By Margie Plunkett

Sea turtles will continue to nest in peace under county regulation after Manalapan commissioners put off voting until year’s end on a turtle lighting ordinance that moves control to the town. The proposed ordinance is expected to be resurrected after seasonal residents begin to return.

The draft legislation has been postponed several times and earlier set off a furor when Commissioner Howard Roder accused Mayor Tom Gerrard of personally benefitting from the proposed ordinance he originated. The proposal was also the impetus for written policy on who can request the town attorney to draft ordinances, guidelines which haven’t yet been completed.

The postponement at the June 22 commission meeting came on the heels of a wide-ranging discussion among commissioners, residents and Palm Beach County Department of Environmental Resource Management about the implications of opting to move regulations that protect sea turtles to Manalapan’s jurisdiction.

Lighting restrictions are in place during turtle season to ensure hatchlings can proceed to the ocean without being distracted and disoriented by lights from homes on and near the beach. Gerrard and others say that new county regulations are unreasonably restrictive, even limiting lighting that can’t be seen from the beach. Residents claim that the overly limited lighting poses a safety hazard.

Manalapan’s ability to monitor coastal lighting and enforce compliance came into question, as Commissioner William Bernstein, for one, reiterated his previously stated doubts on the topic.

“One of my serious problems with the statute is that it would impose upon our town the responsibility for compliance and I think we have a spotty history when it comes to compliance,” said Bernstein, who was the only dissenter to the proposed ordinance’s approval during a first reading vote in March. The commissioner also feared the added duty would take resources away from the Police Department’s primary duty of protecting residents.

Police Chief Clay Walker, however, said officers routinely patrol the beach at night on ATVs, and could add observation and detection of possible lighting violations to the patrol, which would be far more frequent than the county’s twice annual check.

And Paul Davis of ERM also said with the proper training he believed the Police Department’s efforts would be sufficient.

But Town Manager Tom Heck wanted to study further whether Manalapan has the resources to handle compliance before committing to it.

Others argued against moving too hastily to take on an environmental responsibility that could have a critical impact if not stewarded properly. “I’m not an environmentalist,” said resident Basil Diamond, “but in light of what has happened in the Gulf [of Mexico], when mankind is insensitive to the environment, there are consequences.”

Kathryn Diamond later added, “You have to look at the gulf. We could be the only coast left with turtles.”

Manalapan has had a good track record for nesting turtles, according to information from Davis, who said there had been seven events of turtle disorientation, each of which could involve from one to 100 hatchlings. The beaches here have provided a good environment and above average nesting, he said.

Opting out of county regulation of turtle lighting could also put at risk any funds for beach projects, some argued, although they were countered by comments that because Manalapan doesn’t have a public beach, it isn’t eligible for most funds anyway.

Nine other towns have opted out, with eight of those in 1988, Davis said, adding, no others have opted out since Juno Beach in 1992.

Since it was passed on first reading, the proposed turtle lighting ordinance has been revised to address concerns by county and state regulators, residents learned at the commission meeting.

Revisions include that lights cannot be visible from the beach, altering phrasing that they couldn’t be visible from the beach at a height of three feet, an attempt to view lighting from a sea turtle’s perspective.

Other language was added to guard against the effects of indirect, as well as direct lighting, reflecting what Davis of ERM said were growing concerns about the impact of the glow from indirect illumination.

By Margie Plunkett

A recently released study of Delray Beach parking got a stamp of approval — in concept — by the city’s Parking Management Advisory Board, but the panel still wants to discuss major areas of the proposal before it’s put into effect.

The parking study was commissioned to help manage parking as the city’s downtown grows and attracts even more visitors. The study largely addresses the downtown core of Delray Beach, where motorists often find themselves circling the vibrant business district multiple times in search of convenient parking.

Consultant Kimley Horn of West Palm Beach, which prepared the study, has been taking it on the rounds through various city panels and is scheduled at the regular City Commission meeting, July 6 at 6 p.m.

“This has exposed a lot of things that had to be discussed,” said Fran Miracola, who represents the Downtown Development Authority on the parking board.

The board discussed several recommendations of the study, including “in-lieu” parking spaces and pricing systems to move employee and other parking into the garages to open on-street parking for visitors. It had several areas that it wanted to possibly modifying from the original study.

The panel also debated the merits of the parking plan as a revenue generator. Parking board member Joseph Pike, who represents Planning and Zoning, saw the goal as “to get people to use the resources we have.”

Poorna Bhattacharya of Kimley Horn said, “The goal is parking management. When you implement a revenue system, you end up making money rather than using it.” The study estimates that Delray Beach would recover its costs from the recommendation in 20 months as presented.

Some of the study’s recommendations are:

• Provide first 20 minutes of parking free for on-street parking, then $1.25 per hour within downtown core, and 75 cents per hour outside core.

• Provide first-hour parking free for off-street parking, then $1 per hour in core, 75 cents outside core. Daily maximum $5.

• Change the “in-lieu” system that allows business developers to pay into a fund for community parking if they have a hardship and can’t provide off-street parking spaces. Extend the system to those who do not have a hardship.

• Expand the hours garages charge for parking, charge in some surface lots and install multi-pay stations.

• Install multi-space meters for on-street parking.

• Invest in handheld citation computers.

• Extend beach parking permits to residents only, or charge a different fee for non-residents.

• Take a visitor-friendly approach to parking enforcement, in which officers are ambassadors for the city.

• Study the valet parking system to determine the most logical queue and parking locations.

• Modify the shuttle system, including improved connectivity with Tri-Rail, PalmTran and parking and to improve promotion of Route 2.

Two competing nonprofits showed how they would revamp and re-energize WXEL public television and radio at a public forum June 29.

The Delray Beach-based Strategic Broadcast Media Group and the Community Broadcast Foundation are both interested in buying WXEL, despite the fact that at least the radio portion of the broadcast station is already under contract to a Miami classical music station.

Both organizations spoke of similar ideas. Both said they wanted local programming. Both said they would increase staff. And both said they believed WXEL could make more money than it does now.

Cliff Matis, representing SBMG, said the station could increase revenue by renting out its production space. “This unique cache affords both local and traveling artists opportunities to produce material at state-of-the-art facilities,” Matis said.

Meanwhile, foundation representative Murry Green said his group would rely on a superstar sales team to make more money. “We need a sales team equivalent of the best sales team in town,” Green said.

