Palm Beach Perspective

Talked with Melissa Sullivan, Marketing Manager, Sunfest. Sunfest is a non-profit that was created to bring in tourism and revenue during the local "slow season" by creating a music festival. It's been around 36 years and has grown bigger and includes a wide variety of music genres. This year listeners can check out Marley Waters, Logic, Zedd, The String Assassins, Ice Cube, 311, Sublime with Rome...

Talked with Barbara Shafer and Dr. Megan Van Ella about the Hanley Foundation. Their mission is to provide substance abuse prevention and education programs for parents, caregivers and school-age children. In addition, the foundation provides financial aid scholarships for patients who could not otherwise afford addiction treatment. As part of their outreach, Project C4OPE, Barbara will be leading...

Talked with Wayne Felber and Elizabeth Dashiell, Kelsey Theater. Their mission is to be a place where listeners can experience the finest in independent cinema, music, cabarets, comedy and various other performing arts while also providing a convention center venue that will host anything from indoor green markets to comic book conventions. Their charity is Kesley Cares and it's mission is "Fundin...

Talked with Erick and Amanda from St. Lucie County, Florida. They have a bunch of exciting events going on including, free hikes with Amanda and other volunteers. Listeners can go to www.slchikes.org to find out more (they list type of hike/local/etc). UnitedWay is offering free tax help at VITA sites (call 211 for locations). The Oxbox Eco center is hosting a fun EarthDay event including art/craf...

Talked with Susan Guinana, CEO, Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center. Their mission is to expand and enrich the lives, bodies and spirits of children and adults with physical, cognitive and emotional disabilities through the benefits of therapeutic horseback riding and other equine assisted activities, while serving the therapeutic riding profession through training and education. Therapeutic ridi...

Talked with Chef Zach Bell, Addison Reserve Country Club, Denise Mariani, Event Chair, Mariani Marketing & Events, Andy Villabona, Senior Manager Culinary Events, Share Our Strength and Mo Foster, Host Kool 1055's Mo & Sally Morning Show. They all came in to talk about Share Our Strength's awesome fundraiser that's coming up on April 5th at the Kravis called Palm Beach's Taste of the Nation. It's...

Talked with Sharon and Sandy from TriCountyHumane along with co-host Sally from Kool 105.5FM morning show. They are a no kill, animal rescue non-profit and have saved over 55,000 dogs and cats since their inception. They are getting ready for their big Doggie and Kittie Ball western motif) on Saturday March 24th at Boca West Country Club. Listeners can get tickets by going to https://doggieball201...

Talked with Elizabeth Dashiell, PB Film Society and Danielle Provencher, Swede Film Maker about this years SwedeFest 6. What's a swede? A swede is a no-budget, laughably bad remake of a hit Hollywood film – the bigger, the better. The term comes from the 2008 comedy, “Be Kind Rewind,” and was made up to explain the sheer awfulness of their remade films by touting them as European – “swedes” becaus...

Talked with Lisa Schmidt, Dir of Community Water Safety and Tracy Sussman, Marketing Dir. from YMCA of SPBC. The YMCA is the nation’s leading nonprofit for strengthening communities through programs and services that nurture and enrich the lives of our youth, promote healthy living and embed the ideals of social responsibility. The YMCA of South Palm Beach County manages programs and services with...

Talked with Donna and Lexi from United Way of Palm Beach County. They act like an umbrella agency coordinating other agencies to provide needed services in the county. There mission is to ensure that everyone in Palm Beach County has access to the basics: a quality education, a place to live, financial stability, good medical care, and enough to eat. We talked about several of the programs they ha...

Talked with Pamela Carithers, Lincoln Park Main Street and Adriene Jefferson, Indian River Community College and guest co-hosts: Kevin, Rachel, Holli, Gabbi and Harry, students from Palm Beach Gardens Highschool. Pam and Adriene are working on several events for Black History month. The first is the 3rd Annual Highwaymen Heritage Trail Art Show and Festival on February 27th along Moore's Creek Lin...

Talked with Charlene Farrington, Director and Shreese Keese, Events Coord. for Spady Cultural Museum in Delray Beach. They are dedicated to discovering, collecting and sharing the African-American history and heritage of Palm Beach County. Coming up on February 17th is the Spady Festival. Listeners can come out and enjoy a day of music, culture, history from 1-6pm admission is free. They also have...

