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INSIDE Full-Service College Campus Promised At Lox Groves Site

WHS STUDENTS DONATE TO SCRIPPS

Palm Beach State College President Dr. Dennis Gallon updated residents about plans for the new campus in Lo xahatchee Groves at County Commissioner Jess Santamaria’s monthly public forum meeting Sept. 21 at the original Wellington Mall. Page 3

Grand Opening Of New TD Bank Branch In RPB

TD Bank held a grand opening celebration Saturday, Sept. 24 at its new branch location on Okeechobee Blvd. in front of Super Target in Royal Palm Beach. Page 8

Palms West Community Foundation Annual Golf Tournament At Mayacoo

Wellington High School’s thinkPINKkids chapter presented a $15,000 check to the Scripps Research Institute on Wednesday, Sept. 21 in the WHS auditorium. The students raised the money to aid in cancer research. Shown above, thinkPINKkids members present a check to Scripps Research Institute Chairman Dr. John Cleveland. MORE PHOTOS, PAGE 5 PHOTO BY JESSICA GREGOIRE/TOWN-CRIER

BDB Honors Bellissimo With Economic Development Award

By Lauren Miró Town-Crier Staff Report For his strides in making Wellington the premier equestrian destination in the world, coupled with his dedication to giving back to the community, the Business Development Board of Palm Beach County this month honored Mark Bellissimo with its Economic Development Leadership Award.

Bellissimo, managing partner of Wellington Equestrian Partners (WEP), which owns and oper-

The Palms West Community Foundation Classic Golf Tournament 2011 was held Friday, Sept. 23 at Mayacoo Lakes Country Club. Awards were presented at a barbecue lunch, along with a live auction and raffles. Page 9

Seniors Attend Health Fair At Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center

About 200 local seniors, residents of assisted-living facilities, caregivers and other interested people attended a “Senior Day” staged by REAL — Residential Experts of Assisted Living — Sept. 23 at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center.

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OPINION Negotiation Requires Two Sides To Work

County Commissioners were skeptical that much would be accomplished at Tuesday’s joint meeting on road projects with representatives of West Palm Beach, Royal Palm Beach and the Indian Trail Improvement District. The assumption was that the two sides would continue to disagree. But what actually happened was an even greater blow to negotiation: nobody from West Palm Beach showed up. Page 4 DEPARTMENT INDEX NEWS ............................. 2 - 11 OPINION ................................ 4 CRIME NEWS ........................ 6 NEWS BRIEFS .....................10 SCHOOLS .....................12 - 13 PEOPLE........................ 14 - 16 COLUMNS .................... 21 - 23 BUSINESS ...................25 - 27 ENTERTAINMENT ................28 SPORTS .......................33 - 35 CALENDAR...................36 - 37 CLASSIFIEDS ...............38 - 42 Visit Us On The Web At WWW.GOTOWNCRIER.COM

Mark Bellissimo attended the Sept. 17 gala with his daughter Paige and wife Katherine.

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ates the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center, accepted the award during the BDB’s annual gala held Saturday, Sept. 17 at the Breakers Palm Beach.

“While it was a great personal honor and very appreciated, in many ways it is really a validation of a great team effort,” Bellissimo told the Town-Crier Wednesday.

He thanked his wife, Katherine, for sticking by him and his vision while providing valuable insight, and gave much of the credit to the collection of prominent equestrian families that make up WEP. The Palm Beach International Equestrian Center has grown into a year-round equestrian destination.

WEP invested more than $200 million to buy property and secure licenses, and made more than $25 million in capital improvements during the past four years. The group will spend an additional $5 million on capital improvements this year alone.

“It was a very gutsy move, in arguably the worst economic climate in our nation’s history,” Bellissimo said. “While most people were retreating from investment, we were advancing aggressively. That is no easy task.”

Despite the tough economy, WEP’s business grew more than 73 percent since 2008. The Winter Equestrian Festival is the largest and longest-running horse show in the world, attracting more than 2,800 riders and 5,000 horses from all over the world. With more than $6 million in prize money, it is the largest amount offered in any equestrian sporting event worldwide.

The annual economic impact of just the touristrelated expenditures during the Winter Equestrian Festival is more than $120 million, with another $100 million in equestrian-related expenditures.

“Our vision is to transform Wellington into the premier equestrian lifestyle destination in the world,” Bellissimo said. “The vision is centered around the love of the horse and making the sport more accessible to anyone with an interest, regardless of financial resources.”

But Bellissimo’s vision couldn’t have been put into place without the staff at Equestrian Sport Productions, who run the PBIEC, and Wellington officials See BELLISSIMO, page 4

Wellington Approves LED Signs For Use At The Amphitheater

By Lauren Miró Town-Crier Staff Report Two LED screens will soon keep residents up to date on events at the Wellington Amphitheater after the Wellington Village Council approved the $32,000 contract 4-1 at a meeting Monday.

Hoping to draw larger crowds to the amphitheater’s weekly events, council members requested in May that staff members investigate using electronic signs in lieu of the A-frame, banner and marquee signs used now along Forest Hill Blvd.

In June, council members reviewed a “demo” sign, and after approval, a bid request was put out for the project. According to a staff report, five companies bid, but only two met the requirements.

Signs By Tomorrow was the cheaper option by about $8,000.

Wellington Chief Information Officer Tom Amburgey told council members that the signs would not be similar to those in Royal Palm Beach, but closer to the ones used for the SunPass signs on Florida’s Turnpike and on billboards along Interstate 95.

“They’re better quality,” he said. “I think the closest in clarity is what you’ll see on the turnpike for their new SunPass signs.”

Vice Mayor Matt Willhite was the lone dissenter. He said he felt that Wellington shouldn’t use electronic signs when local businesses couldn’t. Electronic signs are not allowed under Wellington’s sign code.

“I think it’s very hypocritical for

government to do something that you don’t allow someone else to have,” he said. “I don’t think it’s appropriate for us to have it.”

But Mayor Darell Bowen felt that the signs were more attractive than the current A-frame signs.

“I’ve been a supporter from the beginning,” he said. “I think it’s a better way to disseminate information in a more economical way.”

The LED signs would mean savings for Wellington both in the cost of printing and in man-hours.

Amburgey said that the new signs would remove the need to print new signs and install them each week.

“Between designing, printing and installation, we spend between two and four hours a week See LED SIGNS, page 7

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WPB A No-Show As County, ITID & RPB Discuss Road Plans

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report West Palm Beach was a noshow Tuesday at a joint meeting called by Palm Beach County intended to iron out differences on three road projects favored by the county, Royal Palm Beach and the Indian Trail Improvement District, but opposed by West Palm Beach.

The roads under discussion were the State Road 7 extension from 60th Street to Northlake Blvd., the Roebuck Road extension from Jog Road to State Road 7 and the Jog Road extension to Florida’s Turnpike.

“We have had communication with the City of West Palm Beach, and they declined to attend,” Commission Chair Karen Marcus said.

“I think we’re going to continue this solution-oriented meeting to try to acknowledge the system that we have out there and find out how we can achieve solutions to make it happen on everybody’s behalf.”

Those attending included mem-

bers of the Palm Beach County Commission; Royal Palm Beach Vice Mayor Richard Valuntas, Councilman Fred Pinto, Councilwoman Martha Webster and Village Manager Ray Liggins; and Indian Trail Improvement District President Michelle Damone and Administrator Tanya Quickel.

Also participating was Florida Department of Transportation Engineer Beatriz Caicedo-Maddison.

County Engineer George Webb reviewed the projects, pointing out that they all run near to, but do not encroach upon, the West Palm Beach Water Catchment Area, contrary to claims in some fliers being circulated.

“There is a distance of seven miles between east-west roadways in this part of the county, and that is the longest stretch of the county with that lack of connectivity,” Webb said. “People said you should run 45th Street west and tie in. That was talked about 30 See ROADS, page 16

FRIENDSHIP BALL

Caribbean-Americans for Community Involvement held its 22nd annual Friendship Ball on Saturday, Sept. 24 at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center. Pictured here, CAFCI Fir st Vice President Nadine White-Boyd receives a proclamation from County Commissioner Jess Santamaria recognizing CAFCI Day. MORE PHOTOS, PAGE 5 PHOTO BY JESSICA GREGOIRE/TOWN-CRIER

Wellington Finalizes $73.9 Million Budget

By Lauren Miró Town-Crier Staff Report The Wellington Village Council gave final approval Monday to a $73.9 million budget while maintaining last year’s tax rate.

During its final budget hearing, the council voted unanimously to approve a tax rate of 2.5 mills.

A rate of 2.5 mills would mean that a Wellington resident whose property is assessed at $175,000 after exemptions would pay $437.50 in village property taxes next year.

In total, property taxes will net Wellington approximately $12.8 million.

Councilman Howard Coates changed his dissenting vote from the first reading of the budget, where he pressed for a tax rate of 2.4 mills.

“I do think there are ways we could cut [without sacrificing services],” he said, “but I’m going to support this motion. I think staff has done a good job. I think you

could do better, but I think you’ve done well enough.”

The Wellington budget for the fiscal year, starting Oct. 1, is proposed to be $73.9 million, down about 2.4 percent — or $1.8 million — from the previous year’s spending plan.

The budget uses $558,000 in rate stabilization reserves to offset lost tax revenue and includes $620,000 of unspent money brought forward from last year, including $400,000 from the Safe Neighborhoods Initiative, as well as a reallocation of about $5 million in capital project funds.

New projects include a $1.4 million paving and improvement plan for 50th Street South and $1.8 million in improvements to 120th Avenue South.

Additionally, the budget maintains reserve funds at 29 percent, with a $3 million hurricane reserve fund.

Coates said he again wanted to See WELLINGTON, page 16

Divided County Commission Sets Tax Rate Up Slightly

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report A sharply divided Palm Beach County Commission approved a $3.4 billion spending plan Tuesday with a slightly increased property tax rate.

In a 4-3 vote, the commissioners set the tax rate at 4.7815 mills — up from 4.75 mills last year.

At the start of the meeting, county staff members presented a budget based on 4.79 mills, which would have generated tax revenue of $596.4 million. That’s about $7 million less than what was taken in through property taxes last year.

County staff suggested taking about two-thirds of the shortfall — $5.3 million — from the road program.

“In addition, we propose to take $2 million from general fund capital, which consists of $1.6 million that was going to hurricane mitigation for this building,” County Administrator Bob Weisman said. “We have decided not to do the project.”

Weisman reminded commissioners that it had received a letter from Sheriff Ric Bradshaw that offered $1 million in excess fees from the current year if it

was used to reduce the county tax rate.

During public comment, many residents asked to keep the rate unchanged at 4.75 mills, although that would mean a further reduction in tax revenue for the county and additional cuts to services due to continuing property value decreases.

Some speakers urged commissioners to look more closely at Bradshaw’s budget, which accounts for more than half of county spending, but others said they want to retain a strong PBSO. Loxahatchee Groves resident

Dennis Lipp urged the commissioners to keep the tax rate unchanged. He noted that due to the depreciation of home values, some homeowners’ taxes are actually going down, but not everyone’s, pointing out that his taxes would be going up.

“I would ask you to send a message to the voters of Palm Beach County and keep it at 4.75,” Lipp said. “We don’t have a taxing problem in Washington, D.C.; we have a spending problem.”

Realtor Christina Pearce said she thought that the commission was going in the right direction,

but not enough. “Hard times are still here in Palm Beach County,” she said. “We definitely need to not raise the millage, but if we could lower it, that would be a special gift. The economy is still slow and unemployment is still high, and I want to make sure all the fluff has been eliminated from the budget.”

Pearce asked whether excess overtime and other programs she said the private sector considers excessive had been removed. She also questioned civilians with the PBSO being allowed to drive their See COUNTY, page 16

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Wellington Rotary Peace Day Ceremony Attracts Record Crowd The Wellington Rotary Club celebrated United Nations Peace Day on Wednesday, Sept. 21 at the Wellington Rotary Peace Park.

After the singing of the national anthem by Taylor Renee and the Pledge of Allegiance, the ceremony moved ahead with Mayor Darell Bowen reading the United Nations Peace Proclamation.

Peace Initiative co-chair Dr. Wes Boughner welcomed everyone and explained the history of the initiative. Wellington Village Council members added their comments regarding the meaning of the peace ceremony.

The approximately 300 people in attendance heard the Peace Pole wording “May Peace Prevail on

Earth” read aloud in eight different languages, followed by the Palm Beach Central High School choral group Traditions, led by Scott Houchins, singing “We Are the World.”

As part of the Wellington Rotary Club’s annual Peace Initiative, which runs throughout the year, the club sells the flags of various nations to members of the public.

The flags are then flown along the International Peace Boardwalk.

The club also sponsors competitions at local schools. The elementary schools submit posters on the themes of conflict resolution, multicultural understanding and world peace. The middle schools have poetry competitions, and the high

schools enter essay contests. A photographic competition rounded out the school competitions.

Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts were on hand to receive Rotary Club Merit Badges for completing a series of tasks associated with the theme of the Peace Initiative. Event co-chair Larry Kemp presented all of the prizes and thanked the students and teachers for all of their efforts.

Each year the club presents a Community Peace Award to a Wellington resident who has exemplary service in the area of world peace and understanding.

This year’s prize went to Carla Neumann, who founded Dream Sponsors in 2006 with the aim of FIND VIDEO FROM THIS EVENT AT WWW.GOTOWNCRIER.COM

Larry Kemp and Dr. Wes Boughner in front of a peace pole.

providing for the basic needs including medical and emotional support as well as money for school fees for slum children in Kenya.

After the singing of “Let There Be Peace On Earth” by the Traditions choir and a moment of silence, the ceremony culminated with the release of peace doves, which circled the park, marking the end of the ceremony.

The Rotary Club of Wellington and its President Karen Hardin wish to thank the Village of Wellington, all Rotary volunteers and especially the hundreds of students, teachers and scouts who made the Peace Initiative and U.N. Peace Day so successful.

Erick Leon and Shannon Sawyerr release the doves.

Judy Tannehill, Wellington R otary Club President Karen Hardin and her mother Urmgard Lee.

WHS student Jake Romano receives the Student Mediator Award for Resolution Tactics from Andrew Burr.

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Gallon Promises Full-Service College Campus At Lox Groves Site

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report Palm Beach State College President Dr. Dennis Gallon updated residents about plans for the new campus in Loxahatchee Groves at County Commissioner Jess Santamaria’s monthly public forum meeting Wednesday, Sept. 21 at the original Wellington Mall.

Palm Beach State College President Dr. Dennis Gallon

“I no longer call it the fifth campus,” Gallon said. “This past board meeting, I listed it as ‘Update on the Loxahatchee Groves Campus,’ so you can discontinue saying ‘fifth campus.’ It now has all the rights and privileges of the other campuses.”

Gallon said he could not convey all that Palm Beach State College has to offer in a brief 20minute presentation.

“I love this college dearly, and I think all of us there feel privileged to have the opportunity to go to that place every day to see if we can make it a little bit better than it was the day before,” he said.

Gallon said education is a commodity that all people should embrace. “There are some individuals who look down their noses at those institutions you call ‘community colleges,’ but in my opinion, that is the most rewarding place for an educator to work,” he said. “If you have a high school diploma or a GED, you can come to us, and we will take you as far as you can as fast as you are able to get there.”

That asset gives community

college students the ability to compete, he said, and as a result of PBSC’s open-door policy, individuals with varying degrees of readiness for college work enjoy a strong curriculum, a caring faculty, a strong instructional support system and an administration committed to creating the best teaching environment possible.

“That is what Palm Beach State stands for,” Gallon said.

Dating back to 1933, the college has grown with Palm Beach County, said Gallon, who arrived in 1997.

In 1988, the college changed its name from Palm Beach Junior College to Palm Beach Community College to reflect its expanded mission of offering courses that not only put a person on the right track to get a college degree but also include more workforce training, he said. More recently, the addition of bachelor’s degrees led to another name change.

“We have attempted to add other degrees like the four-year baccalaureate degrees and other certificates that I hope would be a testimony to what we’re trying to do,” Gallon said.

As a result of those changes, Palm Beach State College is where the majority of the county’s public and private high school graduates enroll initially, with about 52,000 students at its four existing campuses, he said.

Growth of the college has tracked growth of the county, starting in the West Palm Beach area, then expanding to Boca Raton and Palm Beach Gardens, then creating a small campus in Belle Glade.

“Three of the four campuses that we developed were on the I95 corridor,” Gallon said, adding that the Loxahatchee Groves campus would probably be the last of the campuses because of the need it will fill. “I think it is an ideal location for a number of reasons.

It will allow us to meet the greatest unmet need that we had — serving residents in this community, Royal Palm Beach, Wellington, The Acreage and Loxahatchee Groves. As a result of being on the main artery, Southern Blvd., it would put us in the position to relieve some of the pressure on the Lake Worth campus and be far enough west that it will position Palm Beach State College

to address the growth that’s going to take place.”

Gallon said the college has begun the necessary land-use and zoning changes with the Town of Loxahatchee Groves. “We have under contract an architect and a construction company,” he said.

“It’s going to be a project that will be built out over 40 to 50 years.”

However, Gallon predicted that the initial campus building will be ready in as few as two years.

“That’s our plan at this point, unless we have some individuals here tonight who want to raise their hands and say, ‘I want to make a donation.’ Then we can expedite some of this,” he said.

The first phase will create about 700 construction jobs, he said, and when they open the campus, Gallon predicted it would have enough students for 50 full-time and 35 part-time employees, including faculty, administrators and support staff. “It will be larger than the Belle Glade campus on the day that it opens,” he said.

The campus will be full-service, where a student will be able to go through the intake and registration process, orientation, financial aid

advisory and counseling with no need to go to any other campus to enroll. It will offer a comprehensive curriculum with all that is required to obtain an associate’s degree.

“We believe that the lar gest population of students on that campus will mimic the same population on the other campuses,” Gallon said. “Our core mission has been and always will be putting students on a pathway to go to the university to get that baccalaureate degree.”

Gallon anticipates that the campus will offer a strong healthcare component, which includes nursing.

“We are the largest producer of allied health professionals of any higher learning institution in this community,” he said. “I would imagine that we would have information technology, computer technology, and we are thinking at this point about housing the baccalaureate program on this location, as well. Many of those students take courses through elearning, so just because the program is housed there doesn’t mean See COLLEGE, page 16

New Loxahatchee Groves Managers Meet With LGLA Members

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report Leaders of the new Loxahatchee Groves management team were the guest speakers at a Loxahatchee Groves Landowners’ Association reception Thursday, Sept. 22.

