HURRICANE SEASON - 2013! Do you have a plan for the next six months?
Top emergency managers from Hallandale Beach, Broward County, the National Weather Service, the U.S. Small Business Administration, FPL and others offered sage advice to a large gathering of residents and visitors at the City of Hallandale Beach’s 2013 Hurricane Preparedness Forum Monday night at the Community Cultural Center. The event was a huge success in part to the City partnerships with a variety of businesses, including Simply Healthcare, Restoration USA, The Home Depot, Costco, WellCare, Memorial Hospital Healthcare System, Mount Sinai Emergency Room, the law firm of Katzman, Garfinkel & Berger and the Hallandale High School Key Club. Meeting to get advice at the forum are, from left, Hallandale Beach Fire Chief and EOC Director Daniel Sullivan, Sydney Sandoval of Restoration USA, residents Barbara Southwick and Sheila Meyerson and Fire Department Citizens Corps Volunteer Leo Grachow. (Photo Courtesy City of Hallandale Beach Public Relations)
Whole Body Cryotherapy is introduced to South Florida AVENTURA - It is not unusual to see NFL & NBA players in the waiting room of Ice Cryotherapy in Aventura. Especially during off-season athletic training, they are there for their 2.5 to 3 minute session in the Cryogenic chamber. They know that just those few minutes in the hypercooled chamber can calm their inflamed muscles and joints to help prepare their bodies for the grueling NFL & NBA schedules. This is their newest and best alternative for pain relief that avoids painful analgesic injections. Cryotherapy, which is intense hypothermia, can best be described as the application of extreme cold to quiet the nervous system, lessen the inflammatory process, and reduce pain. The attraction to Ice Cryotherapy is the recent installation of a Whole Body Cryotherapy sauna, the first of its kind in South Florida. Over the next few decades, research focused on developing the safe delivery of potentially harmful hypothermia in a cryo-chamber to the largest amount of skin in the shortest amount of time without damaging delicate skin tissue. That led to the development of the Whole Body Cryotherapy sauna. Dr. Abraham Wagner DPM, who currently practices in Aventura, treats his patients with WBC for multiple lower extremity injuries and conditions. “The way WBC works,” he says, “is by subjecting the outer layer of skin to extreme cold for 2 to 3 minutes the thermoreceptors in our peripheral nervous system trigger a sympathetic/ parasympathetic response that immediately reduces inflammation, creates a dramatic vasoconstriction followed by vasodilation, and activates various hormones and enzymes that result in pain relief.” Dr. Abraham Wagner. DPM, is a foot and ankle specialist in Aventura, works at Arthritis & Rheumatic Disease Specialties. Ice Cryotherapy practice is located at 18205 Biscayne Boulevard, Suite 2214, Aventura, FL, in the same plaza as Fresh Market and around the corner from Starbucks. To schedule an appointment, call 305-932-2202. For additional information on Whole Body Cryotherapy, visit the website icecryotherapy.com or google : whole body cryotherapy Aventura.
KODNER GALLERIES - DANIA Kodner Galleries has become a 4th generation auction business with over 90 years of experience in buying, selling, appraising and consigning for sale antiques, fine household contents, works of art and diamonds. For more, see Page 2A.
It’s the one column each year that has become a ritual. One that you never enjoy writing, but something that has to be conveyed to those in our region. This weekend will signal yet another hurricane season. Six months of nail-biting, weather-watching and the reality that just one storm – no matter how big or strong it may be - could really changes lives. With the way the 2012 season came to an end with Super Storm Sandy ripping into the northeast with a winter/late fall storm, this isn’t something that only Floridians and others along the Gulf Coast and Atlantic Seaboard has to deal with.
This is the time of year when we put the generators to the test, hoping that if we do lose power and the storm does extensive damage, we will be ready. The one thing that I can never, ever preach enough is to be ready. I could care less if you’ve heard it over and over again – and we are stuck with water, canned goods and other essentials after the season is over. You think your com-
plaints will be heard in places such as Moore, Oklahoma, which saw their world get turned upside down by a violent EF-5 tornado, which accompanies just about every hurricane? It is always about being prepared, never ignore a warning, and when you are told to board up and secure home and property, it isn’t a mere suggestion. This is serious business, and local –––––––––––––––––––––– BLUSTEIN, Page 5A
DINING OUT IN HALLANDALE BEACH
GAMAROFF’S GRILL & BAR
• Serving up great food for great prices along with music for every taste By Suzanne Wallace Sun Times There are lots of reasons why you should check out Gamaroff’s Grill & Bar. The hard part is deciding which night or time of the day is best because there is so much going on at Hallandale Beach’s premiere restaurant and night spot. Gamaroff’s opened their doors 1 ½ years ago, but it didn’t take long for word to get out about the great food, daily specials, reasonable prices and terrific entertainment including HAPPY HOUR – 2 FOR 1, from opening ‘till 7:00 PM. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– GAMAROF’S, Page 3A
CITY OF HALLANDALE BEACH While Memorial Day was being observed across the country this past Monday, Hallandale Beach had its own annual event at Hallandale Beach Cemetery as well as at Foster Park. The City encourages its residents to get involved in all activities. Page 4B.
NANDO RESTAURANT Nando Restaurant and Piano Bar is a South Florida favorite! Fourteen years at the 2500 E. Hallandale Beach Blvd. location tells you something. They are certainly doing things the right way. For more, see 1B.