When asked how much it was willing to spend to buy WXEL, SBMG said it had offered $3.5 million for both the radio and television portions of the station. SBMG also said it already had raised the money. The foundation said it would get loans to pay for the station, and would not say how much it would pay for the station.

The exchange of ideas and the presentation, however, are moot if Barry University, which operates WXEL, is allowed to move forward with an offer from nonprofit Classical South Florida, which said in April it would buy the radio station for $3.85 million in cash.

Bruce Edwards, a senior vice president at Barry University, was plucked from the audience and asked to defend the university’s decision to move forward with Classical South Florida’s offer instead of meeting with either of the two local groups.

Edwards said that CSF had the cash up front. He also said that Barry was not looking to make a profit, but hoping to get back money sunk into the station when it purchased it 13 years ago.

WXEL has been operated by Barry since 1997, when the university stepped in to keep the beleaguered station from closing. Barry put the station on the market in 2004.

The late June meeting appeared to be in response a loyal listener outcry after the sale was announced. Listeners said they are concerned about losing local programming if Classical South Florida takes over.

Before money changes hands, the license transfer has to get the approval of the Florida Department of Education and the Federal Communications Commission. So far, the sale isn’t on the board’s agenda.

Pablo Del Real, chair of WXEL’s Community Advisory Board, said the board does not support the license transfer. Technically, Del Real has said, the radio station is public and therefore can’t be sold. The money is for the building, towers, transmitters and other assets, he said.

Because the station is owned by the community, the community does have a voice in the license transfer. The Board of Education and the FCC will hear public comment before approving the measure.

During a meeting in early June, the Boynton Beach City Council agreed to send a letter to the Department of Education, saying it did not support the sale of the license because the city feared it would mean fewer jobs at the station — meaning fewer jobs in Boynton Beach.

However, city leaders did, at that time, voice concern about stepping in the midst of a sale between two private entities.

By Mike Readling

The summer has barely gotten under way and already there have been a couple of tragic deaths along the Intracoastal Waterway. Deaths that, with the most basic of precautions, likely could have been avoided.

The United States Coast Guard has very clear rules regarding life jackets and their role on boats.

In Florida, every vessel must have onboard a wearable, USCG-approved personal flotation device for each person. The PFDs must be of the appropriate size for the intended wearer, be in serviceable condition, and within easy access. The state urges everyone on board a moving boat to wear one of these life jackets at all times.

Vessels 16 feet in length or longer must also have at least one USCG-approved throwable Type IV PFD that is immediately available in case of a fall overboard. And any child under the age of 6 must wear a USCG-approved Type I, II or III personal flotation device while onboard a vessel under 26 feet in length while the vessel is under way.

The Coast Guard has developed a rating system for PFDs, evaluating each device on its usefulness in certain situations. The most important devices for boaters are Types-I, II and III. Type-IV are throwable devices such as life rings and floating cushions that can be thrown to a person in distress. These are for use in calm waters only.

Type-I

The top of the list is Type-I devices. These are geared for rough or remote waters where rescue may take a while. They provide the most buoyancy, are excellent for flotation, and will turn most unconscious people face-up in the water. These devices are generally bright orange, very rigid and incorporate reflectors, whistles and sometimes even water-activated flash beacons.

A good example of a Type-I device is the Type-I Foam Life Jacket. These retail for around $45 to $50 each. While they are designed to withstand extreme seas and they won’t get waterlogged, they are not appropriate for continuous wear.

Type-II

Type-II devices are considered near-shore devices. These vests are good for calm waters when quick assistance or rescue is likely. Type-II vests will turn some unconscious wearers face-up in the water, but the turning is not as pronounced as with a Type-I. These are the orange vests that you see almost any time you see another boat with life vests. They are not usually as rigid as, and are a little more lightweight than, the Type-I vests. And they tend to be easy to put on, simply putting the collar around your neck and buckling a strap in front.

Type-II Near-Shore Buoyant Vests can be bought for between $9 and $25 each. They are lightweight and perfect for stowing, just in case you pack a few more people than expected on your boat. Many times, these come in a four-pack that can be stored neatly as whole.

Revere Supply makes ComfortMax Inflatable Life Vests, which retail for between $180 and $240, depending on if you get the auto-inflate or the manual inflate version.

The auto-inflatable vests are Type-II rated, while the manual model is rated Type-III. These are the thin vests that wrap around your neck and then down the front of your body. They don’t restrict movement and inflate either when you hit the water, or pull the inflate tab located on the bottom right on the front.

Type-III

Type-III are floatation aids. These vests or full-sleeved jackets are good for calm waters when quick assistance or rescue is likely. They are not for rough waters, since they will not turn most unconscious persons face-up.

Type-III PFDs are used for water sports, such as water-skiing and wakeboarding. Some Type-III PFDs are designed to inflate when you enter the water. Generally speaking, these are what jet skiers are wearing. They look like vests and usually have three buckles on the front.

The Medalist Vest retails for about $70 and is a prime example of a Type-III device. It is a vest-type device with wide-cut arms to allow for a wide range of motion when paddling a kayak or canoe. Three straps keep it snug.

A Mediterranean fruit fly has been found in a trap in the 100 block of Andrews Avenue in Delray Beach. This is the first detection of the pest outside of Boca
Raton, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture.

By Mary Thurwachter

In the early 1940s, Michigander Ruth Jones was a single lady in her 20s who began traveling to Florida with her cousin. Her aunt owned the Old Dutch Mill restaurant on Federal Highway, the very spot she eventually met her spouse.

“I got sand in my shoes and never went back,” she recalls. “People don’t use that expression much anymore, but that’s what happened.” She fell in love with the Sunshine State with its flowers, strawberries and beaches. She was also quite smitten with a tiny one-story cottage at the corner of NE First St. and NE First Ave. in Boynton Beach.

In 1946, she used money she had inherited to buy the modest cottage with wood floors and Dade County pine paneling so hard she had to get help when she wanted to pound a nail in the wall. She paid $12,000 cash. Before long, she married Mason Jones, a farmer and Boynton pioneer, and raised her family in the 1,000-square-foot home.

