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C2 The Post, Sunday, December 29, 1985 Bludworth Praises Volunteers Community Close-Up Send information to The Post, Community Close-Up. co Bobbie Meyers, P.O. Box West Palm Beach, 33402. Releases must be received at least 10 days prior to the date of publication and should include a name and phone number in case additional information is needed. "And a witness also is an innocent party who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time," she said.

"But witnesses don't have the personal interest in a case that a victim does, and they still have to put up with subpoenas interrupting their lives and work to compel them to come to a hearing that might get postponed." Her recent recruits have gone through three three-hour training sessions about the criminal justice system in the past two weeks. Mostly retired men and women, they will join about 25 other volunteers and four fulltime county employees who provide services in 22 areas, including doing everything from tracking down missing witnesses and counseling bereaved families to working on computers and typing. "We help the victim get through the initial trauma, through the court system and back to being a normal functioning person," Press said. "That includes anything from helping a victim of a purse snatching get new keys or new locks for her house to talking to someone for months after a family member has died. "Once we even helped a woman buy a dog because she was afraid to live alone after a burglary." Felony cases often do not come to trial for a year, so a volunteer usually gets to know a victim well.

"You might start meeting them for dinner," Press said. By Paul BIythe Staff writer Palm Beach County State Atty. David Bludworth picked a good day recently to recruit volunteers for a program designed to aid victims and witnesses of crimes in the county. He told a group of 20 recruits for the county court's and state attorney's VictimWitness Program that he knew what it was like to be a volunteer. Bludworth did some charitable work of his own recently: ringing a bell and collecting money for the Salvation Army in front of the county courthouse.

Bludworth also explained the value of volunteers to the VictimWitness Program provide. He estimated they saved the state attorney's office at least $250,000 a year. To Susan Press, director of the county court program, the volunteers' value is priceless. "As we grow, we specialize, and the only way to keep up with all the services is through volunteers," she said. Boca Raton Lecture Program Four Palm Beach chapters of Brandeis University National Women's Committee will sponsor a "University on Wheels" program at Florida Atlantic University Jan.

6., starting with a continental breakfast preceding the lecture at 9 a.m. The program will be on "Utopian Dream Utopian Reality." Jacob Cohen, associate professor of American studies at Brandeis University, will examine five Utopian novels, and Shulamit Reinharz, assistant professor of sociology at Brandeis, will discuss the Utopian idea of the kibbutz in Israel. Admission is $10. A luncheon honoring the visiting professors will be held at the Speakeasy in Boca Raton following the lectures. Cost is a $35 contribution to the Library Trust Fund, which includes admission to the lecture.

For information call 498-0796, 483-5490, 498-3274 or 439-3986. Thus, VictimWitness volunteers provide transportation for witnesses if they don't have any and other service-oriented activities. If they live out of state, the program flies them here and puts them up in a hotel. The volunteers must always know where victims and witnesses for several cases are. Because judges always have to be busy, they overbook and have several cases on one-hour call, which means a defendant and witnesses must be able to be called to trial within an hour's notice, Press said.

Volunteers also represent the state attorney's office at depositions if an assistant state attorney cannot attend. Area News YMCA Programs The YMCA of Boca Raton will have holiday camps through Friday for children ages 2W-4, 4-6, and 7-13. Camp hours are 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. An aerobics class, parent-child gym and swim class and a new session of the You and Me Baby class starts Jan. 6.

For information and registration call 392-0090. Volleyball Games The Levis Jewish Community Center and Hillel Jewish Student Union will sponsor a volleyball game for college-age players 7-10 cm. todav at the center. 336 N.W. Spanish River A Blvd.

Cost is free to Hillel or center members; $2 for nonmembers. For information call 395-5546 or 393-3510. Job Fair Student Job Fair, sponsored by chambers of commerce of Boca Raton, Boynton Beach, Delray Beach and Deerfield Beach, will be held Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Deerfield Beach Hilton. Area students are invited to see what career opportunities are available in local business and industry and what training is necessary.

Booth space is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Cost for Chamber of Commerce members is $75; nonmembers pay $100. For information, call Rick Beers, 395-4433. Drama Classes Florida Academy of Dramatic Arts is taking registration Thursday and Friday 10 a.m.-9 p.m. for winter term for acting classes for children and adults at Piccadilly Square, 8221 W.

Glades Road, Suite 210, Boca Raton. Classes run for 10 weeks and begin Jan. 6. For information call 488-2447. Hospital Programs Boca Raton Community Hospital, 800 Meadows Road, will have the following programs and support group meetings.

Thursday 7-9 p.m. American Diabetes Association Youth Support Group. Jan. 6 p.m. free introduction to the five-week smoking cessation program.

Jan. 7 p.m. free introduction to the five-week stress management program. For information call 395-7100, Ext. 4021.

Annual Tennis Benefit The second-annual American Cancer Soci ety Tennis Classic will be held Jan. 24-26 at the Town Swim and Racquet Club on St. Andrews Boulevard in Boca Raton. The tournament will include men's A and singles and and doubles; women's open and and doubles. Entry is $25 per team; $15 singles.

