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Overturned vehicle on I-95 sends driver to hospital

Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing prof re-ceives two grants from NIH

Lynn University gets federal scrutiny as site for presidential election debate

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County Commission declares May as Cancer Research Month See page 5

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I am pleased to inform you that South County’s own Osprey Point Golf Course was recently desig-nated as a Certified Audu-bon International Classic Sanctuary; the first of its kind in Florida, second of its kind in the United States, and fifth of its kind in the entire World!“This certification recog-nizes our successful effort to integrate an ecosystem approach into the rede-sign and long term man-agement of the property by enhancing the natural habitat, conserving wa-ter, reducing chemical use and saving energy,” said Eric Call, Director of Parks and Recreation, in an email announcing this achievement.

Grand Osprey Golf Course Award

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By Commissioner Burt Aaronson

Community NewsCelebrities honored at Boy’s Towns of Italy “Gran Ballo”

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Road closings begin for final phase of Palmetto Promenade workSee page 4

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Robert Schumann had himself a pretty miserable life. He fell for his piano teacher’s teenage daugh-ter, Clara Wieck, who ended up falling for one of Schumann’s own students, namely Johannes Brahms. Schumann also wrecked his piano playing when he accidentally paralyzed his ring finger while develop-ing odd contraptions to exercise it. And on top of all that, he was a manic depressive who named his moods Florestan and Eu-sebius.

In 1981, Japanese factory worker Kenji Urada be-came the first casualty in what technology’s someday uprising against humanity?A) LasersB) NanotechnologyC) RobotsD) Smartphones

Previous answer: The con-ductor, the symmetry and the string are all super.

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Events at Sugar Sand ParkWILLOW THEATRE AT SUGAR SAND PARKBox Office Hours: T-F, 10a-1p and 5p-8p; Sat. 1-5p; and 1 hour prior to all shows. - Box Office (561) 347-3948

SCIENCE STORIES Ages 5+ Join us for your favorite sci-ence inspired stories.Dates: Each Saturday - Time: 11:30am - Cost: Free SCIENCE DEMONSTRATIONS - Ages 5+Dates: Each Sat. and Sun. Time: 3:30pm - Cost: Free

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Upcoming Boca Raton-sponsored events

THURSDAY, MAY 12, POLICE MEMORIAL CERE-MONY. Annual Police Week ceremonies to honor those law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty. (In conjunction with National Law Enforcement Memori-al Ceremony), 5:30 p.m., Police Department Parking Lot, located 100 NW Boca Raton BlvdFree. Contact (561) 338-1269.

Q: Do adults need to wear a seatbelt when sitting in the front seat of the car.

A: Yes! Florida law requires all front-seat occupants of a motor vehicle to wear a seat belt. Passengers un-der age 18 must be secured with a safety belt or child restraint system, regardless of their seating position.

Crime and safety questions are answered by officers from the Crime Prevention Unit. For more informa-tion, visit www.BocaPolice.com.

AUTO THEFT 05/08/2011 1890 S CONFER-ENCE DRIVEUnknown suspect(s) took a locked 2005 GMC Yukon XL from the driveway at 1890 S. Conference Drive overnight.

BURGLARY TO BUSINESS 05/08/2011 200 S FEDERAL HIGHWAY Unknown suspect(s) entered Lodge Restaurant through a rear bathroom window and took money from the drawer.

BURGLARY/ THEFT FROM AUTO 05/07/2011 1459 W YAMATO ROADVictim reported that unknown suspect(s) stole her purse from the passenger side seat of her gray 2007 Toyota Camry while she was pumping gas. The victim realized her purse was missing when she was going to put debit card back in it. Incident occurred between 1451 and 1454 hours. Victim observed a black newer model Chevy sedan (unknown model) leaving the area quickly.

VANDALISM TO VEHICLE 05/07/2011 1616 N FEDERAL HIGHWAYAn unknown male was seen bending down next to several cars in the parking lot of 1616 N. Federal Highway. The vehicle now has all flat tires. The male was last seen riding off on a black mountain bike. He was last seen riding north of 20th Street on Federal Highway.

The Chaplaincy Unit is looking for one or two addi-tional chaplains of the Jewish faith to join the volunteer chaplaincy of the Palm Beach County Sheriff ’s Office. A rabbinical candidate would have to be a graduate of a recognized rabbinical program and have received ordi-nation. A candidate who is a cantor would have to be a graduate of a recognized cantorial school and have tak-en either in that school or elsewhere courses in coun-seling similar to those taught at a rabbinical seminary. The job requires a monthly commitment of 8 contact hours with sheriff ’s deputies and/or sheriff ’s office civilians. These contact hours are mostly gained by “ride-along(s)” with deputies and visits to a chaplain’s assigned district where he/she would attend roll-calls, sergeants meetings and otherwise become a familiar face around the “house.” In addition every chaplain takes several shifts a year of being “on-call”Applications are available by calling Chaplaincy Unit Manager Bill Gralnick at 561-681-4523.

PBSO needs two additional Jewish chaplains

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Summer Camp Special

Summer’s coming, and camps are beckoning

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• Run Fast Summer Camp at FAUSession: I. June 13th-17th, Session 2 - July 11-15th, Session 3 - August 8-12th. 7-11:30 a.m. daily at Florida Atlantic Uni-versity. Our programs are designed to accommodate middle school and college runners looking to learn more about distance run-ning from beginners to ad-vanced levels. Coach/ath-lete ratio will be less than 10 to 1.Sample topics are: Day 1: Training philosophy/schedules Day 2: Biome-chanics / footwear Day 3: Nutrition, psychology. Day 4: Cross-training, injuries. Day 5: Racing tips/strate-gies. Mile-marathon dis-tance. * Coolmax team top and t-shirt. * Breakfast for week camps. * Personal-ized schedule for summer. * Special discounts to Run-ner’s Edge Call for bro-chure or more info. 561-479-8428Athletes train on the 850 acre campus of Florida Atlantic University. Run Fast athletes will spend the summer training in state

of the art facilities includ-ing; an 8-lane track & field complex, weight room, aquatic center, and 5K cross country course.

• Evert Tennis Academy Summer Camp10334 Diego Drive South Boca Raton, Florida 33428 Phone: 561-488-2001,Camp Type: Day Camp or Sleepaway CampCampers can come for one week, however, to maximize the skills taught campers average 3 weeks of summer camp who want to play competitively. The residential summer camps offers optional, or-ganized and supervised activities like mid-week beach afternoons and off campus field trips to theme parks, movies, concerts, and many other outdoor activities. Camp Dates: The Evert Tennis Acade-my weekly summer camps are available June 5 – Au-gust 20, 2011. Overnight campers arrive Sunday and depart on Saturdays. Day campers arrive Monday and depart on Friday. Age Range: Ages 8 to 18 years old. Activities: Tennis

• Whole Foods Market Cooking SchoolChildren ages 4 through 12,will learn basic kitchen skills and cook through a number of recipes with a trained chef in a fun,

hands-on environment us-ing natural and organic products from Whole Foods Market. The class-es will be held at Whole Foods in Boca Raton, FL. Chef Ursula Rafer of Di-vine Diving is the instruc-tor, so you know the kids are going to be cooking gourmet healthy bites.Classes consist of a 3-day series per week. Parents may drop children off at start time, but are wel-come to join us at the end of each class at 4:30 pm to taste their child’s creations. On Friday, August 19th there will be a knife skills certificate awarded to ev-ery participant as well as a Graduation Certificate showing completion of the Whole Foods Market Summer Cooking Camp.WEEK 1: Currently FullWEEK 2:Tuesday June 14th: 9:00 am - 4:30 pmPicnic Lunch, Menu: Pizza in a Cup, Havana Grill-wiches, No Bake Almond Mulberry CookiesThursday June 16th: 9:00 am - 4:30 pmMovie and a Meal, Menu: Veggie Stir Fry, Sushi Rolls & Chocolate Fortune CookiesSaturday June 18th: 9:00 am - 4:30 pmLil Italy, Menu: Meatballs & Quinoa Pasta Primavera & Mini Chocolate Cheese CakesMini GraduationWEEK 3: Monday August 15th: 9:00 am – 4:30 pm

My Trip to Thailand, Menu: Thai Slaw, Chicken Wontons and Banana Ap-ple WontonsWednesday August 17th: 9:00 am - 4:30 pmSumma Sandwiches, Menu: Shrimp Po Boy, Black Bean Burgers, Sweet Potato FriesFriday August 19th: 9:00 am - 4:30 pmTake a Dip this Summer, Menu: Spinach Dip, Fruit Salsa, Red Bell Pepper & White Bean HummusMini Graduation: Final Knife Skills CertificateLocation:Whole Foods Market1400 Glades RoadBoca Raton, Florida 33431Please Pre-Register with Abigail Nagorski at 561-447-2615, or by e-mail at [email protected]

• Summer Surf CampPresented by Living Water Surf School and the city of Boca Raton. It consists of 11 one-week sessions starting June 6.Living Water Surf School offers the only Quiksil-ver/Roxy surf camps in Florida. The staff of ex-perienced surf camp coun-selors provide fun, safe and educational introduction to the sport of surfing. No surfing experience is nec-essary.Dates: June 6-Aug. 19Time: 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Mon-day through Friday.Ages: 6-13, boys and girls.Enrollment: 40 surfers per week, first come, first served.Location: Red Reef Park.Register in person at Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Boulevard,

Boca Raton, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 pm.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. By mail or fax, visit www.livingwatersurfschool-com and download all four forms. Mail to: Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Boulevard, Boca Raton, FL 33432 ATTN; SURF CAMP. Fax num-ber 561-367-7054.

• Art Summer CampBoca Raton Museum of Art is holding its annual Youth Summer Camp, Ex-ploring the World through Art, from June 6-July 29, 2011 for children ages 5-12. The program offered in eight 1-week sessions is designed to develop stu-dents appreciate and un-derstand the visual arts. Camp Type: Day CampIndividual level of achieve-ment is the focus with low teacher to student ratio

and three levels of learn-ing built into this excit-ing program. Choose from the following themed weeks: Mixed Media, na-ture inspired painting and drawing, Animal Studies, Three Dimensional Art- Recycling, Drawing and Painting Self-Portraits, Watercolor Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture Art, Acting and Puppet Making Show. Camp Dates: June 6- July 29 from Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.How to Register: Walk-in or call-in. Tuition is $265 per week, early and after care available. Discounts available to museum mem-bers. Discounts for sib-lings and multi-week reg-istrations. Camp Location: Art School, 801 W. Palmetto Park Road, Boca Raton. Call 561-392-2500.



