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Warning: htmlspecialchars() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given in /hsphere/local/home/promenad/ftlauderdalenews.net/libraries/joomla/document/feed/renderer/atom.php on line 96 People, Places and OrganizationsThe Promenade Newspaper is circulated in Greater Fort Lauderdale from Hollywood to Pompano Beach. It is your independent community newspaper of Greater Fort Lauderdale. Publisher Ray Brasted has over 35 years of experience as a community journalist.http://www.ftlauderdalenews.net/index.php/people-places-and-organizations2010-09-05T00:25:37ZJoomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content ManagementBONNET HOUSE ARTIST SERIES2010-08-03T21:26:10Z2010-08-03T21:26:10Zhttp://www.ftlauderdalenews.net/index.php/people-places-and-organizations/item/52-st.-lawrence-gallery-best-of-artist-series<p> </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 24.0px Arial;"><strong>Bonnet House Artist Series Schedule</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial;">The Bonnet House Museum & Gardens and St. Lawrence Gallery <em>Fourth annual Best of the Artists Series</em> continues with its Third installation Thursday, August 12 at the St. Lawrence Gallery. The five exhibitions feature a variety of works from 16 Bonnet House Fine Artists. The four artists included in this exhibition are Sandra Camper, Barbara Dix, George Dolan and Sandy Dolan. The exhibition runs August 12 through September 4.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Attendees have the opportunity to vote for their favorite piece at the first four exhibitions and the fifth exhibition will include the winning pieces from the first four shows. The Best of the Artists Series winner will then be announced at the closing reception scheduled for Thursday, November 4.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">All five exhibitions are free and open to the public and the opening receptions include raffle items donated by each participating artist, wine and cheese and beautiful art. A percentage of all art sale proceeds will benefit Bonnet House and its programs. The receptions for each show will begin at 6:00pm on the first night of each exhibition as well as the closing night of the final exhibition.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><strong>The upcoming exhibition dates are as follows:</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Third Exhibition: Thursday, August 12 – Saturday, September 4 (Opening Reception: Thursday, August 12, 6pm)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Fourth Exhibition: Thursday, September 9 – Saturday, October 2 (Opening Reception: Thursday, September 9, 6pm)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Fifth Exhibition: Thursday, October 7 – Thursday, November 4. This show will include favorite pieces voted on by all the attendees from the previous four shows. (Opening Reception: Thursday, October 7, 6pm)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><em>Best of the Artists</em> Closing Reception: Thursday, November 4 at 6pm. <em>Best of the Artists Series</em> winner will be announced.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">St. Lawrence Gallery is located at 3556 N. Ocean Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale two lights north of Oakland Park Blvd. on the east side. For more information, please contact Monica Estevez at (954) 563-5393 ext. 127 or St. Lawrence Gallery at (954) 566-8011 or visit <a href="http://www.bonnethouse.org/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.bonnethouse.org</span></a> or <a href="http://www.stlawrencegallery.com/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.stlawrencegallery.com</span></a>.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Bonnet House Museum & Gardens -- 900 North Birch Road, Fort Lauderdale</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Open for tours Tues.- Sat. from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm; Sundays from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm www.bonnethouse.org</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 24.0px Arial;"><strong>Bonnet House Artist Series Schedule</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial;">The Bonnet House Museum & Gardens and St. Lawrence Gallery <em>Fourth annual Best of the Artists Series</em> continues with its Third installation Thursday, August 12 at the St. Lawrence Gallery. The five exhibitions feature a variety of works from 16 Bonnet House Fine Artists. The four artists included in this exhibition are Sandra Camper, Barbara Dix, George Dolan and Sandy Dolan. The exhibition runs August 12 through September 4.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Attendees have the opportunity to vote for their favorite piece at the first four exhibitions and the fifth exhibition will include the winning pieces from the first four shows. The Best of the Artists Series winner will then be announced at the closing reception scheduled for Thursday, November 4.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">All five exhibitions are free and open to the public and the opening receptions include raffle items donated by each participating artist, wine and cheese and beautiful art. A percentage of all art sale proceeds will benefit Bonnet House and its programs. The receptions for each show will begin at 6:00pm on the first night of each exhibition as well as the closing night of the final exhibition.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><strong>The upcoming exhibition dates are as follows:</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Third Exhibition: Thursday, August 12 – Saturday, September 4 (Opening Reception: Thursday, August 12, 6pm)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Fourth Exhibition: Thursday, September 9 – Saturday, October 2 (Opening Reception: Thursday, September 9, 6pm)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Fifth Exhibition: Thursday, October 7 – Thursday, November 4. This show will include favorite pieces voted on by all the attendees from the previous four shows. (Opening Reception: Thursday, October 7, 6pm)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><em>Best of the Artists</em> Closing Reception: Thursday, November 4 at 6pm. <em>Best of the Artists Series</em> winner will be announced.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">St. Lawrence Gallery is located at 3556 N. Ocean Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale two lights north of Oakland Park Blvd. on the east side. For more information, please contact Monica Estevez at (954) 563-5393 ext. 127 or St. Lawrence Gallery at (954) 566-8011 or visit <a href="http://www.bonnethouse.org/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.bonnethouse.org</span></a> or <a href="http://www.stlawrencegallery.com/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.stlawrencegallery.com</span></a>.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Bonnet House Museum & Gardens -- 900 North Birch Road, Fort Lauderdale</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Open for tours Tues.- Sat. from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm; Sundays from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm www.bonnethouse.org</p>
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<p> </p>Recovery Funds Saves Job at Fort Lauderdale Art House2010-07-05T14:54:43Z2010-07-05T14:54:43Zhttp://www.ftlauderdalenews.net/index.php/people-places-and-organizations/item/49-cinema-paradiso-provides-independent-film-and-events-year-around<p style="text-align: left;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Arial Narrow;"><strong>Art Job Saved! Robert E. Davis <em>Reels It In</em> at Cinema Paradiso</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Broward Cultural Division distributed economic recovery funds to 17 arts organizations including <strong>Cinema Paradiso,</strong> which retained a position<span style="color: #19497e;"> that </span>was previously slated for elimination due to financial cut backs. <strong>Robert E. Davis</strong> assists with programming daily film screenings, special film series events, and educational programs while successfully serving a diverse and art-conscious community.</p>
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<p style="text-indent: 9px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; text-align: center; margin: 0px;"><strong>To date, 47 arts jobs in Broward County were retained through a grant from the <em>National Endowment for the Arts</em> and a national <em>American Recovery and Reinvestment Act</em> (<em>ARRA</em>) enacted through the Obama Administration.</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Cinema Paradiso is one of South Florida's most unique theaters. Operated by the Broward County Film Society and home of the annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, it is known for its role as Broward County's only full time Art House theater, showcasing the finest in independent and foreign films, along with documentaries and classic films not shown anywhere else on the big screen.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">As a hub for the local and international film community, filmmakers, press, investors, celebrities, and movie fans from around the world gather during the annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival; and many will spend the bulk of their time in Fort Lauderdale at Cinema Paradiso!</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Davis will specifically assist with the programming of <em>The Italia Festa</em> and the <em>Perrier French Film Festival</em>, selecting, procuring and writing program notes for the <em>24 Year Retrospective</em>; and negotiating celebrity appearances. He will also be involved in the preparation of the <em>Annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival </em>– the longest running film festival in the world.<em> </em>All this saved, through a grant from the <em>National Endowment for the Arts</em>, and a national American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Through the economic stimulus package, Broward County’s Cultural Division received a $250,000 grant, and in turn re-granted the funds through an ARRA Lifeline application process. These funds were specifically directed to restore jobs in the arts, endorsing the notion that the non-profit arts industry is an important sector of the economy. Arts organizations had the opportunity to apply for funds to provide salary support for an existing staff member who would otherwise have been laid off; or to re-engage artistic/contracted services already let go.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Even before the Obama Administration signed the ARRA into law on February 17, 2009, County staff was immediately mobilized to respond. The Broward Cultural Council as well as the Cultural Division moved quickly to execute these grants and distribute the funds to the cultural organizations. Also, a Broward County Stimulus Grants Coordination Office, <a href="http://www.broward.org/recovery"><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.broward.org/recovery</span></a> was established for the purpose of centralizing the identification, development, review, approval and tracking for grants and contracts resulting from ARRA. The office is managed by Linda Ross, stimulus grants coordinator with Broward County.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">For further information on the list of grantees, or this program, visit the <a href="http://www.broward.org/arts/general/arra/welcome.htm"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Broward Cultural Division website</span></a>; or contact Jim Shermer 954-357-7502; e-mail: <a href="mailto:jshermer@broward.org"><span style="color: #0000ff;">jshermer@broward.org</span></a>.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Arial Narrow;"><strong>Art Job Saved! Robert E. Davis <em>Reels It In</em> at Cinema Paradiso</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Broward Cultural Division distributed economic recovery funds to 17 arts organizations including <strong>Cinema Paradiso,</strong> which retained a position<span style="color: #19497e;"> that </span>was previously slated for elimination due to financial cut backs. <strong>Robert E. Davis</strong> assists with programming daily film screenings, special film series events, and educational programs while successfully serving a diverse and art-conscious community.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #19497e;"> </p>
