Thursday, July 26, 2012

Barry's Buzz - July 26, 2012

Dr. Larry Kawa hosts Rudy Giuliani at his home tomorrow for a fundraising dinner for Mitt Romney. Email drkawa@braces1 for details. There were 11,359 foreclosures filed in Palm Beach County from January to June, 1,439 in June and there are 39,000 pending. If you have foreclosure issues, go to www.finestofsouthflorida.com and call 561.945.0000 for the help you need. Since 1952, there have been 15 presidential elections in which Democrats have won Florida only four times. Palm Beach County NPA’s are poised to overtake Republicans. The current registration is Democrat: 374,068 (44.5%), Republican: 243,345 (28.9%), NPA (No Party Affiliation) 223,765 (26.7%). The American Association of Caregiving youth founder Connie Siskowski, will be deservedly honored this morning during the Fearless Caregiver Conference at the Boca Raton Embassy Suites Hotel for her efforts throughout the years. ADT Security will base its world headquarters in Boca and beefing up employee levels significantly. Marilyn Swillinger has been named president of the Lynn University’s Friends of the Conservatory of Music. Larry Leon was named new Chief of Police for the Palm Beach County School District as of July 30, replacing retiring Chief Jim Kelly. GetMed Urgent Care, a new walk-in medical center will open in the Fountains Center, 7600 W. Camino Real in October, with a full-time physician on duty offering a host of medical services, including flu shots, physicals, EKGs, X-rays and minor surgical procedures. Divorce Party The Musical continues at the Kravis Center through August 19. Tickets at www.kravis.org. Don’t miss the true story of an Immigrant coming to Texas. The Immigrant at the Stage Door Theatre, 8036 W. Sample Road, Coral Springs has been extended by popular demand to August 12. Paulette Dozier as Billie Holiday in Lady Day plays through Aug. 26. Call 954.344.7765 for ticket information or visit www.stagedoorfl.org. Barry Epstein Live internet television show airs Friday at 10 a.m. on www.wrpbitv.com featuring “Love Life” mantra Steve Fugate (www.trailtherapy.com), Philanthropist Stanley Tate, Palm Beach County Commission candidate Mary Lou Berger, Movie Maven Morrie Zryl and Sun-Sentinel columnist Kingsley Guy. Win free tickets to the Cinemark theatres. Movies opening at the Cinemark Theatre are The Watch and Step Up Revolution. Movie opening at the Movies of Delray is Headhunters. Axl and Oliver Vinograd, varsity golf brothers at Spanish River High School will host their first annual Kids Cancer Foundation Golf Tournament Fundraiser on July 29 at Boca Greens Country Club. Scramble shotgun start is 1 p.m. followed by a reception and raffle ceremony at 6 p.m. Email axlboca10@hotmail.com or call 561.350.9519 for more info. The YMCA of South Palm Beach County is celebrating their 40th birthday with a free community Back-to-School Bash from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, August 4 at both the Boca Raton and Boynton Beach locations. See www.ymcaspc.org. The Peter Blum Family YMCA in Boca Raton hosts a free swim clinic with two Olympic swimmers, Maritza Correia (the first African American to break a world record in swimming) and Gil Stovall (who competed at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China) from 1 to 4 p.m. on August 11. Highlights include learning the Olympians favorite swim drills, a Q&A session with photos wearing a real Olympic medal and much more. Register at www.fitterandfaster.com/detail/boca-raton-fl/. The Luxury Chamber of Commerce features a monthly wine and Cheese mixer at Steinway Piano Gallery, 7940 N. Federal Highway, #100,, Boca Raton, on August 20 from 6 p.m to 8 p.m. with a special guest speaker. Details and reservations at http://pianistsociety.eventbrite.com/. On Friday, August 31, the Sunset Cove Amphitheater will host a live concert featuring Sublime with Rome with special guests Cypress Hill, Pepper, and the Dirty Heads. The Boca Raton Theatre Guild’s 2012-2013 season will begin with a comedy, and end with a classic. A.R. Gurneys Sylvia, and Kander & Ebbs Chicago will run in September and March at the Willow Theatre in Sugar Sand Park, located at 300 South Military Trail in Boca Raton, just south of Palmetto Park Road. Tickets for Sylvia will go on sale on August 1st, and can be purchased at the Willow Theatre Box office: 561-347-3948. "Henrietta, Countess