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Bacon & Bourbon Fest
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ometimes a great notion takes root in our minds and demands our attention. On March 28-29, 2015, one of those great notions springs to life, The Delray Beach Bacon & Bourbon Fest! The 1st Annual Delray Beach Bacon & Bourbon Fest pays tribute to our unique American whiskey, Bourbon and the most addictive meat on the planet, Bacon. Is Bacon & Bourbon perhaps the greatest culinary pairing in the universe? We leave that judgment up to you!
Savor The Avenue
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t is time for the 7th annual Savor the Avenue on March 26th! Experience an evening of dining under the stars – and down the double yellow line of famed Atlantic Avenue – at the food and wine event of the year. Join hundreds of guests – and 18 of Downtown Delray’s finest restaurants – at Florida’s longest dining table, one that runs more than five blocks and 1,300 feet long stretching from Swinton Avenue east to Fifth Avenue (U.S. 1). This is the event you don’t want to miss!
Special Election Candidate Q & A See pages 8-10
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n Friday & Saturday, March 13 & 14th, 2015, Festival Management Group proudly continues its long standing association with the Delray Beach St. Patrick’s Parade and Festival. Festival Management Group kicks off the weekend of festivities with their St. Pat’s Festival which takes place in downtown Delray Beach on the front lawn of Delray Beach Center for the Arts at the corner of Atlantic & Swinton Avenue. Festivities begin at 5:00 PM, Friday, March 13th and continue on through Saturday evening in conjunction with the Parade. The 47th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade continues their tradition of honoring the service of the International Firefighters. The 2015 parade once again draws Marching Pipe & Drum Bands from around the world. In past years, marching firefighter bands from Dublin, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, Canada and Australia have joined the festivities. Join us for one of the largest St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in the nation and pay tribute to the brave Firefighters across the globe. The St. Patrick’s Day Parade is an annual tradition Continued on page 6
Delray Affair
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roduced by the Greater Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce, the Delray Affair traces its roots back to the 1940s and ‘50s and the annual Delray Beach Gladiola Festival, a community-wide event, that attracted tourists as well as local residents who participated in everything from the annual Gladiola parade to the Miss Gladiola beauty pageant. The Delray Affair gets bigger and better every year, drawing more than 200,000 residents and visitors each year from across the globe and is a tradition spanning more than five decades. The Delray Affair stretches for more than a mile through the city’s vibrant downtown and showcasing the works of 750 artists and crafters from across the nation. Add to that outstanding live music at the beer and wine gardens and amazing food – from sweet potato pie and conch fritters to roasted corn picked yesterday – and it’s easy to understand why the Delray Affair is known as the largest award-winning arts and craft show of its kind in the Southeastern United States.
Delray Affair Special Section This Month
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Meet the Neighbors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Event Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 - 15 Special Election Candidate Q & A- See pages 8-10 HEALTH/STYLE
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Ask the Health Guru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Fashion & Beauty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 BUSINESS/REAL ESTATE
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Biz Briefs. . . .. . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Chamber News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 MUSIC/FOOD/ETC.
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This Month in South Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Food & Dining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 - 14 DELRAY AFFAIR SPECIAL SECTION
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
The City of Delray Beach will hold its First Non-Partisan Municipal Election on Tuesday, March 10, 2015, to fill three (3) seats of the five member City Commission. City residents will elect two (2) City Commissioners (Seats #1 and #3), and Mayor (Seat #5), each serving three year terms. All terms commence Thursday, March 26, 2015, when newly elected officials are sworn in during the Annual Organizational Meeting at 6:00 pm in City Hall Commission Chambers. Should a tie occur between the top two candidates for any seat, a Second Non-Partisan Election will be held on Tuesday, March 24. The official candidate qualifying period, which began at noon on Tuesday, January 27, 2015, closes at noon, Tuesday, February 10, 2015. Any person seeking to qualify as a candidate must have been a resident of the City of Delray Beach, Florida, who became an elector of the City Continued on page 8
Delray Beach Historical Society Honors Farming Families, Celebrates our Agricultural Heritage
…“So are we all toilers of the soil, keepers of the earth.”
From a letter dated 1902 from Anna Hofman, wife of farming pioneer Adolf Hofman, to her mother.
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The adventurous spirit of our early farming settlers and modern farming families will be remembered and celebrated beginning March 6th – April 30th, 2015. The Delray Beach Historical Society presents, “Delray Beach’s Agricultural & Farming Heritage,” an extraordinary exhibit detailing how our town was built through the stories and images of our earliest farming pioneers. From early Seminole settlement camps to current day farming families, this Exhibit will explore a part of our history not widely known. “This is one of the most comprehensive exhibits we’ve ever created, offering visitors perspective on how we developed as a community and what brought people here from the beginning. Since this Exhibit will coincide with the Delray Affair, we’re excited to share the history of the Gladiolus Festival days, straight form our archival collection,” says Historical Society President, Leslie Callaway. The story goes that in the late 1800’s word spread that the area around the town of Linton was America’s last frontier with an abundance of water and rich soil. Advertisements and land sale notices touting fertile farmland available at inexpensive prices attracted people from the Bahamas, the Eastern Seaboard and as far away as Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois. African-Americans from northern and western Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina were the first non-native farming settlers in the Delray area, pioneering a rich agricultural heritage. Filled with awe for the Continued on page 13
Gladiolus Festival Queens Blood’s Hammock Grove’s Entrance