Bill Underwood and Mark Kutney of Underwood Management Services Group updated LGLA members about their plans for running the town.

Underwood noted that he has been in municipal government more than 30 years as a manager or assistant manager. He is currently financial services director for the City of Oakland Park.

Kutney, who also has more than 30 years of government management experience, will take the active role as day-to-day manager of Loxahatchee Groves.

“Mark Kutney and myself are the team,” Underwood said.

“We’re going to take a slightly different approach. We have an individual who specializes in grants, part-time. We have an individual who will be an office

manager, part-time. There will be a dedicated individual who will do the board minutes, and we’ll have a clerk. Initially, Mark has agreed to be town clerk and manager.”

Underwood said they have looked at the town budget and see opportunities for improvement.

“I’m very excited about being here,” he said. “I think we’re going to be able to give everybody a lot of feedback and a lot of service.”

Underwood expects that he will make strong use of technology to streamline the process and more effectively communicate with residents.

“It saves money, and I’m into saving money,” said Underwood, who instituted a savings plan in Stuart using a credit card through which he was able to purchase an ambulance and a garbage truck through rebates. “The city got money back, and you’re going to spend the money. We’re going to use something that’s going to generate some cash money. Just because you’re small doesn’t mean

you can’t take advantage of some of those little tweaks.”

Underwood said he felt residents would be satisfied with Kutney doing the clerk’s duties, such as meeting minutes.

“I know you’re going to love Mark,” Underwood said. “He’s been in the development business on the government side for 35 years. He’s familiar with the situation in Loxahatchee Groves, and I think you can’t find a better team to get that done.”

Kutney said he has worked with Underwood off and on over the past 10 years in Davie and Belle Glade. “We do have an understanding of rural land use and know the nature of rural communities,” he said. “We worked in Belle Glade, so we got to understand agricultural.”

Kutney said he has spent time looking at the town’s charter and vision. “It seems like you folks have done a real good job putting that together,” he said. “It’s very clear where you want to go with your future, not hard to understand. It helps an administrator

when they know where a community wants to go.”

Kutney said he considers himself a quick study, and if someone comes in with a question he does not know the answer to, he will find out. “I think we bring a breadth of experience that will help out,” he said. “We’re also not married to any one concept. We’re both very flexible, and we’re both very open. If we find out we’re going a certain way and that’s not working, we’ll make a change.”

Kutney said he looks forward to taking on the assignment and working with residents. “I’m an open book, so any questions you have, feel free to call me,” he said.

“You’ll see me a lot. I’ll probably be moving a cot into my office, but it will be a labor of love.”

Resident Eileen Davidson asked about canal overgrowth, and Kutney said his understanding is that canal maintenance is a Loxahatchee Groves Water Control District issue, but that he’d follow up on her question.

LGWCD Supervisor John Ryan, who was attending the

Nancy Handwerg and Carol Bailey with Bill Underwood, owner of Loxahatchee Groves’ new management firm, Underwood Management Services Group.

PHOTO BY R ON BUKLEY/TOWN-CRIER meeting, said the canals are some- age districts and will work hard what overgrown because the dis- to maintain a good relationship. trict has only one cutter equipped Ryan asked when the new team with a hydraulic arm for canals, will get started and how the tranand it’s usually being used to trim sition is going, and Kutney said at intersections to improve visibil- he has been at the office every day ity. since their proposal was accepted Underwood said his team has earlier this month. The new team experience interacting with drain- See LGLA MEETING, page 16

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On Road Projects, It Takes Two Sides To Negotiate Differences Palm Beach County commissioners were skeptical that much would be accomplished at Tuesday’s joint meeting on road issues with representatives of West Palm Beach, Royal Palm Beach and the Indian Trail Improvement District. West Palm Beach has long been at odds with the others on road projects such as the State Road 7 and Roebuck Road extensions. With those critical, yet controversial projects among the topics up for discussion, the assumption was that the two sides would continue to balk at each other. But what actually happened was an even greater blow to negotiating out a settlement: nobody representing the City of West Palm Beach showed up.

West Palm Beach — mainly residents of its Ibis community — have been vocal in their opposition to the SR 7 extension, arguing that it will have a negative impact on the nearby Grassy Waters Preserve, the city’s water catchment area. Unfortunately, they’ve been playing a bit loose with the facts, erroneously claiming that the road will run through the preserve — despite the fact that, well, it won’t. County Engineer George Webb emphatically stated as much, and they would know that had they bothered to attend Tuesday’s meeting.

Perhaps the difficulty of having to answer to those charges was part of the reason for West Palm Beach’s no-show. However, it is more likely they simply have no intentions of working with Palm Beach County, Indian Trail and Royal Palm Beach on this necessary road project.

That would explain West Palm Beach Mayor Jeri Muoio’s reaching out for state and federal help with the issue.

Under different circumstances, we would understand Muoio’s concerns; after all, she is an

Ibis resident, so this project literally hits close to home. However, given the fact that Ibis was built on the very same wetlands she claims to want to protect, it is really hard to look at it as nothing more than a case of “not in my back yard” (or NIMBY, as it’s also called). Perhaps Acreage residents should have said “NIMBY” to Ibis being constructed. After all, the SR 7 extension was being planned long before Ibis came about. Maybe if West Palm Beach commissioners spoke to the people who have lived here for decades, driving on the heavily congested Royal Palm Beach Blvd., they would understand their revulsion of having to listen to people from a newer community like Ibis tell them their long-awaited road-relief project shouldn’t happen.

For Ibis residents, it’s an inconvenience. For residents of The Acreage and Royal Palm Beach, it’s a matter of public safety. With Royal Palm Beach Blvd. as the only evacuation route, the potential for disaster is a very real threat.

The Roebuck Road extension has also met with West Palm Beach resistance. In this case, residents of Baywinds, Andros Isle and River Walk oppose the roadway, despite the fact that the Roebuck extension was a requirement of the approval that led to those communities being built. Lucky for them, traffic changes on Okeechobee and Southern boulevards have made the Roebuck extension a less critical project.

As we have mentioned in previous editorials, the SR 7 extension has been a long time coming, and at this point debating whether it should be built is only wasting time. The time for cries of NIMBY are over. Now it’s time to GIB — get it built.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Watch Your Driving On Sem Pratt I wish to make a personal complaint against a stranger who almost killed me and my friend tonight (Sept. 24) on Seminole Pratt Whitney Road at 8:30 p.m.

Why on earth did you have your white pickup truck pulled out onto the road using half of the lane I was traveling in? You were coming out of the parking lot at Sneaky Pete’s, and I was traveling north.

You honked your horn at me, but I saw you. Why did you just sit there and honk and not simply back up fast? I had to dangerously swerve my SUV into the oncoming lane to avoid hitting you. My passenger said I missed impacting your truck by a hair. I was lucky and blessed by God that there was no southbound traffic at that exact moment. I was traveling the posted speed limit. My small SUV could have flipped with the huge swerve I had to make to avoid slamming into you.

I just recently in the last six months have had two major spinal surgeries on my neck. The impact could have killed me or put me into a wheelchair for life. My 71-year-old passenger would have

been crushed. What were you doing on the middle of the road like that? Do you not know to stop to look to the left and right? I do now sincerely regret not to have stopped or followed you and gotten your plate number and called the police right there.

I question if you were drinking.

It is Saturday night. I wish we had enough police that could patrol that parking lot and others to pick up the drunks before they get into their vehicles and drive onto that extremely dark single-lane roadway. I understand we have only two officers for the entire Acreage.

No wonder there are so many crosses lining the roads on Seminole Pratt with reckless drivers like you. Both of my senior parents died this past year (my mother died six weeks ago), and I almost joined them tonight except by the hand of God, who took over my steering wheel, I am most certain.

People, please stop and think before you just pull out onto the road without bothering to look for oncoming traffic. I am sick of reckless, high-risk drivers. I am also sick of the pitch-black drive along Seminole Pratt Whitney Road from 60th to Orange Blvd. and then beyond that to Northlake Blvd.

To the county: Put up lights already; that is a very busy road-

way. How many more accidents do we need to face before action is taken? It has become too commercial now to consider it “country” anymore. Let us be safe for ourselves and our kids who drive those roads at night.

Christine Thibeault The Acreage

Pure Capitalism Does Not Work Editor’s note: The following letter is in response to Guenter Langer’s letter from last week (“Tax System Needs Balance”) and Frank Morelli’s letter published Sept. 16 (“Morelli: I’m A Reagan Conservative”).

I disagree with both Morelli and Langer with what is commonly but mistakenly expressed as conservative opinion.

Blaming liberals and progressives for failures of U.S Steel is tantamount to blaming liberals and progressives for the failure of the last buggy whip manufacturer. By the way, JFK was involved in a U.S Steel strike involving then union boss MacDonald and a now-famous lockout that resulted in a request by JFK for an audit of U.S Steel books, which resulted in a win for MacDonald and a resolution of the contract dispute.

Everything we do in America cannot be to benefit the private sector and result in a profit. Contrary to the impression and opinion by people who identify themselves as conservatives, government often hires more people than the private sector. Commonly, many privately held projects are funded with public money. There would be no Hoover Dam or Golden Gate Bridge or any major bridge if we had to depend on the private sector. All the interstates we rely on would not have been built if we waited for the private sector.

Presidents like Teddy Roosevelt, arguably the most progressive conservationist president in U.S history, was a Republican who created the largest park systems in the country. Ronald Reagan also saw to it that we had the best-built and best-maintained highway system.

My point is that true conservatives of the past were never pure capitalists and did support government-funded public works.

There was a time when private enterprise tried to manage fire and police departments. In the former case, each insured was given a plate with the name of his insurance company on his front lawn, and in case of fire, a privately owned fire engine from his insur-

ance company was sent out to fight the fire. Fire engines often drove by fires of those insured by rival insurance companies and simply kept on going. Want to return to the “good old days?”

Law enforcement arose out of a need by local businesses to protect their interests and not necessarily the public interest, because the people paying for the protection were the local businesses.

Want to return to the “good old days?” In a purely capitalist world, there would be no public colleges or public libraries. Imagine a world or a country that unless it makes a profit, it is not in the public interest to support it.

A last word about U.S Steel, International Harvester and other companies that failed to invest in

their own infrastructure and were simply overtaken by foreign competition that emerged after World War II with state-of-the art equipment and more modern methods of manufacturing: It was not the fault of greedy labor but rather greedy profit taking by mismanagement.

More than one president asked the auto industry to build cars with better fuel economy and smaller, more efficient cars, but Detroit said no because those who owned stock in cars also owned stock in oil and vice versa. The public rejected the big fuel-wasting cars from Detroit and bought Japanese, and the rest is history.

Richard Nielsen Royal Palm Beach

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and will prepare children for intercollegiate competition.

Smallridge said that it is this forward-thinking vision that the BDB saw when they chose to recognize him.

“Without Mark Bellissimo’s vision, passion and absolute inability to accept anything less than success,” she said, “Wellington and Palm Beach County would not have boasting rights to the number-one equestrian destination in

the world, right here in our own back yards.”

For Bellissimo, the award is recognition of the team of individuals dedicated to growing the unique community.

“There isn’t anything like it in the world,” Bellissimo said. “I have seen the impact of these wonderful animals on our family, and I believe we can be instrumental in sharing that experience with others.”

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continued from page 1 and staff, who have supported his efforts, he said.

“I believe they understand the importance of this emerging equestrian industry, and our collective efforts have protected and enhanced this very unique community asset,” Bellissimo said.

“Without the equestrian dimension, this is just another Florida community. I think people are beginning to see that this industry has a significant impact on Wellington and the county, that is in the hundreds of millions of dollars per year of tourist-related expenditures.”

A recent economic impact study done by the Palm Beach County Sports Commission showed that the Winter Equestrian Festival books more than 47,000 hotel beds over the 12week show, far more than any other event in the region.

Comparatively, the Honda Classic booked 2,400 beds and spring training at Roger Dean Stadium booked 6,800 beds.

Combined with those who rent or own homes in the area, the economic impact is far greater, Bellissimo said.

“These visitors grocery-shop… shop at the mall and at local retail

stores, and leverage most other community businesses,” he said.

“There is no other equestrian community in the world that even comes close.”

It was these and other efforts that made Bellissimo the BDB’s choice to receive the award, said BDB President and CEO Kelly Smallridge.

“The BDB looks for key companies led by creative and innovative individuals who are bringing new projects and capital investments to Palm Beach County,” she said. “Mark has transformed the equestrian industry in Wellington, creating a more yearlong impact as opposed to seasonal.”

But what really set Bellissimo apart from other business leaders was his dedication to give back to the community, she said.

“His contributions to charity really made him stand out among other businesses,” she said. “He turns around and gives back.”

In the past two years, the equestrian community has come together to donate more than $1.5 million to local charities during the FTI Great Charity Challenge. The Bellissimo family spearheaded the project, which is expected to give away $3 million annually within five years.

“What is great about this effort is that this is the equestrian com-

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munity giving back directly to Palm Beach County,” Bellissimo said. “It is a fun event that is not targeted at a specific charity, but the spirit of giving.”

Though Bellissimo has already seen success, he has continued plans to grow the equestrian community in Wellington.

Plans include opening the 2012 Global Dressage Festival at WEP’s new facility in the old polo stadium grounds at South Shore Blvd. and Pierson Road, and the development of 18 acres of recently purchased commercial office space directly across South Shore Blvd. to attract equestrian businesses to move their headquarters to Wellington.

“I believe we can create a strong six- to eight-month season that covers a wide range of equestrian disciplines and events,” Bellissimo said. “Fundamental to this strategy is to create full-time jobs for the local economy and to create opportunities for local vendors at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center.”

One of his continued goals has been to bridge the gap between the equestrian and non-equestrian communities.

“I would estimate that less than 30 percent of non-equestrians know where the facility is and less than 10 percent have ever been there,” he said.

To do this, he has invited the community out for free events such as Saturday Night Lights and the Great Charity Challenge, which offer entertainment both equestrian and otherwise, in hopes to give residents a look into the equestrian world.

“Let’s face it,” he said, “the sport as configured is inaccessible, expensive and exclusive, but it does not have to be that way.

Over the next few years, we are going to be opening up the facility and its resources to the community.”

To help bring in the public, Bellissimo plans to make it more affordable and accessible for families to learn to ride in Wellington.

He plans to move the Palm Beach Riding Academy to the new dressage facility.

“It allows families in the community to experiment and experience this great sport through free lessons, camps, accessible riding programs and a scholarship program for children who have an interest in the sport,” he said. “Once people become insiders to the sport and not observers to a ‘distant world,’ they will become interested, engaged and fellow enthusiasts.”

Furthermore, Bellissimo hopes to create a low-cost, interscholastic public school riding program that begins in elementary school

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County’s Red-Light Camera Grace Period Is Now Over Motorists who fail to stop at red lights on certain county-owned roads will now face fines after the grace period for red-light cameras expired this month.

The fine for running a red light is $158. However, if it is not paid within 30 days, it goes up to $264.

Citations are issued by mail and no points are assessed.

American Traffic Solutions (ATS), a private company, installs, maintains and monitors the traffic cameras at no cost to taxpayers.

The cameras shoot photos and video 24 hours a day of every vehicle that goes through a red light.

Currently, red-light cameras are operational at the following county intersections: Lantana Road at

Jog Road heading east and west, Palmetto Park Road at Powerline Road heading east and west and southbound at Powerline Road at Palmetto Park Road.

These are the first camera-monitored intersections in unincorporated Palm Beach County. Others will soon have cameras, including: Atlantic Avenue at Jog Road heading east and west, Hypoluxo Road at Military Trail heading east and west and westbound on Lake Worth Road at Military Trail.

No further grace periods will be enacted. Fines will be issued immediately once a new red-light camera is activated.

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CAFCI HOSTS ANNUAL FRIENDSHIP BALL AT THE ROYAL PALM CULTURAL CENTER Caribbean-Americans for Community Involvement held its 22nd annual Friendship Ball on Saturday, Sept. 24 at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center. The ball celebrated and honored members of the community for their charitable works, along with dinner and dancing. For more info., visit www.cafcipbc.org. FIND VIDEO FROM THIS EVENT AT WWW.GOTOWNCRIER.COM PHOTOS BY JESSICA GREGOIRE/TOWN-CRIER

CAFCI President Ernie Garvey with Winsom Martin.

CAFCI Second Vice President Genieve White and Audrey Campbell.

June Perrin, Royal Palm Beach Vice Mayor Richard Valuntas, Mayor Matty Mattioli and Tom Wenham.

CAFCI Director Jerome Wright thanks Mistress of Ceremonies Leonie Escoffery with flowers.

Royal Palm Beach Councilman Fred Pinto with Shirley Palmer.

Ken Salmon, Rhonda Ferrin-Davis and Tom & Regis Wenham.

WHS THINKPINKKIDS CHAPTER DONATES $15,000 TOWARD CANCER RESEARCH Wellington High School’s thinkPINKkids chapter presented a $15,000 check to the Scripps Research Institute on Wednesday, Sept.

21 in the WHS auditorium. The students raised the money for the Department of Cancer Biology to aid in cancer research. For more PHOTOS BY JESSICA GREGOIRE/TOWN-CRIER info., visit www.thinkpinkkids.com.

Elyn Small, Suzette Krajewski, Dr. Amy Aqua, Dr. John Cleveland and Barbara Suflas Noble.

Valeria Leiva, Arlyne Perez and Drea Latouche.

Jessica Small and Josh Gauthier.

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CRIME NEWS

Kayak Stolen From Home In The Acreage

By Lauren Miró Town-Crier Staff Report SEPT. 21 — A deputy from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office Acreage/Loxahatchee substation was dispatched to a home on 63rd Court North last Wednesday afternoon regarding a burglary.

According to a PBSO report, sometime between 7 p.m. last Tuesday and 4 p.m. the following afternoon, someone stole the victim’s 9-foot yellow kayak along with three paddles and a seat mat from his lawn. The victim said that three other kayaks were left on the property. The stolen items were valued at approximately $820.

The deputy canvassed the neighborhood, but there were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report.

SEPT. 21 — A resident of 83rd Lane North called the PBSO’s Acreage/Loxahatchee substation last Wednesday afternoon to report a theft. According to a PBSO report, the victim’s wife left home at about 4 p.m. and returned approximately 45 minutes later to find that the family’s 23-inch Samsung television was missing from the den. The perpetrator(s) entered the home through an unlocked rear door and took only the television.