de Hoernle 100th Birthday Gala: Our Legend, Her Legacy" will be honored on her birthday, Sept. 24, at Boca West Country Club. The event presenter is The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller. Honorary chairpersons are Christine Lynn and Barbara and Dick Schmidt. Gala chairwoman and vice chairwoman are Commander Isabel K. Paul and Dame Alyce E. Erickson, respectively. Hollywood celebrity couple Giuliana and Bill Rancic will be the keynote speakers at Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation’s 9th Annual Go Pink Luncheon Friday, October 26, 2012 from 11am to 1:30 pm at the Boca Raton Resort & Club. The second Meet Me on the Promenade downtown street festival is Oct. 26 and 27 with a Halloween theme. www.WestBocaLeaders.com has openings in some categories. Call 561.852.0000 for further information. You can have your own internet television show very inexpensively. Contact Wayne at wrpbitv@yahoo.com. Birch Communications is a multi-million dollar company with an exclusive wholesale agreement with AT&T. If you would like to save money on your AT&T land phones without changing your numbers, call 561.852.0000. For Al-Anon-meetings in South Palm Beach County, go to www.southpalmbeachafg.org/meeting_list.html Finally, all our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and friends who lost loved ones in the tragic shooting in Colorado last Friday morning. But why would parents take young babies and children to a violent movie at midnight or any other time for that matter? Barry Epstein, APR, is a noted public relations, marketing and political consultant based in Boca Raton, president of the Luxury Chamber of Commerce (www.luxurychamber.com), the West Boca Leaders networking group and the founder and former president of the West Boca Chamber of Commerce; with a weekly internet television show on www.wrpbitv.com. Website; www.publicrelations.nu; email: pr@publicrelations.nu, or fax column items to 561.451.0000. His blog is on the Sun-Sentinel/Jewish Journal website at www.floridajewishjournal.com - http://barrys-journal.blogspot.com.

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Barry's Buzz - July 19, 2012

Former Ft. Lauderdale and Broward County manager Floyd Johnson is the new Port Arthur, Texas City Manager. Darden Restaurants (Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Longhorn steakhouse) is paying $585 million for the 39 restaurant Yard House USA chain (Yard House, Capital Grille and Seasons 52) all with locations in Mizner Park Ashley Walukevich is the new Boca field rep for the Romney campaign. Headquarters opens on July 28 at the 5th Avenue Shops on Federal Highway. A West Boca office opens Friday July 27 in the Greens Shopping center on 441. President Obama will be in Palm Beach County today, staying over in Manalapan. Vice President Biden will be in Manalapan on Monday to address the National Association of Police Officials at the Ritz-Carlton. The bipartisan firm Purple Strategies recent poll gives Romney a 48-45 edge in Florida within a 4 point margin error. FAU is moving all Dania Sea Tech classes to the Boca Raton campus. Funding ends on Dec. 31 for the institute. The Tribune newspapers, including the Sun-Sentinel, are now owned by JPMorganChase; Oaktree Capital Management, and Angelo, Gordon & Co. American Sugar Refining Inc., which claims to be the world's largest sugar refiner, plans to bring its scientists to a new office in the Florida Atlantic University Research and Development Park next spring. The city is providing a $10,000 incentive to make it happen. The move will bring 10 new jobs to the city that pay at least $88,000 a year. Boca criminal defense attorney William Matthewman has been named a federal magistrate in West Palm Beach. A dozen Lynn University sports management students will take “The Olympic Games Experience” in London.The Olympics start July 27 in London. W Rand McNally and USA Today think Delray Beach is a pretty good place to hang out. They've named it "The Most Fun Town in America." 