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Ramblings NUMBER 334 www.delrayvillas45.com NOVEMBER 2017

Board of Directors Meeting

Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Time: 7:30 PM

“B” Building

Delray Villas Plat 4/5 homeowners association

From the Secretary Bernie Rosenberg

From the Editor

Annual Meeting & Elections

Date: Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Time: 7:30 PM

“A” Building

Delray Villas plat 4/5, by comparison, is a large cor-poration with an annual budget now exceeding one million dollars. It survives by community Volunteers who work

very hard to run informative business meetings that have a direct impact on its membership. As we approach our Annual Meeting for 2017, we will elect three Directors to serve our Plat for the next three years and one representative to the Recreation Association who will serve for two years. My message theme, there-fore, will be VOLUNTEERISM and the importance it is to both you, your neighbors and the Association. Initially,

I will use myself as an example, not to blow my own whistle but to try to make my point. It was at a former HOA community in Pennsylvania that I learned the impor-tance of being a Volunteer, so when I moved to Plat 4/5 in 2006, I knew I would become involved any way I could. I started by attending every meeting possible. It was at a Rec meeting that I learned two Volunteer homeowners,

who maintained community channel 63, (at the time) ten-dered their resignations. They had volunteered to co-chair this project for a number of years. I told the directors that I would gladly take over this responsibility if they would teach me how. I also made it a point to attend each and every Plat 4/5 BOD meeting to learn first hand what was happening or going to happen in the community. I learned

long ago not to heed rumors spread by people who never attended meetings. And, in 2008, I ran for and was elected to the Board. Because of my prior Board experience as Secretary. I was nominated to this position by my peers, and accepted the office of Secretary gladly. I didn’t have to accept this position, but by doing so, I was volunteering to contribute whatever expertise I had. I have been elected to a Board seat at each general election since then, so I

know many of you appreciate the Volunteer work I per-form. I also knew the importance of getting our informa-tion and happenings out to every full or part-time resident, so I asked my fellow directors if I could create a plat 4/5 website. I had operated the website in my former commu-nity, therefore, I knew the benefits it would have for us. Almost sixteen thousand viewers have visited our site to

date. But, the years have flown by and I needed to give up the website maintenance so I advertised for another Volunteer to replace me, and a man named Alan Shwartz

stepped forward and told me he wanted to Volunteer. The rest is history. Delray Villas Plat 4/5 is fortunate to have owners, who want to help, which is why we are so successful. It has a solid group of Volunteer homeowners working for all of us on committees. And, of course, it has another group of Volunteer homeowners as your Board of Direc-tors. Thanks to your Volunteer budget committee, all of

our owned roads will be paved at no cost to the member-ship. And let’s not forget last year when the Board con-verted our cable system to a better one providing us with more television programs then before. Again, this was at no cost to the membership. I think you can now see the importance of volunteer-

ing; for without Volunteers, the state of Florida would

appoint a management company to take over our commu-nity and maintenance would sky rocket. Come to meet-ings, get to know your neighbors, volunteer. It will be gratifying. Bernie

Just a few words to let everyone know that we are back and happy to be so! After an exhausting trip back culminating with a memorial service for a dear friend in

the Villages followed by a Bar Mitzvah celebration in Atlanta, we are grateful to just be home, unpacked with no where to go for at least a day or two! So now we get right to work getting the next Ram-blings ready for print and an expedient delivery this month after the hurricane wreaked havoc last month. As you can see, Bernie has written this month’s article for the Board. I will be looking for others to take over

this column in future months. If you want to put your bid in to write a column, please contact me as soon as you can. Note: Some items to look for in this newsletter: That’s

What Friends Are For, page 5 bottom of first column, Resident ID’s, page 4 column 2. Linda

PLAT IV/V Ramblings. . . PAGE 2

PLAT 4/5 RAMBLINGS

Editor Linda Solomon 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:

Carol Michalic ~ Dennis Michalic ~ Sharon O’Halloran ~ Iris Pavey ~ Bob Townsend

2017 PLAT 4/5 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

OFFICERS

President Sy Weiss 381 -4456

Vice Pres. vacancy

Secretary Bernie Rosenberg 499 -1673

Treasurer Sheila Lane 381 -7725

COMMITTEES

Alliance Carol Michalic 270-7211

Bill Yesowitch 502-905-7973

Architectural Iris Pavey 498-1375

Inspection Carol Michalic 270-7211

Russ Mayer 248-535-4710

Interviews ** Bill Yesowitch 502-905-7973

Parliamentarian Bill Yesowitch 502-905-7973

Lakes & Canals Russ Mayer 248-535-4710

Lights Dennis Michalic *270-7211

Maintenance Russ Mayer 248-535-4710

Pest Control Carol Michalic 270-7211

Ramblings Linda Solomon *498-9338

Roads Joe La Corte 495-6899

Russ Mayer 248-535-4710

Website Alan Shwartz *376-4040

www.delrayvillas45.com

55+ Bill Yesowitch 502-905-7973

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.

