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WELLINGTON SETS PRELIMINARY TAX RATESEE STORY, PAGE 3

RPB SENIORS ENJOY A PATRIOTIC PARTYSEE PHOTOS, PAGE 5

OPINIONWellington Wins WhenFactions Work TogetherThis week, members of theWellington Village Council gavethe green light for the 2014Global Dressage Festival. Unlikemeetings passed, which sawdissent and bickering from twovery divided factions in the com-munity, Tuesday night’s meetingseemed peaceful. Let’s hopethe good feelings last. Page 4

Wellington GrantsPermits For 2014Dressage Festival

By Anne CheckoskyTown-Crier Staff Report

Will a cell phone tower encasedin a flagpole be allowed to be erect-ed at the Wellington Marketplaceshopping plaza at WellingtonTrace and Greenview ShoresBlvd.? Or will the request be de-nied by village officials? Right nowthat question is very much unde-cided.

Part of it was supposed to beanswered at the July 2 meeting ofWellington’s Planning, Zoning &Adjustment Board. But attorneyCliff Hertz, a partner in the law firmof Broad & Cassel based in WestPalm Beach and representingbuilder Clearview Tower, asked thatthe item be postponed until theAug. 7 meeting. The request wasgranted after a short discussion.

At issue are two variances that

Wellington told Clearview it mustobtain to build the tower. One is aheight restriction. The originalproposal called for a 140-foot tow-er, which exceeded the 120-footlimit set by the village. That waswithdrawn, Hertz said.

The other is a 600-foot setbackthe village requires from the baseof the tower to residential areas.Village staff interprets Clearview’sproposal as not meeting the set-back distance.

On Tuesday, Hertz e-mailed vil-lage officials informing them of hisclient’s intent to appeal how vil-lage staff is interpreting the set-back language.

Planning & Zoning ManagerDavid Flinchum is confident thatWellington staff is correctly inter-preting the ordinance. “We have

Zoning Snag For CellTower At WellingtonMarketplace Plaza

CELEBRATING INDEPENDENCE DAY

By Ron BukleyTown-Crier Staff Report

A new Facebook page, Loxa-hatchee Lost and Found Pets, wasespecially busy during and afterthe Fourth of July celebration, withmany success stories.

Page founder/manager Gail Basssaid there was a noticeable in-crease in activity around the holi-day, as there is during storms.

“That’s when a lot of the dogsget skittish, they run, and that’swhen you see a lot of activity onthe site,” she said. “But we real-ly did good on the Fourth ofJuly.”

That means many recoveries,and the page also put out valu-able information before fireworks

Lost Pets Facebook Page Is Successful And Growingshows and expected thunder-storms about what to do to avoidlosing one’s pet. There is also in-formation on the page about col-lars and tracking devices, as wellas animal rescue groups, such asBig Dog Ranch Rescue, PalmBeach County Animal Care & Con-trol and the Peggy Adams AnimalRescue League.

“All that stuff is listed for mem-bers to access easily to get righton to search for their animal,” Basssaid. “Anything that we find use-ful, we will post on there for groupmembers to access to help themrecover faster.”

There is also a section on thepage showing animals that havebeen recovered.

Bass started the site sevenmonths ago, and it has now grownto more than 1,500 members. In thattime, about 80 lost pets have beenreturned to their owners.

“I was on the Acreage Land-owners’ Association page, and Isaw that somebody was missingtheir pet, and it just touched me,”Bass recalled. “I decided that therehas got to be something we cando to find these animals quickly,before they get too far.”

That is when she took actionand set up Loxahatchee Lost andFound Pets.

“The word spread, it started togrow and people just started pull-ing together,” Bass said. “This


The Town of LoxahatcheeGroves could increase its proper-ty tax rate next year to make up fora decrease in the town’s propertyvaluation. Loxahatchee Grovesexperienced a 3.8 percent dip thisyear in its taxable value.

At a budget workshop July 2,the town’s management firm rec-ommended a rate increase from 1.2mills to 1.5 mills.

The Loxahatchee Groves TownCouncil will set next year’s maxi-mum tax rate at its meeting July 16,although the rate could then belowered before the budget’s finaladoption in September.

Under the manager’s proposedbudget, with a 1.5 millage rate, aproperty owner with an assessedvalue of $200,000 and a $50,000homestead exemption would pay$225 in town taxes next year, com-pared with $180 under last year’srate. The solid waste assessmentwould remain the same at $343.25.

Highlights of the proposed 2014budget include $100,000 for townroad surveying, $943,630 for roadimprovements using open-gradedemulsified mix (OGEM) on Collect-ing Canal Road, $220,000 for a traf-fic light at Okeechobee Blvd. andE Road, and $100,000 for futureOGEM road paving.

Town managers recommended

that the Capital Improvement Pro-gram include $50,000 for researchfor a new town hall location and$600,000 from the town’s transpor-tation fund for a portion of the CIPto cover more than half of the mon-ey needed to apply OGEM to Col-lecting Canal Road.

“Unlike this current budget year,we are not able to recommend acontribution from the general fundto the solid waste fund,” TownManager Mark Kutney said.

The total CIP budget recom-mended was $1.96 million throughfiscal year 2018.

Necessitating the 0.3-mill in-crease is a 3-mill equivalency re-

Groves Ponders Tax Rate HikeTo Cover Property Value Dip

See CELL TOWER, page 7

See EV PERMIT, page 16

See LOST PETS, page 7

LIGHTBULB ART IN RPB

Tree’s Wings and Ribs in Royal Palm Beach held a craft nightMonday, July 8. Participants learned how to build “upcycled”lightbulb art taught by Tree’s Wings General Manager ErinTownsend-Peel. Shown here are Melissa Schulte, Taylor Wells,John Bennett, Kristin Wilson and Samantha Wilson with theirdecorated lightbulbs. MORE PHOTOS, PAGE 7

PHOTOS BY DENISE FLEISCHMAN/TOWN-CRIER

A screen shot of the Facebook page.

See GROVES BUDGET, page 4

Wellington and Royal PalmBeach celebrated Indepen-dence Day last Thursday. WhileRoyal Palm Beach showed offits new Commons Park, Welling-ton’s events were held at VillagePark. Both culminated with fire-works. (Above) Drew Franklin,Ellie Frost and Connor Franklinshow American pride in RoyalPalm Beach. (Left) Grant andMason Perry with a bunny in thepetting zoo at Wellington’s cele-bration.

ROYAL PALM, PAGE 10WELLINGTON, PAGE 17

PHOTOS BY DENISE FLEISHMANAND LAUREN MIRÓ/TOWN-CRIER

LGWCD Board GivesInitial OK To $15 PerAcre Assessment HikeThe Loxahatchee Groves WaterControl District adopted its2014 assessment roll with a$15-per-acre increase Monday.The extra money will pay forclearing canals to improvedrainage in the face of new fed-eral flood maps that could forceresidents to buy flood insur-ance. Page 3

Crazy Games BringsFitness Fun To RPBRoyal Palm Beach Parks & Rec-reation hosted Crazy Games onSaturday, July 6 at LindsayEwing Park. Crazy Games is aprogram of different fun fitnessgames, such as obstaclecourses, for kids ages 4 to 13years old. Page 5

Vavrus DevelopmentCreates An ImpetusFor SR 7 ExtensionThe recent announcement ofplans to develop the VavrusRanch property between North-lake Blvd. and the Beeline High-way has heightened interest incompleting the State Road 7extension. Page 7

Holiday Angling FunAt Fishing TournamentRoyal Palm Bassmasters hostedthe 23rd annual Red, White &Blue Fishing Tournament atLakeside Challenger Park onThursday, July 4. Children andparents fished all morning, andthen gathered at the park forthe big weigh-in. 5

RPB Budget Talks Shift FocusFrom Disc Golf To Dog Park


The Royal Palm Beach VillageCouncil gave priority in its capitalbudget to an expanded dog parkat Royal Palm Beach CommonsPark, over a flying disc course thatwas recommended by staff, dur-ing a budget workshop July 2.

Jackie Larson, who chairs theRoyal Palm Beach Planning &Zoning Commission, gave a pre-sentation favoring a dog park ca-pable of hosting communityevents.

Larson said she was trying tosummarize what residents havetalked about for a number of years:a dog park large enough to holdbig events in conjunction with oth-er community activities.

“You may be familiar with ourneighborhood dog parks,” Larson

said. “They’re small, they’re won-derful, but we’re looking for anadditional step. We’ve had manyconversations with staff over theyears. We’ve talked about eventswe could have.”

She gave examples of the Well-ington and Okeeheelee dog parks,which are several acres each. Thevillage’s current dog park plans atCommons Park are for just seven-tenths of an acre.

Larson said she had discussedher ideas with staff but not actual-ly with the council, and presenteda petition with the signatures of66 residents who live near Com-mons Park, as well as the north endof the village.

“I know everybody on this pe-tition and their dog,” she said. “Weknow these folks, and I knowthere’s a lot more out there who

are interested, but we’d like tocome before you during budgettime, to be at the beginning of theprocess, to say we’d love to startthe conversation about a commu-nity-size dog park, several acreswith amenities, different things thatwe can’t build in our dog parksnow.”

Larson said dog owners loveRobiner Park on La Mancha Ave-nue, which has a dog run that istoo small to host events such as adog agility competition.

“Commons Park is the onlyplace left in the village largeenough to do something like this,”she said. “I’ve talked to a lot ofpeople who love the concept.”

Besides dog agility competi-tions, she said several dog rescuesshe works with would like to have

See DOG PARK, page 16

By Lauren MiróTown-Crier Staff Report

The 2014 Global Dressage Fes-tival season is on. Members of theWellington Village Council gavenecessary approvals Tuesday toallow for the upcoming dressageshow season at the controversialEquestrian Village site.

Council members unanimouslyapproved both a plat and a sea-sonal equestrian use permit for thesite, located on the northeast cor-ner of South Shore Blvd. and Pier-son Road.

Under the special-use permit,the dressage shows will be al-lowed on approximately 100 datesbetween Nov. 1 and April 30, withtraining and other related eques-trian uses allowed between shows.

Councilwoman Anne Gerwigasked how that compared to lastyear’s season.

Michael Stone, president ofEquestrian Sport Productions,which stages the shows, said itwould be significantly larger.

“We had approximately 44 daysof competition there,” he said,noting that the days include ninedates hosting Wellington ClassicDressage, which previously wasat the Jim Brandon Equestrian Cen-ter.

Though property owner Well-ington Equestrian Partners re-quested show hours to run from 7a.m. to 11 p.m., council membersagreed to extend the hours to 11p.m. only on certain Friday andSaturday nights, and one Thurs-day night. All other nights, theshows would end by 10 p.m.

“There are some conditions ofapproval to mitigate any issues,”Growth Management Director BobBasehart said.

Conditions include having PalmBeach County Sheriff’s Officedeputies to direct traffic afterevents and no new constructionexcept for manure management.Show promoters also agreed tocoordinate with the Winter Eques-trian Festival so as not to causetraffic problems by ending majorevents at the same time.

“Are you comfortable with thehalf an hour time lag between when[WEF] gets out and when Eques-trian Village will let out?” MayorBob Margolis asked.

Stone said he was. “I think itworked pretty well last year,” hesaid.

Stone noted that dressagedoesn’t draw massive crowds atone time like show jumping. “Each

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Wellington residents could seea higher tax bill this year after theWellington Village Council votedTuesday to set its preliminary taxrate at 2.5 mills, up slightly fromlast year’s rate of 2.47 mills.

Residents will also see a $100increase in their non-ad valoremassessments for the Acme Im-provement District, which rosefrom $200 last year to $300 thisyear. That money will go largely toimprove drainage throughout thevillage.

Council members voted unani-mously to approve the preliminaryrate and increased assessment.

The “truth in millage” or TRIMrate of 2.5 mills means a propertytax of $2.50 for every $1,000 of tax-able value. At that rate, the ownerof a home assessed at $150,000after all exemptions would pay$375 in village property taxes nextyear.

State law requires the village toset its preliminary tax and assess-ment rates in July. Municipalitiesmay lower the rates before finaladoption in September but cannotraise them.

Wellington staff proposed a taxrate of 2.47 mills, which will bring

in about $770,000 more in revenuedue to increased property valuesand a rise in new constructionprojects, Village Manager PaulSchofield said.

For the first time in many years,Wellington’s budget has grown.Next year’s proposed budget of$78.7 million is up $4.24 million or5.7 percent.

The budget as proposed is madeup of $50.25 million in governmen-tal funds, up $6.62 million from lastyear, and $19.32 million in enter-prise funds, up $27,000.

Capital projects are budgeted at$3.3 million, down $1.3 million, andutility capital projects make up $5.3million of the budget.

Wellington will retain 283 em-ployees, 16 more positions thanlast year.

Public hearings on final adop-tion of the proposed budget andtax rates will take place in Septem-ber, when the council will make itsfinal decision.

Councilman Matt Willhite sug-gested preliminary approval of ahigher tax rate, concerned that theincreased funds could be neededif the village faces another stormlike Tropical Storm Isaac.

“We’re not allowed to raise ourrate once we set [this],” he said.

“Even raising the millage rate byone-tenth only raises $500,000.Even if we went up to 2.6 mills, it’sonly a half million dollar increase.What would that do for us in astorm?”

Willhite said he wasn’t advocat-ing for final adoption of a higherrate, but wanted the option if need-ed. “It gives us the leeway to comedown and show our residents thatwe are being fiscally sound comeOct. 1,” he said.

Vice Mayor Howard Coates not-ed that maintaining a rate of 2.47mills would amount to an uptick inrevenue because of improvedhome assessment values.

“Even though the rate is thesame, we’re still getting more mon-ey from our taxpayers,” he said.“What is that amount of money?”

Schofield said it was about$773,000 more. “But about half ofthat is new construction,” he ex-plained.

Coates said that although in thepast he has not been in favor ofsetting the tax rate above what wasrequested by staff, he believedthere was cause for concern inlight of recent storms.

“I wouldn’t be opposed to set-ting the rate at 2.5 [mills] for TRIMpurposes,” he said. “But I’m still

not inclined to give staff moremoney than they are asking for. Iwill not support that as an adopt-ed rate if staff is coming back witha Christmas list of items they wantto pursue.”

Councilwoman Anne Gerwignoted that Wellington would haveto lower the tax rate to take in thesame amount of money from tax-payers as last year. “At 2.47 [mills],that’s an increase,” she said.“That’s costing [residents] moremoney.”

She said she would support 2.5mills for a preliminary rate, butwouldn’t support it on final adop-tion. “I just don’t think it’s neces-sary,” she said.

Councilman John Greeneagreed. “Even adopting the samerate as last year is a tax increase,”he said. “I want to give us the flex-ibility to revisit this, but I’ve neverbeen a fan of raising taxes.”

Mayor Bob Margolis said hefelt giving Wellington some lee-way was necessary.

“Typically this is not the rate wewill see come October,” he said.“But as Mr. Schofield said, therecould be an issue.”

To help mitigate future drain-age issues, residents will be as-sessed $100 more in their non-

ad valorem assessments for theAcme Improvement District,which manages water in most ofWellington. The funds will gotoward improving drainage andelevating roads.

“That’s about $8 a month.”Margolis said.

The increase will fund about$29.3 million in drainage improve-ments, including increasing waterstorage, improving canals and el-evating low-level roads. Theproject would be done over 10years and would raise roads suchas South Shore Blvd., PiersonRoad and Forest Hill Blvd., whichflooded during Tropical StormIsaac.

“Those are early on in the pro-cess,” Schofield said. “The otherthings that are early in the processare the conveyance and storageimprovements, so we can movewater through the system. Theimprovements are what peoplehave been asking for most vocal-ly for the past year and a half.”

Margolis agreed. “The resi-dents are demanding we do some-thing about it,” he said. “We get alot of e-mails about it.”

Gerwig asked about how manypeople would be affected, andSchofield said about 75 percent of

Wellington residents are in theAcme Improvement District.

The improvements would be forthe overall flow of water, Gerwigsaid. “This won’t address issuesin individual neighborhood is-sues,” she noted.

Schofield said that was correct.“We will never be able to com-

pletely eliminate flooding,” he said.“What this will do is provide addi-tional storage and allow water tomove more quickly through thesystem. Where we had a problemduring Isaac was in our ability tomove water east and west. Thelowest areas in the village are inthe southwest corner. This will al-low us [to move water out of thearea] more efficiently.”

Willhite said he felt it would bebeneficial to work with other com-munities toward a regional waterstrategy.

“I’d like to see the village try toput together a meeting with [otherlocal leaders] to start talking aboutwater issues as they relate to thewestern communities,” he said.“I’d like to see if there’s somethings we can do across bound-aries.”

Willhite said that although hewas concerned about the increase,

Wellington Sets Higher TRIM Rate, Raises Drainage Assessment


The Loxahatchee Groves Wa-ter Control District adopted its2014 assessment roll with a $15-per-acre increase Monday. Theextra money will pay for clearingcanals to improve drainage in theface of new federal flood maps thatcould force residents to buy floodinsurance.

The increase would raise thedistrict’s assessment to between$107 and $113 per acre, depend-ing on the property. It’s more forthose along unpaved roads be-cause of grading and dust water-ing.

The LGWCD’s proposed 2014budget is for $1.611 million, slight-ly more than the current year’s$1.607 million.

LGWCD Administrator StephenYohe said the proposed budgetalready has $50,000 proposed forequipment leasing. He recom-mends an additional $40,000 tohelp finish cleaning out all the dis-

trict’s culverts and canals by ob-taining a new mower or attach-ment, or leasing/purchasing a newlong-reach backhoe. If there ismoney left over, he would replen-ish reserves. “The proposal rec-ommends the lease/purchase of arubber-tire backhoe with a 50-foot-long front,” Yohe said. “I was in-formed just today that a rubber-tire backhoe can only accommo-date a 40-foot-long front.”

Yohe added that he spoke withstaff members, who said a 40-footbackhoe will accommodate 80 per-cent of the canals.

