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features Hello Gorgeous!

Having Their Baby

Closet Cases

Bad Guys Beware

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For Some Couples Who Can’t Conceive, Loved Ones Are Stepping Up As Surrogates

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departments Observed Hot Stuff & The People Who Make It Happen 19 The Buzz 24 Trends 28 La Vida Boca

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HAVING THEIR BABY

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CLOSET CASES

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Six Women & Their Amazing Makeovers

“TODAY” SHOW HOST HODA KOTB CHATS ABOUT HER CAREER, WORKING WITH KATHIE LEE & WHY BEATING CANCER HAS MADE HER FEARLESS

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always love our Women’s Issue, but I must (humbly) admit that this month, The Boca Raton Observer staff has outdone itself! Ladies trust me, you will enjoy our April issue’s mix of eye candy and in-depth profiles as much as we did creating it for you. We begin with cover girl Hoda Kotb, co-host of the “Today” show’s fourth hour. Kotb, who was recently in West Palm Beach serving as grand marshal for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, is a woman of strength, grace and humor. During an exclusive interview, she spoke with us about working in the TV industry, her relationship with co-host Kathie Lee Gifford and how surviving cancer made her a stronger person. Get to know Kotb in “Living Out Loud” (page 52). We also introduce you to another fascinating woman: Broward County sex crimes prosecutor Stacey Honowitz. If she seems familiar, it’s because she regularly appears on national TV news networks, lending her insight and opinion on the latest crimes to make headlines. Learn more about this tough-as-nails lawyer and what makes her tick in “Bad Guys Beware” (page 82). And speaking of fascinating, we examine the national (and local) trend of incredible women who are offering to become surrogates for the sisters and

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Living the sweet life: Dylan Lauren

So, why decide to publish a book?

“I wanted to create something that featured candy as a lifestyle and showcased the many ways to use candy besides just eating it!” Besides candy, what inspires you?

“Fashion, art and pop culture.” Why work with candy rather than follow in your father’s fashion footsteps?

“My father and I are both artists, we just use different outlets. I have been a candy girl my whole life. Growing up, I started a collection of candy from around the world

and it inspired me to start using it as a medium for art and one-ofa-kind gifts. Everything evolved from there.” What’s your favorite type of candy?

“I love red gummies like Swedish Fish and gummy bears. I also have a sweet spot for anything marshmallow.” What was it about the “Willy Wonka” film that inspired you?

“Who hasn’t dreamed of having a completely edible world including a chocolate waterfall? I just made that dream a reality for all candy fans.”

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If you’re going to be the unofficial queen of something, candy’s not a bad gig. Dylan Lauren, daughter of legendary fashion designer Ralph Lauren and considered candy royalty, has been enamored with the sweet stuff since watching “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” at her 5th birthday party. After graduating from Duke University with a degree in art history, she cultivated her affinity for sweets by traveling the globe in search of new treats with creative packaging. In 2001, she combined her love of candy and art by opening her first Dylan’s Candy Bar in New York City, a colorful emporium featuring vintage candies and assorted goodies from around the world (she now owns five stores, including one in Orlando). Now the confection connoisseur has penned “Dylan’s Candy Bar: Unwrap Your Sweet Life” (Clarkson Potter), a coffee-table book filled with mouthwatering images and tips on how to celebrate the holidays with candy. She recently kicked off her South Florida book launch during a private party at One Bal Harbour Resort & Spa, and took time out to chat with The Boca Raton Observer.

What makes your candy stores different than others?

“Not only do we sell candy, but candy-inspired apparel, jewelry and accessories. Dylan’s Candy Bar has its own private-label luxury candy and chocolate, along with other candy lovers’ favorite brands. We also have a cafe with mouthwatering treats and a great event space to throw some pretty sweet parties!” Do you visit South Florida often?

“I try to come as much as possible! I fly down around twice Super a year Starlet: and my trips always end tooCassie soon.” Scerbo.

Any plans to open a store here?

“I will never say never! Right now we are expanding one step at a time.” What else are you working on?

“Other than Dylan’s Candy Bar, I’ve been busy planning my upcoming wedding. (Her fiancé, hedge fund manager Paul Arrouet, proposed last year on the beach at sunset). “Dylan’s Candy Bar has some big surprises for 2011 that will please all candy fans, so stay tuned.”

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SPARKLE PLENTY Check out any red carpet and you’re bound to see some sparkly gems by Italian fine jewelry designer Ippolita Rostagno (better known as simply, ‘Ippolita’). “Ippolita’s jewelry is beautiful, sleek and graphic,” actress Halle Berry gushed to InStyle magazine. “Each piece has a sexy, feminine essence.” Jessica Alba, Minnie Driver, Kate Winslet, Susan Sarandon, LeAnn Rimes and Kate Hudson are also fans, especially of her gold, silver and resin bangles, all hand-crafted and cast in original wax molds, and available unadorned or embellished with precious stones. During a recent visit to Neiman Marcus at Town Center at Boca Raton, Ippolita spoke about jewelry trends, her celebrity clientele and why she only uses her first name.

What inspires your designs?

What’s your favorite jewelry to wear?

“Art is always my first inspiration, and then everything I see in my travels—color, architecture, culture and food.”

“Dangly earrings. Movement is sexy and feminine, so that’s something I try to incorporate in everything I do.”

“I like to think, and I find it easier when it’s quiet. I like a lot of light; my studio has windows on three sides so that’s important.”

“It’s wonderfully gratifying that they wear them, not only on the red carpet, but also in their everyday lives.”

What kind of environment do you require when designing?

Describe some great jewelry trends for the Boca Raton woman.

“Long layered chains look fantastic over sundresses or a bathing suit; also large-scale earrings.”

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How does it feel to see celebrities wearing your pieces?

Speaking of celebrities, there’s Madonna, Prince, Sting… and now ‘Ippolita.’ Why use just your first name?

“Honestly, because it’s easier. My name is such a mouthful.”

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When advertising creative director Joan Flavell was struck with ovarian cancer two years ago, she fought back the best way she knew how—with her creativity. During the darkest hours of her grueling chemotherapy, she found solace in art, taking photographs and digitally enhancing them into dreamy abstract images that bore an almost magical quality.“I love creating art and that didn’t stop just because I was sick,” says Flavell, who in 1989 launched Madog Grafix Visual Communications, a successful advertising and design firm she ran until her illness forced her to close shop. “You can’t focus on the chemo or you may just give up,” she says. Today Flavell is cancer-free, re-launching her firm and plans to sell a line of products featuring her artwork. Says Flavell: “The “madog” herself is back!” – Maggie Evans

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Boynton Beach resident and Florida Atlantic University Professor Ken Osgood, whom, along with his wife, Rachel, was on a Tokyo train when the earthquake hit. The couple was stuck in Japan for 36 hours before finally getting a flight out. Source: The Palm Beach Post

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Doing Something American Nonprofit Phenom Nancy Lublin Is Anything But Idle By Linda Haase

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t’s amazing what $5,000 can do. That and a lot of chutzpah,” quips Nancy Lublin, who founded Dress for Success at age 23 with an unexpected inheritance from her great-grandfather, Poppy Max. Founding the nonprofit organization in 1996, which now has more than 100 affiliates worldwide, changed Lublin’s life. She dropped out of law school (she later finished) to run Dress for Success, which is dedicated to improving the lives and boosting the self-confidence of disadvantaged women by providing suits for interviews, career development training and mentoring programs. And she discovered she thrived on the crazy, exhausting life of a trailblazer in the not-for-profit world. “I hope my great-grandfather would be proud of what I did. He immigrated with nothing and I wanted to do something to help others get started the way he did,” says Lublin, who was in Boca Raton recently to speak at the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County’s annual Lion of Judah Luncheon. “But he’s probably also confused and saying, ‘I wish she would have become a lawyer and had a nice, easy life in the suburbs.’” Instead, Lublin lives in bustling New York City with her husband, Jason Diaz, and two children, Sydney and Houston, and is CEO of Do Something, one of the country’s largest organizations dedicated to promoting volunteerism in young people. She runs the outfit while juggling her adjunct faculty position at 28

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New York University and Yale School of Management, writing books, engaging in speaking tours and countless other endeavors. For Lublin (who “is almost 40 and not happy about it”), being in Boca Raton is like coming home. She spent many school holidays with her grandparents, Sanford and Judy Huston, who lived in nearby Delray Beach’s Delaire Country Club. “I spent a lot of time and money in the Town Center mall and I learned to drive by driving a golf cart around Delaire,” she recalls. Another fond memory: Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, where she was introduced to ––and became enamored with— Japanese culture (she speaks Japanese).

These days, Lublin says she’s impressed with the achievements of high school girls. “Our campuses are filled with girls who are school presidents, leaders and valedictorians. The onus is on the rest of us to get out of the way and let the next generation rock the world.” What advice does she have for women who want to “do something” too? “Don’t wait; don’t sit around trying to come up with a business plan,” she says. “We are natural leaders, we run families, we are used to stretching a dollar, prioritizing, balancing things and managing people and expectations.” In other words, do what women were born to do. O

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plot thickens, Haller realizes he’s been caught in a fascinating legal dilemma involving attorney-client privilege and capital crime, and he struggles to find an ethical way out. McConaughey seems comfortable in this departure from his recent rash of goofy comedies and benefits from a snappy and noirish script for this thriller, which is set in Los An-

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geles. Country music star Trace Adkins plays the leader of a motorcycle gang that twice forces Haller and his driver to the side of the road so they can discuss one of Haller’s clients, a jailed gang member. These encounters serve to illustrate the unorthodox way Haller conducts his legal practice, accepting envelopes of cash through the window.

“The Lincoln Lawyer” Puts Varoom In The Courtroom

rom the opening credits—a cinematic montage of scenes and text shifting across the screen like a well-ordered kaleidoscope—it’s apparent that “The Lincoln Lawyer” will be a hip legal thriller. Matthew McConaughey plays streetwise sleazy lawyer Mick Haller, who has a knack for cutting deals and working angles, and conducts business out of the backseat of his black Lincoln Town Car (hence the title, get it?). Through the first few establishing scenes, it becomes clear his clients are, at best, shady—motorcycle gang members, street thugs, pimps, drug dealers and the like. His longtime investigator, Frank Levin (William H. Macy), looks

homeless and his driver, Earl (Laurence Mason), has a bit of an ex-con quality. Through much of this well-paced film, it’s difficult to know whether one’s emotional sympathy should be extended to Haller, who’s routinely accused by cops and prosecutors of representing “scum” and “getting them off.” Still, his dubious personal standards are balanced by the presence of ex-something (girlfriend? wife?) Maggie McPherson (Marisa Tomei), a prosecutor for the DA’s office, and their beautiful daughter. Haller and McPherson are often on opposide sides in the courtroom, but usually end up in the same bed. While Haller is comfortable defend-

ing his typical rough clientele, when he’s called to defend wealthy playboy Louis Roulet (Ryan Phillippe), who’s accused of beating up a hooker, his well-honed olfactory relationship with large denomination bills is stimulated. But he soon smells something other than money—more like a large rodent—and begins to suspect that he, for a change, is the one being hustled. To his credit, director Brad Furman doesn’t waste much footage trying to convince viewers that the spoiled rich kid Roulet is telling the entire truth, but it’s still a little while before his whole story becomes apparent. As the

John Leguizamo is convincing as Haller’s slippery bail bondsman buddy and Josh Lucas is lukewarm as the DA he faces in court. The naugahyde-office concept must have been more prevalent in Michael Connelly’s best-seller, because the cinematic Haller isn’t all that car-bound. All in all, “The Lincoln Lawyer” has good acceleration and handles the turns well. O Rated R: contains violence, sexual content and adult language

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Alpha Females Glamorous Icons Who Defied All The Odds Women’s rights might be a relatively recent phenomenon, spurred by the courageous suffragettes of the early 20th century, but there was one alpha female calling the shots in Egypt two thousand years ago. A design house icon, actresses from France and the United States, the first lady of America’s Camelot and a British princess also serve to inspire with their stories.

Sarah: The Life Of Sarah Bernhardt

Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters By Marilyn Monroe

By Robert Gottlieb The colorful and mythology-laden story of French actress Sarah Bernhardt—whose own personal dramas were as eccentric and exciting as the roles she played—is an interesting choice for the first offering in Yale University Press’ Jewish Lives series. Author Robert Gottlieb (of “Balanchine: The Ballet Maker”) takes a semi-journalistic approach, attempting to separate legend from fact with information supported by historical evidence and memoir testimony from associates and contemporaries of the adventurous and irascible Bernhardt (who reportedly slept in a coffin and led a rapturous, highly 32

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public love life). The first Englishlanguage biography about the actress in decades, it’s a fascinating chronicle of a woman whose life began as an illegitimate child of a courtesan and ended as a symbol of France.

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It’s stunning that the detritus of the life of a pop culture icon could somehow turn up 50 years after her mysterious death and be thought worthy of transcribing into a book. Scribbled notes, reminders, impressions, letters and even a few, as the title trumpets, poems comprise “Fragments,” which editors describe as a collection of “written artifacts.” Long-celebrated for her incredible beauty and sultry style, the book provides insight into Monroe’s more curious and thoughtful side via her writings, which are categorized by the locations in which

they were penned (determined by hotel stationery, personal notebooks and the like). True Monroe fans will appreciate this tribute, which demonstrates how deeply the actress loved her craft and how introspective she could be. The book also includes rarely seen posed and candid photos.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff’s book is a penetrating feminist epic that strips away the various affectations attributed to Cleopatra by others to portray a wise and beneficent leader who presided over Egypt with intelligence and goodwill toward her people.

Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography In Books

Cleopatra: A Life By Stacy Schiff

By William Kuhn If there was a mystique to the privileged life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, it was only enhanced by her last two decades. After surviving the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, and later marrying shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O took a job editing books for Viking and Doubleday. And while she never penned a memoir, keys to her persona are revealed through her participation in the editing of more than 100 books. Based on papers, letters and interviews with authors, colleagues and friends, “Reading Jackie” analyzes her subject choices—ranging from Michael Jackson to Egyptian royalty—and why they spoke so strongly to her. Still, to say, as author William Kuhn alleges, it’s “the only autobiography she ever wrote” is a stretch worthy of the limos from her White House days.

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Coco Chanel: The Legend And The Life

Diana’s Secret London By Glenn Harvey and Mark Saunders

By Justine Picardie Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff ’s book is a penetrating feminist epic that strips away the various affectations attributed to

Cleopatra by others to portray a wise and beneficent leader who presided over Egypt with intelligence and goodwill toward her people. Schiff, a scholar with a keen eye for detail, depicts Cleopatra, a queen at 18, as a capable ruler who was resourceful, shrewd and tried to meet the needs of her subjects. Her legendary power over men, notably Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, was based less on beauty than on her charismatic quality as a capable, funny, saucy woman. Her acquisition, and loss, of a vast empire along the Mediterranean is relayed by Schiff with narrative flair, and recently Sony acquired the book’s film rights, with Angelina Jolie attached to star.

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The inspiring rags-to-riches story of Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel, starting with her childhood abandonment, years spent in a convent orphanage and fleeing her seamstress training to become a cabaret singer called “Coco,” is movie fodder if ever there was. In fact, there have been several films based on her life, including 2009’s “Coco Before Chanel,” which received an Oscar nomination for, fittingly, costume design. Chanel, of course, became the foremost fashion design icon of the 20th century and founded her eponymous company starting with a hat shop in 1910, and then cornering the Parisian perfume market during the German occupation. Author Justine Picardie bases her account of Chanel’s unorthodox and turbulent life on personal interviews with surviving friends, relatives, employees and acquaintances and shares how Chanel’s legendary style influenced her own life.

Princess Diana’s life is long over, but the indelible mark she left on fans will be everlasting with the help of books like this. Written by

Glenn Harvey, a regular photographer of the British Royal Family, and Mark Saunders, a royalty correspondent for the sanctioned publication of the Queen, the co-authors were in a unique position to observe Lady Diana’s activities. Here they chronicle her favorite shops, the school where she snuck off to teach kindergarten, the lake where she dramatically saved a man’s life… even the pub where she’d slip away to feed quid into the one-armed bandit. This book, fortuitously timed with this month’s nuptials of Kate Middleton and Prince William, traces Diana’s covert travels around London, even providing maps and directions so visiting tourists can trace her steps. O

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Hot Tamale Ricky Martin Brings Latin Pop To AmericanAirlines Arena R

icky Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exuberant charttopping 1999 hit, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Livinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; La Vida Loca,â&#x20AC;? single-handedly shot Latin pop into the U.S. musical mainstream, and it happened because producers realized they had a Latin Elvis on their hands.

an international star everywhere except in the United States, where back in the day he was best-known for his soap opera role as a Latin singer on â&#x20AC;&#x153;General Hospital.â&#x20AC;?

It was Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who performs at AmericanAirlines Arena on April 9th at 8 p.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;who was responsible for opening the door for a wave of Latinflavored No. 1 records by Jennifer Lopez, Enrique Iglesias, Santana and others in the ensuing months of 1999.

But his musical fortunes changed in 1998 when he sang an English version of â&#x20AC;&#x153;La Copa de la Vidaâ&#x20AC;? at the World Cup soccer tournament in France, then stole the show at the Grammy Awards, singing â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Cup Of Lifeâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;again in a pelvis-grinding-leather-pants performance that would have made Elvis proud.

Martin, who has a home in Miami, is no stranger to stardom: As a former member of the boy band, Menudo, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d had a string of Spanish-language albums and became

The sensation of that Grammy performance was not lost on writers and producers Robi Rosa and Desmond Child, who set out to recapture that raucous magic. Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agent, Ange-

lo Medina, asked the two for â&#x20AC;&#x153;something with a Spanglish lyric.â&#x20AC;? Child came up with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Livinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; La Vida Loca,â&#x20AC;? they composed a song around it, Martin recorded itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and he became an instant superstar. The song went to No. 1 in the United States, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, France, Greece, Guatemala, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Martin quickly followed with his

first English-language album, entitled Ricky Martin, and his second, Sound Loaded, in 2000, with hits such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s All I Ever Had,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;She Bangs,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nobody Wants To Be Lonely,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be Careful.â&#x20AC;? Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s since published a New York Times best-selling autobiography, entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Me,â&#x20AC;? had twin sons through a surrogate and continues to make music. O For more information call 786-777-1000 or visit aaarena.com.

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he Beach Boys, which originally included three Southern California brothers, a cousin and a school chum, quickly blossomed from a repertoire of pop songs glorifying surfing, muscle cars and the teen lifestyle to sophisticated harmonies and cutting-edge production methods thanks to the musical genius of eldest brother Brian Wilson. But when the band performs at The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts on April 17th at 8 p.m., you’ll notice a visual disconnect between the iconic album covers and the seven guys on stage. Only two original performers, founding member Mike Love and long-timer Bruce Johnston, are still around. Still, even without the angelic voices of Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson, the band manages to maintain its rich precision Beach Boys harmonies.

Love, who co-wrote many of the Beach Boys’ biggest hits with Brian Wilson, was the prodigal cousin in the original lineup and perennial organizer on tour, routinely introducing the other band members. In fact, he eventually came out the victor after several decades of litigious family clashes and now owns proprietary rights to the Beach Boys’ name (which was invented by an overzealous employee at the record company where the band’s first vinyl effort was recorded and labeled; the surprised teenagers, who had performed as The Pendletones, didn’t have the money to have the labels fixed, so they kept the name). The Beach Boys have consistently had a rotating lineup, at one time even being fronted by singer Glen Campbell. The list of former members looks like an L.A. phone book, though the band managed to tour with mostly longtime members until the late ’90s, when Love and Johnston began touring with young backup musicians. These days, Love’s son, Christian, plays guitar, and the harmonies of those old songs, “Help Me Rhonda,” “Surfin’ U.S.A.,” “Little Deuce Coup,” “Fun, Fun, Fun,” “I Get Around,” and “Good Vibrations” ... well, they sound even more precise than on the records. For more information, call 561-832-7469 or visit kravis.org. O

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creaming women at concerts was not a new phenomenon in the early ’60s—Paul Anka, Frank Sinatra and The Beatles had all inspired this behavior. But at the concerts of hip-swinging Welshman Tom Jones, the frenzied-fan syndrome took on a new dimension. Jones, who performs at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino’s Hard Rock Live at 8 p.m. on April 21st, somehow inspired women to not only step out of their undies, but chuck them on stage as well. It’s a singular talent not seen much since, although Jones is still recording music and touring at age 70, and undoubtedly attracting some original fans to his concerts (who probably are hurling who-knows-

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what at the stage these days). Jones parlayed his childhood singing skills into a career in which he’s sold more than 100 million records in various styles, including pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, techno, soul and gospel. Born Thomas John Woodward, he was given his stage name in 1964 when he had his first big hit, “It’s Not Unusual” and a popular novel featured a rakish ladies’ man named “Tom Jones.” The singer’s powerful pipes and raucous singing style are his trademarks, and back in the early days his manager was not shy about trying different musical genres if Jones’ popularity began to ebb. In 1965, he performed two cinematic theme songs that became

radio hits, “What’s New Pussycat?” and the theme from a James Bond flick, “Thunderball.” He won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist that year. The following year, Jones had a hit with the country-tinged “Green, Green Grass Of Home” and his widespread appeal led to a Las Vegas gig, where his sexy singing style and open-shirted stage presence resulted in the unabashed knickerhurling that became standard at his performances. And he’s still going strong: Last August, his album, Praise & Blame, debuted at No. 2 on the UK album chart. O For more information, call 954-797-5555 or visit hardrocklivehollywoodfl.com.

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Mothers Of Reinvention More Women Are Becoming Empowered To Follow Their Passions

s a life coach in Boca Raton who’s been running Girard & Associates for more than two decades, Suzy Girard-Ruttenberg helps women reinvent themselves, and no two are the same. Women, or reinventions.

