Palm Beach County Commissioner Jess Santamaria
invites you to his January 18th, 2012 COMMUNITY FORUM
• Corruption County
• We The People
• Inspector General
• State Attorney
TOGETHER, we shall eradicate corruption and waste in Palm Beach County! Wednesday, Jan. 18th, 2012 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the “original” Wellington Mall. LOCATION: The “original” Wellington Mall is located at the southeast corner of Forest Hill Boulevard and Wellington Trace. Community Forums are Audio Recorded
Tribute Concert Series at the Wellington Amphitheater
Want to experience the look and sound of big-name bands and singers without having to buy expensive concert tickets? Do you ever wish you had the chance to see some of the best performers from the past? Get the best of both worlds right in your hometown with Wellington’s free tribute concert series at the Amphitheater! The following tribute concerts are scheduled:
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Date |
Concert |
Time |
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January 21st |
Gathering Time’s Tribute to Folk Music |
8:30 pm |
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February 18th |
Beetlemaniax’s Tribute to the Beatles |
7:30 pm |
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March 10th |
The Long Run’s Tribute to the Eagles |
7:30 pm |
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March 17th |
Neil Zirconia’s Tribute to Neil Diamond |
7:30 pm |
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April 14th |
George Orr & The Hot Rods’ Tribute to Rod Stewart |
8:00 pm |
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April 21st |
The Blues Brothers Soul Band’s Tribute to the Blues Brothers |
8:00 pm |
The Wellington Amphitheater is located at 12100 Forest Hill Boulevard. Guests are encouraged to bring a lawn chair or blanket and enjoy the show!
For information about other Wellington programs, events, activities, and updates, please visit www.wellingtonfl.gov or watch Channel 18 for the latest happenings.
Tickets Now on Sale for the Wellington Father Daughter Dance
Fathers, step fathers, grandfathers, and all blends of families are invited to take part in Wellington’s annual Father Daughter Dance on Saturday, February 4th, 2012. It will be a night of delight designed for dads to share with their daughters ages 5 to 14 and includes dancing, a delicious dinner, games and pictures. Each couple will receive a free keepsake to cherish the memories of this fun evening.
The Father Daughter Dance will take place at the Village Park Gymnasium located at 11700 Pierson Road from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Doors open at 5:30 pm. Tickets are on sale through Friday, January 27th, 2012 at the Wellington Community Center and the Village Park Gymnasium. The cost is $50 per resident couple and $62.50 per non-resident couple. Additional tickets may be purchased for $20 per resident and $25 per non-resident. This is a popular event, so be sure to buy your tickets as early as possible!
For more information, call (561) 791-4005. This event is sponsored by Simon Orthodontics, and additional sponsorship opportunities are still available.
For information about other Wellington programs, events, activities, and updates, please visit www.wellingtonfl.gov or watch Channel 18 for the latest happenings.
Monthly Breakfast Networking Meeting
This is an invitation to a networking meeting Thursday, January 19th, from 7:30-8:45 AM. We meet on a Thursday each month sometimes the third, sometimes the fourth so you can always check if you don’t hear from me. 561-762-1667
We are meeting in West Palm Beach at The Crexent Business Center Office Conference Room. It is in the Vista Commerce Center off of Okeechobee Blvd just West of the Turnpike. Actual address is 2101 Vista Parkway. This is a new location this month and should be fun. Just come in and go straight ahead to the office suites lobby and the conference room is off to the right.
You can find us on www.meetup.com as well. Everybody should check that out for other great groups as well or even start your own if you have a particular interest or topic.
We socialize and have coffee and a bite to eat until about 8am. Then there is a conference call with Fran Tarkenton (former NFL quarterback) for about 15 minutes and then we get to introduce ourselves and talk about our business a little bit. Very informative. Bring cards, flyers, coupons etc.
No charge for the meeting. Not one person specific so come one come all!
Bring another business owner that could benefit from the exposure.
Appreciate your time. Please call with questions.
Thanks,
Linda Windsor
Independent Associate LegalShield
www.lwindsor.legalshield.com
Small Business and Group Marketing Specialist
www.youtube.com/legalshieldvideo
561 762-1667
PALMS WEST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’S
2012 WOMEN IN BUSINESS SERIES
PRESENTS “LUNCH WITH KATHERINE BELLISSIMO”
SPONSORED BY IBERIABANK
The Palms West Community Foundation is pleased to announce the kick-off the 2012 Women in Business series, sponsored by IBERIRIABANK, on Wednesday, January 18, starting at 12:00 noon. The first luncheon of the 2012 Women in Business series, will feature Katherine Bellissimo as the speaker, and will be sponsored, by White Horse Tavern and FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival. Katherine Bellissimo, and her husband Mark, are two of the original Principles of the Wellington Equestrian Partners—the group that, since 2005, have been developing and growing the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington into the world-famous event and equestrian center that it has become.
