The Boca Raton Tribune ED 547

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Number 547 • Year XI

January 21 - January 27, 2022

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Covid Causes Volunteer Shortage: Volunteers Needed to Feed Underserved

Bernstein Family Foundation Makes $1 Million Gift to Boca Raton Regional Hospital

Home Depot Foundation Surprises Nonprofit with Broadcasting Studio Equipment

Local Young Musicians March In Tournament Of Roses Parade

The City of Boca Raton Receives Bicycle Friendly Community Award

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Peevy named to 2022 Bevo Francis Top 100 Watch List

Future Stars Performing Arts Competition Returns he Rotary Club of Boca Raton, along with host the City of Boca Raton, will present on Sunday, April 3, 2022 at 6:30 p.m. the 18th Annual Future Stars Performing Arts Competition. Thanks to host, the City of Boca Raton, Future Stars will return this year to the beautiful Mizner Park Amphitheater in Downtown Boca Raton.

Future Stars began 19 years ago. Rotary member Rick Taylor’s daughter was then a budding high school vocalist. Rick believed that talented young people like his daughter deserved more and better productions in which to showcase and develop their talents.

Future Stars was born from this goal. The mission of Rotary’s Future Stars Performing Arts Competition is to give South Florida’s talented high school and middle school performers a professional quality production worthy of their amazing talent.

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The recent spike in COVID-19 infections from the Omicron variant continues to create staffing and operational challenges in our community.

Local nonprofit Boca Helping Hands is currently short-handed and in need of volunteers to help feed the community.

• The Rotary Club of Boca Raton, along with host the City of Boca Raton, will present on Sunday, April 3, 2022 at 6:30 p.m. the 18th Annual Future Stars Performing Arts Competition.

Thanks to host, the City of Boca Raton, Future Stars will return this year to the beautiful Mizner Park Amphitheater in Downtown Boca Raton.

• In honor of legendary actress Betty White and her love of animals, Delivery Dudes has announced it will donate a portion of its delivery fees this Sunday and Monday (January 1617) to American Humane, Ms. White’s favorite difference-making charity. All customers have to do is use the code “BETTY” at checkout when ordering those days, and Delivery Dudes will donate a percentage of the delivery fee.

• The recent spike in COVID-19 infections from the Omicron variant continues to create staffing and operational challenges in our community. Local nonprofit Boca Helping Hands is currently short-handed and in need of volunteers to help feed the community.

• The Big Bounce America, home of the only Guinness-certified world record holder of The World’s Largest Bounce House, rolls into Boca Raton, Florida from Friday, January 21st through Sunday, January, 23rd 2022 at Burt Aaronson South County Regional Park. Produced by XL Event Lab, The Big Bounce America is the biggest touring inflatable event in the world and features four massive inflatable attractions. The quartet of inflatables includes the 13,000 sq. ft. World’s Largest Bounce House; Sport Slam, featuring a customized sports arena; an incredible 900+ ft. long obstacle course named The Giant; and a unique, space-themed wonderland called airSPACE. The Big Bounce America continues to turn up the wow-factor and push the limits of family-friendly entertainment to new heights!

• Boca Raton resident Steven E. Bernstein has made a $1 million gift to Keeping the Promise…The Campaign for Boca Raton Regional Hospital. Mr. Bernstein’s contribution emanates from the Bernstein Family Foundation, which he runs with his daughter, Abby Rose Bernstein Henderson.

• The Boca West Children’s Foundation

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BOCA RATON

GENERAL INFORMATION (561) 393-7700

(BWCF) is out to break its record of collecting 100,000 diapers for The Diaper Bank, Covering South Florida, during the BWCF Diaper Drive. Diapers can be ordered online at bocawestfoundation.org/2022-diaper-drive/ or dropped off at Boca West Realty Office, 20583 Boca West Drive, Boca Raton from now until the end of February. Since the start of the Covid 19 pandemic, diaper requests have increased by 27%. Diapers in size 4, 5 and 6 are particularly needed.

• A small, Palm Beach County nonprofit organization was surprised recently with an $8,000 grant, including equipment for a broadcasting studio and unrestricted funds, as part of Home Depot Foundation’s Nationwide Operation Surprise Campaign.

• Within the framework of the month of love and friendship, Teatro Insight active its performances with the monologue, Who is Ela Mor?

by Mirna Gonzalez in Boca Raton.

• Style meets commitment this Valentine’s Day as the Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller hosts a group wedding event at one of the most iconic locations in Palm Beach County.

• Each year on the third Monday of January, America honors the birth, life and dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. To commemorate this day and his legacy, the Women of Color (WOC) and Men of Color (MOC) Associate Resource Groups (ARGs) at Office Depot raised funds for Elevate Together™ powered

by Round It Up America, a nonprofit initiative designed to address systemic discrimination and historical racial disparities in business growth and profitability in Black and Hispanic communities.

• Two West Palm Beach musicians from The Salvation Army’s Florida Brass Band participated in the Tournament of Roses Parade on January 1, 2022, in Pasadena, California.

Trombone player, Lensky Petion and Bradley Calixsti, who plays the cornet, were selected to join other musicians from across the country and the world as part of The Salvation Army’s Tournament of Roses Band. This was the 98th consecutive year that a Salvation Army Band marched in the Parade.

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COMMUNITY Future Stars Performing Arts Competition Returns this April

The Rotary Club of Boca Raton, along with host the City of Boca Raton, will present on Sunday, April 3, 2022 at 6:30 p.m. the 18th Annual Future Stars Performing Arts Competition. Thanks to host, the City of Boca Raton, Future Stars will return this year to the beautiful Mizner Park Amphitheater in Downtown Boca Raton.

Future Stars began 19 years ago. Rotary member Rick Taylor’s daughter was then a budding high school vocalist. Rick believed that talented young people like his daughter deserved more and better productions in which to showcase and develop their talents. Future Stars was born from this goal.

The mission of Rotary’s Future Stars Performing Arts Competition is to give South Florida’s talented high school and middle school performers a professional quality production worthy of their amazing talent.

The live audition for this year’s show is planned for Sunday, February 6, 2022 at Pine Crest School’s Performing Arts Center in Boca Raton. The show also accepts prerecorded audition submissions. The application to audition and show rules are available on The Rotary Club of Boca Raton website at https://rotaryclubbocaraton.com/wpcontent/uploads/2021/11/Future-Stars2022-Audition-Application.pdf. The audition application deadline is January 28, 2022.

At the audition, performers will vie to become finalists in one of the show’s five competition categories: high school and middle school dance solo, high school and middle school vocal solo, and dance group performance. The audition judges will select the 28 finalists who will take the Mizner Park Amphitheater stage on April 3rd.

The City of Boca Raton hosts Future Stars at the City’s beautiful Mizner Park Amphitheater. The event is professionally staged, with rock-star quality sound and light by AEG Live. The Amphitheater is fully tented for our

event and we have ample space for our always enthusiastic audience. Future Stars is a true community event, with all but the front seats free to the public.

The performers in the Future Stars competition represent schools and performance educators from all over South Florida. Middle school and high school students who live in any of the coastal counties from Monroe County to Brevard County are eligible to audition. Many Future Stars alumni have gone on to college-level study at prestigious music and dance programs and to professional careers in the performing arts.

The Rotary Club of Boca Raton annually awards a need-based performing arts scholarship, and has over the years helped many Future Stars participants with scholarship assistance so they could follow their dream of a career in the performing arts.

The judges for show night are esteemed dance and vocal professionals, a panel equal to the talent that will be on display. Past judges have included Cathy McCann, Director of “Taylor 2” for Paul Taylor Dance, Philip Pierce, Florida Grand Opera Director of Artistic Administration, and Billboard Performing Star (and Future Stars Alumni) Kendra Erika.

Each Future Stars finalist receives a finalist medal and the top three performers in each category receive awards. But if you ask the participants, they’d tell you that the real prize is the opportunity to perform on a beautiful South Florida night on one of the loveliest stages you can find, with dynamite professional sound and lighting, with all their friends and family there to cheer them on.

