September 10, 2025 • 32 mins
Talked with Erick Gill, Communications Director. St. Lucie County Florida. St. Lucie county has a wide variety of services available to both residents and visitors. Coming up this month, there are hikes, kayak trips and paddle board events with St. Lucie Hikes with an Autumn stroll on 9/19 at 9am at Citrus Hammock Preserve, then a Healing Nature Walk at the Steven J Fousek Preserve on Sunday 9/21 at 5pm. There's a complete list/ages/costs are at www.slchikes.org. The county libraries have lots of fun classes including, crafts, anime, board games, sewing, and ukulele just to name a few. The library also has "memory studios" where patrons can transfer photos/tapes to a digital format. They also have podcast studios. And there's a Library of things that patrons can borrow from as well. And from October 1st-31st they can swap costumes or donate gently used costumes. Folks can also take pickle ball, tap and ballet classes at the Fenn Center. And the community garage sale is back and will run through April 2026. For more info or to volunteer, listeners can go to www.stlucieco.gov
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
iHeart Communities presents Palm Beach Treasure Coast Perspective, which dead now.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning, Welcome to Palm Beach Treasure Coast Perspective. I'm
your host, dev New Thanks for spending your weekend with me.
All kinds of great things going on. And if you
haven't been to the brew House Gallery in Lake Park lately,
oh you are missing out. They've all the wonderful paintings
on the wall, all the craft brews and everything. And
coming up on Tuesday September sixteenth, seven pm is the
open mic Jaman with Jeff Livingston. It's a fun night.
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And then Wednesday the seventeenth, something a little new six
thirty pm the Bonzai Bar Class, so it's a fun
thing to enter the Funzai, enjoy some drinks. Thursdays open
Mic with Gary Frost. And then on Saturday the nineteenth,
five pm is October Fast Spotlight beer tasting specials and
of course swag and the music's gonna be starting at
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seven thirty with the Cravens. And then on Saturday the twentieth,
from nine to two is the Lake Park Rust Market.
These all kinds of fun, funky fun everyone come check
it out. And then seven thirty. That night the live
music kicks in with the Classic Cruisers. So always good
stuff happening at the Brewhouse if we're gonna check that out.
Marked stuff also happening at Arts Garage and Delray Beach.
I got their big season lineup happening starting October eleventh.
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Is the Cafe on Maine. They're going to do the
Boomer Legacy on November ninth, Delray Stories Fighting for Freedom
on December seventh, So I have all of those things
going on, plus they've got like the open mic nights
for the poetry night and all the fun different comedy nights,
all the fun things to check out. Go to Artsgarage
dot org and it's all listed right there for you.
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Just talked with Kristin Calder from the Literacy Coalition for
pomp Beach County. Course school's back in play, and if
your kids are having trouble struggling with reading, you'll reach
out to them LITERACYPBC dot org and they're happy to
help me out with that. And if you're interested in
becoming a volunteer to read with the kids or to
tutor them, you can also go to that same website
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and it's all there first read with events coming up
on October tenth, so they have those throughout the year,
so great way to get involved and oh cool, And
we talked to this Jill from the Armory Art Center.
There's lots of fall exhibitions going on now through October
twenty fifth. One's between Form and Feeling and the other
one's called color Forms. And then they also currently have
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the Power of Meditation and Creative Life. That's at a
session that's going to be September twenty seventh at ten
thirty and you can go to Armoryart dot org and
find out more about that. The different classes are coming up.
There's like one day only classes, the six week classes
for adults and kids. So lots of cool things going
on there. And a Cultural Council from Homley's County Center. Reminder,
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Delicate Expressions is happening right now through November fifteenth at
the Lighthouse Art Centers. You want to check that out.
And then of course sixteenth Annual Hispanic Heritage Festivals going
on muse duo with Sydney Carbo at Palm Beach Atlantic
University on September two, twenty seventh, and then there's a
whole exhibition running at the Historical Society of Palm Beach
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County September fifteenth through October fifteenth. If check that out,
and if you haven't been in a while, the Lighthouse
Sunset Tour is coming up again and this is the
Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse a museum. This was going to be
September twenty fourth, so it's a fun thing to do.
My friend did that and that was how he proposed.
It was so cute, fun thing to do. Reminder from
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the Clerk of Saint Lucis County they have a day
setup to help you get your passports, so if you
don't have one, you need it renewed, all that good stuff.
It is coming up on fun Saturday, September twentieth from
eight am to one pm, So passport applications, first time folks, replacements,
all the good things. You can reach out to them
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seven seven to two for six two sixty nine hundred
or go to Saint Lucyclerk dot gov forward slash passports
and get all the details of what all you need
to bring. I'll reminder of our friends at the North Museum.
All kinds of good stuff going on there and they
got a great thing of Blockbuster happening this fall. It
is art and life in Rembrandt's time, so it's masterpieces
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from the leading collection. It's going to start October twenty fifth,
go through April fifth, going to start sorry, I guess me.
It opens up on October twenty fifth and goes through
April fifth. Over seventy works by twenty seven different artists,
seventeen of which are by Rembrandt himself, So this is
really cool. And also in this collection is the only
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Vermire that remains in private hands, so you definitely want
to make a trip and check this out. For more information,
you can go to Norton dot org and it's all
listed on there, plus like all their art after darks.
It happened on Friday nights, and again don't forget the
first one of the month is the Jazz night, so
if you're looking for some jazz, that's the one you
want to head over to. Oh Howard Allen Kraft Festival.
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All kinds of fun things going on. First one coming
in for the season September twenty seventh and twenty eighth,
thirtieth and Downtown Delray Beachcraft Festival happening on the fourth
and then October fourth and the fifth it's going to
be twenty sixth annual Downtown Stuart Craft Festival and that's
on Oceola Street, So lots of good things to check
out with that, get some early Christmas gifts in. I
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love doing that. It's a fun way to shop. Oh,
and our friends over at Mounts Potanical, lots of cool
things going on and they have coming up their big
plant sale on the twentieth. There'll bet orchids of course,
all kinds of fun classes. They have yoga in the park,
different kinds of yoga, yoga, nidra Hatha, all the different things.
And then they have meditation walks now, so the sitting
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kind of meditation is not for you, which is not
really good for me. The walking kind love it, so
they're starting to offer that as well. And you go
to Mounts dot org to get more details on that.
And a reminder from the Delray Beach Playhouse every Summers
will be performing there on October third and the fourth,
and you want to get your ticket now because it
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sells out. So it's a Delray Beach Playhouse dot com
and all the details are right there for you. Speaking
of details, I want to welcome my guests for today,
I have Eric Gill, information officer for Saint Lucy County.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Good morning, morning, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Oh, thanks for coming in. So we always fund things
happening in Palm Beach County and Saint Lucy County. So
rather than me tell everybody about all the Saint Lucy stuff,
I figured out have you come in and share all
the good details. So what's happening in Saint Lucy, mister h.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
We always have a lot going on in Saint Lucie,
and in this time of year, we start ramping up
a lot of our programs from different departments, and I've
been fortunate enough there to work with a lot of
those departments. In one is our Environmental Resources department. They
have a guided hikes program that runs pretty much September.
We usually say September through May, although during the summer
they do some special turtle walks which are always very
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popular and fill up. But this is the time of
year to get out. It's starting to cool, you know,
doesn't feel like it, but I know followers coming around
the corner. But they do a variety of hikes during
the week and on the weekends they even do guided
kayak and paddle trips there is the hikes are free,
but there is a ten dollars or fifteen dollars charge
for the kayaks.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Which makes it so convenient. Use go pay the money,
and you have to carry all the gear. It's all
right there for your stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Volunteers that lug all the gear out there and make
sure they have your life jackets and everything, and they
take you on and some of our you know, the
different we have over ten tout twelve thousand acres of
nature preserves in Satan Mincie County.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
You guys were so forward thinking and getting that land
and holding it for that purpose.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
And I really think the voters back in the mid
nineties when this came up for to pass, we asked
the voters, would you want a small property at tax
just to pay off this twenty million dollar bond. The
voters overwhelming, and he said yes, we use that twenty million,
matched it with state and federal and private grants, and
we bought seventy six million dollars worth of land. You know,
and you hear a lot of residents these days is
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stop building, stop developing Florida. Well, the only way to
really do that is to have local governments own that.
