Page 10 - Martin Downs Bulletin - February '22

Page 10, Martin Downs

nonprofit event

Southeast Florida Honor Individual and team shooters can register securely online hubs in the nationwide Honor Flight Network, is dedicated
Flight Hosts Third Sporting at www.honorflightsefl.org/events. The registration fee is $200 to flying America’s veterans to their respective memorials in
Washington, D.C., free of charge to the veteran. Southeast
per shooter prior to Jan. 19, and $225 thereafter, up until Feb. 9.
Clays Tournament To Raise Registration includes: Light breakfast, lunch, all ammo, targets, Florida Honor Flight is a 100 percent volunteer organization
cart per four-person team and roll ear protection. Gun rental is
based in Stuart, Fla., and serves Indian River, St. Lucie, Martin,
Funds For Local Veterans available through the South Florida Shooting Clubhouse. Please Okeechobee, Glades and Palm Beach counties.
call (772) 597-5852 prior to the event to secure your shotgun. For more information, to get involved or donate, please visit:
Southeast Florida Honor To register by mail, send name, address, phone and email www.honorflightsefl.org, or www.facebook.com/honorflight,
Flight will host its third address along with check payable to Southeast Florida Honor or call 1-855-FLYAVET, (855) 359-2838.
PULL! For Our Veterans Flight, Inc. to Southeast Florida Honor Flight, P.O. Box 1503, The next scheduled 2022 Honor Flights for Southeast
Sporting Clays Tournament Stuart, FL 34995. Florida Honor Flight are April 9 and May 21.
on Feb. 19 at the South A Grand Raffle will be drawn at the event, featuring three About Southeast Florida Honor Flight
Florida Shooting Club in prizes: A WMD Guns AMBI Beast AR Rifle with two 30-round Honor Flight is a nonprofit, 100 percent volunteer
Palm City. The event will magazines; a 1.0 carat T.W. estate diamond heart pendant; and a organization created solely to honor America’s veterans for
raise funds toward the one-year single new membership to the South Florida Shooting their service and sacrifices by flying them to Washington,
mission of Honor Flight – to fly local WWII, Korean and Club. Grand Raffle tickets are $20 each and are available at D.C., to visit and reflect at their memorials. All funds raised
Vietnam War veterans to Washington, D.C., to visit and www.honorflightsefl.org/events. One prize selection per raffle for Honor Flight ensure every veteran flies absolutely free.
reflect at the memorials built to honor their service and ticket. Southeast Florida Honor Flight, part of the National Honor
sacrifices. The event is sponsored by devoted Honor Flight Sponsorships are still available and silent auction items are Flight Network, is based in Stuart, Fla., and serves Indian River,
supporter and 29-flight guardian, Dr. Shamsher Singh and greatly appreciated. For more information or donation pickup, St. Lucie, Martin, Okeechobee and Palm Beach counties. For
is dedicated to the late husband of Fort Pierce Mayor Linda please call Rhonda at (772) 233-2680 or email at rhonda@ more information, to get involved or donate, please visit: www.
Hudson, Vietnam War veteran John Knox Bailey. honorflightsefl.org. honorflightsefl.org, or www.facebook.com/honorflight or call
This super-charged event begins with breakfast at 8 Southeast Florida Honor Flight, along with the 130 other 1 (855) 359-2838.
a.m., followed by a safety briefing and a shotgun start
at 9 a.m. when shooters will enjoy the beautiful sporting Treasure Coast Outdoors
clays course with 15 challenging stations. Lunch, silent
auction and raffles will follow the completion of the
course. Cash awards will be given for highest scoring Should We Feed The Starving A friend of mine told me that she had two “skinny”
team, individual and veteran. manatees hanging out by her riverside dock. She and
Manatees? her husband fed them some lettuce, which they quickly

Southern Exposure Technologies devoured. They then went to the store and bought more
Computer Install/Setup/Repair By Jim Weix lettuce. Is it wrong for them to give a starving animal food?
The lack of seagrass
I personally don’t think it is wrong under the
(561) 315-0144 is acute in the Indian circumstances, but it is illegal. These are extraordinary
getsetgo.annie@gmail.com River Lagoon, particularly times for manatees, so I understand why some people would
* DSL, Broadband,Wireless Install on the Treasure Coast, ignore the laws.
* Networking, Troubleshooting and the result has been However the law says that people feeding starving
* Instruction record manatee deaths. manatees could face a $500 state fine and/or up to 60 days
* Hardware/Software Installation The Treasure Coast is in prison, plus federal fines up to $100,000 and/or a year
* Virus/Spyware/Adware Fix part of a 150-mile-long in prison. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation
* Cleanup/Maintenance/Backup
* Business Consult/Startup/Move saltwater estuary where Commission says, “Leave the feeding to the professionals.”
* Website Design/Maintenance more than 90 percent of Are these the same professionals that had truckloads of
Call S.E.T. to install your “new computer, printer the seagrass grows, which lettuce by a power plant, but there were no manatees to
and wireless network”! is the manatee’s main food source. The record number feed?
GET S.E.T. GO! of manatee deaths this year is an estimated 10 percent of A judge, who had been my grade school basketball
REASONABLE HOURLY, WEEKLY, MONTHLY RATES the total Florida population. coach, once told me that laws were like a donut. The hole
FOR SMALL BUSINESSES FOR AS LOW AS $50.00 AN HOUR, The primary reason that we have no seagrass on the in the middle is for common sense.
WITH A MINIMUM OF 6 HOURS A MONTH, Treasure Coast is because of the discharges from Lake Editor’s note: Jim Weix is an avid hunter, angler,
OR 2 HOURS A WEEK, OR ON AN AS-NEEDED
BASIS RATE OF $75.00 P/HOUR. Okeechobee. Even though fertilizer use and leaking septic conservationist, as well as an outdoor writer.
START YOUR NEW YEAR WITH SECURE BACKUPS, tanks play a role, these problems existed and we still had Jim is included in the Wisconsin Waterfowl Association’s
QUALITY MAINTENANCE, ATTENTION TO DETAIL AND seagrass. The only time we have had seagrass wiped out Hall of Fame, for his work in helping restore thousands
PERSONABLE ON-SITE SUPPORT! on the Treasure Coast is when we have these discharges. of acres of wetlands. Jim is a broker associate with The
(561) 315-0144
CALL S.E.T. TODAY FOR YOUR COMPUTER NEEDS! It then takes years to recover, provided there are no more Keyes Company. He can be reached at (772) 341-2941 or
discharges. by email: jimweix@jimweix.com.
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