Meet Park Ranger Craig Morris, District Interpretive Ranger

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

WE MEET AT RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY

Lunch begins at Noon - Meeting begins at 12:30 pm

Please Welcome Craig Morris
Special Use Permits, Volunteers, Historic Weapons

Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve

U.S. National Park Service

Craig is a native of Jacksonville who  attended Terry Parker High School. He earned his BS in Botany at the University of Florida and a BA in History at UNF.

His service as a National Park Service Ranger started in 1987 and through the present he has been stationed at Ft. Caroline National Memorial/Timucuan Preserve.

He is the lead park ranger of Interpretation and Visitor Services. He oversees special use permits and is historic weapons supervisor in which the use of historic weapons reproductions, such as blank muskets and cannon firing, are used for educational programs.

He first met Mr. Willie Browne, who donated all his land to The Nature Conservancy, when Craig was a nine-year-old boy.

Recently...

  

Sept 13, we inducted our two newest members, Lauren Hopkins and Chris Bouton.  PP James Chansler gave the charge and sponsor, Bob Massey looked on.

Lauren and her husband, James have been married for four years; they met through Rotaract. Their son, Ben is 21 months old and Baby Luke is due at the end of October. 

Lauren has worked at Dreams Come True for four years. As the Associate Director, her main responsibilities are fundraising, grant writing and assisting the Executive Director with programs and management.

Chris has over 20 years’ experience in commercial lending banking and currently works for Ameris Bank at the San Jose Blvd Office as Vice President and Commercial Loan Officer.

Chris moved to Jacksonville 4 years ago from her home town of Salisbury, Maryland when husband George accepted promotion with International Paper Co. here in Jacksonville.

While living in Salisbury, she was a member of the Rotary Club of Wicomico County, District 7630 where she served as Membership Chair.  She was voted Rotarian of the Year in 2006 for managing the Main Fund Raiser “Pirates of the Caribbean” raising a net profit $68,000 for local charities and holding a membership campaign which brought in 21 new members. 

Chris has 3 children; a daughter, Mandy who is 24 years old and two sons in college; Shawn, 23 in Grad school at Salisbury University in Maryland and Mike, 21 who is a senior this year at Flagler College in St Augustine.

In her spare time, Chris enjoys painting and she is also trying to learn how to play the piano.  She looks forward to serving Rotary again.

Ed Morales' table is always fun!

Doug Johnson introduced his son, Mike

It's back-to-school for Rotary Youth Exchange, as we recruit candidates for the Long-Term Outbound class of 2012-13, and Short-Term exchange students for the Summer of '12!!

We could use your help in the following ways:

• Help spread the word to young people and their parents.  The Long-Term Program is seeking a select few teens who have what it takes to become cultural ambassadors in other countries.  The Short-Term Program offers an opportunity for those unable or unwilling to make a year-long commitment, but still want to explore other lands, other cultures.  We will distribute fliers during our high school presentations, and if you can join us, we would welcome the company.  If you cannot visit an area high school, please make sure your Club members, neighbors, relatives and faith community members know that Rotary offers these programs.
• Join us as we interview and select candidates for the Long-Term Program.  We need Rotarians who can help with in-home interviews as well as the Interview Weekend in November.  A couple of hours of your time can change a young person's life -- now that's Service Above Self!
  • The Interview Weekend is a great opportunity for potential Youth Exchange Rotarian volunteers: Neophytes, Red Badge's, Rotary partners, Rotaract members, and even host/outbound parents (we call them potential Club members).  We will meet on Veterans Day Weekend (November 11-13) at the St Johns River State College campus in St Augustine.  Depending on how many applications we receive, we are planning a full day of interviews on Saturday and Sunday, November 12 - 13; and perhaps a few hours on Friday, November 11.  We need at least 15 interviewers for the panels who meet with the candidates and their parents for each 3-hour session.  Please contact either Paula Roderick or Bill Learn (b.learn@gmail.com) for more information or to sign up.

District 6970 has the best exchange program, hands down!  Join the best team anywhere to help ensure we send our brightest and best "citizen diplomats" around the world!

