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Pine Hills: A White Perspective

Pine Hills: A White Perspective by Lisa Parani   I recently wrote a paper that evaluated the community where I lived from the age of seven until I was nineteen, and graduated from high school, Pine Hills.  Pine Hills is a small community that is just outside of central Orlando.   My mother chose to move more »

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JERRY DEMINGS REACHES OUT TO CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY

from (l.) to (r.): Gillian Nanton, CEO, The Advisory Group, Candidate Jerry Demings, and Wesley Kirton   Jerry Demings, one of the candidates in the race for Orange County Sheriff met with the Caribbean business Community, on 10th April 2008.  For 90 minutes Mr. Demings sat with a group of about 20 businessmen and women, more »

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Black Partnership of Florida Moves Forward

The Black Partnership of Florida Moves Forward     Over 150 Central Florida business executives and professionals attended the Black Partnership of Florida Transportation Industry Power Lunch held April 15, 2008 at the Lexington Hotel in Downtown Orlando. The Power Lunch, the third in a series focusing on contracting opportunities for minorities was held in partnership with more »

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Decembre Claims Bill Moves Forward

    Decembre Claims Bill Moves Forward State Representative Geraldine Thompson (D-Orlando)has presented, the Daniel Decembre Claims bill, to the Schools and Learning Council. It can be viewed at www.myfloridahouse.gov. On March 4, 2003, Daniel Decembre, a then 3rd grader at Ridgewood Park Elementary was attacked when a 50 pound pit bull bolted through the more »

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Lynum to Host Foreclosure Prevention Workshop

     Daisy W. Lynum, Mayor Pro Tem and Orlando City Commissioner, District 5, will host a free education workshop on Foreclosure Prevention and Predatory Lending on Saturday, May 3, 2008, from 9:00 am. to 1:00 pm. at the Northwest Community Center, 3955 W.D. Judge Drive, Orlando. For the past three years, Commissioner Lynum has taken more »

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Budget Cuts to Hurt Local Families, Children

Family Services of Metro Orlando (FSMO), the lead agency for Community-Based Care in Orange and Osceola counties, is joining forces with the Florida Coalition for Children and other social service organizations across the state in an effort to bring awareness to the community of the impact of the proposed budget cuts to Florida’s children and more »

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Is Starvation Contagious?

This article originally appeared in Jamaica Observer. by John Maxwell “The Haitians are over the edge, they are starving, refugees in their own proud country.” Few people, much less their governments, appear to be concerned about what is happening in Haiti, next to Cuba our nearest neighbor and, in historical terms, the people who paved more »

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Orlando Carnival 2008

The Orlando Carnival Association will be hosting the 21st annual 2008 Orlando Carnival from May 23rd – May 25th 2008. Now in its 21st year, the theme of this year’s Carnival is “Caribbean Unity”. This Caribbean-style Mardi-Gras will be held downtown Orlando at the Orlando Sports Campus. Carnival is a Caribbean-style “Mardi Gras” that is more »

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Calm Settles Over Haiti

Calm settles over Haiti’s capital By JONATHAN M. KATZ, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 20 minutes ago U.N. peace keepers removed barbed-wire barricades around the presidential palace and some businesses reopened Thursday as an uneasy calm settled over Haiti’s capital after three days of violence and looting. Some roadblocks set up by protesters also came down more »

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Ocoee Never Disappoints

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