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Cycle of Unity: How a local student started a cycle of giving back

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2021-22 Read Together Palm Beach County Book Announced

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Boca Raton Public Library Announces New Butterfly Garden

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By: Lauren Do Nascimento

FAU Brain Institute Launches Graduate Program

Education is something that people don’t think twice about in South Florida. It’s normal for children, teenagers and young adults to go to school in the morning, come back in the afternoon and complete their assignments for the next day. It’s common practice for them and even some adults in college to return to class in the next year.

However, the pandemic completely changed how people view education. Students were forced to learn from home.

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Race to Save Boca’s Wayne Barton Center For the past 22 years, the nonprofit, located in the historically low-income area of Boca Raton’s Pearl City, has been providing hot meals, homework assistance, college scholarship and crime prevention programs, along with other vital assistance to hundreds of children.

Now, the COVID-19 pandemic has placed the Center’s existence in question.

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• For the past 22 years, the nonprofit, located in the historically low-income area of Boca Raton’s Pearl City, has been providing hot meals, homework assistance, college scholarship and crime prevention programs, along with other vital assistance to hundreds of children across the tricounty area. Now, the COVID-19 pandemic has placed the Center’s existence in question. With sponsors pulling back amid financial insecurity, and lack of income from event rentals, the Center is in danger of foreclosure.

• Boca Raton Public Library is pleased to announce a new butterfly garden located at Pondhawk Natural Area, which is adjacent to the Spanish River Library. The butterfly garden is an exciting addition to the ongoing partnership between the Library, the Palm Beach County Department of Environmental Resources Management, the City of Boca Raton Recreation Services, and the Friends of the Boca Raton Public Library. Pondhawk is already home to the Library’s award winning StoryWalk, which provides a children’s storybook along a nature trail.

• To usher in Veterans Day commemorations in South Palm Beach County, businesses and area residents joined Habitat for Humanity of South Palm Beach County (HFHSPBC) to honor and serve military veterans in appreciation for their service as teams of volunteers transformed 10 homes within a Boynton Beach neighborhood on Friday, November 5 through Habitat’s ongoing Neighborhood Revitalization program powered by Vertical Bridge Holdings. Volunteers installed new mailboxes, spread mulch, planted landscaping and assisted with other repairs and clean up for homes owned by veterans, homes in which veterans are residing with their families and homes of families who have inherited their homes from WWII veterans.

• A collaboration between the Florida Atlantic University Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute and Charles E. Schmidt College of Science has resulted in the launch of a unique partnership to train the next generation of brain scientists through the newly announced Neuroscience Graduate Program (NGP). The innovative, multi-campus Ph.D. program will blend a comprehensive curriculum that ranges from molecules to mind with exceptional research opportunities, and will serve as a key element in FAU’s pursuit of groundbreaking interdisciplinary neuroscience research.

• Compassion in the face of loss and intergenerational acceptance. These are the themes of the 2021-22 Read Together Palm Beach County book, announced today at the 30th Annual Love of Literacy Luncheon. The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg is about an unlikely friendship that develops among three people, all of whom have lost the one they love most. The countywide reading campaign kicks off today and wraps up on April 1, 2022, at the 31st Annual Love of Literacy Luncheon, where Berg will be the featured speaker.

• Delray Beach approved a $1 million settlement with the Florida Department of Health on Nov. 9. As reported by WPTV, the city agreed on a settlement over alleged problems with the city’s water program. The consent order requires the city of Delray Beach to comply with a series of corrective actions.

• With her family by her side, the Palm Beach State College alumna and former student trustee was sworn in to the Florida Bar in October by Palm Beach County Circuit Court Judge Scott Kerner. Now, Medina has begun her new role as associate attorney at Acosta & Fraga Law, PLLC, an immigration law firm just minutes from the PBSC Lake Worth campus where she began her higher education journey in 2012. “I’m working at something I’m passionate about, which is helping people,’’ she said.

• Boca Woods Country Club members came together for a great cause, collecting food and donations for Boca Helping Hands Thanksgiving Box Brigade. This year members donated 34 boxes and $14,691 to the cause.

• The Cultural Council for Palm Beach County recently announced that it will administer funding in the amount of $212,500 to 24 small or emerging cultural organizations in Palm Beach County for fiscal year 2021-2022. The motion was approved at the Cultural Council’s board of directors meeting on Sept. 29, 2021.

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COMMUNITY Urgent Race to Save Boca’s Wayne Barton Center by Christmas For the past 22 years, the nonprofit, located in the historically low-income area of Boca Raton’s Pearl City, has been providing hot meals, homework assistance, college scholarship and crime prevention programs, along with other vital assistance to hundreds of children across the tri-county area.

Now, the COVID-19 pandemic has placed the Center’s existence in question.

With sponsors pulling back amid financial insecurity, and lack of income from event rentals, the Center is in danger of foreclosure.

To save the building and to keep operations running, the Center’s founder, former Boca Raton police officer and laureate of two presidential awards Wayne Barton needs to raise $3 million

by Christmas.

A GoFundMe page has been set up to help save the Center. Click here to view and share.

Despite impending foreclosure, the Center will not abandon the community this Thanksgiving.

On what might be the Center’s last year holding its annual Thanksgiving turkey giveaways, the Center plans to give out 100,000 lbs. of food over two days in Ft. Lauderdale and Boca Raton together with its partners.

Nov. 20 in Fort Lauderdale – Grocery & Turkey Giveaway 9amNoon Wayne Barton Study Center’s Good News of Christ Ministries in partnership with the city of Fort Lauderdale is having a free drive-thru with 5,000 meals at The Sanctuary Church, 1400 N. Federal Highway. No walk-ups. Call Pastor Black at 954-564-7600.

Nov. 23 in Boca Raton – Grocery & Turkey Giveaway 4pm6pm Location: Wayne Barton Study Center 269 NE 14th St, Boca Raton, FL 33432 Approximately 2,500 – 3,000 meals will be provided.

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Cycle of unity: How a local student started a cycle of giving back By: Lauren Do Nascimento Education is something that people don’t think twice about in South Florida.

It’s normal for children, teenagers and young adults to go to school in the morning, come back in the afternoon and complete their assignments for the next day.

It’s common practice for them and even some adults in college to return to class in the next year.

However, the pandemic completely changed how people view education. Students were forced to learn from home and education became much more difficult.

Sadly, education became almost impossible for children and young adults who already had little to no access to education in the first place. But one local young adult decided to bridge that gap for many students. His name is Avinash Patel and he created Ladder Academy.

Ladder Academy is a way that underprivileged children can have access to education. Ladder Academy was created to help children around the world have access to technology, mentorship, content, education and motivation needed to get out of generational poverty.

With a heavy focus on bridging generational poverty, Ladder Academy and Patel have the goal of giving 100 students that chance. And Ladder Academy’s origins come straight from the heart.

After taking a trip to visit his grandparents in India in 2019, Patel met a young boy who was very interested in his school work. They formed such a bond that Patel left his computer behind with the boy when he returned to the United States and maintained contact with him afterward.

Soon, Patel realized that there were many students like this boy who were eager to learn but didn’t have ways to do so.

“I became eager to give other students a similar opportunity of using technology so they can continue their academics and achieve whatever profession they want to become in the future, hence, Ladder Academy. I had connected with a great family friend in the Mumbai area and we’ve got into contact with the municipalities and government schools to advertise the idea to students,” says Patel.

The meaning behind Ladder Academy is also based on Patel’s desire to provide others with education. “The name comes from the sort of upward process of how students are able to climb from being in a very destitute community to achieve a much more improved standard of living. Climbing the rungs of the ladder was where the name Ladder Academy came from,” states Patel.

And that upward process is seen in the many ways that Ladder Academy provides for its students.

“The first part of the academy was to enable the students to at least get into an educational environment. Then the next steps were equipping them with technology, communication, mentorship and the curriculum tracks with whatever subject they wanted to achieve in life.”

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And Patel’s community outreach does not stop with Ladder Academy. Patel continued his volunteer work by helping students at the Wayne Barton Center located in Boca Raton. Volunteering at the Wayne Barton Center in 2020 gave Patel a chance to help students closer to his home.

