Garden Show and Spring Festival: 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. today, Cedar Lakes Woods and Gardens, 4990 NE 180th Ave., Williston. Tickets: $10 adults, $4 ages 6-13, free ages 5 and younger. (bit.ly/fest2021a) Sixth annual festival featuring live music and vendors from all over Florida selling native, exotic and unique plants plus arts-and-crafts booths and food trucks.
Kulaqua River Ranch Water Park Community Sunday: 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. today, River Ranch Water Park, 23400 NW 212th Ave., High Springs. Admission: $14 ages 4 and older, free ages 3 and younger. (bit.ly/kulaqua21) In an effort to support the community, Camp Kulaqua opens the River Ranch during specific Sundays during the summer at a discounted rate with no reservations required. The venue requests that modest swimsuits be worn. Food and coolers allowed, but no glass containers or alcoholic beverages.
Ceremony welcomes pavilion to Moberly s Depot Park
Moberly Monitor-Index
Another community service amenity to help tie-in Moberly s heritage with the railroad industry was officially welcomed Thursday when a ribbon cutting ceremony was held at Depot Park to announce the newly constructed pavilion and restroom facility are now available for public use.
“We ve been into our sales tax proposal two years now and this is one of the projects we said we were going to do for our community and today you can see a promise is kept,” Moberly Parks and Recreation Department Director Troy Bock said.
Bock extended his appreciation to past city council and park board members, Moberly Rotary Club for their support as well as naming the businesses directly involved into the construction of the pavilion and public restroom facility of Depot Park.
Are you good, now? Feel better? Fine, let s proceed.
The research comes courtesy of the sports-betting site Penn Bets, which recently released a study that found no MLB team lost less revenue than the Marlins in 2020.
According to the study, MLB lost a combined estimated $2.4 billion during the 2020 season because there was no live attendance during games. But the Marlins accounted for less than $19 million of that number, with an estimated average loss per game of $226,061.
Those of you who have been to a Marlins game can probably guess why: If your team isn t known for selling many tickets, it s less likely to lose money than the teams that sell out every game when a pandemic makes in-person attendance impossible.
Vietnam war veteran turned peace activist Scott Camil has been to a few protests over the years.
He was one of the Gainesville Eight, a group of men who were charged with conspiracy to disrupt the 1972 Republican convention in Miami Beach. They were acquitted.
At the 1971 University of Florida homecoming parade, he joined in some street theater he and others dressed in army clothes, carried a flag-draped coffin and pretended to stab people in the crowd who were in on the gag and had fake blood.
Over the years, Camil has slowed down a bit on the protest front but he is riled by the “anti-riot” bill passed by the Florida Legislature and signed into immediate law by Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday of this past week.