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YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 2/ISSUE 32
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
Cooling their jets
FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2014
EMC director: Area better prepared 10 years after Frances, Jeanne Nicole Rodriguez Staff writer
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TREASURE COAST — Although it’s been a decade since the Treasure Coast was battered by a major hurricane, experts caution residents to heed their advice to stock up and formulate a storm plan.
“It only takes one storm,” Martin County Emergency management director Debra McCaughey warns. In 2004, it was two. Hurricane Frances formed from a tropical depression in the deep tropical Atlantic on
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Martin commission meeting to get humanist invocation Patrick McCallister Staff writer
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Photo courtesy of Dana McCartney Martin County High School class of 2014 graduates Alexandra Zogran and Savanna Zeisman of Palm City made plans to keep cool while waiting to be the alphabetically last students to cross the stage and receive their diploma during ceremonies held Tuesday, June 3, in Stuart.
MARTIN COUNTY — The county commission is finding more religion these days after getting complaints from humanists last year. And even a little non-religion. “We now have equal rights to deliver invocations, and we
appreciate that,” said Joe Beck, founder and president of the Stuart-based Humanists of the Treasure Coast. On June 3, after press time, the commission is slated to start its regular meeting with an invocation done by Rabbi Jeffrey Goldwasser, Temple Beit HaYam, Stuart. Goldwas-