Hobe Sound Currents 2 Inside October 2012
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Volume 2 Issue 8 The only HSL newspaper October 2012 Hobe Sound COMPLIMENTARY cuRRents Marty Baum, Indian Riverkeeper, Down to two: Craig Woll and has a lot to say about the Anne Scott for District 3 Okeechobee discharges. Pg 5 County Commissioner. Pg 15 News Making a difference JILONA Permit to eliminate most shoreline access by the public along the Intracoastal Way in Jupiter Sound has been sent back to the state. Pg 3 Business Close Up Havana Beads in the Fish House Art Center in Port Salerno uses a centuries old glass-working process, lampworking, to create one-of-a-kind beads. Pg 11 Business Tim Palmer, a waterman from Rocky Point, dedicates much of A birthday cake crumb cake from Krumbcakes Bakery his life to improving fisheries around the world. Pg 6 feeding Hobe Sound’s craving for crumb cakes. Pg 12 Hobe Sound Currents 2 Inside October 2012 Hobe Sound NEWS cuRRents Two young volunteers collected 1,000 pounds of peanut butter and jelly for House of Hope, Among Dozens of Spots 4exceeding their goal and stocking the shelves for to Find Currents hungry Martin County residents. Tequesta Jupiter Waterways Inn Mail & News The Apollo School in Hobe Sound will be Publix - County Line Plaza Chase Bank a featured part of the county’s Historic Seacoast National Bank Preservation Month celebration throughout 10 Hobe Sound the entire month of October, which will be capped by a CVS Pharmacy first-ever “Preservationist of the Year” award. Winn Dixie 4 Harry & the Natives Hobe Sound Chamber of Commerce Old Dixie Cafe North Ace Hardware BUSINESS Publix Customer Service Hobe Sound Tire Texaco Station Hobe Sound Baker and chef Jim Catrini of Krumbcakes Lakeside Village Seacoast National Bank Bakery makes 27 different flavors of crumb Bank of America cakes, his bakery’s biggest seller. Sandwiches, SunTrust Bank 12 Treasure Coast Hospice Thrift Store soups, salads also are on the menu, which Catrini Hobe Sound Produce 3 Brothers Brunch accomplishes with the help of his son, Adam, and his Man Li Chinese Restaurant daughter, Jonna-Li. Tropical Computers Hobe Sound Public Library Martin Memorial Health Systems The Hobe Sound Chamber of Commerce Pettway Grocery Cambridge, Ridgeway, Woodbridge plans to honor the late Phil Algozzini at its community centers popular fundraiser, Casino Night at Hobe Heritage Ridge Country Club 13 The Manors Sound Golf Club, on Saturday, Oct.27. A cruise ship theme has been adopted and “passengers” should wear 12 Port Salerno Pirate’s Cove their fanciest tropical attire. Fish Center Art House Valero’s Bait & Tackle Winn-Dixie Stuart LIFESTYLE Palm Shopping Center Martin Memorial Hospital MartinCounty Administration Bldg. How nice that you can decorate your home Blake Library for Halloween and keep most of the same Publix Cove Road decorations displayed all the way to the end Jensen Beach 18 Jensen Chamber of Commerce of August. Adding to the festivities are spooky ideas for Jensen Beach Community Center party foods. For a free online subscription, send an email to [email protected] Gardeners who themselves have been transplanted from up north should have no Hobe Sound Currents fear that they’ll miss any gorgeous blooms in 12025 SE Laurel Lane 21 Hobe Sound, FL 33455 their gardens. South Florida has an abundance of plants 18 772.245.6564 to take their place in your garden. Hobe Sound Currents October 2012 News 3 lease, when a passing motorist reported water, except for 645’ section at the north- of Jonathan Dickinson State Park. For New member elected a man “entering in and out of the lanes ern end of the breakwater nearest to the more information, please call 561-745- to Hobe Sound NAC of on-coming traffic” in the 1600 block of CR 707 bridge to allow some boater access 5551 or visit www.FloridaStateParks.org/ S.E. Federal Highway. As deputies were to the coast. JonathanDickinson. Bruce Duncan, en route, a second caller reported that a JILONA working group members also a building con- pedestrian had been struck by a vehicle. are currently working to develop an in- HHHHH tractor, who first The driver, a Port St. Lucie resident, terlocal agreement among several law discovered Hobe was unhurt. The crash is still under in- enforcement agencies to address “bad be- Sound as a teen- vestigation. haviors” on the coastline until the break- Next Hobe Sound NAC ager searching water barrier can be built. meeting Oct. 18 for “the perfect HHHHH wave” at Hobe HHHHH The Community Development Depart- Sound Beach JILONA permit to be ment has confirmed that the next Hobe has been elected FireFest on tap at Sound Neighborhood Advisory Commit- by the Martin resubmitted...again tee meeting will be Thursday, Oct. 18, at County Commis- JD Park Oct. 20 6pm at the Hobe Sound Civic Center in sion to serve on Bruce Duncan, owner The