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Council Seat C could be a sole contested race in Boca’s March 9 election

Junior League of Boca Raton honors Women Volunteers in Virtual Event

Downtown Boca Wins Florida Redevelopment Association Award

Boca Historical Society offers 2020 holiday ornament; Garden Club opts out due to COVID

14th Annual Boca Raton Toy Drive once again a huge Success For the 14th straight year, all six Rotary Clubs of Boca Raton came together as one to unify for the Boca Raton Toy Drive that took place at Sugar Sand Park in Boca Raton on December 6. While the circumstances were much different this year, the mission of the Rotary Clubs to collect toys for the needy children in our area did no waiver. Like most things that had to shift due to COVID-19, the Boca Toy Drive was not any different. Continued on Page 11

Boca Council picks artist to paint mural at Mizner Amphitheater, Delays Land Hearing The Boca Raton City Council Tuesday selected an artist to paint a mural on the front doors of the Count de Hoernle Amphitheater at the north end of Mizner Park. The painter was selected from a group of 29 applicants who submitted proposals for the project being proposed by the Art in Public Places (AIPP) Advisory Board headed up by Councilwoman and Deputy Mayor Andrea O’Rourke. The artist was not named. That person was listed only as Number 9 among the 29 painters who expressed ofﬁcial interest in participating Continued on Page 5

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Boca Helping Hands Working to Expand Food Storage Boca Helping Hands (BHH) is working to complete an extensive structural, mechanical and electrical project that will transform the former Warehouse Pub across from its main campus into the additional storage space needed to keep expanding community access to nutritious food. The $500,000 project – which will include walk-in refrigerator and freezer units – will result in new Warehouse space that will roughly double BHH’s overall food storage footprint and triple its cold storage (perishable food) capacity. This expanded food storage space will allow BHH to help as many as 27,000 new clients over the next ﬁve-to-ten years – potentially doubling the overall number of people who could be served by the organization. “While this may sound like just an infrastructure project, it’s really an opportunity to create a conduit of compassion in our community.” Continued on Page 15

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The Junior League of Boca Raton hosted a virtual event “Honoring the History of Women Volunteers” which celebrated the past 685 nominees of Women Volunteer of the Year.

• With just a few days left to file the necessary paperwork to run for office in the March 9 Boca Raton municipal election, it appears voters may be called upon to decide a single contest. At press time, City Clerk Susan Saxton reported that three people have signed on to run for the post held for nearly six years by Jeremy Rodgers. Seat C hopefuls include Constance Scott, Yvette Drucker and Bernard Korn. As the week ended, only one person had filed to run for Seat D on the Boca Council – incumbent Monica Mayotte, who is finishing her first term on the city’s legislative panel. • Board-certified breast surgical oncologist Hilary Shapiro Wright, D.O., joins Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness Institute and Eugene M. & Christine E. Lynn Cancer Institute, a part of Baptist Health South Florida. Dr. Shapiro-Wright specializes in breast cancer surgery, high-risk breast pathology, benign breast disease, oncoplastic surgery and hidden scar surgery. • The Junior League of Boca Raton hosted a virtual event “Honoring the History of Women Volunteers” which celebrated the past 685 nominees of Women Volunteer of the Year. This follows the 33rd Women Volunteer of the Year raised over $160,000 and donated 40,000 diapers to the Diaper Bank. • The Boca Raton City Council Tuesday selected an artist to paint a mural on the front doors of the Count de Hoernle Amphitheater at the north end of Mizner Park. • A public hearing scheduled for Tuesday night on a plan to transfer about 15 acres of city-owned land to the Palm Beach County School Board for construction of a new elementary school has been postponed until Jan. 12. • Vibrant social relationships are a critical component of healthy aging. Strong relationships provide emotional support and wellbeing, promote brain health, and can even slow the progression of neurodegenerative diseases. However, the aging process can create challenges for older adults in their social interactions, leading to unbalanced interactions and potentially a withdrawal from cognitive and social activities with others. Social isolation

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in older adults has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. • Ray Coulter, a Palm Beach State College alumnus and facilities manager at the Palm Beach State College Boca Raton campus, will take the helm Jan. 1 as president of the 6,400-member Association of Florida Colleges. • The Florida Redevelopment Association (FRA) recognized the Boca Raton Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA)/Downtown Boca with a 2020 Roy F. Kenzie Award for its Sanborn Square Community Engagement & Placemaking project. • Florida Atlantic University ofﬁcially announced today that it has received its largest gift in school history - a $20 million gift from benefactors Kurt and Marilyn Wallach. This transformational gift will create the Kurt and Marilyn Wallach Institute for Holocaust and Jewish Studies housed in FAU’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters. • With COVID-19 cases reaching record breaking highs across the country daily, Boca Raton can expect to feel the ramiﬁcations of this resurgence of infections. The City of Boca Raton has decided to cancel all annual holiday events including the Holiday Tree Lighting at Mizner Park, the 50th Annual Holiday Street Parade, and the 44th Annual Holiday Boat Parade. • REI, a sporting goods store based out of Seattle has just moved into the Uptown Boca Complex, which is set to be the largest mixeduse complex being built this year in Palm Beach County. • Peter Mayer’s bike wasn’t the only thing that got him through a 200-mile ride from Boca Raton to Key West in under 24 hours. The 23-year-old Boca resident used deter- mination and passion to make what began as a joke among friends, into a meaningful challenge.

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COMMUNITY Breast Surgical Oncologist Hilary Council Seat C could be a sole Shapiro-Wright, D.O., joins contested race in Boca’s March 9 Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health election & Wellness Institute By: Dale King

With just a few days left to file the necessary paperwork to run for office in the March 9 Boca Raton municipal election, it appears voters may be called upon to decide a single contest. At press time, City Clerk Susan Saxton reported that three people have signed on to run for the post held for nearly six years by Jeremy Rodgers. Seat C hopefuls include Constance Scott, Yvette Drucker and Bernard Korn. As the week ended, only one person had filed to run for Seat D on the Boca Council – incumbent Monica Mayotte, who is finishing her first term on the city’s legislative panel. The official qualifying period for the balloting that’s still about three months away started on Tuesday, Dec. 1 and will end at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 9, when all papers must be turned in the office of City Clerk Saxton at City Hall, 201 W. Palmetto Park Road. While the city election in March may not offer the twists, turns and angst of the Nov. 3 presidential competition, it does have some quirks of its own. A few months ago, incumbent Rodgers, who was not only a councilman, but also deputy mayor, was called to military service in Qatar. A U.S. Naval reservist, he initially hoped to attend council meetings via electronic connection, particularly since council meets are being conducted “virtually” due to the coronavirus pandemic. The connection didn’t work out, so Rodgers’ seat remained vacant, and the title of deputy mayor was conferred on Councilwoman Andrea O’Rourke. Council members recently put out a call for volunteers to temporarily fill Rodgers’ seat. In late October, council members interviewed the hopefuls and chose Yvette Drucker, who had also announced her candidacy for the council post. Scott, who was the city councilwoman in Seat C for six years, from 2009 to 2015, is hoping to win back the seat in the March balloting. She was one of the 32 who came forward to fill Rodgers’ seat on a temporary basis until the term is over March 31, 2021. But when council members put the matter to a vote, three voted for Drucker and one, Councilman Andy Thomson, chose Mandy Rodgers, Jeremy’s wife. When she announced her intention to run for Seat C in March, Scott said: “Now, perhaps more than ever, we need to work together for the future of our city, the safety of our residents, and the strength of our local economy.” “COVID-19 is a crisis of public health and eco-

