friends - News - The Coastal Star2024-03-29T12:35:10Zhttps://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/friendsTots & Teens: Friends group of Boca Raton library expands off-site programshttps://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/tots-teens-friends-group-of-boca-raton-library-expands-off-site-p2023-03-28T17:03:42.000Z2023-03-28T17:03:42.000ZMary Kate Leminghttps://thecoastalstar.com/members/MaryKateLeming769<div><p><strong><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}11004838894,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}11004838894,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="665" alt="11004838894?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></strong></p>
<p><strong>By Janis Fontaine</strong></p>
<p>The Friends of the Boca Raton Public Library is like a perpetual motion machine promoting a love for reading. <br /> Friends members sell donated books in their store in the lobby of the Downtown Library and then use the money to promote reading and literacy programs, make free books available and increase the demand for books, all at the same time. <br /> In partnership with the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District and the city’s Recreation Services, the Friends recently expanded two popular reading programs: Little Free Libraries and the StoryWalk. <br /> A Little Free Library is a curbside box filled with books that can be borrowed at no cost by adults or kids. There’s nothing to sign, no deposit to make. People just bring the books back when they’re finished so someone else may enjoy. <br /> “There are seven Little Free Libraries now” in Boca Raton, with three added recently, said Tracy Wasserman, president of the Friends board.<br />Nationally, the LFL program was started to eradicate “book deserts,” Wasserman said. A book desert is usually a rural community that has no local library or other established source of books. “There are 2,500 book deserts in the United States.” <br /> Since the first book-sharing box was built in Minnesota in 2009, more than 250 million books have been shared through registered Little Free Libraries. The LFL organization’s vision is “a Little Free Library in every community and a book for every reader.” <br /> Boca Raton’s new LFL’s are in Sugar Sand Park, 300 S. Military Trail; Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Road; and at the Swim and Racquet Center, 21626 St. Andrews Blvd. <br />The other LFLs are at Hillsboro El Rio Park South (200 SW 18th St.), Happy Faces Library (165 NE 21st St.), Sand Pine Park (300 Newcastle St.), and the Little Free Library of Palm Beach Farms, one block east of Pine Breeze Park on Southwest 20th Street. <br /> Find Little Free Library locations all over the United States online at <a href="http://www.littlefreelibrary.org">www.littlefreelibrary.org</a> — and you can even find out how to start your own. <br /> The second project the Friends support is the StoryWalk, designed to build children’s enthusiasm for reading while encouraging healthy physical activity.<br /> StoryWalks are nature walks in which kids stop at kiosks to read a page or two of a book (often nature-related), then move on to the next kiosk for more of the story. Kids find joy in reading as the story reveals itself bit by bit. <br /> The first StoryWalk project was built in 2007 in Montpelier, Vermont, in collaboration with the Kellogg-Hubbard Library. There are now three in Boca Raton. Each StoryWalk has a different book featured and books are changed every few months, Wasserman said. <br />All three have been paid for by the Friends. <br />• The StoryWalk at Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Road. Book: Dance Like a Flamingo: Learn How to Move and Groove Like the Animals Do! by Moira Butterfield (author) and Claudia Boldt (illustrator). <br /> • The StoryWalk at Serenoa Glade Preserve at George Snow Park, 1101 NW 15th St. Book: Peep and Ducky Rainy Day by David Martin. <br /> • The StoryWalk near the butterfly garden at the Pondhawk Natural Area on the west side of the Spanish River Library, 1501 Spanish River Blvd. Book: Croc O’Clock by Huw Lewis Jones.</p>