If it's owning, private ownership has very strong property rights
and people can develop it.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
And that's you're right that it's just the way to go.
So I just talked to the folks from the more
Common Museum and Gardens. So they have big acreage there
that was donated to the county. Same thing holding it.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah, So they're great programs in every one is a
different topic, whether it's learning about pollinators or alligators. I
teach a couple of hikes, or lead a couple of hikes.
We do a smartphone photography hike. You know how to
take better pictures with your phone. I do it intro
to disc golf because most of our disc golf courses
and it's some sport that I play, are on our
nature preserves.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Why don't give me you to take the class with
the phone because I already took picture of my finger
this morning. When you're on the phone, that happens.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
That's why you have You don't have to change the role.
That's what's great about taking pictures on the phone. You
just shoot away unless you're like my wife who never
deletes anything.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
And there's unlimited Amazon photos.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Right, Exactly, A class.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
The limit on that. That's so cool. So and they
find out more about that. They go to SLC Hikes.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yes, it's sl sea Hikes dot org. And you can
find they have at least the last couple the current
month and usually the month ahead. And they are limited
in size. We try to keep the group small because
you don't want twenty people traping through the woods to
try and hear birds, and you're gonna scare them away,
you know. So you limited about twelve to fifteen people.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
And that's a nice size.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, it's a great size.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Clocks they say, it's a good vibe with that size. Yes,
and they can hear and I do. Like how the
website now offers the age level. Yeah, each it's good
age for five and up or fifteen and up, depending
how much attention span or how far they need help.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
We walk.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
That's another Yeah, some of our loops are half a mile,
so maybe a three mile or a two mile hikes,
so it might be a longer hike or more traverse terrain,
you know.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah, And like so if they're not stroller friendly, you
don't want to we win because that's gonna be a
problem because you want everybody to have a good time.
I like that that's a great feature you guys offer.
And I like that you've added in the kayaking and
the paddleboarding is you keep up to date with the
latest fun stuff we've tried.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
And a lot of that is grant fun that we've
found grants over the years to purchase these con kayaks
and canoe Yeah, nobody uses canoes anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
But it's a keeping up the times. Tell me about
the pickleball. Yes, there's a pickleball everywhere now, there is.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
And just like disc golf, it's another growing sport. So
are at the Fence Center. They habit all. Fence is
a big rec center on Virginia Avenue in Fort Pierce.
We have open recreation and it's a big gymnasium, but
we use half of it for basketball and half of
a pickleball courts. And we've even recently, with the last
six months, had a glow pickleball event, which is kind
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of cool. They turn the lights off and everything's like
black light and you're following a glowing ball. And I
don't I have bad night vision anyway, so I don't
know how people played that, but they seem to have
a good time. But We do have a pickleball classes
coming up at the Fence Center and they run different
sessions for different you know, skill levels.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
It's like you need to backhand serve practice.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Or yeah, there's an they have a whole series. It's
called Get to Know Your Pickleball Game. It's for ages
twelve and up. It's at the Fence Center, which is
located at two thousand Jinny Avenue and for piers. The
cost is twenty dollars per class for a four week
session and you can choose from the beginner sections to
intermediate to advanced and again they cover everything from you know,
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the advance covers slicing and spinning or drop bollies and
whereas you know, the entry level, which is where I
would be, is more like ball control drills and four
hand backhand that.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Kind of thing that would be me as well.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, no, I tried to play it. I've seen it
set up. I've got bad knees so that it's a
lot of stopping running short and you know I not
for me either then Yeah I could walk ten miles,
but you ask me to stand still for fifteen minutes
and it's killing me.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It does? It makes it difference it's very funny how
that works. It's amazing. Yeah, So they go to the
fence and their website.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
So actually they they don't have registration online yet, but
you can call the staff at seven seven to two
four six two fifteen twenty one four six two fifteen
twenty one. Uh there in Fort Pierce and the staff
there can fill you in on the details and how
to register.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Well.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah, and then if you have a questions they able
to guide you to the rest. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Well, well I've been playing two months. Is that intermediate
or beginner?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah, so, and it's nice to if somebody you can
ask that question too, Yes, you know, Okay, so I
know you've they've done like Rayby things. That's just kimming.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Absolutely. This September is World is when they host World
Raby's Day. So as part of that, our Animal Safety
Divisions having our fourth annual Drive Up Raby's Vaccination and
micro Chipping event out at the Saint Sea County Fairgrounds.
It's going to be on Saturday, September twenty seventh, seventh,
from eight thirty to eleven thirty. It's free for residents
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in the unincorporated areas of the county because it's funded
by our animal control but if you live in the
city limits A four pierce supports Saint Lucy, there is
a ten dollars charge. Is still you know, a good deal.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
It's such a great deal.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
The only request is there is a pre registration process,
so we try to get everybody moving through in and out.
And you can email ac Voucher at Saint Lucco dot
gov to sign up for that, or just go to
our website at saintancea Co dot gov and search animal
safety and you can find the information you need there to
get your your pets. Make sure they're vaccinated and microchipped.
(13:09):
Especially reminded every Fourth of July it's when a lot
of times pets go missing. They get scared of the
fireworks all that go off, you know, it seems like
the weekend before and after Independence days.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
So yeah, well, and if they're chipped, they just scan
it and bring it right back. Such a relief for
you and for your pets.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I think my wife put one on me so she
knows where I'm at. That's what your iPhone does these days.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Right. When we talked a little bit earlier about like
the Literacy Coalition for Pumpach County. So mentat about this
a little bit earlier, but just not remembered. That's all right, Yeah,
Pumpage County. I was lots of libraries here. St. Lucie
County libraries. I mean, they really have a good game
going on, and they got book clubs. What all do
they have going on?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
They've got a lot.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
You know, we have six branch libraries, and I want
to say, although we're down to five right now, we
just had a groundbreaking for our poor Saint Lucy branch library.
It was our smallest and oldest libry or I think
it's building seventy something. We're going to be demoing that
building and building an entirely new library. It's going to
be about three times the size of what they're what
they have now by still keeping it quaint. And you know,
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libraries have changed. You see a lot of comments on
social media. People still read, and yeah, people still read,
and they may not read an old school book. But
our library offers, uh, you know, cloud based you know,
digital books, ebooks. They have different services like Friegel and
Hoopla which you can use your library card to stream
download music and movies. We also a lot of our
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libraries have technology like this with microphones and people that
want to come in and learn how to podcast or
shoot their own videos.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Well, and I know we checked before they have I
think if it's called a memory studio or something like that.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yes, we have a couple two libraries have a memory
studio where it's they've got the old school equipment. So
if you've got VHS tapes of your kid's birthday parties
and you want to convert to the digital, we have
the equipment set up. You come in, you it'll digitize
it and give you a thumb drive our cloud based storage.
You can up plait it too, and then take those
memories home, even old thirty five millimeter camera film or slides,
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if you even old hard copy pictures you want to
scan and it's got the tools to help enhands them.
