C M Y K www.newssun.com EWS UN PAGE 12B NHighlands County’s Hometown-S Newspaper Since 1927 New buffet open Blast from the past Chef hopes to bring taste Avon Park Depot Museum of the Caribbean to Sebring welcomes Tin-Can Tourists PAGE 3A PAGE 2A Sunday, December 2, 2012 www.newssun.com Volume 93/Number 148 | 75 cents Inside Rock ‘n Heartland to add third youth tri By CHRISTOPHER TUFFLEY tioned by USA Triathlon. working with him, intend to response to both was over-
[email protected] Julie’s Funds for Kids was broaden those opportunities, whelming. SEBRING — There will created by Jeff Carlson to including extra funding for Ninety-seven children be three Rock’n Heartland honor his wife Julie Carlson, local youth sporting teams. turned out for the first race in Youth Triathlons for young who died in a tragic boating A continuation and expan- May, 107 for the second in people in 2013 thanks to accident in 2010. sion of the Rock’n Heartland August. Roughly half the Julie’s Funds for Kids and “I think what we’ve done Youth Triathlon Series that participants were local, the the support of the Thakkar with this,” Carlson said, “is debuted in 2012, the 2013 other half arrived from other Family Foundation, which is provide opportunities for races are the centerpiece of parts Florida, out of state, the title sponsor. kids to help them develop a the foundation’s effort to even one from overseas. Lake Placid, Avon Park healthy lifestyle.” help children live healthier The first of the Rock’n and Sebring will each host a The focus, he added is YMCA programs and camps lives.