Chris Cortez, guitarist and proprietor of Winter Park’s Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts (don’t forget Melody!), organized a remote recording session with friends. The result is their recording of Chris’s composition “Awakenings.” Click here for some musical enjoyment. Please keep our Winter Park cultural organizations in our heart as we work our way through the current challenges. They can all use our social, emotional, and financial support. Enjoy “Awakenings” by Chris Cortez and Friends.
Day: April 26, 2020
Bad Governance
We have good reason to be upset and concerned about our new city commission. The intent of the Orange Avenue Overlay was to create a new mixed use neighborhood similar to Park Ave and Hannibal Square, extending and re-enforcing the Winter Park character that benefits all residents. This opportunity is now dead. Two new members of the city commission, Sheila DeCiccio and Marty Sullivan, and two existing members, Carolyn Cooper and Todd Weaver, worked feverishly immediately after the March 17th election to “rescind” the Orange Avenue Overlay (OAO) Comprehensive Plan Amendment and Land Development Code that had earlier received final…