So you know, I started that project a few years
ago and did never finished it, but I got through
about ten different photo albums that my family had given
to me, and just to preserve them, you know, if
there's ever a leak in the roof or whatever, you know,
I got it.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
All digital hard photos do face.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Yeah, absolutely, so better scan them now because even the
ones from the seventies when I was a kid, a
starting to look a little old brown, and you know,
so scan them and digitally and hands them and hopefully
it we'll stay as long as we still have hard drives, yeah, exactly,
or it'll be in the cloud.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Someone well, yeah, so I think that's awesome that they
have this feature. And then speaking features like that, they
also actually have classes, yes, on how to use your phone?
How do you use the computer? Yeah, and we're talking
from Newby.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Absolutely, they have a lot of tech training classes on
how to use some of the services they offer. But
like you said, intro to how to use their Apple
phone or your Android phone. We've even done some taking
smartphone photography classes to security Internet security, you know what
to look for and you know, we were talking about
that before on the air, right of you know.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Oh yeah, I got a funky email and I'm like,
I'm just sending that to the infos people let sort
that out and at.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Home you can't send it to the I stuff. So
they offer classes like that also online different cloud storage.
If you have a lot of digital photos you want
to back them with the Google Drive or another one,
you know, cloud based system, what works best for you?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yes, And speaking of scams, I know there are quite
a few out now with social security, so be very careful.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
And they do classes on that too, like what to
watch out for. And they're all free, open to all residents,
you know, whether you have a library card or not.
But they even offer tai chi at one of our
branch libraries on September thirteenth. There's there's a silent book club,
you know, for for the introverts that want to read
but not you know, have to talk to other people.
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You want to sit in the room and read with
other people. We've got a book club for that. There's
you know, a ukulele jam for folks that play ukulele.
So libraries are on all quiet spaces that we have
some fun stuff too.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Oh yeah, because when you said earlier, people say people
still read. Yes, they read, but the libraries do so
much more. They're like a almost like a gathering place
for you. Yeah, And like I've seen them where you
go and there's a class on like the crocheting the
library by me and we're all Palm Beach. Once a month,
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these ladies come in. They bring their sewing machines and
they're working on like little blankets and stuff for the
niqu for the Nicholas Hotel. There's very specific where it's going. Yes,
anybody can join, or you can go in and they
just show you how to use a sewing machine if
you don't know how. All such nice ladies.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I learned. My mother passed away a few years ago.
She never taught me how to sew, and I used.
And we've got sewing machines that somewhere or libraries. We
have this part called the Library of Things. You can
come in and check out. We have disc off backpacks
if you interested, or pickleball paddles if you want to
try the sports you don't want to put down the
money and go with your library card, check it out
and bring it back when you're done using it. And
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same thing with sewing machines. I had a couple patches
that I got and one of the librarians help me,
you know, learn how to sew them onto a you know,
a hat or a jacket.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
That's fantastic. And I love the concept of the Library
of Things because I need to hang a thing, but
I need to drill a whole. I do not have
a drill, but if I can come borrow the drill
s I could go do that.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Yes, So I think.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
There's a lot of things folks can do if somebody
helps them empower them. Yep. Absolutely, Because when I learned
how to put the doorknob back on, I was it
like I was like the big person today.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I mean we thought our first house, my wife said,
well even just before we were renting, Well, I didn't
have the tools to do it. That's part of the
big you know, part of the job.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Oh exactly. So I think that's FANTASTICO. The library things,
the library of things.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Yeah, there's even a section on our website satan Sea
co dot gov slash library and you'll see on all
the hand side library things and you can see what
we have available.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
So if it's something you need to borrow, yeah and
go check it out, can borrow you your library card.
And i'd like you mentioned that there's the digital services
as well. Yeah, so like I use Hoopla a lot.
The one I had to be through. The Bandel Library
system has loads of graphic novels. So if you're into that,
they've a lot of series on that particular particular. The
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services each library for slightly different things under their package.
So they happen to have a lot of the graphic novels.
Uh British TV shows, which I like watching those. Then
the binge passes, Like I just did the binge pass
for the new season of The New Librarians, so it
was just an awesome show.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
But we recently subscribed to Canopy, which is a like
a almost like a netflexy kind of you know. But
it's a lot of documentaries and I've found a lot
of great music. I love music documentaries, and there's a
bunch of great almost one on Tom Petty, Grateful Dead,
Frank Zappa, you know, a lot of variety. And yeah, again,
you get so many tickets movie tickets per month and
then it reviews next month and you can you know.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
So it's Canopy with a k right.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Canopy people, Thank you Canopy. And there's an app you
can put on your Roku TV or you know, you
can watch it all the laptop or desktop. But I
like sitting in the living room. I'm old school. I
like sitting in front of a TV, not a laptop.
I'm sitting in front of laptop all day.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
We exactly, So you download it, yeah, and it's free
with your library.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Sure once you put your password and near your library
card in recognize that how many how many tickets you
views that month?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
And then I like a challenge accepted a lot of tickets,
a lots of movies. So that's a cool thing the
library does as well. But they also have a lot
of kids programs they do.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
They from weekly story times to from bilingual story times
to music and movement types of story times. I mean,
my kids are all grown now, but they grew up
going to you know, our local branch, but sometimes we'd
drive around and see, you know, some my wife, I
should say I was working, she would take them to
some of the other branches just to you know, get again.
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It's great for young kids, not just learning reading comprehension,
but socialization skills and learning to sit in a room
and not get up and run around.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
And oh definitely see that's part with the library offers.
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yeah, and they also have I know a great number
of teen programs.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Yes, when we've started doing that, you mentioned graphic novels.
There's I think an anime club and a maga club
some of the you know Japanese animation comics or graphic novels.
So students are getting into that and they were even
doing some Dungeon and Dragons role playing, you know kind
of game playing.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Yeah, seen where a lot of the libraries in pomp
Beach County like felt a sign like a Sunday afternoon
or Saturday Afternoon four game day one to five and
it's part games. Any age can come to play, and
sometimes you'll have like seniors in there and like teenagers.
The seniors are teaching the teenagers how to do the
dungeon and dragon, which I think it's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
That is awesome. It's something our library is doing. Maybe
too early for Halloween, I don't know. It seems like
soon a September comes, everybody's ready for Halloween. But the
last few years we've done a costume swap program through
our libraries. So if you have an old, fairly gently
used costume with not all rips and tears or anything
on it, your kids are grown out of it, you
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can donate it to any Singency County branch library and
then we recycle them to folks that need them. And
so the Kilmore Branch Library, which is our main one
downtown for piers throughout the month of October anybody that
needs a Halloween costume can go in there and get
one for free.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Oh that's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Don't even have to donate an old one. We just
have all the you know you can donate. If you
have some of you want to donate, you can drop
them off for any branch and then they bring them
to the Kilmer downtown and folks can go there.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
That's fantastic. Yeah, because my friends, oh my gosh, their
kids have been Batman, spider Man for and they're all
the superheroes. But now they've grown three inches this summer.
They're not going to fit anymore.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
And sometimes I know kids you know, may have three
or four Halloween parties have to go to. They don't
want to wear the same costumes. So this may be
a cheap alternative to get around that.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Oh yeah, I mean that's a great idea. Actually.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Yeah, so that's a great program that our library's doing.
Like I said, Saint and Scunny, if you go to
Saint and Seacota go slash libraries, you can find out
more information about the hours of the kill or branch
and where the other branches are in case you have
stuff you want to donate, and then that will help
them get into. On October twenty fourth, we're doing our
third annual trunk and treat and tower or i'm sorry,
(23:21):
Tunnel of Terror at the fen Center. So yeah, they
scar the tunnel.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
It's grown up. It's fifteen and up, so it may
not actually be for me. Yeah, like the ones that
are not scary for the little kids.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Yeah, no, it's it's not quite Halloween hard Night's that
dont thing, but it's you know, because I still haven't
been to that yet, but it is. It is built
more for the teenagers, so they'll love it.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
That's going to be Friday, October twenty fourth, in the evening.
