Sandy Uman

In 2006, my husband and I began our search for a permanent home here in Florida. We had both retired from 30 years of employment in Washington, DC, so we found a realtor and starting making the rounds of neighborhoods from Jupiter to West Palm Beach. We were staying with our daughter in Palm Beach Gardens during the house hunt, and she told us that she had many patients from Ibis who all seemed to be friendly and the sort of folks she would expect us to choose as friends. Later that week, we were pleasantly surprised when we found a beautiful new home that we could customize if we moved here. The icing on the cake though, was an article in the local paper that my sister-in-law gave to me the same week that we were house hunting. It described a recent show of residents' art that had been held at Ibis. She knew that art and cultural events would be of great interest to me and might help us decide where to live. She was correct.

All the time that our home was being built, I thought about getting involved with the arts group, which I did as soon as we moved into our new home. This group has grown over the years and is now the Ibis Cultural Association. It was only an art show in 2006 when we made our decision, but now it schedules activities in 21 different venues and runs more than 40 individual events during the year.

There's something to interest everyone here at Ibis!