Extension expo offers variety for adults, kids

By Times Staff Writer
Published November 30, 2007

DADE CITY

The Pasco County Extension Expo 2007 will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Pasco County Extension Office, State Road 52, Pasco County Fairgrounds, Dade City. A variety of events will be offered for adults and children, who will have the opportunity to make a gingerbread house and test their fish casting skills. Pasco Master Gardeners will be on hand to answer landscaping questions and hold a "plant clinic" so participants can find out what's troubling their plants and how to safely and effectively control pests. Pasco 4-H also will be collecting nonperishable food items for holiday donations to the local food bank.

COUNTYWIDE

Leave a toy for a tot with your mail

Don't forget Saturday when you take out your mail to leave a new unwrapped toy beside the mailbox for a needy child. U.S. postal carriers across Pasco will collect the toys and distribute them to Toys for Tots, which will hand them out to children before Christmas. Toys for Tots is a nationwide program run by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. Donations stay in local communities. For more information, visit www.toysfortotspasco.org or call (352) 588-4230 in east Pasco or (727) 847-4583 in west Pasco.

NEW PORT RICHEY

Charlie Daniels is honorary deputy

Pasco Sheriff Bob White made country singer Charlie Daniels an honorary deputy Thursday. Every year, Daniels puts on a benefit concert for The Angelus, a home in Hudson for people with severe developmental disabilities. He thanked White for the money the sheriff's charities have given to The Angelus - some $80,000 in the last two years. During a brief ceremony in a crowded conference room, Daniels thanked White and his staff for their work and treated them to a performance of Amazing Grace.

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