Thanks!!
Members of the Arlington United Methodist Church and their community partner, Arlington Elementary School, want to thank the Rotary Club of South Jacksonville for their generous grant.  These funds were used to purchase almost 50 bean bag chairs to encourage reading by the children during their quiet times in the classroom.   Reading is a major emphasis at Arlington Elementary School with time spent every day encouraging children to learn to enjoy reading on their own.  Pictured here are volunteers from the church transporting the bean bag chairs to the school.  

  





















Blood Drive October 11-Sign Up Today

The Blood Alliance (TBA) provides blood to more than 40 hospitals and medical facilities in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.

It provides a safe and adequate blood supply to the regions it serves and is a member of America’s Blood Centers – a national network of independent community blood centers responsible for nearly half of the nation’s blood supply.

TBA has been enriching lives since 1942 and is a non-profit community blood center licensed by the FDA and accredited by the AABB.

Rotary Literacy Project - October

Our club is working with Books A Go Go, an internationally recognized Jacksonville organization.  Books a Go Go places in the hands of disadvantaged children their very first book, thus personalizing and empowering the child’s quest to learn to read.  We will be aiding this highly successful program by donating children’s books or monetary gifts.  New or gently used books are welcome.  A box for donations will be near the entrance to our meeting area each Tuesday in October.  

“Importance of the Theodore Roosevelt Preserve to Jacksonville”

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

WE MEET AT RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY
Lunch begins at Noon - Meeting begins at 12:30 pm

PLEASE WELCOME BILL GOODYEAR 

Bill Goodyear grew up in Jacksonville, attended duPont High School and Jacksonville Junior College before entering the Air Force Academy, where he was a member of the second class to graduate in 1960.   

He served in the Air Force for 24 years, retiring as a colonel.  He flew B-52s in Vietnam and later served as aide-de-camp to the Commander of Seventh Air Force in Saigon. 

After his service in the Air Force, Bill was employed by Northrop Grumman as the director of business development for the B-2 Stealth Bomber program.  It was in this capacity that he spoke to the Southside Rotary in October of 1996 before a B-2 was named the “Spirit of Florida.”

During high school he often visited St. Johns Bluff and the home of Willie Browne, who then owned the land now included in the Theodore Roosevelt Preserve, which is the subject of today’s presentation.

These are the three main points that will be discussed during today's presentation:      
1)  Circumstances surrounding the creation of the Theodore Roosevelt Preserve in 1969.      
 2)  Selected stories about the life of William H. Browne, III, who owned the land in the Theodore Roosevelt Preserve for the previous sixty-four years. 
3)  Brief account of the sixteenth century French and Spanish occupation of the land now part of the Theodore Roosevelt Preserve.


 Blood Drive Coming Soon

 Our next blood drive is all set to be held on October 11, so be sure to sign up and get the time convenient for you.  Sign up sheets will be on the tables at lunch each week.

Thanks in advance for your participation in this community event!

Last Week At A Glance

PP Robert Harris led the pledge and prayer and Charles Hyatt gave the introductions and led the welcome song. Visiting Rotarians included Anne Renfroe from the Downtown club; Guests included Doug Johnson's son Mike; Martha Bogdan brought Shirley Westrak.

We also welcomed two new members, Chris Bouton with AmerisBank and Lauren Hopkins with Dreams Come True.  We are pleased to have these two new members.  Be sure to stop by and say hello at the door for the next few weeks.


News From Rotary International

Rotary International has prepared a video that is posted on the Rotary website featuring the role that the New York City Rotary Club played during the aftermath of 9-11.  Sandra Kessler, who is the Interim CEO of the American Lung Association of New York, was contacted by Rotary International for information on services provided by the American Lung Association while working closely with the New York City Rotary Club.  The video can be viewed on Rotary’s website at rotary.org, an interesting recap of Rotary’s 9-11 involvement along with other community organizations.

