Scott PowersMarch 17, 2021
3min1130
Honor Flight is a veterans' charity that arranges trips to Washington D.C. for vets.
Tag: memorials
Scott PowersMarch 17, 2021
Sarah MuellerFebruary 11, 2020
4min280
Committee members questioned whether the vandalism should be a felony offense.
Scott PowersJanuary 27, 2020
4min1172
Makes vandalism of war memorials a third-degree felony
Scott PowersJune 12, 2019
10min802
Orlando continues to pursue healing and unity.
Scott PowersJune 11, 2017
6min176
The shock, horror, and a community’s pain have not eased in the year since Orlando’s Pulse massacre and people still come, still in total disbelief, asking, “Why?” The trauma of the nation’s worst-ever mass shooting, on Latino night at Orlando’s popular gay nightclub, is blood-deep among the survivors, and the families and friends of the […]
Scott PowersSeptember 13, 2016
3min304
The city of Orlando is replacing the temporary security fence around the Pulse nightclub with a decorative one that will feature a screen wrap displaying art pieces created by local residents in response to the June 12 massacre that killed 49 people. The new fence will go in next Monday, installed by the city, the Downtown […]
Scott PowersJuly 14, 2016
5min337
All the Pulse massacre memorabilia laid on the lawn of the Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center in Orlando, all the expressions of grief, love and togetherness, soon will be history. Literally. People will have one more weekend to see the remaining cards, pictures, flags, art and other expressions. But by Monday, the Orange County Regional […]
Scott PowersJune 15, 2016
6min271
I’m not religious enough to cite scriptural references in normal circumstances, but we all know the story of Job, and how he endured one calamity after another while his so-called friends tried to convince him to disavow his faith — yet he never did. Welcome to Orlando, where the rhetorical question, “What else can happen?” […]