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Ramblings NUMBER 326 www.delrayvillas45.com JANUARY 2017 Board of Directors Meeting Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2017 Time: 7:30 PM “B” Building Delray Villas Plat 4/5 homeowners association From the President Sy Weiss From the Editor Linda Solomon Here we are in 2017 and we have a newly elected board working to keep everything running smoothly. Homeowners vote for the board, so please put your trust in them to do the right thing for the entire community and take the time to wish our new Board all the best in 2017. Now that all our residents are back, this is a good time to remind everyone about our trash pickup schedule. For Wednes- day pickup all trash and cuttings should be put out on Tuesday evening at 5 PM. Saturday trash and recycle should go out on Friday at 5 PM. We have had some unwelcomed guests vis- iting our trash, so please place all trash in a closed garbage can. Don’t make it easy for them to get into your trash and strew it all over the roads. We love our residents’ pets, but we don’t love what they leave on our lawns. So once again, please pick up after your pets and those visiting pets. Make sure all pets are kept on a leash when walked - that is in our Documents. It’s also Palm Beach County Law. If they catch you with your dog off the leash, it can cost you $200.00. The Inspection Committee will be going out the 1 st and 2 nd week of the month. Please refer to the items they will be look- ing for on Page 4, Column 2. You have been asked before but I would like to remind you to please not block the sidewalks on Dusenburg and La Salle Roads because we have many people walking with their aides on our sidewalks. Here, too, according to Palm Beach County law you can receive a stiff fine from the Sheriff’s department for this. Thanks to all committees for all their hard work throughout the year. Remember, just like the Board members, committee members are our own homeowners that volunteer to do this work. We have some great things happening in our community this year. The clubs keep us busy, there are bowlers, billiards players, card players - so many different activities happening here, it’s hard to keep up with it all! Make sure you come to our BOARD MEETINGS on the 2 nd Tuesday of each month and the HOA meetings on the 4 th Tuesday in January and March and have your say in what goes on in our Plat. Don’t rely on others to make decisions for you. I hope to see every- one around our community enjoying yourselves in the new year! Sy General Meeting Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 Time: 7:30 PM “A” Building Community Channel 8001 Is up and running! Channel 8001 on U-verse (formerly Channel 63 at Comcast) is now available for your perusal. Happy and Healthy New Year, Everyone! Did you make your New Year’s resolutions yet? I did! I’m not going to share them with you in case I fall down on the job by next week; but suffice it to say that they pertain to my health and improving it. There is one resolution I will share with all of you. How many of you watched the interview of the First Lady, Michelle Obama, with Oprah Winfrey? I was always a fan of Mrs. Obama, but that interview made me realize that of all the first ladies that have been around in my lifetime, Michelle Obama is my overall second favorite (the first was Eleanor Roosevelt). I found our present First Lady to be one of the classiest women around. She speaks well and is well versed on the issues of which she must know, she is by all appearances a good mother, dresses beautifully, and she can dance, too! However, one thing Mrs. Obama said has resounded with me and I promised myself that hers was the example I would follow as best I can from now on. This is what she said: that she and her husband, President Obama, always tried to place honesty at the top of their list in everything they did during their time at the White House. And, more importantly, that she has chosen in her life to always take the “high road.” I believe her words were, “When they go low, we go high.” So I have promised myself that in every endeavor, every heated conversation, every contro- versial experience, I will take a deep breath, visualize how Michelle Obama would handle the situation and always take the high road. On that note, I hope all of your resolutions are formidable but able to be fulfilled and that your health remain at least as good as it is now if not better in this new year! But most of all, ENJOY yourself, it IS later than you think! Linda If You Are A New Resident And Are Not Connected To 8001 The Only Way To Get Connected Is To Email Alan Shwartz At [email protected] With Your Name And AT&T Account Number, It Generally Takes 3 To 4 Days To Connect.

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Ramblings NUMBER 326 www.delrayvillas45.com JANUARY 2017

Board of Directors Meeting

Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Time: 7:30 PM

“B” Building

Delray Villas Plat 4/5 homeowners association

From the President Sy Weiss

From the Editor Linda Solomon

Here we are in 2017 and we have a newly

elected board working to keep everything running

smoothly. Homeowners vote for the board, so please put your

trust in them to do the right thing for the entire community and

take the time to wish our new Board all the best in 2017.