GAIL BEVERIDGE SPEAKS AT SOUTH JACKSONVILLE ROTARY

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

WE MEET AT RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY
Lunch begins at Noon - Meeting begins at 12:30 pm

PLEASE WELCOME GAIL BEVERIDGE
JACKSONVILLE ARBORETUM

As a state licensed and LEED certified interior designer, Ms. Beveridge has practiced in the field for over 35 years, twenty of those years as founder/president of PeopleSpace, Inc., an interior design firm with numerous signature projects for major corporations and financial institutions to its credit. After merging the firm into Gresham, Smith and Partners, a regional architecture, engineering and interior design firm, she helped GS&P expand its market share in the commercial design field, put a capable design team in place, and then left to pursue new interests. She now works as an artist and independent interior design consultant on selected projects.

Artist/Sculptor

By reducing her workload in the design field, Ms. Beveridge was able to devote the time to develop her skills as a fine craft artist. Combining her background in design, drawing and woodworking, she uses the hardshell gourd as the anchor form to create her three-dimensional mixed media works.

Since her first juried show in 2000, Ms. Beveridge has participated in numerous juried & invitational shows and exhibitions throughout the nation. She has received several awards and one Best of Show, and was awarded an Art Ventures grant from Community Foundation at Jacksonville. Most recently, her work was included in the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens’ Art Ventures 20 Year Retrospective exhibition.

Volunteer Activities

Presently, Ms. Beveridge serves on the Board of the Jacksonville Arboretum & Gardens and as co-chair of the Arboretum’s 2012 Plein Air Painting Event ‘A Brush with Nature’.

She also serves on the Art & Soul Gallery committee of the Women’s Center of Jacksonville.

Ms. Beveridge has also been a docent at MOCA Jacksonville, an interviewer for the Veterans History Project and a long-term care ombudsman for the State of Florida.

The Jacksonville Arboretum & Gardens is one of Jacksonville's hidden treasures. For years, the property, owned by the city, went unused except as a buffer for a water reclamation facility on Millcoe Road off Monument Road near the Florida 9A overpass.

The 120 acres that make up the Arboretum were owned from 1941 to 1961 by the Humphries Gold Mining Co., which strip-mined the area for zircon and other minerals used to make titanium.

When the mining operation ended, what was left behind were rolling sand dunes.

For the next half-century the land was mostly left alone, except for the occasional invader who came to dump trash there.

That gave the site the chance to revert to a natural state, one that encompasses 13 distinct ecosystems. As a result, "the landscape within the arboretum contains almost all the natural beauty the First Coast offers in one location, from marshes to xeric rosemary scrub uplands," said Rachel Sulkers, a senior scientist with Environmental Services Inc., who serves on the arboretum's board and leads guided tours there.

A non-profit board was established and leased the land from the city in 2006 with the idea of creating an arboretum. Volunteers went to work, cleaning up the garbage that had been dumped and creating six trails through the grounds. Those trails range from 800 feet to one mile.

The arboretum is now open to the public at no charge during daylight hours seven days a week. Dogs are allowed as long as they are kept on a leash.

Members In The News

The Ferrari GTO will be featured at the 2012 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for March 9-11 on the 10th and 18th fairways of the Golf Club of Amelia Island at Summer Beach adjacent to the Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island.“We’ve had Ferrari GTOs on the show field before, but what we have planned for 2012 should astonish even the most devoted Ferrari aficionado,” says Bill Warner, Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance Founder and Chairman.

Martha Barrett and W.C. Gentry spoke highly of School Superintendent, Ed Pratt-Dannals, saying he was the right leader going forward and Barrett adding the county is “fortunate to have him.”

September 6, 2011

NO LUNCH MEETING THIS WEEK
ENJOY THE LABOR DAY WEEKEND AS WE HEAD INTO FALL!

The first Labor Day in the United States was observed on September 5, 1882, by the Central Labor Union of New York. It became a federal holiday in 1894, when, following the deaths of a number of workers at the hands of the U.S. military and U.S. Marshals during the Pullman Strike, President Grover Cleveland put reconciliation with the labor movement as a top political priority. Fearing further conflict, legislation making Labor Day a national holiday was rushed through Congress unanimously and signed into law a mere six days after the end of the strike.

The September date originally chosen by the CLU of New York and observed by many of the nation's trade unions for the past several years was selected rather than the more widespread International Workers' Day because Cleveland was concerned that observance of the latter would stir up negative emotions linked to the Haymarket Affair, which it had been observed to commemorate. All U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territories have made it a statutory holiday.