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the first time since she was 23. Maybe the kids have left home, finally, and there’s time to stop and think and dream. Or maybe it’s sudden job loss because of the economy or an unexpected inheritance that delivers a nice stash of unexpected cash.

They come to her at all ages, in all Or maybe... kinds of shapes—both physical and spiritual. Maybe it was a divorce, Maybe there’s simply the need to and suddenly a woman is alone for find herself. Finally.

“Somewhere along the way they began to lose themselves and now they have this huge life and it doesn’t include them,” Girard-Ruttenberg says.

pain that we get tired of that pain and really need something different. Or we just get the courage to do something we’ve always wanted to do.”

She knows it takes guts and perseverance to make any kind of life change that’s going to have meaningful results. She tells her clients this.

A new government report commissioned for the White House Council on Women and Girls recently announced some interesting findings about women in the United States and how they work, relax and take care of themselves.

But this experienced life coach also knows reinvention—whether it’s transitioning from mommy world to a catering business or a catering business to mommy world—can be the most exciting time in a woman’s life. “It’s the pain and pleasure principle,” says Girard-Ruttenberg, about women collectively. “Either there’s so much

The report, called “Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being,” includes information from across federal agencies, compiled to report “baseline information on how women are faring in the United States today and April 2011

that’s life8 relations how these trends have changed over time.” It’s the first such comprehensive report since the 1963 Kennedy Administration, and it shows that women are working harder than ever at trying to figure themselves out— and to make their lives better.

Among its findings: More women than men now attend undergraduate and graduate schools. Women live longer than men, volunteer more and take better advantage of adult education opportunities. But still, women earn 75 cents on the

dollar compared to men, are more likely to live in poverty and remain the primary caregivers for children, aging parents and in-laws. In other words, women still take care of others before they take care of themselves—but there’s an inner voice that seems to remind them they need attention as well. Denise Dema, a business and life management coach in Boca Raton, helps women through selfreflective changes—and they’re not always middle-aged women, she says. More and more, the dynamic is changing. College girls seek help deciding what they should do after earning their degrees. Young mothers want advice, curious about Internet business opportunities that allow them to work at home. Though, middle-aged women are probably still the biggest client component of today’s reinventors; women pushing retirement age also seek help as they see their windows of opportunity narrowing for following their dreams.

“It doesn’t have to be heavy and negative. It should be a

very joyous move. It’s a gift you are giving yourself.” – Denise Dema, business and life management coach

Again, Dema says it’s about establishing priorities. “I think, for sure, women have dual roles,” Dema says. “They have to manage the house, the children, their marriage, their career. I think it’s much more prevalent for women to find that things are out of balance.” 42

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Adds Girard-Guttenberg, “I think reinvention is as much about giving yourself permission to revisit your life and publicly shift gears as it is for everybody else to accept the outcome of that. You make space for that which moves you.” And while that may sound esoteric—even a tad corny—most women will agree that it’s true. Especially when they find they’re in a situation such as this: The marriage is over, the kids are in middle school and friends are succeeding in their private careers. Law. Teaching. Interior design. Now, it’s their turn. Dema says she talks to women about what they really love—and whether they can incorporate that love into money and happiness. She calls this Q and A session “Discovering your passion,” and asks questions like: What can you talk about for hours? What makes you happy? What do you enjoy? What people, places or things are you inspired by? What experiences have given you the best sense of growth and fulfillment? “Women need to be empowered to believe in themselves, whether they’re reinventing or just need to move forward with things they’ve felt passionately about for a long time,” Dema says. “More times than not, you can’t do it alone.” Girard-Ruttenberg says women who’ve had a successful career shouldn’t feel compelled to stay put if they’re not happy. Sometimes life needs just a gentle tweaking, she says. And sometimes, “you need to blow the whole damn thing up.” And that’s exciting. “It doesn’t have to be heavy and negative,” she says. “It should be a very joyous move. It’s a gift you are giving yourself.” O

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They’re Coming Out Your Child Just Told You He’s Gay. Now What?

hat would you do if your teenager told you that he or she is gay? Would you feel shocked? Sad? Angry at the loss of the future you imagined for him? Relieved that she trusted you enough to tell you the truth? And most importantly: What would you say to your child? If you cringed when you read these questions, you’re not alone. This is not a conversation that most parents want to have. But some of them, sooner or later, will be having it anyway. “This is an incredibly loaded issue for parents on all kinds of levels, 44

(and) in many ways a parent’s worst nightmare,” says Ira Kaufman, a licensed clinical social worker and executive director of the North Star Centre in Boca Raton. “We all have

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out the window and people become blinded by their own emotions.” Kaufman, who regularly works with gay teens and their families, says

“If a child is denied his natural place in the world, that child may start acting out in a harsh way: drug use, early

egregious promiscuity, driving too fast, hanging out with the ohn Davis, licensed mental wrong crowd.” – Jhealth counselor

dreams and fantasies for our children and this kind of issue can bring those dreams to a crashing halt. Even though people are more accepting than they were years ago… when it’s your child and you, a lot of that goes

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parents who are shocked by news of their child’s sexual preference should start by remembering to put that child’s needs first. “Number one, take the focus away

from yourself and don’t lose the function of being a parent to your child,” he says. “Step back. Take a breath. And whatever biases you have, whatever understanding, perceptions, misperceptions… try to put those on hold, and really sit back and listen to what your child is saying. “The second thing is to realize that the child has been walking around with this (knowledge) for probably a number of years, trying to come to grips and understand it, trying to find a peer group they can talk about this with, and strategizing about, ‘How am I going to tell my parents?’” Kaufman explains. “Being an adolescent is difficult under the best of circum-

that’s life8 parents stances. By the time a kid is coming out, there’s been X period of time where he or she has become aware of it, has struggled with it, and is behind the eight-ball already. It’s already interfered. There’s already damage.” Even though more gay teens are finding the courage to come out in high school than ever before, polls show that the majority still face harassment and bullying by other students. As evidenced by several recent high-profile teen suicide cases, experts say that lesbian, gay and bisexual youth are up to four times more likely to try and take their own lives than their heterosexual peers. John Davis, a licensed mental health counselor in Delray Beach, says the pressures on gay teens can manifest in less drastic ways as well—and parents need to pay attention to the signs. “If a child is denied his natural

“This is an incredibly loaded issue for parents on all kinds of levels, (and) in many ways a parent’s worst nightmare. We all

have dreams and fantasies for our children and this kind of issue can bring those dreams to a crashing halt.”

place in the world, that child may start acting out in a harsh way: drug use, early egregious promiscuity, driving too fast, hanging out with the wrong crowd,” he says. Still, even parents who know that a serious conversation is in order may find it difficult to bring up the topic of their child’s sexuality. One Delray Beach mother, who asked that her name not be used, says she suspected the truth when her daughter was in college but spent several years working up the nerve to ask. “Finally, I kind of forced the issue and asked directly, ‘Are you a lesbian?’” she says. “And it didn’t go well. I wish I would have waited a little longer for a good opportunity where she would have felt safe coming out to us as parents. But the first person that kids want ap46

– Ira Kaufman, licensed clinical social worker and executive director, North Star Centre

proval from is very often the last one they tell, because they’re so afraid of losing their parents’ support.” Lisa Zucker, a licensed clinical social worker in Hollywood, says it’s usually best not to ask your child outright if he or she is gay. Instead, she recommends trying a softer approach that lays the groundwork for open discussion. “You could say, ‘There are ways that everybody is different from others, and we will always love you,’” she suggests. “If your child comes out to you, the most important thing—no matter how you feel about it—is to react in a way that shows you love them. You always want to communicate love and acceptance to your

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child. And if you as a parent have a lot of negative feelings about them being gay, it’s important to get counseling or join a group like PFLAG.” PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) is the bestknown support group of its kind, with branches throughout South Florida (pflag.org). Other area resources include Compass in Palm Beach County (compassglcc.com) and SunServe in Broward (sunserve.org), both of which offer support for gay teens and their families. “Support is the key word,” Davis says. “If a child is going to be gay, parents need to understand that there’s

nothing you can do about it. You can’t fix it, you can’t beat it out of them, you can’t take them to church and have it be undone. A lot of parents freak out and get reactive, and they fall prey to, ‘If I’m a heterosexual, then you must be.’ The child feels like they’re doing something bad and wrong, and that’s traumatic and can stay with them for a lifetime.” Also, Zucker says parents today have less reason to worry that being gay means their child will be denied the pleasures of marriage, children or life in mainstream society. “All that’s changing,” she says. “They still have a future ahead of them that can be a really wonderful life.” O

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a collection of indigenous sea salts, herbs and aromatic oils.

The year-old Dutch Caribbean resort sits on 27 acres of pristine property between the Caribbean Sea and Spanish Water Bay, about 35 miles from Aruba and Venezuela.

The resort offers familiar amenities as well: three pools, exquisite restaurants serving fresh seafood and farm-totable ingredients (we suggest at least one meal at MEDI, which features an exhibition kitchen and exquisite Mediterranean food), a 24-hour fitness center, jogging trails, yoga and meditation classes, four tennis courts, a full-service marina and an 18-hole championship golf course.

Its Dutch influence and European flair are captured in every facet— from Camp Arawak, where children can explore the natural surroundings during cave hikes, photo safaris and iguana feedings to the Lama Salt Bar at the Atabei Spa, where guests can create customized body scrubs from

Other incentives include the uninterrupted, breathtaking vistas: All rooms feature views of Spanish Water Bay or the Caribbean Sea, and the pools and restaurants are situated to capture panoramas of the private beach— even the fitness center provides the ocean as a backdrop.

he warm, sandy beaches and swaying palm trees at Hyatt Regency Curaçao Golf Resort, Spa and Marina are reminiscent of Florida’s splendor. But a vacation at this 350room luxury beachfront resort also offers guests a chance to experience an exhilarating new culture.

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The pet-friendly resort is part of Santa Barbara Plantation, a 1500acre luxury resort community located along Spanish Water, a harbor about a half-hour from Willemstad, Curaçao’s capital. This is tranquil Caribbean paradise at its best, a place to relax, rejuvenate, explore and immerse all your senses. From the diving, snorkeling and other water sports to the yoga classes and jazz bands, there’s always something to discover day and night.

Another plus: Curaçao, one of the “ABC Islands”—Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao—is located outside the hurricane belt! We suggest you begin your respite with a visit to the Atabei Spa, a 4,500-square-foot haven the resort describes as an “eco-friendly holistic retreat inspired by the island’s ancient traditions and rituals.” After indulging in an hour-long energizing Stemps massage (featuring sachets of

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Dutch is the official language, along with Papiamentu, a Creole dialect (Bon Bini means welcome; Kon ta bai is a way of asking how it’s going). If you haven’t brushed up on your Dutch language skills, don’t worry: English and Spanish are also spoken here. All the restaurants share a farm-totable philosophy—meals are made with fresh ingredients obtained by a local organic farmer. “I believe that exposure to the concept of sustainable cuisine can inspire anyone engaging in the production, distribution, preparation or consumption of food,” says Food and Beverage Director Mauric Fahey. “It helps us to take effective action, and to make sustainable cuisine a meaningful part of daily life.” After a divine meal, you’ll have lots of 50

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Curaçao’s picturesque capital of Willemstad is home to Mikve IsraelEmanuel Synagogue, which was built in 1732 and thought to be the Western Hemisphere’s oldest synagogue. Adventurous travelers can explore the Hato Caves where they’ll see stalactites, stalagmites and 1,500-year-old drawings, or hike in the 4,446-acre Christoffel National Park, with its abundant exotic wildlife and gardens. Families will enjoy the Curaçao Ostrich Farm, where they’ll learn how ostriches live and breed. There are more than 600 birds here, along with many opportunities to hold an ostrich egg. When you return to the Hyatt Regency Curaçao Golf Resort, Spa and Marina, immerse yourself in the relaxation, be it in your pristine

hotel room, one of 15 suites (the Sea Traditions Spa Suite has an outdoor dining area and includes a daily spa treatment for one guest) or a Respire by Hyatt room, hypo-allergenic accommodations with a state-of-theart air purification system designed for allergy sufferers. But before closing your eyes, spend a few moments on the balcony and breathe deeply. Ah, isn’t that just perfect? O

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BC Emmy Award-winning journalist Hoda Kotb has honed her craft reporting on the world’s top stories: She covered the war on terror in Afghanistan, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the battle in Iraq, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans… and so much more. But these days, she sprinkles in a bit of fluff with her hard news.

And yes, Kotb is having a blast. “I discovered that I’m multi-faceted,” says Kotb, 46, a breast cancer survivor who recently was in West Palm Beach to serve as grand marshal for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. “Even though I still do hard news, it’s fun to mix it up. It’s been enriching and surprising,” adds Kotb, who still does reporting for NBC’s “Dateline.” “Who would have thought?”

on the Hudson plane crash. Other accolades include the Gracie Award for Individual Achievement, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, an Edward R. Murrow Award and more. And while racking up awards, her career flourished: From 2004 through 2008, Kotb became host of “Your Total Health,” a weekly syndicated TV series. In 2008, she co-anchored an MSNBC special on race from Birmingham, Ala. at the former site of a Ku Klux Klan bombing.

Certainly not Kotb. As co-host of the fourth hour of NBC’s “Today” show since its inception in 2007, the seasoned reporter is more likely to toast cocktails and get chatty about red carpet fashions with co-host Kathie Lee Gifford than she is to chase down political figures and natural disasters. On any given weekday morning, you’ll find her testing exercise machines, schmoozing with celebrities and dishing about current events. Her chemistry with Gifford—Kotb is the sometimes-giggly straight-woman to Gifford’s outrageous persona—has captured the attention of viewers, and the media as well. This season the pair has received what some TV aficionados consider the ultimate compliment: their own parody on “Saturday Night Live” (they’ve been spoofed twice this season already).

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Kotb, a Virginia Tech University graduate with naturally voluminous hair and an innate curiosity for what makes people tick, began her NBC career in 1998 as a New Yorkbased news correspondent for “Dateline,” traveling the globe on dangerous assignments. She flew to Southeast Asia to cover the effects of the 2004 tsunami and to warravaged Burma (she was secretly led by rebel soldiers) for a piece about 12-year-old warriors perceived to possess magical powers. She’s received four Emmy Award nominations, winning one for her “Dateline” coverage of the Miracle

Her star was on the rise and there was no stopping here. And then cancer struck.

It was in February 2007 that Kotb received her breast cancer diagnosis. According to an interview she gave with CBS news, she’d always been a healthy eater and exercised regularly, never imagining her gynecologist would find lumps in her breast. Which is why, up to that point, she’d never had a mammogram. “I just didn’t do it,” she later told cancerconnect.com. “I wasn’t scared of it. I ask people all the time why they haven’t gotten checked for various things, and here I was not getting screened.” Kotb underwent a mastectomy followed by five years of taking tamoxifen, a breast cancer drug. The ordeal beat her down emotionally, she told cancerconnect.com. “I checked out. It was way too big.” But not for long. Kotb is a fighter and beat the disease, even chronicling her ordeal in last year’s New York Times best-selling book, “HODA, How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer and Kathie Lee.” In the book, she boldly describes her diagnosis, her mastectomy and reconstructive surgery and how the ordeal gave her courage to throw her hat into the ring as a coApril 2011

From the top: Kotb and Gifford on the set of "Today"; Kotb and Nancy Brinker, founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure at the Race for the Cure in West Palm Beach; Kotb and talk show host Jimmy Fallon; Kotb and Gifford mingle with "Today" fans.

“After my cancer surgery I had this fearless feeling. I had survived cancer and I was armed with four wonderful words: ‘You can’t scare me.’ – Hoda Kotb

host contender for the new fourth hour of “Today.” Until then, she’d never asked NBC for a promotion for fear of rejection. “After my cancer surgery I had this fearless feeling,” she writes in her book. “The new me was fearless. I had survived cancer and I was armed with four wonderful words: ‘You can’t scare me.’ Suddenly, talking to my bosses about a possible promotion seemed so small.” And after a series of discussions with NBC executives, who believed Kotb had the skill and appeal to pull off the folksy fourth-hour segment, she was chosen for the show. “There’s a lot of ad lib—stuff I had never done as an impartial news correspondent,” explains Kotb, who began working on the show with “Today” staffers Ann Curry and Natalie Morales. “It worked 54

another part of me, and I really liked it.” Then Kathie Lee Gifford arrived on the scene.

of zany comments in stride. (In Kotb’s book, NBC Universal President and CEO Jeff Zucker is quoted as goodnaturedly describing the pair as “those crazy bitches at ten!”).

Gifford wound up on ‘Today’ after Kotb and an NBC executive spotted her in a restaurant and thought she’d make a great addition. They were right: Kotb was pleasantly surprised with the former female half of TV’s “Live With Regis and Kathie Lee.”

“I love Kathie Lee,” says Kotb. “She is who she is. That’s refreshing. And she would jump in front of a bus for me.”

“You could feel the ‘Today’ show lurch in a good direction,” Kotb writes in her book, about the addition of Gifford, “as if someone had sprinkled in the perfect spice to make our mix more delicious. The fun began the minute we went live.”

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Kotb says she “absolutely adores” Gifford and the ladies have great chemistry: Kotb, the semi-serious one, appears to takes Gifford’s endless stream

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Counters Gifford: “Hoda is honest, intelligent and beautiful...no matter how her hair looks!”

Kotb’s achievements are not surprising when you consider the impressive track record of the women in her family. Her maternal great aunt was the first female lawyer in Egypt in the 1930s and later became a member of Parliament while raising nine children. Her maternal grandmother, married to a Supreme

Court judge, worked as a physician while raising seven children. Kotb’s road to triumph began in Norman, Okla., where she was born to Egyptian parents, Sameha and Abdel Kotb. Both highly educated, they met at a law firm in Egypt where they both worked after graduating in 1958 from Cairo University. After a year they married at an Officer’s Club in front of the ancient pyramids, and a week later moved to the United States in search of a better life. With law degrees not recognized in the United States, each enrolled at University of Oklahoma in Norman—Abdel to pursue a Ph.D. in engineering and Sameha to earn a master’s in library science. They became American citizens and raised three children: Hoda (which means “guidance” in Arabic) sister Hala and brother Adel.

The nomadic family moved from Norman to Morgantown, W. Va. for her father’s work. When Kotb was in the fourth grade, they moved again, this time to Egypt for a few months. Next, the family moved to Nigeria for two years. They returned to West Virginia briefly before settling in Alexandria, Va. in a multicultural neighborhood with residents from all over the world. Still, Kotb admits that those early days were difficult, because she looked and felt foreign. A lot of effort and socializing with strangers at each new school eventually paid off, and she made lots of friends. In 1982, she was even named homecoming queen before graduating from Fort Hunt High School in Alexandria, Va. She enrolled at Virginia Tech University and graduated in 1986 with a bachelor’s in communications.

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But Kotb wasn’t ready to work. She wanted to travel and explore. So in 1986 she flew to Cairo and moved in with her uncle and his family. To her surprise, she became antsy to flex her brain muscles after just a few weeks, and headed to the building in Cairo that housed the three American network TV bureaus: NBC, CBS and ABC. She wanted a job after all. After some resounding rejections, Kotb finally received a call from thenCBS Bureau Chief Penny Rogg, who agreed to give her a shot as an unofficial intern/news assistant. Kotb spent two years ripping wire copy, fetching coffee and butting heads with the staff. But she learned a lot, even getting the chance to do stories when others were out of the office. She shot most of what would become her résumé tape in Egypt. “No cohesive news stories, just disjointed crap, floating in the ether, connected to nothing,” she recalls about her résumé tape. Still, she flew back to the United States and began knocking on news directors’ doors. After 27 rejections ranging from Richmond, Va. to the Florida Panhandle, the rookie reporter was about

to chuck it all and go into public relations when, while driving around lost in Greenville, Miss. one day, she noticed a sign for the CBS affiliate WXTV-TV. On a whim, she went in and finagled a meeting with News Director Stan Sandroni, who had just been promoted from sports. Sandroni took the time to watch her tape and said he liked what he saw. Immediately, the anxious novice burst into tears of joy. He hired her as a reporter, and one day gave her a shot at the news desk after an anchor had called in sick. Kotb made a few nervous mistakes, but was allowed to try again. She did better anchoring the second time and eventually became the station’s 5 p.m. news anchor, which jumpstarted her career. Next came a series of moves: She left Greenville in 1989 to serve for two

years as the morning anchor and general assignment reporter for WQADTV, the ABC affiliate in Moline, Ill. She then went to Fort Myers, Fla., where until 1992 she was a weekend anchor and reporter at WINK-TV. Next, it was off to New Orleans for a plum anchor and reporter job at WWL-TV, where she remained for six years until becoming a “Dateline” correspondent. “Hoda was one of the most fascinating and endearing personalities to ever grace broadcast news in New Orleans,” wrote Christine Fontana, who penned a profile about Kotb for the online magazine New Orleans Living. “She knows how to touch people with her message of hope delivered in a way that always connects with people.”

They were introduced on Valentine’s Day at a 1993 fundraiser for the American Heart Association. They were both single and dated on and off for several years. She ended up moving to New York before things became serious, but they eventually reconnected and in 2005 got married in the Dominican Republic. They split in 2007—the same year Kotb was diagnosed with breast cancer. “After all I have been through, I am happy to say that I met someone three months ago, and I am very happy,” says Kotb. “I have spent a lot of time alone, and I know I like to share my experiences with someone.”

Her new man is a divorced father and corporate lawyer whom she met in It was while working in New Orleans New York at one of her book signings. that Kotb met college tennis coach (Although Kotb did not reveal his Burzis Kanga, her now ex-husband. name, published reports have identified him as Boca Raton lawyer Jay Blumenkopf.) They’re compatible, she says, because they’re both busy and he understands her demanding work schedule. It’s an agenda that would – Christine Fontana, in New Orleans Living make lesser women (and men) wince: Kotb starts her day at 4 a.m. when she wakes up, exercises at the gym, takes a steam bath while listening to her favorite music and then heads for NBC. From 6:30 a.m. to 8 a.m., she has her hair and makeup done, attends a morning meeting, cohosts “Today,” and goes to the postshow meeting. Afterward, she conducts ‘Dateline’ interviews until 3 p.m., or has mandatory shoots, lunches and dinners.

