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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographerAmanda Sopko hugs her mother Debbie of Palm City following the conclusion of the USA Ambassador ceremonies Sun-day, Aug. 4 at Innisbrook Golf Spa and Re-sort in Palm Harbor. Amanda, a graduate of South Fork High School, finished as the third-runner up in the national contest.
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Tobacco Free Partnership turns 5
PALM CITY — The Tobacco Free Partnership of Martin County, 945 S.W. Martin Downs Blvd., turns 5 this month. So, how’s that “reducing tobacco use” thing going? Pretty good, actually. Back in 2007, the year before the partnership start-
ed, about 15 percent of Martin County middle- and high-school youths had used a tobacco product at least once during the previous 30 days according to Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey. By 2012, the county partnership’s fourth year, about 7 percent
Martin County youth less likely to start smoking now than in 2007, but no one is declaring victory yet
Patrick McCallisterStaff writer
Kim Waser is the tobac-co prevention specialist working for the Tobacco Free Partnership of Martin County, which operates on state grants given to the The Quit Doc, a not-for-profit smoking-cessation orga-nization. Among other things, Waser helps members of Students Working Against Tobac-co educate their middle- and high-school peers about how tobacco companies target ads to get them to try tobacco products.
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Sports agent puts family first
PALM CITY — Sports agent Mark Rodgers has a “dining room rule” that helps him decide whether he wants to represent an athlete. When he meets a potential client, he asks himself if this is someone he’d invite to his home to sit down for a meal with his wife and five children. “It’s the perfect threshold,” he
said. “If I would be embarrassed to have the player in my home, then how can I represent him zealously and without restraint?” Rodgers, a lawyer, has been
an agent since 1987. He and his agency, Front Line Sports Man-agement, represent athletes that include Chicago Cub Jeff Sa-mardzija and Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson. He discussed his career and his fam-ily in email answers to questions. Rodgers graduated from Flor-
ida State University in 1981 and worked for three years as an En-glish and journalism teacher and football and baseball coach a his alma mater, Christopher Colum-bus High School in Miami. He then returned to FSU, earning a
law degree. His legal practice in-volved sports representation. “My law practice had evolved to
the point where I was doing less litigation and more sports repre-sentation,” he said. “I was at a fork in the road in my career: whether to be a full-time litigator or a full-time sports attorney. That was the best easiest decision I ever made, and next to asking Karen Ste-phens to marry me, it was the best decision I ever made.” While Rodgers has represent-
ed athletes in sports that include golf, race car driving, basketball and football, most of his focus is on baseball. “Baseball is where I found my
niche,” he said. “I love the diver-sity of the ages. I am able to be involved with players from high school all the way through the major leagues. For me, it offers the greatest challenges and the highest level of satisfaction.” Rodgers lets prospective clients
know what they can expect from him, but he also tells them what he expects from them. “More than anything, I stress
loyalty,” he said. “That is a two-way street. The relationship can be filled with stress and anxiety. At the end of the day, you want
to know that your client can be trusted, just as you want the cli-ent to believe wholeheartedly that he can trust you. “One of the most rewarding as-
pects of my role as an attorney and agent is dealing with play-ers’ families. That may mean the parents of a high school or college player or the wife and children of a professional player. To me, it adds depth to our relationship. It also affords me the chance to learn more about the young man I am representing. You can learn a lot about a young man by the way he treats his mother and his wife.” While work is very important to
Rodgers, it is not the most import-ant thing in his life. Finding time to spend with his family is a pri-ority. “God and family come first,
so there is no conflict regarding time,” he said. “I love my job, but I love my family more. Our lives revolve around our children’s ac-tivities. Of course, they are not all children anymore. My oldest is 24 and is doing quite well trying to break into the movie industry in California. I have a son who will be a senior at Notre Dame and we have three children at home. Our greatest moments are times
shared together, especially at home.” Rodgers did not play sports be-
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Shelley KoppelStaff writer
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Palm City company is one to watch
PALM CITY — Custom Agro-nomics will never be a household name, but it is a company to watch. “We are a manufacturer of
liquid fertilizers, bio-stimulants and specialty chemicals for the golf and agriculture industries,” co-owner Mike Williams said.