650 towns competed in the contest. Delray will be featured in USA Today and profiled in the 2013 Rand McNally Road Atlas. City Manager David Harden announced that after 22 years he would retire at the end of the year. Southwest Airlines will discontinue service from Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood to Orlando International Airport in January. Eagles Landing Middle School Principal Cindy Chiapetta was named Principal of the Year by the Florida PTA. Mindy Haas of Boca Raton was voted in as the new president-elect of the Florida PTA. Divorce Party The Musical continues at the Kravis Center through August 19. Tickets at www.kravis.org. Barry Epstein Live internet television show airs Friday at 10 a.m. on www.wrpbitv.com featuring Simone Hoover, president of Operation HomeFront, Melinda Rosenthal of www.MinivanMadness.com and Sun-Sentinel columnist Kingsley Guy. Watch to win free tickets to the Cinemark theatres. Movies opening at the Cinemark and Movies of Delray and Lake Worth are the stupendous epic Four Star Oscar winner Dark Knight, which also opens in IMAX at the Museum of Discovery and Science tomorrow and Beasts of the Southern Wild. Moonrise Kingdom opens at Movies of Lake Worth and the opera, Vespri Siciliani from Torino shows at Movies of Delray Saturday at noon. Don’t miss the true story of an Immigrant coming to Texas. The Immigrant at the Stage Door Theatre, 8036 W. Sample Road, Coral Springs has been extended by popular demand to August 12. Paulette Dozier as Billie Holiday in Lady Day starts tomorrow through Aug. 26. Call 954.344.7765 for ticket information or visit www.stagedoorfl.org. The Levis JCC hosts the second annual “Run, Sweat & Beers “ benefit 5k run/walk today at 7 p.m. in the South County Regional Park, West Boca. Fee is $30. Register at www.levisjcc.org/5k. The first 400 registered runners get a shirt. Axl and Oliver Vinograd, varsity golf brothers at Spanish River High School will host their first annual Kids Cancer Foundation Golf Tournament Fundraiser on July 29 at Boca Greens Country Club. Scramble shotgun start is 1 p.m. followed by a reception and raffle ceremony at 6 p.m. Email axlboca10@hotmail.com or call 561.350.9519 for more info. On Friday, August 31, the Sunset Cove Amphitheater will host a live concert featuring Sublime with Rome with special guests Cypress Hill, Pepper, and the Dirty Heads. The Boca Raton Theatre Guild’s 2012-2013 season will begin with a comedy, and end with a classic. A.R. Gurneys Sylvia, and Kander & Ebbs Chicago will run in September and March at the Willow Theatre in Sugar Sand Park, located at 300 South Military Trail in Boca Raton, just south of Palmetto Park Road. Tickets for Sylvia will go on sale on August 1st, and can be purchased at the Willow Theatre Box office: 561-347-3948. Save the date: "Henrietta, Countess de Hoernle 100th Birthday Gala: Our Legend, Her Legacy" will take place on her birthday, Sept. 24, at Boca West Country Club. The event presenter is The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller. Honorary chairpersons are Christine Lynn and Barbara and Dick Schmidt. Gala chairwoman and vice chairwoman are Commander Isabel K. Paul and Dame Alyce E. Erickson, respectively. Hollywood celebrity couple Giuliana and Bill Rancic will be the keynote speakers at Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation’s 9th Annual Go Pink Luncheon Friday, October 26, 2012 from 11am to 1:30 pm at the Boca Raton Resort & Club. The second Meet Me on the Promenade downtown street festival is Oct. 26 and 27 with a Halloween theme. www.WestBocaLeaders.com has openings in some categories. Call 561.852.0000 for further information. If you have foreclosure issues, go to www.finestofsouthflorida.com and call 561.945.0000 for the help you need. You can have your own internet television show very inexpensively. Contact Wayne at wrpbitv@yahoo.com. Birch Communications is a multi-million dollar company with an exclusive wholesale agreement with AT&T. If you would like to save money on your AT&T land phones without changing your numbers, call 561.852.0000. For Al-Anon-meetings in South Palm Beach County, go to www.southpalmbeachafg.org/meeting_list.html Barry Epstein, APR, is a noted public relations, marketing and political consultant based in Boca Raton, president of the Luxury Chamber of Commerce (www.luxurychamber.com), the West Boca Leaders networking group and the founder and former president of the West Boca Chamber of Commerce; with a weekly internet television show on www.wrpbitv.com. Website; www.publicrelations.nu; email: pr@publicrelations.nu, or fax column items to 561.451.0000. His blog is on the Sun-Sentinel/Jewish Journal website at www.floridajewishjournal.com - http://barrys-journal.blogspot.com.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Barrys Buzz July 12, 2012

