Student achievements and donations: Good news in Ocala/Marion County | Aug. 7, 2022

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Area students excel in higher education

University graduates

Priscilla Sanchez, Ocala, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Bachelor of Science, Community and Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Calvin Neal, Ocala, Associate of Arts degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences with Honors, Rochester Community and Technical College

Safe dining: Marion County restaurant inspections for July 25-30

Busted: Marion County law officers bust cockfighting operation, arrest 8 people

Big Lee's is going even bigger: BBQ operation plans hub along U.S. 441 just north of Ocala

Dean’s List

Sydney Behrend, Belleview, University of Maryland Global Campus

Jason Griffis, Ocala, University of Maryland Global Campus

Bryan Hernandez-Nieves, Ocala, University of Maryland Global Campus

Kurt Houck, Ocala, University of Maryland Global Campus

Rafael Ramirez, Ocala, University of Maryland Global Campus

Robert Rigos, Ocala, University of Maryland Global Campus

Denise Miriam Walters, Oxford, University of Maryland Global Campus

Other Accolades

Garrett Stutson, Ocala, has been accepted for enrollment for the summer 2022 quarter in the Doctor of Chiropractic degree program at Palmer College of Chiropractic's Florida's campus in Port Orange.

Dunnellon Community Thrift Shop donates $6,000 to local charities

July donations from the Dunnellon Community Thrift Shop totaled $6,000, according to a press release from Joann McCullough, publicity/donations liaison for the shop. The shop donated to One Rake at a Time, Rescue Sanctuary to the Maxx, Footprints on My Heart, and the food pantries of the Faith Worldwide Ministries Church and the Holy Faith Episcopal Church.

Dunnellon Community Thrift Shop volunteer Kim Hatfield presents a $2,000 check to Art Jones, president of One Rake at a Time.
Dunnellon Community Thrift Shop volunteer Kim Hatfield presents a $2,000 check to Art Jones, president of One Rake at a Time.

Dunnellon Community Thrift Shop volunteer Kim Hatfield presented a $2,000 check to Art Jones, president of One Rake at a Time, to aid in funding a detailed technical survey of the Rainbow River bottom, the release said. The survey must be completed in order to obtain the permits needed to start the planned five-year cleanup and restoration of

the Rainbow River.

Dunnellon Community Thrift Shop volunteer Joann McCullough, left, presents a $2,000 check to Dori LoPriore, of the Rescue Sanctuary to the Maxx, and her friend Cynthia Marks.
Dunnellon Community Thrift Shop volunteer Joann McCullough, left, presents a $2,000 check to Dori LoPriore, of the Rescue Sanctuary to the Maxx, and her friend Cynthia Marks.

Thrift shop volunteer Joann McCullough presented a $2,000 check to Dori LoPriore, of the Rescue Sanctuary to the Maxx, and her friend Cynthia Marks, the release said.

Marks brought the 501(c)(3) animal shelter to the shop’s attention. LoPriore’s shelter specializes in adopting senior cats whose owners can no longer keep them, disabled cats, and feral cats, though she is often called upon to take other types of pets by authorities who discover the animals in the course of their legal operations, the release said.

She currently has 167 pets, many of them available for adoption.

Footprints on My Heart is an organization that supports and comforts mothers who have lost their newborn babies.

“Our thanks to our customers who donate their items to us and who shop at our store,” McCullough said in the release. “Their generosity is what allows us to make these donations every month.”

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