Recognizing the services provided by Community PedsCare to families in Northeast Florida, EverBank, the PGA Tour Wives Association and The Players Championship joined forces to support Community Hospice of Northeast Florida.
EverBank was the presenting sponsor of “These Kids Can Jam,” where Community PedsCare families spend a day at The Players Championship. EverBank contributed $30,000 to Community PedsCare and the tournament matched the donation.
The event featured family activities including music, arts and crafts, face painting and animal displays from the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens.
Junior Achievement teaches money skills in elementary schools
Junior Achievement’s goal is to teach its entire five-week program of financial education to students in one day.
On May 29, with help from 130 volunteers from Florida Blue, all 1,100 students at Don Brewer and Merrill Road elementary schools spent the day building businesses to learn about work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy.
The students received Junior Achievement certificates at the end of the day.
Fish fry Saturday at Big Talbot Island
North Florida Land Trust is hosting its fourth annual Fish Fry at Big Talbot Island on Saturday. Festivities get underway at 3 p.m. and continue until sunset.
Treemendous BBQ will be providing the food. Fish, chicken, pork or portabello dinner plates will be available for $15. Tickets may be purchased at nfltfishfry.eventbrite.com.
In addition to food and local beer, there will be live music from Cain’t Never Could and Hard 2 Handle, lawn games, a free guided nature hike with Big Talbot Island State Park staff starting at 4 p.m., and a guided kayak paddle at sunset with Kayak Amelia at 6 p.m. Equipment rentals are available at kayakamelia.com.
For more information, visit northfloridalandtrust.org, contact [email protected] or call (904) 479-1967.
Low-cost (cat) neutering for Father’s Day
In honor of Father’s Day, the St. Augustine Humane Society is offering a discount on neutering male cats.
From 8 a.m.-4 p.m. June 15, neutering will be done for a $10 appointment fee.
According to Carolyn Smith, St. Augustine Humane Society’s executive director, the “Don’t Be a Father Day” neutering promotion will help to prevent many cats from being taken to shelters or euthanized due to unwanted litters and colonies.
The humane society’s spay and neuter clinic offers low fees for all pets with the cost for female cat spaying at $55, neutering for male cats at $45. Male dog neutering starts at $65 and female dog spaying starts at $75.
The humane society’s spay, neuter and surgery clinic is open 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday. The wellness clinic is open 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday.
Pet owners must pre-register for spay and neuter surgery.
To make reservations, call (904) 829-2737 or visit staugustinehumanesociety.org.
Washington foundation awards scholarships
The MaliVai Washington Youth Foundation awarded 31 scholarships for a total of $53,000 to middle and high school students. Scholarships ranged from $500 to $5,000.
In the past 19 years, the foundation, in partnership with other organizations, has awarded more than $800,000 in scholarships to local students.
The Zoe Gaudet Scholarship is awarded annually to one or more high school seniors who are continuing their education.
Seniors Fred Radford (Ribault High School) and Marquis Atkinson (Paxon School for Advanced Studies) received $2,500 each and Antonia Bell (Robert E. Lee High School), Adrienne Clark (Lee), Maliyah Davis (Ribault) and Jervonnie Moody (Lee) received $5,000 each through the scholarship fund.
Bell, Clark, Davis and Moody also received $1,250 through the Charlie Rice “Fired Up” Award, given to students who are “fired up” about college.
The foundation presents the Rick Murray “Don’t Quit” Award to a student who never gives up. This year’s $5,000 scholarship was presented to high school freshman Dquante Guyton (Andrew Jackson High School).
Two new scholarships were awarded this year: $1,000 and a business suit to Adrienne Clark through the iMethods Meaningful Work Scholarship Program and $1,250 for the Carol Hadley Service Scholarship to Tiah Thomas-Jacobs (Kirby Smith Middle School), Kylia Brown (John E. Ford K-8), Nykia Brown (Ford) and Mya Suddath (Darnell Cookman Middle-High School).
‘School’s Out’ food drive through Aug. 31
Community Management Concepts of Jacksonville Inc. has begun its 2015 Summer Food Drive and is looking for donations of non-perishable foods. The drive is aimed at helping school-aged children.
The Summer Food Drive runs through Aug. 31. All donated items will be delivered to the Mandarin Food Bank.
Donations can be made at the CMC-Jacksonville main office at 7400 Baymeadows Way, Suite 317.
For more information or to find out about other drop-off locations, email the company at [email protected] or call (904) 367-8532.