“Much of my activities was I collected old tablets from family members and friends that you didn’t want or use the tablets anymore and gave them to underprivileged students to teach them programming languages such as Java, and Python, and also use the platform called Tinker.”

It was his volunteer work at the Wayne Barton Center that led him to create his app TODO. TODO is Patel’s app that helps people from low-income households or who are having trouble paying for groceries. Different from other price apps, Todo aims to help people manage their money and understand how to do so.

“Our app is not like a price app. It’s not searching the local area to find you the lowest prices per se, it does that but there’s more to it. The main sort of facet with TODO is establishing the concept of customer lifetime value.” says Patel.

“These consumers who use total are allocating their money towards the specific retailer brand, like Walmart, Costco, Kroger, etc. And with that, they’re able to build loyalty with a certain brand that allows them to gain memberships and coupons and discounts that normally they couldn’t afford.”

The TODO app will be released to the public soon and people can donate to Ladder Academy’s cause through its website.

Patel’s inspiration for giving back to his community comes from stories of his own family. Patel’s family experienced firsthand the impact that having

access to education can give people. “My grandfather two generations ago lived in a very similar situation. He lived in a very poor farming family, and you know, barely made any money to survive.”

“His saving grace was ultimately the education his family had invested in and a benefactor from the family. He was able to get a college degree and immigrate to America with his family,” says Patel.

“And with my parents’ generation, they too have used the power of education to succeed in life and make my sister and I’s life a lot more privileged than my grandfather’s. So the idea of giving back to a community of students who have the same motivation to succeed is definitely important to me and like my family’s and plenty of other Indian family stories.”

Patel’s story is very moving but was hardly an easy thing to accomplish. The pandemic served as a challenge for Patel while trying to grow Ladder Academy.

Things like time differences, the rise in Covid-19 cases in India and other factors have affected Ladder Academy.

“It was certainly a challenging process. With India being 10 hours ahead on average in the US, the communication window was very tight with talking to people in that country and vice versa.”

“The logistics of delivering laptops in the slums during the pandemic was also very complicated and had to be done very meticulously. As well as the challenges of finding students and making a mention with the program and having a connection with now.”

Despite these difficulties, Patel had tremendous support from the community he was trying to help. “When I’m at school, my mom, being from India, has great communication skills with a lot of the students there. But there are also

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some of the older students we’ve actually hired to manage the younger students and take care of them and do logistical work happening on the India side.”

“Not only are those students who are participating in the program studying whatever curriculum tracks they’re pursuing, but they’re also helping us organize resources and students to make sure that everyone is progressing properly,” shares Patel.

In Patel’s local community, he helps others and receives help in return. It becomes a cycle of unity and can motivate others to do the same. And although Patel’s work sounds very complex and big, he does have advice for those who want to give back to their community in any way.

“The best piece of advice is to approach a problem that you either have a very personal connection with or you want to gain the intellectual depth for. It’s not just us helping, we’re able to move and utilize people who are also struggling to help out other people. Give that helping hand mindset to everyone in the community.”

Giving back to one’s community can be much simpler than you may think. It can be as simple as volunteering at a nearby school, sharing your knowledge about a subject while volunteering, tutoring students or even giving a donation. The chances to give back to the community are always there and have grown since the start of the pandemic.

Patel’s story of how a local high school student is only one of many. And his story doesn’t have to be the same for those who want to give back. Understanding that you can do something in your community and finding ways to do so is the first step. Don’t forget to support your community however you can and continue the cycle of unity.

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Habitat for Humanity Ushered in Veterans Day Honoring, Remembering and Serving “Hometown” Veterans To usher in Veterans Day commemorations in South Palm Beach County, businesses and area residents joined Habitat for Humanity of South Palm Beach County (HFHSPBC) to honor and serve military veterans in appreciation for their service as teams of volunteers transformed 10 homes within a Boynton Beach neighborhood on Friday, November 5 through Habitat’s ongoing Neighborhood Revitalization program powered

by Vertical Bridge Holdings. Volunteers installed new mailboxes, spread mulch, planted landscaping and assisted with other repairs and clean up for homes owned by veterans, homes in which veterans are residing with their families and homes of families who have inherited their homes from WWII veterans.

More than 120 corporate and civic team members from sponsoring companies participated in the HFHSPBC’s 2021 VETERANS BUILD presented by Vertical Bridge in Partnership with the City of Boynton Beach. The initiative was made possible by a generous gift from Vertical Bridge, grant funding from Mate-

rials Sponsor Home Depot Foundation & Team Depot and home sponsors that included Vertical Bridge, FPL, Home Depot, Moraca Builders, City of Boynton Beach, City of Boynton Beach Police Department and others. It was orchestrated in close collaboration of Habitat for Humanity of South Palm Beach County and the City of Boynton Beach’s City Manager, City Commissioners, and its Departments of Economic Development & Strategy, Police Services, Community Standards, Parks & Recreation and Building.

“Vertical Bridge is proud to once again sponsor Habitat for Humanity’s Veterans Build this year,” said Alex Gellman, CEO and Co-Founder of Vertical Bridge. “This is our fifth year sponsoring the Habitat Veterans Build, and we continue to support this cause because it’s one our company believes in and our employees enjoy participating in. We appreciate the work Habitat for Humanity of South Palm Beach County does for our veterans and community and the opportunity they provide us to give back. By bringing together the community to improve the homes

of 10 veterans and seniors, we get to positively impact the lives of those who have laid their lives on the line for our nation.”

Morning program opened with welcome remarks made by HFHSPBC President & CEO Jennifer Thomason. The lunch program featured a presentation of the colors by the Boynton Beach High School MCJROTC, remarks

by City of Boynton Beach, Vice Mayor Woodrow L. Hay, District II, recognition of all veterans present at the event with the challenge coin presentation by City of Boynton Beach Vice Mayor, Woodrow L. Hay and U.S. Army Veteran Sophia E. Eccleston who currently serves as an External Affairs (EA) manager for Florida Power and Light Company (FPL) in Palm Beach County. Featured keynote speaker was William Barton, a 99-year-old, WWII Army veteran who was stationed at Camp Edwards in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He worked as a truck driver and in maintenance while serving. After the war, Mr. Barton went to night school and got his Associates Degree and then moved to Boynton Beach with his beloved wife Mary. They were married for over 60 years. The Barton’s raised three sons and one daughter in their home in the Cherry Hills Community.

The family was instrumental in preserving what is known today as the Barton Memorial Park Cemetery, originally an unofficial burial place for Boynton’s black community. Concerns were raised in the 1970s over the poor condition

of the cemetery. It appears an attempt was made to clean it up in 1974 but by 1978 it was again in a poor condition. Some of the main campaigners to have the cemetery cleaned up was the Barton family, whose son, Alton, is buried there and after whom the site is named. Mr. Barton also served as Chairman over the Deacons at New Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church of Boynton Beach.

As an affiliate of the global nonprofit organization Habitat for Humanity, Habitat for Humanity of South Palm Beach County brings people together to build homes, community and hope in the cities of Boynton Beach, Delray Beach and Boca Raton, Florida. The nonprofit builds because it believes that everyone everywhere should have a safe, decent and affordable place to call home, especially those hard-working, low income families who have yet been able to qualify for traditional mortgage financing. To give a “hand-up, never a hand-out”, the 501(c) (3) organization depends upon volunteer labor and tax-deductible donations of money, materials, services and property to fulfill its mission.

To learn more about HFHSPBC, its home build sponsorships, corporate team builds, fundraising events, year-round volunteer opportunities and donations to our home improvement and thrift shop ReStores in Boca Raton and Delray Beach. visit www.HabitatSouthPalmBeach.org or contact Marta Knowles at mknowles@hfhboca.org or 561.819.6070 ext. 208.

2021-22 Read Together Palm Beach County Book Announced at Love of Literacy Luncheon: The Story of Arthur Truluv Compassion in the face of loss and intergenerational acceptance. These are the themes of the 2021-22 Read Together Palm Beach County book, announced today at the 30th Annual Love of Literacy Luncheon. The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg is about an unlikely friendship that develops among three people, all of whom have lost the one they love most. The countywide reading campaign kicks off today and wraps up on April 1, 2022, at the 31st Annual Love of Literacy Luncheon, where Berg will be the featured speaker.

