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Blue-green algae Rubio tours our bloom 135 years tainted waterways in the making Patrick McCallister STAFF WRITER
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TREASURE COAST — Put a finger on an Orlando map at Sand Lake Road and South John Young Parkway. That’s pretty much where the blue-green algae problems on the Treasure Coast begin. More accurately, the about 100 miles and 135 years of development between south Orlando and Lake Okeechobee are where the problems begin. “It all begins in the 1880s with Hamilton Disston,” Marty Baum, executive director of Indian Riverkeeper, said. More about Disston in a moment. For now, that finger on the Orlando map will cover Shingle Creek. Most who know a lot
about these sorts of things say that’s where the headwaters of the Everglades begin — way up in Orlando with Shingle Creek. Baum said if nature is taking its course, a drop of rainwater falling on Shingle Creek takes about three months to make it to Lake Okeechobee. Humans cut that down to less than a week by straightening the Kissimmee River with the canal systems. Drag the finger south on the map to Osceola County, then head a little east. That’s where Lake Tohopekaliga is. That’s where Shingle Creek ends and that drop of water starts heading to Lake Okeechobee through the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes and down the Kissimmee River. Along
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Senator Marco Rubio held a press conference at Central Marine in Stuart Friday, July 1 after touring the local waterways stricken by a preventable toxic algae bloom.
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TRADITION — The Port St. Lucie City Council gave its first tense nod to extending a 2007 bond-issuance assessment five years.
The ordinance extending the assessments requires a second reading, but Mayor Greg Oravec made it clear it’ll never get his vote. “I will not be able to support extending special assessments out to 35 years,” he said. Councilwoman Michelle Berger
joined the mayor in voting against the extension. The assessment started in 2010 and is slated to wrap in 2040. If the council approves the extension at its second reading, that’ll take it to 2045. In an emailed response to queries, Edwin Fry, finance director, said the assess-
ment — which is paid by property buyers and owners in the affected area — is now $11.4 million a year. He said if the council approves the extension and refinances the associated bonds with new interest rates, that could
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TREASURE COAST — One could argue that the region, especially St. Lucie County, was finally free of the last grips of the Great Recession, in May. Just in time for what Martin County Commissioner Doug Smith called “our Deep Water Horizon.” Three words. Blue-green algae. According to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, the Port St. Lucie Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes St. Lucie and Martin counties, had 141,000 jobs in May, up 3,400 over the previous year. St. Lucie County had a 4.9 percent not seasonally adjusted unemployment rate, down from 5.1 percent in April and 6.2 percent the previous year. Florida’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.4 percent in May. The nation’s was 4.5 percent. St. Lucie County lags slightly behind the state in employment consistently, so things looked great. The state economic department released the May jobs report on
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stood among thousands of folks on Stuart Beach on Saturday, July 2. A handful were there to enjoy an Independence Day weekend at the beach. An even smaller few were getting into the water. At one point, I saw three in the water apparently willing to brave possible contact with blue-green algae as hundreds gathered on the beach to protest against the toxic bloom on the Treasure Coast. A lot of folks carved out time from their Independence Day weekends to be part of the Hands Across the Sand Beach Cleanup organized by Citizens for Clean Water. It was a demonstration — folks sending a message to Tallahassee and Washington D.C. Buy land south of Lake Okeechobee and stop the perpetual discharges of its nutrient-polluted waters into the St. Lucie and Indian rivers. By afternoon, hundreds stood in
ribbon-marked lines to spell out, “Buy the land.” I thought back on a funeral I attended in 2014. With bagpipes, eulogies and people dressed in black in mournPatrick McCallister ing, the Indian River Lagoon was buried at Phipps Park — 2175 S.W. Locks Road, Stuart — on May 3. Speakers at that event had a unified message for funeral attendees — the Indian River was murdered. “The river we love has been beat on the head with a blunt instrument,” environmental activist Maggy Hurchalla told a couple hundred attendees. Hurchalla was on the Martin County Commission from 1974 to 1994 and was an architect of the
Photo courtesy of Martin County Sheriff/Facebook Opponents of the current toxic state of the waterways of St. Lucie and Martin counties send the message ‘Buy the Land’ to elected officials during a rally at Stuart Beach Saturday, July 2. county’s Comprehensive Growth Management Plan. That plan, in part, is aimed at reducing damage to the St. Lucie and Indian rivers. The mock funeral was a protest organized against, among
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building hundreds of acres of storm water treatment areas, and carrying out several other programs, and we are ready to do even more. In fact, a significant portion of the City’s 5,000 acre McCarty Ranch Property could be utilized to store and treat millions of gallons of polluted storm water from the C-23 Canal, keeping it out of the St. Lucie River and Indian River Lagoon, and I hope that our state and federal partners will help us make this project a reality. We can’t afford to wait any longer. We need to take as many actions as we can, stat!”