Members In The News Once they were colleagues, he as owner and she as CEO of Solantic Walk-In Urgent Care, the multi-million-dollar clinic chain.
On Tuesday, Rick Scott and Karen Bowling, were brought together again, this time as a pair of public officials as the state’s Republican governor named his former top administrator to the board of trustees at Florida State College in Jacksonville. Congratulations Karen!

The 4th Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission sent six names to Gov. Rick Scott to fill an opening created by the upcoming Dec. 31 retirement of Circuit Judge Haldane Taylor. Among the names, our own Judge, Tyrie Boyer.

Republican Party of Florida Chairman Dave Bitner's decision to step down for health reasons was accepted with regret by party leaders. Now he wants them to ratify his choice for successor. The chairman recommended to members of the Republican Executive Committee that they elect Vice Chairman Lenny Curry to succeed him as chairman.  



Martha Bogdan and P Odette joined the San Marco Rotary Club for a night of fellowship learning how to cook at the Publix Apron Cooking School! Thankfully, nothing was overcooked!!

Last Week At A Glance

JOIN US AS WE WELCOME DR. QUINTON WHITE

TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2011

WE WILL BE MEETING AT JACKSONVILLE UNIVERSITY
MARINE SCIENCE INSTITUTE
Lunch/Program begins at Noon this week

Quinton White was originally from Norfolk, Virginia. He received his B.S. degree from N.C. Wesleyan College and his M.S. degree from the University of Virginia. Dr. White joined the faculty at Jacksonville University in 1976, having completed his Ph.D. at the University of South Carolina at the Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research. In 1978, he established the major in marine science at Jacksonville University. He has served as Chair of the Department of Biology and Marine Science, Chair of the Division of Science and Mathematics and Dean of the College of Arts and Science. In July, 2008, he was named Executive Director of the Marine Science Research Institute and charged with development and construction of a 32,000 sq. ft. LEED certified facility.

The MSRI opened in July 2010. The MSRI is an interdisciplinary institute that focuses on the St. Johns River and other marine environments. Dr. White is chair of the JU Campus Sustainability Committee and is developing a campus wide sustainability policy and program.

He has been active in marine science education, and research concerning the St. Johns River and the impact of man on marine ecosystems. His marine science research has taken him to China, South America, the Galapagos Islands, the Bahamas and Australia. While most of his research is done on the surface of the sea, he has been down to 1,500 feet in the Johnson-Sea Link submersible to do research on deep-sea crabs. Dr. White has written numerous research and technical papers or reports and received grants and contracts to support marine research at JU. Currently he is conducting research on manatees and king mackerel. Dr. White serves as a consultant with the City of Jacksonville Waterways Commission on manatee and water quality issues.

Dr. White is President of Jacksonville Community Council. Inc. for 2008-09. In 2006-07 he chaired the Jacksonville Community Council, Inc. study on Energy, Environment and Economy: Sustaining Jacksonville’s Air Quality for the Future. He was a Past-President of the Board of Trustees for the Jacksonville Museum of Science and History, past President of the Board of Directors of Tree Hill, Inc. and past Chair of the Mayor's Mimi and Lee Adams Environmental Advisory Board. He was JU's Professor of the Year in 1987‑88. He was in the Leadership Jacksonville Class of 1988 and President of the Board of Directors for Leadership Jacksonville in 1992‑93. In 2011, he was recognized by Leadership Jacksonville as a Community Trustee. He served on the Manatee Technical Advisory Council for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Dr. White was named American Council on Education Fellow for 1997-98 at Elon College, North Carolina. He was recognized in April 2000, by the Jacksonville Chapter of the Florida Association of Environmental Professionals with their Continuous Professional Achievement Award. He was a Founding Member of the Board of Director of the St. Johns Riverkeeper, Inc. and received their River Advocate award in 2008. He serves on the boards of several local civic organizations. Hands-On Jacksonville awarded Dr. White the “Nature of Caring Award” in 2009 for his voluntary service to the environment.

Dr. White is married to Dr. Susan Hite White, a pediatrician who practices in Mandarin. They have three children. In his spare time, Dr. White enjoys cooking, hunting, fishing, scuba diving and golf.

