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YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
Shooting fundraiser to help vets Patrick McCallister Staff writer
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Draw a bead on the third Vietnam Veterans Sporting Clays Fun Shoot. It’ll be on March 1, at South Florida Shooting Club, 500 S.W. Long Drive, Palm City. Among other things, proceeds will help the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1041 give three Martin County High School
Junior ROTC students scholarships. Monies raised will also help local veterans with needs ranging from food to car repairs, along with helping some find jobs. “We raised, netted, $15, 000 for the shoot last year,” George Tidikis, chapter treasurer, said. “We also did a raffle of a helmet, a military diver’s helmet. One of our
FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2013
Good green fun Citrus Grove Elementary School Principal Tyson Villwock gets slimed by Jackson Davis and Addison Marques with help from Harry, a Boosterthon representative, during the school’s annual Boosterthon Fun Run. See more photos from the event on pages 8 and 9.
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Sheriff Snyder looks back and ahead Staff writer
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MARTIN COUNTY — William D. Snyder’s office looks more like a den. A relaxing room with ambient lighting and large fish tank. There’s a small desk without much on it that looks like an antique. Snyder figures it might be a reproduction. He wouldn’t know — he doesn’t spend much time sitting there. Sheriff Snyder just doesn’t like desks. “I wanted a small desk, because I don’t work at my desk PRSRT STD US POSTAGE PAID FORT PIERCE, FL PERMIT NO. 248 ECRWSS
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a lot,” he said. A driver recently found out that Snyder doesn’t think desks are where things get done. He pulled the driver over, and wrote a ticket. “I’m a street cop at heart,” the sheriff said. “You can put me at a desk, but I’m a street cop at heart.” Snyder sat down with Your Voice News & Views to talk about his first year in office, and the coming one. The sitting didn’t last too long. Within minutes he began shifting in his seat, visibly ready to
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