<p style="text-indent: 9px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; text-align: center; margin: 0px;"><strong>To date, 47 arts jobs in Broward County were retained through a grant from the <em>National Endowment for the Arts</em> and a national <em>American Recovery and Reinvestment Act</em> (<em>ARRA</em>) enacted through the Obama Administration.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Cinema Paradiso is one of South Florida's most unique theaters. Operated by the Broward County Film Society and home of the annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, it is known for its role as Broward County's only full time Art House theater, showcasing the finest in independent and foreign films, along with documentaries and classic films not shown anywhere else on the big screen.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">As a hub for the local and international film community, filmmakers, press, investors, celebrities, and movie fans from around the world gather during the annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival; and many will spend the bulk of their time in Fort Lauderdale at Cinema Paradiso!</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Davis will specifically assist with the programming of <em>The Italia Festa</em> and the <em>Perrier French Film Festival</em>, selecting, procuring and writing program notes for the <em>24 Year Retrospective</em>; and negotiating celebrity appearances. He will also be involved in the preparation of the <em>Annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival </em>– the longest running film festival in the world.<em> </em>All this saved, through a grant from the <em>National Endowment for the Arts</em>, and a national American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Through the economic stimulus package, Broward County’s Cultural Division received a $250,000 grant, and in turn re-granted the funds through an ARRA Lifeline application process. These funds were specifically directed to restore jobs in the arts, endorsing the notion that the non-profit arts industry is an important sector of the economy. Arts organizations had the opportunity to apply for funds to provide salary support for an existing staff member who would otherwise have been laid off; or to re-engage artistic/contracted services already let go.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Even before the Obama Administration signed the ARRA into law on February 17, 2009, County staff was immediately mobilized to respond. The Broward Cultural Council as well as the Cultural Division moved quickly to execute these grants and distribute the funds to the cultural organizations. Also, a Broward County Stimulus Grants Coordination Office, <a href="http://www.broward.org/recovery"><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.broward.org/recovery</span></a> was established for the purpose of centralizing the identification, development, review, approval and tracking for grants and contracts resulting from ARRA. The office is managed by Linda Ross, stimulus grants coordinator with Broward County.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">For further information on the list of grantees, or this program, visit the <a href="http://www.broward.org/arts/general/arra/welcome.htm"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Broward Cultural Division website</span></a>; or contact Jim Shermer 954-357-7502; e-mail: <a href="mailto:jshermer@broward.org"><span style="color: #0000ff;">jshermer@broward.org</span></a>.</p>
<p> </p>Duo Coming up on the South Florida Music Scene2010-06-27T14:51:54Z2010-06-27T14:51:54Zhttp://www.ftlauderdalenews.net/index.php/people-places-and-organizations/item/47-lulu--corrado<p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24px; line-height: normal;"><strong>Review </strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;">Lulu & Corrado - Making Great Music Together...</span></p>
<p>Lulu Valentine and Anthony Corrado combine their musical talents and their obvious love for one another into a musical event you will be telling your friends about. Song, dance, comedy sketches and audience interaction are just the beginning. This couple is very talented and are eager to share their music with their audiences.</p>
<p>Corrado is more than proficient on just about any instrument and during a given set may play the saxophone, flute, guitar, doumbek drum or trumpet. He also has a good voice. Lulu Valentin exudes a sensuality in her vocals along with the feeling that she is just having a lot of fun singing.</p>
<p>Watch this space for updates on their performance schedule.</p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24px; line-height: normal;"><strong>Review </strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;">Lulu & Corrado - Making Great Music Together...</span></p>
<p>Lulu Valentine and Anthony Corrado combine their musical talents and their obvious love for one another into a musical event you will be telling your friends about. Song, dance, comedy sketches and audience interaction are just the beginning. This couple is very talented and are eager to share their music with their audiences.</p>
<p>Corrado is more than proficient on just about any instrument and during a given set may play the saxophone, flute, guitar, doumbek drum or trumpet. He also has a good voice. Lulu Valentin exudes a sensuality in her vocals along with the feeling that she is just having a lot of fun singing.</p>
<p>Watch this space for updates on their performance schedule.</p>Fleet Week 2010 - Full Week of Special Events Held2010-05-03T15:42:49Z2010-05-03T15:42:49Zhttp://www.ftlauderdalenews.net/index.php/people-places-and-organizations/item/45-fleet-week-fort-lauderdale<p> </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 25px;">Coast Guardsman of the Year Awarded to SK2 Rodriguez, USCG in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba By Broward County Council Past Presidents</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;">Past Presidents, SCPO Alan Starr USN Ret. and Capt. Bill Weiler USN Ret. of the Broward County, FL Council of the Navy League of the United States presented the Coast Guardsman of the Year Award to Coast Guardsman SK2 Carlos Rodriguez representing Coast Guard Air Station, Miami.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;">It is a Broward County, Fl Council adopted unit. Carlos is on air station special detachment to Guantanamo Bay where he is responsible for ensuring that all aircraft missions into “Gitmo” including the special relief mission to Haiti, receive the parts and equipment necessary to complete their mission. Carlos competed against twelve candidates for the award.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;">The three factors that weighted most in the competition were community service, military bearing and professional development. Chief Storekeeper Cory Sidlo, the USCG AVDET supervisor said. “Rodriguez is motivated and reliable.”</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 18.0px Times New Roman;"><strong>Fleet Week Busy and Exciting for Community</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><strong>By Bob Hein</strong></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The rain and the wind gusts made entry into Port everglades challenging for the Navy ships but Monday morning they all safely arrived and the Twentieth Annual Fort Lauderdale Fleet Week officially commenced. The weather cleared and the All Hands Party at the Hard Rock Seminole Café, Paradise Village was a great success. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Ship tours for prearranged groups, including a large number of local area students, began on Tuesday morning and continued throughout the week. The tours were conducted by crew members of the ships who were assisted by volunteers from the Broward County Council, other area Navy Leagues and Broward Navy Days.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Crew members not on duty took part in numerous community relations events, including visits to local schools, hospitals, and convalescent care facilities, while 30 Sailors spent 3 days assisting with a Habitat for Humanity project. It wasn’t all work…there was a golf tournament, athletic and damage control competitions, and numerous opportunities to enjoy local area attractions which included a fishing tournament, shopping trips, airboat rides and complimentary rides on the Jungle Queen.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">On Tuesday evening, a Junior Officers Party that has become “Famous Fleet Wide” was held at Briny Riverfront Irish Pub at Las Olas Riverfront. Briny is a Community Affiliate of the Broward County Navy League. The owners, Mike and Aileen Brennen are the event’s traditional sponsor, As usual they did an outstanding job of hosting more then 150 Junior Officers as well as Navy Leaguers and local citizens. There was complementary food, drink, music and dancing. A Chief Petty Officers Party sponsored by the CPOA was held at the Coral Ridge Yacht Club, and was also very successful.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">On Wednesday, the various ships and the submarine hosted the Celebrity Chef’s Luncheon, an event were local area chef’s prepare lunch for the commanding officer, selected crew members, and invited guests, in the respective wardrooms. That evening, “Hit the Beach” parties for tthe crews were held at various locations throughout the beach area. The Boca Raton Council of the Navy League held a Sailor of the Year party for our guest ships .