‘Dirt’ fisherman searches for treasure among trash
It took 50 years, but Chip Kirkpatrick, a former Boy Scout at Lakeshore Methodist Church, finally found his uniform kerchief slide. Kirkpatrick had lost it at his very first Scout meeting in 1964. He found it five decades later buried in four inches of mud on the church grounds. He also found a toy gun […]
Bolles Freshmen, competition is the tie that binds
Perhaps the reason Charles Hicks and Chase Rivera became such fast friends is that few in a race can keep up with them. As freshmen, the Bolles’ duo are tops both on the track and cross country trails as well as in the classroom. On top of that, academically, both are straight A students enlisting […]
Generous donation transforms computer lab
In the 1990s, when their granddaughter, Jennifer, was in school, Neil and Kiki Rood donated the funds to establish the Rood Family Computer Lab at San Jose Episcopal Day School. Since then, the world of computers has changed. Desiring their great-grandchildren to have access to up-to-date technology while at school, the Roods have donated $86,000 […]
Rowing Club benefit honors founders
When her daughters, Phoebe and Poppy, were students at Stanton College Preparatory High School, biology teacher Tess Durant didn’t realize for the next 25 years her resume would include the title Owner, Stanton River Bank Rowing. At the time Stanton High School was established as a magnet school, there would be no sports, by design. […]
Murray and Janet Husney
Family and the Jewish faith are important to Murray and Janet Husney of San Jose. This is evident from colorful framed art and needlework depicting Jewish blessings and the Hand of God, which line the dining room walls of their San Jose home. Elaborately framed heirloom portraits of the couple’s beautifully coiffed and gowned parents […]
Doug Hutchins
As a young Lakeshore teen, Doug Hutchins never dreamed that riding a bus every day with Jacksonville Mayor John T. Alsop was the beginning of what would be lifelong ties to city government. Hutchins, 89, may be the only person still living to have had unique professional and personal relationships with Florida governor Cecil Farris […]
Baptist Health rolls out renderings of new cancer center
Nearly a year after announcing a partnership with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Baptist Health officials have rolled out renderings for a towering new cancer center to be built in North San Marco, which they say will offer patients the best state-of-the-art cancer care in the country. In a public meeting sponsored […]
Cummer board votes to demolish Woman’s Club of Jacksonville building
Despite every effort to save an historic Riverside building, the board of trustees of the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens made the difficult decision in March to halt renovation of the old Woman’s Club of Jacksonville building and have it tagged for demolition. Although the exterior is brick, the wood trusses and walls were […]
