As consumers, when you want to do business with a particular brand, what is the determining factor? Is it location? Quality? Trust? For most, it’s a combination of all of the above, especially in the financial arena. Your financial institution has to be there for you, your family and your community. That’s why Martin Federal Credit Union puts such a large focus on building meaningful, quality relationships with their members first and then expanding as necessary, like they’ve just done with their new branch across from Legacy Middle School on Lake Underhill Road,which is scheduled... Read more

Inevitably, every one of us will play a game of Truth or Dare in our lifetime. But in our East Orlando elementary schools there is another type of Dare going on and it is far from a game – and that’s the Truth. D.A.R.E. or Drug Abuse Resistance Education is a program designed to teach elementary school fifth graders to identify and resist the social pressures to use dangerous drugs and avoid violence. The nine lesson curriculum is a tool used to combat drugs and violence in local schools and communities. Arguably, there is a greater need for such education today more than ever before. “Today’s... Read more

Plans for the Lake Nona area to become a “Medical City” are taking off, as two additional organizations add their A-list names to the list of those relocating or building there. M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando’s Cancer Research Institute (CRI) and Nemours Children’s Hospital Orlando both took solid steps towards Lake Nona, following in the footsteps of the Burnham Medical Research Institute, UCF Burnett College of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospital. M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando’s Cancer Research Institute (CRI) and the University of Central Florida (UCF) plan... Read more