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FAU researchers discover babies can read lips to learn

how to speak.

Two bands signed to FAU’s record label play a free show on campus

Women’s track is tired of being left behind, wants

better facilities.PG. 6 PG. 10 PG. 18

Around the worldwith Maria Fadiman

Meet the professor (and explorer) who brings her adventures in the rain forests of Latin America and

the wilderness of Africa to your classroomsPG. 11

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Student Government thinks you don’t know enough about them. So they hired someone to !x that.

Junior communications major, Aneal Ramkissoon is the !rst SG Executive Marketing Director at FAU. On Nov. 18, 2011, the senate passed a bill to add this position to the SG Executive Cabinet, and after holding a series of interviews, Ramkissoon was hired on Jan. 18. His new job is to work with other FAU campus marketing directors in order to help advertise SG’s programs and events — and to make SG more popular.

Ramkissoon is a 20-year-old new student at FAU. When he transferred from PBSC, he needed a part-time job, and as an international student from Toronto, Canada, he can only work on campus because he can’t work o" campus with a student visa. He was SG president for two years at PBSC, and the Communications and Marketing Director for the Florida College System Student Government Association.

“I want to say that my experience is what got me the position,” said Ramkissoon.

Because of FAU’s growing enrollment, SG needed to add this position to keep students updated on how they can get involved on campus, according to SG vice president, Robert Hu"man.

“And by having an Executive Marketing Position in Student Government, this dream can become a reality,” said Hu"man.

Freshman psychology major, Alexa Jones, thinks SG doesn’t need this new position since they already promote their events.

“Maybe they’re not very well known around campus, but that does seem kind of pointless,” Jones said.

As an RA in GPT, sophomore public management major Jeremy Ward tries to get students to go to events happening on the housing lawn and around campus. He said this new position might help get more students involved. “I guess, if you think the advertising now isn’t working, then why not? More advertising might help,” Ward said.

Part of his new job is telling students what their Acitivty and service (A&S) fees are used for. #e $11.96 fee that is included in all students’ tuition. #at fee is then divided between FAU’s campuses, and funds SG programs like Night Owls, free student events and SG salaries.

“People are paying these fees but they’re not coming to the events where there’s free food and great things that they’re bene!ting from,” said Ramkisoon.

Even though all of this information is available online, Hu"man thinks

students don’t know about it.“In the past, students have not been

aware of where their A&S fee dollars are being spent,” he said. “#is position will help market and advertise to the students the purpose of [SG] and how they can get involved.”

Ramkissoon on the other hand, thinks students simply don’t care.

“Not a lot of students even care. I don’t think a lot of people even look at their tuition break down, they just have mom and dad write a check or their scholarships pay it.”

If students knew where their money is being used, they might come out to more events and use more SG programs, like Night Owls, according to Ramkissoon.

“If we really brand SG and get our name out there like, ‘this is what we’re doing for you. #is is where your money is going.’ I feel like students will be more appreciative of all the things SG does.”

The new guyRecently hired Executive

Marketing Director wants to help students learn what SG does

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News

Correction In the Jan. 17 story, “Say it with your chest,” there was an error in the photo caption. Sherrika

Mitchell was the student pictured. The UP reported otherwise.




Baby talkFAU professor and graduate student’s study shows babies learn to talk by lip reading

By Rachel [email protected]

FAU psychology professor David J. Lewkowicz has been studying babies for about 30 years, and he recently made a breakthrough discovery.

Since 2009, Lewkowicz and graduate student Amy Hansen-Tift have observed over 200 babies — one at a time — in a gray, cubicle-esque lab inside room 117 of the Boca campus’ Behavioral Science building. !e duo’s work has led them to discover what could potentially be a research breakthrough — babies try to “lip read” when they’re learning to talk.

Speci"cally Lewkowicz has been trying to "gure out how babies use their senses to understand the world around them. He teamed up with Hansen-Tift and the pair’s experiments suggested infants between eight to twelve months old stare at the the mouth. Both younger and older babies have a tendency to stare at the eyes.

