It was an innovative use for ubiquitous duct tape – and clear indication that someone was unhappy.

Strapped to the sign urging people to vote for mayoral candidate Al Capellini was strategically placed strips of silver tape. They were wrapped around the front in such a way as to obscure the words “mayor” and “re-elect” and if that message wasn’t’ clear enough, within an hour the sign had disappeared entirely.

That was just the start. Soon, duct tape bedecked signs had appeared from 48th Street to Powerline Road and some signs had disappeared. Mayoral candidate Caryl Berner provided a clue as to what had happened at the Brazilian American Coalition’s mayoral forum Feb. 22.

“There are signs out there that are wrong,” she said. “They are being taken down tomorrow.”

The signs in question were planted by Capellini’s campaign supporters. The biggest objection? That came from his Democratic opponents of course. That was over the associated advertising, and the group took their beef to the Broward County Ethics Board.

“It was in newspapers and brochures and the reason that we got it recalled was that it said 'Re-elect Mayor Capellini,'” said Bernie Parness, president of the Deerfield Beach Democratic club and the person who filed the complaint.

On Feb. 19, Roy Rogers at the Ethics Commission contacted Capellini asking him to voluntarily withdraw his objectionable campaign materials. On Feb. 19, Capellini sent an e-mail to Marty Harris at his campaign asking him to stop printing the documents and await revised documents.

"I’d like more done, but when speaking to Roy Rogers, he said the ethics board is a volunteer committee in Broward County and they have no real teeth,” said Parness. “They try to be nice first, and since Capellini agreed, that’s as far as they are going to go.”

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Deerfield Beach’s newest natural area is anonymous to date, but the county hopes area residents can change that.
Broward County Parks and Recreation Division has announced a naming contest for the unbaptized natural area and anyone can enter.

The patch of sand pine scrub on the north side of Northeast 41st Street between Northeast Fifth and Eighth Avenues is informally known as the Helwig Site. It was acquired as conservation land in 2004 for $1.2 million, as part of a county-wide natural area preservation program.

Cyndy Baker, marketing manager for Broward County Parks and Recreation, says there a lot of different plants crammed into the 10-acre plot. There is pawpaw and silkgrass, Curtiss’ milkweed, Faey’s palafoxia. Moreover, the county’s only recorded peninsula mole skink was seen here.

If you wonder why all that is worth mentioning, consider the now-official names of some of the 28 natural-area sites that constitute half the county’s park system.

The 34 acres in Pompano Beach, known as Highland Scrub, is wall-to-wall Sand Pine scrub.

A natural area in Davie known as Pine Island Ridge is replete with slash pine.

In other words, if prospective contestants are casting about for ideas, they would do well to look at the unchristened area for inspiration.

“They are named after what the environment is of the natural area site,” said Baker.

Would that it were that simple.

Carol Morgenstern, environmental administrator for Broward County’s parks, says any suggestions are subject to adjustment by the county’s nine commissioners. Ideas submitted on line will be organized into a list and presented to urban wilderness advisory and other boards which will tweak or change the results.

An ultimate name is presented to the Broward County Commission.

“[The commission] usually suggests the name,” she said. “There are some rules and that is why it is the county commission’s ultimate responsibility to name the park.”
Suggestions are due by March 6 via e-mail www.broward.org/parks/namethepark.htm with an announcement of the top names on line on March 20.

All residents get a say in choosing a name by voting from March 20 to April 3 with a winner announced shortly thereafter.
The prize? A T-shirt; a recognition proclamation, which will be read at a commission meeting; and inner knowledge that the chosen name lives in perpetuity.

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By the slimmest majority, Deerfield Beach commissioners gave initial approval to a sweeping code of ethics, 21 pages of prohibitions safeguarding the integrity of the mayor, vice mayor, district commissioners, candidates for those positions and the city manager.

The ordinance spells out ethical standards.
It defines circumstances under which disclosure is required.
It codifies when voting is prohibited and what constitutes a gift or a conflict.
It applies to applicants for city contracts as well as to entities doing business with the city.

In its own words, it ensures that those in government will be “free from fraud, self-enrichment and self-dealing and without conflicts or improper benefits as stated in this Ethics Code.”

