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4BR The Miami Hfrtld Friday March 31 1389 Condo ruling fails to settle age dispute She made a career of caring HRS official is retiring struction for making such a change Zloch based his ruling and his determination that the case has no bearing on the Fair Housing Act changes on the fact that no such consent was given Seniors-only condominium associations across Florida had been awaiting the ruling hoping it w'ould shed light on whether and how they can restrict ownership in their developments said an attorney whose firm represents more than 1700 South Florida associations are a lot of questions to be answered in the federal law but clear that this court going to resolve the said Dave Ro-gel of Becker Poliakoff and Streit-feld Rogel predicted it will take several test cases to resolve the issue exemptions seem obvious but the ways you qualify for them are very he said will probably take more than one CONDO from IBR company wants to be able to sell or rent its units to people of any age The four associations representing the Boca Glades buildings and the master association however want to restrict the units to people over 55 Last year Congress passed changes to the Fair Housing Act that prohibit complexes from refusing to sell to families with children or people under a certain age But the law has two exceptions: Children can be banned if 80 percent of the units are occupied by people over age 55 and there are facilities and services for the elderly or if all residents in the complex are over 62 years old The direc tors of the Boca Glades associations amended their condominium rules to try to fall under the 80 percent exception The rules however require prior written consent from Minto Con JOE RIMKUS JR 1 Miami Herald Start Myra Lentz Bomba has worked for 27 years as a public health nurse in Broward County By CHRISTINA CHEAKALOS Herald Staff Writer When Myra Lentz Bomba began her career as a public health nurse in Broward County West Broward was not yet sub-divided middle-class working mothers were considered an anomaly and poor children were dying of stomach worms The year was 1962 and Bomba who grew up on a farm in North Carolina and had earned her degree in public health nursing from the University of North Carolina was offered a job with the health department in Fort Lauderdale Many premature babies in the county were dying within months of being sent home from the hospital with their poor or teen-age mothers She was to head a follow-up program in which nurses would visit the homes and offer advice on nutrition and other matters as well as monitor the condition of the infants Her salary was $2528 a year She was divorced and supporting three sons come full said Bomba 62 I started we did follow-ups of babies going back to unhealthy or poor environments where the mothers were young and inexperienced We still have babies going back to poverty and we do follow-ups with premature babies bom to cocaine mothers" Today when Bomba walks out of COUPON AVOID TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS SERVING SO FLORIDA OVER 30 YEARS TRANSMISSION TUNE UP 1 31 HATKNfRAOt KtO CANADA 52 OPEN MON -SAT 30AM-6PM th This Ad Transmission Wjiti Point Tune Up Includes NEW FLUID CLEAN SUMP CLEAN SCREEN REPLACE GASKET ADJUST BANOS 5 LINKAGE 9 ROAD TEST CHECK FOR LEAKS CHECK IMQINTS her office and into retirement she leaves as the $60000-a-year deputy district administrator second-in-command in Broward for the state Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services When she began county health departments were independent It until 1975 that HRS became the statewide governing agency outlasted five governors seven secretaries of the department and five local district she said thrilled that watched and hopefully helped other women rise to management positions For years only doctors make that only male doctors could run health departments Not anymore I guess I can go home now Sometimes it seems like I got here Bomba finished the premature ba by study and was promoted in 1965 to nursing director of the Broward County Health Department In 1983 she became director of the entire department days I push a lot more paper than I used to and things move more slowiy because such a big she said miss babies and elderly people and handicapped people Those are the ones I spent my career visiting and helping and falling in love with But the last few years cared for my staff and gotten involved with those around the HRS Broward attorney Larry Kranert said he know what do without Bomba at her so professional so gentile with that old Southern charm and those impeccable manners and Kranert said then in five minutes flat she kicks your butt with one look or one great comment and you actually tee! bad that she was forced to slam you Bomba said she'll miss her coworkers but time to leave Last year Bomba's oldest son Sidney died at age 35 after a lifelong battle with diabetes realized every single minute was she said was time for Henry and I to The year before she met and married Henry Bomba who