Community Newspapers APRIL 16, 2012
Sister Act BY BARI AUERBACH
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hen Sunny Isles Beach formed a Sister City alliance with Netanya, Israel on May 19, 2005, an official signing ceremony was held in City Commission chambers as Mayor Norman Edelcup and Netanya’s Mayor Miriam Fierberg-lkar signed
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE SIB SOCIAL SENIORS
S unny I sles B each Sun
Hometown heroes honor and serve our military heroes
BY CHIEF FRED MAAS
Sunny Isles Beach Police Department
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had never met Arnold Schulman of the Schulman Design Group. I had never met Leslie Loewenthal of the Loewenthal Agency either. But together, along with the additional efforts and generosity of the Dania Beach Design District, they all soon became “fan favorites” of mine. These wonderful people, described as compassionate, caring, generous and honorable, made a huge difference in the lives of military returns thru the Military Room Makeover Program. I was introduced to the group by the ViceMayor of Sunny Isles Beach, Lewis Thaler.
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The City of Sunny Isles Beach, Cultural & Human Services Department, presents the following upcoming events.
HEROES, page 8
Arnold Schulman’s SIB Military Room Makeover for Dania Beach Design District, after picture.
The Egg Scramble Spring Tradition with a Twist BY CARY MARTINEZ
Events Specialist
Sunnyy Serenade e Wednesday,, Aprill 25,, 7:30 0 – 9:00 0 pm m Samson n Oceanfrontt Park k
VOL. 30, NO. 16
W
hen most people think of an egg hunt, they think of colorful plastic eggs strategically hidden in fields of grassy patches. However, for the past 11 years The City of Sunny Isles Beach has made a spring tradition anything but ordinary with our well-known yearly event. Throw in 5,000 red, white and blue inflated beach balls
floating above 15,000 pastel plastic eggs, filled with toy treasures and you have the City of Sunny Isles Beach’s “Egg Scramble”! Held on Saturday, April 7th, 2012, this year’s Egg Scramble was the biggest to date with well over 1,500 guests in attendance, traveling from all parts of the South Florida region. As the minutes counted down to 10 am,
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EGG SCRAMBLE, page 2