It's a free event, the Trunk Retreat, So you bring
the little ones out in the parking lot and different
businesses and vendors will be there handing out candy out
of the trunk of their car and then they can
go or sometimes, depending whether you're permitting, we may move
it inside the Fence Center. You never know about October
we're still in Hurricane jes So, but they then can
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go inside the Fence Center for the haunted house.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
That is so nice. Yeah, yeah, we are church used
to do those when we were little yeah, and it
was an old thing and it had like a weird
half basement thing, so it wasn't super high, but it
was okay for kids to get through all kinds of creepy,
crowley things, which I think that was like started my
aversion to those. I'm like, nope, thank you, I'm going
to do the nice, easy ones. Yeah, with a little
(24:27):
Casper goes that's me. So that's so cool that the
library has all these fun things going on. Are there
volunteer opportunities at the library.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
There are everything from reshelving books to repurposing or re
mending books, books that have been you know, damaged, spine
has been damaged over the years. We have volunteers to
help repair those. Yeah. On our on the main county website,
we have a volunteer section for whether you want to
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volunteer at the libraries or through our environmental resources department.
Like I said, those guided hikes, a lot of those
folks are volunteers. Usually there's a staff person and a volunteer.
We also have the Oxford Eco Center, which has a
nature it's a hike, it's about three miles of trails
with the property has a nature center on site with
different animals, and we need volunteers to help with that
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too well.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Because I know back to school the kids need those
community service hours and these would be some really fun
places to volunteer.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Yeah, we have, We've used a lot of you. Especially
at the Oxbow. They tap into these a lot, whether
it's Boy Scouts, some of the Eagle Scouts have done
projects of you know, putting in benches on trails or
you know, resurface helping rebuild decks, you know, pedestrian bridges
and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Oh cool, And I'm pretty sure the oxbo now has
the sensory friendly backpacks you can take for the day.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Yep, they've got Yeah, they've got kind of their own
library of things. And our library also even has birding backpacks.
So if you want, you know, again, crossover all the apartments.
I think we all try to look out for each other.
If we have an idea, hey we should do this, okay,
bring like the I was a disc gofer. I mentioned
to the libraries, we have all these extra discs that
we find through lost and found. How can we get
(26:07):
them you know used? And they said, well, we could
do a library of things. I did this and people
could check out a backpack and with disks in it
and we play the game. Same thing with pick a ball.
And it's a great opportunity for people that I have
to put out a bunch of money up front if
they just want to give it a try for a
day or two.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
And I love that idea because I'm the one that
spent a bunch of money on things. I'm saying, well, Okay,
I don't have a tennis racket, I have guitar, I.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Have sure, I've got some hockey sticks and rollerblades somewhere,
you know.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Yeah, So I think it's fantastic. And you also mentioned
that some of the libraries, like obviously we're doing you know,
the show a podcast, there's opportunities for people come to
use do podcasting at the library.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Absolutely, in addition to the Memory studio that you mentioned
that's more for converting historic documents. I know, the Morning
Side branch has some separate room set aside where if
you want to go in and do some recording, even
instruments that I think they have some guitars and keyboards.
You want to go in there and sound perform room
and try to cut a demo and put it up
on band camp or you know, oh nice, Yeah, you
(27:05):
can come in there and do that. And they've even
they've even done classes on using some of the equipment
like Audacity and some of the other editing tools to go.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
In there and oh yeah, I use Audacity for this.
Once you got it, but it does take a little
bit then, you know, and it's really helpful. Somebody shows
you the first cop that.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
And you don't have the outfront the money to buy
the software right or the computer equipment to do or
the one hundred dollars microphone you can bring go to
the library.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
And do it and you like it. It's going to
work for you.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
May want to do it at a.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Time to invest the money if you want to have
that opportunity or something, or in an office somewhere. Yeah,
but initially, yeah, I totally totally encourage people to go
try it out that way.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Yeah, absolutely so. And then you know, our parks department
is also gearing up. It's kind of funny. I had
a resident email the county this morning asking about her
The subdivision she lives in doesn't allow yard sales and
you know which, you know, hoa rules vary from street
to street, so uh, you know the county does. The
county does a community swap meet yard sale every year,
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and the first one it usually runs October through March,
and this year someone used to be once a month.
This year we were doing two a month. So it
kicks off October twelfth at the John B. Park Sports
Complex there on Virginia Avenue where the Longwood Stadium is.
The high school football games are going on but Saturday
mornings from seven to two on October eleventh, November eighth,
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and November twenty ninth, December sixth, December twentieth. Actually, this
year goes all the way through April eighteenth, pretty much
every other Saturday from seven to two, and it only
cost twenty dollars to rent a space to bring your
stuff to. If you've got stuff, you got garage you
want to clean out, and you can pick a day
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and reserve you know, day of We're gonna charge you
a little more, but you can set up there. It's
free for residents to go and shop.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Okay, so there's no price to you went in shop, correct,
you just pay you have a booth.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Yes, if you're gonna sell.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Stuff's all have a space, I should.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Say yea yeah, for your booth.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
So how do I sign up to get a boot?
Do I call you your website or.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
That you would call our Actually you can email our call.
You can email Jason J. A. S O N dot
Weaver W E A V E R at Saint Lucyco
dot gov. Or you can call them at seven seven
two four six two twenty one ten.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Oh very cool.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Yeah, at the reserve spot. And it's they get a
breag crowd.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Absolutely, it's a fun thing to do. I mean, and
people they truly one man's trash, another man's trash. Absolutely true.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
You're seeing everything from people selling you know, soccer jerseys
to guitars, the plants. You know, there's just no food sales.
You can't you can't pay the twenty bucks and tea exactly.
There's different regulations for that.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
But oh absolutely yes. So the swap meet it sounds
so much fun. I love that. More fun things coming up.
This is more like science y kind of stuff that.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
It's the tenth anniversary of the Any River Lagoon Science Vessel.
It's not not a county managed thing, but it's something
that county has sponsored and supported since its beginning. It's
usually led by the Smithsonian Marine Institute. This year, I
think fau's Harbor Branch is taking the lead on coordinating it,
but the county has had a partnership with this organization,
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you know, this event for ten years now, so and
that is going to be in downtown Fort Pierce on Saturday,
October twenty fifth, from ten am to three pm at
Veterans Memorial Park. It's a great way to you know,
our libraries are used there doing library cars and roxbo
Eco Center, even our Mosquito Control staff comes out to
teach people about science and and steam right science, technology, engineering,
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art and math, and to get kids involved and show
them what kind of careers are out there.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Well, I think it's a fantastic opportunity. And I know,
like like law enforcement comes, they bring.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
The dogs or the dive units.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, dive units, which I think the dive units just fastest.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Water Science staffy, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Harbor Branch. They brought out some of the robotic underwater
submersibles and.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Things that I think it's called the boats called Discovery
and you can sign up and take the trip on
a weekend and when you go out, they put the
robot down in the water and you can see the
underwater life, the grass is growing, and what the replanting
things is fascinating.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Fascinating even when you're the even had stations that where
kids can learn how to make oyster reefs, you know,
bags and just basically bagging oyster shells. But you know
that the long term benefit of that is once you
put those oyster reefs back, that it rebuilds back the
original reefs that were there that help filter water quality
and provide a habitat for sea life.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Fascinating.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Absolutely. Yeah, it's one of my favorite events, so.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
I love it. So to find out more about maybe
that or other events for the county, how do they
reach out to you and get more information?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Absolutely. Our website is Saint Lucisco dot gov and then
on social media we're at usually Saint Lucie Gov on
all the channels, so it's Facebook slash Saint Lucy g
ov or Instagram slash Saint Lucie St l u c
i E. We used to just do SLC, but then
the folks from Salt Lake City said, do you know
that's our acronym too, So we're trying to spell everything
out more.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
All that clarity is good, yes, well, Thank you for
coming in and sharing all the cool stuff in the
Treasure Cose area.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
I love it well. Thanks always having me down. I
appreciate ed.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning, Welcome to Palm Beach Treasure Coast Perspective. I'm
your host, dev New Thanks for spending your weekend with me.
