Lighthouse Point Magazine, December 2021

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P R E M I E R E S TAT E P R O P E R T I E S P R E S E N T S

COASTAL RESORT

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classIc INTRacOasTal EsTaTE EAST POMPANO BEACH, FL | $2.895 MILLION

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ou are most certainly aware that we are in the midst of unprecedented activity in the high-end real estate market… resulting in critically low inventory of million dollar-plus properties like yours. Consequently, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sell your important property to fully maximize your ROI. Since Premier Estate Properties has achieved the majority of recently closed as well as pending million dollar-plus sales in your marketplace, we are privy to market valuations that are not yet public knowledge. That makes us uniquely qualified to guide you in accurately valuing your ultraluxury property.

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Happy Holidays

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DISCLAIMER: The written and verbal information provided including but not limited to prices, measurements, square footages, lot sizes, calculations and statistics have been obtained and conveyed from third parties such as the applicable Multiple Listing Service, public records as well as other sources. All prices are either list price, sold price, and/or last asking price. Premier Estate Properties participates in the Multiple Listing Service and IDX, and the properties listed and sold are not necessarily exclusive to Premier Estate Properties and may be presently listed or have sold with other members of the Multiple Listing Service. The transactions representing both buyers and sellers are calculated twice. Premier Estate Properties’ marketplace is all of the following: Vero Beach, Town of Orchid, Indian River Shores, Town of Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, Manalapan Beach, Point Manalapan, Hypoluxo Island, Ocean Ridge, Gulf Stream, Delray Beach, Highland Beach, Boca Raton, East Deerfield Beach, Hillsboro Beach, Hillsboro Shores, East Pompano Beach, Lighthouse Point, Sea Ranch Lakes and Fort Lauderdale.

All written and verbal information including that produced by the Sellers or Premier Estate Properties are subject to errors, omissions or changes without notice and should be independently verified by any prospective purchaser of a Property. The Sellers and Premier Estate Properties Inc. expressly disclaim any warranty or representation regarding all information. Prospective Purchasers’ use of any written and verbal information is acknowledgement of this disclaimer and that the prospective purchaser shall perform their own due diligence. Prospective purchasers shall not rely on this information when entering into a contract for sale and purchase. In the event a Buyer defaults, no commission will be paid to either Broker on the Deposits retained by the Seller. “No Commissions Paid until Title Passes.” Some affiliations may not be applicable to certain geographic areas. Copyright 2021 Premier Estate Properties Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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2431 NE 32nd Court, Lighthouse Point Sold for $4,250,000

16694 Sweet Bay Drive, Delray Beach Sold for $2,700,000

428 E Camino Real, Deerfield Beach Sold for $2,475,000

16841 Rose Apple Drive, Lighthouse Point Sold for $2,300,000

4557 Live Oak Boulevard, Delray Beach Sold for $1,395,000

3953 Live Oak Boulevard, Delray Beach Sold for $1,050,000

1200 Hillsboro Mile, 1303, Hillsboro Beach Sold for $950,000

808 SE 16th Street, Deerfield Beach Sold for $660,000 | Represented Seller

2141 NE 34th Court, Lighthouse Point Sold for $645,000

244 NW 12th Street, Boca Raton Sold for $639,000

Dear Neighbors, Thank you for an incredibly successful year. We’ve been honored to serve you in the coastal communities of Lighthouse Point, Deerfield Beach, Boca Raton, Delray Beach and surrounding areas. During these exceptional times, we were able to provide superior service and achieve excellent results for our clients. We wish everyone happy holidays and most importantly a healthy and prosperous new year.

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731 NE 69th Street, Boca Raton Sold for $3,420,000

3730 NE 24th Terrace, Lighthouse Point Sold for $2,995,000

3730 NE 24th Terrace, Lighthouse Point Sold for $2,975,000

528 Victoria Terrace, Fort Lauderdale Sold for $2,000,000

55 Little Harbor Way, Deerfield Beach Sold for $1,725,000

360 SW 10th Street, Boca Raton Sold for $1,575,000

17606 Bocaire Way, Boca Raton Sold for $899,000

1951 NE 29th Street, Lighthouse Point Sold for $775,000

51 SE 19th Avenue, 301, Deerfield Beach Sold for $665,000

1051 Hillsboro Mile, 510E, Hillsboro Beach Sold for $450,000

1008 SE 14th Court, Deerfield Beach Sold for $449,000

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Guy Harvey (left) pictured with David Morantz as Harvey signs prints of his mural at the refurbished Kirk Cottrell Pavillion on Deerfield Beach.

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The importance of stress testing your wealth strategies.

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Creatively Speaking

A Collection of Meaningful Memories

BY SUSAN ROSSER My mother was the opposite of a hoarder. She saved nothing.

I mean nada. When she passed away, I looked in her closet for memorabilia to find only a shoebox full of memories. 88 years condensed into a literal shoebox.

At the time, I was ever so grateful for my mother's lean collection of photos and other keepsakes. After all, no one likes to throw this stuff away. I took the box and added it to my own collection.

But there was one more thing my mother saved — yarmulkes.

A yarmulke is a small cap worn during prayer by many Jews. More observant Jews wear them all the time.

Many Jewish people celebrating joyous occasions like weddings and bar mitzvahs, order yarmulkes imprinted with names and dates to commemorate the occasion. Among my mother's collection of yarmulkes was one from my parents' wedding on June 18, 1950.

When my own children became b'nai mitzvot (plural) in 2014, instead of having yarmulkes printed up with my kids' names and the date of the occasion, my mother said we could use her collection to hand out to our guests.

We all thought this would be a terrific and funny way to finally say goodbye to my mother's collection.

So on the big day, we arranged the yarmulkes on a table at the synagogue, and people used them — just like we had planned.

And then, realizing that the yarmulkes had sentimental value, our guests put them back!

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Since then, my mother has passed away, and now I am in possession of her yarmulke collection.

I cannot bring myself to part with them.

Of course, I will save the one from my parents' wedding, but some of the others hold no particular meaning to me. There are plenty where I don't even know the people whose names appear on the yarmulkes.

But these were important to my mom. These were worth saving to a woman who really didn't value any sort of traditional memorabilia. The idea of saving a ticket stub or a child's drawing seemed ludicrous to her.

By my calculations, my mother moved at least eight times while she was married, shlepping those yarmulkes with each relocation.

Clearly, she valued them.

After my mother died, my older sister Debbie wrote a short tribute to my mother. In it, she wrote, "My mother built her life around four guideposts — home, children, Judaism and humor."

I think those yarmulkes printed in honor of joyous family occasions served as some sort of a tangible reminder of what was truly important to my mom — families gathering to celebrate joyous milestones grounded in Judaism. Those yarmulkes were the one thing she couldn't bring herself to toss because they represented the very essence of what she valued in her life. And she passed those values on to her children and grandchildren.

Of course, I am her daughter, and I'm nothing if not practical. So I can't see myself hanging onto her collection indefinitely. My plan is to artfully photograph the yarmulkes and make a photobook. I will print copies for the people who loved her most. She would like that idea. Y

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Old Town Untapped WHEN: Friday, Dec. 3, 6-10pm WHERE: Downtown Pompano Beach on

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COST: Free WHAT: Experience a night filled with live music by local bands and a local DJ, art gallery openings at Bailey Contemporary Arts Center, craft beer, food trucks, and artist vendors selling unique and artistic merchandise. Old Town Untapped takes place on first Friday of the month from 6-10 pm and is free for all ages to attend.

Openings at the Pompano Beach Fishing Village Cannoli Kitchen, serving a variety of pizzas and Italian favorites, is now open in the Pompano Beach Fishing Village.

Located across the street from the Beach House and Oceanic restaurants, Cannoli Kitchen shares a building with BurgerFi and Kilwins, which opened their doors earlier this year. The only businesses in the Fishing Village that still need to be completed are Baresco, a Mexican restaurant that will be built by the owners of the Beach House on a vacant parcel at 225 N. Pompano Beach Blvd., and the retail spaces on the ground floor of the Pier Parking Garage, which have not yet been leased. A dual-branded Hilton hotel opened this June, Alvin’s Island and Lucky Fish Beach Bar and Grill opened last year, the Oceanic in 2019 and Beach House in 2018. Cannoli Kitchen, located at 255 N. Pompano Beach Blvd., is open every day from 11am to 10pm.

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If you are looking for holiday events and performances, see our holiday extravaganza feature on page 70.

Music Under the Stars

WHEN: Saturday, Dec. 11, 7-8pm Music under the Stars will be held the second Friday of every month. This event will be held on Saturday, Dec.11 due to the Boat Parade on Dec. 10.

WHERE: The Great Lawn, the intersection of Atlantic and Pompano Beach Boulevards, Pompano Beach COST: Free WHAT: Head to the beach for an evening of music and entertainment for Music under the Stars. Speaker Box, a finely tuned band of professionals, will be performing on Dec. 11. They know what it takes to keep an event ablaze with a groove. They are a powerhouse band with dynamic vocals that are at the top of their game and make every event unforgettable. They will take you on a musical journey with the magical Motown sound, to 80s classics, and then onto today’s most popular artists. For more information, please call 954.786.4111

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WHEN: Monday, Jan. 17-Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022 WHERE: Base Camp: Collier Seminole State Park COST: $525/Adults, $500/Seniors (65+) and college students

Full trip fees include camping, meals, river maps, a teeshirt, water bottle and evening programs. Registration deadline is Jan. 3, 2022, or when the trip capacity of 50 paddlers is reached.

WHAT: Total Distance: 30-55 miles over five days From basecamp at the boat basin at Collier-Seminole State Park, paddlers will have easy access to explore the Blackwater River and paddle the 13.5-mile Collier-Seminole State Park Loop. The launches for the East River, Turner River, and coastal paddles to White Horse Key and Cape Romano are a 15 to 30-minute drive from the park. Parking at Collier-Seminole State Park will be provided. Sign-up for the paddles will be the night before, and group sizes will vary depending on capacity (parking etc.). The locations the paddlers will visit are weather and tide-dependent and launch times will vary depending on conditions. The paddle choices shown below will also include a more extended option on the Turner River to Chokoloskee with a visit to the Havana Café and the Smallwood Store. And a shorter paddle from the Gulf Coast Visitor’s Center in Everglades City to Chokoloskee with an exploration of the Halfway Creek Paddling Trail.

Evening programs will include presentations from authors, historians, environmental experts, and one night of live music.

Audacy Beach Festival WHEN: Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 4-5 WHERE: Fort Lauderdale Beach COST: $75-$329 WHAT: As the sounds of the Atlantic Ocean crash onto

the shores of the sunny south Florida beach, vibe with alternative’s best and brightest this winter.

The band lineup includes: SATURDAY Twenty One Pilots, The Lumineers, Glass Animals, Modest Mouse, Bleachers, Steve Aoki, Milky Chance, Willow, Beabadoobee, Cannons, The Regrettes.

SUNDAY Swedish House Mafia, Lil Nas X, Weezer, AJR, Bastille, All Time Low, Yungblud, Walk the Moon, Cold War Kids, Tai Verdes, Mod Sun, Girl in Red, Nessa Barrett.

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Judy Collins

WHEN: Friday, Jan. 14, 2022, 8pm WHERE: The Parker, 707 NE Eighth

St., Fort Lauderdale COST: $37.00 - $87.00 WHAT: Judy Collins has inspired audiences with sublime vocals, boldly vulnerable songwriting, personal life triumphs, and a firm commitment to social activism.

Her luminescent presence shines brightly as new generations bask in the glow of her iconic 55-album body of work and heed inspiration from her spiritual discipline to thrive in the music industry for half a century.

The Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter is esteemed for her imaginative interpretations of traditional and contemporary folk standards and her poetically poignant original compositions. Her stunning rendition of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides

Now” from her landmark 1967 album, Wildflowers, has been entered into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Judy’s dreamy and sweetly intimate version of “Send in the Clowns,” a ballad written by Stephen Sondheim for the Broadway musical “A Little Night Music,” won “Song of the Year” at the 1975 Grammy Awards.

The Village People: Featuring Original Lead Singer Victor Willis WHEN: Saturday, Dec. 11, 8pm WHERE: The Parker, 707 NE Eighth St., Fort Lauderdale COST: $37.50-$77.50 WHAT: For over four decades, the music of Village People has been putting smiles

on the faces of fans worldwide. Their hits have become part of the international songbook. In fact, the iconic Y.M.C.A (along with its dance) is a part of so many parties, weddings, bar mitzvahs, and sporting events. For the 2022 tour, Victor Willis, the original lead singer, returns. With his powerful and distinctive voice, the party continues with the original “Hot Cop” back at the helm featuring a live band for a world-class performance. The undisputed Kings of Disco, this one-of-a-kind group promises to deliver smash hits to get everyone up on their feet, including “Macho Man,” “Y.M.C.A,” “In the Navy,” “Go West,” “Can’t Stop the Music” and more.

Lewis Black: It Gets Better Everyday WHEN: Friday, Dec. 10, 8pm WHERE: The Parker, 707 NE Eighth St., Fort Lauderdale COST: $43-$97 WHAT: Black uses his trademark style of comedic yelling and animated finger-pointing to

skewer anything and anyone that gets under his skin. His comedic brilliance lies in his ability to make people laugh at the absurdities of life, with topics that include current events, social media, politics and anything else that exposes the hypocrisy and madness he sees in the world. Black has appeared on “Larry King Live,” “Piers Morgan Tonight,” “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” “The Late Show with David Letterman,” “Late Night with Conan O’ Brian” and “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.”

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Q and A

Exit 36 Poetry Slam: Q & A with Special Guest Malcolm-Jamal Warner First, the Exit 36 Poetry Slam is excited to welcome you to Pompano Beach! The event is attracting some of the nation's best spoken word artists to our city, and your participation is ramping this event up to the next level of greatness — so thank you.

Everyone knows you from "Cosby" and the hit TV show "The Resident," but you also have a strong following in the poetry community. You have addressed that your family nurtured your love of poetry, but what elements of poetry and spoken word touched you in a way that encouraged you to adopt it as one of your forms of artistic expression?

Well, first off, my dad went to Lincoln University with Gil Scott Heron and Brian Jackson. He was actually their dorm resident advisor. So I was pretty much

listening to Gil and The Last Poets from the womb. And my dad went to Lincoln because Langston went there. So I'm not sure if I adopted poetry or it adopted me. Poetry has always been in my life and part of my expression. Like most teens, I fancied myself as a rapper for some time, but ultimately gravitated more to poetry because it was less rigid regarding timing, cadence, and subject matter. During my early to mid 20s, just before poetry became the cool thing again, I was very active in LA's underground spoken word scene. Writing and going out to poetry spots became a necessity for me because it was an avenue of creativity, allowing me to express myself in ways I couldn't do as an actor or director.

As the celebrity judge of Exit 36, what are you most looking forward to?

