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C o m m u n i t y Yo u t h D e v e l o p m e n t ' s SRQVolunteen program participants are inviting members of the community to a spaghetti din- ner and bake sale fundraiser on Friday, July 25, from 6 to 8 pm at Bayside Community Church, located at 8200 Bee Ridge Road in Sarasota. Admission is $5 or five cans of food, and all proceeds will benefit All Faiths Food Bank, a news release says. The SRQVolunteen class members decided to focus on addressing hunger for their commu- nity service project, the release explains. After volunteering at a variety of area nonprofits, the teens selected All Faiths Food Bank as the beneficiary of their project, it adds. In addition to obtaining support from Bayside Community Church, "the teens secured a gen- erous donation from Whole Foods Market," which will be supplying pasta, sauce and drinks for the event, the release points out. SRQVolunteen is a six-session training pro- gram during which students create and design their own service/learning project in part- nership with a community organization, the release notes. By the program's completion, each participant will have earned 20 hours of community service and developed leader- ship, problem-solving and group work skills, it continues. YOUTH LEADERS ORGANIZE JULY 25 FUNDRAISER TO ADDRESS HUNGER Eighteen Sarasota County schools retained their A grades from last year and five schools rose from B to A, according to the grades released July 11 by the Florida Department of Education. The Sarasota District maintained its overall A grade, one of only 10 of the 67 countywide school districts in the state to achieve the highest grade possible, a news release points out. Sarasota also is one of only five Florida school districts that have received an A every year since 2004, the release notes. The five Sarasota District schools that climbed to an A grade for the 2013-14 academic year were Cranberry Elementary in North Port, Garden Elementary in Venice, Gulf Gate Elementary in Sarasota, Imagine School at North Port and Venice Middle School, the release says. Twenty-three of the district's 40 graded schools received A's, six were B schools and 11 were C schools, the release continues. There were no D or F schools, it adds. Grades for high schools and some schools that com- bine more than one level (such as middle and high school grade levels) are expected later this year, the release notes. COUNTY HAS ADDITIONAL A SCHOOLS AND REMAINS AN A DISTRICT release notes, both are in a small Jewish community, which means the personal rela- tionships between the clergy and laypeople in the two congregations helped facilitate the exchange. The Kehillah of Lakewood Ranch meets at The Windsor, an assisted living facility, on the second and fourth Friday nights of the month and on the first and third Saturday mornings of the month. For more information write KehillahOfLakewoodRanch@gmail.com. Temple Sinai is located at 4631 S. Lockwood Ridge Road, off Proctor Road. Sarasota News Leader July 18, 2014 Page 72