Scenic WAVES Committee presents annual report

The Bradenton Beach Scenic WAVES Committee has submitted its annual report to the state of Florida, which was also presented to the Bradenton Beach City Commission on Feb. 2 by committee Chairwoman Ingrid McClellan. The report details the committee’s landscaping and beautification efforts along Gulf Drive (a designated scenic highway) and elsewhere in the city. “This is everything we’re planning to do this fiscal year,” McClellan told the commission. The Scenic WAVES Committee also serves as the city’s scenic highway committee and as the city’s tree board, which allows Bradenton Beach to be annually designated as a Tree City USA. McClellan was accompanied to the meeting by Darryl Richard, the Florida Department of Transportation District One landscape architect, scenic highway coordinator and beautification grant director, Richard Larsen from the Florida Forest Service and Scenic

WAVES members Peg Miller and Bruce Butler. Richard said the Bradenton Beach committee is the most active of the five scenic high- way groups he manages. McClellan and her cohorts also presented the commission and the city with a Tree City USA flag.

Bagwell joins P&Z board

Anna Maria resident Lisa Bagwell has been appointed to the city’s Planning and Zoning Board. She joins Dusty Crane, Jose Erbella and David Haddox as a planning board member.

Butler appointed to Scenic WAVES

Sarasota resident and Anna Maria Island Moose Lodge member Bruce Butler was recently appointed to the city of Bradenton Beach’s Scenic WAVES Committee. The city commission made the appointment on Jan. 19.

AME students celebrate Kindness and Literacy Week

Anna Maria Elementary School students ended their Kindness and Literacy Week with a Pink Out and Buddy Reading. Students created art centered around kindness and took turns reading books with a buddy or two. The week wrapped up on Jan. 27 with students forming a huge pink heart to promote kindness to others.

AME kids make fashion show flowers

First-, second- and third-grade art class students at Anna Maria Elemen tary School made hundreds of tissue paper flowers that will be used to decorate The Center of Anna Maria Island for the Anna Maria Island Gar den Club’s annual fundraising fashion show. The Wednesday, Feb. 8 show is sold out, with 320 $30 tickets sold. The garden club hopes to use the money raised to install a wind sculpture in Holmes Beach and another in Braden ton Beach. In 2022, the garden club donated funds for the pending installation of two wind sculptures at City Pier Park in Anna Maria.