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East /West Boca Raton, Highland Beach, Delray Beach, Deerfield Beach, FL - April 5 through April 11, 2013 • Year IV • Number 140 - FREE
FAU Stadium Nameless After Prison Company Yanks $6M Gift
Community Love Your mom? Tell her in Words for Essay Contest
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Community The Maxim Life Fair: Raising Hope for Talia Bennardo See page 3
Life & Arts “Home Run” the Movie Comes to Boca Raton by Leap of Faith See page B1
Municipal Man shoots wife, then kills himself
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By Jason Schwartz Under pressure from student protestors, the operators of a Boca Raton-based private prison corporation have withdrawn a $6
million gift to FAU. That means the university’s new football stadium will no longer be named GEO Group Stadium. “What was originally intended as a gesture of GEO’s goodwill to
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financially assist the University’s athletic scholarship program has surprisingly evolved into an ongoing distraction to both of our organizations,” said George Zoley.
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Characteristics of Successful Salespeople
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323 Become Citizens in Naturalization Ceremony
By Fred Hamilton
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They came from countries that span the globe with the goal of becoming citizens of the United States of America. Three hundred and twenty-
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three men and women from 51 countries took the Oath of Allegiance Tuesday in the Wold Performing Arts Center at Lynn University during an administrative naturalization ceremony. Most of the 323 people had been waiting months,
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even years, to take the oath of allegiance so they could finally call themselves ‘American.’ “I feel so wonderful, so happy. For me, it’s a pleasure to be here today,” Boca Raton resident Helena Dvorak said. “Finally after 10 years I have my citizenship. I am an American
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