The 13th annual Race for the Arts 5K and 2nd annual Color Me 4k run/walk will be held Saturday, March 1st, at Dreher Park. The money raised will be used to support arts programs in Palm Beach County Schools. There will be music, dancing, student art work, raffles, and games before and after the race.
photo by Brian Tietz
On Wednesday, February 26th, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, the Palm Beach Post will be hosting an evening of cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and great discussion about conservation. Mr. Syd Kitson, President and CEO of Kitson & Partners and former NFL player, will be speaking to attendees about his plan to build a solar-powered city, Babcock Ranch, in Southwest Florida.
At 7 PM on Friday, February 28th, the Palm Beach Zoo will be showing the movie ‘Rio 3D’ for its first ever ‘ZOOvies’ presentation. This event will be the first ever outdoor 3D movie event in Florida and it’s happening right here in the Southend. You won’t want to miss this!
On Friday, February 28th, the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium will be hosting a gem and rock themed ‘Night at the Museum’ party for the whole family. Visitors will get the opportunity to look and learn about rare and common rocks from around the world. Attendees will also have the opportunity to buy rocks that they might be interested in adding to their collection. Continue reading
This Saturday February 22nd the Palm Beach India Association will be hosting its 11th annual India Fest at Meyer Amphitheater in downtown West Palm Beach. This festival will be open 11 AM – 9 PM and is free to the public. A very popular event, over 14,000 people are expected to attend the one day festival. There will be delicious regional cuisine, classical and folk dancing, fashion shows, and booths where vendors will be selling crafts and imported goods. Continue reading
Native to the Atlantic, the mangrove snapper can be found in a wide variety of habitats, including the waters of the intracoastal waterway right off of Flagler.
A medium sized fish, usually weighing between 2-10 lbs, the mangrove snapper, or gray snapper, is usually a greyish red color, but can change color from coppery to bright red. When seen from above the water, it appears to have a dark stripe running through its eye.
Kiely Real Estate just listed this spacious home on Garden Ave. The home boasts a whopping 7 bedrooms, 4 full baths, and two half baths. That’s a lot of rooms for the price, $399,000!
Here is the listing description pulled from the agent’s website, kielyrealestate.com: Continue reading
The FHA, Federal Housing Administration, recently raised the required down payment on a home in order to qualify for an FHA loan from 3.5% to 5%. Now, homeowners will need to be able to pay a down payment of at least 5% of the cost of a home in order to qualify for an FHA mortgage.
As a result, these changes will affect the price of house buyers can purchase in the Southend. The maximum loan amount has been reduced from $423,000 to $345,000, around an $80,000 difference.
With an estimated median home value of $149,280 in the Southend, buyers interested in purchasing a home around this price range will now need to be able to pay a down payment of around $7,464, as compared to the previous $5,225, in order to secure a loan from the FHA.
Between Plymouth Road and Pilgrim Road lies the Historic District of Belair. Originally the area was a land grant to James Wood Davidson from President Chester Arthur in 1885. In 1886, it was sold to John Huntington Jones. In 1895 the tract of land served as the dowry of Mary Jones who married an Englishman named Richard Hone. Together they turned the area into a pineapple and citrus plantation. Their house was considered to be the finest in the area and it still stands today at 211 Plymouth Rd.
During a severe thunderstorm in 1902, as Richard Hone sat in his dining room writing a letter to his sister in England, his wife reading beside him, an assassin approached the dining room window on horseback and shot Richard Hone, fatally wounding him.
The house was later sold to Mr. George Currie in 1906. Currie was one of the first real estate developers of the area and created the Currie Development Company. In 1923, William and Sophie Ohlhaber bought the property, allegedly to provide dockage for Mr. Olhaber’s 90 ft. yacht. The same year, Mr. Ohlhaber, an architect, constructed the mission style home at 205 Pilgrim.
In the mid 20’s members of the Ohlhaber family created a coconut palm and fern nursery. The Belair area was further developed between 1925 and 1935. In 1947 Hone’s house was bought by Mr. Max Brombacher, Henry Flagler’s chief engineer, and it remains in the family today.
Most of the historic buildings such as the John Stephens home (1927), the Eric Shroeder home (1926), John Sirich home (1927), and B.V Zeigler home (1926), epitomize the architecture style of the Florida Land Boom era. This beautiful Historic District consists of Mediterranean Revival, Mission Revival, Frame Vernacular, and Masonry Vernacular style homes.
The city of West Palm Beach will be showing the movie Titanic on the big screen by the waterfront on Friday February 14th, Valentine’s Day. The movie will begin at 7:30 and end around 11 PM. The South Florida Science Center and Aquarium will be there with chances to win free tickets to the real-life Titanic exhibit at the Science Museum. (post about that here.) Continue reading
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