Judging slams is always strange and, at times uncomfortable for me. For WHEN: Thursday, Dec. 9, 6pm; Saturday, Dec. 11, 11pm one, when slams began to WHERE: Pompano Beach Cultural Center, gain popularity, I recall how 50 W. Atlantic Blvd., Pompano Beach they also started to skew COST: $15/daily pass, $30/festival pass poets' approach to writing.

WHAT: Malcolm-Jamal Warner is joining the fourth The focus became time annual Exit 36 Slam Poetry Festival as a celebrity judge. limit, speed, cadence, and He will also be performing his poetry at the festival and writing to appeal to judges. sharing thoughts about his career during a talk. Exit 36 And then that style and Slam Poetry Festival is a three-day, in-person poetry energy became so prevalent festival, with the that poetry and slam poetry opportunity to attend virtually are often conflated. The as well, that other thing I get caught up seeks to serve on as a judge is how do I the community put a number on someone's through self expression? I can be educational, pretty hard on poetry, but theatrical, if something doesn't move and literary me personally, it doesn't performances. necessarily mean that it's The festival includes writing workshops, artists’ talks, not good. I respect slams and the Slam Poetry competition. In its fourth year, the as an art form unto itself.

Exit 36 objectives remain the same — to pay homage to poetry, spoken word, literacy, community engagement, I admire and respect slam and to celebrate the arts. poets who are good at it. It's been several years since I

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last judged a slam, so I am looking forward to the vibe and energy.

Part of this festival focuses on encouraging young people to express their emotions positively. What words of wisdom would you give to young creatives who are inspired by this event and want to give writing poetry and spoken word a chance?

So I believe that there is a river of creativity that flows and is available for every human being. Playing with, listening to, or watching our 4 year-old daughter reminds me of this every day. But for many people, life circumstances block the pathway to that river. So I consider it a blessing and honor to have access to several creative avenues of expression. I find it crucial to my happiness. And I don't mean that figuratively. There is a definite connection between my disposition and stress level and my creative practices. Life is better for me and everyone around me when I'm engaged in my creative practices. I call it creative practice because, like yoga, meditation, gardening, sports, medicine, law, it requires continually honing your skill and improving, which requires constant studying and application.

I've been acting all of my life. I'm on the fifth season of my tenth television series, and I'm still a student of acting. So with regard to wanting to give poetry and spoken word a chance, it's never too late.

But if you are going to begin writing poetry, I strongly suggest also putting yourself in situations where you are performing or at least reading your poems aloud in front of others. Writing poetry can be a beautiful experience on its own, but verbally expressing your poetry completes a beautiful circle. Y

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BY MARIE PULEO

Lighthouse Point Yacht Club Update As the Lighthouse Point Yacht Club redevelopment project heads into the final stages of an approval process that began three years ago, the City Commission, at its meeting on Nov. 9, reviewed the steps that have taken place so far, and which ones still need to be completed.

It is expected that the Planning and Zoning Board will conclude its review of the development agreement at its Dec. 7, 2021 meeting. If so, five final items will be coming to the City Commission for approval in January and February of 2022.

Terry Paterson, owner and developer of the Lighthouse Point Yacht Club, is proposing to build 21 luxury townhomes and one singlefamily home on a portion of the yacht club property that is currently used for tennis courts and parking, and then use the proceeds from the sale of the residential units to subsidize a new yacht club facility.

Due to the current land use and zoning designation of the yacht club property, the following approvals are necessary for the project to be developed: a land use map amendment to permit residential uses on the property; a text amendment to the City’s Comprehensive Plan to clarify the permitted uses in the land use category assigned to the property; an ordinance creating a Yacht

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Club-Mixed Use (YC-MU) zoning district; rezoning of the property to the new YC-MU zoning district; a development agreement, required by the new YC-MU zoning district; and a site plan.

The items that would come to the City Commission in January are the ordinance for the YC-MU rezoning (first reading) and the development agreement (first reading and public hearing).

The items that would come to the City Commission in February are the land use map amendment and the comprehensive plan text amendment (second reading and adoption hearing); creation of the YC-MU zoning district (second reading and public hearing); rezoning the yacht club property

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to YC-MU, along with review of the site plan (second reading and quasi-judicial public hearing); and the development agreement (second reading and public hearing).

The Planning and Zoning Board completed its review of the site plan at its Oct. 5, 2021 meeting, and approved it with 11 conditions.

One of the conditions is that a city-retained traffic consultant must review and approve the proposed front entry of the yacht club, which includes booms that would open and close automatically for each car entering the site, serving as a traffic calming device. The location of the booms and their operation have been identified by the city engineer as a safety concern. In addition, the proposed townhomes next >>>

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Lighthouse Point Yacht Club Update <<< to the entry have driveways that back onto the yacht club’s exit roadway, which the city engineer believes is an issue. The developer’s traffic consultant has responded to the city engineer’s concerns, but the city engineer is not in agreement.

The City has hired a traffic engineer to make a determination regarding the safety and efficacy of the entry.

Another condition the Planning and Zoning Board placed on the site plan approval is that the developer must provide safety rails on a new boat dock that will be built on the west side of the property, and will be used for access to the marina, children’s center/gym and pool area during construction.

The developer must also provide

traffic calming along NE 27th Terrace as determined by the City-retained traffic consultant; install an exterior wall and required landscaping along NE 42nd Street during the first phase of the project to provide buffering from noise and construction debris; make a “good faith effort” on a social media platform to advise the neighborhood in a timely manner of construction events that would increase the noise or truck traffic in the area; and maintain a representative at the entrance to the site at all times during construction activity to direct construction traffic, as well as members and guests of the yacht club.

The City Commission will make a determination on another condition

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placed by the Planning and Zoning Board – to review whether the three townhome buildings on the west side of the site can have a larger separation between them to avoid a “wall effect” and to create a better aesthetic view for the residents who live across the canal.

On the east side of the project, there’s a separation of 24 feet between all buildings. However, on the west side, there is only 16 feet between the three proposed townhome buildings. A larger separation between the townhome buildings on the west side would be achieved by shifting two of the buildings to the south, and would need to be accommodated in the final design Y

Lighthouse Point Library Will Offer Free Online Access to The New York Times Lighthouse Point Library patrons will soon have free access to an online resource that is new to the library – The New York Times.

The library anticipates The New York Times online will be up and running in the library’s system in early 2022, but recommends checking the library’s website for the exact start-up date (lighthousepointlibrary.com).

To access the resource, patrons will need an active Lighthouse Point Library card in good standing.

The New York Times will be available to both in-library or remote patrons. The service includes unlimited simultaneous use for up to the population of the city.

Patrons will have digital access to the full archive of The New York Times daily newspaper, from 1851 to

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the present day.

The cost for The New York Times subscription is $2,090 for 12 months.

The subscription does not include

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the crossword puzzle and cooking sections.

The money for the subscription is coming from the Walt and Mary Barker Library Fund, which in 2014, was set up with $500,000 from the trust of longtime Lighthouse Point Library volunteer Mary M. Barker.

A certain amount of funds is made available to spend each year.

Last month, the City Commission approved the expenditure of $12,194 from the fund for “eLibrary educational and technology resources” for the library, which includes the subscription for The New York Times online.

The Wall Street Journal and Consumer Reports, also supported by the Barker Library Fund, were added to the library’s online resources last year. Y

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City Looks at Implementing New Rules for Larger Vans Under the Lighthouse Point city code, traditional vans up to 19 feet long can be parked on a residential property in Lighthouse Point.

However, the code doesn’t mention newer-style full-size vans, such as a Mercedes Sprinter, which can be up to 24 feet long, and have become increasingly popular with residents.

Some full-size vans are outfitted with kitchens, bathrooms and toilets, and resemble recreational vehicles (RVs), which residents are not allowed to park on their property.

The City Commission, at its Nov. 9 meeting, discussed how full-size vans should be dealt with under the code. The consensus was that the Wantman Group, Inc. (WGI), the firm currently rewriting the entire City code, should review the issue and see how other municipalities are handling it, and then bring the information to the Commission to discuss possible options.

Commissioner Michael Long said: “We do want to take a look at this, get better definitions, clean it up and make sure the residents have input and understand what’s going on.”

There are approximately 100 fullsize vans in the city, according to City Administration.

Commissioner Jason Joffe said the Lighthouse Point’s code enforcement officers need a “welldrafted, clear code, so they know what to enforce.” He added that there has to be a limit on the size of the vans, but where a van is allowed to park on a property is “just as important, if not more important.”

Commissioner Earl Maucker said he understands the need for some kind of regulation, but doesn’t want to do anything that would create “unintended consequences where we’re telling residents they can’t have a van in their driveway when it’s a passenger van that they use to haul the kids back and forth to the park.”

Commission Vice President Sandy Johnson said her concern was that

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if larger vans resembling RVs are allowed indiscriminately, there might be a situation “where we have people living in driveways.”

“I agree we need to update the code and have some stringent guidelines,” said Mayor Glenn Troast.

Troast said he is concerned about a 25-foot-long van, because “that is an RV at the end of the day,” and it takes up most of the driveway.

Troast noted that he knows of a Lighthouse Point resident who has two Mercedes Sprinter vans that look identical, but one is outfitted like an RV. The resident has been cited for the van that has RV elements, but not for the one that doesn’t.

Troast said he’s spoken to other residents who have more traditional vans not intended for camping, but they’ve been cited because the van has a sink or a toilet in it.

“So, I think it needs a broader look than just size. I think it needs to be looked at in totality,” said Troast.

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Lighthouse Point Has a New City Clerk The City Commission, at its Oct. 26 meeting, confirmed the appointment by Mayor Glenn Troast of Kathryn Sims as city clerk for the City of Lighthouse Point, effective Nov. 15, 2021.

Sims was hired to replace former City Clerk Jennifer Oh, who retired from her position in July. Oh worked for the City for almost 20 years, serving about half that time as city clerk.

Sims’ professional experience includes

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working for Cooper City in the roles of city clerk, director of administrative services, human resources director, assistant city manager and interim city manager. She also served as city clerk for Wilton Manors and as town clerk for Manalapan.

As city clerk for Lighthouse Point, Sims will earn an annual salary of $125,000.

Several commissioners suggested that, given Sims’ experience, expertise and salary, an additional administrative title

should be added in the future. Troast said a title change in the future “is a probability.”

Nicole Davisson, administrative secretary of the Public Works Department, is now part-time assistant city clerk, while continuing her duties with Public Works.

Troast said the plan is for her to transition to City Hall full-time. The City hasn’t had an assistant city clerk in many years, and has brought the position back.Y

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Personal Development

The Easy Way to Make Tough Decisions

BY CRAIG HALEY

THERE COMES A POINT IN EVERYONE'S LIFE WHERE WE HAVE TO MAKE A TOUGH DECISION. TOUGH DECISIONS ARE PART OF LIFE, ESPECIALLY WHEN trying to reach significant goals, make a huge impact, and reach your potential.

Think back to when you were perplexed about a decision. Maybe it was about starting a business, investing in a business, moving, buying or selling your house, changing your kids' school, etc.

In the legendary personal development book, "Think and Grow Rich," author Napoleon Hill says that high achievers make decisions quickly and change them slowly. Most people procrastinate on making tough decisions because they are hard! They keep putting off the decision and end up doing nothing, which is the worst thing to do in most cases.

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High achievers make the best decision they can, and if it was the wrong one, they change it. The key in this process is they decide quickly! They decide and start moving forward, and if they were wrong, they quickly change the decision and get back to work.

99 times out of 100, they still end up making more progress than the person that procrastinated on deciding.

Now, I understand that this sounds good on paper; however, none of us want to make the wrong choice that could cost us money, time, and embarrassment.

So, how do you make these decisions and know you are making the right decision for yourself? What I am about to share with you saved me $300,000! That's right…$300,000! So, please pay attention!

If you know me, you know I am addicted to personal development. I read two to four books every month, and I am always listening to audio programs or podcasts in my NET time, which is "No Extra Time." By the way, NET time is when your body is busy, but your mind is not.

That could be when you are driving, working out, walking the dog, folding laundry, cleaning the house, etc.

One of my favorite programs is a course called "Insane Productivity" by Darren Hardy. In that course, he has you identify your core values. Your core values are fundamental beliefs and guiding principles that help you determine right from wrong. We were given a PDF document with a list of hundreds of core values, >>>

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<<< and through a process of whittling down which ones mean the most to you personally, you determine your top three core values.

Those core values will serve as a beacon as you navigate through life and make tough decisions.

In the course, Darren talks about struggling to decide whether to invest in this gourmet burger business that he was presented with. In the end, he chose not to because investing in a business promoting unhealthy foods was not in alignment with his core values. What's important is that weighing the choice against his core values made the decision very easy.

After doing the exercise, I determined that my core values are: success - growth - contribution.

Fast forward to the end of 2019. I was given the opportunity to invest in this very successful local pizza restaurant in Upstate New York operating very profitably since the early 1980s. My cousin is the manager of the restaurant, Avicolli's, and the owner was ready to retire.

My cousin wanted to buy the business.

The owner was asking for $400,000 down in the deal.

My cousin had raised $100,000 and was coming to me for the balance.

They sent me all the financial information, and I have to say that the numbers were very good. This was a wellrun, very profitable business. If I invested, I was going to make a handsome return.

I deliberated on this for several weeks without making much headway. In the end, I weighed it against my core values, and the decision was clear. This was not the right opportunity for me.

I come from a family that struggles with obesity.

I love pizza, but I do not eat it regularly because my genetics make it very easy for me to gain weight. I have to be careful! I told my cousin I was going to pass on the opportunity.

This was in October or November of 2019, and in March of 2020, Covid-19 hit. I was informed that revenue went down drastically in the business and did not recover for quite some time.

In the end, making the right decision for me was pretty simple when I weighed it against my core values, proving to be right for me. Even if Covid never hit, it still was not the right decision for me, my goals, and my future.

What are your core values? Look at the accompanying list of core values and determine yours. Start by circling anyone that resonates with you, then narrow it down to ten, then five, and finally three.

Those values will serve as a guiding beacon in your life, and they will make the journey easier and more pleasurable.

If you would like a copy of the Core Values Assessment and a video explaining the process step by step, shoot me an email at shihanhaley@eliteforcemartialarts.com, and I will send it right over to you! Y

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Estate Planning When Your Spouse or Partner Dies

BY MARTIN ZEVIN, ATTORNEY

LOSING YOUR SPOUSE, PARTNER OR SIGNIFICANT OTHER IS A TRAUMATIC EVENT. IT IS ESSENTIAL FOR YOUR PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING to give yourself time for the grieving process.

Once you feel mentally and emotionally able to do so, you should schedule an appointment with an attorney to review all estate planning legal documents.

You should bring your will and/or revocable living trust, deed to your home and any other real estate, a certified copy of the death certificate and, if married, the date of your marriage. If you have advanced care directives such as a living will, durable power of attorney and designation of health care surrogate, you should bring those as well.

