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Renowned Neuroscientist to Lead FAU’s New Brain Institute An internationally renowned neuroscientist and leading expert in synaptic pharmacology, neurotransmitter transporters, and neurogenetics, has joined Florida Atlantic University as the executive director of the newly-formed FAU Brain Institute. Randy D. Blakely, Ph.D. comes to FAU from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine where he held the positions of Allan D. Bass Professor of Pharmacology and Psychiatry, director of the Vanderbilt Silvio O. Conte Center for Neuroscience Research, as well as the director of the Vanderbilt Postdoctoral Training Program in Functional Neurogenomics. From 1996-2011, he served as the director of the Vanderbilt Center for Molecular Neuroscience, an entity that spawned the Vanderbilt Brain Institute and its top-ranked neuroscience
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“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which god prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them” - Ephesians 2 NIV
• There will be a free workshop on Mayor Susan Haynie was applying established agricultural joined by Tom Thayer as the techniques for successful small Mayor proclaimed May 21st vegetable garden projects. Tips - May 27th 2026 “National and techniques on site preparation, Safe Boating Week” in Boca seedling establishment, planting, Raton. crop maintenance, and harvesting will all be covered in this event. The event •Drivers in is located at Palm Beach County Cooperative and around Extension Service on June 11 from 9 a.m. until 2 the City of Boca Raton are advised that crews p.m. The event is free of charge but it is limited working for All Aboard Florida will be offloadto the first 100 individuals to sign up. To register, ing track rails at various locations within the call Melissa Allman at 561-233-1792 or email Florida East Coast Railway right of way (along mallman@pbcgov.org. Dixie Hwy) from Monday, May 9, through Thursday, May 12, 2016. • Mayor Susan Haynie was joined by Tom Thayer as the Mayor proclaimed May 21st - May • The 15th Annual Men With Caring Hearts 27th 2026 “National Safe Boating Week” in Awards Luncheon, benefiting Florence Fuller Boca Raton. Both the Mayor and Flotilla ComChild Development Foundation was held at mander Thayer stressed the importance of safe the Boca West Country Club recognizing the boating habits - starting with ensuring everyone social investment of a group of very special on the boat is wearing a life jacket (noting each men in our community. Terry Fedele and year over 600 people die in boating related acNeil Meany did the honors as event co-chairs. cidents in the US with the vast majority caused Marvin Rubin was the recipient of the Lifetime by human error or poor judgment). Achievement Award. • The City of Boca Raton City Council and Greater Boca Raton Beach & Parks District resolve to address the issues that have plagued their strained relationship over the past few years with the commitment for another joint meeting in the near future. • The Elk’s held a Kid’s Day event, complete with face painting, fun food. The event was filled with many fun indoors and outdoor activities. Elks Lodges are places where neighbors come together, families share meals, and children grow up. Elks invest in their communities through programs that help children grow up healthy and drug-free, by undertaking projects that address unmet need, and by honoring the service and sacrifice of our veterans.
The Elk’s held a Kid’s Day event, complete with face painting, fun food. The event was filled with many fun indoors and outdoor activities.
• Congratulations to State Attorney for Florida’s 15th Judicial Circuit, Dave Aronberg, on his re-election, without opposition. • Boca Raton Rabbi, Josh Broide, and his wife, Simone Broide, are just two of the adult leaders traveling on the March of the Living 2016. Their trip started in Poland where there saw, and heard, first hand, about the Holocaust. The trip ends in Israel where the vitality of the Jewish people, living in freedom, can be savored. The International March of the Living is an annual educational program, which brings individuals from all over the world to Poland and Israel, in order to study the history of the Holocaust and to examine the roots of prejudice, intolerance and hate. • Yvonne Boice-Zucaro was honored on MAy 5th by the Executive Women of the Palm Beaches for her years of volunteerism. A well-deserved award!
