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te ws 4 sva 8 41 ye los woA- vs 010 go SA-eh 10 lek- rok nal Art it A tek Av 4 tg! 4 '17 111 LI 100 WORDSPILIZZL Theater looking for 'Odd Couple' of women Fort Pierce July 3 1998 INSIDE PESTYLES Ungar and Madison are at it again: Florence Ungar and Olive Madison that is in Neil Simon's female version of his comic classic "The Odd Couple" The St Lucie Community Theatre Pineapple Playhouse will host auditions for "The Odd Couple" at 7 pm Sunday through Tuesday at the playhouse 629 Weatherbee Road in Fort Pierce Parts are available for six women and three men who look ages 25-50 For more information call the box office at 465-0366 "Arrr rw sem ratoyesyotr4rovfovpsoKetlxvvr- ovrotosprer 1- i tig oaoc MAL 'gag oCiwg'Y i- ffi NINEINIENEIMeanImb116 L) i )0 JI i 1 (0- i) totv 0 1- :1 I I' 1 ritiie-i 11 Ili HI 741 1 i 1 so le I -11 i dli 11 4T1 1 44 4 ai 1 Cii kg Ca 0' ti 4 r( I 1 i I 1 1: i de '1V I 1 -e7b 4 VIII" 4111 4 Ye'it Atc i i A 1 -4 1-- -t ''11t3azip -4-----4-7: x''' --t a ti Vit4 1- a 7' 1 1- IA eil 71 4rr- 47 -liallimb 1 Iti7'' 1 '7' IA- ArZ '4 r4p cir Kt :14 1 1 lifr lab MO i (u I 4 vt -Ii 1 li: 1 i lft 1P17A 4 'ir11 '4A 4 if'': ir 1 411! -10(4711 :1) 4: 7't' 41t 1 -41 4 4: t'' IN 1 s-- -1 2t4 We ibittr ''P- 'At'': 0 I'' 1': fir: ys'cilix A'--w -4 $0 to Ily 4t- C7-- 7 4p N5 '7'-'17r AP 5 1-z-4-- le )k4 Nds: -IAt 4: VENDORS phols courtesy of Or MO Tourist Authority Destinations: Oxford University's colleges are rendered in gothic or neo-gothic style as is All Soul's See story Page 136 eiiii Max and Meg's chef Keith Kotal sharpens a kitchen knife as he prepares to slice into a slab of tuna FP celebrates maritime ties with seafood festival Iv Tyler Treadway 01 the News stiff Cafe La Ronde of Fort Pierce Max Meg's of Fort Pierce The Downtown Business AssociationMax Meg's Fort Pierce Elks Lodge The Pot Belli Deli Sandwich and Sub Shop of Fort Pierce Summer lin's Baywood Smoke House of Fort Pierce I Achil's Pizza of Port St Lucie Miracle Ribs of Fort Pierce Southern Pride Custom Caterers of Fort Pierce Kristi's on the Ocean of Fort Pierce Buono's Ice 1141 Cream Machine of Port St Lucie New Era Golf of Fort Pierce The Mystic Oracle of Jensen Beach Susan Garrigus of the Sunshine Craft Club in Fort Pierce Budweiser Beer The Bacardi Girls "Featuring seafood also gives us an opportunity to highlight the excellent restaurants we have in downtown Fort Pierce" ED FISHER PRLSIDEN1 DOWNTOWN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION 4 1 I ENTERTAINMENT into the festival "There might be a bit of a friendly competition among the restaurants to see who has the best seafood" Hine said "But the festival is all about expo sure and showing people what's available in Fort Pierce is good for all of us" The interest also has doubled the tiine frame for the festival "We were initially thinking about a one-day event on a Saturday" Fisher said But some of the members who work downtown said 'We're here on Friday afternoon anyway why not start the festival a day early and we can stay in town Friday Fisher said that early in the process of developing the festival he was worried that there would not be enough vendors "Everybody was kind of circling around waiting to see what everybody else was going to do" Fisher said "Then (a couple of weeks before the festival) everything kind of took off running I'm worried that were not going to have enough room for everybody who wants to take part" Music for the festival is taking on a nautical theme with a profusion of calypso sounds from the Caribbean Two of the bands Street Justice and Caribbean Flair play calypso music on cruise ships "The islandy music kinda ties in with the fish theme" Hine said The association already is looking long-term and thinking about making the festival an annual event "We certainly hope that this will become an annual event" Hine said "I think it will People in the area are always looking for fun things to do" FORT PIERCE There's something fishy and tasty going on down here Or there will be next Friday and Saturday July 10-11 when the inaugural edition of the Seafood on Second Street Festival hits town "We were looking for a festival to have downtown during the summer when our part-time residents have gone back up north And business is kmda slow" said Ed Fisher president of the Downtown Business Association the primary sponsor of the festival "We had already set up plans for the car show (Wheels on the Waterfront will be held in downtown Fort Pierce Friday through Sunday Aug 7-9) and some people said 'What about something in July?" A proposal for a July 4 festival was nixed because of Freedom Fest the