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		<title>Inshore Fishing: August Forecast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Captain Charlie Conner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the weather bringing windy conditions around the Indian River this week, it was a little more challenging out on the water.  I had the privilege of attending the DOA Outdoor Writers Festival again this year.  Not only meeting old friends and making new ones at the get-together, I was able to get out fishing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SLCTV To Televise Candidate Forum For August Primaries</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The public is invited to be a part of the live studio audience for &#8220;Decision 2010&#8243; &#8211; a candidate forum for the August Primary Elections &#8211; on Thursday, July 22, starting at 9 a.m. in the St. Lucie County Commission Chambers.
Organized and coordinated by the St. Lucie County League of Women Voters, WPSL 1590 AM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. Lucie Office Of Management And Budget Earns National Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Annual Budget 2010-2011]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) announced recently that St. Lucie County has received the GFOA&#8217;s Distinguished Budget Presentation Award for its annual budget for the 12th consecutive year.
In additional to the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award, the St. Lucie County Office of Management and Budget will receive a Certificate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate Parks and Recreation Month</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>St. Lucie Times Staff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Crist]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[July is the month our nation officially recognizes Park and Recreation month, and there is no more beautiful city in which to celebrate parks than Port St. Lucie.
In a proclamation officially naming July Parks and Recreation month in the state of Florida, Gov. Charlie Crist noted  “…parks and recreation programs enhance our quality of life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SLC Receives $2.9 Million Federal Grant For Solar Loan Fund Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>St. Lucie Times Staff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Award]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CDFI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community Development Financial institution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DOE]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that St. Lucie County will receive $2.9 million to help finance the County&#8217;s Solar and Energy Loan Fund.
The Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding 20 communities more than $60 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to implement local energy efficiency and renewable energy programs. St. Lucie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SLC Lifeguard Hopes To Win Pepsi Refresh Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>St. Lucie Times Staff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Award]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lincoln Park High School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lindsey Bordner]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pepsi Refresh Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Lucie County]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lincoln Park High School senior and St. Lucie County Parks and Recreation Lifeguard Lindsey Bordner is hoping to win a $25,000 grant from the Pepsi Refresh Project to promote drowning prevention in St. Lucie County. And local residents can help her by voting online.
Bordner has submitted a grant application to the Pepsi Refresh Project to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. Lucie Commissioners Earns Three Naco Achievement Awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>St. Lucie Times Staff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Award]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Board of County Commissioners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Grande]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of June, it was announced that the St. Lucie County Board of County Commissioners earned three 2010 Achievement Awards from the National Association of Counties&#8217; (NACo) 41st annual Achievement Awards program.
St. Lucie County won Achievement Awards for programs in the following areas:

St. Lucie County&#8217;s Local Economic Stimulus Program &#8211; Community/Economic Development
Florida Scrub [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Address: Speaking from Louisiana on the Oil Spill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>St. Lucie Times Staff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[BP Oil Spill]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fishing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relief]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his weekly address, President Barack Obama underscored his commitment to helping the people of the Gulf Coast recover and rebuild from the BP oil spill that has threatened their livelihoods.   On Friday, the President heard from local residents and small business owners about the hardships that they are facing as a result of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inshore Fishing: June Forecast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 13:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>St. Lucie Times Staff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Captain Charlie Conner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like the summers of old this year&#8230;.super weather in the mornings and those ever predictable afternoon rain storms that run through the Treasure Coast.  It doesn&#8217;t help the afternoon fishing&#8230;but we sure do need that rain.  We were back on the water after the holiday weekend and found the water still holding up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate World Ocean Day With The Smithsonian On June 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>St. Lucie Times Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone is invited to join in on the global celebration of World Ocean Day with the Smithsonian Marine Ecosystems Exhibit on Saturday, June 5 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Whether you have seawater in your blood or are a proud landlubber, everyone is connected to the ocean.  We play in it, eat food from [...]]]></description>
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