5A – Identifying Local Opportunities

The five opportunities I was able to find consisted of several different small organizations, large organization, and the daily people having problems.

 

1.     The title of the article is  “16 puppies stolen from the East Orlando Petland store” and the link to this article is: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/crime/os-ne-puppies-stolen-from-troubled-petland-waterford-lakes-20200522-to23g2ebqjcbtbr2kih7kmjl4q-story.html. The story talks about a break-in at the Petland in Waterford Lakes and how it costed the company $100,000. From personal experience I know this is not the first time that this has happened to one of the local pet stores, as it is a constant problem that these companies face all the time. The problem that is presented in the story is dog’s being stolen, making the company lose a large amount of money. The problem is mainly to all local pet stores as this is common throughout the entire city.

2.     The title of the article is “Orlando International Airport Traffic Down 96%”and the link to the article is: https://westorlandonews.com/orlando-international-airport-traffic-down-96/. The story talks about how the Orlando international airport used to be one of the busiest airport’s ever and now its air travel has cut down to 96% of what it was beforehand. This is affecting several of their plans and cutting most of their finances, causing problems to things like their plan to expand the airport.  The problem currently is that because of the current pandemic we are facing at the moment, the airport is facing a financial instability because of the low air travel. The certain organization that has this problem is the Orlando airport or more importantly all the airports in the United States.

3.     The title of the article is “Red tide problem escalates off Florida’s west coast”  and the link to the article is: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/florida/os-ne-red-tide-update-florida-coast-bloom-20191107-4eiwivghqvgrpkdipszo3qtr24-story.html. The story talks about how the concentration of the red tide has increased with time and how it is spreading to other counties throughout the state of Florida. The problem is currently the spread of the red tide and how it can cause respiratory irritations and marine life death. The group that has the problem would consist of the people who live near the specific beaches that are contaminated and scientists who have research with the marine life science at that beach.

4.     The title of the article is “Movie theatre’s struggle to draw crowds as COVID-19 stay at home orders ease” and the link to the article is: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/ct-ent-movie-theaters-open-small-crowds-20200527-kqcudiado5fktgpev5q7gwhw5y-story.html. The story talks about how movie theatres are having trouble finding customers as they are scared of getting sick from the virus, but the movie theatres still have to pay bills that they may not be able to afford soon. These movie theatres are then forced to run out of money while opened or closed and most have decided to therefore stay open. The problem that is presented is that people are too scared to come to the movie theatre, after the stay at home order has been lifted. This will then cause the movie theatres to run out of money and most likely go out of business. Currently the group of people that have this problem can be split into two groups the theatre companies that are losing money every day and the daily person who is too scared to go to the movie theatre because they might get sick.

5.     The title of the article is “Families of more than 2 million Florida children to get extra food stamp benefits” and the link to the article is: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-coronavirus-florida-kids-to-get-pandemic-food-stamp-benefits-20200528-hkpve2lmqffkbgicyntoqbnkyy-story.html. This article talks about how 2 million people are in need of food and therefore getting food stamps. Do to the pandemic, a significant amount of people are now unemployed and therefore in need of help with food stamps. The current problem is that a huge amount of people are facing a constant problem of hunger as the new pandemic has displaced many people and therefore cause many people to struggle with finding a way to afford things necessary for them to survive. The group of people that would be facing this problem would be people that are displaced because of this pandemic and therefore have no funds to keep themselves afloat.