On Monday, Aug. 5, GrowFL named Customer Agronomics as one of its 50 Florida companies to watch, Getting on the annual list is a coveted prize among young companies. The Business Development
Board of Martin County nomi-nated Custom Agronomics. Tim Dougher, executive director, said that being named among Grow-FL’s companies to watch helps companies in many business circles. He said it was impressive
that Martin had two finalists. The other was a Stuart company. “It’s definitely an honor for these
two companies and puts them on the map for the future,” he said. Williams said Custom Agronom-
ics isn’t constricted to creating a product line customers can take or leave. It has developed a way to customize its products to buy-ers’ needs. “We have a patent-pending tech-
nology that allows us to do some things no one else in the world can do,” he said. Custom Agronomics does those
things with silica. “Silica has been used in agricul-
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has a lot of benefits, and people have always understood the ben-efits, but it’s very difficult to mix with other chemicals. What we’ve done — we’ve eliminated all that with the discovery of a new type of silica that can be mixed with virtually anything.” The possibilities are broad. One
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national sales from the Caribbe-an to Asia, but Florida remains its primary beat. The state has an abundance of two businesses that use its products — citrus and golf. Citrus more so than golf. “The average golf course uses
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On the golf side, Custom Agro-nomics has a rare swing to play. “We don’t sell to the golf cours-
es,” Williams said. “We sell to the people who sell to the golf cours-es.” That is distributors dealing with
a market that was hit hard by the recent protracted recession and slow recovery. They’re hungry for any and every advantage they can get to create customer loyalty. Custom Agronomics can not only custom formulate products for distributors, but it can put them in bottles with their names. “We can go out to the distrib-
uters and offer them a full prod-uct line with their name on the labels,” Williams said. “They can build a brand in the marketplace. They can sell a product with their name on the package. We can even make literature pieces to support these products.” The formula has been a hit for
the almost four-year-old compa-ny. It now has 10 workers and is tracking to do $3.5 million in sales this year. Dougher said the trend among
economic-development circles in the last decade has been focusing on helping and attracting small-
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had. The dramatic reduction follows,
but seems well above, state and national trends. It also bodes well for the reduction and prevention of other drug and alcohol abuse and addiction, partnership mem-bers said. “Tobacco is often the gateway
drug,” Darcy Flierl, director of prevention at Palm City’s not-for-profit Tykes & Teens, said. “People think it’s marijuana, but research shows it’s tobacco.” Flierl was a founding member of
the county’s Tobacco Free Part-nership. Valerie Graham is a member of
the partnership’s advisory board. She said the Martin partnership primarily focuses on making middle- and high-school students more aware of and less suscep-tible to sophisticated marketing techniques tobacco companies use. “We don’t go to a class and say,
‘Smoking is bad,” Graham said. “They know that. We ask, ‘Why do you smoke even though you know it’s bad?’”It’s more than an academ-
ic question for teenagers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that about 400,000 American youths under the age of 18 become permanent smokers every year. Flierl said many become addict-
ed to tobacco while believing an insidious myth that needs to be exposed.“Kids who use think everyone is
using,” she said. “That’s not true. We’re trying to change the social norms in Martin County.” Dr. Barry Hummel applied for
the $140,000 state grant to form
the partnership along with Dr. Kirk Voelker. The two also run Quit Doc, a not-for-profit re-search foundation. It also helped start partnerships in several oth-er area counties. Hummel is a pediatrician and
Quit Doc’s program coordinator. He got interested in smoking prevention and cessation when training at the University of North Carolina, and has now largely dedicated his career to it. Hum-mel said he saw many young patients whose illnesses were almost certainly linked to their parents’ cigarette smoking. “What frustrated me was how lit-
tle training we had on this issue,” he said. Then there were the children
and youths he saw who’d taken up smoking. “Tobacco is a pediatric epidem-
ic,” Hummel said. “About 85 percent of smokers start between 12 and 17.” That is before it’s legal for them
to purchase tobacco products. Hummel said one reason for
Martin’s success in reducing youth tobacco use is because adults have changed their at-titudes about it. He said in the early 2000s many in drug-preven-tion programs didn’t take tobacco seriously enough. “It was an attitude of, ‘It’s just
tobacco,’” he said. “We worked hard to get on task forces and boards.” He said anti-tobacco advocates
have, in the last few years, largely convinced others of the serious-ness of nicotine use, abuse and addiction. Frequent tobacco users die. So
does everyone else. But, frequent tobacco users typically die at younger ages than others. The
CDC reports that smokers typi-cally die an average of 10 years earlier than their non-smoking peers. Many of those apparently premature deaths can be directly attributed to tobacco use, such as emphysema which is almost ex-clusively found among smokers. Other younger deaths are likely due in large part to illness com-plications related to tobacco use. Critics have long charged that
tobacco companies aim sophis-ticated marketing at youths to counter the demographic reality that their customers typically die at younger ages. The critics refer to the new, young tobacco users as “replacement smokers.” Kim Waser, tobacco preven-
tion specialist, said the Martin partnership is mostly working through programs such as Stu-dents Working Against Tobacco at area schools to help youths understand how marketing is stealthily aimed at turning them into these replacement smokers. “The kids we work with have opt-
ed to be in the SWAT program,” she said. “They are spreading their (anti-tobacco) message on campuses.” Hummel said Martin’s dramatic
reduction in teen tobacco use ap-pears to confirm the effectiveness of this approach. “Teenagers are good at being
defiant,” he said. “I’m trying to gear some of that defiance at the tobacco industry.” In 2007, almost 10 percent of
Florida’s middle- and high-school students had used a tobacco product at least once within the previous 30 days. Last year, that was down to 6.6 percent. Mar-tin went from being well above average to just about average in that time. The CDC reports that although there have been steady declines in youth tobacco use since the middle 1990s, national-ly about 18 percent of high-school students had smoked cigarettes within the previous 30 days in 2011.
