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St. Lucie News Tribune from Fort Pierce, Florida • 1

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liiSt Lucie News Tribune TeasuieGoast News4Tiibune SCRIPPS TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS SERVING FORT PIERCE AND PORT ST LUCIE TCPalmcom 75 cents Thursday December 13 2012 Quick Read Digital Domain a hit at auction Rain: 30 SC More han 1 000 items sold former CEO among bidders By Paul Ivice Special to Treasure Coast Newspapers ders and another 30 or so people lined one wall All told 350 registered bidders came to the auction and another 950 registered via the Internet watching it on webcast The first item sold was a rather pedestrian blue laser pen for $40 though before that one Internet bidder offered $1 million for the entire haul Auctioneer Kirk Dove man van with a $35000 bid though the 15 percent premium and 65 percent sales tax added another $7866 to the final price Colbert who bid on behalf of her employer Sunshine Fuel an oil and gasoline distributor in West Palm Beach was not allowed to drive off in the van because the federal See AUCTION 7A aging partner for San Diego-based Heritage Global Partners which is conducting the three-phase auction for the US Bankruptcy Court quickly moved the fast-paced auction on to more interesting and higher-valued items Within a half-hour Alison Colbert had bought Lot No 49 a 12-passenger Mercedes Sprinter PORT ST LUCIE The sale of a Ricoh printer for $900 at 7:32 pm ended nearly nine hours of auctioning more than a 1000 items from Tradition Studios When the auction began shortly after 10 am nearly every one of the 230 chairs was filled with bid Can ng on the front line Gayman gives back by helping Fort Pierce youth MEET THE MASTER OF THE SHORT GAME Former head pro Jerry Tucker now teaches his short-game strategies out of his back yard SPORTS 1C FROM HUMBLE BEGINNING A COACHING ICON Road eases US 1 traffic By Sade Gordon sadegordonascrippscom 772-221- 7228 JENSEN BEACH wo years after the completion of the $98 million Green River Parkway extension project county engineers say it was worth the investment The southern extension of Green River Parkway was approved in 2007 to relieve congestion on US 1 The project added an additional 18 miles from Jensen Beach Boulevard to 1 2i vie Highway to the parkway which extends north to Walton Road in St Lucie County According to preliminary data from Martin traffic division on Green River Parkway i he average monthly traffic volumes from February to November this year is 5255 -vehicles The same time last year that number was at about 4715 indicating about an 11 percent in-c rease in traffic For comparison on US 1 in Jensen Beach and Stuart the average monthly traffic volumes from February to November in 2012 compared to the same months in 2011 showed about an 15 percent decrease in monthly traffic volumes from about 55557 vehicles a month to 54725 gets a lot of use so I think it takes cars off US said Paul Bangs the project engineer who headed construction for the southern extension Green River Parkway is) a nice shortcut and it beats being on US i with all the traffic and the traffic" Traffic Engineer lisa See ROAD 6A PHOTOS BY1 EPIC BASES I TRE 'SURE COAST NEWSPAPERS One-time West Virginia University wrestler has risen from rookie middle school coach to multiple high school state champion SPORTS 1C Jerome Gayman (center) Frontline for Kids executive director monitors his students playing in their park at South 7th Street and Boston Avenue as they take a break from activities inside the Frontline building at 309 7th St keeps me Gayman said about what like running the Frontline program only am I impacting young folks but giving back at the same time I came from a very underprivileged family myself in West Africa very poor and a couple of breaks A lot of other folks gave me the opportunity to excel so giving back is awesome' ON THE EDGE IN FORT PIERCE BOASTS GREAT VIEWS MENU Past the Pelican Yacht Club after you weave through the construction detour on Seaway Drive you'll find a tiki-style restaurant where able to sit close enough to the water that almost in it TODAY ID COLUMNIST To describe Frontline for Kids as just another afterschool program would be selling both this small nonprofit and its founder short Yes the agency does supervise monitor and keep children off the streets between the hours of 2:30 and 6 pm weekdays but founder Jerome Gayman had a lot more than that in mind when he began the program in 1997 Gayman 52 is a story in himself He arrived in New Jersey in 1980 from his birthplace in Liberia- West Africa He likes to joke about his humble beginnings had two huts in my Jerome Gayman (left) greets student Rosemitha Clauvil 14 of Fort Pierce as she arrives with other students by bus to the Frontline building for after school activities with the kids you beat Gayman said who was a two-term governor of Massachusetts and lost the 1988 presidential race to George HW Bush Dukakis was excellent See WESTBURY 6A Gayman found his way to Florida via a degree program at Florida Atlantic University There he studied social policy under Michael Dukakis Yes the same Michael Dukakis MEET THE TREASURE TOP ATHLETES The Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers All-Area teams recognizing the top fall athletes will begin running Sunday starting with girls golf One sport will be featured daily thrdUgh Dec 25 COMING SUNDAY county office to be in PSL City Hall By Marsha Branch Special to Treasure Coast Newspapers INDEX ADVICE 3D MOVIES 10D BUSINESS 6B OBITUARIES 4B THE BUZZ 2A OPINION BA CLASSIFIED IE PUZZLES 2D COMICS 8D SPORTS LOCAL IB TELEVISION 7D this year through once-a-decade redistricting Port St Lucie previously was represented by District 16 a sprawling eight-county area that spanned almost coast-to-coast from the Treasure Coast and Palm Beaches to Charlotte County Murphy who also will open offices in Stuart and Palm Beach Gardens said having an office in each of the three counties is part of his commitment to work with 100 percent of his constituents See OFFICE 6A US Rep -elect Patrick Murphy says having an office in each of House District three counties is part of his commitment to work with 100 percent of his constituents after the particularly contentious race against Allen West For home delivery call 772-221-4160 PORT ST LUCIE For the first time south county residents will have convenient access to their federal congressional representative and all the resources that office has to offer US Rep-elect Patrick Murphy wilj open a District 18 office in Port St Lucie City Hall after his Jan 3 swearing-in ceremony pending House administration approval The district was created earlier DEBORAH SILVERTREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS.

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