About three years ago, Jones sold the cottage to the Community Redevelopment Agency, a group that promotes development in downtown Boynton. In June, the agency approved a land lease, which would allow the cottage to be rehabbed and moved to the southwest corner of East Ocean Avenue and Southeast Fourth Street. A restaurateur has expressed an interest in opening a casual eatery in the house.

Boynton Mayor and CRA Chairman Jose Rodriguez says the Jones Cottage is a true Boynton Beach landmark and that the CRA felt strongly about preserving this tangible part of the city’s history. Repurposing the cottage is part of an overall project to revitalize the Ocean Avenue area.

What does Jones think of her old home becoming a restaurant?

“When I see it, I’ll believe it,” Jones laughs, adding that the wheels of government turn slowly.

Boynton was very different in the 1940s and ’50s, she recalls. “The population was around 3,600 and if you went west of Seacrest you were in the wild.”

Mason was a member of the city’s volunteer fire department and their mutt, Trixie, was the department’s mascot. “When the fire siren sounded, the dog couldn’t wait to go and if Mason didn’t go quickly enough, Trixie would take off on her own.”

Sadly, Mason died in a car accident when the youngest of their five children was 2, leaving her to raise the children by herself. She worked at Bud’s Take-Out for 12 years and later at the Ocean Club for 18. She was the cook at the snack bar by the pool.

Today, Jones lives west of Seacrest, although it’s far from the “out in the wild” place she described from years ago. She has a spacious two-bedroom, two-bathroom home in a well-manicured adult community with nice people for neighbors. But she will always cherish the time she spent at the two bedroom, one bath home at 201 NE First Ave.

Sure, the Vernacular-style house with mango, rose apple and avocado trees in the backyard was tiny, but she made it work. Her three daughters bunked in one bedroom, her two sons in the other. She slumbered on a sleeper sofa in the living room.

“Christmas was always a very special time, with stockings hung from the coquina fireplace,” Jones recalls. She said she had heard that Lucille and Otley Scott, owners of the now defunct Lucille and Otley’s restaurant on Federal Highway, were the original homeowners who put in the fireplace.

Another of the cottage’s previous inhabitants was the late Irvin Lacey, a longtime Boynton Beach resident who was born in the home.

Jones says she never thought she would move away from the cottage and still misses the home, especially the yard with its trees and birds. She changed her mind about staying there a few years ago after her home was burglarized.

“I had so many nice neighbors there, but all of them are gone,” she says, “and the neighborhood has really changed.”

Mary Thurwachter is a West Palm Beach freelance writer and founder/producer of the travel e-zine INNsideFlorida.com (www.innsideflorida.com).

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. During that time, he
survived a 25,000-foot free-fall. Took photos of the enemy’s secret aircraft
and weaponry. Trekked for months through enemy territory. Was captured twice.
Escaped. Had a $10,000 reward on his head. Almost lost an arm due to gangrene.
And the grande finale of this tour of duty? A four-day climb over the Pyrenees in a
suit and dress shoes a size too small — only to be jailed when he reached the
other side.
None of this could he talk about, “My mother and father never knew what happened to
me,” he said.
“After we were shot down, we basically became spies. We had to report back everything
that we saw, and that information was used by Intelligence.”
Over the years, as information became declassified, he was freed by the government
from his oath of secrecy, and able to recount his experiences. He’s just
released the rewrite of his book, Code Burgundy — The Long Escape, which
came out in 2008.
“The British knew every step I took through French Intelligence and the Resistance.
I was only a 20-year-old kid at the time, and I did exactly what the French
Intelligence told me to do. I knew if I did, I’d have a good chance of
escaping.”
He went thousands of miles but did manage to get back, he said, thanks to the
French Resistance. “That’s why I honored them in my book. Without them, I’d
never have made it.”
In London, he was interviewed for four days.

“The Germans were way in advance, he explained. “They came out with the V2 bomb. It was shot up quite high, and you never knew where it would land: You couldn’t
hear it. It was developed by Dr. [Wernher] von Braun, whom we captured and he
developed our program on intercontinental ballistic missiles, which resembled
the V2 bomb.”
The Germans had so many secret weapons, so far superior to the Allies’, he said.
“Besides the stealth jet bomber and the first rockets, they had the flying V1
Buzz Bombs. We called them Doodlebugs. They were unmanned and they shot them
over London. They made a ‘putt, putt, putt’ sound, like an engine on a grass
cutter. Count to five and you’ll be alive, because when they landed, within one
second, they were right next to you.

If we hadn’t destroyed their air-force facilities where they were developing these weapons, he said, they would have had the atomic bomb before us, and we’d be
speaking German right now.
These accounts he’s finally able to tell. Recently, he was invited by four-star Gen. Duncan MacNabb to talk to the Air Force cadets about escape and evasion. “They could listen to someone who had actually escaped,” he said.

— Christine Davis

10 Questions

Q. Where did you grow up and go to school? How do you think that has influenced
you?
A. Haverhill, Mass. (30 miles north of Boston). I attended Haverhill school
systems and graduated from Haverhill High School. On Dec. 8, 1941, the day
after Pearl Harbor [was attacked], I joined the Navy Pilot Air Cadet Program.
On Dec. 7, 1942, I joined the U.S. Army Air Corps, and volunteered to fly
combat on a B-17 Flying Fortress as an aerial engineer, gunner and
photographer, for the famous 8th Air Force, stationed in England.
Q. What is your strongest memory of the war?
A. Flying on a B-17 Flying Fortress out of England on March, 20 1944. Our plane,
named Man O’ War, the lone bomber, successfully destroyed the FW-190 aircraft
factory at Frankfurt, Germany. Flying a return flight back to England, we ran
out of ammunition in a firefight with a German group of attacking aircraft.
Several enemy ME-109 fighters shot down our B-17 with cannon and .50 cal.
machine-gun fire. Three crewmen were killed on station, two engines, blown out
and the wing was in flames, when the alarm was given to bail out.

The navigator was the first to bail out. His chute “candled” and he did not survive the landing. I was seriously wounded, but assisted crewmates with their wounds,
and bailed out, only to experience the fear of pursuit by the Gestapo, after a
bone-cracking landing from a 25,000-foot free-fall. Twice captured by the
Gestapo and twice escaped with the assistance of the brave Free French
Resistance who hid me over three months while nursing me back to health, and
assisted me in my travels from north of France, south to climb the Pyrenees
Mountains to Spain and freedom, only to be locked up by the Spanish
Constabulary.

