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Costco isn’t just raising hackles, it’s also raising voices Adam Laten Willson
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Sound Chamber of Commerce will hold one of the earliest candidate forums of the local voting season. It’ll include candidates for County Commission districts 1, 3 and 5. While commissioners must live in their districts, vot-
PALM CITY — Last September, when Costco was readying an application to build on Martin Highway near the Turnpike, Samantha Capaldo, a business graduate and Palm City mother, started a Facebook page called “Stop Costco at 714 and High Meadow,” insisting that the proposed development was in the wrong spot. Now, the forum has more than 1,700 Facebook members, and several community action campaigns have taken shape from it. It has spawned a Go Fund Me account that aims to raise funds for a private traffic study in counterpoint to Costco’s. There is also a Change.org petition with 830 supporters that the group hopes will represent public interest to Growth Management. There are buttons, bumper stickers, and soon to be T-shirts. Kelly Middleton, a teacher at Bessey Creek who has lived in Palm City for 22 years, says the group has grown exponentially over the last six months, sometimes adding 100 members in a single night. It’s not just about stopping Costco in Palm City, she says. “It’s about trying to preserve the way of life as we have come to love it here.” “There has to be change,” says Middleton, “and it’s hard to accept, but this just doesn’t fit with Palm City. It’s too big. So I decided that I could sit back and complain, or I could try and do something. Either I was going to have to expend my efforts moving or fight this, and I chose to fight.” Costco plans to develop a
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Photo courtesy of Kelly Middleton Several integral members of Stop Costco at 714 and High Meadow demonstrate at the site where Costco plans to build in Palm City. Since Sept. 2015, this group has been vocal at commissioners’ and local planning agency meetings, insisting that the chosen location is not right for the big box giant. From Left: Bryan McAninley, Kelly Middleton, Jon Gray, Jim Serra, Lauretta Pfister Kastelic, Samantha Capaldo, and Lois Brown.
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MARTIN COUNTY — The Martin County Commission has three seats on the roulette wheel, and any one of those races could change the playbook on a host
of local issues. At press time, all announced candidates are Republican, meaning if others don’t jump into any of the races, they’ll be decided in universal primaries in August. In the words of ring announcer Michael Buffer, “Let’s get ready to rumble.” On Thursday, April 7, the Hobe
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MARTIN COUNTY — The County Commission got project priority lists from the Community Redevelopment Agency’s seven Neighborhood Advisory committees at its March 22 meeting. Now it wants some price tags and innovative ways to pay for wanted redevelopment projects. “(The County Commission) directed us to move forward with some funding options,” Kate Parmelee, the county’s community and strategic partnerships manager, said. Palm City has a community redevelopment area that runs along Mapp Road, between Martin Downs and All American boulevards. It extends eastward to the St. Lucie River, and has a western extension on Martin Highway. The commission also sits as the county’s Community Redevelopment Agency. The community redevelopment areas have been a contentious issue with the
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PALM CITY — Jamison Geisler has plans for this summer. He’s heading to the 79th annual FirstEnergy All-American Soap Box Derby World Championships at the epicenter of the gravity-powered racing world, Derby Downs in Akron, Ohio. That’ll be July 10 to 16. “I hope to be world champion in Akron,” Jamison said. “I’ll get a college scholarship and a trophy almost as tall as me.” Jamison is the standing campion of the Stuart Soap Box Derby, which was at the end of last year. It’s sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Martin County. The 9-year-old is a third grader at Bessey Creek Elementary School. The Kiwanis Club of Martin has a rally race coming up on May 21 at the Earnest Lyons Bridge, Stuart. That race will include stock, super stock and masters. It’ll be held in conjunction with the 2016 Stuart Sailfish Regatta. The Kiwanis figure about 30 racers will show to accumulate
“I like hanging out with my friends and learning about gravity and spacing and how the cars are built.” Jamison Geisler points in their sport. They’ll race from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. It’s not just the need for speed that drives Jamison’s love for the soap box. “I like hanging out with my friends and learning about gravity and spacing and how the cars are built,” he said. Yeah, he’s into the STEM — the science, technology, engineering and math. Along with the camaraderie. “I also like the sportsmanship,” Jamison said. “To me it’s fair, because no one brags. You say, ‘Good race’ and shake hands.” Still, speed is a factor in gravity-powered racing. Like everything, the technology is getting better, and the cars are getting faster. On some courses they reportedly reach into the mid-30s. Doesn’t sound like much, but do
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Photo courtesy of the Geisler family Palm City’s Jamison Geisler is the standing champion of the Stuart Soap Box Derby. He’s heading to the 79th annual FirstEnergy All-American Soap Box Derby World Championships at the epicenter of the gravity-powered racing world, Derby Downs in Akron, Ohio, July 10 to 16.
