Methodist women bring hope to Guatemalan villagers
For the eighth year in a row, a team of 22 women from Southside United Methodist Church traveled to the Chisec, Guatemala, to bring hope to the Mayan people. Led by Dr. Lourdes Pittochi, the team of Melissa Frankie, Angie Cosper, Kendall Cosper, Gwen Gallagher-Howard, Kailyn Moore, Sarah Wheeler and Ruthann Wheeler gave medical assistance […]
Greek Orthodox Church to celebrate 100 years in Jacksonville
As the Reverend Dr. Nicholas Louh contemplates the upcoming 100th anniversary of St. John the Divine Greek Orthodox Church, two words come to mind: legacy and honor. “We are honoring our past, the way God worked and Christ worked in our church over the last 100 years through the hands and feet of countless priests […]
New lighting to come to Davin Park
Thanks to several generous donations to the San Marco Preservation Society, Lillian S. Davin Park in San Marco is going to have new landscape lights. New uplighting will soon replace the string lights threaded through the branches of the stately oak trees in the 500 by 50-foot median on River Road, said San Marco Preservation […]
Willing volunteers make creek clean-up big success
Nearly half the people who worked shoulder to shoulder with St. Nicholas residents to clean up Millers Creek Aug. 13 hailed from other neighborhoods in Jacksonville, said Millers Creek Special Tax District Secretary Sharon Johnson. Thanks to everyone’s efforts, the event was a big success, she said. Meeting on land owned by E-Med proprietors Rene […]
If these Walls Could Talk : Four sisters re-live childhood, youth in Avondale home
If the 80-year-old Ward family home at 4236 St. Johns Avenue could talk, it might have a lot to say about the six sisters who grew up within its walls. Built in 1937 for William “Buck” Ward and Ruth Burt Ward – classmates at Robert E. Lee High School, the two-story brick house was home […]
Revolutionary War coin found in Old Ortega yard
Chip Kirkpatrick is still digging up history in Old Ortega. His latest find includes a gold-plated, silver-colored Victorian-era coin purse, or flapper’s purse, popular from the late 1800s to the 1920s. Using his metal detecting skills, a curiosity for finding lost objects and a passion for uncovering the past, Kirkpatrick unearthed the purse from four […]
Local Republican women honor federation’s oldest member
Arlington resident Dr. Marian Hall, 103, was doubly honored by a Who’s Who list of local Republican leaders who gathered at the Lexington Hotel Aug. 11 to wish her a happy birthday and to acknowledge her as the oldest living member of the National Republican Women’s Federation. Hall received a certificate from the National Federation […]
Avondale woman goes to the dogs
Soft-hearted doesn’t begin to describe Avondale resident Rebekah Harp. A Special Education teacher at W.E. Cherry Elementary in Clay County, Harp has an affinity for special-needs dogs and kids. Harp did not go out of her way to get these dogs. Someone would tell her about an abused or abandoned dog and she would spring […]
Residents dive in overseas to learn ‘le français’
Imagine sightseeing onboard a three-story high mechanical elephant, as it lumbers along, trumpeting loudly and spewing water from its flailing trunk at passersby, Residents from Jacksonville experienced the heartbeat of French lifestyle in just such a Jules Verne-type of fanciful way, thanks to an opportunity to attend a language immersion program developed with Jacksonville’s sister […]
