mode: Four Classic Works from the French Repertory by Giuseppe Albanese at FAU Barry and Florence Friedberg Auditorium, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. First of four lectures presented as part of the Fall Lecture Series at FAU Lifelong Learning Society. Annual membership: $45. Fridays through 11/21. 12:45-2:30 pm. $68/member, $98/non-member. 297-3171.

10/3 - Boca Raton History 101 by Susan Gillis and Bonnie Dearborn at FAU Barry and Florence Friedberg Auditorium, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. First of eight lectures presented as part of the Fall Lecture Series at FAU Lifelong Learning Society. Annual membership: $45. Fridays through 10/24.

3:30-5:15 pm. $34/member, $54/non-member.

297-3171 or www.fau.edu/lls.

10/3 - Yom Kippur Services: Kol Nidre at the Chabad Center, 7495 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. 6:45 pm. Cost and reservations: 4966228 or www.chabaddelray.com.

10/3 - Eyes to the Skies with the professional-grade 16-inch Meade LX SchmidtCassegrain telescope at the Children’s Science Explorium, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton.

Event is held in the parking lot (weather permitting). Children under age 18 must be accompanied by an adult. 7 pm. Free. 347-3912.

10/3-4 - Yom Kippur 10/3-4 - Yom Kippur Services - Presented

by Chabad of East Boca Raton at the Mizner Cultural Art Center, 201 Plaza Real. 10/3: PreFast Dinner/5:15 pm ($36/person, $18/child under 12); Light Candles/6:47 pm; Kol Nidrei/7

pm; 10/4: Services/9:30 am; Yizkor/noon; Mincha/5 pm; Neilah/6 pm; Fast Ends: 7:39 pm, followed by Break-Fast Dinner ($18/adult, $10/ child under 12). Reserved High Holiday seating: Adults/$100/day, Children/$50/day. 417-7797.

Saturday - 10/4 - Yom Kippur Morning Services at the Chabad Center, 7495 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. 9 am. Yizkor Service/11:30 am (approx.) Cost and reservations: 496-6228.

10/4 - Urban Farming: Vegetable Growing at Mounts Botanical Garden, Auditorium & Vegetable Garden, 531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Tips and techniques on site preparation, seedling establishment, planting, maintenance, pest and disease control, watering effeciently, and harvesting. Suited for beginners and seasoned enthusiasts. Featuring a tour of the vegetable garden and a free packet of seeds. 9 am-noon. $35/members, $45/nonmembers. 233-1757.

10/4 - Realistic Drawing/Painting Instruction Class at the James A. Rutherford Community Center, Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Rd., Boca Raton. Learn the basic techniques essential to quality, realistic paintings. Sat. through 10/25. Adult class: 12:30-2:30 pm, $60/residents, $75/nonresidents; Children class (ages 7-12): 2:30-4:30 pm, $40/residents, $50/non-residents, plus additional materials to be purchased by parents after first class. 367-7035.

10/4 - The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst at Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Presented as part of the Book Club discussion by the Friends of the Boca Raton Public Library. For adults. 4-5 pm. Free.

Registration: 544-8591.

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AT14 Tots & Teens

The COASTAL STAR

September 2014

Tots & Teens

Shark feeding a frenzy of fascinating facts

By Shelley Gilken Who needs Sharknado, modern-day megalodon attacks, or a submarine shark lurking off the coast of South Africa? There’s no need for fictitious shark attack “facts” when the real-life creatures are fascinating.

Take, for example, the three nurse sharks swarming at the edge of their tank at Delray Beach’s Sandoway House nature center.

They each have row upon row of teeth numbering in the thousands in powerful jaws. In fact, sharks lose and regrow up to 30,000 teeth in a lifetime.

But this particular species is not threatening unless it is acting in defense. Despite their reputation on television, shark attacks are quite rare.

“Dogs, pigs and vending machines are far more dangerous,” said Jennifer Urbanek, Sandoway House Nature Center assistant, who narrates such interesting tidbits as she calmly places pieces of shrimp, squid and sardine

If You Go

Where: Sandoway House 142 S. Ocean Blvd.

Delray Beach, FL 33483 Admission is $4 per person Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Monday thru Friday; noon to 4 p.m. Sundays Shark feedings are at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1:30 p.m.

Sunday.

