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        VOL. 17 NO. 11                                          www.seabreezepublications.com                                         NOVEMBER 2023


      6th Annual “Women                                                           Boca’s Center for Arts


      Changing the Game” Event                                                    and Innovation Selects


      Kicks Off Countdown to 10th                                                 Internationally Acclaimed


      Boca Raton Bowl Game                                                        Architect Renzo Piano



         Since women everywhere                                                      The Center for Arts and Innovation, a multimillion-dollar creative campus set to redefine
      are making an impact in sports,                                             downtown Boca Raton and establish a global hub for creative excellence, has selected
      business and community, the                                                 the renowned Pritzker Architecture Prize–winning architect Renzo Piano to design its
      sixth annual RoofClaim.com                                                  forthcoming structure and performance spaces.
      Boca Raton Bowl’s “Women
      Changing the Game Presented
      by FPL” drew a cross-section
      of 175 women leaders and
      their mentees in a variety of
      industries for a night filled
      with women-empowering
      insights, great networking,
      food and drink, pop-up shops,
      gifting and more.        Good  Karma  Brands  Vice  President  Stephanie  Prince-
                               Springmyer, Panel Moderator: ESPN-WPTV Sports Anchor
      6th Annual Women Changing  Keli Ferguson with WCTG panelists Angela Adams Suggs,
      the Game on page 3       Amber Wilson, Amanda Gifford.
      St. Andrews’ Golf Star


      Morgan Pressel Honored


      At TimberTech Women’s Day                                                   Andrea Virgin, Antoine Chaaya, Dick Schmidt, Mayor Scott Singer, Councilwoman Yvette


                                                                                  Drucker, Councilwoman Fran Nachlas
         The Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health
      and Wellness Institute Pro-Am kicked off the                                Boca’s Center for Arts and Innovation on page 7
      recent TimberTech Championship by honoring
      hometown hero Morgan Pressel at its draw                                    Ribbon Cutting Marks
      party October 29th at Broken Sound Club.
         Pressel is not being honored for her golf,
      even though the Boca Raton resident was the                                 Opening of Broken Sound’s
      youngest-ever (18) to win an LPGA major
      when she captured the 2007 Kraft Nabisco                                    Redesigned Old Course
      Championship and the youngest player (12) to
      qualify for the U.S. Women’s Open in 2001.
         Pressel is being honored because she                                        When many of the nation’s best golf pros returned to Broken Sound’s legendary Old Course
      shares the same passion for women’s health                                  to compete in the TimberTech PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS on November 3rd – 5th—as they
      as Christine E. Lynn, who also will be feted                                have since the annual event was inaugurated in 2007—they were greeted by an impressive,
      that evening. After Pressel’s mother, Kathy                                 completely new experience on a course that has just been redesigned by renowned golf architect
      Krickstein Pressel, died of breast cancer in                                Rees Jones. To mark
      2003, Morgan started the Morgan Pressel                                     the achievement,
      Foundation that has raised more than $11                                    Jones was invited to
      million for breast cancer research and patient                              cut the ribbon marking
      care. In recent years, the Kathryn Krickstein                               the official opening of
      Pressel Mammovan has been on site at the                                    the newly redesigned
      TimberTech Championship.                                                    Old  Course,  joined
                                            Left to right: Christine E. Lynn, Morgan   by the course’s PGA
      Morgan Pressel Honored on page 4      Pressel and Terry Fedele              Director, Jeff Haber,
                                                                                  and representatives
                                                                                  of  Broken  Sound’s
                                                                                  Board of Governors.
                                                                                  Members of the Old
                                                                                  Course attended the
                                                                                  event. A full report of
                                                                                  the Tournament results
                                                                                  and chart of winners’
                                                                                  rankings will appear
                                                                                  in the December issue  Pictured L-R are Bonnie Rappaport, Rees Jones, Marcy Haupt, Old
                                                                                  of Boca Club News.  Course PGA Director Jeff Waber, Matt Minerva, Dr. Michael Hopman.
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