Palm Beach Gardens' Daniel Bazzani pilots his homemade glider 54 feet to victory at Flugtag Miami Saturday (Click on the Mike Jachles photo for much more)

Palm Beach County certainly put its mark on Saturday’s Flugtag Miami.

What’s that?

It’s an event put together by the energy drink company Red Bull in which folks in homemade gliders launch from a 30-foot platform over water and try to fly for the farthest.

This type of competition has long been favored by wacky Europeans who crash into icy waters in places like Hamburg or Amsterdam.

But in Miami, more than 80,000 people gathered in Bayfront Park Saturday afternoon to watch an ingenious team from Palm Beach Gardens win in something that looked like a race car built by the Wright brothers.

Team Formula Flug pilot Daniel Bazzani, and flight crew Karl Scherer, Steve Silder, Rich Lamb and Lenny Wengler had their contraption fly 54 feet before a Sullenberger-style landing.

For their work, the crew won real flying lessons.

In all, thirty-four teams from all over the country, including Jupiter and Boca, competed. Click here for the photos

Purdue University students from North Carolina put together this flying train. (Click on the Mike Jachles photo for more)

Cloutier

Parts of a pilot for a Real Housewives-style reality TV series starring well-known local women was shot in the Palm Beach mansion of socialite Tiffany Cloutier this week.

And if the yet-to-be-titled series ever gets picked up by a network — trust me on this one — it will become must-see-TV.

As of now, the producers are casting two groups of well-heeled, well-married middle-aged women. One group is from Palm Beach, and the other from the Palm Beach Gardens-Jupiter area.

Call it the queen bees vs. the wannabes!

Disgraced former U. S. Congressman Mark Foley was filmed also. His role in the series is unclear.

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Kristin with baby Bella in 2009 (Courtesy Kristin Hoke)

WPBF-Channel 25 morning anchorwoman Kristin Hoke, whose courageous and public battle against breast cancer captured the hearts of local TV viewers, is now under hospice care and has stopped treatment.

Her sister, Kim Glushyn, tells Page2Live today that Hoke, 42, is bed-ridden at home in Jupiter, and not able to enjoy the things she was most passionate about, including TV news.

“Kristin’s health is failing,” Glushyn said. “She’s able to get up a couple hours a day to be with family and friends, but that’s it. She’s not aware of many things around her.”

Hoke’s colleagues at the ABC affiliate figured out something was amiss last week when the station hired a new morning personality. Hoke did her last broadcast in mid-April and went on medical leave, expecting to return. But Paul LaGrone, 32, from the NBC 2 in Fort Myers, was quietly signed to take over Hoke’s duties alongside Felicia Rodriguez later this month.

“Kristin is taking some time off to focus on her health and family,” said newsroom boss Kyle Grimes, “and Paul was hired is for a new position. Kristin is still on staff.”

But Glushyn made it clear Hoke’s infectious zest for reporting the news won’t be seen again: She described Hoke’s brain as “loaded with tumors.”

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Before Canadian songbird Celine Dion can float across her Jupiter Island property on her brand spanking new lazy river, or splash into the phony waves in her pool, she’d better pay up.

The consultant who figured out a way to make millions of gallons flow from underground just slapped a lien on Dion’s place. He claims he hasn’t been paid in full.

Dion's property (click on the Splash News photo for more)

Herman Taube, the Hobe Sound geologist who designed Dion’s six-well reverse osmosis system, filed the court action April 20 in Martin County. He alleges that Renlec, the Montreal-based company owned by Dion and her elderly husband, Rene Angelil, still owe him $13,505, according to the paperwork. His total contract, signed in 2008, was for $252,750.

Neither Taube nor Dion’s reps commented.

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Els, last week at The Masters (AP Photo)

Not all star golfers are like Tiger Woods.

Take Jupiter resident Ernie Els, for example.

Els, 40, who finished a disappointing 18th Sunday at The Masters, was relaxing with a couple friends at the  Square Grouper in Jupiter Monday afternoon when he noticed three young men sporting crew cuts and suffering from obvious disabilities getting off a fishing charter.

Josh Schichtl, a veteran of three tours in Iraq who suffered severe facial injuries in a road-side bombing, picks up the story from there.

“We’re walking through this outdoors bar (the Grouper) to catch the van to the hotel and this man (one of the dudes sitting with Els) comes up to us and says Ernie Els would like to say ‘hi,’” Schichtl told Page2Live. “Now, I’m a big golfing fan and I saw him on TV at The Masters, so I never expected anything like that. You know, I’m from Arkansas.