If everything you owned was in both names, it is not necessary to probate the will. However, it is important to "clear the title regarding your home and any other real estate." The lawyer will prepare and have you sign a continuous marriage affidavit, which is why you need the date of your marriage. The affidavit will state that you were married on a specific date and remained continuously married without divorce until the date of death. It will provide the legal description of your home and other real estate and indicate your intention to clear title. This document will be recorded, along with an affidavit of no Florida estate tax due and the death certificate without the cause of death. Recording these documents will clear title and allow you the option to do a new deed to avoid probate when you die. If you were not married but owned your home (or any other property) jointly, it is still important to clear title. Of course, a continuous marriage affidavit will not be necessary.

If you do not have a revocable living trust, this appointment will be a good opportunity to discuss the creation of a trust and preparation of a deed in order to avoid probate on your home and other real estate. You can also discuss the option of a life estate deed to avoid probate.

If you do have a trust, this may be an appropriate time

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to consider doing an amendment to the trust based on new circumstances. Your home and other real estate (in Florida and out-of-state) should be owned by you as trustee of the trust.

You may wish to name one of your children as co-trustee to make it easier to manage the assets in your trust if you become incapacitated. You may also wish to make changes in your Living will, durable power of attorney and designation of health care surrogate or create those documents if you do not have them.

In most cases, there is no urgency to contact an attorney. It is much better to have peace of mind and clarity. Some lawyers, including myself, will offer a free consultation. This consultation should include your options and give you the opportunity to sleep on it before finalizing any new legal documents.

In addition, when you are ready, there are actions you should take for which you do not need an attorney. This includes rolling over your spouse's IRA to yours, claiming life insurance benefits and naming beneficiaries on any joint accounts. However, your lawyer can advise you on these matters. Y Martin Zevin is available to discuss wills, trusts, estates, probate and is available for free consultation regarding personal injury claims or car insurance coverage. For more information call 954-569-4878 or visit martinzevinpa.com.

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Financial Fitness

Stress Test Your Wealth Strategies

BY GREGORY EDWARDS

WHEN MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT YOUR MONEY, IT IS WISE TO KNOW THE STEPS AFFLUENT INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES TAKE TO GROW AND PROTECT THEIR SIGNIFICANT WEALTH. Take stress testing, for example. Stress testing is a process that carefully examines your current wealth planning strategies to assess the likelihood they'll deliver the results you expect in various environments and situations.

The super-rich often have stress tests conducted because the process enables them to make smart decisions and confirm they are dealing with the right professionals. They can also identify potential big problems so changes can be made proactively.

The good news — you don't have to be outrageously wealthy to benefit from a stress test. In fact, it should be part of most people's due process when vetting financial plans, products and services.

• Working the assumptions The assumptions underlying the strategies or products are systematically modified to determine how they are likely to work when the "what ifs" of the scenario change.

• Evaluating alignment with goals and objectives It's essential to determine whether the strategies and products likely will accomplish your goals and objectives. A solution might be high quality but still not deliver the specific results you want or need.

3. ANALYTIC COMPARISONS Based on the evaluation, alternative strategies might be considered. It can be beneficial to conduct analytic side-by-side comparisons of the solutions.

4. RECOMMENDATIONS After stress testing, recommendations are presented and considered.

How Stress Testing Works A stress test often follows a defined process involving four main steps: 1. PROFILING The process starts with discovery. What are your specific goals and concerns? What problems do you want to solve?

What opportunities are you seeking?

2. SOLUTION EVALUATION Various strategies or products can be assessed once there is clarity about goals, objectives, concerns, and limitations. There are numerous ways to dissect and evaluate solutions, including:

Stress Test Trends Among Financial Professionals Because of the power of stress testing, leading professionals are increasingly making it a cornerstone of the way they work with individuals and families. By and large, we see those stress tests being focused primarily on investment management strategies, with other areas like life insurance and wealth planning getting varying degrees of attention. However, intensive focus on investment management may be too limiting. For example, many executives have stress-tested clients' life insurance and uncovered problems that required corrective actions.

This doesn't surprise us. Many affluent families purchase life insurance to address estate tax concerns.

Sometimes, life insurance is obtained to create a larger estate or to make a charitable gift at death. Other times, the intent is to benefit from the tax-free internal buildup. Additionally, their life insurance may be poorly structured. When life insurance portfolios are not in sync with wealth planning strategies, trouble can occur down the road.

This suggests that stress tests should be widely applied to other areas of clients' financial lives. Y Gregory Edwards, CFP®, CLU®, ChFC is a principal at Lawless, Edwards, & Warren - Wealth Management.

Please call Greg at 561-361-8140 ext 231 if you would like to discuss your estate plans.

The information above has been obtained from sources considered reliable, but no representation is made as to its completeness, accuracy or timeliness.

All information and opinions expressed are subject to change without notice. Information provided in this report is not intended to be, and should not be construed as, investment, legal or tax advice; and does not constitute an offer, or a solicitation of any offer, to buy or sell any security, investment or other product.

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Mindfulness and the Holidays

BY DR. JILL SELBACH

THE HOLIDAYS ARE HERE AND IT WOULD BE NICE IF WE ALL COULD ENJOY THEM A LITTLE MORE THIS YEAR. MINDFULNESS IS A GREAT CONCEPT TO PRACTICE. IT certainly isn't a new idea. Mindfulness's origins stem from Buddhism.

However, there is evidence that before the birth of Buddha, Hindus were practicing mindfulness within some of their meditations more than 2,500 years ago. The concept of mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and the surrounding environment.

Through mindfulness, we pay close attention to our thoughts and feelings, suspending judgment known as acceptance. During this process, we bring our awareness to the present moment rather than reviewing the past or looking into the future. These are concepts with which people who practice yoga may be familiar.

As we approach the holidays and the new year, it is an excellent time to think about mindfulness — trying not to get caught up in commercialization and the stress of the time of year. Really looking to experience every moment. Enjoying the process by which you prepare with your family, take pleasure in the company

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of family and friends. It is so easy to succumb to the stress that so often comes with preparing for the holidays, buying gifts, hosting dinners and volunteering to help others. Instead of looking at these things as stressors, try to shift your mindset to being in the moment — not multitasking but being mindful of your intention for the task you are completing. Try to focus on family traditions and the meaning behind them or create new ones that can be carried forth over the years to come.

Don't set yourself up to fail by having unrealistic expectations such as finding the perfect gift, the meal coming out perfectly or everyone in your family getting along. This time of year is an excellent time to review last year's events, accomplishments and struggles and plan for the year to come. When the family is together, it is a great time to set new goals; personal and family goals — parents setting relationship goals, financial goals, parenting goals and identifying new projects.

Kids should be guided to set academic, financial, sports, relationship as well as emotional goals.

All of this planning is meant to make it easier to be grateful every day and mindful in the moment.

These two concepts have been proven to improve the mental outlook and happiness of people. Mindfulness is part of many popular psychological interventions.

There is much research documenting the positive impact of mindfulness. Mindfulness is used as part of interventions that treat stress reduction, emotion and attention regulation and reduce rumination. It has also been documented to aid in reducing mild to moderate depression and anxiety, and preventing depressive relapse. New studies are seeing positive indications for helping those individuals with addictions.

So let's end this year and begin the next one practicing mindfulness to improve our happiness and our lives and the lives of those around us. Y Dr. Jill Selbach is a licensed clinical psychologist. For more information visit drjillselbach.com or call 954-618-8412.

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Predictions for 2022

BY JAMES TERLIZZI COMPARED TO ME, NOSTRADAMUS WAS A PIKER IN MAKING PREDICTIONS. HIS CREDENTIALS ARE NOWHERE NEAR AS EXTENSIVE AS MINE, TO WIT: I am a graduate of FSU (Florida Seer University), where I earned a B.S. in BS. In a previous life, I was an assistant to the Oracle at Delphi, and am the owner of a genuine SwarovskiRomanian-Gypsy-certified crystal ball, previously owned by a little old lady who only used it on Sundays. It is the premium model from Clairvoyants "R" Us.

The following are subject to a three percent margin of error: A pharmaceutical company will introduce a vaccine that prevents almost every disease. Most doctors will become plumbers and, as such, will find they make a lot more money.

As a result of the above, there will

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be such an acute shortage of doctors, and they will only treat exceedingly good-looking people. Fortunately, this will not be a problem for me.

Gallo will introduce a wine specifically for senior citizens. It will contain a substance that reduces the number of trips to the bathroom. It will be called ”Pino More."

A woman from Butte, Montana, will set the Guinness Book of World Records for receiving the longest cash register receipt from CVS — 26 feet.

Sylvester Stallone will make a movie called Rocky 8 meets Rambo 7. It will not be popular. He will make more money from doing commercials for Metamucil.

To combat global warming, the federal government will mandate that everyone in the United States leave their refrigerator doors open for 10 minutes a day.

A three-year-old colt will win the Kentucky Derby. Guaranteed.

A new landscape maintenance company will actually choose the name: "Mow Blow & Go." Inflation will cause food prices to climb so high that it will be cheaper to eat money.

Amazon will offer a new service called “Prime Bod-ABing” designed especially for the Mafia. For $10,000 per month, hitmen may ship as many bodies as they like to the nearest landfill.

Florida Power & Light (FPL) will find that there will be more power outages in areas where they have buried electric lines. Iguanas will dig up the wires.

On another front, the animal rights group PETA will sue FPL for removing overhead wires, leaving birds no place to sit.

Groundhogs will rejoice that New York City Mayor DeBlasio is out of office. The ham-handed official will not get the opportunity to drop another of the creatures on its head as he has done during previous Groundhog Day ceremonies.

Bobby Flay will author a cookbook entitled: "99 Ways to Cook Pandas." It will sell no copies.

Polydactyl cats will learn to use their extra toe as a thumb, enabling them to open cans by themselves. This newfound skill will create an epidemic of obese felines.

Having already sought elected office as a Republican, Democrat and Independent, Charlie Christ will run for the office of general of the Salvation Army.

Finally, don’t worry about stocking up on toilet paper, as our sun will go supernova on December 5. Y

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BY JOHN PIOTROWSKI THE PRE-SEASON WARM-UPS HAVE BEGUN! THE HILLSBORO INLET IS HOME TO SOME OF THE BEST SAIL FISHERMEN IN THE WORLD. HOW LUCKY ARE WE TO HAVE THESE dedicated fishermen to interact with in our back yard. Like other professional sports, sail fishing has a circuit with several tournament series championships up for grabs. Starting in December, the top sail fishing teams start competing in some of the most competitive fishing tournaments you will ever see. Some of these tournaments have a cash prize purse of over $1,000,000.

Teams of 5 – 15 professional anglers get together with boat owners and their captains and they assign roles and responsibilities to team members. Every team member has a job – a position.

Have you ever been fishing offshore, and suddenly you see a 60’ sportfish go into overdrive backwards, crashing into the sea with waves coming over the transom, exhaust plumes rising up and a scurry of men run about the deck? This style of tournament fishing is not for the faint of heart. South Florida is predominantly a catch and release fishery. During tournaments, all fish must be caught and released by only one angler. Every catch must be on video and recorded with a code or image after release and then called in on the radio. Sometimes winning and losing comes down to seconds.

In last months Lighthouse Point Saltwater Sportsman Association (LHPSSA) monthly meeting, we were fortunate enough to have two of the most respected sail fishing captains around share their secrets to success with our club. — Capt. Skip Dana of Team Sir Reel and Capt. Art Sapp of the Native Son fishing team.

These two captains have a list of tournament wins long enough to fill up pages of this magazine and they have caught thousands of sailfish. The level of dedication and passion these gentlemen have for their craft is unmatched in the world of fishing. We discussed the pre-game plan, the bait, the tackle set up, how to find the fish, strategies to improve hook ups, strategies to improve catch ratios, how to evolve your fishing strategy to changing conditions, weather impacts, boat set up, and so much more.

We discussed the importance of consistency and attention to detail. Using kites to present baits to sailfish is the primary fishing method in our region. The number of kites for every wind speed and various methods of rigging them can be overwhelming. Every leader matters, every knot, every bit. The process of catching and keeping bait can be a month-long tedious process.

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Then you have to find the fish. The importance of clean water and current is paramount. Finding where baitfish are hanging out and the depth the sailfish are working that day can be critical.

Sometimes the boundaries for these tournaments can span hundreds of miles. You can burn a lot of fuel if you don't find the fish early.

If you're lucky enough to find the fish, you have to get them to bite, hook them, and chase them around to get close enough to touch a leader and get a valid release. Oh, and don't forget to keep an eye on the kites as you chase the fish down!

Keeping bait fresh and up near the top of the water column is key. Every bait is usually bridled just behind the head. When you are fishing dozens of baits an hour,, that is a lot of needles, bridle floss or bands, leaders and hooks.

Sailfish in the spread! Long left! Short right! Watch the left middle! Let me eat! Wind on em! Go Go Go ! These are the words that frequent the dreams of competitive sail fisherman.

If you love fishing and want an experience of a lifetime and one heck of a rush - get involved in the world of competitive sail fishing. Don't worry if you haven't attended one of these tournaments or found yourself a spot on a team. Fishing clubs like the LHPSSA often support many of these tournaments. Y John Piotrowski is President of the LHPSSA. For more information, visit LHPSSA.org.

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In a small bowl combine the honey and as much tabasco as you like. Set aside.

Combine the broth or water with the milk, grits, and 1 teaspoon salt in a medium pot. Cook over low heat, frequently stirring, until tender, 20 to 25 minutes.

When the grits are fully cooked, remove from heat and add the Parmesan cheese. Cover the pot and set it aside as you fry the eggplant. If you want to reheat the grits right before serving, return to the heat for a minute or two, adding more liquid as needed.

Sprinkle eggplant lightly with kosher salt and let it sit for about 20 mintues.

Heat a large skillet over medium. Once the pan is hot, add the oil. Pat eggplant, wiping off the salt and add them to the skillet in a single layer. You will have to cook the eggplant in batches, so you don’t overcrowd the pan. Fry the eggplant until golden brown on all sides, turning as you cook. Transfer the cooked eggplant to a paper towel-lined plate, and sprinkle lightly with flakey sea salt or kosher salt.

Once all the eggplant is cooked, turn the heat down to low and add the garlic. Cook for a minute or two until the garlic is just starting to brown. Remove the garlic from the oil using a slotted spoon and set it on the paper towels.

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Try the Wine

Gifts for Wine Lovers IF YOU'RE WONDERING WHAT HOLIDAY GIFT TO GIVE SOMEONE WHO LIKES WINE, I'VE GOT PLENTY OF SUGGESTIONS. SOME ARE PRACTICAL, A FEW ARE WHIMSICAL, and some are a bit extravagant. Some cost as little as $10; others could set your pocketbook back several hundred dollars or more.

Regardless of the price, it's hard to go wrong with at least one of these ideas.

Some Wine Suggestions Before getting to non-wine gifts, I'll share a few thoughts about giving wine. It's safe to say wine lovers appreciate wine gifts they can drink, especially if it's a style or vintage they like but wouldn't ordinarily buy for themselves because of cost or limited availability. French Champagne or other select sparkling wine is nearly always a wonderful gift. It's festive, fun, and delicious, can

be enjoyed immediately, and goes with all kinds of foods. Nonvintage Champagne generally costs between $40 and $100, but the choicest bottles, like Krug, and vintage Champagne cost more.