In this experiment, babies were seated in a high chair facing a video screen and shown four videos — two in English and two in Spanish — of two di#erent women saying phrases like “Good morning” or “Buenos dias.” A soft headband was put on the baby’s head to monitor his or her focus. !e equipment revealed that older babies exposed to new languages stared at the mouth, even if

they had begun looking back at the eyes. While parents were present during the experiments,

they were not told what their babies were tested for until the end. Hansen-Tift explained she did not want the babies in$uenced in any way. At the end of the experiment, she said parents “leave with a feeling of accomplishment, because they feel like their baby helped science.”

!e experiment began when Lewkowicz realized “!ere was no literature on what older babies do when someone is speaking to them.” In spite of a fascination with the subject, the study got o# to a slow start. !e testing of babies began in 2009, but Lewkowicz crafted the idea and bought the equipment "ve years earlier.

!e delay mainly revolved around equipment glitches. When Hansen-Tift arrived at FAU from Ohio State University, the equipment was barely working on adults, let alone infants. It was not until the summer of 2009 that the problems were ironed out, and the lab was ready to recruit babies.

According to Lewkowicz, obtaining babies was pretty

easy. !e psychology department has access to local birth records, which meant getting a baby was often possible via a quick phone call. He estimated that the lab normally receives about 12 to 15 babies per week and Hansen-Tift mentioned many babies were children of FAU alumni or former psychology majors.

!e babies selected for this study were typically developing — or learning at a normal rate — and raised in an English-speaking home. !is was a one time experiment, but Hansen-Tift says she and Lewkowicz would like to bring some of the infants back. She con"ded, “We’ve been talking about it quite seriously. It’s a matter of working out the manpower to call all of these parents.”

Both Lewkowicz and Hansen-Tift expect their experiment will have an impact in the "eld. Lewkowicz explained the discovery “puts focus on paying attention to not only auditory cues, but visual cues as well.”

Lewkowicz and Hansen-Tift’s data has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Lewkowicz and Hansen-Tift’s experiment

has received a lot of attention because the

data shows there may be a way to diagnose

autism earlier.

Lewkowicz admitted, “we may have

stumbled on a way to diagnose the onset

of autism six months earlier than usually

possible. Six months may be nothing for us

adults, but six months for early development

is a huge amount of time.” Currently, experts

cannot identify autism in an infant younger

than 18 months.

Hansen-Tift admitted the possibility of

diagnosing autism earlier “has been the big

[media] draw,” but cautioned it is only a

hypothesis. She warned that more experiments

would be necessary before anything could be

considered conclusive.

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Aroundworld with Maria Fadiman

the

UP: In addition to your work at FAU, you’re an ethnobotanist. Can you explain what exactly ethnobotany is?Fadiman: “Ethno” is people and “botany” is plants. So ethnobotany is really the relationship between people and plants. And that can come in all kinds of forms. A lot of people think of it in terms of

spiritual reasons. And we’re also connected to plants all the time here. [Points to desk] This is plastic, but there’s probably some wood smashed up under here. Whatever you had for breakfast was probably something that came from plants. So we’re all really connected to plants. I do tend to do my work way out in ‘the boonies’, but you don’t have to.

What kind of work do you do out in ‘the boonies’?What I concentrate on is the use of plants and sustainability. So I try and look: are there ways for people to use their plants and keep the plants growing, so they don’t have to use them up? And part of my particular interest is when people really use a plant and really get connected to it — whether it’s utilitarian or spiritual, or whatever it is for them. The idea of maintaining the ecosystem in which that plant grows. So for me, the ultimate goal is overall conservation through people’s connection with plants. But then also, people are losing their allure about plants. This information is being lost with every generation, so I’m partly trying to record it, so it’s not lost. I used to work a lot more with medicinal plants – now I work more

put it in their language in Spanish, and give them back a book of their own information. And then they could choose!

Dr. Fadiman did research in Tanzania with the Masaai indigenous people. Some of the foreign children she met would tell her to “let her yellow hair down.” All photos courtesy of Maria Fadiman unless otherwise noted.