All kinds of great things going on. And if you
haven't been to the brew House Gallery in Lake Park lately,
oh you are missing out. They've all the wonderful paintings
on the wall, all the craft brews and everything. And
coming up on Tuesday September sixteenth, seven pm is the
open mic Jaman with Jeff Livingston. It's a fun night.
(00:30):
And then Wednesday the seventeenth, something a little new six
thirty pm the Bonzai Bar Class, so it's a fun
thing to enter the Funzai, enjoy some drinks. Thursdays open
Mic with Gary Frost. And then on Saturday the nineteenth,
five pm is October Fast Spotlight beer tasting specials and
of course swag and the music's gonna be starting at
(00:51):
seven thirty with the Cravens. And then on Saturday the twentieth,
from nine to two is the Lake Park Rust Market.
These all kinds of fun, funky fun everyone come check
it out. And then seven thirty. That night the live
music kicks in with the Classic Cruisers. So always good
stuff happening at the Brewhouse if we're gonna check that out.
Marked stuff also happening at Arts Garage and Delray Beach.
I got their big season lineup happening starting October eleventh.
(01:14):
Is the Cafe on Maine. They're going to do the
Boomer Legacy on November ninth, Delray Stories Fighting for Freedom
on December seventh, So I have all of those things
going on, plus they've got like the open mic nights
for the poetry night and all the fun different comedy nights,
all the fun things to check out. Go to Artsgarage
dot org and it's all listed right there for you.
(01:36):
Just talked with Kristin Calder from the Literacy Coalition for
pomp Beach County. Course school's back in play, and if
your kids are having trouble struggling with reading, you'll reach
out to them LITERACYPBC dot org and they're happy to
help me out with that. And if you're interested in
becoming a volunteer to read with the kids or to
tutor them, you can also go to that same website
(01:58):
and it's all there first read with events coming up
on October tenth, so they have those throughout the year,
so great way to get involved and oh cool, And
we talked to this Jill from the Armory Art Center.
There's lots of fall exhibitions going on now through October
twenty fifth. One's between Form and Feeling and the other
one's called color Forms. And then they also currently have
(02:19):
the Power of Meditation and Creative Life. That's at a
session that's going to be September twenty seventh at ten
thirty and you can go to Armoryart dot org and
find out more about that. The different classes are coming up.
There's like one day only classes, the six week classes
for adults and kids. So lots of cool things going
on there. And a Cultural Council from Homley's County Center. Reminder,
(02:42):
Delicate Expressions is happening right now through November fifteenth at
the Lighthouse Art Centers. You want to check that out.
And then of course sixteenth Annual Hispanic Heritage Festivals going
on muse duo with Sydney Carbo at Palm Beach Atlantic
University on September two, twenty seventh, and then there's a
whole exhibition running at the Historical Society of Palm Beach
(03:05):
County September fifteenth through October fifteenth. If check that out,
and if you haven't been in a while, the Lighthouse
Sunset Tour is coming up again and this is the
Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse a museum. This was going to be
September twenty fourth, so it's a fun thing to do.
My friend did that and that was how he proposed.
It was so cute, fun thing to do. Reminder from
(03:27):
the Clerk of Saint Lucis County they have a day
setup to help you get your passports, so if you
don't have one, you need it renewed, all that good stuff.
It is coming up on fun Saturday, September twentieth from
eight am to one pm, So passport applications, first time folks, replacements,
all the good things. You can reach out to them
(03:49):
seven seven to two for six two sixty nine hundred
or go to Saint Lucyclerk dot gov forward slash passports
and get all the details of what all you need
to bring. I'll reminder of our friends at the North Museum.
All kinds of good stuff going on there and they
got a great thing of Blockbuster happening this fall. It
is art and life in Rembrandt's time, so it's masterpieces
(04:12):
from the leading collection. It's going to start October twenty fifth,
go through April fifth, going to start sorry, I guess me.
It opens up on October twenty fifth and goes through
April fifth. Over seventy works by twenty seven different artists,
seventeen of which are by Rembrandt himself, So this is
really cool. And also in this collection is the only
(04:33):
Vermire that remains in private hands, so you definitely want
to make a trip and check this out. For more information,
you can go to Norton dot org and it's all
listed on there, plus like all their art after darks.
It happened on Friday nights, and again don't forget the
first one of the month is the Jazz night, so
if you're looking for some jazz, that's the one you
want to head over to. Oh Howard Allen Kraft Festival.
(04:54):
All kinds of fun things going on. First one coming
in for the season September twenty seventh and twenty eighth,
thirtieth and Downtown Delray Beachcraft Festival happening on the fourth
and then October fourth and the fifth it's going to
be twenty sixth annual Downtown Stuart Craft Festival and that's
on Oceola Street, So lots of good things to check
out with that, get some early Christmas gifts in. I
(05:17):
love doing that. It's a fun way to shop. Oh,
and our friends over at Mounts Potanical, lots of cool
things going on and they have coming up their big
plant sale on the twentieth. There'll bet orchids of course,
all kinds of fun classes. They have yoga in the park,
different kinds of yoga, yoga, nidra Hatha, all the different things.
And then they have meditation walks now, so the sitting
(05:40):
kind of meditation is not for you, which is not
really good for me. The walking kind love it, so
they're starting to offer that as well. And you go
to Mounts dot org to get more details on that.
And a reminder from the Delray Beach Playhouse every Summers
will be performing there on October third and the fourth,
and you want to get your ticket now because it
(06:00):
sells out. So it's a Delray Beach Playhouse dot com
and all the details are right there for you. Speaking
of details, I want to welcome my guests for today,
I have Eric Gill, information officer for Saint Lucy County.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Good morning, morning, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Oh, thanks for coming in. So we always fund things
happening in Palm Beach County and Saint Lucy County. So
rather than me tell everybody about all the Saint Lucy stuff,
I figured out have you come in and share all
the good details. So what's happening in Saint Lucy, mister h.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
We always have a lot going on in Saint Lucie,
and in this time of year, we start ramping up
a lot of our programs from different departments, and I've
been fortunate enough there to work with a lot of
those departments. In one is our Environmental Resources department. They
have a guided hikes program that runs pretty much September.
We usually say September through May, although during the summer
they do some special turtle walks which are always very
(06:47):
popular and fill up. But this is the time of
year to get out. It's starting to cool, you know,
doesn't feel like it, but I know followers coming around
the corner. But they do a variety of hikes during
the week and on the weekends they even do guided
kayak and paddle trips there is the hikes are free,
but there is a ten dollars or fifteen dollars charge
for the kayaks.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Which makes it so convenient. Use go pay the money,
and you have to carry all the gear. It's all
right there for your stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Volunteers that lug all the gear out there and make
sure they have your life jackets and everything, and they
take you on and some of our you know, the
different we have over ten tout twelve thousand acres of
nature preserves in Satan Mincie County.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
You guys were so forward thinking and getting that land
and holding it for that purpose.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
And I really think the voters back in the mid
nineties when this came up for to pass, we asked
the voters, would you want a small property at tax
just to pay off this twenty million dollar bond. The
voters overwhelming, and he said yes, we use that twenty million,
matched it with state and federal and private grants, and
we bought seventy six million dollars worth of land. You know,
and you hear a lot of residents these days is
(07:53):
stop building, stop developing Florida. Well, the only way to
really do that is to have local governments own that.
If it's owning, private ownership has very strong property rights
and people can develop it.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
And that's you're right that it's just the way to go.
