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Number 306 • Year VII COMMUNITY see page 9

2017 Boca Raton Election Special

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The Boca Garden Club Fundraises for Good Cause

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Boca Raton Little League Kicks Off Ninth Spring Season

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Boating and Beach Bash Returns on March 18 By: Aeryn Beining, Mike Demyan, Nikki Colonna

Boca Raton’s ninth annual Boating and Beach Bash for People with Disabilities will be on Saturday, March 18.

The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Spanish River Park, 3001 N. State Rd. A-1-A, in Boca Raton. It is the largest annual free fun day in the nation for people with intellectual and/or physical disabilities.

During its first year, there were only 350 guests. Since then, the amount of guests has increased to thousands from across the nation.

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Meet your Boca Raton Mayoral Candidates

Incumbent mayor Susan Haynie, who has been serving in public office since 2000, is seeking another three years as the city’s top elected official and she is challenged by Alfred Zucaro, a former West Palm Beach city commissioner.

“My work on behalf of the residents of Boca Raton is not finished yet,” Haynie, 61, said.

Voters will go to the polls March 14 to elect a mayor and two council members. The Boca Raton Tribune will hold a Candidate Forum on Friday, March 10, at 6:30 p.m. at the Wayne Barton Study Center.

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“The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoince over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.”

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South Florida rock band Stellar Revival, with lead singer Rino Cerbone, who owns Pizza Time in Boca Raton, will be opening for Bon Jovi March 8 at The Forum in Los Angeles.

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• Construction on a project that is designed to help improve traffic flow at the Turnpike’s Glades Road interchange began January 3.

• Jeff Atwater, who brings years of experience in finance in the public and private sectors and executive leadership in Florida as a member of the Governor’s cabinet, has agreed to become Florida Atlantic University’s vice president for strategic initiatives and chief financial officer.

• The Boca Raton Tribune will host the final Mayorla Forum of the 2017 Election Cycle on March 10. at the Wayne Barton Study Center.

•Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science hosted the 10th annual southeast Florida regional competition for the Science Olympiad on Saturday, Feb. 18 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Science and Engineering buildings and General Classrooms buildings, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus.

• All Aboard Florida has announced it will be closing the FEC crossing at Palmetto Park Rd. in Boca Raton, Florida from Friday February 17th at 7AM - Wednesday February 22nd at 6PM to perform construction improvements necessary for the introduction of the Brightline passenger rail service.

• The Jewish Federation of SPBC Business & Professional Division continued its Lewis Katz Industry Icon Series with a wonderful talk presented by Arthur Adler. Adler spoke candidly about a childhood that toughened him up and prepared him for the career that moved him through promoting careers of comics and singers to eventually being in the front office of the New York Yankees and New York Islanders.

• Arlene Herson presents a series of shows at Spanish River High School Theatre. Tuesday, February 14 at 7:30 Bobby Rydell and David Konig, Wednesday, March 15 at 7:30 Yakov Smirnoff. individual shows $50. For tickets and information, call 561-883-7760.

• Ballot positions for the upcoming municipThe candidates for Mayor and City Council have been invited to introduce themselves to the residents of Sea Ranch in The City Of Boca Raton, Florida.

All seven candidates vying for election to the City Council and Mayor were provided with an opportunity to discuss the reason they are seeking (re)election.

• Election Day will be the second Tuesday in March (March 14, 2017) with the newly elected members of the council seated on Friday March 31st 2017.

• Boca Raton currently has two remaining water storage towers standing which have been a part of the landscape since 1958, but they will not be there much longer as they will soon be demolished.

• The Boca Raton Garden Club will feature their annual “Treasures and Plant Sale” on Friday, March 31 and Saturday, April 1. The event will offer many plant and gardening tools and accessories as well as “gently used treasures” ranging from clothing and jewelry to dishes and collectibles.

•Boca Raton resident and Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics president Lucille Beseler will be speaking at the International Day of Women and Girls in Science commemoration at the United Nations in New York on Feb. 10.

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• Cold River Records has signed Placer Creek Music Publishing writer, Maggie Baugh, to its artist roster. Cold River’s President, Pete O’Heeron, made the announcement during the label’s pre-CRS party at the Omni Hotel.

• Mayor Susan Haynie will not have an easy path to re-election, as the clock hit the final minutes, Al Zucaro announced his bid for Boca Raton Mayor.

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Community The Battle for the Next Mayor

By Staff Reports

Incumbent mayor Susan Haynie, who has been serving in public office since 2000, is seeking another three years as the city’s top elected official and she is challenged by Alfred Zucaro, a former West Palm Beach city commissioner.

“My work on behalf of the residents of Boca Raton is not finished yet,” Haynie, 61, said.

Voters will go to the polls March 14 to elect a mayor and two council members. The Boca Raton Tribune will hold a Candidate Forum on Friday, March 10, at 6:30 p.m. at the Wayne Barton Study Center.

A general contractor who began working for the city in 1974, Haynie promises to push forward on her agenda of lower taxes, smart growth, and safer neighborhoods.

Zucaro, 67, who moved to the city in 2009, says he wants “to bring back common sense to City Hall.”

“We need a city government that makes good decisions for the resident of Boca Raton, not developers and special interests,” said Zucaro, who served eight years on the city commission and ran unsuccessfully as mayor in West Palm Beach.

“Boca Raton is a special town, but right now City Hall isn’t working for us like it should,” he maintains.

Zucaro founded BocaWatch in 2012 to “give residents a platform to stay informed and voice their concerns” about a major development boom in the city.

He said his BocaWatch team successfully campaigned to preserve city-owned land along the Intracoastal Waterway for recreation, increasing the

opportunities for residents to enjoy unique green space.

Except for BocaWatch, Zucaro has not had any other city of civic involvement since moving to town.

He said after moving to the city of nearly 90,000, he had planned to live a quiet life with his wife, local philanthropist Yvonne Boice.

But after seeing what he called “mismanagement” in City Hall, he had to act.

“I could not stand by and watch what is going on at city hall any longer,” he said. “So, the questions of significance I faced were ‘If not now when; if not me who?”

Has maintained that if Haynie is reelected, she will abandon her seat next year to run for she wins, will leave the mayor’s job early to run for County Commissioner Steven Abrams’s seat.

Abrams, a former mayor of Boca Raton and State representative, term ends in 2018.

Haynie, who has been mayor of Boca Raton since 2014, served on the City Council from 2000 to 2006, left because of term limit and returned in 2009. She served on the council until 2014.

As mayor, Haynie said she has worked to make sure its residents receive the services and quality of life they deserve. She plans to continue her “impressive agenda.”

“Fighting to make sure our neighborhoods stay safe and our city maintains the highest quality of life is something I’ve been doing for almost 20 years,” Haynie said. “It’s important to me that when I ask the voters for their support, they judge me on my record, not rhetoric.”

The Boca Garden Club Fundraises for Good Cause Through Their "Treasures and Plant Sale"

By: Nikki Colonna

The Boca Raton Garden Club will feature their annual "Treasures and Plant Sale" on Friday, March 31 and Saturday, April 1. The event will offer many plant and gardening tools and accessories as well as "gently used treasures" ranging from clothing and jewelry to dishes and collectibles.

In 1953, The Boca Raton Garden Club was born with the mindset and goal to improve the appearance of parks and landscaping of our city. Many members of the community share a similar passion for gardening and this club connects them in more ways than one.

The local members work together to grow their gardens as well as their efforts to give back to the community through fundraisers and charity events. They expand their endeavors further and offer scholarship opportunities and junior gardening programs for local students.

The annual event welcomes the community from 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM to the beautiful gardens at their clubhouse.

This is held with the main purpose of supporting the Garden Club's numerous charities and scholarships offered.

There is also a new addition to their even this year.

“We are very excited to intro-

duce a line of boutique clothing this year in a designated area of our clubhouse," said Patty Moum, Boca Raton Garden Club Co-President. "We’re counting on this being a real hit with our discerning Boca shoppers!"

As a program, the club works hand in hand with Garden Therapy for senior citizens at FAU's Memory and Wellness Center, Boca's Community Garden and Boy Scout Merit Badge projects.

All donations and profits directly benefit the local charities and fund the scholarships that The Boca Raton Garden Club sponsors. They also support and send students and counselors to Camp Wekiva each year to promote the nature camp.

"Although our main reason for the event is to sell beautiful plants, most of which have been grown and nurtured by our members, we make every effort to educate the buyers about the plants," added Carol Rice, Landscaping Chairperson.

They hope to spread the message that love and respect for nature is important especially in the minds of our children because it leads to the protection and care of our environment in the future. This event hopes to inspire others to get more involved with the beautifying of Boca while enjoying the treasures and sales featured this year.

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Local Band, Stellar Revival, Delray Beach Students Participate Reunites to Open for Bon Jovi in in Online Cultural Exchange Los Angeles By: Michael Demyan

South Florida rock band Stellar Revival, with lead singer Rino Cerbone, who owns Pizza Time in Boca Raton, will be opening for Bon Jovi March 8 at The Forum in Los Angeles.