It goes on to say that “No member of the city commission or city manager shall use their official position or office, by either taking any action or failing to take any action in a manner calculated to obtain a personal financial benefit not shared by a substantial portion of the public or an affected class or special private gain for himself/herself, or a principal, by whom he/she has been retained.”

And then it gets specific. For 35 pages.

Opposing the measure were Commissioner Gloria Battle and Mayor Sylvia Poitier. Battle said she voted against it because she needed more time to consider it more carefully. Poitier had a litany of objections.

For starters, she said, it isn’t fair to what could be new commissioners taking the dais after March 17.

“I don’t see the rush,” she said.

When it takes effect, “It might not be us; and doing this three weeks before the election makes it a political issue,” she said.

She objected to the intent of the ordinance.
“I can take this ordinance and violate it every day and you will never know it,” she said.

Despite the lack of unanimity, the commissioners approved the ordinance as written and sent it on to a second reading on March 3, at which time the public will be allowed to comment.

If approved, the ordinance would be effective March 17 - seven days after the election.

The public hearing is set for 7 p.m. March 3 at city hall, 150 NE Second Ave.
For information, call 954-480-4200.

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When U.S. Customs confiscated “Miss Lourdies” and anchored it on the Miami River, it was because the ship was a delivery system for 150 kilos of cocaine concealed inside a steel compartment. The way it was pitched at a District 1 meeting last month, however, the vessel would be reborn as an artificial reef and this area’s own economic stimulus package.

Chad Grecsek, assistant to the director of public works, said a study of the economic impact of artificial reefs found that nonresidents and visitors to Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties annually spend $1.7 billion on fishing and diving activities associated with artificial reefs.

The commission’s approval of a $20,000 privately-funded proposal to sink the vessel as an artificial reef was an important step toward winning the vessel. Grecsek said, making Deerfield the marine equivalent of shovel-ready for when custody of the ship is awarded.

“We want to make sure we don’t lose the opportunity. These vessels cost a lot of money,” said Craig Ash, general manage of CEPEMAR Environmental Services in Boca Raton, the company working with dive shop Dixie Divers to ease the project through the permitting process.

Plans call for the ship to be sunk astride the Broward and Palm Beach County lines. It was Dixie Divers on Southeast Third Court that brought the opportunity to his attention of the city.

“There are two ways to get rid of [the ship]: put it out to bid – and it ends up going back into use of what brought them there in the first place – or turn it over to government and have it used for something more beneficial,” Grecsek said.

Since Miami-Dade is rife with reefs and Palm Beach County just completed a similar project, Deerfield Beach is a clear contender.

Ash said if all goes according to schedule, by mid-summer, Deerfield Beach divers could be swimming out from the beach instead of driving somewhere to find the nearest artificial reef miles south.

"A regular reef may not have all the nooks and crannies you would have in an artificial reef," Ash said. "An artificial reef can attract different types and larger species."

“We just got word that the U.S. Customs case is moving forward and by the end of March could be resolved,” he said. “We’re thinking 30 days for decommissioning.” And, after it is cleaned of spare parts and petroleum residue, he said, “Another 30 days to sink it—maybe middle of summer.”

That would ensure a soft-opening - for an attraction that one study shows could add 27,000 jobs to the region and create $782 million in wages and salaries.

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It’s carnival time.

St. Ambrose Catholic Church will present its 15th annual carnival from 5 to 10 p.m. March 5 and March 6, from 1 to 11 p.m. March 7 and from 1 to 10 p.m. March 8.

The old favorites are back. There are rides and games, entertainment and an hourly raffle. The carnival on the church campus, 380 S. Federal Highway, offers an advantage goes to the early bird. Pre-purchased ride tickets before March 4 are $20 for 26 tickets, with $20 wristbands offering unlimited rides on Thursday and Sunday and $25 wristbands offering unlimited rides the other days.

For information, call 954-427-2225 or go to www.stambrosecarnival.com

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Take a former entertainment director for a cruise line and a British gymnastics champion. Put them into an empty sports arena and if they are Robert and Lisa Vazquez, they see nothing but possibilities.

It was November when the couple moved into a space occupied by a defunct recreational vehicle warehouse. When they reopened the Deerfield Beach Sports Mall Dec. 5, it was with the idea of providing one-stop shopping for sports – and a lot of fun.

