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Nona Leadership Network Connects and Inspires Lake Nona’s Leaders

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Every second Friday of the month, a group of Lake Nona residents meets at 7 a.m. at GuideWell Innovation Core to hear leaders in the community speak and to come together with like-minded people. For 20 minutes, leaders, usually from the Lake Nona area, share their insight and valuable skills with attendees. The remaining 55 minutes is used to allow the group to interact with … [Read more...]

Topping Out a Dream

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Eleven years ago in Lake Nona, we held Topping Out Ceremonies for our new College of Medicine medical education and Burnett Biomedical Sciences buildings. At those ceremonies, we dreamed of building an Academic Health Sciences Center that would bring together in Medical City all of UCF’s health-related programs in education, research and patient care. We knew that a teaching … [Read more...]

Neighborhood Watch: Orlando Police Department Community Programs

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There are moments as citizens of Orlando where we feel we’ve done it all. From Disney World theme parks to a walk around Lake Eola, we’ve probably exhausted all the possible options of doing something new. While that seems to be the case, the good news is that there is always going to be a place or some activity in Orlando we have yet to visit or do. If you still … [Read more...]

Neighborhood Watch: Little Free Library

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If you build it, they will come … and read and exchange a book. A few weeks ago, I organized a community event to raise money to build a Little Free Library for my neighborhood. The kids in our community worked together to raise money and donated their proceeds toward the Little Free Library. Some of the items that the kids made and sold were hair scrunchies, … [Read more...]

For UCF Resident, Citizenship Equals Service

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Dr. George Yazigi raised his right hand, took his oath of American citizenship, and then sped off to care for immigrant farmworkers in one of Central Florida’s poorest communities. The UCF resident physician says his volunteerism after “the biggest honor of my life” was his way of “giving back to the community where I live.” The timing of his citizenship ceremony – on … [Read more...]

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