Sarasota News Leader
November 2, 2012 COUNTY EXTENSION SERVICE TO HOST BUTTERFLY WORKSHOP
The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and the Sarasota County Extension Office will host a Butterfly Workshop from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Satur- day, Nov. 3, at Twin Lakes Park, 6700 Clark Road, Sarasota.
Attendees will learn how to attract butterflies by planting and maintaining their own butter- fly gardens, a county news release says. They also will have an opportunity to propagate butterfly plants from the garden and tour the butterfly garden at Twin Lakes Park to learn
The Baltimore Orioles and OriolesREACH, the ball club's charitable arm, are teaming up with Sarasota County charities to fight hunger in the local community.
The first initiative will benefit the Mayors' Feed the Hungry Program through a 12-day food drive and a sorting day hosted on Nov. 16 at Ed Smith Stadium, the Orioles' year-round training facility and home for the spring train- ing season, the team has announced.
"Families and individuals in Sarasota Coun- ty are desperately in need of assistance to address a most basic need: food," said Lau- ra Williams, the Orioles' director of Florida operations, in a news release. "The Orioles and OriolesREACH join the Mayors' Feed the Hungry Program in urging local residents to bring donations of nonperishable food items to Ed Smith Stadium starting on Nov. 5 and then volunteer to help sort and package food on Nov. 16."
how Florida butterfly populations have varied over time.
The workshop is free; however, space is lim- ited and registration is required.
Attendees are invited to bring gloves and pruners to take cuttings for the propagation class.
For more information on the workshop, con- tact the Sarasota County Call Center at 861- 5000, or visit http://sarasota.ifas.ufl.edu/.
ORIOLES TEAM UP TO FIGHT HUNGER IN SARASOTA COUNTY
The Mayors' Feed the Hungry Program is an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization that has helped more than 370,000 hungry persons in Sarasota and Manatee counties since 1987, the news release notes. The organization's Thanksgiving food drive collects approxi- mately 34 tons of nonperishable food items annually. Food is distributed through charita- ble groups, religious institutions and service agencies. Mayors' Feed the Hungry also uses cash donations to distribute food gift cards, the release says.
"Mayors' Feed the Hungry does not receive government funds, and we are all volunteers," said Scott Biehler, vice chairman of the chari- ty, in the release. "Corporate partners like the Baltimore Orioles are vital to serving the thou- sands of local residents who would go hungry without our help."
The program is endorsed by the mayors of Sarasota, Bradenton, Palmetto, Venice and Longboat Key, as well as the chairs of the
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