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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2015
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Sixteen-year cancer survivor Nancy Sailer of Palm City hands flowers to her daughter, Tish Sailer Andrew, and other family members before being brought onstage at the Komen Race For The Cure as one of the latest ‘Warriors in Pink’. The event took place Saturday, Jan. 31, at the Meyer Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach. More photos inside.
MARTIN COUNTY — The 56th annual Martin County Fair & Youth Livestock Show is almost here! On Friday, Feb. 13, the gates will swing open at 4:30 p.m. with free admission until 8 p.m., along with unlimited rides for $20. “Come early, come often and bring the family along,” Jay Spicer, fair manager, said. “We have no less than 40 new programs at the fair for them to discover.” OK, admit it, rides. That’s what everyone thinks about first. How about Vertigo, a 90-foot-tall circular swing? After getting past that test for acrophobia, folks can head over the Super Shot, to slowly go up and quickly come down, completely trusting electromagnetism will beat gravity and bring the ride to a stop every time. The Super Slide features three 90-foot lanes of proof gravity can and does accelerate things until
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2014 ends with strong jobs numbers Patrick McCallister STAFF WRITER
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TREASURE COAST — Florida started 2014 on one side of 6 percent, and ended it on the other. “There are people who feel that things have not gotten better, but the numbers are there — the (jobs reporting) methodology has
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not changed,” Odaly Victorio, communications coordinator at CareerSource Research Coast, said. On Friday, Jan. 23, the state released its monthly jobs report, which covered December. The Sunshine State’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 5.6 percent at the end of 2014, down from 6.3 percent the previous December. That state is back
to jobs numbers last seen in April of 2008, shortly before a sharp rise in unemployment that didn’t stop for two years and peaked at 11.4 percent in the first quarter of 2010. Unemployment had been steadily rising from the beginning of 2007 before then. Victorio said some job hunters on the Treasure Coast are still feeling pessimistic despite the proliferation of help wanted signs
and ads. “We have a little (post-traumatic stress disorder) when we think about what we went through the last few years,” she said. But double-digit unemployment that persisted in some areas of the state until last year is gone. The Florida Department of Eco-
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