The CDC estimates that daily about 4,000 youths smoke their first cigarettes. Slightly more than 1,000 a day go from occasional to daily use of tobacco. Youths also report smoking cigars and using smokeless tobacco products. The CDC says most are concurrent to-bacco users, meaning those who smoke cigarettes are also smok-ing cigars, or using smokeless tobacco products. Over the last five years, many
of Martin’s youths have become its adults. Back in 2010, around 20 percent of the county’s adults frequently used tobacco products, according to the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation’s County Health Rankings & Roadmap. Today that’s dropped to about 17 percent.In addition to its work with
youth, Martin’s Tobacco Free Partnership is reaching out to area businesses to create more smoke-free workplaces and in-form adults about low-cost and free smoking-cessation programs. That’s one of its components for reducing youth smoking, Graham said. “Children who see adults smoke
are more likely to smoke them-selves,” she said. The partnership is also talking
with multi-unit housing facilities, such as apartments, about creat-ing tobacco-free sections. The county’s Tobacco Free Part-
nership grants are from Florida Department of Health’s Bureau of Tobacco Free Florida. That’s funded by monies the state gained from tobacco companies in a 1990s Medicaid lawsuit settle-ment. So far the county partner-ship has received $838,000 in grants. The partnership has quarterly
public meetings. The next will be on Tuesday, Aug. 20, at 3:30 p.m. That’ll be at the Martin Downs Boulevard office.
The website is tfp-martin.org. The phone is (772) 600-7557.
Staff photo by Patrick McCallisterDr. Barry Hummel is co-founder of the Tobacco Free Partnership of Martin County. Hummel is a pediatrician who got involved with The Quit Doc, a tobacco-cessation not-for-profit founded by Dr. Kirk Voelker, to expand efforts to stem tobacco experi-mentation by children and youths.
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STUART — Craig Clements of Palm City Yachts loves what he does.“It’s the best job I’ve ever had,”
he said. “Selling boats is fun. You’re selling fun, you’re selling a dream.”Clements has been in Stuart
since 1994. He came to work at Travis Boating Center, where he spent eight years. In 2001, he started Palm City Yachts. He said that the business has changed over the years.“We started selling new boats
five years ago,” he said. “Nice used boats are hard to find and more people are buying new. Eighty percent of our business is new. It used to be the other way. The banks have loosened up a little and people are doing things closer to home, instead of going away. They can do it as a family.”Clements said that while gas
prices are higher, it costs less to run a boat than it used to.“Boats are two to three times
more fuel efficient than they were 10 years ago,” he said. “They’re using less gas today. The price of gas has gone up, but they’re using less.”Palm City Yacht’s biggest seller
is a Pioneer with a Suzuki or Ya-maha four-stroke engine.“It’s a high-end boat, but they’ve
never raised their prices,” Clem-ents said. “It’s underpriced for the quality. It’s got Whaler quality, but not the Whaler price. A Bos-ton Whaler could be $100,000. Ours, loaded up, is $60,000. It’s priced for value.”The company also sells pon-
toons, skiffs, outboard motors and boats and yachts by a wide variety of manufacturers includ-ing Pioneer, Proline, NauticStar and Renegade. Clements said that boat buyers have a different focus now.“It’s a big investment,” he said.
“Where people used to have two boats, they now have one. They may have more seating and a head and be family-oriented, but they can also be used to go fish-ing. People spend $1,500-$2,000
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Air conditioners should chill houses, not bank accounts
MARTIN COUNTY — Kevin Shar-key’s been around air condition-ing since the 1970s. He’s got a tip. If air-conditioning bills feel way high, they probably are and there’re always reasons. Take power bills from the hand-
ful of months that Florida air con-ditioners aren’t really doing much, compare them to the ones when they’re working hard, and mea-sure the differences. An air con-ditioner should chill the air, not a bank account. “Pretty much, if you’re running
more than $100 a month per sys-tem, you need to look at it,” he said. Sharkey owns Sharkey Air in
Stuart. Many also know him for helping found and continuing to work for the not-for-profit Mol-ly’s House, a hospital hospitality house that’s also in Stuart. Shar-key lives in Palm City. “If the unit never shuts off, there’s
a problem,” Sharkey said. “They should cycle two or three times an hour.” There are a number of things that
can cause air conditioners to work too hard. Of course, the harder they work, the faster they age and break down. The first thing to in-vestigate is the maintenance his-tory. “Regular maintenance is key to
reducing at least 50 to 60 percent of our service calls,” Sharkey said. “As units get older, you have to in-crease the maintenance schedule or you’ll have problems.” Sharkey said that in addition to
regularly maintaining the system, reputable air-conditioning compa-nies focus on educating custom-ers about preserving and getting the most from their units. There’s a common problem he encounters that pushes up power bills and wears out air conditioners before their time. “Many times (units for) houses
and other new construction are sized on the budget dollar, rath-er than what really should go into the home,” he said. If an air conditioner is demanding
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“Have a good air conditioning contractor review the load calcu-lations,” he said. And load calculations aren’t just
a matter of square feet. Sharkey said various factors can affect how large an air-conditioning system should be. Additionally, he said even the best chosen and main-tained air conditioners have a lifespan. “If your system is over 10 to 12
years old, you need to be seriously planning for replacement, rather than waiting for an emergency sit-uation,” Sharkey said. Oh, and Sharkey said it’s fine to
cut corners and save money — in some things, but not others. “(An air conditioner) is typically a
10-year purchase,” he said. “If you buy strictly on price, you will get what you paid for and no more.” That doesn’t mean to throw cau-
tion to the wind, however, when someone’s selling an air condi-tioner. “If you don’t have a long-term
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he has served on the board of directors of the Martin County North Lit-tle League for 13 years. He is also still involved in coaching. This past summer Rodgers and
his son, Andrew, coached the All-Star team for Martin County North Little League. It was a humbling experience for Rodgers as a dad. “He and I have come full-circle,” he said. “I coached his teams for
10 years. Now we are coaching together. He is the classic example of something I have always preached, never to be too proud to work with people smarter than you. I just hope he hasn’t figured out yet that he’s the smarter one.”
