ira - News - The Coastal Star2024-03-29T09:54:18Zhttps://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/iraCelebrations: Taste of Recovery - Old School Square, Delray Beach — June 1https://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/celebrations-taste-of-recovery-old-school-square-delray-beach-jun2019-07-30T20:47:44.000Z2019-07-30T20:47:44.000ZThe Coastal Starhttps://thecoastalstar.com/members/TheCoastalStar<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960878881,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960878881,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-center" alt="7960878881?profile=original" /></a><em>Jennifer Smith and Hillary Moore.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em><strong><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960878487,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960878487,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-center" alt="7960878487?profile=original" /></a></strong></em><em>David Duran, Ira Fox and Madison Fox.</em> <strong><em>Photos provided by Russell Levine</em></strong></p>
<p>The third-annual benefit featured savory bites from a variety of area restaurants along with live entertainment. More than $75,000 was raised for the Crossroads Club, a nonprofit 12-step-based meeting center that supports an average of 900 men and women a day who are pursuing recovery. Delray Beach City Commissioner Bill Bathurst presented the Vision of Hope Award to Marc Woods. The People’s Choice award went to Louie Bossi’s and the Critic's Choice award went to Proper Ice Cream. Each of them donated their $2,500 winnings back to the Crossroads Club.</p></div>Briny Breezes: Behringer joins Town Councilhttps://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/briny-breezes-behringer-joins-town-council2016-06-01T17:30:00.000Z2016-06-01T17:30:00.000ZThe Coastal Starhttps://thecoastalstar.com/members/TheCoastalStar<div><p><strong>By Dan Moffett</strong></p>
<p> New Yorker Allen “Chick” Behringer started coming to Briny Breezes for visits in 2002 and then bought a residence here in 2008.<br /> When he heard about the recent opening on the Town Council created by the resignation of Ira Friedman, Behringer said he also heard a call to public service.<br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960652701,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960652701,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="7960652701?profile=original" width="98" /></a> “I’m retired and living here full-time now,” he said. “Other than doing some travel, I want to do something for the community which I happen to love. I want to keep it as it is. I want to keep it functional.”<br /> Council members unanimously approved Behringer for Friedman’s open alderman’s seat at the May 26 meeting. A former resident of Oak Beach, Long Island and New York City, Behringer said he worked for “20-some-odd years” in corporate sales and ran a small business that manufactured signs for another 20 years. The council filled another vacancy during the meeting when council members approved Councilwoman Christina Adams as the town’s deputy bookkeeper.<br /> <strong> In other business</strong>, Council President Sue Thaler said the Florida Department of Transportation told the town it is willing to approve an A1A golf cart crossing at Marina Drive and Ruthmary Avenue if the Briny Breezes corporation changes the direction of Marina Drive traffic to eastbound. <br /> “I’m not sure if that’s good news or bad news,” Thaler said.<br /> Ocean Ridge Police Chief Hal Hutchins, the town marshal, said the direction change would require switching the angle of the parking spaces on Marina. Hutchins said it might be possible to satisfy the state’s condition by making Marina a two-way street that allows east and west flow across A1A. Thaler said the FDOT letter arrived shortly before the meeting, and the Town Council will wait to hear from the corporation before discussing the possible changes.</p></div>