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

ALLIANCE NEWS

THE ALLIANCE OF DELRAY RESIDENTIAL ASSOCIATIONS is in existence over 20 years.

The Alliance is working with various state agencies and communities (Kings Point, LWDD, DOT) with plans to widen Atlantic Avenue west of Jog Road to SR 7.

The area occupied by THOMAS PACKING at Clint Moore Rd/St Rd 7 has been removed from the Ag Reserve Tier to Multiple Land Use for commercial low and low residential (2 units/acre.)

PBSO reports vehicle burglary are a top priority for enforcement. They advise residents to always lock the vehicle, do not leave valuables in plain sight and particularly DO NOT LEAVE WEAPONS IN THE CAR UNATTENDED.

Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission with a

slide presentation spoke about invasive non-

native species such as boa constrictors, tegus (a

type of lizard) and iguanas. Here in DV 4/5

they do not appear to be a problem.

Open meetings on the first Wednesday of the

month for residents to attend and nosh on bagel,

bialys and beverages. All residents are invited.

Meetings @ 9am at the Civic Center on Jog Rd,

south of Linton Blvd.

Carol Michalic, Delegate


NOVEMBER

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday

Anniversaries

WELCOME NEW

NEIGHBORS

Happy Anniversary

1. Clocks and Watches 15. Watches 2. China 16. Silver Hollowware 3. Crystal and Glass 17. Furniture 4. Electrical Appliances 18. Porcelain 5. Silverware 19. Bronze

6. Wood 20. Platinum Watches and Jewelry 7. Desk Sets –Pens and Pencil Sets 25. Sterling Silver Jubilee 8. Linens and Laces 30. Diamond Watches and Jewelry 9. Leather 35. Jade

10. Diamond Watches and Jewelry 40. Ruby 11. Fashion Jewelry and Accessories 45. Sapphire 12. Pearl or Colored Gems 50. Golden Jubilee 13. Textiles or Furs 55. Emerald 14. Gold Watches and Jewelry 60. Diamond Jubilee

Birthstone - Topaz

Scorpio (October 23-November 21) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

James & Bonnie Wentz

6497 Overland Drive

John D. Barnett & Redelina Fernandez

6069 Stanley Lane

Arelis Batista & John Rojas

6167 Overland Place

Radawan Hatata & Marianna Migoulia

6236 Stanley Lane

Allan M. & Ilene Ringelheim

6712 Overland Drive

7 - Election Day

23 - Thanksgiving

11 - Veteran’s Day

5 - Daylight Savings

Time Ends

1 - All Saint’s

Day/Day of the

Dead

01 Rose Minoff

Judy Haller

Alvin Wilburn

05 Judy Piccolomini

06 Shirley Goldfarb

07 Bob Green

Rita Kullback

08 Marlena Pavloff

11 Larry Goldstein

15 Pennie Goldstein

18 Victoria Sangurima

19 Bob Williams

20 Sheila Lane

22 Ty Haack

23 Ray D’Allessandro

26 Eleanor Melnick

27 Marci Banis

01 David & Susan Sims

Hal & Robin Lechner

09 Wendy Balko & Alvin Wilburn

18 Edwin & Jane McNulty

22 Milton & Linda Sonenblum

23 Howard & Claire Pike

Flower of the Month

Chrysanthenum


Talk of the Town by BOB TOWNSEND

I sat in the studios of WBET in Brockton, owned by The Enterprise, and due to

the wonders of modern tech-nology, I might as well have been sitting in the Memphis studio. I took the calls from angry rednecks, doing their darnedest to skewer and barbecue me o’er the airwaves. Just last month, maybe you’ll recall, I wrote a column here in The Ramblings that was something less than

complimentary about Jerry Lewis. Given my track re-cord, I fully expected to hear from him afterward.

