| September, 2017

Posted on 07 September 2017 by LeslieM

Be aware many of these events may be canceled due to Hurricane Irma.

Music Under the Stars

Friday, Sept. 8, 7 to 9 p.m.

The Great Lawn

3501 E. Atlantic Blvd.

Pompano Beach, FL 33062

Join the city of Pompano Beach for an evening of great music and entertainment as Vista Motor Company presents Music under the Stars every second Friday of the month. Their featured band for this month is Business As Usual (Pop). For more information, call 954-786-4111.

Senior Prom

Saturday, Sept. 9, 6 p.m.

Hillsboro Community Center

50 Hillsboro Technology Dr.

Deerfield Beach, FL 33441

The City of Deerfield Beach and the Parks & Recreation Department invite you to the first ever Senior Prom. This “Grown Folks Affair” will be an evening of fun as participants kick off their shoes and dance the night away. $10. Tickets may be purchased at the Hillsboro Community Center. For additional information, call 954- 571-7550.

Join the Scouts!

Saturday, Sept. 9, 11a.m to 2p.m.

Zion Lutheran Church

959 SE 6 Ave.

Deerfield Beach, FL 33441

Tuesday, Sept. 12, 6:30pm

Lutheran Church

959 SE 6 Ave.

Deerfield Beach, FL 33441

For more information contact the Scoutmaster, Robert Nast at troop119sfc@gmail.com or Cubmaster Everra Robbins at ejrobbins07@gmail.com. Visit their website at www.troop119sfc.com.

6th Annual Brazilian Beat

Saturday, Sept 9, 6 to 11 p.m.

Mizner Park Amphitheatre

327 Plaza Real

Boca Raton, FL 33432

Go hear the sounds of a popular Brazilian artist and Samba drummers, see beautiful costumed dancers in a Rio-style parade and enjoy savory Brazilian cuisine and cocktails. This is a free community event. No outside chairs allowed. Free parking available at City Hall (201 W. Palmetto Park Rd.), the Downtown Library (400 NW 2 Ave.), Building Administration (200 NW 2 Ave.), and other locations downtown where event signage is featured. For convenience, free trolleys will be available to and from the Mizner Park Amphitheater.

9/11: A Day for Honoring Our Heroes

A Recognition and Remembrance Ceremony

Monday, Sept. 11, 6:30 p.m.

Pompano Beach Cultural Center

50 SW 1 Ave.

Pompano Beach, FL 33060

Features guest speakers, musicians and a special performance by the American Legion 65-piece band. Admission is free, however space is limited. Please pick up a ticket to secure your seat. They are available on a first come, first served basis at the Emma Lou Olson Civic Center, Herb Skolnick Community Center and E. Pat Larkins Community Center. For more information, call 954-786-4111 or visit the city’s website at www.pompanobeachfl.gov.

Woman’s Club of Deerfield Beach meeting

Tuesday, Sept 12, 1 p.m.

Clubhouse

910 E. Hillsboro Blvd.

Deerfield Beach, FL 33441

Everyone is welcome to attend. The speaker is holocaust survivor Zelda Markbell Fuksman.

7-week in-depth Boating Course

Tuesday, Sept. 12, 7:30 p.m.

Pompano Beach Sail & Power Squadron

3701 NE 18 Terr.

Pompano Beach, FL 33064

Learn the basics of navigation, docking, emergencies, water sport safety and local laws. Be more confident on a boat after this class and earn a Florida boaters education card. Cost is $85 for adults and $35 for 18 years old or under. Group discounts available online at www.pompanosafeboating.com. For more information, call 754-444-1470.

Join Pompano Beach CERT

Thursday, Sept. 14, 6 to 9 p.m.

Pompano Beach Fire Rescue Training Center

120 SW 3 St.

Pompano Beach, FL 33060

Pompano Beach Fire Rescue will be conducting Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) classes beginning Sept. 14. Classes are held every Thursday for eight consecutive weeks. Free. Through the course, you will learn lifesaving skills that will assist your family and our community during the first critical hours after a disaster. At the conclusion of the program, students will receive a certificate and become a member of the team. For more information and to register, visit the CERT page within the website: www.pompanobeachfl.gov, or call 954-786-4510.

Arboretum’s first meeting

Thursday, Sept. 14, 7 p.m.

The Deerfield Beach Arboretum at Constitution Park

2841 W. Hillsboro Blvd.

Deerfield Beach Fl. 33442

Speaker Ted Buckwald is an outstanding authority on Lepidopterology (butterflies). Plant giveaway. Light refreshments served. Go and visit their new and beautiful rainforest. Free and open to the public. For more information, call 954-480-4495, or visit www.treezoo.com.

Save the Date: Jr. Angler’s Day

Saturday, Sept. 16, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

International Fishing Pier

200 NE 21 Ave.

Deerfield Beach, FL 33441

Join the City of Deerfield Beach for their 2nd Annual Jr. Anglers Day. A family fun-filled fishing event with fishing clinics, goody bait buckets, arts & crafts, face painting, balloon art, fishing and more. Event is for kids ages 5-13. Registration will begin at 8:45 a.m. For more information, call the Community Events and Outreach Division at 954-480-4429.

