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, [...]
2025 Martin County Business Award: will your name be called? The deadline is approaching to nominate your business or someone else's for a 2025 Martin County Business Award. Dedicated to celebrating Martin County businesses that significantly impact the economy and workforce, the annual celebration of the community’s top innovators, creators, manufacturers, and more is moving [...]
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 [...]
Pizza, books, & Pepsi winning combination with kids Wednesdays at Big Apple Pizza in Fort Pierce and Port St. Lucie were once so slow, owner Scott Van Duzer didn’t even go into work, according to Rick Hynum of PMQ Magazine. Now the Port St. Lucie, Florida, restaurateur doesn’t dare stay home—that midweek night’s a “monster,” he said, [...]
Dyer Difference Award assists Vietnam veterans and Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Way back in 1957, a group of Florida Sheriffs gathered to discuss the problem with the young boys in their communities getting into trouble with law enforcement because they didn’t have a whole lot of stability, consistency, and love in their home lives. Collectively, [...]
Indian River businesses partner with Master’s Academy to equip students for the workforce Nine outstanding students from Master’s Academy will be presented with Apprenticeship Diplomas this spring after successfully completing intensive, real-world training through the school’s growing Vocational Technology (Vo-Tech) program. These unique apprenticeships, made possible by dedicated partnerships with local businesses such as Dyer [...]
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 [...]
National awards for TWO MEN AND A JUNK TRUCK® TWO MEN AND A JUNK TRUCK®, a locally owned and operated Treasure Coast junk removal company, came away a big winner at the company’s Annual Conference in Ft. Worth, TX in March. The Treasure Coast franchise was awarded: Customer Service Award for best customer service 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, [...]
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 [...]