Giving Back
By LEON FOOKSMAN
March 15, 2023
COCONUT CREEK, FL – When she was in elementary school, Amanda Cummings saw a police officer running with a K9 dog during an event. “It was the coolest thing I ever saw,” she said. “It looked like the best job in the world.” Years later, and now as a K9 officer herself for Coconut Creek Police ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – The monthly tradition of giving out awards for “doing the right” to Coconut Creek students and a teacher continued last week. Six students and a teacher were honored Thursday during the Do The Right Thing ceremony at Coconut Creek Government Center. Here are the honorees ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – For five decades, members of Women’s Club of Coconut Creek have come together in social events that also served as community projects intended to raise money for local causes. Their latest project – Butterfly Garden Tour on March 4 – is a fundraiser for the group’s annual ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – Coconut Creek police have raised $9,000 to help pay for next month’s United States Police Canine Association competition in the city. The money from last week’s Tip-a-Hero: Dine for the K9s event at Bar Louie at Promenade at Coconut Creek will support the many activities at ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – A Coconut Creek resident is hoping his new book on his father’s daring escape from the Nazis and Hungarian communists will change minds about the dangers of hate, especially now as anti-Semitism spreads. “My father being on the run, being persecuted and being humiliated – it ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – The monthly “Do The Right Thing” award ceremony was held last week in Coconut Creek. Five students and a teacher were honored Thursday in front of parents, educators, and local political leaders at Coconut Creek City Hall for doing good deeds in their schools and ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – As the first Coconut Creek poet laureate, Laura McDermott Matheric’s job is to make the “arts more vibrant and accessible to all residents.” That’s the goal city leaders had for her when they appointed her to the post. Now roughly six months into the job, Matheric ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – When Coconut Creek’s first volunteer fire chief stood before a crowded city hall audience this week, Donald Schlichtmann told a few old stories, cracked some jokes, and then smiled for cameras. He was being recognized by city commissioners as a “respected, long-time Coconut ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – Buster is the newest miniature horse training to be an equine grief and trauma counselor at Tomorrow’s Rainbow in Coconut Creek. To the staff at the nonprofit offering grief support and trauma therapy, he’s been a bit of mystery since arriving two weeks ago. “We’re ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – As a military veteran, John Brodie visits Coconut Creek’s Veterans Park regularly to reflect on his years of service. The Coconut Creek commissioner said he likes that the park on Lyons Road and Sample Road is clean and well-maintained. But he adds something is missing: a ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – The next city of Coconut Creek-sponsored food distribution event for city residents will be Feb. 11. Residents in need can pick up food 9-12 p.m. at 5280 NW 40th Street at the Butterfly Parking Lot (Not Butterfly World parking lot). Food will only be given to Coconut Creek ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – For close to 25 years, a Coconut Creek detective has watched Eugene Bannigan do “good deeds” for his fellow residents at Foundation for Independent Living. “He’s the guy who helps everyone,” Det. Clint Corey said. That means Bannigan helps the nonprofit foundation’s ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – Is someone trying to take advantage of the “best 30 minutes of the month” in Coconut Creek? Coconut Creek police are investigating who is behind a website that is seeking donations for the nonprofit, Do The Right Thing of Coconut Creek, which puts on monthly feel-good events ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – It’s known as the “best 30 minutes of the month” in Coconut Creek. The monthly Do The Right Thing award ceremony honoring good deeds of students and teachers at schools in Coconut Creek has been around since 2018. On Thursday, a new group of honorees was presented in front ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – With inflation and expiring benefits leaving more Americans hungry, close to 750 food boxes will be given away to families in need on Saturday in Coconut Creek. The event -- 9-12 p.m. at Butterfly parking lot at 5550 NW 40 Street -- is the latest food distribution organized ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – Owners of the lost 10-year-old mixed breed dog named Kika are offering a $2,000 reward to anyone who can help track down the dog. Kika went missing from her home in Parkland on Tuesday, and more than 500 people from Coral Springs, Parkland, and northwest Broward County have ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – Could she be in Coconut Creek, or Coral Springs, or Parkland? The search is on for a 10-year-old mixed breed dog named Kika who escaped from her Parkland home on Tuesday. For the past two days, more than 500 people have been looking for the white dog across northwest ...