Councilman Reggie Gaffney announces run for Florida Senate
Currently, the Jacksonville native is a two-term council member, local business owner, and founder and president of a non-profit. Author: First Coast News Staff Published: 7/15/2021 8:46:56 PM Updated: 11:52 PM EDT July 15, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Councilman Reggie Gaffney announced his candidacy for Florida State Senate District 6 Thursday evening.
Currently, the Jacksonville native is a two-term council member, local business owner, and founder and president of a non-profit.
Prior to his election to public office, Gaffney served as Chairman of the Board of Jacksonville Port Authority.
He was appointed by Mayor John Peyton as a member of the Mayor s Transition Subcommittee. In 2015, Gaffney was elected to serve District 7 as City Councilman.
Now Carmen Gray is planning to use food and cooking as a way to engage the community in a discussion to support mental health and combat violence in an interactive program she titled “Who Cracked My Egg?”
For the program, Carmen Gray is extending a virtual invitation for everyone to join her in her kitchen in Palm Coast from 7 to 8 p.m. on April 13.
Participants can choose from three recipes to cook. They can cook one or all three. She asks that people join 10 minutes before the program starts.
“It’s an educational piece in which I’m able to show through the simplicity of a three-part egg: the shell; the yolk; the egg white,” Gray said, “to break those down to show what happens when trauma happens to an individual.”