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ST. LUCIE WEST • TRADITION
YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 3/ISSUE 14
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
Heroes honored by city Brandon Zeris STAFF WRITER
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PORT ST. LUCIE — The young men who risked their own well-being rescuing a 92-yearold man who drove his car into a lake along Bethany Avenue in St. Lucie West in December, were honored at City Hall Jan. 26. Alton Brieske, an FAU pre-med student, and Michael Markisello, an inactive Marine, were waiting on lunch at Hurricane Grill and heard a call for help from a woman who witnessed the incident. They rushed over and worked together to break Sal Mancuso’s
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car window and free him. Despite their heroic efforts, which gained national attention, Mancuso died two days later at Tradition Medical Center. Both were modest at the Council meeting. “I really didn’t want to be recognized for this. I just feel like this is something anybody should do when someone is in a time of need, like Mr. Mancuso was,” Brieske said. He thanked his parents for their influence. “The the way I was raised is a big part of what I do and why I did what I did.”
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2014 ends with strong jobs numbers STAFF WRITER
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TREASURE COAST — Florida started 2014 on one side of 6 percent and ended it on the other. “There are people who feel that things have not gotten better, but the numbers are there — the (jobs reporting) methodology has not changed,” Odaly Victorio, communications coordinator at CareerSource Research Coast, said. On Friday, Jan. 23, the state PRSRT STD US POSTAGE PAID FORT PIERCE, FL PERMIT NO. 248 ECRWSS
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released its monthly jobs report, which covered December. The Sunshine State’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 5.6 percent at the end of 2014, down from 6.3 percent the previous December. That state is back to jobs numbers last seen in April of 2008, shortly before a sharp rise in unemployment that didn’t stop for two years and peaked at 11.4 percent in the first quarter of 2010. Unemployment had been steadily rising from the beginning
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer St. Lucie West Centennial High School senior John Saintima scores on the South Fork High School defense during a game in St. Lucie West Tuesday, Jan. 27. The Centennial Eagles lost 67-49. 16617
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