Editor’s note: As of press time, Rodgers’ Little League team was sched-uled to play in the semifinals on Wednesday. If they win their game Wednesday and again Friday, the team will advance to the Little League World Series beginning Aug. 15.
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Team Holland opens for business MARTIN COUNTY — Lisa Hol-
land of Jensen Beach has opened a new business, Team Holland, an event management and fundrais-ing consulting company. Holland recently sold her Stroller Strides franchise to Marie Landry Kavovit after seven successful years. In 2009, the Stuart Stroller Strides, was chosen as the Number One Luna Moms Club of the Year in 2009. The competition was open to 300 franchisees nationwide.
In April, Lisa Holland was named the winner of the Women of Dis-tinction Award in the Business/Professional category, presented by Soroptimist International of Stuart.Lisa says that launching Team
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cover something that I am truly passionate about — helping oth-ers get in better shape and im-prove their lives and in turn im-proving the community. Team Holland will allow me to work with
individuals and businesses in a variety of ways beyond fitness.” Lisa is already working with Mar-
tin County Healthy Start Coalition on their upcoming “Dancing with the Martin Stars” competition on Sept. 28 at the Lyric Theatre. As a past competitor, she raised $9,000 and Scott Berry, executive director of Healthy Start said, “Lisa was one of our Stars
in our first year and she worked tirelessly to promote the event and raise funds. Her creative abil-ities and intellect definitely helped make the event better.” “I will be working with nonprof-
its to help power their fundraising events by identifying their goals, researching resources and spon-sorship opportunities and moti-vating team members to achieve their personal goals and objec-tives,” Lisa said. Lisa will also offer corporate
event management services for conferences and events. Her experience in site selection, logistics and event planning are key abilities that will benefit her clients. You can learn more about the company at their new web-site www.teamholland.info or by email at [email protected] or by phone at (772) 631-6611. Lisa resides in Jensen Beach
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ness, and they sell all over the country and the world.“With the Internet, we’ve sent boats to Australia
and England,” Clements said. “We sent two motors to Canada. A lot of stuff is more expensive to buy there. Our out-of-state business is booming. The boating industry is pretty small. Everyone knows what everyone else is doing. We normally sell quite a few boats at the Fort Lauderdale show. It’s in-ternational and there are people from all over the world.”Clements said that it is customer service that gar-
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why we rarely have a dissatisfied customer.”Clements said that he will please a customer if
it is at all possible than have one leave unhappy. That’s why they keep coming back, even though the location, on Flagler Avenue, under the Roosevelt Bridge, is not easy to find. Still, satisfied customers are willing to make the trip because he is willing to make it worth their while.
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographerJulie and Bill Paterson of St. Lucie County welcome home Alvin Silverman of Port St. Lucie during the return of an Honor Flight for veterans in May. The next Honor Flight takes place on Sept. 7.