Delray businessman and former political candidate Nick Loeb got engaged Tuesday to Sofia Vergara. Sun-Sentinel Executive Editor Antonio FIns, will resign to be Executive Director of the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation. Ellyn Okrent was appointed Executive Director of the Florence Fuller Child Development Centers. If you are going to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts or Discovery Center, be sure to try the Old Fort Lauderdale Breakfast House, just east of the MODS for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Amazing food with reasonable prices. Check out the menu at www.o-bhouse.com or call 954.530.7520. Philippe by Philippe Chow Restaurant on Palmetto Park Road has closed, after less than a full year of operations. Operation Homefront-Florida needs volunteers to pickup donated school supplies from area Dollar Tree stores that will be distributed to military children in late July and early August. Dollar Tree locations through out the area are collecting donations from generous customers at the cashier check out station. The collection period will runs to August 6, 2012. Volunteers will designate which location(s) they would like to pickup donations from. To register, visit www.backtoschoolbrigade.net. Donations will be used to fill backpacks for military children as part of Operation Homefront’s Back to School Brigade. The Brigade provides military children the opportunity to start school with all the supplies they need to be successful. Operation Homefront delivered over $2.5 million in school supplies to military children. Remember Castro convertibles? They are now back. Go to www.castroconvertiblesusa.com to order. Wayne Barton Study Center is collecting back to school supplies. Info at www.waynebartonstudycenter.org. Barry Epstein Live internet television show airs Friday at 10 a.m. on www.wrpbitv.com featuring Kathryn Dressler, Social Media, Communications and Promotions Coordinator for the Museum of Discovery and Science along with traveling Zoo Keeper Sandy Mangold with a live Gecko, former State Senator and State Attorney candidate Dave Aronberg and Sun-Sentinel columnist Kingsley Guy. Watch to win free tickets to the Cinemark theatres to see Ice Age, which is the only movie opening at the Cinemark Theatres on Friday or any other movie you choose. The Immigrant and Backwards in High Heels are at the Stage Door Theatre 8036 W. Sample Road, Coral Springs Don’t miss the true story of an Immigrant coming to Texas. Call 954.344.7765 for ticket information. Jesus Christ Superstar will be at the Count de Hoernle theatre, 7901 N. Fed. Hwy. Boca through July 15. Go to http://www.entractetheatrix.org/ for ticket prices, reservations and further information or call 561.366.9033. Cabaret Verboten is at the Arts Garage, 180 NE 1st Street through July 29. Tickets are $20 to $35. Call 561.450.6357 or visit www.artsgarage.org. Aladdin and His Magic Lamp is at the Willow Theatre in Sugar Sand Park Community Center, 300 S. Military Trail, Friday July 13-Sunday July 15. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under. Call 561.347.3948 or visit www.willowtheatre.org for further information and seating chart. Fifteen Boca restaurants will compete in a Boca Burger Battle: A Grilling Affair at Sanborn Square July 14 from 7 to 11 p.m. Tickets are $50 advance at www.bocaburgerbattle.com or $75 that evening which includes food, wine and spirits. Gold Coast Public Relations Council hosts “Meet the Editors” July 17 11:30 a.m. at NCCI Holdings, 901 Peninsula Corporate Circle. Visit www.goldcoastprcouncil.com or email gcprc@gmail.com for further information. The Levis JCC hosts the second annual “Run, Sweat & Beers “ benefit 5k run/walk on July 19 at 7 p.m. in the South County Regional Park, West Boca. Fee is $30. Register at www.levisjcc.org/5k. The first 400 registered runners get a shirt. Axl and Oliver Vinograd, varsity golf brothers at Spanish River High School will host their first annual Kids Cancer Foundation Golf Tournament Fundraiser on July 29 at Boca Greens Country Club. Scramble shotgun start is 1 p.m. followed by a reception and raffle ceremony at 6 p.m. Email axlboca10@hotmail.com or call 561.350.9519 for more info. On Friday, August 31, the Sunset Cove Amphitheater will host a live concert featuring