The Boca Raton Tribune Yo u r C l o s e s t N e i g h b o r
Number 449 • Year X
East /West Boca Raton, Highland Beach, Delray Beach, Deerfield Beach, FL
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PBA Honors First Lady Melania Trump as Woman of Distinction
Boynton Library Receives Largest Donation in its History
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Delray Beach Dermatologist Detects Patient’s Lung Cancer During Routine Visit
February 21 - February 27, 2020 SPORTS
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PBSC receives NSF grant to expand cybersecurity training
‘Bobby’ Campbell, Boca philanthropist, footwear icon, dies at 82
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By Dale King
Robert “Bobby” Campbell, a generous Boca Raton philanthropist who parlayed a part-time job in a shoe store into a global footwear enterprise, has died, barely a month after he was honored by the Rotary Club of Boca Raton for his beneficence and work ethic. He was 82. The man everyone knew as Bobby, even in his elder years, passed away Feb. 17. One of his last public appearances was at the Rotary Club of Boca Raton’s OPAL (Outstanding People and Leaders) Gala Jan. 18. He was its honorary chairman, an OPAL Award recipient and had been presented with a
After five years, Boca City Council gives boot to medical marijuana ban
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Medical marijuana is no longer banned in Boca. The Boca Raton City Council, on a sharply split vote Feb. 11, elected to allow medical marijuana dispensaries within the city limits. The 3-2 vote overturns a local prohibition on access to the drug for treatment of illnesses that dates back to 2014. Councilman Andy Thomson, who has been leading the drive for a change in a city zoning ordinance to allow stores to dispense marijuana for medical purposes, voted in favor of eliminating the weed prohibition, as did Councilwoman Monica Mayotte and Mayor Scott Singer. Voting against lifting the prohibition on medicinal pot use were Deputy Mayor Jeremy Rodgers and Councilwoman Andrea Levine O’Rourke. Both suggesting delaying action on the proposal until further changes to the laws controlling medical marijuana are adopted either at the state or federal level. In fact, after the 3-2 rejection, Rodgers brought the same measure back to the floor and called for another vote on it after he added that it would go into effect June 1, 2021. He and O’Rourke voted in favor; Singer, Thomson and Mayotte voted in the negative.
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Lynn Athletics Lands 80 Student-Athletes on SSC Fall Honor Roll, 16 Perfect GPAs
PBSC maintains Top 10 rankings for veterans services Palm Beach State College has earned national top 10 rankings from two prestigious military publishers for the third consecutive year. Military Times and VIQTORY have placed PBSC third and fourth respectively on their lists of the best higher education institutions for veterans, which in turn makes PBSC the highest-ranking Florida school in its category. Announced this week, VIQTORY has again designated PBSC a Gold “Top 10” Military Friendly® School, the highest level possible, and maintained the College’s rank as fourth among large public postsecondary institutions in the U.S. Now in its 10th year, the Military Friendly Schools list will be published in the May issue of VIQTORY’s G.I. Jobs magazine and can also be found at www.MilitaryFriendly.com. Institutions earning the Military Friendly® School designation were evaluated using both public data sources and responses from a proprietary survey completed by the school. More than 1,000 schools participated in the 2020-2021 survey, with 625
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