So I just talked to the folks from the more
Common Museum and Gardens. So they have big acreage there
that was donated to the county. Same thing holding it.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah, So they're great programs in every one is a
different topic, whether it's learning about pollinators or alligators. I
teach a couple of hikes, or lead a couple of hikes.
We do a smartphone photography hike. You know how to
take better pictures with your phone. I do it intro
to disc golf because most of our disc golf courses
and it's some sport that I play, are on our
nature preserves.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Why don't give me you to take the class with
the phone because I already took picture of my finger
this morning. When you're on the phone, that happens.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
That's why you have You don't have to change the role.
That's what's great about taking pictures on the phone. You
just shoot away unless you're like my wife who never
deletes anything.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
And there's unlimited Amazon photos.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Right, Exactly, A class.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
The limit on that. That's so cool. So and they
find out more about that. They go to SLC Hikes.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yes, it's sl sea Hikes dot org. And you can
find they have at least the last couple the current
month and usually the month ahead. And they are limited
in size. We try to keep the group small because
you don't want twenty people traping through the woods to
try and hear birds, and you're gonna scare them away,
you know. So you limited about twelve to fifteen people.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
And that's a nice size.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, it's a great size.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Clocks they say, it's a good vibe with that size. Yes,
and they can hear and I do. Like how the
website now offers the age level. Yeah, each it's good
age for five and up or fifteen and up, depending
how much attention span or how far they need help.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
We walk.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
That's another Yeah, some of our loops are half a mile,
so maybe a three mile or a two mile hikes,
so it might be a longer hike or more traverse terrain,
you know.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah, And like so if they're not stroller friendly, you
don't want to we win because that's gonna be a
problem because you want everybody to have a good time.
I like that that's a great feature you guys offer.
And I like that you've added in the kayaking and
the paddleboarding is you keep up to date with the
latest fun stuff we've tried.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
And a lot of that is grant fun that we've
found grants over the years to purchase these con kayaks
and canoe Yeah, nobody uses canoes anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
But it's a keeping up the times. Tell me about
the pickleball. Yes, there's a pickleball everywhere now, there is.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
And just like disc golf, it's another growing sport. So
are at the Fence Center. They habit all. Fence is
a big rec center on Virginia Avenue in Fort Pierce.
We have open recreation and it's a big gymnasium, but
we use half of it for basketball and half of
a pickleball courts. And we've even recently, with the last
six months, had a glow pickleball event, which is kind
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of cool. They turn the lights off and everything's like
black light and you're following a glowing ball. And I
don't I have bad night vision anyway, so I don't
know how people played that, but they seem to have
a good time. But We do have a pickleball classes
coming up at the Fence Center and they run different
sessions for different you know, skill levels.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
It's like you need to backhand serve practice.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Or yeah, there's an they have a whole series. It's
called Get to Know Your Pickleball Game. It's for ages
twelve and up. It's at the Fence Center, which is
located at two thousand Jinny Avenue and for piers. The
cost is twenty dollars per class for a four week
session and you can choose from the beginner sections to
intermediate to advanced and again they cover everything from you know,
(11:14):
the advance covers slicing and spinning or drop bollies and
whereas you know, the entry level, which is where I
would be, is more like ball control drills and four
hand backhand that.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Kind of thing that would be me as well.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, no, I tried to play it. I've seen it
set up. I've got bad knees so that it's a
lot of stopping running short and you know I not
for me either then Yeah I could walk ten miles,
but you ask me to stand still for fifteen minutes
and it's killing me.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It does? It makes it difference it's very funny how
that works. It's amazing. Yeah, So they go to the
fence and their website.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
So actually they they don't have registration online yet, but
you can call the staff at seven seven to two
four six two fifteen twenty one four six two fifteen
twenty one. Uh there in Fort Pierce and the staff
there can fill you in on the details and how
to register.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Well.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah, and then if you have a questions they able
to guide you to the rest. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Well, well I've been playing two months. Is that intermediate
or beginner?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah, so, and it's nice to if somebody you can
ask that question too, Yes, you know, Okay, so I
know you've they've done like Rayby things. That's just kimming.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Absolutely. This September is World is when they host World
Raby's Day. So as part of that, our Animal Safety
Divisions having our fourth annual Drive Up Raby's Vaccination and
micro Chipping event out at the Saint Sea County Fairgrounds.
It's going to be on Saturday, September twenty seventh, seventh,
from eight thirty to eleven thirty. It's free for residents
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in the unincorporated areas of the county because it's funded
by our animal control but if you live in the
city limits A four pierce supports Saint Lucy, there is
a ten dollars charge. Is still you know, a good deal.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
It's such a great deal.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
The only request is there is a pre registration process,
so we try to get everybody moving through in and out.
And you can email ac Voucher at Saint Lucco dot
gov to sign up for that, or just go to
our website at saintancea Co dot gov and search animal
safety and you can find the information you need there to
get your your pets. Make sure they're vaccinated and microchipped.
(13:09):
Especially reminded every Fourth of July it's when a lot
of times pets go missing. They get scared of the
fireworks all that go off, you know, it seems like
the weekend before and after Independence days.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
So yeah, well, and if they're chipped, they just scan
it and bring it right back. Such a relief for
you and for your pets.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I think my wife put one on me so she
knows where I'm at. That's what your iPhone does these days.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Right. When we talked a little bit earlier about like
the Literacy Coalition for Pumpach County. So mentat about this
a little bit earlier, but just not remembered. That's all right, Yeah,
Pumpage County. I was lots of libraries here. St. Lucie
County libraries. I mean, they really have a good game
going on, and they got book clubs. What all do
they have going on?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
They've got a lot.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
You know, we have six branch libraries, and I want
to say, although we're down to five right now, we
just had a groundbreaking for our poor Saint Lucy branch library.
It was our smallest and oldest libry or I think
it's building seventy something. We're going to be demoing that
building and building an entirely new library. It's going to
be about three times the size of what they're what
they have now by still keeping it quaint. And you know,
(14:13):
libraries have changed. You see a lot of comments on
social media. People still read, and yeah, people still read,
and they may not read an old school book. But
our library offers, uh, you know, cloud based you know,
digital books, ebooks. They have different services like Friegel and
Hoopla which you can use your library card to stream
download music and movies. We also a lot of our
(14:33):
libraries have technology like this with microphones and people that
want to come in and learn how to podcast or
shoot their own videos.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Well, and I know we checked before they have I
think if it's called a memory studio or something like that.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yes, we have a couple two libraries have a memory
studio where it's they've got the old school equipment. So
if you've got VHS tapes of your kid's birthday parties
and you want to convert to the digital, we have
the equipment set up. You come in, you it'll digitize
it and give you a thumb drive our cloud based storage.
You can up plait it too, and then take those
memories home, even old thirty five millimeter camera film or slides,
(15:07):
if you even old hard copy pictures you want to
scan and it's got the tools to help enhands them.
So you know, I started that project a few years
ago and did never finished it, but I got through
about ten different photo albums that my family had given
to me, and just to preserve them, you know, if
there's ever a leak in the roof or whatever, you know,
I got it.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
All digital hard photos do face.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Yeah, absolutely, so better scan them now because even the
ones from the seventies when I was a kid, a
starting to look a little old brown, and you know,
so scan them and digitally and hands them and hopefully
it we'll stay as long as we still have hard drives, yeah, exactly,
or it'll be in the cloud.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Someone well, yeah, so I think that's awesome that they
have this feature. And then speaking features like that, they
also actually have classes, yes, on how to use your phone?
How do you use the computer? Yeah, and we're talking
from Newby.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Absolutely, they have a lot of tech training classes on
how to use some of the services they offer. But
like you said, intro to how to use their Apple
phone or your Android phone. We've even done some taking
smartphone photography classes to security Internet security, you know what
to look for and you know, we were talking about
that before on the air, right of you know.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Oh yeah, I got a funky email and I'm like,
I'm just sending that to the infos people let sort
that out and at.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Home you can't send it to the I stuff. So
they offer classes like that also online different cloud storage.
