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Renaissance eco art Ava Adkins, 7, performs in her cardboard theater during the ‘Global Cardboard Challenge’ at Renaissance Charter School in Tradition Saturday, Oct. 11.

The worldwide event challenged the students to build something amazing out of cardboard, recycled materials and imagination.

Brandon Zeris STAFF WRITER

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ST. LUCIE COUNTY — Each mayoral candidate will be the first to tell people that his or her opponent has made a multitude of mistakes, and that’s just what they did at a candidate forum Oct. 10, hosted by the St. Lucie County League of Women Voters.

Incumbent Mayor JoAnn Faiella opened the mayoral portion of the forum by referencing challenger Greg Oravec’s mistakes as Port St. Lucie’s city manager during his tenure that lasted less than a year.

“We can face the tough decisions before us and continue to move our city forward, or we can go backward to the tactics and failures that my opponent and the previous administration has given us, the taxpayers, and such, the enormous debt of Digital Domain and City Center, not to mention the pending lawsuits totaling over $5 million for the unjust firing of top brass police officers who work to protect us,” Faiella said.

Oravec was the assistant city manager when Digital Domain was approved, and the city has

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Thanks given to all for veterans nursing home Brandon Zeris STAFF WRITER

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TRADITION — To mark the end of an extensive, community-driven effort to secure the state’s seventh veterans nursing home, local representatives thanked those who played important roles Monday morning at Tradi-

tion Town Hall.

St. Lucie County Commissioner Frannie Hutchinson, Port St. Lucie Mayor JoAnn Faiella, Florida Rep. Larry Lee, U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy and Senators Joe Negron and Gayle Harrell took turns thanking those who helped.

“Congratulations to St. Lucie County,” Murphy said. “We won this because we deserve this.”

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Many thanked their elected peers, but some of the behindthe-scenes people got some well-deserved recognition, too.

Hutchinson, who many credited with being the most dedicated to the cause, said she had three people with her each step of the way.

County attorney Dan McIntyre

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Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient on short list for nursing home naming rights Sgt. Ardie Ray Copas is one of 16 veterans who the new veterans nursing home in Tradition will be named after. Copas, a Fort Pierce native and Medal of Honor recipient, was killed in Cambodia May 12, 1970 while serving in the Vietnam War

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ST. LUCIE COUNTY — A Fort Pierce native is one of 16 eligible veterans to have the state nursing home in Tradition named after him, and community officials are supporting the cause.

The St. Lucie County Commision passed a resolution 5-0 to support naming the new nursing home after Army Sgt. Ardie Ray Copas, who died May 12, 1970 during the Vietnam War. Copas was just 19 when he was killed in battle in Cambodia. That morning, Copas’ company was ambushed by enemies, firing artillery, rocket propelled grenades and automatic weapons. Artillery fire struck his armored car, injuring him and four others.

Copas got on the vehicle’s mounted machine gun and fired at the attackers as they fired back with explosive rounds.

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WWW.YOURVOICEWEEKLY.COM “We laid off unnecessary middle management to hire back police officers to put on the streets,” Oravec said. “Since then, crime is down, and I stand by the decision.

“They just continue to throw things at the wall and see what can stick.”

FORUM from page A1 “We can face the tough decisions before us and continue to move our city forward or we can go backward to the tactics and failures that my opponent and the previous administration has given us, the taxpayers, and such, the enormous debt of Digital Domain and City Center, not to mention the pending lawsuits totaling over $5 million for the unjust firing of top brass police officers who work to protect us,” Faiella said.

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A 2012 lawsuit filed by former Port St. Lucie Police Captain Joseph D’Agostino against the city, naming both Oravec and Faiella as defendants, seeks damages from D’Agostino being laid off from a police department restructuring that eliminated some positions and added others.

“We laid off unnecessary middle management to hire back police officers to put on the streets,” Oravec said. “Since then, crime is down, and I stand by the decision.

“They just continue to throw things at the wall and see what can stick.”

The suit also accuses Faiella and Oravec of violating Florida’s open

meetings law, the Sunshine Law, by discussing the police department restructuring privately.

At the forum, Oravec said the city needs to rebrand itself and elect a mayor who will obey the Sunshine Law. “Council members aren’t supposed to talk about things behind closed doors,” he said. “It’s pretty straightforward how you deal with that — you just follow the law.

“We need to improve our brand so we don’t have negative headlines … let’s make sure we’re in the headlines for good reasons like the veterans nursing home, versus another Sunshine violation,” he said.

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After 2019, the payments will be $2.3 million per year, but that number will be reduced if the building is sold, Fry said.

Faiella said the former council and city staff ignored numerous red flags.

Oravec admitted that the deal wasn’t in the city’s best interest, despite it being appealing early on.

“I think we’ve clearly learned our lesson,” he said. “It was such a failure that I think it changed the game across the state.”

Faiella was charged with two misdemeanors (violating the Sunshine Law) in 2013, for talking with other council members and using former city attorney Roger Orr as an intermediary in discussing Oravec’s future employment with the city after Oravec released 85 pages of documents showing texts and emails among council members to the State’s Attorney’s office.

Faiella’s charges were dismissed by a judge because her right to a speedy had been violated.

Faiella disagreed with a question from the audience suggesting the council hasn’t been transparent enough.

“I believe that this government and this council has been very transparent … I disagree with that statement,” she said.

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Take care of existing drainage problems first To the editor: In 2008, St. Lucie West was hit hard by Tropical Storm Fay. At that time, I was the district manager for the St. Lucie West Services District. I put plans in place for improvements which included automating the gates and replacing them with gates that went down 2 feet vs. 1 foot and allowed water to drain out twice as fast. I fought for and got a FEMA grant for over $1 million and plans were put in place for final design and implementation.

In January of 2010, I had a medical problem that caused me to retire. There were two remaining issues that needed to be addressed: the Turnpike Ditch, which needs to be cleaned and enlarged and the permit with the South Florida Water Management District, which needs to be changed to

It took courage to write your story To the editor, I just had the opportunity to read Shelley Koppel’s article this morning (“When violence hits close to home,” Oct. 3, 2014).

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Back a while ago, you did a story on a book I wrote.

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A lesson on H2O in St. Lucie West I

’d bet that there’s a lot you don’t know about the St Lucie West Services District. In fact, most of the people I know call it the “Water District” because all they see of the District is a monthly water bill. The District is a key resource for our community in St Lucie West, yet few people are aware of their breadth of services.

First, a bit of history. When he decided to develop St Lucie West in the 1980s, Thomas J. White needed four things to get started: • A bridge over the turnpike • Roads through the wilderness • A golf course (go figure) • Plumbing For the plumbing part, like many developers, White created a Community Development District to make up for the lack of city services in the area. Thus was born the St Lucie West Services District, not coincidentally located adjacent to the Country Club —which would need water long before the first house was built.