Now that all our residents are back, this is a good time to

remind everyone about our trash pickup schedule. For Wednes-

day pickup all trash and cuttings should be put out on Tuesday

evening at 5 PM. Saturday trash and recycle should go out on

Friday at 5 PM. We have had some unwelcomed guests vis-

iting our trash, so please place all trash in a closed garbage

can. Don’t make it easy for them to get into your trash and

strew it all over the roads. We love our residents’ pets, but we don’t love what they

leave on our lawns. So once again, please pick up after your

pets and those visiting pets. Make sure all pets are kept on a

leash when walked - that is in our Documents. It’s also Palm

Beach County Law. If they catch you with your dog off the

leash, it can cost you $200.00.

The Inspection Committee will be going out the 1st and 2nd

week of the month. Please refer to the items they will be look-

ing for on Page 4, Column 2.

You have been asked before but I would like to remind you

to please not block the sidewalks on Dusenburg and La Salle

Roads because we have many people walking with their aides

on our sidewalks. Here, too, according to Palm Beach County

law you can receive a stiff fine from the Sheriff’s department

for this.

Thanks to all committees for all their hard work throughout

the year. Remember, just like the Board members, committee

members are our own homeowners that volunteer to do this

work.

We have some great things happening in our community

this year. The clubs keep us busy, there are bowlers, billiards

players, card players - so many different activities happening

here, it’s hard to keep up with it all! Make sure you come to

our BOARD MEETINGS on the 2nd Tuesday of each month

and the HOA meetings on the 4th Tuesday in January and

March and have your say in what goes on in our Plat. Don’t

rely on others to make decisions for you. I hope to see every-

one around our community enjoying yourselves in the new

year!

Sy

General Meeting

Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Time: 7:30 PM

“A” Building

Community

Channel 8001

Is up and

running!

Channel 8001 on U-verse (formerly Channel 63

at Comcast) is now available for your perusal.

Happy and Healthy New Year, Everyone! Did you make your

New Year’s resolutions yet? I did! I’m not going to share them

with you in case I fall down on the job by next week; but suffice

it to say that they pertain to my health and improving it.

There is one resolution I will share with all of you. How

many of you watched the interview of the First Lady, Michelle

Obama, with Oprah Winfrey? I was always a fan of Mrs.

Obama, but that interview made me realize that of all the first

ladies that have been around in my lifetime, Michelle Obama is

my overall second favorite (the first was Eleanor Roosevelt). I

found our present First Lady to be one of the classiest women

around. She speaks well and is well versed on the issues of

which she must know, she is by all appearances a good mother,

dresses beautifully, and she can dance, too!

However, one thing Mrs. Obama said has resounded with me

and I promised myself that hers was the example I would follow

as best I can from now on. This is what she said: that she and

her husband, President Obama, always tried to place honesty at

the top of their list in everything they did during their time at the

White House. And, more importantly, that she has chosen in her

life to always take the “high road.” I believe her words were,

“When they go low, we go high.” So I have

promised myself that in every endeavor,

every heated conversation, every contro-

versial experience, I will take a deep

breath, visualize how Michelle Obama

would handle the situation and always take

the high road.

On that note, I hope all of your resolutions are formidable

but able to be fulfilled and that your health remain at least as

good as it is now if not better in this new year! But most of all,

ENJOY yourself, it IS later than you think! Linda

If You Are A New Resident And Are Not Connected To 8001 The Only Way To Get Connected Is To Email Alan Shwartz At [email protected] With Your Name And AT&T Account Number, It Generally Takes 3 To 4 Days To Connect.

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PLAT IV/V Ramblings. . . PAGE 2

PLAT 4/5 RAMBLINGS

Editor Linda Solomon 498-9338

6675 Overland Drive

Delray Beach, FL 33484

498-9338 917-747-8660 (c)

[email protected]

Associate Editor Bonnie Siegel 498-9338

Advertising Manager Judy LaCorte 495-6899

Distribution Joe LaCorte 495-6899

Harvey Lazaroff 498-8691

Contributors to the Newsletter:

