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VOL. 27 NO. 12 www.seabreezepublications.com DECEMBER 2019

Charity Southern Spotlight

Veterans Day Golf Stuart Boat Show

Monday, Nov. 11 Jan. 10, 11 And 12, 2020

The second annual Veterans Day Golf event supports For 46 years the Stuart
the West Palm Beach Veterans Suicide Prevention. With Boat Show has been one of
over 170 members participating, fifty were World War Martin County’s best events
II veterans. At the luncheon, one gentleman spoke about for boating enthusiasts and
his experience in the Battle of the Bulge, where he and families to attend. The
fellow soldiers took an attacking position in a house. show, tucked under the
German tanks shelled that house and he was injured. That Roosevelt Bridge, has enjoyed tremendous success
very day he became a prisoner of war and remained so not just selling boats and boating equipment but also
for nine months. success for the show’s owner, the not-for-profit, Marine
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Industry Association of the Treasure Coast (MIATC).
Counteroffensive, was the last major German offensive With operating expenses less than 7 percent, MIATC puts
campaign on the Western Front during World War II, and back as much as it can into the communities it serves.
Recent figures on recreational boating statistics from
the National Marina Manufactures Association (NMMA)
shows the state of Florida generates $3.2 billion in annual
boating related sales resulting in an economic impact for
District 18, which includes both Martin and St. Lucie
counties, of $1.3 billion. Florida is a boater’s paradise
with 1,197 miles of coastline and another 11,000 miles
of rivers and streams.
MIATC is composed of members in Martin, St. Lucie,
Indian River and Okeechobee counties who are dedicated
to the promotion of pleasure boating and its related
industries through education of their members and the
boating public. For the past 30-plus years, MIATC, along
with the Marine Industries Association of Florida, lobbies

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Habitat For Humanity Of Palm Beach County

Kicked Off The Palm Beach Season

With ‘There’s No Place Like Home’ 2019 Habitat Gala

Habitat for Humanity of Palm Beach County (HFHPBC) Oz-like experience at this
launched the Palm Beach season with the 2019 Habitat exciting and inspirational
Gala “There’s No Place Like Home” on Nov. 1, at The event. Heather and Stephen
Breakers, Palm Beach. Guests were transported to an Atkins and Paige Lawrence

Teawanna and Ja’Markis
Teal Good Works on page 4