Info: www.sandowayhouse. org in the tank using a pincer.

Children and adults line the edges of the tank and watch closely, snapping pictures as the sharks chow down.

Daily shark feedings are a popular draw at the Sandoway House. On an average day in the summer, there are more than 200 people.

The feeding is geared to visitors of all ages from camps to families to senior citizens.

“I try to get the kids engaged and ask them questions,” Urbanek said. “I try to impart

Tots & Teens Calendar Note: Events are current as of 8/29. Please check with organizers for any changes.

SEPTEMBER 6

Saturday - 9/6 - Young Actors Workshop at Delray Beach Playhouse, 950 NW 9th St. Directed by Dolly Workman, for grades 3-12.

Younger students meet in the morning (9am12:15 pm), teens meet in the afternoon (12:30-5 pm). Application deadline 8/28. $200-$350.

272-1281, ext. 4.

9/6 - Gap Program at Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. For Kindergarten to 5th grade. “Funtastic” activities during school holidays and teacher workdays. Program dates: 9/25, 10/20, 11/26 & 28, 12/22-24, 26, 29-31, 1/2 & 5, 2/16, 3/16-20 & 23 and 4/3.

Registration begins 2 weeks prior to program date for City/Beach & Park District Residents.

7:30 am-5:30 pm. Per child fees: $36/day resident, $52/day non-resident. 393-7888.

9/6 - Youth Tennis for ages 5-15 at the Tennis Center, 3111 S. Congress Ave., Boynton Beach.

Saturdays through 9/27. Age 5-6: 9-9:45 am, $40-$50; age 7-15: 10-11 am, $48-$60.

Registration: 742-6575.

9/6 - Soccer Shots for ages 2-6 at the Boynton Beach Civic Center, 128 E. Ocean Ave. Kids gain an increased understanding of team dynamics, character formation, skill development and coordination through fun fitness activities.

All equipment provided. Saturdays through 10/25. 9:30-10:30 am. $75/residents, $94/nonresidents. 742-6240.

9/6 - Drop-In Story time - Music, stories, finger plays and action songs stimulate learning at the Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. For all ages accompanied by an adult. First Saturday of the month is Spanish Bi-lingual story time. Saturdays, 10-10:30 am. Free. 3937968.

9/6 - Gymnastics for ages 4-16 at the Ezell Hester, Jr. Community Center, 1901 N. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach. Kids develop strength, flexibility and coordination. Classes designed for introductory skill development on the vault, bars, beams and floor. Saturdays through 10/11.

Age 4-7: 10-11 am; age 8-16: 11 am-noon. $66/ residents, $83/non-residents. Registration: 742-6550.

9/6 - 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 ages 3 & 4, accompanied by an adult. Held again 10/4. 10-11 am. $5/members, $8/nonmembers. Reservations: 544-8615.

9/6 - Chess Club at the Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Enjoy the challenge while having fun learning the rules and basic strategies of chess. Sponsored by the Boca Raton Education Advisory Board. For ages 7 to 17. Saturdays, 10-11:30 am. Free. Registration: 393-7968.

9/6 - Basketball Clinics at Delray Beach Community Center, 50 NW 1st Ave. Learn shooting, ball handling, passing, rebounding, defense, post moves and proper footwork.

Sept. sessions: 9/6, 13, 20, 27. Ages 9-12: 10:3011:30 am, ages 13-16: 11:30 am-12:30 pm.

Residents: $40/session, Non-residents: $50/ session. Registration: 243-7250.

9/6 - Group Swim Lessons at the John Denson Pool, 225 NW 12th Ave., Boynton Beach. For ages 3 and older. Young children must be potty trained. Saturdays in four-week sessions through 9/25. Held again 10/4-10/25. Four 45 minute classes per session. Levels I, II & III: 10:30 & 11:15 am. Cost per session is $40/ resident, $50/non-residents. 742-6645.

9/6 - Piano Classes at the Boynton Beach Civic Center, 128 E. Ocean Ave. Participants learn the basics of keyboard and piano without the high cost of private lessons while still enjoying individualized attention. For ages 6-12. All students should bring a keyboard. Saturdays through 10/18. Beginner/Intermediate: 10:3011:30 am; Intermediate/Advanced: 11:30am12:30 pm. $48/residents, $60/non-residents.