My medical treatment in France, while on the run, is owed to a Dr. Levy, a Jew who was hiding out from the Gestapo in the cellar of his clinic. With the
insistence of the Free French Underground, punctuated by a pistol to his head,
Dr. Levy performed three surgeries within two days on my gangrenous arm to save
it and my life.
Q. After the war, what did you do?
A. After WWII, I graduated from Boston University with a bachelor’s degree in
business management. I opened the Haverhill Finance and Mortgage Corp. and the
Katsaros Realty Corp., as president and treasurer. I was also affiliated as a
stockholder and director of the Colonial Banks in Danvers and Beverly, Mass.
Q. What advice do you have for a young person selecting a career today?
A. If financially able, get as much of an education as possible. It is the
foundation of your future success. If not, consider joining the U.S. Air Force
or other military service, as a career, and take as many advanced courses as
they offer.

Q. How did you end up in Ocean Ridge?
A. I have spent many winter months in Florida, since 1942. My primary residence
for 32 years has been Ocean Ridge. We spend six months in Ocean Ridge and six
months in Massachusetts.

Q. What is your favorite part about living in Ocean Ridge?
A. My wife, Mary, and I love the ambience of the small town, living across from
the Boynton Park and Beach, the ease of shopping, fine restaurants, easy access
to the Palm Beach International Airport, great nearby golf courses, walking the
beach, visiting friends, entertainment and the local friendly people. It’s like
living in paradise.
Q. What book are you reading now?
A. The Somme, by Malcolm Brown, a remarkable book about the WWI
Western Front. For many, it is the ultimate symbol of the folly and
futility of war.
Q. What music do you listen to when you need inspiration? When you want to relax?
A. I enjoyed the Big Bands of the ’30s and ’40s such as Glenn Miller, Dorsey
Brothers, Woody Herman, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa. Also I enjoyed the singers,
especially Frank Sinatra. For my quiet periods of inspiration and to relax, I
like symphony music.

Q. Do you have a favorite quote that inspires your decisions?
A. “A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush.”
Q. If your life story were
made into a movie, who would you want to play you?
A. Matt Damon

By Jan Norris

Ice cream’s a natural in summer in the states, but in Italy, the lighter gelatos and fruity sorbettos fly off the carts and out of the stores.

F.W. Pearce of Gulf Stream knows all about this. He’s written the book on it - The Ciao Bella Book of Gelato and Sorbetto (co-authored by Danilo Zecchin, Clarkson Potter, $24.99).

“When I bought Ciao Bella in 1989, gelatos were still new to the United States,” Pearce said. The original New York store was 300 square feet, and Pearce said
there, he swept floors, ran the cash register and did any of the work needed to
keep it open. Today, the chain is in 50 states and does $20 million in
business, though Pearce is no longer its CEO.

The difference in American ice cream and gelatos isn’t much, Pearce said. “Gelato is simply the Italian word for ice cream. But it varies throughout Italy — from
the fuller-fat styles in northern Italy, to the relatively low-fat Southern
Italian types.”

Here in the U.S., most people associate them with low-fat milk bases, made with fruit and chocolate flavors. Flavorings are another difference — Italians, and
Europeans in general, prefer less sweet flavors and nut varieties like
hazelnut, caramel, espresso and stracciatella — their version of chocolate chip.
Americans love much sweeter stuff — chocolate, sweet vanillas and fruits.

Sorbetto, the other cousin of ice cream, but without the cream, is just another word for non-dairy frozen fruit concoctions.

Both are easily made at home, with little more than fresh ingredients (sourcing the best is what made Ciao Bella an award-winning product, Pearce said) a
thermometer and a couple of pots and pans. An ice cream maker is a good thing
to have for the gelatos, but sorbets can be made in baking pans or ice trays,
using a blender.

Pearce said the tricks are simple: Do not try to rush the cooking of the custard base by turning up the heat or you’ll wind up with scrambled eggs. “Use a
thermometer and cook it over low heat. Just be patient,” he said.

As for the flavorings — be creative. Fruit alone is great, but you can mix in other foods. Their latest best seller is a Key Lime Graham Cracker; we’re
printing it here from the book (there are 124 more recipes) with his
permission. Combining flavors results in some exciting and refreshing flavors —
the mint-watermelon sorbetto is a summertime delight.

For sorbettos, you also can add alcohol, which, Pearce says, improves the texture, since the alcohol slows the icing of the concoction, resulting in a smoother,
finer ice crystal. So, just like you would plug a watermelon with vodka,
considering adding a half-cup or so to this sorbetto.

The back of the book gives presentations — how to make a quenelle scoop like a pro — and other recipes for show-stopping ways with gelato and sorbetto. We’re
stealing the mango and raspberry coulis plate-painting trick for our next
party.

Key Lime Graham Cracker Gelato

Note: The base for this can be used in numerous other gelatos; it makes about 1 quart.

Plain base - 1 quart

3 tablespoons fresh lime juice, preferably Key lime juice

2 teaspoons grated lime zest

¾ cup graham cracker crumbs

For Plain Base:

2 cups whole milk

1 cup heavy cream

4 large egg yolks

2/3 cup sugar

To make the base: In a heavy-bottomed saucepan, combine the milk and cream. Place over medium-low heat and cook, stirring occasionally, so a skin doesn’t form, until tiny bubbles start to form around the edges and the
mixture reaches 170 degrees F.

Meanwhile, in a medium heat-proof bowl, whisk the egg yolks until smooth. Gradually whisk in the sugar until it is well incorporated and the mixture is thick and pale yellow. Temper the egg yolks by very slowly
pouring in the hot milk mixture while whisking continuously. Return the custard
to the saucepan and place over low heat. Cook, stirring frequently with a
wooden spoon, until the custard is thick enough to coat the back of the spoon
and it reaches a temperature of 185 degrees F. Do not allow mixture to boil.

Pour the mixture through a fine-mesh strainer into a clean bowl and let cool to room temperature, stirring every 5 minutes or so. To cool the custard quickly, make an ice bath by filling a large bowl with ice and
water and placing the bowl of custard in it; stir the custard until cooled.
Once completely cooled, cover and refrigerate until very cold before using - at
least 4 hours or overnight.