For information about this event, including Sponsorship Opportunities, contact Rotarian Julie Vianale at bocarotaryfuturestars@gmail.com, or by phone at 561-945-5548.

Delivery Dudes Driving #BettyWhiteChallenge – Donations to go to American Humane In honor of legendary actress Betty White and her love of animals, Delivery Dudes has announced it will donate a portion of its delivery fees this Sunday and Monday (January 16-17) to American Humane, Ms. White’s favorite difference-making charity.

All customers have to do is use the code “BETTY” at checkout when ordering those days, and Delivery Dudes will donate a percentage of the delivery fee.

Delivery Dudes is proudly participating in the viral #BettyWhiteChallenge on social media, asking her fans to help animal shelters. White would have turned 100 on January 17.

White, who was known as an animal lover and advocate, died on December 31 and repeatedly said, “Animals are near and

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dear to my heart, and I’ve devoted my life to trying to improve their lives.”

Delivery Dudes says it’s encouraging all its customers to join them in celebrating the inspirational life of Betty White and her commitment to animals and their safety.

Founded in 1877 as the country’s first national humane organization, American Humane is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. For nearly a century and a half, our innovative, sciencebased leadership programs have been First to Serve in promoting and nurturing the bonds between animals and humans.

Founded in 2009 and based in Delray Beach, Florida, Delivery Dudes is a leader in premium food delivery in the South Florida market.

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Covid Causes Volunteer Shortage: The Big Bounce America in Boca Volunteers Needed to Feed This Weekend Underserved The recent spike in COVID-19 infections from the Omicron variant continues to create staffing and operational challenges in our community. Local nonprofit Boca Helping Hands is currently short-handed and in need of volunteers to help feed the community.

“Our volunteers have been critical to being able to continue serving people during this crisis,” said Executive Director Greg Hazle. “We have seen younger volunteers stepping up to relieve many of our older ‘at risk’ regulars. Our community has shown they want to be part of this effort, so we are hopeful we will find some new volunteers to carry the baton.”

Shifts are available Monday through Saturday from 8:30 am – 12:30 pm at the organization’s main facility in East Boca Raton (1500 NW 1st Court, Boca Raton, FL 33432).

During the pandemic, Boca Helping Hands has been running its food distributions as drive-thru services at all locations. In addition, the organization is abiding by CDC guidelines and requiring masks for all volunteers and staff.

Priority volunteer jobs include prepping

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food in the kitchen, helping make sandwiches, packing pantry bags of food, and packing meat and produce. There are also group volunteer opportunities for up to 20 participants to assist in the warehouse.

Individual Volunteer Opportunities: · Monday – Friday (8:30 am – 12:30 pm) o Food Center – Sandwich making o Warehouse – Packing pantry bags of food, packing meat and produce, packing weekend meals for school children · Saturdays (8:30 am – 12:30 pm) o Food Center Kitchen – Prepping food for hot meal program Group Volunteer Opportunities: · Monday – Friday (1:00 pm – 3:00 pm) o Warehouse – Packing weekend meals for schoolchildren or packing meat and produce To volunteer, visit www.bocahelpinghands.org/volunteer and fill out the online application to be contacted about next steps.

If you have questions, please email the Volunteer Manager Tara Currier at Tara@BocaHelpingHands.org.

The Big Bounce America, home of the only Guinness-certified world record holder of The World’s Largest Bounce House, rolls into Boca Raton, Florida from Friday, January 21st through Sunday, January, 23rd 2022 at Burt Aaronson South County Regional Park. Produced by XL Event Lab, The Big Bounce America is the biggest touring inflatable event in the world and features four massive inflatable attractions. The quartet of inflatables includes the 13,000 sq. ft. World’s Largest Bounce House; Sport Slam, featuring a customized sports arena; an incredible 900+ ft. long obstacle course named The Giant; and a unique, space-themed wonderland called airSPACE. The Big Bounce America continues to turn up the wow-factor and push the limits of family-friendly entertainment to new heights!

The World’s Largest Bounce House Standing 32 ft. tall at its highest point and covering an area of over 13,000 square feet, this inflatable goliath has been certified by Guinness as The World’s Largest Bounce House.

Inside you’ll find giant slides, ball pits, climbing towers and basketball hoops alongside fun, friendly, over-sized characters of various colors, shapes and sizes for those all-important Instagram moments. At the center of this dreamland is a custom-built stage where the resident DJ really turns up the party, hosting games,

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competitions and playing music tailored to each age group. Everyone is invited to enjoy the experience as sessions are organized by age; ranging from tiny tots to adult-only sessions. This is the place to really kick those sneakers off and PARTY ON! Josh Kinnersley, Chief Operating Officer of The Big Bounce America, shared how important the event is for the times: “We need more fun in the world! After the times we’ve just gone through, we invite you to kick those shoes off and let loose for a while. We have the perfect event to allow kids and adults alike to get out of the house and enjoy an outdoor event like they’ve never experienced. Complementing the biggest bounce house in the world, Sport Slam, The Giant, and airSPACE make The Big Bounce America an event not to miss… this is going to be one immersive bouncing festival for all ages!”

All-Access Tickets are available online and jammed with value. These tickets include a three hour pass to the event, including a timed session on The World’s Largest Bounce House, as well as unlimited access to Sport Slam, The Giant and airSPACE! Tickets start at just $19. For tickets and pricing go to: https://thebigbounceamerica.com/ tickets/

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Bernstein Family Foundation Makes $1 Million Gift to Boca Raton’s Keeping the Promise Capital Campaign Boca Raton resident Steven E. Bernstein has made a $1 million gift to Keeping the Promise…The Campaign for Boca Raton Regional Hospital. Mr. Bernstein’s contribution emanates from the Bernstein Family Foundation, which he runs with his daughter, Abby Rose Bernstein Henderson.

Mr. Bernstein’s generosity brings the total funds raised through the Keeping the Promise Campaign to more than $215 million toward its goal of $250 million.

“We are delighted to welcome Steven Bernstein and the Bernstein Family Foundation to our treasured group of Keeping the Promise donors,” said Lincoln Mendez, CEO of Boca Raton Regional Hospital. “This is the Bernstein Family Foundation’s first gift to Boca Regional and we are eternally grateful it comes in the midst of our largest ever capital campaign and the most significant campus initiative in our history. We thank Mr. Bernstein and his daughter, Abby, for their thoughtfulness and generosity to the long-term healthcare future of our area.”

The Bernstein Family Foundation gift is acknowledged through the naming of the ambulance entrance to the Emergency Room of the hospital.

“The Bernstein Family Foundation prides itself on supporting local charities and is excited to help fund the expansion of Boca Raton Regional Hospital,” said

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Mr. Bernstein. “We believe the hospital upgrades will enhance the quality of medical services provided to our community.”

Mr. Bernstein is the Chairman of the Board of SBA Communications head-

quartered in Boca Raton. The communications company owns over 34,000 towers in approximately 15 countries, and employs more than 1,500 employees worldwide. Steven Bernstein is the founder of SBA and has served as Chair since its inception in 1989. He also served as Chief Executive Officer from 1989 to 2001. His daughter,

Abby is a mental health counselor in Boca Raton who specializes in treating various types of eating disorders, mood disorders and adolescent issues.

“Both Steven and Abby, and everyone connected with the Bernstein Family Foundation, see the value of the transformative health care vision at the heart of this initiative and Keeping the Promise,” said Stan Barry, co-chair of Keeping the Promise campaign. “They are new members of our donor family and their investment in our health care future is a profound gesture demonstrating the importance of our project. We heartily thank them for joining us.”

Recently, SBA rolled out a new Corporate Wellness Program with its exclusive partner, Boca Raton Regional Hospital. The arrangement, the first of this kind between the hospital and a large local company, encompasses a variety of services, including on-site and off-site doctor’s appointments, blood pressure checks and blood screenings, mobile mammograms, yoga, meditation and mental health services, nutrition, lectures and other services many of which many are available to SBA’s workforce by video.

