Back Country by Robert Adams- Spring 2023
A snowy egret [Egretta thula] is hunting alone in its perfect habitat. Standing in shallow water, it’s hoping to spear its prey, which may be a frog or small fish.
Vice president Frank Gonzalez thrives on delivering customers a positive experience when purchasing Toyota vehicles like this bright blue 2023 Camry SE sedan.
Bev Smith VP Frank Gonzalez embraces role of being the face of Toyota and Kia stores
Spend a few minutes with Frank Gonzalez inside the music-infused upbeat Bev Smith Toyota showroom on South U.S. 1 in Fort Pierce and you’ll soon be introduced to the “Bev Smith Difference.’’
Sour orange pie is a beloved local favorite resurrected from family cookbooks. DANIELLE ROSE PHOTOS
Taste of Old Florida
If Key lime pie is Florida’s most famous dessert, sour orange pie must be our best kept secret.
Casablanca Maria in Vero Beach is a grand oceanfront mansion with a price to match. PAT VIDAS PHOTOS
Couple’s Legacy
When real estate prices began to climb over the last few years, oceanfront properties were no exception. Now, a home has gone on the market in Vero Beach at a record-seeking price for Indian River County.
Bethany Wierzbicki, D.M.D. and Amy Elizabeth Crary, D.M.D. Aesthetic Dentistry of Stuart
Extraordinary practice, extraordinary dentistry
Aesthetic Dentistry of Stuart is an extraordinary practice because of an extraordinary medical team whose mission is to help give patients plenty to smile about when it comes to dental health and wellness.
Every February collectors come from around the country to the Viesta Collection Gas Bash where they can buy, sell and swap memorabilia and back-road stories. The Alex Viesta Collection is only open for viewing through private appointments the remainder of the year. KERRY FIRTH PHOTOS
Miles of memories
The old adage “do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life” rings true with the father/son duo at the Alex Viesta Collection. Often, it’s the elder of the two who offers such insight, but in this case, it was the teenage son, Alex Viesta, who chose a path less traveled and built a successful business buying and selling antique cars, signage, gas relics and nostalgic memorabilia along the way.
This rendering portrays the coming state-of-the-art Indiantown Charter High School which offers students a traditional high school education with a focus on career training and college-level learning. HARVARD JOLLY ARCHITECTURE PHOTOS
Charting the future
As you drive west along Southwest Citrus Boulevard approaching Timer Powers Park in Indiantown, a massive structure rises in the middle of vast agricultural fields. The building — Indiantown Charter High School — will be the new home of the town’s first high school. It is a symbol of hope, promising educational opportunities and a brighter economic future for local residents.
Learn from Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute scientists and hear about their latest discoveries during the Ocean Science Lecture Series, every Wednesday at 4 p.m. Call 242.2293 for more information.
DATEBOOK- Spring 2023
Upcoming Events: March 1-May 3, 2023
Blessed Martin de Porres Catholic School for Colored Children opened on North Eighth Street in Fort Pierce in 1940. A photo was taken each year as a record of students and teachers. This photo from the late 1940s shows the students and teachers for grades 1-5 standing in front of the main school building, and the students and teacher of grades 6-8 standing in front of the war-surplus building that served as their classroom. ST. ANASTASIA CATHOLIC PARISH
Blessed lessons
A bright light was shining on a group of black school children along North Eighth Street in Fort Pierce in the days before school integration in the South. That light emanated from Blessed Martin de Porres Catholic School for Colored Children, a light of learning that led the way to professional and lucrative careers for many of the school’s graduates.
St. Lucie Mets General Manager Traer Van Allen, standing next to his personal 850-piece bobblehead collection on display at the Mets’ offices. JOE DESALVO
Bobblehead collection receives nod of approval
Never mind stamps or coins. St. Lucie Mets General Manager Traer Van Allen’s colorful collection of 850 bobbleheads will make your head, er, shake in amazement. A glass cabinet with figurines with large heads mounted on a spring so that it bobs up and down takes an entire wall in the main hallway of the staff offices at Clover Park
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