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Welcome back — it’s hard to top Gainesville in the fall for pure, unadulterated excitement. And just as the Gators will welcome football fans to town Sept. 3, Santa Fe College’s new Fine Arts Hall will welcome audiences with two premiere performances on Sept. 24 and we welcome one and all to our “Welcome Back” stories and columns

This special edition has more stories and columns to help you enjoy all that Gainesville and the surrounding area has to offer.

If you’re one of thousands of new University of Florida or SFC students coming to town for the first time, our “ABCs of Gainesville” will help to make getting to know the area as easy as learning the alphabet.

The city of Gainesville and the county of Alachua are packed with endless places to explore and things to do, and this quick intro to the area offers tantalizing points of reference.

We also have special columns and stories on what’s ahead in the realm of theater, dance and music, along with a look at Gainesville’s bustling live music scene including where to go and who to watch our for.

In a nutshell, these will give you ideas of where to go and what to do to get you going into the fall and beyond. Welcome back!

Poor Mojo's Newswire: Gainesville, Florida passes law limiting how ...

The City of Gainesville, Florida has recently imposed a 130-meals-a-day limit to some area soup kitchens. For a variety of reasons, none of which seem logical or humane, Gainesville is telling soup kitchens to turn away those who are hungry, if they happen to come after the 130 person limit. To see additional coverage of this incredible story, check out this recent post.

There has been some local coverage of the story as well. The Gainesville Sun recently reported that at a City Hall meeting, an 8 year-old girl named Mackenzie Case said, "It makes me sad that we have hungry people we aren't allowed to feed." She also held a hand-written sign that said, "If I was No. 131 you wouldn't feed me?"

The pleas of this courageous little girl speak volumes. She has the dignity and reason that is somehow lost among the commissioners. We need to let the City of Gainesville know just how outrageous and inhumane this limit is.

Apparently, this has been a heated debate between the City of Gainesville and St. Francis House, a local soup kitchen that has had to impose this limit begrudgingly for the past year. St. Francis House plans to petition the city to overturn the limit. This past June, the Commission voted to allow the soup kitchen to provide meals above the limit on three days only: Thanksgiving, Christmas and a holiday of the facilities' choosing. This Thanksgiving, St. Francis House had over 300 people come to eat a hot meal. Yet if these same 300 people showed up any of the other 362 days of the year, only 130 would be fed.

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