No glamping at McCarty Camping expansion at PSL ranch
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Contest for river tourism
County wants your waterway images
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A menu to keep up with
West End Grill menu always in flux
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ST. LUCIE WEST • TRADITION
YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 4/ISSUE 40
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2016
K9 skills at PSLPD open house Automatic water meters coming to SLW Patrick McCallister STAFF WRITER
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Port St. Lucie Police K9 officer Robbie Gibbins demonstrates the discipline of his K9 partner, Dingo, during an open house at the Port St. Lucie Police Department Saturday, July 31. Additional photo on pg 14. Mitch Kloorfain chief photographer
ST. LUCIE WEST — The St. Lucie West Services District is getting closer to doing drive-by meter reading. At the Board of Supervisor’s last regular workshop — Monday Aug. 1 — Dennis Pickle, manager and utilities director, said the district’s staff is getting close to recommending a changeover to electronic meters that’ll broadcast information to notebook comput-
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Commissioners calling for change Patrick McCallister STAFF WRITER
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TREASURE COAST — St. Lucie County Commissioner Chris Dzadovsky is warming up his index finger to click “sign.” “Florida is a huge issue in the (presidential) race and Florida will probably be a deciding issue,” Dzadovsky said. “It would bode well for the candidates to get familiar with our local issues.” Politicians frequently call for change, but Martin County Com-
missioner John Haddox is calling for change.org, At the Martin commission’s last regular meeting — Tuesday, July 26 — Haddox used his comment time to ask other commissioners to support a pitch to get presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to visit the Treasure Coast to see the destruction of the ongoing bluegreen algae bloom firsthand. After all, one of them will be the President of the United States for at least four years. Part of the pitch was for com-
missioners to all sign a letter that’ll be sent to both campaigns asking the candidates to visit the Treasure Coast to see the cyanobacteria almost certainly coming from Lake Okeechobee discharges. The other part was for the commission to put the letter on change.org for others to join the chorus. “I think if we get 30,000, 40,000 signatures on a petition, it’s likely (one or both with visit),” Haddox said in an interview after the meeting. Commissioners unanimously
agreed to have county staff compose a letter to the candidates that all would sign. The change. org proposal just didn’t get any commission discussion, despite Haddox repeatedly mentioning it. He figures that’s a go-ahead. “By virtue of the fact they did not say, “No,” I’m going with the assumption I didn’t get a negative therefore it’s a positive,” Haddox said. But getting presidential candidates on blistering campaign
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