Berg is the author of many bestselling novels. In addition to The Story of Arthur Truluv, she penned Open House, an Oprah’s Book Club selection, Talk Before Sleep, The Year of Pleasures, and The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted, a short story collection. Her books Durable Goods and Joy School are American Library Association Books of the Year. Berg also adapted The Pull of the Moon into a play that enjoyed sold-out performances in ChicaCommunity

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go and Indianapolis. Her work is published in thirty countries, and three of her novels became television movies.

The 13th Read Together Palm Beach County campaign, coordinated by the Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County, encourages adults to read the same book at the same time. The goal of the “one-book, one-community” campaign is to get people engaged in discussing the themes of the book and to help entice those who can read, but seldom do, to get in the habit of reading again.

The Literacy Coalition and libraries throughout the county are planning book discussions and events through April 1, 2022, as part of the Campaign. The Story of Arthur Truluv is out in paperback and is readily accessible at libraries and bookstores. The book can also be purchased through the Literacy Coalition for a $10 donation.

For more details, visit www.literacypbc.org or call 561-279-9103.

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6 - Edition 539 The Boca Raton Tribune EDITORIALS & LETTERS East/West Boca Raton, FL

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By C. Ron Allen

WW 2 Veteran: “Oh, how much time has changed” When state transportation officials were building Interstate 95 through Boynton Beach in the 1970s, they bought property on top of a segregation-era burial ground.

William Barton, whose 6-year-old son, Alton, was buried there, was not about to let progress squeeze him out.

“We had to put our foot down,” William Barton, 99, a World War II veteran said at a luncheon honoring veterans recently. “A lot of people were buried there, and we were not going to let them disrespect those graves.”

State and city officials ironed out a plan that resulted in the interstate narrowly bypassing the graveyard. Shortly after, the city officially recognized the wooded area as Barton Cemetery, in honor of his wife, Mary Barton.

A driver in the U.S. Army, Barton shared vivid memories of fighting segregation and racism. He told how while returning home from recruit training at Camp Edwards in Massachusetts, he had to switch to the “colored coach” on the train at The Mason-Dixie line to comply with Maryland law. A similar episode occurred on the bus from West Palm Beach to Boynton Beach when the driver noticed a white service-

man sitting and chatting with Barton in the rear and demanded the white man move to the front.

The luncheon culminated a day of service where more than 100 volunteers braved the inclement weather to give a facelift to 10 homes in the Cherry Hill community, including some that were owned by veterans.

The Habitat for Humanity of South Palm Beach County Veterans Build service event brought smiles to the homeowners’ faces.

“My husband would be so happy, just seeing this now,” Eula Smith said as she opened her door and saw her completed lawn. “They did a beautiful job.”

Members of the local chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and KOP Mentoring Network adopted the home in the 300 block of Northwest 12th Avenue. They laid mulch around trees and did some other cosmetic work. They will return in two weeks to finish the sprucing up.

“Alpha Phi Alpha is proud to join Habitat for Humanity in helping honor these veterans,” said Demetrius Thomas, of the organization’s Omicron Upsilon Lambda chapter. “We are excited to be here. We just wished we could have done some painting

today but because of the weather…. We will be back to finish it though.”

Much credit to Habitat for Humanity in believing that every veteran family deserves a decent place to call home. The Christian organization empowers veterans through home ownership opportunities, critical home repairs and camaraderie building events, such as Friday’s build.

Barton, who lives in the neighborhood and is a deacon in his church, told the audience how, as a young man, Boynton Beach police officers harassed him. On one occasion, he said, a patrolman ticketed him for speeding.

“He was drunk as a skunk, and he said I was speeding. I know darn well, I wasn’t speeding,” Barton told the audience. “I told him, ‘I’m getting tired of you bothering me.

I wasn’t speeding.’”

The officer responded, “That’s what they all said,” Barton recalled.

Barton told his boss about the encounter. His boss, who was white, called the police chief A. C. “Boots” Carver to complain.

He elicited much laughter when he compared “back in my days” to today. For example, he said when a white woman asked to take a photo with him at the lun-

cheon, he gladly agreed. Still, for a quick moment, he had flashback of the past.

“Times have surely changed,” he said, adding, “You better believe it.

“Back in my days, I could never be caught having dinner with a white woman. You remember Emmett Till? Can you imagine what would have happened to me then?”

The battered and bloated body of the 14-year-old Till was fished from the muddy waters of the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi. He was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered on August 28, 1955, for having whistled at a white woman.

What was most alarming and heartwarming to Barton was knowing that the officers from the Boynton Beach Police Department adopted one of the homes and spruced it up.

“It warms my heart to hear that,” he said. “Back in my days when the police came up here, it was to take people away, not to help them.

“I saw where we have a black chief now,” he added. “I never thought I would have ever seen that in my lifetime. Oh, how much time has changed.”

C. Ron Alen can be reached at 561-6650151 or crallen@Delraybeachtribune.com.

POSITIVE LIVING By: Dr. Synesio Lyra

Cultivating a Peaceful Disposition Insecure individuals suffer from an inability to adapt themselves to a variety of life situations; they avoid anything and anyone unfamiliar to them. By nature, they are often combative as well, when people and situations don’t match their pre-conceived molds.

These personalities literally suspect and dislike a large number of the persons they must interact with. It starts with family, and extends to many others they cannot avoid in society, such as doctors, hairdressers, insurance agents, sales clerks, just to name very few.

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Naturally, it is most reasonable that humans should be on their guard, to avoid unnecessary intrusions from undesirable manipulators or unscrupulous agents of any kind. But living with suspicion of anyone or anything is more a mark of bondage than a display of the freedom and courage all human creatures can enjoy.

People should carefully choose their battles, and fight each one to win. But being isolated from others, or displaying a resistant attitude all the time, will often lead to defeat far more than to gen-

uine conquest!

If we cut ourselves from others, we not only miss what others may have to offer us, but we also limit our influence, by keeping them from receiving what we are able to share! One will hardly impact others if suspicious of them; neither will one receive the benefits those persons are capable of providing.

Most of our fears are imaginary, not real. Some people spend more time and energy engaging in fictitious warfare, instead of reserving all their resources to fight and win the real, tangible battles

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that will occasionally assail them.

Avoid adding fuel to any fire, or starting unworthy conflicts. A life lived in perpetual suspicion is a life half-lived; it is a form of imprisonment which can damage any individual!

Choose to cultivate a peaceful disposition, giving one’s self the security needed to face people and the multiple situations life forces us into. Avoid living on a “minus” sign; instead, let each new day manifest a “plus” life, lived not in fear nor in defeat but from victory unto victory!

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By Robert Weinroth

South Florida Science Center Launches Capital Expansion with $20 Million Lead Gift and New Name County Commissioner Robert Weinroth attended the celebration where the leadership for the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium announced impressive expansion plans today along with a name change, thanks to a record donation from Palm Beach residents Howard and Wendy Cox. Their $20 million lead gift launches a capital campaign to take the new Cox Science Center and Aquarium into the future with plans for an additional 130,000 total square feet of space for programming including science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) awareness and education.

The Coxs’ gift is the largest single gift in the Center’s 60-year history and serves as the keystone for a $45 million expansion campaign.

“The Science Center has long served as an iconic educational and cultural resource for visitors of all ages and backgrounds in our community,” said Howard Cox. “Wendy and I are committed to helping provide it with the resources it needs to fulfill its mission. Home to the nation’s 10thlargest public school system, Palm Beach County is more than worthy of a top-10 environment outside of the classroom to foster STEM education and knowledge for children from all socioeconomic backgrounds. We hope our gift will inspire contributions to the capital campaign by others in the community and increase awareness of the new Cox Science Center’s offerings and value to the greater South Florida region.”

Surrounded by colorful renderings of the Center’s exciting expansion plans, Cox Science Center President and CEO Kate Arrizza, along with Palm Beach County Mayor Dave Kerner, City of West Palm Beach Mayor Keith James and Board Chair Lew Crampton, delivered the news to a cheering crowd of supporters, dignitaries and media. The group assembled outdoors at the Center’s Cox Amphitheater for a front-row seat to the history-making news as they ceremoniously unveiled the new Cox Science Center logo.