Cerbone got a call from the band’s drummer, Andrew Koussevitzky, roughly a month and a half ago about a possible opportunity to perform.

“I kind of did something without your permission,” Koussevitzky told Cerbone. “So Bon Jovi’s doing this thing where every city he goes to he has an act open up for him in that area.”

Koussevitzky submitted a video of one of their songs with a photo. Cerbone was fine with it and the two shared a laugh, not knowing what was about to be in store for them. They spoke every day since then, but never really brought up the possibility of actually opening for Bon Jovi until several weeks later when Koussevitzky asked Cerbone if he remembered their discussion.

They won.

“It’s kind of serendipitous the way it happened because we always used to kind of hold a candle to Bon Jovi and how we kind of wanted to be like him in a lot of ways,” Cerbone said.

“It’s been original members and they’ve been around for so long and it’s kind of cool that the stars have aligned and the timing was just right and that it happened in that way.”

The band began in 2008 and three years later they signed a record deal with Capitol Records. Cerbone left the comfort of his restaurant and traveled with the rest of the band to Canada to record their debut album.

Some unfortunate circumstances started to arise and the release of the album, “Love, Lust, and Bad Company,” was pushed back and ultimately shelved after Universal Music Group completed the purchase of Capitol Records at the end of 2012.

The band did find some success with their first single “The Crazy Ones” however, which was used as the official theme song for the WWE Elimination Chamber in 2013. It was also featured in a television spot for “The Expendables 2.”

Dan Uricoli, who is no longer with the band, decided to release the album on his own in 2015, but it has not gotten much attention so far. Cerbone is looking toward re-releasing it or doing a double album release in the future.

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During their brief time apart, which they like to call an “extended vacation,” the band, which now consists of Cerbone, Koussevitzky, Steve Morgan, Ryan Spears and Mike Lowther, returned to their previous lives. For Cerbone, that meant returning to being a chef and restaurateur at Pizza Time in Boca Raton.

“We’ve always been homelife kind of guys,” Cerbone said. “Home is where the heart is. It was normal for me. It wasn’t that we faced a failure or anything like that. We were all career guys before we had music. It was nice to have a bit of normalcy again and to kind of focus on ourselves as people.”

They kept in contact though and made sure to leave the door open to get back into the music business. They ended up finding the perfect opportunity.

“For us, this is the top of the mountain,” Koussevitzky said. “No other band on earth has inspired us more than Bon Jovi. My first concert was Bon Jovi’s ‘Keep the Faith Tour.’ I was nine years old and it changed my life.

To be asked to share the stage with Jon and the boys at The Forum is absolutely surreal.”

This upcoming performance is not their first brush with famous bands however, as they have toured with Theory of a Deadman, Pop Evil, Shinedown and Halestorm. In 2012, they also opened on the mainstage for Black Sabbath, Soundgarden and Megadeth at Download Festival in England.

“We had an amazing experience with all the bands we toured with, but this one is a little bit more meaningful because of the rocky road that panned out from all that other stuff,” Cerbone said. “What makes this show special is that throughout all of this time and all of the BS, we were able to come together as a unit, just minus one original member, and jump right back on the same page with everything.”

Koussevitzky submitting their video and photo for the contest might end up leading them back on the road to stardom as the band has gotten offers for more performances after they open for Bon Jovi on March 8.

“If things keep on rolling this way I see a very bright future and the plan moving forward is to really make it conducive for all of us to execute the way we wanted to execute the first time and whether that’s independently or with the cooperation of a label who knows, but we are going to move forward and I think it’s going to be great,” Cerbone said.

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At 11, Derlens Estimable has already has begun to build an impressive resume. He met former President Barack Obama when he visited Daughter of Zion Junior Academy, he has been to Chattanooga, Tenn., Universal Studios, Haiti, and just last month, he sang backup for jazz keyboard player Copeland Davis.

On Thursday, Derlens added one more to his list when he sang the national anthem via skype to students at a remotely-located school in Kenya.

“I am excited to have one more thing that I can add to all the awesome things I have done at DOZJA,” he said.

“I am grateful for being here and I am very thankful for this opportunity to gain knowledge and experience, which I know will help me later in life.”

The 10 students from the Delray Beach school and members of the KOP Mentoring Network participated in the first tech-based cultural and education exchange project program between the United States and the African nation through a live SKYPE video call.

The impetus for the program, which was done at the Microsoft Store in the Town Center at Boca Raton, was the recent increased focus on the importance of the national anthem in the USA. A team of community service providers decided to use the national anthems as an opportunity to educate and promote peace, tolerance and cultural appreciation amongst diverse communities, not only in the USA, but globally.

With technology support of Microsoft in Boca Raton, three very different community service partners - Estella’s Brilliant Bus (West Palm Beach), Dream Sponsors Incorporated (Wellington) and Sirua Aulo Academy (Trans Mara, Kenya) - banded together to launch this initiative through global partnerships using advanced global technology.

As the students sang, Microsoft technicians streamed their performance to the eager audience at Sirua Aulo Academy, located in Trans Mara West, in the heart of the Maasai Mara, Kenya. The region is known for its exotic wildlife and

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In exchange, the Sirua Aulo students sang their national anthem for the Florida students.

A brief educational exchange followed where the youth shared their knowledge on the anthems and what each means to the respective country.

“Through technology we have begun a movement bringing training, global exposure, and overall education to underserved communities in Palm Beach County and beyond,” said Estella Pyfrom, a retired educator of 50 years who founded the Brilliant Bus to deliver technology to underserved youth in poverty-stricken communities. “Using our current relationship with Microsoft, and given Dream Sponsors’ existing partnership with Sirua Aulo Academy, we are coming together as a team to extend advanced learning and unique experiences to communities of both countries where such opportunities and resources are lacking.

Emmanuel Tasur, founder of Sirua Aulo Academy, wrote that they were grateful for the experience.

“Our students enjoyed every moment of the interaction despite limited infrastructure,” he wrote in an email.

“Thank you all for making it possible and I believe it's the beginning of many more partnerships that brings education across different cultures.”

The unique partnership provides the vehicle to extend this movement across borders and change the quality of life for the marginalized people of the Maasai tribe, organizers said.

“It was heartwarming to see the excitement on the faces of our Kenyan sponsored youth, Emmanuel, the school’s founder, as well as the beautiful bright children from Daughter of Zion Junior Academy and their principal,” said Carla B. Neumann, founder/president, Dream Sponsors, Inc. “This is truly an exciting milestone for all of us!”

After the event, Paul Kiedis, the owner/operator of the Chick-fil-A in the mall, invited the students to lunch where they received service with a genuine smile.

“No matter our title or job description, we come to work to generously share our time and talents,” Kiedis said.

“Whether it's treating our customers like friends, or serving our communities like neighbors, we truly believe kindness is a higher calling.”

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Mayor Susan Haynie

was instrumental in creating ordinances that made the Park at Broken Sound into the thriving business and residential hub it is today. Creating jobs and community.

H Mayor Susan Haynie works non-stop and under her leadership Boca Raton has created or retained over 4,000 jobs. Boca is the place to work!

H H 4,000 jobs for Boca Raton H 31 of the 62 corporate headquarters in Palm Beach County call Boca Raton home H Returned City staffing levels to prerecession levels to maintain and improve the City’s services, programs and facilities H Kept millage rate one of the lowest in Palm Beach County H Chair of the Florida Metropolitan Planning Organization Advisory Council

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EDITORIAL

By C. Ron Allen

Time to say Kudos, Thanks to a few Amazing Community Members who are making a Difference Passionate, potent and powerful are three adjectives to describe the message that motivational speaker and life coach Rose “Cat Island Rose” Newbold shared with a group of young ladies from The Unspoken Belle Foundation, Inc., a local mentoring program that has been the voice of the unspoken, this past Sunday.

The 15 high school young ladies and a young man, who attended the Girl Talk, Fashion & Beauty Workshop at the Wow Health Group, 5821 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton, had an awesome evening, according to their parents and organizers.

“I’m glad you and your team are out there doing what you can for these girls because growing up we felt like we had no one to confide in or had no one to speak up for us,” parent Nikki

Goldman wrote to the organization’s founder and president Sabrina Guilouse Valbrun.

Goldman said the organization, which empowers and educates young women who lost themselves in a world that stripped them of their innocence through inappropriate touching, rape and molestation, particularly in the Haitian culture, “actually struck close to my heart.”

“Yesterday I saw these young girls, including my own, walk in very shy, timid and with some, no confidence,” she said. “At the end of the evening/night, they all walked out with the heads held high and were confident young beautiful girls that we knew they were. For that, I thank you and your team from the bottom of my heart.”

Newbold moved around the audience

with ease, engaging the students in fun activities while highlighting principles for success. The former Delray Beach police officer used her knowledge, insight, creativity, humor and compassion to address pertinent topics related to women’s and adolescent health, youth development, leadership, academic success, popular culture and media, personal development, relationships and self-empowerment.

“My mission was to build these young girls’ self-esteem and encourage them to believe that they could achieve their goals and dreams and that they could go beyond what they see in their world right now,” said Newbold, who held a leadership position in a child care program in Delray Beach for several years.