“Why should mom have to take one child to kick boxing and one child to ballet? Then mom does yoga at one location and dad plays basketball at another,” Vazquez said. “Why not come to one place and do it all on the same day?”

To that end, the Vazquez’s recruited 10 credentialed instructors to teach everything from kick boxing to recreational gymnastics. Tap, ballet and jazz, for example are taught by a Boca Raton woman who has developed a dance curriculum and choreography for ages 6 to 17.
Recreational gymnastics? That comes courtesy of Lisa Vazquez, who traveled as a reserve for the Seoul Olympics and has since coached gymnastics in Miami.

There are team sports, as well as soccer and baseball clinics for kids, youth leagues in basketball and volleyball and with all programs, the emphasis is on having fun, not on competition.

Before the facility debuted, however, it needed a facelift. With paint he found in the storage room and a box of replacement tiles, Vazquez remodeled the lobby. When he learned hiring someone to clean the floor would cost $3,000 initially and $250 a month thereafter, he fixed the machine and tackled the task himself.

Weeks of six-hour days later, Vazquez says he now realizes how large 15,000 square feet can be.

“I’m still doing it,” he said.

That’s during non-business hours, and that’s seven days a week. From noon, when the facility opens, until midnight when the last hockey player pays his tab at the snack bar, the place rocks with soccer and basketball, kick boxing and dance, often with Vasquez himself manning the sound system.

Vasquez says he has great plans for this summer.

“This is what I am meant to do – entertain and provide exercise for children,” he said. “They are going to come here and experience the best summer camp in all of south Florida with arts and crafts and sports indoors: kick ball, volley ball and basketball.

"And I just signed a new tenant for the soccer site,” he said, “which does soccer, flag football and tennis.”

For information, call 954-725-6200 or www.actionacademy.net or e-mail info@actionacademy.net.

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Robert Vazquez remembers his mother herding him back into the house when he was a kid growing up in New York City. The neighborhood was on the tough side, and to keep him safe, she kept him inside.

That might have been in the back of his mind when Vazquez invited about 40 children from Boys & Girls clubs in Deerfield and Pompano Beach for two hours of absolutely free roller skating.

The kids clambered out of the bus and filed into Action Academy's the newly reopened Deerfield Beach Sports Complex.

They lined up for roller skates, then headed for the vast rink that occupies one side of the 15,000 square-foot facility, and two hours of chaos served up on plastic.

“Oh my God! I’m going to fall!” announced Sequioa Rembert, 7, as her feet popped into the air.

Jamal Capobianco was the Clown Prince of the gathering. The Pompano Beach Middle School student twirled his arms like a windmill as he picked up speed, then he collapsed in a perfect split. Playing football with the Pompano Eagles is no more dangerous than this, he said.

Rembert hobbled around the edge of the rink, moving her wheeled feet like she was trying to walk on water. Both hands gripped the arm of Nicholas Laster of Park Ridge Elementary, but as the Tedder Elementary first-grader progressed, her face filled with hope.

Vazquez says he plans to make such sessions a regular part of the curriculum.
“I’m sitting here every day from noon until four and there is nothing going on while the kids are in school and the adults are working,” he said. “Why not open this place up for parents to come in and kids to come and play in a safe environment?

“For a place like this to be open for kids to come in and stay off the street?” Vazquez says. “I would have loved a place like this.”

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Lighthouse Point Commissioners added a brick to the literal and regulatory wall they are building around this city.

Feb. 10, they approved a law that prohibits residents who rent from owning a dog unless they buy a $100,000 homeowners policy that doesn’t exclude dogs.

Mayor Fred Schorr explained, it’s the higher percentage of rental housing “that is causing the problem.”

Schorr had pointed out at a Jan. 27 meeting at which the measure won preliminary approval that, “more than half of dog bite cases emanate from rental houses.”

“They have found the same experience through the United States,” he said at the time. “Generally, [residents of] rental units are not as caring for the community as homeowners.”

Barry Bovee puts it more bluntly. The agent and owner of FCI Insurance Agency in Davie says the newly approved law discriminates against renters, costing them an extra $300 to $400 a year.