<p><strong>The Friends’ story</strong><br />The Friends of the Boca Raton Public Library is a nonprofit that has provided support to the library for decades, since the group’s founding in 1990. When a benefactor left the Friends a $300,000 bequest, the Friends gave $250,000 to the library for its expansion. The bookstore brings in between $5,000-$6,000 a month, which easily paid the $6,000 bill for the Patch Reef Park StoryWalk. <br /> The Friends’ bookstore is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and accepts donations until 3:30 p.m. It has books for all ages, both fiction and nonfiction, plus coffee table books, cooking and recipe books, puzzles and games, and audiobooks on CD. <br /> It’s in the lobby of the Downtown Library at 400 NW Second Ave. Call 561-544-8596 or visit <a href="http://www.bocalibraryfriends.org/bookstore">www.bocalibraryfriends.org/bookstore</a>.</p></div>Boca Raton: Gumbo Limbo short $900,000https://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/boca-raton-gumbo-limbo-short-900-0002021-02-03T15:40:22.000Z2021-02-03T15:40:22.000ZMary Kate Leminghttps://thecoastalstar.com/members/MaryKateLeming<div><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><em><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}8511073673,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}8511073673,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="710" alt="8511073673?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a>The gates to Gumbo Limbo have been locked and revenues have dropped significantly in the past year during the coronavirus pandemic. <strong>Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star</strong></em></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Pandemic cripples fundraising; no reopening date set</strong> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><strong>Related story:</strong> <strong>Happy <a href="https://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/boca-raton-happy-90th-birthday-to-man-behind-nature-center-s-foun" target="_blank">90th birthday</a> to man behind nature center's founding</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>By Larry Keller</strong></p>
<p>While other nature-themed attractions that shut their doors to the public last year because of COVID-19 soon reopened, Gumbo Limbo Nature Center remains mostly closed for pandemic reasons, with no scheduled reopening date and its fundraising auxiliary hurting financially.<br />“Funding is urgently needed,” Sheila Reinken, treasurer of the nonprofit Friends of Gumbo Limbo, wrote in a recent newsletter. “The effects of this crisis on Gumbo Limbo Nature Center are becoming more and more challenging each day. For the first time in 36 years, we face a $900,000 shortfall in funding.”<br />Among other things, the nonprofit runs the nature center’s gift shop, collects voluntary admissions, underwrites its website, pays for veterinary care, has picked up the tab for GPS equipment for sea turtle research and provides scholarships to graduate students. It also organizes fundraisers such as a 10K run and Gumbo Fest. The nonprofit had total revenues of $1.5 million in fiscal 2018 and expenses of more than $1 million. <br />“It’s a pretty serious situation for us because it means we are having to rely on our reserves to maintain the budget and the strategic planning the organization is committed to. We did not pull back from any of our funding commitments,” said John Holloway, Friends’ executive director.<br />While the city holds the deed to the nature center, the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District pays for operating expenses such as staff salaries and maintenance of buildings, pavilions and aquariums. That funding source has remained unchanged since the pandemic and there have been no layoffs or furloughs of city staff, said Leanne Welch, Gumbo Limbo’s manager.<br />Gumbo Limbo accounts for more than half of the $5.2 million allocated this year to Red Reef Park, where it is located, said Briann Harms, the district’s executive director. Separately, the district is spending $6.5 million on capital improvements that include a new pump station and pipes to bring seawater to the nature center’s tanks.<br />The Friends shortfall is due in part to a loss of more than a half-million dollars in gift shop income, where eight part-time employees of the nonprofit lost their jobs. A 2017 Friends of Gumbo Limbo annual report showed the gift shop and donations together accounted for 75% of its revenues. Most of that comes from the $5 voluntary donations collected from walk-up traffic.<br />Last year began well at Gumbo Limbo. <br />“January and February of 2020, the numbers we were seeing, the visitors … the retail, the amount of donations that were coming in, they were significant,” Holloway said. “It was some of the largest numbers we had ever seen. When everything went quiet in March, that really started to take a toll.” <br />More than 200,000 people annually visited the 20-acre center in Red Reef Park pre-pandemic. While there are aquariums with about 1,500 fish, a butterfly garden and a boardwalk, Gumbo Limbo is best known for sea turtle conservation. Its staff treats injured and sick sea turtles that are on view in tanks at the nature center, and, when possible, returns them to the sea once they heal. That work continues. The nature center also monitors sea turtle nesting on 5 miles of beaches and provides lab space to FAU for sea turtle and other research.