Registration: 742-6240.

9/6 - Science Stories at the Children’s Science Explorium, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton.

Hear your favorite science inspired stories.

For ages 5 and up. Saturdays, 11:30 am. Free.

347-3912.

9/6 - Art-E-Ology: Ralph Goings: Photorealism 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; free/ members. Reservations: 392-2500 ext. 106.

9/6 - Rhythmic Gymnastics: Intermediate Level for ages 7-12 at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Class designed for females featuring a combination of ballet, acrobatics and theatrical prop handling. Sat. through 10/25. 2-3:30 pm. $160/ residents, $$200/non-residents. 347-3950.

9/6 - Kids Club Afterschool Program Registration at one of two licensed afterschool program locations in Boynton Beach.

T-Sat., 10 am-2 pm, at Intracoastal Park

a lot of information even adults don’t know.”

The nuggets of information combined with the experience of seeing real-life sharks makes it a fun, educational experience for children.

Urbanek said children respond to the sharks with a combination of fear and wonder: “Everything from kids who are very frightened to others who want to bend over and touch them.”

The Sandoway House is also launching a new outreach program this school year that entails bringing certain fish on location to schools.

The school programs in 2014-2015 will cover topics such as amphibians, reptiles, birds and insects. It’s a way for more children to be able to get a glimpse of all that Sandoway has to engage people.

“Sandoway is such a unique place — a historic house, alligator, sharks in an aquarium that’s a converted swimming pool. You can still see the steps,” Urbanek said.

While the sharks are the

Clubhouse, 2240 N. Federal Hwy. Ages 5-12 receive free transportation to either the Art Center, 125 SE 2nd Ave., 742-6221, or the Hester Center, 1901 N. Seacrest Blvd., 742-6550.

Concentrate on homework and participate in indoor and outdoor play, arts & crafts and special activities from 2:30-6 pm, M-F. Schools served: Citrus Cove, Crosspointe, Forest Park, Galaxy, Poinciana and Rolling Green. $115/ residents, $144/non-residents. Registration fee: $20 per month. Registration: 742-6550.

9/6 - Call for Entries for 3rd Annual Kids Scary Film FestIval at Sugar Sand Park Community Center, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Filmmakers ages 6-17 are invited to submit a short film for entry into the film festival. Deadline 9/25. Entry forms available online. $5/entry. 347-3900 or www.

SugarSandPark.org/shriek-week.

SEPTEMBER 7-13

Monday - 9/8 - Kangaroo Kids Programs for ages 15 mos. to 5 at the James A. Rutherford Community Center, Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Road, Boca Raton. Kangaroo Babies (ages 15 mos.-2 years): Participants enhance their relationship with their tiny tot by sharing songs, parenting discussions, story time, and motor skills development activities. Kangaroo Kids (ages 2-3): Participants hop from one activity to the next while preparing children for preschool with age appropriate art projects, songs, dramatics and story time. Kangaroo Kids II (ages 3-5): Share time together with your child by creating art projects, singing and participating in imaginative play. Six-week session held M through 10/27. Age 15 mos.-2 years, 9-9:30 am, $70-$88; age 2-3 years: 9:4510:30 am, $85-$106.25; age 3-5 years: 10:4511:30 am, $85-$106.25. 367-7035.

9/8 - Baby Bookworm at the Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Story time for infants accompanied by an adult. Ages 3 months to walking. Tuesdays through 10/6.

10-10:30 am. Free. Registration: 393-7968.

9/8 - Adventures with Authors for ages 4-6 at the Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Foster you child’s love of reading by exploring a popular children’s author each week. Children attend independently. M through 10/6. 3:30-4 pm. Free. Registration: 393-7968.

9/8 - Kid Activity Lab at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Play board and video games using a Wii, PS3 or Xbox 360, practice on ukuleles, or make wearable art.

Grades K-5. Held again 9/22. 4-5 pm. 742-6393.

9/8 - Bricks 4 Kidz for grades K-5th at the James A. Rutherford Community Center, Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Road, Boca Raton.

Hands on experience designing and building

Jennifer Urbanek leads a shark feeding at the Sandoway House.

Shelley Gilken/The Coastal Star main attraction, visitors are also amused by the shells, snakes, turtles, fossil dig, and an alligator and microscope lab. There are frequently special events such as a beach cleanups

or beach combing.