“What we propose doing in thisfiscal year is to lease at least a 60-foot front to put on the west bermof South A Road,” Yohe said. “Wefirst need to widen that berm bybenching it down and moving thewest top bank of that berm easter-ly into its proper position. To dothat, we also need to lease a bull-dozer and a bulldozer operator, andthat’s included in the 2013 capitalbudget adjustment.”

To accommodate those costs inthe current fiscal year, Yohe saidhe had to use a large portion ofthe designated reserves. “The pro-posed budget indicates an approx-imately $14 tax assessment in-crease to accomplish what is pro-posed,” he said. “Staff recom-mends a $15-per-acre assessmentincrease for initial TRIM notice.”

Supervisor John Ryan said theemphasis in the budget is to im-prove drainage by cleaning outcanals and culverts underOkeechobee and removing sandberms, not only to get water out,but to mitigate new Federal Emer-gency Management Agencyflood map information that putsmost of the town on a flood plain,which could lead to higher insur-ance costs.

“The reason for this is not onlyto get the water out sooner, but tomake an effective argument toFEMA that we’re bringing the ca-nals back to their design capabili-ty so that we might have a chance

of avoiding some of the flood mapclassifications that they proposefor virtually all of LoxahatcheeGroves, The Acreage and RoyalPalm Beach,” Ryan said.

Yohe affirmed that canal clear-ing is the emphasis for the nextfiscal year. It includes not only thepurchase of a backhoe with a 40-foot boom and rubber tires, but anin-house operator to clean out thecanals. “Money is additionallybudgeted to dewater each culvertat Okeechobee Blvd.,” Yohe said.“We anticipate finding each oneof them similar to what we foundat A Road, and that is flashboardrisers filled with silt and soil half-way up the pipe.”

Supervisor Don Widing askedwhere a $15 increase would leavethe reserves. Ryan said he did nothave a hard number, but that staffis working toward maintaining thebudget with no substantial deple-tion of the reserves.

Ryan also pointed out that thedistrict has a $400,000 line of cred-

it with SunTrust Bank for emer-gencies that renews in September.

“Last year, they originally askedfor a $2,000 standby fee, and theyreduced that, and then they even-tually said OK,” Ryan said. “In re-turn for maintaining the bank ac-counts at SunTrust, they wouldgo ahead and renew it without acharge for this current year, butI’m expecting at least a $1,000,maybe $2,000 charge for next year.It is a $400,000 line, which I thinkis a prudent expenditure.”

Ryan added that the district hasbeen trying to develop the bud-get in coordination with the town,to receive $150,000 of gas tax rev-enue for road maintenance that hadbeen allocated in the past for drain-age projects to protect the integri-ty of the roads, and about $29,000for debt service relief, which thetown council included in its pre-liminary budget.

The proposed LGWCD budgetalso includes a 3.45 percent incen-tive bonus for staff, which will cost

the district about $13,000 but doesnot include any salary increases.

LGWCD Chairman David De-Marois pointed out that the bo-nus was not a salary increase,which employees have not gottenin several years. He asked that staffstart working toward a salary in-crease for the 2015 budget.

Ryan pointed out that the adop-tion of the resolution that eveningwould be for TRIM (Truth in Mill-age) purposes and would be sub-ject to further scrutiny and possi-ble reduction before final adoptionSept. 15. The deadline to report theTRIM rate is July 24.

During public comment, Loxa-hatchee Groves Councilman JimRockett asked whether the districtcould ask the county to clean outthe Okeechobee Blvd. culverts,since it is a county road, and De-Marois said they would try.

Ryan made a motion to approvethe resolution with a $15 increase,which carried 4-0, with SupervisorFrank Schiola absent.

LGWCD Board Gives Initial OK To $15 Per Acre Assessment HikeSee ACME, page 16


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LETTERS TO THE EDITORJeopardizingOur Safety

Palm Beach County commission-ers want to retime yellow lights onguesswork. It’s very simple.Changing from a proven scientificformula to an untested “standard-ized” yellow light system will def-initely reduce the caution time (yel-low light) in many cases.

This jeopardizes pedestrians’and drivers’ safety and can resultin more accidents, perhaps result-ing in increased fatalities, as well.Deliberately putting the public atrisk for money and control is noless than criminal, and these com-missioners should be held respon-sible for any deaths or injury re-sulting from this terrible decision.

Perhaps collecting all the unpaidtaxes and fines from their wealthysupporters and puppet masterswho seem to think they are exemptfrom paying is a good place to startto get money legitimately withouthaving to risk the public’s wellbeing. Only knuckleheads putguesswork before scientific test-

ing and proven theories.Jude Smallwood

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Cut Back On UseOf Nitrogen And

PhosphorusEditor’s note: The following let-

ter is in regard to the article “Res-idents Complain About Weeds InRoyal Palm Canals,” publishedlast week.

Uncontrolled weed and algalgrowth in all of the canals, rivers,lakes, lagoons and coastal watersis due to one thing and one thingonly: excess primary plant nutri-ents. Namely, this is our excess useof nitrogen and phosphorous fer-tilizers. The need to grow greenerlawns, perfect putting greens oran extra bushel of tomatoes peracre et cetera ad naseum fostersexcessive fertilization. Add to thisthe uncontrolled regulation and, ifregulated, then unenforcedspreading and stockpiling ofequestrian wastes (urine soaked

bedding plus manure), and we reapwhat we sow; algal and subaquat-ic vegetation (SAV) blooms.

To control this problem, whatdo we do? Use toxic chemicals tokill the weeds. This then exacer-bates the problem in several ways.First, we put non-natural chemi-cals into the environment, whichinterfere with cellular life process-es. You and I have cells, too, youknow! Second, the smell and float-ing weeds interfere with the en-joyment of waterways, as notedin the article cited above. Lastly,the plant/algal biomass that doesnot float sinks to the bottom. Boththe floating, but especially thesunk biomass, undergoes aerobicdegradation depleting the oxygencontent (hypoxia to anoxia) of thewater, and this can and does leadto fish kills. If the phosphorouspollution upsets the natural bal-ance of nitrogen/phosphorous ra-tios, toxic cyanobacterial (aka blue-green algae) blooms can and dooccur. Note the St. Lucie River justup the coast.

Get the causes, nutrient/chemi-

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Groves BudgetHigher

Tax Rate?continued from page 1

quired by state statutes, whichmeans the town must produce$1,140,752 in revenue, Kutneysaid.

“There are a number of revenuesources that make up this 3-millequivalency, but it is importantthat we do it every year or thereare ramifications,” he said.

Underwood Management Ser-vices CEO Bill Underwood, headof the town’s contracted manage-ment firm, said the town has fourfunds it will draw revenue from in2014: capital improvement, pro-posed at $1.43 million; solid waste,$428,000; general fund, $1.1 mil-lion; and transportation, $962,000.

“Those four funds make up your

total budget,” Underwood said.“The reason that we had some is-sues is property values were downabout 3.8 percent this year, whichis not as bad as it was in prioryears. We were hoping it mightlevel off or increase a little bit, butit has not done that.”

In the case of LoxahatcheeGroves, one mill in the tax ratebrings in about $164,000, Under-wood said.

“Your property taxes are a littleshy of some of the other citiesaround the state, but you get about22 percent of your total generalfund revenue from property taxes.There are areas of the state wherethat comes up to as much as 50percent. It’s not uncommon for itto be 30 to 40 percent,” he said.“We’re recommending a rate of 1.5mills, which would generate reve-nue of over $246,621, primarily tomake sure that there is sufficient

cushion to provide that the towngets all of its state-shared reve-nues.”

Underwood brought up thestate-shared revenue issue be-cause when the town incorporat-ed, the property appraiser set avalue on the town, and the townhas to meet certain millages pur-suant to the 3-mill equivalency.

“In my career, I’ve never had anissue with the 3-mill equivalency,and I’m going to do a little moreresearch, but that $1.1 million canactually affect roughly $700,000 or$800,000 of total general fund rev-enue,” Underwood said.

The financing sources for thegeneral fund include ad valoremtaxes of $197,297; fire municipalservices tax revenue of $568,561;business tax receipts of $5,000, aswell as utility taxes including anFPL tax of $203,000 and a commu-nication services tax of $125,446.

“Those four, when you add themall up, you have to produce $1.1million,” Underwood said. “Thereis no requirement to have a mill-age rate at all if you can producethat number through those foursources.”

He said it was his understand-ing that not meeting the $1.1 mil-lion target could result in the statewithholding portions of state rev-enue sharing, totaling almost$800,000. “I’ve never been in thissituation, so I don’t know,” Un-derwood said. “I would have torely on somebody at the state totell me if they’ve ever seen it. I’venot been with a city that has beenthis close.”

The 1.5 rate will generate abouta $20,000 cushion, he explained.

Councilman Jim Rockett said itwas unfortunate that the town’stotal property value was set at theheight of the housing market. “We

kind of got the short end of thestick,” he said.

Rockett asked whether assess-ments from the Loxahatchee Wa-ter Control District could be in-cluded in that number, and Under-wood said he was not sure.

Town Attorney Mike Cirullo saidthere are still many questions tobe resolved with the Florida De-partment of Revenue. “They ulti-mately decide compliance with thestatute,” he said. “We’ll have timeto do that before your hearings inSeptember.”

Cirullo recommended setting themillage at the higher rate to be safe,and possibly lowering the rate lat-er when the numbers are more cer-tain, explaining that the maximummillage would be set at the coun-cil’s July 16 meeting, but could thenbe lowered.

Expenditures are similar to thecurrent year, with $147,000 for gen-

eral governmental services,$280,000 for law enforcement,$103,000 for legislative, $285,000for executive, $104,000 for finan-cial and administrative, $170,000 forcomprehensive planning and$120,000 for legal services.

No money was budgeted forhorse trail development, which didnot make Mayor Dave Browningand Councilman Tom Goltzenéhappy.

“The part I really don’t get ishow we can talk about, in the sametype of easement, spending a mil-lion bucks for a road but we can’tfor a horse trail where the horsewould walk on the existing sur-face,” Goltzené said. “That wecan’t get that done just amazesme.”

Underwood said what compli-cated building horse trails wasactually acquiring easements toput the trail on.

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cal pollution, and you will not needto complain about the results. Ithank you for your future consid-ering of our environment, presentand future.

Dr. J. William LoudaLoxahatchee Groves

Editor’s note: Dr. Louda is a se-nior scientist and professor of en-vironmental chemistry at FloridaAtlantic University.

Hurricane PrepHurricane tip: freeze plastic con-

tainers of water in the freezer, asmany as you can fit. If your powergoes out, your refrigerator will turninto an “old time” icebox. You canmove some into the refrigerator tokeep it cold.

Peter EvansWellington

Support ProperImmigration

The Democrat’s war cry was“we have to reform immigration toget the illegals into the open.” A

much better way would have beento allow all illegals to submit anapplication for citizenship and gothrough the approximate five-yearprocess of becoming a citizen. Thiswould have brought them into theopen legally. Within a month or soafter application for citizenship,they would receive a green cardallowing them to work and live inthe country legally. All the prob-lems would have been solved with-out full amnesty. These peoplewould then be contributing tothemselves and our country, whilegoing through the process of be-coming American citizens.

The cost to become a citizen isabout $4,000 per person times 11million is $400 billion, which wouldhave gone a long way to help paysome of the financial burden they


Members of the Wellington Vil-lage Council gave unanimous ap-proval Tuesday to allow medicaluse on the Wellington Parc site,located on the west side of StateRoad 7 near Palomino Drive.

The 15.83-acre site was original-ly approved for 31,830 square feetof office space and some residen-tial — fewer than 100 townhous-es.

The new approval will allow theoffice space to include medicaluse.

“When the project was original-ly approved, professional officespace is what was requested,”Growth Management Director BobBasehart said.

He explained that medical office

space and professional officespace are distinctly different inWellington’s code, necessitatingthe change. “This application willresult in no additional dwellingunits and no additional squarefootage,” Basehart said.

Councilman Matt Willhite askedabout the difference between pro-fessional office and medical office.

“A professional office is essen-tially any office space which isnon-retail,” Basehart said. “Theseare uses such as insurance agen-cies, accountants, architects orengineers. The distinction be-tween that and a medical office isthat services provided in a medi-cal office are medically related. Thiswould include chiropractors, doc-tors of all kinds and other similaruses.”

Willhite said he felt medical of-fice could fall under professionaloffice space, but Basehart said thatwas a conversation the councilwould have to have, and thenamend the code.

Councilwoman Anne Gerwigasked about the relation betweenthe housing and medical uses.“Will this be senior housing orsomehow related?” she asked.

Agent for the applicant EleanorHalperin said there was no con-nection between the homes andthe medical office space.

Willhite said he was concernedabout connectivity between theWellington Parc site and the adja-cent Palomino Park medical site.

“I want to see us work to re-solve any issues,” he said. “I thinkwe need to come up with a solu-

tion for the traffic. This council hasworked very hard to get that traf-fic light in at Palomino Drive, tohave it working and facilitating thesafety of vehicles traveling in andout of all of these complexes. I’djust ask that we continue to worktogether to try to come up withsomething.”

Vice Mayor Howard Coatesechoed Willhite’s concerns, not-ing that although there wascross-access required on theproperty, it was not open forpublic use.

“I wasn’t on the council whenthey approved the original siteplan,” he said. “But I have to be-lieve that the cross-access andthe availability of the light wasan issue in the overall plan. Idon’t know how one of the con-

ditions requiring cross-accesswas interpreted in a way that youhave to provide the cross-accessbut are not obligated to allowpeople to use it.”

He said he believed the intentwas to link Wellington Parc tothe nearby plazas for better traf-fic flow.

“If that wasn’t the case, then Ithink we need to change the de-velopment order,” he said. “I thinkcross-access is an important partto developing that property. I thinkin the long run, it will be safer togive residents who come into yourfacility the option to go north onState Road 7 by using that trafficlight.”

Gerwig said she believed thatwas the intent as well.

“It was important to get traffic

off [SR 7],” she said. “However ithappened, it didn’t seem to bedone very well. We need to worktoward fixing this, but also notmake the same mistake in the fu-ture.”

Village Attorney Laurie Cohensaid that she’s continuing to haveconversations about it with theapplicant.

But Councilman John Greenesaid he believes it will take the res-idents to get the access.

“I think the only way it will getdone is through pressure by theresidents of those townhouses,”he said. “It’s unfortunate. That traf-fic light is there to benefit every-one.”

Gerwig made a motion to ap-prove the change to allow medicaluse. It passed unanimously.

Wellington Council Allows Change To Medical Use On SR 7 Parcel

Footlooseand...By JulesW. Rabin

throughout many resumes, obvi-ous for all to see. And, somewhatincredibly, many lawmakers in-volved in corruption scandalshave avoided jail. You see, some700 veteran politicians have spe-cial judicial standing, including all594 members of Congress, plussenior cabinet members.

In case you are wondering,Brazilian congressmen receive

salaries over $175,000 and closeto that amount for things likehousing, gasoline and “ elector-al research,” plus perks like al-lowing them to hire as many as25 aides each.

One case of many… Hildebran-do Pascone (nicknamed the “chainsaw” Congressman), who ran foroffice despite common knowledgehe was being investigated for op-

Why The Political Pot Is (Finally) Boiling Over Down In Brazil...OPINION

In the cauldron of Brazilian po-litical life now boiling over moreharshly and dangerously, the crim-inal and semi-criminal element,which is sprinkled throughout Bra-zil’s Congress, continues its rideroughshod over the people.

Many dozens of legislators whohave been charged, and even con-victed of crimes, rule pretty muchsupreme. Money laundering, brib-

erating a death squad using tech-niques like throwing victims intovats of acid or dismembering themwith chain saws. He won easily,but was eventually (a rarity)stripped of his seat.

Brazilians who elect theseclowns actually cast more ballotsfor a professional clown namedGrumpy in 2000 than any candi-date in history.

“Congress,” said Manricio San-toro, a respected Brazilian politi-cal scientist, “is without a doubtthe most despised institution inBrazil. A good deal of this hatredis related to the fact that Congresshas a tradition of preventing itsown members convicted of a crimefrom ever going to jail.”

And you thought Washingtonwas a problem!

ery, drug trafficking, kidnappingand murder are interspersed

represent, as amnesty will mean.The only thing that needs reformis the Democratic Party. Theypushed amnesty through just likeObamacare without thinking itthrough. This is a dangerous par-ty, as you can see.

Ronald PirettiRoyal Palm Beach

For The RecordIn Ellen Rosenberg’s column

printed last week on trainer Ju-lius Von Uhl, it should havebeen noted that Border Fox Farmis owned by Laura Steffey. LeonGerard, who was mentioned inthe column, coordinates theclinics. The Town-Crier regretswhatever confusion this mighthave caused.

This week, members of the Wellington Village Council gave the green light for the 2014Global Dressage Festival season. Unlike meetings past, which saw dissent and bickering fromtwo very divided factions in the community, Tuesday night’s meeting seemed peaceful.

Despite concerns raised by some residents, the atmosphere seemed supportive, with thefocus on details and plans rather than past grievances and personal grudges. The applicationseven received unanimous approval, showing support from the entirety of the council. This isimportant.

Though there is much more to be discussed about the future of Equestrian Village, the rela-tively non-controversial approval of necessary permits for the dressage season is a key steptoward healing Wellington’s wounds.

What we saw Tuesday night was a village uniting, albeit slowly. Maybe everyone wasn’tfully in agreement with everything said, but both sides were willing to compromise, and that iswhat’s important. It will take many more steps to bring the community back together, butsomeone has to take the first. The credit must go to all involved: to the council members whoput their faith in Wellington Equestrian Partners with this permit, to WEP Managing Partner

Mark Bellissimo and his team, who took into account concerns of residents, and to everyone onboth sides who spoke out on the issue and pushed for compromise.

It was a stark contrast to last year, when revocation of approvals caused uncertainty for thefuture of dressage in Wellington. Today, Wellington can proudly invite top riders from all overthe world to attend the 2014 Global Dressage Festival — and with plenty of time for them tomake arrangements. Having confidence in Wellington’s equestrian season is crucial not onlyfor the village’s status as the winter equestrian capital of the world, but also for so many localbusinesses that depend on the season to get by.

We hope to see the same demeanor of support and compromise continue as EquestrianVillage faces more approvals. Though some of them may be more controversial, we hope thediscussion sticks to the details without becoming personal.

