


Right now you are probably saying to yourself, “Wes deserves this and I knew they would catch up with him eventually,” or, “It is unbelievable why anyone would arrest such a nice person.”
The Muscular Dystrophy Association will be locking me up at The Melting Pot and I will be incarcerated for one hour and charged with “having an extremely big heart.”
Your donation toward my bail will not only help set me free, but will also help many area children and adults with muscle diseases by adding vital funds to MDA’s research efforts. You can help me and MDA by making a pledge toward my bail. In order to insure my release I need to start raising my bail prior to “MDA’s Most Wanted” extravaganza.
So, please help me get released from jail by sending a pledge to my attention made payable to MDA or give e-mail me at wesblackman@gmail.com
To facilitate the staging and commencement of the Annual Pridefest Parade held in Lake Worth on March 29, 2009, parking and vehicular traffic will be temporarily prohibited as follows:
o 9:30 AM to 2:00 PM
o Lake Ave. from Dixie Hwy. to Golfview
o Lucerne Ave from L Street to J Street
o J Street between Lake Ave.. and Lucerne Avenue
o The Lake Worth Bridge (Eastbound Only) will be closed
o Lake Worth Bridge traffic will need to detour to either Ocean Avenue in Lantana or Southern Blvd. in West Palm Beach
o Lake Ave traffic can use 2nd Ave North.
o Lucerne Ave will be closed from L Street to Dixie Highway
o The parade begins at 11:30 and goes from the 600 block of Lucerne Ave. to J St. then east on Lake Ave. to Bryant Park where Pride Fest 2009 will take place
The City of Lake Worth City Commission, at a special meeting on March 24, 2009, endorsed their official support for Earth Hour 2009, a global climate event led by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). More than 240 cities around the world have committed to go dark for one hour on March 28, 2009, at 8:30 p.m. -- local time, as tens of millions of people from all corners of the world unite in a call for global action on climate change. During Earth Hour 2008, more than 50 million people in over 1,000 cities on all seven continents turned off their lights as major icons also went dark, including the Sydney Opera House, the Coliseum in Rome, Stockholm's Royal Castle, the Empire State Building and the Golden Gate Bridgein San Francisco. Google turned its homepage black for an entire day in tribute.
"World Wildlife Fund is pleased that the City of Lake Worth is taking part in Earth Hour 2009. As lights go out in cities around the U.S. and the world on March 28th, Earth Hour will provide world leaders with an unmistakable mandate to take action," said WWF President and CEO Carter Roberts. "The climate crisis threatens the ability of our planet to support its inhabitants. We want the world to know that Americans care about saving the planet and stand united in seeking to find solutions to climate change."
More on Earth Hour 2009
· The date was set in March because it is close to the Spring Equinox, a period when the most number of countries around the world will experience darkness in the 8 o'clock hour.
· By working together, each one of us can make a difference on the issue of climate change. By doing something as simple as turning off the lights, we send a visual symbol to the world's leaders that we are counting on them to work together to find solutions to climate change.
· Earth Hour is a non-partisan event. When it comes to caring about the future of our planet, we all have a stake as citizens of the world regardless of other political beliefs and affiliations.
· Earth Hour turns off non-essential lighting only. Lights necessary for public safety will not go out. Earth Hour has been conducted safely and without incident in more than 100 cities around the world.
· World Wildlife Fund is the organization behind Earth Hour, but many other groups and NGOs are supporting Earth Hour in 2009.
The Lake Worth City Commission urges local businesses and the community to join in this year's initiative.
For more information, visit www.EarthHourUS.org
The intracoastal shoreline along the Lake Worth Municipal Golf Course is littered with old tires, broken bits of lumber, plastic and paper trash. All are welcome to participate in this clean-up effort spearheaded by the Kiwanis Club of Lake Worth. Volunteers will meet at the clubhouse (located at 7th Ave N and the intracoastal) on Saturday April 4th at 8 AM. You don’t have to be a Kiwanis member to join in the effort, but volunteers must be 18 years old or accompanied by a parent.
All participants are asked to park in the golf course parking lot the morning of the event. Golf carts will be used to shuttle folks to the cleanup locations along the length of the shoreline. Plenty of garbage bags and latex gloves will be provided. Please be sure to wear old clothes, closed-toed shoes, sunblock, sunglasses, and hats if you have them.
Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world, one child and one community at a time. There are over 350,000 members in 84 countries. April 4th has been designated Kiwanis One Day. Service projects are being organized at thousands of locations around the world.