“She knows how to touch people with her message of hope delivered in a way that always connects with people.”

“I mix things up but like to keep my life alive,” she says. What’s next for the woman with the six-figure smile? “I may write another nonfiction book, do more ‘Dateline’ stories and laugh with Kathie Lee, but I always want to keep a proper balance. I believe that there is a book of life. And I am happily living it to the fullest right now.” O April 2011

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our friends are too tactful to tell you this, but we’re not (though we do mean well): that hairstyle you’ve had since the 11th grade—well, it can use an update. Some bangs might be nice, too. And would a few highlights kill you? By the way, when was the last time you tried a new lipstick color, eye shadow or shade of blush? ✽ We understand. Whether it’s a drastic makeover or just a few cosmetic tweaks,

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changing your looks can be intimidating—or even downright frightening. But, if done properly, change can be a beautiful thing. ✽ Don’t take our word for it. Check out the six brave women who threw caution to the wind, placing their looks in the hands of Palm Beach County beauty professionals, letting them tweeze, cut, color and otherwise transform. ✽ As you’ll see, the risk was worth it.

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When Six Women Agreed To Be Transformed By Local Beauty Experts, Even They Couldn’t Believe Their Eyes

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Makeover subject: Amy Hill, 26, meetings and special events man-

ager, The Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach. “I wanted a little refresher for a more professional image, and to update my haircut and color to something more modern and contemporary,” she says. Where the magic happened: Eau Spa by Cornelia at The Ritz-Carlton,

Palm Beach, 100 S. Ocean Blvd., Manapalan; 561-533-6000; ritzcarlton.com/palmbeach or eauspa.com Leading the transformation: Christine DiRocco, director of public relations, The Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach The salon’s goal: “Amy was recently promoted—she has always been a strong supporter of the team, and now she is leading as a manager,” says DiRocco. “We thought this would be a great way to elevate her professional look and give her confidence.” Mane event: Amy wanted a more modern look—but nothing too outrageous. Stylist Allison Lutz gave her long bangs and cut layers for movement and bounce. For her light brown hair, Lutz used L’Oréal Majirel color in natural honey blonde to create highlights around her face. She applied Kérastase conditioners before blowdrying her tresses smooth; she used a round styling brush around

Amy Hill, 26 | E a at The Ritz-Carltonu, Spa by Cornelia Palm Beach the face and a flat paddle brush through the back of the hair, creating body and movement. Kérastase hairspray completed the look. Amy’s skin was primed for makeup with three facials by skin specialist Nancy Falero. Lead makeup specialist Colleen Murphy used a natural palette of taupe, dark browns, a smudge of black, and a hint of shimmery gold on her eyes. Black LadyLash eyeliner was applied to her top lids and brown on the bottom for definition, and lashes by LadyLash were applied. Finally, some Touch of Light bronzer and peach blush were used on her cheeks; peach lip color created a natural look that complemented her skin tone.

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“Amy being conservative, a black simple dress enhanced her look and showcased the great accessories she loved wearing,” says DiRocco. All of Amy’s clothing and accessories are from the hotel’s Eau Spa bEAUtique.

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Six inches were snipped off Tabitha’s tresses; bangs and long layers were added that worked with her natural waves “so she has movement all the time,” explains Bliss Salon spa director Michal Dildine. A Neuma moisture shampoo was used to combat humidity and an Argan Oil Treatment for additional sleekness. A polishing cream was applied; her hair was blown out with a round brush before she was placed under a dryer with large Velcro rollers. “Then we brushed it out, and ran our fingers through it with a polishing cream and hairspray,” says Dildine. KOKO chocolate brown was used for her base color, as well as amber highlights.

FUN AND FLIRTY Makeover subject: Tabitha Savage, 19, full-time ocean engineering student. “I’m not the type to get my hair and makeup done, and do the dress-up thing, but I trusted them and just said, ‘go for it,’” she says. Where the magic happened: Bliss Salon | Spa, 17940 N. Military Trail, Boca Raton; 561-988-8989; blisssalonandspa.org Leading the transformation:

Michal Dildine, spa

director “We wanted to help smooth out her skin, give her a hairstyle she could do without a huge maintenance routine, and provide a fresh new look for going out at night,” explains Dildine.

The salon’s goal:

About face: Tabitha’s eyebrows were waxed to enhance her natural arch; her hairline was also

waxed and her skin was smoothed out with a facial and some microdermabrasion. Debris neutral cream-pressed powder foundation, bronzer and beige shimmer were applied to her fair skin for natural-looking color. Her cheekbones were contoured with pink blush and mink eyeliner was applied for definition; natural-toned eye shadows were used, along with a pop of greenish-blue to enhance her dark features and complement her dress. A neutral pink lip liner and pink gloss were applied to complete the look, along with sheer gold to highlight her lower lip. Tabitha’s dress was donated by My Pink Closet in Boca Raton. “She can wear it to a wedding or club, or throw on flip-flops and go to brunch,” says Dildine. Her jewelry is available at Bliss Salon | Spa.

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“The color didn’t work for her skin tone so we lightened it and gave it dimension,” explains Adam Gray, owner of Tyler Presley Salon. Working off Sheral’s brown base, Goldwell color was used to create highlights and lowlights for a multidimensional effect. Shuga Volumizing Mousse and Shuga Gel Creme were applied to her naturally wavy mane, which was then blow-dried straight using a medium brush with “lots of heat and stretching to straighten it,” he says. “Then we used a flatiron to smooth it out and create a silky look.”

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Plum ❸ MAC Lip Pencil

Aplum ❷ Lancôme Powder Blush

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FROM SUBTLE TO SASSY Dr. Sheral Shah, 30, anatomy professor. “I was hoping for a completely different look,” she says.

Makeover subject:

Where the magic happened: Tyler Presley Salon, 15280 Jog Road, Delray Beach; 561-450-7625; tylerpresleysalon.com Leading the transformation: Adam Gray (who owns the salon with partner Gloria Segura)

“A total change,” says Gray. “We especially wanted to change her hair from its ‘blah’ color to something exciting, and from the ‘just there’ haircut to a fresh, new style.”

The salon’s goal:

About face:

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plied a medium concealer under Sheral’s eyes and on any trouble spots. To create a glamorous evening look, she used Maybelline eye shadows in smoky black and gray, and accentuated her eyes with a MAC black pencil and black mascara. Lancôme bronzing Aplum blush complemented Sheral’s hair and skin tone, MAC plum lip pencil and light pink gloss gave her a pretty pout. Clothes call: The salon helped Sheral choose the perfect ensemble—from her own closet. “We liked the black outfit because it flattered her figure and brought out the sexiness in her hair, making the color pop even more,” Gray explains. Her outfit was complemented with jewelry and accessories by the salon’s Bella Blondes Boutique.

“The haircut was the most drastic change for me. I have 60 students, and at the end of the first week some of them had copied my cut. I was like a trend-setter!” April 2011

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Faced Pink ❶ Too Leopard Bronzing Powder

Shaper ❷ Label.m by Toni And Guy

Nutritive ❸ Kérastase Oléo-Relax Serum

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To add brightness and draw attention to her eyes, hair colorist Aaron Knox used Goldwell color to take Kristen’s natural base two levels deeper. She added lowlights and highlights in the same color family for dimension. Stylist Tj Knox gave Kristen's hair a variation of a graduated bob, and added soft bangs to give the classic cut a more modern appeal, and to provide movement and texture. He applied Antidote as a foundation, and a bit of Kérastase Oléo-Relax to smooth her hair; he then blow-dried it straight using a Denman brush, followed by a small round brush. After using a flatiron, he applied Label.m Shaper pomade, to create a ‘piece-y’ textured look.

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sun-kissed style Kristen Metelsky, 19, assistant at Sky Salon & Spa. “I needed an overall new look, including a new hairstyle, which was a mess before. And new makeup—something to bring out my eyes,” she says.

Makeover subject:

Where the magic happened: Sky Salon & Spa, 1675 N. Military Trail, Boca Raton; 561-3387597; skysalonandspa.com Leading the transformation:

Isabel Cassella,

manager “To bring her cut and style up to date and have her color enhance her skin tone, eyes and haircut,” explains Cassella.

The salon’s goal:

About face: To create Kristen’s freshly tanned glow, makeup artist Michael Brunetto applied

a light tinted moisturizer followed by face and bronzing powders to her cheeks. To play up Kristen’s eyes, he created a smoky effect using shadows in shades of gold, bronze and white gold, along with a waterproof liner. He applied invisible band lashes using surgical glue for a neat, perfect look, and contoured her brows with a colored powder. He finished with a neutral lip liner and color. Clothes call: Kristen’s clothing and jewelry are from the salon’s Jewels of Sky Boutique. Her light-colored T-shirt complements her newly ‘tanned’ complexion and “the scarf we chose highlights her face, while a silver heart necklace is youthful yet sophisticated,” says boutique owner Lynn Balbinder. The result: a fresh romantic daytime look.

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Kaela wanted to keep her length, so Sze added long layers to utilize her hair’s natural waves and movement. “This way she can realistically create the same look at home,” explains Philipe Sze, owner of Studio Z. Sze used a foil technique to highlight her tresses, going heavier in the front to frame her face, and more subtle toward the back and crown. He used smoothing cream in her full hair, and blow-dried it using medium heat and a round brush. “The goal was to emphasize her hair as something she could touch and that her boyfriend can play with.”

Beauty Essentials

Faced Ooh La ❸ Too Rouge Blush

Faced Natural ❷ Too Eye Neutral Eye Shadow Collection

Pro Lumiere ❶ Chanel Professional Finish Makeup SPF 15 Foundation

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FRESH PERSPECTIVE Kaela Schultz, 24, registered nurse. “I was looking for something fresh for the spring season,” she says.

Makeover subject:

Studio Z, 2200 Glades Road, Suite 304, Boca Raton; 561-368-4244

Where the magic happened:

Leading the transformation: Philipe

Sze, owner

The salon’s goal: “To bring out the best she had to offer. Her hair color was very drab—she hadn’t had it done in eight months,” Sze explains. “So we wanted to freshen her up, brighten her hair color and enhance her natural beauty.”

About face: Makeup artist Allyse Schensnol chose neutral earth tones, “because Kaela is naturally pretty,” she explains. “I didn’t need to use crazy colors.” She applied Estée Lauder primer and a Chanel foundation to her skin, followed by Too Faced pink blush and matching gloss. She cleaned up her eyebrows, and used Too Faced champagne shadow on her lids, with purple as an accent color.

Kaela is wearing her own dress. “I told her to wear something that’s going to look good and to utilize spring colors,” Sze says. “She has a good fashion sense.”

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Beauty In A ❶ Sephora Box Purple Smoky Eyes

30 ❷ MAC Lash

Pretty ❸ MAC Please Lipstick

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To achieve a golden blonde color, Payson received caramel and soft golden highlights. “I wanted to achieve a more natural look for her face and skin tone, and didn’t want it to be too ‘stripe-y,’” explains Juliet Ciambrone, owner of Juliet Salon. “Soft and pretty is the trend right now.” Ciambrone gave her a long bob with an interior layer, which released weight and created movement and texture. Using Kérastase and Davines styling products, she blow-dried Payton’s hair using a round brush, and used a curling iron to create a soft wavy look—minus any frizz.

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GO-TO GLAMOUR Payson Benner, 21, student. “I was really hoping for a better haircut. My hair is really thick and it’s hard for me to get a cut that I like,” she says. “And I needed better color.”

Makeover subject:

Where the magic happened: Juliet Salon, 247 N.E. Second Ave., Delray Beach; 561-8195861; julietsalon.com Leading the transformation:

Juliet Ciambrone,

owner The salon’s goal: “I was trying to create an easy glamour look, and a style that could be put together without much effort, where she could easily go from day to night,” explains Ciambrone. About face:

Makeup artist Katie Hultgren used

Sephora, MAC and TIGI products. Hultgren blended black shadow in the creases of Payson’s eyelids to create drama, and used soft purple on the outer edges to make them pop. Individual lashes were applied to create even more drama, and her brows were darkened with a powder to frame her face. A tint was applied as a foundation, a translucent power was used to set it and a rose-colored blush and bronzer added pretty color. Light pink matte lips finished the look. Payson is wearing a black dress with a simple line from American Apparel. “We wanted something sophisticated and trendy, and where she could simply change her shoes and go from day to evening,” says Ciambrone. “And it looked flawless on her.” O

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For Some Couples Who Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Conceive, Loved Ones Are Stepping Up As Surrogates

W When people see Jennifer Cohen, they can’t help but stare at the perfectly round belly bursting from her petite frame. “Oh you must be so happy!” they typically exclaim. And they’re right. The Boca Raton resident is happy. But not for the reasons you or those strangers might think. She is not the mother of the babies in her belly. Those twin girls belong to her sister, Jackie Bauer. Jackie couldn’t carry children of her own so Jennifer offered to be a gestational carrier—in which a woman agrees to have a couple’s embryo implanted in her uterus. Though the carrier serves as a birth mother, she has no genetic relation to the baby unless she is a blood relative to either intended parent.

And for some, these carriers aren’t complete strangers. They are sisters, cousins and best friends—people who want to help friends or family members they love become parents. And that’s why Jennifer is allowing her body to serve as an oven, so to speak. What better gift could you give a sister? When people who don’t know her situation ask Jennifer about her pregnancy, she simply tells them the truth. “I never let anybody think they’re mine,” she says. “Not for a second.” So when she nods her head yes as people say, “You must be so happy!” it isn’t because she’s thrilled to add more children to her already closeknit family of four.

Which, in Jennifer’s case, she is. According to the Organization of Parents Through Surrogacy, an Illinois-based national nonprofit support group, more than 25,000 babies have been born via surrogacy since the mid-1970s.

child, she has agreed to give the child to the intended parents after birth. In a gestational surrogacy, a woman carries a child that is conceived from an egg that is not her own. The child is conceived via In Vitro Fertilization, otherwise known as IVF, which is the fertilization of the egg outside of the body and then the embryo is implanted in the uterus. This is what happened to Jennifer. Her sister, Jackie, who lives in New York, was a ballerina. She had many injuries during her career, including a spinal injury that left her with permanent nerve damage. When she decided she wanted a baby, doctors told her that her body couldn’t handle a pregnancy.

best gift I could give the two of you would be children,’” Jackie recalls. “I didn’t think she was serious at first. I figured it’s a burden. She’s working and has two kids.” True—Aidan is 4 and Jonah is 2. But that didn’t stop Jennifer. And neither did her husband, Adam. While some men may have a problem with their wives becoming a surrogate, Jennifer’s husband welcomed the idea with open arms. “My husband is the most understanding, wonderful man,” Jennifer says, adding with a giggle, “he has this sick thing where he loves me pregnant.”

The news was devastating to Jackie, 32, now a movie producer. When her sister, Jennifer, heard the news, she immediately offered to help.

So once it was decided, Jennifer, 36, called her sister to remind her that she wasn’t getting any younger. “She was trying her hardest to find a way to do it herself,” she says of Jackie. “I had to have a conversation and say, ‘For real. I’m not kidding. We have to do this.’”

“Jen called one day and said, ‘The

So they did.

Soon, the twins in Jennifer’s stomach will be added to that number. Though a few states have banned surrogacy, it’s legal in Florida and

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Jackie and Derek Bauer

I want them to know what she did because it’s amazing. I don’t think we would’ve gone the surrogacy route had Jen not been carrying. She and I are so close. This is so special because we’re sisters. for this reason the state attracts many couples from around the country and even the world with dreams of becoming parents. Critics call the method “baby-buying,” but those who are involved scoff at that notion and say it’s done out of love. Carriers are helping infertile couples create families, they say.

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– Jackie Bauer

It’s because Jennifer knows she is helping her sister finally become what she’s always longed to be… a mother.

SISTER ACT In a traditional surrogacy, the woman carrying the child has used her own egg and donor sperm to conceive and though she is genetically related to the

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Jackie flew to South Florida and she and her sister began working with fertility doctors. Jennifer prepared her sons for the change by telling them that Aunt Jackie was borrowing mommy’s tummy. She dove into Pilates to prepare her body for the undertaking and by July of 2010 Jennifer was pregnant with twin girls.

“I want them to know what she did because it’s amazing,” Jackie says of what she will tell her daughters one day. “I don’t think we would’ve gone the surrogacy route had Jen not been carrying. She and I are so close. This is so special because we’re sisters.”

Jackie and husband, Derek, planned many trips to South Florida so they could be there for ultrasounds and Jennifer flew to New York to help her sister register for her baby shower. Jackie and Derek decorated the twins’ room in pink, black and white, and hung a pink chandelier from the ceiling. They’ve picked the names but won’t reveal them until the big day, which

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Clockwise, From the top: the Bauers and the Cohens; Amy Manko; Charlotte Danciu

It’s a big leap of faith to have a stranger carry your child, and I’m amazed every day that people do it. But sometimes strangers become like sisters at the end of it. – Charlotte Danciu, surrogacy and adoption attorney

is supposed to be in mid-April but could very well happen before this story even goes to press. Jennifer, who has managed to carry twins and keep up with her fulltime job working as an event design specialist, says that after the birth, she doesn’t expect to be sad or depressed because the pregnancy will be over or because the babies will no longer be with her. In fact, she’s happy to know her life will be back to normal. “I have a tremendous guilt about the younger one. My lack of time away from him hurts,” Jennifer says of her youngest son. “But I have to look forward and know it’s almost over.” And once it is, her sister and brother-in-law will take home two little miracles they never expected to see. 70

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Whether you’re considering surrogacy with a friend, relative or stranger as your carrier, the first thing to confirm is that you’re financially set. Medical bills alone can cost $40,000, legal fees $25,000 and then there’s the cost to the surrogate. It’s typically a $100,000 venture, though if you pick a family member or friend, that cost can be much less because the carriers are typically not doing it for the money. Charlotte Danciu, a Delray Beach attorney who specializes in surrogacy and adoption cases, encourages intended parents to do something for the carrier if they’re not paying them. That could include anything from providing childcare if they have other children or offering housekeeping help. One family she worked with actually paid for their surrogate’s tummy tuck because they knew that’s what she wanted.

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Danciu says an average adoption can cost as much as $40,000 so for double the money, you’re getting your own child. “I think everyone’s dream is to have their own biological child if they can,” Danciu says. “Even Angelina Jolie adopts all these kids but she still had to have some of her own biological kids. I’m finding people will find the money, whether it’s through borrowing from family or equity lines on their homes.” Once that money is found, the surrogacy process begins. And one of the first things the couples do is obtain a legal contract. The contract is more than 50 pages and includes items you may never have considered. For example, what if

the commissioning parents die in a plane crash before the baby is born? Where would the baby go? What if the surrogate is in a car accident and on life support? Will her husband maintain her on life support until the baby is a fetus? Danciu has had to obtain prebirth court orders for biological parents to take to the hospital, which lets staff know even though the baby is coming out of one woman’s body, it’s another woman’s baby. This way the biological parents can make medical decisions for the baby. “We try to cover everything from if the surrogate will color her hair to life and death,” matters, says Danciu, whose cases largely consist of couples working with women whom they didn’t previously know. “It’s a big leap of faith to have a stranger carry your child, and I’m amazed every day that people do it,” she says. “But sometimes strangers become like sisters at the end of it.” If they are related or were close friends beforehand, Danciu says it gives the biological couple a sense of relief because they already trust

“If the carrier is going to express concern they’ll get attached, there could be a conflict,” Danciu says. “Or if the sister who couldn’t carry is jealous. I have seen some cases where the commissioning mother didn’t want to interact with the surrogate because it broke her heart to see her pregnant with her baby. That could be a problem.”

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Dr. Gene Manko works for IVF Florida’s Palm Beach County Jupiter clinic, and some of his patients have included gestational carriers who carried for people they knew. He averages about one couple a year and says that working with a carrier and intended parents who know each other is not the majority. But if infertile couples already have that special person and don’t have to lean on a stranger for help, Dr. Manko tells them to embrace it. “It’s a gift of life,” he says. “How often in this world can you give the gift of life to someone?” When a couple comes to Dr. Manko and says they have a gracious friend or relative who’s offered to carry their baby, it isn’t something he takes lightly. Some couples may wish he didn’t care as much and would just work quickly through the red tape so he can transfer those embryos into the carriers. But Dr. Manko takes his time on purpose. The screening process is stretched out over a couple of months because, Dr. Manko says, it tests the motivation and desire of those involved. He questions those who immediately jump into it because he doesn’t think they’re looking at the big picture.

The process starts out with meetings with both parties—first separately and then together—where they talk about the reasons for the surrogacy, which is usually due to a medical issue. Part of the early process involves both parties seeing a therapist and, if they’re working with Dr. Manko, that therapist is his daughter, Amy. Amy Manko is a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in infertility and reproductive counseling. She makes sure her clients know they can call her if they’re having anxiety or need extra support during the process. Her questions vary from making sure the biological parents are comfortable with their decision to why the gestational carrier agreed to carry the baby.

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It’s a gift of life. How often in this world can you give the gift of life to someone? – Dr. Gene Manko, fertility specialist

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the carrier and know they won’t do anything to harm the baby. The women involved especially must have a special relationship so there’s no confusion between roles.

“It’s just to open up the communication,” she explains. “This is a wonderful thing but it could also be a very stressful situation. They need to be prepared.” What will happen after the pregnancy is something couples often don’t consider beforehand so Amy Manko makes sure they’ve thought it through, even down to how they will leave each other when it’s over. “The surrogate couple will need closure,” she explains. “Saying goodbye to the baby after being carried for that long and allowing that time for whatever it is” is important. And no one knows that better than Palm Beach County mom *Leah

and her surrogate and best friend, *Emily.

