Candlelight Dining Centers Expand Senior Friendship Centers
Senior Friendship Centers Inc extends its Candlelight Dining program with two new centers in south county Venice and Nokomis. Five locations serve dinners to adults 60 plus on weekday nights with a voluntary contribution, backed by volunteers and local funds.
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Senior Friendship Centers Inc
South County
SFC
Englewood
Aind Nokomis
Sfc-Venice
Sarasota
P.A.L
Venice artist tops all in Englewood Guild show
Dora Reed Evans of Venice won first prize with Egret in Grass at the Englewood Guild of Artists and Craftsman Best of the Best exhibit juried by Phillip Held. The show ran Sunday through November 26 at First National Bank of Englewood on South McCall Road with 57 of 96 entries accepted and awards totaling 100 for first, 50 for second, and 25 for third.
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Venice
Englewood
Dora Reed Evans
Englewood Guild of Artists and Craftsman
First National Bank of Englewood
South McCall Road
Financial Institution
Phillip Held
Sarasota
Vivienne Galowitz
Wanda MacKinnon
Don Kent
Walter
Oelschlager
William Ives
Joseph Cardinale
First National
Evans
Patti Middleton
Galowitz
Marion Barrett
Harriet Ives
Eric DeVaughn Elected President of South Venice Fire Fighters
Eric DeVaughn was elected president of the South Venice Fire Fighters Association. Dor Little was named vice president, Ray Fly secretary and Pepsin treasurer. The group, part of the South Venice Area Fire Department, has purchased and donated a rescue truck with scuba and rescue equipment.
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Eric DeVaughn
South Venice Fire Fighters Association
DeVaughn
Dor Little
Ray Fly
Eet Pepsin
South Venice Area Fire Department
Local schools push metric system adoption planned by 1980s
Four staff workshops underway as Englewood Venice Nokomis and Garden Elementary schools initiate metric education. Coordinator Dian Garcia says auditors will verify compliance while Florida's 1980 adoption goal advances after earlier legislative delays. School leaders Linda Skow Joan Ewing and Nancy lead ongoing material distribution.
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Englewood
Dian Garcia
Venice Shriner Fundraisers Ride Streets Today and Tomorrow
Venice Shrines members from the Venice Shrine Club will roam streets today and tomorrow to raise funds for Shriners Hospitals for Crippled and Burned Children. The effort is part of the organization’s main philanthropy with 22 hospitals nationwide.
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Shriners
Vance Collom
Paul Swanson
Bob Elliot
Russ Nelson
Irv Canfield
Dick Boehringer
Venice Shrine Club
PREP Dental Screening Slated At Elementary Schools
The Sarasota County Health Department funded by the Florida State PREP Bill will provide free first, third and sixth grade dental screenings beginning at Englewood Elementary on October 28 with make-up on November 3. Venice Nokomis and Garden Elementary will not be screened until January. The 45 minute screenings are not exams and require written parental consent. Any issues found will be referred to the school nurse for parent notification.
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Garcia
Englewood
Florida
Venice
Hyatt Sarasota
King Neptune
Athena
Pamela Marie Hill
Melanie Leigh Correll
Belinda Burrows
Miss Correll
C.J. Smith
Falcon Road
Venice High School
Sarasota County
Nokomis School
Garden
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Area Agency On Aging
State of Florida
Department of Health
Senior Friendship Center
Helen Moore
Katherine Schmidt
Don Stilley
Kathryne Hughes
Candlight Dining
Blanche Rivers
Ine Caputo
Edwin Arnais
Marilyn Lynn
Margaret Hickey
Peggy Cass
Marion Barnes
Jack Kail
Ruth Witter
Walter Oelschlager
Doris Coleman
Helen Townend
Travis Birdsong
Dorothy Erd
Jeanette McCoy
Rusty McCarroll
Stuart Middleton
Katherine Williams
Chris Lippstreuer
May Reilly
Joan Rotenberg
Margaret Neyland
Alex Miske
Lloyd Philips
Bill Ives
Gerald Desquesnes
Henry Brom
Vera Barlow
Gertrude Duetz
Elouise White
Helen Bell
Pat Tucker
Povffa
Heli
Venice Elementary School
Linda Skow
Nokomis Elementary
Joan Ewing
Garden Elementary
Nancy
Fisher
John Wayne
Paul Harvey
Miss Hill
Jerome Hill
Bayview Parkway
Nokomis
Manatee Junior College
Bob Rigby
Lanie Correll
Schmidt
Pamela Hill
Delta Delta Delta
U.S
George Saunders
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