January FC LIFE 2021

JANUARY 2021 edition

What are the odds 2 holes-in-one SAME DAY SAME HOLE. What a way to begin the new Year!

ALAN YOUNG had his hole-in-one on Saturday,

January 2, 2021. It was on number 5 of the South

Course and played at 135 yards.

BILL GERSTEN NOT TO BE OUTDONE had his Hole-

In-One on the same day, Saturday January 2, 2021

and ON THE SAME HOLE! Number 5 of the South

Course which played 140 yards for him.

RICHARD ADLER had his Hole-In-One on Monday

January 11, 2021. It was on Hole number 13 of the

South Course and played at 162 yards.

J PAT MITCHELL had his Hole-in-One on Monday,

January 25, 2021. It was on number 6 of the North

Course and played at 140 yards.

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By Mimi Bergel

Despite the many changes and cancellations, due to the pandemic and weather conditions, that have affected this season’s schedule, the Ladies’ Member- Member Golf Tournament was able to be played. It was also able to be completed on time with a few changes. The format was a two person better ball of partners match play, with three rounds of play, Tuesday, January 5th, Thursday, January 7th and Tuesday, January 12th. As a result of the pandemic, there were members who were not able to play because they could not return to Florida as planned, or were still in quarantine. In spite of this, there was still a very nice turn out of ninety-two women competing in six eighteen-hole flights and two nine-hole flights. With a change in the format, those twosomes who lost a match were eliminated each day. Kudos to the women who played in cold weather one day and rain another day. Congratulations to the winners who are listed below.

FLIGHT ONE

SALE JOHNSON and BETTE GOLDBERG

FLIGHT TWO

MARY ANNE BARTFIELD and SHARON STRONGIN

FLIGHT THREE

MARY LOU COCCI and BARBARA BENEROFE

FLIGHT FOUR

NANCY BERKLEY and SANDRA MYROW

FLIGHT FIVE

LINDA EPSTEIN and SHEILA BABICH

FLIGHT SIX

MARCIA BLOCH and GAIL KALTMAN

NINE IS ENOUGH

FLIGHT ONE

MADY FRIEDMAN and JUDY WEISS

FLIGHT TWO

CARROL ZAZIK and BARBARA WILDSTEIN

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Column by Lois Stern

Meet LESLIE LYNNE GREENE who could be walking down 5th Avenue or Madison Avenue in New York with her dog, BLEU. He is so named because he has one black eye and one brown eye. I live between Toulouse Drive in Frenchman’s Creek and West 72nd Street in New York City. Bleu loves chasing any kind of ball or toy and I love watching him bound for the prize. Bleu and I love our time at Frenchman’s. Some of the nicest people in the world live here. SUSAN and MARTY SLEPKOW with Tucker. I have always admired the King Charles Cavalier breed. When Marty asked me what I wanted for my birthday, I knew I wanted a puppy. However, I realized that I couldn’t possibly own a puppy un- less some one other than me would get up in the morning to walk the puppy. I am NOT a morning person. Marty is a morning person. He agreed to take care of walking the puppy in the morning. We were all set. It turned out to be difficult to find a dog during the pandemic. I found a breeder of King Charles Cavalier dogs in Hollywood who had a beautiful King Charles who was 4 months old. We immediately fell in love with him and took him home to Frenchman’s. We decided to call the new arrival TUCKER because of or love of Nantucket Island where we once owned a home. Tucker has given us joy during these trying Covid Times. I love to take him to the dog park even though he chases all of the other dogs. Hopefully he will calm down as he matures.

