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Health Matters
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CARE AND BALANCE
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YOU. YOUR NEIGHBORS. YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
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CHECKING IN ON CBD
THE EGG QUESTION
PICTURE OF HEALTH
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10 things you need to know about CBD.
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Driving home a point
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Studies deem it a problem food again.
Find your new passion for exercise.
THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2019
YOUR TOWN
HUNTING DOGS
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Barbara Pollack
Temple helps out Temple Sinai members put in some community service for Mitzvah Day on April 7. Family members made 1,400 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, which were distributed to Resurrection House, the Boys & Girls Club and Salvation Army. There were also 900 reading packets made for the Take Stock in Children program for Booker Elementary School.
Housing solutions need dedicated funds, coalition tells city leaders. SEE PAGE 3A
The tattoo features Solorzano with his arms crossed.
Pizza deal involves ink
Brynn Mechem
6-year-old Selkie, Amy and 5-year-old Uhtred Garner smile along with their dog Bowser on April 12 at Hounds on the Hunt in Arlington Park. Samantha Chaney
Members of Sarasota United for Responsibility and Equity are campaigning for affordable housing.
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Booker grad shines in acting role. INSIDE
Pups get their chance for Easter fun. SEE PAGE 5B
City approves bayfront conservancy agreement Commissioners unanimously endorsed a partnership empowering a private nonprofit to take the lead on development of a public park.
DAVID CONWAY DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR
After more than a month of questioning and making revisions, the City Commission unanimously approved an agreement Monday outlining a partnership with a private group that will be responsible for leading a public park project on more than 50 acres of city-owned bayfront land. City staff drafted the partnership agreement alongside The Bay Park Conservancy, a
nonprofit formed specifically to oversee the implementation of the bayfront master plan the city approved in September. The Bay Park Conservancy’s leaders include members of the Sarasota Bayfront Planning Organization, the group responsible for producing the master plan after holding a series of community workshops. Monday’s vote came after more than two hours of input from commissioners and the public. SEE BAYFRONT, PAGE 4A
The price of a free slice? A tattoo for life. Phil Solorzano, owner of four Solorzano’s Pizza locations, is offering one free slice of pizza every day for anyone willing to have the pizza entrepreneur’s face tattooed on their bodies. He’ll even pay for it. “You just can’t go down the street and buy advertising like that. It’s there forever,” said Solorzano. At least three people have taken him up on the deal.
Can you stop summer hunger? Here are the week’s donation totals for All Faiths Food Bank’s Campaign Against Summer Hunger, which runs through May 15. To donate, visit allfaithsfoodbank.org. Goal: $1.4 million matching challenge Amount raised to date: $1,026,886