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Coffered ceilings and built-in bookcases are some of the features in GL Homes’ Caroline model from the Vintage Collection found in Valencia Cay at Riverland.

Valencia Cay

Massive development spearheads future growth south of Tradition

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Read more about the article City’s list of awards  continues to grow
Beautiful Tradition in western Port St. Lucie is one of the top-selling master-planned communities nationwide, according to a survey by RCLCO Real Estate Advisors. The green village square is the scene of many events. CITY OF PORT ST. LUCIE PHOTOS

City’s list of awards continues to grow

Port St. Lucie as a place to live and put down roots is a winner in so many ways. From November 2019 through January 2020 the city picked up 11 more honors to add to its awards list. In 2019, the city logged more than 46 awards and honors.

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Read more about the article The Guitar Maker
Jeff Warner is seated atop a dog house he made from an old boat hull as he enjoys the yard with his dogs, Moogley and Mad Dog. After moving to Florida, Warner began working with local companies Maverick and Twin Vee, where he merged his loves of boats and building things. ANTHONY INSWASTY PHOTOS

The Guitar Maker

Many people find themselves lounging on the couch after a long workday, but then there’s boatbuilder Jeff Warner, who spends his free time building guitars and ukuleles. A “mad scientist” of sorts, Warner was always taking toys apart and tinkering with things from a very young age. His father fostered his interest in mechanics and restoration.

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Susan Hamburger inspects a palmetto during a hike in the Ancient Oaks Preserve at Weldon Lewis Park on Oleander Avenue. ANTHONY INSWASTY

The CITIZEN SCIENTIST

After Susan Hamburger retired from academic life and moved to Fort Pierce a few years ago, she did what she describes as a 180-degree turn, pivoting from her background in English and history to a new avocation as a citizen-scientist who is passionate about protecting the environment.

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Gene Hull retired from Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines 18 years ago. The former entertainment director moved north from Miami, landing in Fort Pierce. ANTHONY INSWASTY PHOTOS

The JAZZ MUSICIAN

For Gene Hull, it all started back in 1893, when his maternal grandfather came to America from Italy. His grandfather made and played his own mandolins and later made sure his daughter (Hull’s mother) learned to play piano.

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Baby brother Joseph Guettler, right, the youngest of George F. and Christine Guettler’s eight children, gets his sister, Mary Elizabeth Noelke, laughing as the two and brother, George E. Guettler, met to talk about their parents’ devotion to their Catholic faith and to recollect stories of their childhood. ANTHONY INSWASTY

Seeded in faith

On acres of land along Delaware Avenue where cows once grazed and roosters crowed, now stands the bastion of Catholicism in St. Lucie County: St. Anastasia Grade School, John Carroll High School and St. Anastasia Church, the first parish in St. Lucie County. All thanks to a generous act of faith by George F. and Christine Guettler.

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All of the children and grandchildren of Edward and Elizabeth Guettler gathered around them on Delaware Avenue in the 1940s as the couple celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with their growing family. More than 500 Guettlers attended a 1993 reunion at St. Anastasia Church.

500 and counting

When Edward and Elizabeth Guettler and seven of their children left Minnesota to join sons George Frank and Leo in sunny Fort Pierce, little did anyone in the city know how this one family would grow and reach out to so many residents in so many ways.

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