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Englewood funeral home adds crematory

Saturday, February 4th, 2012 by Mark Chapman ,
with photos by courtesy Englewood Community Funeral Home

Funeral hom staf, seated from left: Jo-Ann Verna, funeral direc­tor and pres­i­dent; David D. Gal­len­tine, funeral direc­tor. Stand­ing, from left:Lee G. Watts, asso­ciate; Don­ald R. Camp­bell, intern funeral direc­tor; Ken­neth Hin­shaw, funeral direc­tor; Stephen W. Bates, asso­ciate. Not shown: Valerie A. Dra­gan, funeral direc­tor and Jack T. Voglti, assoicate.

Engle­wood Com­mu­nity Funeral Home has announced it is now offer­ing Englewood’s only pri­vate, on-premise crematory.

Jo-Ann Verna, pres­i­dent and CEO of Engle­wood Com­mu­nity Funeral Home, at 3070 South McCall Road, made the announce­ment Thursday.

The instal­la­tion of the state-of-the-art cre­ma­tory meets or exceeds all require­ments of the Florida Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency, she said.

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Skidmore’s Englewood office closed during February

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 by Mark Chapman

The Engle­wood office of Com­mis­sioner Robert Skid­more, Dis­trict 3, will be closed the month of Feb­ru­ary. The office will reopen on March 7.

The com­mis­sioner holds Engle­wood office hours at the West County Annex, 6868 San Casa Drive, Engle­wood, on Wednes­days from 9 a.m. to noon. Walk-ins are wel­come. He also main­tains office hours at the Mur­dock com­plex through­out the week. To make an appoint­ment at either loca­tion, please call 941.743.1300.

Ainger student wins big in science fair

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 by Mark Chapman ,
with photos by courtesy L.A. Ainger

L.A. Ainger seventh-grader Sarah Lown shows off her Inven­tors Fair awards.

L.A. Ainger stu­dent Sarah Lown won big recently in the Inven­tors Fair at the 55th Annual Thomas Alva Edi­son Regional Sci­ence Fair, with her big prize a $4,000 schol­ar­ship to a col­lege of her choice.

Sarah, who took first place in the seventh-grade divi­sion and in the over­all mid­dle school divi­sion, also won $500 to con­tinue work­ing on her inven­tion, a $250 gift card from FPL, a Sony Tablet and a Sony Stereo,

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Garden Club plans rummage sale

Monday, January 30th, 2012 by Mark Chapman ,
with photos by Sue Killion

From left: Gar­den Club mem­ber Betty Parker and Sale Chair­man Mar­cia Neubauer arrange jew­elry for the Lemon Bay Gar­den Club annual Rum­mage Sale on Feb. 17 and 18.

Lemon Bay Gar­den Club will hold its’ annual Rum­mage Sale and Plant Sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sat­ur­day, Feb. 18,  at the club­house at the cor­ner of Yale and Cedar streets in Olde Engle­wood  (480 Yale Street). Admis­sion is free.

New this year will be a pre­view sale Fri­day, Feb. 17. The cost to attend the pre­view is $3 per per­son. The sale fea­tures col­lectibles, antiques, small fur­ni­ture, lamps, jew­elry, bric-a-brac and appliances.

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So it going better — it won’t last

Monday, January 30th, 2012 by Mark Chapman

Dane Hahn

By Dane Hahn

Real Estate

Fixed mort­gage rates ticked up this week as the hous­ing mar­ket ended 2011 on a high note. New con­struc­tion of one-family homes rose 4.4 per­cent in Decem­ber to an annu­al­ized rate of 470,000, the most since April 2010. Exist­ing home sales increased 5 per­cent at the end of the year to 4.61 mil­lion houses, the largest amount since May 2010. Fur­ther­more, pend­ing home sales in Novem­ber and Decem­ber aver­aged the high­est read­ing since the March and April 2010 period.

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AALB photog wins magazine contest

Monday, January 30th, 2012 by Mark Chapman ,
with photos by Kelly Cioffi

Kelly Cioffi’s award-winning pho­to­graph, “Tech War.”

Sub­mit­ted by Arts Alliance of Lemon Bay

Engle­wood pho­tog­ra­pher Kelly Cioffi has won BW+ Color Magazine’s  color sin­gle image con­test 2012 Sil­ver Award. Her image, along with the other win­ning entries, will be pub­lished in the March issue of BW+ Color magazine.

Stop by the AALB at 452 W. Dear­born St. to see her other images.

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10th Lemon Bay Fest opens Feb. 3

Sunday, January 29th, 2012 by Mark Chapman ,
with photos by File

A crowd takes part in fes­ti­val activ­i­ties in 2010.

By Jean Airey

Lemon Bay Fest – Engle­wood His­tory with Zest!, begins its 10th year Fri­day, Feb. 3.

Kick­ing things off and run­ning through the week is the fourth of the orig­i­nal “Billery Dean” mur­der mys­tery plays. This one calls for the great detec­tive (and Engle­wood fish­er­man) to solve “The Case of the Pur­ple Por­poise.” Reser­va­tions can be made by call­ing 941−474−3764.

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The cookies are coming

Sunday, January 29th, 2012 by Mark Chapman ,
with photos by courtesy Girl Scouts of Gulfcoast

Troop 208: front row from left: Anne LeV­asseur, Adri­ana Basile. Back row: Car­rie Har­vey, Court­ney Botelho, Saman­tha Mar­tel, Eliz­a­beth D’Amico, Rea­gan Moody, and Emily Lang

Girl Scouts through­out Engle­wood and sur­round­ing areas have begun tak­ing orders for Girl Scout Cookies.

What makes this year dif­fer­ent is that Girl Scouts is cel­e­brat­ing its 100th birth­day. On March 12, 1912, Juli­ette “Daisy” Gor­don Low assem­bled 18 girls from Savan­nah, Ga., for the first Girl Scout meet­ing. She believed that all girls should be given the oppor­tu­nity to develop phys­i­cally, men­tally and spir­i­tu­ally. With the goal of bring­ing girls out of iso­lated home envi­ron­ments and into com­mu­nity ser­vice and the open air, Girl Scouts hiked, played bas­ket­ball, went on camp­ing trips, learned how to tell time by the stars, and stud­ied first aid.

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