SEPT. 22 — A Royal Palm Beach man was arrested late last Wednesday night following a traffic stop near the intersection of Forest Hill Blvd. and Montauk Drive in Wellington. According to a PBSO report, a deputy from the Wellington substation was on patrol when he observed a black Chevy Impala driven by 40-yearold Ira Sheehy fail to signal when making a turn. According to the report, Sheehy had been observed conducting drug transactions inside his vehicle at a nearby gas station. The deputy initiated a traffic stop and made contact with Shee-

hy, who consented to a search of the vehicle. According to the report, the deputy discovered 1 gram of marijuana in a plastic bag on the back seat. Sheehy was arrested and issued a notice to appear in court.

SEPT. 22 — A Wellington man and Royal Palm Beach woman were arrested last Thursday night on drug charges following a report of a suspicious vehicle on Forest Hill Blvd. According to a PBSO report, a deputy from the PBSO substation in Wellington responded to the area after a witness called to report a white Toyota Camry whose occupants were acting suspiciously. The deputy made contact with the occupants, 18-year-old John Sheppard and 20-year-old Brittany Emery. According to the report, the deputy found that they were in possession of a 30-milligram oxycodone pill wrapped in tin foil. Sheppard and Emery were arrested and taken to the Palm Beach County Jail where they were charged with possession of a controlled substance without a prescription.

SEPT. 22 — A West Palm Beach man was arrested late last Thursday night on charges of drunken driving following a traffic stop near the intersection of Southern Blvd. and State Road 7.

According to a PBSO report, a deputy from the Royal Palm Beach substation was on patrol at approximately 11:35 p.m. when he observed a gold MercedesBenz traveling southbound on in a northbound lane. The deputy initiated a traffic stop and made contact with the driver, 53-yearold Robert Edens, who appeared to be intoxicated. Following a series of roadside tasks, Edens was arrested and taken to the county jail where breath tests revealed he had a blood-alcohol level of .176.

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The woman pictured here is wanted for fraudulent use of credit cards and identity theft.

PBSO Seeking Suspect In Acreage Identity Theft Case The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying suspects wanted for fraudulent use of credit cards and identity theft.

On July 21, a victim’s vehicle was burglarized while at Coconut Park in The Acreage, located at the corner of Coconut Blvd. and 89th Place. Unidentified suspects stole the victim’s purse containing nu-

merous credit cards and ID. The suspects utilized the victim’s personal information, ID and credit/debit cards to make withdrawals and purchases at several locations. The victim sustained a loss of thousands of dollars.

Anyone who can identify the suspects in this case is urged to contact Crime Stoppers at (800) 458-TIPS.

Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County is asking for the public’s help in finding these wanted fugitives: • Norman Newkirk is black male, 6’0” tall and weighing 190 lbs., with black hair and brown eyes. He has tattoos on both arms and left shoulder. His date of birth is 11/25/87. Newkirk is wanted for sale of marijuana. His occupation is customer service. His last known addresses were Goldenrod Road in Wellington and Lake Victoria Drive in West P alm Beach.

Newkirk is wanted as of 09/29/11.

• Stephon Robinson is black male, 5’11” tall and weighing 290 lbs., with black hair and brown eyes. He has tattoos on both arms. His date of birth is 12/07/8 4. Robinson is wanted for dealing in stolen property and false verification of owner ship to a pawnbroker. His occupation is unknown. His last known address was Finch Court in Royal Palm Beach. Robinson is wanted as of 09/29/ 11.

Remain anonymous and you ma y be eligible for up to a $1,000 reward. Call Crime Stopper s at (800) 458- TIPS (8477) or visit www.crimestopperspbc. com.

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Taylor Asks Commissioners To Reconsider Sluggett Conditions

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report At a Palm Beach County Commission zoning meeting Monday, Commissioner Priscilla Taylor said she would like to revisit the zoning conditions placed on the Sluggett property at the intersection of Southern Blvd. and Seminole Pratt Whitney Road, possibly allowing a big-box store there to provide job opportunities for Glades residents.

In August 2010, the county commission increased the commercial density of the 65-acre site from 161,000 square feet to 280,000 square feet of space. But conditions on the project require no more than 65,000 square feet for a single tenant, and that it be developed using a “traditional marketplace” design.

During commissioner comments at Monday’s meeting, Taylor questioned if the size limitation is necessary.

“In the past couple of weeks, there have been a lot of developments, especially with the closing

of the [Glades Correctional Institution],” she said. “I want to discuss the Sluggett property in regard to the limitation of the 65,000 square feet for a single tenant… I think this could be an opportunity to try to create jobs.”

Planning, Zoning & Building Director Barbara Alterman said that a comprehensive land use amendment would be necessary because anything over 65,000 square feet in the rural tier would be considered a development of regional impact.

“Therefore, you would have to do an amendment to the comprehensive plan in order to clarify that and give them the authority to change the code, if that’s what the board wants to do,” Alterman said.

Taylor said she would like the commission to direct staff to take a look at the ramifications. “We are going to have to think outside of the box as far as what we can do to try to create some relief in jobs in the western areas,” she said. “This is an opportunity to get some job spurts there.”

Commission Chair Karen Marcus pointed out that the community in the surrounding area has a different opinion on the disposition of the Sluggett property, which has had “for sale” signs on it in recent months.

The “for sale” signs have raised the ire of neighboring residents, especially people in nearby Fox Trail, who have historically opposed land use changes on the Sluggett property. However, the development has received letters of approval from local organizations, including the Acreage Landowners’ Association and the Indian Trail Improvement District Board of Supervisors, plus the support of the Palms West Chamber of Commerce.

“This has been talked about, hashed out, changed, compromised, trying to help everybody,” Marcus said. “I don’t think commissioners’ comments is the appropriate forum to do this, because they don’t have a chance to comment. Perhaps we should bring it back on a regular zoning agenda.”

Taylor said she did not necessarily want to initiate action, but would like to hear from county staff on the idea.

Commissioner Jess Santamaria said he is opposed to property owners and developers coming before the commission claiming they have plans that will create jobs but with nothing concrete.

“The carrot is always jobs, jobs, jobs, with nothing specific,” Santamaria said. “That really gets me.

As a developer, and being a resident of that area for 38 years, most, not all, but most, of these applications really have nothing in mind except to increase the value of their real estate.”

Santamaria said it is especially frustrating to him that immediately after the county granted a landuse change for greater density, a “for sale” sign went up on the property.

Taylor said she is not a developer but a commissioner who is concerned for this community. “I am very much concerned for the western areas because of what has

happened out there,” she said. “I don’ t think we’re asking too much, and I do know that the property owners have letters of intent, but even so, we must think outside the box.”

She pointed out that Royal Palm Beach and Wellington were developed amid naysayers. “There will always be naysayers,” Taylor said.

“What I asked for, and what I would like to see us bring back, is... an opportunity to look at this and see if it is something that is viable and if it is something that can work. I don’t think that it is asking too much.”

“Well, we really ought to think about putting a Walmart out in the Glades,” Marcus said. “That would be great. They wouldn’t have to drive anywhere.”

Commissioner Burt Aaronson said he would not be opposed to hearing a report from staff on the property. “The fact is,” he said, “we are stymied for jobs in Palm Beach County, and if we don’t do something sometimes within the box, and sometimes out of the box,

we’re not going to help the unemployed in this county.”

Commissioner Steven Abrams said he favored promoting more jobs, but not at the expense of neighboring residents. “You can’t throw residents that are directly affected by some of these projects under the bus for the sake of the jobs,” Abrams said.

Commissioner Paulette Burdick pointed out that there are thousands of projects in the county already approved for development.

“If there was money to be lent, if there was a market out there to buy homes when 46 percent of the mortgages in the State of Florida are underwater, and Palm Beach County leads that number, I don’t think it’s about creating jobs for development,” she said. “If there was a potential for creating jobs, I would certainly support it.”

The next county commission zoning meeting is set for Oct. 27, but a definite date had not been set as of Wednesday as to when an update on the Sluggett property would be presented.

Commissioners Support Power Plant’s Building Expansion Request

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report The Palm Beach County Commission agreed Monday to expedited consideration of an expansion request by Florida Power & Light’s West County Energy Center, over protests from a resident and an environmental club representative.

At issue was a request for the expansion of the power plant’s administrative center.

Project Manager Carol Glasser said FPL was requesting expedited consideration of a development order amendment for the 219.29acre West County Energy Center to increase administrative office and warehouse square footage.

The county commission originally approved the plant in 2002 as part of an overall 5,235-acre parcel, which included Palm Beach Aggregates’ mining operation and the South Florida Water Management District’s reservoir.

In February 2004, the commissioners approved 45,000 square

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continued from page 1 on the signs,” he said. “Sometimes it’s more, sometimes it’s less.

You’ll save on that and on printing costs. We make high-quality signs, which use a lot of ink. You’ll see a return on your investment very quickly.”

The screens come with a seven-year, 100 percent warranty, and the LEDs are guaranteed for 11 years, Amburgey said. Wellington will recoup its money in about three years, he noted.

Councilman Howard Coates said that it will be a big change for Wellington, but the savings outweighed other concerns. “Because we can remote-access the sign and upload the information, we’re going to see an immediate savings,” he said.

But Willhite also said he thought that the amphitheater didn’t need additional advertising to merit the $32,000 price tag.

“I think we’ve already maximized the use of our amphitheater on several nights,” he said.

Councilwoman Anne Gerwig disagreed. She said that though some nights the venue is packed, other events don’t get the same publicity.

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feet for the FPL site. The final site plan approved in June 2006, however, indicated a reduction in square footage to 25,000 square feet, and FPL is now asking to reestablish the 20,000 square feet that had been approved previously for administrative offices and warehouse uses.

In 2002, the county approved a gas-operated 3,000-megawatt electrical power facility on about 220 acres of the Palm Beach Aggregates site, located south of the existing FPL Corbett substation.

That was later increased in capacity to 3,300 megawatts, and then to 3,800 megawatts.

The county planning division found the request to be consistent with surrounding land uses, including the Corbett electric transmission substation and the future alignment of Okeechobee Road to the north, the SFWMD Pump Station 5A and the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge to the south, agriculture and excavation to the east, and rural residential to

the west, according to the staff report.

The additional square footage will not be visible from the adjacent roadway or any residences.

As proposed, and subject to the conditions of approval, staff anticipates no adverse impacts to the surrounding properties from the request. There are no additional traffic impacts associated with the request.

Staff recommended a new condition of approval to require an alternative landscape plan for the east compatibility buffer prior to final approval and to install the compatibility buffer by March 2012. An existing 150-foot-wide right-of-way buffer was previously approved for the overall site and remains.

Glasser said the county has not received any inquiries regarding the project and recommended approval.

However, Acreage resident Alex Larson objected to the expansion, asserting that the plant is

a significant source of pollution in the area and that the 36-inch gas supply line does not have a property shutoff valve in the event of an emergency. “This power plant should have never been built on this site,” Larson said. “Anything that is added to this is wrong.”

Drew Martin, representing the Sierra Club, said his organization had opposed the location of the plant because of its proximity to the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge. “One of the concerns was lighting and noise,” Martin said.

“That’s a concern because light and noise disrupt the bird populations. We were concerned also that the plant would impact the Everglades restoration process.”

Martin said he felt the plant is big enough and his organization is opposed to additional square footage.

“They already have a huge amount of square footage,” Martin said. “FPL employs a lot of very sophisticated people. How can they not know when they

we did Saturday and we have maybe a quarter of the capacity of the place, I just don’t believe that people know what is going on,” she said. “In these times when budgets are tight, you have free entertainment close to home and people don’t come, I just have to think that they didn’t know about it.”

Another concern of Willhite was that it would detract from the hometown feel that Wellington has worked to build, and could be distracting for drivers. “I think they’re very distracting,” he said.

“It’s an issue of public safety. Do we want people slowing down trying to read something?”

Gerwig felt that the signs were not distracting.

“When we say electronic sign, it’s really more like an LCD television,” she said. “It’s not showing something flashing or moving.

It has the capability of changing easily, and putting the information out in a way that lights it up. I don’t find it obnoxious or unattractive, and I think it meets our standards of appearance.”

Mayor Pro Tem Dr. Carmine Priore recalled a time when Wellington was reluctant to allow any type of sign.

“What’s happened, like with many things,” he said, “is that science has allowed us to present the same type of advertisement but in a more refined way. I don’t see this

as any different than a sign you would see along the side of the road. It’s lit, and you can read it clearly.”

Council members did stress that the new signs should not be scrolling, which several council members agreed would be a distraction to drivers.

“I think that is definitely distracting,” Willhite said.

Amburgey said that the signs would show solid messages.

“Our intentions are for the message to not be scrolling,” Amburgey said. “There are studies that prove that scrolling causes issues, while non-scrolling won’t cause any issues.”

Though the signs are meant to advertise events at the amphitheater, they will also alert residents to emergency situations. But Willhite did not believe they would be an effective means of emergency communication.

“Only the residents who travel down Forest Hill will see them,” he said. “Not every resident travels down Forest Hill every day.”

But Gerwig noted that the signs would be more appropriate there than elsewhere.

“We’re obviously not going to be able to write it in the sky that there’s an emergency,” she said, “but this would be the next best thing I can think of.”

Ultimately, the council voted 41 to approve the contract.

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came in with the original proposal that they needed this additional square footage? I’m just very surprised, and I would like to know why.”

Martin added that he felt the plant is poorly located. “I went to Tallahassee and spoke with thenGov. Jeb Bush in opposing this plant,” Martin said. “Many, many people from our area traveled up there to oppose the plant because it’s a bad location. I’d like to recommend against the additional square footage.”

Zoning Director Jon MacGillis said the additional square footage had actually been approved by the county. “For some reason, whoever drew it up took some square footage away,” MacGillis said. “It didn’t become apparent to me until several months ago.”

MacGillis explained that the request is for administrative offices and locker rooms for the staff.

Commissioner Paulette Burdick, who was elected to the com-

mission last year, asked for someone to explain the objections to the plant, including the alleged lack of shutoff valves for the gas supply.

Don Kiselewski of FPL said that the pipeline, operated by Gulfstream Natural Gas, does have a manual shutoff on site, as well as a midpoint shutoff valve at a Martin County facility.

“By federal rule, we have to have them every 20 miles, so Gulfstream is well within that,” Kiselewski said, adding that FPL has been compliant with all county codes since the site opened.

“In an effort to be a good neighbor, we have worked with the residents to mitigate light impact and noise impact at a cost of about $300,000,” Kiselewski said.

Commissioner Burt Aaronson made a motion to approve the expedited application to allow additional square footage, Commissioner Shelley Vana seconded the motion, and it carried unanimously.

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GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION FOR NEW TD BANK BRANCH IN ROYAL PALM BEACH

TD Bank held a grand opening celebration Saturday, Sept. 24 at its new branch on Okeechobee Blvd. in front of Super Target in Royal Palm Beach. There were free refreshments and free umbrellas for the first 100 customers, as well as games to win logo merchandise, music and magician Mr. A, who made balloon animals for the kids.

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Wellington Mayor Darell Bowen and Royal Palm Beach Councilwoman Martha Webster with the TD Bank mascot.

The Amazing Mr. A (Richard Adler) makes balloon animals for Kaylee and Jailynn Spears.

Patty Vahamondes hands out ice cream treats.

Palms West Chamber of Commerce CEO Jaene Miranda (center) with TD Bank’s Elisa Whitehall and Angela Mattingly .

The ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Marty Goffe gets welcoming applause from TD Bank employees Cecilia Lopez, Marco Costa, Deborah Morawski, Kevin DeSousa, Jose Garces and Miriam Riggle.

DOG LOVERS JOIN THEIR FURRY FRIENDS FOR ‘A DOG’S DAY’ AT OKEEHEELEE PARK

A Second Chance Puppies & Kittens R escue held its inaugural “A Dog’s Day” e vent Sunday, Sept. 25 at the Micanopy Pavilion in Okeeheelee Park. The organization brought dogs, puppies and cats for adoption, and there were several dog-related vendors, as well as a silent auction, raffles, live music by Knock Down and a motorcycle poker run.

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Molly and Moose from Canine Assisted Therapy with Bruce and Barbara Whitely.

Sit Means Sit o wner Bob Burnell with Kody, who gets a bone from Kibblez of Love owner Angelina Wilson.

Veterinarian Dr. Stuart Fox with Beauty.

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PALMS WEST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ANNUAL GOLF TOURNEY AT MAYACOO The Palms West Community Foundation Classic Golf Tournament 2011 was held Friday, Sept. 23 at Mayacoo Lakes Country Club.

Awards were presented at a barbecue lunch, along with a live auction and raffles.

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Bettye Thompson, Theresa Agricola, Lorie Stinson and Rita Demier of the South Florida Fair.

Closest-to-the-pin winner David Centrella and longest-drive winner Wilfred Horton.

Tim Stillings, Cindy Powers, Matt Olsen and Mike Odell.

Terri Priore has Marc Holzhausen pick a card.

Dorian Bordenave and Madison Green Head Golf Pro Brian Govi.

Geoff Sluggett, Mary McNicholas and John Arnold.

WELLINGTON SENIORS CLUB LUNCHEON MARKS THE START OF A NEW SEASON

The Wellington Seniors Club held a member ship luncheon Wednesday, Sept. 21 at the Wellington Community Center. There was a brief business meeting to catch everyone up on the new season and a box lunch from TooJay’s. Wellington Quilters Bee members showed their originally designed quilts for veterans. Wellington Mayor Darell Bowen took suggestions and answered questions about the new community center. For more info., e-mail info@wellingtonseniors.org.

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Judy Tannehill (center) with new members Katey Gater, Lucillie Puglisi, Pat Armstrong and Rosaria Tumminaro.

Wellington Seniors Club board members.

Wellington Quilters Bee members display quilts for veterans.

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NEWS BRIEFS Blessing Of The Animals At St. Michael Church

Ed Brock, Linda Berstein, Arienne & Berr y Pershan and Karen Paull.

Wellington Pap Corps To Host Tennis & Golf Outing On Oct. 24 The Wellington Pap Corps Chapter has planned a fun-filled day to raise funds for cancer research. The second annual Wellington Pap Corps Tennis & Golf Outing will take place Monday, Oct. 24 at the Wanderers Club at Wellington.

The Pap Corps has donated over $29 million in the past 10 years to the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, South Florida’s only universitybased cancer center.

“We have planned an amazing day for our community — tennis, brunch, golf, cocktails, dinner, awards and more,” Wellington Chapter President Karen Paull said. “This will be a spectacular event, and we hope it will introduce many new people to the won-

derful mission of the Pap Corps: to create a world without cancer!”

