Page 8 - Palm City Spotlight - March '23

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Water Fest And Mutt March

Reunite For An Inspiring
‘Saturday In The Park’

The City of Stuart, in
collaboration with Students4H2O,
will hold the Ninth Annual Water
Fest on March 25 from 10 a.m. to
2 p.m. at Stuart Memorial Park,
located at 300 S.E. Ocean Blvd.
Water Fest involves the
participation of local utility
departments, Martin County schools, environmental
organizations, and regulatory agencies. Its goal is to educate
the community and surrounding areas on water advocacy and
how water is vital to all forms of life.
The City of Stuart and the Humane Society of the Treasure
Coast are joining forces again and combining their two signature information regarding Students4H2O, please contact Adriana
events, Water Fest and Mutt March, into one free event. Mancini at adriana@Students4H2O.org or (772) 220-0279.
Martin County schools will provide ecological hands- Courtney Zanetti is the Mutt March contact and may be reached
on activities and demonstrations at their booths. They will at (772) 600-3211 or via email at czanetti@hstc1.org.
advocate alongside numerous organizations, including the City About Water Fest individual matters and a sustainable community will lead to
of Stuart Water Treatment Plant, Martin County Community Since 2012, Water Fest has been an environmental a sustainable planet by following the mission of the United
Action Coalition, University of Florida/Institute of Food and festival hosted by the City of Stuart in Stuart Memorial Park. Nations Sustainable Development Goals. By doing so, we
Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) Extension Martin County, The outdoor expo, which is free to the public, focuses on strive to empower our children by saving the Earth, one
and Surfrider Foundation Treasure Coast Chapter. promoting water conservation and bringing awareness of student at a time. For more information, please visit www.
Water Fest attendees can enjoy contests, environmental current and future water quality and supply issues. Festival Students4H2O.org or call (772) 220-0279.
education, music, and a Walk for Water, which raises goers visit booths staffed by respected environmental About The Humane Society Of The Treasure Coast
awareness about the global water crisis. professionals, local educators and peers, rising leaders, Since 1955, the Humane Society of the Treasure Coast
New this year, like-minded vendors can sell merchandise and utility personnel who provide interactive environmental (HSTC), 4100 S.W. Leighton Farm Ave. in Palm City, has been
or promote their business at Water Fest for a flat $50 fee per lessons, demonstrations, contests, and games. The City the leading advocate for homeless, abused and abandoned
10-by-10-foot retail area. Each retail vendor must furnish of Stuart collaborates with Students4H2O to produce the animals in Martin County. The HSTC provides the Treasure
their own booth setup, including tent. springtime event, which among other endeavors, facilitates Coast’s most progressive spay-neuter and adoption programs
The first 200 attendees that bring a plastic bag to a walk-for-water to depict the challenge women and children and dynamic humane education services. The HSTC has long
Students4H2O’s booth will receive a Publix reusable bag. face in many third world countries to obtain drinking water. had partnerships with like-minded organizations. The HSTC
“It was Benjamin Franklin who famously said, ‘When the About Students4H2O does not euthanize to make space at its shelter, there are no time
well is dry, we know the worth of water.’ Some on our planet Students4H2O was established in Martin County with the limits on how long animals stay in its care, and no companion
have an arduous time even getting to the well,” said Anne Ellig, mission to enhance education, stewardship, and citizenship animal is turned away for any reason. For more information,
program manager for the Utilities and Engineering Department for all students in our community. We believe every visit www.hstc1.org or call (772) 223-8822.
at the City of Stuart. “Attend Water Fest and learn how you can
Adriana Mancini, founder and president of Students4H2O, Treasure Coast Outdoors
become better stewards of water so that everyone has enough.”

adds, “We encourage students to show up, whether they have
been to Water Fest before or not. Attending is a great start to Snook Fishing Offers Exciting As I mentioned, snook can be found in many places. They
learning how to take local action to create global impact.” are “ambush” fish, so look for them waiting for prey around
Anne Ellig is the Water Fest contact and may be reached at And Often Easy Fishing docks, seawalls, pilings, overhanging trees or mangroves,
(772) 600-1206 or via email at aellig@ci.stuart.fl.us. For more and anchored boats.
By Jim Weix If you are fishing where there is a current or tide, fish up
The warmer temperatures the current as the snook will be facing that way. The important
are making snook more thing is that you need to fish where there is some kind of
active. The nice thing about structure. You are unlikely to find snook in open water.
snook fishing is that they One favorite spot, just because it is close to home, is the
can be easily fished with a walkway under the Palm City bridge. I’ll go there in the
spinning rod and are found late afternoon, and throw a dead mullet, with a small sinker,
in so many places. They can upstream and let the current take it back to me.
be caught any time of day or The biggest challenge that I have found to snook fishing is
night, although prime time is catching one in the legal slot size of 28 inches to 32 inches. I
the two-hour period at dawn once caught 17 snook along a mangrove island south of the
and dusk, as well as during an Palm City bridge. Not a single fish was legal size.
incoming or outgoing tide. Editor’s note: Jim Weix is an avid hunter, angler,
I like casting Rapala lures. Depending upon where I am conservationist, as well as an outdoor writer. Jim is included
fishing, Rapala has shallow running lures, deeper diving in the Wisconsin Waterfowl Association’s Hall of Fame for
lures, and surface popping lures. Artificial shrimp or paddle helping restore thousands of acres of wetlands. Jim is a broker
tail lures also work very well. Of course, it is hard to beat associate with The Keyes Company. He can be reached at
live bait, like shrimp, pilchards, or sardines. (772) 341-2941 or by email: jimweix@jimweix.com.

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