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Coggin Toyota at the Avenues Announces Partnership with Wolfson Children’s Hospital

Submitted by Rachel Leitao, First Coast News Staff

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011, 11:49am

Jacksonville residents are invited to visit Coggin Toyota at the Avenues at 10564 Phillips Highway to help support Wolfson Children’s Hospital. In this inaugural Valentine’s Retail Partnership Program, Coggin Toyota at the Avenues, as one of several retail partners in the area, will donate $100 for every car sold, up to $10,000, to the hospital. The program, running through February 28, offers Jacksonville consumers the opportunity to shop for a new car while giving back to the area’s only children’s hospital.

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Submitted by Rachel Leitao, First Coast News Staff

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011, 8:04am

In the midst of one of the snowiest winters on record for the Northeast United States, Visit Jacksonville launched an advertising campaign positioning the city as an escape from the cold in New York’s Times Square Plaza. The 15-second advertisement will be on display daily every hour on the CBS “Super Screen” located at 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues through April 30.

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Submitted by Rachel Leitao, First Coast News Staff

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011, 8:03am

Average retail gasoline prices in Jacksonville have risen 3.7 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.07/g yesterday. This compares with the national average that has increased 2.9 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.11/g, according to gasoline price website JacksonvilleGasPrices.com.

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Submitted by Rachel Leitao, First Coast News Staff

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011, 11:03am

Target, RadioShack Buy Back iPhones, Other Used Gadgets

The trend of dumping unwanted gadgets online at sites like eBay and Craigslist now has shifted to brick-and-mortar retail stores, with a twist.

Major retailers, such as Target (TGT) and RadioShack (RSH), are buying back products from customers in-store and offering credit toward purchase of new products.

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Submitted by Rachel Leitao, First Coast News Staff

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011, 3:28pm

Hubbard House, the domestic violence center serving Duval and Baker counties, unveils its new logo and Web site which it received as part of the national We Inspire Grant.

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Submitted by Rachel Leitao, First Coast News Staff

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011, 2:58pm

Clink, clank, clunk! That’s the sound more than 300,000 students throughout North Florida will soon hear as they pour their pocket change into collection jars to support Olive Garden’s 17th-annual Pasta for Pennies program benefiting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) School & Youth campaign. Last year, Olive Garden’s Pasta for Pennies collected $6.1 million nationally, bringing the total amount donated since the program’s inception to more than $53 million.

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