“We were eager to get involved,” said Boca Raton Regional Hospital CEO Lincoln Mendez. “Three months of intense work ensued between SBA and our team from the hospital and we couldn’t be hap-

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pier with the final result. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this magnified the importance of the SBA partnership with Boca Raton Regional Hospital for resources that were unimaginable just a few months ago.”

The $250 million Keeping the Promise Campaign is the largest fund-raising initiative in Boca Regional’s history and is supporting its most ambitious period of growth and expansion. The campus redevelopment plans include at the centerpiece, the new Gloria Drummond Patient Tower where patients will be welcomed in the inviting new Louis B. and Anne W. Green Lobby with plans for retail, dining, meeting space, a sanctuary, outdoor courtyards and other conveniences for visitors. The new tower features all new surgical suites and all private patient rooms exceeding the latest safety standards for patient care. In the current hospital building, all existing rooms will be converted to private in a comprehensive renovation of all patient units including maternity, oncology, and orthopedics.

An expansion of the Marcus Neuroscience Institute is well underway with emphasis on neurovascular/stroke, central nervous system tumors, spine, and epilepsy/seizure disorders. The 972-car Schmidt Family Parking Facility will be connected to the Marcus Neuroscience Institute once the new tower construction is complete.

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6 - Edition 547 The Boca Raton Tribune EDITORIALS & LETTERS East/West Boca Raton, FL

The Boca Raton Tribune Founded January 15, 2010

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EDITORIAL By: C. Ron Allen

Counting their Blessings She lost her mother, sister, and brother when their house collapsed from the massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake that rocked Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010.

Jude Saincyr and her cousin, the only survivors in their home, were stuck under a bed, which shielded them from the rubble.

“The bricks fell on the bed and one side of the bed broke,” Saincyr, a graduating senior at Atlantic High School, recalled this week. “We were under the other side until they found us about four hours later.”

As we enter the season of giving, Saincyr has so much for which to be grateful: a new lease on life and the opportunity to get a college education, thanks to a local nonprofit organization. After the disaster, her father sent her to Tallahassee, but the teenager did not attend school for a year. It was not until she came to live with her grandparents in Delray Beach and enrolled in high school that a teacher introduced her to Bound for College, an organization that helps at-risk students in south Palm Beach County enter and complete college.

That opportunity was priceless, she said, adding that the organization, formerly known as Delray Students First, prepared her

through practice to get better scores on the SAT and ACT tests.

“They made me a better test taker through lots of practice every week,” said Saincyr, who plans to pursue her nursing degree at Florida Atlantic University in the Fall. “We don’t get our motivations unless there is someone there to motivate you. We don’t know what we want unless someone tells us about it.”

Like Saincyr, a handful of students who were enrolled in Bound for College, shared their stories to a roomful of people at Delray Marketplace. They are grateful for the life skills, career planning, mental health counseling, college tours and educational field trips that the program provides.

“Our motivation doesn’t come from home but from teachers. Teachers were a big impact in my life. They motivated me to do so much,” said Hadelle Estimphile, an Atlantic High alum and now a sophomore at FAU. College was not in her reach for various reasons, she said, until she was introduced to Bound for College.

“I didn’t know how I was going to pay for college, but they helped me with my essays and helped me improve my SAT and ACT scores, so I could get 75 percent Bright Fu-

ture Scholarship. Now, I don’t have to worry about money.”

Through the affiliation, the students were awarded the prestigious Eda and Cliff Viner Community Scholarship, a four-year award to a state university or college for academically deserving students in Boca Raton and Delray Beach who have financial needs and are community service driven.

Despite last year’s challenges, many of us are still thankful, and although we have the chance for a more normal Thanksgiving this year, many, such as Anna Marie Valdez, will still connect virtually.

The mother of three, who lost a sister, a neighbor and a brother-in-law to COVID-19, has not mustered the courage to venture out.

“I am still not comfortable getting around crowds and I can’t say if and when I will be,” she said.

Upon returning to school, Aiden hit the jackpot when his elementary school teacher handpicked him to be in Star Makers, a STEM-centered afterschool program on campus.

“We have a lot of fun,” said Aiden, who is thankful for being back in school after being cooped up in his home. “We learn about

airplanes, and we learn how to take pictures and how to wash clothes and cook.”

Samuel is grateful for loving parents.

“I’m most thankful for my family and that they love me, and they take care of me every time I need care, or when I need help with homework,” the fourth grader at Orchard View Elementary said. “Some other kids might get money, but I get love. Some kids may get gifts, but I get hugs.”

Like many of you, I am grateful for so many things: the essential workers - doctors, nurses and other medical workers who have braved the virus to attend to patients in nursing homes, hospitals and clinics, and saved many lives - law enforcement and fire personnel, postal employees, delivery workers and those who work at supermarkets, pet stores and pharmacies, farms and processing plants, factories and distribution centers. Let’s not forget the teachers, custodians, and sanitation workers.

Finally, I’m thankful for this opportunity to opine on the important issues of the day – exhorting, explaining, deploring and applauding. I am also grateful for you, our readers who have continued to support this newspaper, since our inception.

POSITIVE LIVING By: Dr. Synesio Lyra, Jr.

What Edition Of Your Life Are You Living?

Although you have only one life to live, I firmly believe that every human being goes through several editions in the construction of that life in the world. The home environment, the training received, the personal interactions leading to new acquaintances and to long-term friendships, are all significant factors in making who you are becoming. Find your passion and develop it!And here is the key: humans are in the process of perpetual becoming. The fast pace at which life is lived today, and the manifold, varied experiences one faces all the time, are contributing factors in making you who you are at any given moment.Sometimes personal preferences will lead you in a certain posture January 21 - January 27, 2022

for quite some time. Your unique presentation of self to friends and acquaintances will also elicit varied responses from people you trust and whose opinions you respect.

All this will, besides other factors, will cause you to choose one of the many editions of your life as the preferred one for an event, a new encounter, and the enormous variety of appearances you have to make before different segments of society.I never forget a phrase from T.S. Eliot in one of his poems, where he assures, “There will be time, there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces we shall meet.” Although each individual remains the same internally, one’s exteriority can vary depending on the cir-

cumstances of the moment, how one feels at a particular situation, and what is expected of you in terms of appearance, action, reaction and additional factors in a variety of settings and occasions!That’s what I mean by an “edition” of your life which you may choose to project, be that for a moment, for a day, a week, or a much lengthier period of time. You always remain the same but you project that which may make you feel better, as well as fit the particular situation you are in!As a pre-Socratic philosopher from Greece suggested so very long ago, people never step into the same river twice, because each time one goes into a river, the waters are not the same since they are constantly

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moving, and other conditions of the river have equally been altered.In the same fashion, one never meets the same person twice because all the experiences acquired since the previous encounter, all the new thoughts permeating one’s mind, and one’s frame of mind has greatly changed.The key elements for all to consider are that, as life goes on, we should not merely allow it to happen to us; there’s much that we can do to improve our lot continually, making us better each new day than we were the day before. Seeking wisdom from God and with personal determination, this is a good path to follow, a meaningful and necessary adventure throughout your earthly trajectory!

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COLUMNISTS FAITH

ROBERT’S COMMUNITY REPOT

By: Rick Boxx

By: Robert Weinroth

Mayor Robert Weinroth Provides a County Commission Update PALM BEACH COUNTY GOES TO TALLAHASSEE With the official start of the Florida Legislative Session, Team Palm Beach County was in the house and the senate!

The county was fully represented, including all seven county commissioners.

It was a whirlwind of meetings with many state leadership members to discuss the needs important to our county and its residents. On our agenda were a number of proprietary issues such as affordable housing, food resources, water quality/storage and transportation.

Additionally, we continued to advocate for home rule since the state has preempted local governments from regulating local issues such as vacation rentals, tree trimming regulations and pet sales.

As always, we are grateful to our state partners for their time and effort. Session will continue through March 11, and a full complement of the county’s lobbyists will remain in Tallahassee to monitor bills and appropriations important to our residents.