</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><strong> The ships and units participating in Fleet Week were:</strong></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">USS Iwo Jima <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> LPH-7 Assault Ship</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">USS Independence <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> LCS-2 The Navy’s newest ship</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">USS Porter <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> DDG-78 Destroyer</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">USS Newport News <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> SSN-750 Submarine</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">USS Halyburton <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> FFG-40 Frigate</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">FGS Hessen<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> F-221 German Frigate</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">USCGC Key Biscayne WPB-1339 Coast Guard Cutter</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Naval Beach Group Two</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Second Marine Division, USMC</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thursday night, April 29. the FGS Hessen, the German Frigate, held a reception aboard ship. It turned out to be far more than just a reception. CDR. Dirk Gaertner FGRN and his crew held one of the finest reception in memory. It turned out to be a full meal of German food from horderves to dessert. The food was fantastic and the drinks were great, particularly the beer.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Stars were shining brightly above Friday evening’s onboard reception on the USS Iwo Jima. More then 1000 invited guests shared in the goodwill exhibited by our Navy during Fort Lauderdale’s Fleet Week 2010. The reception was the culmination of the week’s activities and the navy's way of showing its appreciation.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Civilian guests enjoyed the hanger bay festivities as well as the numerous static displays on the flight deck. The event was well attended by local dignitaries and Navy Brass. Congressman Ron Klein was there, along with several area mayors including Fort Lauderdale Mayor John P. Seiler who presented the key to the city to Capt. Jeff Amick, USN, captain of the USS Iwo Jima. Numerous business leaders and Congressional hopeful, Alan West were also present. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The Navy was represented by Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead, USN, RADM Townsend (Tim) Alexander, USN, U.S.Commander of the Navy Region Southeast, Rear Admiral Michelle Howard, USN Commander, Expeditionary Strike Group Two. She was the first African-American to command a US Navy ship. It was a memorable event and a fitting close to a memorable week.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 25px;">Coast Guardsman of the Year Awarded to SK2 Rodriguez, USCG in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba By Broward County Council Past Presidents</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;">Past Presidents, SCPO Alan Starr USN Ret. and Capt. Bill Weiler USN Ret. of the Broward County, FL Council of the Navy League of the United States presented the Coast Guardsman of the Year Award to Coast Guardsman SK2 Carlos Rodriguez representing Coast Guard Air Station, Miami.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;">It is a Broward County, Fl Council adopted unit. Carlos is on air station special detachment to Guantanamo Bay where he is responsible for ensuring that all aircraft missions into “Gitmo” including the special relief mission to Haiti, receive the parts and equipment necessary to complete their mission. Carlos competed against twelve candidates for the award.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;">The three factors that weighted most in the competition were community service, military bearing and professional development. Chief Storekeeper Cory Sidlo, the USCG AVDET supervisor said. “Rodriguez is motivated and reliable.”</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 18.0px Times New Roman;"><strong>The Twentieth Annual Fort Lauderdale </strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 18.0px Times New Roman;"><strong>Fleet Week Busy and Exciting for Community</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><strong>By Bob Hein</strong></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The rain and the wind gusts made entry into Port everglades challenging for the Navy ships but Monday morning they all safely arrived and the Twentieth Annual Fort Lauderdale Fleet Week officially commenced. The weather cleared and the All Hands Party at the Hard Rock Seminole Café, Paradise Village was a great success. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Ship tours for prearranged groups, including a large number of local area students, began on Tuesday morning and continued throughout the week. The tours were conducted by crew members of the ships who were assisted by volunteers from the Broward County Council, other area Navy Leagues and Broward Navy Days.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Crew members not on duty took part in numerous community relations events, including visits to local schools, hospitals, and convalescent care facilities, while 30 Sailors spent 3 days assisting with a Habitat for Humanity project. It wasn’t all work…there was a golf tournament, athletic and damage control competitions, and numerous opportunities to enjoy local area attractions which included a fishing tournament, shopping trips, airboat rides and complimentary rides on the Jungle Queen.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">On Tuesday evening, a Junior Officers Party that has become “Famous Fleet Wide” was held at Briny Riverfront Irish Pub at Las Olas Riverfront. Briny is a Community Affiliate of the Broward County Navy League. The owners, Mike and Aileen Brennen are the event’s traditional sponsor, As usual they did an outstanding job of hosting more then 150 Junior Officers as well as Navy Leaguers and local citizens. There was complementary food, drink, music and dancing. A Chief Petty Officers Party sponsored by the CPOA was held at the Coral Ridge Yacht Club, and was also very successful.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">On Wednesday, the various ships and the submarine hosted the Celebrity Chef’s Luncheon, an event were local area chef’s prepare lunch for the commanding officer, selected crew members, and invited guests, in the respective wardrooms. That evening, “Hit the Beach” parties for tthe crews were held at various locations throughout the beach area. The Boca Raton Council of the Navy League held a Sailor of the Year party for our guest ships .</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><strong> The ships and units participating in Fleet Week were:</strong></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">USS Iwo Jima <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> LPH-7 Assault Ship</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">USS Independence <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> LCS-2 The Navy’s newest ship</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">USS Porter <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> DDG-78 Destroyer</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">USS Newport News <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> SSN-750 Submarine</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">USS Halyburton <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> FFG-40 Frigate</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">FGS Hessen<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> F-221 German Frigate</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">USCGC Key Biscayne WPB-1339 Coast Guard Cutter</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Naval Beach Group Two</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Second Marine Division, USMC</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thursday night, April 29. the FGS Hessen, the German Frigate, held a reception aboard ship. It turned out to be far more than just a reception. CDR. Dirk Gaertner FGRN and his crew held one of the finest reception in memory. It turned out to be a full meal of German food from horderves to dessert. The food was fantastic and the drinks were great, particularly the beer.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Stars were shining brightly above Friday evening’s onboard reception on the USS Iwo Jima. More then 1000 invited guests shared in the goodwill exhibited by our Navy during Fort Lauderdale’s Fleet Week 2010. The reception was the culmination of the week’s activities and the navy's way of showing its appreciation.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Civilian guests enjoyed the hanger bay festivities as well as the numerous static displays on the flight deck. The event was well attended by local dignitaries and Navy Brass. Congressman Ron Klein was there, along with several area mayors including Fort Lauderdale Mayor John P. Seiler who presented the key to the city to Capt. Jeff Amick, USN, captain of the USS Iwo Jima. Numerous business leaders and Congressional hopeful, Alan West were also present. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The Navy was represented by Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead, USN, RADM Townsend (Tim) Alexander, USN, U.S.Commander of the Navy Region Southeast, Rear Admiral Michelle Howard, USN Commander, Expeditionary Strike Group Two. She was the first African-American to command a US Navy ship. It was a memorable event and a fitting close to a memorable week.</span></p>
<p> </p>Designated Driver Company Gets You Home2010-04-27T21:26:46Z2010-04-27T21:26:46Zhttp://www.ftlauderdalenews.net/index.php/people-places-and-organizations/item/44-zingo-is-its-name<p> </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 24.0px Arial;"><strong>Driver Service Will Get You</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 7.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">There is a new company in Greater Fort Lauderdale that just might save your life and the life of others. The company is called ZINGO, a designated driving service that drives you home in YOUR car.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 7.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">If you have been drinking too much and are afraid or too responsible to drive your own car, company drivers will come to you on a folding motorized scooter and then stow the scooter in the trunk of your car and drive you home. There is no limit on distance, which is an intriguing aspect of the service. Want to go to California? You got it!</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 7.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">The cost is $20 for pick up and the first two miles. After that it is $2 per mile (tips are not included.)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 7.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">If you think you might need the service you can even reserve the drive home in advance by calling 954-523-8887 or sending a text to 954-790-1818. Demand in peak hours mean a 20-30 minute wait but otherwise it is just ten to fifteen minutes.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 7.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">ZINGO also drives patients home after surgery when they can't drive themselves and are available for birthday and bachelor and bachelorette parties. The company is fully insured and the client signs a customer service contract.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 7.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Visit www.zingoftlauderdale.com for all of the details.