Wednesday, May 8, 2013, WEST PALM BEACH, Florida – What better way to learn about wildlife and conservation than to attend school at the Palm Beach Zoo? That’s the reality for Palm BeachCounty elementary students attending Title I schools. And it’s all thanks to support from community sponsors: Kids’ Dreams Public Charity, Palm Beach Kennel Club, TD Charitable Foundation, R. Cathleen Cox Charitable Foundation, and Fortin Foundation.
Hillary Allgood, Palm Beach Zoo Education Specialist, instructs a local fifth grade class during Zoo School. Photo: Megan Derousie, Palm Beach Zoo.
ZooSchool is an innovative and memorable way for students to learn in an outdoor classroom setting. The program is offered to Palm BeachCounty elementary students, grades 3 through 5, attending Title I schools with an 80% or higher population of “at-risk” students. The one week, on-site program will be offered October through May for class sizes of 18 to 22 students.
Students and their teachers will use the ZooSchool classroom as their homeroom for the week and enjoy all aspects of the Zoo each day. Zoo educators will provide outdoor lessons: activities featuring live animals and behind-the-scenes tours that are tailored to Florida’s Next Generation Sunshine Standards and follow the Scope and Sequence schedule for Science as recommended by the Palm BeachCountySchool District.
The week of May 13th a 5th grade class from CO Taylor/Kirklane Elementary will be at the Zoo attending ZooSchool.
About the Palm Beach Zoo
The Palm Beach Zoo is located at 1301 Summit Boulevard, just east of I-95 between Southern and Forest Hill Boulevard. The zoo is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day except Christmas and Thanksgiving Day. The Zoological Society of the Palm Beaches exists to protect wildlife and wildlife habitat, and to inspire others to value and conserve the natural world. We advance our conservation mission through endangered species propagation, education, health and wellness, field research, and conservation medicine. For more information regarding the Palm Beach Zoo, visit www.palmbeachzoo.org.
Intro to Meditation Class to Enliven Your Mind, Body & Spirit
Meditation is a powerful practice that can help us to access our own inner voice so that we can live happier and healthier lives – filled with passion and purpose. Join us for a 90 min Meditation Class with Certified Deepak Chopra Meditation Instructor, Michelle Goebel to learn how meditation can help you to Find Better Work Life Balance, Spur Creativity, Feel Less Stress, Sleep Better & Experience More Peace & Inner Joy. This class is great for beginners and anyone who wants to reconnect with their practice.
-Date: Sat, May 18, Time: 10:30 AM – 12 PM
– Location: The Wellness Experience, 9180 Forest Hill Blvd, Wellington (Kobosko’s)
– Advanced Registration Required: 561.333.5351
Join Us To:
– Understand Stress Triggers
– Discover Modern Mind/Body Research
– Learn How Meditation Works & Benefits
– Set Your Intention to Increase the Power of Manifestation
– Practice Relaxing Breathing Techniques
– Experience a Heart Centered Group Meditation
– Learn Powerful Stress Relief Tips
– Enjoy Chopra Organic tea after class
Preparation for Class
– Please arrive 15 mins early.
– Refrain from wearing scents/perfume.
– Wear comfortable, loose-fitting clothing.
We hope to see you!
About Michelle Michelle Goebel is a Chopra Center Certified, Meditation Instructor who studied with Deepak Chopra, MD and Chopra Center Co-Founder David Simon, MD for 6 years and continues to work with the Chopra Center. For over 20 years, Michelle has practiced various forms of meditation, mind body integration and natural healing and is Certified in Reconnective Healing and Reiki. She helps individuals to rediscover their inner sparkle so that they can find work-life balance, enjoy better health and to live life with more joy and ease.
The Wellington Chamber of Commerce Welcomes
Tru Art Studios As A New Member
Submitted by Monica Kallas, SharpShooter Marketing
Ribbon Cutting for Tru Art Studios. Pictured L-R: Carmine Marino, Kathleen Birmingham, Bob Salerno, Cheryl Paul, Anthony Paul (with scissors), Joanne Dee, Denise Carpenter. Photo by Monica Kallas.
