Half a year ago, Lake Nona resident Clirvaens Pressoir founded the No Child Left Behind Sports and Arts Foundation to help local kids and their parents afford to play youth sports. Nonahood News spoke to Pressoir, a father himself, about his foundation and how it all got started. Nonahood News: So, can you tell me a little bit about what the foundation does? Clirvaens … [Read more...]
Zen and the Art of Being Online: This Holiday Season, Think Twice About Letting a Mega Corporation Into Your Home
Throughout the holiday season, we’ve seen the commercials while we tried to mind our own business watching TV and gorging ourselves, as is the American holiday tradition. An inexplicable happy and attractive couple, probably wearing expensive sweaters, whose lives are made so much easier with the help of a new metal box that sits on the counter. With the help of the Facebook … [Read more...]
Nona Heroes: Andrea Conway of the Central Florida Children’s Home
The bedrooms at the Central Florida Children’s Home look like any other for a child – toys strewn on the floor and posters of the Avengers or Disney princesses on the walls. But the two sets of bunk beds on either wall set it apart, as does the enormous dining table for house dinners and the gigantic backyard that features a playground. The kids are all at school, Eastland … [Read more...]
Orlando’s Wall Street to Host Huge New Year’s Eve Party
Downtown Orlando’s Wall Street Plaza, a staple of the city’s booming nightlife, is set to host what may be Central Florida’s largest New Year’s Eve party this year. “The party welcomes all kinds of people,” Paul Emery, the events and marketing director of Wall Street Plaza, said, “whether you’re on a date or just looking to make some friends.” General admission tickets … [Read more...]
Zen and the Art of Being Online: Why We Say ‘OK, Boomer’
Sometimes, teens may have had enough. It may come when bickering with their elders because of generational divides – people wearing torn jeans, or that not tipping that tax isn’t a nice thing to do, or that climate change is, in fact, real and will be a problem for my generation. And both parties, regardless of the century in which they’re born, are usually so sure of their … [Read more...]
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