Made In The Shade

The Lake Worth City Tree Board will be giving away native trees on Saturday May 1st from 8:30am till noon at the City Hall parking lot at 7 North Dixie Hwy.

Squeeze Play. . .

The “Early Sign” post regarding Carla Blockson’s sign on Dixie Highway along with her position as Vice Chair of the Community Relations Board has tempers flaring on Tom’s Page.  We’ve just reached 50 comments, a new record.

Judging by the interest (to put it mildly), and the equally strong comments on Gail Shepherd’s article (click here to view) about Lisa Maxwell and Cara Jennings, we are in for a bumpy campaign season.

And, we are learning some great new metaphors along the way.

First Website

And they’re off!  Carla Blockson is first out of the starting gate.  It’s shaping up to be a long race.

View Carla Blockson’s Website http://www.CarlaBlockson.com

View Carla Blockson’s Q1 Treasurer’s Report

Culture In The Plaza

The Cultural Plaza lived up to its name with the Library Book Sale and the Lake Worth Music Festival both taking place today.  Book browsers and music lovers filled the Plaza under sunny skies searching for the perfect read or just kicking back to some great tunes.

Spies Among Us?

The view from North J Street as the X-37 unmanned spacecraft rockets into space from Cape Canaveral.   Atop the booster is what can best be described as a mini space shuttle.  The Pentagon is being pretty tight lipped about the true purpose of the X-37, stating that it is a research vehicle to test long duration space flight coupled with short relaunch turnaround times.

Early Sign. . .

Tom’s Page spotted this sign on Dixie Highway.  Carla Blockson  announced back in February that she intended to run for the district 2 seat on the City Commission.  The sign is conspicuously missing the usual requirements of the position the candidate is running for or that it is a paid political advertisement.

Ms. Blockson is currently the vice chair of the Community Relations Board.  Even though she does not have to resign from the CRB until she qualifies as a candidate in August it is unsettling that she chooses to remain vice chair while apparently actively campaigning.

While the wording of the rule is on her side, the spirit of the rule is clearly to avoid conflicts of interest.  It would put her in a better light if she followed the spirit of the rule.

Publix Works

Work on the infrastructure for the new Publix begun and is in full swing.  Parts North J Street and 3rd Avenue North are closed as crews dig up the roads to install new service lines.

Along with the installation of new utilities the decaying and unsafe sidewalks are slated to be replaced as well.  It has been a long road to get our downtown Publix, and now that work begun it’s almost harder to wait until it opens.

A new water line is prepared for installation.

Digging up the road.

Dilapidated sidewalk on 2nd Ave. marked for utilities installation. Across Dixie Highway Burger King is completing a remodeling.

New landscaping.

New sign.

“The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.” George Bernard Shaw

Click here to read Wes Blackman’s post regarding the “time delay” in the publication of the City Manager’s weekly report.

I think that we can all agree that the City Manger’s report should be distributed to the public on Friday instead of waiting until certain Commissioners have had a chance to give it the “once over” before posting it on Monday.

Tallahassee Here I Come. . .

Click here to read P.B. Post Article.

Look! Up in the Sky! It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s. . .

Bill Coakley is back and he’s taking on unsafe and disruptive pilots right in his own front yard.  Click here to go to Lake Worth Media and read about pilots behaving badly at the Lantana Airport.