And if that’s not enough, there is a replica of a megalodon jaw that visitors can stand behind. Ú

machines, catapults, pyramids, derby cars, buildings and other constructions out of LEGO bricks. Four-week course runs M through 9/29.

4-5 pm. $55/residents, $69/non-residents.

367-7035.

9/8 - Junior Tennis Clinics at Boynton Beach Tennis Center, 3111 S. Congress Ave. Designed for those who have never taken lessons. Ages 5-6 (4-5 pm); Ages 7-15 (5-6 pm). Residents: $48, Non-residents: $60. Registration: 7426575.

9/8 - Don’t Be Bored! Board Game of the Month at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. For grades 6-12. Play Telestrations, a funny version of Pictionary. No artistic skills necessary. 5-6 pm. Free. 742-6390.

9/8 - Musical Theater & Dance Class for ages 5-9 at the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. Learn musical routines to your favorite song and dance shows. Short scenes incorporated along with prop dances and singing. Theater games played to improve on imagination, improvisation, and creativity.

Attire: girls - black leotard and shorts; boys white shirts and black bottoms. Parents asked to wait outside during class. Four-week session held M through 9/29. 5-5:45 pm. $50/residents, $63/non-residents. 393-7807.

9/8 - Got Gaming? at the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave. Held again 9/15, 22 & 29. 5:15-6:30 pm. Free. 266-9490.

9/8 - Karate Classes for ages 6-12 at the Boynton Beach Civic Center, 128 E. Ocean Ave. Kids improve socialization skills, learn self-discipline, confidence and respect, all while staying physically and mentally active.

M (5:30-6:30) & Sat. (9-10 am) through 10/18.

5:30-6:30 pm. $75/resident, $94/non-resident.

Registration: 742-6240.

9/8 - Intermediate/Advanced Fencing/ Epee Class at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Kids learn fencing skills, forge new friendships and have a blast.

M-W-F, 7-10 pm. $135/residents, $168.75/nonresidents. 347-3950.

9/8 - Beginners Fencing/Epee Class at Sugar Sand Park Field House, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Kids learn fencing skills, forge new friendships and have a blast. M&F, 7-8:15 pm. $90/residents, $112.50/non-residents.

347-3950.

Tuesday - 9/9 - Toddler Tales at the Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Stories, songs and puppets that teach the love of books.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Ages up to 3 years. T through 10/7. 10-10:30 am. Free. Registration: 393-7968.

9/9 - Baby Bookworm Story Time for ages 1-2 at the Highland Beach Library, 3618 S. Ocean Blvd. Tuesdays, 11 am. Free. 278-5455.

9/9 - Kangaroo Kids II for ages 3-5 at the

James A. Rutherford Community Center, Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Road, Boca Raton.

Share some fun time with your child by creating art projects, singing and participating in imaginative play. T through 10/28. 11-11:45 am. $85/residents, $106.25/non-residents.

367-7035.

9/9- Cartooning, Drawing & Coloring for ages 7-15 at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Learn basic cartooning techniques by drawing the cartoon face and figure. Learn simple line drawing and shading.

Bring pencil and paper. Tuesdays through 10/14. 4-5:30 pm. $52/resident, $65/nonresident. 347-3900.

9/9 - Small Fry Storytime for ages 3 and up at the Highland Beach Library, 3618 S. Ocean Blvd.

Features songs and a craft project. Tuesdays, 4 pm. Free. 278-5455g.

9/9 - Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell Presented as part of Teen Book Club at the Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. For ages 13-17. 6:30-8 pm. Free. Registration: 393-7968.

9/9-10 - 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. T (10:30-11:15 am) & W (10:30-11 am). Free with paid Museum admission. 7426782.

9/9-10 - After School Science Series: Let’s Be Scientists! at the Children’s Science Explorium, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Kids spend an hour exploring and experimenting together, trying something new every month. T: Ages 5-6 (with parent); W: Ages 7-9. Both days 4-5 pm. $10/residents; $12.50/ non-residents. 347-3912.

