Thomas Waterman’s radio career spans four decades but chances are not many people have heard of him. Not by that name, anyway. Waterman got his start listening to WNBC as a boy in New York. Born in Brooklyn, he and his family moved to Long Island.
Joette Giorgis was introduced to music in the fourth grade, learning to play trumpet, then piano. At 15, she bought her first guitar and is proficient at guitar and ukelele. A professional musician who plays at local events and teaches others, she says that music has become the primary focus in her life. “I see my guitar as a friend, and I don’t go anywhere without it.”
Talk to Mark Barnes and it will most likely be about the latest festival and events at the Port St. Lucie Botanical Gardens where he is a board member. Or, he might be mulling ideas for a colorful new event poster.
Terry Taylor started working on the farm his family sharecropped about the time he started school. His father, also a builder and longshoreman, especially enjoyed serving as a church deacon.
Port St. Lucie keeps being honored and winning awards for its efforts to make the city a great place to live, retire and find a great quality of life. The city itself was even honored recently for being a great employer.
Movie star Mae West once remarked that, “Getting old isn’t for the faint of heart.” And while the intention was humor, her wry observation rings true with most of us.
When your boat show is the largest on the Treasure Coast and deemed one of the top events in the Southeast, it’s more than a boating lifestyle you’re promoting.
How did pickleball start? During the summer of 1965 on Bainbridge Island, Washington, three fathers, faced with bored children, came up with a new game. Using ping-pong paddles and a wiffleball, they lowered a badminton net and began experimenting.
"As humans living in the modern world, we have lost valuable knowledge of growing practices,” Vincent Bellezza, owner and operator of Vin’s Food Forest Builds, says, “But once you get it, you get it.”
Port St. Lucie-based Zerowastestore.com is a sustainability products resource and Cieslinski’s brainchild; a coproduction with Follano that has blossomed into a successful e-commerce juggernaut to help tackle the plastics problem.