BU SINE SS DE V ELOP M EN T BOARD of PALM BEACH COUNTY It’s been a successful year for economic development with a a record-breaking number of new companies and families moving to the area. We were the #1 county in Florida for growth in 2021, and 2022 looks even better!

As mayor of Palm Beach County, I have the opportunity to serve on the Business Development Board of Palm Beach County (BDB) Executive Committee.

The BDB is the county’s official economic development organization that attracts and retains business investment through corporate relocations, expansions and international trade. The efforts have a lasting and sustainable impact on our county.

This past year, the BDB facilitated 31 corporate relocations and expansions that created 3,028 high-salary jobs and $150 million in capital investment.

At the same time, visitors continue to flock to the area in record numbers fueling our local hotels, small businesses and restaurants. This is extremely important to our economy and the residents who work in the tourism industry.

NEW AREA CODE COMING TO PALM BEACH COUNTY Palm Beach County was recently assigned 728 as a new area code (in addition

to 561). The new area code will be an “overlay” for the county.

Anticipating that phone numbers starting with 561 will run out by 2023, the new number was assigned by the Florida Public Service Commission.

It will serve the same geographic boundaries as the 561 area code and will be assigned to new telephone numbers and/or additional lines.

All existing 561 numbers will not be affected. For more information, click here.

PALM BEACH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WELCOMES ITS 13th AIRLINE Palm Beach International Airport (PBI) is pleased to welcome Breeze Airways with service starting on February 19.

Some of the destinations include New Orleans, Louisiana, Akron/Canton/Columbus, Ohio Charleston, SC Norfolk/Richmond, VA For more information, click here.

PBIA serves more than 6.7 million passengers annually and offers 200 nonstop flights daily with 13 airlines!

HISTORIC JOHN F KENNEDY BUNKER With the recent approval of a 30-year lease agreement with the Port of Palm Beach for $10 a year, the county will be restoring and managing an area on Peanut Island that includes President John F. Kennedy’s Cold War-era Bunker.

The 1,800-square-foot Bunker was built in 1961 as a top-secret nuclear bomb shelter for President Kennedy during visits to his family’s estate in Palm Beach.

Once completed, the public will have access to low-impact, educational and historic attractions including tours of the Kennedy bunker and the former Coast Guard station and boathouse built in 1936.

WINTER POLO SEASON AND EQUESTRIAN SEASON Polo is one of Palm Beach County’s favorite pastimes that dates back to the 1970s.

The International Polo Club Palm Beach (IPC) is one of the most premier polo destinations in the world and is located right here in our backyard. The IPC hosts many of the greatest high-goal teams and tournaments in the world.

During halftime, attendees are invited to participate in the “divot stomp” when spectators walk out on the field and stomp the divots kicked up by the horses’ hooves to help flatten the surface.

The Unexpected ‘Common Denominatior’ Years ago, a friend was complaining to me about several employees he had fired in succession after they had held a particular key position in his company. “They are all idiots,” he said.

“None of them measured up to what I want.”

After listening to him detail the supposed shortcomings of each of those past employees, and also knowing my friend had always struggled with perfectionism, I understood the real problem. The issue, it seemed clear to me, was not the former employees – but the man that employed them.

When my friend concluded his negative appraisals of the workers, I tried to sound as non-judgmental as possible as I commented, “I only see one common denominator in all of this.”?He immediately knew I was referring to him. Taking my perspective into consideration, he determined to use that information to revise his expectations for the job. Recently he told me how grateful he was for my gentle rebuke.

Obviously I could have kept quiet and simply listened to my friend’s complaint without offering any feedback. But I felt it was important that he see his dilemma from an objective viewpoint. Even though it might not always be easy to offer constructive criticism without the risk of offending, sometimes a caring rebuke is what a friend needs.

As Proverbs 28:23 in the Old Testament of the Bible teaches, “He who rebukes a man will in the end gain more favor than he who has a flattering tongue.” There is another side to situations like this – the degree of willingness by the other party to accept well-intended correction and take it into account for future action.

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vation that he was the “common denominator” in the failure of the terminated employees.

Instead, he humbly thought about what I had said and determined to take corrective steps.

Here are some other thoughts from the book of Proverbs about rebuke and correction: Willingness to accept correction leads to success.

A sincere rebuke is a form of discipline, because the person offering the corrective words is usually seeking to help in bringing about a reasonable solution to a problem, one that can benefit everyone involved. As Proverbs 10:17 states, “He who heeds discipline shows the way to life, but whoever ignores correction leads others astray.”

Proverbs 13:18 adds, “He who ignores discipline comes to poverty and shame, but whoever heeds correction is honored.” Unwillingness to consider a kindly rebuke is foolish. In our work situations, often we find ourselves too close to problems to see the right solution.

The insights of a trusted friend or colleague can provide information we could easily ignore or overlook. “Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid” (Proverbs 12:1).

A timely rebuke can avert devastating consequences. If you were driving on an unfamiliar road and about to go into a ditch, you would want someone familiar with the area to warn you of impending danger.

The same is true if you are on the verge of making a disastrous decision. “The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death” (Proverbs 13:14). Until next week!

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The Boca West Children’s Foundation (BWCF) is out to break its record of collecting 100,000 diapers for The Diaper Bank, Covering South Florida, during the BWCF Diaper Drive. Diapers can be ordered online at bocawestfoundation.org/2022-diaperdrive/ or dropped off at Boca West Realty Office, 20583 Boca West Drive, Boca Raton from now until the end of February. Since the start of the Covid 19 pandemic, diaper requests have increased by 27%. Diapers in size 4, 5 and 6 are particularly needed.

The Foundation has served as a major supporter of the Diaper Bank since 2016 as it falls within the organization’s mission to help programs that aid local children.

“Clean diapers are as essential as food to eat and a place to live for a baby. Whether or not a child has enough clean diapers impacts not only the health of a child, but their parents’ ability to work,” said Pamela Weinroth, Executive Director/COO of Boca West Children’s Foundation. “Last year the Foundation collected 100,000 diapers and we hope to do so again this year.”

Infants and toddlers who remain in soiled diapers for too long are at risk of urinary tract infections and skin infections.

Most child-care centers, even free and subsidized facilities, require parents to provide a daily supply of disposable diapers to care

for a baby. Without child-care, parents cannot go to work or school.

Throughout the year, BWCF also accepts monetary donations for the Diaper Bank. A donation of $25 will purchase 120 diapers, $50 will purchase 250 diapers, and $100 will purchase 500 diapers, according to the National Diaper Bank Network. Donations may be made by check to Boca West Children’s Foundation and mailed to P.O. Box 3070, Boca Raton, FL 33431.

A few facts about the need for diapers, according to the National Diaper Bank Network.

• Infants require up to 12 diapers per day, toddlers about 8.

• Disposable diapers can cost $80 per month per baby.

• No state or federal child safety-net program allocates dollars specifically for the purchase of diapers.

• Without transportation, buying diapers at a convenience store rather than a large “big box” store can significantly increase the monthly cost of diapers.

• Most childcare centers, even free and subsidized facilities, require parents to provide a day’s supply of disposable diapers.

• The Supplemental Nutrition Supplement Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, does not cover diapers.

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Tips for Teaching Kids Empathy (StatePoint) One of the most important skills kids can learn is empathy -- the ability to understand how others are feeling.

A valuable social skill that’s often the mark of a good leader, empathy aids in communication and helps people build connections with others. Here are some ways you can teach your child empathy: Read Together Read to your child when they are young, and encourage them to keep up with the habit when they are older by stocking your shelves with books and by making regular visits to the library. Requiring a leap of imagination as readers put themselves in the shoes of characters, it’s no surprise that a love of fiction can actually help build empathy, according to research. After you read together, talk to your child about the stories and ask them what they think each character was thinking or feeling, and why.

You can also do this after watching movies and shows together too.