The Wellington Chamber of Commerce recently had a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for Tru Art Studios located at 13800 Bottlebrush Court #D, Wellington, Florida. Anthony Paul is the Director/Owner of the business with the help of his wife Cheryl. If you are looking for that unique, memorable piece of artwork to hang on your wall or to give as a gift, Tru Art Studios is the place you should visit.
Anthony was born and raised in Rockland County, New York. After graduating from college, he worked at Lederle Laboratories where he was part of the Centrum Vitamin team. He started as a tablet press mechanic and worked his way up. He helped build an industry standard machine to deliver vitamins to the market and also was on a creative team developing shapes for the Sea World character vitamins.
After 15 years in the pharmaceutical industry, Anthony went into the music entertainment industry. For ten years, he worked with various artists and consulted on projects including one for Alicia Keys.
In 2007, Anthony and his wife moved to WPB and then later to Wellington. He said he and his wife decided to make a change in their lives. They wanted to work with local artists. Being a photographer he wanted to turn his photos into paintings. “We had a lot of photos we transferred into paintings and that’s when I started to love what I was doing. I’ve been doing it now for five years.” Tru Art Studios currently works with about 5-6 local artists.
Anthony said that Tru Art Studios’ clientele is mostly homeowners who like to decorate their homes. They focus on converting photos of horses, pets, self portraits and family shots into paintings. Anthony notes that they can turn anything a client wants into art. In addition, they produce a finished product. Anthony stretches and frames all the artwork so when he delivers the art, it’s ready to be hung on wall. He added that they have competitive prices as well.
For more information about Tru Art Studios call 561.633.5965. The email is info@truartstudios.com and you can visit their website at www.truartstudios.com. For more information about businesses in the WellingtonFlorida area, call 561.792.6525 or visit the NEW Wellington Chamber of Commerce website at www.WellingtonChamber.com.
Join us for SFSM Summer Camp 2013! Each exciting week will offer hands-on exploration for young scientists age 4 to 12 on specific topics in science. The days are packed with fun science lessons, labs, crafts and outside activities led by our expert science educators. Read on . . .
Want to be Squeaky clean?
We all go through our homes and especially our closets in the springtime. March especially activates us with an inner clock in our bodies; it’s a reminder of cleaning out the old to bring in the new.
Energetically it’s the same. We need to periodically clean off our auras, and our souls. Yep, most likely you heard of that word “aura” before. It’s a scientific fact that the aura is the electromagnetic field around all that exists as energy. It’s approximately 2 feet around your whole human body. It goes over the top of your head and all around you on all sides above and below. I imagine it like a big bubble of vibrations that we cannot see. On the other hand some people can “see” these vibrations and can sense or feel what’s in a person’s bubble too! Those people are called empathy, intuitives or psychic.
All day long we and our auric bubbles pick up “junk” from other people as we pass each other. When our bubbles touch, we can pick up other peoples thoughts and emotions in energy form which are vibrations. We can pick up this “junk” from vibrations whether they speak verbally to us or not at all. Thoughts are energy too, they can be positive or negative or null. Picking up thought forms of energy is common. For example, what if someone “thinks” you are a B_ _CH? That is a negative thought form. They are throwing bad vibrations at you and that can stick in your aura. Another example: we all have had a friend “dump” on us, a friend that had a terrible day decides to spill every detail to you about it, pouring every crappy emotion and describing it as if they were packaging it and giving it to you. Yes, that is called “dumping.” I know most people – especially friends – don’t intentionally mean to dump, but it happens.
Now you know how you get this junk. Once it settles you can begin to feeling it in your bubble – it can start to feel like a full dumpster if you don’t empty the trash. What happens if you leave the trash in your bubble or “space” too long? You can feel crappy. What do we do now? Easy, cleanse that crap off of you; don’t let the stench of the dump get you down.
