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Healthy lessons
Chef hopes to teach healthy cooking in Avalon
For many families, convenience store grocery shopping, processed foods and fast food meals are an everyday occurrence. The healthy ideal may seem out of reach.
Homegrown talent at Florida Film Festival
Locals share inspiration
The Florida Film Festival, which kicks off on April 13, features local veteran filmmakers and some newbies.
Vets learn to breathe
Local yogis learn how to adapt yoga to vets
For many military personnel, adjusting to life after combat is a struggle. For Sean McGrath, a Marine, retiring and returning to normal life was made worse by a divorce at the same time.
Skate community
Kid creates alternative to driving to school
One street in Avalon Park isn’t as quiet as the others. In front of the Rodriguez family’s house you’ll hear wheels bouncing down pavement, grinding as they slide across the ground, and the pop of the board hitting the ramp.
Winter Park man preserves oldies music
Saving the music
A Winter Park resident is bringing rock ‘n’ roll from the ‘50s and ‘60s back on the air with his internet podcast “Old Time Rock ‘n’ Roll.”
Feeding homeless’ dogs
Teens give free pet food in Bithlo
Bithlo residents walk up tentatively to the table filled with little bags and cans of dog and cat food. They’ve been there before yet they still shyly ask to take some food home with them.
Daring to be a star
Sunrise student stars in plays, commercials magazine covers
She’ll happily jump rope under a bright spotlight, leap fearlessly between matresses, or bark and pant like a dog, all on a stage and in front of a crowd of people watching her intently.
Beat cancer, help others
TCHS senior is cancer free on Valentine's Day
Wesley Rivera was 12 when he started getting sick. His mother had a gut feeling — something wasn’t right.
Hefty recycling goals
Cities, residents working to reach recycling goal
Jim Foulks won’t be friends with someone who doesn’t recycle, so he just makes it happen for them. He recycles more than half of his waste through Orange County’s recycling program and composting his organic trash.
Read while exercising
StoryWalk gives families a fun, free way to learn
It’s a brisk, bright morning, and mother-daughter duo Wendy and Emma Tutins are breaking up their day by taking a walk. But it isn’t just any walk, it’s an adventure into a story.