THE BIG GIVE After *Ruby was born, Leah and Emily lingered in the hospital parking lot in northern Palm Beach County, hesitant to leave each other. Though Leah was happy to start her journey of motherhood and Emily was looking forward to spending time with her family again, the two women had shared such an incredible adventure that it was hard to see it end. Leah has known her entire life that she couldn’t have children because she was born without a uterus. But that didn’t stop her from wanting to become a mother. Emily knew how badly Leah wanted a baby, so one day she volunteered to carry a child for her longtime best friend. She already had two boys of her own and she enjoyed her pregnancies so much that she liked the idea of being pregnant again, though she and her husband weren’t ready for a third child. So Emily got the best of both worlds—her wish to be pregnant without having to parent another baby. Leah was thrilled at the offer but doubted it was possible because she didn’t believe she could produce any eggs. But she saw a doctor anyway, and, much to her surprise, he saw what she calls “one tiny little ovary.” Her doctor wanted to see if it would react to medicine and it did, which later resulted in a retrieval of six eggs. Only one survived at the time of the transfer, which meant only one embryo was implanted into Emily. And that embryo miraculously turned out to be Ruby, now a bubbly 3-year-old. “There were so many hurdles,” Leah recalls. “The moon and the

stars had to align for it to work.” During Emily’s pregnancy, Leah did everything she could for her. She got her a housekeeper, bought her maternity clothes and made sure she and Emily wore beautiful dresses to their four baby showers. Leah even dressed her husband in a pink seersucker suit. Emily kept a journal during the entire pregnancy and handed it to Leah once Ruby was born. On that very special day, Leah and her husband stood by Emily’s side, along with Emily’s husband. The doctors let Leah pull Ruby out of Emily’s body and Leah’s husband cut the cord. Leah stayed in the room the two nights Emily and the baby were in the hospital and Emily describes those days as magical. “I will never forget that,” she says, tearing up. “I saw how in awe they were of the baby. To have (Leah) sleep next to me and the baby in the bassinet … it was so amazing. I was able to see the gift (I gave to them).” Leah also tells the story through tears, reliving a moment so dear that it would make just about anyone wish they could share a friendship as special as the one Emily and Leah have. “I kept looking at Emily, saying, ‘Look what you’ve done,’” Leah says, crying. “I spent my whole life knowing that I wouldn’t have children. We were the underdog.” But surrogacy—and her friend Emily—made them the favorite. And Leah and her husband won, too. “It brings me great joy to have this little baby girl that was born out of love and by friendship,” Leah says. “I put that on her birth announcement. ‘Born from love and by friendship…’ this was an utter miracle.” O

(*Editor’s note: Leah, Emily and Ruby are fictional names used to protect the identity of the sources.)

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Cases We all have a favorite room within our homes, the space that makes us feel a little warmer and fuzzier than any other. For these five ladies, it’s their closets—but we’re not talking about run-ofthe-mill walk-ins. Designed for both form and function, these super-organized and spacious retreats house fashion finery at the same level as any upscale boutique—and that’s just the way their owners like it.

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Boca Raton, photographer Favorite items: “Shoes and purses. I open my cupboards and it’s like looking in a candy store.”

“Lanvin and Balenciaga. I like that they’re edgy and different and that there aren’t a ton of pieces made of each design.”

Designers she favors:

Fantasy closet: “If I were ever to design another closet,

I’d make it like the Chanel store in Paris. That would be my dream space, a place to sit with my friends and hang out.” “I like Bergdorf ’s and Barneys, and I travel a lot so I pick things up in Europe. There’s nothing like walking into Prada in Italy, or the Christian Dior store on Avenue Montaigne. But I don’t like to spend hours shopping. Instead, if I see something I like, I call up and ask if the store can get it for me.”

European haunts:

“It’s like shopping in my own closet. I like to sit here and look at everything.”

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Boca Raton, formerly in nursing, real estate and interior design Size matters: “The room measures 11½ feet by 12 feet. It used to be a home office.” Why she loves it: “It’s

like shopping in my own closet. I like to sit here and look at everything.”

“I wear a lot of Chanel and Roberto Cavalli, and I love Pucci, Dolce & Gabbana and Missoni.”

Among the labels:

Items of note: A Louis Vuitton jacket with burgundy mink buttons and pink python cowboy boots. Fashion philosophy: “Only 25 percent of my style is fashion; the other 75 percent is confidence. I like interesting pieces, and I dress for my mood and have fun with it. It’s how I carry off a look—my joie de vivre—that makes it work.”

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“Because I was a model I had collected a lot of clothes, and with my (now ex-) husband in the music business, I used to have to go to the Grammy Awards so I had amassed a lot of shoes and gowns. When I moved into this house, I knew what I was bringing and that I needed a big closet.”

Behind the design:

Heart and sole: “I have a lot of shoes. I like to mix them up—Gucci, Prada, Blahniks, Louboutins, but also Tory Burch and other random designers. I walk by them in my closet and say ‘hi.’” Variety is the spice of life: “I

have more than 80 handbags. My most prized are my Birkin and Kelly bags by Hermès, and my most used are my Balenciaga bags—I have at least nine colors and 13 total. I believe in buying amazing quality that will retain its value—I’d rather buy one bag that costs $1,000 than 10 bags that cost $100 each—and I try to buy timeless bags that I can pull out 10 years from now and they’ll still be amazingly cool.”

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Judi Temple

Boca Raton, Pilates instructor who teaches classes in Florida and owns a studio in Colorado Room to grow: “The

closet is about 200 square feet; it was a room when I moved in, and I redesigned it to outfit my things because we don’t have dressers in our bedroom to hold clothing. I also designed an area for jewelry and drawers with compartments for other accessories.”

What’s in stock: “I recently reorganized the closet and decided I have an obsession with black jackets. I have maybe 40 of them, along with a huge collection of scarves—silk, pashminas, I just can’t let go of them. But as far as what I have the most of, it’s shoes.” Shopping grounds: “Encore in Deerfield Beach. I take things there and also buy from them. I have a combination of new and consignment items. Also, Alene Too in Boca Raton. For higher-end dressing, I like Saks and Neiman’s but I’m more of a boutique shopper.”

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“I saw Mariah Carey’s amazing closet, and I said, ‘I want one, too!’”

Marcie Butters

Parkland, interior designer Think big: Her closet is 19 feet by 13 feet, part of a 2,500square-foot addition to the family’s 17-year-old house.

“I saw Mariah Carey’s amazing closet, and I said, ‘I want one, too!’”

Inspiration:

“I thought of every single thing. There are hurricane windows behind the shoes because I wanted natural light. And when I did the top shelves, I measured my Louis Vuitton bags because I wanted them to fit perfectly. I’m a Louis freak.”

What drove the design:

“I love my belts. I saw them displayed that way in a store and had to do it in my closet.”

It was a cinch:

Organization is key: “Long sleeves go on top because it looks better that way. The tanks are all together, then short sleeves. And it goes in order of color, from white to beige to peach, etcetera. When things are neat and organized, you’re in a better mood.” Can’t beat experience: “When I was younger, I worked in a boutique, so I learned how to put everything in order.” O

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t’s a Sunday morning in the middle of a crowded bagel shop in Weston when Stacey Honowitz walks in dressed in black and touting three-inch heels because she’s a tiny gal (only 4´11˝) who not only likes to be heard, but seen as well. She’s not what you’d expect from an attorney. Rather, she looks like one of those über-polished women who work in uppity boutiques—pretty with a slim figure, flawless makeup and big silver hoop earrings that dangle between strands of long dark hair. She also looks familiar, and there’s a reason: As a well-known prosecutor for the Broward County State Attorney’s office who oversees the Sex Crimes and Child Abuse unit, her face is often splashed across the national news channels, serving as a source for breaking news cases where often times celebrities are involved like Lindsay Lohan or the late Michael Jackson.

doors, where she’s not afraid to drop the occasional F-bomb.

them to reveal what happened is no easy feat.

“I think people sugar-coat things,” she says, tapping her purple fingernails on the table. “I speak my mind. If I could curse on the air, I would.”

But somehow, 49-year-old Honowitz does it with grace.

TELLS IT LIKE IT IS Honowitz spends her days using words in public that would make most people squirm if they heard them—“vagina,” “penis,” “penetration,” “ejaculation.” She’s very comfortable talking about the uncomfortable, as she should be since that’s a big part of her job. She’s good at it. So good that some people find her intimidating.

“You’re not just a prosecutor, you’re a therapist, a psychologist,” she says between bites of a fruit salad. “People are coming to you with unimaginable crimes. You have to be a certain breed” to handle it all. Frankel compares her to Holly Hunter’s character in the movie, “Broadcast News.” Hunter plays a tough, no-nonsense producer who doesn’t take any crap. But every once in a while, she reveals a softer side. And that, Frankel says, is Honowitz.

of fondling boys as young as 7. Now that those boys are close to becoming teenagers, they decided not to testify because they didn’t want to take the stand and discuss the sexual abuse in public. So Layman, who at one time was facing a life sentence, only received seven years in prison. Then there are cases where the children don’t even know that what’s happening to them is wrong. The mother of a 3-year-old once came to Stacey because her daughter had been touched by a man in her building. He was baby-sitting and when the mother came home the little girl told her she’d had fun that day. The mother asked what she did and

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Even her lips are famous. In 2000, Glamour magazine named Honowitz as having the most beautiful lips in the country, because she uses them to help victims of sex crimes. Oh, and she’s also an author, having penned two books about children, their private parts and the importance of reporting abuse.

David Frankel, a friend and former co-worker of Honowitz’s, started at the State Attorney’s office the same time she did 23 years ago. What was it like the first time they met? He heard her call a defense attorney an “ass-wipe” to his face.

Still, even with her snazzy style and myriad accomplishments, when Honowitz speaks you quickly realize she’s anything but uppity. She talks to you like you’re a friend she hasn’t seen in years. She wants to know how you are, if you have children, do you like your job? She’s got a tell-it-like-it-is attitude that serves her well in the courtroom. And that personality is even more striking outside courtroom

“She doesn’t mean it in a rude way, that’s naturally the way she is. She’s a pistol. You can’t offend her,” Frankel says.

They became fast friends after that.

But she’s also got a soft, sensitive side and that side is how she relates to the children she helps. She has a knack for talking with girls and boys who’ve been physically or sexually abused, and, as you can imagine, getting

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“There is a part of her that is very vulnerable that only a few people get to see,” he says. There are so many kids that come into her office, she sighs, and each one has a horrible, scary story to share. And, as sad as it might sound, if the story involves only touching and not much else, Honowitz finds herself relieved. “I say, ‘Thank God’ it was just touching.” Cases involving boys are the most challenging because boys are less likely than girls to talk about what’s happened to them, she says, citing a recent one involving David Layman, the piano teacher in Tamarac accused

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the little girl said that the man, “laid me down on the bed and tickled me. He tickled my poo poo with his tongue and I was laughing.” Stacey argued the case and the man got life in prison.

One of her most troubling cases involved a 27-year-old man who was molested as a boy but the allegations were made so many years later that Stacey didn’t know if the statute of limitations had run its course because of the man’s age at the time he was molested. The victim, who was distraught over the news, spoke to Stacey about the case on a Wednesday and the next day, he killed himself. “I’m the last person he spoke with about the case,” she says, her eyes tearing up.

On the case: Stacey Honowitz at the Broward County State Attorney's Office, where she oversees the Sex Crimes and Child Abuse unit

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Honowitz does the best she can to keep her emotions in check and move on to the next case. She’s not just there to convict the rapists and child abusers; she’s also there to straighten out the kids who are doing things like having sex too young. She often meets young girls who are already sexually active. And we’re not just talking about high school students, but middle school kids too.

“I’m very determined,” she says. “The worst thing is to tell me, ‘no.’” And that, too, should come as no surprise.

A MEDIA MAVEN After graduating from Nova Southeastern University Law School in South Florida, she headed straight to the Broward County State Attorney’s Office where she focused on misde-

“She never lets up. She has this ability to take on people’s most personal things but not let it destroy her, which is a rare gift. She soldiers on. And that’s her niche.” – David Frankel

Honowitz tells them bluntly, “You’re f--king up your life.” Then she calls her secretary into her office, who got pregnant at 13, and her secretary explains to these girls how hard it was to become a mother while she was still a kid herself. Since her job revolves around kids and the bad things that happen to them, it’s no surprise that she worries about the safety of her 2 ½-yearold daughter. Honowitz, who is now going through a divorce, refuses to leave her child with a babysitter and relies on her parents, who live across the street, for childcare. She’s a proud mama who likes to talk about her pregnancy and how she had to ban M&Ms from her diet because she knew she’d eat bags and bags if she could. She talks about her daughter—whose name, for privacy reasons, she did not disclose for this interview—like she’s a little adult, watching The Weather Channel instead of cartoons and reminding her mommy not to be late to court in the mornings or the judge will be mad.

meanors and felonies. She wanted to work in the State Attorney’s office because, she says, it’s a great experience. The woman who enjoys a challenge says that once you’re in that office, “you’re thrown into it.” She loved it then and still does, which is why she rejects offers every now and then to go into private practice. But she doesn’t reject the press that comes with her often high-profile cases. About 10 years ago, she was involved in a case that was covered by Court TV. That case is what introduced Honowitz to the media world and news anchors liked her honest attitude and hardcore dedication to the victims.

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pick her up when she’s down.

Soon she became a regular on news channels like CNN, MSNBC, FOX and all of the morning talk shows including “Good Morning America.” One of her favorite shows to be a guest on was “Larry King Live” and she attended his retirement party in Los Angeles. She knows famed-attorney Gloria Allred and texts often with Allred’s daughter, Lisa Bloom who, like Honowitz, is also a well-known attorney and TV commentator. The last text they shared was about makeup and what type of cover-up Bloom uses beneath her eyes. By the way, not only is Honowitz a mother and a prosecutor, but she’s also her very own publicist, scheduling her weekly TV appearances. She admits it keeps her busy, but lately she’s been doing it because she wants to promote her children’s books. Years ago she wrote “My Privates Are Private” and “Genius With A Penis, Don’t Touch!” and tried to get them published, but couldn’t find anyone willing to invest in them because of the topic. So she saved some money and published them herself. “Finally I said, ‘Screw all of you, I know how important it is,’” she says. “It teaches kids not to be scared.” The books, which can be found on barnesandnoble.com and amazon.com, teach children about their private parts and not to be afraid to tell an adult if someone has touched them. The books should be in every household, she says, which is why she’s tried relentlessly to get publicity for them in media outlets such as Parents magazine. They weren’t interested, so she responded with a scathing letter scolding them for writing about mundane subjects such as where to find the latest Elmo toy, but not including more serious matters that could save a child’s life. Hoping to spread the word, Honowitz wants to get the books into a celebrity’s hands, so far reaching out to stars like Nicole Richie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Rosie O’Donnell and she’s hoping for a positive response.

And so is her daughter. At home with her daughter is where Honowitz finds happiness and peace and stability in the midst of her stressful and incredibly challenging career. When she ventures out, Boca Raton is one of the places she enjoys spending time, and, she says with a giggle, “I would spend more time up there if there was a nice guy up there!” Her longtime friend David Frankel didn’t expect her to continue working the way she did after her daughter was born. It was a perfect time to back away from her work of seeing

She wants the books to encourage parents to talk with children about the importance of protecting themselves.

Honowitz on CNN’s “Larry King Live”

“I see how dumb parents are and that kills me,” Honowitz says.

“Sex crimes know no boundaries. It’s black, it’s white, it’s Catholic, it’s Jewish.”

During speaking engagements, she’s had parents raise their hands and say that because it’s such an uncomfortable subject matter, they don’t know how to approach it with their children. Sometimes they admit that they’re afraid to even bring up the issue. But that doesn’t matter to Honowitz. What matters, she tells them, is that they keep that line of communication open with their children and remember that their job is not to be their child’s best friend, but to be an attentive parent. And, perhaps more importantly, to know that no one is immune to sex crimes. “Sex crimes know no boundaries. It’s black, it’s white, it’s Catholic, it’s Jewish,” she says. “It’s rich, it’s poor.” Honowitz has given countless talks to parents during the past several

– Stacey Honowitz

years. And during these lectures, as well as on TV and in the courtroom, she comes across as gutsy, outspoken and strong—so it might cause your eyebrows to raise when you learn she’s insecure. Yep, she says, she’s like every other woman. She’s not happy with her figure and, she says, she manages to find every new wrinkle that pops up on her face. “Don’t ask me to evaluate my thighs,” she says, rolling her eyes. But luckily Honowitz has wonderful friends who jokingly tell her she’s “a nut bag” and they’re there to

broken children almost daily, and to focus more on her own needs. But that just isn’t Honowitz. She remains where she is because work is where she fulfills her mission to make a difference and to put away as many bad guys as she can. Admits Honowitz: “I try to save the world.” “She never lets up,” Frankel says. “She has this ability to take on people’s most personal things but not let it destroy her, which is a rare gift. She soldiers on. And that’s her niche.” O April 2011

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Beller Smith, P.L. is located in Boca Corporate Center, 2101 N.W. Corporate Blvd., Suite 316, Boca Raton. For more information, call 561-994-4316, or visit bellersmith.com.

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LINDA BENEDON

press Travel for 12 years before purchasing the agency three years ago. And although planning a perfect vacation is exciting, it isn’t easy. Online information helps with research. Cruise or tour? Europe or Alaska? But her clients complain of “information overload,” which can be confusing. For years travelers have imagined cruising along the Mediterranean Sea, but are now having trouble with the details. And

and her office has the benefit of a team of independent contractors with experience in every destination.

Cruise Like A Celebrity Boca Express Travel/American Express’s Linda Benedon Fulfills Dreams

“It’s like a puzzle, putting a package together,” Benedon says. “People are more informed than ever and they come to us with a lot of information. I like that.” What’s also changing is the number of

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the magic is in the details.

“cruisers” Benedon sends packing. (LiterLINDA BENEDON LOVES MAKING PEOPLE

Because their office is so intimate, the

happy.

five people on the core staff know each

ally!)

client’s likes and dislikes. It’s more like a

“How easy is it to say, ‘I want to go away

“It’s a wonderful business,” says Bene-

family than an office. Indeed, Boca Ex-

next weekend,’ hop on a ship, and go?”

don, Boca Express Travel’s experienced

press Travel starts the concierge service

she says.

company president. “You’re fulfilling dreams. It’s fun.” Whether it’s a once-in-a-lifetime trip to explore a family’s history along the coast of Italy, or a romantic anniversary celebration on one of the beautiful new ships of Celebrity Cruises, Inc., the small, capable

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before you ever leave South Florida.

“The perfect trip is all about the destination and the quality of the experience.”

Boca Express Travel happily recommends that clients indulge in the Celebrity experience. “A Celebrity cruise is finer dining and better services,” Benedon says. “The shows

“The perfect trip is all about the destina-

are great and the ships are magnificent.

team at Boca Express Travel/American Ex-

tion and the quality of the experience,”

It’s for clients who want a little bit of pam-

press will arrange everything.

says Benedon, who managed Boca Ex-

pering.” And who doesn’t want that?

Boca Express Travel is located at 8177 Glades Road, Suite 14, Boca Raton. For more information, call 561-451-4511 or visit bocaexpresstravel.com.

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JODY SMITH

✽ “Most of my clients know what they like,” Smith says. “They just need someone to reassure them that it’s all going to come together in the perfect way.” Founded by Murray and Steve Brown in 1975, Brown’s does something else that customers love. They specify finishes, work with the construction team, and oversee the project on site, discussing things like tile inlays and architectural details. “We take care of everything,” she says. These days, more homeowners seem to be renovating their existing homes— whether it’s the main house or a vacation house. Smith knows the importance of tying that renovation into existing design. Indeed, Smith’s fine-tuned tal-

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ent and calm bedside manner are so revered, clients hold on once they’ve found her, relying on Smith again and again as their design needs change

Divine Design

through the years. Smith’s recent properties include two turnkey condos in 1000 Ocean at the Boca Raton Resort

Jody Smith Of Brown’s Interior Design Provides Beautiful Spaces—And Piece Of Mind

& Club, complete renovations of an oceanfront estate and several renovations and refurnishings in several country club communities in Boca.

JODY SMITH’S NOT A MIND READER,

Of course, it sometimes takes a village,

although her clients might think other-

and Brown’s Interior Design has that, too.

wise from time to time. It’s just that she’s so intuitive.

“I’ve had the opportunity to have longstanding relationships with a lot of my

With two locations in Palm Beach Coun-

clients,” she says. “It’s real important for

ty—its original showroom and office in

people to feel comfortable with you, be-

Boca

Raton another

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“Most of my clients know what they like. They just need someone to reassure them that it’s all going to come together in the perfect way.”

For 20 years, Smith has been a designer

and

with the family-owned Brown’s Inte-

location in Ju-

rior Design. Smith can walk into a room,

piter—Brown’s

sense its proportions, sum up the other

offers

rooms in the house, listen to a client’s

key

rambling dreams and voila.

that includes not only amazing design,

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cause you spend a lot of time together.”

but also support and problem-solving. Things happen. Beautiful things.

Brown’s also has two local warehouses,

After all, beauty does take time, and it

making shipping and delivery super

also takes Jody Smith’s attention to detail,

convenient.

good service and functional design.

Brown’s Interior Design has two locations, one in Jupiter and one in Boca Raton. The Boca Raton address is 4501 North Federal Highway. For more information, call 561-368-2703, or visit brownsinteriors.com.

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The Protector

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CLAIRE SHERES

Top-Selling Realtor® Claire Sheres Records Best Year Yet FINDING THE PERFECT OCEANFRONT mansion or marketing the ideal country club home, Claire Sheres does it with style and unprecedented success. For the third consecutive year, Claire Sheres has been named Coldwell Banker’s #1 Ranked Realtor® in the tri-county Palm Beach Region. 2010 was Claire’s and catapulting Claire into Coldwell Banker’s prestigious 266 member group of, “International President’s PREMIER”. Claire ranked in the TOP ¼% of the 40,000+ sales associates worldwide, representing Coldwell Banker/NRT the world’s largest Real Estate Brokerage firm.