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One way our Frenchman's Creek Charities Foundation's contributions help our community is to provide goods and services to special needs children. At Palm Beach Gardens Community High School, the funds go to the Exceptional Student Education (ESE) program which focuses on children with disabilities who need specially designed instruction and related services. The

purpose of ESE is to help each child with a disability progress in school and prepare for life after school. PBG High School created a coffee business at the school called “Cafe at the Gardens” where the students served 30 teachers coffee daily. By doing so, they learned how to prepare and deliver the coffee, and how to clean up. They also learned customer service skills. Other ESE students participated in a program called “Best Buddies.” This program helps foster relationships between students with and without disabilities. The school matches up a student from the ESE program with a student from the school’s regular population. The school had over 70 students register in this program. With the grant, they provide many activities on and off campus to help improve social and emotional development of their ESE population. Some years, they even hold a prom so the ESE students get the pleasure of participating in this festive social custom. There are videos on the web where you can see students participating in this special event. They look so happy. With Covid-19, the school had to adapt its programs and how our grant money was utilized. To assist the ESE students during their virtual education, the school sent home “Care Packages” which included calculators, headphones, workbooks and treats. The faculty said these packages made a big difference in the students' moral. The Learning Center at the Els Center for Excellence in Jupiter is a charter school serving students aged 3-14 with autism spectrum disorder. In the past, our foundation provided a grant which allowed the school to have a music and art program each week for its students. These programs help the students develop many different types of skills such as communication, joint attention, social engagement and healthy self expression. One person with autism writes “I just couldn’t get my words out...screaming was my only way to communicate.” Another noted that, “Art offers a way for people who have trouble speaking their mind with words to express themselves directly, without words.” Patti Raber

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DEBRA GREENBERG runner up singles pickleball Championship 2020

HOWIE HALPERN club tennis club championship singles winner 2020

DEBRA GREENBERG and DEBBIE BUTLER Doubles tennis club championship Winners 2020

DAVID ROSENBLATT and JOEL COMITEAU winners of Tikky ball doubles club championship 2020

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SUSAN DAVIS and KAREN ALLEN Tikky ball club championship and runner up 2020

DAVID ROSENBLATT singles winner Tikky ball championship 2020

LYNN BYRD AND KAREN ALLEN runner up tennis

doubles club championship 2020

Mixed doubles Tikky ball club championship winners 2020

SAUL and MARIE KRAVECAS

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GLEN GREENBERG men’s tennis doubles runner up 2020

KERRY IRIS Tikky Ball Singles champion and Doubles champion with her Tikky Ball partner ANNE STERNLICHT (no picture) 2020

Men’s doubles runner up Tikky Ball 2020 STEVE BERNSTEIN and BRUCE MALASKY (No picture) 2020

TIKKYAND KRISTEN CONGRATULATE ALL THE WINNERS AND

ADD THESE WONDERFUL CHILDREN TO THE

LIST.

I, KRISTEN, want to congratulate ROSE AND FAYE

COSENTINO for all their hard work for the 6

weeks of tennis that they played. They are my tennis

Champions for the New Year!

Great Job Faye and Rose!

Thank you to the Cosentino family!

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The Homefront column is designed to inform our members where in the community our new residents are living and other residences they may have. It also keeps up with our present members who have stayed in the community but moved to new dwellings. Of course we always wish our members who are moving out of the community good luck wherever their travels take them and our new members and established members good luck in their new address.

This month meet : LINDA and LARRY MANN who purchased Bud and Ellie Frank’s home on Le Havre Drive. They also reside in Bethesda, Maryland. Both are golfers and we look forward to meeting them on the links. We wish you many happy, healthy years at the Creek.

ARE YOU A NEW MEMBER WITH A PET OR AN ESTABLISHED MEMBER WITH A NEW PET——- Lois Stern is looking for you to feature you in our column “PRECIOUS PETS” COLUMN. Please contact our POA office or Lois.

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JANUARY 12, 2021 18 HOLERS

Flight 1 1st

Jenifer Weintraub, Candy Scherer, Susan Fuirst

2nd

Jana Spiess, Ronnie Grebow, Connie Forman

Flight 2 1st

Linda Rosenson, Marjorie Feinstein, Wendy Maurer, Barbara Field

2nd

Susan Davis, Jeri Jacobs, Carol West

Flight 3 1st Flight 4 1st

Evelyn Gutkin, Betsy Bernstein, Alice Bael

Joan Sclar, Beth Fentin, Susan Ludwig JANUARY 19, 2021 ITALIAN CONNECTION TOURNAMENT

