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Jacksonville Icemen
• The Jacksonville Icemen and the Orlando Solar Bears hockey teams square off Saturday and Sunday at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena. For Friday s game, which starts at 7 p.m., the home team will wear Rugrats -themed jerseys, which will be auctioned to fans during the game. Faceoff for Sunday s game is 3 p.m. $11-$49.
Whale of a Sale
• The Junior League of Jacksonville is having its 30th annual Whale of a Sale Saturday at the Jacksonville Fairgrounds. The sale features used furniture, clothing, toys and just about anything else you can think of, and benefits the Junior League s efforts to promote nutrition education. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. $2 admission, $5 parking.
Share The nonprofit lit up the Downtown neighborhood’s historic churches and structures through the 2020 holiday season.
The Cathedral District-Jax Inc. finished its “Let There Be Light” Christmas event Dec. 27 with a laser light show at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception.
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The Castano Group created the laser light installation, which ran every 15 minutes and featured music by the Jacksonville Children’s Chorus, The Jacksonville Symphony, CDJ Church Choirs and organist Tim Tuller, according to Daily Record news partner News4Jax.com.
The Basilica show was part of the nonprofit Cathedral District Jax effort to showcase the Downtown neighborhood’s historic churches during the 2020 holiday season.
Do This! Holiday events fill weekend calendar
The Holiday Pops show is always a highlight of the Jacksonville Symphony’s season. For this year’s shows, they’ll be joined by singers Erica Gabriel and Brandon Michael Nase and dancers from the Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. 7:30 p.m. Friday, 3 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Times-Union Center. $44-$89.
Drew Thomas is Jamaica-born and New York raised, and he knows how to make you laugh. Thomas, a veteran of two seasons of NBC’s “Last Comic Standing,” is at the Comedy Zone, inside the Ramada Conference Center in Mandarin, which reopened earlier this month. He has shows scheduled for 8 p.m. Friday and 8 and 10 p.m. Saturday. $20.
Print article In April, the deadliest month of the pandemic, an elderly New Yorker in assisted living couldn’t grasp why she was suddenly forbidden to see her friends. In May, two sisters in Michigan, one Republican and the other a Democrat, watched their aged parents suffer from covid-19 and wondered why so many people refused to cover their faces against the virus. In Florida in October, with 200,000 Americans already dead, a strong young man questioned how dire - how real - the whole crisis was. In wintry South Dakota last month, as the coronavirus hit home with an icy clarity, a man who understood the risk chose not to wear a mask. He just didn’t like being told what to do, his family said.