AROUND TOWN
This year’s Clematis by Fright features an expedited judging process for its costume contest, to pack in more games. The Oct. 26 event, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on the waterfront, will feature live music by the Miami-based Latin/Funk sensations, The Spam Allstars. Free kids’ activities range from hay rides to face painting, and a costume contest for all ages, with a chance to win thousands of dollars in prizes. For more information, visit www.wpb. org/events or call 561-822-1515.
Join the City of West Palm Beach and historians Janet DeVries and Dr. Ginger Pederson for a Halloween-themed walking tour of historic Woodlawn Cemetery on Oct. 26. The cemetery is the final resting place of some of Palm Beach County’s most influential and important citizens, including a few infamous ones. This tour will last 90 minutes. Comfortable shoes are a must.
Arrive by 7:15 p.m. at Woodlawn Cemetery; 1500 S. Dixie Hwy. Parking is available in the cemetery. Call 561-804-4900 for more information.
PBAU
As franchising continues to grow globally as a career path, Palm Beach Atlantic University’s Rinker School of Business is inviting the public to a free viewing of the documentary, The Founder, which stars Michael Keaton as businessman Ray Kroc, and portrays the story of his creation of the McDonald’s fast food chain.
The event Oct. 23 at 5:30 p.m. on the PBAU campus, will be held in the Weyenberg Center, 901 S. Flagler Drive. Guests are also invited to stay for a discussion by Dr. John Hayes, chairman of the business school’s Titus Center for Franchising. Ray Titus, CEO of United Franchise Group, will also join the discussion.
To register to attend The Founder, contact Becky Peeling at titus_center@pba.edu, or 561-803-2018.
GRAND OPENING
The Westgate Community Farm ,in the Westgate neighborhood of suburban West Palm Beach at 1130 Wabasso Drive, is hosting a grand opening event for the community today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., with food, music and children’s activities. There’ll be tours of the space and recruiting of residents for the community garden plots.
The project began in the winter of 2015-16 to revitalize a vacant lot and transform it into a lush, green community hub and a productive farm that will provide organically grown produce to residents in the community. This season the farm is ramping up to include education programs for youth, an apprenticeship program, community garden plots, and an on-site nursery and farm stand to provide neighbors with fresh food, as well as plants and soil.
HONORS
Laura Maxwell, a West Palm Beach law clerk for Greenberg Traurig P.A., was recognized as the invited student/inductee speaker at the ceremony for new attorneys held Oct. 4 at the Florida Supreme Court. The honor is reserved for students who received high scores in the most recent Florida Bar Examination, which was administered in July. Maxwell is a member of the firm’s real estate practice. She received her Juris Doctor from the Florida International University College of Law, where she was in the top 1 percent of her class.