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Community Renowned Neuroscientist to Lead FAU’s New Brain Institute by Gisele Galoustian Ph.D. program. Blakely’s primary appointment will be in FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, providing a presence of the medical school on the John D. MacArthur Campus in Jupiter for the first time. “Vanderbilt University has emerged as one of the nation’s leading academic centers in neuroscience, and we are delighted to welcome its former director and one of the most accomplished neuroscientists in the world to Florida Atlantic University,” said Daniel C. Flynn, Ph.D., FAU’s vice president for research. “With Dr. Blakely at the helm of our Brain Institute, we will advance our center to be at the cutting-edge of understanding and treating neurological and mental health disorders that afflict us globally.” Neuroscience is one of four of FAU’s “pillars” that guide the institution’s goals and strategic actions to develop and implement programs that will generate knowledge to benefit society. FAU’s investment in the Brain Institute under the neuroscience pillar arises in the context of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) BRAIN Initiative, a major federal research initiative seeking to develop new tools and insights into how the nervous system supports perception, memory, learning, mood and movement. As executive director of the university-wide Brain Institute, Blakely will build on existing
neuroscience centers and programs within FAU, enhancing existing resources with the addition of new faculty hires and enlarged financial support. In this new position, Blakely also will pursue opportunities for research collaboration and educational relationships with regional, national and international partners, including Scripps Florida, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, Boca Raton Regional Hospital’s Marcus Neuroscience Institute, and the FAU Research and Development Authority, among others. “Florida Atlantic University has positioned itself as a hub of cutting-edge, multidisciplinary neuroscience activity and I am extremely pleased to be joining the university at this critical time to help foster neuroscience initiatives,” said Blakely. “I look forward to working with the university’s outstanding faculty as well as external collaborators and community leaders to illuminate the many complexities of the brain, to identify new ways to treat devastating brain disorders and to share the excitement and promise of our research with the public.” For more than two decades, Blakely’s lab has explored the molecular mechanisms that underlie brain function and drug responses, focusing on how transporter proteins acting at the synapse insure high fidelity neural signaling. The group has used a combination of genetic, molecular, and physiological approaches to elucidate mechanisms by which transporter
Local Residents Band Together to Keep Lake Boca Trash-Free By: Alyssa Lamp
Thousands of locals flock to Lake Boca every year for the annual Boca Bash. Year after a year, pundits would point to the trash left by the boaters in the day-long event, and after the damage Floatopia left Miami Beach, the topic was a hot one as Boca Bash was set to take place. Event planners for this year’s event stressed the importance of everyone cleaning up after themselves because of all the damage caused Miami Beach earlier. They were not interested in seeing Boca Bash have the same kind of negative feedback or sanctions as Floatopia will have in Miami Beach, which includes the possible banning of coolers, tents, floats, live music, and an absolute zero tolerance of anyone consuming alcohol. To make sure Boca Bash does not end up like Floatopia, everyone was urged to make sure they clean up all trash this year. However, despite all the efforts by all who attended the event, some trash is always missed, or cans/ bottles are dropped and sink to the bottom of the lake. All the trash that lands in the bottom of the lake is left for a group that helps clean up the waters afterwards, and they are the Boca Bash Cleanup. Founded by a group of boaters, snorkelers,
and scuba divers that all live by Lake Boca, Boca Bash Cleanup says they started this day of cleaning because they wanted to ensure that they keep one of their favorite lakes beautiful and clean for the years to come. Many people and organizations have come to the support of Boca Bash Cleanup, many sponsors donate up to $5,000 to the cause. With the help of all the people that take time off their days to clean the lake after Boca Bash, Boca Bash Cleanup is able to make sure the lake remains trash free. This year, in order to keep the trash to minimum, there were paddle boarders were out at Lake Boca cleaning during the Bash to ensure that the partygoers were cleaning up after themselves. The next day, along with the Boca Bash Cleanup crew, there were a handful of residents in other boats helping to clean the lake. All the heightened measures to keep the lake clean paid off. According to Rich Eten, one of the founders of the Boca Bash Cleanup, this year only 10 mesh garbage bags of trash were picked up, comparing to last years sevengallon trash bag. “There was twice as many people this year, and only half as much trash as last year,” Eten says, “The incident in Miami, heightened everyone’s awareness.”
proteins insure normal brain function and how brain diseases arise from the dysfunction of these molecules. Blakely’s group is responsible for the cloning of multiple neurotransmitter transporter genes, and has discovered multiple signaling pathways that regulate transporter expression and function. His team has uncovered multiple instances where mutations in brain transporters lead to changes in physiology and behavior, increasing risk for neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism, ADHD and depression. Blakely and his colleagues also have sought to understand how existing drugs, including antidepressants (e.g. SSRIs) and psychostimulants (e.g. cocaine, amphetamine) carry out their actions, and how a better understanding of synaptic molecules can lead to novel medications. This research has led them to develop novel animal models of brain disorders where the dysfunction of neuronal signaling genes can be studied at high resolution. Among Blakey’s numerous distinctions, awards and recognition are his receipt of a MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), two Distinguished Investigator Awards from the Brain and Behavioral Research Foundation, the Julius Axelrod Award from the American
Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, and election as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In addition, Blakely has published nearly 300 research articles and reviews, and has a number of awarded patents to his credit. He also is affiliated with numerous professional societies including the Society for Neuroscience, the Genetics Society of America, and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. Blakely’s research is funded by multiple grants from the NIH, private foundations and industry contracts, and he recently chaired the Board of Scientific Counselors for the NIMH. Blakely’s educational efforts have included leadership roles at both the graduate and post-graduate levels and has included the training of more than 30 master’s and Ph.D. level students.