Introduce Interactive Toys Interactive toys can foster your child’s nurturing skills. New, fun ones to consider include Hope the Healing Husky, a robotic dog that tells you how she’s feeling, and makes different sounds to show if she’s hungry, has a cold or fever, has a hurt leg or feels itchy. Kids can check her temperature, give a healing shot, bandage her ouchie

and put on her recovery collar to help her heal. The robotic Glitter Me Kitten will also tell kids how she feels. When she’s happy or when you press her head, she’ll move her paw and place a glitter stamp on your hand to show she loves you. Kids can also watch her stripes change colors to show how she’s feeling, and respond to her needs by scratching her head, patting her on the

back or feeding her.

Finally, kids can tuck Ivy the Bloom Bright Unicorn’s legs under her and boop her nose when it’s time to rest, blow her a kiss to see the flower in her mane bloom and light up, accessorize her tail, and sing-along with her to eight different tunes. More information can be found at vtechkids.com.

Play Pretend Whether playing house or playing superheroes, role-play is not only a chance to build worlds and be creative, but also to consider the feelings of someone else and act them out. You can encourage your child to play pretend by suggesting the activity and letting them invent the game. Keep kids inspired with a fun costume trunk full of hats, wigs and other accessories.

Empathy may be a social skill, but it’s as valuable as the ABCs. The good news is that interactive toys, games and literature can all help to cultivate your child’s empathy.

Fun Ways to Introduce Physics to Kids (StatePoint) When many of us think of physics, we think of high-level science courses taught in high school and college.

The truth is that not only can you teach your child the basic principles of this branch of science at a young age, but doing so can help them understand the world around them, while laying the groundwork for a continued interest in STEAM learning.

At Home There are many ways to demonstrate basic principles of physics using household objects. However, toys designed for this purpose can be good launching pad for your quest for knowledge.

The new line of marble playsets from VTech, Marble Rush, allows kids to build thrilling marble courses, send marbles into motion and compete in exciting challenges with lights and sounds. Added bonus?

You’ll be introducing engineering principles at the same time! Each Marble Rush set contains color-coded blocks and easyto-follow building instructions for kids to create a variety of beginner to advanced courses, or create their own course with endless possibilities. The Marble Rush Ultimate Set and Marble Rush Launchpad Set can also be combined to create an extreme playset. Plus, the Marble Rush playsets have received the Toy Association’s STEAM Toy Accreditation seal of approval, meeting experts’ criteria for a good STEAM toy.

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On-the-Go Physics truly is all around us, which means there are always opportunities to introduce concepts while on-the-go. Here are a few ideas to get you started: • At a sporting event: Talk about how the ball flies through the air because of the force the athlete applied to it. Discuss how gravity is at the same time, pulling the ball down toward Earth, and how friction from the air around the ball applies a force that

slows it down.

• In the car: The car is the perfect place to demonstrate the Doppler Effect and learn about sound. The next time you drive past music, a car alarm or other source of noise, ask your child to observe the way that it sounds as you get closer to it and then how it sounds as you move away from it again. Explain that the noise itself hasn’t changed, but your perception of it has because sound waves are moving differently from the point of view of the observer -- you.

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• On a walk: Brr…it’s cold outside! The next time you’re on a walk, talk about how even the seasons can be explained by physics. The part of Earth where you live is tilted away from the sun right now, which means that sunlight is more indirect. This is also why the days are shorter this time of year!

It’s never too early to bring science to life for kids. There are not only real-world examples of physics at play to discover, but new toys can make learning about these concepts a fun, exciting adventure.

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Home Depot Foundation Surprises Nonprofit Organization with Broadcasting Studio Equipment By: Gail Y. McGrady A small, Palm Beach County nonprofit organization was surprised recently with an $8,000 grant, including equipment for a broadcasting studio and unrestricted funds, as part of Home Depot Foundation’s Nationwide Operation Surprise Campaign.

Just days before Christmas, an army of about 15 Home Depot employees showed up at KOP Mentoring Network’s Christmas party with boxes containing laptops, television production software, cameras, a green screen, and other equipment for a broadcast studio.

The donation is a celebration of the major retail giant’s commitment to giving back, featuring life-changing surprises for communities and individuals, officials said.

“At the Home Depot, living our values is important to us, and one of our values is giving back, and this is the way that we give back to our community consistently,” said Linzy Reid, operations manager at The Home Depot. “KOP Mentoring Network is a wonderful job at giving to the children, which is right in line with our values.”

The donation will transfor m KOPMN’s makeshift broadcasting studio into a modern studio. The organization,

which is observing its’s 30th anniversary, produces and broadcasts Community Conversations, a weekly one-hour news show, from the Amazon Hub downtown Delray Beach.

“This donation will take us into the 21st Century,” said KOPMN’s founder and CEO C. Ron Allen. “Our students currently use their cell phones as both their screen and cameras, so this certainly will help us produce a more professional product.”

The studio will also enhance training of students for the growing mass communications industry, Allen added.

“We can now provide our children with better educational experiences in audio and visual technology, camera operation, lighting, directing and on-camera presence,” Allen said.

Crystal Spears, Neighborhood Revitalization Director for Habitat for Humanity of South Palm Beach County, agreed.

“KOP does so much for the kids in our community, it is a no brainer that they be the recipient of this award,” said Spears who nominated the organization for the award.

Habitat for Humanity and The Home Depot have worked together over the past 10 years to lend a hand to residents across South Palm Beach County.

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The Monologues of Mirna González with Teatro Insight Within the framework of the month of love and friendship, Teatro Insight active its performances with the monologue, Who is Ela Mor? by Mirna Gonzalez in Boca Raton.

The Teatro Insight Monologues have been created to activate the motivation and productivity of each person. They come loaded with content that appeals to the senses rather than the intellect, propitiating, through comedy, the rethinking of emotional situations that affect us daily in our personal and work environment.

Mirna González, stagecoach and actress, has more than 18 years of experience in organizational consulting. Being a lover of topics related to the field of emotional intelligence and coaching, she managed to merge under the concept of Teatro Insight, theatrical pedagogy and the methodology of story learning. As a result, the different and inno-

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vative Theater-Conferences arise where she seeks to entertain audiences with their witty, high-impact, thoughtful comedies.

Created in 2020, who is Ela Mor? It is a monologue that undresses love in all its facets with the experiences and anecdotes of Ela, her main character. Theater, comedy and music fit perfectly in Ela’s life, offering her wonderful tools to manage her love affairs, frustrations and personal relationships in the complexity of our current society.

The performances will take place on Friday, February 18 and Saturday, February 19, at 8 pm in Boca Black Box, The Box 2.0 room. Tickets on sale at www.bocablackbox.com The first season of 2022 is produced

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Clerk Abruzzo to Marry Couples in Free Valentine’s Day Group Wedding Ceremony Style meets commitment this Valentine’s Day as the Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller hosts a group wedding event at one of the most iconic locations in Palm Beach County.

Registration is now open for the Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller’s annual Valentine’s Day group wedding, which will be held at 11 a.m.

Monday, February 14, at the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach.

Clerk Joseph Abruzzo will officiate the ceremony for 15 couples at the museum’s elegant South Porch overlooking the tropical Cocoanut Grove.

“Our office helps couples get married every day, but for Valentine’s Day we’re making it very special,” Clerk Abruzzo said. “It’s our privilege to partner with the Flagler Museum and provide couples with a unique opportunity to get married in Palm Beach style.”

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will not be able to attend the wedding.

Although the ceremony itself is free, couples are still required to pay for a marriage license. More information about license requirements and fees is available on the Marriage Licenses & Ceremonies section of the Clerk’s website, mypalmbeachclerk.com.

The Flagler Museum is one of Palm Beach’s most magnificent estates. Built in 1902, it has a long local history, from being the winter home of oil tycoon Henry Flagler to a hotel to now a museum and National Historic Landmark.

After marrying his new bride Mary Lily Kenan, Flagler presented the estate to his wife as a wedding present. The Flagler Museum is donating its venue for the occasion.

Couples will receive a complimentary professional photo by Karla Korn Photography, as well as a complimentary rose and boutonniere for each couple from Heaven & Earth Floral. Heaven & Earth will also donate floral arrangements for the event.

