Lakewood Ranch High School students leave their mark on campus

Students leave mark on campus

With several senior year traditions being canceled due to COVID-19, Kendall Stanley and Margot Murphy, both seniors at Lakewood Ranch High School, were happy to be able to paint a parking spot on campus.

Each year seniors get paint and brushes and put their creative minds at work to make a parking spot their own.

The girls decided to write "I just painted this" before painting an emoji in the spot.

"We hang out all the time, and we have a lot of inside jokes," Murphy said. "There is a giant inside joke behind this."

Pink on the links

Ninety University Park golfers came together Oct. 10 to hit the

greens while wearing pink shirts and hats, pins and pom-poms. 

Golfers weren't the only ones sporting pink. Carts, too, were adorned with pink ribbons, flowers and boas.

Eileen Cantarella and Ronni Loundy are co-chairwomen for University Park's Pink Week. The team they lead, Answer to Cancer SRQ, raised money for the American Cancer Society’s support services and research.

Pink Week also included a "walk for the cure" Oct. 11 that featured food trucks and festivities for those who have been affected by breast cancer and supporters.