Page 8 - Boca ViewPointe - September '24

Page 8, Viewpointe September 2024
First Impressions

By Judith Levy Nervously I sat down at the typewriter trying to look off the coming week and two days off the next week,
confident while my heart was pounding, and then not knowing he said, “Judith” in a patient disbelieving tone, his eyes
I needed to impress what I was doing, I put the carbon paper in backwards and as squinting at me, “Are you making up these holidays?”
Anthony Clausi, a man I poked at the keys hesitantly, what I typed went on the back “No, I assured him, they’re real.” The next day I brought
who had a local real estate of the first page. Mr. Clausi could hardly control his laughter him some mandel brot my mother had baked to thank him
office and the ad in the paper and shaking his head in disbelief he said, “So much for your for his understanding. Mr. Clausi smiled as the smell of
indicated he was looking for experience, young lady, but I like your nerve so I’m going Mama’s freshly baked raisins and walnuts wafted through
an experienced secretary. The to give you the job. the office.
problem was I didn’t have any “Thank you,” I blurted out gratefully, “but before you I guess my boss got used to me because he liked me.
experience or skills. I didn’t make up your mind, I have to tell you, I come from an He would always introduce me to prospective clients as
do typing, bookkeeping or orthodox family and I will have to go home early every his Jewish secretary. Seems I had managed to impress him
stenography, the only qualification I had for this job was Friday for the Sabbath and I have to have every Jewish and after a while I even learned to type.
chutzpah. I dressed myself as well as I could with my limited holiday off.” This kind Italian man thought a while and
wardrobe, piled my hair on top of my head to look older than to my relief, agreed to my terms. Judith Levy speaks for organizations and is the New
my seventeen years and marched boldly into Mr. Clausi’s office That was September, so when Rosh Hashana came, York Times best-selling author of GRANDMOTHER
to apply for the position. “Are you experienced? he inquired, I took two days off including going home early on the REMEMBERS, which has sold over four million copies
looking quizzically at me. “Oh yes,” I immediately replied. previous Friday. The next week was Yom Kippur and I and the mega best-seller GRANDFATHER REMEMBERS,
Unconvinced but said he would give me a typing test right then was gone again. Mr. Clausi didn’t complain, but when published by HarperCollins. Both books make perfect gifts
and there. Oh, my goodness, what am I going to do now? Sukos showed up and I told him I would need two days and are available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. 
Move Over LAW (FS 316.126)

By Elyse Weintraub Are you unsure about what you are supposed to do when hour less than the posted speed limit. If the speed limit is
Brown, Community you are driving on a roadway with multiple lanes, and you 20 miles per hour or less, you must slow down to five miles
Education Specialist, see a fire truck or rescue truck working an emergency ON per hour.
Palm Beach County Fire THE SIDE OF THE ROAD? The Answer is….When it In the State of Florida, drivers must also move over for
Rescue is safe to do, merge away from a vehicle working on the sanitation vehicles and utility service vehicles performing
(561) 616-7051 or side of the roadway to provide an empty travel lane for tasks related to their services, and wreckers displaying amber
ewbrown@pbcgov.org the emergency worker. If you are not able to safely move rotating or flashing lights performing a recovery or loading
over, you must slow down to a speed of 20 MPH below on the roadside.
This mess age is the posted speed limit unless directed otherwise by a law Violating the Move Over Law can result in a fine and points
brought to you by your enforcement officer. on your license; and worse, because it puts rescuers, civilians,
friendly Firefighters from On a two-lane roadway…Where there is NO lane of and other motorists at risk of serious injury and even death.
Palm Beach County Fire travel in the same direction to merge over to, you are For everyone’s safety, share the Move Over Law with others.
Rescue…. REQUIRED to slow down to a speed that is 20 miles per Help us…help You! 
Every day firefighters and other emergency
responders drive to emergencies. What’s
more, oftentimes the emergency
they are driving to is actually in the
roadway. Although they are helping
others and rendering aid, they are also
at risk of being injured and killed on
our roadways by motorists. Help protect
them…because if they can’t help you in your time
of need…who will?
Learn the Move Over LAW (FS 316.126)
Are you unsure about what you are supposed to do when
you are driving on a local roadway, and you see DRIVING Servicing PETS of Boca Raton
BEHIND YOU a fire truck or other emergency vehicle for over 20 years
with lights flashing and sirens wailing on the way to an “Caring is our Specialty”
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intersection and then stop. When this happens on highways
and interstates, rather than stop, slow down and then safely
move over so that the emergency vehicle can pass.

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