Welcome to this edition of The Palm Beach Weekender, featuring a weekend events preview, your Weekly Scoops, a Local Spotlight, and a brand new section called Beyond The Palm Beaches.

In today’s TPBW edition:

• 🍿 Free advance movie screening

• 🔦 Local Spotlight: a unique thrift store

• 🌴 Beyond The Palm Beaches: a beautiful natural spring

Weekend Event Preview

🥕 Delray GreenMarket
🧙 Annual Witch Ride for Charity
🎃 Palm Beach Gardens Fall Festival
🏴‍☠️ Pirate Fest
👜 Vintage SuperMarket

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Weekly Scoop

🏗️ Avenir's New Town Center
Avenir, a new development in Palm Beach Gardens, has announced that their town center plans on opening in the summer of 2026. Tenants will include some West Palm Beach favorites like, Field of Greens, Kitchen, Sloan’s and many more.

⛳ Tickets are now on sale for the 2026 Cognizant Classic
It’s been announced that daily ground tickets are now available for the 2026 Cognizant Classic, which will be held at PGA National from February 25 to March 1, 2026.

🏀 Dick's Sporting Goods might open a store at the Gardens Mall
Dick’s Sporting Goods is once again bidding to open a store at The Gardens Mall in the space formerly occupied by Sears. But this won’t be just any Dick’s, it’ll be a Dick’s House of Sport. In addition to selling sports equipment, the store would feature activities like batting cages, golf bays, a rock climbing wall, and even a 19,000 square foot outdoor sports field. Now we just have to wait and see what the City of Palm Beach Gardens decides to do with the proposal.

🥬 SoFresh is coming to Boynton
SoFresh, the popular healthy food chain, is opening its first Palm Beach County location soon in Boynton. It’ll be located in the Sunshine Square Plaza at 200 E Woolbright Rd, Suite 522

🍿 Advance screening of: Regretting You
You’re invited to a free advance screening of Regretting You, a new heartfelt drama hitting theaters this Friday. This free advance screening will be happening today, Oct. 21, at the Cinemark Bistro in Boca at 7:30 PM. The tickets will be emailed to you and you’ll then scan that at the screening. Here is the trailer if you’re interested: Regretting You Trailer

Local Spotlight

Resource Depot

📍Resource Depot, 2508 Florida Avenue, West Palm Beach
🕒 Vary 

Resource Depot is a nonprofit creative reuse center in West Palm Beach dedicated to helping people see the creative potential in items that we often throw away. If you love arts and crafts or thrifting, this is definitely the place for you!

The Resource Depot is divided into three different sections, a GalleRe, the Materials Marketplace and the TreasuRE Boutique. The materials marketplace and the treasure boutique are both shopping areas that are constantly restocked with new items. On average, they collect around 10,000 pounds of donated materials every month.

The GalleRe is a creative space where local artists showcase projects that incorporate reused materials, essentially a place to inspire and show what can be done with items we often think of as trash.

The Materials Marketplace is one of my favorites. It’s an area where you’ll find everything from books to leftover tile samples. Here’s how it works: you shop by the bin, which means that you grab a small blue bin or a large yellow one, and no matter what you fill it with, you’ll pay just $5 for the small bin and $10 for the large. It’s perfect if you’re working on an arts and crafts project or just want to pick out a few good books.

The TreasuRe Boutique area is their thrift store section, where every item in that area is individually priced. You’ll find everything from unique antiques to newly packaged items, all at great prices.

But the Resource Depot is more than just a thrift store. For the past 25 years, they’ve kept hundreds of thousands of reusable materials out of our waste stream. They also host workshops for families to create amazing projects and redistribute items to local teachers, artists, families and other nonprofits that need them. All while inspiring Palm Beach County’s future generations to value and care for the planet they are inheriting. 

This is honestly one of my favorite thrift stores. I have found beautiful unopened puzzles and tons of great books there. If you’re ever in the area, I highly recommend stopping by and checking it out. 

Beyond The Palm Beaches

Kelly Park - Rock Springs

📍Kelly Park - Rock Springs, 400 E Kelly Park Rd, Apopka
🎟️ Admission Fee: $1 - $5

We are both familiar with the many beautiful springs Florida has to offer, but did you know that there are more than a thousand recognized springs across the state? It’s believed to be the largest concentration of freshwater springs on the planet!

Today, I want to share with you a small park/spring I stumbled upon a few years ago while visiting a friend in Orlando, a place I’d never heard of until then, Kelly Park Rock Springs.

Kelly Park Rock Springs is located in Apopka, which is about 30 minutes north of downtown Orlando. The park spans over 350 acres, complete with hiking trails, BBQ areas, playgrounds, and volleyball courts.

But the real highlight here is the spring. It pumps out over 26,000 gallons of fresh water every minute, maintaining an average water temperature of 70 degrees year round. The result is a beautiful and calm lazy river that you can swim or tube down (highly recommend) for about a mile before it connects to the deeper Rock Springs Run, which then flows into the Wekiva River. But don’t worry, there are lifeguards stationed throughout, and the swimming/tubing areas are well sectioned off, making it both super relaxing and very family friendly.

The only catch? Getting in. The park only allows 280 cars in the morning and another 50 at 1pm, so it fills up fast, especially in the summer. So if you are not one of the first 330 vehicles, you won’t be able to enter that day. Some locals say you need to arrive as early as 5am to snag a spot on those busy summer weekends. Things ease up in the fall, around November (when I visited), so that's the best time to have a more quiet and laid back visit.

Once you’re floating down that crystal clear water surrounded by lush greenery, it’s totally worth the early wake up call. Kelly Park truly feels like a hidden Florida oasis!

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