Unless it breaks, we rarely see the plumbing, since it’s mostly underground. But there are hundreds of miles of pipes down there — drinking water pipes, sewer pipes, irrigation water pipes, stormwater drainage pipes, and pipes that interconnect the many retention ponds. Every new development — housing, commercial or industrial — has added to the underground infrastructure.

Right now, there are 64 miles of pipes delivering drinking water, 52 miles of pipes delivering irrigation water and 94 miles of pipes collecting wastewater.

But all that piping does nothing without the machinery to process what goes through the pipes.

Even before the first drop passed through the first pipe, the processing equipment had to be in place. The District built a potable (drinking) water processing system to purify and desalinate water drawn from shallow wells, a sewage treatment system, and, with remarkable foresight for the time, a system to reuse waste water for irrigation.

Over the past few decades, as demand grew, the systems grew.

At one point, when the developer still ran the District, the system didn’t grow quite fast enough, and it ran out of water. The city of Port St. Lucie came to the rescue, just as the District had done for the city a few years earlier. Today, with deeper wells and more efficient equipment, the District has capacity to meet all projected demand through buildout of the

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You can tour the plant. You should. The first thing you’ll notice is that it’s almost immaculate.

Even the equipment repair shop, which should be grease-stained and cluttered, in my experience, looks as tidy as my grandmother’s parlor. The second thing you’ll notice is that parts of it could be a set from Star Wars, with all the high-tech flat panel displays and real-time updates on the status of thousands of sensors.

Of course, there are the low-tech areas, too. The biggest is probably the IQ pond. No, it’s not a smart body of water. It’s where they store the Irrigation Quality water that you use to water your lawn.

If you go soon, you’ll find that half of it is empty, with a big dam separating the water from the other half. That’s because the bottom is being relined.

Then there are the water storage tanks. If water is being purified faster than we’re using it, the overflow goes into them. If we’re using water faster than the plant is processing it, then the extra water comes out of them. They hold a lot of water — 4.0 million gallons each. If every toilet in our community were flushed at the same time, it wouldn’t dent the extra capacity.

(Speaking of toilets, did you know that the District will give you a $100 rebate if you replace your old toilet with a new low-volume model? Or $15 for a new low-flow shower head? What a

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ST. LUCIE WEST — A collection of stormwater retention ponds in the Cascades community has been problematic for residents who want clear, waterfront property, but St. Lucie West Services District staff is working toward a solution.

The district is going to see if a new boat that can scoop residue and vegetation in shallow water can help residents with the nearby ponds, primarily in the Cascades community.

The new boat is the same type the district used about 10 years ago, before it switched to a larger type, called a harvester.

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meeting, about 35 residents showed up to seek a solution for the messy ponds.

Harvey Cutler, the district’s chairman, asked the residents to wait until the next meeting so staff could come up with a fix.

At the Oct. 7 meeting, Cascades resident Barbara Bernstein said the ponds are still murky.

“The problem doesn’t seem to be getting fixed; it just seems to be getting managed,” Bernstein said.

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Over the top TD Richard Betty (No. 24) goes over the top for a 2-yard touchdown for Fort Pierce Central High School in the first quarter against Mandarin High School during their matchup Friday, Oct. 10 at Lawnwood Stadium. The Central Cobras lost the match 34-24.

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PONDS from page A8 according to University of Florida St. Lucie County Resource Extension manager Ken Gioeli.

The new boat is now in use, and it allows the district to get to more shallow areas that the harvester could not reach, the district’s public works director, Bill Hayden.

“This is probably the type of boat we need to get in there,” Hayden said.

Because the new boat is smaller, the ponds can be treated more often, the district’s manager, Dennis Pickle, said.

“This boat we hope will be a somewhat of an answer. It’s not going to be a fix,” Pickle said.

The only permanent fix would be to fill in portions of the lake, but that’s not feasible and would remove the residents’ ability to have waterfront property.

The ponds are operating as they are intended to, however, according to Pickle.

The ponds weren’t designed to be crystal-clear, recreational ponds, as many residents hoped.

They are to prevent flooding, Pickle said.

“We are doing what was recommended by the biologists. We are taking care of and treating them as stormwater retention ponds,” Pickle said.

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ST. LUCIE COUNTY — The St. Lucie County Commission members want the county to be prepared in case medical marijuana usage is approved in the Nov. 4 General Election.

The commission voted 5-0 Oct. 7 to advertise three public hearings to discuss a medical marijuana facility zoning ordinance, should Amendment 2 pass with a 60 percent required vote in the general election, in order to make sure the county is free of potential legal disputes.

The amendment will decriminalize the medical use of marijuana for those who have debilitating diseases — such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, hepatitis C, HIV, AIDS, ALS, Crohn’s disease and Parkinson’s disease — in which marijuana would

help.

The first hearing will be in front of planning and zoning commission in November, and the other two will be in front of the County Commission at a later-scheduled date.

Dr. Michael Hofstee, St. Lucie County Republican Party State Committeeman, asked the council to wait on advertising until after the general election because doing so now could sway voters.

“If the constitutional amendment does pass, there will be plenty of time to regulate,” Hofstee said.

County attorney Dan McIntyre said the county is not endorsing medical marijuana by advertising.

“This has nothing to do with that,” McIntyre said. “We are simply looking to get out in front of this.”

Commissioner Tod Mowery said the commission is trying to prevent problems of regulating dispensaries after they are approved, which could set up the county for

future legal battles.

“I want to make sure we are doing the right thing for our community,” he said.

The ordinance allows for state-approved dispensaries to be placed in industrial light districts with hours of operation to be from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday and closed on Sunday in locations 2,500 feet from any pharmacy, school, medical office, daycare center, daycare home, playground, religious institution, public park, other medical marijuana dispensary, residential structure, adult living facility or similar type of facility, according to the ordinance.

Dispensaries would also be prohibited from selling alcohol, providing any other services unrelated to medical marijuana and displaying merchandise.

Cultivation would have to done indoors in an area not accessible to the public.

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New congregation taking a different approach Brandon Zeris STAFF WRITER

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ST. LUCIE WEST — Rabbi Arthur Rutberg has always wanted to start his own congregation, and after 30 years of experience, he’s doing just that.

But, he’s not going to model after more traditional congregations he’s been involved with.

The Treasure Coast Jewish Centre is opening to all, he says.

“We envision our congregation as Abraham’s Tent open and welcoming to all. We intend to reach out to the unaffiliated in our Jewish community and meet them where they are,” he says.

“I have a deep passion for learning and teaching Judaism to people of all ages and all backgrounds. The essential calling of my rabbinate is bringing people to greater awareness of their Jewish tradition and teaching oth-

ers about Judaism; it’s history, its values and its many forms,” Rutberg, a former rabbi at Temple Beth El Israel in St. Lucie West, says.

Meetings will be in numerous places, not limited to one central location to appeal to more people.

