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Hollywood Gets A Community Shuttle Program

The proposed Community Shuttle Program will operate 7-days per week for approxi mately 8-10 hours per day and be free of charge for riders

The Hollywood City Commission is set to consider a new Community Shuttle Program. The public is invited to attend the Regular City Commission Meeting on Wednesday November 2nd at 1:00 p.m. at City Hall, 2600 Hollywood Boulevard, Room 219.

At the meeting an Agenda Item will be presented to intro duce a new Fixed Route Community Shuttle Program in part nership with Broward County Transit Division. The shuttle pro gram will be funded by Broward County and provided at no cost to residents. The live broadcast of the meeting can be viewed on the City’s Government Access Channel, Comcast Channel 78, ATT U-Verse Channel 99, and on the City’s website. Those wishing to make an in-person public comment must submit a com ment card with the City Clerk at the meeting, prior to the start of the item discussion.

Funding & Routes

The City of Hollywood has obtained funding as part of the FY2021 Broward County Community Shuttle Program (CSP) Transportation Surtax Funding Process. The proposed service will augment existing public Shuttle Program, Page 6A

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Six Ways To Stretch Your Medicare Dollars

By Bruno Piquin, President CarePlus Health Plans

If you’re eligible for Medicare, selecting a 2023 Medicare plan that helps you maximize your healthcare dollars is especially important during the current eco nomically challenging times.

The good news is that it is possible to stretch your health care dollars by finding a Medicare Advantage plan that offers extra benefits and serv ices. According to the Better Medicare Alliance, members of

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plans reported saving nearly $2,000 a year, while experiencing better health outcomes. And the time to shop is now. During Medicare’s Annual Enrollment Period from Oct. 15 to Dec. 7, people eligible for Medicare select a plan for coverage taking effect Jan. 1, 2023.

If you want to save money and still get quality healthcare, consider these options when shopping for your 2023 Medicare

Advantage plan: Plans that put money back in your pocket – Did you know you may be able to add money to your Social Security check by selecting a Medicare plan that offers a premium giveback? You can also save money on select over-the-counter products, such as cold medicines, if the plan offers a monthly allowance.

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A Message From The Mayor

Developing A Parks & Recreation Master Plan For Sunny Isles Beach

The long-ranging document will develop a comprehensive park system plan that defines the direction, development, and delivery of the city’s parks and recreation services

www.sibfl.net - The City is embark ing on an exciting journey to revamp and revitalize our parks and recreation programs, serv ices and offerings. Our Cultural and Community Services (CCS) department is managing and aid ing in the development of a Parks and Recreation Master Plan. What will the master plan entail? The long-ranging planning document will develop a com prehensive park system plan that defines the direction, devel opment, and delivery of the city’s parks and recreation services over the next 10 years. We intend the plan to have a profound impact on Sunny Isles Beach residents and their future parks and recreation system. The pur pose is to provide the oppor tunity to reimagine the vision and goals of the CCS department while establishing a shared set of community needs and priorities. Ultimately, we will build a foun dation with a focused direction for the development and delivery of parks, recreation, and com munity services.

Our parks are the cornerstone of the Sunny Isles Beach com munity. We have 11 parks within

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The multi-faceted event begins as the storied horseman embarks on a journey to find his missing head with a canter into the Village. All guests are encour aged to catch a glimpse of the Headless Horseman at 7 p.m., rearing his horse as he enters a spooky fog-filled entrance at the Gulfstream Park Walking Ring before haunting guests at the start of the evening.

After spotting the Headless Horseman, keep an eye out for a series of flash mobs. These hidden-in-plain-sight performers will transform themselves into a dancing mob of ghoulish trick sters throughout the night, between 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. Their performances will be splashed against a backdrop of laser lights and fog machines to set the per fect stage.

From 6:30-8 p.m., Gulfstream Park Village will feature spook tacular themed candy stations through the Village, a safe alter native to neighborhood trick-ortreating. With approximately 2,000 pounds of candy, each station also features music, lights, and live strolling perform ers. The ‘Carn-Evil Performers’ will spook and delight near each candy station, with themes including The Nightmare Before Christmas, Creepy Carnevil Circus, Zombies, Mummies, Vampires, and scary creatures from Stranger Things—like Vecna and a Demogorgon!

Beginning at 8:15 p.m. in the Gulfstream Park Walking Ring is the highly anticipated Evil Costume Contest with up to $4,000 in cash up for grabs. Guests can also enjoy a selec tion of food trucks including Cuban Guys, Pollo Tropical and La Nostra Pizza, and bars with refreshments for purchase as well as music, performers and Miami’s very own Chris Cruz as the evening’s emcee and DJ.

“We are excited to present our reimagined Halloween event, Sleepy Hollow Halloween,” said Alex Schreer, Director of Experiential Marketing for Madison Marquette, the management company for Gulfstream Park Village. “This event is guaranteed to bring plenty of thrills, chills and ghoulish fun to all who

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The event takes place on Saturday, October 29 and is free and open to the public. For more information, please visit: https:// gulfstreampark.com/event/enter tainment/sleepy-hollow-hallo ween

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About Gulfstream Park Gulfstream Park is South Florida’s premier entertainment, dining and restaurant destina

tion, located between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, anchored by the legendary Gulfstream Park Race track. Gulfstream Park not only offers world-class Thoroughbred horse racing but is also home to a casino and family-friendly ven ues including over 15 restau rants, outdoor cafes, art galler ies, fashion retailers, state-ofthe-art bowling alley, and a renowned selection of signature home stores. Gulfstream Park,

voted a 2020 Top Travelers’ Choice Winner by TripAdvisor, is located at 901 South Federal Highway in Hallandale Beach, Florida, just two miles east of I95. Valet service and complimen tary self-parking are available. Gulfstream Park is open seven days a week. For hours, schedules, upcoming events and additional information, visit: www.gulfstreampark.com or call: 954-454-7000.

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Dictatorship in Disguise

Authoritarian Monsters Wreak Havoc on Our Freedoms

By John & Nisha Whitehead

“You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they’re people just like you. You’re wrong. Dead wrong.”

— They Live

We’re living in two worlds.

There’s the world we see (or are made to see) and then there’s the one we sense (and occasionally catch a glimpse of), the latter of which is a far cry from the propaganda-driven reality manufactured by the gov ernment and its corporate sponsors, including the media.

Indeed, what most Americans perceive as life in America—privileged, progressive and free—is a far cry from reality, where economic inequality is growing, real agendas and real power are buried beneath layers of Orwellian doublespeak and corporate obfus cation, and “freedom,” such that it is, is meted out in small, legalistic doses by militarized police and federal agents armed to the teeth.

All is not as it seems.

Monsters with human faces walk among us. Many of them work for the U.S. government.

This is the premise of John Carpenter’s film They Live, which was released in November 1988 and remains unnervingly, chill ingly appropriate for our modern age.

Best known for his horror film Halloween, which assumes that there is a form of evil so dark that it can’t be killed, Carpenter’s larger body of work is infused with a strong anti-authoritarian, anti-establishment, laconic bent that speaks to the filmmaker’s concerns about the unraveling of our society, particularly our gov ernment.

Time and again, Carpenter portrays the government working against its own citizens, a popu lace out of touch with reality, technology run amok, and a future more horrific than any hor ror film.

In Escape from New York, Carpenter presents fascism as the future of America.

In The Thing, a remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic of the same name, Carpenter presupposes that increasingly we are all becoming dehumanized.

In Christine, the film adap tation of Stephen King’s novel about a demon-possessed car, technology exhibits a will and consciousness of its own and goes on a murderous rampage.