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EDITORIAL By C. Ron Allen
Another Black-on-Black Killing, Where is the Outrage? Imagine this exchange: “Hey mom, I’m home. What do you have to eat in this house?” Mother: “Hi son. How is college baby?” Later on, the young man said, “Mom, I’m going out with some friends. I’ll be back.” “Be careful son,” the mother responded, as her baby drove away in a relative’s car. It was the last time she would have seen the apple of her eye alive. I can only imagine that the interaction between Greg Bryant Jr. and his mom was not too far off from what I painted here. Unfortunately, the 21-year old college football player never had a chance to wish his mom Happy Mother’s Day, as he had intended. Neither did he get to fill her in on the latest at the University of AlabamaBirmingham, where he was about to restart his football career. That’s because 20 hours earlier his life was cut short by a bullet as he drove south on Interstate 95 near Forest Hill Boulevard in West Palm Beach. Bryant and a friend, Maurice Grover, were returning to a Delray Beach from a nightclub in West Palm Beach
when another car pulled up next to them and sprayed their car with a high-powered assault rifle early Saturday morning, police said. The bullets tore apart the metal of the black, four-door Chrysler. Bryant was taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center, where he was taken off life support on Mother’s Day. Grover, 25, was treated and released for an injury to his hand. Since the shooting at the hands of, I am sure, another African-American I have heard many bemoaning the heinous act of violence. But no one, except for my pastor and a police officer friend of mine, have been vocal about the prevalence of gun killings of our young black boys at the hands of other young black men. It’s a crying shame that when a black person is killed by another black, we accept it as the norm. Yet, when a white person or police officer shoots and kills a person of color, the black community raises a ruckus. I hope it is not the case where our black leaders are much more interested in making excuses for this behavior than they are in denouncing it
unequivocally. Where is the outrage? I am aware that black-on-black crime is a subject most of us do not want to discuss as a community because some see it as airing dirty laundry in public. Still, far too often we see in the wake of a crisis, such as the recent shooting, we are quick to call news conferences, galvanize mass protests, organize rallies, prayer vigils and even hold gun buy-back days. But such efforts fizzle out shortly after the victim’s funeral. Bryant’s death and countless others, including Courtney McGriff, who was fatally shot in early February, should not be brushed aside as mere examples of the result of concentrated poverty and lack of opportunities. Rather it should force us to have a real community conversation about an action plan to tackle this level of senseless violence. I can somewhat understand that our black community today is suffering from a lack of strong leadership. Traditionally, our leaders have been members of the clergy. However, most of the ministers in our commu-
nity do not live in the city and they dare not come to town except on Sunday mornings or one weeknight for bible study. In two weeks, black law enforcement officers from across the state will convene in Miami for the 31st Annual Preventing Crime in the Black Community Conference. And while they will be sharing solutions on how to curb crime in the black neighborhoods, it is my hope that attendees will leave with the renewed fervor to devise an action plan to address this level of senseless violence. It makes no sense for black people to be killing more blacks than the Ku Klux Klan ever did. Our people made it through slavery without killing one another. It is time out for those who call themselves leaders in the black community to get out of the defensive stance and do something to prevent another senseless killing. C. Ron Allen can be reached at crallen@ DelrayBeachTribune.com or 561-665-0151
POSITIVE LIVING By Dr. Synesio Lyra, Jr.
You Can Stay Out of Trouble! One of the most significant features of positive living, is the ability of staying out of trouble. In the world, we daily deal with a great variety of people in all kinds of circumstances we face. Some are easy to deal with; others never are. A meaningful thought that has stayed with me for several years, and has been repeatedly confirmed to be fully accurate, is what I had read from American poet and playwright, T.S. Eliot. He correctly affirmed that there are some people to whom one speaks with difficulty, and there are others with whom one speaks in vain! Normally, some of these represent the troublemakers, thinking only of themselves,
and prone to accuse and criticize anyone who may deviate from their announced ways, ideas, and intentions. They are those people who often go out of their way to cause dissension, to promote discord, to create problems where they don’t exist! Everything you say is quickly misrepresented, discredited, and erroneously shared with others, while never given an opportunity to explain yourself, to remove any doubt, nor bring understanding to the situation in question. Once falsely accused, you remain in that condition without the possibility of defense or recovery. Life already presents manifold problems which we cannot avoid, and have to deal
with wisely, to the best of our ability. But you can observe persons, conditions and circumstances around you, to know when, how and who to avoid. There are individuals who do not deserve our attention, based on how we see them act with, or toward others, as well as with ourselves! We have an obligation to treat everybody with dignity, whether we think they deserve it or not. But no one is obliged to have to deal with the negativity which certain people effectively bring into any situation. It’s not even worth wasting any time in seeking to explain certain things, or defend what somebody else is not asking, nor will accept it if provided. It would be a “speak-
ing in vain” on our part, according to T.S. Eliot’s quote above! Face every task positively and expectantly, and don’t allow anyone to rob you of the joy you can have in fulfilling your tasks, saying what you know to be true, and reporting on your ideas without the expectation of total agreement from everybody. The essential is to ignore what comes from someone that you readily perceive as unworthy of attention, while extending the courtesies rightfully owed to him or her. No reason to be unnecessarily exhausted in dealing with others who are best left quite distant from your space!
Dr. Synesio Lyra, Jr. is a Florida resident who, for many years, was a professor at the post-graduate level. He is a writer, a sought-after conference speaker, a man who lived in five continents of the world, having received his education in four of them. When he resided in southern California, he wrote a weekly column for the daily “Anaheim Bulletin,” which was carried for about six years, until he moved to south Florida.
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Boca Raton Native Set To Swim With “The Sharks” By: Alyssa Lamp
Rachel Zietz was a 13 year old entrepreneur and lacrosse player when she founded Gladiator Lacrosse. Now at 15, she will appear on ABC’s Shark Tank, on May 3rd, with her product. Her journey all started when she participated in the Young Entrepreneur Academy Program, where she got the idea to start a business which would provide high quality lacrosse equipment at an affordable price. “Through a 33-week program called the YEA, I learned how to start, manage, and run a successful business,” Ziets says, “I’ve made every decision for Gladiator Lacrosse, from raw material and equipment design, to brand and creative development and marketing strategy.” She is involved in the sales process, maintaining the website, and handling all press inquires. Rachel says her biggest challenge in getting started with Gladiator Lacrosse would have been managing her business while keeping up with school, competitive lacrosse, and other extracurricular activities. “I’ve learned that time management skills are very important and since beginning the company I have developed these skills to make managing everything much easier.” While her friends are enjoying a leisurely summer, Ziets is managing inventory, balancing budgets, forecasting demands, and estimating profits for her company. Because of her dedication to Gladiator Lacrosse, Ziets believes this is why her line is one of the
top sellers in it’s category on Amazon. Appearing on Shark Tank was also just a stepping stone for Ziets’s product. “I was very scared and nervous, but I also felt prepared.” Zietz says she approached the audition just like she does a lacrosse game, “you give your all and get in the zone. I know we have a great product.” Rachel was not scared of one “Shark” more than another. All Sharks have a different way of looking at things and she presented her product to the group, not picking one out specifically. She can also not say whether a Shark invested in her company, but she can say she was able to answer their questions about her product and not be humiliated like some people have been. Casey Powell, an American professional lacrosse player, has recently partnered with Gladiator Lacrosse. He is now the company’s brand ambassador. The company now hopes to make a unique and lasting impact on the lacrosse community. In the future, Zietz is hoping to add more to the product line, such as a clothing line, water bottles, compression socks, and other lacrosse related items. She would like to include things in her product line that she believes there is a need for. “I use my own experience to decide which products to add to the line, because throughout practice and games I realize what types of items would help players excel.”
