Former Camden Avenue residents walk down memory lane
It was a stroll down Memory Lane for more than 20 Camden Avenue childhood friends and former neighbors, who gathered with their families for a first-ever reunion in St. Nicholas March 19. Reconnecting through Facebook with their neighborhood friends from the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s, childhood best friends Anita Tiffany Dunford of San Jose and […]
Symphony Concert Gala a Night to Remember
The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra was proud to host Russkaya Noch (Russian Night), a gala concert celebrating its orchestra at the Times-Union Center Feb. 27. The concert featured world-renowned violinist Joshua Bell, who performed Russian composer Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto. After the performance, approximately 300 attendees enjoyed an evening of cocktails and dinner along the St. Johns […]
Gala Guests Have Heart for Heart Disease
The annual Heart and Stroke Ball raised $450,000 for the American Heart Association on March 12 at the Sawgrass Marriott. This year’s “White Out” theme brought 300 elegant attendees together to raise awareness and funds for heart disease and stroke, the nation’s number 1 and 5 killers. The gala featured a cocktail hour, dinner, dancing, […]
Community views new cancer center renderings
Provided the Jacksonville City Council and Land Use and Zoning Committee sign off on the deal, by early 2018 the two-block parcels of mostly vacant land across from Nemours Children’s Specialty Care should look very different than it does now. In a public meeting April 4 sponsored by the San Marco Preservation Society, officials from […]
Raising awareness for autism through music
Each year, local mom and music industry veteran Dove Hagan offers a free summer camp called The Butterfly Exchange Project for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). A singer-songwriter, holistic vocal coach and founder of the Melody and Harmony Foundation, Dove Hagan established The Butterfly Exchange Project in 2011. Each summer, she coaches children with […]
Episcopal rowers dominate invitational
Not a ripple spoiled the calm, clear waters of the Ortega River early in the morning Feb. 27 as crews from four schools competed in the 2016 Stanton River Bank Invitational. Joining the Stanton River Bank Rowing Club in the competition were crews from The Bolles School, The Episcopal School of Jacksonville, and Hilton Head […]
Middle school students create, perform opera
Full-length opera makes history as first in country Art may imitate life, but for students at LaVilla School of the Arts there is no replicating the production of the full-length opera titled, “Jared: A Tale of Freedom, Control and Choice.” Indeed, every word and every note of the production is the outcome of collaboration between […]
St. Paul’s students play Tom Sawyer for a day
Mark Twain’s character Tom Sawyer may have had the right idea to enlist help whitewashing his Aunt Polly’s fence, but he had nothing on the students at St. Paul’s Catholic School. After participating in the school’s annual Jog-a-Thon, students cooled down with a painting session at a 60- by 6-foot white picket fence on the […]