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 24.0px Arial;"><strong>Driver Service Will Get You</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 24.0px Arial;"><strong>Home After that Late Party</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 7.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 7.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">There is a new company in Greater Fort Lauderdale that just might save your life and the life of others. The company is called ZINGO, a designated driving service that drives you home in YOUR car.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 7.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">If you have been drinking too much and are afraid or too responsible to drive your own car, company drivers will come to you on a folding motorized scooter and then stow the scooter in the trunk of your car and drive you home. There is no limit on distance, which is an intriguing aspect of the service. Want to go to California? You got it!</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 7.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">The cost is $20 for pick up and the first two miles. After that it is $2 per mile (tips are not included.)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 7.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">If you think you might need the service you can even reserve the drive home in advance by calling 954-523-8887 or sending a text to 954-790-1818. Demand in peak hours mean a 20-30 minute wait but otherwise it is just ten to fifteen minutes.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 7.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">ZINGO also drives patients home after surgery when they can't drive themselves and are available for birthday and bachelor and bachelorette parties. The company is fully insured and the client signs a customer service contract.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 7.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Visit www.zingoftlauderdale.com for all of the details.</p>
<p> </p>National Week of the Ocean 2010 Season Poster2010-04-25T15:50:49Z2010-04-25T15:50:49Zhttp://www.ftlauderdalenews.net/index.php/people-places-and-organizations/item/42-marine-fair-through-may-8-2010<p> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 24.0px Arial;">Week of the Ocean Sea-Son</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">National Week of the Ocean members encourage year-round ocean study from the arts to commerce, from history to foods, from endangered sea creatures to issues such as offshore drilling or ocean dumping. Once an interest is developed, some action steps should be taken by those involved with the preservation of the ocean as the goal.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Those who wish to support Week of the Ocean efforts can order a full-color 24 x 36" poster for $10.00 plus $4.95 shipping & handling. Proceeds will help fund campus celebration kits for teachers which are available for $5.00 plus $2.95 for shipping & handling. Topics include a campus-wide Week of the Ocean or a School Marine Fair to showcase student projects.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">A complimentary festival schedule for events held annually in Fort Lauderdale, Florida is also available.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">The Fort Lauderdale’s 31st festival sea-son through May 8, 2010 includes the April 30 - May 2 Week of the Ocean School Marine Fair and the May 8 Mother Ocean Day Community Awards & Film.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">For more information about National Week of the Ocean’s programs, write to National Week of the Ocean, Inc., P.O. Box 179, Ft Lauderdale,FL 33302 or call 954-462-5573 for a Festival program. Visit the website at <a href="http://www.national-week-of-the-ocean.org/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.national-week-of-the-ocean.org</span></a>.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 12.0px Arial;">National Week of the Ocean, Inc. is a Federal and State registered 501c3 operated solely by a volunteer staff of officers and directors.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 24.0px Arial;">Week of the Ocean Sea-Son</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 24.0px Arial;">Continues Through May 8</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">National Week of the Ocean members encourage year-round ocean study from the arts to commerce, from history to foods, from endangered sea creatures to issues such as offshore drilling or ocean dumping. Once an interest is developed, some action steps should be taken by those involved with the preservation of the ocean as the goal.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Those who wish to support Week of the Ocean efforts can order a full-color 24 x 36" poster for $10.00 plus $4.95 shipping & handling. Proceeds will help fund campus celebration kits for teachers which are available for $5.00 plus $2.95 for shipping & handling. Topics include a campus-wide Week of the Ocean or a School Marine Fair to showcase student projects.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">A complimentary festival schedule for events held annually in Fort Lauderdale, Florida is also available.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">The Fort Lauderdale’s 31st festival sea-son through May 8, 2010 includes the April 30 - May 2 Week of the Ocean School Marine Fair and the May 8 Mother Ocean Day Community Awards & Film.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">For more information about National Week of the Ocean’s programs, write to National Week of the Ocean, Inc., P.O. Box 179, Ft Lauderdale,FL 33302 or call 954-462-5573 for a Festival program. Visit the website at <a href="http://www.national-week-of-the-ocean.org/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.national-week-of-the-ocean.org</span></a>.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 12.0px Arial;">National Week of the Ocean, Inc. is a Federal and State registered 501c3 operated solely by a volunteer staff of officers and directors.</p>
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<p> </p>Former Stuntman Loves His Career Change2010-04-05T15:13:54Z2010-04-05T15:13:54Zhttp://www.ftlauderdalenews.net/index.php/people-places-and-organizations/item/37-john-grantham-gets-involved-with-people-in-his-new-job<p> </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 17.0px Arial;"><strong>Cruise Director Takes a Fall from Time to Time</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 35.0px Arial;"><em>to Become Part of the Show</em></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Ray Brasted</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">John Grantham is not your usual cruise director and that can be claimed even if one hasn't experienced a lot of cruises. How many former hollywood stuntmen do you know who emcee cruise line shows, mingle with guests aboard ship and lines up entertainment for the pleasure of passengers?</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">A big man with broad shoulders and ready smile, Grantham spent twenty years falling off horses, being shot at and beat up in the name of show business and is not what you would imagine when asked to describe a typical cruise director. And Grantham understands that. "It really is amazing. It isn't something I aspired to do," he said with a smile.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">A chance conversation brought the Naples, FL native to the attention of Celebrity Cruises and he was quickly hired. Having worked as an actor and stuntman in Las Angeles for many years and having been around many well known professionals in the theater and movies gives Grantham an insight into talent and working with entertainers.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Finding the right blend of entertainment and special programs is an art in its own right and pleasing several thousands passengers week to week takes the courage of a man used to falling off horses. "Entertainment is very subjective. Something I like, might not be liked by the next person," Grantham noted.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">But he keeps his eyes open for up-and-comers and on the first night of recent cruise introduced Will Foraker to the audience. Grantham "discovered" the 22-year-old playing in a hidden corner of the Celebrity Solstice and was wowed by the young man's talent.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Foraker did not disappoint and for the rest of the cruise drew ever increasing crowds to his corner of the ship. We agree that many who read this will one day be able to say they knew him "when".</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Maybe it is because of his years of auditioning for parts, and learning to move forward when faced with rejection, but Grantham brings a sensitivity to his job when working with the artists who put on a show every night.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">"I think I can connect with our audience," he added.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Ed. Note: At the time of this interview Grantham was preparing to leave the Celebrity Solstice for a vacation and then to join the Celebrity Equinox in Europe.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 35.0px Arial;"><em>Former Stuntman Not Afraid </em></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 35.0px Arial;"><em>to Become Part of the Show</em></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Ray Brasted</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">John Grantham is not your usual cruise director and that can be claimed even if one hasn't experienced a lot of cruises. How many former hollywood stuntmen do you know who emcee cruise line shows, mingle with guests aboard ship and lines up entertainment for the pleasure of passengers?</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">A big man with broad shoulders and ready smile, Grantham spent twenty years falling off horses, being shot at and beat up in the name of show business and is not what you would imagine when asked to describe a typical cruise director. And Grantham understands that. "It really is amazing. It isn't something I aspired to do," he said with a smile.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">A chance conversation brought the Naples, FL native to the attention of Celebrity Cruises and he was quickly hired. Having worked as an actor and stuntman in Las Angeles for many years and having been around many well known professionals in the theater and movies gives Grantham an insight into talent and working with entertainers.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Finding the right blend of entertainment and special programs is an art in its own right and pleasing several thousands passengers week to week takes the courage of a man used to falling off horses. "Entertainment is very subjective. Something I like, might not be liked by the next person," Grantham noted.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">But he keeps his eyes open for up-and-comers and on the first night of recent cruise introduced Will Foraker to the audience. Grantham "discovered" the 22-year-old playing in a hidden corner of the Celebrity Solstice and was wowed by the young man's talent.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Foraker did not disappoint and for the rest of the cruise drew ever increasing crowds to his corner of the ship. We agree that many who read this will one day be able to say they knew him "when".</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Maybe it is because of his years of auditioning for parts, and learning to move forward when faced with rejection, but Grantham brings a sensitivity to his job when working with the artists who put on a show every night.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">"I think I can connect with our audience," he added.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Ed. Note: At the time of this interview Grantham was preparing to leave the Celebrity Solstice for a vacation and then to join the Celebrity Equinox in Europe.</p>
