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CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: YOUR INSIGHT
THE MATHIS REPORT
Dansations adapts withRecord virtual classes Daily Dance studio owner Kim McDonough is keeping all of her instructors and the studio’s general manager working, with plans to resume inperson classes in July.
BY MAX MARBUT ASSOCIATE EDITOR
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The show must go on. That mantra is what has kept Dansations Performing Arts Center and its owner, Kim McDonough, going through the COVID-19 pandemic. When businesses were ordered to close to the public in March, students and their families that had been coming for years to the studio at 14965 Old St. Augustine Road in the Durbin Crossing shopping mall started staying home. Overnight, McDonough had to transition the business from studio instruction to the virtual world. “I had to reinvent my business in 48 hours. When you’re in the performing arts, you have to learn to be flexible,” McDonough said. She started the business in 1997 in a 1,000-square-foot space with about 35 dancers. McDonough later moved into her 4,000-square-foot studio and had about 200 students before the shutdown. Some of the dance families have dropped out since the pandemic began, but McDonough has been able to keep all of her instructors and the studio’s general manager working, despite the shutdown. There is a loss that was caused by the pandemic: The studio won’t be able to present its annual recital at the University of North Florida Fine Arts Center this year. Instead, Dansations will be
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KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
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Church expanding to North Jacksonville
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Dansations Performing Arts Center students are taking virtual dance classes. They will present a virtual recital June 10 during virtual Art Walk on Downtown Vision Inc.’s Facebook page.
Dansations Performing Arts Center owner Kim McDonough, front row center, with a pre-COVID-19 class at her Dansations Performing Arts Center.
KEEPING CLOSE – FROM A DISTANCE On May 4, the state began a phased reopening of some businesses shut down to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The Daily Record is reporting on small businesses as they confront the challenges of social distancing and financial hardships brought on by the pandemic and its aftermath.
The Church of Eleven22 plans a 1,020-seat sanctuary at a closed Food Lion store in Oceanway Crossing. The Church of Eleven22 is moving ahead with plans to open a North Jacksonville campus at Oceanway Crossing in North Jacksonville. Communications Director Melinda Byrnes said the church is working toward opening in late 2020 or early 2021. “This is a standard campus build-out and we are on schedule,” she said. Prosser Inc. is the civil engineer for the project at 418 Starratt Road. Prosser asked JEA about the availability of utility services at the site. The Church of Eleven22 wants to renovate a closed Food Lion grocery store for a church with a 1,020-seat sanctuary. “As one church with many locations, our North Jax campus will have the same worship experience as all others: preaching from Lead Pastor, Joby Martin, and Eleven22 Kids and Eleven22 Students experiences,”
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Tuesday Morning closing Orange Park store Tuesday Morning Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization May 27 with plans to close 230 of its 687 stores, including its Orange Park location. The off-price home products retailer asked for court approval to close 132 stores this summer in a first phase, including the location at 291 Blanding Blvd. in Orange Park, but it did not say which stores would close later. Tuesday Morning has two stores in Jacksonville and one each in Ponte Vedra Beach, St. Augustine and Fernandina Beach, according to its website.
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