Page 2 - Jupiter Ocean Mile - March '20

Page 2, Jupiter Ocean Mile

Golden Heart Luncheon from page 1

Jack and Barbara Nicklaus
founded the Nicklaus
Children’s Health Care
Foundation in 2004 to provide
world-class pediatric care
to children in Palm Beach
County and beyond, raising
more than $100 million to
date. The foundation supports
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital,
which has helped children
from every state in the union Patty McDonald, Christine Christine Nixon, Mary
and 119 countries. Malyn Sheridan, Joy Casciano Victor Blanquart, Laura Russell Lynn Blaisdell

Photos by Tracey Benson
Photography Lucky DeTray, Jane Seymour

Suzanne Carroll, Kim Ransom, Jane Seymour, Marcie Stein, Karina Brezemmer, Susan Johnson, Jeannie Tisbo,
Judi Fader Margaret Luce
Soula Rifkin, Arlene Fox Laurie Denson, Suzy Quinn

Chief’s Corner

Dreaming Up the
Dear Resident, Ideal Retirement
Traffic safety and Is Your Job. Helping
enforcement continues to
be one of the top priorities You Get There Is Ours.
for the Jupiter Police
Department. In 2018, in To learn more about why Edward
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number of traffic crashes
and related injuries and
fatalities, the department
was able to fully staff the
Traffic Unit.
The Traffic Unit’s main objective is to provide Sally S Stahl, AAMS® www.edwardjones.com
education and awareness to motorists on safe traffic laws Financial Advisor M e m b P I S r e C
and conduct enforcement in target locations that have been 1851 W Indiantown Rd Ste 106

identified as high crash locations. A traffic grant was also Jupiter, FL 33458
applied for and received for education and enforcement 561-748-7600
related to pedestrian and bicycle accidents.
As a result of this enforcement, I am happy to report
that after evaluation and analysis of traffic crash data from
2019 compared to 2018, crashes decreased by 9.5 percent
which equals 209 less traffic crashes that occurred within
the Town of Jupiter. In addition, these enforcement efforts
have contributed to a decrease in the number of pedestrian
and bike related injuries. There was a 21 percent decrease
in injuries from 2017 to 2018 and a 31 percent decrease
in injuries from 2018 to 2019.
We are committed to your safety when utilizing our
roadways; and our goal is to be visible throughout the
community, so that we can continue to see a decrease in
traffic related crashes.
Please continue to visit us on our website at www.jupiter.
fl.us/jpd, and on Facebook @JupiterPolice to learn about
new and happening events within the Town of Jupiter.
Sincerely,
Daniel J. Kerr, Chief of Police

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