“This transformative gift will allow us to offer Palm Beach County residents and visitors the Science Center they deserve,” said Arrizza. “This investment in facilities and exhibits will take our Center to new heights in terms of our visitor engagement and financial performance. The new Cox Science Center offers far greater capacity to provide cutting-edge STEM education programs both on-site and virtually through a range of digital platforms. In short, it allows us to empower the

next generation of STEM leaders and truly fulfill our mission to ‘open every mind to science’.”

Expansion plans include renovated spaces, a new three-story science pavilion visible from I-95, new outdoor exhibition spaces and one of Florida’s largest indoor aquariums. The new Cox Science Center is on track to serve more than 600,000 visitors and program participants annually, including thousands more through virtual programming, inspiring and educating them and advancing the local economy.

As design and fundraising plans continue, construction on the expansion is anticipated to begin in early 2023 and the Center expects to remain open for education and enjoyment during construction phases. A grand opening to the public is targeted for 2025.

Leading the campaign efforts on behalf of the Science Center is chairman of the board and Palm Beach resident, Lew Crampton.

“In 2017 our board and staff developed a strategic plan to position us to go from ‘good to great’ by 2025,” said Crampton. “We envisioned a multi-phase approach to improving and expanding facilities and enhancing the visitor experience.

The first two phases of that strategy were completed in 2019 and 2020 with the opening of ‘Journey Through the Human Brain’ and the Cox Amphitheater. The final phase was envisioned as a major expansion of the Center’s facilities, and we are so grateful to Wendy and Howard for their support in helping us officially launch that final expansion phase today.”

Other important partners in the expansion include broad Science Center board support, Harvard Jolly Architecture, Hedrick Brothers Construction, Roto, H2R Market Research, George Philanthropy Group, EMS Consulting, Hall Aquatic Design and Science Center staff.

The name change to Cox Science Center and Aquarium takes effect immediately. Honoring the Science Center’s transformative evolution will be the centerpiece of the institution’s Diamond Anniversary Gala – 60 Years of Science: An Electrifying Experience. Hosted at the Center on December 4, guests are invited to learn more and support the campaign while enjoying high-voltage entertainment, captivating cuisine and artisan cocktails.

The evening will recognize six decades of support from the hardworking individuals who brought the Center to this moment while it looks to an exciting future.

Rebuilding your Reputation We all make mistakes. Sometimes we make big ones. In business, when you make a big mistake, your employees, customers, suppliers, and sometimes even the media, learn about and communicate your mistakes to others. Mistakes can greatly damage our reputation and undermine our growth opportunities. It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but it can be destroyed in an instant.

However, these mistakes can help us learn and become better people and workers, even as the fallout from our bad decisions and actions lingers, sometimes for years.

Rebuilding one’s reputation isn’t easy.

It takes time and consistent effort. We find one of the best examples of this in the Bible – the person of Saul, the persecutor of Christians, who became Paul, the Christian evangelist. In Acts 9:22 we read about his dramatic and unlikely transformation after a unique encounter with Jesus Christ while traveling to the city of Damascus: “But Saul increased all the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus was the Christ.”

How did he rebuild his reputation? Basically, he followed a three-step process of humbly confessing his mistakes, doing the hard work and finding an advocate. Let’s look at each of these: The first step Paul took was to confess his mistakes. We read about this in Acts 22:19, when Paul confessed his past sins: “‘Lord,’ I replied, ‘these people know that I went from one synagogue to another to imprison and beat those who believe in you.’”

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mistakes, without making excuses. A humble and genuine confession, instead of a cover-up or trying to offer justification, will be your first step in restoring your reputation.

Paul’s second step was to enhance his reputation by doing the hard work of building trust. This is usually a slow process, but we need to. demonstrate and live a changed life, day-in and day-out. When we make promises, then follow through on them, it rebuilds trust and begins to bolster our reputation.

Acts 9:28 says, “So Saul stayed with (the disciples) and moved about freely in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in the name of the Lord.” If you desire to restore your reputation, make the commitment to do the hard work of building trust day after day after day – for as long as it takes.

The final step Paul used was to find an advocate, someone to stand up on his behalf and vouch for the positive change in his life.

Understandably, Jesus’ disciples didn’t want to meet, hear or see Paul. He had been their arch enemy, persecuting and imprisoning their brothers and sisters in the faith. They were more likely to believe a leopard could change its spots.

Fortunately, he found an advocate in Barnabas, a courageous leader in the early Church. Acts 9:27 tells us, “But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles.

He told them how Saul on his journey had seen the Lord and that the Lord had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had preached fearlessly in the name of Jesus.”

Because Barnabas was trusted as a man of great integrity, the disciples gave Paul a chance. If you have a damaged reputation and really have changed, find an influential advocate.

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Delray Beach approves settlement Boca Raton Public Library with Florida Department of Announces New Butterfly Garden Health By: Lauren Do Nascimento Delray Beach approved a $1 million settlement with the Florida Department of Health on Nov. 9.

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by WPTV, the city agreed on a settlement over alleged problems with the city’s water program.

The consent order requires the city of Delray Beach to comply with a series of corrective actions.

The order also accuses the city of violating nine violations surrounding the program. Most of the allegations surround the cross-contamination of reclaimed water sources and drinking water.

The state initially proposed a $1.8 million settlement and also wanted Delray Beach to inform citizens that drinking water hasn’t met the standards of the Safe Drinking Water Act for 13 years. The specific language is no longer included in the updated consent order.

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“This opens the door for the next steps in terms of utility operations, infrastructure improvements. Most importantly, an assuredness that a safe environment is available across the board,” says City Manager Terrence Moore.

Under the settlement, the city stated that it has three years to make sure it complies.

The vote came on Nov. 9 after the Florida Department of Health threatened to file a lawsuit in September for stalled negotiations.

Contact 5 spoke with a resident in June after a whistleblower claimed to discover a cross-connection that mixed reclaimed water with her tap water. “I was taken by ambulance to the hospital because of vomiting and diarrhea,” says resident Linda Polly.

Polly stated that she got sick weeks later in January 2019 and believes her illness is attributed to the water.

Boca Raton Public Library is pleased to announce a new butterfly garden located at Pondhawk Natural Area, which is adjacent to the Spanish River Library. The butterfly garden is an exciting addition to the ongoing partnership between the Library, the Palm B e a ch C o u n ty Department of Environmental Resources Management, the City of Boca Raton Recreation Services, and the Friends of the Boca Raton Public Library. Pondhawk is already home to the Library’s award winning StoryWalk, which provides a children’s storybook along a nature trail. Now, people of all ages will enjoy beautiful plants, butterflies, caterpillars, and moths in the butterfly garden located at the entrance to StoryWalk.

All the plants in the butterfly garden are native to Florida. Nectar-producing plants attract butterflies and other animal pollinators, while other plants, such as milkweed,

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provide nourishment for caterpillars. The garden also includes salvia, dune sunflowers, coonties, and more. Visitors to the garden may spot a variety of butterflies, including the zebra longwing, monarch, gulf fritillary, and atala. Although the butterfly garden was just planted in October, caterpillars and butterflies have already been spotted!

The 79-acre Pondhawk Natural Area is maintained by the Palm Beach County Department of Environmental Resources Management. Pondhawk includes a 12-foot-wide multiuse trail for walkers and bicyclists with stunning views of Blue Lake and the birds, lizards and other wildlife that make their home in the 8-acre wetland restoration project. An observation platform provides a close-up look at the wetlands. Pondhawk is open from sunrise to sunset, 365 days a year, and can be accessed through the west parking lot at Spanish River Library.

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Elevate Holiday Cooking With Quick and Easy Tweaks (StatePoint) Holiday cooking and entertaining don’t have to be overly complex to impress. Here are quick, simple ways to elevate your meals for memorable experiences your friends and family will love: Balanced Seasoning Are your go-to family recipes in need of an update? Enhance the flavor profile of savory holiday dishes by swapping out salt and pepper and instead, reaching for Livia’s Seasoning Salt, an all-natural, pre-blended seasoning of kosher salt, coarse-ground black pepper and garlic.