For information call 994-1977. German Language Class A class in conversational German will be offered p.m. beginning Jan. 7 at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2601 St. Andrews Boca Raton.

Class will meet Tuesdays and Teen, Juvenile Face Charges In Auto Thefts An 18-year-old Boynton Beach man and a juvenile accomplice were arrested early yesterday morning and charged with stealing three cars in Palm Beach County during the past three months, Boynton Beach police said. Jasper Riley, 170 N.E. 18th was arrested at 3:45 a.m. after a Boynton Beach police officer saw him speeding south on Seacrest Avenue. Police said the car had been stolen from Boca Raton.

Police said Riley and the juvenile also participated in the theft of two other cars, police said. All three cars were recovered. They were a 1980 Cadillac worth a 1981 Cadillac worth $9,000, and a 1984 Oldsmobile valued at $10,000. Riley was being held in County Jail in lieu of $2,000 bail. His juvenile accomplice was taken to Division Youth Services.

3-Car Crash Injures Up to 1 1 As many as 11 people were injured yesterday in a three-vehicle accident along SR 80, authorities said. The accident happened about 6:45 p.m. near the entrance to Lion Country Safari, according to one hospital spokesman. No fatalities were reported, but it was not clear how many persons were involved. A Palm Beach County sheriff's spokesman said deputies had difficulty compiling information about the crash because victims were taken to different hospitals and some did not speak English.

Four ambulances took victims to at least three area hospitals. Victims taken to Everglades Memorial Hospital were Monica Kelly, 17, of Pahokee with a knee injury; Eugene Jones, 17, of Canal Point with an arm injury; and Rodney Agnew, 20, with a mouth injury. All were treated and released. Three patients were treated and released from Glades General in Belle Glade. Further information about those patients was unavailable.

Youth Struck by Car, Killed An unidentified young man was struck by a car and killed late Friday night as he attempted to cross Melaleuca Lane in suburban Lake Worth, a spokesman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said. The man, about 15 to 19 years of age, was hit by a car driven by Janice Jamelin, 19, of Lake Worth at 11:55 p.m. Friday, the spokesman said. Man Dies of Gunshot Wounds A West Palm Beach man shot by his roommate during a party on Christmas Eve died Friday. Tomas W.

Fuentes, 25, of 3108 Georgia died about 10:30 p.m. in Good Samaritan Hospital, a hospital spokesman said yesterday. Fuentes had been shot in the head at close range by his roommate, Nelson Sabino Rivero, during a party in their Forest Hill Boulevard residence. Rivero also shot Fuentes' cousin, Ronaldo Fuentes, before killing himself with a single shot to the head. 4 Charged After Drug Raids Four people were arrested on drug charges yesterday in raids the West Palm Beach police tactical team conducted at three residences.

Police confiscated drugs, weapons and cash in the raids, which began about 1 p.m., said Lt. William McGinley, head of the tactical team. About 28 grams of cocaine and $27,900 in cash were confiscated at a house at 1619 Spruce Ave. in the northwest section of the city, McGinley said. Louisth-ene Chery, 28, was charged with cocaine trafficking, and Clara Quettant, 40, was charged with cocaine possession in the raid at that home.

Thursdays for 15 weeks. Cost is $50. For information and registration call 482-2001. Boynton Beach i :1 i) i Library Activities Boynton Beach Library, 208 S. Seacrest will have preschool story hours Mondays at 1 p.m.

and Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. Activity time for schoolage children is 7 p.m. Wednesday. The library will be closed Jan. 1 for New Year Day and Jan.

20 for Martin Luther King Day. For information call 732-2624. Great Music Series Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest will hold the Great Music Series 10 a.m.-noon Saturday. The series will be instructed by professional musician Jack Lowe.

The best-known works of major composers will be examined. The series will continue Saturdays through March. For information and registration call 732-2624. Delray Beach VFW Breakfast VFW post 4141, 5 S.E. Second Delray Beach, 1 1 i i mi mil imiiiiMiiiin linn mini mi mwi mimn serves breakfast every Sunday 8-11 a.m.

Cost is $2. A service officer is on duty at the post 9:30 a.m.-noon to help veterans fill out forms for benefits. Sherman ZentTHE POST Holiday Comings and Goings Japanese Work Exhibit The current exhibit at the Morikami Museum of Japanese Culture, 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach, is "Gokurosama: Clothing, Tools, and other Accoutrements of the Japanese Worker." The exhibit features garments related to specialized and tradi Small crowds of holiday travelers ar- although passenger traffic is picking up, the rive and depart at Palm Beach International heavy rush is not expected until after New Airport yesterday. Airline officials said that Year's Day. Clubs To Discuss Coalition tional occupations.

The exhibition will continue through Jan. 12. Classic Comedy The Palm Beach County Library branch at 7777 W. Atlantic Delray Beach, will show Buster Keaton Rides Again at 1:30 and 3 p.m. Tuesday.

The film is an informal portrait, including film clips of his silent films. For information call 498-3110. Calligraphy Class A six-week course in calligraphy will be taught by Ralph Weiner 10 a.m.-noon Mondays, starting Jan. 6 at the Delray Beach Community Center. For information call 736-1794.