Wellington has been given a second chance to settle lawsuits and heal wounds by restartingthe process of creating Equestrian Village. It is only by working together and being willing toconcede on some things to gain on others that Wellington can put the issue behind it and looktoward a successful future.


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The Royal Palm Beach Seniors Activities Group gathered for a party on Wednesday, July 3 at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center.Guests enjoyed lunch, live music, dancing and patriotic sing-a-longs. For more info., visit www.royalpalmbeach.com.

ROYAL PALM BEACH SENIORS HONOR JULY 4 WITH PARTY AT CULTURAL CENTER

Hope Thompson, Doreen Garrett,Ruby Johnson and Coralee Kentish.

Front row: Olive Forrester, Raphael Williams and ShaffrenMohammed. Back row: Barbara Wilson and Melrose King. Anne Petrone with Dick Carmine and Dolly Hughes.

Claudia and Victor McBarnette, Helio and Effie Gonzalez, Aliceand C.S. Stern and Dolly Hughes show their patriotic spirit.

Effie Gonzalez, Alice and C.S. Stern dance. Jean Cole, Virginia Davis, Myrna Craddock and Eleanor Walker.

Royal Palm Beach Parks & Recreation hosted the Crazy Games on Saturday, July 6 at Lindsay Ewing Park. Crazy Games is a program ofdifferent fun fitness games, such as obstacle courses, for kids ages 4 to 13 years old. Crazy Games continue Saturdays, through July 27,from 10 to 11 a.m. For more info., call (561) 790-5124, visit www.crazygamesfl.com or contact Coach Nancy Molina at [email protected].

CRAZY GAMES BRING FITNESS FUN FOR KIDS TO LINDSAY EWING PARK IN RPB

Evalina Pomante and Genieve Shambo enjoy the day. Giselle Garcia in the parachute races.Coach Nancy Molina with winning teammates Jaiden

Alexander, Jolene Shambo and Adrian Blackwood.




CRIME NEWS

THE INFORMATION FOR THIS BOX IS PROVIDED BYCRIME STOPPERS OF PALM BEACH COUNTY. CRIMESTOPPERSIS WHOLLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT SHOWN HERE.

Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach Countyis asking for the public’s help in findingthese wanted fugitives:

• Magdala Legagneur is a black female,5’6” tall and weighing 130 lbs., with blackhair and brown eyes. She has a tattoo onher right shoulder that says “Dave.” Herdate of birth is 07/26/81. Legagneur iswanted for failure to appear on chargesof grand theft. Her last known addresseswere South East 3rd Ave. in Delray Beachand East Jennings Ave. in Greenacres.She is wanted as of 07/03/13.

• Jacquelyn Howell, alias Prissy, is awhite female, 5’11” tall and weighing 160lbs., with brown hair and brown eyes. Herdate of birth is 11/20/87. She has mul-tiple tattoos. Howell is wanted for failureto appear on charges of possession ofhydrocodone and violation of probationon charges of selling oxycodone. Her lastknown addresses were Ridgeway Ave. inWest Palm Beach and 54th Street Northin The Acreage. She is wanted as of 07/03/13.

Remain anonymous and you may beeligible for up to a $1,000 reward. CallCrime Stoppers at (800) 458-TIPS (8477)or visit www.crimestopperspbc.com. Jacquelyn Howell


JULY 9 — A deputy from thePalm Beach County Sheriff’s Of-fice substation in Wellington wasdispatched Tuesday to two homeson Yarmouth Court after residentscalled to report two vehicle bur-glaries. According to separatePBSO reports, the victims discov-ered that someone had removedtheir remote garage door openersfrom their vehicles. According toone PBSO report, sometime be-tween 8 p.m. Monday and 8 a.m.the following morning, someoneentered the victim’s unlocked carand removed his garage dooropener, which was valued at ap-proximately $25. There were nosuspects or witnesses at the timeof the report. According to a sep-arate PBSO report, sometime be-tween 8 p.m. Monday and 8 a.m.the following morning, someoneentered the victim’s unsecuredvehicle and stole his garage dooropener. The victim did not believeanyone had entered his garage.There were no suspects or wit-nesses at the time of the report.

• • •JULY 1 — A resident of Devon-

shire Circle called the PBSO sub-station in Royal Palm Beach lastMonday to report a vehicle bur-glary. According to a PBSO report,sometime between 9 p.m. on Sun-day, June 30 and 8 a.m. the nextmorning, someone entered the vic-tim’s unlocked vehicle and re-moved the ignition key cover, at-tempting to steal the vehicle. Thedamaged key cover was valued atapproximately $500. DNA evi-dence was taken at the scene, butthere were no suspects or witness-es at the time of the report.

JULY 1 — A Royal Palm Beachwoman and a juvenile were arrest-ed last Monday evening on charg-es of shoplifting after they werecaught taking items from the Mar-shalls store in the Southern PalmCrossing shopping plaza. Accord-ing to a PBSO report, a deputyfrom the Royal Palm Beach sub-station was dispatched to thestore after a loss prevention offic-er observed 18-year-old AlexandraArias and a juvenile conceal wom-en’s wallets beneath their cloth-ing. According to the report, Ariasand the juvenile passed all pointsof sale without paying for the wal-lets and exited the store. That iswhen the loss prevention officerstopped them and recovered thestolen wallets. According to thereport, Arias and the juvenile at-tempted to flee, but were appre-hended and turned over to thedeputy. The stolen wallets werevalued at $38.97. Arias was takento the Palm Beach County Jailwhere she was charged with pettytheft. The juvenile was taken tothe Juvenile Assessment Center.

JULY 4 — A deputy from thePBSO’s Acreage/Loxahatchee

Garage Door OpenersStolen From UnlockedVehicles In Wellington

Magdala Legagneur

substation was dispatched to ahome on 53rd Road North lastThursday morning regarding astolen vehicle. According to aPBSO report, the victim was asleepat approximately 3 a.m. when heheard his 2000 Ford F250 start up.The victim looked out his windowand observed his truck drivingthrough the grass and then headsouthbound on Coconut Blvd.According to the report, the vic-tim did not give anyone permis-sion to take his truck. The stolenvehicle is described as a white 2000F250 with a business sign on theside and a yellow construction lighton the top. According to the vic-tim, it also had a 100-gallon dieseltank and several tools in the truckbed. There were no suspects at thetime of the report.

JULY 5 — A resident of 130thTrail North contacted the PBSO’sAcreage/Loxahatchee substationlast Friday night to report foundproperty. According to the report,the resident’s son discovered ablack duffel bag on the canal bankat 130th Trail North and 78th StreetNorth. The duffel bag contained asmall black flashlight, silver andgold mens watches, ladies jewelryand a Jack Daniels bottle with clearalcohol inside. According to thereport, the resident believed theitems might have been stolen.There was no further informationavailable at the time of the report.

JULY 6 — A deputy from thePBSO’s Acreage/Loxahatcheesubstation was dispatched to ahome on 42nd Road North lastSaturday morning regarding a sto-len vehicle. According to a PBSOreport, sometime between 9 a.m.last Thursday and 10:30 a.m. lastSaturday, someone stole the vic-tim’s flatbed trailer, which wasparked in his front yard and load-ed with scrap metal. The victim saidthe trailer was attached to a car onthe east side of his home. Therewere no suspects or witnesses atthe time of the report.

JULY 6 — A resident of Well-ington’s Edge called the PBSOsubstation in Wellington last Sat-urday night to report a home bur-glary. According to a PBSO report,the victim left the home at approx-imately 8 p.m., leaving her hus-band inside and the garage dooropen. When she returned at ap-proximately 9:30 p.m., the victimnoticed her blue and cream beachcruiser bicycle missing from insidethe garage. According to the re-port, the victim’s husband didn’thear anyone enter the garage, andtheir dog didn’t bark. A neighborreported seeing two teens ridingbicycles on the street, but didn’tsee anyone enter the victim’s ga-rage. The stolen bicycle was val-ued at approximately $119. Therewas no further information avail-able at the time of the report.

JULY 8 — An employee of Lit-See BLOTTER, page 16

JULY 9 — A LoxahatcheeGroves man was arrested Tues-day in conjunction with thedeath of Katherine Rigby, anAcreage woman who was killedlast month while biking on Tan-gerine Blvd.

According to a Palm BeachCounty Sheriff’s Office Report, 68-year-old Robert Barbieri was ar-rested on charges of leaving the

scene of a crash involving a death.Rigby was killed June 16 when

a vehicle struck her from behindwhile she was riding a bicycle. Thevehicle then fled the scene, but leftbehind pieces of its grill and head-light.

Barbieri was taken to the PalmBeach County Jail, where he wascharged with failure to remain at afatal crash site.

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Tree’s Wings and Ribs in Royal Palm Beach held a craft night Monday, July 8. Participants learned how to build “upcycled” lightbulb arttaught by Tree’s Wings General Manager Erin Townsend-Peel. The $10 fee included all materials and a drink. For more information, call(561) 791-1535.

TREE’S WINGS HOSTS NIGHT OF ‘UPCYCLING CRAFTS’ IN ROYAL PALM BEACH

Kristin Wilson and Taylor Wells choose trinkets for decoration.

David Chance stuffs moss inside a lightbulb. Samantha Wilson and Melissa Schulte paint bulb holders.Participants show off their finished lightbulb art.

Tamara Ploskunak, David Chance, Gabby Fiordelisi,Lainee Chance, Lisa Stephani, Janet Head andJennifer Duffer with their finished lightbulbs.

Gabby Fiordelisi and Lainee Chance removethe lightbulb filament to make their bulbs.



The recent announcement ofplans to develop the VavrusRanch property between North-lake Blvd. and the Beeline High-way has heightened interest incompleting the State Road 7 ex-tension, according to Royal PalmBeach Councilman Jeff Hmara.

The City of West Palm Beachhas been actively opposing theconnection of the existing StateRoad 7 extension to NorthlakeBlvd. via its current planned right-of-way on the original range lineeasement, which runs along theeast side of the Ibis Golf & Coun-try Club development. Ibis is thehome community of West PalmBeach Mayor Jeri Muoio.

During council member reportsduring the July 2 meeting of the

Royal Palm Beach Village Council,Hmara said he had participated inmeetings recently with the CentralPalm Beach County Chamber ofCommerce governmental affairsand economic development com-mittees, where there was much dis-cussion about development plansfor the 4,753-acre Vavrus propertyin Palm Beach Gardens, whichLandstar Development Group ofCoral Gables paid $20 million for inOctober.

“It’s an Abacoa-type communi-ty that is going to be even twiceas large as Abacoa,” Hmara said.“The significance of that to usmight very well have to do withthe SR 7 extension, because if youlook at the roadway system outthere, it’s pretty limited.”

He pointed out that the only twoexisting main roads in the area are

Northlake Blvd. and the BeelineHighway. “There appears to besome justification that adding thatkind of development to that areamight very well help us out in con-tinuing with the SR 7 extensionand moving forward with that,”Hmara said.

The Florida Department ofTransportation has announcedplans to continue with the exten-sion after more than 1,000 residentsattended the final public FDOThearing in March 2012 on the com-pletion of SR 7 to Northlake Blvd.,with advocates outnumbering op-ponents about two to one.

At that meeting, FDOT officialsexplained that the nearest north/west connections are Florida’sTurnpike to the east and SeminolePratt Whitney Road to the west,and that the Palm Beach Metro-

politan Planning Organization andother transportation agencieshave identified completing SR7 asa high priority.

The project proposes to widenthe SR 7 extension from two to fourlanes from Okeechobee Blvd. to60th Street North, and construct anew four-lane divided highwayfrom 60th Street North to North-lake Blvd.. The estimated cost forthe project is about $70 million forconstruction and about $16.5 mil-lion for mitigation. The project isfully financed, according to FDOTofficials.

West Palm Beach, however,continues to lobby against theroad in Tallahassee with the stategovernment and in Washington,D.C., with the U.S. Army Corpsof Engineers, according to Cen-tral Palm Beach County Chamber

of Commerce CEO Jaene Miran-da.

Royal Palm Beach CouncilmanRichard Valuntas, who is the vil-lage’s liaison to the MPO, saidfunding was discussed at the lastmeeting, and West Palm Beach’stwo members voted against it.

Valuntas said about $1 millionwould be spent in 2014 for engi-neering and right-of-way acquisi-tion.

“I think it is 2017 where someof the substantial work is set tobe done,” he said. “So it’s stillseveral years off, and from whatI understand, West Palm wantsto cry to Congress and try to lob-by them to throw roadblocks onthis.”

Meanwhile, the Palm BeachCounty Commission last monthforged ahead on its portion of the

SR 7 extension, approving the pur-chase of 24 parcels of land on 60thStreet North along the M Canal inThe Acreage to connect Persim-mon Blvd. to Orange Blvd., andthen Royal Palm Beach Blvd.

The link will enable SR 7 pass-through traffic to make the con-nection on the three-lane 60thStreet North link, rather than Per-simmon and Orange Grove boule-vards, which were intended ulti-mately to serve primarily localAcreage traffic.

The project includes replacingthe Royal Palm Beach Blvd. bridgeover the M Canal and reconstruct-ing the intersection with 60thStreet North to improve the line ofvision for drivers entering RoyalPalm Beach Blvd. from 60th Street.A traffic signal will also be in-stalled at the intersection.

Hmara: Vavrus Development Creates Impetus For SR 7 Extension

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continued from page 1area is just so tight when it comesto neighbors helping neighbors.”

Now that the main site is run-ning, Bass recently started a sis-ter group for rescues and animalsthat need to be adopted, and shehopes to expand Loxahatchee Lostand Found Pets to surroundingareas.

“It’s starting to spread,” Basssaid. “I noticed that we’re alreadyinto Royal Palm Beach, and we’redown into Wellington. Because itis starting to expand, we thoughtwe could do different areas.”

That would make for easier cat-egorization and faster growth.

The aim of a new web site is tohelp owners find their pets asquickly as possible, Bass said, ex-plaining that she has taken onsome web administrators to ac-commodate people who mightwant to join in the middle of thenight. “Somebody’s always up,”she said. “We’ve already got a do-main name in the works, and the

web site will be up in the next cou-ple of weeks.”

Meanwhile, the existing pagehas extended its reach all the wayinto Stuart. “One guy’s dog end-ed up in Stuart, and we got it allthe way back from up there,” Basssaid. “Somebody picked up thedog and decided they wanted tokeep it. With word of mouth, some-body had seen this person withthat dog, and we tracked it all theway up there.”

Bass said there seems to havebeen an issue lately with smallpedigree dogs being reportedmissing. “They’re the ones thatyou would buy at the pet store,the little designer doggies,” shesaid. “There’s four or five; a lot ofthem seem to be missing off of Sy-camore and 180th Avenue North.We’re having a really hard timefinding them. I’m wondering ifsomeone is coming around andpicking up these little dogs andtaking them somewhere else andreselling them. I hate to think that,but it has crossed our minds.”

Bass had a meeting with PalmBeach County Animal Care & Con-trol Director Dianne Sauve thisweek. “She’s going to work withus because she said we have real-ly been helping them a lot, and

they’re helping us out, too,” Basssaid. “Everybody is just so goodon helping out here. It’s amazing.”

She credits Acreage residentsfor their support. “I couldn’t do itwithout them,” Bass said. “It’severybody’s help and support,and all of us working together.”

Sometimes, members will also goout and physically help peoplelocate their pets.

“We put a sign up — somewoman had lost her dog, and shewas beside herself,” Bass said,explaining that she and anothermember of the group went to help.“We put the signs up, and withina half-hour we had reunited them.”

So far, awareness of the site hasbeen largely through word ofmouth, as well as fliers at Red BarnFeed and banners at communityevents. “It’s really word-of-mouth,” Bass said. “And whensomebody finds their animal realquick, they go and tell everybody.”

Bass encouraged as many peo-ple as possible to join LoxahatcheeLost and Found Pets on Facebookto further improve the effective-ness of the site. “The more we canget, the faster we can get theseanimals reunited with their own-ers before something happens tothem,” she said.

Cell TowerWill It GetWellingtonApproval?

continued from page 1a consistently agreed on interpre-tation,” he said.

At the Aug. 7 meeting, howev-er, the appeal will be heard by thePZA board, which is autonomousin the matter, Flinchum said. Thatmeans the appeal continues orends with that board.

If the board agrees with villagestaff, Clearwater will have to ap-ply for the variance. If the varianceis denied, the issue will be dead,Flinchum said. The only recourseClearview would have at thatpoint would be to appeal in court,he added.

But if the board agrees withClearview — that village staff isincorrectly interpreting the lan-guage — no variance would berequired. The project would pro-ceed, eventually landing beforethe Wellington Village Council fora vote.

But Flinchum doesn’t thinkthat’s likely, adding that the bur-den is on the applicant here.

“There’s a strong likelihood thecouncil will never see this,” hesaid.

Jack Rupert, principal of Clear-view, based in Edison, N.J., saidhe thinks his proposal meets thesetback requirements. “Thesethings are not being done on awhim,” he said.

They’re being done becausethere’s a demand for the servicesthe carriers provide, he explained.In this case, the carriers are AT&Tand Verizon. “We build the towersto what the carriers need,” he said.

Demand is on the rise for cellphone service, as more peopleabandon land lines and rely on cellphones as their primary means ofcommunication, Rupert said. Andthe number of cell phone custom-ers downloading or streamingcontent to and from their devicesis only going to increase, he add-ed.

To be able to handle all that data— without dropping calls or mak-ing it hard to make calls — carriersare always looking for ways to in-crease and improve services. Oneway to do that is to build shortertowers in acceptable locations, butto build more of them to meet thedemand. “That’s the tradeoff,”Rupert said.

Clearview representatives iden-tified Wellington as an area wherethere are service problems, he said.Cell phone users were either miss-ing or dropping calls, having trou-ble making calls or experiencinglong download times, Rupert said.Clearview then contacted the car-riers with that information and itsproposed solution of building atower in the Wellington Market-place, a nonresidential area, hesaid.

Rupert said the carriers got onboard with the idea and are fullybacking it, spending hundreds ofthousands of dollars on theproject if it moves forward.

