black - News - The Coastal Star2024-03-29T11:03:24Zhttps://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/blackAlong the Coast: Peaceful rallies show support for justice, policehttps://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/along-the-coast-peaceful-rallies-show-support-for-justice-police2020-07-01T15:22:44.000Z2020-07-01T15:22:44.000ZThe Coastal Starhttps://thecoastalstar.com/members/TheCoastalStar<div><p></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960954089,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960954089,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-center" alt="7960954089?profile=original" /></a><em>DELRAY BEACH: A group of about 100 gathered May 31 at Veterans Park to peacefully protest the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, while he was in the custody of a white Minneapolis police officer. By the end of June the protests had largely stopped in South County. They were peaceful, according to police. <strong>Photos by Tim Stepien and Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star</strong></em></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><em><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960954285,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960954285,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-center" alt="7960954285?profile=original" /></a>DELRAY BEACH: As Dan Allen and Mary Adams joined dozens of others at a May 6 protest in Delray Beach, they started talking, realized they shared many of the same concerns, and decided to start dating. He has lived in a variety of places, including Boca Raton, she in Boynton Beach. Ten days later they were planning a vacation together. ‘We have been talking every day; can’t believe it, it never happens this way,’ Allen says.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960954863,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960954863,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-center" alt="7960954863?profile=original" /></a><em>BOCA RATON: A group of nearly 400 people, including supportive police officers, marched from 100 NW Second Ave. to Federal Highway on June 6 in a peaceful protest.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960955058,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960955058,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-center" alt="7960955058?profile=original" /></a><em>BOCA RATON: Nearly 120 people rallied in front of the Boca Raton Police Station on June 22 to demonstrate their support for law enforcement and President Donald Trump’s administration.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><em><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960955455,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960955455,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-center" alt="7960955455?profile=original" /></a></em><em>BOYNTON BEACH: On May 31, dozens of protesters gathered around the city, including this group that traversed the Ocean Avenue bridge into Ocean Ridge a few times. The sign paraphrases Martin Luther King Jr.: ‘It’s not the violence of few that scares us, it’s the silence of the many.’</em></p></div>Philanthrophy Notes: Grant to boost neuroscience institute at Boca Regional Hospitalhttps://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/philanthrophy-notes-grant-to-boost-neuroscience-institute-at-boca2020-03-03T21:41:55.000Z2020-03-03T21:41:55.000ZThe Coastal Starhttps://thecoastalstar.com/members/TheCoastalStar<div><p></p>
<p><strong>By Amy Woods</strong></p>
<p><strong>Boca Raton Regional Hospital</strong> has received another transformative donation toward its $250 million “Keeping the Promise” campaign to expand and improve the hospital.</p>
<p><br />Philanthropists Bernie and Billi Marcus have made an additional gift of $15 million. It will supplement a $25 million commitment from their foundation in 2012, which created the Marcus Neuroscience Institute.</p>
<p><br />“There are few who understand the value of ensuring the next generation of health care better than Bernie and Billi Marcus,” said Lincoln Mendez, the hospital’s president and CEO. “We are forever grateful to them for their foresight, relentless spirit, selfless generosity and commitment to their passion — the Marcus Neuroscience Institute.”</p>
<p><br />Keeping the Promise has raised $153 million toward its goal.</p>
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<p><strong>Nonprofit is looking for a few good women</strong></p>
<p>Impact 100 Palm Beach County has issued an open invitation to women who want to make difference in their community.</p>
<p><br />Through March 31, a membership drive is taking place for the organization, which is dedicated to giving high-impact grants to nonprofits that rely on donations to further their missions. The grants will be presented April 15 during the Grand Awards event.</p>
<p><br />“The goal of Impact 100 Palm Beach County is to turn a nonprofit’s visionary idea into reality in a high-impact way that helps the local community,” President Kathy Adkins said. “Since 2011, Impact 100 Palm Beach County has awarded more than $3.3 million in grants to over 30 nonprofits to make positive change in southern Palm Beach County.”</p>
<p><br />For more information, call 561-336-4623 or visit <a href="http://www.impact100pbc.org">www.impact100pbc.org</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Luncheon raises $45,000 for Crossroads Club</strong></p>
<p>More than 200 attended The Crossroads Club’s Gratitude Luncheon to benefit the nonprofit haven for people fighting addiction.<br />Longtime Delray Beach resident Tony Allerton, the club’s executive director and one of its original members, was honored for six decades of service to the community.</p>
<p><br />“For 37 years, The Crossroads Club has helped tens of thousands of people who suffer from addiction — from local residents to snowbirds to visitors to our community,” said Delray Beach Mayor Shelly Petrolia, who served as honorary chairwoman. “This nonprofit helps empower individuals to reemerge as positive contributors to our city.”</p>
<p><br />A total of $45,000 was raised.<br /><br /></p>
<p><strong>Poverty-awareness initiative launched</strong></p>
<p>The Junior League of Boca Raton’s Little Black Dress Initiative will take place March 9-13, raising awareness for the needs of underserved women and children in Palm Beach and Broward counties.</p>
<p><br /> League members will wear the same dress every day for five days along with a button that reads, “Ask Me About My Dress.” The goal is to address the reality of limited resources and lack of choices among people who live in poverty.</p>
<p><br /> The event was to kick off March 5 at Rex Baron Boca Raton. It will coincide with the Association of Junior Leagues International’s Day of Impact on March 10. On March 25, members will donate their dresses to Dress for Success Palm Beaches. Chairwomen Cheryl Marcus and Tara Patton are aiming to raise $20,000 through the initiative to buy diapers for mothers in need.</p>