Most of those emotions and thoughts were not even yours to begin with, “Just Let Go, don’t own them!” If they aren’t yours, release them. The famous words “Let Go” carry true meaning. Remember some of those “feelings” of yuck can also be from yourself, that’s called “self-sabotage.” It’s when you say to yourself “I can’t do this; I hate my thighs, Blah blah bah.” All of those thought or words become clouds of grey heaviness inside your bubble. Some people describe it as “feeling down in the dumps, or depressed, sad, heavy.” Okay, you are probably getting what I am saying.
It can be negative thoughts and emotions. Remember from those negative thoughts can then turn into negative actions. The goal here is to clear our negative thoughts and emotions and replace them with positive ones. This human friend is how we clean our auras. I am talking about cleaning out energy that most people can’t see.
Just do this exercise to release and cleanse your aura.
Imagine your bubble around your body.
Take a few minutes to ask yourself, “How do I feel right now?”
Let yourself know its “time” to Spring clean your auric field. This is stating your intention to do this action. Take 3 deep breaths and imagine a shower of white or clear water moving every part of your body. You can start at 1 foot above the top of your head moving downward. Once you imagined every part “washed off”, if you are visual this works easier and faster, if not, just “feel and sense it happening.” Imagine all the “junk, debris was released from your bubble and on the ground near your feet, then “flush” that by using an imaginary handle to push it out of your space and down the drain or into the earth to be recycled and renewed. All the crap is now gone from you and your bubble. You feel cleaned and great!
Just a hint, you can do this anytime you want, not just spring time!
Do you want a deeper Clean?
No problem. This was the other bit of information, an opportunity to do a total cleansing of the soul.
This includes clearing negative experiences, connections, and occurrences that are to be cleansed from the soul, not just our human thoughts, but negatives in the soul to be changed to be positive in the soul. I call this “The Energy Exchange.”
Your soul is energy. Similar to the energy of the auric field around your body, however this soul energy is “you”. It is pure energy and the part of you that most of us hardly talk about cleaning! The soul can hold old energies from the past and present and also fears of the future. You might be thinking, “does it cleanse all of my soul?” No worries, this “cleansing does not take out all the good of your soul, only the bad.”
Releasing the negative imprints of any old “junk”, is the purpose of cleaning your soul’s energy. Imprints are not “clouds of grey like described in the aura, but they are negative energy s deep within the consciousness. All negative energy can be dismissed. This includes bad habits, patterns, situations and occurrences; here is an example that happened to me. I had a habit, of always placing fear on success. Every time I would start to be successful, I would self-sabotage. I did not understand why I would do this and actually didn’t realize it until I “messed-up” my opportunities. I decided I wanted to change this bad habit. An epiphany arose; I named it “soul talking.”
This “soul talking” is mediation for clearing out our negatives from our own soul’s energy; since we are all made of energy and everything in the world is energy- making equal energy exchange made sense. Energy Exchange is what I describe as natural order. However this “order has been distorted with entitlement issues among humans*”.
People can re-learn how to make equal energy exchange as it should be in the world today. Here are your directions for how to “soul talk.”
Find place inside your home or outdoors that is quiet.
Once you start the mediation, know that you can repeat the words aloud or in your mind. Use words you are comfortable with and most importantly state your intention at the start of your soul talk. Intention means what you feel, project and desire.
I am ( say your full name)
I allow my true soul the energy of me-to engage with my human self, body and mind-
to soul talk to cleanse me- my true soul energy- all that I am energy, on all dimensions , all parallels, all that energy exists-all energies of me in all locations.
Take 11 deep breaths in and out.
I am to be of pure energy. I, (Your name) at this time 2013 earth dimension bring only love into my pure energy;
I release all blocks, all thoughts that are other than positive.
I release all judgments of me and others that are other than positive.
Any and all habits that are other than positive, I release and Exchange with positive energy.
I only see myself as pure and high vibration energy which means happy, healthy and loving.