“Our approach is not to build it thinking they will come. It doesn’t work that way anymore.

Outreach to the young, the unaffiliatedz and the uninterested is our primary focus and objective,” he says.

Just between 30 and 40 percent of Jewish Americans identify with synagogues, according to a Pew Center research report. Rutberg estimates that number is closer to 20 percent in Florida.

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TRADITION — The Brennity at Tradition, a local senior living community, has named a new executive director and healthcare administrator.

Renea McGrath is the new executive director and will oversee the daily operations at the community. McGrath comes to The Brennity from Emeritus, where she served as an executive director. She brings more than 25 years of experience as a manager, including owning and operating her own business.

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Cantor Bruce Benson will also be one of the leaders, composing music and leading prayers.

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Staff photo by Patrick McCallister Martin County Sheriff William Snyder, left, and Deputy Chrystal Duncombe, right, are aiming to arrest cancer and put it away forever. Duncombe drives the department’s cancer-fight car. Duncombe will have the car be at the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer in Martin County annual walk on Saturday, Oct. 18, at Memorial Park, 100 S.E. Ocean Blvd., Stuart. That even will start at 9 a.m.

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TREASURE COAST — Deputy Chrystal Duncombe is driving the fight against cancer. No, really.

The St. Lucie West resident is driving the Martin County’s Sheriff’s cancer fight car. That gets a job perk that took a little getting used to for a road-patrol officer.

“I have people drive by and give me the thumbs-up,” she said.

The deputy has been with the Sheriff’s Office for four years.

About two years ago, supervisors approached her to drive the black cruiser with pink lettering proclaiming, “Help us fight cancer.”

Her mother died at 46 due to smoking-related cancer, so Duncombe didn’t need any convincing.

The lawwoman takes the car to a host of anti-cancer events, such as the recent Survivor Party at the Evergreen Club in Palm City, Oct. 2. At press time, Dun-

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60th birthday party planned for community pharmacy STAFF WRITER

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ST. LUCIE COUNTY — Butterfield’s Pharmacy, a local pharmacy with two St. Lucie County locations, is turning 60, and the employees want the public to join them in celebrating the store’s roots and the principles that helped it become successful.

There will be a birthday party from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. at each of the two Butterfield’s Pharmacies — along Northwest St. Lucie West Boulevard in St. Lucie West and along Turnpike Feeder Road in Fort Pierce.

While some things like store locations have changed, others haven’t.

“What hasn’t changed is the care for the patient and the customer service that we’re known for,” said Jeff Earlywine, the company’s finance and operations director. “You come here, and we’ll spend time with you. It’s a paradox because we’ll explain things so you understand, but we can also work as quickly as you need.

The average wait time is just 12

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“We roll out the red carpet, and that’s how we’ve always done it to care for the customers,” he said.

When the business was started in 1954 by Tom Butterfield, he did so with the goal of serving the community and treating customers like family, and those values are still promoted by current owner Dave Wright.

“Our philosophy is to treat customers like they’re your grandmother. That’s how we treat everybody,” Wright said.

Tami Brown has spent more than 20 years working for Butterfield’s, starting at the age of 15, and said she’s been taught those values all along.

“It was instilled a long time ago.

If you wouldn’t treat your grandmother that way, then you don’t treat (the customers) that way,” she said.

The times have changed, though, and Butterfield’s has kept up technologically with its larger chain-store counterparts.

Pharmacists help customers with multiple prescriptions keep their doses synched to eliminate confusion.

Photo submitted by Jeff Earlywine of Butterfield’s Pharmacy Tom Butterfield opened the first Butterfield’s Pharmacy near U.S. 1 in Fort Pierce in 1954. The Fort Pierce branch is now located along Turnpike Feeder Road.

The pharmacy also offers individually packed dosages for patients at hospitals to eliminate the need for nurses to carry multiple pill bottles at a time.

“We’ve kept up with the times,” Earlywine said.

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The Aquatics Department is responsible for the ponds — 128 ponds totaling 650 acres, all interconnected. It’s really more like a river, as water flows from pond to pond through underground pipes, moving mostly west to east, from I-95 to the Turnpike.

Almost all of them are “retention” ponds, and they have two purposes. The first is to purify the water as it flows through the community and keep pollution out of the downstream bodies of water — ultimately the St Lucie River and the Indian River Lagoon. The second is to provide somewhere for runoff to accumulate during rainstorms.

The Department constantly monitors the quality of the water and has to meet strict standards for water quality. Keeping the ponds functional is a lot of work, but they have some really cool equipment for the task — boats, carts, sprayers, and analyzers.

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best is the harvester. It looks like some prehistoric monster, with its huge scoop at the bow, two conveyer belts to move the material around, and the paddle wheels that drive it on the sides.

They wouldn’t have to pay me to drive that boat, at least not for the first day.

The vegetation in the ponds does most of the purification, but there are good plants and bad plants. The trick is to control the bad ones while keeping the good ones healthy. As a rule, the good guys are growing in the shallow water along the banks, and the bad guys are often floating in the deeper water. The easiest way to spot the bad plants is that they grow really fast like, well, like weeds. Although even the beneficial plants might look untidy, they are critical to maintaining and improving the water quality.

They’re actually hard at work.

The Vac-Con/Video Ray Crew has some nifty equipment, too.

The Vac-Con truck is a huge vacuum cleaner. The crew uses it to clean sand and sediment out of the stormwater pipes and to remove solid waste from the lift stations which keep the wastewater moving to the treatment plant. The Video Ray is a miniature remote-controlled submarine with cameras and water jets. It swims down the pipes looking for obstructions, deterioration, and sediment. If a clog is

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The Exotic Plants Crew does most of its work where we don’t often see them — out in the woods. They keep the preserve areas from being overrun by invasive non-native plants. Like the aquatic folks, their goal is to control the nasty growth and promote the healthy plants.

Again, the invasive plants grow like weeds, so every preserve is cleared of Brazilian peppers, malaleucas and other inappropriate growth every three years.

It’s a never-ending battle, but critical to our community.

Finally, the Landscape Maintenance Crew cuts the grass, trims the trees and shrubbery, paints the signs, picks up the litter, and generally is responsible for the appearance of all the areas that don’t belong to a property owner or to the city. They maintain 300 acres of common area with a crew of nine employees.

The Services District contributes greatly to our community.

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CANCER from page A14 combe is slated to appear at the Treasure Coast Pink Heals Tour, Tradition Square, Saturday, Oct. 11.

But, Duncombe is still a cop with lights, siren, badge and sidearm, and her vehicle is still a Sheriff’s Office cruiser. She’s taken many a lawbreaker to jail in it.

“I had a guy who was like, ‘I’m not getting in that car,’” she said. “‘Not that car.’ But, by the time we got to (the Martin County Jail) he was OK with it.”

Sheriff Will Snyder said Duncombe and her cruiser are in demand.

