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Center Place To Host Coach Bag Bingo By Kathy L. Collins
Gather up your friends and plan on attending Center Place’s Coach Bag Bingo on Tuesday, October 8 at 6 p.m. at Center Place in Brandon. This is your chance to have fun with friends, take home one of these fabulous new Coach Bags and support the arts all at the same time.
try. Now is your chance to have a good time, take home a beautiful Coach bag and support a wonderful, local nonprofit, Center Place. Funds raised at the event will support children’s art programs at Center Place. In addition to Coach Bag Bingo, there will also be raffle prizes, food, drinks and 50/50 tickets available. Melissa Canfield, event chair for Coach Bag Bingo, said, “I am lucky to be on the board of directors at Center Place this year. One of the reasons I agreed to join this board and the reason we are hosting this event is to help support children and the arts in our community.” Canfield added, “Many of the programs that Center Place hosts need local support. Art is such an important part of a child’s development from a young age. Fundraisers like this allow us to have a fun time, play bingo and win a new Coach purse while supporting the important programs Center Place offers to our community.” Events like Coach Bag Bingo would not be possible without support. Canfield said, “A special thank you goes out to our event sponsors, Teresa Fink with American Dream Home Mortgage and Tammy Holmberg of Chick-fil-A, Lake Brandon Village and Bloomingdale.” If you have a business or just want to support children’s art programs at Center Place, please consider donating an item for the raffle prizes. For more information on Center Place’s Coach Bag Bingo, please visit www.centerplacebrandon.org or call 685-8888.
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Center Place Fine Arts and Civic Association (Center Place) is hosting Coach Bag Bingo on Tuesday, October 8. The event will be held at Center Place located at 619 Vonderburg Dr. in Brandon. Doors open at 6 p.m. and bingo will begin at 7 p.m. Tickets to the event are $40 per person. Tickets can be purchased online through Eventbrite (www.Eventbrite.com) or at Center Place. This event sells out quickly, so you are encouraged to purchase your tickets now. Remaining tickets may be available at the door on the night of the event, but if you want to attend, you should not wait. Coach Bag Bingo has been a sensational hit all across the coun-
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Students Invited To Meet Local Charities At Community Service Forum
By Kate Quesada
Local students Nickerson interested in finding explained that the out how they can forum also provides help their community the students’ parents while working with the opportunity to towards a college not only find out more scholarship are invitabout the place where ed to the Brandon their students are High School spending time volunGymnasium on teering, but to find an Thursday, organization they want September 26, to help themselves. when The Charities in attenCommunity dance fit into a numThe Community Roundtable is hosting its Roundtable is hostber of different cateannual Community Service Forum at ing its annual Fall gories, including miliBrandon High. Community Service Forum. tary, the arts, environmental and range The event is open to residents of all from county-wide to hyperlocal. ages looking to learn about more than 25 “We hope that after getting the local nonprofit groups looking for volunopportunity to learn about the different teers. groups, attendees are able to find someJanine Nickerson, Community thing that ignites their passion for volunRoundtable President, began coordinatteering,” said Nickerson. “Something that ing the event in 2013 as a way to help may follow them through their whole life.” local charities connect with students lookThe mission of The Community ing to satisfy community service requireRoundtable, founded in 1957, is to get ments for Bright Future Scholarships. It is the word out to the Brandon community now held twice a year at local high about local charities. Visit schools and is typically attended by hunTheCommunityRoundtable.org or call dreds of students. 661-4350. Brandon High School is locat“There are so many great organizaed at 1101 Victoria St. tions right here in the Brandon area that don’t have the resources to tell students looking for hours that they need their In This help,” said Nickerson. Issue The charities set up in the school’s gymnasium during Brandon High’s colEVENING OF HOPE.............................PG 3 lege night so that students can have the chance to walk around and learn about HALLOWEEN FAMILY FUN................PG 11 the organizations from the people who know the most about them. STANO FOUNDATION.......................PG 14 “It is so much more meaningful than ANNUAL BUDDY WALK ....................PG 22 reading about a charity on a piece of paper or website,” said Nickerson. EYE ON BUSINESS .......................PG 25‐26 Students from 10 local schools, TOUCHDOWN REVIEW..............PGs 29‐31 homeschool groups and private institutions are invited to the event, and it is CHALKLINES ....................................PG 32 open to people of all ages looking to find ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ..............PGS 34 a way to contribute to the community. School guidance counselors also attend READ MORE LOCAL NEWS ONLINE to answer questions about Bright Futures www.ospreyobserver.com requirements.
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