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Understanding the St. Lucie County Fire District Assessment Referendum
Property Tax Revenues and Calls for Assistance
On August 30, 2016 all St. Lucie County registered voters will have the opportunity to vote on an annual assessment of up to $50 per residence and other modest fees for commercial property and vacant land. The assessment will fund the District’s fire protection services, equipment, facilities and programs.
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Why is the Fire District seeking this assessment? Currently, the District’s fire rescue services are primarily paid for through an ad valorem property tax capped at 3 mils. This funding was adequate until additional Homestead Exemptions and the Great Recession combined to dramatically decrease taxable values. When values sharply decreased, so did the funds available to pay for services. Fire District revenues fell 36% -- but calls for assistance continued to rise by an average of 4.8% each year!
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What does this mean to me? As of March 2014, the owners of 10,891 properties paid nothing for fire protection because their assessed home value was less than the value of their tax exemptions; 42% of all properties in the county contributed less than $75 for the Fire District’s services. If the referendum passes, starting next year all property owners (residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, and vacant land) in St. Lucie County, including those in the cities, will pay an assessment for the Fire District when they pay their property tax bill. Those rates can be found on the District’s website. For the homeowner, the assessment for each residence will be no more than $50 – less than 14 cents a day. Because this fee is not linked to the value of a home, all homeowners will share fairly and equally in this assessment and the fire protection services it supports.
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By law, the funds may only be used for fire protection services, facilities/equipment and programs. In order to maintain high levels of service with reduced revenue during the economic downturn, one of the cost-saving measures the District took was to temporarily put off purchasing replacement vehicles or making necessary capital improvements to fire stations. Maintaining a reliable fleet of vehicles is essential to providing reliable fire protection services. Over the next four years, the District must replace 27 trucks that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars each. Another 15 rescue trucks will also be needed, but these will be purchased using other funding sources.
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Ultimately, if funding for the Fire District fails to cover costs, the District would have no choice but to decrease its level of service to the county’s residents, through staffing cuts and continued deferral of critical equipment purchases. In addition to jeopardizing the safety of our residents, the lack of equipment and potentially longer response times will likely negatively impact our county’s insurance rating - which can lead to an increase in homeowner and commercial fire insurance premiums, or even result in the inability to obtain fire insurance on some properties.
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY — St. Lucie Public Schools Superintendent E. Wayne Gent received notification from the Florida Association of District School Superintendents (FADSS) that the District is recognized as a Florida Healthy School District for the period of 20162018. The Florida Coordinated School Health Partnership (CSHP) and Florida Action for Healthy Kids (FLAFHK) congratulated St. Lucie Public Schools (SLPS) for its continued efforts to support the physical, mental and social health of students and staff. “In keeping with Florida’s vision for our children to be healthy, fit, and ready to learn, we strive to be exceptional in creating healthy teaching and learning environments to support our students and our staff,” said Gent. The esteemed recognition of being a Florida Healthy School District is broad in scope and encompasses an array of components ranging from student services, health and physical education, to employee
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Hamilton Disston that’s where huge releases of Lake Okeechobee water into the St. Lucie Canal started. “Now the lake can’t get bigger,” Baum said. “It can only go up and down.” With the dike in place and water levels manipulated by humans, the hurricane deaths seemed a bad memory of something that couldn’t happen again. People moved in around Lake Okeechobee again. Another hurricane in 1947 inspired further straightening the Kissimmee River to reduce its floodplain. With development and agriculture along the route, the river became a major source of nutrient pollution to Lake Okeechobee. Today those bacteria-feeding nutrients, along with bacteria, are released into the St. Lucie Canal to manage pressure against the dike to ensure there’s not a repeat of huge hurricane deaths, among other things. Now those nutrients and bacteria are a massive blue-green algae bloom reaching to the Indian River Lagoon and even the ocean to wash up on Martin County beaches. “What we’re dealing with today is not a natural disaster,” Baum said. “It’s a contrived water-man-
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STRAIGHT TALKING CANDIDATE JOINS THE RACE FOR PSL CITY COUNCIL Linda Gausten is making a pledge to the residents of Port St. Lucie that she will not take any other form of employment while serving as a city council member because she believes that this position is a full-time job needing full-time focus, and she says that she “will not shortchange the residents of this City with anything less than that.” Here is her message: After looking at many communities in Florida, I decided to put down roots and settle in Port St. Lucie because I fell in love with this City. Public safety is our first priority. That includes all emergency services. We must always ensure that these services adequately serve the people of our city, and that we don’t grow disproportionately with the services the City provides to the residents.
