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Summer Sizzle At The Club At Boca Pointe

The Club at Boca Pointe is your tennis, and pickleballer to advanced clinics and lessons
summer getaway! Escape to our for those who want to take the next step. If health is your
temperature-controlled pool, enjoy goal, the Club offers a wide variety of 40 complimentary
spa amenities, or work toward health classes that get and keep you on track. The Club also
and fitness goals in our 28,000 square recently installed the latest in exercise technology:
foot Sports and Fitness Club. The Matrix Performance Plus Treadmills, Matrix Endurance
Club offers all of this in addition to golf, tennis, pickleball, ClimbMill, Matrix Virtual Training Cycles, and Matrix
and an array of social and dining experiences. CXC Training Cycles.
SUMMER MEMBERSHIP THE CLUB AT BOCA POINTE KID’S SPORTS &
Now is a great time to discover Club Life at The Club FITNESS CAMP
at Boca Pointe with a Summer Membership! No matter One of the best day
what your stage of life, the Club offers a full complement camps in the Boca area!
of activities for you to enjoy! This camp provides an
Monthly Club Programming action-packed day camp DEFERRED MEMBERSHIP
The activity calendar with activities galore: If you’ve left for the Summer, we look forward to
is packed with something Tennis, Golf, Pool Time, welcoming you back. Reserve your spot in the sun with
for everyone. Area Fitness Fun, Arts & our new Deferred Membership!
excursions, game nights, Crafts, and Fun Fridays. Contact the Membership Team to schedule your tour
family movie nights, Follow this link https:// today, 561.864.8538:
classic movie matinees, www.bocapointecc.com/ Director of Membership, Roxanne Domer, rdomer@
popular speakers, holiday lifestyle/youth-programs heritagegolfgroup.com,
c e l e b ra t i on s, p oo l or contact Ashley Rozo, Membership Manager, Alexis Robertson, arobertson@
parties, cocktail parties, arozo@heritagegolfgroup.com for details. heritagegolfgroup.com
and classes including MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR OUTDOOR AL FRESCO Friends become family here at the Club at Boca Pointe!
dancing, art, and cards. DINING PATIO Visit our website for more Club details and information,
Weekly Golf, Tennis, Breaking ground this summer, the Club at Boca Pointe bocapointecc.com.
Pickleball, and Fitness Members will enjoy a new enhanced patio experience Follow the fun through Boca Pointe social media:
Members enjoy learning from our professionals! featuring a large covered bar and dining space, soft seating, https://www.facebook.com/theclubatbocapointe/
The Club offers classes for the junior and novice golf, media, music, firepits, and an expansive outdoor bar. https://www.instagram.com/bocapointecc/ 
Seeking Kids For New Junior Joey Youth Clown Alley!!!

By Harriet Rubin, was obviously extremely shy, lacking in confidence, a loner, convey feelings; voice projection; getting over the fear or
aka Florabelle the Clown who signed up for the after-school class. For the first few discomfort of performing in front of an audience; how to be
sessions she really didn’t take part in the physical activities funny or sad; and clown skills— twisting balloon animals;
Great news! Boca Pointe and preferred to watch rather than get involved. (Simple fun scarf and ball juggling; magic tricks; puppetry; face painting
“Clowns on Call” is offering to drills to loosen up body movements, facial exercises, voice using stencils; kazoo band with their own embellished kazoo;
train kids from ages 10-17 this activities, etc) She was just too self-conscious to let down walk-a-round activities; skits and performing in front of a
summer at the BPCA office. her guard, but she continued to attend class. Her classmates live audience. The Junior Joeys (as they are called in the
Plans are to meet twice a week readily told me this was her personality. I didn’t push her, and clown world) will choose skills they want to learn from what
for 90 minutes for 4-6 weeks, after about 4 sessions she started to join in with the other kids. we are offering. Magic and juggling and face-painting are
time and days to be determined She got into skit performing with great enthusiasm and was great activities and can often lead to part-time employment
for the convenience of those really very good at slap-stick comedy on stage, which she had opportunities. Clowning in general is always considered for
who register. Of course there will be no charge for this never done in her life and she loved it! We made several trips community service credit in any of the high schools.
fabulous training. to local nursing homes and she was great at every skill she In addition, we plan to have our Junior Joeys join
What would make a kid want to learn to be a clown, of learned; more important, her whole personality changed. Her us during International Clown Week, August 1-8 in any
all things, you are asking. Let me give you some established classmates were amazed and her parents, who came to watch activities of their choice. We always perform our “Wiggles
facts and information. I have trained well over 300 kids a final performance couldn’t believe it was their daughter on and Giggles” 40 minute show for several Day Care and Day
over the past years, in N.J., Pa, and Fl. The photos here are stage. I have written in previous articles that the typical “class Camp facilities as well as The Hab Center. We will feature
of my “students” in various stages of training and practice. clown” often makes a poor real clown. Most of the thousands them in their own skits and performances as well as being
It’s easy to see how much fun they are having! I have also of clowns I have met, seen, read about, etc. are more quiet part of our original show.
taught “Mitzvah Clowning” at some of the schools and than rambunctious, loud and pushy. Putting on make-up and So how about it Boca Pointe! We are ready
camps including Hillel and Donna Klein in Boca Raton and a costume allows a child to experiment with a different part and available! Please take us up on our
Camp Moshava in Pa. Studies have shown that Clowning of their persona. There is no threat because I’m not Harriet offer. We need a minimum of 5 and a
stimulates creativity, curiosity, and imagination, as well as anymore, I’m Florabelle and I can be different in whatever maximum of 20 to offer a class. We
building self-confidence, social skills and physical activity. way I want. That is the general effect clowning has on those will supply the original items needed,
Learning to be a clown is a fun way to teach kids how to who really choose to learn the art effectively, and that is what including some costumes and wigs.
bring joy and laughter to our troubled world, while at the we would like to offer for any kids in Boca Pointe. Come join us and I guarantee you will
same time helping to develop artistic and practical skills. So what will we teach them: basically all that makes never be the same!!
I have to share a personal story with all of you. In one of a clown a clown; simple make-up; how to use their body Call me at 561-362-6695, or
my classes at Donna Klein, I had a beautiful 14 year old who to express emotion; how to use their facial expressions to florabelle10@aol.com. n

Florabelle performs with 2 Joeys Junior Joey’s having Fun Look at me I’m a Clown