Rupert asserted that the pro-posed tower poses no safety is-sues. Further, the tower will be inan enclosed and fenced area soresidents won’t see the antennaor lines. It is located in an auxiliary,little-used part of the parking lot,he said.

“They rarely fail, even in hurri-canes,” he said.

Clearview will be canvassing thearea before the next zoning meet-ing to get input from residents andbusinesses, Rupert said.

“We want to be good neigh-bors,” he said. “We welcome ques-tions.”

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Royal Palm Beach celebrated July 4 with a day of activities at the new Commons Park. The day kicked off with a 5k race before thefestivities, which included kids rides, food trucks, contests, music and more. Contests included a beach volleyball tournament and thepopular Mayor’s Cup kayak races. The night ended with a display by Zambelli’s fireworks.

ROYAL PALM BEACH HOSTS JULY 4 HOLIDAY FESTIVITIES AT NEW COMMONS PARK

Mayors Cup Kayak Race winners John Tardiff and David Lorenzowith Mayor Matty Mattioli and Kayak King owner Roger Roque. Lovella, Thomas and Vincent Rogers enjoy the fireworks.

Councilman Richard Valuntas, ITID Supervisor Gary Dunkley,Commissioner Jess Santamaria, Mayor Matty Mattioli

and Councilman David Swift show their patriotism. Malik Bennett, Tyree Pearson, Tierney Robinson and Omarion Hill. Jeri Williams and James Jackson with Sweet Pea.


Volleyball tournament winners Sam Cyril,Cricket Gaffney and Kathy Taylor.

Royal Palm Beach's annual Firecracker Golf Tournament took place Thursday, July 4 at the Village Golf Club, followed by an awardsceremony, barbecue lunch and raffles.

RPB’S FIRECRACKER GOLF TOURNAMENT RETURNS TO THE VILLAGE GOLF CLUB PHOTOS BY DENISE FLEISCHMAN/TOWN-CRIER

RPB Mayor Matty Mattioli with golf tournament winnersNick Welter, Anthony Gabriel and Jaye Saline. Shootout winner Kevin Johnson with Sherry Thompson. Lou and Chris Kirschenhoffer with Sal Guelli and Chris Munro.

PALM BEACH HORSE PARKLATEST NEWS

We welcome your input and ideas – this is YOUR community. Please contact us at:561-333-3100 or Email: [email protected]

www.PalmBeachHorsePark.com

WILL THE PALM BEACH HORSE PARK BE USED ONLY FOR EQUESTRIAN ACTIVITIES?

No, although the Palm Beach Horse Park will be a world-class, multi-discipline equestrian complex, it will be available to the general public for recreational and civic activities.

Th e centerpiece of the Horse Park will be its enclosed, climate-controlled stadium, featuring a 300’ X 130’ arena fl oor and a seating capacity of approximately 5,000+/- people. Th is will accommodate horse shows, rodeo and intercollegiate equestrian competitions, but it could also be used for business trade shows/conferences, graduation exercises and assorted public ceremonies.

Most importantly for everyone, since the stadium will be built to hurricane shelter standards, it can serve as a community hurricane shelter for horses, pets and local residents.


SCHOOL NEWSRita Soiner Finalist In Bammy Awards For Parent Outreach

Rita Solnet of the Palm BeachCounty School District AcademicAdvisory Committee, former PTApresident and co-founder of Par-ents Across America, is now a fi-nalist for this year’s National Bam-my Awards in the category of Par-ent Outreach.

Solnet has been a prolific activ-ist in Florida on behalf of children,schools and parents. She worksacross demographics of race,class, gender and profession toconnect and organize people to-ward achieving the greater good.

While working full time, Solnet

volunteered in Palm Beach Coun-ty schools for 16 years in leader-ship roles on SACs, PTAs or incoaching students on interviewskills.

As a defender of students, shecommunicates frequently withleading policymakers locally, state-wide and nationally, as well askeeping education at the forefrontin the press. Her work is featuredat Huffington Post and EducationNext, and she has been publishedin the Washington Post and TheWall Street Journal.

Solnet’s relentless drive to reach

parents won her a coveted spot inthe St. Petersburg Times’ Top Flor-ida Political Tweeters list for sixconsecutive months and count-ing. Her extensive use of socialmedia enables her to connect andinform many parents far and wide.

“Having been nominated by anindividual whom I never met wasan honor,” Solnet said. “I’m proudof all the parent activists in Flori-da. We work in lock step as a teamutilizing everyone’s strengths andcontributions to ensure our voic-es are heard and to ensure all chil-dren receive the highest quality

education. I couldn’t be moreproud of my Florida colleagues.This honor recognizes our workcollectively, not mine.”

The Bammy Awards will be pre-sented on Sept. 21 at a red-carpetevent in Washington, D.C., by theAcademy of Education Arts &Sciences International, which in-cludes leading educators, educa-tion leaders, education professors,journalists, editors, researchers,commentators, advocates, activ-ists, visionaries and pioneers.

The academy is comprised of aboard of governors, a council of

peers and the executive commit-tee. “Nominees like Mrs. Solnet aremaking a difference in educationevery day. It’s more important nowthat ever to demonstrate what’sright with American education,”said Errol St. Clair Smith, execu-tive producer of the BammyAwards.

The Bammy Awards is a cross-discipline award that identifies andacknowledges the good work be-ing done all across the educationvillage. The awards were createdin response to the tremendousnational pressure on educators

and education leaders to improvestudent outcomes, the impact ofhigh-stakes accountability and theintense scrutiny that today’s edu-cator’s face. The awards aim tofoster cross-discipline recognitionof the collective contributions be-ing made to educate children, en-courage collaboration in andacross the various domains, ele-vate education and education suc-cesses in the public eye, and raisethe profile and voices of the manyundervalued and unrecognizedpeople who are making a differencein the field.

Palm Beach State College hasthe lowest tuition among publicfour-year colleges and universi-ties in Florida and one of the low-est in the nation, according to newdata compiled by the U.S. Depart-ment of Education’s College Af-fordability and Transparency Cen-ter.

The news comes on the heelsof the board of trustees’ decisionin June not to raise tuition and feesfor the 2013-14 fiscal year.

“We try to keep our tuition lowto make it affordable for youngadults to further their education,’’said David H. Talley, chair of theboard of trustees.

The tuition list, based on 2011-12 data from more than 4,000 insti-tutions, shows that Palm BeachState College has the seventh-low-

est tuition among public four-yearcolleges and universities in thenation.

PBSC’s tuition for a full-time stu-dent was $2,324 while the nationalaverage was $7,135. That’s twonotches better than 2011, when theDOE first launched the online cen-ter to provide more comprehen-sive information for parents andstudents about college costs andto help them make more informeddecisions.

The college had the ninth-low-est tuition in the country amongpublic four-year institutions ac-cording to the 2011 list, which wasbased on 2009-10 data.

The DOE created the CollegeAffordability and TransparencyCenter to comply with require-ments of the Higher Education

Opportunity Act of 2008. Amongother options, parents and stu-dents can search for institutionswith the highest and lowest tu-itions and highest and lowest netprices, which is the price of atten-dance minus grants and scholar-ship assistance.

Serving 49,000 students annu-ally, Palm Beach State College isthe largest institution of highereducation in Palm Beach County,providing bachelor’s degrees, as-sociate’s degrees, professionalcertificates, career training and life-long learning.

Established in 1933 as Florida’sfirst public community college, itoffers more than 100 programs ofstudy at locations in Lake Worth,Boca Raton, Palm Beach Gardensand Belle Glade.

Palm Beach County publicschools recently received twoBest of Show awards at the 2013Sunshine Medallion Awards. TheSunshine State School Public Re-lations Association (SUNSPRA)celebrates the outstanding workof public-relations professionalsthrough this awards program.

Palm Beach County schools re-ceived a Best of Show award forits Wellness Promotion PolicyAnnual Report (Sixth Edition). Thiscollaborative effort evaluates theprogress of district wellness pro-grams. The objective is to estab-lish a workplace which encourag-es and supports healthy lifestyles.Steve Bonino, chairman of thePalm Beach County Public SchoolsWellness Promotion Task Force,accepted the award.

A school-based Best of Showaward was given to OkeeheeleeMiddle School for its entry, “TakeSteps to a Healthier You BreakfastClub.” The objective of the pro-gram is to improve academic per-formance with tutoring, donewhile a free breakfast is served tostudents. The award was accept-ed by the school’s Title I Coordi-nator, Carmen Moreira.

In addition, Palm Beach CountySchool received two other recog-nitions:

Promotional Videos, LargeDistrict — This award was for theWellness Rewards Premium Dis-count Promotional Video. The com-prehensive video explains the pro-cess that district employees haveto follow in order to take advan-tage of the Wellness Rewards Pre-

mium Discount Program. The vid-eo was produced by Officer FrankFanelli from the School PoliceTraining Unit and Donna Winter,assistant wellness coordinator as“The Wellness Fairy.”

Special Purpose Publication,Large District — This award wasfor the Palm Beach County Mid-dle School Poetry Competition.The book includes the winningentries for the 2013 Palm BeachCounty Middle School PoetryCompetition. In addition, the pub-lication features the winning cov-er designed by Laura Francois andthe bookmark designed by MariaValenti, students at Palm SpringsMiddle School. Laura Costello,English teacher at Palm SpringsMiddle School, accepted theaward.

Palm Beach County Schools Receive‘Best Of Show’ Awards At SUNSPRA

Palm Beach State College Offers LowestTuition Among Florida’s Public Colleges


PALMS WEST PEOPLEBurggraaf ReleasesSeventh Kid’s Book

Wellington’s Rachel Docekal Named ToNorthern Palm Beach Chamber Board

Dr. Rachel Docekal, chief exec-utive officer of Hanley CenterFoundation and a Wellington res-ident, was recently elected to theNorthern Palm Beach CountyChamber of Commerce board ofdirectors. In her new volunteer role,Docekal will assist the board’s ef-forts in the northern communitiesof Juno Beach, Jupiter, Jupiter In-let Colony, Lake Park, MangoniaPark, North Palm Beach, PalmBeach Gardens, Palm BeachShores, Singer Island, RivieraBeach and Tequesta to achievesustainable growth and continuedprosperity.

“I am delighted to join theNorthern Palm Beach CountyChamber of Commerce board ofdirectors, which has a vibrant mem-bership and a sterling reputationfor creating an enviable businessclimate,” Docekal said. “I look for-ward to contributing to its missionand to provide support as theboard continues to enhance eco-nomic success in the northernPalm Beach County business com-munity.”

The Northern Palm Beach Coun-ty Chamber of Commerce is a non-profit organization whose morethan 800 members represent em-ployees in all aspects of businessand industry. Its continuing mis-

sion is to be the unified voice ofbusiness, driving sustainablegrowth and prosperity. The North-ern Palm Beach County Chamberof Commerce focuses on econom-ic development, taking an activerole in business advocacy, provid-ing meaningful member services tosupport its growth and improvingthe quality of life for all residentsin its community.

Docekal, a noted developmentand marketing professional, hasdeep experience with nonprofit,community-based organizations,including the South Florida Sci-ence Museum and Nova South-eastern University. She has beenpresented with numerous recog-nitions for her contributions tobusinesses in South Florida andwas recently recognized as one ofSouth Florida Business Journal’sMost Influential Business Wom-en 2012.

In her role as head of the Han-ley Center Foundation, the non-profit entity created to supportHanley Center’s addiction re-search, education and treatmentprograms, as well as capital im-provements to the center’s maincampus in West Palm Beach andits 28-day residential facility inVero Beach, Docekal is responsi-ble for board and donor relations,

fundraising events and creatingfund-development strategies.

Docekal earned an undergrad-uate degree from Chatham Univer-sity in Pittsburgh and her MBAwith a concentration in marketingfrom the Katz School at the Uni-versity of Pittsburgh. She receivedher doctorate in organizationalleadership from Nova Southeast-ern University in Fort Lauderdale.

Hanley Center is a residentialaddiction treatment center head-quartered in West Palm Beach of-fering a broad spectrum of pro-

grams based on the most ad-vanced research in the disease ofaddiction. From detoxification andmedical stabilization to individu-alized treatment and continuing-care planning, Hanley Centerprides itself in offering the mostinnovative and effective treatmentprograms. Unique to the center isthe “Hanley Model of Care,”which includes age and gender-specific treatment programs. Formore information, call (866) 442-6539 or visit www.hanleycenter.org.

Author and middle school teach-er Deborah Burggraaf has an-nounced the release of her sev-enth children’s book, Flutternut-ter, an informative story about theFlorida State Butterfly, the zebralongwing.

Written for children ages 5-12,Flutternutter is illustrated byRonaldo Perez, with eloquent useof color and movement to bringthe zebra longwing to life.

The central character is the ze-bra longwing, told from the but-terfly’s point of view.

Flutternutter follows Burg-graaf’s sixth book, At The Pig Rac-es. Information about age-specif-ic, learning activities is availableat www.dburgg.com. Deborah Burggraaf

Dr. Rachel Docekal (center) with Northern PalmBeach County Chamber of Commerce Presidentand CEO Beth Kigel and Chairman Don Hearing.

Tilon S. Pervenecki of Welling-ton was awarded a scholarship forthe 2013-14 collegiate year by thetrustees of the Former Agents ofthe FBI Foundation in Dumfries,

Wellington Student Receives ScholarshipFrom Former Agents Of The FBI Foundation

Va. Pervenecki will attend the Uni-versity of Arizona in the fall. Hisfather, David Pervenecki, is a mem-ber of the FBI National Academy.

The funding of the foundation

Susanna Grafton of Loxa-hatchee, 13, is a state finalist in theNational American Miss FloridaPageant to be held at the Hyatt Re-gency in Miami July 19-21.

The winner will receive a $1,000cash award and air transportationto compete in the national pageantat Disneyland in California. Pag-eants are held for girls ages 4 to18, in five age groups.

Grafton’s activities include sing-ing, playing flute and reading fan-tasy stories. She also enjoyswatching mysterious TV showssuch as Doctor Who and OnceUpon a Time.

Grafton To Compete InAmerican Miss Pageant

Ensign Jo Cartagena of RoyalPalm Beach has received orders toPensacola for training as a navalflight officer. He recently receiveda bachelor’s degree in appliedphysiology and kinesiology, spe-cializing in fitness and wellnessfrom the University of Florida,where he enrolled in August 2009.

During his four years at theNROTC unit there, Cartagenaserved as assistant events officer,conflict drill coordinator and squadleader.

A graduate of Suncoast HighSchool, he is the son of Joe andAiko Cartagena of Royal PalmBeach.

Ensign Jo Cartagena ToAttend Naval Flight School

Ensign Jo Cartagena

Two Wellington residents wereawarded degrees from BostonUniversity in May. Nina S. Perezreceived her bachelor’s of fine artsdegree in painting and Jeremy S.Grant received his juris doctor inlaw, cum laude.

Founded in 1839, Boston Uni-versity is an internationally recog-nized institution of higher educa-tion and research. Consisting of16 schools and colleges, BU of-fers students more than 250 pro-

Two Wellington ResidentsGraduate From Boston U

grams of study in science and en-gineering, social science and hu-manities, health science, the artsand other professional disciplinesalong with a number of multi-dis-ciplinary centers and institutes in-tegral to the university’s researchand teaching mission.

With more than 33,000 students,BU is the fourth-largest privateuniversity in the country and amember of the American Associa-tion of Universities.

Tilon S. Pervenecki

scholarship program is based, inpart, on an endowment made bythe late Rosamond Woodruff Mor-gan in honor of her husband,Judge Roy L. Morgan. Selectionis based on a student’s financialneed, academic achievement, lead-ership and community involve-ment.

The Former Agents of the FBIFoundation is the philanthropicarm of the Society of Former Spe-cial Agents of the FBI. For the2013-14 academic year, the foun-dation will award a total of 64 schol-arships ranging from $1,000 to$20,000 per year.

Undergraduates who are chil-dren and grandchildren of formerFBI agents or children of gradu-ates of the FBI National Academy,who are pursuing degrees in a va-riety of subjects, are eligible to Susanna Grafton

apply. Beginning in October, infor-mation and applications for schol-arships will be available online atwww.socxfbi.org or by calling(703) 445-0026, ext. 4.


NEWS BRIEFSWellington StreetCleanup July 27The Wellington Preservation

Coalition’s next adopt-a-streetcleanup is scheduled for Saturday,July 27. It will cover a small por-tion of Wellington Trace from thecorner of Forest Hill Blvd. to PalmBeach County Fire-Rescue Station25.

The cleanup will begin on thecorner of Forest Hill Blvd. andWellington Trace. Volunteersshould meet outside by the park-ing area of the original WellingtonMall at the corner of Forest HillBlvd. and Wellington Trace be-hind Checkers before 9 a.m.

All necessary items will be pro-vided for the cleanup, plus waterto keep volunteers hydrated. Formore information, or to RSVP, call(561) 333-9843.

PBC Water ToFlush Lines

Starting July 15To maintain high water quality

in the county’s water distributionsystem, the Palm Beach CountyWater Utilities Department willtemporarily modify the disinfec-

tion process used to treat drink-ing water.

The county will use a somewhatstronger disinfection process toproduce chlorine residual insteadof a chloramine residual from July15 to Aug. 16. Hydrant flushingwill also be increased as a preven-tive maintenance process.

Customers served by the PalmBeach County Water Utilities De-partment may notice a slight chlo-rine taste or odor in their tap waterduring this period. These tempo-rary conditions will not cause ad-verse health effects.

Residents who are especiallysensitive to the taste or odor ofchlorine are advised to keep anopen container of drinking waterin the refrigerator for a few hoursto allow the chlorine to dissipate.

Users of home dialysis ma-chines, owners of tropical fish, andmanagers of stores and restau-rants with fish and shellfish hold-ing tanks are advised to seek pro-fessional advice. The method forremoving chlorine residuals differsfrom removing chloramine residu-als from tap water.

The process will not affect util-ity customers in Belle Glade, Pa-hokee and South Bay. For moreinformation, call the Palm Beach

County Water Utilities Departmentat (561) 740-4600 and select option3.

