Loving Kittens Need Home
Margate's Water Treatment Plant is a hostel for wayward, abandoned and lost cats. Over the last year, MargateNews.net has found four cats new homes and has reunited two lost cats with their families.
Today, we are reaching out to cat lovers around Margate to find a loving home for two healthy kitty newborns that appear to be two to three weeks old. These kittens are extremely docile and friendly and are ideal for stay at home moms, couples, seniors, working families with kids, and pet owners with one cat in search of a companion.
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Busted curb busting tires in Margate
In response to calls and emails from residents regarding damage to their tires caused by the broken curb on the southwest corner of Royal Palm Boulevard and State Road 7, MargateNews.net asked Margate Public Works head, Sam May, if the town is responsible for repairing the curb – and resident’s tires.
May said the curb is the responsibility of the state and that residents with tire damage might consider calling FDOT (Florida Department of Transportation).
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Atlantic Palms Moochin’ off Margate Taxpayers
Atlantic Palm residents now owe Margate taxpayers $31,000 for water, sewer services and trash pickup, which includes about $11,000 in fines and magistrate fees. They’ve been delinquent in paying the city for almost a year and have recently been given another 30 days by Margate City Commissioners to arrive at what one could only describe as a “Hail Mary” payment.
They handed a check to the city for $3,000 last week, but because they continue to use these services, their bill continues to accrue, making it nearly impossible for the association to catch up.
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Reader survey on Atlantic Palms debt (results not scientific).
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Northwest Medical Center in Margate announces open heart program
Northwest Medical Center in Margate has announced establishing an open heart surgery program scheduled to begin by the end of 2010. The new program will enhance cardiovascular services already offered at the hospital, which include elective and emergent percutaneous angioplasty, state of the art coronary imaging services, expert cardiologists, radiologists and clinicians.
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Margate Drinking Water Just OK
According to reports published by the Environmental Working Group, the quality of Margate’s drinking water has improved significantly in recent years. The sum of disinfection byproducts over the legal limit dropped between years 2004 and 2008 and levels of contaminants exceeding health standards remained relatively unchanged.
Overdevelopment and urban sprawl in South Florida has resulted in drinking water laced with agricultural and industrial pollutants and a slew of chemical disinfection byproducts associated with the water treatment process.
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Don't 'Eat then Fall Asleep'
Falling asleep directly after eating can both impede digestion and lead to rapid weight gain, especially if it's a a regular habit around the holidays. Hence, its a good idea to apply some common sense to when and how much we eat and to pay attention to the benefits of exercise.
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Can a diet high in fat ultimately lead to dementia?
I’m middle aged, in decent shape and I don’t have diabetes…yet. I love pizza, bread and pasta and although I’ve cut way back on fried food, I can’t fathom a burger without a side of Five Guys fries. Sound familiar?
Obesity is a huge problem for American adults. Every day is a feeding frenzy from breakfast to dinner, high-fat foods prevail and not one of us gets enough exercise.
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Careless Coral Springs ‘Shrink’ prescribes life-threatening drug
I would be remiss as a journalist in not sharing a recent, life threatening encounter with a local psychiatrist I chose from my BC/BS provider list to assess my bipolar disorder. For those of you unfamiliar with the ‘disease,’ symptoms of bipolar include mood swings, hyper-imagination, unprovoked irritability and some of a more serious nature as manic behavior intensifies.
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Reader's Letter
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The 'Palms at Atlantic' Living with Filth
With just a slight breeze blowing north, you can smell the garbage heap when pulling into the complex from Atlantic Boulevard. A smell similar to passing the dump on Powerline Road. Although garbage collection is all but halted in the neighborhood, residents of the ‘Palms at Atlantic’ keep piling it high.
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Palm Lakes Residents Looking for City Bailout
A victim to America’s declining interest in the sport of golf, the 18-acre parcel along Margate’s West Atlantic Boulevard formerly known as the Palm Lakes Golf Course has remained barren for years. The owner, Palm Lakes Holding LLC, wants to re-zone two acres of the property for a shopping mall and hand the remaining sixteen arsenic-ridden acres over to the city for a passive park.
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Project Lifesaver spares the life of wandering seniors
Two seniors too many in Margate have lost their lives this week to what may be a likely culprit: wandering caused by dementia.
Charles William Takacs, 94, was found facedown in a Coral Springs canal Thursday and Marguerite Fragapane, 71, was pulled from a Pompano canal Friday. Both Margate residents who apparently suffered from the ill-fated progressive brain disorder known as dementia that destroys memory and intellectual function.
Both were last seen wandering away from their homes on foot. Presently, no foul play is suspect in either case.
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Is Margate Rabies-free?
The chances of encountering a rabid animal in Margate are slim to none. Unlike the 60-year-old man recently bitten by a rabid fox in Boca’s South Beach Park, we’re more fortunate here in Margate.
Not only do we have our own animal control department in the city, Margate animal control officers have laid about 1,000 baits so far this year as part of a countywide effort to orally vaccinate raccoons, feral cats and foxes from rabies.
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Chinese Drywall: Fact, Fiction, Political Grandstanding
You’ve read the stories: nosebleeds; dizziness; persistent cough; itchy, irritated eyes and skin; recurring headaches; sinus infection; asthma attacks and runny nose. Your house smells like rotten eggs and the guts of your air-conditioning unit and appliances corrode quickly. It could be Chinese drywall, you could have allergies or you could be a hypochondriac.
Then again, you might just be trying to get out from underneath your mortgage since the house you bought during the boom years is worth a whole lot less.
Caveat Emptor?
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Margate Senior Center helps seniors stay cool for summer
Margate’s Northwest Focal Point Senior Center every year receives grant money from the Emergency Home Energy Assistance Program (EHEAP) to pay the seasonal electric bills of seniors 60 and older whose electricity FPL is threatening to shut off. This year the center received four times its usual $7K allocation, or $28,000.
“It’s so much more money than we usually get,” said Project Director for the Center, Kelly D. Costa “I don’t even know if we can spend it all.”
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The Margate Swine Flu Handbook
Based on reports from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control), Red Cross and Homeland Security, there are measures we can take to avoid contracting swine flu. In fact, if we all just follow some simple steps and remain calm, cool and logical, swine flu will pass us by. You may also find peace of mind knowing that every hospital in Florida, including Margate’s Northwest Medical Center, has a tactical plan in place in case swine flu goes pandemic.
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Teen Texting in Margate leads to violence
One Margate teen texted another Wednesday about how angry he was at his girlfriend and needed to find an outlet. The next day, just minutes before critically injuring another Margate teen by bashing him over the head with a skateboard, the teen texted the same friend implying little more than he found the outlet he was looking for--but wasn’t specific about it, said an eyewitness to the account.
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Reader Opinion
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