DelRay Beach Florida Art Fest & Toxins

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Hello all,

I went to art fest today in East Delray, with a friend and my two grandsons I

kept hearing a woman say Mold T-shirts and she followed us all over the place.

this I didn't know until she walks up to me and told us to leave with all those

T-shits she said I want you out you are breaking the law passing out your cards

and talking about mold I told her not a word was said about mold this is a long

story I was about to leave the Toxins was getting to me. but after that happen

and she said she was going to call the Police I said I will do it for you, then

I thought about it,

Police was all over the place so I found one! the art Fest was in the middle of

the streets the woman said I'm the one that put the art Fest on and I want you

to leave with those T-shirts on I said OH HUMmm this is really about our

T-shirts. I have rights I said, and it's too bad if you don't like my T-shirt

what have America come to???

So I wouldn't leave don't, this tell you all something she wanted me out that

bad because of my T-shirts they made her that up set?!. I ask her what ever

happen to rights Of the people and did it say free are what to or not to ware?

man Buy the time this was over I had to go strait to the Beach, they NO? this is

why I think it's so important for others to go to what ever site you can and

have T-shirts made up the Officer was so nice he didn't say a word after she

walked up. it was as if because she was who she is and I'm who I'm! I had no

rights the officer didn't see it that way thank God for the little Human Rights

we do have left this is about the children of the world.

To all we must come together State to State getting people together we must do

something I see the kids and parents all! ILL with no help this makes me so sad.

Mold From Hurricanes Shuts Down Courthouse

Published: Nov 21, 2004

http://news.tbo.com/news/MGB3OWDPS1E.html

WEST PALM BEACH - The federal courthouse in Palm Beach County has been closed

because of mold spawned by hurricanes Frances and Jeanne.

Chief U.S. District Judge J. Zloch ordered the courthouse closed Friday

after receiving complaints that the mold was making people sick.

There have been complaints about headaches, sinus problems and watery eyes, but

no one has been hospitalized, said Clarence Maddox, court administrator for U.S.

District Court, Southern District of Florida.

The mold has sprouted around the bottom of windows, mostly on the building's

west side in areas that received the most water damage. No court records appear

to have been damaged by the mold, Maddox said.

Maddox said that he didn't know how long the courthouse would be closed, but

that all business has been relocated to the U.S. courthouse in Fort Lauderdale

while a Washington- based contractor conducts tests.

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Mold cleanup delay takes toll on federal court

By Bill

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2005/04/21/m1a_\

courthouse_0421.html

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Thursday, April 21, 2005

U.S. District Judge T.K. Hurley was about to impose a federal prison

sentence on a woman convicted of drug trafficking when he got an urgent message

on the bench: Her family had flown in from the Bahamas to speak on her behalf,

but there was a problem.

They were waiting at the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach. No one told them

that the courthouse at 701 Clematis St. had been closed and the sentencing had

been moved to Fort Lauderdale.

Graulich/The Post

Federal court matters that were handled in West Palm Beach have been moved to

Fort Pierce, Fort Lauderdale and Miami.

Hurley delayed the sentencing for two hours while the family drove to the

alternate courthouse.

The sentencing confusion is just one of the problems federal judges, other court

personnel and lawyers have faced in the five months since the West Palm Beach

building has been closed because of hurricane-related mold contamination that

poses health risks.

Of particular concern to federal officials who use the 32-year-old courthouse is

that it has sat empty since Nov. 19 with no work done to clean up the mold.

Those efforts appear to be mired in bureaucratic red tape.

Federal court matters normally handled in West Palm Beach are being decided in

Fort Pierce, Fort Lauderdale and Miami.

That means judges, prosecutors and public defenders are spending hours on the

road trying to get to trials and court hearings throughout Florida's Southern

District. U.S. marshals, who act as bailiffs to protect judges and transport

prisoners, also are affected.

That costs money as well as time. Judges and lawyers are staying in hotels while

trials are held far from their homes. The legal commuters are spending more on

gasoline at a time when prices are soaring.

Federal court officials, meanwhile, have rented more than 20,000 square feet at

the Forum buildings on Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard to serve as temporary

administrative offices. They have not disclosed the cost of the 18-month lease.

Chief U.S. District Judge J. Zloch and Court Administrator Clarence

Maddox did not return calls requesting information on the strain and cost to the

court system and on when the West Palm Beach courthouse might reopen.

Hurley just ended a two-week stint living out of a hotel in Fort Lauderdale at a

cost of $500 a week, he said.

" The kinds of problems we're encountering, they're really staggering, " he said.

After Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne, mold surfaced in the bankruptcy section of

the courthouse. Employees complained of headaches and sinus problems.

Zloch ordered the building closed after tests showed mold contamination. At the

time, federal officials said the cleanup would take two months.

Last week, officials of the Palm Beach County chapter of the Federal Bar

Association asked U.S. Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Fort Lauderdale, to intervene. Shaw,

attending the organization's meeting to explain his proposal to divide the

Southern District into two parts, promised to look into the matter and expedite

the courthouse's opening.

U.S. District Judge Don Middlebrooks said his staff is trying to take the stress

in stride. The difficulty, from his perspective, is that there appears to be no

clear time frame for cleanup to begin.

" The only thing I've heard is that it could take six months to a year, " said

Middlebrooks, who has been commuting to Miami for trials.

Court administrator Maddox has been working with officials from the federal

General Services Administration to bring some resolution to the problem,

Middlebrooks said. The GSA is responsible for the federal government's buildings

and leases.

In February, federal officials relocated the court administration based in West

Palm Beach to the Forum buildings at 1655 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd. The federal

court is using two floors, totaling 20,503 square feet.

Federal officials also have used the Palm Beach County Courthouse, which houses

county and state court operations. But limited space there hindered efforts to

keep as much judicial work as possible in West Palm Beach.

Logistically, creating a mobile federal judiciary is taxing the system,

according to judges, prosecutors and public defenders.

" The staff is spending a tremendous amount of time on the road, " said Assistant

U.S. Attorney Andy Lourie, the chief assistant for the West Palm Beach office,

which has 25 lawyers. " People are working harder and having to become more

efficient. "

HUMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmm The smell was in the air and it's coming from the

buildings!?.

Peace

Elvira