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Some heroes wear capes. This one has flippers...and a really cool name. A juvenile green sea turtle named Girl Power returned to the Atlantic Ocean Friday after overcoming injuries so severe she wasn't expected to survive.
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Don’t Step On a Bee Day, observed every July 10, has grown from an unofficial reminder to wear shoes outside to avoid bee stings into full habitat protection messaging.
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WGCU Arts Reporter Tom Hall
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WGCU Arts Reporter Tom Hall
When Iliana Lopez and Franklin Gamero joined Miami City Ballet as principal dancers in 1967, there wasn’t much support for ballet in South Florida. They found an almost identical situation when they joined Gulfshore Ballet as teachers in 2011. Fast forward 15 years and Gulfshore Ballet is on the brink of establishing a full-time professional ballet company to complement its ballet school.
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