In In the Mouth of Madness, Carpenter notes that evil grows when people lose “the ability to know the difference between reality and fantasy.”

And then there is Carpenter’s

They Live, in which two migrant workers discover that the world is not as it seems. In fact, the population is actually being con trolled and exploited by aliens working in partnership with an oligarchic elite. All the while, the populace—blissfully unaware of the real agenda at work in their lives—has been lulled into com placency, indoctrinated into

of American culture.

A citizenry that does not think for themselves, obeys without question, is submissive, does not challenge authority, does not think outside the box, and is content to sit back and be enter tained is a citizenry that can be easily controlled.

In this way, the subtle mes sage of They Live provides an

terrorist attack; 11,000 times more likely to die from an air plane accident than from a ter rorist plot involving an airplane; 1,048 times more likely to die from a car accident than a terror ist attack, and 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist, we have handed over control of our lives to government officials who treat

growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent. They have created a repressive society and we are their unwit ting accomplices. Their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness. We have been lulled into a trance. They have made us indifferent to ourselves, to others. We are focused only on our own gain.”

We, too, are focused only on our own pleas ures, prejudices and gains. Our poor and underclasses are also growing. Injustice is grow ing. Inequality is growing. A concern for human rights is nearly nonexist ent. We too have been lulled into a trance, indif ferent to others.

Oblivious to what lies ahead, we’ve been manipulated into believing that if we continue to con sume, obey, and have faith, things will work out. But that’s never been true of emerging regimes. And by the time we feel the hammer coming down upon us, it will be too late.

So where does that leave us?

The characters who populate Carpenter’s films provide some insight.

compliance, bombarded with media distractions, and hyp notized by subliminal messages beamed out of television and various electronic devices, bill boards and the like.

It is only when homeless drifter John Nada (played to the hilt by the late Roddy Piper) dis covers a pair of doctored sun glasses—Hoffman lenses—that Nada sees what lies beneath the elite’s fabricated reality: control and bondage.

When viewed through the lens of truth, the elite, who appear human until stripped of their dis guises, are shown to be mon sters who have enslaved the citi zenry in order to prey on them.

Likewise, billboards blare out hidden, authoritative messages: a bikini-clad woman in one ad is actually ordering viewers to “MARRY AND REPRODUCE.”

Magazine racks scream “CONSUME” and “OBEY.” A wad of dollar bills in a vendor’s hand proclaims, “THIS IS YOUR GOD.”

When viewed through Nada’s Hoffman lenses, some of the other hidden messages being drummed into the people’s sub conscious include: NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT, CONFORM, SUBMIT, STAY ASLEEP, BUY, WATCH TV, NO IMAGINATION, and DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY.

This indoctrination campaign engineered by the elite in They Live is painfully familiar to any one who has studied the decline

apt analogy of our own distorted vision of life in the American police state, what philosopher Slavoj Zizek refers to as dictator ship in democracy, “the invisible order which sustains your appar ent freedom.”

We’re being fed a series of carefully contrived fictions that bear no resemblance to reality.

Tune out the government’s attempts to distract, divert and befuddle us and tune into what’s really going on in this country, and you’ll run headlong into an unmistakable, unpalatable truth: what we are dealing with today is an authoritarian beast that has outgrown its chains and will not be restrained.

Through its acts of power grabs, brutality, meanness, inhu manity, immorality, greed, cor ruption, debauchery and tyranny, the government has become almost indistinguishable from the evil it claims to be fighting, whether that evil takes the form of terrorism, torture, disease, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, murder, violence, theft, pornog raphy, scientific experimen tations or some other diabolical means of inflicting pain, suffering and servitude on humanity.

We have let the government’s evil-doing and abuses go on for too long.

We’re being fed a series of carefully contrived fictions that bear no resemblance to reality.

Despite the fact that we are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a

us as a means to an end—the source of money and power.

As the Bearded Man in They Live warns, “They are disman tling the sleeping middle class. More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cat tle. We are being bred for slavery.”

We have bought into the illu sion and refused to grasp the truth.

From the moment we are born until we die, we are indoctrinated into believing that those who rule us do it for our own good. The truth is far different.

The powers-that-be want us to feel threatened by forces beyond our control (terrorists, pandemics, mass shootings, etc.).

They want us afraid and dependent on the government and its militarized armies for our safety and well-being.

They want us distrustful of each other, divided by our preju dices, and at each other’s throats.

Most of all, they want us to continue to march in lockstep with their dictates as fearful, con trolled, pacified zombies.

This brings me back to They Live, in which the real zombies are not the aliens calling the shots but the populace who are content to remain controlled.

When all is said and done, the world of They Live is not so dif ferent from our own. As one of the characters points out, “The poor and the underclass are

Underneath their machismo, they still believe in the ideals of liberty and equal opportunity. Their beliefs place them in constant oppo sition with the law and the estab lishment, but they are nonethe less freedom fighters.

When, for example, John Nada destroys the alien hypnotransmitter in They Live, he deliv ers a wake-up call for freedom.

As Nada memorably declares, “I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I’m all out of bubblegum.”

In other words: we need to get active and take a stand for what’s really important.

Stop allowing yourselves to be easily distracted by pointless political spectacles and pay attention to what’s really going on in the country.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, the real battle for control of this nation is taking place on roadsides, in police cars, on witness stands, over phone lines, in government offices, in corporate offices, in public school hallways and classrooms, in parks and city council meetings, and in towns and cities across this country.

All the trappings of the American police state are now in plain sight.

Wake up, America.

If they live (the tyrants, the oppressors, the invaders, the overlords), it is only because “we the people” sleep.

Plastic Surgery Bundling Booms

Social Media, cell phone cam eras and video conferencing apps like Zoom and Teams drove a significant uptick in facial plas tic surgeries over the past couple of years. Now, the trend is piv oting back to the body, says top New York City Plastic Surgeon Dr. Richard Westreich.

“Body Contouring is surging and in demand,” said Dr. Westreich. “Now that we’re get ting a level of normalcy, the boom from Zoom is switching back to focusing on the body.”

Also on trend? Bundling more than one procedure in one sur gical appointment — Liposuction and Rhinoplasty, for example. This approach can save money and time for cosmetic surgery patients. Whatever procedure a person is considering, due dili gence is the best defense against potential Post-Op prob lems, Dr. Westreich cautioned.

“My best advice to people is to go back to the mindset before the Zoom boom,” he said, explaining that virtual consults have streamlined the process and tightened the timeline between concept and comple tion. “Don’t rush into something just because it’s easy or conven ient.”

Popular procedures include: Breast Augmentation, Liposuction, Rhinoplasty, Eyelid Surgery and Facelifts. Less invasive pro cedures like Botox injections are skyrocketing in popularity after the Pandimic.

If you’re considering any cosmetic procedure, these safety tips from Dr. Westreich can improve your chances of a better outcome:

Tip 1: Make sure any doctor you schedule through a virtual visit allows you to cancel AFTER an in-person

meeting for surgery. There is no substitute for face to face.

Tip 2: Your health doesn’t belong in the bargain bin.

Tip 3: Medical tourism can be dangerous. Laws may differ; regulations may differ; problems with after care may arise.

Tip 4: Understand informed consent. Ask for examples of not only the good outcomes but also the potential bad ones. Ask for data specific to the procedure and the doctor performing it (complication rates, death rates).

Tip 5: Surgery belongs in accredited operating rooms. Ask to see Accreditation Certificates (AAA, AAAA, JCAHO).

