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La Stanza is going to the dogs (and cats)

Friday, July 30th, 2010 by Mark Chapman

La Stanza will host a Sun­coast Humane Soci­ety fundraiser Aug. 4.

La Stanza Ris­torante will hold a fundrais­ing event Wednes­day for the Sun­coast Humane Society.

From 5 to 8 p.m. Aug. 4, a por­tion of every check will go to the SHS to help sup­port the group’s mis­sion to feed, shel­ter and find homes for the region’s home­less ani­mal population.

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Performing Arts Academy offers back-to-back shows

Thursday, July 29th, 2010 by Mark Chapman

Sub­mit­ted by Lemon Bay Per­form­ing Arts Academy

The Lemon Bay Per­form­ing Arts Acad­emy will offer 2-for-1  enter­tain­ment this week­end  with its orig­i­nal pro­duc­tion of “Nemo!” fol­lowed by a “Rock Star Con­cert” star­ring Engle­wood area youth ages 5 through 14.

Tick­ets are on sale for the per­for­mances at 7 p.m. Sat­ur­day, July 31 and 3 p.m. Sun­day, Aug. 1 at the Lemon Bay Per­form­ing Arts Cen­ter, Lemon Bay High School, 2201 Placida Road.

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Kids Needs shoe drive coming down to the wire

Thursday, July 29th, 2010 by Mark Chapman

The Kids Needs shoe drive ends Aug. 4.

Sub­mit­ted by Kids Needs

Kids needs is in the home stretch of its Drive for Five.

The “Five” is 500 pairs of sneak­ers, san­dals, ten­nis shoes and flip flops – the goal of this year’s Kids Needs sum­mer drive in part­ner­ship with  Placida Rotary.

There are 1½ weeks left to make the goal. The drive con­cludes Wednes­day, Aug. 4.

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For Installment 4 of ‘The Price of Crabs,’ go to the Leisure section

Monday, July 26th, 2010 by Mark Chapman

Long­time Engle­wood res­i­dent Car­olyn Siemon-Schoner has authored “The White Sale,” “Tinker’s Creek” and “Bemused” for the Akasha Lit­er­ary Mag­a­zine;  “The Aspara­gus Years” for the Man­a­toui Lit­er­ary Mag­a­zine; and  “A Col­lec­tion of Poems.” She cur­rently con­tributes reg­u­larly to Engle­wood Edge.

“The Price of Crabs” is a novel of a sleepy fish­ing vil­lage where a man shows up and cat­a­pults the place into the 21st cen­tury. The places exist; the peo­ple are a fig­ment of the author’s imag­i­na­tion and do not resem­ble any per­son liv­ing or dead.

This story may not be appro­pri­ate for young read­ers (lan­guage, adult situations).

Each Mon­day, another install­ment will run in our Leisure sec­tion. All install­ments will remain online, so if you miss one, you can catch up. The first install­ment ran July 5. This week is Install­ment 4.

Neighborhood Watch to take part in National Night Out

Saturday, July 24th, 2010 by Mark Chapman

The Char­lotte County Sheriff’s Office will join with the Rotonda West Neigh­bor­hood Watch on Aug. 3 to mark National Night Out.

Sub­mit­ted by Rotonda West Neigh­bor­hood Watch

Rotonda West Neigh­bor­hood Watch will par­tic­i­pate for the third year in National Night Out, a unique crime and drug pre­ven­tion event.

More than 15,000 com­mu­ni­ties nation­wide will be par­tic­i­pat­ing Aug. 3 in the 27th annual event. Among its pur­poses are to heighten crime and drug pre­ven­tion, and strengthen neigh­bor­hood spirit and police-community part­ner­ships. Rotonda Neigh­bor­hood Watch works closely with Char­lotte County’s Sheriff’s Depart­ment as a crime deter­rent in the community.

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R-Card pass provides unlimited rides on SCAT and MCAT

Saturday, July 24th, 2010 by Mark Chapman

Sub­mit­ted by Sara­sota County Area Transit

For the first time, bus pas­sen­gers in Sara­sota and Man­a­tee coun­ties may now pur­chase a monthly pass that pro­vides unlim­ited rides on all Sara­sota County Area Tran­sit  and Man­a­tee County Area Tran­sit  routes.

The new R-Card costs $60 and is good for 30 days after first use. Seniors with a Medicare or Gold card, as well as dis­abled peo­ple, can pur­chase a dis­count R-Card for $30.

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Church still need food donations, school supplies

Monday, July 19th, 2010 by Mark Chapman

Engle­wood East Church of Christ

Sub­mitt­ted by Engle­wood East Church of Christ

The Clothes for the Needy Pro­gram at Engle­wood East Church of Christ would like to say “Thank You and God Bless” to every­one who came through with the over­whelm­ing bless­ing of clothes dona­tions dur­ing its drive.

There are no more clothes needed, and the church has run out of room to keep and store them.

How­ever, the Hand­fuls of Pur­pose Food pantry is in need of non-perishable food and school sup­plies for the upcom­ing school year.

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Food pantry hours changing in August

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 by Mark Chapman

Food dis­tri­b­u­tion times change in August.

Begin­ning with its Aug. 21 dis­tri­b­u­tion, the new hours for Hand­fuls of Pur­pose Food Pantry/Veterans Cor­ner at the Engle­wood East Church of Christ, 9600 Gulf­stream Blvd., will be from 10 a.m. to noon.

Non-perishable  food dona­tions are needed, as sup­plies are very low and need is very high.

The food pantry also is col­lect­ing back-to-school  sup­plies and cloth­ing for kinder­garten through sixth grade.

All dona­tions may be dropped off at the church Tues­day through Sat­ur­day. If no one is there, they may be left at the front door.

For more infor­ma­tion, leave a mes­sage  for Fran at 475‑4973