She taught the young ladies and one young man new ways of thinking about

their lives and encouraged them to push through limiting beliefs and pressures that hold them back from achieving their goals and dreams.

“I had to encourage them to love God, themselves and have a standard for their lives,” she said. “It is my duty to teach them how to have a relationship with God and build that relationship to a place where they can rely on God to lead them in every step that they take.”

I would be remiss if I did now say happy birthday to my mother, who celebrates another year today. I am blessed and thankful to have her with me one more year after a near departure two years ago.

Until next week, reach out and help someone make this city a better place because you can.

POSITIVE LIVING

By Dr. Synesio Lyra, Jr.

The Urge to Contradict!

Humans are social creatures, and all have the opportunity of personal interactions, of communicating ideas and values, of sharing their own selves, besides providing information beneficial to those with whom a dialogue is held.

In the decade of he 1960’s, while in graduate school, I read an impressive line form two scholars, which stuck with me ever since. They had said that “communication is the matrix in which all human activities are embedded.” After all, persons communicate with much more than just a mere exchange of words.

Attitudes and ways of responding, of asking questions, of acting and reacting to a variety of situations, are among the many ways communication

occurs, or it becomes mere manipulation – adding more hindrances to clear understanding rather than opening the way for genuine dialogues.

Throughout my entire life one of the most disgusting occurrences in the midst of personal interactions, is the tendency of several to contradict what the other is seeking to affirm.

Even when a specific question is asked, if the answer heard does not satisfy, the one receiving the reply quickly proceeds to negate what was said, and make no effort to affirm the response, regardless of its truthfulness!

If the person knows better, why, then, to ask a question whose answer will be contradicted? When such occurrence is frequent with an individual, the clear idea is that a question

is asked, not on account of a genuine desire to have an answer, of learning a new viewpoint. Rather, the inquiry is from the outset intended to be a platform for arguing.

Such are the persons who say “No” to everything they hear, to any answer given to them, even if what they later formulate as the correct understanding of the issue in question, corresponds exactly to what the other person had stated. The insane choice of his/her own words, is to appear as if true meaning could exist only if certain terms were employed, and not their equivalents. There’s no more annoying barrier to continued communication than such deplorable attitude!

When persons converse, by engaging in a discussion, the goal should

not be for one to win and the other to lose. The primary objective must always be in finding facts, establishing a truth, understanding that verity more clearly, and living in accordance with that affirmation.

In any conversation, its participants have every right to disagree with something stated. Even contradicting some statement can be proper and helpful. What is not desirable is to talk with someone only to provide a thrill to self in contradicting the other, not to confirm a truth, but for the mere paranoid enjoyment of someone who thinks to be the owner of truth, and the only genuine interpreter of reality!

Dr. Synesio Lyra, Jr. is a Florida resident who, for many years, was a professor at the post-graduate level. He is a writer, a sought-after conference speaker, a man who lived in five continents of the world, having received his education in four of them. When he resided in southern California, he wrote a weekly column for the daily “Anaheim Bulletin,” which was carried for about six years, until he moved to south Florida.

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Boating and Beach Bash Returns Boca Raton's Two Water Towers to be Demolished on March 18 By: Michael Demyan

By: Aeryn Beining, Mike Demyan, Nikki Colonna

Boca Raton’s ninth annual Boating and Beach Bash for People with Disabilities will be on Saturday, March 18.

The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Spanish River Park, 3001 N. State Rd. A-1-A, in Boca Raton. It is the largest annual free fun day in the nation for people with intellectual and/or physical disabilities. During its first year, there were only 350 guests. Since then, the amount of guests has increased to thousands from across the nation.

The idea for a local event for people with disabilities came about in 2008. At the time, The Disability Advisory Board for the City of Boca Raton had been having an annual picnic at Spanish River Park dating all the way back to the 1990s.

The Bash’s founder, Jay Van Vechten, felt the picnic should be more inclusive through an addition of boat rides. After some discussion with then board chair, Shawn Friedkin, both met with Mayor Susan Whelchel to propose the idea. The mayor felt the proposal was a great concept and after a year of planning, the first annual Bash was held in March 2009.

The City of Boca Raton was initially sponsoring the event every year until 2011. The Bash became too big and taxing for the city to be able to continue sponsoring, but they have continued to offer the free use of Spanish River Park every March for one day.

The discontinued sponsorship from the City of Boca Raton proved to be less stressful than imagined. It allowed the Bash to expand to more counties and have more people, which helped it become more inclusive.

Now it has grown to be the largest in the nation with the 2017 main sponsor being the Harcourt M. & Virginia W. Sylvester Foundation. All money raised goes toward the Bash and the continuous operating expenses for its parent organization, the American Disabilities Foundation, the rest of the year.

Since 2014, the Boating and Beach Bash has had the YouTube sensation Chris P. Bacon, a disabled pig, and his veterinarian owner Len Lucero. Van Vechten, felt that having the duo there would be a great addition to the event.

Every year they return not just because of how it shows that anyone can do whatever they want as long as they put their mind to it, but because it pushes the limits of traditional thinking. It is what Lucero and Chris P. Bacon attempt to promote all the time.

“I really like the Bash. I think it’s fun,” said Lucero. “The people who come through for the Bash are amazing. We just can’t help but want to be part of that kind of company.”

The event being held every March right around Palm Beach County’s spring break is merely a coincidence. The Bash is always held right when the tide at Spanish River Park is highest at midday since it is tied to the rise and fall of the Intracoastal tides.

The marine at Spanish River Park is only four feet deep. The high tide allows guests in special beach wheelchairs to experience the feel of the ocean water and enjoy themselves. The day that is chosen is the only time in which the event is able to be held.

It takes 25 planning committees a year to plan the Boating and Beach Bash. Every year has been a success due to those who dedicated their time organizing this event.

Every year, the Bash improves with fun activities while also teaching guests things that can help improve their quality of life throughout the year. This event is about having fun, being healthy, and showing guests that no matter their disability, they will always be accepted.

For the past six years the media has referred to the Boating and Beach Bash by the name “Miracle on the Intracoastal.” It was given by the Sun-Sentinel because as Van Vechten, has said, “There isn’t anything like it. It’s an amazing day.

It brings so many people happiness and that is why it is a miracle.”

Boca Raton currently has two remaining water storage towers standing which have been a part of the landscape since 1958, but they will not be there much longer as they will soon be demolished.

One of the steel towers is located on the corner of North Dixie Highway and Northeast 42nd Street, while the other is a little less than five miles down the road along Dixie, near Southeast 14th Street.

Allstate Tower Inc. will be handling the process of tearing them down after a $154,000 deal was made with them last year. They will begin with the south tower before moving onto the one farther north. Those who live near or pass by the north tower during their commute could expect some road closures.

Workers will begin the process on both of the 138 foot tall structures by cutting the tanks at the top before removing the separated portions with a crane.

The demolition will have no effect on the city’s water since the giant structures have actually been left unused for over a decade. They were replaced by new water pumps which have made them no longer necessary.

Back when they were still being used, the towers were able to carry 500 million gallons of clean water. The water

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was pumped into the tank at the top where it rested until needed. When the city needed water, gravity was used to create natural water pressure and the water flowed back down to reach its destination.

In order to have that high water pressure, the towers need to stand taller than the buildings receiving the water, otherwise there would not be enough pressure to reach floors at the top of tall buildings. This makes the towers a prime target for anyone wanting to go for a climb.

Barbed wire fences surround both water towers, however there is still a chance someone could trespass and attempt to climb them, putting themselves in serious danger of falling.

The city sent people out to survey the area on Tuesday, Feb. 21 and Allstate Tower Inc. was expected to start the following week, but they were actually able to begin a little earlier.

“The workers have begun,” city communications manager Chrissy Gibson said.

They are estimating the task of tearing down the towers will take about three weeks. Unlike most building demolitions, the dismantling of the towers will take some time since it will be taken apart rather than simply being destroyed.

After that demolition is completed, there are currently no plans for the land, which will be left empty.

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Obituaries Jeffery Isaac Krantz

Jeffrey Isaac Krantz passed away February 27th, 2017. Jeffrey was born on May 30, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York.

He received his Bachelors and Masters Degree in Engineering from Brooklyn PolyTechnical College. Jeffrey was always on the leading edge of the computer industry and technology. At IBM, three pat-

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ent ideas were designed by him. One of the “Original Ten,” Jeff helped found Citrix Systems. His quick wit and dry humor was legendary as well as his razor like interpretation of business and how to get work accomplished. Jeff ’s dream was to travel and to go to concerts. He actualized his dream by attending the famous California “Desert Trip” concert, and Metallica in New York.

People recognized his genuine and kind nature. Jeffrey is survived by his loving family, wife Julie (Roscoe), his children, Eric and Alana Krantz, his loving sisters Nancy Case, and Leah Goldsmith and their children, and Aunt Phyllis Silberman and her children and grandchildren.

A “Celebration of Life” for Jeffrey will be held at Lakeside Terrace, 7880 Glades Road from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Please bring “Jeff ” stories to share. Shiva for close friends and family will be held at Hilton Hotel at Lakeside from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM.

