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Fair time!
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2014
Holy water on the water
Patrick McCallister Staff writer
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STUART — The 54th annual Martin County Fair and Youth Livestock Show gets underway tonight, Friday, Feb. 14, with opening ceremonies at 6:30 p.m. “It’s not a festival; it’s the fair,” Jay Spicer, fair association manager, said. “We are the largest event in Martin County. We get over 75,000 visitors a year.” Not just Martin folks. The fair also pulls a bunch from St. Lucie and surrounding counties. Oh, yeah, there’s going to be lots of the traditional stuff that’s been around for the last 53 fairs. But there’s some new treats and twists on old ones. “There’ll be a petting zoo open
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Patrick McCallister/staff photographer Father Pat Amabile, Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Palm City, blesses the Lady Leticia with owners Joe and Leticia ‘Tish’ Piazza. The Lady Leticia was the review boat for the 43rd annual St Lucie River Blessing of the Fleet and Marine Parade on Saturday, Feb. 8. Reverends Carol Barron, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Stuart and Douglas Jewett, North Stuart Baptist Church, blessed about 100 boats along with Amabile.
Old Palm City Neighborhood Advisory Committee meets Staff writer
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PALM CITY — The Old Palm City Neighborhood Advisory Committee, will meet on Monday, Feb. 17. The meeting will be at the Palm City Community Center,
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2701 S.W. Cornell Ave., at Charlie Leighton Park. “The prime area of discussion will be Mapp Road,” Kevin Freeman, Martin County’s community development director, said. “We’re just in the process of finalizing the (Mapp) concept design with the engineer here.” Mapp is the centerpiece of Palm
City’s Community Redevelopment Area. The CRA, adopted in 2002, includes 610 acres, and has about $1.3 million available for projects, which can circumstantially be combined with grants and other county dollars. The area is nestled along Mapp Road from Southwest Rio Vista Way south to Southwest All American
Boulevard. It goes from the St. Lucie River South Fork west to a few blocks past Mapp. There’s a western extension nestled along Southwest 34th and Southwest 36th streets to Southwest Berry Avenue. In a CRA, some county taxes
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