The luncheon will be on Wednesday, January 18, in the Wellington Club at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center located at 3401 Equestrian Club Road in Wellington (Spectator Entrance) beginning at 12:00 noon. The Wellington Club is a private room that is overlooking the main arena of the Equestrian Center , and as an added treat, the riders and their horses will be performing that day! As another added surprise, there is even a chance that one of the female Olympic riders, depending on her training schedule, might be able to join us for lunch and to share her career experiences!
Katherine Bellissimo will share with the crowd her experiences in the interesting and intriguing equestrian world, and how she has been able to balance her career demands with her personal life and family. She and Mark have been true working partners, as they have grown Wellington ’s equestrian community through the expansion of the scope of the Winter Equestrian Festival. But, in the meantime, Katherine has also focused on developing outreach programs to benefit the surrounding community…all the while making time for her family which includes four children!
This luncheon, catered by White Horse Tavern, is not one to miss, and is sure to be a sold-out event! The cost for the luncheon is $25.00 for Palms West Chamber members and $35.00 for non-chamber members. Reservations for this event are requested by noon on Monday, January16th, and it is a pre-paid event. For reservations, please go to www.palmswest.com, and click on the Women in Business icon on the right-hand side. Or, you can call Maureen Gross at the Palms West Chamber office—(561)790-6200.
“IT’S SPELLED W-O-N-D-E-R-F-U-L”
– Wall Street Journal
January 10, 2012
THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE explodes into the Lake Worth Playhouse as a quirky, offbeat, improvisational musical comedy unique to anything you have seen before. It will steal your breath and your heart from their first musical note!
Reviews:
“Funniest thing on seven consonants” – Washington Post
“It’s spelled W-O-N-D-E-R-F-U-L” – Wall Street Journal
“Quirky ‘Spelling Bee’: In a word, charming” – USA Today
“A sleeper hit…an utterly charming look at one of the screwier manifestations of the American Dream” –TIME
“The modest Off-Broadway musical about a spelling bee is the very definition of easygoing charm” –The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Can you spell…irresistible? Yea or nay, that’s precisely the word for ‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spell Bee,’ the loveably inconsequential, entirely adorable new musical” –The New York Times
Synopsis:
Six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t necessarily make you a loser.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a hilarious tale of overachievers’ angst chronicling the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The show’s Tony Award winning creative team has created the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at the same time.
Audience Participants:
Before every performance of THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, four audience volunteers are recruited to participate on-stage as guest spellers. Each new foursome guarantees a new set of hilarious and unexpected experiences – one night is just as unique as the one before it. The willing contestants are chosen through a careful vetting process, utilizing pre-show lobby interviews and audience questionnaires.
Awards:
Tony Award – Best Book of a Musical
Tony Award – Best Featured Actor in a Musical
Drama Desk Award – Outstanding Book of a Musical
Drama Desk Award – Outstanding Director of a Musical
Drama Desk Award – Outstanding Ensemble Performance
Lucille Lortel Award – Outstanding Musical
Lucille Lortel Award – Outstanding Featured Actor
History:
THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE started as a non-musical play entitled C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E, done by the improvisational group “The Farm.” One of the performers in the play, Sarah Saltzberg, happened to be the nanny of playwright Wendy Wasserstein (The Heidi Chronicles). Wasserstein was impressed by what she saw and suggested to friend William Finn (MAKE ME A SONG) that he may be able to take the show to the next level. Finn, his former student Rachel Sheinkin, and C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E creator Rebecca Feldman worked together to turn the piece into a full-length musical.
In the winter of 2004, THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE had a workshop at Barrington Stage Company in Sheffield, Massachusetts. The following summer, the show had its first full production, in a cafeteria turned theatre.
From there, THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE moved to Off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theatre, where it quickly sold out its original stay and was extended due to glowing reviews and powerful word of mouth. The show broke box office records at Second Stage and moved to Broadway’s Circle in the Square on April 15, 2005 with an official opening on May 2nd. The show again received rave reviews and won two 2005 Tony Awards for Best Book of a Musical and Best Featured Actor.
Schedule
· Preview Night is Thursday, January 19 at 8:00 p.m. ($23 & $27)
· Opening Night is Friday, January 20 at 8:00 p.m. ($28 & $32 – includes Opening Night Gala)
· Evening Performances are on January 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28, February 2, 3 and 4 at 8:00 p.m. ($26 & $30)
· Matinee Performances are on January 21, 22, 28, 29, February 4 and 5 at 2:00 p.m. ($26 & $30)
· Dinner & Show Night is January 19 and includes a 6:00 p.m. pre-show dinner at Fiorentina, a contemporary Italian restaurant in downtown Lake Worth, prior to the 8:00 p.m. performance. The all-inclusive dinner/show package price is $50 and includes a three-course meal and premium seats for the preview performance.