“They are saying renters are less responsible than owners. Why would that be a true statement?” he said. “Lighthouse Point is making it rough on people who can’t afford to buy something, but have to rent and [saying] 'If you don’t like our ordinance, don’t move into our city.'"

Ordinance No. 2009 now requires landlords to carry a homeowner policy of $100,000 that doesn’t exclude dogs.

It states: “In the event of a police report that a dog for which the escrow is maintained bit a human or injured a animal, the city shall notify the victim (or parent, guardian or owner of the victim if the victim is a minor) for any unpaid hospital or medical rehabilitation treatment, or for any veterinary care or treatment provided the animal.”

After some discussion, the commission wrote in a few loopholes. The law will not apply to condominiums with documents that prohibit dogs.

It will not apply to dogs under a certain weight. And the definition of “dangerous” was refined to include any dog that "killed or caused the death of an animal owned by another person.”

But Bovee says even that might not keep the renters at bay.

“If the owner who rents to the renter has a liability policy that covers dogs on the property, that might be a way around it,” he mused.

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They came with birds and a boa, a bearded dragon and dogs of all sizes. Instructions suggested children come in costume for Lighthouse Point’s Children’s Pet Show. But pets came in full regalia as well and it was hard to decide which was more imaginative: the critter costumes or those holding the leash.

Take Lulu, for example.

Seven-year-old owner Blake Biederman squeezed the 3-year-old bulldog into Jimmy Buffett attire, complete with a straw hat, a T-shirt and lei.

There was a Teacup Yorkie enthroned in a treasure chest, and a Great Dane sporting a sign that said “Poop Deck."

There were boas of both varieties: a reptile for one youthful pirate, as well as the pink feather kind for a trio of girls with matching dogs.

Pirate costumes proliferated at the ninth annual Keeper Days celebration of the city's founding. They reflected this year’s theme, City of Lighthouse Point: Our Hidden Treasure.
In keeping with the hidden treasure theme, the festivities were tucked into Frank McDonough Park, just over a narrow bridge from Federal Highway. From the crest of the Sample Road bridge, however, the celebration filled the grassy expanse behind the church.

In one corner, some 88 kids sporting sunburns and grins compared fishing stories from the Kids Fishing Tournament. They caught lures and other prizes tossed into the crowd as a computer on a backdrop of a pirate ship flashed through 500 images of fish caught on any and all waters of Lighthouse Point.

Library ladies made their annual appearance selling homemade baked goods to raise money for library programs.

Lighthouse Point pirates found their ranks supplemented by attendees from the Renaissance Festival just up the road, as well as from Tampa’s Gasparilla Festival running simultaneously three hours north.

“We’re part of 15 Buccaneers from Key West and a lot of us are gong to the Renaissance Festival,” said Kathy Gilbert, of Royal Palm beach, self-appointed spokesman for one group. “We are pirates for hire.”

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Those who miss the candidates at the forums at Century Village and the Women’s Club, can get a different perspective at 12:30 p.m. Feb 8, at a forum organized by the six-month-old Brazilian American Coalition.

Presented at the Brazilian Catholic Church, one of about 25 Brazilian churches in the area, the forum invites all Deerfield Beach candidates at 2025 NE 49th St., just west of Federal Highway. All candidates will be asked the same questions, all relevant to the Brazilian community.

“This is an opportunity for you to gain the support of the Brazilian American Coalition,” said spokesman Darren Covar. “After the forum, we will choose one candidate from each district that we will assist and while not every Brazilian is a citizen and can vote, those that can have done so in outstanding numbers.”

For information, see www.catolicosnaflorida.org/ or call 954-632-6704.

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The eighth annual bed race that starts the parade Feb. 14 streaks by so fast, that late arrivals to the course running from Federal Highway and Hillsboro Boulevard to the finish line at the beach are likely to miss it entirely.

But there is a lot else to do during the four-day event that is the 62nd annual Founders’ Days celebration.

The schedule calls for festivities to kick off Feb. 12 with the opening of a family carnival from 6 to 11 p.m. Feb. 13 and throughout the weekend.

