St. Lucie News Tribune du lieu suivant : Fort Pierce, Florida • 13

4 1 i ET i i i ii-rf THURSDAY JANUARY 13 1994 Coast Ena 1994 New York Mats spring training schadula Fans set to spring for tickets i 1 Seats for Mets Grapefruit League home games go on sale Saturdays i if games Planning to attend Saturday's festivities are coaches A1 Jackson and Bob Apodaca and second baseman Doug Saunders and outfielder Patrick HowelL Fad Owen PORT ST LUOE -The New York Mets who Unused through file 1993 season with 103 and almost as many off-the-field faux pas will begin spring training prt month But the race for good seats starts Saturday when tickets go on sale for the 16 home at Thomas White Sta- The ticket office will be open from 9 ajn to 4 pjn Bax seats are $8 and reserved Headier seats are $6 All transactions are casbonly games (four) against file Braves Also scheduled are contests against the Indians (March 14) and Marlins (March 19) Fans can expect to see a mix of old and new faces this year as the team seeks to improve on last performance The team started out poorly in 199 which cost Manager Jeff Tor-borg Ms job and several players were involved in a series of em-bamssing inddents Outfielder Vince Manm ao- ddentally hit pitcher Dwight Gooden while swinging a golf rinh in thw rliThlifia umi pitrJiw Turn to ME1SBS ir I The Mets open the quins season with four consecutive Dome games: March 4 against file Los Angeles Dodgers March 5 versus the Yankees March 6 against the Astros and March 7 against tim Dodgers New York win play two game under fiw lights: March 9 and March 15 both versus defaulting National League West champion Atlanta Hie night pmM begin at 7:40 pjn The Mets play the most home during the Pacesetters Club's fifth In Fort Pierce And' unlike fiw newspaper Sekenyia perused there were plenty of positive messages for the 200 people who attended the two-hour program at Fort Pierce Westwood High School'l auditorium: There were Liz Round-' solos during the -Friendship Mass Choirs renditions of a LQy in the and "Tm that filled fiw auditorium mid -brought audience members to 4 their feeL "We are excited the Mets are coming to town" Dan Paupeck president of the New York-St ufio Mets Booster Club said Wednesday things will change and I think fans will that" Ticket sales usually begin in February but events scheduled for the SL Lude County Sports Complex in the next few weeks convinced officials to start ear-1 lier than normal Ticket Manager Grace Benway said Avid fans usually spend an or part of the night outside the ticket windows hoping to claim the best seats for file most popular five about the black Sek enyia said am the child am skit part of Pao- esetters fifth MUSt Rsbifa to a wish iiu Dacto const Manatee deaths In SL Lude across Rorida HOME GAMES Time Day Date Opponent Mar 4 Mar 5 lUff USE 537 Yhnl Sun Mon Mar 6 "MST7 Astros (SSI Potters 1:10 T-Iff Mar 9 -Bravw ThursJ Mar 10 1 Expos (SS) am Mon Mar 14 1 Tue Art I MarisT Mon I Mar 21 Astros Indians Braves iifi Royals 1:10 Thus Mar 24 1:10 Tiff Sun Mar27 Wed iKees EE2E1 Expos braves 1:10 Thural Mar 31 1 (SS)-Mets spilt squad Bax seats $8 reserve bleacher seats $6 For more Information call 8712115 TfcaTHbmo Grant will: ready kids S' for school nHUMSwvmmt A physical and mental readiness on the first day of school can affect later success or failure in fiw classroom eduefa tors say So SL Lude County School Di trict (fifidals will use a recently received $140000 state grant to help make sure children here are when they enter school The Florida Department of Education grant wQl fond an information Mitw to help parents find not onlv a suitable preschool but also related family services they might need such as day care health care or adult literacy programs according to Mary Alice Bennett executive director of federal and apodal programs for the districL The center which would use an electronic database would he especially helpful to low-income parents or parents of disabled children Bennett said Currently parents have to go all for the duld-care services they need Making it easier to locate such services will help the parents better prepare their tiddlers for school she mid-School readiness is the NaVl goal of the state Department school accountability initiative which seeks to make local districts responsible for fiw education their students receive The School District was awarded fiw grant to improve fiw readiness of SL Lude students Bennett said The center will help train foe staffs of preschools and day-care centers to adapt instruction to that used in district kindergarten and first-grade classes thereby rosing transition into fiw school environmenL of our primary goals! is that when they enter school they it TumtoGRANTB8 for A to change hands pected to be completed fiiis spring Terms of fiw sale have not been disclosed An FCC attorney qiproached WPBF officials last October! and inquired about fiw availability of fiw station said Bob-Ware general manager of WPBF 1 "The station has never been for sale although had quite few suitors Two weeks ago an offer was Ware' arid was a very thing The offer was such that we immediately called a board Ware said he does not expect' new ownership to radically change the WPBF staff wtodL includes about 110 full- and -part-time employees new buyer has reiter- ated over and over that it iaL not his style to dean Ware said multiple acqui- sitions from fiw general position on down Turn to WPBF FP teen charged in robbery of man outside supermarket LUctoOMrty A 16-yearold boy was rested Wednesdayin the Dec 28 robbery of a Port St Lurie man who told police someone threatened him with a gun in 'front of a Fort Pierce super- 1 market and robbed him of more than $1400 in Jewelry reports say The Fort Pierce teen whose name was