“We get requests from all over for (Duncombe) to bring the car,” he said. “She’s become the celebrity.”

Snyder, too, said cancer has visited his family, and he wants to be a part of arresting cancer and

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“I personally have a heart for that,” he said.

There’s another benefit to driving the cancer-fight patrol car,” Duncombe said. She said when she’s at events and parked while working, folks like to tell her their survivor stories. She said the stories about people battling cancers helps her keep a cop’s stressful job in perspective.

“It makes you appreciative for your life,” the deputy said.

Snyder said, he too, has gotten to hear survivor stories when attending events with the car.

“When you hear their stories, our jobs are much less stressful,” he said. “This is for every fight against every form of cancer.”

The car will be at the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer in Martin County annual walk on Saturday, Oct. 18, at Memorial Park, 100 S.E. Ocean Blvd., Stuart. That even will start at 9 a.m.

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Children’s Services Council needs votes for reauthorization STAFF WRITER

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ST. LUCIE COUNTY — The St. Lucie County Children’s Services Council provides funding that helps serve more than 30,000 area children, but it needs help from voters Nov. 4 to continue

being funded.

“These funded programs help make sure every baby is a healthy baby, stop child abuse before it happens, keep kids off the streets, keep them in school and off drugs and alcohol,” said Sean Boyle, the council’s executive director.

The council has been around since 1990, but state statute

changes became effective in 2010 that require Martin, St. Lucie, Palm Beach, Broward and Okeechobee county voters to reauthorize the councils this year. Pinellas and Hillsborough will be on the ballot in 2016 with Miami-Dade County following in 2020.

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If it’s reauthorized, the council will continue to exist, as is, and will be voted on again in 2026, unless it is dissolved by either the St. Lucie County Board of County Commissioners or by a special act of the Florida Legislature.

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Tradition woman makes career from captions close to home Shelley Koppel STAFF WRITER

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TRADITION — Nancy McManus was a court reporter for many years. In 2002, she took her talent and her machine and switched careers, becoming a closed captioner for television.

There were several reasons for the move.

“It was much more exciting,” she said. “I could stay at home and I didn’t have to dress up. I saved gas. Also, with court reporting, they can’t start without you.”

McManus works for Caption Colorado, one of the largest providers of real-time closed captioning in the United States. The captioner dials in to access the audio of the event to be captioned and uses the steno machine used by a court reporter to write between 180-200 words per minute in shorthand. The steno machine is connected to the captioner’s computer and the steno shorthand is translated with special software.

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clients and McManus is one of approximately 160 captioners who do the closed captioning for them. She does the local news and weather for a number of cities in the U.S. and is also on standby for emergencies such as weather or breaking news.

Occasionally, she is asked to provide captioning for a show that aired before captioning was widespread. The goal for all of the captioning is accuracy.

“We’re human, so we make mistakes,” she said. “We try our best to get everything covered. They want 98.5 percent accuracy at my company. When I was a court reporting and thinking about captioning, I started watching it.

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make certain letters.

“There is no letter ‘n,’” McManus said. “With my left hand, I hit ‘tph’ together. That’s the letter ‘n’ or ‘n’ sound. Because of that, I can make a lot of brief forms and phrases. Texas is ‘toeug,’ When I do a morning show, if I write ‘toeug,’ I’m doing the Dallas news.

I see it a million times. It’s shorthand on a machine.”

McManus is paid by the hour for jobs that are on her schedule.

“When I finish a job and upload it, it goes into a company file,” she said. “They check on us regularly for accuracy and speed.”

McManus also captions sporting events, including baseball, hockey and basketball.

“You have to know all the Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Nancy McManus follows her cues and prompts to create closed captioning text during morning news broadcast by WKYC in Cleveland from her home in Tradition.

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Foreign names are not the only pitfalls.

“Words like ‘to,’ ‘too’ and ‘two’ or ‘their,’ ‘there’ and ‘they’re’ have different ways of writing each one,” McManus said. “You hear the words and put it together at the same time. It’s so hard when they’re speaking fast. I’ll put dashes in. If I write something that’s not right, I can dash it and put in the correct word. That’s not considered an error.”

To become a court reporter, McManus went to school for two years at night. To switch careers, she practiced on depositions.

“It took a year or two to change the way I wrote,” she said. “I trained myself and sent a file to Caption Colorado. They would correct it and finally they said, ‘We think you’re television-ready.’”

McManus loves her job.

“I think it’s a challenge to know a lot of words and the different anchors and reporters in different areas,” she said. “I know most of my stations in San Francisco, Dallas, Jacksonville and Cleveland. With emergency weather, I can be looking up a map of Ohio, putting in every little town.

There’s a lot of preparation. I joke that I know a little bit about

Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Nancy McManus inputs the closed caption texting on a stenotype at her home in Tradition that scroll along the bottom of the various television broadcasts she works on. everything, but it really means nothing at all.”

Occasionally, McManus is challenged by words that are not supposed to be heard on network television.

“We are not, under any circumstances, to write ‘the F word,’” she said. “It cannot even come out by mistake. I’ve made it into another word. (With some words,) I will write it phonetically, so it never comes out.”

Sometimes, McManus puts a word in.

“If we, as the hearing can hear it, why can’t the hearing-impaired hear it? Unless I have strict instruction, if I’m not sure, I’m not going to play God.”

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TRADITION — From January 2010 to July 2012, Tom Nichols was the public information officer for the Port St. Lucie Police Department. He was the point person for the public and the media and was the person The New York Times called for information about the Tyler Hadley murder case.

“The New York Times came to my office to talk about it,” he said. “I treated them like we treat our local media, upfront and honest. They got the same story as our local media.”

In 2012, a new administration took over at the police depart and positions were shifted.

“They thought the PIO should be someone of rank, like a sergeant,” Nichols said. “I agree. I returned to patrol with the neighborhood policing bureau, back where I started. I enjoy what I do now.”

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“In New Jersey, you only get to go to the Police Academy after you’ve been hired,” he said. “Here, if you can go to the academy at IRSC, you’re more marketable to law enforcement agencies because they don’t have to pay (to send you.)”

Nichols came to Florida in 1989 and worked at the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office for four years. He then went to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office and spent two year with the Juvenile Boot Camp. He was certified as a corrections officer, but on his own, went to the Police Academy for certification as a law enforcement officer as well. In 1995, he was hired by the Port St. Lucie Police Department. Next year will mark

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COUNCIL from page A20 said there will be no dedicated source for local children’s programs.

“The average homeowner pays $27 per year through its property bill,” he said. “No other entity in the community has the ability to fund these programs. We currently fund 53 programs, of which 44 … receive 50 percent or more of their operating funds from the Children’s Services Council. Many of those programs will close or greatly reduce their capacity to serve children.”

