Archive for 'Hometown Hero' Category
Feb 23, 2022

In 2002, Sergeant Cari Rucks Arnold was a stay-at-home, enjoying her life taking care of her two kids, Daryl Joy and Royce. However, she felt at times that she wanted to get out into the community and give back somehow. So that year she decided to apply to become a dispatcher with the Okeechobee County […]

Feb 12, 2022

Anthony “Ant” Kayda joined Team Gilbert in 2019 at Gilbert Outdoors as a LINE-X Tint Specialist. After about a year, Ant moved to the sales department as a Product Specialist. His favorite part of his current position is “meeting and talking with customers that have been around Okeechobee their entire lives and listening to their […]

Oct 27, 2021

When most people think of October they recall Halloween or pumpkin spice lattes. But for some, their focus is on National Breast Cancer Awareness month. One such person is Sirikun “Jaimie” Hans. And Jaimie has every reason to associate October with Breast Cancer Awareness. In 2013, Jaimie received the devastating news of her breast cancer […]