County Key Player In Addressing Climate Change

Palm Beach County, as well as Broward and Miami-Dade, are trying to get out front in addressing sea level rise and climate change. Click title for link to article in the Town Crier (Wellington). They are also reaching out to municipalities.

An important aspect of the county plan is municipal outreach, specifically as it relates to climate, he said. “We are in the process of meeting with our cities, and we are taking a different approach in our county than the ones that were taken in Miami-Dade and Broward,” Van Arnam said.
The county is making use of the action plan to offer assistance to municipalities with their own sustainability programs.
“This partnership-building, we believe, is critical to having the implementation of the action plan be sustainable into the future,” Van Arnam said, explaining that the municipalities will have the choice of adopting the action plan in its entirety or using parts of it that apply to them to build their own plan.

Concrete Posts Shaped Like Male Genitalia The Talk Of Scott Township « CBS Pittsburgh

It might just be me, but I don't think there is a problem here. Bollards are used in many urban areas and are usually pretty much the same shape. I don't think these are more suggestive than another design. You can, and people do, say the same thing about bananas, pencils and toothpaste pumps. Click title for link.

Florida House Democrats pick Pafford as next leader - Florida - MiamiHerald.com

Former High Noon in Lake Worth show guest State Representative Mark Pafford is in the news. He was voted leader of the Florida House Democratic Caucus. Click title for link to article. Looks like he is in for some immediate challenges.

By a 29-12 vote, with one abstaining, Pafford beat Rep. Alan Williams for a job that earlier in the week had belonged to Rep. Darryl Rouson of St. Petersburg.
“The first thing is getting everybody comfortable, understanding that we’ve hit the reset button and we are one,” Pafford, 47, said to reporters after the vote, acknowledging the disarray that awaits him. “I have some work to do immediately.”

Urban Biking and Commutes | Sustainable Cities Collective

A little bicycle propaganda never hurt anyone. Click title for link to article. The video demonstrates how a bicyclist in Melbourne, Australia rode to work and passed 589 cars in the process.

Container City: The Colombian Food Court with Personality | This Big City

How about this as a redevelopment idea for Dixie Hwy? It would seem in some ways to be a natural. Click title for link.

Miami Web Awards 2013: Calling for Nominations

If you are so moved, I would appreciate your nomination this year for "Best Neighborhood Blog." Click title for link and please share with your friends. The deadline is October 9th.

Paulo Coelho

"When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny."

DOUBLE-HEADER! Seth Bramson and Chaz Stevens 09/27 by High Noon in Lake Worth | Politics Podcasts

Join your host Wes Blackman for a two hour special edition of the show. Two guests will be featured and both have been on the show before. We will first welcome Seth Bramson to the High Noon in Lake Worth studios. You may recall that Mr. Bramson is the resident expert for the Florida East Coast Railroad. In our first show, we talked about the beginning of modern history in south Florida with the arrival of the railroad and ended up talking about the 1920s. We will start the conversation from there. My second guest will come on around 1 p.m. and it will be Chaz Stevens. Mr. Stevens authors the MAOS or My Acts of Sedition blog. We will talk about the just-closed criminal investigation he endured, local politicians of a "religious nature" who should come out of the closet, friend Fane Lozman's take on the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office and the city of Boca Raton.

Click title for link to listen to the live show between noon and 2 p.m. tomorrow or for the archived show after it airs. Leave questions as comments below. Thanks!

World Thrift Poised to Take Over the World!

With the announcement that World Thrift bought the now former Park Avenue Barbeque property, I thought it deserved a little photo essay. A sign posted on the World Thrift front door now tells people that it is o.k. to park on the lot to the south since they now own it.

 Above is view of the former Park Avenue lot during the mid-afternoon today. Customers of World Thrift are already parking there.

Besides the public sidewalk along Dixie, there is a section of fence that has been removed to allow "access" between the two properties. The World Thrift property was parked fairly full - about 85% I would guess. There was the usual parking in the aisles of the parking lot on the north and south property lines, which shouldn't be allowed anyway.

 The picture above is of the Arbor Plaza parking lot along its southern property line. It is north of World Thrift. These are almost exclusively World Thrift shoppers. While there, we say three of four cars carry off people that came from World Thrift. They did no business in Arbor Plaza.

 

This is the famous "charity bin" in the eastern part of the World Thrift parking lot that fronts on Dixie Hwy. A "Welcome to Lake Worth" sign for sure.

The contents of the open bin today. Do you think that World Thrift may use this to supplement their inventory?

We now have a former destination restaurant where its parking lot is being used by another business of questionable quality - but it does fit our demographic. And the building will be used for storage - what better use for a commercial property along Dixie Hwy. in Lake Worth! It won't use any power and won't attract any people that wouldn't otherwise be here.

Mystery buyer of Park Avenue BBQ property revealed | www.palmbeachpost.com

Testimony to the vibrant and charming retail atmosphere along North Dixie Hwy. A former restaurant to be used for storage. Click title for link.

Lake Worth Playhouse - L-DUB Film Festival

Big doings at the Lake Worth Playhouse this weekend. Click title for link that has a list of events, location, date and time information. From the website:

The Fourth Annual L-DUB Film Festival presents the newest, most exciting and original films by independent filmmakers every September.  For three days in Lake Worth, the Festival celebrates the best new independent films in a warm and welcoming environment and offers exceptional education workshops with established professionals. The Festival emphasizes filmmaker networking and skill development while showcasing South Florida’s rich trove of talent and opportunity to the international filmmaking community.
The primary mission of the L-DUB Film Festival is to encourage and provide a venue for new local filmmakers and offer useful professional training in our workshops. To that end we are pleased to announce that last year’s L-DUB award winning film “Flea Market Finish Line.” By Ika Santamaria  was recently showcased at the Cannes Film Festival. 

Poodle viciously attacked and killed by three pit bulls

Terrible incident happening in Lake Worth as reported by WPTV. Click title for link. We had a similar situation last year with vicious dogs that we not properly secured and they terrorized the neighborhood until the owners finally moved away. Animal Care and Control was involved with that situation too. It is not an expedient process. Many times offers came to the home with paperwork and the people would not come to door so that they could be served. Scary for anyone who has dogs, cats or children, for that matter.

For insurance implications related to "dangerous dog breeds," click here.

Lake O water’s southerly shift helps troubled rivers, officials say | Post on Politics

Ten billion gallons flowing south probably seems too little, too late for those areas east and west of the lake that have suffered from increased fresh water flow into estuaries. Click title for link to the Post on Politics article. This is telling:

Gov. Rick Scott, who in his first year as chief executive, sharply cut the budgets of state water management districts and eliminated the state’s lead growth management agency, is now trying to ease the problem.
Scott, seeking re-election next year, said last month that he wants state lawmakers to pick up the
entire $60 million tab for building a wetland needed to reduce releases from Lake Okeechobee into the St. Lucie.
Scott blasted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for failing to do its share of the project.

Conduct Us | Improv Everywhere

This is a cool site by a group calling itself "Improv Everywhere." They are a New York City-based prank collective that causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. We know different collectives around here. But check out their website (click title for link) and see the kinds of things they have done in urban spaces. We could do something similar here in the lighter, quicker, cheaper vein. Here are some of the types of things they have done.

Anger is the Internet's most powerful emotion

This is a USA Today article and it rings true in many ways. Would the other blogger ever show up at my door with a gun drawn that has a bullet with my name on it? Probably not, I hope. But the keyboard and screen do create a wall of anonymity. They also let the passions flow. Maybe this is an innate human characteristic or maybe it is one that we can overcome if we want to overcome it. Click title for link.