“Livia’s is good on just about everything, which is why it’s the not-so-secret ingredient in a lot my creations,” says Peter Hoff, executive chef and partner, NOLO’s Kitchen & Bar. You can use Livia’s in a number of ways during meal preparation and tableside to give holiday dishes something extra: • Add flair to appetizers by shaking it

into the yolk mixture of deviled eggs or using it to season baked brie.

• Season the outside of your turkey with olive oil and a few liberal shakes of Livia’s, or even create your own brine that will become a treasured recipe of its own.

• Season hams and roasts with it.

• Add it to stuffing and mashed po-

tatoes.

• Update morning egg bake recipes to wow overnight guests.

• Include it on your holiday table so that guests can season their food to taste.

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With a few updates, you can give your standard dessert line-up a touch of elegance. Use fresh ginger in your gingerbread cookies. Create your own crumbs for sprinkling on top of cakes. Garnish slices of pie with a mint or basil sprig or a cinnamon stick. Melt your favorite chocolate and drizzle it on anything.

Up Your Tablescape Game A holiday feast is the perfect time to create a special atmosphere. And you can do so easily by breaking out your best dishes and utensils, as well as by adding a few natural elements to the tablescape, such as poinsettias, holly, evergreens and pinecones.

Ditch the overhead lights and use candles or other warm lighting to create a soft, convivial glow.

You don’t need to overhaul your entire menu to make your holiday feast special.

Make quick, simple tweaks and additions to your existing recipes and entertaining traditions to elevate the occasion.

Illuminating Ideas for Hanging String Lights in Your Backyard (StatePoint) So, you’ve created the backyard of your dreams and love everything about it -- except that seeing your surroundings can sometimes be a challenge once the sun’s gone down. As the days grow shorter and we head into fall, it’s one of the best times of year to enhance your backyard life at night.

While hiring someone to install outdoor lighting can be really expensive and involved, patio string lights are a simple, cost-effective solution. Best of all, you can create a look that reflects your style using any number of patterns.

In a recent episode of “Done-In-A-Weekend Projects” called “Light Up Your Life,” expert landscape designer Doug Scott demonstrated how to hang string lights, as well as discussed what to consider before, and while, doing so. Here are his steps for adding fun, personality and light to your outdoor living and dining spaces: 1. First determine how long your string lights need to be and how many strands you’ll need. The only other materials you’ll need for this project are appropriate, outdoor-grade hardware (such as cup hooks or a similar fastener) and possibly an extension cord.

2. Next you’ll want to sketch your design to make sure you capture what you’re going for and second, to ensure you’re purchasing the correct number and lengths of lights and hooks. For a more relaxed look, you may want a crisscross or free-form pattern. For a more uniform look, you can simply hang lights across the center or around the perimeter of the space.

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“Regardless, just make sure your design represents you and how you want to live outside,” says Scott.

3. When measuring your lights, be sure to add a few feet on each pass to allow for slack. One other thing you’ll want to consider is whether you’ll be able to make light connections in discreet places, ideally where they connect to the wall, post or tree.

“Having a connection in the middle of a swag won’t be the end of the world, but you’ll want to minimize this as much as possible,” says Scott.

4. Install your hooks according to your plan.

Then, hang your lights with the bulbs removed to decrease your chances of breaking them. You’ll also want to make sure that your first strand reaches an outlet, or you have an extension cord that will.

Once you’re satisfied with your general look, install one bulb in each strand to test that everything is working properly. If all is good, install the rest of the bulbs, light them up, then kick back and enjoy.

Need some inspiration to get started? A free downloadable guide from Exmark, which provides helpful illustrations and brief descriptions of five commonly used string light patterns, can be found by visiting Exmark’s Backyard Life at Exmark.com/backyard. There you can also access other original video series, including “Prime Cuts” and “Dream Yards,” to help you make the most of your backyard.

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FAU Brain Institute Launches Graduate Program By: Bethany Alex A collaboration between the Florida Atlantic University Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute and Charles E. Schmidt College of Science has resulted in the launch of a unique partnership to train the next generation of brain scientists through the newly announced Neuroscience Graduate Program (NGP). The innovative, multi-campus Ph.D. program will blend a comprehensive curriculum that ranges from molecules to mind with exceptional research opportunities, and will serve as a key element in FAU’s pursuit of groundbreaking interdisciplinary neuroscience research.

To maximize exposure of students to the full breadth of neuroscience, the program will bring together FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science; Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine; College of Engineering and Computer Science; College of Education; and the Harriet L.Wilkes Honors College, as well as affiliate faculty from Scripps Research Florida and the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience .

“FAU has made a significant investment in the highest level of neuroscience education, seeing this effort as essential to the University’s effort to become a preeminent research and training institute, said Randy Blakely, Ph.D. , executive director, FAU Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute and director of the NGP. “Our program offers our students technologically- oppor-

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tunities that will prepare them to solve some of mankind’s long-standing and complex puzzles – how sensation, emotions and memory rely on, and dynamically alter brain cells; how our successes, failures and social experiences impact the brain; and how prevalent, devastating brain disorders, ranging from depression to Alzheimer’s disease, can be understood and treated,” said Blakely.

NGP students are expected to complete the program within six years, pursuing a curriculum tailored to their career interests with significant time committed to advanced research.

“The program provides our trainees with the flexibility to evaluate research projects and faculty mentors prior to mak-

ing a final decision on the direction of their doctoral research journey,” said Teresa Wilcox, Ph.D., interim dean, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. “NGP students will identify their primary research from among the program’s three areas of research and education emphasis – cellular, molecular and biomedical neuroscience; sensorimotor, cognitive and behavioral neuroscience; and theoretical and computational neuroscience – with each area presenting the opportunity to work across disciplines that are leading advances in neuroscience today,” said Wilcox.

The NGP will initiate activities in January 2022, with student recruitment already underway, welcoming the first cohort for the fall 2022 semester.

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To maximize exposure of students to the full breadth of neuroscience, the program will bring together FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science; Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine; College of Engineering and Computer Science; College of Education; and the Harriet L.Wilkes Honors College, as well as affiliate faculty from Scripps Research Florida and the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience .

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PBSC Alumna Spotlight: Patricia Medina Call her attorney Patricia Medina now.

With her family by her side, the Palm Beach State College alumna and former student trustee was sworn in to the Florida Bar in October by Palm Beach County Circuit Court Judge Scott Kerner. Now, Medina has begun her new role as associate attorney at Acosta & Fraga Law, PLLC, an immigration law firm just minutes from the PBSC Lake Worth campus where she began her higher education journey in 2012.

“I’m working at something I’m passionate about, which is helping people,’’ she said.

Medina’s path to becoming a lawyer highlights the pivotal role PBSC plays in transforming the lives of its students. She credits much of her success to the support she received as a student and continues to get from staff and faculty.

“I can honestly say going to Palm Beach State changed my life and my family’s life,’’ said the married mother of an adult twin son and daughter, who earned her Associate in Arts degree as an Honors College student in 2015. “My husband and I were students at Palm Beach State.

My children were students at Palm Beach State. We’re a Palm Beach State family.”

Medina graduated from Howard University School of Law in May 2020, and after a year of preparation, she passed the Florida Bar Exam on the first attempt this past July. Only 44 percent of the 3,343 people who took the state’s online remote bar exam that month, passed, according

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She graduated debt free, thanks to landing a Graduate Scholarship in 2017 from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, w h i ch p a i d up to $50,000 a year for up to four years of her law school education. That was the second s ch o l a r s h i p Medina had landed from the prestigious foundation. She also had received the Cooke Foundation’s Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship, which paid up to $40,000 per year to cover up to three years of the expenses for her bachelor’s degree in religious studies, which she completed at Stetson University in 2017.

Had it not been for her decision to enroll at PBSC to pursue her education and to set an example for her children who were entering high school, she may not have known about the scholarship. “They were in high school, and I felt like a hypocrite. I

was telling them they were going to college, and I had never gone. I figured that was a perfect opportunity to start,’’ Medina said.

