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ST. LUCIE WEST • TRADITION
YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 3/ISSUE 26
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2015
Only the dancers wobble at Relay for Life True Crew Dance dancers Roslyn Vasquez, Courtney Quinones, owner Toni Pressimone, Analia Parrotta and other members of the dance troupe put their line dance moves to the Wobble during the Relay For Life event at Tradition Field in St. Lucie West Saturday, April 25.
Mitch Kloorfain chief photographer
New lake to honor service district chairman STAFF WRITER
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ST. LUCIE WEST — The man behind the plan to convert a 12.5-acre parcel into a small lake to help with stormwater runoff will be its namesake. The St. Lucie West Services District supervisors approved a motion, 4-0, to name the lake after its chairman, Harvey Cutler, PRSRT STD US POSTAGE PAID FORT PIERCE, FL PERMIT NO. 248 ECRWSS
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who abstained from the vote. “Harvey came up with what we all thought was a wacko idea, and it turned out to be one of the best ideas we’ve had in a long time,” supervisor Gregg Ney said. “It just felt appropriate to honor him.” When Ney made the motion to name it after him, Cutler gave up the gavel and walked out of the room because he didn’t want it to seem like he pushed the motion. “I stayed away from it. I didn’t
want any footprints on it, but it’s a real honor. I really am delighted. Maybe someday my grandchildren will come over and see it and say, ‘Hey, that’s my grandfather.’” The site, at the northwest corner of Cashmere and St. Lucie West boulevards, was originally the target for a Wal-Mart grocery store, but the city council denied the developer’s plans because of traffic concerns. The city likely would have had to add lanes to
St. Lucie West Boulevard. The city is still five or more years away from that, Port St. Lucie city manager Jeff Bremer said, after the council denied those plans. So, Cutler said he saw an opportunity to help the services district. He said he was never pushy toward services district manager
See CUTLER page A10 18560
Brandon Zeris