- April 18, 2024
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Also: Local teens make singing debut; art museum gets sentimental with sponsors; family throws big Quinceanera bash; and the holiday donations keep rolling in.
BY MIKE CAVALIERE | AsSOCIATE EDITOR
Osceola Elementary students make gifts for homeless
Students in Jennifer Mollo’s fourth- and fifth-grade classes at Osceola Elementary School were extra colorful this week, as they painted Christmas gifts for homeless residents.
“We just completed a project that involved painting shoeboxes that toiletries will be placed in and provided for the homeless for Christmas,” Mollo said. “My class painted 22 shoeboxes for this project; however, we were just a small portion of the project.”
About 80 total boxes were painted by employees at Computer Sciences Raytheon, where they will be filled with supplies.
“This is the first year we were asked to help out in the painting,” Mollo added. “However, the company has done this for many years prior.”
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Sharp-dressed teens: Sea Sharps to sing at Home for the Holidays
Three Ormond Beach teens will make their world debut 2-5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, at downtown Daytona Beach’s Home for the Holiday event.
Justin Glass, a 17 year old senior at Seabreeze High School, joins Ashley King, home-schooled high school senior, and Summer Foley, to form The Sea Sharps. They’ll perform seasonal favorites this weekend.
Call 676-2223.
Memorial museum spotlights sponsors
In its December newsletter, the Ormond Memorial Art Museum, located at 78 E. Granada Blvd., recognized a few of its supporters.
Babs and Jim Foster provided the funding for new carpeting throughout the museum's gallery, as well as replacement kitchen appliances.
Pat LaMee, with help from student-volunteers from Wyotech, donated time and materials to help protect 34 redbay trees from laurel wilt disease in the Memorial Gardens, by applying fungicidal root treatments.
And former president of the museum’s board of directors, Alexis Lenssen, sponsored the months-long “Through the Layers: Two Artists Revealed” exhibition, featuring Ormond resident Antoinette Slick.
Call 676-3347.
Lights of Love tree raises $2,000 for hospital
A remembrance tree, illuminated Nov. 27 at Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center, has so far raised $2,000 for nonprofit initiatives at the hospital.
In its third year, the tree is presented by the hospital’s Auxiliary. For $10, a light can be placed on the tree as a tribute to a loved one, whose name will be added to a book stationed nearby, as well on an ornament. For $100, a mini-banner with the loved one's name will go on the tree every year.
Donations will be accepted through Dec. 27.
Cloer Quinceanera kicks off in style: Dec. 8
Who needs a Sweet 16 party when you can have a Quinceanera, instead? Not Lucy “Elle” Cloer, who celebrated her 15th birthday in style Saturday, Dec. 8, at Celebration Place, with more than 100 of her closest friends.
A Spanish tradition, the party was DJ’d by Justin Kerin. Cloer, who is a Seabreeze High School freshman and also plays on the Lady Sandcrabs basketball team, arrived to the venue with her court of honor by limousine
Her court of honor includes Megan Moore, Lindsey Pittman, Katherine Paspalakis and Lexi Forester. Her Chamberlains were Caelan Rand, Caleb Breter, Alex Thompson, and Cole Tepper.
She had her customary first dance with her father, after the ceremonious changing of the shoes. The party lived on through the night.
United Way donates $2,000 to Flagler County food drive
Matching what was raised by a Flagler County volunteer group, called the Chicks with Cans, the United Way of Volusia-Flagler donated $2,000 to Flagler County’s annual “Feed Flagler” event, which pits nonprofit against nonprofit to raise food for the needy.
This is the third consecutive year Chicks with Cans won, this time collecting more than 2,800 bags of food and $2,000.
Call 366-9053.
