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YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 3/ISSUE 19
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
Struttin’ their stuff
FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2015
Fair roundtable talks Palm City, Indiantown Patrick McCallister STAFF WRITER
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Gail Maidrand of Palm City strolls through the seventh annual Purse Party Fashion Show benefitting the Children’s Museum of the Treasure Coast Monday, March 9 at Harbour Ridge Yacht & Country Club. The fashions were provided by the Shoppes at Harbour Bay Plaza in Sewall’s Point.
Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Heidi Monsour of Palm City wore a leopard print swimsuit from Her Majesty at Harbour Bay Plaza during the seventh annual Purse Party Fashion Show benefitting the Children’s Museum of the Treasure Coast Monday, March 9 at Harbour Ridge Yacht & Country Club. The event has raised over $260,000 for the first six years, creating educational and scholarship opportunities for students on the Treasure Coast.
MARTIN COUNTY — Moving the Fair & Youth Livestock Show would be a rollercoaster ride. That was the consensus at an informal fair-move roundtable Commissioner John Haddox, Palm City, hosted on Friday, March 6. About 10 attended. Jay Spicer, fair manager, said he thinks there’s already a natural spot to take the fair from its Stuart home. “Over off the (Southwest Citrus Boulevard) corridor by the (Citrus Grove Park),” he said. He later explained a central reason to
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Road work finally on the Mapp STAFF WRITER
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PALM CITY — After about 11 years of Old Palm City Neighborhood Advisory Committee talk, work crews could be rolling out on Mapp Road early as fall.
“Our time is here, that’s the bottom line,” Chuck Smith, chairman of the advisory committee, said. “It’s up to the (County Commission acting as the Community Redevelopment Agency) now.” At its last regular meeting, Feb. 23, the committee unanimously approved to recommend to the County Commission acting as the
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on Mapp. At press time, Sentell’s status on the committee is unclear. At the meeting, he expressed annoyance about the opinion from the county attorney’s office late in the proposed Mapp design talks that he could
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Community Redevelopment Agency a largely scaled-back initial work plan for Mapp Road with an aim to continue it in modules as funding becomes available. Two members, Thomas Plymale and Rex Sentelll, refrained from voting on the advice of Elizabeth Lenihan, assistant county attorney, due to owning property
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