Jerinae Speed, former director of PBSC’s Student Support Services TRIO Program, and Dr. Roxanna Anderson, a for mer professor, wrote letters of recommendation both times for the Cooke scholarship, which widened the doors of opportunity for Medina.

After enrolling at PBSC, Medina recalled sitting in Speed’s office pondering her career direction. One thing Medina knew for sure is that she wanted to help and advocate for people. After a twohour conversation, they decided she would become a lawyer, ditching Medina’s original idea of getting an A.S. degree in Human Services.

“I didn’t know what shape that would take,’’ Medina said, citing the Trayvon Martin case that she said “angered me

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because I didn’t see justice being done. I wanted to do criminal justice, but I wasn’t sure what side I wanted to be on. Immigration law just kind of fell into my lap. The day I got sworn in Ms. Speed said, ‘you wanted to help people, and now you’re going to do that.’”

Medina was active on campus, serving as editor of the Beachcomber student newspaper and of “Sabiduría,” the Honors College academic, peer-reviewed online journal.

She was a member of Phi Theta Kappa International Honors Society and a volunteer on the Human Trafficking Awareness Committee on the Lake Worth campus. A crowning moment during her tenure at PBSC was when she was selected student trustee for the 2014-2015 academic year and served on the search committee that led to the District Board of Trustees’ selection of Ava L. Parker, an attorney herself, as PBSC’s fifth president and first female.

While at Stetson and Howard, Medina remained focused on her academics while also remaining active on campus. While in law school, she served on the Huver I. Brown Trial Advocacy Moot Court Team for two years, including captain her second year. She completed three internships, including at the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, with U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson and then with boutique law firm Hunter and Johnson, PLLC. She said attending Howard University School of Law was a “dream school.”

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Boca Woods Country Club Supports Boca Helping Hands

Boca Woods Country Club members came together for a great cause, collecting food and donations for Boca Helping Hands Thanksgiving Box Brigade.

This year members donated 34 boxes and $14,691 to the cause.

Boca Woods Philanthropic Co-Chair, Annie Berman said “Run by a small, committed staff and the devoted time of vol-

unteers, Boca Helping Hands is an organization that does so much for so many.

Our members are honored to be a part of the Thanksgiving Box Brigade, and to come together as a club, giving back to our local community”.

For more infor mation on Boca Helping Hands, go to www.bocahelpinghands.org.

Cultural Council for Palm Beach County Grants $212,500 to 24 Small or Emerging Organizations The Cultural Council for Palm Beach County recently announced that it will administer funding in the amount of $212,500 to 24 small or e m e r g i n g c u l t u ral organizations in Palm Beach County for fiscal year 20212022. The motion wa s a p p r ove d a t the Cultural Council’s board of directors meeting on Sept. 29, 2021.

Since 1998, the Palm Beach Board of County Commissioners has designated funding to finance cultural activities and education throughout the county. The Cultural Development Fund for Small or Emerging Cultural Organizations is open to nonprofit organizations with operating revenues of at least $25,000. It is funded through ad valorem tax and is one of three public grant programs that the Council administers.

“This annual funding program supports diverse arts programming from

Palm Beach County organizations who focus on preserving cultural heritages and traditions,” said Dave Lawrence, the Council’s president & CEO. “These prog rams provide opportunities to children and youth and create opportunities for residents to experience culturally-diverse, innovative programs.

We’re g rateful to the Board of County Commissioners for their continued support and are honored to help these organizations grow into stronger institutions that serve our community.”

Grant award amounts are based on the organizations’ budget size, grant application score and the FY22 Countyapproved funding pool of $212,500. A panel of community volunteers met virtually to review and score grant applications (based on excellence and impact) before making recommendations to the Cultural Council’s board of directors for final approval.

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McDougle Technical Institute Children’s Foundation of PB Offering Free Services To Veterans County Plans Walk for More than And All Active Duty Military In 30 Children’s Charities November McDougle Technical Institute is offering free services during the entire month of November to all veterans and active duty military. Services include shampoo, haircut, barber services, facials, manicures and pedicures. This special is available Tuesday through Friday and by appointment only. Appointments for services can be made by calling (954) 972-0635.

Those interested must present their Military ID. “We enjoy being able to provide complimentary services to veterans and active duty military in our community as part of MTI’s Beauty of Philanthropy program,” said McDougle Technical Institute Founder Octavia McDougle.

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students build career and college pathways while pursuing their passion with diverse programs that combine theory and handson practice to give them the skills and experience to have an opportunity to succeed. McDougle Technical Institute prides itself on blending traditional student life experiences such as athletics, housing, travel opportunities and internships with in demand vocational and degree programs that lead to gainful employment.

McDougle Technical Institute is located at 1901 N Federal Highway #201 in Pompano Beach. For more information, please visit www.mti.edu or call 954-972-0635. Visit us on Instagram @mcdougletech.

Adults and kids alike are invited to “Walk the Walk” to support local children’s charities with the Children’s Foundation of Palm Beach County. The organization’s First Annual Walk the Walk at the Palm Beaches Marathon is happening on Saturday, December 11 at 10 a.m. at the Meyers Amphitheater, 104 Datura Street, West Palm Beach.

The walk will take place on Flagler Drive, along the waterfront. Funds raised will go to support specific programs at more than 30 local children’s non-profit organizations.

The funfest will include food stations with popcorn, pretzels and funnel cakes along with children’s activities including balloon animals, face painting, action videos and more. Parking opens at 8 a.m. Registration begins at 9 a.m.

Interested parties can register at https://childrensfoundationpbc.org/2021-walk-the-walk/. Ticket prices are $50 for adults and $25 for kids under age 12. VIP tickets, which include a special hospitality tent, as well as valet parking, are $100. All participants will receive a medal and gifts.

“Not only will this event fund programs for at risk children in our area, it’s a wonderful morning of family fun and activities,” said Pamela Weinroth, Executive Director of the Children’s Foundation of Palm Beach County.

Event co-chairs are Yvonne Ackerman,

Sharyn Frankel, Michelle Gluckow, Linda Schaps, and Barbara Stoller Wittenstein. Visit childrensfoundationpbc.org or call 561-488-6980 to become a sponsor or register to walk.

About The Children’s Foundation of Palm Beach County The Children’s Foundation of Palm Beach County was initiated in 2010 as a not for profit 501(c)3 charitable organization, whose mission is to identify and fund projects in the Boca Raton and Palm Beach County areas to aid at-risk children and their families in need. Since its inception, the Foundation has raised more than $16 million dollars to fund specific programs of more than 30 local charitable organizations. All of these monies have gone to projects and not into general funds. The Foundation has fed, clothed, provided medical and dental services, kept abuse shelters open, sent at-risk children to summer camp and much more.

Each year, Children’s Foundation of Palm Beach County serves more than 9,000 children and its volunteers give 45,000 hours of their time each year to the more than 30 charities with which the organization works.

For more information, visit childrensfoundationpbc.org, call 561-488-6980 or email foundation@childrensfoundationpbc.org.

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A lyrical exploration of loneliness and longing, sweet dreams and bitter truths, determination, and resiliency.

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Nine vignettes connected by time and place, the beauty of the aurora borealis, a touch of magic, and a spirit of hope.

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FAU University Galleries Presents PBA Rinker School of Business Hosts Distinguished Economist Art Laffer “2021 Biennial Faculty Art Exhibition” The University Galleries in the Doro- tive Museum Education Program offering thy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters interactive exhibition tours for schools and at Florida Atlantic University will present other groups by appointment. The Gallerthe “2021 Biennial Faculty Art Exhibition” ies’ Museum Education Program is recfrom Friday, Nov. 12, 2021 through Satur- ognized by the School District of Palm day, Jan. 29, 2022 in the Schmidt Center Beach County as an approved field experiGallery, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton cam- ence provider. For more information conpus. An opening reception will take place tact Kaila Rutherford, Museum Education on Friday, Nov. 12 from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. at Coordinator, at UGMuseumEd@fau.edu.