nomic uncertainty that will continue to impact our city and community for the foreseeable future. We’ve come too far in Boca to take any steps backward – not for a pandemic, not for anything.” A Boca Raton native and graduate of Boca Raton High School, she has a BA in economics from the University of Michigan. She met her husband, Tom, in that state where she served as economic development manager for the city of Flint. Tom Scott was a state legislator in Michigan, and they returned to Boca Raton following his retirement. Drucker is a first-generation Cuban American who grew up in Miami before moving to Boca Raton. She graduated from Florida International University with a degree in international relations. The temporary council member has been a leader for the Junior League of Boca Raton both locally and throughout Florida as Statewide Public Affairs Chair. Her community involvement also includes service on boards of the Florence Fuller Child Development Centers, Boca Raton Children’s Museum (vice president and treasurer), a mentor for the Viner Scholarship Foundation and a member of the host committee for the Boca Raton Museum of Art. She has also served as chair of the Boca Raton Education Task Force and vice-chair of the Boca Raton Historic Preservation Board. Monica Mayotte moved to Boca Raton in 1996. She has a bachelor of science degree in management information systems from Florida State University. Since moving to Boca Raton, she has served as PTA president at Addison Mizner Elementary School from 2002-2004. She began her volunteer service locally when she was appointed by former Mayor Susan Whelchel to the Green Living Task Force in 2009. The task force eventually transitioned to the permanent Green Living Advisory Board. Mayotte remained a member until 2016 and served as chairperson from 2014 to 2016. Korn is a real estate broker and real estate instructor whose name has appeared on several ballots lately. He has challenged Mayor Scott Singer in his bid for the city’s top elective office, and Korn was also listed as a presidential candidate on the 2020 ballot. To qualify as a candidate, state and city forms must be completed and submitted. All forms are available online and in the city clerk’s office. Candidates should be aware that new proof of residency requirements adopted by Ordinance No. 5541 on Sept. 9, 2020 are now in effect.

Board-certified breast surgical oncologist Hilary Shapiro Wright, D.O., joins Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness Institute and Eugene M. & Christine E. Lynn Cancer Institute, a part of Baptist Health South Florida. Dr. Shapiro-Wright specializes in breast cancer surgery, highrisk breast pathology, benign breast disease, oncoplastic surgery and hidden scar surgery. She is certified in hidden scar breast surgery and practices a number of oncoplastic breast surgery techniques. These techniques help minimize a patient’s scarring, which can help them feel empowered to lead a more normal lifestyle after treatment and minimizes their mental and emotional scars. Dr. Shapiro Wright is also trained in a procedure called ductoscopy, which evaluates breast nipple discharge. “We are glad to welcome Dr. ShapiroWright to Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness Institute and Lynn Cancer Institute,” said Kathy Schilling, M.D., medical director of Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness Institute. “Her fellowship training in surgical breast oncology and breast diseases, as well as her experience in advanced oncoplastic breast surgery techniques, will make her an asset to our patients and team.” “We are thrilled to have Dr. ShapiroWright join the comprehensive Breast Cancer Treatment team at the Lynn Cancer Institute. She will be an active member of our Multimodality approach to care for our growing volume of patients,” said Louise Morrell, M.D., medical director of Lynn Cancer Institute. “Her experience and skills

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will be a wonderful addition to our team of more than 35 oncology physicians caring for breast cancer patients at the Lynn Cancer Institute and the Lynn Women’s Institute.” She joins Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness Institute and Lynn Cancer Institute from the Kettering Health Network and Kettering Cancer Care. Dr. ShapiroWright’s research has been published in several peer-reviewed publications, including JNCI Monog raphs, Breast Disease, Current Oncology Reports, Annals of Surgical Oncolog y and Gastroenterology. She was named the Cincinnati Top Doctor in Breast Surgery/ Breast Cancer in Cincinnati Magazine from 2013 to 2020. She also serves on the board of directors for the Society of Oncoplastic Surgery and the editing board of the Journal of Oncoplastic Surgery. As a member of these boards, Dr. Shapiro-Wright helps educate other breast surgeons and physicians about oncoplastic and hidden scar surgery. Dr. Shapiro-Wright earned her medical degree from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. She completed her general surgery residency at Botsford Hospital at Michigan State University and her surgical breast oncology and diseases of the breast fellowship at Allegheny General Hospital. Dr. Shapiro-Wright is board-certified in general surgery. She will see patients at Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness Institute, located at 690 Meadows Road in Boca Raton.

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Junior League of Boca Raton honors Women Volunteers in Virtual Event

By: Megan Mandatta The Junior League of Boca Raton hosted a virtual event “Honoring the History of Women Volunteers” which celebrated the past 685 nominees of Women Volunteer of the Year. This follows the 33rd Women Volunteer of the Year raised over $160,000 and donated 40,000 diapers to the Diaper Bank. During the virtual event there was a live auction and a fashion event narrated by Roopal Patel, Saks Fifth Avenue’s senior vice president and fashion director.

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With Robin Deyo as the honorary chairwoman and Yvette Drucker and Nancy Walsh serving as co-chairwomen the event was successful. “Yvette Drucker and Nancy Walsh made the virtual Women Volunteer of the Year a night to remember,” Cristy Stewart-Harfmann, Junior League of Boca Raton President said in a statement to The Sun Sentinel. “Most importantly, thanks to attendees and our generous donors, the event raised significant funds to help women and children in our community.”

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FAU researchers receive grant to improve social interaction in older adults Vibrant social relationships are a critical component of healthy aging. Strong relationships provide emotional support and well-being, promote brain health, and can even slow the progression of neurodegenerative diseases. However, the aging process can create challenges for older adults in their social interactions, leading to unbalanced interactions and potentially a withdrawal from cognitive and social activities with others. Social isolation in older adults has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. To address these challenges, researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science and Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing have received a two-year, $675,000 grant from the National Institute of Aging, National Institutes of Health, to test a mathematical model designed to optimize social and physical engagement in this population. The project titled, “The Mathematics of Relatedness: Social Affordances in Behavioral and Cognitive Aging,” is an interdisciplinary grant that interweaves two research efforts, combining the expertise of researchers in social and behavioral neuroscience, mathematical physics and gerontology, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other dementias. The objective of the study is to identify strategies that will facilitate and enhance social interactions with and among older adults and counter age-related decline by pinpointing activities that will allow the social life of older adults to flourish. The research team includes Emmanuelle Tognoli, Ph.D., a research professor in the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and a member of the FAU Brain Institute; Christopher Beetle, Ph.D., an associate professor of physics, FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science; and Christine Williams, DNSc, professor emeritus, FAU’s Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing. The researchers will develop a theoretical model of social interactions, including parameters to emulate changes in individual behavior due to aging. This model will allow the researchers to simulate virtual experiments of interactions among diverse groups using a computer. The goal of the simulations is to identify systemic factors that lead to engagement or retreat from social interactions in older adults. In a tightly connected empirical arm, the researchers will observe social interactions Community

