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Superstar Power Couple David and Tamela Mann Come to Dania Beach Concert And Show Benefits The Embrace Girls Foundation
Assisting Homebound Seniors With COVID-19 Vaccinations
Grammy® Award-Winning Recording Artist Tamela Mann along with her husband David Mann, co-stars of Tyler Perry’s hit television show, Meet the Browns The Casino @ Dania Beach announced Grammy® AwardWinning Recording Artist Tamela Mann along with her husband David Mann, co-stars of Tyler Perry’s hit television show, Meet the Browns, are coming to Stage 954 for “An Intimate Evening with David and Tamela Mann” on Sunday, August 8 at 7 p.m. The special, one-night only performance will benefit the Embrace Girls Foundation, a non-profit that provides uplifting, girl-centric programming for hundreds of girls in public and private elementary and middle schools in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. Far from a traditional concert, the Mann’s will step off the stage and mingle with audience members at their tables, take photos, answer personal questions, and socialize all for a great cause. “The Casino @ Dania Beach is proud to ‘man up’ for a good cause and we are thrilled to be hosting David and Tamela Mann at Stage 954 for what promises to be an unforgettable evening,” said Joe Eshkenazi, Senior Entertainment & Events Manager at The Casino @ Dania Beach. “The Jeffrey Osbourne benefit Dania Beach, Page 4A
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WHO IS TO BLAME For Collapse Of Champlain Towers, Surfside From A Real Estate Perspective? By Local Realtor Ricardo Wolf
The South Florida market is unique, desirable and increasingly expensive. Why have some of our small beach communities and charming coastal cities deviated so aggressively from previous long term ambitions? In order to understand the motivation behind the high-rise, high density and high-priced displays of modern architecture, one must examine previous CDMPs, or Comprehensive Development Master Plans. On Thursday, June 24th, the Champlain Condo Tower South, in the small beach community of Surfside Florida, had collapsed. As someone who grew up in coastal Miami-Dade since the mid-seventies, this news reawakened feelings of sadness not
experienced since September 11th and a certain deja-vu. But, unlike September 11th, after weeks of search and rescue efforts, an unwavering commitment by the world’s leading disaster response teams and implementation of immense resources, machinery and technology, we are still clueless in determining how this could have ever happened. This severe structural failure causing a building to pancake to the ground, similar to a professionally executed controlled blast, has never happened before in this country. The Champlain towers are also not decrepit forty-year-old buildings; these are staple, luxury properties, very well maintained that marked a new era in luxury
Still Divided & Locked Down “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.” — Abraham Lincoln History has a funny way of circling back on itself. The facts, figures, faces and technology may change from era to era, but the dangers remain the same. This year is no different, whatever the politicians and
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On Thursday, June 24th, the Champlain Condo Tower South, in the small beach community of Surfside Florida, had collapsed
The State of Our Nation By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead
condo construction in South Florida. The City of Surfside is an unlikely candidate when it comes to lack of vigilance or enforcement by the city, county or state authorities, primarily because of Surfside’s size, density and relative wealth. Surfside is a tiny beach community that sits between Miami Beach and Bal Harbour on the Atlantic Ocean, consisting of just 361 acres of land and under 6,000 residents. The community is made up primarily of singlefamily homes, with commercial and retail standing just west of the beaches and a strip of hotels and condos along A1A and the beach. The city was chartered in 1935, with the signatures of 35
The Department of Elder Affairs (DOEA) ‘We Will Meet You at Home’ campaign is designed to ensure every older adult who wants a shot receives a shot. This initiative builds upon other programs launched throughout the state to provide homebound seniors access to COVID-19 Vaccinations. While many of Florida’s older residents have received a COVID-19 Vaccination, not every senior is able to leave their home. In these cases, the Florida Department of Elder Affairs and the state’s 11 Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) are offering seniors access to transportation to go and receive a vaccine. Elders also have the option of having a health care worker bring the vaccine to their front door. “From the very beginning, Governor DeSantis focused Florida’s vaccination efforts on protecting seniors,” said DOEA Secretary Richard Prudom. “This targeted initiative is an important push to make sure Florida’s homebound individuals have the same opportunity for a vaccination as mobile residents. We’re doing everything possible to ensure every homebound senior has access to a vaccination.” DOEA’s statewide initiative is distributing over 175,000 informational flyers to older homebound adults requesting more information about vaccines or
talking heads may say to the contrary. Sure, there’s a new guy in charge, but for the most part, we’re still recycling the same news stories that have kept us with one eye warily glued to the news for the past 100-odd years: War. Corruption. Brutality. Economic instability. Partisan politics. Militarism. Disease. Hunger. Greed. Violence. Poverty. Ignorance. Hatred. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Brush up on your history and you’ll find that we’ve been stuck on repeat for some time now.
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Take the United States of America in the year 2021, which is not so far different from the United States of America during the Civil Rights era, or the Cold War era, or even the Depression era. Go far enough afield, and you’ll find aspects of our troubled history mirrored in the totalitarianism of Nazi Germany, in the fascism of Mussolini’s Italy, and further back in the militarism of the Roman Empire. We’re like TV weatherman Phil Connors in Harold Ramis’ classic 1993 comedy Groundhog Day, forced to live the same day over
“We’re like TV weatherman Phil Connors in Harold Ramis’ classic 1993 comedy Groundhog Day, forced to live the same day over and over again.” John W. Whitehead
and over again. Here in the American police state, however, we continue to wake up, hoping each new day, new president and new year will somehow be different from what has come before. Unfortunately, no matter how
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we change the narrative, change the characters, change the plot lines, we seem to keep ending up in the same place that we started: enslaved, divided and repeating the mistakes of the Locked Down, Page 8A
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