Tickets can be purchased through the Lake Worth Playhouse Box Office at 561-586-6410 or online at lakeworthplayhouse.org.
Location
Lake Worth Playhouse is located at 713 Lake Ave in Downtown Lake Worth. Valet Parking is available for $5. Street and lot parking is also available.
ABOUT LAKE WORTH PLAYHOUSE
Lake Worth Playhouse is a non-profit community theatre with a diverse array of offerings, including award-winning dramas, comedies, musicals, area premieres, Broadway favorites, children’s shows, ballets and operas on film, live concerts, improv comedy and alternative programming. In addition to its main stage theatrical fare, the Playhouse presents year-round independent and foreign films in the Stonzek Theatre, an intimate black-box style theatre equipped with a large viewing screen and high-definition projection. The Playhouse is proud to offer a variety of educational programs for adults and children, as well as community outreach initiatives that bring cultural programs into the neighborhoods of underserved youth and also make theatre available free of charge for disadvantaged citizens in the community.
Contact:
Theresa Loucks
Tel: 561-586-6169 (ext. 216)
E-mail: [email protected]
JAN. 31 WHOLE FOODS EVENT TO BENEFIT WELLINGTON PROECT GRADUATION
Wellington, FL – The Wellington 2012 PROJECT GRADUATION planning committee invites the community to support its efforts by attending a wine, beer and food tasting event at Whole Foods Market in Wellington on Tuesday, January 31 from 5:30pm to 7:00pm. Whole Foods is located on the west side of Hwy. 441/SR 7 just south of the Mall at Wellington Green.
Tickets are $10.00 and must be purchased in advance. The event is limited to 300 guests. To purchase tickets, contact Susan Bennett (561) 670-0840 or Missy Cheatham (561) 512-3994. You may also send an e-mail to [email protected].
In addition to sampling great food and beverages, attendees will have the chance to win a Whole Foods gift card. “The committee thanks Whole Foods for their support,” said event organizer Missy Cheatham. “And it’s a great place to do your shopping for Super Bowl Sunday!”
PROJECT GRADUATION is a drug- and alcohol-free graduation night party that ensures a fun and safe time for all graduating seniors from Wellington High School.
The Project Graduation party starts at around 10:00pm on graduation night and the fun continues until almost 5:00am. Graduates will be entertained all night by a DJ, huge inflatable games and rides, a hypnotist, casino games and much, much more. Food and drinks are served throughout the night.
Martin Luther King Day of Service in Wellington
On Monday, January 16, 2012, Wellington is hosting its first-ever Martin Luther King Day of Service, an opportunity for residents to give back to their community and earn volunteer service hours. All projects will take place from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm at Village Park located at 11700 Pierson Road.
Teens and adults can sign up to volunteer to beautify Village Park, assisting with various landscaping and clean-up efforts. Volunteers should be fourteen years or older to participate and must wear appropriate outdoor attire, including sneakers. Wellington encourages those seeking community service hours to take part in this event.
In addition, families with younger children who would like to give back to the community can volunteer to assist Hugs and Kisses, a local nonprofit organization that transforms old buttons into unique bracelets to raise money for cancer patients with financial needs. Volunteers can assist with cleaning, sorting and preparing the buttons to be made into jewelry.
In 1994, Congress designated the Martin Luther King holiday as a national day of service and charged the Corporation for National and Community Service with leading this effort. It is the only federal holiday observed as a national day of service – a “day on, not a day off.” The Martin Luther King Day of Service empowers individuals and strengthens communities to achieve common goals.
To volunteer, please contact Kim Henghold, Volunteer Coordinator, at (561) 791-4137 or via email at [email protected].
For information about other Wellington programs, events, activities, and updates, please visit www.wellingtonfl.gov or watch Channel 18 for the latest happenings.
Wellington to Reveal Playground Design at Celebration Day Event
In just a matter of days, Wellington residents will get a first look at the plans for a revamped playground designed by local children. Join us from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm on Saturday, January 21st, 2012 for a Celebration Day event at Tiger Shark Cove Park as designers unveil the sketch and residents sign up to volunteer to rebuild the playground. This community rebuild project will take place from Wednesday, March 21st through Sunday, March 25th, 2012.
Students from Wellington’s elementary schools met with a designer from Leathers & Associates in December and January to brainstorm ideas for the playground. Volunteers built the original Tiger Shark Cove Park playground 12 years ago. Similarly, in January 2010, more than 200 volunteers pitched in to build the popular Scott’s Place barrier-free playground on Forest Hill Boulevard adjacent to City Hall.
Tiger Shark Cove Park is located at 13800 Greenbriar Boulevard. For more information about the community build project or to sign up to volunteer, contact Kim Henghold, Volunteer Coordinator, at (561) 791-4137 or via email at [email protected].
For information about other Wellington programs, events, activities, and updates, please visit www.wellingtonfl.gov or watch Channel 18 for the latest happenings.
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