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VOL. 1/ISSUE 50
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2013
Littlest lagoon lobbyist makes big splash in D.C. Nicole Rodriguez Staff writer
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Palm City Marketplace now open for business Staff photo by Nicole Rodriguez U.S. House of Representatives Minority Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. accepts a dead oyster from Palm City resident Celia Traylor, 4, during an Oct. 3 Capitol Hill hearing on the languished Indian River Lagoon. The memento represents what Treasure Coast residents are losing, Celia’s mother, K.C. Traylor said.
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PALM CITY — George Denti, project manager, predicts that the Veterans Memorial Bridge will span the St. Lucie River by the end of October. Drivers will be using it by the Christmas shopping season — middle to late November. Then what? How will Palm City’s traffic change? John Haddox, PRSRT STD US POSTAGE PAID FORT PIERCE, FL PERMIT NO. 248
Martin County Commissioner, Palm City, wonders that a lot. “I keep asking and you would think you could get a minimum of a ballpark figure,” he said. “I have not had anybody give me any kind of figures, besides we have to wait to see.” Turns out that there’s a catch to asking about how the new bridge will affect traffic patterns. The requisite predictive studies looking at that question were done a decade ago, said Lisa Dykstra, plan-
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The paramount voice on Capitol Hill during an Oct. 3 congressional briefing on the toxic Indian River Lagoon came from a pint-sized, four-year-old Palm City resident clad in ruffles and polka dots with a teal satin bag filled with dead oysters from her backyard. Little Celia Traylor made a splash in Washington, D.C., as the smallest lagoon activist, who was able to make an indelible impression on the largest and most powerful lawmakers in the nation. In a poignant moment in the hallway of the Rayburn House office building, Celia approached U.S. House of Representatives Minority Speaker Nancy Pelo-
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