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M M M <br />Children in Fellsmere have rallied behind programs offered in a joint partnership with the City of <br />Fellsmere where a part-time Recreation Coordinator's salary is shared 50/50. The results are <br />incredible -- over 150 children playing soccer, in baseball, in flag football and in summer camp -- <br />Gymnastic, senior and fitness programs conducted by the Recreation Department are so heavily <br />attended in the city of Sebastian that recently there have been collaborative overtures for expansion. <br />Additionally, in Sebastian, a second most successful Halloween Parade was held this past Halloween <br />simultaneously with the 29 year old Vero Beach Halloween Parade. This Easter, Sebastian and <br />Fellsmere will become new sites for the traditionally successfully Recreation Department Easter Egg <br />Hunts. <br />The financial dollars you allocate Vero Beach in programs serving central and south Indian River <br />county give support to the strong 29 year program that began in 1958 under the guidance of the <br />Indian River County Youth Center committee; and now <br />the City of Vero. Today, Leisure Square, alone, serves 120,000 yearly, and houses over forty <br />programs. The home of the only government supported swimming pool in Indian River County -- <br />children from all comers of the county are bused to Leisure Square for D.A.R.E. graduations,and <br />dare activities, after school swim programs and summer camp swim programs. <br />Focus for a moment on these figures, there are approximately 8,000 boys and girls, K - 8, in our <br />County. <br />- Over 1,000 attend Recreation Department Summer Camp daily for seven weeks with <br />school sites in south county, Thompson; central county, Glendale, Gifford at the Gifford Community <br />Center; north county, Fellsmere, Leisure Square, and this year, west Wabasso. <br />- 850 teens (boys and girls) county wide, participated in Recreation Department youth <br />football program. <br />- 1,020 children, county wide, play Recreation Department baseball/softball. <br />- 800+ children, county wide, play Recreation Department youth basketball. <br />FEBRUARY 25, 1997 41 �r V <br />BOOK ' FnE i 4 <br />J <br />