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President's Message                 

Palm Beach Chapter of Rare Fruit Council International 

Dear RFC members,

Our next meeting will be Friday April 10th, 2026 at Mounts Botanical Gardens Auditorium at 7:00 pm and our guest speaker will be Dr. Bruce Elkind.  His topic will be A workshop on Kombucha and adding fruits from your garden for fermentation. 

Dr. Bruce Elkind is a practicing General Dentist in the Western Communities for over 40+ years. He attended UF with a major in Zoological Studies i n a Pre-Dental Program. He then attended WVU to graduate with a DDS degree in Family & General Dentistry. He and his wife of almost 48 years of marriage, Lisa, relocated back to Palm Beach County to open his dental practice in Royal Palm Beach as a solo practitioner, while Lisa received her master’s degree Early Childhood Education in the public school system working for almost 3 0 years in grades K-3. Lisa recently retired from the school system, but maintains her professional teaching license to tutor students of all grades! After 40+ years, Bruce is semi-retired, but finds time with Lisa to exercise 4-6 days a week participating in Pickle Ball, Pilates, Pure Barre, Cycle Spin class, and other activities with their grandchildren, some which live locally in Parkland. They raised 3 wonderful children, Jeremy, a mechanical engineer, Jaime, a dentist in Broward County, and Jae, an MD Pathologist a t UCSD! They taught their children many skills and things, but they learned many things in return...like the love for gardening, rock climbing, repelling, cycling, & home brewing of Kombucha...hence, tonight’s presentation!!!  

We look forward to seeing you there!

Palm Beach Chapter Rare Fruit Council International                                                                                                                         President, Herman Lawrence