The University Galleries are open the Schmidt Center Gallery. All programs, including the opening reception, are free Tuesday through Friday from 1 to 4 p.m. and open to the public. Due to the surge and Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. The Schmidt in COVID-19 cases and the delta variant, Center Gallery is located in the Performing all patrons regardless of vaccination status Arts building (building 51), near the Livare expected to wear masks while indoors ing Room Theaters. The Ritter Art Gallery in any FAU facilities, including classrooms. is in building 39, on the second floor of the Breezeway, east Anyone exhibitof the Wimberly Liing flu-like sympbrary. Daytime vistoms (coughing, feitors can obtain a ver, shortness of temporary one-day breath) will be asked 2021 Biennial Faculty parking pass online to leave the venue for $5 at http:// to support the safeArt Exhibition” from parking.fau.edu, or ty and protection of Friday, Nov. 12, 2021 in person at the Inthe university comformation Booth munity. through Saturday, at FAU’s main enThis exhibition Jan. 29, 2022 in the trance. Visitors can features the works use the parkof more than 20 Schmidt Center Gallery also ing meters which FAU faculty memcost $2 per hour. bers who simulMeters can be paid taneously continby downloading the ue their practice as Parkmobile app, or professional artists.

Participating artists include faculty from with credit card, debit card or exact paper FAU’s Department of Visual Arts and Art currency (no change is given). Parking for History and the School of Communication the opening event is free in designated parkand Multimedia Studies within the Doro- ing lots.

2021-22 University Galleries Exhibithy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters; the School of Architecture within the tions and Programs are supported by the College for Design and Social Inquiry; and Isadore and Kelly Friedman University the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College. The Galleries Fund; Cultural Council for Palm exhibition presents a variety of media in- Beach County; and Florida Department of cluding drawing, painting, sculpture, instal- State Division of Arts and Culture and the lation, photography and digital media. Ma- Florida Council on the Arts and Culture. ny of the faculty artists have had solo and Museum Education Programs made posgroup exhibitions in local, national and in- sible by the Kaye Arts Integration Endowternational venues while others have works ment.

For additional information, visit www. featured in major private and museum colfau.edu/galleries or call 561-297-2661. lections.

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Distinguished economist Dr. Art B. audience to imagine if the government gave Laffer connected past and present, explain- a billion dollars to every person.

“What do you think would happen ing his case that lower taxes lead to greater if the government actually did this? Why prosperity for all.

He spoke to more than 300 business work?”

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Business students “This is exearlier in the day. actly what is hapLaffer’s ecopening,” Laffer nomic acumen said. and influence By taking in trig gering a worldwide tax-cutting movement in the from someone who has more and giving 1980s have earned him the distinction in it to someone who has less, “You reduce many publications as “The Father of Sup- that person’s incentive to produce,” Laffer ply-Side Economics.” Laffer was a mem- said. “It’s math.”

The economist also drew on histober of President Ronald Reagan’s Economic Policy Advisory Board for both terms, a ry to make his case for lower taxes. In the 1920 presidential member of the Exelection, which folecutive Commitlowed World War I, tee of the Reagan/ Distinguished Warren G. Harding Bush Finance Comran on a promise to mittee in 1984 and economist Dr. Art cut tax rates for a a founding memB. Laffer connected “return to normalber of the Reagan cy,” while his oppoExecutive Advipast and present, nent, Ohio Goversor y Committee explaining his case nor James M. Cox for the presidential pledged to keep tax race of 1980. He althat lower taxes lead rates high to pay so advised Prime to greater prosperity off debt. Harding Minister Margaret crushed Cox. Thatcher on fiscal for all.

Harding slowpolicy in the United ly lowered tax rates, Kingdom during the and “the U.S. econ1980s.

High taxes lead to economic collapse, a omy boomed like you’d never seen before,” rise in unemployment and lower quality of Laffer said. The Roaring Twenties followed.

When Herbert Hoover took office in life for the poor, Laffer said. The rich earn less and shelter what they do earn, so that, 1929, Congress passed the Smoot-Haw“Whenever they raise taxes on the rich, the ley Act, which imposed heavy tariffs on imported goods to encourage U.S. indusrich pay less in taxes.”

State-level data offer supporting evi- try and protect American labor. Instead, dence that higher taxes don’t lead to bet- the stock market crashed, unemployment ter results, Laffer said. Eleven states have soared and there was a run on banks, Lafadopted income tax since the 1960s, and fer said. Instead of backing off, Hoover dethose states are also the ones with the slow- cided more taxes were the answer.

“There wasn’t a tax they didn’t find to est-growing population, he said. Lawmakers who set tax rates reason that they need raise,” Laffer said.

When John F. Kennedy succeeded the money to provide public services, such as roads, police and schools. But according President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the U.S. to external measures only two states saw was lagging behind Russia, Laffer said, but slight improvements to education, Laffer Kennedy cut tax rates, grew the economy and improved defense, sparking “the go-go said, while the others saw a decline.

“They didn’t even get the public ser- 60s.” The four presidential administrations vices they had suffered so long for,” Laf- that followed were “tragically-flawed,” Laffer asserted. fer said.

But every time Laffer was depressed Today, the U.S. is in the midst of a spending crisis, with the debt-to-gross do- about the state of affairs, there was somemestic product ratio rising dramatically and thing “really wonderful” ahead, he said.

Said Laffer: “Taxes have consequences a huge transfer of wealth to people who are paid not to work, Laffer said. He asked the and so do elections.”

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FAU Names New Dean of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine Florida Atlantic University has named Julie G. Pilitsis, M.D., Ph.D., as the new dean of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine. Pilitsis, who currently serves as division chief of functional neurosurgery and chair and professor of the basic neuroscience department at Albany Medical College (AMC) in New York, will assume her role as dean effective February 2022. AMC is an integral component of the Albany Medical Center, the only academic center in northeastern New York and western New England.

As dean of FAU’s Schmidt College of Medicine, one of 155 accredited allopathic (M.D.) medical schools in the United States, Pilitsis will build upon the success of the college’s innovative medical student and graduate medical education programs in partnership with a consortium of five Palm Beach County hospitals. In addition, she will spearhead the college’s vibrant research focus areas, which include healthy aging; geriatrics and neuroscience; chronic pain and opioid use; and genomics and precision medicine.

“We are very excited to welcome Dr. Julie Pilitsis to the Schmidt College of Medicine and to our FAU family as we embark on the next phase of success for our burgeoning medical school,” said FAU President John Kelly. “She has made significant contributions at the national level in medicine, education, advocacy and research and will be an outstanding leader and mentor for our students, faculty and staff. We are extremely grateful to Dr. Stella Batalama, chair of the search committee and dean of our College of Engineering and Computer Science; search committee member Dr. Michael Dennis, chair of our College of Medicine’s advisory board and a former member of the FAU Board of Trustees; and to all of the search committee members for their efforts on identifying our new medical school’s dean. We also extend our gratitude to Dr. Sarah Wood for serving as interim dean of the Schmidt College of Medicine.”

As chair of the Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics at AMC, Pilitsis oversees departmental teaching programs, including graduate school, research and outreach programs such as community service, translational research efforts, alumni relations and development.

Together with a colleague, she designed an interprofessional (M.D., Ph.D., nursing, allied health) team-based master’s degree curriculum in clinical investigation. During her tenure, the department’s grant funding has increased tenfold; academic productivity, as measured by publications, has increased fourfold; and graduate students who self-identify as underrepresented in medicine have increased by 40 percent.

In her role as division chief of functional neurosurgery at AMC, Pilitsis developed the service line of functional neurosurgery, a subspecialty of neurosurgery aimed at improving quality of life, which includes multidisciplinary pain/movement disorder teams. Currently, the group performs 650 operative procedures annually and are participating in several industry-sponsored device trials and investigator-driven trials. She also developed and directs a functional neurosurgery fellowCommunity

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ship program. The philanthropic fund related to her specialty has doubled in size during her tenure. Further, she has worked with administration to develop a system-wide plan for multi-disciplinary chronic pain services across multiple hospitals.

Pilitsis is the co-founder and co-director of the Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP) at AMC, which assists in the academic development of faculty and supports professional and leadership development activities. In this role, she identified and recruited stakeholders needed to bring these programs to fruition, developed the curriculum and evaluation process, and co-directed the program. To date, 70 faculty have completed the program with 70 percent female graduates and in some classes as many as 20 percent of the graduates self-identify as historically underrepresented in medicine. For her efforts on the JFDP initiatives, she received the AMC Mentorship and Innovation in Clinical Education Award.