Some of those programs include the Boys & Girls Clubs, the Avenue D Boys Choir and the Big

LETTER from page A6 allow for early release of water before storms. I had written them up and the Board of Supervisors was aware of the needs.

In 2012, Tropical Storm Isaac hit St. Lucie West hard, and the gates performed very well. The two issues that I had reported in 2008 were reported again to the community and Board of Supervisors, and nothing has been done to correct them. St. Lucie West flooded and will flood again until these issues are addressed.

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“Also, every newborn in St. Lucie County is eligible for a nurse home visit one week after delivery. This program checks on the health of the mother and the baby and answers any and all questions the new parents may have. The program along with increasing bonding has literally saved mother and baby lives,” Boyle said.

“Being reauthorized would mean that these programs and resources for local families would continue in St. Lucie County, and the success we have had in reducing infant mortality, child abuse and juvenile crime will also continue,” he said.

Park and Retention Pond project to be undertaken by the St. Lucie West Services District at a cost of between $5 million and $6 million. I am not opposed to this use, however, I believe it should be addressed in a referendum with the citizens of St. Lucie West. I also feel strongly that the two issues that have been open for over six years should be addressed before any new projects are considered.

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NICHOLS from page A24 year as a Port St. Lucie High School Resource Officer.

“When school got out, some of the resource officers took the summer off because it was hard to take time off during the school year,” he said. “I could go to the Criminal Investigations Division, and I started working financial crimes. I did that for 10 years. I enjoyed it and it was challenging. Then I was looking for a change.”

The positon of public information officer opened and Nichols was appointed to the position by then-Chief Brian Reuther. It was a job with many highs and some challenges.

“The high point was dealing with the public and being able to inform the community of what was going on,” he said.

“Some of the stories were funny and some very violent. It was good to tell the public that those were isolated incidents but that their police department had resolved them, that the police department was out there relentlessly looking for those responsible. That was rewarding.”

The biggest challenge was the phone.

“At any given time, something could happen, and the phone could ring at any time,” he said. “In the early hours after midnight, it could be the po-

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In addition to his patrol duties, Nichols is also a field training officer.

“I have new hires with me during certain phases of training,” he said. “It’s rewarding.

I try to be a role model and mentor to new hires, teaching a new officer the world of policing and how to be a police officer. I don’t use the word training.”

Nichols found time to complete a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts at Barry University, with a concentration in behavior science.

When he’s not on the job, he enjoys going to the gym and spending time with his daughter, 11. He also works for Major League Baseball, authenticating sports memorabilia. Major League Baseball has instituted a program to authenticate items removed from the field or signed by players.

Nichols said that the city he serves has changed a great deal.

“The growth is the most obvious thing,” he said. “It went from a small community to a city where people want to come to work and raise families. The most significant thing is our growth.”

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President Barack Obama awarded Copas and 23 others the Medal of Honor posthumously March 18 at the White House.

It’s important to have the nursing home named after a local hero, St. Lucie County Veterans Services Manager Wayne Teegardin said.

“We would, of course, love to have the nursing home named after a local person,” he said.

Teegardin said anyone can nominate any one of the 16 eligible people. The criteria are that the person was a Florida resident, is deceased and is a Medal of Honor

recipient.

“We will be in competition once again with the entire state to have this named,” Teegardin said.

Commissioner Frannie Hutchinson said it would be an honor to have the nursing home named after a local hero.

“That to me would be just like the icing on the cake - or the candles in this case. But, I feel like we got the icing already,” she said.

St. Lucie County was awarded the site for the state’s seventh veterans nursing home by Governor Rick Scott and his cabinet unanimously Sept. 23.

The nursing home is planned to be built on a 28.5-acre parcel in Tradition. The 120-bed facility will employ roughly 190 people.

Scott and his cabinet will choose who the site is named after by mid-December.

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HOME from page A1 and County Resource developer Glenn Henderson wrote the extensive 611-page proposal to secure the nursing home.

Henderson said it’s a relief to see so much time and effort culminate into the state awarding the site to St. Lucie County. It was one of the most in-depth proposals he’s written, Henderson said.

“I’ve done larger ones, but this one required so much in the way of technical documentation from the city and county, which resulted in us getting lots of data.

“It was quite the effort to put this together,” he said.

Henderson said the state required 11 copies to be submitted for consideration.

“It was so big we couldn’t FedEx it. We drove them over to Largo. You can imagine how much it was,” he said.

Hutchinson named Wayne Teegardin, St. Lucie County Veterans Services manager, as the other important figure she had helping her. “(Henderson) and I spent a lot of time together working on this project,” Teegardin said.

The two had scouted out other veterans nursing homes, he said.

“We went in there kind of incognito,” he said with a laugh. “I had years of training … he did not.”

All the efforts were to make sure the 200,000-plus veterans in the 75-mile radius the nursing home would serve have the care they need and deserve.

“Our veterans have made the world a better place,” Teegardin said.

The residents played perhaps the most significant role in the selection, said Al Carter, Florida Department of Veterans Affairs chair-

Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Dan Depagnier, chairman of the United Veterans of St. Lucie County, shakes hands with county commissioners Frannie Hutchinson, Kim Johnson, Chris Dzadovsky, Tod Mowery and Paula Lewis (not shown) following the recognition ceremony thanking all those involved in bringing the veterans nursing home to St. Lucie County. man.

St. Lucie County began the selection process ranked seventh out of 10 locations but quickly made up ground.

“I have a duffel bag of mail from St. Lucie County, including the emails,” Carter said, noting that only two of the 1,100 letters he received had anything bad to say about the nursing home.

The nursing home is planned to be built on a 28.5-acre parcel in Tradition, donated by Tradition Land Company.

“If it wasn’t for them, we wouldn’t be here today,” Hutchinson said.

The state required a minimum of 28 acres for the nursing home.

The 120-bed facility will employ about 190 people.

St. Lucie County was awarded the site for the state’s seventh veterans nursing home by Governor Rick Scott and his cabinet unanimously Sept. 23.

Scott and his cabinet will choose a name for the home in about two weeks.

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Central (2-4) was undisciplined with the ball, turning over the ball four times in its fourth straight loss of the season — the most Central has had since 2009, when it went 5-5, under former head coach Ed Geiger.

Central had three fumbles and two coming from junior quarterback Jake Celidonio.

Things looked fine early on for Central, however, after taking the first four minutes and 30 seconds to put together a 13-play, 85-yard drive, capped off by a 2-yard run

by Richard Betty, in which he dove over a couple of lineman to reach the end zone.

On the next drive, the sloppy play began. Celidonio threw an interception to Mandarin safety Anthony Brown. Otherwise, Celidonio managed to have a solid game, passing, going 17 of 27 for 258 yards, a touchdown and the interception.

Both teams traded field goals in the second quarter, and Mandarin added a touchdown on a 23yard pass from quarterback Tyler Greenlee to wide receiver Mike Syrakis. Greenlee finished 11 of 25 for 111 yards, three touchdowns and an interception.