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“There’s no magic pill. Success in this business requires dedication, long days, thick skin and patience.”

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According to managing broker Carolyn Kearns, “Claire’s clients have a distinct edge. She protects them and truly pays attention to detail. Claire has an uncanny ability to think out of the box and can bring the most difficult

“There’s no magic pill. This business

considered an expert on Waterfront as

transaction to a successful closing. They

requires extreme dedication, honesty,

well as Country Club communities in

love her. Just read the testimonials.”

long days, thick skin, excellent assistants

Boca, Delray and Highland Beach. “Allan

and patience…..lots of patience,” she

and I love the Woodfield lifestyle”, says

“We are exceptionally proud. To achieve

says. “My assistants, allow me to focus on

Claire, “but each of the clubs have their

such results in today’s market, screams of

my clients’ needs, quickly and efficiently.

own unique advantages. Then, there are

Claire’s expertise and professionalism. She

those

the

successfully, buys and sells homes in some

A 19 year resident of the Woodfield

waterfront condos!” she exclaims. “I work

of Palm Beach’s most prestigious (and

Country Club, Claire, has for the 3rd

with Buyers, Sellers and Renters in all these

difficult) neighborhoods.”

consecutive year defied odds and done

communities. After spending a bit of time

more business in Woodfield, than any

with a client and listening to them, we

Says Sheres: “I often feel like my clients

other agent or Broker. Her expertise

usually zero in on a list quickly. Then we go

are my children and my “Protective

doesn’t stop at Woodfield. Claire is widely

shopping!”

Instinct” kicks in…”

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best year ever, inking 58 transactions

Claire Sheres can be reached at 561-414-4146 or ChezClaire@aol.com. For details on any of Claire’s listings, visit BuySellBocaRaton.com or WoodfieldResales.com.

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BREEZE TAYLOR

Planning’s A Breeze Dream Concierge Creates Magnificent Affairs With Ease

WHETHER IT’S A BAR MITZVAH OR A 50th birthday party, a kid’s birthday party or a dream wedding for daddy’s

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little girl, Breeze Taylor does it all, and she does it all quite beautifully. “I understand that the little things are important,” says Breeze, who began planning parties for New York clients in the late 1990s and realized she had a tremendous talent for organizing beautiful affairs. fore they know what their needs are,” “The centerpiece. The candles. The rib-

she says, chuckling. “At any event, pret-

bons on the bouquet. I’m a perfectionist.

ty much something is always going to

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wedding extravaganza, it’s all artistry. First, there’s the invitation. “It has to be

go wrong. It’s just my job to make sure

special,” she says, “and set the mood

the client never knows

and the tone.” From music to lighting to

about it.”

convincing the groom that they really do

“At any event, pretty much something is always going to go wrong. It’s just my job to make sure the client never knows about it.”

need her, she removes the worry and hasIn her 11th year of business,

sle from even the largest events. Whether

Breeze’s calm and nurtur-

it’s a Palm Beach gala attended by the

ing personality, coupled

area’s most generous philanthropists or a

with her Type A attention to

small, intimate affair to impress potential

And that’s why Breeze and her team

the smallest detail—yes, moving the can-

corporate clients, Dream Concierge Event

at Dream Concierge Event Planning

dles over a half an inch on the tables really

Planning creates magical memories.

are known across South Florida for their

does make a difference!—makes her the

magnificent parties, receptions and

premier event planner. And her degree in

“We will always save them what they

events that not only look effortless—but

psychology doesn’t hurt when it comes to

spend with us,” she promises. “We also

feel effortless for their clients.

calming clients’ nerves.

save them the headaches and the wor-

“I’m able to anticipate their needs be-

From a small dinner affair to the six-figure

ries and guide them through. In the end, it’s a much more enjoyable experience.”

Dream Concierge Event Planning is located at 1200 N. Federal Highway, Suite 200, Boca Raton. For more information or to schedule a consultation, call 561-477-0665 or visit dreamconcierge.com.

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A Natural Selection For Attorney Ronda Ellis, The Path To Success Is Well-Traveled

RONDA ELLIS’ CHOICE OF A CAREER

attorneys, she knew firsthand the difference a dedicated lawyer can make. Teaming with husband C. Glen Ged, as co-founding partner in Boca Ratonbased Ellis, Ged & Bodden, P.A., she’s proven the point many times over since

RONDA ELLIS

the firm’s founding 16 years ago.

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A graduate of New England School of

after an injury or loss of a loved one. We

many firm employees who are single,

Law and recipient of the New England

get to know them as individuals, not case

working moms.

Scholar Award, she began her career

files, so there’s tremendous satisfaction

focused

in securing justice for them.”

women’s

issues.

She

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compassionate, tireless advocate who

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from

pace, it’s important to keep your eye fixed

the gratitude of the families she serves.

creating a workplace that values team

on the values that are the foundation for

members’ contributions and responds

success in business and in life, she believes.

“Our mission is to positively impact

to their needs. A working mother of

“Integrity, respect, compassion—they may

people’s lives each day,” she says.

two young children with a demanding

sound old-fashioned but making them

“Clients place their trust in us in difficult

schedule, she has high regard for the

your guideposts keeps you grounded,”

circumstances, facing tough challenges

balancing act performed daily by the

she says.

handled hundreds of breast implant cases, representing women in a global settlement, and cases involving FenPhen diet pills. Today, she puts her skill to work in the areas of personal injury and wrongful death and is known as a

“Our mission is to positively impact people’s lives each day.” satisfaction

also

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brothers and seven cousins who are

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in law was a natural. With a father, two

difference in the community, she is active in community organizations including her church, St. Andrews School, which her son and daughter attend, and The George Snow Scholarship Fund. With the world changing at a dizzying

Ellis, Ged & Bodden, P.A. is located at 7171 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton. For more information, call 561-995-1966 or visit ellisandged.com.

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AUDREY SCHNEIDERMAN

Calm In The Storm

Family Lawyer Audrey Schneiderman Of Feldman & Schneiderman, P.L. Expertly Guides Clients Through Tough Times SOMETIMES YOU JUST KNOW THINGS intuitively, and that’s how it is when you meet Audrey Schneiderman. You know

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she’s special. She’s funny and smart. Direct, yet approachable. And that’s why clients at Feldman & Schneiderman, P.L., appre-

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ciate her style in the handling of their family law matters. “I have a very good rapport with my clients,” says Schneiderman. “They like me.

“I have a very good rapport with my clients. They like me. But I also have control, and that’s important. Not everyone has both.”

She believes their partnership is the firm’s crowning glory. “We’re real partners,” she says, “Down here, that’s very unusual.” Schneiderman’s quick wit, strong will and reverence for what is right and

But I also have control, and that’s impor-

gate some of their darkest moments—

wrong also make her one of the best

tant. Not everyone has both.”

death, divorce, custody disputes—Sch-

mediating attorneys around.

neiderman’s knowledge of the law, A native New Yorker, Schneiderman at-

combined with her love for people,

She’s a great hand-holder who has a

tended the University of Wisconsin, where

makes her one of South Florida’s most

knack for knowing when cooler heads

she graduated cum laude, and earned

successful family law attorneys.

should prevail.

Admitted to the Florida Bar in 1992, she is

She’s also tough as nails.

her Juris Doctorate with honors from Rutgers School of Law in Camden, N.J.

also licensed to practice before the U.S. Initially a successful corporate and tax

District Court for the Southern District of

“I’m not perfect,” she says, smiling. “But

attorney in New Jersey, Schneiderman

Florida, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the

at the same time, I have a respect for

found her real love when she moved to

Eleventh Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme

the law, and I try to fit each one of my

Florida about 25 years ago: Family law.

Court. For 12 years, she’s practiced with

clients into a situation best suited for

Joel H. Feldman at Feldman & Schneider-

them. People accept this, appreciate it,

man and developed a real partnership.

and it works.”

And even though she helps clients navi-

Feldman & Schneiderman, P.L., is located at 401 Camino Gardens Blvd., Boca Raton. For more information, call 561-392-4400 or visit feldmanlawoffice.com.

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PIAN KRICK

✽ artwork. The minute you walk in the door, you know it’s unique. Outside in the small garden, the fresh herbs are readily available when Patcharin needs them for one of his delectable dishes. But there is more to House of Siam than amazing food and perfect ambiance. Everything

authentically

precise.

From the traditional Thai garb worn by Pian and the other waitresses—(Pian sews her outfits, and the outfits of many employees!)—to their gentle approach, to the unbeatable food with perfect fla-

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And may we suggest the Lobster Pad Thai? Before this, Pian was trained at the Gemologist Institute of America and worked as a manager of jewelry stores. PIAN KRICK HAS ALWAYS LOVED GOOD food and beautiful things, which serves her and her husband, Patcharin, well in their authentic Thai cuisine restaurant in the Pineapple Grove section of Delray Beach. Growing up in Thailand one of four children, Pian often helped her mother in the family restaurant. Once they came to the states, each of the kids dabbled in the restaurant business. But Pian and her husband have created a special place, and they know success

Try This Authentic Thai House Of Siam’s Pian Krick Knows That Fine Dining Is In The Details

is in the details. In 11 years, they’ve col-

Even then, she created beautiful things, designing and die-casting special piec-

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“We will fix however they want. Vegetarian. Vegan... We like healthy.”

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vors, this is not a restaurant you’ll forget.

es of custom jewelry. She has always loved beauty, and it is Pian who is often the artist behind the curled and carved vegetable garnishes added to each House of Siam signature dish. Best of all, Pian is at the restaurant every day, her smile and gentleness adding to the culinary adventure that is House of Siam. “We will fix however they want,” she says, smiling. “Vegetarian. Vegan... We like healthy.”

lected a customer base that counts on

House of Siam focuses on healthy Thai

good food and top-notch service.

food that tastes amazing and looks like

She adds, “Me? I like to see happy faces.”

House of Siam is located at 25 N.E. Second Ave., #116, Delray Beach. For more information, call 561-330-9191 or visit houseofsiam.info.

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JAMIE KAPLAN

✽ So Kaplan dialed up her old contacts, did her homework—and jumped back into the business. Kaplan offers the latest looks of the season, as well as all the must-have celebrity picks. At Jamie’s, Kaplan offers all the emerging designers, both L.A. and New York-based. With her eye for style, this cutting-edge fashionista can make jeans and a T-shirt look fabulous with her special twist. She’s also designing her

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own collection.

“Fashion is who I am, and I am having the most fantastic time.”

“Fashion is who I am, and I am having the most fantastic time,” says Kaplan, who loves making women look—and feel—beautiful.

AFTER TAKING A SHORT BREAK FROM what she does so well, stylist and designer Jamie Kaplan is back better than ever with her latest venture, Jamie’s, located at The Commons in Glades Plaza. As always with Jamie Kaplan, her passion for fashion is making her boutique The Buzz around town, and this is how it happened. During a respite from the fashion in-

Passion For Fashion Jamie’s Boutique Offers Cutting-Edge Clothes For The South Florida Stylista

dustry to tend to matters of the heart

At Jamie’s, Kaplan always offers one-onone personal assistance, and she and her staff can also work by private appointment. Kaplan usually starts with the staple, core pieces, then adds her trendier touches. Each shopping appointment with Kaplan or one of her associates is an enlightening and exciting aha moment in fashion. As always, Kaplan eats, breathes and lives fashion. After years with Calvin Klein Collections and Jeans and several businesses of her own, she still loves quoting her favorite icon, Coco Chanel.

—her children!—Kaplan continued to

“I would always get the vibe to get back

spend summers in Los Angeles, hitting

into the business and that’s when it all

“Fashion fades, only style remains the

the stores on Robertson Boulevard and

clicked,” she says. “I would come back

same,” Chanel once said.

Melrose Avenue, and spending time in

wondering why nobody here had a shop

Malibu.

with all the fun, trendy L.A. looks.”

Jamie Kaplan couldn’t agree more.

Jamie’s is located at 2240 N.W. 19th St., Suite 1205, Boca Raton. For more information, call 561-391-4747.

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Striking Vision

Mikaela Fernandez Of LadyLash Makes Women Look—And Feel— Beautiful THE MOST DRIVEN AND CREATIVE artists—whether

they’re

fine

artists,

graphic artists, makeup artists, writers or musicians—develop their passions early.

knew from the moment she painted her little sister’s face that she wanted to be a professional makeup artist. New York City was moments away from the small Massachusetts town where MIKAELA FERNANDEZ

she grew up, so by 17 she was learning from the “the biggest and the best.” By

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21, she was plying her art on movie sets,

title of Ms. LadyLash, a Master Lash Styl-

nandez, relaxing for a moment at their

high-end commercials and glossy print

ist and International Lash Artist who has

Hollywood-glam shop in the trendy

ads, becoming the industry’s go-to girl.

trained hundreds of other lash artists.

Pineapple Grove neighborhood of Del-

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A chance meeting in Miami with Georgio

Fernandez, a former actor

and

current

“It is important that every client that walks through the doors of LadyLash has an experience, not just an appointment.”

celebrity makeup art-

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ray Beach. “It is important that every client that walks through the doors of LadyLash has an experience, not just an appointment.” The power couple recently added a sec-

ist, changed her life. Partners in life and in

Mikaela and Georgio’s makeup designs

ond location at The Ritz-Carlton, Palm

business, Mikaela and Georgio Fernan-

have graced faces famous and not, all

Beach, and this fall Mikaela will introduce

dez dedicated their lives and professional

with the same dedication to making

her signature false lash collection.

careers to changing the face of beauty—

every woman feel beautiful. The parents

one woman at a time. They called their

of three little girls are proprietors of a

When asked her beauty secrets for suc-

combined talents LadyLash Studios.

business that’s growing beyond their

cess, Fernandez explains with a twinkle

wildest expectations.

in her eye, “Life is about honoring your

In addition to her artistry with a makeup palette, Mikaela can rightly claim the

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Mikaela Fernandez was studying fashion

vision... and it doesn’t hurt to bat a lash “We all want to feel beautiful,” says Fer-

here and there.”

Ladylash Studios is located at 170 N.E. Second Ave., Delray Beach. For more information, call 561-865-5111 or visit ladylash.com. Their makeup is now available through their Web site.

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RITA CONWAY CFP®, CIMA® VICE PRESIDENT AND WEALTH ADVISOR Master’s in Finance and Accounting from FIU and a Master’s in Project Management from George Washington University. Additionally, she is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ practitioner and holds a Certified Investment Management Analyst® designation from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. She’s

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also a licensed CPA (non-practicing).

“I help my clients make smart decisions with their money.”

From the 45-year-old couple who wants to retire in 10 years to the already retired wealthy individuals who want to maintain their standard of living, Rita relies on her

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keen knowledge of the financial world and her understanding of people to help formulate the best plan for each client. “I don’t recommend anything until I re-

Wealth Of Information Rita Conway Of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Helps Build Financial Futures

ally understand their goals and desires,” says Rita. Being culturally diverse and fluent in Spanish and Italian helps her relate to a variety of clients. Rita’s business savvy and one-on-one TLC means that she is fortunate to help families on a multi-generational level. “I’m there

RITA CONWAY, VICE PRESIDENT AND

beneficiary of your work,” she says. “It’s

Wealth Advisor at Morgan Stanley Smith

impersonal.”

Barney started her career as a financial analyst, worked as a senior consultant for

for those difficult transitions,” she says. While the industry is filled with qualified men,

And impersonal is not Rita’s cup of tea.

Price Waterhouse and later progressed

Rita’s feminine touch is an asset in this field. It is Rita’s belief that women focus more on

to senior executive positions with premier

Now she does something she loves—

companies including Motorola and Florida

which is to directly help people with their

relationships and the bigger picture.

Power & Light.

financial futures.

She enjoyed a successful career, but

“I help my clients make smart decisions

she says. “I directly advise my clients

something was missing.

with their money,” says Rita, who holds a

about their wealth.”

“I’m married to a doctor who directly advises his patients about their health,”

“In corporate America you work in teams which are removed from the

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, its affiliates, and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Financial Advisors and employees are not in the business of providing tax or legal advice, and these materials and any statements contained herein should not be construed as tax or legal advice. Individuals are urged to consult their personal tax advisor or attorney for matters involving taxation and tax planning and their personal attorney for matters involving trust and estate planning and other legal matters.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney is located at 490 E. Palmetto Park Road, Boca Raton. For more information, call 561-394-8661, or visit www.morganstanley.com/fa/rita.conway. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC. Member SIPC.

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SHARON MORGENSTERN

✽ genstern, who four years ago followed her dream, quit her job and started her photography business. “I try to take the stress out of the photo shoot and capture the moment and the mood.” Born in Colombia, South America, Sharon moved to the States when she was 10. By then, she’d already found her passion. Some of her happiest memories were sitting at home, cross-legged, flipping through the pages of her grandmother’s albums. It was like watching time elapse, slowly, right before her eyes. “I’ve always enjoyed looking at people through photos,” she says. “I love seeing

camera around her neck, but she chose a cut-and-dry career. Still, she was always the mom at the soccer game, snapping away, capturing adorable moments that made other parents go gaga. And then she decided to pursue pho-

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them as they were, right at that moment.”

Though she has a portable studio, Mor-

Sharon Morgenstern Photography Makes Special Moments Last Forever

genstern does most of her work outdoors, in natural light and in natural settings.

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Soft lighting. Natural smiles.

around since she was 8 years old, cap-

Offbeat composition. She

turing snippets of life. And now Sharon

specializes in artistic preg-

Morgenstern wants to take her magical

nancy portraits, heartwarm-

eye and work these wonders with your

ing newborn photos, chil-

family. The end result will be awe-inspiring

dren of all ages and stages,

mementos, including desk-size photos,

family photos and multi-generational ses-

“I have a ball,” says Morgenstern, the

bound books and mural-size canvases.

sions that radiate individual expression.

mother of 9-year-old twin girls and an

“I’ve always enjoyed looking at people through photos. I love seeing them as they were, right at that moment.”

11-year-old boy. “I often come home Sharon Morgenstern simply has a way of

“A lot of times, mothers are so anxious

filthy, but we all had a great time. The

turning life into art.

about these photo sessions,” says Mor-

proof is in the pictures.”

For information about Sharon Morgenstern Photography, call 561-866-4455 or visit sharonmorgenstern.com.

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“I work harder now than I ever did at Goldman Sachs, but the rewards are so much greater.”

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Strength Redefined

Pilates Of Boca Provides An Invigorating One-Stop Shop

owner Stefanie Ellis (center) and master pilates educator dana eisenstein smythe

clients who can conveniently work out at either location. The studios are a convenient and invigorating one-stop shop: a place to get a complete workout, meet friends and shop for fitness attire. Everyone leaves healthier and happier than when they arrived.

“I have a dream job!” states Stefanie

opened as a 1,000-square-foot studio with

What makes these studios unique is their

Ellis, owner of the two Pilates of Boca stu-

state-of-the-art Pilates equipment in 2006,

visionary leader. Ellis views her superior

dios. “I provide wellness to my clients in a

when Ellis was pregnant with her first child,

team of trainers as the key to her studio’s

comfortable, intimate atmosphere. Af-

Morgan. Two years later in 2008, when Ellis

success and reputation. “Positive attitude

ter leaving a Wall Street career, Ellis pur-

was pregnant with twins, Sydney and Zoe,

and continued education of the trainers

sued her passion to develop an exercise

she added another 1,000 square feet to

are critical to our mission,” she says. Ellis

studio focused on improving the fitness

include the premier ballet barre method

runs Teacher Training programs leading

of her clients. Ellis admits, “I work harder

Xtend Barre franchise. In 2010, Ellis added

to Power Pilates, Xtend Barre and Mad-

now than I ever did at Goldman Sachs,

another 1,000 square feet to offer Spin-

dog Spinning certifications several times

but the rewards are so much greater.”

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Compassionate Cookie Great American Bake Sale Kicks Off To Fight Childhood Hunger

n your mark, get set… make cupcakes! It’s time to dust off your cake pans and cookie sheets because the Eighth Annual Great American Bake Sale is officially on. The event, sponsored by Share Our Strength, the national organization fighting to end childhood hunger in the United States by 2015, is asking that South Floridians whip up brownies, pies and other treats for community bake sales in an effort to benefit the “No Kid Hungry” campaign.

“Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee,” faced hunger growing up; she and her four younger siblings relied on federal feeding programs like food stamps to survive. “Share Our Strength’s Great American Bake Sale is a great way for people to give back to their communities while having fun. By hosting bake sales, individuals are helping feed children who struggle with hunger,” says Lee, who will donate 25 percent of proceeds from her new cookbook, “SemiHomemade Bake Sale,” to the cause.

It’s certainly a worthy cause. Through the campaign, Share Our Strength ensures that children in need are enrolled in federal nutrition programs, invests in community organizations that help connect kids with the food they need, teaches at-risk families how to cook healthy, affordable meals, and builds public-private partnerships to end child hunger nationally, and at state and city levels. Since 2003, 1.7 million people have participated in the Great American Bake Sale, raising more than $6 million. “Hunger affects more than 17 million kids in the United States. That’s nearly one in four,” says lifestyle expert and food celebrity Sandra Lee, the campaign’s national spokesperson. Lee, star of Food Network’s

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Holding one of these bake sales can be empowering, especially for children, who learn that they can make an impact in their own community and become part of the solution. Bake sales can be held at a variety of venues, from civic centers and schools to businesses or places of worship—feel free to have one in your own backyard. Want to pitch in? You may want to consider throwing on your apron sometime around May13-15, when the Great American Bake Sale National Challenge takes place. During this special three-day call to action, Americans are encouraged to hold as many bake sales as possible. O For more information, visit 800-7614227 or visit greatamericanbakesale.org. April 2011

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Carolina Pulled Pork Cocktail Sandwiches

& Eat } } Tasty Bites To Serve At Your Next Book Club Gathering

The best part about being in a Book Club is the shared literary analysis, the intellectual stimulation and… wait, who are we kidding? Everyone knows the best part of these gatherings is the food! The following munchies guarantee your club a happy ending, but beware: Members may want to meet at your house every month.

