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Veterans Day Golf Stuart Boat Show

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

For 46 years the Stuart
The second annual Veterans Day Golf event supports Boat Show has been one of
the West Palm Beach Veterans Suicide Prevention. With Martin County’s best events for
over 170 members participating, fifty were World War boating enthusiasts and families
II veterans. At the luncheon, one gentleman spoke about to attend. The show, tucked
his experience in the Battle of the Bulge, where he and under the Roosevelt Bridge,
fellow soldiers took an attacking position in a house. has enjoyed tremendous success not just selling boats
German tanks shelled that house and he was injured. That and boating equipment but also success for the show’s
very day he became a prisoner of war and remained so owner, the not-for-profit, Marine Industry Association of
for nine months. the Treasure Coast (MIATC). With operating expenses
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes less than 7 percent, MIATC puts back as much as it can
Counteroffensive, was the last major German offensive into the communities it serves.
campaign on the Western Front during World War II, and Recent figures on recreational boating statistics from
took place from Dec. 16, 1944 to Jan. 25, 1945. It was the National Marina Manufactures Association (NMMA)
launched through the densely forested Ardennes region 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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Good Works

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