Feb. 13 is a motorcycle show – and hours of free music beginning at 7 p.m. with The Original Rhondels.
At 9:30, it’s Legends of Surf Music featuring guitarist Al Jardine, a founding member of The Beach Boys and their occasional lead singer, and Dean Torrence, whose partnership with William Jan Berry set the stage in the 1960s for the decade-long surf music craze.

Feb. 14's events begin at 10 a.m. with Bed Race followed five minutes later by Deerfield Beach’s own Founders Days Parade – a panoply of bands, music groups, floats from churches, community organizations and civic groups.
The parade commences from Pioneer Park east over the bridge, north up A1A, around the Deerfield Beach International Fishing Pier then south along the beach.

And that’ s just the start of the fun. In addition to vendors selling art and food, there is a disc jockey for the kids at 1:30 p.m. as well as New Horizon Church of God Squad Puppets, and music by fiddle player Randi Fishenfeld and The World Famous Low Tides – and fireworks at 9 p.m.
The Carnival continues from noon to 8 p.m. Feb. 15, as does live entertainment by the likes of Vsion [stet] Band, Vox Blu and The Notary, Wade Henry and Captain Jack Morgan, a Pirates of the Caribbean Impersonator.

A trolley provides shuttle service to the beach from parking areas at: The Cove Shopping Center, 1500 E. Hillsboro Blvd. or St. Ambrose Catholic Church, 363 SE 12th Ave., on the east side of the complex. From there, a trolley provides shuttle service to the beach.

For information, visit www.foundersdays.com, or www.Deerfield-beach.com/.

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“Thank God.”

That was Deerfield Palms resident Emmanuel Pierre’s reaction when he learned that the city would not shut off the water Feb. 9 to the 168-unit community.
City Manager Mike Mahaney had pledged to cut the water off if residents didn’t pay $90,000 in back-due water bills.

The community’s management office, in turn, failed to pay because too many residents had simply walked away from ballooning mortgages they were unable to pay, leaving the rest to pick up their tab.
Few failed to see the injustice of that, so Mahaney and Mayor Sylvia Poitier spearheaded a discussion with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and with the two lenders that own the most units in the Palms.

According to city spokeswoman Rami Altherr Musto, HUD owns nine units. Another 36 Federal Housing Administration-financed units will be HUD’s when those foreclosures finalize. HUD has agreed to pay the maintenance fees for all units it owns – providing enough cash flow to keep the water flowing as well.
Casanova said keeping the water on to all the units might even compound the problem.

“That is a temporary solution, but the units people are living in? [Lenders] should have people pay [the money they already owe] or put them out,” said Hernon Casanova, who as vice president of the association, pays its expenses.

Casanova said Pierre and the other residents can’t breathe easy just yet. More vacancies mean fewer residents paying maintenance fees and the association can’t make its homeowners insurance – which could spell eviction for everyone.

The bank is asking for proof of insurance, some $600 for each unit, he said. Failure to provide it means the bank will assign the unit to an insurance company at a higher rate.
“If I don’t pay my homeowner’s insurance, which I’m not allowed to individually – it has to be done by association – they will add to my bill $630 every month,” he said.

Help might be on the way. Altherr Musto said HUD is planning an event at the Palms to help residents work out loan terms, among other possible solutions.

That may not stem the exodus. Pierre said he was planning to find another place to live by Feb. 9. Now, he said, he will relocate – just not in a rush.

“I will not have to be in a hurry to leave,” he said.