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Boca Raton Man Arrested in Fatal Hit-And-Run By CRA News Service
A 28-year-old Boca Raton man has been charged in the hit-and-run death of mixed martial arts fighter Jordan Parsons. Dennis Wright was arrested after a six-day investigation, Delray Beach police officials said. An anonymous tip led to Wright’s arrest, police said. He was charged with leaving the scene of a crash causing death, tampering with evidence and driving with a suspended license. Parsons, 25, died at Delray Medical Center three days after the crash. Wright, who has a history of arrests for DUI, driving with a suspended license, disorderly intoxication, marijuana possession and assault on an officer or firefighter, was released from the Palm Beach County Jail on a $600 bond. Police also say Wright’s license has been suspended six times. Investigators said they received a tip that Wright was at Buddha Sky Bar on East Atlantic Avenue hours before the May 1 crash. He was driving his mother’s gray Range Rover south on Federal Highway shortly after midnight “between 100 and 120 miles per hour” when he struck Parsons, police said. Parsons was wearing headphones while crossing Federal Highway at Lindell Boulevard. “Wright never stopped,” police spokeswoman Dani Moschella said. “Neither did his friends, driving behind him in their Mercedes, which followed the Range Rover
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as it continued southbound.” An anonymous tipster passed on Wright’s name to detectives and they discovered that his mother owned a Range Rover. “Wright made an effort to have the damaged Range Rover repaired at a local body shop, but the owner refused to do the work, so Wright rented a bay at a storage facility and hid the SUV,” Moschella said. Wright then rented a bay at a nearby storage and hid the Range Rover there, she added. A 2009 Florida State University graduate, with a bachelor’s degree in business management, Wright said on his LinkedIn page that he said he is a partner in the West Palm Beach area South Beach Media and had been director of business development for Better Off Healthy, in Boca Raton. Parsons was a member of the Boca Raton-based mixed martial arts team, The Blackzilians, and trained at Jaco Hybrid Training Center, 7561 N Federal Hwy. Neil Melanson, Parsons’ grappling coach, told ESPN.com that Parsons was “a guy of great character, amazing work ethic, 100 percent committed to trying to be the best he could possibly be.” Parsons’ funeral will be held on May 21 at Berrien Springs High School in western Michigan. To date, an online Go Fund Me page had raised more than $36,000 in donations toward his funeral costs. Anyone with information about Wright’s whereabouts on the night of the crash is asked to contact Officer Ron Brown or Sgt. Jeffrey Rasor at 561-243-7800.
City Code Enforcement Big Talking Point For Residents of Boca Raton By: Alyssa Lamp
City code enforcement has been a big issue lately in Boca Raton. At Scott Singer’s Coffee and Conversation earlier this month, this issue was brought up by Boca resident, Georgy Nagy. Nagy brought up the issue of non-vegetation waste bulk pick up, and how the non-vegetation pick up does not get done enough and is left in front of apartment and duplexes and degrades the neighborhood. Nagy added that the City has been doing a poor job when it comes to enforcing its codes, not only pertaining to trash pick up, but other codes as well. Singer agreed, stating he believes enforcement seems to be an ongoing issue. “We have very solid codes in the city,” added Singer. “Enforcement is the heart of it.” When Boca Raton added dog sections to the beach, there used to be a regular section of space for, however, now the dog beach is turning into a much larger area, due to the dogs running further than previously allowed. The 12-story apartment building, The Mark at CityScape, was built on interpretations of a memo from back in 2003 about open space. The memo incorrectly allowed developers to count certain features as open space, such as areas under archways, which show why the building has a lack of public green space. “Since then, there has been some concern that the city used an interpretive memo to allow buildings to be built that was incon-
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sistent with 4035,” Singer comments. He wants to get past this issue and see more meaningful open space downtown. The 12-story Hyatt Place Hotel next to the Mark building downtown was allowed to rise 40 feet more than any other building downtown and it was the third building to be approved under a special set of guidelines that allows a project to ascend 160 feet. Boca has come to see a city of concrete and not a city of green space and residents are not happy with this. Andrea O’Rourke brings up how crucial public space is to the city. She says, “Public art, public green space and public space are the heart of the city.” She also mentions that no one has addressed how we plan green space. We know how they want us to put concrete in, but not beautiful, urban, green space. She believes there’s been a lack of vision about it. Singer steps in and says he agrees, and it is a failure of planning and it goes back to 4035. At the City Strategic Planning Meeting, they brought us the issue of 4035. The council would like to see a new planning tool for 4035. They will make it an adapted book for downtown so in the future it will be clearer for architects. “We will take the part of the pattern book that relates to building, which is in the back park part of the pattern book, and make them supplemental to 4035” says George Brown, the Deputy City Manager. Instead of bending the codes in order for a project to be put in, the city needs to start enforcing the codes or go in and change them, so there can be no shortcuts taken.