A successful physician scientist and fundraiser through philanthropy, grants and contracts, Pilitsis is a national leader across multiple organizations including the North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS), which has approximately 2,000 members. She has mentored more than 150 students through translational research projects and has more than 200 published articles to her credit including four textbooks. She currently serves as specialty editor of Frontiers in Pain Research: Neuromodulatory Interventions and has been recognized with the “Pain Paper of the Year” by the journal Neurosurgery for the past three years.

Her national leadership positions include serving as chair of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons (AANS/CNS) Section Pain (2013-2015); the AANS/CNS Section Women in Neurosurgery (2013-2014); the American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (ASSFN) (Treasurer 2020-2022); North American Neuromodulation Society (Treasurer 2020-2021); Women in Neuromodulation (2014-2016); and International Neuromodulation Society Board of Directors.

Pilitsis is likely to serve as chair of three of seven AANS/CNS sections – one of the first neurosurgeons to have done so. Further, she has directed national mentorship programs for medical students in Women in Neurosurgery and for residents and fellows in ASSFN. Pilitsis has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 2009 and has been a principal investigator on multiple grants exceeding $7 million. She received more than $2.5 million in grant funding from industry partners, and she holds three patents and two filed patent applications. She serves as chair of the medical board for Aim Robotics, a company founded around her NIH research. She is a frequent speaker at national meetings and at neurosurgical grand rounds across the country. Her TED talk, “So You Want to be a Neurosurgeon,” has had more than 250,000 views and led to an increase in the number and quality of resident applications at AMC. November 19 - November 25, 2021

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SPORTS PBA Men’s Soccer Makes SixthStraight Trip to NCAA Tournament The format for the men’s soccer tourThe Palm Beach Atlantic men’s soccer team is set to continue its season nament has changed in recent years. No as they were selected as a No. 2 seed longer are there eight regions but now four in the NCAA Tournament field after Super Regions that will feed into the nathe bracket was revealed during the tional semifinals. The old South and SouthNCAA Selection Show Monday night. east Regions were combined into SuperThe Sailfish have shown incredible con- Region 2.

PBA is set to host play for the opensistency this season and throughout the years, as they were Sunshine State ing weekend after earning a top-two seed.

Conference regular-season co-champi- No. 7 seed Nova Southeastern (13-2-2, 6-3ons and the postseason birth marks the 1 SSC) will face No. 10 seed Coker (12-6sixth-straight season PBA has made the 2, 5-6 SAC) on Friday, Nov. 19 with the winner playing against a home PBA side NCAA tournament.

The Sailfish ended their regular season on Sunday, Nov. 21 at the Rinker Athletwith 13-2 record and were 9-1 in the al- ic Campus.

Young Harris earned the No. 1 seed ways difficult SSC which had them ranked in Super-Region 2 No. 2 in the nation. and will face the In their last conwinner of No. 8 test, they had their seed Limestone and nine-match winThe Sailfish ended No. 9 seed Lenoirning-streak snapped their regular season Rhyne. Other seeds in the SSC Tournain Super-Region 2 ment Semifinal fallwith 13-2 record and include the No. 4 ing 2-1 to Nova were 9-1 in the always and No. 5 matchup Southeastern deTampa and Auspite the ‘Fish dedifficult SSC which had of burn Montgomery feating the Sharks them ranked No. 2 in and the No. 3 and 4-0 in the regular No. 6 matchup of season. PBA dethe nation.

West Florida and feated three top-15 Chowan. The forranked opponents ty-team field will be during the season trimmed to the fiby a scoreline of 9-0. PBA had three All-SSC First Team se- nal four teams who will meet in Coloralections in Player of the Year Quenzi Huer- do Springs, Colorado with the games beman, Michael Pahr, and Fred Ferreira. Over ing played on Dec. 9-11.

The NSU and Coker match is set to be the six straight seasons of NCAA Tournament appearances, which is the longest played at the Rinker Athletic Campus on streak in the SSC, the Sailfish have a 91- Friday at 3 pm with the winner facing off with the Sailfish on Sunday at 3 pm.

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Owls Add to 2022-23 Incoming Class with Isaiah Gaines

Head coach Dusty May and Florida Atlantic University men’s basketball continue to add to the 2022-23 roster, announcing the signing of junior college forward Isaiah Gaines on Monday.

The 6-7, 225-pound Gaines currently suits up for Northwest Mississippi Community College, and the freshman has started all four games for the 4-0 Rangers. Through his first four JUCO matchups, he is averaging 10.3 points and 5.5 rebounds per game, and is shooting 66.7 percent from the field (16-of-24). He is fourth in scoring, third in rebounding, second with 13 assists, and leads the Rangers with five blocked shots.

Originally hailing from Pensacola, Gaines put up a line of 15.7 points, 9.5 rebounds and 3.8 blocks his senior year at Pensacola High School, while tallying

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12 double-doubles. He ranked among the top five in the state in blocked shots, was a Second Team Class 4A All-State selection and was named 2021 District 1 and Florida Panhandle Player of the Year. He led his Tigers squad to a district championship and regional semifinal appearance, and a 20-3 overall record.

“We are extremely excited to welcome Isaiah Gaines to the FAU basketball family,” said May. “Isaiah is a versatile forward with the ability to excel on both ends of the floor with his length and athleticism.

He comes from a respected high school program and junior college, and we feel his skillset is a perfect fit for our style of play.”

Gaines joins Brenen Lorient, whose signing was announced on Nov. 12, as the first two new members of the Owls’ program for next fall.

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Cassi Pickett named Lynn interim head coach for softball Lynn University Director of Athletics Devin Crosby announced Cassi Pickett has been named interim head softball coach on Wednesday. She will take over head coaching duties from Jill Moore who leaves the Fighting Knights after nine years with the program.

The Chattanooga, Tennessee native joined the Fighting Knights as the assistant softball coach on January 4, 2021, and in less than a year will find herself in the head role with the program.

“I’m excited to lead this team and build a culture built on spirit, service and strength,” Pickett said.

“I am extremely honored and very thankful to lead the Lynn softball program.”

Prior to joining the Fighting Knights, Pickett served as the assistant softball coach at Union College in Barbourville, Kentucky during the 2020 season.

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East Tennessee State University graduate had a standout softball career and was named to the SoCon All-Freshman Team and the College Sport Madness All-SoCon Second Team. In the 2015 season, Pickett batted .322 with six homers and 25 RBIs over 42 games. She led ETSU in walks (17) and onbase percentage (.407) during that year.

After graduating from E T S U, P i c k ett opened and managed Upper Deck Sports, a hitting facility in Piney Flats, Tennessee. Along with her duties in owning and operating the company, Pickett served as the director of the Pride Softball Organization for four years.

Pickett and the Fighting Knights will take the field for the first time on Friday, Feb. 4 with a home doubleheader against Webber International. The opening pitch of the first game is scheduled for 12 p.m.

PBSC Women’s Basketball Earns First Victory in Stunning Fashion Coming off an opening night loss to Miami Dade, Palm Beach Women’s Basketball righted the ship in a big way against Indian River.

The Panthers trailed 36-31 at half time, but never let the lead get too far away before closing the gap in a wild 4th quarter.

A combined total of 53 points were scored during the a back and forth tussle in the 4th.

Late in the 4th and trailing by 9, sophomore guard Andrea Torres took over the game.

Torres would make four straight field goals, including two 3-point shots to tie the game and force an overtime.

In overtime, the Panthers had all of the momentum as they outscored a

stunned Indian River 15-7. Palm Beach shot an astounding 71% from the floor during the OT and made all of their free throws.

Clearly, the player of the game was Andrea Torres, who finished with 29 points, which led the team. She shot 11/16 from the field.

All Palm Beach starters scored double figures -- Kyandra Poitier and Jaylen Ponder both tied for 2nd on the team with 16 each. Ponder led the team with 12 total rebounds.

Palm Beach improves to 1-1 and will travel to Melbourne, FL on Monday to take on undefeated Eastern FL at 5:30 PM.

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