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Gulf Cove church plans Arts & Crafts Fair

Thursday, January 5th, 2012 by Mark Chapman ,
with photos by Nancy Guenther Chapman

A shop­per looks over mer­chan­dise at a pre­vi­ous GCUMC Arts & Crafts Fair.

Gulf Cove United Methodist Church will hold its 10th annual Arts & Crafts Fair from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fri­day and Sat­ur­day, Jan. 20 and 21.

The event takes place at the church, 1100 S.McCall Road, Gulf Cove.

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‘Postmortem’ now playing at LBP

Thursday, January 5th, 2012 by Mark Chapman ,
with photos by Rob Davis

Lemon Bay Play­house cast of “Post­mortem”: From left, seated: Lee Lawler, Mon­ica McIn­tire, John T. Wyc­zlin­ski; Stand­ing: Steve Horowitz, Mau­reen Young, Direc­tor Dale Moore, Lisa Pin­dara, Richard Blanchard.

The Lemon Bay Play­house pro­duc­tion of “Post­mortem,” which opened Wednes­day, will run through Jan. 29.

The mys­tery is directed by Dale Moore and fea­tures Lee Lawler, Mon­ica McIn­tire, John T. Wyc­zlin­ski, Steve Horowitz, Mau­reen Young, Lisa Pin­dara and Richard Blanchard.

Tick­ets are $18 and can be ordered online at http://www.lemonbayplayhouse.com, by phone at 475‑6756 or at the box office at 96 Dear­born St. between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Chicago blues band making tour stop in Englewood

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 by Mark Chapman

Howard and the White Boys will per­form at Engle­woods on Dear­born on Jan. 5.

Howard and the White Boys, billed as “Chicago’s Hardest-Working Blues Band” for their more than two decades of non-stop per­form­ing and tour­ing, con­tinue their eight-city Florida Hol­i­day Tour 2011 with an appear­ance at Engle­woods On Dear­born, 362 W. Dear­born St., from 5 to 7 p.m. Thurs­day, Jan. 5.

The band — Howard McCul­lum (vocals, bass gui­tar), Jim Christop­u­los (drums), Rocco Cali­pari (elec­tric gui­tars), Pete Gala­nis (elec­tric gui­tars, lap steel) — recently released  “Made in Chicago“on Evi­dence Records, their first CD in six years, fea­tur­ing mostly cov­ers. Pre­vi­ous CDs have show­cased orig­i­nal material.

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Disbursement of escrow

Monday, January 2nd, 2012 by Mark Chapman

Dane Hahn

By Dane Hahn

Real Estate

When the phone rang this week and caller ID said New York, I won­dered who might be call­ing. Turns out it was a gal from Long Island who had entered into a con­tract to have a house built near the (Don­ald) Trump Tow­ers over near Miami. She explained that they had con­tracted to have the house built in a pre-construction deal, and put down $100,000 in escrow as the down payment.

Here her story was a lit­tle sketchy, but in a nut-shell, here was her ques­tion: The con­tract was entered into and the delay to build the house was sup­posed to be about a year. Appar­ently the builder com­pleted the home in time as sched­uled. Some­thing hap­pened when the house was fin­ished and ready which caused them not to close. Although she had answers to most of my ques­tions, she did not seem to know why the builder had not returned her deposit. And, obvi­ously, she wanted to know how to go about get­ting the funds released from the builder’s escrow company.

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Joan Watmough is AALB Artist of the Month

Sunday, January 1st, 2012 by Mark Chapman ,
with photos by courtesy Arts Alliance of Lemon Bay

Joan Wat­mough is the Arts Alliance of Lemon Bay Artist of the Month.

Sub­mit­ted by Arts Alliance of Lemon Bay

Joan Wat­mough has been named Artist of the Month by the Arts Alliance of Lemon Bay.

Wat­mough, orig­i­nally from New Eng­land, is retired from teach­ing and now she and her hus­band reside in North Port.

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Naturalist to speak about Wildflower Preserve

Friday, December 30th, 2011 by Mark Chapman ,
with photos by courtesy Lemon Bay Historical Society

Baby tar­pon can be found in the water­ways at Wild­flower Preserve.

Sub­mit­ted by Lemon Bay His­tor­i­cal Society

From aban­doned golf course to unique nature pre­serve, the Wild­flower Pre­serve is a “then and now” story of ded­i­ca­tion and perseverance.

Guest speaker Bill Dun­son, retired biol­ogy teacher from Penn State Uni­ver­sity, returns to the Lemon Bay His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety at 7 p.m. Tues­day, Jan. 24, at The Green St. Church, 416 Green St., for “Design­ing a Nature Pre­serve — the Wild­flower Expe­ri­ence.” It’s free and open to the public.

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Vineland lists Dec. Leaders of the Month

Tuesday, December 27th, 2011 by Mark Chapman ,
with photos by courtesy Vineland Elementary School

Vineland Ele­men­tary School grades 3–5 Lead­ers of the Month for December.

Sub­mit­ted by Vineland Ele­men­tary School

Rotonda VFW Post 10476 and its ladies’ Aux­il­iary spon­sor Vineland’s Leader of the Month pro­gram. This pro­gram is designed to rec­og­nize stu­dents for their out­stand­ing per­for­mance, cit­i­zen­ship and lead­er­ship. The stu­dents listed were hon­ored at an assem­bly Dec. 13. Dur­ing the cer­e­mony these boys and girls were rec­og­nized on stage and received a spe­cial ribbon.

Rotonda VFW Post 10476 and it’s Ladies’ Aux­il­iary have been hon­or­ing Vineland stu­dents since the school opened in 1987.

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Online estimates miss the mark

Monday, December 26th, 2011 by Mark Chapman

Dane Hahn

By Dane Hahn

Real Estate

Just the other day, at our com­pany Christ­mas Party, some of the con­ver­sa­tion turned to Zil­low. That’s the online auto­mated real estate site that esti­mates the value of nearly every house in America.

Right or wrong, mil­lions of con­sumers are clam­or­ing for their data since they pro­vide a no-obligation idea of what your house — and those of your neighbor’s up and down the street — might sell for. In a hous­ing mar­ket that’s been mostly a cause for gloom, so-called home-valuation tech­nol­ogy has become one of the few sources of excitement.

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