Loss prompts attorneys to fundraise for breast cancer
Participation in Real Men Wear Pink growing locally, nationally Yelena Chizhik was an important member of Coker Law until she died of breast cancer. Chizhik created the trial firms’ trial presentations, focus groups and trial technology. “She was an outdoors woman – hiking, she loved to train dogs, she lived an amazing robust life,” said […]
State of the River report raises red flags
The 12th Annual State of the River report for the lower St. Johns River basin shows a striking jump in phosphorus as well as elevated levels of metals, continued loss of wetlands, and increasing impacts from saltwater intrusion and sea-level rise. The report not only indicates an increase in phosphorous levels that are fueling frequent […]
Best-selling author wows capacity crowd at Southside Baptist Church
Every seat in the sanctuary – including the balcony – of Southside Baptist Church was filled to capacity as more than 650 avid readers came to hear New York Times best-selling author Amor Towles discuss his second book, A Gentleman in Moscow. The evening with Towles, whose debut novel is The Age of Civility, was […]
Dredging to begin at Millers Creek
Dredging will soon begin at Millers Creek. The Millers Creek Special Tax District Board unanimously voted to sign a contract with DredgIt, a fully integrated sediment management company from Houston, Texas, to remove sediment from Millers Creek, during a meeting Sept. 16 in the Compass Bank building in St. Nicholas. Board Chairman Michelle Wright said […]
Bolles honors Corky Rogers
Thanks to longtime Bolles football supporter A. Chester Skinner, Jr. and his family, the accomplishments of Charles “Corky” Rogers, the Bulldog’s former head football coach, will live on in perpetuity. Skinner, a member of Bolles class of 1940, sponsored the construction of a new plaza honoring Rogers’ storied career. The plaza, which is located at […]
Historic home provides happy ending for newly engaged couple
Part of the former Barnett Estate, Magnolia, a renowned San Marco home with an expansive antebellum-style porch, became the site of another happy ending when Jonathan Heldenbrandt and Palmer Kuder became engaged on the doorstep of the historic house Sept. 6. Built in 1938 by entrepreneur David H. Tart of Pensacola, the home was originally […]
Clara White Mission exceeds goal, celebrates community generosity
The Clara White Mission recent budget shortfall has been fully funded, and further exceeded its goal thanks to generous community members, businesses and foundations. At a press conference Friday, Sept. 13, Clara White staff showered thanks and praise on attendees, as patrons of the mission dined in Taliaferro Hall. The announcement came during a lunch […]
Rice Family Foundation gifts $70,000 for Morning Star tuition assistance
Morning Star School, a Catholic school serving children in grades K-12 who have learning differences such as intellectual learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, processing deficits and high-functioning autism, received a $70,000 grant from the Dianne T. and Charles E. Rice Family Foundation for tuition assistance this year. The donation comes on the heels of a […]
Mom’s battle with cancer inspired bike shop owner to help
Holt Tucker, an Ortega Forest resident and owner of Open Road Bicycles of Avondale, said his mother is the reason he has become one of an increasing number of men raising money to battle breast cancer. Kathy Tucker fought breast cancer nine years ago and survived but, unfortunately, had a friend who was not so […]