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<p> </p>South Florida News, People and Events2010-03-08T20:50:51Z2010-03-08T20:50:51Zhttp://www.ftlauderdalenews.net/index.php/people-places-and-organizations/item/31-wrap-up-news-reflecting-south-florida<p> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><strong>Bonnet House Museum & Gardens </strong>was the latest location for filming of <em>The Glades, </em>a new television series that began shooting throughout Florida this summer. The filming took place June 24 through the early hours of June 26. The dramatic series features Australian actor Matt Passmore (Underbelly, McLeod’s Daughters) as Jim Longworth, an attractive, brilliant, yet hard to get along with homicide detective from Chicago who gets shot by his captain after being wrongfully accused of sleeping with his wife.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">After being exiled from the department, Longworth relocates to the sleepy, middle of nowhere town of Palm Glade, Florida, where the sunshine and golf are plentiful and crime is seemingly at a minimum. Only this town outside the Florida Everglades isn’t quite as idyllic as he thought, as he finds people keep turning up murdered.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">The new A&E drama series was produced by Fox Television Studios. “This new series will be viewed by millions of people throughout the United States and we are thrilled to have Bonnet House as one of the locations used for filming,” says Bonnet House CEO, Karen Beard. We hope it will attract more people to the Bonnet House Estate to explore all of the natural beauty and history it has to offer.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Bonnet House is located one block south of Sunrise Blvd. between Ft. Lauderdale Beach Blvd., (A1A) and the Intracoastal Waterway at 900 North Birch Road, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304. Bonnet House is open Tuesday – Saturday, 10 a.m. -4 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Admission prices are $20 for individuals, $18 for senior citizens, $16 for children ages 6 – 12 and $10 for the grounds only. Group tours are also available at a discounted price. For more information, call (954) 563-5393 or visit the estate’s website, <a href="http://www.bonnethouse.org/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.bonnethouse.org</span></a>.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Seventeen new trees now growing at Weaver Park in Pompano Beach symbolize the end of Super Bowl XLIV in South Florida and the beginning of Super Bowl XLV to take place in Arlington, Texas, in 2011.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">The trees were planted by Broward County Commissioner Kristin Jacobs, members of the National Football League (NFL), the Miami Dolphins and Pompano Beach city officials on Monday. The "Plant It Forward" tree planting event marks the passing of the Super Bowl experience from region to the next and completes the final Super Bowl XLIV Urban Forestry project in Broward County. <br /> <br /> "There's more to the Super Bowl than just the game. The trees planted in Weaver Park complete a series of environmental projects that took place in South Florida as we hosted the 2010 Super Bowl. Now we pass that legacy on to Texas, where a tree from Broward County will grow to provide shade, oxygen and beauty for years to come," said Commissioner Jacobs. <br /> <br /> A tree from South Florida and a shovel used at Monday's planting will be sent to a tree planting celebration in Arlington on June 17. Each year, the NFL plans a series of high profile urban forestry events to offset the carbon emissions that occur with such mega events as the Super Bowl. <br /> <br /> "When I was a kid, trees were there for one reason -- to climb," said former Miami Dolphins wide receiver Nat Moore. "The NFL and the Miami Dolphins plant these trees for the enjoyment of kids in this community." <br /> <br /> The Miami Dolphins purchased the trees and played a significant role in the urban forestry projects before, during and after Super Bowl 2010. Broward County and the City of Pompano Beach will provide long-term care and maintenance of the trees. <br /> <br /></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;"><span style="white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal;">All trees planted as part of the NFL Environmental Program will be included in a database of "Super Bowl trees" that will be monitored for environmental impact by state and federal forestry officials. This NFL tree database will also include trees planted over the past six years in Miami, Detroit, Jacksonville, Tampa and Phoenix. </span> </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><strong>Sea Turtles on the Move This Summer.</strong> Life after dark takes on new meaning this summer as endangered sea turtles make their way onto Greater Fort Lauderdale's eight moonlit beaches to lay their eggs deep in the sand, as they have done since the age of dinosaurs more than 150,000,000 years ago.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Of the eight species of sea turtles worldwide, the three that nest on Greater Fort Lauderdale's golden sands from March through October include: the threatened Loggerhead sea turtle, which formed 1,809 nests in 2009, the endangered Green sea turtles, which had 71 nests in 2009, followed by the Leatherback turtles, which had 45 nests in 2009. After 45-55 days of incubation, more than 1,900 nests hatched in Broward County resulting in more than 150,000 hatchlings making their way to the ocean last year.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">During the months of June and July, the museum will hold their <em>Moonlight, Sea Turtles and You!</em> program, giving participants a chance to watch a 400-pound Loggerhead sea turtle venture out of the ocean to lay her eggs, nature permitting. Guests will also meet "Dulce," the museum's resident female Loggerhead sea turtle. The program starts at the Museum of Discovery & Science at 9pm and ends at approximately 1am. Participation is $19 for non-members and advance reservations are required. Additional information and reservations are available at 954-713-0930, or by visiting <a href="http://www.mods.org/"><span style="color: #0000f0; text-decoration: underline;">www.mods.org</span></a>.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px; text-indent: -7.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Collegiate Submissions - Narrative (20 min or longer), Short (under 20 min), Documentary, Animation;</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px; text-indent: -7.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Email Bonnie Adams at Bonnie@fliff.com with any questions or go to www.fliff.com.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 11.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="font: 14.0px Arial;"><strong>The University of Miami Lowe Art Museum </strong></span>will greet spring with a faculty exhibition, featuring the internationally collected glass artist, Endowed Chair, and UM Art Department Professor William Carlson. The UM Faculty Exhibition, William Carlson: Aquila Non Capit Muscas (An Eagle Does Not Catch Flies) will be on view at the Lowe Art Museum through June 6, 2010.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 11.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="font: 14.0px Arial;"><strong>The Broward County Council of the Navy League</strong></span><strong>, </strong>through Al and Shelly Stein, has been supporting the marines in Iraq and Afghanistan for the last five years. Capt. Neville spoke of how important the packages we send have been and how much they appreciate our efforts. If you would like to become a part in the effort to support our families and friends who are in the military reserves Call George Reeves at 305-285-4845.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 10.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><strong>The Navy League of the United State</strong>s - Broward County, FL Council is working with <strong>Seafarers’ House,</strong> another non-profit organization to provide care packages to our military serving in Afghanistan.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 10.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Seafarers' House, of Fort Lauderdale, in cooperation with the Broward County Council of the Navy League donated numerous boxes of personal care items for military personnel at the Joint Command in Kabul, Afghanistan. Joe Giambrone, Navy League South Florida Area President, is a volunteer at Seafarers’ House and helped with the Seafarers’ House Christmas shoe box program. He worked with Chaplain Gregory Worch and Executive Director Lesley Warrick to obtain their assist with the Broward County Council’s care package program.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 10.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Broward County Council Directors Al and Shelly Stein have been responsible for providing care packages to deployed Marines and Sailors for many years. To date more than 300 packages have been sent. Seafarers’ House and the Broward County, FL Council of the Navy League look forward to continuing their partnership of supporting our military and seafarers from around the world.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 10.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Seafarers' House at Port Everglades is a cooperation among all faiths, labor, business and civic leaders with a mission "to offer refuge, resources, renewal and respect to the maritime community through multi-faith service.” With the help of its supporters and volunteers, Seafarers' House offers low cost international phone calls, free transportation, Internet access, counseling services, liaison with authorities as well as recreational facilities.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 10.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">To find out more about the Navy League, visit <a href="http://www.navyleague.org/"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">www.navyleague.org</span></a> or to find out about the Broward County Council, visit <a href="http://www.bcnavyleague.org/"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">www.bcnavyleague.org</span></a>. Seafarers’ House; visit <a href="http://www.seafarershouse.org/"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">www.seafarershouse.org</span></a>.