Dr. Maria Fadiman was there when an African medicine man tried to heal a crying baby by tying a necklace made of baobab tree bark around her neck. She was there when the Amazonian indigenous people were drinking potions to throw up (because it was a cultural tradition) –– and she had to stick a plant down her

throat to join them. She’s had to trudge through mud, and down to a river in a rain forest, just to wash her face –– all in the name of ethnobotany. But when she’s not studying plants and making friends in far away countries, she teaches world geography at FAU. Dr. Fadiman spoke to us in her

plants, with the football stadium outside the window. We got to hear the stories, and see the spunk that keeps students captivated in the classroom.

By Carolina Fernandez

After years of blistered feet, daylong flights and unforgettable memories abroad, the world geography professor and globe trotter tells us her story.

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COSTA RICA

Worked as a tour guide at a rural lodge taking

tourists through the rain forest

ECUADOR

Did volunteer work with a shaman (medicine man) from

the Quichua indigenous people. Made a book of medici-

nal plants for them.

BELIZE

Interned at a tropical medicinal station as the

apprentice of a Mayan shaman.

MASTERS AT TULANE UNIVERSITY IN NEW ORLEANS

Masters research in the Yucatan. Worked

with Mayans, studying weaving palms and

collecting information on sustainability.

PHILIPPINES

Project on an island with people using palm trees to make

thatch for their huts.

ZIMBABWE

Studied tree carving and how it can be sustainable and

PHD. AT UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS IN AUSTIN

PhD. research in the rain forest of Ecuador

with indigenous groups.

MEXICO

Post-masters work with the Lacandon people

of Mexico

TANZANIA

Worked with, learned about and hunted with the

Maasai and Hadza indigenous people.

COSTA RICA

Worked as a guide again, and made a book of medicinal

plants for them.

NEW ZEALAND

beyond the utilitarian, such as their spiritual use.

CHINA AND TIBET

Worked with Tibetan children to see how children use

plants in their everyday lives, and taught them how to

interview their own elders.

MEXICO

Presented one of her papers about how Ecuadorian

people use palm trees at a conference of Latin American

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Dr. Maria Fadiman has t raveled to some of the most exot ic p laces in the world s tudying ethnobotany — how people from di f ferent cul tures in teract wi th plants in their ever yday l ives. Here are some of the highl ights of her global adventures. Did you know?

Dr. Fadiman had to work as a bartender and

waitress to pay for most of her early trips

throughout college.

She has more than 35 papers and articles under

her belt, but she is also writing a book about her

lifelong travels and work.

Before she became a world geography professor,

she hadn’t taken more than one geography class

in her life.

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Dr. Fadiman did a research project where she studied coffee

in the Galapagos in 2008.

In class, Dr. Fadiman likes to get into character. Sometimes she

makes high-pitch noises. Other times she runs or dances across

the room. “She’s different than other geography professors,”

said senior accounting major Paul Basco. “She’s actually

been to these places, and she’s like a walking, human National

Geographic.” Photo by Carolina Fernandez

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When did you decide you wanted to do this long term?I was in college and I always wanted to work with conservation, but I

to make that all work, but I was taking a class and I learned about the word “ethnobotany” –– people and plants –– so I realized I can put that together.

the second semester, I spent a quarter in Mexico and a quarter in Costa Rica, as a guide. I didn’t know anything about the rain forest because I was

translate for rail guides, but while I was there, I learned about the plants and bugs. I’m like, ‘That’s science? Well, that’s cool! I can do that!’

When you were studying, where did you want to work? What was your dream job?

to work for a non-governmental organization. And then when I was a TA (teaching assistant) and started teaching lab sessions, I loved teaching and thought it was really fun. And then I realized, ‘Oh, I do want to be a professor!’ And I also get my summers where I go do my research, and go to the Amazon, or to Africa or somewhere cool.

What are the most exotic places you’ve been to, and some memories from those places?Well, the Amazon is certainly exotic, although I’ve been to Latin America so many times, it doesn’t change that it’s still really exotic. And I was in Tibet two summers ago, and we were riding on this motorcycle all the way to the top of this mountain, and I mean, it’s just like in the movies or the posters. You just see these mountains going off and off, and there are

nomadic people who move their tents every few months are greeting me and giving me yak milk. And it’s just these moments where I’m like, ‘Am I really here?’