<br />Since closing last March, Gumbo Limbo has reopened its boardwalk through a coastal hammock forest and installed exhibit signage and a self-guided tour. Everything else remains closed to visitors. Its education team has worked with local schools to provide virtual programs and experiences, and virtual programming for all ages on its social media channels and website.<br />In normal times, the nature center relies on 250 volunteers to welcome visitors and help prepare food for its animals, clean tanks and enclosures and more. “Until we are able to bring our volunteers back and guarantee their safety during the pandemic, it will be difficult to open to the public with a level of service that our loyal residents, members and visitors have come to expect,” Welch said.<br /> Staff has taken up volunteers’ tasks in addition to its regular duties.<br />The closure to the public has enabled Gumbo Limbo to more easily proceed with previously budgeted upgrades and renovations such as installing a new roof on the main building, Welch said. Other work slated to begin soon: a new HVAC system and hurricane impact windows, and replacement of the wooden deck and railings around it.<br /> “The construction and upgrades should be completed by late spring or early summer,” Welch said. <br />Other nature centers opened fully many months ago. Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach closed for two months, beginning last March. Ditto for Sandoway Discovery Center in Delray Beach.<br />Like Gumbo Limbo, Loggerhead Marinelife provides medical care to imperiled sea turtles and monitors their nests on that area’s beaches. The facility has 320 volunteers reporting on a weekly basis while observing safe practices, and is undergoing a huge expansion to its campus while remaining open to the public.<br />Sandoway House displays exhibits on coastal and marine ecosystems and includes daily shark and stingray feedings. With total revenue of $496,000 in 2019, it is much smaller than Gumbo Limbo. Its three full-time and two part-time employees remained at their jobs during the closure, said Executive Director Danica Sanborn.<br />Even so, Sandoway took a financial hit in lost revenues from admissions, birthday parties and field trips. Generous grantors and reserve funds helped make up the difference, as did receipt of a $29,700 Paycheck Protection Program loan, Sanborn said. (Friends of Gumbo Limbo also obtained a PPP loan of $74,000.)<br />Sandoway soon will proceed with a number of upgrades that include a new stingray and small shark touch tank. Money for those projects was in place before the pandemic, Sanborn said.<br />Sandoway and Loggerhead Marinelife, however, are nonprofit organizations. The city of Boca Raton is responsible for Gumbo Limbo and must evaluate risks differently, said spokeswoman Chrissy Gibson. “We have not decided the level of risk that is acceptable to the public and employees and volunteers,” she said.<br />With the uncertainties surrounding the pandemic and vaccines, there’s no telling when that might change.<br />“I cannot offer a tentative date for reopening to the public,” Welch said. </p></div>Lantana: Town commits to contract for Fourth of July fireworks displayhttps://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/lantana-town-commits-to-contract-for-fourth-of-july-fireworks-dis2020-04-01T19:00:00.000Z2020-04-01T19:00:00.000ZThe Coastal Starhttps://thecoastalstar.com/members/TheCoastalStar<div><p><strong>By Mary Thurwachter</strong><br /> <br /> Despite the uncertainty connected to the coronavirus, Town Manager Deborah Manzo didn’t have to wait long for an answer when she asked whether or not to commit to a fireworks contract for the Fourth of July.</p>
<p><br /> The $30,000 contract with Zambelli Fireworks would need to be signed soon to reserve the date, Manzo said. But if the town decided at some point to cancel, Lantana would lose between $6,500 to $17,000, depending on how close to the show date the cancellation was made.</p>
<p><br /> The council voted March 23 to go ahead, regardless of the possibility of cancellation due to COVID-19.</p>
<p><br /> Even if a large gathering in Bicentennial Park were prohibited at the time, the fireworks could still go off from a barge on the Intracoastal Waterway so residents would have something special to watch that evening, council members agreed.</p>
