Identifying local opportunities

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Title: Blaze destroys Monteocha family's home
Link: http://infoweb.newsbank.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/resources/doc/nb/news/15A8E38F7047DD00?p=AWNB
Description of article: A fire completely burned down the Monteocha's double wide trailer. No one was home when the fire started and the cause of the fire is still unknown. One of the neighbors told reporters that the home belonged to his cousins and had been given to them in 2013 after their grandfather passed away.
Problem: The Monteocha's home was burned down to the ground and they had nothing left.
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Title: More than 300 march to say: Hands off our parks
Link: http://infoweb.newsbank.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/resources/doc/nb/news/15A9388BC0BA7E30?p=AWNB
Description: More than 300 people rallied together to protest against the Florida department of environmental protection allowing things such as cattle grazing, hunting and other uses that could harm the environment at Paynes Prairie State Park. The group marched in downtown Gainesville on January 23rd, 2016.
Problem: The Florida Department of Environmental protection has proposed that Paynes Prairie State park be open up to things like cattle grazing and hunting which could be harmful to the environment
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Title: Local Big Brothers, Big Sisters Shuts Down
Link:http://infoweb.newsbank.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/resources/doc/nb/news/15A14DAA32490FE8?p=AWNB
Description: The Local big brothers, big sisters program here in Gainesville has been open for 38 years and was run by ex-mayor Craig Lowe. In the past couple of years this program has been suffering financially, this caused them to pull back their presence in Alachua county schools, they had outstanding bills and their phone and Internet were shut off and many employees hadn't been paid since September of 2015. Lowe resigned in October of 2015 as he could not fix the programs financial troubles.
Problem: The big bothers, big sisters program had to be shut down because they were not financially stable. What was once such a good program can no longer run because they cannot afford too.
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Title: Changing Misconceptions about mental illness
Link:http://infoweb.newsbank.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/resources/doc/nb/news/15A861FAF0F0CF00?p=AWNB
Description: This article is about mental illness and how there are people who suffer from it all around us, some more concealable than others. This article raises awareness to the fact that while the stigma towards mental illness has lessened this means that people with a mental illness will be more likely to reach out for help and that hopefully there will be programs available ready to help.
Problem: Many suffer from mental illness, it is a problem and as the stigma lessens more people with mental illness will reach out looking for help and there needs to be programs available and ready for when they come.
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Title: Hanna Irby: Never take little things for granted, like walking
Link: http://infoweb.newsbank.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/resources/doc/nb/news/15A83A5AC75D8750?p=AWNB
Description: Hanna Irby was born with a rare vascular abnormality in her brain that caused her to have a stroke. Because of the stroke she lost all of her memory and control of her legs and was confined to a wheelchair until finally she got control back at the age of ten.  But her legs weren't the same she said her right leg made a noise when it hit the ground when she walked but the left one never did and the brace she had squeaked and made her leg sweat. It wasn't until she was in high school that he father created the WalkAid to fix her drop leg problem.
Problem: After her stroke she didn't walk the same again and her brace wasn't the right solution, the WalkAid works for her but it sends little electrical impulses through her calf from electrodes at cause her pain every time she takes a step, so it still is not the perfect set up but it is better than the brace.