Page 2 - Boca ViewPointe - February '24

Page 2, Viewpointe February 2024
Getting Into Board Of Directors

Hot Water May 2023 – May 2025 Officers/Executive Committee

Chairman and President Randy Raskin District 5 Paul Hart (Esplanada)
A memory By Judith Levy Vice President Robert Cornell Esplanada, Caravelle, Palomar, La Corniche,
Vice Chairman Zachary Elliott and El Dorado
It was wartime. Secretary Mary Ann Frazier District 6 Marvin Lazarowitz (Villa Stel)
Everything was rationed, Treasurer Michelle Ricciuti-Carter Villa Flora, Montego Bay, Villa Del Sol, and Palladium
especially coal to heat the District 7 David Arlein (Pointe 100)
house and to fuel the boiler District Directors The Plum/Cortina, Villa Sonrisa and Pointe 100
for the needed hot water. We District 1 Zachary Elliott (Encantada) District 8 Jacob Stark (Costa Del Sol)
were renters in a two-family Encantada, Valencia and The Palms Costa Del Sol and Costa Brava
house owned by an absentee District 2 Chandra Stewart-Keith (Panaché) District 9 P.J. Petkovic (Stratford Court)
landlord. The other renters Promenade, Imperial Royale, Imperial, Regency Edgewater Pointe Estates and Stratford Court
and Panaché
who lived upstairs would District 3 Steve Retzer (La Mirada) At Large Directors
come home from work every night and take showers, using La Mirada and Meridiana Through May 2025 Through May 2025
up all the hot water so my mother couldn’t bathe us children District 4 Bob Greenstein (Lakes of La Paz) Robert Cornell (Costa Brava) Randy Raskin (The Palms)
after dinner. She didn’t want to fight with these greedy people El Viento, La Paz, and Southwinds Mary Ann Frazier (The Palms) Michelle Ricciuti-Carter (Encantada)
upstairs so being resourceful, my mother hit on a solution. Connie Murray (Villa Flora) David Sussman (Valencia)
She would fill the bathtub with scalding hot water before
dinner and after the meal she would add cold water and
everything would be perfect, except she didn’t tell anyone.
My mother believed in getting information, never giving any.
During dinner I had to go to the bathroom. As a
youngster, nine years old, I didn’t need anyone to take me,
I just went on my merry way. We didn’t have wall switches,
just a string to pull to put the light on, but the string was
gone. All that was left were a few tiny metal balls that were
attached to the fixture which I couldn’t reach. So, I climbed
up and stood on the rim of the bathtub, lost my balance
and fell with my left leg into the scalding hot water. We
lived in Brooklyn and my screams must have been heard
in New Jersey. My family gathered around me, blowing on
my injured leg, which had lost most of its skin when Mama
pulled off my stockings. The family broke raw eggs over my
burned leg and someone was sent to the corner drugstore to
call for an ambulance. At that point we were in the midst
of a blackout, so it was forever till an ambulance arrived.
It took many months of sitting for hours in a free clinic,
as we didn’t have money for a private doctor, to have the
wound heal, because every time they changed the bandages,
I howled as they pulled off more skin.
To this day my left leg is scarred but I am grateful I was
lucky enough not to have fallen in with my face or I surely
would have died. A good angel must have been watching over
me and that fortunately has since kept me out of hot water.

Judith Levy is the New York Times best-selling author of
GRANDMOTHER REMEMEBERS, which has sold over
four million copies and the mega best-seller GRANDFATHER
REMEMBERS, published by HarperCollins. Both books,
perfect gifts, are available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. 

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