Stet News🛟 Carter Viss has been a man on a mission since he lost his arm and severely injured his legs when struck by a boat while snorkeling off of Palm Beach in 2019. His Carter Viss Foundation, a non-profit that promotes safe boating and diving practices and offers financial support to people with limb trauma from boating incidents, plans its first gala fundraising dinner Feb. 7 at Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach. (The Palm Beach Post $$$)
🥁 Riviera Beach hosts its 41st Martin Luther King Jr. parade at 10 am Saturday. Marching bands from Florida A&M University and Florida Memorial University will perform. The parade starts at Congress Avenue and MLK Boulevard and ends at MLK and Avenue O.
🚞 Brightline plans to restore commuter rail discounts with the infusion of a $33.8 million federal grant. To accommodate more riders, Brightline needs longer trains. The money will go toward providing seven cars on each train between Miami and Orlando instead of five. (Sun-Sentinel $$$)
❓ Power Poll, a Nashville, Tenn., civic engagement platform founded in 2019 by Bruce Dobie, has experienced financial difficulties and shut down its monthly survey here and in 12 other cities. There’s no certainty that it will return. In an email to correspondents — including Palm Beach County Power Poll contractor Joe Capozzi, an independent freelance journalist and publisher of ByJoeCapozzi.com, Dobie wrote that until he can raise more money Power Poll is down to three cities: Chattanooga, Tenn.; Knoxville, Ky., and Nashville. (About Power Poll)
🏥 In case you missed it: The Palm Beach County Commission agreed last week to contribute $10 million toward a $60 million centralized receiving center for mental health and substance abuse disorders to be built and operated by the Health Care District of Palm Beach County. (StetNews.org)
