Did you know that 24-percent of the municipal solid waste stream is food and yard waste? A great way to reduce your landfill contribution and create your own nutrient rich soil is home composting. The City of Orlando offering free home composters and workshops to residents of the City of Orlando through Mayor Buddy Dyer’s Green Works initiative. Click here to sign up to … [Read more...]
Hospitalized children find comfort through play and art therapy
The residents of Southeast Orlando by now know the focus of Nemours Children’s Hospital is to provide expert pediatric healthcare to families in Central Florida. But other than the patients and their families, does anyone ever really stop to wonder what makes Nemours distinctive? What actually goes into pediatric care? What makes specializing in the care of a child different … [Read more...]
Announcing our New Events Calendar
Nonahood News is proud to announce the launch of the Events Calendar! This calendar will feature events taking place in and around Lake Nona. Not only can we add events to the calendar, but you can too! Adding Your Events If your business, organization, school or association is hosting an event open to the community, you can now add it to the Nonahood … [Read more...]
Nonahood’s First Arts and Music Education Center Opens
Orlando Music Productions opened its doors on Jan. 28. The grand opening delivered what was expected--music, dancing, and an overall good time. The center offers music lessons, instruments lessons, dance and acting as well production and recording studios. We were really impressed with the separate studio spaces for the students and the energy and passion of the … [Read more...]
Facebook Confessions: What is your 2016 New Year’s Resolution?
In this month's series of Facebook Confessions, we asked Nonahood neighbors to confess their 2016 New Year's Resolutions. You responded with quite a variety of resolutions. See below for the top "Liked" responses. Did you make a 2016 New Year's Resolution? If share, it below in the comments. Look on our Facebook page for February's Facebook … [Read more...]