helped care for her son waited a long time and wras terribly cautious about marriage but he was so supportive with my son and helped me so much that I knew he was the one God unzipped heaven and threw him out for me So travel and play golf Free Introductory Sessions Smokeless The Stop Smoking Program that Works! CBS affiliates compete for audience Channel 6 offers breaks to condos I (GETT1NGITHB PICTUR Dates: Monday April 3 Thursday April 5 Time: 5:30 6:30 pm Place: Broward General Medical Center Oak Room Broward General Medical Center 1600 South Andrews Ave Ft Lauderdale FL 33316 355-5680 WCIX will help condominiums and apartments with 50 or more units pay for antenna work that will improve reception of Channel 6 If you think your building qualifies have your building manager of condo association president call WCIX at 522-6060 and ask for the engineering department secretary CHANNEL 6 from 1BR are aimed toward South Broward where most of the Miami-Fort Lauderdale TV stations have their towers But Channel tower is near Homestead The station boost its power or move the transmitter because the signal would interfere with an Orlando station that also broadcasts on Channel 6 Many Broward viewers care about not getting WCIX until January when the station started carrying CBS programming as part of South network-affiliation shake-up As part of that change CBS signed up a new West Palm Beach affiliate WPEC-Channel 12 its signal reaches well into North Broward But many viewers in Central and South Broward who subscribe to cable were left without CBS programming Broward County and even points in Dade County the Channel 6 signal arrives quite said Fred Green whose Miramar company Master TV Services is doing the antenna work WCIX now is paying from 60 to 75 percent about $500 of the cost of improving antennas and adding amplifiers and filters Newman said The condominium pays the rest usually a few hundred dollars is said Ed Atorino a media analyst who follows CBS for Salomon Brothers in New York But even though Newman said the station was willing to CBS from 1BR Broward and is spotty elsewhere in the county Channel Broward viewership from sign-on to sign-off has jumped from 7 to 24 percent since the affiliation switch said marketing director Don Colee Advertisers who phone WPEC are informed of the a selling point especially attractive to businesses in North Broward and South Palm Beach Colee said a portion of improvement funds CBS gave WPEC after they became an affiliate will be used to beef up its signal by October Money for the new bureau came from Channel 12 only and Radio Shack up all the for antenna development I Because the new antenna receives from opposite directions it would not improve Broward reception of Channel 6 which broadcasts from South Dade 1 Regardless of Channel improvements Channel message to Broward viewers is: touch that dial The station will announce a similar antenna package with major in one or two weeks according to general manager Allen Shaklan and a plan to improve antennas on Broward condominiums is already in full swing In addition there are top secret plans for the coming weeks that cost the viewers Shaklan said would advise people to not act on the Channel 12 pay six for the work Atorino said the cost is especially considering the relatively low price CBS paid for WCIX The network paid about $59 million last year for Channel 6 NBC paid more than four times that amount about $240 million when it bought WTVJ-Channel 4 in 1987 like buying a fixer-upper Atorino said get it at a bargain price for a reason: got to fix it The improvements are under way at the 660-unit Colony Point complex in Pembroke Pines where manager Doris Parent is optimistic the work will put an end to the barrage of complaints she has received hope she sighed Newman said WCIX is studying ways of improving reception at private homes but those are not complete will be other he said assure NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY OF HOLLYWOOD The Hollywood City Commission will hold a public hearing on Monday April 3 1 989 at 7:00 PM in City Commission Chambers City Hall to review and discuss passage of a final Great Neighborhoods Program proposal All interested persons are invited to attend and express their views on this issue Martha Lambos City Clerk Not including the antenna and signal plans CBS improvements to Channel 6 will be $7 million this year also paying for expanded promotional efforts and 40 more news staff members antennas He would not confirm whether this meant an overall signal boost for Channel 6 Another undisclosed strategy will improve reception problems experienced by Broward cable companies Shaklan said Channel 6 is also about to close a deal that will move its 10-year-old Broward bureau from the Governmental Center to a bigger location Staff will be increased and a new microwave hookup will facilitate live remote broadcasts from the county Meet a Great Dane with personality Marmaduke daily on the comics page of The Miami Herald to QanxsdMB NEED GASH! 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