In lieu of flowers, donations to the American Diabetes Association would be appreciated.

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Scott Singer 1) Scott Singer 2)Age: 40. My wife Bella and I are the proud parents of two children: Daniel, 5, and Rachel, 3.

3) A.B¸ cum laude, Government, Harvard University J.D., Georgetown University Law Center Graduate of Pine Crest School

Questionnaire

Editor’s Note: Each of the two candidates for Seat A on the City Council received a copy of this questionnaire. We asked them to tell us a little bit about themselves so you could be more informed as you vote on March 14.

1) Name:

4) Attorney; small business owner 5) I was elected to the City Council in 2014, and have served as Chair of the Community Redevelopment Agency since then.

6) In additional to serving Boca’s residents as a City Council member, I currently serve on the State Attorney’s Sober Homes Task Force, the Growth Management and Economic Affairs Legislative Policy Committee of the Florida League of Cities, and It’s the Economy Task Force of the Palm Beach County League of Cities. I am also the city’s alternate delegate to both the Palm Beach County League of Cities and the Palm Beach Metropolitan Planning Organization.

2) Personal: 3) Education: 4) Profession:

In addition, I am a member of the Elected Officials Advisory Board for the Women’s Foundation of Palm Beach County, the Palm Beach County Board of Advisors of the James Madison Institute, the Pine Crest School Alumni Council, and the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce.

5) Political Background: 6) Public Service:

7) City government is important because it is the level of government that is closest to our lives.

We use city water, roads, parks, and beaches, and are protected by city police and fire rescue. As a Councilman, I’m proud to have voted to lower the already-lowest tax rate for any full-service city in the county, and at the same time, increased our world-class services by adding more public safety positions, expanding our parks and waterways, investing in our libraries, and generally expanding services.

7) Why is City Government important?

8) What’s your vision for the city?

9) What are your plans for ongoing traffic?

8) My vision for the city is one of the reasons Boca residents should keep me working for them. I’ve been a strong voice for residents and brought needed change to our city in the areas of green space, business growth, communications, ethics, and accessibility. I’ve proposed and worked to pass new laws and policies that have helped create high-paying jobs, cut red tape, increased transparency, and improved dealings with residents. I’ve been willing to stand alone in opposing projects that negatively impacted traffic and neighborhoods and were not reflective of smart development. I’ve voted for lower taxes while at the same time increasing city services, adding public safety positions, expanding our parks, and investing in our libraries. My record, including my town-hall series and forums on planning, show I have the concerns of residents in mind and the vision to keep Boca moving toward a brighter future for this and future generations.

10) What are your thoughts of the Midtown Project?

11) What are your thoughts of compensation for officials?

12) Single member district or at large election?

13) What are you views on annexation?

14) What are your thoughts on development in Downtown?

15) Is there anything City Council is doing wrong?

9) Boca voters should keep me working for them because I’ve been a strong voice for residents and brought needed change to our city in the areas of green space, business growth, communications, ethics, and accessibility. I’ve proposed and worked to pass new laws and policies that have helped create high-paying jobs, cut red tape, increased transparency, and improved dealings with residents. I’ve been willing to stand alone in opposing projects that negatively impacted traffic and neighborhoods and were not reflective of smart development. I’ve voted for lower taxes while at the same time increasing city services, adding public safety positions, expanding our parks, and investing in our libraries. My record, including my town-hall series and forums on planning, show I have the concerns of residents in mind and the vision to keep Boca moving toward a brighter future for this and future generations.

Paticia Dervishi

10) There are many concerns that need be addressed, notably about traffic. I am not supportive of everything in the current and yet-finalized proposals for the Midtown Project. The details that need more review include the calculations of density and intensity, assumptions about trip recapture rates, review of ongoing traffic counts, potential changes to roadway level-of-service designation, structuring and payment for circulator services, and relationship with the proposed second Tri-Rail station. I believe further public discussion will better address these issues in the proposed ordinances, which are in their early form and not finalized.

1) Paticia Dervishi 2) 70, single, no children however one of 12 children and 70 nieces nephews semiretired 3) (No Awnser) 4) (No Awnser) 5) Independent 6) Citizen advocate for previous 10 years addressing city council, getting issues placed on ballot.

City Government: Very important, if City Council serves citizens which is not the case in Boca Raton 7) (No Awnser) 8) Replacing all of current City council which have not up held their oath of office. City Counsel and developers have elevated themselves above citizens and are currently in complete control of city.

9) Horrific, caused by city council approving irresponsible development before traffic studies and road improvements were made lacking additional supportive services: police, fire-rescue, parking, schools, and teachers.

10) I would prevent density 11) For years no one would run for council, Scott Singer was never elected to office but rather appointed. I believe we need to compensate at the rate of full salary to attract good candidates.

12) (No Awnser) 13) I do not want annexation.

14) My opponent Scott Singer and Mayor Susan Haynie have not only approved overdevelopment but poor development, from a select group of developers.. I would stop all future development until the problems they created of the past and ongoing are fixed.

15) For the last 15 years city council has been in cahoots with certain developers without giving citizens a voice in what city council approved for this city. The time has come that citizens need to be elevated to the top of the city’s organizational chart with city council serving tax paying citizens, where they were intended to be, instead of the other way around. The current city council needs to be removed and replaced by citizens with the majority vote.

11) : I was the sole council member to vote against the recent pay raise. Still, I’m grateful that the voters recognized that a raise that had not occurred since 1984 was long overdue for the 30+ hours per week this job requires.

12) . I continue to think that at-large election is best for Boca Raton. I represent all of the residents of Boca Raton and am happy to have strong support from all neighborhoods. Our city is still small enough that we need elected officials who have all areas in mind, as I do.

13) I have no particular desire to annex any areas. Annexation should be done very carefully, and only if the areas to be annexed will result in a substantial amount of net revenue to the city and the neighborhoods are consistent with the character of our neighborhoods. I did not support a recent discussion to annex a neighborhood that differed in character and where the residents did not support it.

14) Downtown Boca is undergoing a growth spurt, which can tend to bring some growing pains.

Many of the recent projects were approved years ago and before I took office, but were delayed because of the recession. The rules allowing higher buildings also pre-date my term, but I opposed an effort to expand the area where taller buildings were allowed in our downtown. To address the recent growth, I called for changes to increase the feeling of open space downtown by making it more visible, which led to a need policy improvement and will create a feeling of more openness for future projects. To address traffic, I voted to invest in better technology and more staff to improve traffic flow, add travel lanes, and ban double parking on Palmetto Park Road. I’ve consistently advocated for a new municipal garage downtown and voted against projects that lacked sufficient parking.

15) I’m proud of my record of having meaning dialogue with residents and giving everyone a seat at the table. I thought it was important to be the only council member in many years to have regular town hall meetings, and I will continue to do so. Listening to our residents is key, and that’s why I’ve worked to increase outreach and be a leader who listens. My record shows I have the concerns of residents in mind and the vision to keep Boca moving toward a brighter future for this and future generations.

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Andrea O’Rourke 1) Andrea Levine O’Rourke 2) 69; East Boca/Golden Triangle; Married to George for 35 years; One daughter; One grandson 3) Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Fine Arts, Florida Atlantic University 4) Design Consultant

Questionnaire

5) • City of Boca Raton Downtown Advisory Committee, Member •Boca Raton Police Department Crime Watch, former Board Member

Editor’s Note: Each of the three candidates for Seat B on the City Council received a copy of this questionnaire. We asked them to tell us a little bit about themselves so you could be more informed as you vote on March 14.

6) • Golden Triangle Neighborhood Association, Co-founder; President • Federation of Boca Raton Homeowner Associations, former Chair and Secretary • Boca Raton Bowl, Community Captain • Milagro Center, Mentor, 2002-present; Mentor of the Year, 2009

1) Name:

7) It is the level of government that affects residents most directly. If elected, I can effect change and introduce ideas that improve the day to day quality of life for the citizens of the community.

2) Personal:

8) Responsible, sustainable growth that reflects the core values and quality of life our current and future residents expect.

3) Education:

9) I will not support additional density beyond what is currently allowed by code. Incorporate smart street design, which encourages walkability. Infrastructure must be in place before more development and zoning changes are approved (concurrency). Regarding downtown, incorporating smart parking techniques will help alleviate traffic. Encourage pedestrian travel by adding way-finding signs and maps.

4) Profession:

10) There is not a project now…it’s a zoning change. The potential project is double the newly approved FAR for Planned Mobility Districts (PMD) from 1250 units to 2500. The renderings shown must correlate to reality. The transportation infrastructure must be in place first (concurrency). It must meet the PMD matrix. There must be collaboration with the residents. This should have been before the residents a year ago. Community collaboration for zoning changes of this degree or large projects should require town hall meetings/workshops well in advance of going before the Zoning Board or Council.

5) Political Background: 6) Public Service:

11) A raise was recently voted on. It was a large increase; however, it was due, as Boca officials were underpaid. Additional raises should not be automatic, but go to a vote for approval.

