Sailfish City - Stuart Florida Community Site

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Contact: Michael Roberts

772-215-3470

Cadets for Vets Invite the Community to Help

What:

The Cadets for Vets from Victory Forge Military Academy and members of the Road to Victory Military Museum are planning a series of community work days to help build the 2000 plus wooden memorial markers required for the Memorial Day Tribute in May.

The Cadets are inviting everyone in the community to be a part of the Treasure Coast’s largest tribute and event to honor our local Veterans. Last year the Cadets erected 224 wooden markers comprised of crosses and stars honoring those killed in action during WWI for Memorial Day. Because of the tremendous interest generated by the memorial and the importance of the project to our veteran community the Cadets will erect 1,925 more – representing all those killed in action from WWII to present day conflicts who called South East Florida home (from Volusia County in the north to Monroe County in the south.)

It takes a great deal of effort to construct each memorial marker by hand. That is why they are asking for community support to complete this tribute. This is not a fundraising campaign; the Cadets are merely attempting to gather help and/or raise the funds and materials to cover the costs associated with building and setting up this tribute. Each wooden memorial marker will cost approximately $4, plus the expenses associated with producing this event. Should there be a surplus of funds generated from this Memorial excess proceeds will go to the scholarship program at Victory Forge.

Contributions of volunteer time, building supplies, and financial contributions will be accepted at the event. The Cadets hope that everyone will consider being a part of this important project.

When:

Friday May 2 through Sunday May 4

11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Where:

Memorial Park on East Ocean Blvd, Stuart Florida 34994

Who:

Victory Forge Military Academy is a 501 (c) 3 not for profit organization based in Port St. Lucie Florida. Victory Forge is an Intensive, Residential, Academic and Behavior Modification Program that utilizes military style components for the establishment of a “Doctrine of Discipline” in the lives of the teens who come to the school. The objective of Victory Forge is to provide a tough, highly structured, high impact program that will remold and turn around the lives of rebellious and troubled teenagers. Similar to the military, the program objectives are facilitated through the use of a “Code of Conduct” that contains the seven core values of Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Self Sacrifice, Honor, Integrity, & Personal Courage.

Road to Victory Military Museum is a 501 (c) 3 organization based in Stuart Florida. This unique and highly interactive museum’s mission is to honor and pay tribute to all the brave men and women who have served and are presently serving our country in the Armed Forces. By displaying historical artifacts, uniforms, militaria, photographs and vehicles we are able to pay homage to those heroes while informing and educating the public of their noble endeavors and our freedoms as Americans.

Public Info:

Michael Roberts at 772-215-3470 or Inez Frid at 772-370-4571

inez@iproductions.us

Stuart, FL – (April 18, 2008) The RiverWalk Jazz series is pleased to announce that Mike Levine will be performing on the beautiful RiverWalk stage, Sunday May 4 starting at 1 p.m.  The RiverWalk Jazz Series has become a ‘hot’ favorite with jazz fans up and down the Treasure Coast.  Since November 2006, jazz fans have flocked to the free concert by almost every mode of transportation, car, shuttle, bus, motorcycle, boat and even segway.  Each month hundreds of music aficionados come to historic downtown Stuart to listen to first class jazz in a beautiful waterfront setting.

Pianist Mike Levine is a man of many talents whose career is a blend of different aspects of music. He attended the University of Miami where he studied piano with Vince Maggio. There he formed his first group with Billy Ross and they released their first album “That Summer Something” which featured jazz legend Pat Metheny as a guest artist.  Mike wrote the majority of the bands compositions and earned national recognition for them, staying in the top ten jazz charts for six seeks.  Subsequent releases also did very well. 

Mike can be found on a number of jazz celebrity albums such a Michael Bolton, Jaco Pastorius, Less DeMerle, Ed Calles and Julio Iglesias.  He often performs locally in some of South Florida’s top jazz and blues venues as well as some of the most renowned jazz festivals such as the Syracuse and Montreal Jazz Festivals.  Mike has recently released another CD “From the Heart” which features both Hiram Bullock and Ed Calle as guest artists.  Cd’s will be available at the concert.

“We haven’t featured a jazz pianist for several months now, so we are very excited to have him come and perform for us. I think our fans are going to love him and be thrilled that were featuring such an accomplished jazz artist.” Jim Chrulski, City of Stuart Assistant Parks and Recreation Director.

For more info about Mike Levine, go to www.rhombus-records.com or www.mikelevinemusic.com

For more information about each of the artists go to www.riverwalkjazzseries.com. Free to the public the RiverWalk Jazz Series takes place in a beautiful outdoor setting along the St. Lucie River. The RiverWalk Stage is located along the St. Lucie River boardwalk at the end of St. Lucie Ave in historic downtown Stuart. The RiverWalk Jazz Series is a public/private venture between the City of Stuart, The Downtown Business Association, Stuart MainStreet, Stuart Heritage, Hi Mom Productions and is completely underwritten by the Stuart News. The RiverWalk Jazz series of concerts take place on the first Sunday of the month between 1-4 p.m.

If you live in or around Stuart, Florida this should come as no surprise to you as it’s a bit late news.  But what’s with this cold snap?!  It’s almost MAY for crying out loud!  Two days ago I had to get up in the middle of the night to bump my air conditioner down a few more degrees because I was to warm.  This morning I walked out to my truck SHIVERING!  This is not Florida weather man!  Bring back my warm sunshine and bikinis on the beach!