Mary Kate Leming's Blog Posts Tagged 'profile' (35)

Paradise Bank executives: (front row, l-r) William J. Burke, Dennis Gavin, (back row, l-r) Ward Kellogg and David Englert.

Tim Stepien/ The Coastal Star

By Thomas R. Collins



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Ayşe Papatya Bucak, 41, author of The History of Girls, will see her work published in the 2013 PEN/O’Henry Prize Stories and the 2014 Pushcart Prizes: Best of the Small Presses XXXVIII. Tim Stepien/The Coastal…

Jaana Moisio with (l-r) Caroline, 7, Lauren, 11, and Moisio’s husband, Tom Bennett. The girls have three piggy banks marked ‘save,’ ‘spend’ and ‘share.’ The ‘save’ money goes to the bank to pay for college and the ‘share’ goes to the Children’s Home…

ABOVE: Guests can opt to have a massage by the waterfall at the pool.

By Mary Thurwachter

    

A decade has passed since Michael and Cheryl Crane scooped up a pair of plain-Jane 1950s apartment buildings and transformed them into a…

By Ron Hayes



Every week or so, a gold, 1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass pulls up to the Helping Hands food center on Northwest First Court, where the driver unloads a box of papayas gathered from the trees in his yard.

    The Oldsmobile Cutlass has 169,000 miles on the odometer, and…

By Emily J. Minor

    

They were different times back then, certainly, what with free love and the women’s movement and the Vietnam War. And for local resident and writer Kristin Alexandre, it was, in so many ways, the defining years of her life.

    Young and newly married to an older man with social…

Bruce Anderson volunteering at Palm Beach State College. Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star

By Steve Pike



    John F. Kennedy once said: “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

    Bruce…

By Steve Pike

    

You might say Tony Chate auvert owes his job to two things: A navy blue blazer and a box of crayons. The blazer goes back more than 25 years and the crayons go back less than one year.

    An explanation: As an aspiring golf professional, Chateauvert, PGA professional and manager of…

By Steve Pike



    Wanda Krowlikowski remembers well her interview for the head golf professional’s job at The Little Club in Gulf Steam.

    “I was at a nice table in the dining room with board members looking out on the golf course,” Krowlikowski said. “They asked me if I thought I would be happy…

Communications consultant Martel and his wife bought their Gulf Stream condominium after they saw the ocean view.  Photo by Jerry Lower

By Ron Hayes



Lucy is a very friendly poodle.

Yap! Yap! Yap!

One morning last month, as a…

Meg Mallon (left) and Beth Daniel will host this year’s Bethesda Pro-Am Golf Tournament. Photo by Jerry Lower

Daniel and Mallon hosting…

Svetlana Simon sells eggs, yogurt, cheese and milk from her Heritage Farm at the Delray Beach Green Market. BELOW: A sign at her stand describes her products and her philosophy. Photos by Jerry Lower

By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley

   

At the Saturday…

Being retired and enjoying physical activities outside is great, agree Jeff and Ruth Stein. But, they add, there’s only so much swimming and golfing they can do.

They do not sit around waiting for the world to happen, and even if they were so inclined, “how long can a person sit at the beach?” Ruth…

“I had a business background and a broad base of…

His neighbors call him the Turtle Man, because he walks the five-eighths-mile South Palm Beach shoreline, counting and marking…

John Katsaros has quite a story! And, until recently, not one he was allowed to tell.

During World War II, Katsaros served as a gunner, photographer and engineer in the

U.S. Army Air Corps, when he was barely out of his teens.…