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East /West Boca Raton, Highland Beach, Delray Beach, Deerfield Beach, FL - October 4, through October 10, 2013 • Year IV • Number 159
Community Moran Foundation Gives Faulk Center Grant for Preventive Counseling Program
Walmart Teams up With Boca Helping Hands By: Linda Santacruz Every Friday, kids in Palm Beach County area are being sent home from school with an extra backpack to carry. However, this one is not filled with weekend homework--it’s filled with food. According to the Boca Helping Hands website, over 58% of American school children receive their primary meal each day through the federal free and reduced lunch program. That raises the obvious question: what do these kids eat on weekends? Boca Helping Hands’ Backpack program is now offering weekend meals to eight local elementary schools. The bags include six meals like as pre-cooked macaroni and cheese with a peel-off top, two juice boxes and two snacks.
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Community Dollar General Awards Sunrise Park Elementary $3,000 Youth Literacy Grant
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Municipal Boca Mom Crashes Into Tree With 2 Kids In SUV, Goes Shopping See page 11
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Lynn University ditches textbooks for iPads for freshmen
Municipal Thief Takes Pictures of Self With Stolen Devices
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Business Boca Chamber Announces New Program And Goes Global See page 23
By Samantha Neeley All freshmen at Lynn University are toting an iPad or iPad mini as the university is disposing of all of its textbooks for the new class, officials said. All of the iPads come pre-loaded with the student’s core textbooks, generated by the Lynn faculty. “It will work much like our current curriculum works, and that is there will be some apps required across the board, and then every faculty member has a certain amount of freedom,” Vice President for Academic Affairs Gregg Cox said. “What we tell them is in each of their courses, about 50 percent of the content comes from faculty, so we will do the exact same thing with the iPad initiative.” The student iPad package is $475, and costs half as much as students were paying for textbooks alone.
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A Reborn Estia in Boca Raton By Skip Sheffield The newly-reopened Estia Greek Taverna is a dream come true for owner/chef Nicholas Papadimitriou and his family. A native of the Greek Isle of Rhodes, Papadimitriou was head chef when Estia opened two years ago at 507 S.E. Mizner Blvd. in Royal Palm Place. When the original owners bowed out four months ago and the place was shuttered, Nicholas and his son Michael stepped up to the bat and assumed ownership. “It a challenge, but we love it,” declared Papadimitriou before another busy evening. “I am 100 percent sure we can pull it off.” Estia is from Hestia, Goddess of the Hearth or fireplace, and it alludes to Estia’s fire-grilled entrees.
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