Second-year Lake Nona boys golf coach Justin Johnson was thinking about more than his team’s stroke average when the Lions opened their 2010 season last week against Bishop Moore. Johnson, 28, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in July and has since undergone two of a scheduled four chemotherapy treatments. Despite the diagnosis, Johnson said his [...]
According to a recent article in the Orlando Business Journal, Firehouse subs is growing rapidly, and is “working on a location in the Lake Nona area that will likely open in 2012.” With the recently opened WineHouse at Lake Nona, we’re seeing more and more establishments coming to the area to suport the growth from [...]
The University of Central Florida’s $69.5 million College of Medicine at Lake Nona in southeast Orlando is seeking silver certification from the United States Green Building Council. The four-story, 175,000-square-foot facility reduced its potential environmental impacts in several categories: a 64 percent reduction in water use for irrigation, a 48 percent reduction in indoor-water use, [...]
Josh Sullivan and Matt Mendez have good reason to be looking forward to their senior season at Lake Nona High. Lake Nona’s first year of existence was last season. This year was the first time the players were able to go through spring practices, and the familiarity they have with one another will be quite [...]
Lake Nona residents are upset over a possible airport expansion. Orlando International Airport wants to build on a wetlands area near the neighborhood, but residents are concerned about the environmental impact. Hundreds of residents attended a public hearing Wednesday. They are worried about the airport cutting down wetlands. It’s an area they said is not [...]
It’s not every day that medical students are given the opportunity to demonstrate their artistic and empathetic sides. But once that opportunity appeared in the form of a contest, UCF’s Shawna Bellew seized it and won. According to the American Medical Association’s website, Bellew and 33 medical students from around the country participated in the [...]
Ian Poulter, Justin Rose and Ross Fisher all live on the same gated estate in Orlando. But Poulter, extolling the virtues of his transatlantic lifestyle in the very Home Counties setting of Woburn, would not have it any other way. “It’s European,” he says of the exclusive Lake Nona suburb he is happy to call [...]
Orlando is getting healthier, both physically and economically. Much of the credit goes to what is called “Medical City,” a 600-acre park where half a dozen medical facilities are under construction in the Lake Nona development outside of Orlando. A new $655-million Veteran’s Affairs hospital is being built, so is a 95-bed children’s specialty hospital [...]
The Greater Orlando Aviation Authority has joined the list of developers and landowners hoping to cash in on the “medical city” that’s rising out of pasture land in southeastern Orange County. For more than 20 years, GOAA has owned an 1,800-acre parcel of vacant land south of the airport, originally purchased to provide wetlands mitigation [...]
By: Kevin Neal, M.D. Summertime means long days and plenty of time to play outdoors. Many coaches also take advantage of this time to get their teams ready for the fall season. With some 30 million school-aged children taking part in organized sports, injuries are inevitable. In fact, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics [...]
