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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Cleveland Tinker
Finding a job has been tough for 27-year-old Shawn Johnson since being released from incarceration about a year ago. In an attempt to change his fortunes, Johnson was one of the first people to show up May 29 at an open house event introducing an entrepreneurial and job training program sponsored by the Gainesville Housing Authority and its partners.
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Cleveland Tinker
Helping people become self-sufficient is at the core of what officials at the Gainesville Housing Authority preach. Led by Pamela Davis, executive director of GHA, the housing authority will be opening its ELITE Training Center to provide job training and business development programs for GHA residents, as well as the broader Gainesville community.
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Cleveland Tinker
Celebrating the freedom of enslaved Africans in Florida highlighted a Florida Emancipation Day event at a Black museum in southeast Gainesville. Billed as the “Florida Emancipation Celebration” that is held as part of “Journey to Juneteenth: Florida Emancipation to National Celebration,” the event was again held at the Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center on May 24.
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Cleveland Tinker
Teaching dance in the community became a big part Wanda Lloyd’s life after she started dancing in 2014. “At first, dance was just like every other hobby,” said Lloyd, the recipient of this year’s 5th Avenue Arts Festival‘s Patricia Hilliard-Nunn Cultural Ambassador Award. Lloyd will receive her award during a festival kick-off reception at 6 p.m. May 16 at the Rosa B. Williams Center, 524 NW First St., in Gainesville.
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2 months ago |
yahoo.com | Cleveland Tinker
Following a shooting on April 20 near an Easter event at TB McPherson Park, Gainesville City Manager Cynthia Curry told city commissioners during an April 24 general policy meeting that the permit for the event never should have been approved. Curry said she was never brought into the information loop regarding the permitting process for the event billed as an Easter egg hunt and that she is very “disappointed, dismayed and saddened” on what finally resulted.
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