I didn’t. I’m disappointed.

hen I was writing a column for The Brockton Enterprise in Massachu-

setts, I did an interview with a young lady

whose estranged husband kidnapped their son and brought the toddler overseas. Shortly after the column appeared, I received a very long-distance call

from the kidnapper, who happened to be a Green Beret. He told me he was going to look me up and kick my ass when he returned to the States. Being the gentleman that I am, I

never told the Green Beret that, having been a former prize fighter, I was a pretty tough dude myself and, as if that weren’t enough, that I once wrestled a bear. (Not only did I not tell the disgruntled serviceman about my squaring off with the grizzly, but I have yet to describe it for you, too. I will.) I simply told the young lady’s war-rior husband that he could attempt to whip my buttocks if

he wanted. He should do whatever it is that makes him happy. The only reason I’m telling you about this right now is to point out that, as a columnist, you should be pre-pared to hear from people you’re writing about critically or nastily, no matter how remote or unlikely it may seem. I once wrote a particularly poignant column about Boston

fight promoter Sam Silverman. I assumed all along that Sam would read the column. I was prepared for that. Hey, Boston’s only 20 miles north of Brockton; there was no way Sam was going to miss it. What surprised me, though, was receiving a distraught telephone call from Sam’s daughter. Hey, how was I supposed to know Sam even had a daughter, much less that she lived in Brock-ton?

Then there was the time I slammed a city many, many miles from Brockton and I heard from the entire city. That happened when I attended a union convention in Memphis, Tennessee, and returned to Brockton to write a column entitled A Hellhole Called Memphis. It seems a family in Brockton had recently moved to Memphis and when my column appeared; their former neighbors

mailed it to them. The former Brocktonians telephoned a radio talk show host in Memphis and read the column on the air. It got a tremendous reaction and, shortly after-ward, I was invited to appear on the Memphis radio talk show.

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Get Well Wishes

DV Plat 4/5 sends wishes for a

full and speedy recovery to

Judy Mayer

Don Pollack

DO YOU HAVE A RESIDENT ID?

It will soon become necessary to have your

resident picture ID and key in order to use the fa-

cilities in the C building. Before that happens and

you get “locked out,” make sure that you have

your key and your ID. If you need a new ID, Bob

Albertson will make one for you on the 4th Satur-

day of the month in the lobby of the B building.


Club Name AFTER 6 SOCIAL CLUB Date/Time Wednesday, November 1 7:00 PM

Where A Building Topic Nominations of Officers Collation Coffee and Cake will be served

Club Name D.V. FRIENDS OF ITALY CLUB Date/Time

Where

Topic Collation

Club Name CITIZEN OBSERVER PATROL-C.O.P. Date Time Wednesday November 1 9:30 AM

Where “B” Building - Viking Room

Topic Training

Collation Breakfast - Bagels & coffee will be served

Club Name DEBORAH Date/Time Thursday, November 16 12:00 PM Where A Building Topic Regular meeting & interesting speaker Collation Bagels and coffee 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, November 21 7:00 PM Where A Building

Topic Short meeting & great entertainment Come & socialize with your friends & neighbors Collation Coffee & cake, nibbles on the tables

Club Name NA’AMAT USA Date/Time Monday, November 6 9:00 AM Where A Building Topic Short business meeting & entertainment Collation Bagels and coffee will be served

Na’Amat supports care centers for children & women in

Israel

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 is the 2017 remaining monthly listing

of books for discussion:

Dec. 4 - Silver Bay by Jojo Moyes

If you have any questions, kindly contact interim acting leader,

Ronnie Perry 865-4389.

DELRAY VILLAS CLUB NEWS

Come join the After 6 Social Club

for some of our exciting activities

during the 2017-18 winter season.

Here is a list of some of the dates:

November 11 - Welcome Back

Party and Salute to our Veterans

December 16 - Toys for Tots

and Show

January 25 - Trip to Casino at

Dania Beach Jai-Alai

February 4 - Super Bowl Party

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 re-

quest 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

THAT’S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS

We are currently looking for neighbors who wish to join a committee being formed

to assist our neighbors during hurricanes or severe weather or other emergencies.. Call Camille Monte-murno 561-239-6844 or Bill Yesowitch 502-905-7973 for more information.

Sharon’s Read submitted by SHARON O’HALLORAN


The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

In 1997 Arundhati Roy wrote her first novel, The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize. It was the first time it was awarded to a nonexpatriate Indian--an Indian who actually lived in India - or to an Indian woman It has been 20 years since her first novel and during that time

she has been writing nonfiction and involving herself in political activism for many causes, both political and en-vironmental. She was even arrested for sedition by the Indian government for her stance on Kashmir. Now comes a sprawling novel that brings both a per-sonal and political message giving new meaning to the idea of the personal being political and vice versa. This idea informs its every sentence but also interrogates that

assumption and its consequences. The novel opens in a cemetery where Anjum, a hijra, has decided to take refuge from the world and live. Hijra is the Indian word for a hermaphrodite but can also mean eunuch, third gender and transgender. In India this word is usually used when referring to men who dress and act as women although biologically male. They constitute a

