10.22.15 Windermere Observer

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WINDERMERE

Observer Serving Southwest Orange County

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PRINCIPAL EARNS AWARD Independence Elementary School Principal Dr. Angela Murphy-Osborne is among 59 outstanding elementary and middle-school principals from across the nation and abroad named 2015 National Distinguished Principals by the National Association of Elementary School Principals. The honorees were recognized at an awards banquet Oct. 16 at the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., as part of a two-day program. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan delivered the opening remarks. Established in 1984, the twoday NDP celebration recognizes public and private school principals who make superior contributions to their schools and communities. “Only a school principal can lead a school to success and positively impact an entire learning community,” NAESP Executive Director Gail Connelly said. “That is why I am so pleased to congratulate this year’s class of National Distinguished Principals — they richly deserve this honor and many more.”

ROPER Y TO HOST FALL FEST The Roper YMCA will host its annual Fall Festival from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, at the center, 100 Windermere Road, Winter Garden. This year’s festival will feature hay rides, face painting, inflatables, a costume contest and pumpkin decorating. Guests also can enjoy free food, carnival games, crafts and trick-or-treating. The event also will include a chili cook-off and pumpkin-carving contest. For more information about the Fall Festival, call (407) 656-6430 or visit the Roper Y website, ymcacentralflorida. com/y-locations/roper.

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WARNING Canadian businessman Bryan DeCunha, owner of the Windermere Country Club, wants to develop the golf course into 95 single-family homes.

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Sunset Park Elementary throws fall festival. PAGE 10 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2015

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Roy Haley and his wife, Dee, made the new Haley Center for Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders possible.

Donation supports cancer treatment Roy and Dee Haley gave $5 million to Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, to help expand pediatric cancer services.

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ouise Hawthorne’s hands were shaking as she held the piece

of paper containing her

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talking points at an Oct.

residents Roy and Dee Haley donated $5 million to the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children to expand pediatric cancer services at the hospital. Half of the donation will establish a new pediatric bone marrow transplant and cellular therapy program. The other portion will be used to fun the hospital’s future needs as cancer-treatment technology progresses. More of the donation could go toward the bone marrow transplant program if that is identified as the greatest need in the future. The Haleys made their donation in honor of a boy they know who was diagnosed with a complex brain cancer around his optic nerve when he was just 1 year old. He wasn’t expected to live, but he is now 22. As technology progresses, Roy

STAFF WRITER ORLANDO Windermere

13 community meeting regarding the potential redevelopment of the Windermere Country Club golf course. The shaking wasn’t from the nerves of standing in front of more than 200 of her fellow Windermere Country Club neighbors, who were there to speak against a proposal to turn

Michael Eng

Hundreds of Windermere Country Club residents are opposed to the proposed redevelopment of the club’s golf course.

the golf course into 95 single-family homes.

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