Talked with Melissa Carter from Old School Square in Delray Beach. They have lots of venues including: Crest Theatre, Cornell Art Museum, Fieldhouse, Pavilion, Creative Arts School, and Old School Square Park. Listeners can go and enjoy a variety of activities: broadway shows, comedy, concerts, art exhibitions, art classes, digital imaging, photography and writing classes, diy painting nights, fes...

Talked with Sam Eaton, All In for FireFighters. He's been a firefighter for 27 years in PBC and is involved with multiple charities to create awareness of health/safety issues and cancer prevention for Firefighters. All In is the umbrella charity that's hosting 10th annual Butch Smith Poker Classic at the Palm Beach Kennel Club on 1/28/18 at 1pm. There are 4 charities that will benefit: Firefighte...

Talked with Miles Coon from Palm Beach Poetry Festival and Gary Schweikhart, PR for Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival and FOTOfusion. All three festivals are happing in Palm Beach County in January. The Poetry festival is starting on 1/15 5pm with awards ceremony for the High school students who submitted poems into the contest and the winners reading their works. It continues all week with 2pm Craf...

Talked to Brandon Phillips from Polo for a Purpose. He’s a professional polo player who survived lymphoma as a child and created the charity to help leukemia lymphoma society, lls, in its mission to find cures for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, as well as improving the quality of life of their patients and their families locally. Last year they raised $500,000 and are hoping to...

Talked with Janae and Grim Carey from Dub City Roller Derby. They are both skaters for Dub City Roller Derby. It's a sanctioned sport and a fun way to meet fitness goals for the New Year. Each team has five players on the floor during a jam (2 minute sesssion) and they score points by passing opposing team members. It's a fun group that encourages everyone to come out, skate, volunteer, become an...

Talked with Brittany Perdigon, Executive Director, West Palm Beach Police Athletic League. The goal of the WPB PAL is to prevent juvenile crime and violence by providing civic, athletic, recreational, and educational opportunities to the youth of WPB. They offer lots of programs at their West Palm Beach location, including: Basketball, Football, Cheer Leading, Dance, wrestling Self Improvement, Cl...

Talked with Hilary Greene and Yimarie Rivera from the Norton Museum of Art. Admission is free during their remodeling, which they hope to have completed by February of 2019. They have a new exhibition opening called Miss Lucy's 3 Day Dollhouse Party and coming up for the school break they have some fun programs for kids/families to enjoy based on the mini theme. From 12:30p-4:30p on 12/26-12/29 th...

Talked with Naki Carter, Communications & Marketing, Damian Lechner, Lead Keeper, Amy Anderson, Keeper and Wilber - the Sloth from Palm Beach Zoo and Conservation Society. The Zoological Society of the Palm Beaches, Inc. (Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society) exists to inspire people to act on behalf of wildlife and the natural world. They advance their conservation mission through endangered spe...

Talked with Jesse Mejia, Coordinator, Marine Corps Reserve Toys For Tots and Kat Krum, President, Palm Beach County's Motorcyclists Toys For Tots, Inc. The Marine Corps Toys For Tots began in 1947. The mission of the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program is to collect new, unwrapped toys during October, November and December each year, and distribute those toys as Christmas gifts to les...

Talked with Brian Kirsch from Gray Mockingbird Community Garden in Lake Worth. They are growing the community by growing food. They offer lots of events and programs including: Breakfast at the Garden, Community Yard Sale, Group planting/tours of the garden, Pottery and planting class, food distribution to local food banks, volunteer opportunities. They also do Bingo fundraisers Saturdays from 6p-...

Spoke with Amanda Atwater, Manager of Community Relations and Events, Quantum House. Quantum House provides housing/food for families of children who are receiving medical care. They have two fundraisers coming up: Golf and Gobble at Palm Beach Par 3 on Saturday, November 18th and then Sugar Plum Dreams Brunch at Nordstrom Court, Gardens Mall on Sunday, December 3rd. To volunteer, buy tickets, bec...

Talked w Dr. Kendall Nettles, Professor/Researcher at Scripps in Jupiter, FL. Much of the work at Scripps Florida is geared toward basic biomedical research. Professor Nettles and his team are doing Breast Cancer research and with the newer technology are able to identify different proteins on the cells and how estrogen/estrogen inhibiting drugs affect them. They are working towards creating treat...

Talked with Ashley Douglass, Kravis Center and Elizabeth Dashiell, Public Relations Coor. It's the 26th season for the Kravis Center and they have a great line up of shows. And it's the 10th anniversary of them adding their Kravis on Broadway series. The Kravis on Broadway shows this year include: The Book of Mormon, Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King and I, Finding Neverland, Cabaret, The Illusioni...