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These impressive mini sandwiches go deliciously with coleslaw from your neighborhood grocery store. For extra-crunchy prepared slaw with homemade flavor, add sliced red onions and bell peppers. Ingredients 1½ pounds barbecue-smoked pulled pork, warm ¼ cup smoky barbecue sauce 1½ cups prepared creamy coleslaw ¼ cup honey mustard barbecue sauce 12 white cocktail buns, sliced horizontally for sandwiches Melted butter Preparation

Combine pulled pork and smoky barbecue sauce; gently stir to blend. Combine prepared coleslaw and honey mustard barbecue sauce; toss to blend. Brush cut sides of sliced buns with melted butter and toast in a large skillet until light golden brown. Arrange buns, cut side up, on a flat work surface or cutting board. Top the bottom half of each bun evenly with pulled pork; top each evenly with a dollop of honey mustard coleslaw. Close each sandwich with top half of bun. Arrange on platter; serve warm.

clockwise from the top: Spicy Pickled Shrimp; Sewing Club Dip; Mediterranean Hummus Dip; Grilled Pizza Bella

Preparation

Preheat grill to medium-high heat (about 400°F). Meanwhile, in a large skillet, cook onion slices in one tablespoon of oil on medium-high heat until well-caramelized and very tender, about 20 minutes. Set aside. Brush mushroom caps with olive oil and season with salt and pepper on both sides. Grill stem-side down for about 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Divide spinach artichoke dip equally among the four mushroom caps. Spread dip on grilled side of mushrooms. Top with caramelized onions, a couple slices of goat cheese, 2 tablespoons shredded cheese, and a sprinkle of thyme leaves. Put mushrooms back on grill and close lid so that toppings heat and melt. Grill for about 10 minutes or until cheeses are melted and golden.

Spicy Pickled Shrimp This is not the typical shrimp hors d’oeuvre, but a festive appetizer with a kick. You can prepare it 24 hours in advance— just one more reason it makes such a great party food. Ingredients (to prepare shrimp for pickling) 2 bay leaves 4 peppercorns 2 pounds unpeeled fresh or thawed shrimp (16-20 per lb.) 4 stalks celery, 2-4" long 2 tsp. salt

Mediterranean Hummus Dip

(to pickle shrimp) 2 onions, peeled and sliced thin 16-20 bay leaves ¼ cup oil 2 tbsp. cider vinegar ½ tsp. salt ½ tsp. dry mustard 2 tsp. superfine sugar Juice of one lemon ¼ cup pickling spice

This rich and creamy hummus tastes great garnished with a drizzle of olive oil and roasted pepper puree (optional), along with a generous portion of whole-grain rye crackers for indulgent dipping.

Preparation

In a heavy pot with a lid, combine celery, bay leaves, peppercorns and salt. Add 2 cups water. Bring to a boil. Lower heat and simmer 5 minutes. Add shrimp; re-cover pot and bring stock back to a boil. Lower heat and simmer 3 minutes or until pink. Remove from heat and uncover. Let shrimp cool in the stock. When cool enough to handle, peel shrimp, returning to stock until ready to pickle the shrimp.

Sewing Club Dip This is one of those addictive foods—it’s hard to stop snacking once you’ve begun. If you’re counting calories, it’s almost as tasty substituting low-fat cottage cheese and sour cream. Really.

Ingredients (pickling instructions)

In a large bowl, place a layer of boiled shrimp. On top, place 4 bay leaves and half the slices of one onion. Continue this, layering until all shrimp are used. Mix remaining ingredients and pour over shrimp. Cover bowl and set aside, stirring occasionally. After 12 hours, taste shrimp and adjust seasoning. If too tart, add more sugar. Serve arranged on a serving platter or in a bowl.

2 cups cottage cheese ½ cup mayonnaise ½ cup sour cream 1 tsp. Louisiana hot sauce 1 tsp. coarse ground pepper 2 tsp. McCormick® Grill Mates® Montreal Steak Seasoning 1 tbsp. Worcestershire 2 bunches green onions, chopped Preparation

Combine all ingredients.

Grilled Pizza Bella A crustless vegetarian pizza filled with tangy goat cheese, prepared spinach and artichoke dip, and seasoned with fresh thyme, all atop earthy Portobello mushrooms. What’s not to like? Ingredients 4 large portobello mushrooms, cleaned and stems removed 1 8-oz. package frozen spinach and artichoke dip, thawed 1 large yellow onion, sliced 2 tbsp. olive oil 4 oz. goat cheese, sliced ¼ cup Italian blend shredded cheese 4 sprigs fresh thyme, stems removed Salt and pepper to season

Recipes and photos courtesy of The Food Channel. For more dishes and ideas, visit foodchannel.com.

Ingredients 2 cans (15.50 oz. each) chickpeas, drained, liquid reserved 6 tbsp. tahini sesame paste 6 tbsp. fresh lemon juice 2 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil 4 garlic cloves 1 tsp. kosher salt ½ tsp. garlic and pepper seasoning blend Reserved liquid from canned chickpeas, as needed Olive oil, as needed Whole-grain rye crackers, as needed Preparation

Combine chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice, olive oil, garlic cloves, kosher salt and garlic pepper in bowl of food processor fitted with a steel blade. Pulse until smooth, adding 2 to 4 tablespoons of reserved liquid from canned chickpeas, as needed, to adjust thickness of hummus dip. Taste and adjust seasoning. Spoon hummus on serving plate or bowl; garnish with a dollop of roasted red pepper sauce and a drizzle of olive oil. Serve with whole-grain rye crackers. O April 2011

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The Capital Grille's signature Kona-Crusted Dry-Aged Sirloin with caramelized Shallot Butter

Choices include Lobster and Crab Stuffed Shrimp (lightly breaded butterflied shrimp stuffed with fresh lobster and crab, then roasted with a touch of wine) and Seared Citrus Glazed Salmon (seared fresh salmon seared, brushed with citrus honey glaze and served over a medley of haricots verts, roasted semi-sweet Cipollini onions and fresh asparagus).

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By Linda Haase

The Capital Grille Offers Exemplary Dining In A Gracious Setting

he Capital Grille’s foolproof recipe for a 5-star dining experience: blend equal parts relaxed elegance, exceptional cuisine and impeccable, gracious service and sprinkle with a liberal dose of attention to detail. From the country club-like atmosphere—rich dark mahogany paneling and warm lighting—to the thank you note accompanying the unique to-go boxes, there’s a delightful surprise at every turn (it’s not every restaurant that offers personalized wine lockers and individual wine lists). And guests celebrat-

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ing a special occasion are in for a real treat: a beautifully decorated table covered in rose petals and confetti. The Boca Raton restaurant’s inviting decor features comfy leather chairs and banquettes, exquisite statues, an impressive wine cellar, captivating artwork (check out the portraits of local icons such as George Morikami, Don Estridge and Addison Mizner) and an exhibition kitchen. There’s also a sophisticated bar with a separate cozy area to savor an intimate meal, plus three private dining rooms. Lunch and dinner are served;

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the Town Center at Boca Raton location makes it a perfect stop before or after a shopping excursion. The Capital Grille (there are 44 locations countrywide) is known for its perfectly cooked, dry-aged steaks, including the Bone-in Kona-Crusted DryAged Sirloin with Shallot Butter (a sizzling steak infused with caramelized shallots, special seasonings and a coffee rub) and the Porcini Rubbed Delmonico (dusted with a delicate porcini mushroom crust and drizzled with premium 12-year-aged balsamic). Seafood dishes are just as tempting:

There are nearly 500 wines from which to choose, but we suggest indulging in one of the exclusive bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon during their Annual Artist Series Wine Event, which began in March. Each individually numbered bottle features colorful artwork created by Florida artist Patricia Timbrook; The Capital Grille will donate $25 for every bottle sold to Share Our Strength and its fight against hunger. Linger for one of the delectable homemade desserts (even the ice cream is made in-house). The tasty Fresh Strawberries Capital Grille dish is served atop creamy vanilla ice cream and topped with a light port reduction sauce. Oh, and a must for chocoholics: The Chocolate Hazelnut Cake. O

where The Capital Grille is located at 6000 Glades Road, Boca Raton. For more information, call 561-368-1077 or visit thecapitalgrille.com.

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BI T E S / american/STEAKHOUSES Abe & Louie’s4Glades Plaza

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Dinner nightly, Sunday Brunch. Absinthe4Shops at Boca Center x 5150 Town Center Circle x Boca Raton x 561.620.3754 x Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner daily. Andrew’s Modern American Bistro499 S.E. Mizner Blvd. x 561-391-7939

x Boca Raton x Dinner

daily. Atlantic Grille4Seagate Hotel & Spa x 1000 E. Atlantic Ave. x Delray Beach x 561.665.4900 x Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner daily, Brunch Saturday-Sunday. Bogart’s Bar & Grille4Cin-

emark Palace 20 x 3200 Airport Rd. x 561.544.3044 x Lunch and Dinner daily.

Bonefish Grill4Boca Grove Shopping Center x 21065 Powerline Rd. x 561.483.4949 x Dinner daily. Brewzzi4Glades Plaza x 2222 Glades Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.392.2739 x Lunch and Dinner daily. Brooks Restaurant4500

South Federal Hwy. x Deerfield Beach x 954.427.9302 x Dinner Tuesday-Sunday in season, offseason Friday-Sunday. The Capital Grille46000

Glades Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.368.1077 x Lunch MondayFriday, Dinner nightly. Carmen’s4Boca Raton Bridge Resort x 999 Camino Real x Boca Raton x 561.368.9500 x Dinner Wednesday-Friday, Brunch Sunday. Chops Lobster Bar4101

Plaza Real South x Boca Raton x x Dinner nightly.

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Copper Canyon Grill42006 N.W. Executive Center Circle x Boca Raton x 561.893.8838 x Lunch and Dinner daily.

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Say Cheese The Melting Pot Gets Spicy For Spring

he Melting Pot in Boca Raton is kicking off the spring season with a zesty new menu and a cheeseflavored giveaway.

Chocolate Fondue is a classic flavor combination—and a must-try—made with bittersweet dark chocolate and sweet dulce de leche accented with coarse sea salt.

Starting this month, a new limited-edition four-course menu will showcase the authentic flavors of Latin America. The new meal begins with Queso Fundido, a fondue version of the classic Mexican dish. Next, diners are treated to a refreshing Shrimp Ceviche Salad with an avocado puree, followed by an entree course of fresh meats and marinades, including a Chimichurri Sirloin with influences from Argentina and Brazil, Garlic Piri Piri Shrimp, Mole-marinated Chicken Breast, Citrus-marinated Pork Tenderloin and Fireroasted Corn Salsa Ravioli. For dessert, the Dark and Dulce

In more Melting Pot news, the eatery will serve guests free cheese fondue—yes, we said free—from April 1114 in honor of National Cheese Fondue Day. Keep in mind: only a limited number of reservations are available for this offer, and they should be made through the Web site 411iscoming.com. The Melting Pot is located at 5455 N. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton.

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For more information, call 561-997-7472 or visit meltinpot.com/bocaraton.

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The Cove Marina & Restaurant41645 S.E. 3rd Ct. x

Deerfield Beach x 954.421.9272 x Lunch and Dinner daily. Cugini Steakhouse and Martini Bar4270 E. Atlantic

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Delray Beach x 561.272.9898 x Dinner nightly. Dada452 North Swinton Ave. x Delray Beach x 561.330.3232 x Dinner nightly. DUFFY's SPORTS BAR & GRILL4401 N. Federal Hwy. x

Deerfield Beach x 954.429.8820 x Lunch and Dinner daily. Falcon House4116 N.E. Sixth Ave. x Delray Beach x 561.243.9499 x Dinner nightly. Fifth Avenue Grill4821 S.E.

Fifth Ave. x Delray Beach x 561.265.0122 x Lunch and Dinner daily. Grand Lux Cafe4Town

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Kee Grill417940 N. Military Tr. x Boca Raton x 561.995.5044 x Dinner nightly.

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Lucille’s Bad to the Bone BBQ4Regency Court x 3011

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Yamato Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.997.9557 x Lunch and Dinner daily.

The Shops at Boca Center x 5050 Town Center Circle x Boca Raton x 561.392.7724 x Dinner nightly.

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5101 Congress Ave. x Boca Raton x 561.912.9800 x Lunch MondayFriday, Dinner Monday-Saturday. Henry’s4The Shoppes at Addison

Place x 16850 Jog Rd. x Delray Beach x 561.638.1949 x Lunch Monday-Saturday, Dinner nightly. Hooters 4Glades Plaza x 2240 N.W. 19th St. x Boca Raton x 561.391.8903 x Lunch and Dinner daily. Houston’s41900 N.W. Executive Center Circle x Boca Raton x 561.998.0550 x Lunch and Dinner daily. J. Alexander’s41400 Glades Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.347.9875 x Lunch and Dinner daily. Kathy’s Gazebo Cafe44199

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Town Center x 5860 Glades Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.544.2320 x Lunch daily. MAXIES4Royal Palm Place x 500

Via De Palmas x Boca Raton x 561-394-8800 x Lunch and Dinner daily. Max’s Grille4Mizner Park x 404 Plaza Real x Boca Raton x 561.368.0080 x Lunch and Dinner daily, Brunch Saturday-Sunday. Miller’s Boca East Ale House 4Shoppes at Blue Lake x

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Miller’s Boca West Ale House4 Boca Lyons Plaza x

9244 W. Glades Road x Boca Raton x 561.487.2989 x Lunch and Dinner daily.

Boca Raton x 561.391.6601 x Dinner daily. Racks Downtown eatery & Tavern 4Mizner Park x 402 Plaza

Real x Boca Raton x 561.395.1662 x Lunch and Dinner daily. Rare Las Olas4401 E. Las Olas Blvd x Fort Lauderdale x 954.527.3365 x Dinner nightly.

Executive Center Dr. x Boca Raton x x Dinner nightly.

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Oceans 2344234 N. Ocean

Raton x 561.392.6746 x Dinner nightly.

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Blvd. x Deerfield Beach x 954.428.2539 x Lunch and Dinner daily. The Office4201 E. Atlantic Ave. x Delray Beach x 561.276.3600 x Lunch and Dinner daily. The Pavilion Grille4301

Yamato Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.912.0000 x Lunch TuesdayFriday, Dinner Tuesday-Saturday. Porterhouse Bar & Grill

47050 W. Palmetto Park Rd. x

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Seasons 5242300 N.W. Executive Center Dr. x Boca Raton x 561.998.9952 x Lunch and Dinner daily. Six Tables4112 N.E. Second St. x Boca Raton x 561.347.6260 x Dinner Tuesday-Saturday. Smokehouse Grille & Wingery42257 N. Federal Hwy. x

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Carlton, Palm Beach x 100 S. Ocean Blvd. x Manalapan x 561.533.6000 x Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner daily. The Sundy House4106 S.

Swinton Ave. x Delray Beach x 561.272.5678 x Lunch TuesdaySaturday, Dinner Tuesday-Sunday, Brunch Sunday.

7609 N. State Road 7 x Parkland x 954.755.3191 x Lunch and Dinner daily. Fah Asian Bistro4Boca

Valley Shopping Plaza x 7461 N. Federal Hwy. x Boca Raton x 561.241.0400 x Lunch MondayFriday, Dinner nightly. Gary Woo Asian Bistro4

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3400 N. Federal Hwy. x Boca Raton x 561.368.8803 x Lunch MondayFriday, Dinner nightly. Closed Tuesdays.

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Center x 5050 Town Center Circle x Boca Raton x 561.544.8000 x Lunch and Dinner daily, Lunch Monday-Friday.

asian/sushi 5 Spice Asian Street Market4

Shoppes of Blue Lake x Suite A1 x 1200 Yamato Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.989.1688 x Lunch and Dinner daily. Asia Sushi/Wok/Grill4

7600 Camino Real x Boca Raton x 561.544.8100 x Lunch MondayFriday, Dinner nightly except Friday and Saturday. Bluefin Sushi Thai Grill4

861 Yamato Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.981.8986 x Lunch MondayFriday, Dinner nightly. Cay Da Vietnamese47400 N. Federal Hwy. x Boca Raton x 561.998.0278 x Lunch TuesdayFriday, Dinner Tuesday-Sunday. Daimatsu Sushi441 Royal Palm Place x Boca Raton x 561.361.7557 x Lunch MondayFriday, Dinner nightly. Edo Sushi-Upscale Japanese Sushi & Pan-Asian Buffet4

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of Parkland x 7367 N. State Road 7 x Parkland x 954.345.4268 x Regency Court x 3011 Yamato Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.999.1263 x Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly. Kansai47140 Beracasa Way x

Boca Raton x 561.395.8862 x Dinner nightly.

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Kyojin Buffet4Shops at Boca Grove x 21073 Powerline Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.218.1708 x Lunch and Dinner daily.

16th Annual Las Olas Wine & Food Festival Returns

La Tre4249 E. Palmetto Park

Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.392.4568 x Dinner nightly. LemonGrass Asian Bistro4

420 E. Atlantic Ave. x Delray Beach x 561.278.5050 x Lunch and Dinner daily. 4101 Plaza Real South E. x Boca Raton x 561.544.8181 x Lunch and Dinner daily. Mai Hibachi44801 Linton Blvd. x Delray Beach x 561.499.2766 x Lunch and Dinner daily. PEI WEI41914 N.E. Fifth Ave. x Boca Raton x 561. 226.0290 x Lunch and Dinner daily.

ime to eat, drink, be merry—and may we suggest wearing some loose-waisted pants? The 16th Annual Las Olas Wine & Food Festival is scheduled for April 27-30, when downtown Fort Lauderdale will be transformed into a culinary paradise replete with wine dinners, receptions and enough food and libations to satisfy several small armies. The event kicks off April 27-28 with a host of signature wine dinners featuring national winemakers paired with Publix Apron’s Cooking School and select restaurants. The revelry continues on April 29th with a street festival, where guests will be treated to wine, unlimited food samplings from more than 60 restaurants, a fashion show by the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale and live music by The Weedline & Pan Vibes and other local bands. A special VIP reception will begin at 6 p.m., with loaded gift bags, access to an open bar and mouthwatering cuisine. The festival culminates with the brand-new BYTES event featuring gourmet food trucks offering savory delights; guests will receive two complimentary cocktails.

P.F. Chang’s China Bistro4

1400 Glades Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.393.3722 x Lunch and Dinner daily. Phuket Thai4 Palms Plaza x 22191 Powerline Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.447.8863 x Lunch MondayFriday, Dinner nightly.

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The best part of the festival? It’s for a great cause. All event proceeds will benefit the American Lung Association. We hope we’ve whet your appetite.

For more information, call 954-524-4657 or visit lasolaswineandfood.com.

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Saito’s Japanese Steakhouse

48316 Jog Rd. x Boynton Beach x 561.369.1788 x Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly. 4CityPlace x 700 S. Rosemary Ave., #208 x 561.296.8881 x Lunch and Dinner daily. 4Palm Beach Gardens x 4675 PGA Blvd. x 561.202.6888 x Lunch and Dinner daily.

Soba Sushi Caviar Lounge4

Mizner Park x 415 Plaza Real x Boca Raton x 561.620.0606 x Lunch Monday-Saturday, Dinner nightly. Stir Crazy fresh asian grillTown

Center x 6000 Glades Rd. x Boca Raton x x Lunch and Dinner daily.

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Sushi Ray4Shops at Boca Center x 5250 Town Center Circle x Boca Raton x 561.394.9506 x Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly. SUSHI THAI4100 N.E. Second St. x Boca Raton 561.750.4448 x Lunch and Dinner daily. Tempura House4The Reserve x

9858 Clint Moore Rd. x Boca Raton x x Lunch and Dinner daily.

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Uncle Tai’s4The Shops at Boca Center

x 5250 Town Center Circle x Boca Raton x x Lunch Monday-Saturday, Dinner nightly. 561.368.8806

Yokohama49168 Glades Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.451.1707 x Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly.

CONTINENTAL Boheme Bistro41118 E. Atlantic Ave. x Delray Beach x 561.278.4899 x Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner daily. Cielo4Boca Raton Resort & Club x 501 E.

Camino Real x 561.447.3222 x Dinner TuesdaySaturday. Greenfield’s on Atlantic45199 W. Atlantic Ave. x Delray Beach x 561.498.5010 x Dinner nightly. La Cigale4253 S.E. Fifth Ave. x Delray Beach x 561.265.0600 x Lunch MondayFriday, Dinner Monday-Saturday. Le Pavillon414812 S.E. Military Tr. x

Delray Beach x 561.499.9882 x Dinner nightly. Le Rivage4450 N.E. 20th St. x Boca

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4170 W. Camino Real x Boca Raton x 561.368.7910 x Dinner nightly.

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Olio Bistro442 S.E. Second Ave. x Delray Beach x 561.278.6633 x Dinner Thursday-Saturday. St. Tropez47860 Glades Rd. Suite 130 x

Boca Raton x 561.368.8580 x Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly. Tea-Licious Tearoom & Gifts4

4997-B W. Atlantic Ave. x Delray Beach x 561.638.5155 x Breakfast and Lunch, Monday-Saturday. ZED4514201 Plaza Real x Boca Raton x 561.393.3451 x Dinner nightly, Lounge nightly, Brunch Sunday.

Fondue The Melting Pot45455 N. Federal

Hwy. x Boca Raton x 561.997.7472 x Dinner nightly.

Italian Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza4Shops at

Boca Grove x 21065 Powerline Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.218.66004115 N.E. Sixth Ave. x Delray Beach x 561.278.7911 x Lunch and Dinner daily. Arturo’s Ristorante46750 N.