Tip 6: Make sure the Board Certification of a doctor makes sense for the pro cedure they are performing.

Tip 7: If significant issues arise after a procedure (surgery or office injection), seek a second opinion on management.

More on Dr. Richard Westreich Dr. Richard Westreich gradu ated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in Biological Basis of Behavior, Neuroscience concen tration in 1995 from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his medical school training at the New York University School of Medicine in 1999 with an M.D. and Honors in Cell Biology Research. Dr. Westreich then did his postgraduate training in Facial Plastic Surgery and Otolaryngology at the prestigious Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

He has been selected multiple

times by Castle Connolly and New York magazine as one of the top doctors in Facial Plastic Surgery. He is an Assistant Professor at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and is on staff at Lenox Hill and Mount Sinai Hospitals. He is a Faculty Member and teacher at a fellowship in Facial Plastic Surgery at Mount Sinai. His private practice is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where he special izes in Rhinoplasty, Septoplasty, Secondary and Reconstructive Rhinoplasty, Facelifts, Eyelid Surgery and nonsurgical pro cedures.

He can be seen regularly on several National News Programs, including: ABC, CBS, FOX and Newsmax.

Dr. Westreich is also an accomplished artist and musician. His band, Big Rich Energy, is currently touring, making limited stops across New York City. For more information on his band: https://bigrichenergy.com/

In the classic movie ‘Escape from New York’, John Carpenter’s film presents fascism as the future of America

transportation services and serve a greater number of people trav eling to and within the City. The proposed Community Shuttle Program will operate 7-days per week for approximately 8-10 hours per day and be free of charge for riders.

As part of the application process, the City proposed a total of six routes throughout the eastern and western portions of

the City. After careful evaluation of the proposed routes by the Broward County Transportation Division, Broward County notified the City on January 5, 2022 that they would fund the operation of three Community Shuttle routes (detailed below).

Route 1 (Red Line):

The East Central Loop

• Operates between City Hall / Central Library and the Margaritaville Beach Resort

• Operates 1 vehicle 7 days per week between 9 am and 5 pm daily

Route 2 (Blue Line): The A1A Loop

• Operates between the Walmart Super Center on East Hallandale Boulevard and the Hollywood North Beach Park on A1A

• Operates 2 Vehicles 7 days per week with seasonal hours of operation:

• November - April: 8 am to 6 pm (Monday - Thursday) and 8 am to 8 pm (Friday - Sunday and Holidays)

• May - October: Monday - Thursday 8 am to 6 pm and 8 am to 7 pm (Friday - Sunday and Holidays)

• Cycle time for each vehicle (Northbound/Southbound is approximately 24 minutes

Route 3 (Yellow Line): The Southeast Loop

• Operates between City Hall/Central Library, Young Circle, Jefferson Park and Pembroke Drive.

• Operates 1 vehicle 7 days per week between 9 am and 5 pm

• Estimated cycle time for the route is about 39 minutes

Implementation Timeline

In November the City will hold a public meeting to share final routes and obtain Commission approval to execute an InterLocal Agreement with Broward County to fund the Community Shuttle System. In March of next year the City Commission will award a contract to the shuttle vendor for the operation and maintenance of the Community Shuttle vehicles.

For more information and route maps visit the dedicated project website at: https://maps.hollywoodfl.org/portal/apps/storymaps/stories/6e47d43d95f44893afd99ed878c89c50

The Deadly Cost of Police Welfare Checks

By John & Nisha Whitehead

Think twice before you call the cops to carry out a welfare check on a loved one.

Especially if you value that person’s life.

Particularly if that person is disabled, mentally ill, elderly, Autistic, hearing impaired, suffer ing from Dementia, or might have a condition that hin ders their ability to understand, communi cate or immediately comply with an order.

According to an investigation by The Washington Post, cops sent out on welfare checks ended up shooting or killing the very people they were supposed to assist in at least 178 cases over the course of three years.

Atatiana Jefferson was neither disabled, mentally ill, elderly, autistic, hear ing impaired, suffering from dementia. The 28-year-old Fort Worth resident was merely awake at 2:30 am, playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew in a house with its lights on and the front door open.

A neighbor, noticing the lights and open door, asked police to do a welfare check on the house hold. Instead of announcing themselves at the front door, police crept quietly around the house. Hearing noises outside, Jefferson approached her bed room window to investigate.

Seeing Jefferson through the window, police yelled, “Put your hands up! Show me your hands!”

Within seconds of issuing that order and without identifying themselves, police fired a single shot. Jefferson died on the scene.

Atatiana Jefferson’s death is yet one more grim statistic to add to that growing list of Americans—unarmed, impaired or experiencing a mental health crisis—who have been killed by police trained in the worst-case scenario and thus ready to shoot

first and ask questions later.

The officer who fired the shot claimed he did so because he perceived “a threat.”

the two police officers assigned to check on Plack to decide to use lethal force against her (both cops opened fire on the woman),

officers. People of color are three times more likely to be killed by police than their white counter parts. If you’re black and dis

against those with a mental ill ness.

Where does this leave us?

For starters, we need better police training across the board, but especially when it comes to de-escalation tactics and crisis intervention.

A study by the National Institute of Mental Health found that Crisis Intervention Team-trained officers made fewer arrests, used less force, and connected more peo ple with mental-health services than their non-trained peers.

Second, police need to learn how to slow confrontations down, instead of ramp ing up the tension (and the noise).

ing a certain way, or holding something—anything—that police could misinterpret to be a gun, or igniting some triggercentric fear in a police officer’s mind that has nothing to do with an actual threat to their safety, even the most benign encounters with police can have fatal con sequences.

For those undergoing a men tal health crisis or with special needs whose disabilities may not be immediately apparent, the dangers posed by these socalled wellness checks are even greater.

For example, Gay Plack, a 57year-old Virginia woman with Bipolar Disorder, was killed after two police officers—sent to do a welfare check on her—entered her home uninvited, wandered through the house shouting her name, kicked open her locked bedroom door, discovered the terrified woman hiding in a dark bathroom and wielding a small axe, and four seconds later, shot her in the stomach.

Four seconds.

That’s all the time it took for

option” but to shoot the 5 foot 4 inch woman with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

This is what happens when you indoctrinate the police into believing that their lives and their safety are paramount to anyone else’s: suddenly, everyone and everything else is a threat that must be neutralized or elimi nated.

In light of the government’s ongoing efforts to predict who might pose a threat to public safety based on mental health sensor data, encounters with the police could get even more deadly for those with a mental ill ness or disability.

As Steve Silberman writes for The New York Times “Anyone who cares for someone with a developmental disability, as well as for disabled people them selves [lives] every day in fear that their behavior will be mis construed as suspicious, intoxi cated or hostile by law enforce ment.”

Indeed, disabled individuals make up a third to half of all peo ple killed by law enforcement

From Iowa to Elvis

Destined to Fly, The Fascinating True Story of the Pilot to the King

Destined to Fly: The Story of Pilot Ron Strauss – From Iowa to Elvis, from noted Elvis historian and journalist Sally Hoedel, retraces the life of an ordinary boy from Iowa as his life takes an extraordinary turn and he becomes a pilot of one of the most famous airplanes in exis tence — Elvis Presley’s 880 Convair, the Lisa Marie.

From an early age, Strauss had a desire to be involved in aviation, and he served 12 years in the United States Air Force. As a flight engineer, Strauss flew 3,400 hours during the Vietnam War, departing California with supplies and returning with fallen soldiers. As a pilot, he was instrumental in peacefully resolv ing a hijacking conflict involving General Somoza in Nicaragua in 1974. One of the political pris oners who Strauss flew to Cuba during that ordeal is now the president of Nicaragua.

