Making Christmas and Hanukkah gifts look good isn’t difficult
if you know the basics and have the right tools.
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Wrapping a gift, step by step.
Adding a little coastal flair.
By Mary Thurwachter
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Step 1: Spread paper face-down on flat surface with gift in center. Pull up sides of paper, estimating where they’ll meet; cut.
Step 2: Fold sides over; secure in middle.
Step 3: On one end of box, flatten paper from both sides against box, creating
This time of year, beach-themed ornaments are especially popular at Hand’s Office & Art Supply in Delray Beach. Besides being used as tree décor, the ornaments are used to embellish gifts, giving them a seaside feel, said Liz Hughes, Hand’s manag
The Boys & Girls Club of Boca Raton enjoyed success with its sixth-annual fundraiser, attended by more than 150 guests who tested their luck at numerous gaming tables. There were opportunities to win prizes, bid in a silent auction and enjoy cocktail
Cheered on by friends adorned in pink, Lisa Quillian donated 17 inches of hair that will be made into wigs for cancer patients. ‘It wasn’t enough to just give away the hair,’ Quillian said. ‘I mean, I had been carrying it around for five years.’ So
More than 120 members and guests attended the Boynton Woman’s Club’s event and helped raise more than $3,000 for the Scholarship Fund, which awards grants to high-school students who live in the city and plan to attend a Florida college. ABOVE: Comme
Highland Beach Town Commissioner Lou Stern and wife Carol (above) received the the Ruby Lee Piester Adoption Award, a lifetime-achievement recognition, from the National Council for Adoption. The award was presented during the council’s annual affai
Actor and comic Martin Short served as keynote speaker at Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation’s annual gathering supporting women’s health. Nearly $1 million was raised for the fight against breast cancer. Proceeds will benefit the hospital’s Sch
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County welcomed its annual tournament and raised $58,000 for the Neil S. Hirsch Family Boys & Girls Club. A total of 140 attendees participated in the festivities, which included breakfast, a raffle, putting conte
Lulu Whittaker passed away on Nov. 4. She was 10 years old. A typical Westie, Lulu was determined, smart and spirited. She was the Perle Mesta of Gulf Stream. Lulu was often seen wearing her pink Lilly Pulitzer dress and was the life of the party
By Lona O'Connor
With no cure yet available, and few ways to stall its progress, Alzheimer’s disease has passed cancer as the disease most feared by Americans, according to 2015 surveys.
Alzheimer’s steals memory and thinking ability and ev
More than 400 volunteers from Congregation B’nai Israel and the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church
teamed up to serve Thanksgiving meals to 4,000 people. This year marks the 32nd year
of the ‘Feed the Hungry’ partnership between Congregation B’nai Is
The school entertained families from nearby neighborhoods with contests for most creative and scariest costumes, as well as tastes of the hot-and-spicy southwest concoction. ABOVE: (l-r) The Elliott family — David, James, Avery and Kristin — in their
A crowd topping 100 attended the season’s first ‘conversation,’ titled ‘Hey, Mr. Producer,’ which featured a talk between Andrew Kato, who is celebrating 10 years at the helm of the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, and Rob Steele, the new president and CEO of
The Junior League of Boca Raton had its 28th-annual fundraiser – one of the largest to date, with 900 guests in attendance and $180,000 raised. Linda Coffin, nominated by Children’s Home Society of Florida, was named the 2015 Woman Volunteer of the Y
The 21st-annual Buddy Walk attracted 2,000-plus participants and raised $175,000 for Gold Coast Down Syndrome Organization and its advocacy, education and support programs for children and adults in Palm Beach County. LEFT: Gail Marino, with dau
Students perform the Christmas Concert at St. Vincent Ferrer last year.
Photo by Alicia Donelan
By Janis Fontaine
The holiday season is full of shopping and shows, concerts and parties. Parishioners are polishing the stained glass and putting on
Resurrection fern growing on an oak tree thrives in the humid air.
A family enjoys a walk on one of the trails.
INSET BELOW: Beauty berry lives up to its name.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
Deerfield Island P
3rd Annual Delray Beach Surf Festival: Delray Beach – Nov. 14
Under rainy skies and gusty winds, Tom Pacheco, Laura Melum, Lydia Ripper, Elissa Masler and Laura Simon cheer for contestant Raef Melum, 10, during the Delray Beach Surf Festival. Competi
Nate Kinbacher, manager of The Bridgehampton, hacks away at invasive Brazilian pepper plants
along the dunes in Delray Beach. His friend Jason Davis assists.
The berries of a Brazilian pepper plant.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Deborah