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FAU Students Promote Servitude, Leadership By Shanae Hardy
It’s a deserted Wednesday night on the campus of Florida Atlantic University. And on the cusp of finals week, members of Progressive Black Men are gathered like a tightly-knit family brainstorming how to better serve the community. “I just want to promote humanitarianism,” said Justin Torres, a senior psychology major and the new president of PBM. “What we’re doing is great but we can always reach someone else.” The nonprofit Progressive Black Men, Inc., established on campus in 2012, is one of the newest chapters in the national organization, which was founded at Florida State University in 1989. Their mission is to eradicate the stigma placed on young African-American males through community service and leadership. The 40-member chapter, in April, won Chapter of the Year over 10 others at the organization’s national conference in Atlanta. They earned more than 1,000 community service hours, resulting in the Community Service Award along with five other recognitions. “We have to be that example through our leadership. It’s not just talking about it but being about it,” Torres, 20, said. Under the leadership of Jordon Edwards, the previous PBM president, the organization expand into the historic Peary City neighborhood. “One thing I was big on was Pearl City. It was the first African-American community built in Boca Raton,” Edwards said. “We hadn’t done anything there in so long.” Together, the brothers, as they call themselves, infiltrated the small historic community. They cleared trash from the streets,
built homes with Habitat for Humanity, motivated the youth about education, and helped the city with its Centennial celebration. Instead of lounging around South Beach for spring break in March, members of PBM spent the week on the streets of Orlando and downtown Tampa feeding the homeless. They partnered with their counterparts from the University of Central Florida and the University of South Florida to volunteer at food banks and give out food to the needy. Halston Sharmon, a junior management information system major, recalled the day he joined PBM as a timid college student. “It was hard for me to go into a restaurant and give my order,” Sharmon, 21, said. “They realized that about me and saw my weakness right away.” Tae Edmonds, one of the founding members of FAU’s PBM chapter, encouraged Sharmon to take random selfies in the breezeway with other students. Eventually Sharmon, not only overcame his fear of speaking, but became one of the presidents for PBM and the Black Student Union. “PBM put that fire in me,” he said. “I feel like I can do anything I put my mind to.” Next school year, the organization plans to continue its staple event, a clothing drive for Liberia; the Blazer and the Arts, and Power to the People, an initiative to promote voting among college students. For these brothers, who wear green and black suits on Wednesdays to distinguish themselves, their bond will only become tighter as they nurture each other into influential black leaders. “You see the power when black men work together,” Sharmon said. “That’s the most special thing about PBM. I took 40 strangers and made them my family.”
Theater Productions Nominated for Multiple Cappie Awards By Casey Westfall
On Tuesday, May 14, theater programs from 26 schools in Palm Beach and Broward County will be celebrated at the 14th Annual Critics’ Awards Program, affectionately nicknamed the “Cappies.” Of the 26 nominated schools, two of them are here in Boca Raton. Boca High’s production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat earned the school 15 Cappie nominations; the third highest of any school being honored at the ceremony. The production’s nominations include Best Musical, Best Lead Actor in a Musical (Trevor Wayne), Best Female Vocalist (Channing Ramsey), and Best Song for “Those Canaan Days.” Meanwhile, West Boca High’s production of Chicago is nominated for 14 Cappies, including Best Musical, Best Lead Actress in a Musical (Alexia Assuncao), Best Male Vocalist ( Ryan Lim), and Best Song for “We Both Reached for the Gun.” While at the ceremony, students from the nominated shows will performs songs and pieces of their plays for the audience. The nominees were selected by student critics participating in the program, who wrote
reviews of the plays they attended, while the winners are chosen by students from the nominated schools via a peer-review vote. The Cappies will be held at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts at 7 p.m.. Tickets are $20, and are available through Ticketmaster.
