Also: Be careful when dealing with scam callers

One might think there’s no room for falling in love while suffering from dementia; evidently, they’d be wrong.Betty Daniels, a 75-year-old Gainesville resident and former pastor, has been in the late stages of the disease for the past two years. Since then, she’s fallen deeply in love with a gospel singer, and she was finally able to meet him through Zoom last month.Daniels lives with her daughter, Vanessa Hutchinson, who works in administration at UF

A-10 pound box of produce will be given to families on Monday as part of the Alachua County Public Schools’ regular summer meal distribution program.The boxes will be given away from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday at Wiles Elementary School, 4601 SW 75th St., and Williams Elementary School, 1245 SE Seventh Ave.The event is part of the Farmers to Families program, the giveaway is made possible through a contract with the United States Department of Agriculture,

Every October I make Concord grape juice, then seal it away in jars. I hoard these sweet vessels until the following summer, when I mix a chilled beverage called “spicy grape juice.”I don’t remember my first taste of chocolate, or of bacon, or even mayonnaise, but I’ll never forget my first sip of spicy grape juice. I was an 8-year-old city boy visiting friends deep in the Massachusetts countryside. One hot day our pack of kids came into the house thirsty. Joan,