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East /West Boca Raton, Highland Beach, Delray Beach FL - November 25 through December 1, 2010 •Year I •Number 023
Let us give Thanks...
Lee Shuman and Tyrone Brooks
Boca city officials are on local woman’s list of Thanksgiving blessings
Malka Kornblatt, second from left, presented mugs to city leaders Monday in appreciation of their work for all residents. Shown with her are, from left, Councilman Anthony Majhess, Deputy Mayor Susan Haynie, Mayor Susan Whelchel and Councilman Mike Mullaugh.
By Dale M. King BOCA RATON - When Malka Kornblatt counts her Thanksgiving blessings each year, more than a dozen Boca Raton city officials are on that list. “Here it is, Thanksgiving time again,” she told City Council members at their meeting Monday. “And I have come again to thank you for the thousands of hours of your precious lives that you devote to making my life, and the lives of the other 82,000 Boca Raton residents, the best possible in the world.” See page 14
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PROPEL motivates Boca Raton students to leave ‘tough lives’ behind and attend college By Skip Sheffield BOCA RATON - On Thursday, Nov. 25, Lee Shuman and Gregg Goddard will enjoy Thanksgiving for the first time in Boca Raton as college students. Their friend and roommate Tyrone Brooks, will enjoy his first Thanksgiving as a college graduate with an A.A. degree from Tallahassee Community Col-
lege. He is now a junior at Florida A&M. He intends to go on to graduate school. Tyrone got a late start in college. He is 23 now. He began college parttime at Palm Beach Community (now State) College, as he had to work full-time to help out his family. Shuman and Goddard are older than typical freshmen, too. Lee is 19 and Gregg is 20. See page 19 - 20
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