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Carole King is an American success story. Her music is the soundtrack of our lives. King’s accomplishments are celebrated in “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” running through May 26 at Broward Center for the Arts. The show begins with Carole King (Abby Mueller) alone at a grand piano accompanying herself on “So Far Away.” This is from King’s breakthrough solo album “Tapestry” in 1971, which won many awards and established King as a musical star- the best female musician of her generation. “Beautiful” is not just a “juke box musical.” Playwright Douglas McGrath has dramatized King’s rise from age 16 in Brooklyn when she was still Carole Klein, and talked her way into the fabled Brill Building near Times Square and sold a song to producer Don Kirschner (Curt Bouril). That song was “It Might as Well Rain Until September.” The song became a hit for Bobby Vee in 1962. Don Kirschner ran a stable of songwriters at the Brill Building who churned out hits for a variety of artists of all types. One of those writers was Neil Sedaka (John Michael Dias), who sings a snippet of one of his early hits, “Oh Carol.” Once joining the hard-working stable of writers, Carole became enchanted with lyricist Gerry Goffin (Liam Tobin), who
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• Staples and Office Depot said Tuesday they are scrapping their planned $6.3 billion merger after a federal judge blocked the deal, saying the government had made the case that the combination would likely hurt competition in office supplies. Great news for Boca to keep OD in the city. • WPTV Channel 5 NBC affiliate anchor Michael Williams will be the guest at the 11:30 am May 11 lunch seminar of the Gold Coast Tiger Bay Club at City Fish Market, Glades and the Turnpike. RSVP at http://www.goldcoasttigerbayclub.com/ event/michael-williams-nbc-news-anchor/. • Beautiful The Carole King Musical is at the Broward Center of the Performing Arts to May 22. Call the box office for tickets. • Starring Avery Sommers, “The Devil’s Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith” - A Play with Music - BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! MAY 5-29, THURSDAYS and SATURDAYS - 7pm | SUNDAYS - 2pm (no show on SAT. May 28). Tickets are $30-$45. Call 561-571-8510 • The Palm Beach County League of Women Voters is hosting an event at the downtown Boca Library called “Your County Government” May 11. The event is part of the library’s civic engagement initiative. The event begins at 7 p.m. This is the second event offered. • Bank of America is taking a huge chunk of space in a trophy Boca Raton office tower once home to two major corporate headquarters, W.R. Grace and Tyco International. One Town Center soon will be occupied by the banking giant, which is leasing 62,000 square feet on the seventh through ninth floors of the 10-story building. Bank of America is expected to consolidate several offices in the space, including offices for its affiliate, Merrill Lynch. The deal is a big coup for One Town Center’s co-owner, Tom Crocker, who built the 190,000-square-foot tower at 1 Town Center Road. • Tucker Duke’s has opened its Boca Raton location. The restaurant is located at 1658 North Federal Highway. The restaurant calls itself a “southern style burger joint,” which serves craft burgers and craft beers. • The 60,000 sq. ft. Courtyard at Broken Sound office complex at 851 Broken Sound Parkway was sold by Rexall Sundown to developer Malcolm Butters.
• Atlanta based McAlister’s Deli with more than 350 restaurants in 27 states, plans to expand in Boca through franchise partnerships. • J. Jill has opened a clothing store in the Nordstrom wing at Town Center at 6000 Glades Road Boca Raton, selling women’s sweaters, dresses and knit tops along with handbags, scarves and Jewelry. The brand launched in 1959 and now has more than 260 stores. • Stewart Fine Art Gallery opened at 5501 N. Fed. Hwy. Suite 4, Boca, featuring pieces from world-renowned glass artists and showcasing art and artifacts ranging from prehistoric through contemporary times, including pieces from Greece, Rome, Egypt, pre-Columbian cultures and historic Native America. • New Art Gallery Exhibit at the Spanish River Library through June 25. Wellknown local artist, Jim Campbell, will be showing his oil paintings and acrylic paintings in the Friends Art Gallery. This collection will include favorites from his travels abroad and some still-life compositions done in his studio. The Library is located at 1501 NW Spanish River Blvd. • The lighting in Sugar Sand Park was called “dismally dim” when improvements were proposed last June. Now it looks like that’s finally going to happen. Brighter LED lighting fixtures will be delivered shortly and installed on the existing poles after contracts were approved at the Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District meeting. • The grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony was organized for Sinai Residences of Boca Raton — the new $265 million Continuing Care Retirement Community on the Boca Raton campus of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County. • West Boca Medical Center received top grade in prevention of avoidable errors, accidents, bed sores and infections. The hospital received an “A” grade in the Hospital Safety Scores spring ratings published by the national nonprofit watchdog the Leapfrog Group. • The Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County has announced that April Leavy has been installed as the organization’s new 2016-17 Women’s Philanthropy Chair. Leavy, who now also serves as a Vice Chair on the Federation Board, has demonstrated her leadership in a number of positions over many years within the Federation and its beneficiary agencies. Most recently, from 2014-16, she served as Women’s Philanthropy Campaign Chair and as a Federation Board Member.
Actions That Speak Louder Than Words
We live in a world in which prominent leaders in every field of endeavor make loud and brash promises. They tell us what we want to hear and presume that will earn our trust. Unfortunately, too often words are not backed up with the levels of performance we were led to expect. The adage, “Actions speak louder than words,” remains true. Bob Doll, chief equity strategist for an asset management firm, has expressed it this way: “You build your testimony when you are the best at what you do, your occupation and calling, and the best in the way you do it…how you treat people, your actions and attitudes.” Recently we have had several renovation projects underway at our home. The men who have been doing the work – a painter, plumber and contractor – all came highly recommended. Thankfully, the assurances we received about the quality of their workmanship have been confirmed. They obviously take pride in their craft, and we are pleased with the changes they are making. For those of us who claim to be followers of Jesus Christ, this should always be true as well. The God we serve has created the world around us and all we see with excellence. As people created in His image (Genesis 1:26), one of the ways we can demonstrate that is through the quality of our work, whatever that might be. In serving as what CBMC likes to call “marketplace ambassadors,” what the people we work alongside every day see in us can easily influence their attitudes toward Christ. Here are some things the Bible says about how we communicate our faith to others not just through the words we speak, but even more powerfully, through the actions
we undertake: Recognize who it is we are working for. Often our attitude at work is if we can satisfy our immediate supervisor, that is sufficient. But followers of Christ have an even higher standard: “And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ” (Colossians 3:23). Work for others as you would want them to work for you. When we are the role of customer, we expect the people providing products or services to us to give us the best they have. In the same way, when we perform work for others – whether the persons we report to, our peers, customers, or the company as a whole, we have an obligation to offer them the best we can give. “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you… ” (Matthew 7:12). Good work will be recognized. Looking around us, many people seem content with doing only the bare minimum in their work, enough to retain their jobs but hardly enough to require intense effort. In this environment, consistent and dedicated work cannot help but be noticed. “Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before unknown men” (Proverbs 22:29). Demonstrate that our work is as good as our word. The world offers us many empty promises, ones that never will be fulfilled. Being someone who keeps promises – even strives to exceed expectations whenever possible – will build a strong reputation, and have no lack of work in the future. “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty” (Proverbs 14:23).