Butch Herbst ~ Judy La Corte ~ Lloyd Lukens ~ Dennis

Michalic ~ Sharon O’Halloran ~ Iris Pavey ~ Carol

Slotkin ~ Bob Townsend

2017 PLAT 4/5 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

OFFICERS

President Sy Weiss 381-4456

Vice Pres. Lew Leon 495-9010

Secretary Bernie Rosenberg 499-1673

Treasurer Sheila Lane 381-7725

COMMITTEES Alliance Judy & Joe LaCorte 495-6899

Architectural Iris Pavey 498-1375

Inspection Carol Michalic 270-7211

Marty Dreiblatt 865-0991

Interviews ** Lew Leon 495-9010

Parliamentarian Bill Yesowitch 502-905-7973

Lakes & Canals Butch Herbst 445-2079

Lights Dennis Michalic *270-7211

Maintenance Butch Herbst 445-2079

Lew Leon 495-9010

Pest Control Carol Michalic 270-7211

Ramblings Linda Solomon *498-9338

Roads Joe La Corte 495-6899

Butch Herbst 637-7882

Website Alan Shwartz *376-4040

www.delrayvillas45.com

55+ Lew Leon 495-9010

Welcoming Diane Weiss *381-4456

Pat Lazaroff 498-8691

RECREATION ASSOCIATION MEMBERS

Pool Tony Costa 508-801-3300

Pat Lazaroff 498-8691

Joan Rosenberg 499-1673

* Non-Board Members

**As of January 2017, all interviews for anyone mov-

ing into Plat 4/5 will only be held on Thursdays.

Board and General Meeting

ORDER OF BUSINESS*

Pledge of Allegiance and moment of silence

Roll call of the Board of Directors

Reading of last Board of Directors/General Meeting

minutes

Correspondence Bernie Rosenberg

Reports:

Treasurer Sheila Lane

Committees:

Alliance Lew Leon, Joe & Judy La Corte

Architectural Iris Pavey

Inspection Carol Michalic, Marty Dreiblatt

Interviews Lew Leon, Bill Yesowitch

Maintenance Butch Herbst

Lakes /Ponds Butch Herbst

Pest Control Carol Michalic

Roads /Lights Joe La Corte

Rec Board Tony Costa, Pat Lazaroff, Joan

Rosenberg

55 Plus Lew Leon

Web Site Alan Shwartz

Ramblings Linda Solomon

Welcome Committee Diane Weiss, Pat Lazaroff

Lollypop/Carriage Lights Dennis Michalic

NAP Dennis Michalic

Yellow Dot Carol Michalic

Old Business

New Business

Good and Welfare

NEIGHBOR ASSISTANCE PROGRAM Do you need N.A.P.?

Please contact

Dennis Michalic (chair)

561-270-7211.

YELLOW DOT PROGRAM Got the Dot?

It could save your life!

Contact Carol Michalic

561-270-7211

Yellow Dot

DELRAY VILLAS WE CARE

Until further notice the We Care program

at Delray Villas is not active. You can still

borrow medical equipment. See below:

FOR MEDICAL EQUIPMENT CALL:

PLAT 4/5

Marty Dreiblatt 865-0991

David Goldstein 499-5098

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PLAT IV/V Ramblings. . . PAGE 3

JANUARY

Happy Birthday

BIRTHDAY-ANNIVERSARY UPDATE

For those new residents or those who

find errors, please complete by printing

the following form and return to the

Editor, Linda Solomon.

Name

(first and last)

Birthday

Significant Other’s Name

(include last name if different)

Birthday

Anniversary

Happy Birthday

Flower of the Month - Carnation

Capricorn (December 22-January 19) Aquarius (January 20 - February 20)

Get Well Wishes

Morris Kushner

Richie Milici

Emily Scharf

Wally Siegel

Jan Stern

Art Stroffolino

Kate Wiener

Kathy Helbig

Evelyn Garfield

Jan Bernstein

Birthstone– Garnet

1– New Year’s Day

16 – Martin Luther King Jr. Day

6– Three Kings Day

28 - Chinese/Lunar New Year

Year of the Rooster - 4715

02 Wendy Bernstein

Hal Lechner

Susan Stein

06 Pearl Porter

08 Edward Potter

11 Susan Shwartz

12 Alan Meltzer

13 Marion Eisenberg

14 Ellen Farber

Chelle Lukens

Laura Preizler

Pat Pomponio

15 Kate Wiener

17 Milton Sonenblum

Theresa Bar

18 Georgiana Danna

20 Beverly Albritton

22 Ira Simon

26 Steve Pavey

Steven Silverstein

27 Rose Lee Hodge

28 Philip Pavloff

29 Richard Kriz

Hope Greenblatt

09 Steven & Wendy Bernstein

12 Robert & Ruth Weiser

14 Lloyd & Chelle Lukens

22 Richard Kriz & Betty Brownell

28 Richard & Lynne Cohen

31 Noel & Toby Gordon

Anniversaries

Special Birthday Wishes On January 6th we wish a very

happy 98th birthday to

Pearl Porter

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Sharon’s Read submitted by SHARON O’HALLORAN

ARCHITECTURAL - FOLLOW THE RULES

If you plan to do ANY outside work on your house or prop-

erty, be sure to get architectural approval first !!!

