Nonprofits withstand economy with innovation, willpower
With the fundraising season well underway, local nonprofits are still struggling to make do with the resources they have.
St. Johns County
Senate Bill 52 targets distracted drivers
Starting October 1, Florida drivers can breathe a sigh of relief as Senate Bill 52 goes into effect.
Approved earlier this year, the soon-to-be law will prohibit the operation of a motor vehicle while texting. SB 52 is called the “Florida Ban on Texting While Driving Law” and will target non-voice interpersonal communication – in other words, typing or entering letters, numbers, symbols, or other text, or sending or reading data, while driving.
Freshman golfer overcomes adversity to win first tournament
By Jaycob Ammerman | gargoyle@flagler.edu
In the fall of 2007, freshman Flagler College men’s golf player Spencer Schindler’s mother severely injured her leg while working on a fairway mower at a golf course in Savannah, Ga.
Work release inmate: “I don’t have to return to the streets”
By Amber James | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Rodderick Williams is a county sentenced inmate, in jail for violation of probation. But for five to six days a week, Williams gets to leave the jail and return to the free world, working at the Santa Maria restaurant downtown as a cook, preparing meals and prepping food, trying to turn his life around.
Williams has been part of the St Johns County work release program for the past five months.
Harvest of Hope Foundation moving forward, president says
By Emily Hoover| ehoover@flagler.edu
For Phil Kellerman, president of the Gainesville-based Harvest of Hope Foundation, philanthropy runs in the family.
After his grandmother Helen Zand, a professor and social worker, mentioned she would be leaving an inheritance to her grandchildren, Kellerman said he was going to put the money to good use.
“[My grandmother and I] used to talk about the issues involving poverty,” he said. “She was really smart and really ahead of her time. This was right around the time I was thinking of setting up a foundation for migrant workers and I told her I was going to set up a foundation in her honor.”
Local law enforcement says recent meth bust underscores growing epidemic
By Cal Colgan| jcolgan@flagler.edu
Davis Shores is a neighborhood in St. Augustine’s city limits littered with the towering-two story complexes and mowed lawns of middle class suburbia. But on Feb.17, police found that some residents of this community right across the Bridge of Lions had materials to make what some say is the worst drug in the world.
Stats show St. Johns takes the lead in education
By Caroline Young | cyoung1@flagler.edu
St. John’s County superintendent Joseph Joyner said it is near impossible to compare the U.S.’s educational success with the rest of the world.
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“We have different tests and assessments than other countries,” he said.