Sublime with Rome with special guests Cypress Hill, Pepper, and the Dirty Heads. The Boca Raton Theatre Guild’s 2012-2013 season will begin with a comedy, and end with a classic. A.R. Gurneys Sylvia, and Kander & Ebbs Chicago will run in September and March at the Willow Theatre in Sugar Sand Park, located at 300 South Military Trail in Boca Raton, just south of Palmetto Park Road. Tickets for Sylvia will go on sale on August 1st, and can be purchased at the Willow Theatre Box office: 561-347-3948. Save the date: "Henrietta, Countess de Hoernle 100th Birthday Gala: Our Legend, Her Legacy" will take place on her birthday, Sept. 24, at Boca West Country Club. The event presenter is The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller. Honorary chairpersons are Christine Lynn and Barbara and Dick Schmidt. Gala chairwoman and vice chairwoman are Commander Isabel K. Paul and Dame Alyce E. Erickson, respectively. Hollywood celebrity couple Giuliana and Bill Rancic will be the keynote speakers at Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation’s 9th Annual Go Pink Luncheon Friday, October 26, 2012 from 11am to 1:30 pm at the Boca Raton Resort & Club. The second Meet Me on the Promenade downtown street festival is Oct. 26 and 27 with a Halloween theme. WWW.WestBocaLeaders.com has openings in some categories. Call 561.852.0000 for further information. If you have foreclosure issues, go to www.finestofsouthflorida.com and call 561.945.0000 for the help you need. You can have your own internet television show very inexpensively. Contact Wayne at wrpbitv@yahoo.com. Birch Communications is a multi-million dollar company with an exclusive wholesale agreement with AT&T. If you would like to save money on your AT&T land phones without changing your numbers, call 561.852.0000. For Al-Anon-meetings in South Palm Beach County, go to www.southpalmbeachafg.org/meeting_list.html Barry Epstein, APR, is a noted public relations, marketing and political consultant based in Boca Raton, president of the Luxury Chamber of Commerce (www.luxurychamber.com), the West Boca Leaders networking group and the founder and former president of the West Boca Chamber of Commerce; with a weekly internet television show on www.wrpbitv.com. Website; www.publicrelations.nu; email: pr@publicre

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Barrys Blog July 5, 2012

Coming from Ohio State University, Patrick Chun, 37, is the new Athletic Director for Florida Atlantic University. In August, Dickey’s Barbecue Pit Restaurant opens a 48 seat, 2,000 sq. ft. place at 21073 Powerline Road, Suite 33. If you are going to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts or Discovery Center, be sure to try the Old Fort Lauderdale Breakfast House, just east of the MODS for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Amazing food with reasonable prices. Check out the menu at www.o-bhouse.com or call 954.530.7520. Florida's Turnpike plazas are getting a $163 million makeover, all paid for by toll fees. The West Palm Plaza will be completed by the end of 2012. Hammock Pointe elementary school received a space shuttle artifact from NASA to be displayed in August. Divorce Party the Musical returns to the Kravis Center through August 19. Tickets are $25 and up. Call 800-572.8471 or visit www.kravis.org. Barry Epstein Live internet television show airs Friday at 10 a.m. on www.wrpbitv.com featuring State Senator Ellyn Bogdanoff, WRPBITV producer Wayne Filowitz and Sun-Sentinel columnists Kingsley Guy and Lynn University political professor Dr. Robert Watson. Watch to win free tickets to the Cinemark theatres. Movies opening at the Cinemark Theatres are Spiderman-(3& ½ stars) (opened Tuesday), Katy Perry: Part of Me (opened today), Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love with Alec Baldwin, Penelope Cruz, Roberto Benigni, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page and Savages directed by Oliver Stone. Movies opening Friday at The Movies of Delray and Lake Worth are To Rome With Love and People Like Us. Your Sisters Sister (3 stars) opens at Movies of Lake Worth too. The Immigrant and Backwards in High Heels are at the Stage Door Theatre 8036 W. Sample Road, Coral Springs Don’t miss the true story of an Immigrant coming to Texas. Call 954.344.7765 for ticket information. Jesus Christ Superstar will be at the Count de Hoernle theatre, 7901 