07.12.18 Windermere Observer

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FBC Windermere’s VBS finale. SEE PAGE 9.

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VOLUME 3, NO. 40

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THURSDAY, JULY 12, 2018

Going above and beyond This Olympia High grad attended three schools simultaneously. SEE PAGE 3.

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St. Luke’s United Methodist Church is hosting a “Take pArt: A Festival of the Arts,” from 2 to 8 p.m. Saturday, July 14, and artists are invited to submit their two-dimensional work that embraces this year’s theme: “Footloose and Fancy Free.” Submissions can be sent to st.lukes.org/ takepart. The indoor event will include entertainment, an artist alley fine-art gallery, make-and-take artwork, kids corner, dance classes, art demonstrations, interactive exhibits, open mic night at 6 p.m. and food trucks from 4 to 8 p.m. St. Luke’s is at 4851 S. Apopka-Vineland Road, Orlando.

Students at Gotha Middle School will be able to see their creations come to life with 3D printing in the media center this school year. SEE PAGE 4.

Danielle Hendrix

Gotha Middle Assistant Principal Matthew Owens and media specialist Trina Labaw are excited to introduce the new 3D printers to their students.

Amped-up week at VBS

DP students to take ‘Avenue Q’ to Scotland Sixteen students from Dr. Phillips High are set to perform an edited version of “Avenue Q” in three weeks at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. DANIELLE HENDRIX BLACK TIE EDITOR

Family fun at Lifebridge Church. SEE PAGE 8.

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Three weeks from now, 16 Dr. Phillips High students will be on a plane to Scotland — with multicolored puppets and theater props in tow. They’ve been rehearsing five days a week, every week, since school let out. They’ve put down their payments. And soon they’ll be performing the edited version of “Avenue Q” at the Edinburgh

Festival Fringe — the largest arts festival in the world. It’s the school’s fifth time since 1995 attending the festival, which in 2017 spanned 25 days and featured 53,232 performances of 3,398 shows in 300 venues. The school’s theater director, Jason Whitehead, is an alumnus of the program himself. He attended the festival as a student in 2001. “Once we were presented with the opportunity to go to Scotland, I had a short list of shows I thought would appeal to an international audience but also were easy to travel,” Whitehead said. “Since we had a smaller group this time, I was thinking, ‘What’s going to sell?’ I was looking at small-cast musicals that could be trimmed SEE AVENUE PAGE 4

Danielle Hendrix

Students practice with their puppets during a rehearsal of “Avenue Q” at the school on Monday, July 9.