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VOLUME 19, NO. 13
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WIRED TO PERFORM
Circus performers say handling tragedy is a process, but worth the outcome. SEE PAGE 3A
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Meadow Tullio finishes the 5K.
Cause to run What happens when you hold a first-time 5K run in GreyHawk Landing? More than 130 people lace up and raise money for the American Heart Association. The 5K and 1-mile family fun run Feb. 11 raised $760. Top kids finishers were Zacharia Kersey, Tucker Ritchey, Tyson Tullio and Louis Mahiquez.
Berkley Mason
Safety first Everything was blurry for Gullett fifth-grader Jake Walther, shown above, who was participating in his school’s bike and pedestrian safety course. “I never want to get a concussion,” Walther said after wearing concussion goggles. On Feb, 13, Lisa Indovino from Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital told students about the importance of bike safety.
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Members of Nik Wallenda’s high-wire act amaze the audience with their display of balance on Circus Sarasota’s opening night Feb. 10.
In June 2014, doctors found a golf-ball sized benign brain tumor on Marina Mercier’s eighth cranial nerve.
Drop in the bucket? Utility hike of $3 per month pays for $238 million of improvements. SEE PAGE 4A
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Pam Eubanks
The retrofitting of water filtration systems at Manatee County’s water treatment plant will take more than three years to complete. The original filtration systems, pictured here, were built in the late 1960s.
Former Braden River coach tries to rebound from brain surgery and its complications. SEE PAGE 8A