Celebrate Independence Day in the City of Lake Worth, FL

From 11 am to 3 pm:
Parade starts at 11:00 in the downtown to Bryant Park. Then the Lake Worth 2015 Great American RIF Raft Race—Theme: Reading is Fun (Presented by Lake Worth Neighborhood Association Presidents Council [NAPC]).

2015 Independence Day events:

• Live Music
• Water Slide
• Extreme Water Sports Show
• Enigma Pro Wrestling
• Family Fun

Music on the Main Stage:

• 3:00 LFTD LVLS
• 4:00 The People Upstairs
• 4:50 Presentation by Mayor Pam Triolo
• 5:00 Spred the Dub
• 6:00 The Heavy Pets
• 7:30 Yellow Dubmarine

Fireworks over the Intracoastal at 9:00

Craft Vendor Application

Food Vendor Application

Journalist Nora Gamez Torres: "Google's visit to Cuba, restoring Old Havana"

About the video: "Journalist Nora Gamez Torres on Google's visit to Cuba and what it means for internet access on the island. She also talks about the wealthy Miami developer who has offered to restore Old Havana to its former glory."

Compass Business Alliance Mixer at Grandview Gardens in West Palm Beach TODAY

Call 561-533-9699 x4018 for more information or visit Compass' website.

About the Compass Business Alliance mixer:

     This Wednesday the Business Alliance traditionally hosts the largest business alliance mixer every year at Grandview Gardens Bed & Breakfast.
     Anyone who has attended our annual June mixer at the Grandview Gardens can tell you it is not to be missed. It is a great mix of people - friends and fans of the Grandview Gardens mingle with Pride Business Alliance members and guests, elected officials and dignitaries. Bring your business cards and join us for a wonderful evening in a beautiful setting.
     This event is just days before our Stonewall Ball on Saturday, June 27 at the Harriet Himmel Theater in City Place.

VIP tickets are $75, general $30 in advance, and $40 at the door.

50 Summer Dining Deals in The Palm Beach Post!

And one of them is Lake Worth's own Callaro's ("Upscale but unpretentious") at 717 Lake Ave. in the downtown. Isn't it amazing how quickly things are turning around in Lake Worth? Seems almost every section of the paper these days has something positive about the City. 

Local 10 News, South FL: "Red eyes while swimming caused by urine, not chlorine"

Here's a short excerpt:

     Those red eyes you get from swimming aren't caused by chlorine, according to an official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
     And the substances in the pool that do cause your bloodshot eyes will probably make you a little seasick.
     “Chlorine binds with all the things it’s trying to kill from your bodies, and it forms these chemical irritants. That’s what’s stinging your eyes. It’s the chlorine binding to the urine and sweat,” says the appropriately named Dr. Michael J. Beach, associate director of the CDC's Healthy Water program. [emphasis added]

Don't pee in the pool!

Andy Reid: "GL Homes planning 4,000 more homes in Loxahatchee"

I know, beating a dead horse. Look how successful the anti-development (NIMBY) crowd has been along the I-95 corridor and east to the coast in Palm Beach County:

Pretty impressive, huh? Image from The Palm Beach Post's "NEW COMMUNITIES" locator map. This map appears each Friday on page R4.

Here is an excerpt from Andy Reid's article in the Sun Sentinel:

     GL Homes has long owned the nearly 5,000-acre Indian Trails Grove property, where the company nearly a decade ago envisioned building as many as 12,000 homes — before the South Florida development boom fizzled.
     Now, with development picking up again, GL Homes is proposing to build at a per-acre rate similar to what the County Commission in October approved for Minto West.
     "This is obviously the last big piece of the [development] puzzle," GL Homes Vice President Larry Portnoy said about building planned in the Loxahatchee area. "We have waited 10 years to bring this in. ... It was about time."

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true."

"Can everything WEST of I-95 please go BACK to the county?"

[UPDATE/REPOST; A LOOK BACK] Lake Worth Mayor Pam Triolo—'pastor' Mike Olive's claims are absolutely false

[UPDATE: Lake Worth Mayor Pam Triolo is absolutely CORRECT and 'pastor' Mike Olive is absolutely WRONG: There Is No Fee To Pray in the City of Lake Worth. That 'pastor' Mike Olive finally paid his $160 Accessory Use Application. He and the Common Ground (no 's') Church story was also DEBUNKED here. Below is the original blog post:]

CBS12/WPEC's Chuck Webber shows there still some integrity and real reporters at that TV news station. He interviewed Lake Worth Mayor Pam Triolo and she explained, succinctly, that 'pastor' Olive is completely wrong. A Fox News reporter picked up on this ridiculous non-story and that is the reason for the story by Chuck Webber.

