Algal blooms that have often crippled the Treasure Coast over the years can in part be traced to fertilizer runoff from ranches and farms north of Lake Okeechobee.
Thelma Agnes Ham Reed went to be with her Lord and Savior on the 26th day of April, 2023 at the age of 100 years. The seventh of 8 children born to Milford Charles Ham and Margarette Leeone Ham on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 30, 1922. At that time Thanksgiving was celebrated on the last Thursday of November until President Franklin Roosevelt changed it to the fourth