Kiwanis Charity Golf Tournament

Saturday, Sept. 16, 8 a.m. shotgun start

Crystal Lake Golf Club

3810 Crystal Lake Dr.

Deerfield Beach, FL 33064

Time to hit the links for a good cause. This annual Kiwanis of Deerfield Beach event benefits a long list of local charities. There is also lunch, awards, a silent auction and raffles.

Plus, you can get free drinks on the course. $125/ individual; $500/ Foursome. For registration and more information, call Kerri Gordon at 954-980-1833 or visit www.deerfieldbeachkiwanis.org.

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CLERGY CORNER: Bill Gates & the Shabbos

Posted on 07 September 2017 by LeslieM

Kivi Bernard, a jeweler living in Atlanta, is an international motivational speaker. The author of the internationally acclaimed business book: Leopardology – The Hunt For Profit In Tough Global Economy, is a frequent popular speaker for large corporate events. He is also an observant and Chassidic Jew.

Some time ago, Microsoft, invited him to present a keynote address at their senior conference. This was a conference for senior executives from all over the world, and a major part of it focused on Bernard’s theories presented in his Leaopardology.

Kivi looked at the date and said he was sorry, but he would not be able to attend. You see the date they set for him was on the Shabbat, and the presentation would require the usage of electronic devices, power points, videos, mics, recordings, etc. all thing which he could not do on the Shabbat.

A very senior Microsoft executive decided to resolve the issue quite simply by offering Bernhard almost double his speaking fee. He explained that the meeting had been set some year and half in advance and it could not be changed at this point.

Kivi refused. He said he was sorry; he would not speak on the Shabbat.

Microsoft was convinced that it was an issue of money, so they phoned back and offered him even more money. At some point they were ready to pay him an astronomical fee, which would be a half a year salary for some of us. Tempting it was, Kivi knew that was his test. This is where his Jewishness was being tested. This is where his integrity as a G-d fearing Jew was being challenged. This is where he stood at the end of a chain of 4000 years of ancestors who celebrated Shabbat, and he would have to make his own decision now. And he did.

He explained to Mircosoft, that it did not have to do with money. He was not declining because he wanted more money; he was declining because G-d told the Jewish people to observe Shabbat, as one day which is beyond money, beyond career, beyond finances, beyond promotions. It was a day of intimacy with G-d, and with your loved ones.

They phoned him back and said that if that was the case, they would reschedule the entire conference to Sunday. He said that would work and the original price would work too.

Indeed, the Sunday conference opened with a keynote address by Kivi Bernard.

A few weeks later, he gets a call. It was the same senior Microsoft executive who tried to negotiate with him. He told Kivi that subsequent to the conference he had an occasion to join Bill Gates on his private jet where this particular event came up for discussion. The Microsoft executive mentioned the unusual experience of having to reschedule the entire conference for Microsoft in order to accommodate “a Jew’s observance of the Sabbath.”

Bill Gates remarked: I am a person who can buy anything I want. From any skyscraper to any company under the sun. There is nothing I can’t purchase for money. I can buy people. I can buy patents. I can buy talent. I can buy genius. But there are some things that money cannot buy. One of them is the Sabbath! It is not up for sale.

Kivi shared the story and said that it was Bill Gates who allowed this Chassidic Jew to grasp the value and preciousness of what he has done. Gates made him realize how meaningful his sacrifice really was. Bill Gates made him realize how rich he really was, when he owned something that money could not buy.

Vision

It is a question we ought to ask ourselves on Rosh Hashanah. Do I own something that money can’t buy or even define? What is it? Do I have something in my life that I am ready to make sacrifices for? 

Helen Keller (1880-1968), who could not hear or see, transformed an entire nation when she graduated with honors from college. She is still a source of inspiration for millions. She was once asked, “How does it feel not to have eyesight?” She responded:

It is a lot worse if you have eyesight but you lack vision…”

This Rosh Hashanah – Jewish New Year, we need to develop vision. A vision of a nobler, higher, deeper self, which we can only discover through sacrifice, loyalty, devotion, transcendence, humility and lots of courage. We ought not to sell ourselves for cheap; we are capable of developing a moral vocabulary, where we determine the value of a certain behavior not based on comfort or success, but based on the inner music of our soul and convictions of truth, depth, holiness, Torah, Mitzvos and our relationship with G-d.

Shanah Tovah! Happy New Year!

Rabbi Tzvi Dechter is the director of Chabad of North Broward Beaches, located in the Venetain Isle Shopping Center at 2025 E. Sample Rd. in Lighthouse Point. For all upcoming events, please visitwww.JewishLHP.com.