18 HOLERS

Flight 1 1st Flight 2 1st Flight 3 1st Flight 4 1st tie 2nd

Jana Spiess, Judith Konigsberg, Lisette Siegel, Penny Fierstein

Sharon Rochlin, Linda Rosenson, Linda Pack

Susan Davis, Leslie Skolnick, Penni Weinberg

Jane Yarian, Joan Mopper, Marcia Bloch, Betsy Bernstein

Sheila Babich, Mimi Bergel, Joan Sclar Joanne Weinbach, Wendy Dinner, Anne Stanfield, Sandy Glassman 9 HOLERS BETTER BALL

1st

Barbara Wiener, Sandy Bobb, Sandi Hoffman SCRAMBLE

1st

Marjorie Yashar, Joan Schwartzman, Marcy Sanders

2nd

Beth Elgort, Susan Wendkos, Debbie Sandler, Bonnie Rechler

3rd tie

Anita Fishbein, Arlene Caplan, Cindi Schwartz, Erna Liebovich Margie Kernan, Carole Barham, Barbara Wildstein, Carrol Zazik

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BARBARA WILDSTEIN and her Husband, Michael, are overjoyed to talk about her daughter, Dr. Shari Rogers, a clinical psychologist, who is the Founder of “Spill the Honey” Foundation. After eight years in the making, she has produced a documentary entitled, “ Shared Legacies,” which was shown at the JCC January 14, 2021 in connection with the observance of Martin Luther King Day.

The Foundation and documentary focuses on the connection between the African-American community and its experience with slavery and the Jewish community and the Holocaust. The documentary shows how the Jews supported Martin Luther King. With the Black Lives Matter movement and Anti Semitism on the rise, her documentary is very important and her wish is to have it shown in schools and Jewish institutions. When Shari went to Israel and met the Holocaust survivor who led her group on a tour of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, he told her a story of his mother shoving a pot of honey into his arms telling him to “take it, be sweet and survive,” as the Nazi’s separated them. To Shari “Spill The Honey” was a natural for her Foundation. For her, the honey was most similar to hope and knowledge. If anyone has ever given hope, it was Dr. King. He guided the nonviolent civil rights movement and, as Shari strives to remind everyone, was aided by many Jews. The reason her documentary is so important today is because those in the Civil Rights Movement are dying out and the new generation is not connected emotionally to their stories of how TWO Communities used to be entwined. Apropos to Barbara’s exciting news, in Sunday January 24, 2021 Palm Beach Post, there was an article by Eliott Kleinberg who wrote about what happened when Dr. King called in Rabbis– when he came to St. Augustine– one of the most racially charged cities in Florida in 1964. He was arrested for refusing to leave a restaurant. King realized one of his most powerful tools was to have people who did not look like him tell the world that what was happening was wrong. So he put out a call to Rabbis! The civil rights struggle contained numerous instances of a strong bond between Blacks and Jews who also knew a little bit about slavery and oppression. 17 Rabbis from across the nation came to St. Augustine, as many Rabbis (including my , Bobbe Wiener, Rabbi) marched with Dr. Martin Luther King crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama that momentous day of March 21, 1965. The 17 Rabbis were arrested as well. “They came because they could not stand quietly by their brother’s blood.”

For a trailer, go to “Spill the Honey.” It is a wonderful experience.

bobbe wiener

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Anthony c. simboli Who lived at 2075 La Porte Drive and was a member since 1989. Our heartfelt sympathies to his beloved wife, Gloria and their family.

BERNARD BROWN who lived at 3100 N

Burgundy Drive and was a member since 1990.

Our heartfelt sympathies to his beloved wife, Shirlee, and their entire family. Drive and was a

NEEDED !! Do you like to take pictures and like animals.

FC LIFE is in need of a photographer to take our “Precious

Pets” pictures. All are outside due to the COVID 19. If you are

interested please call lois stern 856-305-3330 or bobbe wiener 561-775-1570. THANK YOU.

Club News Staff

Editor

Bobbe Wiener

Correspondents

Mimi Bergel, Minx Boren, Dr. Avroy Fanaroff, Andrea Finkel,

Shirley Goldberg, Norma Lippman, Lois Stern, Judy Tobin

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