Federal Hwy. x Boca Raton x 561.997.7373 x Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly. Caffe Luna Rosa434 S. Ocean Blvd. x

Delray Beach x 561.274.9404 x Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner daily. California Pizza Kitchen4Town Center x 6000 Glades Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.268.2805 x Lunch and Dinner daily. Carrabba’s Italian Grill4Wharfside Plaza x 6909 S.W. 18th St. x Boca Raton x 561.544.8838 x Lunch and Dinner daily 4335 E. Linton Blvd. x Delray Beach x 561.266.9393 x Lunch Sunday, Dinner nightly. Caruso Ristorante4Royal Palm Place x 187 S.E. Mizner Blvd. x Boca Raton x 561.367.7488 x Lunch and Dinner, Monday-Saturday. Casa D’Angelo4171 E. Palmetto Park Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.338.1703 x Dinner nightly. Ferraro’s48208 Glades Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.477.2750 x Dinner nightly.

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Cocktails (featuring a L’chaim Vodka Martini Bar) & Hors D’oeurves: Dietary Laws Observed *A minimum gift of $365 per couple to the UJA/2011 Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County’s Annual Campaign is required to attend.

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Giovanniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coal Fire Pizza4Water-

way Shoppes at Parkland x 7625 N. State Road 7 x Parkland x 954.345.9282 x Lunch and Dinner daily. Il Bacio429 S.E. Second Ave. x Delray Beach x 561.865.7783 x Dinner WednesdaySunday. Il Girasole4Tropic Square x 1911 S.

Federal Hwy. x Delray Beach x 561.272.3566 x Dinner Tuesday-Sunday. Josephineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Italian Restaurant4

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Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.544.2081 x Dinner Tuesday-Saturday.

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La Luna Bistro4The Polo Shoppes x 5030 Champion Blvd. x Boca Raton x 561.997.1165 x Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly. La Villetta Restaurant & Lounge4 4351 N. Federal Hwy.

x Boca Raton x 561.362.8403 x Dinner Tuesday-Sunday. LILLYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S4451 East Palmetto Park Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.362.0208 x Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner daily. Maggianoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s421090 St. Andrews Blvd. x Boca Raton x 561.361.8244 x Lunch and Dinner daily. Matteoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant4233 S. Federal Hwy. x Boca Raton x 561.392.0773 x Dinner nightly. Positano44400 N. Federal Hwy. x Boca Raton x 561.544.2920 x Dinner nightly. Renzoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s of Boca45999 N. Federal

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Rosarioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ristorante4Royal Palm Place x 145 S.E. Mizner Blvd. x Boca Raton x 561.393.0758 x Dinner nightly. Saporissimo4366 E. Palmetto Park Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.750.2333 x Dinner nightly.

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Outstanding Volunteer Award Nominees: Joseph Bensmihen Stand Among Friends | Jean-Marc Casanave George Snow Scholarship Fund | Bradford Deﬂin 211 Palm Beach/ Treasure Coast Jay DiPietro SOS Children’s Villages - Florida | Joel Dowley Families First of Palm Beach County | Robert A. Eckelson, D.D.S. Boca Central Rotary Club Frank Frione The Haven | Robert Gittlin Golden Bell Educational Foundation | Charles Grobstein Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service Craig Hartmann A.V.D.A., Inc. | Robert Hurley Oasis Compassion Agency | Michael Kaufman FFCDC, Inc. Paul Kilgallon Best Foot Forward | Herb Krickstein, M.D. Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation | Joe Landy Autism Speaks Ralph Mesa Junior League of Boca Raton | Jeb Niewood Parkland Buddy Sport, Inc. | Walter Pelstring Debbie-Rand Memorial Service League, Inc. Dick Reed Ph.D. Kiwanis of Boca Raton | Jerry Rispoli Boca Raton Police Department | Noah Rubin Spirit of Giving Network Solomon ’‘Doc” Schwartz Ph.D. Boca Helping Hands | Jerry Siegel Seagull Industries for the Disabled | Andrew Turkell, D.V.M. Tri County Humane Society Gregg Weiss Milagro Center | Carrol “Prim” Wood Horses and the Handicapped of S. FL., Inc.

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Swanky's Vesuvio Ristorante & Patio Bar43360 N. Federal Hwy. x

Boca Raton x 561.368.5520 x Dinner Tuesday-Sunday. Table 42 Kitchen & Wine Barď&#x20AC;´

Royal Palm Place x 399 S.E. Mizner Blvd. x Boca Raton x 561.826.2625 x Lunch and Dinner daily. Tramonti4119 E. Atlantic Ave. x Delray Beach x 561.272.1944 x Lunch Monday-Saturday, Dinner nightly. Trattoria Romana4499 E. Palmetto

Park Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.393.6715 x Dinner nightly. VIC AND ANGELOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S 4290 E. Atlantic

Ave. x Delray Beach x 561.278.9570 x Lunch and Dinner daily. Villagio Italian Eatery 4Mizner Park x 344 Plaza Real x Boca Raton x 561.447.2257 x Lunch and Dinner daily. Villa Rosano4The Reserve x 9858 Clint Moore Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.470.0112 x Lunch Monday-Saturday, Dinner nightly. Vino Wine Bar and Italian Tapas4

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x Boca Raton x 561.750.2120 x Lunch and Dinner Monday-Saturday.

LATIN/CARIBBEAN Caribbean Grill41332 N.W. Second

Ave. x Boca Raton x 561.362.0161 x Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner daily. Cuban Cafe Restaurant43350 N.W.

Boca Raton Blvd. x Boca Raton x 561.750.8860 x Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly (closed Sunday, June-November). Cabana El Rey4105 E. Atlantic Ave. x Delray Beach x 561.274.9090 x Lunch and Dinner daily.

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Gol, Taste of Brazil4411 E. Atlantic Ave. x Delray Beach x 561.272.6565 x Dinner nightly. INCA GRILL447 E. Palmetto Park Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.395.3553 x Lunch Saturday-Sunday, Dinner Tuesday-Friday.

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Old Calypso4900 E. Atlantic Ave. x Delray Beach x 561.279.2300 x Lunch Monday-Friday, Dinner nightly, Brunch Saturday and Sunday. Padrino’s4Mission Bay Plaza x 20455 State Road 7 x Boca Raton x 561.451.1070 x Lunch and Dinner daily.

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Baja Cafe Uno4201 N.W. First Ave. x Boca Raton x 561.394.5449 x41310 S. Federal Hwy. x Deerfield Beach x 954.596.1305 x Lunch Monday-Saturday, Dinner nightly. Rocco’s Tacos And Tequila Bar4The Shops at Boca Center x

5250 Town Center Circle x Boca Raton x 561.416.2131 x Lunch and Dinner daily. Señor Burrito4513 N.E. 20th St. x Boca Raton x 561.347.6600 x Lunch and Dinner daily. Uncle Julio’s4Mizner Park x 449 Plaza Real x Boca Raton x 561.300.3530 x Lunch and Dinner daily, Brunch Saturday-Sunday.

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The Green Gourmet4The Shoppes at Addison Place x 16950 Jog Rd. x Delray Beach x 561.455.2466 x Lunch and Dinner daily.

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Clint Moore Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.470.9963 x Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner daily.

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Grill Time (kosher)48177 Glades

Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.482.3699 x Lunch and Dinner Sunday-Thursday, Closed Friday-Saturday. Kosher Marketplace422191 Powerline Rd., #5A x Boca Raton x 561.391.3318 x Sunday-Friday, Closed Saturday. Old School Bakery & Cafe4

814 E. Atlantic Ave. x Delray Beach x 561.276.0013 x Breakfast and Lunch daily.

4Polo Shops x 5030 Champion Blvd. x Boca Raton x 561.241.59034Glades Plaza x 2240 N.W. 19th St., #700 x Boca Raton x 561.392.4181 4Regency Court x 3013 Yamato Rd. x Boca Raton x 561.997.9911 x Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner daily. Toojay’s Gourmet Deli

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BOSTON’S ON THE BEACH 40 S. Ocean Blvd. ❘ Delray Beach ❘ 561.278.3364 ❘ Breakfast Saturday-Sunday, Lunch and Dinner Saturday-Sunday. CITY FISH MARKET 7940 Glades Rd. ❘

Boca Raton ❘ 561.487.1600 ❘ Lunch daily, Dinner Saturday-Sunday. CITY OYSTER 213 E. Atlantic Ave. ❘

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Delray Beach ❘ 561.276.2502 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily. MCCORMICK & SCHMICK’S

University Commons ❘ 1400 Glades Rd. ❘ Boca Raton ❘ 561.394.2428 ❘ Lunch and Dinner daily, Brunch Sunday.

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Event Co-Chairs Abdol and Cathy Moabery, and Rene and Francis Mahfood

Building Hope Food For The Poor Gala Raises Funds To Construct A Record-Setting 60 Homes M

ore than 350 compassionate South Floridians attended Food For The Poor’s 16th annual Building Hope Gala at Boca West Country Club, where the mission— besides having a festive time—was to rally for financial pledges to construct homes for the destitute in the Caribbean and Latin America. The evening resulted in enough pledges for a record-setting 60 housing units. “Imagine being afraid of the very structure that serves as your home,” said Robin Mahfood, CEO and president of Food For The Poor. “No one can fight poverty alone. Together, we can continue to improve the conditions of endangered communities, one family at a time.”

At the event’s helm were co-chairpersons Cathy and Abdol Moabery and Rene and Francis Mahfood. Committee members included Ronda Gluck, Julie Mahfood, Pamela Matsil, Natasha Singh, Patricia Wallace and Traci Wilson. The event included an elegant cocktail reception, a performance by saxophonist Leo Casino and an exclusive silent auction. Prizes included exclusive art and collectibles from the Caribbean and Latin America, designer jewelry, luxury vacations and golf and dining packages. The evening also included dinner and dancing, and Master of Ceremonies Calvin Hughes, an Diana Krall Emmy Award-winning newscaster

for WPLG-TV, shared stories from his personal journeys to Haiti. “We are blessed to live in this country while in other parts of the world a Food For The Poor home provides

“Imagine being afraid of the very structure that serves as your home.”

How the donations break down: Food For The Poor can build a simple housing unit with a latrine for $3,200. These homes are built with a strong corrugated zinc roof, solid concrete foundation, cement block walls, windows for ventilation and a front door that locks.

“What a small price to pay, to give someone the joy of having a place – Robin Mahfood, CEO/president to call home,” said Mahfood. “A of Food For The Poor place where they can have hope a secure, dry and potentially warm and, most importantly, a place place to sleep at night,” said Cathy where families can dream.” Moabery. “It is our hope that receiving a Food For The Poor home will i give them the will and determination to build stronger family units, while For information call 888-404-4248 or visit also building on their dreams.” foodforthepoor.org/boca.

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A Good Bet Unicorn Children’s Foundation Announces Third Annual Denim, Diamonds And Dice Casino Night

nicorn Children’s Foundation’s spring fundraiser, “Denim, Diamonds and Dice Casino Night,” is scheduled to take place May 7th at the Broken Sound Club in Boca Raton. The evening will be hosted by event chairs Dr. Rafael and Lori Cabrera. Guests can anticipate a rousing evening of gaming reminiscent of Las Vegas, with blackjack, poker, craps, and roulette. Even more decadent will be the lavish hors d’oeuvres, delicious desserts and open bar. Also

Guests can anticipate a rousing evening of gaming reminiscent of Las Vegas, with blackjack, poker, craps, and roulette. Even more decadent will be the lavish hors d’oeuvres, delicious desserts and open bar. planned are a 50/50 raffle, an air booth and a silent auction. Just one of the coveted raffle prizes: a twoyear luxury lease for a C300 or GLK automobile, donated by community sponsor Mercedes-Benz of Delray. Proceeds from the evening will aid in the development and creation of a unique high school for special needs children ages 14-22 that fos-

ters social, emotional and academic student development in a safe and dignified environment. Incorporating an individualized, strength- and interest-based educational model, this program will help students achieve their own educational, personal and career goals. Unicorn Children’s Foundation is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to children and young adults with developmental, communication and learning disorders so that they have every opportunity to lead productive and fulfilling lives through the support of education, awareness, and research initiatives. It was founded in 1994 by Mark Rosenbloom, M.D. after his 3-year-old son was diagnosed with a severe communication disorder. Unicorn Children’s Foundation uses education, awareness and research to promote early identification of disorders; develops and disseminates worldwide groundbreaking and extensive evaluation and treatment guidelines; fosters communication and collaboration between parents, professionals and policymakers to promote learning and increased awareness; and provides adequate tools and resources to better meet the needs of beneficiaries.

i For more information, call 561-620-9377 or visit unicornchildrensfoundation.org.

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A CENTRALIZED ADDRESS FOR WOMEN’S HEALTH

he new Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness Institute at Boca Raton Regional Hospital will serve as a “centralized address” for women’s health, providing a comprehensive array of services from maternity care through menopause and aging.

WOMEN’S HEALTH CARE NEEDS ARE DISTINCTIVE FROM MEN’S, FOR EXAMPLE:

#1 in Florida for 2011 by HealthGrades® in cardiac services and cardiac surgery THE STROKE CENTER – ranked #1 in Florida for 2011 in the treatment of stroke by HealthGrades® THE CENTER FOR BREAST CARE – performing 90,000 procedures each year utilizing the most advanced techniques for the detection of breast cancer

➥ Heart disease, the leading cause

of death in women, kills 50,000 more women than men each year ➥ Women are more likely to suffer

The Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness Institute has been named with a transformational gift from Christine E. Lynn, who gave

from autoimmune diseases such as lupus, arthritis, and endocrine disorders such as diabetes than men ➥ Women are 80 percent more

According to HealthGrades®, the leading independent health care ratings organization, Boca Raton Regional Hospital’s women’s services were ranked in the top 5% nationwide for 2010, with advanced patient care, education, access to cutting edge research and support groups.

likely to suffer from osteoporosis than men The Institute for Women’s Health & Wellness will provide a continuum of care, with access to the very best resources for women’s health at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, including: TOPPEL FAMILY PLACE - providing exceptional maternity and obstetrical services THE EUGENE M. & CHRISTINE E. LYNN CANCER INSTITUTE – with some of the world’s most advanced technology and nationally recognized physicians

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PROMOTION

THE CHRISTINE E. LYNN HEART & VASCULAR INSTITUTE – ranked

PROMOTION

Christine E. Lynn

the gift in honor of Gloria Drummond, the founder of Boca Raton Regional Hospital, on the occasion of Gloria’s 80th birthday in 2010. The gift will be used to construct a new, state-of-the-art facility for women’s services, creating an attractive and comfortable setting with an emphasis on clinical excellence, efficiency and privacy.

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UTILIZING THE MOST ADVANCED TECHNIQUES TO DETECT BREAST CANCER

reast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, and is estimated to occur in 1 out of 8 women over their lifetime. The Center for Breast Care at the Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness Institute has worked diligently since its inception 20 years ago to provide the most advanced level of care for its patients. Specialists use state-of-the art breast imaging technology to pinpoint possible areas of concern at earlier, more treatable stages and patients can receive their mammogram results the same day. Satellite offices are located in Boca Raton and Deerfield Beach.

every image is read by specialized breast radiologists. It was the first in the world to utilize the Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) scan for breast biopsy. Dr. Schilling presented the results of an 18month clinical trial comparing the accuracy of PEM and MRI, which indicated the PEM technology is more sensitive than MRI in detecting the smallest cancers. The most recent focus has been breast density. It is known that breast density is an independent risk factor,

similar to family history, for the development of breast cancer. A patient with a dense mammogram has more glandular elements than one with low breast density, providing a “fertile soil” for cancer cells to grow. Additionally, dense breast tissue and cancers both appear white on a mammo-gram, called the “masking phenomenon,” making their differentiation difficult. Studies have shown that in patients with dense tissue, mammographers may detect only 50% or ½ of existing cancers.

breast density as well as a recommended personal surveillance plan. This will be offered at no charge to the patient by advanced care practitioners.

Due to this limitation, many physicians now support the supplemental use of additional imaging tools such as ultrasound and MRI in patients of high breast density to improve cancer detection.

personal risk assessment and plan for imaging surveillance for each participant. Our focus of course is to maximize breast cancer detection through the use of complementary imaging exams.

At the Center for Breast Care, each patient will be informed of her breast density. Those with high density will be offered the opportunity for personal risk assessment and education on the implications of

For more information about the services of the Center for Breast Care, please call

In a similar manner, our mammographers are well aware of the limitations in diagnosis in patients with augmented breasts. Breast implants obscure visualization of breast tissue. An Augmentation Clinic will be initiated at the Center this spring for patients with breast implants. This program will provide

The Center is headed by Kathy Schilling, MD, a nationally recognized pioneer in advanced biopsy techniques, who is also involved in research studies with major academic centers such as Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic and UCLA. The Center for Breast Care utilizes the most advanced digital mammography technology available and

The Center for Breast Care performs more than 90,000 procedures annually to detect breast cancer.

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PROMOTION

561.95.LEARN.

PREVENTING HEART DISEASE – THE #1 KILLER OF WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES ➥ One in 4 women in the United

States dies of heart disease ➥ Twenty-three percent of women

will die within 1 year after having a heart attack ➥ Within 6 years of having a heart

attack, about 46 percent of women become disabled with heart failure. Two-thirds of women who have a heart attack fail to make a full recovery The fact is, heart disease can be a problem for everyone who has a heart. THE KEY TO PREVENTING OR MANAGING HEART DISEASE IS TO TAKE CONTROL OF THINGS SUCH AS: High blood pressure Physical inactivity High cholesterol Overweight Smoking Diabetes

in diet, physical activity, and other daily habits, each one of us can greatly reduce our risk of developing heart-related problems. Those who already have heart disease can take steps to lessen its severity. Beginning May 1st, The Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness Institute will offer women a free cardiac risk assessment of the most prevalent risk factors, including blood pressure, body mass index and weight circumference. This 15 minute

The Christine E. Lynn Heart & Vascular Institute is ranked #1 in 2011 in the state of Florida for cardiac surgery and cardiac services by HealthGrades®. Its renowned cardiac surgeons, cardiovascular specialists and nurses and leading edge facilities ensure an exceptional level of care, close to home. assessment, conducted by a clinician, follows the American Heart Association’s guidelines for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in women.

Lifestyle choices are important in helping prevent heart disease. By learning about personal risk factors and by making healthful changes

Based on the results of the assessment, the Institute will recommend or provide:

➥ Education on healthy lifestyle

habits

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more extensive cardiac evaluation, including a physical exam with EKG and lipid panel

➥ Assistance and referral to a

cardiologist at the Lynn Heart & Vascular Institute at Boca Raton Regional Hospital

➥ A weight management and fitness

program for women, as well as a diabetes management program for both men and women, will be available through the Hospital’s Davis Therapy Center

For more information on the women’s cardiac assessment and to schedule an appointment, please call 561.95LEARN.

REDUCING THE RISK OF OSTEOPOROSIS IN WOMEN

steoporosis affects more than 25 million Americans -- mostly women past menopause. According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, one in every two women over 50 will have an osteoporosis related fracture in their lifetime. Thirty-three percent of women over 65 will experience a fracture of the spine and as many as 20% of hip fracture patients die within 6 months from conditions caused by lack of activity such as blood clots and pneumonia. Although bones go through a constant state of loss and regrowth, as we age the loss accelerates to the

minor injury. Symptoms of bone loss include back pain or tenderness, a loss of height, and a slight curvature or ‘hump’ of the upper back. Because it is difficult to replace bone that is lost, prevention is key. Beginning a lifelong commitment to exercise and healthy nutrition can help reduce the risk of developing this condition.

point that regrowth cannot keep up and osteoporosis may develop. Osteoporosis causes the bones to become thin and fragile, increasing the chance of breaking with even

PROMOTION

The Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness Institute now offers osteoporosis consultations with a clinician, who will take a full physical exam and patient history and order a bone density screening if warranted. The

patient will also receive a fitness program emphasizing weight bearing exercises such as walking or low-impact aerobics, which increase bone mass before menopause and helps to reduce bone loss after menopause.

For more information, please call 561.95LEARN. The information contained here is not intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, it is provided for educational purposes only. Consult with your physician.

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Proceeds benefit the Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness Institute at Boca Raton Regional Hospital

Call the Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation for more information: 561-955-4142

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“Go Pink in the City” at the 8th Annual Go Pink Luncheon Featuring Cynthia Nixon of Sex and the City October 28, 2011

HAPPENINGS ;around town

Growing Character The Haven Starts Garden Project To Cultivate Vocation, Goodwill And Enterprise

he Haven, a nationally accredited Boca Raton group home for adolescent boys placed in protective care by the state of Florida, has announced the unveiling of a 50-foot x 100-foot container garden project, with the donation of materials and labor courtesy of Annco Services, an independent affiliate of Lang Diversified Services and the GEO Group. The garden will be cultivated and maintained by the residents at The Haven, with the assistance and management of Annco’s landscape experts. “We are very thankful for the gen-

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erosity of resources, funding and time given to help better the lives Dee Robinson, Ed Tinari, Don Stewart, Carroll, Jeff Edelson, John Hurley of our youth,” said Kevin and Denny Gove Don Stewart, executive director of The Haven. “This garden will provide a multi- irrigation and landscaping will be tude of learning and healing op- taught to the youth, who will then portunities—from agriculture to take the fruits of their labor to market vocational skills—that will benefit with the assistance of local volunteers who will teach the boys about marour young men.” keting and small business models. Plans include 300 containers to grow vegetables such as zucchini and to- “Agriculture is a cornerstone of our matoes, a variety of herbs and annual country’s history and vital to survivvegetation for use at The Haven and al,” said Jeff Edelson, chief financial possibly for sale. Land maintenance, officer of Annco Services. “We are

hopeful that our gift will reinforce the importance of this industry and provide a foundation for our future.” Located on a 14-acre campus, The Haven is dedicated to providing a safe, loving and stable environment that fosters the development of selfesteem and independence while empowering each young man to reach his full potential. O

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Fashionable Fundraiser National MS Society South Florida Chapter Gala Raises $500,000 For Research

he National Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society, South Florida Chapter recently held its 28th Annual MS Gala & Fashion Show presented by DBS Financial Group/MassMutual at the Broward County Convention Center. More than 1,000 people attended the event, which has become one of the community’s most high-profile fundraisers.