The Pap Corps is actively seeking new members who share the vision of this outstanding fundraising organization. With 54 chapters in South Florida and over 21,000 members, it is the largest all-volunteer organization in the U.S. dedicated solely to raising funds for research on all types of cancer.

Tickets cost $65 to $185 and are available for tennis, golf, golf and tennis combined, or just to enjoy the food and festivities. The event is open to the public.

Wellington is an “open” chapter, which means membership is available to people who do not reside in the community. Call Paull at (561) 333-8858 for details and for more information.

St. Michael Lutheran Church in Wellington will hold its third annual “Paws for a Blessing” Sunday, Oct. 2 with a service beginning at 2 p.m. Attendees who arrive early can have photos taken with their pets. The service will be held indoors.

This is the third year the event is being sponsored by South Florida Associates and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.

Everyone is welcome to attend with or without a pet. Pets, however, must be leashed or confined in a carrier. Paws for a Blessing is also a fundraiser for Passion for Paws Inc., a charity pet food pantry located in West Palm Beach, which believes that keeping pets in their forever homes saves lives.

Everyone attending is asked to bring canned pet food to help fill the pantry at Passion for Paws.

Last year, more than 1,100 cans of food were donated to Peggy Adams Animals Rescue League.

If you cannot attend but would like to donate, you can drop off your donation at the church (1925 Birkdale Drive) Monday through Friday between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Last year’s blessing included several dogs of all breeds, several cats, one rat, one turtle, one rabbit, one hedgehog and two birds.

St. Michael Lutheran Church is located at the corner of Forest Hill Blvd. and Birkdale Drive in Wellington, just west of the Mall at Wellington Green. For more information, call Donna Tagg at (561)

371-3201 or the church at (561) 793-4999.

Wellington’s Art In Public Places Program Wellington is now beginning its seventh year of the Susan P. Bradford Art in Public Places Program.

Artists are invited to submit an application to loan or donate artwork for a six-month display in Wellington facilities and public places. The submission deadline is Saturday, Oct. 8.

All artwork should be freestanding or in display form (framed or mounted). All forms of media will be considered for review.

The competition is open to all artists who reside in the United States. All local artists are highly encouraged to participate. Criteria guidelines are as follow: • Participants must complete a public art on-loan/donation application.

• Artwork shall reflect a broad variety of styles and support community interests such as Wellington’s emphasis on children, families, seniors and equestrian interests.

• Artwork shall have aesthetic and technical merit and shall be appropriate for the site or sites in Wellington.

• The program shall not discriminate against any artists on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, disability, age, gender, Vietnam era or disabled veteran status, sexual orientation or medical condition.

• The Public Arts Advisory Panel has the right to reject any proposal and need not specify a reason for rejection. The Wellington Village Council has the same right.

Artists should include the following with their application: one 8”x10” photograph of the artwork, their curriculum vitae, a description and size of the proposed artwork, a certificate of value for the art piece and a paragraph explaining the artwork.

Completed applications must be received by 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8. Applications can be downloaded from www.wellingtonfl. gov or obtained by contacting Michelle Garvey at (561) 7914082 or mgarvey@wellingtonfl. gov. Address submissions to: Wellington, Attn: Michelle Garvey, Parks & Recreation Department, 12150 W. Forest Hill Blvd., Wellington, FL 33414.

RPB Rotary Pumpkin Ball Golf Oct. 30 The Royal Palm Beach Rotary Club will host the inaugural pumpkin golf tournament Sunday, Oct. 30 from 1 to 7 p.m. at the Madison Green Golf Club (2001 Crestwood Blvd. N., Royal Palm Beach).

Golfers will tee off at 1 p.m.

This tournament is a “one better ball” format on the course while pumpkin carving for the whole family and community takes place outside the main clubhouse. Families and individuals will be able to golf or carve pumpkins all while raising funds for Little Smiles. The

cost for golf foursomes is $300; families of four can carve a pumpkin for $100, and all levels of participation include dinner. Each carving family will have the opportunity to take their sponsored pumpkin home to enjoy during Halloween.

“We are very excited to partner with Little Smiles for this tournament,” said Terri Wescott, whose vision inspired the event. “We have created a fundraiser for all to participate in. It is affordable, and the kids will be able to display their pumpkins before taking them home.”

Little Smiles provides toys, games, VIP outings and more for children in local hospitals, hospices and shelters.

For more information on participating or sponsoring the event or a pumpkin, contact Scott Armand at (561) 635-0002 or scott@ armandpest.com, or visit www. rpbrotary.org.

Fall Into Fashion Show Oct. 14 In Royal Palm The third annual “Fall Into Fashion Show” with fashions from Bealls department store will be held Friday, Oct. 14 from noon to 4 p.m. at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center (151 Civic Center Way, Royal Palm Beach), with local seniors modeling the outfits.

The fashion show will include lunch, raffle prizes and entertainment. Admission is $15 in advance and $20 on the day of the event. For more info., contact Dolly Hughes at (561) 790-5149.

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Seniors Attend Health Fair At Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center

By Chris Felker Town-Crier Staff Report About 200 local seniors, residents of assisted-living facilities, caregivers and other interested people attended a “Senior Day” staged by REAL — Residential Experts of Assisted Living — at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center on Friday, Sept. 23.

Kelly Wilson of Senior Living Guide, a REAL adviser, organized the event, which was meant to showcase local health and wellness providers as well as seniororiented businesses in a casual,

fun atmosphere. About a dozen of them had tables set up, and eight assisted-living facilities brought some of their residents.

Event participants enjoyed a catered luncheon with entertainment by singer C.J. Bell. Her renditions of popular oldies and Broadway numbers even got some folks dancing in front of the stage.

Pharmacists from Walgreens administered flu shots, and Palms West Hospital had professionals conducting blood pressure screenings.

Other agencies and businesses represented included the Sigma Institute of Health Careers, Senior Living Guide, the AreaAgency on Aging, Hospice by the Sea, Hospice of Palm Beach County, Nostalgic America magazine, Assisted Living Services, Re-MMAP (Real Estate/Money Management/ Asset Protection), Christian Manor Apartments, Amerigroup (a healthcare company), American ElderCare (a home healthcare agency) and VITAS (a hospice care provider). Two raffles were conducted, with each vendor con-

tributing items to be given out as prizes.

REAL’s mission, said President Lauristol Simms, is to connect small assisted-living facilities and residential care homes, with an emphasis on offering educational, professional resource and networking opportunities, and reaching out to share their information with local communities. The group hosts monthly luncheon meetings, educational workshops that offer continuing education credits, and other special events such as the health fair.

REAL President Lauristol Simms, Secretary Jessica Hernandez, Board Member Rose Wong, Treasurer Denise Wasielewski and advisor Kelly Wilson.

Jeannie Cole has her blood pressure measured

by Nancy Rabin of Palms West Hospital.

Kelly Wilson, Jessica Hernandez, Rose Wong, Denise Wasielewski, Dolly Hughes and Lauristol Simms.

Sandy Barch and Mary Jarett provide information about VITAS. PHOTOS BY CHRIS FELKER/TOWN-CRIER

A FUN DAY OUTDOORS AT OUR LADY QUEEN OF THE APOSTLES CHURCH PICNIC Our Lady Queen of the Apostles Catholic Church in Royal Palm Beach held a church picnic on Saturday, Sept. 24 at Okeeheelee Park. The picnic included songs of worship by the church choir, food, games and raffle prices. Our Lady Queen of the Apostles is located at 100 Crestwood Blvd. South. For more info., call (561) 798-5661.

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SCHOOL NEWS

A Busy Year Ahead Two Poinciana Students Recognized By Duke For Sem Ridge Band The Seminole Ridge High School band will be taking part in various community service projects this year.

In honor of the ten-year anniversary of 9/11, band members were inspired to choose their first project in support of American heroes.

Their first project is in conjunction with the nonprofit organization Wheelers for the Wounded, based in San Antonio, Texas, which helps wounded soldiers enjoy outdoor recreation and adventure at no cost to them and their families. The Seminole Ridge band is hoping for the community’s support in collecting monetary

donations to purchase gifts and other items needed for these soldiers’ families, in hopes that their holiday season will be brighter this year.

Anyone interested in supporting this cause can send their donations to: Seminole Ridge Hawk Band, Att: Wheelers for the Wounded Project, 4601 Seminole Pratt Whitney Road, Loxahatchee, FL 33470. Make checks payable to Wheelers for the Wounded and write “Fort Hood Christmas” in the memo section. The deadline for donations is Nov. 18.

For more information, call Taylor at (561) 628-2573 or visit www.wftw-sa.org.

Family Fun Day At Temple Beth Zion Preschool Temple Beth Zion Preschool in Royal Palm Beach held a Family Fun Day on Sunday, Sept. 25 to celebrate its new beginnings.

Guests were invited to meet the new director, see the new playground and all about the exciting new renovations.

Children and their parents had fun meeting Florida Panthers mascot Stanley C. Panther, bouncing in the Florida Panthers party mo-

bile, storytelling by “Ellen the Good Witch,” face painting, games, prizes and more. It was a huge success.

Temple Beth Zion Preschool is located at 129 Sparrow Drive in Royal Palm Beach, just south of the intersection of Okeechobee and Royal Palm Beach boulevards).

For more information about the preschool, call (561) 798-3737.

Two Poinciana Day School seventh-grade students, Seth Ackerman of Palm Beach Gardens and Van Campbell of Loxahatchee Groves, have been recognized by the Duke University Talent Identification Program (TIP).

Duke TIP identifies seventh graders across the United States who scored at the 95th percentile or above on a grade-level achievement test. These students are invited to participate in the Duke TIP seventh-grade talent search and take either the ACT or the SAT college entrance exams alongside high school students. Many seventh-grade talent-search participants go on to earn exceptionally high scores.

“Our students are extraordinary young people, and each has the potential for greatness,” Duke TIP Executive Director Martha Putallaz said. “Through the seventh

grade Talent Search, Duke TIP continues to provide vital resources to the families of gifted children so they can thrive in our educational system and beyond.”

Poinciana Day School, an independent private school in West Palm Beach, has students who are recognized each year by the Duke University Talent Identification Program.

In small classes of 15 or fewer, students are accelerated on an asneeded basis, including high school material. Creativity and problem-solving are major components in the integrated curriculum for all pre-K through eighthgrade students, incorporating the arts and technology in all classes.

To learn more about Poinciana Day School, or to schedule a personal tour, call (561) 655-7323 or visit the school’s web site at www. poincianadayschool.org.

Seth Ackerman and V an Campbell.

Wellington Debate Team Members Recognized Seventeen members of the Wellington Debate & Forensic Team earned recognition at the Palm Beach Catholic Forensic League “All-Congress” Tournament on Saturday, Sept. 17.

The tournament, hosted by Wellington, saw nearly 500 high school students from Palm Beach and Martin counties speak and cross-examine each other on a variety of topics, including whether the United Nations should vote for a Palestinian state, felons should be mandated to serve in the mili-

tary and a variation of the federally proposed “Casey Anthony Law.” For two-thirds of the participants, it was their first-ever debate tournament competition.

Receiving accolades from Wellington were: Madison Barry, who swept both judges’ first-place ballots in Session 2 and placed first overall in Novice House H; Ali Sina Booeshaghi, who placed second overall in Novice House L; Greg Foster and Jon DeLaura, who took third and fifth, respec-

tively, in Novice House F; Dalizza Mosquera, who ranked fourth in Novice House J; Logan Weber and Kwadjo Walker, who placed sixth in Novice House B and Novice House G; Jon Lucien, who took sixth in Varsity Senate B and was voted Chamber’s Choice Presiding Officer (and earned his NFL Degree of Excellence, too, surpassing the 150-point mark); and Scott Meskin, who was named Chamber’s Choice Presiding Officer by the novice debaters he presided over.

Additionally, eight other Wellington debaters were ranked by at least one judge during the competition: Joshua Batista, Issahy Cano Olivas, Makaylan Clark, Elijah Elkins, Alex Kallen, Michael Leatherman, Joy Lopez and Krystelle Louis.

Wellington’s next tournament is the PBCFL on Oct. 15 at Lake Worth High School. Wellington is coached by Paul L. Gaba. Information about the program can be found on the team’s web site at www.wellingtondebate.com.

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SRHS Assistant Principal Maria Lloyd Named State Literacy Leader The Florida Department of Education has announced the selection of Seminole Ridge High School Assistant Principal Maria Lloyd as one of its two high school Literacy Leader of the Year winners in the 2011 “Just Read, Florida!” literacy awards. Following a comprehensive selection process, statewide literacy leaders were chosen based on their commitment to literacy and their proven ability to promote, and to teach others about, the fundamental skill of reading.

“I’m honored to recognize these literacy champions for their commitment to the critical skill of reading and their efforts to make literacy a top priority in their schools and classrooms,” Florida Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson said.

“Their enthusiasm and dedication to student success is an asset to their schools and to Florida.”

“Clearly Maria fits this description perfectly, and this award shows why we are fortunate to have her at the Ridge,” SRHS Principal James Campbell said.

• 2011 Homecoming Crowning to be Pre-Game — In a change from the tradi-

tional halftime crowning, Seminole Ridge will present the 2011 Homecoming Court in a pre-game ceremony Friday, Oct. 14 at 7 p.m., with this year ’s homecoming queen and king crowned at that time. The homecoming game versus the John I. Leonard Lancers begins at 7:30 p.m.

• Chorus to Hold B&N Fundraiser — In an effort to raise funds for their trips to the Disney World Candlelight Processional and to Washington, D.C., SRHS choral groups are working with Barnes & Noble in the Mall at Wellington Green to host a book fair. On Saturday, Oct. 1 from 1 to 5 p.m., Barnes & Noble will contribute a percentage of every sale accompanied by a special book fair voucher.

Vouchers will be given to students in their English and reading classes, and are available as well from any SRHS choral student. For more info., contact the SRHS choral room at (561) 422-2652 or e-mail wes.rainer@palmbeachschools.org.

• Adopt-a-Classroom — Teachers nationwide spend approximately $1,000 out of their own pockets each year to offset school budget shortfalls and ensure that

their students have the necessary classroom resources for learning. Adopt-AClassroom, a nonprofit organization, increases the opportunity for student success by providing teachers with community partners and funds for classroom resources and materials. Thirty-two teachers at Seminole Ridge have registered at Adopt-A-Classroom.

For the next four weeks, Wells Fargo will add $25 to the first 1,000 online credit card donations to Palm Beach County public school classrooms, providing economic relief and encouraging national support for teachers. Learn more about Adopt-A-Classroom at http://tinyurl.com/ adoptahawk.

SECME coach Erich Landstrom has been “adopted” by Florida Power & Light. FPL funds will purchase parts the engineering club needs to build what it hopes will be the winning entries in the county’s annual engineering Olympiad.

• Hawks Create Pinwheels for Peace — Pinwheels for Peace is an art installation project started in 2005 by two teachers, Ann Ayers and Ellen McMillan of Co-

conut Creek, as a way for students to express their feelings about what’s going on in the world and in their lives.

In the first year, groups in over 1,325 locations throughout the world were spinning pinwheels on Sept. 21. There were approximately 500,000 pinwheels spinning throughout the world. Last year, more than 2.3 million pinwheels were spinning in over 3,000 locations — the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada, the Middle East, Africa and South America.

This project is non-political. Because peace doesn’t necessarily have to be associated with war, it can be related to violence/intolerance in everyday life or to peace of mind. It comes down to a simple definition: “a state of calm and serenity, with no anxiety, the absence of violence, freedom from conflict or disagreement among people or groups of people.”

This year, Palm Beach County schools created pinwheels of all shapes and sizes, and on one side students wrote their thoughts about war and peace, tolerance, and living in harmony with others. On the

Some of the peace pinwheels at SRHS. other side, they drew, painted and collaged to visually express their feelings.

Hawk students planted the assembled pinwheels in the front entrance median last week in the hope that the spinning of the pinwheels in the wind will spread thoughts and feelings about peace throughout the country and the world.

Berean Hosts ‘Meet The Bulldogs’ Parade

New Horizons art teacher Katie Graham with student participants and parent helpers.

Pottery Program At New Horizons New Horizons Elementary School students have been participating in a program called PaintA-Pot. A creation of art teacher Katie Graham, Paint-A-Pot is a popular monthly after -school event at New Horizons.

Due to limited space, each month about 50 students in kindergarten through fifth grade participate with many more wishing they could. Under the direction of Graham, with many parent volunteers assisting, students choose a piece of pottery and paint it to their

liking. Because the school’s kiln is broken, Graham transports the pottery to her home and fires the pottery in her personal kiln at her home. Students are working hard to earn money to purchase a new school kiln by purchasing pottery pieces, paying art club dues and receiving donations from friends and family.

New Horizons students are enriched through the Paint-A-Pot program and empowered by taking ownership of raising funds for a new kiln.

Food, bicycles, trucks, clubs and teams made up the Meet the Bulldogs Parade on Thursday, Sept. 15 at Berean Christian School.

Parents had smiles on their faces as they watched their children from pre-K through 12th grade fellowship together at the school.

Club tables lined the drive, representing options from Berean Student Council to journalism, art and athletics that BCS students can join. Each also featured its own fundraiser, selling everything from snow cones to jerseys, and even the chance to win a live goldfish.

As the event began, elementary students brought out their bikes, decorated in the Bulldog orange and blue, and rode around the pe-

rimeter of Grace Fellowship (Berean’s sponsoring church) to show their school spirit. Secondary students then followed suit, rolling out in their decorated trucks to represent the Berean athletic teams. Each team had its own theme, with junior varsity volleyball taking a ride in a vintage fire truck and the varsity cheerleaders chanting their way by in a truck that kept time to their cheers with its horn. Even preschool was involved with a face-painting station and bounce house. The night successfully celebrated Berean’s family spirit and accomplishments. As the Bulldogs would say, “This is our House… Woof!”

For additional photos, visit www.bcsbulldogs.org.

Berean Christian School cheerleaders.

‘Seussical The Musical’ Oct. 14-15 At TKA The King’s Academy will present Seussical The Musical Oct. 14-15.

Based on the beloved characters and stories of Dr. Seuss, this musical incorporates elements from at least 15 Dr. Seuss books and includes appearances by many of his most famous characters. The story centers around Horton the Elephant, who finds himself faced with a double chal-

lenge; not only must he protect his tiny friend Jojo (and all the invisible Whos) from a world of naysayers and dangers, but he must guard an abandoned egg, left to his care by the irresponsible Mayzie La Bird.

