Coco’s Story is Serving as Encouragement to Local Girls
Until her grandmother dragged her to the Pompey Park gymnasium recently, Sheryl Malone knew very little about tennis superstar Cori “Coco” Gauff. “I heard people talking about this young girl who played tennis, but I didn’t know anything more about her, … who she was or where she was from,” the Delray Beach teenager said after meeting More...
It Only Takes One Dedicated Mentor to Shape a Child’s Future
‘The children are our future.’ We often say those words, but what if a child takes a wrong turn in life, becomes ensnared in crime, drug-addiction or suicide and self-destruction? If children are truly our More...
Counting their Blessings
She lost her mother, sister, and brother when their house collapsed from the massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake that rocked Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010.Jude Saincyr and her cousin, the only survivors in their home, were More...
It Only Takes One Dedicated Mentor to Shape a Child’s Future
By: C. Ron Allen ‘The children are our future.’ We often say those words, but what if a child takes a wrong turn in life, becomes ensnared in crime, drug-addiction or suicide and self-destruction? If children More...
Counting their Blessings this Thanksgiving
By: C. Ron Allen She lost her mother, sister, and brother when their house collapsed from the massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake that rocked Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010. Jude Saincyr and her cousin, the only survivors More...
What killed grandfather was a feeling he didn’t ‘belong anywhere’
Hugo and Lucie Mendel on the balcony of their Tel Aviv apartment prior to Hugo’s suicide in 1957. Between phone calls from my son and daughters this past Father’s Day, I read a story in The Times of More...
Alfred “Zack” Straghn, 92, Helped to Construct the Cultural Architecture for Change in Delray Beach
Alfred “Zack” Straghn, a longtime funeral home operator, softball coach, Sunday school teacher and fighter who was instrumental in Delray Beach hiring black police officers and the integration of the city’s More...
The Residents of Delray Beach Deserve Leadership, Answers to Their Water Woes
By: C. Ron Allen The City of Delray Beach has found itself facing a disaster over its provision of the most basic of services — clean drinking water. An investigation found that pipes carrying reclaimed More...
Even in Death, Monica Herring is Still Giving of Herself
By: C. Ron Allen Delray Beach is mourning the death of Monica Herring, the liturgical ballet aficionado, who has been praising God through her gift of dance for close to 30 years. Monica, 37, was pronounced More...
Protesters Hope to Send Clear Message by Marching, at the Polls
By C. Ron Allen It’s been nine days since the world watched a Minneapolis police officer kneeling on the neck of a handcuffed George Floyd in daylight, killing him in the middle of a downtown street as three More...
