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Gainesville is fortunate that law enforcement officers and community members are working together to close divisions.
Cheer: The Gainesville Police Department and groups such as the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding for working to address disproportionate arrests of minority youths.
The efforts include the sessions where officers and young people can discuss their perceptions of one another.
Jeer: The developer of the Finley Woods subdivision, Tommy Williams Homes, for subjecting Arredondo residents to spotty mail, school bus route changes and a lack of access to their own driveways.
Area drivers were also given scant notice that parts of Southwest 62nd Avenue/63rd Boulevard were being closed to traffic for more than a month.
Cheer: Dancing mom Bonnie Northsea for giving birth to a nine-pound baby boy last week.
The Gainesville native became an Internet sensation in recent weeks for a video she recorded of herself in Gator gear doing the zombie-style dance from “Thriller,” hoping it would encourage labor.
Cheer and Jeer: The Gainesville City Commission gets a cheer for directing staff to prepare to open the Paynes Prairie Sheetflow Restoration Project, but a jeer goes to all involved parties for the fact that it will only be open on weekends for the rest of the fiscal year.
The project has been years in the making and figuring out how to provide week-long access should have been sorted out long ago.
Cheer: The Wagmore Foundation for its $1.3 million gift to the Community Foundation of North Florida.
The money will help the Alachua County animal shelter become a no-kill facility.
Editorial: Cheers and JeersFebruary 27, 2015 11:34 AM
Gainesville is fortunate that law enforcement officers and community members are working together to close divisions.
Cheer: The Gainesville Police Department and groups such as the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding for working to address disproportionate arrests of minority youths.
The efforts include the sessions where officers and young people can discuss their perceptions of one another.
Jeer: The developer of the Finley Woods subdivision, Tommy Williams Homes, for subjecting Arredondo residents to spotty mail, school bus route changes and a lack of access to their own driveways.
Area drivers were also given scant notice that parts of Southwest 62nd Avenue/63rd Boulevard were being closed to traffic for more than a month.
Cheer: Dancing mom Bonnie Northsea for giving birth to a nine-pound baby boy last week.
The Gainesville native became an Internet sensation in recent weeks for a video she recorded of herself in Gator gear doing the zombie-style dance from “Thriller,” hoping it would encourage labor.
Cheer and Jeer: The Gainesville City Commission gets a cheer for directing staff to prepare to open the Paynes Prairie Sheetflow Restoration Project, but a jeer goes to all involved parties for the fact that it will only be open on weekends for the rest of the fiscal year.
The project has been years in the making and figuring out how to provide week-long access should have been sorted out long ago.
Cheer: The Wagmore Foundation for its $1.3 million gift to the Community Foundation of North Florida.
The money will help the Alachua County animal shelter become a no-kill facility.
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