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Haylee Birchfield created the winning tote bag design

Elementary School art teacher Shelby Chappell is a curator of art.

Your toes didn’t wait long before they started tapping.

This and that. It’s how a pleasant conversation is fed, with give and take, back and forth, wandering casually and naturally, a bit of one subject easing into the next with no preamble.

About 150 people — mostly dedicated donors and supporters — braved the whipping wind at Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge the morning of Saturday, April 27, to cut the ribbon on the refuge’s new Freedom Field. The additional 14-acre development with 44 new chainlink enclosures will house a mix of big, exotic cats and some smaller felines, most of which are being rehomed from Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, which was run by Carole Baskin and her husband, Howard.

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When a man is on his knees using a thin brush to touch up the paint on a bench he has carved with a chainsaw out of a piece of wood, you know he’s serious about the craft. “I’m obsessed with carving,” said Chauncey Poe, whose day job is with the U.S.

Hiya, I’m Frost! My life is a hoot, really.