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Must See Obituaries By Mary Thurwachter LANTANA — Judy Black was passionate in promoting environmental conservation and committed to creating gardens. “She was a leader in the environmental movement,” said Ilona Balfour, who worked for a number of years with Ms. Black on the Friends of the Theater Lantana Nature Rob Donohoe takes on the“She Preserve. legend of Tru at was Palmalways Beach Dramaworks. Page AT11 supporting everybody. She will be sorely missed.” After a long illness, Ms. Black, 67, of Lantana (on Hypoluxo Island), died Nov. 15 at a second home she and her husband of 29 years, Richard Schlosberg, had in Washington, Conn. She was born in New York City on Sept. 27, 1948. Ms. Black served as president of the Hypoluxo Island Property Owners Association for four years. ArtShe frequently coordinated with contenders the Lantanafor town manager Four $20,000 Rubin Prize in Photography on view at the Norton. Page AT12
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Judy Black on association activities. always thought before she Ms. Black had a successful as one of the 10 top people in She also supervised the spoke. She was always wise in career in advertising. She was the field in the 1990s and was neighborhood association’s her approach.” a vice president of marketing once on the cover of Media Tree Program to save the Along with her husband, for Bozell throughout many Magazine as the seer of the www.palmbeachartspaper.com ecologically essential native tree Ms. Black was a frequent corporate combinations from future of advertising. She canopy. She oversaw the plans, attendee at Town of Lantana BJK&E to True North. Within continued to follow both the brought them to fruition, and council meetings and town advertising, she specialized advertising industry and new with several other members Nature Preserve meetings in new media. She researched media field. Later, she worked and town staff, helped plant the where her infrequent comments and wrote studies well received for Cablevision. “Four Corners” entry onto the were always substantive and (and some seminal) in the use Ms. Black earned a Master of island, as well as the “y” entry to the heart of an issue. Her of cable television, then of Arts degree in education from to the south part of the island. brief statements helped save the Internet, as they relate to the Bank Street College School “She turned her own small the native habitat which several advertising. of Education and a Master of front and mostly paved back years ago became the Lantana For years, she assisted, Business Administration from yards into verdant habitat, Scrub Nature Preserve. leading a subcommittee, then Columbia University School of protective of endangered and Ms. Black, Schlosberg headed up as chairperson Business. Her undergraduate threatened migratory birds,” said, “served capably and was the American Association of degree was a B.A. in art history her husband said. very widely respected as the Advertising Agencies New from Barnard College. Ms. Black coordinated non-town (of Manalapan) Technologies Committee. “She kept dear friends she the HIPOA’s annual picnic representative on the La “She was in demand by met from school to business her for about four years. She Coquille Club board and clients for her company,” her entire life,” Schlosberg said. continued administrative and Town of Manalapan La husband said. “She spoke Survivors, in addition to her coordinating activities during Coquille subcommittee around the world, from New husband, include her brother, a three year transition and during a prolonged period of Zealand to Brazil to Finland, Leon Black, his wife, Debra, recruited new, competent and intense debate, defending the for example, enthusiastically and their four children. Fromleadership. left: Julia Formica (photo contributed), Jared Lee, Brooke Geissler and Morgan Beers. Photos Tomwas Tracy younger retention of the traditional and with insights from her Ms.by Black predeceased One of her recruits was Lyn non-town membership research on the potentials by her mother, Shirley Black Tate, current treasurer of the inclusive structure, and from technical vantage points Kash, who died in 2014 and her HIPOA. against challenges to the club’s of the then undeveloped father, Eli M. Black, who died “Not only was Judy a existence. new mediums of cable TV in 1975. special person because she She was often a rare voice programming and the Internet A tree in By Bill Meredith percussionist and vocalist in their early 20s, Beers and jazz bandplanting togetherceremony as far back was so ArtsPaper brilliant, but she gave promoting Hypoluxo Islandas advertising outlets.” her honor is being planned for Music Writer Brooke Geissler split the Geissler in their mid-20s.) as high school,” Beers says. a unconditionally to the island wide (joined Lantana and Ms. Black was recognized later difference by residing in “We love playing covers,” “Wedate. tried to start this band in and the town,” Tate said. “She Manalapan) activities. by the advertising industry Many towns have a Main Delray Beach. Beers says. “We can’t get early 2014, but we were still in Street, a thoroughfare that Stylistically, the band is enough of it. I’m also a big college and getting slammed links its other tributaries to essentially a lineup of solo fan of famous bands covering with our classes. We weren’t keep drivers from getting lost. songwriters who got together tunes, which has become able to gain any traction until But West Palm Beach-based specifically to play cover popular. So we decided to about a year later, after we’d pop/rock band Mainstreet material