There are also many alternative sparklers to Champagne, such as Crémant, California sparkling wine and Italian Franciacorta.

If you know your recipient's American wine preferences, a thoughtful gift is 6 or 12 bottles of wine directly from the vineyard or winery. Go to the winery's website or call the winemaker directly. The website will usually have a list of the available wines and prices. Many wineries provide modest discounts and free shipping if you buy a case or more.

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Non-Wine Gifts for Wine Lovers There are many fun and useful gift alternatives to wine: online classes, books and magazines, and an incredible amount of wine "stuff." That includes wine glasses, decanters, corkscrews, aerators, preservers, totes, and more. I'll start with wine stuff, most of which can be purchased from wine, cooking and housewares stores and their websites, and internet sites like IWA and Wine Enthusiast.

WINE GLASSWARE: Most still wines — red, white, or rose — are more enjoyable when sipped from glasses that make them visually appealing and have a shape wide and high enough to swirl without spilling. Swirling helps wine aerate, so its aromas and flavors develop, collect, and sharpen before each sniff or sip.

Generally, glasses with larger bowls are more suitable for red wine, although I think many white wines, like bold chardonnays, benefit from being served in the same glasses. For sparkling wine, the preferred glassware is tall, narrow flutes. Their shape reduces the surface area from which precious bubbles will escape. For fans of sauternes, Port, and other dessert or apertif wines, specially made shorter and smaller-bowled glasses make a lovely gift.

Whether you give someone wine glasses with or without stems is matter of personal preference, although stemmed glasses are easier to swirl. Either way, wine glasses should be clear, without color, and made of high-quality glass or crystal to fully appreciate wine's visual qualities. Most brands come in multiple shapes for different wines. It's debatable, though, whether your favorite Zinfandel will taste better served in a glass specifically designed for "Zin." A pair of glasses from Riedel's, Waterford, Zalto, or other fancy crystal can easily cost $50 or more. Fortunately, there are other high-quality four- and six-glass sets available for less than $60.

Spiegelau and Schott-Zwiesel are two widely available brands. Our go-to glassware includes stemmed, 8-inch tall Spiegelgau glasses with roomy 4-inch high bowls.

Wine decanters are also lovely gifts. Elegant ones make wine look appealing and help it aerate quickly. Many have wide, flat bottoms and narrow necks or exotic curvy shapes. So if you give such a decanter, splurge and include a long, flexible bottlebrush to help clean it — figure on spending over $40.

CORKSCREWS: Do you know someone who likes wine and owns a winged corkscrew — the goofy-looking contraption with side handles that rise up, as its drill-like bit screws into the cork, >>>

and then get pressed down to pull the cork up? For Pete's sake, give that person a better tool for opening wine!

The least expensive and often the best gadget for removing a wine cork is the familiar waiter's corkscrew or "sommelier knife."

With practice, it works quickly and reliably. More expensive models may have wood, bone, stone, or ivory handles. A small pullout blade in the handle is handy for removing foil cork coverings.

The screwpull corkscrew is another marvelous invention.

The original manual version now made by Le-Crueset is nearly infallible. Also popular and nearly effortless are the levered and electric devices using the same principle.

For serious wine lovers, another type of opener is the indispensable "Ah-so" or butler's friend. It's small and inexpensive, with a handle holding two slightly curved prongs. It works by shimmying the prongs between the cork and bottleneck and pulling the cork out with a slow but persistent pulling and twisting motion. It's often the best and only tool for cleanly removing stuck, damaged, or fragile corks. There's also a relatively new device called the Durand Corkscrew that combines the screwpull and Ah-So prong features.

AERATORS: Wine aerators are devices for exposing wine to more air than when poured straight from the bottle. There are many different kinds, generally selling between $10 and $30. They provide an alternative to decanting or opening a bottle to breathe.

They help bring out flavors and make tannic wines taste less harsh. They won't, however, make poor wine magically taste like good wine. That device isn't available yet.

PRESERVERS: Long-term wine preservation is the Holy Grail for wine lovers who want only part of a bottle of excellent wine and hope to enjoy the rest days, weeks, or even months later. The simplest and least effective preservers are inexpensive slit rubber stoppers that come with a hand-held pump for sucking air out of opened bottles. They're minimally effective.

More effective is squirting pressurized, inert, climate-friendly gases into your partially emptied bottle during re-corking. The gas displaces air in contact with the remaining wine. I've used Private Select Wine Preserver, which comes in aerosol-sized canisters filled with an FDA-approved mixture of gases, filling over 100 partly full wine bottles. It sells online and in some wine stores for about $10 a can.

Other devices remove modest amounts of wine from uncorked bottles for tasting or drinking and then simultaneously replace the space left with safe gases that can help preserve the remaining wine. Coravin is the most notable. Its original table-top devices sell for $200-400. But recently, Coravin introduced hand-held devices

that sell for under $200. Other preservers, like WineKeeper, will enable the fortunate recipient to open, dispense and preserve multiple bottles of wine, providing an ever-ready choice of wines for you and guests. Multi-bottle preservers, like those in fancy wine-bars, can easily cost $2,000 or more.

TOTES AND CARRIERS: Fancier wine carriers close and may have insulated compartments. There are also larger bags, even outingready backpacks that come with glasses, a corkscrew, and other paraphernalia along with room for a bottle or two and even food.

Wine Whimsy Looking for something that's wine-themed for the wine enthusiast with everything? Uncommon Goods also sells cleverly designed wine racks featuring baseball bats, rowing oars, and paddock wood from Kentucky's Churchill Downs; it also sells planters made from wine bottles for growing flowers, herbs, or other things. You can buy hanging clusters of LED lights in the shape and color of green or red grapes in the Wine Enthusiasts catalog.

Books, Magazines, Classes and Tastings When it comes to books, among my favorites are several by Jancis Robinson, arguably the best of all living wine writers. The most accessible is her 112-page 24-Hour Wine Expert. Others include the terrific How to Taste: A Guide to Enjoying Wine and the more comprehensive The Oxford Companion to Wine and beautifully done World Atlas of Wine (co-authored with Hugh Johnson). Hugh Johnson also writes the annually updated Wine Pocket Book. Another popular guide is Madeline Puckette and Justin Hammack's easy-to-use and modestly titled Wine Folly The Master Guide that gives a rundown on dozens of grapes and wines and food pairing guidelines. Another modestly named but excellent resource is Karen McNeil's The Wine Bible, a one-volume, nondenominational wine encyclopedia.

There are numerous wine tasting course books. A standard is Kevin Zraly's Windows on the World Complete Wine Course, which gets updated regularly. Zraly was the long-time sommelier and teacher at the World Trade Center's famous Windows on the World restaurant and wine school. Another very differently organized book is Marnie Old's Wine: A Tasting Course.

Before Covid, there was already a growing number of online wine courses and individual classes offered by many people and organizations in the US, England, and Europe. Some are free.

The paid courses are more polished and feature top talent or may lead to certifications. They cost anywhere from $90 to $500.

Napa Valley Wine Academy is among the most popular and offers classes costing between $100 and $300. Another offering is through Master Class, which features talks on wine by wine critic James Suckling, among talks by well-known experts on other subjects. Other popular wine classes are available from Udemy. com, The Great Courses, and the Wine School of Philadelphia.

Finally, a wine magazine subscription is a great way to get information about wine, including wine ratings and articles about different wine regions, wineries, wine-related travel, and so forth.

The most popular are Wine Spectator followed by Wine Enthusiast Magazine. These and other wine publishers, like Robert Parker Wine Advocate and Vinous operate paid and free website content.

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Many organizations and municipalities continue to monitor the COVID-19 situation in our immediate area.

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Families Just Wanna Have Fun Lighthouse A'Glow

WHEN: Wednesday, Dec. 1, 6:30-8:30pm WHERE: Frank McDonough Park, 3500 NE 27th Ave., Lighthouse Point COST: Free WHAT: Lighthouse A'Glow is an

annual favorite in Lighthouse Point. There's always plenty of fun activities for kids and performances by local youth. Kids can visit with Santa, and of course, you don't want to miss the tree lighting with the lighthouse on top!

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WHEN: Sunday, Dec. 12, 3pm WHERE: Ali Cultural Arts Center, 353 Dr.

Martin Luther King Blvd., Pompano Beach COST: Free Start your holiday season by picking up a free poinsettia at the Ali Cultural Arts Center. This event is free and open to everyone but is first-come, first-serve while supplies last! Your poinsettia will be placed in the trunk of your car. And to top off the day, Santa will be there to wave at you when you drive in!

Virtual Chanukah Celebration: Bohemian Maccabee Rhapsody

WHEN: Friday, Dec. 3, 6:30pm WHERE: Online on Temple Beth El of Boca Raton’s YouTube channel

or livestream at tbeboca.org.

COST: Free WHAT: Celebrate Chanukah online with Temple Beth El of Boca Raton at their livestreamed Bohemian Rhapsodythemed service. Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia, let me celebrate!

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Chanukah begins Sunday, Nov. 28, and ends Monday, Dec 6, 2021

Holiday Fantasy of Lights

WHEN: Through Jan. 1, 2022 WHERE: Tradewinds Park North, 3600 W.

Sample Rd, Coconut Creek, COST: $20/per car, $2/per pair of specialeffect glasses, $40/12+ vehicle/bus WHAT: Tradewinds Park is once again a fantasy of color, lights and design this holiday season. The Holiday Fantasy of Lights, Broward County’s spectacular drivethru holiday lighting event is returning.

Holiday Movie in the Park

WHEN: Saturday, Dec 18, 7-10pm WHERE: Pompano Community Park, 1700 NE

Eighth St. Pompano Beach

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WHAT: Bring the whole family for a night

of fun! Don’t forget your lawn chairs and blankets so you can enjoy the featured holiday movie on the green of “Jingle Jangle.”

Kwanzaa begins Sunday, Dec. 26, 2021 and ends Saturday, Jan. 6, 2022

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Holiday Performances

A Very Countess Christmas

WHEN: Sunday, Dec. 26, 8pm WHERE: The Parker, 707 NE Eighth St.,

Fort Lauderdale COST: $43-$148 WHAT: For all of you closeted Bravoholics, here is your chance to see Countess Luann, an original cast member of “The Real Housewives of New York City.” The Countess will perform her holiday cabaret show right here in Florida. And as fans of the show know, Luann has quite a history with the Sunshine State. Luann de Lesseps (a.k.a. Countess Luann) is a reality television star, author, actress, singer and mother.

Elf The Musical

WHEN: Friday, Dec. 10, 7:30pm; Saturday, Dec. 11, 2pm and 7:30pm WHERE: Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW Fifth Ave, Fort Lauderdale COST: $20 WHAT: This production highlights the talents of both teens and the adult actors who mentor them. Elf The Musical is a modern-day holiday classic sure to make everyone embrace their inner elf. Based on the cherished 2003 movie hit, Elf features songs by Tony Award nominees Matthew Sklar (The Wedding Singer) and Chad Beguelin (Disney’s Aladdin on Broadway), with a book by Tony Award winners, Thomas Meehan (Annie, The Producers, Hairspray) and Bob Martin (The Drowsy Chaperone).

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Bee Gees Tribute Christmas

WHEN: Wednesday, Dec. 22, 8pm WHERE: The Parker, 707 NE Eighth St., Fort Lauderdale COST: $39.50-$67.50 WHAT: Deck the halls with disco balls this year with a Bee Gees

Christmas.

This tribute will definitely get you in the holiday spirit with beautiful stage settings and backdrops that will put you in the holiday mood.

Bee Gees Christmas will take you on a masterful musical journey that mixes in the Bee Gees songbook and some of your favorite holiday hits to make this Christmas one to remember.

Close your eyes, and you will imagine the real Gibb Brothers are singing.

Christmas fever is here — and you should be dancin’ — yeah!

When the Boat Parade Passes by

Pompano Boat Parade

WHEN: Friday, Dec. 10, 7pm WHERE: Intracoastal Waterway in

Pompano Beach, Lighthouse Point and Deerfield Beach COST: Contact Connie Davis, Director of Events to enter your boat for free.

WHAT: Who doesn’t love a good boat parade? Get in on the fun at the Chaos Fishing 59th Annual Greater Pompano Beach Holiday Boat Parade. The magic happens when over 50 boats, glowing with colorful lights, holiday decorations, music and merriment, begin their parade up the Intracoastal Waterway! Community spirit is alive with exuberant spectators enjoying the parade from decorated homes, hotel rooms and parks.

Fort Lauderdale Boat Parade Party Central at the Riverside Hotel

WHEN: Saturday, Dec. 11, 5:30-8:30pm WHERE: Riverside Hotel Fort Lauderdale, 620

East Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale COST: 85/per person WHAT: If you are looking for a more uptown way to view the Fort Lauderdale Boat Parade, the Riverside Hotel is a great choice. Enjoy the up close and personal view from the New River patio, poolside, boathouse or dock areas. There is standing room only with an open bar — wristband pickup at the Riverside Hotel sales office at 600 Sagamore Road. Must present a valid printed ticket Monday, Dec. 6 through Friday, Dec. 10 from 10am to 4pm to receive wristbands. Tickets are available on Saturday, Dec. 11 at will-call (Sagamore Room) beginning at 2pm

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Nutcracker Performances Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida: The Nutcracker

VLADIMIR ISSAEV, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR WHEN: Friday, Dec. 17, 7:30pm; Saturday, Dec. 18, 7pm; Sunday, Dec. 19, 3pm WHERE: The Parker, 707 NE Eighth St., Fort Lauderdale COST: $26.75-$46.75 WHAT: Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida presents the classic ballet “The Nutcracker” to Tchaikovsky’s famous score based on the tale of Ernest Hoffman. The critically acclaimed performance is choreographed and directed by renowned Ballet Master Vladimir Issaev. This awarded professional company features their own ballet stars performing the principal roles and a community cast made up of local character artists and children.

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The Chocolate Nutcracker

WHEN: Saturday, Dec. 4, 1-3pm WHERE: Pompano Beach Cultural Center,

50 W. Atlantic Blvd., Pompano Beach COST: $5/youth, $10/adults WHAT: The Ashanti Dance Group presents their spin on “The Chocolate Nutcracker.” The Chocolate Nutcracker stays faithful to the original in its delightful story of a little girl who receives a doll as a holiday gift which magically comes to life. This production takes audiences on a trip to Africa. Set in early 1950s Harlem, the score mixes classical and jazz. The story is told through various dance styles, including African, hip-hop, Indian, classical and modern.

The Chocolate Nutcracker is presented in a celebration of Christmas, Kwanza, Chanukah and childhood.