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Last Week At A Glance



Carl Cannon offered us a summary of the Civic Council goals for our city



PP Mike gives a thought for the week while PE Jim has many thoughts......


Bob Massey hosted his own table at lunch this week!


Warner Webb and his wife, Sherrie, talk things over with PP Al Wilkinson

CARL CANNON SPEAKS AT SOUTH JACKSONVILLE ROTARY

TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2011

WE MEET AT RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY
Lunch begins at Noon - Meeting begins at 12:30 pm

PLEASE WELCOME CARL CANNON, CIVIC COUNCIL

Carl N. Cannon retired as publisher of The Florida Times-Union in December, 2007, after 18 years in Jacksonville, and was employed for a total of 42 years with Morris Communications, the newspaper’s parent company.

Carl, a native of Albany, Georgia, and alumni of the University of Georgia, was honored this year by the Governor’s Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service with the President’s Call to Service Award. With more than 20,000 hours of volunteer service, Carl’s statewide recognition saluted his leadership in numerous top-level positions. He has served as president of the Downtown Rotary, chairman of the Gator Bowl, symphony, YMCA and zoo. He has served Wesley Manor and the Alliance for World Class Education. In 1993, Carl was instrumental in bringing the Jacksonville Jaguars to town when he mediated a dispute between the team’s ownership and the city. He formed NFL Now! and spearheaded a drive that sold 10,000 club seats. Currently, he serves on the boards of the Jacksonville Sports and Entertainment Commission and Florida State College Foundation . Carl continues to serve as chairman of Touchdown Jacksonville, the group that formed Team Teal, which assisted the Jaguar marketing organization in selling 15,000 new season tickets for the Jaguars in 2010.

Carl was a member of the Non-Group, a group of about 50 civic leaders that formed twenty years ago and evolved into the Jacksonville Civic Council in February, 2010. The Council made downtown development the focus of one of its first studies and the subject of his talk to South Jacksonville Rotary.


Last Week At A Glance

Our speaker, Steve Piscitelli implored us to Be Brief, Be Bright and Be Gone!


Exchange students, Shannon Jaycox welcomes Rex from Taiwan

Shannon Jaycox gives an emotional "thank-you" to the club for her year as an exchange student in Brazil

Rotary Gets A New Website

Effective immediately, the Rotary Club of South Jacksonville will be using a blogging system instead of the regular website.  This will allow members and editors to add and subtract articles, photos, movies and more -  live and in real time throughout the day.   In addition, this is where you will come to find out information on the next program.

If you sign in,  you will be kept up-to-date of any new articles added to the blog.   Please let us know what you think.

South Jacksonville Rotary Welcomes Steve Piscitelli

Steve Piscitelli

Steve Piscitelli is a recognized teacher, author and workshop facilitator. Whether delivering a conference keynote address, facilitating a day-long retreat for employees, or helping students understand the choices they make, Steve draws on his years of classroom and professional development experience to connect with his audience. His publications reflect his belief in the importance of personal responsibility and individual initiative.

His high-energy sessions combine interaction and practicality with music and humor in such a way that participants leave with practical strategies they can begin using immediately.

Steve, a tenured professor, has earned degrees from Jacksonville University , The University of North Florida, and The University of Florida. He has been recognized for his effective teaching style with awards at the school, county and international level. Steve also has served as the Chair of his college's Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning.

· Author.  Steve has written and published eight books. His latest is Choices for College Success (Pearson Education, 2011).  He has also written, recorded, and produced two full-length CDs.  The most recent release is Find Your Happy Place! (2010).

·  Teacher. Steve has three decades of direct (face-to-face) classroom experience. He has taught at the middle school, high school, and college level.  As a tenured professor, Steve knows the importance of connecting with the people in front of him.


