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See what is happening for ocean lovers on Wednesday, Feb. 26. The first is a presentation, Eyes on the Seagrass in the Indian River Lagoon — Hope and Gravity, at St. Lucie County Aquarium at 9 a.m. Call 462.3474 to register and get more information. The second event is a Harbor Branch Talk by Paul Willis, Seeds Aren’t Only for Plants — Fish Farms Need Seedstock Too, that begins at 4 p.m. in the Johnson Education Center. Call 242.2400 to register and get more information.

Things to do – Fort Pierce Magazine 2025

Upcoming Events- February-July 2024

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Fort Pierce’s Jeff Shultz retired as a successful businessman but now devotes his time to serving the less privileged. GREG RODGERS

SPIRITUALIZED

In the 13th century, St. Francis of Assisi founded a religious order devoted to acts of charity and service. More than 800 years later, a Treasure Coast retiree follows in his footsteps as a Secular Franciscan brother. “It’s not a group or organization,” Jeff Shultz explained.

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Emma Rentzke was the youngest registered nurse in Florida when she graduated from the nursing program at Indian River State College and now works towards a doctorate in nursing while caring for her patients.

CARING CALLING

On a recent flight from Miami to San Francisco, the pilot’s voice came over the intercom. Were there any medical personnel on board? “I looked around,” Fort Pierce’s Emma Rentzke said. “No one else was standing up.”

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The groundbreaking ceremony for the new Highwaymen Museum was a joyous day for many. Museum founder Doretha Hair Truesdell and Fort Pierce Mayor Linda Hudson, center, work together to turn some earth with a shovel in front of the museum at 1234 Avenue D. MARYANN KETCHAM

Highway Museum opening may be pushed to fall

Anticipation that only the fruition of a long-held dream can have will spill over when the new Highwaymen Museum at 1234 Avenue D throws open its doors to welcome its first guests this summer.

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This wonderful sight greeted passersby and motorists driving through Fort Pierce. The Dairy Queen ice cream store stood on the corner of Tenth Street and Orange Avenue for decades, and customers stopped in at all hours to enjoy the variety of treats and sandwiches that longtime Fort Pierce residents still remember. WAUGH FAMILY PHOTOS

WE ALL SCREAMED

There’s hardly a person who lived in Fort Pierce between the 1950s and 1990s who doesn’t remember stopping off at the Dairy Queen — on the corner of Tenth Street and Orange Avenue — for a tasty ice cream treat.

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