Manalapan travel agent Annie Davis, owner of Palm Beach Travel, has strong personal ties to the British Virgin Islands. She recently coordinated a benefit auction to promote the rebuilding of that area, which suffered overwhelming damage in last fall
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This will be the sixth year for Ride 4 Orphans, which has raised more than $260,000. Cyclists can pedal 62, 30 or 4 miles through South County. The ride begins and ends at Spanish River Church in Boca Raton. Photo provided
By Janis Fontaine
On a medi
The Step-Above Rummage Sale is put on by the First Presbyterian Church in Delray Beach. This year it takes place Feb. 8-10. Photo provided
By Janis Fontaine
If you like your rummage sale without too much rummaging, the Step-Above Rummage Sale at Fir
Kraken, an adult loggerhead turtle with only one eye, returned to the sea after six months of recuperation. She was rescued last June after being hit by a boat propeller and needed emergency surgery. ABOVE: A crowd wishes Kraken bon voyage. BELOW: Gu
Children scrub donated shoes for the charity In Jacob’s Shoes at the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County’s second annual Community in Action Day. Photo provided
By Janis Fontaine
Many hands make light work, even when some of those hands belo
ABOVE: Joan and David Genser are co-chairing the Palm Beach Opera’s annual gala. Photos provided
By Amy Woods
A star soprano from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City will headline the Palm Beach Opera’s annual gala and command its $1,000 ticke
Volunteers work in the Briny Breezes Library in 1972. It looks much the same today. Photos from Overdue in Paradise
By Ron Hayes
The libraries are big and small, public and private. Academic, deeply religious or passionate about medicine. They’re Fin
Chamber President and CEO Troy McLellan (left) with Boca Raton Regional Hospital President and CEO Jerry Fedele, who received the excellence award, and Ethel Isaacs Williams, who will serve a second term as Chamber chairwoman. Photo provided
The Gr
Retired Maj. Gen. John Van Blois addressed the DAR monthly meeting about his years of service in the U.S. Air Force, handling the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Wall conflict, Vietnam, the first Iraq War, Desert Storm and national security. ABOVE:
Nearly 1,000 members of the community participated in the Palm Beach County Food Bank fundraiser, enjoying a simple meal of soup donated by 38 Delray Beach restaurants and bread from Old School Bakery. Participants purchased an empty bowl to take hom
New members of the Council of Catholic Women of St. Lucy’s Church were inducted at a tea and luncheon at the church hall in Highland Beach. ABOVE: (l-r) Carol Gammage, Joan O’Leary, Pat Boden, Petra Karabelas, Marguerite Shaw, Ellen Ryan, Maura Terma
Philanthropist Jeffrey Stoops spoke at the first such event of the 2017-18 season, which took place in the Khoury Family Dance Rehearsal Hall in the Cohen Pavilion. Eileen Berman, chairwoman of the Corporate Partners executive committee, welcomed mem
The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation raised more than $145,000 for those living with digestive diseases during the annual outdoor affair — one of more than 100 that take place across the country to support the estimated 1.6 million Americans, nearly 100,
The Italian Cultural Society’s regional dinner was arranged by chairs Rose De Angelis and Regina Peters. They and café owners Francesco Blanco and Fabrizio Giorgi planned a typical meal with wines you would enjoy in Bologna. Entertainment was provide
More than 60 art lovers came out to celebrate the opening of ‘My Drawers,’ an exhibition by fine-art photographer Barry Seidman. The photographic exposé takes viewers on a personal journey through Seidman’s life, with large-scale images of his person
By Thom Smith
An estimated 5,000 revelers welcomed the new year at the Boca Raton Resort and Club, but hotel management was focused primarily on just one.
Only a couple of hours after Vitaly Zdorovetskiy checked in with a woman believed to be his gir
ABOVE: Despite the cool weather, the event was a family affair with the Schneider family — Mark and Jessica with children Joey and Nathan (in stroller) — in attendance.
BELOW: Erica Falls — touring with New Orleans funk and jazz jam band Galacti
The Plate: Breakfast Burrito
The Place: East Ocean Café, 412 E. Ocean Ave., Boynton Beach; 200-6006 or www.eastoceancafe.com.
The Price: $8
The Skinny: When I was a young man living in Delray Beach, my dad and mother would drive over to visit from Fo
The Chinese Association of Science, Education and Culture of South Florida will sponsor dancers at the Boca celebration Feb. 18. Photo provided by wangweijiang
(This is the second in an occasional series on how various cultures celebrate the new ye
Palm Beach: The Essential Guide to America’s Legendary Resort Town, by Rick Rose; Globe Pequot,
170 pp.; $19.95
By Steve Pike
Rick Rose is passionate about Palm Beach culture and society. Those things sort of go with the territory (pardon the pu