in heterogeneous groups including older adults to understand how slowing and diminishing sensorimotor resources can be counter-balanced by the right choice of social partners and activities. Tognoli, a social neuroscientist, studies complex systems that include neural, behavioral, cognitive and social systems within a dynamical framework. She is especially interested in coordination dynamics and the synchronization of phases, which allow neuroscientists to theorize, predict, detect and understand the telltale signs of functional interactions in a number of empirical situations. Tognoli emphasizes that the systemic issue of an older person encountering very different outcomes depending on the social context of their interactions with others is at the forefront of complexity science. Beetle, whose research expertise includes classical and quantum gravity, says that the benefits of the project not only apply to nursing practice, but to general theories of social behavior. He will lead the modeling effort. By comparing the models’ predictions to real-world observations, the researchers will be able to quantify the importance of diversity in homogeneous social groups, which has largely been neglected in prior models. Williams will lead the empirical work at FAU’s Louis and Anne Green Memory and Wellness Center, operated by FAU’s Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, which is designed to serve the community as well as enable breakthrough research that enriches a science-based approach to care. The center is spearheaded by María de los Ángeles Ordóñez, D.N.P., A.P.R.N., director and an associate professor. The center’s mission is to meet the complex needs of individuals with memory disorders, such as AD, and their families through a comprehensive array of services, compassionate and innovative programs of care, research and education. As a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, Williams has conducted extensive research with older adults and the problems of coping with cognitive impairment and health disparities. With this NIH grant, the researchers hope to develop cost-effective responses to keep older members of society engaged and healthier. With the rapidly growing population of older adults, the payoff of this innovative work in social complexity could be a significant scientific advance with real-world socioeconomic impacts.

Boca Council picks artist to paint mural at Mizner Amphitheater, Delays Land Hearing

By: Dale King The Boca Raton City Council Tuesday selected an artist to paint a mural on the front doors of the Count de Hoernle Amphitheater at the north end of Mizner Park. The painter was selected from a group of 29 applicants who submitted proposals for the project being proposed by the Art in Public Places (AIPP) Advisory Board headed up by Councilwoman and Deputy Mayor Andrea O’Rourke. The artist was not named. That person was listed only as Number 9 among the 29 painters who expressed official interest in participating during the application period that ran from Oct. 16 to Nov. 16. Council members reviewed photos of all the proposed artwork at a council workshop meeting Monday, then made their final decision at Tuesday’s regular council meeting. Mayor Scott Singer and the other four council members all agreed on Artist Number 9. “The intention is to select an artist or artists who can create an expressive, inspiring mural on the stage doors that is reflective of downtown Boca and the spirit of the city’s art, history and culture,” said Ruby Childers, the city’s downtown manager, who addressed council members at both meetings. O’Rourke said she was “looking for professionalism” in the entries. “It can be iconic; it doesn’t have to be completely literal.” Most council members who came up with a list of top 5 entrants picked Number 9 along with a couple of others. Council members rejected one entry because it included a painting of a fishing pier that is not in Boca. The “canvas” area of the Mizner

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Park stage door is 60 feet wide by 30 feet high. The doors are divided into six 10-foot-wide panels. Work on the mural is scheduled to begin in early January and should be finished by the end of March. This is the third project being undertaken through the AIPP. Land Transfer Hearing Deferred A public hearing scheduled for Tuesday night on a plan to transfer about 15 acres of city-owned land to the Palm Beach County School Board for construction of a new elementary school has been postponed until Jan. 12. City Manager Leif Ahnell said the advertisement announcing the hearing was not sent to several property owners who live adjacent to the land eyed for the new school. Ahnell asked the council to open the hearing, then close it and continue it to Jan. 12, which was done. Currently referred to as School O5C, the education facility will be built on land being donated by the city of Boca Raton near Don Estridge High Tech Middle School, a donation first orchestrated by then-Councilman and now Mayor, Scott Singer, and District 5 Board Member and School Board Chair, Frank Barbieri, in January 2019. The board had money available for a school project if one was ready to go. Singer and Barbieri jumped at the opportunity to bring it to Boca. The site will house the first new school to be built in the city in many years. It will provide up to 1,000 new student seats to relieve overcrowding at all the city’s elementary schools. There is also talk of turning some schools, possibly O5-C, into a kindergartengrade 8 center. December 11 - December 17, 2020

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EDITORIAL By: C. Ron Allen

Alfred “Zack” Straghn, 92, Helped to Construct the Cultural Architecture for Change in Delray Beach Alfred “Zack” Straghn, a longtime funeral home operator, softball coach, Sunday school teacher and fighter who was instrumental in Delray Beach hiring black police officers and the integration of the city’s beach, died Dec. 3 at Delray Medical Center. He was 92. The lifelong Delray Beach resident wore many hats in the community. While many of his roles were unofficial or did not even have titles, he simply did what needed to be done, without expectation of personal gain. In the 1950s and 60s, while working for a funeral home, he and a handful of community activists addressed the most important and volatile issues of the times — segregation, lynching, education and economic justice. Mr. Straghn was a walking archive of the history and a voice of reasoning to many. His faith was the center of his life and he studied his tattered Bible daily. He would welcome journalists seeking local historical information into his office where he would give lessons on Delray Beach of yesteryear. Regardless of the topic of the interview, Mr. Straghn had to share two feats: a 1954 effort, which, led to the desegregation of the beach eight years later and the integration of the police force. In the 1950s blacks were prohibited from going to the city’s public beach or the nearby municipal pool, then on the southwest corner of Atlantic

Avenue and State Road A1A. In fact, city employees drained the pool at 3 p.m. each day to prevent black kids from using it after hours, he told me. When some youth, including his cousin, deﬁed the order and swam in the Atlantic Ocean, his cousin drowned in an area, heavily populated with sharp rocks. While the boy screamed for help, onlookers ignored their pleas, he said. Angered in-part by the tragedy, Mr. Straghn and a group of blacks staged a “wade-in” protest, which resulted in arrests of black beachgoers, and even cross burnings. The saga gained national attention. “We are going to swim in the three miles of beach here and nobody is going to stop us because this belongs to us, we pay tax in this city and this is where we are going to swim,” he told a WPTV-Ch 5 reporter in a February 2019 interview. Mr. Straghn then tried unsuccessfully to get then police chief, R. C. Croft, to hire more blacks on the force. The few blacks on the force could only patrol and make arrests within the black community. After Croft retired in 1972, his successor, James S. “Jimmy” Grantham reached out to Mr. Straghn and asked for his help to recruit black ofﬁcers. Lorenzo Brooks was one of those hires. “That was very important to Zack,” said Brooks, who retired after 23 years as a captain. “He knew the importance of integration and the fact that [blacks] couldn’t do certain things…, such as use the beach or the swimming pool, was very concerning to him.”