7) Why is City Government important?

12) I am comfortable with the at-large elections we presently have. I believe for our size city it is a cohesive approach.

8) What’s your vision for the city?

13) I would decide each proposal on a case by case basis. I have four requirements: 1. It must be voluntary. 2. It must be financially feasible for the long run. 3. It must not over extend our city services.

4. It must go to a vote of the public. There should always be the underlying rule that it doesn’t change the nature of our city and that the new residents will be as engaged as current.

9) What are your plans for ongoing traffic?

14) Contrary to the narrative put forth by those that support overdevelopment that claim the city is following the plan of thirty years ago, Ordinance 4035 has morphed over the years through amendment, variances and technical deviations, the Interim Design Guideline (IDG) and additional height granted for each development. The end product is no resemblance to what was intended. The walkability and connectivity originally promised seem nothing more than a slogan at this time.

10) What are your thoughts of the Midtown Project?

11) What are your thoughts of compensation for officials?

15) Traffic, congestion and overdevelopment are ruining Boca’s unique quality of life. That’s because our city council grants every developer request for taller buildings and increased density. That needs to stop! The Council members are elected to be the caretakers of our city. They are well aware of projects that are in the pipeline. They have made little to no effort to make residents aware in advance.

They have not encouraged community participation in the form of collaborative workshops on projects that change the nature and density of the community. They have granted too many variances and deviations from our original code.

12) Single member district or at large election?

13) What are you views on annexation?

14) What are your thoughts on development in Downtown?

15) Is there anything City Council is doing wrong?

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Emily Gentile

Andy Thomson

1) Emily Gentile

1) Andy Thomson

2) 65 years old, resident of the Barrier Island, single, mother of two adult children Missy and Austen and grandmother to two Granddaughters born in Boca Raton, Grace and Emma.

2) Age: 34 Neighborhood: Millpond Family: Married to Joanna Thomson. We have three children: Allie (4 years old), Maddie (3), and Henry (1)

3) SUNY Suffolk, Liberal Arts, Grumman Aerospace Data Systems- Information Technology

3) B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Georgia Tech J.D., University of Miami School of Law

4) Professional Business Consultant on Information Technology and Marketing for Fortune 500 corporations. I was responsible for over $500 million dollars of actual and projected revenue on my contracts and awarded over $30 million per year in vendor contracts.

4) Business litigation attorney – I resolve business disputes

5) Republican 6) Elected Officer of the Beach Condo Association of Boca Raton and Highland Beach, Chair of the City of Boca Raton Business Improvement District Steering Committee, Vice Chair of the City of Boca Raton Downtown Advisory Committee, City of Boca Raton Historical Preservation Board, Boca Raton Regional Hospital Collaborative Care Council, Boca Raton Regional Hospital-FAU-Charles E. Schmidt Medical School Residency Project, Marketing Director of the Yacht and Racquet Club of Boca Raton Artists Guild, Boca Raton Historical Society, Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Alzheimer’s Advocacy Program, Florence Fuller Advisory Board, Past President & Lifetime Member of the Children’s Home Society, Advisor to the Children’s Miracle Network, United Way Ambassador, District IV Advisory Board, Yacht and Racquet Club of Boca Raton HOA 7) City Government is the layer of government that most closely interacts with us and shapes our community. They help to shape the physical contours of our city, what physical infrastructure our city needs, what recreational facilities the community wants and what is permitted to locate where. They help determine what can and cannot be built in certain areas of the city to create a logical layout that protects property owners from having their rights compromised by what neighbors want to do. They help steer the direction of the city to ensure good long-term planning that maintains the kind of lifestyle residents want and can afford as a community. In that role they determine local taxes, collect them and make sure they are wisely spent to the betterment of the community without waste. Most importantly they help to maintain community pride and social cohesion among residents, because at the end of the day, we’re all neighbors living together in a small area that want to get along and be able to rely on our fellow man in time of need.

8) My vision for Boca Raton is a comprehensive one of a multi-generational community where active retirees can grow old in the same community where their children can find good paying jobs and raise grandchildren close to their grandparents. Where those grandchildren can attend first rate public schools and go to college locally if they chose. Where residents of all ages can find lots of recreational options to suit all ages and tastes, from a public golf course, to tennis courts, to boat ramps to a public swimming pool, to the beach, to public parks across the city that offer every kind of athletic field and the leagues to organize them. A city that offers a rich cultural life at our local theaters and amphitheaters, and small concert venues, to a rich spiritual life at our many houses of worship that all get along and work together on community service projects. This isn’t just a silly dream of peace on earth, but an actual recipe for a healthy community capable of weathering change over time and funding long-term financial needs with a reliable tax base that doesn’t ebb and flow dramatically in a recession or if a single employer or institution runs into trouble. This kind of community is the kind that attracts new employers because it’s where their employees want to live! It’s where we all want to live.

9) While I was Chair of the Business Improvement District Steering Committee, I spent a lot of time focusing on long-term solutions to our traffic. I worked with the city’s traffic engineers and the city’s outside consultant, Ty-Lin Consulting, to approved a plan that I personally presented to South Florida Transit Authority (SFRTA). Steve Abrams credited me with persuading SFRTA to allocate $1.5 million dollars to the city for a formal study and the financial application for a new Tri-Rail Station on Military Trail complete with circulators, busses, shuttles and city trolleys. Because 80% of downtown workers do not live in the city and car ownership rates are plummeting among millennials who prefer public transportation and car-sharing options like Uber and Zipcar, there is a real opportunity to take more vehicles off of our streets if we start to build out the infrastructure now.

10) While Midtown is supposed to be a “Transportation Oriented Development,” (TOD), it’s not clear that the concept will reduce current levels of traffic in the area. Plans for Midtown have been circulating for a while but aren’t very well developed. My general opinion is that the area cannot handle any additional traffic at this time. If things like the additional lane being added on part of Glades, the new Spanish River on-ramp to I-95, and a Tri-Rail station near Boca Center make a substantial difference then we can revisit it later, but we can’t put the cart before the horse.

11) I filed to run for City Council before the citizens voted to increase the City Council salaries. It played no role in my considerations as I’m already retired and wasn’t looking for a job, only a way to better serve my community than the boards and charities I currently volunteer for.

12) I think it would be incredibly divisive if City Council members no longer represented the whole city. It risks pitting parts of the city against each other because members wouldn’t care what other districts thought, whereas now, everyone on council needs some support from all over the city to get elected and it keeps the city more cohesive.

13) I’m not actually seeking to annex any new unincorporated areas, but if communities want to be annexed, we should consider a dispassionate cost-benefit analysis. It’s worth considering that just because they don’t get a vote or pay taxes to us, doesn’t mean they aren’t using our roads, services and amenities as they cross over invisible borders throughout the day. We just need to be careful not to take on additional financial burdens.

14) To many people look at downtown development through a narrow lense. Is downtown traffic and parking unbearable now? Yes. Was it better when it was a dead-zone full of vacancies and businesses that didn’t last more than a few seasons? No. Our city leaders wisely realized they needed a downtown that didn’t close nightly at 5pm, or during the summer when the snowbirds left. So in the 1990s, they embarked on an effort to bring residences downtown so that the business community could function year round, and not everyone would need to drive everywhere to enjoy the recreational amenities. But the lengthy recession caused a backlog of development that lead to too many projects getting approved at once. It takes time to figure out what’s working out and what problems need attention, and we didn’t take that time to fix our traffic and parking problems before multiple new buildings were built. Now it’s time to look inward and work on improving quality of life in the downtown area, rather than more building.

15) My civic and community work has brought to my attention that the City Government and departments are not running as efficiently nor are they servicing the community in a timely fashion. Having multiple years as a professional business consultant to Fortune 500 clients, I have the experience of re-directing corporations to adopt a policy and culture of customer service. This will require our City leaders to embrace change and transform the current culture through the use of frame-work that communicates desired skills and behaviors identified by citizens, city leaders and staff. This promotes organizational buy-in as we begin to implement the desired changes to a service-oriented culture. In addition a new City campus will precipitate better communication and support, along with technology updates for city employees to utilize to support a “customer service first culture.” Implementation of employee evaluations from the City Manager, City Attorney to all city employees, should be re-established to assist each and every employee with goal setting and accountability.

As a council member I will champion establishing a “culture of customer service” employee evaluations and technology review.

5) This is my first run for elected office 6) - Palm Beach County Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Advisory Council - Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce’s Golden Bell Education Foundation (Director) - Children’s Home Society, Palm Beach Division (Director) - Florence Fuller Child Development Centers’ Advisory Council - Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County’s South County Steering Committee - South Palm Beach County Bar Association’s Civil Practice Committee - Boca Raton Bowl Community Captain - Mentor to FAU Student, Eda & Cliff Viner Community Scholars Foundation - 2016 Recipient of the Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County’s Non-Profit Award (awarded for providing hundreds of hours of pro bono legal services) 7) City government impacts our lives far more than people may realize. Public safety, traffic, development, and parks and beaches are all matters that are governed at least in part at the local level.

