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VOL. 33 NO. 2 FAX 561-624-9088 • E-MAIL canpga@yahoo.com FEBRUARY 2023

PGA POA Communication Corner

Submitted by Gail Coppage and Bill Heath, tournament? There are first-time and many time visitors minutes of government meetings. https://www.pbgfl.com/
PGA POA Communications Committee to PGA National, area homeowners, golf enthusiasts, Also visit the Palm Beach Gardens City Hall for great art
families large and small, children large and small, PGA exhibits too!
members, friends, media, etc. What does that mean for Thank You To Fellow PGA National City Council
residents of PGA National? This means more cars, more Residents!
pedestrians, more bicycles, more excitement, and a greater Thank you to fellow residents Dr. Mark Marciano and
need for patience and understanding. Please be careful Rachelle Litt for their amazing work on the Palm Beach
out there and considerate of all the walkers and visitors Gardens City Council. Both Dr. Marciano and Ms. Litt will
to our beautiful community! We are pleased to showcase be leaving the City Council in March. We have appreciated
the incredible community of PGA National via televised an open, straightforward, and collegial relationship with
coverage and in-person interest. both Council members for several years, and we wish them
Honda Classic Dates well in the new year! Thank you Mark and Rachelle!
The Honda Classic Golf Tournament is scheduled from Annual Meeting
Feb. 23 to 26 at the PGA National Resort. Tournament Want to hang out with other PGA National neighbors?
play is scheduled on the Champions Course. For more Please mark your calendars for the PGA Property
Happy February! February is full of everything red, information including tickets, please visit https:// Owners Association Board of Governors Annual Meeting
chocolates, flowers, love, and the Honda Classic! Did thehondaclassic.com/tickets/. scheduled for Wednesday, March 1 at 6 p.m. in the Masters
you know that the Honda Classic Golf Tournament Tracking Legislation And Potential Projects Ballroom at the PGA National Resort. Signs will be posted
final round coverage has a viewership of over 2.57 The POA Board continues to follow key legislation for at the resort for the business meeting room. The results
million people? The number of visitors to attend the Palm Beach Gardens that may impact the PGA National of the election for the POA Board will be announced and
PGA National Resort’s world-famous golf tournament is community and we will share ongoing updates. Please residents will have the opportunity to hear from a host
approximately 200,000 each day or 800,000 people over also visit the Palm Beach Gardens website to read about of Palm Beach Gardens government speakers about the
a four-day period. Who visits our area during this exciting pending legislation, events, and the review of previous ongoing work of our city.
Northern Notes

Dispose Of Plastic Bags of plastic are called microplastics, officially defined as pollution is often consumed by marine animals.

plastics less than five millimeters (0.2 inches) in diameter
Microplastics have been detected in marine organisms,
Properly So They Don’t End – smaller than the standard pearl used in jewelry. There are from plankton to whales, commercial seafood, and
two categories of microplastics: primary and secondary.
drinking water. Alarmingly, standard water treatment
Up In Our Waterways Primary microplastics are tiny particles designed for facilities cannot remove all traces of microplastics. To
commercial use, such as cosmetics, or microfibers shed further complicate matters, microplastics in the ocean can
By Katie Roundtree, from clothing and other textiles, such as fishing nets. bind with other harmful chemicals before being ingested
Director of Finance and Secondary microplastics are particles that result from the by marine organisms. Scientists are still unsure whether
Administration, Northern breakdown of larger plastic items, such as water bottles. consumed microplastics are harmful to human or animal
Palm Beach County This breakdown is caused by exposure to environmental health – and, if so, what specific dangers they may pose.
Improvement District factors, mainly the sun’s radiation and ocean waves. Besides the environmental aspects of plastic, plastic
Americans use about Single-use plastics – plastic items meant to be used bags in particular can cause damage to stormwater
100 billion plastic bags a just once and then discarded, such as a straw or plastic drainage systems. Plastic bags can clog storm drains
year. These include plastic bag – are the primary source of secondary plastics in the and waterways, threatening urban environments and
grocery, shopping, food environment. Some of this environmental pollution is creating severe safety hazards. Drainage systems blocked
storage, yard fertilizer from littering. Still, many of the plastics in waterways by plastic bags have been identified as a major cause of
and pet waste disposal result from storms, water runoff, and winds that carry flooding in countries like India and Bangladesh during
bags. Plastic bags are so plastic – both intact objects and microplastics – into our monsoon season.
lightweight and aerodynamic that even if we dispose of waterways and oceans. More locally, plastic bags can get caught and
them properly, they can get misplaced. They escape from The problem with microplastics is that they do not damage aerator motors and stormwater pumps. Aerator
our trash cans, garbage trucks and landfills and go where readily break down into harmless molecules just like plastic maintenance costs are higher because of plastic bag
the wind takes them – into storm drains, canals, lakes, items of any size. Plastics can take hundreds or thousands
and eventually, the ocean. of years to decompose – and in the meantime, wreak havoc Northern Notes on page 2
Plastic bags remain toxic even after they break down. on the environment. On
They don’t biodegrade; they photodegrade. That means beaches, microplastics are
that after sunlight breaks them down; they degrade, visible as tiny multicolored
breaking down into smaller and smaller pieces, until they plastic bits in the sand. In
can ultimately enter the food chain. These tiny particles the oceans, microplastic