Wednesday - 9/10 - Kindermusik with Miss Cathy at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. For ages 0 mo.-4 yrs. Children explore rhythm, melody, and other musical building blocks. Classes feature a variety of musical styles for a fun and positive experience for both parents and children. Materials fee paid to the instructor. Available as either a sixweek (through 10/29) or twelve-week (through 12/17) session. Ages 0-16 mos.: 9:30-10:15 am; 15 mos-2.5 yrs.: 10:30-11:15 am; 2.5-4 yrs.: 11:30-12:15 pm. Twelve-week session: $204/ resident, $255/non-resident; Six-week session: $120/resident, $150/non-resident. 347-3900.

9/10 - Family Storytime at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Listen to stories, sing songs and learn fingerplays.

Infants-Age 5. Held again 9/17 & 24. 10-10:45 am. Free. 742-6380 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

9/10 - Tales for 2’s and 3’s at the Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Story time for children accompanied by an adult. W

September 2014 through 10/8. Ages 2 & 3. 10-10:30 am. Free.

Registration: 393-7968.

9/10 - Miss Sara’s Dance Class for ages 2-5 at the James A. Rutherford Community Center, Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Rd., Boca Raton.

Class introduces preschoolers to the basics of ballet, tap, gymnastics, fitness, and creative movement. Adults wait outside the classroom.

W through 10/15. Age 2: 10:15-10:45 am, $60/ residents, $75/non-residents; age 3-5: 11 am-noon, $84/residents, $105/non-residents.

367-7035.

9/10 - Tot Tumbling/Gymnastics for ages 18 months-5 years at the Boynton Beach Civic Center, 128 E. Ocean Ave. Child learns ageappropriate gymnastic skills through the use of tot-sized equipment. Parents/caregivers participate in classes. W through 10/15. Age 18-36 months: 10:30-11:10 am; Age 3-5: 11:1511:55 am. $60/residents, $75/non-residents.

Registration: 968-4011.

9/10 - Amazing Art for ages 2-5 at the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center, 129 E. Ocean Ave., Boynton Beach.

Students introduced to various art mediums through fun and engaging activities.

Wednesdays, 11:30 am-noon. $2.50/members, $3.50/non-members plus paid Museum admission. Registration: 742-6780.

9/10 - Yoga Kids Class at the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd.

Classes combine yoga positions with music, storytelling, and art while conveying lessons in positive thinking, self confidence and environment awareness. Wednesdays through 10/1. Please wear comfortable clothing and bring a yoga mat. Two sessions offered: age 5-7, 4-4:45 pm; age 8-12, 5-6 pm. $48/residents, $60/non-residents. 393-7807.

9/10 - Teen Gaming at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Grades 6-12 play video games us a Wii, PS3 or Xbox 360. Held again 9/17 & 24. 5:30-7pm. Free. 742-6390.

Thursday - 9/11 - Kindermusik with Miss Cathy at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. For ages 0 mo.-4 yrs. Children explore rhythm, melody, and other musical building blocks. Classes feature a variety of musical styles for a fun and positive experience for both parents and children. Materials fee paid to the instructor. Available as either a six-week (through 10/30, no class 10/16, 10/23) or twelve-week (through 12/18, no class 10/16, 23 & 11/27) session. Ages 0-16 mos.: 9:30-10:15 am; 15 mos-2.5 yrs.: 10:30-11:15 am; 2.5-4 yrs.: 11:30-12:15 pm. Twelve-week session: $204/ resident, $255/non-resident; Six-week session: $120/resident, $150/non-resident. 347-3900.

9/11 - Drop-In Story time - Music, stories, finger plays and action songs stimulate learning at the Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. For children of all ages. Ages 8 & younger must be accompanied by an adult. Thursdays, 10-10:30 am. Free. 393-7968.

9/11 - Tap & Ballet Class: Session I for ages 3-8 at the James A. Rutherford Community Center, Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Rd., Boca Raton. Develop children’s confidence, creativity, rhythm, coordination, strength and expression. Learn the basic groundwork for the recital routines taught in the recital sessions.

Students must be enrolled in recital session 1 to participate in recital, taking place in June.

Th. through 10/30. Ages 3 1/2-4: 10:15-10:55 am; age 4 ½-5: 3:45-4:25 pm; age 6-8: 4:305:10 pm. $100/resident, $125/non-resident.

989-0920.

9/11 - Brain Boost Class for grades K-5 at the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. Strategic games enhance your child’s critical thinking skills while strengthening their focus and memory. Program designed to challenge children with new activities, varying degrees of difficulty and continuous novelty.