Pick up an application from my patio (13675

Whippet Way West) fill it out - sign it - return it to

my patio. Once the request has been approved, I

will call you to pick up the approval which then

needs to be placed in the front window of your

house.

ANY QUESTIONS

Call Iris Pavey 498-1375

Architectural Chairman

CITIZEN OBSERVER PATROL

OF DELRAY VILLAS Submitted by Vol. Captain Lloyd Lukens

Wishing all our neighbors a happy, healthy

and SAFE New Year!

THIS MESSAGE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE DELRAY VILLAS VOLUNTEER CITIZEN OBSERVER PATROL, (C.O.P.) Unit # 16

SAFETY

by Carol and Dennis Michalic

The heaviest thing you can carry is a grudge.

Almost every day you can read about car burglaries com-

mitted. Some tips to help prevent you from being victimized

are not leaving valuables (purse, wallet, GUNS, computers,

cell phones, backpacks, jewelry, briefcase) in open sight.

Try to hide packages, bags under some type of cover espe-

cially if your trunk area is visible to anyone looking in.

Secure your portable garage door and gate openers (for

those in gated communities).

Park in well lit areas when possible.

Lock your doors, keeping windows closed when pumping

gas or picking up children in public areas.

Do not leave wallets, purses in the car, take them with you

even if parking in your driveway.

NEVER leave a running vehicle unattended.

Thieves do not require a lot of time to enter your car, take

property and leave, most times without you realizing what

happened while you were purposely distracted or not paying

attention.

PLAT IV/V Ramblings. . . PAGE 4

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FROM

THE BOARD Inspections will be taking place

on January 14, 2027. The follow-

ing are some of the items the com-

mittee will be looking for: rotted

wood fascia; rotted metal beams

holding poles; trees that hang over

the street; bushes and trees that

have limbs too low to the ground and need to be lifted; homes

in need of painting; cleaning and painting of clam shell hurri-

cane shutters; cleaning and staining of driveways where

needed.

The sidewalks can be power washed

for free. However, the maintenance peo-

ple must be able to use your water when

they are doing this work. No powerwash-

ing will be done without a form being

filled out in the recreation parking lot

mailbox.

The speed limit on Dusenburg and La

Salle roads will be reduced to 30 MPH.

Please protect our older folks who don’t

walk with as much surety. And don’t forget

our mailboxes, who take the most abuse!

An Unnecessary Woman

In 2014, Rabih Alameddine’s novel was a finalist for the Na-

tional Book Award.

The Beirut septuagenarian Aaliyah Suleh leads a solitary

life, surrounded by the 37 books that she has translated into

Arabic and placed in boxes in her spare room. They will never

be published because she feels that her Lebanese countrymen

are not interested in literature and reading. She walks her

neighborhoods remembering Beirut as it once was, “the Eliza-

beth Taylor of cities,” as she calls it, “insane beautiful, tacky,

falling apart” before a civil war transformed neighborhoods

into war zones. In her country where social life revolves

around family, she is considered an unnecessary woman, di-

vorced and childless. She is estranged from her family and the

city she lives in, resulting in an internal emigration.“I slipped

into art to escape life,” she tells us.

As she walks the neighborhoods of West Beirut she recalls

past loves and favorite books. It is December and she is con-

templating which book she shall translate during the next

year. She has a ritual where she lights two candles for Walter

Benjamin and then begins her next year’s translation. These

translations will never be read by anyone and form the reason

for her life year after year. At one time many years ago, she

managed a small book store and had a very close friend, Han-

nah. The two people who have touched her in her life are

(continued on page 5, column 2)

2017 PLAT 4/5 ELECTION RESULTS The Annual Meeting and Elections were held on December

27, 2016. The Secretary of the Board, cast one vote for the

three candidates who were up for re-election on the Board of

Directors and the one vote for the two members of the Rec

Association.

