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Local non-profit makes dreams come true

By Mara Mazar | gargoyle@flagler.edu With a blue wagon full of gifts behind her, Ashley Smith, dream manager for Dreams Come True of Jacksonville, was on a mission to find chocolate milk for one of her patients.   Dreams Come True of Jacksonville is the only…


Odd dog behavior may mean something more

By Jordan Taylor | gargoyle@flagler.edu Does your dog repeat actions, develop special routines, not make eye contact and fixate on an activity with abnormal focus? Are they resistant to change, sensitive to sound or light and have social issues?  Most people know about the autism spectrum for humans, but…


Businesses looking forward to summer tourism season

By Stephen Cripps | gargoyle@flagler.edu Every year, hundreds of small Floridian communities will suddenly feel a bit more crowded as millions of travelers descend upon their tropical towns.  Even with snowbirds returning to their more temperate climates at the end of spring break, St. Augustine, Florida,…


Renda Writer: The artist who paints love

Listen On SoundCloud By Katherine Lewin | gargoyle@flagler.edu Renda Writer paints love – over and over again. One of his first murals, spray-painted in Wynwood Art District in Miami, Florida, features “I am love” more than million times. In the last five years, Writer has…


A History Unmasked: Part Two

This three-part series will be covering my experience as I was able to see the process of archiving history in The Old Governor’s House, and most importantly, how that affects historic St. Augustine as a whole. By Nora Heyser | gargoyle@flagler.edu Many of Flagler College’s…


Tiny plastics making huge impacts in St. Augustine

By Dustin Fletcher | gargoyle@flagler.edu What’s less than five millimeters in length and is in every body of water on the planet?   Microplastics are being researched at Flagler College by Coastal Environmental Science students and professors and could possibly affect the city in many ways in the not so distant…


How one non-profit is seeking to proactively prevent human trafficking

By Connor Reilly | gargoyle@flagler.edu Human trafficking, an international black market enterprise, reaches outside the borders of the United States as well as within. Non-profits, large and small, oftentimes help combat the sale of individuals by tasking survivors to dwell on their experiences to move…




The importance of buying local

    By Jess Zsiga | gargoyle@flagler.edu I am from the most densely populated county in Florida, and despite the exception of a few blocks of downtown St. Petersburg, Pinellas County is surprisingly limited on options for buying local. So, when I made the move…