Democratic groups from Palm Beach and Broward counties will meet in three weeks to discuss formation of a coalition that could carry heavier legislative clout. The idea is that of Andre Fladell, head of the South County Political Cooperative, itself a coalition of eight Democratic clubs and homeowner groups in south Palm Beach County. "It is time that the southern part of the state get together and have an equal voice with the people from the Panhandle," said Charles Goldstein, past president of the Deerfield Beach Democratic Club, one of several Broward clubs invit ed to the Jan. 14 meeting. Fladell has said that forming a coalition of Palm Beach and Broward counties' groups could expand clout and win millions of dollars in state money for projects in areas such as roads, utilities and taxes, as well as give certain candidates extra support.

"We will have a preliminary get-together and see where to go from there," said Amadio Trinchitella, new president of the Deerfield Beach Democratic Club, which boasts 600 members. "We want to see what directions we can go in. Perhaps we can go further with this." Medical Issues Lecture Dr. Fred Rosner will discuss medical ethics at a program sponsored by Florida Friends of Yeshiva University at 7:30 p.m. Jan.

7 at Congregation Anshei Emuna, 16189 Carter Road, Delray Beach. Rosner is director of the department of medicine at the Queens Hospital Center and a professor of medicine at the State University of New York College of Medicine. He has lectured throughout the world on medical ethics and has published extensively on medi From CI- Maternity cal ethics and Jewish medical history. He is a mem ber of the Professional Advisory Board of the Kenne dy Institute for Ethics of Georgetown University, chairman of the Medical Ethics Committee of the Queens Hospital Center. The program is free; no reservations are necessary.

For information call 499-9229. chooses to live out here should have to drive a long way into town to have a baby. We just want to provide the care they should have." While quality of care continues to be one area of contention, another is competition. Though obstetrical units historically are not profitable, delivering babies is one way hospitals develop relationships with families that tend to bring back people to that hospital for care. St.

Mary's, which has 51 maternity beds, had 2,432 admissions for obstetrical care in 1984, according to the health board. Good Samaritan, with 41 maternity beds, admitted 2,468 women for obstetrical care in 1984, according to the health board. "And spending the 30 minutes to get to the facility where the care is superior can't be disputed," he said. Community support seems to be on Palms West's side. Marty O'Connell, marketing director for Palms West, said he had received numerous letters from people living in the west in support of Palms West.

He has run a number of full-page ads in local weekly newspapers soliciting letters of support. "In a family community, we consider obstetrical care to be standard," O'Connell said. "We don't think someone who Adult Center Activities A simultaneous chess tournament with Sam Reshevsky vs. the membership of the Delray Beach Reshevsky Chess Club will be held at noon Jan. 6 at the Delray Beach Adult Recreation Center, 801 N.E.

First St. Reshevsky is eight-time winner of the U.S. chess championship. Exercise classes for seniors will begin Jan. 7, 9-10 a.m.

at the Adult Recreation Center. Cost is $20 for six weeks. Bridge for Beginners will begin 9-10 a.m. Jan. 11.

The eight-week course will be instructed by Sam Hankin. Cost is $25. For information call 278-0781. Blood Pressure Tests The Palm Beach County Fire Chiefs Association and the American Heart Association will give free blood pressure screenings Jan. 7 at most local fire stations.

The free screenings are given the first Tuesday of the month. For information call 278-7222. From CI" a "severe" problem, because residents of the western communities faced travel times of more than 30 minutes to get to downtown tals. "To the extent that the western area is growing," said Elizabeth Du-dek of the HRS community medical services office, "we found that there should be maternity care available." But Chester says the issue of travel time can be a little misleading, adding that it usually takes a mother in labor six hours to deliver her baby from the time she enters the hospital's door. Authority- thority stipulates that four of the five members of the panel be appointed by the governor.

County Commissioner Ken Spillias, who replaces Koehler on the expressway authority next month, said the panel's work should continue even if the task is taken over by the County Commission. "Timing is one of my big questions," he said. "I feel a study should be done. If an expressway is needed, I'd like to hear something about when it is needed. We may be looking at a process that is many years in the making, if at all." Expressway authority member Peter Doran, a Boca Raton real estate executive, declined to say whether he supports the continuation of the study.

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Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Call 732-0982. Retired School Supervisors and Administrators of the City of New York, Greater Palm Beaches Chapter, Friday 1 p.m., West Palm Beach County Library, 6350 Summit West Palm Beach. AIDS Parents, Friends and Relatives, Friday 7:30 p.m., Doctors Hospital, 10th Avenue North, Lake "I'm keeping an open mind about it until the last minute," he said. "I'm leaning in a couple of directions.

I don't think it's fair to telegraph my position in the media until I have a chance to get some questions I have answered by the consultants." He declined to discuss his questions. If the expressway authority decides at its upcoming meeting whether to move into the next phase of the study, only four people will make the decision. A vacancy on the panel was created last month when Pat Snow Jr. resigned. Joann Carrin, deputy appointments coordinator with the governor's office, said Graham hasn't selected a new member for the panel yet.

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