However, 30 additional people were needed to make a

quorum to sustain the votes cast in the attempt to accept the

revision of the documents. The President of the Board ad-

journed the voting until the January Board of Directors Meet-

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PLAT IV/V Ramblings. . . PAGE 5

Club Name AFTER 6 SOCIAL CLUB Date/Time Wednesday Jan. 4 7:00 PM

Where “A” Building

Topic Meeting and entertainment

Collation Coffee and cake

Club Name AMERICAN-ITALIAN CLUB Date/Time Friday Jan.13 7:00 PM

Where “B” Building

Topic Welcome all interested in joining. Bring

check in the sum of $15.00 for dues. Meet our new board

and discussion of our annual picnic.

Collation Coffee and Cake will be served.

Club Name CITIZEN OBSERVER PATROL-C.O.P. Date Time Wednesday Jan. 4 9:00AM

Where “B” Building - Viking Room

Topic Training

Collation Breakfast

Club Name DEBORAH Date/Time Thursday, Jan. 19 12:00 Noon

Where “A” Building

Topic Regular business meeting then discussion.

Collation Coffee plus will be served

Deborah supports the Deborah Heart Hospital in New

Jersey. People who can not afford to pay for their proce-

dures are helped for free.

Club Name MEN & WOMEN SOCIAL CLUB Date/Time Tuesday, Jan. 7 PM

Where “A” Building

Topic After a short business meeting, we will

have great entertainment

Collation Snacks, coffee and cake will be served

Please pay your dues for 2017 - $15 per person

Club Name NA’AMAT USA Date/Time Monday, Jan. 2 9:00AM

Where “A” Building

Topic Regular meeting

Collation Coffee & bagel will be served.

Na’Amat supports care centers for children & women in

Israel

Club Name SCRABBLE

Date/Time Thursdays * 2:00-5:00 PM

Where “B” Building

*Call Michael Scott 908-2449

Delray Book Club

The Book Club meets on the first Monday of every month

at 1-2 PM in the Ceramics Room of the “B” Building. Books

will be available at the Hagen Ranch Library. You must ask

for the book by its title. Below are the first three books for

discussion:

Jan. 2 - The Time Between by Karen White

Feb. 6 - The Widow by Fiona Barton

Mar. 6 - Song of Hartgrove Hall by Natasha Solomon

If you have any questions, contact Leslie Boardman at

[email protected] or 561-808-7600/215-208-3652.

MUSICAL FAREWELL

After 12 years, The Guys & Dolls of Delray Villas Chorus is

disbanding. We are getting older and tired. Our piano player

and musical director for all those years broke her hand and

had to quit. Though it was fun, it is time to call it a day.

I would like to thank our Plat 4/5 singers: Deena Canora,

Jim Canora, Jerry Goldschein, Joe La Corte, Lois Langendorf,

Harvey Lazaroff, Lew Leon, Eleanor Morgan, Sema Mosko-

witz, and our new pianist, Carolyn Youssef. Thank you all for

your years of devotion.

Let me also say thank you to those of you that listened to

us. We hope you enjoyed our performances.

Mel Goldstein, Director

An Unnecessary Woman, (continued from page 4)

Hannah and Ahmed, a young student who helped her in the

store and then abandoned literature for the revolution and is

rumored to be an expert torturer. Her friend Hannah led a

happy but delusional life. Once the “veil” is lifted, she is de-

stroyed.

Aaliyah is the narrator and we see everything from her

point of view, which leads to the novel being digressive and,

at times, didactic. The book is a portrait of an isolated woman

with a dazzling mind who is coming to grips with getting old.

This is a book in which almost nothing happens and that gives

different meaning to the words ‘character’ and ‘plot.’ The

novel overflows with an interior dialogue between Aaliyah

and her literary life. Conversations are largely remembered or

overheard. There are also comical and absurd moments in the

novel such as the time when Aaliyah mistakenly uses too

much blue dye on her hair and now walks around with half

gray and half blue hair. Her head is filled with literary voices

that are illuminating or questioning her motives. Aaliyah rec-

ognizes that “literature gives me life, and life kills me.”

