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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
IN THIS ISSUE Church at the Cross adding worship space When the building project is finished next spring, the church will have a dedicated sanctuary. AMY QUESINBERRY COMMUNITY EDITOR
Windermere Police Chief David Ogden and Get Hooked Bait & Tackle Owner Tim Bagwell presented Jayden Burns, 10, with trophies for the first fish and biggest fish in the Little Bobbers group.
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HEROES The Windermere Police Department partnered with Get Hooked Bait & Tackle to put on its first Cops & Bobbers event for local children. SEE PHOTOS ON PAGE 7
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Janet and Penelope Maland, 4, spent some quality time together at the event.
Horizon West Hospital celebrates topping out Orlando Health’s Horizon West Hospital has reached structural completion and is on track to open in early 2021. DANIELLE HENDRIX ASSOCIATE EDITOR
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Jane Dunkelberger carefully penned her name on the beam.
Senior Pastor Dr. Clayton Cloer says the time is now. After years of trying to make one large facility work for nearly 1,000 people, Church at the Cross has embarked on a multi-year campaign to enlarge its church campus with the construction of its first dedicated worship space. The church’s pastors and members of the building committee participated in a groundbreaking ceremony Aug. 25, turning the dirt to symbolize the start of con-
As a ceremonial construction beam was raised to the top of Orlando Health’s new Horizon West Hospital during its toppingout ceremony, it marked another milestone for the area’s surrounding communities.
On Thursday, Sept. 19, dozens of community leaders and members joined Orlando Health staff at the Porter Road facility to celebrate reaching the halfway mark of construction. Topping out signifies the completion of structural construction. SEE HOSPITAL PAGE 4
Twenty-eight Orange County Public Schools high-school students, including 11 from local schools, have been chosen as semifinalists for the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program. The students listed below were among more than 1.6 million juniors in an estimated 22,000 high schools who took the preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test last year and met program participation requirements: n Dr. Phillips High School — Jordan Kocarek and Griffin Martin n Olympia High School — Kallen Cunningham, Neta Epstein, Elle Ferguson, Pavan Iyengar and Alesha Wallen n Windermere High School — Guilherme Bejar, Aaryn Brown, Julia Kendall and Zachariah Wade.