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WESH Wants You!12/22/11
Guest post by Bess Auer. Bess is the founder and former editor of the Central Florida Top 5 and is now the executive producer of Florida Swim Network. She is ...
read moreDrop Everything and Travel!10/12/11
With the news yesterday that Japan may be providing free airfare in order to reboot Japanese tourism, my ears perked up when I heard about this special informative workshop called: ...
read moreJunior Achievement Needs You!09/13/11
Do you have experience to share? Well, then, you are in demand! Junior Achievement (JA) of Central Florida currently needs business and community members in Orange and Seminole counties to ...
read moreAt least it will be this coming Saturday. At least according to Harold Camping. This “end of days” has been the talk of Facebook and Twitter today and it made ...
read moreWow! Congratulations to Rollins College for winning one of six Presidential Awards for Community Service (from over 800 applications!). According to Rollins’ Director of Community Engagement Micki Meyer, “In community ...
read moreRemembering Us05/07/11
Last month I was honored to be a judge for a writing competition hosted by the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center here in Maitland, Florida. Children from elementary through ...
read morePaint the Town Blue!04/28/11
I will be wearing blue tomorrow. In fact, I want to Paint the Town Blue. I have vowed to do this to bring attention to the victims of child abuse. ...
read moreCongratulations to poet and writer Kay Ryan for being awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her latest writings. Ryan recently spent time in Winter Park when she was a featured speaker ...
read moreWe love when the Central Florida comes together to help out young minds! Take, for example, the 4th annual “Me and My CommUnity” event. This one-day executive mentoring program consisted ...
read moreNot to be outdone by Darden, Walgreens is doing its part to help education in Central Florida, too. Nearly 1,500 Walgreens employees recently participated in Bowl-A-Thon, Junior Achievement of Central ...
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The Top 5 is an award-winning site, founded by Bess Auer and now curated by 