Although Horton faces ridicule, danger, kidnapping and a trial, the intrepid Gertrude McFuzz never loses faith in him, the only one who recognizes “his

kind and his powerful heart.”

Ultimately, the powers of friendship, loyalty, family and community are challenged and emerge triumphant in a story that elicits laughter and tears. This King’s Academy production will feature more than 125 students singing and dancing, and aims to captivate audiences through its over-the-top special effects and endearing score.

Performances will take place Friday, Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 15 at 1 and 7 p.m. Ticket prices are $25 for orchestra seats, $15 for center seating and $12 for reserved seating.

The King’s Academy is located at 8401 Belvedere Road in West Palm Beach. Tickets can be ordered on the school’s web site at www.tka.net or by calling (888) 718-4253.

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Local Optometrists Taking Part In The World Sight Day Challenge Local optometrists Drs. Mark and Brandee Marciano of Marciano Family Optometric are joining the World Sight Day Challenge during the month of October to help give the gift of vision to people in developing countries.

On World Sight Day Oct. 13, the Marcianos will donate their professional eye exam fees to help provide eye exams and glasses to children in developing countries who can’t see well enough to learn at school, as well as adults who don’t see well enough to provide for their families.

Optometry Giving Sight, the organizer of the World Sight Day Challenge, funds programs that provide eye exams and glasses, trains local eye care professionals and develops vision centers that deliver long-term vision care to people in desperate need.

There are approximately 670 million people who are blind or vision impaired simply because

they don’t have access to an eye examination and glasses.

“I have supported Optometry Giving Sight for several years and am proud to donate to such a worthwhile cause,” Dr. Mark Marciano said. “It’s easy for us to take good vision for granted, so taking the World Sight Day Challenge is a great way to raise funds to help people who don’t have access to even basic vision care.”

Dr. Brandee Marciano was inspired by stories such as that of 18-year-old Donglian from a rural province of China. Although her blurred vision stopped her from seeing the blackboard, she hadn’t told her teacher because she didn’t want to make a fuss. Caring for her mentally ill father and working the family’s farmland for four hours each day before school, Donglian couldn’t afford an eye exam.

Thanks to a visit from a team of newly trained local eye care professionals and a pair of glasses,

Donglian now has the opportunity to fulfill the potential she has already shown in her young life.

Donations will enable Optometry Giving Sight to fund more sustainable programs that provide eye exams and glasses to millions of people in need. Raised funds will be directed to projects in 16 countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Just $5 can provide an eye examination and a pair of glasses for someone in a developing country.

The Marcianos are also inviting their patients to make a donation at Marciano Family Optometric throughout October.

Optometry Giving Sight guarantees that 85 percent of all funds raised by optometrists and their patients go directly to programs that give sight to those most in need.

Marciano Family Optometric is located at 7750 Okeechobee Blvd., Suite 9, West Palm Beach.

Call the office at (561) 242-1200

to schedule an appointment or visit www.drmarciano.com to schedule online.

The Marcianos have also set up a fundraising link on their web site and are asking for the support of patients, staff, neighbors and friends. They also accept donated eyeglasses all year long.

Optometry Giving Sight is a joint initiative of the World Optometry Foundation, the International Centre for Eyecare Education and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness.

Industry sponsors include CIBA VISION, the Brien Holden Vision Institute, CooperVision,Vision Expo, Wolters Kluwer, First Vision Media Group, Marchon, Vision Source! and AllAbout Vision.com. Optometry Giving Sight is a tax-exempt organization.

For more information about Optometry Giving Sight and the World Sight Day Challenge, visit www.givingsight.org or call (888) OGS-GIVE.

Doctors Brandee and Mark Marciano at last year’s World Sight Day event.

Phyllis Kramer Receives International Jewish Genealogy Award

Phyllis Kramer

Phyllis Kramer, a board member of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Palm Beach County Inc. and JewishGen vice president of education, is the recipient of a prestigious international award, presented at the International Association of Jewish Genealogist Societies 2011 conference held in August in Washington, D.C. The awards were announced on Aug. 18 at the IAJGS conference gala.

Kramer won the award for “Outstanding Contribution to Jewish Genealogy via the Internet, Print or Electronic Product,” for her role with the JewishGen

Learning Center, a division of www.jewishgen.org, the premier web site for Jewish genealogical research.

Under Kramer’s tutelage, the JewishGen Learning Center developed six online interactive courses to help researchers organize their information and begin to trace their ancestral roots.

Kramer has reached over 1,400 researchers in the first five years through a comprehensive educational curriculum addressing all levels of experience.

“JewishGen provides the crucial link between modern life and

the stories of our ancestors,” JewishGen Managing Director Warren Blatt said. “For those with Jewish ancestry, JewishGen is the 21st-century resource for researching our 19th- and 20th-century roots.”

Kramer is a genealogist with primary interest in Eastern European Jewish research. She lives in New York City and Palm Beach Gardens. Kramer received a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and an MBA from Fordham University. Her work experience was technical and managerial, primarily for IBM.

Kramer ’s final position was business consultant, where she was responsible for designing client image processing systems.

Kramer’s genealogical accomplishments since taking early retirement, include: compiling a family tree of 6,400 people and locating relatives all over the world; creating and teaching genealogy classes at Norwalk College, the Savannah JCC, New York City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and Florida Atlantic University.

Classes emphasize genealogy on the Internet. She teaches classes in genealogy for the Jewish

Genealogical Society of Palm Beach County membership and is a member of the group’s speakers bureau. At JewishGen, Kramer began in 1997 as an active member of the support staff and has held the position of vice president of education since 2005. She created the online version of the 1891 Galician Business Directory, and developed 15 Shtetlinks web pages for her ancestor’s shtetls. Kramer finds genealogy to be challenging, stimulating, fascinating and absorbing.

For more information, visit www.jgspalmbeachcounty.org.

Rex Kirby To Receive The Home Safe Hero Award At Oct. 1 Event Wellington resident Rex Kirby, president and general manager of Suffolk Construction, Southeast Region, will be honored for his longtime efforts to help victims of child abuse and domestic violence by being presented with the Home Safe Hero Award. The prestigious award recognizes an individual who goes above and beyond the call of duty to help South Florida’s most vulnerable citizens — victims of child abuse and domestic violence.

The award presentation will

take place during the Classic Rock ’n’ Roll Party on Oct. 1 at the Hard Rock Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood. The event will also serve as a major, first-class tribute to legendary saxophonist Clarence Clemons, who served as the host of the annual fundraising event for Home Safe.

For many years, Kirby, a board member of Home Safe and cochair of the Classic Rock ’n’ Roll Party, has quietly but consistently led major efforts to support Home

Safe’s intervention and prevention programs. Kirby’s involvement ranges from personally donating and helping raise considerable funds to promoting Home Safe to community and business leaders and directly involving himself and Suffolk Construction employees in a wide range of volunteer projects at Home Safe throughout the year.

“Rex Kirby is a genuine individual who truly cares about helping abused children and battered women,” said Matt Ladika, CEO

of Home Safe. “What is quite impressive is how humbly he goes about his gallant efforts on behalf of Home Safe, and without ever seeking praise or notoriety for his notable contributions to helping others. Rex and Suffolk Construction are a pillar of the successes being achieved at Home Safe.

We’re proud to present the Home Safe Hero award to such a deserving person.”

“The efforts of Home Safe are commendable,” Kirby said. “I’m proud to be involved with an or-

ganization that is able to help so many children and families, year after year.”

To attend and support the event, visit www.theclassicforhomesafe. org e-mail foundation@help homesafe.org or call (561) 3839860.

Suffolk Construction’s Southeast Division, based in West Palm Beach, is responsible for major projects such as the Marlins Parking Garage, Fifth and Alton, and Wells Fargo Center, which includes the JW Marriott Marquis

Miami and Hotel Beaux Arts.

Home Safe is a nationally accredited nonprofit organization with a major emphasis on helping victims of child abuse and domestic violence through prevention and intervention programs. It provides comprehensive residential group home services, Safety Net anti-domestic violence program, and Healthy Beginnings prevention and intervention program.

Each year, Home Safe serves more than 15,000 infants, children and families in South Florida.

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George Voren Graduates UF, Enrolls At Scripps

Melanie Johnson and David Vargas

Johnson, Vargas Wed In Colorado Melanie Lauren Johnson and David Joseph Vargas, both of New York City, N.Y., were united in marriage July 30 on Aspen Mountain in Aspen, Colo. A reception followed the ceremony at the Little Nell Resort.

Johnson is the daughter of Ron and Cheryl Johnson of Deland, Fla. Vargas is the son of Joe and Cathie Vargas of Wellington.

Johnson was attended by her sisters, Stacey Johnson (maid of honor) and Colleen Dunlop (ma-

tron of honor). Vargas’ best man was his brother Peter, and the groomsmen were friends Matt Weisman and Jeremy Bloor.

Johnson is a graduate of the University of Florida, where she received a bachelor’s degree in nursing.

Vargas also graduated from UF, where he received a bachelor’s degree in business administration and major in finance.

The newlyweds honeymooned in Hawaii.

Howard and Kathy Voren of Loxahatchee Groves have announced that their son George, a 2007 graduate of Seminole Ridge High School, graduated from the University of Florida on Aug. 6.

He graduated magna cum laude with a GPA of 3.84, majoring in biotechnology and regularly making dean’s list.

While at UF, Voren was selected as a member of the Golden Key Honor Society and of the Upper Division Honors program.

Voren pledged to Beta Theta Pi Fraternity and was a very active member. He lived at the fraternity house and served as vice president of risk management. They participate in many philanthropic fundraisers each year, most notably their own philanthropy Beta Bring It On, which raised over $40,000 for the Alzheimer’s Association.

In his junior year, Voren joined Dr. Brian Cain’s lab for biochemistry and molecular biology as an undergraduate researcher. Aside from rigorous classes, Voren spent an excess of 20 hours per week researching at the lab, which led to success on his research project that is featured in the lab’s most recent publication.

George Voren Voren is now in graduate school at the Scripps Research Institute’s Kellogg School of Science and Technology in Jupiter, ranked seventh overall among biological science graduate schools by the Princeton Review. He was one of a select few who were accepted into their fellowship Ph.D. program.

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Platner Graduates Tel Aviv University Marissa Heather Platner, daughter of Gerri Becker (Platner) of Wellington, graduated from Tel Aviv University’s Sackler School of Medicine this past May. Platner grew up in Wellington and attended the Bak Middle School of the Arts, the Dreyfoos School of the Arts and graduated from Wellington High School in 2003. She earned her undergraduate degree from Brandeis University in Massachusetts in 2007, where she majored in psychology and Near Eastern studies. Currently, Platner is a resident physician at Emory University in Atlanta where she is specializing in obstetrics and gynecology.

Emory University hospitals are well respected as excellent teaching hospitals providing a strong foundation and wealth of experience for incoming physicians.

Platner is excited to embark on this new adventure as she begins her professional life in Atlanta.

Marissa Platner

Channel 20 To Repeat 9/11 Service For those who missed the live program, Palm Beach County’s government access channel will present several replays of the Wellington ceremony commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

The ceremony was presented by the Fire Chiefs Association of Palm Beach County and held at the Wellington Amphitheater. The

telecast also includes the dedication of Wellington’s Patriot Memorial. The program will be shown: Saturday, Oct. 8 at 3 p.m., Monday, Oct. 10 (Columbus Day) at 3 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 29 at 11:30 a.m. and Friday, Nov. 11 (Veterans Day) at 7:30 p.m.

PBC TV is available on Comcast Channel 20 and can also be seen via www.pbcgov.com.

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continued from page 1 years ago, and it was rejected on the first day of discussion, because, as everyone knows, the West Palm Beach Water Catchment Area is their drinking water supply.”

Cutting through the catchment area is the M Canal, which runs from canals that tie into Lake Okeechobee through The Acreage and ultimately ties into Lake Mangonia in West Palm Beach and Clear Lake, which feeds directly into the West Palm Beach water treatment plant. The catchment area is the cleansing area for the city’s water.

Webb pointed out that several West Palm Beach communities have been built around the catchment area in recent years. Those communities are now the prime opponents of the road projects.

Ibis on the northwest corner, where West Palm Mayor Jeri Muoio lives, has opposed the SR 7 extension, which would run along the eastern edge of Ibis.

On the south end of the catchment area are Baywinds, Andros Isle and River Walk, which are on a 3-mile stretch of Okeechobee Blvd. Representatives from those communities have voiced opposition to the Roebuck Road extension, which would run along the northern border of those communities. However, the extension of Roebuck Road was part of the development agreement that allowed those communities to be built.

Webb said other recently built West Palm Beach communities, including Iron Horse and Briar Bay, also abut the catchment area.

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continued from page 1 cars home, which had been estimated to cost $1 million a year.

“Florida Tax Watch says that our reserves are still excessive,” Pearce said. “As a Realtor, I know I have dipped into my savings to keep living the last couple of years. I know we have in the county, too, but maybe we could do it just one more time.”

She also recommended trying to liquidate the excess properties owned by the county.

Michael Lameyer of suburban Lake Worth said an operational audit of Palm Beach County FireRescue might find significant budget reductions through privatization of some of the services.

“I had to call the fire department a few months ago for a relative who was having chest pains, and an EMS vehicle showed up, and a hook and ladder showed up, and then, after paying taxes in Palm Beach County, the relative was sent a bill for $600 for the service,” Lameyer said.

Commissioner Burt Aaronson said he had great respect for Palm Beach County’s real estate community, but cutting the budget further at the expense of road and bridge maintenance would do them a disservice.

“If we let this county fall into

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continued from page 3 all those students will be taking courses there.”

Loxahatchee Groves Councilman Ron Jarriel thanked the college for choosing a Loxahatchee Groves location for its new campus.

“What I think is great about it is the location is not only going to bring Wellington into it, but it’s going to bring Indian Trail into it, it’s going to bring the Glades and

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continued from page 3 takes over Oct. 1, at the start of the new fiscal year.

“I’m interviewing prospective staff and calling references,” Kutney said. “I’ve been reading email. You name it, I’ve been doing it.

He said he has been meeting with LGWCD Administrator Clete Saunier and outgoing Town Manager Frank Spence to assure a smooth transition. “Next week, I expect to be a fixture there,” Kutney said.

Underwood said he has the financial transition worked through.

made a conscious decision back in the 1990s that the catchment area is very important to them and they wanted to control development in and around it,” Webb said, explaining that West Palm Beach went through an aggressive annexation process to make sure that the city could control the properties around there and develop them for the least environmental impact.

Webb said SR 7 has had a 200foot right of way in place since 1948 as a straight alignment just like the rest of that road south of Okeechobee Blvd.

When Ibis was approved, it was required to dedicate an additional 120 feet of right of way, for a total of 320 feet along its eastern edge.

Webb added that in addition to the existing SR 7 extension from Okeechobee Blvd. to Persimmon Blvd, the county has financed an additional extension to 60th Street, as well as a piece connecting to Royal Palm Beach Blvd.

Webb stressed that the alignment never went into the catchment area at all, but rather into the adjacent Fox property, which was purchased by the county as part of its environmental lands program years ago.

Webb said Roebuck Road, which was planned to relieve traffic on Okeechobee Blvd., has run into trouble for justification since Southern Blvd. was built, which apparently has reduced traffic on Okeechobee by 17,000 trips a day.

Nevertheless, Webb said Okeechobee Blvd. was improved to relieve traffic for future growth that will occur in the western communities, and that Roebuck Road will be needed eventually.

A 2-mile extension of Jog Road, which would connect to Florida’s Turnpike, would relieve the existing section of Roebuck, which is over capacity. The section of the Jog Road extension is controlled

by West Palm Beach.

“We took an agreement to the city in 2008, we had another one

in 2011, and unfortunately the timing was such that it was right about the time of the election, and after the election, they made a determination that they could not support the Jog Road agreement,” Webb said.

FDOT representative CaicedoMaddison said her department has been developing an environmental assessment for the 8-mile State Road 7 extension to be submitted to federal agencies.

“Eventually, it will be submitted to the Federal Highway Administration, and with that hopefully we will go to a hearing in January or the beginning of February,” she said. “This highway is needed. It is part of the network of the West Palm Beach area.

From the 1940s, FDOT has been trying to make this important connection.”

Caicedo-Maddison said every effort has been made to protect the catchment area. More information about environmental protection is available at the FDOT web site www.sr7extension.com, she said.

Construction financing would be identified in the approved work program for 2014 and 2015, she said, explaining that the alternative would be to build massive overpasses on Okeechobee Blvd. at State Road 7 and Jog Road.

Liggins said the disagreement came to a head at a Palm Beach Metropolitan Planning Organization meeting in July where it voted 11-3 to keep the SR 7 extension to Northlake Blvd. a priority in its five-year road plan. Since then, some fliers and a DVD have been circulated with information opposing the extension.

“We do have letters from residents in Ibis that support the State Road 7 extension specifically,” Liggins said. “I have heard from residents within Baywinds, Andros Isle and River Walk that support these roadways, so it’s not 100 percent against. They are, unfortunately, just a quiet group.”

Liggins was concerned that fli-

ers distributed by West Palm Beach do not offer solutions to the transportation issues in the western communities. “They only create hysteria,” he said.

Liggins contradicted reports that the new roadway could cause flooding in nearby communities.

He said drainage from the roadways will actually enhance water supply and reduce flooding, pointing out that before the existing SR 7 extension was built, the Fox property once filled up from a rainstorm and spilled into the La Mancha neighborhood. Since the extension was built, at an elevation of 23 feet, flooding has been resolved.

“We surveyed the entire property, so if it flooded again, it would spill into the water catchment area,” Liggins said, estimating that the extension of SR 7 to Northlake will give West Palm Beach another billion gallons of potential storage. “It worked for us, and I think it can work for the rest of that roadway.”

Commissioner Burt Aaronson thanked the Royal Palm Beach and Indian Trail officials for attending.

“I feel offended that the City of West Palm Beach is not here to offer solutions. It’s like, ‘It’s either my way or the highway,’ and I resent that greatly,” he said.

Commissioner Paulette Burdick asked whether other alternatives, such as mass transit, have been considered, and Liggins said even mass transit has to have roads in place.

Webster said Jog Road is very important to Royal Palm Beach residents as well and she could not understand why West Palm Beach is taking its position on Jog. Aaronson said he felt it was a bargaining chip for the involved parties to take Roebuck Road off the table. He compared it to a release of prisoners, where he would not agree to removing Roebuck Road without having Jog Road in hand first, pointing out that West

Palm Beach is notorious for reneging on agreements.