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MARTIN COUNTY — JDRF will hold its annual One Walk Treasure Coast to benefit diabetes research and education on April 9 in downtown Stuart. Walk registration is at 9 a.m. at Flagler Park, 201 SW Flagler Avenue. Organizers estimate close to 500 attendees, volunteers and sponsor partners. There will also be free parking and fun for families and kids of all ages including music, games and breakfast and lunch for all attendees. The Walk route is a 5K (3.2 miles) along Dixie Highway and back over the Roosevelt Bridge. Formerly known as Walk to Cure Diabetes, One Walk is JDRF’s largest fundraising event and the most significant fundraising program for type 1 diabetes (T1D) research in the world. T1D is a chronic, autoimmune disease that strikes children and adults suddenly, makes them insulin dependent for life and
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Photo by Doug Davis Your Voice News & Views’ reporter Patrick McCallister, center, stands with Doug and Lyndsay Davis and Marisa Cook at the recent Marathon of the Treasure Coast in March. McCallister, a high-functioning autistic, ran the half-marathon with their help. The Davises and Cook quieted race fans and escorted him through crowds. Like most autistics, McCallister is easily overwhelmed by sound and motion. He completed the 13.1-mile race, his first half-marathon, in 2:11:17 and is planning on his first marathon in Cocoa later this year. Friends have volunteered to help him at that marathon. Back to the marathon day, I had a support team versed with the sensory problems of autism — Doug and Lyndsay Davis, along with Cook. Additionally, the organizer, Frank Fender, made
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“Most often people who are supporting something, especially something controversial, don’t have to stand up at meetings and take on the ears of their neighbors and friends,” he says. “They are just quietly for it. They’re not organizing Facebook pages saying, “We love Costco.’”
of the opposition have attended commissioners’ meetings, Local Planning Agency (LPA) meetings, and any assembly where Costco is represented, such as the Jan. 21 joint workshop where the applicant met with county staff. They have also broadened their platform to include any development that thematically links to their mission of slow growth for Palm City. At the February Local Planning Agency meeting, where a developer was seeking land use redesignation and rezoning for a 3.75-acre property right across Martin Highway from Hidden Oaks Middle School, Stop Costco called out the cavalry. They feel their public comments helped influence the agency’s concession to commercial/ office/residential (COR) designation for the property, instead of the more intense commercial limited designation the applicant was requesting. Ed Ciampi, candidate for District 5 commissioner and former president of The Estates at Hammock Creek Homeowners’ Association, commends the group for their passion and community mobility. “I’m proud of the level of organization and enthusiasm that the opposition has taken,” he says. “Many times you’d see projects that people didn’t like, but no one would step up and challenge things. It definitely makes for a much fairer process when both sides have a voice. Do I think that Costco will be deterred? Probably not. But I do think that bringing this level of scrutiny and attention to the project is the best course of action they could have taken, so that everything is handled the way it’s supposed to.” Ciampi says that perhaps the biggest challenge the group may face is the silent constituency that favors Costco in that location. “Most often people who are supporting something, especially something controversial, don’t have to stand up at meetings and take on the ears of their neighbors and friends,” he says. “They are just quietly for it. They’re not organizing Facebook pages saying, “We love Costco.’” Their successes haven’t exactly come easily, however. One disappointing aspect of the political
Ed Ciampi process in Palm City is that there isn’t a proper Neighborhood Advisory Committee (NAC), Capaldo says. Excepting a slender NAC devoted to defunct Old Palm City, residents don’t have the same official representation that towns like Port Salerno and Rio have. Regardless of the outcome of the Costco application, Capaldo says that in the future they will be looking to promote and organize such a committee. Costco submitted their official application on Oct. 19 and were sent back to the drawing board by Growth Management in December. Their resubmittal deadline has been extended to May 13. Other than that, no news has surfaced regarding the application. Until it does, Stop Costco at 714 plans to send out as many letters as possible to the commissioners and relevant city staff decrying the proposal as a bad move. Once their Change.org petition acquires 1,000 signatures, says Middleton, they hope that might indicate to the Local Planning Agency, which will have to evaluate the application before it goes to the Board of Commissioners, that their opposition is not just a whistle in the wind. Summing up the effort, Gray says, “I think the group has done a good job at communicating that it’s not a done deal. A lot of people out there think this is a done deal, that you can’t stop Costco, and there’s also the population that’s totally unaware of it. The group seems to get more vocal as time goes on and more confident in their argument.” He adds that amidst all the recent efforts to combat All Aboard Florida and the Lake Okeechobee discharges, Stop Costco’s at 714’s cause hits closest to home, being the only cause that distinctly addresses a Palm City issue.