annual Independence Day celebration already well-established in Port St Lucie the downtown Fort Pierce fireworks display (the decision making went on before the display was postponed because of fire hazard) and the Fort Pierce Open Sportfishing Tournament held on the first Saturday of each July by the Fort Pierce Sportfishing Club (see related story on Page BX) "Then we looked at the weelcend after the Fourth" Fisher said "and man there was nothing going on" Because the association wanted to tie the festival to the Fort Pierce waterfront a seafood festival was a natural "Featuring seafood also gives us an opportunity to highlight the excellent restaurants we have in downtown Fort Friday Streetjustice (calypso) noon-3 pm In Caribbean Flair (calypso) 4-8 pm Big Apple Bob noon-4 pm The Whiskey Dogs 4-8 pm Pierce" Fiherf said "Originally the plan was for the local restaurants to have a few booths serving seafood and that be it" "A seafood festival is certainly something that will be good for the restaurants but we think it will be good for all the businesses downtown" said Jack Hine manager of Max Meg's restaurant in downtown Fort Pierce Hine and Eleanor Cippel advertising sales executive for the Fort Pierce News head the festival's organizing committee Besides Fisher said "this thing has ballooned into something much larger than being just for local restaurants" Now restaurants catering businesses and civic clubs from throughout the Treasure Coast have signed up to provide food and not all of it seafwd "Sure the emphasis will still be on seafood" Fisher said "but some people don't like it and won't eat it So we'll have other food available for them" The Max Meg's booth for exam- ple will serve fish fingers fish dip and "a couple of other things that were still working up" Hine said Hine said Fort Pierce restaurants have always been friendly competitors knowing that what benefits one benefits all That spirit will no doubt leak over 1 If a Satuday Fort Pierce Jazz Society noon-3 pm Street Justice noon-3 pm Big Apple Bob noon-4 pm Hot Sauce Boys 4-8 pm (Note: Acts will play alternating sets within their time periods) I These trail rides leave hoof prints in the sand WI' i Ir I I The dream of horseback riding on the beach becomes reality By Katherine Cromer of the News staff 0 i -A fir rrvrrr IP-'44'' I 4i 4 :::4 )I OP' -74 fa -i --1' It --L''' '47 plp4 ri--: iolt' a 7' LIL-7 -7f 1-- I 4zi' :41 ii7i1 I I i fr i 11" 0 7 17 4 Ilkt4s114 A i Colleen Hayes front who runs Tours on Horseback with her husband Alan leads a group of five along the ocean Sunday morning at Fredrick Douglas Memorial Park near Fort Pierce I FORT PIERCE Shoes Misty Mary and Speedy stood ready to serve in the Sunday afternoon heat Joined by their pals Michelob Dandy and 01 the seven quarterhorses relaxed in the shade at Frederick Douglass Memorial Park in Fort Pierce But not for long Several cars had already pulled up in the parking lot and people were approaching looking for a ride The horses belong to Colleen and Alan Hayes of Fort Pierce The couple who give lessons and ride the animals in rodeos don't rest on Sundays Rather they give people the opportunity to fulfill a dream "It was something that I always dreamed about" said Monica Correa' originally from Colombia and now an Orlando resident "Especially to ride at the ocean" The Hayeses have been giving rides on their horses at the park for about two years said Colleen Hayes Sponsored by the St Lucie County Leisure Services Department the horseback beach ride gives people who don't Own a horse or who are unable to bring their horse to the brach the opportunity to ride next to the ocean surf The ride which costs 530 a person takes customers south from the park along the beach for about 112 miles Then the horses turn inland and the ride comes back up through Australian pines Hayes said anyone ages 10 and older can ride Phologropher DEBORAH SILVER "tough job" her Sundays are usually the busiest day of the week Sunday morning starts at 7 am with feeding and tacking the horses Rides are at 10 and 11:30 am and 1 2:30 and 4 pm Then the horses are unsaddled and washed and back home by 8 pm "It is hard work" Hayes said But it is a nice way to make a living We have met some of the greatest people on the rides" even those with little or no experience Sherry White from Wellington in Palm Beach County went for a ride on the beach with the Hayeses about a month ago She returned Sunday with her daughter Stacey to celebrate her 16th birthday "les so beautiful: White said "Ifs so quiet and peaceful and tranquil nothing like what we have in the West Palm area" Hayes said that although she gets teased about her i I 1.