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Twelve-year-old Taylor Filaski has never cooked anything more complicated than pasta and chicken cutlets.
Danielle Curran, 13, hasn’t cooked anything even that complicated. Yet there they were with 24 other seventh graders from St. Ambrose Catholic School, preparing lunch for 180 hungry people awaiting lunch at All Saints Catholic Mission’s soup kitchen.
On any other day, they would have been conjugating verbs in Elizabeth Fulford’s English class.
Since Fulford is their homeroom teacher, however, she sees them for two hours instead of one. She points out that this Catholic school is dedicated to educating the spirit as well as the mind, so it wasn’t considered unusual when she decided to devote that extra time to some character building.
“It’s important for them to know what service is, how to participate in it, and how good it feels to actually give to others in need,” she said. “It’s just part of the environment at a Catholic school.”
This wasn’t the first time the students had dedicated an hour and some allowance to feeding the hungry. Fulford said she got the idea at Christmas. When she suggested to her students that they spend $5 on bread and peanut butter instead of on a gift to exchange in the classroom, even she was surprised at the outcome.
“As soon as she asked, everyone raised their hand – everyone,” said Curran.
So successful was that effort that on Jan. 28, the essay on "The Voyage of Mimi" got tabled as students and sandwich materials were reunited. This time, the students slipped ham between slices of bread because, Fulford said, “The peanut butter recall was kind of scary.”
Some of the students brought in cheese, as well as ham. Each sandwich got packaged with a banana donated by Publix and with a juice drink. When the bread ran out, the tabled was stacked with 240 sandwiches, which were delivered by a homeroom mother to a soup kitchen that relies on donations to feed 30,000 people per year.
As for the St. Ambrose seventh graders, the sandwich-making was such an act of generosity that Fulford is turning it into an after-school club.
“We want to go outside of the school to raise money to buy supplies for sandwiches, or participate in other projects involving service,” says the mentor whose first community service – working in a day care center – came via her Catholic High School and was a life-altering experience. “We definitely want to start doing more.”

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Rose Andre-Johnson listened quietly Feb. 3 as long-standing members the Town of Hillsboro Beach erosion committee discussed how to repair the town’s vanishing beach.

Give communities to the north an ultimatum: remove sand-blocking structures or share the cost of damages to Hillsboro’s beach, they ask.

The officials want to propose to the Florida Inland Navigation District to dredge a spot that is so shallow, boaters have to mind a buoy to keep from grounding. That sand would be perfect for the shore, they said.

How about making beach replenishment an ongoing process and financing it with a special tax?
That was where Andre-Johnson interjected.

“People in my complex? They are not going to [pay the tax],” said Andre-Johnson, whose concern about the beach had brought her from the town commission meeting the day before to the erosion committee meeting. “We have a gorgeous beach.”

The town’s continuing effort to get and keep sand on the beach is concern Number One in the tiny town. Given that sand sourcing and sand funding are both a cause for discussion and the reason for burdensome taxes in this community of 2,300 people, the words “gorgeous beach” and “Hillsboro Beach” seldom occupy the same sentence.

But stop by Andre-Johnson’s beachfront co-op and an actual beach sits in the front of Hillsboro Mile Ocean Apartments. Waves lap at sand, just east of a sandy berm that stands tall and proud — well east of the 42-unit complex. The mounds are graced with waving grasses and it is those grasses that have sheltered the sand from the wind and waves.

“After Hurricane Katrina, a bunch of women from my condominium – at least 20 of us — went down to the beach and we planted sea grass,” she said. “Now it is beautiful!”
It’s come a long way. Andre-Johnson said Katrina transferred much of the roof of her building to the parking lot and obliterated the lawn in muddy sand. Residents knew they had to do something to head off future disasters.

“The sand had come up over the wall and the lawn was all mud and there was a sheer drop to the water,” she said. “The board president’s husband rented a Caterpillar, and shoved it all back so we could put the sod down.”
Then, Andre-Johnson said, the women from her complex got down on their hands and knees and planted sea grass between themselves and the sea. “I grew up on a beach on Long Island,” she said of her inspiration.
Three-and-a-half years later, as the rest of the town struggles with issues of sand and funding, Andre-Johnson is the voice of those for whom more money and more technology provide nothing but a burden.

“We’ve always had a lot of nests,” she said, referring to the ultimate test of a sandy shore—its appeal to nesting sea turtles. “They make their nests on our beach. Turtles adore us!”

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Deerfield Beach High School reminds residents that this is the time of year that parents of high school-aged kids take note of one of the most compelling reason to raise kids in Deerfield Beach: The Butler Memorial Scholarship.

The scholarship is funded via a $6.4 million trust set up by area farmer and Deerfield Beach pioneer, J.D. and Alice Butler. The provisions of the trust insure that any student who has graduated from Deerfield Beach High school is eligible for a scholarship to an accredited community college, college, university or graduate or professional school.

Applications for the 2009-2010 school year now are available on the school’s Web site: www.dbhs.us. The deadline for submitting the completed application is 2:30, April 24.

Call Butler Scholarship Coordinator Maureen 754-322-0691.

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