SARASOTA
Observer
Cougars back at the plate.
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YOU. YOUR NEIGHBORS. YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
VOLUME 15, NO. 16
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YOUR TOWN
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THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2019
In the Key of spring On Siesta, fun in the sun isn’t the same for all. SEE PAGE 3A
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Sydney Andrews and her horse, Just a Winner, won the Grand Championship at a competition in January.
Horse and girl win big prize
THE NOSE KNOWS
Sydney Andrews, a student with Prospect Riding Center, won big at the Featherstone Horse Show in Sarasota last weekend. Andrews and the horse, Just a Winner, collected a total of two first-place ribbons in the Senior Walk trot class, one second-place ribbon and the Grand Championship win. Andrews and her horse competed in the show on Feb. 17 and are trained by RJ Deisterhoft. “Winn and I have been working really hard at home. The show was the fruit of our hard work,” Andrews said.
Students share their city’s circus flavor. SEE PAGE 1B
H2 ‘Oh No!’ immersive experience Elementary students became scientists for the week of March 11-14. Wilkinson Elementary School was involved with “H2 Oh No!,” an immersive educational experience orchestrated by the Education Foundation of Sarasota County that creates a surprise “discovery” of a historical farm where an old crop duster plane’s components and scraps may have leaked chemicals into the ground, possibly affecting a water source. The students were able to integrate the curriculum into the experience while learning how to discover and process the area as a research group would.
Samantha Chaney
Clowns Karen Bell and Robin Eurich felt right at home in their trademark red noses when they joined second-grade students at Alta Vista Elementary while they video-chatted with second-grade students in Ghana. Their overseas counterparts, surprisingly, also wore red noses.
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FEW HAPPY TUNES Critics pan Orchestra’s park play. SEE PAGE 5A
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