In many ways the novel often feels like a memoir of an

aging septuagenarian woman yet written by a man. Alamed-

dine’s narrative seems written in-resistance to almost all the

current norms of a ‘well-made’ novel. In a review in The

Guardian Claire Messud states, “Simultaneously a philosophi-

cal rumination, a literature class and a cry from the heart, An

Unnecessary Woman is, precisely in its strangeness, a genuine

literary pleasure: a complicated one.”

DELRAY VILLAS CLUB NEWS

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ANNUAL HOLIDAY GREETINGS

Thank you for participating in the 2016 Holiday

Greetings. We are now collecting for the 2017 holi

days. If you would like to participate and wish your

Plat 4/5 neighbors and friends “Happy Holidays in

three newsletters in 2017 - April, September and December,”

kindly submit a check for $3.00 payable to Delray Villas,

Plat 4/5 HOA with the form below to Linda Solomon, 6675

Overland Drive, Delray Beach, FL 33484

PLEASE INCLUDE THE TEAR-OFF BELOW WITH YOUR

NAME(S) AS YOU WOULD LIKE THEM TO READ (eg.,

Jack & Jill Smith)

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

ANNUAL HOLIDAY GREETINGS:

Name(s)

PLAT IV/V Ramblings. . . PAGE 6

MORE CLUB NEWS

MEN * WOMEN SOCIAL CLUB

BEGINNING SQUARE DANCE LESSONS

With Scotty Sharrer

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

7:30 PM

Come join a fun

evening!

Alliance Happenings Judy La Corte

There will be no report for the Alliance this

month.

WELCOME NEW

NEIGHBORS

James G & Sandra Shupp

6700 Overland Drive

(Berkenwald)

John Schuff & Diana Kramer

6310 Dusenburg Road

(Kevin & Mary Walsh)

Nick Hatziantonio & Ronald K. Zyko

6252 Stanley Lane

Prize

for

Bes

t H

at

In Memoriam

Plat 4/5 remembers

We were saddened to learn of the passing of our

neighbor and friend

LEE HOPPEN

We extend our condolences to her family

May her memory be for a blessing.

Members: $12/ Non Members: $15

Snacks, Soda, Coffee & Cake

Reservation Deadline - February 15

Call Pat Lazaroff 561-486-8691

Or Diane Weiss 561-381-4456

After 6 Club presents

Racing for

Shriners Hospitals for Children

Sunday, February 18, 2017

8:00 PM

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PLAT IV/V Ramblings. . . PAGE 7

Talk of the Town by BOB TOWNSEND

ON BEING A COWARD

am a coward.

Nah, I’m not talking about anything physical. I’m

not afraid of anything physical. Hey, I once wrestled

a bear. Oh, that’s right; I mentioned that to you before,

didn’t I? I promised I’d tell you the details of that danger-

ous encounter sometime. Well, I will. Just bear with me.

But, take my word for it; I’m not a

coward when it comes to anything

physical. Hey, I even jumped out of

an airplane.

My cowardice is strictly emo-

tional. It totally surprised me. I

learned about this terrible flaw in my

character after I heard that the cast for productions at the

Delray Beach Playhouse is chosen as a result of open

auditions. I became delirious with excitement the mo-

ment I heard that little bit of news and decided right then

and there that I would throw my hat into the ring (or onto

the stage, whatever the proper terminology may be.) I

don’t mean to brag, but I’m a natural. I am, after all, a

theatrical school dropout.

While at the school, I delivered a stellar performance

as Lieutenant-Commander Philip Francis Queeg in The

Caine Mutiny Court Martial. The performance did

“Bogie” proud. And, after that, I portrayed the embattled

husband, George, in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at

the world famous Greenbriar at Whittingham stage in

New Jersey. I’m not certain how Richard Burton would

have rated that performance, but the audience seemed to

appreciate it.

I examined the lineup of upcoming shows at The

Delray Beach Playhouse and chose a comedy, The Odd

Couple for my tryout rather than a musical because I

really can’t sing. I say this despite the fact that I did my

very best Tennessee Ernie Ford impression at the recent

After 6 Social Club karaoke night. I was convinced that I

sounded more like Tennessee Ernie Ford than Tennessee

Ernie, himself, but many onlookers told me otherwise.

