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Superintendent Lori White hands over a lunch tray Thursday, Oct. 13, at Gulf Gate Elementary.
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • October 13, 2011
School officials help serve National School Lunch Week

A variety of guest lunch servers including principals, school board members, and district administrators, helped out at various Sarasota County school cafeterias.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
Jack Dowd talks to the 40 fourth graders about his sculptures Thursday, Oct. 13 at ODA.
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • October 13, 2011
PHOTO GALLERY: Jack Dowd at ODA

Artists Jack Dowd talked to the fourth graders about his career and his sculptures in order to prepare the fourth graders for their sculpture making section.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
Do you know where is this bench located?
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • October 13, 2011
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Take A Seat

Where is this bench located?

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Kaitlin Folsom, 11, sang a solo.
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • October 13, 2011
PHOTO GALLERY: Haile Choir Concert

Choir students at Haile Middle School brought American classics to life during the "Haile to the Red, White and Blue: An Evening of American Music" Oct. 12 at the school.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
Jodi Rawlings with Kim Parrado
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • October 13, 2011
PHOTO GALLERY: Pink Martini Spa-tini

Manatee Cancer Center on Oct. 12 hosted its first "Pink Martini Spa-tini" event at the Cancer Support Community. Festivities included free makeovers, mini manicures, spray tanning, chair massages, pink martinis and hors d'oeuvres and more.

  • East County
  • News
Spencer Opal-Levine hands out party favors to Daniel Mizrahi and Stefan Slavova.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • October 13, 2011
Third-grader parties for purpose

For the second year in a row, instead of asking for gifts on his birthday, Spencer Opal-Levine, 9, asked for charity donations. He calls it a "party with a purpose."

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Courtesy photos
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • October 13, 2011
Flying object makes a splash

The large red stapler that the Sarasota-based team, Accrisoft, designed for the 2011 Red Bull Flugtag, held Oct. 8, didn't exactly fly 1,800 feet over Tampa Bay as anticipated.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Donors of the Community Foundation of Sarasota County met Oct. 6 to surprise employees of several service agencies with orchids. Photo by Loren Mayo.
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • October 13, 2011
Community Foundation donors deliver smiles

Harry Leopold is attempting to sneak out of a group photograph. He's already in the elevator at the Community Foundation, heading upstairs, where he plans to watch 15 volunteers squeeze together and try not to block their faces with the tall blooming orchids they're about to deliver to local nonprofit organizations.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Janine Nunnery submitted this sunset photo, taken in Island Park in downtown Sarasota.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • October 13, 2011
Weekly Winner: Moor to Love

Janine Nunnery submitted this sunset photo, taken in Island Park in downtown Sarasota.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Siesta residents have been keeping track of a boat (top right of photo) they first observed anchored about 200 yards off Beach Access 7. It since has moved farther from shore and up the Key’s coastline. Photo by Lourdes Ramirez.
    By
  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • October 13, 2011
Island Beat: Boat offshore raises lots of questions

About the same time that property owners on North Beach Road began engaging in a dispute over their rights early this month, other Key residents started spreading the word about a sailboat anchored approximately 200 yards off the beach near Access 7.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
Devin Miller and JoJo Zolikoff race each other on the BMX track. Loren Mayo.
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • October 13, 2011
Sarasota BMX goes preschool

What seems to be chaos barreling down a BMX track is in reality carefully calculated moves, as two little racers jockey for position in a fierce fight for first place.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
This home at 5132 Jungle Plum Road has five bedrooms, five baths, two half-baths, a pool and 6,928 square feet of living area. It sold for $2,875,000. Photo by Loren Mayo.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • October 13, 2011
Hidden Harbor home tops week's sales at $2,875,000

A home in Hidden Harbor tops all transactions in this week's real estate.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
Peter van Roekens submitted this photo of a late-evening sky on Siesta Key.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • October 13, 2011
Weekly Winner: Comical Contrails

Peter van Roekens submitted this photo of a late-evening sky on Siesta Key.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
Wendy Davis is open to volunteering with any department and Stanley Rodak would like to volunteer for fisheries or research.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • October 12, 2011
PHOTO GALLERY:Mote Volunteer Recruitment

Mote Aquarium cast out the net for potential volunteers on Wednesday, Oct. 12 and had more than a few nibbles. Around 60 candidates attended the volunteer recruitment coffee. Current volunteers spoke to the whole group about their positions and job responsibilities in hospitality, as guides, in fisheries and many more before meeting one-on-one with potential volunteers.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
At what location are these flowers growing?
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • October 12, 2011
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Where am I growing?

At what location are these flowers growing?

  • East County
  • Neighbors
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