ACE pitches in for the food pantry

GREEN COVE SPRINGS – Hagan Ace Green Cove Springs customers recently raised $500 for The Food Pantry of Green Cove Springs by rounding up to the nearest dollar during a special promotion coordinated by Store Manager Jacob Hagan, left, who is shown here with Wynema Lovell, director of the food pantry. ACE will hold another community round up campaign July 2-4 to benefit Seamark Ranch, the foster home in Penney Farms.

Quilters donate to cops

GREEN COVE SPRINGS – Members of Community Threads of Northeast Florida dropped by the Clay County Sheriff’s Office on June 20 to deliver more than a dozen handmade quilts to Sheriff Rick Beseler. CCSO staff will put them to use with the agency’s victim’s advocates, deputies and detectives who often encounter children in crisis situations. Jean Watson, Marty Mayer and Letreze Jordan are shown here with Beseler. In the past, Community Threads volunteers – many of whom are retired educators, retired military and other professionals from Clay County – created and donated similar blankets to local cancer patients and veterans groups. They even hand-make pet beds for the county’s animal shelters.

Auto dealer helps fund sports programs

MIDDLEBURG – Gordon Chevrolet, in conjunction with the North Florida Chevrolet Classics Club, recently helped raise nearly $6,000 for the Middleburg Athletic Association. Part of the proceeds also includes funds raised at the Gordon Chevrolet Car Show event. Gordon Chevrolet General Manager Nathan Potratz, left, presents a check to Amanda Huckelberry, public relations officer for the Middleburg Civic Association.