8) - Keep our neighborhoods safe and work with local police and first responders to ensure they have the training and resources they need.

- Protect Boca’s character and charm through responsible development and ensure our neighborhoods are involved in major City decisions.

- Preserve our parks and beaches for our families so future generations can continue to enjoy everything Boca Raton has to offer.

- Support our local businesses and keep taxes low so Boca Raton continues to be a world-class city with good jobs, great schools and excellent city services 9) I plan to leverage my professional experience in fixing traffic problems. Before I became a business attorney, I studied engineering at Georgia Tech and worked at a civil engineering firm where we did urban planning, transportation planning, and traffic studies. Our engineering firm was hired by municipalities like Boca Raton to study transportation issues and develop solutions. I worked to gather traffic data and helped my colleagues propose improvements to ease traffic congestion and address parking issues. Planning experience like this will be incredibly useful on the City Council, and I am the only candidate who offers it.

People are concerned that traffic is getting worse and the City is not doing enough about it. Some of the traffic is the product of the desirability of living in South Florida – particularly Boca Raton – because people will always want to live here. Some of the traffic comes not from Boca Raton or its downtown, but from neighboring communities. And although not all of our City’s traffic issues are capable of being “solved,” work can be done to improve the traffic situation. Planned mobility developments can be employed to reduce car trips. Traffic can be diverted from the walkable (or what should be walkable) areas of downtown, like Federal Highway, to less walkable and industrial roads like Dixie Highway in a “Downtown Bypass,” thereby reducing car trips inside the downtown because people will be more willing to walk within the downtown than to drive. The timing of our traffic signals should be studied comprehensively and synchronized to create a more efficient traffic flow. All of these potential solutions are best addressed and administered by someone with professional experience in fixing traffic problems: me.

10) I support the planned mobility concept generally, but I have concerns about Midtown’s proposed density as well as the purported neighborhood support that appears to have been exaggerated. To their credit, the developers have sought additional time to work with the neighboring communities to arrive at a plan that works for everyone most impacted. At this point, though, lots of questions remain.

11) No one should get rich from working in public service, but elected officials should be paid a decent wage so that qualified candidates of all socioeconomic backgrounds – not just the independently wealthy or retired – can afford to serve.

12) I prefer at-large representation. Our representatives should protect the interests of all residents, not just their immediate neighbors. And in our current system of at-large representation, it would be a major problem if a City Councilperson protected his or her neighbors rather than everyone 13) Annexation can be good for our City, but only when it makes sense economically; that is, the revenues generated from the annexation would need to exceed the projected costs of services. In addition, any potential annexation should fit comfortably within the character of our City. For example, the City recently considered annexing Boniello Acres, an equestrian-style community where residents are permitted to keep farm animals such as goats, chickens, and horses. It would not make sense for the City to incorporate that type of community, and their residents to a large extent seemed to feel the same way.

14) The development in our downtown is part of a plan approved by the City – both the Council and the residents – twenty-five years ago. Generally, I believe that growth is inevitable; the key is for the growth to be responsible and sustainable. There is an analogy I use that captures this sentiment well. My daughter Allie, at four years old, is the perfect age. She is so much fun, so innocent, and always happy; part of me wishes that I could keep her this age forever. That’s a natural feeling for most parents. As natural as that feeling may be, however, I cannot prevent her from growing up, and if I tried, the consequences would be disastrous.

15) Our traffic situation needs to be addressed more comprehensively in the manner I’ve discussed above. Also, one of my biggest priorities on the Council is to improve the transparency and inclusivity of the City’s decision-making process. Recently there has been divisiveness within our City on particular issues, and I believe that creating a more transparent vetting process for City projects, and doing a better job of increasing public participation, will help to ease the tensions.

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Susan Haynie 1) Susan Haynie 2) 61 years old, 45-year resident of Boca Raton, Florida Native, Married to Neil Haynie, 5 adult children and live in Camino Gardens 3) Graduate of Lynn University, Liberal Arts; Traffic Engineering Certification, Georgia Institute of Technology; Transportation Studies Certification, Northwestern University.

Questionnaire

Editor’s Note: Each of the two candidates for Mayor received a copy of this questionnaire. We asked them to tell us a little bit about themselves so you could be more informed as you vote on March 14.

1) Name: 2) Personal:

4) Transportation Analyst, City of Boca Raton 1974-1984; Florida Certified General Contractor, 1983- Present; Florida Licensed Community Association Manager, 2001- Present 5) Boca Raton City Council Member 2000-2006; Boca Raton Deputy Mayor 2009-2014; Boca Raton Mayor 2014- Present; Florida League of Cities, President; National League of Cities Presidential Task Force; National League of Cities Transportation Committee; Florida Metropolitan Planning Organization Advisory Council Governing Board, Chair; Southeast Florida Transportation Council, Chair; Palm Beach MPO, Chair; Ocean Coastal Task Force; Palm Beach County League of Cities, Past President; Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council, Gubernatorial Appointee.

6) Boca Raton Zoning Board of Adjustment; Boca Raton Planning and Zoning Board; Boca Raton Neighborhood Improvement Study Commission; Federation of Boca Raton Homeowners Association; Boca Raton Community Emergency Response Team (CERT); Boca Helping Hands, Board of Directors; Boca Raton Elks; Downtown Boca Raton Rotary Club; Women’s Executive Club; Camino Gardens Association.

3) Education: 4) Profession: 5) Political Background:

7) Municipal government is the closest level of government to the people with the most impact on their daily lives. As our City grows, our City government must improve with it. I have worked hard to make certain that we maintain world-class municipal services using technology to make City Hall accessible and transparent. A customer-service culture must be mandated.

6) Public Service:

8) My top three priorities for the City are: maintain fiscal sustainability, maintain a safe and secure community and improve quality of life by investing in parks and open space and mobility infrastructure.

9) Maintain fiscal sustainability – Boca Raton has the highest assessed value of any city in Palm Beach County at $21 billion and the lowest millage rate of 3.43. By comparison West Palm Beach has an assessed value of $11 billion and a millage rate of 8.34. Boca Raton has a planned fund balance of $48 million which, includes $10.6 million emergency preparedness reserve, and we have a triple A rating with all agencies. Our commitment to economic development has resulted in creating and retaining over 8,400 jobs by leveraging $4.6 million of investment into $12.4 million in incentives partnering with the State and County. My plan is to continue to invest in job creation by funding our Economic Incentive Program and continue to work collaboratively with FAU, the Research Park and Tech Runway to provide holistic services to support small business development and growth in our City. We must continue to manage our growth and invest in our world-class municipal services and infrastructure to maintain our property values and support our educational institutions including our A-rated K-12 schools.

7) Why is City Government important?

8) As Mayor, state your top three priorities for the city.

9) How would you go about implementing the three priorities above?

10) What’s your vision for the city?

Maintain a Safe and Secure Community- My plan for implementing this priority is to continue to support our first responders through increased staffing and state-of-the-art equipment. The FY 2016/17 budget included 14 new Police officers and 16 new Firefighters. We are currently investing in the latest technology for our communication system to maintain the some of the lowest response times in the region. The City is partnering with many commercial property owners to develop an integrated City-wide video surveillance sharing to keep our residents and visitors safe and secure. Providing a safe and secure community is the most important service we can provide our residents.

11) What are your plans for ongoing traffic?

12) What are your thoughts of the Midtown Project?

13) What are your thoughts of compensation for officials?

14) Single member district or at large election?

15) What are you views on annexation?

16) What are your thoughts on development in Downtown?

17) Is there anything City Council is doing wrong?

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Improve quality of life by investing in parks and open space and mobility infrastructure – Boca Raton is well-know for our extensive recreation facilities. We partner with the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District to provide our residents with 46 parks with a total of 1,649 acres of recreation, open space and trails which had 4,228,541 recreation users last year. The City Council’s policy agenda priorities for this year includes investing in Hillsboro El Rio Park, Lake Wyman Park, Red Reef Park and DeHoernle Park. The Comprehensive Waterfront Master Plan is currently underway to inventory and evaluate all of our waterfront publically owned lands in a effort to make them more accessible to the public for recreation/ecotourism.

The CRA is currently updating the Open Space Policy to provide open space that is more meaningful to the public realm. The City Council has worked cooperatively with the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District to jointly move forward with beach renourishment, Phase II of deHoernle Park which includes ball fields, field house and restrooms for the Mizner Bark, dog park and to support them in their acquisition of Ocean Breeze Golf Course. Investing in our infrastructure to maintain mobility is paramount to our quality of life. In my role as Chair of the Palm Beach Metropolitan Planning Organization I have brought $110 million dollars of vital transportation improvements to Boca Raton from 2011 to 2016 with an additional $82 million dollars programmed for 2017-2021. I have initiated several strategic transportation improvements coming forward to address congestion that I will elaborate on in question #11. Our traffic challenges are related to our job growth. Boca Raton has become an employment center. Our Tri-Rail station is the busiest station on the entire system. In the am peak hour thousands of people arrive to work. On our roadways, the traffic flow is from the unincorporated Boca Raton to the west and from Broward County to the south in the am and back to those areas in the pm. This is what led the City Council to move forward with Planned Mobility Districts. In these areas, limited residential and retail have been incorporated adjacent to employment centers to remove and reduce trips on the roadway network. Boca Raton is the only large City in Palm Beach County that operates and maintains our traffic signal system. We have a traffic control center that has professional staff watching and changing signal timing real time to move traffic. Boca Raton has invested in adaptive traffic signals, the smartest and most advanced technology, and works with FAU to identify solutions in a collaborative manner. The 30,000 students and staff at the University has had a major impact on our congestion. There are solutions and my partnerships have enabled my success in bringing resources and benefits to our community.

