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County plans seminar on college financial aid

By Times Staff Writer
Published November 2, 2007

COUNTYWIDE

Learn all about securing financial aid for college at a seminar held by Pinellas County schools. Topics will include the Florida Bright Futures scholarship program, organizing a financial aid search, and types of government grants and loans. The seminar will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. on Thursday at Lakewood High, 1400 54th Ave. S.

TARPON SPRINGS

Leepa-Rattner to offer docent training course

The Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art will offer a docent training course on Fridays through Nov. 9. The course will be from 9 a.m. to noon in the Fine Arts auditorium on the Tarpon Springs campus of St. Petersburg College. St. Petersburg College art history instructor Michaela Oberlaender will teach the course, which focuses on 20th century art from Impressionism through Post-modernism.

Prospective docents will receive additional training from the museum's staff after Oberlaender's course.

For information and to register, contact education coordinator Patti Buster at 727 712-5226. The museum is just west of U.S 19 at 600 Klosterman Road, on the Tarpon Springs campus of St. Petersburg College.

CLEARWATER

Clothes to Kids needs helpers for jobs at store

Clothes to Kids needs volunteers to work weekdays and Saturdays in its store at 1059 N Hercules Ave., Clearwater. Volunteer opportunities include working with clients, answering phones, data entry and re-stocking the store floor.

Clothes to Kids provides new and quality used clothing for free to low-income children in Pinellas County. For information about volunteer opportunities or the organization, call the store at (727) 441-5050 or visit www.clothestokids.org .

CLEARWATER

Resident is neededto join pension board

The Clearwater City Council has an opening for a Clearwater resident to serve on the city's employee pension investment committee. The appointment is for two years with reappointment possible. The individual will be considered a fiduciary of the pension fund and will be required to attend training and educational conferences. A financial background with a degree in finance or accounting is preferred. For information or to apply, call (727) 562-4093 or e-mail cyndie.goudeau@myclearwater.com

LARGO

School launches effort to expand campus

The Pinellas County Jewish Day School has launched a capital campaign to buy and renovate property and buildings immediately next to is campus on Cambridge Avenue in Largo.

The purchase will add 11 new classrooms and a new auditorium.

The school, which has 205 students, has grown at a steady 5 percent per year over the past six years and has outgrown its existing facilities.

To learn more or support the capital campaign, call Brian Siegel, head of the school, at (727) 588-0100, or Michael Seltzer, president of the board of directors, at (727) 532-1999.

COUNTYWIDE

Old cell phones can be a lifeline for seniors

Senior Citizens Services welcomes donations of old cell phones to be distributed to needy seniors as 911 emergency phones. The offices are open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays and phones are distributed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays. Senior Citizens Services is in Belcher Commons Office Park at 51 S Main Ave., Suite 308-M, Clearwater. For information, call (727) 442-8104.

CLEARWATER

So who should open shop in downtown?

The Clearwater Downtown Partnership wants you to tell them. The partnership, which works with a number of local leaders and civic organizations to promote and market the downtown, is asking residents to fill out a short survey online indicating what retailers they'd like to see in downtown Clearwater.

The request comes as construction crews begin to wrap up work on the streetscape project on Cleveland Street. The next step will be filling the empty storefronts with new businesses.

To take the survey, go to www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=vQ7NK_2fyn82JYk6y_2fXUicUw_3d_3d.

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