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ST. LUCIE WEST • TRADITION
YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 4/ISSUE 41
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
St. Lucie primary will decide county elections Patti McCallister STAFF WRITER
pmccallister@YourVoiceWeekly.com
ST. LUCIE COUNTY — Supervisor of Elections Gertrude Walker has been at the job since 1980. This year’s primary, she said, will be the biggest August vote in her career. It’ll pretty much settle county elections. “That’s because the Republican Party did not field as many candidates as they normally do in a general election year,” she said. That means six primaries will be universal. Although all the candidates in five of the six races are Democrats, and both are Republicans in one, all
voters will cast ballots in those races. The only way any of those will go to runoffs in the general election is in the highly improbable event there are ties. Those universal primaries are Sheriff, Property Appraiser, Supervisor of Elections, Public Defender Judicial Circuit 19 and Board of County Commissioner districts 1 and 5. Fellow Democrat Richard Williams Jr. is challenging incumbent Sheriff Ken Mascara to become St. Lucie’s top cop. Republican Property Appraiser Ken Pruitt dropped his reelec-
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Summer’s soccer swan song
See ELECTIONS page A17
Tradition readies to host 150-mile ride Pat McCallister STAFF WRITER
pmccallister@YourVoiceWeekly.com
TRADITION — And the conversation goes like this: Yes, 150 miles. Yes, on bicycles. Yes, all in one day. No, their butts will be fine. Get ready to roll, the Port St. Lucie 150 is making its debut in Tradition on Saturday, Oct. 8. “It’s a cycling, running and walking fundraising event to raise money for the missions team at
(First United Methodist Church of Port St. Lucie),” race director Mark Hamel said. Cyclists will head out at 7 a.m. and do up to 10 loops on Community Boulevard and Tradition and Village parkways — a 15-mile loop. Riders can go 15 to the full 150 miles to receive finisher medals. Most will do miles in between those two. Runners and walkers will do 5 and 10K routes starting at 7:30
See RIDE page A18
Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer James Bolton and Gio DiGeorgio go one-on-one during a soccer youth clinic hosted by the South Florida Surf soccer team at McChesney Field in St. Lucie West Friday, Aug. 5. See South Florida Surf story on page A13.
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