Miami City Ballet: George Balanchine’s Nutcracker

WHEN: Friday, Dec. 10, 7pm; Saturday, Dec. 11, 2pm and 7pm WHERE: Au-Rene Theater at Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW Fifth Ave, Fort Lauderdale COST: $34-$145 WHAT: Miami City Ballet’s production of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker is a fantastic way to celebrate the holidays with friends and family — and get a little culture while you’re at it.

All Sorts of Fun Ocean Way Holiday WHEN: Saturday, Dec. 4, 5-9pm WHERE: Main Beach Parking Lot, 149 SE Second Ave.,

Deerfield Beach COST: Free, but must pay to park WHAT: Head over to the beach for Deerfield’s annual holiday parade. We’re guessing Santa might be there too! We just hope he remembers his sunscreen.

Yuletide on Atlantic

WHEN: Thursday, Dec. 2, 6:30-7:30pm WHERE: Atlantic Boulevard, Pompano Beach COST: Free WHAT: Ring in another holiday season with the City of Pompano Beach’s

Yuletide on Atlantic Parade. The parade will begin at 6:30pm starting from Riverside Drive, heading west on Atlantic Boulevard.

Yuletide on Atlantic will feature fun floats, marching bands, dancers, and a variety of other amazing entertainment, including Santa himself!

Santa Baby!

Breakfast with Santa

WHEN: Saturday, Dec. 11, 9-10am WHERE: Emma Lou Olson Civic Center, 1801

NE Sixth St., Pompano Beach COST: $7/per person WHAT: Enjoy games, breakfast and more with the big guy in red!

Letters to Santa from the kids of Pompano

Have you been naughty or nice this year?

Why not write the Big Guy himself and tell. Through Dec. 10, a form will be made available at www.pompanobeachfl.gov/ programs to fill out your questions for your child to receive a letter in the mail from Santa himself. The North Pole will be sending Santa’s letters back out to all his good girls and boys beginning Dec. 13.

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If there is one thing that’s a welcome addition to any gathering, it’s dip. Here’s one healthy and one decadent option.

Guess which one is which.

Goat Cheese Dip with Bacon and Fig Jam INGREDIENTS 8 ounces goat cheese, at room temperature 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature 1/2 cup grated white cheddar (optional) 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice 2 cloves garlic, grated 1 teaspoon fresh rosemary minced 1 teaspoon onion powder Salt and pepper to taste 6 ounces thick-cut bacon, cut in 1/2-inch pieces 1/3 cup fig jam Red-pepper flakes, black pepper, flaky salt, chopped pistachios for garnish (optional) Crusty bread or crackers for serving PREPARATION Heat oven to 400.

Cook the bacon until crispy. Drain on paper towels. Mix the goat cheese and cream cheese, rosemary, garlic, half the bacon and lemon juice together — season with salt and pepper. Transfer the mixture to a small baking dish. Bake until bubbly, about 20-30 minutes.

Warm the fig jam in the microwave for just a few seconds to take the chill off and soften it a bit.

When the dip comes out of the oven, sprinkle with the bacon and drizzle with the fig jam and pistachios if using.

Serve with crusty bread or a sturdy cracker.

Beet and Cannellini Hummus INGREDIENTS 1 15-ounce can cannellini beans, drained and rinsed 1 clove garlic 3 beets, roasted, peeled and cubed 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice 1/4 cup olive oil, or more Salt and pepper to taste Parsley for garnish PREPARATION Place beans, beets, garlic, lemon juice and salt and pepper in the bowl of a food processor or a high-power blender. Blend until smooth. With the motor running, slowly pour in the olive oil until you reach your desired consistency.

Transfer to a serving bowl and drizzle with a little more olive oil and top with parsley.

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Ft. Lauderdale Faves Bonnet House Holiday Magic Soirée WHEN: Friday, Dec., 3,

7-10pm

WHERE: The Bonnet House, 900 N. Birch Road, Fort Lauderdale COST: 85/general admission, 7-10pm; $125/VIP, 6-10pm WHAT: The Bonnet House’s holiday celebration kicks off with the annual Holiday Magic Soirée. The house and grounds are lit up and sparkling during this Holiday Soirée with live music by Alejandro Rowinsky, acoustic guitarist, a full bar, and catered dining by A Alexander Events.

All trees, wreaths, and centerpieces will be lit and designed to delight and for sale. Soirée attendees have the opportunity to view and purchase these pieces first.

child ages 13-17; $5/child ages 6-12; free/children 5 and under (If tickets are still available at the time of the event, there will be an additional charge of $5/per ticket at the door.)

The Whimsical Wonderland is an evening for the entire family. Join the Bonnet House for a night of live entertainment, a scavenger hunt, interactive activities, and plenty of opportunities to capture holiday family portraits. They are featuring fantastical characters brought to life from the new book POMP, SNOW & CIRQUEumstanc.

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offer Evening Experiences with something exciting every night; from Santa and his elves to Christmas storytelling to strolling carolers and much more.

Get a healthy dose of holiday cheer during each evening tour which includes general admission to the house and two drink tickets.

Performance schedule is as follows: • Broward Center Spotlights – Dec. 4, 6:15-6:45pm and 7:15-7:45pm around the fountain in the courtyard.

• Gin & Jazz featuring Davis & Dow Jazz Duo – Dec. 8, 6:30-7pm and 7:15-7:45pm • The Yuletide Carolers – Dec. 9, 6:30-7:30pm • Tropical Wave ensemble from the Gay Men’s Chorus of South Florida, Dec. 10, 6:30-7pm and 7:15-7:45pm Buy tickets at https://www. bonnethouse.org/event/ holiday-magic-soiree/

Stranahan House Victorian Christmas Tours

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Bonnet House Whimsical Wonderland

WHEN: Saturday, Dec. 4, 5:30-8pm WHERE: The Bonnet House, 900 N Birch Road, Fort Lauderdale COST: Pre-registration is required. $30/general admission adult (includes two drink tickets): $15/

COST: Pre-registration is required. $30/general admission adult (includes two drink tickets): $15/ child ages 13-17; $5/child ages 6-12; free/children 5 and under (If tickets are still available at the time of the event, there will be an additional charge of $5/per ticket at the door.)

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335 SE Sixth Ave., Fort Lauderdale COST: 25/members, 30/ non-members, must purchase tickets in advance WHAT: Enjoy a tour of the historic Stranahan House by costumed docents who take you back in time to the Victorian era in the beautifully decorated Stranahan House Museum.

Learn how many holiday traditions started and how the pioneers celebrated Christmas in the early days of Fort Lauderdale. Shop for your entire list in the Stranahan’s fabulous gift shop!

Brew-Ho-Ho-Ho A bottle of wine is a classic host or hostess gift. This year, why not surprise your favorite lager-loving friend with the gift of hops. Dangerous Minds over in Pompano Cite Centre brews their own beers. No matter the style of beer you seek, they most likely have a great option. The choices are impressive and well crafted, from German pilsners to hefeweizens, ales, lagers, stouts, and more. All the beers are available in 32-ounce growlers — an excellent gift for fabulous friends and family.

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weekend holiday entertainment and strolling pop-ups in Mizner Park to get everyone in the holiday spirit. Experience surprise pop-up entertainment sprinkled throughout Mizner Park under the holiday lights. Each night features unique strolling performers that may include: stilt walkers, stationary cirque acts, poi performers, carolers, holiday musicians, interactive Santa’s letter booth, walk around giant inflatable winter characters, snow flurries, photo ops

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BY HEATHER EREZ

Chanukah is always a fun time to get creative with your family. Here are eight ideas to celebrate this year!

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Boca Raton Holiday Street Parade WHEN: Wednesday, Dec. 8, 7:30-9pm WHERE: along Federal Highway in Downtown Boca Raton

The 50th Annual Holiday Street Parade will feature more than 50 floats and groups, entertaining viewers as they bring dance, lights, and song to Federal Highway in Downtown Boca. The parade will start at Federal Highway and SE Fifth Street and travel north to the Mizner Park Amphitheater. As a reminder, traffic will be congested in the area as Federal Highway will be closed. Parking for attendees at the Boca Raton City lots listed below is free, ample and highly recommended: City Hall - 201 W. Palmetto Park Road Downtown Library - 400 NW Second Ave. Building Administration - 200 NW Second Ave. For more information, please call 561-393-7967.

Boca Raton Holiday Boat Parade

WHEN: Saturday, Dec. 18, 6:30-8:30pm WHERE: Intracoastal Waterway. Bleacher viewing at Red

Reef Park, 1400 N Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. Limited parking is available at Red Reef Park. Please plan accordingly.

COST: Free to watch WHAT: What more can we say — it’s a parade of boats decked out for the holidays. Enjoy!

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LATKEPALOOZA – A latke baking competition, each family member comes up with their own ingredients of what they think would taste good as a latke. Make enough for taste testing and then vote! A twist to this idea is for each person to choose a topping for everyone to try, a step up from the age old sour cream vs applesauce debate!

Listen to some CHANUKAH PARODIES (Google them!) and then write your own silly ones!

UPCYCLE ITEMS TO CREATE A CHANUKIAH! Find items around the house that can provide creative surfaces to either glue nuts to that will hold Chanukah candles or tea lights. You could decorate an old milk jug on its side with tea lights, or wrapping canned food with decorative labels with nuts and candles on top (then you can donate the food afterwards!). Just don’t forget to create a shamash that will stand out from the others!

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Play Chanukah Tic-Tac-Toe by using washi tape to create a tic-tac-toe board on a table. Instead of Xs and Os, place a donut holes in the Xs and gelt in the Os boxes.

Bounce a ping pong ball onto the board and eat the treat it bounces on. Whoever eats their treats three in a row wins!

Go through your BOOKS to choose at least eight to donate in honor of Chanukah.

DECORATE TEE-SHIRTS together with highlighters and then replace a lamp or two with a black lightbulb, put on some groovy Chanukah music after lighting candles for a glow in the dark dance party together.

Dress up yourselves and your table for a FANCY SCHMANCY CHANUKAH DINNER. Speak with accents and use every manner you have for a posh and silly evening together. Pull out your good china, create Chanukah themed centerpieces and decorations to create the ambiance.

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St. Jude Hoards Billions While Many of Its Families Drain Their Savings

BY DAVID ARMSTRONG AND RYAN GABRIELSON, ProPublica

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital promises not to bill families. But the cost of having a child at the hospital for cancer care leaves some families so strapped for money that parents share tips on spending nights in the parking lot.

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series of sharp knocks on his driver’s side window startled Jason Burt awake.

It was the middle of the night on a Saturday in 2016. Burt was sleeping in his pickup truck in the parking lot of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, where his 5-year-old daughter was being treated for brain cancer. He’d driven more than 500 miles from his home in Central Texas to visit her.

A St. Jude security guard peered into the truck and asked Burt what he was doing. Burt explained that his daughter and her mother, his ex-girlfriend, were staying in the hospital’s free patient housing. But St. Jude provides housing for only one parent. Burt, a school bus driver making $20,000 a year, told the guard he couldn’t afford a hotel. The guard let the exhausted father go back to sleep.

St. Jude would do no more to find him a place to stay.

“They were aware of the situation,” Burt said. “I didn’t push anything. I was just grateful she was getting treated and I was doing what I needed to do.”

St. Jude is the largest and most highly regarded health care charity in the country. Each year, the Memphis hospital’s fundraisers send out hundreds of millions of letters, many with heart-wrenching photographs of children left bald from battling cancer.

Celebrities like Jennifer Aniston and Sofia Vergara sing the hospital’s praises in televised advertisements.

This year, St. Jude’s fundraising reached outer space.

The SpaceX Inspiration4 mission in September included a former St. Jude patient as a crew member.

Last year, St. Jude raised a record $2 billion. U.S. News & World Report ranked it the country’s 10th-best children’s cancer hospital, and St. Jude raised roughly as much as the nine hospitals ahead of it put together. It currently has $5.2 billion in reserves, a sum large enough to run the institution at current levels for the next four and a half years without a single additional donation.

St. Jude makes a unique promise as part of its fundraising: “Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treat-

ment, travel, housing or food — because all a family should worry about is helping their child live.”

But for many families, treatment at St. Jude does not relieve all the financial burdens they incur in getting care for their children, including housing, travel and food costs that fall outside the hospital’s strict limits, a ProPublica investigation has found.

While families may not receive a bill from St. Jude, the hospital doesn’t cover what’s usually the biggest source of financial stress associated with childhood cancer: the loss of income as parents quit or take leave from jobs to be with their child during treatment. For many families, the consequence is missed payments for cars, utilities and cellphones. Others face eviction or foreclosure because they can’t keep up with rent and mortgage payments.

Parents at St. Jude have exhausted savings and retirement accounts, borrowed from family and friends or asked other charities for aid. ProPublica identified more than 100 St. Jude families seeking financial help through the online fundraiser GoFundMe, with half of the campaigns started in the past two years. We counted scores of other events like concerts and yard sales organized to help St. Jude families in need.

One family relied on a mixed martial arts fighter to help

Only about half of the $7.3 billion St. Jude has received in contributions in the past five fiscal years went to the hospital’s research and caring for patients, according to its financial filings with the Internal Revenue Service. About 30% covered the cost of its fundraising operations, and the remaining 20%, or $1 of every $5 donated, increased its reserve fund. raise money for expenses like car repairs and cellphone bills, items that St. Jude would not cover. Another spent $10,000, originally saved to purchase a home, on costs related to treatment at St. Jude.

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with the Internal Revenue Service. About 30% covered the cost of its fundraising operations, and the remaining 20%, or $1 of every $5 donated, increased its reserve fund.

Further, ProPublica found, a substantial portion of the cost for treatment is paid not by St. Jude but by families’ private insurance or by Medicaid, the government insurance program for low-income families. About 90% of patients are insured, bringing in more than $100 million in reimbursements for treatment a year. If a family shows up at St. Jude without insurance, a company hired by the charity helps them find it. St. Jude does cover copays and deductibles, an unusual benefit.

St. Jude spends about $500 million a year on patient services — a figure that includes all medical care and other assistance. Very little of what St. Jude raises from the public goes to pay for food, travel and housing for families, the investigation found. Last year, it was 2% of the money raised, or nearly $40 million.

In written responses to ProPublica, lawyers for St. Jude and its fundraising arm, the American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities, or ALSAC, emphasized that countless families have benefited from the charity provided since the hospital opened its doors in 1962.

“ProPublica should be celebrating St. Jude and ALSAC for their commitment to finding cures, saving children’s lives, and optimizing patient outcomes,” one of their letters said.

It is unquestioned that St. Jude has helped thousands of children and their families over the decades. Patients have offered scores of testimonials about the hospital’s generosity and care.

“This often comes as a huge relief to families who often expect to sell all their belongings just so their children can get the medical care and treatment they need to save their lives,” the hospital’s lawyers wrote. “St. Jude and ALSAC understand that this arrangement cannot cover all financial obligations of all families, nor can St. Jude or ALSAC shield families from all the financial and emotional effects” of a child’s illness.