To complete the Key lime gelato: Make the Plain Base as directed and chill well. Gently whisk the lime juice and zest into the base. Pour the mixture into the container of an ice cream machine and churn according
to the manufacturer’s directions. Just after churning, quickly stir in the
graham cracker crumbs (tip: use a stiff rubber spatula or wooden spoon), do not
completely mix - leave them as ribbons of crumbs throughout. Transfer to an
airtight container and freeze for at least 2 hours (this is called ripening)
before serving.

Makes approximately 1 quart.

We asked local wine experts to recommend and comment on some of their favorite bottles for summer drinking (prices listed are representative; check stores for
exact prices).

• Asher White, co-owner and wine buyer of Dolce Vita Wines, 9 N. J St., Lake Worth, 561-493-3330.

Thomas Henry Sonoma County Chardonnay, $13 (Slight oak, good fruit and crisp acid help this wine stand up to food)

Banear Prosecco, $18 (It’s extra dry with tropical fruit flavors that go over well.)

Odfjell Cabernet from Armador, $16 (This wine is fantastic. It’s good with food or for sipping. It’s not so heavy that it will make you hot. It’s a medium- to
full-body cabernet that you should chill for serving.)

Pindar wines of Long Island made from cabernet franc, $17 (It’s on the light side with full fruit; offers plum and black cherry flavors.)

• Bob Leone, manager and wine director of Crown Wine & Spirits, 532 SE 15th Ave., Boynton Beach, 561-734-9463.

Duckhorn Sauvignon Blanc from Napa Valley, $28 (Prototypical cut grass and sweet pea aromas; higher acidity makes it refreshing; melon, apricot, grapefruit flavors
vary with vintage.)

Bernkasteler Doktor Kabinett, $30 (You get the sense of fruit such as apricot, peaches and nectarines; you pick up the slate and mineral flavors; being a kabinett, this
wine is made from grapes that are picked early so they have higher acidity and
are refreshing; serve with trout or grilled grouper.)

Layer Cake Shiraz, $15 (From southeastern Australia, this wine is made in a big, ripe style with a lot of dark fruit such as black plums and berries. They use oak to
age it so the wine tastes of vanilla.)

Kaesler “The Bogan,” $63 (From the Barossa Valley of south Australia, this wine is similar to the Layer Cake Shiraz, but on a bigger scale with more elegance; can
be aged 10 years.)

Earthworks Shiraz, $12 (Lighter than the Layer Cake wine but not as big and robust; however it costs less, too. Not as outgoing a personality.)

• David Spitzer, owner Old Vines Wine & Spirits, 900 E. Atlantic, Suite 3, Delray Beach, 561-276-2076.

Ferraton Pere & Fils Cotes du Rhone Villages, $16 (Great with food or for sipping)

Si Soave, $10 (Made with the garganega grape rounded out with trebbiano, wines from Soave, which is near Verona, Italy, have less acid and taste smoother than
pinot grigio with apple citrus and tropical fruit flavors)

Lamura Bianco de Sicilia $10 (Made from the Sicilian grape catarratto, this is a fresh white with floral and tropical aromas.)

Clayhouse Adobe Red, $16 (A blend of zinfandel, petite-sirah, syrah, malbec, grenache and mourvedre, this wine is bright and fruity with hints of anise and spice.)

Z’ivo Quartet, $23 (From the Willamette Valley of Oregon, this wine is a blend of pinot blanc, chardonnay, sauvignon blanc and melon de Bourgogne.)

Bridgeview Blue Moon Pinot Noir, $19 (Fresh ripe fruit flavors of black cherry and raspberry, nicely structured, rich body with a lasting finish.)

— Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley

By Tim O’Meilia

Walter Gregory Howarth, Jr., a World War II hero and prison camp survivor who became the police chief in his New Jersey hometown, died June 19 in his adopted home at Seagate Towers in Delray Beach. He was 88.

Mr. Howarth, known as Greg, was rarely out of uniform from the time he joined the New Jersey National Guard while in high school in1939 — moving from the National Guard to the Army to the police force and, finally, a security guard firm.

At 6-foot-2 with an ever-present crewcut, Mr. Howarth was a “man’s man,” as his friends said.

“He was quite formidable,” said his daughter, Sherri Hayes. “Whenever a boyfriend would come over, they didn’t know whether to shake his hand or salute.”

As a member of the 507th Paratroop Infantry Regiment of the fabled 82nd Airborne Division, he parachuted into Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, when the Allies launched their invasion. Although he survived the landing, he was wounded by shrapnel two days later and awoke in a German hospital.

Mr. Howarth spent the remaining nine months of the war as a prisoner in Stalag 3C, for enlisted men, until Allied forces liberated the camp at the war’s end. He was awarded the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star, and the French Croix de Guerre.

Like many of generation, he rarely spoke of his wartime experiences. His daughter said she learned more about him by talking to his men at annual reunions of the 507th. “When he was captured, he was a squad leader, so he felt guilt that he had let his men down,” she said. “Those were the sort of values he had.”

After the war, in 1946, Mr. Howarth earned his commission as a second lieutenant. A year later, he signed on as a policeman in East Paterson, N.J., where he grew up. He remained in the National Guard.

He was activated during the Korean War and trained paratroopers at Fort Benning, Ga., in 1951. He retired in 1972 as a lieutenant colonel after 33 years in the Guard.

By then he had worked his way through the ranks of the East Paterson police force from patrolman to sergeant to detective lieutenant to captain to deputy chief and finally police chief in 1970. Two years later, the town changed its named to Elmwood Park.

Mr. Howarth retired eight years later and moved to a home near Lake Ida in Delray Beach. For 18 years he worked as a security guard at a gated community to keep busy. In the 1990s, they moved to Seagate Towers.

He knew his eventual wife, Marie Grunier, at Eastside High School, but it wasn’t until after the war that they became sweethearts. “It was a When Harry Met Sally story,” his daughter said.

A high school buddy, who was also in the same prisoner-of-war camp as Mr. Howarth, was Marie’s beau and invited him to double-date with them. The rest, as they say, is history.

As high school graduates, the Howarths delighted in the doctorate earned by their daughter, who is on the faculty at the University of Miami Medical School. “He would introduce me as ‘My daughter, the doctor,’ ” Hayes said.

The couple was married for 52 years until Mrs. Howarth’s death in 1995. “She was the love of his life,” his daughter said. “Each year without her got sadder.”

