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Gainesville Girls Rock Camp creates a safe space for girls and gender-expansive youth
The nonprofit organization uses music, art and creative expression to amplify the voices of marginalized gender groups May 20, 2021 | 7:30am EDT Gainesville Girls Rock Camp is a nonprofit organization that uses music, art and creative expression to amplify the voices of marginalized gender groups. (Courtesy to The Alligator)
After the COVID-19 pandemic turned down the volume on live-music events last year, Gainesville Girls Rock Camp (GGRC) will be jamming out in person for its 2021 summer session.
The week-long camp, held from July 26 to July 31, is dedicated to teaching regional youths ages 10-17 how to play instruments individually and together in bands. As a chapter of the international Girls Rock Camp Alliance, GGRC actively works to dismantle racism, sexism, homophobia and other discriminatory behaviors and expressions.
But the utility s customers will likely soon be paying more every month.
Layoffs of Gainesville Regional Utilities employees were mentioned among several options electric company officials brought forth at a City Commission budget session Wednesday.
However, major cuts from its budget and the city s general operations could be in the works.
City Commissioners asked the utility and city’s general services staffs to come back with proposals to slash up to $5 million each from their proposed fiscal year 2022 budgets.
Several commissioners said they don t envision that much actually being cut, but they wanted to at least see the proposals.
Open positions may not be filled, not only at the city’s utility company but in the city s general operations, commissioners agreed. They directed staff to come back with recommendations about what positions can stay open.
A truck leaves the industrial cement property that sits across the street from Porters, one of Gainesville s historically Black neighborhoods. (MacKenzie DiLeo/WUFT News) Home/Environment/Porters Community Residents Are Growing Tired Of Noise And Dust Coming From Neighboring Cement Companies
Porters Community Residents Are Growing Tired Of Noise And Dust Coming From Neighboring Cement Companies
By MacKenzie DiLeo
May 12, 2021
Chris Fillie worries about dusty peppers.
Fillie has lived in the Porters Community for 17 years and owns a community garden on Southwest Third Street. There, he grows peppers, tomatoes, parsley and rosemary. While the garden has existed for 15 years and is meant to bring fresh produce and a green space to Porters, Fillie is concerned about the garden’s location near an industrial site.