<p><br /> Memories of the last time Lantana didn’t have fireworks on the Fourth of July, in 2011, still haunt Mayor Dave Stewart and Vice Mayor Lynn Moorhouse, who were both on the council at the time.</p>
<p><br /> “I had 30 unhappy people at the door. We had sad little kids dressed in red-white-and-blue turn out at Bicentennial Park,” Stewart said. Father David Kennedy of Church of the Holy Guardian Angels “was praying for me. He said fireworks are America and help people shake off a depressing economy.”</p>
<p><br /> “It was horrible,” Moorhouse added. “Let’s have fireworks!”</p>
<p><br /> Stewart said the plus side of contracting for the fireworks show outweighed the possibility of financial loss.</p>
<p><br /> “Fireworks make people feel good,” Stewart said, “and people need that.”</p>
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<p><strong>A concrete answer for the nature trail</strong></p>
<p>On another matter, the council voted to pave the Lantana Nature Preserve trail with concrete, a choice rejected previously as it was considered too costly (about $130,000). In addition to money the town has already set aside for the project, about $60,000, funds will be taken from reserves and paid back from annual payments received from the Carlisle assisted-living facility for maintenance.</p>
<p><br /> The council debated what type of material to use for the trail for more than two years, and twice decided on asphalt — an unpopular choice with Friends of the Nature Preserve.</p>
<p><br /> In February, another option was considered: crushed concrete, which was less costly than asphalt and more eco-friendly.</p>
<p><br /> But on March 23, Stewart proposed concrete, considered the best long-lasting solution.</p>
<p><br /> “We’ve kicked this tin can down the road so long it’s not even a can anymore,” Stewart said. “I don’t want this to come up ever again in my lifetime!”</p>
<p><br /> “That’s music to my ears,” Manzo said.</p>
<p><br /> In other news, the council, for safety reasons, voted to remove obtrusive road striping on Hypoluxo Island in compliance with Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices guidelines for streets and highways. Removing the yellow lines will cost about $5,000.</p>
<p><br /> Islanders, in person and with letters, urged the town to remove the double yellow lines after several residents had to leap into the bushes to avoid being hit by speeding vehicles whose drivers would not pull over.</p>
<p><br /> Hypoluxo Island does not have sidewalks.</p></div>Annual Leadership Education Forum — Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach — Jan. 19https://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/celebrations-annual-leadership-education-forum-four-seasons-resor2020-03-03T21:00:00.000Z2020-03-03T21:00:00.000ZThe Coastal Starhttps://thecoastalstar.com/members/TheCoastalStar<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960926052,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960926052,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-full" alt="7960926052?profile=original" /></a><em>Arthur Gutterman with retired Admiral James Stavridis, a former NATO commander who holds a copy of his new book. <strong>Photo provided by CAPEHART</strong></em></p>
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<p>American Friends of the Hebrew University facilitated speakers who touched on topics ranging from agriculture to health to nanotechnology and from the humanities to the environment. Designed to showcase the work and importance of the university, the event was titled ‘A Tradition of Innovation: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Future of Israeli Society, Technology and Medicine.’</p></div>Annual Friends Members’ Dessert Reception: Kravis Center, West Palm Beach — Nov. 6https://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/annual-friends-members-dessert-reception-kravis-center-west-palm-2019-12-31T17:57:45.000Z2019-12-31T17:57:45.000ZMary Kate Leminghttps://thecoastalstar.com/members/MaryKateLeming769<div><p class="p1" style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960926694,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960926694,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-center" alt="7960926694?profile=original" /></a><em>Nearly 700 Kravis Center supporters celebrated the reopening of the performing arts center with a champagne toast and sweet treats. Taking place prior to the evening’s performance of ‘The Simon & Garfunkel Story,’ the event featured a wide array of desserts and drinks. ‘We have come a long way