Do you incorporate some of these stories in your classes?Yes! Absolutely. Every time I come back from a trip, I look at my pictures, and I look at what can I incorporate where. [There] are lots of my own stories, too. I try to make it come alive when I’m in the classroom.

Students are fascinated by you, and they love your style of teaching. Some even rated you as “hot” on RateMyProfessor.com.You know, I didn’t even go on there earlier, but now I know — I’ve got the chili pepper. Cool beans! What do you think it is about your style of teaching that students like?Well, besides the chili pepper aspect, I think one thing is — I really like doing it. And I like when students respond and I get their take on things. In a big lecture class, it’s hard to be inclusive but I try as much as possible. But also, I really try to make it real, and that’s my biggest thing. When I say, ‘Here’s the [European Union]’or ‘Here’s the environment in Latin America,’ and then I say, ‘And here’s my experience when I was there and

those are real people and it matters.’

In 2006, the Hadza (a hunting and gathering group) taught Dr. Fadiman how to shoot a bow

and arrow in Tanzania.

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In 2006, National Geographic named you one of their ‘Emerging

Explorers.’ How did this all happen?

Well, it was my second year [here], and I got some email from National

Geographic and I opened it, and it said: ‘Hi, I’m not sure if you got our

was like, ‘Did I apply for a grant and totally forget? Did they make a mistake?’

What has your life been like as someone who does this kind of work?

through the rain forest, we’re hanging up a hammock and walking down to

You tell students these stories so that it’s more real to them?

What’s been the most exciting part for you as a professor?

I found out that you were quoted on a Starbucks cup. How’d that

happen?

What inspired you to write the quote that ended up on the cup?

“I used to think that going to the jungle made

my life an adventure. However, after years of

unusual work in exotic places, I realize that it is

not how far off I go, or how deep into the forest

I walk that gives my life meaning. I see that

living life fully is what makes life – anyone’s

life, no matter where they do or do not go – an

adventure.”

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The softball team’s best hitter did not have the easiest path to FAU.

Senior Heather Barnes, the 5’9” brunette second baseman, came here last spring from a community college, with merely a chance to make the team as a walk-on. Head coach Joan Joyce issued no guarantees of playing time.

So, Barnes earned it.Last season, she led FAU with a .318 batting average,

but she does not take her talent for granted, not after two shoulder surgeries — one in high school at Avon Park, the other during her freshman year of college playing for Stetson University.

!e shoulder still jumps out of place every once in a while, according to coach Joyce, but Barnes is determined to push through the injury. It’s one that initially had her doubting whether she’d ever play again.

“She’s de"nitely the toughest person I know,” teammate and roommate Quincy Wilson said. “I know how much pain she goes through because I go through the same amount (Wilson has been through multiple knee surgeries). She’s tough as nails.”

“I get work done on [my shoulder] 24/7,” Barnes said. “We’re just trying to make sure it lasts for another year.”

!is past o#-season, instead of relaxing, Heather decided to work on her swing, while rehabbing her shoulder every week.

“Her dedication with hitting is over the top,” Joyce said. “When she was on break over the Christmas holidays, she was out constantly hitting at home.”

Coming from Avon Park, Fla., Barnes transferred to FAU from South Florida Community College.

“!e pitching between community college and here is totally di#erent,” Joyce said. “!e movement on the ball in Division I is much greater.”

!at didn’t stop Heather from racking up a 15 game hitting streak last season. Not that she wanted to be reminded of it while it was going on.

“It’s one of those things that you know about but you don’t talk about,” Barnes said. “Kind of like when a pitcher is throwing a perfect game, you don’t go and say, ‘Hey, by the way, you’re throwing a perfect game.’”

Heather calls herself a “stat nut.” She keeps track of her statistics, even claiming to this day that she can remember her numbers and totals from high

school. She jokes that her hitting streak last season was halted due to a jinx.

“I said if [media relations] put this on the website then it’s going to ruin my hit streak, I know it,” Barnes said.

