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Palm Beach Gardens Woman’s Club

Palm Beach
Gardens

Arbor Day

The City of Palm Beach
Gardens and the GFWC
Palm Beach Gardens
Woman’s Club celebrated
Arbor Day at Honor Park
on Jan. 15. A yellow elder
tree was selected and
planted. This is the 22nd
year that the PBG Woman’s
Club has donated a tree for
the city to plant.
Palm Beach Gardens has
been named as a Tree City
USA by the National Arbor
Day Foundation. Carolyn Vickey, environmental coordinator Karen Kraatz, president (red jacket) Left to right: Carolyn Vickey, environmental coordinator;
Karen Kraatz, president; Denise Hensel; Carol Renick;
Laraine Montgomery; Carolyn Foster; Nasreen Kakli
An Open Letter To Palm Beach

Gardens Residents And Friends All ABout kidS

A half a century ago, my wife Arline and I, along with our It is being designed with standard regional map features that
will include icons of the various elements within the city. It
four children, relocated from “up north” to our new home in will allow the user easy access to locate various elements of Increase Memory,
Palm Beach Gardens. At that time, there were about 4,000
residents in the city. They lived between PGA Boulevard and the city and the historical role it has played. It is intended
Northlake, and stretched east from the turnpike. As of the last that this map will be continuously monitored to provide a Increase Learning
population count, the city is approaching 60,000 residents. never-ending true living history.
After various annexations in the last 50 years, it has grown We are reaching out to you for two purposes.
to approximately 60 square miles and it is the largest city, First, we would like you to search your personal archives By Jim Forgan, Ph.D., School Psychologist
by landmass, in Palm Beach County. and photos, and allow our society to copy your archives
In 2008, The Palm Beach Gardens Historical Society to include them in ours. The goal is to provide a link on Memory is important
was established. Its mission statement is to collect, preserve, the historical map website for these selected photos. The for learning and a weak
and share the rich history of the city. It has been doing combinations of collections will help produce a more memory system hinders
this in several ways: by sponsoring educational lectures complete history of our city. a child’s learning. Does
and programs of our area which happened on a bimonthly Secondly, it will take funding to start and to maintain this your child’s memory
calendar, as well as conducted numerous field trips to effort. The society is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and we have all seem inconsistent? For
historical and prominent sites in the area. Unfortunately, volunteered to uphold our mission statement. We ask that example, some children
COVID-19 has put these types of activities on hold. you consider becoming a member of the society (individual learn math facts and
In 2012, a book titled Images of America: Palm Beach or corporation), or make a tax-exempt contribution to this forget them whereas
Gardens was published and is available to purchase in local effort and become a “Friend of the Society.” others are told a word
bookstores. It contains numerous photos and text of people Please contact us at PBGHistory@gmail.com. on one line but don’t
and happenings in the early life of Palm Beach Gardens. See you around town, recognize it a few lines
The purpose of my writing is to let you know our newest Donald L. Kiselewski, later. Still other children can remember movie lines or
endeavor and to seek your assistance in bringing this effort Chairman Emeritus, video game stats but can’t remember to turn in school
into fruition. The society is joining with the City of Palm Palm Beach Gardens Historical Society assignments.
Beach Gardens to produce a digital historical map of our city. www.PalmBeachGardensHistoricalSociety.org We have three main memory systems: short-term,
working, and long-term memory. Short-term memory
is holding information for a few seconds to minutes.
Working memory is the scratch pad of the brain and is
our ability to hold information and change it such as
doing mental math. Long-term memory is remembering
information from days to years later. Identify which
one is holding your child back and target intervention
to increase your child’s capacity for learning.
Consider these games and activities for increasing
your child’s memory. First, have your child memorize
how to spell his or her name backwards as this will
exercise working memory. If your child found that
easy, try reciting the alphabet backwards. Memorize Pi
by learning one digit per day and see how many digits
your child can remember. If your child is younger, have
him or her memorize your address and family members’
phone numbers. Amazon has tons of memory games.
Cogmed is an intensive computer-based memory
training program for kids and adults.
Most people can remember seven items plus or
minus two. Think about our phone numbers and Social
Security numbers. They fall within this range and
numbers are chunked together a few at a time. Chunking
information helps us remember more material. First
letter mnemonic (pronounced new-monic) strategies
also help us chunk information to remember. One
example is ROY-G-BIV to remember rainbow colors
(red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet).
Apply chunking or mnemonic strategies to help your
child remember more.
We evaluate children ages 4 and up for anxiety,
ADHD, dyslexia, learning difficulty, and processing
problems. Call (561) 625-4125 or visit JimForgan.com.

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