Profiles

The Cade Museum has partnered with Junior Achievement to bring the JA Biztown Program to Alachua County. JA BizTown combines in-class learning with a day-long visit to a simulated town. This popular program allows elementary school students to operate banks, manage restaurants, write checks, and vote for mayor. The program helps students connect the dots...

The Board of Directors of CHW Professional Consultants (CHW), a leading planning + design, surveying + mapping, engineering, landscape architecture, and construction services firm, recently announced key organizational changes to advance strategic growth, taking effect January 1, 2022. Please join CHW in a well-earned congratulations to our two new shareholders Daniel Young, PE, LEED AP,...

On January 14, 2022 at 12 p.m. (noon) an event will be held to honor the life and legacy of the late Judge Stephan P. Mickle by renaming the Alachua County Criminal Courthouse after Judge Mickle. The event is at the Main entrance of the Criminal Courthouse located at 220 S. Main Street, downtown Gainesville.  ...

On Tuesday, December 7, 2021 the Gainesville Quarterback Club held its final meeting of the year which included the appointment of the 2022 Board of Directors, including for the first time in the club’s 71-year history, a woman, Mrs. Tricia Garzon. In 2018, the club changed its original charter, established in 1950, to open membership...

Southern Charm Kitchen, Inc. has purchased the property it has been leasing from the City of Gainesville since 2011 for $215,000. This purchase further establishes Southern Charm Kitchen as a mainstay of east Gainesville cuisine. The success story began in 2008 when the Gainesville Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) purchased the properties at 1712 and 1714...

Blooloop, a leading global resource for visitor attractions sector professionals, has named Stephanie Bailes, President and Executive Director of the Cade Museum for Creativity & Invention, as among the top museum influencers in 2021. “It is an incredible honor, as well as humbling, to be included on this list of international influencers in the museum...

When he was nine years old, Lewis Stokes’ dream was to become a radio personality. Today, he’s a local radio legend who’s been in the business for 42 years. He earned his first job in the radio industry as a Junior in high school. Stokes’ now brother-in-law owned a car dealership in Lake City which...

Alachua County and the UF/IFAS Extension Alachua County have announced that strawberry is the “Plant of the Month” for October. The Plant of the Month program is a collaborative effort between the Alachua County Commission, the UF/IFAS Extension Alachua County, the Alachua County Master Gardener Volunteers, the Alachua County Public Library, and Working Food. “Every...

Jason Carr started his career out working a crappy job in retail. He worked up to being a manager at Walmart and then Lowe’s, dealing with angry customers and demanding hours day in and day out.  When he happened upon a customer buying a barbecue in his store, he was confronted with the question of...

12 years ago, Cody Meche discovered a different perspective on working while employed at Tower Hill Insurance Group.  The method was focused around autonomous teams. Instead of reporting to a boss and being directed on what to do, these groups ran themselves. And these teams worked well.  That’s right. When built correctly, autonomous teams didn’t...