Sixty years later, the agency has boosted its numbers to 25 black officers, including 20 males. Delray Beach police Chief Javaro Sims, who is credited with increasing the minority hiring, calls Mr. Straghn “a staple and cornerstone in the city.” “He has been a catalyst to African-Americans in the city and certainly within the Delray Beach Police Department,” said Sims, whose father and Mr. Straghn were classmates. “Mr. Straghn was also huge supporter of me in my capacity at the police department. There will never be another Zack Straghn.” His verbal melees did not stop there. He fought so blacks could use a coin operated laundry and to be served at a restaurant downtown, Brooks said. “Delray Beach has progressed a long way as far as integration and working with people to come together as one, thanks to him,” Brooks said. Between fighting the establishment, Mr. Straghn found time to coach softball. Long before the term nonprofit organization was even coined, he had a traveling softball team that toured the state. I met Mr. Straghn when I moved to the city in the late 1980s and became a member of his church, Greater Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church. He was my Sunday school teacher (something he truly enjoyed), one of my mentors and someone who genuinely cared about me as a person. As a cub reporter, I would spend time with him learning the checkered history of this oceanfront enclave, where I had planned to “get my ticket

punched” and move on after two years. I soon learned that while often unnamed or underappreciated, he led the ﬁght to free this city from the vestiges of Jim Crow. And while many of his ﬁghts were under the auspices as president of the local NAACP, many were invisible to the public. Mr. Straghn loved singing bass with the Delray Community Choir, his church choir and the Men’s Chorus. I anticipated the rare occasions when we would do a duet. Until a few years ago when his health began declining he would walk for miles from his home on Southwest 5th Avenue to the beach every week day, something he did for more than 60 years. Five years ago, Palm Healthcare Foundation honored him with the Let’s Move Legendary Award for his inspiration, which led to its annual “Let’s Move” walk. Long before the area was saturated with black funeral homes, it was almost guaranteed that when an elderly person died, Straghn & Son’s Tri City Funeral Home would do the services. Mr. Straghn made friends with the families he counseled. He was a consummate professional with a unique mix of business acumen and compassion for the thousands of families he served over the years. Two sons, Keith and Vince, preceded him in death. Survivors include his childhood sweetheart and wife for more than 70 years, Lois, and a host of children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

POSITIVE LIVING Dr. Synesio Lyra

How Consistent Are You? It is good to be consistent in all you do. But it’s far better to be ﬂexible when certain situations may legitimately require it. There are people who boast of being consistent in all circumstances, and that offers them the excuse of remaining offensive toward others, and doing certain things in just one way, instead of choosing a better way which in most situations can be easily found. A person’s consistency needs not be lopsided, but it should always lean in the direction of acting honestly at all times, doing good for others periodically, practicing truthfulness in all relationships and transactions, in whatever circumstance one may be found! December 11 - December 17, 2020

Of course, there are several who are consistent in doing what is improper and not right. To those I simply issue an invitation: “Abandon practices that won’t ever lead you forward, and choose instead the company of persons who can aid you in consistent, positive, winning ways!” Usually, what is not the ideal in life comes quite naturally to most human beings. That’s what needs to be known ahead of time, and carefully checked always! Those are the attitudes and practices to be rejected, without leaving any empty spaces, for they should quickly be replenished with an honorable and more fruitful lifestyle.

Those choosing to advance with consistency, will equally notice that such attitude will not be limited only to certain aspects of living; they need to affect every sphere of human activity and permeate every sector of our individual operation in society. It’s imperative to understand also, that even in our consistency in doing what is proper and commendable, there may be situations where employing some ﬂexibility is far more preferable. We need to be attentive to all we do, and of all the circumstances in which we ﬁnd ourselves. There are occasions when common sense has a right to dictate what our best option would be

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in fulfilling a task, in executing common practices, in interacting with others. Perhaps it is in human relationships where a greater deal of flexibility needs to be employed, depending on conditions that may have changed, on the personal needs of those we are negotiating with, and in countless more factors which shall be recognized once we get there. It’s equally wise and necessary that we operate with varied alternatives to the situations we most frequently encounter in our daily journeys and contacts. Persons who are inflexible seldom reach a pleasant conclusion in any pathway taken.

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Faith can form a Safeguard Against Fear

Boca West Children’s Foundation Holds its $100,000 Golf Challenge

Undaunted by a worldwide pandemic and 29 named storms, the 8th Annual Boca West Children’s Foundation $100,000 Golf Challenge was held under blue skies. The twice-postponed event was a tremendous success!The Mission of the Foundation is to identify and implement projects assisting at-risk children and their families in Palm Beach County. For those who participated and for all those interested, the Foundation chair, Arthur Adler, has announced the results of the event. While this year, due to the everpresent pandemic, the Foundation was only able to run an event for Boca West Country Club members, the tournament still exceeded expectations for FUNdraising! While over 500 Foundation supporters signed up, a tropical storm made it impossible to accommodate non-club members. To their credit, most of the individuals who could not be accommodated, allowed the Foundation to retain their entry fee. Each group of golfers represented one of the Foundations vetted charities.The winner of the “Duck Drop” was Number 263 - Michael Turetzky. Turetzky, who won $2,500 subsequently donated his winnings back to the Foundation. The Foundation

and the children it serves thank Mike for his generosity. $100,000 was distributed to the Foundation’s participating charities as part of the “Challenge” as well as the Foundation’s special program which gave back a significant portion of the entry fee.The total distribution to the nonprofit agencies totaled $177,700. When all of the proceeds are distributed it is anticipate that up to $250,000 will be granted.” In these uncertain times, children in our area have suffered so much,” said Pamela J Weinroth, Executive Director of Boca West Children’s Foundation. “With the funds raised during this event we were able to step in and provide funding to help our kids and offer support to new programs. “The Boca West Children’s Foundation thanks all who made this event a success and is already planning for its next golf event in April. What is a “duck drop” you ask? A creative way to raise money for over two dozen nonprofit agencies (dedicated to supporting the needs of our community’s most vulnerable children) by the Boca West Children’s Foundation. No ducks were harmed during the “drop.”

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Some friends of ours were in the midst of a fierce struggle to keep the doors of their business open. Their problems were serious enough that they were considering bankruptcy. After seeking counsel from various sources and weighing their options, they prayerfully chose instead to push forward. Just as they were beginning to experience a measure of business success, consequences of the coronavirus pandemic devastated their industry and brought some future opportunities to an abrupt, unexpected end. Fear and panic overwhelmed them. Their training and experience had not prepared them for this new obstacle. Maybe you or your organization have confronted similar challenges. For most of us, worldwide shutdowns and restrictions have inflicted hardships unlike we have ever known before. When 2020 began, who could have imagined how the year would unfold? Even in normal times, without the impact of an unprecedented global pandemic, many small business owners live on the edge with very little margin. This is especially true for enterprises still in a startup stage. Profits might come in the future, but in the beginning, operations are strictly day-to-day. So when crises surface, it is easy - and not unusual - for leaders to become paralyzed with fear. Questions most of us ask at such times include, “What do we do now? Is there anything we can do?” Faced with such gloomy circumstances, it can be very difficult to remain grounded in faith, continuing to trust that despite the adversity, God has a plan. Has He abandoned us? It is at times like these that the genuineness of our faith is revealed. And there is no