St. Jude said it discloses the limits of its aid to families on its website and in material provided to those whose children are admitted to the hospital. That includes the rule Burt ran into, that the hospital covers the travel and housing costs of only one caregiver and one patient. For many families, the daily food budget is capped at $50. In some cases, hotel stays en route are provided only if families travel more than 500 miles to get to St. Jude.

St. Jude said its assistance is “based on guidelines to ensure fairness and responsible use of donor funds” and on remaining compliant with a federal anti-kickback statute that makes it a criminal offense to offer something of value to induce a medical referral. St. Jude declined to explain how the law affects the amount or type of financial assistance it provides to families.

“St. Jude has never promised anyone — neither patients nor the public in general — that it can solve all financial problems,” the letter said.

When parents need additional financial help, St. Jude’s social workers often send them to smaller charities or in some cases suggest that they apply for government aid.

They refer many to the Andrew McDonough B+

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Today, St. Jude is a specialty treatment and research center with about 5,700 employees and 73 beds. Other top children’s hospitals have more staff and beds, and they also treat more conditions.

Foundation, which gives more than $2.5 million a year in grants to thousands of families of pediatric cancer patients at hospitals across the country to help cover rent, utilities and other urgent expenses.

Joe McDonough, the foundation’s founder and president, said St. Jude families have the same money problems as families of patients at other children’s hospitals, even though he said St. Jude’s marketing creates the public perception that it alleviates these burdens.

“People say to me, ‘Why are you helping St. Jude families?’”

McDonough said. “Well, what happens when a family lives in Augusta, Georgia, and they’re being treated at St. Jude?

They still have to pay the rent on their apartment back in Augusta, Georgia. They still have to make their car payment.

And it’s not my position to say whether St. Jude should be paying for all those expenses or not. I’m just explaining that it’s not a totally free ride.”

The help St. Jude provides to families may soon be increasing.

After ProPublica provided St. Jude with the findings of its reporting, the hospital informed families of a dramatic expansion in the assistance it will give to parents and other relatives during their kids’ treatment in Memphis.

Among the most significant changes are increasing travel benefits to two parents instead of one and covering regular trips to Memphis for siblings and other loved ones. St. Jude’s letter to parents said the changes take effect Nov. 15.

That would’ve made a big difference for Burt.

Burt’s daughter, whom ProPublica is not identifying at her mother’s request, was originally diagnosed with cancer in early 2015, when doctors discovered a tumor pressing against her brain stem. She had successful emergency surgery to remove the mass at Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin, Texas. Medicaid and Dell Children’s covered the bill, but the family was still faced with the cost of her ongoing treatment.

“At that point I’m thinking: ‘What am I going to do? I guess I’m selling my house, whatever it takes,’” Burt recalled. “Honestly, that was probably a big deciding factor for St. Jude.”

St. Jude accepted Burt’s daughter into a clinical trial, and the family moved to the hospital’s patient housing in Memphis for several months. Both parents stopped working for a time, and people in their hometown raised cash to pay their bills.

Her cancer relapsed the following year with several new, inoperable brain tumors. Burt and his daughter’s mom broke up during that round of treatment, and financial problems piled up.

Burt said his credit score dropped so low that utility companies refused to set up service unless he first paid a deposit.

One of the family’s cars was repossessed, he said. Burt’s 2005 Chevrolet Colorado pickup has 300,000 miles on it, many of them logged on trips from Texas to Memphis. When Burt’s daughter was at St. Jude for treatment or exams, he’d work all week, then visit on many weekends where he would spend Saturday night sleeping in the hospital parking lot.

He asked hospital officials if he could sleep in St. Jude’s housing, but they turned him down, he said.

Burt said he was happy with the care St. Jude provided.

His daughter’s health is stable, he said, and brain scans taken during her September exam confirmed her two remaining tumors haven’t grown. But he’s still trying to recover financially.

“It’s five years now,” Burt said, “and I’m not completely caught up yet.”

A Fundraising Giant

St. Jude began with a fledgling entertainer praying for a career break.

When Danny Thomas, a comic and actor best known for the TV sitcom “Make Room for Daddy,” was struggling to earn a living in the late 1930s, the devout Roman Catholic went to church and asked for help from the patron saint of desperate cases, St. Jude Thaddeus. If he made it big, Thomas promised to build “a shrine where the poor and the helpless and the hopeless may come for comfort and aid,” according to a history published by ALSAC. Within five years, Thomas became a star and worked to fulfill his promise by building a children’s hospital named after St. Jude and a fundraising organization to support it. Thomas, whose parents were Lebanese immigrants, recruited others who shared his Middle Eastern roots to help.

He used his fame to raise the hospital’s profile, appearing in ads for St. Jude and hosting fundraising events starring the likes of Elvis Presley and Sammy Davis Jr. Thomas’ daughter Marlo, herself a TV star, succeeded him in championing St. Jude.

Today, St. Jude is a specialty treatment and research center with about 5,700 employees and 73 beds. Other top children’s hospitals have more staff and beds, and they also treat more conditions.

Though St. Jude raises money across the world, most of its patients come from Tennessee and surrounding states. Patients from elsewhere are usually enrolled in clinical trials.

ALSAC, which handles St. Jude’s fundraising and investments, has 2,188 employees in Memphis and in 36 regional offices across the country. More than 400 of the fundraising arm’s employees are paid over $100,000, according to IRS filings. The charity takes in so much money each year that it regularly steers hundreds of millions of dollars in donations to reserve accounts, the filings show.

BELOW Screenshots from StJude.org. Nearly all St. Jude solicitations feature the hospital’s patients — the children usually smiling and bald from treatment — along with the familiar promise that it never sends families a bill.

Overall, St. Jude’s reserve has grown by 58% over the past five fiscal years, during which it has added $1.9 billion to its investment accounts and shifted its portfolio toward financial products designed to generate bigger returns than stocks, bonds and mutual funds traditionally deliver. The charity stowed more than a third of the new surplus, $688 million, in riskier private equity investments.

IRS rules do not limit the size of a nonprofit’s reserves, and experts on charitable finance differ on best practices.

St. Jude meets Better Business Bureau guidelines, which call for charities to maintain reserves of less than three times total expenses, but other experts expressed alarm that the hospital had accumulated such a large sum of money.

The size of the St. Jude reserve is “staggering,” said Laura Otten, the director of LaSalle University’s master program in nonprofit leadership. She said a typical reserve for a nonprofit the size of St. Jude is one to two years of expenses.

Donors generally want to know their dollars are being put to work, she said.

The hospital said it needs a large reserve because its unique operating model relies on donations to fund annual operating costs. “[W]e are highly donor-dependent and subject to the economic driven vagaries of charitable giving,” the hospital said in a written response to ProPublica questions.

But the hospital’s reserve is already more than large enough to buffer against recessions and potential drops in donations, said Ge Bai, a professor of accounting and health policy at Johns Hopkins University. “They should be spending the money as aggressively as they raise it, but they seem to be hoarding,” Bai said.

The hospital said it is also raising billions to fund the construction of new housing and research space, although its plans do not currently include spending any of the reserve on new facilities.

St. Jude’s reserves have ballooned at a time when researchers, oncologists, advocates and families complain about a dearth of funding for pediatric cancer studies nationally.

Dozens of other children’s hospitals across the country have research divisions devoted to pediatric cancer and enroll their patients in clinical trials for new drugs and procedures. They pay for research staff and studies in part with donations from their local communities, often competing directly against St. Jude.

ALSAC has regional offices in several U.S. cities with elite pediatric cancer centers of their own, including Atlanta, Chicago, Denver and Seattle.

Coury Shadyac, an ALSAC vice president and daughter of the organization’s CEO, Richard Shadyac Jr., oversees a team of 45 fundraisers along the West Coast “raising $300 million annually” for St. Jude, according to her LinkedIn profile.

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part of St. Jude’s fundraising haul.

ALSAC’s ubiquitous fundraising has led to concerns that it undercuts other hospitals’ campaigns. Some doctors interviewed by ProPublica said they have encouraged donors to give their money to hospitals closer to home.

David Clark, a pediatrician and former longtime chairperson of pediatrics at Albany Medical Center in New York, said St. Jude raises tens of thousands of dollars in his region that does little to benefit the children with cancer in his area since almost all are treated locally. ALSAC has a fundraising office located a few miles from Albany Medical.

“They think of every way they can to make money and the least amount of ways to spend it,” Clark said. “They deceive people into supporting something that is totally dishonest.”

Nearly all St. Jude solicitations feature the hospital’s patients — the children usually smiling and bald from treatment — along with the familiar promise that it never sends families a bill.

It’s a message that ALSAC has tested and researched to maximize donations. Donors appreciate the promise to never bill families, said Mary Kate Tolan, an ALSAC executive, in a podcast last year. She added that no parent should have to take out a second mortgage or lose their job because their child is being treated at St. Jude.

Alternative messaging to the no-bills promise did not “perform as well,” said Tolan, who develops emerging technologies for ALSAC. Tolan did not return requests for comment.

“Borrowing and Begging”

Catherine Rainey thought she would be free of financial worry when her 2-year-old daughter Harlee was admitted to St. Jude last year.

“The first thing my dad said was: ‘Catherine, you have nothing to worry about. They raise billions of dollars.

Anytime you have a problem, you tell them and they will take care of it,’” she said.

But like many families, the Raineys discovered that St. Jude’s charity came with limits on payments for expenses such as travel that could be bewildering.

Harlee ended up at St. Jude after first going to nearby Niswonger Children’s Hospital in Johnson City, Tennessee, in October 2020. The doctors there discovered a cancerous mass attached to her right kidney. The hospital is a St. Jude affiliate, and the doctors recommended the toddler be treated in Memphis.

Rainey, a single mother of two young girls, had to leave her job as a nurse for months to be with Harlee at St. Jude.

The loss of income quickly created problems. “My family, we don’t come from money,” she said. “We are not doctors and billionaires. We make it. That is it.”

St. Jude did provide food and housing on campus. But the hospital said it couldn’t help with the items that were causing Rainey to worry, including car payments, insurance and cellphone bills.

Rainey’s boss set up a GoFundMe account to help make up some of her lost income. A small local charity, Kari’s Heart Foundation, also helped out by paying about $3,000 worth of phone bills and car payments, staving off repossession.

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“It was just a bunch of borrowing and begging,” Rainey said of her experience while her daughter was treated in Memphis.

“They acted like it was coming out of their own pocket.”

Harlee has checkups at St. Jude every three months that last about four days. The costs of travel to and from St. Jude put an additional strain on Rainey and Harlee. St. Jude is an eight-hour ride, without stops, from Rainey’s home in Appalachia, Virginia, a town of 1,432 people near the Kentucky border.

ALSAC, which handles St. Jude’s fundraising and investments, has 2,188 employees in Memphis and in 36 regional offices across the country. More than 400 of the fundraising arm’s employees are paid over $100,000, according to IRS filings.

Rainey said her daughter generally can make it about two-thirds of the way, with frequent stops, before she has had enough. “When she is done, she is really done,” Rainey said. “She will scream, cry and kick.”

In July, in advance of an August trip to Memphis, Rainey called the patient services department at St. Jude to see whether they could help pay for a hotel to break up the travel day — an expense Rainey said she could not afford.

To qualify for a hotel reimbursement, Rainey said, St. Jude told her she had to live more than 500 miles from Memphis. The ride from her home to the hospital is 530 miles (a measurement ProPublica confirmed with mapping tools).

However, Rainey said, St. Jude told her it measured the trip from city limit to city limit and came up with a distance of 491 miles. Even using that metric, the distance is still more than 500 miles, ProPublica found.

When she challenged the hospital’s stance, Rainey said she was berated by a patient services representative.

“I was feeling pissed off, and I was crying,” Rainey said of the interaction. “You give up your whole life for your child, and they tell you don’t worry about anything, we will cover this and then they tell you to just push through the drive.”

Rainey did what she could to make the trip go smoothly: She configured a small table to extend across her daughter’s car seat, so Harlee could play with the coloring books, markers and Play-Doh bought for the ride. She packed snacks and a cooler full of drinks. Since Harlee was still potty training, she brought extra towels and clothes for accidents. The final step was handing Harlee her Baby Yoda doll once she settled into her car seat. Rainey had sewed a port in the doll’s chest to mirror the one Harlee has in hers.

About three hours from Memphis, Harlee was crying inconsolably. Rainey pulled off the interstate and stopped at the first hotel she could find. She later learned it had been

described in online reviews as “awful,” a “nightmare,” “disgusting” and “horrible.”

“I didn’t know the area,” she said. “The hotel was garbage.

It just made it worse.”

The drive home also required a hotel stop, but this time Rainey was able to find one that was cleaner. A $100 donation from a local charity helped to offset the cost.

Among the changes St. Jude is making is to reimburse families like Rainey’s, who live more than 400 miles from the hospital, for an overnight stay at a hotel when making the trip to Memphis.

Rainey said she was called by a St. Jude representative after ProPublica asked about her situation and was told the hospital would pay for her past hotel stays when traveling back and forth to St. Jude. The representative, Rainey said, also told her the hospital discovered the way it had been measuring mileage was inaccurate.

“I am not the only one,” Rainey said. “There are others.

They should reimburse all the families.”

The anxiety of unpaid bills piling up, combined with caring for a child undergoing chemotherapy or radiation, takes a severe toll on parents and guardians, said Christopher Hope, a UPS driver who started a Memphis-based foundation after meeting St. Jude parents who were in financial crisis.

Hope’s small charity spent $12,000 last year to help families. Parents in St. Jude social media groups often refer families in need to it. The charity has helped families cover mortgage and car payments.

“I never knew anything about this until hearing about it from families,” Hope said. “All we hear is about kids and treatment, not the other side of it.”

Even parents with stable jobs and private health insurance often take on debt and need outside help.

When Taylr and Treg Murphy’s 17-year-old son Peyton was diagnosed with cancer and needed monthslong treatment at St. Jude in 2017, the entire family — mom, dad, sister and brother — went with him, traveling from their home in Lafayette, Louisiana, to Memphis. Treg took a leave from his job at an oil mining company and Taylr, who works at her mother’s bakery, did the same.

“We knew that it was going to be a collective team effort,” Treg said. “Without even a discussion, we figured that if Peyton’s got to go for the surgery, we’re all going.”

Peyton had an enormous tumor that had grown out of his right femur and was crowding his knee. Rounds of chemotherapy appeared to have killed osteosarcoma cells elsewhere in his body. But he needed to undergo a procedure called limb-sparing surgery that would require weeks of recovery time at the hospital.

The hospital agreed to allow all five family members to stay for free at St. Jude if they bunked together in a single room. It assigned them a spot in Tri Delta Place, its hotel-like short-term patient residence on the campus. Tri Delta is set up for visits of up to seven days, according to the hospital’s guide for volunteers, but the Murphys were there for almost 50.

Taylr said the unit at Tri Delta had no oven or stove and St. Jude provided no grocery money, instead allotting them a

“It’s Not Free”

In addition to charities like Hope’s, St. Jude families have repeatedly turned to fundraising sites and networks of their relatives, friends and neighbors to help cover basic expenses while unable to work during their children’s treatment.