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TREASURE COAST — South-east Florida Honor Flight is get-ting ready to spread its wings again to give area World War II veterans a chance to see the me-morial dedicated to them on the National Mall. “We fly in certain times of the
year,” Michael Roberts, chair-man, said. “Obviously it’s way to hot in (Washington, D.C.) right now, and in winter it’s too cold.” The next one-day trips are
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Beach International Airport. Mar-tin County Commissioner Doug Smith of Jensen Beach will be on the Sept. 7 flight as a guardian, a volunteer who spends the day with a veteran. This is his fifth Honor Flight as a guardian.“There’s the amazement of what
these veterans go through over that 15-hour or so period of time,” he said. “It’s amazing to watch.”He added, “It gets ridiculously
emotional. You have these men and women who a long time ago played a significant role in our nation’s history — to a person, they all say what they did was the norm; it’s what anyone would do.”Smith and other guardians don’t
just volunteer to spend a day with the veterans. They pay $400 to watch after them. Money well spent, Smith said. He’s worked with at least a dozen charities, but Honor Flight has been one of his favorites. “Anyone who participates gets
more than they can imagine out of it,” Smith said. “It’s really cool to see how well done it is. It is the best run volunteer organization I’ve ever been a part of.” The veterans pay … well, Honor
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a World War II veteran. She said it was among the most emotional times she’s shared with him. She, of course, paid $400 to go. “I wanted to buy his ticket, too,
and they said, ‘No way,’ she said. “We pay for the veterans all the way.” The Honor Flight Network is a
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John Haddox of Palm City said the county’s current veterans ser-vice office supervisor, Tony Reese, more or less got the hub started. Haddox was the office’s supervi-sor at the time. He retired and ran for the Commission last year. “We were at a county veterans
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Haddox said he was busy with other veterans projects, and felt Reese was doing a great job with Honor Flight. He made a manage-ment decision to stay out of his way. “They took it — it took off like
crazy,” Haddox said. “It was coor-dinated by the county’s veterans service office.” Among those who got involved
early on was the Martin Coun-ty Firefighters and Paramedics, International Association of Fire Fighters 2959 -- which organized and leads what’s turned out to be the largest fundraiser each year for the flights -- an annual fill-the-boot drive. Firefighters from Martin County and other agen-cies head out to parking lots to ask folks to fill firefighters’ boots with money. And fill they do. “Our average weekend is $55,000
a weekend, over three days,” John Davidson, president of the union said. “One thing about Honor Flight,
100 percent of what we get off the street goes to Honor Flight,” he added. Davidson is also the operations
coordinator for the local hub. He makes certain there are planes, buses, food, emergency medical care and anything else the veter-ans will need ready for them. He said veterans pay nothing for the Honor Flight trips, making fund-raising critical. After all, Honor Flight isn’t getting a few tickets for each flight; it rents a whole plane. Sometimes two. “The whole flight with bus-
es, police escorts and food, it’s about $80,000 a trip,” Davidson said. “The planes about $55,000, $60,000.”The average trip sends 85 to 90
veterans to D.C., Roberts said. In addition to volunteer guard-
ians paying their ways, and the boot drive, Southeast Florida
Honor Flight has other fundrais-ers through the year. But, David-son said the hub still depends on people acting on their own. “If we didn’t have all the indi-
vidual donations, we couldn’t do this,” he said. “We’re look-ing at $250,000, really more like $300,000, a year to do this.”Surrounding everything Honor
Flight does is a sense of urgen-cy. It can’t last forever, because World War II veterans won’t. According to an Associated Press
estimate, the once 16.1 million World War II veterans are dying at a rate of more than 1,100 a day. Only about 2 million are living, according to a recent report by the Department of Veterans Affairs.No one has an exact daily mor-
tality count, but the VA, AP and others have developed the same estimate by using long-form cen-sus data, VA data, and standard mortality tables. The VA estimates that America will have almost no World War II veterans by 2020. If the oldest lives as long as Frank Buckles — the last surviving American World War I serviceman — America will lose its last World War II veteran in 24 years, 2037.Buckles died in 2011 at age 110.
The youngest World War II veter-ans were born in 1927 and are 86. In addition to Honor Flight
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographerWorld War II veteran Peter Minicucci shakes hands with people in the crowd welcom-ing him and a team of veterans home during the return of an Honor Flight for veterans last May at the Palm Beach International Airport. The next Honor Flight takes place on September 7.
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Innovative breast reconstructive surgery now offered on Treasure Coast MARTIN COUNTY — Board
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographerRealtor Patrick Stracuzzi spoke of one of his personal heroes, Howard Brinton, during a motivational event ‘Raising the Roof’ to benefit Habitat for Humanity Tuesday, Aug. 30 at Grace Place Church in Stuart. The list of speakers also included Floyd Wickman and Les Brown.
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographerMike Traylor of Palm City makes his daughter Celia, 4, one of the younger activists at the ‘Save the St. Lucie River and Martin County Wildlife rally Saturday, Aug. 3 at Phipps Park in Stuart. Several thousand people showed up to protest the releases of freshwater from Lake Okeechobee into the salt water of the waterways connecting the Indian River Lagoon.
Photo courtesy of Becca NegronElla Hoogenboezem, 17, of Hobe Sound, Ashley Meade, 18, of Stuart and Palm City residents Mikaela Shannon, 17, Greg Kusel, 18, and Peter Karner-Brown, 20, gather with signs to protest the dumping of water from Lake Okeechobee into the St. Lucie River. Several thousand activists attended the protest held at Phipps Park in Stuart on Saturday, Aug. 3.
Palm City resident Mark Perry, Exec-utive Director of the Florida Oceano-graphic held up a bag of algae ridden water taken from one of the waterways connecting the Indian River Lagoon at the ‘Save the St. Lucie River and Martin County Wildlife rally Saturday, Aug. 3 at Phipps Park in Stuart. Several thousand people showed up to protest the releas-es of freshwater from Lake Okeechobee into the salt water of the waterways connecting the Indian River Lagoon.