Mr. Howarth is survived by his sister, Margaret Bowman of Hawthorne, N.J.; his daughter, Sherrill Hayes of Palmetto Bay, and three grandchildren.

A memorial service is being planned for September. Instead of flowers, contributions may be made to the Wounded Warrior Project (Disabled Sports Project), 7020 AC Skinner Parkway, Suite 100, Jacksonville, FL 32256, or to the First Presbyterian Church, 33 Gleason St., Delray Beach, FL 33483. Loren & Sons Funeral Home, Delray Beach, is in charge of arrangements.

By Emily J. Minor

OCEAN RIDGE - Jacqueline Bander Weisblut, 65, died on Memorial Day after bravely suffering from multiple sclerosis since she was a young woman in her early 20s.

Her husband, Bob Weisblut, said his wife suffered a heart attack and that doctors don’t believe the sudden attack was related to her years of MS.

Mrs. Weisblut was diagnosed with MS in 1966. A difficult disease to diagnose even today, Bob Weisblut said multiple sclerosis was even more difficult to diagnose back then.

“It was done through elimination,” he said. “They eliminated what else they thought it was and then they decided it was MS. There were no medications for it.”

But although his wife suffered with the disease all her adult life, she never let the illness define her, he said. She worked at IBM for many years when the couple lived outside Washington, D.C.

In the 1980s, Bob Weisblut’s father bought a Florida home in Boynton Beach and the couple began visiting him here. They found that they liked the southern weather, which was nice for Jacqueline Weisblut’s ailing body. The warm weather was much easier on her than the cold northern winters, he said.

In 1992, the couple bought Ocean Liner Villa Apartments after a few winters of seasonal leasing.

“It was nice,” he said. “She could sit in the building and see the ocean. She always said it was like sitting on the back of an ocean liner.”

Once they relocated, Bob Weisblut said they adjusted to the Florida life with ease. Their apartment complex - once strictly short-term, seasonal renters - evolved into long-term leasing. They made friends and enjoyed dining out. Despite her physical limitations, they still went out to dinner or a show two or three nights a week, he said.

Jacqueline Weisblut also loved to read and enjoyed watching TV and movies on DVDs, he said.

“We met a lot of people down here and made a lot of friends,” he said. “She had a pretty full social calendar and she coped with it very, very well.”

Bob Weisblut said his wife wasn’t feeling well on Memorial Day so he took her to the emergency room, where she suffered a fatal heart attack.

After her death, Bob Weisblut enjoyed visits from many friends, including some longtime friends he has known since high school who have moved down here.

Besides her husband, Jacqueline Weisblut is survived by a sister and several nieces and nephews. Donations can be made in her memory with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, P.O. Box 4527, New York, N.Y., 10163.

By Dianna Smith
Robert Zelle spent his life giving to others.

He volunteered for years at various places such as schools and medical centers while living part of the year in Gulf Stream and the other in Nashville and while building his reputation as a successful businessman.

Mr. Zelle died June 12 at the age of 86, leaving behind a football field of mourners who appreciated Zelle’s dedication to their causes.

At the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, a nonprofit group that works with donors who support local communities, of which Mr. Zelle was one of the founders, President Ellen Lehman said Mr. Zelle was always someone she could count on.

“I remember how enormously generous he was and how he coupled his compassion with a businessman’s sense of, as he used to say, ‘kicking the tires,’ ” Lehman said. “He approached his charitable investments with zest, but with an ironclad conviction that he should use the standard of appraisal as he did with his business investments.”

Mr. Zelle served as a pilot and instrument instructor in World War II before accepting a job as executive vice president of Life and Casualty Insurance Company of Tennessee in Nashville. After retiring in 1970, he continued working with the company in the sales and marketing department and he began to invest in private companies. Then, 10 years later, he founded Reel Broadcasting Company and WZTV-Channel 17, Nashville’s first independent television station.

He volunteered on several boards, including ones at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the University School of Nashville and Alive Hospice.

His only son, Robert Zelle Jr., died in a car accident in 1972. To keep his memory alive, Mr. Zelle and his wife, Anne, dedicated themselves to the boarding school their son graduated from — the Darlington School in Rome, Georgia. Mr. Zelle became a board member there and dedicated a patio as well as a fountain in his son’s honor. He found a sketch of a fountain as he sifted through his son’s things after he died and was so moved by the drawing that he had it built on the school campus.

Pam Morgan, the school’s advancement officer, described her friend as quiet, intelligent and always on the go.

“Until the last five years of his life … he was very active in Florida,” she said. “He told me one time that his social life was very rigorous (in Gulf Stream) and that he rested in Nashville.”

His wife, Anne, said through tears that he was a very special person. “Very quiet and very caring for other people.”

A graveside service was held in Nashville in mid-June and the family requests that memorial donations be made to the Darlington School in memory of Mr. Zelle or to the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee.

By Emily J. Minor
MANALAPAN — Eugenia P.
Strauss, a Michigan girl who left home for the lights and opportunities of
Hollywood when she was just 16 years old, has died after a brief illness. She
was 75.
Mrs.
Strauss lived in Manalapan for about 25 years, all the while supporting many of
South Florida’s cultural institutions — from the Palm Beach Opera to the Jewish
Federation of Palm Beach County to the Miami City Ballet, which was always her
No. 1 love.
After
leaving Dearborn, Mich., as a teenager, Mrs. Strauss — who studied dance with
Bronislava Nijinska and acting with Michael Chekov — was discovered by 20th
Century Fox and signed as a dancer. She evolved into acting roles and is
perhaps best known from that period of her life for her co-starring role in the
Walt Disney Company’s TV series, The Mask
of Zorro. She also had TV roles in The
Lone Ranger, The Thin Man, and Death Valley Days with Ronald Reagan.
But
life has a funny way with its twists of fate, and Mrs. Strauss met her future
husband, Robert P. Strauss, as a young twenty-something at a Hollywood party.
Robert Strauss, who survives her, was the heir to the Pep Boys Auto Stores
fortune. His wealth allowed Mrs. Strauss to follow and support her
philanthropic heart. Besides the arts, Mrs. Strauss also loved animals and
supported their shelter needs.
When
she died May 24, the couple had been married for 52 years.
Her
daughter, Kimberly, said her mother’s death — widely reported in entertainment
publications from Hollywood to New York — came as a shock to family and
friends.
Kimberly
Strauss said her mother, for all her money, success and influence, was
extremely down-to-earth. She went to the ballet not to be seen at the ballet,
but because “she truly loved it.”
“She
was not one to steal the limelight,” said her daughter. “She was genuinely
happy, not giddy, always herself and never pretending.”

