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INSIDE WEEK OF AUGUST 15-21, 2013 www.FloridaWeekly.com Vol. III, No. 45 • FREE “The Harbourside project is going to activate Jupiter’s Riverwalk, which will give residents the chance to enjoy the waterfront while also creating a sense of a downtown.” —Todd Wodraska, Jupiter Councilman Music and Medicine Talented physicians perform in the DAWNING 2nd Kretzer charity event. A29 w INJUPITER Society See who was out and about in Palm Beach County. A20-21, 25 w COURTESY OF ALLIED CAPITAL & DEVELOPMENT OF ALLIED CAPITAL COURTESY This aerial photo taken in late July shows the breadth of the Harbourside project. The intersection of Indiantown Road and U.S. 1 is bottom center. Money & Investing The $144 million BY RANDALL LIEBERMAN Reynolds & Friends Museum, which is Our expert notes that there are Special to Florida Weekly moving to an acre of vacant property lessons from Detroit. A24 w Harbourside Place, adjacent to Fire Station 18 in Burt Reyn- It is changing the face of Jupiter. olds Park on the east side of U.S. 1. on the Intracoastal The construction of Harbourside Place, Harbourside Place, which is being a $144 million commercial complex going developed by Allied Capital & Develop- at Indiantown Road, up on the Intracoastal Waterway on the ment of South Florida, LLC (a Palm Beach northwest corner of Indiantown Road and Gardens-based company), will consist of is nearly 40 percent U.S. 1 in Jupiter, is moving briskly and is a nautical ambiance, a marina with public complete. expected to be completed by next spring. and private slips, an entertainment plaza The 360,000-square-foot development is being built on the site of the old Burt SEE DAWNING, A8 w Sea turtles to come ashore at mall for Arribada Wine online BY SCOTT SIMMONS the same time and the same place. ogy, and the Marinelife Center, which What the flash is all about in ssimmons@fl oridaweekly.com Students from six area high schools and receives exposure for its programs, as buying wine online. A39 w one middle school have been busy paint- well financial support to the tune of It has been a record year for sea turtle ing fiberglass sculptures of sea turtles $25,000 or more. nesting along the county’s beaches. that have been on display at PNC Bank “Art Arribada offers a wonderful inter- And organizers at the Loggerhead branches before they will migrate on Aug. section between art, education, conserva- Download Marinelife Center also hope it will be 19 to The Gardens Mall. At the mall, visi- tion and fundraising for the Loggerhead our FREE a record year for sea turtle sculptures tors can vote on favorites, then later bid to Marinelife Center,” said Jack Lighton, the at The Gardens Mall, as Art Arribada own a turtle of their own. Marinelife Center’s president and CEO. App today returns. It’s a win-win situation for schools, You cannot put a price on the exposure Available on An “arribada” is a large gathering of sea which receive grant money through the the iTunes App SEE TURTLES, A14 turtles coming ashore together to nest at project, students, who learn about ecol- w Store. w PRSRT STD OPINION A4 SOCIETY A20-21 SANDY DAYS A30 U.S. POSTAGE PETS A6 BUSINESS A23 EVENTS A34-35 PAID FORT MYERS, FL HEALTHY LIVING A15 REAL ESTATE A26 PUZZLES A38 PERMIT NO. 715 ANTIQUES A18 ARTS A29 WINE/DINING A39 A2 NEWS WEEK OF AUGUST 15-21, 2013 www.FloridaWeekly.com FLORIDA WEEKLY COMMENTARY Picking up peace iard,i presented me with a gift that would be state governor and presidential hopeful Al rectly. And given what happened 17 years mine,m he said, if I could lift it: a collection Smith, who promised to repeal prohibition later at Pearl Harbor and after, when almost ofo more than 250 New York Times front and immigration laws, thus opening U.S. 5,000 Japanese pilots sacrificed themselves rogerWILLIAMS pages.p They date from 1851, when Millard markets to French wine and food; and two as kamikazes, it hardly seems innocent. FFillmore succeeded Zach Taylor as presi- about the Japanese and their disapproval of When I mentioned this briefly to Dr. [email protected] dent,d to 2012, when Barack Obama won his our trade policies and actions. Hilliard, who joined the Army at 18, in 1944, seconds term as president. One of those two headlines was this: and was wounded several times fighting The book weighs so much it has gravity, “Japanese Kills Himself Near Tokio Embas- in and after the Battle of the Bulge, he had In the American catalogue of heroic sucking in big questions the way the sun sy; Hari-kiri Victim Assails Us, Asks Ven- this to say: suicide, the most singular image is that of sucks in