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Health Matters AUGUST 2019
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Delay dementia with a bilingual brain. PAGE 2
YOU. YOUR NEIGHBORS. YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
BRAIN
SKEETER PROBLEMS Help dealing with those nasty bites.
VOLUME 50, NO. 5
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LUNCHTIME Keep kids motivated at school with a healthy lunch.
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PICTURE OF HEATH
Create an exercise plan, and stick to it.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2019
YOUR TOWN
Whitney Elfstrom
Gocio’s plan: ‘B’ amazzzing
There was a certain buzz at Gocio Elementary School on Monday’s first day of school. A swarm of teachers, in celebration of the school’s upgraded B score, dressed as, you guessed it, bees. Here’s hoping the staff and students have a honey of a year.
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Company helps families of vets
Castle Group, a property management company, supplied 56 backpacks and supplies for children of veterans and active-duty personnel. The Aug. 9 back-to-school bash at Goodwill Manasota, on Lockwood Ridge Road, featured pizza and refreshments for the selected families. Castle Group teamed up with such organizations as Goodwill, Jewish Family and Children’s Services and University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, to find families in need.
Turtle Tracks AS OF AUG. 10 TOTAL NESTS: 2019 2018 Lido Beach 98 123 Siesta Key 709 357 Casey Key 2,304 1,181 TOTAL FALSE CRAWLS: 2019 2018 Lido Beach 192 144 Siesta Key 1,153 322 Casey Key 2,978 1,423 Source: Mote Marine Laboratory
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Members of Transform 2045 take a group bike ride around Sarasota’s Rosemary District.
Road map to the future
Good start
Millennial-led group helps transportation planners look ahead 25 years. PAGE 3
Back-to-school smiles weren’t hard to find. SEE PAGE 17
Whitney Elfstrom
Eyva Theodore shows off her rainbow-colored bow on her first day of kindergarten at Gocio Elementary School.
A+E
Sprucing up for a big day Bayfront’s iconic sculpture polished for anniversary of World War II’s end. SEE PAGE 6 David Conway
Unconditional Surrender has been a bayfront landmark since 2010.
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