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📺'Serving the Sun Empire:’ WKMG-TV celebrates 70 years of news broadcasting
Read full article: 📺'Serving the Sun Empire:’ WKMG-TV celebrates 70 years of news broadcastingWKMG-TV was the first television station in Central Florida, signing on as WDBO-TV on July 1, 1954. Here's a timeline through 70 years of news programming.
Leap Day Birthday: What it’s like having a birthday every four years
Read full article: Leap Day Birthday: What it’s like having a birthday every four yearsJillian Sturgill gets a little twinkle in her eye when someone asks her how old she is. She’s physically 31, but she tells strangers that she’s only seven. They will immediately look confused until she revels that she was born on Leap Day, so she’s only celebrated on her actual birthday seven times since being born.
Longtime Daytona speedway employee gets parade for 100th birthday
Read full article: Longtime Daytona speedway employee gets parade for 100th birthdayDAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Dozens of employees at Daytona International Speedway gathered to get results for a longtime employee. Juanita “Lightnin” Epton celebrated her 100th birthday Wednesday. She has been an employee at the speedway since it was built in 1958. To help her celebrate the milestone, dozens of her friends from the speedway put together a parade of more than 100 cars and drove past her Daytona Beach home. Epton is still employed at Daytona International Speedway in ticket operations.
A Miami-area Holocaust survivor celebrates 100th birthday
Read full article: A Miami-area Holocaust survivor celebrates 100th birthdayMIAMI Hilda Frenkel is a tiny superhero.Thats how her son describes the almost 100-year-old Holocaust survivor, who will celebrate her birthday on Sunday virtually with her three children and two 20-something grandchildren. When she realized her 100th birthday celebration would have to be canceled, her main concern was her loved ones getting sick. It just makes me especially happy that shes reached the age of 100 despite everything he did to try to destroy her family.Recalling the Holocaust, Hilda said she was surrounded by atrocities. Less than two years later, she met and married her husband, who, too, was a Holocaust survivor. The greatest lesson I learned from my grandmother is to never be silent in the face of injustice, said Zipporah Frenkel, her 26-year-old granddaughter.
Eustis boy receives unforgettable birthday surprise when truck drivers came together
Read full article: Eustis boy receives unforgettable birthday surprise when truck drivers came togetherEUSTIS, Fla. – Ever since the coronavirus pandemic began, birthday celebrations have had to be canceled or changed. For two parents in Eustis, their creativity brought together a community of truck drivers and caring strangers, to celebrate their son’s fifth birthday. What the family didn’t know, is that his post would be shared by others. “The field was full of trucks and I just-- I didn’t know and they came just to celebrate him. Some of the trucks that showed were such high caliber, they were literal monster trucks, I mean, I'm just glad We were able to do it," Raley said.