On Monday, April 29, a fire ravaged an apartment building at Blossom Park Villas, which is located on the other side of 192 from Celebration. In the interest of being good neighbors and building better community, Celebration Foundation’s executive board agreed to donate to the Red Cross designated to Kissimmee Relief. [...]
By Becky Varley Thank you to all the volunteers who woke up bright and early on a beautiful, crisp Monday morning in April to join us for our annual volunteer appreciation party! A huge shout out goes to Susan Bona and staff from Town Tavern, who kindly hosted breakfast for us. [...]
By Breanne O’Leary I was fortunate enough to attend middle school right before Instagram was created. I am forever grateful that I never had to worry about how many likes my selfie would get. I was already grappling with a typical middle school struggle of losing my group of friends. I [...]
PRIMA, short for Public Risk Management Association, is hosting their annual conference for four days beginning June 9, 2019 at Gaylord Palms Resort. Hundreds of members from across the country will be convening to learn more about a variety of risk-related topics. Their conference “offers more than 50 educational sessions addressing [...]
By Rachel McIntee Toho Water Authority teamed up with the Celebration Foundation and Creation Kids Village to partner in a unique way. In celebration of water conservation month, Toho Water Authority helped the Thriving In Place members and Creation Kids Village students build terrariums. The members and students were able to [...]
By Floyd McCollum The Celebration Foundation Concert Series hosted an album release party for Celebration-based band CEONEO on April 27th at Heritage Hall. Residents and friends from 2 to 92 years-young gathered to listen and dance to songs from the band’s fourth album, “Sound of Fun,” which has been in production [...]
by Kevin and Barbara McKenna As relative newcomers to Celebration (we just moved here in 2017), we were thrilled to discover and participate in the Celebration Lifelong program. Not only did this program provide an excellent choice of course subjects, it also provided us with a fabulous opportunity to meet our [...]
By B. Alksninis Six students from Celebration Lifelong’s spring 2019 Write a Ten-Minute Play Workshop presented their finished works to an appreciative audience on Tuesday, April 23. The readings took place during Lifelong’s Tuesday Lecture Series. First-time playwrights Margaret Cancalon and Eileen Crawford wowed the crowd with their works, as did [...]
Dr. Rohit Bhatheja We’re halfway through 2019, have you looked into your heart and asked yourself: "how's it going in there?" According to the American Heart Association's 2018 statistics, about 92.1 million American adults are living with some form of cardiovascular disease. It accounts for one in seven deaths in the [...]
By Jacquie Hobgood The prospect of college is perhaps one of the most exciting events in a student’s life. At the same time, it may also be a bit daunting, as the cost of college is ever increasing. For the past several years, the Celebration Foundation has granted scholarships to Celebration [...]
