SOUPer Bowl IV aims to combat hunger
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Jacksonville Camera Club captures Mandarin
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Meet new St. Johns County Commissioner Jeremiah Blocker
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Ponte Vedra NewsLine
Meet new St. Johns County Commissioner Jeremiah Blocker
By Martie Thompson
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Recently elected St. Johns County Commissioner for District 4, Jeremiah Blocker, has attended two Board of County Commissioners meetings and is endeavoring to learn as quickly as he can.
St. Johns County announces Christmas holiday office hours
By NewsLine Staff
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All departments of the St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners, St. Johns County Administrative offices, St. Johns County libraries, the Pet Center, the Property Appraiser’s Office, and the Tax Collector’s Office will be closed Monday, Dec. 24 and Tuesday, Dec. 25 in observance of the Christmas holiday. All offices will resume standard business hours on Wednesday, Dec. 26.
Community Hospice & Palliative Care’s PedsCare families receive gifts from THE PLAYERS
By NewsLine Staff
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When innovation meets outstanding community support, a partnership like Community PedsCare teaming up with THE PLAYERS Championship is the winning result. A longstanding supporter of Community PedsCare, a program of Community Hospice & Palliative Care, THE PLAYERS recently presented children and families in the program with hundreds of holiday gifts. Since its inception in 2000, for nearly half of Community Hospice’s 40-year legacy, Community PedsCare has been providing comfort and care to enhance quality of life for patients from prenatal (before birth) to age 21. The program supports the specialized needs and medical care of the child, their parents and siblings, other family members, caregivers, classmates and teachers.
OneBlood leading worldwide search to locate donors; Florida child in need of extremely rare blood
By NewsLine Staff
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OneBlood, the local not-for-profit blood center serving Florida and other parts of the southeast, is leading a worldwide search to find some of the rarest blood in the world. It’s needed to help save two-year-old Zainab, a South Florida girl who is battling neuroblastoma, a very aggressive form of cancer.
This ‘n That | Seven little words that changed my life
By Mims Cushing
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One day, 35 years ago, I received a flyer inviting me to attend Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the granddaddy of all writing conferences. It is a 10-day nest for fledging as well as for more established writers. Started in 1926, it takes place every summer at Middlebury College in the green hills of Vermont.