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Downtown Boca Wins Florida Redevelopment Association Award The Florida Redevelopment Association (FRA) recognized the Boca Raton Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA)/Downtown Boca with a 2020 Roy F. Kenzie Award for its Sanborn Square Community Engagement & Placemaking project. FRA’s annual awards program celebrates the most innovative and effective r e d e ve l o p m e n t programs across the state of Florida, within 14 juried categories. Winners demonstrate innovation and positive impact on their communities and inspire other Florida communities. The winning program, the Sanborn Square Community Engagement & Placemaking Project, was envisioned to activate the district’s central green space and engage the downtown community. Sanborn Square was transformed into a more

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interactive and social destination for Downtown Boca residents and visitors, and for the benefit of local businesses. Enhancements included new festoon lighting, brightly colored bistro tables and chairs, s h a d e u m b r ellas and a custom cornhole game area. “Downtown Boca is extremely proud to have our project recognized by the FRA, and to see the positive impact the improvements have had on all our downtown stakeholders.” said Ruby Childers, Downtown Manager. The Boca Raton CRA/Downtown Boca’s winning program is featured in the FRA’s Best Book, which highlights all 2020 winners and serves as a guide to best practices and successful redevelopment for other Florida communities. The Best Book can be viewed on FRA’s website at Redevelopment.net.

FAU’s E-Learning is AwardWinning, Nationally Recognized In response to the global pandemic, FAU’s Center for Online and Continuing Education (COCE) needed to respond quickly and meaningfully to the sudden transition required of faculty and graduate teaching assistants to switch from face-toface instruction to an online/remote setting. COCE at FAU developed an adaptive, responsive system that provided individualized and group training, plus course build and multimedia assistance to assure faculty were well supported and confident in a virtual teaching environment. In just two months, more than 1,500 faculty received training, technology assistance and rapid course development services focused on Quality Matters standards for well-conceived, well-designed, well-presented courses. “I am so proud to lead this team of highly talented online learning professionals,” said Julie Golden-Botti, Ph.D., executive director for Online and Continuing Education at FAU. “It is extraordinary how this group came together as one super cohesive unit to scale up our services to meet

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the needs of the university.” COCE at FAU recently received the 2020 United States Distance Learning Association Innovation Award for their work in developing an interactive eText that is available to students as a zero-cost, open education resource that saves students textbook costs. Botti recently received the GomoryMayadas Leadership Award in Online Education from the Online Learning Consortium. This award honors outstanding individuals who exemplify the leadership and ideals of Ralph Gomory and A. Frank Mayadas, two of the original founders of the Online Learning Consortium. “I am honored to receive an award for leadership in online education, especially this year,” said Botti. “Distance learning certainly has been thrust into the national spotlight and my eLearning colleagues across the country have done amazing work. I don’t think any of us ever imagined we would suddenly be on the frontline providing online learning resources and training on such a large scale in such a short amount of time.”

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Coulter installed as 2021 Palm Beach State president, staff win awards at AFC state conference Ray Coulter, a Palm Beach State College alumnus and facilities manager at the Boca Raton campus, will take the helm Jan. 1 as president of the 6,400-member Association of Florida Colleges. Coulter, the current president-elect, was installed at the closing session of the Virtual 71st AFC Annual Meeting and Conference, which was held Nov. 16-20. “l am very fortunate and very proud to serve as president because this association literally changed my life,’’ Coulter said. As part of the conference, the College Relations and Marketing staff also received eight awards for excellence in communications. Sandi Barrett, program director for trade and industry continuing education, received a Region V Unsung Hero Award for going above and beyond to support the PBSC chapter, and Professor Tracy Ciucci garnered an Excellence in Teaching Award. Coulter is among three from PBSC who will serve on the 2021 AFC Executive Board, including Ciucci, incoming Faculty Commission chair, and Eligio Marquez Veray, PBSC’s Transportation Service Technology program director, who is the incoming chair of the Workforce, Adult and Continuing Education Commission. Coulter began working at PBSC in 2007 as a locksmith and served in that role until his promotion this year. Prior to

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He earned the Region V Lifesaver Award and the Distinguished Ser vice Award (2015). C o u l t e r earned his Associate in Arts degree from PBSC in 1997 and his Bachelor of Science degree in Supervision and Management in 2017. He is currently pursuing an MBA with a concentration in Sustainability and Environmental Compliance at Southern New Hampshire University. Through the “Be the Change” theme he has chosen for his administration, he hopes to encourage members to “get out of their comfort zone to grow, learn and embrace change.” The eight awards College Relations and Marketing received from the AFC Communications and Marketing Commission include: first-place gold award for the 2020 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration poster created by Graphic

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14th Anual Boca Raton Toy Drive once again a huge Success For the 14th straight year, all six Rotary Clubs of Boca Raton came together as one to unify for the Boca Raton Toy Drive that took place at Sugar Sand Park in Boca Raton on December 6.

While the circumstances were much different this year, the mission of the Rotary Clubs to collect toys for the needy children in our area did no waiver. Like most things that had to shift due to COVID-19, the Boca Toy Drive was not any different. Being called a Drive-Thru event in 2020, the Boca Raton Toy Drive collected toys as cars pulled up and opened their trunks filled with toys. Instead of sitting in his lap, children had to take photos with Santa Claus from the car in order to observe social distancing guidelines.

In all, the event raised hundreds of toy for the Caridad Center, and their mission is not yet over. Boca Toy Drive boxes are still out in certain locations around Boca Raton where people can still drop off their new toys. For people who do not want to go out of their homes and want to make a difference from their own house, the Boca Toy Drive has an Amazon wishlist (https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ ls/2OZT1UIV9INNG) where you can purchase your gifts online and it will automatically be sent to the Caridad Center. Once again, like in the past 14 years, the six Rotary CLubs of Boca Raton came together to make miracles happen! For more information on where the drop-off locations are, you can visit their website: www.bocaratontoydrive.com.

American Boat and Yacht Council honors Spencer as Educator of the Year Stephen Spencer, the lead instructor for Palm Beach State College’s Marine Service Technology program, has received the Educator of the Year award from ABYC Foundation, a division of the American Boat and Yacht Council. According to the organization’s website, this first-time award was established to “honor extraordinary instructors who are shaping future marine service technicians.” “We are excited to see such a strong pool of candidates for the first ABYC Foundation Educator of the Year award,” said ABYC Foundation executive director Margaret Podlich. “These winners represent the best instructors in the Northern Hemisphere, cultivating and training the aspiring workforce that the marine industry— and boaters—are relying on.” The American Boat and Yacht Council offers professional certifications for marine service technicians as well as a comprehensive curriculum used by colleges and technical schools to train new marine service technicians. PBSC has integrated the ABYC curriculum, which is based on national industry standards, with the Florida state framework to prepare the marine service technicians that are greatly needed in Palm Beach County and throughout the country. Spencer, who also earned a NISOD Excellence Award this year, played an indispensable role in the August 2019 launch Community

of the Marine Service Technology program. He had been a key instructor in PBSC’s automotive and diesel programs since 2015, but it was his 31-year career in the U.S. Coast Guard, where as a machinery technician he rose to the rank of Command Master Chief, that made the new program a perfect fit. “My goal is training technicians. It’s my way of paying it forward,” Spencer said when thanking Podlich during a surprise Zoom award ceremony Nov. 30, organized

by PBSC Transportation Service Technology program director Eligio Marquez Jr. Marquez credits Spencer for getting the program up and running and meeting the challenges of graduating the first class of 14 students this fall, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “Stephen is a great asset,” Marquez said. “When anything needs created or done, he steps up and accomplishes it. His knowledge and experience are of much value to the whole department, and he is