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 14.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><strong>The Broward Cultural Division </strong>distributed federal grant stimulus funds to, among 16 others organizations, the Old Dillard Museum. These funds directly affected twelve local musicians within the Museum’s performance portfolio, including Melton Mustafa and Alexis Caputo who have now been re-hired for two more concerts, previously slated for cancellation in December 2009 and June 2010 due to financial cut backs. For further information on the list of grantees, or this program, visit the Broward Cultural Division website at <a href="http://www.broward.org/arts">www.broward.org/arts</a>; or contact Jim Shermer 954-357-7502; e-mail: <a href="mailto:jshermer@broward.org">jshermer@broward.org</a>.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 14.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><strong>Knitting clubs in South Florida </strong>are contributing to the cause by donating their time and talent to produce more than seven dozen scarves, skull caps, and helmet liners for the troops serving in Afghanistan. The Broward County Council of the Navy League provides the funding for the mailing, including boxes and cards.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 14.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">To contribute contact Shelly Stein at 954-472-0285. The post office charges $12.50 per box.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 14.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><strong>Broward County has received for than $584 million in federal stimulus funding for 2010. </strong>A recovery web site has been created at www.broward.org/recovery to track and update the implementation of various projects. The money will go to airport improvements, the arts, crime prevention, food and shelter programs, homelessness prevention and housing, community block grants, transportation and reducing green house gas emissions, among other projects.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><strong>Bonnet House Museum & Gardens </strong>was the latest location for filming of <em>The Glades, </em>a new television series that began shooting throughout Florida this summer. The filming took place June 24 through the early hours of June 26. The dramatic series features Australian actor Matt Passmore (Underbelly, McLeod’s Daughters) as Jim Longworth, an attractive, brilliant, yet hard to get along with homicide detective from Chicago who gets shot by his captain after being wrongfully accused of sleeping with his wife.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">After being exiled from the department, Longworth relocates to the sleepy, middle of nowhere town of Palm Glade, Florida, where the sunshine and golf are plentiful and crime is seemingly at a minimum. Only this town outside the Florida Everglades isn’t quite as idyllic as he thought, as he finds people keep turning up murdered.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">The new A&E drama series was produced by Fox Television Studios. “This new series will be viewed by millions of people throughout the United States and we are thrilled to have Bonnet House as one of the locations used for filming,” says Bonnet House CEO, Karen Beard. We hope it will attract more people to the Bonnet House Estate to explore all of the natural beauty and history it has to offer.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Bonnet House is located one block south of Sunrise Blvd. between Ft. Lauderdale Beach Blvd., (A1A) and the Intracoastal Waterway at 900 North Birch Road, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304. Bonnet House is open Tuesday – Saturday, 10 a.m. -4 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Admission prices are $20 for individuals, $18 for senior citizens, $16 for children ages 6 – 12 and $10 for the grounds only. Group tours are also available at a discounted price. For more information, call (954) 563-5393 or visit the estate’s website, <a href="http://www.bonnethouse.org/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.bonnethouse.org</span></a>.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Seventeen new trees now growing at Weaver Park in Pompano Beach symbolize the end of Super Bowl XLIV in South Florida and the beginning of Super Bowl XLV to take place in Arlington, Texas, in 2011.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">The trees were planted by Broward County Commissioner Kristin Jacobs, members of the National Football League (NFL), the Miami Dolphins and Pompano Beach city officials on Monday. The "Plant It Forward" tree planting event marks the passing of the Super Bowl experience from region to the next and completes the final Super Bowl XLIV Urban Forestry project in Broward County. <br /> <br /> "There's more to the Super Bowl than just the game. The trees planted in Weaver Park complete a series of environmental projects that took place in South Florida as we hosted the 2010 Super Bowl. Now we pass that legacy on to Texas, where a tree from Broward County will grow to provide shade, oxygen and beauty for years to come," said Commissioner Jacobs. <br /> <br /> A tree from South Florida and a shovel used at Monday's planting will be sent to a tree planting celebration in Arlington on June 17. Each year, the NFL plans a series of high profile urban forestry events to offset the carbon emissions that occur with such mega events as the Super Bowl. <br /> <br /> "When I was a kid, trees were there for one reason -- to climb," said former Miami Dolphins wide receiver Nat Moore. "The NFL and the Miami Dolphins plant these trees for the enjoyment of kids in this community." <br /> <br /> The Miami Dolphins purchased the trees and played a significant role in the urban forestry projects before, during and after Super Bowl 2010. Broward County and the City of Pompano Beach will provide long-term care and maintenance of the trees. <br /> <br /></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;"><span style="white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal;">All trees planted as part of the NFL Environmental Program will be included in a database of "Super Bowl trees" that will be monitored for environmental impact by state and federal forestry officials. This NFL tree database will also include trees planted over the past six years in Miami, Detroit, Jacksonville, Tampa and Phoenix. </span> </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><strong>Sea Turtles on the Move This Summer.</strong> Life after dark takes on new meaning this summer as endangered sea turtles make their way onto Greater Fort Lauderdale's eight moonlit beaches to lay their eggs deep in the sand, as they have done since the age of dinosaurs more than 150,000,000 years ago.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Of the eight species of sea turtles worldwide, the three that nest on Greater Fort Lauderdale's golden sands from March through October include: the threatened Loggerhead sea turtle, which formed 1,809 nests in 2009, the endangered Green sea turtles, which had 71 nests in 2009, followed by the Leatherback turtles, which had 45 nests in 2009. After 45-55 days of incubation, more than 1,900 nests hatched in Broward County resulting in more than 150,000 hatchlings making their way to the ocean last year.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">During the months of June and July, the museum will hold their <em>Moonlight, Sea Turtles and You!</em> program, giving participants a chance to watch a 400-pound Loggerhead sea turtle venture out of the ocean to lay her eggs, nature permitting. Guests will also meet "Dulce," the museum's resident female Loggerhead sea turtle. The program starts at the Museum of Discovery & Science at 9pm and ends at approximately 1am. Participation is $19 for non-members and advance reservations are required. Additional information and reservations are available at 954-713-0930, or by visiting <a href="http://www.mods.org/"><span style="color: #0000f0; text-decoration: underline;">www.mods.org</span></a>.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px; text-indent: -7.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Collegiate Submissions - Narrative (20 min or longer), Short (under 20 min), Documentary, Animation;</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px; text-indent: -7.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Email Bonnie Adams at Bonnie@fliff.com with any questions or go to www.fliff.com.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 11.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="font: 14.0px Arial;"><strong>The University of Miami Lowe Art Museum </strong></span>will greet spring with a faculty exhibition, featuring the internationally collected glass artist, Endowed Chair, and UM Art Department Professor William Carlson. The UM Faculty Exhibition, William Carlson: Aquila Non Capit Muscas (An Eagle Does Not Catch Flies) will be on view at the Lowe Art Museum through June 6, 2010.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 11.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="font: 14.0px Arial;"><strong>The Broward County Council of the Navy League</strong></span><strong>, </strong>through Al and Shelly Stein, has been supporting the marines in Iraq and Afghanistan for the last five years. Capt. Neville spoke of how important the packages we send have been and how much they appreciate our efforts. If you would like to become a part in the effort to support our families and friends who are in the military reserves Call George Reeves at 305-285-4845.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 10.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><strong>The Navy League of the United State</strong>s - Broward County, FL Council is working with <strong>Seafarers’ House,</strong> another non-profit organization to provide care packages to our military serving in Afghanistan.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 10.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Seafarers' House, of Fort Lauderdale, in cooperation with the Broward County Council of the Navy League donated numerous boxes of personal care items for military personnel at the Joint Command in Kabul, Afghanistan. Joe Giambrone, Navy League South Florida Area President, is a volunteer at Seafarers’ House and helped with the Seafarers’ House Christmas shoe box program. He worked with Chaplain Gregory Worch and Executive Director Lesley Warrick to obtain their assist with the Broward County Council’s care package program.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 10.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Broward County Council Directors Al and Shelly Stein have been responsible for providing care packages to deployed Marines and Sailors for many years. To date more than 300 packages have been sent. Seafarers’ House and the Broward County, FL Council of the Navy League look forward to continuing their partnership of supporting our military and seafarers from around the world.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 10.