Through a series of serendipi tous events — and one stressfilled interview with Vernon Presley — Strauss landed a job piloting Elvis’ plane from 1975 until Elvis’ untimely passing in 1977.

Destined to Fly offers a per sonal glimpse of Elvis during the busiest touring years of his

career. Along with never-beforeseen photos from inside the famous airplane, the complete record of where Elvis traveled aboard the Lisa Marie, whether on tour or on retreat, is available as an appendix in this book. Strauss’ flight log is an incredible historical document, and it is printed in its entirety for the first time ever.

“Ron Strauss certainly cannot be reduced to the nearly two years he flew Elvis Presley,” Hoedel said. “His story is more vast than that short period. However, the book does capture Elvis Presley as a boss and a leader within a very unique organization. Elvis fans will walk away with new information about the Lisa Marie and what it was like to be called up in the middle of the night for an unscheduled destination at the request of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.”

Hoedel examines the eight decades of Strauss’ journey thus far, as she explores the roots of his character and the hard work and perseverance behind his successful aviation career.

“This story is a slice of Americana,” Hoedel added. “It has a little John Wayne, a little Ronald Reagan and some Elvis. I think there’s something for eve

ryone, and there are some great lessons along the way.”

Hoedel forged a close friend ship with Strauss, she explained, which began years before he agreed to share his life story with her.

“I am proud to capture this amazing tale of hard work, per severance, dreams, love, life, family and flying on the pages of this book,” she said. “More than anything, I value the friendship that emerged despite the 40plus-year age difference. The life lessons from Ron will stay with me for a lifetime, and I hope with my readers as well.”

About the Author Sally A. Hoedel is the author of Elvis: Destined to Die Young. Focused primarily on explaining the genetic health issues the King dealt with, the book was the first in what will be at least a three-book series exploring aspects of Elvis Presley’s life. She has been honored with an Independent Publisher Book Award and a Pencraft Award for best nonfiction book of 2021. A lifelong Elvis fan and writer, she has a journalism degree from

which mental illness appeared to be a factor, The Washington Post noted some important distinc tions:

“This group was more likely to wield a weapon less lethal than a firearm. Six had toy guns; 3 in 10 carried a blade, such as a knife or a machete — weapons that rarely prove deadly to police offi cers. According to data main tained by the FBI and other organizations, only three officers have been killed with an edged weapon in the past decade. Nearly a dozen of the mentally distraught people killed were Military Veterans, many of them suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of their service, according to police or family members… And in 45 cases, police were called to help someone get medical treatment, or after the person had tried and failed to get treatment on his own.”

The U.S. Supreme Court, as might be expected, has thus far continued to immunize police against charges of wrongdoing when it comes to use of force

Third, with all the questionable funds flowing to police departments these days, why not use some of those funds to establish what one disability-rights activist describes as “a 911-type number dedi cated to handling mental-health emergencies, with community crisis-response teams at the ready rather than police officers.”

In the end, while we need to make encounters with police offi cers safer for people with suffer ing from mental illness or with disabilities, what we really need—as I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries—is to make encoun ters with police safer for all indi viduals all across the board.

Editor’s Note: John Whitehead is an Attorney and Author who has written, debated and prac ticed widely in the area of Constitutional Law, Human Rights and Popular Culture. John Whitehead’s Commentary are his views and he is open for discus sion, he can be contacted at: johnw@rutherford.org. Info about The Rutherford Institute is avail able at: www.rutherford.org

Michigan State University and is co-owner of Character Development and Leadership, a curricu lum business. Hoedel lives in Northern Michigan with her hus band and four daughters.

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Election Lies? Misleading Voters

By Hallandale Beach Mayor, Joy Cooper

The only forum for the Hallandale Beach Election was held last Thursday. It was organ ized by Hallandale resident Ms. Terri Dillard and members of Fellowship Church. She is a member of our CRA Advisory Board and local host of Hallandale Conversation FB. She arranged to have Glenna Milberg from Channel 10 moderate. The event had about fifty attendees and all the candidates partici pated. If you want to listen to it, visit her site on FB.

As a note, there will be no endorsement from the Sun Sentinel or other papers for Hallandale Beach as they are no longer covering Elections for cit ies under 50,000 residents. If you have questions about information you are receiving from can didates or an issue that is impor tant to you, please feel free to call me anytime. This Election is so important to keep us on the right path of stability, civility and fiscal responsibility. Misinformation is already out there, so please be aware.

Overall, every candidate was civil and positive except for the agitator, Keith London. He cer tainly has not changed his enjoy ment of being negative and attacking the City without any solutions. He actually mocked everyone for getting along. In fact, he is a large part of our prior problems. He simply cannot help himself from creating misinfor mation.

Primarily, he has sent out propaganda that suggests we have a $5 Million Dollar Reserve. That is blatantly false, in fact we have in overall Reserves funding of $21.8 Million Dollars. Actually, if it were $5 Million Dollars, we would be at a negative $700,000 Million Dollar reserve and insol

vency due to the $5.70 Million Dollar Lawsuit that is hanging over our heads due to his firing of Former City Manager Daniel Roseman for cause. He has truly harmed our City. Know why? He gambled with your tax dollars and knew he would not person ally be impacted.

This year, we have balanced our budget without using reserves. This amount is in line with the commission policy of 16% of the General Fund should be covered to provide for our ability to operate in case of emergencies. As a note, during the time he was in Office, the Reserves were reduced. By 2018, when Joy Adams was Mayor for a year, they had gone all the way to $8 Million Dollars, the lowest in the history of the City.

Many residents are not aware that each Enterprise Fund; Water, Sewer, Stormwater and Sanitation to name a few have Contingencies that work like reserves in the event of disasters or opera tion emergencies during the year. A good example of the use of these types of Reserves is a one year Sanitation Truck caught on fire. These trucks cost $300,000 and up. The Contingency Fund was used to replace it.

Another issue he has com plained about is the purchase of Green Vehicles, Tesla’s. These vehicles were purchased for $10 Thousand Dollars less than what they are being sold for now. Not much more than other Electric and Hybrid Vehicles. They are being used for our Detective Bureau, not “Top Brass.” These vehicles eventually cost less than gas and have the benefit of help ing the environment.

Another salient point when it comes to propaganda are the Budget and the Tax Rate. Over

allowance to buy dentures, hear ing aids and eyeglasses?

the past 5-10 years our Police Department has been operating with over twenty-two patrol vacancies. This is disgraceful. Currently, we only have five and on the way to fill the rest.

One of the recurring themes during the Forum was communi cation. I agree that making sure that our residents have access to information. It is one of the rea sons I write this column. Our City utilizes all types of tools to keep our residents up to date. Residents need to sign up for them on our website. We have many Social Media platforms and some Departments even have their own pages. We also have our own HB App. I actually worked to get it through the US Conference Of Mayors and it is called MyHB. You can report issues and get information on many issues.

Flooding and Water Issues were also one of the main topics. Sadly, over the past 8 years improvements were at a stand still. The dysfunction and having four different City Managers over a 4-year period created such instability. In fact, professionals did not even want to stay in the

City and Recruitment was at its lowest due to the negativity from the Dais.

Well over the past two years this has changed dramatically. We are currently replacing and upgrading our lift stations. We have executed a request for a Proposal for an Expansion of our Water Plant. We have a $20 Million Dollar Bond and are Awarding Proposals to replace Water Mains on both Three Islands Boulevard and Golden Isles Drive among other Major Water Supply Infrastructure. In the next few weeks, I will be writ ing more in-depth on the very impairment issue.

