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Cars Roll Through For The 13th Annual

‘Beep Beep Bash’ For People With Disabilities

Free, one-day
event for people
with disabilities
– both seen and
unseen – returns
with new social
distancing, drive-
through format in a
new Boca park and
a new date.
Car after car
rolled through the 13th Annual Boating and Beach Bash
for People with Disabilities, which became the Annual Lowell Van Vechten, cofounder of the
Beep Beep Bash for this year. American Disabilities Foundation and
On Saturday, May 1, the free, one-day event for people cofounder of the Annual Boating and Beach
with disabilities, both seen and unseen, welcomed guests Bash for People with Disabilities
to a new location that is more car-friendly with easier
road access: the Countess de Hoernle Park (Spanish Managing Director Liz Schmidt. Schmidt was installed in
River Athletic Complex), 1000 Spanish River Blvd., Boca March 2021, following the July 2020 passing of Founding
Raton, FL 33431. Executive Director Jay Van Vechten.
To protect its vulnerable audiences from exposure to “We have so many returning guests each year, who
COVID-19 and to adhere to social distancing guidelines, look forward to the event that is specially designed for
the Beep Beep Bash showcased a variety of entertainment, them that we felt compelled to bring it back in some
including costumed characters, magicians, DJs, and form. So for 2021, we presented the Beep Beep Bash with
waving fans that guests experienced via a drive-through hopeful plans to return to our previous format in 2022.”
format. The 2021 Beep Beep Bash featured entertainment,
“So much has changed since our last bash in March prepackaged food giveaways and swag bags, filled with
2020, when we were fortunate enough to have our outdoor gifts.
festival before the pandemic-quarantines measures
were enacted,” said American Disabilities Foundation Beep Beep Bash on page 2
Fuller Center Has Served Hardworking,

Under-Resourced Families And Children For 50 Years

More than 900 children in 41 ZIP codes from In 1971, the Fuller Center opened its doors in Boca remarkable outcomes achieved by our alumni who, as
throughout Palm Beach County, along with their families, Raton to provide early education and childcare to children adults, are raising healthy families and maintaining highly
are served by the Fuller Center (formerly the Florence living in poverty. The organization was founded to respectable jobs and positions in the community. The
Fuller Child Development Centers) each year. support low-income workers (most of whom are essential purpose of our organization is to ensure that deserving
service workers) providing the foundation of the local children and hardworking parents get the opportunities
economy and offer their children the same educational they need to reach their full potential and become positive
opportunities as their more affluent peers. Fifty years later, contributors to our community.”
the organization has grown from serving 22 children to The Fuller Center is the only nonprofit in South Palm
over 900 each year and has greatly expanded its services. Beach County that provides early childhood education,
The Fuller Center is a community care center providing after-school, and out-of-school programming, camps, and
quality education for children 6 weeks to 12 years and
offering enrichment programs to care for the children
when they are out of school, enhancing their academic,
social, emotional, physical, and behavioral health. The
Addition to east campus being built in 1974 center also provides extensive family support services
to ensure that children go
home each night to self-
sustaining parents able to
provide safe, healthy, and
enriching homes for their
children.
“The parents we serve
are the backbone of our
local economy,” says Ellyn Children at the Fuller Center
Okrent, CEO of the Fuller
Center. “We are proud of the Fuller Center on page 2