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BOCA RATON - Boca Raton fire crews responded to a report of pick up truck that had overturned on I-95 northbound at the Palmetto Park Road overpass at 2:13 p.m. May 3. It came to rest against the wall. Fire crews arrived to find the vehicle on its roof with fuel leaking from the fuel tank, the report said. Firefight-ers found the driver, the only occupant, inside his vehicle. Crews crawled into the cab area, made contact with the driver and were able to release his seatbelt. With the aid of rescue crews, the driver, who was reported to be in serious but stable condition, was taken to Delray Medical Center for further evaluation. The accident is under investigation by Florida Highway Patrol.

Credit: Photo by Frank Correggio

Overturned vehicle on I-95 sends driver to hospital

From left, Fire Captain Aaron Oatley and Special Operations Chief Scott Johnston inspect damage

BOCA RATON - An armed robber held up the Sunoco station at 899 Clint Moore Road just before 11:15 p.m. Monday, police said.Public Information Officer Sandra Boonenberg said the station attendant told officers he was behind the coun-ter when a male entered the station, walked up to him, pointed a black and silver handgun at him, handed him a bag and said, “Give me the money, give me the money, and give it all to me.” The attendant took all the money from the register and put it in the bag, then handed it to the suspect.Boonenberg said the clerk was not injured. The suspect ran east through the parking lot with an undetermined amount of cash. He may have gotten into an older model vehicle and headed west on Clint Moore Road, police said.Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Chris Suarez at (561) 620-6146 or Palm Beach County Crime Stoppers at (800) 458-TIPS.

Gunman robs Sunoco station in north Boca Raton

BOCA RATON - The city was scheduled to begin the road closings needed to complete work on the Palmetto Park Road Pedes-trian Promenade this week.In an email to local citizens and downtown merchants, officials said the recons-truction work was slated to kick back into gear on May 10.“The city, at the request of the downtown businesses, postponed this portion of the project until after “The Season,” the email said.” The final phase of cons-truction consists of remo-ving the existing asphalt roadway, raising the ele-vation of the road and ins-talling brick pavers.The intersections being completed are NE 5th Ave-nue, NE 4th Avenue, SE 3rd Avenue, Mizner Boule-vard and Plaza Real South, all on Palmetto Park Road. There are also two cross-walk areas to be construc-ted. One is located between NE 5th Avenue & SE 4th Avenue and the other is lo-cated between SE 3rd Ave-nue and Mizner Boulevard. The city says traffic will be maintained with two types of detours. First, there will be a local detour for destina-tions within the downtown district. Secondly, a regional detour will be incorporated to provide access to the area between State Road A1A & Interstate 95. Assistant City Manager Mike Woika said that in an effort to minimize the dis-ruption to traffic through-

Road closings begin for final phase of Palmetto Promenade work

out the year, the city nego-tiated with other agencies having projects planned in the downtown area to schedule their work in coor-dination with the construc-tion on Palmetto Park Road. He said the Florida East Coast Railway will be re-constructing the railroad crossing at Dixie Highway and Palmetto Park Road from May 15 through May 18. Also, Palm Beach County will be performing bridge maintenance work on the Intracoastal Waterway Bridge east of 5th Avenue on Palmetto Park Road. The railroad and bridge work should be construc-ted simultaneously.Apart from the railroad and bridge work, there will be four separate closings on Palmetto Park Road,

each lasting about seven days. Traffic will always be maintained to all down-town businesses via the lo-cal detour routes. Pedestrian traffic will not be affected as all work will be performed in the road-way. To expedite the work to the maximum extent practical, each area we will have multiple crews work-ing days, nights and week-ends. Coordination with city de-partments such as sanita-tion, police, and fire will also take place. The traffic signal timing along the de-tour routes will also be ad-justed for each detour.Notifications and updates will be posted in the lo-cal newspaper along with postings on both the city and the downtown websites (http://www.ci.boca-raton.

fl.us/DTPromenade/or http://www.downtownbo-ca.org/). The anticipated sequence of construction for this final phase of major construction is:First Closure: NE 5th Avenue at Palmetto Park Road-FEC Railroad Cross-ing at Palmetto Park Road (May 15)Second Closure: SE 4th Avenue & crosswalk be-tween Mizner Boulevard and SE 3rd Avenue, all on Palmetto Park Road. Third Closure: SE 3rd Avenue & crosswalk be-tween SE 4th Avenue and SE 3rd Avenue, all on Pal-metto Park RoadFourth and Final Clo-sure: Mizner Boulevard and Plaza Real South at Palmetto Park Road

Construction work is scheduled to begin again for the Palmetto Pedestrian Promenade.



The Boca Raton Tribune MUNICIPAL NEWS East/West Boca Raton, FL

The Palm Beach, Broward and Dade county commis-sioners have proclaimed the month of May as Can-cer Research Month in ho-nor of The Pap Corps. This all-volunteer organi-zation has more than 21,000 South Florida members who are dedicated to fund-ing research for all types of cancer. The Pap Corps has raised and donated more than $36 million dollars since its inception in 1952, with over $26 million do-

County Commission declares May as Cancer Research Month

nated in the past nine years alone. These funds support re-search programs at Sylves-ter Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University Of Miami Miller School Of Medicine, South Florida’s only university-based can-cer center. These donations have provided seed money for substantial scientific breakthroughs. “During the month of May, we are requesting that ev-eryone please visit our web-

site, www.papcorps.org, to learn how to help support our efforts,” said Presi-dent Naomi Prever. “Ei-ther through donations or by becoming a volunteer, your support will help us achieve our goal of a world without cancer.”While The Pap Corps is named in honor of Dr. George Papanicolaou, who developed the Pap test for cervical cancer, the organi-zation is dedicated to fund-ing research for all types of cancers that affect men, women and children.Every May, the presidents of the organization’s chap-ters unite for either a break-fast or luncheon ceremony where they present their yearly donation to repre-sentatives of Sylvester and the University of Miami. Last year’s check was for $3.2 million. This year’s presentation will take place May 12 at the Boca West Country Club.

From left are Joel Balizer, Ann Brown Stern, JoAnne Goldberg, Commissioner Steven Abrams (who presented the proclamation on behalf of the Palm Beach County Commission), Naomi Prever,

Lillian Harstein

BOCA RATON - Several members of the Commis-sion on Presidential Debates (CPD) and United States Secret Service (USSS) vi-sited Lynn University’s campus May 4 to review the facilities, amenities and local support services the university highlighted in its application to host a 2012 presidential debate. School officials said the site visit is an important part of the review process that determines which of the 12 schools being consi-dered will become a debate location.Commission staff said the final decision will be an-nounced in late October or early November of 2011. This is when they will make public the four pri-mary and two alternate sites for the three planned presidential debates and one planned vice-presiden-tial debate. “Lynn University was ho-nored to show the com-mission staff our beautiful campus and facilities,” said university President Kevin M. Ross. “We’ve already hosted a 2010 mid-term

Lynn University gets federaL scrUtiny as site for presidentiaL eLection debate

debate and our campus fac i l i t i es, including the Keith C. and Elaine J o h n s o n Wold Per-f o r m i n g Arts Cen-ter, would be an ideal l o c a t i o n for a 2012 presidential election debate. We have the space, the local support infrastructure and ser-vices, and the support of the community. I know we would make an excellent choice.”A debate would attract an estimated 5,000 to 8,000 people (including several thousand members of the domestic and international media) to the Boca Raton area. These people could stay in the area up to a week, generating a sizable economic impact.The CPD and USSS mem-bers were greeted by 16 local dignitaries who came to show their support and excitement for Lynn Uni-

versity’s efforts to host a debate. “We are so grateful for the energetic support from our local leaders and organi-zations,” President Ross said. “Their partnership with us in this effort will be important to ensure that South Florida shines on the international stage as we show the world the greatest event in American democracy.”The Commission on Presi-dential Debates was estab-lished in 1987 to ensure that debates, as a perma-nent part of every general election, provide the best possible information to viewers and listeners.



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The Boca Raton Tribune EDITORIALS/LETTERS East/West Boca Raton, FL

The Boca Raton TribuneFounded January 15, 2010

By Dale King

Our Writers/Reporters and ColumnistsEditorialDALE M. KING: Managing EditorPEDRO HEIZER: Associate Editor

OLEDA BAKER, DIANE FEENSANDY HUNTSMAN, SYNESIO LYRA, GERALD SHERMAN, MARC KENT, KAY RENZ,

MATT PINEDA

Letters to the Editor

My wife and I are not des-sert people. At home, we rarely have sweets after a meal - unless we’re having guests or it’s a special oc-casion.It’s particularly difficult to avoid dessert at a restau-rant. Many places plunk down the dessert menu just as you are finishing the meal. Frankly, enjoy-ing a good dinner out, and maybe a cup of coffee after, will normally fill the bill.With that in mind, we found it intriguing that during a trip with friends to a conference in another part of Florida, we were bombarded with desserts - not just at one restaurant, but at two, on consecutive nights.Actually, the desserts were intended to be recompense for less than satisfactory service. It seemed a little strange that two entirely different restaurants would use the very same tactic to please us.I must admit that the first culinary indiscretion was, at least in part, our fault. We spent a long time por-ing over the menu while the waiter kept asking for our orders. We put him off

Getting your just dessertsby ordering just an appe-tizer.Anyway, the entrees ap-parently arrived later than they should have, and one in our party complained to the manager. He promised to do a mea culpa with a large tray of sweet deli-cacies. I remember seeing a large piece of choco-late layer cake at the bow of what appeared to be a freighter filled with sweet delights.I kind of concentrated on the chocolate cake and didn’t really get to the rest of the confectionary cargo, but we did polish it off pretty well, even though the meal had filled us suf-ficiently.At the second restaurant, the desserts were deserved. A young and possibly less-than-experienced waiter seemed a bit overwhelmed dealing with a table of six on a busy evening.The young man seemed intent on providing one in the party with beer. In the meantime, he forgot to give all of us plates. So, when he came out with the appetizer, one in our party said: “You’ve asked me three times about a beer,

but I don’t have a plate to put this on.”He quickly ran for plates. But, apparently, he grabbed a stack that hadn’t been washed. That was too much.The manager was sum-moned, and he arrived with two other waiters. The young man who had attended to us was dis-patched to another part of the restaurant.Again, at the end of the meal, a waiter arrived with a large platter of desserts - again headed by a large chunk of chocolate cake.But I have to commend this manager. Not only did he appease us with sweets, but also reduced the bill. This was a guy who knows his stuff.We returned home without further mishap, content with the trip, but some-what heavier than when we left. But in the future, I would be satisfied with a sincere apology. Skip the sweets, please.

