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DATE 6-21, 3 I
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iiu4.-tnaRsiNi VILLAGE COUNCIL of North:
Palm Beach Includes: Dr. V.A. Marks, Mayor;'.'
Tom Valente, Vice -Mayor; W.H.Brown,
Pro-tem; and council members Eigmle1
and Al Moore. Moore and Brown st:e
former Mayors of NorthLi Each.
"...our government has
never been corru,...public
services are secpid to
wni WINikrii CLUB'also li*own as the Oakes .
Mansion has fallen Into but North
Palm Beach recently repaired the roof and plans
a full renovation in the coining years.
Suggesdons for future use Include converdng
the building into a cultural center.
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The Village has come a long way in the past
25 years, when it was created by the Ross
Brothers, John Schwencke and Jay white.
I am extremely proud of North' Palm Beach.
This is my fourth term of office on the Village
Council, and my second term as Mayor, . and I
have watched the Village grow into what I think
is the finest coutnmunity in. Northern Palm
Beach County. It is an extremely well planned
community and was chosen by the University of
North Carolina for a Community Profile in 1973
because it was ` .one of the few planned
communities of our size in the United ,States.
North Palm Beach is, and desires to remain, a
residential community offering a diversity of
housing choice, a full range of municipal
services, commercial development sufficient t®:
satisfy the needs of the resident population, and
a choice of recreational opportunities. The
environment of North Palm Beach has been
enhanced through planning and responsible
municipal management. These principals will
continue to guide Village growth.
On the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of
North, Palm Beach, its citizens can take pride in
a Village that has retained its aesthetic image
and has no depressed neighborhoods. Real
estate values. have .remained stable. Our local
government has never been corrupt, our public
services are second to none, andwe have
outstanding recreational facilities. It is truly, as
our slogan indicates, 4 y The Best Place to Live
Under the Sun.' '
V.4.l arks, sly
Maayor-of Norte. Palm Beach
Cindy Kuhn
CINDY KUHN— flicsi WUMAN
NORTH PALM BEACH POLICE
OFFICER— "In the fall of 1974, the I
first raid on Air Force Beach was a
little bit different than your average
police case. We had had a lot of
previous problems, and the raids
were designed to stop the nude
bathing. We -thought if we cracked
down on the nude sun-bathing, it
would cut down on crime — there
were lots of auto burglaries there —
we all went down to the beach in our
bathing suits with portable radios and
made several arrests."
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John LaCerda
JOHN LaCERDA:
"As a foreign correspondent,
reported from 52 countries, My wife,
Bert, was with me in 30 countries. We
agfee that North Palm is one of the
world's finest places. Our only
regret— and one of our outstanding
recollections — is that we didn't buy
more real estate when we first came
here 20 years ago. For instance, we
could have bought for $60,000 the 25
or so acres lying north of the Country
Club across the Intracoastal. But the
real estate agent said that as a friend
he wouldn't recommend the purchase
because the ground was mostly
swamp and would take a• fortune to
fill. Actually it was, and is, one of the
highest areas in the Village (Gemini,
Everglades and such are there) and
today the land might be worth $60
PEGGY ENDERS- CHAIRWOMAN
OF iu N.P.B. ANNIVERSARY
COIVIMIEME-
"When Tom Lewis was mayor, the
Gardens Club wrote a letter asking
that the Village be declared a bird
sanctuary. The response from the
\Tillage was that a charter change was
necessary to do it. Finally, the,Village
appointed - a charter revision board
and the voters voted for the new
charter and the bird sanctuary
provision was included when it passed
in 1968. Lewis often kids me about the
bird sanctuary issue changing the
charter of the Village. "
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LIEUTENANT :.RUC E F. SEKERES
NOM:LT.0,N BEACH PUBlIci
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SAFETY OFFICER-
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"The first bank robbery rth
Notth-Palm Beach -happened*ght at
noon January 20, 1981, and we got, a
call just a few minutes after it
happened. The call came in by alarm
and they told us it was the real
.we'get hundreds of false
alarms. The robbery was at the
Financial Federal Savings and Loan
office in the Twin City Mall. A man
entered the bank and overpowered a
security guard and took his revolver.
With the gun in hand, he approached
the teller's window and. demanded
money; he got approximately five
thousand dollars and then left. About
three hours later, the same person
pulled an armed robbery of a Boca
Raton drug store and the Boca police
made an arrest. So, from the time of
our first bank robbery to the arrest
was three hours, and a majority of the
cash and the revolver were recovered.
The perpetuator is now ,in the .Florida
State Prison."
JOHN ATWATER_ PUBLIC SAFE-
TY ulitEM---,- 'We recently had a thing
which didn't really involve police
, • work, but a local man's young son was
bitten by a cat and it was a pretty bad
bite. It got to the point where the kid
wasgoingto have to have rabies shots I
because the cat couldn't be found. So
we called all the local radio stations
with a description of the cat, asking
anyone who had seen it to let us know.
The little boy was in the doctor's
office ready to begin getting the shots
when we got a call from a lady who
said she found a cat behind a
restaurant near the office building in
which- she worked. We picked up the
boy and went to Palm Beach Gardens
and identified the cat, then took it to
be tested and it was found not to have
rabies. We still don't know who
actually owned the cat, but it was
returned to the lady who found it."
DOLORES WALKER—.. CITY CLERK
NORTH PALM BEACH
'One of the things 1 vvill always
recall will be when we had a $325,000
revenue bond issue, all of which was
purchased by theFirst American Bank,
to finance the library and the
two -wing additionto the Village Hall.
Mayor' Tom Lewis anci.1 had to sign -
325 one -thousand dollar bonds. He
had to sign them, and . -I had to attest
them. Needless to say, our hands
were tired. We sort of had to pause in
between to rest oar hands.''
Village of North Palm Beach