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Impact The Palm Beaches Announces Finalists

Winners Of The $100,000

Impact Grants Will Be

Announced At The Seventh
Annual Impact Awards

Celebration On April 28

Impact the Palm Beaches will host the Seventh Annual
Impact Awards Celebration Thursday, April 28, at 5:30
p.m. at FITTEAM Ballpark of the Palm Beaches in West
Palm Beach. During this special evening, Impact the
Palm Beaches will award high impact grants to nonprofit
organizations in Palm Beach County. Impact the Palm
Beaches is thrilled to announce the four Impact Grant
finalists: Feed the Hungry Pantry of Palm Beach County
– Feed the Hungry Solar-Powered, Refrigerated Container
Project; Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County –
Building Better Readers; Project LIFT, Inc – Pathway
Academy of Innovation; and Vita Nova – Transportation
for Success!
The 2022 Impact event will be an exciting evening
where finalists present their request for funding to Impact end of this season. “Our members share the commitment to invest in
the Palm Beaches members, a vote is taken, and the Members and guests of the evening will enjoy cocktails innovative projects in our community,” said Elizabeth
awards are distributed. With each member contributing and light bites while mingling with the finalists before the Truong, 2021/2022 president, Impact the Palm Beaches.
$1,000, Impact the Palm Beaches will award this year two presentations begin. The emcee of the event will be Keli “We are excited that we currently have over 224 members
$100,000 Impact grants and two Merit grants. Impact the Ferguson, née Fulton, an Emmy award-winning sports this season and continue to grow!”
Palm Beaches has awarded $886,000 in grants in the past anchor for ESPN 106.3 on WPTV and FOX29 in West
six years and will have awarded over $1 million by the Palm Beach, Fla. Impact The Palm Beaches Announces Finalists on page 24
The North Cape: Pinnacle Of Europe

By Don Kiselewski, MCC,
D.S., Palm Beach Gardens
Travel Leaders
In 1930 a Czechoslovakian
author wrote, “So this is
how it ended. Europe’s and
our history ended just that
abruptly and harshly.” To
put it in context he was
referring to the northern tip
of Norway, which protrudes
into the Arctic Ocean and is
the most northerly point on the European continent. This
mystical North Cape (or Nordkapp) is distinguished by
travelers as the extreme border of civilization. It has been
considered the fortress that defends continental Europe
against the forces of the sea.
The North Cape juts straight out of the water on the
northern end of Mageroya Island; it is shaped like the bow
of a ship, breaking water. The island has little and/or no
vegetation because it is far north of the Arctic Circle. It is
a flat, barren rock with the town of Honningsvåg located
in a somewhat protected harbor on the south side. And
if you wonder what people do at this end of the world,
the answer is that they fish and herd reindeer as well as The city and harbor of Honningsvåg, Norway
service the port on the trade route between Russia and
Norway. In the 17th century the area was important to Some 700 years ago the Norwegians started hunting and promise after having their lives spared.
Dutch whaling. trapping furs in Lapland. There is nothing to substantiate exactly It was during this same period that Russian pirates sailed
Finnmark is the early name given to this northern tip when they started to inhabit the area; a 13th century document the shore of Finnmark, doing what pirates do best. During
of Europe. Some 8 to 10 thousand years ago the area was is the only clue to dating the Norwegians’ inhabitation of the one such encounter some 50 pirates came ashore and were
inhabited by people known as the Komsa. They survived area. It was relayed that a man named Tormod Andresson left in the process of pillaging Tunes when the brothers returned
by fishing as well as hunting birds and seals. Today, on his estate in Honningsvåg to his daughter Ingrid. from fishing. Legend has it that the two brothers killed 22
some of the more remote islands, puffins form the poultry Between the 13th and 15th centuries, the Norwegians and of the invaders and chased the others away. However, later
element in the diet. It is believed that the culture migrated Russians made numerous attempts to expand their borders they were waylaid by Russian pirates and brutally murdered.
to the tip of the land from southern Norway. into the area. Finnmark was one of the early names given The tale ends with a claim that the silver halibut now hangs
The Lapp people have inhabited the area for about two to the area. It wasn’t until 1826 that the present day borders in a church in Moscow.
millennia. These nomads have grazed their domesticated between the countries were established. Whaling became prevalent along the Artic Ocean
reindeer from one country to another, traveling with them An interesting folkloric legend (of both Lapp and coast of Finnmark from 1600 to 1900. Ships from along
and living off the land in skin-covered shelters. Three Norwegian origin) tells of the conflicts between two the Atlantic coast countries sailed the area. The Basques
countries now divide the northern portion of Scandinavia Norwegian brothers and the Russians. The two bachelor introduced the pelagic style of hunting, wherein the captured
(Norway, Sweden and Finland). Originally it was the brothers came from the town of Tunes; were big, rough whale is tied to the side of the vessel and then sectioned
Norwegians who took up residence on Mageroya, with and tumble fishermen and were inseparable. One day while into pieces that are brought on board, so that the oil can be
the Lapps roaming the mainland. However, over the last fishing for halibut, they found themselves in a devastating boiled out on deck. This eliminated the need for maintaining
quarter century, the number of Lapp descendants who have storm. Fearing the end was near, they made a promise a whaling station on land.
shrugged off the nomadic lifestyle has increased to over to God that if they were saved, they would have a silver
10 percent of the island’s total population. halibut cast to be given to the church. They kept their The North Cape: Pinnacle Of Europe on page 22