Damone said it is not easy to negotiate for an unincorporated area such as The Acreage, which has resulted in numerous compromises on the part of ITID to get the SR 7 extension as it exists so far. She pointed out that it required a leap of faith to trust the county, with the understanding that it would continue one day to Northlake Blvd.

“I do represent 40,000 people who are your constituents,” Damone said. “I believe the City of West Palm Beach has an all-ornothing attitude.”

Nancy Marshall, president of the Arthur R. Marshall Foundation, has announced that the nonprofit organization will host its 11th annual Cypress Seed Harvest on Saturday, Oct. 29 from 9 a.m. to noon. It will be held at the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in Boynton Beach.

“Friends and families are invited to join us for our 11th annual Cypress Seed Harvest,” Marshall said. “This rain-or-shine event is appropriate for all ages, but small children will need to be closely supervised.”

Volunteers should wear closedtoe shoes, hats, sunglasses and sunscreen. The Marshall Foundation will provide collection bags, harvesting tools and drinking water, although volunteers are encouraged to bring their own refillable water bottles to help reduce waste. Older volunteers can also bring ladders and/or rakes to help loosen high hanging seeds without damaging trees.

There will be two additional highlights of this year’s Cypress

Seed Harvest. Busch Wildlife Sanctuary will release a wild bird of prey that was injured and rehabilitated. The other is the “Through the Eyes of Children” student photography contest, designed to impact and empower underserved students by helping them to improve their self-confidence by looking more carefully at the world around them through the lens of a camera; exposing them to nature and the environment in a safe outdoor setting; teaching new and useful skills through hands-on learning projects facilitated by experienced mentors; and enriching their school’s existing science-based curriculum by tangibly connecting them with the subject matter, making their education more real, applicable and engaging.

This project is made possible by the Palm Beach County Cultural Council, and culminates with a traveling display of the winning photography.

RSVP by Oct. 27 to (561) 2339004 or e-mail plantcypress@ aol.com.

disarray, if we go ahead and not mow the medians, and not replace trees that fall down, the value of the properties that the Realtors would be selling would be diminished,” Aaronson said.

Aaronson stressed that the budget under consideration spends less money and takes in less money then the current year’s budget, although the tax rate is up slightly.

Regarding the PBSO budget, Aaronson said Palm Beach County has fewer deputies per thousand population than most other counties.

“When you criticize the sheriff, stop and think about the job the sheriff’s department has done,” Aaronson said.

Commissioner Priscilla Taylor agreed that the commissioners have been very responsive in trying to hold the tax rate down.

“I think that’s what our charge is to do,” Taylor said. “We are all paying and suffering for some of the things that are happening in Palm Beach County, and I hope people appreciate what we have done.”

Commissioner Paulette Burdick said small businesses are struggling now through higher electric bills, insurance fees and fuel costs, and people’s wages are down 11 percent in the county, and 40 percent of homes are “under water” on their mortgages.

Burdick said eliminating the $5 million in road projects will put

more people out of work. She said she thought that Bradshaw should be expected to cut more, considering the cuts the county has had to make. She suggested that the sheriff cut 1.72 percent, which amounted to less than $7 million in the PBSO’s $400 million budget.

Commissioner Steven Abrams suggested asking the sheriff to cut his budget by about $5 million and not cut road programs.

Commissioner Jess Santamaria urged his fellow commissioners not to target public safety, pointing out that both the PBSO and Fire-Rescue have heeded his admonitions to cut overtime.

“In my own business, safety is number one,” he said. “Your life is important, your property is important. That’s what the sheriff and the fire department are doing.”

Santamaria said he wanted to talk about dollars, not millage.

“No bank will deposit millage in your bank account,” he said, pointing out that from 2001 to 2006, the tax rate was kept the same at 4.5 mills, but in that time, the taxes collected went up $326 million. “You’ve got to think dollars,” he said. “You’ve got to stop thinking millage.”

Commissioner Shelley Vana said she wanted to look at what is

logical and reasonable for this year.

“We need to show that we trust each other and the populace, because we’re going to have another tough year next year,” she said, adding that the county is in serious trouble if it “is choosing between safety and roads.”

Vana pointed out that the different tax rates under discussion amount to a difference of less than $1 million.

Abrams said setting the millage at 4.75 would be sending a signal, after having raised it the previous two years. “The public would like to keep the millage flat after two years of raising it,” he said.

Aaronson said the county has a road contingency program that can be tapped to address serious problems. He said his biggest concern is passing a budget where the county will retain its high bond rating. “I don’t want to lose that bond rating,” he said.

After factoring in the extra $1 million offered by Bradshaw, the proposed tax rate of 4.79 mills dropped to 4.7815 mills.

Aaronson made a motion to set the rate at 4.7815 mills. It passed 4-3, with Aaronson, Santamaria, Taylor and Vana in favor, and Burdick, Abrams and Commission Chair Karen Marcus opposed.

ty to feel that the council passed on an opportunity to lower the tax rate.

“What we’ve done is maintain a millage that provides this community with the services that they’ve been accustomed to without reducing any of the services they currently have,” he said. “No matter how you call it, to remove the additional half a million dollars would require that we remove some of those services.”

Priore said that in his time on the council, he has typically fought to lower the tax rate, but at those times there was more money coming in to Wellington. He also noted that Wellington doesn’t have additional revenue coming in from state taxes this year.

Vice Mayor Matt Whillhite said he was happy to hold the tax rate unchanged for three consecutive years amid falling property values.

“I think that says we are pretty much on track where we should be,” he said. “We are able to work with less.”

Coates also noted that although

he’s argued that point over the past three meetings on the budget, he hasn’t gotten traction among fellow council members or especially in the community. No members of the public attended to speak on the issue.

“Lo and behold, we have public comment, and there’s no one here in opposition,” Coates said.

“I don’t think I construe that as the community is satisfied with the budget, but that they trust the council to do the right thing here.”

He said he would support the budget, and the motion passed unanimously.

In other business, the council accepted $12,915 from the Edward Byrne Justice Assistant Grant Program, which will be used for staff training and security cameras in the municipal complex.

The grant is offered to state and local governments to help pay for public safety activities. Deputy Village Manager John Bonde told council members that the amount is based on population size.

Of the grant, $3,000 will go to

staff training for the Landlord 411 program.

“We are working with landlords in our transitional neighborhoods to improve tenant turnover,” Bonde said.

The other $9,915 will help purchase and install security cameras outside the Wellington Amphitheater, the Patriot Memorial and Scott’s Place playground, which will be monitored by Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office deputies.

“There have been some auto burglaries in the area,” Bonde said. “These will be monitored security cameras.”

Willhite said he would like to see deputies in the new PBSO facility on Greenbriar Blvd. have the ability to monitor the cameras.

“They’re there more than we are here,” he said. “I’d like to see us link all the cameras in the village to their facility.”

Bonde said that PBSO would be able to monitor all the cameras, including the new ones.

Willhite made a motion to accept the grant, and it passed unanimously.

sell, resisting an officer with violence and three counts of battery on an officer.

SEPT. 23 — A resident of the Victoria Groves community called the PBSO substation in Royal Palm Beach last Friday evening to report a burglary. According to a PBSO report, sometime between 8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., someone entered the victim’s home through a kitchen window and stole several electronic items including a Wii gaming system, a Dell laptop computer and a 19-inch LCD television. The stolen items were valued at approximately $1,300.

There were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report.

SEPT. 24 — Two Wellington residents called the PBSO last Saturday to report vehicle burglaries that had occurred overnight.

According to separate PBSO reports, the perpetrator(s) broke into the victim’s cars but took nothing.

According to the first PBSO report, sometime between 12:15 a.m. and 3:10 p.m., someone entered the victim’s unlocked BMW parked in the Olympia community. However, nothing was taken.

There were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report.

According to a separate PBSO report, sometime between 10 p.m. last Friday and 9:30 a.m. the following morning, someone entered the victim’s unlocked Volvo parked outside her home in Village Walk but took nothing. DNA evidence was taken at the scene, but there were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report.

SEPT. 27 — A deputy from the PBSO substation in Wellington was dispatched to a home on Doubletree Circle on Tuesday in response to a delayed theft. According to a PBSO report, sometime between 4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12 and 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15, someone stole the victim’s husband’s gold Figaro men’s bracelet. The victim said that numerous unknown people were in the home between those times visiting her son. The stolen watch was valued at approximately $2,385. There were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report.

SEPT. 27 — A man called the PBSO substation in Royal Palm

Beach on Tuesday to report a vehicle burglary after his laptop computer was stolen from his vehicle outside Best Buy on State Road 7. According to a PBSO report, the victim left the store at approximately 6:45 p.m. with a new HP laptop computer and put it in his car. He then returned to the store to have his desktop computer fixed. According to the report, the victim later walked out to the parking lot where he heard a woman screaming and observed her running toward his vehicle. The victim noticed then that his right rear passenger window had been smashed out, and that his new computer had been taken. According to the report, the witness said she saw an unknown black male exit a dark-colored vehicle driven by a white or Hispanic male, walk to the victim’s vehicle and smash out the rear window. The suspect then reached into the window and grabbed a black box containing the victim’s laptop and returned to the vehicle, which fled the parking lot. According to the report, the victim attempted to chase after the vehicle but lost it in traffic.

Pahokee, it’s going to bring Royal Palm Beach,” Jarriel said. “I think it’s a start of where all the communities are going to come together at a central point, and I think that’s great.”

Cutting down on commute time for students will also save lives, Jarriel added.

“It’s going to make it safer for the adults and kids to come to college in the western communities,” he said. “As far as Loxahatchee Groves, that’s one of the best things that has ever happened to us, and I see a lot of positive things coming from this campus.”

“I’ve got good people who are going to be able to do that migration,” he said. “Almost everything is electronic, so that’s good.”

The state legislature in the past three years has tried to attain more transparency, Underwood noted.

“One of those transparencies is that all accounting has to jibe with the annual financial report that gets filed in Tallahassee,” he said.

“That means we have to follow a uniform system, and I will put the manual up on the web site for you.”

Underwood added that all checks over $3,000 must be posted on the Internet, and that as of Oct. 1, any budget changes must also be posted. “It’s not my money,” he said. “It’s your money, so you get to see what it is.”

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continued from page 1 go on record that he felt the tax rate could be lowered.

“While I do think it’s commendable for us not to raise the millage rate,” he said, “I do think the opportunity exists.”

He said that during budget workshops, he asked Village Manager Paul Schofield if he could balance the budget at 2.4 mills without sacrificing services and quality of life, which Schofield said he could.

“If the village manager is telling me he can come to us with a budget at 2.4 mills and not alter our quality of life or the services we provide, I think it’s incumbent on council to hear that,” Coates said.

But Mayor Pro Tem Dr. Carmine Priore disagreed that lowering the tax rate wouldn’t affect the quality of life in Wellington. He said he didn’t want the communi-

Blotter continued from page 6 He was charged with driving under the influence.

SEPT. 22 — A Wellington man was arrested early last Thursday morning on drug charges following an incident in the Village Royale shopping plaza on Royal Palm Beach Blvd. According to a PBSO report, a deputy was on patrol when he observed 19-year-old Christopher Salerno holding an open container of Captain Morgan rum in the parking lot of the plaza. The deputy made contact with Salerno, who was identified as being underage. According to the report, Salerno was detained while the deputy searched his vehicle, which smelled of marijuana. The search revealed a clear plastic bag containing 24.4 grams of marijuana. According to the report, Salerno resisted arrest when several deputies tried to put handcuffs on him. Salerno was arrested and taken to the county jail where he was charged with possession of liquor by a person under 21 years old, possession of marijuana over 20 grams, possession with intent to

She pointed out that ITID enhanced the city’s environmentally sensitive land when it compromised with the county to grant permits to build the reliever road, which she said is now an environmental masterpiece.

“The reliever road is truly beautiful,” Damone said. “It should be designated as a scenic parkway.”

In the end, the SR 7 connection to Northlake was listed as the most important priority among the three road projects, with the Jog Road extension as the next in line. There was general agreement that Roebuck Road can be delayed to a later date.

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Trainer Kathie LaCroix Can Also Be Your Equine Nanny Making a living through horses in today’s challenging economy is a difficult under taking. Yet somehow, Kathie LaCroix of Wellington has managed to do just that. In addition to her job as an instructor/ trainer, she also is the co-owner of Equine Nanny.

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SRHS Football Team Shuts Out Wellington 35-0

It was a shutout game Friday night, Sept. 23 as the Seminole Ridge High School varsity football team dominated Wellington High School 35-0 on the Wolverines’ home field. After a 45-minute lightning delay, the Hawks (2-2) came out strong against the Wolverines (1-2). Page 33

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Sports Visiting RPB Wildcats Push Past Palm Beach Central Broncos 27-10

The Royal Palm Beach High School varsity football team bested host Palm Beach Central High School by a score of 27-10 on Frida y, Sept. 23. The Wildcats (2-1) started off rocky, fumbling the opening kickof f, but quickly turned things around, maintaining the lead for most of the game. Page 33

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Trainer Kathie LaCroix Can Also Be Your ‘Equine Nanny’ Making a living through horses is always a difficult undertaking. Doing so in today’s challenging economy makes that possibility even tougher. Yet somehow, Kathie LaCroix of Wellington has managed to do just that. In addition to being experienced and knowledgeable, she has great people skills and has diversified in interesting ways.

This single mother is primarily a freelance hunter trainer and instructor. She earned her bachelor’s degree in equine science and was an instructor at the Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center for eight years.

At first she worked as an instructor/trainer at several local barns, but being a single parent meant that she needed flexible hours so she could be there for her son and daughter when they needed her. She decided to go into business for herself in 1990.

“Freelancing is a little tough, because you have to basically grow your own business,” LaCroix said. “The good thing is you can put together a solid client base, and that can keep you going. I have just a few clients, about 10 in all, but some of them have been with me for 10 years. I don’t have quantity, but I do have quality.”

LaCroix attends local shows with some of those clients.

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By Ellen Rosenberg ing their horses for pleasure,” she said. “I’m not into the big Winter Equestrian Festival shows. I like working with children and adults and creating a masterpiece of them getting along with their horses.”

Working freelance does have some advantages. LaCroix can shape her own schedule, and that gives her the freedom to be home with her children. She also doesn’t have to worry about the overhead of maintaining a barn and school horses. All of her clients own their own horses.

LaCroix can help people smooth out their horses’ quirks and can also help someone find the right horse. If a client is looking for a new horse, she advises them: “Take me with you.

Don’t buy something without me seeing it first.”

LaCroix also advises not to buy a horse after seeing and riding it only once. “I always like to go back and try it again a second time,” she explained.

A good horse should be the appropriate level, age and size for the rider, and be able to help a rider reach the next level or whatever

goals that rider may have. LaCroix likes to see a horse that is willing to go forward and listen to the rider’s aids of leg, hand, body and voice.

Jodie Tipple of Wellington is one of LaCroix’s clients. She has been with her for three years.

“Kathie works with my daughter, Riley, who’s 7, and her 5-year-old pony, Coo Coo for Coco Puffs,” Tipple said. “She comes out once a week. Oh, my gosh, she is amazing.

She’s so patient and understanding. Riley is very strong-willed and has a tendency to say no — it’s too hot; she’s too tired — just no. I tried to teach her, but that didn’t work. Kathie can talk her into doing anything willingly.

She has an incredible ability to understand children.”

And Tipple has seen great advances in her daughter.

“Now Riley’s showing at the Posse in Walking Off Lead Line, and she’s on track to win her division this year,” she said. “I’d highly recommend Kathie. She is amazing. I don’t know how she does it, but she’s wonderful.

This year, she’s going to help me with my Thoroughbred mare, Tinker Bell. Kathie will always be our trainer.”

But LaCroix doesn’t rely solely on her freelance lessons. She’s also the co-owner, with friend Missy Sage, of Equine Nanny.

During the show season, LaCroix, or one of her employees, is available to stay in the show barns overnight and watch over horses.

“We do primarily dressage horses, but we’re available for anyone,” LaCroix said.

“We do a lot of the big Wellington shows, and also travel the entire East Coast to any of the big shows. We stay in the barns from 9 p.m. until 6 a.m. the following morning.”

For a very reasonable fee, the Equine Nanny staff checks on the horses every hour and mark a stall chart, noting any abnormal behavior or signs of illness or distress, such as colic or getting cast in the stall — getting down to roll and then being unable to get back up — and attending to the horse, if necessary, or calling for veterinary help.

They also top off the water buckets, feed a late snack of hay, and can feed in the morning, if necessary.

“It’s a great service, and it really gives owners and riders peace of mind,” LaCroix said. “Some horses don’t deal well with the stress of being in a new barn with unknown horses all around them. We’re there to just make sure there are no problems.”

In between all of this horse-based business, LaCroix has sandwiched yet another occasional job. She’s a substitute teacher, and especially enjoys filling in at the equine science program at Wellington High School.

“It’s a very good match, due to my background,” she said. “I really enjoy working with the students, and it gives me a little bit of a break from the hot sun.”

For more information, call Kathie LaCroix at (561) 312-2684 or visit www.equine nanny.net.

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The Arrival: Welcome To The World, Mason Burgess Miles!

Last week, my husband Mark’s son, Matthew, became a father. Mason Burgess rolled in at 2:23 p.m., thoughtfully arriving in between all my various deadlines and appointments. I already like the kid. And his mom, Shelley.

Because neither of my own children have had children yet, Mark spent the entire trip to the hospital telling me how ugly newborn babies are.

“I know you’re really excited, and I don’t want you to be disappointed,” he said. “Just remember, he’s been through a lot and is going to look a little the worse for wear.”

“All babies are beautiful.”

“To their mothers, yes,” he replied. “I’m just telling you what I know.”

“OK.” So we arrived at the hospital about 10:30 a.m. and joined the entourage already in place.

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The Sonic BOOMER brother or whatever twig on their family tree is getting ready to sprout.

Shelley did her best to keep up her end of the conversation, but it got increasingly difficult. Every so often there would be a long period of silence when we would all watch the ticker tape and wait for the contraction to end.

Then we’d all breathe a sigh of relief together.

When the doctor finally ran in, everyone was shunted out into the hallway except Shelley’s husband and mother.

We didn’t go far.

We shamelessly clustered around the door, waiting to hear its first little cry. When it finally came, there were hugs all around.

And I guess we got a little loud because one of the nurses herded us into the official waiting room, a room which seemed lightyears from Shelley’s room but was, in actuality, about 50 feet.