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6,800-square-foot building in PGA Village that Lang Realty has oc-cupied since Lang bought Villager Realty LLC from The Kolter Group. Posess plans on moving his KW
St. Lucie West office, which is cur-rently in rental space, to the PGA location in April 2014 after ex-panding that facility. Gail Hovey is the team leader and
broker of record in the St. Luc-ie Business Center and can be reached at (772) 200-9577, while Michael Brue is the general man-ager and oversees all of the Posess franchises and can be contacted at (561) 301-3287. At the recent Keller Williams Na-
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explosive worldwide growth, in-cluding the KW Profit Share plan, which treats agents as business partners,” he said. “Since Profit Share began in 1987, KW Inter-national has returned more than $4.6 million to agents throughout the system who have helped the company grow.” To learn more about the unique
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Blanketeers make blankets for children in need
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MARTIN COUNTY— Molly’s House has been selected for the 2013 Best of Stuart Award in the Self-Help Group Home category by the Stuart Award Program. Each year, the Stuart Award
Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved excep-tional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local com-panies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These excep-tional companies help make the Stuart area a great place to live, work and play. Various sources of informa-
tion were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2013 Stuart Award
Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gath-ered both internally by the Stuart Award Program and data provided by third parties. The Stuart Award Program
is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local busi-nesses throughout the Stuart area. Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value. The Stuart Award Program was
established to recognize the best of local businesses in our com-munity. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, profession-al associations and other busi-ness advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to recog-nize the small business commu-nity’s contributions to the U.S. economy.
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Todd Harris is known to many in Martin County for his au-tomobile knowledge, business success and charitable donations but many people probably don’t know he was adopted and has an adopted son of his own with his wife, Tamara. For the third year, Todd Har-
ris’ Crown Car Care has been the presenting sponsor of the JRC Golf Tournament Benefit Stop the Tears that benefits United for Families. This year’s tournament was held on June 1 at Mariner Sands Country Club. “I believe in United for Families
and strongly support their mis-sion to break the cycle of child
abuse through diverse network of community partners and inno-vative services. My wife Tamara and everyone who works with me at Crown Car Care and Crown Collision believe in the strength of families and the huge difference a good family life makes in a child’s future,” Todd said at the golf tournament check presentation on June 27 at Seacoast National Bank on East Ocean Boulevard in Stuart. A check for $8,000 for Unit-
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ly colors. All blankets must be homemade, washable, free of pins, and come from smoke-free environments. The volunteer Blanketeers’ will
meet from 1-3 p.m. on Satur-day, Aug. 10 at the Hampton Inn
and Suites, 1150 N.W. Federal Highway, Stuart. Individuals are welcome to attend and help orga-nize donated blankets, join in to help make blankets for children in need and support the local Project Linus chapter. For more details, visit tcproject-
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HOBE SOUND – The Hunter’s Grill opened in December 2013, but it was not the first restaurant for broth-ers Naval and Vijay Mehra. The first Hunter’s Grill opened in Potomac, Maryland, in 1978 and all of the restaurants they have owned have emphasized a “farm fresh to the ta-ble” concept using locally sourced, fresh ingredients. The new restaurant is an attractive
place, simple and elegant, yet suited to casual dining. My companion and I were seated at a booth that had a small vase of fresh-cut flowers on it.
Austin, our server, brought us warm biscuits and beverages. While we opt-ed for soft drinks that were refreshed often, the restaurant has a full liquor license and a collection of wines, li-quor and beer. We ordered the soup of the day,
lobster bisque, and it came in a large bowl. It was creamy and did not have an overpowering taste of lobster. It had a touch of sherry. The ample serving was $5. Mehra said that the bisque is typical
of all his offerings, made from scratch from the best ingredients. Making the lobster bisque is a two-day pro-cess because the Hunter’s Grill uses lobster and not just a lobster base.
New restaurant a welcome addition
Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographerAn order of honey-baked wild salmon served with a tomato relish, broccoli and potatoes was a success for the palate during a dinner at Hunters Grill in Hobe Sound .