ElectronicsRecycling July 13

The Palm Beach County Coop-erative Extension Service and Re-boot Charity will hold an electron-ics recycling event on Saturday,July 13. Residents are encouragedto gather old electronics and do-nate them for recycling.

Currently, less than 15 percentof old electronics are recycled orrepurposed, while the rest ends upin landfills, making electronicwaste one of the fastest-growingenvironmental problems. RebootCharity encourages the proper re-cycling of electronic equipment,including cell phones, computersand office equipment, by accept-ing donations and then oversee-ing their recycling and/or resaleand redistribution.

Proceeds from the recyclingevent will be used to support thework of volunteer educators whohave suffered financial setbackssuch as loss of employment, home-lessness and severe health issuesor disabilities.

The event will take place Satur-

day, July 13, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.,at the Palm Beach County Coop-erative Extension Office, 559 N.Military Trail, West Palm Beach.For more information, contact WilReyes of Reboot Charity at (561)800-3968 or [email protected].

Here ComesThe Circus

Piccadilly Circus is returning tothe area with an all-new “Piccadil-ly Circus: Blammo!” show. The cir-cus will be at the South FloridaFairgrounds (9067 Southern Blvd.)on Sunday, July 21 for show timesat 1, 3:30 and 6 p.m. Each show isan hour and a half of excitementfeaturing “Cossak Warriors” onhorseback, the Motorcycle NitroCowboys in the Globe of Death,camels and zebras performing withponies, clowns, comedy and more.

Free children’s tickets havebeen distributed at elementaryschools, preschools, day care cen-ters and churches. The free tick-ets are also available at sponsor-ing area businesses. Special buy-one, get-one adult tickets are avail-able online at www.thefuncircus.com. Tickets will also be availableat the box office on show day.

CommunityHealth Fair At

FoundCareThe T. Leroy Jefferson Medical

Society, in partnership withFoundCare Health Center, willhold its 22nd annual CommunityHealth Fair, including free immuni-zations for school children at thePalm Beach County Health Depart-ment immunization van and healthcare for adults, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.on Saturday, July 13 at FoundCareHealth Center, 2330 S. CongressAve., West Palm Beach.

Providing services to under-served and low-income families,the health fair will offer free, back-to-school immunizations, physi-cals and dental screenings forchildren ages 2 months and up,as well as healthcare for adultsthat will include free screeningsfor HIV, hypertension, diabetes,dental screenings, breast exami-nations and pap smears for wom-en.

“The T. Leroy Jefferson Medi-cal Society is made up of dedicat-ed volunteer physicians and non-physicians who devote their valu-able time to serving those whomight not have access to a doctor

for regular medical checkups,” saidDr. Dudley Brown, chairman of thehealth fair. “This event is a long-standing tradition of our society,which carries on the legacy of PalmBeach County’s first African-American physician, Dr. T. LeroyJefferson.”

The Palm Beach County SchoolDistrict requires students to haveproof of immunizations to enterschools for the first time and toadvance to some grade levels. Aphysical is required for entranceto pre-kindergarten, kindergartenand for students entering seventhgrade. Parents are asked to bringtheir children’s immunizationrecords to the event.

In addition to medical services,the health fair will offer education-al presentations on various health-related topics.

Free food and giveaways will bedistributed. FoundCare will inviteparticipants to continue receivingcomprehensive health services atits state-of-the-art facility and pro-vide assistance in applying for in-surance plans for low-income fam-ilies and individuals.

For more information, call the T.Leroy Jefferson Medical Societyat (561) 318-0814 or visit www.tljmedicalsociety.org.


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Royal Palm Bassmasters hosted the 23rd Annual Red, White & Blue Fishing Tournament at Lakeside Challenger Park on Thursday, July4. Children and parents fished all morning, and then gathered at the park for the big weigh-in, with awards in each age category. KassidyMott caught the big bass. For more info., visit www.royalpalmbassmasters.org.

HOLIDAY ANGLING FUN AT 23RD ANNUAL RED, WHITE & BLUE FISHING TOURNEY

7 to 9 Other winners Dylan Ghettie,Chelsea Nedoroscik and Faith Smith.

10 to 12 Bass winners Taylor Bensema,Dalton Nutter and Jimmy Martin.Members of the Royal Palm Bassmasters, which organized the tournament.

6 & Under Other winners Brody Hughes,Brooke Schofield and Ashlyn Nutter.

10 to 12 Other winners Colton Kenny, Ciara Faircooth and Dylan D’Orsi.

7 to 9 Bass winners Ryan Cohen,Zachary Shively and Daytona Frase.

Parent-Child Other winners Brody Jara, Bryan Schofield and Hayden Gray.

PHOTOS BY LAUREN MIRÓ/TOWN-CRIER

Biggest Fish Other winnerShyla Rhoads with dad, Dale.

13 to 19 Basswinner Eric Scott.

6 & Under Basswiinner Baron Ryba.

Parent-Child Basswinners Raymond

Dougherty andKayla and Nicole Neil.

13 to 19 Bass winnerKassadi Mott caught thebiggest bass of the day.

13 to 19 Bass winnersChristian Salamoneand Lance Covert.


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tle Ceasar’s Pizza on OkeechobeeBlvd. contacted the PBSO substa-tion in Royal Palm Beach on Mon-day regarding a case of forgery.According to a PBSO report, astore employee was given threecounterfeit $20 bills from an un-known man. According to the re-port, the suspect came into thestore and bought a pizza and asoda, then left and returned andpurchased wings and anothersoda. The suspect used threecounterfeit $20 bills for the pur-chases. According to the report,the suspect was described as ablack male, approximately 6’ tall,with a golden tooth and wearing ayellow shirt. There was no further

information available at the timeof the report.

JULY 8 — A deputy from thePBSO substation in Wellingtonwas dispatched Monday eveningto a residence on Hickory Trail re-garding a home burglary. Accord-ing to a PBSO report, sometimebetween 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Mon-day, someone forced open a win-dow on the side of the victim’shome to gain entry to the house.Once inside, the perpetrator(s)stole two fake Rolex watches, aniPad, a HP Pavilion laptop comput-er, miscellaneous jewelry, approxi-mately 200 cigars, a Playstation 3gaming console and a loaded .40-caliber handgun. There were nosuspects or witnesses at the timeof the report.

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adopt-a-thons associated withlarger community events. “Whatwe need is assistance to get it go-ing,” Larson said.

She said she is aware that thedog park is on staff’s list of thingsto do, but also that staff has otherpressing priorities. “However,we’ve waited a long time, and we’dkind of like to get this started,”Larson said.

Councilman Fred Pinto said hefavored the idea conceptually, andVice Mayor Jeff Hmara agreed thatthe council already had set asidesome money and land for a dogpark.

Village Engineer Chris Marshsaid $63,000 was budgeted for a0.7-acre dog park with a dog wash,fencing and a minimal walkway tomake it accessible. Some oak treeshad already been moved into thearea for shade. Current plans areto start design in December withcompletion in August 2014.

Hmara said he thought therewere some smaller projects thatcould be rolled into a larger dogpark. “One that comes to mind is

Frisbee golf, not because I haveanything against Frisbee golf,”Hmara said. “One of the thingsthat I would put on the table isthat we could actually defer thedisc golf to some later date anduse that $30,000 to enable us to[build a dog park] sooner than lat-er.”

Councilman David Swift saidOkeeheelee Park has a disc golfcourse, but did not know what itslevel of use was. “I’ve never hadpeople come to me and say we re-ally need to have this in the Vil-lage of Royal Palm Beach,” he said.

Swift agreed that they coulddefer the disc golf and use themoney to expand dog park plans.

“I guess the issue that the coun-cil will have to take a look at is, doyou want to have a contractorcome in and help plan a really qual-ity dog park?” he asked.

However, Swift pointed out thata dog park was not brought upduring public planning sessionsfor Commons Park. “I’m for it, I’mjust saying there’s a lot of thingsout there that have been voted onalready, and we’re kind of chang-ing the scope,” he said.

Swift added that he had alsotalked to Marsh about a shadestructure for humans more sub-stantial than trees. “I see shade asa really important piece to have inthere,” he said.

Mayor Matty Mattioli said hefavored moving ahead immediate-ly on a high-quality dog park.

“That money is available, butyou people don’t want to touchthat money that we haven’t usedfor two years,” Mattioli said.“What good is money in the bankif you’re depriving people of whatthey want? If you need $100,000,and we’ve got $5.5 million dollars,what are we playing around for?Hire a consultant and get the thingplanned.”

Village Manager Ray Ligginssaid staff had estimated up to$100,000 when the council hadapproved plans for a 0.7-acre dogpark, by doing it with in-house la-bor. “The size really came fromlooking at not the completedproject, but a landscape design ofwhat we had out there,” Ligginssaid, explaining that the area of thepark could be increased easily atan insignificant cost. “The cost,the larger you make it, the morefencing you would have, so therewould be cost changes to that.”

Liggins affirmed Mattioli’s con-tention that money is available toincrease financing for the dog park.“You can give us direction to putmore money to this, to buy morestructures or use a consultant. Ifwe put a consultant to it, we canstart on this immediately,” he said,pointing out that existing staff is

limited by other projects that havegrant deadlines that must be met.

“This is a good time to talkabout it, and we can find the mon-ey if the council wants to put moremoney into this,” he said.

Attorney Brad Biggs stressedthat the meeting was a workshopsession, and the council could notmake any decisions that evening.

Councilman Richard Valuntassaid he did not have a problemrolling the disc golf funding intothe dog park plans, although heagreed with Swift that a dog parkdid not come up during publichearings.

“I went to all the meetings forthis, and a dog park was nevermentioned, but it looks like it’s aneed now, and it looks like the de-sire is for something bigger thanwhat we had anticipated,” he said.

Valuntas said the acreage wouldneed to be determined. “This issomething we might want to thinkabout before allocating dollars,”he said, pointing out that they al-ready have $63,000 and an addi-tional $30,000 from the disc golfallocation.

Councilman Fred Pinto recom-mended, without objections, thatstaff do an analysis and meet withthe people who want the dog parkto find out what it needs to be,and report back to the council fora decision in the near future.

Quarters AuctionJuly 17 At RPBCultural CenterA quarters auction will be held

Wednesday, July 17 at the RoyalPalm Beach Cultural Center (151Civic Center Way) to benefit PetHaven Rescue. Doors open at 6:30p.m. Donate $2 for a bidding pad-dle and bring rolls of quarters orsmall bills to bid on items provid-ed by a wide variety of vendors,from healthcare products to can-dles, jewelry, home items, clothingand more.

There will also be a 50/50 raffle,door prizes and individual rafflesby vendors. Gold Rush Americawill be onsite to evaluate silver,gold and platinum jewelry, and aportion of any jewelry purchasedby the company will go to Pet Ha-ven Rescue.

For more information, or toRVSP, call (561) 797-1501.

Nicole Hessen

Free AdmissionTo Aquatics

Complex July 20Wellington residents are invit-

ed to cool off from the summer heatwith free admission on Saturday,July 20 to the Wellington Aquat-ics Complex.

The Wellington PreservationCoalition is sponsoring the all-dayevent, which runs from 9 a.m. to 7p.m. In addition to free entry, acomplimentary lunch consisting ofa hot dog, a bag of chips and bev-erage will be made available to allguests from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The Wellington PreservationCoalition is a group of Wellingtonresidents committed to preservingand maintaining the character, na-ture and quality of life in Welling-ton. The coalition seeks to buildcommunity partnerships amongcitizens and groups with similarvalues and goals.

Residents are encouraged tocome out for this free day of swim-ming, food and fun in the sun.

For information about otherWellington programs, events, ac-tivities and updates, visitwww.wellingtonfl.gov.

Hessen NamedPresident-ElectOf PBC WomenLawyers Group

Nicole Hessen of Wender ,Hedler & Hessen P.A., a leadinglaw firm in Palm Beach Countyserving injured workers, was in-stalled as the president-elect of thePalm Beach County Chapter of theFlorida Association of WomenLawyers (FAWL).

In this role, Hessen, a Welling-ton resident, will assist the currentPresident Allison Lane as needed.Additionally, she will serve as a

tireless advocate for her colleaguesand will work to promote genderequality in the legal profession,judiciary and community at large,promoting reform in law and facil-itating administration of justice.

“This appointment is a tremen-dous honor,” said Hessen whopreviously held committee posi-tions with FAWL including PACEcommittee chair, newsletter andpublicity chair and outreach direc-tor. “FAWL holds a special placein my heart for the work the orga-nization is doing for the bettermentof our community. I admire the menand women in my field that are apart of this organization, and I willwork as hard as possible to keepeveryone inspired and an activeand engaged part of our commu-nity.”

In addition to her associationwith FAWL, Hessen is chair of theworkers’ compensation practicecommittee for the Palm BeachCounty Bar 2008-13; is a Florida

Bar SCOPE mentor and is a volun-teer with the Village of Wellingtoncoaching ages 4 to 6 in soccer. Shealso serves on the board of direc-tors for the Palm Beach CountyHispanic Bar Association; is amember of the Palm Beach Coun-ty Bar Association; the Workers’Compensation Section, FloridaBar and the Florida Workers’ Ad-vocates. Hessen was recentlynamed a 2013 Rising Star by Flor-ida Super Lawyer, which recogniz-es the top 2.5 percent of lawyersin Florida, as well as a member ofFlorida Trend’s Legal Elite list,which honors only 2 percent of theactive members of the Florida Bar.

For more information on Hes-sen’s community involvement, orto learn more about Wender,Hedler & Hessen P.A., visit www.injuredworkersonly.com or call(561) 246-6666.

Wender, Hedler & Hessen P.A.is a boutique law firm with morethan two decades of service de-

fending injured workers in SouthFlorida. With experience represent-ing employees involved in acci-dents at work, WWH knows work-ers compensation laws inside andout.

one of first times we’ve reallyadded to residents’ tax bills onthe Acme side of it. It’s not some-thing this council has taken light-ly; it’s out of response to some-thing that has happened to us,and something we’re trying tomitigate for the future.”

Coates made a motion to set theTRIM rate at 2.5 mills and approvethe increased assessment. Gerwigseconded the motion, which car-ried unanimously.

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he felt it was necessary to curbfuture drainage woes.

“It’s a substantial increasewe’re talking about percentagewise, but the amount really isnothing when compared with theimprovements we’re talkingabout doing,” he said. “This is

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continued from page 1horse has a set time to take his orher individual test,” he said. “It’sa much smaller, individual event.”

There would be some jumpingon the site, Stone said. “In betweenthe grand prix events, we havewhat we call a derby on the grass,”he explained. “It gives horses abreak.”

Council members were primari-ly concerned with allowing enter-tainment, as well as stadium light-ing, parking and access to andwithin the site.

“Can you give me an idea of thetype of entertainment you expectto have?” Vice Major HowardCoates asked. “I want to make surethat the equestrian use is the pri-mary event, and that any entertain-ment is ancillary to that.”

Stone said the music would beprimarily accompanying riders orin between rounds.

“We learned our lesson fromAkon,” he said, referring to a largeconcert that took place two yearsago, to the ire of neighbors. “Wehave accompanying music play-ing, like classic music. There is nointention of having any large rock-type bands.”

Gerwig asked about the use ofthe covered arena. “What sort ofactivities will be done in there?”she asked.

Stone said that the arena wasused mostly for training, but thatthere would be one show held init. “During our sixth week, we havea para-dressage competition thatwill be held there,” he said.

Council members also askedabout parking on the site.

“Can you give me examples ofhow sufficient last year’s parkingwas?” Coates asked.

Engineer Michael Sexton,agent for the applicant, saidthere was adequate parking lastyear.

“The grass parking lot to thewest of the covered arena wasthe main parking last year forspectators,” Sexton said. “Thatis the main parking area again thisyear. We believe it will be ade-quate.”

There is also overflow parkingavailable in the unused dirt arenason the southeast side of the prop-erty, Sexton said. “I don’t thinkthey had to use them,” he said.

Amy Huber, of the law firm Shu-bin & Bass, representing the Ja-cobs family, said that her clientswere largely in support of the is-sue.

“The Jacobs family is support-ive of this application, as well asthe current conditions proposedby staff,” she said.

However, she said that the fam-ily maintains the concerns ex-pressed in pending litigation re-garding certain aspects of theproperty.

Huber said the Jacobs had someconcern about the intensity of useon the site compared to years past.“We believe there should be spe-cial consideration because ofthis,” she said.

Lighting is an issue for the fam-ily, Huber said.

“We believe there should be anillumination plan on file,” Hubersaid. “We believe staff shouldhave time to go out and test thelights and… assure that [thelights] are pointed where theyshould be.”

Gerwig asked whether there wasa lighting plan for the site. VillageManager Paul Schofield said thereis a lighting plan for the stadiumlights, which are permanent struc-tures, but not for temporary lights.

Huber said another issue wasadequate parking for not only thestables, but also vendors and em-ployees.

“When you look at the parkingcount, it does not include thosevendor spaces,” she said, assert-ing that the site was short by about250 spaces.

Gerwig said that by issuing aspecial-use permit, Wellingtoncould see the full use of the facili-ty for future approvals.

“They’re anticipating one nighta week being well attended,” shesaid. “If it works out the rest of theweek the way they are saying, itdoesn’t seem like there’ll be a bigimpact. This is a way for us to findout without permanent approv-als.”

Basehart said that village staffbelieves there is adequate parkingon the site for the stables, ven-dors and employees, as well asspectators.

During public comment, most ofthe speakers were in favor of the

permits, though some had con-cerns.

Houston Meiggs, a board mem-ber of the Landowners of theEquestrian Preserve, said hisgroup had several concerns, in-cluding hours of operations.

“We feel the operating parame-ters need to be clearly laid out sothere is no future misunderstand-ing,” he said.

Chris Spire, another member ofthe group, was concerned with traf-fic, noting that just adding depu-ties every time there is an issue isnot a long-term solution. “We feela comprehensive traffic manage-ment plan needs to be put intoplace,” he said.

Jack Mancini with the Welling-ton Equestrian Forum was sup-portive of the measure.

“Though there is a lot of con-cern about what is happening herein the village, you’ve shown youwant it to succeed,” he said.