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relying on sand-shifting reports from Costco. He counted 800 cars enter the Northlake Costco within an hour, around the time that schools in Palm City would be releasing students. Gray says that he would like to conduct a new study as well. In response to all the rezoning signs germinating along Martin Highway, he has decided to document all of the vacant office buildings that squat like carbuncles along the city’s thoroughfares. He plans to go out and take photographs to show to the commissioners and Growth Management. Serra says that the rapid growth of the group’s concerted efforts is in large part due to their use of social media. “I think social media has helped a lot, because it’s a place where people can go to share the same views on a subject matter. If you go back 15 or 20 years and tried to organize something like this, you’d have a hard time getting in touch with people who may be of the same mind as you.” But in-the-field demonstrations have also been indispensable to the movement. A couple of weeks ago, Stop Costco at 714 held a rally at the intersection of Martin Downs and 714, where Costco intends to build, and received several favorable honks, thumbs up, and regional news coverage. The bugle has also been sounded at county meetings. Since November, many frontrunners
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likely nothing will happen with the redevelopment areas until after elections. There are three commission seats up for election, including his. So far the nine announced candidates are all Republican. If no others get into the races, they’ll be decided in universal primaries in August. Haddox said the commission majority directing Parmelee to get price tags on multiple proposed projects was about political savvy, not practical government. “I believe it is a delaying tactic and I’m very pessimistic if the Neighborhood Advisory Committees — if their voices are going to be heard,” he said.
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PALM CITY — On March 18 the Treasure Coast Unitarian Universalist Congregation held a ground breaking ceremony for a new addition that includes a large sanctuary, a narthex and storage room. The current sanctuary is limited to approximately 1850 square feet of a 3060 square foot building and has room for only 105 persons. The new building will add a full 4410 square feet, with most of that area devoted to a sanctuary accommodating up to 250 people. The old sanctuary space is to be reconfigured as a Social Center with a commercial kitchen, a small meeting room and offices for both the minister and church secretary. All spaces are ADA (Americans with Disabilities) compliant and most areas will be available for rental for special events. The money for the new addition was donated by four major donors: David and Shirley Craig and Joan and Jim Henderson of Palm City; Vince and Enid Johnson and Vince and Phyllis Hall. One hundred people attended the ceremony including members of
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PALM CITY – Amy Dolan Malaney has been coming to Palm City for a long time. Her parents, Bert and Pat Dolan, were among the early residents of Piper’s Landing and were involved in the building of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, where they donated the organ and one of the stained glass windows. Her mother was also choir director there for a short time. Now Malaney and her husband, Dennis, have purchased the home in which her parents lived for so many years. Malaney, who had a long professional career as a singer, including 21 years in the chorus of the Detroit Opera Company, sat down to talk about her career and the careers of her three daughters, who have followed in mom’s footsteps. She grew up in Chicago and attended DePauw University in Indiana, from which she got a degree in music education. She then attended the University of Illinois, and received a master’s degree in music performance. “I’ve done it all,” she said. “Music theater is my first love. “My mother was a singer and performed “Danny Boy” at every St. Patrick’s Day party. Malaney was in the first nation-
al tour of “Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?” and is on the Broadway cast album. She worked in regional theater around the United States before her marriage, when she moved to Detroit and sang with the Detroit Opera Company and the Michigan Theatre Opera Company. She was also involved in the Detroit Opera’s community outreach program. This summer, she will return there for the second season to direct their operetta summer camp, performing Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Ruddigore.” She said the latter is a challenge. “It’s three weeks and you have no idea what you have (by way of a cast) until the first day of camp,” she said. You can’t cast for the first two or three days (while you audition) and then you have to produce a full operetta on the big stage.” While in Detroit, Malaney and her husband also raised three daughters, Mary, Patty and Maggie. Mary, who attended Ithaca College, is in New York City, Patty attended Point Park College in Pittsburgh and is in Chicago and Maggie is a musical theater major at Penn State. When we talked, the proud parents were preparing to go to New York, where Mary and Maggie were performing a cabaret act, “Sister Act,” at the Triad on 72nd St. in Manhattan.