For more infor mation about the Valentine’s Day wedding, please visit www.mypalmbeachclerk.com/valentine.

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Funds Raised to Support Small Businesses on MLK Day Each year on the third Monday of January, America honors the birth, life and dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. To commemorate this day and his legacy, the Women of Color (WOC) and Men of Color (MOC) Associate Resource Groups (ARGs) at Office Depot raised funds for Elevate Together™ powered

by Round It Up America, a nonprofit initiative designed to address systemic discrimination and historical racial disparities in business growth and profitability in Black and Hispanic communities.

Members of the WOC and MOC ARGs also participated in the review and selection process of the most recent round of Elevate Together grant recipients, in collaboration with the Urban Leagues in Broward County, Florida; Atlanta, GA and Chicago, IL. Fifteen

grants were presented to the selected Black and Hispanic small businesses.

“Elevate Together is an initiative that is designed to directly impact Black and Hispanic small business owners. In addition to receiving cash grants, these fifteen small businesses will also each be matched with a mentor from the Venture Mentoring team,” said Community Investment Manager, Sharu Goodwyn. “It was really wonderful that our community partners allowed our ARG leads to be part of the selection process for this round of Elevate Together grants. There was so much involvement and so much excitement about the initiative.”

To l e a r n more about the Elevate Together™ initiative visit www.elevatetogether.org or contact Sharu Goodwyn at Sharu.Goodwyn@officedepot.com.

Local Young Musicians March In Tournament Of Roses Parade Two West Palm Beach musicians from The Salvation Army’s Florida Brass Band participated in the Tournament of Roses Parade on January 1, 2022, in Pasadena, California. Trombone player, Lensky Petion and Bradley Calixsti, who plays the cornet, were selected to join other musicians from across the country and the world as part of The Salvation Army’s Tournament of Roses Band. This was the 98th consecutive year that a Salvation Army Band marched in the Parade.

Lensky and Bradley were introduced to their respective instruments after their families began attending The Salvation Army Corps (church) in West Palm Beach. Both developed their skills through the weekly and summer music program offered at the church, and the summer music conservatory program at Camp Keystone offered by the Salvation Army’s Florida Divisional Music and Arts department. The college-aged musicians were chosen by Adely Charles, the Florida divisional music and arts director and bandmaster of the Florida Divisional Band, with full support from bandmaster Frankie Peynado, their local music leader and Lieutenants Denzell and Erika McClain their local officers (pastors).

For millions of people around the world, the Tournament of Roses Parade is an iconic New Year’s Day tradition. The Parade has a long and storied history reaching back to the end of the 19th century. The Pageant traveled 5 ½ miles down Colorado Blvd. and featured four types of entries: floraldecorated floats entered by a participating corporation, non-profit organization or municipality, equestrian units, bands, and Tournament entries.

The Salvation Army Tournament of Roses Band has marched in the Rose Parade since 1920. The Band is noted for spreading awareness of The Salvation Army’s charitable work to a broader audience for over 100 years. This was the first time that members of the West Palm Beach Salvation Army’s Brass band were selected to play in the parade.

For more information, to volunteer, and/or make a financial contribution to The Salvation Army of Palm Beach County please contact Frank Marangos, Director of Development and Communications at 561.686.3530 and/or visit www.salvationarmypalmbeachcounty.org. Facebook information can be found by searching for @ salarmypbco.

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Homesafe’s Ready To Rock & Roll With Annual Fundraiser On March 26 It’s going to be a rockin’ good time when HomeSafe supporters come together for the nonprofit’s annual fundraiser.

Now in its 19th year, The Classic Rock & Roll Party will take place at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood on Saturday, March 26, 2022, at 6 p.m.

Proceeds from the event will go towards helping South Florida’s most vulnerable residents – victims of child abuse and domestic violence.

The Classic Rock & Roll Party includes a full-course dinner, open bar, silent auction and live entertainment.

Chairing the event are Steve Bernstein and his daughter, Abby Bernstein-Henderson. Nicko McBrain, drummer for Iron Maiden, serves as Celebrity Host and featured entertainment is by tribute bands Bee Gees Now and ABBA Revisited, and Nicko McBrain’s Dodgy Enterprise, a Bad Company Tribute.

“The Classic Rock & Roll Party allows us to come together to support an important cause while enjoying great musical entertainment,” said Bernstein.

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tims with the space and support to heal from their trauma. We hope to see you on March 26to raise funds and awareness for this important cause.”

Through its results-driven approach, HomeSafe is the leading provider of prevention and intervention services, serving more than 14,000 infants, children, young adults and families each year. The organization is one of just five specialized residential therapy homes in the state of Florida—the only one in Southeast Florida—and currently cares for 50 percent of all of the children these organizations serve.

Sponsors for the event include Stoops Family Foundation, Steven E. Bernstein Family Foundation, Harcourt M. & Virginia W. Sylvester Foundation, Ken and Maggie Rosenberg, Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Bob Sheetz and Debbie Lindstrom, Paradise Bank, Schmidt Family Foundation and Verdex Construction.

Tickets for The Classic Rock & Roll Party are $500 or $5,000 for a table for 10. For more information, to purchase tickets or to donate, please contact Chere Brodi at 561-383-9842 or visit helphomesafe.org/TheClassic2022.

Utility-Scale Solar Energy Impedes Endangered Florida Panthers Florida, the “Sunshine State,” is rapidly increasing installation of utility-scale solar energy (USSE) facilities to combat carbon emissions and climate change. However, the expansion of renewable energy may come with environmental tradeoffs. Reducing the energy industry’s carbon footprint is impeding a large carnivore’s paw-print.

Once ranging throughout the southeastern United States, the only breeding population of the endangered Florida panther (Puma concolor coryi) is restricted to a little more than 5 percent of its historic range in South Florida. Florida panthers need corridors for dispersal, which most commonly occurs when they leave their maternal range to head out on their own. Moreover, they have very large home ranges – males need about 200 square miles, and their survival relies on their ability to move from protected area to protected area through wildlife corridors.

Researchers from Florida Atlantic University conducted the first study documenting the effect of USSE facilities on both habitat suitability and broad-scale connectivity of suitable habitat for any large carnivore. The study encompassed Peninsular Florida, excluding the Panhandle region, and focused on 45 installed or planned USSE facilities equaling about 27,688 acres – the average area of a USSE plant was about 615 acres.

Researchers compared Florida panther habitat suitability and connectivity pre- and post-installation of USSE facilities within Peninsular Florida using random forest to predict probability of presence in 1 square kilometer cells and circuit theory to predict movement probability between the areas of suitable habitat. They also utilized panther radio-telemetry data collected by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) from February 1981 to June 2020 to validate the predicted corridors.

Results of the study, published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, showed that most often, solar facilities were installed on grasslands and pastures (45.7 percent of total area replaced by solar facilities), and agricultural lands (34.9 percent). Forest was the third most impacted land cover category (13.2 percent). The findings suggest a substantial bias in locating USSE facilities within rural and undeveloped lands, which may provide connectivity that is sufficient for Florida panthers to roam, live and breed.

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substantially greater than its surroundings, and where no alternative major corridors exist. Researchers found nine facilities located within major corridors connecting the current breeding habitat and other core areas with the potential to support populations of Florida panther. They found an additional 26 facilities located in rural areas between core areas with relatively weaker current densities compared to the major corridors, but that could potentially support dispersal. Of the remaining facilities in this study, four were within or directly adjacent to core areas, and only six facilities had no to very minimal potential expected impact on core areas or connectivity.

“Our study suggests that in the drive to shift our energy production to carbon neutral sources, while maintaining maximum profitability, wildlife outside human dominated landscapes with large ranges and dispersal potentials may be pushed into less favorable habitat or cut off completely from available habitat by degradation of corridors,” said Olena V. Leskova, M.S., senior author, a Ph.D. student in FAU’s Department of Geosciences within the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science and a geographer/geospatial scientist at the South Florida Water Management District.

