Community News 11
Ponte Vedra Recorder · November 12, 2015
Gift shop celebrates
‘gift from God’
at new location
Raegan Curry and Clicker Morgan
Kelly H. McDermott
The Recorder
Group works on mosaic
After 42 years in the Costa Verda Plaza of Jacksonville, Pineapple Post has
joined the retailers at Sawgrass Village.
“I feel like this whole new store is like
a miracle — a gift from God to us,” said
owner and founder Susan Hamilton.
Pineapple Post was founded in 1973,
and remained in the same Jacksonville
Beach location until this month. Hamilton and her staff have been working
double-time to get the new store open
in time for an event this Saturday —
when Vietri brand founder Susan Graveley will visit the new location from 1
to 6 p.m.
Despite the hectic schedule of the
move, however, Hamilton has taken
time to reflect with friends and family in
a unique way: by creating a collaborative logo with a story of faith behind it.
“In all these years, as strong as my
faith is and as much as I study the Bible, I never made the connection that
the pineapple is a fruit,” Hamilton said.
“Someone said to me ‘I love that the
pineapple is a fruit and that you’re filled
with the fruit of the spirit. I thought that
was so beautiful.”
So when Pineapple Post commissioned a new logo for its new location,
Hamilton turned to her friend and mosaic artist Raegan Curry to talk about
creating a mosaic. Hamilton’s sister in
law, Clicker Morgan, is also a mosaic
artist – and together, the three decided
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Local team sets record at Bike MS PGA Tour Cycle to Shore
By Bruce Reid
Ponte Vedra Beach’s Elise Beard
(pictured right) crossed the first-day
crosses finish line above in the recent
29th annual Bike MS PGA TOUR Cycle
to the Shore. The two-day, 170-mile
event, Ponte Vedra Beach to Daytona
Beach and back, attracted more than
1,600 cyclists who raised $1.5 million
for multiple sclerosis. Beard is a member of the 30-person Big Banana bike
team, which raised $126,241, out-fundraising more than 100 corporate and
friends and family teams this year.
Three members of the top fundraising team Big Bananas, pictured from left
are team captain Bruce Reid (Ponte Vedra Beach), Linda Bushong-Reid (Ponte
Vedra Beach), and Michael Muraski (Atlantic Beach), finish the first day of the
recent Bike MS PGA TOUR Cycle to the
Shore in Daytona Beach. The 30-person bike team is comprised mostly of
beaches residents, who this year, as a
Friends & Family team, out-fundraised
more than 100 teams, including corporate-sponsored teams. The $126,000plus raised by Big Bananas set a record
for the event, which drew more than
1,600 riders.