Economic Development was also a topic discussed. Every candidate except one actually discussed how well they believe we were doing in supporting new business and expanding oppor tunities. They all go back to the commuting issues when it comes to CRA Programs.

It was a very good Forum and

I left thinking we have some really great candidates. They all have different backgrounds. Some have been involved on City Boards. I hope no matter what the outcome, they all stay involved and work with the City addressing concerns and help make the City A Better Place!

Early Voting started this past Monday. It is taking place at our Community Cultural Center behind the Library at our City Hall Complex, located at 400 South Federal Highway, Hallandale Beach, Florida 33009. There are other locations around the County as well. If you are registered in Broward County, you can vote at one of them. Also, if you have a Mail-In-Ballot and are concerned about it get ting in on time, there is a drop box at the Cultural Center. Make sure it is all filled out including our Eight Charter Amendments. As a reminder, we as a Commission are recommending them all!

As always, I am available for your questions, concerns and ideas to help make our City a better place. Please feel free to reach out at my office: (954) 457-1318. On my Cell/Text at: (954) 632-5700. Or email at: jcooper@cohb.org

rent, utilities, and more – If you’re eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid, look for a plan that gives you a monthly allowance to spend on groceries, rent, utilities and even pet care.

Dental, hearing and vision coverage – Taking care of your dental, hearing and vision needs is important to your overall health. When researching plans, be sure to ask: What are the copays for going to the dentist and the eye doctor? Is there an

Transportation – Does the plan offer free rides to medical appointments? There are plans available that provide rides to see your primary care doctor, specialists, and to have lab work done.

Fitness and wellness benefits – Once you identify your basic health needs, think about what

else is important to your overall health and well-being. For exam ple, if you like to exercise, look for a plan that includes a fitness benefit. For example, many Medicare Advantage plans include gym memberships. Some plans also offer in-person and virtual health and wellness classes, and even reward you with gift cards for completing certain healthy activities.

Extra features for individual needs - If you have a chronic health condition, such as Dia betes, Chronic Obstructive Pul monary disease (COPD) or heart disease, you may find a plan specifically designed to care for that condition, while adding dol lars back to your Social Security check. And, if you’re a Veteran, look for a plan designed to com plement VA health care by cov

ering services at non-VA facili ties, including dental coverage, transportation and fitness classes.

As you shop for Medicare plans for you or your loved ones, I encourage you to look for ways to maximize your healthcare cov erage, while minimizing your costs, to help ensure the healthi est you in 2023 and for many years to come.

Most Urgent Movie of

final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, she resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain and risk prison to do so.

The film has received widespread critical acclaim includ ing from Rolling Stone that declared Happening as “the most urgent movie of 2022” that “has gone from inter national sensation to a call to arms.”

Breakups and Divorce

Dating Looks Different Today Than It Did Three Years Ago

Singles are less apt to “mingle” and more drawn to intentional dating and the pursuit of committed relationships, according to Match

Dating looks different today than it did three years ago. Singles are less apt to “mingle” and more drawn to intentional dating and the pursuit of com mitted relationships, according to Match. Those already in relation ships; singles on the dating scene; people going through a breakup, divorce or loss; and those experiencing problems with their partners all face a uni versal concern: how much com promise is too much?

World-renowned psychologist and relationship expert Carmen Harra is a known authority in the fields of self-help, spirituality, love relationships and dating. She helps her clients live more consciously and make choices that lead to happier and healthier relationships by first guiding them on a journey of personal introspection.

“By personally guiding you to a deeper understanding of your own being, I will provide you with tools that will help you to heal your past, use your free will wisely, attract the right relation ships and create a more joyful future,” Harra said.

Harra is also the author of Committed: Finding Love and Loyalty Through the Seven Archetypes, in which she explains the seven main archetypes people encounter, the promises they hold as well as the chal lenges they pose to relation ships.

Ultimately, Harra’s aim is to help people find and keep the love they deserve: an authentic, impassioned relationship that reflects honesty, integrity and reliability.

“‘The one’ will not be a per fect person, but they will be per fect for you,” Harra said.

About Dr. Carmen Harra

Carmen Harra is a worldrenowned intuitive psychologist, bestselling author, radio show host and relationship expert. Over the past 30 years, she has helped more than 40,000 people rediscover peace of mind, reclaim personal power and regain joy. Her clients come from all walks of life, from the lady next door to Hollywood celebrities and eminent politicians.

She has been featured in such publications as The New York Times, New York Post, and New York Daily News, and on shows like Good Morning America, The View, Good Day New York, the Today show and Fox News. She currently hosts Miracle Guidance for Everyday Life every Tuesday on OMTimes Radio and Live Now! every Friday on KMET 1490 AM/ABC News Radio Affiliate.

Harra is the author of the international bestsellers Everyday Karma, Decoding Your Destiny, The Eleven Eternal Principles and Wholeliness, as well as The Karma Queens’ Guide to Relationships and Committed: Finding Love and Loyalty Through the Seven Archetypes.

For more information and to schedule a personal session, visit: www.CarmenHarra.com. Follow her on Instagram (carmenharra) or Facebook (DrCarmenHarra).

The film has received wide-spread critical acclaim including from Rolling Stone that declared Happening as “the most urgent movie of 2022” that “has gone from international sensation to a call to arms.”

Fresh from wins at film fes tivals around the world, Happening comes to the Aventura International Film Series at the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center on Tuesday, November 1 at 7:30 p.m.

Winner of the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film

Festival and best film honors from the International Cinephile Society Awards and Lumiere Awards, Happening is directed by Audrey Diwan who won the “Directors to Watch” and “New Voices/New Visions Grand Jury Prize” at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Rated R, the film is shown in French with English subtitles and follows a bright young Parisian college student in 1963 who becomes pregnant and sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social back ground disappearing. With her

Anamaria Vartolomei, the film’s star, has been honored with awards for her role from César Awards, Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards, Dublin International Film Festival, International Cinephile Society Awards and Lumiere Awards.

Admired film expert Shelly Isaacs curates the series and hosts each film with an intro duction and a post-screening discussion. Isaacs is known for his Cafe Cinematheque pro grams at many venues through out South Florida. He enjoyed a 30-plus year career as a crea tive director/writer specializing in creating print ads, commer cials and trailers for feature films, TV and radio studios. He teaches foreign-language film appreciation in the Life Long Learning Society at FAU and

FIU. In 2009, Isaacs launched Cinematheque at Sea and served as the film expert for Celebrity Cruise Lines at The Cannes International Film Festival.

The Aventura International Film Series continues with Hit the Road (Dec. 13), Lost Illusions (Jan. 10), Petite Maman (Feb. 7) and three yetto-be-announced films (March 7, April 4 and May 16).

Screenings are general admission with the lobby doors opening at 6:30 p.m. and the auditorium at 7 p.m. Tickets are $12. Ticketmaster is the only official ticketing service of the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center. Buy tickets online at: aventura center.org - by phone at: 877. 311.7469 or: 954.462.0222 or in person at the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center box office Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. and 90 minutes prior to each performance. For Group Sales, please call: 954. 660.6307.

The Aventura Arts & Cultural Center is located at: 3385 N.E. 188 Street in Aventura. Join the conversation, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram @aventuracenter or #aventuracenter.