Robert J. Tamasy is vice president of communications for Leaders Legacy, Inc., a nonprofit organization based in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. A veteran journalist, he has written Tufting Legacies (iUniverse); Business At Its Best: Timeless Wisdom from Proverbs for Today’s Workplace (River City Press); and has coauthored with David A. Stoddard, The Heart of Mentoring (NavPress). For more information, see www.leaderslegacy.com or his blogs, www.bobtamasy.blogspot.com and www.bobtamasy.wordpress.com. Heizer Media Group
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10582 E Key Drive
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400 NE 20th Street B110
9/11/2015
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4792 Bocaire Boulevard
9/8/2015
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Century Village
4002 Guildford A
9/8/2015
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1052 Newcastle C
9/10/2015
$68,000
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9/9/2015
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9/11/2015
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265 Mansfield G
9/9/2015
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3013 Wolverton A
9/10/2015
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18253 Blue Lake Way
9/11/2015
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1073 Cornwall D 5243 Deerhurst Crescent Circle 20290 Fairway Oaks Drive 262 17316 Boca Club Boulevard 1006 660 Glouchester Street 14205
9/10/2015
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74 Palamino Circle
9/11/2015
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11155 Landsman Street
9/9/2015
$279,888
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6371 La Costa Drive 202 2001 N Ocean Boulevard 103
9/8/2015
$175,000
9/8/2015
$507,500
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133 NW 10th Avenue 7754 Lakeside Boulevard 476
9/10/2015
$25,000
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7472 La Paz Place 304
9/8/2015
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9/9/2015
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10621 Mendocino Lane
9/10/2015
$312,000
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875 E Camino Real 14-G
9/9/2015
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LAKES AT BOCA RATON
18965 Adagio Drive
9/9/2015
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791 Saint Albans Drive
9/10/2015
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44 NW 7th Street 44
9/10/2015
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120 SE 5th Avenue 434
9/11/2015
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22015 Altona Drive
9/10/2015
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9/8/2015
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9/11/2015
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800 Jeffery Street 206 800 S Ocean Boulevard Ph6
9/8/2015
$4,700,000
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1531 SW 65th Ter
9/7/2015
$112,500
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9429 Saddlebrook Drive
9/11/2015
$260,000
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9/11/2015
$220,000
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9/10/2015
$80,000
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9073 SW 4th Street
9/11/2015
$179,900
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9/9/2015
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11036 Blue Coral Drive
9/8/2015
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7715 Kenway Place E
9/9/2015
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7777 Kenway Place W
9/10/2015
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17713 Charnwood Drive
9/11/2015
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17610 Sealakes Drive
9/11/2015
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6863 Bridlewood Court
9/11/2015
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250 NE 20th Street 230
9/10/2015
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616 NE Rossetti Lane
9/11/2015
$500,000
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8433 Boca Rio Drive
9/11/2015
$197,500
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10820 Waterberry Drive
9/10/2015
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340 NE 24th Street 7459 Bondsberry Court 7459
9/9/2015
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9/8/2015
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sports The Boca High Girls Flag Football Team Rebuilds
By: Stephanie Fonseca The Boca Raton High School ladies flag football team has been one to set the standard for the district in the past. Winning district championships four of the past six years, the Bobcats’ 5-7 season wasn’t the outcome that the team had hoped for. The beginning of the season had a rocky start. A team where most of the players
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were juniors on the 2015 District Championship team, Coach Al had high hopes for the season. However, with the season being at the same time as prom, testing, finals and college visits for the seniors, it was hard for Coach Al to get commitment from the team’s leaders. Coach Al made a difficult decision, and from the girls who would not be able to commit to flag football this past season, he had to make some cuts.
