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YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 3/ISSUE 45
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
State delegation meetings approaching
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2015
She said Yes!!!
Patrick McCallister STAFF WRITER
pmccallister@YourVoiceWeekly.com
TREASURE COAST — Local representatives in the Florida House and Senate will have two local public meetings in September. They’re called delegation meetings. “The delegation meeting is really the opportunity for the community to come to have their agenda heard,” Rep. Gayle Harrell said in a phone interview. Harrell — whose district includes parts of Martin and St. Lucie counties — is hosting the Martin County delegation meeting. It’ll be Thursday, Sept. 24, 9 a.m. to noon at the Martin County Administrative Center, 2401 S.E. Monterey Road, Stuart. In addition to Harrell, Rep. MaryLynn Magar will attend, along with state senators Joe Negron and Denise Grimsley. Harrell said the delegation meetings have generated important changes in the state and local area. She said that parents of a teen who’d been removed from school by law enforcement under the Florida Mental Health Act, commonly called “Baker Act,” approached the local delegation a few years back with an important fact. “We had a situation of a child being Baker Acted at a charter school and the parents were not notified,” Harrell said. Turned out the school had done nothing wrong by failing to notify
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Photo submitted by Katie Kraft Katie Kraft of Palm City received a marriage proposal in front of the St. Lucie Mets fan base and by family and friends that became part of the surprise ambush of love by Mark Naumovitz of Port St. Lucie Sunday, Sept. 6 at Tradition Field in St. Lucie West.
Got soccer? Palm City does Bruno Moore
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PALM CITY — Tucked away at the end of Moore Street in Palm City, nestled in between the Florida Turnpike and acres of woodland — lives are changing. Under blinding stadium lights and amid a blur of colored jerseys and sweaty children, Paul Filipe’s
landscaping business, Florida Exotic Enterprises, has given way to a five acre plot of land dedicated to the most popular sport in the world; Soccer. The soccer club he launched five years ago, FCFlorida, has already produced two Major League Soccer players, along with dozens of college bound players. What started out as a men’s soccer club, Felipe says, grew into a
mentoring movement for area kids. “We said, ‘why don’t we do a whole travel club?’ There’s nothing in the Stuart area that has the professionalism you need to have a top travel team.” John Textor, a Port St Lucie business developer, partnered with Filipe and others to launch
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