- November 18, 2024
-
-
Loading
Loading
Students donate $1,200 to Florida Hospital Flagler to fight prostate cancer
The Flagler Palm Coast High School boys’ lacrosse team donated $1,200 April 10 to support the Florida Hospital Flagler prostate cancer fund.
“It is exciting to see the young men in our community engaged in an awareness campaign that affects so many people,” Florida Hospital Flagler Dr. Alvaro Alvarez said in a Florida Hospital Flagler news release. “Other than skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in American men; about one in seven men will be diagnosed during his lifetime.”
Statistically, according to the press release, four of the 28 boys on the team could one day be diagnosed with prostate cancer.
The team began raising the money in October 2013, but the main fundraiser was a No Shave November contest.
The team also wore baby blue shoelaces – the prostate cancer support color – in their cleats, sold awareness T-shirts at Publix, and made halftime announcements about the cause during home lacrosse games.
The team picks a cause each year, said Flagler Palm Coast High School head boys lacrosse coach Ryan Andrews.
“This year, we decided to begin the prostate cancer awareness campaign because not only is it a very important issue, but it is an issue many men do not want to talk about,” he said in the news release. “If awareness is raised, we hope many more men will be able to detect and treat this cancer sooner.”
Andrews said this year’ cause was personal for him.
“Both of my grandfathers suffered from cancer and were not diagnosed until it was too late; one had prostate cancer and another had breast cancer,” Andrews said.
The team plans on continuing raising funds for the cause and will hold another No Shave November contest in 2014.
For more information on Florida Hospital Flagler, call 586-2000 or visit FloridaHospitalFlagler.com.
PC Bike moves to Palm Harbor Village Way
PC Bike has moved from the Palm Harbor Shopping Plaza — its home for the past 12 years — to 25 Palm Harbor Village Way, Unit 9, about a quarter-mile away from the plaza.
PC Bike owners Jake Scully and James Clayton met with Palm Harbor Shopping Village developer Michael Collard, according to a PC Bike news release, and decided it was time to move.
"Our current building is slated for demolition, so a move had to happen,” PC Bike co-owner Jake Scully said in the news release.
Clayton said the bicycle store moved early so that customers on bikes wouldn’t be there when the bulldozers come in.
"A lot of our customers enjoy riding their bikes to the shop, and we sponsor casual bike rides from the shop every Saturday morning. Bulldozers and Bicycles do not go together, so we pulled the trigger and bought the new space," he said.
A. Candies Coachworks transporting kids for Flagler Schools
Gainesville-based A. Candies Coachworks has branched into Flagler County, using its charter buses to take kids from Matanzas High School, Flagler-Palm Coast High School and Buddy Taylor Middle School on field trips and band and sport events
“They have school buses, but they’re short of drivers,” said Candies sales and marketing director George Bubenheim. “We’re helping the school district out by running the school trips”
The company has gone from using one bus in the county to using 11 buses, and 14 drivers, in the past year, he said.