to improve and enhance our patrons’ experience here at the Kravis Center, and we owe it all to our donors, who are like family,’ CEO Judith Mitchell said. Annual Friends each contribute a yearly gift of $100 or more. <b>LEFT:</b> (l-r) Fabiola Brumley, Jeff Stoops and Mitchell. <b>Photo provided by CAPEHART</b></em></p></div>Hearts-n-Bloom: Mounts Botanical Garden, West Palm Beach – Feb. 11https://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/hearts-n-bloom-mounts-botanical-garden-west-palm-beach-feb-112017-03-29T15:17:53.000Z2017-03-29T15:17:53.000ZMary Kate Leminghttps://thecoastalstar.com/members/MaryKateLeming769<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960707261,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960707261,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-center" width="600" alt="7960707261?profile=original" /></a><em>The Friends support group organized the inaugural tea party, which attracted more than 150 well-dressed guests —men and women alike — who enjoyed high tea and musical accompaniment by a harpist. The event took place on the Great Lawn, adjacent to the butterfly garden, after guests strolled through the greenery with mimosas in hand. Other highlights included a designer-hat fashion show and an auction. ABOVE: Ruth Arneson, with Rochelle Wolberg.</em><br /><strong><em>Photo provided by Michiko Kurisu</em></strong></p></div>South Palm Beach: Friends on self-appointed mission to keep town’s beach cleanhttps://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/south-palm-beach-friends-on-self-appointed-mission-to-keep-town-s2016-11-30T19:24:50.000Z2016-11-30T19:24:50.000ZThe Coastal Starhttps://thecoastalstar.com/members/TheCoastalStar<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960686099,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="500" src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960686099,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-center" alt="7960686099?profile=original" /></a><em>Mike Felice fills a trash bag with debris as Dennis Aten picks up a flip-flop on the beach.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960687662,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="500" src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960687662,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-center" alt="7960687662?profile=original" /></a></strong><em>Most days produce a few bags’ worth of trash along the beach.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960687857,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="500" src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960687857,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-center" alt="7960687857?profile=original" /></a><em>One odd finding is a plastic bottle cut in half.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>By Ron Hayes<br /><br /></strong> Oh, those early morning walks on the beach. Is there any better way to greet a day?<br /> That cool, silver sand between your toes. Salty breeze stirring the dune grass. Golden sun twinkling off the ocean’s foam.<br /> The shampoo bottles, the candy wrappers, the hypodermic needles.<br /> “You wouldn’t believe how much crap there is down there,” says Dennis Aten.<br /> “Would you believe toothbrushes?” asks Mike Felice.<br /> Aten and Felice are both 66, both retired, both friends and neighbors in the 3500 S. Ocean condo at South Palm Beach’s northern line.<br /> You’ll meet them on your morning walk, plastic bags and EZ Reach pincer poles in hand, picking up those bottles, wrappers and hypodermic needles all the way south to the Lantana line and back. And you’ll meet them again most afternoons.<br /> “I used to monitor the turtle nests about four years ago,” recalls Felice, a retired teacher from Toms River, N.J. “I wouldn’t stake if there was junk around, so we started picking it up.”<br /> The waves are a roiling explosion of blinding white foam this late October morning, a rough sea churned by an angry wind that grabs at their plastic bags as Aten and Felice meander down the beach, grabbing trash from the seaweed and sand.<br /> Let’s tag along.<br /> “Deodorant roller,” Aten says, dropping one into his bag.<br /> “Plastic visor,” Felice reports.<br /> “Plastic forks,” Aten says. “There’s always a million of those.”<br /> Scan the horizon, admire the sky, squint down the coast and South Palm Beach is one gorgeous Florida postcard. But keep your head down, scan the sand, and oh, the sights you’ll see.<br /> “They should ban plastic straws,” Aten grumbles, pushing one into his bag.