Gathering at the Gallery

If you weren’t at Yaa-cov Heller’s Gallery 22 in Royal Palm Place this

past Sunday evening, you missed a wonderful event that helped a cause and at-tracted a number of well-known residents.The occasion was a book-signing for Merry Lynn Ross, a former television and film star who was sig-ning her new book about anti-bullying. Proceeds will aid that cause.Yaacov also unveiled a por-trait of Elizabeth Taylor that he just completed.Also on hand was Brett Loewenstern, a finalist on “American Idol” who has gained national notice for his own situation of being bullied.Singer-songwriter Carol Connors was in town from Beverly Hills. She sang a bit from “To Know Him is to Love Him,” a song that dates back to when she was the teen lead singer of The Teddy Bears (a group that included a very young Phil Spector).Singer Margo Joy perfor-med a spectacular rendition of “Time to Say Goodbye,” a song she has sung with the man who made it famous, Andrea Bocelli.It was a great event. Plaudits to Yaacov and Sue Heller.

Dear Dale, Thanks for the great article in today’s paper (about Brett Loewenstern visiting Home Safe campus in Boca Raton). More important, congratulations on the Boca Raton Tribune’s one-year anniversary. It’s an amazing feat, especially given the ever-changing landscape in the media industry. Here’s to many more years of success! Joe MalteseMarketing ManagerHome Safe Inc.

Dear Dale,Thanks for including my picture in the centerfold photo collage of the first anniversary publication!Congrats to all, and best wishes for many more issues featuring the local happenings in Boca Raton.

Barbara McCormick



The Boca Raton Tribune EDITORIALS & LETTERS East/West Boca Raton, FL

By Dr. Synesio Lyra, Jr.POSITIVE LIVING

Dr. Synesio Lyra, Jr. is a Florida resident who, for many years, was a professor at the post-graduate level. He is a writer, a sought-after conference speaker, a man who lived in five continents of the world, having

received his education in four of them. When he resided in southern California, he wrote a weekly column for the daily “Anaheim Bulletin,” which was carried for about six years, until he moved to south Florida.

By Douglas Heizer

THOUGHTS FROM THE PUBLISHER

Any person desirous of us-ing the mind will readily acknowledge that, in the course of any day, several good thoughts will knock at your mind’s door, seek-ing interaction with your mental tools. This is sig-nificant because thinking often leads to action!You may be reading some-thing, you may be listening to someone speak, you may be in conversation with a person, or you may be part of a group engaged in some discussion. In any of these activities, as in many others, your mind may en-tertain a wide variety of good thoughts which can, and should, be promptly recorded for further ex-pansion and beneficial use.Through the years I have developed the habit of jot-ting down, as fast as I can, sudden thoughts which rush through my mind. As a result, these get to be recorded on a napkin at a restaurant, on the back of an used envelope, or on any piece of paper within my reach at the moment I sense the idea to be worth writing. This good habit is possible for anyone regard-less of one’s station in life

Seize good thoughts that come to you!or professional activity.Through the years these have been springboards for an article, for a lecture, a sermon, any other type of public talk. I’ve also used some in counseling sessions, or as a helpful comment to someone with whom I may be engaged in dialogue.I’m glad that I discovered long ago that thoughts are fugitive; they must be ar-rested, captured, and im-prisoned on paper or tape as quickly as they come. When such action is ig-nored or delayed, precious ideas will be lost and the mind won’t be capable of restoring or reconstruct-ing its central point again.The human mind repeated-ly gets pregnant with good insights which should not be aborted but, rather, stimulated, and allowed to be born by natural de-livery. In the seventeenth century, Blaise Pascal rec-ognized that “Man is ob-viously made in order to think. This is the whole of his dignity and merit, and it is his whole duty to think as he ought.”Not too many are those who pay any attention to

the importance of think-ing; fewer still are those who ever recognize the ur-gency of capturing good thoughts that unexpected-ly pass through one’s mind at varied intervals. Yet, it is from seed thoughts that great inventions and discoveries stem; major enterprises are planned and developed; impacting speeches are given; im-mortal poetry and moving songs are composed; sig-nificant books on any sub-ject are written! One’s mind is never alto-gether empty; it simply needs to welcome and pro-mote creative, positive, im-pacting thoughts. You can saturate your mind with sound thoughts which, in turn, will stimulate new ones whose consequences can be for your personal benefit, for the good of countless others. Read often, seek the company of intelligent people, and keep your curiosity alive by engaging your mind with every new experience you encounter in your daily o-peration.

The staff and I have had a number of meetings lately about improve-ments to the Boca Raton Tribune.One idea keeps rising to the top of the list, and we’re going to launch it shortly.The Tribune will soon have a real estate section. And why not, we asked ourselves. Nearly every newspaper we’ve seen has a section for real es-tate.We have already begun contacting Realtors and real estate agents about this exciting concept. We want as many people to come on board as pos-sible, and we encourage any real estate agent who wants to be part of this new effort to come on down.Placing this new section into the paper will re-quire a little adjustment, but it won’t change the paper much. Currently, the Tribune has a B-sec-tion for life and arts, en-

Real estate section to make its debut in the Boca Raton Tribune

tertainment, style stories and fashion, among other things. That section now runs every week. Shortly, the B-section will alternate with an R-section – R for real estate. That part of the paper will contain real estate ads, photos and oc-casional stories about the real estate market.Hopefully, we are begin-ning to see light at the end of the tough econo-my tunnel. It has been a difficult time for the real estate market, but almost every sector of the econ-omy – retail, restaurants and shopping centers in general – have struggled to survive.We want to help the market improve. We want to give real estate sales persons exposure to assist them with their portfolios.Boca Raton has such a great mix of homes. Re-nowned architect Addi-son Mizner set the style when he built the Boca

Raton Resort & Club back in the mid-1920s. Now, Mediterranean ar-chitecture is a way of life. And it shows in many Boca homes.With its many ameni-ties, Boca Raton has long been a vacation desti-nation for people of all ages. But the community is also known for having family friendly neigh-borhoods, top ranked schools, eclectic shops, and exciting sport at-tractions. Boca Raton is the perfect South Florida community to set down roots and buy a home. That’s what those in the real estate field will tell you. The Boca Ra-ton Tribune wants to give them a place to say it. And our new section will also be a place where people in the market for a home can find just what to look for.Stay tuned for more in-formation, and watch for the R-section in the next Boca Raton Tribune.



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Fabulous cars, beautiful peo-ple, sunshine and blue skies, and even money raised to benefit TriCounty Humane Society…this was the scene at Cruz-N-America’s Open Car Show, held at Royal Palm Place in downtown Boca Raton, FL on Sunday, May 1st. Hundreds of spec-tators admired the show-stopping collectible cars, featuring exquisite engi-neering, gleaming chrome, and meticulous attention to detail…just think of every-

Cruisin’ Boca Style!thing from convertibles to dragsters, hot rods to low riders, stocks to customs and all of them hot!There were so many gor-geous cars, and some of our favorites included a 1974 Silver Pantera, chromed out to the max, a 2007 Black Roush Mustang (actually signed by Jack Roush and one of only 7 black ones produced that year), the fa-mous red and white Starsky & Hutch car, and a blue and orange Mosler that looked

positively wicked.The winner of “Best In Show” was a magnificent 1939 Orange Lincoln Ze-phyr Coupe. Talk about fine-ly polished, glamorous and low to the ground! When it was introduced in 1939, the engine was known to be 267 cubic inches V12 and delivered 110hp power. The altered grills and prominent lights, along with the fog lighting, made it attractive to the customers; the rear end of the car was slanting

downwards, and also pos-sessed a huge trunk along with the flowing lines…check out how the rear wheels are enclosed in the skirts.Watch for more news, as word has it that they are going to be having other car events at Royal Palm Place the second Sunday of each month…in the meantime, we hope you enjoy these photos from the show!

BOCA RATON - Ray-mond Lee Jewelers in Boca Raton recently held a night of “sipping and shopping” that raised $2,000 for the Children’s Aid Club, a South Florida-based non-profit organization.CAC is an all-volunteer 501(c) 3 organization founded in 1955 by local women who recognized a need in the community. Their purpose is to help children in South Florida whose needs are not always met by existing social ser-vice programs. Members intervene to assist children and their families suffering from medical, financial and social hardships.The organization’s pro-grams are funded through special events, membership dues, and grants. With no paid staff or administra-tive costs, 100 percent of fundraising proceeds go directly back into the com-

Boca Raton jeweler’s event raises $2,000 for nonprofit

Children’s Aid Clubmunity.“We were thrilled with the turnout of the night’s event and are very grateful to our customers who gra-ciously opened their wal-lets and shopped to benefit the CAC” said Julia Joseph-son, director of Special Events at Raymond Lee Jewelers. “We chose to host an event on behalf of the CAC because we have got-ten to know the organiza-tion on a personal level and knew that any funds raised for them would directly impact the community.” She added: “I have been to their functions and met their members, and can say firsthand that the CAC is an outstanding bar raising bunch. The families and children this organization helps, and the difference they make, literally brings tears of joy because what they do is so necessary.”

Shown from left are Marilyn Markus (Children’s Aid Club member), Patty Cali-endo (Children’s Aid Club member) and Ann Powell (Chil-dren’s Aid Club pre-sident)

From left are Mike and Mary Ellen Coen standing. Seated are Sandy Noonan and Kelle Enriquez, all sup-porters of the Chil-dren’s Aid Club



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By Diane Feen

BOCA RATON - Someti-mes, greatness appears in our midst and we just don’t know where to look for it. Such is the case with Lynn Henchman.Henchman was a superstar designer in the UK, Hong Kong and Australia and is now residing and working in Boca Raton. Although her talent is in-disputable, her history is even more fascinating. She grew up in London. Her father was a diplomat with the British Embassy, her grandparents lived in Bolivia and she went to boarding school in both England and Switzerland. Henchman has designed hotel suites for the Manda-rin Oriental in Hong Kong, Macau and China as well as Intercontinental Spa Resort China, Hyatt Sanc-tuary Cove Australia, Ban-yan Tree Resort Thailand and a host of other resorts, hotels, yachts and private residences.But the one project that put her in the artistic strato-sphere was a 27-story ho-me in Mumbai, India. As the principal designer, she helped to carve out one of the most luxurious dwel-lings in the world. The house that is worth $1 billion, is 270,000 square feet, has 50 bathrooms, 168 parking spaces and 600

Design excellence. The work of Boca’s Lynn Henchman

servants. “All the rooms had to be different, much the same as a hotel. We had custom-made fabric and silk carpets that were out of this world,” said Hench-man, who often flew in her client’s private jet to scout out furnishings.Although her resume de-fies gravity (literally) Hen-chman is very happy in her new digs in Boca Raton. “I’ve traveled to some of the most beautiful places on earth, enabling me to hone my craft and absorb a variety of different cul-tures in the world. But I am thrilled to relocate to South Florida that is bursting with rich diversity, influ-ential people and gorgeous weather all year round.”When her parents (Ronald and Elizabeth) sent her to boarding school in Swit-zerland, they hoped their daughter would someday become an interpreter at the UN. But Henchman’s wanderlust for travel and adventuresome spirit dis-solved that static plan. In-stead, she moved to Hong

Kong with her husband and set upon decorating

their home with élan. Her efforts paid off, not only in domestic elegance, but in her future destiny.“One day, a friend of ours came over to our house in Hong Kong and he loved it so much he offered me a job with a design firm. After three years I started my own design firm (called Lynn Henchman Design) doing high-end residential projects,” said Henchman, who went to the Inchbald School of Design in Lon-don.From there, her talent soared. And others conti-nued to take note of her design ability. “The ge-neral manager of the Man-darin Oriental Hotel was impressed with a job I had done for one of my clients.

