June 2013
Serving Hypoluxo Island, South Palm Beach, Manalapan, Ocean Ridge, Briny Breezes, Gulf Stream and Coastal Delray Beach
Delray Beach
St. Paddy’s parade may end
Volume 6 Issue 6
Along the Coast
By Tim Pallesen Just as firefighters take control of Delray Beach’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, the city for unrelated reasons might shut down the parade. City commissioners are under pressure from business owners to reduce festivals that close downtown streets. City staff has recommended that the St. Patrick’s Day Parade be the first to go. “It’s the one we hear the most complaints about,” Assistant City Manager Bob Barzinski said. “It’s a tough event for police to manage.” An estimated 100,000 spectators watched the March 16 parade, prompting the city to suggest banning alcohol if the parade is allowed next year. “The alcohol needs to stop,” Mayor Cary Glickstein said at a May 14 workshop where Barzinski recommended that the parade be eliminated. Commissioners postponed a decision. “This is an issue for everyone to weigh in on,” Glickstein said. The parade’s promoter predicted a public outcry if Delray cancels the parade. “The Irish of Palm Beach County will rise up against that idea,” warned Bernard Ryan of Festival Management Group. “There will be a green storm.” See PARADE on page 12
‘Fonzi’ Palmieri trims Alexandra Pena (left) at Colby’s Barber Shop in Ocean Ridge. Shop owner Lino Marmorato (center) works on customer Joe Giuliano of Boynton Beach; Paul Hansen trims Ken Keller of Hypoluxo. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
OLD SCHOOL, CUTTING EDGE Barbers happy to keep traditional shops By Ron Hayes Take a chair, please, sit back and relax, while we salute the red, white and blue. No need to stand this time. No hand on heart. The red is for blood, the white for bandages, the blue for veins. Swirl them all together in a triple helix and you’ve got the old-fashioned barber pole, once as ubiquitous as Old Glory itself — but not, alas, as enduring. Dating back to the Middle Ages, when barbers were also surgeons — hence the
blood and bandages — the barber pole has gone from common to quaint. Nowadays we have Supercuts and unisex, salons, stylists and, that bane of barbers everywhere, the Wahl’s do-ityourself home haircutting kit. And yet they survive, real barbers — from the Latin barba for “beard” — and real barber shops, with fishing and hunting magazines by the door, Clubman after-shave in the air, and manly chitchat to go with the scissors’ See BARBER on page 13
Brad Elliott gives a haircut to Jake Julien, 7, a student at Gulf Steam School and a resident of Gulf Stream, at Fifth Avenue Barber Shop in Delray Beach.
Gulf Stream
Dye hard at work on golf course overhaul
By Steve Pike
Pete Dye walks across a green at Gulf Stream Golf Club, where he is overseeing renovations. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Inside Musical mettle
Young singers offers harmonies, friendship for Manalapan lads. Page 8
Tiny hawksbill released The rare turtle had plastic in its system. Page 21
Pete Dye took one hand off the steering wheel of his golf cart and pointed to a patch of torn-up ground. “Pure rock,” he said. “We’re riding on pure rock.”
Gulf Stream School grows Kids meet artist and school marks 75th with expansion. Pages 18, 22
Dye, the world’s most famous living golf course architect, has been working since April 15 on renovating the back nine of Gulf Stream Golf Club. He’s been a member of the private club, just a few minutes from his Gulf Stream home, for 30 years.
“They didn’t listen to me for 29 years,” he said in pure Dye-speak — straightforward laced with a dollop of self-deprecation. “Mr. Donald Ross was here one See DYE on page 15
Surfside ‘I do’s’
Weddings on the beach are a popular local option. Home, Health & Harmony