By Cindy Kent

Community

Winterfest Inc. hosted the installation of its new 2020-2021 board members via a Zoom meeting. The installation and welcome of the board and advisory members was followed by an announcement from Winterfest Chair Susan Renneisen, vice president of community affairs and special events at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, and Chairman-Elect

Mark Swenson, senior vice presidentwealth management at UBS Financial Services, Inc. – The Garvin Financial

Team, naming parade participant and board member Britt Lanier, franchise owner, Two Men and a Truck, as 2021 Boat Parade Chair. Lisa Scott-Founds is Winterfest president and chief executive officer. The Winterfest board of directors is composed of 50 community leaders who are ambassadors for this South Florida event. The new board members are:

Amanda Cifu Burke – Florida Panthers; John Dunnuck – Broward College; James

Harrison – Frank and Jimmie’s Propeller; Michael Johnson - Clearpath Alerts;

Kristene Lundblad-Tokesky – Lank Oil Co.; Steve Nudelberg – On the Ball; Gary Press – Lifestyle Magazine; Stacy Ritter -

Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau; and Ed Strobel - Sunshine Solar Services. New advisory members are:

Isaac Benharoche – Light Up The Night;

Eli Goldshtein - Light Up The Night; Jay Marhefka - Crown Wine and Spirits; John Moorman – Carroll’s Jewelers; Kim Nguyen – Harbor Nails & Hair; Duree Ross – Duree & Company, and Chaz Warrington – DEX Imaging.

The YMCA of the Palm Beaches announced Douglas Johnson as its new senior director of operations.

The Promise Fund of Florida announced that Harvey E. Oyer III has joined its board of directors. Oyer is an attorney and partner in the West Palm Beach office of Shutts & Bowen LLP, where he is a member of the Real Estate Practice Group.

Education

The Dreyfoos School of the Arts Foundation elected a new slate of officers to its board of directors. Lisa Marie Browne, of Boca Raton, was elected board chair. She has served on the foundation board since 2005, including 10 terms as vice chairman. Browne succeeds long-serving board chair

Simon Benson Offit, who becomes chairman emeritus after 23 years as a board member and 13 terms as board chair. The board officers elected at its May 13 meeting are Vice Chair Brandon Levine, Secretary

Sue Patterson and Treasurer George Elmore. Also serving on the Dreyfoos School of the Arts Foundation board of directors are Gil Cohen, Patrick S. Cous

ins, Esq., Edmund Duhy, Darlene Dzuba, William Fritz, Marcie Gorman, Howard

A. Green, M.D., Gail Hughes Galli, Allison Rogers Haft, Nancy Hart, Ellen Liman, Alice Randolph, Edward M. Ricci, Esq., Joseph Scheller, Bennett Shuldman, Donald Silpe, Karen Swanson, Manley Thaler, Esq., Kenneth Wyse, Joan Javits Zeeman. The Dreyfoos School of the Arts Foundation supports the arts and academic curriculum of Dreyfoos School of the Arts, the public arts high school in downtown West Palm Beach.

Governmental

The Broward League of Cities, representing Broward County’s 31 municipal governments and more than 120 associate members, installed Commissioner Traci

Callari of Hollywood as its new president on May 14 in the city of Hollywood Commission Chambers. Callari follows Mayor

Daniel J. Stermer of Weston as League President and joins fellow officers on the Executive Committee: First Vice President – Commissioner Beverly Williams, Lauderdale Lakes; Second Vice President – Commissioner Bill Harris, Dania Beach; Secretary – Vice Mayor Bob Mayersohn,

Parkland and Treasurer – Commissioner

Gary Resnick, Wilton Manors.

The Florida League of Cities recognized Margate Commissioner Antonio V. Arse

rio with a 2020 Home Rule Hero Award. Arserio earned this award for his tireless efforts throughout the legislative session to promote local voices making local choices, protect the Home Rule powers of Florida’s municipalities, and advance the League’s legislative agenda. Home Rule is the ability for a city to address local problems with local solutions with minimal state interference. Home Rule Hero Award recipients are local government officials, both elected and nonelected, who consistently responded to the League’s request to reach out to members of the legislature and help give a local perspective on an issue.

Cultural

Andrea Toledano, president of Stand Up Life, a nonprofit promoting emotional intelligence in and out of the classroom, has joined the board of Fort Lauderdale Performing Arts Inc.

Real estate

Ten30 South Beach, an enclave of Miami Beach condominiums by development firm Shoma Group, announced the appointment of Fortune Development Sales’ Maria

Elena Plasencia, as director of sales for the four-story boutique project featuring 43 residences.