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YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 2/ISSUE 28
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
Lesson from a pro
FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2014
Spinning a memorial Patrick McCallister Staff writer
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PALM CITY — By all accounts Lynn Perciasepe inspired countless folks they could do it. Whatever the “it” was for them. Lynn was a fitness instructor at the Martin Health System’s Health & Fitness Center, 3066 S.W. Martin Downs Blvd. almost right up to the day she died.
“She was a hard worker,” her son, Nicholas, 11, said. “She would never stop, even when they tried to get her to stop. She was always the one to push you to go further.” Lynn died on Feb. 15, at age 54, after a long struggle with lung cancer. She never smoked. Her co-workers wanted to do something to memorialize her.
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NASA co-founder, Cortright Commission namesake dies Patrick McCallister Staff writer
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Photo courtesy of Lisa Cody Brian Roberson, Martin County firefighter/EMT, gives Palm City’s Abigail Cornea her first lesson in firefighting at the Highland Reserves on Saturday, April 26. Abigail, 6, attends Bridges Montessori School, Stuart.
PALM CITY — Edgar Cortright probably stopped by Earth’s orbit, the moon and Mars before heading onto heaven. He had a few satellites and robotic probes to look at one last time before moving onto eternity. Cortright died on Sunday, May 4, following a stroke. He was 90. The World War II Navy pilot was in the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik
in 1958. The nation quickly geared up for spaceflight after that, and he was put on the taskforce that formed NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Cortright held numerous jobs in NASA. His last was director of the Langley Research Center in Virginia. “I was very proud of the first lunar mission, the Surveyor,” Cortright said in a 1998 interview with Rich Dinkel for the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project. “I was very proud of