“Her greatest role in life was herself.”
Besides her husband, Mrs. Strauss is survived by Kimberly; another daughter, Wendy
Strauss; and a son, Baron Strauss. Three grandchildren also survive her.
Services
were held the last week in May. Contributions in Mrs. Strauss’ memory may be
made to Miami City Ballet, 2200 Liberty Ave., Miami Beach, FL 33139.

By Greg Stepanich

Three Palm Beach County musicians got together nearly 20 years ago to found a chamber music series that would explore the broader reaches of the classical repertory, and this month, the annual four-week series returns to provide an elevating way to spend a couple hours of a weekend applying psychic sunblock before returning to the broiling outdoors.

The Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival this year is making something of a return to its past while celebrating the release of its latest disc on Boca Raton’s Klavier record label. For the 19th season, founders Michael Forte (clarinet), Karen Dixon (flute) and Michael Ellert (bassoon) have programmed some works from earlier seasons, including the Nonet of the Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu and the Sextet by French composer Francis Poulenc.

Also on the programs will be Gee’s Bend Pieces, a work by North Carolina-based composer Kenneth Frazelle that had its world premiere earlier this year at Lynn University, and the world premiere of Odyssey, a trio by Boca-based composer Clark McAlister written for the three founders.

This series is unlike many chamber music events in that it is geared to music for winds rather than strings, which guarantees concert programs of continual freshness. Nonetheless, canonical string works aren’t being ignored: the lone String Quartet of Maurice Ravel, Beethoven’s so-called Harp Quartet, and the String Quintet in G of Dvorák also will be heard.

As in past years, each of the four concerts will be given three times, in three different venues. This year, because of venue-scheduling difficulties, there will be no Saturday night concerts. Instead, the concerts are set for Friday nights (8 p.m.) at Persson Hall on the campus of Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Sunday afternoons (2 p.m.) at the Crest Theatre in Delray Beach, and Monday nights (8 p.m.) at the Eissey Campus Theatre on the campus of Palm Beach State College in Palm Beach Gardens.

Week 1 is scheduled for July 9, 11 and 12; Week 2 is July 16, 18 and 19; Week 3 is July 23, 25 and 26; and Week 4 closes out the festival on July 30, Aug. 1 and Aug. 2. Single tickets are $22, and can be had by calling the venue box offices, 800-330-6874, or visiting www.pbcmf.org.

Shakespeare, in the park and at school: Theater aficionados know the old actor’s superstition about not saying the name of Shakespeare’s “Scottish play” while inside the building, but for those of us sitting in the audience, Macbeth remains one of the great events of any play going season.

The Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival celebrates its 20th season July 15-20 at the still-new Seabreeze Amphitheatre in Jupiter’s Carlin Park with this story of o’erweening ambition and cold-blooded murder in medieval Scotland. It’s a free outdoor event, beginning at 8 p.m. each night, and it’s a picnic atmosphere in which you’re encouraged to bring your own food, chairs and blankets, though concessions are available.

Being so close to the water takes the edge off the heat, and sitting out under the sky listening to great English Renaissance poetry and watching timeless drama is one of the better ways I know of to spend a summer evening. Call 575-7336 for more information, or visit www.pbshakespeare.org.

Meanwhile, down at Florida Atlantic University, Shakespeare’s beloved comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is playing this month (through July 25) as part of the Boca Raton college’s summer Festival Repertory Theatre. Students, faculty and Equity actors take part in FAU’s festival rep each year, which also includes Shipwrecked!, a play by Donald Margulies that runs from July 9-24. Tickets are $20; call 800-564-9539 or visit www.fauevents.com for more information.

And if you need still more Shakespeare, Palm Beach State College’s summer theater series continues at the campus in Lake Worth with three performances of the Bard’s domestic comedy The Taming of the Shrew on July 13-15. The college has joined forces with the Take Heed Theater Company for the performances at Stage West, which begin at 7:30 p.m. each night. Tickets: $17; for more information, call 868-3309 or visit www.duncantheatre.org.

Pop music: Two big events for the younger crowd are headed to the Cruzan Amphitheatre outside West Palm Beach this month, beginning with the Vans Warped Tour, now in its 15th season. It’s a combination extreme sports and music festival — Vans is a maker of skateboarding shoes and apparel — that features some of the most interesting young pop and punk bands playing today, along with skateboarding and BMX shows.

On the huge lineup are such bands as West Palm’s own Hey Monday and Four Year Strong, all of them playing 30-minute sets on different stages. The all-day extravaganza begins at noon on Saturday, July 24. Tickets are $31.93 and available through Live Nation.

On July 30 and 31, mellow hipster Dave Matthews and his band make two return Cruzan appearances (tickets: $40-$75), and looking ahead to Aug. 1, it’s an evening with two legends of 1970s rock: guitarist Carlos Santana and his special guest, keyboardist/singer Steve Winwood (tickets: $25.50-$125.50).

Greg Stepanich is the editor/founder of the Palm Beach ArtsPaper, available online at www.palmbeachartspaper.com

By C.B.Hanif

The blessings are likely to be mutual once again this month when Monsignor Tom Skindeleski, of St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church in Delray Beach, leads his ninth annual Knights of Columbus father-and-son contingent in service to indigenous people in the rain forests of Guatemala.

“We construct anything from student desks to putting in tile floors for the computer room in the school,” he said. “We put in a section floor of a dormitory one year in which we were able to sleep 100 more students in the dormitory.”

Add to that selfless service the bonding between fathers and sons. “These young fellows have come back totally moved by a Third World experience in which, while they thought they were helping others, they also express how the others have really helped them to come to another understanding of different peoples, different countries, different cultures.”

The school is the Father Tom Moran Education Center, named for the retired priest who, while serving villages around Livingston, in eastern Guatemala, established two-room schoolhouses to start self-supporting educational communities.