At the Delray Beach Playhouse auditions, you not

only read from the upcoming show, but you’re given the

opportunity to deliver a monologue. I chose an Oscar

Madison monologue from that very show because Ed

Clemon, who lives in Delray Villas West and is some-

what of an expert in such matters, once told me that par-

ticular narration may just be the greatest in the history of

stage or screen. In it, Madison is complaining about his

roommate “leaving little notes” on his pillow. He quotes

one of the notes: “We’re all out of cornflakes, FU.”

And then Madison observes: “It took me three hours to

figure out that FU was Felix Unger.”

I studied the monologue for weeks. But every time I

practiced in front of anyone, I stumbled. Sometimes I

even got the punch line wrong. I guess my memory isn’t

quite what it once was. Don’t get me wrong. My mem-

ory’s still very good. But it’s short.

To audition or not to audition? My hesitancy wasn’t about being afraid to make a

fool out of myself. I’ve already told you about the Ten-

nessee Ernie Ford debacle. I once showed up at After 6

Club Halloween Party (and then at an After 6 Club Thes-

pians show) as Cher to my wife’s, Sonny. I don’t think I

looked much like Cher. I don’t think I even looked quite

human. This past year, I showed up at the costume party

as Colonel Sanders (to my wife’s bucket of chicken).

I’m not going to make any excuses about that one, I

looked more like Colonel Sanders than Colonel Sanders,

himself, and nobody’s going to convince me otherwise.

And my wife, Ronnie, looked finger lickin’ good!

To audition or not to audition?

As the night approached and I

continued to stagger through the

monologue, I debated the issue. But,

I figured, I had nothing to lose. At

the very least, if I auditioned, I’d get

a Ramblings column out of it. But,

supposing I put it all together that

particular night and landed a part? If

I was having such a problem memo-

rizing one little monologue, how was

I going to memorize an entire play?

I’ve been to a couple of Delray

Beach Playhouse performances and

the performers were very good. I wouldn’t want to be

the dude to tarnish their reputation!

I don’t have to tell you that I took the coward’s way

out. I didn’t audition. In fact, auditions are being held at

this very moment while I’m sitting here at home punch-

ing my computer keys. I’m feeling a little depressed, but

a little relieved and I’m still debating if I came to the

right decision. But the whole sequence of deciding to

audition, then preparing to audition, then deliberating

about auditioning and then taking the

coward’s way out and refusing to audi-

tion, wasn’t a total loss. After all is said

and not done; I did get a Ramblings col-

umn out of it, didn’t I?

I

CAROL’S CORNER

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“Kenny” The Handyman

Budget Rates

Professional

Home Maintenance & Repair

Free Estimates

561-558-0992

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Please - PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS!

Thank them for supporting the Delray

Villas Plat 4/5 Ramblings - they will

appreciate your business.

Are you in need of

Notary Public services?

If you live in Plat 4/5 those

services are available to you

for free.

Call: Carol Michalic: 561-270-7211

Need someone reliable

to “babysit” your

home while you are

away?

Call Tony Costa

508-801-3300, a 7

year Delray Villas 4/5

resident.

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Offering custom massages, facials, microdermabrasion, & non-surgical facelifts.

We strive to bring you the best services in the industry at reasonable prices.

Mention this ad and receive $10

off any full priced service!*

Located on the corner of Woolbright Rd. and

Military Tr. In the Village Square plaza- inside

of Donna Michaels Salon & Spa.

3691 W. Woolbright Rd., Boynton Beach, FL 33436

941.928.2079

* Service must be more than $30. Cannot be combined with

other offers or packages. 1 per guest. Massage Lic. # MA 38115

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RESIDENTS LIVING ON

DUSENBURG RD., SHELBY TRAIL OR

LA SALLE RD.

(ALL STREETS WITH SIDEWALKS)

Be advised that the Maintenance Crew is

now available to power clean your sidewalk at a cost of

$10.00 from November 1, 2016 through February 28, 2017.

Use of your water is required. NO WATER - NO WASH!

Make checks out to Delray Villas.

If you would like this service, please fill out a Work Request

Form and put it in the mailbox on the south side of the park-

ing lot.

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Hi! I am in a resident in

Delray Villas and am looking

to help if you need an extra

pair of hands. I will help with

cleaning, shopping, meal prep, etc. My rates

are reasonable

Call 561-501-7584 leave message for Sue if

I'm not in and I'll return your call.

HOUSE FOR SALE

Bermuda Model - Plat 4/5 Villa On a large lake Legal 3 Bedroom - 2 Bath Many Extras Included Call 973-570-3568

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