By Shannon Donnelly Palm Beach Daily News Society Editor April 25, 2015 This is what happens when you let ‘em off the leash at Club Colette: They hardly sit, the paws are on the bar, there’s nothing around the neck, they’re shaking their tails on the dance floor and, at the end of the night, […]
By Diane C. Lade Sun Sentinel April 30, 2015 Bottle feeding in the middle of the night. Toilet training. Round-the-clock cuddling. That’s life with baby — when you’re helping to raise a tiny kitty. Fostering newborn kittens is not an easy job, but it’s certainly a labor of love for many South Florida volunteers. […]
By Shannon Donnelly April 18, 2015 Palm Beach Daily News Society Editor The LIFE Foundation will host a dinner and the Florida premiere of Debt of Honor, a film collaboration between award-winning filmmaker Ric Burns and LIFE founder Lois B. Pope. Debt of Honor chronicles the history of disabled veterans in America, and has been […]
By Shannon Donnelly Palm Beach Daily News Society Editor April 11, 2015 Friends and supporters of the American Humane Association’s K-9 Battle Buddies Program turned out for a lunch honoring Heroes on Both Ends of The Leash. The event took place March 17 at The Mar-a-Lago Club. Lois Pope was chairwoman for the afternoon, which […]
CityBiz.com April 8, 2015 PGA National Women for Cancer Awareness recently presented Scripps Florida, a division of The Scripps Research Institute, with a donation of $148,000 to support scientific trainees in the Department of Cancer Biology. The funds were raised earlier this year over three days of exciting PGA Nationalcommunity events, which is entitled PGA […]
The Open Door is Working to Break the Cycle of Teen Pregnancy By, Terry Morrow, Good News April 3, 2015 Teen pregnancy is an issue in the U.S. that wounds teen mothers, their children and taxpayers. The Open Door is building partnerships in South Florida to address the needs of the teens and their children […]
Palms West Monthly: April 2015 The American Humane Association, the country’s first national humane organization, recently honored philanthropist Lois Pope for her inspirational leadership, kindness, compassion and generosity in building a more humane world at a special “Gratitude” event at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach. Since 2011, Pope and Leaders in Furthering Education (LIFE) […]
By Brittany Shammas Sun Sentinel March 18, 2015 Together, U.S. Marine Cpl. Nick Caceres and his wartime comrade — a black Labrador retriever named Fieldy — tracked down improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan, saving other members of the military from stumbling upon them. Handler and dog also forged a close bond during their seven months […]
Posted on March 11, 2015 by Michelle Kaplan PBG Lifestyle Magazine For many of us, World War II was illustrated in textbooks and lectures as a flurry of dates and a series of battles to be memorized and regurgitated. Truly understanding and appreciating what it must have been like to see it through a child’s […]
Posted on March 4, 2015 by Lee Hershfield PBG Lifestyle Magazine Rene Carr, Desiree Stroumbas, and Liz and Ella Rivera St. Clare Catholic School cannot simply be defined by the superior quality of education it affords its students. This North Palm Beach school is well defined by the tenets of the Catholic faith, which […]