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YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 2/ISSUE 30
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
FRIDAY, MAY 30, 2014
Little sprinter
Equine Rescue opens the stall door Patrick McCallister Staff writer
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Liana Wier, 9, of Palm City comes around the last turn to finish the ‘23rd Annual Run for the Pineapple 5k’ race. Liana completed this first 5K attempt with a third-place finish in her age bracket.
Employment snapshot has good news for all — better news for Martin Staff writer
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TREASURE COAST — Happy days may be here again. Martin County’s not-seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate in April was 5.7 percent. PRSRT STD US POSTAGE PAID FORT PIERCE, FL PERMIT NO. 248 ECRWSS
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“That’s considered, in some circles, full employment,” Odaly Victorio, communications coordinator for CareerSource Research Coast, said. CareerSource used to be Workforce Solutions. The name changed earlier this year. The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity’s monthly jobs re-
port was released on Friday, May 16. Full employment is when there is almost no deficient-demand unemployment. In other words, if employable folks want jobs reasonably suited to their educations and backgrounds,
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PALM CITY “We want — Equine everybody to Rescue & see what we have Adoption accomplished. We Foundation would appreciate is opening them making the stall donations.” door for folks to get Randy Kinder a look at its president new paddock. “We’re trying to do a fundraiser, an open house, and an awareness campaign all wrapped up into one,” Randy Kinder, president, said. The open house will be on Saturday, May 31, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. At about 11 a.m., there’ll be a parade of horses, the ones cared for by the foundation. Kinder said there’ll be lots more fun lined up, but many plans are still in the works at press time. “We want everybody to see what we have accomplished,” Kinder said. “We would appreciate them