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Other News
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Member Birthdays

Aug 16: PP Gary Wilkinson

Aug 18: PE Jim Lanahan

Aug 20: PP Hobart Joost

Partner Birthdays

Aug 16: Linda (Bob) Uible

Aug 18: Gail (Dinkins) Grange

Aug 18: Paul (Joy) Hardaker

Aug 19: Sandy (PP James) Chansler

Anniversaries

Aug 15: Doug & Carol Matthews

Aug 17: Ken & Patti Wilson

Member Makeups

North Jax: Marcus

Drewa, PP Jerry

Hanks

Deerwood: PP

James Chansler

Bartram Trail: PP

James Chansler

Downtown: PP Gary

Wilkinson

Visiting Rotarians

& Guests:

San Marco

Members joined us

to hear the District

Governor; Chris

Bouton and

Lauren Hopkins

were also our guests.

District Foundation Seminar

Do you remember the day you joined Rotary?

Do you remember the day you became a Rotarian?

Don't forget the District Foundation Seminar, will be held on

Saturday, August 20, at the Thrasher-Horne Center in Orange

Park from 8am-2pm. It will be a highly informative half-day

session that includes continental breakfast and barbecue

lunch. The Club pays the cost and hopes you will attend and

enjoy the program. Ramesh Ferris from India will speak-for

those who missed him at the District Conference this past

May, his story is quite compelling and he is a wonderful

speaker.

Join your fellow Rotarians from around our district (and there

are 62 clubs in all) and get engaged!

Board News

The following candidates have been approved by the Board for your

consideration into membership:

Lauren Hopkins, sponsored

by Bob Massey, Jr. Lauren's

classification is Non-

Profit/Children's Services

Greg Anderson, sponsored

by Rick Morales. Greg's

classification is

Finance/Banking-Community

Banking

Chris Bouton, sponsored by

Bob Massey, Jr. Chris'

classification is Finance/Banking-Business Development

Anyone having any objections, please submit them in writing to the Board

within ten (10) days.

Tara Wildes will be on a leave of absence through Dec 2011.

After careful consideration and a great deal of discussion, the Board

unanimously decided to suspend our Gingerbread "G9" project. The Board

has tasked the Fund-raising committee (Joel Batten Josh Krehbiel, Mary

Goldsmith) to come up with three new ideas to carry us forward. The Board

has expressed their appreciation to our long standing partners, Ronald McDonald House, HabiJax, and the Jacksonville Historical Society. Your

Board also sincerely thanks all members who have put so much passion

into the project. We look forward to your full support as we move forward to

our next endeavor!

PP Judge Harvey Schlesinger and RADM Byron Fuller have been reelected

to honorary membership for the year 2011-2012.

LAST MEETING

Pledge & Prayer: PP Vickilynne Gloger

Introductions: PP Mike Darragh

Craft Talk:

Speaker: DG Clint Dawkins

Future Rotary Events

Aug 20: District Foundation

Seminar

Nov 4, 5, 6: Blue Angels

100th Anniversary at NAS JAX

Nov 7: Rotary Cub of

Jacksonville hosts a Golf &

Tennis day at Timuquana to

support their Centennial

project

Nov 25: Salvation Army Bell

Ringing - Publix at 9A &

Baymeadows

Member News

Martha Bogdan, the CEO of the American Lung Association of the

Southeast, has been appointed to the Florida Bar Citizens Forum. The

forum is an advisory group of 12 citizens who provide feedback on plans

and programs and advise the Bar.

Eight physicians from the Florida Radiation Oncology Group (A.K.A.

FROG) won the highly coveted Patients’ Choice Awards. Our own Doug

Johnson, was among the winners of this very special award. The "FROG"

Docs provide consultation and radiation treatment planning, external beam

therapy, brachytherapy, stereotactic radiotherapy, therapeutic radioisotope

administration, research protocol administration and, ongoing care and

follow up for adult and pediatric patients with a variety of malignant and

non-malignant conditions.

Congratulations!

2011 Gingerbread Extravaganza Suspended

After careful consideration and a great deal of discussion, the Board unanimously decided to suspend our Gingerbread "G9" project. 

The Board has tasked the Fund-raising committee (Joel Batten Josh Krehbiel, Mary Goldsmith) to come up with three new ideas to carry us forward. 

Jacksonville Beach Red Cross Lifeguard Station

The Board has expressed their appreciation to our long standing partners, Ronald McDonald House, HabiJax, and the Jacksonville Historical Society. Your Board also sincerely thanks all members who have put so much passion into the project.  We look forward to your full support as we move forward to our next endeavor!