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Equal Justice for All Legal Expense Insurance Corporation provides affordable legal services to North Florida residents

Equal Justice for All Legal Expense Insurance Corporation provides affordable legal services to North Florida residents

Every citizen should have access to the legal system, and a person’s ability to have access is greatly enhanced with the assistance of a licensed attorney. The concept of affordable legal representation might seem out of reach to many. However, local attorney Fred C. Isaac, founder of Equal Justice For All Legal Expense Insurance Corporation, […]

Giving the ‘purr-fect’ present

Giving the ‘purr-fect’ present

Few sights evoke heart-warming holiday sentiments as perfectly as images of a puppy, kitten, dog, or cat with a festive bow. Perhaps the furry creature is being hugged by a delighted child under a Christmas tree, or peeking out from inside of a beautifully wrapped gift box. The question of whether to give a live […]

The Way We Were: Norman Abraham

The Way We Were: Norman Abraham

He has fed mayors, council members, judges, salesmen, construction workers, doctors, hospital workers, bankers, firefighters, policemen, and retirees. When invited to speak at Rotary meetings about his business experience, it’s rarely possible to find a room with a single person who has not been a patron of at least one of his eateries. He is […]

The Way We Were: Anne Coyle

The Way We Were: Anne Coyle

Anne Coyle recognizes the difficulties of today’s COVID crisis, “but it is nothing compared to 1918. That was a time of war and a time of flu,” she said of what occurred more than 100 years ago.  The Spanish flu pandemic during WWI hit her mother’s family hard. Coyle’s mother was the eldest of eight […]

Pet birds, parrots require special knowledge and care

Pet birds, parrots require special knowledge and care

Exotic, brilliantly colored parrots with their unique intelligence, speech abilities and personalities have fascinated people for centuries and were documented as pets in the earliest writings and artwork of ancient civilizations. Typically portrayed perched on the shoulders of pirates in movies or novels, this stereotype of parrots is actually based upon historical fact.  Pirates stole […]

The Way We Were: Joe and Joni Bifano

The Way We Were: Joe and Joni Bifano

When it comes to true love, the third time is the charm, the saying goes. And that’s how it was for Joseph James Bifano. As a young man working in his hometown of Sheboygan, Wis., on the second floor of J. C. Penney in the boys’ department, there were at least two occasions when his […]

The Way We Were: Sissy Barker

The Way We Were: Sissy Barker

It’s quite the paradox, but amid multiple moves across state lines, Sissy Barker has maintained throughout Jacksonville a consistency in friendships and family, which marks the theme of her life. Born to Sara and Paul Hattaway on Thanksgiving Day 1936 in Augusta, Georgia, Sissy Barker’s real name was Cynthann. She was named for her father’s […]

Caring for world wildlife one exotic animal at a time

Caring for world wildlife one exotic animal at a time

Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens veterinarians, Dr. Meredith Persky of San Marco, and Dr. Yousuf Jafarey of Riverside, may live 10 miles from their place of employment, but through their job they experience a little piece of nearly every corner of the world. Inside the 115-acre botanical gardens located on the Trout River, they care for […]