Give Blood: Impact Five Lives and a Dream Come True
As of today, 3/25, The Blood Alliance’s supply remains extremely low. “We are in need of O-Negative, O-Positive, A-Negative, A-Positive, B-Negative and B-Positive donors. Only in March can your one pint impact FIVE lives through the final week and days of our Dreams Come True promotion. As blood cannot be manufactured or harvested we are […]
UNF Poll Finds Uncertainty and Indecision as March Election Looms
From the Department of Public Relations, University of North Florida: A new poll from the Public Opinion Research Laboratory at the University of North Florida reveals registered voters on the First Coast are indecisive as the March election draws near. The poll, which interviewed likely voters in Duval County, revealed that Alvin Brown is leading […]
Volunteers Brave Cold to Support Park
First Time a Charm for Cleanup Effort Despite starting temperatures in the 30s, over 60 volunteers turned out to give Boone Park South (the portion between Herschel Street and St. John’s Avenue) its first good cleaning and clearing in many years on Love Boone Park Day, Feb. 14. “We really had a successful day,” said […]
From the heart of Riverside, a water spirit emerges
For more than two decades, artist and Florida Master Naturalist Sarah Crooks Flaire’s work has orbited the themes of the natural world. Exploring themes of the river, its surrounding ecology, and our interactions with nature, Crooks Flaire’s current project strives to draw the viewer in to become part of the creative process, introducing people to […]
Dr. Linda Fisher
Teaching is in her blood. Dr. Linda McLucas Fisher, now 72, was the only child of teachers Leonard and Margaret Cox McLucas. The family celebrated her first birthday in their new Murray Hill home on Attleboro Street after moving from Sanford, FL with Fisher’s maternal grandmother Maud Medill Miller. Her father was a new coach […]
Mimi Kersun
Mimi Kersun, an active 70-something with a cherubic smile, has 50 years of memories to share since she and her husband Mickey moved to San Jose in 1965 for him to open a McDonald’s restaurant. The newlyweds settled briefly on San Bernado Drive and soon bought their Montclair Drive home in 1968 where they raised […]
Local teens take on super hero roles
Contrary to popular belief that a teenager’s attention span is only as long as it takes to send a text, a group of 10 young men and women hung together over a six-month period to beat the cliché and produce a 16-1/2 minute action film. The Pride, filmed in several locations locally, percolated for some […]
Bishop Kenny teen uses title for greater good
Shannon Atkins’ desire to support the fight against breast cancer was manifested before she won her crown. It was the title, however – Miss Bishop Kenny 2014-2015 – that provided the platform to promote a cause that was too near for someone dear. “My grandmother [Barbara Swindell] was diagnosed with breast cancer late summer 2013. […]
