ArtsPaper Season Preview INSIDE AROUND TOWN
Serving Hypoluxo Island, South Palm Beach, Manalapan, Ocean Ridge, Briny Breezes, Gulf Stream and Coastal Delray Beach
October 2014
Volume 7 Issue 10
South Palm Beach
Locals say aloha to former ‘Hawaiian’ inn By Willie Howard
Oh, the stories the walls of the Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn could tell. The 58-room hotel — a 1960s-era motel that lured tourists, glitterati and locals alike with its Polynesian-style winged roof, an ocean-side pool and drinks at the Tides
Bar & Grill — was the last commercial business in South Palm Beach, a town of about 3,000 condo-dwelling residents along a short stretch of State Road A1A nestled between Lantana and Palm Beach. It closed Sept. 22 to make way for a six-story condo, but not before a proper farewell. “How many other places can
you go where there’s a bar on the beach?” said Patrick Owens of West Palm Beach, who was sharing drinks and stories by the pool with friends on the final day. “All the locals used to come here every afternoon after work for happy hour.” “It’s terrible, terrible,” said Mary Smith of Lantana, who See HAWAIIAN on page 14
A 1960s postcard view of the Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn, when it was called the Palm Beach Hawaiian. Courtesy of Janet DeVries
Gulf Stream
Delray Beach
City poised to take new direction By Tim Pallesen
Icy challenge gets warm reception among students By Ron Hayes To the scientists who seek a cure, it’s “amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.” To the fundraisers, simply “ALS.” To Americans of a certain age, it has been “Lou Gehrig’s disease,” ever since the Pride of the Yankees succumbed, just 37, on June 2, 1941. To younger generations, it’s become the “Ice Bucket Challenge disease.” Pour a bucket of ice-cold water over your head or make a donation to fight ALS — then challenge a friend to do the same and post the video online. But to the students and faculty at Gulf Stream School, this is “Mr. Shannon’s disease.” One afternoon last month, almost all of the 250 students and much of the faculty stood in a very long line on the athletic field, holding buckets of very cold water.
Inside Health & Harmony You’ll fall for the seasonal fare of local restaurants that includes a certain squash. Page H1
ABOVE: Nearly 250 Gulf Stream School students took part in the ALS challenge in honor of Bill Shannon. LEFT: Anna and Bill Shannon have two children who are students at Gulf Stream School. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star For Bill and Anna Shannon, the private school is a family tradition. William, 18, and Christopher, 15, have graduated. Nicholas, 13, is an eighth-grader, and Christopher, 11, in sixth. The youngest, Finn, was only 3 months old when Bill Shannon got his diagnosis in June 2011. “No one in our family knew what ALS was when I was diagnosed, except my sister,” he remembers. “And she told me not to look it up.” Of course he looked it up.
Boston’s turns 35
The bar and restaurant sticks to its New England roots as it marks a milestone. Page 15
ALS is a progressive disease in which the motor neurons from the brain to the spinal cord and muscles slowly weaken. Muscle control is lost, ending in paralysis and death. The disease is rare. About two people in every 100,000 get it — 30,000 in the U.S. at any given time. Only about 20 percent of patients survive five years after being diagnosed. Three years after his diagnosis, Bill See ALS on page 12
City Hall has undergone a transformation in the 18 months since Mayor Cary Glickstein and Commissioner Shelly Petrolia were elected. New top administrators are in place. The addition of Jordana Jarjura to the commission last March gives Glickstein Glickstein and Petrolia a frequent third vote on key issues. “I’m happy to say we’ve turned the Titanic,” Glickstein said. The new regime was voted into office on a wave of public concern over Atlantic Avenue development and how the previous administration had handled city finances. “The commission is now more aligned to move the city forward with a new progressive, businesslike way of thinking, which is to say there is a majority completely untethered to past practices that were often governed by ‘that’s the way we’ve always done it,’ ” See MAYOR on page 12
Pay it Forward
Around Town
Plus: We pick 15 of the best charity events of the season. Page AT4
Left: Best friends launch children’s shop in Delray. Page 29
Our guide to society and charity events. Page AT2
Joe Gillie to retire from Delray Beach Center for the Arts. Page AT6