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Entrees included mussels Provencal, fish and chips, shrimp and scallop linguine and Tuscan chicken pasta. There are also a va-riety of steaks, burgers and sand-wiches. Dinner entrees range from $10.50- $22. For our main courses, I ordered
honey-baked wild salmon served with a tomato relish, broccoli and potatoes. When food is fresh, you notice it first in its appearance. The salmon was not overcooked and just the right shade of pink. The broccoli was steamed and again, not overdone, and the pota-toes were tasty. My companion was a little more
adventurous, choosing sea bass with a morel mushroom risotto, French green beans and a beurre blanc sauce. It was presented in an oval bowl with sauce drizzled over it and made quite an appear-ance. My friend said it was excel-lent. Be prepared to leave room for
dessert. Austin came out with a platter of different selections that included chocolate mocha cake, key lime pie, an apple cobbler cheesecake with walnuts, mol-ten lava cake, and crème brulee. Our host recommended the ap-ple cobbler cheesecake and it was swoon-worthy. There was a nice contrast between the textures of the cheesecake, cobbler and nuts. The desserts are priced from $5-$6.50. The restaurant also offers spe-
cial gluten-free protein plates. They include an entrée such as grilled chicken, charbroiled lemon flounder and prime burger, with a price range of $9-$17, and two sides chosen from fresh vegeta-bles, salad or sliced tomato and egg. The Sunset Menu, served from
4-6 p.m., features entrées that include mahi Franchese, chicken penne and flatiron steak. It also includes soup of the day or sal-ad and vegetables and potatoes. Meals are served with a compli-mentary glass of the house wine or domestic draft beer. The cost is $17.95. The restaurant offers a birthday
and anniversary club. Diners who register their special dates receive a 50 percent discount when din-ing on that date. The restaurant also offers Neighborhood Appreci-ation Nights for residents of local communities including The Oaks and The Arbor, Lost Lakes, The Retreat, The Preserve and Mariner Sands. On the designated night for each community, 15 percent is taken off the total bill. The Hunter’s Grill has an attrac-
tive banquet room that seats 85. It is quietly elegant and is suitable for meetings, awards dinner, wed-dings and other special events. Vijay Mehra and his family be-
lieve that fresh, locally sourced ingredients make good food and
HUNTER’S from page 24
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Crush Wine Bar DJ 9 p.m. until whenever. 100 S. Dixie Highway, Downtown Stuart. For more information, call (772)
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Conchy Joe’s Seafood Live mu-sic by Rainfall 8 p.m.-midnight. 3945 N.E. Indian River Drive, Jensen Beach. For more informa-
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SaturdaysRetro Saturdays at Crush Wine
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Sundays
Charlie’s Bar and Grill Kara-oke 7:30 p.m. 4695 S.W. Kan-ner Highway, Stuart. For more information, call (772) 288-4326.
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EventsFriday, August 9Live music at Wahoo’s Riv-
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Live music at Wahoo’s Riv-erhouse. 8-11 p.m. 915 N.W. Flagler Drive, Stuart. For more information, call (772) 692-2243.
DJ Cuba at Stuart Grill and Ale 9 p.m. No cover. 18 to party. 21 to drink. Hip hop and house music. 1630 S. Federal Highway, Stuart. For more infor-mation, call (772) 223-1978.
Bowl your Brains out Blazer at Jensen Beach Bowl. 8 p.m. to midnight. All you can bowl $11 per person. Black light bowling, everything glows in the dark, disco lights, music and fog. 2303 N.E. Dixie Highway, Jensen Beach. For more infor-mation call (772) 225-2695 or visit jensenbeachbowl.com
Saturday, August 10Live music at Wahoo’s Riv-
erhouse. 8-11 p.m. 915 N.W. Flagler Drive, Stuart. For more information, call (772) 692-2243.
Bowl your Brains out Blazer at Jensen Beach Bowl. 8 p.m. to midnight. All you can bowl $11 per person. Black light bowling, everything glows in the dark, disco lights, music and fog. 2303 N.E. Dixie Highway, Jensen Beach. For more infor-mation call (772) 225-2695 or visit jensenbeachbowl.com
Live music at Crawdaddy’s. 7 p.m., 1949 N.E. Jensen Beach Blvd., Jensen Beach. For more information, call (772) 225-3444.
Sunday, August 11Reggae Night at Stuart Grill
and Ale. 4 p.m. 1630 S. Federal Highway, Stuart. For more infor-
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CLUBBIN’ from page 25CalendarTuesday, Aug 13.
Serving Health Insurance Needs of Elders, SHINE, counselors will be at the Peter & Julie Cummings Library at 10:30 a.m. explaining Medicare and Medigap insurances. SHINE is run by the Florida Department of Elder Affairs and Council on Aging of Martin County. SHINE services are free, unbiased and confi-dential. The library is at 2551 Matheson Ave., Palm City. The number is (772) 221-1403. SHINE is frequently on hand at the Charles & Rae Kane Center, 900 S.E. Salerno Road, Stuart. To schedule a consultation with a SHINE counselor, call (866) 684-5885. The web site is flori-dashine.org.
Wednesday, Aug 14. Homework Helpers will be on hand at the Peter & Julie Cummings Library from 3 to 5 p.m. The Martin County Library System volunteers help children grade to high school find and use library re-sources needed to do homework assign-ments ranging from math pages to sci-ence-fair experiments and term papers. Homework Helpers have even helped some fill out college applications. The library is at 2551 Matheson Ave., Palm City. The phone is (772) 221-1403.
Discover Science @ Your Library: Learn easy ways to apply science, technology, engineering, mathematics, will be from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Peter & Julie Cum-mings Library, 2551 S.W. Matheson Ave.,
Palm City. It’s open for those ages 6 to 12. At press time, registration was full. To see if spaces are available, call (772) 288-2551.
