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, […]
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 […]
Ruth Moore Berry
Imagine a time in Ortega without U.S.17/ Roosevelt Boulevard or when traffic consisted of a trolley running across the Grand Avenue Bridge. Ruth Page Moore Berry remembers it well. Growing up in Ball Cottage on unpaved Baltic Street with neighbors Honesta and James Willis of Sunshine House right next door, Berry had plenty of freedom […]