Steve Dudenhoefer expanded that effort to the high school now serving 650 students through Ak’Tenamit, a community development organization run by the Maya. “Ak’Tenamit means ‘New Village,’ and that’s what they’re creating after years of civil war ravaged the villages,” Skindeleski said.

The up to 14 travelers, as young as 13, include the state treasurer of the Knights — the world’s largest Catholic fraternal service organization, with nearly two million members. Lodging is financed by the local parish Knights and a state council grant. The men are asked to cover their airfare.

They give up a week — July 17-25 this year. After an overnight stay in Guatemala City there’s a five-hour bus and boat ride to Livingston, 145 miles away. Then each day it’s 25 minutes each way by motor launch up the river to work — waterways being how locals, including the students, get around.

The Knights are helping the country develop its best resource. Some of those students are becoming trilingual — in their local dialect, Spanish and English for computers. No wonder Skindeleski said the government wants to expand the program of schools and clinics to three other sites.

Barely back from the June close of the “Year For Priests,” an international gathering of priests with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome, Skindeleski will lead yet another group in the path of Brother Pedro Betancourt, who in dedicating his life to service of the poor, ill and otherwise unfortunate, became Guatemala’s first saint.

Skindeleski said the Mayan people have a rich, centuries-old heritage, which they share in their own way despite their material poverty. “Everybody comes back uplifted” as a result of the spiritual and cultural exchange. “Tired maybe. But uplifted by the experience.”

C.B. Hanif is a writer and inter-religious affairs consultant. Find him at www.interfaith21.com

By Arden Moore

Irwin Stovroff of Boca Raton is living proof that you’re never too old to make a difference and that you should never underestimate the healing power of dogs.

Stovroff, energetic at 87, first caught my attention when he recently appeared on the Bonnie Hunt Show with his golden retriever, Cash, to share what he is doing to reach out to injured war veterans.

But Stovroff’s lifelong commitment to veterans really began six decades ago, on Aug. 13, 1944. On his 35th and final mission — one day away from going home — this World War II Air Force second lieutenant welcomed the arrival of the morning from inside a B-24 Liberator flying behind enemy lines near Caen, France.

“We had our bags packed to go home and were envisioning parades,” he recalls. “Instead, we ended up in a prison camp.”

German anti-aircraft artillery pierced both engines, setting them afire. Stovroff and the nine other crew members bailed out and parachuted into German-dominated territory, dodging bullets as they floated down. Acting quickly, Stovroff ripped off his GI dog tags that indicated he was Jewish. The crew members were captured as soon as their boots touched ground and ordered to march into a cemetery with freshly dug graves.

“I thought they were marching us to be killed and dumped into those graves,” recalls Stovroff. “The German commander said, ‘Nein, nein, we do not kill our prisoners.’ ”

Stovroff fought fatigue and starvation inside POW camps before being freed by a Russian troop in May 1945. He weighed a mere 85 pounds on his 5-foot 10-inch frame on his first day of freedom.

Belatedly awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 2000 by former POW and presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Stovroff declines to call himself a hero.

Instead, this longtime Boca Raton resident views himself as “the luckiest person there is.” He retired from a successful furniture-business career and brings ageless energy into his role as president of Veterans Helping Heroes, a nonprofit group that pairs service dogs with veterans coping with physical and emotional issues. He also volunteers three times a week as a national service officer at the West Palm Beach Veterans Administration center, working with ex-POWs to help them obtain pensions and medical care.

Growing up with dogs as the youngest of three children in Buffalo, N.Y., Stovroff always knew that dogs unleashed hope and inspiration. But the special service dog training averages about $50,000 per dog. This special breed of dog must be on duty 24/7 and not only meet the physical needs of these veterans, but also their emotional needs triggered by combat stress.

He shares the story of a veteran named Mark who suffers from seizures following three tours of duty. With Stovroff’s help, money was raised to pair Mark with a service dog named Larry from VetDogs.

“Larry starts barking to alert Mark when he is about to have a seizure; he gets on top of him to protect him during his seizure and licks his face as he comes out of his seizure,” says Stovroff. “I am constantly amazed by how special these dogs are and how they help our vets.”

Since 2008, Stovroff has helped raise $2 million to cover the cost of these specially trained dogs. In 2009, he worked with U.S. Rep. Ron Klein, D-Fla., and Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., to get Congress to pass the Wounded Warrior K-9 Corps Act that provided $5 million for organizations that train dogs to help blind and disabled military veterans.

Always at his side is Cash, a well-trained, 3-year-old golden retriever that accompanies him on visits to see veterans hospitalized and recovering at home. At home, he and his girlfriend, Doris, also enjoy the company of Jennie, a corgi trained as a therapy dog.

“I brought Cash with me to meet a veteran named Arnold recently,” says Stovroff. “He was on his third tour in Iraq and inside a tank when an IED exploded. His head slammed against the tank and the three others inside died. Arnold suffered severe brain damage and lost his eyesight. He has three kids and a wife.”

Stovroff pauses, collects his emotions, and continues, “He was petting Cash and we both started crying. I said to him, ‘I went through holy hell in war, but I realize how lucky I am. I have all my limbs. I came back in one piece. I have had a wonderful life and being here with Cash to help you is the best thing I can do.’ ”

It took six months, but, Stovroff helped arrange for Arnold to be paired with a service dog.

“For as long as I’m able, I will do everything I can to help these veterans and work to get them specially trained dogs that can help them live their lives to the fullest,” he says.

To learn more about Stovroff and Vets Helping Heroes, visit www.vetshelpinghoeroes.org and www.vetdogs.org. Catch his appearance on the Bonnie Hunt Show by viewing this short video: http://www.vetshelpingheroes.org/media_and_press/bonnie_hunt_2009.

Arden Moore, Founder of Four Legged Life.com, is an animal behavior consultant, editor, author and professional speaker. She happily shares her home with two dogs, two cats and one overworked vacuum cleaner. Tune in to her “Oh Behave!” show on Pet Life Radio.com and learn more by visiting www.fourleggedlife.com.

T. Clark Appleby of Manalapan crossed the finish line at the Boston Marathon in April to benefit Hanley Center, and addiction treatment and prevention center in West Palm Beach. The 23-year old ran a race time of 3:05:03 and raised more than $1,500 to support Hanley's Lifesaver Patient Aid Fund. His grandmother, Yardley Manfuso, is a Hanley Center Foundation Board member and longstanding supporter.