The Longboat Key Garden Club hosted its annual meeting and luncheon April 19, at Joan Durante Park.
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Kristen Herhold
| 4:20 p.m. April 19, 2016
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The Longboat Key Garden Club hosted its annual meeting and luncheon April 19, at Joan Durante Park.
At the meeting, officers spoke about the club and its work and presented various awards, including $24,000 in scholarship money to six students and $15,000 in grants to nine local organizations.
Scholarship recipients Joseph McWilliams, Orion Morton, Robert Benedict, Edgar Bischoff III and Juliana Carrillo
Michael Renick, Garden Club President Susan Phillips and Eric Teoh, with a $9,000 check to the Garden Club from Team Renick.
Event organizers Janice Cook and Beverly Shapiro
Jorge Acevedo and David Bocanegra, of grant recipient Friends of DeSoto National Memorial
April Glasco, CEO and founder of book donation recipient Second Chance Last Opportunity, Andi Watson, of grant recipient Manatee County Girls’ Club, and Joyce Noel, of Second Chance Last Opportunity
Grand recipients David Pilston, of Save Our Seabirds, and Larry Stults, of Sarasota Bay Watch
Beautification award recipient Barbara Gurchiek and Jo Ann Schwencke