!e next game, she went hitless.Being one of the best players on the team, though, it

would be easy for Barnes to be loud and con"dent. Instead, she lets her play speak for itself, and at the same time she attempts to inspire her teammates vocally.

“She’s a great leader, she motivates you,” Wilson said. “I’m the captain of the team but I feel like she’s my co-captain.”

“She leads by example of her work ethic on the "eld,” Joyce said. “She will voice her opinion. Some kids are shy about that. Heather has no problem with doing that, which is a good thing.”

According to Joyce, Barnes is a testimony that hard work pays o#.

“If I had 19 more Heathers then we would know exactly what we’re doing out there,” Joyce said proudly.

Barnes was inspired to play the game by her father Ronnie, a sergeant, and her twin brother Heath. Growing up, she admired Heath and wanted to follow in his footsteps.

“I thought, well if he’s going to play baseball,” Barnes said. “then I want to play baseball.”

!e workaholic senior will miss not just softball and her teammates, but something else that comes with the college experience.

“!is sounds really funny, but, I’m going to miss not having free time,” Barnes said, “I’m not going to know what to do with free time. Not having someone say, ‘Okay you’re waking up at this time, you’re going to class, you’re going to

workouts, then study hall.’ I’m not going to have any idea what to do with this free time.”

Barnes, a sociology major, is interested in working with special

needs kids. A friend of her family is an ESC teacher that works with special needs kids in elementary school. Knowing Barnes wanted to be a teacher, she took her into one of her classes one day.

“I made my mind up within the "rst 10 minutes

in there that I want to work with special needs kids,” Barnes

said. “I absolutely adore them. It’s the most rewarding thing I can do.

Even if I just work with them for an hour or so, I absolutely would love working with them.”


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At FAU, women’s track is trailing the !eld of other sports when it

comes to attention, according to the players and its coach.

Its resources are limited. Despite having a track on-campus which it practices on, the team has no home track meets, which contributes to a minimal fan base and following, according to sophmore sprints/hurdler Danielle Aromashodu. "e team also has to travel on the road as nomads from meet to meet.

Head coach Alex Smolka says it is not the track itself that is the problem, rather the lack of su#cient facilities.

“It’s not the track,” Smolka said. “It’s the fact there’s no stands, no bathrooms, no scoreboard. "e track is actually a very well built track in terms of the surface and circumference.”

Smolka estimates the cost of a concrete, top of the line facility, with bathrooms and a concession stand to cost roughly hundreds of thousands of dollars. He says the school would like to improve the conditions, but simply cannot a$ord it at this time.

“"ere’s been a lot of discussions but the biggest issue is money,” Smolka said. “Actually, the only issue is money. It’s just !nding a donor, !nding money to put everything together.”

Once a quality facility is built, Smolka hopes, women’s track will %ourish at FAU.“Having a home track meet will certainly help a great deal,” Smolka said of what it will

take to get more people interested in the sport. “Being on campus will de!nitely add a great deal to having people come out and watch us without having to go down to Miami [or other venues that it competes at]. So it would help a lot as far as recognition goes.”

In the meantime, the athletes understand the reality of the situation, but still want to be noticed for their e$orts.

“I don’t like it, of course, but this school isn’t really a track school,” senior track athlete Ashani Roberts said. “"ey don’t pay that much attention to track. But I feel like we should get more attention like every other sport.”

“People aren’t even aware of the type of talent we have,” Aromashodu said.In addition to Roberts, she lists sophmore sprinter Dana Cannon, and freshman Tatiana

David (who got third place in the triple jump last week, her !rst collegiate event) as athletes that will be key contributors.

Nevertheless, head coach Alex Smolka is excited for the way his squad opened the season in Gainesville at the Jimmy Carnes Invitational.

“We had a couple breakthrough performances,” he said. “We had one new school record established in the triple jump with Ashani. We have a number of freshman and new people to run track, so we had very nice performances.”