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With 19 of the squad of 23 being freshmen and sophomores, Coach Al made this season a rebuilding season. Most of the girls were new to the sport and had little to no knowledge about the sport, so Coach Al had to rebuild and reteach. Although the team consisted mostly of underclassmen, Coach Al still maintained many girls down on the Junior Varsity Flag Football team, so that they could create and cultivate a winning attitude. “I wanted to set a solid foundation and I think we accomplished that,” said Coach Al. Although the Varsity team went won 5 games and lost 7, the JV team went 13 and 0. Coming from 14 seasons at Spanish River High School and taking his 2006 team to States, Coach Al is a decorated coach. Although he was used to always winning, in the rebuilding season Coach Al proved that it's not only about winning, but it's more than that. Boca High’s ladies Flag Football team started the season ranked 7th in the state but with the misfortunes that arose they fell in ranking, however from the difficulties, blossomed growing opportunities. Looking back at the season and the team's performance against the schools who made it to the District Championship, Coach Al observed that they only lost by a touchdown. “We lost to those teams with one touchdown away with basically no experience,” said Coach Al. But one of the girls who did have experience was Hannah Pratt, who won First Team All-County for the 2015 season. And with 30 interceptions in 12 games, it’s highly likely that she will make First Team AllCounty again this season. For the coming season Coach Al is optimistic, but makes the observation that he needs
to get more commitment from the girls. “If the commitment is there we can be good,” affirmed Coach Al. He has high hopes for the coming season and doesn’t go easy on the girls. By teaching them football just like the boys, he knows that by planting that seed of football knowledge that it’ll only benefit the girls. Coach Al made it a point that, “these girls can walk onto the field and tell you what coverage the defense is in.” Hoping that the girls got the taste of winning and that that they get to love the sport, he remains optimistic and makes sure that the girls still have fun. Things that he thought was going to be their weak spots was actually their strong points, but looking forward for the following season he knows that he has to get all of the girls on the same page offensively and that they have to work on their timing offensively. Coach Al also has a ladies travel flag football team, called the Wildcats travel flag football team, which gives the girls on his team who want to continue to be active in the sport year-round the opportunity to grow in the sport. Because there is no league in the area the team plays in tournaments all around the US, Canada and even Central America. Funds for the tournaments are raised by the team so that it would cover enrollment fees and travel expenses. Coach Al shared that having the girls fundraise for the expenses helps them be more independent and overcome objections to achieve their goal. “When you’re on a plane and know that ‘hey I paid for this trip,’ there's a sense of fulfillment there and it’s a life lesson, not just a game to play,” explained Coach Al The Wildcat travel flag football team will have their first tournament in Lake Worth on June 4 and 5th. As for the Palm Beach County high school flag football season, as it comes to a close the All-Star game will be held at the Boca High field on May 19th at 7 p.m.
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By: Stephanie Fonseca For Boca Raton High School’s Flag Football team, it was rebuilding season and as Coach Al went to the drawing board, he saw potential in one player that could possibly coach also. Sthephanie Abrantes was one of the three seniors on the Boca High’s fairly young flag football ball team. As a young girl, Abrantes grew up playing football with her older brother and the more she played the more she fell in love with the sport. When she heard that Boca High had a flag football
team, she started to go to their conditioning practices and tryouts. Little did she know what this would blossom into. As the season began, the Bobcat’s flag football coach, Coach Al, saw a player who was putting in work on the field and a light bulb went on. Seeing how invested and dedicated Abrantes was, he saw potential in her to possibly be a player and coach for the team. “Coach saw potential in me that I didn't know was there, and as he started teaching me how to coach and call plays, it all went on from there,” said Abrantes. Abrantes admits that it was challenging but she affirmed that she was down for the challenge and she excelled. “She’s mature enough not only to take on a leadership role, but also showed that she was mature enough to coach girls who are a year or two younger than her.” observed Coach Al. Coach Al took Abrantes under his wing and was not disappointed. During the season Coach Al allowed Abrantes to coach three games all of which she won. “She won against coaches who have been coaching for awhile, it wasn’t a situation where she was going against inferior teams that weren't coached,” said Coach Al. When asked how the experience was, Abrantes observed her wins and is confident that she’s doing especially being that the her wins accounted for three of the five wins they had this season. Abrantes plans to stay local and attend FAU in the fall, making Coach Al optimistic that she’ll stick around for the following season and even help coach the JV team next year.
PEMBROKE PINES, FL - Boca Raton FC played Miami Fusion, last Wednesday in the first round of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. They needed more time, and that's what they got. However, time was not on their side. Boca FC started off with the ball and maintained possession during most of the first half. The first opportunity came early and at the two-minute mark as Xavier Silva, made a dangerous cross in the box but was unable to find anyone, making it a wasted opportunity. But the Miami Fusion fought back two minutes later but the shot was off target. With a tough tackle at the 25th minute, Colby Burdette, in attempt to stop the play ends up fouling Miami Fusion player and gets the first yellow of the game. Boca FC kept fighting for the first goal but as the first half came to a close, the game remained scoreless. In the 51st minute, off a beautiful assist by Maxi Schenfeld, David Santamaria was able to break the 0-0 draw and put the home team ahead early in the second half. Having scored in the last two Open Cup matches, midfielder Gabe Taboada was a second-half substitute for Boca Raton FC Coach Marcelo Castillo, who hoped the speedy attacking midfielder could equalize the game. In the 66th minute, Taboada answered the call after the ball found Taboada at the top
of the box where he fixed it to his right foot and sent a blast to lower corner of the goal, just out of the Fusion's goalie's reach. Boca Raton continued to press forward looking for the win, however they were unable and the game went into overtime Early into the first half of OT, on a set piece give and go between Miami Fusion, Alan Faccini sends the ball to the back of the Boca FC’s net and Boca is down 2-1. The end of first OT came to a close and Boca FC was down again. In the second half, they kept pursuing the equalizer again. But chances became slim when two minutes into the second half Miami Fusion’s, Daniel Marugo took the shot and the ball found the back of the net once again and Boca FC was trailing by two goals with 14 minutes left to play. But Miami Fusion didn’t relent and kept pursuing Boca FC’s goal. Minutes later, Alan Faccini added to the scoreboard again and Miami Fusion led, 4-1. Boca FC kept their heads up but the three goal deficit was too much. With time running down, Boca FC remained persistent. Unfortunately, in an attempt to clear the ball Colby slides in too late and tackles a Miami Fusion player, getting his second yellow of the game, landing him a red and is ejected from the game. The final whistle blows and Miami Fusion proceeds to the second round of the U.S. Open Cup. As for Boca Raton FC, they will have the APSL season opener at Central Broward Regional Park this Sunday at 8 p.m.
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