Page 10 - Stuart Exposure - May '21

Page 10, Stuart Exposure

stuart Chamber happeNiNGs

Stuart/Martin County
Chamber President/CEO
Joe Catrambone thanked
Trustee Lisa Sliney, owner of
Concierge Insurance Solutions
Ushering in the Easter season, Pastor Rick Addison, his wife Karon and the Grace Community leaders and City of Stuart representatives came out on a Chamber for sponsoring the March 30
Place staff welcomed Stuart/Martin County Chamber members to their Celebration of Commerce day to welcome The Sovana at Stuart, an independent 55- Networking Breakfast, held
Center for the March 23 Networking Breakfast they hosted and sponsored. plus community being developed in North Stuart, during their after-the-fact at the chamber. Lisa educated
Representing The Grace Place, shown with Chamber Chairman Jeff Sabin, Waste groundbreaking ceremony. Members of the United Group development team, members on the importance of
Management (left), were Peggy Miller, Shelby Rael, Suzanne Adams, Rick and Karon including President/CEO Michael Uccellini and Director of Project Development health and life insurance, and
Addison, Janet Dukelow, Eric Addison, Scott Blackman and Jeff J Dub Williams. Tim Haskins; along with Stuart Mayor Eula Clarke and Stuart/Martin County how they can offer healthcare
Chamber Chairman Jeff Sabin, were among those who performed the duty. benefits to their employees.

Check out those big
beautiful lips! Martin
County Commissioner
Doug Smith and his
wife Stuart/Martin
County Chamber
Trustee/Director
Lisa Grassam-Smith,
Grassam Spine
& Wellness Center
showed off their
adorable daughter
Greg Gardner, Greg Gardner’s Wide Angle Photography Amelia during the
Stuart/Martin County Chamber Trustee Vincent Zanfini, thinks these ladies are picture perfect. Shown with Gregg April Networking
owner of Brightway Insurance/V. Zanfini Family Agency at the Council of Chamber’s March Business After Hours at Luncheon at Stuart
(second from right) enjoyed a night out with his staff at the Banyan Creek Golf Club were (from left) Tracy Hernandez, Corinthian Yacht
Council of Chambers Business After Hours at Banyan Creek Mary’s Home; Stuart/Martin County Chamber Trustee Club.
Golf Club. Shown with Vincent are (from left) Michaela Catherine Owen, Loving Chiropractic of Stuart; Margot
Martin, Kim Zanfini, Matt Barile and Danielle Delancy. Graff and Kate Harper, Habitat For Humanity. Stuart Chamber Happenings on page 11
Pet Matters

by Pat Deshong, President of Furry Friends Featured Adoptables
Adoption, Clinic & Ranch, May 2021
Ms. West
“For the Love of Animals” Sweet Ms. West is STILL
features real stories happening waiting for her forever home.
at Furry Friends in Jupiter. We
are The Humane Society of Ms. West is about 1.5 yrs. old
Greater Jupiter/Tequesta and the and has the most beautiful
only no-kill shelter open to the coloring. She was brought in
public in northern Palm Beach as a stray, so we don’t know
County. We’ve been rescuing, all too much about her. She is
rehabilitating, and re-homing
the homeless animals in our shy at first but can be sweet
community for more than 30 and loving with patience and
years. Our not for profit 501c3 understanding. Anyone would
organization consists of our be lucky to have this stunner
Jupiter based adoption center, join their family.
veterinary clinic (open to the It’s been about 6 months since that fateful day, and we are
public), thrift boutique, and happy to share a glimpse of the highly anticipated transformation.
Palm City Ranch. Sammy
Hope has been living with her new forever family, the Jacobs,
since the end of November. Her transformation is nothing short Abandoned at a boarding
of miraculous and is why we do what we do every day...so more facility... unbelievable! This
It was mid-October 2020, President Pat Deshong received a dogs will have “Hope” for a new, loving furever home. boy loves to be loved. Sammy
text she would not soon forget. As she opened her messages, she is a beautiful 5 year old terrier/
was horrified at the images of two emaciated dogs and immediately
agreed to help. She learned that an employee at a WalMart in St. chocolate lab mix, who weighs
Lucie County had witnessed two sweet and incredibly neglected 65 lbs. He loves his crate but
puppies being abandoned near the dumpster. One of our rescue doesn’t need to be crated. He
partners went out to the scene, after seeing the extensive medical likes to hide his food in his
care the pair would need, she called Furry Friends. They arrived favorite bowl so he knows
at our Jupiter facility too weak to stand and walk on their own,
so we carried them inside. They weighed 20 and 21 pounds and where it is for later. AND he
not the 45 - 50 they should. We gave them soft beds to rest on as knows basic commands! He’s lived in a home with cats
their entire bodies looked skeletal with a thin layer of fur covering and was fine with them. As for humans and dogs, he would
their protruding bones. We offered them their first meal in weeks thrive best if proper introductions are made.
to months. Their new names are Hope and Truman.

When considering adding a furry family member to your
family, please visit our Palm City Ranch at 4841 SW Zarrella
Street or our new Jupiter Adoption Center at 100 Capital Street in
the Jupiter Commerce Park. PLEASE CALL 561-747-5311 AND
MAKE AN APPOINTMENT PRIOR TO VISITING EITHER
LOCATION DUE TO COVID-19.
Blessings to you for your support and faith in us… all for the
LOVE of animals!

Patricia Deshong, President

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