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Graduation — finally.
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YOU. YOUR NEIGHBORS. YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
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FREE THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2020
VOLUME 22, NO. 37
Online ordeal
Manatee County schools say total e-learning program not an option yet. PAGE 4 YOUR TOWN
Aquarium now reality Groundbreaking for Mote’s Science Education Aquarium will be held in September. SEE PAGE 3
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She can paint with bare hands Greenbrook 9-year-old Sophia Freeman normally draws “simple” animals, such as cats and dogs. However, she showed what she could do with her bare hands July 14 while attending camp at Let’s Create Art Lakewood Ranch. She painted a bear that was stenciled on her canvas. “I really liked doing the bear project,” she said. “It was my first time painting a bear.”
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The Mote Science Education Aquarium at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota will have more than 1 million gallons of ocean habitat.
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Hunt begins for geckos When Robert E. Willis Elementary School students return in August, they’ll enter a jungle in the cafeteria. They can spend time hunting for eight little geckos Tara Young, a parent of a rising third grader and rising kindergartner, painted in the new mural in the cafeteria. “It’s something they can enjoy while they’re eating,” said Young, who finished the mural July 15.
Local grads fly new flag New flag football college program attracts Ranch graduates. SEE PAGE 16
A little love highlights kids’ camp Liz Ramos
Eight-year-old Skye Baldock has been participating in the Mini Horse and Mini Donkey camp for five weeks in Myakka City.
Mini horses and donkeys the focus of Myakka City children’s camp. SEE PAGE 13