Identifying Local Opportunities Assignment 5A

Identifying Local Opportunities
by Jenna Jaeger

Opportunity 1
Title: Reggae Shack, Southern Charm owner facing $1M in lawsuits, foreclosures
Link: https://www.gainesville.com/news/20180911/reggae-shack-southern-charm-owner-facing-1m-in-lawsuits-foreclosures
Description of story: This story focuses on a local entrepreneur facing financial problems. He has multiple loans that he has not made monthly payments on for several months. He has at least three different loans from two different banks that he owes. He is being sued by one of the banks for the total of the loan, 665,000. He has claimed that he is doing fine financially and none of the restaurants he owns are going to close, including Reggae Shack and Southern Charm Kitchen.
Description of problem: Omar Oselimo faces the problem of not knowing how to budget. He has multiple loans that he owes hundreds of thousands of dollars to. 
Description of who has the problem: Omar Oselimo has the problem.

Opportunity 2
Title: Cedar Key holds coastal cleanup event Saturday
Link: https://www.gainesville.com/news/20180912/cedar-key-holds-coastal-cleanup-event-saturday
Description of story: This story is an announcement of the coastal cleanup happening on this Saturday. It is International Coastal Cleanup day this Saturday and they are cleaning up Cedar Key Museum State Park. They are starting at eight in the morning and hope to be finished around noon.
Description of problem: The beaches and coastline are littered with trash. There's so much that an entire day was devoted to the problem.
Description of who has the problem: The residents and visitors of Cedar Key has the problem.

Opportunity 3
Title: UF Notebook: Franks takes another step in development
Link: https://www.gainesville.com/news/20180911/uf-notebook-franks-takes-another-step-in-development
Description of story: This story is giving an update on Feleipe Franks' progression to becoming better than he was last year as starting quarterback. He is becoming more of a leader when it comes to his team. He is struggling with keeping the team together when they are desperate for a touchdown. The story covers how in last week's game against the University of Kentucky Franks was getting better.
Description of problem: The problem is that Feleipe has can't stay positive during the lows of the game. He also has a problem with playing well.
Description of who has the problem: The UF football team has the problem.

Opportunity 4
Title: Hunger in Alachua County is real, but groups work to help
Link: https://www.gainesville.com/news/20180912/hunger-in-alachua-county-is-real-but-groups-work-to-help
Description of story: This story starts with a focus on hunger in Alachua County and moves onto talking about organizations that help fix this problem. They discuss how people are hungry in Alachua county. There isn't a food shortage, but the ability to get the food is the issue at hand. Some cannot get to the store. They go into further detail about one individual named Janeane Ryan is disabled and is one who is not able to get all the way to the grocery store. She gets her food from the food bank her church hosts. 
Description of problem: People in Alachua county live in food deserts where the food is too far away for them to reach it. People therefore are going hungry and are turning to food banks at their local churches that they can access more easily.
Description of who had the problem: Those unable to get food in Alachua county have the problem.

Opportunity 5
Title: FDA: E-cigarette use an ‘epidemic’ among teens
Link: https://www.gainesville.com/news/20180912/fda-e-cigarette-use-epidemic-among-teens
Description of story: This story focuses on the implications following the companies selling e-cigarettes that are targeted towards underage teenagers. The FDA comments on the fact that a company like Juul is under serious scrutiny at the moment and needs to come out with plans to steer underage teenagers away from their product. They believe it could set the tobacco-free image back deacades in advancement. 
Description of problem: The FDA has companies selling their product illegally to the underage teenagers and targeting them with their ads and fun flavors. 
Description of who has the problem: The FDA, the e-cigarette companies, and the underage teenagers getting addicted to nicotine have this problem. 

Comments

  1. Eddie Jimenez9/16/2018 7:45 PM

    Hey Jenna great list of local opportunities! I too wrote about the legal problems Omar Oselimo is currently facing. I found this very interesting because Omar Oselimo does not feel pressured about his legal problems as he has stated that his businesses are doing well and will be able to eventually pay off his debts. No matter if his businesses are doing well he needs to pay back the lenders who helped him start and keep running his business.

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  2. Unknown9/17/2018 1:39 AM

    Hi Jenna, I like your list of local opportunities. I had no clue that hunger in Alachua county was the big of an issue. I believe there is a real opportunity to somehow help people get to the grocery store. There could maybe be a grocery service that helps get disabled people and individuals without transportation food to their household. I also agree with the other article about E-Cigarettes such as Juul becoming a problem among teens. If the FDA and other companies don’t act fast then it will end up doing a lot of harm.

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  3. David Jacobs9/17/2018 2:04 PM

    Jenna,

    I was also aware of the FDA situation regarding e-cigarettes. I have julled before but I never thought it was going to be this bad. I have friends in the city I lived before Gainesville, and they tell me that even middle schoolers under 18 years old are using them. Like literally there is one kid that sels them in school and I just feel its not ok for them to do it since their organs are not fully developed.

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