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The group raised $1,605 for cancer research.
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  • Observer Staff
  • October 19, 2011
Cardinal Mooney students raise funds

Students from Cardinal Mooney High School's Key Club gathered Oct. 1 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's annual Light The Night Walk at Ken Thompson Park in Sarasota.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
Helen Bradshaw and Jane Howard-Jasper
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • October 19, 2011
PHOTO GALLERY: ECW Lunch

The All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church Women got together for its monthly meeting. Guest speaker and nutritionist Rebecca Kloss taught the women in attendance about how to read a food label. She calls her speech 'How the Heck Can I Tell if This is Good for Me?' She suggests cutting out processed foods and go back to eating fresh. Hopefully, the luncheon following the lecture was according to her nutritional guides.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Longboat Key resident Eve Kommel loves to prepare traditional dishes for company, and her favorite to serve is a simple Hungarian Goulash.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • October 19, 2011
IN THE KITCHEN WITH: Eve Kommel

Longboat Key resident Eve Kommel was born in Berlin in 1930 and learned how to cook from her Hungarian grandmother.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Donna and Jeff Lenobel escort their daughter, Jessica, the soon-to-be Mrs. Ian Paige, down the aisle.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • October 19, 2011
Beach wedding captures perfect Key moment

Jessica Lenobel, granddaughter of Longboat Key Commissioner Hal and Hazel Lenobel, married Ian Paige Saturday, Oct. 15, on the beach at the Longboat Key Club and Resort. Scarsdale, N.Y., resident Jessica and Roslyn, N.Y., resident Ian met in 2000 at the University of Michigan, where they both studied.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Dorothy Robinson works on "Bone-Jangles," which glows in the dark.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • October 19, 2011
Neighbors: common threads

The Sarasota chapter of the Embroidery Guild of America welcomes any crafter who uses a needle with an eye to make her creations, but for club members, it would be 'unseamly' to use anything else.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Pam Eubanks "I like the music you dance to," said Logan Sork, pictured with dance partner, Phoebe Abraham. "I like the way you dance, too — slowly, beautifully. I like the movement of it."
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • October 19, 2011
Gullett School student passionate about dance

Gullett Elementary student Phoebe Abraham and her dancing partner, Logan Sork, showed off their tango routine at Lakewood Ranch Arthur Murray Dance Studio's anniversary party.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
Lakewood Ranch resident Nikki Bradshaw took this sunset photo Oct. 1, on Anna Maria Island.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • October 19, 2011
Weekly Winner: Amber Glow

Lakewood Ranch resident Nikki Bradshaw took this sunset photo Oct. 1, on Anna Maria Island.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
David Grace submitted this photo, overlooking the bay near Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant & Pub.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • October 19, 2011
Weekly Winner: Night Watch

David Grace submitted this photo, overlooking the bay near Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant & Pub.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
More than 130 real estate professionals gathered recently at the Polo Grill and Bar to hear real estate law expert Barbara Burke discuss the serious topic of contracts with a dose of humor.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • October 19, 2011
Business Observer

Cornerstone Title hosts expert; Flanders joins Keller Williams office; Neal nears completion of Wisteria Park

  • East County
  • Neighbors
Barbara Marcouiller and Jan Davin
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • October 18, 2011
PHOTO GALLERY: Welcome Back Luncheon

St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church's women's guild hosted a welcome back luncheon and first meeting following 11 a.m. mass on Tuesday, Oct. 18. And it was a packed house. The women had three types of homemade quiche and salad, and luckily made enough to feed an army.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Terry Needell, Joy Chatzistamatis, David Chatzistamatis, Rose Anne McCabe, Cheryl Kleiman, Mary Conklin and Kathy Bondur enjoyed the day. Courtesy photo.
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • October 18, 2011
University Park women celebrate the arts

The University Park Women's Club hosted a special luncheon and meeting Oct. 12

  • East County
  • Neighbors
This frog enjoyed the cooler, rainy weather from outside an East County home.
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • October 18, 2011
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Frog climbing

This frog enjoyed the cooler, rainy weather from outside an East County home.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • October 18, 2011
Obituary: James Henry Allison

Dr. James Henry Allison, of Bradenton and formerly of Longboat Key and Gettysburg, Pa., died Oct. 12. He was 92.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
The boat-tailed grackle consumes foods ranging from seeds and insects to lizards and crabs.
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • October 17, 2011
PHOTO OF THE DAY: SNAP, GRACKLE, POP!

We spotted this female boat-tailed grackle at the Celery Fields this morning.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Erin Luhrsen, Ashlynn Rutherford, Savina Koda, Sofia Koda and Ansley Jackson ran a pink lemonade stand out in the parking lot. Last year the girls raised $57.
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • October 17, 2011
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Pink Ladies

Lemonade stands are always a great way for kids to get involved in a fundraiser. These girls made pink lemonade as part of the breast cancer walk, Sunday, Oct. 16 out on Siesta Key.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
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