Councilman Matt Willhite saidhe was supportive of the applica-tion with conditions, but wantedto know how the property wasbeing used.

“This was supposed to be pri-marily a dressage facility,” he said.“Maybe as you go through thisprocess, you can give us an up-date of… if you are looking at in-creasing other uses like hunterjumper at the facility. It seems likeyou’re trying to add a lot more oth-er events there.”

Stone said he would keep staffupdated with exactly what wouldgo on.

“We’ve had jumping eventsthere for years,” he said. “Therealways has been jumping there.The 12 weeks of the Global Dres-sage Festival is primarily dressage,except for four Sundays. They aresmaller shows with a lot less hors-es.”

Coates made a motion to ap-prove the plat application, whichpassed unanimously. He thenmade a motion to approve the spe-cial-use permit with staff condi-tions, as well as conditions on thehours of operation to allow an 11p.m. finish only once a week.

Other council-imposed condi-tions included not allowing enter-tainment before 9 a.m. and provid-ing adequate signs and illumina-tion at the entrance on SouthShore Blvd.

“Would you be amenable toadding lighting at the entrance tomake it more visible?” Gerwigasked.

Attorney Dan Rosenbaum, rep-resenting the property owner, saidthey would be.

Coates also said he wanted aweekly meeting between staff andEquestrian Village representativesto keep everything on track.

Councilman John Greene sec-onded the special-use permit mo-tion, which also passed unani-mously.

Mayor Matty Mattioli said he favored moving ahead immediately on a high-quality dog park.‘That money is available, but you people don’t want to touch that money that we haven’t used for two

years,’ he said. ‘What good is money in the bank if you’re depriving people of what they want?’


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Wellington celebrated the Fourth of July with a day of festivities and fun. The day kicked off with a Patriotic Pool Party at the WellingtonAquatic Complex. Families then headed to Village Park on Pierson Road, which offered inflatable rides, a petting zoo, pony rides, food,music and more. The evening ended with a fireworks spectacular.

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Wellington Mayor Bob Margolis and hiswife, Linda, check out the petting zoo.

The sack race drew some fierce competition.Jaiden and Leia Almodovar enjoy pony

rides atop some festively dressed ponies.

Kaiden Nevad comes down the slide during the PatrioticPool Party at the Wellington Aquatic Complex.

Wellington’s Jim Barnes, Eric Juckett, Bruce Wagnerand Bruce Delaney enjoy the day’s festivities.

Children try to hula-hoop for the longesttime during the hula-hoop contest.

Gianna and Taylor Priske with Dorathe Explorer and Mickey Mouse.

Kaiden Nevad (center) enjoys a day at the pool withhis grandparents, Terry and Kathy Strongin.

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The Manohalal family, dressed in stars andstripes, enjoys a fun time at Village Park.

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Featuresdeborah Welky’s Royal Palm AdventureLast week, columnist Deborah Welky attended Royal Palm Beach’s Independence Day celebration. After years of attending Wellington’s, she wanted to see the new Royal Palm Beach Commons. “I was glad I did,” she wrote. “I had a great time. I loved walking on the fresh grass, seeing the splash-happy children and enjoying America as it should be.”

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SportsWHs Grad Will Play Lacrosse At BrevardWellington High School graduate Hunter Dietz recently signed to play lacrosse at Brevard Col-lege. Brevard is a Division II university located near Asheville, N.C. When Dietz learned of the college’s new lacrosse program, he immediately had the desire to help make the new program a successful one. Page 31

Owners Credit Hyperbaric Chamber As A LifesaverAn equine hyperbaric chamber, owned jointly by Dr. Byron Reid and Dr. Meg Miller Turpin, is gaining many fans among horse own-ers. The chamber uses pure oxygen under pressure to enhance healing in serious wounds, injuries and infections.

ellen Rosenberg’s Column, Page 21

Former WHs Football star Making A name At UsFBrynjar Gudmundsson played left tackle at Wellington High School from 2009 to 2011 and became the most highly touted prospect in the history of the school’s football program. He staved off Wellington’s poor football reputation and made it to Division I football at the University of South Florida. Page 31

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featuresOwners Credit Equine Hyperbaric Chamber As A Lifesaver

Tales From The Trails

By Ellen Rosenberg

“I had just purchased a lovely 5-year-old Warmblood. I hadn’t even finished paying for him,” Ruth Mack recalled. “I live in Califor-nia, and I’d shipped him with the rest of my barn’s horses to Wellington for WEF in 2009, just to start training him as a jumper.”

The groom noticed he was spiking a high fever every morning and called a veterinar-ian.

“He had pleurisy, both lungs full of fluid, and was going downhill fast,” Mack said. “Ev-eryone thought he was a goner. Someone even advised me to just let him go. Then I brought him to Dr. Reid’s veterinary practice. They had just built the hyperbaric chamber, and asked permission to use it on him. He was their first patient. By then he was a bag of bones. He stayed there eight to nine months. Now he’s fine and gorgeous, 100 percent recovered. It absolutely saved his life. That facility and those vets are amazing.”

The hyperbaric chamber, owned jointly by Dr. Byron Reid and Dr. Meg Miller Turpin, looks like a giant concrete pressure cooker, about 14 feet high by 12 feet in diameter, with portholes like diving bells. It uses pure oxygen under pressure to enhance healing in serious wounds, injuries and infections.

“This isn’t like putting an oxygen mask on your face,” Turpin explained. “By increasing

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the pressure all around the body, it compresses the oxygen into smaller bubbles, which then saturates the hemoglobin and all the tissues, increasing circulation. Racehorse trainers use it for bleeders, horses who routinely pop blood vessels in their lungs. It’s very effec-tive in promoting healing in abscesses and large infections, especially in bones, hooves and similar inaccessible places. It’s great with non-healing, traumatized or necrotizing wounds. It enhances the use of antibiotics and promotes healing. We also use it post-op after colic surgery, for pneumonia, laminitis, spider or snake bites, smoke inhalation from a barn fire or bad swellings.”

There are some risks involved. The horse can’t have any metal, oil or lotions on him in the chamber, which means he gets a thorough bath, has his shoes pulled and wears a special cotton halter before going in.

With all that pure oxygen under pressure, the least little spark could be catastrophic. But the staff takes great pains to make sure everything goes right. And the horses seem to like it.

Dr. Meg Miller Turpin beside the hyperbaric chamber.

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“Most of them stand quietly,” Turpin said. “We may lightly sedate them the first time, but most walk in willingly. We watch them closely on a video camera. Each treatment usually takes about an hour. It takes about

seven minutes to get them down to one or two atmospheres, where they stay for about 45 minutes, then seven minutes to bring the pressure back to normal, like ascending in

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Last week, I crossed “The Great Divide” (i.e., Southern Blvd.) and attended Royal Palm Beach’s Independence Day celebration. I generally go to Wellington’s, but I wanted to see the new park, Royal Palm Beach Commons.

I was glad I did.I had a great time. I loved walking on

the fresh grass, seeing the splash-happy children and enjoying America as it should be — neighbors getting together to have a good time. And, although the sign posted on the elevator read “No Access Today,” I even explored the observation deck of the tower at the invitation of Recreation Director Lou Recchio.

Cool!Mayor Matty Mattioli joked that his village

was considering annexing the Village of Wel-lington, but I don’t think that will happen. Our horses will vote it down.

What I Learned On My July 4 Visit To Royal Palm Beach

But I was appreciative of the fact that those in charge of Royal Palm Beach, which was originally established as a golf community for retirees, had the good sense to reinvent the abandoned golf course into something that answers the needs of the current population.

The current population has a lot of young families, and the mother of the young family I was with had nothing but praise for the park. She had been there the day before it opened (when curiosity got the best of her) and had

been visiting regularly ever since. “This is the go-to place for moms,” Shelley confided. “This, and Target. I see everybody I know at those two places.”

Another member of our party, who happens to get around by wheelchair, enthused that the playground was completely handicapped-accessible.

“I was able to go on every single thing!” Victoria told me proudly.

It was a historic first for her — even though she’s 34.

The demographics of America are chang-ing, and wise are the community leaders who look up from their laptop agendas to take note of the faces in the meeting hall. It’s also nice when they realize that young families whose children go to bed right around 8 p.m. have trouble getting to meetings, as do those in wheelchairs. They need to take a look around Target… or Publix… or the library on a Satur-

day afternoon to see a real slice of their town.When I moved to Florida (back when di-

nosaurs roamed the Earth), that park was still a golf course, the building nearby was a tiny little library, most of the faces in the grocery store were over 65 and Target was not due to arrive in Florida for another 16 years.

But nobody’s complaining. Nothing makes a person feel as youthful as being around the young. We may not play “Chase Me!” with a toddler for more than five minutes before we realize we are no longer breathing, but we sure can smile while watching them from a bench.

And the music right in front of the stage may be a bit too loud for us, but we love feeling the beat from clear across the park.

And a bright-red jungle gym? Why, even I couldn’t resist going hand-over-hand across it. I didn’t make it all the way, but for one brief shining moment, I felt like a kid again...

…a very heavy and somewhat dorky kid.

The biggest problem with The Lone Ranger, a new retelling of an old favorite, is that the main character is ridiculous. We have grown up on tough western heroes. Here we have the “wuss of the West.” And because the Lone Ranger provides no real center, the whole movie is somewhat off-kilter. That is not to say there are not amusing moments or some really good action scenes. They exist. This is not the worst movie ever, nor even the worst of the summer. But it never really flies.

The problem is that the main character John Reid (Armie Hammer) is a metrosexual west-ern hero, which does not make him a fool, but certainly an oddity. There have been relatively nonviolent western heroes before in movies such as Shane and (one of my real favorites) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. The coming of law to the west is a good subject for movies, but generally there has to be a point. In this movie, there seems no point at all.

John returns to the west after studying law elsewhere. Right from the start, he steps in to protect Butch Cavendish (William Fichtner), a particularly vicious killer. When Tonto (Johnny Depp) is ready to kill the evil guy,

known for not only killing anyone who gets in his way but occasionally eating their body parts, Reid intervenes, intoning that justice needs to take place, and the guy escapes. Later, Cavendish kills John’s brother and kidnaps his attractive sister-in-law (Ruth Wilson), who’s always had the hots for John, as well as her son. Even after that, he betrays Tonto to protect the bad guy. Even at the end of the movie, John would rather do anything except ensure that the real bad guy gets killed.

Tonto is the real center of the movie, and even though Depp gets good laughs out of the part, and the producers really worked hard to be politically correct, he still seems foolish for trusting Reid. He is not a trusty sidekick; he

has his own agenda. But the two characters never seem to blend. Tonto (which means “stupid” in Spanish) calls Reid “kemo sabe,” which could be taken as “know nothing,” and has to be convinced by the spirit horse Silver to do anything for the white man. In essence, the movie becomes “dumb and dumber.” Of course, Tonto does know what he wants: the destruction of two white men who destroyed his tribe. But Reid constantly gets in his way.

I thought back to Clint Eastwood, one of the great Hollywood cowboys (although his best roles were in Italian “spaghetti westerns”) who understood vengeance. Reid comes across like one of the morons in the Dirty Harry movies who, for no apparent reason, constantly lets the bad guy go. It is hard make someone like that the hero/center of an action movie. As a result, the movie is a letdown.

On the other hand, there are some witty lines (Depp, of course, gets most of them), and a really good action scene with run-away trains. That’s what frustrates a movie reviewer. I actually enjoyed part of the film. Jerry Bruckheimer and Gore Verbinski, who created the Pirates of the Caribbean films

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and did this one, know how to put on a good show. They did not skimp on the budget, and most of the big budget shows up on screen. But as Russians like to say, when fish start to stink, it begins at the head. And with an essentially ridiculous hero, the movie makes relatively little sense. The hero in Shane hated guns but stood up for himself. The newcomer in Liberty Valance had John Wayne to do the heavy lifting, and the title was used ironically. Here, the awkwardness of the Lone Ranger flattens the mood.

The cast was good. Depp got most of the laughs while still bringing some dignity to the role. Hammer looked the part and his acting was fine; it was the script-writer who brought him down. Helena Bonham Carter played her usual weird woman in what was essentially a cameo. Tom Wilkinson was particularly good as the railroad man who was willing to make great sacrifices of just about every other person around in order to gain wealth, power and the gorgeous sister-in-law.

But this is a film to see when it plays for free on television. I saw it; now you can avoid it. In the long run, you’ll thank me.

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scuba diving. It’s safe and effective. Horses typically emerge sweating, but relaxed.”

Turpin said some horses need only one treatment; some need three to five. A normal protocol might run one treatment per day for five days. More aggressive treatment might require two treatments per day. It all depends. And it’s used not alone, but in conjunction with traditional treatments. It costs $500 per session, and after 10, you get two free sessions.

Carol Cohen of Wellington owned Two Swans Farm.

“I had one horse colic badly, with a block-age,” she recalled. “Impresario was a Grand Prix horse who’d shown on the USET team. He was 19 at the time. He went into the hyper-

baric chamber immediately after surgery, and it greatly helped his healing. He was schooling again three months later. He healed quickly and recovered completely.”

It was also used on a mare, Trophia, with awful summer sores. “I thought, ‘Let’s give the chamber a try,’ and she healed up quickly,” Co-hen said. “It also helped another of my horses, Daddy, who had lymphangitis so badly he couldn’t even walk. One hind leg was swollen to three times normal. He was at death’s door. They put him on IV antibiotics and used the chamber twice daily. It saved his life. Three weeks later, my daughter, Rebecca, rode him at the Junior National Championships in Gladstone, and he was Reserve National Champion. It was unbelievable.”

To Cohen, the chamber is a lifesaver.“I think the chamber is just brilliant,” she

said. “It really works, and the horses enjoy it. They’re always frisky and happy when they come out. The whole staff is very professional,

extremely safe and knowledgeable. I never felt like my horses were at risk. They take incredible care.”

Elizabeth Pignatiello is one of the vet techs in charge of the chamber. She has worked there for three years.

“I like doing this,” Pignatiello said. “I’ve seen some horses really benefit from it and some cool success stories, like bad pneumo-nia cases completely turned around. A lot of horses love it. They walk right in. We’ve also used it for other animals. Late one night, we got in a dog who had carbon dioxide poison-ing. He didn’t look like he’d make it, but he came running out with his tail wagging. We’ve also treated a couple of sea turtles brought in from the Loggerhead Marine Center. They did well.”

Marcia Radosevich of Wellington also swears by the hyperbaric chamber.

“I had an old Thoroughbred named Aronag-ian, a grandson of Secretariat, my horse of a

lifetime,” she recalled. “When he was 26, he developed a lesion in his hoof and started to founder. My farrier recommended the cham-ber. He had a treatment every day for a month, then three a week for a couple of weeks, then twice a week. It stopped the bone’s rotation. He grew so much hoof it was insane. He lived to see his 27th birthday. It bought him time and peace.”

Radosevich would recommend the treat-ment to others.

“I have nothing but great things to say about the chamber and staff,” she said. “They’re incredibly kind and generous, and treat each horse like it was their own. They’re wonderful. I can’t recommend them, and the chamber, highly enough.”

The hyperbaric chamber is located at Reid & Associates at 1630 F Road in Loxahatchee Groves. For more information, call (561) 790-2226, (561) 319-2557, or visit www.equinehyperbariccenter.com.


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Business newsGlades Tackling Blighted Structures With County’s Help

The Northern Palm Beach Chap-ter of the American Business Wom-en’s Association (ABWA) has an-nounced the 2013 Chapter Woman of the Year.

The Woman of the Year program was designed so every chapter can annually recognize a member who has made notable contributions and outstanding achievements to the chapter and the community.

The recipient, Janis Peterson, works for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management in West Palm Beach. She is married and resides in Palm Beach Gardens. She contributes in her community through her church in the St. Ignatius Loyola outreach program.

A member since 1993, Peterson has been involved in the holiday gift bag donations to VA hospital residents. The chapter filled 50 gift bags for the veterans last year. In

the past, Peterson has served as chapter president, treasurer and secretary. She currently serves as the chairwoman of the fundraising/community service committee, or-ganizing the Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County book drive. She has also served as hospitality chair-woman and newsletter chairwoman, as well as participated on the audit committee and was a member of the Tri-County Council.

The mission of the American Business Women’s Association is to bring together businesswomen of diverse occupations and to provide opportunities for them to help them-selves and others grow personally and professionally through leader-ship, education, networking, support and national recognition. For more on the ABWA, call Kandyce Key at (561) 908-4798 or e-mail abwa.npbflorida @gmail.com.

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It has been said that sometimes you have to tear it down before you can build it up. That’s exactly what is happening as part of the Glades Demolition Program.

Palm Beach County, through the departments of Economic Sus-tainability, Risk Management and Facilities Development & Opera-tions, has partnered with the cities

of Belle Glade, Pahokee and South Bay to demolish approximately 70 vacated and unsafe structures and remove them from Glades neigh-borhoods.

The project is being funded by $1 million from the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Develop-ment’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program 3 and Community De-velopment Block Grant programs. Project activity includes structural demolitions, abatement of asbestos where needed and removal of debris.

The purpose of the program is to remove abandoned structures that negatively impact neighbor-hoods and can become havens for unlawful activity. One of the goals of the project is to encourage rede-velopment and reinvestment in the communities.

Municipal officials have priori-tized specific properties to be ad-dressed and are working with county staff to clear them away. Belle Glade City Manager Lomax Harrelle ex-pressed appreciation for the county’s partnership in the venture.

“Several nuisance structures lo-cated throughout the city have been

demolished and many others are in the pipeline to be taken down in the very near future,” he said. “Palm Beach County has been excellent to work with, and we value the coun-ty’s commitment to assisting Belle Glade and the greater Glades area.”

Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office deputies in the Glades area see the program as helpful in achiev-ing community policing efforts by cleaning up areas that attract and conceal the criminal element.

“The elimination of these unsafe structures will enable the Glades to move forward toward a safer community by stopping the spread of crime that buildings such as these can produce,” PBSO Lt. Edward Luty said. “In observance of the community policing philosophy, we believe that maintaining and monitoring urban environments in a well-ordered condition may stop further vandalism and escalation into more serious crime.”

