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TABLE OF CONTENTS PUBLISHER’S PAGE 10 Black History is American History CALENDAR 12, 14 February 2022 COMMUNITY NEWS 16 Raise Your Right Paw and Bark After Me Hollywood PD Newest Member Sworn In 18 Run, Don’t Walk to the 13th Annual ANF Group Tour de Broward 22 Don’t Let Them Slither Away: Python Elimination Program Accepting New Participants 24 JDCH Patients Were Able to Grin and Bear it During the Holidays! 26 Explore Alice’s Magical Adventures “Through the Looking GLASS” 28 Wreaths Across America’s Mobile Education Exhibit is coming to South Florida to Honor Veterans and Supporters INSIPIRING INDIVIDUALS 20 The New Terminal 2 Art Gallery Features Local Artist

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Celebrating 47 years, THIRD WORLD is one of the longest-lived Reggae bands of all time, and one of Jamaica’s most consistently popular crossover acts among international audiences. Mixing in elements of R&B, funk, pop, and rock and, later on, dancehall and rap, Third World’s style has been described as “reggae-fusion”. The group is holding firm to the cultural and ancestral roots of its members and still pushes forward the cutting edge of music worldwide. 7:00pm - 10:00pm. Concert is FREE. For more info call 305-672-5202.

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The Friends of T. Y. Park is presenting a free Salsa and Latin Jazz concert featuring the band, Cachi y Saoco Nuevo from 4:00-6:00 pm at T. Y. Park, Pavilion 12. Food truck on site for the event. T.Y. Park - Pavilion 12, 3300 North Park Road. For more info visit www.hollywoodfl.org.

Mardi Gras returns to Downtown Hollywood!. This family-friendly event will feature a walking krewe processional, live music, artisan vendors, children’s activities, and more. Noon till 8:00 pm in downtown Hollywood. Let the good times roll! For more info visit www.hollywoodfl.org.

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accomplishments of local artistic leaders by presenting several Special Awards. Over the last 45 years, the Carbonell family has donated more than $250,000 in awards. The scholarship is named for Jack Zink (1947-2008) who was a major voice in South Florida entertainment coverage for more than three decades. Zink was the founder and a past president of the Carbonell Awards, a past president of The American Theatre Critics Association, and was a recipient of both the Sun-Sentinel’s Fred Pettijohn Award, which is given annually to the newspaper’s top reporters, and South Florida’s prestigious George Abbott Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts. ⊲ Follow the QR code for applications and guidelines for the 2022 Jack Zink Memorial Student Scholarships.

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How Often Do You Hit Solid Shots? By Dean Sklar, PGA Professional

mproving your golf game begins by improving your ball striking, as there’s nothing in golf quite like making pure contact. Once you experience this sensation, you’ll be hooked, trying to repeat it over and over again. Achieving solid contact tends to be difficult for many golfers; it’s what separates the pros and better players from average to higher-handicap golfers. The good news is, if you experiment with the accompanying tips and drills, you can learn how to hit solid and pure golf shots more often. Hands forward upon impact – As you strike the golf ball, the grip end of the club needs to be leading the hands and club head through the hitting area (a mandatory ingredient for hitting solid iron shots). This move causes the club head to compress the ball into the ground, which helps make your divot after the ball, not before. Correct posture – The second key to achieving solid contact is having correct posture throughout the swing, as this allows you to swing the club on the proper plane. The majority of golfers who struggle with making solid contact lose their posture as the club head connects with the ball. This leads to many miss-hits; fat and thin shots, hooks, slices and chunks. It is essential that you keep your posture, just as it is at address, throughout the swing. Control the Clubface – The final ingredient for solid ball striking is controlling the clubface through impact. In other words, the face of your club must be square when it contacts the ball. Most golfers have the face of the club too open at impact, which leads to miss-hits that cause loss of power and distance. The clubface should rotate from open (prior to impact) to square (at impact) to slightly closed (after impact). The timing of this face rotation is what separates good ball strikers from not-sogood ball strikers. Proper practice will improve this timing. Here are a few practice drills to try: Golf Ball drill – By placing an extra golf ball behind your ball (12 to 14 inches behind the target line), you will learn to strike the ball with a descending blow and have your hands leading the club head through the hitting area. If you use a scooping motion (hitting the ground

before you make contact with the ball), you won’t be able to strike your ball without first hitting the extra ball. Posture drill – Controlling your posture throughout the swing is something that all good players do, and most amateur players don’t. When the clubface strikes the ball, you must return to the same posture that you had at address. Practice by facing a mirror and taking a half backswing, then swing the club down to the ball, and stop. You should return to your address position. Keep repeating this motion until it starts to feel natural. On the range, run through this drill before you hit each practice shot. Release the Clubface drill – Put a band-aid

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on the back of your left wrist. On your down swing, turn your left hand over, so the bandaid is pointing down toward the ground as you swing the club head through the hitting area. On your practice swings, do this slowly, so you experience the feel of the club head turning over upon impact. When hitting balls, try to just let this motion happen, and after a while it will become automatic.

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MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR

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Hollywood Residents, The spring season is already underway and soon it will be summertime. Lots of work is happening at city hall, as always. From our community policing initiatives to neighborhood improvements, sidewalk, bicycling, and water infrastructure improvements, to ushering in smart growth and sustainable development, and investing in parks and recreation, our municipal staff is working on delivering an ever-growing list of projects. More on those initiatives can be found on the city website and in the city’s various publications that are delivered to residents by mail, email, and through the city’s social media channels. For this edition of Our City - Hollywood, I’d like to highlight a special achievement that is meaningful to our city in a more human way. In January of this year, we achieved a score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index. The MEI examines how inclusive municipal laws, policies, and services are of LGBTQ+ people who live and work there. Cities are rated based on non-discrimination laws, the municipality as an employer, municipal services, law enforcement, and leadership on LGBTQ+ equality. We are proud of achieving a score of 100 for the first time, especially since when we were initially approached by the leaders of the then newly formed Hollywood LGBTQ+ Council in 2019, our city’s MEI score was found to be only a 49 out of 100. In the years since, the score increased to a 70, then 83 and now to 100. To achieve this, our city’s management team studied the factors that weigh into the MEI score and worked to make a number of improvements that ensure an inclusive workplace, including revision the city’s HR policies to specifically address non-discrimination based on sexual orientation in the hiring process, better defining domestic partner and transgender health insurance benefits, providing annual anti-harassment and discrimination training that includes lessons on LGBTQ inclusivity, and reporting any hate crimes statistics to the FBI. The city’s elected leadership also contributed to the MEI score, by demonstrating our public support of LGBTQ equality through the issuance of a now annual Proclamation in Recognition of Pride Month, the purpose of which is to commemorate and recognize the impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals have had on history locally, nationally and internationally. Last, I’d like to note the participation of the Hollywood’s LGBTQ community on the city’s advisory boards. One such advisory board member is Todd Delmay, who is also President of the Hollywood LGBTQ+ Council and whom I commend for his leadership of our city’s efforts in all things LGBTQ. To learn more about the Hollywood LGBTQ+ Council, visit www.lgbtqcouncil.com. Congratulations and thank you to all the LGBTQ+ Council members who are helping to ensure that everyone and anyone feels welcome to live, work, learn, invest and visit in our City of Hollywood.

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