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‘The Biggest Impact’
When President Jim McCarthy joined the North Florida Land Trust in 2014, the non-profit conservation organization had a $233,000 budget and a staff of three. In seven years, the trust has grown to 14 full-time employees and a budget of $8 million and has secured protection for more than 25,000 acres.
“The secret to that (success) is finding really good people,” McCarthy says. “But, we have also stayed focused on where we could have the biggest impact.”
The organization achieves its mission of preserving the natural resources, historic places and working lands of North Florida by purchasing or receiving donations of land, as well as by helping public agencies with real estate transactions.
(Provided photo â Melinda Walton)
Mending fences has been on my mind. “Good fences make good neighbors,” as the saying goes. So is that what we’re supposed to do, figure out a way to repair damaged relationships with our neighbors, family, friends? It is our nature, I suppose. We mend fences so we can get along. As the pandemic shutdown unfolded, life narrowed. Work changed. Socializing essentially disappeared. While social media revved to a fevered pitch, it became less social and more agitating. Politics spiraled out of control. Where was it all going to end? Serendipity left the scene. No longer could we have all the random, pleasant, everyday interactions or annoyances that had once defined our days and connected us.
March 04, 2021 08:12
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared Wednesday that the relationship between the United States and China is the world s biggest geopolitical test of the century.
In his first major foreign policy speech, Blinken said the new Biden administration would manage ties with China from a position of strength. That requires engaging in diplomacy and in international organizations, because where we have pulled back, China has filled in, Blinken said at the State Department in Washington.
The top U.S. diplomat said Washington would continue to compete, collaborate and be adversarial, if necessary, with China, the only country with the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to seriously challenge the stable and open international system all the rules, values, and relationships that make the world work the way we want it to.
In horse country, a new facility helps people get stronger
Andy Fillmore
MORRISTON The term mending fences now has a new meaning in Horse Country.
Transformations at Mending Fences, a mental health and substance abuse facility with 24 residential and 10 partial hospitalization program (PHP) beds, opened here in west Marion County earlier this month.
The facility is set on 400 acres that once was home to an equine health center. Transformations is surrounded by horse farms.
Chris Hanaka, director of operations, said the beds filled quickly. The facility also has plans to provide outpatient treatment.
Transformations at Mending Fences is a sister facility to Transformations Treatment Center, which opened in 2007 in Delray Beach.