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YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 3/ISSUE 33
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
Crime down on the Treasure Coast
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015
Capfuls of love
Patrick McCallister STAFF WRITER
pmccallister@YourVoiceWeekly.com
TREASURE COAST — Local police are getting a breather. Well, they’re probably not breathing any easier, but crime is down across Florida and on the Treasure Coast. “It’s a 14.8 percent reduction in all crime overall (in Martin County),” Sheriff Will Snyder said. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement recently released its annual Uniform Crime Report. Of the state’s 402 law enforcement agencies, 396 contribute to the report. They cover more than 99 percent of the state’s population. “I am proud today to stand with our state’s law enforcement community to celebrate Florida’s 44 year low crime rate,” Governor Rick Scott said in a press release. The Uniform Crime Report has been done every year since 1971. With intermittent crime increases, particularly in the ‘70s and ‘80s, the state’s generally seen crime dropping over those four decades. “We all have our ideas about why that is, but how can we really say?” Steve Arthur, com-
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Bessey Creek Elementary School students Morgan Scarry, Julia Edwards and Hannah Reynolds box up plastic bottle caps that will be recycled into playground materials. The bottle caps were collected throughout the school year. The bottle caps are also donated to the nonprofit organization ‘Caps Of Love’ located in Royal Palm Beach, to help people with disabilities. ‘Caps Of Love’ is the only U.S. affiliate with the international charity ‘Bouchons D’Amour.’ By recycling plastic caps, ‘Caps Of Love’ raises money to buy wheelchairs for children with disabilities.
Candidate hopes to carry on Congressman Murphy’s work Patrick McCallister STAFF WRITER
pmccallister@YourVoiceWeekly.com
TREASURE COAST — Palm Beach County Commissioner Melissa McKinlay is running for Congress.
“I was motivated by the opportunity to carry on (Patrick Murphy’s) good work for the district,” she said. The Democrat said the 18th Congressional District needs an eclectic Representative. “It’s very rural in nature, although it’s developed
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