All games supplied. Thursdays through 10/23.

Grades K-2: 3:30-4:30 pm; Grades 3-5: 4:455:45 pm. $120/residents, $150/non-residents.

393-7807.

9/11 - Teen Chess Club at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. For grades 6-12. Sharpen your chess skills or take a free chess lesson. 5-6:30 pm. Free. 742-6390.

9/11 - The City of Ember: The Graphic Novel

by Jeanne DuPrau - Presented as part of the Tween Book Club at the Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. For ages 9-12. 6:307:30 pm. Free. Registration: 393-7968.

Friday - 9/12 - Kindermusik for newborn through age 30 months at the James A. Rutherford Community Center, Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Road, Boca Raton. Explore dance movements, instrument and cultures from all over the world. F through 12/19. Age 12-24 months: 9:30-10:15 am; age 16-30 months: 10:30-11:15 am; age 0-14 months: 11:30 am12:15 pm; age 30 months-4 years: & 12:30-1:15 pm. $204/residents, $255/non-residents.

367-7035.

Saturday - 9/13 - Basics of Sewing &

The COASTAL STAR Fashion Design Class for ages 8 & up at the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. First class focuses on learning the sewing machine, its parts, threading and safety. Lay out fabrics, trace patterns and cut fabric while learning basic sewing techniques like seam allowances, elastic tunnels, shirring, pressing and hemming. The goal is to complete 1-2 pieces in a 10 week session. Each session concludes with a fashion show showcasing student designs for friends and family. A few sewing machines will be made available for use in class, participants are welcome to bring their own as long as it is in good working condition.

Sat. through 11/15. Advanced: 9:30-11:30 am; Beginner: 11:15-12:45 pm. $226/residents, $276/non-residents. 393-7807.

9/13 - Fish Printing Family Fun Day at The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach. Learn to make a Gyotaku, or traditional Japanese fish print. Ages 7-12. Noon-3 pm. Free with paid museum admission. 495-0233.

9/13 - Lego Club for grades K-5 at the Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Children 8 and younger must be accompanied by an adult. Tickets are required and are available ½ hour before class time. Space is limited. 3-4 pm.

Free. 393-7968 or www.bocalibrary.org.

SEPTEMBER 14-20

Monday - 9/15 - Early Afternoon Explorers: Rock Quest at the Children’s Science Explorium, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton.

Ages 6-9: 1-2 pm; ages 10-12: 2-3 pm. $10/ residents; $12.50/non-residents. 347-3912.

9/15 - Actors Conservatory: Classical Character Study for the Stage for ages 12-18 at the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. An intense program, designed to foster the young actor’s creative process.

Conservatory training focus ranges from Shakespeare/stage work to film and television.

Individual class will examine emotional truth and process, scale for the camera vs. scale for the stage, stage combat, and vocal/ movement training for the actor. Conservatory actors perform in a showcase at the end of the session. Mondays through 11/24. 5-8 pm. $475/ residents, $594/non-residents. 393-7807.

9/15 - Exhibitions Studio Class for ages 1521 at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Develop art installation skills, portfolio, modern art education, artist statement and the basic elements of art. The goal is to create an exhibition of 6-12 pieces at the end of the session and prepare students with showcasing experience. Mondays through 10/20 (no class 10/13). 6-8 pm. $130/resident, $162.50/nonresident. 347-3900.

Tuesday - 9/16 - A Taste of Science at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. For grades 6-12. Physical science and architecture come to life in this tasty science experiment. Attempt to construct bridges from spaghetti and marshmallows and have them judged based on creativity and stability. 5-6:30 pm. Free. 742-6390.

9/16 - Youth Archery Class for ages 8-15 at the Meadows Park Tennis Courts, 1300 NW 8th St., Boca Raton. Beginner’s program introduces participants to the Olympic sport of archery through skill development and paper target practice. Participants become proficient in range safety, proper shooting form and technique. A non-competitive atmosphere that builds discipline, technique and a sense of accomplishment. All equipment provided.

Tuesdays through 10/21. 6-7 pm. $60/resident, $75/non-resident. 393-7807.

9/16-17 - Group Swim Lessons at the John Denson Pool, 225 NW 12th Ave., Boynton Beach.