I consider raising taxes an absolute LAST resort after investigating all other possible solutions. I will use my three decades of financial executive experience to come up with creative solutions to keep our taxes down. I have earned a dozen securities licenses certifying me in a broad field of financial expertise, including Municipal Securities Principal which attests to my expertise in Municipal bonds – with close to a billion dollars in debt, the city needs my skills on the council more now than ever before. The St. Lucie River is a gift from God, and it is up to us to keep it clean and beautiful. I will aggressively work to help stop the pollution of one of the City’s greatest natural resources any way I can. The time for monitoring is over and the time to fix the problem is long overdue.
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hasn’t. “We actually need about 150,000 acres,” Baum said. “That’s on the table until 2020, but the State of Florida will not even look at it.” Even that, Baum said, wouldn’t completely solve all the problems. Year to year, the situation would be much improved, Baum said, but there will eventually be a huge hurricane again and nature will restore Lake Okeechobee’s southern flow. “It’s only a matter of time before that dike goes,” he said.
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY — Mowgli, the man-cub beloved by many from Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” is abandoned in the jungle, adopted by wolves, taught by a bear, befriended by a panther and chased by a tiger. Those are just some of his adventures in Missoula Children’s Theatre’s adaptation of the story, which will be performed by local children at the Sunrise Theatre July 22. In this story, with music and lyrics by Michael McGill, Mowgli has these adventures and more. He also escapes from Monkey People, outwits the tiger, gets help from a rock python and explores what it means to be human. He learns valuable life lessons from the brave mongoose, Rik-
ki-Tikki-Tavi. As is usual with Missoula Children’s Theatre productions, two adult director/actors will participate in the production, with one performing and the other directing. The other roles will be played by local children 6-18 participating in a week-long workshop that culminates in the July 22 performance. Christian Siebert and Emily Garst are the tour directors for “The Jungle Book.” Siebert is a recent musical theater graduate of Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin and Garst is a senior at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. The two went to separate regional auditions and both got called back and were offered positions with MCT. In a conference call, they talked about the experience. “I liked what they were
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ST. LUCIE WEST — Abby Mize, of St. Lucie West, was a senior in high school, with her life ahead of her. Captain of the bowling team at her West Palm Beach High School, she had led her team to the upcoming state tournament. One November night, she left practice, one of the last before the team left for the competition. As she made a U-turn, another driver four lanes away crossed over and T-boned her car near the rear passenger fender. The rear window was shattered and she was ejected out that window from under her seat belt across four lanes of traffic. When emergency personnel got to her, she was not breathing. They put a tube down her throat and evacuated her by helicopter to Delray Medical Center with a fractured skull and other injuries. Her license remained in the glove compartment and when she got to the hospital, no one could identify her or notify her parents. As Abby was being stabilized in a coma, a friend from the bowling team called her parents, asking
if she were home. The friend had seen a car accident and was worried about Abby. Her parents had to call hospitals in several counties before they found her. “They were told I would die in four hours, stay in a coma or become a quadriplegic,” Abby said. “The next day, they said I would die in two weeks and on Thanksgiving, they said I would die before Christmas and they should put me in a nursing home.” It was Abby, a bright, vivacious Abby, who sat across from me over coffee and told me the story. Abby Mize is now Abby Thieben, a married woman of 26 who lives in St. Lucie West, graduated from the University of Florida, holds a job and hopes to have a family one day, Yes, she suffered a traumatic brain injury and is legally blind, so that she cannot drive. What she has accomplished is nothing short of miraculous and she wanted to tell her story so that other survivors of traumatic brain injury and their families would take heart. Not satisfied with what the doctors had told them about Abby’s prognosis, Abby’s parents, Wanda and Jim Mize, moved her to Jackson Memorial in Miami. She was in a coma for seven
Photo courtesy of Wanda Mize St. Lucie West residents TJ and Abby Thieben have overcome many obstacles. Abby was in a car accident at 17 and was in a coma for seven weeks. Her prognosis was not good, but she fought back, graduated from the University of Florida and married TJ two years ago. weeks, three of them at Jackson. Abby remembers that coming out of a coma was having first thing and then another wake up. She was unable to speak until they removed the tube.