Most USSE facilities in this study are surrounded by 6-foot-tall chain-link fences, topped with barbed wire, which is assumed to cause dispersal redirection. Some facilities use wildlife-friendly 6-foot split rail fences with wide mesh or short intervals of 4-foot split rail fences with wide mesh and some have double fences. Ecological costs of fencing to wildlife include disrupting their migration routes, dividing their habitats, restricting their range and evolutionary potential and directly or indirectly causing injury or death.

“Formally protecting and enhancing the remaining corridors between core areas at the landscape-scale will potentially ameliorate, or mitigate, the impacts already evident after installation of some facilities, and may prevent foreseeable impacts with additional planned facilities,” said Scott H. Markwith, Ph.D., co-author and a professor in FAU’s Department of Geosciences. “Restoring dispersal corridors and gene flow throughout Peninsular Florida is critical to the Florida panther, its prey, and ancillary species that benefit from a connected Florida ecosystem. This, in turn, will benefit biodiversity and species resiliency at the landscape-scale.”

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The City of Boca Raton Receives Bicycle Friendly Community Award The City of Boca Raton once again was awarded a Bronze Bicycle Friendly Community Award by the League of American Bicyclists. One of 55 destinations nationwide to receive the award designation, the City previously received this recognition in 2018 – and is proud to have held this designation since 2003. The designation is valid for four years, through 2025.

City leaders and staff have long been committed to promoting and encouraging bicycling as a safe, economical, environmentally friendly, and health-conscious mode of transportation and recreation. With over 84 miles of bike lanes, as well as shared-use paths and trails, the City’s bicycle network has been enhanced by successful projects such as the A1A bicycle lanes, the Patch Reef Trail, and the ElRio Shared Use Trail. On the El-Rio Trail, recent upgrades surrounding the I-95 interchange construction near Yamato Road allow bike riders and pedestrians to travel safely through an underpass that connects the north and south ends of the trail. The City has also improved some centrally located public areas and parks with additional bike racks and bike repair stations.

“We are proud to once again receive a Bronze Bicycle Friendly Community designation,” says Maria M. Tejera, the City’s Traffic Engineer. “Boca Raton has held this designation for 19 years, since 2003. We are also the only City in Palm Beach County

that holds a Bicycle Friendly Community designation. We are continuously working to create a safe bicycling system in Boca Raton.”

Boca Raton’s dedication to being a bike friendly community is supported by the Citizens’ Pedestrian & Bikeway Advisory Board. The seven-member board works to increase public awareness of bicyclists and other pedestrian users of pathways and roadways and brings initiatives to the City Council that are designed to improve and enhance access to existing bike related facilities and programs. The public is welcome to attend and provide input on pedestrian and bicycling amenities within Boca Raton at the Advisory Board’s meetings – held at 6:00pm on the second Monday of every month at the Community Center Annex, 260 Crawford Blvd.

The award is presented by the League of American Bicyclists. The organization leads a national movement to create a Bicycle Friendly AmericaSM for everyone – through education, advocacy, and promotion. Through its Bicycle Friendly Community Award program, the League recognizes communities, businesses and universities across the nation that make bicycling a real transportation and recreation option for everyone. To date, there are a total of 496 bicycle friendly communities across all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

New COVID-19 Testing Site Opened in Boynton Beach As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Florida, Palm Beach County has announced that they will open a new drivethrough COVID-19 testing site in Boynton Beach at Caloosa Park (1300 SW 35th Ave.) at 9 am on Monday, Januar y 3rd.

Ve h i c l e s should enter the site from Congress Ave., south of Woolbright Rd. This new location will be open 7 days a week from 9 AM to 5 PM until furJanuary 21 - January 27, 2022

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ther notice.

Testing is free, but where available, insurance or Medicare/ Medicaid programs will be billed to help cover the cost o f t e s t i n g.

Please bring your insurance card to the testing center.

For more infor mation, visit the Palm Beach County COVID-19 website, contact the Department of Health COVID-19 Call Center at 1-866779-6121 or email Covid-19@flhealth.gov.

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Junior League of Boca Raton’s “Little Black Dress Initiative,” Planned for March 7-11 The Junior League of Boca Raton will launch the third annual Little Black Dress Initiative (LBDI), a week long awareness campaign, March 7th-11th, to raise funds to help underserved women and children in Palm Beach and Broward Counties.

Junior League members that participate in Little Black Dress will wear the same black dress or outfit for five consecutive days to illustrate the restrictions poverty places on choices, opportunities, and access to resources.

By wearing the same black dress or outfit, it symbolizes the somber situation and struggles that many members of our community face on a daily basis. Members will post their daily experience on social media channels pictured in the same dress.

To support Little Black Dress, visit jlbr. org or send a check to the Junior League of Boca Raton, Vegso Community Resource Center, 261 NW 13th Street, Boca Raton, FL 33432. Donations are fully tax deductible and will go to support the programs

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and mission of the JLBR. Founded in 2014 by the Junior League of London, the Little Black Dress Initiative has been adopted by Junior Leagues throughout the U.S. The initiative will enable members to experience what it’s like to only own one dress and have to keep it clean and wear it for an entire week so they can reflect on the impact of pover ty and the lack of choices people have who live in poverty face on a daily basis.

League members will raise money via their personal social media channels.

In Florida, 62% of the workforce is comprised of mothers with infant children and one quarter of the state’s resident’s live below the poverty level.

“Our goal is to raise awareness and dollars,” said Jamie Sauer, President of the Junior League of Boca Raton, said. “The Little Black Dress Initiative demonstrates how limited resources affect daily life.”

3D Robotic Spine “Twin” Offers New Way to Preview Surgical Prodedures Degenerative disc disease affects about 40 percent of people aged 40, increasing to about 80 percent among those aged 80 or older. The disease, which is the deterioration of one or more intervertebral discs of the spine, often is surgically treated with cervical disc implants.

In order to determine if a patient is a candidate for a cervical disc implant, surgeons have to rely primarily on the findings of diagnostic imaging studies, without any input from biomechanical data to optimize the type of prosthesis. This may occasionally lead to complications and implant failure.

To address these problems, Florida Atlantic University’s Erik Engeberg, Ph.D., senior author of the study, and researchers from the College of Engineering and Computer Science , in collaboration with Frank Vrionis, M.D., senior author of the study and director of the Marcus Neuroscience Institute, part of Baptist Health, have created a novel robotic replica of a human spine to enable surgeons to preview the effects of surgical interventions prior to the operation.

The researchers have developed a 3D printed spine replica modified to include an artificial disc implant and outfitted with a soft magnetic sensor array. The Marcus Neuroscience Institute has its hub on Boca Raton Regional Hospital’s campus and satellite locations at Bethesda Hospital in Boynton Beach and Deerfield Beach.

The patient-specific robotic spine model was based on a CT scan of the human spine.

A modified artificial disc was ‘implanted’ into the cervical spine replica and the soft magnet was embedded in the vertebra replica. A robotic arm flexed and extended the cervical spine replica while the intervertebral loads were monitored with the soft magnetic sensor array to classify the spine posture with four different machine-learning algorithms. The algorithms classified the amplitude and the locations that external loads were applied. Researchers then compared the capabilities of the algorithms to classify five different postures of the human

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spine robotic replica (center, mid-flexion, flexion, mid-extension and extension).

Results of the study, published in the journal Sensors , showed that the soft magnetic sensor array system had the high capability to classify the five different postures of the spine with 100 percent accuracy, which can be a predictor of different problems of the spine that people experience. These results indicate that the integration of the soft magnetic sensor array within the artificial disc ‘implanted,’ robotically actuated spine replica has the potential to generate physiologically relevant data before invasive surgeries, which could be used preoperatively to assess the suitability of a particular intervention for specific patients.

“A flexible magnetic sensor array is a new method to realize soft and stretchable magnets by mixing silicone with magnetic powder,” said Engeberg, a professor, Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering within the College of Engineering and Computer Science, member of FAU’s Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences within the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and a member of the FAU Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute. “These sensors are low-cost, highly sensitive, and easily integrated into robotic systems as the soft medium can be manipulated in many shapes and sizes.”