Now we had to wait while they cleaned everybody up and gave Matthew and Shelley a few minutes to bond with their baby. Mark wandered down the hall, where he peered into the nursery so long that I had to grab him before he tried to adopt its sole inhabitant, a baby girl.

“Come on,” I said. “You have a grandchild of your own now.”

Thankfully, Matthew came out just then and began taking us into the room in small groups. When I had one foot inside the door, Mark pushed past me and rushed to the side of the bed. He took one look and exclaimed, “That is the most beautiful baby I have ever seen!”

The women in the room exchanged looks.

Of course it is. We knew it would be. It’s ours.

The next day, Mark and I went back. This time we got to hold Mason.

A few days later, when the new family got home, we “popped in” for a visit.

We’re not pop-in type people, but suddenly I can see that happening a lot.

And yes, one could argue that I am still not a “real” grandmother since not one speck of my personal DNA courses through Mason’s veins. But one could also argue that babies enjoy being held and cooed at and coddled and fawned over and spoiled rotten.

I’m guessing that, if he could speak, Ma-

My husband Mark with his new grandson, Mason. son would probably say that, to babies, DNA stands for Do Not Argue.

So I won’t.

Instead, I will celebrate by doing something I have never done in the 30 years I’ve been writing a humor column — I will include a photo.

Welcome to the world, Mason Burgess Miles!

New Film ‘Moneyball’ Far More Than Just A Baseball Movie You know that some movies will be good just because of the writers. Because Aaron Sorkin was one of the men behind Moneyball, it jumped near the top of my list of “don’t miss” movies of the season. And it is a really good movie, not only for people like me who really like baseball but even, for example, my wife, who knows virtually nothing about the sport. It is more about innovation, the willingness to take chances and do things differently, than simply the normal paean to “the national pastime.”

Based on the true story of Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), the general manager of the Oakland Athletics who transformed baseball through the use of statistics, the film comes to life thanks to great dialogue and expert performances from Pitt, Jonah Hill and Seymour Philip Hoffman.

Oakland is a “small market” baseball team, unable to provide large salaries for its players. At the start of the movie, three of the team’s top stars desert it for big money, and Beane winds up searching for a way to overcome the fact that he can spend only about a third of the money of the “hated” New York Yankees. His scouts spend a lot of time look-

American Legion Auxiliary Unit 367 To Meet Oct. 3 The American Legion Auxiliary Unit 367 will meet Monday, Oct. 3 at 10 a.m. at the Palms West Presbyterian Church (13689 Okeechobee Blvd., Loxahatchee Groves).

The speaker at the meeting will explain the Aid and Attendance benefits that are available to any mili-

‘I’ On CULTURE

By Leonard Wechsler ing at players, discussing things like how they look and their confidence, while Beane plaintively asks, “If he’s such a good hitter, how come he hits so badly?” None of his experts seem to have any answers.

He runs into a young man, Peter Brand (Hill), a character composite of several people, though based mostly on Paul dePodesta, at a meeting with the Cleveland Indians. Although in his first job, Brand has found new ways to look at ballplayers through the use of statistics. Beane hires him, and they create what is now called “moneyball,” getting undervalued players who can contribute. That sounds boring, of course. But somehow, Sorkin and fellow writer Steven Zaillian manage to bring the

tary veteran who served at least 90 days of active duty, one day of which was during a wartime era (World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War or the Gulf War).

The speaker will point out that the tax-free benefit is for the veteran, the veteran and his or her spouse, or for the surviving spouse.

For additional information about the meeting, contact American Legion Auxiliary Unit 367 President Marge Herzog at (561) 791-9875.

whole thing to life with a superb script.

While the above sounds more like a bit of a documentary, the movie is filled with rich performances that help it become entertaining.

What Beane did was to create a new way of looking at problems. The accepted standards were not working. But rather than accept that his team would not really be able to compete, he looked for new ideas, new parameters. We need far more of that everywhere. With all our battling over how to pay for healthcare, the politicians talk mostly of who will bear the cost of treatment rather than looking for ways to make care more efficient and thus provide the same benefits without new revenue.

Where is our political Billy Beane?

In the movie, however, there is a chance to see how people can work together to overcome obstacles. Like the movie Blind Side (based on a Michael Lewis book, as is this one), unlikely people can become heroes. The ballplayers that Beane selected were not stars and never became stars. But they created a team that set the American League record for consecutive wins (20, for those interested).

The performances are excellent. Pitt is a very

Briana Marie Cox Golf Tournament Set For Oct. 30 The Briana Marie Cox Foundation will host the Briana Marie Cox Memorial Golf Tournament on Saturday, Oct. 29 at the Palm Beach National Golf & Country Club (7500 Saint Andrews Road, Lake Worth).

Registration is at 11:30 a.m. with a 1 p.m. shotgun start. The tournament

believable lead in this role. His relationship with his daughter (a really good Kerris Dorsey) not only provides a human element to the man, but actually serves as a fulcrum for some of his decisions. Hill is excellent as Brand. Generally he performs in over-the-top comedy roles. Here, while providing a bit of comic relief, he becomes the everyman whom the audience can identify with. Hoffman as cranky manager Art Howe, who goes out of his way to sabotage Beane’s efforts and then accepts praise for the wins after Beane trades off the players he had depended on, is excellent as usual. He deserves an award just for his glowering.

The people in the supporting parts are also exceptionally good, creating vivid portraits of the scouts, coaches and players.

All in all, this was a really good movie. I did not fall in love with it the way I did with Blind Side. It is a bit too cerebral for that. But not once during the more than two-hour movie did I even realize the length of the picture.

There have not been many really good films out recently. This, however, is quite good. See it even if you are not a baseball fan.

is open to golfers of all ages. The entry fee is $100 per golfer or $400 per foursome and includes range balls, dinner, raffle and auction. All golfers will also receive a voucher for a free round of golf. Separate dinner/auction tickets are also available.

The family of Briana Marie Cox established a foundation to honor her memory. Cox was killed in an automobile accident on July 16, 2006 while traveling home with her family from an out-of-state softball tourna-

ment. The Briana Marie Cox Foundation helps those who have lost a loved one and by awarding college scholarships to deserving high school seniors.

The cost to sponsor a hole is $100; cart sponsorships cost $40.

For additional information, contact Tournament Chair Danny Boivin at (561) 502-2187, via e-mail at irrm16@aol.com, or visit the foundation’s web site at www.briana mariecoxfoundation.org.

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She’s The One co-owner Ellen Onofrietto.

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Find A Wide Variety Of Ladies Clothing Styles At She’s The One Boutique

By Jessica Gregoire sales associates, Joan Slack or Ali Rosenberg, Town-Crier Staff Report or manager Barbara Desiano, will greet and With quality items at an affordable price, assist them in finding the best outfit for any She’s The One is a boutique that focuses on occasion. “We can dress a person from head the wow factor. Offering fine ladies apparel to toe,” Ellen said “We have a very profesand accessories, the boutique is located in the sional staff. They are able to successfully put Marketplace at Wycliffe at 4095 State Road people together and really wow them.”

7, Suite R. The store’s clothing items are unique to Husband and wife Rocco and Ellen Onof- boutiques and cannot be found in most derietto opened She’s The One in 2005. partment stores. “We offer boutique items that Ellen has been interested in fashion since you can’t find in department stores and at she was young, and opened her first clothing every other store you walk into, all at fair pricstore in 1987. “When I was 16, I worked out es,” she said. of a clothing store, and I loved it,” she said.

The boutique accommodates all types of “I was selling more than the people who were women from any age group, with sizes availthere for years, and I found out that I had a able for all body types from petite to extra knack for it.” large. She’s The One keeps quality items in The Onofriettos decided to open a boutique all different price ranges, from classic styles in the Wellington area because of its great to whatever is in vogue at the moment. The location and people. boutique also carries a unique variety of jew“Wellington is up and coming, and there is elry, from stackable bracelets to liquid metal such a fabulous clientele here,” Ellen said. “I necklaces. noticed that the people around town were the “We understand that the economy is not type of people who would like our clothing.” the same anymore, and we offer clothing at The boutique carries the latest in women’s all different price points,” Ellen noted. apparel. Items include casual sporty and Gift certificates and promotions are also dressy jeans, shirts, dresses and jackets. “From available. “We link all the clients’ purchases sexy to business, we offer a little bit of every- to their names,” Ellen said. “So if a husband thing,” Ellen said. or a family member wants to come in and To accessorize your outfit, the boutique buy a gift for their wife, we can just pull up offers a unique variety of purses, belts and their information on the computer and see jewelry. “When I go to the shows, I take my what they usually buy.” time to choose the best items,” she said. “I She’s The One provides its clients with a only choose items that have the wow factor.” variety of looks for modern-day women. For When clients enter the boutique, one of the more information, call (561) 965-3111.

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Toll Brothers Holding National Sales Event Through Oct. 9 National luxury home builder Toll Brothers is hosting a national sales event in southeast Florida and all of its communities nationwide from now until Oct. 9. The savings and incentives available during this limited-time celebration makes owning a Toll Brothers home even more affordable.

Now is the time to buy, but to get special savings and incentives, buyers must make a deposit between now and

Oct. 9. Sales and incentive packages vary among communities, so buyers should contact their community of interest to learn more. Toll Brothers communities across southeast Florida include Parkland Golf & Country Club by Toll Brothers, Frenchman’s Harbor, Azura, Jupiter Country Club, Ocean’s Edge at Singer Island, Frenchman’s Reserve and Wellington View.

“Even though pricing on

our luxury homes has been fabulous recently, this event will transcend expectations with amazing values and incentives,” Toll Brothers Vice President Jim McDade said.

As an added bonus for all national sales event buyers, representatives from TBI Mortgage Company, a subsidiary of Toll Brothers, can provide free mortgage guidance. TBI Mortgage has an excellent selection of mortgage programs with still-low

Hi-Tech Plumbing Fights Breast Cancer October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Hi-Tech Plumbing of West Palm Beach has joined forces with plumbers, electricians and HVAC service providers on an international level to fight breast cancer.

Hi-Tech Plumbing coowner Jathynia Garcia said she is pleased to have the opportunity to support this worthy cause on a large scale.

“I’m pleased to donate 5 percent of all our sales now

through the end of October to local organizations committed to research, awareness and education,” Garcia said.

Watch for pink ribbons and other visible signs of Hi-Tech Plumbing’s fight against breast cancer within Palm Beach County.

Hi-Tech Plumbing is a member of Nexstar Inc., an international best practices organization, focused on providing training and support to companies offering superior

plumbing, heating, cooling and electrical services. Nexstar members are orchestrating this effort with a commitment to community service and desire to help combat this devastating disease.

Hi-Tech Plumbing offers a broad range of plumbing and septic products and services in the Palm Beaches and is dedicated to service excellence in the industry. For more information on this international alliance, call Garcia at (561) 790-6966.

interest rates, including both fixed-rate and adjustable-rate mortgages. Home buyers should visit or call their community of interest to learn about specific details.

The incentives that will be offered at Toll Brothers communities until Oct. 9 will comprise a package of savings created specifically for this event. For more information on specific community incentives being offered during this event, visit www. tollsaleseventfl.com.

Toll Brothers’ communities in southeast Florida include Wellington View, a single-family home community priced from the upper $300,000s; Parkland Golf & Country Club by Toll Brothers, a prestigious, gated community with a Greg Normandesigned golf course and luxurious amenities with singlefamily homes and villa-style homes priced from the $400,000s to more than $1 million; Frenchman’s Harbor, located on the Intracoastal Waterway in northern Palm Beach County, offering luxurious single-family and low-

Sales and incentive packages vary among Toll Brothers communities. maintenance carriage homes priced from the mid$600,000s to more than $3 million; Azura, an intimate community located in a prestigious area of Boca Raton offering single-family estates priced from the low $700,000s; Ocean’s Edge at Singer Island, an exclusive, oceanfront Mediterraneanstyle high-rise offering spacious residences priced from the upper $1 millions to more than $3 million; Frenchman’s Reserve, a country club com-

munity set amid an Arnold Palmer signature golf course of single-family estate and custom homes priced from the mid-$800,000s; and Jupiter Country Club, a community featuring a Greg Norman signature golf course with carriage homes priced from the $400,000s, golf villas from the upper $400,000s, and single-family homes priced from the upper $700,000s.

For more info., visit www. tollbrothersflorida.com.

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Schneider Speaks At FAU Career Fair A career fair was held Sept.

22 at Florida Atlantic University, open only to FAU students and alumni. Various employers, professional organizations and industries from all disciplines were there to recruit for part time, full time, co-op and internship job opportunities.

Representing the Florida Society of Enrolled Agents was Jeffrey Schneider of Royal Palm Beach, vice president of the FSEA, and Twila Midwood of Rockledge, secretary of the FSEA. They were there to answer the big questions such as: What is an Enrolled Agent and why should one become an Enrolled Agent?

Enrolled Agents are the only tax experts who get their license to practice directly from the U.S. Department of Treasury. They are the only tax experts who get their license after taking a rigorous set of exams that only cover taxation and the related representation rules of the Internal Revenue Code and the Internal Revenue Manual.

Enrolled Agents are the

only tax experts whose continuing education must be 100 percent in taxation and the ethics of taxation. CPAs may learn accounting, auditing, consulting services, specialized knowledge and applications, management, taxation and ethics. And attorneys are free to study any area of the law to keep up with their mandatory legal continuing education requirements; they aren’t required to study tax law.

Enrolled Agents are the nation’s tax experts, and all you have to do to become licensed as an Enrolled Agent is to be an expert in U.S. taxation — no degrees, no twoyear apprenticeship, no roadblocks. All you have to do is prove to the IRS that you know taxes and you can get your enrollment card by next tax season.

In 1972, EAs gathered together to form a national society. It has been only the past 20 or so years that they started using public relations and other avenues to educate and inform the taxpaying public about the alternative to CPAs.

FSEA Secretary Twila Midwood and President Jef frey Schneider.

The Florida Society of Enrolled Agents is the professional society representing Enrolled Agents in Florida.

Members are licensed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury to represent taxpayers

before all administrative levels of the Internal Revenue Service, including examination, collection and appeals functions.

For more information, visit www.fseaonline.org.

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ABWA To Meet Oct. 12 In Palm Beach Gardens The Northern Palm Beach Chapter of the American Business Women’s Association will meet Wednesday, Oct. 12 at the PGA Doubletree Hotel in Palm Beach Gardens.

Networking will take place from 6 to 6:30 p.m. with the dinner and program beginning at 6:30 p.m. The cost is $35, and guests are welcome.

The speaker will be HedgeHog Consulting President and CEO Rob Jager, who will speak on the topic “How Do I Effectively Grow My Business?”

The Doubletree Hotel is located at 4431 PGA Blvd. in Palm Beach Gardens.

To make reservations, or for more information, call

Sharon Maupin at (561) 3294485.

For directions to the event, contact the Doubletree Hotel at (561) 622-2260.

The mission of the American Business Women’sAssociation is to bring together businesswomen of diverse occupations and to provide opportunities for them to help themselves and others grow personally and professionally through leadership, education, networking, support and national recognition.

For additional about the Northern Palm Beach Chapter of the American Business Women’s Association, call Chapter President Kandyce Key at (561) 908-4798 or visit www.abwanpbflorida.org.

Send business news items to: The Town-Crier Newspaper,12794 W. Forest Hill Blvd., Suite 31, Wellington, FL 33414. Fax: (561) 793-6090.

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WPB Antiques Festival Wraps Up Summer Season Oct. 1-2 The West Palm Beach Antiques Festival will hold its two-day summer show Friday and Saturday, Oct. 1 and 2, with a full day of setup for dealers on Friday 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The September edition of the festival, held over the Labor Day weekend, Sept. 3 and 4, had a 25percent increase over attendance from the September event of 2010, according to festival owners Kay and Bill Puchstein. Early-buyer registration was up 33 percent, and the weather was seasonably nice with highs in the upper 80s and no rain.

Earlier in the week, everyone was watching hurricane Irene as it was heading toward Florida before making a turn to the north. The show stayed busy and crowded all weekend.

One of the first items to leave the show Saturday morning by way of an early-buyer admission was a 1923 Gibson guitar in its original case, priced at $2,500. It had the Indian rosewood finger board that has stirred controversy recently in the classic American guitar market.

Early holiday items are always a favorite at the festival beginning in September. Monica Laethem of Boca Raton offered a turn-of-thecentury Bellsnickles and reported selling a red and white ceramic Santa Claus, a paint-decorated little sleigh and many other expensive small holiday items. One of the earliest pieces of furniture to ever come through the West Palm Beach show was a large blanket chest from the early 1700s. The heavily carved show-stopper was in the booth of Gerald Snyder of Stuart. Made of oak with an old, old finish, it had an English provenance. Len Bartkowiak of Fort Myers offered a one-of-a-kind Japanese carving that

took your breath away. Carved out of bone and ivory, this 36-inch by 36-inch masterpiece from the 1950s had never been out of its original shipping crate.

One of the most interesting and highly specialized booths at the West Palm Beach Antiques Festival is operated by Elizabeth Bartholomew. Bartholomew, originally from Florida, had a vintage clothing business in Texas and a fine jewelry operation in the Caribbean before moving back to Florida. In her third year at the festival, she specializes in antique and vintage clothing with a tight focus on Japanese textiles.

Her favorite items are examples of the kimono, the full-length robe that is the traditional Japanese garment for women and men, always wrapped with the left over the right and secured at the waist by a sash known as an obi, which is tied in the back. At one time the use of the kimono was so ubiquitous that the name itself means “clothing” or “thing to wear.”

Aside from the traditional fulllength silk kimono, Bartholomew has fine examples of the haori, the shorter hip- or thigh-length robes originally worn only by men but now universally used as an overgarment, and the yukata, the common cotton kimono traditionally seen as summer dress. But the top of the line is the uchikake, the formal wedding kimono that is heavily embroidered and worn outside the regular kimono as an overcoat. The uchikake is woven of the finest silk and hand painted, made of a single bolt of cloth. The most striking thing seen in the booth is a full-length uchikake on a tall stand. Bartholomew also has examples of the hitoe, the un-

Elizabeth Bartholomew arranges her inventory of fine Japanese textiles. lined silk kimonos also used as summer garments, and like all of her examples, they are all hand sewn.

Many examples are made of shiboroi, fine silk that has been hand tied and hand dyed, resulting in a pucker texture, and some even have the traditional monsuki, or family crest, on the back panel.