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very well respected by the industry and colleagues here at the College.” At the Zoom ceremony, Spencer received an engraved crystal award, a Harbor Freight gift certificate, a free ABYC professional certification class, free registration for the next ABYC Educator Training Conference—and more praise. “We wish we could just clone you because we need you everywhere,” Podlich said. “You’ve made such an amazing difference. This award is a thank you for what you have done, but it’s also encouragement for what you’re doing right now and the future that you are giving to all these students. Palm Beach State is very lucky—they’ve got the best educator in their classroom.” ABYC Foundation also named two runners up: Ryan Ramsey, who is in his ninth year of teaching marine service technology at the Impact Institute, serving five counties in Indiana, and Maurice Marchand, who has served in the merchant fleet, the U.S. Navy, and as a marine technology educator, currently at H. Lavity Stoutt Community College in the British Virgin Islands. To learn more about the award recipients and the ABYC Foundation’s work with educators, visit www.abycfoundation.org. The next Marine Service Technology class begins Jan. 25. Anyone interested in learning more about the program should register for the free virtual information session on Jan. 6. December 11 - December 17, 2020

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Golf Tournament Bolsters Alumni Scholarship Fund Palm Beach Atlantic’s 33rd Annual Alumni Golf Tournament raised $40,000 to support scholarships for outstanding students pursuing a transformative, Christ-first education. The Alumni Association has awarded $780,000 to roughly 130 students over the last five years. Scholarships are renewable annually, for up to eight semesters. Relatives of alumni are eligible. The University is grateful to faithful sponsors and participants for making this year’s play-at-your-convenience tournament a success. Due to COVID-19, teams received a certificate to play on PGA National Resort & Spa’s exclusive Champion Course any time during September or October rather than gathering on one day. Tournament premier sponsors include BMS CAT, Advanced Painting Contractors, Saxon/Xerox, Templeton & Company, Hill York Air Conditioning, Graystone Consulting — Morgan Stanley, Hedrick Brothers Construction, Insurance Office of America, Proforma PNP Marketing, Preferred

Printing & Graphics and PGA National Resort & Spa. Additional sponsors include A Cut Above Landscaping & Maintenance, Blue Ocean Capital, Kindred Hospital The Palm Beaches, Knight Fire & Security, Orkin Pest Control, Progress P h a r m a c y, LTG Sports Turf One, Vintage Proper ties, Burkhardt Construct i o n , I n c. and Whitehead Law Offices. The Alumni Golf Tournament committee consists of co-chairs James W. Johnson CPA, CFP®, CFS with Blue Ocean Capital and Ray Dorsey with Insurance Office of America (IOA); Jamie Bethel with Templeton & Company, P.A.; Josué Léon with Northwestern Mutual; Mark Smith with Saxon Business Systems; David Williams with BallenIsles Country Club; Tim McDulin with Stadium 1 Software; Joby Slay with Harvest Realty Group; Zach McElroy with Oxygen Development; Ryan Howerton with Walgreens; Martin Shutterly with National Management Resources; and Jon Gryskiewicz with Carr, Riggs & Ingram.

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Boca Historical Society offers 2020 holiday ornament; Garden Club opts out due to COVID By: Dale King The coronavirus pandemic is making the holiday season a lot more difficult for local folks to enjoy. Families are being urged to shun festive gatherings, and even Boca Raton has canceled its holiday street and boat parades and decorations around Mizner Park won’t be twinkling this season. COVID-19 has forced the city’s Garden Club to cancel the creation of a holiday tree ornament for 2020 – a yuletide task it has cheerfully accepted each winter season since 1994. But the Boca Raton Historical Society and Museum has announced that the organization has crafted an ornament for this season – one that marks the 30th anniversary of the opening of Mizner Park in downtown Boca Raton. “We produce fewer than 150 holiday collectibles each year, so history and holiday fans should make their online purchase today by visiting www.BocaRatonOrnaments.com,” said Mary Csar, executive director of the Historical Society. “We will soon announce dates in December when buyers can pick up their ornament in front of the museum, located at 71 North Federal Highway” in the Old Town Hall building that’s headquarters for the city’s history-minded organization. The website for the Garden Club offers a regretful notation that “no commemorative ornament” will be created for 2020 “due to COVID-19.” It does offer a glimmer of hope by adding: “There are plans for something special for next year,” when an ornament marking 2020-2021 is created. The Garden Club’s contribution to the 2019 holiday season was an intricately designed tree hanger that pays homage to Ancient America, a tourist attraction of Native American culture and artifacts that drew the curious and contemplative to Boca Raton between 1953 and 1958. It was the 26th in an unbroken annual series that bowed out this year due to the rigors of a pandemic that has impacted all corners of the globe. Coincidentally, the Garden Club began the series in 1994 with an ornament honoring the Old Town Hall, where municipal offices were housed until the new city hall was constructed on West Palmetto Park Road. Some of the other ornament themes through the years have been the Boca Resort & Club (1997), Florida Atlantic University (2000), the Boca Beach Pavilion (2001), the Yamato Colony (2006), Mizner Park (2009), Pearl City (2011) and Sanborn Square in 2016 Community

Members of the Garden Club have been well aware of the pandemic and have worked to provide protective masks for members of the community as well as healthcare workers. Folks in the Garden Club crafted 2,500 of them to help folks avoid being infected. As to the Historical Society, Csar recalled that in 1998, “the talented Boca Raton artist Barbara Montgomery O’Connell created her first ornament—depicting old Town Hall— for this BRHS. A 30-year resident of Boca Raton, the artist has donated her time and talent ever since to create the artwork on the annual ornament, always based on information and photographs from the historical society.” In 1980, Csar said, the Community Redevelopment Agency was established to combat blight in the downtown area. CRA director Jamie Snyder called for the construction of an “Art Park” to replace the aging Boca Raton Mall on Federal Highway. Eight years later, developer Tom Crocker answered the call with his “Mizner Park” project which would combine cultural facilities, residential and office space with a variety of retail establishments in a Mediterranean Revival style complex. “The completed Mizner Park opened to great fanfare in January 1991,” she noted. Right now, the Historical Society is shut down because of the COVID pandemic. “When it officially reopens early next year, the new Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum will feature a series of dynamic, immersive and interactive exhibits showcasing critical moments and figures in the city’s development: Early History/Pioneer Days, Addison Mizner, Boca’s critical role in World War II, the groundbreaking role of IBM and the first functioning personal computers, and more,” said Csar. Appealing to local historians, tourists and residents, the museum’s Fire Bay Gift Shop will, when it reopens, feature unique and educational gifts for all ages, including crafts by local artisans, historic photographs, unusual Boca-based gifts and souvenirs, books by local authors, and “The History of Boca Raton DVD” — as well as the annual holiday ornaments. The mission of the Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum is to collect, preserve and present information and artifacts relevant to the past and evolving history of Boca Raton and to maintain a visible role in the education and the advocacy of historic preservation in the community, particularly through its ongoing project, History Alive! Although currently closed, BRHS is using this time to completely reimagine and renovate the museum, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2022.

