The August Dyer Difference Award celebrates the little things that make life magnificent Regardless of our abilities and talents, we all want the same three things in life - health, happiness, and a sense of purpose. In 1975, a group of parents and friends of individuals with special needs who recognized this basic truth created [...]
Dyer Difference Award is inspired by music and the future Music inspired the founders of the Ocean Youth Foundation when they were just children, and they wanted to ensure that every child could be inspired by and participate in the magic of music. “We have been in situations in our past,” said the foundation’s creators, [...]
Two paws up for pets and dreamers When a senior citizen makes the transition into a nursing home, memory care, or hospice care, there is often no one left behind to care for their beloved pets. For the Love of Paws is a local nonprofit sanctuary created to provide peace of mind to senior citizens [...]
Dyer Difference Award celebrates America’s pastime and United Against Poverty Way back in 1908, lyricist Jack Norworth penned the lines, “Take me out to the ball game. Take me out with the crowd.” He was, of course, talking about baseball, America’ pastime, and one of the traditions we all seem to grow up with in [...]
Men at Arms and Vero Classical School receive Dyer Difference Award What began as a very ordinary day in 2013 changed countless lives in St. Lucie County after St. Lucie Sheriff’s Deputy Sergeant Gary Morales was shot during a routine traffic stop. In 2016, the Men at Arms Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club (LEMC) was founded, [...]
Global company plans to manufacture armored vehicles in Fort Pierce INKAS®, a global conglomerate headquartered in Toronto, Canada, plans to manufacture armored vehicles in the city of Fort Pierce, Florida. The company’s US branch, INKAS USA, Inc., will locate an $18.75 million manufacturing facility on Enterprise Road at the site of a former tomato packing [...]
Dyer Difference Award honors history, heritage, and the many ways we learn At Baron Academy for differently-abled learners, the philosophy of Norwegian-American clinical psychologist and professor Ole Ivar Lovaas is very clear, “If they can’t learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.” And while the statement seems so simple to anyone [...]
Car Team USA announces ribbon-cutting and Big & Bold art exhibition opening Car Team USA announces the much-anticipated Feb. 13th ribbon-cutting ceremony of its dealership and the opening reception of the Big & Bold art exhibition by Artists of Palm Beach County and Martin Arts. This event, which is open to the public, marks the [...]
Lights! Camera! Action! Vero Beach Film Festival Associate Director Phil Osborne, Sponsorship and Fundraising Chair Gary Mastro celebrate the Festival with Dyer Sales Manager Frank Felkey, Dyer Subaru Executive Manager Jonathan Hardie,VBFF Executive Director David Yakir, and Sales Managers Thomas McGee and Carlos Vasquez. The lights went down, and a hush fell over [...]
Dyer Assists Families and Literacy One of the most challenging crises facing families and individuals right now is the crisis of isolation. Today in Florida one in six families lives in poverty, and 40 percent of Florida's children live in a single-parent household. According to Safe Families Florida, last month alone, there were 25,000 crisis [...]