For more information, call 466-3880. 50th Annual Prayer Day today St. Lucie County Fort Pierce and Port St. Lucie will each have a service today to commemorate the 50th Annual National Day of Prayer. Fort Pierce will have a noon service at the gazebo lawn area on North Indian River Drive near 2 nd Street. For either service, participants are encouraged to bring their own lawn chairs and blankets due to limited seating at the parks. The program will feature Tim Brown of the Treasure Coast Wildlife Hospital who will update the audience on the goings-on of the hospital.
Admission is free and open to the public.
This is the first year that high school students must pass the 10th grade FCAT in order to graduate. It replaces another exam, the High School Competency Test. The Department of Education has proposed required scores of 295 for mathematics and 287 for reading on a scale of 100 to 500. Please read it.