Category: Lifestyle
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Universal Orlando: Annual passholder appreciation days coming
Universal Orlando is doling out an array of special offers, discounts and opportunities during its Passholder Appreciation Days promotion, which runs from Aug. 14 through the end of September. The resort’s annual passholders can benefit in a handful of ways, including: + One hour’s worth of early admission to Volcano Bay water park — including…
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New ‘Lion’s Den’ bar opening near Orlando City stadium
Lion’s Pride—the Orlando City Soccer Club-themed bar—opened a few months ago, but it’s not to be confused with an all new Orlando City bar and cafe concept also coming to Church St. Photo via Google Maps “The Lion’s Den,” located at 642 W. Church St., will operate as a bar on game days and a cafe…
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John Land’s widow: Part of the former mayor’s statue doesn’t ring true
When Betty Land, widow of longtime Apopka Mayor John Land, previewed a city-commissioned statue of her late husband at the artist’s studio a few weeks ago, she noticed something amiss. Her husband’s clay figure had a wedding ring on. “Well, John never wore a ring in all the years we were married,” 90-year-old “Miss Betty”…
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Apopka adds fire stations to improve response times, save lives
The last time Apopka built a fire station, fewer than 20,000 people lived in Orange County’s second-largest city and no toll roads led into the bedroom community. That was 1997. Apopka is now home to nearly 50,000 residents who commute on three high-speed highways, but the city is still covered by just four fire stations.…
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Summer means back-to-school drives underway in Central Florida
It may seem like we’ve barely finished watching the Fourth of July fireworks, but in a state where kids return to the classroom in mid-August, that means we’ve already entered back-to-school season. On Tuesday, volunteers at the Orlando-based nonprofit A Gift for Teaching — including Mayor Buddy Dyer — spent the morning filling hundreds of…
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Family adopts retired bomb-sniffing dog, instead gets ‘best friend’
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]amily adopts retired bomb-sniffing dog – Peer inside the cranium of Basha, the 6-year-old retired military bomb-sniffing dog who served in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait. Here are the thoughts you’ll see: “Do not touch that red ball! “It is my red ball. I love my red ball. My red ball always lays right beside me.…
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Falcon’s Creative Group hits Times Square with new attraction
Times Square visitors soon will come face-to-face with humpback whales – virtually speaking, of course — thanks to the work of Falcon’s Creative Group on an attraction called National Geographic Encounter: Ocean Odyssey. “It is something that’s difficult to describe. I don’t think that it is something that has a direct comparison in the marketplace,”…