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Everything’s Coming Up Rosen: From stress to less

Posted on 07 September 2017 by LeslieM

By Emily Rosen

ERosen424@aol.com

www.emilyrosen424.com

I’m sitting at my computer about to call Comcast — again. I feel pins sticking in my scalp and worms creeping around my stomach. I have spent the better part of a month almost daily (I’ve actually added the hours … between 30 and 35) on several different issues, most of which have more or less been attended to – finally. My frustration level hit the ceiling weeks ago, and my sense of helplessness in being trapped by corporate bureaucracy, incompetence and robotic responses, has taken its toll on my psyche. And now, after concentrating totally on service and technology, I am about to engage again, this time on the subject of my astronomical bill (and still more other stuff) which far exceeds that which was quoted to me on contract. My hand is on the phone, but the thought of another conversation literally makes me dizzy and nauseous.

This brings me to the affirmation of my belief in the significance of the mind-body connection and the physically destructive power of stress. And surely, I realize that in the larger scheme of life, this is a relatively ant-like stress, especially as I watch the physical and psychic tortures of people all over the world who have insoluble problems.

Some people need Yoga, mindful meditation, Tai Chi, massages, a walk in the woods, deep psycho-therapy, drum retreats, and who knows how many legitimate and successful treatments for stress reduction there are … and how truly valuable it is to society that they all exist (except for the scams). I am always in awe about the many ways there are for folks to find the ability to cope.

For me, it’s very simple and inexpensive. In my most stressful moments, I find crazy relief in the gratitude I feel for not having to endure anything worse, something I’d often had disagreements about with a good friend. She always insisted to me that someone else’s worse troubles did nothing to diminish her own lesser ones. I guess people diverge on many different levels.

Though I very rarely go to Facebook, I did just indulge in my once in awhile time there where I discovered one of the best reminders I have ever heard of on how to live well, other than the “Serenity Prayer.” This one goes, “Anything you can’t control is teaching you to let go.”

I’m not quite ready to let go of my Comcast issues. However, Labor Day is over. Fall is settling in; it’s back to routines and soon the end of year holidays will challenge our stress quotient. So I will hang loose when Comcast tells me, again, this call may be recorded for quality assurance – and I will refrain from bringing up the previous 26 (recorded by me) calls of the past few weeks. I have a new glitch in my programming, sigh, sigh — in addition to the bill — and I can’t believe I did this to myself. I switched voluntarily from AT&T because I was not satisfied and the gods have punished me; but, I am thankful I do not live in Houston, and hopeful that Irma will find her way out into the ocean. And I’m practicing to live without TV.

It’s not so bad at all. I am not stressed. Ten, nine, eight, seven ……..

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Posted on 07 September 2017 by LeslieM



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Mandatory Evacuations for some areas of Deerfield Beach

Posted on 07 September 2017 by JLusk

 

The City of Deerfield Beach would like to remind residents that Broward County is issuing a mandatory evacuation beginning Thursday, September 7, 2017 at 12:00 p.m., for Zones A and B. This includes all residences and businesses east of US-1/Federal Highway and mobile homes within Broward County.

All residents and businesses and their employees should make arrangements to adhere to the mandatory evacuation and vacate the affected areas beginning at 12:00 p.m. tomorrow. Those residents who evacuate must remember they will need I.D./proof of residency upon returning to their home. After the storm, law enforcement will not let residents back into their homes without that documentation.

Please take a look the evacuation map below:

http://www.broward.org/Hurri…/Documents/HurricaneEvacMap.pdf

Please continue to monitor updates on one of the following communication resources:

City website – www.DFB.City

Facebook – @CityOfDeerfieldBeachFloridaMunicipalGovernment

Twitter – @DFB_City

Instagram – @cityofdeerfieldbeach

Stay safe Deerfield Beach!

Hurricane Evacuation Map

(There is also a mandatory evacuation for Lighthouse Point & Hillsboro Beach).

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Alfred Angelo to auction dresses, Sept. 2

Posted on 01 September 2017 by JLusk

Need a wedding dress? Alfred Angelo Bridal, one of the country’s largest wedding dress retailers, is slated to be auctioning off thousands of dresses on Saturday. The auction is supposed to only include sample dresses and wholesale inventory that has been stored here in Deerfield Beach.

The bridal dress company went bankrupt and now is looking to get rid of its merchandise. This auction has to be approved by the West Palm Beach based U.S. Bankruptcy  Court, but if the auction by Auction America does take place, it will happen Sept. 2 at 9 a.m. at Alfred Angelo’s warehouse at 602 S. Military Trail, Building 2, Unit 692, in Deerfield Beach, according to a court filing. There is also supposed to be an 8 a.m. viewing (by appointment).

Many brides were left without their dresses by this bankruptcy. The company said on their website that because of the “logistical and financial strain of fulfilling each and every open order” they could no longer continue delivering dresses so the order would have to remain unfilled. They said that if you are owed any money, visit www.flsb.uscourts.gov/?page_id=1932 and file a claim.

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