pot released because he is a Juvenile already was being held at the Juvenile Detention Center on another robbery charge when he was charged with robbery with a firearm police Mayfair Rampersad 39 of 2701S4uSe tofd police he was sitting in his 1989 Lincoln in front of the Hometown Supermarket 2514 South US 1 about L30 pjn when the boyhdd a gun to his neck foroujfol i the car window and ordered him to hand over his jewelry reports say Ramp- ersad identified the subject in a photo line-up police said cjOMMimmry to present tostudents tf-S Rep Tom Lewis will present congressional service medals to 12 St Lode County high school students at a Jan -23 ceremony The students will receive the Congressional Award Bronze Medal in recognition of their community service and per- -spnal and physical develop- I meat according to a news release issued Wednesday by office The recipients are Thomas Berger Beqjamin Bourne Oak leen Qrahan Steven Peyman Katrina Smith and Sut-1 ton all of Fort SL Lucie and ShaUsha Brands Heather Hinkle Jennifer Holt Marissa Muschott Terri Smith and John Wagner all of Fort Pierce The ceremony will take place at 5 am in Room 101 of the SL Luae County Adminis- trative Annex 2300 Virginia Ave For more information call 465-8299 Computers stolen from law office Police have added another name to the list of St Lucie County businesses burglarized since Dec 22 On Sunday police were called to file 500 block of Fort SL Lude Boulevard with a report of a burglary at a business Three office burglaries were reported in Fort SL Lude during me weekend awmL there police discovered Phillips ft Gale Counsel- ors law office at 524 SJ5 Fort SL Lude BlvcL also had been burglarized Two computers a printer a word processor copy machine and fax machine were taken The burglary is similar to nine office burglaries in Fort Pierce and Fort SL Lude since December In each case the burglar pried open an door and stole office equipmenL Police found tire mans transmission fluid and oil in the parking lot outside the office Police say think it may have been left behind by the get-away car RECYCLING Igloos returning by popular demand Igloos on the beach? Hutchinson Island residents soon will have a place to put their aluminum canx newspapers glass and plastic bottles county officials said In response to public outcry county workers will replace portable recycling containers igloos on North and South Hutchinson islands The county removed file multicolored happy-faced receptacles last month after adopting a mandatory curbside recycling ordinance that went into effect Jan Soloist Liz Roundtree leads the Friendship Mass Choir In Saved" Luther King Wednesday evening at Westwood High School Auditorium King salute shouts out positive" JelTOstrowsM isnup FORT PIERCE Sekenyia Titus a 13-yeardd member of the Befiid Youth Choir tuned through file pages of a newspaper All toe" articles about African-American kids focused on drugs and troubled schools She 'threw toe paper down in disgust never anything poet Martini Thither King Jr Murk I short was the MlHHUll cal -I St manatee deaths steady state figures decline Network goeslshopping 1 i 4 Treasure ABC affiliate WPBF annual Musical Salute to Martin v-: message There were the nine members of toe Victory Temple Disciples bringing more applause for and My living in There were the 20 members most of them ages 3 4 and 5 of The Learning TTee Academy's choir causing laughter during their two songs The children wore green pants and yellow shirts and TumtoKESSAflgBll Jacksonville South Florida radio stations owned by Paxson tfammuwifia tuns include WINZAM 940 (an all-news station) WLVE-FM 94 (light vocals) and WZTA-FM (classic rod) all in MiamL wanted to get involved in toe Florida broadcasting community for a long time first in radio then teb-' said Paxson who sold all of his interest in HSN in' 1990 was our first opportunity to buy television I The sale which must be approved by the Federal Communications Commission is ex- Paul Owers I ST LUCIE COUNTY The number of manatee deaths in SL Lude County last year remained fiw same as 1992 while fiw statewide total continued its three-year decline Four sea cows woe killed or found dead in SL Lude County waters in 1993 according to statistics from fiw state Department of Environmental Protection The death total statewide was 145 in 199 down from 163 fiw year before fiw statistics show Biologists aura why the number of deaths across the state have decreased since 206 were reported in 1990 seen a decrease in mortality before then the following year we get a sharp increase spokuman Scott Wright Mid: One theory Wright proposes has to do with economics He said biologists have noticed fewer manatee deaths in recession yean got no proof of fills Steven Shundlch PALM BEACH GARDENS Always on fiw lookout for a good buy fiw creator of fiw Home Shopping Network -reached an agreement Tuesday to purchase WPBF-TV Channel 2 the Treasure ABC affiliate Lowdl Fumon HSN creator and founder of Psxson Communications Corp of Clearwater will buy WPBF from Phipps-Fotamkin Tdevi-sion Partners of Tallahassee A letter of intent was signed Tuesday by Dennis Boyle ehfcf executive officer of John Phqips Inn which also owns WCTV'TV in Tallahassee and WKXT-TV in Knoxville Tena Paxson Communication! Corp describes itself as fiw largest broadcaster in Florida acquiring in less than four years 13 radio stations in Miami Orlando Tampa and SowcwiSUbDapwmiortflf tjiwonmfyii wowcuon Tlw Tribune but it sems in fiw past the economic situation correlated rather nicely with decreased Of toe 145 statewide manatee deaths 35 were boat-related and 36 were mvtotermiiMri Canal locks claimed five manatees 39 were calves or newborns six died from other human-related causes and 24 were other natural -w.