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YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 2/ISSUE 14
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2014
Little givers
GOP seeks someone to run against Murphy Nicole Rodriguez Staff writer
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Photo by Patrick McCallister Grace Inderlin, left, and Destiny Pieper, right, both of Palm City, get some puppy petting time. The girls raised $60 for the Humane Society of the Treasure Coast by selling the handmade bracelets. They visited the Palm City charity to give it the cash on Wednesday, Jan. 29..
Living for giving early on Patrick McCallister Staff writer
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PALM CITY — Grace Inderlin and Destiny Pieper are 10 and 9, respectively. Too young yet to volunteer at the Humane Society of the Treasure Coast. They don’t get to do that until they’re
12. But that didn’t stop them from raising $60 for the charity. “I just love animals and I felt it would be a good idea to donate to the Humane Society,” Grace said. The whole thing was Grace’s idea. Still, she had an eager partner from the get-go. “I said, ‘OK, but it might take a bit to do this,” Destiny said. Here’s how the whole affair went down. Grace got a Rainbow Loom for
her birthday back in October. She’d already been thinking about how to help the critters at the society’s 4100 S.W. Leighton Farm Ave. facility. Destiny already had a Rainbow Loom, a craft-making device for youths and children. Grace spent some time learning how to make jewelry and accessories from her friend. Destiny’s mom, Cindy Piper,
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TREASURE COAST — Treasure Coast Republicans are gearing up for a knock-down, drag-out fight for the District 18 congressional seat, currently occupied by U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Jupiter. Last week the Republican Party of St. Lucie County held a reopening event for its Victory office, located on U.S. 1 in Port St. Lucie. The office will function as a headquarters for conservative politicians running for any office, chairman Bill Paterson said. “If you’re interested in running for office, anywhere from the water district, school board and anywhere up through Congress, we do it all through here,” Paterson said. A seat the party needs is district 18, Paterson said. The district is made up of St. Lucie and Martin counties, along with a sliver of northern Palm Beach County. Murphy won the seat after a