The City News - City of Fort Pierce

On Wednesday January 12, 2011 at 10:00 am the Fort
Pierce Police Department unveiled their new twentyseven
foot catamaran style center console boat at the
Fort Pierce Manatee Center. The vessel was purchased
through grant funding with help from the Florida Inland
Navigational District and Ameracat of Fort Pierce.
The boat was fully funded by grant monies and did not
cost the Fort Pierce Taxpayers any money.
Fort Pierce Police Chief R. Sean Baldwin was at the
short ceremony to receive the final grant check from
the Florida Inland Navigational District. Chief Baldwin
said “We are pleased to be able to receive the funding
to purchase this tool for our community. The new boat
will help us in protecting our community by being
able to respond to calls for service on our
waterways in Fort Pierce.
The boat is equipped with some of the latest in water
technology such as radar GPS and High Definition
Sounding. These tools will help the Fort Pierce Police
Department for night search and rescue and
targeting off shore smuggling in our local waterways.
The Zora Neale Hurston Florida Education
Foundation invites Zora Heads (Friends of Zora) to
attend the seventh annual Hattitude luncheon, Feb. 5,
2011 from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Koblegard Student Union
on the Main Campus of Indian River State College in
Fort Pierce.
Tickets are $35 per person and can be obtained by
contacting Zora Fest chair Linda Henderson at (772)
834-9227. Hats are required at the luncheon for male
and female guests.
The luncheon is one of several events leading up to
the annual Zora Fest festival, planned during the week
of March 21 at various venues in Fort Pierce and St.
Lucie County.
Learn about the latest Harbor Branch discoveries directly from
the scientists who made them!
Free to attend, these lectures are held at 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
in the Harbor Branch Johnson Education Center. 5600 U.S. 1 in
Fort Pierce, and are followed by a meet-the-speaker reception.
For more information, call (772) 242-2506.
January 26 - John Scarpa & Shirley Pomponi - From the
Indian River Lagoon to the Red Sea
February 2 - Peter McCarthy - Microbes in Sponges: Who
What Why Where When
February 9 - Megan Davis & Marty Riche - Know Your
Seafood: Aquaculture Myth Busters
February 16 - Brian Lapointe- Secrets of the Sargasso Sea
February 23 - Sara Edge- Micro-Managing Stress: How Corals
Cope with Stress at the Genetic Level
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