Honda to Award Record $4.55 to Charity Cuisine the Honda Classic Has Hit a “We Continue to Raise the Bar Said
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INSIDE WEEK OF JUNE 14-20, 2018 www.FloridaWeekly.com Vol. VIII, No. 33 • FREE Pixie play The group joins Weezer for a show at Coral Sky. B1 X In 1962, our state was the staging Collector’s Corner Antique postcards offer a peek at area for the Cuban missile crisis — another world. B2 X it nearly started World War III BYY KARINKARRINN LILLISLIILLIL S FloridaFlorida WeeklyWeekly CorrespondentCorrespondent AIR FORCEORCE CAPTAPT. JERRYERRY MCILMOYLELMOYLE HADHAD A strangestrange feeling.ffeeling. SomethingSommething nigglingniggglingn awayawaay in thethe US backbab ckk of hihiss mindmindd waswass saying,saying, “You needneed to getget outouut ofo hhere.”ere e.” ThatThat ppremonitionrer monition wwasas rright.igghth . Capt.Capt. McIlmoyleMcIlmom yle waswas amongamong thethe pilotspilol tst whowho flewflel w U-2U-2 jetsjets — high-higgh- Business flyingflyiy nng spyspypy planesplanees — overovo er CubaCubba in thethe middlemiddd le ofof ththee CubanCubab n missilemim ssile Gov. Scott asks feds for crisis,crissis, a 13-day13-day ColdColld WarWaW r standoffstanndoff gun-control help. A13 X betweenbetween thethe UnitedUnnitedd StatesStat tetes andannd theththe SovietSoviet UnionUnion thatthat putput bothbooth nationsnatioons SEESEE SPIES,SPIES, A1AA100 X Clockwise from top left: U.S. Air Force Capt. Jerry McIlmoyle with his U-2 spy plane during missions out of Florida; a U-2 plane; a portrait of Capt. McIlmoyle; and President John F. Kennedy speaking to the nation during the crisis. PHOTOS COURTESY OF U.S. AIR FORCE; CAPT. JERRY MCILMOYLE, PUBLIC DOMAIN AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS MCILMOYLE, PUBLIC DOMAIN AND AFFAIRS JERRY OF U.S. AIR FORCE; CAPT. PHOTOS COURTESY Honda to award record $4.55 to charity Cuisine The Honda Classic has hit a “We continue to raise the bar said. Every dad has his day when it hole in one for charity. and challenge the imagination Children’s Healthcare Charity Inc., the comes to Father’s Day dining. The golf tournament on the impact we can make on host organization of The Honda Classic, B11 X announced it will award a the Palm Beach County commu- will make the distributions during a week- record-breaking $4.55 million to nity,” Honda Classic Executive long series of Honda Classic Cares site South Florida children’s chari- Director Kenneth R. Kennerly visits and also at the tournament’s annual ties in 2018, the 12th consecutive said in a statement. Celebration of Philanthropy, which will be Download year the PGA Tour event has More than 50,000 children held June 14. our FREE been able to increase its impact on the and their families who are affiliated with Propelled by the return of Tiger Woods, App today lives of local children and their families. 137 charitable organizations in the Palm which fueled an unprecedented turnout Available on The $4.55 million is $920,000 more than Beach County area will benefit in 2018 on Friday, and the drama of a Sunday the iTunes and the $3.63 million that was distributed in from the proceeds of the Honda Classic Android App Store. 2017. That’s a 25 percent increase. Cares initiative, tournament organizers SEE HONDA, A9 X PRSRT STD ROGER WILLIAMS A2 INVESTING A13 CALENDAR B4-6 U.S. POSTAGE OPINION A4 REAL ESTATE A16 PUZZLES B9 PAID FORT MYERS, FL HEALTHY LIVING A8 PETS A17 VINO B10 PERMIT NO. 715 BUSINESS A13 ARTS B1 CUISINE B11 Be prepared for an TAKE ME TO emergency. 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Dick,” his quintessential American novel, in giving “Authentic History of the Ku Klux Michael Grunwald, Lyn Milner, Fort Myers’ Many of those books are rare — out of 1851: “We gave three heavy-hearted cheers, Klan, 1865-1877,” by Susan Lawrence Davis, own Artis Henderson and Terry Richardson print or first edition volumes you can’t find and blindly plunged like fate into the lone published by the American Library Service — all powerful Florida voices — may not with your Kindle or order from Amazon. Atlantic.” in New York, in 1924. know, to their great disadvantages. Maybe Most of them are “fine” or “near-fine,” in Sounds crazy for a self-described “bib- Wait too long and that one will be gone. you don’t, either. almost perfect condition. 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