Parents’ requests on fundraising sites are sometimes desperate pleas.

In January 2017, one father in North Carolina said he’d had to abandon a business venture to take time for his son to receive care at St. Jude. His income had plummeted. He asked friends to give as little as $10 to “at least make it possible to survive.”

This year, a mother in Memphis whose 1-year-old son receives care at St. Jude for sickle cell disorder ran out of medical leave and couldn’t work her shifts at a clothing distribution center. After the child had a flare up in July requiring several days of treatment at the hospital, she said she returned home to find her power shut off. Sitting in a dark apartment, unable to pay her utility bills, she set up a GoFundMe campaign. She received less than $20 through the site; her relatives eventually pooled $350 to get her electricity restored.

$50-per-day credit at the hospital cafeteria, Kay Kafe — not enough to feed the family of five. As the weeks wore on, the Murphys split grilled cheese sandwiches and paid for food out of pocket.

After ProPublica asked about the hospital’s food allowances, St. Jude said it would increase them as part of the changes scheduled to go into effect this month. The hospital switched from a $50-a-day cap per family to providing $25 a day to each family member. For a family of four, that would double the food benefit. A weekly stipend given to families in long-term housing was increased to $150 from $125.

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nancial hole as Peyton’s treatment went on. Treg’s employer couldn’t pay him during his long absences.

Fearful of being evicted or having their car repossessed, Taylr said she asked a St. Jude social worker for assistance.

The social worker helped her apply for grants from other charities. Taylr said the B+ Foundation paid their rent one month, which ensured they’d have a home to return to.

In the years since his initial treatment, Peyton has gone back to St. Jude repeatedly for exams and surgeries to remove malignant growths in his lungs. Taylr and Treg have missed more work to bring Peyton to Memphis, costing them thousands of dollars more in income.

By the start of this year, Taylr and Treg said they were about $20,000 in debt and panicking. Dustin Poirier, a former UFC champion from their hometown, heard from a friend about Peyton and the family’s financial trouble. He donated $10,000 to them from his personal charity and in May hosted a local fundraiser that collected enough to pay off their credit cards.

St. Jude families sometimes commiserate about money problems with each other, Taylr said, but few are aware of the extent of the hospital’s unspent resources. The Murphys said they didn’t know St. Jude has more than $5 billion in reserve or that it continues to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in surplus donations each year.

“That’s just insane,” Taylr said. “That just blows my mind.

When we first started getting treated, people would be like, ‘Oh, St. Jude covers everything, that’s awesome.’ That’s not how it works. People don’t understand that. I truly didn’t understand before I got into St. Jude.”

Taylr and Treg said the doctors at St. Jude are “amazing” and they’re grateful for their son’s care. But they bristled at the assumption that it was covered by the hospital’s charity. The family’s insurance paid a substantial part of the bills.

“It’s not free,” Taylr said. “My husband works very hard for the insurance we have — and they are billed.” The Murphys pay $12,000 in health insurance premiums each year.

Their struggle continues. Peyton’s cancer has relapsed, and he’s making regular trips with his mom or dad back to St. Jude for chemotherapy. The family is again applying for help from other charities.

Wiped Out Savings

The costs associated with care at St. Jude caused at least one family to stop going to Memphis altogether.

Last winter, Kelly Edwards was excitedly searching through Tulsa real estate listings after years of diligently saving $10,000 for a down payment on a house. She craved a permanent home for herself and the two young brothers she had taken in five years earlier at the behest of a family friend. She hoped to adopt the boys, now 13 and 9, who call her mom.

In February, the older boy, DJ, was lethargic and uninterested in his schoolwork. After several doctor visits, he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia at a Tulsa hospital. The cancer, referred to as ALL, is the most common type among children, with survival rates that exceed 90%.

A day after his diagnosis, DJ and Edwards were driving six

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hours to Memphis for treatment at St. Jude, which is affiliated with the Oklahoma hospital.

The pair stayed for free at an independently operated Ronald McDonald House near St. Jude, and a weekly stipend from the hospital helped to pay for meals — aid that Edwards said was a blessing. DJ had health insurance through the Oklahoma Medicaid program.

But as with the Murphys, lost income soon put Edwards’ family into financial jeopardy. She works as a supervisor for a company that delivers packages for Amazon. After she used up two weeks of paid time off, she stopped getting paychecks. The bills, however, kept coming: rent, car payments, utilities. To that was added the $250 a week she paid a friend to stay with DJ’s younger brother and her two dogs in Tulsa.

Within four months, her house savings were wiped out.

Edwards said she told her St. Jude social worker about her financial woes but got no additional help.

One of Edwards’ adult daughters started a GoFundMe campaign to help, bringing in just over $3,000. Edwards said she appreciated the aid but believes donations were kept low by the widespread perception that St. Jude families don’t have financial problems.

“Everyone hears that everything is taken care of by St. Jude,” she said. “That is not true, but everyone has that mentality.” She said someone she knew asked her “what is that money going for if St. Jude’s is paying for everything?”

DJ was scheduled to go back to St. Jude for three weeks of treatment in August, but Edwards decided she simply couldn’t afford it. “I don’t have the money to go back and forth,” she said. She worked with DJ’s local doctors and found that the hospital near her home in Tulsa could provide the same treatment he was scheduled to get in Tennessee.

The local treatment allowed her to continue working some shifts and to be at home with both of her boys. DJ is also happier when he is home, Edwards said.

Edwards and the boys are now living in a small house her brother owns just outside Tulsa. Late on a recent weekday afternoon, DJ slowly shuffled into the living room, exhausted from a day of chemotherapy treatment.

He is in the midst of a 20-week regimen where he receives the cancer-killing drugs every other day, just one phase of a nearly three-year treatment plan. He wore an orange knit hat, T-shirt and shorts. He rubbed his eyes before asking a visitor, “How is your day going?” He smiled at the positive response. When he heard the family was eating steak for dinner, he eagerly jumped up to start helping in the kitchen.

After they moved in, Edwards hung family portraits on the walls to make it feel homier. She doesn’t expect they will be moving again any time soon.

The dream of buying a home of their own is gone. Y ProPublica is continuing to report on the finances, fundraising and operations of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Do you know something about this charity? Please reach out to journalists David Armstrong, who can be contacted by phone or Signal at 917-455-1713, or Ryan Gabrielson, who can be contacted by phone or Signal at 718-710-9494.

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Bonefish Mac’s Sports Grill. AMERICAN Bar food and wide array

of televised sports games with a game room for kids. 2002 E Sample Road, 954-781-6227 $

Cap’s Place. SEAFOOD Lighthouse Point’s own hidden seafood joint

dating back to prohibition. Take the short boat ride over to the restaurant. 2765 NE 28th Court, 954-941-0418 $$$

Fetta Republic. GREEK Traditional Greek offerings close to home.

2420 N. Federal Highway, 954-933-2394 $-$$ Fish Shack. SEAFOOD This restaurant used to be a “best kept se-

cret.” But now that they have moved into the Shoppes at Beacon Light, word is out. The fish shack keeps it simple, serving fresh fish prepared several ways. There is more to the menu but it is called The Fish Shack.

2460 N. Federal Highway, 954-586-4105 $$

Le Bistro. CONTINENTAL Professional chef, Andy Trousdale serves

up both classics and inventive new dishes at this little neighborhood gem. Fresh and local produce is always used and vegetarian, dairy free and gluten free menu items are available. And here’s a note to the wise; the porcini mushroom soup is worth every calorie. The restaurant also offers cooking classes and wine tasting dinners. 4626 N. Federal Highway, 954-946-9240 $$$

Legends Tavern and Grille. AMERICAN Enjoy gastropub fare including sandwiches, burgers, wings, salads and a huge choice of appetizers. 3128 N Federal Highway, 754-220-8932 The Nauti Dawg Marina Café. AMERICAN Nestled in at the

Lighthouse Point Marina, the Nauti Dawg is a local favorite. Start with the tuna wontons—crispy fried wonton wrappers topped with tuna tartare, seaweed salad, red pepper mayo, wasabi and a hit of sriracha.

You can’t go wrong with the fresh fish sandwich—ask what the catch of the day is. They are a dog-friendly restaurant. 2830 NE 29th Ave. (at the Lighthouse Point Marina), 954-941-0246 $$

Papa’s Raw Bar. SUSHI • SEAFOOD While the fresh food is the real

star, the Keys-inspired decor certainly accounts for part of their charm.

The menu goes way beyond typical raw bar offerings with inventive tacos and sliders. Try the Donoghue — made of lump crab meat with spicy mayo and eel sauce and served with taro chips. And to wash it all down, they have about a zillion craft beer options and a good wine list too.

4610 N. Federal Highway, 754-307-5034 $$-$$$

Rocca Trattoria. ITALIAN A small and intimate neighborhood

place. Watch owner and chef Lucy prepare your favorite dishes in the open kitchen. 2014 E Sample Road, 954-876-1733 $$

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And Fish Kitchen + Bar. SEAFOOD Located at the Marriott Pompano Beach Resort & Spa, enjoy a modern take on fresh seafood. The restaurant has recently been renovated and now sports a contemporary and breezy ambiance. 1200 N. Ocean Blvd., 954-782-0100 $$ The Beach Grille. AMERICAN Delicious eats near the beach with

the capability to order online. 3414 E Atlantic Blvd., 954-946-6000 $

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Beach House. AMERICAN • CRAFT COCKTAILS This is the perfect

place to take out-of-town guests. Snag one of the stadium seating style booths overlooking the Atlantic. Enjoy the casual and relaxed ambiance with a rooftop deck on the second floor. 270 N Pompano Beach Blvd.

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Calypso Restaurant and Raw Bar. CARIBBEAN Since they opened their doors in 1990, Calypso has been a local favorite. This gem of a restaurant is known for its fresh, wild caught fish, Bahamian conch dishes, Jamaican jerk and American favorites all served with an island flair. If you are in search of high-quality ingredients, inventive cooking and a very welcoming staff, head over to Calypso. 460 S. Cypress Road, 954-942-1633 $$ Casareccio Trattoria Italiana. ITALIAN Wow! What a find. This small but impressive Italian eatery is delightful. We can’t really tell you what to try because the menu changes daily. However, we are willing to bet you will fall in love with this place which feels like it just plopped into Pompano straight from the hills of Tuscany. Reservations are highly recommended. Also, call ahead to see what they are serving. 1386 S.Federal Highway, 954-998-3642 $$$-$$$$ Checkers Old Munchen. GERMAN For a traditional German meal,

try the wiener schnitzel — it’s divine — a lightly breaded veal cutlet sautéed in lemon butter and topped with homemade brown gravy. The spaetzle (German noodles) are a real homemade treat and not to be missed — throw a little of that brown gravy on them and they could be a meal unto themselves. As you look around, you can’t help but get the feeling that most of the patrons are returning customers. 2209 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954-785-7565 $$

Chef Dee’s. SUSHI • SEAFOOD A small neighborhood place with plenty of charm. Impressive sushi rolls and a varied menu with something for everyone. 3919 N. Federal Highway., 954-582-4444 $$ Dangerous Minds Brewing Co., BREWERY • ARTISANAL PIZZA

Dangerous Minds is more than just a brewery. This spot at Pompano Citi Centre offers artisanal pizzas made from scratch using double-zero Italian flour. Their specialty is a Scotch egg which is a soft boiled egg wrapped in homemade sausage and then fried until crispy on the outside. But back to the brewery — all the beers are brewed on-site and owners Adam and Andre hale from Germany and England — two countries steeped in beer tradition. 1901 N Federal Highway, 954-6578676 $-$$

Darrel & Oliver’s Cafe Maxx. INTERNATIONAL This restaurant is an anchor of the South Florida fine dining scene. 2601 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954-782-0606 $$$$ Deep Oceanfront Dining & Bar. AMERICAN Beach front dining at the Beachcomber Resort — go for the view. Open for breakfast lunch and dinner. 1200 S. Ocean Blvd. 954-941-7830 $$$ Deccan Spice. INDIAN Take your pick from classic dishes like chicken tikka and all sorts of biryani and curry dishes to some Indo-Chinese twists like crunchy stir-fried noodles. There are plenty of vegetarian options on this menu to choose from too, and of course, many variations on naan — Indian flatbread. 1149 S.Federal Highway, 954-366-1847 $$ Di Farina Pasta Factory & Restaurant. ITALIAN We all know

that fresh cut pasta is superior to the dried variety we have become accustomed to. But making pasta from scratch is a process. But what if

The Foundry. AMERICAN • CONTINENTAL Seating options galore,

from bar seating to lounge seating and old-fashioned casual dining seating. 2781 E. Atlantic Blvd., 754-205-6977 $$

Galuppi’s. AMERICAN What could be more entertaining than watching golfers swing and blimps ascend as you sip a drink at an outdoor bar? 1103 N. Federal Highway, 954-785-0226 $

Gianni’s Italian Restaurant. ITALIAN Enjoy traditional Italian

fare at this family-owned and operated establishment, serving everything from pasta to gourmet specialties like Chicken Gianni’s and fresh seafood. Don’t skip the romaine salad with the blue cheese. Pair your dish with a bottle of wine or cocktail from their full bar. They also offer daily lunch specials Monday – Friday. 1601 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954-942-1733 $$

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Great Indian Grill. INDIAN If you like Indian food, this place should go on your “must-try” list. Everything we sampled (and we ate quite a bit) was packed with tantalizing Indian spices and flavors representing the many different regional styles of Indian cooking.. 2692 E Atlantic Blvd., 954-532-7872 $$ J Mark’s. AMERICAN A relaxing, modern restaurant and bar with food and service to match. 1490 NE 23rd St., 954-782-7000 $$$

Kabuki. JAPANESE • THAI Kabuki offers a full menu of Thai and Japanese entrées plus classic and specialty sushi rolls all in a hip and modern setting. 2515 E Atlantic Blvd., 954-951-6077 $$ Kin Asian Street Food. ASIAN • SUSHI Enjoy everything from inventive takes on ramen soups with pork belly and a jammy egg to original the rice bowls. The small bite options were some of our favorites. We swooned over the shiitake buns, mushrooms with pickled sour mustard, ground peanuts and cilantro all on a steamed rice bun. 143 SW Sixth St., 954-532-4567 $$ La Veranda. ITALIAN Be it drinks from their full bar, a bottle from

the copious wine selection or naturally the Italian food, everything is served perfectly. There is a big selection of pasta, entrées and traditional dishes, with new favorites to be discovered that the wait staff will happily explain. 2121 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954-943-7390 $$$

Legends Tavern and Grille. AMERICAN Enjoy gastropub fare including sandwiches, burgers, wings, salads and a huge choice of appetizers. 10 SW Sixth St.$-$$ Lucky Fish Beach Bar + Grill. AMERICAN It’s places like Lucky’s that make you happy you live in South Florida. This tiki bar by the sea (just south of the pier) offers simple eats, some top-notch people watching all with an ocean view. The menu includes classic snack foods like coconut shrimp and fish dip to tuna poke nachos. You can also order to go for a picnic on the beach. 222 N Pompano Beach Blvd. $ Oceanic. AMERICAN • SEAFOOD Along with stunning ocean views,

the restaurant offers a comprehensive menu with an emphasis on seafood. If you are looking for a standout salad, the watermelon arugula salad with grilled shrimp is a perfect choice. The restaurant boasts dazzling architecture inspired by ocean liners of years past. And with OCTOBER 2021 • pointpubs.com

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Dining Out sweeping views of the Atlantic, dining at Oceanic is almost like a mini stay-cation. 250 N. Pompano Beach Blvd., 954-366-3768

Pho Lavie. VIETNAMESE If you have never had Vietnamese food, you are missing out. This spot will delight you. Everything is so fresh. Go and have some pho (Vietnamese noodle soup), you’ll thank us. 3321 N. Federal Highway, 954-941-4155 $$ Rusty Hook Tavern. AMERICAN Located on the Pompano Intracoastal, sit inside or outside, just keep in mind that the word tavern means a local place to gather around the table. 125 N. Riverside Drive, 954-941-2499 $$ Sands Harbor Patio Restaurant. AMERICAN Located in the Sands Harbor Hotel and Marina on the intracoastal, you can dine poolside or waterside, either way, you better know how to swim. 125 N. Riverside Drive, 954-942-9100 $$ Seaside Grill. SEAFOOD • AMERICAN Enjoy a view of the Atlantic

while enjoying fresh seafood and an iced cold cocktail. Don’t worry if you’re not a fish lover — there are plenty of entrée choices from the land. Located at Lighthouse Cove Resort on the ocean. 1406 N. Ocean Blvd., 954-783-3193 $$

Shishka Lebanese Grill. MIDDLE EASTERN It’s not easy to make a good falafel (chick peas, fava beans garlic and cilantro seasoned and deep fried, served with tahini sauce) but the ones at Shishka are worth every single calorie. 1901 N. Federal Highway, 954-943-2999 $$ Spanx the Hog BBQ. BARBECUE Spanx uses natural ingredients and offers dine in, take out, and custom catering. 147 S. Cypress Road.

