South Florida Sun Sentinel from Fort Lauderdale, Florida • Page 4

NORTH BROWARD Scin-SentincI Thursday, June 23, 1SS4 Board OKs cancer center at Broward General 1 OB ter. Stull said. Once the terms of the lease are agreed to. the center could be operational in 12 to 14 months, said Stull. Commissioners asked that a lease be prepared for their inspection by the July 11 board meeting.

In January the district committed 117.150 for a $35,090 feasibility study of the project HealthCorp paid the rest The report indicated that 20 percent of residents in the area served by Broward General is more than (5 years old the age at highest risk to cancer. The report estimated that 4,612 new cancer cases occurred in that area during 1983 and that was projected to increase to 5,486 new cases in Patients will be referred to Broward General for tests and other services not offered directly by the center, Stull said. "This project Is one of the most exciting challenges that faces us." said Commissioner Sharon Solomon following the board's unanimous vote to negotiate with HealthCorp on building the center. The hospital is negotiating with the City of Fort Lauderdale to acquire a short segment of Southeast 16th Street that is surrounded by hospital property. the hospital owned the street, which comes to a dead-end in the hospital's parking lot, the area could be redesigned for parking and a covered walkway connecting the hopsital to the cen bos pital'i main entrance.

The center will offer a variety of services for cancer patients. All are now available in Broward, but this will be the first time they will be available under one roof. Stull sail Special psychological and financial counseling will be available to patients, in addition to cancer therapy such as treatment with radiation and cbemotheraputic The center also will provide information about the early detection and prevention of cancer, support groups for patients and families, hospice care for the terminally ill and rehabilitation that includes physical and occupational therapy, dietary treat- ments and counseling. 1988. Initially the district considered entering into a joint venture with HealthCorp.

building and operating the facility under the managment of HealthCorp. or turning over all the responsibility to the corporation. Stull recommended Wednesday that HealthCorp assume full ownership of the facility but the district would retain the option to buy the cancer center at any time, Stull sail "I didn't feel we could come forward at a time when we're out borrowing $90 million and suggest we add another 3 5 million." said Stull. "In order to get this off the Please see HOSPITAL. 10B By Gail Poultoo KM raw North Broward Hospital District Commissioners Wednesday agreed to allow a private corporation to build a S-million center to care for cancer patients on the grounds of Broward General Medical Center.

Hospital Administrator Richard Stull recommended leasing the land to HealthCorp Cancer Care an Atlanta-based firm that specializes in building and operating such centers including one at a Daytona Beach hospital The Broward General site faces Andrews Avenue just north of the Parkland planners deny zoning request for Baptist church A LOOK AT PARKLAND INCORPORATED: 1963. POPULATION: Estimated at 750 to 800. SIZE: 10 square miles. CREATED: 1963 by Bruce Blount, who began developing about 420 acres that is now known as the Ranches area. FORM OF GOVERNMENT: A mayor and four city commissioners who represent the city's three major subdivisions: the Ranches area.

Cypress Head, and Pinetree Estates. QUOTE: "It the church changes the whole character of what that area started out as many years ago." Michael Shift, resident ot the Ranches area. in lv t-V i 1 1 i -4 1 1 i 'J iV. i Hhr I 1 If. Mi ''i 1 i 1 I i'l i li 1 By David Jackson SuM Writer PARKLAND Horses and other animals freely roam the rural area of this community known as the Ranches, so residents cannot be accused of disliking God and his creatures.

They just don't want God's worshipers as neighbors. Fresh from a failed crusade against the paving of their roads, the owners of estate homes in remote northwest Parkland are now fighting a proposed Baptist church that would be the first house of worship in the community. "They'll be bringing people in from the city and I don't want that," said homeowner Debbie Fromen. "I don't think God will be upset if we located the church somewhere other than a residential Lynne Steel said Tuesday to the city's planning and zoning board. 1 The board eventually voted 4-1 to deny the zoning request that would have made the church possible.

The board's recommendation will be passed onto the City Commission, which has final say. "I'm not anti-religious," board member Cliff Rothband said, "but I wouldn't Want a church across from my house. This is an area that is planned as Gary Ellsworth, a member of the First, Baptist Church of Deerfield Beach, said the proposed sanctuary at the southeast corner of Holmberg Road and Northwest 87th Avenue is for a group that now meets at a State OKs high school in northwest By Rick Pierce Edacatioa Writer A new high school that would alleviate overcrowding at three high schools in northwest Broward County may finally be in the offing. The school, slated to hold 1,926 students, would have 30 classrooms, eight science laboratories, two art rooms and several work areas, according to guidelines recently approved by the state Department of Education. The School Board has not formally decided to build the facility, but school officials confirmed they are negotiating with Coral Ridge Properties for a parcel in Parkland, northeast of where Coral Springs Drive would cross the proposed Sawgrass Expressway.

The three high schools already in the area, Coconut Creek, Coral Springs and Taravella, will have 1,900 excess students next year. "We need to build a school out there," said board Vice Chairman Toni Siskin. "I'm sure it won't be too far in the distance." Board member Don Samuels agreed, saying that he expects preliminary discussions to begin during the 1984-85 school year. Planning and actual construction, he said, is "probably a two- to three-year process Samuels discounted rumors that building the school would mean that Pompano Beach High, long targeted for closing because of low enrollment, would have to be shut down. "One has no relation to the other," he said.

Board member Jan Cummings said she has been lobbying hard for the new school. "The growth projections are just phenomenal for this area," she said. "We'll be lucky if we make it a year at Coconut Creek without going on double sessions." School facilities director Robert Pulver said money has not been allocated for the school, known only as "DDD." Pulver warned that the cost would be considerable. The last high schools built in the county Western and Taravella cost about $15 million each. Pulver said he expects the new school would cost even more, and not just because of inflation.