So he asked me to de-sign a themed suite at the hotel called The Macau Suite.”Not only was the gen-eral manager thrilled with the results, but others were quite smitten as well. “Prin-cess Diana’s favorite suite at the Manda-rin Oriental was The Pine Suite (that I de-signed) and Luciano Pavarotti’s favorite

suite was my Macau Suite,” added Henchman, who met Princess Diana at a charity fundraiser in Hong Kong

in 1996.Henchman knows that not everyone can hire a design-er to create marvelous digs, but she has some words of wisdom for all of us. “You have to decide what mood you want when you design your home. You can incor-porate either modern de-sign, contemporary, clas-sical or transitional. Once you decide, then you know what style furniture to buy, but you have to keep in mind the size and propor-tion of the rooms.”You do this, Henchman said, by drawing the pieces of furniture on a piece of paper and making a small scale of your room. Then, you can see how the pieces of furniture will fit in the room. To scale down the paper you take a ruler and make a half inch equal one foot of your room. Right now, Henchman is gearing up (not scaling down) to design homes, spas, hotels and other spac-es in our South Florida landscape. And if her past is any indication of the fu-ture for Lynn Henchman, then we’re all in for some grand decor in our midst. Contact Lynn Henchman Design at: 561-393-3289 or www.LynnHenchman-Design.com.

Lynn Henchman

Some of Lynn Henchman’s designs

Photo from the 27-room house she designed in Mumbai, India

BOCA RATON - Profes-sor John Lowe, R.N., Ph.D., F.A.A.N of the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing at Florida Atlantic Uni-versity has received two grants from the National Institutes of Health’s Na-tional Institute on Drug Abuse. Lowe is one of only 15 Na-tive American nurses with a doctoral degree in the United States.The first grant to Lowe was as principal investiga-tor on a two-year study titled “Testing a Subs-tance Abuse Prevention for Cherokee Early Ado-lescents.” This study will examine the feasibility of using innovative, cultur-ally appropriate school-based substance use pre-vention for Cherokee sixth graders as they transition to middle school, a period of high vulnerability. The total amount awarded for this study is $616,892. The second grant was awarded to Dr. Lowe and co-principal investigator Eric

Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing prof receives two grants from NIH

Wagner, Ph.D. from Flori-da International Universi-ty, for a study titled “Brief Intervention for Substance Using Native Youth.” This is a five-year research proj-ect designed to develop and test a school-based, brief motivational intervention for substance using Na-tive American high school students. The total amount awarded was $3,190,385, and the FAU contract to-tals $476,394.“What we do know is that Native American youth, compared to youth from other racial/ethnic back-grounds, are at especially high risk for drug use and drinking, which makes them particularly suscep-tible to the development of substance use problems,” said Lowe. “Dr. Wagner and I believe our proposed study is significant and in-novative, and represents an important next step in the development of cross-cul-turally effective, brief and school-based interventions for drug use and drinking among teenagers.”“We commend John on these awards and for his contributions,” said Patri-cia Liehr, Ph.D., R.N., asso-ciate dean for research and scholarship. “Our faculty and students are honored to work side-by-side and study with him to continu-ally advance the discipline of nursing.”

Professor John Lowe




BOCA RATON - The West Boca Toastmasters celebrates its 15th anni-versary this year. Club members attend weekly meetings to improve their public speaking ability. Research has shown that 75 percent of people ex-perience anxiety in public speaking situations that reduces their effectiveness. And 30 percent of Ameri-cans rate public speaking anxiety as their strongest fear next to spiders, snakes and death. While most speech-anxious individuals feel embarrassed, believ-ing they alone suffer such fears, in fact the majority of people share their expe-rience.Speech anxious people may fear that if speaking before a group, they will not know what to say or will say fool-ish things. As a result, they expect that the audience will make fun of them or think badly of them, lea-ving them feeling embar-

West Boca Toastmasters Club celebrates 15th anniversary

rassed and humiliated. Avoiding speaking in pu-blic can seem like a sensible solution. The outcomes we fear, such as people lau-ghing at us, rarely happen. However, our strong belief that bad things will happen is enough to control our emotions and behavior.Research has shown that the vast majority of peo-ple with public speaking anxiety have the ability to speak coherently and effec-tively. Most speech anxious individuals can communi-cate quite well with close friends and family, sugges-ting that their problem is the anxiety they feel inter-

feres with their being able to show their ability. Once the anxiety is gone, most individuals communicate much more effectively.It is no coincidence that the “best” treatment for public speaking anxiety sounds a lot like Toastmasters. Toastmasters provides an ideal place to overcome the anxiety that plagues so many people.The West Boca Toastmas-ters Club meets at Olym-pic Heights High School each Wednesday at 7 p.m. Guests are welcome. Call 561-716-6816 for more in-formation.

BOCA RATON - Boca Ra-ton Fire Rescue Explorers again took top honors in the 11th Annual Explorer Challenge hosted by Mar-gate, Lauderhill and Coral Springs Fire Rescue, held at the Coral Springs Fire Academy.Boca Raton won five first place honors and two se-cond-place trophies. They also won first place for overall points scored. This is the second year that Ex-plorer Post 315 has won first place overall at the Coral Springs event. Their name will be placed on a travel trophy which the post is entitled to keep for a year. The firematic competition brought together teams from Broward to Estero to compete in nine different events that help to promote

Boca Raton Fire Explorers win again at Challenge in Coral Springs

teamwork and test the team’s skill in hose deploy-ment, search and rescue, ladder raise, combat chal-lenge, trauma, first aid and CPR and other events. Members of Post 315 are currently training for an-other competition in Port St. Lucie in May. Competition Events

Members of West Boca Toastmasters Club.

Boca Raton Fire Explorer Post 15 includes, from left, Advi-sor Frank Correggio, Advisor Jesus Barrera and Explorers Sean

Hallman, Casey Gugliotta, Williams Hidalgo, Chris Hope, Chad Watler, Vincent Palermo.

• 1st place:Bucket Brigade Hose RollLaddersBunker Gear/Pittsburg DrillHose Deployment •2nd place: First AidCombat Challenge

Injured dog at Tri County needs eye surgery slated to cost $2,000

BOCA RATON - “She is so sweet, all she wants to do is give you kisses... she needs a home and someone to love her, she has had a terrible life and deserves a new one,” said Jeannette Christos, founder and CEO of Tri County Humane Society.She was describing “Tammy,” a 2-year-old toy mini poo-dle who was found tied to the shelter gate in the middle of the night last week. “No owner has come forward to

Tammy needs surgery to regain her sight

claim her and we suspect she was tied there because no one wanted her,” Chris-tos said.The mini poodle was flea infested, matts covered her eyes and she had a severe ear infection. “After clean-ing her up with a good groom and shave down, we realized she had juve-nile cataracts in both eyes. Not only does she need a loving home, but she needs eye surgery so she can see. The surgery will cost ap-proximately $2,000 for both eyes. There is a 99.9 percent chance of suc-cess.”If anyone would like to donate to Tammy, please Tri County at call 561-482-8110.

If you are a golfer and have not yet played there, I high-ly recommend it. In addi-tion to being environmen-tally friendly, the 27-hole championship golf course is beautiful and features a medley of enticing lakeside vistas, a modern rolling layout, and considerable o-pen space needed for wild-life in our developed com-munity.Osprey Point was the per-fect finishing touch to its award winning counter-part, South County Regio-nal Park. The park itself gained national recognition

just last year as the recipi-ent of the National As-sociation of County Park and Recreation Officials’ (NACPRO) Park and Re-creation Facility Award. This award program rec-ognizes and honors excel-lence in recreation and park facilities and is designed to focus national attention on the very best of facility de-sign. The award is designed to showcase and encourage outstanding efforts in plan-ning, design, construction, and benefits to the commu-nity.South County Regional

Park encompasses 848 acres and includes Sunset Cove Amphitheater, Coconut Co-ve Waterpark, Daggerwing Nature Center, and Canine Cove Dog Park, not to mention the playgrounds, athletic fields, racquet cen-ter, bike trail, freshwater boat ramp, picnic opportu-nities, and more.

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BOCA RATON - The Boy Scouts of America-Cub Scout Pack 309, The Vete-rans Sup-port Organization and JARC were competing for the top donation in the Zavee Cause Challenge, but in a dramatic, down-to-the wire voting ses-sion at the Oceans 234 Award Party, it ended up as a three-way tie! Surprised by the results, Za-vee’s executive team decided to divide the $1,500 dona-tion equally among the three Causes. Zavee is a free community-based website that offers cash back rewards from hundreds of Zavee merchants every time you shop and dine and contributes a portion of its fee income to local charities and non-profit causes. “Each charity was encou-raged to have its suppor-ters register for Zavee and vote for their cause. However, none of us anticipated a three-way tie,” said Ron Stack, COO of Zavee. “But that just reinforced our belief that all of our Causes are winners!”Zavee supports local causes through their Charity Chal-lenges and with their Care Shares™ Program which al-lows Zavee shoppers to guide the company’s charitable dona-tions.

Three-way tie in Zavee Cause Challenge aids a trio of charities

From left, Ray Filorimo, Alan Pleskow, Ron Stack, Justin Vassi, Stephen Etzi, The Etzi children

Shown from left are Scott Heide, Tara Ebert, Katherine Schull, Chris Dunac

Ron Stack, left, with Kristin Pease, Alan Pleskow

From left are Meaghan Edelstein, Jason Dollard, Terra Spero

Left to right are Lisa Etzi, Stephen Etzi, Ruth Etzi, Richard Etzi

Ruth Quiles and Kim Russo, with Marlene Goldberg standing

Story, photos by Barbara McCormick

The Boy’s Towns of Italy Florida Committee recen-tly celebrated 66 years of helping homeless and needy children from five conti-nents by giving them a “chance in life.”Nick Di Tempora, general chairman, welcomed eve-ryone, and thanked them for their support. He then introduced the Honorable Marco Rocca, Consul Ge-neral of Italy, who spoke of the special mission of Boy’s Towns, and the deep appre-ciation for being honored 2010 “Man of the Year.” Brother Patrick Sean Mof-fett, president emeritus of Boy’s Towns of Italy, gave a brief history of the charity.Highlight of the evening were presentations to the honorees. Popular vocal-ist Connie Francis received the “2011 Celebrity of the Year” award. Perhaps best know for singing the theme to “Where the Boys Are,”

Celebrities honored at Boy’s Towns of Italy “Gran Ballo”

she recorded the song in five languages, and it was the number one hit in 15 countries before the movie was released. Sharing the spotlight was Frank Congemi, Boy’s Towns of Italy “Man of the Year.” Congemi is an inde-pendent broker dealer, and his company, LPL Finan-cial, has access to companies around the world. He is also the chairman of the board of the Deerfield Beach Chamber of Commerce, and serves on the advisory committee of the Financial Services Institute in Wash-ington, D.C. Special acknowledgement was given to Janet Sguera (in the form of a diamond bracelet) for 50 years of working with Boy’s Towns of Italy. Special thanks were also given to benefac-tor Richard Parrillo, Sr. and the donation of fine wine by Mario Ferrando; Tony Al-bino, journal chairman and AnnMarie Napolitano, gifts chairman.

