State committee eyes St. Lucie County for proposed veterans’ home

(Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer)
Steve Murray, FDVA communications director greets veterans who came out to support the proposal of a veterans nursing facility to be built in Tradition before the site selection committee toured the property Wednesday, June 18.

Veterans’ groups, St. Lucie County and city officials and other hopefuls for a VA nursing facility gathered to welcome a delegation from the Florida Department of Veterans Affairs who paid a visit to the proposed site in St. Lucie West on June 11. “This is your new home,” proclaimed St. Lucie County Commissioners’ chair Frannie Hutchinson to the visiting site selection committee and an estimated 100 members of veterans groups and other advocates. The visit was the third on a planned tour of nine
locations, according to Letizia Nazario-Braddock, FDVA director of administration, who said the committee planned to wrap up their trip on Tuesday, June 24.
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