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Seafarers' House at Port Everglades is a cooperation among all faiths, labor, business and civic leaders with a mission "to offer refuge, resources, renewal and respect to the maritime community through multi-faith service.” With the help of its supporters and volunteers, Seafarers' House offers low cost international phone calls, free transportation, Internet access, counseling services, liaison with authorities as well as recreational facilities.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 10.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">To find out more about the Navy League, visit <a href="http://www.navyleague.org/"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">www.navyleague.org</span></a> or to find out about the Broward County Council, visit <a href="http://www.bcnavyleague.org/"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">www.bcnavyleague.org</span></a>. Seafarers’ House; visit <a href="http://www.seafarershouse.org/"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">www.seafarershouse.org</span></a>.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 14.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><strong>The Broward Cultural Division </strong>distributed federal grant stimulus funds to, among 16 others organizations, the Old Dillard Museum. These funds directly affected twelve local musicians within the Museum’s performance portfolio, including Melton Mustafa and Alexis Caputo who have now been re-hired for two more concerts, previously slated for cancellation in December 2009 and June 2010 due to financial cut backs. For further information on the list of grantees, or this program, visit the Broward Cultural Division website at <a href="http://www.broward.org/arts">www.broward.org/arts</a>; or contact Jim Shermer 954-357-7502; e-mail: <a href="mailto:jshermer@broward.org">jshermer@broward.org</a>.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 14.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><strong>Knitting clubs in South Florida </strong>are contributing to the cause by donating their time and talent to produce more than seven dozen scarves, skull caps, and helmet liners for the troops serving in Afghanistan. The Broward County Council of the Navy League provides the funding for the mailing, including boxes and cards.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 14.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">To contribute contact Shelly Stein at 954-472-0285. The post office charges $12.50 per box.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 14.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><strong>Broward County has received for than $584 million in federal stimulus funding for 2010. </strong>A recovery web site has been created at www.broward.org/recovery to track and update the implementation of various projects. The money will go to airport improvements, the arts, crime prevention, food and shelter programs, homelessness prevention and housing, community block grants, transportation and reducing green house gas emissions, among other projects.</p>
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<p> </p>Chef John Gray Hosts Reception at SOBE Wine & Food Festival2010-03-02T21:29:03Z2010-03-02T21:29:03Zhttp://www.ftlauderdalenews.net/index.php/people-places-and-organizations/item/29-dorcester-hotel-welcomes-guests-to-event<p> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Sometimes there is a moment when we appreciate living in South Florida even more than usual and on a sunny afternoon in February we experienced just that when we attended an "intimate" cocktail reception at the Dorchester Hotel on Collins Avenue in South Beach.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Our congenial host was owner Lloyd Mandell who also serves as Executive Manager and, on this day, impromptu parking attendant. "Just park there, we know where to find you," he advised.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">The reception was for Chef John Gray, the only chef representing Mexico during the 2010 South Beach Wine & Food Festival's "BubbleQ" evening on Feb. 25. "I was very pleased to have been contacted to attend this event," Chef Gray told us. "I've been in Mexico for quite a while."</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">In the two decades he has been in Mexico he has built a reputation as a pioneer for his upscale cuisine that features the "textures and taste" of Mexico.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">John Gray's Kitchen opened in Puerto Morelos in 2002; John Gray's Place in Playa del Carmen in 2004; La Suegra de John Gray in Puerto Morelos in February 2008; John Gray's Downtown in Cancun in 2008; The Den at John Gray's Place opened in 2009.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">For this event Gray worked over an open grill presenting special delights for guests who sat in the quaint courtyard of the Dorchester. They could also sit in "The Floating Bed", a new addition which offers guests the chance to swing gently with the breezes.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">It is nice to be in South Florida in February.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><strong>Ed. Note:</strong> To learn more about the John Gray Restaurant Group visit www.johngrayrestaurantgroup.com. To find out about the Dorchester Hotel go to www.thesuitesofdorchester.com. And if you wish to find a "floating bed" check www.floatingbed.com.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Sometimes there is a moment when we appreciate living in South Florida even more than usual and on a sunny afternoon in February we experienced just that when we attended an "intimate" cocktail reception at the Dorchester Hotel on Collins Avenue in South Beach.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Our congenial host was owner Lloyd Mandell who also serves as Executive Manager and, on this day, impromptu parking attendant. "Just park there, we know where to find you," he advised.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">The reception was for Chef John Gray, the only chef representing Mexico during the 2010 South Beach Wine & Food Festival's "BubbleQ" evening on Feb. 25. "I was very pleased to have been contacted to attend this event," Chef Gray told us. "I've been in Mexico for quite a while."</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">In the two decades he has been in Mexico he has built a reputation as a pioneer for his upscale cuisine that features the "textures and taste" of Mexico.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">John Gray's Kitchen opened in Puerto Morelos in 2002; John Gray's Place in Playa del Carmen in 2004; La Suegra de John Gray in Puerto Morelos in February 2008; John Gray's Downtown in Cancun in 2008; The Den at John Gray's Place opened in 2009.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">For this event Gray worked over an open grill presenting special delights for guests who sat in the quaint courtyard of the Dorchester. They could also sit in "The Floating Bed", a new addition which offers guests the chance to swing gently with the breezes.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">It is nice to be in South Florida in February.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><strong>Ed. Note:</strong> To learn more about the John Gray Restaurant Group visit www.johngrayrestaurantgroup.com. To find out about the Dorchester Hotel go to www.thesuitesofdorchester.com. And if you wish to find a "floating bed" check www.floatingbed.com.</p>
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<p> </p>Connie Francis Promotes Great American Beach Party2010-01-30T17:16:19Z2010-01-30T17:16:19Zhttp://www.ftlauderdalenews.net/index.php/people-places-and-organizations/item/23-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-movie-<p><strong>"Where the Boys Are"</strong></p>
<p>On January 29, 2010, Singer Connie Francis exited from a vintage muscle car, escorted by modern day muscle men, to promote the 50th Anniversary event remembering the movie "Where the Boys Are" filmed on Fort Lauderdale Beach, across from the famous Elbow Room, which still remains. Francis recalled that when she visited the beach for the first time she thought there was nothing there. Little did she know at the time that the movie would inspire millions of spring breakers for the next four decades.</p>
<p>Mayor Jack Seiler announced plans for a special event May 28-29, 2010 to celebrate the anniversary of the film.</p>
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<p>On January 29, 2010, Singer Connie Francis exited from a vintage muscle car, escorted by modern day muscle men, to promote the 50th Anniversary event remembering the movie "Where the Boys Are" filmed on Fort Lauderdale Beach, across from the famous Elbow Room, which still remains. Francis recalled that when she visited the beach for the first time she thought there was nothing there. Little did she know at the time that the movie would inspire millions of spring breakers for the next four decades.</p>
<p>Mayor Jack Seiler announced plans for a special event May 28-29, 2010 to celebrate the anniversary of the film.</p>
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<p> </p>Promenade Movie Review2010-01-20T14:43:05Z2010-01-20T14:43:05Zhttp://www.ftlauderdalenews.net/index.php/people-places-and-organizations/item/22-crazy-heart<p> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 6.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">You don't have to like country music to like this movie, but it helps. Jeff Bridges, one of our favorite and, we believe, sometimes undervalued actor, shines in the role of Bad Blake in the movie <strong><em>"Crazy Heart".</em></strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 6.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Bridges melds into the personality of a talented, but aging country singer on the skids. We first meet him, drunk and his pants unbuckled, driving to his next gig at a bowling alley. We are looking at a man who was once famous enough that people immediately recognize him. They know his songs and want to hear them over and over. But his life is as empty as the terrain of the vast southwestern states he drives through on his way to each job.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 6.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Booze, cigarettes and sometimes aging female groupies are his companions and he hasn't written or recorded a hit song in years. Got the picture? This would be a somewhat stereotypical movie of aging star in a downward life spiral if it weren't for the acting of Bridges who channels singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson, who would have been perfect for the role a few years back.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 6.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Who can change his life? Not his agent. Not the young country superstar he mentored. He has no family, no friends and is killing himself. Hmmm. Maybe a woman could turn his life around.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 6.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Enter Jean (played by a coquettish Maggie Gyllenhaal) who is a reporter seeking to interview Bad for her newspaper. They have chemistry and she isn't turned off by his cigarette and booze breath or slept-in clothes. Or the fact he is more than twenty years older than her and she has a four-year-old son who needs a father figure in his life. Bad doesn't have a chance. He is totally captivated.