10) My vision for Boca Raton is a financially sound city, that provides outstanding municipal services, has strong partnerships with the community, has a vibrant business community which includes world-class healthcare, quality educational institutions, excellent recreation amenities and housing types attractive to our diverse residents, that is safe and secure and has ease of mobility.

11) : As I stated in a previous question, I have secured $110,045,028 in funding for transportation improvements in Boca Raton from FY11-16 with the Spanish River/FAU Interchange being the most significant transportation investment in the City’s history. The new interchange will allow FAU’s traffic to exit I-95 and directly enter the campus on Spanish River Boulevard.

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4) Attorney 5) City Commissioner in West Palm Beach 1995 to 2002 President of the City Commission 2000 – 2001 6) Member – BOD Palm Beach International Film Festival Board of Trustees: Franklin Pierce University Founder and former Editor of BocaWatch 7) City government is as close to the people as government can get. Government exists, at its most fundamental level, to protect citizens—and represent their best interests. We need to elect city officials that will look out for us, especially when the cameras aren’t rolling.

8) Let’s manage our growth by bringing the voices of residents to the table, not just big developers We need a fiscal plan that will balance our budget for the long term We need to bring back common sense to city hall—making our government processes more transparent and inclusive 9) Let’s have a truly open dialogue with community stakeholders, city council members, and city staff. We need more disclosure about the process—not just votes—from our city manager and senior city staff. We can reign in development by putting the residents first for a change, not political ambition or personal gain.

10) I am a firm believer that Boca Raton’s small town feel and our world class services are our best qualities. Many voters in Boca Raton that I talk to have said the same thing—that they love their town but not the way city hall works. For too long the red carpet has been rolled out for the developers, but my vision of Boca Raton is putting the residents first…always.

11) First, we need to focus on infrastructural improvements where needed—in order to support the increasing residential population and commuter students to FAU and our schools. Let’s conduct new traffic studies that analyze forward-thinking options like a more holistic trolley-system, ride sharing technologies, and shuttles for our downtown area. We are also going to need to address the parking challenges in Mizner Park in the coming years.

12) The residents I have spoken with call this project the ‘gridtown project.’ People are confused and angry.

Midtown is politics as usual in Boca Raton—the residents are confused, the developers are eager to break ground and make lots of money, and our elected officials are none the wiser. I do not oppose development. Nor will I shy away for a forward-thinking project. With appropriate communication, all things are possible. The mark of a good negotiation is that no one walks from the table happy but all interests are adequately addressed. As mayor, I will foster communications that address concerns and communicate to the resident and to other council members in an effort to move this, or any other, project forward.

13) Boca Raton elected officials already are paid the highest salary of any similar city in Palm Beach county—so giving them more money isn’t the issue. The question people have all around town, with that salary increase is: Why has Mayor Haynie and her husband continued to maintain a business relationship with the biggest property owner in town?

14) I support a district format where the elected official must live in the district but be elected citywide.

15) I oppose any further annexation, voluntary or involuntary.

16) The downtown is already overdeveloped and the Boca brand is all but erased. I support adopting the Interim Design Guidelines and the Pattern Book. No more ‘ugly’ buildings like the Mark and the Hyatt Hotel. It’s bad now, but if we don’t intervene we are going to be the next Fort Lauderdale.

17) Let’s convene a Charter Review Committee chaired by the Mayor and made up of political science academics, business representatives, editorial board members, and residents. We need to eliminate obsolete provisions of the charter; reign in the power of the city manager and the city attorney; consider an Internal Auditor position reporting to the City Council; divide the city into districts with each council member representing the district in which they live but elected city wide. In short: the city council should put residents first, always.

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By Barry Epstein • The Gold Coast Tiger Bay Club will host former Congressman Ron Klein discussing President’s Trumps first 100 days in office. http://www.goldcoasttigerbayclub.com/event/ron-klein-speaksmarch-8th-boca-raton/. See upcoming programs on the website. Founder and president Barry Epstein was named president emeritus. Howard Appell is now president.

• Zimmerman Advertising has regained the Office Depot/Office Max accounts.

• HHGregg will close 3 Palm Beach County stores in April.

• The city of Boca Raton and the state Boca Raton Airport Authority each has a new website. The timing may be similar, but they’re completely separate projects. Myboca.us went live Feb. 1 with the official launch Feb. 6.

• KidSafe Foundation will host its “Shine the Light” gala March 10 at Woodfield Country Club in Boca Raton.

The event, running from 7 to 11 p.m., will include dinner, dancing, a premium open bar, silent auction and live auction hosted by Neil Saffer. The evening will honor State Attorney Dave Aronberg as KidSafe Foundation’s Child Advocate of the Year. Since he was elected Palm Beach County’s state attorney in 2012, the Miami native has led to a significant increase in conviction rates for felonies and misdemeanors, a decrease in the number of juveniles direct filed into adult court, and an improved working relationship with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies. Tickets to “Shine the Light” are $200. For more information, visit www.kidsafefoundation.org.

• Come March 18, visitors to Boca Raton’s Sugar Sand Park will finally be able to check out the revamped Science Playground more than a year after the park was closed for renovations.

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• The Chinese Lantern Festival continues 5:30 to 10 pm Wednesdays through Sundays through April 9 at the Burt Aaronnson South County Regional Park in West Boca.

• Bolay bills itself as the “healthy fast casual food” eatery, the latest addition to the restaurant scene in Boca Raton • The Ren-Fest continues on weekends from 8 a.m. to dusk at Quiet Waters Park in Deerfield Beach.

• Rappy’s, at 5560 N. Military Trail, Boca Raton, 561-314-6840, RappysRestaurant.com.South Florida restaurateur Burt Rapoport has launched breakfast service from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at Rappy’s, which he opened in the new Park Place plaza in December for lunch and dinner. “When deciding on the breakfast menu, I just wanted to stick to the classics,” says Rapoport, who is returning to his roots of growing up around his grandfather’s kosher restaurant in Manhattan. “Some of these classics we serve all day long on the lunch and dinner menus, too. The only nontraditional item is the avocado toast ($9.95). Occasionally, I’ll have my all-time favorite, which is the Rappy’s Hash ($12.95).”Rapoport is nostalgic about that corned beef hash and eggs from eating it in the wee hours after tending bar during college in Arizona.

He’s added house-smoked pastrami to his rendition for flavor and heartiness, as well as to Rappy’s breakfast sandwich ($8.95).Other highlights include challah French toast ($9.95) and matzo brei ($9.95). The eatery is a hybrid of traditional New York Jewish deli and contemporary with vintage subway tile, full bar, stylish covered patio, chalkboard menus and a framed newspaper article on Rapoport’s father, who was nicknamed Rappy.

• The Tri County Animal rescue hosts the 15thn annual Doggie and Kitty Ball 5:30 March 19 at Boca West Country Club. Western attire (hats boots denim).

Complimentary parking. Visit tricountyhumane.org or call 561.482.8110.

• For the first time, Palm Beach County’s public schools have more Hispanic students than any other demographic group. Hispanics make up 33 percent of the district’s 190,240 students, compared with 32 percent who are white, non-Hispanic and 28 percent who are black.

• Boca Bacchanal is back for the 15th year on March 24 and 25, and the community food and wine tasting is moving

• Falk Center for counseling offers “first Wednesdys” seminars 11 to noon, 22455 Boca Rio road.

Barry Epstein, APR, is a noted public relations, marketing and political consultant based in Boca Raton, president of the goldcoasttigerbayclub.com, the luxurychamber.com, the westbocaleaders. com and the founder and former president of the West Boca Chamber of Commerce; His motto is: .Public Relations is the enemy of anonymity. Email: pr@publicrelations.nu, or fax column items to 561.451.0000.

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Building A Values-Based Business

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One of the most underestimated tools for any successful business enterprise is the foundation of values upon which it has been built. If a company’s goal is simply to make high profits, to close a lot of sales, or even to deliver huge quantities of products or services, it can lead to problems with the end serving to justify the means.

For instance, if the objective is to finalize sales, one might be tempted to make whatever promises are needed to accomplish that – even if the promises cannot be met. Or if maximizing profits is the ultimate goal, it could become easy to justify cutting costs, even if that means compromising the quality of the product or services provided.

However, when a company starts with a clear, well-considered framework of values to guide and govern its operations, chances of both survival and success are increased dramatically. These values essentially define “what we do,” “why we do it,” and “how we do it.”