long recognized subculture in India. They have been sub-jected to persecution but are now edging their way to-ward acceptance. In 1998 India’s first hijra, M.P., took her seat in the state assembly. In subsequent chapters we learn about how Anjum came to be a hijra, starting with her birth to a mother who had long awaited the birth of a son, only to discover that her son had both male and fe-

male anatomy. She prayed, visited temples and hid the truth from her husband for as long as she could but Aftab, the name given to her child, began to exhibit female traits and was bullied and ostracized at school, eventually re-fusing to go. One day as a preadolescent he follows a stunning woman named Bombay Silk to her home and discovers a community of hijras living in Khwabgah, a word that cam mean sleeping quarters, or house or palace

of dreams. Aftab joins the community changing his name to Anjum, foregoing any further relationship with his fa-ther and only occasional visits from his mother. She has found her family with the other members of the house-hold. They wear golden sandals and green satin shalwars’ they paint their nails and sing songs from Bollywood movies. They are fancy, they are fun. But they are the

book’s metaphor for sorrow. One of Anjum’s housemates asks her if she knows why God made hijras and then tells her that it was an experiment, that God decided to create

a living creature that would be incapable of happiness. What the hijras represent in this novel is India itself. The other narrative in the book is the story of Tilo, the

illegitimate child of an Untouchable man and a Syrian Christian woman, an artist, activist and lover of a Kash-miri militant wanted by the government for acts of terror-ism. She and Musa meet at university and become lovers and friends with two other young students. Inevitably their lives intersect at different times. After a government raid on a houseboat where she and Musa are meeting Tilo is rescued by one of their other old friends who marries

her to keep her from being arrested as an accomplice. Later the other friend from their student days rents her a room when she leaves her husband. Tilo learns of the trag-edy in Musa’s life, the killing of his wife and young daughter at their final meeting. She knows she will never see him again. But when she finds an abandoned child in the midst of a festival she honors his memory by giving

that child his child’s name. The central chapters of Tilos’ story focus on the deadly war raged to secure Kashmir to Hindu India rather than Muslim Pakistan. In Kashmir, Musa says, “the living are only dead people, pretending.” Eventually Tilo retreats with the child she has decided to raise into the community in the cemetery built by Anjum. Earlier in her life Anjum also has adopted an abandoned

child and Roy effortlessly captures the love Anjum feels for that child and fully understands Tilo’s love for the child she has found. Neither woman fits into conventional Indian life, but in other ways the mood and mode of their stories and the trajectories of their lives are different. They meet late in the book and if the reader is hunting for a plot that con-nects the two women the hunt is fruitless. However, both

narratives open with a birth, that of Antab, later to become Anjum and that of the abandoned child Tilo claims. An-jum’s divided soul and Tilo’s complicated romantic life seem meant as metaphors for the subcontinent’s own divi-sions over history and religion. Roy weaves the stories of Anjum and Tilo together in the novel’s musical and beau-tifully orchestrated conclusion.

With partition in 1947 Roy writes, “God’s carotid ar-tery burst open on the new border between India and Paki-stan and a million people died of hatred.” The conse-quence of that terrible event form the main story of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. Alex Clark, in a review for The Guardian states, “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is a novel of frayed edges,

achronologial [sic] and ambiguous at times. But its recur-ring images of lost and recovered children, individual sac-rifice and self denial and its depiction of the constant bat-tle towards self-assertion in a society still held in thrall to the taxonomy of caste and class, make for a disturbing and memorable return to the land of make believe.”

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Community

Channel 8001

Is up and

running!

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.

CELEBRATORY GREETINGS:

NAME ADDRESS TELEPHONE NO.

MONTH/YEAR for Publication

PRINT your celebratory note on the lines below. Enclose check for $2.00 per celebratory note. Send to Linda Solomon 6675

Overland Drive, Delray Beach, FL 33484. Larger spaces than lines on page 3 are available for and increased fee (see below for

schedule).

Schedule of fees for more than 2 lines: We will design the graphic for the background of the card .

Business card (1/8 page) $5.00 1/4 page $10.00 1/2 page $15.00 Full page $20.00

Examples: Balloons for Birthday, Couples for Anniversary, baby for birth announcement for a grandchild or great-grandchild,

etc.

These fees are exclusive to Celebratory Greetings for Plat 4/5 residents only. Fees for any advertisements of goods or ser-

vices are determined by another schedule. (See Linda Solomon)

ANNUAL HOLIDAY GREETINGS:

Name Please enclose a check for $3.00 payable to Delray Villas Plat 4/5 to cover the cost of the three month Holiday Greetings and

send to Linda Solomon.

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homeowners association

6675 OVERLAND DRIVE

Delray Beach, FL 33484

November 2017 Issue 334

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