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Golden Heart Luncheon Inspires Guests To Open Their Hearts

Keep your heart open and look for ways to help others.
That was the key message at the Golden Heart Luncheon
on Thursday, Jan. 16 at The Country Club at Mirasol.
Emmy and Golden Globe winner Jane Seymour was the
featured speaker at the annual event that benefits the
Nicklaus Children’s Health Care Foundation.
The afternoon was filled with stories of hope and
healing from former patients like Lucky who has
undergone four surgeries to overcome a severe deformity
in his spine. The bubbly teenager inspired laughter and
tears as he encouraged attendees to purchase keepsake
bears for themselves and young patients. The event set a
fundraising record for the foundation, raising $550,000.
Jack and Barbara Nicklaus founded the Nicklaus
Children’s Health Care Foundation in 2004 to provide

Golden Heart Luncheon on page 2 Barbara Nicklaus, Jane Seymour, Jack Nicklaus Suzanne Carroll, Kim Ransom, Jane Seymour, Marcie Stein, Judi Fader
Jupiter Law Center Hits Another Home Run With Fundraiser

Benefiting The Aicardi LED foosball table, Pop-A-Shots basketball games, Skee- and has multiple daily
Ball and even classic arcade video games with the fervor of
seizures, she is a
Syndrome Foundation! athletes gunning for the win. happy, happy girl who
Flint Technologies donated a cool laptop computer, and attends the Learning
Jupiter Law Center knows it takes a top-notch team raffle items provided by the Miami Heat, Miami Dolphins, Academy on the
to make an impact. And boy, do they have one! With the Florida Panthers and local sports venues All Sports Grill campus of the Els
support of hundreds of the firm’s friends and family, Adam and Brass Ring Pub ensured that spirits were high and Center of Excellence.
and Lissa Gumson of Jupiter Law Center have raised over contributions kept coming as everyone tried their luck in the As the MVP of the
$400,000 in donations to the Aicardi Syndrome Foundation, evening’s games of chance. night, she welcomed
a 100 percent volunteer run nonprofit organization. Over $40,000 was raised for the Aicardi Syndrome guests with high 5s
The signature event every year is an Annual Halloween Foundation at the party and in the ensuing weeks/months before calling it an
Aicardi Costume Party. This past October, the party’s theme through the end of 2019. The event is a passion project for early evening.
was sports – and the mood for the 200-plus guests was like Adam and Lissa Gumson, whose oldest daughter, Ava Shaye What started as
a postgame championship party on the streets! Attendees Gumson, was diagnosed as a baby with Aicardi Syndrome, a a small party with
came dressed as their favorite sports fan/figure (real or from rare congenital neurological seizure disorder which inhibits friends and family
the movies) or team fan. From the topical (Robert Kraft) the normal development of motor skills, sight and speech, held at the Gumsons’ Ava, Adam and Lissa
to the creative (Arnold Palmer) to the religious (rainbow- causing mild to profound developmental delays. When she home for the first 10
haired guy holding sign saying “John: 3:16”) to the obscure was diagnosed, the Gumsons were informed that Ava’s life years has blossomed into a major annual event held at the
(comedian Bob Nelson’s Eppy Epperman), everyone got into expectancy was no more than two years. Ava is now 15, in
the game. They danced and played on the 16-person giant 10th grade, and although she is nonverbal, severely delayed Jupiter Law Center on page 3
The Club At Ibis Collects Record 27,000 Pounds Of Food

And More Than $15,000 In Annual Charity Food Drive

The Club at Ibis’ eighth annual Charity Food Drive was the Bank and Grove Park Elementary School in Palm Beach
best one yet. More than 27,000 pounds of food was collected Gardens.
by Ibis’ residents on Jan. 26, along with over $15,000 in “The Palm Beach County Food Bank feeds 250,000 people
monetary donations. a week, which is amazing,” said Richard Zodikoff, an Ibis
More than 24,000 pounds of food was collected last year resident who is the chairperson for the Food Drive.
which means there was a 15 percent increase in 2020. This “We’re thrilled to set a record this year. Like any charity,
year, Ibis’ food drive benefited the Palm Beach County Food it’s very difficult to top what you have done the previous year.
In past years we have given
out two bags per household.
This year we decided to give
out three.”
Zodikoff said the food bank
decides where most of the
food will go, but some of it
will be directed to Grove Park West Palm Beach Mayor Keith James and volunteers at Ibis
Elementary School, which is food drive
just off Northlake on Military
Trail, where 90 percent of the Annual Charity Food Drive on page 3