Student achievements<\/p>\n
Four Tampa Bay area students were among approximately 7,700 who graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology during December commencement exercises.<\/p>\n
The area students were:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Mikhail Bagadion of Palm Harbor<\/p>\n
\u2022 Brandon Folio of New Port Richey<\/p>\n
\u2022 Liam Maloney of Palm Harbor<\/p>\n
\u2022 Ayush Pai of Palm Harbor.<\/p>\n
Dunedin goes purple for a cause<\/p>\n
Downtown Dunedin is turning purple as residents and businesses come together for the eighth annual Paint Dunedin Purple, a weeklong series of events raising awareness and funds for the Alzheimer\u2019s Association.<\/p>\n
More than 80 downtown businesses have decorated storefronts for the week-long observance, hosted themed activities and organized fundraisers to support Do What You Love to End Alzheimer\u2019s, an initiative that supports Alzheimer\u2019s research, education and caregiver resources.<\/p>\n
The event has grown from a single-day effort into a full week of activities designed to engage the community while highlighting the impact of Alzheimer\u2019s disease and other dementias. Events include pickleball, painting workshops, mahjong, pub crawls and community competitions.<\/p>\n
The festivities culminate March 28 with an all-day community event featuring a dog parade, purple pub crawl, business specials and family-friendly activities throughout downtown.<\/p>\n
According to the Alzheimer\u2019s Association, Alzheimer\u2019s is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States. In Florida, more than 580,000 residents are living with Alzheimer\u2019s disease, the second-highest total in the nation. Pinellas County has an estimated 30,400 people or 12 percent over the age of 65 living with Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Student achievements Four Tampa Bay area students were among approximately 7,700 who graduated from the Georgia Institute of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3947,95147,4785,596,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-207603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-alzheimer","tag-downtown-dunedin","tag-dunedin","tag-pinellas-county","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}