<br /> Felice has a list of some of the trash they’ve found in the past four years. Flip-flops and lunch bags, hair clips and bands, cigarettes and cigars, fishing line and bait buckets and Styrofoam everythings. And yes, before you ask, condoms. But only one sex toy in four years.<br /> “We found a Crown Royal whisky bottle with a note in it once,” Aten says, “but the note was so wet you couldn’t read it. All I could make out was N.C. for North Carolina.”<br /> All trash and no treasures, unless you count the bottle caps.<br /> “On a good day, you’ll get 100 to 150 bottle caps,” Aten says, so when the pair spotted a Coastal Star profile of Timothy Annis, an Ocean Ridge resident who recycles bottle caps to buy wheelchairs for veterans, they dropped off several thousand from their daily walks.<br /> Occasionally, other beach walkers pass.<br /> “We get a lot of funny comments,” Aten says. “One lady asked us, ‘Are you guys picking up shrimp?’” He shakes his head. “Shrimp.”<br /> This morning he’s picking up a half bottle of Idole Skin Lightening Lotion. Not a half-full bottle, but half the bottle itself, neatly cut in two.<br /> “We get a lot of bottles that are cut in half,” Aten says, “and I got five or six toothbrushes the other day. They’ve got to have come off a boat.”<br /> Soda cups you understand. Candy wrappers you understand. But who leaves a tube of Colgate toothpaste at the beach? Are cruise ships dumping their trash overboard? They wonder. How does a plastic bottle get neatly cut in half down here?<br /> One of the other regular beach walkers is Jody Field, who lives in the Beauvois, just across South Ocean Boulevard from Aten and Felice. Last year, she wrote the town manager.<br /> “I am writing to tell you about two South Palm Beach residents that I believe should be recognized by the town. They are not employed by the town or the city of Palm Beach, they are citizens who enjoy the beach and are concerned for its welfare,” Field wrote. <br /> On April 28, 2015, Mayor Bonnie Fischer presented Aten and Felice with Certificates of Appreciation:<br /> “The town of South Palm Beach extends its gratitude to you for the time and efforts you so unselfishly donate to clean our beach. Thank you for your efforts to Keep South Palm Beach beautiful.”<br /> The official accolades are nice, the men agree, but praise was not their motivation. They do it for the exercise, the companionship, the turtles and the beach.<br /> “I’ll do this as long as I can walk,” Felice says. “It’s good exercise.”<br /> “Until I can’t,” Aten agrees, and his reach pole makes a grab at the sand.<br /> “Glow stick,” he murmurs. “Always a lot of glow sticks.”<strong><br /></strong></p></div>Installation of officers, Kathy’s Gazebo Café, Boca Raton – April 18https://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/installation-of-officers-kathy-s-gazebo-cafe-boca-raton-april-182016-05-04T01:44:47.000Z2016-05-04T01:44:47.000ZMary Kate Leminghttps://thecoastalstar.com/members/MaryKateLeming769<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960648075,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960648075,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="7960648075?profile=original" /></a><em>The Friends Auxiliary of the Boca Raton Museum of Art welcomed a fresh slate of leaders during a special luncheon ceremony of the support group. Members already are hard at work planning an itinerary for art and culture lovers for next season.</em> <br /><em>ABOVE: (l-r) Third Vice President Patricia Gould-Peck, Recording Secretary Katia Delouya, Recording Secretary Trudy Helfand, President Amy Hogaboom, First Vice President Peggy Stein, Second Vice President Regina Peters, Treasurer Melissa Meyers and Assistant Recording Secretary Marjory Bitson. <strong>Photo provided</strong></em></p></div>Tennis Friendshttps://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/tennis-friends2012-02-01T20:46:37.000Z2012-02-01T20:46:37.000ZMary Kate Leminghttps://thecoastalstar.com/members/MaryKateLeming769<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960368886,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960368886,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="576" alt="7960368886?profile=original" /></a><em>Enjoying lunch at The Living Room in Boynton Beach are (standing, l-r) Hedy Latimer, Judy Zeidel, Eileen Hertz, Susan Schechet and Sandy Jones; and (seated, l-r) Joan Ball, Diane Motta, and Angela Smith. The women — who live in West Palm Beach, South Palm Beach, Lake Worth, Manalapan and Ocean Ridge — get together once a week for lunch, followed by a friendly game of tennis at Phipps Ocean Park Tennis Center in Palm Beach. <strong>Photo provided</strong></em></p></div>