From left are the Honorable Marco Rocca, Consul General of Italy; Connie Francis, “Cele-brity of the Year” and Nicholas Di Tempora, General Chairman of the Committee

Shown from left are Man of the Year Frank Congemi; Brother Patrick Moffett and Nicholas Di Tempora, General Chairman

From left to right are AnnMarie Napolitano, Nicholas Di Tem-pora, Janet Sguera and Brother Patrick Moffett

The Honorable Marco Rocca, Consul General of Italy; John J. Brunetti and Connie Francis, “Celebrity of the Year.”



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BOCA RATON - Stanford Slutsky’s mind thinks geo-metrically.And it shows up in his art-work.The Nathan D. Rosen Mu-seum Gallery is about to present, “The Shape of Things,” a solo exhibition featuring the work of Del-ray Beach resident Slutsky.The display begins with an

Illusion art display may fool your eyes at Levis JCC’s Rosen Gallery

opening reception Sunday, May 15 and runs through Friday, Oct. 7. As part of the 1 to 4 p.m. reception, Slutsky will give a presen-tation detailing a piece of his artwork from concep-tion to completion. “When I was a child,” he said, “there was something about the illusions magi-cians created that captured

my imagination. I want that same vivid sense of illusions to be central in my artwork.”Today, he said, all his work creates the illusion of movement and three-dimensionality. “I achieve these effects by juxta-posing hard-edged color patterns that disrupt the normal process of vision. Some shapes of color may seem to advance and then recede and others appear to pulsate in waves.”Slutsky, nominated to the Arts Hall of Fame in 1989, has exhibited in numer-ous venues across South Florida, lectured, and has participated (both as an artist and a judge) in many art competitions including the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s 54th and 57th Annual All Florida Juried

Competition and Exhibi-tion.Out of more than 1,100 submissions by nearly 400 artists, he was one of few-er than 100 artists chosen to represent the best in Florida. He has also participated in Art in Public Places at the Palm Beach International Airport and Hortt 45 the Best of South Florida, a three month exhibit at the Coral Springs Museum of Art.Slutsky has also had sev-eral solo exhibits at ven-ues that include The Art Institute Fort Lauderdale, Young At Art Children’s Museum and Broward College south campus. Slutsky has won many awards and has been a prominent member and promoter of the South

Florida art scene for close to 29 years. “My art is a passion of painstaking, semi-scien-tific approach to painting based on the manipula-tion of optical devices. It depends on subtle color gradations and system-atic chromatic harmonic lines and shapes,” added Slutsky. “I hope my work will stim-ulate and provoke a posi-tive emotional response in the viewer’s mind just like the magicians did when I was a child.” The Nathan D. Rosen Museum Gallery is open Monday - Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It is located at the Levis JCC Sandler Center, 21050 95th Ave. S., Boca Raton. Admission is free. For information, call Kathy B. Slutsky (561) 558-2504 .

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BOCA RATON – The city will mark the grand open-ing of its new Palmetto Pe-destrian Promenade with a vast assortment of special events Oct. 21 and 22.Bonnie Kaye of Kaye Com-munications, the city’s mar-keting agency, outlined the grand plans before an au-dience of nearly 90 people Wednesday at Max’s Grille in Mizner Park. She said the event, “Meet Me on the Promenade” will coincide with the American Cancer Society’s annual Making Strides for Breast Cancer walk at the Mizner Park Amphitheater.“We want to draw visitors from Boca and from outside Boca,” Kaye told the stand-ing-room only crowd. The Promenade celebra-tion begins the night of Oct. 21 with a variety of community events, all free, in the area of Sanborn Square. The cancer walk is the next day.Also on the agenda is a Cruz-N America auto show. Walking tours of the

Major celebration to mark Palmetto Pedestrian Promenade grand opening

Oct. 21-22new pedestrian walkway are scheduled. Kaye said visitors will be shown how to navigate the new down-town path.A number of businesses are pitching in with prod-ucts or funding to help out. Kaye said the Boca Raton Tribune will be publishing a “Downtown Boca” quar-terly listing events taking place downtown and in the area near the city’s center.Kaye said an official down-town Boca guide called “Discover” will be created along with a pocket guide and map. During the October cel-ebration, BocaParent will set up a family zone for children’s amusements, and specifically designed art-work will be placed in the windows of vacant stores.A “Count Me In” reception and workshop will be held May 17 from 6 to 8 p.m. at III Forks Restaurant on Palmetto Park Road to fur-ther elaborate on plans for the special event. Commit-tees will be formed to help

plan and coordinate the overall fete.Kaye used Wednesday’s get-together to update guests on progress to mar-ket the downtown, to make it “eclectic and electric” combining “cosmopolitan vibrancy with small-town charm.”Visitors to the downtown are being encouraged to “come early and stay late.”She noted that some $5 million has been invested in the downtown by orga-nizations such as the city, the owners of Royal Palm Place, the Boca Museum of Art and the Boca Children’s Museum, among others. Kaye told the group she’s already conducting media tours for out-of-town jour-nalists and the Palm Beach County Convention and Visitors Bureau.She also cited the down-town website which, to date, has gotten more than 19,000 visitors, more than 42,000 page views and 78 percent new visitors. She said the average amount of time a person stays on the page is 1.48 minutes.

Bonnie Kaye from Kaye Communications points to items listed on a slide

Crowd of nearly 90 attended Bonnie Kaye’s talk on progress of downtown Boca Raton




BOCA RATON - You might see rocker Rod Stewart walking the streets of Boca Raton. After all, he does have a mansion in Palm Beach.But if you see a shaggy haired, gravely-voice guy

Did I just see Rod Stewart? Hot legs, it was really Rick St. James!

humming “Maggie May” or “Tonight’s the Night,’ it’s more likely to be Rick St. James.Tribute bands and per-formers paying homage to the rock legends of the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s have given rise

to a new type of concert - live entertainment without ticket prices in the hundreds of dollars. Florida resident Rick St. James’ performs what he calls “The World’s Best Rod Stewart Tribute Show,” which he will pre-

sent at B.B. King’s in West Palm Beach May 19. Other shows are planned for Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Boyn-ton Beach and a number of other Florida cities.“My influences include the great pop singers like El-vis, Sinatra, right to the great blues and soul sin-gers like Wilson Pickett, Muddy Waters to rock n roll and hard rock and Rod of course”, said St. James.Actually, the Rod Stewart sing-alike has a connection to the original. When Car-mine Appice, Rod Stew-art’s legendary drummer and co-writer, met Rick in Las Vegas in 2009 he said, “This is the one…the voice, the look, the sound, amaz-ing. His Rod Stewart is the best I’ve heard. If I could re-form the Rod Stewart

band now, Rick would be my front guy!” With Stewart-style energy in his voice and manner, Rick St. James appeals to boomers, seniors and now, many from the younger generation with his re-markable resemblance to Rod Stewart and his rock-ing rendition of “Mag-gie May,” “Tonight’s The Night,” “Hot Legs,” “For-ever Young,” “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” and other Stew-art favorites He also performs Stewart’s tunes from “The American Songbook,” “Classic Rock Album” and “Soulbook Al-bum” and the latest clas-sic rock songs. Rick’s Rod Stewart has been a headlin-er of “Rockspolosion” and the original Rockstar Trib-ute Show featuring multi-

tribute artists in concert. Showing his versatil-ity, Rick not only does solo performances, but also a rock show featuring a 6 to 8 piece band. Rick has ap-peared at Carnegie Hall, BB Kings N.Y.C., Hard Rock Café and Casinos in Atlantic City and Las Ve-gas. He has made guest ap-pearances at the Boca Ra-ton Resort & Club and also at Grammy Award Parties in California. In addition to his May 19 gig at BB King’s, St. James will also appear June19 at the Meyer Amphitheater in West Palm Beach. As of this writing, Rick just signed a contract to appear with the legendary Electric Light Orchestra, the popu-lar musical group of the 70’s.



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Nan Chapman, former TV reporter and news anchor, now living in Boca Raton

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Dale King and wife Julia Hebert with singer Margo JoyFlossy Keesley and Poppi Mercier

Merrie Lynn Ross and Dini Heizer

Yaacov Heller’s Adam and Eve sculpture advertise Merrie Lynn Ross’ new book

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ENTERTAINMENTBy Skip Sheffield

Ever since she played the bad girl in “Kill Bill,” I’ve thought of Uma Thurman more of an action figure than a sensitive, beautiful woman.“Ceremony” corrects that misconception. Thurman plays a femme fatale named Zoe pursued by two men.One is her fiancé, a famous filmmaker named Whit Coutell (Lee Pace).The oth-er is Sam Davis (Michael Angarano), a younger guy with whom Zoe had a brief fling.Sam, a not-very-successful writer of children’s books, still secretly carries the torch for Zoe.Sam hatches a crazy plot in which he convinces his friend Marshall (Reece Thompson) to join him in a beach getaway for the week-end. Unbeknownst to Mar-shall, Sam plans to infiltrate Zoe’s wedding and head it off at the pass.Anyone who has tried to re-kindle a love affair from the past knows it is difficult, if not impossible.On one hand Sam is a quix-otic, romantic idealist. On the other he is a pathetic, laughable loser.Michael Angarano is such

Uma Thurman a femme fatale in ‘Ceremony’

a skilled y o u n g a c t o r that he m a k e s his Sam appea l -ing to both the “ o l d e r woman” and to us. We

laugh at his absurdity, yet we feel sympathy for Sam.Much of the credit must go to writer-director Max Winkler, who must have inherited some of his dad Henry’s comedy instincts.“Ceremony” is a wry and somewhat raunchy R-rated romance that jokes about delusions without heaping scorn. Oh, and Uma Thur-man has never looked love-lier. The film is playing at FAU’s Living Room The-aters. Three stars

