Sculptor creates sea life art
Palm City man turns trash to treasure
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Recognized
Chief photographer wins award
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Dinner & a Movie
On tap at Flagler Center Saturday
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YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 2/ISSUE 16
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2014
Horse soccer comes to Palm City Patrick McCallister Staff writer
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PALM CITY — Horse soccer has trotted into Martin County. “I tried it in Georgia,” Karen Rayside, organizer of the first known game in Palm City, said. “My husband and I just loved it.” That game was on Sunday, Feb. 16. It attracted seven players, including a 9- and a 12-yearold. Equine, or horse, soccer is basically a variation of pushball. Only it’s done with horses. Two three-member teams of horses and riders aim to get a 40-inch ball past each others’ goal posts. Easy, right? “You try to get your horse to dribble down the field,” Rayside said. “It’s not easy.” Oh, and similarly to the nohands rule in human soccer, in horse soccer humans are prohibited from touching the ball in any way. There’s another hard-andfast rule. “You’re not allowed to use whips or crops,” Rayside said. Player Judy Vlasaty said there’s only one reason she showed up to
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Photo courtesy of Dennis Fast From left to right, Nikayla Haupt, Judy Vlasaty and Peggy Hornick participate in a round of horse soccer, along with their equine friends, Candy, Lotti, and Hi Johnson.
Neighborhood Advisory Committee gives first nod to Mapp Road design Staff writer
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PALM CITY — A Mapp Road with a divided service road with on-street parking, landscaping, bicycle lanes and an 8-foot sidewalk that allows water to seep right through. That’s the vision planner Brian Good, Kimley-Horn PRSRT STD US POSTAGE PAID FORT PIERCE, FL PERMIT NO. 248 ECRWSS
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and Associates, gave the Old Palm City Neighborhood Advisory Committee, NAC, at its second meeting, Monday, Feb. 17. The committee unanimously agreed to recommend that the Martin County Commission acting as the Community Redevelopment Agency adopt the proposed design. Kevin Freeman, Martin County’s community development director, said that with the com-
mittee’s nod in hand work could begin in 2015. Before the vote, committee chairman Chuck Smith said he was taken aback by the proposed design. “Four months ago we sat here with a totally different idea,” he told Freeman during the meeting. “What happened to that idea?” Freeman said much of the new proposed roadway design uses
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recent and developing innovations in storm-water management to better satisfy a litany of wishes Mapp residents and businesses have expressed during public meetings. “It’s a very complex piece of engineering, and we’re trying to address everything we heard from
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