“I was very emotionless,” she said. “I think my first smile was at my government and economics teacher and my bowling coach.
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JUNGLE from page B1 about,” Garst said. “A lot of the directors had done (the workshops) as children.” “Last week, one of our youngest kid’s mothers had done it 20 years ago,” Siebert added. In the Fort Pierce production, Garst will play the bear and Siebert will be directing. “This is an original work with a similar premise,” Garst said. “A lot of the lines are from the book but the songs are all new.” Garst and Siebert have only been working together for a few weeks, but they are already completing each other’s thoughts. They both know what the underlying message of the show is. “Even when problems come your way, you have to have courage to face them,” Garst said. “You’ll have friends and family and you’re not alone on your journey,” Siebert added. Both of the young actor/directors have been pleased with the response from the youngsters in the workshops. “During training, there were no children and we practiced teaching to other actors,” Siebert said. “I’ve been surprised at how energized and devoted the kids have been to put on a great
show. They put so much work into it. It’s nice to see parents react so well. They’re so thankful to us. Some of the kids are introverted and they’re grateful that we bring out positive energy in them.” “A kid may not want to be there,” Garst said. “By the end, most are invested. It’s so cool to see that. They all find a way to find enjoyment.” Both Garst and Siebert noted that older youngsters may want to perform, and some want to be assistant directors, working behind the scenes. “It’s a great option,” Garst said. “They’re so beneficial to us.” At the end of the summer, Garst will return to school. Siebert already knows that he’d love to extend his contract with MCT. Both are looking forward to a visit to Florida, even in the summer. The final MCT production will be “The Frog Prince” July 29, following a workshop from July 25-29. Missoula Children’s Theatre presents “The Jungle Book” at the Sunrise Theatre, 117 S. Second Str., Fort Pierce July 22 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $12. Call the box office at (772) 461-4775 or order on line at www.sunrisetheatre.com.
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SATURDAY, JULY 9 National Sugar Cookie Day Group bicycle road ride, 7:30 a.m., starting at Sprockets Adventures, 347 S.E. Port St. Lucie Blvd. Group ride goes along Crosstown Boulevard to PGA Village and Tradition. It’s for low to high experience and fitness levels. About 40 to 50 miles with good bailout points. Weekly event. For more, call (772) 336-3399. Port Salerno Green Market Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church, 5150 Railway Avenue, Port Salerno. For information call (772) 345-3797.
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bring their own snacks and lunch. Designed for ages 7-10, the cost is $95 per child. Reservations are required (772)-785-5833 or oxbow@ stlucieco.org. Spirit of Nature Art Camp II runs July 18 to the 22 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Imagine the freedom of soaring through the air like an eagle, swimming along the swift currents of the St. Lucie River or excavating a home deep into the warm sands of the pine flatwoods. We will be exploring many different art and craft mediums in an effort to allow your child to improve their self-expression and gain confidence. Let your child’s wild imagination roam with this year’s theme “Art Around the World.” Each camper will need to bring their own snacks and lunch. Designed for ages 10-16, the cost is $125 per child. Reservations are required (772) 785-5833 or oxbow@stlucieco.org. Situated on a 225-acre preserve on the North Fork of the St. Lucie River, the Eco-Center, 5400 NE St. James Drive, Port St. Lucie, offers a rare glimpse of “the real Florida” with nature trails, boardwalks, observation towers and an interactive environmental learning center. For more information call the Oxbow staff at (772) 785-5833 or visit: www.oxboweco.com.