“So we went to the bar, and sure enough, there was Ernie Els. It was amazing. He asked each of us about our experiences in Iraq and shared his experience in the South African army. We ended up sitting down and shot the breeze with him for more than an hour. He kept buying rounds of beer. We had a great talk. He made us feel good.”

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When it comes to celebrity sightings, Jupiter’s Roger Dean Stadium, the spring home of the Florida Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals, is no Staples Center, home of the L.A. Lakers.

But it wasn’t a wasteland Saturday afternoon.

Comic Jerry Seinfeld, with his three kids, wife Jessica and a nanny spent six and a half innings watching the Cards’ game against the New York Mets, two rows above the New Yorkers’ dugout. And in a luxury suite, legendary hoops coach Bobby Knight alternated between the NCAA tournament on the tube, and his dear Cardinals.

Seinfeld (left) with Mets Jerry Manuel Saturday at Roger Dean Stadium (Courtesy The Star-Ledger)

Wearing a 1980s Mets shirt, Seinfeld arrived with his clan an hour before the game, spywitnesses tell me, and stood behind the Mets’ batting cage.  The star of Bee Movie also shot the breeze with manager Jerry Manuel and outfielder Angel Pagan. First baseman prospect Ike Davis got Seinfeld’s autograph.

Seinfeld, behind third base Saturday at Roger Dean (Lynn Kalber/Special to Page2Live)

The actor was then escorted to his seat by cops. He bought a round of hot-dogs and fries, and the wife pulled out a plastic bag with homemade cookies.

Sporting a Cardinals hat, meanwhile, Knight, 69, watched the Villanova-St. Mary’s NCAA basketball game before venturing on the terrace for some baseball.

Peter DeGeorge

Jupiter richie rich Peter DeGeorge made news lately because he and his brother are suing each other over their dead father’s $200 million-fortune.

But that battle may not be Peter’s only problem.

DeGeorge, 63, was arrested at the Ritz-Carlton in Miami Beach after a nasty fight with his fetching ex-wife Traci, 44.

The two, by the way, are engaged to be remarried! Their split in a Palm Beach County court was final two years ago.

Telling cops “my lawyer is Roy Black,” DeGeorge was hauled off to jail two weeks ago and charged with battery, according to Miami-Dade County records.

Traci told Miami Beach cops summoned to their suite that she saw text-messages between Peter and an ex-girlfriend on his cell phone. That led to an argument.

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Belichick with galpal Linda Holliday (Courtesy ballhype.com)

Three squad cars — count’em, three — converged on a restaurant parking lot in Jupiter late Sunday: New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick raised the alarm when the keys of his home-away-from-home disappeared!

It all started after the NFL’s star field general, 57, had a quiet dinner with galpal Linda Holliday, her daughter and a friend at Guanabanas on A1A.

Then, as they headed back to her Tequesta home in his brand spanking new Volvo, Belichick noticed the house keys had disappeared from the center console!

So Belichick hightailed it back to Guanabanas.

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Tiger Woods is building this mansion near Jupiter for mom Tida (Click on the Splash News photo for more)

As Page2Live first reported, embattled golfer Tiger Woods has been building this magnificent mansion in Unincorporated Palm Beach, just north of Jupiter, for mom Tida. And here are the first pictures! Woods bought two adjacent properties directly across the Intracoastal from his soon-to-be Jupiter Island residence for $2.4 million in 2007. Now, the cleaned up serial philanderer is plunking down another $2.6 million for construction. Usually a presence in the background only, Tida burst onto the media stage Friday with her long embrace for her son after his televised apology. Mama Tiger then went after the media for treating her son “like a criminal.” She’ll be one of us next year. Click on either picture, or here, for more.

Tiger Woods is building this modest home for his mom near Jupiter (Click on this Splash News photo for more)

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Tiger Woods and his mom after his televised apology (Click on the photo for more)

Embattled golfer Tiger Woods is building a whole lot of homes for a whole lot of people these days.

Woods’ company, ETW, financed his public relations man Glenn Greenspan’s modest $1 million-dwelling in Stuart.

A Scandinavian-looking house is going up just south, on Jupiter Island, from blue prints bearing the specs of Woods’ wife, Elin Nordegren.

And, according to recent paperwork filed in Palm Beach County, the 22,000-square-foot crib he’s building for his mom, Tida, is moving along quite nicely.

Usually a quiet presence by her son’s side, Tida jumped into the fray with both feet at his made-for-TV apology Friday when she blasted the media treating Woods “like a criminal.”

Still, there’s nothing like the soon-to-be-reformed philandering fool to kick a down real estate market into gear!

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