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What you need to know about Florida today
› Sarasota Contemporary Dance displays ‘GRIT’ in 16th season
Performers in the Sarasota Contemporary Dance company showed off a lot more flexibility than expected during their Quinceanera-themed 15th anniversary season, which required frequent adjustments to what was presented and how due to coronavirus pandemic restrictions. Even so, the company survived 2020-21 and “we are moving forward and being reminded why we do what we do,” said Artistic Director and co-founder Leymis Bolaños Wilmott.
› Migration changes face of Broward, bringing new ideas — and fresh flavors
The enticing aromas of a bakery that specializes in Cuban treats did more than make Michael Garcia’s mouth water. It was the moment he realized that major changes were happening in Broward, with so many Hispanic families moving north. “That confirms it,” Garcia remembers thinking in 2006 when Broward’s first Vicky Bakery opened in Cooper City. And the county is now making plans to reflect the tidal shift in its diversity, with Black and Hispanic people combined outnumbering the white population.
› Young entrepreneur makes his dreams come true opening his own car dealership
Tallahassee’s Kyle Footman hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony for his car dealership May 2nd and is doing so at only 23 years old. Kyle Footman is now a business owner but he didn’t take the normal route out of high school. The Lincoln High graduate saw other opportunities for himself and decided to get into real estate. “The reason I got into real estate that early is because I didn’t want to go to college at all, because no male in my family has ever went to college so I just kind of figured that it just wasn’t for me,” said Footman Motorsports CEO Kyle Footman. And even though he found success in real estate, Footman still felt he was meant for something greater.
› Museum, urban park reveal diverse heritage of Ybor City
In contrast to Massachusetts or Virginia, Florida’s oldest families don’t have names like Winthrop or Randolph. Here, folks with names such as Solana and Sanchez walked the streets of St. Augustine hundreds of years ago. Later, in Tampa’s Ybor City, people from Cuba, Spain, Sicily and other locations arrived to form what Florida historian Gary Mormino has called “one of the great immigrant communities in America” in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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