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The readers of the Port St. Lucie Macaroni Kid recently voted the Oxbow Eco-Center as the “Most Loved Local Business for Families” in the Museum/Nature/Environmental Center category. The publication’s annual Gold Daisy Awards recognizes businesses and attractions in the area, as voted on by its readers. The Macaroni Kid is a weekly, online publication that focuses on events and news relating to children and families in St. Lucie County. “The Macaroni Kid has been an excellent outlet to help us reach children and families and we are
ABBY from page B2 They were brothers.” Abby spent five weeks in in-hospital therapy and several months of out-patient therapy that made her walking worse. “My mom is a research god,” Abby said. “She found a biofeedback program and that made the walking much better. I was determined to start walking again.” Abby’s parents began a severalmonths commute from West Palm Beach to Miami. Her mother’s best friends came from Orlando to help and her dad, who was an assistant county attorney for Palm Beach County, was given donated days off by colleagues so he could be with her. They came every day. When Abby returned home, she had to repeat her senior year. She had already been accepted at the University of Florida, but she was able to get her admission deferred. In high school, Abby was also captain of the debate team, and as a sophomore, she met a freshman debater, Theodore Thieben,
thrilled that their readers appreciate our efforts,” said Sandra Bogan, Education and Outreach coordinator of the Oxbow Eco-Center. Situated on a 225-acre preserve on the North Fork of the St. Lucie River, the Oxbow offers a rare glimpse of “the real Florida” with nature trails, boardwalks, observation towers and an interactive environmental learning center. Each month, the Oxbow’s staff offers a wide variety of educational programs for adults and youth, focused on various environmental themes and ways of learning. “Getting kids outside, playing and learning in nature is more important today than ever before, and parents are keen to this,” Bo-
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“My co-workers have been super the entire time,” she said. Abby has been at Liberator since 2014 and does as she puts it, “everything but talk on the phone.” She does secretarial work, analyzes intake calls and enters surveys into the computer, among other tasks. She still hopes to do something to help survivors of traumatic brain injuries and their families. “The first doctor put my parents through hell,” Abby said. “He took away their hope. Hope is one of the things that can drive you. If you think you won’t progress, you won’t. Brains can do marvelous things. I want there to be a better understanding that having a traumatic brain injury doesn’t leave you completely broken.” Abby and TJ hope to have a family and are waiting until TJ completes his degree. While Abby can’t drive, she is amazingly positive. “I can’t drive and in some sense, it’s a limitation, but at the same time, I can still walk places,” she said. “I love reading and I love bowling. Frontal lobe injuries tend to change attitudes, but I’m one of the exceptions. It only made me happier.” It turns out that Abby comes by her tenacity honestly. Later
in the week, I spoke by phone with her mother, Wanda, also an attorney. When they got the news about Abby, they were devastated when they were told to find a place to “put her” as the best they could hope for was for Abby to be in vegetative state. “It was paralyzing,” she said. “You take a couple of hours and then you decide you won’t settle for it.” They took Abby’s MRI films to Dr. Paul Winter, who had been treating Abby’s grandparents. “He looked at the films and sat with us,” Mize said. “He said it was too early to tell, that the other doctor might be right, but that she was 17 and there could be a healing. He said that we were about to live through the worst year of our lives but not to give up. It turned us around and look at what’s happened.” It is almost inconceivable to realize how far Abby has come. She had to learn to swallow, to eat, to walk. She wanted to be able to read, which had always been a pleasure. “I remember being in the car,” Mize said. “She would be sounding out words and would read, but the next day, she wouldn’t remember what she read and she’d do it all over again. My husband said he had to read the book so he could see how it ended.”
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