THE HIT LIST
WALKING ALONG: Art Walk construction continues to progress in downtown Clermont. This festive brick walkway, which broke ground this year, will run from Minneola Avenue to Montrose Street, eventually extending to Osceola Street. Art Walk will celebrate artists, with plans for a covered pavilion and an open-air space for vendors’ pop-up tents. A restaurant/retail building adjacent to the walk also is under construction.
REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO GOOD: The Lake County Animal Shelter is using a facial recognition app to identify lost dogs and cats, a press release states. Pet owners can use the Finding Rover app to upload a picture of their lost pet into a database. If someone finds it, they can snap a picture with the app and a facial match can be made in seconds. Call 352.343.9688.
A POSITIVE ADDITION: The Education Foundation of Lake County is among Central Florida nonprofit organizations to receive a portion of $30,000 from Addition Financial for emergency funds for students, staff, food banks and other entities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a news release. Addition Financial has credit unions in Leesburg and Clermont.
A BOOM BOON: Alcohol and explosives are always a fun mix, and Americans make good use of the combination every July. Independence Day is America’s top beer-drinking holiday, more than 16,000 fireworks displays are staged each year and more than $1 billion is spent annually on fireworks, according to wallethub.com. We’re guessing that figure could rise dramatically this year as Americans let off some steam.
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SUGAR COOKIE DREAMS: July 9 is National Sugar Cookie Day,, but every day is sugar cookie day for Sandi Vanderwall, aka The Kooky Kutter. She makes and decorates an average of 72 sugar cookies a week. “I dream sugar cookies, and cookie designs are always on my mind,” says Sandi, of The Villages.
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