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Summer Camp Expo and Children’s Festival

Downtown Abacoa!

Put April 3 on your calendar! The Summer Camp Expo
and Children’s Festival is sure to be a great family-friendly
event filled with games, crafts, entertainment, Jupiter Bounce
giant LEGO and Connect 4, and more. Plus, enter to win a
free week of camp! The first 150 kids with an Eventbrite
ticket will receive a camp backpack to fill with goodies. So,
get your free tickets today! Sponsored by Little by Little
Pediatric Dentistry.
Summer Camp Expo And Children’s Festival
• Sunday, April 3
• 12 to 4 p.m.
• Downtown Abacoa (in front of amphitheater, 1200 Town
Center Drive, Jupiter)
• Free tickets by visiting http://bit.ly/3ke59HP. About Macaroni KID
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Macaroni KID was founded in 2008. Local parents

Taylor Hagood, a Professor of Literature at FAU,
Resident, James Patrick and among other impressive achievements author of the publish electronic newsletters with information about
activities for children in communities across the country.
Rooney, Is Proud To upcoming Stringbean: The Life and Murder of a Country Each Macaroni KID community is managed by a local
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His First Novel: Sitting On A of disability and drama inside a high-stakes wealth places for parents, kids and families. They host local
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management firm in West Palm Beach. James Patrick
Rainbow: A 21st Century Irish Rooney gives the reader a great yarn with intriguing via social media. They enrich communities by connecting
the libraries, schools, rec centers, community centers and
American Morality Tale characters and a fully realized protagonist whose defeats all of the wonderful organizations and businesses that
and triumphs are attuned to an excellent soundtrack.
Jim extends his gratitude to the accomplished Professor create programming and fun for kids and families with
Hagood for his generous comments. local families.
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First time author James Patrick Rooney was born in
Bronx, New York, raised in Westchester County, and has
been living and working in Northern Palm Beach County for
his entire adult life. After having been blessed to reside in
Sitting on a Rainbow: a 21st Century Irish American such world-class communities as PGA National, Admiral’s
Morality Tale is a story of severe loss and courageous Cove, Tequesta Country Club, Seminole Landing, and Old
resilience, financial markets and malfeasances, Irish Marsh, he and his wife, Cindy, now live in the exceptional
history and mythology, justice served, and broken promises community of BallenIsles. To accomplish this impressive
remaining to be mended. array, in sum, they always bought early and sold too soon.
Set in West Palm Beach, Florida, in the early 2010s, the Young Jimmy’s first loves included sports, particularly
novel follows Patrick Connelly, a mid-fifties paraplegic ice hockey, a variety of music and culture, and his adopted
who works as a stockbroker and financial advisor at a major homeland of Ireland. When an ice hockey-related injury
Wall Street firm. The protagonist, whose life experience at age nineteen left him a paraplegic, he turned his focus
oftentimes mirrors the author’s, not only faces the adversity away from the physical toward developing his mind. Soon
of disability each day, but also has a front row seat to the after finishing college at (then infamous) “Suntan U” in
financial difficulties plaguing so much of society. Through Coral Gables, he began a successful thirty-year career in
his journey, from disruption in his career to struggles with financial advisory with a major Wall Street firm. At about
love, powerful friendships to moments of despair at the state that same time, he met his enduring love—his family.
of humanity, readers are pulled into a rich, detailed world Married to Cindy ever since, together they’ve raised
that combines elements of history, Irish myth, finance, the two superb children—Patrick and Megan—who are now
arts, and beyond. As the story unfolds, Patrick must take thriving young adults.
bold action to save his career—and maybe even his life. While managing an ambitious reading group (Old
Complete with a playlist of relevant songs to enjoy Marsh—2005-2014), Jim fell in love with fine literature
while reading, Rooney’s book is a unique approach to and was inspired to write more competently (i.e., several
memoir, fiction, and education that ultimately digs into college-level creative writing courses and other modes of
what it means to live a life of joy and purpose. Readers self-learning). To hone his skills further, he wrote short
will encounter romance, business, mystery, and folklore in stories, imaginary book reviews for his reading group,
this textured and detailed narrative, and feel inspired by and later edited and authored articles for a now defunct
the main character’s determination to find the magic and lifestyle website (2018-2020). After stepping away from
beauty all around him. financial advisory in 2014, Jim began working on his first
With messages of hope, lessons from both history and novel. As is often said, starting with a few core ideas the
present day, and a window into the daily experiences of story then wrote itself.
disability, Rooney’s sweeping story contains eye-opening To learn more, please visit Jim’s related website at:
insights and inspiring moments for readers of all kinds. https://jamespatrickrooney.com/
Jim hopes his lighthearted, romantic, suspenseful, and
cautionary morality tale will entertain all who come and
sit on the rainbow with him.

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