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Robert Warren, Dr. Sherry Lawrence, Angela Hartvigsen, Monica Slater Van Buskirk and Norman Olshansky were the speakers at the 10th Annual Education Celebration Friday, April 29 at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall.
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  • April 29, 2011
PHOTO GALLERY: Van Wezel Foundation Education Celebration

The Van Wezel Foundation's 10th Annual Education Celebration happened Friday, April 29 at the Van Wezel. The event included breakfast, speakers recapping the year as well as looking towards the future, followed by a performance for the attendees and Sarasota and Manatee County school children of "There's An Alligator Under My Bed, A Nightmare In My Closet, And Something My Attic".

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Commissioner Terry Turner felt it wouldn't be fair to allow two board appointments if they were just going to be voided.
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  • Robin Roy
  • April 29, 2011
City commission pushes for Planning Board appointments

In their last meeting in office, three outgoing city commissioners pushed to appoint members to the Planning Board, even though the city attorney advised them other potential candidates were not given enough time to apply.

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Angela Ward and Holly Kraft wear Queen Elizabeth cardboard masks Friday, April 29 while celebrating the royal wedding at the Ritz Carlton.
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  • April 29, 2011
PHOTO GALLERY: A Royal Affair

The Ritz Carlton in Sarasota celebrated the royal wedding by hosting a 4 a.m. live broadcast and breakfast affair. The event had 150 people in attendance. Many of the people who attended the event dressed up and wore extravagant hats.

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The City Commission will be asked to approve a charter recommendation to raise their own salaries.
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  • Robin Roy
  • April 29, 2011
Sarasota commission to review charter changes

City commissioners could allow voters to decide on a host of city charter improvements, including those that deal with funding sports stadiums, at-large commission seats and increasing commissioners' salaries.

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Donna McGarry poses with her team, the 1992 Blue Jays, during their World Series game against the Atlanta Braves Friday, April 29 out at Twin Lakes.
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  • April 29, 2011
PHOTO GALLERY: Ashton Elementary's Fifth Grade World Series

The fifth graders at Ashton Elementary recreated the 1947 and 1992 World Series games Friday, April 29 out at Twin Lakes.

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Jackie Watanabe, Cheryl Fuller, Katelyn Knaak, Amanda Ortega and Gabriela Ortega enjoy themselves at the Paint the Town Blue event.
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  • April 28, 2011
PHOTO GALLERY: Paint the Town Blue

The Paint the Town Blue event was a big success Thursday, April 28 at Westfield Southgate. The sponsors of the event included the Junior League, Westfield Southgate and The Child Protection Center. The event was held to grow awareness about child abuse prevention in Sarasota.

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Booker High School junior advisory board members Sara Stolpe, Miles McCreery, Amanda Stambrosky and Kurt Hoffman spell out P-R-O-M.
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  • April 28, 2011
Picture-perfect PROM

Students at Booker, Riverview and Sarasota high schools primp for the most anticipated event of their high school careers.

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Sarasota Garden Club members Ginger Vance, Bill Dalgarno and Wilda Meier
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  • April 28, 2011
Garden Club dedicates tree

Forty Carrots preschoolers joined the Sarasota Garden Club in an Arbor Day tree planting and dedication ceremony Jan. 21

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Julie Eisele and Kay Chandler
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  • April 28, 2011
Women exercise their flower power

The first time Julie Eisele attended a service at Church of the Redeemer, the priest asked everyone who chaired a committee to stand up and be recognized.

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  • April 28, 2011
Lame-duck move stirs controversy

An outgoing commissioner's desire to reappoint members to the Planning Board next week, so that the new commission won't have a say, has critics raising fairness questions.

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  • April 28, 2011
City counters British press accounts

The murders of two British tourists in Newtown sparked a rush of tabloid stories, many of which contained unverified accounts of why the men were in that neighborhood and how Sarasota is a 'gangland.'

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Eileen Hampshire tends to the colorful flowerbed in front of her store, Art to Walk On, as she has for the past five years. She has performed and funded all landscaping maintenance outside her front door.
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  • April 28, 2011
Palm Avenue spruce-up in the works

The Downtown Improvement District is ready to use its tax dollars to help spruce up both North and South Palm Avenue.

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  • April 28, 2011
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DID could gerrymander new boundaries; Garage retail nearly ready for market

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Robert Martini
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  • April 28, 2011
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Robert Martini

Robert Martini got into prone paddleboarding seven years ago while he was living in Hawaii.

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File photo Unit 1803 at Tower Residences, 35 Watergate Drive, has four bedrooms, four-and-half baths and 4,668 square feet of living area. It sold for $4 million.
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  • Adam Hughes
  • April 28, 2011
Tower Residences condo sells for $4 million

A condominium in Tower Residences tops all real-estate transactions from April 11 to April 15.

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