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ST. LUCIE WEST & TRADITION
YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 2/ISSUE 1
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
Community celebrates short, but impactful life of LPA baseball player Nicole Rodriguez Staff writer
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ST. LUCIE WEST — Hundreds of mourners took to the stands at Tradition Field last week to send off heaven’s newest angel in the infield. Lincoln Park Academy student and baseball player Christian Medina, 16, was remembered as a God-loving, family-oriented boy who performed good deeds on and off the field. Medina died on Oct. 27 from in-
juries he sustained from a car crash on Orange Avenue in Fort Pierce at 7 a.m. on Oct. 23. Medina was kept on life support for four days at Lawnwood Christian Medina Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute. Medina lost control of the car he
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PORT ST. LUCIE — Mayor JoAnn Faiella has officially thrown her hat in the ring for re-election next November. Faiella, 50, who was elected in 2010 filed paperwork on Nov. 4, announcing her bid. “I feel passion for the people of Port St. Lucie. We’re making great strides as a city council,” Faiella said. “I have to be honest, I work seven days a week, all hours of the time, getting out there and knowing what the people want.” It was local citizens who urged her to first run for office four years ago, she said.
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Port St. Lucie mayor to run again Nicole Rodriguez
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“Small businesses were asking me to run because I would be a great advocate for them and just to make a change,” Faiella said. “I think we have made changes.” Faiella highlighted some of those changes during a telephone interview with Your Voice News & Views just hours after filing election paperwork. “We haven’t in three years raised taxes even though it was a tough time the last couple of years, we managed to pull through it,” Faiella said. “We were the first city to take a hit (from the recession) and the first city to recover.” “Look at all the businesses that are coming into the city. Bass Pro is No. 1, Burlington Coat Factory.
Matthew Jones of St. Lucie West nails the iconic dance move made famous by Michael Jackson with 52 dancers with the True Crew dance performers at the Port St. Lucie Fall Festival Saturday, Nov. 2 at the Port St. Lucie Civic Center. The dance team kept the music theme of Jackson’s music until the finale tribute to ‘Thriller’ with dance zombies.
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