For ages 3 and older. Young children must be potty trained. T/Th or W/F. Eight 30-minute classes per session. T&Th: 9/16-10/9; W&F: 9/17-10/10. Level 1 & II: 4:30 & 5 pm; Level III: 4 pm; Cost per session is $40/resident, $50/nonresidents. 742-6645.

Thursday - 9/18 - Learn with Legos @ Your Library at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Ages 3-9 make a truck, spaceship or whatever your imagination conjures up using Legos. 10-11 am. Free. 7426390 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

9/18 - Rainbow Looms at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Use the looms to make bracelets and necklaces. Share your designs. Grades K-6. 1-2:30 pm. 742-6393.

9/18 - The Lego Movie (PG) - Presented as part of Tween Movie Mania at the Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. For school age children accompanied by an adult. Free snacks.

1:30-3 pm. Free. 393-7968.

9/18 - Craft Time for ages 4 and up at the Highland Beach Library, 3618 S. Ocean Blvd.

Held the 1st & 3rd Thursday of each month. 4 pm. Free. Registration: 278-5455.

9/18 - The Crew: Wear it, Survive it, Unravel it/Paracord Bracelets for ages 9-14

presented at the Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. Registration: 393-7968 or www.bocalibrary.org.

Friday - 9/19 - Mommy, Mother Nature & Me: Busy Bees at Daggerwing Nature Center, 11435 Park Access Road, Boca Raton. 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.

9/19 - Children’s Special: Mr. Richard Sharing the Joy of Music at the Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. For elementary school age children accompanied by an adult.

3:30-4:30 pm. Free. 393-7968.

9/19 - Friday Night at the Museum at the Children’s Science Explorium, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. A night out with your parents!

Ages 7-12 are invited to wear their comfy clothes as they get a chance to hang out in the Explorium after hours. 6-9:30 pm. $20/ residents, $25/non-residents. 347-3912.

Saturday - 9/20 - Story and Play with Miss Mij at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. For ages 18 mo.-4 yrs. Stories, fingerplays, poems, songs, props and puppets.

Caregives and children learn and play together, using key components of repetition, rhythm and rhyme to enhance their child’s pre-literacy skills and imagination. Ages 18 mo.-2 yrs.: 10-10:45 am; 3-4 yrs.: 11:15 am-noon. $5/drop in (includes one carousel token per paid child).

347-3900 or www.SugarSandPark.org.

9/20-21 - Science Demonstrations at the Children’s Science Explorium, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Hear your favorite science inspired stories. For ages 5 and up. Sat. & Sun. 3:30 pm. Free. 347-3912.

SEPTEMBER 21-27

Sunday - 9/21 - Weekend Movie Madness: The Lego Movie (PG) at Sugar Sand Park Community Center, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. 11 am. $1 admission includes popcorn and a beverage. 347-3948.

Monday - 9/22 - Acting 101: SuperHeroes & SuperPrincesses for ages 5-11 at the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd.

For the creative child who is determined to be on stage. Classes start with creative dramatics through a series of exercises and games, then skill building and character creation for the stage. Character work in scenes appropriate for the student’s age. A showcase will be put on to celebrate new skills. Mondays through 10/27.

3-5 pm. $200/residents, $250/non-residents.

393-7807.

9/22 - Yu-Gi-Oh Go! at the Boynton Beach City

Tots & Teens Calendar AT15 Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. For grades 6-12.

Play Yu-Gi-Oh against your friends and trade cards. 5-6:30 pm. Free. 742-6390.

Tuesday - 9/23 - Lego Club for grades K-6 at the Boynton Beach City Library, 508 S. Seacrest Blvd. Complete the monthly build challenge or free-build to test your creativity. School-age children encouraged, but a section of blocks for younger siblings will be available. 4-5 pm. Free.

742-6380 or www.boyntonlibrary.org.

Wednesday - 9/24 - Booktastic Club for 7 & 8’s: Martin Bridge in High Gear by Jessica Scott Anderson at the Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Ave. Children attend independently. 3:30-4:30 pm. Free.

Registration: 393-7968.

Thursday - 9/25 - School’s Out: Bright & Smart Robotics Workshop for ages 7-12 at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Working in teams, children learn to build and program robots using a special edition of Lego bricks and a specially developed curriculum. Each team of three is grouped according to their abilities, skills and/or age. 9 am-3 pm. $50/residents, $62.50/non-residents.

