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East /West Boca Raton, Highland Beach, Delray Beach, Deerfield Beach, FL - May 16, through May 22, 2014 • Year V • Number 186
Community Unites to Stamp Out Hunger By Quezia Salgado
The National Association of Letter Carriers is the union of city delivery letter carriers working for the United States Postal Service. Every year they hold a food drive on the Saturday before Mother’s Day to combat hunger, where, with the use of postal networks, letter carriers will collect non-perishable food donations on that day as they deliver mail along their postal routes. Taking part in what is considered the nation’s largest single-day food drive, the Boca Helping Hands was able to count on a small army of volunteers, for a total of 75 people. The groups of volunteers came from several community sectors including Leadership Boca, Wells Fargo, Bloomingdales, the Rotaract Club of Palm Beach State College and the Rotary Club of Boca Raton, Boca Raton Regional Hospital, as well as numerous fraternities and student groups from FAU. Many of the volunteers brought their children and grandchildren so that families were able to work together to attack hunger in our community, “The weather was perfect for the event; there were people of various ages; there was great community involvement,” said Margi Cross of the Junior League of Boca, who brought a group of 11 volunteers to lend a hand.
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FAU Gets New SG President and Vice President By Kathryn Wohlpart
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Michael Cepeda and Thomas DeMaio, Florida Atlantic University’s newly elected student government president and vice president, were officially sworn into office on May 9. On Feb. 28, FAU’s student government elections board chair, Michael Brown, released the unofficial results after problems with the voting systems caused the elections board to change the voting period. Cepeda and DeMaio promise to bring more student representation to FAU’s Board of Trustees, the board governing the policies of the university. “There is really no reason why if we have a program students are working on, why we can’t have more data to back it up — more student leaders to come to meetings,” said Cepeda. Cepeda and DeMaio are giving up their parking spaces in front of the Student Union so that other students may park closer to their classes, stating that if they can even make two students’ commutes easier it is worth it.
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