The Palm Beach Post from West Palm Beach, Florida • Page 258

11 Neighborhood Post The Palm Beach Post Wednesday, February 7, 2001 THE WAY WE WERE COMMUNITY CALENDAR Mi 500 Civic Center Way, Royal Palm Beach. Call 790-6030. ONGOING: Happening this week Women's low-imoact aerobics. irAii I Mondays and Wednesdays at 9 VI" a.m. and 1 nursdays at 7 p.m., activity center of First Baptist Church of Royal Palm Beach, 10701 Okeechobee Blvd.

Free. Class includes devotion, warm- Bob Roberts Society Orchestra will perform at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center, 151 Civic Center Way, for the annual Valentine's Dance from 7:30 -11 p.m. $7. Call 790-5149. SUNDAY The Ink Spots will perform at Royal Palm Beach High School's performing arts theater, 10600 Okeechobee Royal Palm Beach, at 7:30 p.m.

$12 adults; accom ud. low-imoact aerobics, floor work, and cool-down. Call 793- 2475 The Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center. 151 Civic Center Wav. Royal Palm Beach, offers many vT'-i activities lor adults and semor citizens.

Call 790-5149. The Royal Palm Beach Commu I' nity Concert Band is seeking area musicians, both protessional and amateur, to ioin and Der- form. Rehearsals are Tuesdays at 7 p.m., Royal Palm Beach Cul panied students are free. Call the Crestwood Performing Arts League at 753-4974. tural Center, 151 Civic Center Way, Royal Palm Beach.

The band also needs donations of musical scores and ar ran ce 1 L- 1 LL: swing ana daisa ments, music stands, and instru "i- Photo courtesy Michele Courtright ments. Call 790-5149. Bingo Trips: depart the Cultural Center, 151 Civic Center Drive, Royal Palm Beach, the second Wednesday of each Classes will be held today and Feb. 25 from 1-3 p.m. at World Gym, Winn Dixie Center.

$10 per class. TUESDAY Round and round it goes month at 4 p.m. Individuals can purchase $20, $30, or $40 packages. Call 795-9183. Na'Amat USA, Sharon Club will present Harriet Gold Mom and Dad Tots Group, from stein, professor at Barry Uni- 10:30 a.m.-noon Wednesdays at Good Earth Farm and Foundation.

Includes petting zoo. pony WELLINGTON In the '80s, there was still lots of land to set up a pumpkin patch. This vending site at Forest Hill Boulevard and State Road 441, photographed in October 1982, is now occupied by Wellington Regional Medical Center. Headers: Share your old photos of what life was like in your city. They will be returned.

Send to: Neighborhood Post, 320 Business Parkway, Royal Palm Beach, Fla. 33411. Cap Dimick, Palm Beach's first mayor, a pioneer but no captain rides, circle time and crafts. $12 per session or 10 sessions for $120. Reservations required.

Call 792-2666. SUPPORT Teen Moms summit and encour agement erouD. Tuesdavs. 7 On April 17, 1911, Cap and p.m., Royal Palm Covenant i louis aempie ciarice gainerea I I 31 male property owners on the if I stePs Clarke home, cnurcn, bbo Royal Palm Beach Roval Palm Beach. Call Kim Barrantes at 686-1192.

i MOMS Club of Royal Palm BeachLoxahatchee is a support group for stay-at-home moms. where they signed the charter incorporating the community. Cap became Palm Beach's first mayor. He had already been a state representative in 1890 and state senator in 1896, and he helped start the region's first bank, the Dade County State Bank. Activities offered include week versity bchool of Social Work, at 11:30 a.m.

in the Cultural Center in Royal Palm Beach. Goldstein will discuss the beneficial effects of "Humor on Health." A mini-lunch will be served. Call Bess at 793-3865. DANCE CLASSES: Social dance classes including swing, ballroom, salsa, country, discohustle and more is held from 7-8 p.m. for beginners and 8-9 p.m.

for intermediateadvanced every Monday at the Royal Palm Beach Recreation Center, 100 Sweet Bay Lane, Royal Palm Beach. Call 7905124. Dancing: Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center, 151 Civic Center Way, Royal Palm Beach, features dances throughout the season at 7 p.m. $7. Call 790-5149.

Clogging Classes, Thursdays, 6-7 p.m. (beginners), 7-8 p.m. (advanced), 8-9 p.m. (performance team), at Royal Palm Beach Recreation Center, 100 Suite Bay Main, Royal Palm Beach. Call Janet Peters at 784-7224.

LIBRARIES: Royal Palm Beach Branch, ly activities, monthly general business meetings, monthly Eliot Weinberg PostTime moms night out, special holiday parties, and also performing community service projects throughout the year. Call 792- i What kind of captain was Palm Beach pio-I neer "Cap Dimick?" He wasn't Elisha Newton Dimick got his for the white hats he liked to wear. His family came to Palm Beach in 1876 and grew sweet potatoes, pumpkins and pineapples. In 1880, Dimick added eight rooms to his home and opened the island's first hotel, the Cocoanut Grove House. By 1899, Cap owned 136 acres of Palm i Beach, then just a patch of jungle and swamp from lake to ocean.

He built a wooden bridge himself in 1911 and called it the Royal Park Bridge, for his Palm Beach development project, the Royal Park Addition. He charged a quarter per car and a nickel per pedestrian. Dimick probably would never be a finalist in a spelling bee. In his neighborhood plat, he spelled Chilean as Chilian for Chilian Avenue, and it's still spelled that way. In 1919.

Palm Beach County bought Dimick's bridge for $40,000, intending to replace it with a concrete span. But two days before the ribbon-cutting ceremony in 1921, four arches of the new bridge collapsed into the water. The span was rebuilt, and a sixth incarnation of the bridge, the northernniqsj of the three that conpect.West Palm Beach and Palm Beach, Is set td be completed in 3017 or 791-7689. I National Parkinson Foundation has suDDort etoud meetinas in Royal Palm Beach. Call 991-800- His grandson, Claude Dimick Reese, served 56 years in Palm Beach government, 18 as mayor and 38 as a council member.

He died at 87 in 1984. Today, a statue of Cap Dimick, holding his cap, stands on Royal Palm Way and welcomes visitors to Palm Beach. Historical Society of Palm Beach County: 832-4164 Read More About It Our Century, by Palm Beach Post staff The "Post Time" column will answer your questions about. local history. Submit your questions to Post Time, Pjlrr) Beach Post, 2915 S.

Congress Delray Ha'. 33445. Call 820-3467 or2793467. Email to neighborhoodpbpost.com tor more details. The Royal Palm Beach Parkinson's Support Group meets Mon days and Wednesdays at 10 a.m., Royal Palm Beach Recre ation Center, 100 Sweet Bay Lane, Royal Palm Beach.

Call Shirley Anne at 627-J3857 or the center at 7904124.