{"id":483312,"date":"2025-12-31T22:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/483312\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:06:16","slug":"flajax-club-celebrates-96th-annual-christmas-gala-free-press-of-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/483312\/","title":{"rendered":"FLAJAX Club Celebrates 96th Annual Christmas Gala \u2013 Free Press of Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/flajax4-678x381.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"flajax4\"\/><br \/>\n Shown is FLAJAX Club&#8217;s donation to the 100 Black Men of Jacksonville L -R: FLAJAX Brother &amp; 100BMOJ member Sylvester Pinckney, Jr, Allen Jefferies (100BMOJ),FLAJAX President &amp; 100BMOJ member James Andrews, Christopher Jett &#8211; President of 100BMOJ, Vernon Cook &#8211; 100BMOJ. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91870\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/flajax4-300x226.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\"  \/>Shown is FLAJAX Club\u2019s donation to the 100 Black Men of Jacksonville L -R: FLAJAX Brother &amp; 100BMOJ member Sylvester Pinckney, Jr, Allen Jefferies (100BMOJ),FLAJAX President &amp; 100BMOJ member James Andrews, Christopher Jett \u2013 President of 100BMOJ, Vernon Cook \u2013 100BMOJ.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Doubletree by Hilton Hotel in downtown Jacksonville was the location where FLAJAX Club members, family and friends came together to celebrate Christmas for the club\u2019s 96th year.\u00a0 Nearly 300 patrons and members enjoyed fine dining, dancing and celebrating with each other.\u00a0 Sounds were provided by Harold E. Thomas and The Danger Zone Band.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For 25 years, Command Sergeant Major (Ret) Henry Sellers has been the Chairman of the Christmas Dance, \u201cEach Year the dance gets better and better,\u201d said Sellers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Christmas Dance was established by the club\u2019s founding members in 1930 in an effort to thwart segregation and provide African Americans with a first class, formal, annual, holiday celebration.\u00a0 This year\u2019s annual gala included the installation of four new members, Lieutenant Colonel (Ret) David Ballard, Sergeant First Class (Ret) Combat Medic, Pastor Craig S. Campbell, Sr., founder of Armor of Faith Christian Center, Inc. and, John A Coleman and Dorvil Steevantz. The club also made a $500 donation to the President (Chrisopher Jett) of the 100 Black Men of Jacksonville. Like the FLAJAX Club the 100 BMOJ provides numerous opportunities via education, mentoring, college fairs and employment of several youth in the community. The two organizations have decided to collaborate and support each other because they share several, similar concerns about our youth and the community.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe FLAJAX Club tries to ensure they make some type of donation to the community throughout the year whether it\u2019s scholarship donations, school supplies or other types of donations in an effort to be a blessing to others,\u201d said FLAJAX Club President James Andrews. The FLAJAX Club was founded on October 16, 1930 on the principles of integrity, leadership and fidelity.\u00a0 The FLAJAX Club is one of the oldest and most respected social and civic clubs in the community.\u00a0The FLAJAX Club continues to enjoy a position of prominence in the civic, social and cultural activities of African Americans in the community. Next up is the clubs Valentin\u2019s Dinner, scheduled for Saturday, February 14th, UNF Adams Herbert Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shown is FLAJAX Club&#8217;s donation to the 100 Black Men of Jacksonville L -R: FLAJAX Brother &amp; 100BMOJ&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":483313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-483312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115816457298580589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}