Here is a quote by Mayor Triolo from Chuck Webber (from the text of the story):

“This is entirely a big misunderstanding,” said Mayor Pam Triolo, in response to the Fox News article. “The city’s intention is not to penalize churches in any way, shape or form. No, there’s no fee to pray.” 

The city needs the help of its churches, [Mayor] Triolo added.

The false news story by Margaret Menge that started this non-story can be read here. Note this quote from Lake Worth City Manager Michael Bornstein:

"So, all they have to do is go through the conditional land use process to make sure the impacts have been assessed...if they're a small church, it shouldn't be a big deal."
--Lake Worth City Manager Michael Bornstein, 2/20/15, in the very last paragraph of another ridiculous 'news' story by Margaret Menge.

Here are some of the news reports that 'pastor' Mike Olive inspired, giving our little City a black eye on the national stage:

Here is a letter from William Waters, the city's Director for Community Sustainability, dated March 2, 2015 that proves conclusively that the Common Ground (no 's') Church story is a non-story:

 Thank you Chuck Webber for helping our City set the record straight.

[By Request] Lake Worth Commissioner Ryan Maier—The Cellophane Pledge of Transparency and Openness

Read about newly-elected Ryan Maier's broken promise of transparency and openness.

Photograph of street art at the Lake Worth Street Painting Festival, February 2013

Photo courtesy of Jim Stafford. Visit here for more information on the City of Lake Worth's Street Painting Festival held every February in the downtown.

TONIGHT: The Rockin' Jake Band & the Screen on the Green in downtown Lake Worth

Tonight is Evening on the Avenue in Lake Worth. The featured band is the Rockin' Jake Band; below they perform "Going Back To The Big Easy":

Learn about the Evening on the Avenue:

And the Screen on the Green starts at 8:00. . .

Don't forget to stop by the Front Porch for fresh popcorn and say "Hi".

More images from Lynn Anderson's charming blog: When is the media in Palm Beach County going to wake up?

The following three images are from Lynn Anderson's blog. She resides in Palm Beach County, unfortunately in one of the most tolerant cities in the entire State of Florida: Lake Worth. Her racial taunts have been going on for years and the media, including The Palm Beach Post, has been ignoring it. 

Note that Anderson taunts Lake Worth Mayor Pam Triolo, again.

Anderson posted this on her blog the week prior to Lake Worth's Martin Luther King, Jr. March.

Recent Klu Klux Klan imagery by Ms. Anderson.

Note below is another image from Anderson's blog. This is a prayer written for me, also a blogger in Lake Worth, by 'pastor' Mike Olive. If he's written a prayer for Lynn Anderson I will gladly publish that prayer on my blog.

A prayer for me, "In Jesus' name", by 'pastor' Mike Olive of the Common Ground (no 's') Church.

Kevin D. Thompson: City officials in Greenacres are mad as heck [sic] about road construction delay

How mad are they? Peter Finch from 'Network' mad but "no one from the city is planning to harm anyone", the reporter ads.

Here is an excerpt from Mr. Thompson's article about the road construction delay in Greenacres:

     Unlike Finch’s [Peter Finch's famous 'Network' rant] unhinged news anchor character, no one from the city is planning to harm anyone. Still, officials are mighty upset.
     Another potential delay by Palm Beach County on the 5-year road improvement project for Haverhill Road between Melaleuca Lane and Lake Worth Road has them riled up.
     The project, scheduled to start in fiscal year 2016, might now be moved back another three years because the possible addition of wider bike lanes completely changes the project’s design and could involve buying additional right-of-way, the city said.

Kevin D. Thompson is the Post beat reporter for Greenacres and the City of Lake Worth. If you have a story or good news about your neighborhood you can contact the reporter directly:
Kevin D. Thompson, beat reporter
Email: kthompson@pbpost.com
561-820-4573
Twitter: @kevindthompson1

2015 South Florida Environmental Report "At A Glance": Peer-reviewed report by the SFWMD

You can see that report here. About the report:

     The 2015 South Florida Environmental Report – At a Glance provides an overview of a year of restoration, scientific and engineering progress in the Kissimmee Basin, Lake Okeechobee, the Everglades and South Florida coastal areas. The independent peer-reviewed report is produced by the South Florida Water Management District and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

Opening page from the report.