I only allow loving relationships in my energy
I only allow loving energy around me
I am always safe and protected by loving positive energies
I allow myself and I deserve to have only positive equal energy exchange with all beings of energies, and all that is energy, including myself.
I allow and accept these “Changes” in my life to be of goodness and advancement.
I only allow the light within, around and in my thoughts on this 2013 earth dimension including all of where I exist , existed and reside– in all my forms human and beyond
11 deep breaths in and out Give gratitude to yourself and all energies of life.
Voila! You are deep down clean!
Copyrighted Article and quotes from Jolie DeMarco author of manifesting with “The Energy Exchange “and the book “The 2nd Shift healing 2012-2021.”
Comprehensive AIDS Program of Palm Beach County (CAP)
SMART Ride Information Session
May 22, 2013
WHAT: The SMART Ride Information Session will educate participants on SMART Ride, a 2-day, 165 mile bicycle ride from Miami to Key West benefitting HIV/AIDS agencies in Florida. Participants will learn everything they need to know to be either a rider or crew member for the SMART Ride scheduled for November 15-16, 2013.
WHEN: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 5:30 – 6:30 PM
WHERE:
On Your Mark Performance Center and Bike Shop
819 N Federal Hwy
Lake Park, Florida 33403
COST: Free
GENERAL INFORMATION: Please call Sara Donaldson at CAP for more information at 561-472-9160 x 220 or email her at sdonaldson@cappbc.org. You can also visit the websites at www.cappbc.org or www.thesmartride.org .
The Wellington Chamber of Commerce Welcomes
The Wellington Design Center As A New Member
Submitted by Monica Kallas, SharpShooter Marketing
Pictured L-R: Carmine Marino, Audra Leech, Joseph Leech, Karen Paull, Michael Gordon, Mark “Boz” Bozicevic, Laura Jaffe, Denise Carpenter.
The Wellington Chamber of Commerce recently had a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for The Wellington Design Center located at 9312 Forest Hill Boulevard, Wellington, Florida. Michael Gordon and Karen Paull are partners/owners of the store. If you are looking to design or redesign your home, theirs is the one stop shop you should visit to decorate from the ceilings to the floors and everything in between.
Michael was born in the Bronx, New York and raised in Plainview, Long Island where he graduated high school. He received an Associates Degree from NassauCommunity College. He then went to QueensCollege and earned a B.A. in Psychology and a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology in West Virginia.
After school, Michael went back to Queens and began his career as a therapist and started his own practice. Over the years, Michael taught special education at BOCES on Long Island, worked at a residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed boys, ran a group home with his wife, and then opened up a nursery school and day camp K-3, which he ran for 8 years.
In 1991, Michael and his wife moved to Coral Springs, Florida. Michael said he started to sell little “chachkees” at area flea markets which included wholesale pictures and artwork. Liking his new direction, he opened an artwork and framing store in Stuart and then later in West Palm Beach. The Art Colony, as it was called then, was successful so in 2006 Michael expanded again and took over an existing framing store in Wellington, Florida while his daughter worked at the West Palm Beach store.
Michael ran the store as an art and framing store and then the space next door became available. He said, “That’s when Karen came into the picture and we decided we were going to do something big.” Since the adjacent side was vacant at the time, they took up both spaces and opened the wall. They discontinued the art and framing business and created their new store, The Wellington Design Center, with one side being a flooring center and the other side being a design center. The flooring center is run by Joseph Leech of Wellington Wood Floors who offers a variety of wood floors plus unique, hand crafted flooring. They opened up their doors January of this year.
Michael explained that he and Karen have only known each other for 3 years prior to creating their partnership. Karen and her husband had four showrooms/design centers in New Jersey complete with designers and work room. With her 32 years of experience in the industry it seemed to be a good move for them to partner in the business.
