Friday, May 31, 2019

5A - Identifying Local Opportunities

Brightline partners with MSC cruises for link with Miami port
Brightline seized an opportunity to better the travailing experience.. They have now partnered with MSC Cruise to help shuttle customer to the port of Miami. The package includes round trip travel on the Brightline, parking at a Brightline station and they insure your baggage gets to your state room. The cruisers were the ones in need of this innovative alternate travel option. Driving to the port of Miami is a nightmare.

Boca Raton- based ADT wins $4 million verdict against rival security firm

In this story a Utah based security company was targeting and tricking current ADT clients into signing competing contracts. These scammers would act like they were part of ADT. Duping people who trusted the ADT name. The courts ruled in ADT’s favor and awarded them $4 million in damages. ADT had the problem when a competing company posed as them to steal customers.

Why the World Surf League canceled Kelly Slater’s Palm Beach County world-class wave pool
The world surfing league was set to build a state of the are wave pool in western palm beach county. Unfortunately, due to the high-water table and complicated nature of the project they had to bring the project to an end. They also claim unforeseen challenges helped make this decision. The hope was to televise surfing competitions and be a world class training facility for surfers. The world surfing league now has the issue. They purchased land they can no longer develop.

Local restaurants step up awareness after hepatitis A cases
With the rise in Hepatitis A cases in Palm Beach, Martin and St. Luice County restaurants are retraining staff on proper cleanliness practices. The most effective rule is to wash your hands every 30 min. Restaurants are taking this practice to heart. Washing hands, using gloves and drying hands with paper towels seem to be the best combination thus far from spreading hepatitis A. The in need are the restaurant goers. These restaurants are doing everything they can to keep the public safe.

Catch the Wave of Hope raises awareness, money to fight human sex trafficking at event in West Palm Beach
At it’s inaugural breakfast Catch the Wave of Hope raised thousands of dollars to help victims of sex trafficking. A spotlight was pointed at Palm Beach County after the recent massage polar bust resulting in hundreds of arrests. These moneys will go to build a safe place for child victims of sex trafficking. It’s very admirable what this organization is doing for these victims. 

1 comment:

  1. Hi! I think that your post was interesting to read especially the solutions to the problems or issues that helped or will help a lot of people. Also, I stay in the Palm Beach County area and some of these situations I have not heard of, so your post was very informative to me. I did not realized that local restaurants and organization mention was going through this.

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