Category: Profiles

Taking the Fear out of Cancer

Dr. Lynda Frye Joins Jupiter Medical’s Breast Center To Help Screen, Treat Patients With Advanced Medicine And Technology

by Sandra Benavides Weichel, Published by Gulfstream Media Group, Featured in Jupiter Magazine, February 2017

Photography by Jason Nuttle

There’s an unconventional feeling to the waiting room at the new Margaret W. Niedland Breast Center in Jupiter. The air is crisp. The room smells like recently brewed coffee. And the contemporary décor includes an arrangement of bubble chandeliers, mahogany and pewter furniture, and an eclectic collection of paintings. The center, which could easily be associated with fear and worry, offers a soothing environment that alludes more to a spa than to a medical center.

But the most calming element in this 26,000-square-foot building is not the décor or the smell. Rather, it’s a person.

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Artist at Work

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by Sandra Benavides Weichel, Published by Gulfstream Media Group, Featured in Jupiter Magazine, November 2014

You may have seen Kelly Tracht’s bright, Lilly Pulitzer-esque illustrations and canvas prints for sale at Excentricities boutique or winning awards at ArtiGras. As a successful businesswoman whose pieces brighten homes in the Palm Beaches and beyond, Tracht shares her soul-searching journey to becoming an artist.

In January 2005, Kelly Tracht made a decision that would alter the course of her life.

She and her husband, Richard, were driving on the highway – both heading toward job interviews at the same architectural firm – when she turned toward him and said, “I can’t do this.”

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PALM BEACH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL’S PRESIDENT – RANDI EMERMAN

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Photo taken by Jason Nuttle

Randi Emerman remembers walking into a movie theater as a little girl. She remembers the excitement running rampant through her veins as the theater lights turned down and the screen lights turned up. She remembers her heartbeat racing with each passing second as she waited to be whisked away on a journey to the unknown. She remembers the setting – an environment shared with people of all walks of life coming together to watch a single film. She remembers all of it as if it were yesterday. And today as the president of the Palm Beach International Film Festival, it only seems natural that Emerman’s zest for film gives a new meaning to the term “movie buff.” Continue reading “PALM BEACH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL’S PRESIDENT – RANDI EMERMAN” →

STAND UP PADDLE BOARDING

SUPTen years ago, only a handful of people had heard of stand-up paddleboarding. Fast forward to today, and it’s all the rage. Find out what makes SUP and all its iterations so popular….

SUP, Stand-Up Paddleboarding

“Close your eyes, take a deep breath, bend your knees, and wiggle your toes. … This is the closest you’ll get to walking on water,” John Denney happily calls out. Standing on a 10-foot paddleboard, navigating seamlessly through the quiet rhythm of the Intracoastal water near Coral Cove Park in Tequesta, he was right. Continue reading “STAND UP PADDLE BOARDING” →

PROFESSIONAL POLO PLAYER – JEFF HALL

1cOn a field where horses trampling the ground create a cacophony of clip-clopping sounds, long-handled mallets are swung, and men compete in teams while riding animals that can reach body-crushing weights of a thousand pounds, professional polo player Jeff Stuart Hall is at home.

“I was born into this,” says Hall, whose father was in the polo business as a former player and sponsor of the sport.
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