Saturday, July 25, 2009
Checkpoints set up for the weekend in Lake Worth and Martin, Indian River counties
Click title for link. Note:
Troopers will conduct a checkpoint looking for unlicensed drivers and checking for cars with unsafe brakes, worn tires and defective lighting equipment, according to an FHP report. The checkpoint will be on Lake Worth Road under the Interstate 95 bridge Saturday.
Friday, July 24, 2009
My CRA Board Member comments at the end of the 7/14 meeting...
YouTube description: This is what I am referring to as my anti-tyranny speech - in reaction to comments from fellow Community Redevelopment Agency Commissioner Ed Grimm regarding my positions and questions related to the Lake Worth Resource Center - operating out of a substandard city recreation building. The LWRC made an application for a grant before the CRA at this meeting and the request was approved on a vote of 4-2, with me casting one of the dissenting votes.
Commissioner Grimm suggested that it was somehow a conflict of interest by my attempt to register as a worker at the center - and I respond accordingly. In another related video, the CRA's attorney confirms that it was not a conflict.
At the time of the meeting, it looked like it might be the board's last as the City Commission was to meet the following Monday to discuss taking over the function of the CRA. It turns out that the CRA board will continue to exist for the near future and new applicants will be considered to fill the board's six vacancies. I have re-applied to continue on the CRA.
Thank you to Jim Stafford for his valuable assistance in putting together this video.
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America's Healthiest Beach and Lake Getaways - Healthy Living - Health.com
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Where's Lake Worth? Top Ten Healthiest Beach and Lake Towns
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
This was left as a comment by Anon. under the Beach Protection charter amendment post...
And is worthy of being brought forward for more visibility:Here we go again! Using the beach as a political football to further one's career, rather than really doing anything to improve access to, use, environmental function, or appearance of the beach. I can hardly wait to hear all the horror stories about the (straw)(boogie)men who are about to rape our glorious beach (that we have taken oh such good care of these many decades!). The threat of course will not include those concessionaires who have been engaged in systematic banditry -- with full City cooperation -- at the beach for years. There will be endless opportunity for self-righteous, self-congratulatory piety and chest pounding. Promoting a charter amendment is certainly a lot easier than actually doing anything useful at the beach. Not a single tree will be planted; instead, groves of trees must die to provide paper for political flyers and door hangers extolling the virtues of the Charter amendment's proponents and how much they truly "love" our City. Let's endlessly replay these stale political canards. Will we ever learn? It seems not...Unfortunately, I agree. And it recalls the last election cycle of Commissioner's Jennings' ethics ordinance that had little to do with ethics and was supposedly designed to end "pay to play" campaign contributions. But, since it wasn't passed, Commissioner Jennings' used it in her re-election campaign as a sledgehammer to hit competing candidates over the head with. Never mind that her candidate for the District #4 seat took massive campaign contributions from beach casino tenants - all of who's businesses had contracts with the city in the form of their leases. Those contributions would have been outlawed under her supposed "ethics ordinance." Expect this to be another "litmus test" for candidates. Think how "Beach Protection Charter Amendment" will sound uttered by the lips of Commissioner Jennings' political machine - can you say "Motherhood and Apple Pie?"
I'll be at City Hall tomorrow and will try to get more detail. Expect this to appear on the August 7th Commission agenda to put it officially on the ballot. The timing is tight - the amendment has to be to the Supervisor of Elections by 5 p.m. and requires two readings...hmmmm.
Lake Worth Downtown Dance Open House & Fundraiser: August 1st, 7:00 PM
Good Afternoon,
I would like to take this opportunity to inform you of an event taking place on August 1st at 7:00 PM at Downtown Dance, located at 811 Lake Avenue. The event is an open house at which the students and teachers will be performing modern, ballet, hip-hop and other pieces that they have been working on throughout the summer. Admission is free, however donations will go to the “Save the Space” fund, which was created to raise money for the purchase of the space to ensure that it can remain as a dance studio.
As a resident of the Lake Worth area, a member of a company that does work for the City of Lake Worth, and a strong supporter of the arts, I feel it is important that the downtown area preserves its unique character and variety by retaining businesses like Downtown Dance.
If you would like more information please go to http://www.downtown-dance.com/
Thank you,
Let's not follow the South Korean model...
South Korean Parliament members in a cat-mouse fight which displays a serious fight between two opposing parties.
Readers on 7/23 - Click here for live link to City Commission Budget Workshop
No other back-up provided. FYI - I meet with Ms. Stanton for the first time tomorrow afternoon.
PB Post EDITORIAL: A shock to Lake Worth
Click above for link. An excerpt:
"The real terror for residents has not been fear that power might go out. It's been opening utility bills that come in the mail. Lake Worth has been working to improve reliability and lower rates. And it appears that the security "breach" was, at worst, the result of overheated imaginations."
"The real terror for residents has not been fear that power might go out. It's been opening utility bills that come in the mail. Lake Worth has been working to improve reliability and lower rates. And it appears that the security "breach" was, at worst, the result of overheated imaginations."
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