Valencia Voice Dec. 14
December 13, 2011
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Focusing on Arab health
Neda Hamdan / nhamdan@valenciavoice.com
December 13, 2011
There are currently 50 million Americans without health insurance. The Arab American Community Center, a non-profit organization, hosted the Health, Immigrant, and Kids Fair at the Central Florida Fairgrounds. The event consisted of various health tests, immigration advice, along with food, games and... Read more »
‘Freak Flag’ flies
By Felicia Roppchand / froopchand@valenciavoice.com
December 13, 2011
Valencia College presented it’s Opera Theatre Workshop on Dec. 9 and 10 at Valencia’s East Campus Black Box Theater. The event, which has been done every semester for the past ten semesters, showcased various talents of the musical theatre and opera genres. This year’s theme and title of the event... Read more »
Knights fall prey to Eagles
By Sarah Flores / sflores@valenciavoice.com
December 13, 2011
A leading 11 points from returning UCF senior guard Aisha Patrick and a close 10 points from junior forward Kayli Keough could not stop the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles from a 75-36 victory over the Knights at the UCF Arena on Thursday night. The lady Knights faced off against the Eagles for the first time... Read more »
Dealing with disease
By Hadassah Lansiquot / hlansiquot@valenciavoice.com
December 13, 2011
Every night I prepare for my dialysis treatment on my CCPD (continuous cycler peritoneal dialysis) machine. To perform the procedure you must have the right accessories including drain bags, mini caps, and cassettes (not the musical kind.) There are several steps involved, which include connecting the... Read more »
Seasoned journalist shares stories
By Fred Lambert / flambert@valenciavoice.com
December 13, 2011
Patrick May has seen a lot. Before he became a staff writer for the San Jose Mercury News in Silicon Valley south of San Francisco, he was a train-hopping, hitchhiking college drop-out. Drifting through Boston, Alaska and Oregon, and eventually all over the world, working odd jobs like guitar-playing... Read more »
Jeff hates: GOP candidates
By Jeff Shedden / jshedden@valenciavoice.com
December 13, 2011
Let’s face it, this election season’s Republican primary is the biggest freak show the GOP has ever handed us. There isn’t a single candidate in the entire bunch that would make a good president of a chess club, much less the United States. The Republican party has spent so much time trying to... Read more »
Valencia named top community college in nation
By James Tutten / jtutten@valenciavoice.com
December 12, 2011
Valencia College was acknowledged as one of the top educational institutions in the nation after wining the inaugural Aspen Award for Community College Excellence. Along with the award comes a grant of $600,000 that Valencia can spend to expand on it’s future goals in education. Valencia was given... Read more »
Valencia prepares to enforce college-wide smoking ban
Jeremy Williams / jwilliams@valenciavoice.com
December 6, 2011
The Great American Smokeout came to Valencia’s East Campus last week to raise awareness on the dangers of smoking and to encourage all students and faculty to kick the habit. Valencia College has joined the Share the Air campaign to ban smoking in all public places, indoors and outdoors, anywhere on... Read more »
Spread love for Holidays
By Jennifer DiDomenico / jdidomenico@valenciavoice.com
December 6, 2011
I love holidays. I love getting flowers on Valentine’s Day, wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day, coloring eggs on Easter, watching fireworks on the fourth of July, eating ridiculous amounts of candy on Halloween, and eating even more ridiculous amounts of turkey on Thanksgiving. And I can’t help... Read more »
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