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Deerfield Beach High Class of ’72: Where are you?
Deerfield Beach – The hunt is on for members of the class of ’72, the first graduates of Deerfield Beach High School. Armed with social media, emails and exhaustive research, a reunion committee has found about two-thirds of the graduating class of 595. What awaits the high school’s...
Waking Up: The Yoga of tennis: Calmness is the way
“Winning gives birth to hostility. Losing, one lies down in pain. Having set winning and losing aside.” – Dhammapada. The Buddhists knew a thing or two about life. In the Serenity Prayer, we learn how to change the things we can change, accept the things we can’t, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Dental Decisions: Five helpful cosmetic dentistry procedures
1. Inlays and onlays – This cosmetic dentistry procedure is also known as indirect fillings, which are made by a dental laboratory. They are used when a tooth has mild to moderate decay or insufficient tooth structure to support a filling. Provided there is no damage to the tooth cusps, the inlay is placed directly onto the tooth surface. However, when the cusp or a more significant portion of the tooth is damaged, your dentist may use an onlay to cover the tooth’s entire surface. Inlays and onlays were once made of gold but typically are made in a dental laboratory from a composite of porcelain or ceramic material and attached to the teeth with dental cement. They provide support to strengthen teeth, restore their shape, and avoid any further decay or deterioration.
Eye on the Arts: Official launch party for new spoken word label
Sunday, Aug. 28, is a landmark evening at the Pompano Beach Cultural Center. That’s when Profitcy Society – a new spoken word label that is the creation of The Round Table Project – will hold its official launch party. On June 9, this column featured Sarahca Peterson...
Jerry Johnson, “a gentleman’s gentleman,” leaves a legacy at Pompano Beach Marine Center
Jerry Johnson, 77, owner of Pompano Beach Marine Center, passed away in late July just months after celebrating the 60th Anniversary of his business. To many who knew him he was old-school and considered “a gentleman’s gentleman,” doing deals on handshakes: an icon in the South Florida marine community.
Resources, Events, Meetings and More – Week of Aug. 25
Pompano Beach – The City of Pompano Beach Utilities Department will begin a free chlorination treatment of its entire distribution system on Aug. 29. This treatment will be in effect until Sept. 26. Free chlorination treatment is a maintenance practice used by utilities, and the City of Pompano Beach free chlorinates the distribution system periodically. During the process, the disinfection portion of water treatment will change from using chloramines [a combination of ammonia and chlorine] to using free chlorine. Due to these changes, residents may notice a slight difference in the taste and smell of the water. Persons currently undergoing dialysis or with a compromised immune system should consult their health-care provider prior to this change in disinfection process to determine whether this will affect their treatment. In addition, persons with a fish tank or pond, including grocery stores and restaurants with lobster tanks and fish containers at bait shops that use city water should contact a pet or aquarium professional to determine the need for any adjustments to their treatment procedures during this temporary disinfection change.
CRA Board accepts design for Guy Harvey museum
Deerfield Beach – A children’s museum designed to be a wonderland of marine experiences gained the approval of the Community Appearance Agency Board [CRA] last week. Using both actual and virtual technology, a creative team presented a concept featuring an illuminated coral reef, an exploratorium of high-tech exhibits, a theater where visitors will go on a simulated airboat ride narrated by Everglades conservationist Ron Bergeron and among other features, a lionfish aquarium.
Artists use their skills to look at human trafficking
When you think of subjects an artist might address, human trafficking isn’t necessarily at the top of the list. But in an important work unveiled at ArtServe on Aug. 4, Miami artist Rhona Rubio does just that with her “Stories” installation. Actually, she does much more. The...
Viewpoints – Week of Aug. 18
Thank you for your expert coverage of the beach cleaner [Aug. 11 issue]. We are also beach cleaners but in Hillsboro Beach. That Lauderdale-By-The-Sea has the audacity to require a permit to clean the beach is outrageous. Commissioners ought to require town staff alternating with town police alternating with the commissioners themselves to clean the beach at least once. Let that resonate and sink in. Once all parties witness the bizarre wash-ups on their pristine beach, they will rethink the equation.
Out of the Pulpit: “We are all works in progress”
Last month we celebrated the creation of the United States of America. The preamble of its constitution sought to establish “a more perfect” union. This call to perfection predates even the words of Jesus, who asked his followers “to be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.” The perfection Jesus refers to here is “holiness.”
“I will not try and file for a permit”: Beach clean-up organizer rejects assertion that he needs town’s approval to pick up trash
LBTS – Once a month, Garret Nathan and a handful of volunteers walk along the shores of Lauderdale-By-The-Sea to pick up trash. Armed with buckets, they collect about 30 to 40 pounds of debris each time. “I live down here, literally live about 50 yards from the sand,” he...
Voters will decide Aug. 23 if school safety, mental health services and teachers’ pay tax is renewed
Unless voters approve a one cent ad valorem tax in the Aug. 23 primary election, Broward County schools will lose millions in funding, money that now pays for 500 security guards, 100 mental health workers and $82 million in teachers’ compensation. The ballot measure was approved unanimously by the...
Early voting for primaries underway; find out where
Broward County’s one million-plus voters were eligible to begin casting ballots last Saturday at early voting locations that will remain open through Aug. 21, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Primary election day is Aug. 25 and for many of those voters, the voting sites will have changed due to a major recasting of precincts.
Hudak plans to seek another term in March
Deerfield Beach – Dist. 1 Commissioner Mike Hudak will seek reelection in March 2023, an announcement he made in an email to key supporters. The news came as an agenda item for his Aug. 25 District 1 meeting along with other subjects such as the code enforcement process, troubled properties, updates to the CRA and short- term rentals.
“Possible shooter” shuts down Deerfield’s beach for hours
A lockdown of the International Fishing Pier and surrounding areas was lifted at 4 p.m. today after police swept the pier and determined threats received earlier in the day were unfounded. Police received two calls at around 12:30 p.m. One was a bomb threat, the other reported a possible shooting...
Fishing Report: Every day is a new day at sea
Pictured here is a charter aboard the Native Son out of Hillsboro Inlet this week. It is so crazy to think that one day you can get completely skunked and catch nothing and the next day the rod is bent on a fish for hours. You never truly know what you’re going to get when you go out fishing and I believe that is the beauty of it. In this picture you can see bonito, mahi-mahi, blackfin tuna, king mackerel and barracuda.
First round for beach smoking ban passes
Deerfield Beach – Saying the issue is an “extremely difficult” one, commissioners decided last week to move forward with an ordinance that would ban smoking on public beaches and in parks. But the regulations may yet be tweaked. Citing what he called might be “a backlash from...
Residents, city officials weigh in on plans for a redeveloped downtown district
Oakland Park – Tensions ran high at last week’s commission meeting, as residents, community members and city officials discussed the pros and cons that would come with a new large-scale redevelopment project planned for the downtown area. During the scheduled public hearing, several individuals shared their concerns about...
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