347-3900 or www.SugarSandPark.org.

9/25 - School’s Out: Director’s Cut - Reel Film Experience for ages 7-14 at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Students write a script, scout shot locations, learn multiangle filming techniques, act, edit, add voices, sound effects, music, and titles. 9 am-3 pm. $38/residents, $47.50/non-residents. 347-3900.

9/25 - Playground Playdate at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. Get info about upcoming programs and enjoy free kid’s activities. 11 am. Free. 347-3900.

Friday - 9/26 - Super Hero Science Night At The Museum at the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium, 4801 Dreher Trail North, West Palm Beach. 6-9 pm. $12.50/adults, $9/ children (3-12), $5.50/adult members, free/ children members and kids under age 3. 8321988 or www.sfsciencecenter.org.

SEPT. 28-OCT. 4

Monday - 9/29 - Make and Take at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. Learn a new crafting skill or bring a favorite activity to work on and share. For grades 2-6. 4-5 pm. Free. 742-6380.

Tuesday- 9/30 - You’re A Gem: GEMS Club at the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium, 4801 Dreher Trail North, West Palm Beach. Standing for Girls Excelling in Math and Science, the club meets every last Tuesday of the month. Open to grades 3-8, this gathering is an opportunity to empower young girls to explore STEM fields. High school girls can volunteer

Once Upon a Time offers distinctive, finely crafted clothing, shoes, toys and accessories for the little ones in your life, sizes newborn to 10. We are devoted to bringing you imaginative, wearable clothing that embraces the innocence and fun of childhood.

Our brands are carefully selected from European, American and Australian designers. We also offer personalized customer service, gift wrapping and local in-home delivery.

to be mentors. 5-7 pm. Free. Registration: 370-7710.

9/30 - Logo Game Show at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. For grades 6-12. Show what you know and compete against others in the Logo Game Show. 5:306:30 pm. Free. 742-6390.

Wednesday - 10/1 - Small World class for ages 3-4 at Intracoastal Park, 2240 N. Federal Highway, Boynton Beach. Children enjoy structured play and educational activities in a safe and entertaining environment. Runs through 10/31. 9 am-noon. Two sessions: M/W/F, $64/residents, $80/non-residents; M-F, $95/residents, $119/non-residents. 742-6650.

10/1 - Imagination Station at the Boynton Beach Art Center, 125 SE 2nd Ave. Ages 3 1/2-5 exercise their imaginations while learning shapes, colors, numbers and the A-B-C’s through creative art. Runs through 10/31. 9:30 am-noon. Two sessions: M/W/F, $48/residents, $60/non-residents; M-F, $80/residents, $100/ non-residents. 742-6221.

10/1 - Once Upon a Happily Ever After Class at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. For ages 9-12. Bring your imagination and your most colorful pens to this hands-on two-hour workshop. 4-6 pm. $35/resident; $43.75/non-resident. 347-3900.

10/1 - Hip Hop Dance Party Class for ages 5-9 at the James A. Rutherford Community Center, Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Road, Boca Raton. Class allows students to learn choreographed warmups and dances to their favorite songs. W through 10/22. 5:15-6 pm. $50/residents, $63/non-residents. 367-7035.

Thursday - 10/2 - Game On! - Presented as part of Teen Hang Out Nights at the Boca Raton Public Library, 200 NW Boca Raton Blvd. For ages 13-17. 6-8:30 pm. Free. 393-7968.

Saturday - 10/4 - Family Studio: Start Your Engines! at the Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach. View artworks and tour the special exhibition Wheels and Heels: The Big Noise Around Little Toys. Then learn about fashion illustration and design by sketching a costumed model and designing a fashion board with your drawing, fabrics and more. Ages 5-12 with parents. 10:30 am-12:30 pm. $8 materials fee payable at the door. 8325196 ext. 1113.

10/4 - Workshop: Still Life & Sketch a Pet at Intracoastal Park, 2240 N. Federal Highway, Boynton Beach. Ages 8-14 study the importance of basic shapes, shadows, proper proportions and details. 10:30 am-1:30 pm. Sat. through 11/8. $100/residents, $125/non-residents. 7426650 or www.boynton-beach.org.

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The COASTAL STAR

September 2014