Astounding “Cave of For-gotten Dreams”As a filmmaker, Werner Her-zog is no wimp. He searched for El Doraldo in “Aguirre, Wrath of God.” He built an opera house in the middle of a jungle in “Fitcarraldo.” He documented the wrath of wild ani-mals in “Grizzly Man.”N o w H e r z o g combines his love of art, h i s t o r y, naturally beautiful

places and music in “Cave of Forgotten Dreams,” play-ing at Shadowood and Regal Delray Theaters.Chauvet Cave in France was sealed by a landslide for 20,000 years. In 1994 scien-tists discovered the entry-way to a cavern as large as a football field. As extraor-dinary as that is, what makes Chauvet Cave unique in the world is its collection of cave paintings, some more than 30,000-years-old, as determined by carbon dat-ing. This is more than twice as old as any previous arche-ological find. Furthermore, there are pet-rified remains of Ice Age animals. Finally there are in-credibly beautiful stalactites and stalagmites that glisten like jewels.Thanks to his solid repu-tation, German filmmaker Herzog was given permis-sion to film in the priceless, fragile treasure trove which will never be seen by masses of people, and to film in 3-D to appear more real.For all this, Herzog has made an incredible gift of beauty, love and knowledge to the people of the world. Four Stars

Scene from “Ceremony”

The Chauvet Cave in scene from “Cave of Forgotten Dreams”




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THE WEALTH ADVISORBy Barry Siegel

Barry D. Siegel, Esq., President of Barry D. Siegel, P.A, is an attorney who practices Estate Planning, Asset Protection, Elder Law, Trust Administration and Probate. Mr. Siegel, an author and frequent guest speaker,

has offices in Boca Raton, Palm Beach Gardens, Fort Lauderdale and Aventura.

• BOCA RATON - Office Depot announced that sales for the first quarter of 2011 were down. Total company sales were $3 billion, a decrease of 3 percent compared to the first quarter of 2010. Excluding sales related to asset dispositions and deconsolidation in the fourth quarter of 2010 and an acquisition in the first quarter of 2011, total company sales decreased 2 percent vs. prior year. The company reported a net loss, after preferred stock div-idends, of $15 million or $.05 per share in the first quarter of 2011, compared to net earnings of $20 million or $0.07 per share in the first quarter of 2010.

• WEST PALM BEACH - The Business Development Board of Palm Beach County invites you to attend “Money to Grow: Finding Funds to Expand your Business” Friday, May 13 from 8 to 10 a.m. at the Marriott West Palm Beach, 1001 Okeechobee Boulevard, West Palm Beach. Registra-tion begins at 7:30 a.m.; $25 per person (includes continen-tal breakfast). To register, call Sarah Marcadis at 561-835-1008 X4101 or email: [email protected]

“Email your Business News, promotions and acknowledge-ments to Chris Catoggio at: [email protected].

• WEST PALM BEACH - Palm Beach Opera received a grant of $5,000 from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation April 29 at the Flagler Drive Banking Cen-ter in West Palm Beach. Opera General Director Daniel Biaggi accepted the check. Since 1961, Palm Beach Op-era has been dedicated to producing world-class opera and diverse educational programs which play an integral role in the artistic and overall enrichment of the com-munities it serves. • BOCA RATON - Tickets are still available for the 2011 Business Awards Luncheon to be held Thursday, May 19 at the Boca Raton Resort & Club and sponsored by the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce. The orga-nization will honor Small Business Leader of the Year Marsha Rimokh, founder and managing director of Math-nasium; 2011 Business Leader of the Year Jerry Fedele, president & chief executive officer of Boca Raton Regional Hospital and 2011 Business of the Year U.S. Foodservice South Florida Tickets are $75 a person Contact Chasity at [email protected] for more information.

• WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has announced $2 billion in high-speed rail awards providing an unprecedented investment to speed up trains in the Northeast Corridor, expand service in the Midwest and provide new, state-of-the-art locomotives and rail cars as part of the administration’s plan to transform travel in America. The money was to have gone to Florida for a high-speed rail line, but was rejected by Gov. Rick Scott. Twenty-four states, the District of Columbia and Amtrak submitted nearly 100 applications, competing to be part of an historic investment that will create tens of thousands of jobs, improve mobility and stimulate American manufacturing.

In 2005 a trust beneficiary filed a law suit against her trustee (her father) claim-ing that her father illegally transferred $2 billion of her money to a trust for an-other beneficiary.The case was settled for just under $1 billion.Fact or Fiction?In this case, fact.The father and daughter in this story are members of the Pritzker family (Hyatt Hotels, etc.) and while the story involves famous peo-ple, it highlights the need for care in choosing trust-ees for yourself and your loved ones.For those readers who al-ready have a living trust, it is likely that you are serv-ing as your own trustee and will continue in that role as long as you are willing and able to do so.But what if you are not serving or can’t serve?Before we talk about how to choose the right trust-ee, let’s talk about what a trustee does.A trustee is the legal own-er of assets held in trust. When you establish a trust, you could choose to be the trustee of your own trust while you are alive and able to take care of your own fi-nances.Upon your death or in the event of your incapacity, a “successor” trustee that you have previously chosen would step in to take over

Choosing The Best Trusteecontrol of the assets held in your trust.The trustee is required to use the assets only for the benefit of the trust benefi-ciaries, who are determined by you. In the event you are incapacitated and still liv-ing, you would more than likely be the beneficiary of the trust. If you are no lon-ger living, the beneficiaries receive your assets as de-scribed in the trust.The chosen trustee will have control over how the assets are invested. They may also be responsible for making distributions to the beneficiaries and ensuring that tax returns and other filings are done correctly.With that in mind, what should you look for in a trustee?

Trust-AbilityThis is probably the most important consideration of all. Your trustee must be trustworthy. If you pick someone who can be trust-ed, you are at least half way home. Keep in mind, not all trustees need to be related to you.

Ability to cooperateIn many cases you will choose to have more than one trustee serving at a time. It is important that trustees are willing and able to cooperate with each other in order to fulfill the purpose of the trust. Some-one who is unwilling to listen and discuss issues ho-nestly and openly may be a bad choice for trustee.

Willingness to seek ad-viceIn today’s world, a trustee needs to make decisions in-volving accounting, invest-ments, law, tax and other a-reas. Being an expert in each of these areas is just not possible. So a good trustee will seek advice from other experts. Look for a person with a history of seeking competent advice and mak-ing good decisions based on that advice.

Administration skillsA good trustee will have (or hire) good administra-tion skills. They should either be good with details and organization or have

someone in their life that takes care of the details for them. Finding someone that crosses every “t” and dots every “i” is important.

Financial experienceA good trustee will have some financial experience. They do not need to be ex-pert investment managers, as that skill can be purchased. What is important is for a trustee to be able to listen to investment advice and be able to determine when that advice is sound or not. The fiduciary obligations required are a legal com-mitment to you and your family.

Understanding of family history and cultureDepending on whether the trust is designed to be in existence for a long pe-riod of time, this ability to know the family, know how the matriarch and the patri-arch made their money and how they used it to raise their children can be very important in carrying on that family culture to future generations.

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BOCA RATON - Are you tired of going to the doctor for a test, only to wait hours - or find out the doctor can’t see you that day?Even worse, the results of many tests take a long time to come back. And that could cause you days or weeks of unnecessary anxiety.For a new and better ex-perience, try Any Lab Test Now® in Sandalfoot Square, West Boca Raton. “We offer fast, affordable, convenient, reliable lab test-ing,” said owner Henrica Hopman. “All of our tests are 100 percent confiden-tial, and only you see the results. No doctor referrals or insurance needed. No unwanted questions. Just the tests you need when you need them, without delay.”She emphasized that “our tests are extremely afford-able, with no hidden charg-

If you need a medical test quickly, visit Any Lab Test Now®es, taxes or draw fees for blood. You receive most re-sults within 24 hours. You can decide how you want to receive them. We can either call you and you can come to pick them up or we can email, mail or fax them to you.”Hopman opened the heal-thcare lab testing facility in August of 2009, and has seen the number of patrons increase over time. She said the lab offers more than 8,000 medical tests to con-sumers and employers “in a professional, convenient and cost-effective way.”She said she prides herself on providing high-quality lab tests in 15 minutes or less, regardless of whether a person has insurance or not. Flexible payment plans are available to individu-als who need time to pay for their tests. Patrons are

asked to pay half up front and the balance can be worked out.Confidentiality is guaran-teed, since some sensitive health situations may re-quire testing.Any Lab Test Now® also offers corporate services such as drug screening, lab-based wellness programs, background searches, fin-ger printing and employ-ment flu shots, among other things.Visitors will find comfort-able, clean and professional

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Michael H. Gora has been certified by the Board of Specialization of The Florida Bar as a specialist in family and matrimonial law.

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FAITHBy Pr. Sandy Huntsman

DIVORCE FLORIDA STYLEBy Mike Gora

Pastor Sandy Huntsman - Administrative PastorBoca Glades Baptist Church - www.bocaglades.org

We are in a communication revolution. Never has there been more devices to help us communicate better. One would think that with all the gadgetry and electronic me-dia available, the problem of communication or miscom-munication between people would cease, or at least dimin-ish. In fact, it appears just the opposite is happening. We are all learning (or maybe not learning) that communication is more than just talking: it is the exchange and under-standing of ideas.Stephen R. Covey relates this story in the chapter about “Habit 5: Seek First to Un-derstand, Then to Be Under-stood” in his book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: “A father once told me, ‘I can’t understand my kid. He just won’t listen to me at all.’ “’Let me restate what you just said,’ I replied. ‘You don’t un-derstand your son because he won’t listen to you?’ “’That’s right,’ he replied. ‘Let me try again,’ I said. ‘You don’t un-derstand your son because he won’t listen to you?’ “’That’s what I said,’ he impatiently replied.“’I thought that to under-stand another person, you needed to listen to him,’ I suggested. “’Oh!’ he said. There was a long pause. ‘Oh!’ he said again, as the light be-gan to dawn. ‘Oh, yeah! But I do understand him. I know what he’s going through. I went through the same thing myself. I guess what I don’t understand is why he won’t listen to me.’