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Mandarin added a field goal, and Central got a big play on a 73-yard pass from Celidonio to Mike McInnis, who racked up 111 yards on five catches.

That’s where the fun ended for Central.

Mandarin scored on its next two drives to make it 34-24. During Mandarin’s last drive, Central head coach Josh Shaffer was ejected from the game after he got his second unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. Then a fight broke out between several Mandarin and Central players with about four minutes left in the game.

A few Central players left their bench to get in on the scuffle.

No one was suspended during the game, but the Florida High School Athletic Association was expected to hand down suspensions later in the week.

Central Defensive Coordinator Charlie Matthews took over for Shaffer as head coach to finish out the game.

“We made some mistakes, but we just ask our players to play hard, and that’s all we can do,” he said.

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Show spotlights girl groups and great music

Photo courtesy of Diane Sobolewski ‘The Bikinis,’ a musical by Ray Roderick and James Hindman that celebrates the coming-of-age of a girl group from the 1960s and 1970s, will be presented at the Riverside Theatre Oct. 28-Nov. 16.

Shelley Koppel STAFF WRITER

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VERO BEACH — Ray Roderick, director, choreographer and co-writer of the musical, “The Bikinis,’’ is from Illinois. He didn’t see the ocean until he went to New Jersey with his wife, actress

Karen Quackenbush.

“She’s a Jersey girl and went to the Jersey shore every summer,’ he said. “She took me, and I thought it was unbelievable.

It was great way to grow up. In school, you get pigeon-holed, but when everyone comes to the beach in the summer, they get to rewrite themselves.”

“The Bikinis,” which will be

presented at the Riverside Theatre Oct. 28-Nov. 16, marries Roderick’s fascination with the shore with the impact of the transistor radio and the music that was the soundtrack of life in the 1960s and ‘70s. Based on a true story, the musical, written with James Hindman, tells the story of The Bikinis, a girl group from New Jersey that reunites after

20 years to raise money to save the Sandy Shores Mobile Home Beach resort in Florida from a developer. It features songs like, “It’s in His Kiss,” Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini,” “Heat Wave,” “Under the Boardwalk,” “When Will I be Loved,” “I’m Every Woman” and “I Will Survive.”

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Tin Fish (East) Trivia, 6:30 p.m., 327 S.E. Port St. Lucie Blvd., Port St. Lucie For more information, call (772) 879-3900.

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Good Times (West) Thirsty Thursdays 10 p.m.-2 a.m., 2096 N.W. Courtyard Circle, Port St. Lucie. For more information, call (772) 878-8844.

City Limits Sports Bar Live music or DJ 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m., 900 S.W. Gatlin Blvd., Port St. Lucie.

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Neely’s Grog House Karaoke 9 p.m.-1 a.m., 802 S.W. Bayshore Blvd., Port St. Lucie. For more information, call (772) 249-4195.

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Tin Fish (East) Live music. 6 p.m.-close, 327 S.E. Port St. Lucie Blvd., Port St. Lucie For more information, call (772) 879-3900.

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CLUBBIN’ from page B2 West. For more information, call (772) 800-3239.

Shindig Irish Restaurant & Pub Live music. $3 Smithwicks draft and $5 Carbombs. 464 S.W. Port St. Lucie Blvd., Port St. Lucie.

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Karaoke and Dancing at the St. Lucie Elks Lodge 7 p.m. until whenever. Fish Fry and more served until 8 p.m. 343 Prima Vista Blvd., Port St. Lucie, Fla. 34983. For more information, call Terry at (772) 344-9465.

Saturdays Vine & Barley Live music. 8 p.m.-midnight. 1680 S.W. St. Lucie West Blvd., St. Lucie West.

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West End Grill Live music on the patio. 6 p.m.-10 p.m. 1680 St. Lucie West Blvd., St. Lucie West.

For more information, call (772) 343-1147.

Good Times (West) Live music 9:30 p.m.-2 a.m., 2096 N.W. Courtyard Circle, Port St. Lucie.

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Tin Fish (East) Live music. 6 p.m.-close, 327 S.E. Port St. Lucie Blvd., Port St. Lucie For more information, call (772) 879-3900.

City Limits Sports Bar Live music or DJ 9 p.m.-2 a.m., 900 S.W. Gatlin Blvd., Port St. Lucie.

For more information, call (772) 336-8201.

Shindig Irish Restaurant & Pub Live music 9:30 p.m.-11:30 p.m. $3 Harp Draft & $4 Irish Apples.

464 S.W. Port St. Lucie Blvd., Port St. Lucie. For more information, call (772) 785-6202.

The Original Tiki Bar Live music after 5 p.m., 2 Avenue A, Fort Pierce. For more information, call (772) 461-0880.

Sundays Live entertainment at V’s Town Tavern 4-8 p.m. Bottomless Bloody Marys and Mimosas, 970 St. Lucie West Blvd., St. Lucie West. For more information, call (772) 800-3239.

Bogey’s and Stogeys Karaoke 10 p.m.-2 a.m., 1032 S.E. Port St. Lucie Blvd., Port St. Lucie. For more information, call (772) 3377778.

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BIKINIS from page B1 “‘The Bikinis’ ” is a celebration of a particular time in the journey of music,” Roderick said.

“What was exciting to me is that there are other shows that are girl-group oriented, but they are about specific times and places, and they’re silly, fluffy stuff that always is with young women. This is a coming-of-age story about a group of girls who become best friends, and we see them come of age in the 1960s into the 1970s. As they come of age, the country comes of age and is changing. The music reflected that. It was on the radio, and we were all listening to basically the same things. It was a very different journey from now, with the Internet and downloads, where, if you like something, you get it. The beauty is that rock ‘n’ roll changed every year. What did we sing, and why did we sing it?”

In “The Bikinis,” which features Quackenbush as one of the singers, someone has discovered an old recording made by the group.

“Two of the girls, sisters, are there at the park to raise money for legal fees,” Roderick said.

“There is tension between the sisters because one wants to sell, and the other wants to stay. Their best friends from the

Jersey shore are there in Florida visiting. They haven’t been together for 20 years.”

The girls, now mature women, sing the songs that helped them win the Belmar Beach Talent Show in the summer of ’64.

“My interest was to have them sung, not by kids, but by people who knew why they were sung in the first place, why they were worth hearing. There is a look at what it means to their personal journey. They may mean more now than they did.”

While there is what Roderick calls “bubble gum music” and a tribute to the beach movies of Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon, the show also has heart.

“I wanted to create a reality,” he said. “It’s got a real soul. It’s a love story between women coming of age together. They’re 50 and still coming of age, always still growing up. They discover what they mean to each other. They come back to what really matters to them and learn something about living life. An adult coming-of-age story is a lovely thing.”