instead. And many purposely become exclusively graduated.” Dreamers was not named for of their song choices — from a cover act.” The four band members’ any such predictability. the Romantics’ “What I Like While many bands start day jobs would also be Geographically, West About You” and Guns N’ with singers and guitarists impossible to predict, from who livesBeach just east of listed the A.G. theRoses’ town’s website, which he presentation you.” section aaudio position as operations Palm is just on “Sweet Child O’ Mine” looking for afor rhythm technician and bridge Holley site on North Eighth called “jaw dropping.” In other news, the town manager for the community the quartet’s Web pages as to Lenny Kravitz’s “Are You for completion, Mainstreet operator to retail associate Street. Ken Tuma of Urban Design learned thatavoided its clerk, Crystal services division of theEven city of a central location. Bassist Gonna Go My Way” and Dreamers that norm and musical educator. “I read four fast-food Kilday Studios, speaking Gibson, Palm Beach Gardens. Morgan Beers lives farther the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ as well. Beers and Geissler the group’s name wasn’t restaurants and a gas station for“Dani the applicant, Southeast would Council members praised north in Jupiter, guitarist California” — range came up with the idea be while contrived. andJared my heart just sank,” Legacy Investments, appeared leaving. her workwere andsitting she was given a Lee much farther south from nearly as old to even far studying music together at “We around Tischler said. “I want it to be a at the Nov. 23 council meeting Gibson, of standing ovation. Ú in Weston. Lead singer Julia older than the band members. Florida Atlantic University. a table, brainstorming and destination thatdrummer, people living but(Formica withheldand hisLee presentation Worth, Formica and are only “Brooke and Lake I played in See MAINSTREET on Page 10 here will be proud of.” until Dec. 14. has been —Willie Howard Tischler suggested upscale “We’re very excited to town clerk for contributed to this story dwellings and a store such show you our plans,” he said. seven years as Whole Foods Market for ”We’ve got a great PowerPoint Gibson and took the Water Tower Commons property. “We’re only going to get one shot at this,” Tischler said. “This is going to affect our grandchildren.” By Hap Erstein Universal Studios in Orlando, a satisfied smile. but according to Don Seward, Dustin MizellTheater urged the ArtsPaper Writer rotating in a role with a Those who are familiar with who plays tough guy Curtis council to push hard for a handful of other women. She the movie know it concerns a Jackson, the musical’s songs quality project onBloomfield, the 73-acre Ask Patrece happened to be performing Philadelphia nightclub singer provide the stage show with a tract, former home toWick the A.G. who is making her when Michael Ursua, the who witnesses a murder and is little more depth. Holley tuberculosis hospital, Theatre debut in Sister Act as Wick’s musical director and then hidden for her safety in a “I feel like with the solos which closed in 2012 wasthe designated director of Sister Delores Van Cartierand — aka convent. There her irreverent, these characters have, you get tornWhoopi down last year. character Goldberg Act, was walking by. empowering attitude rubs to hear their inner thoughts “Unless we step back and in the 1992 movie — how “He’d been through that off on the nuns, while their that you don’t see in the really at this shelook got the role project, and she will part of the park several times spiritual demeanor has an movie,” he says. “With these it could bein another missed answer two words, “Divine and had never seen my show,” effect on her. And the rousing songs, you understand the opportunity,” he said. intervention.” says Bloomfield. choir that Delores assembles characters a lot more. Another resident, Edward How appropriate for a But he caught her act, sends church attendance “If you’ve seen the movie of Shropshire, saidtakes he was musical that place largely asked around about her and through the roof. Sister Act then you know it’s concerned about building in a convent. then hired her for the Wick’s Neither the show nor the kind of witty and lighthearted. heights up to 75 feet the Bloomfield was in appearing holiday show. “So apparently it movie of Sister Act will ever See SISTER ACT on Page 10 conceptual plans found in a theme parkhe show at on was meant to be,” she says with be accused of being profound,
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Water Tower Commons site plan review delayed until Dec. 14 By Mary Thurwachter The site plan for Water Tower Commons, the new development at the former A.G. Holley site, will finally come before the Lantana Town Council on Dec. 14. The plan was on the agenda in October and November, but the matter had to be Reviews postponed while Palm Beach Miami City Ballet brought County officials had a chance a beautiful Giselle to the to approve a traffic study for Kravis. Page AT14 the area, just east of I-95 on Lantana Road. Lantana finally received the study, with some conditions, late on the afternoon of the Nov. 23 council meeting. That didn’t allow enough time for town staff to comb though the study and share recommendations with council members, hence the postponement. But because the matter appeared on November agendas, public comment was heard at the November Books meetings. A big effort went into compiling “This is an opportunity the history of Lake Lantana will neverWorth's have small houses. PageTischler, AT17 again,” said Dan
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