Many CEOs that are followers of Jesus Christ share a desire to influence their organization with principles from the Bible – which they understand to be the Word of God – while also being sensitive to those team members who may not embrace the same faith. One of the best ways to shape a company culture in an effective, non-offensive manner is to focus on values, principles of conduct and practice that everyone in the organization can be asked to embrace.

For instance, a value of placing high priority on customer service is one

that few can argue with; we don’t even have to explain this value is based on “doing to others as you would have them do to you” (Luke 6:31). We might embrace the value of doing the best we can at all times, without having to insist that our staff “work at it with al your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men” (Colossians 3:23).

Since many of the values we commonly endorse come right out of the Bible, formulating our core beliefs can serve as a non-threatening way for communicating God’s standards and values.

Developing these foundational values and holding your team accountable to them can give you the opportunity to lead the way to doing business God’s way.

As the psalmist expressed in Psalms 119:130, “The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.” To achieve success – and then to sustain it – it is important for every key member of the team to be able to understand and explain what the organization stands for. What are the basic values and principles that serve as guideposts for how it conducts business on a day to day basis?

If you desire to shape the culture of your organization in God’s way, try determining and articulating your core values. Next, model them, and then communicate them consistently to your team.

As the apostle Paul wrote, “Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me – put it into practice” (Philippians 4:9).

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continued The traffic congestion city-wide will be significantly relieved when this opens this Summer. Glades Road, Palmetto Park Road, N.W. 12th Avenue and Yamato Road will all benefit from this new improvement. Also, I-95 through Boca Raton is adding lanes so that there will be a 5 through lanes plus auxiliary lanes. Much of the north/south traffic on Military, Poweline/Jog and Dixie will return to I-95 upon the completion of the improvements lessening the traffic congestion on those roadways. $4.4 million is being spent City-wide on traffic control devices providing state-of-the-art technology to move traffic. Over $82 million in funding has been programmed from FY 17-21 which includes the widening of Dixie Highway from Yamato to Delray, trolleys for Downtown, multiple shared-use paths/trails and intersection improvements. I have initiated three new projects, which are in the planning stage, to improve Downtown mobility include creating a by-pass for Palmetto Park Road on N.E./N.W. 2nd Street from Mizner Boulevard to N.W 4th Avenue; implementing a “Complete Streets” project by making Federal Highway northbound and Dixie Highway southbound through the Downtown only. This will double the capacity and allow for wide tree-lined sidewalks and buffered bike lanes. And to address the congestion at Camino Real/Camino Gardens Boulevard/S.W. 2nd Street, a large traffic circle has been designed to keep traffic flowing through that challenging intersection. The City is investing to optimize the performance of our existing infrastructure using real-time active traffic management. The Planned Mobility Districts will remove and reduce trips by placing limited residential and retail in close proximity to employment centers and transit hubs.

12) . The City designated the Midtown area as a PMD (Planned Mobility District) as is The Park at Broken Sound adding limited residential and retail near employment centers and transit hubs and providing better connectivity throughout the district. Midtown is attempting to take this further by proposing a TOD (Transit Oriented Development) which has higher density. I do not support the proposed Midtown plan as presented. There are many, many questions that must be answered: How many units? Where will they be located? What types of units?

What are solutions for the traffic congestion on Military Trail currently? Where will the Tri-Rail station actually be located? Will there be a circulator? Who will pay for this? Why should we allow more density? What is the benefit to our community? Why should the City allow the adjacent neighborhoods to be adversely impacted? The proposal went to Planning and Zoning so that a Public Hearing could be held and the residents could be heard. A Town Hall meeting was hosted by the developer where many residents expressed their concerns. I have spoken to many of the neighbors and volunteered to host a series of meetings with the residents and City Planning staff to discuss these issues.

13)I supported putting Mayor/Council compensation increases on the ballot so that residents could be heard.

Boca Raton is a wonderful vibrant community that has many events that we are invited to and our attendance is valued and greatly appreciated. Boca Raton’s elected officials are very busy. I average 6 events/meetings each day.

Many of us serve on other boards. I visit businesses, schools, places of worship FAU, Lynn University and PBSC. I meet with residents, students, stakeholders and dignitaries. I meet with our elected-officials partners at the Federal, State and County levels as well as our School Board, Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District and Boca Raton Airport Authority. We cut a lot of ribbons for new businesses in our community, walks benefitting our not-for-profits and the City hosts three signature events – Boca Raton Bowl, Allianz Championship and Festival of the Arts. The best part of being a servant-leader is celebrating that which makes Boca Raton so special. The increased compensation allows more people to serve.

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14) I do not support single member districts. We are one united and diverse community and our elected officials represent and serve all.

15)I do not support further annexation at this time. We are adding additional residents through infill redevelopment and there is no need to annex any further. There is no value in being the largest city in Palm Beach County.

We pride ourselves on having world-class municipal services that could be diminished with a greater population.

16) The Downtown plan that allows for 100’ buildings and millions of square feet of building area was approved over 20 years ago by the voters. During the real estate recession, nothing was built for over 6 years. Then there were 6 projects at once which was overwhelming. The Downtown has become very vibrant and successful.

With that success comes traffic and parking issues. The City has been studying the traffic issues and I previously outlined projects that are ongoing and on the horizon. One of the Council’s priorities is both short-term and long-term parking solutions. We have inventoried the available public parking. I have asked that we inventory the private parking as well and identify those spaces that are currently underutilized and work collaboratively before we spend millions on garages. The Bank of America parking garage has hundreds of spaces that are unused after 5pm when the peak parking demand is. This is a common sense and timely solution to partner with the private sector in this manner.

17) I don’t believe we are doing anything wrong, but I do believe we could do a better job of hearing from and connecting with our residents. It was a Council priority to create a Communications Office and we did. This past year, Chrissy Gibson has done a wonderful job providing and pushing out information on all platforms. The City just launched a new more resident-friendly website. We must continue to utilize technology to connect with our community. Our City staff has changed their culture to a more customer service culture. We are here to serve the residents and that must be communicated in our words and actions.

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Boca Raton Little League Kicks Off Ninth Spring Season Photos and Story by: Jack Rubin

Boca Raton Little League kicked off its ninth spring season on Friday, March 3 at Sugar Sand Park. The festivities included fireworks and the annual random selection of two teams to open the season.

The intermediate division, comprised of 12 to 13 year old kids, opened the season friday night. The Orioles took down the Marlins, 13-3.

The rest of the teams began their quests for championships on Saturday at Sugar Sand. The intermediate division played at Hillsboro El Rio Park. There were games from 9 in the morning to 5 at night, as there will be every Saturday until late may.

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Lynn Falls in Postseason Game After Rollins' Shot in Final Seconds By: Michael Demyan

The Lynn University Fighting Knights fell 75-73 to Rollins College away from home Wednesday, March 1, knocking them out of postseason play in the opening round of the Sunshine State Conference Tournament.

The first half proved to be an uphill battle for the sixth-seeded Fighting Knights as third-seeded Rollins took the lead early and did not let go of it until under 10 minutes remained in the game.

Rollins held a 5-0 lead before the end of the first minute thanks to a layup from Mike Bedulskis and a three-pointer by Joey Galvis.

Lynn’s Marquan Botley answered with a threepointer of his own, but Rollins soon jumped out to a 20-10 lead.

With just over a minute remaining in the half, Rollins was holding onto a 17-point lead before Kevin O’Brien made a three-pointer to stop the Fighting Knight’s three minute streak without scoring. At halftime, Rollins was up 4631.

Lynn started to step up their game once play resumed as they went on a 13-3 run to come back to within five points at 49-44. With 11:47 remaining, the lead was cut down to just four.

Eric Castaneda followed by making one of two free-throw attempts for Rollins.

Allen Baez grabbed the defensive rebound and Marquan Botley made a three-pointer to close the gap to only two points at 55-53.

Less than two minutes later, the Fight-

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ing Knight’s Jamal Palmer scored on a layup to tie the game at 57. He was fouled on the play by Joey Galvis and successfully managed to get the three-point play to put Lynn on top for the first time of the night with 9:44 remaining.

Botley followed with a layup of his own to extend their lead to three and with 6:23 on the clock, the Fighting Knights were continuing their run by tacking on more via a successful trip to the free-throw line, bringing the score to 65-61.

The lead fell back into the hands of Rollins after a basket from Sam Philpott with 4:41 left, but Lynn was not ready to let the win escape from them. Baez responded with a threepointer to take the lead back at 70-68 and Vieux Kande followed with a layup to stretch it to 72-68.

The Fighting Knights continued to hold onto the lead until Philpott tied the game at 73 on a free-throw with 1:06 remaining in the game. The score stayed the same until seven seconds were left and Connor McKim scored on a layup, which put Rollins up 75-73. Jamal Palmer tried to win the game on a three-point attempt, but missed the shot right before the buzzer sounded.

The loss meant the end of the season for the Fighting Knights, whose final record was 13-14. Botley led the team with 18 points, along with six assists and a block. He was also named as the league’s Newcomer of the Year. Philpott led Rollins in scoring with 18 points as well.

The win for Rollins means they will be playing Eckerd in the semifinals on March 4.

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