big asteroids. For example, what geance.” “The two different kinds (motivations/ the soldier throwing himself on a grenade in the world do Zach Taylor, Millard Fill- A 40-something man had “slit his abdo- justications?) of suicide attest to the role of to save his friends. more and Barack Obama have in common, men crosswise and then upward in the cultural education (brainwashing/propa- Such a sacrifice is widely embraced as anyway? classical way” with a 6-inch dagger near the gandizing) in one’s upbringing.” virtuous by Americans (including me) and There’s an answer, it turns out: Each has American embassy in Tokyo (spelled Tokio, In other words, people will sometimes Western Europeans. led a nation willing to accept heroic sui- then), leaving two letters behind, one to the express their patriotism — their heroism Which makes me wonder what cultural cide as a worthy act for the preservation of American people and one to the Japanese — in self-sacrifices celebrated by their imperatives exist to compel heroic suicide somebody else, usually in war — but never empire, according to the Times report. parents, aunts, uncles, teachers, friends or in other cultures, where the sacrifice is for the destruction of somebody else. To Americans he wrote, “I request by peers. made to destroy rather than to save others. Without Dr. Hilliard’s gift, this would my death the withdrawal of the Japanese And that’s the reason Dr. Hilliard — by Muslim self-sacrificers form the promi- not have occurred to me. I opened the book exclusion clause because I greatly regret career a playwright, novelist and professor nent contemporary version of this phe- first to 1924, the year before he was born in that your country, which has always advo- emeritus from Emerson College in Boston nomenon: suicide as heroic destruction, Brooklyn, the son of a woman from Paris cated peace from a humanitarian viewpoint but by nature and instinct a teacher who rather than suicide as heroic preservation. who believed deeply in education (not and has been known as a leader for peace will never retire — rarely attends events If such acts aren’t widely embraced by narrowly defined), and a man from Russia throughout the world, enacted the Japanese to honor veterans. Nor will he ever parade the Muslim world, they aren’t abhorred who believed deeply in working seven days exclusion clause in complete disregard of around in an old uniform with his medals. widely or publically enough, either, by that a week in the family’s small shop to survive humanity. The indignation caused by this “It tends to glorify war,” he concludes. It world. the Great Depression. insult is impossible to overcome…” can become “an aggrandizement for those Their practitioners often seem to have The front-page headlines in the Great The exclusion clause prevented “the lib- who think patriotism should be worn on a few things in common: They come from Gray Lady for Sunday, June 1, of that year erty of entry, travel and residence” for Japa- one’s sleeve, a reinforcement for the types environments of need, insult or anger; included 13 stories: three about robbery, nese in the U.S. — and thus it prevented who may not have been in a war and pub- they’ve experienced education narrowly, as kidnapping or murder; three or four about robust trade, something we’d guaranteed licly wish they had been, but if they know religion; and they’re relatively young. the actions of President Calvin Coolidge; them in a “gentlemen’s promise” of 1911, the anything about war, privately are glad they In the case of the terrorists who acted one about Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follete, Japanese reportedly said. weren’t.” out their sacrifices on Sept. 11, 2001, most the progressive Republican senator from As self-sacrifices go, the man’s suicide So let’s consider something new, with were in their 20s and most were from Saudi Wisconsin who was trying to boost the seems peaceful enough. But he left a sec- the 12th anniversary of 9/11 nearly upon us. Arabia. wages of rail workers through federal leg- ond letter to his own people that called Instead of martial action, perhaps the But such acts have not been limited to islation; one about a Catholic bishop found for his nation “to rise to avenge the insult most heroic or patriotic sacrifice that any them or their causes. guilty of heresy by his peers; one about embodied in the action of America.” person of any culture might make in any I began thinking about this recently lobbyists seeking “the French vote” (Dr. That sounds like suicide aimed at the era, is this: to put down war for good, by when a friend and mentor, Dr.