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Feeding Osceola’s hungry children one meal at a time

County News

Friday, 26 April 2013 12:52

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The Osceola County Meal Packing Event on May 4 and 5 will combine the efforts of 15 local charity organizations to add 250,000 meals to food pantries throughout the county.

By Tiffanie Reynolds
Staff Writer

It will take more than one organization to help combat homelessness and hunger in Osceola County.

The Osceola County Meal Packing Event on May 4 and 5 will combine the efforts of 15 local charity organizations to add 250,000 meals to food pantries throughout the county. Meals of rice, lentils, dried vegetables and sea salt are packaged by an assembly line of volunteers working in one-hour shifts in locations at St. Cloud, Kissimmee and Celebration.

Osceola High students make garden for coach’s ailing wife

County News

Friday, 26 April 2013 12:30

News-Gazette Photos/Andrew Sullivan
Behind the home team softball dugout at Osceola High School, students came together to build a garden for their softball coach George Coffey and his wife, Victoria, who is battling cancer. Pictured are seniors Andrew Redmon, left, one of the designers, and co-captains of the softball team Kenya Pereira, center and Morgan Crapo.

By Katie Pedone
For the News-Gazette

When the students in George Coffey’s landscaping class at Osceola High School learned that their teacher’s wife was seriously ill, there was one thing they knew they could do to help - honor their teacher and his wife through the very lessons he had taught them.

City commissioner has county seat in sight

County News

Friday, 26 April 2013 12:25

By Ken Jackson
Staff Writer

The 2014 general election is still more than a year and a half away, but a pair of early qualifiers to run has already set up a potentially intriguing County Commission race.

Saturday flag football time change

County News
Friday, 26 April 2013 09:52
By Rick Pedone Sports Editor The flag football playoff game at Harmony Saturday has been moved to noon because visiting Timber Creek has its prom Saturday evening. Read more...

Longhorns 7A-6 baseball champs

County News
Thursday, 25 April 2013 22:04
By J. Daniel Pearson For the News-Gazette Freshman Sam Allen pitched five and one-third innings of six-hit ball and Omar Villamon struck out the side in the seventh as the Harmony Longhorns captured the 7A-6 district championship Thursday with a thrilling 7-6 win over arch-rival St. Cloud at Chisholm Field. Read more...

County teams advance in tournaments

County News

Thursday, 25 April 2013 05:31

By Rick Pedone
Sports Editor

Wednesday was a busy day for county baseball, softball and flag football teams competing at district and regional tournaments.

St. Cloud woman’s quest to find her mom

County News

Wednesday, 24 April 2013 14:33

News-Gazette Photos/Andrew Sullivan
St. Cloud resident Shannon Franklin holds her sonagram, one of the few links she has in her quest to find her biological mother.

By Fallan Patterson
Special to the News-Gazette

Shannon Franklin was born May 6, 1986 to a “young” mother, possibly named Angela Beth, at Osceola Regional Medical Center in Kissimmee.

The adoption was quick; Franklin’s parents were notified of her birth the morning of by the obstetrician, a family friend.

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