Create The Life You Want

A Roadmap Toward Recovery, A Survivor’s Compelling Story

Millions of Americans are self-medicating, suffering from Mental Health diagnoses and are not getting the support that they need to function, heal and lead healthy lives, says Author and Certified Emotional Healing and Relationship Coach Rebeccah Silence.

Silence understands the struggles of Emotional Pain well. A survivor of Cancer while pregnant, childhood sexual abuse and domestic abuse, she has known enormous suffering, but she learned to defeat her emotional pain to live free and happy.

Silence has taught clients worldwide on topics such as how to understand that past pain impacts the present, how to liberate yourself from those wounds and how to connect to your own inner healer to create a life where you not only sur vive, but also thrive.

Now in her new book, Coming Back to Life: A Roadmap To Healing From Pain To Create The Life You Want, Silence helps readers create an opening to possibility. She pro vides tools, strategies and sup port that will allow readers to get to the root of their pain pat terns while also receiving hope, encouragement and access to the light at the end of the dark

tunnel they may find them selves in. “What the world des perately needs now more than ever before is a way to navigate trauma and difficult emotions,” said Silence. “How you feel is 100 percent based on how healed your past is. There really is life on the other side of what ever darkness people are fac ing, this book offers hope, heal ing and a roadmap that is guar anteed to empower and encourage readers to take their lives back from an emotionally clear, neutral and grounded space. You’ll never have to feel powerless again and that is a promise,” Silence added.

Readers will learn how to: • Emotionally heal and process through Anxiety, Depression, Past Trauma and re-commit to living a fulfilling life.

• Break free from generational pain patterns to become the most authentic and happy versions of themselves.

• Be the source of their own encouragement, take control over their lives and never feel powerless again.

“Coming Back To Life is the book that the world needs at this moment. It will illuminate what has been invisibly holding you back and give you a clear path to feeling good and get ting what you want,” said Stephen Lovegrove, America’s Life Coach.

About the Author

Rebeccah Silence is a global advocate and leading coach in emotional healing and relation ships. As a survivor of child

hood trauma and abuse and being diagnosed with Stage 3 Cancer while she was preg nant, she has helped countless individuals, couples and fami lies process even the most intense traumatic experiences — and heal!

An accomplished TV and Radio Personality with over two decades of experience speak ing to millions about doing the inner work, Silence is a ground breaking voice in the space of healing and self-development. Her life’s mission is about sup porting people in moving through their healing so they can allow themselves to truly thrive.

aSilence is the Author Of Coming Back To Life, Host Of The Healing IS Possible Experience, The Tougher Together Breakthrough Podcast and the creator of the ondemand The Emotional Survival Kit Course. Through her coach ing, seminars, books and online courses, Silence teaches audi ences how to become their own healers, how to love and trust themselves and how to be their best for others and the world. She currently lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her husband, two daughters and two dogs. Visit her website: www.rebeccahsilence.com.

David Phelps Gamechanger Live! Tour

The unmistakable sound of multi-Dove and Grammy Award -winning recording artist, David Phelps, will be featured in Ft Lauderdale, FL, on Friday, October 28 at the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. This con cert event begins at 7:30pm.

Once a childhood musical prodigy from Tomball, TX, David Phelps earned a Bache lor’s Degree in music from Baylor University. Since then, he has become a nationally celebrated vocalist, whose gifts and talents are matched by none. Perhaps best known as the powerful tenor for the mul tiple Grammy and Dove Awardwinning Gaither Vocal Band, Phelps is constantly building on a career that has already been groundbreaking. Emerging as a leading voice in contemporary Christian music, Phelps has been winning the hearts of audiences all over the world for more than two decades. He has performed at numerous prestig ious venues across the globe,

including the White House, New York’s Carnegie Hall and the Sydney Opera House in Australia. With more than a dozen solo albums to his credit, David’s electrifying voice has moved audiences from all walks of life, crossing genera tional and stylistic barriers.

This event, featuring David Phelps, as well as Phelps’ musical entourage, will feature many of the songs from his brand new Gamechanger recording. Like many creative people, David Phelps found himself with a lot of downtime and a desire to create during the 2020 Pandemic. Putting pen to paper and then spend ing time in the studio, Phelps went from being a dreamer to an inventor – and it was a GameChanger. As Phelps shares, “A dream alone isn’t

enough. At some point, action has to be taken. I’m a firm

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The Art of Drag: Art

The Art and Culture Center/ Hollywood invites you to join them for the third edition of The Art of Drag fundraiser at Lips Fort Lauderdale on Thursday, October 27, 2022. Guests will enjoy dinner and performances by both professional drag queens as well as four Board members of the Center at this fundraising evening benefiting the Center.

Doors open at 7 pm with din ner and performances to follow. Tickets are limited and are $85 a person, and include a 3-course dinner plus a cocktail, wine or domestic beer. Lips Fort Lauderdale is located at 1421 Oakland Park Blvd.

Performing for the Center this year are Board Members Jeff Delmay, Anna Smith, and back by popular demand are Immediate Past Board Chair John Mabry and a special guest performance by Michael Dean as Cher (Honorary Board Member).

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This will be Mabry’s third per formance as he wooed the crowd in the previous two edi tions. Mabry will be performing as Tina Turner, Delmay will

Aventura Arts & Cultural Center

Offers a Cornucopia of Entertainment This November

Performing arts fans will have much to be thankful for this November as the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center presents an award-winning film, a tribute to the beloved melodies of The Carpenters, a thrilling evening of dance, two spell-binding one-act plays, and three celebrations of classical and orchestral music with the works of Rachmaninoff, Rameau, Mozart and two early chamber operas.

The New World Dance Ensemble will present an exciting program of dance works, per formed with passion and skill by the talented New World School of the Arts dancers and profes sional alumni on Friday, November 4 at 8 p.m. With works by professional choreographers in a variety of genres, styles, and set tings, the program will include Gentry Isaiah George’s Caribbean-themed work, Land of the Sea and Sun, set to the music of Harry Belafonte; Francesca Harper’s powerful contemporary work Sanction 2.1, and Darshan Singh Bhuller’s new work, Junun, set to a score by the same title. Kanji Segawa’s powerfully ath letic work Scorching Bay, Jeffrey Lloyd Smith’s work Ghosts, and Geeta Dias’s exuberant Bollywood work Bangra Medley com plete this varied and engaging program. Tickets are $12.

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Sunny Isles Beach

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city limits and 98% of residents live within walking distance of at least one park. Whether your kids play at the Town Center Park playground, you attend Tai Chi at Gateway Center, or bring the whole family to Booogie by the Beach every year at Pelican Community Park, our parks and facilities offer something for eve

Rachmaninoff and his Legacy –Rach 150 featuring Asiya Korepanova and Ilya Kazantsev in a 150th anniversary celebration of the great composer pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff on Saturday, November 5 at 7:30 p.m.

The program features two piano suites with performances of Bach and Brahms that explore the polyphonic nature of Rachmaninoff’s writing coming from Bach’s influence as well as the classical structure that Brahms displays so profoundly while being a Romantic composer and a quality so strong in Rachmaninoff’s music. Tickets are $40 with a $60 VIP ticket offering pre ferred seating and select drink vouchers.

In a captivating double bill of drama and comedy, Don Soffer Aventura High School students perform Eurydice and The Play That Goes Wrong Wednesday, November 16 – November 18, October 18 at 7 p.m. Reimaging the classic myth through its young heroine’s eyes, the drama follows Eurydice who, after dying on her wedding day, must jour ney to the underworld where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. After intermission, comedy takes the stage in The Play That Goes Wrong, which features an unconscious leading lady, a corpse who can’t play dead, a

ryone. The master plan will help determine how to focus, diver sify, and expand what you can do at your favorite park.