If you have a lot of digital photos you want
to back them with the Google Drive or another one,
you know, cloud based system, what works best for you?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yes, And speaking of scams, I know there are quite
a few out now with social security, so be very careful.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
And they do classes on that too, like what to
watch out for. And they're all free, open to all residents,
you know, whether you have a library card or not.
But they even offer tai chi at one of our
branch libraries on September thirteenth. There's there's a silent book club,
you know, for for the introverts that want to read
but not you know, have to talk to other people.
(16:58):
You want to sit in the room and read with
other people. We've got a book club for that. There's
you know, a ukulele jam for folks that play ukulele.
So libraries are on all quiet spaces that we have
some fun stuff too.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Oh yeah, because when you said earlier, people say people
still read. Yes, they read, but the libraries do so
much more. They're like a almost like a gathering place
for you. Yeah, And like I've seen them where you
go and there's a class on like the crocheting the
library by me and we're all Palm Beach. Once a month,
(17:31):
these ladies come in. They bring their sewing machines and
they're working on like little blankets and stuff for the
niqu for the Nicholas Hotel. There's very specific where it's going. Yes,
anybody can join, or you can go in and they
just show you how to use a sewing machine if
you don't know how. All such nice ladies.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I learned. My mother passed away a few years ago.
She never taught me how to sew, and I used.
And we've got sewing machines that somewhere or libraries. We
have this part called the Library of Things. You can
come in and check out. We have disc off backpacks
if you interested, or pickleball paddles if you want to
try the sports you don't want to put down the
money and go with your library card, check it out
and bring it back when you're done using it. And
(18:09):
same thing with sewing machines. I had a couple patches
that I got and one of the librarians help me,
you know, learn how to sew them onto a you know,
a hat or a jacket.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
That's fantastic. And I love the concept of the Library
of Things because I need to hang a thing, but
I need to drill a whole. I do not have
a drill, but if I can come borrow the drill
s I could go do that.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Yes, So I think.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
There's a lot of things folks can do if somebody
helps them empower them. Yep. Absolutely, Because when I learned
how to put the doorknob back on, I was it
like I was like the big person today.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I mean we thought our first house, my wife said,
well even just before we were renting, Well, I didn't
have the tools to do it. That's part of the
big you know, part of the job.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Oh exactly. So I think that's FANTASTICO. The library things,
the library of things.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Yeah, there's even a section on our website satan Sea
co dot gov slash library and you'll see on all
the hand side library things and you can see what
we have available.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
So if it's something you need to borrow, yeah and
go check it out, can borrow you your library card.
And i'd like you mentioned that there's the digital services
as well. Yeah, so like I use Hoopla a lot.
The one I had to be through. The Bandel Library
system has loads of graphic novels. So if you're into that,
they've a lot of series on that particular particular. The
(19:26):
services each library for slightly different things under their package.
So they happen to have a lot of the graphic novels.
Uh British TV shows, which I like watching those. Then
the binge passes, Like I just did the binge pass
for the new season of The New Librarians, so it
was just an awesome show.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
But we recently subscribed to Canopy, which is a like
a almost like a netflexy kind of you know. But
it's a lot of documentaries and I've found a lot
of great music. I love music documentaries, and there's a
bunch of great almost one on Tom Petty, Grateful Dead,
Frank Zappa, you know, a lot of variety. And yeah, again,
you get so many tickets movie tickets per month and
then it reviews next month and you can you know.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
So it's Canopy with a k right.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Canopy people, Thank you Canopy. And there's an app you
can put on your Roku TV or you know, you
can watch it all the laptop or desktop. But I
like sitting in the living room. I'm old school. I
like sitting in front of a TV, not a laptop.
I'm sitting in front of laptop all day.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
We exactly, So you download it, yeah, and it's free
with your library.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Sure once you put your password and near your library
card in recognize that how many how many tickets you
views that month?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
And then I like a challenge accepted a lot of tickets,
a lots of movies. So that's a cool thing the
library does as well. But they also have a lot
of kids programs they do.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
They from weekly story times to from bilingual story times
to music and movement types of story times. I mean,
my kids are all grown now, but they grew up
going to you know, our local branch, but sometimes we'd
drive around and see, you know, some my wife, I
should say I was working, she would take them to
some of the other branches just to you know, get again.
(21:00):
It's great for young kids, not just learning reading comprehension,
but socialization skills and learning to sit in a room
and not get up and run around.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
And oh definitely see that's part with the library offers.
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yeah, and they also have I know a great number
of teen programs.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Yes, when we've started doing that, you mentioned graphic novels.
There's I think an anime club and a maga club
some of the you know Japanese animation comics or graphic novels.
So students are getting into that and they were even
doing some Dungeon and Dragons role playing, you know kind
of game playing.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Yeah, seen where a lot of the libraries in pomp
Beach County like felt a sign like a Sunday afternoon
or Saturday Afternoon four game day one to five and
it's part games. Any age can come to play, and
sometimes you'll have like seniors in there and like teenagers.
The seniors are teaching the teenagers how to do the
dungeon and dragon, which I think it's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
That is awesome. It's something our library is doing. Maybe
too early for Halloween, I don't know. It seems like
soon a September comes, everybody's ready for Halloween. But the
last few years we've done a costume swap program through
our libraries. So if you have an old, fairly gently
used costume with not all rips and tears or anything
on it, your kids are grown out of it, you
(22:09):
can donate it to any Singency County branch library and
then we recycle them to folks that need them. And
so the Kilmore Branch Library, which is our main one
downtown for piers throughout the month of October anybody that
needs a Halloween costume can go in there and get
one for free.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Oh that's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Don't even have to donate an old one. We just
have all the you know you can donate. If you
have some of you want to donate, you can drop
them off for any branch and then they bring them
to the Kilmer downtown and folks can go there.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
That's fantastic. Yeah, because my friends, oh my gosh, their
kids have been Batman, spider Man for and they're all
the superheroes. But now they've grown three inches this summer.
They're not going to fit anymore.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
And sometimes I know kids you know, may have three
or four Halloween parties have to go to. They don't
want to wear the same costumes. So this may be
a cheap alternative to get around that.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Oh yeah, I mean that's a great idea. Actually.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Yeah, so that's a great program that our library's doing.
Like I said, Saint and Scunny, if you go to
Saint and Seacota go slash libraries, you can find out
more information about the hours of the kill or branch
and where the other branches are in case you have
stuff you want to donate, and then that will help
them get into. On October twenty fourth, we're doing our
third annual trunk and treat and tower or i'm sorry,
(23:21):
Tunnel of Terror at the fen Center. So yeah, they
scar the tunnel.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
It's grown up. It's fifteen and up, so it may
not actually be for me. Yeah, like the ones that
are not scary for the little kids.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Yeah, no, it's it's not quite Halloween hard Night's that
dont thing, but it's you know, because I still haven't
been to that yet, but it is. It is built
more for the teenagers, so they'll love it.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
That's going to be Friday, October twenty fourth, in the evening.
It's a free event, the Trunk Retreat, So you bring
the little ones out in the parking lot and different
businesses and vendors will be there handing out candy out
of the trunk of their car and then they can
go or sometimes, depending whether you're permitting, we may move
it inside the Fence Center. You never know about October
we're still in Hurricane jes So, but they then can
(24:04):
go inside the Fence Center for the haunted house.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
That is so nice. Yeah, yeah, we are church used
to do those when we were little yeah, and it
was an old thing and it had like a weird
half basement thing, so it wasn't super high, but it
was okay for kids to get through all kinds of creepy,
crowley things, which I think that was like started my
aversion to those. I'm like, nope, thank you, I'm going
to do the nice, easy ones. Yeah, with a little
(24:27):
Casper goes that's me. So that's so cool that the
library has all these fun things going on. Are there
volunteer opportunities at the library.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
There are everything from reshelving books to repurposing or re
mending books, books that have been you know, damaged, spine
has been damaged over the years. We have volunteers to
help repair those. Yeah. On our on the main county website,
we have a volunteer section for whether you want to
(24:57):
volunteer at the libraries or through our environmental resources department.
