Why I Love Boca Raton!

As nothing very exciting happened this past week, kind of a lull after the holiday’s, I would like to reflect on why I love Boca Raton. My husband, Bob and I moved here 17 years ago from Montville, New Jersey. It was indeed a happy day when I put two snowblowers out on a Sunday morning at a garage sale I was having and they sold immediately. We packed up all of our posessions including our beloved Chihuahua, Paco and headed down to Virginia to take the Auto train to Florida as we had two cars. We had purchased a new home in West Boca in a new community called Saturnia, and we headed to Florida to start our new life as newlyweds.

Well, let me tell you , it was one of the best decisions I have made in my life moving to Boca Raton! I lived for 20 years on top of a mountain in New Jersey and on cold
winter days you could not get out of your house, as it was a sheet of ice getting down the mountain. We had power failures in freezing temperatures, could not get to the
food stores and had a very long driveway covered in snow most of the Winter. When we arrived here in Boca Raton and felt the warmth of the sun, the beautiful scenery and greenery the convenience of shopping malls so close by and being able to get to all of your events without a Blizzard, I realized I had arrived!

We met so many wonderful new friends and fascinating people here in Boca. We attended the opening of the Mizner Park Amphitheater as Yvonne Boice’s guest and sat in the box of the Countess De Hoernele
where I met the Countess and Flossy Keesley and we all became good friends. They both joined my Red Hat ladies group and we attended luncheons and events together.

Yvonne Boice
Zucaro invited us to many of the charity events here in Boca, such as the Hospital Ball, YMCA Ball, Doggie Ball, Chamber of Commerce, Palm Beach Film Festival events and many others
and it warmed my heart to meet so many caring people who helped make Boca the place it is today.

I was abled to meet some of the most charitable and interesting people who support our wonderful community down here including Christine Lynn. Phyliss and Harvey Sandler, Jan Savarick, Yaacov Heller, David Goldstein, Marleen Forkas, Helen Babione, our Mayor Susan Haynie and many others who helped make Boca Raton the wonderful place it is.

I am a joiner and I joined many of the different clubs down here. I formed my Black Hat Elegant Diamond Diva’s group five years ago and have so many interesting ladies in my group of 40 ladies including
Helene Weicholz and Sandi Solomon, two huge charity supporter’s of JAFCO, Geralyn Lunsford, Adm. of the new Bethesda West Hospital and many other powerful ladies including doctors,
a Director of Nurses at Behesda West, and some female lawyers.

Life certainly is a lot more interesting. There are so many great restaurants here in Boca Raton with some
of the best food I have ever tasted. There was culture all over the place with the Museum of Art, Historical Society, and the opening of the Amphitheater which gave us
some wonderful shows to enjoy. We saw talent like Itzak Perlman, The Russian Symphony and Josh Bell, the amazing young Violin virtuoso. We attended Flossy Keesley’s Birthday Celebration and her show of new Young Talent at the Mizner Amphitheater for several years and Flossy is still one of my best friend’s at 101 years old. We also attended the
Boca Ballet where Dan Guin and Jane Tyree have made it grow so much in the past years.

Boca has changed over the last 17 years that we have lived here. There is more housing developments, more industry and many new restaurants. There are several great movie theaters, with amazing new seating.

Yes I have a lot to be thankful for. Thank you Boca Raton!