Grocery store offers MacDill troops support on Wednesday. ...more

July 27, 2009

Three of the largest churches in Sebring have banded their youth groups together to form The Wheel, a unique service organization that includes young people from throughout the area. ...more

February 6, 2009

For decades the Temple Terrace Junior Woman's Club has been known as a hands-on service organization dedicated to doing heartfelt projects that benefit the community. ...more

January 7, 2009

SEBRING -- Penne Manar says she still gets goose bumps when she recalls how, seven years ago, she came to volunteer for Habitat for Humanity of Highlands County. She balked at a friend's invitation to join this non-profit, Christian faith-based organization that helps hard working people work and save their way into a new home that otherwise would be unreachable. Nearing the end of two years as volunteer president of the Florida Hospital Auxiliary, Manar worried that joining another service organization would stretch her time and energy too thin. But she accepted an invitation to attend a Habitat home dedication. Manar watched as a single mother with three young children, having saved the down payment and completed her 400 hours of "sweat equity" work, was given a Bible and house keys and became a first-time homeowner. ...more

October 19, 2008

When the Lions Eye Institute for Transplant & Research bought the former F. Lozano & Sons cigar factory in 2005, there were no plans to expand beyond the three-story structure. ...more

June 7, 2008

The Eagles Club was filled with the sounds of whizzing remote-control cars as children raced them around the dance floor and crinkling paper being ripped from packages. ...more

December 26, 2007