James and Ann Marie Dunn, Howard Bienenfeld, Carol Lasek, Mitch and Blake Starr, Steve Jackman, David Schulman, Phillis Oeters, Deborah DelPrete, Karen Dresbach and Carrie Schulman

During the evening, the distinguished Hope Award was presented to Phillis Oeters, corporate vice president of government and community relations of Baptist Health South Florida. Oeters serves on several community boards, including the United Way and the Nat Moore Foundation. Oeters also served as chairpersons for the 2009-2010 Orange Bowl Committee and the Neurologically Injured Compensation Fund for the State of Florida, a billion-dollar fund responsible for caring for children injured at birth. “Phillis was a natural selection for the Hope Award,” said Karen Dresbach, president of the National MS Society, South Florida Chapter. “Her remarkable efforts to better the entire South Florida community are unsurpassed, and we are all amazed by her dedication to bettering this community.” For her third consecutive year, Deborah DelPrete chaired the event, which raised $500,000. To date, the annual event has raised nearly $5 million to help the National MS Society fund its research to find the cause and eventual cure of the disease. An event highlight was designer Rene Ruiz’s fashion show, featuring the debut of his Fall 2011 collection for men and women. The runway models glittered with jewelry provided by J.R. Dunn Jewelers, the event’s official jewelry sponsor. Additional event sponsors included Philanthropic Partners, Michele and Steve Jackman, Platinum Sponsor, Bienenfeld, Lasek & Starr, LLC and South Florida Audi Dealers.

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04.11 April 13 Not since Madonna has a musical artist inspired as much worldwide fascination as Lady Gaga. Born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (no wonder she shortened her name), the dramatic, chameleon-like native New Yorker is known for her outrageous ensembles (not just anyone can pull off a meat dress), as well as for chart-topping hits like “Just Dance,”“Poker Face” and “Born This Way.” Among her accolades, she’s won five Grammy Awards and Billboard named her both its Artist of the Year and Top-Selling Artist in 2010. She’s been listed in Time Magazine’s top 100 most influential people list and Forbes named her one of the world’s most powerful celebrities. Lady Gaga, 25, learned to play the piano at age 4, and has been performing in one way or another ever since. Catch her Monster Ball Tour at the AmericanAirlines Arena, and you’re in for a colorful performance.

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venues Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County

One Panther Parkway, Sunrise, 954-835-7469; bankatlanticcenter.com April 2, 9 Florida Panthers Hockey Game times vary.

1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, 305-949-6722; arshtcenter.org

April 23 Charlie Sheen LIVE Doors open at 7 p.m. Show begins at 8 p.m.

April 2 Vanessa Williams (Ziff Ballet Opera House) Show begins at 6:30 p.m.

April 27 Usher Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Show begins at 7:30 p.m.

April 16 Yanni In Concert (Knight Concert Hall) Show begins at 8 p.m.

AmericanAirlines Arena 601 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, 786-777-1000; aaarena.com April 6, 8, 10 Miami Heat Basketball Game times vary.

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601-7 Sansbury’s Way, West Palm Beach; 561-795-8883; livenation.com April 23 Jimmy Buffett & The Coral Reefer Band Show begins at 8 p.m.

April 9 Ricky Martin “Musica+Alma+Sexo” World Tour Show begins at 8 p.m. April 13 Monster Ball Tour Starring Lady Gaga Show begins at 8 p.m.

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Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, 1 Seminole Way, Hollywood, 954-797-5555; hardrocklivehollywoodfl.com April 14 Robert Plant & The Band Of Joy Show begins at 7:30 p.m. April 20 “Chicago” Show begins at 8 p.m. April 21 Tom Jones Show begins at 8 p.m.

April 9 Robert Cray Band Show begins at 8 p.m.

The Broward Center for the Performing Arts 201 S.W. Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale, 954-462-0222; browardcenter.org Apri1 1-24 “Wicked” (Au-Rene Theater) Show times vary

Parker Playhouse

April 30 Gilda’s Club 2011 “It’s Saturday Night!” (Au-Rene Theater) Show begins at 8 p.m.

April 8 David Sedaris Show begins at 8 p.m.

The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts

707 N.E. Eighth St., Fort Lauderdale, 954-462-0222; parkerplayhouse.com

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April 6 2011 African-American Achievers Awards Ceremony An evening hosted by Calvin Hughes, evening news anchor at WPLG-TV. Takes place at the Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale. Starts at 6:15 p.m. For more information, call 866-5162497 or visit africanamericanachievers.com. April 6 2011 Women Of The Year Luncheon Enjoy lunch hosted by The 1000+ Club To Benefit Cancer Inc. and Broward Health, with Master of Ceremonies Tony Segreto. Takes place at the Harbor Beach Marriott Resort & Spa in Fort Lauderdale. Starts at 10:30 a.m. For more information, call 954-224-2722. April 7 THROUGH April 9 The Music Of Billy Joel And More Bob Lappin and The Palm Beach Pops present this tribute to Billy Joel with guest artist, Michael Cavanaugh. Takes place at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. Starts at 8 p.m. For more information, call 561-832-7677 or visit palmbeachpops.org. April 8 Cocktails For A Cool Cause Partake in libations and live music to benefit nj4kids, the pediatric department at National Jewish Health. Takes place at Woodfield Country Club in Boca Raton. Starts at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 561-4775400 or visit cocktailsforacauseboca.org. April 8 Go Pink Challenge Fun And Games Party This girls’ day will include a spring boutique featuring upscale national vendors and more. Benefits the Boca Raton Regional Hospital Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health and Wellness Institute. Takes place at Royal Palm Yacht and Country Club in Boca Raton.

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APRIL 10 Jewish Adoption And Foster Care Options (JAFCO) Fundraiser A day of raffles, prizes and $25 haircuts, with all proceeds benefitting JAFCO. Takes place at Salon 300 in Boca Raton. Starts at 10 a.m. For more information, call 561-367-8300 or visit jafco.org. APRIL 10 The Haven’s Third Annual Day At The Races This derby-chic event will include a lavish brunch, entertainment and a day of racing action. Takes place at Christine Lee’s in Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach. Starts at 10 a.m. For more information, call 561-483-0962 or visit haven4kids.org.

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APRIL 16 6th Annual Dream Makeover Luncheon This luncheon, featuring keynote speaker Nancy Matthews, is presented by Oasis Compassion Agency, an organization that helps the poor in Palm Beach County. Takes place at Indian Springs Country Club in Boynton Beach. Starts at 11 a.m.

04.10 For more information, call 561-967-4066 or visit oassiscompassion.org. APRIL 16 Best Foot Forward Foundation Volunteer Appreciation Lunch Enjoy an afternoon to honor the volunteers of Best Foot Forward Foundation, an organization that helps foster children achieve educational success. Takes place at Carrabba’s in Boca Raton. Starts at noon. For more information, call 561-470-8300 or visit bestfoot.org. APRIL 17 International Festival Celebrate cultures from around the world. Takes place at Royal Palm Place Monument Piazza in Boca Raton. Starts at noon. For more information, call 561-392-8920 or visit royalpalmplace.com.

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APRIL 28 10th Annual Men With Caring Hearts Volunteer Awards Luncheon Partake in lunch and networking at this awards event to benefit Florence Fuller Child Development Centers, Inc. Takes place at Woodfield Country Club in Boca Raton. Starts at 11:30 a.m. For more information, call 561-391-7274 or visit ffcdc.org. APRIL 27 THROUGH APRIL 30 16th Annual Las Olas Wine & Food Festival Enjoy food, wine and spirits in locations along and around Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. Benefits the American Lung Association. Starts at 6 p.m. For more information, call 954-524-4657 or visit lasolaswineandfood.com. APRIL 30 Rock The Run 5K Walk/Run Get in shape and feel inspired at this fitness run, which benefits the Best Foot Forward Foundation. Takes place at the Lifetime Athletic Club in Boca Raton. Starts at 8 a.m. For more information, call 561-470-8300 or visit bestfoot.org. O

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now&noteworthy The United States Air Force Academy Band “The Falconaires” Performs On April 13th At Royal Palm Place

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No tickets are required for this free concert. The United States Air Force Academy Band, The Falconaires, proudly represents the Air Force Academy, a leading educational institution that develops and inspires air and space leaders with a vision for tomorrow. For more than 50 years, the band has used the power of music to inspire Air Force personnel and the nation they serve, and to produce innovative musical programs and products. Royal Palm Place, 302 S. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton, 561-392-8920; royalpalmplace.com.

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ADDRESS

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FRIEDMAN LINDA CHACKMAN

$325,000

$217,900

01-SEP-97

$240,000

BUYER

BOCA FALLS

12661 YARDLEY DR

NADULEK AMIR

BOCA GOLF & TENNIS CLUB

17285 BALBOA POINT WAY

LANDER MERCEDES

LEVIN DORIS G INDIV TRUSTEE

$340,000

BOCA GOLF & TENNIS CLUB

17227 VENTANA DR

YUAN WEIHONG

BRUNO LAUREN M

$250,000

BOCA GROVE PLANTATION

21133 ORMOND CT

BRAHVER BARRY

BEYNON JAMES V

$610,000

$1,195,000

22-JAN-07

BOCA GROVE PLANTATION

7352 VALENCIA DR

CARTER ALLISON

CAMPAGNA DONALD

$825,000

$1,100,000

29-OCT-04

BOCA GROVE PLANTATION

7874 AFTON VILLA CT

28-APR-04

01-SEP-93 23-NOV-10

LAUFER ALICIA

HEERDT DOUGLAS L

$835,000

$1,050,000

BOCA GROVE PLANTATION - COVENTRY 21298 HARROW CT

COUDERC YAEL

ZINMAN ELIZABETH S

$215,000

$440,000

31-JAN-03

BOCA HARBOUR

811 NE 70TH ST

SCALERA DEAN

MINA SAMIR

$475,000

$800,000

04-AUG-06

BOCA HARBOUR

835 APPLEBY ST

SNELLMAN KATHLEEN W

TERRY WILLIAM MICHAEL

$530,000

$635,000

28-OCT-03

BOCA ISLES NORTH

19245 REDBERRY CT

SHAMP JONATHAN

NAPARSTEK MICHAEL

$450,000

$620,000

21-NOV-06

BOCA ISLES NORTH

19191 CLOISTER LAKE LN

VELEZ MICHAEL

CIAU S A CORP

$390,000

$360,000

18-APR-05

BOCA ISLES NORTH

10666 MAPLE CHASE DR

SANCHEZ JESUS MAURICIO

KRUPP JEROME S

$419,000

$305,000

BOCA ISLES NORTH

10768 TEA OLIVE LN

SILVESTRO SANTO

COCIVI JEAN-MARIE INDIV TRUSTEE

$350,000

01-SEP-97 20-AUG-10

BOCA ISLES SOUTH

19632 STAR ISLAND DR

RIZER PATRICIA

ROMANO LILIANA

$367,000

$375,000

25-JUN-04

BOCA POINTE CC - ESPLANADA

22571 ESPLANADA CIR W

CARTER JULIE F

GOLDSTEIN JEFFREY E

$445,000

$425,000

28-MAR-01

BOCA POINTE CC - ESPLANADA

22620 ESPLANADA CIR W

HOEHN RAYMOND

MORGAN LEE C

$347,500

$247,500

07-JUL-88

BOCA POINTE CC - MERIDIANA

22698 MERIDIANA DR

CALABRO BARBARA

YOUNG BARBARA

$249,000

$240,000

19-OCT-01

BOCA POINTE CC - VALENCIA

23492 MIRABELLA CIR S

BURNHAM JEANNE L

BIANCHINI LOUIS

$420,000

$385,000

30-OCT-01

BOCA POINTE CC - VILLA FLORA

6531 VIA BENITA

YUDIEN AVERY JONATHAN

BROWN LEON A

$417,000

$325,000

02-OCT-00

BOCA POINTE CC - VILLA STEL

23229 VIA STEL

MIRRA DAVID LAWRENCE

KLEINMAN ROBERT C

$320,000

$210,000

05-OCT-98

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SUBDIVISION

ADDRESS

BUYER

SELLER

SALE

PRIOR

PRICE

SALE PRICE

SALE DATE

BOCA RATON RIVIERA

898 E BOCA RATON RD

PARLANTE SOTIRIA

CARRIER JOHN F

$475,000

BOCA WEST CC - ISLAND

7649 WOOD DUCK DR

SCHULMAN CHERYL

HAYES SHARAY

$700,000

$1,260,000

BROKEN SOUND CC

2198 NW 59TH ST

BERNSTEIN NATALIE S

PULVERMACHER GERALD

$785,000

$830,000

25-SEP-06

BROKEN SOUND CC - BRIDGEPOINTE

2518 COCO PLUM BLVD 1204 PEARLMAN IRWIN

COHN ROBERTA S

$275,000

$298,000

01-NOV-93

BROKEN SOUND CC - CEDAR KAY

2199 NW 53RD ST

KOHN MICHAEL R

$299,000

$260,000

28-APR-98

BERGER JOAN

11-JUL-05 27-NOV-07

BROKEN SOUND CC - OAK RUN

2401 NW 64TH ST

LEFFLER STANLEY P

BERNSTEIN NATALIE S

$250,000

$447,500

09-SEP-04

COLONNADE AT GLEN OAKS

2501 NW 49TH ST

ENDE SANDRA

ABRAMSON JEFFREY

$525,000

$490,000

20-AUG-03

FIELDBROOK ESTATES

17712 FIELDBROOK CIR N

DORCIL JOB

VENTRICE ETTORE D

$1,250,000

$680,000

01-AUG-00

LAKE ROGERS ISLE

740 NE 36TH ST

MANAFORT JOLYN L

BELCHER GERALD F

$868,000

$575,000

13-SEP-01

$1,000,000

$1,450,000

20-DEC-05

LAKE ROGERS ISLE

3900 NE 6TH DR

MALDONADO JAIME F

3900 LLC

MARBELLA LAKES

22832 MARBELLA CIR

SAPERTON JASON S

BALANCE SEAN D

$297,500

MISSION BAY - THE ISLES

20432 SAN RAFAEL CT

ZAFFKE VINCENT J

$122,500

$348,500

14-JUL-02

MIZNER GRAND CONDOMINIUM

500 SE 5TH AVE 1001S

HERLING HAROLD

1001 MIZNER GRAND ASSOC

$1,908,700

$1,781,300

11-MAR-99

MIZNERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PRESERVE

6101 VIA VENETIA N

GOLDSTEIN LAWRENCE D

FRIDMAN ESTHER B

$520,000

$432,430

07-JUL-00

MIZNERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PRESERVE

6362 VIA VENETIA N

CROSS NORMA EDITH

PRIMACY CLOSING CORP

$683,900

$767,500

12-MAY-10

NEW FLORESTA

2920 NW 27TH AVE

BENNARDO CRISTOFER A

SHANNON MICHAEL P

$485,000

$309,000

01-JUL-93

PALM BEACH FARMS

1801 ISABEL OESTE RD

LAM GRANT

PRESTON JACK E

$557,000

$523,000

21-AUG-03

PALM BEACH FARMS

1560 SW 21ST LN

SULLIVAN MARY L

LEE SUNG WOO

$420,000

$402,000

11-APR-02

PALMETTO PLACE CONDOMINIUM

99 SE MIZNER BLVD APT 429

EARLEY MICHAEL M

RACKMIL BRUCE

$320,000

$570,000

15-DEC-05

PALMETTO PLACE CONDOMINIUM

99 SE MIZNER BLVD APT 525

SARICYAN SELINA LARA

MCCORMICK 105 LLC

$180,000

$131,000

25-MAR-10

31-MAY-07

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SUBDIVISION

ADDRESS

BUYER

SELLER

SALE

PRIOR

PRICE

SALE PRICE

SALE DATE

PALMETTO PLACE CONDOMINIUM

99 SE MIZNER BLVD APT 837

SERGI NICK

US BANK NATL ASSOC TRUSTEE

$180,000

$146,100

31-MAR-10

PARKSIDE

1980 PARKSIDE CIR S

HOUGH KIM

MAYOR SANDRA M

$725,000

$553,750

23-JUN-09

POLO CLUB - COOPER LAKE

17153 NEWPORT CLUB DR

LYNN AMY J

LESTER DENNIS J

$364,500

$323,000

POLO CLUB - HAMPTON COURT

17094 RYTON LN

STERN LAWRENCE

STEARMAN BERNICE R

$335,000

POLO CLUB - LAURELS

17778 DEAUVILLE LN

SIN MONICA

NAFH NATIONAL BANK

$1,185,000

POLO CLUB - WINDSOR PARKE

5170 WINDSOR PARKE DR

PRAGER RHODA TRUSTEE

AQUINO VINCENT

$129,000

RIO POCO

10425 AVENIDA DEL RIO

HIRAD MOHAMMADVALI

BAYNE MICHAEL C

$785,000

ROYAL PALM YACHT & COUNTRY CLUB 2464 W MAYA PALM DR

MARTOMA MATHEW

DIMISA JAYNI

$1,960,000

31-JUL-08

ROYAL PALM YACHT & COUNTRY CLUB 2333 ACORN PALM RD

MEEHAN DAVID O

FISCHER CARL J JR

$1,450,000

01-JUL-95

ROYAL PALM YACHT & COUNTRY CLUB 1939 THATCH PALM DR

GUZINSKI ROSWITHA

MILLER JOHN R

$1,300,000

SANTA BARBARA

6231 NW 24TH ST

QIAO YI

FLOUM ROBERT

$390,000

SATURNIA

19253 NATURES VIEW CT

TELCHIN JESSICA A

GOETTERT WILLIAM H

SATURNIA ISLES

15615 MESSINA ISLES CT

MUNDT MOLLY

KUFLIK ROSS M

27-FEB-04 01-APR-94

$2,030,000

26-OCT-10

$919,200

01-OCT-99

01-FEB-94

$1,900,000

30-MAR-06

$825,000

$606,759

30-MAR-01

$570,000

$568,000

14-NOV-03

28-MAY-03

17-SEP-10

SPANISH RIVER LAND CO (THE ESTATES) 1130 SPANISH RIVER RD

GOETTERT WILLIAM H

ARGO DEVELOPMENT LLC

$640,000

THE OAKS - FOX HILL ESTATES

17534 CIRCLE POND CT

POLEN JUDITH

COYNE DEBORAH

$695,000

$792,148

15-FEB-05

THE OAKS AT BOCA RATON

17690 LOMOND CT

BROWN MICHELLE

MUNDT DAVID R

$1,675,000

$1,910,000

18-JUL-08

THE PRESERVE

2425 NW 49TH LN

VENEZIA DEBORAH

ELLIS MARTIN

$1,050,000

$1,625,000

25-MAY-06

THORNHILL ESTATES

7371 WEXFORD TER

FERBER SHARON L

ALBER DEREK

$475,000

THORNHILL ESTATES

7363 WEXFORD TER

STERN STEPHANIE

GERZINA JACK R

$570,000

$170,000

01-MAR-90

TIMBERCREEK NORTH

3416 PINE HAVEN CIR

HIGGINS JACQUELINE T

RITENBAUGH RICHARD L

$525,000

$245,000

01-DEC-88

01-AUG-87

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giving back7charity never goes out of style An Equine Time: Sandra Seiden shares a snuggle with one of her Shetland ponies

But when the ponies arrived, he became a different child. “His language literally exploded,” Seiden recalls. “He wanted to brush them, pick up manure from the stall, feed them. He wanted to do everything.” Today, she knows the power of Personal Ponies. Just being around the horses taps into something magical, she says. Today, the Seidens’ original two are among the five Personal Ponies stabled in Coconut Creek, and Seiden takes them everywhere, including Alzheimer’s wards, schools, local fairs and intensive care units. Yes, Sandra Seiden traipses into ICUs with her tiny horses. “It is fantastic to watch,” she says.

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Personal Ponies Changes Lives, One Child At A Time By Emily J. Minor

he day the 18-wheel horse trailer pulled up in front of Sandra Seiden’s country club home was the day her son, Jacob, started living.

birth defect that slows development and changes socialization. Seiden was online during “one of those sleepless mommy nights” when she

“He started screaming: ‘My ponies! My ponies!’ recalls the Boca Raton mother. “Before that, we were basically using sign language.” Jacob Seiden was Sandra and Andrew Seiden’s fourth child, and she knew from the start he was special. Jacob and Buttons

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discovered Personal Ponies, a charity that breeds and trains therapeutic Shetland horses. Started 27 years ago as a way to provide therapy to

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Besides a tax-deductible cash donation, Personal Ponies can use art and office supplies and picture frames (Seiden frames photos of the kids with the ponies). They also need sponsors and silent auction items for their upcoming Polynesianthemed gala, “Ponies in Paradise,” set for April 15th at Royal Fiesta Caterers in Deerfield Beach.

disabled children, Personal Ponies is one of those organizations that often flies under the radar.

And how is Jacob doing?

“It’s all volunteer,” Seiden gushes.

He’s 12 now, and goes to school, has friends and talks up a storm. And his mother knows why.

The charity’s small Shetlands are placed with families across America. Depending on the set-up, the ponies either stay with the family, in rural cases, or families board them at nearby stables (like in Seiden’s case). Recipients pay for care, but there’s no charge for the horses. Back in the early days—before Seiden became the Florida director for the charity she now loves—Jacob was trapped inside himself.

It’s those two ponies that arrived via 18-wheeler back in 2005. Two ponies called Cookie Face and Sugar Lips. The mailing address for the Florida Chapter of Personal Ponies is 3797 N.W. 52nd St., Boca Raton, 33496. In South Florida, the ponies are stabled at R Farm in Coconut Creek. For more information about the organization or its upcoming gala, call 561-445-4456, or visit personalponies-fl.org. O

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