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Edgewater Residents Raise $10k

To Support Alzheimer’s Research

By Lisa Sileo

Edgewater at Boca
Pointe would like to extend
a gracious thank you to
all our residents and team
members who contributed
to a successful fundraising
effort to raise more than
$10,000 to support a cure for
Alzheimer’s disease.
“Everyone has been so
generous, and almost every Residents truly made a difference by contributing
resident has participated,” said Ellen Lewkowicz, the life countless hours through activities like an Art Class, Bridge
engagement coordinator at Edgewater at Boca Pointe. “This and Canasta tournament, an auction featuring gifts from local
has been beautiful for the community, so much so that I get businesses and an incredible Bake Sale on the Longest Day.
chills speaking about it!” Team Edgewater raised over $17,000! 
Boca Historical Society And History Museum

Launch Summer ‘Sips & Sounds’ Series

The Boca Raton Historical Society, in conjunction with Museum. The 1960s was truly the decade of change for the Jeff Kaye and Krescendo will play Spanish-inspired music
the Festival of the Arts Boca, launched the first of three little-farm-town-with-a-fancy-resort, Boca Raton. FAU and from the 1920s to today.
“Summer Sips & Sounds” concerts on Thursday, July 18, Marymount (now Lynn University) opened and the city Tickets start at $40 per person, per concert, at bocahistory.
featuring Music of the 1990s performed by Dawn Marie and finally got its own high school. The Boca Raton Community org/summer-sips-sounds, to include pre-concert drink
Rick Krive at The Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum, 71 Hospital was born and a company called IBM came to Boca refreshments (wine/water) and post-concert appetizers.
North Federal Highway. to manufacture small mainframe computers. About The Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum: The
The 1990s saw the “rebirth” of downtown with the Enjoy music made famous in the 1960s by such artists as Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum is the home of the
opening of Mizner Park and the coming of the International Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Barbara Streisand and Liza Minnelli. Boca Raton Historical Society, whose mission is to collect,
Museum of Cartoon Art. In 1998, Mizner Center, the city’s The third concert, Our Spanish Heritage, will be held on preserve, and present information and artifacts relevant to
first real convention center, opened at the Boca Raton Resort Thursday, Sept. 19, at 6 p.m. at the History Museum. Despite the past and evolving history of Boca Raton and to maintain
& Club. Meanwhile, West Boca was growing with what is its very Spanish name, Boca Raton’s Spanish heritage is a visible role in the education and the advocacy of historic
now Burt Aaronson Park, ten miles west of downtown, and fairly modern. About 15% of the local population classify preservation in the community. Now open to the public
the Siemens Campus became the South Palm Beach County themselves as Hispanic today. However, the city fell in love Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the museum
Jewish Federation. with “Spanish style” architecture when Addison Mizner came is in historic Town Hall at 71 N. Federal Highway (33432).
The second concert in the series, Music of the 1960s, to town in the mid-1920s, and we still embrace his influences For more information, call (561) 395-6766 or visit www.
will be held on Thursday, Aug. 15 at 6 p.m. at the History in our shopping centers, homes and public buildings today. BocaHistory.org. 
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