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STUART — If Tax Day gets you down, you might consider heading over to the Barn Theatre April 15 where they will present the comedy Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore comedy “Send Me No Flowers” through May 1. If the name of the play sounds familiar, you might remember the 1964 movie with Rock Hudson, Doris Day and Tony Randall. It is the story of George Kimball, a hypochondriac who overhears his doctor and becomes convinced he is dying. (He is not.) As a good husband, he puts his affairs in order, makes plans for his final resting place and proceeds to find a new husband for his wife, Judy. As is typical of Hudson-Day films, there are a lot of misunderstandings and a happy ending. John Procino is directing the production. He said that the play is based on a series of miscommunications, starting with George overhearing a conversation that convinces him that he is dying. “George overhears a conversation and thinks it’s about him,” Proci-
no said. “It’s the 1960s. He feels like he has been in charge of everything and Judy will need help to manage finances. She will need a man in her life for everything other than sex. There are several instances where he has fantasy scenes where he imagines scenarios of his wife out on the streets. He needs to find her another husband.” Of course, there are many more misunderstandings. The couple reconnect with a college buddy, Bert Powers, who is closer to Judy than to George. George decides he is a good candidate to be the next “Mr. Kimball.” “George decides he’s the best prospect and decides to cultivate a deeper friendship between Bert and Judy. He lets them go out (alone), saying he doesn’t feel good. The result is that Judy feels George is concealing a torrid love affair and assuaging his guilt.” It’s never a good idea to give away too much of the plot, and there is, indeed, a cemetery plot or two or three, a pushy cemetery plot salesman, and a friend, Arnold, who keeps trying to cheer George
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Photo courtesy of the Barn Theatre The Barn Theatre presents the play ‘Send Me No Flowers,’ April 15-May 1. The comedy concerns a hypochondriac, George Kimball, who thinks he’s dying and sets out to find his wife Judy a new husband. Pictured: Steve Cohen and Laura Daniel.
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MALANEY from page 29 “Mary has done quite a bit of cabaret,” Malaney said. “She has a great music director and twice a year, she writes a cabaret. Her sister, Maggie, was getting ready for Spring Break, and Mary said that instead of a vacation, come to New York and do cabaret together.” The entire family has been performing together for years, with the youngsters performing in the children’s chorus at the Opera House. They have also had wonderful opportunities separately. Maggie did “A Little Night Music” with Leslie Uggams and Mary performed with opera star Denyce Graves. They’ve had amazing opportunities,” Malaney said. “They grew up in the Opera House, but I made sure this is what they wanted to do. I told them that if they wanted
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MARTIN COUNTY — Trucks! They bring out the kid in all of us, and when you can climb on them and check out what you see from behind the steering wheel … well, it just doesn’t get much better than that! That’s why you and your kid-at-heart family members won’t want to miss the perfect fundraiser: Touch-a-Truck to benefit the Early Learning Coalition of Indian River, Martin and Okeechobee counties. Set for April 2 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Martin County Fairgrounds, proceeds will benefit the non-profit’s Building Blocks for Educational Success. This interactive experience allows youngsters to climb on, learn about and discover their favorite big trucks - and what an exciting collection it will be. Event sponsors include FP&L, Martin Health Systems, Mancil’s and Geico Treasure Coast local office. In-kind sponsor are Goodwill, Faith Farm, Island Party Rental and Macaroni Kids of Port St. Lucie, Stuart and Vero Beach. Just a few of the trucks scheduled to be on site are an engine truck from the City of Stuart
Fire Department; Martin County Sheriff Office Black Humvee and patrol car; a limo from Leighton Transportation; Stuart Police Department patrol cars and crime scene vehicle; a favorite from last year: “Coastie” from the U.S. Coast Guard; a tow truck from Reliable Towing; garbage truck from Waste Management; a tug; construction vehicles; a concrete Boom pump from Big Johnson Concrete; a dump truck and front end loader from Mancil’s; brush truck and transport dozer from U.S. Forest Service; bucket truck from FPL; a Martin County school bus; Truly Nolen Mouse Car and limo and a 50-ton crane from Frenchy’s Crane Vehicle drivers and operators will be on hand to educate the public about their vehicles and answer any questions. Admission is $5 per person and you’ll be able to buy lunch or snacks from one of the many food trucks that will be at the fairgrounds. Booth space is available at no charge for non-profits who would like to participate, offer a craft that is suitable for children and present information about their organization. Space to promote a for profit business or offer items for sale is available for
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CALENDAR from page 34 mainstreet.org. 20th annual Classics at the Beach car show at the Elliott Museum on Hutchinson Island, 825 N.E. Ocean Blvd., Stuart, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. About 90 classic cars. Admission is $14, $8 for children ages 6 to 12. Admission includes the car show and museum. For more, call the car curator at (772) 225-1961, ext. 111.
