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Member Spotlight: KCBS Advance Academy fosters a caring and creative learning environment for children with Autism.

KCBS Advance Academy is a school for children with Autism that integrates behavior intervention along with education, allowing children to showcase their academic skills. KCBS Advance Academy fosters a caring and creative learning environment dedicated to changing the lives of every student that walks through the door. They provide an education system set up to focus on each child’s individual strengths and weaknesses and no two children are taught the same way.

Understanding the importance of working as a team is crucial, and with the cooperation of teachers, parents, therapists, and staff KCBS Academy is able to work in harmony to achieve for each student the results set out for them.  The goal of KCBS Academy isn’t to set limits, but rather to encourage high expectations of success for every child with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

You can find KCBS Advance Academy on Facebook and Instagram, and on their webpage kcbsadvanceacademy.com.

Member Spotlight: GilNik Trash provides safe, clean valet trash services for Osceola’s seniors & vulnerable residents.

In January 2021, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Avagail Walker suddenly found herself making the major life transition to owner and operator of a trash and recycling cleaning company.  For Walker, much of whose experience fell into the world of hospitals, medical centers, and pharmacies, this was a bold, but unsurprising transition.  Walker describers herself as obsessed with cleanliness, and much of her experience in the healthcare field came in sterile processing and decontamination of surgical instruments.

When Walker’s father passed away in October 2020, she recognized a need for the elderly, and those in senior living facilities and nursing homes, to receive safe, clean trash and recycling services.  Unable to reach her father in another country, she set her sights on doing something that would make a difference for those here in her own community.

GilNik Trash LLC was born.

GilNik Trash Owner & Founder, Avagail Walker

GilNik Trash LLC, named for Walker’s father Gilbert and her sister-in-law Nikki, who had also recently passed, is a door-to-door valet cleaning & recycling service. They pride themselves on being a performance–driven, value-based company that serves the elderly, handicapped, and many others.

Valet trash helps to improve retention, controls odor, and aids in pest control, making it an appealing service to both potential tenants and management teams at senior living facilities, nursing homes, apartment complexes, office buildings, and vacation resorts, which are just some of the clients that GilNik Trash serves.

The goal of GilNik Trash is a healthier and cleaner environment for our most vulnerable populations, so they don’t wind up in alarming circumstances like Walker’s dad. GilNik Valet Trash employees also provide an extra set of eyes on your property, for additional security. They realize that in order to succeed as a company, their partners must also succeed, and they maintain the highest level of commitment to achieving this goal.  As the crew at GilNik likes to say “We take out the trash so you don’t have to.”

GilNik Trash can provide a free survey and analysis with no obligation to sign a contract.  These quotes are available 72 hours or 3 – 4 days after walk-through of the property.

Member Spotlight: Forever Marketing Group's 25+ years of media, events, and marketing expertise in Osceola.

Legally established in the State of Florida in February of 2021, Forever Marketing Group, LLC has more than 25 years in the sales & marketing field with diversified experience in Media Communication, Social Media, and Health Marketing.  They prepare advertising campaigns for radio and television, generate printed marketing material, produce independent programs for radio and television, and even organize many types of private business events, press conferences, community events, health fairs, trade shows, and concerts.

Forever Marketing Group worked on the steering committee of the Hispanic Expo organized by the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metro Orlando from 2006-2010.  For this project, they were in charge of the total logistics of the 3-day event.  In addition to coordinating many expo events, they produce a weekly radio program, “Salud, Finanzas y Algo Mas,” every Tuesday from 4pm – 5pm on the local Generation Radio News 1220AM Radio Station here in Kissimmee, FL.

They would like to extend an invitation to all fellow Chamber Members to attend, or participate as an exhibitor, in their Kissimmee Edu Expo to be held at Osceola Heritage Park on Saturday, June 4, 2022 from 10am – 6pm.  The Kissimmee Edu Expo is free of charge to our community (including parking!), with seven- to eight-thousand expected attendees during the event hours.  The event will feature guidance on education and financial aid issues and much more.  The Forever Marketing Crew is looking forward to seeing you all there!!