In addition to preoperatively assessing the suitability of a particular intervention for specific patients, this new approach could potentially assist the postoperative care of people with cervical disc implants. Currently, postoperative instructions for patients with spine implants are qualitative (do as much as you can until the pain starts), creating fears in both the patient and the surgeon. Questions regarding how much bending, lifting, and exercising is permissible after a cervical implant operation could be studied and correlated with biomechanical data generated by the sensorized robotic replica with individually tailored postoperative care that could be prescribed to reduce complications.

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SPORTS 3-Point Barrage Lifts Owls Over 49ers College basketball games are 40 min- from long range less than a minute later utes long. Florida Atlantic University (9-8, and FAU led by 12 points, 26-14. Charlotte 2-2 CUSA) led Charlotte for 39 minutes and cut its deficit to single digits again.

FAU led by 10 early in the second half 40 seconds Monday afternoon, en route to a convincing 96-67 victory over the 49ers after a pair of free throws and a Young la(9-6, 2-1). The Owls shot 16-of-21 from yup. But Goldin scored in the paint start3-point range, breaking the school record ing a 13-2 run for the Owls, which includfor single-game 3-point field goal percent- ed a pair of 3-pointers from Forrest. A Greenlee triage, converting ple with 16 76.2 percent of minutes left their attempts. pushed the FAU ’s FAU edge to freshman cen21, 62-41. ter Vlad GoldThe Owls in scored the just continfirst six points ued to pull for the Owls away from and they never there, eventulooked back. ally opening Goldin talup a 33-point lied 14 points lead late in the and was one contest, beof four Owls to reach double digits. Alijah Martin led fore scoring the 29-point win.

FAU’s 16 made from 3-point range, FAU with 20 points, while Bryan Greenlee scored 16. Michael Forrest added 14 for hitting 15 or more triples for the first time since a 98-79 win over North Dakota, on the Owls to round out the quartet.

“For the guys to come out against a Nov. 20. FAU shot 53 percent from inside quality opponent, a well-coached oppo- the 3-point stripe.The previous record for nent and play as well as they did, as unself- 3-point percentage in a game was .706 (12ishly as they did … it’s very rewarding as a of-17) vs. Kennesaw State way back on coach to see your guys not care who scores Feb. 18, 2006.

The Owls were also over 90 percent or who gets the credit but simply play for each other and play for FAU,” head coach from the free-throw line, converting 12Dusty May said following the victory. “I of-13 attempts. The Owls only turned the ball over eight thought our decitimes and held a sion-making was 23-9 edge in points excellent tonight.

FAU’s freshman center off turnovers, while They simply moved holding a 28-12 adthe ball, attacked Vlad Goldin scored the vantage in bench close-outs and first six points for the points. made open shots. I “I thought we thought almost evOwls and they never just played good, eryone who scored, looked back. Goldin solid offensive basmost all their points ketball,” May said. were created off tallied 14 points and “I don’t think we the work from their was one of four Owls did anything speteammates.” cial, we just let our Jahmir Young to reach double digits. guys do what they hit a 3-pointer two do. Our bench the minutes into the last four or give game to pull Charlotte within one point, 4-3. The 49ers nev- games has really showed growth and deer got closer than that. Young did his dam- velopment. Good teams have a lot of guys age, going off for a game-high 30 points. who are sacrificing minutes … in order to But FAU’s defense made it difficult on play on a good team. Hopefully, that’s what Young’s teammates and steadily pulled away we’re becoming, where we have guys who are good enough and staying ready, so that throughout the course of the contest.

Following Young’s early triple, the when their number is called, they’re going Owls put together a 9-0 spurt to go up to produce.”

Monday’s victory was the first con13-3. Midway through the second half, Charlotte trailed by just six when Martin test of a three-game homestand this week. started to take over. A tipout offensive re- The Owls host Western Kentucky Thursbound by Goldin ended up in the hands of day evening at The Burrow, while Marshall Martin for a 3-pointer. He added another visits Abessinio Court Saturday.

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Peevy named to 2022 Bevo Francis Top 100 Watch List

Lynn University senior Christian Peevy has been named to the 2022 Bevo Francis Top 100 Watch List for his work on the basketball court with the Fighting Knights. The award honors the best player in Small College Basketball, defined by the committee as NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, NAIA Divisions I & II, USCAA and NCCAA. In addition to awarding the best player on the court, the award criteria include personal character and team achievements.

Peevy makes the top 100 after a stellar start to his second season with the Fighting Knights. The 6’7 transfer from Incar-

nate Word is averaging 19.8 points and 9.5 rebounds per game thus far. He has scored 30+ points three times this season, and he has recorded six double-doubles this year.

Peevy currently ranks third in the SSC in both points and rebounds per game, and he has the sixth-best field goal percentage (.522) in the league. He has the second-best free throw percentage (.880) in the league, behind only teammate Brandon Bornelus. He is also in the top 10 in the conference in blocks per game (0.9).

Peevy will find out if he makes the next cut, as the watch list is cut to the top 50 players on Feb. 15.

Kudelova Opens 2022 as C-USA’s Top Performer Martina Kudelova, a redshirt junior on Florida Atlantic University women’s tennis, has been named the season-opening Surf & Turf Golf Conference USA Women’s Tennis Player of the Week, as announced

by C-USA on Wednesday.

Kudelova led the Owls to a 2-1 record at the Florida Gulf Coast University Invite. Kudelova, one of just two FAU upperclassmen, came home from the threematch tournament with an unblemished record of 3-0 in singles play and a 1-1 record

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It is not the first time Kudelova has garnered the C-USA weekly award. The Czech Republic native also received C-USA weekly recognition in her 2019 freshman campaign. Kudelova had individual wins over Middle Te n n e s s e e , Georgia State and Minnesota. In fact, she scored one of the two points in FAU’s 5-2 loss to Minnesota. In doubles play, she worked with Katerina Filip and left the weekend with a 1-1 doubles record.

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Osiniak wins SSC Swimmer of the Week for the second time Ewa Osiniak has been named the SSC Swimmer of the Week for the week ending January 16. It is the second time this season that Osiniak has earned this honor.

She takes home the award after her performance in Lynn’s dual-meet at Nova Southeastern. The Lublin, Poland native, was victorious in the 200 Free with a

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time of 1:55.03, and she also won the 100 Free with a time of 52.37, just missing the NCAA B-Standard.

Osiniak and the women’s swim team have two more home meets before the SSC Championships in February. Their next meet will be Saturday, Jan. 22 at 10 a.m. against Florida Southern.

PBA Softball Picked Fifth in SSC Preseason Poll The Palm Beach Atlantic softball team was picked to finish fifth in the SSC Preseason Coaches’ Poll released on Tuesday.

The Sailfish are set to play their first season under new head coach Ty Singleton. He takes over a PBA squad that finished fourth in the conference with a 17-12 overall record and 13-9 league record in a shortened 2021 season.

Tampa was picked to finished first in the conference with six first-place votes.

The defending SSC champion, Rollins is picked to finish second, receiving five second-place votes. Saint Leo was picked third with Nova Southeastern and PBA rounding out the top five.

The Sailfish will fill the void left by AllAmerican pitcher Abbey Busby who graduated after last season. Cambria Arturo steps

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up to be the ace of the rotation, and she will be aided by incoming freshmen, Lacy Marty, Chloe Nepveux, and Karen Vasquez.

The PBA lineup returns All-Region and AllSSC shortstop Meredith Milam along with All-SSC honorees Faith Allen and Katherine Budnovich.

The Sailfish will also rely on Maura Glatczak behind the plate in addition to other returners, Briana Rodriguez, Hayley Haas, Janie McCloskey, Emma Gipson, Isabella Hernandez and Dallas Watterson.

The ‘Fish open their season at the Gulf Shores Invitation in Alabama on Feb. 4-6.

PBA takes on West Georgia and Auburn Montgomery on the first day of the tournament. The ‘Fish then take on Lee and West Florida on Saturday, followed by matchups against Lubbock Christian and Union on Sunday.

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