N. Fed. Hwy. Boca from July 5-15. Go to http://www.entractetheatrix.org/ for ticket prices, reservations and further information or call 561.366.9033. Jan McArt, The First Lady of Florida Theatre will be feted at the Sunday July 8 matinee performance. $15 reception cost. Cabaret Verboten is at the Arts Garage, 180 NE 1st Street through July 29. Tickets are $20 to $35. Call 561.450.6357 or visit www.artsgarage.org. The West Boca Community Council features a Meet the Candidates session on July 10 at 9:30 a.m. at Boca Lago Country Club for Palm Beach County Sheriff, State Attorney, Palm Beach County Commission District 5 and State Representatives District 25 and 81. Visit www.westbocacc.com for further information. Starting July 11, the West Boca Leaders networking group will be meeting at Sachs Sax Caplan, 6111 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 200, Boca Raton. Interested in joining? Check out www.westbocaleaders.com for category availability and call 561.852.0000. Aladdin and His Magic Lamp is at the Willow Theatre in Sugar Sand Park Community Center, 300 S. Military Trail, Friday July 13-Sunday July 15. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under. Call 561.347.3948 or visit www.willowtheatre.org for further information and seating chart. The Levis JCC hosts the second annual “Run, Sweat & Beers “ benefit 5k run/walk on July 19 at 7 p.m. in the South County Regional Park, West Boca. Fee is $30. Register at www.levisjcc.org/5k. The first 400 registered runners get a shirt. Axl and Oliver Vinograd, varsity golf brothers at Spanish River High School will host their first annual Kids Cancer Foundation Golf Tournament Fundraiser on July 29 at Boca Greens Country Club. Scramble shotgun start is 1 p.m. followed by a reception and raffle ceremony at 6 p.m. Email axlboca10@hotmail.com or call 561.350.9519 for more info. On Friday, August 31, the Sunset Cove Amphitheater will host a live concert featuring Sublime with Rome with special guests Cypress Hill, Pepper, and the Dirty Heads. The Boca Raton Theatre Guild’s 2012-2013 season will begin with a comedy, and end with a classic. A.R. Gurneys Sylvia, and Kander & Ebbs Chicago will run in September and March at the Willow Theatre in Sugar Sand Park, located at 300 South Military Trail in Boca Raton, just south of Palmetto Park Road. Tickets for Sylvia will go on sale on August 1st, and can be purchased at the Willow Theatre Box office: 561-347-3948. Save the date: "Henrietta, Countess de Hoernle 100th Birthday Gala: Our Legend, Her Legacy" will take place on her birthday, Sept. 24, at Boca West Country Club.The event presenter is The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller. Honorary chairpersons are Christine Lynn and Barbara and Dick Schmidt. Gala chairwoman and vice chairwoman are Commander Isabel K. Paul and Dame Alyce E. Erickson, respectively. Save the Date: Hollywood celebrity couple Giuliana and Bill Rancic will be the keynote speakers at the Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation’s 9th Annual Go Pink Luncheon October 26, at the Boca Raton Resort & Club. The second Meet Me on the Promenade downtown street festival is Oct. 26 and 27 with a Halloween theme. WWW.WestBocaLeaders.com has openings in some categories. Call 561.852.0000 for further information. If you have foreclosure issues, go to www.finestofsouthflorida.com and call 561.945.0000 for the help you need. You can have your own internet television show very inexpensively. Contact Wayne at wrpbitv@yahoo.com. For Al-Anon-meetings in South Palm Beach County, go to www.southpalmbeachafg.org/meeting_list.html Birch Communications is a multi-million dollar company with an exclusive wholesale agreement with AT&T. If you would like to save money on your AT&T land phones without changing your numbers, call 561.852.0000. Barry Epstein, APR, is a noted public relations, marketing and political consultant based in Boca Raton, president of the Luxury Chamber of Commerce (www.luxurychamber.com), the West Boca Leaders networking group and the founder and former president of the West Boca Chamber of Commerce; with a weekly internet television show on www.wrpbitv.com. Website; www.publicrelations.nu; email: pr@publicrelations.nu, or fax column items to 561.451.0000. His blog is on the Sun-Sentinel/Jewish Journal website at www.floridajewishjournal.com - http://barrys-journal.blogspot.com.