This abandoned house in Belle Glade is one of 70 to be removed.


Business news

Iberia Bank, a 126-year-old subsidiary of Iberia Corporation, has selected locations for the Com-munity Back to School Bash in Palm Beach County and Tools for Schools in Broward County. The program is called “i Gives Back.”

Branches throughout Palm Beach and Broward counties will collect school supplies from July 1 through Aug. 2 including: crayons, pencils, erasers, markers, glue sticks, lined notebook paper, composition note-books, student scissors, two-pocket folders, index cards, highlighters, ball-point pens, spiral notebooks, three-ring binders, rulers, calcu-lators and backpacks. These items will be distributed to children in need who may not otherwise have access to new school supplies to start classes in the fall.

The Community Back to School Bash is a not-for-profit organization that collaborates with nonprofit organizations throughout Palm Beach County to serve underpriv-ileged, homeless and foster-care students. This partnership provides supplies, backpacks, information and resources to empower chil-dren to begin the school year with confidence.

At the organization’s annual back-to-school bash, each student is paired with a personal shopper who guides the child through a store of new school supplies. Chil-dren have the opportunity to select grade-appropriate items necessary to start the school year. Last year, more than 70 nonprofit agencies served more than 12,000 students ages 4 through high school.

Tools for Schools Broward is a not-for-profit organization that op-erates an 8,000-square-foot center, which provides teachers in Title I schools with the opportunity to shop for the supplies they need for their classrooms at no cost. Since the group was founded in 2001, Tools for Schools Broward has provided more than $4 million in new school supplies for teachers providing instruction in low-in-come schools.

“The teachers who shop at the Tools for Schools Broward cen-ter serve students whose family incomes qualify them for free or reduced-cost lunches,” said Joren Jameson, president and CEO of the Broward Education Foundation. “According to our research, 88 per-cent of Broward County teachers

spend up to $1,000 of their personal funds each year on school supplies for their classrooms. Our goal is to eliminate the need for teachers to dip into their own pockets.”

School supply donations may be dropped off at the following Iberia Bank locations in Palm Beach County: 1315 W. Indiantown Road, Jupiter, (561) 653-5070; 605 N. Olive Avenue, West Palm Beach, (561) 653-5050; 119 S. State Road 7, Royal Palm Beach, (561) 204-2400; 2764 S. Congress Avenue, Palm Springs, (561) 968-1377; 1101 N. Congress Avenue, Boynton Beach, (561) 968-1000; 900 SE 6th Ave., Delray Beach, (561) 278-4560; and 1180 N. Federal High-way, Boca Raton, (561) 869-4861.

Iberia Bank Joins Back-To-SchoolDrive In Palm Beach And Broward

Executive Women of the Palm Beaches (EWPB) announced its new board members for 2013-14 at a dinner reception recently at Café Sapori in West Palm Beach. The event also honored the leaders who served this past year.

New EWPB officers are: Pres-ident Minx Boren of Coach Minx Inc., President-Elect, Charlotte Pelton of Charlotte Pelton & Asso-ciates Inc., Secretary Betsy Owen of Rotary International, Treasurer Misty Travani of Travani & Richter P.A., Treasurer-Elect Jessica Cecere and Immediate Past President Ellen Block of the Jay Block Companies Inc.

Directors include: Robbyn Ack-ner of LCI Construction, JoAnne Berkow of RosettaStone Fine Art Gallery and RosettaStone Corporate Art, Lori Fischer of Infants and Chil-dren P.A., Deanna Fisher of Deanna D. Fisher CPA & Associates LLC;, Jackie Halderman of Upledger In-stitute International, Bonnie Lazar of Keller Williams Realty Services, Beverly Levine of Schrapper’s Fine Cabinetry & Design, Pattie Light of Pandora Stores, Katie Newitt of A1 Moving & Storage/Atlas Van Lines, Trixy Walker of Jones Lang LaSalle

and Beth Crews of Nason, Yeager, Gerson, White & Lioce P.A.

Robyn Ackner and Anita Holmes were named 2013 Members of the Year and Nancy Walsh was named New Member of the Year.

This past May, Executive Wom-en’s annual Women In Leadership Awards luncheon raised more than $100,000 for scholarships and grants for deserving young women. Equal pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter was the keynote speaker.

For more information regarding Executive Women of the Palm Beaches, call (561) 684-9117 or visit www.ewpb.org.

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Dining & EntErtainmEntPalm Beach Photographic infocus Juried Show Winners

Fatima NeJame, president and chief executive officer of the world-renowned Palm Beach Photographic Centre, recently an-nounced the winners of this year’s Infocus Juried Show, which is on exhibition through Aug. 17.

A Best of Show cash prize of $950 was awarded to Debbie Gans from Palm Beach Gardens for her entry, Caught in the Fun.

Two Merit Awards for free tuition for a FOTOfusion Passport or a

master workshop were awarded to Ni Rong from Maine and Palm Beach for The Gaze and Marjorie Neu from New York for Milky Way in Namibia.

The Palm Beach Photographic Centre’s 17th annual Infocus Jur-ied Show showcases the work of its student members, both inside the facility and online at www.workshop.org.

This year’s Infocus juror was Raymond Gehman, who has

worked for the National Geograph-ic Society since 1986. With three cover photographs and numerous books and articles, he has been on assignment in Yellowstone, Wyo-ming’s Bighorn Country, Florida’s Sanibel Island Gulf Coast and more. He has documented grizzly bears, the vanishing prairie dog and wetlands, the ecology of fire, the aftermath of hurricanes, hot pools and nocturnal Apache ceremonial dancers.

Also running through Aug. 17 at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre is “Picture My World,” an annual show that features photos and journal writings from local dis-advantaged children, ages 8 to 17.

“A heartfelt thank you is given to all our generous members, private donors and PNC Foundation for enabling ‘Picture My World’ to continue to provide a caring and healthy path for our next generation of community adults,” Picture My World Mentor Denise Felice said.

The Palm Beach Photographic Centre is located at the downtown City Center municipal complex at 415 Clematis Street in downtown West Palm Beach. For more in-formation, call (561) 253-2600 or visit www.workshop.org or www.fotofusion.org.Best of Show winner Caught in the Fun by Debbie Gans The Gaze by Ni Rong

Florida Atlantic University’s Festival Rep presentation of The Man Who Came to Dinner opens Friday, July 12 at 7 p.m. in Studio One Theatre on FAU’s Boca Raton Campus (777 Glades Road). Shows run through Saturday, July 20.

The Man Who Came to Dinner, featuring professional actors work-ing alongside of student actors, is a comedy in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

The comedy tells the tale of when radio personality Sheridan White-

side is invited to dine at the house of a prominent Ohio family, slips on a patch of ice outside the front door and injures his leg. Following doc-tor’s orders, Whiteside is to remain confined to quarters, whereupon he delights in meddling with the lives of everyone in the household.

The Man Who Came to Dinner is part of FAU’s Festival Repertory Theatre 2013. Other shows present-ed this summer include the musical revue Side by Side by Sondheim Musical Revue, the musical A Funny

Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, as well as two big-band concerts “Hits of the Swing Era” and a four-piano extravaganza.

The three plays are on a rotating schedule with afternoon and evening performances through Sunday, July 21. The concerts take place July 26 through July 28.

More information is available at www.fau.edu/festivalrep.

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Scott Wells and Lisa Rosen in The Man Who Came To Dinner. Photo couRteSy of ShaNNoN oueLLete

‘The Man Who Came To Dinner’ At FAU Theater July 12-20

The Village Players and the Atlantic Arts Theater in Jupiter are presenting the premiere of Nobody Like Mona, a two-act comedy by Mike Harabin.

The play will be presented at the Atlantic Arts Theater (6743 W. In-diantown Road) on July 11 through 13, at 8 p.m. and on Sunday, July 14 at 2 and 8 p.m.

The play revolves around Stan and Irma, a middle-age, newlywed couple, who want to spend a nice quiet weekend in a Manhattan ho-tel. Their romantic endeavors are thwarted by a stream of intruders,

including an alleged bank robber, a hotel maintenance man, a hotel maid, a pizza delivery guy, a mother-in-law and finally, Mona.

Director Mike Harabin is a Mary-wood University graduate, majoring in theater. Before moving to Florida, he operated the Little Playhouse in Pennsylvania, producing, directing and acting in several original and established plays. He has been with the Village Players for eight years, as a board member, actor and director. He also sings with an a cappella group, the Third Row Center Singers.

The cast includes John Zambito as Stan, Marjorie Mann as Irma, Aaron Lee as Harv, Alan Collins as Fred, Nina Garcia as Alicia, An-drew Griner as Georgio, Christine Tatum as Wilma and Cara Abaldo as Mona.

Tickets cost $15 for adults and $10 for students, and can be ordered by calling (561) 575-4942 or www.brownpapertickets.com.

On Friday, July 12, there will be a special champagne reception after the show with opportunities to meet the cast and crew. Tickets for the show and reception cost $20.

Jupiter’s Village Players Present‘nobody Like mona’ through July 14

their last production before they graduate and enter the world of professional theater. Festival Rep is presented by the Department of Theatre and Dance in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, with support from Bank of America

and the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County.

Tickets cost $20 and are available at www.fauevents.com, by calling (800) 564-9539 or at the box office in FAU’s Student Union one hour prior to the performance.


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By Josh HyberTown-Crier Staff Report

It’s difficult to call someone who was 6-foot-4 and 280 lbs. a diamond in the rough. A large gem in the rough would be a more appropriate term to call Brynjar Gudmundsson.

Gudmundsson played left tackle at Wellington High School from 2009 to 2011 and became the most highly touted prospect in the history of the school’s football program. He staved off Wellington’s poor football reputation and made it to Division 1 football. His elite talent earned him an offer from the University of South Florida.

Gudmundsson redshirted his freshman season at USF, meaning he could only practice, not play in games.

On Nov. 3, 2012, he started a game against the University of Con-necticut. Entering this season, he is projected to be the Bulls’ starting left guard.

“It was just a little taste, but it was great because my first start resulted in a win, which is the most important thing,” Gudmundsson said of the UConn game. “But coming from Wellington, where we struggled to fill up the bleachers, to playing in front of thousands upon thousands

of people, it was different, and it was awesome.”

The list of players who have left Wellington to better their football ca-reers is lengthy. But Gudmundsson stayed, and with the help of Chris Romano, who was then WHS head football coach, and offensive coor-dinator (now head coach) Tom Abel, he earned a reputation as one of the area’s top lineman. In his junior and senior seasons, he didn’t allow a single sack as the Wolverines’ left tackle.

Abel, a former college offensive lineman himself, helped Gudmunds-son with his stance, hitting with explosion, hand placement and foot-work. Abel also stressed the impor-tance of weight training and how it would have a major role in his future in football. “I still keep that in mind to this day,” Gudmundsson said.

Gudmundsson credits Romano for his discipline and his “never take a day off” mentality.

Chris Thomas played alongside Gudmundsson and was one of his best friends on the team.

“We were playing in a junior var-sity game freshman year,” Thomas recalled. “We were down 7-0 with a minute left, and we were on offense. Everyone is real serious. Then, out

of nowhere Brynjar says, ‘Let’s do it for Rudy.’ We watched [the movie] Rudy right before the game. It just showed how, no matter what the situation, he never took life too seriously.”

Both Abel and Romano sent Gudmundsson’s scouting tapes to colleges. Kevin Patrick, at the time USF’s defensive line coach, came to Wellington to recruit him. He got an offer in spring 2010.

“Coming from an historically mediocre football program, none of us really could assess each oth-er’s talent because we were always supposed to be the underdogs on Friday nights,” Thomas said. “So, Brynjar adopted the mindset that he had to keep his head down low and work harder than everyone just to get noticed, while kids at other competitive high schools got the exposure right off the bat.”

Although he didn’t play his first year at USF because of his redshirt status, Gudmundsson won one of the Bulls’ three scout team Player of the Year awards for 2011. And last year, when the Bulls’ left guard was in-jured on Oct. 20 against Louisville, Gudmundsson stepped in and played the rest of the game.

There have been a handful of

Brynjar Gudmundsson (right) defends the rush of Florida State’s Everett Dawkins in a game on Sept. 29, 2012.

Former Wellington Football Star Making A Name At USFplayers from Wellington to play semipro, Division II and Division III football. But there have been none who have played on as high of a level as Gudmundsson.

“That means a lot,” he said. “And that’s not taking away anything from

the other guys playing college ball. Guys like Chris Thomas, Alex Di-nardo and Lucus Riebe; they’re all doing great things as well. As far as playing at the higher level, it means a lot. But I’m not any different from those guys.”

Photo courtESy BrynJar GuDmunDSSon

By Gene NardiTown-Crier Staff Report

Wellington High School graduate Hunter Dietz recently signed to play lacrosse at Brevard College.

Brevard is a Division II university located near Asheville, N.C. When Dietz learned of the college’s new lacrosse program, it was an easy choice. He immediately had the desire to help make the new program a successful one.

It will be the inaugural season for the Tornados in lacrosse, and Brevard will field both men’s and women’s programs. Kevin Ander-

son will take the helm as the men’s head coach.

Dietz started playing lacrosse at a young age on a travel team for the Wellington Wolfpack. He went on to play for Florida Elite and the Warpigs. His passion for the game increased as he developed into one of the area’s top players.

Dietz was a four-year varsity starter for the Wolverines lacrosse squad. He was team captain under the direction of coach Joe Calby as a midfielder.

His senior year, he tallied im-pressive stats, totaling 11 goals, 10

assists, 28 ground balls and causing seven turnovers.

Dietz helped guide his team to back-to-back district titles and two regional state playoff appearanc-es. He was named Palm Beach All-County Honorable Mention and selected to play in this year’s South Florida Senior All-Star game.

Dietz will make his debut as a Tornado in the coming season, and hopes to major in criminal justice at Brevard.

To follow Dietz and the new Bre-vard College lacrosse program, visit www.bctornados.com.

(Above) Midfielder Hunter Dietz avoids a John Carroll High School defender in a regular season match-up. (Left) Dietz takes a shot on goal during a game against Pope John Paul II High School.

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R.J. Nakashian of Palm Beach Gardens broke 70 for the second day in a row in scoring a five-stroke victory Sunday, June 30 in the ninth annual Bobby Bryant Mid-Seniors Championship at the Wanderers Club in Wellington.

Nakashian birdied five of his first seven holes, excluding the par-3 third and fifth, enroute to a four-under-par 68 for 135, a round marred only by a bogey at the short 15th. He made seven birdies and a double bogey at the 18th Saturday, June 29 for a 67.

It was the 17th Palm Beach County Golf Association title for Nakashian, 45, a former Florida At-lantic University golfer, his second this year. He won the Stroke Play Classic in May. He also captured the

Mid-Seniors in 2008.Steve Anderson of Hobe Sound,

the 2010 Mid-Seniors titlist, was second among 60 PBCGA mem-bers 40 and older. Anderson shot 71 for 140 on an eagle at the par-5 17th hole after two birdies and three bogeys earlier in the day.

Dann Merrell of West Palm Beach won the net division by nine strokes with 141, scoring 155 on his own ball.

The Mid-Seniors honors the late Bobby Bryant, a former PBCGA president, rules official and a big supporter of senior amateur golf.

Next on the PBCGA tournament schedule is the 38th annual Palm Beach Kennel Club/County Am-ateur Championship July 12-14 at Quail Ridge Country Club.

Wellington Wrestlers perform Wellat aaU scholastic national Duals

Medal winners Briar Macfarlane and Robert Lapeter.

The Wellington Wrestling Club team competed recently at the AAU Scholastic National Duals at the Wide World of Sports in Kissimmee.

The wrestlers were able to com-pete against teams from Ohio,

PBG Man Wins Mid-Seniors Championship In Wellington

Indiana, Montana, Massachusetts and Florida.

Overall, the team placed 33rd out of 48 teams and finished with two All-American medal winners. Briar Macfarlane finished with a perfect

9-0 record to bring home a gold medal. He will be a senior this year at Wellington High School, and this was his second All-American medal at the event. Robert Lapeter finished with a 7-2 record to bring home a bronze medal. He will be a senior at Seminole Ridge High School, and this was his first trip to the event.

“This tournament is a four-day grind for the kids, which takes a lot of physical and mental toughness to get through,” coach Travis Gray said. “We were able to see top teams from around the country, and we hung in their each round and battled to the finish. This was our third trip to the National Duals, and Briar Macfarlane was the first gold medal-ist we have ever had, so we are very excited about his accomplishments.”

Team members attending the event included: Nik Bonadies, An-drew Mitchell, Briar Macfarlane, Marcus Morin, Colton Macfarlane, Adam Pendleton, Robert Kessler, Jonathan DeLaura, Noah Coulter, A.J. Lopez, Robert Lapeter, Ryan Artilles, Brandon Paz, Devin Gil-lotte, Mathew Wunderlich, Christian Goss and Brandon Way, along with coaches Zach Pincus, Chris Forte and Coach Travis Gray.

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Bailey Williams, a Royal Palm Beach High School freshman vol-leyball player, was selected to the 2013 USA Volleyball Select National A2 Invitational Team Pro-gram/Alternate A1 National Team Training Team to train in Colorado Springs this summer.

The National A2 Invitational Team Program is designed to give the country’s top athletes the oppor-tunity to work with national coaches at a competitive event. Players who participate in the program will train for four days as a group, training in all skills and focusing on position specific area each day. On the fifth day, players will be split into 16-tiered, eight-player teams in which they will train for a full day under international rules and team opponent scouting. The final days feature an international-style tournament culminating in a tour-nament championship on the final day. The Select A2 Invitational Team Program consists of a total of 128 athletes from the select age group. Williams trained July 5-11 at the University of Colorado Springs.

Williams was also selected to the 2013 Florida Region Team in the girls select division. Williams

represented the Florida region as the captain of the 2011-12 team and won a bronze medal. This year, the team is looking to compete for the gold medal. Williams will be attending the Girls Junior National Volleyball Championship in Dallas. She will also compete July 23-27 at the Fort Lauderdale Convention Center. It is an exciting opportunity for Williams to represent Florida in this interna-tional competition.