Like I said, those guided hikes, a lot of those
folks are volunteers. Usually there's a staff person and a volunteer.
We also have the Oxford Eco Center, which has a
nature it's a hike, it's about three miles of trails
with the property has a nature center on site with
different animals, and we need volunteers to help with that
(25:18):
too well.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Because I know back to school the kids need those
community service hours and these would be some really fun
places to volunteer.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Yeah, we have, We've used a lot of you. Especially
at the Oxbow. They tap into these a lot, whether
it's Boy Scouts, some of the Eagle Scouts have done
projects of you know, putting in benches on trails or
you know, resurface helping rebuild decks, you know, pedestrian bridges
and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Oh cool, And I'm pretty sure the oxbo now has
the sensory friendly backpacks you can take for the day.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Yep, they've got Yeah, they've got kind of their own
library of things. And our library also even has birding backpacks.
So if you want, you know, again, crossover all the apartments.
I think we all try to look out for each other.
If we have an idea, hey we should do this, okay,
bring like the I was a disc gofer. I mentioned
to the libraries, we have all these extra discs that
we find through lost and found. How can we get
(26:07):
them you know used? And they said, well, we could
do a library of things. I did this and people
could check out a backpack and with disks in it
and we play the game. Same thing with pick a ball.
And it's a great opportunity for people that I have
to put out a bunch of money up front if
they just want to give it a try for a
day or two.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
And I love that idea because I'm the one that
spent a bunch of money on things. I'm saying, well, Okay,
I don't have a tennis racket, I have guitar, I.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Have sure, I've got some hockey sticks and rollerblades somewhere,
you know.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Yeah, So I think it's fantastic. And you also mentioned
that some of the libraries, like obviously we're doing you know,
the show a podcast, there's opportunities for people come to
use do podcasting at the library.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Absolutely, in addition to the Memory studio that you mentioned
that's more for converting historic documents. I know, the Morning
Side branch has some separate room set aside where if
you want to go in and do some recording, even
instruments that I think they have some guitars and keyboards.
You want to go in there and sound perform room
and try to cut a demo and put it up
on band camp or you know, oh nice, Yeah, you
(27:05):
can come in there and do that. And they've even
they've even done classes on using some of the equipment
like Audacity and some of the other editing tools to go.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
In there and oh yeah, I use Audacity for this.
Once you got it, but it does take a little
bit then, you know, and it's really helpful. Somebody shows
you the first cop that.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
And you don't have the outfront the money to buy
the software right or the computer equipment to do or
the one hundred dollars microphone you can bring go to
the library.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
And do it and you like it. It's going to
work for you.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
May want to do it at a.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Time to invest the money if you want to have
that opportunity or something, or in an office somewhere. Yeah,
but initially, yeah, I totally totally encourage people to go
try it out that way.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Yeah, absolutely so. And then you know, our parks department
is also gearing up. It's kind of funny. I had
a resident email the county this morning asking about her
The subdivision she lives in doesn't allow yard sales and
you know which, you know, hoa rules vary from street
to street, so uh, you know the county does. The
county does a community swap meet yard sale every year,
(28:04):
and the first one it usually runs October through March,
and this year someone used to be once a month.
This year we were doing two a month. So it
kicks off October twelfth at the John B. Park Sports
Complex there on Virginia Avenue where the Longwood Stadium is.
The high school football games are going on but Saturday
mornings from seven to two on October eleventh, November eighth,
(28:27):
and November twenty ninth, December sixth, December twentieth. Actually, this
year goes all the way through April eighteenth, pretty much
every other Saturday from seven to two, and it only
cost twenty dollars to rent a space to bring your
stuff to. If you've got stuff, you got garage you
want to clean out, and you can pick a day
(28:48):
and reserve you know, day of We're gonna charge you
a little more, but you can set up there. It's
free for residents to go and shop.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Okay, so there's no price to you went in shop, correct,
you just pay you have a booth.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Yes, if you're gonna sell.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Stuff's all have a space, I should.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Say yea yeah, for your booth.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
So how do I sign up to get a boot?
Do I call you your website or.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
That you would call our Actually you can email our call.
You can email Jason J. A. S O N dot
Weaver W E A V E R at Saint Lucyco
dot gov. Or you can call them at seven seven
two four six two twenty one ten.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Oh very cool.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Yeah, at the reserve spot. And it's they get a
breag crowd.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Absolutely, it's a fun thing to do. I mean, and
people they truly one man's trash, another man's trash. Absolutely true.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
You're seeing everything from people selling you know, soccer jerseys
to guitars, the plants. You know, there's just no food sales.
You can't you can't pay the twenty bucks and tea exactly.
There's different regulations for that.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
But oh absolutely yes. So the swap meet it sounds
so much fun. I love that. More fun things coming up.
This is more like science y kind of stuff that.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
It's the tenth anniversary of the Any River Lagoon Science Vessel.
It's not not a county managed thing, but it's something
that county has sponsored and supported since its beginning. It's
usually led by the Smithsonian Marine Institute. This year, I
think fau's Harbor Branch is taking the lead on coordinating it,
but the county has had a partnership with this organization,
(30:16):
you know, this event for ten years now, so and
that is going to be in downtown Fort Pierce on Saturday,
October twenty fifth, from ten am to three pm at
Veterans Memorial Park. It's a great way to you know,
our libraries are used there doing library cars and roxbo
Eco Center, even our Mosquito Control staff comes out to
teach people about science and and steam right science, technology, engineering,
(30:41):
art and math, and to get kids involved and show
them what kind of careers are out there.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Well, I think it's a fantastic opportunity. And I know,
like like law enforcement comes, they bring.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
The dogs or the dive units.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, dive units, which I think the dive units just fastest.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Water Science staffy, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Harbor Branch. They brought out some of the robotic underwater
submersibles and.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Things that I think it's called the boats called Discovery
and you can sign up and take the trip on
a weekend and when you go out, they put the
robot down in the water and you can see the
underwater life, the grass is growing, and what the replanting
things is fascinating.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Fascinating even when you're the even had stations that where
kids can learn how to make oyster reefs, you know,
bags and just basically bagging oyster shells. But you know
that the long term benefit of that is once you
put those oyster reefs back, that it rebuilds back the
original reefs that were there that help filter water quality
and provide a habitat for sea life.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Fascinating.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Absolutely. Yeah, it's one of my favorite events, so.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
I love it. So to find out more about maybe
that or other events for the county, how do they
reach out to you and get more information?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Absolutely. Our website is Saint Lucisco dot gov and then
on social media we're at usually Saint Lucie Gov on
all the channels, so it's Facebook slash Saint Lucy g
ov or Instagram slash Saint Lucie St l u c
i E. We used to just do SLC, but then
the folks from Salt Lake City said, do you know
that's our acronym too, So we're trying to spell everything
out more.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
All that clarity is good, yes, well, Thank you for
coming in and sharing all the cool stuff in the
Treasure Cose area.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
I love it well. Thanks always having me down. I
appreciate ed.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
If you need more information, reach out to me Palm
Beach Perspective at iHeartMedia dot com. Happy to forward on
the details and don't forget. You can always download the
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a wonderful weekend. I'm dev Nev and this has been
my perspective. Remember life is good, so be your healthiest
you and let's get out there and live it. Until
(32:37):
next week enjoy.
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