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05:00 PM EST Share The At-Large City Council member will participate in Read & Feed on April 23 at Jacksonville Arts & Music School.
At-Large Group 1 Jacksonville City Council member Terrance Freeman is the new CEO of Read USA.
“Thanks to our generous donors and the great support we’ve received from our community partners, we have taken our organization to the next level by hiring a full-time CEO,” said Ellen Wiss, board chair and co-founder of Read USA, in a news release.
Read USA is a nonprofit organization that has provided about 250,000 free books to more than 73,000 children in Duval County since 2011.
Freeman will be at Jacksonville Arts & Music School on April 23 at the Read & Feed community event on World Book Day.
Michael Cape of Fruit Cove hit the 100-gallon blood donation mark when he donated platelets Friday at
OneBlood Jacksonville s Deerwood Park Donor Center. In doing so, he joined the ranks of fewer than 300 Floridians who have reached the milestone since blood banking began during World War II.
Cape has helped save or sustain many hundreds of lives and families, OneBlood officials said.
Cape, 57, started giving blood in college. After talking with a man who wore a watch touting his 10-gallon blood donation milestone, he set his own 10-gallon goal. He knew it would take a long time; whole blood can only be donated every eight weeks. He began donating platelets in 1997 when he learned you can donate as often as 24 times a year.
Jaguars Re-sign Defensive Lineman Dawuane Smoot Mar 16, 2021 at 04:55 PM Copied!
JACKSONVILLE– The Jacksonville Jaguars have re-signed fourth-year DL Dawuane Smoot, the team announced today.
Smoot has appeared in 56 games (seven starts) in his four seasons (2017-20) in Jacksonville and registered 61 tackles, 11.5 sacks and two forced fumbles. In 2020, he saw action in all 16 games and registered a team-high 5.5 sacks. In the final five games of the season, Smoot recorded 3.0 sacks and two forced fumbles. Smoot posted a career-best 6.0 sacks in 2019.
A Groveport, Ohio native, Smoot was selected by the Jaguars in the third round (68th overall) of the 2017 draft. He attended Illinois from 2013-16 and finished his career with 24 consecutive starts. He was named team captain as a senior and started 12 games at defensive tackle where he recorded 56 tackles, including 15 tackles for loss.
When Cowford Chophouse restaurant owners Jacques Klempf and wife Tracy first visited the Jacksonville Arts & Music School a few years ago, they were stunned by what they saw and heard.
Students were passionately engaged in after-school programming in performing and visual arts, music, dance, photography and film and robotics. And their instructors showed the same passion as they helped students hone their chosen crafts. We were overwhelmed by … the work they do to both support children in our community and promote arts education, Jacques Klempf said. We were so impressed with the level of talent and enthusiasm the kids had … whether that be dance, film making, drawing or any other form of artistic expression.