American Youth Soccer Organization, Region 1521 in The Acreage, recently hosted the Challenger British Soccer Camp. The camp was held June 24-28. Shown here, players learn to improve their soccer game. AYSO Region 1521 is still accepting registration for the fall soccer season at Samuel Friedland Park. For more information, visit www.ayso1521.net.

Participants join in last month’s Challenger British Soccer Camp.

Bailey Williams SelectedFor National Training Team

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Community CalendarEgypt. Call (561) 790-6070 for more info.

• The Acreage library (15801 Orange Blvd.) will host a program for adults on Stray & Feral Animals on Monday, July 15 at 6 p.m. led by a representative from Palm Beach County Animal Care & Control. Call (561) 681-4100 to pre-register.

Tuesday, July 16• The Palm Beach County Commission

will meet Tuesday, July 16 at 9:30 a.m. in the government center’s Jane M. Thomp-son Memorial Chambers (301 N. Olive Ave., Sixth Floor, West Palm Beach). For more info., visit www.pbcgov.com.

• Dig Into Reading: Dancing Zora, a program for all ages, will take place Tuesday, July 16 at the Royal Palm Beach library at 2:30 p.m., the Wellington library at 4:30 p.m. and the Acreage library at 7 p.m. Actress and writer April C. Turner will celebrate Zora Neal Hurston’s exploration of the cultural traditions of Haiti, Jamaica, Barbados and the American South through a lively, interactive program. For more info., call (561) 790-6030 (Royal Palm Beach), (561) 790-6070 (Wellington) or (561) 681-4100 (The Acreage).

• The Acreage library (15801 Orange Blvd.) will host Crochet Club for adults and ages 9 and up Tuesdays, July 16 and 23 at 5 p.m. Socialize and learn fundamentals or work on current projects. Knitters are also welcome. Call (561) 681-4100 for more info.

• The Loxahatchee Groves Town Council will meet Tuesday, July 16 at 7 p.m. at the Loxahatchee Groves Water Control District office (101 West D Road). Call (561) 793-2418 or visit www.loxahatcheegroves.org for more info.

Wednesday, July 17• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic

Center Way) will host Artistic Afternoon for ages 6 to 10 on Wednesday, July 17 at 3:30 p.m. Use pencils, markers, pastels and other art supplies to doodle away the after-noon. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• The Acreage library (15801 Orange Blvd.) will host Calling All Cahills! for ages 8 to 12 on Wednesday, July 17 at 4 p.m. Help the Cahill family defeat the Vespers with games and crafts based on the book A King’s Ransom by Jude Watson. Call (561) 681-4100 to pre-register.

• The Safety Council of Palm Beach Coun-ty will offer a Basic Driver Improvement Course on Wednesday, July 17 from 5:30 to

Saturday, July 13• The Wellington library (1951 Royal

Fern Drive) will host Under the Sea Story Time for ages 3 and up Saturday, July 13 at 11 a.m. Enjoy stories, songs and ocean creature crafts. Call (561) 790-6070 for more info.

• The Acreage library (15801 Orange Blvd.) will host Lego Builders Club for ages 6 to 12 on Saturday, July 13 at 2 p.m. Meet fellow builders and work on creative projects every month. Call (561) 681-4100 to pre-register.

• The Palm Beach Zoo (1301 Summit Blvd., West Palm Beach) will hold its first-ev-er Food Truck Safari on Saturday, July 13 from 6 to 10 p.m. Some of South Florida’s best food trucks will be scattered through-out the zoo. There will also be live music and reasonably priced beer and wine. The entire zoo will be open, with some special up-close wild animal encounters. Admis-sion is $10 and parking is free. Call (561) 533-0887 or visit www.palmbeachzoo.org for more info.

• The Wellington Amphitheater (12100 W. Forest Hill Blvd.) will host a free Santa-na Tribute Concert on Saturday, July 13 at 8:30 p.m. Call (561) 753-2484 or visit www.wellingtonfl.gov for more info.

Monday, July 15• The Wellington Preservation Coalition

will offer scholarships for 10 Wellington children to attend a free week of summer camp available to youth ages 5 to 15 for the week of July 15 at Village Park (11700 Pierson Road). Call (561) 791-4796 to apply. Recipients will be determined on a first-come, first-served basis. Applications can be found at Village Park or at www.wellingtonfl.gov.

• The Central Palm Beach County Chamber of Commerce will host a lun-cheon Monday, July 15 at 11:30 a.m. at the Binks Forest Golf Club in Wellington. Call Mary Lou Bedford at (561) 578-4807 or e-mail [email protected] for info.

• Whole Foods Market in Wellington (2635 State Road 7) will feature Kids’ Club: Cool-Off Summer Recipes, a free event for ages 6 to 12, on Monday, July 15 at 3 p.m. Keep cool with three no-bake recipes. Call (561) 904-4000 to pre-register.

• The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host Ancient Angry Egyptian Birds for ages 8 and up Monday, July 15 at 3:30 p.m. A live-action version of Angry Birds has gone back in time to ancient See CALENDAR, page 35


Community Calendarmotorcycle endorsement. For more info., visit www.safetycouncilpbc.org.

• Whole Foods Market in Wellington (2635 State Road 7) will feature Savory Summer Sorbets on Thursday, July 18 at 6:30 p.m. Celebrate summer’s seasonal fruits and fragrant herbs with savory sorbet recipes at this free event. Call (561) 904-4000 to pre-register.

• The Royal Palm Beach Village Coun-cil will meet Thursday, July 18 at 7 p.m. at Village Hall (1050 Royal Palm Beach Blvd.). Call (561) 790-5100 or visit www.royalpalmbeach.com for more info.

• Bestselling romance author Sophia Knightly will hold a book signing Thurs-day, July 18 at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble at Wellington Green (10500 W. Forest Hill Blvd.) Knightly will read from her latest book Grill Me Baby. Call (561) 792-1292 for more info.

Friday, July 19• The Acreage library (15801 Orange

Blvd.) will host The Science Behind: Di-nosaurs for ages 8 to 12 on Friday, July 19 at 3 p.m. Learn basic facts about how paleontologists study dinosaurs. Call (561) 681-4100 to pre-register.

• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host Superhero Masks for ages 6 to 10 on Friday, July 19 at 3 p.m. Make a mask and save the world! Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host Writing for TV: Lisa Seidman on Friday, July 19 at 3:30 p.m. This award-winning writer will give adults the inside scoop on her experience writing for popular TV series. Call (561) 790-6070 for more info.

• Shtulman Family Chiropractic (8855 Hypoluxo Road, Suite C-11, Lake Worth) will host a parent’s night out screening of the documentary The Greater Good on Friday, July 19 at 7 p.m. The movie, which covers the topic of vaccines, will be followed by a group discussion. RSVP to (561) 275-2525 or e-mail [email protected].

• The Wellington Amphitheater (12100 W. Forest Hill Blvd.) will present a free screening of the movie Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted on Friday, July 19 at 8:30 p.m. Call (561) 753-2484 or visit www.wellingtonfl.gov for more info.

Send calendar items to: The Town-Crier, 12794 W. Forest Hill Blvd., Suite 31, Wel-lington, FL 33414. FAX: (561) 793-6090. E-mail: [email protected].

CALENDAR, continued from page 349:30 p.m. at Wellington High School (2101 Greenview Shores Blvd., Wellington). Visit www.safetycouncilpbc.org for info.

• The Acreage library (15801 Orange Blvd.) will host Raw Foods Diet: Truths & Myths for adults Wednesday, July 17 at 6 p.m. Palm Beach County Extension agent Ada Medina-Solorzano will discuss this in-creasingly popular lifestyle diet. Call (561) 681-4100 to pre-register.

• The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host Hooked on Crochet for adults Wednesday, July 17 at 6:30 p.m. Learn beginning techniques or bring current projects to work on. Call (561) 790-6070 for more info.

• Whole Foods Market in Wellington (2635 State Road 7) will feature The Alkaline Diet with Dr. Ian Shtulman on Wednesday, July 17 at 7 p.m. Discover more about alkaline diets, the PH level of your body and whether an alkaline diet is right for you. There is no charge. Call (561) 904-4000 to pre-register.

Thursday, July 18• The Wellington Community Center

(12150 Forest Hill Blvd.) will offer an AARP Driver Safety Course for seniors 55 and older Thursday July 18 from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The cost is $12 for AARP members and $14 for non-members, and must be paid by check to the instructor on the day of the class. Students should prepare for the day by bringing water, lunch and snacks. Pre-register in person, at www.wellingtonfl.gov or by calling (561) 753-2489, ext. 0.

• The Acreage library (15801 Orange Blvd.) will host a Bookwalk for ages 4 to 6 on Thursday, July 18 at 2 p.m. Make a book costume sign of a popular children’s book to wear and walk around the library for a live bookwalk display. Call (561) 681-4100 to pre-register.

• The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host Pajama Tales for ages 2 to 6 on Thursday, July 18 at 6 p.m. Wear your jammies and wind down for the evening with bedtime stories. Call (561) 790-6070 for more info.

• The Safety Council of Palm Beach Coun-ty will offer a Motorcycle Rider Course on Thursday, July 18 from 6 to 10 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, July 20 and 21 from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Wellington High School (2101 Greenview Shores Blvd.). This combined classroom and road course includes motorcycles, and is required for


Part-time LegaL Secre-tary — for legal/accounting off ice. Fax resume 333-2680.

DriVerS: $1 ,000 SigN-ON BONUS! great Pay! — Con-sistent Freight, Great miles on this regional accountant. Wer-ner Enterprises: -888-567-4854

traNSactiONaL / cOmmerciaL LitigatiON Law firm looking for a real estate legal assistant / paralegal to work out of our firm’s Wellington office location. A qualified applicant must have a minimum of five (5) years of experience handling real estate closings (resi-dential and commercial) and must be familiar with the Wellington area, its brokers, and other real estate attorneys / law firms in the area. Must be proficient in DoubleTime/ATIDS/Outlook/QuickBooks/Excel. Bilingual a plus. Salary would be commensurate with experi-ence. Please email cover letter (or email), resume, and salary require-ments to: [email protected]

cOmmerciaL PaiNter — want-ed for West Palm Beach Job Site. Must have swing stage experi-ence, tools, own transportation Please call Michele at 954-782-5391 from 10am-5pm for further details

EMPLOYMENT

LOOKiNg fOr VOLUNteerS ageS 14 aND UP — to help out our non-profit animal sanctuary . 2 days a week for 4 hours a day. Get community hours and have fun. Cal l 561-792-2666

VOLUNTEERS

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SUMMER CAMP VOLUNTEERS Community service hours

needed to work with horses & children 561-793-4109

FOR SALEfUrNitUre SaLe — Dining Room set and more. Call 561-793-4639


A/C AND REFRIGERATION

JOHN c. HUNtON air cONDi-tiONiNg & refrigeratiON, iNc.—Service & new installation FPL independent participating contractor. Lic. CAC 057272 Ins. “We are proud supporters of the Seminole Ridge Hawks” 561-798-3225. Family Owned & Operated since 1996. Credit Cards Accepted

ALTERATIONS

aLteratiONS By Lia — Sum-mer Specials 10% Off alterations 20% Off School Uniform alter-ations Monday and Thursday Noon - 5 p.m. Call for Appointment. Courtyard Shoppes. Commerce Cleaners. 561-301-5338

CLEANING - HOME/OFFICE

we cLeaN OfficeS & Pri-Vate HOmeS — Licensed & Insured. Call for an estimate and to schedule your apartment. Dis-count for Central Palm Beach County Chamber members and to all new clients for first cleaning. 561-385-8243 Lic. #2012-252779

cLeaNiNg — Residential & Com-mercial home & office cleaning. Home organization for closets / bathrooms & more. Since 2005 in Palm Beach County references available.Call Vera 561-598-0311

COMPUTER REPAIR

D.J. cOmPUter — Home & office, Spyware removal, web-sites, networks, repairs, upgrades, virus removal, tutoring. Call Jeff 561-333-1923 Cell 561-252-1186 Lic’d Well. & Palm Beach. We accept major credit cards.

COMPUTER REPAIR/INSTALLATION

greater POwer cOmPUter SOLUtiONS — is a Electronics Company Specializing in Computer repair, custom PC builds/installations. Greater Power Computer Solutions was formerly known as Drewsky Electronics and has been in business for over 7 years. From Computers to custom websites, we do it all! 561-880-5241 [email protected]

DRIVEWAY REPAIR

DriVewayS — Free estimates A & M ASPHALT SEAL COAT-ING commercial and residen-tial. Patching potholes, striping, repair existing asphalt & save money all work guaranteed. Lic.& Ins. 100045062 561-667-7716

HANDYMAN

tHe maSter HaNDymaN — All Types of Home Repairs & Improve-ments. No job too big or small done right the first time every time 40 yrs of satisfied customers. See me on Angies List. Tom (561) 801-2010 or (954) 444-3178 Serving Palm Beach and Broward Counties.

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

aNmar cO.—James’ All Around Handyman Service. Excellent craft-man Old time values. Once you’ve had me! You’ll have me back! Lic. Ins. Certified Residential Contrac-tor CRC1327426 561-248-8528

HURRICANE SHUTTERS

HUrricaNe SHUtterS P&M CONTRACTORS — ACCORDION SHUTTERS Gutters, screen enclo-sures, siding, soffits, aluminum roofs, Serving the Western Communities. Since 1985. U-17189 561-791-9777

INSURANCE

BOB caVaNagH aLLState iNSUraNce — Auto • Home • Life• Renters • Motorcycle •RV • Golfcart • Boat Serving the W e s t e r n C o m m u n i t i e s f o r 24 years Cal l for a quote 798-3056, or visit our website. www.allstateagencies.com/rCavanagh

PAINTING

J&B PreSSUre cLeaNiNg & PaiNtiNg, iNc. — Established 1984. All types of pressure cleaning, roofs, houses, driveways, patios etc. Commercial & Residential. Interior & Exterior painting. Certi-fied pressure cleaning & painting contractor. Lic. #U21552 Call Butch 309-6975 or visit ourwebsite at www.jbpressurecleaningandpainting.com

tOwN-crier cLaSSifieDS 793-3576

JOHN PergOLiZZi PaiNtiNg iNc. — Interior/Exterior - Repaint spe-cialist, pressure cleaning, popcorn ceiling, drywall repair & roof paint-ing. Family owned/owner operator. Free Est. 798-4964 Lic. #U18473

cOLOrS By cOrO, iNc. — Int./Ext. residential painting, over 20 yrs exp. Small Jobs wel-come. Free est. Ins. 561-383-8666. Owner/Operated. Lic.# U20627 Ins. Wellington Resident

PLUMBING

Jeremy JameS PLUmBiNg — Licensed plumber, legitimate estimate. Water heaters, new con-struction. CFC1426242. Bonded In-sured. CFC1426242. 561-601-6458

PRESSURE CLEANING

J&B PreSSUre cLeaNiNg & PaiNtiNg, iNc. — Established 1984. All types of pressure clean-ing, roofs, houses, driveways, pa-tios etc. Commercial & Residential. In ter ior & Exter ior pa in t ing. Certified pressure cleaning & painting contractor. Lic. #U21552 Call Butch at 309-6975 or visit us at www.jb-pressurecleaningandpainting.com

ROOFING

m i N O r r O O f r e Pa i r S D O N H a r t m a N N r O O f -iNg — Roof painting, Carpen-t ry. L ic . #U13677 967-5580

rOBert g. HartmaNN rOOf-iNg — Specializing in repairs. Free estimates, Bonded,insured. Lic. #CCC 058317 Ph: 561-790-0763.

rOOfiNg rePairS rerOOf-iNg aLL tyPeS — Pinewood Construction, Inc. Honest and reliable. Serving Palm Beach County for over 20 years. Call Mike 561-309-0134 Lic. Ins. Bond-ed. CGC-023773 RC-0067207

SECURITY

SecUrity — American owned local security company in business 30 plus years. Protection by offi-cers drug tested. 40 hour course. Licensed & Insured. 561-848-2600

SCREENING

JOHN’S ScreeN rePair Ser-Vice — Pool & patio rescreening. Stay tight,wrinkle-free,guaran-teed! CRC1329708 call us 798-3132. www.poolscreenrepair.com

SHUTTERS/PANELS

accOrDiON SHUtterS — Gut-ters, screen enclosures, siding, soffits, aluminum roofs, Serving the Western Communities. Since 1985. U-17189 561-791-9777

SPRINKLER SYSTEMS

aQUatic SPriNKLer, LLc — Complete repair of all types of systems. Owner Operated. Mi-chael 561-964-6004Lic.#U17871 Bonded & Ins. Serving the West-ern Communities Since 1990

TILE / CERAMICS

S P e c i a L i Z i N g i N B at H -rOOm remODeLiNg — Free estimates serving South Florida since 1980. Quality you expect, service you deserve. Lic. bond-ed & Ins. U21006 561-662-9258

TREE SERVICE

treeS trimmeD aND re-mOVeD — 561-798-0412 D.M. YOUNG TREE SERVICE. Fam-ily Owned & Operated Lic. & In-sured 1992-12121 Visit our web-site at dmyoungtreeservice.com

WATER SYSTEMS

trOPicaL water SyStemS —Whole House Reverse Os-mosis, Sale & Repair of Water Systems, Well Drilling, pumps, and sprinkler installation repair. 561-795-6630 561-718-7260(Cell)

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WALLPAPERING

PaPerHaNgiNg By DeBi — Professional Installation,Removal. Repair of Paper. Neat, Clean & Reliable. Quality work with a wom-an’s touch. 30 years experience. No Job too big or too small. Lic. & Ins. References available. 561-795-5263

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Would your spa/salon like to become involved with our Indulge yourself contest? Call Publisher, Dawn Rivera (561) 793-7606 today!Contest Rules: You must be 18 years or older to participate. We choose the spa/salon. No one may win the contest more than once in 12 months. The decision of the selection committee is � nal. Employees of Wellington The Magazine, all a� liated companies and their family members are not eligible to enter. Accept-ing your Spa Experience package includes the agreement that we may use of your image, take photos of you at the spa and publish information about your Spa Experience in Wellington The Magazine.

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