Roberts now has the school record for the triple jump, both indoors and outdoors. Last year, she !nished second in the triple jump, and also quali!ed for the NCAA Regionals.“I felt good, I know that I could have done a lot better, but we don’t really practice indoors that much,” Roberts said. “We don’t have an indoor facility, [but] I felt like I did fairly well for my !rst track meet.”Distance runners have to run 60 miles a week to be competitive at a divisional level, according to Smolka. He says sprinters do lifting three days a week and practice !ve days a week.“It’s a very, very intense commitment for a race that takes just under 12 seconds,” Smolka said of sprinters.Knowing this, Aromashodu

trained vigorously during the o$-season to gain an edge. To prepare for the 400-meter hurdles, she worked out her key muscles to the point of exhaustion.“With track you’re going to feel uncomfortable and some days you’re going to feel fatigued, like you just don’t want to do it anymore,” Aromashodu said. “But that’s the process of strengthening your body. "e pain comes along with it, but it’s !ne.”"e Owls, with a 30-athlete roster, (half of which are of walk-ons), are considered to be short-handed. Smolka says that for the conference championship, FAU brings around 22 athletes, while a school like Western Kentucky will bring closer to 40.“We have a very small team compared to some of the powerhouses in the conference,” Smolka said. “But our goal is to make up what we don’t have in quantity with quality by being able to push everybody we have to really contribute.”Unlike other sports, in track, there is no opponent to focus attention towards. "is makes it an individualistic task for the player to prepare for.“You’re running against the clock and not anybody else,” Aromashodu said. “"e race is really only about you. You’re competing against yourself and the clock.”Her goal is to defend her title for the outdoor 400 hurdles. Her goal for her team is even bigger.“We want to show other schools and teams that FAU can be put on the map too,” Aromashodu said.

Despite having the makings of a talented team, women’s track feels unrecognized

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The women’s track team will compete in the Gator Invitational on Jan. 22 in Gainesville, Fla. and in the BU Valentine Invatiantional on Feb. 10 in Boston, Mass.


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FAU TUTTI TUESDAYS Every Tuesday from 7pm - 10pm(Tutti Frutti - East Boca Location Only. Not to be combined with other offers.)

50%for FAU STUDENTS

OFF

$1OFF ANY purchase ANYtime for FAU Students and Faculty

FAU’s Favorite Gourmet Yogurt Bar


Florida Atlantic University

Sudoku 9x9 - Puzzle 5 of 5 - Easy

2 3 4

6 8 7 2

8 4 7

1 2 3

7 3

7 6 9

5 4 8

6 3 2 9

9 1 5www.sudoku-puzzles.net

A free screening open to FAU students and the public.

Tuesday, January 31, Wednesday, February 1, 7:15PM (each evening)

FAU College of BusinessDeSantis Pavilion Theater (Second Floor)

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For more infomation visit: www.THRIVEMOVEMENT.comFlorida Atlantic University

Sudoku 9x9 - Puzzle 5 of 5 - Hard

2 8 9

1 4 5

5 9 3 4

1 8 5 2

2 1 8 4

6 3 8 7

9 3 5 8

7 9 2

4 7 5www.sudoku-puzzles.net

Easy Hard


Early Bird Specials

8:00 am to 10:00 am

WE HONOR MOST COMPETITOR’S COUPONS

$4.00 Exterior Wash

$7.95 Full Service

Wash

DELUXE WASH

Full Service Wash, Tri-Foam Conditioner, Clear Coat

Sealant, Undercarriage Wash, Wheel Brite, Air Freshener

Reg. $17.95

Not Valid With Any Other Offers

$13.95

WORKS or WORKS

PLUS WASHES

$5.00 OFF Not Valid With Any Other Offers

EXPRESSWAX

$34.95 Value$24.95

Not Valid With Any Other Offers

WAS H E S start ing at $4.00

WE OFFER 48 HOUR CLEAN CAR GUARANTEE!

SHOW YOUR FAU STUDENT OR FACULTY ID & GET OFF

ANY PACKAGE WASH$3.00

Not Valid With Any Other OffersCAR WASHM

IRACLE

OPEN MONDAY - SATURDAY 7:30 am to 6:00 pm SUNDAY 8:00 am to 5:00 pm1400 N Federal Hwy - Boca Raton

Just North of Glades Rd 561-417-7224


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