Bartholomew exhibits more than 500 items in her booth, and besides Japanese textiles, she has an assortment of pottery, glass, sterling silver and fine jewelry. Items in her booth range in price from $25 to

$1,000 or more for a custom-order kimono. However, Bartholomew noted that the supply of finer vintage kimonos is drying up, and even now shipments take two months, so don’t wait too long.

The Puchsteins have lowered dealers’ booth rent for the summer season. The popular early-buyers admission feature will be continued in the summer starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday before the regular show opening time of 10 a.m. Summer show early-buyers admission has been reduced to $10 and is good for

both days of the show. Daily admission is $7 for adults and $6 for seniors, with a $1 discount coupon for adult admission available at www.wpbaf.com. Anyone under 16 is admitted free. There is no charge for parking at the fairgrounds.

The West Palm Beach Antiques Festival is held at the South Florida Fairgrounds located off Southern Blvd. just west of Florida’s Turnpike. For additional information about the festival, call (941) 6977475, e-mail info@wpbaf.com or visit www.wpbaf.com.

CGMS Gallery To Feature Wellington Artist Norman Gitzen

(Left and right) Wellington artist Norman Gitzen works on some metal sculpture pieces.

Wellington artist Norman Gitzen brings his forge to the Clay-GlassMetal-Stone Cooperative Gallery on Friday, Oct. 7 from 6 to 9 p.m.

He will be demonstrating blacksmith techniques in front of the gallery, located in downtown Lake Worth.

Best known for his sculpture Siren, the provocative mermaid, Gitzen has taken his blacksmithing skills to high art form, creating large-scale ornate gates, intricately crafted elements of his sculptural creations and his newly designed jewelry. He will be setting up his forge in front of the gallery, branding wood circles with hearts, peace signs and whale’s tails.

An ardent conservationist, a portion of Gitzen’s sales that evening will be donated to the Marshall foundation. He created the “Vanishing” series of sculptures to highlight

the loss of some of the rarer species from around the world. His forged metal segments to form turtles, dolphins and whales with growing gaps in their façade, metaphorically indicating their disappearance from the planet.

Clay-Glass-Metal-Stone Cooperative Gallery is sponsored by the Flamingo Clay Studio, a nonprofit arts organization whose mission is to provide affordable studio and gallery space for three-dimensional artists. The gallery is located at 605 Lake Avenue in downtown Lake Worth. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday through Tuesday and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday.

Gallery openings take place from 6 to 10 p.m. the first and third Fridays of each month. For more info., call (215) 205-9441 or visit www. clayglassmetalstone.com.

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Seminole Ridge Football Team Shuts Out Wellington 35-0

By Lauren Miró Town-Crier Staff Report It was a shutout game Friday night, Sept. 23 as the Seminole Ridge High School varsity football team dominated Wellington High School 35-0 on the Wolverines’ home field.

After a 45-minute lightning delay, the Hawks (2-2) came out strong against the Wolverines (12). During the first Hawks possession, quarterback Antwan Washington passed to Gary Holmes, who ran in for a touchdown. A successful extra-point kick made

the score 7-0 early on.

Though the Wolverines fought to stop the Hawks running game, Holmes ran in two more touchdowns in the first half. Two successful extra-point kicks made the score 21-0 at halftime.

The Wolverines had a chance to make a play early in the second half when they recovered a Seminole Ridge fumble at the 23 yard line.

After several unsuccessful attempts to get a first down, Wellington was forced to attempt a field goal to put points on the board. However, the attempt failed.

Darian Williams runs the ball as the Hawk defense blocks.

The Wolverines’ mistakes also cost them. On their next possession, Hawk Mike Almonte intercepted a pass by Wellington’s Trevor Vanacore and ran 81 yards for another touchdown. A successful extrapoint kick made the score 28-0.

Despite attempts by Wellington to hold the Hawks back, Seminole Ridge scored once again and finished the game 35-0.

The Hawks travel to Pahokee on Friday, Oct. 7 for a 7:30 p.m. game.

Meanwhile, Wellington hosts Palm Beach Central on Friday, Sept. 30 at 7 p.m.

Hawk quarterback Antwan Washington runs the ball.

Wellington’s Andy LeMay rushes down the field.

Wolverine James Foster takes the ball for a first down.

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Visiting RPB Wildcats Push Past Palm Beach Central 27-10

By Lauren Miró Town-Crier Staff Report The Royal Palm Beach High School varsity football team bested host Palm Beach Central High School by a score of 27-10 on Friday, Sept. 23.

The Wildcats (2-1) started off rocky, fumbling the opening kickoff, which was recovered by the Broncos. Palm Beach Central carried the ball 17 yards to the 30 yard

line where kicker Cameron Golob kicked a field goal, making the score 3-0 with about 9 minutes left in the first quarter.

But Royal Palm Beach came back with a fury, scoring about 2 minutes later. Quarterback Anthony McGrew ran the ball 38 yards for a touchdown, and an extra-point kick

by Austin Lombardi made the score 7-3 with about 8:30 left in the first quarter.

The Wildcats continued their domination, scoring again shortly following a blocked punt. After the block, Royal Palm Beach took over on the 20 yard line. Tremaine McCullough took the ball and ran 11 yards for a touchdown. An extrapoint kick made the score 14-3.

But the Broncos weren’t going down without a fight. About halfway through the second quarter, See FOOTBALL, page 35

Bronco Matt Passeggiata carries the ball across the field.

Palm Beach Central’s E.J. Sardinha runs down the field moments before catching a touch-down pass.

RPB’s Anthony McGrew hangs onto the ball as he runs across the field.

Palm Beach Central’s Brock Buckowski looks to pass.

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Local LLS Team In Training Completes Nation’s Triathlon A seven-person team of the Palm Beach County Chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training (TNT) traveled to the nation’s capital and competed in the sixth annual Nation’s Triathlon to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society on Sept. 11. Palm Beach County participants raised over $34,000 to help fight blood cancers.

In total, 6,000 athletes participated in the race, including 700 TNT participants from around the country. Nationwide TNT teams raised over $2.7 million combined.

“This was a special race, different from the others,” said Teri Klotz, a TNT participant from Wellington.

“Not only were we raising money and racing to save lives, we were honoring all those who lost their lives on 911, as well as the first responders who saved lives and our military personnel who protect us every day,” she added.

Ken Mikulski Jr. of Boca Raton, team leader for this event, described how he got goose bumps when the national anthem was sung. With 6,000 people in attendance, not a sound was heard until the last paragraph of the “Star-Spangled Banner” when all the athletes joined in to sing. It was an incredible experi-

ence. All seven local athletes crossed the finish line.

Participants are part of a national team called Team in Training, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s signature national fundraising program. Funds raised through TNT are used to finance lifesaving blood cancer research and provide financial assistance and programs for local patients.

All TNT participants receive expert coaching, training schedules, group training sessions and socials, race entry, singlet and hotel accommodations for the event weekend.

Each member of the team also trains and fundraises in honor of a “Honored Hero” who has experienced the diagnosis of a blood cancer.

Since its inception in 1988, more than 420,000 participants have raised more than $1 billion to help fund blood cancer research and provide services and support to patients and their families.

Trainings and sign ups are taking place across Palm Beach County for the Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend in January, Princess Half Marathon in February, and the Madrid Marathon in April. If you would like more information about the program and how you can be a part of this team saving lives one

Team in Training members in Washington, D.C., for the Nation’s Triathlon. mile at a time, call the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society at (561) 7759954 or toll free at (888) 478-8550.

You can also e-mail nicole. switzer@lls.org or visit the Palm Beach Area Chapter’s Team in Training web site at www.teamin training.org/pb.

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is the world’s largest voluntary health agency dedicated to blood cancer.

The LLS mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and

their families. Founded in 1949 and headquartered in White Plains, N.Y., LLS has chapters throughout the United States and Canada.

To learn more, visit www.lls.org or contact the Information Resource Center at (800) 955-4572.

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continued from page 33 quarterback Brock Buckowski threw a pass to E.J. Sardinha, who ran 84 yards for a touchdown. An extra-point kick made the score 1410.

Royal Palm Beach scored again just before halftime when Jo-Jo Williams caught a 4-yard pass in the end zone to make the score 20-10 at the end of the quarter.

In the second half, the Broncos fought to catch up, but did not score

again. They were able to hold back Royal Palm Beach in the third quarter, which was scoreless, but were unable to stop the Wildcats in the fourth quarter.

Williams scored again with about 9 minutes left in the game on a 30yard pass from McGrew. An extrapoint kick made the score 27-10 to end the game.

The Broncos travel to Wellington for a 7 p.m. game Friday, Sept.

30. Also on Sept. 30, Royal Palm Beach hosts Santaluces High School for its homecoming game starting at 7 p.m.

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Bronco E.J. Sardinha tries to avoid an RPB defender.

SRHS Freshman Football Team Defeats Broncos Royal Palm’s Austin Lombardi punts the ball.

Brock Buckowski runs the ball through the Wildcat defense.

The Seminole Ridge High School freshman football team defeated visiting Palm Beach Central 28-8 on Thursday, Sept. 15, extending the Hawks’ undefeated streak to 30 consecutive games.

The Hawks broke the visiting Broncos by keeping the Palm Beach Central offense out of the end zone.

The Broncos’ points came as a result of a safety and a blocked fieldgoal return.

This year’s SRHS defense has yet to give up any points to its opponents. Some of the Seminole Ridge defensive stalwarts include Dalton Case, who picked off a Bronco pass and returned it to set up the Hawk offense deep in the visitors’ territory; linebacker Kyle Grieser, who had a fumble recovery; cornerback

Ray Brown, who constantly turned away any Bronco attempt at running wide; and Abyu Perez, whose important quarterback sack snuffed out a Palm Beach Central threat.

On offense, the Baby Hawks ran the ball consistently all night. Wingback Kerrith Whyte scored two touchdowns: the first a 40-yard romp on the “scissors play,” and the second a 10-yard touchdown. Fullback Adrian Gonzalez scored on a 60-yard sweep, outracing the Broncos’ defenders to pay dirt. Gonzalez scored the final touchdown of the night as well, on a trap play up the middle in the final quarter.

Kicking chores were handled by Jake Curran, who kicked three PATs, and Abyu Perez, who kicked the last.

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Saturday, Oct. 1 • The Loxahatchee Chapter of the Florida Trail Association will host a walk at John Prince Park on Saturday, Oct. 1 at 7:30 a.m.

Walk in the company of your hiking buddies and have breakfast after ward at TooJay’s.

Call Paul Cummings at (561) 963-9906 for more info.

• Mounts Botanical Garden (531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach) will host “Designing, Creating & Maintaining Your Home Landscape” on Saturdays, Oct. 1, 8 and 15 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Exhibit Hall A. The cost is $30 for members and $40 for non-members. For more info., call (561) 233-1757 or visit www.mounts.org.

• Mounts Botanical Garden (531 N. Militar y Trail, West Palm Beach) will host “Orchid Care 101” on Saturday, Oct. 1 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Mounts Auditorium led by Tom Wells and Sandi Jones of Browar d Orchid Supply. Attendees are encouraged to bring an orchid (up to 6 inches) to be repotted or mounted. The cost is $30 for members and $40 for non-members.

For more info., call (561) 233-1757 or visit www.mounts.org.

• The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host “Drop-in Saturday Story Time” Saturdays at 10:15 a.m. for age 2 and up through the month of October. Call (561) 790-6070 for more info.

• St. Rita Catholic Church will hold its “Festival of the Guardian Angel” Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 1 and 2 at the parish center (13645 Paddock Drive, Wellington).

There will be food, drink, rides and entertainment for the whole family, as well as a silent auction. Hours are noon to 9 p.m.

Saturday and noon to 7 p.m. Sunday. For more info., call Caroline at (561) 798-2853.

• The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will feature “Sing Your Way to Spanish” with Jody Dreher on Saturday, Oct. 1 at 2 p.m. To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, learn Spanish songs and rhymes.

Call (561) 790-6070 to pre-register.

• A Howlin’ Hoedown on Saturday, Oct. 1 from 6:30 to 11 p.m. at Breakers West Countr y Club will support the Palms West Community Foundation and Big Dog Ranch Rescue. There will be an open bar, barbecue dinner and entertainment. Tickets cost $100 per person. For more info., visit www. palmswest.com or call (561) 790-6200.

Sunday, Oct. 2 • The Loxahatchee chapter of the Florida Trail Association will hike in Jonathan Dick-

inson State Park on Sunday, Oct. 2. Meet at the front gate at 8 a.m. Bring water to keep hydrated. Call Mary Miller at (561) 391-7942 for more info.

• Mounts Botanical Garden (531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach) will host a Gourmet Food Truck Garden Party on Sunday, Oct. 2 from noon to 7 p.m. Food trucks with authentic, innovative, gourmet cuisine will rumble into the garden from all over South Florida. A $5 donation is suggested. Food and beverages cost extra. For more info., call (561) 233-1757 or visit www.mounts. org.

Monday, Oct. 3 • Golden Grove Elementary School will host a Book F air from Monday, Oct. 3 through Friday, Oct. 7 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. The theme is “Book Fairs and Beyond: Reading is Out of This World.” For more info., call (561) 904-9723 or e-mail marge.keller@palmbeachschool.org.

• Fall Story Times for age 5 and under will take place Mondays in October at 10:15 a.m. at the Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way). Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• The Wellington Garden Club will meet Monday, Oct. 3 at the Wellington Community Center (12150 W. Forest Hill Blvd.). The event will start at 10:30 a.m. with a business meeting, followed by lunch at 11:30 a.m. and a program at 12:15 p.m. presented by photo journalist John Lopinot. He will speak on the topic “What Makes a Great Photograph.” RSVP to Jayne at (561) 7910273.

• American Legion Auxiliary Unit 367 will meet Monday, Oct. 3 at 11 a.m. at Palms West Presbyterian Church (13689 Okeechobee Blvd., Loxahatchee Groves). The mission of the American Legion Auxiliary is to sponsor volunteer programs on the national and local levels, focusing on veterans, young people and the community. For more info., call Marge Herzog at (561) 7919875.

• The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will feature “Scary Storytelling Club” on Mondays, Oct. 3, 17 and 24 at 4 p.m. for ages 8 to 12. This series of classes will teach participants how to tell scary stories effectively. Call (561) 790-6070 to pre-register.

• The Loxahatchee Chapter of the Florida Trail Association will hold its monthly chapter meeting Monday, Oct. 3 at the See CALENDAR, page 37

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR CALENDAR, continued from page 36 Okeeheelee Nature Center (7500 Forest Hill Blvd.) with a social at 7 p.m. and program on the Mayan civilization at 7:30 p.m. Call Sherry Cummings at (561) 963-9906 for more info.

Tuesday, Oct. 4 • The Palm Beach County Commission will meet Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 9:30 a.m. at the government center’s Jane M. Thompson Memorial Chambers (301 N. Olive Ave., Sixth Floor, West Palm Beach). For more info., visit www.pbcgov.com.

• A variety of tasty creepy crawlies and critters will be on the crunchy, munchy menu for the Arthur R. Marshall Foundation’s “Getting Buggy With It” on Tuesday, Oct. 4, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Russell’s Blue Water Grill (2450 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens). Join 97.9 WRMF’s Deena Lang, Jennifer Ross and Dave Brewster for a bugeating happy hour in support of the Marshall Foundation’s annual River of Grass Gala. Admission is $10, which includes hors d’oeuvres and a glass of house wine or well drinks. Stay for dinner and receive 10 percent off. For more info., call (561) 233-9004 or visit www.artmarshall.com.

• The Loxahatchee Groves Town Council will meet Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. at the Loxahatchee Groves Water Control District office (101 West D Road). For more info., visit www.loxahatcheegroves.org or call (561) 793-2418.

Wednesday, Oct. 5 • Palm Beach County’s Art in Public Places Program invites the public to attend an artist reception Wednesday, Oct. 5 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Palm Beach International Airport on Level 2 of the main terminal. The exhibition features photography, paintings and mixed-media works by local artists and will be on display through Nov. 16. For a virtual tour, visit www.pbcgov.com/ fdo/art/exhibitions/artatairport.htm.

• A creative writing class on “Memoirs and Essays” conducted by Barbara Flores will be held beginning Wednesday, Oct. 5 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Palm Springs Middle School (1560 Kirk Road). The cost is $60.

Call (561) 357-5017 to register and for more info.

Thursday, Oct. 6 • The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host a Writers’ Critique Workshop on Thursday, Oct. 6 at 6:30 p.m.

Share, offer and accept constructive criticism and comments to improve your fiction,

nonfiction and poetry in a supportive atmosphere led by Florida Writers Association member Caryn DeVincenti. Call (561) 7906070 to pre-register.

• The Royal Palm Beach Village Council will meet Thursday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. at Village Hall (1050 R oyal Palm Beach Blvd.).

For more info., call (561) 790-5100 or visit www.royalpalmbeach.com.

Friday, Oct. 7 • The Wellington Amphitheat er (12100 W. Forest Hill Blvd.) will present a free screening of the movie Australia on Friday, Oct. 7 at 7:30 p.m. Bring your own seating. Call (561) 753-2484 for more info.

Saturday, Oct. 8 • Wellington Christian School (1000 Wellington Trace) will hold its second annual Boutique Show on Saturday, Oct. 8 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more info., call (561) 793-1017.

• Paws2Help will host the inaugural “Pup Crawl” Saturday, Oct. 8 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Clematis Street in downtown West Palm Beach with food and drink specials at all the restaurants on the 200 block, kicking off with a pet parade along Clematis Street. There will be a full day of music, food, face painting and vendors. Pre-register for $25 and receive a T-shir t, pet bandana and a wrist band. For more info., call Laurie Steele at (561) 396-6626 or visit www. paws2help.org.

• The Wellington Amphitheater (12100 W. Forest Hill Blvd.) will host a Classic Car Show on Saturday, Oct. 8 at 5 p.m., followed by a concert featuring the band Illumination at 7:30 p.m. Bring your own seating.

Call (561) 753-2484 for more info.

• Wellington is issuing a call to artists for its Susan P. Bradford Art in Public Places program. The submission deadline is Saturday, Oct. 8 at 5 p.m. All forms of media will be considered. Applications can be downloaded at www.wellingtonfl.gov. For more info., contact Michelle Garvey at (561) 791-4082 or mgarvey@wellingtonfl.gov.

• The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts (701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach) will feature K.D. Lang on Saturday, Oct. 8 at 8 p.m. in the Dreyfoos Concert Hall. To purchase tickets, visit the Kravis Center’s web site at www.kravis.org or call (561) 8327469.

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