Pennies from preschoolers help homeless
St. John’s Presbyterian Kindergarten & Preschool collected pennies for the City Rescue Mission Penny Project, whose goal was to raise one million pennies in the month of December. Pierce and Maylin, along with fellow students, contributed countless pennies to the total.
Name of stunted tree no challenge for spelling bee winner
St. Mark’s Episcopal Day School fifth grade student Don Kohla won the 2013-14 Spelling Bee by correctly spelling “bonsai” after going several rounds head-to-head against sixth grade student William Cook. Twenty fifth and sixth grade students spelled their way through the Bee on Dec. 16, in the Lori Schiavone Commons. Pictured here, runner up William […]
Benefit concert for traffic accident survivor
Ari Howard, a freshman at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, is organizing a Super Benefit Concert on behalf of neighbor Orly Ohayon who, along with her mother Esther, was struck by a car on San Jose Boulevard on their way to Yom Kippur worship on Sept. 13, 2013. While Orly, 17, mourns the loss of her mother, she requires […]
Making friends around the world with CISV
This summer when we were 11 years old, we went to a CISV Village in Trento, Italy. We spent four weeks in a camp with kids from 11 different countries along with two 16-year-olds from two other countries who were Junior Counselors. We went with our fun adult leader and another girl from Gainesville. We […]
Beautiful dancing gives back to children
The opening line in Disney’s song, “A dream is a wish your heart makes” reflects the spirit of Jacksonville’s Community Nutcracker Ballet. Artistic Directors Dulce Anaya, Beth Marks, Debra Peters Rankin and Mark Spivak‘s dream – a production which would give back to the community and give more dancers performance opportunities – is a reality. […]
Annual pumpkin-picking outing a local tradition
Like Linus in It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, neighborhood children eagerly flock to Southside United Methodist Church’s Pumpkin Patch in search of their very own Great Pumpkin. For more than 15 years, families have come to the point between Hendricks Avenue and Old San Jose Road to take pictures amid the orange rows of […]
Bishop Kenny “Pink Out” match against Bolles volleyball
Each fall rival schools Bishop Kenny and Bolles join forces for a qood cause. Suzanne Winkler, Head Volleyball Coach at Bishop Kenny recalled, “Bolles Coach Elise Bush contacted me to ask whether or not, in light of the heightened consciousness about breast cancer, we could dedicate one of our two annual games in support of […]
Cub Scouts tour Suns’ home, yearn to play in the Minors
There was no ball game, no peanuts and no Cracker Jacks®, but there was a small crowd of youngsters cheering at the behind-the-scenes tour they took of the Jacksonville Suns’ baseball facility last month. The tour, which included visits to the dugout, batting cages, weight room and press box, was a big hit with Pack […]