Communication: The Art Of Listening“This man didn’t have the vaguest idea of what was re-ally going on inside his boy’s head. He looked into his own head and thought he saw the world, including his boy” (1989, pp. 239-240).Someone has listed some of the following barriers to com-munication: close-minded at-titude; making judgments; acting bored or uninterested; limited amount of time to talk; physical discomfort; lack of concentration; distrac-tions; “I know better than you” attitude; feeling threat-ened or intimidated; misdi-rected emotions; straying too far from main talking points; not listening or trying to un-derstand others; no goal or plans for the conversation, to mention just a few. Virtually every couple I have counseled maritally admitted poor com-munication was one of the contributing causes of their problems.Because God values rela-tionships, He stresses com-munication. The tongue has tremendous power, “for the tongue can kill or nourish life.” (Proverbs 18.21) Com-munication either builds or undermines relationships. Consequently, God speaks often about good communica-tion and warns of the effects of bad communication.Of course, the Bible, doesn’t only talk about communica-tion. From Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21 the Bible is communication. It is a rev-elation of the mind of God, conveyed using a multitude of different styles – stories,

poetry, law, letters, history, prophecy, apocalyptic mate-rial, songs, etc. In some ways even the Bible by itself is “multimedia”.Communication is a battle-ground. Proverbs 21:23 says, “If you keep your mouth shut, you will stay out of trouble”. Learning to choose our words carefully and sometimes even keeping our mouths shut is a sure way of not saying some-thing we will later regret. In fact, Proverbs 10:19 clari-fies that it is a “multitude of words” that generally causes the problem. We should avoid being overly talkative and garrulous. Stephen Covey addresses our society’s lack of emphasis on listening skills: “Communi-cation is the most important skill in life. We spend most of our waking hours com-municating. But consider this: You’ve spent years learning how to read and write, years learning how to speak. But what about listening? What training or education have you had that enables you to listen so that you really, deep-ly understand another human being from that individual’s own frame of reference?” (ibid., pp. 237-238).May we all remember that the most important thing in com-munication is hearing what isn’t being said. “Deep listen-ing is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.” Sue Pat-ton Thoele

Question: My husband and I were divorced in Jacksonville a few years ago. We have two children, and there is a parenting plan in place which gives him the right to have the two children with him for half of the summer. I would like to have the agreement modified as the children would like to go to camp for a month dur-ing the summer, and if he has the other month I will have no summer with the children. I moved into Boca Raton after the divorce, and he moved to Tampa. Do I have to go back to the court in Jacksonville to make this change, or can I file for the change in Palm Beach

County, or can he insist that the case takes place in Hillsborough County where he lives?

Answer: Because of our current court docket situ-ation, it is very unlikely that you could have a court address this issue for the summer of 2011 in any of the three counties that you talk about. Without an agreement on the part of your “Ex.” to enter a modification judgment, you would not be able to get such a matter for trial for about a year. As to the location of the litigation, which we call “venue,” you are in luck. Under a Florida Statute and appellate decisions,

there are two circuit courts which could become the venue of your action, the circuit court in Palm Beach County, where you and the children reside, or in Jacksonville-Duval County where the case originally took place. Your Ex would be unsuccessful if he at-tempted to have the case heard in Hillsborough County. As a reminder, in order to have a modification judg-ment entered on your par-enting plan your papers must allege and you must prove that there have been material changes of cir-cumstances which make the change you desire in the best interests of the chil-dren, and not in your best interest alone.



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CARTER’S CORNERBy Carter Helschien

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OLEDA TALKSOleda Baker

Oleda Baker, now 76, began her career as a high fashion model with the prestigious Wilhelmina Model Agency, based in New York City and doing print and TV assignments

in New York and Europe. She has written ten books on beauty, diet and health.

George Santayana once said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Fortunately, school sys-tems in the United States focus on teaching stu-dents events in the past in the hopes that they will be able to recognize similar events happening in their lifetime and be able to prevent them. The problem with this logic, however, is that a vast ma-jority of students in the United States do not have the slightest clue of the events that are occurring now. Though I believe that studying the past is es-sential to understanding the future, I also believe that students today can-not possibly recognize the patterns that have oc-curred throughout histo-ry that may be happening right now if they are not studying current events. Consequently, I believe that it is vital that current events be taught more

Know much about World War I? Yep. Know much about Bin Laden? Nope.

in schools in the United States. Moreover, if students begin discussing current events in school, they will be able to provide their unique perspectives on current issues. For exam-ple, a student’s unique perspective might help him or her to come up with a unique solution to a current problem that a politician might not have even bothered to consider. If current events are stu-died more in schools, there is a greater probability that someone will come up with a unique solution to an issue, thanks in part to the larger number of in-dividuals considering the issue. Furthermore, the point that teaching current e-vents in school will pro-vide a wider range for so-lutions on current issues is supported by the fact that some recent scien-tific breakthroughs have been made by students themselves. For example,

in 2008 middle-school student William Yuan’s scientific prowess and cre-ativity helped him to de-sign a new solar cell. Had William Yuan not been given the opportunity to study solar-energy in mid-dle-school, the world may have had to wait a number of years before anyone was able to design more ef-ficient solar cells. If schools are still reluc-tant to include the teach-ing of current events in the curriculum, however, due to time constraints, they can at least offer a class of current events as an elective. Consequently, students who are interest-ed in making connections between the past and the present will be able study current issues if they so choose. As a result, stu-dents will develop new thinking patterns that will help them to analyze current events and im-mediately make connec-tions to similar events and trends in the past.

I feel compelled to share my assembly line story so you won’t feel alone…bet you have experienced it too. Don’t get me wrong – there are plenty of sensitive doc-tors around who see you as a person and not a number. How sweet it is to visit such a doctor. With assembly-line medi-cal practice you wait “too long” in the waiting room, your name is finally called and you’re taken to another room to wait some more. The doctor finally comes into the room but you quick-ly begin to feel he/she is in a hurry and feel pressure to “get it all out” before he has heard “enough”… he has hardly asked a question…(that would take up more of his/her time). You may be given a prescription and told to come back in a month. Sometimes it takes a couple of visits before you realize this is the doctors’ perma-nent style – this is the way he practices. So what do you do? How do you take charge of this part of your life? The following is my story. I developed what I thought could have been sinus infec-tion. The first ENT doctor I went to asked a few ques-tions, took notes and sent me around for various tests.

Assembly-Line-Style Medical Practice…don’t put up with it…

On my second visit, I sensed aloofness on his part. On a third visit, he came into the examining room without my file or chart. I immedi-ately said, “doctor don’t you need my chart?” (After all he must have hundreds of pa-tients, how can he remember what my chart indicated?) He brushed the question aside and continued without my chart for reference or to write new notes on. I knew I would not return.Next I visited another ENT doctor who had a room full of patients waiting. I was concerned, but then saw pa-tients going in and quickly coming out. I thought per-haps they only need a pre-scription or something. It was quickly my turn and I was escorted to a room where the doctor arrived promptly. He asked me one question…and only one the entire short visit…”why are you here?” I explained in a hurry…he stuck something up my nose and said, “You look fine; I don’t see any-thing wrong.” I argued the point and he said…”You’ll just have to live with it.” I left, went home and wrote a full page letter to him that started with, “My appoint-ment with you was very dis-appointing…. indeed it was

insulting,” and ended with, “Dr. so-and-so, you should be ashamed!” Still not willing to give up, I tried still a third Special-ist. On the second visit he came in the room holding my chart with his left hand and, with the other hand he bent the outside of my nose in order to put a periscope or something in it and took hardly a split second to look. We exchanged a few words and, as he was heading for the door…I said “Doctor I’m not finished with you yet…I have two questions.” His head turned back toward me – then his whole body. Bot-tom line is he gave me a new nasal prescription and said come back in a month. I told him my problem was deeper than a nose spray…he said, “I’m not very deep.” During that month I looked for a new doctor…I asked my (caring) dentist (Dr. Ronald Hawk) whom he would consult if he had a sinus problem…he told me. Not one to give up, I went to see his recommendation, Dr. Brian Mitchell. When I called his office the voice was more than pleasant and helpful…that’s always a good sign, since a doctor’s “caring personal style” is usually instilled in his staff.

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BOCA RATON - Just look into my eyes! I’m ready to adore you and be your best buddy. I’m Rocky, a Pug mix, 2 and a half years old, neutered male weighing 20 pounds.I’m a housebroken little cutie who’s great with other dogs, older children and ‘some’ cats. I’m very smart and I know how to sit when you ask nicely. Shelter dogs are the BEST, so check me out....we can meet and then I can adopt you!I’m available for adoption at Tri-County Humane Society, a no-kill animal shelter lo-cated at 21287 Boca Rio Road in Boca Raton. The shelter is open for adoptions Tues-

day through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Adoption fees are $110 and up. Ani-mals are heartworm-tested and up-to-date on vaccina-tions.Included in the adoption fee is one year of free office visits to Regency Veteri-nary Clinic.Please visit us to find a lost pet or to consider adding a shelter dog or cat to your family. We have puppies and kittens, too! Call (561) 482-8110 or view many of our available animals and volunteer opportunities at www.tricountyhumane.org. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter at “TriCounty Hu-mane.’

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By: Matt Pineda

Udonis Haslem has been working his way back from an ankle injury suf-fered back in November. Haslem has been working tirelessly to get back onto the court. He was expec-ted back in early April, but he just hasn’t gotten there yet. It’s only been in the last week that Udonis has been able to go to practice day after day. Previously he had to sit out the day after from soreness and swelling. It’s seems those days are over and Udonis is extremely close to a re-turn.In fact Haslem has said he is ready and is only wait-ing on the trainers and coaches to let him suit up. During this week he has been working in his ti-ming and rhythm, which are the hardest things to retain when coming back from an injury. And as of today (May 9), Pat Riley had a brief conversation

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with Udonis after shoot-around that consisted of, “You ready?” Of course, this could have been meant in general terms, or very specifically tonight.Either way, Udonis is close to a return, and it could likely be this series, tonight or Game 5. So, as you may have forgotten, here’s what Udonis brings to this HEAT team, and why he sacrificed money to be here, and others sacrificed for him to stay here.

Stay Big LineupUdonis is able to come in in that 4-6 minute stretch that Bosh is rested at the end of the first and third quarters. Recently, Miami has chosen to go small and move LeBron to the Power Forward position while playing James Jones and sometimes Mike Mil-ler. This enables the HEAT to do a lot of things of-fensively, but also hurts them some as well. Spoel-

stra has been hesitant to go with 37-year old Juwan Howard. Using Udonis Haslem in this stretch enables Miami to keep an effective big, or regular lineup on the floor. Has-lem is much more capable and willing to set screens and get rebounds than LeBron James currently is. Haslem lives for that, and thus having him in there enable LeBron to do what he likes, and is more effective at, scoring.

EnergyHaslem flat out brings en-ergy. He doesn’t take plays off. He lives for the intan-gibles. He loves to get re-bounds and take charges. Those are things every championship team needs, and when he’s on the floor, that kind of energy sparks the team, and the crowd. Haslem was always the most consistent player for Miami when he plays. He does what he is supposed to, and he’s good at it.

LeadershipUdonis is the co-captain alongside Dwyane Wade. He brings leadership to this team, and to the front line where Chris Bosh sometimes lacks. He is willing to get into guys’ faces, and tell his teammates to play harder. He is the defensive leader.

