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Mother’s Day Craft at Tringali on May 1

ENGLEWOOD – Mother’s Day is on the way – May 12 – and you can get a jump on mak­ing it spe­cial at a craft event from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednes­day, May 1, in the gym meet­ing room at the Tringali Recre­ation Center.

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Tennessee man trying to reconnect with old friend

To the Editor,

Please, please help me find my best friend. He grew up in Engle­wood. His name is James Marple; he had a sis­ter named Lau­ren. He may be going by Jimmy or Jim now. He would be 58 or 59 years old. He grad­u­ated from Char­lotte County High in 1974. He went through the Rin­gling Bros. clown school and got on with Clyde Beatty. I’ve scoured the Inter­net to no avail but can’t locate him. I just want to know if he’s OK.

Please help me.

Billy Fisher

Readyville, Ten­nessee

(Editor’s note: If you have any infor­ma­tion, please send it to editor@englewoodedge.com and we will pass it along)

Some thoughts on the national gun debate

To the Editor:

I need to get this off my mind so bear with me.

With all of the new shoot­ings and vio­lence, I am very con­cerned. New laws would only apply to the law abid­ing per­son. Do you really think that crim­i­nals would obey?

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Increased red tide levels detected on Sarasota Co. beaches

From Sara­sota Co. website

SARASOTA COUNTY – Recent beach water sam­ples col­lected by the Sara­sota County Health Depart­ment and ana­lyzed by Mote Marine Lab­o­ra­tory for the algae red tide (Kare­nia bre­vis) show a marked increase over test results from last week. Higher lev­els of Kare­nia bre­vis were found at south­ern Sara­sota County beaches, with the high­est increases reported from Tur­tle Beach south­ward to Blind Pass Beach, which includes the Paw Park at South Bro­hard Beach in Venice.

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Foundation thanks Back to School supporters

Dear Edi­tor:

As pres­i­dent of the Char­lotte Local Edu­ca­tion Foun­da­tion (CLEF), I would like to take a moment and thank all those asso­ci­ated with the “BACK TO SCHOOL” event which took place on Sat­ur­day July 28 at the Char­lotte County Cul­tural Cen­ter. This was the 12th annual Event of this kind and from 2000-07 the School Dis­trict put it on but due to bud­get cuts in 2008 the Cul­tural Cen­ter took it over and has hosted ever since. We are pleased to part­ner with them for the sec­ond year.

We had so many that gave anony­mously and then the many local com­pa­nies which gave of back­packs, crayons, paper, pen­cils, chalk and other var­i­ous items to help those teach­ers and stu­dents need­ing these sup­plies for this school year. Every lit­tle bit helps in this time of so many in need and teach­ers whom often take from their own pocket to edu­cate and enrich our children.

We would def­i­nitely like to thank the fol­low­ing who showed up and vol­un­teered at the event: Cul­tural Cen­ter staff, GFWC Women’s Club, Sun­Trust, CLEF Board Mem­bers, school board mem­ber, Lee Swift, and Char­lotte County Pub­lic School staff.

Also, this event saw many of the com­mu­nity assets par­tic­i­pate and pro­vide ‘in kind’ ser­vices. They were: Dr. Matt Defillips from Coastal Chi­ro­prac­tic for Free Spinal Screen­ings; Char­lotte County Health Depart­ment for free appoint­ments for phys­i­cals; Dr. David Klein for free eye screen­ings; Winn-Dixie & Shauna Lee Lange for free face paint­ing; Hair by Shawn & Co. for free hair­cuts, man­i­cures and massages.

We must also thank those Char­lotte County Sher­iff Reserve Offi­cers for keep­ing us safe at the event and school: Cap­tain Stan Oleckna, Deputy Justin Mac­Don­ald, Lt. Steve Cum­mings, Deputy Beth Pardal, and Deputy Michael Lonesky.

It was phe­nom­e­nal to also see the many anony­mous givers and vol­un­teers who didn’t leave names or identification-we thank you.

I know the kids may not be excited about school start­ing next week but at least more will have their needed sup­plies. By the way, look for the CLEF Adult Spelling Bee con­test com­ing up in Oct 20, 2012 or the Schol­ar­ship 5K Run/Walk Dec 8th. Thanks again.

Christo­pher D. Beers, P.E., P.S.M.

Branch Man­ager

John­son Engi­neer­ing, Inc.

18501 Mur­dock Cir­cle, Suite 404

Port Char­lotte, FL 33948

Office: 941−625−9919

Cell: 941−628−0635

Fax: 941−625−3269

Email: CBeers@johnsoneng.com

www.JohnsonEngineering.com

Back to School Festival a success

To the editor:

Thank you so much for your cov­er­age of our Back to School Fes­ti­val part­ner­ing with the Cul­tural Cen­ter on July 28. Because of the press cov­er­age we had excel­lent com­mu­nity sup­port and won­der­ful vol­un­teers the day of the event. Over 1,000 stu­dents were helped. We espe­cially thank our major sponsors:

Ajax Build­ing Corporation

B & I Contractors

Burnt Store Isles

Cen­tu­ryLink

Char­lotte County Com­puter Group

Char­lotte County Tax Col­lec­tor, Vickie Potts

Char­lotte State Bank and Trust

Dr. David Klein

Kiwa­nis Club of Punta Gorda

Mosaic Fer­til­izer, LLC

Niel­son Company

Patri­cia Scott, DDSPA

Pub­lix Super­mar­ket Char­i­ties, Inc.

Viet­nam Brotherhood

Wal­ter and San­dra Pitts

A big thank you to all the schools, ven­dors, donors, and vol­un­teers who made this day spe­cial for so many fam­i­lies. Many donors gave at drop off loca­tions around the com­mu­nity and may not be named because we do not know who you are.

The quote of the day from a stu­dent was: ” This is bet­ter than Walmart”.

Mary Fred Clem­mons, Exec­u­tive Director

Char­lotte Local Edu­ca­tion Foundation

Englewood man charged with illegal dumping

Ken­neth J. Passino

An Engle­wood East man was arrested Thurs­day and charged with felony lit­ter law vio­la­tions after being caught in the act by a Char­lotte County deputy, accord­ing to a Char­lotte County Sheriff’s Office press release.

Accord­ing to the release, the deputy saw Ken­neth James Passino, 28, 7173 Coven­try Ter­race, start­ing to dump a trailer load of oak limbs along an Engle­wood East road at 10 a.m. Thursday.

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Opinion: Fee for strays is a bad idea

Sub­mit­ted by Sun­coast Ani­mal Hospital

Char­lotte County’s recent announce­ment regard­ing a $65 charge to pick up a stray cat is plac­ing a huge bur­den on the pub­lic and on Sun­coast Humane Soci­ety. It could, in fact, force the non‐profit orga­ni­za­tion to recon­sider its “open admis­sions” status.

Fol­low­ing the changes in the county’s ordinance/policies, a memo from the ani­mal con­trol divi­sion was received by man­age­ment of Sun­coast Humane Soci­ety. The memo states that, effec­tive June 25, the county will require a $65 fee (per cat) to impound stray cats from Sun­coast Humane Society.

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