Author: Carma Henry

Carma Lynn Henry Westside Gazette Newspaper 545 N.W. 7th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33311 Office: (954) 525-1489 Fax: (954) 525-1861

PHILIPPINE SEA (July 15, 2021) Mineman 2nd Class Hunter Auslander, right, from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., receives a promotion letter from Cmdr. Joseph Burgon, from Cottonwood, Calif., aboard Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Charleston (LCS 18), July 15.

      Track and field star Allyson Felix has been candid about balancing motherhood and her career, and she’s on a mission to support other mom-athletes who are on the same journey. According to Glamour, Felix has teamed up with the apparel brand Athleta and the Women’s Sports Foundation to provide childcare grants for women who are competing at the Tokyo Olympics.

     Although some people travel during the year, Summer is when a lot of people take vacations. They save and plan all year to visit or revisit another area of the nation or the World. Experiencing another environment, dialect, landscape, and culture allows our minds to expand. As much as traveling opens the minds of adults, it does so much more for our young people with their developing thought processes. 

Island Origins Magazine, South Florida’s Caribbean-American lifestyle quarterly, received its seventh and eighth Florida Magazine Association awards this July in Sarasota, Florida. Island Origins celebrates the best in Caribbean achievement, travel, art, business, cuisine and more. The annual gala and awards honor and recognizes the best editing, writing, photography, marketing, and other work in participating Florida magazines.

   The angelic solo voice of Mrs. Rosa Saulsby has been silenced after being summoned to her heavenly home on July 21, 2021, in Tacoma, Washington.  Born in White Springs, Florida on July 14, 1927, Mrs. Saulsby recently celebrated her 94th birthday.  She came to Fort Lauderdale with her parents, George and Hattie Newsome, and as the second oldest of ten siblings, shouldered many chores and responsibilities usually assigned to adults.