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Discover The Clublife With A Summer Membership

At The Club At Boca Pointe!

Under new ownership and at $2,750. Contact the club today to schedule a tour of the
management, The Club at Boca Pointe NEW Club at Boca Pointe!
is excited to announce the continuation The Club at Boca Pointe, 7144 Boca Pointe Drive, Boca
of its summer membership program. Raton, 561.864.8539, bocapointecc.com
This is the perfect way to discover all Membership fee must be paid in advance; $500 food
that the Club has to offer from May 1st – September 30th. & beverage minimum required. Summer memberships are
Boca Pointe’s summer memberships are offered to both introductory and available to purchase only once, after which
residents and non-residents of the Boca Pointe community full membership may be required. Golf Course and Practice
with privileges including full access to social and tennis facilities are closed on Mondays from May-Sept. Tennis is
amenities with an option to add golf. available after 12pm everyday. Summer memberships include a
Here are some of the highlights of what you can enjoy single or couple (residing together) and unmarried children and
as a Summer Member: grandchildren under 26 years of age living in the household. 
• Mix & mingle with friends old and new in the • Work out in the club’s 28,000 square foot state-of-the-
clubhouse’s dining areas enjoying lunch, dinner, lounge & art fitness center complete with cardio equipment, personal
happy hour and various club special events training and an assortment of instructor-led classes
• Grab your racquet and play tennis* seven days a week
including clinics & tournaments AND, coming in May, 6 new
PICKLEBALL courts to enjoy America’s newest social sport
• Take a dip in the oversized year-round pool or enjoy
lap-swimming or aqua aerobics
• Summer Golf Members will also enjoy unlimited golf
for a cart-fee only with 5 day advance tee-times and full
driving range access*
If you’re not a Member yet, now is a great time to consider
discovering the membership life at The Club at Boca Pointe
with a summer membership - no initiation fee required
with social memberships at $1,800 and golf memberships
Clowns On Call

By Harriet Rubin,
aka Florabelle the Clown

We l c om e Spri ng!
Hooray- Life is improving
for all of us! Our clowns
are back in demand and we
look forward to resuming
our role as “Ambassadors
of Laughter”!
Last spring we were
thrilled to receive a call from Paul Hart volunteering to join
our clown troupe. Paul has become a great contributor to our
limited activities and I asked him to allow me to interview Doc the clown, aka Paul JJ and his puppet at All
him for this Viewpointe. His responses are really inspiring. Hart, M.D. People’s Day
Tell me about yourself.
I am a mostly retired family physician with a 20+ year of helping others but also as a means to stay active and not
history of volunteer work. I have been active here in the US get stuck in a rut. But more important, it’s a great way to
NGO that holds clinics in US cities with many uninsured make you feel good about yourself and what you are doing!
residents, and locally in MA, where I had my practice. Thank you Doc!!! JJ, Cutie Pie, Doc & Florabelle at All People’s Day
Internationally I have volunteered in 15+ countries, including Our first event this month, “All Peoples Day” in Delray
Greece (at Europe’s worst refugee camp), Ukraine, Moldova, Beach went very well. The attendance was smaller than who would like to have a “free” Reading Program, please
Zambia, the Amazon River, and Ethiopia, to name a few. previous years, but we were told there were several events let me know.
What made you decide to learn to be a Clown? on the same day. Our next event is this weekend at the If anyone out there is tempted to try clowning, please
I feel that it is important to volunteer, and the opportunity Faith UMC Family Life Center in Boynton Beach for contact me at florabelle10@aol.com.
to use my role as a clown to help individuals feel better by Special Adults, and we are all looking forward to having Don’t forget to wave if you see a clown on campus!
smiling and laughing is an important role. a great time and making a lot of exceptional people laugh!
What are some of the things you enjoy about being We also have a gig at the Hab Center in Boca on April 7
“Doc the Clown ?” for their fund-raiser, and at Florence Fuller West on April Current Events
My favorite part of clowning is making children smile 6 for an outside fair.
and feel better. Be it with a simple balloon animal or a We were able to schedule our first “Red Nose Reader”
silly joke, and I think that I am getting more benefit than event since last summer at the Milagro Center. Cutie Pie Group
the child when they respond. and Candy Bar entertained over 25 kids with putting on
What are you looking forward to in your clown experiences? their make-up, magic, and reading a story. This was Candy
I am new to this volunteer activity and am constantly Bar’s first Red Nose Reader experience and she really The Current Events Group meet every Monday from
learning. This is another joy of clowning as it keeps me loved doing it. We are going to begin the program at the 10am-11:30am at the BPCA office. The members consist
learning something new and allows me to meet not only my YMCA again in April for both their pre-school and after- of both men and women and all Boca Pointe residents are
fellow clowns (all great people, I must say) but the general school kids. Our hope is to visit once a month, in clown, invited to attend. If you would like more information or
public who attend the events where we are. reading a story and providing some clown entertainment. to sign up, please call 516-835-2670. 
Would you recommend clowning as a volunteer activity We also will be going to both Florence Fuller West and
to other seniors? East shortly. So it looks like we are back in business. I’m
Clowning is really fun and not that difficult to learn as a hoping to get the program into a few of the local libraries
novice. It is an ideal activity for seniors, not only as a way as well. If you know of a pre-school-3rd grade setting