The Riverside Theatre, 3250 Riverside Park Drive, Vero Beach, presents “The Bikinis,” from Oct. 28-Nov. 16 on the Stark Stage. Tickets start at $35. Call the box office at (772) 231-6990 or visit the website, www.riversidetheatre.com.

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ST. LUCIE COUNTY — Sundancers Radio Control Club was founded in 1988. Two of the founding fathers, Larry Olsen and Gary Ballard are still members.

The first flying was done on a street near Becker Road and I-95.

Over the next few years, the flying sites have been the roads of the Atlantic Gulf Communities Corp.

South of Midway road and the new Strazzulla Field about two miles west of 1-95 off of Indrio Road. Strazzulla Field is used by many flyers from the Vero Beach to Fort Pierce area while Stuart, Jensen Beach and Port St. Lucie flyers continue to use the area off of Midway Road. In 2001, the city of Port St Lucie allowed the club to use the Midway field located off Blanton Road in North West

Port St. Lucie. This was the main field until 2010, when the club obtained the Germany Canal field from the county. In the last four years, the club has expanded the field to include a 1,000-foot car dirt track with jumps and turns, an oval car track for practice runs, and a lake for boats races and float planes. The Club is now in three national organizations: Golden member of the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA), Remotely Operated Auto Racers (ROAR) and North American Model Boat Association (NAMBA).

Sundancers will host a radio-controlled car event (Dirt Burner) on Oct. 24-25 and a radio-controlled helicopter event on Nov. 1-2 at Germany Canal field.

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CLUBBIN’ from page B3 The Original Tiki Bar Live music after 4 p.m., 2 Avenue A, Fort Pierce. For more information, call (772) 461-0880.

Shindig Irish Restaurant & Pub Free-to-play No limit Texas Hold ‘em Poker tournaments. 464 S.W. Port St. Lucie Blvd., Port St. Lucie. For more information, call (772) 785-6202.

Events: Friday, October 17

Live Rock & Roll at Good Times Bar (East) 9 p.m. 21 and up. No cover. 9144 S. Federal Highway, Port St. Lucie. For more information, call (772) 337-3546.

Fridays After Dark with DJ Jay Dee at Good Times West. 9 p.m.2 a.m. 21 and up. Drink specials.

Dress to impress. No cover. 2096 N.W. Courtyard Circle, St. Lucie West. For more information, call (772) 878-8844.

Shindig Irish Restaurant & Pub $3 Smithwick drafts and $5 carbombs. 464 S.W. Port St. Lucie Blvd., Port St. Lucie. For more information, call (772) 785-6202.

Saturday, October 18

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Seductive Saturdays at Flavors Restaurant and Lounge. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Ladies get in free all night and ladies in groups of five get a free bottle. 529 N.W. Prima Vista Blvd., Port St. Lucie. For more information, call (772) 807-1585.

Ladies Night at 2nd Street Bistro.

9 p.m. Ladies well drinks and domestic drafts are $1. Shots of Purple MF and Sex on the Beach are $2. 122 North St., Fort Pierce. For more information, call (772) 293-9191.

Shindig Irish Restaurant & Pub $3 Harp drafts and $4 Irish apples. 464 S.W. Port St. Lucie Blvd., Port St. Lucie. For more information, call (772) 785-6202.

Sunday, October 19

The Original Tiki Bar Reggae Sunday featuring 23 Trees. 3 p.m. 2 Avenue A, Fort Pierce. For more information, call (772) 4610880.

Tuesday, October 21

DJ at Flavors Restaurant and Lounge. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. 18 and up. Ladies free until 11 p.m.

Drink specials. 529 N.W. Prima Vista Blvd., Port St. Lucie. For more information, call (772) 8071585.

Sexy Tuesdays at Tesoro Nightclub Ladies 18 and up. Guys 21 and up. Drink specials. Ladies drink free until 11 p.m. $2 drinks until midnight. $5 Jager Bombs.

7159 S. Federal Highway, Port St. Lucie. For more information, call (954) 559-7186.

Wednesday, October 22

Four Play Wednesdays at Good Times West. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Music

by DJ Jay Dee. 21 and up. No cover. Dress to impress. 2096 N.W. Courtyard Circle, St. Lucie West. For more information, call (772) 878-8844.

Ladies Night at Superplay USA 9 p.m.-midnight. Ladies bowl (shoes included), play laser tag and/or mini golf for free. Guys can do the same for $12. 1600 N.W. Courtyard Circle, St. Lucie West. For more information, call (772) 408-5800.

Tropical Wednesdays at Good Times West. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. 21 and up Music by DJ Lenny C. No cover. Salsa, merengue, bachata, reggaeton, house and Top 40.

2096 N.W. Courtyard Circle, Port St. Lucie. For more information,

call (772) 878-8844.

Thursday, October 23

Ladies Night at V’s Town Tavern 7 p.m.-midnight. Drink specials for ladies. 970 St. Lucie West Blvd., St. Lucie West. For more information, call (772) 8003239.

Ladies Love Thursdays at Tesoro Nightclub 21 and up. $3 domestic drinks until midnight, $7 margaritas, $3 well drinks until 11 p.m. Ladies in free all night and drink free until 11 p.m. 7159 S. Federal Highway, Port St. Lucie. For more information, call (772) 626-2425.

Ladies Night at the St. Lucie Inn 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. No cover. $1 well drinks, $1 drafts and $2 wines from 11 p.m.-midnight.

Music by DJ Ozmosys and DJ Quake, playing dance music all night. 2101 N. Dixie Highway, Fort Pierce. For more information, call (772) 464-1326.

Irresistible Thursdays at Good Times West 9 p.m.-2 a.m. 21 and up. No cover. Drink specials. Dress to impress. Playing ‘80s, ‘90s and top 40 mash-ups all night. 2096 N.W. Courtyard Circle, St. Lucie West. For more information, call (772) 878-8844.

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Friday Matinee: The Giant Behemoth at St. Lucie County Library, 2 p.m. (1959) Drama/ Horror, starring Gene Evans and John Turner. Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean resulting in radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur that threatens London.

80 minutes, Warner Brothers, not rated. All events are open to the public and offered at no charge. Anyone younger than thirteen who would like to attend a film rated PG-13 must have a permission slip signed by a parent or guardian. Permission slips will be available at the front desk on the first floor beginning October 1st. Movies are shown in the first floor meeting room.101 Melody Lane, Fort Pierce. For more information, call (772) 4622787.

Rivernights at Rivergate at Veteran’s Park at Rivergate, 5 to 8 p.m. The theme is “Ribs on the

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High School Football: St. Lucie West Centennial v. Fort Pierce Central 7 p.m. at South County Regional Sports Complex 560 N.W. University Blvd, Port St. Lucie. For more information, call (772) 462-1522.