There are four phases to the project: Learning, Exploring, Envisioning, and Implementation. The master plan is currently in the Research and Public Engagement processes, which will identify our community’s needs and priorities in order to begin establishing the long-range vision and its associated rec

ruffled detective and a wordmangling butler who must battle against technical gaffes, forgot ten lines and sabotaging scenery in a quest to arrive all in one piece at the final curtain call. These performances are not rec ommended for children under four. Tickets are $15.

After four sold-out engage ments, Top of the World: A Carpenters Tribute returns by popular demand on Saturday, November 19 at 8 p.m. It’s “Yesterday Once More” when Debbie Taylor and her sevenpiece band recreate the unfor gettable, exquisite music of The Carpenters. With a warmth and tone reminiscent of Karen Carpenter, Taylor and her tal ented, accomplished group of musicians bring to life authentic versions of cherished songs including “We’ve Only Just Begun,” “Close to You” and “Rainy Days and Mondays.” This event is presented by Debbie Taylor and Paul Stewart. Tickets are $40-$50.

ommendations and implemen tations. Once the Final Master Plan is complete, it will be pre sented at a public open house before coming to the City Commission for adoption.

The most important part of the master plan process is your input. Feedback from the com munity is essential to building a well- rounded and realistic plan that our community will be proud to enjoy. Beginning later this month, we invite you to our

Annual Fundraiser

quality education programs for adults and children. The Center cultivates creativity and the sup port of the arts in our community through education, innovation and collaboration.

About the Art & Culture Center/Hollywood

The Art and Culture Center/ Hollywood is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization supported in part by its members, admissions, private entities, the City of Hollywood, the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council; and the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; the David and Francie Horvitz Family Foundation; and the Josephine S. Leiser Foundation. They welcome donations from the community.

Russian concert pianist Vyacheslav Gryaznov makes his debut with the Miami International Piano Festival on Sunday, November 20 at 5 p.m. He will perform works by Rameau, Mozart, and the rarely heard “Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 4” with pianist Rexa Han. An arranger and composer, Gryaznov is the author of more than 40 concert arrangements and has gained a reputation as one of the most remarkable young arrangers working today. Musical Life called him, “Extraordinarily inventive, a lead ing voice and one of the great wonders of modern pianism.” Lecturer in residence Professor Frank E. Cooper offers a preconcert introduction. Not sug gested for children under 12 years of age. Tickets are $45$55.

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the Grammy®-winning Boston Early Music Festival have part nered to co-present the Boston Early Music Festival, A Miami Premiere on Wednesday, November 30 at 8 p.m. This Boston Early Music Festival Semi-Staged Opera Series fea tures a double bill of chamber operas with Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Idylle sur la Paix and MarcAntoine Charpentier’s La Fête de Rueil. Ticket holders will enjoy a pre-concert talk at 7 p.m. Tickets are $40-$50.

Ticketmaster is the only offi cial ticketing service of the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center. Buy tickets online at: aventuracenter.org by phone at: 877.311. 7469 or: 954.462.0222 or: in per son at the box office Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. & 90 minutes prior to each performance. For Group Sales, please call: 954. 660.6307.

The Aventura Arts & Cultural Center is located at: 3385 N.E. 188 Street in Aventura. Join the conversation, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram @aventuracenter or #aventuracenter.

Virtual Open House where you can help establish your com munity vision. Accessible online at oursibparksplan.com, you will watch a short welcome video, view information boards and par ticipate in a series of engage ment exercises to provide your input. The Virtual Open House will be accessible at any time and we encourage you to share the link.

Looking ahead, we will be distributing an online survey that we hope to gain your honest

feedback. The Parks and Recreation Master Plan is an impor tant opportunity that will provide a guideline to best respond to the changing needs and priorities of our residents and community. Together we will reach new heights for a healthy, sustain able, and equitable future for all Sunny Isles Beach residents.

Contact Mayor Dana Robin Goldman at: mayor@sibfl.net or: 305.792.1753.

impersonate Diana Ross and Smith will portray Madonna. The Art and Culture Center/

Hollywood presents contem porary gallery exhibitions, live stage performances, and high-

Spooky Snacks that Make Halloween Pop

(Family Features) From watching scary movies to dressing up as ghouls and goblins, spooky season means it’s time to pop up your loved ones’ favorite snacks for a ghostly good time. Before heading out to trick-or-treat, gather your minions in the kitchen for some family-friendly fun crafting these haunting yet tasty treats.

Throughout October, you can honor National Popcorn Poppin’ Month with eerie, delicious eats like Spooky Popcorn Spider Web, Green Halloween Zombies, Witchy Popcorn Balls and Popcorn Caramel Apples that add festive fun to the Halloween excitement.

As a perfect ingredient in treats of all types, popcorn is beloved for its seed-tosnack simplicity as a non-GMO, vegan, gluten-free, sugar-free snack that’s naturally low in fat and calories. Add in its irresistible smell, taste and versatility, and it’s easy to see why it pairs so well with spooky celebrations.

Find more Halloween treats at: popcorn.org

Spooky Popcorn Spider Web Yield: 1 Spider Web

• 1/4 Cup Butter

shape, about 1-inch thick, to resemble spider web. Refrigerate about 15 minutes, or until firm.

In microwave, melt remaining marshmallows about 20 seconds, or until melted. Using spatula, string strands of melted marshmallow over popcorn spider web to create cobweb effect.

In heatproof bowl set over saucepan of hot (not boiling) water, melt 3/4 cup chocolate chips; cool slightly. In large bowl of remaining popcorn, pour chocolate over popcorn, folding gently to coat. Spread mixture on waxed paperlined baking sheet, separating into eight small clusters. Affix two candy eyes to each popcorn cluster. Refrigerate 10-15 minutes, or until set.

Melt remaining chocolate chips. Cut licorice into 1-inch lengths. Using small spoon, dab circles of chocolate onto spider web. Affix chocolate-coated popcorn onto chocolate circles. Affix licorice lengths to chocolate popcorn clusters to resemble spider legs.

Refrigerate 15 minutes, or until set. To serve, cut into smaller pieces.

cooking spray and place popcorn inside.

In medium saucepan over low heat, melt butter. Stir in marshmallows and gelatin powder until marshmallows are melted and mixture is smooth. Adjust color with 1-2 drops food color, if desired. Pour mixture over popcorn and mix until coated.

Spray hands with nonstick cooking spray and press firmly to form into eight balls. Place balls on eight wafer cookies. Press candy decorations into popcorn balls to form “eyes,” “nose” and “mouth.”

In small, microwave-safe bowl, heat chocolate chips, covered, 10 seconds. Stir to aid melting. Repeat as needed until chocolate is melted and smooth.

Spoon about 1/2 teaspoon melted chocolate on top of each popcorn ball. Press licorice strings into chocolate to form “hair.”

Dip cone edges into melted chocolate then orange sugar sprinkles. Place on remaining wafer cookies to form “witches’ hats.” Place hats on popcorn balls. Allow chocolate to set about 45 minutes before serving.

Serve or seal individually in plastic wrap.

hands, shape popcorn into seven ovals.

Flatten one oval slightly and squeeze one end to form “skull” shape. Place on parchment-lined baking sheet. Repeat with remaining ovals.

To decorate: Press two gumballs into each skull to form “eyes.” Press candy corn into skull to form “teeth.” Use scissors to trim candy strips and press into top for “hair.” Sprinkle with sugar sprinkles.