954-590-8342 $ Sunset Catch. ITALIAN • SEAFOOD Seafood, steaks and Italian favorites are served daily, and they even have their very own “wine doctor.” 101 N. Riverside Drive, 954-545-0901 $$

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Table 2201. MEDITERRANEAN Everything at Table 2201 is made on the premises — even the desserts. Start with the pygros, a tower of eggplant, potatoes and ground beef topped with a cool yogurt sauce. 2201 E. Atlantic Blvd., 718-600-2236 $$

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named Grandma’s Pizza — you must order it. And trust us, you won’t regret it. There is family tradition baked into every bite. But, we would be remiss if we didn’t mention that Umberto’s offers all the Italian standards. 2780 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954-784-7110 $$

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Valentino’s Italian Cuisine. ITALIAN • PIZZA An abundance of

Italian fare served for lunch or dinner. If you can’t make it over to dine in, fret not, they offer free delivery. 427 S. Federal Highway, 954-5454881 $$

Zuccarelli. ITALIAN • PIZZA This place is more than just a pizza joint.

From eggplant Parmesan to shrimp fra diavolo, you will leave quite satisfied. The portions are generous and come with a fresh house salad.

Bring your breath mints because their warm garlic rolls are on point.

1340 N. Federal Highway, 954-941-1261 $

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Baja Cafe. MEXICAN A long established local favorite for an authentic Mexican dinner or just drinks. They are known for their margarita’s as well as entrées including their bandito honey bean burritos and their many taco options. You’ll also enjoy their fresh endless chips served with two types of salsa. 1310 S. Federal Highway, 954-596-1304 $$ Barracuda Seafood Bar & Grill. SEAFOOD • BRAZILIAN This spot by the sea serves seafood with a touch of Brazilian flare. 1965 NE Second St., 954-531-1290 $$

SNOW TIME Café Med. ITALIAN Authentic Italian restaurant right on the ocean with an Italian chef from Rome. Excellent service, coupled with carefully prepared dishes just across from the ocean always provides for a lovely dinner. Live music nightly. Breakfast and dinner available daily. 2096 NE Second St. (at the Wyndham Hotel), 954-596-5840 $$$

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Casa Maya. MEXICAN Start with a margarita and it only gets bet-

ter from there. This is not your typical Mexican joint — it’s better. Try gobernador tacos: a combination of shrimp with diced poblanos, onions, tomatoes and cilantro on a crispy corn tortilla topped with melted cheese. See, we told you it’s not ordinary. 301 SE 15th Terrace, 954-5706101 $$

Deer Creek Grille. AMERICAN Enjoy the club atmosphere with gor-

geous views of the plush gardens and waterfall. The restaurant offers daily lunch and dinner specials, a Sunday breakfast buffet and covered patio dining so you can dine al fresco. 2801 Deer Creek Country Club Blvd., 954-421-5553 $$

Le Val de Loire Restaurant. FRENCH • STEAKHOUSE The menu

at this cozy bistro includes many of the classics. So next time you crave sole meunière, filet mignon au poivre or beef bourguignon, you don’t have to go any further than the Cove. The steakhouse menu includes a New York strip and a rib eye, among other cuts. Yet, Le Val de Loire is a French restaurant, so they offer three sauces with the steaks — including a mushroom cream sauce. Classic steakhouse-sides like creamed spinach are also available. 1576 SE Third Court, 954-427-5354 $$$

Little Havana. CUBAN Little Havana has fantastic lunch specials

and most of their dinner plates will feed two. Their masas de puerco frita and their Little Havana steak are two of the stand-out menu items.

721 N. Federal Highway, 954-427-6000 $$

Patio Bar & Grill. CONTINENTAL Enjoy cocktails just feet from the

sandy beaches of Deerfield. This casual spot at the Wyndham serves casual fare. You can stick to the classics like wings or a shrimp cocktail. Or be more adventurous and enjoy an order of volcano spring rolls stuffed with crab and served with sriracha mayo and wakame slaw. They also serve a wide variety of burgers and plenty of fresh salads and savory entrees. There is often live music contributing to the energetic vibe of this spot on the beach. 2096 NE Second St., (at the Wyndham Deerfield Beach Resort) 954-596-8618 $$

Taj. INDIAN This unassuming eatery in the Cove Shopping center has been quietly chugging along for years. The restaurant serves various Indian favorites, including tandoori breads, biryani, lamb specialties, and plenty of vegetarian options. 201 SE 15th Terrace, 954-427-0423 $$

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around. There is outdoor patio seating available and a large U-shaped bar inside. 1015 S. Federal Highway, 954-708-2775 $$

Whales’ Rib. SEAFOOD Locals know it well and tourists know it from

“Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.” Whatever you do, don’t skip the whale fries. 2031 NE Second St., 954-421-8880 $$

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Burger Fi. BURGERS Everything at Burger Fi is cooked to order. Don’t miss the fries and the larger-than-life onion rings. 3150 N. Federal Highway, 954-933-7120 $ Legends Tavern and Grille. AMERICAN With three locations,

they must be doing something right. 3128 N Federal Highway, 754-2208932 $-$$

Red Fox Diner. DINER Treat yourself to one of the daily specials at the Red Fox and you just might be able to skip dinner. But if you are in the mood for some comforting diner food, Red Fox never disappoints.

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Anne Marie’s Pizza and Wine Co. ITALIAN Enjoy a cheesy slice

of New York style pizza, bruschetta or classic chicken Francese. 2313 N. Federal Highway, Pompano Beach 954-590-2100. $-$$

Bakery Fusion. Cafe Bakery This spot at Pompano Citi Centre is a

handy spot to grab a coffee and a fresh-baked good. The menu also includes many different sandwiches, soups, salads and smoothies. You can also find fresh bread such as baguettes, ciabatta and other daily selections. There is also a wide selection of coffee drinks, from cappuccino to an affogato (espresso with vanilla ice cream). 1901 N. Federal Highway (Pompano Citi Centre), 954-532-7383 $

Cannoli Kitchen. ITALIAN , The Cannoli Kitchen, has been a sta-

ple for fast-casual Italian fare in Boca Raton since 1996. Now, lucky for the folks in Pompano, they are open at a new location in the Pompano Beach Fishing Village. Their offerings go way beyond just pizza — try one of their many pasta dishes, calzones, subs, stromboli and other Italian classics like shrimp fra diabolo, chicken or veal marsala, and so many more. And of course, finish your meal with homemade cannoli. If you’re having a party or family gathering, the Cannoli Kitchen is a great option to cater your affair. 255 N. Pompano Beach Blvd., 954-737-3737 $$

Carlucci’s Brick Oven Trattoria & Pizzeria. ITALIAN Italian

favorites and brick oven pizza at the beach. Open lunch and dinner Monday-Thursday 11am-10pm, Friday-Saturday 11am-11pm, Sunday 1210pm. 3420 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954-946-3150 $$

Jet’s Pizza. PIZZA Try one of the specialty pizzas such as Philly

cheese steak with Alfredo sauce or the BLT. 437 E. Atlantic Blvd., 954782-5387 $

Little Italian. PIZZA Little Italian Pizza is the best kind of Italian

restaurant — the kind that feels like a hole-in-the-wall, but quickly grows vibrant as the large, steaming plates of homestyle Italian dishes come barreling out of the kitchen. The restaurant has a huge menu with stromboli, calzone, soups, salads, subs, 26 kinds of specialty pizzas, baked pasta dishes, chicken and veal entrées and all your traditional pasta dishes and desserts. 448 S. Cypress Road, 954-941-0550 $-$$

Mini Pita. MEDITERRANEAN The comprehensive menu includes plenty of salads, pita melts, sandwiches, gyros, shawarma, kebabs, falafel and a choice of entrees that includes lamb chops and mousaka.

2555 E Atlantic Blvd. 954-532-9595 $$ Nelson’s Diner. DINER Nelson’s diner, which was just purchased by

the owners of Galuppi’s, is a cute, hole-in-the-wall 50s diner with Elvis memorabilia on the walls, baseball flags on the ceiling, friendly servers and classic red vinyl booths. 438 S Cypress Road, 954-785-3646 $

Snow Time. This spot for treats features bubble tea (boba) in about a zillion flavors. If you are looking for a something new, different and delicious, get thee some bubble tea. Other sweet treats available are paper thin shaven ice cream and authentic Asian snacks. 2482 N. Federal Highway in the Shoppes at Beacon Light, 954-59-6269 $

The Chicken Box & More. • SOUTHERN This small spot with just

a couple of tables serves breakfast, lunch and dinner and does a robust take-out business. The shrimp and grits with scrambled eggs are a top-notch breakfast or a perfect “breakfast-for-dinner” option. The greens were stellar — they were juicy and perfectly seasoned with bits of pork supplying a pleasing heft. And who doesn’t love a marvelous fried chicken wing? 204 N Flagler Avenue, 954-781-7400

The Poké Company. • POKÉ If you haven’t tried a poke bowl, now

is your big chance. Build your own bowl by choosing a base of rice or greens, then add a protein such as ahi tuna or steamed shrimp, then go to town with the mix-ins and sauces. Then top your bowl with everything from pickled ginger to tempura flakes. There are an infinite amount of choices. If bowls aren’t your thing, you can build your own poké burrito. 1154 N. Federal Highway, 754-220-8933

Tortillería Mexicana. MEXICAN Looking for a taco that goes beyond ground beef and toppings? Not only will they supply you with fresh, unique tacos, but the corn tortillas are made from scratch daily.

Who does that? 1614 E. Sample Rd., 954-943-0057 $ 94 pointpubs.com •

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DEERFIELD BEACH Fast & Casual Biondo’s Pizza. PIZZA • SUBS Dine-in or take-out available. For

something other than pizza, try the stromboli or the wings. 606 S. Federal Highway, 954-427-7754 $-$$

Bob’s Pizza. PIZZA • ITALIAN Pizza served remarkably close to the Beach — as if pizza could be get any better. 2076 NE Second St., 954426-1030 $ Burger Craze. BURGERS Top quality ingredients come together to

create unique taste sensations. Enjoy juicy burgers, hot dogs, wings and more. 2096 NE Second St. (at the Wyndham Hotel), 954-596- 5949 $-$$

Charlie’s Fish Fry. SEAFOOD Hey, it’s not quite Martha’s Vineyard but Charlies is a great spot to satisfy a craving for fish and chips. There are plenty of other options — it’s almost like a quick trip to a New England clam bar — almost. 1200 E. Hillsboro Blvd., 954-573-7198 $$ Charm City. BURGERS Try the emperor — an American kobe beef

patty with aged Swiss, truffled aioli and sautéed mushrooms — a burger fit for a king. 1136 E. Hillsboro Blvd., 954-531-0300 $$

El Jefe. MEXICAN For a truly inventive take on Mexican street food, this small yet bright and cheery taco joint is full of surprises. 27 N. Federal Highway, 954-246-5333 $ Gelateria. GELATO Offering more than 26 flavors of gelato. Open daily. 2096 NE Second St. (at the Wyndham Hotel), 694-428-2850 $

Michael’s Pizzeria. PIZZA Closed Mondays 1645 SE Third Court,

Deerfield Beach, 954-426-1515 $

Nick’s Pizza. PIZZA Nick’s family moved from the Bronx to Deerfield Beach 13 years ago and opened Nick’s Pizza. The restaurant offers an extensive Italian catering menu, delivery and New York Style pizza. 137 NE Second Ave., 954-421-6700. $-$$ The Pickle Barrel. DELICATESSEN Get in touch with your inner New Yorker at this old style deli complete with friendly guys behind the counter filling your sandwich with enough pastrami to feed a family. 33 E. Hillsboro Blvd., 954-427-0650 $ Olympia Flame. DINER With a traditionally huge diner menu, you

can’t go wrong at the Olympia Flame. For a real treat, try the turkey pot pie. The friendly staff makes you feel like a regular — even if you aren’t — but you should be. 80 S. Federal Highway, 954-480-8402 $

Pizza Piez. ITALIAN Yes, they have pizza plus salads, chicken tenders and more. 614 SE 10th St., 754-212-2396 $

The Sticky Bun. DELI • BAKERY • Brunch Everyone will find some-

thing to munch on, whether it be their flourless chocolate cake or a short rib panini with fontina cheese and pickled red onions… yum.

We’re still dreaming about the BLT. 1619 SE Third Court, 754-212-5569 $

Tropical Grill Island Cuisine. CARIBBEAN Don’t be fooled by the counter service at this beachside eatery where the offerings range from escovitch snapper to shrimp curry. Grab a table outside for people watching. Meal prices range from $11-$25. 241 N. Ocean Drive, 754-2275055. $$ Umberto’s. PIZZA Family tradition baked into every bite. Try Grand-

ma’s pizza, square pizza with fresh tomato and basil and of course, mozzarella. 233 N. 21st Ave., 954-421-7200 $-$$

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