JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Fourth Judicial Circuit and the Duval County Clerk of Courts held an All-American Adoption celebration to finalize adoptions for local youth on Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n
It took place ahead of America\u2019s 250th anniversary of independence. <\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Organizers also held a carnival outside the Duval County Courthouse to help the children and families celebrate. <\/p>\n The Harris family walked in the courthouse to be re-bonded in a new way. Kenneth Harris and his wife Allegra adopted Kenneth\u2019s one year old niece Farah. Yellow is her favorite color. <\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Kenneth\u2019s mom Algeree Harris adopted her six-year-old granddaughter Skylar. The siblings belong to Algree\u2019s other son, who\u2019s going through tough times.<\/p>\n For mom and son, both with adult children, they\u2019re starting over now. Kenneth and his wife already have four children!<\/p>\n \u201cOur baby will be 18 in August and she just graduated, so now she\u2019s the baby,\u201d Allegra said.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s no sweat off my back. I\u2019ve always been a father. I\u2019ve always been there for my kids so I\u2019m gonna be here for her just like I was there for them,\u201d Kenneth said. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s challenging but I\u2019m up for the challenge,\u201d Algeree said. <\/p>\n The celebrations for adopted families continued outside the courthouse with the All-American Stars and Stripes Adoption Celebration. It featured snow cones, hot does, face painting and balloon animals.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Fourth Judicial Circuit and the Duval County Clerk of Courts held an All-American Adoption…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25675,982,135003,135008,135005,135004,3017,135010,73500,135002,7903,24468,794,30872,135001,135006,56468,108625,969,116,118,117,135007,135009,116424,634,66799,71896],"class_list":["post-326681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-25675","tag-action_news","tag-action_news_jack_and_dakota","tag-alger","tag-ali_vaya","tag-amanda_medford","tag-america","tag-america_250_adoption","tag-cbs_47","tag-clerk_of_courts","tag-county","tag-downtown_jacksonville","tag-duval","tag-duval_county_courthouse","tag-fourth_judicial_circuit","tag-fourth_of","tag-fox_30","tag-harris","tag-jack","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-kenneth_harris","tag-lady_liberty","tag-levi","tag-local","tag-zion","tag-zion_deoto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326681","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=326681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}