Saturday, October 18

Community Market Sale at the Port St. Lucie Civic Center, 8 a.m. – 1 p.m. There will be vendors selling locally grown fruit and vegetables, plus homemade crafts and wares from local businesses. This is an opportunity to help support local farmers, merchants and economy. Admission and parking are free. Civic Center 9221 S.E. Civic Center Place, Port St. Lucie. For information on how to become a vendor or other info, call Jaclynn Gazdacko at (772) 807-4470.

Fall Festival at Renaissance Charter School, 2 – 6 p.m.

Carnival games, pony rides and a pie eating contest are sched-

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Food & Beverages Available

Driving Instructions: From I-95 west on Rte 70 Turn left on Carlton Rd Turn right on to Germany Canal Rd At second bend in the road turn in field access road GPS Address 7901 Germany Canal Rd, Port St Lucie, FL 34957

A five dollar per car parking donation to the club will be appreciated.

Contact: Tim Mullins 772-359-2466 More information at www.sundancersrc.org

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River.” A tranquil and relaxing evening is planned, overlooking the St. Lucie River. There will be live music and a cash bar with food available for purchase: half rack of St. Louis ribs with mac ‘n cheese, baked beans and a roll for $10. St. Lucie River Cruises will also be offering 30 minute river tours for just $10 (price includes one specialty drink).

Veterans Park at Rivergate 2200 S.E. Veterans Memorial Pkwy, Port St. Lucie Fla. 34952.

For more information, call (772) 878-2277.

Food Truck Invasion at Tradition Square. 5-9 p.m. Visit and join a big picnic in front of Tradition Town Hall while enjoying food from a number of vendors.

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uled. There will also be raffles, a cake walk and a variety of things to eat and drink. The school is inviting the families of Tradition and local businesses to join them. Renaissance Charter School, 10900 SW Tradition Parkway, Port St. Lucie, Fla. 34987.

Casey N Spaz Comedy at Port St. Lucie Civic Center. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and show starts at 8:30 p.m. Comedian to be announced. Cash bar and munchies are available. Tickets: $12 in advance, $15 at the door; preferred, up-front seating $15 per person (sold in advance only). Civic Center 9221 S.E. Civic Center Place, Port St. Lucie. For more information, call (772) 807-4499.

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St. Lucie County Commission regular meeting at County Commission Chambers, 9 a.m. 2300 Virginia Avenue Fort Pierce. For more information, call (772) 462-1400.

Wednesday, October 22

PSL Botanical Gardens Jazz and Blues Night at the Botanical Gardens. 6:30 – 9 p.m.

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Feeding Frenzy Tours at the St. Lucie County Aquarium featuring the Smithsonian. 10:30 a.m.-11 a.m. Join the underwater residents enjoy their morning meal. A volunteer or staff member will provide information on the exhibit’s daily menu, as well as share stories and provide insight on what makes the constantly changing ecosystems so unique. Free with paid ad-

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Kayak Rental at Savannas Park and Campground. 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Kayaks will be available throughout for rent. Cost: $5 per hour, $15 for four hours, $20 for eight hours. Savannas Park and Campground 1400 Midway Road, Fort Pierce. For more information, call 772-464-7855.

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ST. LUCIE WEST — Only the best for supporters of HANDS, an organization that helps provide medical services to low-income residents of St. Lucie County: Fine Italian wines provided by Silvia Mininni of Old Bridge, Inc. (usually only available at high end restaurants) will be taste-tested from 5-7 p.m. on Oct. 24 at Bottle Shock.

Michael Ayzenberg, owner of the popular wine boutique next to Panera Bread in St. Lucie West, is hopeful this will be his best tasting, yet. Featured Old Bridge wines from the Tuscany, Friuli and other regions all over

Italy will be enjoyed with pasta, cheeses, sweets and samples of Tausha’s Seafood in Port Salerno.

Entry to the Italian Wine-Tasting is $5 per person and includes the magnificent wines, along with one entry into the raffle of your choice. Raffle items include a three-liter bottle of Betto Super Tuscan wine valued at $300 and donated by Silvia Mininni, art, an entertainment basket and more.

Additional raffle tickets will be sold for three for $5.

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ST. LUCIE COUNTY — Reading like an alphabet of infectious diseases, chikungunya, dengue, Ebola and enterovirus D68 (EVD68) are unwelcomed guests who have either arrived or are making their way toward the community. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other numerous medical sources warn that these viruses may be under-recognized in the United States. Why is it difficult to make a correct diagnoses upon an initial doctor visit? Because at the beginning of an infection, symptoms are often nonspecific. And, without a proper diagnosis, appropriate precautions aren’t taken, sometimes with dire consequences.

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EV-D68 is a respiratory illness that dates back to 1962. This once rare enterovirus has spread rapidly across the United States and has infected hundreds, if not thousands, of children. While most people who contract EVD68 will only have mild symptoms of a low-grade fever and runny nose, others have been hospitalized with acute respiratory problems and even paralysis

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Patients exhibiting cold and flu-like symptoms need to be questioned regarding their travel history. While chikungunya and dengue are mosquito-borne illnesses, those who have traveled to countries where these diseases are prevalent can bring home more than souvenirs. Then, too, Florida now plays host to these particular mosquitos and viruses as well. Those at risk of contracting Ebola is usually limited to family, close friends and healthcare workers who have been in direct contact with an infected person’s blood or other bodily fluids, including tears. With EVD68, it has been likely that most children infected with this virus weren’t tested for it, and proper precautions not taken.

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ST. LUCIE COUNTY — The St. Lucie County Cooperative Extension, in conjunction with the Manatee Observation and Education Center and Adams Ranch are “Buggin’ Out on a Bat-tastic Night with Nature at Adams Ranch” on Wednesday, Oct. 29, starting at 6:30 p.m. During this event, Erin Cartmill, education coordinator for the Manatee Center, along with Ken Gioeli and Anita Neal, UF/IFAS St. Lucie County Extension agents, and the Adams family will guide you on a search for life after dark.

Have you ever wondered what kind of bats and bugs live in Florida? What kind of bugs do bats eat? Are insects and bats dangerous to humans? Meet at Adams Ranch for an informative bat chat with guest speaker Ken Gioeli, University of Florida/St. Lucie County Extension Natural Resource agent. Learn about this fascinating, beautiful, misunder-

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Participants will also learn about our nocturnal insects. Anita Neal will be sharing information about insects and the important role they play in the environment. As the sun sets, the group will travel into onto the Adam’s Ranch property, located at 26003 Orange Ave., Fort Pierce, in search of life after dark. Gioeli will bring along bat detectors and night vision goggles in the quest to discover these nocturnal creatures. Neal will be on hand to identify insects.

Program registration fees are $20 per person for non-members and $15 per person for Manatee Center members. Pre-registration and payment is required and spaces are limited. To reserve space, call Erin at (772) 466-1600, Ext. 3337 (phones are routed through FPUA). This event is organized by the Manatee Center. Please do not contact Adams Ranch directly about this event.

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