John Miller prepares a Key lime pie with his sons Luke, 13, and Jack, 15, at their Delray Beach home. The boys’ brownies won first place at last year’s Real Men Bake. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
The chairman of the Delray Beach Histo
The home Tom Ambrose and his wife built in 1990 is inspired by the seven years they spent living in Indonesia, where Ambrose worked as a geologist. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Brian Biggane
A desk job in New York City was never going to sit right
Part of Ted Hoskinson’s Roots and Wings nonprofit raises funds to help Delray Beach third-graders prepare after school for the state’s standardized test. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
There was a time, before he became a successful bus
Stephen Schilling of Briny Breezes is a concert pianist who earned a degree in chemistry at age 30. ‘I realized, OK, I know a lot about music, but nothing about math or science,’ he says. Schilling says he’s ‘very proud of creating my own music.’ Tim
Barbara Rodriguez works at Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa (above) and lives in Highland Beach. With AVDA, she helps to throw parties for children at shelters. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Barbara Rodriguez wanted her daughter, Gabby, to
Sandra Featherman of Highland Beach has spent much of her life as an educator, including 11 years as president of the University of New England in southern Maine. She recently wrote a book about solving problems in higher education in this country.
Anne and Peter Vegso own Health Communications Inc., a book publisher in Deerfield Beach. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
If Anne and Peter Vegso’s last name sounds vaguely familiar, it may be because it can be found on a sprinkling of b
Karen Ronald says the library is ‘not just books and materials.’ Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Karen Ronald brings everything you would expect to her new job as director of the Delray Beach Public Library.
She has a master’s d
Ocean Ridge resident Digby Bridges will become the newest member of the United States Croquet Hall of Fame this month. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Digby Bridges has been playing croquet since he was 16 and still enjoys the game.
“It is a thinkin
Rita Thrasher is president and CEO of the nonprofit Boca Raton’s Promise. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Amy Woods
Rita Thrasher dedicates her work to her daughters. Her youngest died at age 43. Her oldest died at age 60. Both had mental illness
Gulf Stream resident Charles Carlino styled Sole Surfer on a friend and fellow Marine with post-traumatic stress disorder. The play will be staged on Veterans Day. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Mary Thurwachter
Charles Carlino met Joseph Giann
Alex Schulze captains the boat as Andrew Cooper scoops trash from Lake Boca. Schulze and Cooper are owners of 4Ocean, a company that removes trash from area waterways. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Sallie James
Andrew Cooper leaned ov
Mike Kaufman at last year’s Mayor’s Ball. Photo by Gina Fontana
By Rich Pollack
Were it not for his inability to grasp college chemistry, Mike Kaufman might have become an athletic trainer for a professional sports team rather than presiden
Gerson Fabe shows some of his works at The Carlisle Palm Beach. He shares a new poem daily with his fellow residents. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Poet sets reality and romance to rhyme
(and is rewarded with an eager audience)
By Willie Howard
Wh
Linda and Greg Harrison of South Palm Beach hold a few of the permanent residents of The Bird & Exotic Hospital in Greenacres. Pictured are Peeps, a yellow budgie; Jake, a Mexican redhead parrot, and Baby, a Congo African grey parrot. Tim Stepien/The
Lyn Tate with her dachshunds Sir Charles, 12, and Duke, 4, outside her Hypoluxo Island home.
Tate is a community activist for the island and the town of Lantana.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Getting Lyn Tate to sit still for even a short time is
A photograph shows 107-year-old Eula Mae Johnson of Delray Beach as a young woman.
Eula Mae Johnson (seated) is surrounded by granddaughters Bernice Johnson,
Shannon Johnson and Naomi Palmer and daughter Ruthie.
Johnson’s voter registration card show
James Blumenfeld, co-owner of Meridian Art Experience in Delray Beach’s Pineapple Grove,
displays works mainly from local artists and offers services for collectors.
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James Blumenfeld and business partner Susan Romain
Ben and Mayra Stern of Highland Beach have fostered more than two dozen dogs of a variety of breeds
and sizes until the dogs are ready for their forever homes. The Sterns kept Cubby, whom they call their ‘ambassadog.’
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By R
Christina Cleveland, a certified financial planner in Boca Raton, also is busy with several charities
and her church. She lives in coastal Delray Beach. The boy in the photo on her desk is her son, Max.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
When Christina
