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FILE PHOTO Vero Beach native Jake Owen performs for a cheering audience at Holman Stadium in Vero Beach for his Jake Owen Foundation Benefit Concert in December 2012.

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Indian River Habitat for Humanity is the charity benefiting from the washes at the Vero Beach location, 485 21st St., on Miracle Mile in the Treasure Coast Plaza.

If you can take a break from shopping, there are plenty of Christmas-themed activities going on this weekend.

And there's more to come, with less than two weeks until Christmas. From the grumbling I'm hearing, I don't think I'm alone in preferring an earlier Thanksgiving, with more time between the holidays.

This story is contributed by a member of the Treasure Coast community and is neither endorsed nor affiliated with TCPalm.com Opening night of Art by the Sea guests enjoy a wine and cheese reception as they view and buy some of the work by the artists.

The Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Foundation has announced Alma Lee Loy as the guest of honor for the third annual "Love Your Lagoon" dinner on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014 at 6 p.m. at FAU's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute , 5600 US 1 North, in Fort Pierce.

December 2013 Monthly Dividend of $0.18 Per Share MBS Portfolio Characteristics as of November 29, 2013 VERO BEACH, Fla.

Sherry Darling's home in the 4400 block of 28th Avenue was destroyed Nov. 24, Indian River County Fire Rescue officials said.

Alumni from Stuart to Melbourne will meet at the Grand Harbor Beach Club, 8500 N. A1A in Vero Beach, at 5:30 p.m. for cocktails, hors d'oevres and conversation.

Today Smoke Inn Cigars announced the winners of its 'Smoke Inn Toy Drive' which ended this past Saturday with the donation of hundreds of toys to the Kids Cancer Foundation .

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Bishops at ordination, from left: The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey of Clifton; The Right Rev.

Jack McAfee and his wife, Esther, of Vero Beach, walk through a line of decorated palms while attending Holidays at McKee in 2012.

Country-radio fixture Jake Owen takes his barefoot-beefcake-surf-bum-slacker role to heart, like only an ex-wakeboarder from Vero Beach, Florida, could: " Laaaaid back," as he inhales, Snoop-style, in the tentatively rap-cadenced "Beachin'," which also mentions a reggae band and the koozie in his hand.

The Marine Corps Band New Orleans is getting in the holiday spirit. They performed "Joy to the World" on the News with a Twist Stage and are performing several concerts in the New Orleans area that are free and open to the public.

Dr. Jeanne Charnas, Vero Beach, was one of several board-certified emergency room physicians who left Indian River Medical Center Dec. 1 when it prematurely ended its contract with Emergency Physician Hospital administration stated they hoped to retain most of their Emergency Department physicians, but unfortunately, most were not willing to stay ... (more)

Edward White, Vero Beach, is a past chair of the Indian River County Democratic Executive Committee.

Spectators watch the manger scene at the annual living nativity walk-through display in December 2010 at Indian River Presbyterian Church in Fort Pierce.

This story is contributed by a member of the Treasure Coast community and is neither endorsed nor affiliated with TCPalm.com Members of the Vero Beach Recreation Department's Aerial Antics Youth Circus perform in the 2012 Holiday Drama at the Vero Beach High School Performing Arts Center.