In describing the business, Karen said, “We offer an array of different things for the customer and designer. We do flooring, windows, design, we have designer fabrics, we do wallpaper, we have custom furniture, custom framing, custom rugs, anything for the home that the customer needs. We can take an empty house and design it from floor to ceiling. We have ASID designers on staff that work for us. We also have professional installers.”
“Our pricing is excellent.” Karen continued. “Because we have been in the business so long we have very good connections with the vendors and we get very good pricing which we pass along to our customers. We also do smaller jobs. If someone wants to do blinds on one window, they shouldn’t be afraid to come in here. We will do one blind on a window. No job is too small.”
The WellingtonDesignCenter is involved in the community and helps out local schools by framing team jerseys. For more information about The Wellington Design Center call 561.223.3709. You can email them at wellingtondesigncenter@comcast.net and visit their website at www.wellingtoninteriordesigncenter.com. For more information about businesses in the WellingtonFlorida area, call 561.792.6525 or visit the Wellington Chamber of Commerce website at www.WellingtonChamber.com.
Wellington’s REACH Scholarship Offers Help to Those in Need
Wellington is proud to offer summer scholarship opportunities to the Boys & Girls Club through its Recreation and Education Activities for Children or REACH scholarship program. Utilizing Community Development Block Grant funds provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, up to $1,000 per child may be allocated for summer camp tuition for children between the ages of 6 and 18.
To be eligible, applicants must be Wellington residents and meet the following income guidelines:
Number of People in Home
Maximum Income Limit
1
$38,550
2
$44,050
3
$49,550
4
$55,050
5
$59,500
6
$63,900
7
$68,300
8
$72,700
The REACH scholarship application can be found on our website at www.wellingtonfl.gov on the Neighborhood Services page. Applications must be submitted to the Community Services Department, 12300 Forest Hill Blvd., Wellington, FL 33414 or emailed to scampbell@wellingtonfl.gov by May 22, 2013. Recipients will be chosen May 23 and notified by May 28, 2013.
For information on other Wellington programs, events, activities, and updates, please visit our website at www.wellingtonfl.gov or watch Channel 18 for the latest happenings.
Bush Dog Whelps Now On Exhibit with Single Parent Dad
May 2, 2013, WEST PALM BEACH, Florida – The pitter patter of little paws can now be heard as two male bush dog whelps explore their new surroundings at the Palm Beach Zoo.
Born on January 7, 2013, the whelps spent their first few months
Palm Beach Zoo Keeper Curtis Phillabaum with one of two bush dog whelps during latest round of vaccinations. Courtesy Claudia Harden, Palm Beach Zoo
behind-the-scenes bonding with mom, Mediana, and dad, Oscito. Unfortunately, they will be growing-up without mom, who sadly passed away shortly after they were weaned. “Even though [Mediana] wasn’t in the best of health, she was able to give birth to and raise her young until they were able to eat solid food on their own,” said Zoological Manager Nancy Nill. “She held on as long as she was needed for the whelps. Now dad is a single parent taking great care of his young.”
Before they could discover what their new exhibit had to offer, the two boys received their third set of shots which included distemper and rabies shots. They were also micro-chipped.
Native to Central and South America, bush dogs live in many different habitats including lowland forests and wet savannahs. They travel in packs consisting of a single mated male and female pair and their off-spring. “Bush dogs are elusive by nature. A lot of what is known about this species comes from observations of these animals in captivity,” said Nill. “By having the birth of the whelps, staff is able to observe the dynamics of a bush dog family. Information gathered from observations like these could eventually aid in preserving them in the wild.”
There are only about 25 bush dogs in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) and the Palm Beach Zoo now has seven of them. The new whelps are two of only three recorded whelp births this year.
About the Palm Beach Zoo
The Mission of the Palm Beach Zoo is to protect wildlife and wildlife habitat, and to inspire others to value and conserve the natural world. The Palm Beach Zoo is located at 1301 Summit Boulevard, just east of I‐95 between Southern and Forest Hill Boulevards. The Zoo is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day except Thanksgiving and Christmas. For more information, visitwww.palmbeachzoo.org.