The Palm City Chamber of Commerce will host the Martin County Council of Chambers’ Legislative Update Luncheon from 11:45 a.m to 1 p.m. It’ll be at the Monarch Country Club, 1801 S.W. Mon-arch Club Drive, Palm City. The luncheon is sponsored by AT&T. Chamber mem-bers are $25. Perspective members, $35. Non-members $50. To register, call Bunny at (772) 287-1088, or email [email protected].
Thursday, Aug. 15.
Homework Helpers will be on hand at the Peter & Julie Cummings Library from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. The Martin County Library System volunteers help children grade to high school find and use library resources needed to do homework assignments ranging from math pages to science-fair experiments and term papers. Homework Helpers have even helped some fill out college applica-tions. The library is at 2551 Matheson Ave., Palm City. The phone is (772) 221-1403.
The Palm City Chamber of Commerce will have its Thursday Morning Social from 8 to 9 a.m. at Nautilus Senior Home Care, 1172 S.W. 30th St., Suite 1, Palm City. The chamber’s phone is (772) 286-8121.
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Live music at Wahoo’s River-house. 4-8 p.m. 915 N.W. Flagler Drive, Stuart. For more informa-tion, call (772) 692-2243.
Tuesday, August 13Ladies Night at Stuart Grill
and Ale 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. DJ Dr. Dave will be spinning rock, old school, hip hop, house, breaks and freestyle. 21 and up. Drink specials. 1630 S. Federal High-way, Stuart. For more informa-tion, call (772) 223-1978.
Wednesday, August 14Ladies Night at Applebees. 10
p.m. to close. 2 for 1 drinks all night and $1 wells for women. Music DJ Doe Dizzle. 3373 S.E.
Federal Highway, Stuart. For more information, call (772) 223-6477.
Cruisers Bar Wacky Wednes-day. 8 p.m.-midnight. Contests and prizes. Beer pong. $6 pitch-ers for players. 843 S.W. Federal Highway, Stuart. For more infor-mation, call (772) 232-6103.
Thursday, August 15Ladies Night at Stuart Cow-
boys’ BBQ & Steak Co. 8 p.m. Ladies Drink free 6-10 p.m. DJ, drink specials and free shots. 2902 S.E. Gran Parkway, Stuart. For more information, call (772) 287-8100.
Open Mic Night at Wahoo’s Riverhouse. 7-9 p.m. 915 N.W. Flagler Drive, Stuart. For more information, call (772) 692-2243.
CLUBBIN’ from page 26
are good for the community. The restaurant has already attracted “regulars” who return often. “We know that once we have you
here, we’ll have you back,” he said with a smile. The Hunter’s Grill is located at
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For more information about the Hunter’s Grill, visit the website, www.thehuntersgrill.com or call (772) 210-2350. Reservations are accepted but walk-ins are wel-come.Summer hours are Monday-Fri-
day from noon-8 p.m. and Satur-day from 3-8 p.m. The restaurant is closed on Sunday. The Sunset Menu is served from
4-6 p.m.
HUNTER’S from page 25
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difficulty 17. Capital of Norway 18. A personal written history 21. Cologne 22. Australian flightless bird 23. Lowest freeman; early
Eng. 25. 18th C. mathematician
Leonhard 28. Cabinet Dept. for homes 29. Languages of Sulu
islands 33. More scarce 35. Before 36. Swiss river 37. Actress & director Lupino 38. Edges 41. Thousand Leaves
prefecture 44. Soldier hero of Spain El
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trees 63. Cricket frog genus 64. Union busting worker 65. A priest’s liturgical
vestment 66. Previously The Common
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hawks 12. A collection of star
systems 13. Be in accord 14. Links subject & predicate
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authority 57. Fabrics of camels or
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AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION!
Treasure Coast Toyota
Vehicles subject to prior sale. Due to early print deadlines prices may be subject to change without notice. All offers with approved credit and can not be combined. All new Toyota lease customers must be credit approved by SETF. *36 month leases, $4500 due at signing, 12K miles/year. Advertised leases & prices exclude tax, tag, registration, title & bank acquisition fee of $695. Dealer fee included on all advertised vehicles. Must have 740+ Equifax, Beacon 9.0 Autoscore.No security deposit required. College Grad Rebate and Military Rebate are excluded in the Manufacturer/Factory rebates. $16.67 per each $1000 borrowed. Not responsible for typographical errors. Sale ends 08/8/2013. #44728-TRTO
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7 7 2 - 2 2 1 - 8 1 9 81400 SW Chapman Way
Palm City, FloridaBetween Palm City Bridge & Roosevelt Bridge
5009
With engine(S) Full ServiCe
*26’-37’ Boats $150
• systems CheCk • maRket analysis
• stoRage duRing Consignment!
Freeconsign YoUR BoAT WiTH Us & REcEiVE:
(Value = PRiCeless)exPiRes 8-23-13
* standaRd taxes & some Conditions aPPly* t-tops, Radar arch & Width over 9’ will be $55 additional
grAnD OPeninggrAnD
OPening
$21,900.00
2008 AzURE 240
Free, Free, Free
Full ServiCe DePArtment SAleS DePArtment FeAturingtOP SiDe
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