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“Fort Pierce was too small,” she says. “That was not a good
time to move me.”
She thinks staying in Miami through high school gave
her a broader outlook on life than she would have had in
Fort Pierce.
After graduating from the University of Florida in 2010,
Scott moved to Atlanta, where she worked in sales and
operations management in the private sector. Then, when her
daughter graduated from high school there in 2015, she was
ready for a change. She learned about the job opening in Fort
Pierce, got the job and made the move.
She says one of the biggest issues in Lincoln Park is the
scarcity of quality food that is readily available to residents,
some of whom don’t have a way to get to a supermarket outside
the neighborhood. For kids, she says, options are limited
for buying healthy snacks after school.
“There could be just one corner store between their school
and their home, and in that corner store all they’re going to
get is potato chips, and they’re going to see beer and wine
and cigarettes, and they’re going to see a lot of people hanging
around, and I think that’s some of the problem,” she says.
She hopes to ease Lincoln Park’s “food desert” by enticing
quality stores such as Aldi’s to place stores in the neighborhood,
and by creating community gardens where residents
can plant and harvest their own vegetables and fruit.
“We have a community garden at North 9th Street,” she notes.
Scott is working with neighborhood partners to establish
other community gardens, including one at the Multicultural
Resource Center on 23rd Street and Avenue B.
Scott is also focused on the problem of substandard housing.
She works closely with the Allegany Franciscan Ministry,
CALETA SCOTT
Age: 40
Lives in: Lincoln Park, Fort Pierce
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Occupation: Lincoln Park revitalization
coordinator for the City of Fort Pierce
grants administration division
Family: Daughter, Monique, a student
at Indian River State College
Education: 1996 graduate of Miami
Springs High School and 2000 graduate of the University
of Florida in business administration, with a minor in
economics and a specialization in public What inspires me: “I’m inspired by being good!”
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good and doing
What people don’t know about me: “That I practice
yoga every day and have played the flute, piccolo and
percussion.”
a Catholic social welfare group that has targeted Lincoln Park
and two communities in Miami and the Tampa Bay area for
its Common Good Initiative, which promotes healthier, safer
and more prosperous places.
The Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, founded in 1859 in the
State of New York, came to Florida in the late 1920s to run
hospitals, including St. Mary’s in West Palm Beach and the
nearby Pine Ridge Hospital for black patients. The sisters
eventually were successful in integrating St. Mary’s.
In the 1990s, the ministries group was organized to support
the needy in three regions — Miami-Dade County, Tampa
Bay and St. Lucie, Martin and Palm Beach counties. It has >>
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