ToughnessThe best part about Udo-nis’ game is that he loves to mix it up. He wants to play “chippy” and throw some elbows. Haslem doesn’t stand for anyone messing with his team-mates. He plays tough, he is tough, and he acts tough. Nobody messes with Udonis. His tough-ness is something that Bosh doesn’t bring. It’s only matched by Magloi-re and Juwan Howard in a very friendly way, and they very rarely see the floor.Haslem has been called the heart and soul of this team. What he brings, you don’t always find in the box score. You don’t always see it on the high-lights, but it’s there. He has it. He brings it. And if Haslem is anywhere close to contributing to this team, it will be a huge lift.He should be back soon.And he will bring it!



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Bowling Green, Ky. - A ninth inning rally by the Florida Atlantic Universi-ty baseball team fell short as it dropped a 5-4 decision in Sunday’s series finale to Western Kentucky Uni-versity at Nick Denes Field in Bowling Green, Ky. The Owls scored one run and stranded the game-tying run on the base paths in the final at-bat.FAU falls to 27-19 on the season and 14-10 in Sun Belt Conference play. Western Kentucky im-proves to 29-19 overall and also stands 14-10 in league action. The Owls return to the diamond on Tuesday, May 10, when they travel to Florida Gulf Coast Uni-versity, beginning at 6 p.m.Despite the loss the Owls have qualified for the Sun Belt Conference tourna-ment, set for May 25-28 in Monroe, La.The host Hilltoppers broke a 3-3 deadlock on a two-out two-run single by Ivan Hartle in the seventh in-ning.FAU scored its run in the ninth inning on a sacri-fice fly by senior outfield-er Andy Mee that plated

FAU Baseball Rally Falls Short in Series Finale Loss at Western Kentucky

freshman Geoff Jimenez. Jimenez entered as a pinch-runner after sophomore pinch-hitter Mike Spano reached on an infield sin-gle. Junior catcher Mike Albaladejo lined a single to left-center field to move Jimenez to third base with one out. However, sopho-more outfielderNathan Pit-tman struck out to end the game as WKU reliever Brian Edelen tossed the last five innings to preserve the win.The Owls battled back after trailing 3-1 in the third inning when senior first baseman Dan Schef-fler connected on his third home run of the season to left field in the fourth inning. FAU evened the game at three apiece after junior outfielder Alex Hu-dak also hit his third home run on the season with a leadoff blast in the sixth inning. FAU scored first in a game for the third time of the weekend on a single by Pit-tman to left field to plate Albaladejo in the third in-ning.WKU answered with a three-run third inning to

grab a 3-1 lead. Matt Rice lined a bases loaded single to plate Jordan Cessna. Jared Andreoli scored on a wild pitch while Kes Carter had an RBI groundout to plate Hartle.Edelen improved to 5-1 on the season with the strong relief pitching performan-ce. The right hander struck out seven batters and scat-tered two hits.FAU starting pitcher R.J. Alvarez received a no-deci-sion, allowing three runs in 3.2 innings. Junior reliever Ahmed Garcia allowed one base hit in his 1.1 innings. Mee suffered the loss to drop to 0-2 on the season allowing the Hartle two-run single in the sixth in-ning.Albaladejo paced the 10-hit offensive attack with two hits. Senior second base-man Raymond Church, senior third baseman Sean Bukovich, senior outfielder Colby Gratton, Hudak, Pittman, Spano and Schef-fler each had one hit apiece. The Owls out-hit the Hill-toppers 10-7 in the rubber match of the series.Seven players tallied a base hit for WKU, led by Har-tle’s two RBIs.

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Florida Atlantic Univer-sity’s new 30,000-seat on-campus football stadium could generate an esti-mated $1.8 million to FAU and the local economy on each game day, according to the Palm Beach County Sports Commission, a pri-vate, not-for-profit organi-zation contracted by Palm Beach County to promote and market the County as a sports and sports tourism destination.The FAU stadium project has already made an im-portant impact, as it con-tributed to the creation of 2,000 jobs, including all work done onsite and off-

Football Stadium to Generate Estimated $1.8 Million in Revenue on Game Day

site since the official plan-ning stages began in 2008.“Florida Atlantic Univer-sity’s stadium has already begun to positively impact the University and local community as a whole,” said Tom Donaudy, vice president for facilities at FAU. “Once it opens, it will positively impact the eco-nomic portfolio of South Florida.”The stadium is the cen-terpiece of FAU’s Inno-vation Village, located in the north central area of campus. Home of the Owl football team, the open-air stadium, a $70 million project funded through a

direct bank loan and pri-vate donations, is slated to feature 6,000 premium seats, including 24 suites, 26 loge boxes, 1,000 pre-mier club seats and 4,000 priority club seats, and the latest, state-of-the-art amenities. FAU will play all home football games in the new stadium in fall 2011.The stadium project is a design joint-venture be-tween architects HKS Ar-chitects and INC/Schenkel Schultz, as well as a con-struction joint-venture by Cummings General Con-tractors and Balfour Beatty Construction.

By Steve Kramer

BOCA RATON - All eyes will be on Lynn Universi-ty’s third-ranked women’s team on Wednesday, May 11, as it takes on No. 1 BYU-Hawaii in the Round of 16 of the NCAA Divi-sion II National Tourna-ment in Altamonte Springs, Fla. The Fighting Knights enter the National Tourna-ment with a 24-2 overall record while the Seasiders are an unblemished 27-0. Match time is scheduled for 4 pm at Sanlando ParkThe contest with BYU-Hawaii is the only matchup in the Round of 16 that features a pair of top-ten teams and one of just three with two teams in the top-20. Lynn and BYU-Hawaii are also two of the most successful women’s tennis programs in Division II history. The Seasiders have won seven NCAA Division II national championships and a 54-5 (.915) record in NCAA Tournament play to lead all squads. LU has six National Champion-ships (3 NCAA Division II) to rank fourth in the na-tion while its 58-13 (.817) mark in Tournament play ranks third behind BYU-Hawaii and fourth-ranked Armstrong Atlantic. The Fighting Knights are tied

Lynn Women’s Tennis Battles Unbeaten BYU-Hawaii in NCAA Round of 16

with the Pirates with an NCAA-best 13 Final Four appearances.LU is 2-9 all-time against the Seasiders and dropped a 5-4 decision to BYU-Ha-waii in the 2010 National Semifinals. Both of Lynn’s victories against the Sea-siders have come in NCAA Tournament play with its last coming in the 2009 Na-tional Quarterfinals. The Fighting Knights also de-feated BYU-Hawaii in the 2001 National Champion-ship Match.Lynn is led up top by First Team All-Sunshine State Conference selections Magdalena Ekert and E-leonora Iannozzi. A native of Gdansk, Poland, Ekert has gone 16-6 from the No. 1 position this year with eight victories coming a-gainst nationally-ranked players. Iannozzi has dom-inated at the second slot, going 21-1 overall and is in the midst of a ten-match winning streak.Newcomers with the Blue & White this year, Isabell Raich and Ioana Ivan have also been consistent in the middle of the order. Earn-ing honorable mention in singles as a senior, Raich has posted a 15-3 record while Ivan, a second team honoree, is 18-2 from the fourth position.

Rounding out one of the deepest teams in the coun-try at singles, the Fighting Knights will go with Jes-sica Yanoff (Delray Beach, Fla.) at five and Andrea Berkova at six. A second team singles recipient, Yanoff went 18-1 in her MVP season and Berkova is 16-3.After going undefeated in doubles during SSC com-petition, Lynn will utilize Iannozzi/Ivan (18-2) at No. 1, Ekert/Raich (22-2) in the second slot and Ya-noff/Berkova (16-1) at No. 3.BYU-Hawaii is strong up top with their top-three players ranking Nos. 1, 2 and 4th in the nation and are a combined 60-0. An-nie Hwang (21-0) heads the NCAA rankings while Yuan Jia (20-0) is second and Elwin Li (19-0) is fourth. Jia lost one match in the fall, which came to Armstrong Atlantic’s Alida Muller-Wehlau in straight sets. The bottom half of the order is no joke either, as Salina Arandra (18-1), Shawni Porter (8-3) and Sasha Ulbrichtova (20-2) have combined for a 46-6 record. The Seasiders have also dominated in doubles hav-ing lost just one match all season. That loss came to Armstrong’s No. 1 duo of Barbara Kritckova and Muller-Wehlau at the USTA/ITA National Small College Championships in October. In dual matches this year, BYU-Hawaii’s tandems have gone 54-0.




By: Tony Capobianco

Like most teams, the Flo-rida Marlins have made multiple moves to better their team for this ongoing season.Like most winters, the Marlins would bring in multiple imports and then send out a major export to keep things in balance.Most media pundits then assume, like clockwork, that the Marlins are thro-wing their season or are in some sort of rebuilding period.That, of course, is never the case when it comes to the Marlins, except for 2006, when the team did in fact improve their run production from 717 runs in 2005 to 758 in 2006.April is the month that most people scrutinize their newest additions be-cause it is, of course, their first look at them.Second Baseman Omar

Infante: BTo me, no one looked more perfect in a Marlins uniform than Omar Infan-

Grading John Buck and All the Florida Marlins’ Additions After April

te. After watching the first two weeks of the season, I honestly thought he’d been a Marlin his whole career.After April, Omar Infante has hit a disappointing .229 with 10 RBI and two stolen bases along with a walk off.However, the most im-portant stat is that he has zero errors. In a position in which the predecessor was known as a defensive liability, that’s important.Catcher John Buck: AWith three home runs, 14 RBI and a .227 batting average, John Buck is pro-viding as much offensive production as Omar In-fante, but his most impor-tant aspect is handling the pitching staff.So far, the Marlins have three starting pitchers who have performed better than the Phillies’ big three. Leo Nunez gets his old catcher from Kansas City and goes nine for nine for saves with more strikeouts than innings.

Greg Dobbs: AGreg Dobbs was supposed

to just be a pinch hitter, coming off the bench.Instead, he got some starts at third base and is now sporting.327 with two home runs and eight RBI.With Matt Dominguez going through rehab in the minors, Dobbs can run away with the third base job if he continues his play.

Javier Vazquez: C+Javy Vazquez has an ERA over six and a .500 record in the month of April.However, he has provided the proper amount of in-nings to help the club out. The positive stats need to start coming, though.

Entire bullpen: AGoing into the beginning of last week, this is what the numbers looked liked for the Marlins’ bullpen.Opposing hitters are bat-ting.180 against them and have an OPS of.517.They have only issued just 18 walks in 55 1/3 in-nings. Dunn allowed one hit and no runs in seven

appearances, generat-ing nine strikeouts in five 2/3 innings.Sanchez allowed one hit and no runs in 10 2/3 innings. Leo Nunez had a 2.00 ERA, while convert-ing all of Florida’s save chances. Webb had pitched 11 in-nings, with a 1.18 WHIP.The numbers haven’t changed drastically going into May.

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