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Family Promise milestone more than a number

Family Promise milestone more than a number

During its nine-year charter Family Promise of Jacksonville – one of more than 185 affiliates nationwide – has served almost 100,000 meals and provided more than 40,000 nights of shelter through 16 host congregations. Those numbers are meaningful only when you talk to some of the 122 families (144 adults and 235 children) who today […]

All Saints celebrates 50 years in “ageless” traditional edifice

All Saints celebrates 50 years in “ageless” traditional edifice

  It’s been 50 years since the All Saints Episcopal Parish moved south from its former location on Hendricks Avenue near I-95 to the beautiful brick edifice it inhabits at 4171 Hendricks Avenue and to celebrate that anniversary members will do so in retro style. On All Saints Day, Sunday, Nov. 1, the All Saints […]

Forgotten treasures fund healthier lives

Forgotten treasures fund healthier lives

  Who would have thought after paying decades worth of storage fees, so many treasures from one of Florida’s wealthiest families would surface and eventually benefit the foundations they created to help those in need? The Jacksonville-based Alfred I. duPont Foundation had been paying storage bills for a unit in Tallahassee, but it wasn’t until […]

Avondale river access beginning to look like a park

Avondale river access beginning to look like a park

Six months after hundreds of residents in Avondale became riled about, then embroiled in, the threat of losing city-owned property to private citizens, the issue seems to have come to an agreeable resolution. Shortly after legislation proposed to close a 60- by 435-foot right-of-way from Richmond Street to the St. Johns River was withdrawn in […]

Red Cross Club president seeks to turn compassion into action

Red Cross Club president seeks to turn compassion into action

When Maria Muzaurieta, of San Jose, started the Red Cross Club at Bolles School two years ago, she saw it as a way to combine her personal interest in medicine, her entrepreneurial spirit, and her desire to “turn compassion into action.”  “Charitable work represents helping others in need, which is what life is about,” she […]

Mayo, St. Vincent’s cancer collaboration not the first

New plan brings Mayo Clinic programs to Riverside When Mayo Clinic and St. Vincent’s HealthCare announced early in October a collaboration to bring Mayo Clinic’s nationally ranked cancer services to patients in a newly built medical suite on the campus of St. Vincent’s Riverside, it was not the first time the two health care giants […]

 You’re never too old

 You’re never too old

Lorna Bell, 90, really hasn’t ever known a time when she didn’t work. Even now, the Murray Hill resident still gets into her car once or twice a week to drive to the Jacksonville International Airport where she maintains the desk at the Visitor Information Center in baggage claim. Bell must love her job because […]

Magical night of masquerade for St. Vincent’s

Magical night of masquerade for St. Vincent’s

The Club Continental on the St. Johns River played host to an evening of masks, glitz and glamour at the First Annual Corks & Forks benefit gala. Proceeds from the inaugural masquerade ball will be used to benefit the community through expansion of St. Vincent’s Medical Center Clay County and community outreach programs for residents […]

Striking Gold at Ole’ Cowford

Striking Gold at Ole’ Cowford

Patrons packed the Jacksonville Fairgrounds to pay their respects to the mission of the American Cancer Society’s local North Florida Chapter. After all, most families have been touched by cancer and the importance of supporting the local campaign is just the start. As the largest fundraiser of its kind in Jacksonville for ACS, the goal […]