LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Posted on 18 April 2013 by LeslieM

To our wonderful supporters

Dear Editor:

After totaling all proceeds from Relay for Life, we’re just below $100,000 in fundraising!

We raised over $20,000 at the Relay!

Thanks to all of your contributions–from publicity, entertainment, activities, food, accommodations, supplies, manpower, to the inspirational message. We couldn’t have pulled it together without you. It was truly an amazing and inspirational 24+ hours, and we are so appreciative of your support.

Nona and the Relay Committee

Deerfield Beach, Lighthouse Point, Hillsboro Beach, FL

 

Visit to Deerfield beach

Dear Editor:

We visited Deerfield beach on spring break. We could not believe that there was no place to eat on the beach, except for two restaurants that charged $50 for a couple hamburgers. We’ve been to Miami beaches and others that have Tiki bars and strollers with food/drinks.

Deerfield beach has nothing. Probably just the two restaurants, one was JB’s, can’t remember the other one. And the beach is terrible. Full of cigarette butts, junk, trash. Don’t you ever clean your beach?

Larry

Omaha, NE

 

Editor’s note: For many years, Deerfield beach has also offered a more affordable “beach shack” for beachgoers to pick up something simple to eat. It closed for pier renovations in October 2011. The new Deerfield Beach Café is now slated to open in late May 2013.

 

Funding loss for NE Focal Point

Dear Editor:

We need your help in advocating and educating to restore the proposed funding cut by the Florida Senate to our Deerfield Beach Alzheimer’s Day Care Center.

We appreciate your assistance in promoting the importance of this funding, along with the devastating impact that it will have on families who reside in the northeast section of Broward County whose loved ones have this dreadful disease. It is vitally important that the $195,150 be restored. This funding cut is to start July 2013. It is an over 50 percent cut to our Alzheimer’s Day Care Center’s budget!

Please call and/or email your State Senator.

Find your State Senator by looking at your voter’s registration card to find your district:

• State Senator District 34 Maria Lorts Sachs 561-279-1427–sachs.maria.web@flsenate.gov

• State Senator District 29 Jeremy Ring 954-917-1392–ring.jeremy.web@flsenate.gov

• State Senator District 31Christopher Smith 954-321-2705–smith.chris.web@flsenate.gov

• State Senator District # 33Eleanor Sobe 954-924-3693–sobel.eleanor.web@flsenate.gov

• State Senator District # 36 Oscar Braynon II 305-654-7150–braynon.oscar.web@flsenate.gov

The information below will give you “talking points” to use.

The main objective is to have them save/restore that funding. Please start by thanking them for their support of senior services and Alzheimer’s Day Care programs. Please tell them that you heard about the cut mentioned above and then tell them of the importance of the respite program at NE Focal Point Alzheimer’s Day Care in Deerfield Beach. This state funding for the respite program is crucial in order to provide daycare services for individuals with dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, memory loss and other memory-related disorders. In addition to providing services for the individual with Alzheimer’s disease, it is important to provide respite/relief services, case management, and caregiver training and support for the caregivers. These vital services delay premature institutionalization, which makes the services much more cost effective than long-term care facilities. In addition, the services provide caregivers “peace of mind” and allow them to be able to continue to contribute to society by maintaining active employment. This significant funding loss of $195,150 to the daycare center will be devastating to the families who care for their loved ones with Alzheimer’s disease.

Donna DeFronzo

Director

NE Focal Point

Senior Services Center

Deerfield Beach, FL

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