A state law passed several years ago requires new schools to have windows that open in each classroom. The law, designed to save money on power bills, eliminates interior classrooms, requiring a larger building and increasing costs. Western High, for example, sits on a 40-acre site. The, new school would require 45 acres, Pulver said. An architect to draw a new plan would also be required.

Both Western and Taravella were built from the same plan before the window guidelines went into effect. The state has long agreed that Broward could build the school, but wanted to limit enrollment to 1,454 students, below the 1,788 figure that school officials say is a must to operate a school efficiently. Board members said they would not agree to such a small school After studying estimates of projected enrollments in the area, state education officials notified the school system this month that they would agree to the capacity. State permission is required before a school can be built, but its recommendation does not require that the school be built. Mrs.

Siskin said that construction of the proposed $17.7 million school administration building should take a back seat to construction of the new school, if money is not available for both. "If it's to the point where it has to be a choice, I would go with a school, as much as we need a new administration building," she said. temporary facility on Loxahatchee Road. The First Baptist Church of Deerfield Beach, the Gulf Stream Baptist Association and Twin Lakes Baptist Church of Fort Lauderdale are jointly sponsoring the development. "We have a spiritual need among the peoples of our land," said Gerald Edwards, one of the 20 church members in Edwards, director of church extension for the Gulf Stream Baptist Association, said that churches are closing at a faster rate than they are opening.

Please see CHURCH, JOB Deerfield board grants final OK for beach hotel ii i if lated to floor space, height, parking and setbacks for the hotel. In order to live up to the concept of a "suite hotel," floor space will be 750 square feet rather than the typical 350 square feet of other hotel rooms, Hall said. In addition, the board agreed to allow the hotel to be 100 feet high at a cupola, the highest point on the building. The zoning codes limit height to 55 feet. Hall said that the state's erosion control line requires that less land be used, thus dictating the height and layout of the hotel.

The erosion control line prohibits construction seaward of a designated point on Florida's beaches. Board Chairman Joseph Cordesman voted against the height variance, saying the building "will shut out sunlight and air circulation, particularly to the west." Another variance will allow the hotel to park cars bumper to bumper in 28 of its 307 spaces, a type of parking otherwise prohibited in the city. Please see HOTEL, 10B By Theresa Defino Staff Writer DEERFIELD BEACH A seven-story, 244-room luxury hotel planned for property on State Road A1A was approved by the city's Board of Adjustment Tuesday night, the final OK needed for construction. "Thank-you. Beautiful," said attorney Donald Hall, representing Granada Royale Hometel, after the board approved five variances for the hotel.

"I heartily approve of this and I am very pleased that it is coming to our city," said Lawrence Carvey, a board member. The hotel would be located orf about 2V4 acres between Southeast 20th and 21st avenues and 9th and 10th streets, at the southern end of the Deerfield Beach city limits. The Granada Royale is the second hotel to be planned in Deerfield in the past six months. A 220-room Hilton is under construction on six acres at Hillsboro Boulevard and Interstate 95. Hall said he did not know how much the Granada hotel will cost.

Board members approved variances re 1 1 lV' T- i i Staff photo by KEITH HADLEV Taking a hot shower Sparks from his powerful torch shower all around Ed Alvarez of Johnny's Welding as he works on a support beam for a food market soon to open on West Broward Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. A face mask protects him from the bright light. Critter outfoxed for her own good rrr By Rocky Moretti Staff Writer MARGATE The caged gray fox, blinking as the morning sun intensified, didn't seem to realize she was on her way to a new home. It had been a difficult spring for the fox, raising her two pups in a patch of woods bordered by the Lake Shore Drive-in, Coconut Creek Parkway and a new development under construction. With each pass- back out.

We really wanted to catch her." All last week Buza set the trap, but with no results. Then, on Tuesday morning, his patience was rewarded when he found the mother fox sitting in the cage, a chicken bone next to her. "She's the one we've been trying to get all along," Buza said. The fox was released into Fern Forest, a new 240-acre nature preserve being developed by the county west of Florida's Turnpike and south of the C-14 canal the same place where her two pups were released. "They'll be protected there," Zettek said.

"The park has a six-foot fence around it and it's a nature preserve." "At most construction sites they don't go to this effort," Zettek said. "Most of them construction workers will tear down the woods and move on." Buza said he's just happy the fox family is safe. "It's nice to know they'll have a good life," Buza said. driving to his job one morning six weeks ago as project manager for MAP Builders at the Viewpointe development, when he saw the fox dart across the road. "When I saw the fox, I thought that we ought to try and save her," Buza said Tuesday.

"I know the land she lives on will be developed soon and I wanted to protect the animals in there." So Buza called the Humane Society, where a spokesman told him to contact Margate's Animal Control division. Andrew Zettek, a Margate animal control officer, gave Buza some wildlife traps and said any animals that were trapped would be moved to a more suitable area. The hunt was on. Buza baited the steel-mesh traps with chicken every night. The first capture was a raccoon.

Seven more raccoons were captured and relocated by Zettek. Soon, Buza's traps captured the fox's two pups. But the mother continued to elude her pursuers. "She's clever," Buza said. "She would get into the trap and get the chicken, then i ing week, the forest shrank and the habitat grew Increasingly dangerous as cars and trucks started to use a dirt road next to the fox's home.

But then she made a most unlikely friend a construction worker. Pete Buza was V- -w. r- -4 iff tr -i- Hi -'r J. -I Staff photo by ROCKY MORETTI Construction worker Pete Buza couldn't save fox's home, but he saved its life. Buza Inside Grand jury to investigate bingo Probe follows agents' visits to hall, operators' home Holy Cross lays off 30 nurses Hospital officials blame new tax.

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