HOW ABOUT A FREE RELAXING CONCERT THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON?

“OCEANS 2” will present a concert on Sunday, June 29^th from 3-4 pm at the Spanish Rivier Library on Spanish River Boulevard that is free to the public, as part of the Sunday Matinee Music Series. Skip Sheffield, columnist for the Boca Raton News and Bill Bowen, writer and editor at the Palm Beach Post will perform tunes from Simon & Garfinkle, Jimmy Buffet-style music, Beatles songs and others. For more information call Lisa Mansell at 561-451-3452.

SPEND THE DAY AT A BEAUTIFUL PARK IN BOCA RATON

Have you visited our beautiful Boca Raton parks? Some have ball fields for the school age children, some present shows, both at Sugar Sands Park. At South Inlet Park you have lots of sand to sit on, beautiful direct oceanfront views, a picnic and play area. Patch Reef has a community house with classrooms and meeting rooms and ball fields. Check them all out and enjoy our local facilities. You and the family can snorkel at Red Reef Park. For a large pool, head to Meadows Park. Call for their schedules… a great way to spend a Sunday and some have picnic facilities.

Red Reef Park -561-391-5014

Sugar Sand Park – 561-347-3900

Meadows Park - 561-393-7851

Patch Reef Park - 561-997-8504

South Inlet Park - 561-966-6600

ENJOY!

EAST BOCA EDEN PROJECT PROPOSED AS A RENTAL COMMUNITY

For 6 years this one-time luxury condo complex has morphed into various end uses. There are 4 units, with only one finished. Planning & Zoning Board approved application of Boca East LLC for a 248-unit rental community, with a name change to “Pearl”. Needing to get refinancing first, the Project Manager says he will buy back purchased condos” although he is not legally obligated to do so. Perhaps, at last, this complex is finding its way to being finished and lived in.

NOTE: YOU MUST MOVE OVER FOR STOPPED EMERGENCY VEHICLES ON HIGHWAY

With the primary objective to save lives of law enforcement officers conducting traffic stops, a statute passed during the 2002 session of the Florida legislature requires that motorists traveling on I-95 and other Florida highways with two or more lanes traveling in the direction fo the emergency vehicle “slow down” or “move over” and out of the lane closest to the vehicle as soon as its safe to do so, when approaching an authorized emergency vehicle stopped on the highway. Drivers are required to slow to 20 miles per hour less than the posted speed limit if 25 miles per hour or greater or travel at 5 miles per hour when posted speed limit is 20 miles per hour or less.

CHILDREN'S MUSEUM HOLDS TOWNE PICNIC SATURDAY 6-21

From 11 am to 2 pm The Children’s Museum will hold what it hopes will be its first nnual picnic on the museum grounds at 498 Crawford Boulevard. There will be Dixieland Entertainment, children’s crafts, horseshoe and lawn croquet tournaments, a 3-legged sack race and free museum admission. For more information call 561-368-6875.

$500 PRIZE TO BE AWARDED FOR BEST POSTER

A call has been issued by the city of Delray Beach for submission to promote First Night 2009, re events for the evening of New Years Eve 2009, celebrating the New Year through the arts. The festival is public. Applications must be postmarked by 5 pm Friday, July 11^th. The design must be suitable for a poster and a button. Designs can be new, must be original, can be two-dimension artwork or graphic design. Artwork must be able to be downsized to about 2 ½” x 3” or 3” in diameter as the button shape may be square, rectangular or circular. Poster will be about 11”x1” with room for additional text or information that will not interfere with the artwork. The City of Delray Beach First Night 2009 Committee will serve as the selection committee. Winning criteria includes quality of artwork, experience and qualifications of artist, appropriateness of artwork to size and dimensions of button (which will serve as admittance to all events), and appropriateness to committee goals. For more information call 561-279-1380, x35.

KEEP IN MIND WHEN GETTING A MORTGAGE, THAT YOU GET MORE PROPERTY FOR THE MONEY WITH A LOWER RATE.

FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS
Rates on 30-Year Mortgages Jump

Washington, June 13,2008 – Rates on 30-year mortgages jumped to the highest level in nearly eight months, reflecting increased concerns about what the Federal Reserve might do to battle inflation.

Freddie Mac, the mortgage company, reported Thursday that 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 6.32 percent this week. That was sharply up from 6.09 percent last week.