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 6.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Their relationship hangs together out of genuine love and also their own individual need to find a future. We watch Bad struggle with being a responsible person while trying to reunite with his fan base with the encouragement of the young singer he helped to fame (played by a miscast, but adequate, Colin Farrell). But will the 57-year-old Bad work it all out before he keels over for good?</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 6.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">He has the help of the always dead-on actor, Robert Duvall, who provides wisdom, support and friendship as an old friend. Duvall was one of the producers of the movie and his part probably wasn't necessary to film, but the on-screen time between Bridges and Duvall offered up some nice moments.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 6.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Finally we learn that Bridges can sing. He does his own vocals and was totally believable in the roll of a former star trying to find his long lost center. Sounds like a story line for a song. Maybe call it Crazy Heart, or something like that.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 6.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Although we start out thinking we know the outcome of each scene, the script doesn't take the easy way out and we are kept guessing what will happen next.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 6.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">You will like Crazy Heart.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 6.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><strong>Ed. Note:</strong> Crazy Heart was written and directed by Scott Cooper. Producers, in addition to Robert Duvall were Scott Cooper, Judy Cairo and Rob Carliner. It screened at Cinema Paradio, Fort Lauderdale's year-around Art Theater which features movies, special events and programs. Learn more by visiting their web site at www.fliff.com.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 30.0px Arial Narrow;"><em> Acting of Jeff Bridges; script</em></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 6.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">You don't have to like country music to like this movie, but it helps. Jeff Bridges, one of our favorite and, we believe, sometimes undervalued actor, shines in the role of Bad Blake in the movie <strong><em>"Crazy Heart".</em></strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 6.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Bridges melds into the personality of a talented, but aging country singer on the skids. We first meet him, drunk and his pants unbuckled, driving to his next gig at a bowling alley. We are looking at a man who was once famous enough that people immediately recognize him. They know his songs and want to hear them over and over. But his life is as empty as the terrain of the vast southwestern states he drives through on his way to each job.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 6.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Booze, cigarettes and sometimes aging female groupies are his companions and he hasn't written or recorded a hit song in years. Got the picture? This would be a somewhat stereotypical movie of aging star in a downward life spiral if it weren't for the acting of Bridges who channels singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson, who would have been perfect for the role a few years back.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 6.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Who can change his life? Not his agent. Not the young country superstar he mentored. He has no family, no friends and is killing himself. Hmmm. Maybe a woman could turn his life around.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 6.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Enter Jean (played by a coquettish Maggie Gyllenhaal) who is a reporter seeking to interview Bad for her newspaper. They have chemistry and she isn't turned off by his cigarette and booze breath or slept-in clothes. Or the fact he is more than twenty years older than her and she has a four-year-old son who needs a father figure in his life. Bad doesn't have a chance. He is totally captivated.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 6.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Their relationship hangs together out of genuine love and also their own individual need to find a future. We watch Bad struggle with being a responsible person while trying to reunite with his fan base with the encouragement of the young singer he helped to fame (played by a miscast, but adequate, Colin Farrell). But will the 57-year-old Bad work it all out before he keels over for good?</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 6.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">He has the help of the always dead-on actor, Robert Duvall, who provides wisdom, support and friendship as an old friend. Duvall was one of the producers of the movie and his part probably wasn't necessary to film, but the on-screen time between Bridges and Duvall offered up some nice moments.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 6.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Finally we learn that Bridges can sing. He does his own vocals and was totally believable in the roll of a former star trying to find his long lost center. Sounds like a story line for a song. Maybe call it Crazy Heart, or something like that.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 6.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">Although we start out thinking we know the outcome of each scene, the script doesn't take the easy way out and we are kept guessing what will happen next.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 6.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;">You will like Crazy Heart.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 6.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;"><strong>Ed. Note:</strong> Crazy Heart was written and directed by Scott Cooper. Producers, in addition to Robert Duvall were Scott Cooper, Judy Cairo and Rob Carliner. It screened at Cinema Paradio, Fort Lauderdale's year-around Art Theater which features movies, special events and programs. Learn more by visiting their web site at www.fliff.com.</p>
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<p> </p>Fort Lauderdale Film Festival's Entre Nous Support Group2009-12-08T00:17:57Z2009-12-08T00:17:57Zhttp://www.ftlauderdalenews.net/index.php/people-places-and-organizations/item/15-events-raise-funds-for-the-film-festival-<p> </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial;"><strong>Entre Nous completes a successful fund-raising year with </strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial;"><strong>Starry, Starry Night Gala for the 24th </strong><strong>Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial;">Entre Nous, the support group of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, completed another successful fund-raising year with its Starry, Starry Night Gala, opening the 24th annual Fort Lauderdale Film Festival on Friday, October 23, 2009, according to chairpersons Estelle Fineberg and Teri Pattullo.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial;">Five hundred gala attendees - film buffs, stars, producers, directors and honorees - enjoyed an elegant buffet, dancing to the music of Joe Kuels, jazz vocals by Lisanne Lyons and live and silent auctions.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial;">In late March Entre Nous also presented The Fine Art of Film, Fashion & Food, a benefit for FLIFF and the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale Scholarship Fund. Held at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale the evening included fashions designed and modeled by the Art Institute students, a buffet, silent auction and entrance into selected Museum exhibitions.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial;">According to Gregory von Hausch, FLIFF CEO and President, Entre Nous members provide not only fund-raising support, this year amounting to $60,000, but also act as emissaries for special events such as the upcoming Academy Awards party scheduled for March 7, 2010 and their next planned fund-raiser Diving into Spring scheduled for <strong>Sunday, March 14</strong>, 2010 to be held at the International Swimming Hall of Fame from 5 - 8 p.m. featuring a swimsuits through the ages fashion show.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial;">Event proceeds benefit the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, a 501c3 organization.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial;">For more information on FLIFF visit <a href="http://www.fliff.com/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.fliff.com</span></a> or call 954-760-9898.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial;"><strong>Entre Nous completes a successful fund-raising year with </strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial;"><strong>Starry, Starry Night Gala for the 24th </strong><strong>Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial;">Entre Nous, the support group of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, completed another successful fund-raising year with its Starry, Starry Night Gala, opening the 24th annual Fort Lauderdale Film Festival on Friday, October 23, 2009, according to chairpersons Estelle Fineberg and Teri Pattullo.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial;">Five hundred gala attendees - film buffs, stars, producers, directors and honorees - enjoyed an elegant buffet, dancing to the music of Joe Kuels, jazz vocals by Lisanne Lyons and live and silent auctions.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial;">In late March Entre Nous also presented The Fine Art of Film, Fashion & Food, a benefit for FLIFF and the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale Scholarship Fund. Held at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale the evening included fashions designed and modeled by the Art Institute students, a buffet, silent auction and entrance into selected Museum exhibitions.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial;">According to Gregory von Hausch, FLIFF CEO and President, Entre Nous members provide not only fund-raising support, this year amounting to $60,000, but also act as emissaries for special events such as the upcoming Academy Awards party scheduled for March 7, 2010 and their next planned fund-raiser Diving into Spring scheduled for <strong>Sunday, March 14</strong>, 2010 to be held at the International Swimming Hall of Fame from 5 - 8 p.m. featuring a swimsuits through the ages fashion show.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial;">Event proceeds benefit the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, a 501c3 organization.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial;">For more information on FLIFF visit <a href="http://www.fliff.com/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.fliff.com</span></a> or call 954-760-9898.</p>
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