Around the state today
“Some Floridians who don’t entirely meet the state’s requirements for the COVID-19 vaccine are scouring the internet to get inoculated. One Facebook group calls itself ‘Florida Vaccine Hunters.’ It’s a group in which people share where there are extra doses of the vaccine available.”
“Just hours after Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office released the draft report Thursday by Chief Inspector General Melinda Miguel, attorneys for the plaintiffs filed a copy of the report in their lawsuit against the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity and Deloitte Consulting, a contractor that helped put in place the state’s CONNECT online unemployment system in 2013.”
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Lupita Vazquez of Cultivate Abundance poses among the yuca (Manihot
esculenta) plants at the community garden at Misión Peniel in Immokalee,
Florida, on October 4, 2020. The harvest of the garden is distributed on
Friday afternoons during their community pantry day
There is a community garden tucked behind the Mission Peniel food distribution and outreach center in Immokalee. It’s called “Cultivate Abundance” and features produce not normally found in stores, but which is prolific in the native countries of many of the town’s inhabitants.
With a smoldering sage bundle in her hand, Lupita Vazquez-Reyes pointed out the chaya plant.