It was the highest level for 30-year mortgages since they averaged 6.33 percent for the week of Oct. 25.

Analysts attributed the big jump to increased concerns in financial markets that the Federal Reserve might be preparing to start raising interest rates in order to make sure that inflation does not get out of control.

MORTGAGE RATE TREND INDEX

Most experts (71 percent) polled by Bankrate.com generally expect mortgage rates to continue rising over the next 30 to 45 days. However, 21 percent expect rates to go down while only 8 percent predict no change over the same time span.

TEMPLE BETH SHIRA TO JOIN UNION FOR REFORM JUDIASM

Four years ago, five families formed Temple Beth Shira, West Boca’s Reform Synagogue, as a supportive congregation. Today more than 130 families are members of this multi-generational congregation, devoted to Torah, Jewish values, social action and community outreach. Members come from Boynton Beach to Coral Springs. On Friday, June 13^th the temple, in West Boca, will be officially welcomed into the Union for Reform Judiasm, the only West Boca Temple to be so affiliated. Attendance at the event is free. For more information call 561-912-1453 or go to www.templebeth-shira.org. The Temple offers a comprehensive religious school, bar and bat mitzvah training and small classes. There is an active sisterhood and brotherhood. Cantor Ellen Stettner is the spiritual leader. She served as Cantor of the historic Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, New York City, NY, from 1981 through 2002, and was the first person to have occupied that position. She also served Temple Israel in Melbourne, Florida, as interim Spiritual Leader, before accepting the position of Spiritual Leader of Temple Beth Shira in West Boca Raton. Services are held every other Friday at 7:30 pm at West Boca High School. For more information call 561-912-1453 or go to www.templebeth-shira.org.

ARTISTIC ENTRIES BEING ACCEPTED FOR “BOCA FESTIVAL DAYS”

Sign up by Friday June 27th to submit up to two pieces of 2- and 3-dimensional work. Be age 18+, and send $25 entry fee per application. For entry form go to www.sugarsandpark.org or go to Sugar Sand Park Community Center. You can call Stacee Cooney at 561-347-3901. The Sugar Sand Park Community Center’s Juried Art Exhibition is part of the month-long Boca Festival Days event organized by the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce.

LOCAL SCHOOLS RANK HIGH

NEWSWEEK’s May 21, 2008 “TOP OF THE CLASS” article showed the following area schools in these ranks in the top 1000 of 1400+ public high schools in the US:

Suncoast Community (Riviera Beach) is #3

Dreyfoos School of the Arts (Palm Beach) is #33

Atlantic Community (Delray Beach) is #58

Boca Community (Boca Raton) is #146

Spanish River (Boca Raton) is #196

Palm Beach Gardens (Palm Beach Gardens) #663

West Boca Raton (Boca Raton) is 675

Jupiter (Jupiter) is #859

William T. Dwyer ( Palm Beach Gardens) is #978

Public schools are ranked according a ratio devised by Washington Post Education Reporter Jay Matthews: the number of Advanced Placement, Intl. Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school in 2007 divided by the number of graduating seniors. All of the schools on the list have an index of at least 1.000; they are in the top 5 percent of public schools measured this way.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/39380

$232-MM – NEW WORLD RECORD FOR RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY?

It is widely reported, but not yet confirmed that Lakshmi Mittal is ready to spend USD $232-MM on a home for his son, Aditva Mittal (pictured here), in London’s Kensington Palace Gardens neighborhood. According to Forbes Magazine, Lakshmi Mittal is the 4^th richest person in the world with an estimated personal net worth of $45-BB. Current property owner is Noam Gottesman, hedge fund manager.

MOST EXPENSIVE SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE SOLD IN BOCA IN 2008 SO FAR

A fully furnished waterfront estate on an oversized waterfront lot, located on an interior canal, with 138’ dock was listed for $12,750,000, on the market for 1196 days and sold in May 2008 for $10,600,000. The house, located in Royal Palm Yacht and Country Club, had 6 bedrooms, 8 full and 2 half baths. Features included solid wood flooring, moldings, ceiling details, home theater, exercise room, gourmet kitchen, 2 laundry rooms, marble pool deck and docks. Garage fits 5 cars and golf cart. 11,089 sq ft.