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Boca Helping Hands Working to Expand Food Storage, Feed More People Boca Helping Hands (BHH) is working to complete an extensive structural, mechanical and electrical project that will transform the former Warehouse Pub across from its main campus into the additional storage space needed to keep expanding community access to nutritious food. The $500,000 project – which will include walk-in refrigerator and freezer units – will result in new Warehouse space that will roughly double BHH’s overall food storage footprint and triple its cold storage (perishable food) capacity. This expanded food storage space will allow BHH to help as many as 27,000 new clients over the next ﬁveto-ten years – potentially doubling the overall number of people who could be served by the organization. “While this may sound like just an infrastructure project, it’s really an opportunity to create a conduit of compassion in our community, helping BHH touch the lives of more children and families in Palm Beach County,” said Greg Hazle, Executive Director of Boca Helping Hands. “Since the acquisition of our current warehouse more than ten years ago, we have seen a 10-15% annual increase in the demand for our pantry program. Until recently, we found ways to meet that growing demand. However, with BHH now operating at maximum capacity, limited storage has become a bottleneck in our ability to continue expanding food distribution.” In support of the Palm Beach County

Hunger Relief Plan, BHH partners with United Way of Palm Beach County, which says that over 180,000 county residents struggled with hunger prior to the pandemic - more than 53,000 of those being children who went

to bed hungry. They estimate that the number of food-insecure people in the county has now increased to 300,000 due to COVID-19. In part, this warehouse facility should be a celebration of Arthur J. Remillard, Jr., who not only enabled Boca Helping Hands secure its original building in 2010, the Remillard Resource Center, but also played a key part in this ﬁnal acquisition due to all of his generosity. Gary Peters, Board President of Boca Helping Hands said, “Mr. Remillard really believed in our mission and wanted us to ﬁnd a new building so we could expand, saying, ‘You’ve got to hurry up. I don’t have a lot of time.’”

BHH has seen a doubling in the demand for its food programs, with an additional 3,500 new families now signed up to receive pantry bags of groceries. Most of these are working families who have been undone by circumstances outside their control, like client Rick C. When COVID-19 began, Rick’s hospitality business “was ravaged by the pandemic” and “a lot of people were laid off.” His wife works in the medical industry and also had mandatory shutdowns, so she wasn’t able to work. “We are very proud people and we have never looked for assistance from anyone - we were always the ones giving. But now we had nowhere to turn,” he said. “Boca Helping Hands helped us keep our dignity.” Increasing BHH’s food storage capacity will signiﬁcantly improve the organization’s ability to expand its adult and children’s feeding programs and maintain growth at its distribution points in Boca Raton, West Boca, Boynton Beach and Lantana. Completion of the project is even more essential now, given the extraordinary increase in demand - and subsequent increase in food distribution - due to COVID-19. “For the many working families who use our program to supplement their income, this may help them to keep their lights on, take their kids to the doctor, or pay for other necessities,” Hazle said. Interior demolition work began inside

the old Warehouse Pub building on Sept. 7. Electrical wiring is now complete, installation of a new roof is underway, and the refrigerator and freezer will be installed in mid-December. When ﬁnished, the updated structure will be a hurricane-rated and secure storage building, as well as an additional space for BHH volunteers to help sort and package food for distribution. Major project supporters include the Remillard Family Foundation, the Leslie L. Alexander Foundation, the Freed Foundation, Michelle and Michael Hagerty, the Lawrence A. Sanders Foundation, the Miner Family Charitable Fund, Karen and Murray Dalfen, Jana and Timothy Davidson, the Goldberg Family Foundation, Goody Two Shoes (in memory of Adelaide Schnittman), and Lewis and Leilani Miller. United Way of Palm Beach County, in partnership with Palm Beach County Food Bank, provided funding for the freezer and refrigeration unit for the expanded Warehouse space, and BHH was also awarded a merit grant from Impact 100 Palm Beach County in May. While the project is about two-thirds complete, Boca Helping Hands is continuing to feed more people in the community than ever before. All general contributions made now through Dec. 31 will be matched up to $375,000. For more information, please contact Karen Swedenborg at 561-417-0913, ext. 202 or visit bocahelpinghands.org.

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SPORTS Veingrad Nominated for Burlsworth UCF Set to Play in 2020 Trophy, ahead of USM Contest RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl As Florida Atlantic University’s football team (5-2, 4-1 Conference USA) continues prep work for this Thursday’s contest at Southern Miss, the Owls received the notification on Tuesday that senior defensive lineman Ryan Veingrad is one of 67 players nominated for the 2020 Burlsworth Trophy. Veingrad has played in every 2020 contest and has started the last six, of the team’s seven, games. He has tallied 10 tackles, including three solo, with 2.5 being for a loss of nine yards was a sack. The senior has one sack and one quarterback hurry on the year. Veingrad will lead the Owls this Thursday in the team’s final regular-season contest at Southern Miss, which is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Eastern, will air

on CBS Sports Network and also will be carried on the radio by Fox Sports South Florida 640 AM. This will be the second time FAU has made the trip to Hattiesburg to play the Eagles (2-7, 1-4 C-USA). FAU holds a 2-0 alltime mark versus USM.. The Thursday contest is not the first time FAU has played on a Thursday night. The last time was versus North Texas on Oct. 15, 2018. This Thursday, the Owls will rely upon a stingy defense that is allowing 12.4 points per game and ranked No. 2 nationally. Offensively, FAU will be led by graduate student TJ Chase, who has a team-leading 328 receiving yards, and senior captain James Charles, who has been the Owls’ starting back, with 268 yards on 60 carries.

UCF from the American Athletic Conference has accepted an invitation to play in the Seventh Annual RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl. The game will be played on Tuesday, Dec. 22, at 7 p.m. ET, at FAU Stadium. It will air on ESPN and ESPN Radio, as well as locally on ESPN 106.3 FM. “We are thrilled to extend an invitation to UCF to play in the RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl,” said executive director Doug Mosley. “The Knights are an exciting team, featuring one of the top offenses in the nation. They’ve had a great season and we’re looking forward to announcing an equally compelling opponent for them soon.” UCF is 6-3 and completed their regular season schedule on Nov. 27 with a victory against USF in their I-4 rivalry game. The Knights were ranked as high as 11th in the nation earlier in the season although they are currently unranked. They are ninth in the nation in scoring offense at 44.3 points per game and sophomore quarterback Dillon Gabriel led the nation in passing yards with 3,353. The Knights’ opponent will be announced at