<p><br /><strong>The Arc receives national award for innovation</strong></p>
<p>It was an amazing year for The Arc of Palm Beach County.</p>
<p><br />The charity earned 11 awards in 2019 recognizing its programs, services and staff. The Arc received a national Program Innovation Award for designing a student mentor program.</p>
<p><br /> It also recognized two team members, with the Leadership in Education Award (to Bairbre Flood) and the Direct Service Staff Award (to Brooke Teta).</p>
<p><br />“I see the work my team does and the lives that they impact on a daily basis,” said Kimberly McCarten, president and CEO of The Arc of Palm Beach County. “To have our peers, partners and the community recognize our dedication is both satisfying and humbling.”</p>
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<p><strong>Celebrations mark milestone for Toastmasters</strong></p>
<p>The Bill Gove Golden Gavel Toastmasters Club of Boynton Beach recently celebrated its 20th anniversary along with the birthday of its namesake.</p>
<p><br />Mr. Gove, who died in 2001 at age 89, was a charter member of the local club, which has earned Toastmasters International President’s Distinguished Club status for 17 of its 20 years. He also served as the first president of the National Speakers Association.</p>
<p><br />The mission of the Bill Gove Golden Gavel Toastmasters Club is to provide a mutually supportive and positive learning environment for members to develop communications skills. For more information, call 561-737-7388 or visit billgovetoastmastersclub.com.</p>
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<p><em>Send news and notes to Amy Woods at flamywoods@bellsouth.net.</em></p></div>Obituary: Judy Blackhttps://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/obituary-judy-black2015-12-02T19:30:00.000Z2015-12-02T19:30:00.000ZChris Felkerhttps://thecoastalstar.com/members/ChrisFelker<div><p><strong>By Mary Thurwachter</strong><br /> <br /> LANTANA — Judy Black was passionate in promoting environmental conservation and committed to creating gardens. <br /> “She was a leader in the environmental movement,” said Ilona Balfour, who worked for a number of years with Ms. Black on the Friends of the Lantana Nature Preserve. “She was always supporting everybody. She will be sorely missed.”<br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960606482,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="95" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960606482,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="7960606482?profile=original" /></a> After a long illness, Ms. Black, 67, of Lantana (on Hypoluxo Island), died Nov. 15 at a second home she and her husband of 29 years, Richard Schlosberg, had in Washington, Conn. She was born in New York City on Sept. 27, 1948. <br /> Ms. Black served as president of the Hypoluxo Island Property Owners Association for four years. <br /> She frequently coordinated with the Lantana town manager on association activities. <br /> She also supervised the neighborhood association’s Tree Program to save the ecologically essential native tree canopy. She oversaw the plans, brought them to fruition, and with several other members and town staff, helped plant the “Four Corners” entry onto the island, as well as the “y” entry to the south part of the island.<br /> “She turned her own small front and mostly paved back yards into verdant habitat, protective of endangered and threatened migratory birds,” her husband said.<br /> Ms. Black coordinated the HIPOA’s annual picnic for about four years. She continued administrative and coordinating activities during a three year transition and recruited new, competent and younger leadership.<br /> One of her recruits was Lyn Tate, current treasurer of the HIPOA.<br /> “Not only was Judy a special person because she was so brilliant, but she gave unconditionally to the island and the town,” Tate said. “She always thought before she spoke. She was always wise in her approach.”<br /> Along with her husband, Ms. Black was a frequent attendee at Town of Lantana council meetings and town Nature Preserve meetings where her infrequent comments were always substantive and to the heart of an issue. Her brief statements helped save the native habitat which several years ago became the Lantana Scrub Nature Preserve. <br /> Ms. Black, Schlosberg said, “served capably and was very widely respected as the non-town (of Manalapan) representative on the La Coquille Club board and Town of Manalapan La Coquille subcommittee during a prolonged period of intense debate, defending the retention of the traditional non-town membership inclusive structure, and against challenges to the club’s existence.<br /> She was often a rare voice promoting Hypoluxo Island-wide (joined Lantana and Manalapan) activities. <br /> Ms. Black had a successful career in advertising. She was a vice president of marketing for Bozell throughout many corporate combinations from BJK&E to True North. Within advertising, she specialized in new media. She researched and wrote studies well received (and some seminal) in the use of cable television, then of the Internet, as they relate to advertising. <br /> For years, she assisted, leading a subcommittee, then headed up as chairperson the American Association of Advertising Agencies New Technologies Committee. <br /> “She was in demand by clients for her company,” her husband said. “She spoke around the world, from New Zealand to Brazil to Finland, for example, enthusiastically and with insights from her research on the potentials from technical vantage points of the then undeveloped new mediums of cable TV programming and the Internet as advertising outlets.”<br /> Ms. Black Black was recognized by the advertising industry as one of Mediaweek's 10 All-Stars in the media field in 1995 and was on the cover of Marketing & Media Decisions magazine as one of the seers of the future of advertising. She continued to follow both the advertising industry and new media field. Later, she worked for Cablevision.</p>
<p> Ms. Black earned a Master of Arts degree in education from the Bank Street College School of Education and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University School of Business. Her undergraduate degree was a B.A. in art history from Barnard College. <br /> “She kept dear friends she met from school to business her entire life,” Schlosberg said.<br /> Survivors, in addition to her husband, include her brother, Leon Black, his wife, Debra, and their four children.<br /> Ms. Black was predeceased by her mother, Shirley Black Kash, who died in 2014, and her father, Eli M. Black, who died in 1975.<br /> A tree planting ceremony in her honor is being planned for a later date.</p></div>