WEEK OF OCTOBER 31 - NOVEMBER 6, 2013 www.FloridaWeekly.com Vol. IV, No. 4 • FREE EXTRA, EXTRA! Florida Weekly debuts West Palm Beach-Palm Beach >>inside: edition on Nov. 7 Maltz opens new TRANSFORMING season with “Dial M for Murder.” INSIDE B1 THE MALTZ Keys to the City Painted pianos help the public celebrate music. B1 w Theater raises curtain on dramatic new lobby and club level with initiative by philanthropist Roe Green. Networking BY SCOTT SIMMONS See who was out and about in ssimmons@fl oridaweekly.com FLORIDA WEEKLY Palm Beach County. A26-27 w FILE PHOTO The Maltz Jupiter Theatre has been dreaming big. INSET: Maltz And those dreams have become a reality as the Jupiter Theatre theater reopens after a summer of jack-hammering, namesakes Tamar additions and renovations that will improve the flow Before and Milton Maltz stand in the lobby SEE MALTZ, A8 w before renovations. COURTESY PHOTO COURTESY Help these students save “Sesame Street” and other programs SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY help preserve public television locally.” to “Sesame Street.” Ms. Tornaben calls her idea “A Course for Each PBS station is responsible for its Here’s the mission: “Save the Street.” a Cause,” which takes the form of a twice- own funding. WXEL is required to pay for its Here’s the street: “Sesame Street,” the ven- weekly class at Lynn University in which PBS Kids and other PBS programming. The erable, much-heralded children’s show that 12 students work with Ms. Tornaben and Lynn University students set a goal of raising Pets made its public TV debut on Nov. 10, 1969, Professor Gary Carlin to create an online $25,000 by Dec. 1. They are challenging com- Emma needs a forever home. and rendered Big Bird and Miss Piggy and “Save the Street” campaign. The class oper- munity leaders to match their efforts. The Can you help? A6 w Kermit the Frog and Oscar the Grouch part ates under Professor Carlin’s direction. Dr. campaign had raised $4,695 as of Oct. 28. of the national lexicon. David L. Jaffe, dean at Lynn University and a Donate at piggybackr.com/gary_carlin/ WXEL — PBS for the Palm Beaches and member of the WXEL Board of Trustees, is wxel-pbs-for-the-palm-beaches-save-the- Treasure Coast — takes that mission serious- also assisting with the project. street-fundraiser. Download ly, so seriously that Debra Tornaben, the sta- During their classes, held Tuesdays and WXEL helps prepare local children for our FREE tion’s vice president of development, brain- Thursdays at 4:30 p.m. at the university, the success in school and life, reaching more App today stormed a project to ensure that the Street students use Piggybackr, a new fundraising than 4.5 million people from North Miami to Available on remains on the area’s map. The project, as online platform that they chose to launch the Sebastian Inlet. the iTunes App outlined in a prepared statement, seeks to the campaign. It’s to save WXEL’s other PBS For more information call Ms. Tornaben Store. w “engage the next generation of supporters to Kids educational programming, in addition at 364-4402. ■ PRSRT STD OPINION A4 NETWORKING A26, A27 SANDY DAYS B2 U.S. POSTAGE PETS A6 REAL ESTATE A28 EVENTS B6-8 PAID FORT MYERS, FL HEALTHY LIVING A20 ANTIQUES A30 PUZZLES B12 PERMIT NO. 715 BUSINESS A23 ARTS B1 DINING B19 A2 NEWS WEEK OF OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 6, 2013 www.FloridaWeekly.com FLORIDA WEEKLY Crossing Borders EnforcementE authorities threw back for the demographics of race trans- grant awards made by the New York- theirt catch with considerable embar- forming the nation; and immigrants are based Ford Foundation played an impor- rassmentr and national injury done to already an important part of the state’s tant role. Dr. Timothy Steigeng, Profes- leslieLILLY thet state’s business reputation. population and the political calculus sor of Political Science, Chai-Human- [email protected] Florida business and community for anyone aspiring to public office. ities/Social Sciences, Wilkes Honors leadersl took notice. Florida is similar to This trend line is not going to change. College-Florida Atlantic University, said ArizonaA — if you take away the humid- According to the Migration Policy Insti- the grants supported academic research ity, about 50 inches of rainfall, and sub- tute, the total immigrant population in exploring a variety of themes associated (Part I of a two-part series) stitute Arizona’s monsoons for the hur- Florida went from over 24 percent dur- with immigrant communities, includ- Earlier this year, the pot boiled over ricane season. Tourism in Florida is a ing the 1990s, up to over 36 percent after ing Brazilian, Guatemalan, and Mexican with heated, anti-immigrant rhetoric $7 billion a year industry. Like Arizona, 2000. Of the total immigrant population immigrants in South Florida