MONDAY, APRIL 4 Lectures of Paris and the Jazz Age will be at Blake Library 2 to 3:30 p.m. Join Terryl Best Lawrence as she presents this six part lecture series on Paris and the Jazz Age. The fourth part in the series will focus on Jazz Age Writers: Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. This event is a Chautauqua South special presentation sponsored by the Friends of the Martin County Library System. The library is at 2351 S.E. Montery Road, Stuart. For more, call (772) 288-5702.
TUESDAY, APRIL 5 Tuesday night car show from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Hundreds of car owners and spectators gather to show and see antique, classic and special-interest cars while
enjoying music from the ‘50’s and ‘60’s. Cost is $3 to show a car, but spectator admission is free. The car show will be at the south end of Lowe›s parking lot located at 3620 SE Federal Hwy in Stuart (west side of U.S. 1, south of Indian Street and north of Pomeroy Street). For more, call Jim Serra at (772) 285-3320. Tuesday Trivia Night 7 to 9 p.m. at Hurricane Grill & Wings, 2355 S.W. Martin Highway, Palm City. For more, call (772) 7814295.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6 Turtles of the Treasure Coast at Gilbert’s Bar House of Refuge, 301 S.E. MacArthur Blvd., Stuart. Benefits the Elliott Museum. $15. To register, call (772) 225-1875. My Sister Emily at the Peter & Julie Cummings Library 2 to 3:30 p.m. Celebrate National Poetry Month with “My Sister Emily,” a one-woman play written and performed by Margaret Andersen. This is the story of poet Emily Dickinson as told by her sister, Lavinia. They lived together all their lives, sleeping in the same bed until their twenties and never marrying. Join us for an informative and enjoyable afternoon
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THURSDAY, APRIL 7 Learning Chinese at the Peter & Julie Cummings Library from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. This class is hosted by the Treasure Coast Chinese Culture Club. There is a Friday class from 4 to 5 p.m. The library is at 2551 Matheson Ave., Palm City. For more, call Anna Mirkovich (718) 509-7266. County Commission Candidate forum at Hobe Sound Bible College 5:30 to 9 p.m. The form is sponsored by the Hobe Sound Chamber of Commerce. The forum will include county council candidates for districts 1, 3 and 5. The forum is free and open to the public. The college is at 11295 S.E. Gomez Ave. Questions can be submitted at www.hobesound.org.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 8 Signature Golf Tournament in memory of Barbara Briggs Trimble registration will start at 7:45 a.m. at Champions Club at Summerfield, 3400 S.E. Summerfield Way, Stuart. There’ll be a shotgun start at 9 a.m. The event benefits the Florida Oceanographic Society. For more, visit www. floridaocean.org. Live music on the patio at Fresh Catch Seafood Grill, 1411 S.E. Indian Street, Stuart. Starts at 6 p.m. For more, call (772) 2866711, or visit www.freshcatchstuart.com.
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Women-only seder at Temple Beit HaYam, 961 S.E. Monterey Commons Blvd., Stuart. Reservations required. $50 to attend. It’ll be 6:15 to 9 p.m. For more, call the temple at (772) 286-1531.
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30th Annual Home, Garden & Orchid Show a Great Success! The Chamber’s 30th Annual Home, Garden & Orchid Show, held March 5th & 6th at the Martin County Fairgrounds, was a winner thanks to all the generous sponsors, exhibitors, volunteers, food concessions and attendees. Saturday and Sunday showed record high crowds as the weather was perfect; sun shining with a constant breeze. Stuart Coffee joined the mix this year with delicious coffee and baked goods both days. Charlie’s Bar & Grille satisfied the appetites and thirst of our busy vendors and attendees at lunchtime. People shopped and shopped some more; orchids, plants, art, metal garden sculptors, jewelry and of course all the home products and services. A variety of kitchen and bath designers, furniture, home builders, art, windows, doors, dogs
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