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Help clean up Englewood Sept. 25

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 by Mark Chapman

Sub­mit­ted by Char­lotte Har­bor Envi­ron­men­tal Center

The Inter­na­tional Coastal Clean Up is sched­uled for 9 a.m. Sat­ur­day, Sept. 25. Inter­ested indi­vid­u­als and groups are encour­aged to par­tic­i­pate in this annual event at Cedar Point Envi­ron­men­tal Park, 2300 Placida Road.

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Craft and bake sale planned

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 by Nancy Guenther Chapman

St. Davids’ Epis­co­pal Church is hold­ing a Craft and Bake sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 6 at the church, located at 401 S. Broad­way Street. The charge is $10 to rent a table to show crafts. For more infor­ma­tion, call BJ Sim­mons at 474‑6250 or the church office at 474‑3140.

OEVA thinks ahead, to upcoming events

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 by Nancy Guenther Chapman

Chil­dren col­lect candy at last year’s Safewalk.

Two things were on the agenda at last night’s meet­ing of the Old Engle­wood Vil­lage Association.

Elaine Miller and Dawn Kennedy wanted to stretch the hours of the annual Hal­loween Safe Walk by adding a cos­tume con­test before it starts. Janet Lan­dis wanted to dis­cuss the arrange­ments of the Win­ter Arts Fes­ti­val, which OEVA has taken over from the Engle­wood Rotary Club. Con­tinue read­ing this story…

Ranch needs donation to cover need for Mercy

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 by Nancy Guenther Chapman ,
with photos by Photos by Nancy Guenther Chapman unless noted otherwise.

Suzanne Park, left, leads the Bit of Hope Horse Ranch in Monday’s Pio­neer Days parade. Behind her is Alex Schlap­man, 11, on Mercy. Alex spends as much time as she can at the ranch.

The chil­dren from the Bit of Hope Ranch looked happy dur­ing Monday’s Pio­neer Days parade, but they have some­thing on their minds now.

Mercy, one of their beloved horses, is hav­ing surgery at noon today.

“All of our kids are very upset, say­ing their prayers and things like that,” said Shelli Obirek, one of the vol­un­teers who helps Suzanne Park keep her non-profit ranch going.

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Sarasota Co. Sheriff’s Office recognized for prescription drug abuse enforcement

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 by Nancy Guenther Chapman

The Sara­sota County Sheriff’s Office has been awarded $5,000 by the National Asso­ci­a­tion of Drug Diver­sion Inves­ti­ga­tors (NADDI) for out­stand­ing work in the field of pre­scrip­tion drug abuse enforcement.

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Contests make for fun afternoon at Pioneer Days festival

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 by Nancy Guenther Chapman ,
with photos by Nancy Guenther Chapman

Bri­anna Haro, 10, win­ner of the water­melon contest.

Devin O’Sullivan walked away from Gar­ret Park Mon­day with happy antic­i­pa­tion of being able to shave.

Well, it had been two months. His sac­ri­fice was not in vain, though, as his full beard helped con­tinue a tra­di­tion of con­tests for the Pio­neer Days festival.

The beard con­test, the water­melon con­test and the pie eat­ing con­test livened up a hot after­noon, pro­vid­ing a fun diver­sion for peo­ple wan­der­ing the booths in the park, one of two being used for the fes­ti­val. Con­tinue read­ing this story…

Thousands attend Pioneer Days parade

Monday, September 6th, 2010 by Nancy Guenther Chapman ,
with photos by Photos by Nancy Guenther Chapman and Tamara Patzer.

Two clowns (one of them seem­ingly get­ting ready for the water­melon con­test) pave the way for the Lemon Bay High School March­ing Band dur­ing the Pio­neer Days Parade Monday.

The largest Pio­neer Days parade ever made its way through Old Engle­wood this morn­ing, greeted by throngs of peo­ple on either side of the parade route.

Accord­ing to Bobbi Mar­quis, who helped orga­nize the Pio­neer Days events, there were 95 orga­ni­za­tions march­ing up Old Engle­wood Road, down West Dear­born Street and over to Engle­wood Ele­men­tary School.

Sahib Shriners per­formed coor­di­nated motor­cy­cle maneu­vers. Sweet­bay super­mar­ket turned shop­ping carts into go-karts. Mem­bers of Jon Cole’s antique trac­tor group squirted people.

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Children gang up on fish for Pioneer Days

Sunday, September 5th, 2010 by Nancy Guenther Chapman ,
with photos by Nancy Guenther Chapman

The Tom Adams Fish­ing Pier, at 10:30 a.m. Sun­day, crowded with chil­dren learn­ing to fish dur­ing the Pio­neer Days — Michael O’Donnell Memo­r­ial Fish-a-thon.

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The Tom Adams Fish­ing Pier was packed, and Cathy Red­mond was sur­prised and pleased.

“Oh my God,” she said. “Can you not believe it?”

More than 80 chil­dren par­tic­i­pated in the first annual Michael O’Donnell Memo­r­ial Fish-A-Thon Sun­day, a revival of a Pio­neer Days event that had lapsed. Red­mond and her hus­band orga­nized the free tour­na­ment in honor of their late son, whose pri­mary pas­sion in life was fishing.

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