Natasha Chapman didn't set out to be an environmental activist.
When Chris Rasche interviewed for a job with the University of North Florida, the campus was still under construction, as was St. Johns Bluff Road, which for years was the only route to the university.
As he rings a bell outside the Winn-Dixie at Beach Boulevard and St. Johns Bluff Road today, Jim Fifi will be part of a 118-year-old tradition.
It started about three years ago as a rainy day game Heather Surface would play with her sons, Jamie, now 10, and Peyton, now 8.
Lara Lombardo was 15 months old when her mother "knew something was different" about the little girl. That something was autism. But Lara had a compensating talent.
When Bill Reynolds finally got around to finishing his first novel in 1999, he paid a company to publish it.
Iris, 56, has been doing her art for two decades. She took it up as a form of therapy after she was seriously injured in a freak accident while living in California.
Marlin Crider admits he's starting to slow down a little, which is why he recently "retired" from the Florida Highway Patrol Auxiliary.
For Devin Clark, 2002 was a year of dramatic change. In February, his father died as the result of colon cancer.
For Mimi Bajalia, raising funds for Brad Pitt's Make It Right home-building project in New Orleans is both an act of compassion and an expression of cultural pride.