Sarasota News Leader
February 22, 2013
Page 80
OSPREY TO BE CLOSED AGAIN TO NORTHBOUND TRAFFIC
Osprey Avenue from Mound Street to Brother Geenen Way is scheduled to be closed to
northbound traffic for one week beginning
Friday, Feb. 22, at 7 a.m., the City of Sarasota
has announced.
The road is to be reopened to through traffic by
Friday, March 1, at 5 p.m., a city news release
says.
Southbound traffic will be maintained through
this section of Osprey Avenue, the release
adds.
Construction crews will be working on the
Lift Station 87 force main installation during
this period, the release notes.
Once again, northbound Osprey Avenue will
be closed to traffic at Mound Street. Photo by
Norman Schimmel
LIBRARY LOVERS MONTH FEATURES ���DESIGN-A-CARD��� CONTEST
During February, Sarasota County libraries brary. The deadline is 5 p.m. Saturday, April
are celebrating Library Lovers Month by in- 20, the release notes.
viting community members to design the next
generation of Sarasota County library cards. The top 10 entries will be chosen by a panel of judges, including representatives from
���Sarasota County is such a creative commu- the Sarasota County Commission, Ringling
nity that we thought, why not ask our cus- College of Art and Design, Sarasota County
tomers what they would like to see on their schools and the Sarasota County Library Syslibrary card,��� says Fruitville Library Manager tem, the release adds.
Ann Ivey in a news release. ���The library card
is basically a person���s passport to unlimited The public will be invited to visit the Sarasopossibilities. By accessing the library system���s ta County Library website during the month
rich collection of resources, using computers of May to select the top two designs, the reand attending programs, an individual can lease says. The two winning designs will be
choose from a variety of educational, enter- unveiled in September during National Library
tainment and enrichment experiences,��� she Card sign-up month, it adds.
adds in the release.
Library cards featuring the two new designs
Applications for the ���Design-A-Card��� contest and a key chain version will be available to
are available from any Sarasota County library the public later this year, the release notes.
or on the library website at www.sclibs.net.
The theme for all designs is ���What my library For more information, contact the Sarasota
means to me,��� the release points out. Entries County Call Center at 861-5000, or visit www.
may be submitted at any Sarasota County li- sclibs.net.