U.S. Bureau of Land Management Zeus Park. the all-volunteer of The Duncan Group has agreed to be included in yet another The Friends of Jonathan Dickinson The public is encouraged to attend, and Hobe Sound revision of the permit application submit- State Park will celebrate FireFest on Sat- may sign up to receive email notifications Neighborhood Advisory Committee. ted by Palm Beach County Environmental urday, Oct. 20, from 1-9 p.m. at the park of meetings, as well as a copy of the meet- “I remember thinking this would be a Resource Management (ERM) for shore- on Federal Highway in Hobe Sound, ing agenda. nice place to live someday,” says the for- line stabilization of the Jupiter Inlet Light- south of Bridge Road, in order to show mer North Palm Beach resident, “and in house Outstanding Natural Area (JILO- the importance of prescribed fire in HHHHH my 16-year-old fantasy world, 1 pictured NA) following a meeting in September of maintaining Florida’s natural habitats. In a shack on the beach, endless perfect the JILONA working group. addition to the live burn demonstrations, waves, a stack of surfer magazines, and “This time, we’re going to tell the state always a big hit with kids, the activi- St. Lucie Inlet Advisory of course the Texaco Station (at the cor- not to meddle with our permit,” said ties include live music, a Haunted River Group continues work ner of Bridge of A1A).” Palm Beach County Commissioner Karen Trail, face painting, marshmallow roast- He completed a bachelor’s degree in Marcus, a JILONA working group mem- ing, and appearances by Smokey the The Martin County Commission ex- history, and landed an internship at the ber. “This is what we want, and that’s it.” Bear, all free with a reduced park admis- tended the life of the St. Lucie Inlet Advi- Loxahatchee Museum in Jupiter, where She pledged to the group that she person- sion of $5 per car. With small additional sory Committee, originally set to expire he met his future wife, Susan. They ally would call Jeff Littlejohn, a deputy fees, visitors may also take a Haunted on Sept. 30, for another six months dur- moved to Hobe Sound 20 years ago, secretary of the state DEP and a former Hayride, go to the Bounce House, or take ing a regular meeting in September. building their home on Palm Street, and resident of Palm Beach County, to see a Swamp Buggy Tour. The 11-member committee was cre- he embarked on a career in home design if he would help ushur the application The Friends of Jonathan Dickinson ated by the commission to provide staff and construction. through the permitting process quickly. State Park is a community- based, non- recommendations on funding and main- “My career in residential home de- BLM’s field office manager, Bruce Daw- profit that advocates for the historical, sign and construction began with a trip son, had withdrawn a compromise per- educational and ecological enhancement Continued Page 4 to Indian River Community College mit application in August designed by the and a technical class in AutoCAD,” he state DEP as a result of heightened public says, followed by jobs with an interior concern regarding plans to block public design company access to the shore. in Lake Worth, then with Schwab Twit- The design, created in concert with ty and Hanser in downtown West Paim ERM, would maintain and encourage Beach, Garcia Brenner and Stromberg in public use of the shoreline by creating an Stuart, by Renar Homes, and finally by 8” wide bench on top of a short wall eight Mathers Engineering, and always com- feet from the proposed retaining walls of muting to work. That experience gave the eroding bluff nearest the Jupiter Inlet him the broad foundation he sought to Lighthouse as a resting bench for paddle- found the Duncan Group, he says, first boardcrs and kayakers. as a design firm, then adding home con- Access to the sandy beach in front of struction. He holds contractors licenses the wall would be only by paddleboard or in six states, specializes in solar energy. kayak through an opening in a concrete “I find that as I age my original as- rock breakwater to be built offshore in the sessment of Hobe Sound specifically Intracoastal Waterway, but Dawson said and Martin County in general still holds he felt that the design was inconsistent true,” he says. “It is a nice place to live, with the objectives of the National Land- and therein is the reason for my applica- scape and Conservation System, of which tion to the NAC. I have the skills, insight, the 121-acre JILONA site is a part. homestead, and business, which this ad- In response, ERM resubmitted the per- visory board can use.” mit in September to the state DEP to build the breakwater barrier off the coast, but HHHHH without any openings at the south end for kayaker access and without any of the re- taining walls previously proposed to halt Hobe Sound pedestrian shoreline erosion.