‘I’ll be glad to eat food tonight:’ Hundreds of families receive free meals at Apopka Farm Share food giveaway
APOPKA, Fla. – Hundreds of families struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic lined up at Apopka High School Saturday morning to receive free meals. “A blessing, a blessing, a blessing. I’ll be glad to eat food tonight and sit at the table with my neighbors and have a good meal,” Garrison said. State Senator Randolph Bracy and Apopka High School’s PTSA teamed up with Farm Share to hold the event. Tre Wade, Apopka High School’s PTSA president, said the community is hurting.
Arrest made in deadly quinceañera shooting at Orange County nightclub
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Authorities have made an arrest in connection with the death of a man shot while celebrating a teenager’s birthday at an Orange County nightclub, according to deputies. Pablo Jaimes Jr., 18, is accused of fatally shooting 25-year-old Miguel Gonzalez outside Club Fenix on Ocoee Apopka Road on Saturday night. [PREVIOUS: 1 dead in shooting during Quinceañera at Orange County nightclub]Officials with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said Gonzalez was at a quinceañera, which is a celebration of a girl’s 15th birthday, being held at the nightclub when the birthday girl’s ex-boyfriend showed up with some friends and started acting unruly. Covelli said he was arrested when he showed up for class at Apopka High School, where he is a senior. We were not expecting him to be in school,” Covelli said.