Allow “zombies” to set about 20 minutes before wrapping individually in plastic wrap or serve immediately.

Popcorn Caramel Apples Yield: 4 apples

• 1 Quart Freshly Popped Popcorn

• 1 Package (9 1/2 Ounces, 35 Total)

• Caramels, Unwrapped

• 1/4 Cup Light Cream Or Half-and-half

• 4 Lollipop Sticks Or Wooden Candy Apple Sticks

• 4 Apples

• 1/2 Cup Chocolate Chips

• Sugar Sprinkles

• Decorative Ribbon (Optional)

Place popcorn in large bowl; set aside.

Place sheet of waxed paper on work surface.

In small saucepan over medium-low heat, heat caramels and cream. Stir frequently until caramels are melted and cream is blended into caramels.

Push one stick into apple center and dip into caramel. Spoon caramel over apple to coat. Repeat with remaining apples.

Place caramel-coated apple in bowl of popcorn and press popcorn onto caramel to cover. Place apple on waxed paper to set; repeat with remaining apples.

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In small, resealable plastic bag, microwave chocolate chips 10 seconds and press chips to aid melting. Repeat, heating at 10-second intervals, until chips are completely melted. Cut small corner off bag and squeeze chocolate onto each apple, allowing chocolate to drip down

Tie bow to each apple stick, if desired.

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Titan Restoration Inc. Is A Company That Cares

By Erika Cartwright

The only thing in life that is certain, is that anything can happen at any time. Such tragedies as; fire, hurricanes, and floods are real and do happen, bringing with them water damage and the potential for harmful mold and bacterial growth. Water damage can occur for several rea sons, some you may not notice right away, such as sewer issues, a leaking roof, and clogged or leaking pipes, just to name a few. During these times you need licensed professionals with a plan of action that can ease the stress and take the headache of dealing with the insurance com pany off your hands. Allowing you to focus on what is important to you in your time of need.

Titan Restoration Inc., for merly known as 1st Priority, is a trusted, licensed Cleaning, Water Damage Restoration, and Mold Remediation Company proudly serving all of southern Florida. The main office is in Broward County. Technicians are through out; Collier, Lee, Martin, MiamiDade, Monroe, Palm Beach, and St. Lucie Counties, allowing them to arrive at the site within 45 min utes in times of emergency. With emergency calling 24/7, you are never more than a phone call away from friendly, efficient, car ing, knowledgeable profession als.

Whether the water damage in your home or business was caused by a leaking pipe, roof, or major flood, Titan Restoration Inc. is here to help. To sched ule non-emergency services or to request a free estimate please visit: www. Titanrestorationfl.com their user-friendly

Restoration Inc. works with all Florida homeowners’ insurance companies.

To assess the situation Titan Restoration Inc. offers state-of-the-art leak detection, using infra-red cameras. This allows for non-invasive, non-messy leak detection. No need to tear up dry wall or floors just to find the source of the leak.

remodels, as well as a wide variety of other services. Throughout this process, Titan Restoration Inc. will be working with your insurance company every step of the way.

You should never attempt to remove mold without a licensed professional, it is unsafe, and hazardous to your health.

experts at Titan Restoration Inc. to have you breathing easier, in a mold-free envi ronment.

Once the mold has been identified, the mold remediation process begins. Titan Restoration Inc. will dry out the affected area using fans and dehumidifiers. Followed by thoroughly cleansing and

Once the leaks have been found, you will be referred to a trusted, licensed plumber. After the repairs’, State-of-the-art special ized equipment is used to detect moisture levels in the air, dehumidifiers are placed in the affected area, and a Florida-

Mold thrives in dark, damp environments such as under the kitchen or bathroom sinks, in unventilated basements, and closed in laundry rooms. It can even be found behind drywall. Because of the heat and humidity which Florida is known for, it

sanitizing the affected areas using anti microbial agents effective for moldeliminating and prevention. HEPA air puri fiers are used to capture any airborne mold spores, leaving you with clean air. Green cleaners are used for mildew removal. Since mold spores are airborne and invisible to the naked eye it is nec essary to deep clean the air ducts, car pets, furnishings, and upholstery. Homeowners’ insurance covers the cost in most cases following water damage. These services are offered year-round, and it is rec ommended to have these done once a year to remove allergens, bacteria, dirt, and grime buildup that occurs naturally over time. These services are rec ommended more frequently if you have pets, suffer from aller gies, or are a smoker, to ensure peace of mind and healthier liv ing.

After the repairs are com pleted and your home or busi ness is restored to its pre-loss condition, a Florida statelicensed Mold Inspector will be sent out to do a final inspection, to ensure all mold concerns were effectively eliminated. Titan Restoration Inc. takes pride in providing the best service expe rience to its customers from start to finish. Their goal is to have your property back to its pre-loss condition while taking the stress off you.

get your life back. With services such as emergency packing and storing of sal vageable belongings, following fire or flood, and standing water removal also available, they handle it all for you from AZ. The cost is most often fully covered by your homeowner’s insurance, leaving you with no worries about chasing down reim bursements from the insurance company. Face it, you have enough worries, this doesn’t need to be one of them. Titan

they are dealing with. Some molds are more toxic than others such as black mold, knowing the type, allows for proper precautions to be taken to ensure effec tive treatment and removal of the mold.

Depending on the severity of the dam ages, drywall and flooring may need to be replaced to effectively rid your home or business of mold. Titan Restoration Inc. is a full remodeling and restoration com pany, specializing in kitchen and bath

This causes more damage to your home and health over time. People and pets all respond differently to mold and mildew. For some, it may be watery eyes, itchy throat, cough, or skin irritation. Confusion, disorientation, and even hallucinations can also be signs of mold exposure. For others, exposure to mold can cause very serious, even life-threatening health prob lems. When it comes to your health and the safety of your loved ones, trust the

Titan Restoration Inc. is a customer-friendly company that also specializes in kitchen and bathroom remodeling from drywall and baseboards to cabinetry and flooring. It is not necessary to have damage to your home, to call on Titan Restoration Inc. for all your remodeling needs.

For a free estimate call 954-280-6950, now offering 10% off a $350 service for out-of-pocket customers.

Titan Restoration Inc. is a trusted, licensed Cleaning, Water Damage Restoration, and Mold Remediation Company proudly serving all of South Florida

Titan Restoration Inc. is a customer-friendly company that also specializes in kitchen and bathroom remodeling.

Hollyweird Halloween: Hollywood Block Party & Park Reaccreditation

in the fun for the Hollyweird Halloween Block Party in downtown Hollywood this Saturday, October 29th from 6 p.m. – 2 a.m. for costume contests, live music and specials all night long! Family Friendly Fun is from 6-9 p.m. and features candy & treat stations, face painting, bounce houses, costume contests & prizes, DJ and fun for all! Dress to impress, there will be costume contests with cash prizes, outdoor bars and live bands! With thousands watching and hundreds participating, the kids costume contest has always been a major attraction at Hollyweird. The Kids’ Costume Contest stage is located on 20th Avenue, next to Anniversary Park, inside The Kids’ Zone, there will even be a kid friendly DJ at the Kids Stage. The Kids’ Contest Schedule is as follows: Ages 0-3: 7:00pm – 7:15pm, Ages 4-7: 7:15pm – 7:30pm, Ages 8-11: 7:30pm – 7:45pm, Ages 12-14: 7:45pm – 8:00pm, Ages 15-17: 8:00pm

8:15pm and Family / Group: 8:15pm

8:30pm. Don’t miss it! The adult costume contest stage is located on Hollywood Blvd, halfway

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