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Hamm is the founder of Paws For Compassion, the pet-therapy nonprofit he started five years ago to honor his sister, Tamra Williams, who died of cancer in 2015. He has done similar tours in past, completing a four-day bike ride across Florida in 2018 and traveling from Jupiter to Huntington Beach, Calif., in 2019.
“I wanted to do something to raise awareness about pet therapy and I wanted to do something to honor my sister, which is why I do all that, said Hamm, 54.
Hamm said he was inspired to begin pet therapy after witnessing a moment in which Chibby Choo provided comfort to Tamra during her illness.
Rain in North Central Florida has dampened wildfire season
North Central Florida is into its annual wildfire season and so far, so good.
Most of the Florida peninsula from about Citrus County on the Gulf coast through southern Marion to Flagler on the Atlantic is either abnormally dry or in a drought.
Areas above that line, however, have had plenty of rain.
But with a month or so until the start of the typical summer weather pattern, the region is not out of the wildfire woods yet, said Ludie Bond, wildfire mitigation specialist with Florida Forest Service Waccasassa district headquartered in Gainesville.
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