Sailfish MBB Adds New Member to 2021 Class T he Palm Beach Atlantic Men’s Basketball team added its first piece to the 202122 recruiting class with Coach Dave Balza announcing the addition of Adonis Caneris. The 6’3” guard from Cincinnati, Ohio will join the Sailfish as a freshman after this upcoming season where the Sailfish are looking to get back into the postseason after making it for the first time in school history last year. Caneris attends Cincinnati Oak Hills HS where he has been a two-season varsity starter. In his previous season, Caneris guided the Highlanders to a 15-8 season while averaging 14 ppg and 4 rebounds over 28 mpg. He is a sharpshooting guard/wing player who shot nearly 50% from the floor, over 45% from three, and 84% from the free-throw line. In his junior season, Caneris was named 1st Team All-Conference and Honorable Mention All-District. Coach Balza had the following to say December 11 - December 17, 2020

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a later date and will likely be a team from the Atlantic Coast Conference. Tickets to the bowl game are not currently on sale to the public. Pandemic protocols will be in place and any tickets that may be made available will be very limited. The RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl debuted in 2014 and has been well received in the community through its first six years. It has twice held the distinction of matching up two conference champions – Marshall University vs. Northern Illinois University (2014), and UAB vs. Northern Illinois (2018). In all, six conference champions and another three conference division champions have played in the game. Among the bowl’s alumni who have moved on to the NFL are current Buffalo Bills running back Devin Singletary (FAU, 2017) and Philadelphia Eagles kicker Jake Elliott (Memphis, 2016). Fo r m o r e i n f o r m a ti o n a b o u t th e RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl visit RoofClaimBocaRatonBowl.com.

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Men’s Virility Restored in Clinical Trial; 275% More Blood Flow in 5 Minutes A newly improved version of America’s best-selling male performance enhancer gives 70-year-old men the ability and stamina they enjoyed in their 30’s. America’s best-selling sexual performance enhancer just got a lot better. It’s the latest breakthrough for nitric oxide – the molecule that makes E.D. woes fade and restores virility when it counts the most. Nitric oxide won the Nobel Prize in 1998. It’s why “the little blue pill” works. More than 200,000 studies confirm it’s the key to superior sexual performance. And this new discovery increases nitric oxide availability resulting in even quicker, stronger and longer-lasting performance. One double-blind, placebo-controlled study (the “gold-standard” of research) involved a group of 70-year-old-men. They didn’t exercise. They didn’t eat healthy. And researchers reported their “nitric oxide availability was almost totally compromised,” resulting in blood flow less than HALF of a man in peak sexual health. But only five minutes after the first dose their blood flow increased 275%, back to levels of a perfectly healthy 31-year-old man! “It’s amazing,” remarks nitric oxide expert Dr. Al Sears. “That’s like giving 70-year-old men the sexual power of 30-year-olds.”

WHY SO MUCH EXCITEMENT? Despite the billions men spend annually on older nitric oxide therapies, there’s one wellknown problem with them. They don’t always work. A very distinguished and awarded doctor practicing at a prestigious Massachusetts hospital who has studied Nitric Oxide for over 43 years states a “deficiency of bioactive nitric oxide… leads to impaired endotheliumdependent vasorelaxation.” In plain English, these older products may increase levels of nitric oxide. But that’s only half the battle. If it’s not bioactively available then your body can’t absorb it to produce an erection. Experts simply call it the nitric oxide “glitch.” And until now, there’s never been a solution.

NEXT GENERATION NITRIC OXIDE FORMULA FLYING OFF SHELVES Upon further research, America’s No. 1 men’s health expert Dr. Al Sears discovered certain nutrients fix this “glitch” resulting in 275% better blood flow.

He’s combined those nutrients with proven nitric oxide boosters in a new formula called Primal Max Red. In clinical trials, 5,000 mg is required for satisfying sexual performance. Primal Max Red contains a bigger, 9,000 mg per serving dose. It’s become so popular, he’s having trouble keeping it in stock. Dr. Sears is the author of more than 500 scientific papers. Thousands of people listened to him speak at the recent Palm Beach Health & Wellness Festival featuring Dr. Oz. NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath recently visited his clinic, the Sears Institute for AntiAging Medicine. Primal Max Red has only been available for a few months — but everyone who takes it reports a big difference. “I have the energy to have sex three times in one day, WOW! That has not happened in years. Oh, by the way I am 62,” says Jonathan K. from Birmingham, AL.

A new discovery that increases nitric oxide availability was recently proven in a clinical trial to boost blood flow 275%

these increased levels lasted up to 12 hours. “I measured my nitric oxide levels, you can buy a test kit from Amazon,” reports 48-yearold Jeff O. “Monday night I showed depleted.” Then he used ingredients in Primal Max Red and, “The results were off the charts. I first woke around 3 a.m. on Tuesday very excited. My nitric oxide levels measured at the top end of the range.”

HOW IT WORKS

FREE BONUS TESTOSTERONE BOOSTER

Loss of erection power starts with your blood vessels. Specifically, the inside layer called the endothelium where nitric oxide is made.

Every order also gets Dr. Sears testosterone boosting formula Primal Max Black for free.

The problem is various factors THICKEN your blood vessels as you age. This blocks availability causing the nitric oxide “glitch.” The result is difficulty in getting and sustaining a healthy erection. How bad is the problem? Researcher shows the typical 40-year-old man absorbs 50% less nitric oxide. At 50, that drops to 25%. And once you pass 60 just a measly 15% gets through. To make matters worse, nitric oxide levels start declining in your 30’s. And by 70, nitric oxide production is down an alarming 75%. Primal Max Red is the first formula to tackle both problems. Combining powerful nitric oxide boosters and a proven delivery mechanism that defeats the nitric oxide “glitch” resulting in 275% better blood flow. There’s not enough space here to fully explain how it works, so Dr. Sears will send anyone who orders Primal Max Red a free special report that explains everything.

MORE CLINICAL RESULTS Nutrients in Primal Max Red have logged impressive results. In a Journal of Applied Physiology study, one resulted in a 30 times MORE nitric oxide. And

“If you want passionate ‘rip your clothes off’ sex you had in your younger days, you need nitric oxide to get your erection going. And testosterone for energy and drive,” says Dr. Sears. “You get both with Primal Max Red and Primal Max Black.”

HOW TO GET PRIMAL MAX To secure free bottles of Primal Max Black and get the hot, new Primal Max Red formula, buyers should contact the Sears Health Hotline at 1-800-578-6404 within the next 48 hours. “It’s not available in drug stores yet,” says Dr. Sears. “The Hotline allows us to ship directly to the customer.” Dr. Sears feels so strongly about Primal Max, all orders are backed by a 100% moneyback guarantee. “Just send me back the bottle and any unused product within 90 days from purchase date, and I’ll send you all your money back,” he says. The Hotline will be open for the next 48 hours. After that, the phone number will be shut down to allow them to restock. Call 1-800-578-6404 to secure your limited supply of Primal Max Red and free bottles of Primal Max Black. You don’t need a prescription, and those who call in the first 24 hours qualify for a significant discount. Use Promo Code NP1220MAX310 when you call in. Lines are frequently busy, but all calls will be answered.

THESE STATEMENTS HAVE NOT BEEN EVALUATED BY THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION. THIS PRODUCT IS NOT INTENDED TO DIAGNOSE, TREAT, CURE OR PREVENT ANY DISEASE. RESULTS MAY VARY

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