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Vigil held in Winter Garden to honor local soldier killed in training exercise
Read full article: Vigil held in Winter Garden to honor local soldier killed in training exerciseSeveral hundred people came together on the football field at Foundation Academy in Winter Garden on Tuesday evening to honor the life of Evan Fitzgibbon, 23, who died in Georgia last week during a training exercise.
Private Christian school temporarily closes campus as ‘precautionary measure’
Read full article: Private Christian school temporarily closes campus as ‘precautionary measure’ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A Central Florida private Christian school is closing one of its campuses for a week as a “precautionary measure,” according to a news release. Students at Foundation Academy’s Tilden campus, located in Winter Garden, will move to remote learning this week. The academy’s other campuses are not affected by the move. During this week, Foundation Academy will monitor all students, but in particular, the quarantined students. According to FloridaHighSchoolFootball.com, the school’s football team was supposed to face off against Orlando Christian Prep this week but that game has since been canceled.
High school football team in Winter Garden begins workouts amid COVID-19 pandemic
Read full article: High school football team in Winter Garden begins workouts amid COVID-19 pandemicWINTER GARDEN, Fla. Student-athletes came back to Foundation Academy in Winter Garden on Monday to start football conditioning workouts. "This was planned out very well," head coach Brad Lord said. This is Orange Countys first high school to open campus up for students in nearly three months. For these guys, grueling summer football workouts never felt so good. We have to be a role model and an example so we can play, offensive lineman Hunter Moss said.