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Singer Spotlight

Opportunity Offers A Fresh Approach To Fundraising

Champagne, shopping, and crisp December air drew pop-up vendors added a festive vibe. Many of the stores
guests to Opportunity Early Childhood Education & Family also donated a percentage of their sales to the charity.
Center’s holiday event. Alexis Bonner, Hilary Cohen, and Since 1939, Opportunity has worked to end the cycle of
Mae Ferguson cochaired the stylish, outdoor fundraiser poverty in Palm Beach County by providing educational and
on Wednesday, Dec. 2 at The Royal Poinciana Plaza. The developmental programs for children, and support services
modernized version of the charity’s traditional luncheon for their families.
allowed attendees to be safe yet social. Opportunity Early Childhood Education & Family
Guests at Opportunity’s Holiday Sip. Savor. Stroll. Center
Shop! were greeted with champagne and signature Empowering the children of working families to
cocktails. Swag bags stocked with designer face masks, achieve academic and life success through educational
a gourmet to-go lunch, and exclusive discounts at brands programs that embrace the whole child, and through family
throughout the plaza, allowed attendees to choose how much programming.
or how little they wanted to interact. A stunning floral wall Photos by Tracey Benson Photography
created by Renny & Reed provided the perfect backdrop
for photos, while holiday music by the American Sirens and The American Sirens Singer Spotlight on page 2

Art hAppeningS
holidAy hAppeningS

Call For ‘The Love Of Art’ Themed Annual

Student Entries

For 2021 ArtiGras Youth Art Competition Christmas Boat

The 2021 ArtiGras Fine Arts Festival, Parade Begins
presented by Hanley Foundation and
produced by the Palm Beach North
Chamber of Commerce, has a call for With Fireworks
student art for the ArtiGras Youth Art
Competition which this year will carry
the theme “The Love of Art.” The theme Report and Photos by Penny Sheltz
will encompass a student’s representation The 26th Annual Palm Beach Holiday Boat Parade
of art, what they love about art, or what launched the 2020 holiday season as many fully-
art form they love best. All submissions decorated boats of all sizes made their way up the
need to incorporate the theme in some Intracoastal Waterway from the North Palm Beach
way, but the interpretation is completely Marina to Jupiter.
up to the student.
Students in grades kindergarten
through 12th grade are encouraged to
submit their artwork for the ArtiGras
Youth Art Competition in mediums
ranging from pencil and crayon to chalk
and paint. For many students in Palm Photograph of the Best in Show winners with the officials from the ArtiGras
Fine Arts Festival. From left to right: Honorable Mention in the sixth grade,
Art Happenings on page 4 Tamar Kamrat from Jupiter Middle School; Best of Show for elementary
schools, Angela Pereira from
Binks Forest Elementary
School; CEO of the Hanley
Foundation, Jan Cairnes;
Best of Show for middle
schools, Julian Lupyan from
The Weiss School; Best of
Show for high schools,
Geneve Fredette from Palm
Beach Central High School; Holiday Happenings on page 5
and Judy Dellosa.