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East /West Boca Raton, Highland Beach, Delray Beach, Deerfield Beach, FL - May 31 through June 6, 2013 • Year IV • Number 148 - FREE
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Young, old Show Gratitude for Service By CRA News Service Memorial Day services at the Boca Raton Cemetery proceeded under sunny skies on Monday as veterans, students and families gathered to honor America’s fallen war dead and veterans who risked their lives for the freedom Americans enjoy. “I am in the best city in the United States because they honor their veterans,” Sherman Woods of Boca Raton said after the ceremony with hundreds of miniature flags fluttering in the background in the field of green grass. “You know we have Veterans Day, which is for all of us veterans, but Memorial Day is for the guys who didn’t come home. I’ve had two tours in Iraq and I had 19 boys that didn’t get to come home. This is what this day is for, for me.” The annual Memorial Day event in the cemetery lasted an hour as
By Jason Schwartz All four suspects accused of using handcuffs and pepper spray during an armed robbery at a T-Mobile store in December have been arrested almost six months later. Travas Byrd, Allen Eugene, Clinton Johnson and Georges Richardson are all in custody after a lengthy investigation, police said. Investigators released information and photographs of the robbery at 2301 West Glades Road and suspects to the media. They then received information that Byrd was one of the suspects. Through tips from Crime Stoppers and help from detectives with BSO’s Robbery Unit, detectives identified the other three suspects as well as the look-out person.
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26th Annual Rotary Golf Tournament Raises More Than $100,000 The Rotary Club of Boca Raton Sunrise and the Rotary Club Downtown Boca Raton announced that the May 9th Golf Tournament held at Boca Lago Country Club raised more than $100,000. The announcement was jointly made by Co-chairs Bob Hildreth and Norman Matus.
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The two clubs honored the esteemed Dr. Ira J. Gelb, a visionary and medical leader who planted the seed for a medical school that came to fruition as the FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine.
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