and else- nationwide. Gov. Scott added his two Florida depends heavily on immigrants in Florida in 2011, 23.3 percent were born where. According to Dr. Steigeng, the cents from the campaign trail, pro- to sustain its economy in tourism and in Cuba, 7.8 percent from Mexico, 6.2 first Ford-funded study included the moting the introduction of copycat agriculture. When Arizona went into percent from Colombia and 4.6 percent collection of survey data in the Town legislation to rival Arizona’s over-the- full combat mode to ferret out its illegal from Jamaica. Palm Beach County is 20 of Jupiter to assess the needs of the top anti-immigration laws. Arizona immigrants, the nativist mine sweep percent Hispanic and Jupiter nearly 12 immigrant community as well as other laws permit a form of racial profiling created a good deal of collateral dam- percent Hispanic, according to Census fact-finding. The research findings had based on how people “look” or sound. age. The state suffered a significant loss Bureau data. a dramatic impact locally. ■ Authorities require anyone stopped of tax revenues, as well as hit of nearly a President J.F.K. said in his book on or suspected of being in the country billion dollars in tourist and convention immigration that, “Somehow, the dif- Next: Part II — El Sol, Jupiter’s Neigh- unlawfully to show proof of citizenship business spending. ficult adjustments are made and people borhood Resource Center, a nonprofit or immigration status. The laws are The anti-immigrant fervor infected get down to the tasks of earning a living, providing a place where immigrants and enormously controversial because fac- Florida’s legislature. Business and com- raising a family, living with their neigh- non-immigrants come together tory trawling with such an industrial munity leaders reacted with alarm, see- bors, and, in the process, building a size net is bound to catch a boatload of ing a hemorrhage of dollars and a threat nation.” This is the challenge of crossing — Leslie Lilly is a native Florid- guileless fish. to the state’s anemic economy. The borders that characterizes America as a ian and past president and CEO of Still, there are those not easily dis- tactics of enforcement raised significant nation of immigrants. Past research by the Community Foundation for Palm suaded by the downside of state laws human and civil rights issues, too. The The Center for Latin American Studies Beach and Martin Counties. Her profes- that presume you are guilty until proven pushback was swift and convincing. found Florida immigrants often had lit- sional career spans more than 25 years innocent. Alabama zealots, not to be According to the National Immigration tle support to help them overcome lan- in the charitable sector, leading major taken for sissies and always on the Council, the Florida Chamber of Com- guage and cultural barriers and estab- philanthropic institutions in the South cusp of reinventing the Confederacy, merce, big agriculture, law enforcement lish themselves as community members. and rural Appalachia. She has written enacted even tougher legislation. Its groups, advocates in support of the Communities commonly erect a virtual and spoken frequently on issues affect- law requires all residents, including U.S. state’s substantial immigrant popula- picket fence of policies and attitudes ing charitable giving and the nonprofit citizens, to carry a valid identification tion, and even Disney spoke out against that isolate immigrants and prevent community and is recognized nation- card. The penalty for failing to produce the proposed legislation. The concern their integration into the community — ally and in Florida for her leadership on-demand the I.D. is to go directly remains that, come January, the battle but not always and not everywhere. The in the community foundation field. She to jail — the unfortunate consequence in the state legislature will begin anew. Town of Jupiter in Palm Beach County resides with her family and pugs in Jupi- suffered by a prominent German busi- Florida occupies a unique place in is one of the exceptions. ter. Email her at [email protected] and ness executive on the job visiting the the nation’s battle over comprehensive The story of how this came about follow Lilly on Twitter @llilly15. Alabama-based Mercedes-Benz factory. immigration reform: It is a poster child begins several years ago. Numerous Children’s Medical Care Is Soaring to New Heights. Helping a five year old overcome a battle with cancer. Reconstructing a child’s misshapen leg. Performing heart surgery on a patient who is only 12 hours old. Palm Beach Children’s Hospital has elevated the quality of children’s medical care in South Florida. Our goal: to provide advanced care that is less invasive, requires less recovery time and alleviates the need for families to travel.